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* REVIEW & OUTLOOK
* JANUARY 28, 2009
A 40-Year Wish List
You won’t believe what’s in that stimulus bill.
“Never let a serious crisis go to waste. What I mean by that is it’s an opportunity to do things you couldn’t do before.”
So said White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel in November, and Democrats in Congress are certainly taking his advice to heart. The 647-page, $825 billion House legislation is being sold as an economic “stimulus,” but now that Democrats have finally released the details we understand Rahm’s point much better. This is a political wonder that manages to spend money on just about every pent-up Democratic proposal of the last 40 years.
[Review & Outlook] AP
We’ve looked it over, and even we can’t quite believe it. There’s $1 billion for Amtrak, the federal railroad that hasn’t turned a profit in 40 years; $2 billion for child-care subsidies; $50 million for that great engine of job creation, the National Endowment for the Arts; $400 million for global-warming research and another $2.4 billion for carbon-capture demonstration projects. There’s even $650 million on top of the billions already doled out to pay for digital TV conversion coupons.
excerpt: http://online.wsj.com/public/page/news-opinion-commentary.html
The RNC sent me a membership card the other day.
I’ll either burn it to increase my carbon footprint or mail it back with some well-deserved criticism.
Changing my party affiliation back to NAV - Non-Affiliated Voter.
Screw ‘em!!!
At least Pence is one of the few that are speaking against the Democrat pork bill.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
By Fred Lucas, Staff Writer
Capitol Hill (CNSNews.com)
“House GOP Conference Chairman Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana faulted House Democrats for not sharing the same bipartisan spirit as the president.
“The American people deserve to know that the president’s call for a compromise has been completely ignored by House Democrats who would use a time of national economic crisis to fund their big government priorities under the guise of stimulating the economy,” said Pence in a statement released after the meeting with Obama.
Pence referenced parts of the bill he said had little to do with helping the economy, such as $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts; $200 million to plant sod on the National Mall; $400 million for climate change research; and $200 million for contraception. (According to the Associated Press, Democrats have voted to delete the Mall-sod provision.)
“The Democrat bill won’t stimulate anything but more government and more debt,” said Pence. “The slow and wasteful spending in the House Democrat bill is a disservice to millions of Americans who want to see this Congress take immediate action to get this economy moving again.”
“House Republicans have a better solution,” said Pence. “By enacting the Republican plan for fast-acting tax relief for working families and small businesses, the American people will see immediate results that will put our nation on the road to recovery.”
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=42649
Read this Houston Chronicle article that counters what you say:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/6233699.html#none
“People get the government they deserve” Joseph D’Maistre
Gang, we HAD a shot at cleaning these places out this last election and, to borrow a phrase from the klintoon White House, WE BLEW IT!!!
While I, like many of you, am saddened that McCain and Palin couldn’t keep the Marxist Obamessiah out of the White House, let’s try to keep things in some kind of rational perspective: ACORN elected a president and vice-president, NOT a monarch.
For years, I’ve been amazed at this idiotic quadrennial fascination with the beauty contest known as the (cue the trumpet fanfare) “PRESIDENTIAL RACE.” Our inattention and/or apparent desire for a king or a strong man dictatorship has allowed our system to morph to the present quasi-monarchy from its original foundations as a representative REPUBLIC.
People, the most important thing we can remember about all of this is that the Founders constructed the system to put – AND KEEP — the KEYS TO THE FEDERAL CASH REGISTER ARE IN CONGRESS and current Gang of 535 could bring this out-of-control government spending and the steady usurpation of our freedoms to a screeching halt tomorrow at noon — IF they wanted to. Attila the Hun could occupy the White House and without the dough to hire the bureaucrats, buy the desks and computers, etc., etc. ad nauseum, Mr. Hun would be hamstrung. (See Article 1, Section 7 of the now largely moribund Constitution for details.)
But they DON’T — for a number of reasons: (And I cite the tax situation as but one example of the problem. Don’t get me started on the ENERGY thing!)
