Yeah, the ABR Candidate (Pawlenty/Perry/Bachmann/Cain/Newt/Santorum) lost. The voters (in their ‘wisdom’) selected Romney for the GOP nominee.
GET OVER IT!!!!!
Whining for things that are not does not help rid this country of the blight that is Obama and his cronies. I intend to vote for Romney, but I will now focus on getting conservative candidates into the US House and Senate so we can drag Romney to the right and save our country from the likes of the Democrats and the spineless GOP leadership (namely McConnell and Boehner). Grousing that our favorite ABR candidate does no good to anyone. Donate money, put up a yard sign, man a polling station. Do something to elect more conservatives in your backyard.
Because the Dems no longer maintain their super-majority in both chambers of Congress, the President isn’t getting everything rubber stamped and rammed through. This means, according to David Axelrod, that the conservative Republicans are imposing a “reign of terror” on all those Republicans that want to go back to rubber stamping Obama’s agenda.
Because the Dems no longer maintain their super-majority in both chambers of Congress, the President isn’t getting everything rubber stamped and rammed through. This means, according to David Axelrod, that the conservative Republicans are imposing a “reign of terror” on all those Republicans that want to go back to rubber stamping Obama’s agenda.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. Ronald Reagan.
Obama keeps chipping away at our Constitution, weakening our Nation by his blatant and total disregards for the laws of our land. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has further enforced Obama law upon our Country stating that the Obama Administration does not and will not consider Congress when making decisions on waging war. This dictator shows evidence of a narcistic personality disorder!
In a nutshell, Panetta says Obama doesn’t have the responsibility to inform Congress concerning acts of war, but probably would inform Congress about war decisions just as a courtesy. Obama and team just took our Congress out of the picture and trashed our Constitution. This is a violation of our War Powers Act, which is self- evident when Obama placed our troops in harm’s way in Libya; he intentionally bi-passed Congress once again acting as a defiant dictator.
Recently the Obama Administration attacked our religious freedom with the Government’s contraception mandate. In an effort to cover up his autocratic leadership and not ruffle the feathers of Americans, he quickly disguised the mandate as a women’s right issue. Obama is trying to make us compromise and relinquish our religious freedom as handed down by our forefathers many years ago.
We’re quickly being forced into submission by Obama and no one seems to be looking out for our Nation. Democrats and Republicans have refused to stand up to this dictator; there only response in three years is an occasional 3-ring circus with a bunch of slack jawed clowns performing for the ring master (Obama.)
Obama is taking absolute control of our lives and finances, we the people have lost our voice. Obama was meticulous in his strategy to take over our Country. First, he took the wind out of our sales by increasing our National Deficit approximately 5 trillion dollars since 2009. We lost our Triple A credit rating increased our debt ceiling and lost millions of jobs, homes and businesses.
He refused to secure our borders and gave the illegal aliens a free ride by enforcing an illegal law upon us giving millions of illegal aliens a “ger out of jail” free card. They are taking our money, our jobs and depriving our kids of their rights.
Obama has taken control of our businesses, stopped business growth creating a Nation of joblessness, bondage and extreme poverty. The poor are growing poorer, the African Americans, Hispanics and our youth are being devoured by this dictator.
Obama is a dictator, we have slipped quickly into a Nation dependent upon his Administration; he has weakened our Military, supported the Muslim Brotherhood, financed terrorists in Egypt, Libya and other Middle East Countries with our money.
In 2012, he is orchestrating a war on women, minority groups, the poor and our youth because they are the only ones who can give him another 4 year term.
He is intimidating them via fear tactics, class warfare and racism because they are the most vulnerable and frankly the ones he perceives as the weakest. As inflation continues to increase and gas prices keep rising, this group of people quickly will fall into the hands of this evil dictator.
Obama has started another mini housing bubble encouraging credit card companies to loan money to those not qualified; this will be another huge burden dropped at the feet of the taxpayer. By stopping deportation of illegal aliens he is increasing our debt and redistributing our money once again.
His class warfare tactics against the wealthy is nothing more than a redistribution of wealth – it has nothing to do with fair share. Obama wants a centralized socialistic Government and he has come a long way in attaining this type Government in a very short period of time.
