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Americans to Washington:
Don’t tread on me

Washington Post, by Staff

Original Article

Posted By:Oblio, 2/1/2013 7:04:43 AM

Americans have a very special message for the federal government: Don’t tread on me.That’s the takeaway from a new poll from the Pew Research Center in which, for the first time in at least the last two decades, a majority of Americans say Washington actually poses a threat to their “personal rights and freedoms.”And it’s not just tea party supporters, Republicans and gun owners. Nearly two-fifths of Democrats (38 percent) say the government is a threat to them personally, as do 45 percent of non-gun owners.

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Keekng, 2/1/2013 7:19:49 AM     (No. 9151862)

And 99% of low information voters still believe they will have free health care and a chicken in every pot.


Reply 2 - Posted by: Spidey, 2/1/2013 7:21:42 AM     (No. 9151865)

No matter what freedoms are lost or people suffering under government mandates, comprised by non elected people,Obama´s supporters will stick by him until there´s proof that he´s failed on redistribution.

Black people who are the most responsible for obama getting elected have seen negligible improvements in their stock if life while billions have been pumped to his rich liberal WHITE cronies.


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: grayjay, 2/1/2013 7:26:37 AM     (No. 9151874)

Link takes me to a different story.


Reply 4 - Posted by: Crosscut, 2/1/2013 7:34:56 AM     (No. 9151883)

The Democrat Party and it´s supporters pose a bigger threat to the future of America and it´s citizens than all Islamists combined. The damage that Democrats have done and are continuing to do may be insurmountable. Massive civil disobedience may be the only answer. All we have between us and the total overthrow of our government is a handful of GOP members in House and Senate, plus the GOP governors of the red states.


Reply 5 - Posted by: Mazeman, 2/1/2013 7:36:22 AM     (No. 9151888)

Correct link:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/02/01/americans-to-washington-dont-tread-on-me/


Reply 6 - Posted by: suncitypro, 2/1/2013 7:40:06 AM     (No. 9151893)

Original story link is not correct.


Reply 7 - Posted by: Farmwife1, 2/1/2013 8:03:28 AM     (No. 9151924)

They´ll never admit he is a complete disaster for this country because they they will have to admit they were wrong. They will blame Bush and the Republicans forever and with their dying breath.


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: Rinktum, 2/1/2013 8:14:57 AM     (No. 9151950)

Who would have thought that the Gadsen Flag would be a rallying symbol against tyranny once again in this country. Each time I see it I am heartened to know that there are others out there who understand what is happening to our freedoms. Display it proudly. It is a great conversation starter and a source of support for others.


Reply 9 - Posted by: Judith, 2/1/2013 8:23:37 AM     (No. 9151973)

The "poll" that mattered was last november when the people re-elected obama, kept the senate in dem´s hands and elected some more dems to the house. Talk is cheap, actions speak.


Reply 10 - Posted by: Jethro bo, 2/1/2013 8:30:06 AM     (No. 9151987)

Just look at what goobernment does for us. Increases the cost of everything (gas, food, insurance, etc.) and offers nothing except decreased freedom (can´t buy real gas, can´t buy affordable insurance but get ´taxed´ if we don´t). Goobernment at all levels tells us what we can eat, drink, reduces our rights in our home (can’t smoke even in a home, yet deviant sex is a ‘privacy’ right). Our goobernment is the greatest threat to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness we face. No communist threat or Muzzie threat even comes close. It is sad to say but we are nearing a point when we must decide, are we to be slaves to our tyrannical goobernment or are we Freedom Fighters?


Reply 11 - Posted by: NorthernDog, 2/1/2013 8:32:25 AM     (No. 9151996)

It´s like having second thoughts about being on the Titanic after the ship leaves port. Too late - the escape hatches are bolted shut and there aren´t enough lifeboats for everyone.


