Sunday, September 30, 2012
SARAH PALIN WAS RIGHT: "We [meaning ObamaCare] need death panels." No, thanks. I agree with this comment: "If there is to be rationing, I want to be the one rationing for myself, not to be rationed by some shadowy, bureaucracy that cannot be held accountable."
MARK STEYN: according to President Obama, the future will belong to "gay feminist ecumenical Muslims."
Read it all.
Read it all.
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO DEFENSE CONTRACTORS: we'll bribe ... er, pay you to shut up. The blogs respond: "So, the government is going to provide the funds to pay the fines they impose on the contractors for non-compliance with regulations written by the government."
Linked from Instapundit.
Linked from Instapundit.
Saturday, September 29, 2012
FOX NEWS CONFIRMS Obama administration designated Benghazi sacking a terror attack within first 24 hours. Liars.
BUYERS, AUTOMAKERS raise doubts about electric cars. No surprise here; when an industry is heavily subsidized, it'll never become competitive.
HUGE SURPRISE: "[T]he Washington Post’s ombudsman admits [h]is paper’s 'news columnists almost to a person write from left of center.'” And it's not the first time, either.
Wonder why I no longer subscribe?
Wonder why I no longer subscribe?
CHIEF EXECUTIVES, growing more nervous about lawmakers’ ability to address the pending fiscal cliff, are cutting their expectations for hiring and economic growth, according to the Business Roundtable‘s third quarter CEO Economic Outlook Survey.
I'M ALMOST ALWAYS against unions when they threaten strikes, but in this case I'm almost in favor of the union. PEPCO, the electric power provider for most of Washington DC is being threatened by the local union with a possible strike. Since PEPCO has been vilified over the years by local residents for outages caused by trees falling that they won't let PEPCO trim, I'm leaning toward allowing a strike that would give the residents of DC their just desserts.
ANN COULTER: "Democrats spent the first century of this country's existence refusing to treat black people like human beings, and the second refusing to treat them like adults."
Read it all.
Read it all.
DISGUSTING: Obama Campaign Finds New Way to Divide Families.
Here's a more reliable factoid. With a simple back-of-the-envelope calculation, I can show that paying off the current $16 trillion national debt will cost every man, woman, and child alive in America today at least $10 per day for the next 30 years.
Just the $4 trillion that Obama has saddled us with over his administration will cost each American roughly $2 per day.
And we're even considering re-electing him?
Here's a more reliable factoid. With a simple back-of-the-envelope calculation, I can show that paying off the current $16 trillion national debt will cost every man, woman, and child alive in America today at least $10 per day for the next 30 years.
Just the $4 trillion that Obama has saddled us with over his administration will cost each American roughly $2 per day.
And we're even considering re-electing him?
THOMAS SOWELL: "Barack Obama is not the first leader of a nation whose actions reflected some half-baked vision, enveloped in lofty rhetoric and spiced with a huge dose of ego. Nor would he be the first such leader to steer his nation into a historic catastrophe."
Friday, September 28, 2012
MICHAEL BARONE ON OBAMA: Industrial Age Solutions to Information Age Challenges.
His favorite high-tech project is to build enormously expensive high-speed rail lines like the one Jerry Brown is pushing in California.Read it all.
Meanwhile, Google is developing self-driving cars that will be able to move faster and more efficiently than current cars because their 21st century technology, like the 19th century technology of fixed rails, effectively prevents cars from colliding.
Nineteenth century fixed rails take you where the railroad, or its government subsidizer, wants you to go. Self-driving cars will take you where you want to go, with as many stops as you like along the way.
UNITED NATIONS CONSIDERS 'TAPPING' WEALTHY NATIONS — the U.S. in particular — through a host of global taxes, says 'the time has come' to redistribute wealth.
No, the time has come for the U.S. to withdraw from the UN.
No, the time has come for the U.S. to withdraw from the UN.
ACCORDING TO A NEW PUBLIC OPINION STRATEGIES POLL, Utah's Mia Love is now beating her Democrat opponent 51-36.
And Democrats are not taking Love’s blooming well.Good for her.
The leftist magazine Mother Jones is now attacking Love as an “anchor baby” and police are investigating a packet of racist pictures sent to Love’s mayoral office.
Few things anger liberals more than seeing a successful immigrant adopt conservative policies and win as a Republican. That is why the liberal noise machine will stop at nothing to destroy Love. So far it seems Utah voters are ignoring them.
DON'T MESS WITH AN OLD WOMAN.
From my email.
An old woman prospector shuffled into town leading a tired old mule. The old woman headed straight for the only saloon to clear her parched throat.
She walked up and tied her old mule to the hitch rail. As she stood there, brushing some of the dust from her face and clothes, a young gunslinger stepped out of the saloon with a gun in one hand and a bottle of whiskey in the other.
The young gunslinger looked at the old woman and laughed, saying "hey old woman, have you ever danced?"
The old woman looked up at the gunslinger and said, "No, I never did dance ... never really wanted to."
A crowd had gathered as the gunslinger grinned and said, "Well, you old bag, you're gonna dance now," and started shooting at the old woman's feet.
The old woman prospector - not wanting to get her toe blown off - started hopping around. Everybody was laughing.
When his last bullet had been fired, the young gunslinger, still laughing, holstered his gun and turned around to go back into the saloon.
The old woman turned to her pack mule, pulled out a double-barreled shotgun, and cocked both hammers.
The loud clicks carried clearly through the desert air. The crowd stopped laughing immediately.
The young gunslinger heard the sounds too, and he turned around very slowly. The silence was almost deafening.
The crowd watched as the young gunman stared at the old woman and the large gaping holes of those twin barrels.
The barrels of the shotgun never wavered in the old woman's hands, as she quietly said, "Son, have you ever licked a mule's butt?
The gunslinger swallowed hard and said, "No, ma'am ... But ... I've always wanted to."
