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The Obama Administration Is Sending Us Into An Economic Dark Age
Sat. Feb. 13, 07:21pm EST
On Tuesday, in a televised interview, President Obama’s top political economic advisor, Larry Summers, unintentionally explained why the current liberal regime in Washington, D.C. is setting the United States up for a prolonged economic dark age.Summers told Fox Business News that the administration’s economic agenda and their planned rate hikes on Americans earning $250,000 a year, will strengthen the economy and he did so by claiming that;“Almost all economists who studied these things have that kind of view,”.
Not only was Larry Summer’s claim an exaggeration, it was a downright lie.
The American Economic Association has 22,000 registered, professional members. More than 90% of them oppose tax increases and approve tax cuts. But liberal spinmiesters like Summers claim that “almost all economists” have the view that increasing taxes on those who are investing in the sustainable free market and fueling it and our economy , should be penalized and have the government take more of their money and do the investing instead of them.
Summers is not an economic advisor, he is an economic terrorist who is blatantly trying to plunder the source of America’s real economic survival……, the overburdened American consumer. What Summers fails to point out is that by taking more money from those who earn $250,000 a year we are insuring that these people, the ones who invest in business and industry, the ones who start up small business and create jobs, will have less to invest and less to start those business or keep them going with.
The economic strategy of Larry Summers and the Obama regime, is not an economic strategy at all. It is a political strategy. Democrats know that there is mileage to be gained by continuing to wage class warfare. They know that middle and lower class Americans who are hurting will always have a bit of resentment for those who are wealthy or relatively wealthy. Last year, the New York Times reported that 74% of all Americans favor taxes on people who make more than $250.000 a year. They also reported that in the same poll 51% of all Americans would support those same higher taxes even if it “hurts the economy”. Even if it hurts the economy!
Well that is exactly what the Obama regime is doing……hurting, not helping the economy. And they are willingly doing so because they know that they can get, even some quiet support, from those who want to ‘stick it’ to those who are better off than them. The economic policies of President Obama are not based on the future prosperity of this nation. It is based on trying to maintain a 50 plus 1 percent electoral strategy that allows them to be competitive in elections. This is not leadership, it’s cowardice. This is not policy, it’s politics.
It works like this.
Back in 2003, when liberals were trying to oppose the Bush tax cuts, they obtained signatures from 400 economists who opposed the tax cuts and then ran with headlines like
“”Economists Blast Bush Tax-Cut Proposal” and “Bush Tax-Cuts Come Under Fire from Economists.”
With 22,000 members in the American Economic Association, 400 of them amounts to 1.8% of American economist. So while 1.8% opposed the cuts, Democrats tried to convince you that since four hundred professionals supposedly in the know oppose it, it must be bad.
What liberals did not tell you is that 98.2% of those ‘in the know’, support tax cuts.
Flash forward to today when Larry Summers, the President’s chief economic political strategist is telling us that “most economists” agree with the Administration’s punishing tax increases.
The President’s lack of willingness to provide true leadership on the issue is plunging us into an economic ‘Dark Age’.
While he is proposing more and more historic levels of government spending, his tax increases on those he calls “the rich”, will absorb the flow of money and the growth of any sustainable American economy.
Look at nothing but the facts. Despite trillions of dollars in new spending designed to create jobs and grow the economy, few if any private sector jobs have been created. These are sustainable jobs, work that finances itself through the free market and private sector. Work that does not require government funded taxpayer dollars to keep them viable. The only jobs that may have currently been created by all the new government spending are government jobs that provide the type of employment which requires taxpayers to pay for. They are not sustainable jobs.
Add to that a well over trillion dollar deficit, the lack of a growing economy or sustainable job growth, the lethal combination of shortfalls in long term federal entitlement programs, a near tripling of the national debt, and tax increases on those who pump money into the economy and what you have is a bus that is headed toward the end of the cliff that we are precariously traveling on.
Between increased government spending on unsustainable government jobs and government programs, and tax increases on sources that create sustainable jobs and economic growth, and what we are seeing is the epitome of liberal hypocrisy.
During tough economic times, the left insists that the government must spend our way out of it and into prosperity. Yet when the economy is running strong, liberals insist that it is our government’s moral obligation to still spend more money. This have your cake and eat too economic policy that legitimizes government spending under all circumstances, does not suffice. Not anymore.
