Hello America how are you?

Hello America how are you? Don't you know us we're you native sons….?

I am reminded of the opening remark of the Gabriel Heater radio program during World War II… "Oh, there is good news tonight."

Bob Bennett walked into a Republican caucus a few days ago without a clue of how people in Utah saw him and were about to respond to his behavior in congress….One example: Bennett voted against the health care bill and introduced a health bill of his own. Ask yourself how a experienced three term Senator did not understand what the polls on health care were telling congress? I suggest it is because he had been in the Senate seventeen years. He was arrogant enough not to care what the voters thought because he knew what was the "right thing" to do and that’s what seventeen years in congress does to all of them.

I think it is a good thing that the press is blaming Bennett's loss to the Tea Party…(Maybe, that is better than suggesting he lacked the leadership skills needs for this time in his State/ Country's life.) .. However, I believe the Tea Party's effort and values played some role if not a major one…..I think as more of this kind of back lashing takes place in both parties the "always to be reelected good ole boys" will be posturing and promising to repent and quickly change their campaign rhetoric…..Question is will they be believed?

This information is from FOX NEWS. God bless them….

Republican U.S. Sen. Bob Bennett of Utah has been ousted in his bid to serve a fourth term after failing to make it out of the Utah GOP convention.

Attorney Mike Lee and businessman Tim Bridgewater are the remaining Republican candidates after Saturday's vote. After a third round of voting, neither nominee received 60 percent of the vote, so both will head to the Utah primary on June 22.

Bennett was a distant third in the second round of voting among nearly 3,500 delegates, netting about 27 percent of the vote.

Wiping away tears, Bennett called the political atmosphere "toxic" and said it's, "Clear some of the votes I've cast have added to that toxic environment, looking back with one or two minor exceptions, I wouldn't cast any differently, even if I knew it would cost me my career." (Those votes did cost him his career so why weep over it?)

The three-term senator was targeted by Tea Party activists and other groups for supporting the TARP, or Troubled Assets Relief Program.

Bennett isn't the only Republican lawmaker in trouble as other moderate candidates across the country find themselves being abandoned by GOP voters in favor of those backed by Tea Party activists, such as with Senate races in Arizona, Kentucky and New Hampshire. In Florida, Gov. Charlie Crist decided to run for Senate as an independent rather than face an almost certain primary defeat at the hands of Tea Party favorite Marco Rubio, Florida's former state House speaker.

DNC Chairman Tim Kaine emphasized the Tea Partiers' role in recent primary politics. "This is just the latest battle in the corrosive Republican intra-party civil war that has resulted in the Tea Party devouring two Republicans in just as many weeks," Kaine said. "If there was any question before, there should now be no doubt that the Republican leadership has handed the reigns to the Tea Party."

Bennett's seven Republican rivals contend he no longer has the credentials to represent "ultraconservative" Utah. Lee, 38, and Bridgewater, 49, have campaigned largely by saying they're better suited to pare down government spending than Bennett.

"I will fight every day as your U.S. senator for limited government, to end the cradle-to-grave entitlement mentality, for a balanced budget, to protect our flag, our borders and our national security and for bills that can be read before they receive a final vote in congress," Lee said in his convention speech.

The opposition to Bennett is specific, and can't be chalked up solely to a general anti-incumbency fervor. Neither of Utah's two Republican congressmen are at risk of losing their seats, and Republican Gov. Gary Herbert doesn't have any serious challengers. Bennett's vote to bail out Wall Street left many Republicans feeling he had become too much of a Washington insider. He's also come under fire for co-sponsoring a bipartisan bill mandating health insurance coverage and for aggressively pursuing earmarks.

In Arizona, Sen. John McCain is in a tough primary fight against former Rep. J.D. Hayworth, a conservative talk-radio host. In Kentucky, Rand Paul, the son of libertarian Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, is gaining momentum in his challenge against the GOP establishment's pick of Secretary of State Trey Grayson to replace retiring U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning. In New Hampshire, former Attorney General Kelly Ayotte is battling three Republican challengers to fill the seat being vacated by Republican Judd Gregg.

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A few weeks ago in an article we talked at some length about the importance of Tea Party members attending caucuses. (Both parties.) Caucuses are places where candidates can be dealt with quickly and simply….Bob Bennett at the Republican caucus in Utah is a wonderful example of how simple it all can be. Now that said, Senator Joe Lieberman did not get the support of his party (dems) for his reelection and ran as an independent and won. Charley Crist in Florida failed with Republican voters in primary polls to Mario Rubio. He will now run as an independent and the current polls suggest his trick might work there as well.

