John Hawkins
Town Hall
You can barely look at a political website these days without reading a post about the Tea Party movement. Of course, we've heard plenty from liberals. "They're fascist-racist KKK-Nazis!" The Rockefeller Republicans have tut-tutted their opinions from the cocktail circuit as well, "Egads! Some of these people look as if they shop at Wal-Mart!"
However, there are plenty of old school Republicans who don't hate the Tea Party movement per se; they simply don't understand it. So, let's talk about some of the perceptions the establishment Republicans have about the Tea Party movement and why they're mistaken.
The Tea Partiers have a radical agenda! This oft made charge is extremely odd. After all, what are the issues that keep coming up over and over and over when you talk to Tea Partiers? They want to get spending under control, fear that the federal government is getting too big, and they want to stick to the Constitution.
Not only are none of those radical beliefs, the overwhelming majority of politicians in BOTH parties would agree in principle with all 3 items. The most controversial one would be about the government getting too big, but even Bill Clinton said, "The era of big government is over." So maybe the real problem isn't that the Tea Party is "radical." Maybe it's that America's political class has become so comfortable with lying and double talk that telling the truth has started to seem "radical" to them.
These Tea Partiers don't believe in compromise! Tea Partiers believe in compromise, just not what passes for "compromise" in D.C. these days. You see, "compromise" in Washington seems to consist of giving liberals almost everything they want as a starting point and then negotiating how far, if at all, to move from there.
Even when Republicans are in charge, what do we see? Spending goes up, the government still gets bigger, and the Constitution is still ignored. Here's an idea: How about we decide that we're going to stick to the Constitution, dramatically cut spending, and severely curtail the size of government as a starting point? Then, we can negotiate from there about how big of a win we’re going to have instead of conceding ground to the Left on every issue.
The Tea Party is driving away moderates! One of the biggest myths in politics is that moderate candidates are almost always more electable than conservative candidates. Sure, some moderates are more electable than conservatives and vice-versa, but when you look at poll numbers, it's amazing how often the supposedly unelectable conservative candidate does just as well as the moderate, if not better.
The reason why that's true is because the media environment has changed. People are now flooded with information, much of which they consider unreliable. But, if their neighbor says it, a blog they like runs the story, or their favorite talk show host puts it out there, then they buy into it.
Inevitably, it's conservative candidates, not lukewarm moderates, who get people excited and produce that sort of powerful grassroots reaction. Many establishment Republicans will instinctively dismiss what I've just said, but this is the year of fired up Tea Partiers, and where are Independents leaning? They're supporting the GOP 2-to-1.
Do you think that's because of the scintillating moderation of Olympia Snowe or because they're hungry for more John McCain? Please! It's because the Democrats are baiting the hook by doing such a lousy job and the excitement generated by the Tea Party movement is helping to reel the independents in, not frighten them off.
The Tea Party is knocking off important Republicans we need in D.C.! Time and time again after the Tea Partiers have knocked off establishment Republicans, the losers have proven they never cared about anything other than their jobs in the first place. Arlen Specter switched parties. Charlie Crist ran as an independent. Lisa Murkowski is running a write-in campaign. Dede Scozzafava endorsed a Democrat. Mike Castle refused to endorse Christine O'Donnell. Bob Inglis and Bob Bennett mouthed off about conservatives after they lost.
So tell me: why should anyone be sorry that a mediocre, disloyal group of career politicians, who don't care about anything other than their cushy jobs, aren't going to be in D.C.?
These Tea Partiers are just Republicans who will fall in line once the GOP gets power again! Right now, the Tea Party movement is primarily benefiting the Republican Party. Yet, what you find if you talk to Tea Partiers is that if you're a Republican in D.C. and your name isn't Jim DeMint or Michele Bachmann, the Tea Party movement probably doesn't like you very much and they definitely don't trust you.
Put another way, the Tea Partiers are JUST WAITING for the GOP to blow it. The moment it does, the Tea Partiers will land on it with both feet. Some people might think that's unfair, but it's a natural reaction to the Bush years, when the Republican Party talked incessantly about fiscal responsibility even as it expanded government and increased spending. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, and you join Arlen Specter and Mike Castle in the unemployment line.
These Tea Partiers don't understand how politics works! Granted, there are plenty of people at Tea Parties who aren't all that hooked into politics. Additionally, it's fair to say that some of the candidates the Tea Party has backed have turned out to be duds.