He wants state controlled markets, Government owned healthcare, control of the wealthy, increased civil rights laws, green energy and most of all he wants a centralized Government that will control our every move from the cradle to the grave.
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have. Ronald Reagan
Editor’s note: This is the next endorsement on behalf of The Madison Project PAC in a continuing series of conservative endorsements for the 2012 congressional elections.
Earlier this year, Heath Schuler decided that masquerading as a conservative Democrat in the era of Obama and Pelosi had become too cumbersome, and summarily announced his retirement. This western North Carolina district has become even more Republican after redistricting, providing us with an easy pickup opportunity. This is the sort of seat that we can easily fill with a conservative without having to battle an incumbent Republican. Our choice is Mark Meadows.
A strong comprehensive conservative, Mark was described to us by someone who knows this race as “tea party inside the Republican Party years before the tea party existed.” That’s a strong endorsement of someone who has fought for principle inside a party structure, one of the hardest things to do. For many years, we have stressed the importance of conservative involvement in the precinct and county levels of the Republican Party. Mark Meadows served as a textbook example of how to get it done. He started off attending precinct meetings in a small county, easily becoming chairman after bringing in a few likeminded friends. Eventually he was able to become county chairman and help push the state party platform to the right, even though he was from an obscure part of the state.
Mark is an outspoken supporter of life and marriage who is opposed to TARP and government bailouts. A successful businessman, Mark’s story is the quintessential American one as he started a restaurant with a small line of credit and made it a success, building on that success in the following years. As such, he understands that a true free-market society must work unencumbered by government mandates, but also without government subsidies. He is also committed to restoring power to state and local governments on issues such as transportation and infrastructure. We need more small businessmen and women who understand what it takes to make businesses successful; who have dealt with the onerous burdens of an overreaching government and all the burdens this presents entrepreneurs in our country today.
Editor’s note: This is the next endorsement on behalf of The Madison Project PAC in a continuing series of conservative endorsements for the 2012 congressional elections.
Earlier this year, Heath Schuler decided that masquerading as a conservative Democrat in the era of Obama and Pelosi had become too cumbersome, and summarily announced his retirement. This western North Carolina district has become even more Republican after redistricting, providing us with an easy pickup opportunity. This is the sort of seat that we can easily fill with a conservative without having to battle an incumbent Republican. Our choice is Mark Meadows.
A strong comprehensive conservative, Mark was described to us by someone who knows this race as “tea party inside the Republican Party years before the tea party existed.” That’s a strong endorsement of someone who has fought for principle inside a party structure, one of the hardest things to do. For many years, we have stressed the importance of conservative involvement in the precinct and county levels of the Republican Party. Mark Meadows served as a textbook example of how to get it done. He started off attending precinct meetings in a small county, easily becoming chairman after bringing in a few likeminded friends. Eventually he was able to become county chairman and help push the state party platform to the right, even though he was from an obscure part of the state.
Mark is an outspoken supporter of life and marriage who is opposed to TARP and government bailouts. A successful businessman, Mark’s story is the quintessential American one as he started a restaurant with a small line of credit and made it a success, building on that success in the following years. As such, he understands that a true free-market society must work unencumbered by government mandates, but also without government subsidies. He is also committed to restoring power to state and local governments on issues such as transportation and infrastructure. We need more small businessmen and women who understand what it takes to make businesses successful; who have dealt with the onerous burdens of an overreaching government and all the burdens this presents entrepreneurs in our country today.
What do money markets, antiques, gold, corn, wheat, and stocks in companies like Google or Apple have in common? They?re bought by speculators.
And yet speculators, especially in oil, have become the bogeyman of economics. On tomorrow?s I Spy Radio Show (11-noon, kykn.com), we talk with Dr. Daniel Fine about America?s energy resources and energy policy. What role do speculators have in the price of oil?
And find out why those who think high gas prices might hurt Obama?s re-election may be in for a big surprise.
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Dr. Daniel I. Fine works with the New Mexico Center for Energy Policy. He is a longtime research associate at the Mining and Minerals Resources Institute, MIT. Fine is also a policy adviser on nonconventional oil and gas. He is co-editor of Resource War in 3-D: Dependence, Diplomacy and Defense, and has contributed to Business Week, the Engineering and Mining Journal and the Washington Times. Fine has testified on strategic natural resources before the U.S. Senate committees on Foreign Affairs and Energy and Natural Resources. In this speech, he discusses ?Shale Gas Wars: From Pennsylvania to North Carolina.?
