GOP Set To Steamroll Conservative Voters … AGAIN!

GOP Set To Steamroll Conservative Voters … AGAIN!

A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet

I am fed up with being the “red-headed stepchild” of the Republican Party!

I am a conservative and have been my entire adult life.  When I registered to vote on my 21^st birthday, I registered as a republican.  I have remained with the party for over 50 years.

The past few election cycles, I have been forced to “settle” for non-conservative presidential candidates.  I expect this election to be no different.

All indications are that the GOP is going to nominate Romney as it’s presidential candidate for 2012. 

As a conservative, Romney scares the heck out of me.  I just do not see enough difference between Romney and Obama for me to even make the trip to the polling place in November of 2012.

I left the following comment on the Texas Fred Blog yesterday: “Romney was "The Chosen One" by the GOP/RNC from the beginning.  They are embarrassed and shamed by even having conservatives in the party.  I am sick to my stomach with it.  Hell, I already know what I'm getting with Obama!  With Romney, I expect to get the same thing ... but as a republican I'll be blamed for it! 

I have had it with the GOP. The northeast blue blood country club elitists have a choke hold on the GOP and as long as we conservatives remain in the party they will continue to use us and show their gratitude by treating us as floor mats.  I'm sick of it!”

I’d like to recommend you read Texas Fred’s post entitled:  “Romney to be GOP nominee – Elections no longer required” HERE. 

Look. I do not believe that Romney can win against Obama.  I have been saying that for a very long time now.  Nothing has changed that would lead me to believe otherwise. President Harry Truman told us the American electorate would choose the real thing over an imitation … every time.  He was correct.

Romney strikes me as another northeastern “milquetoast candidate” who can be steamed rolled by the democratic machine.

If you think the divide between the Congress and the Oval Office is wide now consider that should Romney win, the conservatives in the House and Senate are NOT GOING TO FOLLOW ROMNEY’S LEAD!  And they shouldn’t. The government will be locked down every bit as much under a Romney presidency as it is today under Obama.

I’ll say it again: Conservatives desperately need to pull out of the republican party and form their own party -- if they ever hope to have a real, lasting, impact on the US government.

Now, I know I’m going to be blasted by republicans for suggesting such a thing especially at such a critical time for America.  I would answer -- if not now – WHEN?

I come from a long line of South Carolina conservative hot heads. (You may recall the last time my ancestors had a beef with the US government.)  My home state is one of the most conservative states (if not THE most) in the country. We have a history of not caring for the “timing” of a scrap with those we perceive as antagonists. 

The US has reached the critical stage in its existence.  I am convinced that our survival as a free people hangs on the results of the 2012 election. I also know I am being about as delicate as a bull in a china shop suggesting that conservatives leave the GOP in these months before such an important event in our history. 

In my opinion, the RNC knows that a huge portion of the votes for Romney, especially in the south, will be votes not for Romney, but votes against Obama.  They KNOW that and they are counting on that very thing to push Romney across the finish line as the victor.

You say: real republican conservatives won’t run for President.   I ask – why should they?   See, they already know the deck, in the upper levels of the GOP, are already stacked against them.

So what about Cain and Bachmann?  Truthfully?  They haven’t a snowball’s chance in Hades of winning the nomination. 

So.  Here we conservatives are -- again.  About to lose an election even if the Republican Party wins.  Sound familiar?

What is it they say about doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results each time?  Oh, yeah.  Insanity!

J. D. Longstreet

Dangerous Email Prayers

Hint to Pastors: It’s about time for a sermon on this subject!

A least once a day I receive a chain email prayer from one of my friends or Internet acquaintances. Often the prayers come from “Good Christian” friends – church goers who ought to know better. The prayer is usually very lovely, or sweetly poetic, and sometimes a heart-wrenching story is attached. The prayer is something that initially makes me feel good about wanting to forward it. After all, it’s a way of blessing all of my friends at once. But by the time I get to the end of the prayer or story something not quite so nice is almost always lurking there.

Is it just me or have you noticed it too? The simple little prayer of blessing suddenly has a magical condition attached.

“REMEMBER to make a wish before you read the prayer. That's all you have to do. There is nothing attached. Just share this with people and see what happens on the fourth day . . . .

