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A Paul-ing Math

A Paul-ing Math

Figures from http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/republican_vote_count.html
Real Clear Politics

2012 Republican Popular Vote

Romney . . 6,354,712
Santorum . 3,576,171
Gingrich . . 2,525,766
Paul . . . . . 1,544,822

Based on these figures and according to my math there have been 14,001,471 votes cast for these 4 people who ran/are running in the GOP primary this year.

This means Governor Romney has received 45.4% of the popular vote while Dr. Paul has received only 11% of this vote. To put it another way, the “Not Ron Paul” vote has been 89%.

I realize the Ron Paul faithful believe there is some way Paul can win the Republican nomination. Let’s assume he does.

Does that not mean the 11% have somehow usurped power and disenfranchesed the 89%?

Is that the kind of mandate Dr. Paul and his followers espouse? I think in other places that would call that a “coup.”

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Randall Mead is a simple, country lawyer, scratching out a living in the belly of the beast, the capital of Madiganistan.

The Real Julia

The President’s campaign has cooked up cartoon sycophant Julia, dependent on the largesse Barack Obama takes away from those with a job and “redistributes” to her during her entire life to get her through to old age, working in the community garden and her ultimate government appointment with the death panel at the end. After reading bits and pieces of this drivel, I couldn’t help but think about the Real Julia.

The Real Julia, Julia Eberly Martin, came to Texas as a pioneer girl with her family around 1832. She was probably around 10. The Real Julia’s mother, infant sister, and uncle died the first year they were in Texas, probably of cholera. A few years after she arrived, in 1836, the Texas Revolution broke out. Her father, Captain Jacob Eberly, left home to fight in the battle of Gonzales, where the Texans refused to turn over their cannon to the dictator Santa Anna’s army, instead defiantly making a flag with a cannon picture and star on it that declared “Come and Take It”.

How frightened Julia must have been, coming to this raw, dangerous new land fraught with predators of all kind, human and animal, literally making everything they had from nothing. Then war broke out, and her father had to worry about his motherless children as well as fighting for freedom for them. Nobody, you see, gave Julia a “head start”. There was no “free lunch” you didn’t shoot and cook yourself. School was a luxury, and medical care sporadic.

In that exceptionally cold March, the Alamo fell, and Goliad, and The Real Julia and her family had to flee for their lives, burning their possessions behind them, all they had worked for, and making their difficult, cold, frightened way across Texas with no government-provided mass transit, even. They built a raft and floated across to Galveston Island on it, hoping they would be safe, unsure if they would ever be able to go back to what was left of their home again.

Upon debarking from the raft, The Real Julia and her family received a terrible scare- in the distance, they saw a line of what appeared to be Karankawa Indians, a very primitive cannibal tribe who lived in that area, and in haste began to reload the raft to try to escape! How relieved they were when they discovered it was only sand cranes. This story, related by Julia’s sister many years later to her granddaughter, is one of the few hints we have of the panic the small band of pioneers were feeling during this troubled time.

Fortunately, The Texans were victorious in throwing off the yoke of an oppressor at the Battle of San Jacinto, and Doctor James Fisher Martin, a doctor from England via South Carolina, eventually became Julia’s husband when she was about 18. The Real Julia, without any help from Barack Obama, chose to have an actual husband, and bear five children, eventually establishing a large ranch in south Texas.

The Real Julia and the strong women like her didn’t need a central government riding shotgun for them their entire lives- they were, you see, the REAL liberated women! They were strong, able to build an entire life from an unforgiving wilderness, defend themselves and their children, feed, clothe, shelter, nurse, educate, and work as truly independent, free women, and shoot their own guns quite well. I think that the Real Julia was much like The Real Sarah Palin today! They are both examples of strength, faith, and each a pioneer in her own way.

They are who and what built our country and their hard work, faith in God and the values of individual effort and willingness to fight for freedom put cartoon Obama Julia to shame, quite literally. Pretend Julia is just that-pretend, and her story makes a mockery of everything the Real Julia lived, fought and strived for in her real life.

The Real Julia is a better story than the pretend Julia who cannot function without an overbearing government directing every aspect of her life. Today we are facing just as insidious a dictatorship looming in our future as the Real Julia- my great great grandmother. Julia, at least I still have a choice in November and I’m with you, not Obama Pretend Julia. Come and Take It!

The REAL War on Women

The REAL War on Women

I’m confused. The Progressive Statists are sending me mixed messages. They are missing out on correctly propagandizing me. Maybe it is because I am one of those non-elitist flyover hicks who worked her way through ordinary colleges like Sarah Palin did, and I am just too dumb to get the memos they are attempting to send out to us Great Unwashed via complicit media.

