Savage Republican

I had to take a short respite from blogging to deal with some health issues with my out of state mother. While helping my sister go through my mother’s mail (looking for bills and tax paperwork) I found several pieces of mail that stunned me.

My mother is a die hard Democrat. She has her reasons for voting Democratic, as I have my reasons for voting Republican. As such she has donated much money to Democratic candidates and Democratic PAC’s such as Emily’s List, NARAL and NOW. In my mother’s mail I found solicitations for the following candidates campaigns:

Jennifer Granholm for Governor (Michigan)
Ruth Ann Minner for Governor (Delaware)
Christine Gregoire for Governor (Washington State)
Debbie Stabenow for Senate (Michigan)
Tom Daschel for Senate (South Dakota it’s dated for sure)

Now my mother does not live in Michigan, Delaware, Washington state OR South Dakota. So why is she getting letters looking for campaign donations from these states? My guess is that (given the gender of 4 of the 5 candidates) Emily’s List, Naral or NOW sold their donor’s list to these campaigns. That happens all the time. What bothers me is the utter audacity of these candidates to “beg” for money from elderly ladies in other states! Now thankfully my mother didn’t respond to any of these solicitations, but what about the other elderly ladies these people are sponging off of? This type of campaigning is no worse than the worst of the televangelists. Bilking seniors for campaign dollars is reprehensible.

Always nice when the kings and queens of the Potomac live life from time to time under the same laws they pass and demand that their subjects comply with.
Congressman Jim Ramstad’s comments: “I think it is important that we (Congress) operate in the real world,”.
I’m so encouraged.

Dick Morris has written an article where he lays out the real problems GWB is having. And the Republicans will be having. I’m reminded of Aesop’s fable from my youth about the bat and war between the beasts and the birds. The bat would say that he wasn’t a bird and wasn’t a beast. And was rejected by both. I’m reminded of this Republican President: No Child Left Behind, Medicare Prescription Drug Plan,Guest Worker Program, McCain/Feingold ,the GWB acceptance speech in 2004 (where an elected state official friend of mine said “where is all the money for those programs going to come from?”. My comment was that GWB’s speech was the acceptance speech that John Kerry should have given.) A Republican President…who has programs that Democrats vote for in overwhelming numbers. A Republican President…
Morris shows his Democratic predisposition when he lists what GWB should be doing to shore up the conservatives who are seriously estranged from GWB and the party, seemingly remembering Nixon’s quote “You can’t win with the conservative vote alone,but you can’t win without them.” And I’m exhausted listening to Michael Medved and Hugh Hewitt saying “but if you conservatives don’t vote, look what will happen:Lefties everywhere!!!”
Here is Morris’s list with my recommendations:

Really focus on energy issues: Come out for massive investment in ethanol production, delivery and vehicles, and more: retrofitting all gas stations for ethanol and hydrogen; a new push for nuclear power; heavy investment in clean coal technology, burying the carbon dioxide. Truly lead the nation away from petroleum. We’ve done the “alternative fuels” thing for well over 30 years. And all have failed. Oil is efficient and effective. That’s why we use it. Exploration and refining are the problems. No new refineries in over 30 years. And many small refineries have shut down. ANWR-if we were to make ANWR a football size plot, the area that’s would be used for oil exploration would be the size of two postage stamps in the end zone.(The pictures of the frolicking caribou, clear running brooks and streams and endless carpets of Arctic wildflowers whenever the voice-over talks about ANWR? Lies and deceptions. The impact area is less than one-half of one percent. And the actual above ground structure would be the size of Reagan Airport). Explore the California coast. Synfuels from coal (the Germans ran a war machine on synfuels from dirty coal.) We have tar sands and oil shale that would keep us energy independent for decades, if not for a couple of centuries. Ethanol is a waste. Even the plants that produce ethanol don’t use it as an energy source because it’s too expensive and inefficient. Ethanol use is a bumper sticker moment only.