There are a few lessons for us all here:
1 - Never be arrogant.I just love a story with a happy ending, don't you?
2 - Don't waste ammunition.
3 - Whiskey makes you think you're smarter than you are.
4 - Always, always make sure you know who has the power.
5 - Don't mess with old women; they didn't get old by being stupid.
From my email.
STEPHEN STROMBERG is a local activist masquerading as a Washington Post editorial writer. In this post he uses Mitt Romney's view on charity as a precursor to attack Romney for 'dishonesty' (as if Obama has been less dishonest). Ignoring the issue of 'honesty' I would remind Mr. Stromberg and his fellow liberals that spending other people's money on 'charitable' activities of (at best) dubious worth is not a universal value.
THE ENTITLEMENT SOCIETY. Random thoughts from the retirement lane. Leaving the grocery this morning with my shopping cart, a young woman in her Cadillac Escalade displayed her (lack of) courtesy by not stopping to allow me to cross the parking lot. As she passed, I noted the Obama/Biden 2012 sticker neatly attached to the Cadillac's rear bumper.
SOME THOUGHTS about the faculty lounge: "These two faculty members had the critical thinking skills of a couple of gnats and no ability to understand anything outside their worldview."
Another reason the higher-education bubble is about to burst.
Another reason the higher-education bubble is about to burst.
Thursday, September 27, 2012
PAUL GREENBERG on Benghazi and terrorism:
How is it, do you suppose, that a presidential candidate who wasn't privy to all the military and diplomatic intelligence that the White House should be able to command, understood the nature of this violence, and what incites it, almost instinctively?Read it all.
Why did Mitt Romney sense what was behind this gathering storm? Why did he know, and say, that an America in retreat across the Middle East, offering apologetic obeisance as we withdraw, presents a natural target for the worst elements in the Islamic world? While our president still seems blind to the dangers he has invited since he began his administration by going to Cairo to confess America's sins -- and the West's -- and offer "a new beginning." Which now has turned into the same old treachery.
In retrospect, it is Mitt Romney who seems to have been the prescient statesman, Maybe it's because understands that peace is assured by strength. Barack Obama and his press secretary seem to be discovering only slowly -- and at great cost -- where weakness leads. While good men representing this country with extraordinary vision and valor, like our murdered ambassador to Libya, pay the ultimate price.
WELL, HOW ABOUT THAT? 79 percent say all Americans should pay income taxes. Even a majority of Democrats.
WHAT HAS OBAMA LEARNED? Nothing. What he will learn in November is this: "You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time."
SHOULD ADVOCATES of small government escape to Canada? Short answer. No, move to the Cayman Islands, then let the Nigerians give you a few million dollars.
MANUFACTURED FEAR drives needless regulations. The EPA doesn't need to be reined in; it needs to be abolished.
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
A ROCKET SCIENTIST'S LAMENT. Just a thought: healthcare spending has gone up 87% since 2002; are we 87% healtheir today than 10 years ago?
GRILL A BURGER, go to jail. "Coming next: why 16-ounce colas need to be banned because of the global warming effect of the CO2 bubbles in supersized drinks."
TEN COMMANDMENTS of political warfare for the Romney campaign:
1. Never trust Republicrats.Gov. Romney, you're the hunter, not the hunted. Act like it.
2. Never attack what you’re not willing to kill.
3. Never accept the premise of Obama's argument.
4. If ObamaCare is wrong, then attack it as such.
5. Reverse the premise of Obama’s argument and use it against him.
6. Never abandon your base (unless they are morally wrong).
7. Define Obama before he defines himsef and define yourself before he defines you.
8. Always make Obama opponent defend his record and belief system.
9. Stay on message.
10. Play offense.
MAKE MINE FREEDOM.
This cartoon seemed far-fetched in 1948; sixty-four years later, we can only hope that John Q. Public's argument resonates.
This cartoon seemed far-fetched in 1948; sixty-four years later, we can only hope that John Q. Public's argument resonates.
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
ELECTION SEASON'S GREETINGS
T'was the night before elections,From my email.
And all thru' the town,
Tempers were flaring
Emotions ran up and down.
I, in my bathrobe
With a cat in my lap,
Had shut off the TV,
Tired of political crap.
When all of a sudden,
There arose such a noise,
I peered out my window,
Saw Obama and his boys.
They had come for my wallet,
They wanted my pay
To hand out to others
Who had not worked a day!
He snatched up my money,
And quick as a wink,
Jumped back on his bandwagon
As I gagged from the stink.
He then rallied his henchmen
Who were pulling his cart.
I could tell they were out
To tear my country apart!
On Fannie, on Freddie,
On Biden and Ayers!
On Acorn, on Pelosi'
He screamed at the pairs!
They took off for his cause,
And as they flew out of sight,
I heard him laugh at a nation
Who wouldn't stand up and fight!
So I leave you to think
on this one final note.
If you don't want socialism
Get out and vote!
Monday, September 24, 2012
THE CALIFORNIA EXODUS continues:
"Basically, if you don’t own a piece of Facebook or Google and you haven’t robbed a bank and don't have rich parents, then your chances of being able to buy a house or raise a family in the Bay Area or in most of coastal California is pretty weak," [demographer Joel] Kotkin told the [Wall Street Journal], adding that in his estimation, the state is run for the benefit of the very rich, the very poor, and public employees.I left in 2000.
OBAMA 'TOO BUSY' for UN meetings -- but there's plenty of time to be on 'The View'. We don't have a President, we have a 'Celebrity'.
THE OBAMA YEARS:
What we see ... is a president who is much more comfortable campaigning than governing. What we also see is disarray -- an economy that is foundering, a world where America is on the defensive and under attack. A president who can't change Washington and whose election did not magically change the world.Read it all.
