Regarding "The Donald."

To my good conservative friends- especially those who support "The Donald." 

In these days of milquetoast (or worse) defenses of conservatism by elected leaders, especially the 'establishment' GOP leadership, it is easy to get excited over a seemingly unapologetic firebrand who finally articulates much of what you and I have wanted to scream from the mountaintops.

I get that. 

But remember what was happening 8 years ago. Many on the left and 'center-left' rallied behind a charismatic, well-spoken candidate who nobody really knew much about.

Not that there wasn't information available. There was information galore about Barack Obama-- from his associations with known domestic terrorists, to his belonging to a communist party in Chicago; from his 20-year association with a preacher who preached hate about the United States, to his being mentored by an avowed communist in his earliest days. The information was available to any who wished to do even a cursory internet search.

Many (myself included) tried to warn people about Barack Obama, how he wasn't the man whom he portrayed himself to be.

But people would have none of it. They looked upon Obama as an open canvas; they looked upon him and projected upon him their greatest hopes, and ignored the reality of his checkered past. They didn't see a guy raised by communists and people who hated America. They saw a guy descending from Greek columns. They saw 'the One"--their own personal messiah the one who would finally deliver them to the "Promised Land" and make the sea levels lower and the earth heal. They scoffed at reports of his past, thinking, "Well, even if he did cut his teeth on communism and Islam, he wouldn't *govern* like one. He would certainly out of a sense of duty and responsibility carry out America's most time-honored traditions." And they elected him anyway. The 'cult of personality' took over. There was no reasoning with people who refused to be reasoned with.

And we all know how that has turned out.

Now, back to Trump.

Donald Trump does an awfully good job at selling himself. He can sell ice cubes to Eskimos. He is very good at portraying himself as larger than life.

He is very good at 'portraying' himself as an unapologetic conservative.

But understand, people. Donald Trump is NO conservative. He has a very long record of taking very progressive stances on everything from border security to abortion to tax policy. He has engaged in crony capitalism, and has been part of the problem all along.

Are we to believe that he REALLY took a 180 on all these issues, just in time for the Republican primary?

Again-- I understand how Donald Trump can be appealing. He is charismatic and unapologetic--something we wish more of our elected leaders would be. But let's leave our passions behind and look at things realistically:

1. Given his long track record of being a crony capitalist and a big-government, pro-abortion progressive, can we reliably count on Donald Trump to actually govern as a conservative?

2. Even if Donald Trump were to attempt to keep his promises (which I have sincere doubts), can he accomplish all that he proposes in a system of checks and balances? Or will he govern with a 'phone and a pen' like our current dictator-in-chief?

Let's not let our passions get in the way of our good judgment. We have an embarrassment of riches in fine candidates such as Ted Cruz, Scott Walker, and Ben Carson who, while admittedly not as charismatic, have long track records of conservative stances and successfully advancing the conservative agenda with reasonable chances that they will govern accordingly.

No more cults of personality, please.

As If...

Dear Speaker Boehner:

There is nothing I'd like better than to keep the United States House of Representatives in *conservative* hands. 

Regarding that issue, we wholeheartedly agree.

In that spirit, could you kindly resign your tenure as Speaker of the House?

Under your leadership, Obamacare is still the law of the land. Those responsible for allowing four Americans to be murdered in Benghazi are yet to be held accountable. The Constitutional abuses of the IRS scandal, the "Fast & Furious" federal gun-running scandal, and NSA scandals continue to go un-investigated, and Obama continues to be held unaccountable. Under your 'leadership,' the Republicans in the House of Representatives have done nothing to hold the Obama administration accountable for their overreach and malfeasance and assaults on our Constitutional liberties. You supposedly practiced brinkmanship when Obama forced a government shutdown, but then acted like you owned it, and ran with your tail between your legs. It's been "go along to get along" ever since.

And now you want to cave and give special treatment to those scofflaws who ignore our immigration laws.

Your team put up a nice graphic on Facebook today in response to President Obama's "I have a pen" comment, to which you replied, "We have the Constitution."

However, as much as you hold up the Constitution and parade it around like a golden calf, you have displayed no real intention of upholding it. As your actions and inaction have clearly demonstrated, to you, the Constitution is nothing more than window-dressing in a photo-op.

Speaker Boehner, you have on many occasions taken a solemn oath and promise to uphold the Constitution.