“Has the TEA Party become a GOP Liability?” -Washington Post headline, April 6th, 2012.
First of all, a big thanks to all who R&R’d (Read and recommended, and if that’s not slang on the sites where I post yet, it is now.) my last post. Like most conservatives, I wish the media would do its job, so I wouldn’t have to. I would like to apologize to my wife for the spit-take that occurred when I saw that headline on a friends’ facebook post. (Article here) For a little backstory, my wife diligently saved her money before we got married, and bought our couch and bed for us as a wedding present to me. I spat the coffee I was drinking all over the couch, upon which I am now sleeping until I get the aforementioned beverage out of it. If any of you have a little room in your budget for a radio show host/blogger, I am available. Please send help and prayers to iamjosephkurt@gmail.com. While that request enters the ether, we have other matters at hand.
As a member of the Charleston TEA Party, and a conservative in good standing, I was forced to wonder if there was any legitimacy to the charge. That lasted for all of a few seconds. We have an innate ”distrust reflex” for most everything in media. When Fox News came along, it was a welcome relief just to watch someone try to show our side. Fox News rapidly became the Israel of broadcast journalism. Neighbors fired at it on a daily basis. The rest of its world tried to smear and demean it, and entire hate groups were built around it, like MSNBC and Current TV. In the spirit of Easter, I am going to try to be nice for a minute. Giving WaPo the benfit of the doubt, maybe they are just trying to explore another angle on the election. Maybe, just maybe, Pravda on the Potomac (Can’t take credit for that, Google search…-JK) is trying to give this election a fair shake.
Welcome back. I know you spent a little time doubled over laughing, and I don’t blame you. When I wrote that line, I nearly lost control of certain bodily functions that would have made the coffee spit-take debacle pale in comparison. But I digress, for the last time, I promise. Washington Post presents its standard evidence, which is polling data. Remember how polls are used to shape public opinion, not record it? Check this out:
“A recent Fox News poll showed just 30 percent of Americans had a favorable view of the tea party, compared to 51 percent who viewed it unfavorably.
A recent Washington Post/ABC News poll may be more illustrative, though. It showed Americans were more evenly split on the tea party, with 44 percent supporting it and 43 percent opposing it. But just 15 percent of Americans supported the tea party “strongly,” while many more – 26 percent – were “strongly” opposed to it.
That suggests opposition to the tea party is more strident than the tea party itself, which means the movement may be doing the GOP more harm than good.”
The article then goes on to quote a Democrat strategist who states that the TEA Party has become a dangerous group that no longer reflects the values of the American middle class. That’s a curious observation from the party of Occupy Wall Street, especially when the President has something like a 60-70% disapproval rating on how he’s handled the economy. And in my humble opinion, the President’s approval numbers factor into the whole scheme quite a bit. Follow me on this logical journey, if you will. The President is planning to run against Mitt Romney, the TEA Party, and the Republican Party as one cohesive unit whehter they are or not. We are going to be hit with the “do-nothing Congress”, “GOP Extremism”, and “Republican obstructionism” from all sides, whether the topic is relevant or not. Birth control, anyone? President Obama blamed Republican obtructionism in the pages of Rolling Stone before they even held the House! So in light of a -17% Presidential Approval Index among likely voters (See that here), President Obama’s team has thrown another dart at the Democrat re-election strategy board, hoping it resonates. The problem is, it only has one target: Run against a straw man. “It could have been worse”, “saved jobs”, and “profitable green industry” all spring from this political Narnia where President Obama has done a marvelous job, Obamacare is clearly constitutional, and a bunch of working-class voters in tricorn hats have ruined it all.