Reply 12 - Posted by: bobgray2, 2/1/2013 8:44:51 AM     (No. 9152017)

Not surprising. The instrument that is supposed to protect us from our government, the Constitution, is being openly and routinely ignored and circumvented by this administration.


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: birddog, 2/1/2013 8:53:13 AM     (No. 9152028)

"Nearly two fifths.."? Interesting Metric...or, rather NON metric descriptor.


Reply 14 - Posted by: noproblems, 2/1/2013 8:58:34 AM     (No. 9152045)

the power to tax has got to be moved from DC to the states. DC should be taxing at 10% and let the citizens of the states decide how much government they want.


Reply 15 - Posted by: chance_232, 2/1/2013 9:00:21 AM     (No. 9152051)

Pfffffffftttttttt........ 47% will vote for more government no matter what. the 10+% of undecided voters are complete morons who will finally vote based on what they will get and a percentage of republicans will stay home because the GOP candidate isnt conservative enough, or wears magic underwear.

So this poll is completely meaningless.


Reply 16 - Posted by: Ida Lou Pino, 2/1/2013 9:04:57 AM     (No. 9152055)

#9 nailed it. This is a complete non-story. Zippy will be in power for another four years - - and no meaningless poll will change that.

And I disagree with #1. Lo-Fo voters don´t want a chicken in every pot - - they want pot in every chicken - - and they want us to pay for it.


Reply 17 - Posted by: artman1746, 2/1/2013 9:12:08 AM     (No. 9152067)

And just who did these dolts think was responsible for this threat when they cast their vote in November?

Useful idiots!


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: pete moss, 2/1/2013 9:20:05 AM     (No. 9152089)

Our government is corrupt from top to bottom, even the Supreme Court. Remember Chief Justice Robert´s decision on Obama care? What a travesty! In my opinion, he is either dumb as a chicken or bought and paid by Obama, maybe both.


Reply 19 - Posted by: LAW428, 2/1/2013 9:26:13 AM     (No. 9152103)

The Gadsden flag flies proudly on my residential property and has for a couple of years. Check out gadsdenandculpeper.com


Reply 20 - Posted by: OhMy, 2/1/2013 9:30:03 AM     (No. 9152113)

All of this could have been easily predicted before Obama´s first election when the recording of him came out musing about the bill of rights that they didn´t go far enough. They said only what the government could not do to the citizens, but not what the government should do on your behalf. Obama articulated very clearly this alternate view of "rights" which turns the constitution on it´s head. Any government that is not restrained from treading on it´s citizens trying to be a universal provider is bound to become a tyranny as explained so well by Mark Levin in his best selling book. Obama told anyone who was listening to expect all of this before his first election.


Reply 21 - Posted by: RayLRiv, 2/1/2013 9:40:55 AM     (No. 9152137)

Just started reading an excellent book: The Texas Model - Prosperity In The Lone Star State And Lessons For America, by Chuck DeVore, a former CA legislator who moved to Texas. He now works for the Texas Public Policy Foundation.

I´m OK with Texas being the NEW capital of the NEW U.S. Texas will lead the way with its strong sense of independence and reverence for what used to matter in this great country of ours.


Reply 22 - Posted by: Felixcat, 2/1/2013 10:05:17 AM     (No. 9152188)

Wll, where were these voters last November and the November of 2008? Cry me a river...


   

 



 
Reply 23 - Posted by: PoliticalJunky, 2/1/2013 10:06:17 AM     (No. 9152192)

The weight of Obamacare is cumulative and as it begins to weigh on them the public will begin to understand. Obamacare´s tax on medical devices has resulted in more than 100 layoffs in two states. It´s just one of many taxes which will come to light as the Plan is implemented.


Reply 24 - Posted by: chumley, 2/1/2013 10:16:08 AM     (No. 9152216)

From the tone of the articles I´ve been reading the last couple of weeks, it is sounding like even the liberals are realizing they will not be prosperous under this marxist thug. Not even off the backs of those of us who make our money the old fashioned way.

