I have been thinking about Christmas and Christmas gifts. My last Christmas wishlist was limited so I have decided to add to the list for those who are still considering what to give me for Christmas. Just pick any country on the list and delete it….
Old Beatles song title, "Money Can't By Me Love".
Does that stop us from trying? Absolutely not…..
The last little missive was pointing out many of the social programs our government run that cost trillions of dollars. It seemed to come as a great shock to many readers given the comments received.
Since the last note was about things we are doing in this country, lets take a look at things we are doing 'over there.' We pour money into each of these countries every year. I don't want to go into the shenanigans of how we do so much of our foreign aide but focus on how these countries reward us with their support in the world forum. (I'm sure many have seen this list.)
How they vote in the United Nations:
Below are the actual voting records of various Arabic/Islamic States
which are recorded in both the US State Department and United Nations records:
Kuwait votes against the United States 67% of the time
Qatar votes against the United States 67% of the time
Morocco votes against the United States 70% of the time
United Arab Emirates votes against the United States 70% of the time.
Jordan votes against the United States 71% of the time.
Tunisia votes against the United States 71% of the time.
Saudi Arabia votes against the United States 73% of the time.
Yemen votes against the United States 74% of the time.
Algeria votes against the United States 74% of the time.
Oman votes against the United States 74% of the time
Sudan votes against the United States 75% of the time.
Pakistan votes against the United States 75% of the time.
Libya votes against the United States 76% of the time.
Egypt votes against the United States 79% of the time.
Lebanon votes against the United States 80% of the time.
India votes against the United States 81% of the time.
Syria votes against the United States 84% of the time.
Mauritania votes against the United States 87% of the time.
U S Foreign Aid to those that seem to truly hate us:
Egypt, for example, after voting 79% of the time against the United States,
still receives $2,000,000,000 annually in US Foreign Aid.
Jordan votes 71% against the United States
And receives $192,814,000 annually in US Foreign Aid
Pakistan votes 75% against the United States
Receives $6,721,000,000 annually in US Foreign Aid.
India votes 81% against the United States
Receives $143,699,000 annually.
This list could go on and on……The point is when you, me, or government decides to buy something (anything) the expectation is to get something back. What we get back from these countries is a request for more money.
Money does not buy us love or much else from our above list of friends.
Wherever we look we find our government has weaved a web of foreign policy that is so complex that it becomes impossible to follow the logic. (Assuming there is one.) For sure it smacks of the programs, the hand-outs, and thinking that goes back to the Cold War era with Russia back in the fifties.
Our foreign policy is like the TAX code. (Also, all other government programs.) Nothing ever get dropped or changed but get added to. For something to be dropped or changed is to admit that what was done should not have been done. This is electoral death to any and all politicians. We see this haunting Romney and Gingrich in this current campaign.
The system that we use in our election process is flawed.
"I have a friend and we exchange e-mails and ideas. He has two children going into the job market and is worried about their future…. Mine are all to old for me to worry about them 'making it' in life. He has begun to look closely at Mississippi's education system and job creation in the state. Both are resting very comfortably at the bottom of most lists of states.
I think you can pick up the gist of what this series of e-mails have been about.
Here is my response to his last mail…..
Doom is the right word....Next time Sam wants to go shopping at Penny's go with her.... As she looks through clothes you read labels.... Every label you find 'Made in America' I will buy you lunch....My wife came home a few weeks ago complaining about this....There is a new men's store on Jackson avenue, ...Go in and just read labels....
There a book titled Singularity - I have had it for months and each time I start to read I put it down. It is a little overwhelming. The book speaks to such profound changes. So many are well underway but Americans, as a whole, see these changes happening but don't think about consequences.
The changes already made are in place and can't be changed... Example: We stop making men's shirts. China makes men's shirts and charges 1 dollar. China raises the cost of their shirts 10 cents. What happens to us.....? Oil goes up 10 cents a gallon. Where does the 10 cents go. The working tax payer pays the additional 10 cents at the pump. Government takes their tax dollars and gives it to poor folk and they buy gas and pay the extra 10 cents also...Where do those 10 cents go....The working man has now paid 20 cents more for a gallon of gas...The American citizens along with their government representatives can't connect the dots.
