Former Democrat Rails Against all Parties – Rightly So!

Posted by admin on August 16, 2009 under 2K9 Tea Party Revolution, Conservatism Resurgency | Be the First to Comment

 The following letter is rapidly circulating around the country. Americans everywhere identify with this 53-year-old woman. She has given us a voice. Once you read this, you may want to forward it to your friends…

I’m a home grown American citizen, 53, registered Democrat all my life. Before the last presidential election I registered as a Republican because I no longer felt the Democratic Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. Now I no longer feel the Republican Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. The fact is I no longer feel any political party or representative in Washington represents my views or works to pursue the issues important to me. There must be someone. Please tell me who you are. Please stand up and tell me that you are there and that you’re willing to fight for our Constitution as it was written. Please stand up now. You might ask yourself what my views and issues are that I would horribly feel so disenfranchised by both major political parties. What kind of nut job am I? Will you please tell me?

Well, these are briefly my views and issues for which I seek representation:

One, illegal immigration. I want you to stop coddling illegal immigrants and secure our borders. Close the underground tunnels. Stop the violence and the trafficking in drugs and people. No amnesty, not again. Been there, done that, no resolution. P.S., I’m not a racist. This isn’t to be confused with legal immigration.

Two, the TARP bill, I want it repealed and I want no further funding supplied to it. We told you no, but you did it anyway I want the remaining unfunded 95% repealed. Freeze, repeal.

Three: Czars, I want the circumvention of our checks and balances stopped immediately. Fire the czars. No more czars. Government officials answer to the process, not to the president. Stop trampling on our Constitution and honor it.

Four, cap and trade. The debate on global warming is not over. There is more to say.

Five, universal healthcare. I will not be rushed into another expensive decision. Don’t you dare try to pass this in the middle of the night and then go on break. Slow down!

Six, growing government control. I want states rights and sovereignty fully restored. I want less government in my life, not more. Shrink it down. Mind your own business. You have enough to take care of with your real obligations. Why don’t you start there..

Seven, ACORN. I do not want ACORN and its affiliates in charge of our 2010 census. I want them investigated. I also do not want mandatory escrow fees contributed to them every time on every real estate deal that closes. Stop the funding to ACORN and its affiliates pending impartial audits and investigations. I do not trust them with taking the census over with our taxpayer money. I don’t trust them with our taxpayer money. Face up to the allegations against them and get it resolved before taxpayers get any more involved with them. If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, hello. Stop protecting your political buddies. You work for us, the people. Investigate.

Eight, redistribution of wealth. No, no, no. I work for my money. It is mine I have always worked for people with more money than I have because they gave me jobs. That is the only redistribution of wealth that I will support. I never got a job from a poor person.. Why do you want me to hate my employers? Why — what do you have against shareholders making a profit?

Nine, charitable contributions. Although I never got a job from a poor person, I have helped many in need. Charity belongs in our local communities, where we know our needs best and can use our local talent and our local resources. Butt out, please. We want to do it ourselves.

Ten, corporate bailouts. Knock it off. Sink or swim like the rest of us. If there are hard times ahead, we’ll be better off just getting into it and letting the strong survive. Quick and painful. Have you ever ripped off a Band-Aid? We will pull together. Great things happen in America under great hardship. Give us the chance to innovate. We cannot disappoint you more than you have disappointed us.

Eleven, transparency and accountability. How about it? No, really, how about it? Let’s have it. Let’s say we give the buzzwords a rest and have some straight honest talk. Please try — please stop manipulating and trying to appease me with clever wording. I am not the idiot you obviously take me for. Stop sneaking around and meeting in back rooms making deals with your friends. It will only be a prelude to your criminal investigation. Stop hiding things from me.

Twelve, unprecedented quick spending. Stop it now. Take a breath. Listen to the people. Let’s just slow down and get some input from some nonpoliticians on the subject. Stop making everything an emergency. Stop speed reading our bills into law. I am not an activist. I am not a community organizer. Nor am I a terrorist, a militant or a violent person. I am a parent and a grandparent. I work. I’m busy. I’m busy. I am busy, and I am tired. I thought we elected competent people to take care of the business of government so that we could work, raise our families, pay our bills, have a little recreation, complain about taxes, endure our hardships, pursue our personal goals, cut our lawn, wash our cars on the weekends and be responsible contributing members of society and teach our children to be the same all while living in the home of the free and land of the brave.

