Making the Case for Growing a Spine

Time for True Conservatives

To John McCain, Lindsay Graham, and others of your ilk -- the obsequious and fearful Congress critters passing themselves off as conservatives -- I might beseech you all to consider retiring after your current terms expire. Running for reelection will not be a viable option, so long as as the rest of us fix the primary voting scam. It's time for all RINO's to go, we have had enough.

House Speaker John Boehner barely escapes this net I have cast, if only by virtue of the bill he has presented today, one that finally addresses the wishes of the people regarding ObamaCare. (Imagine that, a "Representative" listening to the wishes of constituents)!

To the likes of Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Mike Lee of Utah, I can offer a huge round of applause and a hardy "well done" gentlemen! You were elected through the efforts of the TEA Party and you have not abandoned your pledges to abide by them, working tirelessly to pursue an end to the abomination that is ObamaCare. Getting the Speaker of the House and Eric Cantor -- who only last week offered up a farce of a bill -- to come aboard in this fight is positive news indeed.

For those who may be unaware, last week Eric Cantor introduced a bill -- which was rightly shot down through old fashioned ridicule -- to both reject Obamacare and then fund it at the same time. Word on the street is that the ridicule reached your Representative's ears and facilitated this about face. Shutting down this monstrosity of a law before it gains traction is a positive start, but one that may embolden our elected leaders going into 2014. And the crucial element of this development is that Republicans may be getting some backbone.

John McCain and Lindsay Graham, among others in their particular caucus, have recently been publicly fretting over the possibility of a government shutdown, and where the fingers of blame would subsequently point. They must know that the fight of Ted Cruz, et al, is the right thing to do, but they have been baldly considering their careers above the people and our wishes. With 57% of the people currently rejecting ObamaCare, any other explanation of McCain and his cohort's behavior would be disingenuous, at best, and an outright lie on any other day. They don't care about what's right for the country, only about what will keep them in office.

The coalition of Cruz, Paul, Lee and yes, even Marco Rubio, have decided that it is time to take a stand on behalf of the people they represent and let the cards fall where they may. Whatever the Progressives may want to call it, it is nothing more than standing on principle and letting political expediency handle itself. And it is up to us to make our feelings known to support these men.

The conservatives have announced a plan that will fund all of the government -- military, infrastructure, Social Security, the FAA, everything we have come to expect of our country, while defunding ObamaCare. While it stands little chance of passing in the Democratically-controlled Senate, it must be sent up anyway. Then the conservative wing of the GOP must control the message when the Democrats try to accuse them of "shutting down the government".

They must make the Democrats explain to the American people that the government has been shut down because the Democrats refused make a choice between all the aforementioned government services and a law that we all hate anyway; Obamacare.

Then, when the Democrats begin their inevitable campaign of demonizing Republicans for trying to alter a "duly passed law", the Republicans must point out that that dubious law was passed with not a single vote from Republicans in the midst of a summer of fierce Town Hall meetings, when the people were furious over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. And if that is not enough to win over the minds and hearts of the American people, the Republicans must then point out that Obama has made 19 different alterations to the law without Congressional oversight -- thereby unconstitutional --, thus nullifying the validity of the law as it now stands.

In other words, ObamaCare is not the same law that the Democrats passed in 2009, on their own and over the objections of the people they pretend to serve. The law today, as is, is invalid. If Democrats want to stage a public fight for all Americans to see on that stage, I say let 'em!

We have made a difference, folks. We have sent our people to Congress, and they have been doing our bidding. Do we tremble now and leave them to twist in the savage winds of the voices of Congressional leaders, or do we stand by them after we sent them into battle on our behalf? What does your conscience tell you to do?

We've got two weeks before the fiscal year ends, and decisions have to be made. Let's support our Conservative representatives and tell them to proceed, full speed ahead.

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America's Unconditional Surrender

Unthinkable

Such words my ears have never heard, my lips have never uttered, and whose very contemplation has been forever unfathomable to me, and yet hear I am, witnessing this very thing; America's unconditional surrender, with nary a shot having been fired. And while I put some blame on our own collective apathy, the bulk of culpability rests squarely on the heads of Democrats in this nation along with a handful of Republicans wearing the wrong pajamas.

For decades we have been under invasion from our Southern border and although some have fought this incursion into America, far too many more have turned a blind eye. We have accepted these individuals as workers on our lawns, as contractors doing our vinyl siding, and as the people who picked our vegetables and fruits. For most of us, particularly those of us far removed from the border, it was easy to turn a blind eye as we enjoyed our weekends while an illegal alien tended our properties.

Now, that myopia is coming to haunt us.

The figure bandied about by our politicians and mainstream media is 11 million illegals in our midst. Other sources put that figure at closer to 20 or more million. Whatever the true number may be, it is nonetheless beyond debate that we have been overrun to the point of near helplessness. And the sheer numbers of illegals -- whom our politically correct brethren insist on calling "undocumented" -- has given the masses a sense of invincibility and boldness.

Breitbart.com has the story of this summer's pending activities planned by people who should be hiding from sight, not lobbying our elected Representatives for amnesty.

"I want to be an American"

People who broke the laws of the United States are brazenly using our own political system to advance their agenda of amnesty in America. People who should be under arrest and deported are debating with our Congress people in town halls this summer recess, and we let this happen. What is wrong here? I find this akin to finding a person living on your sofa one morning, and then having the intruder call the police to allege mistreatment from you, the homeowner.

