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Dems Scheming To Screw MA Senate Voters If Brown Wins

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They are hell-bent to pass some version of health care “reform” before His Transparency holds his State of Union address on some as-yet-scheduled date.  So while reconciliation of the House and Senate versions of legislation is hurriedly being negotiated by Democrats behind closed and locked doors, other Democrats in Massachusetts are tipping their hand about their plans to do anything to insure passage of whatever form of slavery ends up being thrown onto the House and Senate floors for a vote.

Their weapon of choice?  The special election on January 19th to replace good old boy, Ded Ted.

Big special elections like that coming up in Massachusetts take time to be certified and it is that very process the Democrats are now trying to figure out how to twist so that the current, hand-picked Senator, Paul Kirk, can remain in office long enough to vote “yes” with his pork-filled cohorts.

Some key snippets from the article in today’s Boston Globe:

The longtime aide and confidant of the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, who was handpicked by Gov. Deval Patrick after a controversial legal change to hold Kennedy’s seat, vowed to vote for the bill even if Republican state Senator Scott Brown, who opposes the health-care reform legislation, prevails in a Jan. 19 special election.

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The U.S. Senate ultimately will schedule the swearing-in of Kirk’s successor, but not until the state certifies the election.

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“Because it’s a federal election,” spokesman Brian McNiff said. “We’d have to wait 10 days for absentee and military ballots to come in.”

Another source told the Herald that Galvin’s office has said the election won’t be certified until Feb. 20 – well after the president’s address.

Since the U.S. Senate doesn’t meet again in formal session until Jan. 20, Bay State voters will have made their decision before a vote on health-care reform could be held.  But Kirk and Galvin’s office said today a victorious Brown would be left in limbo.

In contrast, Rep. Niki Tsongas (D-Lowell) was sworn in at the U.S. House of Representatives on Oct. 18, 2007, just two days after winning a special election to replace Martin Meehan.  In that case, Tsongas made it to Capitol Hill in time to override a presidential veto of the expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.

Like with Tsongas’ election, this is yet another example showing how progressive, liberal Democrats will do anything to insure their nefarious plans have a snowball’s chance in their version of hell for America.  And it is another reason for every American with a modicum of common sense to send a patriotic $9.12 to Scott Brown’s campaign and for those who live in Massachetts to get out on January 19th and cast their ballot for him.

Only a clearly enormous majority win by Brown can force the Democrat’s to lift their dirty skirt and cause the proper backlash that can kill their plans for not only their version of government-run health “care”, but all their other tax- and deficit-raising atrocities.

Spread the word, Patriots.

About That Massachusetts Senate Race

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It’s no secret that here at the Smoke Break, politicians must do a great deal to earn our trust.  And that because it has become a given that the definition of sleazebag has a picture of a Democrat next to it, they have an even deeper hole from which they must dig themselves.  A story posted in today’s Boston Globe is a perfect example.

In October 2005, a Somerville police officer living in Melrose raped his 23-month-old niece with a hot object, most likely a curling iron.

Keith Winfield, then 31, told police he was alone with the toddler that day and made additional statements that would ultimately be used to convict him.

But in the aftermath of the crime, a Middlesex County grand jury overseen by Martha Coakley, then the district attorney, investigated without taking action.

It was only after the toddler’s mother filed applications for criminal complaints that Coakley won grand jury indictments charging rape and assault and battery.

Even then, nearly 10 months after the crime, Coakley’s office recommended that Winfield be released on personal recognizance, with no cash bail. He remained free until December 2007, when Coakley’s successor as district attorney won a conviction and two life terms.

The story goes on to say that:

Coakley’s prosecutors made the recommendation that Winfield be released with no cash bail, even though an investigator with the Department of Children and Families, working in the weeks immediately following the rape, found that Winfield had been suspended from his job with the Somerville police for disciplinary reasons and had lied about it.

In addition, the investigator found that Winfield had concealed the fact that he had been evaluated at Melrose-Wakefield Hospital for stress less than two weeks before the rape.

Indeed, before Winfield’s trial, prosecutors sought to admit evidence that Winfield, in the days leading up to the rape, was treated for a substance abuse problem and had threatened to kill himself by holding a gun to his head, “evincing great emotional stress and the strong possibility that [he] would harm himself or others.’’

