From a Litany of Defeat, comes a cascade of opportunities.
The Dems won big in the last election. The litany was; now with this power we can create the change we have always wanted, change that will make America better.
Even before the elections this litany was ever present. Give us the power and we will change things for the better. Barney Frank and his ilk forced banks to liberalize their lending practices to include those who couldn’t pay back the loans. We all saw what happened. Is that an opportunity?
We were given an opportunity to show case a failed liberal program.
In my home state of Michigan we are the poster child of failed Democrat policies. We see what happens to education, employment and individual freedom under these policies. Again we have a cascade of opportunities being served up to us on a silver plate by the Dems.
I have seen the stirring of a few to try to take advantage of this but they are few.
Steny Hoyer took the opportunity during a tribute to Ronald Reagan to quote Reagan in his regard for the IMF. He did this to try to get passage of the War Funding Bill which the Dems doubled the cost of by adding an amendment of over 100 Billion to bail out the IMF. In other words they were using the Republican loyalty to our troops as leverage to slip the IMF funding thru. Not only that but quoting one of our icons to do it.
After Hoyer quoted Reagan the Republicans didn’t say much.
What would the Dems of said if we quoted Rev. King to make our point about Affirmative Action? Ask Jen Gratz, hell as Alvida King for that matter.
Why didn’t we say, “Hell yes Reagan believed in the IMF. He believed in it enough to fund it separately and vote on it separately and not try to pass it on the back of our military and at the expense of our military when they are in harms way. I see you have less faith than Reagan. If you really believe in this do what he did and bring it up for a vote on its own. See what the people think of bailing out foreign banks on its own merit. See how many of this legislature are willing to vote for that.”
Nope that was not said, Boehner did and some other conservatives, but not directly at the time. Later in less public venues and not cohesively. Basically we as conservatives like talking to the quoir.
If we want to take advantage of all these “golden opportunities”, we have to learn how to talk not just to ourselves but to the public that Reagan reached.
He talked to those disaffected and suffering from the weight of liberal policies. There are plenty of Union workers, teachers, and Democrats out there who are looking for a place to hang their frustrations on. We have to learn to out talk the Dems. Our ideas are sound but we have to keep hammering them home. Keep showing viable alternatives to those disaffected. We will go down to defeat in most of what we do, but we should not suffer this quietly.
Newt Gingrich quoted Ronald Reagan also. "My Fellow Republicans... and Independents and Democrats Looking for a Better Future". He did this during a speech to the Republicans. Full text is linked below.
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http://newt.org/tabid/102/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/4312/Dont-Tell-Me-It-Cant-Be-Done.aspx
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The other nugget from Ron Reagan I enjoyed and thought pertinent was the following. "Better than we have ever done before, we have got to quit talking to each other and about each other and go out and communicate to the world that we may be fewer in numbers than we have ever been, but we carry the message they are waiting for."
Bottom line is that we have to minimize our differences and maximize the things we believe in. The article by Gingrich is good at talking about “First Principles”. Read the article for the list of things he says will give us a more unified message that will resonate with us, Independents and Democrats who are all looking for a better way.
Newt’s list is a cascade of opportunities for Republicans if they (we) can learn to stay away from the bickering and look for the common ground between us while keeping our “First Principles”. Try practicing; read through the list and concentrate on what you agree with; not what you don’t. Then allow others to do the same.
Regards, Live Dangerously Be A Conservative
PS all is not lost on the IMF War funding bill. The Senate I think will be open to filibuster and other tactics to get some concessions on the bill. Remember, 32 Dems voted against it even after whie house pressure and only 5 Republicans defected. That says alot right there about dissaffected Dems.
Newt says in quoting FDR, “Don’t tell me it can’t be done.”
Regards, LD
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Monday, June 15, 2009
Solutions
“Shadow Speaker of the House” John Boehner, released the following alert today about the revolt going on in some state houses towards the administration’s seeming attempt to bankrupt them.
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http://gopleader.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=132266
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At the bottom you will see this link for his State Solutions Group.
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http://states.gopleader.gov/
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I realize we are not in England with a real “Shadow Government” but I seriously think John Boehner perhaps with some advice from Newt (among others) is using the “Shadow Government” idea to form an infrastructure well before the 2010 election from which to mount an attack on the Liberal agenda flowing out of Washington.
The “Shadow Government” idea in England I really like. It gives the party out of power an infrastructure around which it can show the public what they would be doing, what policies they would enact, and what they would do if elected next time. They come up with actual alternative solutions to problems facing the country. At the same time giving the leaders and upcoming stars of the party a chance to show their stuff. Gives the voters a better sense of who to vote for.
Shadow Speaker of the House, Boehner has set up Solution Groups dealing with specific policy areas.
