Prepare To Be Offended

The house republicans took a stand today and note one voted for the democrat stimulus plan. This despite Obama meeting with GOP leaders the other day. About time they took a stand.

Here is the vote count:

As much as I hate to see the democrats get closer to a 60 seat majority in the house, I’m glad to see Ted Stevens not get reelected.

He is exactly the kind of corrupt senator that the Republican’s need to weed out of their ranks.

Good bye and good riddance.

And he is exactly right. He says they need to quit being afraid of the the politics. Again, correct.

We need another Newt Gingrich…

I have to agree a bit with Bill Hennessy. We need strong leadership in our party and we need it NOW. Newt Gingrich also mentioned the call for stronger Republican leadership in his book, Real Change.

We also need serious backing to make it happen. The question then, is who will step up? Who will fight the unions, the MoveOn.org’s, etc. Who??

7:41: Obama win Virginia. It is definitely over.

7:36: Reid and Pelosi speaking in Washington

7:34: FNC still won’t call Florida, but says it still looks really good for Obama

7:11: Iowa swings back to blue

7:04: McCain camp says “there doesn’t appear to any path”

7:03: Looks like the dems won’t get that magic number of 60 senate seats.

7:00: McCain wins Texas. No surprise.

6:50: Obama didn’t run as a liberal? Wow, that is a new one.

6:43: Obama is ahead in Nebraska. What is the world coming to?

6:18: Ohio is lost… Obama gets it. That pretty much means the country is going socialist.

6:11: Obama gets New Mexico. They must be looking forward to that $500 check!

6:09: Tom Udall takes a seat from the republicans

6:04: Bradley effect was real…

6:00: Obama gets Wisconson and New York

5:31: PA goes to Obama. Gonna be a long night…

5:26: Shaheen takes Sununu’s senate seat.

5:18: Newsmax.com has a poll about Sarah Palin.

5:13: Obama get NH.

5:09: McConnell keeps his seat. 51% to 49%. Dole loses her seat.

5:05: McCain gets TN

5:03: Biden gets to serve a 7th term as a senator. Lets hope that’s all he gets to serve as

5:00: Obama gets most of the north east, no suprise. McCain gets Oklahoma.

4:58: Florida is about to close their polls. Still waiting or the panhandle there.

4:50: McCain takes South Carolina (8EV)

4:47: Lieberman fears Democrats getting 60 seats in senate. Read Here.

4:40: Dick Morris says McCain’s win in KY isn’t good. That fact that he only won by 3 points suggests that Obama might win nationally by 6

4:33: Senate minority leader McConnell is at 51% but still TCTC

4:30: Several states still too close to call, including the all important Ohio.

4:27: McCain has West Virginia (5EV)

4:21: Seems I got a little Google loving for my Black Panthers doing what Democrats do best post. As I write this I’m 4th in results on the 1st page

4:10: McCain wins Kentucky (8EV) and Obama Vermont (3EV).

I originally saw this on Ace. This is the message the republicans can’t seem to get out and I just don’t know why.

“Socialism” seems to be the great new buzzword in describing Obama. I tend to agree with that ascertain. The Obama supporters however like to turn the question around and ask whether the current bailout package is socialism as well.

While they fail to answer the original question, the rebuttal is actually an intelligent question. My take on it is, well, yes. I am completely against this package and was from the beginning.

HOWEVER…

What truly scares me is not the government taking control of banks and such, but what will happen to them if Washington becomes completely controlled by democrats. The republicans by nature are for free markets and the democrats are not. Now, if the dems take control of congress and the white house, imagine what they will do with this remarkable gift that the current administration has given them.

Remember, the democrats originally wanted to have union members on the boards of companies that the government helped out. Wow, that alone would be devastating. Thankfully that got knocked down. For now.

I can see Pelosi, Franks, Dodd and perhaps Obama just foaming at the mouth about taking control over the economy in ways they could only dream about. And they have Bush to thank for it. Oh, the irony of it all.

If we are lucky, McCain will get the white house but that doesn’t mean that the dems won’t still control congress and try to take further control of the private sector. At the moment anyway the Treasury Secretary largely controls that 700 billion. Let us hope it stays that way.

Governor Huckabee described it perfectly on The Factor:

We are about to have Halloween, imagine if kids stayed at home and didn’t trick or treat and the kids who went out and did trick or treating have to give up about half their candy for the kids that didn’t bother to get into the costume

Amen Governor. Amen.

If I can find this on YouTube I’ll embed it.

Last I checked our government was supposed to be a democracy. While we don’t have a true democracy due to elected officials, it is close enough for this discussion. The underlying principle is voting, and it is this principle which is being violated right now in congress.

The Oil Drilling Debate

What I am referring to specifically is the head democrats, namely Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, etc. are not letting a vote to occur on expanded drilling in the outer continental shelf and Alaska. This very act is outright appalling and undermines the vary nature of what Congress was supposed to be. These morons know they will lose because there are even many democrats that support more drilling and the fact that over 70% of the American public want it.

So instead of losing, they won’t even let it happen. They want to introduce laws to limit speculation in the oil markets which does two things. First it allows even more governmental control over free markets by people who have not a clue as to what they are doing and will set a precedent that will allow them to dip their dirty fingers into other markets in the name of “helping out”. Much like taxes in general they end up hurting everyone in the long run for the sake of looking good.

We’ll forget the stalling of voting on judicial candidates, which the republicans have been guilty of in the past as well. This is far more serious and immediate. Very rarely is the public so in favor of any one thing like they are in favor of more drilling and more domestic production and yet they don’t care. It should be illegal and unconstitutional to stop the very thing that they were elected to do. VOTE.

I watched the Republican debates last night on Fox and I have to say that Ron Paul looked like bumbling idiot. He reminded me of Ross Perot way back when. He fumbled around, didn’t pay attention and went on rants that without knowing what was actually said before him.

Before last night all I knew about RP was what little I had heard on the net. Seems he has a lot of supporters on the good old WWW, but if this is the guy they are supporting I feel sorry for them. This guy needs to get his head out of his if he plans on getting anywhere.

He has some marginally good ideas I thought, such as the government is spending way too much money, but some of this remarks and suggestions are just too unrealistic.