I freely admit it. I don’t know this candidate. I don’t know the state or the district that he is running in. I don’t know his religion, how he is at home, or what he does for a living. But as outside counsel to several small businesses, I can appreciate the sentiment.
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Alabama 2nd
He’s also known for an ad regards the NYC mega Mosque
Rick Barber is a Tea Party Republican candidate for Congress in the 2nd District of Alabama. Not to be confused with the Denver talk radio host with the same name.
Rick really ought to read the Declaration of Independence some time. The American Revolution was about a lot more than a “tea tax.”
It’s a really good commercial if you don’t think about it very hard – something Rick’s voters aren’t likely to do.
BIC, do you REALLY support impeaching Obama?
And taking up arms against the government?
Just wondering.
Not until we have solid evidence of criminal acts. Until then, I fully support ridiculing him and mocking the unlikely combination of hubris and incompetence that defines him.
As for taking up arms against the government, I’m not of a mind that the long train of abuses is quite long enough just yet. Besides, if Obama continues to fail to appease the hard left, I expect they will no longer be able to contain their baser instincts and violence will be upon us all, whether we want it or not.
However, if this elected official had seen fit to manhandle my son this way, I might have skipped taking up arms and moved on to breaking his.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v60oNUoHBYM&feature=player_embedded
Rick Barber may be the video sensation of the day, but it doesn’t look like his electoral chances are very good. His opponent in the Republican primary runoff got 48.6% of the vote to Barber’s 28.4%.
Still, he may win the primary, what with all the “Tea Party Enthusiasm” we keep hearing about. But then he would have to beat popular former Montgomery mayor Bobby Bright in the general. But it’s the Solid South, and anything can happen in Alabama.
I hope that the asshole politician (Bob Etheridge) in that video has assault charges filed against him. I see that he has a reasonably credible Republican opponent as well as a libertarian opponent. He’ll probably lose now, if those two don’t cancel each other out. Etheridge probably just committed electoral suicide. I won’t shed a tear for him.
(Barber) appeals to (George) Washington as the owner of a distillery who “knows how tough it is to run a small business without a tyrannical government on your back.” But President Washington presided over, and approved, the first tax levied by the federal government — the 1791 whiskey tax. When the tax met resistance, he approved the assembling of militias to enforce the law and mobilization of agents to collect the revenue.
G. Washington obviously was not the sort of president that a 21st Century “Tea Party” activist would admire.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-now/2010/06/gather_your_armies.html
Still, the video is well executed and effective. and it is EVERYWHERE this morning. But only the factually challenged will “like it.”
For someone who thinks it appropriate to question references to the Federalist Papers by the Supreme Court when considering the Constitutional aspects of cases before it, you cast that “factually challenged” aspersion pretty wide.
Graychin might like to call into question about the “factually challenged”, which itself is a joke considering the source, but his link is to the same clown who called Bob Etheridge’s assault on the student “a hug.”
Can you imagine how much of an shill Graychin must be?
Still, the video is well executed and effective. and it is EVERYWHERE this morning.
Isn’t that a point of ads?
But only the factually challenged will “like it.”
But there are other facts people more readily identify GW with. One of the best and in clear context to this ad is his reluctance to be President and his adamant position not to be King.
We have several undeniable cases of Obama directly lying to the American public.
That’s more than good enough for me.
B is W
I have a question re:16th amendment.
While the congress is allowed to tax income could not the way it is implemented i.e. the progressiveness be declared un-constitutional?
Do you think this runs counter to the equal protection clauses within the constitution?
Sorry that was two questions.
Listen, when I was still just a law student, my professors made it clear that there are arguments that can make you famous, there are arguments that can make you infamous, and arguments that will land you in a “poke-me-in-the-ass” prison cell.
Your argument is in the last category. No federal judge is going to entertain an argument that threatens their source of income. And that is why I have never seriously entertained that argument.
Once again Gray shows himself to be way too kind, much in the tradition of my other favorite liberal blogger, HippieProfessor.
The video is a commercial from an After-school special. It is such a friggin’ embarrassment it only confirms liberal’s belief in the low IQ of the average Tea Party Member.
BiW, I’m really beginning to worry about you. You see a bunch of actors dressed up in 1790 era garb and instead of laughing your ass off, you take some deep meaning from it.
Gray, it should be noted that as part of this militia, the members were forced to provide their own guns and ammo. I point this out because the big HCR opponents scream that never before did the government force its citizens to purchase anything. Actually, wrong. Washington did force militia members to buy their own supplies.
“Gray, it should be noted that as part of this militia, the members were forced to provide their own guns and ammo. I point this out because the big HCR opponents scream that never before did the government force its citizens to purchase anything. Actually, wrong. Washington did force militia members to buy their own supplies.”