For us to make shirts again government would need to stop taxing business, drop all regulation, and lower minimum wage... Along with all regulations regarding growing of the cotton to the manufacturing of the cloth, worker's benefits that are required, and transportation regulations, etc. There is no will to make these changes even if it could be done.
I'm going on about this because we and government still the see the world in terms of 1 + 1 = 2....BUT we are in a world where 1 + 1 = 5...This speed of change is growing that fast. What used to take ten years now take two…The model that government uses to do 'their' predictions is still 1+1 = 2 … Confusing and misleading.
Not that we care that much what happens in China when the plants that makes shirts are fully operated by computers? Next time you have a chance to watch a video on car manufacturing notice how few people are working…Going back a number of years a steel mill closed and almost 800 union members lost their job. A Japanese company bought the closed plant. Made a deal with the union that their members would have first crack at the new jobs. But they had to pass the test for new workers. Not many union members applied. Seven union men passed the test. The company hired from outside the union. The plant became automated and has 114 people working producing high grade steel profitably. That is one small example of computing power and the changes it can make.
The change has happened. These changes are just now impacting us in so many different way that we are beginning to see them.
The poorly educated as well as many well educated can't find work. Cannot support themselves…There are over 100K of these folks coming into the job market each month. So it take 100K new jobs each month jut to stay even with where we are….. There seems to be little chance that our President along with a Democratic Senate will allow anything to happen that could in anyway help businesses to create the minimum 100K to keep us from sinking father into the abyss.
Look at the numbers and see how many children MS will graduate from high school next year and ask will 10% of the graduating class get a job?
Hopefully - YES. but what do the other 90% do?
This is a dark picture.... Mostly we do not want to look at this problem. Most don't have enough knowledge to even know there is a picture that needs looking at... There have been so many mistakes made, over long periods of time, and often with the best of intentions by government that simply can't be undone.
Talk to you soon, RN"
Well, in less than a week my promise to myself about looking at everything in a positive way has faded…..
The link below to Redstate is long thoughtful article but well worth the read. Note how many comments this article has gotten.
http://www.redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2011/12/14/taking-newt-gingrichs-ideas-seriously/
Ron
docnick37@gmail.com
http://theoxfordteaparty.blogspot.com/
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Monday, December 12, 2011
Agents of Change
I know it's getting late and everyone is busy with Christmas shopping. So for any of you who been thinking about what to get me for Christmas, I thought I would sent you a list of items I really want. You could pick and choose.
At first reading this list may not seem very personal and slightly outside the Christmas present box but these are the things I want.
Also, these happen to be the very same things the 'new' conservatives in Congress want. (Some of you may have seen their list…..)
• Corporation for Public Broadcasting Subsidy. $445 million annual savings.
• Save America 's Treasures Program. $25 million annual savings.
• International Fund for Ireland . $17 million annual savings.
• Legal Services Corporation. $420 million annual savings.
• National Endowment for the Arts. $167.5 million annual savings.
• National Endowment for the Humanities. $167.5 million annual savings.
• Hope VI Program. $250 million annual savings.
• Amtrak Subsidies. $1.565 billion annual savings.
• Eliminate duplicative education programs. H.R. 2274 (in last Congress), authored by Rep. McKeon, eliminates 68 at a savings of $1.3 billion annually.
• U.S. Trade Development Agency. $55 million annual savings.
• Woodrow Wilson Center Subsidy. $20 million annual savings.
• Cut in half funding for congressional printing and binding. $47 million annual savings.
• John C. Stennis Center Subsidy. $430,000 annual savings.
• Community Development Fund. $4.5 billion annual savings.
• Heritage Area Grants and Statutory Aid. $24 million annual savings.
• Cut Federal Travel Budget in Half. $7.5 billion annual savings
• Trim Federal Vehicle Budget by 20%. $600 million annual savings.
• Essential Air Service. $150 million annual savings.
• Technology Innovation Program. $70 million annual savings.
• Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Program. $125 million annual savings.
• Department of Energy Grants to States for Weatherization. $530 million annual savings.
• Beach Replenishment. $95 million annual savings.
• New Starts Transit. $2 billion annual savings.
• Exchange Programs for Alaska , Natives Native Hawaiians, and Their Historical Trading Partners in Massachusetts . $9 million annual savings
• Intercity and High Speed Rail Grants. $2.5 billion annual savings.
