The Irrational War on Tea

Sometimes, you just can’t help laughing at the state of affairs in the world.  Laughter helps the world go ’round.  It also distracts my brain from its deep-seeded desire to eat its way out of the back of my skull for having been exposed to the ongoing theater of the absurd that is the war on the Tea Parties.

Now, it seems that our beloved Teleprompter has joined in with the self-appointed clowns of the left in referring to those who disagree with Obama, Communism, and the general flushing of our Constitution, principles, and nation down the toilet…   by vulgar sexual slang.  Honestly, if it were just him as a private citizen, we could almost laugh it off.  Especially the whole hypocrisy part, where he calls for civility while at the same time calling people names like any good 6-year-old bully would do.  But A) he’s the President; and B) it’s a pattern of behavior by members of the left.

From unapologetic vulgar sexual slang to bizarre theories of assistance based on political voting patterns to false accusations of racist comments to conspiracy theories that would normally get one committed to an asylum, the left’s war on the right – and common sense – continues, unstopped by any of those pesky “facts” or “opposition in the media”.

And they wonder why the latest polls show a butt-whoopin’ coming this November.

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I’d Be Posting More…

…but frankly, it’s just too much fun watching the hilarity in Washington right now.

Make no mistakes: this battle is not about health care, health insurance, or anything else related to your body’s well-being.  This is a battle over government control, or as a liberal put it when he argued with me a few months ago, “how much freedom is too much freedom?”

See – to a conservative, freedom is the basis of our nation.  It’s what our country was built on and why our forefathers, flawed human beings that they were, decided to give King Georgie Three the heave-ho.  Yes, there are aspects of behavior that have good or bad social effects, some of which are so serious that they require imprisonment or death for committing them – usually because your free act has deliberately and maliciously taken away the freedom of others.

But to a liberal, freedom is an evil.  It’s something that proceeds from the graces of the government and can – and occasionally, should be taken away at the whim of political winds (so long as those winds blow left).  Over the past 2 years, I’ve asked liberals repeatedly: when it comes to paying for health care / GM / bailouts / etc. – whose money is it?  Is it the government’s or is it mine?  Consistently, they refuse to answer this basic question because, deep in their blackened little pea-pickin’ hearts, they know that they think that the money belongs to “everyone” (aka “the government”).  That’s why they have no problem raising taxes on “the rich”…  because, obviously, it’s not their money, is it?  It’s OK to take away their money, so long as it’s for the “public good”.

If I used that logic to steal someone’s TV from their house, I’d be tossed in the pokey – and rightfully so.

Keep an eye out…  keep active.  This battle is not done.  The minute the House passes Obamacare (and they will), it goes to the Senate, where the Democrats will hopefully learn the REAL meaning of “The Party of No” when we throw up every single last obstruction in their way, when we start up filibusters they can no longer break, and when even Moderate Senate Republicans work to make the lives of Senate Democrats utter hell.

And even if Obamacare survives this…   even if they succeed in their latest goofs about “deeming the bill passed” and “hiding the bill”…  and even if it gets signed by the capitulating, drunken, communist, spendaholic, job-destroying joke of a President…   we’ll sue.  The court system that liberals used for decades to reinterpret rights into existence (I’m still looking for “abortion” in the Constitution) will be used to throw up roadblocks…

The battle will continue.  Our freedom is not for sale, even for the price of our “health”.

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Dinner Crashers…

First – allow me to thank the others here at the blog.  The past week has been hectic for me with family stuff, and I really appreciate their posts.  I’m also very appreciative of your comments and patience.

Now….   on to the news.

Well, if you haven’t heard, Mr. Obama was the recipient of the whole “Wedding Crashers” treatment last week.  Except that it wasn’t a wedding, Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn were nowhere to be seen, and the part of the weird couple from Virginia was played by Michaele and Tareq Salah, two socialites and reality show participants from the DC area.

Now, while the concept of White House intruders is not new (the President’s residence used to be much more open to the public, and is now less open for security reasons), most of the intruders were stopped by the US Secret Service or other security personnel before they shook hands with the President at a State Dinner.

