Santorum bought his new lease on life. He will probably see more money coming in. He will still get creamed in New Hampshire but if he does well in SC he will begin to demonstrate depth in support.

My personal take on him? Morally and evangelically we are mostly in tune. Although I think the deficit spending he has helped along is totally immorally. To reuse one of Newt’s phrases, it IS generational theft. Historically Santorum is way too quick to spend my money and more importantly my children’s money. This is why I haven’t considered him as a top tier in my personal primary. Between him and Obama there is however no comparison. If he manages to secure the nomination it will be a pleasure to vote for him.

ROMNEY

Romney’s best hope is to keep as many conservatives in the race as possible. He is stuck at 25%~ and his path to the nomination requires the other 75% to remain divided between four candidates or more. He didn’t surprise in Iowa, it just proved that even the Republican Party population is 25% stupid. Unfortunately 25% stupid might win the nomination and thereby, as with McCain, lose the presidency to Obama. It will be painful, probably costing seats in the house and maybe killing the senate takeover. Almost as bad, or maybe worse, will be a Romney victory. The architect of ObamaCare is hardly going to do anything to preserve the idea that Republicans are the party of limited government and fiscal discipline. Boehner has faithfully done his part laying the groundwork, Romney will complete the process.

NEWT

I think Newt is done at this point. I don’t mean he will drop, his ego is way too big for anything as selfless as that, but he had his surge, he is a great speaker and articulator, and then everybody remembered who he is as a person. Before Chrissy Matthews got his thrill on for Obama, Newt had weak knees for Bill. He has no spine. His poor showing in Iowa should mean it is time to sit out and endorse a conservative. My guess is after he gets shellacked in New Hampshire he will depart. No Money. I also predict he will endorse Romney. I further predict he will serve in a Romney administration. Newt will cut a deal and Romney, being faithful to his wife, doesn’t mind paying for political whores. His supporters on the other hand will probably split between Romney and the anti-Romneys still standing.

MICHELLE

Before Perry got in Bachmann was my first choice. After Perry got in my view was whichever gained traction I would support. I prefer Bachmann but figured Perry would do much better overall. Well, right or wrong about Perry, the time has come for Bachmann to pull out and endorse Perry or Santorum. Last night made that pretty clear. If she can’t win as a native son in Iowa right next door to her current home she has no chance. But really, let’s face it; if she can’t place in her birth state of Iowa she probably couldn’t take Minnesota. Even Mondale beat Reagan at home.

For the good of the nation she needs to withdraw, I take her Christian faith seriously enough that I believe she can put the ego aside.

HUNTSMAN

If this were on paper I wouldn’t waste the ink. In fact I have said too much already.

PAUL

Fiscally he is the best candidate the GOP has in the race. His foreign policy is naïve. This is from somebody who considers himself a non-interventionist. Oh, he is correct, whether conservatives like it or not; our foreign policy over the last 100 years has made us more enemies than friends. And even our friends have been pretty faithless. Oh sure, as long as we dump billions into their local economies they are glad to take it. It has allowed the entire Euro-Socialist development to occur under the protective umbrella of NATO. It has made us the Great Satan of the Middle East. But where Paul is naïve is assuming that if we ignore them and pull out of the Middle East they will leave us alone. Of course the party line GOP explanation is nuts as well, they don’t hate because we are free. That too is absolutely stupid. THEY HATE US BECAUSE WE DON’T WORSHIP allah. And because, not worshipping allah, we also don’t serve in dhimmitude. But on Paul’s naiveté; we done kicked the hornet’s nest, back in the 50’s and 60’s and so on, we have to deal with the hornets; whether we decide to kick the hornet’s nest more in the future is a separate question. But he is right nation building is stupid, we have never done it successfully.

All that says this, when Paul loses the primary, his supporters are going to vote for Obama, vote for the nominee or stay home. According to most polls he pulls a fair number of independents and even anti-war democrats. Obviously, whether folks want to admit it or not, he is probably the most popular tea party candidate. Given that his supporters are evenly split between normally voting democrat, voting republican and staying home, Republicans need to consider whether they want the republican voting contingent staying home, the usually non-voting contingent doing what they usually do or the democrats staying home. Keep treating him the way Republicans have been treating him and you’ll be sure to keep the stay at homes at home. You may even drive his Republican support to stay at home. I am not the only one who sees this; Sarah Palin talked about it last night on Fox. The strategy of embracing RINOs instead of the libertarian wing, as we have done for 100 years, is killing the nation.

As far as Paul pulling out, I think we all know he will be in it through the last primary.

And finally

PERRY

The candidate I am supporting for now. Not because he is perfect but because I think even now he is the best conservative to beat Obama. He needs to make a point of jumping into any possible opportunity to debate so if he does get the nod he is better prepared to cream Obama. Practice makes perfect. I do wish he were more conservative in his political history but he is hitting on all cylinders for now. I hope if Bachmann does bail she supports Perry. I think her followers would mostly make that transition. And clearly the ones who didn’t would almost certainly go to Santorum. While I know he has the money and have even said he should at least go through Super Tuesday, I was wrong. If he doesn’t start gaining serious traction by South Carolina he needs to move aside so we can avoid a Romney nomination. A Bachmann endorsement may help him gain that traction, so too would a Cain endorsement. Unless he swallows his ego, Cain has already made statements that would be hard to pull back from here.

