Category Archives: Conservative

Tea for Twelve

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I’m tired.  You’re tired.  We’re enjoying the holidays, and grateful for a decent excuse not to work on the political thing for a bit.  I want to write about many things, but you know what?  I’m tired of writing, and you’re tired of reading.

So enjoy the holidays.  Genuinely relax about the political disaster unfolding, because we need to shepherd our resources closely, and now is not an effective time to fight.  We have enemies across the ocean and enemies on our shore.  We have opponents in the other party, and opponents in our own.  The Obama administration negotiates with enemies while fighting against Americans.  The Republican Party negotiates with Obama while fighting against the Tea Party.  Many of the things we had hoped to acocplish after the … Continue reading →

House Freshmen Ambush RINOs, Democrats alike!

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House Freshmen (sent by the Tea Party) are defying the GOP, the Democrats, the Senate, the White House and the media on this nonsensical payroll tax cut maneuver.  Here’s one quote from among many gems in a Politico piece, and Politico is hardly a friendly outlet these days.  When you’re right, you’re right!  This is the sort of rightness that will cut through the media distortion and go right to the heart of the American voter.

“Only in this town can being right be wrong. It’s the only place in the world where if you do the right thing you’re wrong. Are you kidding me? … If you can’t start doing what’s right for the American people then why the hell did you come here?” intoned Rep. Mike … Continue reading →

The Point

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The Constitution is the instrument by which we arrange for our own government to act in accordance with the noble principles set forth in the Declaration of Independence.  Therefore, it is sometimes the Court, sometimes the States, sometimes the populace, and so forth which I support in a given struggle, so long as that actor forwards a position more in keeping with the purposes in the Declaration.

I do not find it difficult at all to “reconcile” Constitutional conservatism with advances in society which are beneficial.  The three branches of the federal government act to check and balance one another, just as the states, the feds, and the numerous individuals act to check and balance one another.

It is entirely conservative to support change if that change brings a … Continue reading →

Newt: Not Joking

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[Update, 10 Apr 2012: Here’s where I started to become a Newt convert. Believe me, I was against him early on.
This was after the Tea Party had knocked down several attempts to unseat Cain, which was important, but the writing was on the wall.]

I think the Tea Party is in very good shape, having demonstrated that it can and will go to bat for those who earn its protection. This message needs to be heard, among other places, in the offices of the Freshmen we sent a year ago, and those who wonder whether opposing the GOP leadership means defeat at home.

My unofficial motto for the Tea Party is “I Got Your Back!”

If we had already gelled behind a candidate, we would have been … Continue reading →

Join Us or Be Destroyed

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The Tea Party says to the GOP Join Us or Be Destroyed.  That’s not a threat–we’re rescuing you again, if possible.  If not, well, the Tea Party will not perish with the GOP.  If we cannot save this party from itself and its mortal enemy, then we will simply take it over or die trying.  We are left with no alternative.  We sent an awesome weapon to Congress in the last election, and you are breaking it into pieces because you’re afraid it will do more damage to you than to the opposition.  Sowing the seeds of your own destruction, you refuse to even fire it.

We intend to put you into a leading position in both houses of Congress and the White House, and we demand that the … Continue reading →

Supercommittee II

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I’m not quite up to speed on the details of the latest Supershenanigans, largely because I have stopped paying attention.  This was a farce to begin with, and now we’ve come to the smelly end of it.

Supposedly, if they identify a certain amount of cuts, then the debt ceiling goes up, but if not, then it stays where it was lifted a while back, and if there’s no agreement whatsoever, then they gut defense and mildly inconvenience some social spending.

[pullquote]Old Democrats know how to wield power, whereas old Republicans know how to avoid responsibility.[/pullquote]This was a bad deal to begin with, and only a feckless Republican leadership would have signed on to a deal that held defense hostage as a guarantor of diplomacy.  So feckless that … Continue reading →

Decimate the Federal Workforce!

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The Federal government’s role is not to provide jobs, but to perform only those duties enumerated in the Constitution.  It is obscene for a organization with an IRS, a bevy of regulatory powers, and a military, to put itself in competition with the private sector which it is supposed to protect.

Thought experiment:  If every ten civilian Federal workers were required to vote one of their number off the gravy train and divide his former duties among the remaining nine, wouldn’t they select the most useless?

The word “decimate” means literally to kill every tenth member of your organization.  Well, all we’re talking about here is jobs, but the selection method for a decimation is just as valid now as it was back when the Romans did it.

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Republicans Risk Third Party

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God-Damned Idiots.

I cannot describe how angry I am at the clown-car Republican candidate debates, Chris Christie, Mitt Romney, the punditry, the establishment–yep, pretty much the whole lot of ’em.

I have always been hostile to a third-party gambit; I still am.  But the GOP seems hell-bent to have one.  Ever since the Tea Party behaved magnificently and returned the GOP to power in an historic crushing mid-term defeat of the Communists currently defiling our Capitol, the GOP has been absolutely set on destroying the morale of the organization which restored the spirit of the Republican Party.  Well, it’s not going to work.

If the RINOs insist on sabotaging the work of the Tea Party *to elect Republicans*, they will harm only themselves.  The Tea Party has never … Continue reading →