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We Need A Party Of “NO”

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Though the GOP continues to be portrayed by the mainstream media (as egged on by the Democrats) as a bunch of mean-spirited, miserly old white people whose favorite pasttime is saying “No” just for the sake of saying “No”, the polls show clearly that even the most average of Americans now feels that the federal government is way out of control and a clear majority disapprove of Congress.  Everyone in Congress.

So it seems to me that just like any good employer whose employees have taken to holding open-bar tailgate parties and hosting strippers in their cubes, funding them out of the petty cash or charging them to their business credit card, the correct response to any further requests for any kind of non-essential spending is “No.”  In fact, I’d to so far as to say, “Hell no.  And while we’re talking, pack your personal things and don’t let the door hit you on the ass as this nice security guard escorts you out of my building.”

And as every a astute parent will tell you, “no” is a perfectly fine word.  It is what shapes our world by helping us define our boundaries, it is part and parcel of the rules of any game.  In the same way you don’t let your teenager head off in a car full of their friends if those friends are drunk by using the word, “no”, so, too, should the GOP and any reasonably sane Blue Dog Democrat be saying no every time the far left-wingnuts propose more “I won”-drunken and therefore dangerous spending.

One example is the so-called “jobs bill”.  It’s nothing more than Obama’s coveted “second stimulus” in populist clothing.  While our economy needs a big shot of tax breaks, cuts, and even those stinky little taxpayer loans to the feds euphemistically referred to as tax “credits”, these are easily accomplished by simply writing them up as such and passing them through Congress.  It’s so simple even a child could do it. 

Instead, what His Transparency has set forth is just one more charge against the already-unfathomable national debt.  Sure, there are tax credits and a few tax breaks, but when the first unstimulating stimulus hasn’t even been spent, what the hell do we need to spend billions more for now on “shovel-ready” projects that mysteriously didn’t manifest the first time around?  Particularly troubling is that some of it comes as a direct attack on the insurance companies, paid for with the tax dollars of future generations.  He’s building then riding a wave of angst over what are in truth rather justifiable health insurance premium increases in a state so broke due to the expansiveness of its coddling entitlement programs that include illegal immigrants that even its IOUs aren’t any good any more in order to sneak into place another piece of the puzzle being put together to socialize American medicine.  And if that’s too hard to get your brain cell around, just what does regulating the insurance companies have to do with creating jobs, anyhow?  If anything, this will kill jobs in the insurance industry, aka the private sector and replace them with yet more federal bureaucrats.

I don’t know about you, but it makes my head spin.  The one thing of which I am certain, however, is that if America is to survive we must have the word “No!” ringing out loud and clear.  Every time something is proposed that requires more government employees (meaning, it costs money), the GOP and Blue Dogs should be standing up and shouting “No!”.  That is what the majority of we, the people, desperately want.  That is what this beloved country desperately needs.  Contrary to the affirmatively-graduated Ivy League stated opinion that Americans somehow just don’t understand the elitist prattlings teleprompting their way down to the great unwashed masses from the upper levels of the federal government, the majority of American people are not stupid.  Even if Congress doesn’t bother to read the legislation they slap together under cover of darkness, we do.  And no matter how slowly you state your case, no matter what pretty words you use to try and put a positive spin on it, if it costs money and especially when it infringes on our privacy and our liberties, the bottom line is that we don’t want it.

That’s the big mistake that Scott Brown made.  While no one expected a true, Constitutional Conservative to come out of the state of Massachusetts, his vote to end debate over President Walking Eagle’s “jobs bill” showed clearly that he doesn’t get it.

What we, the American people, want is NO.

  • No more spending
  • No more taxes
  • No more pork
  • No more entitlements
  • No more closed-door deals
  • No more special interests
  • No more federal bureaucracy

And more importantly, no more lies.

If members of the GOP were wise, they would clean up their act and then wear every single “NO” as a badge of honor.

