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Another solid Tea Party performance @ 8:15pmEST
to match the victory of Rand Paul.
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| Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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Bloodbath But No Landslide @ 8:25pmEST
| Quote: | Indications from Indiana point to massive
Republican win in House nationwide
Charles Lewis November 2, 2010 – 6:17 pm
Early votes from Indiana show that the Republicans are poised for a rout of the Democrats nationwide. Analysts have said that if Republicans won two of three pivotal races in the state the Republican majority in the House of Representatives would approach 60 seats, far more than the 39 seats that would give the Republicans a majority. It now appears the Republicans will win two seats and a third is still too close to call. |
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| Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 8:37 pm Post subject: |
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23% of voters backed the Tea Party at the ballot box @ 9:30pmEST
In the Ohio governor's race Ted Strickland and John Kasich
are tied at 47 percent with just over a third of the vote counted.
The White House would love to see Strickland win.
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| Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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Rumour is.....
that Harry Reid is doing well against Sharron Angle
and that tends to confirm what I'm seeing.
@ 10:00pmEST
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| Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 9:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | The outcome of the Anna Little/ Frank Pallone race in the sixth
congressional district will set the tone of the Tea Party's strength
around the country.
If Anna Little wins the House seat, there is a high probability that
Republicans could win as many as 100 seats today. If Little loses
by one or two points, Republicans should pick up at least 70 seats.
This race is in so many ways a bellwether for the rest of the nation.
- MURRAY SABRIN |
Well, blow me down!
Tea Party upstart, Anna Little is winning in NJ!!!
I posted an article by Peggy Noonan earlier today on the previous
forum page. She spotlighted Anna Little's chances:
| Quote: | A Little Lady Predicts a Big Win
The Republican tide may even reach the Jersey Shore.
The Wall Street Journal: October 30, 2010
[Here] is one way you’ll know it’s huge:
Anna Little wins in New Jersey.
If she wins it means the Republican wave swept all before it.[/b]
Not that she’s expected to.
She’s running for Congress in the Jersey Shore’s Sixth Congressional District, which went for Mr. Obama over Mr. McCain 60% to 38%. She’s the Republican mayor of Highlands, population 5,000, up against incumbent Frank Pallone, an 11-term Democratic veteran who won in 2008 by 35 points.....
Her campaign is a shoestring operation. She’s got four pickup trucks that tour around with her signs. She calls it “The Lawrence Welk Caravan: Anna 1, Anna 2, Anna 3 and Anna 4.” By the end of the campaign, she says, she and her volunteers will have knocked on 100,000 doors. She puts the figure at 90,059 as of Tuesday night.....
Republican leaders did not choose her. So she ran for the GOP nomination against their candidate, a wealthy party contributor who was part of the organization, glamorous to the point of Palinesque, and self-funding. Ms. Little, with no money, won by 84 votes of 13,524 cast.
How did she do it? “I went door to door,” she said.......
She was asked if they call her the Little Engine That Could. “No,” she said. “They call me the Little Engine That Will.”
http://www.peggynoonan.com/ |
Here's Anna Little's Campaign Kick-off:
Let me get this straight.
A Tea Party candidate just beat a wealthy Dem, 11-term insider in NJ?
I see.
Yeah, a bloodbath.
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| Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 11:09 pm Post subject: |
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The political theme of today's events is clear:
Downsize Big Government.
Murray Sabrin sets out the agenda
for the tea party's new momentum:
| Quote: | The U.S. Constitution (the document Pallone and his colleagues in the Congress as well as Supreme Court Justices and the President of the United States have sworn to uphold) authorizes only four cabinet departments --- Justice, State, Treasury, and War (now the Defense Department).
The constitution does not authorize the following cabinet departments ---Agriculture, Commerce, Education, Energy, HUD, HHS, Homeland Security, Interior, Labor, and Transportation. They should be phased out over the next several years in order to return the country to its founding structure ---- a constitutional republic.
Nowhere in the constitution is the federal government authorized to pay for the American people's healthcare, retirement income, education, housing, etc....
Now we have such unconstitutional institutions and programs as the Federal Reserve, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, farm subsidies, bank bailouts, corporate welfare, preemptive war, and the list goes on and on.