There is a lot of angst out there in the state governments about the Fed. seemingly trying to usurp their power. Some Democrats especially the Blue Dog Dems, are starting to grumble already about some of the Federal Intrusion.
Shadow Speaker Boehner set up a group of House Republicans to define the problem and come up with solutions. They have their own leaders and web presence and other "new media" in which to study and come up with solutions to the specific problem at hand.
Best of all the Shadow Speaker is fully behind them and highlights their findings through his “leader Alerts”, and places like http://www.gop.gov
I have blogged before about this “Shadow Government” idea and how great it appears to me.
Mr. Boehner has set up the following “biggies”, along with a lot others as the need arises.
Health Care http://blunt.house.gov/Read.aspx?ID=1059 Chaired by Roy Blunt.
Energy. http://www.gop.gov/energy This is chaired by Mike Pence.
This site is just what we needed; talking points, all kinds of video and documents, plus the entire bill. If anyone says that the Republicans don’t have a solution. Send them to the above link.
“Shadow Speaker Boehner is doing what a leader of the Minority party should do. He is uniting the party by putting the Republican leaders in the House to work on solutions in the areas in which they are expert at. This is starting to look like a more united front than just a few months ago. The Democrats are starting to splinter while the Republicans are beginning to show signs of uniting.
John Boehner is gathering the talent available to him and uniting them to show that the Republicans have real solutions to the problems we face. We are showing that Republicans have alternatives to the bankruptcy that the administration is leading us towards.
This “Solutions” platform is ideal for the members to work off of. With the active support of the “Shadow Speaker”, members are able to highlight their skills and help the country at the same time.
The Republican Leader can then leverage these efforts in things like this June 13th Weekly Republican Address. Mike Pence remember is the Chair of the Energy Solutions Group he and his solutions group was responsible through hearings, energy summits and a lot of hard work for the creation of the American Energy Act.
This is real legislation done the right way through study and deliberation and it will work.
As a case in point I’ll highlight Mike Rogers of Livingston County Michigan, who along with Rep. Kevin Nunes (R-CA) Co Chair the "State Solution group" mentioned earlier. While Mike Rogers is a frequent and powerful critic of the administration; he is in a unique position as a Representative from the state of Michigan which has been decimated by the tax and spend policies of the Democrat Gov and State House for eight years, this gives him a unique perspective on the tax and spend efforts of the Obama administration. This next video is at the start up of the State Solutions Group after he was first chosen chair.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwyR9k4MhD4
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Remember that the State Solutions group chaired by Rogers and Nunez was responsible for the Leader alert at the top of the page.
Well there you have it. I don’t really have a clue whether House Minority Leader John Boehner is really doing what he’s doing under the mantle of the British Parliamentary “shadow government” model or not. I do think that my analogy fits and the unity and actual fruits of his labor are proof enough that what he is doing is starting to work.
I haven’t heard lately from the libs that the Republicans have no solutions. This was their mantra just a short couple months ago.
Now they are starting to act as if they are trying to hide the fact that we do have solutions. That is progress; that is getting back on the offensive after such a long wait. This is something we can work with.
I’ll do my part in getting the news out.
In fact I’ll be proud to.
Regards, Live Dangerously Be A Conservative
-----link to alert-----
http://gopleader.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=132266
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At the bottom you will see this link for his State Solutions Group.
-----link-----
http://states.gopleader.gov/
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I realize we are not in England with a real “Shadow Government” but I seriously think John Boehner perhaps with some advice from Newt (among others) is using the “Shadow Government” idea to form an infrastructure well before the 2010 election from which to mount an attack on the Liberal agenda flowing out of Washington.
The “Shadow Government” idea in England I really like. It gives the party out of power an infrastructure around which it can show the public what they would be doing, what policies they would enact, and what they would do if elected next time. They come up with actual alternative solutions to problems facing the country. At the same time giving the leaders and upcoming stars of the party a chance to show their stuff. Gives the voters a better sense of who to vote for.
Shadow Speaker of the House, Boehner has set up Solution Groups dealing with specific policy areas.
There is a lot of angst out there in the state governments about the Fed. seemingly trying to usurp their power. Some Democrats especially the Blue Dog Dems, are starting to grumble already about some of the Federal Intrusion.
Shadow Speaker Boehner set up a group of House Republicans to define the problem and come up with solutions. They have their own leaders and web presence and other "new media" in which to study and come up with solutions to the specific problem at hand.
Best of all the Shadow Speaker is fully behind them and highlights their findings through his “leader Alerts”, and places like http://www.gop.gov
I have blogged before about this “Shadow Government” idea and how great it appears to me.
Mr. Boehner has set up the following “biggies”, along with a lot others as the need arises.
Health Care http://blunt.house.gov/Read.aspx?ID=1059 Chaired by Roy Blunt.
