Speaker Boehner, the definition of a dead beat is someone who needs to borrow money to pay interest on the money he borrowed and spent, and uses the threat of not paying to extort more loans. This is Obama’s biggest threat, and the easiest to ridicule. America has given too much to a dead beat spendthrift and won’t stand for him not paying the bills. Even if we stop borrowing there is still plenty of money coming in to protect seniors, pay the debt, fund the military, and pay for essential services. It will be up to Obama to choose how he spends the money he has, whether he will be responsible and craft a government that can live within the means of it’s citizens, or if he will throw a temper tantrum like a spoiled child cutting off funds to the elderly and the needy to use the funds to bribe his government union buddies and teachers. Or will he prove once and for all that he is an irresponsible dead beat and not pay interest on the government loans.

Rep. Boehner, call his bluff. Push back at him and riducule him for his drunken spending and his dead beat threats. The danger isn’t that we will default, but that Obama the wastrell will squander another quarter trillion dollars on vacations, golf outings and gifts to Argintina to drill for oil.

Trust me on this, Obama will respect you for using Alinsky’s own tactics against him, he will think you are a player.

WmCraig

Stop acting like a petulant child. We give you a 2.2 trillion dollar allowance and you spend 4 trillion instead. This is no way to manage money. If you want a bigger allowance, prove you can manage what we give you now.

This temper tantrum isn’t becoming. We aren’t going to be swayed to change our mines until you show some maturity and the ability to live within your means.

Now stop whining and cut spending.

Dad

“I don’t think right-wing social engineering is any more desirable than left-wing social engineering,” Gingrich said, calling the plan “too big a jump” for the country. “I don’t think imposing radical change from the right or the left is a very good way for a free society to operate.” Newt Gingrich on Meet the Press

I am not sure professor Gingrich fully understands Ryan’s plan, I am not a fan of the professor and I am not arguing the merits of the Ryan proposal but rather the bigger picture. This post is about what Americans want in their next President and it is time that Republicans understand and embrace the new paradigm.

The person who will set the electorate on fire wants to dismantle the Washington apparatus to impose change on the people. Not bend it to the right. For the last eight decades America has flirted with various Washington driven increases in social engineering. In the run up to the new millennium Americans rejected the socialist oriented progressive ideas that had dominated since Roosevelt, or at least they thought they had, and embraced conservatives. But that failed them too. People do want change, but the new paradigm is that the change they want is liberty, and liberty comes from the efforts of the people, not from Washington. The only thing we can all agree on is that Washington should mind it’s own business and not meddle so much in our affairs.

Voters have learned a lesson which is manageress in the idealism of the Tea Parties. Washington has built a bureaucracy that can be abused by any President and Congress that is dedicated to “re-engineering” American society. While the current administration is hell bent on designing a progressive utopia, and very willing to impose there will on the people, there is no reason to believe that the alternative conservative administration will be any more than adjustment in the abuse of liberty with a different direction. A direction where the power of government is still used to impose an agenda on business, the environment and peoples lives. That is not the change people want.

The individual states have the ability to regulate labor relations, environmental protection, heath and human services and education. The bureaucracies in Washington have become a threat to liberty because they can so easily be abused. Eric Holder has proven this  threat, with cooperation from the department heads, by the use of aggressive attacks on business, individuals and the states themselves. The solution isn’t to put a conservative in power over these dangerous non-elected agencies, but to defang them completely. And the place to start is to dismantle the funding. Take away the money and block grant it back to the states without strings. Let them run their own domestic policies. This is why regular people want to shut the government down. It has become a cancer and the least intrusive and least damaging way to treat cancer is to starve it of it’s life blood.

There is no currently declared candidate for the Republican nomination that has convinced me that they have understanding of this new paradigm. let alone make me believe that they embrace it.

The fact that the legacy Republicans Leading Congress would rather play golf than play chicken with the President over the future of the country speaks volumes about the direction the legacy Republican leadership has for party when they get control back.

WmCraig

Evangelical Tradlitionist – spreading the gospel of self determination through restoration of local and state government control over the matters of it’s citizens.

