We at FreedomDogs wish all of you a Happy 4th. Today, there will be Independence DayTea Parties across the state. The St. Paul party will be held at the State Capitol from 3:00-6:00pm —speakers include Mitch Berg and Barb Davis White. Check here for party locations in Minnesota.
I found this reading of the Declaration, produced last year from Fox NFL:
Those words are worth preserving. Show your support: fly a flag, get to a parade, a festival, or a tea party today if you can.
Well to me it is a feeling in my heart of knowing that God created me in his image, that he has granted me free will to choose the life I want to live. It is not something that any government bestowed upon me, it's in every beat of my heart. I am grateful to be born in a country where freedom is an ideal enshrined in our founding documents and it's something worth fighting for with vigilance.
Rick Varco, SEUI Healthcare Minnesota's Political Director said something like "Our founders declared freedom from a tyrannical government," and then he said this:
“It’s time to declare independence from the tyranny of living under a broken health-care system,” ....
Varco believes the July Fourth holiday was a natural fit for highlighting the nation’s dysfunctional health-care system. “There’s that line in the Declaration of Independence about a ‘long train of abuses,’” he says. “That’s what the American people have suffered from this health-care system.”
How dare they. The long train of abuses as outlined in the Declaration of Idependence had to do with brash restrictions and constrictions on freedom. FREEDOM. To try to equate the goal to have government universally pay for our health care with the fact that we had a standing foreign army in our land is ridiculous. It's ironic that they quote the Declaration, which decried taxation without representation, as justification for raising taxes on only select American citizens.
Obama's health care plan is about one thing: Paying back the unions. And to the Unions it's about one thing, ensuring that health care is a right equal to the unalienable rights bestowed to us by our Creator: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
What we celebrate tomorrow is what our founders sacrificed in order to give us such comfortable lives where prosperity is ours for the taking. But to liberals it is about fighting for a country that looks more like the foreign shores from which our founders fled then the brave idea that is America.
The pitchforks are getting closer to the white knuckles that will soon be clutching them. I doubt the revolution in America will not happen this weekend, but stories like this one about congress' excessive travel spending are coming at us so often that the dam of frustrations is sure to burst soon.
Spending by lawmakers on taxpayer-financed trips abroad has risen sharply in recent years, a Wall Street Journal analysis of travel records shows, involving everything from war-zone visits to trips to exotic spots such as the Galápagos Islands.
The spending on overseas travel is up almost tenfold since 1995, and has nearly tripled since 2001, according to the Journal analysis of 60,000 travel records. Hundreds of lawmakers traveled overseas in 2008 at a cost of about $13 million. That's a 50% jump since Democrats took control of Congress two years ago.
The cost of so-called congressional delegations, known among lawmakers as "codels," has risen nearly 70% since 2005, when an influence-peddling scandal led to a ban on travel funded by lobbyists, according to the data.
Keep it coming guys, you'll be selling real estate back home like Tom Daschle soon.
Allahpundit at Hot Air discusses Senator Al Franken's* national high unfavorable rating (44%) in a recent Rasmussen poll:
Like it or not, this guy’s bound to be our new lightning rod so you might as well familiarize yourself with his oeuvre for easy snarking later, when he inevitably pops off on the Senate floor and the righty blogosphere piles on. Exit question: Why are his national ratings so low? It’s possible, I guess, that more people than we think have been following blog coverage over the years of what a weird, oddly irascible jackass Franken is. It’s also possible that the numbers are driven by conservative reaction to his “Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot” book. Even so, I prefer to interpret it as a referendum on his SNL “Weekend Update” bits. Be honest: Having watched those, would you have a favorable opinion of the guy?
Unfortunately, the numbers of a 60-vote Democrat majority in the U.S. Senate are a cold reality unless conservatives from both camps vote for common sense, and until seats are taken in 2010. Still, it's encouraging that Americans are not approving of a new far-left senator* who will enable more far-left legislation.
