You can see from the questions and their repetition that MSM cannot imagine what they are seeing.
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We are evolving into a nation of moochers, a process which has been apace for years but the twist now is we are mooching off of Americans who do not yet pay taxes and in fact have not yet been born. It is happening at the state level – thank goodness, not so much in mine – but it is the federal government we should all be very concerned about right now. The theft taking place under the Democrats, who have controlled Congress since 2007, and President Barack Obama is unprecedented in its scale.
As Smitty notes in one of the best blog posts I’ve seen in weeks:
Remember, this hairball has been a century in the making, and will, at bare minimum, require a decade of your best effort just to get that hydra chopped down to something reasonably un-lethal. Incumbency is the enemy. We The People can either rule, or enjoy slavery.
Go read it all, read it again, and then get your game face on for the campaign season which is about to begin.
Our focus must be 100% on the Democrats in public office who are pushing us further into debt slavery.
Just some recent examples to highlight the absurd level of heedlessness these larcenists are operating at:
- $23 million to promote abortion in Kenya.
- $192 million on signs promoting the utterly failed $797 billion “stimulus” boondoggle.
- $22 million to provide high-tech training … to workers in South Asia.
- And now they are poised to steal billions more to reward reckless borrowers in mortgages they can’t afford. You and your children and grandchildren will be paying the moochers’ bills.
This is all being financed with money our country does not have – debt imposed on future generations.
The federal government is filthy with programs we cannot afford and institutions which never should have existed in the first place. There needs to be a housecleaning of Robespierrian proportions, a slash-and-burn campaign on the federal budget. The federal government is meant to provide national security: Everything else should be on the chopping block. Our rule of thumb going forward should be “take it over and shut it down.”
Those who pay for the government must be in charge of the government. Those people, companies, industries and factions who are financially supported by it will receive only what we decide to give them.
To be sure, it has taken both Democrats and Republicans to get us into this mess. A bipartisan line of personages stretching from decades in the past up to the present day deserve a pox on their houses. We can’t separate all the wheat from the chaff along party lines. So if the Republicans currently holding office and the ones we will be putting in office from 2010 through 2014 do not take immediate action to reverse the criminal direction of the federal government we need to end their political careers with extreme prejudice. But let’s face it, the GOP is our only hope. Republicans certainly contributed to our precarious financial situation but Democrats have taken the theft to an entirely new level and one from which our nation may never be able to recover.
It should be more than evident simply by who brought us Obamacare and who did not which party needs to be chastened and which one needs to be tossed in the dustbin of history.
Anyone with the gall to run for public office under the Democrat party banner must be laughed out of all public forums and if they will not slink from the stage they must be shamed and scorned, because they no longer deserve to show their faces in civil society. This cabal of Democrat office holders is guilty of the attempted murder of American liberty. Their misdeeds must be memorialized in perpetuity so the destructive path of our current federal government is never taken again. Having a “D” after your name should be treated as the equivalent of membership in Cosa Nostra and assigned a similar degree of respect in American public life.
There are many problems facing our country and voters are motivated by different concerns, but the threat which should have our laser focus is the one that is in the process of turning us into a third-world nation over the next 20 years. Debt slavery should have every American’s attention. Those who will do the hard work of liberating us should have our undying support. The primary racketeers – elected Democrats, public employee unions, ACORN spin-offs and all the other leftist organizations – are threats to our nation’s future and should be viewed with all appropriate seriousness.
Never before released, the Marcela Hoeven bikini photos are causing an uproar throughout the nation.
To cut to the chase: Her father, John Hoeven, is running for Governor of North Dakota, but his daughter looks good in a bikini. And there are photos!
Her dad might be the next governor of North Dakota, but she's wearing a bikini. Deal with it, America.
Beautiful women exposing their bodies is a national crisis. I, for one, am willing to say that I recognize the problem.
No one can possibly know where this will all end, but all I know is if I was a Republican running for office right now I would be hearing footsteps: footsteps of a girl, who is a Republican, who is wearing a bikini, wandering into camera range. One little click and you have a beautiful Republican on the Internet for all the world to see. It brings chills.
UPDATE: Camp of the Saints says it is not a crisis, but just another beautiful Republican woman.
