Time Now to Reverse All That Liberalism Has Done
As the November 2 elections vanish in the rearview mirror, newly elected Republicans seem united on trying to repeal ObamaCare. Nearly to a person, they list the repeal of that hideous piece of legislation as job one. And they also appear united on extending the Bush tax cuts for everyone, which is how it should be. But we must keep their feet to the fire lest some weak-kneed Republicans like Senator Bob Corker (TN) pressure them into moderation. (Even before the election Corker was distancing himself from the “crazier Republicans” whom Tea Parties supported.)
We have to be louder than Corker and make sure the incoming Republicans understand we didn’t fight for their election in order to see them take office and morph into bipartisan weaklings along the lines of a John McCain (R-AZ) or a Susan Collins (R-ME). Nor do we want them to conform to the habits of John Cornyn (R-TX), whose initial refusal to fund Christine O’Donnell’s senatorial campaign in Delaware remains one of the most spineless and shameless actions undertaken by a Republican who actually claims to be a conservative.
Beginning now, as we transition from the election season, we must press incoming senators and House members not only to repeal ObamaCare and extend the Bush tax cuts, but to undo every bit of damage liberals have done to this country in the past. (I know we don’t control the Senate, but we are predominant in the House, and there we can use votes to repeal, undo, and otherwise revoke liberalism in such a way as to send a clear message about the issues that will define the 2012 elections in both the House and Senate.)
We have the momentum, for now. But if we don’t use that momentum to accomplish great things, or at least to attempt great things, we will only see how quickly momentum can atrophy and shrink away.
Why can’t we cut monies for projects liberals hold near and dear to their bleeding hearts as a means of achieving our goal of shrinking the size of government? This could include eliminating or making drastic cuts in funding for groups like the National Endowment for the Arts, and others that get their kicks from using taxpayer dollars to fund projects that ridicule Christians, Jews, and America’s heritage. We could vote to institute a school voucher program that would provide school choice to families who otherwise couldn’t afford it: a choice that would steal power from the National Education Association by allowing families to escape the air of indoctrination so prevalent in public education. We could also press for the privatization of Social Security, relaxation of certain asinine environmental standards, a national immigration law that mirrors the one Gov. Jan Brewer signed in Arizona, and a steep reduction in the 99 weeks of unemployment benefits currently offered to people who would rather not work.
In a word, we could actually take our cue from the liberal playbook and begin introducing and passing so much pro-freedom legislation in the House that our opponents are simply overwhelmed.
To do any less would be to do what Rush Limbaugh described as “piddling around the margins … and never really [getting] to the crux of what is wrong” legislatively in this country.
It’s not simply time to hit the brakes on liberalism; it’s time to roll it back.
I seriously don’t think we’ve reached the point where Republicans comprehend what is at stake in America. When the Rs acquire the power in 2012, they’ll resort to their old ways.
The One was an excellent eye-opener, but I’m quite certain this ship of ours needs to sink before we can really commence the rescue operations and rebuild and save our country.
No ‘rolling back’ will suffice.
The key is doing, not necessarily getting it done.
That is to say, WANTING to abolish Obamacare. They don’t have to succeed because everyone knows the big O has the veto pen.
But if they give up before trying that will only enrage the base that brought them there. In other words, dance with how brung ya.
On top of that, act like you mean it. None of this approving drilling in ANWAR
when Clinton can veto it, then not approving the drilling when Bush would sign it.
It’s time for them to get serious or get booted out.
This is exactly what must be done or the republicans will be seen as being just like they were in 1995. They did their contract and then lapsed into apathy and greed and began to look just like democrats lite. If they do that again America is doomed to a Grecian future.
A full-court press is exactly what is needed. A large part of that might be, as suggested, the absolute refusal to fund any liberal or “progressive” program.
Republicans in the House can simply refuse to vote money for any program they do not like, current or proposed. It is that simple. They have that power. The social alchemy ends here, if we have the will.
If they want to, progressives can continue to believe they can make mocha lattes out of dog poop, but taxpayers shouldn’t have to fund the experiment.
Let’s have some realism. There are not the votes to over ride a presidential veto, therefore repealing anything is highly unlikely.
