Come out tonight 11/09/09 for the monthly Sussex GOP meeting to be held at the Sussex County Assoc. of Realtors , just East of Georgetown at the corner of Rt.9 and truck Rt.9 . The meeting starts promptly at seven-thirty.
Come out and be involved ! I hope to see you there , though due to the nature of my job and the time of year , it is never a sure thing for me.
There is an old saying, ” the world is run by those who show up “.
Isn’t it ironic that speaker Pelosi would wear a red dress on the day that she was able to force socialized health care through the U.S. House of Representatives.
I mean since if this legislation gets passed, it will bleed the American working class into economic death, and take the nation down with it.
The vote was narrow, 220-215 with some Democrats voting against. And since I have been busting on Mike Castle quite a bit lately, it looks as if he voted against it also, oh was that redundant ?
For all of you hard-working people out there who believe that this so-called reform will lower the cost of insurance for you, sorry not . This so-called reform is intended to do nothing but to force you and other hard-working Americans to pay for the insurance of non working Americans, this will drive up the cost to tax payers and give just another free ride to the free loaders and worse yet, it will create even more free loaders.
We can only hope that as the Senate passes a bill , and then as the two houses of congress attempt to bring the two versions together, that it takes long enough to impact the 2010 election and that we as American voters exercise our right and our duty to vote out those who would change the very fabric of America.
And just as a side note, if you look very carefully at the photo I used , you can see the President with his hand up Speaker Pelosi’s back , making her smile and nod her head .
The state of California has decided that highway robbery is a better solution to their economic troubles , than is cutting their out of control spending.
The state of California has increased payroll withholding by ten percent . Spokeswoman ,Brenda Voet , for the State Franchise Tax Board , said “this is not an tax increase. It’s just an increase in withholding”.
Well just try and explain that one to the tax payers. The increase went into effect on Nov. 1st and will also run through Dec.31st. The state says that tax payers will get the money back when they file tax returns. The sate has said that this is merely a no interest loan from tax payers to the state and that it will result in the average taxpayer only paying around $3.41 more per pay period. Well did anyone ask the tax payers if they wanted to float the crooks in the state capital a no interest loan ?
Okay that doesn’t sound like much,or does it ? At a time when the state and the nation are in extreme economic times , is it the right time to remove millions of dollars of possible spending power from the state’s private sector, just to prop up the failing state-run programs ?
Also when was the last time you knew of a government that is run by leftist such as California repealing any kind of tax increase? Once this has been put into place and the people get used to having less, and the state gets used to having more , well don’t look for this to go away anytime soon.
Now my concern is that other states will learn from California’s example and enact similar tax laws. This is nothing but state sanctioned robbery. The state is using its power to collect taxes to rob California citizens of their earned wages. Worse yet, they are robbing the economy of the state of that which could actually help the situation, buying power.
What California and any other state in trouble and the nation for that matter should be doing if they want to solve the problem of low revenues is to lower taxes so that people have more money to spend within the economy and cut spending at the government level to reduce the burden even more on the tax payers.
California is showing the natural tendency of the leftist ideology of taxing the working class more to pay for the non productive class. This is unsustainable , at some point you do not have enough working class to support the non productive class and you either have complete collapse or the state must create a slave class, forcing all to work at whatever job the government decides that you are best suited for.
What we are seeing in California is not temporary no matter what they say , and we could see the exact same thing on a national level. Unless the voters demand real cuts in government spending and waste and not just reductions in the rates of increase , this nation is headed for a crash that will make the Great Depression look like a day at the beach. And the way the voters demand these changes is by voting for people who will enact true tax cuts , that will leave the money and the spending of it where it belongs, with the people who worked to earn it !
Well the people have gone to Washington D.C. once more to voice their opinion of the current administrations attempt to tax us into socialism, with the help of a congress that has forgotten it’s mission .
I’m sure the left’s lap dog media will trot out their same old tired routine to try and explain away this movement.
Of course they will most likely reduce the number of people who attended down from thousands to hundreds. They will label those who went as right wing nut cases, they will focas on any birthers who may have been in the crowd. Oh! and let us not forget their favorite of all, that these protest and the majority of the protesters are racially motivated.
