Paul Smart, editor of the Olive Press and Phoenicia Times published an article about Glenda McGee's, Chris Johansen's and my forming the Woodstock-Shandaken-Olive Tea Party in the Woodstock Times this week. The article begins:
"We're drinking lattes and regular bold coffees in the back of the Kingston Starbucks, talking about the starting up of a new Olive/Shandaken/Woodstock offshoot of the year-old Kingston Tea Party group that meets monthly at the Ulster Town Hall. Mitchell Langbert and Glenda McGee are noting how they wished their friend Chris Johansen had been able to make it, since he was the one working the organizational details involving who'd be joining, when and where meetings would be occurring, and how the new local Tea Party effort would operate."
Read the whole article here.
Friday, April 9, 2010
Congressional Moron Thinks Guam Will Sink
Adding to the federal government's self-destructive problems is congressional mental unfitness. Here we have a video of congressional moron Hank Johnson asserting that Guam will sink because of too much population. Johnson is one of the leading minds of the Democratic Party. (H/t Erich Deagostino.)
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Newt Gingrich--Failed Republican
Newt Gingrich was coauthor of the Contract with America in 1994 and became Speaker of the House in 1995, claiming that he would reduce government, abolish the department of education, and end corruption. Instead, while he led Congress, he got embroiled in corruption scandals that mirrored those of the Democrats he had replaced. The Republican Congress reduced federal spending as a percentage of gross domestic product, GDP, chiefly because of the "peace dividend" that had resulted from the end of the Cold War. Gingrich and his Congress did little to reduce spending other than cut military spending, cuts that began (as a percentage of GDP) in 1989. The department of education went full steam ahead.
Gingrich resigned after only a few years amidst complaints about corruption involving a book deal. As well, he allowed himself to be accused of battling President Clinton over the federal budget not because he cared about spending but because he was miffed that he had gotten a bad seat on the President's plane. The repeated exhibition of self-indulgent, selfish immaturity weakened the GOP.
Subsequent to Gingrich's departure, impeaching Clinton absorbed the Republican Congress's energy. If the Democrats could stop the Republicans from cutting government, why couldn't they stop them from impeaching Clinton?
Gingrich is a tragic figure. He is one of the few national GOP leaders to have come out against the Paulson-Bush-Obama bailout. He deserves credit for this. He is brilliant. He is a liberal in the old-fashioned meaning.* But his failure to execute his contract with America in the mid 1990s remains a blot on the GOP's record, one that was made much worse by the GOP's unforgivably dismal record during the Bush years.
It would be tragic if Gingrich were the best the GOP could do for a presidential candidate.
*The old-fashioned word "liberal" in fact means someone who believes in freedom, free market capitalism, and less government. Because those policies had such favorable results, advocates of socialism and social democracy began to call themselves "liberal". But socialism and social democracy had dismal results, so the term "liberal" became one of opprobrium. It is a better term to describe what I believe than is conservative. I do not wish to conserve a thing.
Gingrich resigned after only a few years amidst complaints about corruption involving a book deal. As well, he allowed himself to be accused of battling President Clinton over the federal budget not because he cared about spending but because he was miffed that he had gotten a bad seat on the President's plane. The repeated exhibition of self-indulgent, selfish immaturity weakened the GOP.
Subsequent to Gingrich's departure, impeaching Clinton absorbed the Republican Congress's energy. If the Democrats could stop the Republicans from cutting government, why couldn't they stop them from impeaching Clinton?
Gingrich is a tragic figure. He is one of the few national GOP leaders to have come out against the Paulson-Bush-Obama bailout. He deserves credit for this. He is brilliant. He is a liberal in the old-fashioned meaning.* But his failure to execute his contract with America in the mid 1990s remains a blot on the GOP's record, one that was made much worse by the GOP's unforgivably dismal record during the Bush years.
It would be tragic if Gingrich were the best the GOP could do for a presidential candidate.
*The old-fashioned word "liberal" in fact means someone who believes in freedom, free market capitalism, and less government. Because those policies had such favorable results, advocates of socialism and social democracy began to call themselves "liberal". But socialism and social democracy had dismal results, so the term "liberal" became one of opprobrium. It is a better term to describe what I believe than is conservative. I do not wish to conserve a thing.
Morons Leading Morons: How the Democratic Party Media Lies to Its 1345 Viewers about the Tea Party
I just received this e-mail from Jim Crum about the fictitious reporting on CNN and MSNBC concerning the Tea Party.
>Hello.
Obviously anyone who disagrees with the official government/media elite narrative is a racist.
In fact, just recently Gallop did a survey of all of the remaining 1,345 viwers left for CNN and MSNBC, and nearly two thirds of their combined viewers- a full 892 people thought eveyone in the Tea Party was racist.
This is congruent to what Keith Olberman and Chris Matthews feel.
I gotta tell you folks that really hits me hard, a hammer blow to my self esteem.
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