There’s principled…

…and then there’s stupid and gullible.

And the Republican House caucus is…?

They voted for the Stupid Stupak Amendment to the Trojan the Healthcare Industry Takeover Bill, banning it from funding abortion and thereby paving the way for the Democrats to pass the whole bill.  Because, according to the Republican anti-abortion caucus, “We don’t play politics with life.”

No stupid, BUT THE DEMOCRATS DO!  And principles aren’t supported by playing the fool.  The best way to keep Obamacare from funding abortion is to KILL THE HEALTHCARE TAKEOVER BILL!  GAWD!  I’m flaming in caps like Gateway Pundit!

Killing the bill is the only way to stop all of the bad provisions in the bill because the problem isn’t  the provisions.  It’s the entire bill itself.  Because a one sentence amendment to eliminate a clause can be undone by another one sentence clause buried in a another Democratic 1,000 page spending atrocity passed in the middle of the night because that’s the only way they can their trash passed.  Or as promised by the Democrats themselves, the amendment won’t even make it to Obama’s desk because it will be killed in conference committee.

Principles are served by WINNING!  If you have a priceless Ming Vase and somebody is trying to take it from you, you don’t defend it by HOLDING IT OUT IN FRONT OF YOU, MORONS!

Gee, and the Republicans can’t understand why people don’t identify with them anymore.

Is it just me…

Naw.  He doesn’t have a point.

HEY! If you can’t make fun of mass murders, who can you make fun of?

Ahhhh… The fallout

The Day After Election Day (DEAD spelled backwards) and everyone has an opinion to express.  Well, given the name of the blog, express I must.

A comment on Daniel Henninger’s article on Wall Street Journal’s Opinion Page (my site feels so at home there).  Henninger describes the new American Voter as a herd of cattle and coins the term “cattle stampede” to describe how this new voter group chased politically left and right.  First, how much better to be portrayed as raging bulls than the sheeple the Democrats hoped we would be and still want us to become.  But secondly, he is wrong about the voting herd chasing left after Obama and switching right now.  The independent voters who voted for Obama did not vote for a leftist.  He ran as a moderate.  The fawning press went out of its way to bury his Marxist associations so only us political junkies knew just how far out in left field this guy was.  The Democrats blasted the idiot Republicans for their irresponsible spending, expansion of government and unbridled personal corruption.  The herd wasn’t told that what the Democratic Axis was going to bring would make Republican Democrat Lite governance look positively miserly, restrained and saintly in comparison.

Really honestly and truly, the thundering herd of the Tea Partiers, independents and disaffected partisans is not chasing left or right.  They are chasing fiscal responsibility, restoration of civil rights and the return of Constitutional government and the Rule of Law in government.  Some people may consider that right wing.  So be it.  But that’s still not chasing left and right.  It’s looking consistently for one thing both political  parties have utterly failed to deliver.  Both political parties have failed spectacularly in this regard, one unbelievably worse than the other.  The Republicans were kicked out because they broke the Contract With America.  The Democrats will be kicked out because they never believed in it in the first place.

The Pelosi/Reid/Obama Democratic Axis will damage the Democratic Party for a generation.  They will have Tax, Spend and Domination Party tattooed down to their bones.  That will take some painful sanding to remove.

The Republicans have the opportunity to seek redemption.  Return to their roots.  Conservative governance, fiscal responsibility, for the greater good, To Create A More Perfect Union because We The People of These United States aren’t going to give them many more chances.  The Republicans need to remember than in 1856, they were the third party.

Phhhhfffftttt….

Did I say the Party of National Suicide.  Should have said the Party of Political Suicide.

For years the Republicans held off the Democrats by blasting them as the “Tax and Spend” party.  Slowly the Democrats began to outlive the label, not by being more thrifty, but simply by not being in a position to tax and spend freely because they were in the minority.  And of course they had the windfall of the Republicans using their time in the majority to basically turn into Democrats.  Finally, in 2008 the Democrats won the trifecta…and self destructed.  Drunk with power and they went on an insane spending spree.  If the Republicans, or the Tea Partiers (I don’t really care which), restore fiscal sanity, it will take the Democrats a generation to outlive the “Tax and Spend” label now.  Isn’t there some saying about the brighter the candle burns the quicker it goes out.  Burn bright Dems.

This is your state…

…on Democrats:  California, Michigan, New York, Illinois, New Jersey are all in effectively bankrupt.  They lead the country in unemployment as they drive out businesses that would have generated the economic activities to finance all of the liberal’s wet dreams.  aka: “Progressive”.

This is your state on Republicans:  Texas, Florida, Oklahoma, Alaska.  Financially sound, with growing business bases that provide employment opportunities for people and economic life for the state.  aka: progress.

Powerline scores Texas v. California and the verdict is pretty clear.

Most people judge the influence of the party in power by looking at which party dominated the Governor’s Mansion.  This is because far too many people can’t tell the difference between a state chief executive and a monarch.  But governors generated neither tax or spending bills.  The real way to judge the influence of the parties is to see who dominated the speakership of the House in the legislature.  It doesn’t matter that California has had multiple Republican governors.  The legislature has been owned by the Democrats for decades and the result is that one of the largest economies on Earth has been reduced to a pauper trapped in a death spiral of increasing taxes on a shrinking tax base, thereby ensuring that the tax base shrinks even more.    That is inevitably, your state on Democrats.

