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Once again the Tea Party makes national headlines.
And once again the message (government overspending) is overshadowed by the messeger (Ann Coulter).
I'm not knocking Ann - she's politically to the right of me, but I enjoy reading her columns *because* I don't always agree. I think she is intelligent, acerbic, pointed - and an even worse publicist for the Tea Party than Sarah Palin.
And that's saying something!
She exemplifies the Left point-of-view that the Tea Party is an ignorable whacky fringe Republican thing. Which is odd - the Republicans have been spending like drunken sailors on shore leave for years, and they're only now getting in bed with the Tea Party because they're both anti-Obama.
If the Tea Party wants political traction, they'll need some Dem support too.
Because It Costs Too Much Green
After your income information had arrived from your employer and you placed it in the drawer, after all April 15 was months away.
Many of the Americans that have lost their job didn't realize that their unemployment payments are taxable until they filled-out their Federal income tax returns.
The big corporations are still firing workers to boost their earnings even as their stock prices are at the highest level that they have been since the market low in March 2009.
When the companise finally start hiring Amerians are going to have, Click Link: A New On-The-Job Experience
To be laser focused we need this information at our finger tips. The information needs to be all but a click away. Well if you go on the Tea Party website I have searched high and low and no candidate list can be found. This is a real problem. We should be telling everyone where to go to vet each candidate. We should have a direct pipeline to each candidate with a comments section to each one.
If a person wants to ask them a question, then it should be as easy as commenting on a blog such as this. We have made things too complicated. Likewise, there should be a list of requirements that each candidate should meet before they would be considered a viable Tea Party candidate.
Remember we are not party specific, we are candidate specific, if they fit the bill and are going to support the Tea Party ideals, and are able and willing to vote against their party if need be, then these are our types of candidates. These are individuals that are for the people, for their constituents. That is why we elect them.
So people start asking the Tea Party representatives to show you the candidates, Federal, State, County, City, District, all of them, anyone who will be on the ballot we all need to vet for our local, State, and Federal positions. The current processes are failing and is taking to long. I am willing to help, but every time I mention this it appears to go on deaf ears.
I need everyone to ask the same question and require that these candidates be made available. Oh by the way, just because they are posted on the web, does not give an endorsement, it only lets everyone know who is running and what their social, moral, policy, and fiscal positions are. Once we have that each individual can vet each candidate. Without this, we need to rely on the unreliable NEWS medias.
Enough for now, if you are with me, then join me and lets get the Tea Party coordinators off their rusty dusty and get this information post so that everyone is lock and loaded and ready to vote!!!
Bob Casper for a FREE AMERICA
In the face of this Global Warming farce, don't forget to turn all your lights ON tonight at 8:30, as we did last year. Think where we were one year ago tonight -- still pretty new to what was about to happen. Before all the TEA Party rallys, before all the townhalls, before the 912 March on DC, and before witnessing the corruption going on behind closed doors in our government. Boy, are we a different country today.
MY OWN "EARTH HOUR"
The violent always rules over the weak.
Thomas Jefferson made it clear that
Americans must act aggressively in order to preserve liberty and freedom.
In this day, simply whining and being passive will not work.
Voting has not worked.
Americans need to stand up and force the Gov. to preserve
our freedoms and liberties. If we don't, then we get 100 years of losing
our freedoms and liberties.
Americans must stand up and fight. Americans must stop worrying about
what they will lose in the process. Our founding father lost their
homes, their families, their lives. They did it so we could have liberty
and freedom.
Is their sacrifice in vain?
By Joe Fitzgerald | Saturday, March 27, 2010 | http://www.bostonherald.com
A powerful line appeared in a Life magazine review of the Vietnam War, years after that nightmare concluded.
“Americans were at war with themselves,” it observed, “and both sides lost.”
Indeed, national accord had been ruptured.
No one wants to see that happen again, but that’s the kind of antagonism spreading across the land today, a bitter divide created not only by the merits of Obamacare, but by the bureaucratic heavy-handedness that jammed it down the throats of a populace whose questions had not been answered and whose fears had not been allayed.