TO SUM IT UP

Intrade currently has Romney at 80% for the nomination. If he gets it, he will lose. In fact, while picking Romney as the Republican Nominee, Intrade also gives Obama the edge in re-election. Makes sense, if you want a socialist authoritarian president, ya might as well stick to the one that brung ya. So what I think the intrade markets are saying, if they could speak, is “those Republicans are going to pick Romney and then lose, morons.”

Santorum is at 6%. His performance in his last election doesn’t speak well for his prospects nationally. But he might win.

Newt at 5%. He has got nowhere to go but down. The thrill is gone.

Paul is next with 2.5%. Because he will stick it out, if we get to a brokered convention, (currently the conservatives best shot) he will likely be a kingmaker. I don’t think Redstate or UnifiedPatriots are going to be able to scare him into supporting their candidate any more than the establishment will be able to browbeat him into supporting theirs. I do think his delegates will follow his lead.

Perry doesn’t really place at Intrade. Actually he does place behind Huntsman????? But in spite of this I still think he has a shot if he can get Bachmann to endorse and do well in South Carolina. Barring that I hope he uses his war chest to destroy Mitt to the best of his ability.

This election is going to go a lot like a game of pool. It can be fun knocking balls down, one

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here, one there. If you have a good table you can run them off, bang, bang, bang. It not common but it happens. If you don’t have a good table, pool becomes something closer to a chess game. Not only do you have to make your next shot, you have to plan your next three. Bang, bang don’t get it anymore. You have to use a little finesse, a little English, just enough power to drop a ball so your next shot stays viable.

In this game we have to deal with seven balls while our opponents only have to deal with one.

Make six shots in a row and you still lose because the only thing that matters is who sinks the eight ball.

The establishment, left or right, considers us (Tea Party supporters) to be naïve.

Every two years we play this game where, if only we can win, then our side can claim #victory and government will return, at least a little to its rightful place. We’re #winning!!! We believe them. But when we do manage to deliver #victory government never gets smaller. We are naïve. #Sucker is a more accurate term.

I have kicked this around a lot.

I heard this first from one of the Ryun brothers of American Majority fame,

Structure Demands Behavior

They in turn got it from some business guru.

I think it is absolutely true.

At no time in the last hundred years have Americans wanted bigger government yet it is what we always get.

I firmly believe the changes made with the 16th, 17th and the Federal Reserve DEMAND the behavior that leads us to where we are.

If left unchanged, there is no possibility mere voting will make any difference. 100 years of voting through no less than 50 congressional elections and 25 Presidential elections proves this is true. CW recently sent me some passages from a book by Rose Wilder Lane, Discovery of Freedom. In the 40′s she was pointing out the crooked bastards can always round up enough votes with celebrity endorsements, picnics and vote buying. It is not better today.

(And thanks CW. I liked the excerpts so much I bought the book.)

The federal government has too much money with absolutely no accountability. As we see in the most conservative parts of Iowa, talk about killing a corn subsidy and they will kill your chances of winning. Talk about killing off shore drilling in Louisiana and it will kill you. Refuse to protect maple syrup in Vermont and the green mountain boys will lynch your campaign. Talk about cutting defense spending in CA and you’re dead. Means testing Social Security in FL? uh huh.

Congress is obviously NOT going to stop their gravy train any more than GE or Lars in Iowa is going to kill his. I do think Lars might be convinced to do the right thing if he knew GE would also be on the chopping block but GE will never concede.

That means that Republicans may even push for a BBA or Term Limits but “oh, so sad,” they always come up one or two votes short.

We are supposed to remain a bunch of naïve suckers never learning from the last cycle. We are supposed to believe they really are trying so hard to do the right thing and just can’t swing it.

I don’t believe them anymore. And while I have been a Republican since the age of 5 (literally and maybe earlier) I don’t trust any part of our party leadership. We can play this game ad infinitum. We will always lose.

I am done playing it. While I will continue to try to elect Republicans, with a few exceptions, I am only doing so because there are a relative few left in that party that get it. The Democrat Party has long since sold out the nation completely.

Instead I intend to focus on goals that can make a difference. Yes, we CAN elect Republican majorities. But to what purpose?  I am tired of being sold out.

It’s why I have arrived at the Article V Convention as the only possible solution. And it is a long shot on the order of We Pledge Our Lives, Our Fortunes and Our Sacred Honor. Not to change the constitution, but to change it BACK to what it was meant to be.

Structure Demands Behavior.

We are getting exactly the behavior our current structure demands. If we don’t change the Structure we will never change the Behavior.

AmericanAmendment.com

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Tomblin(D) vs Maloney(R).

So who does the NRA endorse? A friend forwarded this email.

Use Your Vote to Defend Your Freedom!

Vote Earl Ray Tomblin for Governor

Tomorrow, October 4!

