February, 2009 Porker of the Month

What a perfect title for this schmuck!

I thank God every day that he was not elected as President of the United States in 2004. His comments on February 6th confirm to me that if he had been elected as POTUS, we would already be a socialist state on the way to absolute destruction. Rightfully, his comments also earned him the Porker of the Month title bestowed by Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW).

"Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) has named Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) Porker of the Month for his arrogant rationalization of why the American people cannot be trusted with their own money. On February 6, Senator Kerry spoke on the Senate floor in support of the $787 billion economic stimulus package.

In his speech he said, 'I have heard a lot of talk about we ought to do a tax cut…If you put a tax cut into the hands of either a business or an individual today, there is no guarantee they are going to invest their money…in the United States. They are free to go to invest anywhere they want, if they choose to invest…The fact is none of those people are guaranteed to invest that money in any of the new projects that we are. So government, yes government, has the ability to be able to make a decision that the private sector won’t necessarily make today.'

For his casual infantilization of American taxpayers and for being the chief spokesperson of the new Nanny State on Steroids, CAGW names Sen. Kerry the February Porker of the Month"

What an absolute SCHMUCK!!!!!

Out of the Mouth of Babes

Here is a phenomenal video presentation by a 12 year old girl. Part of her presentation was used in the "40 Days 4 Life With Sarah Palin" video in my previous blog post. However, the remainder of this video deserves attention.

The young girl's mother stated, "My daughter prepared and delivered this speech for her grade 7 class. Even those who didn't agree with her loved it."

Out of the mouths of babes!

40 Days 4 Life With Sarah

Here is a very important cause started by a member of Team Sarah, "40 Days 4 Life With Sarah".

The mission statement for "40 Days 4 Life With Sarah" says, "Sarah Palin is a strong pro-life supporter. With every fiber of her being, she respects the sanctity of life, starting at conception. Our goal is to creatively raise money for SarahPAC and to raise awareness among pro-abortion politicians that we mean business!"

Here is a video created for the cause:



If you agree with the mission statement or the video presentation, please join us in bringing further awareness, in a new and creative way, to the horrific practice of abortion.

Please visit the "40 Days 4 Life With Sarah" web site at http://www.40days4lifewithsarah.org/.

A Nation of Cowards???

I am really disappointed by the insensitive and ridiculous comments Eric Holder made today.

He said, "Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial, we have always been and we -- I believe continue to be in too many ways essentially a nation of cowards".

He went on to say, "Certain subjects are off-limits and that to explore them risks at best embarrassment and at worst the questioning of one's character."

I wonder why so many people shy away from talking about race. It's not because they are cowards. It may because they are totally bored with the constant droning on from black leaders about racism. Or maybe it's because people are tired of being accused of being racists. Possibly it's because people are quick to judge, quick to accuse and quick to see evil intent behind almost every comment related to race. The most innocent of comments gets blown out of proportion. A disagreement between two people of different races is turned into a race issue instead of what it is....a disagreement.

Is this how the next four years are going to go? Are we ever going to be allowed to celebrate how far this country has come in its race relations or are we going to be constantly barraged by accusations of racism by those who will really loose if the race business ends...Jesse Jackson...Al Sharpton...the NAACP...etc.

Navy Petty Officer Mike Monsoor

This came to me in my e-mail box today. In an effort to accentuate the positive, I felt this would be a step in the right direction.

Mike Monsoor, a Navy EOD Technician, PO2 (EOD2) (Explosive Ordnance Disposal), was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously for jumping on a grenade in Iraq, giving his life to save his fellow Seals. (Notice: Mike was not a Navy SEAL, he was EOD. He gave his life to save a group of Navy SEALS.)

During Mike Monsoor's funeral in San Diego, as his coffin was being moved from the hearse to the grave site at Ft. Rosecrans National Cemetery, SEAL's were lined up on both sides of the pallbearers route forming a column of two's, with the coffin moving up the center. As Mike's coffin passed, each SEAL, having removed his gold Trident from his uniform, slapped it down embedding the Trident in the wooden coffin.

