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Tonight… We Are All Rush Limbaugh

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:50:45 +0000

Earlier this evening, as most of you now know, one of our own, Rush Hudson Limbaugh, while taking withering fire, crashed and burned.

Tonight, Rush is no longer ‘just’ a radio personality.

Tonight, Rush is no longer ‘just’ a NFL owner denied

Tonight, Rush is us. And we are him.

Tonight Rush became the metaphor for all of us… every man woman and child in this great nation of ours.

The enemy of this great nation, the enemy of you and me, Rush’s enemy… those on the left, inside and outside of this nation abhor success… and when faced with it will destroy it… by any and all means possible.

We all have our dreams in life… such as they might be. Rush dreamed of being an owner in the NFL.

Tonight the left proved that they will stop at nothing to end our dreams. Our dreams of success and happiness devastate their need to dominate and control you and me… and well everything and everyone.

Chrysler bondholders

GM dealers

Bankers and stockbrokers

Small business owners

Medical Doctors

Oppressed people wanting freedom around the world

The left can not and will not allow anyone to realize their dreams

Tonight a light went out… a dream died… it died from political correctness

Tonight we are under withering fire, we on the right those in the middle,

Tonight our values are under withering fire, those thoughts ideas and dreams that made this great nation are under withering fire

Will your light of your dreams be next?

Will my dreams be next?

First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out for me.

- Pastor Martin Niemöller

Tonight… We Are All Rush Limbaugh

A Simple Question…

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:58:27 +0000

I make no claim to be one of those ‘best and brightest’ in the GOP. so someone will need to explain this to me… use small words as you know I’m a conservative from fly over country. Under the (RCP) headline of:

“GOP, Country Better Off Without Stupid Sarah”

Our friend Peggy Noonan does what I think is a hit piece on Sarah Palin

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124716984620819351.html

I won’t bore you with the pile in deatil… leaving only my question:

Explain to me why WE (conservatives) should always avoid ‘hacking off’ moderates when the moderates of our own party (nominally in) aren’t burdened by the same ‘rules’

Remember… use small words

The Real Issue At Hand

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 19:21:04 +0000

Last week Mort Kondracke, someone that I find otherwise reasonable, wrote this column about his mother

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/05/28/congress_should_aid_good_death_like_my_mothers_96704.html

As he presents her, a remarkable person, great mother, and someone that most anyone would like to know.

I didn’t really take notice until near the end:

The hospice movement has grown dramatically since its importation from Britain in the 1970s, especially after Medicare decided to pay for hospice care in 1983.

Forty percent of terminal cancer patients now use hospice care, but the percentage is much lower for other chronic diseases.

Congress and the Obama administration should find ways to spread the custom so that eventually practically everyone, like my mother, chooses to close out a good life with a good death.

I have no issue with hospice care… my father was in hospice before he died.

I have no issue with Medicare funding hospice

I have no issue with Kondracke wanting to see expanded the use of hospice care.

I take issue with only this:

“Congress and the Obama administration should find ways to spread the custom”

That I take issue with… the suggestion that when we have an idea, or when we see something, anything, that is worth doing… we should then turn toward the government.

This is what is wrong today… in Canada, doublely in Europe, but now swiftly creeping into the fabric of life in the USA.

It must be stopped. Our freedom demands it.

Peggy Noonan Is Wrong… Again

Sun, 31 May 2009 17:04:00 +0000

Yesterday we who follow such things were presented with an almost perfect example of how the moderate wing of the GOP is wrong.

It starts… well I start it with Byron York’s piece:

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/When-Democrats-derailed-a-GOP-Latino-nominee-46407227.html

Wherein he reminds us of another Latino court appointment… and how that ended:

Estrada’s nomination for a federal judgeship set off alarm bells among Democrats. There is a group of left-leaning organizations — People for the American Way, NARAL, the Alliance for Justice, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the NAACP, and others — that work closely with Senate Democrats to promote Democratic judicial nominations and kill Republican ones. They were particularly concerned about Estrada.

In November, 2001, representatives of those groups met with Democratic Senate staff. One of those staffers then wrote a memo to Democratic Sen. Richard Durbin, informing Durbin that the groups wanted to stall Bush nominees, particularly three they had identified as good targets. “They also identified Miguel Estrada as especially dangerous,” the staffer added, “because he has a minimal paper trail, he is Latino, and the White House seems to be grooming him for a Supreme Court appointment. They want to hold Estrada off as long as possible.”

It was precisely the fact that Estrada was Hispanic that made Democrats and their activist allies want to kill his nomination. They were determined to deny a Republican White House credit, political and otherwise, for putting a first-rate Hispanic nominee on the bench.

We all know how that ended… Estrada… still with nothing to hide, having done nothing wrong… having nothing in his history… or speaking to call into question… grew tired of the Democratic filibuster and withdrew.

Byron York reminds us: “that was how Democrats treated the last high-level Hispanic court nominee. Think about that when you watch their lovefest with Sonia Sotomayor.”

