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Progressivism

This is the disease
This is the disease in America
It’s not just spending
It’s not just taxes
It’s not just corruption
It is progressivism

And it is in both parties – It is in Republicans and it is in Democrats.   I’m so sick of hearing “Oh well Republicans are going to solve it all” Really?  It’s just Progressive Light,just like -

it’s like someone sticks a screwdriver in your eye and someone else pulls it out and puts a pin in your eye – I don’t want stuff in my eyes – stop stabbing me in my eye

Progressivism is the cancer in America and it is eating our Constitution and it was designed to eat our Constitution to progress past the Constitution

Glenn Beck CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) meeting,  02-21-2010, minute 4:30 of an hour

Contrast those examples with what just happened in Rhode Island.

This is one of the poorest performing school districts in Rhode Island.  They are now considering firing all the teachers because they refused to adapt to longer school days – 25 minutes longer…

No no no no no! No I only work three quarters of a year! Oh no tutoring struggling students?  Absolutely not!  I have tenure!

Providence Central High School Superintendent Francis Gallo.  God bless you Francis Gallo.  Late last week she announced she had no option except to fire all 74 of the teachers after the Teacher’s Union refused to accept her improvement plan for the schools.  Fire them – if the Unions won’t do it, fire them all.  Break the back of the leach that’s on our neck.

In an interview with the Providence  Journal  Gallo blamed the union’s callous disregard for the situation for the firings claiming every teacher knew full well what would happen if they didn’t agree to the proposal.

Good Job – Francis Gallo You Are A Hero.  Look -America is a system based on merit not entitlement.  You are not entitled to a job -

jobs are not in the Bill of Rights.

They are responsibilities – they are duties.

Glenn Beck Show, Friday, 02-19-2010 minute 38

(moving pictures on blackboard).

You’re down here.   These guys are just playing games.  Blame the Republicans – Blame the Democrats – Just blame everyone else.

We’re down here.  We must shore ourselves up.  We must be sure that we’re not part of this system.  We must go out and look at each one individually.

Does she represent you (Debra Medina)?  does he? (Harry Reid)  he? (George Bush)

Who represents your values?  Because in times of trouble, these are the people who must make decisions.

Glenn Beck Show, Thursday, 02-18-2010 minute 10

President Obama:  “So far the dog hasn’t barked”.

Glenn Beck:  Bow Wow!  Ruff!  Grrrrr…

Dog hasn’t Barked?   It’s like a pack of wild Kujos ripping up the flesh of the American People?   I’ve given you a dozen examples over the last year of the stimulus debacle.  How about wasteful programs?

How about the incestuous handouts to invented stimulus districts?  The lawnmowers that magically created 50 jobs?  Ruff Ruff.  Grrr…

Even in his speech he misplaced 75 billion dollars.  Where did I put that 75 billion dollars?

The total of the stimulus package is not 787 billion any more.   It’s   now an est 862 billion dollars.  I’m sure the President is aware that the CBO has updated his own number.

He’s ignoring the giant Rottweiler attached to his leg.

Glenn Beck Show, 02-17-2010 minute 39

GLENN BECK:

….What will America look like in the next 12-24 months? I think that’s what America wants to know.

Peter Schiff, the president of Europac and the author of Crashproof, How to Profit From the Coming Economic Crisis, and Bob Obrien, the stocks editor for Barron’s Online:

<Admin:  Here’s a snip of what Beck and Peter Schiff were talking about right after the October 2008 crash>

…I got a call from a friend of mine who is very high placed.  Everyone I know, Glenn, is reading about the Weimar Republic.  I said, Oh Geez, you mean the loaf of bread with a wheelbarrow full of money -- Republic?  He said “Uh huh”.

It is what a lot of people believe is coming.  Try to find a book -- on line -- about the Weimar Republic -- you will have a hard time finding some of the books -- a lot of them are -- just gone.  Who’s reading them all?

Peter Schiff, president of Europac and author of the “Little Book About Bear Moves and Bull Markets”.  Peter, worst nightmare, looks like it’s coming through…

Glenn:

There’s a new CD, it came out today, it’s called “Son of a Preacher Man”, it came  out today, I want you to go out and get it, I want you to hear this, you know what -- the song’s lyrics, you need to hear all the lyrics, they are available at  foxnews/glenn or whatever it is, also www.johnrich.com.