TRADITIONALISM A philosophy that government should function with a respect for the limits of it’s own authority taking priority over all other considerations.

Cross Posted at Undo4me.com

I read that Obama is focusing on a summer organizer program and wants “stop acting like an incumbent”. Of course if I had his record that would be my plan too. So where are the Republicans? The republican leadership is really starting to get on my nerves. They either do not get it, or they don’t care.  If you wonder why the American people do not trust Republicans much more than Democrats it simple. They do not have a message that resonates. They think republicans are not as liberal but little moire, or that Republicans won’t spend that money the same way will work but won’t seriously reduce the size of the Washington bureaucracy either. Republicans act like talking about tax cuts will spur the economy when the problem is regulation. Who needs a tax break when you can’t get a permit and the feds could come knocking to extort money at any time.  I want someone to challenge the Obama machine one thrust at a time. If Obama wants to “organize on campuses” we need to organize too. Or at least give them something to organize against. So lets counter attack the campuses with this simple slogan:

Want to do more feel good things – Vote OBAMA
Want to do more pay good things – Vote for anyone else
Your future is in your hands!

We don’t need a retread Republican candidate who has no courage and thinks, like McCain did, that if all the Republicans just behave nice enough the media will warm to us. Get over it, get active and get direct. It is time to counter each move with an effective complimentary move.

James Carville made two points in an article from the daily caller.
1. If the economy doesn’t get better Obama is going to have a rough time.
2. Civil unrest is not out of the question.

That’s right, we are looking at the next potential cultural revolution and it will not be one about sex, religion or ecology. The young people in the country see a future where trees matter more than people and they don’t like it. They only need leaders that realize this. America is a great country, with vast resources and industrious people. But even college students are beginning to realize that the great earth day movement, the great liberation movements of the 60′s and 70′s have shackled them to a future as slaves to an ecological utopia. A revolution on campuses is brewing, sure clean air is nice but we are a nation of hardworking industrious builders. From the pioneers that shaped a nation out of the wilderness to the assembly line worker who created the some of the most amazing machines the world has ever seen America is a nation of doers. And the Democrats offer only a future of full of jobs for thinkers, analysts and waiters.

Vote for a future that includes a paycheck!

Clean air is good but if you can’t find a job it is not as enjoyable. The recent tsunami helped to focus attention on the fragile supply line of manufactured goods that our standard of living depends on. A candidate that can articulate a future with manufacturing jobs will carry the day. America needs jobs that someone with a high school educations, a strong back and skilled hands can do and earn a good living. The kind of jobs that built America, making steel, building boats, airplanes and ships. Building and running efficient low cost energy, mining and processing materials, capitalizing on our oil and gas reserves, build homes and buildings, machine tools and consumer goods. We need the America that the Democrats have taken from us with their green jobs propaganda and their clean air shackles.

I want clean air, and clean water, but we also need to build things, there needs to be a compromise. The future that Obama offers, cleaner air and no jobs will lead to civil unrest. We need a leader that can strip Washington of the power it has acquired to meddle in the every day lives of citizens. Someone to lead to the dismantling of the Washington bureaucracy that dictates conformity rather than enables liberty. Some one that can step up an announce proudly that they will return to the states the power to over their environment, their labor relations and their schools.

Someone who walk on a high school or college campus and say with sincerity: The future is yours, and I offer you the right change and the only hope for a future full of good things & good pay.

WmCraig

Evangelical Tradlitionist – spreading the gospel of self determination through restoration of local and state government control over the matters of it’s citizens.

TRADITIONALISM A philosophy that government should function with a respect for the limits of it’s own authority taking priority over all other considerations.

H/t Drudgereport

Cross Posted at Undo4Me

It seems to me that too many people, especially pundits are unwilling or unable to put Barack Obama into perspective. Let me make that simple Barack Obama is a community organizer.  And since that defines his being lets review what makes a Community Organizer, going directly to the source. Saul Alinsky’s rules for radicals. Alinsky defines a series of rules for power.

Alinsky’s Power Tactics:

1. Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

2. Never go outside the experience of your people.

3. Whenever possible go outside the experience of the enemy.

4. Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.