Compassion is quite a lovely thing for the personal philanthropist, but compassion on the scale to which our elected Representatives have taken it is dereliction of duty regarding the U.S. Constitution, a document which all of our politicians have sworn an oath to uphold. And while they have removed all pretense of standing by those oaths, they have taken it to a new level by persecuting other elected officials for having the audacity to attempt to enforce their own oaths, Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona being a prime example.

The political aspects of so-called "Immigration Reform"  and being compassionate for our Southern neighbors notwithstanding, we must demand of our politicians to uphold the laws of America, just as they have sworn to do. However, how many true Americans are even left in this country? Our youth have been indoctrinated to the point where they feel it is a basic human right for illegal aliens to invade our land. Mark Dice from Alex Jones' Infowars.com has a video supporting the notion that most people in America will sign just about any petition without thinking first. So it is little wonder that Obama won reelection in 2012.

The question is, how far do we let this go? Where is that fabled line in the sand? We send our brave kids to foreign lands to fight wars while we dishonor them at home, willingly surrendering the very country they fight to protect. And the media that is supposed to inform us remains enamored of the president and his minions, covering up the truth to preserve an agenda that will be the ultimate ruin of what was once the greatest nation the world has ever known.

In 2009 and 2010, we proved what a fired up population could do, and we took back the House of Representatives. Today, we have no such options left for us, the true American citizens of this country, because the Republicans we elect eventually turn their backs on us too. With the media firmly implanted in the hip pockets of the Progressives, I am afraid that we have lost the war.

Adios, America.

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There's a Fungus Among Us

America, We Have a Problem

OK folks, my tin foil hat is on, and I'm wearing it with pride, because the American people must realize by now that our nation has a real problem, and if we don't wake up now, all could be lost. We have people all across this great land embedded in powerful positions, and making powerful decisions, no matter how innocuous they may appear to be on the surface. And we must marshal all of our resources to make them cease and desist.

Most readers here are probably already aware of the near-exclusion of the photo above and its appearance at New York's 9-11 Memorial Museum, but how many of you were as outraged as me as to the reasoning behind that near tragic decision?

The Creative Director of the museum in question is named Michael Shulan, who incredibly said, "I really believe that the way America will look best, the way we can really do best, is to not be Americans so vigilantly, so vehemently".  (Emphasis mine). Bless his little heart, but I think the only way to be an American is vigilantly and vehemently. In my school days, if someone said to me that I was being "too American", they would have received a knockus to the proboscis. Today, I have learned to control such violent outbursts, but I think Michael Shulan deserves no less than a punch in the nose.

Forgive me, but I still get angry when fans at a ballgame neglect to remove their hats when the Star Bangled Banner is playing, so when I hear that people -- alleged Americans, no less -- are worried about us being too "rah rah" America, I have to scratch my head and count to ten. However, I am growing weary of counting, and I say it's time we, as patriots, woke up.

Our Founding Fathers were what could be described as Liberals in the truest sense of the word, because what they fought for, after all, was Liberty. The word Conservative came into being to describe those of us who believe in conserving the brilliant document our Founders creating in writing our Constitution. We must remember that the Bill of Rights is basically the Ten Commandments for our new government.

Throughout time, our citizens have perverted the term Liberal into what we have today, a movement that has wiped its collective feet on our Constitution and started on a path to that of which our Founders warned; Tyranny. The kids of the 1960's rebelled against a society in which their parents became somewhat wealthy, enough so as to provide a very comfortable lifestyle for their precious little hippies, who appreciated none of it, seeking a Utopia they would never find and succeeding only in warping their minds further through hallucinogenic drugs.

Thus they began the ball rolling, ending up on the fast track in a circular rail line, heading for the same tyrannical environment they thought they were fighting in the 1960's. Instead of fighting the "establishment", the left has succeeded only in replacing the system with a new "establishment", one that is decidedly un-American.

Now, Michael Shulan may be only the Creative Directive of a museum in New York, but he is symptomatic of a larger problem in America, and it goes all the way up to the President of the United States. Obama is a universe apart from George Washington. Washington and the other Founders warned of the possibility of tyranny often, while Obama warns our youth to disregard those voices that warn of tyranny. And Obama travels abroad to apologize for America and ask that our "past transgressions" be forgiven.

Obama thinks that we -- Americans -- have been "too American" in the past. Of course, it can be argued that Obama is actually un-American in thought and deed, and the truly scary part is that he won re-election to the White House. That says one of two things: either we have well too many people who think like he does, or that well too many of our fellow patriots stayed home on election day. Neither scenario is acceptable.

I mentioned on a social site the other day that I have had an American flag on my family cars since the September 11, 2001 attacks on our beloved country, but what I didn't mention is that the practice was commonplace back then. I remember seeing car flags on a lot of cars, and it felt good to see. Today, when I see a car passing by that actually has a flag on it, I am surprised. That is a damned shame.

What I would like to see is the American spirit of unity of which Charlie Daniels wrote in 1980. If anyone remembers the song, In America, you'll know what I mean. The U.S. Olympic Hockey team's defeat of the Russians, and the  pending election of Ronald Reagan filled us with a sense of pride. More importantly, it made us feel like Americans and damned proud to be so. Where did that feeling go?

If it dissipated due to the relentless grinding of the Progressive movement, as I believe it has, then you, my friends, must shake it off and be proud to be Americans again. Make a difference, get involved. Be American, vigilantly and vehemently! And don't be ashamed to say it loud and clear. We must get back to the place where the lunatics were the ones who dared utter the words that Michael Shulan and others like him say and think everyday.

We, the patriots of America, are not the crazy ones. The crazy ones are the fungus among us.

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