• Title X Family Planning. $318 million annual savings.
• Appalachian Regional Commission. $76 million annual savings.
• Economic Development Administration. $293 million annual savings.
• Programs under the National and Community Services Act. $1.15 billion annual savings.
• Applied Research at Department of Energy. $1.27 billion annual savings.
• FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership. $200 million annual savings.
• Energy Star Program. $52 million annual savings.
• Economic Assistance to Egypt . $250 million annually.
• U.S. Agency for International Development. $1.39 billion annual savings.
• General Assistance to District of Columbia . $210 million annual savings.
• Subsidy for Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. $150 million annual savings.
• Presidential Campaign Fund. $775 million savings over ten years.
• No funding for federal office space acquisition. $864 million annual savings.
• End prohibitions on competitive sourcing of government services.
• Repeal the Davis-Bacon Act. More than $1 billion annually.
• IRS Direct Deposit: Require the IRS to deposit fees for some services it offers (such as processing payment plans for taxpayers) to the Treasury, instead of allowing it to remain as part of its budget. $1.8 billion savings over ten years.
• Require collection of unpaid taxes by federal employees. $1 billion total savings.WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• Prohibit taxpayer funded union activities by federal employees. $1.2 billion savings over ten years.
• Sell excess federal properties the government does not make use of. $15 billion total savings.
• Eliminate death gratuity for Members of Congress.
• Eliminate Mohair Subsidies. $1 million annual savings.
• Eliminate taxpayer subsidies to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. $12.5 million annual savings
• Eliminate Market Access Program. $200 million annual savings.
• USDA Sugar Program. $14 million annual savings.
• Subsidy to Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). $93 million annual savings.
• Eliminate the National Organic Certification Cost-Share Program. $56.2 million annual savings.
• Eliminate fund for Obamacare administrative costs. $900 million savings.
• Ready to Learn TV Program. $27 million savings..
• HUD Ph.D. Program.
• Deficit Reduction Check-Off Act.
Give or take a million dollars here and there, these cuts would come to a few trillion in spending. If all these programs were cut I don't think I would miss any of them. Why don't we drop each of the 'new' congressmen a Christmas note and say something like, "I also think it’s a good idea to cut the HUD Ph.D. program." As well as anything other programs you have strong feeling about.
We need to stay in touch with the 'new' congressmen. These little 'thank you notes' coupled with Christmas wishes would remind them they are governing at our consent and best wishes….
We need to keep our hand on their shoulders in every way we can think of and at every opportunity.
Between now and January 2012 I have decided I am going to make a concerted effort to have a positive attitude about everything our federal government says and does…I decided this two days ago and this morning I read the latest release from the FED: The average U.S. household lost $21,261 of net worth over the summer months, they informed us in their quarterly just released Household Report.. OK…(A promise is a promise…) So I have decided to look at these numbers and say, "Well these numbers are not as bad as they could have been." ( Note: There are more reports scheduled from the FED this coming week so I don't know how long I can keep this up.)
This time of year we celebrate the simple fact that God loves us for who he is, not for who we are….A time when start focusing on the people in the inner circles of our lives. We let them know how special they are to us. This bonding mostly has to do with blood ties along with a handful of friends thrown in for good measure.
There is another powerful and strange bonding taking place not based on blood ties but ideas and beliefs. In many ways this bonding is not new to us as American citizens but more of a rebirth. The bond is growing with new decisions we make and the accomplishments we achieve. The old Tea Party event was simply a clarion call to battle. That battle was won with men and rifles. The call today for this new generation of Tea Party members is being fought in the streets of every city and the climax will be in every voting's booth in every polling station in the nation.
The question might be why are we having to fight this fight. Do we not have enough enemies around the world? Isn't there something better we ought to be doing? Yes…. Soul searching… We are the ones who let our beliefs slip and and our values erode. It was our job to keep the watch. The enemy has been at the gate a long time and no bell have been rung.
This little video is a lesson in values and culture. I think you will like it.
Merry Christmas Mr. President… Have a wonderful vacation in Hawaii, kick back and count the number of days till the 2012 elections.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGab38pKscw&sns=fb
Ron
docnick37@gmail.com
http://theoxfordteaparty.blogspot.com/
At first reading this list may not seem very personal and slightly outside the Christmas present box but these are the things I want.
