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A case for the RINO purge…

Tim Geitner… the new Treasury Secretary will certainly crack the whip if YOU don’t pay your taxes…

Please remember these names…

Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
Ensign (R-NV)
Gregg (R-NH)
Shelby (R-AL)
Snowe (R-ME)
Voinovich (R-OH)

“Bipartisanship” is a swear-word in my house.

Neo-conservatism is a proven commodity: pastel-flag and all. I remember voting in the spirit of cooperation, for someone who…

“…focuses on solving problems, not settling scores.  As President, he will restore honor and dignity to the White House, and set a new tone of respect and bipartisanship in Washington.”

Before I cry myself to sleep, clinging to my guns, my Bible, my antipathy, and my non-aborted child; a diary on bipartisanship.

The revolution of the neo-Jacobins has won the day; and in the tenor of unity in Congress and the Executive branches, Washington D.C. shall soon be re-named “Alinskygrad”.

Bipartisanship has a familiar smell. I can almost remember a bill sponsored by Ted Kennedy called No Child Left Behind “clearing the House by a 381 to 41 margin.” with more Democratic than Republican votes”.

The stated goal seems reasonable… a carrot and a stick.

“Schools that are judged to be failing—i.e., leaving children behind—first receive additional funding but then are subjected to progressively stiffer penalties if they continue to miss their legal targets.”

But as it turns out, the NEA really hates all these, like, tests, and, you know, tests, and stuff. Now that bipartisan compromise put “NCLB” on the books, we should expect the best… The NEA shall keep fighting for reprieve of standards, but certainly not for reprieve of funding.

This is bipartisanship.

The Great Communicator might offer lessons on compromise as well…

Reagan in “An American Life”…

“If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that’s what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it.”

The Alinskyists will rule with only lip-service toward compromise, as there are plenty useful idiots willing to play along. If the neo-Jacobins in control of the President (and Congress) receive only “seventy-five percent” of what they are asking for, we are in trouble, indeed. Even Reagan suffered the punishment of acquiescence in the IRCA of 1986…

According to Edwin Meese at HumanEvents 12/13/2006

“President Reagan, acting on the recommendation of a bipartisan task force, supported a comprehensive approach to the problem of illegal immigration, including adjusting the status of what was then a relatively small population.”

Then Amnesty (through bipartisan horse trade) fell to fraud, insecure borders, and lack of employment enforcement.

“After a brief slowdown, illegal immigration returned to high levels and continued unabated, forming the nucleus of today’s large population of illegal aliens.”

Medicare Part D is a great example of the virtues of “bipartisanship”, as well. Instead of rote dissertation… I’ll just post this URL: http://casadelogo.typepad.com/factesque/medicare_part_d/

Anything the article says, just disagree and we’re of the same mindset.

Every horse trade becomes only a boot to the teeth.

The lessons of the Reagan era were not lost on the idiot baboonery on the “Code Pink” side of the aisle. The rules are the same, but the situation is different. The Alinskyists are effective propagandists, above all else. By staking claim to what they call “reasonable” and “centrist” positions, they may paint the opposition as radical no matter what the real position.

They pick off the RINOS to give cover.

As the left seeks to continue momentum given them by the propagandist MSM, they will need collaborators from the GOP to give cover. Like a frog in a Jacuzzi, the left keeps tugging leftward, and the right is tugged center.

Let us not forget what we stand for.

Let us not allow our ideals be described for us by others… we have our boots on the ground let us draw a deep line with a steel toe.

We want Change. I suggest a RINO purge.

According to the lib estimates, the war in Iraq is nearing the $600 Billion total.  Presently, our new commander-in-chief is suggesting $850 Billion to “stimulate the economy”.  Why is one supposed to work where one is supposed to have failed?

If I may be so bold, I’d like to propose this as an open thread.

On January 5, 2009, it was announced that “Oshkosh Defense has been awarded a sole source contract with the Defense Logistics Agency to provide replacement parts for medium and heavy tactical vehicles. This annual contract has a potential duration of 10 years, if all option years are exercised, and a value of up to $1.12 billion.”

On one hand, the war spending Nearly $600 Billion over 6 years is terrible for America, horrible for the economy, a shameful and damning example of hubris for conservatism, probably caused the “economic crisis”, and is generally harmful to children and other living things.

On the other hand, $850 Billion in a single lump sum will supposedly succeed where war-spending has not.  It will stimulate the economy, repudiate free-market economics, repudiate the hubris of the capitalists, solve the worst economic crisis since the great depression, and will solve many of the problems faced by a growing population on a warming planet.

Please let me know what you think, as I’m writing a smackdown op-ed for the local newspaper, and I wish to defend the “military industrial complex”.

From the interview with Brit Hume, Fox News, January 7, 2009.

“…we should be open-minded about big issues like immigration reform, because if we’re viewed as anti-somebody — in other words, if the party is viewed as anti-immigrant — then another fellow may say, well, if they’re against the immigrant, they may be against me. We’ve got to be a party for a better future, and for hope.”

Just a few thoughts…

1) Republicans must bear the burden of inspiring true immigration reform.  Let us begin our reform by enforcing the laws on the books.  Let us continue by completing the fence at the southern border, as well as implementing even the most minor sort of lip service toward port security (a major step).

2) If the party is truly viewed as anti-immigrant, let us fold up the tent and go home in shame, as we have lost.  If we allow our party to be mischaracterized by those in the wrong, we have truly lost.  To allow others to define your message or ideology, you deserve their insult.  We allow others to define our message at our own peril, and our success or failure shall be inherited by our children.

3)  We were the party of a “better future, and for hope”, until we allowed the “big tent” nonsense to first be foisted upon us (think “compassionate conservatism”), and “hope” became a lack-wit euphamism for large promises.  Hope might become our breadwinner in the future, but our breed of hope should be in liberty and promises kept.

Conservatism is hope, and we are a nation of immigrants.  We haven’t forgotten.  I don’t know if I am a Republican due to the recent iterations of “Republican” fielded by the party nationally.  Something I know for certain, however, is there need not be a “big tent”, only strong and true ideals.  We must not let others define our beliefs.  Right to Live.  Right to own property. Right to equal justice.

There are truths which are self-evident.

We don’t need to change the ideals, we need spokespeople who will remain true to them.