If you want “scandal.” Dave C can tell you about scandal.
Daley Gator is shocked.
Also, The Other McCain has a pretty interesting comment thread going on this topic.
It appears that the Democrat strategists in Northern Virginia believe they’ve found the secret formula for selecting candidates: clone Jim Webb. The truth is that with a Jim Webb clone, they may as well combine the genes of Obama, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi. Throw in a little Charlie Rangel, and you’d be pretty close to the DNA of the Democrats in the House. There is no such thing as a “moderate Democrat” any more. In the Obama/Emmanuel/Pelosi/Reid world, you toe the loony-left line, or get the ax.
The Democrats are putting up Webb-clone Jeff Barnett to run against Rep. Frank Wolf. Barnett is like a bad imitation of Jim Webb’s younger brother. You can almost imagine Barnett trying on Brother Jim’s big pants at night, when no one is watching.
Like Jim, Jeff has a military background. Like Jim, Jeff talks tough in public. Like Jim, Jeff appears to be a normal, Northern Virginian retired government employee. But, just like Jim, scratch the surface and a liberal monster appears.
What you find under the surface is a loyal supporter of each and every loony scheme the far-left leaders of Jimmy-Jeff’s party concoct.
The Democrats learned long ago to hide their true beliefs and their true goals for America. Especially in a solid district like Frank Wolf’s 10th Virginia, the Democrats must conceal their true core beliefs and objectives. But Webb has a voting record he cannot conceal. Let’s look at some of his vote ratings:
Issue: Abortion
Rater: NARAL Pro-Choice (abortion supporters); Webb’s score: A perfect 100/100 support for unrestricted abortion.
Issue: LIberal, Anti-American litigation
Rater: ACLU; Webb’s score: 90/100, for a solid B+ in the mainstream of Congressional liberals.
Issue: Right to work
Rater: AFL/CIO (liberal union); Webb’s score: 98/100, almost perfect support for job-killing unions.
Issue: Defense
Rater: Center for Security Policy (Conservative defense group); Webb’s score: 30/100, a failing grade in the area that Webb pretends he’s not liberal. But votes don’t lie, Jim!
Issue: Education
Rater: NEA (Ultra-liberal, anti-child educators union); Webb’s score: A, for his unfailing support of the teachers union and administrators against freedom of education for our children.
If Jim Webb had run on the above voting record, he would not have been elected. Jim Webb, like most of the rest of the Democrat cabal roosting in our Congress provides 100% support to the raving loony left’s schemes to seize control of the economy, the auto industry, banks, the oil industry, energy, and more. Jim Webb toes the loony left line with each of the Obama/Pelosi/Reid votes for more and more socialism and less and less freedom.
And just like Jim, Jeff Barnett is a “proud” supporter of Obamacare.
And just like Jim, Jeff Barnett blames business for the housing market scandal.
And just like Jim, Jeff Barnett is scared to death to deal with the reality of the housing collapse. Jimmy-Jeff does not want us to hear about the revolving door that provided rewards from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to Democrat toadies–$90 million to Franklin Raines alone.
If you liked the housing collapse at the hands of Pelosi/Reid/Webb, then you’ll love what the Democrats have planned next–Vote Jeff Barnett!
Frank Wolf believes in accountability, and the rule of law. Frank Wolf is on the lookout for the rights of all Americans, not just select Democrat interest groups. Frank Wolf or Jimmy/Jeff Webb/Barnett. Your Virginia, your call.
I think we should all be able to agree on one point of fact: Barack Obama is presiding over the most secretive, corrupt and incompetent presidency in American history. In addition, by virtue of his complete lack of managerial experience, he is the least qualified individual to ever hold the office.
These propositions seem so obvious at this point I believe discussion is unnecessary. However, since we have been in a state of semi-hiatus here at NVTH, with just a few of us posting periodically, I would like to propose that the title of this post become a theme for future work – especially as we approach the 2010 elections.
Understanding and explaining history usually requires some sort of “model” or prism through which analysis is conducted. I think this should be ours. Thank you; please enjoy the remainder of this Memorial Day weekend.
Greg Letiecq was set up to videotape the Convention but was shut down at request of the Dave Schmidt campaign. Anna Lee told Greg he was forbidden from taping by the rules, and then Fauquier County’s finest stepped in as the enforcers.
