This is just THIS YEAR, folks

So, I’m wonderin: Could I buy a new car with that? Could YOU?

And of course THIS one makes me think I could afford a new 100 inch High Def TV!!!

Why I'm Registering Republican

(Oh, Gawd!)

I know what you're thinking

You're thinking: "Have you gone and lost your pea-pickin' mind? I thought sure I'd hear you say you'd  chop off all your fingers before typing the words in the heading above!" And in a normal world you'd be right. So what's different THIS time? Why am I considering joining the more insane one of the two Parties Of Insanity?

Election times are traditionally sad times for the likes of me as I spend all my time avoiding watching an endless parade of political clones trying to convince me that their form of gangrene is so much better than the gangrene that we are already inflicted with. "Your gangrene is incurable," they mouth with enthusiasm, "But if you add MY form of gangrene to your OTHER limb, you'll at least be balanced!" "But," I inquire, "Can't we work on curing my gangrene?" "Sorry," they commiserate, "That gangrene is already in place. Nothing can be done about it now except get a better form of it for your other limbs. That's where I come in!"  And so it goes, with each candidate telling us how much better off we'll be if only the government gets ever bigger and bigger and encroaches more and more into our lives.

But the Democrats will save us!

First a little background

 

Now nearly a year into their majority, Democrats are once again proposing the biggest tax increase in history... If it is passed, [the Democrats’ 2008 proposed] budget will impose a tax increase totaling nearly $400 billion over five years.

The Senate Democrats, writing their first budget resolution since winning control in Congress last fall, have produced a budget blueprint that:

 

   * Raises taxes by $900 billion over five years and a projected $3.3 trillion over ten years;

   * Translates into a tax increase of $2,641 per household annually over the next decade;

   * Includes 22 reserve funds that could be used to raise taxes by hundreds of billions more;

  * Increases discretionary spending by nearly 9 percent in FY 2008 and does not terminate a single program;

   * Completely ignores the impending tsunami of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid costs;

   * Creates rules that bias the budget toward tax increases; and

   * Employs the same gimmicks that Congress criticized the President for using in his budget proposal.

 

Like Bush, the Democrats left out funding for the long-term costs of the war in Iraq and for fixing the alternative minimum tax that threatens unsuspecting middle-class families.

 

“I don’t assert that this is a perfect budget,” said Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D. “But at the end of the day, the test for us is, ‘Can we write a budget for our country?”’ Don’t you just LOVE it when they say stuff like that?

 

 Where is mention of repeal of the horrendous Patriot Act, which has essentially destroyed the rule of law in this country? And what about the TSA? Is there ANYBODY who hasn’t had a good laugh over their amazingly stupid antics? Of course, you’re not laughing while you’re enjoying your stay in the airport. But maybe you’re one of those folks that think that being groped and disrespected and searched and having to partially disrobe before taking an airplane is a small price to pay for keeping us safe in the air and that it’s been the effectiveness of the TSA that has prevented further attacks. Well, GUESS AGAIN . It’s perfectly obvious that the only reason that they haven’t done it again is because they’ve already accomplished everything that they wanted to, what with having induced our government to destroy our country itself and all. But let’s talk a little about whether the TSA is even necessary at all for a moment. And have you checked out the marvellous job that FEMA has been doing? All of this bundled under the amazingly nazi-sounding (and nazi-Ish) DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, a bureaucracy which has not fulfilled HALF its mandates and that is capable of making ordinary citizens disappear without a trace forever and who maintains facilities to torture and incarcerate people indefinitely. And what about the incredilbly stupid, destructive, costly, and oppressive War On Some Drugs? . Speaking of drugs, does anybody still think that the FDA does more good than harm? If so, you should see THIS. Even the USDA, which just about everybody thinks is completely necessary, is a COMPLETE WASTEFUL MESS. Is this the country we signed up for? It quickly becomes perfectly obvious to anybody doing even a little bit of research that we would be SO much better off without ANY of these bureaucracies. Is this where you want your children to grow up? If the Democrats are the answer, why aren’t they doing anything? Really...is there ANYTHING that federal bureaucracies do well (Okay, waste money and scare and kill people, but besides that)?

 

What are we gonna do? How would YOUR family feel about paying another coupla grand a year in taxes? And for what? Isn’t there some way we can be saved from these two parties of government juggernaut? Maybe there is. Maybe there just is. But it won’t be by voting for the same-old, same-old, that’s for sure. It will take an entirely different view of the role of government than any of these guys have and what we’ve been used to seeing.  A view of smaller government, if you can believe such a thing, given what we’ve been fed for so long. But has it been working? Naahhh. How about something old?  Are you up for it?  WHAT IF?

The Democrats, gleefully taking over Congress and even more gleeful at the prospect of their OWN inevitable and veto-free administration commencing at the end of next year, have wasted no time in throwing their own gallon of gasoline on our pyrrhic Federal Monstrosity, sending a spending bill for the Nazi-ish Department of Homeland Security to Bush that even the heretofore insatiable President found to be too much money, increasing their funding by a whopping 30% (can you say "politics," anyone? Can there be any doubt that Bush would have gleefully accepted every penny of this money from a Republican-controlled Congress?). They also funded the war, flapping their yaps about how the war must end while conveniently forgetting that without money no war can be fought; instead citing the "necessity" of keeping the deaths mounting. They have done absolutely nothing to undo the horrendous damage that has been done to this country by the Bush administration, nor will they. They simply will add to it with their own plethora of programs designed to make central government grow and grow until it crushes us all. There is no voice anywhere among this throng of saviors that thinks government is too big and should be throttled back. Quite the contrary; they would spend even more, hastening the country's financial demise. No society can sustain a government that grows continually faster than its populace. It must inevitably crush the economy under its weight. Even now, government is only sustained by massive borrowing and printing money at an unprecedented rate  because of the realization that doubling or quadrupling everybody's tax burden would be political suicide. But nowhere is the solution of making government smaller mentioned.

The Internet gives us the power of mass distribution by individuals that we’ve never had before in all of history, folks. If you decide you like what you see here, please feel free to send the link  to my site to as many people as you want.

"I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant."--H.L. Mencken

“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face! It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!”--George W. Bush, November, 2005

 

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."--Presidential  oath of office taken by every president AND member of Congress.

“The only freedom deserving the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental and spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.” —John Stuart Mill

 

"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator."

 

- George W. Bush, during a photo-op with Congressional leaders on 12/18/2000. As broadcast on CNN and available in transcript on their web site.

“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.” John Quincy Adams

“Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.”
–Senator Daniel Webster (1782-1852)

 

Just in case you don't know it, you must be registered as a Republican in the state of California in order to vote in the California Republican primaries. I just changed my affiliation today online and it's quick and easy as can be. I registered as a Republican (although I had to SERIOUSLY hold my nose the whole time I was doing it) by filling out the California On-line Voter Registration form electronically by clicking HERE.

There is also a box you can check for permanent absentee status. That way you don't even have to go to the polls to vote. I've been doing it that was for years. They just mail you your ballot and you do it at home. Cool.

A week or two later, you will receive the completed form in the mail with a self-addressed stamp and all you have to do then is sign it and send it back. Simple. Help save the country. What’s THAT you say? You don’t LIVE in California? No prob. Just click HERE. We aim to please.

“I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that ‘all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states or to the people.’ To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, not longer susceptible of any definition.” -Thomas Jefferson

 

Go ‘head! I PROMISE I’ll respond, even if it’s to tell you what a dumbshit you are! OR to defend what  dumbshit I am

I’m also wondering...among all those OTHER wars...Poverty, Poor. Drugs...How’s that Drug one goin’? Happy with it? Got a child in prison yet? Lookin’ forward to it? Yeah. Me, too. If I had one, that is. Kinda glad I don’t. Are YOU?