Energy. http://www.gop.gov/energy This is chaired by Mike Pence.
This site is just what we needed; talking points, all kinds of video and documents, plus the entire bill. If anyone says that the Republicans don’t have a solution. Send them to the above link.
“Shadow Speaker Boehner is doing what a leader of the Minority party should do. He is uniting the party by putting the Republican leaders in the House to work on solutions in the areas in which they are expert at. This is starting to look like a more united front than just a few months ago. The Democrats are starting to splinter while the Republicans are beginning to show signs of uniting.
John Boehner is gathering the talent available to him and uniting them to show that the Republicans have real solutions to the problems we face. We are showing that Republicans have alternatives to the bankruptcy that the administration is leading us towards.
This “Solutions” platform is ideal for the members to work off of. With the active support of the “Shadow Speaker”, members are able to highlight their skills and help the country at the same time.
The Republican Leader can then leverage these efforts in things like this June 13th Weekly Republican Address. Mike Pence remember is the Chair of the Energy Solutions Group he and his solutions group was responsible through hearings, energy summits and a lot of hard work for the creation of the American Energy Act.
This is real legislation done the right way through study and deliberation and it will work.
As a case in point I’ll highlight Mike Rogers of Livingston County Michigan, who along with Rep. Kevin Nunes (R-CA) Co Chair the "State Solution group" mentioned earlier. While Mike Rogers is a frequent and powerful critic of the administration; he is in a unique position as a Representative from the state of Michigan which has been decimated by the tax and spend policies of the Democrat Gov and State House for eight years, this gives him a unique perspective on the tax and spend efforts of the Obama administration. This next video is at the start up of the State Solutions Group after he was first chosen chair.
-----link to video------
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwyR9k4MhD4
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Remember that the State Solutions group chaired by Rogers and Nunez was responsible for the Leader alert at the top of the page.
Well there you have it. I don’t really have a clue whether House Minority Leader John Boehner is really doing what he’s doing under the mantle of the British Parliamentary “shadow government” model or not. I do think that my analogy fits and the unity and actual fruits of his labor are proof enough that what he is doing is starting to work.
I haven’t heard lately from the libs that the Republicans have no solutions. This was their mantra just a short couple months ago.
Now they are starting to act as if they are trying to hide the fact that we do have solutions. That is progress; that is getting back on the offensive after such a long wait. This is something we can work with.
I’ll do my part in getting the news out.
In fact I’ll be proud to.
Regards, Live Dangerously Be A Conservative
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Change the Story to Toes
When fingers aren’t enough change the story to Toes.
The Obama administration must feel as if it were reliving the old story about the Dutchman plugging the dyke with his finger.
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http://www.thehollandring.com/hans-brinker-story.shtml
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The story is of a Dutch boy who due to carelessness and slothfulness was in the right place at the right time to see and stop a potentially devastating break in the levy system that protected the entire country of Holland. Picture Katrina except the flooding would be at a National level.
If we picture the economy as the water and the basic concepts of free enterprise as the dykes protecting us from the drowning effects of inflation we can see the poor little well meaning kid as he saw a problem and rushed to fix it. Fix it he did but while he was stuck there the new story shows that the dykes are springing leaks at an ever increasing pace.
What the Dutchman does next is he starts using more of his fingers to plug the holes as they spring up threatening to overwhelm his administration. What can he do except take off his clogs and start using his toes. In this case his Vice President and his phalanges are brought in. Unemployment hits record levels and Joe Biden says heck things are getting better, trying to say the stimulus bill helped unemployment. Oops there goes another dyke.
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http://www.lonelyconservative.com/2009/06/14/the-gaffemeister-biden-claims-porkulus-kept-unemployment-low/
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Now as the Washington Post and columnist Scott Wilson adroitly point out in the next link,there are several people who should be offering fingers and toes to hold back the flood of facts for their leader who are instead starting to point them in an accusing way saying that there needs to be some structural work to the dykes and that there aren’t enough fingers left to plug the damage already caused; and oh by the way we are coming up for re-election in a little over a year and we want you to fix things right.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/13/AR2009061302035_pf.html
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To me the most telling quote from the article came from his own man in the Senate in charge of the Budget. The guy who should know and not say. Well he’s talking.
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But Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, said, "The second five years is where we're on a completely unsustainable course."
"People know we have an overall situation here that doesn't add up," he said.
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This is an excellent article that lays out all the evidence coming in from public opinion turning to the people the administration should be counting on who are starting to voice doubts, on up to world opinion as evidenced by what the Chinese and Euro leaders such as Germany’s Merkle are saying and doing; which is trying to talk or force some fiscal sense into the US fiscal policy.
As far as rewriting the legend, well while it may not be a very good analogy this legend was a fake to start with so why not rewrite some of it anyway?
