The Same Poison ~ Pass it on

From Jane Smitchger: Rep. John Fleming’s website with the quick questionnaire about Congress being subject to their own health care bill was so busy when I voted that I’m not sure the vote went through.  If you can wait as late tonight as possible to access the site, you may have better success.

My Tips on Public Speaking for Politics.

With the convention season upon us, several people have asked my advice on giving a good speech in public. The following are tips that have always stood me in good stead. Remember, if you start at the beginning and quit at the end, you’ll be able to keep everything else in the middle.

Warning Letter Arrives Without Notice!

My open letter to the director of the US Census Bureau.

Beck Deceived

Gov. Rick Perry is flying to Istanbul, Turkey, today to speak at the super-secret Bilderberg Conference, a meeting of about 130 international leaders in business, media and politics.”

~ Dallas Morning News (5/31/07)

 

Rick, I think you and I could french kiss, right now”

~ Glenn Beck, Glenn Beck Radio (2/11/2010)

 

Beck is virtually the only reason Rick Perry, tax and spend, pro-Amnesty, trans-Texas NAU superhiway supporter, will be re-elected Governor following Beck’s fallacious ambush of Debra Medina, who actually stands for what Beck purports to believe. Looking at it in the most positive light, this is inexcusable fumbling. Beck owes us all an apology.

Washington State Convention/Caucus Rules 2010

Several of the (few) Rules governing the Convention/Caucus procedures in effect for 2010 have already been violated by some Counties and some are already under attack. King County has already announced their intention to break the rules(!)

Deadline Wednesday: State Convention Candidate Declaration Forms (KC 5th, 32nd, 41st, 47th)

According to the rules, everyone who wishes to be included on the printed ballot for delegates to the state convention (voting to occur at the Legislative District Caucuses) must return the declaration form to the county chairman or their designated representative at least 72 hours prior to the opening gavel of the county convention/legislative district caucus.

If you attended your precinct caucus and are a delegate or alternate to the legislative district or county caucus this information should be on your official call to the caucus. At least some of those calls for the 41st did not arrive in mail boxes until today.

We offer the form here.

From the email underground we learn that these declarations need to arrive on or before Wednesday at 9:30 AM. The ballot will be produced sometime on Wednesday. PCOs received the declaration form via email; however other delegates and alternates did not.

You can fax this form to KCGOP at (425) 990-0407. If you choose to FAX, you may call them at (425) 990.0404 about 10 minutes after you fax your form to make sure they received it. You can deliver the form in person to 845 106th Avenue NE, Bellevue. If mailing, mail no later than Monday in order to meet the 72 hour deadline for the four caucuses scheduled for next Saturday. Delivery confirmation can be purchased for a nominal fee for those who would like to have verification that they have submitted their name for inclusion on the printed ballot.

Raise A Glass to the Drinking Party of Your Choice

Hat tips to Dok and the email underground.

People have asked where the “Tea Partiers” have been in recent Washington state Republican precinct caucuses. Will they be there for the next round, the same people wonder. Will they be, have they been, co-opted by neo-cons too numerous to mention? It has been a busy week where drinking parties are concerned.

The New York Times and Washington Post are promoting a group called the “Coffee Party” organized by filmmaker Annabel Park.

The Coffee Party is a political parasite which presents itself as something it is not. As reported in the NY Times [see update below], Park presents herself as not hostile to the Tea Party movement, and in fact, hopes to bring some Tea Partiers into her group:

“We’re not the opposite of the Tea Party,” Ms. Park, 41, said. “We’re a different model of civic participation, but in the end we may want some of the same things.” ….

Read the story here

And yesterday, hard on the heels of Ms. Park’s assault on the beleaguered Tea Part(y/iers/ies), comes a new party, with its intriguing list of principles, some of which are excerpted below:

2. Defend the Founders. They were right, politicians today are wrong.
3. Defend their work, the US Constitution, from all enemies, foreign and domestic, but mostly domestic.
4. Practice little “r” republicanism.

We let the founder introduce you to the newest, small-by-conviction, party:

Best Conservative Actor Nominee

Hat tip to Brian Thomas, who writes, in response to John McCain’s latest response to JD Hayworth, who is challenging McCain’s Arizona senate seat:

For once I agree with John McCain. As [he] clearly demonstrated in his 2008 campaign for President, John McCain is perfectly capable of defining himself as a Weenie.