MSNBC PANEL BAFFLED: Why Anyone Would Think ‘Redistribution Of Wealth’ Is Bad? After all, it's not their wealth that's being redistributed....
Sunday, September 23, 2012
GOOD NEWS? Unemployment is rising steadily again (circled area of chart, starting in July 2012).
The data (and full-size chart) are here.
JEFF JACOBY: the Carter-Obama connection: "The Carter years are a warning of what can happen when the 'Leader of the Free World' won't lead.... Jimmy Carter's legacy is still too timely to ignore."
HYPOCRISY KNOWS NO BOUNDS: If the U.S. government can denounce an anti-Muslim video, why can't it denounce an anti-Christian artwork?
Maybe because it paid for it?
Maybe because it paid for it?
“THE GOAL OF THE SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM is supposed to be feeding children, not filling the trash cans with uneaten food. The USDA’s new school lunch guidelines are a perfect example of what is wrong with government: misguided inputs, tremendous waste, and unaccomplished goals. Thanks to the Nutrition Nannies at the USDA, America’s children are going hungry at school.”
Thank Michelle Obama.
Thank Michelle Obama.
REP. ALLEN WEST: Black Americans should vote for Mitt Romney.
More than 95 percent of black voters voted Democratic in the last election. I am hoping we can change this status quo. When you invest your money, you diversify. You don’t put it in one single account. Black Americans need to invest their political capital so they have a voice across the entire political spectrum. If we don’t, the black community will be taken for granted and risk becoming politically irrelevant.Better a hand up than a handout.
Black Americans need to vote their values in November, and they will find themselves more aligned with Mr. Romney and the Republican Party. It is time for the “Party of Lincoln” to re-connect with black America.
DADDY & DAUGHTER DANCES BANNED -- what's next, no apple pie? The apple pie has been reserved for the Obama administration.
ENVIRONMENTALISTS: Fracking causes syphilis, homelessness, and kills joggers. Put your coffee down first, then follow the links to the Daily News article.
CHICAGO SCHOOL LEADERS don’t know how they’re going to pay for the new contract! The way they always do -- raise taxes.
VIRGINIA ATTORNEY GENERAL KEN CUCCINELLI:
Dear Friends,From my email.
In the Presidential election of 2008, Northern Virginia saw about 80% voter turnout. It was only 67% in southwest Virginia. I don't think the Virginians hardest hit by Obama's presidency are going to let that happen again.
Everyone is a stakeholder in this election, but for my fellow Virginians in Southwest and Southside, their livelihoods are at stake.
The coal industry is facing a direct assault from the Obama administration. That fact was illustrated on Tuesday when Virginia's largest coal company, Alpha Natural Resources, had to lay off 10% of its workforce and close down 8 mines, 3 or which are right here in Virginia.
There are several factors that led to Alpha's decision: over-regulation (including illegal over-regulation) by the EPA, increasing competition for electricity generation from natural gas, and an Obama economy that isn't growing and is plagued with uncertainty.
The EPA - which I like to refer to as the Employment Prevention Agency - is so out of control that they are even trying to regulate water as a pollutant under the Clean Water Act. If that sounds crazy, it is. Even the Democrat-heavy Fairfax County Board of Supervisors agrees with me that this is an egregious overstep of the Federal government.
Many companies are waiting to make important decisions about expanding until after November 6th, hoping they'll get a clearer picture of where their regulatory burden is headed. President Obama and Governor Romney have expressed clear visions of which direction they would take the country. More regulations with President Obama, especially when he gets more "flexibility" after the election. Less regulations with Governor Romney.
This week I got the opportunity to tour a brand new hybrid power plant in Wise County, Virginia. The plant is by far the cleanest coal plant in the country. It provides hundreds of well-paying, permanent jobs in a region that has been hardest hit during the economic slowdown.
If President Obama has his way, the Wise County power plant will be the last coal-fired power plant built in the country. This policy is foolish and disregards a viable source of energy. The new technology used is much more efficient and produces substantially less emissions than older plants built in the 1960s and 70s. Obama's (often illegal) assault on coal has already given us higher electricity prices and destroyed jobs.
In northern Virginia we have a pretty diversified economy — if one industry failed it would be a setback, but it wouldn't bring the region to a halt. That is not the case in southwest Virginia. That pizza joint in Wise doesn't exist without coal.
Obama says he has an "all of the above energy policy." I'd like to see him tell that to these families that are struggling to get by. These are hardworking people that take pride in their honest work and do not want to depend on the government—they just want the government to get out of their way!
This week I met with GOP and Tea Party groups from Bristol to Roanoke. They are committed to defending their jobs and promoting policies that get us back to free markets. They're not going to have a repeat of the low voter turnout this time. This election is too important. It means their job. It's for their family. It's for our future.
In the small amount of downtime I had while traveling around southwest I was able to make it into the Hokie Victory office in Blacksburg. I think we can all find some time in our schedule to help out. Every hour counts. Every phone call is an opportunity to swing a vote.
This election may not be decided by one vote, but it might be! I won my last state senate race in a recount - I know personally that every vote counts. Please join me in supporting both the Romney/Ryan ticket and George Allen's Senate campaign. Please work every free moment to elect them into office.
THE BIRDS RETURNS: The Rerelease and The MSM Remake. The only point Hewitt missed is all the crap flying through the air.
OBAMA'S unconvincing theory of change. There's change for the better, change for the worse, and change for the sake of change. The best that can be said for Obama's change is that it is change for the sake of change.
Saturday, September 22, 2012
ROMNEY'S TERRIBLE MONTH:
From the PJ Tatler. I've added the dates of Romney's supposed 'gaffes' as declared by the mainstream (lamestream?) media: Benghazi (9/11) and 47% (9/17). Who's out of touch? Romney? Or the media?