Of course, the same could be said of the establishment. Remember Dede Scozzafava? And how about that Charlie Crist? Moreover, just look at Bush's second term. Amnesty was pushed for illegal aliens -- more than once. Look at the bungled reaction to the bad press after Katrina. What kind of job was done on the Iraq war messaging? Did it really make sense to push Harriet Miers? How well did the Dubai Port fiasco turn out politically? How's TARP looking today?
The fact of the matter is that the Republican establishment's political judgment over the last few years has been simply atrocious. If the question is, “Who has had a better grasp of politics -- the bloggers, talk radio hosts and Tea Partiers, or the GOP establishment and consultant class?” -- the answer is the former. Perhaps that shouldn't be the case, but the D.C. bubble has a funny way of turning razor sharp political minds into piles of mush the size of Barack Obama’s ego.
These Tea Partiers just want to say "no" to everything! Right now, our country is like a car that's heading toward a cliff at 100 mph and the people in charge want to simultaneously speed up and cut the brake lines. Are we supposed to say, "Why don’t we meet you in the middle? Cut the brake lines, slow it down to 55 mph, and we'll stop all our backseat complaining about that cliff. Deal?"
If we want to save the American dream, we have to say "no.” If we want to stop this country from going bankrupt, we have to say "no." If we want future generations of Americans to have a chance to live in the same great country we grew up in, we have to say "no."
That doesn't mean the Tea Party isn't willing to say "yes" on issues that help pull the country back from the brink. Put a balanced budget amendment, term limits, and a repeal of Obamacare on the agenda and watch how quickly Tea Partiers say "yes." But, until we get the barrel of the gun out of this country's mouth, we have to keep saying "no" when we're asked for handfuls of bullets.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Who's sorry now??
Does it make you feel uneasy that at the end of this president's four years in office Sarah Palin will STILL have more experience, and ability to govern then Mr. Oboma
AKA: THE CLOWN KING
AKA: THE CLOWN KING
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Send a letter to (YOUR) congress
August 5, 2010
Dear Representative Coffman ,
Dear Senator Udall,
Dear Senator Bennet,
Dear Member of Congress,
I continue to hear rumors about a potential "Lame Duck" session that could be held right after the November elections and before the new Congress is sworn-in.
I fear that despite a very different political make-up in Congress, elements of the far Left will view this as their last chance to enact threats to our liberty including:
1. The Cap and Trade Energy Tax Hike
2. Another "Stimulus" Bailout Scheme
3. More Tax Hikes at a Time when we can scarcely afford them
4. Push Card Check through Congress, giving the unions even more power
This would go directly against the will of the people - having had their say in the November Elections - and I urge you to oppose it as the worst kind of political, dirty-trick.
Should a lame duck session surface, I will be watching your vote very closely on cap and trade, additional taxpayer-funded bailouts, any attempts to increase taxes, and any other policy proposals that erode more of our freedoms and expand the reach of government.
WHEN YOU DO NOT LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE YOU WILL FEEL THE PEOPLE
Sincerely,
Mr. Steven Rago
4906 Red Rock Dr
Larkspur, CO 80118-9055
Dear Representative Coffman ,
Dear Senator Udall,
Dear Senator Bennet,
Dear Member of Congress,
I continue to hear rumors about a potential "Lame Duck" session that could be held right after the November elections and before the new Congress is sworn-in.
I fear that despite a very different political make-up in Congress, elements of the far Left will view this as their last chance to enact threats to our liberty including:
1. The Cap and Trade Energy Tax Hike
2. Another "Stimulus" Bailout Scheme
3. More Tax Hikes at a Time when we can scarcely afford them
4. Push Card Check through Congress, giving the unions even more power
This would go directly against the will of the people - having had their say in the November Elections - and I urge you to oppose it as the worst kind of political, dirty-trick.
Should a lame duck session surface, I will be watching your vote very closely on cap and trade, additional taxpayer-funded bailouts, any attempts to increase taxes, and any other policy proposals that erode more of our freedoms and expand the reach of government.
WHEN YOU DO NOT LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE YOU WILL FEEL THE PEOPLE
Sincerely,
Mr. Steven Rago
4906 Red Rock Dr
Larkspur, CO 80118-9055
Friday, July 30, 2010
The Second American Revolution
IBD Editorials
Will Washington's Failures Lead To Second American Revolution?
By ERNEST S. CHRISTIAN AND GARY A ROBBINS
Posted 06:30 PM ET
The Internet is a large-scale version of the "Committees of Correspondence" that led to the first American Revolution — and with Washington's failings now so obvious and awful, it may lead to another.
People are asking, "Is the government doing us more harm than good? Should we change what it does and the way it does it?"
