As is well known, Senator Kennedy is suffering from a brain tumor. He is receiving the best medical care available. If he was covered by the government health care plan currently proposed by the administration, he would not be alive today.
June 17th, 2009 | Good Bad Ugly, Raw Politics
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On Thursday, June 4, there was a caller to a talk radio show who owns a barbeque restaurant in Atlanta. When the show host asked how the economic situation was affecting his business he said it was down a little. When the show host mentioned the Obama economic stimulus was not stimulating the economy, the caller was not concerned. The caller told the show host the current bad economy was Bush’s fault. The show host started going into details about the lack of progress of the Obama stimulus. The caller did not buy any of it. The show host needed to simply ask the caller, “When will it no longer be Bush’s fault?”
June 8th, 2009 | Raw Politics
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On May 19, 1951, The Saturday Evening Post published an interview with the blacklisted Hollywood director Edward Dmytryk. His many films include: The Caine Mutiny, Raintree County, and The Carpetbaggers.
Being a former communist party member, Mr. Dmytryk had insights into the workings of the party. One he shared with the magazine’s readers as to why the communist party got involved with certain legal cases, “It was like everything else the commies do; they will go into a lynch case, for example, but instead of trying to help the Negroes, what they are really after is to use the incident to stir up still more trouble. The Negroes don’t matter; they’re just a means to an end.”
Doesn’t that seem like what another American political party is still doing?
April 18th, 2009 | Raw Politics
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Will reading blogs, listening to talk radio, and voting conservative get the results you want? Will it change the direction of the government currently undertaken by the liberals in Washington? Will it return the economic and individual freedoms you once thought were automatically part of being an American?
The bad news is the answer is no. It just does work that way, at least with the opponents we face.
Reading blogs (such as this one) and listening to talk radio builds conservative networking and lets us share ideas. Voting against liberals is good citizenship, but we often do not have a conservative choice to make us proud. When you think about it, the bad news is not all that bad.
The good news is we face these opponents together and we are becoming stronger and more united each day. The better news is we have more resources than they have. We are the producers. We generate the wealth and provide the jobs. They cannot survive forever without us.
So now we need to git er done.
Today is tax day, April 15. There are tea parties in every nook and cranny in the country. The people organizing the tea parties are not allowing politicians to speak. They are telling the politicians to listen. Some will, some won’t. Does not matter. What matters is we are changing our priorities. We no longer believe we can go to work each day, build a great country, and then trust Republicans to represent us. That change in priorities is important. Liberals made politics their top priority for decades, while conservatives made production of goods and services theirs. Now we will spend some of our money and energy on shaping politics. As with most things we do, we will succeed.
The conservative activist movement is new. We will learn as we go. We will do many things differently than the liberals. But we will do some of the same things, too. Like the liberals, we will spend time and money.
We will network amongst fellow conservatives. We will do our research so to speak intelligently when discussing important issues with nonbelievers. We will not make sweeping feel-good declarations as if that is the truth which all must believe.
We will work the grassroots to find, encourage, and support conservatives in quest of political office. Some of us will actually run for office. Just like Sarah Palin first ran, coming from the conservative grassroots level. We will not blindly support any old Republican running for office.
We will donate to causes which advocate for our conservative agenda. We will not donate to Republican candidates who are not conservative.
We will attempt many other things. Some will succeed and some will not. But we will learn from our mistakes like we do in our productive endeavors. That will make us smarter, stronger, and winners.
We will GIT ER DONE!
Mr. Head’s Two Cents - Mr. Head has started a web site about his local U.S. Representative, Alan Grayson. Mr. Grayson is a freshman Democrat of the big spender persuasion. The web site is called GraysonWatch.org. The purpose is to create a repository of tax payer abuse which will be available for a future conservative challenging Mr. Grayson in 2010. Mr. Head will make the technology available for other conservatives wishing to do the same in their district.
April 15th, 2009 | Head Note, Raw Politics
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If you changed your mind about your vote last November you now get the opportunity for a redo. (Anybody notice there are not many folks coming forward saying they voted for McCain but wish they had voted for Obama? Actually, has a single person done so?) Also, if you believe your vote was the right one, and subsequent exorbitant stimulus spending and tax increases prove you were right, you also get another vote.
Revote when you purchase your next new vehicle:
It is simple and easy and has little chance of vote fraud.
March 31st, 2009 | Raw Politics, The Reign
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When the President of the United States has a law degree from Harvard Law School and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago, one would expect that President would respect the rule of law, as opposed to the rule of men. When it took a few days for President Obama to think about his position concerning the AIG bonus issue, one had reason to be concerned. After all, isn’t a contract a contract?
Surely the President would show respect for the rule of law and insist those retention bonus contracts be paid.
Surely the President would use the teachable moment to explain to the American people the necessity of honoring such valid legal contracts.
Surely the President would show the leadership needed to squash the dangerous populist uprising inflamed by the United States Congress.
Surely the President would not rush to the head of the line to lead the rule of men mob, leaving the rule of law folks all to themselves.
Then again, isn’t this the same President that thinks the biggest contract of them all, the Constitution of the United States, doesn’t mean what is means?
March 25th, 2009 | Big Brother, Raw Politics
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To help fight the funk many conservatives are currently experiencing, this graphic of President Reagan is presented for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy!
February 24th, 2009 | Good Bad Ugly, Raw Politics
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This year, 94 percent of the members of the U.S. House of Representatives that ran for reelection were returned to office. Yet, a few days before the election a FOX/Opinion Dynamics poll had the approval rating of congress at 18 percent and the disapproval rating at 75 percent.
December 17th, 2008 | Good Bad Ugly, Raw Politics
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The not so big news this week is the arrest of the Democrat Governor of Illinois for conspiring to sell or trade former Senator Obama’s vacant Senate seat for its market value. How is this different from the unions contributing $55,700,000 to Democrat candidates for votes supporting card check?
December 10th, 2008 | Good Bad Ugly, Raw Politics, What Do You Think?
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New York City’s billionaire Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has covered all the bases. He started out as a Democrat. Switch to Republican to run for mayor in 2001. Then switched to Independent last year.
One thing about the man, he is consistent about being inconsistent. Take term limits. Once he was for them, and then he was against them. He had long been a proponent of term limits, including his 2002 veto of extending the two-term limit for some officials. But when it came to him stepping down after two terms, limits did not seem like such a good idea. So he recently went to the city council and got them to overturn the law. A law passed by the voters in 1993 and reaffirmed in 1996 when the city council wanted to extend the limit to three terms.
Oh, the city council also has a problem with consistency. After 9/11, then Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani wanted to add three months to his term. The council said no deal.
Now it will be the voters turn for consistency. They can take matters into their own hands on election day and enforce the two-term limit for Mayor Bloomberg.
October 27th, 2008 | Raw Politics
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