It was Washington telling us, “Government knows best,” and if there’s anything we know for sure, regardless of which party holds office, it’s that government can screw up a two-car funeral.
That’s why, in his first inaugural address, Ronald Reagan drew thunderous applause in proclaiming, “Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”
All these years later, thanks to a passionate civics teacher named Belle Strickland, this writer can quote such fundamental principles as, “Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
Yet Barack Obama exhibits disdain for those he governs.
Accustomed to the hosannas of fawning admirers, he turns a deaf ear to anyone suggesting he might not have all the answers.
He simply declared his presidency demanded passage of this controversial legislation, and Congress assured him it would comply, by any means necessary.
Americans will always have contentious debate over volatile issues, but at the end of the day we have time-honored ways to reach a consensus, which is what this president and this Congress totally disrespected, igniting a furious backlash.
“Find out what people will submit to,” Frederick Douglass, the famed abolitionist, noted a century ago, “and you’ll have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them.”
So millions of Americans are now telling Washington they do not want to submit to Obamacare, and he’s pooh-poohing their recalcitrance as civil disobedience.
It’s no such thing. It’s just a reminder this government still belongs to the people, which is what most of us were correctly taught a long, long time ago.
The only way to pay for the behemoth government takeover health care bill is with taxes, taxes and more taxes. You conveniently won't hear much about the upcoming taxes until after the November 2010 mid-term elections, and of course the tax increases already implemented will not hit until early 2011 either. The big push will be the european-style socialized Value Added Tax, more commonly known as VAT.
The VAT Cometh
This massive new entitlement needs a cash cow
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The short term Tea Party goals are important. We must remove irresponsible politicians from Washington DC and try to regain some measure of control over our government. This is only a stopgap measure, however, since the legal loopholes that allowed this gargantuan government to evolve are still in place.
We can argue about what we consider Constitutional until we are blue in the face, but as long as the Supreme Court rules in favor of big government with vague interpretations, the Republic will always be at risk.
The first time I saw a map with 38 states taking action to legally oppose Obamacare, it suddenly dawned on me: 38! Just the number of states needed to ratify an Amendment to the Constitution! We have the momentum and now support from the several states.
THE TIME IS RIGHT TO FOCUS THE TEA PARTY ON A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION TO ELIMINATE THE GENERAL WELFARE CLAUSE AND MODIFY THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE CLAUSE FOREVER
Make no mistake, America is going through its second revolution. She has witnessed the full blown threat of government takeover, and this is not the foundation on which this country was based. This one is very different, because it's not blood in the street, but an awakened America engaged as never before at the polls, at TEA Party rallys, at town hall meetings, on the web, throwing their hat in the ring as a candidate, rounding up votes, holding meetings and seminars, sounding the alarm about backroom shenanigans, sounding off about losing education and freedom of religion in our schools, and becoming educated like never before in their lifetime. As Minority Speaker, John Boehner, said the other day, violence and threats are unacceptable.... channel it into positive change.
HERITAGE RESPONDS TO HEALTH CARE VOTE: REPEAL
Healthcare reform still not fair! or is it regular Americans aren't good enough. So lets pass the
28th Amendment
Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators or Representatives, and Congress shall make no law that applies to ...the Senators or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States of America.
NOW THAT SEEMS FAIR. WHAT DO YOU THINK?
People need to visualize removing each one of them from office, think about it often, and consider ways that they can contribute to removing all of these individuals from office. We need not stop with just the Democrats; the Independents and Republicans also need to be in our sights. And everyone of them need to be vetted. They must be willing to sign a contract with the Tea Party constituent outlining their believes and what they are personally going to do to turn around Washington; the State, County, or City that they will be representing. If they can not or are unwilling to do this, then they are out, period!.
