“I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression. Because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away. As President Reagan said, liberty is never more than one generation from extinction.” ~Ted Cruz 2013
The coolest kids gift ever – a Ted Cruz coloring book! The Cruz to the Future™ book is described as “a non-partisan, fact-driven view of how Texas Sen. Rafael Edward “Ted” Cruz became a U.S. senator and details, through his quotes and public information his ideas for what he believes will help America grow.”
Publisher Wayne Bell describes Cruz as a modern day hero and acknowledges his controversial Tea Party affiliation stating that “’Ted’Cruz has become a rejuvenation for the Tea Party movement in the U.S. His 21-hour speech on the Senate floor in September 2013 propelled Cruz into the national spotlight. Cruz’s beliefs and actions stir much emotion in those following the political realm, he is a modern ‘superhero’ to many and looked upon in adoration and abomination by some.”
The University of Washington sent out an email to alumni that asked the question: “Is The Tea Party like the Ku Klux Klan?”
Christopher Parker is a political science professor at the college who is promoting his new book that supposedly shows research proving that “racism is a strong indicator of Tea Party support.”
“Consider the Tea Party,” wrote Parker. “Similar to the Klan, white, middle- class, middle-aged, Protestant men dominate the Tea Party’s ranks.”
Parker admits that the KKK was a criminal gang that promoted violence and this fact may not necessarily compare to the Tea Party who have never committed any acts of violence but simply rejected the tax and spend policies of government in general.
“Can we not say that the Tea Party is heavily involved in politics?” he wrote. “Further, can we not also say that many Tea Partiers are not educated and accomplished? Finally, can we not also say that the Tea Party has an intolerant element? The answer to all three is yes. So, to answer your question, I recognize why some on the right are alarmed at the comparison, but they need to bear in mind that the comparison is VERY specific to the Klan of the 1920s: another national right-wing political movement, one with an educated, accomplished element that also has its share of intolerant people. In sum, the Tea Party need not be a similarly violent or bigoted movement in order for it to be compared to the KKK, especially given the different historical context.”
Parker is also incorrect about much of his Tea Party demographic claims – stats have shown Tea Party members are typically more educated (particularly in science), formerly not very politically active, own their own businesses and earn in the top 5% tier compared to the rest of the United States. But why bother with truth?
When Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were first married, they toured England together to assess the conditions under which "her" indigent people were living, especially with respect to their dwellings. The queen wanted the prince to design new places for her people to live, and he soon produced captivating drawings. At no time, however, did anyone ever ask the question, "Why are we doing this?" Why is it the business of the monarchy to design the homes in which people are to dwell? Why not create thee conditions in which people can ACTUALLY RISE ABOVE POVERTY AND MAKE THEIR OWN CHOICES? Obviously, Victoria was perpetuating the choice-defeating welfare state she had inherited--and she was doubling down. Maybe that's why a "lunatic" tried to shoot her in an open carriage and hit Prince Albert instead. Talk about taking a bullet.
Our Founding Fathers understood this simple fact: every time the government gets involved, you are one step closer to absolute monarchy. Accept a welfare check, the next thing you know they are telling you where to live, what to eat, with whom to associate, and how warm you can keep your house. Accept healthcare, and you have aromatherapy instead of proven cancer treatment, mandatory abortions instead of prenatal care, and death panels. THEY KNOW BEST HOW TO RUN YOUR LIFE. Just ask them.
In the mad dash to free the slaves, the North actually created the conditions for producing a new kind of monarchy in the United States--a Federalist monarchy that cast aside states' rights. For decades, this new monarchy has insinuated itself into every aspect of our lives to such an extent that we no longer feel the icy hand of the government around our necks. If this system of government is to work, BALANCE is key, but we lost balance MANY decades ago.
Now we have in America a President who actually thinks of himself as king.
Let us hope and pray that a second Civil War is not necessary to correct the mistakes of the first one.
Establishment Republicans are gearing up for the 2016 presidential race. Democrats are congealing around Hillary and the GOP is toying with dreams of the blowhard fat man, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.
While Christie’s duodenum constricts as he sports his new weight loss hardware, Establishment Republicans are busying themselves behind the scenes, orchestrating a strategy to shut down Tea Party conservatives once and for all.
Establishment Republicans are enjoying their honeymoon with the younger, boisterous Christie, but they know that Christie will most likely melt down at some point during the campaign. Christie has problems - they are not sure of Christie’s amnesty bonafides because there have been times when it comes to fiscal responsibility, Christie has actually made sense. This scares the hell out of them. Christie’s ego makes him difficult to control. His Soprano style schtick gets tiresome. After all the GOP is the party of white bread power mongers like Mitch McConnell, John McCain and John Cornyn – interchangeable silver-haired bobble heads.