Politicians strive to manage the perception of voters. With the liberal presses' support and carefully crafted "sound bites" this is achieved consistently. The November campaign is just beginning to gin up. Some candidates will wait as long as they can to see which way the wind is blowing. In Mississippi we have our own "always to be re-elected good ole boys." Our one senator holds the honor of getting more "pork barrel" money than any other senator last year….The other one isn't far behind him...(Note: The "art" of pork barreling was one of the negative issues in Utah with Bennett's demise. Pork barreling is about "trading" votes. I'm sure everyone know how this works but just in case an example is: A senator has a bill he/she is sponsoring. They know they don't have the votes to get the billed passed without more votes. So they go to another senator, say from Mississippi, and make him an offer, "If you vote for my bill you can attach a "rider" of 10,000 dollars for that statue you wanted of you Aunt on the lawn of the Governor's home in Mississippi." Now there are enough votes to pass the bill and the senators are happy. The senator who signed on and helped pass the bill is happy because he has funding for his aunt's statue or some other just as silly thing. Also, his behavior has some small group of voters happy ad beholding to him. Where will the 10,000 dollars come from you might ask. Well it always comes from the taxes paid by voters in many states who really know and don't care about the senator's aunt or any other special interest in Mississippi. Nor should they. Historically pork barreling was one of the major ways (schemes) congressmen and senators used to assure their reelection. This is a moral issue and it is wrong. The Health Care Bill has more pork barreling attached to it than any other bill in the history of congress. Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi brought handing out the pork to a higher level of political art. Our "always to be re-elected good ole boys," were at the head of the line.

Come November… Come November, come with us to the polls and ALL together we will stand up for America and be counted.

Ron

http://theoxfordteaparty.blogspot.com/

Note: The Oxford Tea Party has encouraged readers to use the National Debt Clock. (Link below.) Take some time to look at each category on the Debt Clock to see what and where the information come from for each section of the clock. In the lower right hand sections count families and individual "debt" the government is accumulating from moment to moment. Keep a log by date...In the log jot down your debt and in few weeks go back and see how much more debt has been added. Do this every few weeks till next November. (What a lesson.)

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

Anne Wortham

The American conservative view of this government is not related to color but to a way of life and governance. A belief that government should act responsible, serves the people, and be responsive to the will of the people.

The Tea Party movement is inundated with claims by the liberal press as well as the Obama followers that the "Tea Parties" are racist. This seems more and more difficult for them as more and more leaders in the black community are speaking out. What these black leaders are saying is what the white Tea Parties are saying about this President and this Congress. (Go figure.)

For those that don't know her let me introduce you to Anne Wortham. She is Associate Professor of Sociology at Illinois State University and continuing Visiting Scholar at Stanford University 's Hoover Institution.

She is a member of the American Sociological Association and the American Philosophical Association.

She has been a John M. Olin Foundation Faculty Fellow, and honored as a Distinguished Alumni of the Year by the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education.

In fall 1988 she was one of a select group of intellectuals who were featured in Bill Moyer's television series, "A World of Ideas." The transcript of her conversation with Moyers has been published in his book, A World of Ideas.

Dr. Wortham is author of "The Other Side of Racism: A Philosophical Study of Black Race Consciousness" which analyzes how race consciousness is transformed into political strategies and policy issues.

She has published numerous articles on the implications of individual rights for civil rights policy, and is currently writing a book on theories of social and cultural marginality.

Recently, she has published articles on the significance of multiculturalism and Afrocentricism in education, the politics of victimization and the social and political impact of political correctness. Shortly after an interview in 2004, she was awarded tenure.

This article by her is something to be read...

Fellow Americans,

Please know: I am Black; I grew up in the segregated South. I did not vote for Barack Obama; I wrote in Ron Paul's name as my choice for president. Most importantly, I am not race conscious. I do not require a Black president to know that I am a person of worth, and that life is worth living. I do not require a Black president to love the ideal of America .

I cannot join you in your celebration. I feel no elation. There is no smile on my face. I am not jumping with joy. There are no tears of triumph in my eyes. For such emotions and behavior to come from me, I would have to deny all that I know about the requirements of human flourishing and survival - all that I know about the history of the United States of America , all that I know about American race relations, and all that I know about Barack Obama as a politician. I would have to deny the nature of the "change" that Obama asserts has come to America.

Most importantly, I would have to abnegate my certain understanding that you have chosen to sprint down the road to serfdom that we have been on for over a century. I would have to pretend that individual liberty has no value for the success of a human life. I would have to evade your rejection of the slender reed of capitalism on which your success and mine depend. I would have to think it somehow rational that 94 percent of the 12 million Blacks in this country voted for a man because he looks like them (that Blacks are permitted to play the race card), and that they were joined by self-declared "progressive" whites who voted for him because he doesn't look like them.

