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Cross posted at Grizzly Groundswell and Stix Blog

This last Thursday I had the great privalege to meet a great candidate for Missouri’s 88th district.  It was a fun time and I met some pretty cool people at a Young Republicans Happy Hour.  And Shamed was there.  He is a good guy and I think would be a great addiction to the Missouri House.  It is too bad I live in Illinois and can not vote for him.  He is very smart, conservative and will be a great representative.   He has worked in Washington, D.C. , with Jim Talent, so he knows how the political game is played.  So I endorse him, and if any of you are in his district vote for him this fall.

 

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Too Little, Too Late!

Breaking News:

(CNN) — Barack Obama resigned Saturday from his Chicago church — where controversial sermons by his former pastor and other ministers had created repeated political headaches for the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination, his campaign confirmed Saturday.

Gee, I wonder why?  Do you suppose that the light shone on that little bastion of anger, angst, and acrimony might have had something to do with it?  Nah, couldn’t be!

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John McCain, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.  Empty suits, empty heads.  Each has policies that are incompatable either with a free market or with a constitutional democracy, certainly this one. Yet, each has adherents that all but deify their choice for president, and many complain that Obama has indeed been deified into the “Obamessiah.”  

And why not.  We have gone from being a nation that prided itself on its ability to foster rugged individualism and strength of character, not as existed in fiction but in real life, to being a nation that gripes about any little hardship, where a parent hasn’t the guts to say no to a child lest they mess up that child’s psyche and a nation that sees nothing wrong with thier particular congressmen larding out pork merely to get re-elected.  What is in it for me seems to be the catchword.

And the empty suits are promiseing everything from health insurance (under the false rubric of “health care crisis”).  Too, pandering with governmental largesse has increased exponentially since Lyndon Johnson’s “War on Poverty.”  We have thrown trillions at “social” problems and today many/most of those problems are as bad today, if not indeed worse, than they were when we started tossing cash instead of really looking at the problem in terms of why aren’t some doing the very things that could help them.

In many ways, the victimization of America and Americans has brought this about.  Being bullied?  Institute a costly anti-bullying effort.  Loose at tag?  Easy, ban competitive games on the playground less some tyke’s feelings get hurt.  Little Johnny can’t read?  Fine, rather than teach Johnny phonics, start up a multi billion dollar reading certification program and guess what… spend all that money and now Johnny, and Susie and LaVonne, and La Tasha and Juan and Omar and Yin and Yung can’t read. 

Recent reports that the government wastes money to the tune of 300 billion dollars a year.  Now, I don’t know about you, but that doesn’t seem to be chump change to me.  Thats a lot of bucks.  But will anyone do anything about it?  Nope, what we’ll get is Senators, Congressmen and aspirants to the throne telling us that they’ll cut waste if only we elect them.  And the waste continues, and the beat goes on, and the beat goes on.

If conservatism is to survive, we must change from politicians in their empty suits promising the electorate everything from “a chicken in every pot” to relief from signing a bad mortage contract and the rest of us rescuing those too stupid to buy a house they can really afford. 

Can this be done, you bet, and the answer lies in you, my fellow conservatives.  We have to shame those in congress that spend like there is no tomorrow.  Want an example?  Mitch McConnel added a tax break for race horse owners that will amount to 126 million dollars over 10 years.  Max Baucus got a million dollars for a sheep and goat industry improvement center. 

Empty suit McCain promises to veto legislation with earmarks.  Yet, like Obama’s health care for children and Hillary’s healthcare for everyone the details are not forth coming and the devil is in the details.

Shaming the government is no easy task.  Those barely making it in today’s economy pay little or no income tax, Those making a huge amount of money find ways to avoid income tax.  Fair tax and flat tax and all the other iterations of tax policy not withstanding, it ain’t gonna happen.  How about this idea.  Push for a law that states that everyone must mail in a check or money order each pay period containing their state and federal income taxes, their contribution to Social Security and any other taxes pro-rated to their pay schedule.  Those that take home $1000.00 with federal withholding will like it far less when their check is for $1250.00 and they have to mail in a check or moneyorder every payday for $250.00.  We used to all pay our own way, now we find ways to make it easier and the result is the empty suits promising us everything under the sun just to get elected. And we let them.  In fact, we encourage them.

Obama has promised change. Yet, he doesn’t say how that change will improve things.  McCain promises to save 100 billion in earmarks, then doesn’t have a plan that will do so nor do most folk find 100 billion in earmarks in any given tax year.  Hillary promises leadership from day one.  Yet, from day one she has run an inept campaign and want’s the nomination handed to her.

Empty suits.  And if we buy it, we have no one to blame but ourselves.

 Cross posted at GM’s Corner

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That is the name given to the petition drive at American Solutions. It’s content is simple:

We, therefore, the undersigned citizens of the United States, petition the U.S. Congress to act immediately to lower gasoline prices by authorizing the exploration of proven energy reserves to reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources from unstable countries.

As of this writing 230,494 have signed the petition in just 10 days. I bet we can make it a quarter million by the end of the weekend. If you agree with this common sense solution, please sign the petition.

