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 →

Job Retraining

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Government funded job retraining programs are an awful idea. If there is an industry need for this training, it will be provided by companies to employees or new hires who seem a good match. If there is not a need for it, industries will know this long before the government.
Federal job training programs are a form of welfare, an intentional distortion of unemployment figures, and another method to entrap a dependent underclass of non-productive voters. Even the best-run government training program cannot match a mediocre industry-run program, and at any rate, the goals are not at all the same.

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More Things I Don't Have Time to Write About

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Marxist Tools

One thing that chaps me is when people blame hedge fund operators and their investors for “betting against” something or other.  I would like to hear those same illiterate jackasses defend their own insurance in contrast.  If they’re so tough and so pure, they should put money in a fund which only pays if they never get sick, and which assesses penalties beyond cost for medical care.  Why, anything else is betting against your own health, right?

Supercommittee Fools

I can’t even keep up with this, but there’s a Continuing Resolution due in days or hours.  The debt limit and the last CR have both run out of rope, and where is the talk of another shutdown?  Here is proof that the Republican Party is simply … 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 →

Liberate Wall Street

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Another #Occupy useful idiot was killed today in Oakland, fighting over a bag of weed. Video at Breitbart’s Big Government.

Good!

Did you think anything else was going to happen? When cowardly public officials fail to condemn and counteract lawlessness, the result is more lawlessness.
In this country now we punish success and virtue and we reward failure and vice.  That odd feeling in your gut is the life-expectancy of the Republic contracting abruptly, and we all know it in our bones.  This is the way things end.

They are shooting each other as the weed runs out.  Could anything be more pathetic?  If you don’t want your head cracked, then do not attempt to take by force what is not yours, whether it’s dope or … Continue reading →