OK. First of all, when I was a young woman, raised in the traditionalist fifties, the deal was, many women decided to get married, work awhile and perhaps then stay home and raise children after they started having them. They didn’t just “stay home”, though. They provided countless hours of volunteer efforts helping other people. They ran the churches and did all kinds of charity work helping the less fortunate. And often, like my mom and my husband’s, they then also worked, too when the kids were a little older. My traditionalist mom was an accomplished banker. My traditionalist mother-in-law was the first woman in her small town to own her own business, and at age 93, still does.

They ran the schools and were active in the PTA. If the school needed a fence, the Good Ladies cooked beans and held fundraiser suppers until they had enough to buy the fence for the school so the little boys wouldn’t run in the street getting the ball when they had recess. Back then; we had “recess”, too. It was where we learned interpersonal skills like how to handle bullies without the government and movies having to explain to us how to do that.

Out mommies knew us better than anybody on Facebook. They made it their business to know, to guide, to encourage and support, and to discipline. If we misbehaved in school, mommy and the teacher supported each other for our own good to solve the problem. When I was six and played baseball for the first time during recess, I didn’t know how, and the kids laughed at me. I walked home for lunch and cried. Mommy got a paper napkin and showed me how “baseball” worked. Nobody was as important in a child’s life as Mom back then.

We were able to “make do with what we had” (one of my Mom’s favorite sayings) back then on one income because we didn’t have much, didn’t expect to “have” much, (except for lots of love, discipline, and the aforementioned emotional support). We thought this was somewhat normal. We didn’t think we needed air conditioning in hot Texas summers, we didn’t think anybody else should pay for our food, clothing, education, or medical care. Of course there were people who didn’t have the wherewithal for these things, but people helped family and friends and the churches and school helped provide, through that ever-present pot of beans that always seemed to be bubbling on the stove for the next supper for charity. Doctors, lawyers, and other purveyors of services accepted chickens when there was need, even- how do you think “The Chicken Ranch” got its name?

Then the sixties and the feminist mystique and no-fault divorce and Medicare and Medicaid and the government and insurance and the progressive statists assumed ever-larger roles in declaring war on poverty. Women were encouraged to get rid of their “inconvenient truths” via legalized abortion and the respect for being “just a housewife and mommy” was relegated to something less than that of the strident career woman.

All the SMART women were now expected to eschew such niceties as men holding a chair or opening a door and now supposed to be LIBERATED from all that old-fashioned respect they used to have. Men were actually considered undesirable altogether in some quarters like those Hilary Rosen seems to favor, who “adopted” herself, with her “partner”, who now appears to have left the building enabling Hilary to claim victim status as a “single mom”. Of course, what you don’t hear is that Hilary is actually a 1 percenter herself, having made millions currying favor with the elitist statists whose bidding she was doing with her accidentally on-purpose remark about Ann Romney that backfired.

The buzz word was, and is “CHOICE”, which often is a convenient euphemism for selfish indulgence of every sexual whim, whenever, wherever, with whomever, casual, and if the consequence of a baby results, why, then the opposite of prolife is, ummm, well, let’s don’t call it death. CHOICE is a much nicer word. And we can always cover it up with claiming it is for women’s “health”. For the “liberated” woman, a baby is viewed as anything but, fetus, collection of cells, heck, to our current President, even a “punishment” for a “mistake”.

So now we have an election with the starkest conflict of two cultures in years. We have the ultimate progressive/socialist/Marxist statist against a guy with a traditional wife who spent her life raising five little boys into fine men. Why, she “never worked a day in her life”, according to the War on Women messaging flak. But the REAL war on women is statism itself.

We, the traditional woman, don’t want the government paying for our birth control. We truly do have the morals and values to control our own bodies and make and pay for our own “choices” if we aren’t forced to pay for the irresponsible who either feed the abortion mills they want us to subsidize with their profligate “choices”, or have multiple children on the government dole so they DON’T have to work.

Strangely enough, government and the welfare state demanded more and more of the taxes of the productive. More and more self-indulged young people bought into a consumer culture of materialistic excess they thought they were entitled to NOW, paid for by government, such as expensive colleges with climbing walls. Women, instead of being liberated to make “choices”, HAD to work to pay for it all.

As government fed the unlimited appetite for entitlements and expectations politicians cranked up via shills like Hilary Rosen to buy votes and power, it COST MORE MONEY. And the women are the ones who are forced to pay. And pay. And pay. The very single mom with kids to support whose husband has moved on to the next self-indulgent sweet thang, that single mom who is working to hold it all together, is the victim not of the Republicans, but of the Democrats who created her trap in the first place. The Democrats’ War On Women is real, all right, but like Pogo, “We have seen the enemy, and it is us.”