It just doesn’t jive. According to Rasmussen, the Tea Party’s approval rating as of November last year was 30%, and the Occupy movement was 37% unfavorable. Remember that Rasmussen polls likely voters. That poll should not exist, if the media is to be believed. Democrat Representatives marched with the Occupy movement, and it was supposed to revitalize the left. However, given the reality on the ground, and the grotesque images and video that turned up during the height of the movement, Occupy should have been called Communists Rallying for American Progressivism. Worse still, the polls on the TEA Party show Republicans view it favorably. And the worst yet? The numbers on the TEA Party bounce around like crazy. They are as nebulous as the group itself. In an attempt to pin it down and define it, the Democrat Party Media Relations Divsion has found itself herding politcal cats, or grasping at shadows. They vacillate from “it doesn’t exist”:
To, ”It’s a dangerous, racist, anti-everything, economic terrorist organization that’s responsible for the failures of the Obama administration and Congress’ bad poll numbers”:
Stupidity like this is actually amusing as can be. This “comprimise” rhetoric leads me to another point, though. Ever since the GOP took over the House in 2010, we have been mercilessly pilloried with the notion of how willing Republicans once were to comprimise. According to left, even as seen in the clip above, we used to lay down our arms and negotiate. Paul Begala wrote a column in The Daily Beast/Newsweek that he longed for a time when Republicans knew their place, and were kept under close watch by strong leaders, who would force them to comprimse when necessary. His ideal Republican: Bob Dole. Then we get drivel about Ronald Reagan raising taxes, and working to comprimise with Democrats. Even the President has jumped in to say Reagan could not win today’s GOP nomination. You know what Mr. President? JFK could not have won a Democrat primary since 1976. But since the Imperial Scribes, not the Emperor, are the ones we are going after in this segment, let’s see what they have to say. From Leonard Pitts Jr. of The Miami Herald, Imperial Idiot of the highest order:
“No, it is the GOP that has abandoned the center and embraced ideological extremism as a virtue. It is telling to hear its candidates use “moderate” as an epithet and argue over who is the most “conservative,” as if the word contained some pixie dust of common sense and moral rectitude. It is sobering to realize that Ronald Reagan, patron saint of modern conservatism, would be unelectable by the standards thereof: He raised taxes and was known to compromise with political opponents — not “enemies” — to get things done.
That was then. His party has since engaged in a 30-year flight from the center that reaches its nadir — at least, let us hope it’s the nadir — in this era of tea party incoherence, faith-based policy, fear mongering and tax pledge tyranny. This era when compromise is both lost art and dirty word and some Americans see other Americans as enemies — an era in which there is something lonely and foregone about pleading with an angry nation that this is not how it is supposed to be.”
You want to see a clear and obvious difference between the character of Reagan and Obama? If Obama had just half the character of Reagan, we would have seen him sign cuts into law, real cuts, at least two times by now. Look at how Reagan handled not having congressional support compared with how Obama has handled it. To quote a famous comic book writer: ‘Nuff said.
And about this whole “too far to the right” business? Quick, name for me a social welfare program that has been cut. No? Name for me a year when we cut goverment spending. No again? OK, name for me a government agency that has exceeded its budget or risked insolvency. That one was too easy, you say? There’s a reason. When you look at government through that frame, its simple to see why the left says we are moving to the right. There’s a principle known as relative motion. If you walk past someone standing still, and you keep walking, and they keep standing still, the distance between you keeps growing, Only one side has to move to have “motion” between the two. The GOP of the years since Reagan has stood in place, mostly. If it has moved anywhere, it has moved to the left a little (Lindsey Graham). But when seen from the vantage point of a Democrat Party scrambling to introduce us to a National Health Care system, a more progressive tax system, and even seeking to take goverment control of private retirement accounts, it must look like we are moving to the right quite a bit. The notion that any powers not expressly granted to the Federal Goverment are granted to the States or the People (all capitalized on purpose) must seem like whacko Michigan Militia talk. That idea comes from the constitution, where our core position rests. How far has the Democrat Party gone when the heart of the American ethos is considered right wing extremism?
