Posted by Larry Miller on May 29, 2009 under How | 
Recent polls show that we now have more people identifying themselves as Independents than as part of either of the major parties. In recent months, those identifying themselves as Republicans have slid from 29% to 22%. The talking heads have been reporting this movement with glee. What they have have not been telling us is that the Democrats have dropped from 39% to 33%. Since this doesn’t fit the New York Times template, this fact is not reported. Meanwhile voters identifying themselves as Independents has climbed to 39%. As Arte Johnson used to say, “Verrrry interesting.”
What does this tell us? It depends on what ax the interpreter has to grind. To the Republicans looking to drag the party to the middle, it means that the people are leaving the conservative base and so should the political class. They think that clinging to God and guns is costing the GOP support. This thinking may have some validity if the party were actually doing such clinging. The past years, when the party had control of both houses and the White House showed precipitous movement away from these traditional positions causing the fortunes of the party to plummet.
This does not really mean that the nearly two out of five Independent voters are hard core conservatives. It does show, however, that it is difficult to win elections when you alienate your base… your core supporters. The fact that the other party is experiencing a similar shrinkage, in spite of their victories may indicate a wholesale disillusionment with the partisanship and influence of special interests on legislators across the spectrum.
We also see people showing more anger toward their own party than toward the opposition. Both sides, but especially Republicans feel betrayed as they watch politicians renege on campaign promises to the detriment of their supporters and our country. It’s almost enough to give credence to the conspiracy theories of our leaders being controlled by the Council on Foreign Relations or the Bilderbergs. Read more of this article »
Posted by Chuck Baldwin on May 28, 2009 under Why |
From the writings of Columbus to the Mayflower Compact, to the Declaration of Independence, America’s founders clearly and articulately enshrined bedrock Christian principles in the foundation of this country.
For example, in explaining the purpose of his journey that led to the discovery of the new world, Christopher Columbus said, “It was the Lord who put into my mind–I could feel His hand upon me–the fact that it would be possible to sail from here to the Indies . . . All who heard of my project rejected it with laughter, ridiculing me . . . There is no question that the inspiration was from the Holy Spirit, because he comforted me with rays of marvelous illumination from the Holy Scriptures . . . For the execution of the journey to the Indies I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics, or maps. It is simply the fulfillment of what Isaiah had prophesied . . . No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Savior, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His Holy service . . . the fact that the Gospel must still be preached to so many lands in such a short time–this is what convinces me.” (Source: Columbus’ Book of Prophecies)
Our pilgrim fathers wrote in the Mayflower Compact, “In the name of God, Amen. We whose names are underwritten . . . Having undertaken, for the glory of God and the advancement of the Christian faith . . . a voyage to plant the first colony in the Northern parts of Virginia.”
In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson invokes our Creator-God no less than four times. In fact, Jefferson predicates the Declaration on “the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God” and concludes the Declaration with an appeal to the “Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions” and with “a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence.” Read more of this article »
Posted by Larry Miller on May 26, 2009 under How |
North Korea set just set off nuclear and missile tests that set the western nations all atwitter. Kim Jong-Il loves the attention, sort of like a crazy man with a gun at the local mall. Only things aren’t quite so straight forward when the actors are nations. We can’t just send in snipers and eliminate the danger. I know I felt better when I saw the brief statement by our President strongly condemning this action and promising to work with the international community in strongly condemning the tests and promising to work for even more severe sanctions on the rogue regime.
The fact that such responses have been so effective in the past is encouraging. Wait a minute… in reviewing the history of our relations with North Korea it seems that such actions have produced no change in actions and policies of the Asian nation. Perhaps the leader is unaware of the displeasure expressed by the international community as the state run press certainly will not be carrying any stories critical of his actions… sort of like the New York Times and the Obama administration.
If only we could get his personal email address so the President could contact him directly with his strongly worded message… maybe using ALL CAPS and perhaps even bolding some of the stronger words for emphasis. Then we might be able to get through to Kim Jong-Il, who, wanting to be a good neighbor to us all, will abandon the program.