At least…  that’s the current story.  And it wraps things up pretty nicely, what with sneaky reality show folks doing things for cameras and getting some publicity.

Except that it’s not the whole story.  That’s right, kids…  the White House Gatecrashers are…   long term Obama supporters.  Talking Points Memo has dug into the memory hole down which this little tidbit of information disappeared, and has discovered that he’d been on the Board of Directors at the American Taskforce on Palestine – an organization with a pro-Palestinian statehood agenda that also happens to be tied to none other than Rashid Khalidi, whose books and scholarship are pimped at the ATFP’s website.

And who is Rashid Khalidi?  Well…. remember back in October 2008, when there was a bit of an eruption because the LA Times refused to release a 2003 video it had of Obama’s presence at an event during which he and Obama were a bit buddy-buddy?  Well, it wasn’t the first time they’d shared dinner together…   but that doesn’t address the issue.  Again: who is Rashid Khalidi?

Rashid Khalidi’s current resume includes things like “Professor at Columbia University” and “Professor at the University of Chicago” (Obama’s supposed employer prior to his job at US Senator).  What it probably doesn’t include is “Spokesman for the Palestinian Liberation Organization during the time they were pursuing an active war of terror against Israel“.

Are you paying attention?

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They Are Not Our Allies

For some reason, people come up to me and start asking my opinion on politics.  I’m not sure if I’ve just got one of those “I like politics” faces or not, but it’s kind of unsettling.

For a moment.  And then I remember – oh, yeah!  I LOVE talking politics. Today’s piece of opinion comes to you courtesy of the question, “So what can conservatives do to capitalize on their ideology and do some real damage in the next election?”

Well, I’ll tell you.

1.  First – we must separate party and ideology.  While I am a registered Republican, I am a Republican because of the principles the party supposedly stands for.  However, if the party nominates people that do not match these principles, I will not vote for them.  I will not support them.  Neither will millions of other conservatives.  A party with a shifting ideology is not a political movement – it’s an opportunistic mess and an electoral defeat waiting to happen.

Or, to put it another way: no more John McCains.  No more Bob Doles.  No more George W. Bushes.  We want conservative candidates, and we’re sick of “taking another hit for the team”.  If the team isn’t going to play by our rules (and by “our”, I mean “the voters who have the power to hire and fire politicians at our whim”), then we’re not going to play.

And yes – that means replacing Michael Steele as GOP head.  I supported Steele early on, but his actions since he ascended have been migraine-inducing.  We can do better.

2.  The obvious next step is to target weak Democrats for election losses – with strong, conservative Republicans.  Offering a middle ground guy will only ensure that the Democrat continues to stay in office and that the voters are offered a choice between varying degrees of liberalism.  The Senate seats I’m looking at belong to Roland Burris (IL – Crook), Ted Kaufman (DE – Biden’s Former Seat), Blanche Lincoln (AR), Michael Bennet (CO), Chris Dodd (CT – Crook), Daniel Inouye (HI – Crook), Arlen Specter (PA – GOP Traitor), and Senate Democrat leader Harry Reid (NV – Crook).

3.  The not-so-obvious next step is to do the same thing to weak, liberal Republicans.  Giving voters a choice in primaries between weak Republicans and strong conservatives may show a rift in the party, but who cares?  This isn’t about party, and the voters in November aren’t electing candidates in a primary election.  Which ones?  Well…  Those seats belong to David Vitter (LA – Prostitution Scandal), Jim Bunning (KY – Big Mouth), George LeMieux (FL – PLEASE support Marc Rubio over Charlie Crist), and George Voinovich (OH).  I’ll throw in Joseph Cao (LA) in the House, with his support for PelosiCare.

4.  OK – here’s where things get ugly…   These are all pretty obvious things for the GOP to do in terms of dumping money into these races to try to get back some measure of balance in the Senate.  So now, we turn to the House, where things are a lot more widespread and a lot more up in the air.  Right now, with no real strategy, the GOP (I think) has the ability to pick up between 10 and 15 seats – and lose between 2 and 5 (a net gain of 5-13 seats).  In this past weekend’s health boondoggle vote, even 5 would’ve been the difference between passage and failure.  5-13 seats isn’t bad.  It’s not great, tho, and it won’t bring about the strong, conservative change we need in DC.  So herein is my idea.