Finally, I have to add this: The TEA Party is starting to look more and more like they were hiding a crystal ball somewhere in their midst. The predictions made about the intrusion of government, the destruction of liberty, and the dire economic consequences of this President’s policies all seem like the eerie ramblings of a white-wigged soothsayer that somehow became true. The NDAA? Obamacare? Deficits? The list goes on. And the “do-nothing Congress” has tried to stop a President who does not respect his own constitutional limitations and responsibilities, much less theirs. They have had precious little succes. Liability, in legal terms, is synonymous with culpability and responsibility. The TEA Party sent the Congress to slow the machine, and they have somewhat, but when you are dealing with such an idealogue, culpability and capability do not always align. How do you stop a President that refuses to constrain himself or his signature legislation to the limits of the very document that grants him the Office? How do you stop a President that sees destroying the constitution as keeping the oath he took upon inauguration? It isn’t enough to vote a congressional counterbalance in. You must vote him out. That’s why the TEA Party is being framed like this. We are not the GOP’s responsibilty, we are not its liability, and we are not its culpability. We are the reason it has any capability. Time to put the tricorn hat back on and saddle up.
Wherever Joseph Kurt travels, a liberal on horseback rides out ahead of him screaming , “The Liars are coming!”. It never works.
Editor’s Note: Tom Cotton has already received the official Red State endorsement. Here is mine on behalf of The Madison Project PAC.
Our problem with elected Republicans in Washington is not just the lack of conservative idealism amongst their ranks. There are many Republicans who intuitively understand what we must do to shrink the size of government. The fundamental problem is that there is a dearth of elected officials who possess the courage and determination to use their political capital to implement transformational change. That is exactly why we need more people like Tom Cotton in Congress.
Tom grew up on a farm in rural Dardanelle, Arkansas, near the Ozark Mountains. He worked his way into Harvard and graduated with a bachelor’s degree and a law degree, paving the road for a promising and lucrative career as an attorney. Instead, he was stirred by the 9/11 terrorist attacks to enlist in the army and serve his country.
As a Harvard law graduate, Cotton was offered a high-ranking job in the JAG Corps. Cotton firmly declined this tempting offer and signed up for Ranger school. He served in several major combat zones in Iraq with the 101st Airborne, earning numerous medals for his service. Shortly after returning from Iraq, Cotton volunteered for a tour of duty in a dangerous part of Afghanistan. It’s clear to us that Tom Cotton will not be the type to genuflect before the special interest groups or leadership in Washington, DC.
After receiving numerous requests to run for public office, Cotton decided to run for the House seat in Arkansas’s 4th district being vacated by Democrat Mike Ross. It is easy to avoid the primary for this conservative district with the assumption that Republicans will win the seat anyway. However, it’s not enough to nominate just any Republican. We have learned the hard way by largely ignoring primaries in Arkansas, leading to the unfortunate election of Republicans who support subsidies and one who is leading the charge for tax increases.
Editor’s Note: Tom Cotton has already received the official Red State endorsement. Here is mine on behalf of The Madison Project PAC.
Our problem with elected Republicans in Washington is not just the lack of conservative idealism amongst their ranks. There are many Republicans who intuitively understand what we must do to shrink the size of government. The fundamental problem is that there is a dearth of elected officials who possess the courage and determination to use their political capital to implement transformational change. That is exactly why we need more people like Tom Cotton in Congress.
Tom grew up on a farm in rural Dardanelle, Arkansas, near the Ozark Mountains. He worked his way into Harvard and graduated with a bachelor’s degree and a law degree, paving the road for a promising and lucrative career as an attorney. Instead, he was stirred by the 9/11 terrorist attacks to enlist in the army and serve his country.
As a Harvard law graduate, Cotton was offered a high-ranking job in the JAG Corps. Cotton firmly declined this tempting offer and signed up for Ranger school. He served in several major combat zones in Iraq with the 101st Airborne, earning numerous medals for his service. Shortly after returning from Iraq, Cotton volunteered for a tour of duty in a dangerous part of Afghanistan. It’s clear to us that Tom Cotton will not be the type to genuflect before the special interest groups or leadership in Washington, DC.
After receiving numerous requests to run for public office, Cotton decided to run for the House seat in Arkansas’s 4th district being vacated by Democrat Mike Ross. It is easy to avoid the primary for this conservative district with the assumption that Republicans will win the seat anyway. However, it’s not enough to nominate just any Republican. We have learned the hard way by largely ignoring primaries in Arkansas, leading to the unfortunate election of Republicans who support subsidies and one who is leading the charge for tax increases.
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