Also, these happen to be the very same things the 'new' conservatives in Congress want. (Some of you may have seen their list…..)
• Corporation for Public Broadcasting Subsidy. $445 million annual savings.
• Save America 's Treasures Program. $25 million annual savings.
• International Fund for Ireland . $17 million annual savings.
• Legal Services Corporation. $420 million annual savings.
• National Endowment for the Arts. $167.5 million annual savings.
• National Endowment for the Humanities. $167.5 million annual savings.
• Hope VI Program. $250 million annual savings.
• Amtrak Subsidies. $1.565 billion annual savings.
• Eliminate duplicative education programs. H.R. 2274 (in last Congress), authored by Rep. McKeon, eliminates 68 at a savings of $1.3 billion annually.
• U.S. Trade Development Agency. $55 million annual savings.
• Woodrow Wilson Center Subsidy. $20 million annual savings.
• Cut in half funding for congressional printing and binding. $47 million annual savings.
• John C. Stennis Center Subsidy. $430,000 annual savings.
• Community Development Fund. $4.5 billion annual savings.
• Heritage Area Grants and Statutory Aid. $24 million annual savings.
• Cut Federal Travel Budget in Half. $7.5 billion annual savings
• Trim Federal Vehicle Budget by 20%. $600 million annual savings.
• Essential Air Service. $150 million annual savings.
• Technology Innovation Program. $70 million annual savings.
• Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Program. $125 million annual savings.
• Department of Energy Grants to States for Weatherization. $530 million annual savings.
• Beach Replenishment. $95 million annual savings.
• New Starts Transit. $2 billion annual savings.
• Exchange Programs for Alaska , Natives Native Hawaiians, and Their Historical Trading Partners in Massachusetts . $9 million annual savings
• Intercity and High Speed Rail Grants. $2.5 billion annual savings.
• Title X Family Planning. $318 million annual savings.
• Appalachian Regional Commission. $76 million annual savings.
• Economic Development Administration. $293 million annual savings.
• Programs under the National and Community Services Act. $1.15 billion annual savings.
• Applied Research at Department of Energy. $1.27 billion annual savings.
• FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership. $200 million annual savings.
• Energy Star Program. $52 million annual savings.
• Economic Assistance to Egypt . $250 million annually.
• U.S. Agency for International Development. $1.39 billion annual savings.
• General Assistance to District of Columbia . $210 million annual savings.
• Subsidy for Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. $150 million annual savings.
• Presidential Campaign Fund. $775 million savings over ten years.
• No funding for federal office space acquisition. $864 million annual savings.
• End prohibitions on competitive sourcing of government services.
• Repeal the Davis-Bacon Act. More than $1 billion annually.
• IRS Direct Deposit: Require the IRS to deposit fees for some services it offers (such as processing payment plans for taxpayers) to the Treasury, instead of allowing it to remain as part of its budget. $1.8 billion savings over ten years.
• Require collection of unpaid taxes by federal employees. $1 billion total savings.WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• Prohibit taxpayer funded union activities by federal employees. $1.2 billion savings over ten years.
• Sell excess federal properties the government does not make use of. $15 billion total savings.
• Eliminate death gratuity for Members of Congress.
• Eliminate Mohair Subsidies. $1 million annual savings.
• Eliminate taxpayer subsidies to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. $12.5 million annual savings
• Eliminate Market Access Program. $200 million annual savings.
• USDA Sugar Program. $14 million annual savings.
• Subsidy to Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). $93 million annual savings.
• Eliminate the National Organic Certification Cost-Share Program. $56.2 million annual savings.
• Eliminate fund for Obamacare administrative costs. $900 million savings.
• Ready to Learn TV Program. $27 million savings..
• HUD Ph.D. Program.
• Deficit Reduction Check-Off Act.
Give or take a million dollars here and there, these cuts would come to a few trillion in spending. If all these programs were cut I don't think I would miss any of them. Why don't we drop each of the 'new' congressmen a Christmas note and say something like, "I also think it’s a good idea to cut the HUD Ph.D. program." As well as anything other programs you have strong feeling about.
We need to stay in touch with the 'new' congressmen. These little 'thank you notes' coupled with Christmas wishes would remind them they are governing at our consent and best wishes….