Now, send this to 11 people within the next 5 minutes . . . You must send it to 11 people including me . In 8 minutes you will receive something you have long awaited. Have faith . . ”

These kinds of prayers really aren’t about asking God to bless your friends. These prayers are NOT about having faith in God. No, they are just a numbers game and the god of this prayer is nothing more than a false belief in a magical dispensing Genie who is more like a one-armed bandit. When you forward this prayer, your faith is actually placed in numerical odds, not in the Living God.

“If I put enough coins in (forward it to enough email addresses) I’m bound to win something.”

See, it’s really all about me but it’s so wrapped up in nice godly-sounding words I didn’t even realize it.

Isn’t it cunning how the Devil works?

Are you just about to pull the hair out of your head over receiving these kind of prayers day after day? Are you simply forwarding them just to keep the peace – afraid of hurting your friend’s feelings?

Instead of forwarding or lecturing or ignoring or deleting just send your friend a real prayer:

A Blessing to Friendship

Father,

I ask you to bless my friends reading this right now!

Lord,

show them a new revelation of Your love and power.

Holy Spirit,

I ask You to minister to their spirit at this very moment.

Where there is pain,

give them Your peace and mercy.

Where there is self-doubting,

release a renewed confidence in Your ability

to work through them.

Where there is tiredness, or exhaustion,

I ask You to give them understanding, patience,

and strength as they learn submission to Your leading.

Where there is spiritual stagnation,

I ask You to renew them by revealing Your nearness,

and by drawing them into greater intimacy with You.

Where there is fear,

reveal Your love, and release to them Your courage.

Where there is a sin blocking them,

reveal it, and break its holdover my friends' life.

Bless their finances, give them greater vision,

Raise up leaders, and friends to support, and encourage them.

Give each of them discernment

to recognize the demonic forces around them,

and reveal to them the power they have in You to defeat it.

Father, I ask You to do these things in Jesus' name!

Amen.

You don't have to send this prayer to 11 people within 5 minutes. And in 8 minutes you may or may not receive a thing. If you do send it to someone, don't do it via chain mail. Send it individually and pray for them first.

God knows you and He knows your friends and He knows those who have prayed for you and yours. Have faith that God will bless each of us and our friends in His own time and in His own way.

Here is an excerpt from “Is God a Cosmic Santa Claus?”

Christians often approach God in prayer as a kind of “cosmic Santa Claus. . . . We pray for better parking spots, for better jobs, for a million dollar check to show up in our mailbox. It seems like prayer, for many Christians, has become more about what God can do to serve us, rather than what we can do to serve God. . . How often do we take time just to thank God for who He is and for all He’s done in our lives? How much time do we spend asking God to bless others versus how often we ask Him to bless us?

Excerpt from “Prayer (Lesson 1)”

. . .Prayer is not some magic process where you say a few chosen words and then everything you desire will come true. Sometimes we say our prayer and we end it with the words "In Jesus' name," and we think we can just kick back and wait for the blessings to come. It's almost as though we think saying "In Jesus' name" is like saying "abra-cadabra." But that's not what prayer is all about. We can't "name it and claim it," like some churches teach, or speak things into existence. If you have that idea, you will soon be disillusioned. Prayer is not getting God to do what we want. Prayer is a time of coming before God with our concerns and asking Him to show us what He wants for us, and then trusting in the way He responds even if it is different than what we asked for.

Some additional articles on Prayer:

Bad Prayers?

God as Santa

Does Praying Really Help?

Ephesians 6:10-20 (NIV 1984)

The Armor of God

¹⁰ Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. ¹¹ Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. ¹² For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. ¹³ Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. ¹⁴ Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, ¹⁵ and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. ¹⁶ In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. ¹⁷ Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. ¹⁸ And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints.

¹⁹ Pray also for me, that whenever I open my mouth, words may be given me so that I will fearlessly make known the mystery of the gospel, ²⁰ for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may declare it fearlessly, as I should.

 

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Useful Idiots

A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet

The term Useful Idiots is said to have originated in Russia and was used to describe those who blindly supported Lenin and Stalin and their cronies while they (Lenin and Stalin) went about committing atrocity after atrocity.  It has also been used to describe Americans who supported the socialist/communist cause in the USA and other democratic country.

