Why we're divided, how to overcome it!

AT  LAST A TRUE  CONSERVATIVE VOICE HAS SAID WHAT NEEDED TO BE SAID. THE FOLLOWING EDITORIAL FROM THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE NEEDS TO BE BROADCAST THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. SEND IT ON! I 

EDITORIAL: WHY WE'RE DIVIDED, HOW TO OVERCOME IT 

 If they were football coaches with this kind of won-loss record, they'd have been tossed out on their stumps years ago.

BY AUGUSTA CHRONICLE EDITORIAL STAFF

Term Limits–Not Totalitarianism | NetRight Daily

Some good arguments.

Term Limits–Not Totalitarianism NetRight Daily

Why we need term limits | The Augusta Chronicle

Another voice joins the fight.With the massive debt we are facing it is painfully obvious that our elected officials on both sides of the aisle have failed miserably. We would be much better off without career politicians.Read the article and the many good comments.Why we need term limits The Augusta Chronicle

The Gang of Six Disaster: The Worst Plan So Far - By James C. Capretta - The Corner - National Review Online

The Republicans go from bad to worse. The following article contains a very good suggestion for John Boehner and the House republicans.

What conservatives should be doing is seizing the initiative in the House. They should move immediately to pass a small debt-limit increase, on the order of $500 billion, coupled with a reasonable set of spending cuts, including caps on discretionary spending. They should then send that to the Senate as the starting point for discussions. Doing this now would increase Speaker Boehner’s leverage immensely, as he would become the only person in the room who had shown by his actions that he doesn’t want a default. Moreover, at this late stage, there’s a very real chance it would become the vehicle for getting past August 2.

Breaking the Incumbent Protection Rackets

We must do this!

Breaking the Incumbent Protection Rackets

Same As The Old Boss?

Thanks to P0werline for the following. The more things change the more they remain the same.

Same As The Old Boss?




Posted: 07 Jul 2011 04:05 PM PDT



News out of Washington the last 24 hours or so is that the outline of a budget and debt ceiling deal may be coming into focus, with all the right features (tax increases advertised as “revenue enhancements” and “out-year” savings that will evaporate into the summer DC humidity as soon as the ink is dry) to make conservatives wary of signing on. Stay tuned; this has a ways to go yet.



It is in Obama’s interest to get a budget deal of some kind. His approval ratings and political standing a year and a half out from the next election look shaky. Congressional Republicans are in a strong position to hang tough, and they should certainly do so. A budget deal isn’t likely to improve public regard for Congress, but on the other hand, poor congressional approval ratings seldom are a major factor in House and Senate election contests. The individual dynamics of each district and individual candidate usually count much more. In other words, Obama has more to lose if a deal collapses than the House GOP does.



Is this entirely new for Congress to be seen in ow rehard? Consider this complaint about Congress from an eminent person:



In simple truth, I get discouraged sometimes about the stability of popular government. I come in contact with the abject surrender of public men to what appears to be about one-half of one percent of the voters to whom they look to their commission to public service. What the country needs more than anything else is a House and Senate for ten years which give at least as much thought to the welfare of the Republic as is given to individual candidates for re-election. Nothing so disheartens me as to have an extended conference with men in responsible places, hear them admit of the correctness of a policy or position, and then frankly say it is impossible to go through with the policy or maintain the position and be assured of re-election. I have concluded that I would vastly prefer a limited career with the consciousness of having done the right thing than to hold on to the constitutional limit by playing to the favor of those who do the fake work under our political system.



And just who is the author of this familiar-sounding reflection? President Warren Harding, in 1921.

Elected officials too extravagant with tax money

Victor Fricke has written another excellent letter.He makes good points about entrenched politicians and the ease with which they spend the taxpayers money.He advocates that we throw the pols out and I very much agree. Personally I believe the only way it can happen is to legislate term limits. The letter appears in the Aiken Standard website.

Vote the Bums Out

The following letter appeared in the Aiken Standard on May 22nd. I have posted it for those who may not have seen  it.

LETTER: Vote the bums out of office

Many of the letters to the editor are from uncritical unthinking sycophants of the politicians. Those letters repeat the political lies and they show no evidence that there was any thought put into the premises of the lies. I urge your readers to question the truth and the basis for everything that is said by officeholders and those seeking office as well as their minions.
It is a sad fact that no elected official considers the rights to life, liberty and property to be anything but abstractions to be circumvented when necessary. Their overwhelming motivation is the exercise of power over others and preservation of that power. In our society that was set up to be classless, they are the ruling class and the rest of us are the paying class. They have enslaved us in a new feudalism.

In our elections, we hold our noses and select a person to hold office from a generally obnoxious list of do-gooders and people who think their superior judgment and intellect gives them the right to take our property and dictate our choices. We are told to affiliate with tribal labels and then mentally stifled. Everything the rulers of our tribe advocate is unquestioningly good, and all who adhere to the other tribe are evil and need to be subjugated. The winners of these elections mistake our reluctant choices for acclamation and validation.
To disabuse them, the only thing we can do besides vociferously complaining is to vote them out in the next election. The lure of power is so strong there will never be a lack of candidates. If we "throw the bums out" every time, we may teach the rulers some humility and we will keep them from getting entrenched.

Victor Fricke