For all of us who because of our jobs and or families could not attend this rally or the previous rally , I would like to thank those who have gone, you are the voices of discontent, you represent the people of this nation who feel the way that you do and you do the title of “American Citizen ” proud.
On Wednesday the Senate voted 98 to 0 to extend “UNEMPLOYMENT” benefits another twenty weeks, this could lead to some people receiving up to ninety-nine weeks of unemployment. That is over two years !!!
This isn’t unemployment, it’s welfare. How are these people motivated to go out and find any job they can? Why should they be willing to go down to the local Wal-Mart and stock shelves ? Why should they take two low paying jobs to make ends meet ?
Extending the unemployment benefits also extends unemployment. I personally know people who have made the statement, “why should I work , I can make that much on unemployment”. Oh , I don’t know, maybe so they can have a little self-pride.
The reason we are seeing such a slow turn around on the employment numbers is that the government keeps extending what is ment ot be a bridge, not a super highway.
The same as we saw with welfare reform in the nineties, if you take away these entitlement benefits , people will work, but if the government keeps giving hand out then there are people who will be glad to set around on their butts and take them.
Instead of extending unemployment benefits , we should be cutting them and forcing these people to go out and find work. That is how you stimulate the economy.
In Maine for the thirty-first time homosexual marriage has been rejected by the voters. This has happened every single time that the issue has been put to a popular vote in thirty-one states. This is the first time that a law passed in a legislature has been repealed by the people. Other such laws were enacted due to activist judges.
Homosexual activist had hoped Maine would be different because of its “MODERATE” to left history of voting.
This once more demonstrates that our political leaders are completely out of touch with those that they are supposed to be “REPRESENTING”.
Voters have shown overwhelmingly that they do not support these sort of attacks on traditional marriage .And yet politicians continue to pander to a minority special interest group.
In the much watched race for the 23rd Congressional race in new York , the Democrat Bill Owens has beat out the Conservative Party candidate , in a race that had more turns than a NASCAR road course.
First the GOP puts up a liberal candidate, then the Conservative Party puts up , well , a conservative candidate. Then the Republican Dede Scozzafava drops out of the race and throws her support behind the Democrat Owens.
Okay so along comes election day. And the winner is Owens the Democrat, by 49% to 46% for the Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman, and wait some of those well informed lock step GOPers up in New York gave 5% of the vote to the Republican Scozzafava who had dropped out. Do the math folks, how different would it have been if Scozzafava had endorsed Hoffman, but even so if the voters that voted for a dropped out candidate ,had sense enough to vote for someone still running it may have gone differently.
But no matter what if. This race still demonstrates that there is a move towards conservatism, especially when you couple it with the two races in Virginia and that liberal bastion New Jersey, and yes I said “BASTION” . In this race for the 23rd , in a special election , a short run up, and confusion a plenty, the conservative in a third-party still garnered 46% of the vote. Not too shabby!
Two of the three most watched races on this election day have been called for the Republicans.
In Virginia , Bob Mc Donnell has beat out Democrat Creigh Deeds for Governor, and in what will be seen as the biggest upset , Republican Chris Christie defeats Democrat incumbent John Corizine for Governor of New Jersey.
As I am writing this it is still too early too call the New York 23rd Congressional , though the polls have closed.
It will be said by the left’s spin doctors that these races had nothing to do with President Obama. Really? Even though he made something like five trips to New Jersey for Corizine. I guess it can at least be said that he carries little influence in a huge Democrat state.
I happen to believe that not only do these race demonstrate that the country is rejecting the Obama agenda of fascism , but it also confirms the polling that has shown a move to the right among voters , especially independent voters.
This is exactly what the GOP needs to build upon and to read the writing on the wall and to support candidates that have demonstrated a conservative principle.
If the New York 23rd does go for the Conservative Party candidate , then it truly shows that Republican voters want conservative candidates . The New York race is a water shed because it was a special election with no primary , where the GOP party leadership chose a candidate named Dede Scozzafava, even though she had been rated less conservative than the Democrat candidate by the Conservative Party, which is exactly why that party put up its own candidate that immediately gained more traction than did Ms. Scozzafava , forcing her to withdraw from the race . She then endorsed the Democrat, wow that sounds familiar to us here in Sussex County , Delaware now doesn’t it.