Tomorrow, October 4, a special election will be held in West Virginia. Your National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund (www.NRAPVF.org) has endorsed Earl Ray Tomblin for Governor of West Virginia.

Earl Ray Tomblin
“A” Rated and NRA-PVF Endorsed

Earl Ray Tomblin has earned an “A” rating and NRA-PVF’s endorsement for his longstanding support of our Right to Keep and Bear Arms. As a former state legislator, he has a tested and proven record for many years of protecting the rights of law-abiding gun owners and sportsmen in West Virginia. Earl Ray Tomblin is committed to supporting our Second Amendment rights and hunting heritage, and he needs your vote to win.

If you are a registered voter, you are eligible to participate in this special gubernatorial election. Be sure to spread the word to your family, friends and fellow gun owners in West Virginia to vote Earl Ray Tomblin for Governor tomorrow, October 4!

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We are in the middle of a war for the heart and soul of a nation, for control of the last bastion of freedom in our time and they are playing tiddlywinks.

Use your vote to Defend Your Freedom? Are you kidding? Vote for the high tax, government is master, business is evil, political shyster to DEFEND YOUR FREEDOM?

What kind of doublespeak, doublethink is this?

The NRA has lost its mind or its soul, or both.

In the interest of political influence and relevance they naturally endorse the leftwing nutjob.

Endorsing the Democrat may have made sense in the 80’s. Perhaps some holdouts remained in the 90’s. There is no such thing as a truly pro-gun Democrat today. No more than there is a pro-life Democrat. Every Democrat will sell their vote for a bridge back home or a secretary down the hall.

Worse, this is an executive position. Tomblin will have many opportunities to sign or veto legislation across the bureaucratic spectrum.  He will also have regulatory opportunities that legislators don’t have.

He will almost certainly use his influence to elect marxists across the state and he will act to elect politicians at the national level. That is three congressional seats, two senators and a presidential election that may be affected.  The NRA just elected the guy who will do everything he can to give Obama WV’s electoral votes. I doubt he can deliver but it won’t be from lack of trying.

This is bigger than guns. The NRA is blind to the larger consequences of its actions. Perhaps if the Democrat had a great gun record and the Republican didn’t then this could be justified. In a circumstance like this, with two supposedly pro-gun candidates, the NRA should be looking at other factors, other issues of constitutional fidelity.

For the record I am considerable more pro 2^nd Amendment than Wayne La Pierre. I don’t think the 2^nd Amendment allows the federal government to regulate firearms, period. I am a plain language guy.

The NRA just endorsed the candidate who will go all Stupak when the chips are down.

WV has been trending Republican for the last few years, particularly in its national politics. This doesn’t help.

I dropped my NRA membership back in the 90’s when it became clear their mission had been disrupted by their political games and their social club mentality.

Only the most naive do not realize we are in a war with the left for the survival of American Liberty.

In the end, I am not an NRA member because they have no foresight and they treat with the enemy.

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I have heard the refrain for 10 years. So too have you.

I have heard it from folks I dislike, from folks I respect and from people I both like and respect.

We are told they hate us because we are free.

And it is a lie. Political correctness served large.

There are many reasons why this is a false statement.

For example, it assumes we are free. Given the bureaucratic tyranny that emanates from Washington we should be able to make peace with the ill-informed moo-slems by simply showing them a 1040A, 1099, EEOC form, EPA action report, or have OSHA pay them a visit. One look at the despotism of the beltway and they would be quite satisfied that gee-had was entirely unnecessary. In fact they would likely send us condolences and remittances.

Nope. If they hate us because we are free it has all of the plot sophistication of a sitcom where Jack thinks his wife Sally is cheating on him while she is really working four jobs to buy him the jetski he has wanted since his father was killed while riding one on Jack’s 7^th birthday.

I’ll admit I am not an expert on all things iss-lam. I do not regularly read the koo-ran. I did not know the prophet moo-hamid.

But I am quite sure If you read the koo-ran in its original gold-tableted far-see, using harum and scarum stones, you will NOT find even one example of moo-hamid saying something like, “And when thee findeth the man who is free-eth and full-eth of liberty thou must saw-eth his head-off until he be dead.” Pretty sure it’s not there.

So if they don’t hate us because we are free, then why do they hate us?

They do hate us, right?

They hate us because we don’t bow down to mecca 5 times per day.

They hate us because we don’t wear their brand, neck collar or chains.

We recently concluded a 60 year struggle with the USSR. There were many who understood from the beginning that it was a fight to the death. The planet wasn’t big enough for the both of us. Socialism, Leninism, Marxism, could not withstand the economic force that capitalism represents so they were forced to recruit crack –heads from the islands and steer them through the Destitutions of High(er) Larning so they would stand a chance at getting elected while still being controlled by teleprompTER.

(What you thought we won the Cold War against socialism? Chump.)

Because you see, as Marx stated 150 years ago, “peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.”

Well guess what, as it turns out he stole the slogan from iss-lam.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to moo-hamid.