But to this, the Obama regime and his comrades on the left fire back with the charge that Republicans are not offering any alternatives. According to Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and even the President, they claim that the G.O.P. is “just the party of ‘no’.”
What they don’t tell you is this.
Last year House Republicans proposed a budget that did provide an alternative to the Obama political economic strategy. It did the following.
It Kept federal spending at just above 20 percent of the gross domestic product, called for a temporary moratorium on earmarks and a cleaning up of the process that promotes earmarks, borrowed $3.6 trillion less than the President Obama’s budget, simplified the existing arcane tax code and had ‘NO’ tax increases, attempted to reform the unsustainable costs of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid and created $23,000 less debt per household than President Obama did.
These were alternatives that Republicans in the House put forward. But they were not the only ones House Republicans proposed. They also sponsored efforts to takes back the stimulus money that will be spent in 2010 and the years to follow once the recession is expected to be over. And one other notable proposal was a freeze on non-defense, non-veterans spending at the existing level for five years.
Sound familiar? It should.
One year later, in his State of the Union address, Supreme Czar Obama proposed a similar spending freeze for this year. It is an idea that, had President Obama been willing to work in the bipartisan manner that he is now calling for, he could have considered and enacted with Republican support.
A real “economic advisor” would have told the President to take that offer and run with it. He would have told him that it is a way to get Republican votes for the budget, show a sign of bipartisanship and perhaps begin to allow the government to get a handle on its out of control spending. But Larry Summers is not an economic advisor, he is a political strategist who is not working for the Commander-In-Chief, he is working for the Candidate-In-Chief.
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Since When Did Victory in Iraq Become Obama’s Greatest Accomplishment?
Sat. Feb. 13, 01:12am EST
The Obama Administration has eked through its first year by relying on one simple phrase, “Blame it on Bush “. It has been the phrase used to answer every question to every situation. On the economy, its Bush’s fault. On taxes, its Bush’s fault. The housing crunch, North Korea, Iran, global warming hysteria, stormy weather, energy prices, its all Bush’s fault. Nothing is President Obama’s fault. President Obama is immune from all accountability because, according to the Administration, everything is Bush’s fault.
As the President enters into the second year of his term in office, this excuse for everything is beginning to wear thin and it is no longer a satisfactory response to the effects of President Obama’s attempts to “fundamentally change” America. But now, in a stunning reversal of political strategy, the Obama regime has started to take credit for things.
In what could only be considered the most arrogantly obnoxious political sleight of hand ever, Vice President Joe Biden and the White House Press Secretary have not only taken credit for stabilizing Iraq and bringing the troops home but they went a step further to claim that Iraq will be this regime’s “greatest accomplishment”.
Their greatest accomplish! Are they kidding us?
This is a regime that is comprised of nothing but officials who first supported Operation Iraqi Freedom and then after the first year of the Iraqi war, they opposed it. They claimed “Bush lied, people died”. They said we never should have removed Saddam Hussein from office. They even tried to cut funding for the troops in Iraq.
To his credit, President Obama was consistent, at least until now. Senator Obama opposed the Iraq war from day one. He felt that Saddam Hussein should never have been overthrown and that the entire war was a mistake.
Now, all of sudden, not only is the Obama Administration taking credit for Iraq, they are calling it their greatest accomplishment.
What I would like to know is how and what exactly they are taking credit for. Is it their steadfast commitment to enforce the U.N. resolutions that called for Saddam Hussein to comply with weapons inspections? Is it their commitment to the removal of Saddam Hussein form office? Are they taking credit for their support of the troops ? This Administration is of the same Party, that in 2004, nominated for President a candidate who claimed he voted for the funding of our troops in Iraq before he voted against it. On January 19thof 2007, President Obama himself, called Iraq a “tried-and-failed policy”.
So tell me, what exactly are they taking credit for?
It certainly can’t be the new found democratic right of self-determination that Iraqis now have. And it can’t be the agreements that were signed and set a firm date for troop withdrawals or for the defeat of insurgents who have been fighting against freedom and killing innocent people. These things were down and happened before President Obama took office.
In fact, since Barry took office, he has done nothing but maintain the Bush policy in Iraq and follow through on all that the Bush Administration set in motion. So again…..what exactly is this current regime’s greatest accomplishment and what is it that they are taking for?
The fact that the White House would, through its Press Secretary, reaffirm Vice President Biden’s misplaced claim of credit is not just ludicrous, it is one of the most despicable acts of political hypocrisy on record. This new found appreciation for what the Bush Administration accomplished and refusal to admit that that they opposed the same effort that they now take credit for, is the straw that broke the camel’s back.
