Tea Party Activisits and Supporters, Helping Bring The GOP Back Home
By admin | September 1, 2010
As myself and many in the Tea Party have been advocating for, Tea Parties all over the country have been helping to put truly conservative candidate back onto the GOP ticket.
With our grass roots momentum, ideas, and passion, and the GOPs organizational structure and money we can help bring our country back to it constitutional roots and a sane sustainable fiscal policy.
Toward that goal we can now applaud the great state of Alaska for electing the Tea Party supported Joe Miller onto the ticket there in November. Also, I hope that many in that state show great respect to Senator Lisa Murkowski for being gracious enough to concede that Miller has won, so that he can now get on the campaign trail, and let people out there understand what conservatism is all about, without being tied up in court.
But, with this victory comes the demand, for us as Tea Party activists to not just sit and gloat on our achievement of getting so many Tea Party supported candidates on the ballot all over the country.
It’s now time for us to run the really hard part of this race, to get out in front of not just other conservatives and explain why we are for smaller government, less taxes, and more personal freedoms.
But, it is our time to do the same thing with the average person, that may not know quite as well how and why these principle work every time they are tried, and to explain why they will work, and ultimately to help elect these candidates that will bring those ideas to our government.
Don’t get me wrong, many polls in many races now show Tea Party candidates not only ahead with other conservatives but ahead or running in close races for the general election.
Now is the time for the Tea Party to help push this over the line. Put together Tea Party forums, or meet and greets, where people can hear and talk to your candidates. Put together Tea Party events where conservative speakers come and talk, or about propositions that are on your ballot; go to your representatives town halls, if they are having one (ours isn’t) and ask them the hard questions about why they voted for federal power grabs, or to add to your taxes, or to take away your freedom of choice for what is best for your own health care.
If you don’t want to take on any of these then go and volunteer a day with a conservative candidate that you support, help them canvas, or put up signs, or just talk to as many people as you can, strike up a conversation in a line about the candidate and about the things that need to be changed or fixed.
This is not just for federal or state level elections, one of the best ways to effect things is in your local elections, whether its a city, county, or state representative election, these are the folks that often need the help the most, and can benefit the most from volunteers helping them, because they are not the elections that get the most publicity, but they are the ones that have the most effect and power in your neighborhood!
The point is with so many victories we cannot stop and smell the roses, we need to keep moving forward, through November and into 2012. Lets hope that this November 2nd we will be able to celebrate many more Tea Party candidates going to Washington, or your state house, or your local city council, as we have been able to watch make it onto the GOP ticket.
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Commerce Clause and the Right To Regulate Everything
By admin | August 26, 2010
As we’ve discussed before, some of our congressmen think that the government can do anything it wants.
These misguided representatives believe they get this power from the 16 words that make up the Commerce Clause. Although most of them actually can not tell you where they think this power comes from, they simply contend that under their living document understanding of the Constitution its in there somewhere.
The Commerce Clause is contained in Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the US constitution and states that the Congress shall have the power “To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes”.
And with those few words, the current administration has nationalized banks, nationalized car companies, nationalized student loans, and are on their way to nationalizing your health care.
But, as this enlightening video on the Commerce Clause, its history, and its interpretation, points out the current flawed interpretation of the Commerce Clause that progressives continue to push, may be exactly where many of these actions, and Obamacare meet their end.
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Why Isn’t Your Congressman Doing A Town Hall?
By admin | August 24, 2010
So why isn’t your elected representative doing a town hall?
This video may help explain:
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Barney Frank Joining The Tea Party?
By admin | August 19, 2010
I find it interesting that all the sudden even Barney Frank has come to the realization that the housing bubble and its eventual collapse had much more to do with government regulations, which forced lenders to give loans to less and less qualified borrowers, than any evil, greedy bankers did. This sounds a lot like what many in the Tea Party have been saying for quite some time, and which I discussed here.
Now we have this video of him discussing how he’s been all for shutting down both Freddy Mac and Fannie May for quite a long time, and he was against all this unqualified borrowing that the government was pushing.
Of course where it comes to politics and many politicians, there are facts and then there’s the truth.
Fact is, here is a great video of him giving a speech on the house floor in 2005, espousing how he has been leading the push to create the very programs he is now trying to convince everyone that he had pushed against. As a bonus in the video Representative Frank specifically talks about how these programs will NOT lead to a housing bubble or a crash.
Could he have been any more wrong?
I think the most interesting question is why has he suddenly become a convert to free market ideas and the principles of personal financial responsibility?
To be honest I think this Tea Party conversion of Barney Frank has much more to do with political reality than a true ideological shift. He can understand polls as well as anyone, and knows that in this political season trying to defend big government and big government programs is going to be nothing but a dead end for himself and his party.
So, feel assured that the ideological winds have not shifted in the Washington elite, it’s just that they have realized that they are not blowing in their favor, and to survive they will need to bend for a bit.
It really comes down to whether the voters will display the same short term memory that they have displayed in past elections, letting the current message cloud them from seeing the actual voting record? Or, will they pay attention long enough in this election cycle to make those that facilitated and created our current economic crisis pay for the shortsighted programs that brought us here?
As a Tea Party activist all we can do is keep up the pressure. Keep letting people know who has brought us here on both sides of the isle, and make sure that the voters know that those politicians need to be held accountable. This includes Barney Frank, even with his recent conversion to sanity and a small bit of Tea Party ideology.
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