MONTANA BEAR TRAGEDY
This is a very sad story about a bear... Everybody should heed the warnings not to feed wildlife because they become dependent and don't forage for themselves any longer. It is such a tragedy to see what has been done to our country's wildlife. The photo below captures a disturbing trend that is beginning to affect U.S. wildlife.
Animals that formerly were self-sufficient are now showing signs of belonging to the Democratic Party. They have apparently learned to just sit and wait for the government to step in and provide for their care and sustenance.
This photo is of a black bear in Montana turned Democrat. He's nicknamed Bearack Obearma. It is believed that he has become a campground organizer.From my email.
MORNING EXAMINER: Obama's Univision failure. Democrats must really be worried, since they are accusing Mitt Romney of dyeing his face brown when he appeared on Univision.
FORMER VIRGINIA GOVERNOR and Democrat Senate candidate Tim Kaine will consider a minimum income tax for every American. This may hurt him with the general Republican electorate, but for me it makes him worthy of a second look since I strongly believe that every citizen should have a financial stake, no matter how small, in the American experience.
ISLAMIST RAGE: "[I]t’s not a Jimmy Carter moment — because at this point, Jimmy Carter would be a best-case scenario. And an increasingly implausible one...."
NATIONAL YARD SALE FOR OBAMA: Recognizing that their followers may have already given all their new stuff for the campaign’s re-election effort, it’s time to move on to the old stuff. Getting desperate are you, Obama?
GLENN REYNOLDS (INSTAPUNDIT) delivers the keynote address at the Conference on the Constitutional Convention. Long (35 min) but worth viewing if you're at all interested in the Constitution.
UNCOMMON KNOWLEDGE: an interview with Thomas Sowell.
Now anyone who studied history knows that for the first 150 years of this country the federal government did not intervene when the economy turned down. And all that time the downturns all corrected themselves; one of the most classic examples was under Warren G. Harding when, during his first year in office, he found the unemployment rate at 11.7 percent. He did absolutely nothing; he did not spend more government money, he cut back on spending. The Federal Reserve had the interest rates up at 6 or 7 percent, not down at 1 percent, where they are now. The next year unemployment was at 6.7 percent; the year after that it was 2.4 percent. So the economy has recuperative powers. I mean employers have an incentive to hire people. Workers have an incentive to get jobs. Lenders have incentives to lend.It's long (nearly 40 minutes) but worth every minute.
Friday, September 21, 2012
ROMNEY RELEASES TAX RETURNS, paid too much in taxes, and gave 30 percent to charity. This comment must really sting the Democrats: "If you really care, you don’t give money yourself. You get the government to force other people to give. That’s what true compassion is all about."
"NEARLY 6 MILLION AMERICANS — significantly more than first estimated — will face a tax penalty under President Barack Obama's health overhaul for not getting insurance, congressional analysts said Wednesday. Most would be in the middle class."
Every Obama promise has an expiration date.
Every.Single.Promise.
Every Obama promise has an expiration date.
Every.Single.Promise.
ALL OUR PREVIOUS STATEMENTS ARE 'INOPERATIVE': Obama administration admits Benghazi was a terrorist attack.
NASA REMEMBERS SALLY RIDE:
NASA officials, fellow astronauts and the family of Sally Ride gathered in Houston at the Johnson Space Center on Sept. 18, 2012. They remembered Ride’s life and the legend she leaves behind. An oak tree — one of most enduring types of trees — was planted and dedicated in Ride’s honor. It sits among 62 other trees dedicated to astronauts and space pioneers in a grove located JSC.Godspeed, Sally.
THEY GO TOGETHER like hot dogs and baseball games, though the combination isn't nearly as appetizing: mud and American presidential campaigns.
WASHINGTON EXAMINER: The Obama you don't know. Instapundit has summaries and links to the remaining articles in the series.
ROMNEY WILL WIN THIS ELECTION.
But the wacko-left Culture Machine won’t fall silent; the schools and colleges won’t suddenly become patriotic, serious, politically neutral. The entertainment industry won’t discover open-mindedness regarding Judeo-Christianity and the Bible. Nor will mainstream churches and liberal synagogues suddenly catch on to the moral and spiritual greatness of America. Unless conservatives start taking education and culture seriously, an election day will arrive in which the outcome is never in doubt, because at least 51 percent of the electorate has been trained which way to vote. At which point the GOP might as well close shop and take the rest of the century off.Don’t say you weren't warned.
Thursday, September 20, 2012
A MESSAGE FROM THE TEA PARTY PATRIOTS
Over the last several weeks, I have received emails from some of our supporters who say they think the system is so broken it cannot be fixed and our efforts are futile. They are angry at the Republican nominee who does not fight hard enough for our core values. They are angry at the Republican “leadership” in the House who are spineless and unable to make any real spending cuts.
At the same time, I have also had emails and conversations with Patriots who say they simply cannot sleep at night because they fret as they lay down that they may not have done everything within their power each day to make the most difference and impact they possibly can leading to Election Day. One Local Coordinator in the Orlando, Florida area mentally checks off all he has done each day to spread the word on our core values and if he fell short one day he knows what he must do different the next day. Another Local Coordinator in Virginia wakes up at 2 am each night and starts thinking about what he needs to do the next day to insure he is teaching everyone he meets what is at stake in November. These men are angry with Republicans as much as the emails from the people who are discouraged. They see our choice in 50 days as a stark contrast and are motivated to fight.
This week as I watched breaking news as our embassies were stormed in the Middle East and then around the world, bomb threats, university evacuations, Congress passing a Continuing Resolution to continue spending and to fund Obamacare for 6 months, the announcement of another quantitative easing that will be indefinite rather than fixed. The problems we face as a country seem overwhelming and often times impossible.
Two weeks ago on our webinar with Local Coordinators, one coordinator said that since the Supreme Court ruling on the President’s health care law she feels “grim determination.”Determination.