We now have an ACORN elected Senator in Al Franken. Is anyone aware of the fact that Mark Ritchie, our Secretary of State was put in place by the George Soros movement of placing Secretary of State left wing thinkers into power? All pushed via ACORN, the fraudulent voters organization being investigated in 14 states.
Administration salaries now set at $172,000 a year and government jobs are the only jobs being created.
Ethenol pumping stations down from 360-351. The goal of 1800 E85 pumps by 2010 is looking pretty bleak. Why would anyone want E85? Ethanol is more expensive to produce, more expensive to buy, gets fewer miles to the gallon, puts more CO2 into the atmosphere during the production process and the taxpayers subsidies that have provided for it will soon run out. Corn is for food not gas!
California is $26 Billion in the red and will soon be issuing IOU'S. Thank you mexico!
Did you know that $40 Million has gone to dead people via Social Security checks? And the government wants to be in charge of health insurance?
We now have a lobbying frenzy in Washington to push for the energy programs. Another (no lobbyists in Washington ) campaign promised broken.
Did you know that Citizens Services Inc., an affiliate of ACORN, received $800,000 in their efforts to get out the vote. They use shell organizations to hide their activities.
Obama is thus far successful in creating chaos for all Americans so that they will come begging to the all powerful government. No Mr. Obama, this is your horrific economy so quit blaming President Bush. You have quadrupled the national debt and created the chaos that will bring you and all Democrats down.
Did you know that a global scientist, Mitchell Taylor, who has studied polar bears for 30 years was barred from a global warming conference? Reason, his report stated that the polar bear population has doubled in the past 50 years and his report would have damaged the agenda of Obama.
If the cap and trade bill and the health bill pass, it will mean that the government contgrols 50% of our economy.
Obama is calling for 1500 volunteers to help protect our borders. Rocks vs AK 47's. Is this what he means by doing a service for America?
Iraqis ready to control their country? Hopefully, as American troops pulled out of all cities yesterday. The plan the bush put in place but, of course, Obama will take credit for it even though he and Democrats would have lost this ally 4 years ago. Where is the press on this victory for the troops and bush?
Al Franken, living out of state for 35 years and a foul mouthed hater comedian--Minnesota State Senator
Norm Coleman--32 years of public service to Minnesota and on his way home.
We now, even more than the election of Jesse Ventura, are the laughing stock of the nation. Congrats!
This is a repeat but it is so disgusting I have to bring it back. Californias Central Valley is drying up because the environmentalists have sued to keep the delta water supply from flowing to the rich farmland which employs about 80,000 workers. Reason? The Delta Smelt, they claim, is an endangered species. So we can now get our fresh produce from China? The environmentalists are behind everything that is going wrong in this country and I have been saying it for 5 years.
If you think healthcare is expensive now, just wait until it is free!
Senator David Hann, Republican from SD42 has officially put a toe in the Governor's race. I saw Senator Hann at a recent CD3 executive meeting focused on listening to candidates concerns, where both he and Patricia Anderson gave a brief speech about their future campaigns. His spoke about his reason for running—in large part focused on his concern for the future of education and as he sees it the future of the state which is directly tied to it. Here is his press release from today.
SAINT PAUL, MN - State Senator David Hann (R-Eden Prairie) submitted documents on Tuesday to the Campaign Finance Board forming a committee to explore his candidacy for Governor.
"I have been encouraged to take this step by the depth of support I have received in recent days, and I will continue to talk to party activists and supporters across the state about the future of Minnesota," Hann said. "In the next election, we must engage the public in a debate about the direction our state will take in the coming years. We have to control state spending and lower taxes to encourage investment in our economy. We need to structure our education system to enable all students to succeed and take steps to ensure health care decisions remain between patients and their doctors."
