The House Controls The Purse

The vaunted "Clinton Surplus" was, in fact, the work of a GOP House that was willing to fight for fiscal sanity (current Ohio Governor John Kasich was one of the architects of the surplus); in addition, two events conspired toturbocharge the economy -- in spite of Clinton, not because of him.

• Liberals like to talk about Reagan's deficits, but they ignore the fact that every budget Reagan ever sent to the Democrat-controlled House was declared "dead on arrival". Reagan supported a Balanced Budget Amendment, sought to eliminate useless agencies like the Department of Education, and otherwise believed in the U.S. spending within its means.

• Since the Democrats took control of Congress in 2007, they have jammed through the most fiscally irresponsible spending programs in world history (I won't use the word "budget", because they've refused to propose a budget for roughly 1,029 days).

Our Capitalistic Republic VS Any Socialist Government

Ron Paul Can't Win Because He's Not Right In The Head

He's "fooked", not right in the head. Bad candidate. Not a Tea Party choice.

Romney? Dunna know.

Gingrich? Love him, but dunna know.

Santorum? Pick of the litter.

Bachman? Ain't happening no matter how much I like.

Perry? Bubba, you need a new team. You were the high school star who got really bad advice for your college choice. Your team should be prosecuted for being clinically certified morons. You coulda/shoulda been.

Ron Paul? Careful if you count the bats in the belfry. One might be an aunt.

Let the morons of the left be released from the belfry. They can't help themselves. Just look at their diapers. Messy. Very messy. And stinky. As usual.

Oh, the children of Occupy say they are there. Speaking of stinky.

Republicans Lost Issue 2 In Ohio All by Themselves

Unions spent $30 million spewing lies about SB 5. Republican supporters of SB 5 knew they would, but didn't match the attack dollar for dollar nor did they effectively counter the outright lies of the in-state and mostly out of state unions. As professors and teachers cajoled their students to vote no and unions used the media to spread the lie that police, teachers, firemen and services would be sliced leaving citizens vulnerable to murder and mayhem with children wandering the street even more ignorant than they are now, Republican leaders did little to counter the lies. What they did do they did a day late and a dollar short.

This will hurt Gov Kasich. Even though the major dailies supported Issue 2 in their editorial pages they also ran anti-Kasich stories on a daily basis. After the public beating Kasich has received at the hands of the copy and paste (from the AP) newsroom reporters the support Issue 2 group still made him the front man for success. That will hurt Kasich even more.

The biggest loser, besides the voters stuck with the bill for the public sector union boondoggle, will be the cities and towns of Ohio. Even before the vote this localities were spending up to 80% of their budgets to pay the salaries, benefits and perks of union workers. We'll all be stuck with their bill. Republicans can make a check next to their name for this loss.

We did send Obama a mud pie on Issue 3, which was a toothless issue, but did reject ObamaCare soundly. We'll still have that, I guess.

Obama Spreads Lie About Mean Republican Booing Gay Soldier

Those Republicans sure are mean, right? Obama is beside himself that all of the Republican candidates on the stage for the debate didn't stop all those mean Republicans because he has sooooo much respect for our soldiers.

We don't believe in standing silent when that happens. We don't believe in them being silent since. You want to be Commander-in-Chief? You can start by standing up for the men and women who wear the uniform of the United States, even when it's not politically convenient.

Scads of mean Republicans rabidly and loudly booing a soldier for asking his question via satellite, right? Er, no and Obama knows it. The media knows it as well as their bobbing talking head know it.

I was at the debate, in the audience on the right hand side about halfway back (here's my tweet of the video screen that was right in front of us). The person who booed was just a few rows in front of us. The booing got an immediate and angry reaction from nearly everyone sitting around him, who hissed and shushed at him. Lots of loud gasps, "Shhhh!" "No!" "Shut up, you idiot!" etc.

I wonder if Obama sat silently as he listened to his personal and beloved Pastor Jeremiah is a Bullfrog, Wright?

OMG! A Dem Rep Used A Bad Word.

Can you believe this!?

GORDON HINTZ: "YOU ARE F'N DEAD!"

Last Friday.... after the Assembly voted to engross the Budget Repair Bill, Hintz turned to a female colleague, Rep. Michelle Litjens and said: "You are F***king dead!"

Oh boy, union members, especially those loquacious, but oh so respectful teachers are going to be so disappointed.

Everything was moving along swimmingly what with the 14 Demo senators running away and hiding, all the protests with "koch sucker" and "Hitler" references, the violence and trashing the state capitol, especially defacing the war memorial and now this.

A Democrat Rep drops a f-bomb death threat on a female Republican Rep.

Actually, it doesn't surprise me one damn bit.

Obama & Pelosi Stand In 'Solidarity' With Protesters Against Voters

President Obama and Secretary of Democrat Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi side with the protesters against the newly elected Republican governors and legislatures ensuring that the illegal strikes and protests will spread across the nation.