Dictionary.com defines determination as the act of coming to a decision or of fixing or settling a purpose; the quality of being resolute; firmness of purpose. Synonyms for determination are bravery, backbone, dedication, drive, persistence, and resolution.
As I read the breaking news this week, I am once again reminded of Winston Churchill’s quote, which I have quoted countless times to our Tea Party Patriots supporters, “Never, ever, ever, ever, ever give up.” I am also reminded of our Support Team member Keli Carender’s favorite quote, again by Sir Winston Churchill,
Ours is a “choice between two fundamentally different visions for the future:” one where we adhere to the Constitution, the checks and balances, and maintain the rights of the citizens as ordained by our Creator not by our government or one where we allow a statist government, allow breaches in the rule of law to occur without checks or balances, where freedom will slip away at the cost of security and whatever the government decides we are entitled to have. Simply put the choice is freedom or serfdom.
You are reading this and involved in Tea Party Patriots because you choose freedom.
As soon as the elections are over, our work must continue and continue at full force no matter the outcome and especially if the Republicans win the Senate and the White House. The lack of true leadership in the Republican Party is startling. The fact that the Republicans just passed a deal with the Democrats to fund Obamacare for 6 months, a law that the vast majority of Americans want repealed. The fact that both parties and mostly the Republicans are backing off the forced sequestration cuts forged by the debt deal of last summer – just 14 months ago. Since Congress cannot even be trusted to keep the promises and laws in tact that they passed less than 18 months ago, we know we must watch every single thing they do to insure we return to a fiscally responsible, constitutionally limited government once more. We have and will continue to hold both parties accountable because we know politicians and parties are fallible. We will continue to defend, support, and endorse our core values because they will not fail us.
The challenge is daunting especially when looking at what has happened in America in just the past week. But, compared to other challenges America has faced in her history, is this challenge truly impossible for us? Our country started against all odds when a ragtag army stood up to the greatest empire in the world and demanded their freedom. Many said it could not be done. Most governments are designed to restrict the governed but we are a government of the people, by the people, for the people. Our country grew from a small nation to one capable of saving the world from Nazism. We defeated communism in the Cold War. Our free market system invented the modern world: light bulbs, telephones, airplanes, personal computers, ipods, iphones, and Google. Americans have consistently taken the more difficult road, beat the odds, and created a better future than most thought possible.
Our job is to remind our fellow citizens that our Constitution and the rights guaranteed therein are what made America’s accomplishments possible. We must remind these citizens what is a stake and what the two choices for America’s future are. We must remind them that our choice for freedom is what they want for America as well. It will not be easy. Like the coordinators who have grim determination and cannot rest without thinking about all they are capable of doing to preserve our freedom, we too must evaluate our actions through Election Day and immediately following so our country’s voters choose the future of freedom on November 6. Join us to make the call, walk the neighborhoods, send the postcards, and do all the work it takes to insure there are more of us who cherish freedom than those who are willing to slide into serfdom on November 6. Then be prepared to keep fighting as soon as elections are over because the work of accountability will be just as urgent and perhaps even more difficult.
We can still beat the odds! We can prevent America’s bankruptcy and create a more prosperous America than ever. If, today, right now, we make the right choice for the vision of our future and fight “when our victory will be sure and not too costly.”
Let us have the determination, the boldness, the persistence, the courage, the perseverance, against all odds to create a more productive, prolific, prosperous, and plentiful America than ever before!
In Liberty,
Jenny Beth Martin
Co-Founder and National Coordinator
Tea Party Patriots
Over the last several weeks, I have received emails from some of our supporters who say they think the system is so broken it cannot be fixed and our efforts are futile. They are angry at the Republican nominee who does not fight hard enough for our core values. They are angry at the Republican “leadership” in the House who are spineless and unable to make any real spending cuts.
At the same time, I have also had emails and conversations with Patriots who say they simply cannot sleep at night because they fret as they lay down that they may not have done everything within their power each day to make the most difference and impact they possibly can leading to Election Day. One Local Coordinator in the Orlando, Florida area mentally checks off all he has done each day to spread the word on our core values and if he fell short one day he knows what he must do different the next day. Another Local Coordinator in Virginia wakes up at 2 am each night and starts thinking about what he needs to do the next day to insure he is teaching everyone he meets what is at stake in November. These men are angry with Republicans as much as the emails from the people who are discouraged. They see our choice in 50 days as a stark contrast and are motivated to fight.
This week as I watched breaking news as our embassies were stormed in the Middle East and then around the world, bomb threats, university evacuations, Congress passing a Continuing Resolution to continue spending and to fund Obamacare for 6 months, the announcement of another quantitative easing that will be indefinite rather than fixed. The problems we face as a country seem overwhelming and often times impossible.
Two weeks ago on our webinar with Local Coordinators, one coordinator said that since the Supreme Court ruling on the President’s health care law she feels “grim determination.”Determination.
Dictionary.com defines determination as the act of coming to a decision or of fixing or settling a purpose; the quality of being resolute; firmness of purpose. Synonyms for determination are bravery, backbone, dedication, drive, persistence, and resolution.
As I read the breaking news this week, I am once again reminded of Winston Churchill’s quote, which I have quoted countless times to our Tea Party Patriots supporters, “Never, ever, ever, ever, ever give up.” I am also reminded of our Support Team member Keli Carender’s favorite quote, again by Sir Winston Churchill,
“If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”The election this November is going to determine 2 different futures for our country. President Obama had it right at the DNC Convention when he said this election is, “a choice between 2 different paths for America, a choice between two fundamentally different visions for the future.” President Obama has all but declared he will be a dictator if re-elected and Congress stands in his way. Those of us in Tea Party Patriots will have seen that and said he is doing it already throughout his first term in presidency. Now he is being so bold that he says it outright in the Time magazine interview:
"So my expectation is that there will be some popping of the blister after this election, because it will have been such a stark choice. Where Republicans refuse to cooperate on things that I know are good for the American people, I will continue to look for ways to do it administratively and work around Congress. And a good example of that is, for example, making sure that homeowners around the country can take advantage of these historically low rates and refinance.If we as citizens allow a man who is very clearly saying there are two different choices for America and his way is to implement his agenda with or without Congressional approval, we are giving permission to this behavior.
