{"id":15439,"date":"2010-11-17T09:00:24","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T15:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=15439"},"modified":"2010-11-17T13:52:45","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T19:52:45","slug":"didnt-you-get-yamashitas-memo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=15439","title":{"rendered":"Didn’t you get Yamashita’s Memo?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In late 2008, Rahm Emanuel made famous the phrase \u201cRule one: Never allow a crisis to go to waste.\u201d It was an unabashed entreaty to liberals frustrated by years of pent up designs to advance the socialization of America. Obama, Reid and Pelosi wasted no time while a stupefied citizenry watched the unfolding of a theretofore unimagined agenda.<\/p>\n

Less than two years later another crisis has presented itself, the nature of which is surely an exception to Rahm’s axiom; a crisis within<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Within the party<\/em> that is.<\/p>\n

A handful of survivors of the electoral razing of the democratic party are not unlike those famous Japanese soldiers hiding in tunnels on remote isles months after V-J Day…<\/p>\n

In 1944, Lt. Hiroo Onoda was sent by the Japanese army<\/a> to the remote Philippine island of Lubang. His mission was to conduct guerrilla warfare during World War II. Unfortunately, he was never officially told the war had ended; so for 29 years, Onoda continued to live in the jungle, ready for when his country would again need his services and information. Eating coconuts and bananas and deftly evading searching parties he believed were enemy scouts, Onoda hid in the jungle until he finally emerged from the dark recesses of the island on March 19, 1972.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Some liberal democrats are figuratively living on Lubang, off the grid, not recognizing that Americans have soundly rebuked the extreme leftist agenda inflicted on them.<\/p>\n

Liberals made clear Tuesday<\/a> what they want from the bipartisan deficit commission — more help for the poor and middle class and bigger corporate tax increases.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Americans made clear that what they<\/em> want is for their government to get out of the way, to cease disincenting those that would otherwise be spending, borrowing and investing in ways that create jobs for everyone<\/em>, especially for the poor and middle class.<\/p>\n

Mathematically, you can’t increase taxes enough on corporations or the wealthy to make even the slightest dent in the deficit let alone the national debt.\u00a0 Eventually, either by choice or by force, the federal government will have to cut spending and by extension, entitlements.<\/p>\n

Moderate and conservative commission members, who compose the bulk of the panel, have been more circumspect. After co-chairmen Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson offered their proposal last week — focused 2 to 1 on spending cuts over tax increases — the commission’s three Republican House members tentatively welcomed their approach.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Tea Party may have given rise to a Regressive Movement in America, where once and for all, a majority will press the federal government and those it has enslaved by decades of sedimentary entitlements to do more with less, across the board.<\/p>\n

…but not without a fight from the hardy few on Lubang.<\/p>\n

But liberals were outraged. They tend to favor activist government, help for the needy and higher taxes on wealth to pay for it. Moderates and conservatives are more inclined to reduce government services to cut government debt and are less willing to raise taxes.<\/p>\n

Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, said: “Democrats should fight loudly and clearly — because the public overwhelmingly wants Democrats to fight that fight.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not anymore Adam. The war is over. You can go home now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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