The Right Scoop- http://www.solitudeholdings.com/blog1/ Dan C
I love Allen West, but he is wrong. We are running 1.5 trillion deficits. The era of big spending is here and the Republicans last night refused to shut the government down in order to stop the binge spending. We are still funding the slaughter of babies in the womb, and the cuts we made will be erased when Obama borrows that much in the next 10 days or so. All this tough talk is great, but we need REAL ACTION. We should have shut it down. Obama is the one who put abortion ahead of the troops pay, not us.
- Anonymous
I love West too, and I’ll still support him, but nobody is perfect. Some say even Sarah Palin might make a mistake some day.
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Dave-Kawasaki/1798183858 Dave Kawasaki
It helps to have an outlook further than the tip of one’s nose. The good guys are doing what they can given that they only hold the House. There are 2 other branched in opposition, and they are mighty powerful. Boehner and Co. are playing a chess game; it would be imprudent for them to reveal their strategy just so some people can feel better about the soundbites.
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=504624590 Chris G.
Get real, Rep. West. Your party CAVED & didn’t have the guts to stand on principle…that is, if it had any in the 1st place.
- Persephone
He has said he is voting against it.
What more can he do? - http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=504624590 Chris G.
I’m just ticked @ Boehner. Lord, I hope he is primaried next year!
- Idahoser
they did not have to make him speaker.
- Persephone
Thanks for posting this.
West keeps lobbing headshots at Obama.
I’m loving it.That white-powder-in-the-envelope thing is just part of this ‘New Tone’ that the Left is using.
You know…death threats, union thuggery, burning kittens. - Leel004
you are exaggerating a bit don’t you think???? The left would NEVER burn kittens—-, that would be too close to a taboo with the environmentalists
- Anonymous
Unless they thought they could hide it enough to get away with it.;)
Good point!
- Anonymous
Unless they thought they could hide it enough to get away with it.;)
Good point!
- Persephone
I think that would be PETA, don’t you think, who would object to ‘burning kittens’?
And…haaa…yes, I was exaggerating.But the way that Obama and the Dems were hurting our Military, was to me…like holding up a basket of kittens in one hand, with a blow torch in the other hand…and saying:
“Give us what we want, or the kittens burn”.
- Persephone
I think that would be PETA, don’t you think, who would object to ‘burning kittens’?
And…haaa…yes, I was exaggerating.But the way that Obama and the Dems were hurting our Military, was to me…like holding up a basket of kittens in one hand, with a blow torch in the other hand…and saying:
“Give us what we want, or the kittens burn”.
- MarkD
Think outside the box! It’s easy to get the left to burn kittens – tell them kittens are Israels national animal or better still, tell them it’s mother cat’s choice to burn her baby kittens – it’s her body afterall – and she just can’t do it without help (and some government funding of course) ‘cos she’s claw & lighter challenged.
- Persephone
Haaa….good one.
- Anonymous
And/or if burning kittens reduced CO2, environmentalists might get behind it.
- Cindy08
The Republican Party is heading to become 2nd best. I think that the Tea Party is going to emerge as a major opponent in the next elections. If the Republican Party is unable to steer the economy in the right direction, it will take people with guts and bravery to make a difference!
- Persephone
It is going to take everyone who is even halfway conservative and hates seeing what is happening to our country, Voting in unison…to defeat the ObamaPropagandaTravelingExtravaganzaYesWeCanMachine.
- Persephone
It is going to take everyone who is even halfway conservative and hates seeing what is happening to our country, Voting in unison…to defeat the ObamaPropagandaTravelingExtravaganzaYesWeCanMachine.
- sDee
We need to keep in mind the form of government our Founders knew was the only thing that could keep us free.
One party in America is established to drive us downhill to a central Statist regime – the naturally devolving state of governments. The other party is destined to an eternal fight pulling us back uphilll to a constitutional republic.
One of those parties is driven, never sleeps, never waivers. The other party does nothing but feign protest. They have become the same. A third party always adds momentum downhill.
The Tea Party is the essence of what our founders intended to carry the Republic. We must take the reigns from those who have failed Freedom,failed all Americans.
It all starts with realizing both parties have betrayed our nation.
- Elmerfud71
I agree that both parties have continually betrayed this country for decades on end, but I do not agree that the tea party is the essence of what our founders intended to carry the republic. Most tea party people seem to support foreign entanglements and the private central banking system. They haven’t awakened to the realities of our situation either. They still support big government.
“Big” is a relative term. Sarah Palin’s small government is still huge. Many of them like the gun control that is in place, but they don’t want to add to it. I don’t hear them crying to abolish property tax and income tax. The founders would have considered the country lost just on property taxes alone. Add on the income tax, social security identification card, and so many others and they knew that we would lose it because of these things.
Americans will have to say “we are willing to suffer greatly for a time, but we want 2/3 of the federal government shut down and the Fed Res abolished” before we have a chance at saving the country. Our rulers have done their job well. They have put half or more of this society on one form of welfare or another, shut down our industrial base, nullified most of our rights, destroyed our currency, and have sold us out to world government through treaties and debt.
