I am curious how Obama will manage to spin the dangerous situation in Iraq. If the country falls, and according to media reports the government is near toppling, the firestorm that sweeps across the middle east and the world will be laid squarely at Obama’s feet. He can blame no one but himself for this. The 20th century began in violence and decades of world war followed on little more than the foolishness this President has demonstrated. The root cause of those conflicts has not changed,  diminished or disappeared. Yet in his naive and childish enthusiasm he has declared that the war has been won. Unfortunately in Arabic what he really said is “have at it guys, my attention deficit prevents me from focusing on reality”.

Maybe the reason the feds don’t enforce marijuana laws is because our great leader is stressed, and we all know what he did to handle stress in the past.  The slacker president. Hey man, I can’t think about Iraq right now, too bummer man, you know? Don’t we have a fund raiser I can attend somewhere?

There is no evidence that any conservative running for office would actually change the RATE OF SPENDING. And the reason is simple, it will send the country into a tail spin.

Lower taxes will not spur investment as long as it is the regulatory bureaucracy that is destroying jobs. And shutting that down must be the number one priority. That means massive federal government layoffs. And restoring power over the local domestic agenda to state governments. That includes control over the environment, labor relations, health, education, and welfare. No party will do that when they are in control of the government.

In a couple weeks we will be back talking about continuing resolutions and a new budget. The time for making deals is over.  They just make it worse. You don’t get a balanced budget by making deals, you get a balanced budget by spending less than you take in.  And you spend less now, not in a decade. The new Boehner endorsed “politburo” is not going to cut spending.

So there are three things we need to get out of the next budget fight or CR battle: Cut spending now, dismantle programs such as ObamaCare, the NLRB and the EPA in favor of letting states set their own agendas, and remove funding for the politburo the Boehner deal created.

WmCraig

Evangelical Tradlitionist – spreading the gospel of self determination through restoration of local and state government control over the matters of it’s citizens.

TRADITIONALISM A philosophy that government should function with a respect for the limits of it’s own authority taking priority over all other considerations.

Debt deal is done, truth is there never was a crisis. All a bunch of made up hysterics so people wouldn’t notice the democrats and the republicrats just passed a huge spending bill, authorized large tax increases and created a commission behind which they can hide when they increase spending and increase taxes again. It is all about spending in Washington, both sides want more money to spend. No one stands for smaller government.

And in the future the decision about spending  will be turned over to the control of 9 people in black robes and 12 people on the debt commission, and one guy in the White House. Sounds like the politburo to me.

Can we at least get rid of the rest of the legislature so that we can save that money?

This whole thing makes me sick. Next election we can decide between good guys who will borrow money that they will spend promising to  push the country toward the side we are on, or bad guys that will borrow money that they will spend promising to push the country toward the side we are not on. I don’t care which side you are on that accurately describes the non-choice for both sides. Not one of those running will actually care one damn bit about seeing our hard earned money taken from us and spending it for their own pleasure. Good guys and bad guys that get together at the end of the night and laugh at how they fooled the stupid masses. Doesn’t matter what side you are on, the game is the same.

It is like watching the globe trotters play basketball. It isn’t about winning or loosing, there is no competition, it is all just an illusion with lots of parlor tricks and stunts all carefully choreographed and designed to fill the stands. So tell me which team are you rooting for and hoping they win, Boehner’s Washington Generals, or Obama’s globe trotters.

Somebody please at least give us some Sweet Georgia Brown as background music!

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker John Boehner says the pact he’s reached with President Barack Obama and other leaders of Congress on lifting the debt limit and taming the budget “isn’t the greatest deal” but lives up to the GOP’s principles on taxes and spending.  - From an  Associated Press article written by Andrew Taylor.  

I will give Boehner credit for this, he is learning from Nancy Pelosi. Nancy knew that when you wanted to do something nasty that abuses the majority of the American public you need to hold the vote over a weekend, preferably a holiday weekend. Well last weekend wasn’t a holiday but Boehner is starting to show some of the leadership skills of the former speaker. One has to admire her understanding of her contituency’s desires. A constituency made up of real radicals desiring a cradle to grave big government welfare state.