I entrusted you with upholding the Constitution. I believed in the checks and balances to keep from getting far off course. What happened? You are very far off course. Do you really think I find humor in the hiring of a speed reader to unintelligently ramble all through a bill that you signed into law without knowing what it contained? I do not. It is a mockery of the responsibility I have entrusted to you. It is a slap in the face. I am not laughing at your arrogance. Why is it that I feel as if you would not trust me to make a single decision about my own life and how I would live it but you should expect that I should trust you with the debt that you have laid on all of us and our children. We did not want the TARP bill. We said no. We would repeal it if we could. I am sure that we still cannot. There is such urgency and recklessness in all of the recent spending.

From my perspective, it seems that all of you have gone insane. I also know that I am far from alone in these feelings. Do you honestly feel that your current pursuits have merit to patriotic Americans? We want it to stop. We want to put the brakes on everything that is being rushed by us and forced upon us. We want our voice back. You have forced us to put our lives on hold to straighten out the mess that you are making. We will have to give up our vacations, our time spent with our children, any relaxation time we may have had and money we cannot afford to spend on you to bring our concerns to Washington Our president often knows all the right buzzword is unsustainable. Well, no kidding. How many tens of thousands of dollars did the focus group cost to come up with that word? We don’t want your overpriced words. Stop treating us like we’re morons.

We want all of you to stop focusing on your reelection and do the job we want done, not the job you want done or the job your party wants done. You work for us and at this rate I guarantee you not for long because we are coming. We will be heard and we will be represented. You think we’re so busy with our lives that we will never come for you? We are the formerly silent majority, all of us who quietly work, pay taxes, obey the law, vote, save money, keep our noses to the grindstone and we are now looking up at you. You have awakened us, the patriotic spirit so strong and so powerful that it had been sleeping too long. You have pushed us too far. Our numbers are great. They may surprise you. For every one of us who will be there, there will be hundreds more that could not come. Unlike you, we have their trust. We will represent them honestly, rest assured. They will be at the polls on voting day to usher you out of office. We have cancelled vacations. We will use our last few dollars saved. We will find the representation among us and a grassroots campaign will flourish. We didn’t ask for this fight. But the gloves are coming off.. We do not come in violence, but we are angry. You will represent us or you will be replaced with someone who will. There are candidates among us when he will rise like a Phoenix from the ashes that you have made of our constitution.

Democrat, Republican, independent, libertarian. Understand this. We don’t care.. Political parties are meaningless to us. Patriotic Americans are willing to do right by us and our Constitution and that is all that matters to us now. We are going to fire all of you who abuse power and seek more. It is not your power. It is ours and we want it back. We entrusted you with it and you abused it. You are dishonorable. You are dishonest. As Americans we are ashamed of you. You have brought shame to us. If you are not representing the wants and needs of your constituency loudly and consistently, in spite of the objections of your party, you will be fired. Did you hear? We no longer care about your political parties. You need to be loyal to us, not to them. Because we will get you fired and they will not save you. If you do or can represent me, my issues, my views, please stand up. Make your identity known. You need to make some noise about it. Speak up. I need to know who you are. If you do not speak up, you will be herded out with the rest of the sheep and we will replace the whole damn congress if need be one by one. We are coming. Are we coming for you? Who do you represent? What do you represent? Listen. Because we are coming. We the people are coming.

ACORN D.C. Board Members Question Transparency of National Organization

Posted by admin on May 19, 2009 under Lack of Truth or Consequences, Obama and Other Hypocrites, On Spreading the Wealth | Be the First to Comment

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I applaud Ms. Reed & Mr. Turner for their diligence in questioning and pursuing the answers they in particular and we in general deserve as far as where monies (including taxpayer $) are being spent by this organization and/or it’s officers.  As local Washington, D.C. board members, they have asked for accounting and transparency from what I would call the “clearing house” or “umbrella” company CCI. CCI (Citizens Consulting, Inc.) is the central point for collection of member dues, as well as Federal grants and foundation funding.

What I find remarkable is that CCI is essentially a microcosm of the Federal govenrment and the direction in which Left-wing organizations such as ACORN wish to take it. I think the irony of Mr. Turner’s statements beginning at 4:48 may not be apparent to this well-meaning man. 