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The legend of the brave Dutch boy - by others thought to be named Hans Brinker - who supposedly put his finger in the dyke to prevent a flood, was actually a literary invention by the American writer Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge (1831-1905), who was born in New York.
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The scary part is once we pull out the fingers and toes will there be enough where withal left in the country to repair the dams or will we have to suffer the worst before we rebuild them right?
Those silly sign holders in Green Bay may be on to something. Probably just a bunch of Tea Party Right Wing Extremists, what do they know about rewriting history? They're too stupid, clingy bastards besides.
Regards, Live Dangerously Be A Conservative
The Obama administration must feel as if it were reliving the old story about the Dutchman plugging the dyke with his finger.
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http://www.thehollandring.com/hans-brinker-story.shtml
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The story is of a Dutch boy who due to carelessness and slothfulness was in the right place at the right time to see and stop a potentially devastating break in the levy system that protected the entire country of Holland. Picture Katrina except the flooding would be at a National level.
If we picture the economy as the water and the basic concepts of free enterprise as the dykes protecting us from the drowning effects of inflation we can see the poor little well meaning kid as he saw a problem and rushed to fix it. Fix it he did but while he was stuck there the new story shows that the dykes are springing leaks at an ever increasing pace.
What the Dutchman does next is he starts using more of his fingers to plug the holes as they spring up threatening to overwhelm his administration. What can he do except take off his clogs and start using his toes. In this case his Vice President and his phalanges are brought in. Unemployment hits record levels and Joe Biden says heck things are getting better, trying to say the stimulus bill helped unemployment. Oops there goes another dyke.
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http://www.lonelyconservative.com/2009/06/14/the-gaffemeister-biden-claims-porkulus-kept-unemployment-low/
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Now as the Washington Post and columnist Scott Wilson adroitly point out in the next link,there are several people who should be offering fingers and toes to hold back the flood of facts for their leader who are instead starting to point them in an accusing way saying that there needs to be some structural work to the dykes and that there aren’t enough fingers left to plug the damage already caused; and oh by the way we are coming up for re-election in a little over a year and we want you to fix things right.
-----link-----
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/13/AR2009061302035_pf.html
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To me the most telling quote from the article came from his own man in the Senate in charge of the Budget. The guy who should know and not say. Well he’s talking.
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But Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, said, "The second five years is where we're on a completely unsustainable course."
"People know we have an overall situation here that doesn't add up," he said.
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This is an excellent article that lays out all the evidence coming in from public opinion turning to the people the administration should be counting on who are starting to voice doubts, on up to world opinion as evidenced by what the Chinese and Euro leaders such as Germany’s Merkle are saying and doing; which is trying to talk or force some fiscal sense into the US fiscal policy.
As far as rewriting the legend, well while it may not be a very good analogy this legend was a fake to start with so why not rewrite some of it anyway?
-----quote from story above-----
The legend of the brave Dutch boy - by others thought to be named Hans Brinker - who supposedly put his finger in the dyke to prevent a flood, was actually a literary invention by the American writer Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge (1831-1905), who was born in New York.
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The scary part is once we pull out the fingers and toes will there be enough where withal left in the country to repair the dams or will we have to suffer the worst before we rebuild them right?
Those silly sign holders in Green Bay may be on to something. Probably just a bunch of Tea Party Right Wing Extremists, what do they know about rewriting history? They're too stupid, clingy bastards besides.
Regards, Live Dangerously Be A Conservative
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
A Real Republican Alternative
Another alert from the House Minority Leader (dare I say “Shadow Speaker”) John Boehner.
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http://republicanleader.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=131644
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As I blogged previously
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http://conservativeinmuskegon.blogspot.com/2009/06/john-boehner-building-more-focused.html
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I like the way Leader Boehner has been working behind the scenes to actually come up with real alternative legislation to what is being put forth by the Liberals. How he was getting members together into groups to do that. This not only helps keep the Republican message focused it helps in keeping the members better informed and involved by actually doing something constructive. Well I had hoped that this would actually bear fruit. It has; sweet succulent fruit, something anyone can sink their teeth into and eat to their heart's content.
Also this kind of British “Shadow Government” helps the public understand that there are viable options to the legislation that the administration is peddling. Kudos to Mr Boehner and Mike Pence and the American Energy Solutions Group.
I called up the House Republican Conference and got this link to the actual act.
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http://www.gop.gov/energy
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What a great job. Click on it. Click on all the links. This site is awesome. Mike Pence and the whole “American Energy Solutions Group” did a great job.
The text of the legislation is the real deal; the committee came up with videos, talking points, summaries and lots of other stuff. This is a great informational link. I’ll be going through this for some time. I’m a believer in this type of thing.