After taking those solemn oaths, on multiple occasions, you have demonstrated that your promises are as empty as must be your conscience.

If you really believe that the Constitution must be kept in conservative hands, I call upon you to resign your office as Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Whether or not your constituency in the 8th District of Ohio continues to re-elect you to as their representative in Congress is their business.

The office you hold as Speaker, however, is *our* business. You have lost the trust and confidence of those of us in the Republican Party.

You have lost the trust of the nation.

Time for you to resign, Mr. Speaker.

Sincerely,

Leo Pusateri.

Anyone Else See A Disconnect Here?

Obama:

• Voted three times to allow a child who survived an abortion to die on a gurney.
• Allowed the trafficking of guns into the hands of Mexican drug lords via Operation Fast and Furious, knowing they would be utilized in the commission of crimes and murders, sending hundreds of people to their deaths, including U.S. Border Agent Brian Terry.
• Forced Catholic and other Christian institutions to violate their consciencesby attempting to force them to fund birth control and abortifacients.
• Imprisoned a Marine for speaking his mind on Facebook
• Shut down hundreds (1000s?) of GM dealerships and put thousands out of work.
• Prevented tens of thousands of United States workers from finding gainful employment during the worst recession since the Great Depression- by blocking the Keystone Pipeline Project.
• Is the consummate narcissist, assigning credit to no one but himself, assigning blame to EVERYONE but himself.

Now, can you please tell me again why you think he’s a “nice guy?”

Spaceballs can teach us a lot about the current state of the RNC.

Well…What DO we got?

To answer in short– a hell of a lot.

The problem is that there are a bunch of spineless wimps running the RNC. They don’t understand that the DNC is willing to do ANYTHING, lie, cheat, steal to get their people elected. All we have to do is hit them with the TRUTH– but when you’re a democrat, the TRUTH is ugly and hurts like a sonofabitch– in fact, any truth telling is considered an all-out assault against them–like a cross against a vampire. The RNC, though, always wants to play “nice.” They don’t want to go into the gutter– but at the same time, they don’t realize that they don’t have to go in the gutter– they just need to tell the TRUTH. Until they realize that, we’re in for a long, upward battle. Like During WWII, which was ended with the dropping of two atomic bombs, the simple telling of the TRUTH are the atomic bombs the Republicans have in their arsenal that for some reason known but to God they are unwilling to use!

For Heaven’s sake, they won’t even allow two conservative superstars, Sarah Palin and Colonel Allen West- to speak at the convention!

With the dismal outcomes of Obama’s empty promises he made in 2008, his administration’s direct connection to the murder of Brian Terry, his squandering of our taxpayer dollars for no other reason than to benefit his Union and “green job” campaign benefactors, his stonewalling on energy, his total irreverence for the First Amendment and freedom of Religion and of conscience; his de facto increase in the size of the Dependency Class in America; his administration’s extended use of drone technology to target American citizens; his administration’s selective administration of the law (i.e., their refusal to prosecute the Black Panther voter intimidation case); not to mention his wholesale complicity with the destruction of the unborn; we not only have a Cuisinart- we have the most powerful weapon known to man on our side–the TRUTH– and it’s high time the RNC uses it.

Could this be why Romney refuses to renounce man-made global warming?

Erin Haust of the Minneapolis Conservative examiner has done some digging, that more than sheds light on Romney's allegiance to the hysteria that is man-made global warming:

Most news outlets and political pundits are talking about Romney's "belief in man-made climate change" but there is a more practical explanation for his affection for Mother Earth.

Romney has a financial stake in the success of climate change legislation.

Since 1977, Romney has been employed by or been CEO of the consulting firm Bain & Company or its spinoff Bain Capital which Romney co-founded in 1984. Bain & Company and Bain Capital LLC are profitable to the tune of billions of dollars and have offices all over the world.

(Continue reading here)

In my book, this is more than enough to tell me that when it comes to choosing a Republican Presidential candidate for 2012, Romney is more than worth panning.

On Living Under a Rock.

Congressional RINO, U.S. representative Ahn "Joseph" Cao (LA), is either completely disingenuous, has been living under a rock for the past two years, or is just plain dense (emphases mine):

New Orleans Republican Rep. Anh “Joseph” Cao is hedging his bets when it comes to who he’ll support for speaker.

The first-term Republican, who represents a solidly Democratic district, speaking told a local NBC affiliate he would “weigh those two names” — referring to House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).

