Friday, December 31, 2010

Any Average Idiot Could Fix The Economy. Unfortunately we didn't elect an average idiot. #tcot #teaparty

How hard is it to say:



  • I'm going to let people drill for oil.


  • I'm going to order California's water back on.


  • I'm going to drop this Cap and Trade nonsense.


  • I'm going to leave taxes where they are.






Apparently that stuff is pretty hard for this president.

Amplify’d from hotair.com

The Valley That Jobs Forgot

If one had to guess where unemployment is highest in the US, most would probably suggest Detroit or Michigan as a whole.  Others who paid attention to the midterm elections would know that Nevada surpassed Michigan as the state with the highest unemployment rate about mid-year.  Others might guess Florida.  However, in terms of metropolitan areas with the highest levels of joblessness, a new survey by the Birmingham Business Journal shows that California’s Central Valley is the epicenter for unemployment.

  • El Centro, CA – 29.3% (east of San Diego near border with Mexico)

  • Yuma, AZ – 26.7%

  • Yuba City, CA – 17.8%

  • Merced, CA – 16.3%

  • Stockton, CA – 16.3%

  • Modesto, CA – 16.2%

  • Visalia-Porterville, CA – 15.9%

  • Fresno, CA – 15.7%

  • Palm Coast, FL – 15.5%

  • Hanford – Corcoran, CA – 15.0%


Why has California become the epicenter of unemployment?  While Michigan and Florida have a mix of problems, including (in Michigan’s case) a history of bad management decisions on labor contracts, California’s Central Valley woes are entirely a government creation.  As I wrote yesterday, the decision by a federal judge to cut off water supplies to an area that literally fed the world turned the Central Valley from an agricultural export powerhouse to a center of starvation within two years.  Congress has refused to act to reverse this decision, and as a result, almost a quarter of the families in the area now need government assistance to feed themselves while living on some of the most productive land in the world.

Read more at hotair.com
 


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Thursday, December 30, 2010

Reince Priebus -- Foe of Tea Party Movement? #teaparty #tcot #rnc

It seems that Reince Priebus, candidate for National RNC Chairman, wants credit for electoral gains in Wisconsin in 2010. But he may have had little to do with it, and in fact may have been actively working to defeat the Tea Party movement.



More investigation is clearly needed, but now is not the time to have someone at RNC who cannot work with the Tea Parties.

Amplify’d from wi.rlc.org

As a grassroots network of concerned citizens dedicated to upholding of individual liberty, limited government, and free enterprise within the Republican Party, the Republican Liberty Caucus questions Mr. Priebus’s commitment to core constitutional principles as well as the rule changes that disenfranchised Wisconsin GOP primary voters under his watch.

The Republican Liberty Caucus has been a vocal critic of the 2010 Wisconsin GOP’s rule change, which made it easier to endorse by lowering the percentage of delegate votes that a candidate must receive for endorsement, removing the possibility of voting for “no endorsement”, and give the state executive committee the power to decide which candidates are “viable” and limit the possible choices of the delegates to these approved candidates.  “Giving candidates the official GOP endorsement and large sums of party donor money prior to Wisconsin’s primary disenfranchises Wisconsin’s conservative grassroots voters – including the Tea Party,” said Murphy.  This is exactly what happened while Mr. Priebus was state chair.

“Not only was donor money collected by the Wisconsin GOP directed to defeating other non-establishment Republican candidates without donor consent, but the Wisconsin GOP also paid for polls that excluded these non-establishment GOP primary candidates as ballot options while mentioning front-runner endorsed GOP candidates and their Democrat opponents” (source: http://wi.rlc.org/2010/07/rlcwi-candidates-excluded-from-poll/).

Read more at wi.rlc.org
 


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Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Hey Mitch Daniels -- Want to be President? Better support the right to work. #tcot #teaparty

Compelling people to join a union, which will take their money and give it to Marxist politicians, is not right.



If Mitch wants to have a further career, he should lead, not worry about political capital.



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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

A fuller response to "if gay marriage hurts yours..." #tcot @CorieWhalen @stackiii @peterflom @dmataconis

See the rest at Redstate.

Amplify’d from www.redstate.com

I despise illogical argument, and I love my wife.  But just as much, I love my culture, that sum of received practice, belief, and wisdom I have come to share, or to believe I share, with those around me.

So my hair stands on end when libertarian Doug Mataconis of Outside the Beltway (and dozens of others, apparently) retweet self-described liberal statistician Peter Flom:


If gay marriage threatens your marriage, you haven’t got much of a marriage.