If this doesn’t work, there is talk of pressuring China to encourage North Korea to put the brakes on their nuclear program. This is an excellent plan as our good friends the Chicoms have always been looking out for our well being and would be happy to help us out by easing world tensions. Some might say we don’t much leverage with China anymore, I’m not sure this is true. The United States has become such a huge customer for Chinese goods and they have bought so much of our debt, we need to approach them in terms of protecting their investment. We need to explain that if the crazy Korean starts lobbing nukes at the US, it would make it much more difficult for us to pay back the loans they have given us. Read more of this article »
Posted by Larry Miller on May 23, 2009 under Why |
This country of ours was born out of a conflict. It was a conflict between those who wanted to claim God’s gift of freedom and those who wanted to keep them subservient to the British Empire. They believed our creator designed us for “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”. They stood up to the most powerful military force of their time and, because of dedication and determination, our founding fathers succeeded in throwing off the chains of the British Crown. But it was at a terrible cost.
Families lost their homes, farms and plantations, but more importantly, fathers, sons, brothers, some to British musket balls and bayonets, some to disease. These brave freedom fighters gave their fellow countrymen what would become the greatest nation on earth. They had no idea of what was in store for these United States of America… they just wanted to be free, and they wanted their sons and daughters to grow up on a land where liberty, not a monarch, reigned.
Whether it was the frozen fields of Valley Forge or the dark-of-night bayonet attack at Yorktown, these farmers, shoemakers and black smiths gave their time and devotion to the fledgling county. Some of them gave their lives. These are the people we remember on Memorial Day.
These brave souls along with those who stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-day, who flew the bombers that decimated the Third Reich’s ability to make war, the Marines who dug the enemy out of Iwo Jima and the hundreds of other battles from steamy jungles to burning deserts where victory was won at the price of America’s finest men and, sometimes, women. These are the people we honor this and every Memorial Day. Read more of this article »
Posted by Larry Miller on May 21, 2009 under How |
California election day, May 19, 2009, may have been the start of our country’s climb out of the financial abyss. In spite of the Governator’s dire warnings delivered with the fervor seen in Henry Paulsen and Tim Geithner as they stampeded a gullible Congress into their high priced bailout schemes, the electorate proved they were not so gullible. This time the results were different because the audience was different.
Instead of the beltway elites who have the inflated delusions that they can solve most any problem by throwing our money at it… we saw the response of the people who actually have to pay for for these machinations. They have decided that rather than bankrupt themselves, they would call the government’s bluff that rapists would be set free from prison and may even be filling in for laid off teachers in the middle schools. They took the risk that their homes may burn down because of there would be no more firemen or they would be robbed because there would be no police. For once they did not buy the story that their money was really needed to help the sea otters and illegal aliens.
How much of this backbone came from the tea party spirit and how much was natural individual frustration at the continual abuse from Sacramento, is hard to tell. In some ways, it doesn’t matter because the people have spoken. No, the people screamed at the top of their lungs, “NO MORE!” The voters finally had a say in this financial dissipation.
What is interesting is that there were not lines of people waiting to make their wishes known. Turnout was low but margins were high… almost 2 to 1 rejecting some of the proposals. It did not take massive numbers to set California on the course to fiscal sanity. Apparently most of residents were resigned to the state government squeezing more and more out of them, in much the same way the folks in DC do… or they saw the poll numbers and were willing to let others do the lifting for them. It is sad that so many took this view and didn’t make themselves part of the victory. It’s even more frightening because that is how freedoms are lost and tyranny solidifies power. Read more of this article »
Posted by Larry Miller on May 20, 2009 under How |
Earlier this week, I had the pleasure of attending a We Surround Them/912 meeting with about 70 other concerned citizens. Last week, I spent the evening with about 20 others in a similar meeting. Tonight about 30 more people gathered to in a similar group. What is particularly encouraging, is that most of these people were either new to involvement in public affairs or were coming back after a lengthy hiatus.
The tea parties provided the catalyst to bring them back. The crowds provided the push that let them know they were not alone. Most people are not constitutionally suited to standing against the power of the federal government alone. We cheered the Chinese student staring down the tanks in Tiananmen Square, but tend to shy away from confrontation ourselves. With a group of like minded citizens, the patriots can become warriors.
I was amazed by the intensity of the emotional display. People are concerned about their country. They don’t like where it is headed. They are concerned about the world they will be leaving to their children and grand children. They are looking for ways to channel these feelings and energy.
Members of two of these groups combined to visit local Congressional and Senate offices to present a Petition for Redress of Grievances. These petitions outlined various actions by the federal government that, by almost any reasonable interpretation, were clearly unconstitutional. It must have been a bit of fun to be part of the group of about 25 as the filed into the local legislative offices with video and still cameras. One aide did a great deer in the headlights impression – but I don’t think he was acting, two aides welcomed them in and held a pleasant conversation and one office only showed them a shaken receptionist hiding behind her bullet proof glass shield. Read more of this article »
Posted by Chuck Baldwin on May 19, 2009 under How |
First, it was a Missouri Analysis and Information Center (MIAC) report; then it was a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report; now it is a New York congressman’s bill. Each of these items, taken on their own, is problematic enough; taken together they portend “a clear and present danger” to the liberties of the American people. It is getting very serious now.
As readers may recall, the MIAC report profiled certain people as being potential violence-prone “militia members”: including people who supported Presidential candidates Ron Paul, Bob Barr, and myself. In addition, anyone who opposed one or more of the following were also included in the list: the New World Order, the U.N., gun control, the violation of Posse Comitatus, the Federal Reserve, the Income Tax, the Ammunition Accountability Act, a possible Constitutional Convention, the North American Union, the Universal Service Program, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), abortion on demand, or illegal immigration.
The MIAC report prompted a firestorm of protest, and was eventually rescinded, with the man responsible for its distribution being dismissed from his position. The DHS report profiled many of the same people included in the MIAC report, and added returning Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans as potentially dangerous “extremists.”
As I have said before, it is very likely that when all of the opinions and views of the above lists are counted, 75% or more of the American people would be included. Yet, these government reports would have law enforcement personnel to believe we are all dangerous extremists that need to be watched and guarded against. If this was not bad enough, a New York congressman has introduced a bill in the House of Representatives to deny Second Amendment rights to everyone listed above. Read more of this article »
Posted by Larry Miller on May 18, 2009 under How |
Now we are hearing from many moderates in the mushy middle that the Republican Party should set aside some of the social issues and concentrate on economic issues where “everyone” can agree. I have mixed feelings about this message. On one hand we have the hypocrisy displayed by those pushing this view point as we have seen precious little economic common sense from those who want to elevate that to the top of Republican agenda. On the other, there is an element of truth to the position… but not for their weak kneed reasons.
For the most part, these are the same people who have helped the previous administration push through very unRepublican expansions of government and federal budgets. Now, they are suddenly talking like fiscal conservatives they know the country is looking for. As far as concerning ourselves with the welfare of the unborn, the ability to keep our guns, the sanctity of marriage and the like, perhaps it is time to take a bigger picture view of the situation. It’s not that they are not critical issues and must be dealt with as we look to preserve our country for our kids and grandkids.
The point is that we are working in a political environment that is not only hostile to our values, but, according to a recent Department of Homeland Security report, hostile to us as individuals. The decision makers in Washington are heading full speed in the opposite direction. The are busy expanding the power of the federal government and using it to push our traditional values as far into the distant past as possible.
So before we can, once again, go on offense and pursue the necessary changes we have to put the brakes on this headlong rush to disaster. The teeth of this administration are the increasing powers they are accumulating. It is only because they can impose their views in the American people that their ideas present a hazard to our well being. Pull these, often unconstitutional, teeth, and their big government interventionist policies cease to be a problem. Read more of this article »
Posted by Larry Miller on May 15, 2009 under How |
Once again the battle for the soul of the Republican Party is joined. This time in the Sunshine State of Florida. “Moderate” Governor Charlie Crist is pitted against conservative Speaker of the House Marco Rubio. Unfortunately, but as could be expected, the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the Republican Party of Florida, along with many current Senators, have already jumped on the bandwagon of Governor Crist who shared the platform with B. Hussein Obama in promoting his stimulus pork program.
