Savage Republican

Mark Dayton reported back to the true believers on Portland Avenue today.

“When I began my Senate term in January 2001, our country was at peace, the federal budget was in surplus, and, shortly thereafter, Senate Democrats were in the majority. “

and all was right with the world, eh Senator????

“But the terrible attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, drastically altered my legislative agenda, as they did so many other plans for America. “

Yeah – the voters of America woke up to what you and your fellow Democrats were doing with our national security Senator!

“Losing Paul’s seat put Senate Democrats in the minority for the next two years. “

Yeah that’s the ticket….losing St. Paul’s seat is what put the Democrats in the minority. It surely couldn’t have had anything to do with the Dems lack of vision and ideas now could it???

“I have been unable to accomplish much of my legislative agenda. It was not for lack of trying. Six times I tried to amend Senate bills to fully fund the long-promised federal share of special education. It would have given Minnesota’s schools an extra $250 million this year, money that is badly needed.”

I couldn’t bring the pork home because of those evil Republicans…..they hate children…heck they EAT children for breakfast – did you know that????

“At the same time, tax cuts for the rich and super-rich, which I opposed, will cost the U.S. government over $200 billion this year. “

Maybe when Senator Dayton comes home in January, King Banaian can show the esteemed Senator how those tax cuts that the Senator opposed increased the amout of tax dollars that the federal government took in!

Remember – this is the same Mark Dayton who just last week gave himself an “F” grade for his term in office. Yet here he is bragging about all of the legislation that he sponsored and would have passed if it weren’t for those evil House Conferences. Maybe someone forgot to tell the Senator that conference committees are a vital part of our political process!

What is funny is that Senator Dayton, in listing out all of the agenda items that he tried so hard to get passed, didn’t list that he sponsored a bill to form a new cabinet level department….the Department of Peace and Non-Violence. You would think he would be proud of that particular piece of legislation.

In an effort to show how out of shape I am, I will be running in a 5K this weekend to raise money for Alpha Pregnancy Resource Center.

It is my way of doing more than just putting a “Pro Life” bumper sticker on my car.
It is a small way to help out an organization that truly saves lives by helping Mothers and Fathers with an unexpected pregnancy get the help they need. They even have a home to help Mother’s before and after the birth (and one of the coolest house moms I have met).

Anyway if you want to help you can donate directly with them as a way to sponsor me in the run.
No big donations necessary (but certainly appreciated). Even a donation of $5 can help out.

If you donate, leave me a note using the info tab or just e-mail me at info@savagerepublican.com
I’ll put up details of the totals.

Here is the address for Alpha:
http://www.alphaprc.com/supportus.htm

Now back to out regulary scheduled Opinion pages.

You all remember when Senator Dean Johnson said (to a group of fellow pastors) that the Marriage Amendment was not necessary because he had the assurances of certain members of the State Supreme Court that they would not touch marriage because “we stand for election too”. Well, now the state board of judicial standards is investigating the 7 sitting Supreme Court Justices to make sure that no inappropriate conversations took place. If (as Senator Johnson first claimed) the Justiced did indeed assure Senator Johnson that they would not act on the current marriage statute, then they are guilty of making a “ruling” on a case before a case is even brought before them. If (as the Senator now contends) those conversations did not take place, that Senator Johnson “embellished” the story, when then he is guilty of lying to these pastors! Either way, Senator Johnson is in trouble.

I like Ann Coulter. A lot. She has a great way of pointing out the gross hypocrisy of the left. And no more so than in her recent column.
The left has been screaming at us about global warming. Their 2000 hero, Al Gore, equated the internal combustion engine as satan incarnate and a greater threat than nuclear weapons (strange though. I never remember seeing him ride a bike cross country or take the train. Oh that’s right, he’s a lefty. He knows best for me. Therefore he needn’t take his own advice or lead from the front.) And so with John Kerry wanting to tack on a $.50 a gallon tax, Harry Reid saying we aren’t taxed enough on gasoline, a number of proposals that would add $.25 or more a gallon, now the lefties are screaming that the price of gasoline has risen. Haven’t they finally gotten their wish? And they’re upset that they finally got what they’ve wanted!
Go read Ann Coulter’s column. She makes mincemeat of these hypocritical pukes.
And Dr. Thomas Sowell weighs in on the economics vs. politics in the oil and gasoline markets. And another great read.

“I’m sitting in the dark on the edge of a camp for displaced people in Darfur. I can hear the loud, persistent crying of one child rising above the murmur of the camp as the people settle down for the night. “

Thus begins a BBC News article on a subject that you probably have not heard anything about here in the US media.

“A UN force for Darfur is still in the planning stages, an attempt to punish Sudanese leaders with sanctions has been blocked, and relief agencies have been denied access to 300,000 people desperately in need of emergency supplies.”

Says this article from the Independent (UK – payment required).

This sad, sad story has been brewing for years. Twenty one years to be exact and it is yet another example shining example of the actions of the “religion of peace” – for you see the aggressors in this are Muslim militias!