5. Ridicule is mans most potent weapon.

6. A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.

7. A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.

8. Keep the pressure on with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.

9. The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.

10. The major premise of tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.

11. If you push a negative hard and deep enough, it will break through into its counterside.

12. The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.

13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it.

If you are paying attention, you will see how the Republicans were defeated, what the next steps are to reduce the Republican influence and how our sides failure to understand our opponents has weakened us and made us vulnerable in the next election.

Lets look at the recent Government shut down issues and what tactics were used.

9. The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.

- This is the most important point and the biggest failure by the Boehner leadership. The threat of a government shut down is far worse than an actual shutdown. The term itself is misleading, because the government continues to operate, only at reduced levels. And really, isn’t that what we want, a smaller government that operates at reduced levels.  Democrats applied this to scare people, and Boehner let them,

1. Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

-  Obama used this effectively. We went into negotiations with Democrats thinking they hold all the cards, and our side agreeing. Take not paying the miltary. Air Force One never sits still. He uses it to fly to Kansas for a photo op. Not paying the military would have pissed a lot of people off, people the President depends on. He likes his military toys, it was a bluff. If he pissed of his military the world would have turned on him like sharks to blood. The President has made more enemies and lost more friends than anyone since LBJ. Yet we let him get away with it.

3. Whenever possible go outside the experience of the enemy.

- Obama used this, when in fact it was our best tactic. Republicans want less government, and all you get with a government shutdown is less government. But Republicans do not have the experience of this being positive and combined with a lack of courage made it a winner for Obama. BUT it would never have worked. The Democrats are big spending, big government types, and while Obama might have been comfortable the base of the party and it’s support would have been devastated. Being in shut down mode is way outside the experience of the bureaucrats and would quickly become uncomfortable.

12. The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.

- Republicans should have been prepared for a long shut down, I mean weeks. During this time they could put forth bills to resolve problems. A bill to guarantee that a smaller, leaner government would still pay it’s seniors. A bill to secure military funding. A bill to turn over to the states responsibility for the EPA. A bill to fund and turn over to the states funding for health education and welfare programs. The idea is that everytime the President refuses to pay for these things, he looses support. AND everytime we come up with a plan that is different, people can see where they might be better off without Washington involvement. Take education. Let the states run it. Block grant the money, shut down the appropriate federal agencies and get out of the business entirely.  Sure the president will veto it, or the Senate will stone wall it. See point 3 above.

13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it.

- Obama would be personally responsible for this shut down. He is the one complaining that people can’t get their own way all the time. And yet he is willing to sacrifice the security of the population for a lousy 2% spending reduction.The republicans who are trying disparately  to fund the government, without selling out to China and he vetoed everything. Every day, every Republican could have used their time to talk up the bills in Congress, to make their case in the media and to put a face and a name to the suffering the shut down was causing: “Barack Obama”.  “Give us back Just 2% Barrack! Are you so greedy you would see old people starving, poor people dying, babies being born unwanted, all because you can’t give move in our direction just 2% of the way? What kind of monster are you?”

But instead, the democrats used the fear of a shut down against Boehner. Only a complete lack of preparedness could have lost this battle, but loose it we did. Spin about changing the direction of the conversation is just lipstick on a pig. Sooner or later through budget or resistance we must shut down all non-essential spending. What is eliminating non-essential spending in the budget if not shutting down that non-essential portion of the government? It is not a question of if we will shut it down non-essential spending, but when.

WmCraig

Evangelical Traditionalist – spreading the gospel of self determination through restoration of local and state government control over the matters of it’s citizens.

TRADITIONALISM A philosophy that government should function with a respect for the limits of it’s own authority taking priority over all other considerations.

• The Democrats got 99% of the spending they wanted but were afraid to put into a budget.
• The Republicans approved the largest spending increase in history
• The President gets to claim he brokered a deal that cut 39 billion dollars the largest cut in history
• Americans still think the world will come to an end if the government shuts down, and due to the hysterics of the Republican leadership they think a shut down is a scorched earth policy that would destroy the country faster than out of control spending.
• The republicans backed themselves in a corner. They can’t refused to raise the debt limit after approving $3,860 Billion in spending.
• The Ryan budget is dead in the water because every attempt to cut spending will be met with a caterwaul by Democrats accusing the irresponsible Republicans of reopening those scorched earth attacks again.
• The President looks mature, responsible and in control.
• Boehner looks like a school boy taken for his lunch money.