The most important objection to Chris Christie has very little to do with Christie’s weaknesses as a candidate. Establishment Republicans cannot divorce themselves from the “his turn” method of picking candidates – remember Ford, Dole, McCain. And whose turn is it? Jeb Bush, of course.
Make no mistake about it – the Establishment Republicans’ agenda revolves around one single issue – amnesty. They believe that if they control the implementation of amnesty – they will endear themselves to Hispanics forever thus securing a Republican Latino vote for all time. The poster child for amnesty is Jeb Bush. Bush loves Mexicans. He’s married to one. His brown-eyed, black- haired children look more like cousins to liberal political dynamos the Castro twins from San Antonio than any of the other Bush descendants.
The youngest Bush brother was former Governor of Florida and has been traveling around of late making speeches about how he is not RINO. He coyly claims he will not make a decision about running for President until the middle of 2014, but he has already published a book on the importance of immigrants’ path to citizenship and laid out his 4 points of light plan or whatever. Bush’s simple 4-point plan claims to hold the key to increase growth in the U.S. GDP 3.5% - 4% per year over the next decade.
1. Encourage North American energy production. Focusing on natural gas and approving the Keystone XL pipeline, rational fracking regulations, opening lands up for drilling, helping Mexico modernize its oil sector.
2. Approve comprehensive-immigration reform or amnesty. Because immigrants are entrepreneurial (and “are more fertile,” and those more children can help fix the imbalance in entitlement support). This would include a legal pathway that include fines and penalties, H1 visas, and a guest-worker program.
3. Reform education. Raise standards, grading schools based on student achievement, like in Florida, eliminate social promotion in third grade, focus on early literacy, expand school choice/vouchers.
4. Focus on the Family. “No amount of growth nor transformed education system will be sustainable if strong family faith isn’t the backbone of any American renewal. We have to be supportive of the single mom and the grandmother, as well as other non-traditional families,” Bush said, calling attention to the Democrats’ misguided attempts to fix these issues through government policy.
The Establishment Republicans are not interested in the fact that conservatives believe exactly what Jeb Bush’s mother (former FLOTUS Barbara Bush) said on the Today show about Jeb running for President: “There are other people out there that are very qualified and we’ve had enough Bushes.”
Hollywood
moonbats are right to be disturbed by recent revelations of the abuse of
privacy by the NSA and the spying on American citizens. I support this video
and the ideas communicated, but it does not go far enough. It is, however worth
a peek.
How the producers
of this slick important piece had the nerve to use video of Richard Nixon (as
opposed to Obama) is simply jaw-dropping.
Obama has
declared in public that the U. S. Constitution is no longer valid.
Obama up a
system of government “Czars” in order to bypass congressional authority.
Forced churches
to accept objectionable practices at their medical institutions.
Has increased US
government debt at unsustainable rates and wasted stimulus funds.
Smuggled
thousands illegal firearms to Mexican drug cartels, resulting in murder of
200 Mexican citizens and at least 2 American citizens.
Keeps an
unpublished enemies list and has used drone strikes to kill three American
citizens (one of them 16- years- old) without due process.
Waged war in
Libya without Congressional input or approval. Aided Al-Qaeda and Muslim
Brotherhood with weapons and money in order to overthrow governments of
multiple sovereign Middle East nations.
Dictates
new law via abuse of executive orders (examples with immigration dream act
and gun control laws) bypassing congress, and uses executive departments
to enforce laws selectively.
Deserted the
American Ambassador to Libya and other Americans while they were under
attack and conducted cover-up of said action, failing to pursue perpetrators.
Enlisted IRS to
punish political enemies punitively with audits and other abuses.
Implemented
Obamacare which affixes a financial penalty on Americans who fail to
purchase health insurance in order to regulate behavior – regulatory
powers not granted in the Constitution.
The budget standoff ended last week and the mainstream media
has labeled it a “defeat” for the GOP. Liberal media points to the Republicans’
“misguided strategy” to tie defunding Obamacare to the debt ceiling debate, ultimately
playing chicken with the Senate Democrats and daring them to shut down the government.
The game resulted in just that – a 16 -day shutdown courtesy of President Barack
Hussein Obama and Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Republican establishment folk and liberals alike
blamed their “less seasoned” colleagues for “holding the government hostage”
and forcing the House leadership to bow to their wishes.