Beginning at 4:48, here is what he said:

“…it’s hard to keep up with where the money’s gone, what purpose it was used for, but when we as a local want to get some of the money back from the dues that our members have paid, we have problems.”

He goes on to say:

 ”…like for instance we started up a (local) newsletter. We have problems getting back money from national or from CCI to even mail out these newsletters to our members.”

After a comment from Glenn Beck, Mr. Turner says:

“…over the last couple of years, D.C. local has been in the top three locals submitting membership dues to ACORN national or to CCI. But whenever it comes to getting some money back, to support different campaigns or projects we want to support, there was no money, there was no accountability of where the money went, even some of the money was taken out of our account unbeknownst to our Board or without our say-so or even knowing that it’s gone.”

Hmmm…I don’t mean this viciously, but this sounds an awful lot like the management/governing philosophy of the man this “non-partisan” organization helped elect.  Here is a “high performing, high earning,” I’ll call it “individual unit” of the organization that is not reaping the benefit of their hard work. It kinda sounds like CCI is “spreading the wealth” as it sees fit. 

Watch it here:

Knocking the Nut (ACORN) Off Its Tree

Posted by admin on March 31, 2009 under Lack of Truth or Consequences | Be the First to Comment

There has been a call for the Congressional Judiciary committee to investigate the actions of ACORN according to an article on One News Now.

[See Also:  'New York Times' Spiked Obama Donor Story]
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A Republican congressman is welcoming a proposal recently voiced by House Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers to hold hearings into the activities of the controversial group ACORN.

The Washington Times recently reported that Conyers, a Michigan Democrat and a fierce partisan, suggested a congressional probe after scathing testimony about ACORN — the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.

The testimony before the Judiciary Committee by Pittsburgh attorney Heather Heidelbaugh accused the nonprofit group of violating tax, campaign finance, and other laws by, among other things, sharing with the Barack Obama campaign a list of maxed-out campaign donors so ACORN could use it to solicit them for a get-out-the vote drive.

She also testified that ACORN provided liberal causes with protest-for-hire services and coerced donations from the targets of demonstrations through a shakedown it called the “muscle for the money” program.

Conyers called the accusations “a pretty serious matter.” However, Congressman Steve King (R-Iowa), who is a member of the Judiciary Committee, says getting a Democrat-led Congress to investigate ACORN is going to be difficult.

“John Conyers clearly called for a hearing to investigate ACORN,” King shares. “And he got pushback from the chairman of the Constitution subcommittee, Jerry Nadler [D-New York], who said [he would] consider an investigation when there’s credible evidence.”

According to King, Conyers argued there was already credible evidence — a witness who has testified under oath and has succeeded in getting a partial injunction against ACORN.

So while King says he supports the idea of an investigation of ACORN, so far no hearing has been scheduled.

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In my opinion, ACORN is no less than an organized crime enterprise, but regardless of my opinion, we as taxpayers deserve to know if our tax dollars are being used for illegal activites.

We need to give Mr. Conyers a bit of positive reinforcement by thanking him:
http://conyers.house.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.Home

And light a fire under Nadler to get the ball rolling on the hearings:
http://www.house.gov/nadler/contact.shtml

Further, if you have the time, contact each and very member of the Judiciary committee:
http://judiciary.house.gov/about/members.html

See Also:  ‘New York Times’ Spiked Obama Donor Story

American + Patriot + Tax Hater = Permit Denied

Posted by admin on March 29, 2009 under 2K9 Tea Party Revolution, Civil Rights - An Ironic View | Read the First Comment

What are they afraid a bunch of law abiding citizens are going to go ACORN on them? Oh, that’s right, ACORN has all the Federal funds it needs to pay all the exhorbitant fees and insurance premiums for their Socialist Parties, but we freedom-loving citizens have to pay out of our own rip-shorn-over-taxed pockets to make ourselves be heard.

“Florida Gov’t Cancels Tea Party Fearing ‘Too Many Attendees’”

On a side note: It’s pretty bad when Canadians start feeling sorry for us.

MSM Out to Lunch, But Not In The Tea Room

Posted by admin on March 25, 2009 under 2K9 Tea Party Revolution, Objective Journalism is Dead | Be the First to Comment

I have been going ’round to some of the mainstream media websites and running  searches for “tax day tea party” and “tea party.” So far I have only come up with one article – on ABC’s site that was published on March 18th. The head- and sub-headlines: