Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Election Day 2012
So today is the day many of us have been waiting for nearly four years. I could go on with useless predictions about how this isn't even going to be close and that Romney is going to win not only Virginia and North Carolina, but also Florida, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, but why should I? Predictions, just like polls mean nothing, and the actual vote is everything, and we'll know all we need to know in a few hours.
Update: Seems I've had too much faith in people, and the people want tyranny over liberty. Ben Franklin are you looking down right about now as the people have voted away the last of the Republic making you a prophet?
Monday, June 18, 2012
On Political Compromise
It's been a week where the Bush-wing Republicans have been speaking out once again for the need to compromise and how the "new" Republican party couldn't nominate people like Ronald Reagan or George H.W. Bush. I speak primarily of course, of Colin Powell and Jeb Bush and their thinly veiled disparagement of us Tea Party patriots.
Let us take a brief history lesson, shall we?
In 2006, Republicans were thrown out in a big way from Congress, losing control of both the House and the Senate. The federal deficits had grown from the end of the Newt Gingrich era in 1999 of a thirty-five year low 17 billion dollars to over 500 billion. The people were sick of the spending, the growth in government, and threw the Republican majorities out, looking for a change.
In 2007 the Democrats under Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid took over and the 2007 fiscal deficit doubled, to over a trillion dollars. And George W. Bush, being the typical namesake of his wing of the Republican party, didn't fight against this doubled deficit. Instead of taking a hard line stance and vetoing this outrage, he compromised and signed it instead. This wasn't exactly the change the voters had been looking for.
In 2008 Barack Obama was elected President, giving full control of the elected branches of government to the Democrats. The fiscal deficit that year nearly doubled again and was 1.8 trillion dollars. This included the continued bailouts of the UAW, and failed stimulus, all signed by Obama.
In 2009 the health care fiasco took place. The Affordable Care act ("ObamaCare") was rammed through the House and Senate with no Republican support and nearly two-thirds of the public against it. So much for compromise, eh? The fiscal deficit that year was 1.6 trillion dollars. No official budget was ever passed by the Democrats in Congress, and the spending from the previous year, including the trillion dollar stimulus was carried over.
In 2010, the budget, still carrying built-in baseline spending and the refusal of the Democrats in the House and Senate to pass a 2010 budget continued the built in baseline spending. In November, the voters threw the Democrats out of the House, and thinned their numbers in the Senate from 60 to 53. In January 2011, the Republican controlled House passed a budget that was deemed "dead on arrival" by Harry Reid in the Senate, and disparaged by the President. The Senate once again, did not bother passing a budget. The deficit for this year: 1.2 trillion.
We're still waiting on official numbers for fiscal 2011 since it runs until the end of September this year, 2012. But they're not going to be any better than FY 2010 since the Senate STILL has not passed a budget, and the softball leadership of John Boehner and Eric Cantor in the House refuses to shut down the government to force action. They instead continue to compromise with continuing resolutions that continue the Pelosi/Reid trillion dollar deficits.
So this is what compromise has gotten us. An out of control spending government, no matter who controls it.
The American people do not want compromise. They want a responsible government populated by responsible people. People who represent us, not dictate to us.
There's a reason why people like Senator Jim Demint and Congressman Paul Ryan are painted as "extremist". It's because they actually want to cut the budget. Not expand it, or just slow the growth of it. They want to cut it. And that said, several organizations have said that even Paul Ryan's "extremist" budgets may not be enough to save the United States from fiscal disaster. That's how knee jerk the Democrats and media are to any slowing in spending, no matter how modest it is. Incidentally, it's also why Newt Gingrich was forced out by his own party. He had successfully shrunk the deficits to nearly zero by refusing to compromise with Clinton and his own party, and disgruntled politicians in both parties were feeling the pinch of less money to spread around for political favors and votes. That, in Washington, is a high crime and ethical violation you know. And it's why most politicians and media types scream shrilly whenever they even think someone is serious about cutting budgets. Less money for them and all their friends.