“We could vote to institute a school voucher program…”
Yes, in the House, but only to force the Senate to join or make it look negative. A Harry Reid controlled senate will vote against anything the GOP proposes, until perhaps we get a lot closer to 2012 and more and more “Democrats” see their support at home eroding. In any event Obama will override anything that the opposition introduces.
The GOP needs to be positive, focusing on everything possible to allow the free market to function and allow business to flourish, and everything that can be done must be widely publicized, so the people get the word that the GOP is trying its best for the American people.
I think Hawkins is accentuating the negative too much. There must be positive actions introduced in the areas of rfeal encouragement to the market to create jobs. We will see in the next month whether Congress imposes a massive tax increase. If so, that will provide an opening for the new Congress to act positively and propose tax cuts. If the Senate and Obama want to vote against jobs, let them, but then maximize the publicity showing that the left only considers the people to be ploys for their amusement…to control and manipulate.
The House leadership must look at the negative impacts of the legislation passed the past two years. Much of this may not become apparent for sometime to come, but as it does, the people must be told as soon as the problems are clear. The fact is that no one knows the full impacts of Obamacare yet, because the rules and regulations are still being written, and unless HHS is ahead of schedule, it will be about 2013 before all is known.
With control of only one house of Congress there are many limitations on what can be achieved in terms of rolling back the left wing measures enacted by the Obama administration. However the message that must be sent to the people is that the conservatives are doing their best to minimize the damage, and are proposing measures that will really restore the economy so it can function without all the political manipulation. In other words the GOP should focus on getting government out of the way, and on nothing that goves government more control.
Granted there may be limitations. However, the work that we have done to get thee people elected must be honored, by them. If we find that they are not doing what they were elected to do, then we should call them out …in a public forum
Republicans are notorious whimps. We cannot allow them to live up to their reputation and past actions. We need new blood.
No moderate anything folks..it’s the real deal or go home for conservatism.
I’m all for school vouchers!!!! 100+% and to hell with the endowment for the arts and public television until our country is on better footing!!
The level of debt in the US gives us a real opportunity to achieve a reduction in Federal payroll and spending. If Republicans take up the machete and swing it hard with broad strokes while clearly broadcasting the message that this is what it takes to achieve fiscal health – the American electorate will buy it (at least a majority).
At the same time if they cut the fetters on business we will see a transformation toward strength and prosperity that will be the envy of the world.
What we have in this country today is bureaucratic fascism. I was reading yesterday that the FDA along with the DEA is going to ban legal products that some use to get high. Well, why this might sound like a wonderful idea to “save the children” which is always what the Liberal Fascists say they want to do, but what it really is is just one more way for these out of control Fascist Bureaucracies to grab more power. In the meantime, the DEA, another bogus agency, totally ignores the tons of Illegal Cocaine, Heroin and Crystal Meth that comes across our borders daily along with the thousands of illegal invading humans who also cross our borders daily. It is time to abolish about 80 percent of the Federal Government Bureaucracies and put power back where it belongs in the hands of the local and state governments.
This latest FDA and DEA “crackdown” “smackdown” on a legal company and a legal product (Energy drinks that also containe alcohol, a legal product)is just one example in tens of thousands that our fascistic bureaucracies of the Nanny State meddle in, and in most cases, just so that they can continue to expand their powers and their ever-growing empires.
This is just one more example of a federal government agency that is out of control. I had a professor at Auburn University who made the following point in a class I had there about 30 years ago. He said, “anytime that the federal government creates an agency, department, commission, or bureau to deal with a ‘perceived problem’ that the ‘perceived’ problem will not only never be solved, the problem will grow worse as the newly formed government bureaucracy begins to find more and more ‘perceived problems’ to fix or more ‘perceived victims’ to serve. And, as the new bureaucracy gains size, power and expenditures, it begins to build it’s own self-perpetuating empire and like all empires, it seeks growth in size, power and expenditures and like all empires, the bureaucratic machine becomes despotic, and like all despotic empires, it will never willingly relinquish any of it’s power and status.”
That is what is wrong in the USA today. We have so many federal bureaucracies and all of them seeking empire status, and growing in size and power, they build new buildings, hire more employees, and branch out and their powers are almost unstoppable. Today, we have so many federal bureaucracies, that nobody has any idea how many there are. And, none of the agencies want to solve any problems and in fact, they have to find new things to regulate and control, thus creating and finding more and more crises to meddle in.