The slaps were audible from across the cemetery; by the time the coffin arrived grave side, it looked as though it had a gold inlay from all the Tridents pinned to it.

This was a fitting send-off for a warrior hero. This should be front-page news instead of the garbage we see every day. Since the media won't make this news, I choose to make it news by placing it here for all too see.

I am very proud of our military. If you are proud too, please share this message with others. If not then rest assured that these fine men and women of our military will continue to serve and protect.

God Bless our Troops!

Accentuate the Positive

With all the negativity in the world today, it can get pretty depressing…and at times frightening for some. I will admit that I have a tendency to focus on the negatives myself. In fact, this blog was originally started as a way for me to release the frustrations I was feeling during the last presidential campaign before I went over the deep end.

All of the lies, half truths and distortions were weighing me down. The more I thought about them, the more depressed and frustrated I became. I was feeling alone and I felt there was nothing I could do but dwell on them and internalize my anger. Then one night I was sitting in my living room when a thought came to my mind, “Blogs are free. Get a blog and start writing.” I did and it became very cathartic. I had finally found a way to release my frustrations. Once I wrote about whatever was bothering me and published it, it was gone…until another took its place.

I found, through talking with family and friends, that others were feeling the same way. So, I started sharing my blog in hopes that others would have a place to go to find accurate rebuttals to the lies, half-truths and distortions they were hearing; as well as to be a warning voice for what may lie ahead. With these goals in mind, I have made a concerted effort to not publish anything that could not be backed up with fact, because I choose not to be a source of disinformation.

In my desire to be a source of rebuttal and warning, I admit my blog has been heavy on the negative, while light on the positive. I will try to do better. That is not to say that I will stop using this blog for its original purpose, but I think it is important to accentuate the positives in life as well. There needs to be a balance.

With that in mind what better time to begin, than now? There are some things we each can do daily to make our lives and the lives of those around us more positive.

First, as a friend of mine told our congregation, a couple of Sunday’s ago, her father started each day by coming to the breakfast table and exclaiming, “I’m alive!” Okay, so each day, why don’t we look in the mirror and exclaim, “I’m alive!” After all, isn’t that the greatest gift we can receive each and every day?

Second, try to find one example of God’s hand in your life during each day. Write it down and reflect on what you have written. You may be surprised how much he does for you.

Third, begin and end each day with prayer. Be thankful for the blessings God has bestowed upon you and ask Him in faith for the things you need. I can testify to you that He does hear and answer prayers.

Fourth, make time to read the scriptures daily. Seek out the nourishment that comes from constant study of the scriptures. Your life will be enhanced by this one simple act of faith.

Finally, each day try to give service to someone else. Whether it is a simple smile, a helping hand, a common courtesy, paying a compliment, etc., your life and the lives of others will be enhanced. In addition, if someone does you a service, find a way to “pay it forward”. It’s amazing how many lives could be affected positively by one simple or random act of service.

Let us each put these five steps to practice and I can bet we will each find life more positive.

Letter to the Editor

This is a copy of the Letter to the Editor that I sent to my hometown paper in response to two letters posted in the previous edition of the paper.

Wow…where do I begin? I apologize ahead of time for the length of this Letter to the Editor. But I feel compelled to respond to two letters posted in the February 11, 2009 issue of the Chief.

First, Mr. Parks, I sincerely thank you for your service to this country during a most trying time in our history. I have made sure that I never miss the opportunity to thank an American serviceman or woman for his or her service; because without you there would be no America. Without you we would not have the freedoms provided us in our constitution; freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom to disagree, etc.

What I have learned in my forty-seven years of life is that none of us will agree on everything and when you throw in political parties, we usually agree on very little. Each party, and its members, sees the world through very different philosophies and each side thinks it is right.