 And that baby? 

The toddler ultimately spent a month at Shriners Hospital for Children in Boston recovering from burns.

Now Martha Coakley wants to be a United States Senator representing the state of Massachusetts.  With this kind of horrific irresponsibility in her track record, it’s clear she has long surpassed her level of incompetance.  If the people of Massachusetts have a lick of sense, they will give her the boot.

Increased 2010 Payroll Taxes Hit Even More Americans

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“I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase.
Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.”
(Barack Obama)

Firm as Jello, eh?  In an unreported demonstration of Chicago-style fiscal responsibility, everyone who must have federal taxes withheld from their paychecks will see an increase in the amount taken out, and with a lowering of the threshold, millions more poor Americans will now be paying federal taxes, too.  These are only some examples from the new witholding tables:

1.) Congress has lowered the threshold to capture more wages that qualify to owe taxes–across the board. For example, in 2009 the withholding tax threshold began at weekly single wage levels of $138. In 2010, that same wage is lowered to $116. In short, instead of the taxable wage starting at $138, it is now down to $116–which changes the income threshold and taxes even poorer Americans.

For married couples, the change in the weekly base taxable wage changes from $303 in 2009 down to $264 in 2010. These lower wage thresholds can be seen throughout the new withholding charts for weekly, biweekly, semi-monthly, monthly, quarterly, semiannual, and annual, as well as daily and miscellaneous pay periods.

This across-the-board reduction in the initial wage threshold increases the number of wage earners who would have to pay taxes.

2.) Instead of seven (7) wage categories, there are now nine (9) wage categories. The new structure allows for direct taxation on the middle class with these wages broken out into smaller categories. The direct hit on the middle class withholding taxes can be seen on all of the new tables. Additionally, the IRS could not explain these changes.

Let’s look at the actual numbers for one category and compare them from 2009 to 2010:

2009 Biweekly, Single, Payroll Period, after subtracting withholding allowances

Not over $276: $0 in taxes
Over $276 – $400: 10% payroll tax
Over $400 – $1,392: $12.40 plus 15% of excess over $400
Over $1,392 – $2,559: $161.20 plus 25% of excess over $1,392
Over $2,559 – $6,677: $452.95 plus 28% of excess over $2,559 (Notice the large salary range)
Over $6,677 – $14,423: $1,605.99 plus 33% of excess over $6,677
$14,423: pays $4,162.17 plus 35% of excess over $14,423

Let’s look at the new numbers for 2010:

2010 Biweekly, Single, Payroll Period, after subtracting withholding allowances

Not over $233: $0 in taxes
Over $233 – $401: 10% payroll tax
Over $401 – $1,387: $16.80 plus 15% of excess over $401
Over $1,387 – $2,604: $164.70 plus 25% of excess over $1,387
Over $2,604 – $3,248: $468.95 plus 27% of excess over $2,604 (Notice the large salary range is gone)
Over $3,248 – $3,373: $642.83 plus 30% of excess over $3,248 (Notice the substantial increase and 30% tax rate on these wages)
Over $3,373 – $6,688: $680.33 plus 28% of excess over $3,373
$14,450: pays $4,169.99 plus 35% of excess over $14,450

These patterns of additional withholding can be seen throughout the new charts for the 2010 tax year for single and married persons. It appears that everyone earning a paycheck is affected, not just retired military; social security payments will remain the same.

 In the immortal words of Joe Wilson, “YOU LIE!”

Quote Of The Day

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The new health care plan will be written by a committee whose Chairman says he doesn’t understand it,

passed by a Congress which hasn’t read it,

signed by a President who smokes,

funded by a Treasury Chief who did not pay his taxes,

overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese,

and financed by a country that is broke.

 

What could  possibly go  wrong?

Harry The Hypocrite

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Harry does another Washington show-and-tell about how to win friends and influence people and properly represent your constituents.  This one is titled:  It’s only wrong when someone else does it.

“Of course, nobody can see the managers’ amendment. It is composed of over 40 amendments. How could anyone vote for a piece of legislation such as that — a managers’ amendment with 42 separate amendments?