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124354585930464037.html

Peggy Noonan advises us… the GOP to ‘Grow Up”

Some, and they are idiots, look at Judge Sotomayor and say: attack, attack, kill. A conservative activist told the New York Times, “We need to brand her.” Another told me a fight is needed to excite the base.

She advises us that while true, the Democrats pound our nominees into the ground… they feel bad about it later:

A few—very few—agitate to go at Judge Sotomayor as the Democrats went after Robert Bork in 1987. The abuse suffered by that good man is a still suppurating wound within the GOP, but it is also a wound for the Democrats, the worst kind, a self-inflicted one. They damaged our national political culture and lowered their own standing with their assault, and their victory left them looking not strong and uncompromising but mean and ferocious. And on some level they know it. Ask Ted Kennedy, if he had it to do over again, if he would repeat all his intemperate and unjust words about “Bob Bork’s America” and “back-alley abortions” and blacks turned away from lunch counters. He’d be a fool if he said yes. He damaged himself in that battle.

Ms Noonan would have us feel sorry for Teddy… when Bob Bork is the one that took it in his political rear end.

This is of course… 1000% total BS… this is slave talk… this is defeatist… and much more to the point:

This is the very same attitude and advice that kept the Republicans in the minority for 40 years.

I say no… I say never… I say attack, attack, attack!

If Sotomayor isn’t made to answer to charges of racism…

If Sotomayor isn’t made to answer why she is overturned more than upheld…

If Sotomayor isn’t made to explain every square inch of her personal life…

If little bitsy Sonia isn’t made to cry at least once… then the GOP deserves to lose and continue to lose until we get some people elected that have the balls to play the game of Washington politics the way our opponents play it.

Ms Noonan: you and your intellectual brothers kept us, the Republican Party in the minority for 40 years.

NEVER AGAIN!

“I am not asking for a seat at the table” - But, You Should Be

Thu, 21 May 2009 03:11:49 +0000

I am not asking for a seat at the table. I’m not even asking that they feel me or anyone else out about picks like this. What I am saying, however, is that the NRSC clearly has some screws loose and lacks good judgment. - Erick Erickson

I’m going to pick on Erick here.

No, I like him fine… I like what he is trying to do.

I don’t like how he is trying to do it… and that said… I’m not sure I know what he thinks he’s trying to do and how he’s trying to do it. If I understand this what Eric is saying is:

We need to run conservatives for the senate in conservative states… like Florida. We can get by with less than conservatives in other places (Mark Kirk in Illinois and Mike Castle in Delaware).

And Erick is mad at John Cornyn for not doing just that and endorsing Charlie Crist in Florida.

If I got all that correct… then the question becomes:

‘is the course that Erick now takes… using the bully pulpit that is RedState to demean John Cornyn and this selection the right thing to do?’

I say no… while it might be the only course of action left, it is not the correct course of action. We missed that weeks or months ago. Why?

“I am not asking for a seat at the table”

Why the hell not? If not you, then who? If not someone then how do you think the process gets changed? You are either part of the problem, part of the solution, or part of the scenery.

Today, right now… which one of those is RedState? Which one is Erick Erickson?

You want to lead a conservative revolution? Then lead it.

(I fully and completely admit that I have no idea what has gone on before, and behind the scenes… in some way I HOPE that one or more of the replies I get to this is: ‘we’ve tried all this before.’)

Erick: have you sat with and spoken to John Cornyn? With anyone at the NRSC? Has someone spoken to him/them post Nov 2008 on behalf of RedState? Who in/on the NRSC is conservative? Why was this meeting, this speaking, this conversation not happening in Dec 2008 or Jan 2009?

Why is there not a coordinated strategy between RedState and… well everybody else in the party?

Somebody needs a seat at the table… somebody conservative. If we do have a conservative at/on the NRSC, how then did this happen? If we don’t…

Enough of would’ve, could’ve, should’ve. Now what?

Get RedState a seat at the table.

Is there a conservative challenger in Florida? If not move on… more on that in a moment.

If there is… get with him/her and run that SOB…

Raise money for him… have him speak at the meetup in August… ‘keynote’ him. Get him on and keep him on the frontpage…raise money for him… get him on the radio, put him on the map and keep him there.

Win or lose the message you HAVE TO get to the NRSC is: ‘wouldn’t this all be better if we worked together?’

If our guy wins so much the better… if not the fact remains… tens of thousands of dollars and a ton and a half of exposure went the way YOU WANTED IT TO.

You are either part of the problem, part of the solution, or part of the scenery.

If there isn’t a conservative horse in the Florida race… find another one. (Chuck DeVore? Just a thought)

Again… raise money for him… have him speak at the meetup in August… ‘keynote’ him. Get him on and keep him on the frontpage…raise money for him… get him on the radio, put him on the map and keep him there.

(BTW: who’s in charge of getting C-Span to Atlanta?)

Erick, if you and RedState don’t come out of this fight stronger… then it was a fight not worth having. Stronger is more powerful, and that means ‘a seat at the table.’