They tell us he has higher name recognition and “It was a choice about who could win” Politico quoted NRSC Chairman John Cornyn of Texas as saying. In backing Christ, who has swallowed the radical environmentalist party line and proven himself to be amenable to big government, interventionist, solutions, the Republican establishment has taken another step toward looking and acting like the other party… just because they think they can win.
In my humble, but accurate, opinion, our nation does not need another Arlen Specter in the Senate. Even Crist’s supporters concede that he would not be a reliable vote on some of the tough issues. He is truly a Democrat Lite. In spite of all this, they support him “because he can win”. I would question that if he wins, would it move the traditional smaller, less intrusive government agenda forward or backward? Would it not just give us the illusion of having another Senator that supposedly is with us, but in reality is not? This does not make sense… unless many in leadership have also given up on the smaller, less intrusive government ideal. Read more of this article »
Posted by Larry Miller on May 14, 2009 under How |
There’s an old saying that we are known by the company we keep. In spite of the culture that wants to tell us that new is good and ideas and things that have been around for a while are just plan old fashioned, this statement has the same ring of truth it did when it was first uttered. Of course we don’t hear too much of this from the media and political elites who proclaim the purity of their messianic president who counts among his associates, past and present, a guy who bombed the Pentagon, a preacher who hates America, a Secretary of the Treasury who didn’t pay his taxes and a thug former congressman from Chicago.
It must be difficult for Democrats to look through the prism of right and wrong when their dreams of national domination are so close at hand. Some of us are not even sure they could find the prism if they wanted to. Minor missteps or major moral failures do not seem to be obstacles when long sought goals are within sight. Despite claims to the contrary, we are in an era when the end justifies the means.
It’s easy to criticize the Democrats, and many of us have been doing it for years. We catch hold of any failure on their part, even down to the Vice President foolishly thinking JOBS is a three letter word. The self-righteous among us, myself included, have to look at our reasons for our criticisms of Democratic idiosyncrasies. Are we really upset with the moral failures of our opponents or is it just one more shoe to throw at people whose policies are so terribly wrong for our country? Are we taking the easy way out with personal attacks rather than actually explaining why our ideas are better? Read more of this article »
Posted by Larry Miller on May 12, 2009 under How |
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell has been giving his advice to the Republican Party. It echoes the suggestions of other liberals, some who claim to be within the party and some from the other side of the aisle. All of them tell us the key to success is to become more like the Democrats. By all indications, that’s what we were doing. One has to wonder if they are trying to destroy the party or simply render it inoperative.
“I think my take on it was Colin had already left the party. I didn’t know he was still a Republican,” Dick Cheney told CBS’ “Face the Nation.” The same has been said about California’s Governator and the Senators from Maine among others. Senator Specter of Pennsylvania was also the subject of similar speculation prior to his split from his former companions. These people have made careers of rejecting Republican orthodoxy and now they think that everyone else should join them in their rush to speed the destruction of our country.
The question then becomes, are Republicans so unsure of themselves that they will give up on their traditional small government emphasis to chase, what some tell them, is the key to electoral victory? Is it worth throwing party distinctives and grassroots supporters under the bus to cater to the fleeting fancies of media driven public opinion. Even if the answer is “yes”, the rest of us have to ask if electing Republicans that behave pretty much like Democrats is worth the effort. Read more of this article »
Posted by Chuck Baldwin on under How, Why |
Many patriotic Americans, including many retired and former military personnel, are increasingly chagrined at the direction the U.S. armed forces are taking. For one thing, there were numerous instances in the Clinton and both Bush administrations when American GIs were required to serve under foreign or United Nations commanders. Does anyone remember the Michael New case? How can any American GI, who has taken an oath to the U.S. Constitution, willingly surrender himself to a foreign commander, flag, or uniform? That is a potential conflict that has caused many to question modern military service.