The GOP establishment trotted out squishy
former Governor Jeb Bush for his elder statesman-like moderate viewpoint. Practically pleading for us all to get along during an interview for “This Week,” Bush encouraged
the GOP to come up with an alternative health insurance solution and “show some restraint” in their
negotiations. ABC’S John Karl asked Jeb Bush
about advice for Senator Ted Cruz and his efforts to repeal Obamacare. Bush said,
“So have a little bit of self-restraint. It might actually be a politically — a
better approach to see the massive dysfunction…And when we have these spikes of
political conversations that are not grounded in reality, the rest of the world
looks at us as untrustworthy.”
Meanwhile Senator Ted Cruz had this to say
to his critics like Bush during an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash: “Some Republican gray beards in Washington who
make the point, ‘Let’s just let this collapse,' and then Republicans will
benefit. I profoundly disagree with their message…I want to step on their
message. Number one, I consider that
very…the ‘Bad Samaritan Theory.’ Basically inflict a bunch of harm on the
American people and hope we benefit politically from it. What a terrible, cynical
approach.”
The
New York Times gleefully quoted the irrelevant Richard
Viguerie: “It’s civil war in the G.O.P.,” said Viguerie, an 80-year-old conservative
who last supported Ron Paul in 2008.
The reality is that not ONE SINGLE REPUBLICAN VOTED TO
PASS OBAMACARE. They all campaigned to repeal or defund the highly unpopular
law especially after Justice John Roberts became the swing vote to uphold the constitutionally
shaky legislation. Today, they are all apparently now for it despite the fact
that they used to be against it.
Meanwhile, tongues are wagging about the supposed rift
within the GOP – a war between establishment leaders versus the upstart
populist tea party extremists, but that is not the real issue. The real issue
is that majority of the American people who identify as Republicans are fed up
with the establishment. Resentment has percolated for quite some time starting
with George W. Bush’s legacy including a large Medicare drug coverage expansion,
proposed immigration reform and the emergency bailout in 2008. Conservatives
were already disillusioned in presidential elections in 2008 with the McCain
nomination and again in 2012 with the Romney nomination. The elections were lost
primarily because GOP folks stayed home or switched sides. The establishment
claims there is an absence of strategy on the Tea Party side while the Tea Party
focuses on the winning message of controlling government spending.
The anomaly was the Tea Party domination of the midterms
in 2010 resulted in historic Democrat losses across the board. The fact is that because of 2010, there is an established
precedent today of Tea Party candidates winning primaries against Republican
rivals with long-term corporate and lobbyist backing. Matt Kibbe of FreedomWorks told The New York Times: “We’ve always been outspent by orders of
magnitude.”
So fast forward to October, 2013. The Republican Establishment
and liberal media have joined forces. The Republicans have FINALLY discovered
Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals (Obama’s blueprint for campaigning) and are
using Alinsky tactics to eat their young.
These Establishment Republicans who have fed from the
trough for decades patently reject the notion that if all forty-six Republican Senators had stood with Senator Ted
Cruz and Senator Mike Lee instead of trashing them, the political ramifications
would be very different– more like 2010. Obama and the Senate majority would
have been exposed for their hypocrisy, the Obamacare enrollment website would
have failed and Republicans would be considered prescient. What would be the
political fallout if they had actually done what the American people wanted and
stood their ground against Obamacare and the debt ceiling? - Victory.
Instead, Republicans opted to snatch defeat from the jaws
of victory. The final bill funded the government with a completely suspended
debt ceiling and created a bicameral budget super committee (which failed
before). Gallup, NBC and Wall Street Journal polls conducted after
the end of the shutdown noted that the GOP achieved its lowest favorability
rating since polling of this kind began.
The Republicans achieved very little with the public
infighting. Future battles will cause the Republican establishment to back down
quicker for fear they will be saddled with blame for shutdown threats during
debates – they have, in effect, lost their strong position they had after the
2010 election results. It also gave the Democrats the ability to lie to the low
information public that the GOP shutdown caused the problems with the Obamacare
sign -up. The only bright side to the Republican schism is that they held the
line on the sequestration number – spending limits are still at 2008 levels,
keeping the baseline low from which to negotiate a budget.
Republicans are actually suffering from a generational
battle - the Gen Xers versus the Baby Boomers. Boehner is 63; McConnell is 71; McCain
is 77; and Pete King is 69. Ted Cruz referring to the “gray beards” in the GOP during
his interview with CNN reflected this generational conflict. Senator Rand Paul
was born in the mid 1960s while Senators Cruz and Lee were born in 1970 and
1971 respectively.