And while I will give Boehner credit for learning something about how to get bills passed in the face of overwhelming voter disgust, John Boehner is either clueless or a Democrat. What he has pushed through this year has advanced Pelosi’s agenda in a way even Nancy couldn’t. Even the democrats couldn’t raise the debt ceiling when they had all the power.

Please speaker Boehner, resign your seat. You are not a conservative. The House would be no worse off if you retired now, and the seat was empty. Otherwise it is time that the GOP went the way of the Whigs, and for the same reason. For your unwillingness to stand up for liberty and to make compromises that extend the misery of those you claim to serve in the name of “not disrupting the economy”. What Obama is doing may not be slavery but he is no better than the company store, putting people into bondage to pay off debts they can ill afford and from which they draw no benefit, yet have no relief. All so those who are politically connected can profit handsomely at the tax payer’s expense.

And you sir, John Boehner, Republi-crat,  are Obama’s accomplice.

You don’t get to a balance budget by “making a deal” you don’t get to a balanced budget by passing Boehner’s legistlation, you don’t get to a balanced budget by passing the “best deal left on the table”, you get to a balanced budget by spending less than you take in. Spending less this year, not three congresses from now.  You don’t shrink a 1400 billion  dollar ANNUAL  deficit by cutting 400 billion  per ANNUM and call that a win.

You don’t need a balanced budget amendment to stop spending. You need courage and fortitude. And you need to get rid of the Republicrats that are more interested in a deal and are tone deaf stupid to the fact that America wants a solution to too much spending. If we had a balanced budget amendment Harry Reid would simply not pass a budget and we would continue borrowing money until every Republicrat was retired. In other words, this doesn’t end until you call the bluff and shut it down. Then take your good ole’ time reauthorizing about 10% of every department, agency and 0.0% of the regulations.

The solution to our job crises, our economic crises and our entitlement crisis is smoke stack industries, big business that drives the need for small business jobs, we need to pump, mine and process. Just get rid of the socialist bureaucracy that Obama has pumped up with steroids starting with the EPA and the NLRB and let the states do their own thing.

It is time to get rid of Boehner and Hoyer. We don’t need leadership from Republicrats. Next election they can run as Democrats, who can tell the difference anyway. It seems to be that Democrat voters are the only people they care to please.  

Let me explain this nightmare scenario to you thick headed Republicrats that think the worse thing that can happen is you don’t pull off a squeaker of an election and defeat Obama because you were seen as tough on spending. It ain’t the worst that can happen. Obama is not going away even if you defeat him in the election. He is going to sit on the sidelines and collect the media and be in your face about every little thing you do or don’t do. He starts campaigning to regain the presidency the day after the 2012 election. You won’t be able to accomplish anything and  Obama  won’t get any of the blame. You will even have to pay for his security, and his media coverage and all the other trappings of an ex-president, only this one plans to make a fool out of you after he leaves office so he can come back and with a mandate to do anything he wants.

And in 2016 he will be the most expreinced Democrat running.

You can’t defeat Obama in the election, you must destroy his political career right now so no one will ever trust ANYTHING he says. Obama has handed you two perfect opportunities to fundamentally restore this country to the greatness it deserves and what game are you playing? Lets make a deal.

Republicrats, Dumb and Dumber

WmCraig

Step 1. Surrender. Republican talking point: There is nothing we can do to stop Obama from spending this country into a crisis. They are intent on driving it over the cliff. We don’t have a debt crisis we have a spending crises brought about by Obama, Pelosi and Reed who have failed to even put together a plan for their spending by passing a budget. Creating a budget is a very difficult and demeaning chore, required of all adult head of households, and clearly there are no adult head of households working for Obama. What we have instead are fools spending money like fools.

ALL WE CAN DO IS PREPARE TO PUT THE COUNTRY BACK TOGETHER AFTER OBAMA RUNS IT OFF THE CLIFF WITH HIS SPENDING.

