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Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 10:53pmSanction this postReply
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Flag in front of the Hungarian Parliament building commemorating the 1956 Hungarian revolt against their communist masters. The flag is the old communist flag of Hungary, which has a hole cut out of it, missing the communist coat of arms. It became the rallying symbol for the Hungarian freedom fighters of 1956.



The Hungarians still remember the horrors of communism, America has forgotten, and she is slowly destroying herself with the same marxist garbage.


We need reminders like this to nourish the soul, to inspire us to fight the tyranny of socialism. Human beings can be extinguished, ideas and history cannot, and history is not on their side.

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Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 10:55pmSanction this postReply
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - 8:26amSanction this postReply
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How quickly they forget her words, too...

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Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - 8:30amSanction this postReply
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Masterful!

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Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - 10:15amSanction this postReply
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That was fun to watch!

Sometimes the British Parliament seems more grown up and our congress more adolescent - that video compared to our current congress certainly makes such a case.

I remember seeing Margret Thatcher's face at Reagan's funeral and I was struck with the impression that it was more than mourning someone she admired and liked - everything I saw said she deeply loved that man.

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Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - 10:41amSanction this postReply
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If there's anything I wish our government borrowed from the UK (and believe me there's not much of value there to borrow from these days) it's this form of debate. While they technically don't have an executive branch (the Prime Minister is the closest thing to that) I wish we had periodic debates in Congress between congressional members and the President like this.

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Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - 10:51amSanction this postReply
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John, I sanctioned that - we need to make changes that show the various qualities and traits of politicians - maybe I should say "expose" - not show. Can you imagine some of our congress attempting to debate one-on-one like that? Say that fellow who told the General at a hearing that he worried sending so many troops to such a small island might make it tip over! Or the congressman that said he didn't pay any attention to the constitution. We've had dishonest and incompetent people who have been able to set their own rules for so long that they protect themselves from situations that make them look bad.

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Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - 1:26pmSanction this postReply
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Well taken points. Today, I doubt that Obama could win a one-on-one debate on the health care program with even an average intelligence reasonably-informed man. Debates over here are homogenized, and interviews are carefully controlled to avoid open discussion. Politician's political "public" handlers carefully promote only the image that they want Americans to see.

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Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - 1:57pmSanction this postReply
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We've seen how Obama handles himself off the cuff, and he reveals himself to be stammering idiot. He would be eaten alive in that kind of setting.

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Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - 2:06pmSanction this postReply
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A small tangent here, but I wonder why this stereotype about the Brits being too rigid and reserve exists? Whenever I watch these UK Parliament sessions I see the opposite, regardless of their political position, clearly you see the passion there, not rigidity.

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Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - 9:13pmSanction this postReply
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Sometimes the British Parliament seems more grown up and our congress more adolescent - that video compared to our current congress certainly makes such a case.

Only if you watch them debate -- if you watch the legislative output, the Brits come off as nannystatist children incapable of understanding the consequences of their actions. Britain is much more statist than our country (though Obama and Congress seem determined to close the gap.)

I wonder how much of this is an artifact of them not having a Constitution to rein in their depredations.

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Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - 9:19pmSanction this postReply
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John, thanks for post 10, a vivid reminder that some politicians act like a Staff Speech Delivery Device -- a suit parroting the lines written by smarter and more articulate staff.

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