Until more people like Demint, Ryan and Gingrich get a hold of the purse strings, and people like Pelosi, Reid, Boehner and McConnell are thrown out of leadership roles, nothing will ever change. But that's what primary elections are for. This isn't going to change overnight because we haven't gotten to this point overnight. Continued punishment of all these politicians that spend money that isn't theirs is required. Continued defense of people like Paul Ryan and Jim Demint is also required.
This is a lifetime commitment if things are going to be changed. The Republicans have been compromising their principles since throwing Gingrich out, and it's gotten us to 15.8 trillion dollars in debt, over 100% of our gross national production. That's the de facto definition of bankrupt, folks. And there's no getting away from that, no matter what political label you slap on yourself.
And when the fiscal house of cards finally comes tumbling down, the spending cuts will be immediate, and on everyone. There will be no social security, medicare, medicaid, SCHIP, food stamps, welfare, or disability. For anyone. That is what compromise will get you. It's long past time for that.
Let us take a brief history lesson, shall we?
In 2006, Republicans were thrown out in a big way from Congress, losing control of both the House and the Senate. The federal deficits had grown from the end of the Newt Gingrich era in 1999 of a thirty-five year low 17 billion dollars to over 500 billion. The people were sick of the spending, the growth in government, and threw the Republican majorities out, looking for a change.
In 2007 the Democrats under Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid took over and the 2007 fiscal deficit doubled, to over a trillion dollars. And George W. Bush, being the typical namesake of his wing of the Republican party, didn't fight against this doubled deficit. Instead of taking a hard line stance and vetoing this outrage, he compromised and signed it instead. This wasn't exactly the change the voters had been looking for.
In 2008 Barack Obama was elected President, giving full control of the elected branches of government to the Democrats. The fiscal deficit that year nearly doubled again and was 1.8 trillion dollars. This included the continued bailouts of the UAW, and failed stimulus, all signed by Obama.
In 2009 the health care fiasco took place. The Affordable Care act ("ObamaCare") was rammed through the House and Senate with no Republican support and nearly two-thirds of the public against it. So much for compromise, eh? The fiscal deficit that year was 1.6 trillion dollars. No official budget was ever passed by the Democrats in Congress, and the spending from the previous year, including the trillion dollar stimulus was carried over.
In 2010, the budget, still carrying built-in baseline spending and the refusal of the Democrats in the House and Senate to pass a 2010 budget continued the built in baseline spending. In November, the voters threw the Democrats out of the House, and thinned their numbers in the Senate from 60 to 53. In January 2011, the Republican controlled House passed a budget that was deemed "dead on arrival" by Harry Reid in the Senate, and disparaged by the President. The Senate once again, did not bother passing a budget. The deficit for this year: 1.2 trillion.
We're still waiting on official numbers for fiscal 2011 since it runs until the end of September this year, 2012. But they're not going to be any better than FY 2010 since the Senate STILL has not passed a budget, and the softball leadership of John Boehner and Eric Cantor in the House refuses to shut down the government to force action. They instead continue to compromise with continuing resolutions that continue the Pelosi/Reid trillion dollar deficits.
So this is what compromise has gotten us. An out of control spending government, no matter who controls it.
The American people do not want compromise. They want a responsible government populated by responsible people. People who represent us, not dictate to us.
There's a reason why people like Senator Jim Demint and Congressman Paul Ryan are painted as "extremist". It's because they actually want to cut the budget. Not expand it, or just slow the growth of it. They want to cut it. And that said, several organizations have said that even Paul Ryan's "extremist" budgets may not be enough to save the United States from fiscal disaster. That's how knee jerk the Democrats and media are to any slowing in spending, no matter how modest it is. Incidentally, it's also why Newt Gingrich was forced out by his own party. He had successfully shrunk the deficits to nearly zero by refusing to compromise with Clinton and his own party, and disgruntled politicians in both parties were feeling the pinch of less money to spread around for political favors and votes. That, in Washington, is a high crime and ethical violation you know. And it's why most politicians and media types scream shrilly whenever they even think someone is serious about cutting budgets. Less money for them and all their friends.