This argument employs the same flawed logic as the argument that we are all forced to buy auto insurance.
Washington may have forced militiamen to buy their own weapons, but nobody was forced to be a militiaman, just as nobody is forced to own a car.
Americans that don’t own cars are not forced to buy auto insurance, and Americans who were not militiamen were not forced to buy weapons.
Tell us, Rutherford—which Americans are exempt from buying health insurance?
Washington may have forced militiamen to buy their own weapons, but nobody was forced to be a militiaman, just as nobody is forced to own a car.
Uh, Huck…, That wouldn’t exactly be true…
http://patriotpost.us/document/militia-act-of-1792/
Now the debate I cite in the other comment indicates that they allowed conscientious objection…the Quakers were one such group, but yeah, it was manditory.
Fair enough. I am mistaken.
Wait a minute. I am not completely mistaken.
It says free, able-bodied men between 18 and 45.
That is still only a portion of the population.
It isn’t only a portion that is mandated to buy health insurance. It’s everyone.
But your point is well taken, and I was not aware of that.
Rutherford,
Just shut the fuck up or step into heavy traffic. I really don’t give a flying fuck which happens.
But what I do know is going to happen. That bitch Pelosi will be turning her gavel in. Same with that POS Reid.
Once again, fuck you. Have a nice day. Hope you die from the Herp.
However, some of the debate in the legislative history is very interesting…
http://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2005/08/leg_history_of.php
I submit to you that, some discredited research aside, guns were as ubiquitous in the states as computers and televisions are today. They were tools in every day life, used for defense and for feeding your family. I don’t see how it is the same as forcing you to purchase a health insurance policy that the government approves of.
BiWRutherford, I’m really beginning to worry about you. You see abunch of actors dressed up in 1790 era garbseries of partisan shallow correspondents on MSNBC and instead oflaughing your ass offrejecting it for the vacuous waste of time that it is, you take some deep meaning from it.I knew this was an ad. You watch MSNBC and are incapable of figuring out that it is a front for the progressive movement.
The only progressive movement I want is the one I leave in the toilet every morning before I flush.
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Fair enough. I am mistaken.
S’cool. I had to look it up. Of course, in doing so, I found that it was discussed by the KOStards, which is why Rutherford suddenly knew something about a history that he usually otherwise does not.
Which is why there is still a flaw in their reasoning, as it still only applies to a portion of the population, and not the entire population, as mandatory health insurance does.
Huck, I didn’t defend R’s analogy, in part because I don’t believe it would have been too burdensome for men of that era to come up with a firearm.
Well, even though I started it, I really don’t want to open up the whole HCR debate again. Suffice it to say, one of the goals of HCR is for it NOT to be a major burden on anyone.
BiW, I thank you for your full disclosure regarding mandatory militia service. That kind of honesty is one of the things that makes you a worthy debate partner.
I confess that my knowledge of the militia stuff comes from reading liberal arguments, although not from Daily Kos. I actually don’t read Kos much because I never warmed up to its “diary” format.
I still suspect my knowledge of history is better than that of Rick Barber.
Rutherford,
I hope you had a good birthday that included a cold adult beverage and a few minutes of quiet with which to consider the best things in life that have happened to you.
BiW, a wise prescription indeed. The beverage was root beer accompanied by pizza. Perhaps it shows in my writing but I have spent too much time ruminating what there is to bitch about lately and not enough time appreciating the goodness. Again, your prescription is a good one. Thanks for the good wishes.
Ahhhh Dick, my eloquent friend with the funny nose and big floppy shoes. I thought if I popped in here I’d get a greeting from you and you didn’t disappoint.
I don’t know if GOPhers will take the House. I doubt it. As for Reid, don’t you know that Angle is the best thing that could possibly have happened to Reid? I wouldn’t honk that big clown nose of yours so fast. With Angle as the opponent, there is new life breathed back into Reid’s campaign.
And a happy joyous f*ck you to you too!
Rutherford said: Once again Gray shows himself to be way too kind, much in the tradition of my other favorite liberal blogger, HippieProfessor.
The video is a commercial from an After-school special. It is such a friggin’ embarrassment it only confirms liberal’s belief in the low IQ of the average Tea Party Member.
I can’t disagree with anything you said, but I still consider the video to be “well executed and effective.” Like my partner used to tell me, “When you’re making a presentation, always remember who you’re talking to.”
LOL …. you’ve got me there!
Oh look…
It takes two of you gutless fucking pussies to come after me.
Come on boys, and bring your lunch.
Dick – I didn’t “come after you.”
Are you OK?