Admit that global warming is happening, and launch major new programs to curb it: Many are the same measures as can solve our energy dependence. But add in mandatory upgrading of power plants to cut emissions and major investment in solar and bio-mass energy.Global warming-well, perhaps, but not man made. The History Channel had a special on global warming and mentioned the mini-ice age that was a result of global warming in the first millennium. But never pursued what produced that period of “global warming”. SUV dealerships in the first millennium didn’t offer the rebates that they did in the latter part of the second millennium. A bad idea. And worse policy and politics.

Build a wall, but let guest workers in: Right-wingers want a wall on our southern border; they’d accept a guest-worker program if we could regulate our own borders. Latinos would accept a wall if there were a chance for immigrants to do legal work and a path to citizenship. Give both what they want, and lead the country into a grand compromise. And what do we get? “Guest worker programs” and a McCain/Kennedy bill that GWB wants to get behind. And the voters, especially results oriented voters. The open southern border problem has been a major concern for the country since 9-11. And it’s taken nearly five years to finally get serious about it? And this is what we get? And we’ve accumulated over 2,500,000 additional illegals in that time. But, Morris is kind of right. Do I care that Latinos would accept something about guest workers? No. But,this one gets kind of a thumbs up from conservatives: Wall first, in country illegals second. And why not attempt to throw all the illegals out? As I read that because we can’t catch and convict all rapists does that stop us from trying?

Put the drug fight front and center: Demand drug testing in schools with parental consent, and tax incentives for workplace drug testing. Link cocaine to terrorism, and build a national consensus for tough measures to cut demand. And why is there a connection? Because there is a profit. And the success of the War on Drugs? And how do we cut demand? Good luck! Dick, have you ever heard of the much heralded success of the Volstead Act? It appears that Dick Morris’s concerns are legit. But, he should have asked for the input from one or more of the disenfranchised conservatives that really hold the key to the 2006/2008 elections.

You may have noticed that I’m a bear on the Constitution (hence my nom de plume).
Many seemingly think that the Constitution is written in hard to understand English. No, it’s just difficult for us to understand, like Shakespearean plays in the contemporary English. The attendees at the Globe Theatre knew exactly what the players were saying. The authors of the Constitution wrote it so that the average American citizen of the late 18th century could and would understand it quite nicely. When it came to the Bill of Rights, the authors felt the BOR would be a redundancy. My lands, the Constitution was plain enough, Article 1, section 8 limiting the Congress was quite clear and unambiguous. So, why spell out was obvious? But, the states wanted to be very clear what the new federal government was allowed to do, and not to do. And thus the Bill of Rights was born.
What I find especially interesting are the first five words in the 1st Amendment: Congress shall make no law…
Ok, so far so good. Pretty straight forward. Five words, easy to understand. Well, with McCain-Feingold Congress flipped off the Founders and the Bill of Rights and you and me. They flipped off America. GWB decided to let the Supremes do his heavy lifting and signed this so obviously unconstitutional piece of evil. But he foolishly thought that swinging Sandy O’Connor would vote against. Wrongo George! And now McCain-Feingold is the law. But, there was way that we could practice free speech-the 527’s.
But, the gutless bastards that brought you the political version of Son of Sam have now brought you Brother of Son of Sam. The Republicans in the House of Representatives has betrayed the American public. And George Will has called it betrayal.
And he’s right.
And he lists the last 18 principled Republicans left in the House:

Roscoe Bartlett (Maryland), Chris Chocola (Indiana), Jeff Flake (Arizona), Vito Fossella (New York), Trent Franks (Arizona), Scott Garrett (New Jersey), Louie Gohmert (Texas), Jeb Hensarling (Texas), Ernest Istook (Oklahoma), Walter Jones (North Carolina), Steve King (Iowa), Connie Mack (Florida), Cathy McMorris (Washington), Randy Neugebauer (Texas), Ron Paul (Texas), Mike Pence (Indiana), John Shadegg (Arizona) and Lynn Westmoreland (Georgia).

If your Congressman’s name isn’t on the above list,read and consider George Will’s recommendation:
“On this remnant of…limited-government conservatism a future House majority can be built. The current majority forfeited its raison d’etre on April 5.”