Until more people like Demint, Ryan and Gingrich get a hold of the purse strings, and people like Pelosi, Reid, Boehner and McConnell are thrown out of leadership roles, nothing will ever change. But that's what primary elections are for. This isn't going to change overnight because we haven't gotten to this point overnight. Continued punishment of all these politicians that spend money that isn't theirs is required. Continued defense of people like Paul Ryan and Jim Demint is also required.
This is a lifetime commitment if things are going to be changed. The Republicans have been compromising their principles since throwing Gingrich out, and it's gotten us to 15.8 trillion dollars in debt, over 100% of our gross national production. That's the de facto definition of bankrupt, folks. And there's no getting away from that, no matter what political label you slap on yourself.
And when the fiscal house of cards finally comes tumbling down, the spending cuts will be immediate, and on everyone. There will be no social security, medicare, medicaid, SCHIP, food stamps, welfare, or disability. For anyone. That is what compromise will get you. It's long past time for that.
Thursday, June 7, 2012
The Importance of a Philosophical Foundation
There's a saying that if you don't believe in something you'll fall for anything. As religion in the West declines, more and more people are left with nothing to believe in larger than themselves. This leaves a large void in life. And the need to fill that void can have disastrous results as a person searches for something, anything, perhaps not even knowing what s/he is doing.
Trust me as I can speak of this from experience. It is what leads many, otherwise independent thinking people into the trap of things like global warming (...climate change, whatever they're calling it this week...) and other things that prove ridiculous when thought about for any amount of time and applying common sense. But the need to be a part of something larger than yourself is a very big trait among human beings. And what could be bigger than "saving the planet"?
The decline of religion and people attending church or temple has also had an adverse effect on many communities in that people are no longer part of something other than their basic family structure. And even this is becoming more and more distant as people become more plugged into technology than people. This loss of community is felt when people fall on hard times, like in the most recent economic downturn. Before, churches and synagogues played very large roles in giving a helping hand for these people. People would willingly help out their fellows that needed a temporary hand up. Now however, the government has become the largest go to entity for this, and the hand up has become perpetual hand outs.
Government has come in to fill both of these roles, and for the Left, government is the new altar at which people are to pray. Government is all benevolent, can do no wrong, and (at least when they are in power) should be able to do anything it sees fit (in the name of the people of course). This is the stuff of which tyrannies are born.
For people like me, who are not particularly religious (I believe in a higher power but one that is non interventionist when it comes to humanity), that leaves philosophy to replace the hole that lack of organized religion leaves. And the Statists use this hole in belief to their maximum advtantage and press their propaganda on people who need something to believe in. Unfortunately in the propaganda mills that the public school system has become, if philosophy is taught, it is only one philosophy. That of the Statist and philosophies that praise big government and government power. Utopian ideas of Plato's Republic, More's Utopia, and Marx's Communist Manifesto are what rule the day in our schools now. Rather than the individual freedom and liberty ideals of the philosophers that shaped the founding of this nation. If even both sides were taught side-by-side, the majority of people would side with individual liberty; and that's why this situation would be intolerable to the Statists that run the public schools.
So that leaves it to us, the individual citizen to be educators to both young and old. To family and friends and co-workers. We must educate ourselves in the way of Edmund Burke, John Locke, Montesquieu, and modern equivalents like Milton Friedman. And be able to articulate their points to our fellow citizens. While most of the time it may seem like our points are falling on deaf ears, there will come that time in every person's life where Statist policies will touch them or their family. And then instead of big government tyranny being some ridiculous notion in some third world banana republic, all the things you've said to them will ring true. They will think of you and what you've said and seek you out for more information. It happens to me quite a lot these last few years. This is how a difference will be made and liberty restored in this nation. One person at a time. Just pray it isn't too late.
Trust me as I can speak of this from experience. It is what leads many, otherwise independent thinking people into the trap of things like global warming (...climate change, whatever they're calling it this week...) and other things that prove ridiculous when thought about for any amount of time and applying common sense. But the need to be a part of something larger than yourself is a very big trait among human beings. And what could be bigger than "saving the planet"?
