Showing posts with label republican. Show all posts
Showing posts with label republican. Show all posts

Thursday, September 26, 2013

Allen West: Tea Party Statist and no friend of Liberty or the Constitution

The below article is from 2011, but since Allen West is trying to make some kind of a comeback I feel I should warn Tea Party Activists that he is a Tea Party statist, a fake conservative and no friend to Liberty and the Constitution. He defends the Patriot Act, which portions of it destroy our Constitutional Civil Liberties. And he defends the NDAA that allows indefinite detention of Americans, though he does this by saying the NDAA bill does NOT allow for indefinite detention of Americans when every politician says it does. Denial anyone? Or subterfuge?

ARTICLE STARTS HERE:
As a black conservative and Republican, Allen West is not your typical Tea Party member. West rode the Tea Party wave all the way to the U.S. House last November from Florida’s 22nd congressional district. He is the first black Republican to represent Florida since Reconstruction.
But in addition to being a member of both the Tea Party Caucus and the Congressional Black Caucus, Allen West is also a Tea Party statist.
Before his election to Congress, West was a lieutenant colonel in the army until his retirement after an investigation into his harsh interrogation techniques while fighting in the Iraq War resulted in a $5,000 fine. After his “service” in the military, West worked for a defense contractor as an advisor to the Afghan National Army. He run unsuccessfully in 2008 for the congressional seat he now holds. After speaking at CPAC in 2010 and being endorsed by Sarah Palin, West won the 2010 election against the same Democratic candidate who had earlier defeated him. He was the keynote speaker at the recent 2011 CPAC. West is a favorite of Tea Party members for his attacks on President Obama and government spending and his support for the military and the war on terror.
I have never been too impressed with the Tea Party movement, especially when it comes to issues like the war on drugs and U. S. foreign policy. And although most Tea Party supporters claim they are opposed to big government, in poll after poll a majority of Tea Party Republicans say they have a favorable view of former president George W. Bush. The George W. Bush who doubled the national debt, gave us the first trillion-dollar deficit, drastically expanded Medicare, and not only began two wars that unnecessarily shed American blood and drained the treasury, but waged another war on the domestic front””on the Bill of Rights.
I don’t know how West feels about Bush, but I do know that he is a Tea Party statist who supports the welfare state, the warfare state, and the national security state.
I want to briefly look at these in reverse order, focusing mainly on the welfare state that West would claim to oppose. Read the rest here and read about all the big government stuff Allen West supports.

Friday, January 4, 2013

Workers making $30,000 will take a bigger hit on their pay than those earning $500,000 under new fiscal deal


Middle-class workers will take a bigger hit to their income proportionately than those earning between $200,000 and $500,000 under the new fiscal cliff deal, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center. 

Earners in the latter group will pay an average 1.3 percent more - or an additional $2,711 - in taxes this year, while workers making between $30,000 and $200,000 will see their paychecks shrink by as much as 1.7 percent - or up to $1,784 - the D.C.-based think tank reported.

Overall, nearly 80 percent of households will pay more money to the federal government as a result of the fiscal cliff deal.




Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Open Letter to Rick Perry on his Progressive Record

 
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Governor Perry, let me be clear: It is not that you supported Al Gore that worries us.


It is that you supported Hillary Clinton's health care plan.


You pushed for federal bailout and stimulus funds.


You support welfare for illegal immigrants.


You tried to forcibly vaccinate 12-year-old girls against sexually transmitted diseases by executive order.


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You raised taxes twice.


And, state debt has more than doubled in your tenure as governor, pushing Texas to the brink of our constitutional debt limit.


It's that you supported ALL of these bad ideas that are inconsistent with how most Republicans understand conservatism, yet you now try to swagger your way into the Tea Party.


Governor Perry, with all due respect, you have used great rhetoric. But you will have to answer to the voters of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and across the country as to why that rhetoric does not match your record.


~ Congressman Ron Paul


To Learn more about Ron Paul click:
Ron Paul for President 2012 Issues

Open Letter to Rick Perry on his Progressive Record

 
Ron-Paul-Vs-Rick-Perry-620x300

Governor Perry, let me be clear: It is not that you supported Al Gore that worries us.


It is that you supported Hillary Clinton's health care plan.


You pushed for federal bailout and stimulus funds.


You support welfare for illegal immigrants.


You tried to forcibly vaccinate 12-year-old girls against sexually transmitted diseases by executive order.


Ron Paul with Ronald Reagan
You raised taxes twice.


And, state debt has more than doubled in your tenure as governor, pushing Texas to the brink of our constitutional debt limit.


It's that you supported ALL of these bad ideas that are inconsistent with how most Republicans understand conservatism, yet you now try to swagger your way into the Tea Party.


Governor Perry, with all due respect, you have used great rhetoric. But you will have to answer to the voters of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and across the country as to why that rhetoric does not match your record.


~ Congressman Ron Paul


To Learn more about Ron Paul click:
Ron Paul for President 2012 Issues

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Our Founders hated Democracy and why Marxists love it!

Our Founders hated democracy aka majority rules or mob rules. That's why they choose a representative republic, so the majority wouldn't abuse the minority, and so a minority wouldn't rule over the majority.

Here is how Steve Farrell puts it:


Which is why Marxists love democracy. Democracy, in the extreme, assumes as one of its rights the ‘right’ of the people to tell a business owner how he must manage his property (that he has put vision, capital, sweat, and risk into) – and yet no such right exists in our constitutional republic, excepting in individual cases where the owner in the management of his property violates the rights of others, recognizing that even in that latter case the right of government extends only to exacting justice (after guilt is established in a court of law, a traditional court with a jury of peers, before an impartial judge, not in an administrative court where one is guilty until proven innocent and the judge is on the payroll of the same federal agency that made the law and pressed charges), not dictating a plethora of interventionist policies. Just as importantly, one needs to remember that the communist definition of ‘people control’ or democracy is in practice, nothing less than state control.

Saturday, September 12, 2009

George Will Abandons the War Party



"If you are pro-gun control, pro-socialized healthcare, pro-choice, pro-amnesty, all of these liberal positions can be tolerated so long as you are pro-war. If you are a staunch conservative on virtually every issue, if you're not pro-war, you're no longer welcome in the Republican Party."...Read More

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