The Urban Dictionary says the following about useful idiots:  “Today, it refers to brainwashed liberals and leftists the world over (usually college students that aren't necessarily idiots, but just misinformed, naive, and ignorant of facts due to being indoctrinated with liberal/socialist propaganda through their public education) who believe that George W. Bush has committed more crimes against humanity than leftist darlings like Saddam Hussain, Yasser Arafat, and Osama Bin Laden, and still defend Communism, the cause of over 100 million deaths to this day.”

A little farther down the page it says: “Unthinking proponents of socialism and/or communism.

You can usually find them swarming the internet, participating in riots to promote tolerance, attempting to think up questions for themselves to answer, or sitting ……….  with their friends discussing the failings of capitalism over a light frappuccino. (You may read the entire definition for yourself at the Urban Dictionary site HERE.)

When I first heard of the Occupy Wall Street crowd, I chuckled to myself.  Here we go again, I thought.

When I saw the crowd on TV, I belly laughed.  It was the same crowd of useful idiots I experienced in the 1960’s.  Faces and fashions have changed a bit, but their totally vacuous message is unchanged and as clear as a bell:  “We haven’t a clue what we are doing, but we are waiting on a leader to tell us what to say, what to do and where to go.”

Their utter clueless-ness, their total naïveté are the very qualities (?) sought out by powerful people with anti-American causes, lots of money, and an overwhelming hatred of freedom, liberty, and the constitutional republic of America.

The pitiful socialist dregs of America’s academia use them -- and their idiocy -- to press their cause for a socialist America, their Utopian dream.  The “sixties socialists” have yet to accept that their socialist dream has slain millions of human beings and caused the demise of numerous countries and is currently about to topple the European Union. And yet -- their puppets, the idiots in the street mobs, are actually calling for a totalitarian government in America … and … insisting that American voters reelect Obama as President. 

A number of the world’s ultra-rich understand all this, and yet they don’t care.  In fact, they seem to rather enjoy the anarchy and even encourage it from the safety of their ivory towers far above the fray.  They move earth’s government’s around as if they are pieces on a game board… for what?  For FUN! … and PROFIT!

As you watch the antics of those pitiful  “near-people,” in the street mobs, and listen to their anti-capitalist rants, remember this:  THESE are the people who support Obama for President.  Take a good look at those street mobs. THEY are the people who will race to the polls in November of 2012 and cast as many ballots as possible to ensure their heartthrob regains the Presidency. THEY are the people who will do everything they can to insure America becomes the socialist paradise the mob leaders are determined to create by any means necessary. 

Yes, their antics ARE funny. But they are far more dangerous to the freedom of over 300 million Americans than al Qaida is or ever was. 

People make fools of themselves for various reasons.  The political left, however, has cornered the market on making fools of themselves in the cause of socialism.

They are desperate.  And their desperation is born of their blood curdling fear of conservative Americans who represent liberty, freedom, and deep support of the US Constitution. 

 That mob of socialist brats is pathetic, pitiful, and DANGEROUS.  THEY are the leftist leaders of tomorrow.     

May God save America from the likes of these useful “socialist” idiots.

J. D. Longstreet

  

Moonbat Demands!

By Findalis of Monkey in the Middle

The Moonbats who sleep on the streets of Wall Street, who haven't showered, who use the streets as a bathroom (Why is it that a citizen has to pick up the dog's poop, but these sickos can poop anywhere without picking it up?), and who have no cares or worries have come out with their demands.

Like all Moonbats they have the usual demands and no way to pay for them.  Here they are:

Demand one: Restoration of the living wage. This demand can only be met by ending "Freetrade" by re-imposing trade tariffs on all imported goods entering the American market to level the playing field for domestic family farming and domestic manufacturing as most nations that are dumping cheap products onto the American market have radical wage and environmental regulation advantages. Another policy that must be instituted is raise the minimum wage to twenty dollars an hr.

Demand two: Institute a universal single payer healthcare system. To do this all private insurers must be banned from the healthcare market as their only effect on the health of patients is to take money away from doctors, nurses and hospitals preventing them from doing their jobs and hand that money to wall st. investors.

Demand three: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment.

Demand four: Free college education.

Demand five: Begin a fast track process to bring the fossil fuel economy to an end while at the same bringing the alternative energy economy up to energy demand.

Demand six: One trillion dollars in infrastructure (Water, Sewer, Rail, Roads and Bridges and Electrical Grid) spending now.

