My Problem with People Who Readily Accept Herman Cain’s 999 Tax Reform Plan.

    This diary is a response to this good diary by “The Sophist” from which I quote in part: <b>If You Assume The Policy Will Be Corrupted…</b> First of all, if the base assumption is that no matter how great an idea might be, DC politicians will find a way to corrupt it… why is the 999 plan singled out for special treatment? What makes anyone | Read More »

    Is the Liberty Provided by the 4th Amendment a Figment of Your Imagination?

    Quoting Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark: “”The criminal goes free if he must, but it is the law that sets him free. Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its own existence.“ Most Americans have a perception of the 4th Amendment that seems to not be based in reality, | Read More »

    If Change_Jar_Conservative runs for President, then so am I.

    Actually, I have nothing against Mr. Change Jar but after looking at his ideas, I just think I can do a better job as POTUS. First thing I will do is hold a press conference announcing my candidacy in the middle of the DailyKos Netroots Convention.   You can’t get any worse than that so it would all be up hill from there. At my first | Read More »

    FairTax Cosponsors in Texas

    FairTax Picks up another Congressman in Texas in Pete Olson (R). At least that is what we’ve been told. This puts the score at 14 cosponsors verses 6 who chose not to do so. That will give us 70% Republican support and 0% Democrat support in the House of Representatives for Texas. ‘Freedoms Truth’ gave the low down in his bit “http://www.redstate.com/diaries/wosg/2008/nov/18/tx-21-and-the-other-tx-house-seats/ But I’d like | Read More »

    Flake And Coburn

    Please don’t screw this up. Get the right people in the highest positions available. The time is ripe. Get it right and do it right now. The Republican Party has just gotten the enema it needed and this is the time to fix it. We need leaders to lead this country out of desperate times to come. *We need to cut through the crap and | Read More »

    Paging Marsha Blackburn. Come to Shelby County STAT!

    I’m beginning to get distressed about the Republican Primary down here! Leatherwood is gaining ground every day and this is playing out all wrong. Its not even funny anymore. Even libs like wintermute and leftwingcracker are helping him. Ummmm… Just sit down, I have something to tell you. This is probably going to hurt a bit.