Category Archives: Tea Party

Fatwa Against Ron Paul

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[dc]I[/dc] direct your attention to the excellent and overlooked article  The Case Against Ron Paul by Gregory Hilton.  He goes to some length puncturing the inflated claims and exposing the outright falsehoods made by the Ron Paul crowd.

Make no mistake, among other complaints, Ron paul is:

  • a third-party spoiler
  • an isolationist
  • a protectionist
  • an open borders advocate
  • anti-Israel

Don’t take my word for it.  Read the backing facts on Hilton’s blog.

Ron Paul subscribes to a number of conspiracy theories, and has a snake-handling literalist’s view of the Constitution.  I’m a staunch originalist, but that does not mean I view the only valid means of defending our country to be the issuance of “letters of marque and reprisal”.  To Ron Paul, that’s exactly what it means.

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Gibson Guitar Stamp Act

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[dc]T[/dc]his is tyranny, folks. 

Federal agents swooped in on Gibson Guitar Wednesday, raiding factories and offices in Memphis and Nashville, seizing several pallets of wood, electronic files and guitars. The Feds are keeping mum, but in a statement yesterday Gibson’s chairman and CEO, Henry Juszkiewicz, defended his company’s manufacturing policies, accusing the Justice Department of bullying the company. “The wood the government seized Wednesday is from a Forest Stewardship Council certified supplier,” he said, suggesting the Feds are using the aggressive enforcement of overly broad laws to make the company cry uncle.

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It’s not enough to know that the body of your old guitar is made of spruce and maple: What’s the bridge made of? If it’s ebony, do you have the paperwork to show when and … Continue reading →

On Refusing Orders

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[dc]Y[/dc]ou need a lot more justification than this:

A service member who refused to report to duty earlier this month because he doubted President Barack Obama’s citizenship is to be discharged from the Air Force, the Associated Press reported Wednesday.
Staff Sgt. Daryn Moran, 41, of Omaha, Neb., an ophthalmology technician with the 86th Airlift Wing at Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany also had called for Obama’s arrest in statements on websites. He said he didn’t consider his orders valid because he doesn’t consider Obama’s presidency valid.
–Politico

Frankly he should have been jailed. A simple discharge is too good for him. We cannot run a military if administrative matters are eligible for review at every level of the chain of command. If an … Continue reading →

Debt Deal: Arranged Defeat

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[dc]I[/dc]t’s the grift that keeps on grifting.  They dodge responsibility and fund our destruction in the short term, while deferring even worse decisions to a “bipartisan” group.  I am proud to have opposed this arranged defeat, the debt ceiling compromise bill, here , here , here , here and here, among other posts and places.

Ann Barnhardt is quite focused on how bad this deal was:

I stand here in abject stupefaction.  The so-called “right” or “Tea Party” in this republic is being so thoroughly rolled and defeated that I am struggling to come … Continue reading →

Tea Party the Real Enemy

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[dc]O[/dc]h, it’s on.

“Let us all remember who the real enemy is. The real enemy is the Tea Party — the Tea Party holds the Congress hostage. They have one goal in mind, and that’s to make President Obama a one-term president,” Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL) said at a Miami town hall with constituents.

Rep. Frederica Wilson blamed “racism” for the high black unemployment rate on MSNBC yesterday.

Yes, the Tea Party is the real enemy.  Not because you’re black, and not because you’re a Democrat.  Because you are a Marxist, race-baiting, hazard to the freedom of all Americans, black or white, Republican or Democrat.

Search the rubble left by every “austerity” program in the developed world, from Greece to London, and you’ll find burning cars and riot … Continue reading →

Paul Ryan Not Running For President At This Juncture

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[dc]I[/dc]t wouldn’t be prudent. Well, I suppose it was going to go this way anyway.

Brilliant conservative Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) told the Weekly Standard today that he has decided not to run for president this year.

via Rep. Paul Ryan Is Not Running For President | The Gateway Pundit.

I won’t feign surprise, and as much as I wanted him to run, I must confess that at least some of that was a poke in flaming lidless eye of Obama.  Beside that, however, an excellent National Review editorial had me leaning rather solidly into Candidate Ryan territory.

Republicans cannot afford to nominate anyone other than their best and brightest — and the best and brightest can’t afford to sit it out. The fate of Obamacare, and … Continue reading →

Laura Ingraham vs. Charlie Rangel: Internal Squabble

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[dc]R[/dc]ightScoop calls out Ingraham for her RINO ambush (audio cued up, ready to go, at that link) of Bachmann just before the debt ceiling disaster vote.

If you think I’m wrong, I bet you back away from that after listening to Ingraham being just plain nasty to Bachmann.  The week before she went after Bachmann (so three weeks ago), she high-centered herself trying to drain support for Rep. West!

Rangel is a turd, but I have come completely off the Laura wagon over her badgering of Michele Bachmann two weeks ago.  It may be fun to watch Rangel get beaten about the head and shoulders (it may be VERY fun), but this is just Ingraham’s motormouth abuse schtick.

[pullquote]merely provocative, uninformative style of debate[/pullquote]

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El Gobernador Rick Perez

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Texican Governor Rick Perry, in a speech ten years ago:

We must say to every Texas child learning in a Texas classroom, “we don’t care where you come from, but where you are going, and we are going to do everything we can to help you get there.” And that vision must include the children of undocumented workers. That’s why Texas took the national lead in allowing such deserving young minds to attend a Texas college at a resident rate. Those young minds are a part of a new generation of leaders, the doors of higher education must be open to them. The message is simple: educacion es el futuro, y si se puede.

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If the Tea Party were the GOP

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Michele Bachmann says she’ll bring back $2/gal gas.  I believe her.  CNN snickeringly informs us that she’s all wet, but it’s CNN that doesn’t understand how marginal effects and market confidence work.  But enough of that.  I’m here to pick a different fight.

If Michele Bachmann were to be elected, and then try to wriggle off of the hook using GOP tactics as gas went through $5, it would sound like this:

Well, when I made that promise, gas was $3.79, and a reduction to $2 gas would be a $1.79 savings.  If it were not for the measures I have implemented, gas would already have risen past $8, so $5 gas is a $3 savings; you people are just ingrateful, and your criticism is unwelcome.

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Cantor to Tea Party: Shut Up and Spend

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Cantor thinks we’re stupid.

To help reduce uncertainty, Cantor is moving to quell rank-and-file grumbling about 2012 spending and the supercommittee.

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Cantor is also urging his members to support the deficit reduction supercommittee created by the debt deal, adding that the supercommittee must succeed in coming up with “at least” $1.5 trillion in deficit cuts, rather than allowing automatic cuts to be triggered.

This is profoundly disappointing, and a continuation of the Tea Party’s reasons to oppose this moronic supercommittee.  Don’t forget that the automatic cuts which are now used as a club to beat the Freshmen and Tea Party into line were brought into being by approving this awful committee as a Hail Mary around the ridiculous August 2 “deadline”.

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