“I have not heard of their platforms,” Cao said, according to the New Orleans Times Picayune. “I have not read what they're looking for with respect to the country.."

So many RINOs, so little time.

Strange Days, Indeed...I Guess You Can Fight City Hall, After All.

Who would have known that a 30 second soundbite of a February 19, 2009 broadcast, on of all places, MSNBC, could have so changed the political landscape:



This election cycle is by far the strangest in my 50 years on this earth. I've seen a lot of infighting among different factions in the democrat party before, but never in my lifetime (well, at least since the election of Ronald Reagan) have I seen such infighting among Republicans.

Don’t get me wrong. Since Bush 41 infamously broke his “Read My Lips” pledge, movement conservatives have had plenty of beefs with the establishment of the GOP. But with seemingly no where else to go, and assuaged by the constant assurances by the establishment that their concerns would eventually be addressed (but that they just had to veer to the left in order to get elected by ‘independents’), movement conservatives patiently waited election cycle after election cycle while their agenda was perpetually back-burnered by the increasingly arrogant and increasingly statist Old Guard of the Republican Party. Movement conservatives, the driving force behind the landslide elections of 1994 when Republicans took over the majority, and again in 2002, when Republicans added to their majorities in the mid-term elections (a feat rarely witnessed in the annals of U.S. History), were constantly taken for granted as RINOs like John McCain, Lincoln Chaffee, Mike Castle and Susan Collins constantly ‘reached across the aisle’ (read: capitulated); resulting in increasing government intrusions, and the rendering of the size of government to behemoth status.

Then along came 2006, with both houses reverting to democrat control, culminating into the mother of all wakeup calls- the election of Barack Hussein Obama in 2008.

But then came Santelli.

Suddenly, it wasn’t just your traditional conservative activists who were screaming that the sky was falling. More and more ‘Joe Sixpack’ Americans were opening their eyes and recognizing the multi-trillion dollar rhinoceros of unsustainable debt that was precariously perched upon their dining room tables, waiting to eat themselves and their progeny alive.

Curiously, Folks like Ron Paul and Sarah Palin weren’t looking so much like whacked out extreme nutjob outsiders anymore.

More and more people (especially college-aged kids) were tuning in to the Constitutionalist message and turning out en masse at their local caucuses and political gatherings. The organization demonstrated by the Ron Paul factions at these functions was nothing less than stunning, and something that the Republican establishment were ill-equipped and ill-prepared to deal.

From Searchlight Nevada, to Dover, Delaware, to the Jersey shore, to Boston Massachusetts, to Washington D.C., gathering after gathering of people who previously were content to merely sit on their couches and gripe were now an active force to be reckoned with, and have made it clear that they shall NOT be ignored. No longer will blind trust be extended such that just because there’s an R next to an elected official’s name, that that official will necessarily be a worthy steward of their precious liberties. Going one step further on the old Reagan ‘Trust, but verify“ policy during the glastnost and perestroika days of the Cold War, to Tea Party activists, with respect to their elected officials, the catch phrase has necessarily become “To hell with trust; we want verification.”

What we’re witnessing today, despite the screaming and gnashing of teeth of the Establishment is yet another revolution; here to date unlike any other seen. Unlike the Reagan revolution, this movement is not led by a central figure. Unlike the Republican Revolution of 1994, this revolution is not led by a small coterie of a party establishment; rather, this revolution has as its focal point a general awakening; a collective, bottom-up realization that the liberties we have enjoyed for the past two and a half centuries as Americans are unbelievably fragile; and must be defended not only from enemies who wish to destroy them from without, but also from those who wish to destroy them from within, up to and including Republicans themselves.

In every sense of the word, we are now entering uncharted waters; a very real brave, new world, the likes of which have not been navigated since the dawning of the American Revolution. For far too long Americans have slumbered and/or stewed in the notion that “You can’t fight city hall.” But if the election of Barack Hussein Obama and the ensuing events that have taken place even into this very evening have taught us anything, it is that ordinary Americans can not only fight City Hall, they can win.

Huckabee's Penis Envy?

Seems like Mike Huckabee has been eating a whole bunch of sour grapes:

Huckabee said the rise of the tea party movement had “taken all of the oxygen out of the room,” rendering the venerable conference far less relevant than it had been in previous years.

“Where CPAC was historically the event, the tea parties are having their own events all over the country and a lot more truly grassroots people are getting involved because of the tea parties,” said the former governor.