“Now, these amendments were not put in in a conference committee. People complain about that. But at least in a conference committee, you have people working together, sticking things in. Sometimes Democrats complain and sometimes Republicans complain — whoever is in the minority here. Well, we didn’t get enough consultation; you cut us out of the process. But at least you had a group of Democrats and Republicans in the process. Here, you have one person making a decision as to what is going to be in the managers’ amendment. There is no way to know what is in it. How could anyone say: ‘OK’? You have taken care of me, but I don’t want to see the other 40 amendments — -because with this legislation, similar to all legislation, you put something in one spot, and you have to take something out someplace else.”

(Senator Harry Reid, 2/9/06)

 

 

Flash forward to October 2009:

But now, as a Senate vote on health-care legislation nears, those negotiations are occurring in a setting that is anything but revolutionary in Washington:  Three senators are working on the bill behind closed doors.

Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) sits at the head of a wooden table at his office as he and  Sens. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) and  Max Baucus (D-Mont.) work to merge two competing versions of health-care legislation into one bill. The three men will be joined by top aides as well as by members of President Obama’s health-care team, led by White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.

…after weeks of Senate Finance Committee public hearings, the Senate negotiations are now an invitation-only affair in Reid’s office. The majority leader is unlikely to expand his group, even as some senators unhappy with parts of the legislation, such as  John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), have asked to be in the room.

“Neither I nor any other senator has the luxury of passing a perfect bill — I wish we could — that conforms exactly to his or her beliefs.  But we must act.”
(Harry Reid)

And again in December 2009:

Sen. Dick Durbin’s job as majority whip is to count votes, but don’t ask him for the current tally on the health care bill.

“I don’t know,” Durbin said earlier this week. “Sen. Reid is the one who has been keeping it pretty close.”

Early on in the process — when Reid was still trying to reconcile bills moving through two different Senate committees — Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) asked him about the progress he was making.

Reid pointed both of his index fingers to his head and said: “I got it all figured out how we’re going to do this.” And then he walked away.

The Unholy Trinity To Reconcile Health Bills

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Why does it come as no surprise that the final version of health care “reform” legislation is going to be prepared by only Democrats?  More specifically, in a revolting little three-way behind closed doors by that nauseatingly loathesome, unholy trinity of Obama, Pelosi, and Reid.

WASHINGTON — House and Senate Democrats intend to bypass traditional procedures when they negotiate a final compromise on health care legislation, officials said Monday, a move that will exclude Republican lawmakers and reduce their ability to delay or force politically troubling votes in both houses. 

The unofficial timetable calls for final passage of the measure to remake the nation’s health care system by the time President Obama delivers his State of the Union address, probably in early February. 

Democratic aides said the final compromise talks would essentially be a three-way negotiation involving top Democrats in the House and Senate and the White House, a structure that gives unusual latitude to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California. 

These officials said there are no plans to appoint a formal House-Senate conference committee, the method Congress most often uses to reconcile differing bills. Under that customary format, a committee chairman is appointed to preside, and other senior lawmakers from both parties and houses participate in typically perfunctory public meetings while the meaningful negotiations occur behind closed doors. 

It’s going to be another headlong rush into unconstitutional, crushing ruin.

Bypassing a formal conference committee enables Democrats to omit time-consuming procedural steps in the Senate and prevents Republicans from trying to delay the final negotiations. 

Under Senate rules, three separate votes are required before negotiators for the two houses may hold a formal meeting. While the three normally are agreed to within seconds, each may be filibustered, and Democrats would then have to produce 60 votes to cut off debate. 

Additionally, Republicans would have the right to demand votes on nonbinding proposals once negotiators for the two houses were appointed. That could, in turn, require Democrats to vote on political controversies such as wiping out the legislation’s proposed cuts in Medicare, the type of issue that could easily be turned into attack ads in next fall’s campaign. 

Congress plans no formal sessions until Jan. 19, but Pelosi intends to meet this week with key committee chairmen and other leaders, and a separate meeting is also planned for members of the rank and file.

There are no words to describe the disgust I feel for the Democratic party this evening.  But there are two words that may put a big monkey wrench in their plans.

Scott Brown.

Profiling Terrorists

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It reads like a bad joke.

