Pettiness in Davenport

October 13, 2008 10 Comments

Just when many people were just starting to warm up to John McCain, he says or does something to shoot himself in the foot. McCain has been rising in the polls with some polls indicating just four points between himself and Obama. But I know expect that gulf to widen after some recent actions and comments that he has made to work themselves around the internet.

The first action that I found to be questionable was at his Cedar Rapids rally. At this rally many candidates from Iowa were allowed to speak, mostly statehouse candidates. However, 2nd Congressional District candidate Marianette Miller-Meeks was allowed to speak at this rally. Republican US Senate candidate Christopher Reed was in attendance at this event but did not speak. At first I thought that it was simply an oversight on the part of the McCain campaign.

Then Senator McCain supported the bailout, which is quickly becoming known as The Great American Sellout. His support of this bill greatly places the spotlight on McCain’s alleged conservatism. After all, this bill had nothing to do with fiscal conservatism and everything to do with corporate welfare.

Then there were the numerous little things that he stated in the second presidential debate. Little things like purchasing the bad mortgages and bailing out homeowners that overstepped there financial resources.

Add to this the recent snubbing of 1st Congressional District candidate David Hartsuch. Apparently two years ago Hartsuch questioned McCain’s position on traditional marriage. Apparently McCain doesn’t like someone pointing out that he differs from the base of the party on one of their most important issues. So in retaliation McCain refused to let him speak at a rally in Davenport.

All these little things add up to one big question mark. Where is Senator McCain’s conservatism? Sure he picked Sarah Palin as a running mate, but that doesn’t make McCain himself any more of a conservative than he was before. I must say then that my support for Senator McCain is wavering as a result of his childish and petty antics. I don’t want Barack Obama to be President, but by the same token I don’t want someone that will act in such a petty and destructive manner.

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Judas Named: Caleb Hunter

October 10, 2008 7 Comments

What is up with the Republican Party of Iowa? This is a serious question to be asked. Tom Harkin is perhaps the most hated politician in the State of Iowa. The GOP has a quality candidate running against him. This is a candidate that is working his heart out to reach the voters of Iowa. And yet the Iowa GOP has been strangely silent in this race. For some time I have suspected that the party is working against him. First it was one of the Republican County Chairs, Gwen Eilers, publically proposing to write in one of the primary losers instead of the party’s nominee. But now we have confirmation that the second in command is actively encouraging party members to not support Christopher Reed. That is right the Iowa GOP’s second in command Caleb Hunter. He has actively told Republicans to not support Reed’s campaign. These are the same people that claimed that Kim Lehman couldn’t be a national chairwoman because she wouldn’t support all Republicans. Now the shoe is on the other foot. These same people are now doing what they claimed that Lehman would do. This type of action is shameful. In fact the only groups that I have seen attempting to support Reed at all are the Iowa Right to Life and Iowa Christian Alliance.

These actions are now reopening wounds that many people have attempted to heal. And most importantly it points to a lack of leadership in the upper echelon of the state party. I am putting out a call to all Iowa Republicans, get behind OUR Senatorial candidate. Get behind Christopher Reed. It is time to send a message to party leadership. It is time to the leadership that if you do not support all Republican candidates we will declare war and replace you with people that will do the job. We will not be denied. We will have our voices heard. And we will replace Tom Harkin with a true conservative Iowan.

You can hear Reed in an interview with Steve Deace.

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Express Your Anger

October 2, 2008 4 Comments

I am sure that you have heard the news by now, the US Senate passed its own pork laden version of the bailout bill last night. Of course they aren’t calling it a bailout bill; no they are terming it a rescue plan. What the Senate did last night was vote to add even more debt to future generations of Americans. And in the process they have shown a spectacular disregard for the wishes of the general population.

When the leaders of both parties figured out that there was not enough support for this bill on it’s own they decided to sweeten the deal with expenditures for various Senators pet projects. This pork barrel spending includes such necessities as tax breaks for the makers of children’s wooden arrows. Another must have is tax break for litigants of the Exxon Valdez spill. I mean come on, we are in a financial crisis here, the country is deeply in debt, and the leaders of our country want to billions more to bailout Wall Street firms that handed out bad loans to people across the country. They want to bailout corporations whose board of executives designed executive pay packages to include a “golden parachute” for executives, even if they fail miserably. They want to bailout corporations that may have fraudulently cooked their books so their execs could siphon away more of the profit for personal use. These are the guys that you want us, the every day American, to save. I am sorry, that is the wrong answer. These legislative leaders are as out of touch as the corrupt executives are.