"We plan to run an aggressive campaign for the Republican endorsement" Hann continued, "This will be a competitive process, but my record shows that time after time I have stood for the issues that will benefit all Minnesotans." Kathy Veurink, a constituent and resident of Eden Prairie said, "Senator Hann has been a strong advocate for my family and for the taxpayers of Minnesota for the past seven years in the State Senate. His record is unmatched. I am very excited that Senator Hann is considering serving as our next Governor."
Senator Hann is in his second term representing Eden Prairie and Minnetonka in the Minnesota State Senate, and serves as a member of the senate's Education Committee; the Health, Housing and Family Security Committee; the Agriculture and Veterans Committee; and the Energy and Natural Resources Committee. He is now a business process consultant after spending 25 years with Eden Prairie based E.A. Sween Company.
In his second year at Gustavus Adolphus College, Hann enlisted in the U..S. Army and served a tour of duty in Vietnam. After completing his degree in Religion, he did graduate work at the University of Chicago. He served eight years on the Eden Prairie School Board prior to his election to the state senate. Hann has been recognized by the Minnesota School Board Association for his service to education in the legislature, and has been named "Best Friend of the Taxpayer" four times by the Taxpayers League. He and his wife, Anne, have four children.
The same weekend a peaceful Christian family was arrested for passing Bibles out during the Twin Cities Pride festival, KSTP reported this incident with Muslim Somali boys caught on camera:
The clip shows boys and teenagers trailing 37-year-old Adam Schreifels and taunting him after learning he's gay.
"We hate fags, disgusting. Just very inappropriate things to be saying," Schreifels said.
He says while he was shocked by the comments, he wasn't scared.
I doubt Adam would be smiling and laughing if he were walking alone. KSTP reports:
The teens who harassed Schreifels were Somali, according the Somali Justice Advocacy Center. Leaders say it's unacceptable to harass someone because of their sexual orientation.
And yet, there it is on camera. Where did the boys learn and form their opinion, the foul lanquage, then go boldly harassing (and throwing rocks at) a gay man walking down a public street? I wondered how homosexuals are treated in Somalia and found this.
Gay and Lesbian Somalians who are in Somalia have no official recognition and live under a constant cloud of fear, as homosexuality is often punished with lashing, being ostracised from families and communities and even death! This is not an exaggeration as many of our brothers and sisters have been made to suffer inhumane reprimands or killed.
I hope Adam appreciates the freedoms he has in America.
"During the Bush administration, he inherited a recession, he cut taxes, we had 52 straight months of economic growth. 4-5% unemployment, 14,000 stock market, no further attacks. All that after the collapse of Enron, Tyco, World Com and the dot com bubble burst and then 9/11. All in his first year and a half. The Republicans controlled the Congress and purse strings from 1994-2000 but Clinton gets the credit. The Democrats took over Congress in 2006 and everything has spiraled downward ever since. This is Obama's and the Democrats mess and there is no getting around it."
In last Friday's Star Tribune which featured an entire page dedicated to the Mark Sanford affair (on Page 3), yet no coverage of the historic House vote that day on Cap and Trade...I noticed something interesting in a sidebar:
The State, Columbia, S.C.'s daily newspaper, has been at ground zero of the case, indirectly triggering Sanford's admission Wednesday that he had been having an affair with a woman in Argentina.
Prodded by an anonymous tip, a reporter for the newspaper staked out the Atlanta airport Wednesday morning -- and promptly ran into Stanford getting off a flight from Buenos Aires. Here's her account of the encounter: www.thestate.com/sanford/story/839842.html
First of all, it's funny that the Strib would dedicate any local reporter on this story...why not just run something from the AP? Aren't they supposed to be strapped for resources? Didn't they just fire a bunch of writers? I guess there are enough folks left that they could assign somebody to report on a story that only affects the people of South Carolina.
But more importantly, does anybody recall any paper--ANY-- tracking down John Edwards in Beverly Hills with the mother of his love child? Did any reporter stake out LAX or the hotel rooms where he met time and time again with his mistress? Did anybody ask why he lied about the affair while he was still on the campaign trail for President? Or- why Edwards hired this woman- who he met in a bar- as a paid campaign worker? One paper did, the National Enquirer, who now holds as much legitimacy as any other newspaper as far as I'm concerned.