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Just in case you missed it

Here is a guest speaker at Obamassiah’s Trinity Church. This is supposed to be a church, it is more like a Communist rally of Anti-American and anti-White rhetoric that comes with the Marxist Liberation Theology.

If this doesn’t sink the Obamarama train, I will give up on Americans actually understanding what Marxism is.

This has nothing to do with religion and should in no way ever be said inside a church. This is a political speech of hate and vitriol.

H/T to Moonbattery

Cross posted at Grizzly Groundswell and Stix Blog

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This guy is an embarrasment to the Catholic Church and Christians alike. Here is another one of his rants at Obama’s Trinity Church.

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If you do not know what Liberation Theology then google it and be amazed that some in this country have drank the cool aide of Marx while masking it in a Religious context.

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State by State – The A’s

One of the goals I had in starting this site was to focus on the state congressional races. The snapshots here will not be in depth. I’m going to leave that to all of you, especially those who live in each state. The Rothenberg Political Report has analyzed the 2008 Congressional races and the rating information on the House and Senate is presented here. Going alphabetically, lets start with

Alabama

  • Senate
  • House
    • District 2 – Terry Everett is not running due to health issues. The Montgomery Advertiser says that six Republicans and 3 Democrats are running for the open seat. Rothenberg considers the seat to be Republican favored.
    • District 5 – Democrat Bud Cramer is also retiring at the end of his current term. Cramer is a popular nine term representative, but his seat is rated a toss up by Rothenberg.

Alaska

  • Senate
    • Rothenberg ranks Republican Ted Stevens seat as narrow advantage to the incumbent. His 2007 ACU rating is 64 (64.45 lifetime).
  • House
    • Don Young (2007-65, lifetime-76.61) is also a Republican and his seat is listed as a toss up tilting Republican

Arizona

  • House
    • District 1 – The seat formerly held by Rick Renzi is being called a toss up.
    • District 5 – Harry Mitchel holds on to this seat with his ACU rating of 8. Given that, it’s not surprising that Rothenberg lists it as leans Democrat.
    • District 8 – Mitchel’s isn’t the lowest rating in the state. The ACU gives incumbent Gabrielle Giffords a 4.

Arkansas

  • Senate
    • Democrat Senator Mark Pryor’s seat is listed as safe. That’s probably an understatement.

So, what do you know about these states and races. Discuss it in the comments here, or in the forum.

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The man who was the inspiration for the tern “moonbat”, George Monbiot want to make a citiznes arrest of The Stache “John Bolton” after aspeech in Wales.

You got to give him credit, he livesup to his Moonbat name.

Crossposted at Grizzly Groundwell and Stix Blog

John Bolton to be target of citizen’s arrest at Hay Festival

George Monbiot, the journalist and activist, is planning the action because he believes Mr Bolton is a “war criminal”.

Update: Security guards help John Bolton make a swift exit

He said he was surprised that Mr Bolton would be allowed to “swim through the politest of polite soirees – which is of course Hay.”

Mr Bolton, who was the American ambassador to the UN from August 2005 to January 2006, is due to talk at the Hay-on-Wye literary festival at 6.30pm on international relations.

Mr Monbiot, a columnist for The Guardian newspaper, plans to detain him as he steps off stage at the end of his talk. He said he was prepared to jump on stage and perform the citizen’s arrest there if necessary.

He claimed Mr Bolton was “instrumental in preparing and initiating the Iraq war by disseminating false claims through the State Department” while he was under-secretary of state for arms control.

Mr Monbiot, who took part in a debate at Hay on Saturday entitled “Defeat: Why They Lost Iraq”, has been a fierce critic of the decision to launch the 2003 invasion.

He said he had formally notified police of his intention of performing a citizen’s arrest.

Mr Monbiot said: “This is the one opportunity we have, because he is mingling with the public, which doesn’t happen very often.”

He added: “I can’t think of another case where someone who has been instrumental in planning the war has been exposed to the public, so I’m taking the opportunity.

“John Bolton was pushing for the Iraq war long before he became part of the administration.”—The Telegraph

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Coburn in the WSJ: $300 billion in annual waste

Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) says that Republicans are in denial.

Republicans can tear up the “emergency spending” credit card and refuse to accept any new spending whatsoever, including for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, until Congress does its job of eliminating wasteful spending. The federal budget contains a vast unexplored area of offsets. My office alone has identified $300 billion in annual waste. Borrowing from the next generation when we haven’t done our job of oversight is unconscionable.

Regaining our brand is not about “messaging.” It’s about action. It’s about courage. It’s about priorities. Most of all, it’s about being willing to give up our political careers so our grandkids don’t have to grow up in a debtor’s prison, or a world in which other nations can tell a weakened and bankrupt America where we can and can’t defend liberty, pursue terrorists, or show compassion.

John McCain, for all his faults, is the one Republican candidate who can lead us through our wilderness. Mr. McCain is not running on a messianic platform or as a great healer of dysfunctional Republicans who refuse to help themselves. His humility is one of his great strengths. In his heart, he’s a soldier who sees one more hill to charge, one more mission to complete.

Indeed: it is time for action.

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