There’s no reason Congress can’t move forward and at almost no cost to the federal government really boost the housing market and our economy. But if Congress won’t do it, we’ll keep on looking for ways to get that done without legislation."
Ours is a “choice between two fundamentally different visions for the future:” one where we adhere to the Constitution, the checks and balances, and maintain the rights of the citizens as ordained by our Creator not by our government or one where we allow a statist government, allow breaches in the rule of law to occur without checks or balances, where freedom will slip away at the cost of security and whatever the government decides we are entitled to have. Simply put the choice is freedom or serfdom.
You are reading this and involved in Tea Party Patriots because you choose freedom.
As soon as the elections are over, our work must continue and continue at full force no matter the outcome and especially if the Republicans win the Senate and the White House. The lack of true leadership in the Republican Party is startling. The fact that the Republicans just passed a deal with the Democrats to fund Obamacare for 6 months, a law that the vast majority of Americans want repealed. The fact that both parties and mostly the Republicans are backing off the forced sequestration cuts forged by the debt deal of last summer – just 14 months ago. Since Congress cannot even be trusted to keep the promises and laws in tact that they passed less than 18 months ago, we know we must watch every single thing they do to insure we return to a fiscally responsible, constitutionally limited government once more. We have and will continue to hold both parties accountable because we know politicians and parties are fallible. We will continue to defend, support, and endorse our core values because they will not fail us.
The challenge is daunting especially when looking at what has happened in America in just the past week. But, compared to other challenges America has faced in her history, is this challenge truly impossible for us? Our country started against all odds when a ragtag army stood up to the greatest empire in the world and demanded their freedom. Many said it could not be done. Most governments are designed to restrict the governed but we are a government of the people, by the people, for the people. Our country grew from a small nation to one capable of saving the world from Nazism. We defeated communism in the Cold War. Our free market system invented the modern world: light bulbs, telephones, airplanes, personal computers, ipods, iphones, and Google. Americans have consistently taken the more difficult road, beat the odds, and created a better future than most thought possible.
Our job is to remind our fellow citizens that our Constitution and the rights guaranteed therein are what made America’s accomplishments possible. We must remind these citizens what is a stake and what the two choices for America’s future are. We must remind them that our choice for freedom is what they want for America as well. It will not be easy. Like the coordinators who have grim determination and cannot rest without thinking about all they are capable of doing to preserve our freedom, we too must evaluate our actions through Election Day and immediately following so our country’s voters choose the future of freedom on November 6. Join us to make the call, walk the neighborhoods, send the postcards, and do all the work it takes to insure there are more of us who cherish freedom than those who are willing to slide into serfdom on November 6. Then be prepared to keep fighting as soon as elections are over because the work of accountability will be just as urgent and perhaps even more difficult.
We can still beat the odds! We can prevent America’s bankruptcy and create a more prosperous America than ever. If, today, right now, we make the right choice for the vision of our future and fight “when our victory will be sure and not too costly.”
Let us have the determination, the boldness, the persistence, the courage, the perseverance, against all odds to create a more productive, prolific, prosperous, and plentiful America than ever before!
In Liberty,
Jenny Beth Martin
Co-Founder and National Coordinator
Tea Party Patriots
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
"YES, OBAMA DOES WANT TO REDISTRIBUTE WEALTH. But not just from rich to poor. The middle class is also on Obama’s menu."
The question that will be answered in the 2012 election is this: "Do you want (much) more or (hopefully) less government intrusion in your lives?"
The question that will be answered in the 2012 election is this: "Do you want (much) more or (hopefully) less government intrusion in your lives?"
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION finds Department of Justice scapegoats to protect Attorney General Eric Holder.
CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: Permitting Poison in the Air Means More Money for the Romney-Ryan Campaign. The number of misrepresentations and outright lies in this article are simply astonishing.
THE CARTOON:
THE DATA:
THE DATA:
In November 2008, the Americans who turned out to vote in the presidential election outnumbered the Americans who turned out to work full-time by more than 14 million.THE PROBLEM: "[G]overnment has divided America into two camps: those who work and pay, and those who take and take."
NASA ASTRONAUT SUNITA WILLIAMS, the commander of the Expedition 33 crew aboard the International Space Station, has completed the first triathlon in space, running, biking and "swimming" along with athletes in the Nautica Malibu Triathlon held in Southern California over the weekend.
HOW 'BOUT THAT? The Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority has reached an agreement with a northern Virginia company on plans to launch rockets from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport.
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
OBAMA'S A NICE ENOUGH GUY ... (but he's incompetent). I agree with most of Galen's article, but not the 'nice enough guy' part. Obama is not a nice guy; he's an arrogant, narcissistic, barefaced liar.
RESET:
[D]espite Obama's reset of our relations with Muslims, he is less popular in the Muslim world than was the dreaded President George W. Bush, and America is less popular with Muslims under Obama than it was under Bush.Islamists respect the strong horse; not the 'tolerant' one.
I WOULD SAY 'You gotta be kidding', but ... College Prof on Leave After Forcing Students to Sign ‘Pledge’ to Vote for Obama.
HOUSE PANEL questions safety of new spacecraft. It's time for Congress to shut up and get out of the way.
MICHAEL BARONE: Why people riot (hint: it's not the video). Note that force (or a credible threat of it) is very effective in curtailing rioting.