This could be a sign that the sleeping giant is awakening.


Reply 25 - Posted by: neanderthal, 2/1/2013 10:24:40 AM     (No. 9152249)

Most black people would vote for a black death-row serial killer for president before they´d vote for any white guy. Nobody´s ready to say it, but the fact is that the US is in the middle of a race-based civil war right now and it ain´t gonna get better any time soon.


Reply 26 - Posted by: peterfleming, 2/1/2013 10:33:18 AM     (No. 9152280)

We´re off on the Road to Communism, la la la
Multi million dollar bribed Diane Sawyer is responsible for everything that is wrong in the U.S. today. Without her blindness to the truth, without her 24/7 protecting every crime committed in Washington, without her censoring lies, there would otherwise be constant questioning of authority, constant complaining and bickering about the ancient, long term, too many yeear old gangsters who run Congress, and who have allowed a giant, ever growing cancerous federal government. Without all this unpunished guilt from all the self protecting crooks in the Beltway, a puny, crazed, raging little czar hiring king would not be able to function in our capitol
He would be caught up in his own crap day after day, he would be ridiculed for the Hitlerian charismatic image he portrays. When all the TV Diane Sawyers can observe the little dictator day after day without criticism, the political part of our country goes sour. Thank god for all the good people in the USA who are doing good for each other, continuing to make the magic of this country work. All the truck drivers, all the growers, all the food chain people, doctors, the good and the bad restaurants, a few non commie teachers. Despite Diane Sawyer, Obama, his commie comrades and a sick, greed addicted Congress, we still have a miracle country we live in.


Reply 27 - Posted by: chicodon, 2/1/2013 11:09:48 AM     (No. 9152395)

The left is already equating the Gadsden Flag with the Stars and Bars. i.e. Gadsden Flag = Anti-Obama = Racist.

We can´t back down. The term "racist" must be shown for what it is. A clever way for a weaker side to gain the upper hand by using the psychological trigger called guilt.


Reply 28 - Posted by: bighambone, 2/1/2013 11:28:38 AM     (No. 9152444)

You can see why a lot of thinking Americans are wondering just what is going on in Washington, DC. As an example, just last week Obama was claiming that while young woman should go into armed direct combat against the enemy on the battlefield, that it is too dangerous for young men to play college and professional football!


Reply 29 - Posted by: Conservativegirl, 2/1/2013 11:33:56 AM     (No. 9152453)

Don´t be too heartened by the lib/prog numbers. What this probably really means is the majority of them love the Obama government, but the others think that the fascist Republicans in the House have been too successful in limiting Obama´s right to rule as Dear Leader, preventing him from controlling all our lives more effectively.


Girl´s Hubby


Reply 30 - Posted by: Grambo, 2/1/2013 11:45:00 AM     (No. 9152481)

At the heart of the mess the country is in is the frightening cohort of functionally illiterate voters that have been, and are being, flooded into the populace from the government schools. These people have no critical thinking skills, are mathematics, language and economics illiterates, have no understanding of the constitution or basic civics, and have been indoctrinated in socialist dogma.

These are the people who elected Zero, and they aren´t going away.


Reply 31 - Posted by: lil dotty, 2/1/2013 11:55:25 AM     (No. 9152507)

A few words to our pol elites.

WTP see the whites of your eyes.


Reply 32 - Posted by: dman, 2/1/2013 11:56:29 AM     (No. 9152509)

So how´s that two-party "big tent" system workin´ for ya´, America? Y´all have been divided and conquered. Wake up and end the "good cop / bad cop" game that both parties have played to keep it that way.


Reply 33 - Posted by: Keekng, 2/1/2013 12:47:13 PM     (No. 9152599)

Learn some history, #16. You are mimicking #1 but with different words.


