Posted on 06/20/2011 11:57:33 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk
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+1!
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Look, it’s time that Kenny Bunk faces the fact that he is the only sane voice in the GOP. If he won’t toss his hat in the ring then we’ll just have to toss him in ourselves.
Sorry, Bunkster, but it’s your duty to run.
Excellent.
Nice plan!
Everything you listed is a symptom. But you didn’t identify the disease.
Ah, it warms my heart to see evidence of intelligence out there.
Mega thanks for the plan.
I wish we had Repulsicans (spelling intended) with the gonads to push it.
My personal favorite: “...(Have someone on your staff who did not major in English, Political Science, or Elementary Ed look up the Milankovitch Cycle.)...”
The thing is, in a political system that hinges on the question "How can I buy your vote?" it will be difficult to get many professional politicians (or the citizens that put them into office) to go along with any of this.
A magnificent (and extremely rare) vanity from the venerable FReeper Kenny Bunk. ARE YOU LISTENING GOP CANDIDATES? Bump!
Immigration: Our border with Mexico must be closed and regulated according to the laws already on the books. If stemming the illegal tide of immigrants from or through Mexico requires militarizing the border, so be it. A 5-year moratorium on all immigration might not be a bad idea, as would the repeal of the Kennedy Immigration Bill of 1965, which was a bad idea. Sorry, but if my immigrant ancestors had wanted to live in a country dominated by Hispanic culture and mores, they would have gone to one.
Try out of the box thinking. Register illegal alien males for the draft. Offer them the choice of military service for 5 years or deportation. Get tougher than I, should you feel the need. Stop being so goddam nice about the latinization of my country.
BTW, Muslims are a problem. Keep them the hell out! Speak the hell up! Stop worrying about how the MSM is going to pillory you. They will pillory you, end of story. Punch back. Stop trying to be Politically Correct.
You cannot be Politically Correct and do the job that has to be done. Attacking the MSM is just as good as attacking Obama. They are one and the same.
PS: You will never get a majority of the “Black” vote, the “Latino” vote, the “Jewish” vote. The “Gay and Lesbian” vote, or anywhere near it. Do not, I beg you, fear to offend those whom we have somehow already offended years ago by freeing them from slavery, welcoming them to live in the United States, defending Israel, and even by turning a blind eye to monstrous perversions.
More than half the natural American Republican constituency is NOT VOTING. Turn out the vote you can get and take strong steps against vote fraud. FORGET PANDERING TO THE REST.
More than half the natural American Republican constituency is NOT VOTING. Turn out the vote you can get and take strong steps against vote fraud. FORGET PANDERING TO THE REST.
Kenny, this is something I have been thinking about a lot lately. The left is only able to barely keep even by turning out every songle vote they can muster...felons, illegals, dead people, multiple voting. Every leftist is doing all they can. But there is a large untapped reserve of REAL AMERICANS ou there that are not voting. Tap them and you smother the left like a tsunami. We saw the first wave in 2010. Let’s build a bigger one...
That means all conservative effort should be solely dedicated to convincing your neighbors that their vote is needed.
The VW TDI versions get over 50 mpg. With biofuel they also run clean.
BUMP!
For Energy policy, I like your closed Military base idea. For bases over 50 miles from a major population center, I could see turning those over to energy companies to build nuclear power plants.
But for closed Military bases near a major population center, I'd rather see "free enterprise zones" set up. Think of it like an "Indian reservation" for the rest of us. Sell of the properties in small lots/suites to companies for businesses. No state taxes (it is Federal property) and auction the leases off. lease it to businesses for 10-20 years, at the end of the lease terms, the jurisdiction over the territory returns to the state, the lease holders own their pieces, but are subject to state property and sales taxes after the state gets it back.
You'll never get the 17th repealed. Too esoteric for most people, and if you try to explain it, their eyes glaze over. Here's an alternative, also in the form of a constitutional amendment. I'm actually thinking seriously of setting up a website and petitions and starting to promote this one:
The “You Represent Us” amendment:
- Congress shall make no law establishing compensation or benefits for United States Represenatives or United States Senators.
- Any law of the United States which provides for compensation or benefits for United States Senators and/or United States Representatives, which is in effect at the time this amendment is ratified by the several states shall be null and void after December 31 of the year of ratification.
- Effective January 1 of the year following ratification of this amendment, United States Representatives and United States Senators shall be employees of the State they are elected to represent. They shall receive compensation and benefits as defined by the legislatures of their state. They shall be subject to all laws which apply to elected officials of their state.
Any thoughts on that?
Other than that, require every bill to open with a statement of which actual enumerated power within Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution authorizes the Congress to propose and pass the bill. "General Welfare" isn't an enumerated power. Read Federalist #41 if you don't believe me.
Every law has a sunset after 10 years. If it's good, it can be passed again. All existing US Code and regulations will be set to sunset within 10 years as well. If we need that law, we'll pass it again.
Oh, and the Repeal Amendment or something very similar should also be a plank in the platform. Get it passed and ratified.
However, We the People have to be more vigilant. And at every level of government, from the city council up. Too many times, Councilman Jones calls up Congressman Sugar Daddy with the sob story, "Congressman, we really need a playground for our park, but we can't afford it. I can't ask my citizens to pay taxes for that. Can you get us a grant and tax the good people of Wisconsin and Idaho, pay some bureaucrats to review our application and set the rules, pay some 'federal inspectors' to make sure we follow all of your Washington rules, and give us the money as a 'grant' to pay for a new playground." And Congressman Sugar Daddy brings home the money, collected from everyone else. When that happens, you don't just need a new Congressman who understands the proper role of the federal government, you also need a new city councilman who also understands the limits of the federal government and why it's really bad to ask them for stuff you should be doing yourself. If the project isn't important enough that Councilman Jones can ask his golf buddies, the guys at the bowling alley and everyone at his church to pay for it, then it shouldn't be done.
Hear, Hear!
It seems to me that the candidates so far are all interested in sound-biting Obama. That is an incomplete approach. We all know the question. What's the answer?
Certainly not the ineffectual leadership in the House, where a great victory has been frittered away. What we need to know from the Republicans is, "What is the program for reconstruction?"
You and I, for example, are discussing "Energy." Why are not the candidates discussing it? I am a lot more interested in Nuclear Powerplant Construction than I am in someone's "personality." You and I are offereing policy options, the candidates are not.
What I fear most is that the GOP will take the White House, but lose either the House or Senate. Without control of all three, and without a Program, a Plan, and Leadership, disaster, especially economic disaster, looms.
The GOP was born with the death of the Whig party. It was messy, and it took a while (and the Civil War) for the GOP to establish itself. Now the Republican Party is either on its deathbed, or needs to be completely restructured from within, which is certainly preferable to to the 1860 option!
I realize this is all a very tall order, but our team has to start right now. It took the Whigs a long time to die. We don't have a long time ... and we do have better communications.
Pathetic. And just the way the Democrats like it. Schoolboard elections and the like often have less than 10% turnout!
Citizens have become "consumers of government services."
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