Category Archives: Tea Party

Supreme Court On Trial

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This pivotal case before the Supreme Court is a bridgehead for a conservative restoration of government.  Our government is required by law to be run according to the Constitution, not according to the counter-Constitutional wishes and dreams of progressive Supreme Court Justices.  The question is, upon which shore will this bridgehead be located?

  • If ObamaCare is upheld, then the Supreme Court demonstrates itself sufficiently unmoored by generations of complicated precedent from the plain meaning of the Constitution that it no longer has the moral authority to interpret the document.
  • If ObamaCare is struck (stricken?) down by the Court, then the full function and trend of the government stands accused of the same problem, but by the Supreme Court rather than just by the supposed “rabble” of the … Continue reading →

Legal Question

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[pullquote]Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) called the CLASS Act “a Ponzi scheme of the first order” — WaPo 2009[/pullquote]If a law is made under fraudulent circumstances, is it a law?  I realize that this is ridiculously vague, and I just happen to have an example in mind — ObamaCare.  It is my understanding that (let me be brief) the Slaughter rule was not invoked because budget-neutral reconciliation offered a way to pass the bill piecemeal, but only with the addition of the CLASS Act.  Well, the CLASS Act fell away long ago, and nobody was suroprised–it was always doomed to fail, an accounting trick designed to make the bill eligible for reconciliation rather than committee work on new bills.  Or something.

I realize that the … Continue reading →

Harshing the Congressional Buzz

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I might be more inclined to believe the GOP’s claim to be waiting for the cavalry before taking on the enemy if they didn’t have all their guns aimed at the cavalry.  If you understood that right off, you are Tea Party.

Boehner has been negotiating with his enemy while fighting against his allies. He is one of those who faults the Tea Party for not recapturing the Senate as if that were in a different universe than the six seats gained there (it wasn’t the Tea Party that put us down to 39 F’n seats!) and sixty or so picked up in the House.

The recent history of the national electoral landscape looks like this: the GOP lost in 2006 and 2008. The Tea Party won in … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

Draft: Of, By, and For: Lincoln vs Obama

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Doing research for my “Three Speeches” paper (which has been expressed  so far in my Marxism of Barack Obama posts), I noticed a defining difference between progressives and conservatives.  The jumping-off point is actually a line from the Gettysburg Address, which at any rate is worth reproducing in whole as often as possible:

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of … 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 →