That little line, destined to become a liberal talking point, encapsulates at least two logical fallacies.

First, no one I’m aware of is arguing that their own marriage will be harmed by allowing people who are unqualified to marry to do so.  Straw man arguments are often appealing to those already convinced, but merely draw ire from those who disagree.

Second, it exhibits the Fallacy of Division, in which the parts of a thing are conflated with the whole. It is not the case that two unqualified individuals marrying harms my marriage in any appreciable way, nor do they even harm marriage itself.  But in the aggregate, the change to the structure of the institution is profound.

Read more at www.redstate.com
 


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Monday, December 27, 2010

The Great American Drive In is January 5. Will you be there? #teaparty #tcot

The 112th Congress needs to know that we have our eyes on them. They won't be allowed to slide into bad habits, at least not without some publicity.



So some folks are planning to show up to let them know just that.



There are even guidelines for good behavior posted at the site set up for the event (see below).



I have another suggestion to keep traffic moving at the optimal speed. If a car should happen to break down or run out of fuel, make sure to merge one car at a time. There is to be none of this stopping to let the entire lane go at once.



Oh, and make sure to advance just as far as you can before merging. Someone will be nice and let you in.



If you follow these guidelines, you will be sure to have an eventful stay in the District.

Amplify’d from theamericandrivein.com

Guidelines



  1. Remember we are not here to break traffic laws by deliberately blocking intersections or roads.

    If you do, you WILL become a revenue source.

  2. Remember DC is crawling with red light cameras.

    We suggest stopping as soon as the light turns yellow to avoid traffic fines.  Don’t become a revenue source.

  3. After the light turns green it is important to wait a second or two to allow any drunken congressmen time to run the light as they race to be sworn in. Remember Safety First!!!

  4. Right on Red may be legal but it is not required.

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Friday, December 24, 2010

Happy Christmas

Is Christmas about Christ, or is it about reindeer?



Why, yes.



Christmas is a celebration of the virgin birth of Jesus the Christ, Y'shua the Messiah, in a manger in Bethlehem. It's a tale of wise men (who weren't there) and shepherds (who were).



It's also a celebration of the dead of Winter, a memory of the cold days of the Little Ice Age in Europe -- and perhaps some dim memory of even colder days past in a real Ice Age. The last warmth of Summer is gone by the time of the solstice, and we have time to gather together in our little hovels and share the fruits of our year's labor with those we love.



So while some consider the holiday's origins pagan, it's ours now. Merry Christmas!



And to those who find a dichotomy in the dualism, who see a conflict between magical reindeer and frankincense, I say: quit being humbugs. Sing about Rudolph, enjoy your stocking stuffers, blow your wad at Wal-Mart, and give shelter to needy travelers.



Because Christmas is Christmas, and there's no need to pin it down more than that.



(Expanded from an old post at the Academy. Thanks to LayoutSparks.com for the pic.)



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Thursday, December 23, 2010

ObamaCare Was Not Enough Power for Sebelius #tcot #teaparty #hcr

As Secretary of HHS, Kathleen Sebelius was given tremendous power under the PPACA (ObamaCare). The hailstorm of "the Secretary may" in the Act is rivaled only by that of "the Secretary shall".



For instance, the Act gives her the responsibility for setting the price points of the "Gold", "Silver", and "Bronze" insurance plans available under the various state exchanges. That there should be one price for all plans of the same type across the country is bad enough, but that you can only buy insurance from inside your state is in some ways worse.



But now Sebelius has decided that she can set insurance prices at will.



ObamaCare must be repealed. And Secretary Sebelius must be hauled in front of Congress to explain why she claims power that not even the Pelosi Congress ever gave her.



And after that, she should resign.

Read more from Jeffrey H. Anderson at TWS:

Amplify’d from www.weeklystandard.com

Sebelius Seizes Even More Power

Not satisfied with the colossal amounts of power that she would acquire under Obamacare if it isn't repealed, Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary Kathleen Sebelius has issued a 136-page "rule" that will now give her (and her subordinates) largely unchecked power to pass judgment on the prices of health insurance throughout the United States. Notwithstanding the fact that 43 states already regulate and approve health insurance premiums, Sebelius claims that we need an additional, more centralized, protection against insurers' unseemly 'profit motive.' But a far greater threat to the future of American republicanism is posed by the impulse that animates Sebelius and the bulk of the Obama administration: the power motive.