Reply 34 - Posted by: starboard, 2/1/2013 12:55:25 PM     (No. 9152615)

The nation has been dumbed down and a good majority are young. Basically, we have an illiterate electorate. What´s it going to take to win an national election? The answer...being able to communicate to the masses with simple solutions they can understand. Republicans need to become better sales people and should be required to listen to the great masters of sales techniques.

Trying to communicate the nations fiscal
problems is an waste of time. Telling them how much we´re all going to owe in the future is an exercise in futility. It´s negative and fear based. People want to hear something positive and they also want quick fixes. Tell them something they can relate to. Using the word "Jobs" over and over again isn´t good enough. Give them a road map, a plan of action. Put together a private coalition of companies who are willing to participate with internships. Teach the young how to dream about the future. Inspire with stories of successful people. We should recruit these people to help lead us into the future. This is what Romney failed to do and is what the GOP should be talking about this very moment.

Reagan helped create a nation of prosperity that lasted decades by inspiring us to reach for our dreams. He also gave us the utmost feeling of security. We never had to watch our backs when Reagan was at the helm.
The country has changed since the Reagan years. We´re a different country now and this needs to be taken into consideration. In other words, we can´t go back. However, we can still be the shining city on the hill as we move forward together. I pray the Republican party can reboot and come back with a winning game plan.


Reply 35 - Posted by: texas_gop, 2/1/2013 1:15:27 PM     (No. 9152653)

We should revolt. How about everyone claim 12 dependants on their W4, no money goes into the government coffers and we refuse to pay our April 15th tax bill if we owe. Would only work if we had a few million doing this.


Reply 36 - Posted by: TinCan, 2/1/2013 1:28:35 PM     (No. 9152673)

Power to the States?? Ha! Not in NE and elsewhere. With state and Fed. we´re between a rock and the hard place. Doomed!


Reply 37 - Posted by: Heraclitus, 2/1/2013 1:33:07 PM     (No. 9152679)

The important thing is that this is the "FIRST TIME" recently that a majority is feeling the downward crushing pressure of government and don´t like it.

This must be seized upon: get those ignorant boobs attention and get them informed.

Got to make sure that they know it´s the Dem/Lefties who are the big-government oppressors.

AND, wake up any Repubs who are tempted by "smaller, smarter government," which is nothing but little doses of poison, administered over a longer period of time.

We must seize the moment, not give up. Let´s not forget that the TEA Partiers have been incessantly denigrated, lied about, maligned, defamed.

Let´s not forget that the uninformed are truly uninformed, ignorant: NOT-KNOWING. They have a limited attention span, too.

They have virtually no historical perspective... can´t remember what happened four years ago, or even two years ago!

Why are they so dumb? ignorant? They demonstrate a lack of curiosity; apathy; intellectual shallowness, as they deeply imbibe entertainment and other frivolities leaving they drunk with silliness.

AND, very importantly, the media are fully engaged in pro-Dem/leftie propaganda, agitation and propaganda, as the Bolsheviks effectively used.

But, these folks have been made to think their vote is so important because they´re important. Little do they know that they are the useful idiots, the toadies. Offer them dignity in return for getting informed. Some, but never all, will respond positively.

Never give up. Never ever ever give up. (to paraphrase Sir Winston Churchill). This isn´t the time for "sunshine patriots." (Tom Paine)




Reply 38 - Posted by: Lawsy0, 2/1/2013 1:35:35 PM     (No. 9152681)

Relax; its only the WaPo.


Reply 39 - Posted by: roger h. cook,MD, 2/1/2013 1:40:05 PM     (No. 9152688)

Nos 2 and 4 are so correct. I have AA friends that are very conserative but voted for Omama twice and the only answer they give is ;"He´s black".


Reply 40 - Posted by: Me?Opinionated?Nah!, 2/1/2013 1:42:53 PM     (No. 9152693)

Government and Media, birds of a feather, constantly pursue, reach and eventually influence their primary target market: People incapable of thinking for themselves or just too lazy to expend the effort. That’s how we get what we get and what we’ve got.

