Noverber 2010 Elections

The elections on Tuesday are going to be interesting. The U.S. Congressional elections are the ones that I am most interested in. Congress is where I believe a large degree of the troubles the country is facing originates from. Congress passes the laws and regulations that govern the country … they also control the purse strings.

It is clear that Congress hasn’t been held accountable for the mess it’s created. I’m almost 50 years old and for most of my adult life I’ve been hearing about the dangers of deficit spending and the growing national debt. I’ve also heard year in and year out about how government entitlement programs have been consuming more and more of the nation’s tax revenues. It is the job of Congress to distribute our money and control expenditures. Americans have been promised by both Democrats and Republicans that this Congress or that Congress is going to come into Washington and straighten out and clean up the halls of Congress and restore our physical house ... no more business as usual! … but they haven’t.

This Congress has been the most active Congress that I can remember. They have passed bills that haven’t been read, that were not popular with the American people, and that have had little effect on the general welfare of the nation. Our physical house is out of order, deficits are larger, the debt is inconceivable and unsustainable, and (to add insult to injury) spending is out of control. Yet the Congressional leadership claims that they haven’t been given enough credit for all the good they’ve done. Members of the House of Representatives have even scoffed at the idea of reading the bills. Nancy Pelosi once said that the health care bill would have to be passed in order to find out what was in it! (That is because no one in Congress knew what was in it.) To make matters worse, they also increased the size and power of the Federal Government.

That is why Tuesday’s election will be so interesting. It has been this Democrat controlled Congress in combination with President Obama that has created the feared and vilified Tea Party movement that has awakened voters at this time in history. We are aware of the dangers of increasing the power of the central government (just as the Founding Fathers warned us against). Thomas Jefferson said, “a government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take away everything you have”.

However, I can’t blame this Congress alone. The 2004 Congress, the wars, the collapse of the economy, and some poor decisions made by President Bush had a lot to do with bringing in the current Congress. Americans became angry and lost trust in the Republicans … so they voted them out in 2006 and again in 2008. Now Americans are even madder. They don’t like being ignored by thier elected Representatives, Senators or the President. Nor will they accept divisive rhetoric from them either that pits race, ethic groups, social class and regional interest against each other. Americans will not, accept leaving a poorer, weaker, less free, and indebted country to our kids and grandkids.

We understand Congress is most responsible for the laws passed in 2009 & 2010 that have been detrimental to the country and it must be corrected. This mid-term election is the most important election in my lifetime … what happens on Tuesday will affect the United States for years to come. I’m supporting the Republicans … and if they win that is when the real work will begin for those of us that voted for them. A lot will be required of us … we will have to be vigilant and watchful of what they do, how they do it, and by whom. We will have to hold their feet to the fire, as well as provide them with support in order to help them keep up their resolve to do what is necessary to preserve our country for ourselves and posterity. Thomas Paine wrote in his pamphlet Common Sense “extending millions for the sake of getting a few vile acts repealed .... is unworthy the charge, and is using posterity with the utmost cruelty; because it is leaving them the great work to do, and a debt upon their backs, from which they derive no advantage.” We cannot leave future Americans with a crushing debt to pay because this generation would do nothing.

There you have it.
Pass it on if you like or let me know if I don’t have a clue.

Eddie

Why I Support Republican Candidates

I support Republican candidates mostly for moral and social reasons. I have often said that Republican and Democratic politicians are more alike than not. They’ve gone to the same schools, live in the same neighborhoods, and belong to the same clubs and organizations. The real difference between then usually is their position on moral and social issues.

Very often I call local radio programs and point out that conservatives like me don’t have any real choice between the two parties. Democrats cater to liberalisms, so that leaves us with the Republicans. If you are pro-life there’s no room for you with the Democrats. If you support traditional marriage, your best bet is with Republicans. If you’re against open homosexuality in the military, then you won’t find help from the Democrats.

But it doesn’t stop with those issues … the health care debate was never really debated and the Democrats forced their law down our throats. Since 9-11, Americans have been calling for our border to be secured, but the Democrats (with the help of moderate and liberal Republicans) have yet to secure it despite the fact that Americans along the border have been killed and our Border Patrol and law enforcement officers have been attacked and fired upon. I must say it has been conservatives that have been at the forefront of these issues calling on the federal government to take action, only to have our concerns fall on deaf ears by our leaders in both parties. The only allies we have had has been the conservative Republicans.

Earlier this year when the controversial Arizona immigration law was being attacked by liberals and moderates they openly misrepresented the law … even President Obama and A. G. Holder said things about the law that were untrue. Mr. Holder and Homeland Secretary Napolitano (a former Governor of Arizona) stood before Congress and made false statements about the law … and then had to admit that they hadn’t even read the law before they made those statements. How many times have we heard about Democrats not reading laws over the last two years? The Arizona law mirrors federal law, it would allow local law enforcement to do the job that federal law enforcement can’t seem to do. What has been the response to that law by the Democrat President of the United States and his Attorney General? … they sued the State of Arizona. When the President of Mexico Felipe Calderon made an address before our United States Congress and berated the law that eventually was duly passed by the State of Arizona legislature and signed by the Governor, Mr. Calderon received a standing ovation from the Democrats in Congress. Just who’s side are they on? It is actions like these that leave me no choice but to support Republicans.

I know that some of your are going to say “but Eddie the Republicans aren’t perfect” and “they are the party of the rich and powerful”. Those types of statements could not be more wrong. Ideological differences cut along all lines of social status and income levels. Those issues alone are not what divides us. It is ideas, morals, ethics, and traditions that cause us to choose sides. I have to support those that I believe are most like me and support the country as I have come to understand it (and how I believe the founders intended it). You must do the same. I do not believe that the Democrat leaders of today are like me. Too many of them have been educated by “blame America first” professors that are socialist (some of them are outright admitted communists) … that bothers me. I would think it should bother you too.

There are way too many of us that have allowed ourselves to made to feel guilty about being an American, and that we are somehow undeserving of our good fortune and blessings as a country. Some have bought into class envy, social jealousy, and prejudice. While almost all of us live a more leisurely life than our parents and grandparents did, we somehow think that we deserve more and that our government should provided for us … even if that means that they take from one group and give to another … that is not American. That is what the old world does, we left that world behind with the Declaration of Independence. Americans should never allow the mindset of government dependence to enter our consciousness … that will lead us into subjugation.

Democrats are full of wonderful sounding (even companionate) rhetoric, but their past history and present day actions tell otherwise. They are the party of slavery, they are the party of the KKK, they are the party of abortion, they are the party that attacks traditional marriage, they are the party that attacks our Christian Judaic morals and ethics, and they are the party that socialist, communist, and world dictators admire and have friends within. I am not comfortable with a party with that kind of a past history, while at the same time holds it’s current reputation, and enjoys favor from foreign enemies.

There you have it
Pass it on if you like, or let me know if I don’t have a clue.