Women like Sarah Palin are demonized for having many kids and choosing to dare to aspire above her elitist-imposed station in life by achieving high political office, while women like Ann Romney who choose, and can, to raise children and NOT work outside the home are demonized by the very same people for their choice. Their would-be masters of choice are waging the war, and it is REALLY on all women not willing to accept the gulag of statist slavery. Oops. Hilary Rosen, your hypocrisy slip is showing.

Preparing for the Flood

Preparing for the Flood

The greybeards and village elders knew the signs all too well. For days they had looked to the mountains and had seen the storm raining on the heights. But not even the oldest of the old could recall a storm of this ferocity, or one which had dumped as much rain as this one. Since the village sat beside the river whose headwaters were fed by these mountain rains, the elders knew action was needed or the village might well be destroyed by the coming flood. They needed to build a flood wall, and it had to be done quickly, but it would take all the people working together to get it done in time, before the flood waters arrived from the mountains.

Witt the Mason had been campaigning for the erection of a masonry flood wall since the last time the village had voted one down. The people then had hoped that the weather would change and that flood walls would not be necessary. But, some in the village, the loudest ones, demanded that a masonry wall would fail; that only a wooden wall would work and be true to their tradition of being a forest people; that Witt was not to trusted to do a good job building the wall; that a wall built by Witt was no better than the flood itself. The elders, as was their custom, simply let the people vote on major questions, and the vote overwhelmingly favored sponsoring Witt to be in charge of building the masonry wall while all the people labored to build it in time.

But there was no unity. Upset that the vote of the people had gone against their concerns, many of the people refused to work on the wall, saying wood was the only way and if they couldn’t have their wood, they would be content that there be no wall at all.

As a result, when the flood came coursing down the river from the mountains, the wall was not ready. The flood easily overtopped the part of the wall that had been finished. All was lost, and the people would be . . . no more. But the scoffers who refused to work on the masonry wall, just before the waters overtook and drowned them and their children said, “Ha! I guess I showed them!”

The End

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Randall Mead is a simple, country lawyer, scratching out a living in the belly of the beast, the capital of Madiganistan.

Running on Fumes

I know how stupid I am. And that is what REALLY worries me about my country, because the people running it are stupider than me. All my life I assumed that people who got elected or appointed to high places must know more than me, at least, and I could be assured that at least in some ways, they might therefore be trusted to make better decisions for my country. I have been disavowed of that notion now, long ago.

Here we have supposedly highly educated people running the show, eduated at some of our nation’s most elite universities. Yet, they seem to be devoid of not only basic knowledge of history and economics, subjects you would think would be basic to even rudimentary understanding of how our country works and how it relates to the rest of the world, but grossly lacking in simple common sense.

It’s like the planet Socialism landed a space ship from outer space and dumped off its refuse of losers who already screwed up their world onto ours. We have a President who claims to be the smartest guy in human history for whom we have never seen a grade score from college, nor any records whatsoever from same. The press seems not to care, but perpetuates the myth of his consumate smartness while demanding anal inspections of the most minute details of every Republican candidate’s past. Rick Perry’s Texas A&M grades hit the intrnet five minutes after he announced, yet crickets chirp before you will see the President’s proof of brilliance school records. How come?

Leaving that aside, let’s look at some of his “appointments”. We have Timothy Geithner, who heads up the agency that collects taxes from us, yet cheats on his own, and claims to not be able to use Turbotax as an “excuse”. Hello????

We have a supposedly brilliant Secretary of Energy who wants us to pay ten dollar gas to promote his bogus global warming green energy agenda to enrich his and Obama’s rich donors while hurting severely every Texas businessman who has to drive long distances to work, every midwest farmer, everybody in the country who depends on gas-powered tansportation to haul things, work and eat.

But, it gets worse. Because now we have Republicans running who are discussing contraception and not gas prices, egged on by the hostile news media who are in the tank for the Democrats one and all.

We’re running on fumes, people!! The country is broke while Michelle takes yet one more pricey vacay on the taxpayer dime. Gas is scheduled to hit 5 bucks a gallon. The Democrat Senate has blocked every spending cut attempt to get the situation under control, and the Republicans have been too wishy washy, caving to this “bipartisan” nonsense the Dems periodically run by them as regularly as Lucy snatches out the football from Charlie Brown.

I’m frustrated. I want to be led by somebody smarter than me who will return my country to fiscal responsibility, stop the giveaway goodies to the losers of the world, and drill baby drill and bring down that pipeline from Canada to get us energy independent and get the gas prices down. We should be able to tell the Middle East to take their oil and feed it to their camels if we used the least bit of common sense in developing our own resources.