Read the story

King County Legislative District Caucuses

The caucuses elect delegates to the Washington State Convention. In most counties this is done in “breakout” sessions during the County Convention, but King County is so large it is handled in separate locations on different days.

 

Dueling quotes of the week

Efficiency in Government

Every government program needs to implement “lean thinking” and create greater value for the citizens of this country, while consistently reducing waste. Government employees are no different than the people in the private sector and can learn and implement the principles of continuous improvement, respect for people and the daily elimination of waste. This new culture can take hold if we elect leaders who understand these time tested principles and have the vision to make them happen.

~ Paul Akers, Candidate for U.S. Senator, Washington State  2010

 

I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution or that have failed their purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is “needed” before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible. And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents “interests,” I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can.

~ Barry Goldwater, The Conscience of a Conservative, 1960

Conventions: not Tea Parties. The Caucus Reports

Saturday, the first County-level caucuses begin in the Washington State GOP. This is our report on the precinct meetings that elected delegates to them.

Back on  June, 17, 2009, in an article entitled On Breaking Eggs and Starving, we said the following about the 2008 Convention/Caucus procedures:

Fraud runs Texas

From Devvy Kidd:

Allegedly the corrupt crook, Rick Perry won our primary for governor with 53% of the vote. How putrid a one world government, smarmy parasite like Perry would win this primary.

 

Debra Medina allegedly has 16%.

 

But, it’s all over.

 

Perry declared the winner in an hour.

 

How to get Traffic Cameras in YOUR Community

“Leading the leaders”

If you are a member of a town or city or county council or a State legislature, you can play a significant part in helping change America for the better… and make money doing it. But you need to begin by understanding the public issues surrounding “observation units” so you can fend off the extremists.  Here is a brief outline:

Milan court sentences Google officials to prison for posting whistleblowing video

From Don Hank:

I have shown before that the internet is very much under attack in Europe, which now completely controls it. Censorship-happy Europe is the very worst place to be controlling your freedom of speech.

Doomed from the Start: The Myth of Limited Constitutional Government in America

With a hat tip to Doc.

This sort of knowledge is not only important, it is essential for anyone who seeks to help fix the mess in which we find ourselves.

by Thomas J. DiLorenzo

After spending a lifetime in politics John C. Calhoun (U.S. Senator, Vice President of the United States, Secretary of War) wrote his brilliant treatise, A Disquisition on Government, which was published posthumously shortly after his death in 1850. In it Calhoun warned that it is an error to believe that a written constitution alone is “sufficient, of itself, without the aid of any organism except such as is necessary to separate its several departments, and render them independent of each other to counteract the tendency of the numerical majority to oppression and abuse of power” (p. 26). The separation of powers is fine as far as it goes, in other words, but it would never be a sufficient defense against governmental tyranny, said Calhoun.

Moreover, it is a “great mistake,” Calhoun wrote, to suppose that “the mere insertion of provisions to restrict and limit the powers of the government, without investing those for whose protection they are inserted, with the means of enforcing their observance, will be sufficient to prevent the major and dominant party from abusing its powers” (emphasis added). The party “in possession of the government” will always be opposed to any and all restrictions on its powers. They “will have no need of these restrictions” and “would come, in time, to regard these limitations as unnecessary and improper restraints and endeavor to elude them . . .”

The “part in favor of the restrictions” (i.e., strict constructionists) would inevitably be overpowered. It is sheer folly, Calhoun argued, to suppose that “the party in possession of the ballot box and the physical force of the country, could be successfully resisted by an appeal to reason, truth, justice, or the obligations imposed by the constitution” (emphasis added). He predicted that “the restrictions [of government power in the Constitution] would ultimately be annulled, and the government be converted into one of unlimited powers.” He was right, of course.

This is a classic statement of the Jeffersonian states’ rights position.

Read the rest

Marriage vs. the Healthfare State

By David Usher

The greatest test of Conservative brilliance rests on our ability to weaken Democrat support for President Obama’s budget reconciliation version of National Health Care legislation that Democrats threaten to ram through the roof of Congress’s teapot dome via simple majority vote.
We can say with certainty that Republicans cannot change so many Democrat votes lacking a powerful fresh argument. How can Republicans puncture the partisan support Obama commands for National Health Care?
The proposed Healthfare state is anti-woman and anti-marriage. Forty-five years of social data demonstrates that every advance of the welfare state has resulted in more women and children living in poverty in cities unsafe because the fabric of marriage is destroyed. National Healthfare, the largest proposed expansion of the Great Society since 1963, would accelerate evisceration of marriage and the futures of the neighborhoods so many women are already afraid to live in.