So despite whatever we don’t know about him, we know Dave Schmidt has a campaign that fears transparency. Losers.
Glad we are here to vote for Howie Lind. Definitely the good guy in this contest.
UPDATE: good for Greg – he just tried to get the censorship ruling overturned, however meeting chair Tom Rust declined to recognize the majority vote and upheld the censorship.
Wonder what the Dave Schmidt loser campaign has to hide.
UPDATE II: Frank Wolf is giving a wonderful speech, an excellent speech with the theme “America’s best days are ahead” (hey thanks a LOT Dave Schmidt for ensuring there would be no video of this outstanding message!)
Frank is always good but hopefully he will keep it short since this is an uncontested GOP nomination; save your energy for November, Frank.
UPDATE III: 823 total delegates, 309 from Loudoun. Fairfax was next with 200-something. No other jurisdiction was in triple digits.
UPDATE IV: our AG Ken Cuccinelli takes the podium to nominate Howie Lind – very cool. Says Howie “will grow party openly, transparently …” (As opposed to, for instance, the Dave Schmidt approach) “If you want to need a bigger auditorium for your next Convention, vote for Howie Lind.”
Lind: “I want to beat Democrats at every level – I want to beat the dogcatcher.” Nice speech, not exactly electrifying but very good and, hey, he was not afraid to be videotaped.
UPDATE V: After being introduced by five people, Dave Schmidt comes out from behind the bush he was cowering under and, unthreatened by recording devices, boldly states: “we are here to retire Harry Reid and fire Nancy Pelosi.” Incisive, and also original. No wonder he was afraid to be videotaped because someone might have pilfered that gem.
UDATE VI: there is some controversy about the availability of pencils, and now Jim Rich is demanding everyone be quiet so he can fully discuss the notion of folding the ballots, which point he has just made for the third time. Good job, Jim. Maybe this was what they were afraid of having videotaped.
Ok, voting has begun. I am guessing we won’t stay for the results. One can only ask one’s spouse to sacrifice so much on a weekend after a busy week. But who knows, maybe this has been a revivifying experience for her.
UPDATE VII: we have just been informed that instead of a simple box or circle to fill in, the ballot has “an uncompleted arrow” which must be completed to point at one’s desired candidate. This is interesting and, in two words, incredibly stupid. 
Could we possibly do more to confuse people and muck up the voting process? I mean, this is the kind of idiocy that makes you say Wow.
UPDATE VIII: I have been informed we will be staying for the results, so stay tuned.
UPDATE IX: Greg just informed us it was Jim Rich who sicced the Sheriff on him to shut down the videotaping. Tom Rust upheld it. What a couple of tools.
UPDATE X: and the new 10th District Republican Chair is Howie Lind, nominated by acclamation.
And they all lived happily ever after.
LAST UPDATE: Someone just sent me a message saying that in their opinion Dave Schmidt would not have had it in him to censor coverage of the Convention, but that more likely the outrageous prohibition on recording was just Jim Rich “being an ass.” Around where I was sitting it certainly looked like the Schmidt people supported suppressing the recording, and the Lind people were in favor of transparency. Anyway, it worked out for the best, Jim Rich is gone and repudiated, and the 10th District is now managed by the folks who are not afraid. Good result.
CORRECTION? My posts here were written in real time throughout today’s Convention and reflect my perception of the videotape controversy as it unfolded. Greg Letiecq just noted the following in the comments.
One thing I want to make clear — I have no evidence that Dave Schmidt had anything to do with this, and based on my previous interactions with him I would be very surprised if he was. Dave has always been an upstanding guy with me, and I have and will always maintain the highest respect for his skills, demeanor and judgment. I do not believe he deserves criticism here.
Instead, Jim Rich was well aware of my criticism of his behavior and I have no doubt that he and those who allied themselves with him are solely responsible for this. My big question is why Tom Rust, someone who I’ve always held in high regard, chose to act the way he did today in making a bizarre decision, refusing to allow discussion about that decision, and ultimately ruling that a vote he clearly lost was won by him. When Republicans fail to adhere to the principles they publicly espouse it’s time we cleaned house a bit before Democrats inevitably would do that housecleaning for us. If Tom Rust is this so ethically malleable by someone of vanishing political power as Jim Rich, it begs the question whether he really is the best candidate to serve the residents of the district that he currently represents.
