Senator Lugar just didn’t get it
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!
Senator Barry Goldwater (R-AZ)
Six-term Indiana Republican Senator Dick Lugar went down in defeat Tuesday night by staggering numbers – 60% to 40% according to early reports. And as evidenced by his post-primary election speech the reason he went down to defeat is that he just doesn’t get it.
Giving them the benefit of the doubt, far too many elected Republicans just don’t understand the sea-change in American politics that occurred in 2009 with the birth of the tea party movement and the fact the Democrat Party is no longer populated by honorable men and women with the best interest of America at heart.
Read what Senator Lugar said after his defeat as reported by cnsnews.com:
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What this election is about; Democrats would force you…
This election is most certainly not just about the economy, stupid. The choice in the 2012 elections is very clear; freedom versus tyranny. It is just as simple as that.
Democrats have mandated your healthcare. They have mandated your vehicle mileage. They are closing down coal powered electricity production plants. They are closing down the coal industry. Democrat EPA regulations are closing down oil refineries on the East Coast.
Democrats will increase their control over how you raise your children including what they eat, how they dress and how they speak. They will control how you exercise your religion as in the case of mandating free contraception provided by your Church or church affiliated group in violation of your conscience.
Democrats have defined “fairness” and when and where it applies. They define who makes how much and why as well as who has “enough” or more than they need. They define what is or is not fair in the workplace, the home and the society.
Democrats do not want to “fix” anything but to change everything and after over three years we know what that change involves; the change from a fidelity to the law to the hubris of man. The Democrat “change” is from fact, logic and reason to emotion – from a nation of adults into a community of children.
Democrats will – and have – divide parent from child, men from women, black from white, rich from poor and all from freedom.
President Obama’s change is from a nation governed by statesmen to a motherland ruled by tyrants – from a republic into a collective.
The ostensible nobility of the goal matters not when the means are tyrannical.
Compassionate tyranny is tyranny nonetheless. Freedom, on the other hand, can be a dangerous proposition but there simply is no alternative.
Federal Tyranny in Tombstone, AZ: Enough is enough
It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace– but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775
Federal individual health insurance mandates; States unable to protect their citizens from drug cartels and illegal immigrants; banned light bulbs; attacks against Religion and morality; attacks against free speech through political correctness; attacks against the traditional nuclear family; attacks against individual Americans by the president; contrived crises to promote federal actions; oil refineries and coal-fired power plants closing due to tyrannical EPA mandates; the president overriding and going around the voice of the People – Congress; industries closed down due to threatened and “endangered species;” Occupy mobs with the support of the president closing businesses to demand the fruits of another man’s labor be redistributed; the Constitution pilloried and ridiculed – ignored.
There’s more, of course, but when is enough – enough?
The below story comes to us from the Tenth Amendment Center and involved the city of Tombstone, AZ falling under the thumb of federal tyranny and oppression. In short, due to rulings from the National Forrest Service the city of Tombstone is unable to fix their damaged city water system due to the Spotted Owl and other endangered species in the area unless they are willing to use 19th Century technology.
Here is the link to the story:
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The President’s enemies list: You A-political types and “moderates” did this
The Wall Street Journal has broken a story about President Obama’s enemies list calling out Mitt Romney donors by name and attacking their reputations even to the point of accusing them of crimes without evidence, investigation or anything else common in American jurisprudence.
I blame the a-political, politically apathetic and the so-called moderate Americans for the sad state of America today, American politics and a tin-horn, 3rd world despot occupying our White House as the ostensible head of our government and the gradual but constant loss of freedom and opportunity – our unalienable rights.
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Why Sec. LaHood’s recent idea is so dangerous
Why does a man fix the gutters on his house when they’re only leaking just a little? He does it because that gradual leak will undermine the foundations of his house.
Why do you regularly change the oil in your car? Because using weak oil over time will degrade the car’s engine.
The little things matter. In fact I have often heard it said that if you concern yourself with the little problems there will be few, if any, large problems.
“I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by the gradual and silent encroachment of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpation.” – President James Madison
An honorable man in federal government with a concern for our constitutional system of government and freedom – a statesman versus a populist politician – would never float the idea that recently escaped the lips of Ray LaHood, our Secretary of Transportation.
It seems like such a small thing hardly worth noticing, but it is the perfect example of how our American freedoms conceived in liberty and birthed by fire have been lost over the past several generations.
It is exactly how we went from the small and limited federal government of days gone by to Obamacare.
What is it? It is a simple idea recently floated by the Secretary of Transportation for a national law banning all drivers from talking on their cell phone while driving. On the surface and considered in a vacuum it is simply a “good man” ostensibly trying to save lives, but taken in the context of 20th Century American history it is the weapon of a despot.
Here is the story from Reuters:
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