It is because of all these federal bureaucracies that we are now 14 trillion in debt, and is the reason that the public education system has been destroyed, and all the manufacturing and industrial companies have fled to other countries to operate. No company can make a profit when it costs the majority of their profits to abide by never-ending regulations and then taxation that stifles profits and growth.
The nanny state will never end unless we elect presidents and congressmen/women who have the courage to begin the abolishment of about 80 percent of the unconstitutional federal buraucracies.
This show of force by the FDA and DEA is just one more example of the Fascistic Federal Bureaucracy we have allowed president after president to build in order to continually expand the size and power of the federal government.
We now live in a literal totalitarian country that exercises fascistic powers through the federal bureaucracies who are accountable to nobody. They can create and enforce any regulations and fees they want to, and nobody ever challenges them. The Totalitarian Nanny State that we have created makes the old USSR look like a virtual freedom and liberty paradise in comparison to this federal bureaucratic and fascistic monster we have allowed to be created in the land of the free and brave. And, of course, many states and local governments mimic the federal bureaucracy and that is why socialist states such as New York, California, Illinois, New Jersey and others are now bankrupt. We are bankrupt as a nation.
Hawk,
Even the actions you propose are fataly insufficient. Entire departments must be downsized by 75%, if not eliminated entirely. This has to be people’s mandate.
Any serious examination of the problem yields but one solution; reset. Restricting the remaining Gov’t bureaucracy, at every level, from making any rule or regulation that negatively effects the economy is a first step, and defining their new missions to force the removal of existing regulation.
Congress is on schedule to pass more than 60,000 new laws this year, after paasing more than 60,000 last year. And, none of US can name three. As long as Congress sees itself as a runing for relection-lawmaking-machine, the country class is doomed to servility.
Next we must get the lawmakers to work for a living by insisting they attend every session they are scheduled to attend, after they’ve reduced their staff size by 70%. No law can be passed unless all members are in attendance. It’s focus they need. I have no problem paying them more for positive results.
The congress critters (both parties) have devolved the election process into campaigning full-time – not enough time to read the legislation – and having ever more staffers work 24/7/365 writing bills that clearly benefit some party at the expense of others; all on our tab. This is not what the Founders had in mind.
The RINO Republicans in the Senate should listen to the Tea Party members who are entering Congress next year because, if they do not, and if they prevent real conservative bills from being passed, then you can kiss the Republican Party good-bye. This is the last chance the Republican Party has to actually do something positive. If it lets this chance slip away, you really will get a third party. The Democrats will always be associated with the radical liberal left, the Republicans will be the center-left party, and the Tea Party will represent the real conservatives. The Republicans will probably go the way of the Whig party in the 19th century, which may not be a bad thing if they show that they are just as useless and corrupt as the Democrats.
So be warned, RINOs. You don’t have much time to prove your conservative street cred to the rest of the nation. And if you don’t, then you’re done in 2012.
And, next year, you can start proving how conservative you are by repealing Obamacare. Do that and at least you’ll be moving in the right direction.
“We have the momentum, for now. But if we don’t use that momentum to accomplish great things..” The incredible truth of the “root” of the problem is hidden within this line.
The “We” are the voting citizens of our country because it was “We” that got us into the mess that “We” are in now. Civics 101; our country was designed to run smoothly when the people activity participate in the governing process.
“We” didn’t do that. From throwing God out of our schools, to surrendering in disgrace to our foreign enemies, to not standing up for our allies, to forsaking respect for our elders, our fathers and our mothers, to letting that amongst us that is abnormal, evil, greedy, immoral, lust driven or queer take over and control our lives; “We” failed. For over 5 decades straight “We” sat on our apathetic, round shouldered broad asses while the liberal Democrats ripped our country into shreds.
While everything Mr. Hawkins said makes good sense it is time for the American people to clean up their own back yards in the same manner that they are now preaching the gospel to our new incoming Republicans. It is time for the emotional-cons, independents and moderates to stop riding the surf and winds for whatever suits their fancy best versus standing with their feet on the ground with the rest of us. Make it loud and clear to the new incoming Republicans that “We”, the citizens are now permanently operating at that level and they will bring forth abundant fruits for our country.