Another potential moral conflict in modern military service (at least for Christians) is the inter-sex training and quartering that is now required in every branch of military service (except the Marine Corps). To put healthy young adults of the opposite sex in such close and, many times, compromising environments is more than problematic for those wishing to stay morally pure. (Christian parents should know that many state colleges and universities now require students to live in coed dorms, including using coed bathrooms and showers.) Add to this President Barack Obama’s determination to expunge the Department of Defense’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, thereby allowing open homosexuals to serve in the military. All of the above has many Christians questioning the wisdom of giving their sons and daughters to today’s U.S. military.
Another disconcerting element of modern military service is the reality that today’s American military is more and more being used as the tool of globalists to forge an international New World Order. For instance, both Republican and Democratic Presidential administrations will send U.S. military personnel (including the National Guard) to guard the borders of foreign countries, but never ask them to protect our own borders. Sending the National Guard overseas, especially, strains the principles of constitutional government. But maybe that explains why we have so many foreign troops on U.S. soil. After all, did President George W. Bush not ask foreign troops to monitor our borders and skies in the weeks and months following the attacks on 9/11? Read more of this article »
Posted by Larry Miller on May 11, 2009 under Why |
At the time of his defection to the dark side, a jubilant Sen. Arlen Specter announced that he would be welcomed by the Harry Reid and the Democrat Party with open arms and that he could keep his seniority in the senate and on committees. Once the deed was done, the good Senator found what voters have finding our for years… these people are long on promises and short on follow through. They said, “Not so fast bud, go to the end of the line.” So much for retained power and seniority… one of his primary virtues to Pennsylvania voters.
Specter had served with these people for something like six terms. One would think that dealing with them for this period, he should know a little about their character and reliability. Perhaps his instincts were deadened by the passage of time or the seductive idea of one more term in the good old boys club.
One has to give him credit for recognizing that the re-energized Republican base in in the Keystone State would no longer tolerate his semi-Republican posturing that held no hint of the conservative values the party and country need. He was a man in Washington without a home and had to make a decision. Knowing that he could not return to the state he represented and adequately explain his positions and defend his actions, he looked to the party that actually believed in the things he had been saying and doing. Read more of this article »
Posted by Larry Miller on May 10, 2009 under Why |
Mothers
- are diaper changers
- kiss ouchies to heal them
- read you stories
- get you off to school
- make your lunches
- wash and mend your clothes
- help you with your homework
- listen to your problems
- give you good advice
- chauffeur you around
- look out for you always
- do so much more
but most of all… mothers are love!
Posted by Jake Towne on May 8, 2009 under Why |
The purpose of the following is to argue that the “gold standard,” as understood by most of the public, did not cause or worsen the Great Depression as current FED Chairman Ben Bernanke has based many of his papers, speeches, and, to a large extent, his entire career on. In our contemporary times, I do believe this blame must be firmly rejected and monetary policy should, at the very least, be debated in a national forum. Indeed many other economists, such as the Friedman family, Anna Schwartz, Alan Greenspan, and Jeffrey “Shock Doctor” Sachs, have all propagated this lie.
My premise is simple. I charge that these renowned Keynesian and Friedmanite-Monetarist-Chicago-Shock-School economists have consistently used the term “gold standard” to mislead their audiences and readers. For the sake of brevity, I will focus on Mr. Bernanke as he is the current standard-bearer of the FED’s fiat monetary system. Frequently, these economists do concede there are differences, but instead of clarifying they muddy the waters. For instance, in his 1990 NBER paper Bernanke frequently refers to an “interwar gold standard” and in his 2002 salute to Milton Friedman he acknowledged that “the gold standard was not adhered to uniformly as the Depression proceeded.”