Politics has always been prone to producing exaggerations of fact. We almost expect it. But anyone with half a brain can see that this newest exaggeration is beyond the pale and nothing but a blatant lie. It is a lie so blatant that it will forever more tarnish the credibility of the Obama regime.
The fact that this President and his underlings would suddenly reverse themselves on one of the main focuses of their campaign and embrace the policies of the man who they demonized and it call it their own is sign of a lack of integrity and principles that is so deep, that we should hang our heads in shame for ever allowing such sleazy, and disingenuous people to occupy the White House and lead the halls of power in America.
It is another example of just how hollow the words of the President are. This is a man who promised to close Guantanamo Bay but failed to figure out how to do that by the date promised. This is the Administration that decided to try the mastermind and co-conspirators behind the 9/11 attacks in civilian courts only to realize that they may have to hold the trial in the prescribed military tribunal that was originally called for.
Back in 2002, Barrack Obama said of the war in Iraq;
“I don’t oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war.”
Now in 2010, as President, while maintaining the policies that he criticized and were set in stone by the predecessor who he assailed incessantly, the President’s Administration is taking credit for the very same war that he called dumb and is now defining it as their greatest accomplishment.
This has got to be one of the most deceptive attempts at changing history that we have ever seen. Hopefully, the voters will start holding this regime accountable for that. If they do, the liberal base which agreed with President Obama’s original opposition to the Bush policies, may end up helping to make Barrack Obama one of the few sitting presidents in history to lose their Party’s nomination.
In the mean time, if this Administration wants the credit for Iraq, will they also accept all the crticism that they themselves offered to those who carried out the startegy to get us to this point? Will they themselves say “Obama lied, people died”? I doubt it, because the Obama presidency is one of no accountability and totally devoid of any accurate admission of facts or truth.
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That State of The Party
Tue. Feb. 09, 11:45am EST
The state of the Republican Party is questionable but promising.`After a slew of victories at the end of ‘09, including the gain of County Executives, council
seats, and Republican Governors in New Jersey and Virginia, combined with the pick up of a U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts at the beginning of 2010, the G.O.P. is alive and well. But the successes seen recently have largely come not because voters perceive the Republican Party to be superior. Much of our success was due more to the perception that the Democrat Party is inferior.Since President Obama took office one year ago, Americans have seen him increase the national debt by $1.693 trillion, try to tax the air that we breathe with a Cap-and-Trade measure, attempt to have government takeover healthcare, initiate hundred of billions of dollars in spending to stimulate the economy and create jobs, break promises for missile defense systems, dither on his commitment to the war in Afghanistan, try to close down Guantanamo Bay, force foreign terrorists to be tried in civilian courts rather than military tribunal and bow down to foreign leaders.
Along the way Americans also got to see President Obama call police officers stupid, expand the size of government, appoint an endless array of unelected and unaccountable czars, participate in 28 fundraisers for Democrats that raised almost $28 million for political coffers, campaign for Democrats in Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts, screw up security measures in the Transportation Security Authority, take more trips to foreign nations in his first year in office than any other U.S. President and we have listened to him apologize for America on foreign soil.
As for the rest of his Party, Americans watched Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid pass legislation under the cover of darkness and Democrat Senators and Congressman vote on legislation they never read. We also watched a process that was suppose to be bi-partisan and transparent, turn into one of the most partisan and clandestine operating governments in American history, seen pork barrel spending increase and lawmakers take hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes to vote for healthcare reforms that most Americans do not want.
Nothing embodied all that infuriated us more than the Democrat led attempt to have government takeover healthcare. That process contained examples of all of the above. It also hangs above Democrats like a sword of Damocles and represents the precise wrong direction Americans see our nation going in.
The result of all this liberal leadership has been an increase in unemployment as well as spending and our debt, lawmakers who are seemingly irresponsive to the wishes of the people and believe they are above the law, and a nation that has more doubt about our nation’s future than confidence in its future.
So it should come as no surprise that voters are angry.
That anger has been to the detriment of Democrats, while Republicans were the beneficiaries of it. republicans are not the ones in control of government. They are the ones that Democrats have, up to now, chose to shut out. So it is only natural for voters to give credit where credit is due…….right in the laps of liberals.