THE CONSEQUENCES of Obama's bungled mideast policy: "Under settled principles of international law, attacks on diplomats by, or permitted by, governments can be considered acts of war. The threat of such attacks deserves a more stern response than a campaign trip to Vegas, a misstatement of settled policy and skipped intelligence briefings."
Monday, September 17, 2012
VIRGINIA ATTORNEY GENERAL KEN CUCCINELLI:
Last week one of our largest coal mines in Buchanan County was idled and hundreds of our fellow Virginians were placed on indefinite unpaid leave. This isn't the first economic hardship our state has faced, and certainly won't be the last. However, this one is different than anything we've seen before.From my email.
When he took office, President Obama promised to turn the country and our economy around. He took drastic measures by passing massive bailouts and supposed jobs programs. Not only have these policies not gotten Americans back to work, but they have increased our nation's debt by over $5 Trillion in less than four years.
Just like the law of gravity, which cannot be defied, there are undeniable and unavoidable economic laws.
In an economy that was already struggling and where resources were hard to come by, why would the President enact job-destroying regulations on private sector businesses that are trying to just stay afloat?
When President Obama spoke about creating jobs, he was talking only about jobs that get his permission. That's why his administration "invested" more than $500 Million into the now bankrupt Solyndra solar energy company.
At the same time that Obama was throwing money at his pet, Solyndra, he was taking it from hardworking American taxpayers and borrowing it from our kids and grandkids.
Obama has been choosing winners and losers. The winners were his Washington cronies and the losers are anyone who works in an industry not favored by President Obama.
This week I am taking a trip to Southwest Virginia. I'll again see firsthand the devastating effects of Obama's economy on the lives of the individuals in small communities in places like Abingdon and Wytheville.
Let's be clear, every time that President Obama comes out against coal, or other industries, it is a direct attack on the livelihood of Virginians.
We have the largest coal exporting port in the United States right here in Hampton Roads. Even if you don't work directly for a coal company, coal provides almost half of all of Virginia's energy, and in the poorest parts of Virginia, coal powers over 75% of the electricity.
President Obama's war on jobs has to end. It's time to stand up to President Obama and tell him that he doesn't know best. Individuals are better at making personal decisions than any government.
We are a country that was founded on the principle that we can all earn our own living - not take some government handout, or ask the government to pick and choose winners and losers, but to really earn it for ourselves.
Mitt Romney understands who built this economy: hard working American entrepreneurs. He understands that the free market is the driving force of innovation, and when our own government stays out of our way is when we achieve the most.
"NASA ASTRONAUT SUNITA WILLIAMS, who holds the record for the longest spaceflight by a woman, took charge of the International Space Station Saturday (Sept. 15), becoming only the second female commander in the orbiting lab's 14-year history."
GALLUP: Majority in U.S. Still Say Government Doing Too Much.
Look at the Obama years, 2009-Present (click to enlarge).
Look at the Obama years, 2009-Present (click to enlarge).
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: "The Middle East is not fascist, communist, Baathist, pan-Arabist, or Islamist, so much as it is screwed-up-ist and blame-them-ist."
They sound like Progressives.... Read the whole thing.
They sound like Progressives.... Read the whole thing.
CHE GUEVARA EMAIL an ‘inadvertent error’. Oh, come now. Even under the supposition that it indeed was 'inadvertant', it only shows the abysmal ignorance of the EPA employee.
And why is a government agency celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month? Or any heritage month?
And why is a government agency celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month? Or any heritage month?
IS THIS SUPPOSED TO BE A SURPRISE? I'd call it confirmation. Government employees work less than private sector employees.
DEMOCRATS AND THE MEDIA "don’t want voters to be educated or informed.... They want you to eat your gruel, take your medicine and re-elect the president because he knows more about what’s better for you than you do. With so many Americans now suckling the government teat, that easy message has a receptive and large audience. We have to be larger this November or our nation surely will be smaller in the future."
Sunday, September 16, 2012
JEFF JACOBY on the Chicago teachers' strike:
Only in government work would employees claim that so lousy a record entitles them to still more hefty raises, or to a level of job security virtually unheard-of in the private economy. Such an outrageous sense of entitlement is among the poisoned fruit of public-sector collective bargaining, which empowers union officials with influence they have no right to -- influence they preserve by exploiting other people's pain.Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel should have pulled a Ronald Reagan, fired them all, and dissolved the union.
AMBASSADOR JOHN BOLTON: The Obama administration's theory of Middle East appears to have 'broken down completely'. Among other things, Romney was right in his criticism.
GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS: Why does California insist on finding a problem where nobody else does? Better question: Why does California want to kill its residents?
WHITE HOUSE details potential effects if automatic budget cuts go through.
Here's the sequestration report -- all 394 pages. What's fascinating about the report is not the data (Appendices A and B), but the sheer number of budget categories (a typical budget category typically has hundreds of line items -- departments, agencies, etc.).
Here's the sequestration report -- all 394 pages. What's fascinating about the report is not the data (Appendices A and B), but the sheer number of budget categories (a typical budget category typically has hundreds of line items -- departments, agencies, etc.).
THE WEEKLY REPUBLICAN ADDRESS by Rep. Allen West (R-FL):
From Speaker of the House John Boehner's weekly email.
From Speaker of the House John Boehner's weekly email.
RANDOM THOUGHTS from the retirement lane. Running errands yesterday, I heard on the radio that experts from some think tank believe bombing Iran will lead to general Mideast war. I say bring it on; the infectious variant of Islamism we're seeing today is going to make a wider war inevitable. The wise course might be to get it over now.
For you Democrats out there, think of it as a partial-birth abortion.
For you Democrats out there, think of it as a partial-birth abortion.
MORE ON 'SHOOTING BACK':
I’ve just seen a headline about how al-Qaeda has urged its people to kill more U.S. diplomats. And I was thinking, this is an old, old story . . .The link is here.