But what this race in New York really shows us is that the GOP nationally as well as locally is out of touch with the rank and file. And like in the special election in New York with no primary, we GOPers here in Delaware suffer a similar fate every election , due to the fact that the Party selects a candidate before the primary and as of lately they haven’t done so well. But that is for another time.
Let me be clear, my only role in the GOP is that of a registered voter and out spoken supporter of the party when I believe it deserves that support. So in that role I say that we the voters must convince the GOP that we will no longer support either candidates that are counter to the founding principles of this nation or a party that supports candidates of this ilk.
I am no fan of third parties, they almost always spell “WIN” for the Democrats, again this is why the 23rd is important, I would rather the GOP leadership see the light or I would call for whole sale changes at the top and right down to the bottom of the party leadership .
We can no longer continue to do the same things and put up the same type of candidates that have failed to win. Look back and you will see that the GOP started the slow slide of defeat , when it began to move left . That is what we must stop if we truly wish to win.
This is to announce that thanks to the gracious invitation of David Anderson over at www.delawarepolitics.net I will now be posting at both this site and over there. I will sometimes be cross posting , but will also have some articles just for them and some just for here , I hope that everyone who has been visiting Politically Frank will also join me for my return to Delaware Politics.
I hope to add something to the civil discourse over there and to live up to the high standards that have been set at that blog site over the years.
I would like to thank David Anderson for his belief that I have something to say, and that it is worth giving me the space on his blog to say it.
I hope to hear from many of you at home here at Politically Frank and at my new home away from home , Delaware Politics.
Okay , I am opening up this site to start a grass-roots movement. I have come up with the acronym of RACE as a name for this movement. Can anyone guess what it stands for? No ? Think back now to some of my recent post.
Okay here it comes. Republicans Against Castle’s Election. That’s right , it is time for Republicans to unite and to purge the GOP of these Republicans in name only, these Democrat boot lickers, these stealth liberals.
Until we clean our own house , how can we condemn the opposition? How can we criticize the Democrats that voted for Cap and Trade , and then tell GOP voters to vote for Mike Castle?
How can we stand up and tell the rest of the nation that the bail outs and stimulus plan will bankrupt us , and then tell GOP voters to vote for Mike Castle ?
How can we argue against man-made climate change, and then expect GOP voters to vote for Mike Castle ?
How can we argue the sanctity of life and then campaign for a man who called embryos , “just medical waste”.
Mike Castle is neither fiscal or social conservative, Mike Castle is no kind of conservative.
Now the lock step GOPers will tell you he votes with us as much as , or more then he votes against us, but how come it seems like on the biggest issues he is always on the wrong side from conservatives ?
Oh he might vote for a tax cut here and there, but let that tax cut come up against his slobbering love for global warming and see which one wins.
If the GOP does not cleanse itself of these moderates , it will doom itself to history and will have no future. Currently there is a conservative movement among American voters. This is due in large part to the policies of Pres. Obama. People are recoiling from the radical liberal agenda being forced down their throats by the current administration.
So the question becomes , will the GOP get out in front of this movement and support more conservative candidates ,or will the GOP continue to back the likes of Mike Castle and always be behind the curve.
Mike Castle is a watered down candidate, he is a watered down conservative at best, and a watered down liberal at least. As we attempt to grow this move towards conservatism and to attract more people to the GOP, candidates like Mike Castle , with his voting history, will only raise the likelihood of third party conservative candidates such as we are seeing in New York right now. This can only help the Democrats.
If the GOP has any hope of winning back control it must, we must, demand candidates that represent the growing conservative views of the American voters. We must take advantage of the fact that many in this nation have realized that Pres. Obama and his lap dog congress are running this country into the ground. And to do this we must not send the likes of Mike Castle back to congress.
If you read this and you feel the urge to join the RACE leave a comment , tell us why you are against Mike Castle for any office. I may contact you by e-mail to try and organize the opposition of Mr. Castle receiving the GOP nomination to run for the U.S. Senate.