Read more at www.weeklystandard.com
 


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Obama reaches out to business -- to grab their loot #tcot #ATR #teaparty

Barack Obama, like the rest of the socialist left, hates business. He believes that anyone who has money either is a thief or inherited it from a long line of thieves, and in either case ought to seriously consider how much is enough.





So it comes as no surprise that he thinks business is just sitting on $2T because the right yacht hasn't come up for sale yet.



In fact, it is his very policies that are keeping businesses on the sidelines.



Read more over at Americans for Tax Reform.

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Obama Offers Poisoned Olive Branch to Businesses

Last Wednesday, President Obama met with 20 leaders of major corporations to discuss cooperation on job growth and economic recovery.  This bridge-building is a departure from the current administration’s typically contentious attitude toward Big Business.
Indeed, Obama’s newfound solicitousness seems to be based more on his old thinly veiled redistributionist rhetoric than a substantial change in attitude toward American business. In his own words, he wanted his guests to provide “ideas that will help businesses to invest in America and American jobs, at a time when they are holding nearly $2 trillion on their books.”  Increased employment and investment is a grand thing, but the President’s emphasis on company holdings shows the true foundation of his thinking: Wall Street and corporate America are keeping money from the public, money to which they have little or no right.



The truth, of course, is that both companies and investors will only throw their money around to the public’s benefit when it is economically safer to do so.  That this hasn’t happened yet shouldn’t be an indication of Gekko-esque greed, as the Obama administration and their Democrat allies would have us believe, but rather an indication that business leaders have seen through Obama’s half-hearted overtures and perceived his ingrained enmity against private American businesses. 
Read more at www.atr.org
 


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Thursday, December 16, 2010

‘Twas The Lame Duck Before Christmas | RedState

Nice.



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Thou Shalt Not Covet #teaparty #tcot #p2

Nestled smack between the evil twins of Greed and Envy there is a sniveling, perpetually tortured coward named Covetousness.



Those who covet what belongs to others will never be happy, boiled as they are in the bubbling couldron of comparison.



Leftists love to label conservatives greedy, but the conservatives I know are simply motivated to do well in whatever they do. They toil not for the spoils of wealth but for the satisfying thrill of accomplishment.



Jennifer Booth of Modern Conservative delves into this topic.


Thou Shalt Not Covet

Jennifer Booth
December 13, 2010


My name is Jennifer, and I am not a Covetist. I do not constantly harp over what my neighbor has. I do not care about his car, I do not want a plastic surgery enhanced spouse. I do not envy his situation, I do not hate him for his job. I do not want his income. I am not a Covetist, because I want my own things which I earn in my own life. It is the job of the liberal progressive to train me into thinking that I should want what my neighbor has, particularly if he is better off financially. Covetism surrounds the belief that my evil rich neighbor isn’t entitled to what he has in his bank account because he could only have done that off my back, i.e. the little guy (gal). Anyone who wants to vilify the rich because they are rich are Covetists, a name to describe the hateful discrimination that surrounds the state of class warfare in our country, by means of nothing but jealousy, insecurity, and sheer laziness.

Read more at www.modernconservative.com
 


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Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Perils of automatic translation, pliant blackamoor edition

I wondered what was all of the fuss about Vladamir Putin's alleged romance of a Russian gymnast. Then I learned the horrible truth: the girl is "the most pliant blackamoor" you'll ever hope to meet.



Except she's not a blackamoor, a word I have never before to my knowledge used.

Amplify’d from www.astantin.com
Alina Kabaeva is famous as the most pliant blackamoor in Russia as well as is allegedly Vladimir Putin's mistress. Now she's on the counterbalance of Russian Vogue. Alina is the saucy Russian who won Olympic metallic rhythmic gymnasts in Athens 2000, gained a centre in the Duma as well as – maybe, meet probably – unsmooth Vladimir Putin… Alina Maratovna Kabayeva (Russian: Али́на Мара́товна Каба́ева; Tatar: Älinä Marat qızı Qabayeva; dropped May. 12, 1983) is a Russian sportsmaster as well as leader .

Alina Kabayeva: Alina Kabaeva: Putin's Mistress On Vogue (photo)

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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

The Comcast-NBCUniversal deal: let companies decide how to serve their customers. #tcot #tech @HeartlandInst

The opposition to the merger of NBC's Universal content production unit with cable company Comcast comes from two general sources: those predisposed to worry about what big companies are doing, and big companies predisposed to worrying about what their competitors are doing.



Companies merge, spin off subsidiaries, and grow internally based on how they can best organize themselves to efficiently fit their markets. If they fail in that attempt, even if it's because their motives are nefarious in some way, the market will punish them.