Beware of McCain’s Freedom-Destroying Dietary Supplement Regulatory Bill

Thanks to Brian Thomas.

Most are familiar with those commercials on television promoting prescription drugs that supposedly offer relief from a variety of ailments, if one would only pressure one’s doctor to obtain them. They have become a source of great entertainment and amusement to some, the kicker coming at the end of each commercial when the FDA-approved medication’s obligatory litany of warnings and dangerous side effects is recited: “Tell your doctor if….” and “Side effects may include…..” Some of the warnings are mild like diarrhea and constipation, some list serious effects like cancer or tuberculosis, and others admit that sometimes even death can result.

The point here is that these are all FDA-approved drugs being advertised and used extensively. Drugs that can cause serious diseases like lymphoma. Drugs that can kill. The FDA’s dismal safety record is well documented; even PBS ran a Frontline special that investigated and exposed the FDA’s unsafe drug record, the influence of Big Pharma inside the FDA, and lack of long-term testing and medical review of many, many dangerous drugs. The FDA seldom removes a drug from the market even after it proves to be harmful or deadly, however they do post quarterly reports with details of the latest potentially dangerous side effects of drugs currently under investigation.

Nonetheless, Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) wants this same FDA, with its dismal safety record, to regulate dietary supplements.

Read more

Mass Resistance and Scott Brown

Our ally in Massachusetts, MASS RESISTANCE, got to sit down with Scott Brown two days before he crossed the aisle. Their perspective sheds a bit of light on Brown’s acceptance with conservatives, however short-lived that may be. The following is from their report:

Sean Salazar’s 10th amendment pledge to Washington

Sean Salazar is one of eight candidates running in the best field I have ever seen for U.S. Senate to replace Socialist Democrat Patty Murray. He released this today.

For the record I am a major 10th amendment supporter.

For many years we have allowed our politicians to bend the constitution to a point where it is often unrecognizable. If that wasn’t bad enough our citizens are sometimes unaware of this fact because constitutional principals are often treated as a simple footnote in our federally regulated public schools.

Dave Reichert’s World Marxist Scam

From Donald Hank:

The rotten fruits of the “carbon credit” scam

The notion of “global warming” has been used to introduce perhaps the biggest tax in history, and one of the avenues for this tax was so-called “carbon offsets” or “carbon credits.” [a foundation concept of "Cap and Trade"]

Whither goeth stimulus lucre?

 http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/green-stimulus-jobs-china-9791423

Tea Party RINO, Palin following.

Scott Brown joined four other RINOs to break a new Obama “mini-Stimulus” past Republican opposition, today. 

The others were usual suspects Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine, and the two lame duck  GOP senators, Kit Bond of Missouri and George Voinovich of Ohio.

Too Late to Apologize: A Declaration

AKERS CRASHES INTO PARRIS AT FORUM

The following is an excerpt of a report at Life of the Party:

The intensity of the evening reached a high point when audience member Doug Parris began directing customized statements and questions to each candidate. Parris asked Rieger to defend statements regarding the legality of same-sex marriage from his campaign website, and he asked Williams…

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Life of the Party Senate Forum ~ the Personhood question

The night before the precinct caucuses (2/12), Life of the Party held a Senate Candidate’s forum to “vet” the candidates’ positions on human life. The planned videographer didn’t make it and volunteers have been patching together disjointed scraps of amateur video from different memory cards. This clip is some good footage.

These are the answers to a central question and, despite general agreement supporting life and opposing abortion, astute activists will be able to discern significant differences in the candidate’s approaches. The Candidates who came, or sent representatives, were Paul Akers, Clint Didier, Art Coday, Rodney Rieger and Craig Williams. Sean Salazar, Chris Widener and Don Benton chose not to come and not to be represented. To be fair, Benton had only declared a few days earlier, but on the other hand, he is the only political professional in the crowd, presumably with a “posse” and funds,  and Akers, announcing simultaneously with Benton, managed to attend personally with the same lead time and responsibility for running several businesses.  Dave Reichert, reportedly,  is still in hiding, attempting to change his appearance without trading his cap.

There were some “fireworks” later on, but that’s another story.