The cherry on the cake came in my mail last week as “good news” from my medicare advantage insurance provider. They announced “new services” Medicare is now paying for with money earned by you and me, the productive of the country, and virtually every one is to shore up somebody who, frankly, has made “loser” choices with their own health. You will be happy to know that if you choose to abuse alcohol, are depressed, are engaging in irresponsible sexual conduct so you might get a sexually transmitted disease, are obese or making nonheart-healthy eating choices, medicare will counsel and intervene you and whatever for “free”- To you, the person making bad choices, not for the rest of us who are paying for it for you.

Now maybe that sounds a little harsh here, on my part, but hey. We’re BROKE. And this stuff is why. Here’s your free behavioral therapy from me: quit drinking. Quit whoring. Quit overeating. Get off your ass and get some excercise. And quit charging me for your bad choices.

And those of you running for office: learn some history, learn some economics, learn some common sense, and get the gas prices down. Quit living high on my hog while I eat the pig’s feet. I’m ready for somebody with a brain cell not polluted with the cocaine of power ( not to mention the real kind) to run my country. ..somebody SMARTER than me.

Liberal Media Lies about the Economy

Liberal Media Lies about the Economy

by Naturalized- Texan

 

There are lies of commission and lies of omission. The lies from the liberal media are lies of omission when a Republican is president and lies of commission when a Democrat is president. I will provide several examples of those lies starting with the Reagan years and continuing through the Obama presidency.

 

President Reagan inherited a recession from his predecessor that still ranks as the worst economy since the Great Depression. During that recession we had double-digit inflation, double-digit interest rates, and double-digit unemployment, but none of that was reported by the liberal media.

 

The Reagan across-the-board tax rate cuts were enacted in 1981 to take effect in 1983. Those tax rate cuts triggered 18 years of robust economic growth interrupted by only one quarter of negative growth in the first quarter of 1991 following the Bush tax increase. The robust economic growth triggered by those tax rate cuts created 20 million jobs in the 1980s.

 

The liberal media falsely characterized the Reagan across-the-board tax cuts as “tax cuts for the rich.” Sound familiar? In addition, they never reported the job creation resulting from those tax rate cuts.

 

During the 1992 presidential campaign BJ Clinton claimed that the economy then was “the worst economy in 50 years” and the liberal media parroted Clinton’s claim as if it were fact. The facts are that economic growth during at the time of that campaign was robust with GDP growth during the four quarters of 1992 being 4.5%, 4.3%, 4.2%, and 4.3%. However, the liberal media never reported those facts.

 

Incidentally, following the 1993 Clinton tax increase, described by Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D, NY) as the largest tax increase in the history of the world, GDP growth was cut almost in half before it recovered.

 

Following the Clinton administration’s frivolous anti-trust suit against Microsoft, the dot-com bubble burst in mid-2000 just as the presidential campaign was heating up. Economic growth dropped to near zero. But the media never reported that near recession-level GDP.

 

The economy was still struggling when the 9/11 terrorist attacks devastated the economy and there was negative economic growth in that quarter. The recovery from that devastation didn’t really start until the Bush tax rate cuts took effect in 2003. Once again the liberal media falsely characterized the Bush across-the-board tax rate cuts as “tax cut for the rich.”

 

I will use January 2002, the low point following the 9/11 attacks, as the basis for the remainder of this essay.

 

Here are the employment numbers for January 2002:

  • The non-institutional civilian population was 213.1 million
  • The Labor Force was 141.4 million
  • 133.5 million Americans were employed
  • Unemployment rate was 5.6%

 

Here are the employment numbers for January 2007 when the Democrats took control of Congress:

  • The non-institutional civilian population was 230.7 million
  • The Labor Force was 153.0 million
  • 146 million Americans were employed
  • Unemployment rate was 4.6%

 

Because of the economic boom triggered by the Bush tax rate cuts 12.5 million jobs were created between January 2002 and January 2007 and the unemployment rate dropped from 5.6% and 4.6%.

 

Now, let’s look at the most recent employment numbers for December 2011:

  • The non-institutional civilian population was 240.6 million
  • The Labor Force was 153.9 million
  • 140.8 million Americans were employed
  • Unemployment rate was 8.5%

 

Since the Democrats took control of Congress in January 2007, 6.2 million Americans lost their jobs and the unemployment rate shot up to a phony 8.5%. I say phony because while the non-institutional civilian population increased by nearly 10 million between January 2007 and December 2011, but the Labor Force only increased by less than one million. That indicates that about 9 million Americans had left the Labor Force since January 2007. If those 9 million people had remained in the Labor Force, the real unemployment rate would be more like 13%.