We need to keep our hand on their shoulders in every way we can think of and at every opportunity.
Between now and January 2012 I have decided I am going to make a concerted effort to have a positive attitude about everything our federal government says and does…I decided this two days ago and this morning I read the latest release from the FED: The average U.S. household lost $21,261 of net worth over the summer months, they informed us in their quarterly just released Household Report.. OK…(A promise is a promise…) So I have decided to look at these numbers and say, "Well these numbers are not as bad as they could have been." ( Note: There are more reports scheduled from the FED this coming week so I don't know how long I can keep this up.)
This time of year we celebrate the simple fact that God loves us for who he is, not for who we are….A time when start focusing on the people in the inner circles of our lives. We let them know how special they are to us. This bonding mostly has to do with blood ties along with a handful of friends thrown in for good measure.
There is another powerful and strange bonding taking place not based on blood ties but ideas and beliefs. In many ways this bonding is not new to us as American citizens but more of a rebirth. The bond is growing with new decisions we make and the accomplishments we achieve. The old Tea Party event was simply a clarion call to battle. That battle was won with men and rifles. The call today for this new generation of Tea Party members is being fought in the streets of every city and the climax will be in every voting's booth in every polling station in the nation.
The question might be why are we having to fight this fight. Do we not have enough enemies around the world? Isn't there something better we ought to be doing? Yes…. Soul searching… We are the ones who let our beliefs slip and and our values erode. It was our job to keep the watch. The enemy has been at the gate a long time and no bell have been rung.
This little video is a lesson in values and culture. I think you will like it.
Merry Christmas Mr. President… Have a wonderful vacation in Hawaii, kick back and count the number of days till the 2012 elections.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGab38pKscw&sns=fb
Ron
docnick37@gmail.com
http://theoxfordteaparty.blogspot.com/
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Simply a Disaster
This article is simply nothing more a graphic example of our national debt. The numbers are so large we can't grasp them. Our President, democratic congressman, some brain damaged republicans, and liberal press tells us the 'debt' ain't so bad….
Take a couple of minutes and watch this presentation. The timeline they use makes this slightly more understandable. (Slight is the operative word.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=JY8LKII_MNA&feature=youtube_gdata_player
We must find away for every citizen in America to understand what our politicians have done. Our President is crossing the country speechifying the idea that we need to spend more.
As long as this President is in office along with the present congress we cannot not stop this. They all must go.
Ron
docnick37@gmail.com
http://theoxfordteaparty.blogspot.com/
Take a couple of minutes and watch this presentation. The timeline they use makes this slightly more understandable. (Slight is the operative word.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=JY8LKII_MNA&feature=youtube_gdata_player
We must find away for every citizen in America to understand what our politicians have done. Our President is crossing the country speechifying the idea that we need to spend more.
As long as this President is in office along with the present congress we cannot not stop this. They all must go.
Ron
docnick37@gmail.com
http://theoxfordteaparty.blogspot.com/
Monday, December 5, 2011
New Hampshire
First up… New Hampshire has been a mystery cloaked in political ambiguities. This small state has always played some large role in presidential elections that I have never understood…In just a few weeks, once again, the voters of this state will set the tone for this next election cycle.
Since the next election, I think, will be the most important election in my lifetime I decided I need to understand what the heck goes on there…. So I turned to Google… along with reading conservative web sites looking for some clues.
On Redstate's site I found this article by Michael E. Hammond…. As you read his article you will quickly see this is a conservative man with a long political history in New Hampshire. He has done us a service by writing this article….Certainly explaining the ambiguities of this small state in ways that an outsider could not see.
Michael E. Hammond
I was the sole general chairman of the New Hampshire campaign of Pat Buchanan in the winter of 1995-6.
I was alone because my co-chairman, faced with unmoving single-digit poll numbers, had fled for the Dole campaign.
I remember Pat’s consternation about our seemingly stagnant poll numbers. And yet, when New Hampshire voters began focusing on the election, those polls became meaningless. Just a few weeks before the primary.
The “pitch fork” brigade carried New Hampshire. And I am convinced that had there not been shenanigans in South Carolina, a GOP under a Buchanan banner would have defeated Clinton and rewritten history — unlike — the sleazy stand-for-nothing Dole.
So — what do you want to know about New Hampshire?