Demand seven: One trillion dollars in ecological restoration planting forests, reestablishing wetlands and the natural flow of river systems and decommissioning of all of America's nuclear power plants.

Demand eight: Racial and gender equal rights amendment.

Demand nine: Open borders migration. anyone can travel anywhere to work and live.

Demand ten: Bring American elections up to international standards of a paper ballot precinct counted and recounted in front of an independent and party observers system.

Demand eleven: Immediate across the board debt forgiveness for all. Debt forgiveness of sovereign debt, commercial loans, home mortgages, home equity loans, credit card debt, student loans and personal loans now! All debt must be stricken from the "Books." World Bank Loans to all Nations, Bank to Bank Debt and all Bonds and Margin Call Debt in the stock market including all Derivatives or Credit Default Swaps, all 65 trillion dollars of them must also be stricken from the "Books." And I don't mean debt that is in default, I mean all debt on the entire planet period.

Demand twelve: Outlaw all credit reporting agencies.

Demand thirteen: Allow all workers to sign a ballot at any time during a union organizing campaign or at any time that represents their yeah or nay to having a union represent them in collective bargaining or to form a union.

These demands will create so many jobs it will be completely impossible to fill them without an open borders policy.

Lloyd J Hart 508-687-9153

Unwashed Masses!

Why don't you give this asshole a call and demand how they are going to pay for this? I can assure you that nobody (Not even the Chinese) has enough money to pay for it.  While a few ideas have some merit, especially the one which calls for more observation in the elections (Sorry ACORN we will have honest elections.), most of this is the same Communist bull shit.

Now someone told these idiots Moonbats that they represent the people and the people will follow them.  But according to polls they only represent 15% of the population, while the reset of the 85% will not support them.  Heck 45% want to wash the streets clean of them.

I suspect that this group will finally go home when:

1.  They run out of money and/or credit.

2.  It gets cold and/or snows.

I hope that happens soon!

Dumb lawsuits are abundant, and serious ones are often kept out

Commentary by James H. Shott

It seems as though anyone can sue anyone else for virtually any reason, anytime they please. The list of idiotic lawsuits that actually got into the system is long and defies common sense. In 2002, for example, a man sued the hospital where he worked for negligence because it did not prevent him from raping one of its patients.

A woman sued Universal Studios for $15,000, claiming to have suffered mental anguish and emotional distress after voluntarily visiting the park’s haunted house.

Judge Roy Pearson, Jr. – a judge! – tried to bully a family-owned dry cleaning shop by suing the owners for $54 million after they lost his pants.

All of these are real cases, and though most such cases are dismissed, what does it say about our system that such foolish cases are ever filed?

This kind of abuse of the legal system creates doubts that our court system truly dispenses justice. The courts should be a place where legitimate wrongs are adjudicated, not a lottery where people think they can file dumb lawsuits and have a chance of winning.

On the other side, cases raising significant questions sometimes can’t get a hearing, despite the important issues that are at stake.

One such example concerns the effort of a State Department employee to challenge the qualifications of Hillary Clinton to serve as Secretary of State, due to that position receiving a pay increase while Ms. Clinton served in the U.S. Senate. The U.S. Constitution, Article I, section 6, clause 2, provides: "No senator or representative shall, during the time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil office under the authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the emoluments whereof shall have been [increased] during such time."

Given that, it appears the employee had a legitimate claim. However, the suit was dismissed by a special three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia not because the claim was without merit, but because the judges said he lacked legal standing to assert the claim.

Legal Standing involves being qualified to assert legal rights in a judicial forum because one has a sufficient and protectable interest in the outcome of a legal issue. In the first three examples involving absurd claims, legal standing was apparently not a factor, while in the case of the citizen challenging Ms. Clinton’s qualifications, it thwarts getting a ruling on what appears to be a legitimate legal question.

Who, after all, has a better reason to be certain that a government official with authority over them is qualified for the office than the employees who work for that public official?

There are other examples involving legal standing that have far more serious implications, such as the matter of the healthcare reform law. Who has a more legitimate interest in challenging the federal government over a legislative act or an administrative edict than the 50 states that will be forced to live with it?

A challenge by the Commonwealth of Virginia to the health care overhaul affectionately known as “Obamacare” was dismissed by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, not because the Court determined that Virginia’s assertion that the healthcare law conflicts with Virginia law is without merit, but because the Commonwealth and its citizens lack legal standing to challenge the federal government on this question.