The mainstream media admitted it was tipped off almost a year before the story finally broke.
Reading this account in Newsweek surely begs the question: "What did the media know and when did they know it?"
John Edwards was the Democrat's Vice Presidential nominee, he was a strong contender in the Democrat's bid for the White House DURING the time he was having the affair.
Look, Mark Sanford cheated on his wife. He was caught and he immediately admitted to the affair to the press. The main problem was that he left the country as a sitting Governor- and nobody knew where he was. What would happen if there was an emergency? Stupid. If I were in South Carolina, I'd be calling for his resignation.
But let me just point out that Bill Clinton and John Edwards lied again and again and again and only told the truth when their backs were right up against the wall. Bill Clinton "just lied about sex." No, he lied to a federal grand jury during testimony in a sexual harassment law suit and then lied again to the entire country while shaking his finger at us.
But, it's the Republicans who receive the brunt of the feigned shock from the media when clearly --time and again-- the people in our party tell the truth in these situations while theirs lie. Doesn't that count for something?
Believe me-- I'm not excusing the behavior-- it's all scandalous. Sanford is a grade-A FLAKE based on some of the stuff that's being said now. It sounds like a really bad soap opera and his wife would be absolutely nuts to stay with him. I know there are kids involved, but he has completely humiliated her and he doesn't love her and those four boys shouldn't see that as a role model for their future marriages.
But the real issue here is of a continued double-standard in the media. There seem to be so few enquiring minds in the journalism field today. Blinded by their personal politics, (yet pretending they're not,) reporters rarely demonstrate enough curiosity to break stories that affect their friends in the Democrat party. But, boy-oh-boy, they'll stake out an airport if it means they get to bring down a Republican.
Did you know that foreign investors now control 50% of our debt and if they choose to stop support, the dollar will collapse. Obama wants to change the greatest nation in the world and he has done it in 6 months. The health insurance plan will be the straw that broke the camel's back!
Did you know that Obama's EPA squelched a report by 2 scientists, Carlin and Davis? It was a 98 page report that told the facts that global warming is not proven science and the fact that the earth is actually cooling? The EPA squelched the report because they said it would be a detriment to their office. The report also mentioned that the polar bear population has actually increased since 1996. I guess it is transparency only if it helps the administration.
OPEC, the oil producing countries, are draining the lifeblood out of this country while we sit on oceans of oil and gas. When in God's name will the American people demand that we DRILL HERE, DRILL NOW?
Did you know that with the Cap and Trade (tax) bill, if you plan to sell your home, you must have the "green" government inspectors check your home for energy efficiency. If not up to speed you will have to spend money to fix it. So what if the potential buyer doesn't care.
Did you know that the Cap and Trade bill has a segment in it that says that anyone that loses his or her job as a result of the bill will receive their lost salary for 3 years and their insurance will be covered? Obviously, they know that the bill will cost millions of jobs and have prepared for it.
Obama's live speech on television says "It is up to the grassroots people to provide the changes". He talks a good game but does exactly the opposite giving government almost all control. "The Audacity of Deceit."
Did you know that Obama showed minimal support for the Iranian people after the "fixed" election but supports the Marxist leader of Honduras?
Did you know that the 8 Republicans who voted for Cap and Trade received big time contributions from environmentals who apparently more important than the people who voted them into office?
Did you know that union shops will not have a tax on health policy as other companies if the National health insurance plan passes?
Did you know that France gets 85% of their energy from clean nuclear energy while our idiot Democrats and Obama do the opposite?
Nancy Pelosi shouts, prior to the vote on cap and trade, "jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs" even though the experts predict that cap and trade will cause the loss of 2 and a half million jobs. SHE JUST DOESN'T GET IT AND REALLY DOESN'T CARE.