And, goaded by Fox Host Geraldo Rivera, Huckabee went even further.

“Because of the way that it solicits sponsors, it’s almost becomes a pay-for-play,” he said. “It’s kind of like, who will pay money to be able to be a sponsor and get time in the program. That’s one of the things that has hurt its credibility in the last couple of years.”

Read more:

Huckabee's sour grapes aside, I truly sense a concerted effort from without (on both sides) to destroy the Tea Party, CPAC and other related movements because it is not friendly to the status quo. The narrative is changing. Having been put off enough times by the line, "Yeah, we didn't advance the agenda yet, but give us power next year and we'll deliver;" and having been stood up at the dance too many times, movement conservatives are now looking beyond the power structure of the Republican party to field and support their candidates of choice.

Simply put, many 'establishment' republicans, much like their democrat counterparts, are first and foremost political animals, who look at grass-roots, non-establishment efforts (especially successful ones) as threats to their respective monopolies in the arena of ideas, and to the idea that they and they alone are the font from which all political power and graces flow. Mike Huckabee's comments are illustrative of how they will bite back, sometimes viciously, in their efforts to maintain their turf.

I agree that the Republican party has the infrastructure from which we can launch candidates who will promote a conservative agenda; I also understand the futility of a third party effort, especially for national office. The 'establishment' wing, however, must now recognize that they again, as I stated, are no longer the sole font from which all political power and graces flow.

As Norm Coleman is always fond of saying, a leader without any followers is just a guy taking a walk.

Gone are the days (at least for now, but hopefully into the foreseeable future) when a select few can be the self-anointed 'kingmakers.' Footsoldiers will no longer toe the line for those who don't give a whit for advancing the conservative cause.

Movement conservatives are tired of being on the backburner, and they will no longer stand by idly while progressive interests are placed ahead of theirs 'just to get along.'

I think the establishment wing of the Republican party recognize this and are quaking in their boots.

We are making a difference, ladies and gentlemen.

Keep the kilns fired.

Erick at Red State's Call to Action...

Senate Republicans, take heed:

FIGHT

Just When You Thought Common Sense Had a Chance.

Just when you thought one might be able to breathe a collective sigh of relief.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The 60 votes aren't there any more.

With the Senate set to begin debate Monday on health care overhaul, the all-hands-on-deck Democratic coalition that allowed the bill to advance is fracturing already. Yet majority Democrats will need 60 votes again to finish.

Some Democratic senators say they'll jump ship from the bill without tighter restrictions on abortion coverage. Others say they'll go unless a government plan to compete with private insurance companies gets tossed overboard. Such concessions would enrage liberals, the heart and soul of the party.

Yep... Just when you can see some light at the end of the tunnel.

Just when you thought that there may be an end to the madness...

In come the RINOs to really muck things up. You see, it seems that instead of killing the bill at the onset, the GOP brainiacs in the Senate, like the proverbial dog showing a thief where the best silverware is, are trying to "improve" the bill so as to leave it less palatable to invoke a filibuster!

Erick Erickson at Red State has the gory details:

Having started from the presupposition that the health care legislation is going to pass, the GOP seems to be signaling it will work to “improve” the legislation just enough to overcome a filibuster.

The legislation has 57 votes already. The GOP does not need to offer amendments to improve the bill — they need to bring it to a vote and kill it. Preening for cameras and favorable press coverage is going to get the bill to 60 votes and a signing ceremony.

What a bunch of numb-nuts. Could the Senate GOP get any more of a tin ear? One commenter on RedState said it best, when he invoked Sam Adams:

“If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams

Indeed.

May God have mercy on our nation, for miserably squandering the gift of freedom He so graciously bestowed, giving away our children's birthright with the nonchalance of a Hennepin Avenue streetwalker.

As Ronald Reagan famously stated, freedom is only a generation away from extinction. And it appears that our generation is hellbent on making Ronald Reagan's maxim a reality.

"Benedict Arlen"--"We don't need no stinkin' principles!"

When asked if there is a shortage of "Jewish Republicans" in the Senate, Senator "Turncoat" Benedict Arlen Specter originally had this to say,"

Asked whether he cared about a shortage of Jewish Republicans in the Senate, Specter replied: “I sure do. There’s still time for the Minnesota courts to do justice and declare Norm Coleman the winner.”

