Bits and Pieces:
Farewell, JP!
The RINOs lost control of the PA house today when the final vote was tallied in a tight Chester County race. The Republican held a 19 point lead going into the fnal count, and lo and behold, the Democrat surpassed her. So the Democrats now hold control over the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
There are two pieces of good news that go along with this:
John Perzel will no longer be speaker. Neither will Mike Veon.
Farewell, JP!
The RINOs lost control of the PA house today when the final vote was tallied in a tight Chester County race. The Republican held a 19 point lead going into the fnal count, and lo and behold, the Democrat surpassed her. So the Democrats now hold control over the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
There are two pieces of good news that go along with this:
John Perzel will no longer be speaker. Neither will Mike Veon.
Iraq
Anyone who has been paying any attention at all to the conflict in Iraq has to be wondering now why no one is putting pressure on the Imams to stop the sectarian violence. Frankly, we are one hundred percent for the Bush plan to stay in Iraq until it is stable, but we think if it walks like a civil war, and talks like a civil war, it must be a civil war. That said, al Qaeda, Hezbollah, and Hamas are obviously pushing both the Sunni and the Shiite Imams to kill each other. One should start with eliminating Mukhtar al Sadr, who boasts the Mahdi Army to do his bidding, claiming the title Mahdi for himself. The Mahdi or “guided one”, for those unfamiliar with Islam, is a title of a blessed one who has great skills as a holy man. For Westerners, the comparison with Jesus Christ is close, but the Mahdi is a bit less ethereal. One of the more recent “pretenders” was a man named Muhammad Ahmad, who laid siege to the city of Khartoum in the late 1880s, eventually taking the city and slaughtering the defending British troops, their leader General Charles George ‘Chinese’ Gordon, and most of the Islamic population.
Anyone who has been paying any attention at all to the conflict in Iraq has to be wondering now why no one is putting pressure on the Imams to stop the sectarian violence. Frankly, we are one hundred percent for the Bush plan to stay in Iraq until it is stable, but we think if it walks like a civil war, and talks like a civil war, it must be a civil war. That said, al Qaeda, Hezbollah, and Hamas are obviously pushing both the Sunni and the Shiite Imams to kill each other. One should start with eliminating Mukhtar al Sadr, who boasts the Mahdi Army to do his bidding, claiming the title Mahdi for himself. The Mahdi or “guided one”, for those unfamiliar with Islam, is a title of a blessed one who has great skills as a holy man. For Westerners, the comparison with Jesus Christ is close, but the Mahdi is a bit less ethereal. One of the more recent “pretenders” was a man named Muhammad Ahmad, who laid siege to the city of Khartoum in the late 1880s, eventually taking the city and slaughtering the defending British troops, their leader General Charles George ‘Chinese’ Gordon, and most of the Islamic population.
Cut off the head. Once the sectarian violence comes under control we will see that the “insurgency” as the al Qaeda backed assaults are referred to in the MSM, is greatly reduced from its pre-sectarian violence rate.
Who died and made her Queen?
Last time I checked it was the President of the United States who made policy, not Congress, not the Supreme Court, and certainly not the Speaker of the House-elect! She is not even in office yet and she has begun dictating to President Bush what he must do about Iraq! Obliviously she was not paying attention when Jack Murtha was shot down as floor leader in spite of her backing. At least she was recently when she got the hint - mostly from Susan Estrich writing in a column for Fox News called Pelosi Bungling Democratic Win With Hastings Appointment; I recommend the article. I do not care for Ms. Estrich but I respect her opinion, and this article is more reasoned than most. Ms. Estrich is also protecting the Woman’s Rights movement with this article. Nancy Pelosi needs to stop gloating, and stop flapping her liberal lips, and learn to get along. She doesn’t need to endear herself to President Bush but she also does not need to come across as an obstructionist, dictatorial…well…fill in the blank for yourself.
Requiem for the Republicans
The recent election was certainly a loud wakeup call for the Republican Party from top to bottom. Nationally, the party is scandal rocked, and infused with corruption and graft. On the Pennsylvania level, the same holds true, except the scandals have yet to be exposed. Oh, we have no inside line on this, just a reasonable expectation. Locally, the Republican Party hit rock bottom with Dan Moul. Anyone backed by David LeVan is literally rock bottom material. Fortunately, the real Republicans [Moul will turn out to be a RINO like Maitland was] crossed the party lines [albeit in slightly insufficient numbers] in large enough numbers to put Moul on notice.