Ron Paul may have started the tea party, but they are not behind him in true constitutional government on the whole.
- sDee
The tea party is loosely organized but the people share fundamental beliefs with Libertarians. Should we continue to focus on differences as distinct “third parties” instead of common principles, the globalists win.
- Elmerfud71
I hear what you are saying. I jumped in full bore on the tea party band wagon at first. Organized rallies, etc. Then I started to realize that I was primarily working with a bunch of big government neo-cons who want a little less government.
If Ron Paul can’t get a political revolution started, and compete, then there is very little chance that true libertarianism will emanate from the tea party, or the republicans. I didn’t agree, at first, when people said the tea party was republican run. Now, I tend to think that those in the tea party are at least no better.
We don’t have time to throw things around politically anymore. We can’t continue these wars and government programs any longer and survive as a nation, or an economy.
They are going to push us into chaos, and possibly another real revolution, if we continue down this road. We are going to be feeling some real pain either way, but it is just a matter of how we deal with it. We will either go hardcore police state, or we will revolt and gain back freedom and wealth.
I guess I am not an optimist on this issue. I am tired of the republican crap agendas as well as the Dems and Libs. Our political system will never allow for a third party that is truly independent. The corruption is too deep.
- Anonymous
One little Easter Egg er… excuse me.. “Spring Sphere” found in the budget deal last night was the DC School voucher program John Boehner put back in to effect. That was a nice surprise.
- KeninMontana
Just another example of the Democrats using the troops as “hostages” when it comes to fiscal matters. We need a law to protect the pay and benefits of the men and women serving actively, if anyone needs to be declared as “non-essential” my vote is to declare elected/appointed officials and their staffs as “non-essentials”. That may help push them towards a little more fiscal responsibility,maybe,but I won’t hold my breath.
- Persephone
I think thats what the Republicans in the House are trying to get passed…a bill that separates out the Military Pay from the budget debate.
They sent it to the Senate, I believe. - Elmerfud71
If we want to have any chance of getting out of deficit spending, we will have to cut about 2 trillion per year. The budget is a joke. We are going to find everyone suffering greatly regardless of what they do. Bailouts and unemployment extensions won’t save anyone when the dollar goes down. When we have to actually compete with other currencies, our currency won’t be worth five cents on the dollar. We won’t be the world’s reserve currency much longer.
- KeninMontana
There was a time when the US Dollar was not the world’s reserve currency. Frankly and in all honesty I really don’t see the issue of the dollar continuing as such as the issue but as a symptom. There is so much focus among conservatives right now on the winning the Oval Office that they have lost sight of how to hurt liberals the most,by working to retain the House and taking control of the Senate, the office of the President should be a secondary concern. If you want to get a handle on the country bleeding out financially,Congress not the Oval Office is where it is done.
- Elmerfud71
I agree with the premise of what you are saying, but without the executive branch you need a super majority in both the house and senate. I don’t know that this will ever happen. Even if it does, the neo-cons won’t do anything with it. The elite need fairly even divisions to throw the blame back and forth, anyway.
The feds are attacking anyone who is trading in precious metal backed receipts. Which has been legal. They cannot let anything compete with the dollar as an alternative and retain control. Their plan is to convert the dollar to a new global fiat SDR currency controlled by the IMF. If Americans get out of the dollar, they won’t be able to do it. If there were competing currencies in the US, the feds and globalists would lose their power.
Many people have been warning about investing in the dollar, or dollar denominated investments. If the dollar had to compete on a level playing field with other currencies, it will lose. There is too much of it out there, and nothing to back it, or hold up its value. Being the reserve currency has forced the rest of the world to deal in dollars, and other currencies are basically backed by the dollar. Global currency controllers know that the rest of the currencies will fall with the dollar, because they are mostly fiat currencies as well.
The IMF and world banks have been destroying currencies, and taking over countries through debt enslavement for a long time. The US is not impervious to this. In fact, we are much worse off concerning our debt to “real” GDP than some.
The new world reserve currency will be created at a higher value, and the dollar will be worth pennies, or less in comparison. Therefor all pensions, stocks, bonds, etc will be basically worthless.
If they don’t allow an alternative in the US to the dollar, we will be stuck in a perpetual depression without private property rights, or an industrial base to recover with. We are already under tremendous amounts of restraint via global treaty, and have presidents who views congress as powerless concerning global issues because of them. With a new global currency, we will have all but completely lost our sovereignty. If they transfer our debt into the new currency, we would never be able to pay back what we owe already, therefor we would be stuck in perpetual servitude to global financial and political powers.
There have been some who have stated this as the goal. So I don’t see a way out, other than total political transformation, and isolation from the world banks and governing entities.
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000220027383 Troy La Mana
With this new deal Republicans are 62 Billion short of what was promised to the people in November. They keep this up I’ll vote out this bunch too.