You might be a terrorist if:

  • You believe in the United States Constitution (earning a higher position on the watch list if you can actually quote it)
  • You exercise your right to bear arms
  • You exercise your right to free speech
  • You think letting Muslims without passports onto airplanes while strip-searching Grandma is wrong
  • You believe in fiscal responsibility (earning a higher position on the watch list if you actually practice it)
  • You believe that charity begins at home
  • You believe everyone has a right to choose for themselves
  • You don’t believe everyone must pay for the choices of others

This profiling comes courtesy of our progressive liberal administration.  The same progressive liberal administration that wants to change the lexicon to call terrorism “man-made disasters” and its perpetrators “unprivileged enemy belligerants” sees no hypocrisy in profiling the average American.  Maybe because such a broad swath cuts across race and gender?  One certainly can’t accuse them of discrimination now, can they?

But when there are significant numbers of people in this world whose only goal in life is to kill Americans, if not outright destroy America, discrimination is desperately needed.  The average American practices it every single day.  Children are taught to not accept candy from strangers.  Women walking alone at night are taught to cross the street to avoid coming close to a strange man.  When there’s a knock on the door in the middle of the night, everyone looks through the peephole before opening the door and when what they see isn’t a familiar face, most won’t open it.

Truth is our lives are made up of an endless series of judgement calls, discriminating against a combination of various oh-so-unpolitically-correct variables.  It’s an inherent survival mechanism, for to blindly embrace what is radically different on the surface may mean death.  (It’s why the progressive liberal cavemen didn’t survive their hugging the sabre-toothed tiger.)  Sure, it can create a stubborn mindset of prejudice but more are the stories of those pleasantly surprised when they find out not everyone of a certain stripe is really all that different (caveman hugs wolf) than the stories of those who take their prejudice up like a sword and set forth to destroy their perceived enemy.

Yet is is exactly such a hard-core, prejudiced-based war that we have with Islamic extremists, those zealous jihadists the average American rightly call terrorists.  They are identifiable by their ethnicity or chosen cultural identification, by their words and their deeds and to ignore them is what now tremendously endangers us.  The enemy we face is without but by not recognizing them using clear, level-headed judgement for fear of being seen as racist or bigoted, or lacking in their beloved sophistication or what have you (by anyone other than the average American, that is), this administration has effectively become the enemy within. 

Though Washington may be loathe to admit it, the average American knows this.  They look at this administration with its endless excuses and it is slowly dawning on them that, “We have met the enemy and he is us.”  And in order to survive, the average American will do what they have always done.  They will create a profile to allow them to root out their enemy, and they will not hesitate to call that enemy by its real name:  progressive liberal politician.

Happy New & Increased Taxes Year!

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Yes, yes, I know, recovering from late-night reveling readers, President Walking Eagle promised during his campaign that there would be no new taxes under his watch.  If we elected him, he would most assuredly keep middle America safe from the greedy avarice of that evil and secretive federal government.

And pigs fly.

As this new year and a new decade gets off to its shaky start, courtesy of those silly, misunderstood “unprivileged enemy belligerents” labeled as common criminals by the administration faster than it takes His Transparency to address the American people about it and given the full rights of American citizens to due process under our laws even when they attempt to enter the country under dubious legality while setting their underwear on fire on a plane several thousand feet in the air, every one of us is going to feel the soaring rhetoric of hope and change as we begin preparations for the annual headlong run into the textbook definition of federal bureaucracy.  The filing of our annual income tax returns.

Let’s hope Turbo Tax can keep up.  Effective today, the following tax breaks are no longer available:

  • Deduction of state and local general sales taxes (section 164) (Personal Tax Incentives)
  • Additional standard deduction, up to $500 for individuals and $1,000 for couples, for state and local property taxes (section 63) (Personal Tax Incentives)
  • Research tax credit and alternative simplified credit (section 41) (General Business Tax Incentives)
  • New markets tax credit (section 45D) (Community Assistance Provisions)
  • Empowerment zone incentives (sections 1391 and 1202) (Community Assistance Provisions)
  • Renewal community tax incentives (sections 1400E, 1400F, 1400I, and 1400J) (Community Assistance Provisions)
  • District of Columbia Investment Incentives (sections 1400, 1400A, 1400B, and 1400C) (Community Assistance Provisions)
  • Net disaster loss designation and $500 limit per casualty for personal casualty losses attributed to federally declared natural disasters (section 165) (General Disaster Relief Provisions)
  • Expensing for qualified disaster expenses (section 198A) (General Disaster Relief Provisions)
  • Biodiesel and renewable diesel incentives (section 40A) (Energy Incentives)
  • Alternative motor vehicle credit for heavy hybrids (section 30B) (Energy Incentives)

