From the diaries by Erick Texas Redistricting is underway, and a shocking blunder is about to happen in Texas. The Republican majority is about to pass, at the behest of the supposedly Republican Speaker, a redistricting plan that punishes conservative Republicans so badly, it might as well have been a Democratic gerrymander. Coming off the heels of an amazing Republican victory last November, the plan | Read More »
The thread about Speaker Boehner led me to put in a comment that agreed with the main point about Speaker Boehner, he’s done a good job so far , but there is legitimate concern and unease. A simple way to express how Speaker Boehner needs to recalibrate: MORE BOLDNESS NEEDED. We see this clearly in this FY2011 deal. We went from $100 billion in promised | Read More »
Politifact has labelled “Government-run health care” as their ‘lie of the year.’ The Lie of the Year is that Politifact is unbiased and in a position to judge others’ words. We have noticed errors, omissions, biases and a keen desire to push a liberal POV on the various “politifact” websites. This is not surprising as it is written by the same journalists who write who | Read More »
“Appropriately, the tax bill passed and the spending bill died on the 237th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party.” -NRO Despite the attempts by Reid and Pelosi to govern against the will of the people as expressed on Nov 2nd, America did well yesterday. A very bad pork-filled spending bill was stopped, and the possibility of a massive tax hike on January 1 was stopped | Read More »
The Democrats were only able to pass Obamacare because of the antics of December 2009. Now, with their majorities vaporized in the November elections, the Democrats have less than 10 legislative days to pursue mischief in the lame duck Congressional session. There is a simple answer to end the mischief. Whatever the issue – DREAM Act, DADT, START treaty – the Republicans in Congress need | Read More »
Where do things stand in the Texas Speaker’s race? Let’s recap how far we’ve come. It’s been a month since the Tsunami election delivered a Republican super-majority to the Texas statehouse, and the first ‘surprise’ of Nov 2nd was how many seats flipped, creating the opportunity for a more conservative Speaker, one not beholden to Democrats as Speaker Straus was in the last session. A | Read More »
Maybe Senator DeMint was wrong. ObamaCare isn’t actually Obama’s Waterloo, it’s his Stalingrad. Hitler made three big mistakes in 1942 fighting the Russians. First, he tried to do three things in the Russian South in the summer of 1942: Take Caucasus oil fields, take the black sea ports and take Stalingrad. He bit off more than he could chew. His 6th Army got bogged down | Read More »
Amending the U.S. Constitution is so hard that we have only done it 27 times in our history, and only 17 times in U.S. histroy if you consider the first 10 as an initial corrective by the founders themselves. Out of frustration, some ask the question: Should we support having a constitutional convention? Short answer: NO! An open-ended rewrite of the Constitution permits few opportunities | Read More »
I honestly thought it was satire when I read first that President Obama won the Nobel Peace prize. How absurd! A formerly important international prize has now reached the nadir of irrelevent tom-foolery by giving the current President an ‘affirmative action’ Nobel Peace Prize he did nothing to earn. What has he done lately other than embolden violent enemies and lost Olympic bids? It was | Read More »
The Baucas ObamaCare bill text is out. It should be known as America’s Death of Healthcare Freedom Act of 2009. This bill has 250 pages and it’s not even the real legislative language. It’s in English … sort of. The bill forces people, via multiple mandates and taxes and subsidies, to get people into Government-controlled health insurance: Personal Responsibility Requirement. Beginning in 2013, all U.S. | Read More »
Falling prey to the same type of brain cancer that recently took journalist Bob Novak, Senator Ted Kennedy died yesterday. In his young years, he was overshadowed by his prominent older brothers. He was the weaker brother, lacking Robert’s passion and intensity and Jack’s intelligence and wit. He got kicked out of college for cheating and then used someone to cheat for him to pass | Read More »
Rep Doggett’s Town Hall today in Austin, Texas, did NOT Go According to Plan. Cut short by protesters and an attempt to escape met with a group that blocked his car. A posting on the incident at Free Republic has the after-action report: An angry crowd of an estimated 300 people caused Lloyd Doggett to cut short his “office hours” public appearance in Austin. When | Read More »
The Obamacare bills in Congress are a clear and present danger to the life, liberty and prosperity of Americans. That’s why I call the Waxman House bill the “Destroy American Freedom Act” and urge everyone to learn about how horrible these bills are. The healthcare ‘reform’ engine is based on myths like the myth of 46 million uninsured, but the lies are getting exposed and | Read More »
American Spectator calls it in http://www.spectator.org/blog/2008/11/26/defining-libertarianism-down#comment_9117 “Defining Libertarianism down”. It’s a snarky commentary on a Reason article – http://reason.com/news/show/129993.html – that curiously is declaring victory for libertarians in the midst of possibly the greatest retrenchment towards socialism and biggest expansion of Governmental power expansion since, er, the New Deal; after all, the new powers-that-be are all making 1930s analogies. The snark is well-deserved, since the | Read More »
I live in TX-21, Lamar Smith. He was pro-bailout and votes for too many pork barrel spending bills. Otherwise a good conservative Republican Congressman. He didn’t even draw a Democrat challenger this time around. SAFE. Since that is quite boring, and I have the 2008 Texas election results handy, let’s look at the other TX districts:
I am thrilled to see the ideas that Patrick Ruffini has been putting forward on fixing the party and the “Rebuild the Party” effort: http://www.rebuildtheparty.com/ My own thoughts on getting back to victory as a party are here: http://travismonitor.blogspot.com/2008/11/no-place-to-go-but-up-strategy-for.html My point #1 is “Servant-leadership” It starts with leadership. We need local leadership and elected officials that re-engage and re-energize the grassroots. These need to be | Read More »
“Orwellian” needs to be replaced by “Obamesque” as a description of the Soviet-style misuse of language. His wealth redistribution plan that he calls a ‘tax cut for 95%’ is sticking in my craw. In 1992, Clinton did his “Clintonesque” think and make a promise he broke soon after the election; the ‘middle class tax cut’ went poof when Clinton said “he tried as hard as | Read More »
This was a reply to Commodore Perry’s diary, that provides a different solution to the problem he identified. He noted the problem that Obama’s pick opened up. However, I think the DNC is showing how the lack of We the People in the VP nomination process is a big problem. Their party is split, they are facing public catastrophe, and even if Hillary is completely | Read More »
I recount the many reasons Joe Biden (D – Beltway Establishment) is an awful VP pick for Obama in a detailed article here: http://travismonitor.blogspot.com/2008/08/bad-choice-barack-picks-sub-average-joe.html In brief, they are: DC insider appointment (steps on change theme); Biden praised McCain and raised experience issue in his run for President; Biden is another liberal (14$ lifetime ACU rating); sub-average Joe has been a plagiarist and academic record inflator; | Read More »
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