Before doing battle, in the temple one calculates and will win, because many calculations were made;

before doing battle, in the temple one calculates and will not win, because few calculations were made;

many calculations, victory, few calculations, no victory, then how much less so when no calculations?

By means of these, I can observe them, beholding victory or defeat!

-SUN-TZU

100 Days 100 Mistakes…

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:06:30 +0000

(All due apologies to the AFI)

Please join with me now in “celebration” of Barrack Obama’s 100 days in office.

Take a moment from your busy day, paying for other peoples mortgages or health care and list below (in the comments) one of your favorite Obama mistakes.

Let’s see if we can’t list (one per comment please) at least 100… one per day. I’m sure that there are more than enough to go around.

And to help lead off on this all star list of mistakes I’ll list what is now my current favorite…

Rush to Obama: I’ll See you and Raise you…

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:44:49 +0000

In the political poker game that The One started, this afternoon, Limbaugh flipped the next card:

Rush raises the stakes on Obama_

I have a serious proposal to make: the Obama-Limbaugh Stimulus Plan 2009. There is a serious debate in this country as to how best to end the recession. Recessions will end on their own if they’re left alone. The average recession will last five months to 11 months. The average recovery from each recession will last six years. What can make the recession worse is the wrong kind of government intervention. The wrong kind of government intervention is precisely what President Obama has proposed. I don’t believe that his stimulus plan is a stimulus plan at all. I don’t think it’s designed to stimulate anything but the Democrat Party. It’s designed to repair the power losses from the nineties forward of the Democrat Party and to entrench this party for, quote, unquote, eternal power like Franklin Delano Roosevelt did with his New Deal.

…

Mine is a genuine compromise. So let’s look at how the vote came out, shall we? Fifty-three percent of voters in this country — we’ll say, for the sake of this proposal, 53% of Americans — voted for Obama. Forty-six percent voted for Senator McCain, and 1% voted for wackos. Let’s give the remaining 1% to President Obama, so let’s say that 54% voted for President Obama and 46% voted for Senator McCain. As a way to bring the country together and at the same time determine the most effective way to deal with recessions, under the Obama-Limbaugh Stimulus Plan of 2009, $540 billion of the one trillion will be spent on infrastructure as defined by President Obama and the Democrats. The remaining $460 billion, or 46% that voted for Senator McCain, will be directed towards tax cuts, as determined by me.

These tax cuts will consist primarily of capital gains tax cuts and corporate tax rate cuts. So Obama gets $540 billion to spend his way. The other people of this country who did not vote for his way get $460 billion spent the way they would like it spent. This is bipartisanship! This is how bipartisanship really works. Okay, Obama wins by a 54-46 majority, so he gets 54% of the trillion bucks. Spend it his way. We get 46% of the trillion bucks to spend our way, and then we compare. Then we see which stimulus actually works and works the fastest, and I will guarantee you that if this plan is adopted, just the announcement that $460 billion will go toward paying for tax cuts, capital gains, and corporate tax rates — we could throw in some personal income tax rate reduction in order to make sure that the voters don’t think it’s all about helping the big guys. But we need jobs, do we not?

Now does Obama respond to Limbaugh? Laugh at him?

Can he afford to ignore him?

What if other ‘serious’ people pick this up? What if it comes to the floor of Congress?

What if this thing gets ‘traction’ with some people?

Your bet Obama… call, raise, or fold?

An Outline for Responce to The Stratigy of Barack Obama

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 04:10:52 +0000

This is a continuation from my earlier entry of The Strategic Brillance of Barack Obama

“Thus the highest form of generalship is to balk the enemy’s plans, the next best is to prevent the junction of the enemy’s forces, the next in order is to attack the enemy’s army in the field, and the worst policy of all is to besiege walled cities.” -Sun Tzu, the Art of War

This is where we conservatives always fall flat on our Pelosi…

We don’t have any kind of counterattack. Well we also lack much of an attack as well… but we’ll get to that another time.

The thing that troubles me the most in all of this is that we, seemingly have absolutely no idea what we are doing.

Now Bill Kristol writes that we should “Let 1,000 Republican Flowers Bloom “

This is the time for a thousand Republicans to bloom. Congressmen used to looking to the White House for guidance or approval–or fearing disapprobation–should show some healthy ambition and unleash their inner policy entrepreneur. Backbenchers need to come forward with heterodox ideas. There should be vigorous debate. Disharmonious disarray is in the short term much less of a danger than a false and stultifying unity.

Not for the first time do I wonder just who’s side Bill Kristol is on.

For as I explained before, it is this. “disharmonious disarray” that Obama seeks, a free hand to do as he wishes. But not just that… Obama wishes to ‘purchase’ his victories cheaply.

Mr Kristol points out, and likely is correct that; “There are severe limits to what the GOP can do over the next couple of months.” The wheels come off though when he urges us to; “In fact, Republicans might be better off doing nothing at all.”