Specter, seeming to forget he was now a full-fledgd card-carrying out-of-the-closet democrat, thought twice about his endorsement of Coleman:

“In the swirl of moving from one caucus to another, I have to get used to my new teammates,” he said. “I’m ordinarily pretty correct in what I say. I’ve made a career of being precise. I conclusively misspoke.”

Asked who he’s backing now in elections, Specter said, “I’m looking for more Democratic members. Nothing personal.”

Selling out to the highest bidder, are we, Arlen? If principles were gas, Mr. Specter, it seems, wouldn't be able to drive a pissant's car half-way around a bee-bee.

Mr. Specter has more in common with a Hennepin Avenue Streetwalker than with any principled Republican.

Good riddance.

Elections. Have. Consequences.

For all of you conservatives who sat on your thumbs up to the third knuckle during the 2008 elections, thinking that you were gonna "teach the GOP a lesson," and thinking that it'll mean we can mop up the mess in 2012, I have a few words for you...

Thanks a lot.

You mental midgets have given an avowed socialist the right, nay, the responsibility to appoint a like-minded half-wit to the highest court of the land, the sole purpose of which is to ensure that we follow the Constitution.

Well, ladies and germs, you can pretty much kiss the Constitution goodbye.

I view that quality of empathy, of understanding and identifying with people's hopes and struggles as an essential ingredient for arriving as just decisions and outcomes. I will seek somebody who is dedicated to the rule of law, who honors our constitutional traditions, who respects the integrity of the judicial process and the appropriate limits of the judicial role. I will seek somebody who shares my respect for constitutional values on which this nation was founded, and who brings a thoughtful understanding of how to apply them in our time.
-Barack Hussein Obama-

A little bit about Obama's "Constitutional Values:"

In other words, Barack Obama's words today, were, in a phrase, full of shit.

His handing over Chrysler to the UAW, his spending money like there's no tomorrow, are no doubt making the Founding Fathers spin in their graves so fast that if you hooked them up to dynamos they could power lower Manhattan.

It was no accident or slip of the tongue when Obama made this infamous quip:

It was certainly no accident, given his allegiance to Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Saul Alinsky, and Jeremiah Wright that Obama clearly expressed his beliefs that the Constitution is, in his estimation, a flawed document; and it's not just mere political rhetoric when, as recently as a couple of days ago, "the One" proclaimed

"We have begun re-making America."

Remaking America--into what? What, in Obama's estimation, is America lacking? Well, if you can't put all of the pieces together and get a good idea of what Obama wants to re-make America into, I've got a short bus for you to ride. And getting a like-minded radical SCOTUS nominee, who also thinks that the Constitution is "flawed," is a mighty big step toward re-making America into a glorified "werker's paradise."

Pishawww, you say?

“[W]e need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom. The empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor, or African-American, or gay, or disabled, or old. And that’s the criteria by which I’m going to be selecting my judges.”

-Barack Hussein Obama-

That's the criteria. Empathy. Don't know about you, but I saw nothing about knowledge of or adherence to the Constitution in that quip. Nothing. Zip. Zero. Oh, and did I mention, nada, for our south-of-the border friends?

So, to my conservative friends who stayed home on election day, or even moreso to those "oh-so-clever-by-half" so-called 'conservatives' who "oh-so-fashionably" climbed aboard the Obama bus-trip-to-a-living hell last November, thanks.

For nothing.

The Tide Is Turning...Part II

A republican who voted for the porkulus package receives the bum's rush:



This is illustrative of what will happen to RINOs in 2010.

No longer is it a matter of Republican vs. Democrat. It is now a matter of, to paraphrase George W. Bush, "Either you are with us, or you are with the socialists."

An event-horizon has been crossed. Conservative Americans have clearly had enough of democrat socialism, not to mention the empty promises and lip-service paid by RINO neo-socialist/opportunist Republicans, who have repeatedly and arrogantly poked their thumbs in the conservatives' collective eyes when it met their purposes of political expediency; and, in the process have taken our votes for granted.

No longer will allegiance be paid with blind loyalty to a party; rather, it will be righteous loyalty and allegiance toward our Founding Principles which, when applied, have served this country admirably throughout our nation's history.

Look for similar messages to be given to RINOs all around the nation, and let them be put on notice: If you're a RINO, your remaining days in office will most certainly be numbered.

The Constitution Is Effectively Dead.