While there may be a paper from the Austrian School of economics that firmly rebukes the claim in my fashion, based on the mislabeling of the term, I have not come across it (yet). However, both Murray Rothbard and Walter Block have understood this truth as well, and dropped the clues to follow.
Furthermore, there should be very little surprise that the statist forces have used this trick. Yesterday’s communist “nationalization” is today’s “conservatorship.” “Hoarders” are really savers. “Insurgents” are really guerrilla fighters; only a minority is actually “terrorists” as our political leaders consistently tell us. An unbiased observer would call a “war” whether on terror, poverty, drugs, WWII, etc. – as state-sanctioned murder and theft of property. Even the political terms “liberal” and “conservative” are terms meant to confuse and divide, as I discovered in one of my first articles “An Hypocrisy of Terms: Liberal and Conservative”. Read more of this article »
Posted by Larry Miller on May 7, 2009 under Why |
Uncle Sam wants to know where you live, not just the address, but the exact coordinates. Why would that be? Whatever their plans, our leaders believe it is worth $700 million dollars and hiring a city full of workers… 140,000 to be more precise. They are marching through our neighborhoods, taking readings at all our doors and asking if the house is a single or multi-family dwelling, all in the name of the census. This census that is a year away and has nothing to do with the job at hand.
The census bureau itself says, “The ability to capture Global Positioning System coordinates for most of the nation’s housing units will greatly reduce the number of geographic coding errors caused by using paper maps in previous counts.” This and other actions by this administration bring to mind the old saying, “there’s always two reasons for everything, the one we are told and the real reason.”
Douglas Gibbs writing in the American Daily Review says, “Imagine, if you will, that there are a number of people in a neighborhood that could not find the addresses they are tasked with finding. They are not locals, maybe are unable to read a map, or perhaps do not have the time to pull out a map, and they need to find you with specific GPS coordinates. Their devices would lead them to your front door with these coordinates. Imagine a crisis is afoot, and martial law is put into place. U.S. troops need to round up particular folks.”
“Let’s take this a step further. After all, with Barack Obama desiring to decrease the number of folks in the military, and with forces committed worldwide, we may not have sufficient military forces at home to deal with a rising national emergency. If the government decided to rely on foreign troops, perhaps United Nations personnel, most of which may not understand the street signs, much less know the lay of the land, they could use GPS devices to direct them to your front door.” Read more of this article »
Posted by Geoff Ficke on May 6, 2009 under How |
The vast majority of an educated modern populace has developed a pretty vivid tapestry of what life was like during the “Great Depression”. The visions of struggling dirt farmers like the Joad’s in Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath”, the big city soup lines, the tent cities for thousands of homeless and photographs of men selling apples on street corners have burnished in many of us a searing image of hopelessness and despair.
Today, the United States is sharing the most serious economic malady since the “Great Depression” with countries all over the world. While not approaching the absolute calamity of the 1930’s, the damage done to our wallets and psyches is nevertheless daunting and bruising. Businesses, organizations and individuals are understandably fearful and have curtailed spending in lieu of conserving capital. Risk taking, the key to maximizing gain, has been virtually shut down. Small business growth and development has been strangled. Entrepreneurs have hunkered down, fearful of the vagaries of a marketplace that seems to have no stomach for new products and ideas.
In times like these it pays to study the lessons of history. The Great Depression was bleak for so many, of course. Nevertheless, it was actually a fertile era for creativity and entrepreneurial activity.
People were desperate to make every purchase count, to leverage every dollar spent and obtain maximum value. The result was that an exciting array of creative breakthroughs came to market to satisfy the greater demand for economy. Read more of this article »
Posted by Larry Miller on May 5, 2009 under How |
A group of influential Republicans called the National Council for a New America began a reconstruct-the-party tour at a pizza shop in northern Virginia. The message was, a la Frasier Crane, “I’m listening.” The cynic in me must observe at this point with all the tea parties and groups making loud noises about government expansion and intrusion into our lives in so many areas, and they still have to ask what people want? How loud do we have to shout to be heard?