I would have to wipe my mind clean of all that I know about the kind of people who have advised and taught Barack Obama and will fill posts in his administration - political intellectuals like my former colleagues at the Harvard University 's Kennedy School of Government.

I would have to believe that "fairness" is equivalent of justice. I would have to believe that a man who asks me to "go forward in a new spirit of service, in a new service of sacrifice" is speaking in my interest.. I would have to accept the premise of a man that economic prosperity comes from the "bottom up," and who arrogantly believes that he can will it into existence by the use of government force. I would have to admire a man who thinks the standard of living of the masses can be improved by destroying the most productive and the generators of wealth.

Finally, Americans, I would have to erase from my consciousness the scene of 125,000 screaming, crying, cheering people in Grant Park, Chicago irrationally chanting "Yes We Can!" Finally, I would have to wipe all memory of all the times I have heard politicians, pundits, journalists, editorialists, bloggers and intellectuals declare that capitalism is dead - and no one, including especially Alan Greenspan, objected to their assumption that the particular version of the anti-capitalistic mentality that they want to replace with their own version of anti-capitalism is anything remotely equivalent to capitalism.

So you have made history, Americans. You and your children have elected a Black man to the office of the president of the United States, the wounded giant of the world. The battle between John Wayne and Jane Fonda is over - and Fonda won. Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern must be very happy men. Jimmie Carter, too. And the Kennedys have at last gotten their Kennedy look-a-like. The self-righteous welfare statists in the suburbs can feel warm moments of satisfaction for having elected a Black person.

So, toast yourselves: 60s countercultural radicals, 80s yuppies and 90s bourgeois bohemians. Toast yourselves, Black America. Shout your glee Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Duke, Stanford, and Berkeley. You have elected not an individual who is qualified to be president, but a Black man who, like the pragmatist Franklin Roosevelt, promises to - Do Something! You now have someone who has picked up the baton of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. But you have also foolishly traded your freedom and mine - what little there is left - for the chance to feel good.

There is nothing in me that can share your happy obliviousness.

God Help Us all.

Anne Wortham


Come November… Come November, God will help us as we go to the polls as black and white conservative Americans.….

http://theoxfordteaparty.blogspot.com/

I.M.F. / Greece - Boondoggled again...

First: BAD news

Europeans Fear Greek Debt Crisis Will Spread

Everyone is hearing about the crisis in Greece. Clearly no one in the EUROPEAN UNION that has any money left wants to pour it into the socialist sink hole. So, the clever thing they are doing is getting the IMF (International Monetary Fund) to bail Greece out. That way the EU nations won't have to be on the hook nor should they be on the hook for Greece's mismanagement of their socialist country…..

This is a test question: Having the IMF do the heavy financial lifting guess where most of the money in the IMF comes from…? Guess who is really going to pick up this bill...? IF we were betting , a "good bet" is the American tax payer on average, hasn't any idea what the IMF is or does and not a clue it will mostly be their tax dollars that will end up bailing out Greece, Spain, and Portugal. All socialist countries. Most of the money in the IMF comes from us.(Our liberal press nor our elected representatives nor our President have let the voters in on this secret. )

Over time our Congress has committed the American tax payer to untold amounts of debt. The debt is hidden from the American voter and often disguised as aid to this or that country and to a myriad of other social causes around the world.

(At a personal level I am sorry about Haiti and their disaster. I feel bad for them but so long as people in our country are in need, I don't want to see one cent of our tax money go elsewhere. We cannot buy goodwill and trying to be the checkbook for the world is hurting every person in America.)

(To digress: As far back at 1959 the world had figured us out. Peter Sellers made a film titled "The Mouse That Roared".. The setting was a small European county that had no money. So it decided to attack America. The country knew after America won the war it would give the little country lots of money. So off they went with their ten soldiers in a little boat to New York. The plan was to just get off the boat and surrender. That would be all that was needed. Here a half century later America is still in the game.)

As the European Union and the IMF debate the politics of Greece’s laying off civil servants or persuading its doctors to pay income tax, it is becoming apparent that the international community may need to come up with a much larger sum to backstop not just Greece, but also Portugal and Spain.

“The number will be huge,” said Piero Ghezzi, an economist at Barclays Capital. “Ninety billion euros for Greece, 40 billion for Portugal and 350 billion for Spain — now we are talking real money.”

Mr. Rogoff says that the I.M.F. could commit as much as $200 billion to aid Greece, Portugal and Spain, but acknowledges that sum alone would not be enough.