They must stand with the Tea Party convictions 100%, pro-life, be fiscally conservative (put plans in place to balance their budgets), reduce taxes at all levels, remove ALL earmarks, Deport illegal emigrants, Prison reform (make the criminals not want to be there), Use the same retirement and medical services that normal Americans use, change the law to only vote one bill per submission, change all of the term limits to two maximum, provide the constituents the ability to recall or dismiss elected officials who are not performing the job duties per their job description, and hold elected officials accountable for all expenditures up and to imprisonment if they are deemed to misappropriate the funds.
We then need to vet candidates that will fit the bill. They need to be vetted by the Tea Party, not the Republican Party, Independent Party, or the Democratic Party. If they are not vetted by the Tea Party then they do not qualify. We can not trust any of the parties to represent the Tea Parties needs.
We need to use social media to expose each one of them. This is not about smearing anyone. This is to clearly point out their service history and their believe system. They have every right to defend their position, but we will let their votes and behavior tell the real story. You see they can say what ever they want to, but their voting record will tell the truth. It is just like hiring someone for a job. If they don't fit, then you tell them that they are not what we are looking for and we simply tell them that they are not qualified, no thank you, and move on. There need be no arguing or bickering.
Our mission is very clear get the bad seeds out. We need to infiltrate each precinct, support the campaign for the right person in the precinct, put a captain in charge and move to the next one; until all of the precincts across the US have been covered.
Once this is complete we will use the social media to gain numbers and support needed in each location. People need to be will to canvass the entire precinct with literature needed to point out the truth and why these people need to go. We need to go to small business and canvass each one of them. Show them directly how the current politicians in Washington are destroying their business and their financial future.
This is not easy, but it is very doable. We need to show people in simple terms how we are going to take back the country and how this will improve their lives. We need to educate people on how capitalism really works and how it can work for them when the government is on their side.
It is sad because business ignorance has increased over the last three to four decades. This generation does not understand work ethic, saving for the future, helping others because you want to, not because you have to or are told too, or how to create or make money. They have only been taught how to get a job.
People need to truly understand the difference between capitalism andsocialism. People need to be shown in black and white why socialism eventually fails.Where as work books stating this information need to be created for computers, iphones, blackberrys, ipads, and the like so that people have this information at their finger tips.
We need to recruit individuals who are familiar with these media centers; so that they can communicate to people what needs to get out and is not being taught in our school systems. It is so sad that young adults are so clueless when it comes to making money in our capitalist society.
These people need to be lead by the hand with simple graphical presentations that shows why socialism eventually fails and why capitalism always succeeds. Capitalism has its draw backs as greed corrupts the process and there needs to be monitors in place to keep this in check, but the down side of socialism far exceeds the downside of capitalism. That is why the United States of America is the greatest nation in the world.
Enough for now....
Bob Casper
As the left rejoices over their monumental victory, conservatives double down on the upcoming 2010 elections and their campaign strategy. "Repeal the Bill" is a good start, but should not be the focus, as it will be a difficult road and Obama will veto any attempt.
The eye-opening shenanigans by the left such as the backroom bribes, payoffs, and threats in their eternal quest for big government; the takeover of the private sector in financial institutions, the car industry, insurance companies, and now health care; their road to a socialistic re-distribution of wealth; the doubling and tripling our deficit .... should be their focus.
BEWARE THE EMBOLDENED LEFT
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I have been a insurance agent for 33 years forcing people to take out health insurance is wrong. If I did what the federal government is doing with health insurance I would be fined for doing so. Taking care of the causes of high premiums is the answer. I do like Congressman Wyman that voted aganst the bill on Sunday not all of them are bad.
William Quayle Jr
We have much to be grateful for, and more importantly, a need to fight on for the all important November 2010 elections. They are only a short 7 months away, and as Erick Erickson of Red State said, the time for fence sitting is over. It's time to choose and campaign with all we've got, and keep our chin up. Proud to be an American.
FIVE REASONS NOT TO DESPAIR
The GOP has been better than expected
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FIVE REASONS NOT TO DESPAIR
The GOP has been better than expected
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