Showing posts with label GOP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GOP. Show all posts

Monday, December 31, 2012

Is GOP Congressional leadership caving on guns?

What may be happening behind closed doors.
 

The confidential email pictured below was released recently by conservative radio host Doc Thompson.  It is an email conversation between a friend of Thompson, and an anonymous GOP Congressional staffer. 

 
As you can see, the conversation appears to admit that Republican leadership in Washington may have already made the decision to compromise your 2nd Amendment rights just as they did on so called "fiscal cliff."  We all have to hope this staffer is wrong, but with the likes of the two questionable GOP Senators from here in Georgia and others who seem to have little to no regard for the Constitution or the God-given liberties it defines, it wouldn't be a stretch to easily believe that this is in fact the case.

Call, email and pester your elected officials from all parties just shy of the point of harassment. No compromises on the first among equals. Period.

"Live Free or Die"

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Necessary Cohesion: Why America’s right-of-center must find common ground


Photo: TheBlaze.com (wp-content)
 
Why the left is winning and we're not
 
Discussion of political ideology, especially of differences, is possibly one of the healthiest acts citizens of a free society can take part in.  Dissent, when rooted in truth and justice, is an important ingredient in the makings of a patriot, but when those dissentions between those who are more alike than different begin to allow the destruction of a nation by the opposition, it becomes problematic. 
In America, the Left keeps winning and the Right is in danger of losing America beyond the point of rescue.  Why?  Because we’ve all helped – well intentioned – but helped all the same. 
The Right has helped the left towards America’s destruction by doing what is normally a good thing, by simply being who we are and doing one of the things that makes us better, but at some point it becomes damaging and should be done behind closed doors and only on matters – to borrow a term from the religious world – of salvation. 

While the right-of-center (Republicans, conservatives, Tea Party, Libertarians/libertarians, Constitutionalists etc.) were arguing internally over who among them is to blame for America’s problems, the Marxist fueled leftist propaganda machine – the Democratic Party – was busy doing work and essentially taking over the nation. 
 
The left, as a body, lacks – to a large extent – what the right prides itself in: the ability to use objective thought politically and admit that it may not always be correct and the feeling that there is a need to object and walk away from the flock, even if only figuratively and/or temporarily.  Why else would so many long-standing members of the Republican Party all over the nation refer to themselves as “conservative,” among other terms, when confronted with the question of political leaning?  This is because they likely don’t agree with the undertakings of their party as a whole. 
 
On the battlefield –which is exactly where we find ourselves – an army that bickers and causes low moral within its own ranks is not going to win often because it is weak.  Back in the barracks it is healthy to argue the strategy of a plan, or debrief after a mission which may even include a healthy argument or two, but on the battlefield in the public eye there must be cohesion, AT LEAST on the truly important things about which we all agree:  Gun rights, limited government, low taxes, individual liberty/responsibility.  Do we not all agree on these most basic fundamentals? 
 
Just as churches, clubs and other organizations often split while arguing everything from what color the new building should be to what time service should be held, we have found ourselves – the Right – creating our own little clubs arguing amongst ourselves, while the left has become a powerful movement of team players working together to destroy the God-given liberties defined within the Constitution and Bill of Rights.  While we were bickering over whether the Labrador or Golden Retreiver is best, the left was busy outlawing dogs. 


We can get back to healthy (and often necessary) arguments in a few years, but for now our most basic of liberties are in grave danger of becoming so far gone that they cannot be regained without the bloodshed of future generations.  I don’t want that for my daughter, so I pledge to put away my differences on the more trivial issues – no matter how passionate I may be – and to come together with others on the Right to help preserve liberty for future generations NOW, while it’s still possible.  Will you also take that pledge? 
If we do it right, it may only be temporary.  We can get back to arguing the fun stuff another day. 
 
"Live Free or Die"




Sunday, December 23, 2012

Fiscally irresponsible Paul Ryan for Speaker?

I want to spend THIS much!

How Ryan could be worse than Boehner

So there's a coup in the making to oust fiscal traitor John Boehner from his position as Speaker of the House.  Good news right?  It could be, but only if the replacement is a more trustworthy, fiscally conservative candidate with a long, consistent history of financial accountability.  So, as it so often goes, who can we pick that will have none of these traits, but talks a good game?  Paul Ryan, that's who.  

Rep. Ryan (R-WI), the recent GOP VP candidate, who we all had to witness being rightfully called out by possibly the most insane, irresponsible man in Washington, D.C. - Joe Biden - for being a hypocrite on bailouts, has had his name tossed about as a possible replacement.  If we're going to replace bad with bad, I'd rather keep what we have and at least be honest with ourselves, as conservatives, that we have a problem.  First step to recovery right?  

Why so down on Mr. Ryan?  Let's take a look at his fiscally irresponsible voting record:

Troubled Asset Relief Program or (TARP)- Yea 
Auto Bailouts- Yea
Confiscatory tax on CEO bonuses- Yea
Extending unemployment benefits- Yea

(This^ is why there is a TEA Party movement right?)

Does Ryan have a relatively conservative voting record overall?  Yes, but he has shown that he is more than willing to compromise with the fiscally unsound ways that have gotten us where we are today financially.  Isn't that why we're so angry with Speaker Boehner?  Replace him we must, but with who?  I say not Paul Ryan, but after the recent purges of true fiscally conservative Republicans from key committee positions, this move has little in the way of shock factor; especially when one of the key players in this purge seems to have been Ryan himself.  

Three minutes on Project Smart Vote via a Google search renders Mr. Ryan's fiscally conservative front void of all credibility.  Even Joe Biden saw that one.  Are we and our GOP congressmen not brighter than ole Joe?  Let's sure hope so.  Unless it's not so much a lack of "know," and more of a lack of "care."  Either way, it's no good. 


"Live Free or Die."