A capitalist cares little about the economic beliefs of others and could therefore get along with anybody. Socialists on the other hand cannot EVER tolerate any other system because it shows what a totally ignorant system they have. Iss=lam works the same. Sure, Christians can show, well, Christian tolerance. Not moo-hamid’s guys. Like communists, iss-lamists hide within a population always pushing for “tolerance” of their beliefs. And then when their numbers are right they strike. The world is not big enough for the both of us because they won’t let it be. Give them five minutes in power and its murder the men, rape the women and children, generous dhimmitude for the survivors.

Hate us because we are free?

They hate us because we reject their prophet.

They hate us because we live.

muslim islam muhammad

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I’ve had what I think is an epiphany, of sorts.

Conservatives and more so, libertarians, have a serious problem.

They view liberty and limited government as a kind of machine that has a couple of the gears stripped, maybe an armature frozen, a tensioner pulley a little loose. I do it too. For example, I see 1913 as a disastrous year and it was. Lots of gears, stripped, pulleys bent, etc. that year.

The idea is if we could just poke a little here and prod a little there, replace a gear, balance a flywheel, replace a shifter, undo 1913, etc. then everything would be back to normal and we would be good for a hundred years or more.

It is not true.

When the US was founded it was founded by a moral and religious people. They collectively had a soul that breathed life into the machinery of government and liberty that made it work. It didn’t matter that there were some crooks; they were so heavily outweighed, their effects were minimal and they were quickly punished. More, even the crooks lived within the same Judeo-Christian paradigm regarding ethics and morality. They may have violated both but they “knew” what they were doing when they did it.

“But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.” Burke 

I think both conservatives and libertarians generally agree with the idea of an originalist interpretation of the US Constitution. Meaning it should be read in the same light as the founders would have read it.

Most are passing familiar with John Adams’ quote, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

On this topic Madison said, “Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.”

The “historical background” Madison refers to inseparably includes the “moral and religious people” Adams refers to. Should we be surprised at the “distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government” we have today?

Here is the problem; we are not, on balance, a moral or religious people anymore.

It shows when pious Christian church people can’t be bothered to vote. A lot of them don’t and many voted for Bacha.

It shows when we beam with pride about our kid getting into Harvard or Yale. We know these once great schools have become cesspools of hate America. What pride can you have in delivering up your children to be sacrificed on the alter of socialism? 

It shows when we buy GE products knowing they are getting a free ride by owning politicians and catering to the corruption in Washington. What you saved $0.12 per bulb?

It shows when our kids worry more about getting laid than getting a job and dad beams a little if she’s cute.

Or when we send our daughters out in mini-skirts and halter tops with boys we don’t know and likely have never met. Oh, we’ll act surprised and indignant when we find out her high school gym teacher has dropped her by Klanned Parenthood to fix a little problem.

I had a blog from Larry Miller on Sago entitled Do We Really Want To Stop Abortion.  He’s essentially asking; “Are we serious about stopping abortion?” It’s hard to think we are serious after reading his piece.

“Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites, — in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity, — in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption, — in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.” Burke

Ballots or Bullets?

Occasionally, someone poses the question; “Will this be solved at the ballot box via the standard political process or must we resort to force of arms?”

If we go the ballot box route and fix all the little problems and shrink the government back into the box where it belongs, it might be the greatest disaster in the history of the world. Hedonism run rampant with no restrictions. Corruption at every level of government and every level of business. Generations of college-educated people taught that all morals are relative and ethics can be redefined by a department head. Our children, uneducated in any meaningful way, will be looking for someone to tell them what to do and how to live.

What about force of arms? Winning is obviously a problem. I doubt it could be done without the tacit assistance of the military. Or perhaps, at least, their simply standing down, ala Oath Keepers. If we assume that we do win, we are actually left in exactly the same place. We are still faced with a population on its own, determinedly unable to live free. Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll. This is not only a liberal problem.

Boris Yeltsin faced this. I know Vassar has more experience with him than I, but aside from consuming prodigious amounts of vodka, he seemed like somebody trying to take a people with no real skill at living free and set them free. He didn’t know how to do it and neither did they. They milled around for a while looking for someone to lead them and then they found Putin. The Soviets destroyed the moral under-pinnings of the Russian people, Putin was the natural result of that lack of moral clarity.

“Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?” Tocqueville

 Fix everything wrong with our government and you have a Golem Nation. Godless, soulless, rudderless, peopled by folks that have been taught that the life of a spoiled brat is the only life worth living. Taught everybody has a right to that life. They believe SOMEBODY owes this to them. Their numbers are staggering. If set free, they would chose a Putin in short order.

“The people are much more dexterous at pulling down and setting up, than at preserving what is fixed; and they are not fonder of seizing more than their own, than they are of delivering it up again to the worst bidder, with their own into the bargain. For although, in their corrupt notions of divine worship, they are apt to multiply their gods; yet their earthly devotion is seldom paid to above one idol at a time, of their own creation, whose oar they pull with less murmuring, and much more skill, than when they share the leading, or even hold the helm.” John Adams

They believe any form of sexual perversion is OK so long as it is between consenting adults and as Jaded pointed out recently there is now a strong movement within the American Psychiatric Association to redefine child rape as normal as well. These are the same politically motivated hacks who decided homosexual is the new normal without any scientific basis. They just voted it normal so it became normal. And we kept quiet.

