http://www.redstate.com/aaronbg Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:00:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Bob Beckel is an idiot. I heard Bob Beck on Fox just a few minutes ago (YouTube embed when available), he says that Republicans got their chance and couldn’t govern and that they cause the economic crisis. Further he says that we must give President Obama a chance, since he has ... http://www.redstate.com/aaronbg/2009/02/23/bob-beckel-useful-idiot/ (Crack Dealer) So I am a crack dealer, and I like you. In fact go ahead and have this rock..for free, really it's on me. I know you are thinking that this crap could kill you, but it wouldn't make much sense to have you die. You are a ... http://www.redstate.com/aaronbg/2009/02/16/socialism-is-like-crackby-the-time-you-realize-you-are-a-crackheadits-too-late/ I propose a 60% / 40% split between tax cuts and infrastructure projects repsectively.   The 40% that would go to infrastructure we would require language insuring fastrack approval of all valid projects, which would go to a private contractor within any given state.  The contractor who receives the contract will be ... http://www.redstate.com/aaronbg/2009/02/12/my-bipartisan-economic-plan/ A good subtitle would be "In Which I gush about House Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA)".   I read a nice tidbit about Rep. Cantor that I got via The New Ledger h/t Erick Erickson.  The Ambinder article is about Rep. Cantor's counter to the DCCC's assualt on, private citizen, Rush Limbaugh.   Rep. Cantor ... http://www.redstate.com/aaronbg/2009/01/30/hes-what-you-might-calla-strategeristand-a-fine-one-at-that/ In a 22 months the midterm elections will be upon us.  The way I see it this gives us 18 months to walk the walk before 6 months of intense campaigning begins.  I think we should start floating ideas via our leaders in Congress.  Each idea will invariably fail becuase ... http://www.redstate.com/aaronbg/2009/01/30/my-contributions-to-a-new-cwa/ Recently Mbecker wrote an excellent diary thanking President Bush for the Man that he is.  One of the points was President Bush's character displayed by his continued meetings with the families of those who gave their life in defense of freedom.  Unfortunately, one of the comments stirred some commotion down ... http://www.redstate.com/aaronbg/2009/01/15/character-matters-therefore-inaccurate-claims-about-ones-character-should-be-corrected/ Well, it is my first RedState birthday, and as it seems to be sort of a tradition 'round these parts, I decided to write a diary to celebrate. I came to RedState near the end of the primary flame wars, it was all but decided that McCain would be ... http://www.redstate.com/aaronbg/2009/01/14/wow-one-year-went-quickhappy-b-day-to-me/ I honestly don't know where to begin with this diary...so I suppose I will just begin at the beginning.  Some 200 plus years ago our forefathers took it upon themselves to set about to create a new nation.  A nation of free men.  A nation that governed from the bottom up ... http://www.redstate.com/aaronbg/2009/01/09/the-case-for-revolutionnon-violent-of-course/ Yes Pecan. The profits from the sale of this new flavor will, of course, go to a "nonpartisan" group as briefly noted in the linked article: The proceeds for the ice cream will go to Common Cause, liberally leaning and described as "a nonpartisan, nonprofit advocacy organization founded as a vehicle ... http://www.redstate.com/aaronbg/2009/01/07/ben-and-jerrys-has-created-well-re-named-an-ice-cream-in-obamas-honor/ Ok RedStaters, mark your calendars for Jan 5th 2009 at 1 PM Est.  Americans for Tax Reform will be hosting The RNC Chairman's Candidate Debate live.  They will also be taking questions, which you can submit on the day of the debate.   There will also be a twitterfeed for ... http://www.redstate.com/aaronbg/2008/12/16/the-rnc-chairmans-candidate-debate/ From Brietbart via Drudge Apparently the Perry County Commission decided they needed a paid day of in order to celebrate Barack Obama's presidential win. Granted, electing a black man is historic but he hasn't even governed anything yet, not to mention succeeded at governing. The employees of the county ... http://www.redstate.com/aaronbg/2008/12/03/the-barack-obama-daycelebration-of-a-neoph/ H/T to Drudge Breitbart is reporting that Colmes is leaving Hannity and Colmes. This begs the question...who will replace Colmes? http://www.redstate.com/aaronbg/2008/11/24/enough-on-obamas-admin-pickswho-will-rep/ Promoted from the diaries by Erick Lately there seems to be a lot of confusion as to what a Conservative is and is not. Some seem to think it has to do with abortion or taxes or national security. Well the truth is that conservatism is not about any ... http://www.redstate.com/aaronbg/2008/11/19/conservatismdefined/ I know this has nothing to do with politics and feel free to remove it if I am abusing my RedHot privileges, but this looks great!! http://www.redstate.com/aaronbg/2008/11/18/and-now-for-something-completely-different-2/ Today I recieved an email from RNC Chairman Mike Duncan encouraging me to reflect on why I am a Republican and to share my input. In order to do so they have put up a site called Republican for a Reason. I encourage all of us to participate ... http://www.redstate.com/aaronbg/2008/11/11/the-gop-is-trying-to-listenwill-you-make-y/ H/T to Drudge for this link. Apparently some are planning to promote a National holiday for Barack Obama. This is absolutely ridiculous. In my life span we have demoted Pres. Washington and Pres. Lincoln to being lumped in with all the other Presidents while promoting Martin Luther ... http://www.redstate.com/aaronbg/2008/11/10/washingtons-birthdaynot-worthybarack-ob/ The point I was making was that the Journalists were attacked for trying to expose this. They were trying to be helpful and were met with violence. This should not be since The One was elected...we're all supposed to be friends now. After further review, I probably should ... http://www.redstate.com/aaronbg/2008/11/06/re-china/ 60 Minutes Reporters Attacked in China Shouldn't China now understand that we only have their best intentions in mind? After all didn't HOPECHANGEHOPE win on Tuesday Night? http://www.redstate.com/aaronbg/2008/11/06/apparently-china-didnt-get-the-memobarack/ In the aftermath of the utter failure of the McCain campaign, and the Republicans in general, to come with and understandable and comprehensive plan of how we will govern, I decided to look back on to the giants whose shoulders we should be standing. I will warn you right ... http://www.redstate.com/aaronbg/2008/11/06/back-to-the-future/ Cross posted at TMR here. Recently I wrote about Self Governance and the Moral Standard. Today I would like to continue in the theme of Self Governance and how Economic Policy can either move our Nation toward or away from that goal. First I need to define some terms for the ... http://www.redstate.com/aaronbg/2008/10/24/how-economic-policy-affects-the-goal-of-self/