Obama joins Wisconsin's budget battle, opposing Republican anti-union bill

The president's political machine worked in close coordination Thursday with state and national union officials to get thousands of protesters to gather in Madison and to plan similar demonstrations in other state capitals.

Pelosi backs Wisconsin protesters
Wisconsin's workers, teachers and public servants must have a seat at the table to fight for a safe workplace,” she said. “I stand in solidarity with the Wisconsin workers fighting for their rights, especially for all the students and young people leading the charge.”

As president of all Americans Obama has decided to emphatically side with his base, the unions, who poured hundreds of millions of dollars into his election. This not just purely partisan, but part of larger plan to fundamentally change America, how it is governed and how our society works.

Unfortunately, most people are not surprised that Obama and Pelosi are finally going public with their bi-partisan leadership. After two years of unpopular leadership and legislation voters have become aware of what they elected and now reject this brand of 'change.'

Obama and Pelosi don't understand what they are doing. Probably because they are incapable of real leadership.

Unions, Big Government Killing States Like Ohio

Americans are fleeing high tax, union-dominated states and settling in states with lower taxes, right-to-work laws and lower government spending. Nothing sends a message like voting with your feet.

People do vote with their feet and the vote here in Ohio is saying get out and go where there are jobs, less government and a right to work without coercion from "friendly" union officials.

Ohio’s state government spending increased by three times the inflation rate between 1994 and 2002. At this clip, the state government budget would double every 14 years. More importantly, this rate of growth outstrips income growth and exceeds our ability to pay for it. The result? Government spending as a share of Ohio’s economy has increased rapidly since 1980. Ohio left the ranks of low-tax states in 1994 and has been one of the highest tax states in the nation since 2000.

Ohio is a "closed shop state" which is a fancy way of saying that workers can be forced to join unions or have to pay unions dues no matter what. The fact that unions have invaded our public (government) sectors is only making the problem worse. Much worse.

Because of these things Ohio is no longer a state that is friendly to its citizens. I have very high hopes that Gov-elect Kasich and soon to be Speaker Batchelder will turn this around.

Murkowski Still Doesn't Get It, But Why Would've Anybody Thought Otherwise

Murkowski (D -as in Daddy's Seat-AK) speaking of Sarah Palin.

Lisa Murkowski: Sarah Palin is no leader

"I'm still her senator. I'm going to work hard to represent her too. We don't really have much of a relationship."
Murkowski represents everything wrong in DC for many reasons, but her arrogant calculation to defeat (probably) the duly nominated Republican candidate Joe Miller, her feeling of self-entitlement and her snotty cat scratching at her opponents tell me that she hasn't a clue.


As for leadership, few people of quality ever follow a leader that is so arrogant or insecure that they feel the need to puff themselves up by putting their opponents down. I wouldn't follow a leader such as that for any reason. I think we fought a war once about hereditary leadership. They thought they were invincible too, especially against rubes and nobodies. They got their ass kicked.

The Real 'Shellacking' The Democrats Got

In terms of legislation (including push back of legislation on states by the US Congress), the deep replenishing of the Republican back bench and a rejection of progressive statist crap, the Democrats totally lost on redistricting. Good.

State legislatures before the 2010 election

State legislatures after the 2010 election

These elections have set the liberal agenda back at least 10 years which is absolutely great news for Americans. The incredible rejection at the local level will not only affect legislation at the local, but also at the state and federal levels. The take over of so many state legislatures by Republicans will also decide which party will lose seats due to redistricting, but also which party will gain seats in those states with a growing population. Here in Ohio there will be a loss of two congressional seats because people have fled the liberal/progressive assault on business and individuals through taxation and repressive control of the citizenry. Because of the election Republicans will now decide which two seats will be erased from our congressional map.

If Republicans act like as republicans, not some smug hierarchical country club like Roman Senators from the Palatine, we will set the progressive agenda back for a generation in 2012.

What Will Doom Republicans And Democrats In 2012?

One can surf to find whatever du jour formula is needed for Republicans or Democrats to succeed in 2012. That's cool, but it's eying the bark on the tree in front of you instead of seeing the forest.

Democrats will fail if they continue to act as they have.

Republicans will fail if they continue to act as they have.

Republican Voter Fraud In Ohio!

Eric Holder's DOJ, HHS, ACORN, SEIU, UAW, AFL-CIO, GM, NAMBLA & PETA have joined forces to file charges ranging from election fraud to civil rights hate crimes for the resurrection of a midget army of Republican zombies trying to sway the mid-term elections. A PETA spokes thing wept as it described the average Republican zombie as 3' in stature with a telltale cigarette hanging from its lips and almost always wearing the mangled fur of a dead animal, "From a distance they look like full grown country club members. They are frightening," it averred, "and they run in packs near neighborhoods most negatively affected by George W. Bush. If their CC bosses hadn't fought Health Care Reform we could have helped them."