But as we move ahead, the G.O.P. must not rebuild its majority simply because they aren’t Democrats. Such a rise to power would ultimately be short lived.
In the existing political atmosphere, the opportunities that exists for the Republican Party are golden. People are not pleased with the direction liberals are taking them in. Nationwide, Tea Party organizations have demonstrated loudly and are organizing rapidly. Their goal is to get government off their back.
They do not want the government making their healthcare decisions and determining when and where they can receive it. They do not want government in the business of business. They do not want G.M. to stand for Government Motors. They don’t want their children’s futures sold out from under them with endless spending or with pieces of overreaching legislation that are over 2,000 pages long and have not been read but are passed because a majority of lawmakers took bribes for their reelection bids.These Tea Party patriots are not pro-Republican. They hold the G.O.P. accountable for going along with Democrats and for not reducing debt under George Bush. They are not fans of the G.O.P. . For them, simply being not as bad as liberals does not make Republicans deserving of praise and support.
And they’re right.
That is why we must reinvent our commitment to the principles of our Party and the founding principles of our nation.
As a Party we must bring forth a concrete foundation to run on. A foundation that addresses all that has voters up in arms. We must also not fear that commitment sounding “too strong”. No matter how Republicans address our nation’s problems, liberals will call the G.O.P. “extreme”. But we must remember that our purpose is not to sound like Democrats or to please liberals. Our purpose is to solve problems and be true to the most sacred American document in existence………………the American Constitution.
Americans of every stripe and party affiliation have become acutely aware of the unconstitutional legislative conduct
that our process has been advancing. Many Americans are aware of the federal governments overreaching and excesses. They see how states rights are trampled. They are also aware of how our government seems to reward mediocrity and punish success. So now is the time for the Republican Party to come before the nation with a pledge. It is a pledge to recommit ourselves to the Constitution. This pledge must outline several areas of focus in which all candidates will commit to and collectively fight for, as a Party and as individual legislators.
The Pledge of Commitment
We, the people, commit ourselves to the non-negotiable demands of human dignity,…… --- Equal Justice --- Freedom of Speech --- Limited Government Power --- Private Property Rights --- Religious Tolerance and --- Respect for women, life and the Rule of Law.
We are committed to a legislative process that does not propose or pass any legislative agenda or initiative that is of questionable constitutional integrity or inequitable, overreaching or excessive.
For these reasons, we dedicate ourselves and our Party to reigning in the excesses of federal spending and unjust control. As such we are committed to the following 10 initiatives and goals.
- All proposed bills, amendments and spending measures must contain the section of the Constitution that provides the constitutional basis for its consideration and passage.
- The 2.8% Congressional pay raise that the Democrat led Congress passed in 2009 will be repealed and Congress will then subsequently reduce their salaries by an additional 15%.
- Link the salaries of federal legislators to the economy they manipulate.
- Institute a four year federal hiring freeze on all non-essential emergency managemnet security, defense and medical related operations .
- Reduce the federal payroll by eliminating non-essential, emergency management, security, defense and medical positions through attrition.
- Obliterate the existing arcane, oppressive loophole ridden, unfair tax code and adopt a one-rate, Flat Tax Reform Act that does not ask any one American to pay a greater percentage than any other American. One rate for one America.
- Dismantle the Departments of Commerce, Energy, Education and Housing and Urban Development.
- Make healthcare and health insurance more accessible and more affordable by reducing the healthcare bureaucracy and improving the existing free market based healthcare system, expanding portability and adopting tort reforms.
- Make no apologies for our defense of freedom and prosecute enemy combatants in military tribunals, not civilian courts.
- Secure our borders and repair our broken immigration and immigration enforcement laws.
With these legislative goals, we hereby commit ourselves to restoring constitutional integrity to the federal government and seek to be more responsible stewards of the offices the people elect us to.
This Pledge of Commitment is a reform minded agenda that curbs the excesses of government, respects states rights and personal freedoms and demonstrates our desire to have a government that lives within its means and allows the people the means to achieve personal prosperity.
It is time that we accept the fact that the founding principles of yesterday were responsible for our nations strength in the past and are key to our nation’s and Party’s success in the future.
As the next year unfolds, with primaries and political debates, the next leaders of our Party will emerge. Currently, we are in transition. With many highly competitive Republican primaries taking place, slowly the new guard is replacing the old guard and the next generation of conservative leaders will slowly but surely emerge.