I am someone who does feel President George W. Bush was a good president. But as you wrongly accused, I did pay attention and I do not live in constant fear. I believe he was a good president for no other reason than for the sheer fact that he kept us safe after 911. His strength in that one area let the rest of the world know that they better not mess with America; because, unlike the previous administration, he was not going to stand for it. I believe he did what he felt was right in protecting and defending this nation and its people from the threats of the 21st century. Unlike the threats of the 1950’s (which you made reference to), primarily the Soviet Union, this new threat does not value human life. This threat has shown time and time again just how far they are willing to go and how many people they are willing to kill to achieve their goal...death to the West and death to Israel. That is not a scare tactic…that is the truth of the world we live in.

Was George W. Bush a great president? That is not for me to decide. History will judge him and make that determination.

Did he make mistakes? Most definitely! After all, he is only human and humans make mistakes.

He should have forced congress to institute the regulations he called for, since 2001, in the housing industry with regard to Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Community Reinvestment Act, and not just warn them over and over again about the economic crisis the failure of these institutions would cause. Instead, he let them tell him over and over again that these institutions were sound. It was naïve of him to believe they actually cared. They were more concerned about making sure people who couldn’t afford homes, got homes, then in stopping the madness before it reached critical mass; which of course it did just in time to ensure Obama’s victory.

He should have used the veto pen a lot more than he did. Regrettably, he and the Republicans who had control of congress during the first six years of his administration acted too much like Democrats and not enough like the conservatives they were supposed to be. Consequently, they lost control in 2006.

He should not have listened to his liberal Democrat Secretary of the Treasury when he said, “the sky is falling and the world is going to end if we don’t pass this $700 billion bailout of the financial system NOW”. He should have said no. But he didn’t. Instead he said yes and increased the national debt for a bailout that was an absolute failure.

Yes, mistakes were made, as they are in every administration. But, I thank God everyday that George W. Bush was in control on September 11, 2001. I tremble to think what would have happened had Al Gore been in the driver’s seat.

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Second, Maggie…Maggie…Maggie...you sure do know how to bring out the conservative fight in me.

I’m not sure to what, “filth in every nook and cranny of our government“, you are referring. Let’s see, were you referring to:

• Rahm “You don’t ever want a crisis to go to waste; it’s an opportunity to do important things that you would otherwise avoid” Emmanuel, the White House Chief of Staff?
• Eric “I helped President Clinton grant clemency to 16 members of the Boricua Popular Army terrorist group” Holder, the U.S. Attorney General?
• Timothy “Turbo Tax didn’t prompt me that I had to pay taxes, so I didn’t…until I found out about my important cabinet post nomination” Geithner, the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and the man who will oversee the IRS?
• Representative Charles “He has too many tax and ethics violations to list here” Wrangle, the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, which writes our U.S. tax laws?
• Senator Christopher “Yes, I received a sweetheart mortgage deal for my home from Countrywide Financial” Dodd, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs?
  

Need I go on…because I certainly can? Democrats need to remember, “People who live in glass houses, should not throw stones” or how about the one, “When you point fingers at others, three fingers are always pointing back at you.”

If you on the left dare try to bring charges against President Bush, or any other members of the Bush Administration, for your false claims of war crimes, then you had better be prepared to look at your own golden boy, Bill Clinton and the crimes he or others in his administration may have committed while in office. Don’t you dare try to tell me or anyone else that they were as pure as the driven snow. We all know better. And while we’re at it, maybe we should look at your new chosen one who wants to move the census from the commerce department to the White House. Why? Could it be so that he and Rahm Emmanuel can, behind close doors, change the political landscape of this country for the next decade?

As I stated in my response to Mr. Parks, mistakes were made in the Bush Administration. But I seriously doubt that they were deliberate mistakes. The left’s vile hatred of President Bush needs to come to an end. You have all carried that hatred around for eight long years and it can’t be very healthy. Get over it! Take a deep breath and move on to something more positive. You have your chosen one in the White House now, and if the past three weeks are any indication, it is going to be a long and bumpy ride. Maybe you should start focusing some positive energy in his direction.