Now is the time to get our collective heads together, make sure we are in fact ‘all together’ and:

Make sure our minorities in Congress hold together. A strong leader would do this. We don’t have one… not that I know of.
Start getting our message both together and though. This is a HUGE thing as we are terrible at it right now. The Democrats can through there elected leaders, and the media and with groups like MoveOn, and on-line get their talking points out and into the news cycle on any given day. Right now we on the right can not do this. We need this to hold our minorities together.
Look for the fight, but before that look for the first fight. We need to find some Under-Secretary of BS that has a wacko-left history and burn them… bad. Pick a fight and make sure it’s one that we can win. Feed this to Rush and to Fox and all the rest… get the whole of the right moving against this smuck… and get him either voted down (best) or blocked. If one is a student of history let this be our Trenton, or Coral Sea. A victory un-looked for.
After that feed back into the loop and see what worked… and what did not. Build on the success and fix the failures.
Keep picking the small winnable battles… while staying together and not letting the Democrats pick off members with promises of pork. People will stay together if they think that there is hope… we must be able to convey that to our Congressional minorities. As this all unfolds make sure that the more successful of those “1,000 Republican Flowers” get exposure… here on Red State, on Townhall, on Rush and Sean and the rest. Give them reasons to hang tough, they are going to need it.
While doing this keep the pressure up and be looking for: the first policy set back that we can hand Obama. It should come in the fall… maybe right after the August recess… you’ll know it when you see it. A bill Obama is pushing will be in doubt, his own party being wishy-washy on it. He’ll need GOP help to get it passed.

This is where all the rest will pay off… we must not only hold our members, we must have a reason for them not to cross over and we must be ready with all the support… principled, policy reasons, and be hitting it all over the media. All singing the same tune… just like the Democrats did for the last 8 years.

And we have about 7 months to do all of it.

1,000 GOP conservative flowers? Fine… but do we have any gardeners?

The Strategic Brilliance of Barack Obama.

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 05:01:48 +0000

And the real reason it should be of interest to Republicans.

There is an old adage in US politics: ‘don’t get into an argument with a guy that buys ink by the barrel.’

Yet that is exactly what Obama did. Why?

Just what did Obama do here? He did several things:

He put the Republicans there… and indeed everywhere, on notice that Limbaugh won’t be able to help them.

He told then that he was in charge… and that any and all ‘blessings’ will come to him through him… and only him.

And he brought into the ‘fight’ Limbaugh… the guy on the right that buys ink by the barrel… at least metaphorically.

Of the first two, he did that with this statement and with his “I won.” comment. They could be viewed correctly as that ‘first rock over the wall’ or ‘first shot across the bow’ Also by the timing of this ‘attack’ as well as it’s ‘severity’ it would also seem that Obama is using his own brand of ‘shock and awe’ on the Congressional Republicans.

All of that, no matter how we might feel about it, is sound strategy… hit first, hit hard and establish dominance.

But Limbaugh and all that ink?

The positives for Obama, he took aim for and hit the conservative 800# Gorilla, right from the start. This shows that he lacks fear of Limbaugh, and that he is ready to ‘take him on.’ Strength on strength. It also served to pacify those in his party that have been calling for ‘blood’ and thinking that Obama might not be ‘pure’ in his ideology with some of the Clinton era appointments. ‘Red Meat’ for his not so happy far left.

And the negatives?

Not a one.

But… but… but… it’s Rush, Barrels of ink, 800# Gorilla!

Yeah… so?

What? Is Rush somehow now going to hate Obama anymore than he did the day before? Is Rush going to talk more about Obama now… more than he has been? Is this ‘attack’ on Rush gong to somehow keep Limbaugh from making ‘peace’ with and going easy on Obama?

Hardly.

Obama, or someone near to him knows all this. The shock and awe, the establishing dominance, strength on strength, all that stuff. And that attacking Limbaugh carried no downside whatsoever.

So here my friends is the brilliance part: Team Obama knows this…

BUT THE GUYS IN THE GOP IN SPITE Of MY PREACHING IT ENDLESSLY, DO NOT KNOW ANY OF THIS STUFF!

Particularly the ‘no downside’ ‘could they ever hate up more than they do already’ part.

Which they can’t.

There is not now nor will there ever be a downside to a conservative attacking… anyone on the left… be they politician, media, moonbat, anyone. They hate us when we are nice, when we ‘work with them’ when we are bipartisan. They already hate us, just how much more could they possibly hate us if we were actually… well… conservative.

Obama knows on day 3 that Bush and most of the GOP failed to learn in 8 years.

Brilliant

The New Tone in Washington: “I won.”

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:50:33 +0000

As reported here:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/17862.html

President Obama listened to Republican gripes about his stimulus package during a meeting with congressional leaders Friday morning - but he also left no doubt about who’s in charge of these negotiations. “I won,” Obama noted matter-of-factly, according to sources familiar with the conversation.

The exchange arose as top House and Senate Republicans expressed concern to the president about the amount of spending in the package. They also raised red flags about a refundable tax credit that returns money to those who don’t pay income taxes, the sources said.

