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Dems Use Power to Stifle Dissent

Posted by Curt Ferguson on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 1:00:00 PM
Two headlines next to each other on the Drudge Report today grabbed my attention:
 
Which is it, Senator Tom (D-Iowa)?  Want fairness or not?
 
Following these links you'll find:
"Republicans have caught the Democrats in a midnight “stimulus” power play that seeks to cut Republican conferees out of the House-Senate negotiations to resolve a final version of the Obama “stimulus” package. Staff members from the offices of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) met last night to put together the “stimulus” conference report." 
And then you'll see this exchange between liberal radio host Bill Press and uber-liberal Senator Tom Harkin:
BILL PRESS:  ... All we want is, you know, some balance on the airwaves, that's all. You know, we're not going to take any of the conservative voices off the airwaves, but just make sure that there are a few progressives and liberals out there, right?
HARKIN: Exactly, and that's why we need the fair -- that's why we need the Fairness Doctrine back.
Behind closed doors the Democrats don't want any balance at all, don't want to hear from anyone who disagrees with them as they actually craft laws concerning the best interests of the country.  But out in the public airways, where people listen to ideas they are interested in, the Dems want to go against the literal public interest.
 
Looks to me like we need a "fairness doctrine" in the legislative process. 
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Time for Choosing Again

Posted by Curt Ferguson on Sunday, February 08, 2009 10:00:00 PM
Are we going to cower to the Audacious One or be distinct and give the voters a clear choice next time around?  Republicans certainly blew their distinctions from Demos over the past 4 years. 
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Reagan's words are so relevant to today.  It is TIME for the Conservatives (used to be Republicans, but the party can no longer claim to be conservative...they are going to have to earn that description) TO CHOOSE:
-  Are we going to be ooh-ooh-Me-too "Democrats-Lite" ...or are we going to stand by conservative principles? 
-  Are we going to curry favor with the liberal media or ...stand for truth? 
-  Are we going to cower to the Audacious One or ...be distinct and give the voters a clear choice next time around? 
-  Are we going to close our eyes, hold our nose and vote for something that does virtually nothing to stimulate economic growth or ...are we going to smile knowingly (confident that this plan will prove a failure within a year or two) and say, "Not with my support!"
-  Are we going to approve a nearly-trillion-dollar payoff to the Democrats special interests or ...say "over my dead body!"
-  Are we going to buy the argument that government spending is an effective way to stimulate the economy or...will we assert the truth, that tax rate reductions on people and businesses who actually pay tax now is what works?  Even the revered JFK knew that to stimulate the economy you must have the government handle LESS of the money, not more!

The brilliant John McCain is now whining that those mean Democrats are no more open to input from the opposing party than the GOP was during the Bush administration.  What planet you been on, John?  The Dem's were less open to input from the Republicans when they were in the minority than the majority Republicans were to the Democrats!  Aside from the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts (which worked to pull the economy out of the last recession, and would have worked even better had they not been "phased in") the Republicans have basically let the Dems have set the agenda.  Can you say "McCain-Feingold" and [Kennedy] No Teacher-I-Mean-Child Left Behind and Amnesty-I-Mean-Guest-Worker?  Democrats not open to Republican input is the understatement of the century.  And by comparison?  Republicans sold their soul and sacrificed their seats to try and get along. ("To get along" is my kind interpretation, by the way; my cynical version is that they truly became power-hungry politicians who went hog wild on big government in their own right.)  That's why so many got fired in '06 and '08.

I only hope the RINOs have learned their lesson and don't go sign onto this current bailout-payoff-economic-suppression bill in exchange for a little compromise now.  That would play right into the Demo-hands.  Pelosi has been saving up a wishlist of social programs for two years, just waiting for a President who would sign on.  She was poised and ready to pour it all into this massive package, and the economic woes (partly talked up by the campaigns and the MSM, and actually in large part a direct result of Demo direction of the affirmative-housing bubble, but all successfully laid at the feet of the "Bush economic policies of the last eight years...what a sales job!  But I digress) allowed her to dump it under the misnomer "economic stimulus."  Her organizational skill and speed to act--acting to advance her dream of an expanded welfare state--have been, frankly, impressive. 

Now we have a choice, and it is time to choose.  Debate the bill.  Offer completely conservative alternatives so we know that you stand for principles that would work, supported by economists from Smith to Hayek to Friedman.  But whatever you do, when the final bill comes up for passage, with about 90% of the socialist emphasis that it will still have, keep "R" names off of it!  Vote "no!"  You go along with it, even after the Dems throw you a tiny bone of compromise here or there, and you give away any ability to campaign against this in 18 months...and by then the American people will be starting to realize what a travesty it was. 

Vote against the final passage, knowing it is going to pass anyway, and you give yourselves a prayer of returning to the majority.  If you go along with this stimulus porkage, you will be well on your way to another 50 years living in the cold, irrelevant status of minority.  Have you heard of FDR?  The New Deal? The Great Depression?  That is where the Audacious One is taking us, with the help of Pelosi and Reid.  If you go along, you offer the voters no alternative.  But if you stand against it, you'll regain respectability and you'll see a swing back.  Let the "O" stand for "Over-reach"...and usher in a new 1994.
 
It is Time to Choose again.  Don't blow it.
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