The Tea Party has shown the way; only that they do not give up the ghost from exhaustion waiting for the rest of our society to catch up.
Leave it for a military writer to be all reactive tactics & strategy, and with no moral conscience, intelligent policy or forward thinking whatsoever. Kind of like how Bush and his people were during their 8 years of maliciousness and stupidity. Yeah, lets roll back the clock to those good ol’ days.
Scared, huh?
Leave it to BC to post the most ignorant rantings on this board. At least your consistant in you lunacy.
“. . .it’s time to roll it back.”
Indeed, but they won’t. Get used to it.
Great article. If the Tea Partiers don’t watch and if necessary hound their electees to Congress, we have only ourselves to blame for the death of the American dream. We have to go on the attack like never before, and leave the tired old McCains and Collinses in the dust.
The vehicle that is available to us is the Republican Party. The Repubs took the House, but not the Senate. There will be no rollback of legislation unless the Repubs also take the Senate in 2 years, OR, some very specific amendments (supported by some Senate Democrats as well as the House) can be passed with a veto-proof majority.
This country needs an education in economics, specifically the lessons learned over the last 50 years from the experiments with socialism in the USSR, France, and Germany (the reunification and its attendant problems.) as well as the welfare experiments in the US.
We need to discuss how to expand opportunity for all of our citizens, and most unfortunately, recognize the teaching of the Dismal Science about the downside to making “safety” a clumsy, underfunded and overpromised slogan as part of our nation’s economic policy.
“time to roll it back”
Time to realize that it isn’t politics, it’s war. It’s been war to the enemy for decades, but not to us. No more.
What’s at stake? Don’t kid yourself. EVERYTHING is at stake. Your money, your country, your religion, your family, your freedom, your life.
Stop thinking in terms of FDR, LBJ, Carter and Clinton, and start thinking in terms of the USSR, because the USSR is where they want to go. You know they have admired the USSR since the 30′s. Everything they do is a step in that direction. Believe it.
Every minute of every day, you work for your family’s security. Going forward, as a part of that, you should work for your country’s security. They never rest, and you shouldn’t either.
Great idea. How do you think this can be managed. It requires aggression
AND PERSISTENCE from citizens who care that their freedoms and liberties have been stolen from them by persons supposed to defend and uphold them.
The agencies of government are in principle “representative” NOT elite. They have as the serpent in the garden of Eden cajoled citizens to cede freedoms by their inattention to what their representatives have been doing insidiously, over long term.
Undermining the Constitution, THE document of the foundation IN LAW of the rights determined in the Declaration of Independence : In the USA, A COUNTRY OF LAW, not of men.
Do the people care enough to keep up the good fignt? Which includes, as you see, the roll back of ALL the measures enacted within the past half century that pitted citizen against citizen, with other means to limit/ destroy Americans’ freedom of self -determination ?
Given the immunities of Congress, Senate, Courts and Executive this fight is actually a daily, a lifetime,job. And IT IS A FIGHT.
A major part of the job is to watch the “representatives” like hawks and attack if they move beyond their remit. To constantly remind them THEY ARE NOT INDEPENDENT WORKERS, BUT SERVANTS OF THE PEOPLE ALL the People, Not only those who voted for them. NOT members of an exclusive private gentlemens’ club. That they have a contractual obligation in their OATH to Defend and UPHOLD the US Constitution with The Bill of Rights.
Not to interpret it in parochial legalese.The words, the meanings of those words are understandable to any interested person.
The national endowment for the arts and the edifice that represents public education need to be scrapped.
In the case of the arts, do we really need our government to fund this? People will create art one way or another. Patronage from those with financial means has worked pretty well.
As for public education, I think the public school system needs to be completely redesigned from the start. We should not have government in the business of designing curricula, managing schools, or anything of the sort. Set the graduation tests for each grade at the state level. Let private groups organize schools. Children should have to attend these schools, but they shouldn’t be run by government.
Our government is too heavily involved in our daily lives to be effective any more. This isn’t about liberalism. This is about how we achieve the good and proper goals of a liberal society.