George Bush: work with Democrats on No Child Left Behind. Work with Democrats on Medicare Part D.

Barack Obama: “I won.”

Someday elected Republicans will learn that Democrats do not like them, will not work with them, and that they play be their own rules… which often are ’screw you’

Maybe today they did…

A Letter to President Obama

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:23:07 +0000

(posted a bit early… hey he’s got his schedule, I’ve got mine)

President Obama:

Just typing those words… they don’t send a tingle up my leg but a shiver down my spine.

You sir are the embodiment of two great American adages. The first being that anyone can grow up in America and become President.

You are now the personification of that phrase. Not through hard work, nor long service, nor personal or professional accomplishment you have now risen to the highest office in the land. Perversely, you have done so by not doing any of those things. When I was young people said; ‘work hard, make something of yourself, and some day you could be President.’ After today they will say; ‘and don’t ever leave a paper trail.’

You are truly a man of your times, a man that is famous for… well… for being famous. Your only claim to fame is… fame. In nearly all the endeavors that you have been a part of… Law School, The State Senate of Illinois, the US Senate… in each of these you have been always the lesser man, the one least qualified. By this path you came upon the national stage a clean sheet, a blank slate, someone that can be all things to all people precisely because you have never been anything to anyone.

If there is one thing that you might be able to lay claim to it is the seeming ability to swim through that political cease pool that is Illinois without taint or tarnish. Cold reality would tell us that in fact you have not actually done so… only managed to keep hidden from view the facts. The machine either put you there, or thinks that it did. This is a fine dance that you have not yet paid for, and it should make for interesting watching.

The other great American adage comes to us from Abraham Lincoln “You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.”

In this you truly are a success. The media in the country will be seen as those that you have ‘fooled all of the time’ The voters, some 66 odd million of them will be, hopefully, those fooled only some of the time. They will be fickle, the public, for they have been sold on your ‘brand’ of hope and change, after having been told for 8 long years just how horrible things were, they are likely not to be in the mood to wait… or compromise. You have sold them… or perhaps better said you have been sold to them… not unlike New Coke… Indeed that is the thing I think of most closely resembles you and your election. All marketing and no taste. None. Nothing behind the hype. No there, there.

You have been of late, marketing yourself as Lincoln reborn… yet most clearly you are another Franklin Pierce… president almost by accident, ill-equipped for the job at hand, and destined for the same fate… the worse in the nations history. In this you will, by the end of your time in office made it near impossible for any other Black person to challenge for the office.

Yet here you stand. A charlatan, an empty suit. Totally inept, completely unprepared, and the barer of half the countries political hopes and dreams. Most anyone else writing something to you would say at this point: ‘well good luck with all that!’

Not me…

Sir I wish you no luck at all… save to live a long life in bitter reflection at just how miserable you were as President.

You fooled the American people who, so ill-advised, put their faith and trust in you. As they will and must taste the bitter fruit of your failure so I wish for that bitter taste to stay with you for many long years to come. Bitterness and ashes is what I wish for you. Failure at every turn. You stole this election on false pretences and you should be made to pay for this… not with coin and not with your life but with your failure.

We too must now pay for the folly that is and will be your time in office. We will do so with time, treasure and regrettably with our lives. For your policies will hold nothing but pain and suffering for our people, and for the world at large. These next few years will be dark ones as the villains; the truly evil people abroad in the world, prove to you that your policies do not work, and that you are truly not ready for the office you hold.

We who apposed you then must now appose you more then ever. We must be there for those hurt and disillusioned by you, to rally with them, to give them hope and comfort and to unite and build an opposition to you and your party… to drive you all from office as quickly as our laws allow. Our task will be long, like you we are just now starting on it. This job will be difficult, fraught with unpopularity at first. But it is something that we must do, a burden placed upon us and one that we must see through to success… nothing less than the fate of our nation, and the fate of all free people in this world depends on us, we that now stand apposed to you.

You now must go about your tasks as we will go about ours. You must find such comfort as you might… in your own way. For me, in times such as these I take comfort in the words of my God spoken through blessed men many years before. They to labored though difficulty and yet with their faith persevered to victory. I take comfort in Psalm 13:

How long, O LORD ? Will you forget me forever?
How long will you hide your face from me?

2 How long must I wrestle with my thoughts
and every day have sorrow in my heart?
How long will my enemy triumph over me?

3 Look on me and answer, O LORD my God.
Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death;

4 my enemy will say, “I have overcome him,”
and my foes will rejoice when I fall.

5 But I trust in your unfailing love;
my heart rejoices in your salvation.

6 I will sing to the LORD,
for he has been good to me.

Most Sincerely,

Tsquare

A Brief Note to GOP Elected Officals…

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:01:05 +0000

In which I take on a role I know very well… that of a Father.

From here: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/17532.html

We get the news that The One is coming ‘courting’

It’s no secret Barack Obama is trying to seduce Republicans these days. But his conservative courting runs much deeper and wider than is publicly known.

