Non-Renewal of Patriot Act a Libertarian Triumph--Damn the Neocons, Abolish the Two DOEs

Russell Berman of The Hill views the failure of the House to renew the Patriot Act as a blow to the GOP:

"The sudden breakdown prompted a round of finger-pointing within the GOP upper ranks...Contrite senior aides acknowledged that Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) had miscalculated the level of opposition from Democrats and from within their own ranks."

Likewise, Steve Bell of Frum Forum writes:

"The cracks became real fissures though when the long-feared reality of budget arithmetic dawned on the fiscal hawks in the party.  As we predicted long ago, finding $100 billion in real deficit reduction cuts in the FY11 Continuing Resolution would prove improbable, despite promises by most Republicans that they would achieve that goal."

Bell didn't do well in microeconomics.  It is easy to find a trillion dollars in waste in the federal budget. It is easy to find two trillion.  Rand Paul suggests eliminating the pointless departments of energy and education. Most government agencies produce no value and can be drastically reduced.  Corporate interests like General Electric's MSNBC object to such steps because the chief beneficiaries of government regulation are corporations like General Electric (disclosure: I own 200 GE shares).

Advocacy of the Departments of Energy and Education is extremism.  They do not contribute to improvement of education or the energy picture. Their advocacy involves extreme commitment to economic decline and subsidization of monopoly power.

Campaign for Liberty on Jack Conway and Harry Reid

Jack Conway is running against Rand Paul. H/t Ron Paul and the Campaign for Liberty.  As far as Harry Reid, the CFL does not go far enough. Reid is human discharge.

Poster Tells it Like It Is

Shailagh Murray published a story about Rand Paul's proposal for a tea party caucus in the Washington Post today. Murray reports that the extremist wing of the Republican Party fears the caucus because:

"Voters who don't want to privatize Social Security or withdraw from the United Nations could begin to see the tea party and the Republican Party as one and the same."

Hopefully the tea party caucus will begin to educate Americans as to the Lockean foundation on which the nation's success rests and why Social Security and the United Nations are impediments to further success. In the meantime, the extremists of both parties, the socialists, have grabbed ever more power with support of media, which they control.

When advocates of failed socialist ideas, such as the Democrats and Rockefeller Republicans, use the word "extremist", they utilize a propaganda tactic. The extremists are in the White House, Congress and the Supreme Court, not in the Tea Party. The extremists in power, the Democrats and Rockefeller Republicans, advocate the use of state violence to transfer wealth to Wall Street, government employees and commercial banks, and to steal private homes on behalf of corrupt developers.

RNC Opposes Tea Party

The article points out, then, that the extremists in the GOP, who control the Republican National Committee, fear the ascendency of the Tea Party moderates:

"Former Senate majority leaderTrent Lott (R-Miss.), now a D.C. lobbyist, warned that a robust bloc of rabble-rousers spells further Senate dysfunction. 'We don't need a lot of Jim DeMint disciples,' Lott said in an interview. 'As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them."

It thus has become imperative to view the RNC as in league with the Democrats. It is also important to understand that the motives of the extremists in the GOP are not just to win elections but also to serve the special interests to which both parties have cater: Wall Street, commercial banking, large industrial concerns and government employees.

The most interesting part of the article concerns the above billboard.  I had posted a similar series of photos on April 18.  DNC Executive Director Jennifer O'Malley Dillon said "Republicans keep saying that they aren't extremists -- but they keep doing things like this." But it is Dillon who is the extremist.

The Democrats advocate an irresponsible and failed view, socialism.  Socialism was the philosophy of both Stalin and Hitler. There is nothing extreme about comparing people like Obama and Dillon to Hitler and Stalin. They advocate comparable policies.

Rand Paul's Victory

Rand Paul is the GOP candidate for Senator in Kentucky!  Yiiippppeee!  His speech is just awesome. And who can doubt that, to recall a quote I heard somewhere: something's rotten in Denmark. And long live freedom!