One would naturally think it impossible that anyone would hesitate – even for an instant – to honor the woman who tackled communism head on as prime minister of Great Britain. Lady Margaret Thatcher was a principled politician who helped to foster the special relationship between Great Britain and the United States that we all benefit from today.
A Senate resolution to honor Lady Thatcher was supposed to pass last night. However, per well placed sources on the Hill, Democrats have a hold on the resolution.
To refuse to honor a woman of such great historical and political significance, who was deeply loyal to the United States, is petty and shameful. One truly has to wonder, what is it about Lady Thatcher that gives them pause? Herunfaltering commitment to freedom? Or perhaps the way she fought for individual liberty and limited government?
The House used traditional bereavement procedures, the same model they used for John F. Kennedy. It’s a simple, solemn means of honoring the individual by passing a resolution and immediately adjourning. Similarly,Great Britain’s House of Commons was recalled, bringing members of Parliament back from vacation to honor Lady Thatcher.
It's quite simple twins, communists don't like free marketeers.
ReplyDeleteWhen Castro dies they will be standing up on their hind legs to honor the reprobate.
Yep!
DeletePolitical theater by both sides. Yawn.
ReplyDeleteCastro would have fallen a lot quicker if we would have ended our ridiculous policy of blocking Americans from going there.
Do you think we should allow travel to N Korea?
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Delete"Do you think we should allow travel to N Korea?"
DeleteWhat does that have to do with anything? If you don't want government oversight in anything, why should you care where Americans go to travel?
Oh I don't know Max, maybe I'm thinking about the enslaved population under the boy wonder communist dictator. Just maybe Dennis Rodman should like to spend a few years there.
DeleteHang on a minute you blokes. You are using buckshot to try to score an inner on a small target.
ReplyDeleteThe Resolution was to honor Maggie Thatcher, a reasonable proposition I would have thought. What has this got to do with free Market economics and North Korea?
Why I wonder has the resolution descended into the hate politics depicted here on this thread on a daily basis.
I am old enough to remember the visit to the US by Winston Churchill following WW2. Churchill was invited to address a joint House sitting and was received by all with a warm welcome and all courtesy.
I imagine that there is a thread on the internet which supports Left wing politics in America and that this site probably has the “anti Thatcher" bias not shown here. Seems to this old bloke that both sides are as bad as each other. Better to say nothing and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
Finally, Max makes a good point and William provides a contradiction. If William believes in small Government and the God given freedoms he constantly preaches. Why William would you want the government to restrict travel to Cuba? Of all the freedoms a man can wish for, the freedom to travel to wherever he wants to go, must be near the top of the list. Providing the host country offers a welcome, surely restriction placed before a citizen, by the government of a Democratic Republic must be odious to all supporters of such a system of government.
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Me personally, I would not have voted to block a measure honoring Maggie or any other former head of state who is an ally of the US. As I rambled on in another post about context Kingston, that is where I am always a pain in the ass. If we want to honor the passing of a head of state who was an ally in the cold war, that is one thing. To see her used as a tool to re fan the flames of Reagan worship is something I will call bullshit on.
DeleteMax we know you hate Reagan and the freedom that he stood for, as did Thatcher. We know your small life depends upon the rewriting of history.
DeleteAnd, your continuous ranting of false absolutes, well, I, we, simply stand for those government functions detailed in the Constitution and Bill of Rights. No more, no less, no evolved brain scat, just what meets that standard.
The failed States of Cuba and N Korea stand for themselves. Jay Z, Sean Penn, and Rodman can kiss my ass. I want those poor slaves in those States to be free. I want the women that live there to be free. I want the children that live there to breath freedom.
1773-2009 you obviously don't mind that people are slaves Max. That f--in saddens me.
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DeleteMax,
Delete"To see her used as a tool to re fan the flames of Reagan worship is something I will call bs on."
A minor point Max, but there seems to be an inherent contradiction, yes? You see no problem hinoring the passing of a U. S. ally head of state, but you fling a dart at the U. S. president during much of that alliance?
By the way,you're dangling your . . . preposition.
Happy tax day.
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Jean, I'll have to see if I can stiffen...my writing. What I feel for Reagan is no where near hate. As I posted on another thread about context, it's the big picture. I would not have been in the streets dancing in the UK and I was appalled at some of the shit the left said after Reagan died. You really aren't reading what I am saying correctly. It's not a dart at Reagan, it is a dart at the blind hero worship of him.
DeleteTo you William, you writing is as spastic and fatalistic as mine is verbose and obtuse. N. Korea? is that the only place in the world where people are dying because their leader is a corrupt asshole? No, it's not. However, it is a country just big enough to make neocons wet their pants in excitement at the possibility of getting into a war with. Your idol worship of Reagan is nothing short of what N. Koreans show for their leaders. You do not posses an ounce of ability to look at the entirety of Reagan's presidency with objectivity. Grab a tissue for your phony sadness, you still do not have a clue about what I believe.
What idol do you worship Max? Saul & co.? Monica Lewinski? Marx? Dr. King? Or does your heart yearn for some other control freak?
DeleteI'm ok with just we the people, however, the development of the left dominated MSM has twisted the blade and created a one sided sword. As long as speech is from the left the"freedom of speech" is honored, yet when the "Right" is speaking the cat calls and lies roll of the tongues of silver tongued devils like honey dripping off the hive.
The press was to have been the guardian, yet they fail as bias is the issue and the masses lap it up like the honey of a smashed hive.
Max, Reagan engineered the fall of the Iron Curtain with nary a bomb being dropped. That remains my model for warfare.
DeleteBrandt, I don't worship any fucking idol. King was a man to be admired, he wasn't looking for handouts like the poverty pimps who came after him. But I don't worship him. You and William love to keep labeling me as some kind of "ist", it is a sign of mental weakness that you can't just have conversations with me or anyone else you don't agree with. It seems like you need an enemy, someone to blame for whatever is disappointing to you.
DeleteWhereas you blame these nebulous leftists and the MSM, I blame everyone here including myself for not bringing something better to the table. Weak, scared people cling to things they believe will save them. I accept that everything comes to an end and all I care about the most is doing something productive with my life until it ends. I'm cool with my choices so far. What people believe is meaningless, what they do is what matters.