When our forefathers set up this country I am sure that they foresaw a time when the government would become blind to the needs of the people. So it is now up to the people of the United States. Are we going to continue to elect these politicians that regularly and completely disregard the will of the people, or will we vote for a real honest to goodness change. A change that will bring back the days when the will of the people are followed.

This year there is not much that we can do with Senator Grassley other than voice our displeasure with him and his vote. Senator Harkin on the other hand is in a reelection bid against Republican challenger Christopher Reed. To deliver a message to Congress and the White House we need to defeat all incumbents that voted for this corporate welfare bill. That means that we need to vote for Christopher Reed. Reed is a very plain spoken man that truly wants to go to Washington to do the will of the people. He wants to be the extension of the people of Iowa, the place where they can go when their voice isn’t being heard in the halls of Congress. And this is one of the many reasons that I will cast my vote for Christopher Reed on November 4th. It is time to express our anger and disappointment with Congress at the ballot box.

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Obama’s Storm Troopers

September 30, 2008 1 Comment

There has been some startling developments in the race for the White House in the State of Missouri in the last few days. Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has announced that it is launching what it is called a “truth squad” to counter what it perceives as lies and misleading ads from Republican nominee John McCain. Now normally I would not have a problem with citizens taking up the cause for their choice for president. What so disturbs me about this development is that he is enlisting public officials for this venture. This includes lawmakers, prosecutors, and even law enforcement. This strikes me as very unethical as it can be construed as the government itself endorsing one candidate over another.

In my opinion this is just another attempt at silencing legitimate criticisms and questions targeted at the Democratic nominee. This isn’t a bipartisan effort to ensure that neither side engages in questionable tactics. In a press release from Obama’s campaign provided to the News-Leader (a Springfield, Missouri newspaper) Senator Claire McCaskill will chair the group “who will be proactive in letting voters in the Show-Me State know the truth in the face of the distortions by the McCain campaign.” This begs the question, will they turn a blind eye to any and all distortions brought forth by the Obama campaign. It would appear to me that this so-called truth squad is nothing more than Obama’s shock troops whose sole intent is to intimidate his critics into silence.

Already the Obama campaign has attempted to silence critics in his hometown of Chicago where WGN radio has aired shows that had as a guest an extremely outspoken critic of Senator Obama. The campaign has attempted to use strong arm tactics such as lawsuits to prevent the shows from airing. Failing in that respect, the campaign then urged Obama’s blind supporters to call the network to voice the campaigns displeasure at being questioned and criticized.

Then in Pennsylvania, the state that he claimed was clinging to God and guns because they were bitter, Obama has launched an assault on the National Rifle Association. The campaign is targeting this group over an ad the NRA had made outlining Obama’s voting record on gun rights. This wasn’t something pulled out of thin air folks. The NRA did some in depth research on Obama’s voting record in regards to gun rights. And yet when that voting record is made public, the campaign cries foul. They claim that the ads distort Obama’s record. To this I ask a simple question. How can they distort Senator Obama’s record when the it is all a matter of public record? Any Joe Schmoe can research it on their own. If I had to hazard a guess it is simply that Senator Obama did not want that record widely known. I believe that he wanted to keep the people of Pennsylvania in the dark about his past votes and his opposition to the 2nd amendment.

It is events such as these that should raise the warning flag of any red blooded American. Why is it that Senator Obama and his campaign want to silence legitimate criticism and questioning? It seems to me that Senator Obama wants keep the voters ignorant of his past. And what I find even more disturbing is that many Americans are willing to play the sheeple by giving him a pass on his efforts to censor and silence his opposition. These events leave me to ponder the question, what would a Barack Obama administration look like? Perhaps it would be one nation under Obama, with liberty and justice for none.

Update: The gang over at In Flyover Country has a video that could have been taken from WWII Germany. Could this be the Obama youth.