We in the new media have to help get the word out. I’m putting it on the blogs I do at the top of every side bar. This is a real and doable solution that costs less, and helps Americans; all Americans keep their money and afford energy costs.
From the “Leader Alert” in my previous blog came this quote about the Republicans coming up with an alternative to the Administrations Health Care. “Republicans believe there’s a better way. Led by Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO), the Health Care Reform Solutions Group is crafting a plan that will make health care more accessible and affordable without raising taxes or undermining the health care Americans currently receive.”
There is not a web site yet for this new Health Care Reform Solutions Group but I hope Rep. Roy Blunt can do as well as Mike Pence.
I may be out in left field but this seems to be a good way to add credibility to the Republican Party. It shows as I’ve said; we have real solutions that work.
Leader Boehner KEEP IT UP !!
Regards, Live Dangerously Be A Conservative
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http://republicanleader.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=131644
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As I blogged previously
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http://conservativeinmuskegon.blogspot.com/2009/06/john-boehner-building-more-focused.html
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I like the way Leader Boehner has been working behind the scenes to actually come up with real alternative legislation to what is being put forth by the Liberals. How he was getting members together into groups to do that. This not only helps keep the Republican message focused it helps in keeping the members better informed and involved by actually doing something constructive. Well I had hoped that this would actually bear fruit. It has; sweet succulent fruit, something anyone can sink their teeth into and eat to their heart's content.
Also this kind of British “Shadow Government” helps the public understand that there are viable options to the legislation that the administration is peddling. Kudos to Mr Boehner and Mike Pence and the American Energy Solutions Group.
I called up the House Republican Conference and got this link to the actual act.
-----link-----
http://www.gop.gov/energy
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What a great job. Click on it. Click on all the links. This site is awesome. Mike Pence and the whole “American Energy Solutions Group” did a great job.
The text of the legislation is the real deal; the committee came up with videos, talking points, summaries and lots of other stuff. This is a great informational link. I’ll be going through this for some time. I’m a believer in this type of thing.
We in the new media have to help get the word out. I’m putting it on the blogs I do at the top of every side bar. This is a real and doable solution that costs less, and helps Americans; all Americans keep their money and afford energy costs.
From the “Leader Alert” in my previous blog came this quote about the Republicans coming up with an alternative to the Administrations Health Care. “Republicans believe there’s a better way. Led by Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO), the Health Care Reform Solutions Group is crafting a plan that will make health care more accessible and affordable without raising taxes or undermining the health care Americans currently receive.”
There is not a web site yet for this new Health Care Reform Solutions Group but I hope Rep. Roy Blunt can do as well as Mike Pence.
I may be out in left field but this seems to be a good way to add credibility to the Republican Party. It shows as I’ve said; we have real solutions that work.
Leader Boehner KEEP IT UP !!
Regards, Live Dangerously Be A Conservative
Ebb and Flow - Hell No
There is a slow but ever increasing groundswell of anti government, anti bureaucracy, anti being told what to do by idiots growing in the country.
Bobby Dylan in his Slow Train Coming album said "I'm gonna stop being influenced by fools". Me too!
Sure conservatives have thought this all along, like the tide it ebbs and flows. I just re-watched a movie from the 70’s called Network. The movie was famous for the quote “I’m mad as Hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore”. The snippet below is about what he is mad about and it seems to ring true, if not more true today. The effect of TV on the public was and is awesome.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTN3s2iVKKI
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Thirty years later, we see a “Tea Party” movement that has as it’s common denominator an anger based upon how we have continually been losing our individual freedom to some ever growing faceless bureaucracy. We have seen that media as in Network, raise up out of nowhere a president who is accelerating this loss of freedom at an unconscionable rate.
People are doing what they do before they take action. They are “Getting Mad as Hell, and They Aren't Going to Take it Anymore”.
Ebb and flow – Thirty years ago? I look fondly back to that time, as compared to today.
The country is beginning to get Over Dosed on the constant wailing about all the evils in the world and what we must do to correct them; as the government workers drive their ever more expensive cars, and hire ever more minions under them retire earlier and get paid more as they recline in their ever opulent offices.
The government and all the bureaucracies that run it are becoming like that annoying computer generated robocall you get to help you lower your mortgage even though you don’t have one. Or the continuous pleas to save starving children. Don’t they understand you just lost your job. If I took to heart all the calls, I would have to re-mortgage my house and my children would be the starving ones.
Eb and flow hell. Sure this government intrusion into our lives ebbs and flows but think about it; after each cycle aren’t we losing more than we gain?
Picture yourself trapped in an upside down battleship. You have a foot of air left to breath and the water level is going up two inchces then back one, up 2 back 1, over and over. Do you think you would call that ebb and flow. Or say Oh My God the water is rising and I can’t stop it; I’m going to die?