They believe stealing is OK, as long as the government acts in an intermediary manner to provide a few degrees of separation.

They abandon their parents to whatever meager offerings the “Federal Family” will fund.

They are taught to worship the dirt under their feet or themselves or their president but never the one true God.

Libertarians, I challenge you to identify one nation/state in history with a regard for liberty that was not inhabited by a moral and religious people. There are moral laws as immutable as gravity and any nation that chooses to ignore these laws ALWAYS descends into tyranny. Immoral, unethical, hedonistic people are always ruled with a heavy hand because they refuse to rule themselves. History proves this. No nation has ever offered the freedoms enjoyed in the early years of Christian America. Choose now your hatred for all things moral or your love of liberty. They can not coexist.

“All who have ever written on government are unanimous, that among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.” Burke

Byron York has a piece out today concerning the left’s intent to turn this into a religious war. Rick Perry and Michelle Bachmann are theocrats in waiting. The MSM can’t talk about anything Obama has done without losing, so change the subject. It was early Christian America that set the standard for freedom around the world. We need not abide the left’s false accusations concerning Christian intolerance. We do have to be willing to defend our faith from a secular world instead of slinking from issues like gay marriage or evolution or the role of husbands and wives in marriage.

On this topic of theocracy let’s be sure to remember the theocratic intolerance of the left. Al Gore’s fraudulent AGW crusade where deniers lives have been called expendable. The abortion front which insists that all women be keep ignorant as they let greedy bastards murder their children. The insistence that any Christian is suspect particularly if they believe what they say. Cafeteria Christians like the Kennedy’s are naturally excepted from liberal judgments. The progressive left’s willingness to let millions die in Africa and elsewhere from malaria due to their religiously based, scientifically unproven, hatred for effective solutions. The left is evil. They meet every definition of a theocracy that denies all science that can’t be bent to fit their agenda. And they are particularly self-satisfied when people die as a result of their religious intolerance. They are totally indistinguishable from people chucking babies into volcanoes in hopes of rain.With this significant difference, their Klanned Parenthood baby killing factories have incorporated all the best assembly line methodologies of Ford and as a result they are able to murder in numbers that would stupify an Aztec.

“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”   Burke

We have allowed ourselves to be bullied, accused, tricked and divided. While we were distracted and suspicious of each other, the left has used their time wisely. They have destroyed our nation financially and morally. The bad times are coming, while we dithered the left won that victory. The question now is what comes from those bad times. 100, 200, 300 years of renewed dark ages? Don’t think it can happen here? If progresssive “solutions” define our political landscape it will happen here.

Just as men find themselves distracted by the clamor and baubles of the world, so too with nations. The answer for both is the same.

Without a spiritual revival, and a moral awakening, we will never again be free.

We have to ask ourselves what we would change to cause smaller government, moral behavior, faithful marriage and church on Sunday to be the easy choice. Then fight like hell to make that happen.

During a particularly contentious time, as the formulation of the constitution was being debated in Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin had this to say, “…God Governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?”

It can not.

Nor can a nation such as ours be restored without his support.

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Of course I knew about earthquakes. I had read about them, seen them on TV, etc. That’s all great. Until the earth actually moves beneath your feet you can’t really internalize what it means. For those who grew up on the west coast this may seem like a pedestrian discussion because, of course, the earth moves.

When you grow up in a land without earthquakes and then experience one, the world changes forever. The way you see the world changes forever. The change doesn’t have to be a massive come to Jesus moment but you will never see things exactly the same way again.

For me, the earth now moves, sometimes.

It is a paradigm shift.

I have experienced several similar or even slightly larger earthquakes since that time. None stand out in my memory the way that one does.

Some people have the misfortune of having their first earthquake be their last.

Financially, economically, and as a result socially, the world is about to move. The tremblers are already happening. Like I did with the truck, the establishment is poised to blame the “youngsters” for the shaking. The Tea Partiers did it. And they will carry that line of blame for as long as people are willing to believe it.

Never in the history of the world has such an utterly, morally devoid people held such sway over the lives of so many.

The entire world has become a Keynesian debt driven economy.

Banana Republics, Jungle Thugocracies, Socialist Democracies, Communist Plutocracies and worst of all Constitutional Republics have all bought into the Keynesian claptrap notions that it is somehow possible to permanently stimulate prosperity by stealing/borrowing from your children while simultaneously selling the idea that nobody will ever have to pay back the debt.

Knowing those in power buy into this religion should shake the world for you.

Many have begun to feel the trembling and are not yet sure what it means. Some of the “Keynesians” who knew all along they were selling a fraud are now looking for bolt holes. Witness the recent Drudge headline noting congressional net worth is up something like 3000% over the last decade or so. They are stocking up at the expense of the poor slobs who believed them. Don’t kid yourself, this crosses party lines.