A spokesman for the midgets, known as Chairman Short, responded, "This is racism. We are not a condition. We do not choose to be what we are. We were born this way and are damned proud of it." As reporters shouted more questions Chairman Short stomped on his spent Lucky Strike, straightened his 'Coolidge for President' button and faded into a strange swirling mist.

Major Voting Groups Move From Blue Back To Red In 2010

Candidate Warning: Repeal

Whether it's Cap and Trade, Stimulus or Health Care Reform, you better campaign on repeal and then aggressively follow through. No deals, no excuses and no pansy explanations will be accepted.

Prop C passes overwhelmingly

From almost the moment the Democratic-controlled Congress passed the health care law — which aims to increase the number of Americans with health insurance — Republicans have vowed to try to repeal it. Their primary argument is that they believe the federal government should not be involved in mandating health care decisions at the local level.

While repeal might seem an unlikely strategy, the effort to send a message state by state that voters don't approve of being told they have to buy insurance could gain momentum.

Repeal starts with the big ticket items, but it is only a beginning. For years Congress has inserted items that grow the government's powers and spending and that practice has skyrocketed in the last few years. If you want to be in Congress you better be prepared to repeal big and little. The devil is in the details and the devil called voter will be after you if you ignore the details and the them.

Will You Be Better Off Next Year?

It appears that a lot of people really really don't think so.

Like most Americans I am preparing in my own way for more of the disaster called the Vision of Obama/Reid/Pelosi and the Far Left. We can't control the weather and we have no control over the earth, but we can vote in November.

SHOCK: Petty Dem Politicos Blame Bush For Gulf Spill

To hear Madam Pelosi and crew, it was those horrid Republicans that pushed oil companies far out into the Gulf to drill. Those capitalist running dog pigs wanted Big Oil to have to expend huge amounts of capital instead of letting them drill on land at less expense and less danger of problems.

Now Demos don't want the Repubs to see what they've wrought when actually they really really want them to see. See?

Oil spill visits get partisan

Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) wanted to fly 10 lawmakers down to the Gulf of Mexico to see the damage caused by BP’s gigantic oil spill first hand.

House Democrats said no.

.. but,

“Every Member should see the result of eight years of failed Bush-Cheney energy policies that have done nothing to secure our energy future,” said Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill.

This is getting really tiresome. It is what you'd expect when you have such people as Pelosi, Reid, Waxman, et al in charge who then hire little toadies like Drew Hammill. When childish know-it-alls are in charge you have to expect childish behavior Maybe we should have hall monitors in Congress. It's a good idea until you ask which responsible person they would be sent to for reprimand and punishment. Obama? Yeah, him and Rahm Emanuel.

"I Can See November From My Window"

We Will Remember from Republican Governors Association on Vimeo.

Socializing Student Loans Or The Dishonesty Of Congress

Health Care Reform was about health care reform, right? Suspend logic for the sake of the argument and believe for a moment that health care reform was actually about health care reform. Okay?

The larger part of health care reform was actually about socialized education through the government takeover of student loans from private institutions and loan agencies. Most of America does not know this and I believe a large part of Congress had no idea about the scope of this power grab by Obama Pelosi.

Enter common sense, but watch it exit stage left because Congress wants to be able to lie, double speak and dpe the voter. It is who they are. Republicans and Democrats and the growing number of socialists in Congress will fight common sense. They'll fight with stealth, meaness and violence if that common sense would involve honesty.

Truth In Federal Legislation:Time For A Constitutional Rule?
The Case for a Truth-in-Legislation Amendment

“Congress shall pass no bill, and no bill shall become law, whichembraces more than one subject, that subject being clearly expressed in the title.”

This idea, while not a panacea, is a good start. It's time has come. I'd like to see it enacted just to watch Congress stomp their feet and turn red in the face.

Remember, Republicans, Including RINO's Are Still Fighting The ObamasCare Debacle

Will this crap pass? Yes. Will it still be crap after Obama signs it? Yes and more so.

None of the fixes promised will be fixed. None of the promises of parity, fairness nor the promises of no abortion money through the fed will ever be realized. The starter home that Harkin talked about will become a monsterous house of horrors in which construction will never cease.

That voters appreciate what Republicans are doing is obvious, but Democrats still have their blinders on and are focused only on each other.

Stupak's troubles are only begininng.

And Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of pro-life Susan B. Anthony List, said the group was set to give Stupak her group's "Defender of Life" award next week, but instead "we’re going to be working hard to see who we can find to run against him.”

“In a completely cynical move, they have made this bill passable and each of them are going to pay individually," she said. "And that’s what we do. That’s what we love to do is unelect people who say they're for life and then completely betray the movement.”

I Can, I Can, You Rats

Shamelessly stolen from the Webutante. Go read the rest.

So here's a little school yard quiz: Do you know what the last four letters of American spell? I CAN. Now the last four letters of Republican? I CAN. Finally the last four letters of Democrats?

I am still chuckling. Thank you Webutante. I needed it this morning.