Step 2. Start puttting together a new budget based on no debt increase, a proposed plan for spending that includes items that are critical thought they will require a debt increase and a PLAN TO RETURN DOMESTIC AGENDA MANAGEMENT TO THE STATES.

Step 3. Sunset every law that a non-restored department ever created, giving the states 12 months to come up with their own plans, or not as they see fit. CALL IT A JOBS PROGRAM. Putting people back to work by removing the burden of government.

Talking points:

Elections have consequences. Harry Reid controls the Senate and he refuses to acknowledge the consequences of squandering a year on health care when the jobs market was in critical condition. Now he refuses to cut spending and blames Republicans for not being tax and spend Democrats. Elections have consequences and the electorate spoke in 2010. They want fiscal displine.  Harry Reid doesn’t have a plan and assumes the Republicans can be conned into doing his job for him. Not this time. We are going to concentrate on saving the country and putting the government back together after Harry Reid’s incompetence drives it to ruin. The people spoke in November 2010, and they said take back the keys the people in the driver seat are speeding out of control toward a dead end.

So if Harry Reid can’t grow up and do his job, by putting together a budget that spends no more then what America takes in, then we need to be prepared to put the government back together after he crashes it along with the economy

We have given up talking, now we have to plan for services after the fall. What really is needed? Do we need the NLRB dictating winners and loosers? Do we need a justice department that doesn’t do this country justice? Do we need the EPA mandating regulations Congress never approved? Do we need to fund libya, or the UN? Do we need money to give to Petrogas so they can drill in water off our shore closed to our own drilling companies? Of course not. There are things we need but too much of the spending is on things that buy votes and not on things that buy security and prosperity. Oh sure, when we put our plan together to save the country we may have to recommend raising the debt ceiling until the economy heats up. Things like nuclear security and the FAA air traffic controllers. We do need some services. But should the federal government meddle in education.

This is what we will work on, a new priority of spending that eliminates 90% of the federal domestic policy bureaucracy and as much of foreign aide, especially aide to the UN. We will work on a plan that lets business build factories and create jobs, bringing back some of the industries that the Democrats claim are lost forever. We will eliminate the burdensome EPA regulations that prevent us from drilling our own oil, opening refineries to make our own gas, putting our natural resources to work. We will eliminate anything to do with global warming that NASA has proven is all based on false premises anyway. We will create an efficient lean small government that turns domestic priorities over to the states and is powerful only in it’s appropriate role over foreign affairs.

This is what we were sent to do. Fassion a smaller government before the Democrats destroy any hope for renewed prosperity. We really thought that the progressives in Washington would read the election results and moderate their spending, but they did not. So now we must prepare for the inevitable recovery after Harry Reed’s Senate and Obama’s veto pens push us the final way into the chasm.

This chasm was caused by out of control spending. It is a spending crisis, not a debt crisis. America gets it. So do the Republicans that refuse to raise the debt limit.

WmCraig

1. We have to cut spending, and we need to cut it now. Not ten years from now. A promise from Washington to do something in ten years is a lie. A balanced budget amendment is being sold with the same rhetoric that the borrowing limit was sold. To force Congress to be responsible. The spending cap didn’t work, the balanced budget amendment won’t either. They are just gimmicks to keep spending going for one more election cycle.

2. We are the children and grandchildren who are enslaved by this spending. Not some future generation. That stopped when social security surpluses dried up. Now, every dollar we borrow starts getting paid back out of our taxes right away. Next year it will be harder to make cuts then this year and costs will be higher because of increased borrowing.

3. Out of control spending from government is a cancer eating the heart out of the country.  Like any cancer the earlier it is caught the stronger the patient and the earlier you start aggressive treatment the better the odds for the outcome. This year it is time to start “chemo” and burn the cancer out. Sure, the patient will get worse before getting better, but the longer you wait to start, the less likely a good outcome will result.

