Just as simple Democratic Party Senate majorities can change their body’s rules at will, regardless of rules that have existed for over 50 years that require super majorities, simple We the People majorities can also change which senators rule. But first things first. The United States Senate gets to make its own rules, period: “Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its | Read More »
On the impact of policies vs elections Before Cockstradamus previews the 2010 portion of the bowl season now that the Gamecocks recorded their fifth loss after a Chick-fil-A sandwich in the ATL, let us review 2009′s obvious Man of the Year. Based upon the Time-magazine criteria of “the person who had the greatest impact for good or for ill”, President Barack Obama crushed all tea | Read More »
Major changes in government policy should only be made by clearly written statutes passed by Congress I sat at rapt attention as the announcer of the on-the-half-hour radio news began his broadcast with an announcement of a just-completed “important vote” on internet “neutrality” regulation policy. Naturally, I assumed that the morally-illegitimate Lame Duck Congress had passed more Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell-like legislation that We the | Read More »
Obama unilaterally surrendered on SDI If a President won’t defend us, we won’t be defended. Hence my ho hum attitude on the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty recently ratified by a Lame Duck Senate. In fact, my main objection to the treaty is that a body made illegitimate for all but emergency measures by the recent tea partier wave election dared to address the matter. Then | Read More »
There is absolutely no reason to capitulate to the illegitimate Democrat majority and their golden parachute continuing resolution The first few days would be tough as the networks show pictures of “suffering” national park workers that may not be paid for 23 more days. But notice that number, 23. Only 23 days. Many Americans who work get paid once per month. Twenty-three days is only | Read More »
On the 10th anniversary of Bush v. Gore, we re-visit our Man of the Decade Despite a cold decade and recent climate hoax revelations, no other person had more of an impact, for better or for worse (see worse in Gore’s case), on life in America and on Planet Earth than the man that never was the next President of the United States. Gore lacks the | Read More »
Beltway conservative elite’s focus on President Barack Obama’s fortunes are misplaced Does Charles Krauthammer think tea partiers would rather wait another two years before taking actions to turn the economy around? Apparently, as he characterizes the deal struck with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) over extension of the Bush tax cuts and unemployment benefits as a “swindle”: Barack Obama won the great tax-cut showdown of | Read More »
Black Democrats break race pathology by joining the GOP: Two African-American Democrats on Thursday announced that they were joining the Republican Party. Hall County Commissioner Ashley Bell and former state executive committee member Andre Walker said the Democratic Party had grown too liberal and they are finding a new home with the Republicans. It takes courage to leave the political party one inherits, especially in one’s | Read More »
On the 69th anniversary of the day President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said would live in infamy, let us look and see if any September 11, 2001 infamy lives in the heart of President Barack Hussein Obama. Based on Obama’s Afghan War address last year, with West Point cadets as props, the only infamy I could detect was for the men and women who kept us safe after 911, especially | Read More »
Kudos from this conservative to President Barack Obama for visiting the troops in Afghanistan this week. It is good for the morale of our armed forces and as a sign of resolve to our enemies, for our Commander in Chief to be seen in theatre. Moreover, as I said when Obama took office, we have only one president at a time and one foreign policy, which | Read More »
Take no comfort in the letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) signed by all 42 current members of the Republican caucus in the U.S. Senate promising to filibuster all legislation brought to the floor by the Democratic majority: “…until the Senate has acted to fund the government and we have prevented the tax increase that is currently awaiting all American taxpayers.” The letter is a lie. | Read More »
Deaf elephants refused to lock the grid If the din of acts of civil American Drive In obedience in January doesn’t penetrate the big ears of Congressional elephants, we will have no choice but to finally resort to conservative MLK-like civil disobedience against the Dumbo in the White House, aka President Barack Hussein Obama, and those Republicans and dog-eared Dems on Capitol Hill that are | Read More »
And I don’t mean a chicken in every pot given the proliferation of beans, franks and store brand peas’ diets (Le Sueur peas still too expensive, but we can dream…) Speaking of dreams, several of the poultry-related R.E.M., USC type came true in Omaha, Columbia and Gainesville before this year’s Turkey Day, but I digress…(at least until later in this column) ObamaDems Year of the Chicken stretches | Read More »
View from Gamecock’s Roost on Stone Mountain of Georgia In the aftermath of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy by a communist in Dallas exactly 47 years ago today, the liberal press (redundant even then, I know) blamed a Southern “atmosphere of violence” rather than the perpetrator. The death of the rabid anti-Communist and supply-side tax-cutter ushered in the takeover of the Democratic Party by | Read More »
How to emasculate the investment incentive of supply side tax cuts Debate rages hot and heavy in the halls of Congress among lame and limping Democrat ducks desperately and bitterly clinging to their class envy gods with guns who demand that taxes be raised on “the rich.” It seems the thrice-passed tax rates during the 2000s are set to expire yet again, which rates as | Read More »
Since the 1973 Supreme Court decision of Roe v. Wade, pro-Abortion Democrats have sought votes by warning of Republicans that want to “get in your bedroom” while they invaded your wallet and every other room of your house and workplace. Now, the leader of the increasingly Less-Free World wants to get you into a public bedroom for three-on-ones should you dare exercise your right to | Read More »
The presumptive Speaker of the House of Representatives to ABC in the aftermath of the 2010 Republican landslide election: DIANE SAWYER: But you’re not gonna declare this way or the highway, at this point? JOHN BOEHNER: It’s only been 48 hours since the election. I do think that — my job is to listen to the American people That’s right Mr. Speaker, you work for We | Read More »
Halloween view of Election 2010 from Stone Mountain of Georgia “Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California! But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!” – Martin Luther King, Jr. This conservative Republican looked for two silver linings after the election of Barack Obama as President and the filibuster-proof majorities of his Democratic Party: The re-education of a majority | Read More »
Effect of D.C. party policies on the economy outweigh state policies and voting for “the man” Even as a young Democrat in the 1980s, I disagreed with former Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill’s supposed axiom, no matter one’s definition of “local”. Then, as now, Democrats were facing an electorate suffering the consequences of policies enacted by their super-majorities in both houses of Congress and | Read More »
Columbus discovered us, and thank God for it Happy Columbus Day! And yes, there are good reasons to be happy. For the chain of events that resulted in the creation and evolution of the greatest nation the world has even known includes the discoveries of Christopher Columbus in 1492 as essential and as Exhibit A for proof of the reasons we became the Shining City | Read More »
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