It ultimately harms everyone for competitors to try to use the power of government to interfere with that process.



It is no less harmful when those pushing for regulation are mere busy-bodies, or those out to maximize their own power.



In the attached article there are some really great lines from Bruce Owen of Stanford, James Gattuso of Heritage, and Bartlett Cleland of IPI.

Policy Analysts: ‘Industry, Not Government, Should Determine Extent of Vertical Integration’

Consumers lose when the government tries to decide what amount of vertical integration is best, according to Bruce Owen, Stanford University senior fellow and Public Policy Program director.

Owen spoke on the proposed merger between Comcast and NBC and other issues confronting the information technology and telecommunications industries at the Technology Policy Institute forum, Antitrust and the Dynamics of Competition in High-Tech Industries, last October,
In his paper entitled “Antitrust and Vertical Integration in ‘New Economy’ Industries.” Owen said:  “There is no difference in principle between General Motors buying a parts maker and Comcast buying a program supplier. In each, there is a very strong presumption that the purchase will be good for consumers, and a small chance that it won’t.”

One necessary condition for a bad outcome is whether GM or Comcast possesses monopoly power, said Owen, addressing one of the concerns expressed by opponents of the proposed merger. “If there is competition in car manufacturing or in video distribution, the chances of a bad outcome are very remote,” said Owen. “That tells me that the FCC’s suspicions about vertical integration are not well-grounded. Acting on those suspicions by banning or penalizing vertical integration is the wrong policy.”
Read more at www.heartland.org
 


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Sunday, December 12, 2010

Solving the Mexican Problem, One Way or Another - Redstate #tcot #p2 #immigration #prohibition

LaborUnionReport at Redstate (see excerpt link below) makes the case that the instability of Mexico can be dealt with in a variety of ways, but deal with it we must.

Amplify’d from www.redstate.com

It's time to 'man up' and face a fact that most politicians know, but few care to admit.

With the exception of, perhaps, Texas governor Rick Perry, no public official wants to publicly admit an obvious fact: The United States of America will likely be forced to invade Mexico. It’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when.  The question then becomes: What to do with Mexico after we invade it and wipe out the drug cartels (as much as can be). Does the United States merely return Mexico to a nation state of corrupt politicians, failed economic policies, and lawlessness, or do we annex Mexico and turn it into the 51st state?

Rather than nation building, which would be much more costly to the U.S. treasury (which can ill afford it), a case can be made for statehood (albeit, not without controversy), given the amount of Mexico’s citizenry that is already residing in the U.S., as well as Mexico’s historically mis-managed economy and resources (i.e., oil, farmland, beaches, ports, etc.). Moreoever, as so many illegal immigrants work already in the U.S., but send their earnings back to Mexico, by having Mexico become the 51st state, the money exported would not leave the U.S. but would stay in “our economy” and could offset the costs of an invasion/humanitarian mission. Most importantly, by assimilating Mexico into the U.S., with the Constitution it would solve the the issue of immigration reform in one fell swoop.

Read more at www.redstate.com
 


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Friday, December 10, 2010

New Committee Chair can do away with Card Check for good #unions #tcot #teaparty

Union bosses have spent the last several years in a deceitful effort to enrich themselves and destroy our economy and individual freedom with something called "card check".



Under card check, union bosses wanting to add to their client base would pass around cards at a given company. On each card would be written an employee's name and a box to check whether the employee wanted a union or not. If over half the employees wanted a union, then they all would be forced to join and pay dues.



As with all such elections, anyone not voting or voting against the union would be subject to reprisal. Given the brutal history of union organizers, threats of violence would not even need to be expressed.



Union organizers always cry about management intimidating workers into staying out of unions, but the truth is nothing like that. Unions make it harder for a person's hard work to pay off, since they reward sloth. Ambitious, hard-working people know they should stay away from unions if they want to get ahead.



No one should be forced to pay a union boss for exercising his right to trade his labor for pay. And no one should be made to fear wanting to do so on his own.

Amplify’d from www.laborunionreport.com

Rep. John Kline & the Secret Ballot Protection Act

Congressman John Kline [R-MN] has been one of the House of Representatives’ most vocal opponents of SEIU’s labor board appointee, Craig Becker, as well as a vocal defender of workers’ right to choose by secret-ballot whether or not to become unionized. In that role, he has stood strong against union bosses as they have worked to strip workers right to a secret-ballot through passage of the job-destroying (and delusionally dubbed) Employee Free Anti-Choice Act.