(1) New Hampshire Is A Conservative State
In 2006 and 2008, many conservatives, including me, either sat out the election or supported Democrats.
We did this because we were sick-and-tired of Bush’s massive government spending, ballooning deficits, national ID cards, warrantless wiretaps, and other Orwellian innovations.
In addition, like a duck riding a tidal wave, New Hampshire floated with the national mood.
Democrats — and a lot of Washington “experts” — concluded that New Hampshire was the “new Vermont” and they suffered for it.
In 2010, the voters gave the GOP nearly three-fourths of the 400-member House, 19 out of 24 seats in the state Senate, all five seats on the governor’s “executive council,” both U.S. House seats, and the U.S. Senate seat.
True, 2010 was a “tsunami” year, but it was, I think, closer to the norm than 2008.
(2) No One Has New Hampshire “Locked Up” Now
Most New Hampshire residents get mostly Boston television (on the commercial channels).
They remember Romney’s rabid support for abortion, gun control, same-sex rights, and RomneyCare.
They also remember when, as governor, he brought “staties” (Massachusetts state troopers) up to his place on Winnipesaukee to keep locals off a portion of their lake.
Romney has reached a “flexible wall.” Virtually everyone knows him and has an opinion of him. He is not going to get the votes of people who hate him — perhaps not even in the general election.
And, if he can’t carry New Hampshire, Romney threatens to be 2012′s “Bob Dole.”
(3) Social Issues Play a Major Role
Gun issues are huge. In addition, there is a very significant evangelical community centered around laces like Nashua, Amherst, and Concord. The Catholic pro-life contingent is also very influential. If undivided, this is enough to carry the state.
Most (but not all) of these people loved former New Hampshire Senator Bob Smith, and they will probably not forgive Rick Santorum’s role in ending his political career.
Similarly, Michele Bachmann has done all of the right things in Washington and could have been (and perhaps still could be) a formidable candidate. But she seems to have conceded the state.
(4) ObamaCare Is The Issue Which Turned This State From Deep Blue to Blood-Red
We knew the end was near when an incumbent Democrat congresswoman — forced to finally hold a town meeting — required constituents to go through a metal detector and refused to answer questions from anyone not issued a “question-asking ticket.”
You may remember the spin placed on last Tuesday’s elections.
Among “mixed” results, the one time when the word “overwhelmingly” was used was when critical swing State Ohio — fresh from repudiating the GOP on unionization — overwhelmingly rejected the ObamaCare mandate.
And yet, over and over again, Speaker John Boehner and Leader Mitch McConnell forgo the opportunity to make this an issue.
Given the D.C. Circuit’s recent 2011 decision to uphold the law, it is even less clear that Anthony Kennedy will cast the deciding vote to overturn it.
But, even if he does, the GOP needs to spend the next seven months reminding Americans that:
• Obama resorted to unthinkable and varied sleaze and corruption to slam the bill through;
• Obama spent a year trying to nationalize health care, rather than creating jobs;
• To accomplish this, Obama put massive tax increases on the poor and middle class; and,
• The horrific burden of the mandate will fall most heavily on the youthful core of Obama’s 2008 base.
Yes, ObamaCare can be repealed immediately a year from January by a majority vote in the Senate if Republicans control the Senate, House, and White House.
However, if Americans don’t hear anything about ObamaCare repeal until October 15, 2012, don’t expect them to believe Republicans are serious.
(5) Here, and Nationally, Candidates Need To Take On The “Obama Smear Machine”
Obama cannot win the upcoming presidential election.
But Republicans can lose it.
Obama’s sole winning strategy, as I said last summer, is to “Barry Goldwaterize” every GOP candidate who becomes prominent. And he has thus far done this with incredible success.
I don’t know who leaked the Cain allegations to Politico. But I know that they became national news because the Obama worshipping media chose to make them so.
So remember these words:
“Obama Smear Machine”
Every time the media undertakes to assassinate the character of another Republican, people should, in a Pavlovian way, remember these words.
by Michael E. Hammond, former General Counsel Senate Steering Committee 1978-89 and a Dumbarton, New Hampshire resident.
Thanks Mr. Hammond and thank you Redstate….