If the individual states, who under the system of federalism established by the U.S. Constitution have a substantial amount of sovereignty, don’t have standing to challenge in the federal courts a breathtakingly overt effort by the federal government to tread on and nullify that sovereignty, who does?

“The Founding Fathers fully intended that the states would serve as a check on federal power,” Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli said in a news release. “When the 4th Circuit ruled that Virginia lacked standing to defend a duly enacted state law from federal preemption, it took away much of the states’ ability to serve that function.”

In such cases as the challenge to the qualifications of the Secretary of State and the government’s health care take-over, legal standing serves as a tool for protecting the federal government and government officials from being accountable to the people they serve.

The healthcare reform law is the most unpopular legislative misadventure in decades, or perhaps in history, so unpopular and so over-reaching that 30 states have challenged the take-over through court cases or referendums.

The fact that such action would be proposed by the president, and that it would be created in secret and passed without having been read or debated by the Congress says quite a lot about the shocking lack of understanding, or the outright abandoning of the founding principles our forebears fought and died for.

The question of constitutionality of healthcare reform will go to the U.S. Supreme Court this session. If the highest court in the land ignores the Constitution’s protections against unbridled, runaway government power – as the president, the Congress and some of the lower courts have done – the hard work and sacrifices of our forebears two hundred fifty years ago will have been for naught.

Cross-posted from Observations

Perry’s Position On Illegal Immigration Is Worrisome

Perry’s Position On Illegal Immigration Is Worrisome

A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet

I am far more concerned over Rick Perry’s position on instate tuition for Illegal immigrants than I am over the all too obvious fact that he is no debater. 

That he cannot debate does not concern me in the least. That he is not as polished a public speaker as a certain orator in the Oval Office doesn’t trouble me – at all.  In fact, I am more than a little tired of the oily-tongued politicians from the halls of elitist academia.  A heck of a lot of Americans are ready for a straight-shooter who will “tell it like it is” and is capable of doing so using less that “sixteen cylinder words.”

I am tired of Washington’s snake oil salesman telling me why all that is wrong with America is my fault – and -- that I am too soft.  That is a crock!

As I was saying – Perry has some problems with many conservatives over his in-state college tuition for illegal aliens. I’m one of them.

I have no doubt that Mr. Perry has done many good things along the US/Mexico border to try to secure it.  But the American electorate, especially that portion from the southern states, and more especially the southwestern border states, want a President who will stop feeding us the line of bull about the border being more secure today than in the past.  I, for one, want the border secured by the US military -- even if that means changing federal law to place US Armed Forces on the border.

Rick Perry is on record as opposing the building of a fence along the Texas/Mexico border.  WHY? I cannot fathom his thinking on a fence.  Everyone knows the old saw:  “Good fences make good neighbors.”  Its old… but it is TRUE. A fence/wall would not only reduce illegal immigration but it would be a huge boon to national security, as well.

Illegal immigration is one of the most important problems facing America today.  It is right up there in importance with the financial chaos of our economy and unemployment of Americans who actually want to work.

  

The following is a clip from an article in the Brownsville (Texas) Herald dated August 28^th, 2007.  It is datelined Mexico City and is titled “U.S. Congress lacks 'maturity' to solve immigration, Perry says.” The article states the following:

“Texas Gov. Rick Perry criticized the U.S. Congress on Tuesday for failing to make progress on immigration reform, suggesting its members lack "maturity" and calling the proposed construction of a fence along the U.S.-Mexico border "idiocy."


Perry was in Mexico City on a trade mission intended to strengthen Texas and Mexico's economic ties through trade, investment and energy initiatives, especially renewable energy.


"I don't think this is that difficult of an issue if Congress would have the maturity to sit down and really discuss it and cut out all of the mean rhetoric and really talk about what is a solution to this issue," Perry told a news conference.


Regarding immigration reform, Perry highlighted the importance of developing a foolproof biometric identification system to track individuals and to ensure that they pay taxes and "live within our laws."


He suggested offering renewable, 24-month visas for those who follow such requirements and "incarceration and/or deportation" for those who do not.