It’s called “Shutting Detroit Down”, tell me if you don’t feel like this:

Glenn Beck Show, 3-27-2009

“I’m okay with legalizing drugs at the state level”.

Glenn Beck‘s Radio Show, 2/8/10 10:40 ET

<Admin:  Beck further discusses how in his opinion, most of the Founders would have rejected the concept of drug legalization at the federal level>

Glenn Beck (transcript of 12-18-2009):
Why would they need a Second Bill of Rights, if it was already included in our initial Bill of Rights? The right to a job, a certain pay, a home and yes, medical care.

If government provides everyone jobs, pay, a home and medical care, how would that work? Simple: communism. All the money goes to the government, who then redistributes it equally: equal pay, equal homes, equal medical care — equally bad. We saw how the system worked for the Soviet Union and China, that’s why the Second Bill of Rights ended up on the scrap heap of history.

Oh, but our neo-progressives have pulled it off that heap, dusted it off, shined it up and put a fresh coat of lipstick on that same, old, disgusting pig.

Cass Sunstein, Obama’s recently confirmed regulatory “czar,” wrote an entire book about it called, “The Second Bill of Rights: FDR’s Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need It More Than Ever”:

MediaMatters.com said this with respect to Beck‘s above opinion on Cass Sunstein:

Beck selectively quoted interview to falsely suggest Sunstein and FDR wanted to “pass” a second Bill of Rights.

The original interview by Open Mind with Cass Sunstein is here.

The key statement from Cass Sunstein:

So his(Admin:  Roosevelt’s) view of the Second Bill of Rights , which I share, is that what we should think of this as, is very much like Jefferson’s Declaration (Admin:  Declaration of Indepedence). Part of what we’re committed to, part of what defines our self-understandings, but we’re going to keep the judges out of it.

The curious part.  Cass Sunstein would like to retain in pure form his “Second bill of rights”, that is why he’d not like to give the judges power over such things.  For such a reason, he says, he would not create an actual group of paragraphs to be added to the US Bill of Rights.

So if this “Second bill of rights” was enshrined obliquely, where would it be so enshrined?  It sure looks, feels, and smells like no more or less than the Democratic Party Platform.   Of course the Constitution says explicitly that anything not explicitly given to the Federal Government is reserved to the states, and only by intentionally ignoring the Constitutionality of the “Second bill of rights” can Sunstein proceed down such a path.

Glenn Beck here is being criticized by Media Matters for “the error of stating that Sunstein wanted to pass a Second bill of rights”.  But there isn’t anything wrong with that – that is the Constitutional procedure for changing what our Constitution is.  Media Matters wants to clarify that Sunstein wants to do it under the table, and keep the judges out of it.

Sunstein, as clarified by Media Matters would like to take the power to define, promulgate, and implement a “2nd bill of rights” into the Executive branch directly.  The Administrative Branch would assume the power that the courts previously did.

A far worse reality than Beck imagined.  Here is what Beck said:

They haven’t yet passed the second Bill of Rights that FDR, Cass Sunstein, Michael Moore and others advocate, but they are desperate to lay the foundation and install the infrastructure.

Media Matters has it wrong:

Beck selectively quoted interview to falsely suggest Sunstein and FDR wanted to “pass” a second Bill of Rights.

“They” which Beck refers to is the whole of Congress.  That is the group which passes things.  Nobody would say that Cass Sunstein “passed” a Bill of Rights, he is in no position to do so. And even if the Congress “passed” a “second bill of rights”, it would have no validity until ratified by 2/3 of the states.

Yet Media Matters thinks they hit on an important point which is that FDR, Sunstein, and Moore do not “advocate passing a second bill of rights”.  What?  Sunstein does not want an honest process, but wants to grab power directly.  That’s Media Matters “clarification”?

Sunstein would ram on America, without due process and without regard for Constitutionality, without any vote in Congress, without the required ratification by the states or any attempt at passing a Constitutional Amendment, a “Second Bill of Rights”.  His admission is that the “Second Bill of Rights” not have judicial review.

Coincidentally, the “Second Bill of Rights”  is nearly identical to the “rights” expressed in the Democratic Party Platform.  In other words, the Democratic party platform would be forced on America, a country with diverse economies, political and personal philosophies, trends, and cultural standards.

Not to Cass Sunstein.

Thank you, Media Matters, for clarifying this matter.  And I am sure that your staff will appreciate our corrections to your essay – your false assertions that  Beck “selectively quoted” and “falsely claimed”.

Wow.

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