So sayeth the sages in the U.S. House of Representatives in passing HR 1586, which imposes a whopping

…90% tax to only the portion of a bonus that, in combination with other income, increases an employee’s adjusted gross income to a level above $250,000 ($125,000 for married couples filing individually) in the taxable year when the bonus was received. Therefore, employees with adjusted gross incomes of less than $250,000 (including bonuses) would not be impacted.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought ex-post facto laws were done away by the Constitution in 1798:

An ex post facto law is a law passed after the occurrence of an event or action which retrospectively changes the legal consequences of the event or action.

The fact alone that the authors of TARP and the stimulus bill are the ones who allowed the bonuses in the first place and wrote them in the legislation is in itself outrageous.

If this were done on a straight party-line vote, it would have been heinous enough, yet understandable, because democrats don’t give a whit about and/or are clueless regarding Constitutional principles, anyway.

But the thing about it is, the measure passed by a 328-90 margin, meaning that many REPUBLICANS likewise threw the Constitution under the bus today. The following is a list of 84 Republicans who at the very least, need to get schooled regarding Constitutional Law:

1. Representative Donald Young (AK)
2. Representative Michael Rogers (AL)
3. Representative Robert Aderholt (AL)
4. Representative John Boozman (AR)
5. Representative Walter Herger, Jr (CA)
6. Representative Tom McClintock (CA)
7. Representative Howard McKeon (CA)
8. Representative Edward Royce (CA)
9. Representative Jerry Lewis (CA)
10. Representative Ken Calvert (CA)
11. Representative Mary Bono Mack (CA)
12. Representative Dana Rohrabacher (CA)
13. Representative Brian Bilbray (CA)
14. Representative Michael Castle (DE)
15. Representative Ander Crenshaw (FL)
16. Representative Virginia Brown-White (FL)
17. Representative Clifford Stearns (FL)
18. Representative John Mica (FL)
19. Representative Gus Michael Bilirakus (FL)
20. Representative C.W. Bill Young (FL)
21. Representative Adam Putnam (FL)
22. Representative Vern Buchanan (FL)
23. Representative Tom Rooney (FL)
24. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (FL)
25. Representative Lincoln Diaz-Balart (FL)
26. Representative Mario Diaz-Balart (FL)
27. Representative Thomas Latham (IA)
28. Representative Peter Roskam (IL)
29. Representative Mark Kirk (IL)
30. Representative Judy Biggert (IL)
31. Representative Timothy Johnson (IL)
32. Representative Donald Manzullo (IL)
33. Representative Aaron Schock (IL)
34. Representative John Shimkus (IL)
35. Representative Joe Donnelly, Sr. (IL)
36. Representative Jerry Moran (KS)
37. Representative Edward Whitfield (KY)
38. Representative Steven Guthrie (KY)
39. Representative Goeff Davis (KY)
40. Representative Harold Rogers (KY)
41. Representative Anh Cao (LA)
42. Representative John Fleming (LA)
43. Representative Rodney Alexander (LA)
44. Representative William Cassidy (LA)
45. Representative Peter Hoekstra (MI)
46. Representative Vernon Ehlers (MI)
47. Representative David Camp (MI)
48. Representative Frederick Stephen Upton (MI)
49. Representative Mike Rogers (MI)
50. Representative Candice Miller
51. Representative Roy Blunt (MO)
52. Representative Jo Ann Emerson (MO)
53. Representative Dennis Rehberg (MT)
54. Representative Walter Beaman Jones, Jr (NC)
55. Representative Jeff Fortenberry (NE)
56. Representative Frank LoBiondo (NJ)
57. Representative Christopher Smith (NJ)
58. Representative Leonard Lance (NJ)
59. Representative Rodney Frelingheysen (NJ)
60. Representative Christopher Lee (NY)
61. Representative Jean Schmidt (OH)
62. Representative Michael Turner (OH)
63. Representative Patrick Tiberi (OH)
64. Representative Greg Walden (OR)
65. Representative Charles Dent (PA)
66. Representative Todd Platts (PA)
67. Representative Henry Brown, Jr. (SC)
68. Representative David Roe (TN)
69. Representative John Duncan, Jr. (TN)
70. Representative Zach Wamp (TN)
71. Representative Joe Barton (TX)
72. Representative Michael McCaul (TX)
73. Representative Lamar Smith (TX)
74. Representative Kenny Merchant (TX)
75. Representative Robert Wittman (VA)
76. Representative James Randy Forbes (VA)
77. Representative Robert Goodlatte (VA)
78. Representative Eric Cantor (VA)
79. Representative Frank Wolf (VA)
80. Representative Cathy McMorris-Rogers (WA)
81. Representative David George Reichert (WA)
82. Representative Paul Ryan (WA)
83. Representative Thomas Petrie (WI)
84. Representative Shelly Capito (WV)

This list does not include a number of linguini-spined Republicans who did not vote at all on the measure.