And effective today, the following new taxes will be levied:

  • Increased exemption levels for the individual alternative minimum tax (section 55) and personal tax credits allowed against the AMT (section 26)
  • Exclusion of unemployment compensation benefits from gross income (section 85)
  • Alternative fuel mixture tax credit (section 6426(e))
  • Reduced estimated tax payments for small businesses (section 6654(d)(1)(D))

No one is left out; from business owner to laid-off worker, there’s something in here for everyone and the sole purpose is to suck more of your money into the federal coffers so the liberal progressives can hand it out to their special interest “victims”.  Current example being Numbnuts Abdulmutallab; charged under U.S. criminal law instead of by the military he must have a lawer, you know.  And why not one paid for by you and I, instead of his wealthy family?  And why not a corrupt lawyer in a corrupt federal jurisdiction at that?  Welcome to the affirmatively-graduated Ivy League ideology of “equality” for all. 

But I digress.

Now, His Transparency is going to tell you that it’s not HIS fault that middle-class America sees new and higher taxes today.  No, no; don’t blame HIM.  He promised, but even though Nancy’s Nuthouse managed to pass legislation to prevent these tax hikes and new taxes from going into effect, high-roller Harry in the Senate found it more important to concern them with appropriating your tax dollars for planes the Pentagon doesn’t need and cutting those backroom, closed-door secret deals to get 60 votes for his unconstitutional version of “health care reform” instead of addressing less-pressing problems like, oh, the economy.  So of course Obama simply must pass the buck on this one.  Those unrepresenting representatives in Congress are the ones that didn’t do their jobs and do right by you.  He promised.  Really. He. Did.  It was Congress who didn’t deliver.

Cue those busy flying pigs.

It was President Walking Eagle’s “historic agenda” that HE mandated as top priority.  Pesky little things like these tax hikes and tax cuts that break his promises never even entered his head.

Welcome to 2010.

If You Love America

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I’d like to share some thoughts that are taking shape as I take a year-end look at this horrible administration, the media coverups for it, and the reactions to all of it from my fellow citizens.  The Left has so quickly caricatured itself post-inauguration that to criticize them is like holding out a bucket to catch common sense pennies raining down from Heaven.  For those who have eyes to see, what the Democrats have accomplished lo these last 12 months is a suicide mission to which even the most exalted (sic) jihadist would bow in respect.  And from a seat in the right-hand wings, good.  Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of affirmatively graduated “equality for all” types.

But though I am personally a Constitutional Conservative and firmly believe that our inalienable Rights include reaping the consequences of exercising them, what I am fast finding tiring are those on the Right who make their arguments waving a gun in one hand and a Bible in the other.  Far too many of them are demonstrating the same, blind perspective as those on the Left they are so willing to gleefully bash.  There are many conservatives, myself included, who do not lay claim to any particular Judeo-Christian dogma, and while we may acknowledge a higher power, many of us have spent a good portion of our lifetimes fighting against the narrow zealousness of both the Christian Right and the athiests; seeing any zealousy towards religion as an enemy to America’s foundation of Liberty on equal footing with Islamic jihadists.

I believe that America is cut out of cloth that is, when push comes to shove, conservative, but that conservatism is moderate.  “Your rights end where mine begin” is a tolerance demonstrated time and time again when one looks outside of the ego-fogged spaces of those bastions of bureaucracies we call government offices.  We pay no mind to teenagers with the crotches of their baggy pants hanging down around their  knees, we look with bemused eyes upon our neighbors who sell their souls for a mortgage on a house so big they must work incessantly to pay for it and therefore never spend time rattling around its vast, undecorated space.  We begrudge no one the free expression of their individualness, though we retain the right to laugh at them and understand that when we pratfall we’re going to be laughed at, too.  That’s simple fairness, by the way.  Not democracy.

And so it is that in the heartland of America, which is pretty much anywhere outside the big, Democrat-ruled camps like D.C., New York, Detroit, and the entire state of California, that life is good.  But that goodness doesn’t mean we simply ignore those Democratic strangleholds.  On the contrary, we look upon them with great concern.  But we cringe in equal measure when any of our friends and neighbors demonstrate their own blind jihadism of guns and Bibles.