Our ambassador to Sudan, Cleo Noel, was killed in 1973. He was killed on direct orders from Yasser Arafat. Vernon Walters told me that he personally listened to the intercepts. (Walters was at the CIA at the time.)
In 2004, just for the hell of it, I asked Efraim Halevy, the former head of the Mossad, “Why doesn’t my country hold it against Arafat that he had Noel murdered?” Halevy said, “I don’t know.”
When I related this to Bill Buckley, he said, “‘I don’t know’ can be a powerful answer,” which it was.
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter were very close to Arafat. After the Gulf War, the Saudis were unhappy with Arafat, because he had sided with Saddam Hussein. They cut off funding to him. Arafat asked Carter to fly to Riyadh to smooth things over for him. He did.
Carter also ghostwrote speeches for Arafat. A sample? “Our people, who face Israeli bullets, have no weapons: only a few stones remaining when our homes are destroyed by Israeli bulldozers.” (If you’re interested, you’ll find this stuff in my book on the Nobel Peace Prize. Arafat and Carter were fellow laureates, of course.)
In the eight years of Bill Clinton, who was the single most frequent foreign visitor to the White House? Arafat.
When I interviewed Condoleezza Rice, while she was serving as national-security adviser, she answered every question I put to her, except one — about Cleo Noel (and Arafat’s responsibility for his murder). Interesting.
Another name came across my mind in the last couple of days: Malcolm Kerr. When I was a Near Eastern Studies student, he was a big deal, an important scholar. I had some writings of his assigned to me. He was president of the American University of Beirut. When I was in college — reading him — he was killed.
There are many, many more names, of course. I think of Col. William R. Higgins, who was with the peacekeeping force in Lebanon. I’m talking about blue helmets, U.N. troops. Hezbollah got a hold of him — they tortured him and hanged him. They then circulated a film of what they had done. This is regarded as the first of a new genre: the jihadist snuff film.
I could go on, and I’m sorry about the extreme melancholy of this post. But there is more than melancholy: an extreme indignation, and an eagerness to see these SOBs stood up to (emphasis mine).
Saturday, September 15, 2012
ARE YOU SAFER NOW than you were four years ago? Well, no, and yes. The world is certainly less safe than it was four years ago, but I now carry weapons that I didn't four years ago.
PRESIDENT OBAMA speaks at ceremony for Benghazi victims at Andrews Air Force base (9:45 - 17:15 into video). The transcript is here.
I don't know about you, but I don't want a President who is comfortable with soaring rhetoric at a funeral; I want one who is comfortable shooting back.
I don't know about you, but I don't want a President who is comfortable with soaring rhetoric at a funeral; I want one who is comfortable shooting back.
JUST FOR FUN: Terahertz Technology. Those X-ray glasses of our comic book youth probably aren't coming soon.
"THE FIRST THING we should be sequestering are Congressional salaries. If we did that, we wouldn’t have to worry about any of the rest...."
IT’S EASIER TO BEAT REPUBLICANS by calling them racist than engaging on policy. And you don't have to worry about inconvenient facts.
Friday, September 14, 2012
ROMNEY CAMPAIGN ON the Obama administration' response tot the Mideast crisis: "This is amateur hour — it’s amateur hour."
IT’S OFFICIAL — NYC Board of Health Bans Large Sugary Drinks.
Obesity and diabetes are epidemics that are costing the city a fortune. Perhaps a solution which forces those who continually make poor decisions regarding their health to pay for some of consequences of their actions would be preferable to one that punishes the entire population.The 'progressive' solution is to always punish the innocent.
SCOTT RASMUSSEN: Let Individuals, Not Politicians, Make Health Care Decisions.
For seniors on Medicare, too.
For seniors on Medicare, too.
JAY CARNEY: Attacks are reaction to film, not US policy, and were not pre-planned. Bull. That was a carefully planned terrorist strike, as is becoming more and more evident every day, and the film was just lucky happenstance.
WHY DO SWEDES IN AMERICA earn far more than Swedes in Sweden? Um, because in Sweden "at a certain point you've made enough money"?
I WISH....
During a recent Romney campaign stop, a heckler from the audience hollered, "Hey Mitt Witt, where are you hiding your tax returns?From my email.
Governor Romney politely responded, "I've found a very secure place that I'm certain they won't be found." The insistent heckler, then shouted, "And just where is that, dummy"?
Governor Romney smiled and said, "They are underneath Obama's college records, his immigration status as a student, and his funding sources to pay for college. What's your next question?"
MAKING THE RICH RICHER: Fed announces new mortgage bond-buying plan, keeps interest rates low. The stock market took a nice bounce yesterday, and it's still looking good today. Thanks, Obama administration.
COMMUNICATIONS MILESTONE: Telstar Celebrates 50 Years (scroll to page 7). In July 1962 I had graduated from high school and was preparing for my freshman year at New Mexico State University. Little did I know then that just over six months later I would be flying to Europe to join a mobile satellite tracking van that started in Germany, went to Spain, then Greece, and ended up in Okinawa.
ON THE RADIO, some (increasingly rare) common sense. Washington D.C. has been struggling for some years trying to come up with an evacuation plan for the city. Finally the transportation committee (or whatever it is it's called) came up with an evacuation plan: don't.
What a breath of fresh air. Finally some government agency finally figured out that sometimes the best thing to do is nothing. Federal government, take note.
What a breath of fresh air. Finally some government agency finally figured out that sometimes the best thing to do is nothing. Federal government, take note.
SPACE POLITICS:
The opening session of the AIAA Space 2012 conference in Pasadena, California, on Tuesday was originally billed to include a “presidential candidates forum” on space issues, featuring representatives of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney campaigns. However, no forum took place during that opening session, since AIAA could not get commitments from the two campaigns to take part.Nothing. Pity.
Thursday, September 13, 2012
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