The decline of religion and people attending church or temple has also had an adverse effect on many communities in that people are no longer part of something other than their basic family structure. And even this is becoming more and more distant as people become more plugged into technology than people. This loss of community is felt when people fall on hard times, like in the most recent economic downturn. Before, churches and synagogues played very large roles in giving a helping hand for these people. People would willingly help out their fellows that needed a temporary hand up. Now however, the government has become the largest go to entity for this, and the hand up has become perpetual hand outs.
Government has come in to fill both of these roles, and for the Left, government is the new altar at which people are to pray. Government is all benevolent, can do no wrong, and (at least when they are in power) should be able to do anything it sees fit (in the name of the people of course). This is the stuff of which tyrannies are born.
For people like me, who are not particularly religious (I believe in a higher power but one that is non interventionist when it comes to humanity), that leaves philosophy to replace the hole that lack of organized religion leaves. And the Statists use this hole in belief to their maximum advtantage and press their propaganda on people who need something to believe in. Unfortunately in the propaganda mills that the public school system has become, if philosophy is taught, it is only one philosophy. That of the Statist and philosophies that praise big government and government power. Utopian ideas of Plato's Republic, More's Utopia, and Marx's Communist Manifesto are what rule the day in our schools now. Rather than the individual freedom and liberty ideals of the philosophers that shaped the founding of this nation. If even both sides were taught side-by-side, the majority of people would side with individual liberty; and that's why this situation would be intolerable to the Statists that run the public schools.
So that leaves it to us, the individual citizen to be educators to both young and old. To family and friends and co-workers. We must educate ourselves in the way of Edmund Burke, John Locke, Montesquieu, and modern equivalents like Milton Friedman. And be able to articulate their points to our fellow citizens. While most of the time it may seem like our points are falling on deaf ears, there will come that time in every person's life where Statist policies will touch them or their family. And then instead of big government tyranny being some ridiculous notion in some third world banana republic, all the things you've said to them will ring true. They will think of you and what you've said and seek you out for more information. It happens to me quite a lot these last few years. This is how a difference will be made and liberty restored in this nation. One person at a time. Just pray it isn't too late.
Forced Unionism on the Ropes
Everybody is talking about Gov. Walkers triumph over the public sector unions yesterday. Some articles are even telling the truth. This isn't about what it means to the politicians and the 2012 Presidential election. It was about us, the citizens, and a victory for tax payers and for liberty in general.
The tyranny of forced unionism in states is on the ropes. With Indiana becoming a right to work state this year, along with Gov. Walkers bold reforms, surrounding states, including Michigan, have been forced to follow suit in instituting reforms to stay remotely competitive in the region. Michigan has passed laws ending the forced collection of dues, and lawmakers are now emboldened by the results in Indiana and Wisconsin to begin pushing right-to-work legislation. If residents of Rust Belt states like Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin are all on the side of freedom, liberty truly is on the march once again in the United States. When given the choice, more than half of union members choose to leave the union that was forced upon them in the first place. This screams loudly for other states to follow suit. Not only does this free people from what is in fact, a form of forced servitude by way of forced dues paying, it also cuts off a major funding mechanism that the Marxist party -- whoops -- Democratic party -- has relied on as a given for decades. And makes the playing field much more level in the arena of fund raising for the first time in nearly 100 years.
In other places, like California of all places, voters turned out in favor of cutting government workers benefits and pensions. And it wasn't even remotely close. In the city of San Jose, the vote was nearly 3-1 at 72-28.
It's time for elected officials to start acting like elected representatives again. These results proclaim loudly that if they move to enact bold reforms that promote liberty for employees and tax payers alike, they will have broad support. And that the noise of the increasingly irrelevant unions is just that. Irrelevant.
The tyranny of forced unionism in states is on the ropes. With Indiana becoming a right to work state this year, along with Gov. Walkers bold reforms, surrounding states, including Michigan, have been forced to follow suit in instituting reforms to stay remotely competitive in the region. Michigan has passed laws ending the forced collection of dues, and lawmakers are now emboldened by the results in Indiana and Wisconsin to begin pushing right-to-work legislation. If residents of Rust Belt states like Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin are all on the side of freedom, liberty truly is on the march once again in the United States. When given the choice, more than half of union members choose to leave the union that was forced upon them in the first place. This screams loudly for other states to follow suit. Not only does this free people from what is in fact, a form of forced servitude by way of forced dues paying, it also cuts off a major funding mechanism that the Marxist party -- whoops -- Democratic party -- has relied on as a given for decades. And makes the playing field much more level in the arena of fund raising for the first time in nearly 100 years.