You’ve now been informed. You now have no excuse.
Let’s start the rebuild. And a quick BTW, what was all this suppose to accomplish? Get money (aka political sppech) out of politics, to stop influence buying. And why do people try to buy influence in government? Because there is influence to be bought.

OK kids, we’ve got another “Do it for the children” Wellstonian moment from Prairie Pravda. This time for the children of “undocumented” immigrants. Meaning the children of criminals. The euphemistic acronym? DREAM (Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors). The reasoning for special privileges for the offspring of criminals? They’re innocent children. They have the seed of promise. All touchy feely. If you’re against the DREAM, the Marxists at Prairie Pravda hang the term “dream slayer” on us.
Anything to fear from the DREAM? Not according to the enlightened social engineers (meaning they’re manipulators). quote “Those who fear that the DREAM Act would make Minnesota a magnet for illegal immigrants should know that this state would not stand alone.” And the reason for our fears to be allayed? Well, my friend, because there are nine other states that will also become criminal nesting grounds.My, my. There now. Don’t you feel safer?
So, I’m a Dream slayer uh? And the Marxists at Prairie Pravda are coddlers of criminals and law breakers, killers of the real American Dream, the Constitution, the rule of law, granters of government dictated privileges for any number of self-described victims that legal American citizens are expected to pay for (in more ways than one).
So, who’s the real dream slayer here?

The WSJ doesn’t quite have the timing right, but certainly the sentiment that I expressed below: The Republicans can not stop themselves. They have become mislabeled Democrats and extreme lefties.
From the end of the article:
A category five political storm is building in GOP precincts around the country, and it is going to blow Republicans right out of the majority in November if they don’t soon give their supporters some reason to re-elect them. So far this year they’ve passed limits on free speech that liberals love, but they haven’t been able to extend the wildly successful 2003 tax cuts by even a mere two years. And now they won’t even allow a vote on budget reforms that their own President and a majority of their own Members support. At the current pace, a Democratic majority in Congress would be preferable, if only for reasons of truth in advertising.
An easy solution: Dump them all.

Seems that the rant again from Minneapolis is that there are too many guns on the street:
“The Rev. Ian Bethel, co-chairman of the Police-Community Relations Council, said the council plans to make sure the department does a thorough investigation of the crash. But he also made a plea for the community to work to get guns off the street.“
Why not get the thugs, punks and bangers who use guns off the street instead. The one banger who was killed in this accident will not be involveed in any more drive by shootings I’d wager. Nor will he go to any movies playing near Block E with a firearm and shoot an innocent bystander. And he won’t be shooting up any neighborhoods where innocent little girls are doing their homework. No matter how many firearms are on the street, this banger won’t be using any. Now, if all bangers were off the street…do the math.

I came across this article on what the real deficit is this year (notice that Congress uses an accounting method that it doesn’t allow me to use as an independent business owner).Notice that the real defict is over twice what’s reported. At the bottom of the article there is bad math/economics where Broder says that if we keep spending at the same level and keep the tax cuts and make them permanent, well, then we’d be in real trouble. Uh, no. Not at all. Ever.
As a friend of mine said, and I agree a deficit is never a revenue or tax problem. It always has been and always will be a spending problem. Period. End of story. Go on to the next book. Reagan’s tax cuts brought in a 100% increase in revenue. The problem with the deficits then was that the Democratic Congress spent all the new revenue, then even more. And it’s never a bad idea that people keep the money and more of the money they worked for. Thank you Karl Marx and your heathen spawn, you scum sucking servants of satan.
But what I shuddered at was that the actual deficit of $760,000,000,000 this year comes out to be a debt figure of $156,000 for each every LEGAL man, woman and child in America. That means that the unfunded Social Security and Medicare liabilities comes out to be $14,300,000 for each non-undocumented American (meaning a real, legal American). But, it’s really worse because that cost will fall on our children and grand children. And the $14,300,000 is in today/constant dollars. What needs to be put into an ccount this afternoon. And that figure goes up by $800,000 each year.
That’s the result of scary math.

Ann Coulter nails it again!

Yahhhh…..Potomac drinking water.