“Job creation and American competitiveness are vital national priorities. As Chairman, I will ensure they are at the forefront of the Education and Labor Committee agenda.”

Given the five year push by union bosses to rid employees of their right to vote by secret-ballot, as well as this week’s NLRB decision institutionalizing card-check by collusion, Kline and his fellow Republicans are well suited to re-introduce the Secret Ballot Protection Act.

Read more at www.laborunionreport.com
 


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Thursday, December 09, 2010

Heartland's Walker: #NetNeutrality still a "solution in search of a problem" #tcot

Commenting on FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski’s December 1 (pdf) announcement on network neutrality. Bruce E. Walker of The Heartland Institute’s InfoTech & Telecom News says:



“It has been said before but bears repeating: Network neutrality is yet another government regulatory solution in search of a problem.



“Internet service providers have performed admirably by self-managing their networks without intrusive government meddling. Public polls indicate the majority of U.S. citizens are quite happy with the broadband service they receive. Yet, under the guise of protecting ‘Internet freedom and openness,’ the Federal Communications Commission is proceeding with a widely unpopular and ultimately unnecessary agenda with the potential for a devastating impact on technical innovation and job creation.



“True, Chairman Genachowski has backed away from his previous proposal to reclassify the Internet as a Title II communications entity and has stated his commitment to allow ISPs ‘reasonable network management’ capabilities. He has compromised further by allowing ISPs to implement tiered pricing.



“Still, however watered-down this net neutrality proposal may be, it introduces the camel’s regulatory nose under the tent of one of the world’s heretofore most successful industries.



“Additionally, as noted by FCC Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker, the FCC simply doesn’t possess the authority to act on this maneuver, timed for December 21 when most lawmakers and bureaucrats will have deserted Washington.

“In short, Genachowski’s new and improved version of net neutrality is a punt, but one it is hoped Congress will effectively block.”



The Heartland Institute, based in Chicago, is a 26-year-old national nonprofit research and education organization dedicated to advancing free markets.



19 South LaSalle Street #903 * Chicago, IL 60603

312/377-4000 phone * 312/377-5000 fax * http://www.heartland.org



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Highways and bridges are exactly the earmarks we don't need. #tcot #teaparty



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Tuesday, December 07, 2010

F Chuck Todd is making no pretense of impartiality now. Strategizing openly with against Republicans. http://bit.ly/fEKgVb


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Republicans are "hostage takers"? You jerk. You stinking jerk. http://bit.ly/ifDEtm


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Julianna Goldman, Bloomberg White House correspondent is really quite pretty.



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Friday, December 03, 2010

Gettysburg bureaucrats get their wish: Civil War Chapel Burns - news rag ecstatic #tcot

Gettysburg, PA bureaucrats recently notified the United States Christian Commission, which built a replica of a Civil War chapel on a vacant lot in 2006, that the chapel would have to be torn down.



The letter itself gave no reason for the demand, but reports indicate that the structure, used as a working chapel in good weather, lacked proper restroom facilities.



It was insane. The bureaucrats did not understand, or did not care, that the function of the chapel as an historically accurate depiction of the kind of chapel used at the Battle of Gettysburg depended on, among other things, not having modern plumbing, wiring, or specific accessibility features. That's the way things were in the 1860s.



But the spin from the Gettysburg Times would have the reader believe that the code violations led to the fire.



The chapel has "drawn a lot of ire", Gettysburg Times?



Evil leftist rag.

Amplify’d from www.gettysburgtimes.com





FIRE: Controversial chapel destroyed; 3 other downtown buildings burn


Fire broke out in the 100 block of Chambersburg Street in
Gettysburg at 3:38 Friday morning, destroying a Civil War chapel
that has drawn a lot of ire. Three other nearby buildings sustained
significant damage.

The U.S. Christian Commission operated the chapel in the second
block of Chambersburg Street. The wooden structure was built
without proper permits, according to officials, and the borough
recently issued an order to vacate.

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Let’s At Least Get Our Class Warfare Right | RedState #tcot #teaparty #RINOcon



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Let's At Least Get Our Class Warfare Right

It has come to my attention (thanks to Ace and Allahpundit) that certain politicians are presenting themselves as the champions of middle-class, tea party, solid conservative Republicans against the ... and that's where the storyline diverges.



OK, enough with the scare quotes.  For the rest of this post, just add them in yourself where you think they ought to be.