Obama has had meetings with his former opponent John McCain, GOP congressional leaders and some of the country’s leading conservative commentators. He’s also honoring McCain and Colin Powell in high-profile pre-inaugural dinners, where Obama is expected to toast the Republicans.

Behind the scenes, Obama and his team are working just as hard, courting prominent Republicans and conservatives through frequent phone calls, e-mails and private sit-downs.

I sit with you now and tell you… all of you… as I tell my Daughters:

“You lay down with dogs… you get up with fleas”

In the end all you ever have is family and if you shame them ‘enough’ they stop caring. You go off running around with some young good looking smooth talking little POS like Him, we may not be here when you get back… all used, abused and cast aside. Because you know that all he’s ever going to do is blow sweet smoke up your… ear, then ‘take’ you in the rear and once he no longer needs you kick you to the curb.

Got it?

Make sure you do… or next time you want something (money… votes) I won’t be there.

Into Everyone’s Life a Little Sunshine Enters… Now and Again

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:17:07 +0000

As detailed here http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/stlog/2009/01/p-d_layoffs_the_memo.php

The St. Louis Post Dispatch annonced yet another round of layoffs… this one including that very far left fellow traveler Eric Mink

That’s right… tsquare won’t have Mink to kick around anymore.

Now… normally I don’t like to take pleasure in the misfortune of others… and when I do… I do so quietly and in private.

In Mink’s case I’m making an exception. The man is completely without talent, holds little virtue, and seemingly would socialize the whole of the economy. I hope that he has already heard from both the ex-wife and her attorney demanding that the alimony keep flowing

I am personally most pleased that this happened before President Bush left office as now Mink can not get that poison column into print.

So goodbye Eric… do be a stranger now that you are gone. Don’t write… anything. Maybe Hugo needs a new PR flack… you might try there… God knows you’d like the politics… though I suspect Hugo is a little to the right for your tastes.

Begone Mink!… and trouble us no more!

St Louis Anti-Inauguration ‘Party’

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:08:20 +0000

I’m working on setting the details for the St Louis Anti-Inauguration ‘party’to be held on Jan. 20thIf ever we conservatives had reason to drink… this is the reason and the day to do so.

Left to myself, I’ll pick a place that will be grossly inconveant to most anyone else… so now is the time to speak up

Anyone interested please tweet me @ tsquare57 Or if you don’t yet Twitter you can go here:

http://dezignworx-ae.com/ and email me from there.

I hope that others in other parts of the world will do the same

Let’s get this going!

BREAKING NEWS - And the Winning Bidder is…

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:02:27 +0000

Roland Burris!

The Chicago Sun Times is reporting that

Gov. Blagojevich today is expected to name former state Comptroller and Attorney General Roland Burris to Illinois’ vacant U.S. Senate seat, a knowledgeable source said this morning.

A news conference is scheduled for 2 p.m.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/blagojevich/1354679,w-blagojevich-obama-senate-seat-burris-123008.article

Oh Happy Day!

On the Subject of Netroots

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:29:43 +0000

Playing off of Moe’s post:

http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2008/12/29/and-here-i-thought-that-the-great-netroot-betrayal-was-merely-a-tagline/#comment-9053

This shows just why… as well as the way to break the back of the Obama administration.

Obama can not deliver everything for everybody. This should be a given seeing how he was sold to the public as everything for everybody. Hope and change isn’t policy it’s hype… dreams…

Now the best way to seperate the man from the myth is to bleed him out, show what he is really made of… smoke and mirrors and nothing more.

Already his followers have, in the face of reality, scaled back their ‘dreams’. We must keep throwing this cold water on them… split them up… make them see him as the hack that we know that he is. What am I talking about? MoveOn and DKos folks should end up feeling the exact same way about Obama as we all felt about Bush when he made the No Child deal with Teddy Kennedy

Now there are many, many ways to do this… but key to this is for all of us… and more importantly GOP members in the Senate to all stick together. Nobody wants to be the last GOP Senator to be between the masses and ‘free’ health care. So…

Take the House bill on health care… sure to be the furthest to the left… and announce it to be DOA… a non-starter. RNC… get ads out detailing just how bad it is… (however it might be) Then offer the GOP / Free market “compramise” Then let the House wingnuts go crazy. Then regert that we can’t reach a compramise. then call on Obama to personally come to us (the GOP Senate members) to broker the deal.

Then Obama is in a pickle… make a deal with the GOP… and get health care… and screw over his leftwing followers… or let the whole thing go down the tubes and ‘let down’ the rest of the country.

If… IF… the GOP can stay together… hold fast against the full weight of the screaming left… and bleed him on this, the first big bill… we will have him! The next time… every time… he wants to get something done he’s faced with that same choice… us or them… and them means no deal.

By spring of 2010 the left with be crazed with the success of the ‘GOP’ agenda… something that we had better be throwing in their face. and that gives us, the GOP, something to run on in 2010.