When are we going to see something about this story in the American media?

The US Senate, in it’s ultimate wisdom, has decided that it needs to consider imposing a “windfall profits” tax on the profits of big oil companies. That is a ludicrous proposition on a number of levels.

Level #1 – the Federal goverment makes an 18.4 cent per gallon profit on every gallon of gas that you and I buy.

Level #2 – the State government makes an average 18.7 cent per gallon profit on every gallon of gas that you and I buy. The state of Minnesota takes 22 cents per gallon out of our pocket.

Level #3 – the oil companies make a paltry 7.4 cents per gallon profit on every gallon of gas that you or I buy.

Level #4 – read Amendment X’s most excellent post on the circumstances that led us to be in this predicament. It is Economics 101 and is a must read for any and all of our representatives in Washington DC.

Hopefully now we can put to rest the meme that it is “big oil” that is profiting from these near record high gasoline prices. Then we can get around to doing something that will make it less painfull to the consumer. And no Amy, adding more regulations to the already burdensome regulations already in place is not going to do that. A good start would be for the states and federal governments to repeal (even temporarily) the sales taxes that they impose on customers and thus take care of their own “windfall profits”.

Nick Coleman…nah, I’m not gonna beat him up..too badly.
Today he screams that “democracy is getting nuked” by the stadium deal.
Well, no it’s not. This is democracy on parade and display. This is exactly what democracy looks like and how it works. The residents of Hennepin County are in the minority compared to the rest of the state. Nicky asks what we have here in Minnesota: a representative democracy, corporate government or just plain tyranny? Yes to two and possibly the third. We have a representative democracy in function. What we are supposed to have is a representative republic that is constitutionally mandated and therefore constitutionally limited. In a democracy might and the majority make right. Period. Not so in what should be our constitutional republic. In a democracy the minority have no protection. In a constitutional republic each citizen is protected.No groups can have either rights or privledges as it’s the citizen that is protected. In a democracy the rule of people is supreme. In a constitutional republic, the law is supreme. A democracy can be called the tyranny of the masses. What the majority want, the majority gets. Or without the constraints of a constitution,what the majority of the representatives want, they get. I once heard that a gang rape and a lynching are democratic events.
So, Hennepin County…too bad for you. We have a democracy, not a republic. And really, too bad for all the non-Minneapolis residents as the stadium is not a travelling stadium. After all, look at the great deal Sharon Sayles Belton and the Minneapolis City Council did with the Target Center. Wonder why they didn’t want to repeat that great inner city victory and triumph of left wing thinking ?
The Founding Fathers did not trust democracy. Nowhere in the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution does the term “democracy” exist.And the reason it doesn’t is evidenced by the Stadium deal.
So, Nicky, how does it feel to be hoisted on your own petard? Adios constitutional republic, hello, hail and welcome to democracy.
It sure do hurt,don’t it Nicky?
Now, go read Bastiat’s “The Law“.

This morning I received an email from a good friend of mine who seems to share a common thought with other liberty loving, Constitution respecting, smaller government desiring soon to be former voters for Republicans. The thought we share is in the last seven words of the previous sentence. His suggestion was to sit out the November elections. Or even vote for a Democrat. His, and our frustration boileth over. And all our elected representatives, from locals to state to federal, are oblivious or nearly so. I sense that the “I’ll hold my nose and vote for him/her” feeling of the past is rapidly evaporating as many of us see only one political party: The Party of Big, Intrusive Government with it’s two wings-The Left Wing where no tax is high enough, no amount of money is ever enough for any program, any slow down of the rate of increase in spending is termed “draconian cuts” any and all taxes are on the backs of the poor. And we have the Right Wing where they believe the same thing, but just a little less. And the politicos will leap to their own defense-and fail miserably. When we see all these increases in spending and intrusiveness.
A decade ago I received this Imprimis in the mail. I read it and was very heartened. We Reagan conservatives were off the beach and into the interior. We were on our way. We had opened up a front in the 1994 elections. We kept Bill Clinton in check. And I kept thinking about Imprimis over the next ten years as I watched Republicans become more and more like the lefties I thought we had finally defeated. And over the last five years I’ve watched “us” morph into “them”. I wrote to Mr. Norquist about his article. And he wrote back that, in essence, it was taking more time than he thought it would. I wrote that I was rapidly losing hope. He replied that I should hang in there. That people of my political bent were needed. I doubt it. I’m only pandered to with statements. Words are cheap. And this from Arlen Specter:”the Republican party of the 21st Century is “now principally moderate, if not liberal.”“And we had a real conservative to run against Arlen. But GWB campaigned against him in the run up to the primary to support Arlen.

And the Hugh Hewitts of the world keep exhorting us to keep voting for these same people with the warning “It could be worse!!!”
I find no comfort with a broken arm with a Hugh Hewitt telling me “The Democrats would have broken BOTH arms!” These Republicans will be breaking my other arm soon enough.