Some in congress still don’t get it. Not all of the folks who just voted for the debt ceiling increase did so for purely selfish motives. Instead like crack addicts, or their enablers, they were able to rationalize just one more high. It was easier than having the fight now. As any close relative of a drug addict can tell you, it is a bad decision that is soooo easy to make. It will always be so until it all crashes down. One more hit, one more bottle, one more pipe.

But an earthquake is coming.

For some of those in Washington, and its power circles, this is merely a stalling action. They have stolen considerable fortunes and now they are trying to consolidate their gains while stiff arming the nation.

For others, too new or incompetent to have cemented their fortunes, it is about propping things up long enough to “get theirs.”

There are true believers. For them the shock will be more than they can take. By this I mean no matter how bad, or how obvious the culprits, they will live in a fantasy world where others, like the Tea Partiers, are at fault.

Many will never be able to reconcile themselves with the idea that this is the natural, inevitable, result of a credit driven economy. Nor the fact that a credit driven economy is the natural result of a Central Banking, Federal Reserve, government creating wealth by printing paper, economic model.

Any parent with children knows the stimulating effect sugar can have on kids and they also know the inescapable crash “always” occurs. It doesn’t matter the stimulus, crack, coke, alcohol, meth or Keynesian stimulus, the crash ALWAYS occurs. Nor does it take Keynesian philosophy to produce a Keynesian stimulus, every time the Federal Reserve creates money it has the effect of Keynesian stimulus. It doesn’t matter if the kids get their sugar in ice cream or Kool-Aid the crash still happens.

The purported reason for creating the Federal Reserve System was to stabilize the economy by providing liquidity in down times. That liquidity IS stimulus. It may have extended good times or eased recessions but has also created deeper troughs and depressions than existed before its creation. No surprise. The crash always comes and the better they get at forestalling the crash the deeper the depression to follow.

Stability is the stated purpose. In actuality, the purpose of the FED is to maintain a constant rate of inflation and to give the government greater control over the economic lives of ordinary citizens. Constant inflation is like a tax on every single dollar held by every person of whatever station, anywhere in the world. It has also caused the dollar to lose 99% of its value in less than 100 years. All of this to stave off the deflationary bogeyman.  Deflation IS a bogeymen. Our economy has been no better off post 1913 than it was before 1913.

Giving the government, in the form of the FED, greater control means congressmen get sweetheart loans and mortgages from large member banks. But don’t call them bribes. It also means congress has a ready way to secretly tax the American people by having the FED “stimulate” the economy by purchasing Federal Debt. Congress also gets to see easy money policies used to reward their big corporate donors. Ever notice how you don’t get the 0.25% Federal Funds Rate loans? No those loans go to big banks which in turn dole out ultra-cheap loans to “stable” companies like GM or Chrysler while small businesses are offered “factoring” style loans at junk bond rates. (Yes, I know some favored small businesses get Chris Dodd loans from SBA just like other favored small businesses are awarded special HUBZone contracts for being on the correct side of a street while the guy across the street is SOL.)

Finally, constant inflation means savers are punished. Even if savings accounts paid enough interest to keep up with inflation, savers get to pay income tax on the interest that MIGHT have kept them even. And what does a lack of savings, or worse a steady accumulation of consumer debt, mean? It means at retirement you absolutely, positively WILL BE dependent on government “charity” just to survive. I know it is fashionable to say retirees “paid” in and therefore it is not “charity.” For an average person living 10 years into retirement the amount of benefits collected exceeds anything they paid in. At some point you have to call it charity. What makes it truly terrible is another truth. If they had been allowed to keep their money and save it, and if the Federal Reserve were not dedicated to destroying the value of those savings, the average person would live a better retirement AND have something to leave to their children. Instead they are turned into yet another dependent class and reliable vote for big government. Reduced to begging from the bastards that robbed them.

At no time before 1913 did monetary policy threaten the very existence of the Republic.

It does now.

Keynesian monetary policy, the deliberate creation of a debt driven economy, the constant and determined expansion of the dependent classes for political purposes has reached the point of collapse. We shouldn’t make the mistake of thinking the “dependent” class is merely taking advantage of the system. They truly are dependent. They are NOT capable of taking care of themselves. Whether retirees who have no significant savings or investments and lacking the physical health to continue working, or fourth generation welfare recipients with absolutely no skills to offer society due to an abysmal school system dedicated to enriching text book printers and teachers unions. They are not able to care for themselves.

Some, like the welfare class and most of those on disability would find ways to provide for themselves absent government largesse. Others, some on disability or retirees, will never be able to provide for themselves.

Even the ones who could; won’t.

When the government is telling them YOU are the reason why their checks are being cut, YOU are the reason they can’t keep their free cell phone or free cable TV and it is only YOUR greedy conniving Tea Partying ways that would force them to STARVE. How your “vast” wealth as a small business owner, your success as an investor or inventor or the fruits of your studies and hard work to become a doctor or engineer, really belongs to “the people.”

“Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.” Thomas Jefferson

One hundred plus years of “progressive” growth of government is about to pay off and most of the useful idiots working so hard to bring about the glorious revolution don’t have sense enough to realize the bulls-eye is big enough to cover them as well. All those wealthy congressmen, masters of titanic industries, Hollywood losers and welfare queens will find the tyrant they are creating will consume them as readily as it will consume us.

Even among conservatives there is a lack of understanding and a faith in the “inherent goodness” of government that prevents their recognition that all of the Federal bureaucracies, the judicial systems, the safety net and yes, the Federal Reserve, either enable or directly advance the destruction of liberty and virtually guarantee tyranny will have its day in America.

“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.” Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine knew government was evil.

“Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.” Thomas Paine

George Washington knew government was a terrible master.

“Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” George Washington

James Madison knew tyranny advances by slithering and creeping and subterfuge.

 “I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” James Madison
“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.” James Madison

Patrick Henry knew that secret councils, back room deals and concealed transactions meant the death of liberty.

“The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.” Patrick Henry

Thomas Jefferson knew government could not be trusted and therefore must be restrained.

“It is jealousy and not confidence which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power. Our Constitution has accordingly fixed the limits to which, and no further, our confidence may go… In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” Thomas Jefferson

And in all that John Adams knew government could only be restrained by a moral people.

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” John Adams

Government is a sneaky, self-absorbed, evil, terrible master. Donning misleading raiment and perfumes and façades, empowering surrogates to avoid blame and paper tigers to justify outrageous actions, all to disguise its true intentions; unlimited power.

No government in history has ever voluntarily reserved its actions to those essential acts for which they are created. Ours is no exception and therefore it must be restrained. It will not be restrained by immoral men unable to restrain themselves. Knowing this, our government has embarked on a campaign to confuse and destroy the moral fiber of the nation.

Tyrants cannot rest easy in a nation filled with virtuous men. They must destroy the virtue or the man.

An earthquake is coming. It is not the kind of earthquake the unprepared or uninitiated will weather intact.

We are about to be tried by the fire. Politically, there is only one rock we can cling to that will not move. If you waste your efforts clinging to your favorite alphabet soup agency, government program or extra-constitutional government creation you will not weather this storm and you may take the rest of us down with you. Stick to a strict interpretation of the US Constitution. Don’t allow progressive innovations to taint your understanding and cloud your judgment. From the beginning these innovations have existed. From 1913 on, there has been no other kind.

This cannot be truer than in the realm of public education which will always be used to propagandize our children. Every dictator in recent history has understood the importance of state control of education. We should understand the critical importance of this issue as well.

“He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.” Thomas Jefferson

For conservatives I say this, the earth DOES move. The paradigm is about to change.

Be Prepared.

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From the official White House site.

For two hundred years, the White House has stood as a symbol of the Presidency, the United States government, and the American people.

Construction began when the first cornerstone was laid in October of 1792. Although President Washington oversaw the construction of the house, he never lived in it. It was not until 1800, when the White House was nearly completed, that its first residents, President John Adams and his wife, Abigail, moved in.

• There are 132 rooms, 35 bathrooms, and 6 levels in the Residence. There are also 412 doors, 147 windows, 28 fireplaces, 8 staircases, and 3 elevators.
• At various times in history, the White House has been known as the “President’s Palace,” the “President’s House,” and the “Executive Mansion.” President Theodore Roosevelt officially gave the White House its current name in 1901.

Since that time, each President has made his own changes and additions. The White House is, after all, the President’s private home.

All Presidents and First Ladies have added that personal touch and Obama is no exception.

The official photograph below captures the essence of Barry and Michelle’s changes while in office.

Image via Wikipedia

Oh trust me I have a couple of ideas. But whereever they are, they are not where they need to be.

This is a massive cave-in just like the one he pulled in the spring.

This time he has managed to drag along a few more of the freshmen in the house, thus destroying their credibility as well.

How did he get their support? By promising something he never intends to deliver.

The idea that the second raise in the debt ceiling requires a BBA to be passed out of House and Senate to the states is a cynical joke.

Seeing how far and fast he heads to the bottom this time is there any doubt he will capitulate again next year if the Democrats refuse to pass the BBA out then?

There will be a new deal then that doesn’t include a BBA. He will write it, we’ll scream about it, and Reid will threaten it, then Obama will sign it. We are being played for suckers.

Seeing his chicken-little act now, are we to believe he will be braver when the election is closer?

Don’t fool yourself.

If Boehner is serious about holding that line at that time, why not do it now? He is stalling. Stalling until Tea Partiers get so disgusted with the corrupt cesspool that is Washington, DC that they return to apathy and the establishment can go about their business.

This is called a rope-a-dope and we are the dopes. He’ll take some hits and let us wear ourselves out and then sell us out properly.

Don’t believe me?

I can prove it.

Let’s go back to Boehner’s lips. I want to see them on CNN, MSNBC and FOX making an unambiguous promise with all of the House leadership standing behind him.

It goes something like this.