The democrats won such a lopsided victory it is hardly likely the Republicans will win any seats in the election let alone get anything done in the next two years.

The only hope is a leadership change. But it is probably to late even for that too.

Washington DC. You can judge a person by their overcoat. If you got one, you don’t have a limo. Looser.

So, when a Tea Party group decides to have a rally at the foot of the Robert A Taft Memorial the participants are limited by the weather. It was cold, damp, drizzly and the ground soggy enough to turn to mud. Nobody, and I mean nobody who had a choice was on the mall or walking the streets last Thursday.  Trust me, my leather coat, work boots and cap made me stand out. I at least had work boots on, so I didn’t ruin a good pair of shows walking around in the mud. I give the politicians who showed up a lot of credit. They deserve our support.

The cold and damp suppressed everything.  Mike Pence gave a few good lines, but you couldn’t hear them half a block away. The people forced to be outside hustled from the doors to the limo, or taxi, or rushed to cross the street. A few glanced toward the memorial to see a small quiet gathering, of what looked like a funeral in the park.

Then something changed. By this time I had given up and was walking back to the office about a block away, busy talking to clients on my cell phone when all of a sudden the atmosphere changed. I wasn’t the only one that noticed. Two guys getting into a cab in front of me stopped and took notice. They stood there enthralled long enough for the cabbie to wake them from their trance. A quick look around showed that even the on side walks across from the park people had stopped, making what was once deserted looking streets seem busier.

The voice that we heard was clear, sharp and had that smirk built into it that laughs at Washington’s air of self importance.  At first I thought Sarah Palin had made an unscheduled stop, then I realized, I had missed Michelle Bachman.

I couldn’t hear her speech. But I could hear the enthusiasm and you could feel the energy. I was watching the reactions around me. The little nod of recognition the two cab riders gave to each other as they took their ride. The small groups of listeners closer then me, leaning forward, nodding in agreement. Maybe all these people knew she was coming and timed their lunch to be on the walk. Not quite committed to the rally but anxious for a chance to hear Bachman speak. They got their reward.

For a couple minutes, the dreary, damp, heavy Washington air seemed charged with possibilities. No, the crowd listening didn’t double or triple, but I found that in a dozen small groups people all seemed to stop and turn and come to attention. Like people do when plays reveille on a military base.

I could not believe that a handful of people would bring out some of the speakers who were there Thursday. I can tell you that there could not have been more than two bus loads of supporters by that time though more had marched around the Capitol Building earlier. Take away the reporters, and the organizers, the handlers and the politicians waiting their turn, fifty to seventy five people gathered in a space no bigger then a school orchestra pit, and with the same kind of small personal feel, and got a close up look at the political show of a lifetime. I will regret that due to my own discouragement I was not part of that group at the foot of the podium. I doubt any of us will be so close to these potential presidential candidates again.

WmCraig
Evangelical Tradlitionlist – spreading the gospel of self determination through restoration of local and state government control over the matters of it’s citizens.

Note: By the time I left the atmosphere around the podium was more like a gathering of friends for a wedding. A mix of people who don’t quite know each other but all know the people at the head table. The politicians politely stood by mingled in with the croud with a minimum of “handlers”, none of whom seemed particularly threatening. It was a small group. It was friendly. Oh, and it even had a crazy uncle and his family. About a half dozen code pink types where their to spread their message. Interestingly I almost got the feeling that they felt a part of the family too. They acted like they were in a friendly crowd. Of course, that may be because they were. One thing is certain, there are plenty in the tea party that think the time for military adventurism by an amateurish Chicago school boy is over.

Then again, maybe the point of the tea party isn’t to get government to dictate how we should all live. But rather to reduce the size of government so that we can all be true to our own consciousness and make a small place in this great and varied country were we can gather with people of a like mind and prosper.

