FMJRA Roundup: Conservatives Join Together to Make History in Massachusetts

Sissy Willis writes for Pajama's Media, "The inside story of how tea party twitterers, Facebook friends, and Blogspot buddies helped win the race for Scott Brown.   Willis notes the influence of Professor Jacobson who also reflects on the race from the ground up on his blog and for Pajamas Media as well.  This was a week conservatives showed their force in the new media, working together to elect a Republican Senator in Massachusetts.  Here's a roundup of what some of my favorite bloggers are covering in the days following  the historic election:

Carol's Closet has the picture of the day.  How it must have killed Newsweek to print that.

American Power points to the welcome news Massachusetts could spell trouble for Barbara Boxer, sorry Ma'am.

And so it goes in Shreveport covers the failed first year of the Obama presidency.

Another Black Conservative covers the news SCOTUS knocks down part of McCain Feingold.

Backyard Conservative asks the question, "Who made the decision on the Christmas bomber?"

Cynthia Yockey asks for help for HillBuzz writer Kevin Dujan who has been outed and targeted by the likes of Daily KOS and his minion of Soros funded trolls.

Maggie's Notebook covers Mr. Obama's trip to Nevada to save Harry Reid.  Well, that's scary considering his success rate on the stump lately.

Always clever with a turn of the phrase, No Sheeples declares the election a "Mass-acre."  Indeed it was.

Wyblog wonders if  the new ban on tax cheats from government service means Charlie Rangel is going to be fired.   Aren't Democrats exempt from their own rules though?

Paco Enterprises notices the Democrats seem to have missed the memo about checking in the batteries in your smoke alarms.  How did they miss all that smoke rising from their districts back home?

Pundette suggests some house cleaning for the electorate.

Reaganite Republican  is singing "The Day ObamaCare Died."

The Daley Gator catches the Democrats raising the limits on the national credit card, again.

Troglopundit spots Paul Krugman turning on his leader like a starving dog on a dying brother.

Conservative Girl With A Voice made her national TV debut

The Othe McCain interviews a candidate for Olbermann's Worst Person in the World Award.  Be sure to read Schweet Aggregation while you're there.

Fishersville Mike offers a view from the burbs.

My Voice on the Wings of Change notes Barry has not learned a key community organizer lesson, never let them see you sweat.

Nice Deb  has the video of Mark Thiessen mopping the floor with Christiane Amanpour and a guest.

Obi's Sister has that hilarious Hitler meltdown clip, featuring this incredible line:  “Health care was supposed to be done by August, now it drags on forever, like Stalingrad!”  If you still haven't seen it, it is definitely worth the watch.

Track A 'Crat covered the Southers withdrawal and discovers new uses for the word moron in the process.

ADDED:  Angela Stevens, the "Domestic Divapalooza," wonders when the press and Congress are going to hold him accountable.  I don't know but November is the day of reckoning for all.

Time to be Heard

Last Friday I mentioned the Friday the 13th episode of Glenn Beck's show that was to feature a few prominent conservative bloggers. I was under the impression the bad luck of the day had prevailed and to some degree, perhaps it did. Adrienne Ross at Motivation Truth gives a behind the scenes accounting of some of the frustration experienced at not being able to express her thoughts and opinions in a forum that was held out to as a "Time to be Heard." Some of this was a logistical problem as the group was seated away from the mic. The show seems to have wasted some time covering issues Adrienne didn't find of great import as well. Much was later edited out so indeed it was a waste. Still she seemed hopeful that she would have another opportunity to address her points should Beck devote another show to the unique experiences of black conservatives. I am glad she wrote what she would have said and the behind the scenes info was really interesting.

Robin Martin who blogs at Conservative Black Woman had her moment in the sun and she was just amazing. Here is the clip where she appears on the stage with Beck and two other guests. She starts to speak just a minute and 10 seconds into the clip and dominates the discussion right up until the break at about 5 min 30 seconds into the clip. I thought she handled that mic and the spotlight like a pro. Beck picks up in the next segment by saying that he hope the group can come back for another show so hopefully we will get a chance to hear from those who were frustrated by their inability to speak on camera. In the mean time here's Robin's time to shine:

Friday the 13th on Beck

Carol @ No Sheeples Here made this great graphic to promote the appearance of her friend Clifton on today's Glenn Beck Show.  Clifton  blogs at Another Black Conservative, has a teaser posted promising behind the scenes details after the show airs.   I also saw this tweet from Adrienne2012 who mentioned her appearance on Beck as well.  Adrienne's blog Motivation Truth has a sneak peek at some behind the scenes details which leads me to believe the group of conservative bloggers were  disappointed by the experience.  She linked to Maria My Voice on the Wings of Change who said rather ominously:

....Emphasis on appearing.

I did not talk once. Not a sound or a peep.

The show did not go AT ALL the way some of us conservatives expected it to.


Mmmmm,  I have no idea what to make of any of this but my curiosity is definitely piqued for this show.    I hope I am just reading a bit too much in their posts at this late hour.  We'll see when the show airs anyway.  In the mean time I have four new blogs added to my blogroll.  I look forward to hearing about their Glenn Beck adventure later in the day.

Linked at Pundit & Pundette.  Thank you!

They Didn't See Themselves as Revolutionaries

Daniel Hannan was invited to speak at the Army and Navy Club, in August by the Regular Folks United. This video is part I in a series of 6 youtube clips that show the entire event. This first clip, however, I found fascinating. Hannan makes a number of extraordinary correlations between the original tea partiers in Boston and the current movement.

In the opening Hannan extols the virtues of a group like Regular Folks. Hannan states "that they speak for all the decent people, the hard-working people, the family people, the people who stick up for themselves, who don't always going whining to the government for solutions, try and look after their neighbors rather than expect the government to do it for them and who now feel with justice ripped off and lied to and taken for granted and ignored overtaxed and over-regulated and angry and someone ought to speak for them." Hannan repeats a quote from Edmund Burke to express the difference between the politicians and the regular folks.

Because half-a-dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field;

This is where Hannan finds Americans in our situation with our government. "There is a repository of good sense in the population that finds little articulation among the political cast."


As Hannan was asked to give a British response to the tea parties, he jokes about the difficulties in researching this topic. He quips that of course these haven't happened according to MSM. He Googled around and found they were fringe gathering of racist fruitcakes but notes these derogatory descriptions were used to marginalize the original tea partiers in Boston. This was a group described as misfits, thuggish longshoreman and a couple of Mohican Indians. Of course history has long since proved these characterizations to be untrue.

What were the grievances of this group of misfits? Hannan lists the following:
the concern that concentration of power led to malfeasance and corruption.
They wanted jurisdiction to be dispersed. They wanted decisions to be taken as closely as possible to the people they affect. They believed laws should not be passed but with popular consent. Taxes should not be levied but by elected representatives and that the executive should be answerable to the legislature. Hannan goes on to say that unless he has misunderstood this is exactly what the current tea partiers are pushing for and that he finds "it extraordinary that at this stage you should be having to have this same argument again". Indeed it is extraordinary.

Hannan goes on to explain why he comes as a British politician to hymn the virtues of the original Patriot leaders and those who wrote the Constitution. Most of the grievances of the founding fathers were shared by a majority of the British population. He estimates it was probably shared by 2/3 of the the British people. Hannan suggests this seems less a surprising notion if you go back to what was being said by the Founding Fathers at the time, "they didn't see themselves as revolutionaries, they saw themselves as conservatives."