Savage Republican

A few years back I came across an article warning about illegal aliens coming to America that were carrying horrible diseases that were highly infectious. There was a story coming from Austin, MN where there was a strain of resistant tuberculosis that was found amongst the police and was traced to illegal aliens and their increase in numbers in Austin. Another article went on to talk about the complete lack of hygiene from illegals that bred disease.
And now, there is this article on just one illegal alien (from Anti-Strib).Read it. And that all his friends tested positive.
In fairness, the last paragraph gives kudos to this one illegal alien. But, read what the doctor’s experience has been for countless others.

Juanita Broadrrick, Kathleen Willey and Candice Jackson give an inside view of Ms. Rodham. And they urge you to read “I’ve Always Been A Yankees Fan“. Hitlery’s quotes follow her in this great book.
Yesterday I heard John Podhoretz talk about his new book “Can She Be Stopped?“. He commented that if there are enough supposedly Republican women ( perhaps just 10%) who are just so in love with the idea of a woman President, then Hillary moves back to zip code 20006.
These women need to read Candice Jackson’s book “Their Lives:The Women Targeted by the Clinton Machine”. It will make your blood run cold…then hot if you’re any kind of thinking woman.
Forewarned is forearmed.

No, it’s not about spreading HIV THAT way.
This is another of those underreported events in the life of William Jefferson Blythe Clinton.
Seems that as governor, he was involved in an HIV, Hepatitis C infected blood selling program that has been ignored by, well, the usual suspects.
And now, he’s being protested for his role in killing people with tainted blood.
Just another chapter in the story of the Rock Star of the National and International Lefties.

Once again, be warned, the only reason you, or anyone else works is not for you or your family. It’s to keep Congress in power and control. So says Prairie Pravda . From their long disproved Keynesian outlook the reason for deficits is that there are tax cuts. That the solution to deficits is (of course)…RAISE TAXES!!! The only way to prop up failed, ineffective and in many cases counter-productive programs by taking even more of your money (see my post on riding dead horses. The editorial board at PP seems that point #9 is the way to get a dead horse to at least trot). Always remember, with lefties all tax cuts are unwarranted and too much, all tax raises are never enough, all programs (except the constitutional defense program) are underfunded, and any expansion of government is OK. The collectivists at PP always cry that you and I are idiots and just don’t know how to spend our own money. It takes the combined wisdom,intelligence, compassion and foresight of 535 people under a marble dome to effectively and prudently spend your money. Well, PPP (Prairie Pravda Pukes), I have a splendid idea: show us your commitment and have the government take all our money and give us all that we need. Go all the way, not part way. Come on! Minimum wage at $25.00 an hour, government meals at 7 am, 12 pm and 6 pm. Make us all happy! Vitamins at breakfast and urine tests to make sure we’re taking those vitamins. Mandatory and random dental exams to make sure that we’re all flossing. Sniffer dogs ensuring that we’re changing our government issued and washed underwear. TAKE ALL OUR MONEY AND BRING ON UTOPIA, YA’ COWARDS!
As Savage Republican once said “Any deficit is not and will never be a taxing or revenue problem. Deficits are and will always be a spending problem.”
The deficit problem solution is quite simple: cut programs. Cut spending.No deficits. Any questions?

Thomas Sowell has an excellent article on the hysteria surrounding the current high gas prices.

“If the profit per gallon of gas were reduced to zero, would that be enough to reduce the price by even a dime? If the oil company executives were to work free of charge, would that be enough to reduce the price of gasoline by even a penny a gallon?

Surely media loudmouths making millions of dollars a year and the multibillion dollar TV networks they work for can afford to get some statistics and buy a pocket calculator to do the arithmetic before spouting off nationwide.

But this is the age of emotion, not analysis.”

WOW – I don’t think truer words have been spoken in the media.

“The very politicians who have piled tax after tax on gasoline over the years, and voted to prohibit oil drilling offshore or in Alaska, and who have made it impossible to build a single oil refinery in decades, are all over the television screens denouncing the oil companies. In other words, those who supply oil are being denounced and demonized by those who have been blocking the supply of oil.” (emphasis mine)

OK maybe truer words HAVE been spoken in the media! Please go read the whole thing! There is nothing more to add, other than we need to hold Congress responsible, not “big oil”. Congress needs to get off of the dime and allow drilling in ANWR and off-shore exploration and more refineries!

Senator Edward Kennedy has long talked a good game on alternative energy and yet when a wind farm is slated to go in Nantucket Sound where it could possibly spoil the good Senator’s view from the family compound, well then all bets are off!

“A shoal in the center of the Sound is where Boston-based Cape Wind Associates hopes to build the nation’s first offshore wind farm — an array of 130 wind turbines capable of generating enough electricity to meet 75 percent of the Cape and Islands’ energy needs, without burning any oil or emitting any pollution. The turbines would be miles from any coastal property, barely visible on the horizon. In fact, Cape Wind says they would be farther away from the nearest home than any other electricity generation project in Massachusetts.”

Jeff Jacoby writes the above in an opinion piece about how the Senator is trying to change the rules in mid-stream for the operators of the Cape Wind Associates.

“Every child knows that you don’t change the rules in the middle of the game,” Kennedy says.”

True enough Senator, so why is it you are trying to change the rules here. Could it be because you don’t feel that the rules apply to you?