In other places, like California of all places, voters turned out in favor of cutting government workers benefits and pensions. And it wasn't even remotely close. In the city of San Jose, the vote was nearly 3-1 at 72-28.
It's time for elected officials to start acting like elected representatives again. These results proclaim loudly that if they move to enact bold reforms that promote liberty for employees and tax payers alike, they will have broad support. And that the noise of the increasingly irrelevant unions is just that. Irrelevant.
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Goodbye Lugar
...don't let the door hit you on the rear-end on the way out.
I just wanted to write a quick thank-you to the voters of Indiana for removing Lugar and replacing him on the November ballot with an actual conservative. Every right-thinking person in the Senate added is more ammunition for shaking up the failed Republican leadership and restoring sanity to the federal government.
Friday, March 30, 2012
The Marxists are After the Oil Companies Yet Again
So Obama is out there again on these tax "subsidies" for oil companies. And it's only a matter of time before we hear about those evil "speculators" again. Well let's deal with the first one first, shall we?
It's already been shown that the big oil companies like Exxon-Mobil do not receive these so-called "subsidies" anymore. And they haven't for decades. A former Democrat Congressman is on the record as confirming this, even.
Secondly, let's talk about the oil commodity market, and the commodity markets in general.
The Marxists would have you believe that these boogey-man speculators are always driving up the cost of oil on some magical market where they are always making tons of money at the expense of the consumer. This is probably what the average Joe gets from the propaganda. "Speculators" drive up the price on the market, and the money they make comes directly from you when you fill up your vehicle, right? Wrong.
The oil commodity market, and any commodity market works just like any other market. There are buyers and sellers. The buyers bet that there are more people buying to increase the cost so they can sell the contracts of oil (corn, wheat, whatever) for a higher price than they bought it. Who are the sellers? The sellers are either people who sell contracts for a profit to the new buyer, or are selling on a bet the price will go lower instead of higher. I've been in the currency and commodity markets. And let me tell you through firsthand experience you can make money. Or at anytime if you bet the wrong way, you can also lose your shirt off your back. People who are buying oil contracts today could very well lose big time if something fundamental were to happen to suddenly cause more sellers than buyers to come into the market and in turn cause the price to dip. (Less demand, more supply -- you just can't get away from that supply and demand fundamental thing, can you?)
Say, for example, if our Marxist President were replaced and the new President actually stopped obstructing domestic oil production. Long before the first drop of oil was extracted, more sellers would come into the market just because of the perceived major shift in supply to come in the market. In the markets, prices always are reflective of policy and future events, such as in the stock market. The price of a stock isn't based on what a company has done in the past quarter, but what it is expected to do in the next quarter and beyond. The same holds true for a commodity market as well. Except in this case, the quarterly earnings/cash flow becomes how much of that product is expected to be produced.
So in other words, the buyers driving the market aren't making money off of you. They're making money off the losing sellers in the same market. And the opposite would hold true if the price of oil were falling. And you cannot, no matter how much you propagandize, get away from fundamental concepts like supply and demand.
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It's already been shown that the big oil companies like Exxon-Mobil do not receive these so-called "subsidies" anymore. And they haven't for decades. A former Democrat Congressman is on the record as confirming this, even.
Secondly, let's talk about the oil commodity market, and the commodity markets in general.
The Marxists would have you believe that these boogey-man speculators are always driving up the cost of oil on some magical market where they are always making tons of money at the expense of the consumer. This is probably what the average Joe gets from the propaganda. "Speculators" drive up the price on the market, and the money they make comes directly from you when you fill up your vehicle, right? Wrong.
