A must read...

   A remarkable read, even more remarkable that it's in this month's National Review. Basically saying the same thing that many of the conspiracy-minded folk have been saying but leaving out the nutty conspiracies. It's fraud, bi-partisan buying of politicians, & crony capitalism. And it's very well written.


Repo Men 
From the December 19, 2011, issue of National Review.

Here’s what Wall Street doesn’t want: It doesn’t want to hear from Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann or even Newt Gingrich, or suffer any sort of tea-party populism. It wants you rubes to shut up about Jesus and please pay your mortgages. It doesn’t want to hear from such traditional Republican constituencies as Christian conservatives, moral traditionalists, pro-lifers, or friends of the Second Amendment. It doesn’t even want to hear much from the Chamber of Commerce crowd, because those guys are used-car dealers and grocery-store owners and for the most part strictly from hick, so far as Wall Street is concerned. Wall Street wants an administration and a Congress — and a country — that believes what is good for Wall Street is good for America, whether that is true or isn’t. Wall Street doesn’t want free markets — it wants friends, favors, and fealty.

Read the whole piece at National Review Online

Have a Blessed and Merry Christmas!

My "RINO" rant

The term "RINO" is long overdue it's retirement...


A few years ago the Republican presidential nominee was often labeled as a "RINO". The head of the RNC was called a "RINO". If the standard-bearer and the head of the party do not conform to somebody's idea of what the party should stand for, who is at fault, the person using the label or the ones receiving it?

Anybody who uses the term RINO has an imaginary false ideal of what the party stands for. If the party is led by RINOs and behaves like RINOs then the term RINO is a fiction held by the person that's using it. He is paradoxically despising how the party behaves while continuing to give it cover by using this term which holds out some mythical standard for "true" Republicans.

Every time we use that term it's like Jacob Marley forging another link in his chains. The chains that binds us to this myth. Stop calling them RINOs - call them Republicans. Let them proudly wear the Democrat-lite results they produce (because party platforms and talk are cheap) and let the party be known for these results, not the conservative myth we want to believe. Then those who use the label will realize that they are the RINOs and really do not fit into the party that they think is their's.

This is the message that the Tea Party faithful need to hear (and are beginning to hear) - judge by their actions on issues, not their words and supposed ideals. Once the electorate follows this one simple principle the party will respond... or disappear.