The men in this group are good men, and yet I am amazed that even now, they come around and ask what it is the people want. Could it be like a child who goes from one parent to another hoping to get a better answer to his question? Could it be the massive discontent among the people has not sunken in? Or could it be that they are looking for better ways to package what they want to do already in terms that make the populace think they are listening? I like this last answer the least, but when anyone has been inside the beltway too long, the question has to be asked.
The reason that I, as a voter, am offended by this attempt to find out what we are thinking and wanting is that it tells me what I already know… that I have ignored for far too long. I am not a lobbyist who can make good things happen for them. I am not a financier with a briefcase full of money to contribute. I am not a union boss that can deliver votes by the thousand. I am just one of thousands who gathered at locations around the country on April 15…. and now they ask us what we want!
Making matters worse, we are told that the message, methods and approaches that, when used properly gave us victories in the past need to be set aside. There is some truth to this… times change and circumstances change, communication methods change. The are even telling us our message has to change so it won’t offend people. The primary truth here is that conservatives have not been good at explaining WHY our approach is better. The government indoctrination centers called public schools have many convinced of the value of Big Brother’s intervention and interference in our lives. Read more of this article »
Posted by Larry Miller on May 3, 2009 under How |
Leaders are currently going through an episode of pained hand wringing over whether the Republican Party should return to the values of its’ base or pursue an almost valueless big tent philosophy where they agree to anything and stand for nothing. The problem is that even if this were resolved… relatively little would change. Over the past years, while those of us in the grassroots on both sides of the issue have been receiving lip service that tickled our ears, our representatives have been pushing and accepting more and larger programs that expanded the federal government in more and more areas of our lives.
Even when we still had Republican majorities, little progress was made to undo the abomination inflicted on our country through Roe v. Wade. We were patted on the head like a child and told it was a priority issue… but what progress did we see? We social conservatives are in much the same position that minorities are with the Democratic Party. Things may change for them in the near future… but I would not hold my breath. They, like we, need to be kept in a state of believing help is just around the corner if only we vote for our saviors in Washington.
All the while, the federal government has been growing by leaps and bounds under the rule of both parties. While there have been a few voices crying out in the wilderness they have been pretty well drowned out by party leaders taking a path that leads far from the thinking and desires of the people who worked to put them in office. A recent Rasmussen poll indicates that 69% of the GOP voters think Republicans in Congress are out of touch with the party base. Read more of this article »
Posted by Lex LaMotte on May 1, 2009 under Why |
The public infatuation with President Obama, particularly by the media, would be funny if its’ consequences were not so frightening. Daily, almost hourly, we here how wonderful he is, even when he has done nothing that day. Front page headline today “He is transforming politics right now” – isn’t he wonderful? While purportedly strengthening our position overseas, he tears down what this country stands for, apologizing for the good we’ve done as though it was bad, and worse, not even accepting any responsibility – “I wasn’t part of this problem, it was them”. And over in this country it is said “isn’t he so strong and magnanimous, never has an American leader stood so tall”.
Folks, I hate to break it to you, but they are laughing at us over there. They are having trouble believing they can get away with so much. He grovels and they offer nothing in return (zero additional help in Afghanistan), and the press says “what strength!!” Dictators are tripping over themselves to be next in line to take advantage of us and this most brilliant idiot pontificates about the wonderful things he is bringing to the world. Tinhorn dictators and thugs insult us and his response is “thanks for the book”, or “I’m glad you did not blame me, I was a baby when that happened”. Doesn’t he realize that as our elected leader, when they insult us, they are also insulting him?
Now, most dangerous of all, he has snubbed our closest and most important allie in the volatile Middle East by refusing to meet with Israel’s new Prime Minister. Meanwhile, he is seeking meetings with Israel’s worst enemies. He is now forcing Israel to act on its’ own to stop Iran’s nuclear aspiration aimed directly at Israel’s destruction. This is NOT funny, Obama is opening the door to a huge destructive war. Obama preens, the press fauns, and the world laughs – the Emperor has no clothes!T
