Tom Davis: Peeps Is Angry
For those of you who missed it, S.C. Sen. Tom Davis traveled to Washington D.C. this weekend along with a group of several hundred South Carolinians to protest the socialist direction this country is taking …
You can read Davis’ oped about his trip by clicking here, but a FITS reader sent us a video of Davis addressing his constituents on the eve of the rally … and it’s ten times better.
“I don’t understand the generation of people now coming into power in politics who want to change the very foundations upon which this nation was created,” Davis says in the video. “Change can be good, but when you’re talking about changing the bedrock foundations upon which this nation was founded, that ain’t good.”
Davis was just getting warmed up, too.
“We’re seeing before our eyes the disintegration of the American idea, that’s the bad news,” Davis said. “The good news is, it is so stark, it’s so obvious, that people are starting to realize it.”
Here’s the clip:
Comments
By CNSYD on September 14th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
I doubt Davis would know the bedrock foundations of the nation if he tripped over them. His Sun City supporters probably think social security and medicare are some of them. Think they want those to go away?
By Huhhh??? on September 14th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
People like Tom Davis, Greg Ryberg and Mark Sanford got no room to talk.
I’m more worried about what THAT generation of politicians has done to our state and tried to do to our country.
Are we better off NOW than 6 1/2 years ago!?!? Thank God Sanford can do no more harm ever the minute he leaves the Governor’s mansion.
Davis is dispicable. No rational person could possibly believe that this close friend of Mark has not accompanied him “blowing off steam” and has not covered up Mark’s personal, professional and criminal behavior for years. I hope he goes down with him.
Beaufort county needs to get a grip on who they are electing. This jerk AND Wilson?
I thought I lived in the most messed up county in the state. And, it’s run by Democrats.
By CNSYD on September 14th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
Huhhh???, Wilson should not be the rep for Beaufort. It is gerrymandering to keep others in office.
By ohara on September 14th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
Why is it that all I saw at that rally on 9/12 in DC was old fat white people? Honest to god, they were all there in their shorts, beer bellies & varicose veins screaming about how socialism would be the ruination of society. Ya’ just wanted to ask how many of them had picked up their social security check on the way to the rally.
I have nothing against old fat white people, after all I have grandparents too. But none of the signage had anything to do with deficit spending (at least very little) but every other fringe element was sure there.
Weren’t these the same people that protested the Viet Nam War in the 60’s? They all got off drugs, became capitalists, and now they hate the government (again). Maybe they just like to protest-their generational thing.
My favorite sign-”The zoo has an African & the White House has a Lyin’ African.” That one was carried by a grandma. I had no desire to ask if she was from SC, but she looked like she could have been a bra burner back in the day.
The best part-I missed seeing Tom Davis. Anyone who hangs with the LuvGuv is off my lost of favored politicians-not that any of them are eligible these days.
By MKinVA on September 14th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
Didn’t Tom Davis sponsor a bill to allow people with weekend homes (which are actually their primary residences) on the coast to receive reduced tax rates if they rented it out for a couple of weeks each summer? That’s what he believes this country was founded on. Preferential treatment for the landed gentry. That very bill was a gift to Sanford.
By Red Bank Bar on September 15th, 2009 at 6:20 am
Angry white trash, that’s what the Republican Party has turned into.
Unfurl a confederate flag and you’ll attract them anywhere in South Kakalacky.
Probably all waving their “Keep your government hands off my Medicare” or in Joe Wilson’s case, Tri Care.
By Huhhh??? on September 15th, 2009 at 10:03 am
CNSYD, I’m sure you know the gerrymandering across the country has been of much more intentional benefit to the many more safe, white, Republic Party districts that have been created, rather than the few bones thrown to satisfy minorities.
It is a major reason we have degenerated into this uncivil mess. (Myself included. If they can’t be civil enough to say “Democratic” party, I won’t say “Republican”.)
Politicians used to have to be moderate, at least thoughtful, enough to attract voters of all kinds, rather than appeal only to the most lunatic fringe.
