What Now?

A week from today will mark the beginning of the fall election season. Labor Day has been the traditional starting block for the fall campaigns and yet it appears as if we are in a never-ending story of running for office. One sign comes down and another goes up. One white shirt, red tie, and gray suit replaces another. No wonder the voters are apathetic. The candidates might as well be in a Charlie Brown cartoon where the adults utterances are unintelligible to the kids. In this case, it is to the voters.

I have one idea that may make this change. How about trying some leadership for a change? You know, good ol' fashioned leadership. I was watching one of Ronald Reagan's speeches on YouTube to remind myself what leadership looked like. He was funny, intelligent, but never demeaning. He told the truth. He stated clearly what was going on and most importantly he told people what he would do to correct the mess.

I watched Beck and Palin this weekend with the same stuff: leadership. You can't bottle and sell it. You have to have it in yourself. You have to be willing to put it all on the line and not care who gets the credit.

But I am afraid that the winds of September won't bring any leadership our way, just a series of attack ads hoping that we will choose one as the lessor of two evils.

When Johnny Comes Marching Home

It used to be that the Democratic Party boasted that they were the party of the little folk, the dispossessed, the abused....you know the list. They would croon on and on about how the evil rich folks were making a fortune off their backs and how the holier than thou Dems would make sure that the people would get what they were entitled to once the rich were soaked. So they got in power. But guess what? Instead of taking care of the folks, they bailed out the fat cats. rewrote regulations to favor the rich and powerful and exempted themselves from having to partake in Obamacare, and started ripping off the little guys calling them greedy and selfish by increasing all kinds of taxes and fees ("Tax and spend, tax and spend, the people are too damn dumb to understand." Col. House to FDR)

Now it is election season. Their fearless leader is AWOL on countless vacations and golf games. If he shows up to campaign, it is the kiss of death for that candidate. To make matters worse, the Republicans are telling the truth to Democrat voters. They are unabashedly converting them to vote Republican. All you have to do is look at the unemployment rate, the decrease in the value of savings, and no end it site to make a compelling case for switching.

One of the most devastating trends for the Dems is that intelligent Black conservatives have found their voice and are encouraging others to leave the Democrat Plantation. In almost a fever pitch of fear the Dems are calling up the usual suspects to protest the Glenn Beck event this weekend in DC. With promises to disrupt the event and block people from attending, the Dems are revealing their thuggery to everyone.

I say to quote W "Bring it on." And I will cheer as Johnny comes marching home to the party of Freedom.

Like Pictures in a Museum

Have you ever wondered why the more things change the more they stay the same? Why after all of your hard work and pleading on your knees for things to change they don't? I have asked myself those same questions after almost every election where the candidates that I have supported have failed to win. This time I am backing off of the emotional backlash that I usually rely on as I felt the hurricane force of someone laying into me because of my personal and political views and so will not spew more vitriol into the current climate. What I came to realize is that it really is up to me to do something. No wailing and crying and gnashing of teeth will ever move the voters one iota. With only 23% of registered voters in the state taking the time to cast their ballot, it appears that they are too busy watching Lady Gaga on YouTube (over 300,000,000 views) to get off their collective *s to take part in what well could be the last battle for freedom and liberty in this nation.

So for me I will continue to fight the good fight, preserve the principles of the Founders, and look to November as the next battle in the war for Freedom. When David Letterman asked "Who do they want to take the country back from?" I thought of Pilate's famous line "What is Truth?"
Now wanting Freedom from an oppressive federal government, the New American Plantation, where all your needs womb (if you make it out alive) to tomb are taken care of as long as you give your allegiance to the slave daddies in Big Government, is considered a radical stance, un-American, unpatriotic. Letterman is representative of the New Aristocracy where a subhuman can earn over $20 million a year by pushing the company line. "If you're a good boy, Dave, you can have Barry join you on the set and we will see to it that those pesky sexual harassment charges disappear."

So will it be that the very idea of a Republic disappears and the only remnant of it is a series of portraits hung in some dusty museum where few ever go as it is so passe?

As for me, this day, I choose Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. What do you choose?

Harry's SCHIP didn't come in.....

By now you’ve seen the media doctored photos of good ole’ grandfatherly Harry in his role as chief rescuer of the disadvantaged and distressed. (Notice, they never have him in a speaking role—just a disembodied head with a fake smile.) I was wondering just how long it would take for his campaign to rip off another play from the Democratic Reelection Campaign Playbook in their ads. Lo and behold, here comes the “it’s for the children” ploy. I always find it ironic that Democrats have no qualms about parading angelic children in misleading ads pretending on the one hand to be “for the children” while on the other hand are the very party who are eager to support abortion on demand. After all didn’t the leader of their party, say he wouldn’t want his daughters to be “punished with a baby” if they made a mistake and voted four times against a provision to save the life of an infant who was the survivor of a botched abortion? But why let the facts get in the way of another attempt by the DCRII (Democratic Campaign to Re-elect Incompetent Incumbents) to insist they really care.

Here’s a quote from Mitchell’s campaign site:
“Congressman Mitchell has voted for legislation to expand health insurance coverage for low-income children provided by the State Children's Health Care Program (SCHIP), in the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act, H.R. 976.”

So let’s parse the definition of just what the Democrats mean by children. According to wording from the bill, these uninsured children include “pregnant women, parents and childless adults.” In addition, the age of dependent children in this bill now has been redefined to include cuddly kids up to the age of 25.

And this isn’t all that was in this debacle. Not only was the definition of “children” adjusted but so was the definition of “poverty.” Under the Mitchell backed bill, the poor included families earning as much as $80,000 per year!

So how do you fund this program according to the DCRII script? Raise taxes, of course! But here is where it gets interesting. No one wants higher taxes, right? So choose a despised group and tax them. Well, who’s left? The rich have been squeezed. So let’s increase the tax on evil tobacco. Funny, the party that has pushed so hard for the elimination of smoking now wants to pay for SCHIP by increasing the number of smokers! To pay for step one toward universal government run healthcare needs to be funded by a 61 cent increase on tobacco tax requiring an additional 22 million new smokers. But what can you expect from a party that needs to register dead people, non-citizens and fictional characters in order to win an election?

Fortunately, W used his veto pen on this disaster. But according to Harry, you would think the legislation passed. Now you know the rest of the story.