Category Archives: American Politics

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 →

ACLU and Big Bird Crap on America

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Part of the ACLU’s whitewash of our crumbling rights as citizens. It turns out that some kid star from Sesame Street was an illegal immigrant, thanks to his parents. They tried to jump in line by overstaying a visitor’s visa and petitioning for family immigration status.

“My parents, brother and I came from Ecuador when I was seven,” explains Carlo. When the family applied for permanent residency through Carlo’s aunt, who was living legally in America, they didn’t expect it would take so long. For 12 years, Carlo kept his status secret from his closest friends, fearing their reaction.

There’s a reason it took so long, and I do not doubt that young Carlo was completely unaware of it: this process is actually designed to weed out those … Continue reading →

Nat'l Org'n for Women Silent on Bachmann 'Bitch' Ambush

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Talk to the hand:

[Update: This post was one of several in response to Jimmy Fallon’s band playing “Lyin’ Ass Bitch” when Michele Bachmann walked onstage, and incomprehensibly, all that happened was a band member was “severely reprimanded”. I (still) find that unacceptable, while it seems not to bother the NOW.]

National Organization for Women: What EVurr…

The National Organization “for Women” remains in an abusive relationship with the Marxist Democrats, since way back in the Clinton days, when they could not be bothered to support a single woman who claimed (or later proved) that they had been used or abused as sex toys by the Philanderer-in-Chief.

If that silence made you … 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 →

Of, By, and For: Lincoln vs Obama

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Abraham Lincoln was guided by an over-arching belief in the rightness of our nation’s founding concepts:

…we here highly resolve … that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Barack Obama also believes in a government of the people, by the people, and for the people–he just thinks that those are different groups of people. That is exactly the difference between conservatives and progressives.

Progressives believe that the most intelligent and most moral of society must be in charge, and they believe that systems of credentials established within progressive enclaves can reliably indicate those qualities. They believe that this ruling class must have the power to compel the human development of those more backward or more simple than … Continue reading →

Electoral Treason

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As I discuss in my post on Ethical Resistance, the ends are not so much what determines who is a domestic enemy of the Constitution.  Face, it, many people would like to change the Constitution, and that desire is not unconstitutional.  No matter what changes are made, if they are made through valid, Constitutional method, the change is “in bounds”.  If each change withstands scrutiny, and the constitution itself is changed to allow new or different methods, and then those methods are used to effect further change, this is all constitutional.  This is why a defense of the Constitution as it currently stands is critical.  Right now the biggest threat I see to the future of the Republic is the collaborative … Continue reading →

Sometimes, Conservative Nostalgia is Progressivism

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Right down to the de-industrializing impulse that winds up massacring intellectuals and reducing millions to the enslaved subsistence farmers, too busy starving to fight back.  A friend of mine, who is a good guy and a committed social and fiscal conservative, posted the following, for which I took him to task.  I do not doubt his commitment or his intents, but he is whistling past the grave here, revealing a potentially “fatal” logic bomb.  I have replicated the whole thing below.

My conservative friend:

Thought for the day: Two hundred years ago, an American spent most of his day WORKING to hunt, farm and anything else that provided the basics of food, shelter and clothing to survive. They were, of necessity, self-reliant and independent so it’s no wonder … Continue reading →

Balanced Bullshit Amendment Fails

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Huzzah!

This bill was a sham anyway. With no caps and nothing more than a simple majority needed to ignore it, it was meaningless. If it had passed, it would have provided no obstacle to running a deficit. This was smoke and mirrors designed to get RINOs off the hook with conservative voters.

It would, however, have provided Democrats with a meaningless scrap of paper to wave around and claim that they therefore need to raise taxes, and we would of course fall for it.
So I’m doubly glad this thing went down in flames.

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 →