Sipsey Street Irregulars: Roll Call magazine channels John Sedgewick and says Issa is a wussy.

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Roll Call magazine channels John Sedgewick and says Issa is a wussy.

"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist ..." -- The last words of Union General John Sedgewick at the battle of Spotsylvania, when cautioned that he was a perfect target for Confederate snipers.

Issa Promised Tough, but So Far Oversight Isn’t

“Some of the more tumultuous hearings are still to come,” the Utah Republican (Rep. Jason Chaffetz ) said, noting that the ATF investigation is of utmost importance. “I think we’ve laid the foundation for a lot of things.”

7 comments:

Anonymous said...: You'd think that people would be more animated and upset. But then I forgot that the media hasn't been reporting any of this so, there's no reason for anyone to question or get upset, is there?; May 24, 2011 at 10:50 AM
TPaine said...: Yeah, just where is all of this going? I think most of us have decided that Gunrunner/Gunwalker/Fast & Furious/ will slowly disappear from the political radar as time is dragged out indefinitely.

It's almost time, guys. Our backs have been against that "wall" for so long, that we're really behind it now, and there are bars on the windows.; May 24, 2011 at 11:21 AM
Anonymous said...: “Some of the more tumultuous hearings are still to come,” the Utah Republican said, noting that the ATF investigation is of utmost importance. “I think we’ve laid the foundation for a lot of things.”

There is ample time remaining for Issa's committe to conduct hearings.

It would be a mistake to rush the investigation and overlook a critical detail or fail to subpeona an important witness.

"The wheels of justice grind slowly, but they grind exceeding fine."

MALTHUS; May 24, 2011 at 12:22 PM
Bad Cyborg said...: I told you so. Really! Check my comments to earlier posts about Issa.

I told you so.

DAMN! I hate being right.

If honest politician is an oxymoron, gutless politician is a tautology.

Can somebody point me in the direction of a reasonably priced .223/5.56?

Bad Cyborg X; May 24, 2011 at 1:55 PM
Pat H. said...: Thanks for the reference to Sedgewick, another US government thug.

Then there's Jack Hinson\'s One Man War for a great example of how to handle the US government.; May 24, 2011 at 4:28 PM
Anonymous said...: Don't lose hope yet. Sometimes it takes a little time for a train to pick up speed.; May 25, 2011 at 7:22 PM
Anonymous said...: Can somebody point me in the direction of a reasonably priced
.223/5.56?--Bad Cyborg X

Take a look at the Double Star
M4-gery:

http://www.budsgunshop.com/catalog/product_info.php/cPath/36_753/products_id/411537957

The DS chamber is cut for 5.56 NATO. Many rival offerings actually use .223 specs (even while claiming 5.56 chamber dimensions), which can lead to overpressure problems.

Insist on a 5.56 chamber!

Double Star is an excellent value for a gun of this type.; May 26, 2011 at 7:40 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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Roll Call magazine channels John Sedgewick and says Issa is a wussy.

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