 

Of course, the liberal media never reported the employment gains resulting from the economic boom following the Bush tax rate cuts. Moreover, they haven’t reported the job losses that have occurred since the Democrats took control of Congress in January 2007.

 

There were large spending increases following the 9/11 terrorist attacks mainly due to fighting the War on Terror and the rebuilding of the military following 8 years of neglect under Clinton.

 

The peak deficit between FY2002 and FY2007 (the last fiscal year that President Bush had a Republican Congress) was $417 billion which occurred in FY2004. By FY2007, the deficit had dropped to $161 billion and the national debt in FY2007 was $5.0 TRILLION.

 

The current deficit is $1.6 TRILLION, a ten-fold increase since the Democrats took control of Congress. The current national debt is $15.2 TRILLION, more than triple the national debt when the Democrats took control of Congress.

 

Again, the liberal media has never reported those massive increases in spending and debt since January 2007.

 

So, it’s easy to see that the liberal media are guilty of both lies of commission and lies of omission.

 

References:

Dept. of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics

http://www.bls.gov/schedule/archives/empsit_nr.htm

Dept of Commerce Bureau of Economic Analysis

http://www.bea.gov/national/nipaweb/Index.asp[/url]

FY2012 Budget Historical Tables available for download in pdf format from the Government Printing Office

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/

 

The Coming Brokered Republican Convention

I’ve been musing on the lack-luster condition of the Republican nominating processes as it currently stands. And I’ve been looking forward. All I can see is the problems, with one slim ray of hope at the end. We stand in a unique position to run this socialist poser and his Democrats out of town, but we are blowing it. Here’s what we’ve got:

Mitt Romney: The default establishment candidate due to the establishment’s Huntsman-farce falling apart before it started. He has money and organization. He is pretty. He is the ultimate insider pretending to be an outsider. Of him the establishment says, “Well, at least he made the Olympics run on time.” He is the ultimate moderate candidate striving for nomination in a conservative world. He bangs the drum of family values but don’t you dare say “Mormon” while doing that. He is polished and poised and feels he is the one and only one who can beat Obama and the Karl Roves and National Reviews of the world have been doing their best to convince us of that from the beginning. According to the bosses at the RNC it’s Romney’s turn to run. Why? Because we say so. However, a funny thing happened on his way to the nomination. He has peaked in the conservative polls at around 20% and can’t seem to break through that barrier, probably because he is the grandfather of Obamacare, which he steadfastly refuses to abandon and is a global warming geek. True, he has promised to destroy Obamacare under a strained Federalism argument, trying unsuccessfully to walk both sides of how it’s just dandy for Massechusettes (it isn’t by the way; it’s an abject failure) but can’t be tolerated nationally. He has also rejected “Cap and Trade” but how can one intellectually do so, if one embraces the well-debunked myth that manmade global warming is destroying humanity? To top it all off, Obama’s minions have made it clear Romney is the one they want to run against. While he is in reality about 80% of what conservatives want in a candidate, it’s that other 20% that will keep conservatives from having anything to do with him.

Newt Gingrich: with Reagan and Buckley, Gingrich is one of the fathers of modern conservatism but is rejected by the most fanatic of the conservative movement, and perhaps rightfully so. Of the course of his long and sometime distinguished political career Newt has been the one and only one who has ever actually CUT government spending. He has recently joked that Romney is rich because of Gingrich’s work in harnessing government. He is the latest in the series of “Not Romneys” to vault to the front of the heap but this one seems to have more legs than the others. He is glib and overwhelmingly intelligent. He is crafty and knows well which levers to pull behind the curtain to manipulate government. He is a good debater and attacks Obama’s media wing adroitly. But then there’s all the baggage. Over the course of his public service he has said about everything one can say, on both sides of each issue. He has a string of failed marriages, begging the question of just how important that is, or isn’t, but certainly is important to Romney, who paints the contrast, and to Christian conservatives. The implicit question is “if he can cheat on his wife(ves) why won’t he cheat on us?” Yet he is enjoying a conservative wave now. He appeared before the so-called leaders of the conservative/tea party movement in the last few days and while receiving some pointed questioning, in the end he enjoyed a standing ovation from them. Besides his personal foibles and his believed flip-flops, he has real problems in lack of money and lack of organization. A recent story suggested he may not even be able to get on the key Ohio ballot because of that.