An armed populace is a deterrent to violent crime and statistics prove it. But anti-gun politicians will never acknowledge this. Anti-gun legislation is not designed to curb criminal activity but rather is focused on governmental controls over the citizenry.
Did you know the the majority of Canadian doctors, most who now live and practice in the U.S., say that their system is a complete failure. Most predict that private health care will fail and be taken over by national care if the health plan passes?
Did you know that Democrat John Conyers blocked the Congressional investigation into ACORN and said that the powers that be blocked it. HE is the powers that be.
Future careers in funeral home management will definitely increase if the health bill passes because the older folks will most certainly be rationed out of top quality care and therefore reach the end of their time much sooner. What a great future to look forward to.
The last time people had their rights taken away, they left their home country and founded the United States
Have a creeping feeling that maybe it's more than just the usual media lapdoggery helping to hype the myth of "global warming"? Ever thought that in addition to every advertiser cashing in on "green-safe" luggage, plastic bags, gas, beer, condoms, wall paper paste and everything else under the sun, maybe there's a larger hand working at keeping the reality from seeing the light of day? Have a look at this story from Kimberly Strassel from the WSJ:
Steve Fielding recently asked the Obama administration to reassure him on the science of man-made global warming. When the administration proved unhelpful, Mr. Fielding decided to vote against climate-change legislation.
If you haven't heard of this politician, it's because he's a member of the Australian Senate. As the U.S. House of Representatives prepares to pass a climate-change bill, the Australian Parliament is preparing to kill its own country's carbon-emissions scheme. Why? A growing number of Australian politicians, scientists and citizens once again doubt the science of human-caused global warming.
Among the many reasons President Barack Obama and the Democratic majority are so intent on quickly jamming a cap-and-trade system through Congress is because the global warming tide is again shifting. It turns out Al Gore and the United Nations (with an assist from the media), did a little too vociferous a job smearing anyone who disagreed with them as "deniers." The backlash has brought the scientific debate roaring back to life in Australia, Europe, Japan and even, if less reported, the U.S.
In April, the Polish Academy of Sciences published a document challenging man-made global warming. In the Czech Republic, where President Vaclav Klaus remains a leading skeptic, today only 11% of the population believes humans play a role. In France, President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to tap Claude Allegre to lead the country's new ministry of industry and innovation. Twenty years ago Mr. Allegre was among the first to trill about man-made global warming, but the geochemist has since recanted. New Zealand last year elected a new government, which immediately suspended the country's weeks-old cap-and-trade program.
The number of skeptics, far from shrinking, is swelling. Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe now counts more than 700 scientists who disagree with the U.N. -- 13 times the number who authored the U.N.'s 2007 climate summary for policymakers. Joanne Simpson, the world's first woman to receive a Ph.D. in meteorology, expressed relief upon her retirement last year that she was finally free to speak "frankly" of her nonbelief. Dr. Kiminori Itoh, a Japanese environmental physical chemist who contributed to a U.N. climate report, dubs man-made warming "the worst scientific scandal in history." Norway's Ivar Giaever, Nobel Prize winner for physics, decries it as the "new religion." A group of 54 noted physicists, led by Princeton's Will Happer, is demanding the American Physical Society revise its position that the science is settled. (Both Nature and Science magazines have refused to run the physicists' open letter.)
The collapse of the "consensus" has been driven by reality. The inconvenient truth is that the earth's temperatures have flat-lined since 2001, despite growing concentrations of C02. Peer-reviewed research has debunked doomsday scenarios about the polar ice caps, hurricanes, malaria, extinctions, rising oceans. A global financial crisis has politicians taking a harder look at the science that would require them to hamstring their economies to rein in carbon.
Read the rest. I'm sure if you are in the group of people who scoffed the very first time they heard the global warming and the polar bear hype show the above story comes as no great surprise. Want to see some proof that Obama's administration is actually suppressing evidence regarding "climate change"? have a gander at this post from Powerline by John Hinderaker.