Go after the Blue Dogs.

The so-called Blue Dog Democrats, on one hand, seem have been minimal allies on issues like health care and abortion, mostly because they’re afraid to lose their seats in their red districts – but we must remember that they are NOT conservatives.  Even the most moderate of them is, frankly, a moderate, and no better than a John McCain, and I think conservatives can agree that the last thing we need in Washington DC is more John McCains.

But they are not our allies.

Right now, the 52 Blues can be told by Nanny Pelosi that they need x number of votes, and that the most at-risk of them can go ahead and pretend to be conservative so that they can get re-elected.  They play their political game and conservatism takes another hit thanks to people who pretend to be on our side, but who aren’t really.

Let’s play a little pretend game here…   Let’s pretend we went after, say 20 of those seats.  Conservatives pour millions of dollars into some of those districts…   and we win half.  All of the sudden, our 5-13 seat predicted gains in 2010 just turned into a 15-23 gain.  It’s not a takeover, but it certainly makes life harder on Nanny Pelosi and the radical left.  It also makes like harder on the remaining Blue Dogs who suddenly have to make a decision to either turn left or turn right, or be faced with even steeper losses in 2012.

So…   who do we go after?  Well, I’ve got a few people on my list…   make your own list in the comments:

1.  Heath Shuler (NC-11).  He’s the Blue Dog Whip that slid into office on the heals of the ethically-challenged Charles Taylor.  He was re-elected by a pretty wide margin in 2008, but that doesn’t mean he’s safe.  It shouldn’t be too hard to find a good, solid conservative candidate in the North Carolina Mountains, say from the Asheville area.

2.  Mike McIntyre (NC-7).  Another NC Congresscritter in a solid conservative district that includes much of the Southeast section of the state.  Why, if only there were a giant colelction of conservative, pro-military folks in southeastern North Carolina that could fill this role!  Say, in a Fort.  Someone we could Bragg about.

3.  Charlie Melancon (LA-3).  He’s had to play conservative to get noticed in his district.  Whoever the Dems run, go to the right.

4.  Earl Pomeroy (ND).  He’s got attachments to the bank failures and the bad economy.  He’s ripe for the picking.

5.  Stephanie Sandlin (SD).  She’s one of the more liberal members of the Blue Dogs, and has attached herself uncomfortably close to Barack Obama.  As a bonus, she’s been IDed as a potential Presidential candidate in the future, and an election defeat would help defuse that potential problem later on.

6.  Sanford Bishop (GA-2).  He’s got an ethics cloud from steering federal dollars towards a youth program his daughter and son-in-law were attached to.

7.  Jason Altmire (PA-4).  He’s got an oddball voting record that apparently includes getting permission from the local bishop of his church on his votes.

8.  Melissa Bean (IL-8).  How she got on the Blue Dogs is a mystery.  She’s as moderate as Lenin, and her close ties to ideas like CAFTA make her vulnerable.

9.  John Murtha (PA-Idiot).  He’s not a Blue Dog, but he’s an ethics-challenged idjut who needs to be challenged by a good, solid conservative candidate in a non-Obama year…  like 2010.

There’s my 9.  Who are yours?

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When Heroes Fail Us

I get what you’re doing, Newt.  You’re playing the party game.  Dede Scozzafava is a “Republican” and the party’s nominee, so it’s important that the party members support the party nominee, right?

Yeah – I get it.  And you’re wrong.  Very, very wrong.

I’ve admired you for a long time, Newt.  Your 1994 Republican Revolution that ended the Liberal Democrat stranglehold on our legislative branch remains one of the great political moves of the 20th Century, akin to Lincoln’s election.  While it didn’t permanently shift the Congress, it did make it a much more competitive place to run for office, and you did so based on an agenda of fiscal conservatism coupled with an anti-establishment mindset that would limit individual legislator power and return a sense of responsibility to the American people.

