Tracking the Conservative Point of View of Politics in Washington that affect States Rights in the South. Promoting Tea Party Politics.
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Ye Olde Journalist: this is why god gave them camels.....................
Ye Olde Journalist: this is why god gave them camels.....................: "From: America Speaks OOPS! This brand spanking new Airbus 340-600, the longest passenger airplane ever built, sits just outsi..."
Jobless Claims rise and Food Prices Soar
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Friday, January 14, 2011
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Thursday, January 13, 2011
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Monday, January 10, 2011
Murder in Tucson Jared Loughner's sickness is not the product of politics.
On all available evidence, Jared Lee Loughner is a mentally disturbed man who targeted Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and anyone near her in Tucson on Saturday because she was prominent and they were tragically accessible. He joins Sirhan Sirhan, John Hinckley Jr. and many others whose derangement led them to horrible acts of violence. Whatever confused political motives he expressed seem merely to be part of the maelstrom of his mental sickness.
In a better world, no one would attempt to exploit his madness for political gain. We would instead focus on the contributions of Ms. Giffords, by all accounts a laudable public servant. We would celebrate the lives of the other victims, and we would praise the survivors who intervened to tackle Mr. Loughner and disarm him before he could kill others—like 74-year-old retiree Bill Badger, who was grazed in the head by a bullet before helping to restrain the shooter.
But the shooting news had barely hit the wires on Saturday before the media's instant psychoanalysis put the American body politic on the couch instead of Mr. Loughner. "Bloodshed Puts New Focus on Vitriol in Politics," declared a story in the New York Times, which focused primarily on the tea party and Sarah Palin in the context of mass murder. The story even hauled in opposition to health-care reform.
Politico, the Beltway website, chimed in by quoting a "veteran Democratic operative" advising the White House "to deftly pin this on the tea partiers," just as "the Clinton White House deftly pinned the Oklahoma City bombing on the militia and anti-government people" in 1995.
Shouldn't a publication insist that someone urging the exploitation of murder at least put his name on the record? The same goes for the anonymous Republican Senator quoted by Politico denouncing "town halls and cable TV and talk radio" in relation to Mr. Loughner.
Arizona Daily Star/Associated Press
Jared L. Loughner
Consider the kind of rhetoric that is being implicated as incendiary and beyond the pale. Mrs. Palin is being scored for having put contested Congressional seats such as Ms. Giffords's in cross hairs on her website before the last election. This is supposed to be an incitement to murder?
At least one left-wing site also put Ms. Giffords on such a "target" list because she is one of the Blue Dog Democrats who doesn't vote the party line. And yesterday right-wing websites were reprising this or that quote from Democrats and even President Obama invoking some martial or weapons metaphor to suggest they are as culpable. This is as offensive as the blame-Republican implications in the New York Times.
Judging from Mr. Loughner's own website, his mind was a mess of conspiracy theories, influenced by tracts like "Mein Kampf" and the "Communist Manifesto." His main complaint about government seems to be that he believes it is trying to control American "grammar." Yet this becomes an excuse for the media to throw him in with the tea partiers as "anti-government."
Perhaps we will learn more as the investigation unfolds. But so far this case couldn't be more different than that of Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood killer who was motivated by Islamist hatred of America. Yet it is notable that the press corps was more restrained in identifying Major Hasan's Islamist role models than in immediately stretching to link Mr. Loughner with American politicians who universally denounce such violence.
Ponder the implication of this. A deranged soul shoots a public figure and we are supposed to change our political discourse and rule certain people and opinions out of bounds based on whatever incoherent ramblings Mr. Loughner published on his website?
Every two years we hold elections so that sane Americans can make a judgment on the policies of President Obama, John Boehner, tea party candidates and so on. But even though the people have recently had their say, in a typically raucous but entirely nonviolent fashion, we are supposed to put that aside and assess what a murderer with a mental illness has to tell us about the state of American politics, government and our national dialogue.
This line of argument is itself an attack on democratic discourse, and it is amazing that it even needs to be rebutted. Taking such an argument seriously will only encourage more crazy people to believe they can trigger a national soul-searching if they shoot at a political target. We should denounce the murders and the murderer, rather than doing him the honor of suggesting that his violence flows in any explainable fashion from democratic debate.
President Obama does have an opportunity here, but it is not to link—"deftly" or otherwise—his political opponents to Mr. Loughner. This would only further poison and polarize our public debate. Mr. Obama can lift the level of public discourse by explaining the reality of Mr. Loughner's illness and calling out those on the right and left who want to blame the other side for murder. That would be a genuinely Presidential act of leadership, and it would have the added advantage of being honest about the murders in Tucson.
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Georgia Tea Party lists it's 2011 Legislative Priorities
Approved by the Board 12/18/10
Budget and Government Reform
1. Zero-based Budgeting
GTP supports legislation to require a process to review each expenditure of state government
and define the core functions of state government.
2. Agency review and sunset process
GTP supports legislation to establish a process to review every agency in state government,
evaluate each agency’s effectiveness and productivity and eliminate agencies that have outlived
their usefulness.
3. Regulatory review process to evaluate state occupational and licensure bodies
GTP supports the enactment of a statute that will evaluate existing regulatory entities to
determine the need for change to their current regulations.
Asserting the Authority of State Government as Recognized in the Tenth Amendment
4. Health Insurance Freedom of Choice Legislation
GTP supports efforts to propose a state constitutional amendment to prohibit mandates from the
federal government that interfere with the rights of citizens to purchase the health insurance of
their choice or to choose no health insurance at all. The federal government has no
constitutional authority to force anyone to purchase health insurance, and this measure should
become part of the Georgia Constitution in order to protect the rights of citizens.
5. Energy Freedom Legislation
GTP supports legislation to block the implementation of climate change or cap-and-trade
legislation relating to greenhouse gas emissions.
6. Immigration Law Enforcement Legislation
GTP supports the enactment of legislation that will provide for the enforcement of federal
immigration laws in the state of Georgia. Due to the abdication of the federal government’s duty
to enforce its own laws, Georgia should enact a law similar to Arizona’s that will protect Georgia
citizens and preserve the taxpayers’ money from the costs associated with providing illegal
immigrants with government services.
Taxes
7. Tax Reform
GTP supports efforts to reform Georgia’s tax system by reducing or eliminating the personal
income tax and corporate income tax and shifting the tax burden to a consumption tax.
8. SPLOST Law Reform
GTP supports reform of the SPLOST process to allow more flexibility:
- To allow local governmental bodies to roll back property taxes with funds not spent
from a particular SPLOST
- To allow local governmental bodies to authorize a fraction of 1 percent for a SPLOST
GTP supports limiting SPLOST votes to November general elections in even-numbered years.Education
9. School Choice Legislation and Expanding Charter Schools
GTP supports efforts to improve education in Georgia through school choice, charter schools
and other innovative approaches that place parents in greater control of their children’s
education.
Health Care
10. Interstate Sales of Health Insurance
GTP supports the principle of free markets and supports the sale of health insurance across
state lines in order to increase competition, improve the quality of products offered and reduce
health insurance costs.
11. High-Risk Pool
GTP supports the implementation of a high-risk health insurance pool in order to provide a
market for those who have not been able to buy health insurance elsewhere.
Fair Elections
12. Voting Machines
GTP supports the replacement of the voting machines currently used in Georgia withwith voting
equipment that has an auditable paper trail.
http://www.thegeorgiateaparty.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Georgia-Tea-Party-2011-State-Legislative-Priorities.pdf
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