Pruning the power of government begins with the imperial presidency.
Too many overreaching laws give the president too much discretion to make too many open-ended rules controlling too many aspects of our lives. There's no end to the harm an out-of-control president can do.
Bill Clinton lowered the culture, moral tone and strength of the nation — and left America vulnerable to attack. When it came, George W. Bush stood up for America, albeit sometimes clumsily.
Barack Obama, however, has pulled off the ultimate switcheroo: He's diminishing America from within — so far, successfully.
He may soon bankrupt us and replace our big merit-based capitalist economy with a small government-directed one of his own design.
He is undermining our constitutional traditions: The rule of law and our Anglo-Saxon concepts of private property hang in the balance. Obama may be the most "consequential" president ever.
The Wall Street Journal's steadfast Dorothy Rabinowitz wrote that Barack Obama is "an alien in the White House."
His bullying and offenses against the economy and job creation are so outrageous that CEOs in the Business Roundtable finally mustered the courage to call him "anti-business." Veteran Democrat Sen. Max Baucus blurted out that Obama is engineering the biggest government-forced "redistribution of income" in history.
Fear and uncertainty stalk the land. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke says America's financial future is "unusually uncertain."
A Wall Street "fear gauge" based on predicted market volatility is flashing long-term panic. New data on the federal budget confirm that record-setting deficits in the $1.4 trillion range are now endemic.
Obama is building an imperium of public debt and crushing taxes, contrary to George Washington's wise farewell admonition: "cherish public credit ... use it as sparingly as possible ... avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt ... bear in mind, that towards the payment of debts there must be Revenue, that to have Revenue there must be taxes; that no taxes can be devised, which are not ... inconvenient and unpleasant ... ."
Opinion polls suggest that in the November mid-term elections, voters will replace the present Democratic majority in Congress with opposition Republicans — but that will not necessarily stop Obama.
A President Obama intent on achieving his transformative goals despite the disagreement of the American people has powerful weapons within reach. In one hand, he will have a veto pen to stop a new Republican Congress from repealing ObamaCare and the Dodd-Frank takeover of banks.
In the other, he will have a fistful of executive orders, regulations and Obama-made fiats that have the force of law.
Under ObamaCare, he can issue new rules and regulations so insidiously powerful in their effect that higher-priced, lower-quality and rationed health care will quickly become ingrained, leaving a permanent stain.
Under Dodd-Frank, he and his agents will control all credit and financial transactions, rewarding friends and punishing opponents, discriminating on the basis of race, gender and political affiliation. Credit and liquidity may be choked by bureaucracy and politics — and the economy will suffer.
He and the EPA may try to impose by "regulatory" fiats many parts of the cap-and-trade and other climate legislation that failed in the Congress.
And by executive orders and the in terrorem effect of an industrywide "boot on the neck" policy, he can continue to diminish energy production in the United States.
By the trick of letting current-law tax rates "expire," he can impose a $3.5 trillion 10-year tax increase that damages job-creating capital investment in an economy struggling to recover. And by failing to enforce the law and leaving America's borders open, he can continue to repopulate America with unfortunate illegals whose skill and education levels are low and whose political attitudes are often not congenial to American-style democracy.
A wounded rampaging president can do much damage — and, like Caesar, the evil he does will live long after he leaves office, whenever that may be.
The overgrown, un-pruned power of the presidency to reward, punish and intimidate may now be so overwhelming that his re-election in 2012 is already assured — Chicago-style.
• Christian, an attorney, was a deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury in the Ford administration.
• Robbins, an economist, served at the Treasury Department in the Reagan administration.
Will Washington's Failures Lead To Second American Revolution?
By ERNEST S. CHRISTIAN AND GARY A ROBBINS
Posted 06:30 PM ET
The Internet is a large-scale version of the "Committees of Correspondence" that led to the first American Revolution — and with Washington's failings now so obvious and awful, it may lead to another.
People are asking, "Is the government doing us more harm than good? Should we change what it does and the way it does it?"
Pruning the power of government begins with the imperial presidency.
Too many overreaching laws give the president too much discretion to make too many open-ended rules controlling too many aspects of our lives. There's no end to the harm an out-of-control president can do.
Bill Clinton lowered the culture, moral tone and strength of the nation — and left America vulnerable to attack. When it came, George W. Bush stood up for America, albeit sometimes clumsily.
Barack Obama, however, has pulled off the ultimate switcheroo: He's diminishing America from within — so far, successfully.
He may soon bankrupt us and replace our big merit-based capitalist economy with a small government-directed one of his own design.
