Just a thought: there is so much snow here that the town is having highway crews use loaders and trucks to clear neighborhoods, so that emergency personnel can access every home in town...of course, that's paid for via property taxes...but what if a neighborhood turned down such efforts, and in return didn't have to pay a portion of their taxes, to finance their own private system...?
Friday, January 28, 2011
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Republicans need to understand that the teaparty movement is a good thing.
I've sensed since the elections earlier this month, where moderate Republicans like Mike Castle were opposed by teaparty candidates who themselves ultimately failed to be elected...Christine O'Donnell, Joe Miller, Sharron Angle...that some Republicans are not happy that the teaparty prevented someone like Mike Castle to return to the US Senate, which for some Republicans, is worse than having a Democrat take the seat.
The problem is not the teaparty. The problem is that the GOP already tried the "we have to tolerate moderate members" strategy...it led to conservatives leaving the party, and turning the Congress over to the Democrat party, which has had control now for four disastrous years, and the nation has sensed the danger and has moved to limit the damage Democrats can do, by turning the House of Representatives over to the GOP.
Although the nation suffered, there is no way anyone is going to blame the last four years on the teaparty. The blame in fact, is going towards those deserving blame, and that's a good thing.
However, these attacks on teaparty members from Republicans...Sarah Palin isn't "quite smart enough", or Christine O'Donnell "was a witch", is a waste of energy, and is unproductive.
Conservatives in Delaware wanted to risk losing a senate seat in order to send Mike Castle and others posing as consewrvatives a message and they did so and that's not to be blamed on anyone but Mike Castle.
Yes, the teaparty candidates did not win every race. In fact, they won some two-in-three and frankly, that's amazing, it's positive, it's moving the GOP back towards the right and no one is to blame for that, because it's progress.
Is it perfect? No. It is however, the path conservatives have chosen to take, to regain a voice in Congress, and they're not turning back anytime soon, and hopefully they never will, frankly.
Let's focus on what the problems are, and keep things in the proper perspective: Having a debate within the party is a good thing. It's not something to fear, nor something to restrict. What the overall focus of the party needs to remain is the opposition party to the Obama agenda.
That's a worthy goal, it serves great purpose, it's necessary, and it's what voters want.
And if someone in the GOP wants to find fault with that scenario, let 'em.
But it is what it is, it's not going to change anytime soon if ever, and it's time for old-guard Republicans to understand the teaparty is here to stay, and it's not the problem: Democrats are.
The problem is not the teaparty. The problem is that the GOP already tried the "we have to tolerate moderate members" strategy...it led to conservatives leaving the party, and turning the Congress over to the Democrat party, which has had control now for four disastrous years, and the nation has sensed the danger and has moved to limit the damage Democrats can do, by turning the House of Representatives over to the GOP.
Although the nation suffered, there is no way anyone is going to blame the last four years on the teaparty. The blame in fact, is going towards those deserving blame, and that's a good thing.
However, these attacks on teaparty members from Republicans...Sarah Palin isn't "quite smart enough", or Christine O'Donnell "was a witch", is a waste of energy, and is unproductive.
Conservatives in Delaware wanted to risk losing a senate seat in order to send Mike Castle and others posing as consewrvatives a message and they did so and that's not to be blamed on anyone but Mike Castle.
Yes, the teaparty candidates did not win every race. In fact, they won some two-in-three and frankly, that's amazing, it's positive, it's moving the GOP back towards the right and no one is to blame for that, because it's progress.
Is it perfect? No. It is however, the path conservatives have chosen to take, to regain a voice in Congress, and they're not turning back anytime soon, and hopefully they never will, frankly.
Let's focus on what the problems are, and keep things in the proper perspective: Having a debate within the party is a good thing. It's not something to fear, nor something to restrict. What the overall focus of the party needs to remain is the opposition party to the Obama agenda.
That's a worthy goal, it serves great purpose, it's necessary, and it's what voters want.
And if someone in the GOP wants to find fault with that scenario, let 'em.
But it is what it is, it's not going to change anytime soon if ever, and it's time for old-guard Republicans to understand the teaparty is here to stay, and it's not the problem: Democrats are.
The Two Party System & The Scales of Justice
The two party political system in America is as natural as rain. Left and Right, North and South, white & black...opposing, natural forces that develop whenever any one single entity exists.
The problem with our system isn't that there's a left and right; the problem is that one party actually is split naturally, and the other is not.
Whatever two sides the Democrat party had was decimated three weeks ago when any Democrat even rumored to be "moderate" was run out of office, leading the Democrat party even further left than it was, before the election.