Ron Paul: Holding down the far right flank with the same verve of Davy Crockett holding down the Alamo, Ron Paul, the Libertarian who would be a Republican, has managed to nail down a 15-18% stake, at least in some Iowa polls. He is consistently far right. So far right it makes rightists uncomfortable. His followers are unswerving in the support and admiration and fight to the last breath in Dr. Paul’s defense. But he has reached his high water mark. Congressman Paul may very well win the Iowa caucuses because, well because they are caucuses, not votes, and rely on manpower to deliver the faithful to the caucus sites. His volunteers are very good at that and showing up to yell at debates, and to stuff the straw polls. Paul’s intelligence and commitment are unquestionable. But the only people who get a tingle down their leg with what he is saying are those who want to go back to the gold standard, isolationists, strict constructionists and others who are stuck in the gilded age of the 1890s. He has no mass appeal and will never have. No one beyond the denizens of the forums know or understand him and he has no mass media appeal. On TV, he looks like the funny old guy with the old-fashioned ideas.

Rick Perry: of the also-rans, Perry stands out for 17 million reasons. His war chest can keep him in the battle and Texas has a lot of delegates. He is actually a very good candidate but the conservatives buried him over the illegal alien tuition issue and have falsely branded him an amnesty guy, despite Sheriff Arpaio’s recent endorsement. He is making a bit of a comeback but probably too little, too late.

Also rans: Bachmann (too shrill, too kooky, talks to fast), Santorum (yawn), etc. Please just get out of the way. It’s over.

The Point (finally): On top of this great confusion lies the eternal suspicion/mistrust we conservatives harbor. We have been burned so many times we tend to trust no one and get excited about no one. On the left side, there is no Democrat primary fight so many dems are free to cross over in the primaries and vote for whomever they see as the weakest GOP candidate. Absent the money problem, I see a chance of the nomination going into the convention unresolved. After a ballot or two there the delegates will be released. If a deal is not cut (politics make strange bed-fellows) then an open convention is free to nominate the one true unifier of the right: Sarah Palin.

But I can dream can’t I?

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Randall Mead is a simple, country lawyer, scratching out a living in the belly of the beast, the capital of Madiganistan.

It’s the Tea Party, Stupid

It’s the Tea Party, Stupid

The talking bobble heads are punditing themselves crazy, trying to figure out the phenomenon of Herman Cain. There are many similarities between how they covered the Tea Party with how they are covering him, and it is not surprising they still either don’t “get it”, or, more likely, in their fear of their own irrelevance, they don’t want to. For years, they have operated under a comfortable illusion that they, the elites, influence opinion driven by their own agenda, money, and the “politics as usual” they hypocritically pretend not to support, but really are integral parts of themselves.

They forgot about one thing- We, the People, the sleeping giant, finally awakened as the abuses mounted of our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor and decided to take back our country. The Tea Party is truly a grassroots phenomenon, and coalesced spontaneously like a fire lit by a lightening bolt from the hand of God, and is burning and spreading and glowing like embers quietly throughout the body politic even when it appears to be quenched into quietude. They do not realize it is indeed most dangerous to their agenda when quiet, used as they are to astroturfed ginned up political movements meant to challenge it like OWS.

They first tried to ignore the Tea Party, underestimating its numbers at demonstrations if they covered them at all, snidely dismissing it as inconsequential if not a bit goofy. When it grew and grew into a phenomenon so large it could not be ignored, and Tea Party activists began to actively challenge the status quo at raucous town halls of establishment politicians, the demonizing knives came out by both the media and the establishment. The Tea Party was characterized as “extreme”, potentially violent and dangerous, terrorists, even, ignorant, drooling gun-toting redneck uneducated anomalies surely not supported by “mainstream” people. And, worst of all, EVERYONE knew, the Tea Party was the ultimate slur, RAAAAACCCIST!

When the requisite violent racist excesses failed to materialize, the media made them up, then repeated them ad infinitum over and over despite no proof existing whatsoever of the spitting incident, name-calling, etc. they were accusing the Tea Party of doing. And they also claimed organization was behind the Tea Party, a conspiracy of Koch Brothers money and manipulation. They could not believe the competence, order and organizational skills of the ordinary Tea Party individual volunteers could possibly produce such large, organized, clean and well-planned widespread events without an Invisible Hand orchestrating behind the scenes.

Obviously, the Talking Heads had never participated in a PTA organized Halloween Carnival, Church Supper, or local charity event these people had honed their organizational skills on quietly for years as unpaid, local volunteers, or running small businesses doing everything from waiting on customers to cleaning the john while carpooling three children to various activities. They could simply not know, from their life experience, how much We the People are used to doing on a daily basis, and that we don’t need the Koch Brothers to be masters of organization.

So, now we have Herman Cain, the one guy in the race who DOESN”T care about race but about winning The Race to take back America, and has shared our experiences and challenges from the grassroots up. He has tapped into the real power that is the Tea Party, and this is the real power in the upcoming election.