The incoming GOP members will do what they have always done. They will “reach across the aisle”, but placate their base with their usual talk about social issues.
They believe that one good speech about the “homosexual agenda” will let their tax hike votes go unnoticed.
They believe that “taking a stand” on vulgar or demeaning public art will let their lack of defunding NPR, NEA, and NEH go unnoticed.
They believe that vocally supporting “school choice” will placate the base, while not letting the base know that vouchers will come with more strings than a piano. And the DOEd will remain in place, despite Reagan’s promise.
I sincerely hope that if what I cite her comes to pass, that every single one of them gets bounced down the capitol steps in 2012.
It would have to be done commensurately with a drastic tax cut at the same time. Since only half the country pays taxes, the battle to cut taxes is half lost out of the gate.
The benefits of the tax cut, or better, a move to the Fair Tax, must be shown to be clearly measurable to the entire electorate in order to beat the Socialists.
you are wrong, i did not vote republican so the republicans could force their agenda down my throat just like the progressives have been doing. this county wants/NEEDS middle of the road bipartisanship because not all of us are republicans and not all of us are democrats…a government by the people for the people respects the views/rights of EVERY citizen not just the ones who’s party happens to be in power. to hell with health care and all the other issues right now…what we need are JOBS…end NAFTA NOW!!!!! quit outsourcing our industries/our jobs NOW…close the borders and ENFORCE our immigration laws NOW….LISTEN TO PEOPLE FOR A CHANGE!!!!!! quit trying to do “great things” we don’t need/want “great things” we need the RIGHT things to save our jobs/economy…we need different views/ideas of what it will take to turn this country back into the great nation it once was. all this partisan bickering and one-upmanship is destroying us. it is time for republicans to realize that they are not always right and they do not have all the answers any more than the democrats are always right or have all the answers. we need constructive dialogue not political posturing/pandering for votes . we need debate and compromise on what is the RIGHT thing is to do not what is the political correct/politically profitable thing to do
i almost forgot the most important thing we need and that is a media that gives a voice to the people instead of the politicians
AMEN! AMEN! AMEN! The RINOs like Corker, McVAIN, Collins, Snowe, Lugar, Cronyn, McConnell (and now, sadly, Inhofe) need as much or more heat kept on them as we need to keep on the Marxists, uh, I mean Democrats.
Term limits! We need term limits in Washington! Limit them ALL to two terms: One in office, one in the Federal Penitentiary!
You may have some momentum but you don’t have a mandate yet. Don’t be cocky.
agree 99.99%
any sign of weakness must be met with a flood of disapproval
the sooner we demonstrate that the elected officials answer to us then the sooner we can make the u.s. “fit” again
maybe moochelle obama can extrapolate our bloated population to our bloated government
as important as it is to hold these useless government agencies to account, it is just as important to express the conservative principles behind such necessary actions
the statists will fight to the death and if we are not willing to take it that far then they will slither and worm their way back to power
the sooner we can hold the EPA’s feet to the fire the better and if we dont engage this agency a.s.a.p. we will lose momentum faster than a smart car smashing into a windmill
Amen. Just sent an email to my representative reminding him this election was not just about the economy but about “NO YOU CAN’T”! “fundamentally transform” our Constitutional Republic into a Socialist State!
These recommendations are right on! Especially the turning off of funding for the wasteful liberal programs, of which ObamaCare is the prime example. It will be interesting to see which conservative groups will maintain a list of votes cast by RINOs and other weak conservatives, to use for the purpose of weeding out liberal Republicans in 2012 who are still working for the socialists. Now is the time to get the most possible mileage from the Congressional rules and work them to Conservatives’ advantage.
Worst case scenario:
The lame duck session ignores extending the Bush tax cuts and focuses on the Dream Act.
The bill will be another 2000 + pages monstrosity.
It will get forced through congress the same as Obamacare did, using “reconciliation” instead of 2/3rds majority and passed without anyone able to read the entire thing (probably loaded with lots of “goodies” that we’ll love just as much as Obamacare).
Once the new session begins, the republican dominated congress will try to repeal it, along with Obamacare to no avail, even if the repeal should pass the senate Obama will veto.