I don't know what to make of this…. But two things strike me: 1) People of this state seem to invest thought and time to politics and 2) They as a group seem to be conservative…. Maybe these two principles lend credence to their voting outcomes. Who knows…They don't always pick the winner and maybe it isn't important. Even though a lot of attention is paid to what they do….
What is important about New Hampshire and Iowa is that their voting will take place very soon. Who wins their votes will be discounted by the liberal press and the rest of our want-to-be candidates will be dismissed more or less from the race.
Right now Romney is polling well despite what Mr. Hammond believes is his history of bad ideas and social positions on health care, guns, and abortion.
The tension is building. Gingrich is leading Romney in Iowa and South Carolina by a wide margin in current polls.
People change, values change, goals change just like poll numbers. What doesn't seem to change is people's willingness to cast stones.
When we don't carefully mind our own house, government puts its foot in the door. Once done, we begin to lose confidence in ourselves and our abilities. As our self-confidence begins to slip, government gets two feet in the door. Very soon it is they, not we managing the house. They do a poor job and we blame them for it. They try harder and their failures grow. Now we have lost confidence in them and us…. The house has a strong foundation but only we can do the maintenance and the rebuilding needed.
Obama has a large ego, arrogance, strong will, and a mission. Newt has a mission, strong will, and a strong ego. Romney, bless his heart, just wants to be president.
I thought Barney Frank made an astute remark about Romney: He said, "Romney would be the greatest thing that has happened for the Democrats since Barry Goldwater…."
All of the liberal press is slyly supporting Romney. That speaks very loudly in support of Barney Frank's idea.
There we are. Depending on our choices and actions it is we who can win or lose this election.
Ron
docnick37@gmail.com
http://theoxfordteaparty.blogspot.com/
Since the next election, I think, will be the most important election in my lifetime I decided I need to understand what the heck goes on there…. So I turned to Google… along with reading conservative web sites looking for some clues.
On Redstate's site I found this article by Michael E. Hammond…. As you read his article you will quickly see this is a conservative man with a long political history in New Hampshire. He has done us a service by writing this article….Certainly explaining the ambiguities of this small state in ways that an outsider could not see.
Michael E. Hammond
I was the sole general chairman of the New Hampshire campaign of Pat Buchanan in the winter of 1995-6.
I was alone because my co-chairman, faced with unmoving single-digit poll numbers, had fled for the Dole campaign.
I remember Pat’s consternation about our seemingly stagnant poll numbers. And yet, when New Hampshire voters began focusing on the election, those polls became meaningless. Just a few weeks before the primary.
The “pitch fork” brigade carried New Hampshire. And I am convinced that had there not been shenanigans in South Carolina, a GOP under a Buchanan banner would have defeated Clinton and rewritten history — unlike — the sleazy stand-for-nothing Dole.
So — what do you want to know about New Hampshire?
(1) New Hampshire Is A Conservative State
In 2006 and 2008, many conservatives, including me, either sat out the election or supported Democrats.
We did this because we were sick-and-tired of Bush’s massive government spending, ballooning deficits, national ID cards, warrantless wiretaps, and other Orwellian innovations.
In addition, like a duck riding a tidal wave, New Hampshire floated with the national mood.
Democrats — and a lot of Washington “experts” — concluded that New Hampshire was the “new Vermont” and they suffered for it.
In 2010, the voters gave the GOP nearly three-fourths of the 400-member House, 19 out of 24 seats in the state Senate, all five seats on the governor’s “executive council,” both U.S. House seats, and the U.S. Senate seat.
True, 2010 was a “tsunami” year, but it was, I think, closer to the norm than 2008.
(2) No One Has New Hampshire “Locked Up” Now
Most New Hampshire residents get mostly Boston television (on the commercial channels).
They remember Romney’s rabid support for abortion, gun control, same-sex rights, and RomneyCare.
They also remember when, as governor, he brought “staties” (Massachusetts state troopers) up to his place on Winnipesaukee to keep locals off a portion of their lake.
Romney has reached a “flexible wall.” Virtually everyone knows him and has an opinion of him. He is not going to get the votes of people who hate him — perhaps not even in the general election.
And, if he can’t carry New Hampshire, Romney threatens to be 2012′s “Bob Dole.”
(3) Social Issues Play a Major Role
Gun issues are huge. In addition, there is a very significant evangelical community centered around laces like Nashua, Amherst, and Concord. The Catholic pro-life contingent is also very influential. If undivided, this is enough to carry the state.