This is what happens when a bunch of people who were elected to uphold and defend the Constitution either 1. Never read it; and/or 2. Don’t give a whit about what’s in it.

Perhaps a mandatory class in Constitutional law before being eligible to run for office would be a good first step.

In the meanwhile, the U.S. Congress has given a message to Americans loud and clear: We no longer have Constitutional protections against ex-post facto laws, nor do we have Constitutional protections against bills of attainder (A bill of attainder (also known as an act or writ of attainder) is an act of legislature declaring a person or group of persons guilty of some crime and punishing them without benefit of a trial).

In other words, kiss the Constitution goodbye. Other than a document of genius and historical significance, it has today been rendered worthless.

It is my fervent hope that the employees of AIG that will be the recipients of this tragedy will take their cases before the Supreme Court. They, unfortunately, are are our last line of defense.

Traitors Among Us.

The unholy trinity of Collins, Specter & Snowe (Oh MY) have singlehandedly enabled the democrats to be able to ramrod a spending bill that will do more to advance the cause of socialism than "The New (Raw) Deal" and "The (not so) Great Society" could have ever hoped to accomplish. Because of their votes for this heinous abomination to civilized society and the cause of economic and personal freedom, we have lost the chance to defeat this bill in a filibuster, and to send it back where it belongs.

After their votes tonight, this much is clear.

Sens. Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, and Arlen Specter are deserving of some very serious primary challenges, and I charge the respective Republican parties from Washington, Maine and Pennsylvania with purging these three traitors from their ranks and refuse to support these pariahs any longer.

***UPDATE***

GMTA, I guess. Check out the new site: Expel the Traitors

...And I shake my head...

Bush says he had to wreck the economy, to save the economy.

US President George W. Bush said in an interview Tuesday he was forced to sacrifice free market principles to save the economy from "collapse." "I've abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system," Bush told CNN television, saying he had made the decision "to make sure the economy doesn't collapse." Bush's comments reflect an extraordinary departure from his longtime advocacy for an unfettered free market, as his administration has orchestrated unprecedented government intervention in the face of a dire financial crisis. "I am sorry we're having to do it," Bush said. But Bush said government action was necessary to ease the effects of the crisis, offering perhaps his most dire assessment yet of the country's economy.

Correct me if I'm wrong, King, but isn't the only way to save the free market to enact and to engage in behavior consistent with those very principles that make it viable? Can one "save" the free market by enacting policies that are antithetical to same, and which by their very nature and in every other known circumstance act to thwart the growth of a free-market economy and benefits thereof? If so, then when is the correct time to right the ship back on that course of economic freedom and the prosperity (and risk) that goes along with it? Can one merely parcel a free market and expect it to then flourish?

You know, Bush has been more than gracious toward his malevolent detractors lo' these past eight years, what with the "new tone" and all. Could it be that President Bush is leaving Obama and the democrats (and, unfortunately this nation) with a poke in the eye? Somehow, that just doesn't seem to be his style, which, to this point, has been largely to go along to get along. Or, alternatively, has what has been at best a short-term pseudo-fix (if that) been enacted merely in an effort to provide the Obama administration with a set of training wheels, and to hell with our collective futures?

"I feel a sense of obligation to my successor to make sure there is not a, you know, a huge economic crisis. Look, we're in a crisis now. I mean, this is -- we're in a huge recession, but I don't want to make it even worse."

Question Mr. President: have the bailouts really made anything better? In the short or in the foreseeable long term?

I didn't think so.

No. No. No. No. No. No!

Oh, and did I mention, NO!!!

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- The Republican platform may include a first-ever plank on global warming, an examination of a draft document indicated.

"Increased atmospheric carbon has a warming effect on the Earth," The Hill reported the draft document as saying. "While the scope and long term consequences of this warming effect are the subject of ongoing research, we believe the United States should take measured and reasonable steps today."

Sen. John McCain, poised to become the party's presidential nominee next week during the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., is a proponent of tackling global warming.