1. They understand the need to vacuum the excess FRAUDS (Federal Reserve Accounting Unit Denominators) — there are no “dollars” circulating now! — out of circulation BEFORE the bulk of the dumb masses (say it really fast for maximum effect) catch on to the resultant inflation. If you question that statement, ask yourself why else would a criminal enterprise (the federal government) having the power to “create” “money” with the stroke of a pen NEED YOURS every April 15th?
2. The current Gang of 535 understands the need for the massive tax code (so-called because it is written in code by gnomes chained to posts in the cellars of K Street lobbying firms and understood only by their keepers) to reward their friends, punish their enemies and keep the rest of us under their thumbs with threats of draconian punishments should we run afoul of it. It is impossible to NOT run afoul of it.
3. While the dumb masses rant about the abusive practices of this top criminal enterprise’s subsidiary criminal enterprise (the IRS), members of the Gang can pose and posture for the cameras from time to time and declare that “something MUST be done to reign in the abuses of the IRS,” NOTHING WILL BE DONE until we clean house on Capitol Hill and get back to the HONEST, CONSTITUTIONAL MONEY called for at Art.1, Sect. 10. They’ve been playing a rigged game of 3 card-Monte with us for so long – and getting away with it – that, as Herman Cain’s book title declares – “They Think You’re STUPID.” And, hell, for MOST of the dumb masses, they’re right.
And THAT process starts in YOUR STATE and CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT by finding and supporting decent candidates — at ALL levels — who will go to YOUR state capitol and Malfunction Junction and do that house cleaning. Not marching on Washington...not sending “money” to the RNC (LOL!)...not writing poison pen letters to these current jerks...but THROWING OUT THE CURRENT JERKS and doing it as many times as necessary to get it done.
A good news in the viability of this approach is that the controlled so-called national mainstream media have far less impact on these widely separated congressional races making it easier to get some good guys elected.
The bad news is that I can speak from personal experience about how the national PARTIES will survey all the contested congressional races and if they DO find a candidate they do not or think they cannot control running on their side, they’ll offer a “consultant” from headquarters to come in and ASSIST the campaign. In at least 4 cases with which I am familiar, the Republican National Committee TORPEDOED those campaigns so a good guy who might be more incined to harken to the Constitution before toeing the party line didn’t make it to D.C.
And for you who, like a sad number of the dumb masses, THINK YOUR GUY IS OK, go to THROWTHEMOUT at
http://www.throwthemout.com/articles.php
for your guy’s voting record on taxes, spending or your personal hot button issues. You might be in for an unpleasant surprise.
I often get the strong sense that the American people have some sick and sophomoric yearning for a new ROYAL FAMILY or BENEVOLENT KING to make their lives what they themselves feel incapable of making them without some nanny-state sovereign. Throughout history, with few exceptions conspicuous because of their rarity, those systems nearly always become malignant and freedom founders and eventually fails. With the exception of America – the IDEA, not the place – most men who have walked the earth have lived as slaves.
As opportunities afford themselves (and this is one), I simply attempt to remind my fellow citizens of that history and what lies ahead if they continue in their ignorance of that history.
I could go on for volumes but you get the idea.
One final thought: With the exception of the guys who pass muster at THROWTHEMOUT, RE-ELECT NOBODY!!!!!
Standing by for a record breaking flaming by the fanatics.
Never been registered with a party, mostly because of pubbies like McCain, Graham and Hagel. So, I may rethink that, so I that I might have a say in electing the most conservative candidate.
Not happy with the GOP, but obviously nothing would make Lord Barack and the Democrats happier than to start pealing off third party votes.
It would make the GOP a permanent minority. I think conservatism would be like the Conservative party in England and a whisper from them since John Major was in office.
Let me be the first to Welcome you to 8 years ago.
You've got alot of "catching up" to do. ;)
Fed up????
After 10 years of screaming for the GOP in Congress and the Senate to pass pro-gun stuff and NOT ONE THING PASSED, then listening to them whimper, cry and bluber in 2006 when they lost their butts in the election. I walked away from the party. I tried and tried to get the GOP to do the right thing but they conveniently forgot just what gave them Congress in 1994 right after the semi auto ban was passed...
So... fed up? Nope, I’m done with the GOP. They had many chances to win my support back but failed miserably each time. Now, it’s too late. Unless the Dems mess up really, really bad by passing some anti-gun or other radical stuff, the GOP will never have majority status or control of the White House again.