By the time for 2012 elections the population will have many more new citizens eager to vote for the party that provided them with a path for citizenship as well as social benefits… democrat.
This raises the chances for Obama to get re-elected as well as later turning the majority of both houses democrat again, possibly for a very long time.
Like I said, worse case scenario. God I hope I’m wrong about it.
The GOP effort to shrink the Federal Government and begin to restore our freedom should have three main thrusts.
First, pass bills to repeal what the Democrats have done and force Democrats to vote yes or no.
Second, pass bills to increase freedom and make Democrats vote yes or no.
Third, hammer your foes every day with the cold hard facts, and never let up, and go around the MFM.
The American People are paying attention now more than ever. The MFM is weaker now more than ever. Alternative ways to communicate with the American People are stronger now more than ever.
Use these things to your advantage, GOP.
Yes, please attack all the Wall Street reform and health care reform that the majority of Americans want. We’d love you nutcases to finally admit to the American people that you really couldn’t give two $#!ts about them and that you’re willing to drive this country into the ground just for once last chance to try and prove your failed ideology that destroying the middle class is necessary to preserve the freedom of big business to continue sticking their snouts in the trough.
majority of americans want obamacare?
destroying middle class?— that is what statists are for
big business? you mean GE, AIG, GM?
American people can take care of themselves if left to their own devices
Sorry, Slim. Wall Street do fine ’till government involved, make stinker loans, poison investment mix. Healthcare bigger mess- no one afford it, services slice and dice ’till vaunted middle-class collapse on sidewalk.
Failed ideologies come, go, your socialism like standing in quicksand. Quick, get rope, save $400 handcart. Only snout in trough government. Trough too big. Tax too high. Freedom too small. Safety net now hammock. Get out of hammock. Get job. Quit ask for handout.
Government too big too long. Move too fast to Marx. Stub toe, lose midterm. Good for people, freedom come back. Someday thank Obama for haste. Not now, need more kitty litter pour on Left agenda. Fix bad smell of America. Just start, see in two years. Maya make calendar for you. It over. Stick fork in.
“Wall Street do fine ’till government involved, make stinker loans, poison investment mix.”
-Yeah, the government stepped in, in 1999 and repealed parts of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 with Phil Gramm’s Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999. Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act (GLB) allowed institutions to act as any combination of an investment bank, a commercial bank, and an insurance company. Worked out well, didn’t it?
Stick with the Lexapro schedule the doctor gave you. It’s dangerous to get off the regime.
Symbolic legislation like bills to repeal Obamacare, sell all government shares in GM today, repeal cap and trade, and extending tax cuts or introducing “Fair Tax” is important even if it is doomed to be defeated in the Senate or vetoed by the Executive because it is a clear signal of intent. It also allows arguments for and against to be aired now, and brings the ideas forth and keeps them in the forefront of people’s minds leading to 2012.
These sorts of initiative will also encourage TEA party movement activists to take over the party structure in districts represented by RINO or Democrat members (and don’t forget there are TEA party movement people who are active in the Democrat party as well, give them all the help and encouragement they need to clean out that stinking sewer of corruption and special interests).
While the symbolic battles are going on, practical measures like refusing to appropriate funds for agencies or bills will keep the Obama agenda on hold, and working hard to defund or eliminate government agencies can be seen as a bipartisan effort as well; why not “reach across” for support for our initiatives? Some Dems might jump across in order to save their political skins, so it is worth exploring.
We do need to roll a bunch of things back including the Patriot Act and some of the nasty things Bush did too. We have a lot of common ground with many Democrats who raised the alarm that too much power was being amassed in the executive branch of government. This enabled Obama and company to get as far as they have. In my humble opinion we need to jump on those things both sides agree upon and rally the troops. In many ways this is not a left right fight, it is a fight against a police state mentality, against a corrupt elitist government headed toward a dictatorship which needs to be reigned in, for our childrens freedoms and rights, for a return to our Constitutional law applying to everyone equally and being enforce. We need to get to work at balancing the scales. While we are intentionally being kept fighting each other while the house is burning down. Remember the day after 9/11. Those who love America have the greatest strength and willingness to fight for each other and protect each other of any nation on earth.