- DCG
Apparently Boehner didn’t get the message…
- Jimbo
Time after time, video after video this guy simply runs circles around all the liberals, Rino’s, Republicans and Conservatives.
- Jimbo
Time after time, video after video this guy simply runs circles around all the liberals, Rino’s, Republicans and Conservatives.
- Virusx2k1
Yes, and no.
Yes, the Era of Spending and Big Government is over: among the segment of the population that has two brain tissues to rub together. Liberals and other miscreants still believe in it, and still push it as the wave of the future. Now, its far less likely that Congress can wantonly spend, spend, spend without push-back from this minority segment of the population that is looking to become more powerful (again, the people with functional brain tissue, normally found in congress in organizations like the Tea Party). Truly gone are the days where all the People just stand like zombies, and don’t even flinch at the spending of their futures on pork projects (and no, I do not, and will not, call them “earmarks”. Its PORK.)
No, far too many politicians refuse to let go, in spite of the new crop that is against it (from the brain tissue crowd). To them, relinquishing that would be giving up power and prestige. The “social programs” of today are what were known as “bread and circuses”, yesterday. They know that with the dissolution of such un-Constitutional, un-American policies, the vast majority of them will be looked at by their constituents, and they’ll all think the same thing: “Why do we have this useless idiot representing us?” Getting rid of pork will mean the deaths of a lot of political careers, and the relinquishing of a lot of personal and political power, which is something liberals and RINOs (same thing, really) will not do quietly.
- Anonymous
I bet those Scandinavians that gave Obama the Nobel Peace Prize are feeling a little silly now that Obama is entering his third war.
- Spirit
Repeat: the era of big spending in Washington DC is over.
“We are starting that motion.”
Good. Let’s go with it.And no motion here: this man is bedrock.
- inchrist
Dream ticket for 2012: West and Rubio or Rubio and West! Or Cain and West! Woo Hoo!
- Mediaccess
Dream ticket Palin/Bachmann, Bachmann/Palin, Palin/Rubio, Palin/West, Palin/Ryan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Anonymous
How about Palin/Cain?
- Anonymous
I agree.
This was not enough but it is a great begnning. - TexasT
I didn’t think West could be so naive, but he just was with that statement regarding the spending days are over nonsense. That “cut” was nothing! Pennies compared to what the Communist and Republican Parties have done to us. No, Mr. West! We’re gonna collapse and no one is being honest about it, except for a small percentage of us who are trying to tell everyone else. Oh….while they are looking at us and shaking their heads in shame because they think we’re negative, pessimistic, radical people.
- Persephone
That sounds kind of negative to me.
Sorry, couldn’t resist.And I know that ‘Era of big spending is over’ sounds like a sweeping statement…
But he was likening said ‘Era’ to being like a Big Ship…a Big Ship which had just gotten its first course correction.::shrugs::
He’s new at this.
He’s not a career politician.
He does better in front of a crowd. - MissouriMatt
I really like this guy
- Persephone
I do too.
He’s a breath of fresh air. - Persephone
You know, West was on Fox five or six times last week.
Good exposure.
Good practice for when he braves the lions dens of the liberal shows.I would love to see him mix it up with Tingles.
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Dave-Kawasaki/1798183858 Dave Kawasaki
Bullsh1t – it wouldn’t take the LTC 15 minutes to make his point with the threatening coward who sent him the hate letter. I’d guess the punk would be lucky to last 15 seconds.
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Dave-Kawasaki/1798183858 Dave Kawasaki
Bullsh1t – it wouldn’t take the LTC 15 minutes to make his point with the threatening coward who sent him the hate letter. I’d guess the punk would be lucky to last 15 seconds.
West isn’t declaring victory here as he acknowledges that this deal represents pennies compared to the size of our budget deficits. However, he does believe that this deal establishes a new culture of cutting spending in Washington DC, and that the era of big spending is over:
I think the jury is still out on whether the era of big spending is over or not, but I do like how he put the deal into perspective. I felt last night that there were too many politicians patting themselves on the back when I was thinking that this deal didn’t really accomplish much other than to show that Boehner isn’t a good negotiator.
Also, West talks about a depraved person sending white powder to his office. He says he’d love to talk to them wherever they want. Yeah, that’ll never happen. The Left hates to have real conversation.
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- http://www.solitudeholdings.com/blog1/
I love West too, and I’ll still support him, but nobody is perfect. Some say even Sarah Palin might make a mistake some day.
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Dave-Kawasaki/1798183858
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That sounds kind of negative to me.
Sorry, couldn’t resist.And I know that ‘Era of big spending is over’ sounds like a sweeping statement…
But he was likening said ‘Era’ to being like a Big Ship…a Big Ship which had just gotten its first course correction.::shrugs::
He’s new at this.
He’s not a career politician.
He does better in front of a crowd.- http://www.facebook.com/people/Dave-Kawasaki/1798183858
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