In the next Congress, Tea Party candidates should work to abolish the unauthorized cabinet departments because they redistribute income and make us poorer as a nation, except the crony capitalists who benefit from a big government in Washington D.C. Nowhere in the constitution is the federal government authorized to redistribute income.
The guiding principle of the constitution is to "promote the general welfare." Promoting the general welfare means self-government. States and local governments should be responsible for a few uncontroversial activities like local roads and the courts, and the nonprofit sector should eventually deliver all the social services the American people want in their communities, including education. Instead, Pallone and his cronies have no qualms about the federal government taking money from New Jerseyans and sending it to Wyoming, North Dakota, etc., and supporting the welfare-warfare state.
If scores of Tea Party members, including Anna Little, win on Tuesday and do what they have been asserting during their campaigns --- adhere to U.S. Constitution when they serve in Congress --- then there is hope our lost freedoms will be restored.
Murray Sabrin is professor of finance at Ramapo College. He was the Libertarian Party nominee for governor in 1997 and a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2000 and 2008. Check www.MurraySabrin.com for more of his writings.
http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/commentary/anna-little-frank-pallone-race-a-bellwether-for-nation |
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| Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 4:10 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for the item from Murray Sabrin, Fintan. He has distilled the essence of what the "Tea Party" SHOULD be all about.
I remain very doubtful that any of what he says will be realized but if the new electees make any kind of credible effort to bring about these changes then I will see real hope. |
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| Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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Didn't take long for Rand Paul and other key Tea Party
candidates to put distance between themselves and the
GOP.
Looks like a new political force, which if it could broaden
it's base would effectively control the political agenda.
| Quote: | Tea Partiers Looking to Build
Conservative Coalition on Capitol Hill
November 03, 2010 | FoxNews.com
The Tea Party movement has earned a sizeable voice in Congress after two tumultuous years in the making, and it's moving quickly to carve out a foothold in Washington before the next session begins in January.
Minnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann, a Tea Party darling who moved to create a House caucus for the movement over the summer, is planning to run for a top-ranking leadership position, according to a colleague. Rand Paul, the winner of the Kentucky Senate contest, said Wednesday that he wants to form a bicameral Tea Party caucus.
The developments signal that the Tea Party's congressional stewards are looking to expand the movement's reach as soon as possible, though it's unclear whether the contingent will complement or combat the Republican Party as a whole.
While some party leaders on both sides of the aisle said they would welcome and work with the new class of lawmakers, Tea Party-aligned Sen. Jim DeMint on Wednesday suggested the incoming members wage a battle against the party infrastructure. But the Tea Party candidates as well as the veteran GOP legislators were all talking about the same thing in the wake of their historic gains in the midterm elections -- cutting spending, cutting government and spurring economic growth.
"Americans don't understand why we have to balance our own family budget and Congress doesn't. It just doesn't make any sense to us," Paul told Fox News. "We have to do something to get our fiscal house in order."
Paul said he'll push these goals by forming a Tea Party caucus made up of both House and Senate members. "I think there's a lot of potential members in the House and a few members in the Senate as well," he said.
Though the Tea Party suffered a couple big losses on Tuesday -- most notably with Christine O'Donnell in the Delaware Senate race and Sharron Angle in the Nevada Senate race -- their favored candidates sailed to victory in dozens of other races.
In the Senate, Tea Party-backed Marco Rubio in Florida, Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania, Mike Lee in Utah, Ron Johnson in Wisconsin and Paul in Kentucky all won their races.
At least two-dozen Tea Party candidates scored victories on the House side. Among them were Jon Runyan in New Jersey and Kristi Noem in South Dakota.
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele said "the establishment is going to have to deal" with the new generation of political figures. He described that development as a positive thing.
"What you saw, in my estimation ... was the Grand Old Party evolving into the great opportunity party, where we are now not only getting outside of our comfort zone but going out and touching people in a way in which our message is resonating," Steele told Fox News. "We've got to now govern and we've got to govern on some very difficult issues in a very difficult time, and the expectation bar set by the people last night is very high."
But DeMint, R-S.C., suggested the coming session could be the scene of an internal party struggle -- kind of like the GOP primary season.
"The next campaign begins today. Because you must now overcome determined party insiders if this nation is going to be spared from fiscal disaster," he wrote in a Wall Street Journal column.
"Tea party Republicans were elected to go to Washington and save the country -- not be co-opted by the club. So put on your boxing gloves. The fight begins today."