You’re absolutely wrong if you think the conservative movement is “lost in the wilderness” as you so eloquently put it. You could say the Republican Party, which has lost its true identity by trying to be too much like Democrats over the past decade or so is lost, but not the conservative movement. There are thousands of true conservatives who are now in the fight. We are going to take back our party and return it to the principles of our founding fathers. And when we do, we will then take back this country and return her to her greatness.

To that end, we will seek out and support true conservative leaders whenever and wherever they chose to run and fight for their victories. We are tired of being ignored by our elected officials, marginalized by the mainstream media and trampled on by the left. You have all awakened a sleeping giant.

We, the true conservatives, believe in limited government, lower taxes, fiscal responsibility, personal responsibility, individual and state rights, family rights, moral values, God, country, free enterprise, a strong military, a strong national defense, and upholding the Constitution of the United States of America.

We do not need to be compelled or forced by the government to care for the poor and needy; we do it because we feel it is the right thing to do.

We also believe that excessive and continual entitlement programs do not help the poor; they only serve to enslave the poor. As Benjamin Franklin once said, "I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.” And Thomas Jefferson said, “The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who do not.”

Because we believe in life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but that it is not a guarantee, we do not expect nor want the government to take care of us or provide for our every need; that is our responsibility and we will work hard to that end. We do not want government in our lives anymore than it needs to be, because as Reagan so rightly stated, “Government is not the solution to our problems, government is the problem.”

We just want to be left alone to practice our religions, raise our families as we see fit and earn a living to provide for ourselves and our families.

Many of us have finally found our voice. We will not be silenced, we will not be marginalized and we will not back down. Our numbers are growing and we are fed up, so watch out!

Alauna Dodge
Clatskanie, OR

The Prevailing Winds of Jealousy

If you have been paying attention at all to what is transpiring in our society, you have probably noticed a deep disdain developing toward businesses and the wealthy by the Obama administration, both houses of Congress, the mainstream media, and a sector of the general public.

Executives, who accepted Tarp I monies, are being compelled to testify in front of congressional committees to explain where the money went (which is a good idea...since it's our money and no one knows where it went). However, during these hearings, they are having to sit there and listen to the same people (Barney Frank and Maxine Waters to name just two), who forced them to loan the money in the first place which led to our economic crisis, actually chastise and blame them for causing the crisis. How absurd!

Executives that accepted Tarp I monies are being told that they will no longer be allowed to use private jets to travel around the country. In addition, we have some members of the media who are asking President Obama why he just doesn’t fire the executives. Since when did the constitution give the president the ability to fire members of the private sector?

Executives of companies that are possibly considering asking for future bailout monies are being told by the Obama administration that if they do take the money they will not be allowed to earn more than $500,000 annually. If I were these executives I'd think twice about crawling to the government with my hand out. I'd find a better way to solve my companies problems.

Businesses are being crucified and demonized by a mainstream media who has no idea how a business is run, what makes a business successful, how or why bonuses are given and to whom they are given, or even that private sector businesses…both large and small…are the ones who actually create the majority of jobs in this country...NOT the government.

We also have a certain sector of the general public who is sitting back waiting for the government to take money from those who have and give it to them…they are waiting to be rewarded for doing absolutely nothing because they have been conditioned to believe that they deserve it. They, the entitlement sector, believe that it is their right to be taken care of by the rest of us. You don't need to look to far for examples. Just check out the videos of Obama's Town Hall meeting in Florida on Tuesday, February 10th.

