Posted on 05/13/2008 6:00:23 AM PDT by TheEaglehasLanded
I'm sure the Democrats are trying to convince people who voted in the Democrat Primary on March 11th that they can't vote Republican today.
This is the general and you can vote for anyone on the ballot. Need to vote for Greg Davis (R) to keep the Dems from using another Democrat who is campaigning as a Conservative Travis Childers from adding to Pelosi's stable of reliable votes.
*BUMP* to that. Let’s put some frowns on the DU cretins faces tonight.
I voted for my mayor straight up seven o’clock this morning!
Have you ever wondered why, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, we have deficits?
Have you ever wondered why, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, we have inflation and high taxes?
You and I don’t propose a federal budget. The president does.
You and I don’t have the Constitutional authority to vote on
appropriations. The House of Representatives does.
You and I don’t write the tax code, Congress does.
You and I don’t set fiscal policy, Congress does.
You and I don’t control monetary policy, The Federal Reserve Bank does.
One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president and nine Supreme Court justices - 545 human beings out of the 300 million - are directly, legally, morally and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.
I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress.
In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered but private central bank.
I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason.
They have no legal authority.
They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman or a president to do one cotton-picking thing.
I don’t care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator’s responsibility to determine how he votes.
Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.
What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall.
No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits.
The president can only propose a budget.
He cannot force the Congress to accept it.
The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes.
Who is the speaker of the House?
She is the leader of the majority party.
She and fellow House members, not the president, can approve any budget they want.
If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million can not replace 545 people who stand convicted — by present facts - of incompetence and irresponsibility.
I can’t think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people.
When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.
If the tax code is unfair, it’s because they want it unfair.
If the budget is in the red, it’s because they want it in the red.
If the Marines are in Iraq , it’s because they want them in Iraq .
If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it’s because they want it that way.
There are no insoluble government problems.
Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power.
Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like ‘the economy,’ ‘inflation’ or ‘politics’ that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.
Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.
They, and they alone, have the power.
They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses - provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees.
We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!
Charlie Reese is a former columnist
of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper
Too bad there's not a plan to force honest conservative people to run for these offices. There are plenty of us who can identify the problems, just not near enough willing to put their name on the ballot. I wonder why???
I’m beginning to think that you have to have that slice of dishonesty already in you to become a successful politician. I know I couldn’t do it simp[ly because of the PC BS. I am not PC and don’t think I ever will be. To many years of saying what I believe , I guess.
545 ?
I know, 438 congressmen, but I didn’t write the article.
I’ve found a link with some early returns, but the numbers have changed since then, but I’m unable to find anything more recent.
U.S. House District 1
39 of 462 precincts - 8 percent
Travis Childers, 3,666 - 60 percent
Greg Davis, 2,474 - 40 percent
I’m in.
Did the new head of our party do anything to help Davis?
Or Jenkins, or Oberweiss, or is he just going to be a Maverick and it is every man for himself?
They did try, and they even ran ads tying the Democrat to Barak Obama. Right now, it’s too early to tell whether it worked.
That’s pathetic. Who’s incumbent?
Roger Wicker, a Republican who was appointed to succeed Trent Lott, who resigned.
I can’t find any recent returns. I wonder what’s going on?
Have you seen any recent returns?
Norman, it looks like you’re right.
Special Election
Precincts Reporting:
190/462
Candidate
Votes Percentage Miscellaneous
TRAVIS W. CHILDERS
20,818 53%
GREG DAVIS
18,328 47%
http://www.djournal.com/pages/election2008.asp
Yeah, you’re not going to like them:
This sucks. Are we really going to lose this bad in November?
237/462
T. Childers
25,591
54%
G. Davis
21,974
46%
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