He suggested incoming members hire conservative staff and be cautious about accepting titles or committee assignments because other lawmakers may expect compromises in return.
DeMint, asked on Fox News about his column, clarified that there's still a "big tent out there." He nevertheless predicted a "tussle" as Tea Party candidates arrive in Washington "to help save our country."
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/11/03/tea-partiers-looking-build-conservative-coalition-capitol-hill/ |
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| Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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Let's take a closer look at Rand Paul in two
video interviews. The first one just before
the election and the second just after:
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| Quote: | military spending should be trimmed.
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the only taxpayer financed 'military spending' that is legitimate is that which would be necessary to secure the nation's borders against real armed invasion...which would be maybe 1% of the present budget(if even that).
Perhaps the Swiss military budget would be worth looking at. |
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| Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2010 5:55 am Post subject: |
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May I ask what are the monetary policies of the Tea Party groups? I listened to your (Fintan) audio with that guy from the American Blog, and he briefly posed a question on how funding (of the reconstruction of American) is going to happen; private or state. I've been following the Tea Party, and the general idea they promote is abolishing the Fed, but they still believe, from people I've spoken to, in private finance.
They don't seem to have noticed Article 1 Section 8 of their own US Constitution, states that the government is 'allowed' to coin money.
What are your thoughts on this (sorry if this is slightly off topic)?
On the subject of Jeffersonian limited government, what is the Tea Party position on things like NASA, and the US Army Corps of Engineers (which, for example, could have prevented the Katrina disaster if they hadn't had maintenance funds cut for the unkeep of the levies). These are expensive government functions, but hardly representative of bloated bureucracy. Is the Tea Party for privatising these functions of the state? I don't see where private investors are going to come in and relace these functions, given the lack of profits the above example would produce. Is that even right to privatise something now owned/ controlled by the government?
In NASAs case, we know pricks like Virgins' Dick Branson would obviously want NASA out of the way of their Gattaca-like space exploration plans. |
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| Quote: | | NASA, and the US Army Corps of Engineers (which, for example, could have prevented the Katrina disaster if they hadn't had maintenance funds cut for the unkeep of the levies). These are expensive government functions, but hardly representative of bloated bureucracy. I |
NASA??....... LOL!!!
Um,sorry, but that one is very representative of MASSIVE tax-payer ripoff/bloated & illegitimate bureaucracy |
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| Well, yeah, that is a fair point, though the Apollo program was expensive, but surely worth it? That was part of my question really, if space is a natural progression, do we leave that directionality to pirates like Branson, then, presumably, stop funding NASA, or perhaps reform (I know thats a dirty word) NASA to be like it was under JFK. |
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| Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2010 3:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Figaro:
....How funding (of the reconstruction of American) is going to happen;
private or state. I've been following the Tea Party, and the general idea
they promote is abolishing the Fed, but they still believe, from people
I've spoken to, in private finance...... |
Good point, and I think we are headed for a battle on this.
The GOP private capital mob will be pushing hard for classic Thatcherite
privatization of public assets as a way to downsize Gov. And there are
many in the Tea Party who in general support private finance.
But this debate is likely to be taken to a higher level in the context
of what you say about Tea Party support for reform of the banker-led
monetary system by means of Treasury currency.
That's going to open a broader debate among members of the planned
Tea Party Caucus. There will be voices at that level who will argue for
root and branch reform of public finance -including on infrastructure.
It think a lot of answers to your questions will emerge out of caucus
debate which will firm up the line item details of the Tea Party agenda.
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| Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 10:23 am Post subject: |
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Ah yes, the old "deny funding for implementation" ploy......
| Quote: | Two days after Republicans scored big victories in congressional elections, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell took a hard line against Obama's landmark law and showed no sign of compromise when the new Congress opens for business in January. "We can and should propose and vote on straight repeal repeatedly" of the healthcare law, he said.
McConnell's remarks, in a speech delivered to the conservative Heritage Foundation, acknowledged that Obama would veto such legislation, which probably would be blocked by the president's fellow Democrats in the Senate anyway.
More realistically, McConnell said Republicans, who will hold a majority in next year's House of Representatives, should aim to hobble the healthcare law by "denying funds for implementation" of the measure. Annual spending bills for agencies, including ones that implement the healthcare law, are normally written first in the House.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6A30YD20101105 |
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