Senator Robert Alphonso Taft According to Wikipedia “As the leading opponent of the New Deal in the Senate from 1939 to 1953, he led the successful effort by the conservative coalition to curb the power of labor unions, and was a major proponent of the foreign policy of non-interventionism.” OK, I know that is a bad source to reference but it is good enough to make one wonder if it was just a coincidence that the rally was at this location?
 

TRADITIONALISM A philosophy that government should function with a respect for the limits of it’s own authority taking priority over all other considerations.

Wilson, The Great War, Liberate France

Roosevelt, World War 2, Liberate France

Truman, Vietnam, Support French Interests (1950′s)

Johnson. Vietnam, Support former French colonists (1960′s)

Obama, Libya, France requests protection for former French administered colonists.

Maybe that is why I think the politics around this war of intervention stinks like the politics of war in Vietnam.  Maybe it is because even Obama realizes cuts to the military industrial complex are cuts to the remaining unionized workers, who are nearly government employees because their jobs depend on government procurement.

Or maybe it is the smell of a the Dean Rusk, Robert McNamarra, Harvard boys,  ticket punching,  we don’t have a purpose but we like to exercise our skills way of managing the wars. Maybe it is the lack of interests that Johnson and Obama have in winning or their inability to even define victory. Rather that are obsessive about “containing” collateral political propaganda damage.  Only in this remake the role of Rusk and McNamarra are played by Clinton and Gates, two more Democrat political operatives not quite at the top.

Or maybe because Obama’s excuse for escalating this war stinks of lies, and is more flimsy and certainly as frauduelent as the Tonkin Gulf incident. After all the slaughter is still happening and ethnic cleansing is being done under Obama’s watch.

Or maybe it is because the ethnic cleansing being carried out by the rebels we support is acting against black people in Libya simply because they are black. I can’t hate Barrack Obama for his ties to black racists, but there is something horrible about the idea of the first black president participating in a massacre of black Libyans and using our troops to defend it. The stink from that may never wash off, and it could be decades before America regains the respect of the world that Obama has tainted.

Johnson never was able to admit he made a mistake, which lead to more mistakes, more deaths, and more disrespect for America and the great American miltary. McNamarra warned him in the mid sixties, if we continue to escalate the war we will be in the same place only at a much higher level in the future. Higher level of cost that is in blood, dollars and lost respect. Like Johnson, Obama presses on with his agenda, like ObamaCare, even when the country is against him,  proving that President Obama like President Johnson can’t admit a mistake. Johnson showed that an arogant president distracted by political unrest at home is a very dangerous Commander in Cheif because the people that pay for his mistakes are the young men and woman they he sends off to be maimed and killed. Simply because he will not entertain the idea that he might be wrong.

And that really stinks.

WmCraig

We elected GOP candidates because we thought they stood for the same things we do.

On the Hugh Hewitt radio program representative Jack Kingston makes Arlen Specter noises, excusing away the CR  that does nothing.

Jackson tries to put out a bunch of BS about how they have a strategy. The strategy is they aren’t going to do anything until fiscal year 2012. We sent them to Washington to stop the spending now. Pelosi sucker punched America with Obama Care. We sent the reinforcements they needed to punch back and what is it they want to do? They want to wait until FY2012 to cut spending. They want to pass a bunch of symbolic bills so they are “on record” for something. Bills that have no chance of being enacted into law. They are going to let the Democrats rack up 1.5 Trillion dollars in deficits. Funding they have to authorize since the 111th congress didn’t pass a budget. What is the point? When they propose a budget with 1.2 Trillion in deficits they can say they cut spending.

Then representative Jackson, when pressed to the wall by Hewitt starts spouting about entitlement reform. That is all well and good but here is the thing. If you mean cutting Social Security now, then you will NEVER GET ELECTED. And if you mean cutting entitlements for the future that has NOTHING to do with the CURRENT 1.5 Trillion dollar deficit.

Breitbart has the audio. If you want to understand what we are up against listen to the audio. You can here Jackson squirming. Hewitt is mad, and we are all mad, but Jackson some how thinks that it is because we don’t get it.

GOP: Group of Pansies.