Ford and the Labor Mafia Monopoly

Ford asked the UAW to renegotiate its labor contract to put it in parity with the Chrysler and GM.  Chrysler and Government Motors had concessions imposed on the labor mafia in return for having the stockholder’s property confiscated by Obama and given to the United Auto Slacker’s union as payback for essentially being indistinguishable from any other organ of the Democratic Party.  The labor mafia of course rejected the request because, ya’ know, they own the competitors.

Labor mafias were granted anti-trust exemptions back when they were imposed on companies.  This is what allowed so many unions to completely dominate whole industries and drive them into the ground.  But did that exemption actually include the unions as business competitors?  Should Ford go after the union on anti-competitive grounds since the union is no longer (like it ever was) simply representing the labor force.  They are now in direct competition with Ford.

Should Ford follow Boeing and start relocating production to free states?

Teaching freedom

Another of my favorite writers who writes way better than I do.

Bill Whittle defends the Second Amendment.  Actually, he defends an armed population as not just a right but a responsibility of free people.  Oh, and he defends the concept of free people.  In fact he pretty much defends the whole gamut of conservative positions, including pointing out that freedom is messy.

The one point he misses (it was a little outside the scope) was that while tolerance of some level of messiness is necessary for a society to remain free, it would be possible to reduce that messiness by teaching responsibility in a more organized way.  Like shooting classes in public schools.  (Oh, just imagine the angst that would cause in the communist teacher’s labor mafia.)  Likewise, the zero tolerance of teenage drinking should be reconsidered.  The best way to teach kids to drink responsibly is to have them start at home.  Instead, the prohibitionists and overzealous prosecutors put people in jail for letting the kids have a sip of wine at dinner, which in all likelihood does more harm to the child and wrecks the family for precisely what?   Heck, I had to send my daughter to France (no drinking age there) so she could imbibe (not actually the only reason.  It was a school sponsored trip.).  Surprise!  No harm done!

This leads to the conclusion that the libertarians are more correct than I used to think they were.  I went to college in Illinois when the drinking age there was 19.  We had a pub on campus.  A real pub, that served beer.  I would challenge anyone to prove that we drank more than at many schools today that supposedly prohibit it.  The First Daughter says alcohol flows pretty freely where she goes to school.

So what is the best way to teach being free?  Being raised in a permissive libertarian society where responsibility is taught in an organized manner?  Or by prohibiting everything and promoting rebellion and chaos?

Divide and rule is the rulz

(Eyes still haven’t cleared up yet.  But I at least have an excuse for my atrocious spelling.  I CAN’T SEE!)

Lumberjack and Are We Lumberjacks points out that the Democrats are playing identify politics with states.  The “Healthcare Reform Bill” aka Trojan the Health Industry Takeover Horse, would apply differential taxation to different states.

I may be falling for their plan.  It’s diabolical and it’s working.  Even though I pointed this out long ago, I’m succumbing to their diabolical plan.

I’m running out of outrage.

The Democratic Party, the Party of Slavery, the Party of Socialism, the Party that brought us Civil War in the 19th Centuray and Jim Crow in the 20th, the Party of division, segregation, persecution and discrimination is now going to segregate the country not by race, or ethnicity, or orientation, or gender, or any of the other ways they’ve traditionally parsed out the country into mutual hate groups.  They’re going to apply different tax rates in different states.  Lower rates for politically privileged states?  Meaning higher taxes for…what…predominantly Republican states?  Ok.  Whatever.

Maybe the Democrats have a death wish.  Maybe they were driven so insane with power in January that they feel some compulsion to throw themselves into the sea like lemmings.  Because for a Party of Whores, I don’t think you could pay them to commit the outrages they are committing against the country.  How blind do they have to be to not see the reaction all of this is going to cause?  Of course their only competition is the milquetoast pantywaist Democrat Lite Party.  Hmmmm.  I think I see where they get the feeling of invincibility.

Been busy

Just remember anytime you see something the Democrats do that make you think, “WTF!”

For my entire adult life, the goal of the political Left has been to destroy the power of the United States.  They are not being driven by stupidity.  They are being driven by malice.

My honoree for the Nobel Peace Prize this week is…

The lowly acorn.

It doesn’t matter that the only accomplishment of the acorn besides existing is to succumb to the immutable laws of gravity.  The acorn in time will grow into a might oak tree.  It’s roots securing the very earth it stands in.  A pillar of the community that grows within its branches and its very wood, bark and leave.  A landmark that spreads its boughs across the land, laying its shadow for the protection of the weary traveler, picnicker and shadetree mechanic.  The fate of the acorn is unkownable to it.  Whether it is destined to fall anonymously in the forest, to feed its brethren with its rotting corpse or sacrifice itself to become a fine hardwood floor is beyond its ability to comprehend.  Yet it will do something that is worthy far beyond its humble beginnings.

Or it might just turn into a pile of squirrel droppings.  But we can’t let that blind us to the possibilities.  We have to issue this award while we can, because that rodent is looking pretty hungry.