Your moves were never popular, but the sense of responsibility that you brought to the 104th-106th Congresses were exactly what the country needed.  Finally, the American people had a political party that did exactly what it said, not because it would net them political gains, but because those decisions and those stands were the right thing to do.

Fast-forward a few years.

The GOP wins a slim election for the Presidency and maintains a slim hold on the Congress, built on in 2002 on promises of national defense and fiscal conservatism.  And they follow through… for a while.  By 2005, tho, it starts to become clear that the Republican Party of the Republican Revolution is long gone.  Those same Congressmen who promised to term-limit themselves in 1994 were still in office and corruption became something to turn a blind eye to, rather than something that needed to be rooted out.

And you?  Well…   I could forgive the things that caused your resignation in 1999, since you were cleared.  But for some reason, since you left office, you’ve spent a ton of time toeing the line between “we need to be a more conservative country” and “I sure wish I could spend more time with my hardcore liberal buddies”.  Seriously – global warming?  You’re hanging out with Al Sharpton pushing the Obama administration’s education agenda?

And now, you’re backing a woman that is the GOP nominee, but one who is supported by ACORN, who’s backed by unions, who’s backed tax and spend stupidity, and who recently won – and accepted – the Margaret Sanger Award for “leadership, excellence, and outstanding contributions to the reproductive health and rights movement” (aka “blindly supporting the organized, legal culling of human beings so that women can have consequence-free sex under the guise of ‘choice’”).

This is a woman who supports every single possible stand that the Republican Party supposedly takes.  In fact, in digging ’round the net, I’m finding it difficult to find a single thing that this woman believes in that smacks of anything less than classic liberalism.

And you’re supporting her.

Hey – GOP…   compromising with idiots will only make you stupid, and compromising your good conservative principles will only make you bad liberals.  If you think compromise will get you anywhere in the political world, ask yourselves why we’re not complaining about the moderate policies of President John McCain.

The Republican Party took over the Legislature in 1994 because it stood on its principles.  It got Reagan elected in 1980 and 1984 because it stood for conservative principles.  It got Bush I and II elected in 1988, 2000, and 2004 because it stood on its good, conservative principles.

It lost the election of Bush I in 1992, Dole in 1996, and McCain in 2008 because it abandoned those principles.  It lost control of the House and Senate in 2006 because it compromised those principles.

It’s time for the GOP to wake up and for those who control the party (aka “the Republican Voters”) to show the establishment and beltway idjut RINO’s exactly what we think of compromise.  Y0u put up a liberal candidate, you’re going to lose.  You compromise a little to gain a numerical advantage that only exists in your little beltway-driven minds, you’re going to lose.  When you start drawing lines and telling us that the folks who fueled the conservative Revolutions of 1980 and 1994 are the reason the party is losing, you’re going to lose. You throw up an ethically-vacant candidate that wouldn’t know good behavior or morals and expect us to vote for them just because they have an (R) next to their name?  You’re going to lose.

Every.  Single.  Time.

We are the principled backbone of this country.  We are the spine of the Republican Party.  And we are not happy.  You will listen to us now, or you will hear our deafening silence when you beg for our support on election day.

Dump Dede.  Vote Doug.  Get it right.

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NY-23

The big buzz today in political realms is about New York 23rd Congressional district special election being held November 3rd.  Why is it important?  It is important because it is one of the first elections being held since the big O was elected as President last year.  This race has big implications for 2010 and 2012.

Why should you care?   Because New York is one of those special states that has a Conservative Party.  And I am not talking about Republican or Democrat either.   You can actually become registered as a card-carrying Conservative in New York.  Think about that for a moment.  You don’t have to deal with the party rhetoric that the Republicans or Democrat put out, you can actually register and vote on principle.  What a concept.

What is so important about the 23rd New York Congressional District is that the Conservative candidate Doug Hoffman is current leading in the polls over 2nd place Democratic Challenger Bob Owens, and 3rd plcae Republican Candidate Dede Scozzafava.  Why is Scozzafava dead last?  Because she is a liberal Republican, ala like Olympia Snowe.  Scozzafava is one of those Rino’s who support abortion, votes for tax increases and votes with the liberal Democratic party than with her own party.