There is a window of opportunity to reverse Cap & Trade bill, and for 8 GOP legislators to redeem themselves. From Tea Party Patriots:
The following republicans voted FOR the largest tax bill ever passed by a session of Congress.
Any good work they have done has been for naught. Unless they change their votes by the deadline, Wed, July 2nd, they will for ever be a member of the Cap and Tr8tors. HR 2454 RECORDED VOTE 26-Jun-2009 7:17 PM BILL TITLE: American Clean Energy and Security Act
1) Click on their link. 2) Select the 'Contact' tab. Contact their local office as they are not in DC and home on vacation.
Whenever there is some terrible event, such as an immigrant shooting up a campus full of innocent people, or a gang of terrorists crashing a plane into a skyscraper, killing thousands, liberals and Democrats always want to ask "Why?" Apparently, in the liberal mind, we are not able to attribute such acts to malice, or to insanity, nor even to human evil. No, we must search out some "logical" reason why these perpetrators are themselves victims of some greater evil conspiracy, either by the United States government (when controlled by Republicans) or otherwise by the US radical right wing. [Side note: interesting that in the liberal lexicon there is no "right wing" of American politics, only moderates like themselves and the radical right wing.]
Yet, when a certain political party attempts to heap upon our children such crushing debt that decades of their indentured servitude to the government would be required to pay it, while the private economy crumbles beneath them, are we not equally if not more entitled to ask "Why?" Or are we left with only the three aforesaid reasons--malice, insanity, or evil-- for such horrible acts? Surely liberal logic, if that is not an oxymoron, dictates that Democrats must offer an answer to that question before perpetrating another terroristic attack on the American economy. Can government tax and spend our way to prosperity? Logic dictates that the answer is "NO." That liberal logic would say otherwise tells us all we need to know about liberal logic. That is, that while ordinary logic might dictate to Republicans, the Democrats seek to dictate to logic. It's not logical.
This is unreal. I can't keep up. I can't even get my blog post together on Obama's terrible performance on Wednesday's prime time Universal Health Care Infomercial and they've already passed Cap and Trade through the House. (It passed by only 7 votes-- 8 Republicans voted for the bill.) These people need to be kicked out of the party today. They literally need to be called by their state and local party chairs and be told that they will not receive an endorsement from the party. This baby was black and white and there's no way that any Republican should have even thought about voting for it. It's an expansion of the federal government's power that is beyond the pale.
Here in Minnesota, here's what the worthless piece of garbage known as the Star Trib featured today:
3 Pages of Michael Jackson (including the front page)
1 Page of Farrah Faucett (page 2)
1 Page of Mark Sanford (page 3) By the way did John Edwards get one ounce of this coverage? Mr. If-we-knew-you-were-cheating-on-your-cancer-ridden-wife-Hillary-would-have won? No, that wasn't NEARLY as newsworthy. Forget about the astounding historical implications it has had.
1 Page of fluff on Michelle Obama and how she likes being the First Lady
They mentioned NOTHING today about this historic house vote on Cap and Trade except for a related, (and brilliant,) George Will column in the back of the paper. Reading the Strib today was like skimming through "Life & Style" and "OK" magazines in the grocery line.
This monster bill was 1,200 pages long! An additional 300 pages was added in the wee hours this morning...How did any of the FOOLS even read the legislation? Can you imagine such carelessness and thoughtlessness? But it's not thoughtlessness, it's completely contrived by the left wing, nut-job, multi-millionaire Al Gore types. They want us living in urban areas in 1,200 square foot apartments, driving tiny cars or riding light rail while they fricking jet around the world putting out more CO2 into the air then I would in a lifetime of driving my large SUV around the suburbs.
I'm sorry- I know there are a lot of Bush haters out there, (and you'll never catch me defending his spending), but please-- "No Child Left Behind" and "Medicare Part D" don't even come close to the amount of damage that this legislation is going to cause.