Until that time, with no leading figure, with no one face to represent us, it is important that all Republicans take this Pledge of Commitment. Without one great messenger to represent us, it is imperative that we act on the 10 goals outlined, together as one. Unity in our pledge is imperative to our ability to distinguish ourselves from Democrats as we move forward.
We are now just months away from the 2010 midterm elections. Currently, we have the chance for big gains. But these gains will only be realized if we stand for something and be more than naysayers. Our Pledge of Commitment represents very specific measures that indicate a new and clear direction for our nation. With this new direction, if we are united, the ripples that were set in motion by the perfect storm that swept a Republican into the United States Senate from Massachusetts, can be turned into waves that can sweep Republicans into office from New York to California.
As it stands now, of the 37 senate contests being held this November, 19 are occupied by Republicans and 18 by Democrats. If the G.O.P. can get on message and demonstrate how and why we are different from Democrats and why voters should have faith in us, our Party is on track to keeping all 19 Republican seats in our column. At the same time, we are on track to take 7 seats away from Democrats……Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Nevada, North Dakota, and Pennsylvania.
If strong opponents emerge in Washington State and New York, Democrat Patty Murray’s seat could be in jeopardy as well as Kirsten Gillibrand’s seat in New York. That would be 9 seats, for a total of 50. That's not enough to break a tie with Vice President Joe Biden as the President of the Senate, but add to that former Democrat but now current Independent Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut who has recently stated his possible willingness to become a Republican, and that would bring us to 51 Republican seats and control.
Another race that could come into play is California.
51 or 52 seats are unlikely though.
New York is becoming increasingly in play as Harold Ford, Jr. starts beating Giilibrand up, but is not there yet. republican susan molinari needs to enter the race. Washington is probably out of reach, the California race is currently static, and Joe Lieberman won‘t switch until he absolutely sure that whatever move he makes assures him of being in hichever Party maintains majority status.
But a lock on picking up seven seats from Democrats is becoming very real. That would reduce liberal's influence significantly and bring the balance of power much closer with 52 Democrats and 48 Republicans.
In the House, things are even more unstable for Democrats.
With 256 seats held by Democrats and 178 by Republicans (Democrat Rep. Robert Wexler’s Florida seat is vacant but sure to stay in Democrat hands) the G.O.P is looking like it will pick up a minimum of 27 seats which would bring a more balanced 205 Republicans to 230 Democrats. If all the stars were aligned in our favor and we successfully nationalized our campaigns, I see another 13 seats that could be in play. Remarkably, that would change the make up of the House and produce 218 Republican seats to 217 Democrat seats.
Taking control of either branch of Congress is not likely but it is possible. Whether that is achieved or not will depend on how strongly we unite as a Party and convince voters that we are devoted to our Pledge of Commitment. If we can convince voters of our sincere desires to take a more equitable, honest, transparent, and constitutional approach to governance, than even if we don’t take majority control of Congress, we will have made significant gains and put a stop
to the partisan dictatorship that is currently reigning supreme in Washington, D.C. .In addition to a strong, united campaign based on our Pledge of Commitment, strategic and logistical influences will be essential.
As we move ahead our Party must
- Unite and get better organized, especially in the area of networking
- Hammer home our anti-establishment, anti government sentiment and undying commitment to freedom and prosperity.
- Add an emotional component to every issue.
- Create new funding channels, including large numbers of small financial donations.
- Use technology to organize activists, increase transparency, register voters, and change minds
- Invite ideas from the public and develop a way to identify, develop and publicize the best ones.
- Turn talk radio listeners into donors and activists and provide them with constructive and productive ways to help local candidates and national causes.
- Tap into anti-government constituencies ( i.e.: Libertarians and Tea Partiers)
- Poke fun at the Administrations promised “change” and their calls for transparency in government. Mock the “hope” the President was to bring.
- Day and night, night and day, reinforce Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid as the faces and leaders of the Liberal Party.
- Exploit all Democrat weaknesses.
- Develop clear messages and have policy makers become message makers.
- Create media markets and operating systems to inspire, generate and direct activism.
- Work closely with all grassroots organizations.
- Relentlessly exploit the weaknesses of key Democrat leaders.
- Put new blood forward and present new ideas. Let voters know that old guard Republicans are on their way out.
The task at hand is daunting.
It took us years to find ourselves in minority status and it will take some time to get back to majority status. But Democrats are helping to measure the amount of time our journey takes in months rather than years.