Don’t focus on Dave Schmidt. By all appearances he is an honorable man. Instead, your questions should be directed to Tom Rust, and alternately to some pretty sharp people I know in the area who would do a tremendous job of representing the District Rust currently serves.
So while to me the controversy made Dave look like a loser, in reality it was the people who appeared to be his allies not doing him any favors. Apologies to Dave Schmidt for the caustic comments above if he indeed had no hand in trying to suppress the video recording.
Jim Rich just weighed in at TC to explain the decision to shut down the videographers. I recommend reading his argument. I think the reasoning is overly paranoid – not solely on Jim Rich’s part apparently but as Committee policy – and I don’t know if it is going to convince anyone outside the Committee. But I have to respect Jim Rich for stating his case in a timely manner here in the blogosphere.
I and a carload of friends are going to vote for Howie Lind at the Virginia 10th District Convention on May 22, 2010, because Howie has his act together. It is the same reason I have supported other candidates for party leadership positions. He was early out of the box, with a plan.
Howie contacted me early on in the process, and made it clear what needed to be done to continue the success of the Republican Party in Virginia. He seems like a good manager.
By way of contrast, please click here for what the current 10th District crew informs you about the upcoming Convention. No address. No one to contact. And no one from Jim Rich – the current chair’s – side of the Republican aisle has provided any information on how to participate.
Personally, I do not quite get the divisions among the GOP in the 10th District. I do know that Howie Lind is the outsider candidate. I have talked to him on the phone twice and he and I share the same principles. He has an edge in competence. If you want to FIND the Virginia 10th District Convention, please refer to Howie Lind’s Web site.
Howie Lind is a good conservative and a good manager. Just what we need right now.
UPDATE: LI has a contrary position. Could’ve seen that one coming.
Voters in the PA 12th district will vote on Tuesday to replace Congressman John Murtha. As of this moment, the race is a dead heat.
If you live in the district, and care about the country we will leave to your grandchildren, you should vote for Tim Burns on Tuesday. Click here for some more background.
Polls closed at 7 pm in Herndon and Leesburg, results in the latter are coming in. We will update Herndon and Leesburg election results throughout the evening.
With 92% of votes counted Ken Reid appears to be the top vote getter for Leesburg Town Council. Good news! Congratulations, Ken!
More Virginia election results to come ….
UPDATE: The polls closed 2 hours and 15 minutes ago and still no Herndon election results, while Vienna results were reported a half hour ago. Annoying.
UPDATE II: Ken Reid is now listed as 3rd for Leesburg Town Council with 100% of the vote recorded. Dicier than I reported earlier, although good news in a pretty Democrat area. Not sure about absentee and provisional ballots, but I hope this means Ken is back on the Council.
UPDATE III: 9:30 pm, polls closed 2 and a half hours ago in Herndon and still no SBE results. Must be because there are so many Town Council candidates and probably a really low turnout. it is a single voting precinct but they are probably checking each machine twice or more. Stay tuned …
UPDATE IV: The SBE page is down, which tells me it is being updated …. results for Herndon soon?
UPDATE V: A commenter just reported the following as Herndon Town Council election results:
Connie Haines Hutchinson
Lisa C. Merkel
Sheila A. Olem
Jasbinder Singh
William B. “Bill” Tirrell, Sr.
Grace H. Wolf
Still no SBE confirmation, but if the above holds true … Connie and Bill Tirrell are great for the town, but otherwise, too bad for Herndon. I will be interested in seeing the final turnout results.
UPDATE VI: Final SBE results confirm the above. Herndon will be interesting to watch over the next two years.
Herndon Voters:
Please click here for the 2010 Herndon Sample Ballot which you can use as a guide at the polls tomorrow.
Voting takes place Tuesday, May 4, at the Herndon Community Center from 6 am – 7 pm. Click here for a map to the Community Center.
As last time there is a clear cut group of candidates who will make a strong Town Council.
This includes existing council members Connie Hutchinson, David Kirby, Bill Tirrell, and Charlie Waddell, along with candidates Phil Jones and Carl Silvertsen. Herndon’s outstanding Mayor Steve DeBenedittis is running unopposed.