There was a strong hint of the surprising power of the Tea Party in the last election, and while the talking heads are telling themselves the Romney lie and trying to convince us all Cain is just a flash in the pizza pan, Cain may be laughing all the way to the bank. The Tea Party is the real wind beneath the wings of this election, and so far Cain is being lifted on the wings of those ordinary moms and pops who coach little league teams, work at real private sector jobs, and bake the cookies for the Girl Scout meetings. They have not realized yet there are more of us than they anticipate, we are stronger than they know, and while we don’t beat drums in Zuccoti Park, our hearts beat more strongly for America and it is we who are, in the final analysis, raising Cain!

This is What ( Not A Republic) Democracy Looks Like….

The Occupy protests are being equated by the always-biased liberal media as analogous to the Tea Party protests. This argument is being used to obfuscate their extreme negative features with the old tried and true “he did it too” routine. Every parent and schoolteacher in the world is familiar with this juvenile tactic and to pull it out now is just embarrassing. But what else is new with the hypocritical elites in both media and government?

Any logical comparison of the two movements will force any fair person to conclude they are vastly different. Of course, when has the media or any Democrat in government been burdened with ACTUAL concern for “fairness”?? First of all, the fact that both are fairly large movements with demands for change is about all the two phenomena actually share. And the media immediately betrays its lack of “fairness” because it denigrated the Tea Party movement from the get-go while supporting sympathetically the Occupy movement. Why might that have been? Let’s just compare and contrast the two groups and see if we might get a clue, as if we don’t already have one:

First, the Tea Party movement arose totally spontaneously as a vast outpouring of frustration among middle class working people, older traditionalists and many younger people who were disturbed as they saw the traditional values with which they were raised eroding for their children and also worried about their financial future. Most of the people who joined in with the Tea Party movement in some fashion had never been involved with politics other than voting or supporting a few local candidates and certainly not with “protesting”.

I am a typical example- I’m 68, a small business owner with my husband, raised 3 kids, traditional values kind of people but not any kind of religious “extreme” in any way, and conservative on fiscal issues. As I watched my country erode in all these areas with alarm, the first Tea Party event was going to happen on my small town square. I got a wooden stake out of the garage, a couple of pieces of poster board and a roll of duct tape and made me a sign. One side said “Cut Government Spending”. The other had a picture of the Come and Take It cannon from Texas history and said “ My Ancestor Was There and I’m Here”, which is true. I wanted my sign to symbolize that my ancestors also stood up against tyranny and helped give us the rights we were now exercising on this town square.

I’d never been to a protest in my life. I drove to the town square- my husband was working and couldn’t go- parked the car and walked over to join hundreds of people already there. A couple of young guys with Audit the Fed signs were standing around and I asked them “what am I supposed to do, smoke dope or something?” and they all laughed. So did the nearby cops. I attended a number of Tea Party events after that. Nobody was “racist”. Nobody was “violent”. The cops were, if anything, sympathetic to the cause., but always very professional, and you could tell it was an easy gig for them.

There were all kinds of people there- several young women with kids told me at every event I attended “ I never cared about politics before, but had to get involved for my kids’ sakes.” Many people brought kids. One young couple I saw, at least, were white parents with a black kid. There were all races at every one I attended. Some of the most effective speakers at each were black.

The media excoriated us- as did the liberal politicians- we were called “racists”, “terrorists”, etc.etc.etc. I forget all the pejoratives, oh, and the really funny part was the “Astroturf” label. Funny, I am still waiting for that check from the “Koch Brothers’, who I never heard of until this stuff started. It was a VERY DIFFERENT reaction from Nancy Pelosi’s lauding of the present protests, which have been replete with violence and arrests, to her tearful, quavering indictment of the Tea Party protests as they dared to wave their American flags aggressively with small children sitting on their shoulders, prayed, and meticulously cleaned up the trash before leaving their protest site half a million strong with no arrests.

The current protests are orchestrated and coordinated by numerous Soros-backed liberal groups and protesters unable to articulate why they are there, and in some cases, paid to be there. EVERY Tea Partier can articulate their simple demands of less government spending, smaller government and, novel idea, adhering to the country’s founding document, the US Constitution. Compare and contrast. The Tea Party wants the proven successful system of capitalism to be allowed to work, while the Occupy people want to throw it out and institute the proven failed policies of socialism/Marxism, if they can articulate any policy at all.

The current protests are violent, law breaking, replete with arrests, destructive of property, and even symbolized by the grossly crude picture of a protestor defecating on a police car. The Tea Party protests had NO violence except from leftists, no arrests although much larger and more widespread crowds, and rather than trashing the venues, carefully picked up their own trash. Occupy protesters are costing the cities money everywhere they go in excess security and cleaning services, while the Tea Party left their place cleaner than they found it and caused the local law enforcement authorities no danger to themselves or others. Yet, the media criticized the Tea Party while praising the violent, trash-creating, communist endorsing, Astroturfed, anti-Semitic, Occupy forces.