4. Shut it down and force changes now. Use power over congress to get results, just like Pelosi did. We know what Democrats will do with power if they get it again. They will use it to ram through programs to build power and enslave citizens. The solution to the abuse of power this administration has demonstrated isn’t to change the administration, but to eliminate the power. It is time undo the legacy of Washington mandates and restore power to the states over domestic issues. Only then will liberals and Conservatives alike be protected from radicals of any stripe imposing a vision on an American public unable to resist.

5. Taxes aren’t killing hundreds of thousands of oil industry jobs across the sooth. Taxes didn’t keep Boeing from creating thousands of new jobs in the South Carolina. It is regulatory abuse from Washington. If you really want to create jobs in this country you need to cut regulations, not taxes. And you can’t do that without radical change. Shut down the government, then restore only those parts that make sense to fund. FAA yes, EPA no. The states got that covered anyway. Immigration, maybe NLRB no.  You get the point. You will never get rid of the health education and welfare bureaucracies in Washington unless you do a radical surgery. Shutting down the government and forcing spending into a narrowly defined (constitutionally consistent) channel is the only way. What good is a justice department that takes your tax money to abuse states protecting there citizens, but doesn’t enforce the border laws, drug laws, or DOMA? None, so why fund it?

5. When you cut the tap the parasites will surface. No one knows just how many parasitic industries there are in this country. Cut the cash flow off and it will become obvious.

6. If we don’t have enough money to pay our bills why are you borrowing money to pay the UN?  Or sending billions to Petrogas so they can drill in water off our shores that our own companies are denied access to by regulation? Seriously should grandma not get her social security check so the UN can get paid?

Alinsky’s rule is that the treat of a thing is worse than the thing itself. The threat of “default” sounds terrible. And everyone will hurt because there are a lot of business that get money from the government, not as hand outs but as vendors. They won’t be paid. That said, why won’t they be paid? Why can’t we choose not to send money to the UN or not fund Obama Care and pay the government vendors for their products and services? And while we are at it, why are we sending so much money to California? They are in the top 10 biggest economies in the world, let them fund their own stupid ideas. Financial aide for illegal aliens? really? With whose tax dollars governor Moonbeam?

Stand firm, hold the line. Fix the problem. The problem isn’t the debt. The problem is a Washington bureaucracy  and regulatory power allowed to grow to a point that it stifles economic growth, the foundation of this country’s greatness.  It is time to put that genie back in the bottle.

WmCraig

Note, it did not in the end prevent war between the states. Comprimising on principles never works. Perhaps Mitch McConnell is only looking for one more election. What Obama is doing is destroying America.

Something else came out of the Missouri Compromise. A radical new political party which in 1860 won it’s first national election and placed Abraham Lincoln in the White House. The strife caused by the conflict of liberty with the economic dependence on the south of continuing slavery destroyed one party, the WHIGS, and created two polar opposite parties on the subject of liberty.

Today we are once again engaged in test of principles that have divided the opponents into three camps. Those who seek to extend the progressive model of economic dependence, those who seek to end it, and those who seek to compromise.

The Democrats are the party supporting the progressive economic model. Like slavery before it, and even closer to the Jim Crow south the Democrats created after the civil war, the progressive economic model depends on the skill of the master in the big house in Washington. He must control the economic engine so that he can reward those who assist him in suppressing the liberty of those who must sacrifice their labor to pay for the lifestyle the legions of enforces and regulators enjoy.

There are two other sides. Legacy Republicans represent those who have participated in, or benefited from the dichotomy of conservative versus liberal politics, but over the last four decades have allowed the growth of progressive power in Washington. Always with an eye to their own re-election they have failed to stop the creation of powerful bureaucracies that could be abused by the President to impose the progressive model on Americans. They still seek to compromise.

The third group, lead by New Republicans with members who were supported by various tea party groups against legacy Republicans and Democrats represent a return to principles of liberty.

