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!

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!

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!

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.

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

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?

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.

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I reject the whole proposition that anything is wrong with the Republican Party. other than we need to gt back to being… Republicans.

(Sen McCain: Thanks for everything. Now go home, and leave the rest of us alone)

There are things that as a group we need to do better. We need to:

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In 2004 121 million people voted.

Yesterday… 118.2 million.

In 2004 Bush got 63 million votes Yesterday Obama got 62.6

Blow out?

Hardly… our people stayed home

The hour of your redemption is here. Your patriots have demonstrated an unswerving and resolute devotion to the principles of freedom that challenges the best that is written on the pages of human history. I now call upon your supreme effort that the enemy may know from the temper of an aroused and outraged people within that he has a force there to contend with no less violent than is the force committed from without.

Rally to me. Let the indomitable spirit of Bataan and Corregidor lead on. As the lines of battle roll forward to bring you within the zone of operations, rise and strike. Strike at every favorable opportunity. For your homes and hearths, strike! For future generations of your sons and daughters, strike! In the name of your sacred dead, strike! Let no heart be faint. Let every arm be steeled. The guidance of divine God points the way. Follow in His Name to the Holy Grail of righteous victory!

Douglas MacArthur – Radio Message from the Leyte Beachhead

Someone I talked to today said:

“I’ll also say that a “tie” in this debate, a foreign policy debate which is supposedly McCain’s specialty, means that Obama won.”

Yes you would. And you did. And everyone you know has said the same thing. This morning in many columns, in many newspapers, reporters said the same thing

I’ve been thinking about the debate, as I’ve gone about my day.

Now I happen to think that last night was, simply put: McCain being McCain and Obama being Obama. Really… I don’t think its any more simple than that.

But laying in that sentence might be victory for McCain and loss for Obama.

The people that will decide this election are not you and me.

I let that statement stand alone… please read it again… it is key.

The people that will decide this election are about 100,000 voters in each of just a few of states:

Ohio
Pennsylvania
Michigan
Maybe Virginia
Maybe New Hampshire

These voters will not be Black… 95% plus are already voting for Obama

These voters will not be Hispanic… these states do not have large Hispanic populations

These voters are going to be white, have two years or less of college, work a blue-collar job, and live a very middle-class life.

Many will be Scotch Irish…

Who might those voters think won last night?

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Words to an old song by Buffalo Springfield to be sure. But these words can also be applied to politics in the US right now.

This is to be a Democratic year. Because of George Bush they are to sweep into power and next January take control of the whole of the government. But…

Why doesn’t it ‘feel’ like that?

‘Oh tsquare you are just making this all up, there isn’t anything going on!’

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Most anyone will tell you: I’m a simple guy. No, really… I’m simple.

Simple thoughts, left, right, good, bad, up, down.

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