The one thing in Democrats favor is the timing in which voter anger has been realized.
In 1994, when Republicans took control of both branches of Congress for the first time in four decades, the anti-incumbent sentiments were not fully understood until after the mid-term, when Democrat heads rolled. President Obama however, has the fortune of learning about voter dissatisfaction, almost a year before his mid-term elections.
The fact that the President has gone a full week without having a single major speech about healthcare indicates that he finally understands that people are not happy with his agenda and the way things are going. Further evidence of this new found understanding is his sudden attempts to sound fiscally responsible by trying to enforce a very limited spending freeze. On that, liberals are annoyed by the number of pet projects that would be killed by that move and conservatives are screaming about how too little and too late the President’s concerns with spending are. It’s like a fat man claiming to be on a diet because he drank a can of Slim Fast after a six course, 20,000 calorie meal.
But President Obama will surely begin to shift his focus. Since the voters spoke in Massachusetts he has begun to relentlessly attack any and all unpopular institutions, such as banks. It will be our job to remind voters why he has suddenly changed his agenda and what he changes it from while he still holds on to the hope of passing a massive government takeover of healthcare and some of the greatest transfers of power and wealth in the history of mankind. We must remind voters that President Obama and loyal liberal Democrats promised to “fundamentally change America” and then we must demonstrate that those fundamental changes were to the application of the U.S. Constitution which made us the greatest nation in the world………at least until he tried to make his fundamental
changes.Clearly the state of the Republican Party is promising. Many Republican leaders have learned from their past mistakes. Many who did not, are being flushed out through the primary process while others are retiring. Democrats are imploding and voters are open to viable alternatives. So the future is promising. What is questionable though is our ability to convincingly become that viable alternative and our willingness to roll up our sleeves and do what needs to be done to take advantage of the promising future that lies ahead.
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Some Advice For Tea Party Patriots; CHANGE THINGS FROM THE INSIDE, OUT
Mon. Feb. 08, 09:21pm EST
This weekend, the largely informal Tea Party movement attempts to take a step toward becoming a formal organization. Thousands are gathering in Tennessee forthe Tea Party's first national convention and begin to organize innumerable numbers of citizens who are dissatisfied with the direction our government has been and is going in..Although the Tea Party movement is new, the anti-government sentiment that motivates those in it, is not new. There has always been an anti-establishment and “they’re all alike” component that has motivated people and inspired attempts to create “third parties”. The most recent one to have come closest to, but still fall short of success, was sponsored and headed up by H. Ross Perot in 1992. In his first bid for the presidency, Perot’s near 19% of the vote earned him no electoral votes but did essentially throw the election to Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton.
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Third parties do not have a good track record in the United States. That is in large part due to the fact that we have a two Party system. It is not solely a two Party system, but it essentially is. Even so, there do exist many official third parties. Take a state like New York. There in addition to Democrats and Republicans you have four other major parties. There is the Liberal Party, the Conservative Party, the Libertarian Party and the Right To Life Party.
There are even more than that, but those are the four most prominent. They often run their own candidates but more often than not, they cross endorse candidates.
For instance a Democrat may occasionally be found also running on the Conservative line. Usually, the Republican is endorsed by the Conservative Party and the Democrat is endorsed by the Liberal Party. On many occassions, Republicans run on the Conservative and Right To Life lines. These crossed endorsed candidacies have the total vote on the Republican line added to the total votes that they get on the Right To Life and Conservative Party lines.
What this essentially does is give individuals who can’t get themselves to pull the lever for a Republican, the opportunity to vote for the Republican, but on the Conservative or Right To Life line.
This is how Rudy Giuliani became Mayor of overwhelmingly Democrat New York City.
He won the Republican nomination but there were far too many New Yorkers who refused to ever vote Republican, even if they did like Rudy. So what did he do? He got enough signatures to create a third Party line called the “Independent Fusion Party.”
It was that line that gave Rudy enough votes to win, because the total he received on the Republican line would never have been enough to elect him.
But the point to all this is that regardless of these third party entities that may exist, they more often than not, align themselves with either the Republican or the Democrat candidate. Why? Because we are essentially a two Party nation. For some of us the two Parties represent clear differences. To some of us, it is not so much Republican or Democrat as it is right or wrong. It is that clear cut. For others, both Parties are the same. These angry voters are today calling themselves Tea Party members.
And so at their convention, they are organizing.