Meanwhile, the GOP continues to be divided along lines drawn in the sand by the teaparty movement/conservatives, while those considered "moderate" in the party have seemingly taken a position that the teaparty may be a threat.
It's a healthy debate on the right. It's also natural. What is not natural however, is what the Democrat party represents.
While losing a record number of seats both in Congress and in virtually every state but a handful in the union, Democrats actually moved further left, by reelecting those who have led the party down a disastrous, reckless road and who now have driven out from the party anyone considered even remotely conservative or moderate.
The party has no left and right within. It is commanded and saturated with far-left extremists who are completely out of the mainstream.
Which brings me to the point of this post: America is reacting to what is essentially a political injustice. When Barack Obama was sworn into office, he was not being elected to buy General Motors, or to takeover the healthcare insurance sector, or the college loan program.
The president was elected to represent the best interests of the American people and he has done the opposite, while representing a minority of Americans who "strongly support" his policies.
This is not how our system was designed to work. No president and no Congress are to act as benevolent dictators. They are commanded by law to represent the people, and they take an oath and swear to God Almighty to guard and protect the US Constitution and for the past two years, they've done anything but.
Those practices either come to a halt and the Democrat party changes its' radical course, or two years hence, the American people will move once again as they did on the 2nd of this month, to show tone-deaf, arrogant, corrupt legislators that no longer will their tyranny be tolerated.
The problem with our system isn't that there's a left and right; the problem is that one party actually is split naturally, and the other is not.
Whatever two sides the Democrat party had was decimated three weeks ago when any Democrat even rumored to be "moderate" was run out of office, leading the Democrat party even further left than it was, before the election.
Meanwhile, the GOP continues to be divided along lines drawn in the sand by the teaparty movement/conservatives, while those considered "moderate" in the party have seemingly taken a position that the teaparty may be a threat.
It's a healthy debate on the right. It's also natural. What is not natural however, is what the Democrat party represents.
While losing a record number of seats both in Congress and in virtually every state but a handful in the union, Democrats actually moved further left, by reelecting those who have led the party down a disastrous, reckless road and who now have driven out from the party anyone considered even remotely conservative or moderate.
The party has no left and right within. It is commanded and saturated with far-left extremists who are completely out of the mainstream.
Which brings me to the point of this post: America is reacting to what is essentially a political injustice. When Barack Obama was sworn into office, he was not being elected to buy General Motors, or to takeover the healthcare insurance sector, or the college loan program.
The president was elected to represent the best interests of the American people and he has done the opposite, while representing a minority of Americans who "strongly support" his policies.
This is not how our system was designed to work. No president and no Congress are to act as benevolent dictators. They are commanded by law to represent the people, and they take an oath and swear to God Almighty to guard and protect the US Constitution and for the past two years, they've done anything but.
Those practices either come to a halt and the Democrat party changes its' radical course, or two years hence, the American people will move once again as they did on the 2nd of this month, to show tone-deaf, arrogant, corrupt legislators that no longer will their tyranny be tolerated.
Monday, August 24, 2009
Obama Vacation
Our president is vacationing on Martha's Vineyard this week, and the media has been asked to allow the president a week free of media attention. This, after spending the first 8 months of his presidency barely missing a single day in front of the cameras to promote any number of administration goals, and also while holding more press conferences in 8 months, than George W. Bush held, in eight years and to this I say Mr. President, please do enjoy your vacation from the media and may I speak for the rest of us when I say we'll sure enjoy the vacation away from you.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Obamacare, rationing for seniors, & the lack of respect for life in America
If you consider that America's largest cities are laden with violence, crime, poverty and the like, many people say that there is simply a lack of respect for life among America's youth. Obamacare is evolving into a debate among liberal ideologues and older Americans, over whether or not it's worth it to spend resources on healthcare for seniors. Consider that Obamacare itself is about disrespecting America's elders, and whether or not the lack of respect for life among so many inner-city youth, are connected.
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Obamacare
When President Obama said that his intent was to reform healthcare, he insisted that he only was concerned with the nature in which healthcare was financed. In fact, anyone reading the 1000+ page House bill (H.R. 3200) will see that this bill is simply an effort courtesy of the federal government, to take over the American healthcare system, and that is where the president has forfeited the debate: he has not been straightforward about his intent, healthcare is an obviously critical matter, and the combination of those factors has Americans concerned to the point where they are taking to the streets as America has not seen, since the Vietnam Era. Not to mention, the president responding by implying those concerned makeup an "angry mob" that needs to "shut up and get out of the way" is not going to change anyones' position, that this bill is a threat to their health.
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