Most (but not all) of these people loved former New Hampshire Senator Bob Smith, and they will probably not forgive Rick Santorum’s role in ending his political career.
Similarly, Michele Bachmann has done all of the right things in Washington and could have been (and perhaps still could be) a formidable candidate. But she seems to have conceded the state.
(4) ObamaCare Is The Issue Which Turned This State From Deep Blue to Blood-Red
We knew the end was near when an incumbent Democrat congresswoman — forced to finally hold a town meeting — required constituents to go through a metal detector and refused to answer questions from anyone not issued a “question-asking ticket.”
You may remember the spin placed on last Tuesday’s elections.
Among “mixed” results, the one time when the word “overwhelmingly” was used was when critical swing State Ohio — fresh from repudiating the GOP on unionization — overwhelmingly rejected the ObamaCare mandate.
And yet, over and over again, Speaker John Boehner and Leader Mitch McConnell forgo the opportunity to make this an issue.
Given the D.C. Circuit’s recent 2011 decision to uphold the law, it is even less clear that Anthony Kennedy will cast the deciding vote to overturn it.
But, even if he does, the GOP needs to spend the next seven months reminding Americans that:
• Obama resorted to unthinkable and varied sleaze and corruption to slam the bill through;
• Obama spent a year trying to nationalize health care, rather than creating jobs;
• To accomplish this, Obama put massive tax increases on the poor and middle class; and,
• The horrific burden of the mandate will fall most heavily on the youthful core of Obama’s 2008 base.
Yes, ObamaCare can be repealed immediately a year from January by a majority vote in the Senate if Republicans control the Senate, House, and White House.
However, if Americans don’t hear anything about ObamaCare repeal until October 15, 2012, don’t expect them to believe Republicans are serious.
(5) Here, and Nationally, Candidates Need To Take On The “Obama Smear Machine”
Obama cannot win the upcoming presidential election.
But Republicans can lose it.
Obama’s sole winning strategy, as I said last summer, is to “Barry Goldwaterize” every GOP candidate who becomes prominent. And he has thus far done this with incredible success.
I don’t know who leaked the Cain allegations to Politico. But I know that they became national news because the Obama worshipping media chose to make them so.
So remember these words:
“Obama Smear Machine”
Every time the media undertakes to assassinate the character of another Republican, people should, in a Pavlovian way, remember these words.
by Michael E. Hammond, former General Counsel Senate Steering Committee 1978-89 and a Dumbarton, New Hampshire resident.
Thanks Mr. Hammond and thank you Redstate….
I don't know what to make of this…. But two things strike me: 1) People of this state seem to invest thought and time to politics and 2) They as a group seem to be conservative…. Maybe these two principles lend credence to their voting outcomes. Who knows…They don't always pick the winner and maybe it isn't important. Even though a lot of attention is paid to what they do….
What is important about New Hampshire and Iowa is that their voting will take place very soon. Who wins their votes will be discounted by the liberal press and the rest of our want-to-be candidates will be dismissed more or less from the race.
Right now Romney is polling well despite what Mr. Hammond believes is his history of bad ideas and social positions on health care, guns, and abortion.
The tension is building. Gingrich is leading Romney in Iowa and South Carolina by a wide margin in current polls.
People change, values change, goals change just like poll numbers. What doesn't seem to change is people's willingness to cast stones.
When we don't carefully mind our own house, government puts its foot in the door. Once done, we begin to lose confidence in ourselves and our abilities. As our self-confidence begins to slip, government gets two feet in the door. Very soon it is they, not we managing the house. They do a poor job and we blame them for it. They try harder and their failures grow. Now we have lost confidence in them and us…. The house has a strong foundation but only we can do the maintenance and the rebuilding needed.
Obama has a large ego, arrogance, strong will, and a mission. Newt has a mission, strong will, and a strong ego. Romney, bless his heart, just wants to be president.
I thought Barney Frank made an astute remark about Romney: He said, "Romney would be the greatest thing that has happened for the Democrats since Barry Goldwater…."
All of the liberal press is slyly supporting Romney. That speaks very loudly in support of Barney Frank's idea.
There we are. Depending on our choices and actions it is we who can win or lose this election.
Ron
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