Go figger.

The media and government elites tried to ignore the Tea Party, and when they could no longer do so, they lied about us, called us names, accused us of things we never intended, never did, and never would do. By contrast they gave reams of undeserved positive publicity to the Occupy people, lied about THEM positively and covered up their astroturfed origins, and are ignoring the things they intend, are doing, and plan to do. The Tea Party wants to lift up the individual by reducing spending, taxing and government, and promotes individual opportunity and freedom.

The Occupy people cannot even speak as individuals, parroting in unison the “leaders” with their weird chants, they want to demonize successful individuals, spend “other people’s money” forcefully confiscated by government, tear down the very system that made our country the greatest in the world, and limit opportunity and freedom. They laud “democracy” and mob rule while ignoring the fact that our Constitution established a Republic for the very reason that “democratic” mob rule ends up repressing the individual, not freeing him or her. No thanks. Give me tea and freedom, not Soros’ bitter koolaid. And will somebody PLEASE teach these children some history before it is too late?

US Assassinates American Terrorist

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – URGENT
Government News Association

Alleged Senior Terror leader Robert Jones was killed in Indiana early Friday morning by a U.S. missile, marking the highest-profile takedown of a terror leader since the raid on Sarah Palin’s compound.

Jones was a U.S.-born auto mechanic, became a prominent figure with the Tea Party in the American midwest, one of the network’s most active branches. He was involved in writing for several right-wing blogs in the United States in recent years, using his fluent English and Internet savvy to draw recruits to carry out thought-crime attacks. President Obama signed an order in early 2012 making him the second American to be placed on the “kill or capture” list. The first was Imam Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen. Using that al-Awlaki precedent, the first known assassination of a native-born, American citizen, President Obama had no problem ordering Jones assassination, of whom Obama said, “It was only a matter of time before his hate-filled words, widely disseminated on the internet, led to violence against our brave Federal workers and our enlightened administration. We had to act proactively in this situation. It is a policy we will explore further as the need arises.” The assassination of Jones is also the first such proactive act of patriotism by our dear leader since the Perdue Initiative was proclaimed, suspending all American elections given the continuing financial crisis, caused by the stone-walling Republican Party, which has since been ordered dissolved.

“The Tea Party has lost one of its ideological leaders, which is a huge blow,” a former intelligence official who has tracked Jones for years told the Government News Agency.

The Indiana government and Defense Ministry announced Jones’ death, but gave no details. TSA officials confirmed that the Tea Party leader was dead, with one describing him as a “big fish.” Several officials would not confirm or deny if it was a Homeland Security airstrike, but a senior TSA source confirmed it was a Homeland Security missile that struck the terror leader.

The 40-year-old al-Jones had been in the U.S. crosshairs since his killing was approved by President Obama in April 2012 — making him the first American placed on the Homeland Security “kill or capture” list. At least twice, airstrikes were called in on locations in Indiana and Kentucky where Jones was suspected of being, but he wasn’t harmed. In May, U.S. forces were able to track his truck but were unable to take him out.

Jones, born in New Mexico to American parents, was believed to be key in turning the Tea Party’s affiliate in the midwest into what Obama officials have called the most significant and immediate threat to the Obama regime. Jones, was eductated at Liberty University, long known to be a hot bed of anti-government sentiment. He was also suspected of being a Christian.

The former intelligence official said that with Jones gone, the branch “still retains a lot of capability.”
“He understood American society very well. He understood American idioms and pop culture and the old Constitution which has since been abolished and how to appeal to Americans,” he told GSA News. “The trouble is, it’s very hard for them to replicate this.”

Known as an eloquent teacher who spread English-language articles about the out-dated concept of liberty on the Internet, calling for resistence against our Dear Leader’s regime, Jone’s role was to inspire and — it is believed — even directly recruit militants who could carry out attacks.

For additional information, click here for the approved story on the Government News Agency website.

Dateline: Booneville, Indiana
September 30, 2014
by Daniel B. Young, licensed journalist (34A729-B)
Government News Association

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Yes, I cannibalized a Fox News story to make this little story. We have crossed a line today. We killed a “bad guy.” However, this “bad guy” was an native-born citizen of the United States of America. President Obama ordered his assassination. If the President can unilaterally order American citizens to be assassinated because they are claimed to be “bad guys” then only someone’s subjective definition of “bad guy” protects us from death by government.

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Randall Mead is a simple, country lawyer, scratching out a living in the belly of the beast, the capital of Madiganistan.