An opposition group representing the left-liberal values of the previous (pre-2006) town council has been trying for the past two years to create public interest for their slate but was not even able to come up with a candidate for mayor.
Herndon has led the state as a model of good local government for the past 4 years; by voting for the candidates listed above the residents of Herndon can ensure this fortunate state of affairs continues.
Answer: You damn bethca they are! It has begun that “PC” or political correctness is now a death thro for Constitutional Americans. No longer are we going to sit back and be drug through the mud or made to feel guilty about something that is right and is the law.
It appears that Al Sharptounge and Jesse Jackass are fighting a “new” civil rights movement for…..NON U.S. citizens. The Arizona law to stop suspected illegals and ask for documents is being characterized as terrorism. Excuse me? San Francisco wants to break any contracts or ties with Arizona because of this law. Can you guess who is the most outspoken group againest it? That’s right-the illegals. Imagine that. Problem is, the only people listening are the liberals; who don’t want to lose what they believe to be a new voting base, and those individuals who already hate our laws and want to just give “open arms” to the world….at the cost, of course, of the American citizen.
Now people are oh so worried about violating civil rights-which our current administration gives to the world citizens. Okay. I have a solution for that. I believe that a set amount of police should set-up un-announced vehicle checkpoints every day in different areas of Arizona until further notice. Now they can check for valid liscense, stickers and green cards. This is prudent especially when the illegals usually drive around with a full car. That will decrease the number thru deportation drastically and then they can move on to hospitals and government services. Crime would abate; money would be saved thru services and English may come back as the primary language. Then when the protests ramp up, check those in the crowd yelling for their rights, for THEIR I.D.’s!
I can have loads of fun with this because it is long overdue. I don’t give a crap about WHY illegals are here and the sob stories of their plight in their own countries. Do it right or get caught and deported. I’m just glad that Cooch didn’t come up with the idea first on this one. Not that I don’t want or expect him to jump on this bandwagon. I just hope that the radicals that protest with the illegals forget THEIR I.D.’s. Then they can be deported also. You can never have enough free space in America for American citizens!
You may not agree with me but, heh, it’s a free country. All I can say is “kiss my ass and go back where you came from”. Amnesty is not an option here. “it’s my money and I want it now!”
This is great stuff. Colonel West would have my vote if I lived in Florida. I have sent a check. We need more speeches like this. We need more candidates like this. The milquetoasts in the party need to get a spine and kick it up a notch, or get the hell out of the way.
Conservatives have nothing to be ashamed about. America was founded on the ideal that a man left to his own devices will in the pursuit of his own interests create prosperity. This is an ideal that is worth fighting for. This is an ideal that once lost is very hard to regain. The culture of dependence is another word for servitude. People have been taught that they need to be taken care of. That is the antithesis of being free.
GREAT turnout in Herndon tonight for Phil Jones’ official kick off event in his campaign for a seat on the Herndon Town Council. About 50 people had shown up in the first half hour when I had to leave for a family thing, but they were still coming in so overall a very successful event. Here are some shots of the early evening.
Visit the Herndon United Web site for more info and to send Phil a contribution.
With the unemployment rate in the U.S. over 10 percent and showing no signs of imminent improvement, the Democrats’ push for amnesty for illegal workers is shaping up as a purely partisan gambit to import a new class of voters.
Giving voting rights to felons is one step. Giving voting rights to non-citizens is the next, in the Democrats’ desperate effort to curtail the will of the American people. Thank goodness, this is not looking like a repeat of past failures:
As President Obama and Senate Democrats push to pass an immigration bill this year, one key ingredient is still conspicuously missing: a second Republican to co-sponsor the legislation.
Most Republicans considered likeliest to join Sens. Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat, and Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican, in writing a bill either have taken a pass or are still on the fence. Key figures say the country does not have the kind of consensus needed to tackle the issue.
“It just doesn’t exist anymore,” said Sen. Jon Kyl, the Arizona Republican who in 2007 took the lead on writing a bill with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat, only to see it fail when a bipartisan majority of senators joined a filibuster against it.
Republicans in Congress are growing both a brain and a spine, finally.