He is undermining our constitutional traditions: The rule of law and our Anglo-Saxon concepts of private property hang in the balance. Obama may be the most "consequential" president ever.
The Wall Street Journal's steadfast Dorothy Rabinowitz wrote that Barack Obama is "an alien in the White House."
His bullying and offenses against the economy and job creation are so outrageous that CEOs in the Business Roundtable finally mustered the courage to call him "anti-business." Veteran Democrat Sen. Max Baucus blurted out that Obama is engineering the biggest government-forced "redistribution of income" in history.
Fear and uncertainty stalk the land. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke says America's financial future is "unusually uncertain."
A Wall Street "fear gauge" based on predicted market volatility is flashing long-term panic. New data on the federal budget confirm that record-setting deficits in the $1.4 trillion range are now endemic.
Obama is building an imperium of public debt and crushing taxes, contrary to George Washington's wise farewell admonition: "cherish public credit ... use it as sparingly as possible ... avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt ... bear in mind, that towards the payment of debts there must be Revenue, that to have Revenue there must be taxes; that no taxes can be devised, which are not ... inconvenient and unpleasant ... ."
Opinion polls suggest that in the November mid-term elections, voters will replace the present Democratic majority in Congress with opposition Republicans — but that will not necessarily stop Obama.
A President Obama intent on achieving his transformative goals despite the disagreement of the American people has powerful weapons within reach. In one hand, he will have a veto pen to stop a new Republican Congress from repealing ObamaCare and the Dodd-Frank takeover of banks.
In the other, he will have a fistful of executive orders, regulations and Obama-made fiats that have the force of law.
Under ObamaCare, he can issue new rules and regulations so insidiously powerful in their effect that higher-priced, lower-quality and rationed health care will quickly become ingrained, leaving a permanent stain.
Under Dodd-Frank, he and his agents will control all credit and financial transactions, rewarding friends and punishing opponents, discriminating on the basis of race, gender and political affiliation. Credit and liquidity may be choked by bureaucracy and politics — and the economy will suffer.
He and the EPA may try to impose by "regulatory" fiats many parts of the cap-and-trade and other climate legislation that failed in the Congress.
And by executive orders and the in terrorem effect of an industrywide "boot on the neck" policy, he can continue to diminish energy production in the United States.
By the trick of letting current-law tax rates "expire," he can impose a $3.5 trillion 10-year tax increase that damages job-creating capital investment in an economy struggling to recover. And by failing to enforce the law and leaving America's borders open, he can continue to repopulate America with unfortunate illegals whose skill and education levels are low and whose political attitudes are often not congenial to American-style democracy.
A wounded rampaging president can do much damage — and, like Caesar, the evil he does will live long after he leaves office, whenever that may be.
The overgrown, un-pruned power of the presidency to reward, punish and intimidate may now be so overwhelming that his re-election in 2012 is already assured — Chicago-style.
• Christian, an attorney, was a deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury in the Ford administration.
• Robbins, an economist, served at the Treasury Department in the Reagan administration.
Friday, July 16, 2010
New fax to the white house sent 16 July 2010
President Barack Obama
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,
Washington, DC 20500
Dear President Obama:
It is absolutely outrageous that you are calling for multiple amnesties when so many Americans are unemployed! What are you thinking?
15 million Americans are out of work at a time when 8 million illegal aliens have jobs. It seems you have little respect for these unemployed Americans and cannot be bothered with their plight. Millions of American families are having trouble paying their mortgage or rent and putting food on the table, but you are more concerned with helping individuals who have stolen American jobs and broken American laws and catering to the special interest groups that would benefit from amnesty.
Your call for three separate amnesties (comprehensive, DREAM, and AgJOBS) and an increase in the number of foreign workers is absolutely appalling and shows a lack of compassion for less fortunate Americans. I urge you to prove you care about all Americans by changing your pro-amnesty stance work to reduce, not increase, the number of foreign workers competing against unemployed Americans.
Unable to comprehend your actions,
Mr. Steven Rago
P.S. WHAT ARE YOU THINKING??
I know what I think
Impeach then deport ASAP
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,
Washington, DC 20500
Dear President Obama:
It is absolutely outrageous that you are calling for multiple amnesties when so many Americans are unemployed! What are you thinking?
15 million Americans are out of work at a time when 8 million illegal aliens have jobs. It seems you have little respect for these unemployed Americans and cannot be bothered with their plight. Millions of American families are having trouble paying their mortgage or rent and putting food on the table, but you are more concerned with helping individuals who have stolen American jobs and broken American laws and catering to the special interest groups that would benefit from amnesty.