The oil commodity market, and any commodity market works just like any other market. There are buyers and sellers. The buyers bet that there are more people buying to increase the cost so they can sell the contracts of oil (corn, wheat, whatever) for a higher price than they bought it. Who are the sellers? The sellers are either people who sell contracts for a profit to the new buyer, or are selling on a bet the price will go lower instead of higher. I've been in the currency and commodity markets. And let me tell you through firsthand experience you can make money. Or at anytime if you bet the wrong way, you can also lose your shirt off your back. People who are buying oil contracts today could very well lose big time if something fundamental were to happen to suddenly cause more sellers than buyers to come into the market and in turn cause the price to dip. (Less demand, more supply -- you just can't get away from that supply and demand fundamental thing, can you?)
Say, for example, if our Marxist President were replaced and the new President actually stopped obstructing domestic oil production. Long before the first drop of oil was extracted, more sellers would come into the market just because of the perceived major shift in supply to come in the market. In the markets, prices always are reflective of policy and future events, such as in the stock market. The price of a stock isn't based on what a company has done in the past quarter, but what it is expected to do in the next quarter and beyond. The same holds true for a commodity market as well. Except in this case, the quarterly earnings/cash flow becomes how much of that product is expected to be produced.
So in other words, the buyers driving the market aren't making money off of you. They're making money off the losing sellers in the same market. And the opposite would hold true if the price of oil were falling. And you cannot, no matter how much you propagandize, get away from fundamental concepts like supply and demand.
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Justice Kennedy sounding like Mark Levin
In at least one very important statement, the swing vote of the Nine said "[the individual mandate]changes the relationship of the federal government to the individual in a fundamental way."
Perhaps there is some hope Justice Kennedy has a sense of freedom and liberty after all.
Audio here
UPDATE 3/28 0900: Levin indeed confirmed on his radio show last night that this question came directly from his legal group's brief to the court.
Perhaps there is some hope Justice Kennedy has a sense of freedom and liberty after all.
Audio here
UPDATE 3/28 0900: Levin indeed confirmed on his radio show last night that this question came directly from his legal group's brief to the court.
The Obsession over National Polls
The obsession over national polls for President needs to stop. Why? Because they mean nothing. No, really. They are meaningless.
Anybody who knows how the process even works knows that the President isn't elected by national popular vote. It was designed that way on purpose to make sure one or two areas of the country didn't have the whole say in who the President would be. The candidate can lose the national popular vote and still win office because he wins the bi-polar states that can't decide if they like freedom or not.
Instead of looking at national polls, we should be concentrating on individual states that matter. Florida, Ohio, and states that went for Obama that shouldn't have, like Virginia and North Carolina are where polls matter. Pennsylvania, which elected conservatives to both the U.S. Senate and their governor's office in 2010 also could play a key role. And the last time I checked, Obama was getting shellacked in Ohio and wasn't doing very well in the other states mentioned either.
The point is we know California and New York state are going to go for Obama. We know Texas is going to go to the Republican nominee. The question is, what are the so-called swing states and aberrations like North Carolina going to do? The answer at the moment is kick Obama's rear to the curb come November.
EDIT: So apparently some, including Mark Levin have found updated polls showing Romney trailing Obama in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida. I've never been comfortable with a Romney-Obama contest because of Romney's weakness when it comes to socialized medicine. I'm still holding out the hope for a brokered convention.
Anybody who knows how the process even works knows that the President isn't elected by national popular vote. It was designed that way on purpose to make sure one or two areas of the country didn't have the whole say in who the President would be. The candidate can lose the national popular vote and still win office because he wins the bi-polar states that can't decide if they like freedom or not.
Instead of looking at national polls, we should be concentrating on individual states that matter. Florida, Ohio, and states that went for Obama that shouldn't have, like Virginia and North Carolina are where polls matter. Pennsylvania, which elected conservatives to both the U.S. Senate and their governor's office in 2010 also could play a key role. And the last time I checked, Obama was getting shellacked in Ohio and wasn't doing very well in the other states mentioned either.
The point is we know California and New York state are going to go for Obama. We know Texas is going to go to the Republican nominee. The question is, what are the so-called swing states and aberrations like North Carolina going to do? The answer at the moment is kick Obama's rear to the curb come November.
EDIT: So apparently some, including Mark Levin have found updated polls showing Romney trailing Obama in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida. I've never been comfortable with a Romney-Obama contest because of Romney's weakness when it comes to socialized medicine. I'm still holding out the hope for a brokered convention.