If you have never had the chance to read Terry Goodkind’s “The Sword of Truth” series, I suggest you check it out from your local library or buy it. It’s an eleven book series that takes place in a fantasy world of wizards, witches and magic; and it is well worth the read. If you choose to read this series, you will see some very astonishing similarities between what the liberal left and the entitlement sector of this country believes and what Terry Goodkind’s “Imperial Order” (which shows up around book three) believed. It is actually frightening to see how closely our reality is beginning to mirror Goodkind’s fictional world. Here is a quick synopsis of the parallels I recognized:

• Businesses are the enemy and should be regulated to the extreme.
• Making a profit and being rewarded for your success is considered greedy and immoral.
• Business and commerce is destroyed through extreme intervention policies.
• Everyone should be equal and no one should think about providing for himself or his family first.
• Those who have should be compelled to give to those who don’t...no matter how it effects their own lives and the lives of their families.
• Those who don’t have are conditioned to expect something for nothing.
• Those who don’t agree with you should be eliminated.

What does the liberal left and the entitlement sector of this country have in common with Terry Goodkind’s “Imperial Order”? Jealousy! They are all jealous of the abilities and successes of others. The prevailing winds of jealousy are threatening to destroy this great nation and its people just like it nearly destroyed Goodkind's fictional society. I only hope we will learn the lesson a lot sooner.

Letter to the Betrayers...et tu Brute?

Here is a copy of the letter I sent to the three Republican betrayers of the American people; Senator Susan Collins of Maine, Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania and Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine.

I don't live in your state, but I just wanted to let you know how disappointed I am in you and your two Republican cohorts who betrayed your party and the American people.

Yes, we the American people...your bosses...want our government to work together. Yes, we want an end to partisanship. However, we expect our elected officials to stand up and have a backbone. We expect them to fight for the good of this country and it's people. We do not expect them to cower and cave in to unreasonable demands and help pass unreasonable bills.

You and your two cohorts have helped the Obama administration and the Democrats saddle our children and our grand-children with a huge financial debt. Is that fair?

You could have waited. You could have held out for a more reasonable and less costly bill...one that would actually create jobs and stimulate the economy. Not one full of liberal pork barrel projects.

I, and thousands of other conservatives, will remember this and we will work together to make sure you do not get re-elected.

Sore Winners!

If there’s one thing I…and I would venture to guess a great many Americans…detest more than a sore loser is a sore winner!

The Democrats had better watch out. They are proving to be very ungracious winners with respect to their victory in the last election. I would have to say that they are almost as bad as winners as they were as losers in 2000 and 2004.

They are down right nasty in the way they belittle, demean and try to strong arm the Republicans into doing as they say without any negotiations. Their, “do as we say or get out of the way”, attitude is wearing very thin. But hey! When it comes to the outrageous “spending bill”, I wish all the Republicans would just get out of the way. Let the Democrats take full responsibility. Let them take all the blame if it doesn’t do what they say it will do.

I’m already tired of hearing them rub the Republican’s noses in the fact that they won and they are in complete control. If they don’t grow up soon, I have a feeling they are not going to be in control after 2010…I can only hope anyway.

I’d Laugh If It Weren’t So Pathetic!

I swear! If my head weren’t securely attached to my neck, it would spin like Linda Blair’s in “The Exorcist”. If you’re old enough, you might remember to what I am referring. If you’re not, the scenario entailed a Catholic priest trying to exorcise a demon from her character’s body. At one point her head spun around and around and around. Heck, I might even spew some of the same green puke while I’m at it.

Why, you might ask? I am literally sick and tired of the Democrat “culture of corruption” that is infiltrating all levels of our government; from mayors to governors, from representatives to senators, and now presidential cabinet members. Thankfully, some of the scoundrels are being thrown out of office, tried and convicted; but too many are being given a free pass and are still governing or soon will be.

When Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid assumed leadership of the house and senate, they pledged that the “culture of corruption” they claimed plagued the Republican Party…and only the Republican Party…was over. They were the party of ethics. They were the party of transparency. Yeah, right!!!