H/t Hugh Hewitt show
WmCraig
Evangelical Traditionalist – spreading the gospel of self determination through restoration of local and state government control over the matters of it’s citizens.

TRADITIONALISM: A philosophy that government should function with a respect for the limits of it’s own authority taking priority over all other considerations.

The vote yesterday on H.J 48 proved the Nancy Pelosi is a great political leader. I do not like her politics but she makes the speaker of the house, and all the leaders of the Republican party look like a bunch of juveniles. She is leading them like silly school boys into a trap that will guarantee that the speaker’s gavel will return to a Democrat.

It’s not complicated.
1. There is no budget. Therefore you cannot assign responsibility to the Democrats for this spending. It is all authorized by Republicans. In fact, almost twice as many Democrats as Republicans voted against yesterday’s spending. 104-54

2. Last month there was a record deficit. That is because Republicans choose to spend that money. Can’t blame the Democrats, they are just going along with the majority.

Here is the Democrat campaign slogan that is being written by the boys in knickers blindly being led into a trap by Nancy Pelosi, like sheep to slaughter. Since the Republican’s took over Congress America has been faced with record deficits, can we really afford to give them control of any more of the government purse?

3. Sometime this month America will come up against the debt limitation. Republicans will face a dilema. If they vote against raising the debt ceiling, the Democrats rightly will castigate the Republican leadership for irresponsible spending. If they choose to raise the debt ceiling they will admit they are spendthrift and give the Democrats validation to the need to keep spendthrift Republicans in a minority.

Like this or not, the voters swelled the ranks of the Democrats and Nancy Pelosi immediate set about doing everything she promised to her constituents. This pissed off a lot of people including many that voted for Democrats. She rewarded her long time supporters and fellow radicals with the big government, big spending programs they want. This took courage. And when she lost control she laid a trap for the next Congress so she could make them look stupid. That was smart. Pelosi takes a lot of heat and ridicule but she has the courage of her convictions and  never falters in the face of adversity.

Voters swelled the ranks of the republican party and the Legacy Leadership in Washington doesn’t t have a clue what to do. Republicans spend all their time trying to stay under the radar. They seek acceptance from an adversarial media that they can never get, they abandon their base, they have no convictions and seem incapable of courage.

America today is at a cross roads. No lesser an event then the challenges facing America that brought about the creation of our grand old party. In the 1850′s the Democrats fought valiantly in Congress to extend the rights of freeman to retain their slaves. Today, Democrats are fighting for the rights of organized government  employees to retain control over the productive output of tax payers to provide for the same largess once enjoyed only by plantation owners.

It is a battle for the survival of our country. We must win against the most incidious Democrat party body of rules since Jim Crow, or be enslaved to an organization of geovernment, police and politicians living high off the hog on our income through draconian taxation and organized government extortion. Who is leading this battle for us?  Hugh Hewitt on his radio show aptly described the Legacy Leadership of Boehner as the Republican’s McClellan.  Extremely accurate, as McClellan was a tremendous organizer and leader who trained a strong army, but had an overwhelming fear of engaging the enemy. Personally I prefer the term Legacy because it is something more current. Like legacy hardware and legacy software something your are stuck with until you can replace it with a more modern, faster, better and more productive version. But the comparison of cowardice in the face of any opposition by Hewitt is very accurate.

There is a rumor that the president will veto any spending bill that cuts the size of government. It is only a rumor. I am not so sure it will happen, because if the President shuts down the country AND if the Republicans played their cards to insure that the needy and the elderly continued to receive benefits as well as making sure interest payments, the military and critical services like the FAA continued to operate it could be devastating to the special interest supporters of the Democrats. Even if we cut spending by 40% the Democrats have to remain involved as the protectors of their special interest constituents.

But for that the Republicans need a General Grant. And from the looks of the potential leaders in the Republican party that general probably doesn’t wear pants (unless they are part of a pants suit).

WmCraig
Evangelical Tradlitionlist – spreading the gospel of self determination through restoration of local and state government control over the matters of it’s citizens.

TRADITIONALISM: A philosophy that government should function with a respect for the limits of it’s own authority taking priority over all other considerations.

Cross Posted undo4me.com