Saturday, March 17, 2012
The Wall Street Journal proves its uselessness again
All freedom loving educated individuals know that publications like the New York Times, Washington Post, and major network news are nothing but propaganda outlets for the Democratic party now. Now they're waking up to the reality that their supposed counterparts like the Wall Street Journal aren't any better in regards to their ability to live in reality.
Low-Road Conservatives
Indiana insurgents play Mickey-Mouse politics against Dick Lugar.
That's the title of one of their articles yesterday.
First we're hobbits, now we're Mickey Mouse. I don't buy the WSJ anymore for a good reason. Its opinion makers and writers are as out of touch as the NYT leftists. They want conservatives to fall in line when the general election comes time and vote for the team with the R cap, but they sure go into a tizzy whenever people actually want a say in a primary about who gets to run in that general election. Our vote is good enough come November, but the rest of the year we're supposed to sit down, shut up and sit in the corner so they can pretend we don't exist. Then they say there is no Republican establishment because they're the obvious conservatives and call us rodents or hobbits.
Lugar has outlived his usefulness, whether or not the fact that he no longer has a residence in Indiana is legal or not. Like the WSJ writers, he's been living in a place that is out of touch with the rest of the country too long and needs to be replaced. It's that simple. Yes, that's right guys, we all don't live in the fantasy lands of Washington DC or New York City. We live in reality and we're going to drag them kicking and screaming back into it as well. Whether they like it or not.
Low-Road Conservatives
Indiana insurgents play Mickey-Mouse politics against Dick Lugar.
That's the title of one of their articles yesterday.
First we're hobbits, now we're Mickey Mouse. I don't buy the WSJ anymore for a good reason. Its opinion makers and writers are as out of touch as the NYT leftists. They want conservatives to fall in line when the general election comes time and vote for the team with the R cap, but they sure go into a tizzy whenever people actually want a say in a primary about who gets to run in that general election. Our vote is good enough come November, but the rest of the year we're supposed to sit down, shut up and sit in the corner so they can pretend we don't exist. Then they say there is no Republican establishment because they're the obvious conservatives and call us rodents or hobbits.
Lugar has outlived his usefulness, whether or not the fact that he no longer has a residence in Indiana is legal or not. Like the WSJ writers, he's been living in a place that is out of touch with the rest of the country too long and needs to be replaced. It's that simple. Yes, that's right guys, we all don't live in the fantasy lands of Washington DC or New York City. We live in reality and we're going to drag them kicking and screaming back into it as well. Whether they like it or not.
Thursday, March 15, 2012
2012 Presidential Primary, March 15th
It's been hard for me to write updates on the 2012 Republican primary. Honestly, the entire process has made me sick to my stomach.
In a year where all the issues are falling on the side of conservatism, two of the four remaining candidates are spending the majority of their time smearing the other two instead of doing their due diligence in convincing me (and others) to vote for them.
Mitt Romney is the biggest offender, and Ron Paul is a close second. It was estimated in Florida that 95% of Romney's ads were negative attack ads against Gingrich instead of telling voters why they should vote for him. He did the same thing in 2008 against people like Fred Thompson, Rudy Giuliani, and Mike Huckabee.
And these millions spent on attacks and smears have prompted the need to respond, and not always in the best way, either. So instead of the issues, we talk about what might or might not be the truth about personal attacks, instead of where each man stands on the issues and how he's going to defeat Barack Obama, the socialist.
And this, more than anything, perhaps even more than his standing next to Ted Kennedy calling his "collaborator" on 'RomneyCare', is what makes it impossible for me to vote for Romney in this primary. And while I'm acutely aware that Obama needs to be defeated and will have to hold my nose and vote for him in the general election if he's the nominee, many, many people will refuse to do so because he has alienated so many people with his smugness and attitude. That number of alienated and pissed off people may exceed even the appalling number of 2008 when McCain was the coronated nominee by the elites in their own minds. Because unfortunately there are still many people who are not engaged and are uninformed, and don't realize the imminent danger of letting Obama be re-elected. And all those people see in Romney are a rich guy with good hair that thinks he's entitled to the nomination because he's "next in line".