By political hack on September 15th, 2009 at 10:11 am
I love how all the old dixiecrats that read this blog still manage to try to make the same partisan arguments about why particular candidates who stand for fiscal conservatism and some understanding of the founding ideals of this nation still suck one way or another and love and need the government corruption and waste because well, they have been sucking on the government tit so long that it is the norm to do so. Medicare medicade etc. the arguments are that no one dare touch these precious ponzi schemes because then there consitutents will be harmed. Then there are those arguments that Davis is writing law to give “rich people” with vacation homes tax breaks…just listen to your commie ass. All taxes are a joke and unnecessary, just the man trying to take half of what you earn because they know how to make better decisions with it and it supports their social welfare rackets. The govenrment will pay for whatever it wants anyway without taxes and we will get the bill by realizing one day that you can’t buy shit with a dollar, which is what I am realizing now. People then blame the fact that they buy shit on greedy capitalists because CNN and MSNBC tell them that and they are too stupid to know the first thing about econ 101. The truth is that they can’t buy shit because the government is like a banker in monopoly who never runs out of money and everyone else playing the game can get as much money as they want but in the end the banker always wins because, well, he is the banker and MAKES THE MONEY. If you are fine having the man stick it to you with taxes, then taxing you again with inflationary government spending, all because they tell you it is supposed to make you feel warm and fuzzy, and you can’t stand the sight of social strife, then you are a cog and should accept your position as working for the government and letting it take and take until you have nothing left. Party affiliation aside, there are many people who find this “accepted because thats the way it is” government pyramid scheme at the expense of their livelihood completely unacceptable and wouldn’t stand for it if it approached them at the front door of their house, but yet they still manage to vote for these gangsters and keep asking themselves why they work so much and still can seem to get ahead.
By scooter on September 15th, 2009 at 10:21 am
Sanford, Davis, Wilson, DeMint…can’t we just wake up and find that it is all a bad dream? Bad manners and bully behavior has run wide! “W” Bush started with his extreme uneducated, rude and bullying behaviors. Now we see it in our own backyard. Insiders know that Sanford has been finding and spreading dirt (true and untrue) on people that oppose him for years. These town halls have been mean, nasty and unforgiveable. People can not sit in church on Sunday or Saturday and then later in the week, treat others with such distain and utter disregard. But, oh how they have been doing this. My family has been talking about leaving the state our families have for decades loved. I am fed up with falsehoods, yelling and disrespect. All these people need to rethink where they are taking our children and our families. Shameful!
By CNSYD on September 15th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
Huhh, my point is what happened in SC years ago so that it was a dead lock that a black Democrat would be elected. Every time that gets in danger the lines move. Look at the 3rd district. Columbia has nothing in common with Beaufort except they are in the same state.
political hack, lets make you king for a day. You have now abolished all taxes. How are you going to man and equip the armed forces? Should we just stand down?
By political hack on September 15th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
The armed forces would be manned and equipped by the government. If they can pay for bailouts of banks too big to fail because they are part of the cartel of banks that are the undisclosed shareholders of the Federal Reserve, then they can fund and build an army by just making precedent saying we need an army for war, whichever war that might be, war on terror, welfare, middle east peace? who konws, the type of war is not important. And in terms of stand down I say yes we should, we have failed in our objective to kill or bring to justice those reponsible for 5000 innocent American people killed. This same government who keeps these wars perpetual with no end in sight is also the same govenrment who tries to fix “recessions” when there are always going to be more, no matter what, it is because of monetary policy. If government actually had gold or silver backing the dollar and it was exchangable currency for something of value, then taxes would be necessary for government to function appropriately and there would be an outrage from the average American who probably believes in teh great American Ideal if those taxes were as high as they would have to be to keep big brother running. No politician could survive if they proposed to tax their people 50% or more or whatever it would take to buy off their consitutents. Instead, the great game they play is by taxing you 40% and then still passing laws that enable the government to spend with no oversight whatsoever and then we eat the tab with inflation. All they need to get elected is to appear that they care, they need a crisis, because that gives them an opportunity to spend money without any debate and to gain power exponentially by creating more government that will be loyal to whomever put them there because without the initial crisis, or without their bossman in charge, they would be without a paper pushing beauracratic job.
By CNSYD on September 15th, 2009 at 11:29 pm
political hack, what drugs are you on? what do you plan to do with gold and/or silver. I doubt it tastes very good. Can you make soup from it? Any form of money/currency has only the value people place on it. What currency in the world is directly backed by gold? W.J. Bryan spoke of the cross of gold. Is that what you propose? You still have not explained how you plan to finance the armed forces since you have abolished all taxation. Of course there is that troubling document called the Constitution which charges the federal government with the common defense.
By Toyota Kawaski on September 16th, 2009 at 8:50 am
Nice glamor shot! What you do Tommy boy cruise the district and snap photos.