I guess it's true what they say, "When you live in a glass house; you shouldn’t throw stones"…Pelosi and Reid. The Democrat Party is so full of corruption it isn’t funny.

Here are just a few examples:

First, Democrat Representative Charles Rangel the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee (the country's chief tax-writing committee) has been the king of corruption.

• He was caught using of Congressional letterhead in an effort to arrange meetings in which recipients of the letters would be solicited for contributions for the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service at the City College of New York. This violated any House rules.
• He paid below-market rates for his 2,500-square-foot home in the Lenox Terrace complex in Harlem, which consists of three adjacent apartments, plus a fourth apartment to be used as a campaign office. Rangel only paid $3,894 monthly for all four apartments in 2007, but the going rate for similar apartments in the same building were as high as $8,125 monthly. The difference in rent paid versus what he should have paid, which comes to about $30,000/year, should have been declared as a giift and would have exceeded the $100 House of Representatives limit. OUCH!!! In addition, these apartment are in a rent-stabilized building. His fourth apartment (the one used as a campaign office) violates city and state regulations that require rent-stabilized apartments to be used as a primary residence only.
• He was rightfully accused of failing to report rental income from a villa he owns in Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic.
• He omitted details regarding the sale of a home he once owned on Colorado Avenue in Washington, D. C.
• He had discrepancies in the value listed for a property he owns in Sunny Isles, Florida (varying from $50,000 to $100,000 all the way up to $500,000).
• He had inconsistencies in investment fund reporting.
• He has been using a House of Representatives parking garage for years as free storage space for his old Mercedes-Benz - a violation of congressional rules. House rules forbid use of the garage for long-term storage more than 45 days. In addition, under IRS regulations, the benefit of the free parking is considered 'imputed income' and must be declared to the government. The spaces are valued by the House at $290 per month.

And he's still serving in the US House of Representatives? What's wrong with this picture Pelosi?

Second, Illinois Governor Democrat Rod Blagojevich is under investigation for solicitation of bribes in exchange for Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat, mail fraud, attempting to bribe the Chicago Tribune with state funds, and abuse of power in attempting to gain campaign contributions from Children's Memorial Hospital. Thankfully, on January 9, 2009 he was impeached by the Illinois State House of Representatives by a vote of 114-1 and on January 29, 2009 he was unanimously removed from office by the Illinois State Senate by a vote of 59-0. Is a criminal conviction in his future?

Third, Democrat Timothy Geithner former President of the New York Federal Reserve and now President Obama's Treasury Secretary (the man responsible for overseeing the IRS) failed to pay Social Security and Medicare taxes on his income while working for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) between 2001 and 2004. He only paid the back taxes he owed AFTER he was made aware that he would be Obama's nomiee for the Treasury Secretary post. WOW!!! Don't pay your taxes, get nominated to a high ranking goverment cabinet post.

Fourth, Democrat Tom Daschle former US Senate Majority Leader and now President Obama's Secretary of Health and Human Services was a paid consultant and advisor to InterMedia Partners since 2005. Daschle reportedly did not declare the income he earned as the consultant on his annual tax forms as required by law. In addition, during this time he received access to a limosine and chauffer given to him by Leo Hindery, owner of InterMedia Partners. The use of the car and driver was taxable income, plus he should have been paying social security and medicare taxes for the chauffer. Daschle paid the three years of owed taxes and interest -- an amount totaling $140,167 only after he found out he was going to be nominated to the Obama cabinet post. Once again, don't pay your taxes, get nominated to a high ranking goverment cabinet post. WOW!!! I'm beginning to see an pattern of change. Is this the change he actually meant?

Fifth, New York Governor Democrat Eliot Spitzer, was caught patronizing a high-priced prostitution service in which he met for two hours with a $1,000-an-hour call girl. Spitzer had at least seven or eight liaisons with women from the agency over six months, and paid more than $15,000. Investigators believe Spitzer paid up to $80,000 for prostitutes over a period of several years while he was Attorney General, and later as Governor. In the wake of the revelations, Spitzer announced on March 12, 2008 that he would resign his post as governor on March 17th....he did as promised...before he could be impeached.

