1.20.2010

IS AMERICA MOVING RIGHT?

The following is from the Lew Rockwell site. After the win in Mass. of Scott Brown last night, we need to think of what our true conservative values really are and where we need to take them. What we need is the small "r" republic. Small government, states regaining control over their future. Ending BIG biz in Washington. Returning to our Constitutional roots, where we the people control our own destiny, our own pursuit of happiness, without the shackles of tyranny.

Here is a couple of takes on this, be sure and see Ron Paul's video at the bottom link --

Well the great news is that Scott Brown won. What is of note is that no where in his acceptance speech did he EVER mention the Republicans, but has that stopped the Republicans from claiming victory...NO
Almost immediately they have jumped to the pulpit screaming their victory cries and how they have finally shown Obama a thing or two.

Just look at any news source and you see headlines like: GOP snatches victory, Historic Upset, Republicans Take 41st Seat
But is Brown a Republican, he doesn't seem to be a little "r" republican. Don't get me wrong I am thrilled that Brown won, I just want you people to think about it and not get swept in the swell and think this will change the entire situation. Remember, Brown is a North Eastern Democrat, and if you watched his only interview this morning on NBC, you would see that he is a supporter of Healthcare, provided that it does not hurt his state. Still, he has said that he will kill this healthcare bill and that alone should count for him.

"NOW... WE must make the case that the Red State equivalent of Scott Brown is a secessionist"

So as we look at this great victory, remember who it was who won this race, it was the independents. If the independents of MA can elect someone our little "r" republicans should never undervalue the power of independents. So as you enjoy this victory and happy day, watching the Democrats flounder, just remember to beware of those DeceptiCons.
-- Mike Church

Check out Michelle Malkin's take on this



Is America Moving Right?
by Patrick J. Buchanan

Whether or not Republican Scott Brown captures the Senate seat in Massachusetts today, his surging and successful campaign is a fire bell in the night for the Party of Government.
For Brown has run as an independent, an outsider, a protest candidate. His principal target: the health care reform bill that is the altarpiece of the Barack Obama presidency and lifetime achievement of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi.

For a full year, Obama, Reid, Pelosi and the leading acolytes of their party and media auxiliaries have been selling this plan as a historic Democratic reform to rival the Civil Rights Act and Social Security.
Yet in this Kennedy compound, the only state to be carried by George McGovern, people want to take this bill out to the crossroads at midnight and kill it. Brown made this race competitive by promising to bring the wooden stake to drive through its heart.

How Democratic is Massachusetts?

Democratic registration is three times that of the Republicans. The party controls both houses of the legislature by huge margins, and holds every statewide office, both U.S. Senate seats and all 10 U.S. House seats. Massachusetts is a Democrat fiefdom, a one-party state.
Independents, however, outnumber Democrats, an indication of the growing disillusionment with both national parties in America.

What, then, is the message out of Massachusetts?

For Democrats, the only good news is they got this wake-up call in January. They are on notice now that if they push their health care reform plan to passage and attempt to ride to victory on Democratic registration this fall, they could be vulnerable in almost every state.
Massachusetts today is conclusive evidence that Obama and his party misread the election returns of 2008.

By November, George W. Bush was at 27 percent; 80 percent thought the country was headed in the wrong direction; 92 percent thought the economy was poor or worse. As James Carville said, if the party can't win with these numbers, it ought to go into a new line of work.
The one attribute Americans wanted most in its next president was that he be for "change." And Obama had cornered the market on change, while John McCain had voted 90 percent with Bush.
But instead of seeing the election as a repudiation of the Bush Republicans, Obama, Pelosi and Reid read it as an embrace of their wonderful selves and a national cry for more government.
Following Rahm's Rule – never let a crisis go to waste! – Obama and his party took the collapse of the banks and spreading economic chaos to attempt the greatest leap forward in federal power since World War II.

Most Americans understood candidate Obama's health care plans to mean that folks who could not afford care would be able to get it, whatever their conditions. As the plan evolved, however, it grew in the eyes of the public into precisely what the Tea Party and town-hall protesters said it was: a federal takeover of one-sixth of the economy. Bureaucrats would decide who gets what care, when and for how long. And a panoply of new taxes, fees and regulations would be imposed, producing a revenue windfall for the federal government and a quantum leap in power for federal bureaucrats.

What Massachusetts is telling the nation is that the Tea Party people have won the argument, America doesn't want this bill and either put it down or we remember in November.
Indeed, the crisis of the Democratic Party today may be found in a story this Monday by CNS.
It seems that an ABC/Washington Post poll found that, when asked, "Generally speaking, would you say you favor smaller government with fewer services or larger government with more services?" 58 percent of Americans favored smaller government with fewer services to 38 percent who favor more government and more services.

The Post, however, reportedly saw fit not to mention the results of this question in its news story about the poll.
Which is understandable. Why would you publish a poll that says three in five Americans reject your political philosophy?

In the near term, what is happening in Massachusetts is good news for the GOP.
What it says is that, no matter the weakness of the party label or brand, independents will vote Republican if that is the only alternative to the party in power.
The GOP can thus run this fall as the only effective force left in Washington that can block the Democrats' drive for power. The GOP problem arises when the presidential season begins in spring 2011.

For what Republican ran last time for cutting back George Bush's big government? Who ran against expansion of NATO into Ukraine and Georgia? Who opposed war in Iraq? Who stood up and said no to No Child Left Behind or Medicare coverage of prescription drugs?
Who in the Republican Party today is calling for a Barry Goldwater-like rollback of federal power and federal programs?

Except Ron Paul.
See Ron Paul's State of The Union video here.

4 comments:

Timeshare Jake said...

I heard Mike Church's take on this. There are two things at play here. Massachusetts being a sovereign state has the right to make laws concerning healthcare the federal government does not. Does that make me like the Massachusetts plan, no, but it is within the 10th Amendment. It's like the argument that liberals used to use when we started opposing Obama's massive healthcare plan. Liberal always would use the, but you use socialist concepts every day like public water, public road, and whatever. As long as those things are out of the control of the federal government they are well within the Constitution, and providing a state doesn't overtax their people or go broke over extending the state with services, I can't really get upset if it's the will of the people. This is my 10th Amendment view on it.

Scott Brown is going to Washington to vote against a bill that in unconstitutional. Our Congress has no Constitutional authority to pass any type of social welfare bill. None--the general welfare clause has been mistated to trick people into thinking they do. It's not under article one--it's in mission statement--the Preamble. While I believe Brown will probably not be a little 'r' Republican, he is perfectly within the 10th Amendment is supporting Massachusetts healthcare program.

Are we moving right? I don't think we ever left being right. I believe some people fell for the glizty marketing that once was Barack Obama. Obama will have to run on substance in 2012, and accordign to what I have seen in the first year, he does't have much to run on. Failure defines Obama's first year.

The Griper said...

i can't add any more to what you say BB.

LandShark 5150 said...

Griper -- ditto! The man (Clay aka BB)is good!

LandShark 5150 said...

Clay -- as always you are on top of it! And speaking of being on top of it -- You by far, had the best coverage on last nights race. You beat the net and dare I say, Fox, pmsnbc, the works. Again I am in continued awe. sharky