Paul, Cruz and Lee are products of Generation X who see
the liberalism and excess of the Baby Boom generation as a negative. Feminism
did not have the net positive effects for women, the sexual revolution ushered
in the breakdown of the family, and liberalism promoted the growth and abusive power
of government over the individual.
Gen Xers lost 45% of their wealth during the Great
Recession of 2008 as their median net worth dropped to about $42,000 in 2010,
from $75,000 in 2007. Unlike Baby Boomers who profited during the dot com and
housing bubble booms, Gen Xers are facing insecure retirements and downward
mobility as they age. They are pissed off. Angered over government overreach and
spending, the mismanagement of our fiscal house, the ponzi scheme of our government
entitlements like Social Security, GenXers have had enough.
Paul, Cruz and Lee have capitalized on this undercurrent
of dissatisfaction, tapping into the psyche of Americans who are doomsday
prepping in record numbers. Establishment Republicans have underestimated the
power of this group. The results of the debt ceiling battle and government
shutdown combined with news of NSA spying and IRS targeting have angered this
sleeping giant – the Tea Party 35-50- year -olds who are out for blood. American
is a center right country and Obama’s 15 minutes is up. It will be up to the
new Generation, the Xers, to fight this battle. But the American people are on
their side despite what The New York
Times prints.
JOHN MCCAIN: “ The idea seems to be that if House GOP refuses
to raise the debt ceiling a default crisis or gradual government shutdown will
ensue, and the public will turn en masse against Barack Obama.
The Republican House that failed to raise the debt ceiling
would somehow escape all the blame.
Then democrats would have no choice but to pass a balanced budget
amendment and reform entitlements. And
the tea party hobbits could return to Middle Earth having defeated Mordor. This
is the kind of crack political thinking that turned Sharon Angle and Christine
O’Donnell into GOP Senate nominees. The reality is the debt limit will be
raised one way or another.”
From CNN's Ashley Killough:
Sen. John McCain is already pre-negotiating the Republicans’
cave- in position for the next battle in early 2014 with the Democratic majority.
He apparently promised Thursday that “the government will not shut down again,” despite
the fact that the legislation actually signed into law merely kicked the proverbial can
down the road – for another fight over the exact same fiscal issues. The bill the President signed at midnight only keeps the
government open through January 15, 2014 and allows the government to borrow through February 7, 2014, giving House and Senate
members time to work out a budget before December.
"We may still have some gridlock," he later added.
"Maybe we'll have continuing resolutions that - we're not going to shut
down the government again. I guarantee it," he told CNN's Kate Bolduan.
Laughably, McCain claimed that Obama who disappeared, refused
to negotiate, lied and taunted the other side will have to "engage"
next time around. Yeah, right.
"He has got to understand that magnanimity in victory
is a very important quality to have. He won," McCain said. "Now you
sit down with your adversaries and get things worked out. If you don't,
obviously you're not going to be a successful president."
McCain seemed proud at the GOP declining poll numbers and
the fact that they got the blame for the rancor and gridlock in light of Harry
Reid and Obama’s abominable positions and statements, including threatening the
nuclear option. "You know, I have this line that I use all the time: We're
down to blood relatives and paid staffers. Well, I got a call from my mother
who's 101…I even lost my mother."
McCain had the unmitigated to gall to say, "Don't speak
ill of your fellow Republicans," he said. "We've done way too much of
that."
Earlier this year McCain called Ted Cruz a “wacko bird,” referred
to Ted Cruz’s position on Obamacare as a “fool’s errand,” and one of McCain’s advisors went on the
record with GQ Magazine saying that “my
boss f**king hates Ted Cruz”.
Senators Reid and McConnell have been hammering out a deal for
days that would reopen the government through the beginning of 2014 and raise
the debt ceiling through next February.
Reportedly the deal also includes some cosmetic changes to
the Obamacare – delaying of the tax on
medical devices for 2 years; implementation of some sort of income-verification
process for people applying for subsidies; and a provision barring lawmakers (not
congressional and White House staff) from receiving subsidies for federal
health insurance under Obamacare.
On the QT, anywhere from 15 to 20 House conservatives met in secret
with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) last night at Tortilla Coast, where they plotted
how to respond to the Senate deal. Not sure if this open rebellion involved margaritas and nachos, but one can only hope.
Supposedly, House leadership (Boehner, Cantor & McCarthy)
are not wiling give in to the Senate plan….yet.
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