Representative Michael N. Castle (R-DE) got an earful at a townhall meeting after he voted for the disasterous Cap-n-Tax bill. This is starting to become a common theme. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) recently got himself an earful too!
Too bad suckers! That's all I've got to say. Because there's nothing conservative about 95% of the Republican politicians anymore.
Oh, let's start here ... Only needing 60 votes to pass an amendment that would allow citizens with a concealed carry permit to carry in other states that also allows for concealed carry, it failed obtaining only 58 votes. Senators George Voinovich (R-OH) and Dick Lugar (R-IN) voted against your rights instead.
Su-prise, su-prise ... Karl Rove and Barney Frank agree on Ron Paul’s Federal Reserve audit bill!
The reasoning they give can be summed up with two words ... political subterfuge. Or if you prefer the layman version: bull shit.
This is further proof that our two party system is not Democrats vs. Republicans. It is the powerful status quo vs. everyone else.
To be fair, there are a handful or so of Republicans working on the right things. Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) introduced a bill to audit the Federal Reserve, a Senate version of Ron Paul's HR1207.
... what rational person wouldn’t be in favour of auditing the Federal Reserve? I mean, come on, the blasted thing is only America’s central bank, responsible for things like setting our interest rates, controlling the money supply, and influencing the rate of inflationary devaluation of our currency. What right-minded person doesn’t think that a standing triennial audit of the Fed would simply be sound fiscal and public policy? After all, the IRS can audit you and I for things a lot less shady than what the Fed routinely does with our money supply. Why shouldn’t the Fed be held to at least some regulatory oversight?
By taking on the Federal Reserve, Ron Paul and Jim DeMint have demonstrated their willingness to fight for "we the people." These guys are on our side! "We the people" don't need "leaders" (Overlords), we need more fighters!
It’s amazing the difference a year makes:
While Bush and McCain were “abandoning free-market principles to save the free-market system” ... the Republican establishment still treated the truly free-market Ron Paul as some sort of crazy, irrelevant money crank.
As of this writing, every single Republican in the House ... co-sponsored Paul’s H.R. 1207 ... Given the current economic crisis, it turns out that many legislators are eager to see just how the Fed is able to print new money out of thin air. In the 1980’s, Paul introduced similar legislation with virtually no help from his fellow Republicans. In 2009, the entire party has lined up behind Ron Paul.
Back to the Establishment ... Lead by Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), many Republican senators are going to vote for Sonia Sotomayor. Sure ... Graham said he was opposed to Sotomayer, BUT he's changed his mind, saying "elections have consequences." Yes they do, Graham. You're one of them!
Conservatives continue to vote for politically spineless politicians like Lindsey Graham. These are politicians who say one thing to the folks at home and vote another way in Washington, DC.
I, for one, admire Democrats. They at least stand by their convictions. The Democrats in the senate fought Bush’s nominees to the federal courts tooth and nail ... For two terms -- eight long years -- the Democrats used every trick in the book to stop Bush’s conservative nominees to the federal judiciary.
Conservatives: Elections do indeed have consequences. Conservatives continue to vote for Republicans like Lindsey Graham -- and America continues to pay the price.
How much longer will conservatives continue putting up with this crap? I don't know ... Can we trade Lindsay Graham for a pack of gum or something?
Why are GOP Senators ignoring Sotomayor's criminal activities? Well, because according to Senator Sessions (R-AL), who says "President Barack Obama's first high court nominee is on track to be confirmed in early August," they've been smoking crack-cocaine!
At least we know ...
At least Senator Jon Kyl has the spine to vote 'no' on Sotomayor for the Supreme Court! What's that give us now, three? Add Michele Bachmann (R-MN) to the list, putting us at 4 conservatives. Not too good ...
Then we have the so-called "conservative pundits" like Peggy Noonan, who supported Obama while slamming Sarah Palin. Others, like Charles Johnson of littlegreenfootballs.com, have turned into Terrorist Tools. The Almighty Allahpundit twists the words of Rep. Ron Paul in order to attack his anti-war stance and make fun of his "knock[ing] paper money." And then there's strange diatribes like this, about "RePaulicanism" (emphasis added):
There is a movement within the Republican Party that really, really, REALLY ticks me off ... for the purpose of my blog, I'm going to be calling them Repaulicans ... fetishized the Constitution at the expense of all else ...
Sadly, because there exists an overlap of ideology between the Old Right and Buckley's New Right, of which is considered Mainstream Conservatism. When someone says that they are conservative, nine times out of ten, they mean that they're a Buckleyite.
Ron Paul is a relic, a holdover from a time ... when "conservatism" meant economic and political isolationism, xenophobia, homophobia ...
Hmmm ... very interesting ... Maybe I've got it all wrong! I always thought the Constitution was the law of the land, and being a country ruled by law, not men, we're supposed to abide by the Constitution "at the expense of all else." Silly me.