A truly moral position is of course to spend money you dont have on programs that dont work thus bankrupting the entire country and condemning everyone to poverty and misery, all the while screaming it’s Bushes fault.
The Tea Party incubents in the upcoming House session should NOT accept a junior partnership with the Republican Old Guard. Many of those tired old RINOs of the Country Club Set have already been on Capitol Hill much too long. They lost touch with We The People long ago, and have outlived their usefulness. (Like John McCain, for one. What were the people of Arizona thinking, after all they’ve been through?) If we’re serious about saving our nation from the socialist cancer infecting it, we’d better be ready to mount a hostile takeover of the Republican Party.
2012 is coming up faster than you think. We need to have more brilliant young conservatives to replace those old, obsolete, “moderate” dinosaurs.
Mr. Mirror
Born Luckless Ideals Galore, snorting lithium is my new rage (and prescription).! Well, it is a semi-free country, at least it is here amid the leafy grounds of the Permanence Ward. (Your socialism dollars at work.) If you say it’s ok, surely there are long lines ready for Ideals Galore IN the Conservatank of Love.
And where the hell is Weenie Galore? I need a few reminders of why I’m so tense all the time. If only I had more access to Weenie Galor! Sarah Palin’s Love Club. The First Club. Ooh, so yummy. So quiet. So Toddly. Rhymes with bodily. Almost. Close enough for me cuz that’s the stuff of fluids. Of course. Paper towel, anyone? Please and thank you. May I have a brother?
Time for a belly full of disconnected discontent! Can I get an AMEN!
252. Mr. Lucky: “Don’t ask us to help you when the dastardly little dark ones come for you in the night. And they will. I’ve seen them. They creep into my room every night.
” Nov 27, 2009 – 10:28 am
39. Mr. Lucky: “I’m SMART! I’m not like people say I am. I’m SMART! I can handle things!”
Jan 8, 2010 – 5:38 pm
Giant Desperado?
And who might be branded with that signature “I’m SMART” utterance? Why, Guess Who, The “American” Psycho – Born Feckless!”
14. Mr. Lucky “If you were smart like me, you’d know that a ham is worth more than a turkey.
” November 22, 2010 – 7:03 pm
29. Mr. Lucky “Two plus two is four. I know, I read it once in a book.” November 22, 2010 – 8:06 am
Great Luckless Louie ad campaign lately for the Non sequitur of the Year Award. And Mr. Lucky really did “kick some ass” did he not?
714. Mr. Lucky “ With toothpaste oozing out of the eyeglasses of my mind. I walk the streets of marrow. The boulevard of franks and beans. Serendipitous, is it not? Methinks so.”
November 22, 2010 – 8:06 am
Maybe some of that Stimulus Booty will come your way. Then you can procure a larger target! Maybe one with the face of Martin Luther on it. Or maybe Bobby “I Have a Green Face” Jindhhhhaaaaallllll. Clang!
So where did Sarah Palin learn to use that steely dan? Wasilla? That’s where I, Mr. Lucky, learned to his and hers. Bigger than any backyard fence, and twice as woody! Yeah, really.
Whatever.
The simple thing to do: don’t fund the parts you don’t want.
Those areas then undergo shutdown procedures, employees are informed of their seniority status to bump less senior people at the same job in other agencies otherwise you get a set amount of time per year you have worked and when that runs out you are out of work for the federal government. All other contracts are summarily terminated for the convenience of the government.
Then the GAO steps in, takes stock of everything and starts selling it off at auction.
In no time at all vast bureaucracies disappear… getting rid of the statutory language can happen later, once the funding goes the agency goes. No Congress is obligated by what prior Congresses do and that is part of their sovereign power delegation: to determine funding and what gets funded. All spending starts at the House, and that is where it must end. And since nothing is passed to get a veto, the President is powerless unless he wishes to beg for funding of agencies.
There is no recourse to not funding an agency, and very little is required to be funded under the Constitution: Congress, President, Vice President, Ambassadors, SCOTUS and other Judicial arms, the military, the mint, USPTO, USPS, USGS for the Coast and Geodetic Survey. GAO is handy for accounting purposes. The rest is not required and is voluntary on the part of the government.