A Stunning Week For American Liberties

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It has been a rather incredible week.  In a real “two fer”, the election of Republican Scott Brown to represent the state of Massachusetts as a United States Senator has sent both the ghost of Ded Ted and the unholy trinity’s health care “reform” back down to the hell hole from which they rose.  And then the Supreme Court, voting on straight progressive vs. conservative ideological lines, struck down most of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance act as unconstitutional.

All of which finds the left staring bug-eyed and slack-jawed.

As the shock wears off, in their anger at being told that their attempts to create a socialist dictatorship out of the Republic of the United States is now seen clearly for what it is and that the American people want no part of it, the spin begins.  His Transparency, in particular, is being, well, rather more transparent.  And it’s not comforting.  Attempting to capitalize on what is being labeled “populist” anger, he went on the stump this week and has started talking “tough”.  But, frankly, it sounds more like stupid to me.  He told George Stephanopoulos:

“The same thing that swept Scott Brown into office swept me into office.   People are angry, and they’re frustrated.  Not just because of what’s happened in the last year or two years, but what’s happened over the last eight years.”
 
Yo, put on some clothes, there, Emperor.  This time it really is all about you.  Those last “eight years” you continue to casually toss around as your sole reason d’etre now includes the first year of what sensible Americans have been praying is your own lame-duck presidency.  What happened in Massachusetts is, indeed, the sensible reaction of a free people to your lies and your ideology.  We were angry at the growing deficits and intrusions of the federal government in 2008 and we’re angry at the Obama-led Democrats’ neck-break race to socialism that continues to increase them now.
 
But no matter.  Obama got himself all wee-wee’d up and told a crowd in Elyria, Ohio (where unemployment is now at 10.9 percent — up from 10.6 last month):

“Now, we’ve gotten pretty far down the road, but I have to admit, we’ve run into a bit of a buzz saw along the way….”

“…I am not going to watch more people get crushed by costs, or denied the care they need by insurance company bureaucrats, or partisan politics, or special interest power in Washington.”

Astute observers will note that referring to a majority of the citizenry at large as a “buzz saw” when they disagree with him shows again this inexperienced bubble boy hasn’t a clue or, more likely based on other statements, just doesn’t care about the checks and balances foundation of government in this country that secures the power in the hands of the people.  And it is not only my jaded eyes that turn up at the corners from the humor of the blatant hypocrisy contained in his statements.  What we saw, particularly exposed during the month of December, made it quite clear that the Chicago machine of “partisan politics” and the “special interest power in Washington” was gunning at full throttle to create both the House and Senate versions of health care “reform”.  (Corn husk, anyone?)
 
This fighting stance continued as the ramifications of the Supreme Court decision on the upcoming 2010 Congressional mid-term elections quickly began to sink in.
 
 
 
Tip what?  Drown out what?  Certainly Massachusetts just proved the progressive liberal’s need to stifle free speech on behalf of those chosen to be their pet victim de jeur is not only wrong, but unnecessary.  Martha (“Curling Iron”) Coakley flew from Massachusetts to Washington, D.C. to attend a fundraiser for her Senate campaign, and both hosts and attendees included lobbyists for “Big Pharma” and the health care industry.  Monies raised were used for negative attack ads against Scott Brown, but we all know what happened next.  It didn’t work.  The American people knew what was at stake and threw their nickels and dimes at Scott Brown; and the good people of Massachusetts, equally tired of Washington’s special interests, raised their collective middle fingers and gave the Democrats and their lobbyists and their unions a loud and clear salute by sending Brown to Washington to kill the health care Senate bill.
 
It may be too difficult a concept for affirmatively-graduated Ivy League progressives, but it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand that freedom of speech is our most powerful means of controlling special interests and bringing hidden agendas to light.  So what if corporations or the unions now no longer need a middle man (in the form of PACs) to donate to a candidate or a cause?  The Supreme Court did not strike down disclosure and therefore any business that decides to spend their profits on campaigns that go against America’s liberties or against Her best interests will soon find their profits gone MIA as the people cast their votes not only at the ballot box but with their dollars.  Those companies who decide to try and hide behind PACs will continue to be outed by an newly-awakened citizenry who is sick and tired of lies, no matter what the source.  Where the agenda of unions goes against America’s sensibilities, they will lose even more members than they have to date.  Frankly, those who would want to pursue campaign reform in light of this ruling would do better to simply put more transparency into the whole process. 
 