In yesterday's post I said that this was just another excuse to redistribute wealth, that low income folks would get subsidies...but, I didn't know it was going to be this bad until I heard some of the bill's language on Rush today. They are actually going to electronically transfer funds into the bank accounts of low income people every month, (at least low income people with bank accounts I guess.) The money is going to offset their "estimated loss of purchasing power" that will be caused by this bill. They acknowledge that there is going to be a lost of consumer purchasing power...unreal. Of course the taxpayers won't get any help to compensate this loss, unless we want to buy a $25,000 Prius that is.
We better start hoping global warming is real here in Minnesota, because we're going to have a hard time paying our heating bills here soon.
Pretend "moderate" Democrat Tim Walz voted for this one. If that can't help us win back the 1st Congressional District, boy I give up.
Is it possible that Bush should get some credit for what is going on in Iran? Iraqi people have shown that they can support a democratic government and the Iranians smell blood in the water.
We now have 17 Czars. They are accountable ONLY to the President with NO Congressional oversight. If I recall, that is exactly how Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and every other dictator has operated. Former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger call Obama a charlatan and a con man. NO DOUBT ABOUT IT!
Obama says no more lobbyists? So what about the Podesta group of lobbyist arranging a dinner with Diane Feinstein, Nancy Pelosi and Henry Waxman to the tune of $1000-$2500 for the 3 campaigns. Apparently the event was canceled when the word spread but how many are carried out?
Did you know that June 30th is when our troops will pull out of Baghdad? As of June 23rd, Iraqis are experiencing 5-6 violent attacks a day. Another one today killing 56 people.
Did you know that a Utah Congressmen (R) has proposed a bill that the Post Office should be doing the census. They deliver the mail to everyone in the country and God knows the Post Office is going bankrupt. They could be receiving the $11BILLION that the corrupt, fraudulent ACORN will be getting to do the census.
Did you know that the $400 MILLION that unions sank into the Obama campaign in 08 could turn into a $34 BILLION return if card check is passed. This means that the "secret ballot" for unionization will be dead.
Did you know that Obama is attempting to cut $1.4 BILLION from missile defense budget as the world becomes more dangerous as a result of Korean and Iranian actions?
THE VOTE ON CAP AND TRADE COMES UP ON FRIDAY. A VERY DARK DAY FOR AMERICAN BUSINESS, FARMERS, EVERY AMERICAN IF IT PASSES. NOTIFY YOUR REPRESENTATIVES NOW!
Some of my fellow conservatives have some very interesting thought processes, and often create in me a sense of wonder. For example, I've heard some say that, once Democrats screw up the country/state badly enough, the voting public will elect conservatives (not necessarily Republicans) to fix it. What I wonder is: How will they know? Jonah Goldberg takes a humorous look, but it's as serious as the destruction of the US economy. It isn't as if the failures of the Democratic Congress were not disastrous enough, or that Obama's socialist leanings, questionable associations, and patented doubletalk were not on open display throughout the last year of the 2008 campaign, yet both succeeded wildly at the ballot box. Here in Minnesota, the DFL passed two whopping tax increases and then vastly overspent even those, while delivering, by all accounts, next to nothing of value and no reform. They, too, increased their numbers and their power in the last election.
So, if conservatives know all these things, but cannot get the voters to know them, how are the voters ever going to vote as we rational, informed conservatives would expect rational, informed voters to vote? Much has been said about the need for Republicans to "have a message" and to "communicate better." Some have been saying it for years, yet not only does it remain undone, I have yet to hear anyone even suggest, realistically, how it COULD be done! You can Twitter as much as you want, but well over 50% of voters still get their only news, when they pay attention at all, from biased newspapers and TV. How will they know, when nobody will tell them, and when they do not really WANT to know?
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Sorry, just had to post this screen capture from the top of Drudge tonight. Here's hoping the only time he opens his mouth is to switch feet.