He added that, under such a system, he would support a "free flow of individuals between these two countries who want to work and want to be an asset to our country and to Mexico."  (You may read the entire article HERE.)


Does that sound like a conservative candidate for President of the United States?  More importantly, does that sound like a man who would actually DO something to secure the US/Mexico border, stop the flow of illegal aliens into the US across that border, and enhance the security of the United States?  No, it doesn’t to me, either.


As a conservative voter I am still looking for a candidate I can vote for and expect that that candidate will have a fair chance of besting Obama in 2012. I am as frustrated today as I was at this same time in 2007.


I am not a fan of Romney but I am beginning to believe that he will, in fact, be the republican nominee for President.  However, I still do not believe he can win against Obama.
 
There are two camps among the candidates, in my opinion, who want Romney to be the GOP candidate.  They are: the Romney camp and the Obama camp.


I am convinced that the Romney camp believes conservatives will, in the end, vote for Romney as a vote against an Obama second term.  At the same time, I believe the Obama camp believes it can overcome Romney in the election because history teaches that voters will vote for the real thing every time over an imitation.



Perry is in trouble with conservative voters.  His decline in the polls will become even more pronounced in the coming days.  Romney AND Obama are counting in it.
 
J. D. Longstreet

Super Committee Not So Super After All

A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet

It took no superior mind to see, right from the conception of the so-called Super Committee, that it would be dysfunctional.  There was even some speculation that the committee was intended to fail. Now it certainly seems that those intuitions are about to bear fruit.

There are reports that the committee is already deadlocked trying to decide… wait for it … where to begin!

Late last week, there were reports that unnamed sources from the collective staffs of the committee were reporting anonymously, of course, that the six democrats wanted to begin with tax increases and the six republicans wanted to begin by discussing spending cuts. 

Now, here’s the thing:  Congress has to vote by November 23^rd on the super committee’s recommendation.  If they don’t, huge automatic spending cuts will kick in beginning in 2013. 

Look.  The super committee is a joke … a very bad joke.

It is no surprise that democrats on the committee want to raise taxes.  That’s what liberal democrats do.  Their philosophy is to raise taxes and then create more government agencies so as to grow government and increase government’s intrusion into the everyday lives of Americans.  They believe that government knows better how to run your life than you do.

On the other hand, conservative republicans believe that the smaller the government the better.  The less government intrusion in your life the more freedom you have.  Conservatives believe that starving the government into reducing its size is one avenue of approach to the problem of big government.  To do that, republicans will vote no on any tax hikes.

Republicans are insisting on spending cuts and the democrats are resisting.  Not only do the democrats not want to cut spending, they, in fact, want to increase spending.  They have adopted the warped idea that the US can be spent out of bankruptcy.  Why, even a town idiot knows better than that!

No, the Super Committee is not so super.  It is a pure reflection of the Congress from which it comes.

For instance:  Did you know that four of the committee’s members served on the Bowles-Simpson deficit reduction panel?  (Two Democrats and two republicans)  Did you know that all those members actually voted against the Bowles-Simpson plan?  Do you suppose they have changed their minds?  Neither do I.

Anyone expecting this committee to actually succeed should seek medical assistance.

The congressional landscape is littered with the carcasses of failed attempts by Congress to force itself to actually DO something about the deficit.  Here is a list of some of those attempts that I found at the International Business Times website: 

Graham-Rudman-Hollings Act - 1985

Emergency Deficit Control Reaffirmation Act - 1987

Budget Enforcement Act - 1990

Balanced Budget Act - 1997

Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP Balanced Budget Refinement Act - 1999

Deficit Reduction Act - 2005

National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (aka Simpson-Bowles) - 2010

Duds, all seven of them. By the end of this year the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction will join this list of lawmakers' attempts to virtually force themselves into doing the right thing. (You may read the entire article HERE.)


Much like a computer that bogs down and simply cannot do the tasks required of it, our Congress has bogged down. Some say that’s a good thing and, frankly, I lean toward agreeing with them.



In 2010 we conservatives sent a new breed of politician to Congress with instructions to stop the democrats and the Obama Regime from completely destroying our country. The idea was to bottle up Obama and his cohort until November of 2012 when we can do to the US Congress what we do to our bogged down computers … reboot!

It is clear that if our Congress is not re-booted -- in the elections of 2012 -- it will most certainly crash.

J. D. Longstreet