But in a free market economy, advertising can be a form of corporate suicide and where campaign financing is concerned the left believes that this a bad thing.  What they can’t accept, because it threatens their power, is that real equality means the freedom to fail as well as the freedom to succeed.  It is not up to the government to selectively and partisanly choose who may speak and when.  At least it is not up to the government in these United States.  It is the kind of activity belongs in despot regimes like Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran.  That the Obama administration and its progressive liberal supporters are already seeing how to write new laws to corral free speech yet again is yet more straightforward evidence they do not accept the Constitution as it was written and sets the stage for the 2010 mid-term elections to be a bloodbath, ending with Democrats picking up their teeth with the stubs of their elbows.
 

Dems Lose – No Matter What

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Today’s special election in Massachusetts is historical, yes, but even though there are still a few hours to go before the polls close today, a loser has emerged and I dare say it’s ranking at the bottom of the political landfill will be a long stay.

Watching how the campaigns are handling the fever-pitch race that is, effectively, a referendum on the Obama administration and the progressive liberal Democrat majority has laid bare one thing:  those liberal progressive Democrats are truly nasty, evil people and the unintended consequences of their actions over the last year is going to keep them in a world of hurt for a very, very long time.  There are endless reports coming in about campaign signs for Martha (“Curling Iron”) Coakley right at the doors of voting precincts (illegal within 150 feet of a precinct in Massachusetts).  There are losers hanging around precincts .  She has union members (from New York’s UFCW Local One, no less) manning one of her offices, kicking out a reporter and calling them a Nazi. 

By 3:45 p.m., the Massachusetts Secretary of State had received two separate reports of voters being given ballots already filled out for them.

 Then the markets closed higher today on hopes of a Scott Brown victory, which is hysterically funny when you remember that among the hosts of Coakley’s D.C. fundraiser last week were Eli Lilly (up 4.4percent at $37.41), Humana (up 7.1 percent at $51.94). 

And while His Transparency “was both surprised and frustrated” with what he apparently sees as needless fuss over Ded Ted’s replacement, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, however inadvertently, actually called it correctly:  “In many ways we’re here because of that upset and anger.”

Coakley Campaign Callers Lying To MA Voters

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No one doubts the depths of ugly deceit of which progressive liberal Democrats are capable, but aside from the high school aspects of it, this latest “trick” from the Coakley campaign takes the cake:

Pro-lifers are receiving phone calls from people claiming to be Mass Citizens.  The callers say that Mass Citizens is not supporting Scott Brown because of his position on health care!

The truth is that Mass Citizens is suporting Brown because of his position on health care!  

These deceitful calls are coming from 202-461-3441, a Washington, DC number.  The phone company says this is a company called SOOH.  Pro-lifers are not the only victims of this scam.  Our MCFL sleuths have found that this same number is calling people across the state claiming to be different groups with different messages – all anti-Brown!

If you can’t dazzle ’em with brilliance, baffle ’em with bullshit?

Way to go, Martha.  You’re a real class act.

A Democratic Scholar’s Version Of History

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Speaking at a rally for Massachusetts senatorial candidate Martha Coakley last Friday, former president and Rhodes scholar Bill Clinton, said:

“I came here to tell the people of Massachusetts this:  This country’s revolution was born in Massachusetts.  The Revolutionary War was first won here.  The war was over here years before it was finally finished.  It started with the Boston Tea Party, and the right wing Republicans have appropriated that on the premise the tea party was against government.”
 
Clinton added, “What they were against was abuse of power.”