Republican leadership from top to bottom needs to return to Reagan Republicanism as its core philosophy. Lower taxes, less government, and a strong military. That is not where the Republican Party is headed.
They claim to be ‘the party of Lincoln’. Well, Lincoln was the first Republican President, and its second candidate [John C. Fremont was the first in 1856, losing to the pride of Pennsylvania, Democrat James Buchanan]. At the time, the Democrats were the conservative party, resistant to change, and hanging on to traditional positions on issues such as slavery. The Republicans were the progressive party, the party of change, running on a platform that would stop the spread of slavery.
By the time Teddy Roosevelt became president on the death of McKinley, the Republican Party had begun a major shift toward conservatism, but Theodore Roosevelt did not go with them. Not running for re-election, Roosevelt chose William Howard Taft as his successor, and endorsed him as a Progressive. Taft began the Republican shift onto the side of big business. Eventually Roosevelt broke from the Republican Party, leading the Bull Moose Republicans (Progressives) as a third party in the 1912 elections. The Republicans essentially defeated the Democrats in 1912, but the rift between the Taft-led Republicans and the Roosevelt-led Bull Moose Republicans split the vote and Democrat Woodrow Wilson was elected. Roosevelt took so many progressives from the Republican party that it soon became the Conservative Party, bearing little resemblance to the Party that nominated Abraham Lincoln.
It could very well be said that the policies of the Republican Party may have contributed to the stock market crash of 1929 great depression of the 1930s. Those events, and the great success of Franklin Roosevelt held the Republican party in check until 1952, when they emerged from two decades of Liberal policies under Roosevelt and Truman, to the golden years of Ike Eisenhower. Reagan redefined Republicanism in the early 1970s, embracing a strong defense in spite of Eisenhower’s farewell warning about the ‘military-industrial complex’.
We firmly believe that George Bush was never allowed to be a Reagan Republican. We think the triple whammy of an economic correction, the 9/11 attacks, and the three major hurricanes that struck the South and Southeast last year have simply forced policies that were less than truly conservative. Additionally, after controlling Congress for about a decade [after not controlling it for four decades] the Republicans in Congress abandoned the Newt Gingrich Contract with America after two terms. They then embarked on a six to eight year binge dancing with the gambling industry. Hence the Abramoff scandal, and all the sub-scandals that went with it. At the same time they danced with the military industrial complex that Ike had warned about. Finally, there were the other scandals like the one Curt Weldon is mired in down near Philadelphia.
Republicans who had been without power for so long they had disappeared from being a part of legislation during four years of Democratic control of Congress came into office in the mid-1990s and immediately began a power-drunk splurge, engaging in all the graft and corruption that the Democrats had built up over the previous four decades. They are guilty of many things. They are guilty of abandoning the principles of their party. They are guilty of abandoning their base. And they are guilty of graft and corruption on a grand scale. The Democrats are guilty of complicity and just about every form of obstructionism as imaginable.
Perhaps the bloodletting of the recent election is a good thing. Perhaps it will lead to wide scale changes in Republican party leadership on the national, state, and local levels. There is far too much elitism in the leadership, and far too few ‘real people’. There are simply not enough 'average Joes' among the Republicans. It has become a party of the rich, for the rich. There is no one in the Republican Party leadership on any level that can feel your pain like Bill Clinton did. It is time there was someone who does.
Who died and made her Queen?
Last time I checked it was the President of the United States who made policy, not Congress, not the Supreme Court, and certainly not the Speaker of the House-elect! She is not even in office yet and she has begun dictating to President Bush what he must do about Iraq! Obliviously she was not paying attention when Jack Murtha was shot down as floor leader in spite of her backing. At least she was recently when she got the hint - mostly from Susan Estrich writing in a column for Fox News called Pelosi Bungling Democratic Win With Hastings Appointment; I recommend the article. I do not care for Ms. Estrich but I respect her opinion, and this article is more reasoned than most. Ms. Estrich is also protecting the Woman’s Rights movement with this article. Nancy Pelosi needs to stop gloating, and stop flapping her liberal lips, and learn to get along. She doesn’t need to endear herself to President Bush but she also does not need to come across as an obstructionist, dictatorial…well…fill in the blank for yourself.