Your call for three separate amnesties (comprehensive, DREAM, and AgJOBS) and an increase in the number of foreign workers is absolutely appalling and shows a lack of compassion for less fortunate Americans. I urge you to prove you care about all Americans by changing your pro-amnesty stance work to reduce, not increase, the number of foreign workers competing against unemployed Americans.
Unable to comprehend your actions,
Mr. Steven Rago
P.S. WHAT ARE YOU THINKING??
I know what I think
Impeach then deport ASAP
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
My fax to the White House
President Barack Obama
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,
Washington, DC 20500
President Obama:
I cannot believe you and your administration have decided to side with illegal aliens and anti-American worker interest groups and oppose Arizona's new immigration enforcement law. Whose interests are you supposed to protect: those of Americans and legal immigrants or those of illegal aliens who broke the law to come here?
You ran on a message of "Yes, we can," but when it comes to immigration enforcement, you seem to say, "Yes, we can, but you can't - and we get to decide if we want to." That's what I take from your lawsuit against Arizona. The lawsuit cites the "delicate balance" required of immigration enforcement. What balance? Laws should be enforced, shouldn't they?
In your immigration speech, you acknowledged that you aren't doing a good enough job tracking people who enter the U.S. and ensuring they don't overstay their visa, but your 2011 budget cuts funding for US-Visit, the program that does the tracking. You seem to say, "No, we won't."
Arizona has stepped into the enforcement void created by prior administrations and continued in yours, and you seem to say "No, we won't let you."
Finally, your lawsuit sends a big "No, you can't" message to the millions of unemployed Americans who could fill the jobs currently held by illegal workers.
Of course, you aren't the Administration of "no" for everyone. Your message to citizens of other countries who want to work in the U.S. legally or not, regardless of U.S. unemployment: "Yes, you can!"
Phone me if you would like to talk about this,
Mr. Steven Rago
P.S. WE ARE HURTING AND YOU RAISE TAXES, WE ARE UNEMPLOYED AND YOU WANT ILLEGALS TO COME,
WE ARE LIVING DAY TO DAY AND YOU SIT IN THE WHITE HOUSE EATING KOBIE BEEF, YOU ARE THE CLOWN KING. November is coming, your nothing but gangster trash.
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,
Washington, DC 20500
President Obama:
I cannot believe you and your administration have decided to side with illegal aliens and anti-American worker interest groups and oppose Arizona's new immigration enforcement law. Whose interests are you supposed to protect: those of Americans and legal immigrants or those of illegal aliens who broke the law to come here?
You ran on a message of "Yes, we can," but when it comes to immigration enforcement, you seem to say, "Yes, we can, but you can't - and we get to decide if we want to." That's what I take from your lawsuit against Arizona. The lawsuit cites the "delicate balance" required of immigration enforcement. What balance? Laws should be enforced, shouldn't they?
In your immigration speech, you acknowledged that you aren't doing a good enough job tracking people who enter the U.S. and ensuring they don't overstay their visa, but your 2011 budget cuts funding for US-Visit, the program that does the tracking. You seem to say, "No, we won't."
Arizona has stepped into the enforcement void created by prior administrations and continued in yours, and you seem to say "No, we won't let you."
Finally, your lawsuit sends a big "No, you can't" message to the millions of unemployed Americans who could fill the jobs currently held by illegal workers.
Of course, you aren't the Administration of "no" for everyone. Your message to citizens of other countries who want to work in the U.S. legally or not, regardless of U.S. unemployment: "Yes, you can!"
Phone me if you would like to talk about this,
Mr. Steven Rago
P.S. WE ARE HURTING AND YOU RAISE TAXES, WE ARE UNEMPLOYED AND YOU WANT ILLEGALS TO COME,
WE ARE LIVING DAY TO DAY AND YOU SIT IN THE WHITE HOUSE EATING KOBIE BEEF, YOU ARE THE CLOWN KING. November is coming, your nothing but gangster trash.
Monday, June 14, 2010
Pat Condell/Ground Zero
We need to hear this Now
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/06/pat-condell-on-ground-zero-mosque-is-it-possible-to-be-astonished-but-not-surprised.html
It will make you sick and mad, the New York clowns in office should be run out of town and branded as fools for (PC)
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/06/pat-condell-on-ground-zero-mosque-is-it-possible-to-be-astonished-but-not-surprised.html
It will make you sick and mad, the New York clowns in office should be run out of town and branded as fools for (PC)
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