How Republicans gave us Health Care “Reform”
I can think of many ways that Republicans directly contributed to what we’ve gotten today – but here’s two of the most prominent, in my opinion: 1. Medicare Part D: Many of the republicans today that are railing on the unconstitutionality of the health care law that’s been signed by Obama are the same people [...]
Intellectual Consistency on the Left? Now That’s What I Call Progress
Even before recent health care nullification efforts, writers at the Tenth Amendment Center were calling for a federalism-driven debate on standard liberal issues like gay marriage, REAL ID, and medical marijuana. Finally, it seems, someone on the Left has recognized the wisdom of that strategy. I almost fell out of my chair this morning upon [...]
Question With(out) Boldness: In Which Glenn Beck Jumps the Shark
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear. – Thomas Jefferson At the risk of being redundant, I must join Michael in pointing out the sheer hypocrisy of Glenn Beck’s hatchet job of a radio [...]
What to do with those donation requests from political parties
Just an idea I wanted to pass along to you all: If or when you receive a letter from the state or national political parties asking for money, don’t throw it away. Instead, write a short note to the effect that you will not donate money to them until they make a firm commitment to [...]
Constitutionally illiterate
That’s a good way to describe almost everyone in D.C. Even those that what the Constitution means seem to forget how to preserve it when they’ve been in office a long time. That’s the subject of an article in the Baltimore Sun last week. Here’s an excerpt: On Nov. 5, Rep. John Boehner of Ohio, [...]
A Few Answers to the DSCC
Last week, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee made some news with a memo of how they plan to “marginalize” republicans with some direct questions. Not that I have any interest in either party, or being involved in office in any way, I still thought it would be interesting to post a few responses. Do you [...]
The Bread and Circus of Federal Elections
Scott Brown’s victory inspires confidence that no campaign is hopeless for a candidate willing to take a principled stand, maintain a simple and direct message, and reject the preconceptions of conventional wisdom. Such inspiration matters to those of us who struggle against the preconceptions that the Constitution doesn’t mean what the words of the document [...]
Hypocrisy…No, not from the Tea Party
Got your attention! Here’s an interesting memo I obtained over at the Atlantic. freedom-works-internal-memo This memo, which hasn’t been validated, but is being reported on by Fox News, purports to provide a “Target List” of candidates for the Tea Party to presumably unseat in 2010. Listing them under the heading of “Enemy of Liberty” or “Potential Enemy of [...]
“Hope 2.0″: Left and Right United Against DC
“What we need is Hope 2.0: the realization that our system is too broken to be fixed by politicians, however well intentioned – that change is going to have to come from outside Washington.” -Arianna Huffington 1/19/10
Obama Bashing and Bigger Fish to Fry
Can we finally agree that in general, “Obama” isn’t at issue and we could honestly care less who he is or what he supposedly represents, or where he was born for that matter. I’m honestly disgusted and more than tired of the name calling in response to opposition to democratic ideas. What are you people [...]
Let Them Eat Health Care
Newsflash: Congressional Democrats don’t care what you think! In fact, they don’t even care what members of their own party think. From a report on USNews.com Democratic Leaders Plan Secret Health Reform Deliberations Despite their claims to the contrary, the way that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid have handled the [...]
Fracture the Big Government Vote
Who has grown the federal government more in the last 70 years, big government R or big government D? Who has regulated away more of your liberty, red big government or blue big government? Who Cares!!! The point is the two parties have learned to collude together to continually grow their power and diminish individual [...]
Merry Christmas, from the spineless Republican leadership
Spineless Republicans. That’s the message from John Tate at the Campaign for Liberty. He’s right. Here’s an excerpt of his update from earlier today: Yesterday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell caved in on health care, rushing the bill through to an earlier vote so he and his buddies can make their vacations on time. Merry [...]
Disillusioned Liberals, Progressives…Welcome!
A 10th Amendment Primer for Those Who Lean Left Once upon a time I eagerly tuned in to MSNBC on a nightly basis. I knew that there was something hideously wrong with the direction our country was in and at that time I believed that “if only Bush had not been elected president, none of [...]
It’s Not Just Obama, It’s the System
A new President would no more change the form and system of the federal government than would pumping trillions of dollars of tax payer monies create a stable and sound economic system in America
Do You Think They Care?
Do you think our Federal representatives (or their staffers) care one iota about representing us?
States’ Rights Republicans?
It looks like some members of the Republican establishment are starting to fear primary challenges by the Tea Party folks. The Wall Street Journal reports that Colorado Republicans have adopted a “Platform for Prosperity,” intended to placate populist outrage, and are strongly encouraging all candidates for state office in 2010 to get on board. The [...]
JSOC and Revelations of a False Savior
Many of those who currently support president Obama voted as a protest against Bush and the policies of the past 8 years, an administration that was about as transparent as a bottle of mud. The prevailing thought amongst the “Change We Can Believe In” crowd was that America would see an entirely different approach under [...]
Conservative or Liberal: Pick Your Poison
Human nature and history teach us that political labels are used to influence society to accomplish a certain political end. Many times, words used to describe original principles are somehow conquered or hijacked and then proclaimed to be a part of those original principles, but are realistically far from them. As I was growing up, [...]
The Real National Debate: Hamilton vs Jefferson
Perhaps the status quo is no longer holding; people are growing more and more dissatisfied with their options, whether democrat or republican. The truth is, the current two-party system always leaves one half of a country ticked off and feeling oppressed. This begs the question; is this really what the Founders intended 233 years ago [...]
Is retaking the GOP the real goal of the Tea Party Movement?
The two-party system has failed miserably as sadly, both parties support the status quo…BIG GOVERNMENT and therein lies the problem. The fundamental question is whether this is what the Founders desired? If we believe the Founders wanted a HUGE bloated ever-encroaching federal bureaucracy, the current two-party system fits the bill. However, there’s one problem with this scenario, [...]
Looking to the Inside
Are You Finally Ready To Trust Your Conscience? Most politicians are not bad people, but the system has a way of chewing them up and spitting them out. Once in the system, they learn to play the game and almost always compromise their integrity when it can be justified and even sometimes when it cannot. [...]