I gave a lot for the party. I was basically told that my kind isn’t welcome in the party anymore. Fine. When the elections come around in 2010, I’ll remember how I was treated. If the Republicans want me to stand at the polls, give money, make calls, walk neighborhoods, put up signs, and all the other stuff I’ve wasted over a decade on, they need to do something for me first. Repeal of 922 (o) and abolishment of the BATFE is a good start.
Otherwise, I’ll just sit back and watch the party die because until they get the base back, that is exactly what is going to happen.
Mike
Stupid to blame the whole GOP. There ARE conservative Republicans. I therefore have and continue to donate to the GOP. I will donate to the GOP and Sarahpac, in hopes of getting Sarah elected in 2012, should she decide to run. All else is cutting off our noses to spite our faces. Period.
Republicans spent so much effort trying to co-opt the Democrat issues, apparently in an effort to destroy the Democrats, that they lost their identity and destroyed themselves.
And, thinking back, they were mostly a bunch of weanies anyway. I’m glad Reagan isn’t here to see this.
You are not alone. We are here, and far more pissed off, we have had a LONG time to build it up.
Our Government does NOT represent us anymore and it has not for years.
It all goes back to when Conservatives stayed hone in 2006 and Libtards took over congress. This is year three of their reign of shame, and we are feeling it. OholiO is just the latest symptom of the disease.
This is like, really old news. The opportunities presented 15 years ago have been largely sqandered.
The time is now to go at it again. It can be done but it will be a lot more difficult than it was in ‘94.
Well, we all agree that the Republican Party is broken. The question is, What to do?
One answer is to fix the party. That’s OK, but not much use if they keep turning around and betraying us.
Another answer is to vote for an alternative party. But not much use if it’s one of those third parties that siphons off 2 or 3 percent of the vote and puts the Dems over the top.
Also, and always, we need to combine libertarians, fiscal conservatives, social conservaties, religious conservatives into one big coalition. That’s what has always happened whenever conservatives have managed to win. We NEED basic liberties, we NEED fiscal sense, we NEED smaller government, and we NEED right to life, traditional families, and decent moral education for children. Otherwise, it won’t fly.
So, two ways to do it. And we need real leadership. Not some whack job who appeals to just one faction, but a real leader. Sarah Palin would fill the bill, for one, but can she make it? Not unless we also clean out the RNC and the Republican leadership who will do everything they can to block her.
In any case, we need to stick together or hang separately, and we need to find someone to get behind. Unfortunately there was no one to get behind in the last primary race. No one. I liked Fred, others liked Hunter, but neither of them stood a chance.
The GOP is composed of who the people elected.
The American people are the ones not doing their part. This is (was?) a free government OF the people and it is the peoples responsibility to make themselves heard and demand the ‘representatives’ follow through.
But the people have become lazy. They want everything done the way they want it - without actually having to do their homework and/or be actively involved.
Now, they just sit back, armchair quarterbacking. If you want to keep a free country OF the people, then get off your duffs and get active. How many of you ‘get the GOPer’s are active in your local Republican Committees? How many of you write letters to the editor to inform the sheeple of what's going on? How many of you —— well, read my tagline.
In the meantime, don't get sucked into the very clever drive to slam the GOP and start a new party. That's exactly the route the Socialist's would like to see us do. They know that if enough people turn away now and put their time and energy into starting a new party, that they will have won the final battle.
There is NOT TIME enough to build a NEW party in sufficient numbers to make even a small blip on the political radar.
We do not have that kind of time.
Want to get the GOP back on track? GET ACTIVE - starting locally. If you want a “new” party, get active - “take over” your local Republican organizations, get appointed into leadership, get appointed rep to the state conventions. Get in there and change it...it's easier than you might think.
and the time to get busy is TODAY...
otherwise, Stuff it. (read my tagline)
Is the GOP the whole problem - or are YOU part of the problem?
See my post #166
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qSnRlmo7og&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scGwRU_E6Qo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scGwRU_E6Qo&feature=related
How it’s done - listen up == write it down - get busy