Like Clay and Douglas, McConnell’s comprimise may ease tensions but risk ending any hope of restoring liberty through the ballot box. It will destroy the legacy Republicans and could lead to an entrenched Progressive Bureaucracy that cannot peacefully be eliminated and 160′s style riots for liberty, albiet with different players.   With Washington imposing virtual slavery on anyone not receiving a federal grant or paycheck there is little hope that America as a land of liberty and opportunity can continue on this course.

Like President Lincoln said, today we are engaged in a great struggle to test whether this nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated to liberty can endure. The struggle we face is that each dollar borrowed is a devaluation of our liberty, without our consent and at some point, perhaps in as little as ten years the economic engine that fueled America will grind to a halt. People simply will not support it. The power of America’s government has always been that granted to it by the people, the power being exercised in Washington today is more accurately described as imposed on the people. And the people recognize this now.

Clay and Douglas thought they were doing the right thing, as does McConnell.  The best that can come out of this is a hardening of positions three parties, lost opportunities and the elimination of either the Republicans or Democrats from the two party system by 2016. With 1960′s style riots pitting liberty seeking Americans facing off against democrat supported enforcers, ala Bull Conner, not being too far from likely.

Or the Republicans could stand up and fight the battle on the floor of the Congress, where the fight belongs.

His threat to default on the interest, social security and on military pay is only a threat, one that he probably won’t survive. And now that the time to make good on this threat is coming near he realizes that the fear of the threat has not had it’s intended consequence. The Republicans are prepared to ride it out and let the voter decide.

So Obama is faced with looking like a fool. He stiffs his loyal followers and drives independents into the Republican camp. Or he admits it was all a bluff and he is powerless to do anything. Not a choice he expected to make.

So how do the Republicans respond?

Today there were a number of articles discussing the possibility of the Republicans defunding the EPA, or the NLRB. Now, it is time to change the discussion. Time to take the power of words away from Obama.

Speak after me…..

Mr. President, we think you have turned loose <insert variable>to destroy America. We understand that we will never be able to stop you, but once the government is shut down, we can make restoration of the government contingent on elimination of <insert variable>

Variables (choose one, very often, repeat constantly)

- the EPA.

- the NLRB

- ObamaCare

- Corps of CZARS

- Eric Holder.

If you can’t figure out what to do with this, just tell me where to reach you and I will create the sound-bites personally. The difference between Obama’s threat to destroy America, and the Republican’s promise to eliminate the tools that  Obama is using to fundamentally change  America is what makes the shutdown a win-win for Republicans.

WmCraig

The American people got a face full of Nancy Pelosi’s power. American’s who had given her a majority expecting a more open and honest government that would be more responsible and responsive, instead got their noses rubbed in raw, unbridled abuse of power.

And all the while the dead beat in chief Obama was creating his CZAR CORPS to turn regulatory agencies into despotic autocracies, dedicated to that Fundemental Change Obama promised. Even if that change was rejected in the overwhelmingly Democrat Congress. They closed factories, destroyed industries, intimidated and bullied where they could and set loose justice department hit squads until the ground the economy to a halt.

But the American people aren’t east europeans, and Obama isn’t Stalin, yet. So we struck back and took away the majority Speak Pelosi abused. Not just a little bit, but we gave Republicans an overwhelming majority. Yet you are afraid to use it to do the one thing you can do.

Cut off the life blood of the cancer in Washington. Cut the spending. Your people will ENJOY this. Our lives will go on, even if all discretionary domestic spending is halted. We do not live for the power or the money from Washington.

The Democrats and their people WILL NOT enjoy this.  Which may be more important. Progressives, environmental extremists, and race baiters have enjoyed unchallenged power to extort money and concessions from regular Americans, all the while berating us for their own amusement and they will not like this at all.

It is time to turn the humiliation around, we will like it, they will not. And as a benefit you also get the satisfaction of using Rule 3 against Washington” When ever possible go outside the experience of the opponent

Obama will recognize these actions for the tactics that they are, he knows the rules inside and out. Obama has little respect for anyone that doesn’t understand the rules organizers rely on to gain power.

Do this, cut off funding,  and Obama will respect you as a “player”.

WmCraig