It's obvious the author doesn't know much about either the Old Right, or Buckley's right either.
Allahpundits "Oh,the glories of paper money," would be funny if it weren't so sad ... Even those Dead White Guys were against paper money.
Let's nevermind too, that the Federal Reserve is a central-planning device (something I thought conservatives were against). Like all other central-planning machinations, "the gap between the promise and the reality is shockingly massive, so much so that the Federal Reserve must be considered one of the greatest failures in the history of public policy."
But there I go ... "fetishizing" the wisdom of our Founders ...
Sarah Palin left with good reason, to get rid of the John McCains! Michael Steele needs to exit stage left too, because with friends like Steele, we may stop ObamaCare, but we'll just get stuck with RomneyCare instead. It's a lose-lose situation.
I'm with Stogie on this one! The Republican Establishment sucks!
I will never vote for Mitt Romney ... nor will I vote for Huckabee. I will vote for Palin or Jim DeMint ... the rest of the Republican establishment can go straight to hell.
They are rounding up guns in Houston ... the feds are going door-to-door in Houston because they say they're trying to round up guns that are being used in drug deals. Some woman had just bought four brand-new weapons and they found out about it and they went to take them away. Look, folks, what's the big deal about this now? I mean elections have consequences ... It's about time people started facing up with what they did here. This is just the first-ever census for guns. You know, ACORN, AmeriCorps, going to be joining the feds soon, they'll sweep the country, they'll do an inventory, they'll get one or two more liberals on the bench, Supreme Court, they'll find a way to get rid of the Second Amendment, then they can confiscate guns like FDR confiscated gold in 1933.
Do you remember that? By virtue of executive order, Franklin Delano Roosevelt confiscated American gold. He made it illegal for anybody to have any, by executive order.
Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA), the alledged "conservative leader" in the House, is pushing for another stimulus! Why?
Because the continued marginalization of conservatives who are outside the Republican Party’s cheering section breeds nothing but spineless Republican politicians!
We OUTLAWS are, it seems to me, the real lost middle — the legal conservatives and classical liberals who have been framed, on the one hand, as rabid rightwingers by both progressives and big government GOP “pragmatists,” or else completely marginalized on the other by those on the right who have, through various market forces and (I suspect) a bit of self selection, come to be the filters for what kinds of arguments get read and considered.
I want to be out there on the front lines, but frankly, I’ve been doing it for 8 years and making very little headway — each new “age” of the blogosphere forcing me to play nice with the latest GOP-humping clique ... speaking only to the choir ...
But as long as being "Republican" is more important than being "conservative," the dire consequences of Big Government is the best America will ever get.
"Me-too" Republicans, who are scared to defend the Constitution, assume as progressives do, that everything is government domain. This leads to so-called conservative pundits like David Brooks, arguing in favor of progressive policy:
To get our overall fiscal house in order, we’re going to need to raise taxes on the rich. . . . We’re going to have to tax people in the middle class more.
Note the three first-person plurals ("our . . . we're . . . we're") that evoke the old punchline about Tonto and the Lone Ranger: "What do you mean, 'we,' Kemosabe?" Brooks rhetorically includes himself in the policy-making circle, inviting his readers to do the same, and presents his tax-increase proposals as imperatives: We need to do this, we have to do that.
Unstated in this "we" stuff is the inevitable "them": The taxpayers, who are not to be consulted about the imperative need for them to cough up more of their earnings to finance the business of "get[ting] our fiscal house in order."
So keep cheering them on ... just don't be surprised when they have a hard time winning (considering they can't even raise money).
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) raised $6.2 million in June, outraising the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) by nearly $3 million.
It's not the fault of Constitutionalists like Ron Paul, that our country is in such a mess. It's not the libertarians fault either. It's the result of voters placing "winning" above principle.
Yes, "we the people," it's our fault! More specifically though, it's the conservative voter who is most at fault ... for supporting progressive-RINOs (to "win").
Which brings it all back to the bottom line. It is the people—the voters—that is, the voter—who on the basis of the system choose to plunder others. Obama is not the problem. Neither was W or Clinton etc. It is always the voter, the one who chooses to legitimize the state and to legitimize the exercise of involuntary lordship over others ... The real problem starts in each of our own hearts.
To close, we recall the oft quote of Pogo: “We have met the enemy and he is us.”
We “fetishize the Constitution”? That’s about the most absurd thing I’ve ever heard…well…from a “Republican,” that is.
You know…as bad as Obama and the Democratic majority is, I can truly see them staying in power if so-called Republicans continue to think this way…because more than a few of us are fed the hell up.
We all need a little more of that rebel rouser spirit!
Oh golly gee, that sure was a fun post to read while I was listening to Duane Eddy’s “Rebel Rouser.”
Yep!
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>It is the powerful status quo vs. everyone else.
It is the Progressive movement, with its contempt for Federalism.