For those who could afford the exorbitantly high priced tickets that are required for each of the events at their convention, they are being offered workshops such as "How to do Voter Registration Drives and Where to Find Conservative Votes" & "Women in Politics" or a workshop sponsored by the Young Americans for Freedom called "How to Involve the Youth in the Conservative Movement". Training in these areas are crucial for any movement so I commend the organizers of the Tea Party convention for understanding what needs to be done to be a successful activist.
But my question to all these new activists and their newfound enthusiasm is ………Where the hell have you been??
Why did it take elected Republicans who went astray and the most left leaning, socialist admiring, wealth spreading, President in history, to wake you up and get you up off of your collective arses?
And now that you have finally woken up to the fact that we are losing our country and shredding its Constitution, what are you doing?
You're trying to take the same historic path to failure that others who believe the grass is greener on some imaginary third side of the street took. And that is despite the fact that you know there are only two sides to a street.
I find myself greatly frustrated by the new awakening that suddenly has millions of people saying “hey, wait a minute, that isn’t right” or “Hey, can they do that”. What “they” have been doing hasn’t been right for years, but your lack of civic responsibility allowed it to get to where it is today.
Which brings me to the direction I advise that Tea Party activists take.
Now that our government has your attetion, use the Tea Party Convention well. Be inspired by its speakers. Absorb the organizational knowledge being provided in the truly useful workshops that the convention offers. Then take that inspiration and knowledge and do what you should have started doing a long time ago. Apply that organizational ability and activism into taking over the two Parties that exist. Make those Parties the political organization that represent what you want them to represent, not what the establishment political class wants it to stand for.
Start at the local level.
Whether you know it or not, there are elections held that elect your local Republican or Democrat Leaders. The first subset of leaders are your local committeemen. One man and one woman within small sections of your neighborhood are elected by the registered voters of the respective Parties who live in that area. They are usually called “election districts”. The people who win the election in their respective election district or precinct, then become municpal or district committeemen. At the same time, there is also usually an election for either district leaders or Municipal Chairmen. These people organize the district or municipality represented by district or precinct committeemen. In some cases these leaders are not voted on in the general election but by the town or precinct committeemen who were elected by the voters in a general election.
District Leaders or Municipal Chairs then organize their committeemen and together they select County Chairmen. This occurs at a county convention where the county committeemen elect the County Chairmen.
As we climb the organizational pyramid, at a state Party convention, County Chairmen elect a State Chairman and at national conventions, State Chairmen elect a national Chairman.
This is how the Parties, that Tea Party protestors so despise, organize.
Now if only these Tea Party Patriots participated in that process, they could be controlling the Parties and stop being controlled by the Parties.
It should also be known that in many cases, the same process that elects the Party leadership, also takes place in regards to the official endorsement process of candidates. In many cases, it is how nominees of the respective Parties are selected when local, county or state offices open up, especially in the event of seats that become vacant. In those cases, the same process that elected your district or municipal chairmen will select the nominee who will run in a special State Senate, State Assembly or City Council election.
Understanding this process is essential to any Tea Party Patriot.
By understanding the methodology involved, instead of trying to build a third side to a street, you can rebuild the existing side that you prefer and make it into what you want.
If you can get Tea Party Patriots elected to County Committeemen positions, you can put into office the Republican or Democrat Party leader of your municipality. Elect Tea Party Patriots to Municipal Chairmen positions and they can elect the Tea Party protestors that they want to be Republican or Democrat County Chairs. From there you do the same with State Chairmen and ultimately the Chairmen of the Democrat and Republican National Committees. It is also how you effect and in many cases select the candidates for state assembly, state senate, Governor, Congress, and the Senate.
If you were apart of that process, you could shape your party platform, you could also be a part of the screening process that endorses candidates and throws the full weight of the Party establishment behind those endorsed candidates. If you were a part of that process, you would be the establishment and you would be able to eventually take credit for electing people who will take this country in the direction that you want to see it go in.
So my advice to Tea Party Patriots is this. Change things from the inside out. Energize, stay angry and motivated, stay focused and become a part of the process instead of fighting the process and succumbing to the failure of all other third Parties.
Do you want to cross endorse or throw your weight behind the establishment’s candidates or do you want be the candidates that others cross endorse and help? Don’t fight with the political Parties...........
TAKE THEM OVER AND MAKE THEM REPRESENT YOU AND WHAT YOU WANT THEM TO REPRESENT!!!!
