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Structure Demands Behavior

So we know the Republicans have mostly sold us out after we delivered the House and almost the Senate in 2010. We should know that whatever we deliver to the Republican leadership; be it a bigger House, a Senate majority, the White House in 2012, they will do nothing of consequence. Taxes won’t be cut or simplified; spending will hardly slow and given our last experience under total Republican government it may well accelerate.

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. [...]

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Will Boehner listen to the people?

Steve King gets it. Michelle Bachman gets it. What is wrong with Boehner? With Cantor?

h/t to texasgalt for the King link.

According to sources familiar with discussions among House Republican leadership, Boehner and Cantor were informed by GOP leadership staff that it would have been “relatively easy” to gain the necessary votes to change House rules to allow the Bachmann-King amendment to be included in the continuing resolution. “It has been done in the past without a lot of sound and fury,” says a current House member. “You change the rules and then you include the amendment that you want now that the rules have been changed. I don’t know why this situation is any different.”

Boehner, along [...]

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Tea Party Losers

With the DE primary over and the Tea Party candidate declared the victor, Redstater’s and other conservatives would do well to consider one important fact, if O’Donnell does not win the general election, it will not matter how many seats we win in the US House or the US Senate, the mainstream media will declare the Tea Party effort to be a bunch of LOSERS. The “R”stablishment Republicans have already so declared.

While the truth is her primary victory is proof that Tea Partiers are a force to be reckoned with and moderate to left leaning Republicans should take heed. Truth in the MSM has been at best an accident for at least 50 years.

Fear of this force and loss of party control is [...]

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This Ol’House

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In my late 20’s I started construction on my first REAL house. Rough cut lumber to save money because I had more time than money. I did about 75 percent of the labor myself. I ran every single stud through a planer at least 3 or 4 times. My brother and a neighborhood kid were my primary help. (Don’t tell OSHA about the kid)
Took about 4 years to get it ready to move in; it never did get quite finished. A few more trim boards needed here and there. Never move in thinking you’ll finish it later.
Landscape never got touched. Two of my kids were born in that house. But life changes. Sometimes rapidly. After only a [...]

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I know no way of judging the future but by the past. Patrick Henry I know no way of judging the future but by the past. Patrick Henry

Engineers are continually adding to the body of knowledge and principles that comprise their particular art. Bridges get longer, buildings get higher, cars go faster and yet arrive with a higher degree of safety at their destinations. The medical profession uses techniques and knowledge acquired thousands of years ago. And yesterday. We live longer and healthier lives because of it. Mathematicians need not discover Pythagorean’s Theorem today any more than a carpenter need invent a hammer to build with. They are tools that have been given to us by our forefathers which when used properly allow us to do things the original inventors could never do. Pythagoras could never have built the moon lander. Without Pythagoras, neither could we.

It is on their shoulders we [...]

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Structure Demands Behavior

Will Boehner listen to the people?

Tea Party Losers

This Ol’House

I know no way of judging the future but by the past. Patrick Henry I know no way of judging the future but by the past. Patrick Henry