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The American People Have Spoken

September 30, 2008 8 Comments

Once again the American people have been heard. Remember last year when Congress tried to pass an immigration reform bill that the citizens of this great country opposed. At the end of the day the collective voices of millions of Americans resulted in a resounding defeat of a bad bill. That feat has been repeated once again. Today the $700 billion dollar bailout failed 228 to 205.

In the aftermath the partisan bickering picked up once again as Democrats blamed Republicans for the defeat and Republicans blamed Democrats for the defeat. In all actuality, neither was at fault for the defeat. Sure Nancy Pelosi showed why she was a Donkey, I mean Democrat. Sure Republicans were offended by her. In the end there is one reason and one reason alone that this monstrosity went down in defeat. The American people. The American people voiced their displeasure of the bill and their representatives listened to them.

Nancy Pelosi did what she does best, blame the Republicans. Sorry Nancy, 93 of your Democrats voted with the 133 Republicans in voting against this despicable bill. And 64 Republicans voted with 140 Democrats in voting for it. That is not partisan politics. If the vote had been split down party lines I could buy your partisanship excuse. This vote was very bipartisan in both the for and against column. I guess it has never occurred to her that some congressmen actually listen to their constituents. That just goes to show you that she doesn’t listen to her own people. Maybe it is time for the people of California to replace the wicked witch of the west with someone more responsive to their needs.

Now we wonder how we can deal with the congressmen that voted for the bail out. The best way to deal with them is to vote against them in the general election in November. Remember the members of the Iowa delegation that voted for the bill. Leonard Boswell and Dave Loebsack. Remind them that the American people have spoken.

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Can Harkin Tell the Truth?

September 23, 2008 3 Comments

For most of Iowa it is not a new revelation that Tom Harkin has a problem with telling the truth. The problem that he has is that it is hard for him to do. It is hard for Tom Harkin to tell people the truth. Here are a couple of instances where Tom Harkin strettttcccchhheeeed the truth.

We all know that he served in the Navy for several years as a pilot. The problem that Tom has here is that he has grossly overinflated his contribution to the US Navy. At one point, 1979 to be exact, Harkin made the claim that he spent a year piloting F-4s and F-8s on combat air patrols over Vietnam. Several years later we have come to find out that this is not the case. No what Senator Harkin did do during Nam is to ferry planes between Atsugi, Japan and the Philippines. Senator Harkin did not fly combat air patrols in Vietnam, he was a ferry pilot. I don’t mean to tarnish his service to his country, what I will do is call him out when he overinflates his history.

And then there was the case of his brother Frank who is deaf. At a breakfast meeting with reporters during one of his presidential campaigns he made the claim that his brother had held a good union job for several years. He then claims that the new owners of the plant broke the union in the plant and that it cost his brother his job. He then claimed that it was happening all over America. This wasn’t the whole truth. But we have come to expect no better out of Senator Harkin. Harkin had helped his brother find a job with the postal service in the 70s under the Carter administration where he labored until his retirement.

Or of course there is the lie at last year’s Democratic slumber party. In this case Harkin stated with a straight face that when the US withdrew from Vietnam nothing happened. We all know that this one is false, it is common knowledge that the North Vietnamese slaughtered innocent men, women, and children without provocation. It was genocide. And Harkin missed that evidently.

Why does Senator Harkin lie about things that it is so easy to disprove. Perhaps he has been studying the Vietnamese textbooks. You know the ones that praise the oppressive communist regime. Or perhaps he just isn’t very perceptive. I doubt that this is the case because if he wasn’t very perceptive he wouldn’t be a Senator. Then again, maybe he knows that what he is saying is a lie and he just doesn’t care. This last possibility is the most disturbing because it leads one to believe that he is just interested in grabbing all the power and influence for himself, not his constituents. Tom Harkin is the type of politician that we don’t need in Congress. He is a Washington insider that is power hungry. He is an insider.

And this is just another reason that I am voting for Christopher Reed in November. It is time that we bring a semblance of decency to the office that Harkin expelled long ago.