That’s what I feel today in the people coming out to the Tea Party things. They see the ebb and flow, they are not stupid, they also see the continuing trend. They are mad, they can’t define it, can’t reduce it to a 10 second sound bite for TV, but they are afraid. That is the first step which is necessary before doing anything. When we are fearful, and frustrated by overwhelming odds, some of us simply and loudly reply
Nuts,
and brother I’m not talking ACORN here either. Simply stating the fact that it is time to dig in our heals and stand up.
I used to think the government was impossible to slow down, let alone change it’s direction. After all the media was solidly behind the creeping big government idea. Well may be not. Below is a link to an article about John Voight.
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/10/voight-obama-is-a-good-hollywood-actor/?page=2
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What surprised me was the following from the article.
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Mr. Voight is also a general in the burgeoning army of Hollywood conservatives who intend to support America, and buff up the American image for its own people, and an audience abroad. The battalion includes actors Gary Sinise, Kelsey Grammer, Patricia Heaton, Dennis Hopper and Pat Boone.
"The last time we all met, there were over a thousand people. Think about that. Hollywood conservatives, all of them different people, but all on the same path. It was very heartening," Mr. Voight recalled.
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I started digging into conservatives in Hollywood. Well after googling a couple of hours, I found a lot of stuff. There is an underground of conservatives in Hollywood (Friends of Abe) that has been forming because they too are getting Mad as Hell. The group is meeting regularly, but under the radar. The people in this group fear losing their jobs if it were known that they believed other than PC stuff.
Some are coming out of the closet.
As I always say, “Live Dangerously Be A Conservative”. Some like Voight and Sinese are coming out. An infrastructure is forming. Breitbart and others are making it easier for a more conservative message to be heard in Hollywood. Networks like Fox are providing cover, now is the time for the people to step up for their beliefs.
I for one find it refreshing to see something in the media that is at least a little Politically Incorrect.
For once I may not be in the minority in my opinion. That's a nice feeling.
Regards, Live Dangerously Be A Conservative
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
John Boehner - Building a More Focused Opposition?
John Boehner - Building a More Focused Opposition?
For those of you who read this blog you know that I have become a fan of John Boehner the Minority Leader of the US House of Representatives.
Representative Boehner has not only been working in the public eye and grabbing national attention, but he seems to have been working tirelessly behind the scenes and his efforts are bearing fruit. His task it seems to me has become to get minority members working together by forming committees to formulate alternatives that the Republican’s can stand behind; alternatives to the administration’s plans, alternatives that the public can get behind.
Mr. Boehner has been on the lead also as far as using the new media to get his solution oriented message out there. He has a wealth of You Tubes for example. His leader alerts are worth subscribing to.
He has seemed to have found his voice. That voice has gone from anger that the ideas and solutions he and his fellow Republicans offer are being ignored by the administration; to one of a realistic questioning of what he can do to change this situation. My analysis leads me to think that he has started to focus on a solution focused approach that through the new media and his bully pulpit he can let the public know that the Republicans have real substantive alternative solutions to the problems this country faces.
The question seems; how well will he be able to carry it out.
I will give a couple of his leader alerts that are along this vein. These show specifically what I’m talking about. These show that there is work under way by the minority party to put up alternative solutions to our problems. To show the public that there are other ways to solve the problems we face. What I like in this effort is the use of the new media as an alternative way to the old media to get the message out. Sad to say the old media is ignoring alternatives by the Republicans.
What I see from the leader alerts below, is that there appears to be a structural aspect to this. Hopefully an infrastructure is beginning to emerge. A vehicle that can build consensus within the party; get people again working on the same page. To take a page from the British, a start of an organized “shadow government” at the start a least a more formal set of alternative policies and solutions. Something for members and the public to hang their policy hats on.
On “cap and trade” or the “national energy tax” John Boehner issued this alert linked below. Notice in there the reference and link to a newly set up group led by Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence (R-IN), the GOP American Energy Solutions Group. Do you remember the “all of the above” plan during the “Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less” days? The plan is still good.
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http://gopleader.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=131332
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Next and below, having to do with National Health Care proposed by the administration, is a quote from another leader alert. “Republicans believe there’s a better way. Led by Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO), the Health Care Reform Solutions Group is crafting a plan that will make health care more accessible and affordable without raising taxes or undermining the health care Americans currently receive.” If they come out with a website then that would add more credence to my analysis.
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http://gopleader.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=131326
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Next and below, is a Press Release by the Minority Leader John Boehner on June 5th about the May Jobless numbers. Notice in it he is quoted as saying. “There is a better way. Doubling down on the Democrats’ plans to tax more, spend more, and borrow more from our children and grandchildren is not the right answer to this economic crisis. Republicans have offered better solutions to create more jobs, curb spending, cut taxes, rebuild savings, and control the debt, and we have reached out to our Democratic counterparts to work on these policies in a constructive way. I urge Democrats in Congress and the Administration to finally follow through on their promises of bipartisan cooperation.”