Sixth, Mayor Democrat Sam Adams of Portland, Oregon met a young man in 2005 who was interning for Representative Kim Thatcher of Keizer, Oregon. In September 2007, Adams denied rumors of a sexual relationship with the young man, calling the allegations scurrilous, adding that they played to stereotypes of predatory homosexuals. However, in January 2009, Adams admitted to lying about the nature of the relationship, confirming they were sexually involved once the intern passed theage of consent in June 2005. The young man has confirmed Adams' version of events. If he's now telling the truth, and the young man was of legal age, then why lie in the first palce place? Why not just say, yes, I'm gay and he's my lover? It makes one wonder if he really was of legal age at the time that their relationship began.

I am certainly not insinuating that the Republican Party is as clean and pure as the driven snow. They have their own problems with corruption. However, as I have shown they do not own the corner market on corruption either.

The one thing I do know for sure, if any Republican were guilty of the same transgressions as those I listed, they would be crucified by the media, their fellow government officials and the voters. They definitely would never be allowed to stay in office, let alone be appointed to high ranking cabinet posts. There is a glaring double standard that is applied to Democrats versus Republicans. This double standard says, transgressing Democrats make small errors of judgment and should be forgiven and allowed to serve the greater good…transgressing Republicans are dirty rotten scoundrels and should be removed from office or kept from serving. Pathetic!!!

The Party of Obstructionists?

I ask you, why is it, when the Democrats are in charge and the Republicans object to their policies, they are called the party of obstructionists? Yet, when the Republicans are in charge and the Democrats object to their policies, they are said to be standing up for the little guy?

In this country, we have a two party system which has served somewhat in providing checks and balances to our legislative branch. For the most part, it has made sure that neither party would have carte blanche to do whatever they wanted…at least that’s the way it has been until the Democrats gained overwhelming control of both houses of congress and “The One” got elected in the 2008 election.

Now, since the 2008 election, the Democrats have enough representatives and senators in both houses of congress, plus their man in the white house, to pass whatever policies they want and the Republicans can’t do much to stop them, so what will be obstructed? If the Democrats just stick together like the pack of wolves that they are they will have everything they want. So what’s the problem?

Well, let’s take a look at the current controversial bill to explain the problem. The new “big government spending bill”, which is wrongly being touted as a “stimulus package”, is their baby. They claim its going to ride in and save us all from destruction. It’s the end all to all of our problems (I think we heard the same thing when President Bush and Hank Paulson’s $800 billion plus bailout bill was forced down our throats last Fall….didn’t we?).

If the Democrats feel so strongly about this “stimulus package”, then why don’t they just pass it and own it all by themselves? If it does everything they are saying it will, then they will be the heroes and won’t have to share the glory. On the other hand, if it fails and actually causes more problems, then they can take full responsibility for its failure.

This latter scenario is exactly why they don’t want to be the only party to pass the bill; even though they can, as seen by the votes in the house last week, where all Republicans and eleven Democrats voted against it, yet it still passed. They want to be able to point fingers and have the Republicans share in the blame. They do not want to be standing alone, unsupported, on that precarious ledge by themselves. Therefore, in order to give themselves cover for future power grabs, they need to strong arm as many Republicans as they can to vote with them. They need this bill to be bipartisan.

Well I say, LET THEM STAND ALONE!!! I want every Republican senator to follow the example of the Republicans in the house. Let’s test the liberal progressive philosophy against the conservative philosophy. And in so doing, let the people who keep voting for these yahoos feel the full brunt of what they have voted for and maybe, just maybe, they will finally realize who really is for the little guy. Maybe, just maybe, they will realize who really is concerned for the welfare of the American people and not just in grabbing power and control…maybe.