Stand fast guys! Split the left and bleed him… cut him up and bleed him out!

The Big Picture

Thu, 25 Dec 2008 21:33:52 +0000

You guys are making my teeth hurt over there

http://www.redstate.com/erick/2008/12/25/rebuilding-the-party-the-technology/

Six blind men describing an elephant… each right in their own way… each missing The Big Picture.

For the Democrats sitting where we are now in early 2005, The Big Picture was to win. In 2005 Obama was still a skinny little kid that gave one good speech. They didn’t know him, he didn’t know them. This election was not the product of Obama… Obama was the product… slipped into a pre-formed program. The system was in place it could have been Obama, or Hillary, or Sham-WOW! It didn’t matter much… oh, change the color and typeface and we’re on our way.

So to win, they developed, and brought together these 5 items:

Money

Message

Organization

Technology

Candidates

None of these would have worked nearly as well as they all did together. To use military terms a Combined Arms approach… whereas:

Combined arms is an approach to warfare which seeks to integrate different arms of a military to achieve mutually complementary effects.

Now of those 5, how many did the GOP have right in 2008? Yup… none.

Taken on their own, each is important… but not as important as the whole.

I do not propose to have all the answers to all these things. But I’ll make some observations on each.

Money – Where is our George Soros? While one might wonder just how many of those pre-paid Visa cards came from him his roll was much more important… seed money. We need one or two… no more than three guys to step up and but in 10, 20 million worth of seed money to get some of this (all the rest) off the ground. Sean, Rush, I’m looking at you! We, the right, have made you successful beyond your wildest dreams… time to put something back.

Message – Freedom, rights, and small government. Remember KISS… ‘keep it simple, stupid.’ “We” need to settle this with the Country Club moderates before we can move on as it were.

Organization – The left has the wingnuts, ACORN and the unions. Why can’t we have every Evangelical Congregation in the country? I’m willing to bet real money that there are vastly more Evangelicals than there are wingnuts, ACORN and the unions.

Technology – truly important… but not as important as having people that WANT TO USE IT! A truly crappy site like Craig’s List draws people to it… because they want to be there. It works… but only works for those that have a need of it. Find a job, sell a car, meet a hooker… when you want it it’s there… it works but it’s butt ugly. A well crafted site with all the graphic bells and whistles isn’t going to do much it people have no reason to visit. The point: give them some reason to go to it and they will… not the other way around.

Candidates – The GOP has had a really tough time recruiting… with the state of everything else is this any surprise? Get the money to get things going, get the message on track, start building the organization, use the Technology to tie it all together, and good, young, articulate candidates will start getting on board.

Combined Arms – each working with the other…

I know this is the broadest of broad outlines and that I raised many more questions than I answered… but each of these must be built, each question answered, and THEN the Technology built for the battlefield.

Conservatives and Compromise

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:20:49 +0000

An Instructive Lesson in Our Modern Media and Government

Perhaps you saw the headlines: “GOP Senators Kill Auto Bailout”

Which is what the MSM the Democrats and the union wish you to know

The perhaps you know what actually went on as detailed by Larry Kudlow:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/12/whos_losing_the_us_car_busines.html

In truth, the UAW is to blame.

If Sen. Corker’s plan had prevailed, with UAW support, many believe it would have had 90 votes in the Senate. GM could have gone forward with a clean-as-a-whistle balance sheet under a three-part restructuring plan that included a $60 billion bond-refinancing cram-down, a renegotiation of the $30 billion VEBA health-care trust, and a pay-restructuring plan that would put Detroit compensation levels in line with those of foreign transplants Honda, Toyota, Nissan, and BMW.

Average compensation for the Detroit little three is $72.31. Toyota’s average wage is $47.60, Honda’s is $42.05, and Nissan’s is $41.97, for an average of $44.20. So Corker’s idea was to bring that $72 a lot closer to that $44. (Corker notably knocked out Korean carmaker Kia, which has super-low wages.)

Corker’s plan also was constructed in true compromise fashion. Among the negotiators were reps from GM, Chrysler, and Ford, and bondholders like fixed-income giant PIMCO. Critically, UAW representatives also were in the negotiating room, with an open line to Gettelfinger back home.

During the negotiations Corker tried to be as compromising as possible on the tough question of wages, benefits, and overall compensation. He asked the union to be competitive, but he never specified parity or complete equality with the foreign transplants. And Corker provided that the comp-package would be certified next year by the secretary of Labor — an Obama selection. In addition, the Senate governing the package would be made up of 58 Democrats, rather than today’s 50.

I call your attention again to two lines in the report:

“Corker’s plan also was constructed in true compromise fashion.”

“During the negotiations Corker tried to be as compromising as possible…”

Corker negotiated in good faith… in a “true compromise fashion”

Our opponents do not. And to the point then the MSM hides all this from the public.

Corker didn’t even ask for specific wage and cost concessions… only a date for them to be worked out.