Again if there is a “Job Creation Solutions Group” formed and it puts out substantive information, I will applaud. I still believe that if you build it they will come. The trick is building something solid not like the deck of cards the administration is trying to hold together. It has to be coherent, something members and the public can get behind. Something a leader can do. I hope Mr. Boehner keeps turning into that leader.
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“http://gopleader.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=131139
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That is the only evidence I have of a viable minority party on the rise. If what I see is true then I will stand behind and help Minority Leader Boehner push his message through the new media.
That’s what I am, that’s what I do. Lol (He said with a smile.)
Regards, Live Dangerously Be A Conservative
For those of you who read this blog you know that I have become a fan of John Boehner the Minority Leader of the US House of Representatives.
Representative Boehner has not only been working in the public eye and grabbing national attention, but he seems to have been working tirelessly behind the scenes and his efforts are bearing fruit. His task it seems to me has become to get minority members working together by forming committees to formulate alternatives that the Republican’s can stand behind; alternatives to the administration’s plans, alternatives that the public can get behind.
Mr. Boehner has been on the lead also as far as using the new media to get his solution oriented message out there. He has a wealth of You Tubes for example. His leader alerts are worth subscribing to.
He has seemed to have found his voice. That voice has gone from anger that the ideas and solutions he and his fellow Republicans offer are being ignored by the administration; to one of a realistic questioning of what he can do to change this situation. My analysis leads me to think that he has started to focus on a solution focused approach that through the new media and his bully pulpit he can let the public know that the Republicans have real substantive alternative solutions to the problems this country faces.
The question seems; how well will he be able to carry it out.
I will give a couple of his leader alerts that are along this vein. These show specifically what I’m talking about. These show that there is work under way by the minority party to put up alternative solutions to our problems. To show the public that there are other ways to solve the problems we face. What I like in this effort is the use of the new media as an alternative way to the old media to get the message out. Sad to say the old media is ignoring alternatives by the Republicans.
What I see from the leader alerts below, is that there appears to be a structural aspect to this. Hopefully an infrastructure is beginning to emerge. A vehicle that can build consensus within the party; get people again working on the same page. To take a page from the British, a start of an organized “shadow government” at the start a least a more formal set of alternative policies and solutions. Something for members and the public to hang their policy hats on.
On “cap and trade” or the “national energy tax” John Boehner issued this alert linked below. Notice in there the reference and link to a newly set up group led by Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence (R-IN), the GOP American Energy Solutions Group. Do you remember the “all of the above” plan during the “Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less” days? The plan is still good.
-----link-----
http://gopleader.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=131332
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Next and below, having to do with National Health Care proposed by the administration, is a quote from another leader alert. “Republicans believe there’s a better way. Led by Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO), the Health Care Reform Solutions Group is crafting a plan that will make health care more accessible and affordable without raising taxes or undermining the health care Americans currently receive.” If they come out with a website then that would add more credence to my analysis.
-----link-----
http://gopleader.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=131326
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Next and below, is a Press Release by the Minority Leader John Boehner on June 5th about the May Jobless numbers. Notice in it he is quoted as saying. “There is a better way. Doubling down on the Democrats’ plans to tax more, spend more, and borrow more from our children and grandchildren is not the right answer to this economic crisis. Republicans have offered better solutions to create more jobs, curb spending, cut taxes, rebuild savings, and control the debt, and we have reached out to our Democratic counterparts to work on these policies in a constructive way. I urge Democrats in Congress and the Administration to finally follow through on their promises of bipartisan cooperation.”
Again if there is a “Job Creation Solutions Group” formed and it puts out substantive information, I will applaud. I still believe that if you build it they will come. The trick is building something solid not like the deck of cards the administration is trying to hold together. It has to be coherent, something members and the public can get behind. Something a leader can do. I hope Mr. Boehner keeps turning into that leader.
-----link-----
“http://gopleader.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=131139
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That is the only evidence I have of a viable minority party on the rise. If what I see is true then I will stand behind and help Minority Leader Boehner push his message through the new media.
That’s what I am, that’s what I do. Lol (He said with a smile.)
Regards, Live Dangerously Be A Conservative
Friday, June 5, 2009
Enough is Enough
John Boehner is and has been fighting back since Newt stirred things up during the “Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less” days. Representative Boehner is the minority leader of the US House. I think he has grown into the leadership role. Finally I feel good about at least part of the leadership of the Republican Party.
