Is it tea party time?

The Tea Party movement has become influential.  While Democrats and some liberals lambast their ideology they do it at their own peril.  Most tea party Americans are regular Americans who pay their taxes and expect their government to protect their constitutional rights.  Most Americans do believe that goverments has gotten out of control in their spending.  While most Americans have cut back on their spending as well as business the government has been on a spending binge.  It is time for governemnt to live within its means.  We need to cut back on programs that are no longer useful or beneficial.  Unfortuately for every government benefit there is someone there to defend its purpose.  To be honest even repubicans are guilty of the overspending.  We call this corporate welfare.  We lambast social welfare but everyone seems to be at the public trough now a days.  It needs to stop and needs to stop now.  Its not patriotic to profit in this country and then send it offshore to avoid taxes on it.  The Republcan party tends to defend corporate welfare because these corporations create jobs.

Convservaties still in wait and see mode

There are a variety of narratives so far in the repulibcan primary so far. The Gingrich campaign has an internal implosion as top campaign staff jump ship. Bachmann and Palin vying for similar voting block middle of America. Pawlenty a former governor is a smart guy but strggles for attention in the face of other GOP media heavy weights. Romney is a front runner but has not backed away from his health care bill that he signed as governor of Massachusets. Stated that is appropriate for states to experiment with ideas but not the federal governemnt. Word has it that Huckabee might not really be out of the race however if that were true he probably would still not be hosting his show on the Fox News Channel.


Recent polls have suggested that republican activists are not excited aboout the current field. I think we will have to wait and see. Its too early to tell who will emerge yet. We should give these candidates some time to tell us their story and how they would lead us for the next four years. My personal favorites are Romney and Pawlenty because they seem to be able to balance politics with policy.

Judge issues tempoary injunction for WI law

A WI judge has issued a temporary injunction after a lawsuit was filed in Dane County.  The lawsuit alleges that the law is no good because it violates the open meeting law that requires a bill to be available for viewing 24 hours before a vote is considered.  Republicans were forced to strip away parts of the bill from the original bill because the bill had fiscal implications which means that a super majority is requred to pass the bill.  The bil as re-introduced would simply need a simple majority to pass the bill.  Of course the larger perspertive is that the state legislature must balance its budget. This may be a procedural hurdle but misses the larger point fiscal restrant.  Public unions cannot hold the govverment hostage by demanding unreasonable concessions.  Most public employees unions make a better than competitive wage.  

WI GOP outmaneuver Dems

I dont think that the senate democrats should have been surprised by the legislative procedure that allowed the republicans to vote on the union bill. These Senators should have known the rules and the ramificiations for those rules.
I applaud the Senate republicans for trying to move forward. Do the democrats want what happened to California? Notice that this bill was not aimed at the private unions. Public employee unions have had it good for along time. Their benefits packages are extremely generous. But the ride is over.
The Senate should not have left their posts in the Senate Chamber. They violated their oath of office when they fled Wisconsin and refused to protect and defend the constitution by not voting. The democrats claim they were trying to get more people aware of the bill. The democrats were soundly defeated in November when they lost the majority in the House and Senate and the governors office. The will of the people was clearly spoken. But apparently the demcrats think they have the right to ignore that. Just like the communists in the former Soviet Union, China and North Korea.
Democrats are alway complaining that the republicans dont sympathize with the poor people but we have spent hundreds of billions of dollars on welfare programs and where has that gotten us?

Can GOP capitalize on Dems troubles?

Not too long ago Obama was elected to bring hope and change to a country that was thirsty for hope and change. With majorities and both houses of Congress the White House set out to at great neck speed to pass a number issues that they had campaigned on.

Speed up to the the 2010 mid terms and the White House has had to strong arm fellow democrats to go get a health care bill through and defend and explain a $700 Billion stimulus that didnt really stimulate the economy. The economy is still sputtering by all accounts and is not likely to change by election day. The combination of the real estate collapse and the banks not lending credit means that many individuals like states will be forced to balance their budgets or go without.

I think that part of the problem was the attitude of the democrats towards the public that the party knows better than the people. Obamas challenge is that he will need to show some results that the American people can see and feel otherwise a well spoken speech usually rings hollow.

With Brown win, Obama agenda upended

Scott Brown took the political world by storm by winning a US Senate seat in Massachusetts which was vacated by the late Senator Ted Kennedy. Massachusetts voters sent a real strong and clear message to Washington that they didn't like what they were doing. With losses in Virginia and New Jersey and now Massachusetts the democrats are now forced to modify their agenda or face severe consequences in the November election. The democrats have always claimed they are for the people and the people have clearly spoken. The American people have said this is enough. The people will no longer allow the democrats to impose their will on the American people. It goes back to the Founding Fathers who wrote the Constitution giving the power to the people not the government. They knew the politicians would become corrupt as they always have.

Sarah Palin joins Fox News Channel!

Not surprisingly yet still exciting that Fox News has announced that Sarah Palin will be joing the Fox News Channel. The most powerful name in news has aquired the most intriguing personality of our generation. Palin will give us a little different perspective--particularily outside of the Washington Beltway mentality that has ruled politics for a long time.