Maybe it’s just another example of the power of the anonymity of the internet but so far in my face-to-face discussions with even the most red-blooded of Constitutional Conservatives I’ve not yet heard the ugliness of the threats bantered about in online comments, nor the unpalatable amount of Bible-thumping preaching to make some or another point.  Yes, the Left has been utterly despicable in its verbal treatment of the Right for a very long time, and their vitriol does not go excused.  But I do not find any comfort from self-professed conservatives who would beat a liberal with either their Bible or a gun in retaliation.  Indeed, such fundamentalist cowboy tactics are exactly the fodder the Left looks for, the fodder they deliberately attempt to pry out of conservatives in order to have even the flimsiest of excuses to slap chains on our freedoms before their time in office runs out.  And while it’s obvious that logic doesn’t enter into any argument with a liberal, deliberately handing them your gun and pulling the trigger for them while holding up your Bible as a shield is an equally losing proposition.

It’s time that conservatives gather their collective, smoldering anger and do what we keep advising the pablum-drunk progressive liberals.  Grow up. While it’s true you don’t need to bring a gun to a knife fight, it’s just as true you can’t have a battle of wits with those who are unarmed.  The battle to restore the Republic of these United States will not be won with words directed to a deliberately deaf enemy who doesn’t have enough gasoline in their brain cell’s engine to process them even if they could hear.  You don’t stop an evil from sucking you dry by throwing a Bible or a cross at them.  You stop them with a silver bullet or a stake through the heart.

And those tools of the most enduring fiction are available to everyone who wants this country back, in the form of the ballot box and in the form of their dollars.  It’s time to get out from behind the safety of computer screens and televisions and cast votes for candidates who are willing to buck the current system of pork and earmarks and self-proclaimed special interest “victims”.  Such conservative candidates are rising up from the ranks even as you read this.  FIND THEM.  Deliberately seek them out.  If you have it in you, put your money where your font is and become one.  Ask them the hard questions and listen carefully to their answers.  Then support them with everything you’ve got.  Conservatives who love this country must begin to fight FOR what’s right, not just fight against what’s gone so terribly wrong.

I believe the majority of Americans are good and kind lot.  I believe that they have a lot more common sense than the progressive liberals dare to believe.  Even in the most blue of districts there remain honest, hard-working people who hunger for the truth.  The facts of what this administration in particular have done to set the stage for enormous and dangerous disaster right here within our own borders are clear enough.  It’s time to put down the gun, put down the Bible, and give the facts the lip service they deserve.  Don’t waste your time on those still drunk on the Kool-aid; we don’t call it entitlement derangement syndrome for nothing.  Those people are hopeless but like an idiot savant they are clever enough to keep pulling on your heartstrings to get your hard-earned money out of you in the form of donations to their cause de jour and collect a paycheck, especially where it concerns the environment or social “justice”.  The answer to this ludicrous behavior is simple.  And like charity, it must begin at home.  If  conservatives are to become at all effective, it’s time to starve the beast.  Stop donating to organizations like, for example, the Sierra Club, the American Heart Association, the American Diabetes Association, the Catholic Charities.  Any charity that has their hands out for government funding should be on your own personal conservative political watch list.  (Go to Guidestar and look up every non-local organization that asks you for money; all charities must file IRS documents and state how much of your hard-earned tax money they receive from the government.  Then do a search for how they spend your money to advertise for or to support progressive liberal causes.  I dare say you’ll be more than a little surprised.)  Ok, yes, it’s work but nothing, especially our liberty, comes without a price.  You can, of course, choose to keep it simple and invest your charitable dollars locally.  And, indeed, I dare say that is where they will do the most good.

The progressive liberals in this country have thrown themselves with a breathtaking belly-flop of truly unfathomable joy onto the Green Mile.  The blatancy of their avarice and greed is the rope with which they now hang themselves.  Where cool heads prevail, to take back this country and return it to the firm foundation set forth in the Constitution will be child’s play for conservatives in 2010 but such “play” doesn’t mean stooping to their level of vacuous visciousness; hiding behind Bibles and guns is no different than hiding behind progressive liberal “equality” and “social justice”.