In a year where all the issues are falling on the side of conservatism, two of the four remaining candidates are spending the majority of their time smearing the other two instead of doing their due diligence in convincing me (and others) to vote for them.
Mitt Romney is the biggest offender, and Ron Paul is a close second. It was estimated in Florida that 95% of Romney's ads were negative attack ads against Gingrich instead of telling voters why they should vote for him. He did the same thing in 2008 against people like Fred Thompson, Rudy Giuliani, and Mike Huckabee.
And these millions spent on attacks and smears have prompted the need to respond, and not always in the best way, either. So instead of the issues, we talk about what might or might not be the truth about personal attacks, instead of where each man stands on the issues and how he's going to defeat Barack Obama, the socialist.
And this, more than anything, perhaps even more than his standing next to Ted Kennedy calling his "collaborator" on 'RomneyCare', is what makes it impossible for me to vote for Romney in this primary. And while I'm acutely aware that Obama needs to be defeated and will have to hold my nose and vote for him in the general election if he's the nominee, many, many people will refuse to do so because he has alienated so many people with his smugness and attitude. That number of alienated and pissed off people may exceed even the appalling number of 2008 when McCain was the coronated nominee by the elites in their own minds. Because unfortunately there are still many people who are not engaged and are uninformed, and don't realize the imminent danger of letting Obama be re-elected. And all those people see in Romney are a rich guy with good hair that thinks he's entitled to the nomination because he's "next in line".
Sunday, February 5, 2012
The Propaganda Hits a New High
Why is the media celebrating 8.3 percent unemployment? Why are we accepting this as good news even if the numbers weren't absolutely bogus? Why are we accepting this at all?
8.3 percent unemployment? Sure. If you don't bother even counting 1.2 million people that have given up looking totally. Because the economy is so bad, and said 1.2 million people (including myself) have not been able to find stable, FULL-time employment for what's going on four years now, we just don't exist. How convenient for the government and this administration, isn't it? Yet if somehow, miraculously, I get a full time job tomorrow, I will be counted as employed in these propaganda styled statistics. Again, how convenient.
The real number of unemployed is estimated around 11.5 percent when you actually count living, breathing, people who can't find a job. And when you count the people who are settling for part time work when they want and need full time work, the real number is well over twenty percent. Yes, that's right. One out of every five working age people in the nation. Living breathing people. With families, and need to eat, and clothe themselves and feed themselves. People that don't want a handout and be enslaved to government programs, but want to provide for themselves. Not a static to be toyed with to see how good it can make you and your buddies look.
People.
I really can't say it any betterthan here.
So we have the water carriers cheering this, and the presumptive Republican nominee Romney accepting this but saying Obama deserves no credit for it. Instead of breaking down the lie that these numbers represent and then giving Obama (and all his big government lackeys and comrades past and present) credit for that which he deserves. The big mess the big lie is covering up.
8.3 percent unemployment? Sure. If you don't bother even counting 1.2 million people that have given up looking totally. Because the economy is so bad, and said 1.2 million people (including myself) have not been able to find stable, FULL-time employment for what's going on four years now, we just don't exist. How convenient for the government and this administration, isn't it? Yet if somehow, miraculously, I get a full time job tomorrow, I will be counted as employed in these propaganda styled statistics. Again, how convenient.
The real number of unemployed is estimated around 11.5 percent when you actually count living, breathing, people who can't find a job. And when you count the people who are settling for part time work when they want and need full time work, the real number is well over twenty percent. Yes, that's right. One out of every five working age people in the nation. Living breathing people. With families, and need to eat, and clothe themselves and feed themselves. People that don't want a handout and be enslaved to government programs, but want to provide for themselves. Not a static to be toyed with to see how good it can make you and your buddies look.
People.
I really can't say it any betterthan here.
So we have the water carriers cheering this, and the presumptive Republican nominee Romney accepting this but saying Obama deserves no credit for it. Instead of breaking down the lie that these numbers represent and then giving Obama (and all his big government lackeys and comrades past and present) credit for that which he deserves. The big mess the big lie is covering up.
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