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The Winners & Losers In American Politics for the Week of 2/1/10 – 2/7/10
Mon. Feb. 08, 12:07pm EST
WINNERS
The Republican National Committee
The RNC has not exactly been on top of their game since 2006 and they have essentially been floundering since 2008. As a national organization it has been unable to create one unifying national message representing what the G.O.P. stands for and it has been unable to out-campaign Democrats. Well this week the Republican National Committee finally exhibited a hopeful sign of their getting back on track with some smarts. The day after Illinois voters nominated the candidates that will be running for President Obama’s old senate seat, the RNC was up and running with an ad that defined the Democrat nominee and friend of President Obama, Alexi Giannoulias. The ad compares Giannoulias, the son of a banking magnate, to the Soprano’s and discusses his connections to crime figures and his shady financial arrangements with politicians and slumlords. The episode demonstrates a positive sign for the GOP. They are apparently seeing that we must get out in front of the opposition and define them before they try to define us. Strategists are apparently reawakening to the need to have Democrats run on our playing field, not the other way around. It is a small step, but as someone who has not been very impressed by the job that Republican National Committee has been doing, this was a pleasant sign. Keep this up and finally find a message that articulates what the G.O.P. stands for and that Republicans will unite behind and maybe we’ll be back on track again.
Judson PhillipsThe founder of the Tea Party Nation pulled off an event billed as the first Tea party National Convention. The event was a success in the sense that it helped motivate those in attendance and even offered workshops that essentially offered some of the technical knowledge that would help Tea Partiers channel their new found civic interest and anger in a productive way. As for Philips, he was criticized for not using a non-profit model for his grassroots organization but he used a powerful argument to defend any profit made at or during the convention. He stated that sending out letters that tells people, “The world is ending, but for $50 we can put it off for a couple of weeks,” just did not strike him as sincere. He added “My vision for Tea Party Nation was to use the capitalist system to support our activities,” he said. “The whole idea of begging for bucks is absolutely repugnant to me. I’m not saying people who have nonprofits and seek donations are bad people or anything like that. I’m just saying, for our group, I don’t like it.” The argument is compelling and in the end, it worked for him. People who could afford the $500.00 a plate dinner which featured Sarah Palin and her keynote address, were satisfied and those who paid for the chotchkies, souvenirs and workshops at the convention were also content. In the mean time, Phillips’ organization raised a pretty penny and it received a great deal of exposure. So the bottom line is that he proved to be a winner this week.
LOSERS
Democrats 
After the Senate Democrats passed legislation that raised the debt limit by another 1.9 trillion dollars, this week Democrats in the House also passed the same debt limit increase. As was the case in the Senate, not a single Republican supported the measure. The move adds a debt burden of $6,500 to every man, woman, child, transvestite, transgender and every other human life form that lives in the United States. But if that wasn’t bad enough, when the amendment raising the debt limit was passed, the partisan liberal majority cheered and applauded. Are Democrats jackasses or are they just, to quote Rham Emanuel…..f’ing retarded? When the Stock Market crashed, did stockbrokers and traders on the floor of the Exchange jump up and cheer and clapped? Not exactly. In the 1920’s, when some of them lost their life savings, they jumped up to their windowsills and jumped out of them. They did not jump to their feet in glee as did the Democrats who burdened one generation of Americans and sold out the next generation of Americans. All in one vote. AND THEY CHEERED! If that is their reaction to bad news, they must pee themselves when there is good news.
After it was proven that some disingenuous scientific data was exploited by liberals in an attempt to create hysteria over global warming, this week scientists discovered that European liberals had overstated the effects of global warming on the Netherlands. The environmental extremists claimed that the quickening pace of global warming has now placed 50% of the Netherlands below sea level. Well most people know that this dam clustered nation has always had more of its land below sea level than any other nation. Hence the reason for all the dams. But now scientists have come out and established that contrary to the extremists 50% calculation, only 20% of the Netherlands remains below sea level, about the same percentage that it is famous for having under sea level. And then this weekend I found myself in a blizzard at my New Jersey home, where almost two feet of snow fell. Now, two days later, I am told to brace myself for another snowstorm that will dump anywhere from a for to another two foot of snow. This just three days after the second storm this winter that dumped that same amount so far this season. Hey Al Gore………….you and your theory are a losers this week. Man certainly does have an effect our environment but not to the climatologically extremes that the business of global warming hysteria mongering suggests.