It is the easiest thing not to spend money, and the hardest thing for politicians to do is just that. Get them serious on the non-making and non-passing of spending bills and you soon get non-funded parts of government that disappear. If you have never been through a federal government shutdown exercise, then you are really missing out! Got that first hand in the ’90s and it hasn’t changed since then.
Much of what the writer says is sensible, but difficult to accomplish considering that Obama can still veto everything. A better strategy for now is to block any more of Obama’s vile programs, since the Dems don’t have the votes to stop a filibuster in the senate, and we should use the conservative house majority to stop funding bad programs. Also, I might point out that Bernanke at Fed is deliberately printing huge amounts of money- about 600 billion dollars at present- which should be stopped. Obama is screwing social security recipients who have paid into the system an average of 45 years or more- by printing money which CAUSES INFLATION and then cancelling all ss increases for inflation. I disagree about privitizing ss since it has only been tried in Chile and there is not enough of history to know if retirees are adequately protected.
Saw a great bumper sticker today:
“Tea parties are for little girls with imaginary friends.”
Makes you wanna get a gun and kill something, don’t it? Amen.
Hell, yeah! In fact, as we speak right now, I’m loading up the banana clip for my mini-14. The badas* Tea Party psychos are gonna come and getcha, just like the clueless flunkies in the Old Media told you we would!
Come getcha some, missy. Let me show you what a real magnum can do.
There you go again white belt – Picking on girls again. Based on your ignorant rantings I think my 7 year old could take you out with a blow to your tiny groin.
i think a little sunlight would do the work and save your kid’s toe from getting an infection
What, just because i want to chase a young lady around a car, have me and my friends throw her to the ground and stomp on her head, is that so wrong? And stop thinking about my groin.
OBamaCare is too big, convoluted, and interwoven with unconstitutional, legislatable and over-reach regulatory portions to sinply go though and item by item defund, though that is what we may have to do before it is seclared unconstitutional by the SCOTUS.
What we need most are up and down votes on EVERYTHING whether we can win or not, whether we can overturn a veto or not.
That will allow us to have concrete information as to which side the politician is on so we can continue to remove RINO’s and policitians who are seeking to replace the rule of the people, by the people, for the people with an elitist regime in which the the politicians are all elites who are exempt from the legislation which oppresses the rest of us.
We now control the purse strings through our control of the House. Let’s see how good and inventive we are at starving the Leftist programs already in place.
Right on. We need to hit the ground runningbin January, and put the liberals on notice between now and then. It’s not enough to be in control, we must roll back their gains.
RPOF (and RNC!): Let’s Reinvent Our Online Presence
http://www.practicalstate.com/?p=3621
Cheers
Don’t worry everyone. Our worthless Democratic & Republican parties wish they could roll back something but unfortunately, the Federal Reserve has a copyright on rollbacks.
Spending didn’t work. I know, since spending doesn’t work, printing money will?
The Federal Reserve Board Open Markets Committee announced a second round of “quantitative easing,” dubbed “QE2.” Another term for what the Fed is expected to do is “monetize the debt.” The Fed will buy government debt—primarily Treasury bonds, but possibly also mortgage-backed securities owned by the government—with new money it simply “prints.” There are two major effects of printing more money: Banks now have cash on their books instead of debt instruments, which allows them to loan more money out. By printing more money, the Fed lowers the value of the U.S. dollar, causing prices to rise, i.e. inflation.
My suggestion: It’s too late too buy gold. Buy ammo, toilet paper, and beef jerky. Why? Call me psychic or clairvoyant.
Said it before, will say it again. Love may be unconditional, my vote and support are not. Either the conservatives get their act together and undo the damage that’s been done (and the untold damage that’s waiting on the horizon) or it’s time for a third party.
Do the Rs have the spine to take action and make much needed changes? We’ll see…
With the recent talk about the newly elected officials balancing the budget seems to be one of the top projects. All should keep in mind, drastic cuts to Medicare, SS, major programs is not the way to lower the debt. Limitations on spending in all areas will lower the debt, but not in my lifetime, as it should be done. The dates for some of the major cuts will severly affect all areas of the population, and lowering spending in all areas again,with long term limitations is the appropriate move. Fifty years if need be is not too long. This will limit the power of the elected officials, but it seems to be needed at this time.