But the UAW refused to make concessions. Instead, it insisted it would only renegotiate its current contract when it ends in 2011. That was the sticking point that killed the deal.

But the headline still read: “GOP Senators Kill Auto Bailout”

What can we take away from this?

There is no profit in compromise with the left.

The left doesn’t negotiate in good faith, because they know that they don’t need to… compromise to them means that you give them what they want… nothing more and nothing less. Add in that all their ‘sins’ are swept away by the media… and why should they act any other way?

Therefore we should not do so… ever. Again I point out… there is no profit in it. Let the Democrats do all this heavy lifting… this is their mess… (Fannie/Freddie, outrageous union costs and demands) let them clean it up.

Therefore we should not do so… ever.

Hear that Sen. Kit Bond? They… unions, Democrats and the media won’t like you anyway, no matter what you say or do, no matter how much to support them come the election in 2010 they will run against you, UAW funds will be used to try and defeat you, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch will indorse your Democratic challenger…

All your “support” will be as worthless as an Eric Mink editorial

Conservatives… Republicans… heed this call…

No compromise, FIGHT!

No negotiation, FIGHT!

No bi-partisanship, FIGHT!

We here on the right are going to be watching and seeing which of you are lapdogs and which are pit bulls… My support will only go to the pit bulls

St. Louis Red State Meet-up

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:26:38 +0000

Gentlefolk:

We seem to have at the very least a handful of Red State folks in the St. Louis metro area.

With the holidays upon us, anyone interested in meeting for a drink and good conversation?

Let’s do this… what do you say?

The Missouri 1st District

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:00:45 +0000

I live within the 1st District in Missouri. It is not something that I am proud of. My Congressman is William “Lacy” Clay Jr. The reason he represents the 1st District is that his Father William “Bill” Clay Sr. held the seat for 32 years. This after 5 years as St. Louis Alderman, and holding various union jobs, including the powerful Pipefitters union… oh, not as a union worker but as a union official.

It is important to know this about the senior Clay, because that is the only qualification “Lacy” has to the seat.

“Lacy” has never really lived in the district he represents having grown up in Silver Springs Maryland, gone to college at the University of Maryland, College Park. Even while serving in the Missouri House of Representatives he studied at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Then he moved on to the State Senate, waiting for Daddy to retire, in 2000.

Clay is a 100% PC liberal that is just to the right of Maxine Waters and Dennis Kursinch. He also was an early supporter on The Messiah. In fact Clay is one of the few people in politics today that can make Obama look worldly and experienced.

Clay’s district has always been a tough urban one, low on income and education. His father grew up on those streets, learned to be a fighter on those streets. Lacy did neither, yet acts as though he did.

In this last election Clay received 242,570 out of 279,277 votes cast. The GOP did not run a candidate, Clay was opposed by a Libertarian Robb Cunningham, who pulled 36,700 votes… including mine.

If Clay got the seat because of his father, he holds it because of gerrymandering.

The St. Louis metro area is split by three of Missouri’s nine districts. The City of St. Louis, long a huge pool of Democratic strength is in turn split, north and south by the 1st and 3rd districts. The 3rd District now held by “Russ” Carnahan, son of the a former Missouri governor and Jean Carnahan, a former U.S. Senator. This is also Dick Gephardt’s old seat.

The problem for the Democrats is that the city is no longer that large pool of votes. Thus with each census, the 1st and the 3rd have had to fight over the city. This has led to compromise after compromise, while also pushing these two further out into the less safe territory of the suburbs. Also while fighting for those remaining Democratic voters they have also isolated more of the GOP voters into the 2nd district held by Todd Akin.

This takes us to 2010 and beyond to 2012… which should be interesting. The fight between the 1st and 3rd will go on… again the city is almost sure to lose more population, and these two will fight to keep as much of the city as they can. This will be made all the more interesting if Missouri losses a seat in the 2010 census. If there would be a clear cut ‘winner’ in this fight, the loser would be very vulnerable. Given a ‘good’ GOP year, and we could get one of them out. Although Carnahan might be the easier of the two to unseat Lacy would be the one we could hope for… given his total liberal dogma, and lack of both political skills and morals.

If Lacy were to win the re-districting fight… taking the whole of the City of St. Louis, this would push Carnahan further into southern Missouri… Jefferson and Ste Genevieve Countys. Not the best for him, but at least competitive. But were Clay to lose, that would push him out into either St Charles County to the west or into central St. Louis County (apart from the City of St. Louis… don’t ask) both areas being very Republican. A re-districting like that and Lacy would be in serious trouble.

The loss of a House seat in Missouri and all bets are off. While gerrymandering has allowed a unqualified unskilled pol like Lacy to hold on to this seat, it has also made his district an island in a red GOP sea.

Our best course would be to find a young, energetic candidate, maybe even one that could self finance… run them in 2010, just to get the name recognition, then be ready for the real fight in 2012.

Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BillClay
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WilliamLacyClay,Jr.
http://www.sos.mo.gov/enrweb/raceresults.asp?eid=256&oid=56160&arc=