In fact she is so liberal, that party insiders secretly agree that Democrat Bob Owens is more conservative that Scozzafava.  However, bring in Conservative Party Doug Hoffman, who is a fiscal Conservative who wants to reign in Big Government and end the wasteful spending that is going on today.  If fact, Hoffman is like you and me, an ordinary citizen that is not a career politician.  If you think of the movie “Mr. Smith goes to Washington”, Doug Hoffman is Mr. Smith.

And even with New York being a liberal state, Doug Hoffman has brought in big endorsements from Sarah Palin, Fred Thompson and Sean Hannity, amongst others because people recognize that he is a principled man who shares the same views that other conservatives do.  Scozzafava has only the support of Newt Gingrich and it makes me wonder whether Newt is all out the party or about principles.  I’m not sure but supporting a Rino like Scozzafava makes me think Newt is all about party.   People are sick of politics as usual and have decided to support someone who will go to Congress and take a stand.  That someone is Doug Hoffman.  Sure, one man may not be able to do much, but with the Government in crises, exorbitant spending, a threat to Health Care and Taxes on Energy,  a truly conservative revolution has to start someplace with someone and that someplace is the New York 23rd district and someone is Doug Hoffman.

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An Olympic-Sized NoBama

He goes up for the shot and.... Rejected!

Poor lil’ Hussein.  The combined superpowers of the Wonder Triplets (The One, Mrs. The One, and The Oprah) couldn’t land a little sports outing for their beloved city of Chicago.  People who aren’t paying attention are dumbstruck by this shocking development.

Ah…   but those who are paying attention know a few things:

1.  No matter how good your marketing was to get elected in your own country, Mr. Obama, the rest of the world knows you as exactly what you are: a well-marketed, no-experience former junior Senator from Illinois with almost an entire term under your belt before you decided to run for the highest office in the land.

2.  When you have the President of the United States show up for a meeting to try to push for his own country when the rest of the world isn’t sending their Presidents, Prime Ministers, etc, it smacks of desperation and arrogance, not confidence.

3.  When you spend much of your time as President jetting around the globe apologizing for American strength, and then you go ask those same countries you’re apologizing to for the opportunity to increase your prestige and standing in the world by hosting a large international event, don’t be surprised if they view you as weak instead of cooperative.

Oh – and having your cronies put the bid together probably isn’t the best idea, especially considering what happened the last time Americans hosted an Olympic games.

No, you sycophantic suck-ups at Newsweek, this isn’t a good thing for Obama.  No, David Axelrod, it wasn’t just because of international politics.  This is a solid smackdown of the White House’s amateur-hour ego tripping.  Obama himself went, along with Mrs. The One, and essentially used their political muscle to try to coax these folks that they’re desperately trying to appease on every single national security issue – to give him the Olympics – and failing massively and miserably.  It’s just another tick in a growing list of international folks giving The One what he deserves: The Cold Shoulder.  Let’s go down the list…

• International Olympic Committee, in response to the President of the United States, the First Lady of the United States, appeals from the Secretary of State of the United States, and multiple members of the Obama Administration….   decline the request of all of the above to let Chicago host the Olympics.  In the first round of voting.  By a sizable margin.
• The Chinese continue to elect to NOT purchase US Debt.
• Iran, in a shocking turn of events, decides to give up nuclear arms and totalitarianism in favor of freedom, peace and democracy…    just kidding.  They’re trying to build a bomb to blow up Israel, in defiance of America policy and incessant begging from The One.
• The Taliban and Al Qaeda decide that the perfect time to press their attempt to gain back control of Afghanistan is when a socialist with zero experience is at the helm of the American military
• Perhaps most shockingly, the international organization known as “Earth, The Planet”, repudiates Obama’s claims of global warming by planning for the coldest winter in decades.

Yep.  You’re doin’ a heck of job, Barry.

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