My last blog (NUTS), was about Rep. Boehner and how he was standing up against the new $108 billion bailout of the IMF that the Dems were trying to add as an earmark to the war funding bill. The Minority Leader threw the gauntlet down by saying. “The American people don’t support it, and Republicans won’t vote for it.” The Dems were hoping to get this bill through this week. The Republicans were willing until as I point out in “NUTS” the Dems started cutting the amount the Pentagon was getting then came up with this $108 Billion bank bailout, unrelated to troop funding whatsoever.
Apparently enough Democrats along with the Republicans have decided their priorities should lie with our troops rather than try to keep President Obama’s promise at the G8. An earlier version of this bill passed overwhelmingly 368-60 in the House.
Since this $108 Billion Earmark was added the bipartisan support has evaporated and some Dems are jumping ship. As Boehner said earlier; “Republicans believe the IMF funding should be judged on its own merits and in its own legislation – not as part of an essential measure meant to fund men and women in harm’s way. Haven’t Democrats learned a lesson from their failed exploits on past troop funding bills, when they have attempted to lard up the legislation with billions upon billions in unrelated spending? The American people don’t support it, and Republicans won’t vote for it.”
Now Minority Leader Boehner has released another “Leader Alert”
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http://gopleader.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=131023
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In this latest “Leader Alert” Rep. Boehner says the following. “We face the very real possibility that some of the world’s worst regimes will benefit from the additional resources provided to the IMF, World Bank and other international institutions, unless the U.S. works vigilantly to deny this assistance.”
So during a time when we are realizing that the amount of spending coming out of Washington is unsustainable. When we see that taxes will have to be raised to pay for this and that our children’s taxes will have to be raised due to the Trillion dollar deficits we are leaving them; the gall of President Obama to make promises that we can’t keep to other countries is astonishing.
Our troops need help in Iraq and Afghanistan now. Delaying and minimizing that help for the above reasons is simply wrong. Like John Boehner said. "Americans Aren't Buying This. And I Tell You What: Republicans in the House Aren't Going to Buy It Either”
I would like to add also that it’s time for Americans to stand up for the leaders with the guts to say “NUTS”.
We can start by saying “Enough is Enough”.
Regards, Live Dangerously Be A Conservative
Ps. If you want to get involved more, see my post at “Bottom Up Politics”
pps. If you would like John Boehner's "Leader Alerts" emailed to you here is the link. Check mark press releases.
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http://republicanleader.house.gov/Forms/Form/?ID=12
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My last blog (NUTS), was about Rep. Boehner and how he was standing up against the new $108 billion bailout of the IMF that the Dems were trying to add as an earmark to the war funding bill. The Minority Leader threw the gauntlet down by saying. “The American people don’t support it, and Republicans won’t vote for it.” The Dems were hoping to get this bill through this week. The Republicans were willing until as I point out in “NUTS” the Dems started cutting the amount the Pentagon was getting then came up with this $108 Billion bank bailout, unrelated to troop funding whatsoever.
Apparently enough Democrats along with the Republicans have decided their priorities should lie with our troops rather than try to keep President Obama’s promise at the G8. An earlier version of this bill passed overwhelmingly 368-60 in the House.
Since this $108 Billion Earmark was added the bipartisan support has evaporated and some Dems are jumping ship. As Boehner said earlier; “Republicans believe the IMF funding should be judged on its own merits and in its own legislation – not as part of an essential measure meant to fund men and women in harm’s way. Haven’t Democrats learned a lesson from their failed exploits on past troop funding bills, when they have attempted to lard up the legislation with billions upon billions in unrelated spending? The American people don’t support it, and Republicans won’t vote for it.”
Now Minority Leader Boehner has released another “Leader Alert”
-----link-----
http://gopleader.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=131023
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In this latest “Leader Alert” Rep. Boehner says the following. “We face the very real possibility that some of the world’s worst regimes will benefit from the additional resources provided to the IMF, World Bank and other international institutions, unless the U.S. works vigilantly to deny this assistance.”
So during a time when we are realizing that the amount of spending coming out of Washington is unsustainable. When we see that taxes will have to be raised to pay for this and that our children’s taxes will have to be raised due to the Trillion dollar deficits we are leaving them; the gall of President Obama to make promises that we can’t keep to other countries is astonishing.
Our troops need help in Iraq and Afghanistan now. Delaying and minimizing that help for the above reasons is simply wrong. Like John Boehner said. "Americans Aren't Buying This. And I Tell You What: Republicans in the House Aren't Going to Buy It Either”
I would like to add also that it’s time for Americans to stand up for the leaders with the guts to say “NUTS”.
We can start by saying “Enough is Enough”.
Regards, Live Dangerously Be A Conservative
Ps. If you want to get involved more, see my post at “Bottom Up Politics”
pps. If you would like John Boehner's "Leader Alerts" emailed to you here is the link. Check mark press releases.
-----link-----
http://republicanleader.house.gov/Forms/Form/?ID=12
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