Requiem for the Republicans
The recent election was certainly a loud wakeup call for the Republican Party from top to bottom. Nationally, the party is scandal rocked, and infused with corruption and graft. On the Pennsylvania level, the same holds true, except the scandals have yet to be exposed. Oh, we have no inside line on this, just a reasonable expectation. Locally, the Republican Party hit rock bottom with Dan Moul. Anyone backed by David LeVan is literally rock bottom material. Fortunately, the real Republicans [Moul will turn out to be a RINO like Maitland was] crossed the party lines [albeit in slightly insufficient numbers] in large enough numbers to put Moul on notice.
Republican leadership from top to bottom needs to return to Reagan Republicanism as its core philosophy. Lower taxes, less government, and a strong military. That is not where the Republican Party is headed.
They claim to be ‘the party of Lincoln’. Well, Lincoln was the first Republican President, and its second candidate [John C. Fremont was the first in 1856, losing to the pride of Pennsylvania, Democrat James Buchanan]. At the time, the Democrats were the conservative party, resistant to change, and hanging on to traditional positions on issues such as slavery. The Republicans were the progressive party, the party of change, running on a platform that would stop the spread of slavery.
By the time Teddy Roosevelt became president on the death of McKinley, the Republican Party had begun a major shift toward conservatism, but Theodore Roosevelt did not go with them. Not running for re-election, Roosevelt chose William Howard Taft as his successor, and endorsed him as a Progressive. Taft began the Republican shift onto the side of big business. Eventually Roosevelt broke from the Republican Party, leading the Bull Moose Republicans (Progressives) as a third party in the 1912 elections. The Republicans essentially defeated the Democrats in 1912, but the rift between the Taft-led Republicans and the Roosevelt-led Bull Moose Republicans split the vote and Democrat Woodrow Wilson was elected. Roosevelt took so many progressives from the Republican party that it soon became the Conservative Party, bearing little resemblance to the Party that nominated Abraham Lincoln.
It could very well be said that the policies of the Republican Party may have contributed to the stock market crash of 1929 great depression of the 1930s. Those events, and the great success of Franklin Roosevelt held the Republican party in check until 1952, when they emerged from two decades of Liberal policies under Roosevelt and Truman, to the golden years of Ike Eisenhower. Reagan redefined Republicanism in the early 1970s, embracing a strong defense in spite of Eisenhower’s farewell warning about the ‘military-industrial complex’.
We firmly believe that George Bush was never allowed to be a Reagan Republican. We think the triple whammy of an economic correction, the 9/11 attacks, and the three major hurricanes that struck the South and Southeast last year have simply forced policies that were less than truly conservative. Additionally, after controlling Congress for about a decade [after not controlling it for four decades] the Republicans in Congress abandoned the Newt Gingrich Contract with America after two terms. They then embarked on a six to eight year binge dancing with the gambling industry. Hence the Abramoff scandal, and all the sub-scandals that went with it. At the same time they danced with the military industrial complex that Ike had warned about. Finally, there were the other scandals like the one Curt Weldon is mired in down near Philadelphia.
Republicans who had been without power for so long they had disappeared from being a part of legislation during four years of Democratic control of Congress came into office in the mid-1990s and immediately began a power-drunk splurge, engaging in all the graft and corruption that the Democrats had built up over the previous four decades. They are guilty of many things. They are guilty of abandoning the principles of their party. They are guilty of abandoning their base. And they are guilty of graft and corruption on a grand scale. The Democrats are guilty of complicity and just about every form of obstructionism as imaginable.
Perhaps the bloodletting of the recent election is a good thing. Perhaps it will lead to wide scale changes in Republican party leadership on the national, state, and local levels. There is far too much elitism in the leadership, and far too few ‘real people’. There are simply not enough 'average Joes' among the Republicans. It has become a party of the rich, for the rich. There is no one in the Republican Party leadership on any level that can feel your pain like Bill Clinton did. It is time there was someone who does.
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