The final version of the 2008 Republican Platform will be ratified during the convention.

Err... McCain-- you may want to drink the kool-aid and think that it helps you politically, but SHIT-- is it the right thing to do? Cap and trade and all the other bullshit that is being sold with the global warming bill of goods will do nothing but harm!

FOR HEAVEN FRIGGEN SAKES--we are poised to have a COLDER THAN NORMAL winter-- it got up to 90 degrees on less than a handful of days this summer, but yeah, right-- even that's due to global warming.

Delegates--do NOT-- I repeat DO NOT buy into this bullshit!

***UPDATE***

Norm Coleman bought the bullshit.


When the going gets tough, Norm invariably makes a left turn.

I think he can't help it. After all, he was a democrat...

I guess it must be difficult to change one's spots.

RINOs for Obama?

Unsurprisingly, Lincoln Chaffee is one of them. As is Jim Leach (who supported sending Dhimmi Carter as an envoy to "broker peace" between Israel and the Palestinians). And Rita Hauser.

Wait a minute--who is Rita Hauser?

Glad you asked.

A professor coming to Columbia University this fall to head up a Middle East studies institute has said that killing armed Israelis is legitimate Palestinian "resistance" to occupation.

The money Columbia is using to pay the professor comes in part from Rita Hauser, a high-profile New York philanthropist whose former law firm was a registered agent of the Palestinian Authority. Also contributing was a foundation with close ties to Saudi Arabia.

So, a message to Team Obammesiah: You want these three self-loathing, mental midget clowns to head up your "GOP for Obama" contingent? Fine. They're a great match for your self-loathing, America-blaming platform.

You can have them, with shouts of "good riddance," to boot.

Take all the RINOs you want.

We never claimed them to begin with.

"Gang of 10" continues trek toward energy misery..

From a press release by David Dziok:Senate “Gang of 10” Energy Plan

Recently the Senate “Gang of 10” released an outline of the proposed energy compromise reached between five Democrats and five Republicans. While language has yet to be released, highlighted below are our some initial concerns with the proposal.

• Extremely Limited Offshore Production:

The off-shore provisions of this grand compromise are woefully inadequate to addressing the current crisis. The proposal only opens additional areas in the Gulf of Mexico to leasing and permits only the States of Virginia, North and South Carolina and Georgia to opt in to a leasing program. The proposal even creates a new “no drill zone” within 50 miles of the coast in areas where drilling would be permitted, permanently taking off-line some of the most promising areas for production. Presumably the ban on production remains in place in Florida, along the West Coast and off of Alaska.

• American families would be better served to just let the current offshore ban expire.

• New Government Subsidies Funded by Tax Increases:

Rather than using revenues from increased oil and gas production to fund competitive research into alternative fuels as proposed by House Republicans, the Gang of Ten proposal includes what the Wall Street Journal calls “a Democratic giveaway” that is funded by $84 billion in tax increases.


Approximately $30 billion in new taxes will come from American oil and gas companies through repeal of the Section 199 manufactures deduction and increased revenue on oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico. Raising taxes on one specific industry, American oil and gas companies will make it harder to expand oil and gas production in America.

An additional $55 billion in new taxes will be disclosed at a later date according to their press release: “Remaining offsets will be finalized in consultation with the Finance Committee after accounting for interaction effects with other pending legislation.” Since the release of their plan, rumored tax increases have included:

Ø Economic substance doctrine, which will raise taxes on American companies by allowing the IRS to question their business decisions

Ø Delaying worldwide interest allocation, making U.S. based international companies less competitive compared to foreign based companies

Ø Modifying the tax treatment of offshore non-qualified deferred compensation

• Fails the “All of the Above” Test:

Ø Keeps ANWR off-line

Ø Continues the policy of denying us access to our vast oil-shale reserves

Ø Does nothing to cut the bureaucratic red tape that hinders the construction of new refineries

Ø Fails to repeal the prohibition on government purchasing of alternative energy including Coal-to Liquids

-Office of the Republican Whip-

The long and the short of it: Whenever there is progress to be made in advancing conservative principles, whenever socialism is about to be dealt a blow, count on your friendly neighborhood RINO to really f*ck things up.

Ted Stevens Indicted...

One of the Republican Party's biggest disappointments (can you say "Bridge to Nowhere), Ted Stevens, is reportedly under indictment.

Truth be told, we can do a lot better than Senator Stevens.