“Don’t tread on me?” Hardly! “Tread all you want!” is more like it. The Public Sector is America’s textbook example of how not to run a business in The Private Sector.


Reply 41 - Posted by: JimboUSN, 2/2/2013 10:23:51 AM     (No. 9154083)

Ponder this question:
If Obama´s main objective was to destroy this nation, what would he have done differently? Hmmm. All the evidence points to -> He is in cahoots with the new USSR, Chavez, and the Muslim Brotherhood...oh, and the U.N. ...who takes our money (that our dummies give them) so that they can shout how much they hate us (and Israel) on American soil. Sad.



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Mediaite, by A.J. Delgado    Original Article
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On Friday, Sean Hannity brought Pat Smith, mother of the late Sean Smith, on his radio program. The 34-year-old information management officer was one of four Americans murdered in the Benghazi embassy attack on September 11, 2012. In the chilling interview, a distraught Ms. Smith, in tears, pleaded for answers and spoke of the efforts to silence her. Ms. Smith first relayed how her son, prior to the attack, requested additional security in advance and warned the State Department: He did tell them, ahead of time, he typed it into his little typewriter over there,

Vanishing workforce
weighs on growth

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Washington Post, by Jim Tankersley    Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/6/2013 11:28:59 PM     Post Reply
Put out an all-points bulletin: Millions of Americans have gone missing from the workforce. Every month that those would-be workers are gone raises the odds that they might never come back, dimming the prospects for future economic growth. The vanishing trend is more than a decade old, but it accelerated during the Great Recession. Throughout 2012, economists held out hope that it had stopped. But then came Friday’s jobs report, and hopes were dashed. The Labor Department reported that the U.S. labor force — everyone who has a job or is looking for one — shrank

White House Blames Jobs
Numbers on Sequester

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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Wynton Hall    Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/5/2013 8:02:58 PM     Post Reply
The Obama White House is scrambling to blame Friday’s abysmal March jobs numbers on the sequester’s trimming of the rate of growth in federal budgets that have yet to fully commence. After the Labor Department announced that a mass exodus of 663,000 workers left the U.S. workforce last month and that job creation fell 112,000 jobs short of projections, Obama’s top economic adviser Alan B. Krueger, took to the White House blog to blame the sequester: It is important to bear in mind that the March household and payroll surveys are the first monthly surveys to look

The Secrets of Princeton
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New York Times, by Ross Douthat    Original Article
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Susan Patton, the Princeton alumna who became famous for her letter urging Ivy League women to use their college years to find a mate, has been denounced as a traitor to feminism, to coeducation, to the university ideal. But really she’s something much more interesting: a traitor to her class. Her betrayal consists of being gauche enough to acknowledge publicly a truth that everyone who’s come up through Ivy League culture knows intuitively —

Beyonce, Jay-Z celebrate 5th
anniversary in Havana, Cuba

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Los Angeles Times, by Nardine Saad    Original Article
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Beyonce and Jay-Z celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in Cuba this week. The couple, who married on April 4, 2008, took in the sights of Old Havana, visited a school, dined on a rooftop terrace and strolled the fan-filled streets in their island best.(snip).The power couple declined to answer journalists´ questions about their visit to the island nation, but some outlets are reporting that the moguls are there as tourists, though that would be illegal because of the half-century embargo the U.S. has on the Communist country. However, the Miami Herald said Washington has issued special licenses for

Obama Budget to Cap Retirement
Accounts at $3 Million

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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Tony Lee    Original Article
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The budget President Barack Obama will submit on April 10 will contain a proposal that would prohibit individuals from accumulating more than $3 million in Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and tax-preferred retirement accounts. According to a White House statement, the Obama administration believes the current rules allow some wealthy individuals "to accumulate many millions of dollars in these accounts, substantially more than is needed to fund reasonable levels of retirement saving." "The budget would limit an individual’s total balance across tax-preferred accounts to an amount sufficient to finance an annuity of not more than $205,000 per


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