“Due to exigent circumstances and the limited timeframe we feel this plan is the best we can get. However I want to make clear, my plan gives only a short term hike in the debt ceiling so we have time to study and revisit the ways in which we can cut spending. We understand we have a serious spending problem in Washington and it threatens the very survival of the Republic. Most of you know by now that my plan also requires BOTH houses of congress to pass out a Balanced Budget Amendment and send it on to the states. This amendment will require the federal government to spend only what it takes in in taxes. It will also require a super majority to raise net revenues. And finally, it will cap federal spending regardless of revenue at 18% of GDP per annum. There is an exception for military spending during a time of Declared War.

I am here today, with ALL of my Republican House colleagues behind me to deliver to the American People a promise.

We, the Republicans in the US House of Representatives do hereby guarantee that we will not now or EVER support any future increase in the Debt Ceiling of the United States until such time as the Balanced Budget Amendment has been delivered to the states for ratification and we further promise we will vigorously and forthrightly oppose ANY and ALL attempts to increase the debt ceiling in the future until such time as the described Balanced Budget Amendment has been delivered to the states for ratification.

This we do hereby solemnly promise.

READ OUR LIPS. No increase in the debt ceiling without a Balanced Budget Amendment.”

I do not personally like this deal and have been pretty upfront about that. The reason why is simple. We are being promised what they do not intend to deliver. This is wiggle room. The above promise would severely limit that wiggle room. The proof they don’t intend to deliver will be the silence of them not making this promise in a very public and non-retractable manner.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

Edmund Burke

This spring’s flop and this current debt ceiling debacle places John Boehner squarely in the position of needing to prove he is not that hypocrite.

When that promise doesn’t happen, my point is proven.

I am truly sorry to see so many of the freshmen sucked into Washington’s games so easily and so soon.

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You naughty little Ohioan!!!!

It is interesting how the MSM builds a perception.

I wonder how they would take a Boehner summoning Obama to the House floor. Offer him the podium for an hour if he will promise to bring his detailed vision how to balance the budget. Let the Saetoro fly.

For that matter let loud mouth Chris Van Hollen explain how his Balanced Budget Amendment would work since he says the Republican version is unfair. Come on Chrissie, if the Republican BBA is unfair show us what a balanced BBA should look like. And remember it HAS to balance the budget. Which means when your class warfare tax policies shrink revenues or force capital offshore you will get to CUT spending on your precious vote buying schemes as well. Of course he doesn’t have a plan to balance the budget. His only plan is to keep pushing until default is the only option.

But back to Barry. I don’t know what that feller is smoking but it is obvious the guy is cracking up. No pun intended. The real question here is whether Boehner will buckle before Bacha breaks.

As a business person who has negotiated a contract or two I recognize the importance of territory and home field advantage. Back in Newt’s heyday we would see him charge into the White House like a conservative tiger only to emerge liquid kneed and eyes glazed swooning like an intern in a stained blue dress.

Boehner should just pass the BBA out of the House stand-alone, pass CCB out of the House and pass a small debt ceiling increase with with a legal framework for prioritizing payments.

Boehner has an office and a podium. If he can’t bring himself to break negotiations off, he should insist negotiations take place at one or the other.

For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
For want of a horse the rider was lost.
For want of a rider the battle was lost.
For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.

For want of a spine a nation was lost? It wouldn’t be the first time.

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It seems to be occurring to some small degree, the US House is coalescing around the Cut, Cap and Balance idea.

If carried through with firmness this might one day be regarded as THE turning point in the United States.

If not, it will be one in a list of many missed opportunities that could have averted national bankruptcy.

I must admit I am skeptical Boehner will have the courage to actually force the issue.

But we must dispense with the idea that he CAN’T force this issue. The Republicans HAVE the ability to force the Amendment through the US Senate. Reid’s hand can be forced on this.

It is the Democrats and their bloated programs that will suffer most if the debt ceiling is not raised.

It is an easy sell come November 2012 if Obama plays with Social Security payments. Second grade math shows the money is there in sufficient quantity to cover debt service, Social Security and military pay with plenty left over.

Cut, Cap and Balance should be passed by the US House without further negotiation.

It should BE the negotiation.

Boehner should also pass a bill to codify spending priorities in the event the ceiling is not raised. This could be attached to a $500 Billion boost in the ceiling in order to give the left a bare minimum reason to pass it. Doing so would pull the last leg out from under Democrats trying to demagogue the issue. Republicans would have a bill PASSED in the US House and introduced by Rand or others in the Senate that guaranteed debt service, Social Security and military pay.

Establishment Republicans have no concept of getting up and walking away. This is because they have no true principles. EVERYTHING can be bartered away. The enemy knows this and will not leave the table until everything HAS BEEN bartered away. And why should they?

Every deal must have a take it or leave it point. The lack of this historically is why Republicans (conservatives at least) always get screwed.

The Donald, (bad for President good for business sense), recently noted what crappy WEAK negotiators the Republicans ARE and HAVE been. They lack courage. They are weak and the predator senses this weakness and prepares for the kill.

It is time for Boehner to shore up his shaky knees and do something IMPORTANT for the nation.

Get up from the table, pass the appropriate legislation and stand pat.

Do this and the House will be on a rock, ready to weather the storm of 2012.

Boehner Reid Pelosi Obama

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