Here is the epitome of irony, from our friends at the Star Tribune.

“I find it very interesting that Rush Limbaugh managed to plea-bargain his way out of trouble for drug possession (Star Tribune, April 29).
On his own show, he had loudly advocated the imprisonment of all drug addicts. Yet when he is caught with his hand in the Oxycontin jar, a whole new set of rules suddenly apply.
If he were not who he is, a very rich celebrity, he would already be in jail. Truly there are separate systems of justice in this country: one for the rich and famous and one for the rest of us.
If justice is not meted out evenly, we cannot call ourselves a civil and just society. Paraphrasing George Orwell’s “Animal Farm,” in the United States, everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others.
DJV, CRYSTAL “

Now normally I leave the fisking of Strib Letters to those bloggers who do it best, but this was too rich to pass up!

Let’s see, on one hand we have a Republican radio commentator who is prosecuted (in the courts and in the media) for 3 years and when push comes to shove no charges are filed and on the other we have a Democratic member of Congress with a history of drug abuse crashing his car into a Capitol barrier and no field sobriety tests are issued and there is minimal coverage in the media. Just lots of sympathetic “tsk, tsks” about how he’s in need of rehab.

Yeah DJV, you’re so very right…some Kennedy’s are more equal than the rest of us. Cynthia McKinney…call your attorney – that discrimination case just grew legs!

Scott at Powerline points us to this.

“IN A BOLD AND CONTROVERSIAL DECISION, the president authorized a program for the surveillance of communications within the United States, seeking to prevent acts of domestic sabotage and espionage. In so doing, he ignored a statute that possibly forbade such activity, even though high-profile federal judges had affirmed the statute’s validity. The president sought statutory amendments allowing this surveillance but, when no such legislation was forthcoming, he continued the program nonetheless. And when Congress demanded that he disclose details of the surveillance program, the attorney general said, in no uncertain terms, that it would get nothing of the sort. “

George W. Bush???? No – Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Read the entire article. It’s one of those things that makes you go “hmmmmmm”. So there is precident for what President Bush has done…and it was legal then….therefore…

“The DaVinci Code” movie is coming out soon…yawn! I read some of the book, but found it rather boring – although I had a manager at a previous job who SWORE it was the greatest thing since sliced bread. She kept talking about the “revelations” in the book as if the book was fact based instead of fiction.

This Reuters story got me to thinking though. While I don’t agree with the Cardinal’s call to sue over the book/movie, I do find his reaction to be a striking contrast to the “Islamic World’s” reaction to the “Mohammed” cartoons. Let’s see – burning embassies, killing people or filing a legal brief. Which do you think is the more civilized reaction to a percieved insult?????

Lots and lots of Republican supporters feel (as Amendment X does) that since the Republicans have turned their legislative backs on us, we should turn our backs on them and not show up to the polls in November. I fully understand that frustration, I was NOT happy with Governor Pawlenty when he passed that $.75 per pack tax – er fee – on cigarettes and I told him so! I am still unhappy (and get more unhappy with each visit to the gas station) with Senator Coleman and Congressman Kennedy for their votes against drilling in ANWR and I told them so. I am not totally pleased with the stadium bill that came out of the Senate and the House bill is only partially palatable (I still believe that the voters of Hennepin County deserve the right to vote on the new tax).

Amendment X asks (in the above linked post) “Do these people deserve re-election? Do they represent me? The Republican Platform? Small government?” valid questions all. I would answer that we have the opportunity, especially now as early in the convention/primary process as we are, to hold these people accountable! Now is the time to let the Governor and the State Senators and the Federal legislators know that they are NOT representing their party and that the grass roots is not happy. There is no guarantee that they will listen and if they don’t, then you do have to vote your conscience. However, before you decide to stay home in November I would ask you to consider the following.

Just who will really suffer should the Republican base stay home and refuse to vote. Would the Republican candidates suffer? Yeah they may not be re-elected but they would hardly “suffer”? Would the Party suffer? Hardly – they might pay a little more lip service to the base, but really would it change much? No, the ones who would really suffer is the country as a whole! Take a look at what we are in for should the Democrats get control of the House and Senate.

On a Federal Level, you have John Conyers (D-MI) who would become Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee should the Democrats regain control of the House. He has already declared that he would IMMEDIATELY start investigating the President for “lying” us into the War in Iraq. He has also sponsored a bill (HR 40 – for 40 acres and a mule) to investigate the impact of paying reparations for slavery to African Americas living today! Or consider Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) who would become Speaker of the House should the Democrats take control. She vowed (in a Washington Post interview and on Meet the Press) to “raise the minimum wage, roll back parts of the prescription drug plan, repeal the Patriot Act, roll back the Bush tax cuts and investigate the Bush Administration.”

On the state level you have the two DFL candidates for Governor promising to raise taxes IMMEDIATELY on the top earners. The DFL controlled Senate has already passed a stadium bill that would tax EVERYONE in the seven county metro area to pay for all 3 stadiums and REFUSE private donations from TCF Bank (because they asked for naming rights). We have DFL candidates at all levels campaigning for more light rail, universal health care, education and publically funded stadiums and all of those proposals are going to require MAJOR tax hikes to pay for them!

So in the long run, just who would be hurt worse if the Republican base stayed home this November????? I would submit that it would be worse for the country and the state if we disgruntled Republicans refused to show up on election day.