Perhaps distracted by someone in the audience wearing a blue dress, Clinton conveniently forgot that the American Revolution was against GOVERNMENT abuse of power.

But somehow I don’t think the American people, particularly those heading out to vote tomorrow in Massachusetts, have forgotten.

Two Historic Days

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Dr. King’s dream will be fulfilled only by stepping aside and allowing people to pursue their own happiness.  Stupid is not a race or a color, mind you, yet today the federal government would have you believe that whole classes of Americans are, indeed, too stupid to understand the risks they take when they pursue their happiness and must be divided out and protected from the consequences of their poor choices.

That doesn’t sound like liberty to me.

It is a tragedy of historic proportions.  A once great Republic brought to Her knees by deliberate distortions of Her Constitutional democracy now glances behind and, as Aristotle pointed out, sees despotism looming.  There was a reason that the United States government was divided into three parts, good reason that members of the House were elected directly by the people and members of the Senate by the legislature of each state and that reason is to insure that the deliberately-limited, enumerated powers of the federal government would contain it.  The popular election of Senators has loosened their responsibilities to the States and the individual and the results are the same as in all democracies:  a dangerous game of federal regulations in an attempt to legislate a minority’s opinion of what constitutes morality for some “greater good”.

Nothing comes without risk.  Sometimes great risk.  The road to socialism is a bloody one.  Just ask Mussolini, the darling of the earliest progressives like Woodrow Wilson and Winston Churchill, who called Il Duce “the great lawmaker”.  Look to Venezuela, to Cuba, to North Korea and tell me if it is truly possible to pursue your own, unique, individual happiness there.

I think not.

So as we celebrate the legacy of Dr. King today, we must also look to Massachusetts.  The birthplace of the American Revolution is now poised to fire yet another historic shot as her special election tomorrow to fill the seat held so long by progressive liberal Democrat Ted Kennedy has become a referendum of sorts.  Not a referendum on the Obama administration, as some would like you to believe (and thereby divide the American people once again), but a referendum on the United States Constitution.  The two leading candidates stand at opposing ends of the American political spectrum:  one a progressive liberal Democrat with the same bloody hands as Kennedy, the other a conservative Republican who believes it is the individual’s right to choose.  To their credit, the people of Massachusetts, liberal as they are, have seen the writing on the wall and rightly read its warnings, and in doing so their local battle has been thrust into the national spotlight.

To observe this battle is to see what has come to be called “the machine” overtly at work for the Democratic candidate, Martha Coakley.  Her campaign is defined by flying to Washington, D.C. to curry campaign contributions from lobbyists and having the president speak for her at a campaign rally when poll numbers show her “sure thing” has become anything but, while Republican Scott Brown simply travels across his state talking to the people.  And in doing this he has engaged the support of Americans in all states who not only reject this administration’s hell-bent usurpations of their liberties, but realize that the great expansion of the federal government engineered in the 1930s now means that every Senator’s actions will directly affect them.

Scott Brown has grassroots support, and despite the claims of the Obama 2008 campaign, the likes of which have not been seen as shown by Brown’s endorsement by the police union from which Coakley’s husband retired and the numerous SEIU members who carry her campaign signs only because they are being paid to do so but intend on voting for Brown.  While Coakley was in D.C. to beg for that special interest money to broadcast her negative ads (in which one didn’t even have “Massachusetts” spelled properly), Brown quietly raised a million dollars in a single day through donations made by concerned Americans across the country.

Frankly, it’s stunning to see this.  It means that the Founding Fathers were right, you know.  And that Dr. King knew it.

So today I have a dream.  A dream that tomorrow the good people of Massachusetts will fire one more “shot heard ’round the world”.  A loud, resounding shot for liberty.  For that is truly the finest way to honor the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King.

