Fighting to Preserve Liberty in America
The Republicans were swept into control of the House and took a major bite out of the Democrats control of the Senate on a program of fiscal responsibility. Now as they work on their first budget, some of the tug-of-war was on display at CPAC’s opening day.
Ah, the romance of rail travel. From Murder on the Orient Express to From Russia with Love to White Christmas to Some Like It Hot there is something alluring about a train. But for all those warm feelings it’s time to recognize that we are in the 21st century and to leave trains to the movies.
The New Year has begun and hopefully, we haven’t broken all our New Year’s resolutions yet. There is still a lot of talk about fairness and inequality. It is the last best hope of a message for the progressives and it is time we did take a look at fairness.
In the recent election campaign, lacking anything positive to say about their record, when Democrats were not making personal attacks on their opponents one of their diversions was to taunt their opponent by saying, “Oh yeah, what specifically would you cut from the federal government, and don’t say waste and fraud.”
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The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money. – Unknown (often attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville)
An article in The Hill newspaper titled “Teachers union expands playing field for midterms” describes how the teachers’ union is getting out supporting certain candidates.
With a week left in the election, Kirsten Gillibrand holds a substantial lead in the polls to be elected to the seat to which she was appointed after Hillary Clinton moved on to the State Department. Liberty’s Lifeline finds this a remarkable situation considering that for most of the past year polls have shown the Gillibrand trailed a generic “someone else”. It would seem that in this year of an anti-incumbent uprising, she would be among the easiest senators to unseat, and yet her race is considered “solidly Democratic”, in other words, in the bag.
If you watched the video of her debates with Joe DioGuardi she seemed overly scripted, delivering pattern Democratic talking points to questions even to the point of ignoring the question to parrot the memorized response. In a “lightening round” that required a yes or no answer, she seemed to struggle to give an answer to some questions that required thought before answering. It almost looked like a game show where she seemed delighted to get an answer right rather than giving answers she actually believed in.
New York state government is a basket case. Earlier this week we were treated to the theater of the governor’s debate featuring such luminaries as Jimmy McMillan of the Rent is 2 Damn High party, and former madam Kristin Davis who seemed smarter on fiscal policy than half of her opponents on the stage. But let us not forget it was a stage and this is New York. Instead of being held at Hofstra University, it should have been held on Broadway, but I digress.
The government itself is one problem, the state pensions are quite another. A problem on the order of $30 billion to $80 billion. Harry Wilson is running for state comptroller. Mr. Wilson made his money on Wall Street, investing and turning around troubled companies. His opponent, Tom DiNapoli was appointed to the comptroller position after his predecessor, Alan Hevesi, was charged misconduct for trading access to the pension in return for favors.
On October 17, 2010 members of TeaParty365 and Media Matters gathered in front of the New York Times headquarters and later in the day at the headquarters of NBC to protest the liberal distortions of those and other main stream media outlets.
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It is interesting to note the tea party members who can be seen (Chinese, black, young white female) are not what the main stream media keep telling us make up the tea parties, while the liberal who stops to curse at the protest is an old white guy. The mainstream media did come to see what was going on and interviewed the organizers of the event as well as this correspondent, but seemed bored and disappointed that some self fulfillling controversy didn’t break out. Attempts to find any footage of their filming after the fact were fruitless.
As has been written here many times before an $8 a week tax cut, the one President Obama brags about delivering to 95% of American taxpayers has gone largely unnoticed according to the New York Times. Gee, it didn’t stimulate the economy and when joined at the hip to $825 billion in debt, can you blame anyone for missing the pocket change?
When reminded, people do seem to recall it, but if you have to remind someone that they are supposed to be better off than they were two years ago, your program probably missed the mark. It will be an interesting two weeks before the election and the whole hope and change thing unravels.