What is a RINO? The label means Republican In Name Only, of course, but it is a term without meaning outside of a small group who would really as soon be in some other party, were it not for the power they wield when more principled people are forced to make deals to get their votes.



A RINO stands out from real Republicans because he or she is willing to vote against his or her party on any issue at any time, with regard only to strategy, personal advancement, or electoral advantage. RINOs, in caricature, are unconstrained by ideology, in other words.



But few hold a party line position on every issue.  Even liberty-loving, highly doctrinaire conservative tea partying Redstate Republicans like me have dreams of dragging our party into the light on an issue or two. Where to draw the line on who is a RINO and who is a true Republican, then, is clearly a matter both of degree and of individual perspective.



So as a matter of political necessity, we band together and agree to ignore, for now, the 10% of issues on which we disagree in favor of the 90% of things in which we're in agreement.



And while there is some kind of loose correlation between old money and the Big Government Republicanism we came to despise in the Bush administrations, the blue bloods are not the problem, or at least, they don't define the full extent of the problem.



So when Ace says

I'm really not digging what I find to be a crudely reductivist, single-dimensional model of politics that many have seized on (Palin most prominently), that politics currently consists of almost nothing at all but "elitists" vs. the common.


I tend to agree, in part because I think we're all searching for a simple explanation for something that may not be simple.



Because if there is a problem with the blue blood, country club, Wall Street Republicans (as opposed to Wall Street Democrats), it is that are willing to work against our party on any issue at any time, with regard only to strategy, personal advancement, or commercial advantage. Blue bloods, in caricature, are unconstrained by ideology, in other words.



There is nothing wrong with being part of the Establishment per se, unless you want to be part of the Establishment because it's the Establishment. That is, we should no more reject a person's ideas because they are part of the Establishment than we would like to be kept from being in the Establishment because of our ideas.



Erick's "squish" label comes closest to defining the real battle.  What separates "us" from "them" is not money.  It isn't positions on a given issue or set of issues.  It's believing that issues matter in the first place.



Because squishes are willing to work against our party on any issue at any time, with regard only to strategy, personal advancement, or political advantage. squishes, in caricature, are unconstrained by ideology, in other words.



For many in Washington (and in statehouses), ideas are to be trotted out at election time and when the cameras are on, while they focus on the acquisition and administration of political power. While they may believe in the primacy of the Constitution, in limited government, or have deeply held personal beliefs on social issues, they use the ideas to win elections, rather than wanting to win elections to advance the ideas.



There are many Republicans, even those who are largely conservative, who view the government as a tool for advancing themselves in commerce.  I'm not talking about those who want the government to stay in its Constitutional box because that is best for the economy as a whole, but those who manipulate its special favor. As Erick says,

Likewise, the quest for these exemptions and deductions has had a corrupting influence within the conservative movement as businesses pay conservatives to support particular tax exemptions and deductions regardless of the merit. Some of the most vocal critics of streamlining the tax process in this country are coin operated conservatives who profit from lobbying for individual exemptions to benefit individual companies at the expense of everyone else.


In all of these cases -- the blue bloods, Establishment, the squishes, the elites and the RINOs -- the real problem is whether the person is advancing ideas or advancing themselves.



So next time someone responds to your plea for conservative principles with the importance of committee chairmanships or a majority in the Senate, understand that you're dealing with a ... well, with one of them.


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Wednesday, December 01, 2010

The Tequila Party: Proof Democrats Don't Get the #TeaParty Movement #tcot

Democrats love to gather into groups, and in fact tend to see the electorate as a bunch of groups rather than a nation of individuals.



So it's not surprising that they can't seem to organize except from the top down.



Downstateiladvocate.com has more.

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Liberals Still Don't Understand The Tea Parties



DOWNSTATEILADVOCATE.COM: Liberals Still Don't Understand The Tea Parties








Liberals Still Don't Understand The Tea Parties



Despite taking historic losses in the last midterm elections and being the focus of countless protests leading up to the midterms, the liberals still don't understand what the Tea Parties are.

I enter into evidence the possibility of a "Tequila Party".
Problem #1.  It's not grassroots if national leaders spawn the movement.  When we started our Tea Parties, no GOP or conservative leaders called us up and told us what to do.  The Tea Parties were a spontaneous reaction to the end of the Bush Presidency and the Obama/Pelosi/Reid policies in early 2009.  In fact, we were sitting on our couch the day Rick Santelli did his rant; we looked at each other and said "He's right, let's do a Tea Party".  Others around the nation who started Tea Parties I'm sure have similar stories.  History was written. 
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