This Weekend’s Lesson In Leadership

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Let’s see now.  We’re in the middle of a pretty serious recession that has no end in sight.  The administration is about to tax banks for taking a loan from the government and then paying it back while the IRS upped just pretty much everyone’s tax bill with new 2010 federal tax rates.  Two of the Big Three automakers are owned by the taxpayers and that brilliant, Ivy League idea of a “Cash For Clunkers” program ended up with top ten clunkers traded in having been made by those Big Two but the top ten sales of new vehicles going to everyone else.  Unemployment and housing foreclosures are both at double-digits with no real signs of slowing down so the administration is exploring ways to get their hands on the money people have put into their 401ks.  The government’s security programs failed to stop both a jihadist massacre at Fort Hood and a jihadist attack on a plane above U.S. soil and their diplomatic efforts are failing equally with the nuclear weapons programs of both North Korea and Iran.

We mustn’t forget that it’s absolutely imperative for the government to take over the U.S. health care industry and to convince enough people that there is such a thing as global warming or climate change or something, anything, even if validated by falsified data, Virginia, to justify passing on the enormous financial burdens of cap and trade.

So what does a United States president do when the going is so very, very rough?  How does he lead his country back to the prosperity inherent in Her Constitution and Bill of Rights?  Why, he schemes in pure partisanship until the wee hours of the morning behind closed doors, then hits the campaign trail for Martha Coakley in Massachusetts this weekend.  And he also picks up his magic pen to write a piece for Newsweek  about the disaster in Haiti.

Atta boy, Barry.  Demonstrate your commitment to transparency.  Stump for a corrupt candidate whose own husband’s own police union won’t endorse her.  Indulge your penchant for spouting nonsensical fluff about something that isn’t anyone’s fault and where the need is obvious for a publication that has become nothing more than venue for op/ed pieces.  That’s the way to show real leadership.

Time For The Big Guns: Calling ‘Em Names

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I laughed out loud this evening when I was told that Democrats are now calling supporters of Massachusetts state senator Scott Brown “radicals”.

Yes, dear readers, those of us who support a candidate with conservative views have been upgraded from “right-wing extremists” to “radicals”.  And all without a single mention of the issues at hand.

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., claimed in an e-mail that “swift boaters” were trying to sink Coakley, a reference to the ads that targeted him in the 2004 presidential campaign. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called Brown a “far-right tea-bagger” in an e-mail, using a term that also can refer to a sexual act. Then on Friday, Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., wrote in a fundraising e-mail that Coakley was “being attacked by tea partiers and right-wing radicals.” 

Poor, poor Martha Coakley.  She’s not sinking like a stone in the polls because of her track record of hypocrisy, is she?  Surely someone held a gun to her head and forced her to misuse those state resources for her campaign.  And surely she was forced to keep those innocent people in prison.  And surely having her murky past coming back to haunt her is simply so embarrassing that she and her campaign workers have forgotten how to use spell check before they air their union-sponsored, negative attack ads against Scott Brown.

Cue those flying pigs and pass her some brie to go with her whine.

The woman is a stereotypical political scumbag Democrat.  And the other stereotypical scumbag Democrats, led by His Transparency himself, President Walking Eagle, are now scuttling out from the woodwork to rally around her only because they want her guaranteed vote for their progressive liberal socialist plans for America.  If that 60th Senate vote wasn’t so critical to their unconstitutional takeover of America, they’d be wiping her name off their lips with a piece of that infamous blue dress.

Martha Coakley is just another useful tool for the progressive liberal machine.   And if calling it like it is and wanting the law of this land to be defended and protected by those we send to Washingon is a “radical” concept, well, there’s a whole lot of Americans who are proud to claim it.

Operation Desperation In Massachusetts

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You know it’s really bad when President Walking Eagle decides that he needs to use our hard-earned tax dollars to fly to Massachusetts to do his favorite thing in the world:  campaign.

Yes, His Transparency is going to take time out of his busy weekend to fly to Boston in an attempt to inspire Democrats there to get out and vote next Tuesday for his latest little lapdogdancer-wannabe, state attorney general Martha Coakley.  The same Martha Coakley who went down to Washington this week to collect campaign contributions from special interest lobbyists, the result of which are little more than a flurry of negative attack ads against state senator Scott Brown that either contain misspellings or are so blatantly offensive they are quickly and stealthily pulled from places like You Tube.