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Obama’s Soviet Style Economics

September 20, 2008 Leave a comment

Barack Obama has been talking about the economy and taxes a lot lately. What Barack Obama has been doing, and doing very effectively I might add, is create a class warfare type situation in regards to the US tax system. He has been making the claim that he will charge wealthier Americans more in taxes than those earning less. Basically the tax plan he has been touting is what is called redistribution of wealth. He will take more money from the wealthy and use for more entitlement programs for those that makes less.

Obama and Biden have even made the ridiculous assertion that this is a patriotic thing to do. I am sorry, but taking money from one group of people to give to another is not patriotic. It is however extremely foolish. When Obama and Biden started spewing this garbage it made me question their judgment and worthiness to occupy the White House even more. Their ideas on the US economy sound more like they come out of some young communists meeting on a college campus than a serious contender for President of the United States.

One of foolish assumptions that these two politicians make is that President Bush’s tax cuts helped no one but the wealthy and corporations. I am here to tell you that they helped me more because I got a larger percentage break than those that earn more than I. Sure the wealthy got back more money, but that is because they paid more in taxes to begin with. I however got the larger percentage of my taxes back.

If Barack Obama really wanted to be fair when it comes to taxes he should implement a tax code that is much simpler and equal across the board. For a truly fair tax system we need to either implement a flat tax with one tax rate across the board. Or we need to replace the current income tax system with a consumption tax where you only pay taxes on what you spend. Of course Obama will never go for that. After all he doesn’t really care about fair taxation, what he wants to do is redistribute wealth. I don’t know if he doesn’t realize that this would doom our economy or what. All I know is that we have to stop this from happening. For the love country do not vote for Barack Obama.

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Another Assault on Morality

September 12, 2008 2 Comments

Sometimes it seems like the need to defend traditional values is a never ending battle. It seems like the forces of darkness are always out to destroy an innocent life in the name of freedom of choice or personal choices. So it should come as no surprise that Planned Parenthood is leading the assault against healthcare providers that still have a conscience.

The assault in question concerns doctors, nurses, and other health care providers that for one reason or another refuse to perform the pagan ritual called abortion. At this current moment the Department of Health and Human Services is contemplating implementing new rules designed to protect health care providers from reprisal if they refuse to perform an abortion for conscientious reasons. Planned Parenthood is rallying it’s army of darkness in an attempt to force doctors to take the life of unborn children against their will. Perhaps they are upset that they could only get seven doctors in the state of Iowa to sign on to perform their evil procedure, so now they will try to force others to commit the ultimate in sin, the taking of a child’s life.

Basically what Planned Parenthood is trying to do is a force a doctor to perform a procedure that they find morally objectionable. One of Planned Parenthoods biggest excuses for allowing abortion is that it is the woman’s right to choose. Well evidently women are the only ones that should be allowed the right to choice. They are trying their hardest to take away healthcare providers right to choose whether they will perform an abortion or not. If Planned Parenthood’s evil agenda offends you, please make sure you let the Department of Health and Human Services know how you feel. Just visit the following website to voice your opinion. http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main?main=SubmitComment&o=09000064806da3bc

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Who is the Real Religious Bigot?

September 10, 2008 5 Comments

Much has been during this year’s presidential race in regards to the role that devout Christians should play in the political realm. Some people have made the claim that people with a foundation of religious belief should not be placed in a position of power. Most of these people are atheists that think our religion is nothing more than a “silly superstition”. (Of course we know the truth that they refuse to see.) They want to relegate us to the churches; they want to keep us out of leadership roles. They believe us to be mentally unstable because we believe in “fairy tales”.

We have even been called evil because we believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman. Because we believe homosexuality is a sin we are spurned as extremist hate mongers. Our love for all humans both born and unborn is viewed as extreme by the godless. Because we want to save the world from eternal damnation we are called crazy.

These kinds of attacks are leveled at Christian believers from all sides and from a diverse group of people. In a recent interview with former Democratic Presidential candidate Mike Gravel a reporter made the comment that Sarah Palin’s positions on abortion are extreme because she did not believe abortion should be legal, even in the case of rape or incest. Think about this attack. Sarah Palin was attacked because she believed that an unborn child has a right to life. I don’t see this as extreme; I see this as compassionate to an innocent life.