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/28/business/global/28euro.html?th&emc=th

Second BAD news:

National Review: The chief actuary for Medicare has released a memorandum providing cost estimates for the final health legislation passed by Congress and signed by the president…For starters, the actuary says that the legislation will increase health care costs, not reduce them — by about $300 billion over a
decade…

The actuary also says that the financial incentives in the bill will lead many employers to stop offering coverage altogether. That means about 14 million people with job-based insurance today will lose it. Moreover, he estimates that the cuts in Medicare Advantage will reduce enrollment by 7 million people…

The memo says the Medicare cuts will total nearly $600 billion through 2019, and that they will almost certainly jeopardize access to care for seniors by driving scores of institutions into financial distress. Employers will pay taxes totaling $87 billion over a decade for not offering qualified coverage, and individuals who don’t sign up with approved insurance will pay another $33 billion in fines over the same period…

http://healthcare.nationalreview.com/

Don't you just wonder why it has taken Medicare so long to release these numbers? Medicare was involved with Congress in putting the Health Care Bill together. Can we really believe Medicare has finally discovered what the real cost will be IF in fact these are the real numbers? Very doubtful. However, the press and the Whitehouse will find a way to spin this off.

Third BAD news:

Earlier this month, Congressman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) introduced the Economic Freedom Act. Modeled after the American Solutions Jobs First plan, the bill would:

1) Eliminate the capital gains tax.
2) Reduce the corporate tax rate to 12.5%.
3) Permanently eliminate the death tax.
4) Provide immediate business expensing.
5) Reduce the payroll tax by half for 2010.
6) Repeal the "stimulus" spending (except for unemployment benefits and the tax cuts).
7) Terminate the TARP program.

Anyone reading this Jordan Bill and believes the current Congress would pass any part of the Bill raise your hand. How is it that Congressman Jordan is "just now" introducing such a bill? Why has he decided to put on this political show with all of these really good ideas? Wonder what his poll numbers are?

It seems that no matter which party our elected representatives associate themselves with they are always in the throws of trying to manipulate our perceptions of them. (called - bamboozling) Shame on him. Jordan will talk about his "side show" bill during his campaign. No one will ask him why he didn't introduce this bill the first year he was in office and shame on them for not asking.

Come November…Come November come with us to the voting booth. Bring one new voter with you and let us elect folks who have values, courage, and insight to end these mismanagement nightmares.

Ron

http://theoxfordteaparty.blogspot.com/

Here Come the "Change"

"In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one
useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or
more is a congress." -- John Adams

If you read some of the founders writings after the work they did on the Constitution and Bill of Rights it seems they became quite disenchanted with representative democratic form of government. In their time as well as this point in our nation's history we can fuss about it, complain about it, be angry at it, but it still is the best game in town. Whatever conclusion each of us comes to about our form of government, we don't want to trade it for a socialist government or a socialist way of life. ( To call a socialist economy an ECONOMY is something I just can't relate to.)

Some GOOD news and some BAD news….. From The Oxford Tea Party.

First the good news:

Group to Supporters: History's Never Seen Anything Like Us :
Dems Lead Sen, Gov Races; Obama, HC Underwater

April 28th, 2010

Blanche Lincoln Is In A Heap Of Trouble (Lady who sold her vote.)

Posted by Sean Trende

I've been following Congressional and Senate races closely for almost fourteen years now, and I honestly can't remember seeing a sitting Senator polling below thirty percent in a poll ever before. Certainly not six months before an election. But according to Rasmussen Reports, there's a first time for everything. 4/26/2010, 500 LVs, +/- 4.5%

Kim Hendren (R) -- 51%
Blanche Lincoln (D) -- 30%
Gilbert Baker (R) -- 53%
Blanche Lincoln (D) -- 31%
Curtis Coleman (R) -- 52%
Blanche Lincoln (D) -- 32%
Jim Holt (R) -- 54%
Blanche Lincoln (D) -- 31%
John Boozman (R) -- 57%
Blanche Lincoln (D) -- 29%
Kim Hendren (R) -- 45%
Bill Halter (D) -- 33%
Gilbert Baker (R) -- 48%
Bill Halter (D) -- 33%
Curtis Coleman (R) -- 43%
Bill Halter (D) -- 37%
Jim Holt (R) -- 49%
Bill Halter (D) -- 31%
John Boozman (R) -- 56%
Bill Halter (D) -- 31%

I have decided to put off the bad news to another day….

Come November…Come November come with us to the voting booth. Let us elect folks who have the courage and insight to end these nightmares.

Ron

http://theoxfordteaparty.blogspot.com/