Yessiree.  Partnering up with the Chicago machine is really going to show the good people of Massachusetts that you have taken their views against this administration’s policies to heart, Martha.

That the TOTUS is so willing to ignore the wishes and needs of the majority of Americans by spending their dimes to actively campaign in a state election is equally inspiring.

Flying pig, anyone?

Let Them Eat…Pizza?

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The out-of-the-closet progressive liberal Democratic party is in well-deserved tatters and struggling to come up with a plan to lull voters into the complacency needed maintain their majority in the 2010 mid-term elections, as well as already planning His Transparency’s reelection bid.  In their stereotypical stealth mode, behind closed doors, the White House is picking favorites in upcoming races across the country.

The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that:

President Barack Obama’s aides are taking pains to operate out of public view to avoid repeating embarrassing miscues made last year, when efforts to pressure unpopular New York Gov. David Paterson into retirement hit front pages and proved unsuccessful.

Embarrassing, indeed.  But to the Democrats, it’s just another speedbump.   

The exit of Michigan Lt. Gov. John Cherry from that state’s gubernatorial contest came as party insiders grew increasingly concerned that Mr. Cherry faced an uphill struggle to win, putting a chill on potential donors, according to Democratic officials.

When Mr. Cherry dropped out, citing fund-raising problems, White House officials began discussions with a potential replacement, Denise Ilitch, whose family owns the Detroit Red Wings hockey team, Detroit Tigers baseball team and Little Caesars Pizza chain.

Ms. Ilitch is an elected member of the state Board of Regents. Strategists believe her personal wealth and image as a businesswoman and political outsider could give Democrats a boost in an economically ailing state where the party’s top official, Gov. Jennifer Granholm, is unpopular.

Now there’s a picture for you.  A wealthy capitalist Democrat handing out $5 hot & ready Little Caesar’s pizzas to the great unwashed masses of Michigan’s unemployed Kool-Aid drinkers to buy their votes.

But, like those 10% unemployed across the country, it ain’t working.  Despite the Demons howling in Massachusetts (“Martha Coakley is running to fill the rest of Ted Kennedy’s term, and her opponent is a far-right tea-bagger Republican,” Chuck Schumer wrote in a fundraising email) it’s just been reported by the Boston Globe that Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown has a 4 point lead in the polls.  Though that’s within the poll’s margin of error, other details show just how fall the self-perceived mighty have fallen:

Brown’s popularity is solid. He enjoys a 57 percent favorability rating compared to just 19 percent unfavorable. Coakley’s favorability is 49 percent; her unfavorability, 41 percent.

From the poll itself:

In the race for U.S. Senate, who will you vote for?

Scott Brown: 50%

Martha Coakley: 46%

Joseph L. Kennedy: 3%

Undecided: 1%

In your opinion, who won the debates?

Scott Brown: 41%

Martha Coakley: 25%

Joseph L. Kennedy: 2%

Undecided: 31%

As a U.S. Senator, do you think Martha Coakley will be an independent voice or tow the Democratic Party line?

Independent voice: 24%

Tow the party line: 64%

Undecided: 11%

Do you support the proposed national near universal healthcare law?

Yes: 36%

No: 51%

Undecided: 13%

Can the federal government afford the proposed national healthcare law?

Yes: 32%

No: 61%

Undecided: 7%

And despite those words of the White House laying low with which we started this piece, like all those other words that have come out of the White House to date, there’s a strong push among some Democrats to get His Transparency to visit Massachusetts this weekend on behalf of Martha Coakley so he sent an “impassioned video plea” for Attorney General Martha Coakley to thousands of Bay State voters today.  But Scott Brown’s called it right:

“He should stay away and let Martha and I discuss the issues one on one,” Brown said. “The machine is coming out of the woodwork to get her elected. They’re bringing in outsiders, and we don’t need them.”