During the primary season we saw former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee attacked because he was also a former Baptist Minister. There were many cases of bigotry against Huckabee because of his religion. Many people leveled the charge of religious bigot against Mike. It seems that if you have a faith in anything other than our government you are labeled a whack job. If you are a devout Christian they attack you. Look at the attacks that WHO Radio personality Steve Deace has to put up with on a daily basis. If you read the various Iowa conservative blogs you are going to come across someone calling him one name or another.

What these people that level their charges against do not realize is that by unleashing their venomous comments and attacks against Christian believers, they are becoming what they attack. They become the bigots for attacking those of faith. They become crazy because their hatred and anger become all consuming. Their attacks become illogical and ill aimed. They become cynical and weak. They can no longer see the truth that is out there. It is then up to us to bring them to the truth and the light.

I believe that it is the duty of every true Christian out there to get involved in the political realm. We need to protect our faith and our beliefs from the onslaught of the minions of darkness. If we do not get involved we will see our ability to exercise our religion and our beliefs slowly chipped away. If we abandon the political realm how long is it before our government mandates that all churches must perform same sex marriages. How long will it be before our beliefs are regulated? How long would it be before the government tells us what can and can’t be taught in our churches? This is why people of faith need to get involved in the political realm. To protect our freedoms and prevent government mandated immorality.

I suppose that if my beliefs make me a bigot then I will wear the term proudly. I can do this because through my faith I know what is right and I know what is wrong. I would rather be called a religious bigot for my beliefs than spend an eternity in the lake of fire to be politically correct. So can you look at the recent news coverage and tell me who the true religious bigot is?

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Change That We Can Trust

September 7, 2008 2 Comments

Both national conventions are now over and the presidential candidates have chosen their running mates. The nominees choice of running mates outlines just how committed each is to bringing about a positive change for America.

How about we start with Barack Obama’s choice of Joe Biden for his running mate? For the last year Obama has been championing change that we can believe in. His choice of Joe Biden for a running mate cancels out this message of change. Here we have one of the most politically inexperienced presidential candidates to grace the national stage. The intelligent choice of candidate would have been a relatively fresh faced governor for his running mate. Instead Obama chooses a running mate that has been a Senator even longer than he has as well as one that has had no executive experience either. This choice of running mate is troublesome because neither Obama nor Biden have ever run anything, zip, zilch, nada. How can America expect these two politicians to run the country when they have no experience running anything else? It is ludicrous. For a running mate Senator Obama should have selected a fresh faced governor to illustrate his commitment to change. Instead he chose a Senator that has been in Congress longer than he has. How can Obama say that he wants to bring about change when he chooses a Senator that has a longer history in Washington? This choice indicates that his message of change and renewal are nothing more than campaign slogans that he really does not believe himself. Unfortunately a good many Americans have fallen for this modern day snake oil salesman from Chicago. The Democratic ticket that was once so promising is now on the verge of faltering. Obama has made poor decisions lately and they are reflected in the polls with Obama’s poll numbers falling.  The poor decisions that Obama has made in recent weeks has shown that his is not change that we can believe in, but instead it is deception that we can believe in.

On the other side of the political spectrum we have the Republican ticket that Obama has made every attempt to tie to the current administration. Not only is this characterization patently false, it is disingenuous. Any American that has followed politics even remotely for the last eight years knows that Senator McCain has butted heads with President Bush more often than most Democrats. One of the chief criticisms that people have leveled at John McCain is that he is and has been a Senator for a long time. The Obama campaign has tried to paint him as a Washington insider. That criticism became a moot point the day that he chose Sarah Palin for a running mate. This pick negated the Washington insider attacks because Palin is everything that Obama/Biden is not. A fresh faced outsider that is a reformer to boot. Unlike Obama/Biden’s status quo politics, Palin actually has a record of being a reformer. She defeated the incumbent Republican governor of Alaska in the primary and then she defeated a two time Democratic governor to win the governorship of the State of Alaska. This gives Palin what no one else in the race has, executive experience. When we couple this executive experience with McCain’s Congressional experience what we get is something that the Democratic ticket cannot hope to match. We get change that we can trust. I hope that you will join me in supporting John McCain and Sarah Palin for President/Vice President in November. And remember that this ticket brings us change that we can trust.

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