The Tea Party Is Forming It’s Own Ron Paul Revolution

The man who inspired the Ron Paul Revolution finds himself under attack by the Tea Party Nation.

Libertarian-leaning Texas Congressman Ron Paul, whose political ideology played a part in inspiring the Tea Party movement, finds himself facing off against the very people he helped to motivate.

One of the three Tea Party-connected candidates running against Ron Paul in the primary claims “He’s not being involved in his district.”

Another calls Paul one of the most ineffective members on Capitol Hill, saying
“He’s unwilling to work with others, and people are unwilling to work with him, and so we have no voice in Congress.”

Members of the Tea Party claim that although they support the Ron Paul message of fiscal restraint, he is too focused on his national ambitions, that he votes “no” on nearly everything, and not being tough enough on matters of national security as reason for challenging his 2010 Congressional re-election bid.

Paul’s supporters will surely turn out in sufficent numbers to insure his re-election, but it will be interesting to watch and see how the members of the Tea Party Nation face-off against the leader of the Ron Paul Revolution.

 

Cross-posted at Vote 2010

Dick Cheney Visits CPAC

Former Vice-President Dick Cheney made a surprise appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

Cheney was warmly received by the crowd at CPAC, the annual Washington D.C gathering where the leaders of the conservative movement, as well as the rank-and-file members, gather to discuss strategy and policy.

Cheney cited recent election results in Virginia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts as encouraging signs for conservatives’ future prospects.

And one particular remark of Cheney’s during his address gained him a standing ovation.

Congress Hit With A Capitol Offense

A recent CNN poll revealed just how fed up Americans are with their members of Congress:

Only 1/3 of voters think that their particular members of Congress should be returned next year.

Sixty three percent of voters polled are against re-electing members of the House and Senate whose terms will be up this year.

The anger seems to be equally directed between Democrats and Republicans, however this is worse news for the Democrats as they have more seats at risk in the 2010 elections.

And the voters of Massachusetts sending Scott Brown to the U.S. Senate may have sent a message that the Democrats won’t want to hear.

Yet with the general feeling among the electorate, regardless of political affiliation, leaning towards “throw the bums out”, the Republicans shouldn’t become too smug.

Possible Replacement For Evan Bayh

Indiana Senator announced his retirement from the Senate earlier this week.

Word has it that the two-term Democrat may be replaced by singer John Mellencamp.

Hey. if we can have a community organizer as President Of The United States, why not a washed-up rock star for the U.S. Senate?

The Real Reason Evan Bayh Retired

Senator Evan Bayh (D) Indiana, is the latest in a growing list of Democrat incumbents who are bowing out of re-election bids in 2010.

Many political pundits are making the claim that the reason for Bayh’s retirement announcement is that come November, he would face a challenge from the man who held the Senate seat before him, Republican Dan Coats.

Even the RNC has gotten into the act.

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele said that Bayh’s retirement was just one more example of Democrats “running for the hills.”

My opinion is that folks who share Michael Steele’s belief are dead wrong.

Bayh, a former governor, has won a Senatorial election in Indiana twice, proving that he has a lot of bi-partisan voter support in a perennially red state.

Ever since Barack Obama won the Presidency, Evan Bayh has been butting heads with his fellow Democrats, stating in no uncertain terms that they should be focusing more on jobs creation and fiscal responsibility than on passing health care reform and cap and trade measures.

Among the numerous reasons Bayh gave for his retirement:
“There is much too much partisanship and not enough progress; too much narrow ideology and not enough practical problem-solving. Even at a time of enormous national challenge, the people’s business is not getting done.”

He has also made the claim that his re-election prospects did not influence his decision:
“My decision was not motivated by political concern. Even in the current challenging political environment, I am confident in my prospects for reelection.”

I believe that Bayh is being sincere in the reasons he is claiming are behind his actions.

However.

I think that Senator Bayh is only telling part of the story.

It’s well known in Washington political circles that Bayh harbors Presidential ambitions.

With the popularity and approval numbers for Congress and President Obama dropping on a daily basis, his retirement announcement is also savvy political strategy.

Bayh is saying, in effect:  ”I quit! You people are more concerned with your own agendas and political power than you are with serving the American people!”

Come 2012, a man who can point to that resolve as a reason for stepping down, along with a history of being able to attract Republican votes, just could make Bayh a prime contender for the Democrat Presidential nomination.

Stay tuned. 

 

Cross-posted at Vote 2010

States That Are A Real Problem For Democrats Re-Election Chances

Voter dissatisfaction with the Democratic majority in both Houses of Congress has been brewing for quite a while now, and Barack Obama’s election as President has only made matters worse for Democrats who will be running for election or re-election in 2010.
They can forget any chance of taking back their supermajority in the Senate.

The election of Scott Brown to take over the Massachusetts Senate seat formerly held by Ted Kennedy was only the opening battle in the Republican war to take back Congress.

According to data from Newsmax

In President Obama’s home state of Illinois, Republican Mark Kirk is polling higher than his Democrat opponent Alexi Giannoulias.

Former state House Speaker Marco Rubio holds a  12-point lead over RINO Governor Charlie Crist in Florida’s Republican Primary race for the U.S. Senate.

Incumbent Democrat Senators who currently trail their challengers include:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada

Michael Bennet of Colorado

Former RINO now certified Democrat Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania
(Specter swithed parties, knowing he would lose in the Republican primary. That plan isn’t working out so well, he is facing a stiff primary challenge from fellow Democrat Joe Sestak.)

And last but not least,  Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas

Democrats who are usually considered to be a “shoe-in” for re-election, but find themselves in competitive races this year are:

Barbara Boxer: California
Evan Bayh: Indiana
Russ Feingold: Wisconsin

In open-seat Senate races, Republican candidates are leading their Democratic challengers in Missouri, New Hampshire, North Dakota Delaware, Florida, Kentucky,  and Ohio.

I’m sure that these Democrat Senators struggling to hold onto their positions, as well as the DNC itself, hope that this isn’t the change they will see this November.

 

Cross-posted at Vote 2010

Convicted Felon To Run For Congress

If the Republican National Committee endorses this guy, I’m going to become a member of the Ron Paul Revolution.

Former U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. of Ohio, who was released from prison four months ago after serving a sentence for racketeering, tax evasion and bribery, is planning another run for Congress in 2010.

Business Journal Daily reports that Traficant told a business networking group in Youngstown, Ohio yesterday that “I’m going to run for Congress.” He said he isn’t sure which district he will seek or whether he will run as a Democrat, Republican, independent or something else.

Traficant was expelled from the House in 2002, following his conviction, and served seven years in federal prison.

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Sarah Barracuda Steps Into The Ring To Take On Dingy Harry

I wonder what “Dingy Harry” has planned for 2011?
Because if the Senate Majority Leader wasn’t already facing an uphill battle, as are most Democrats, for re-election in 2010, now he has the Tea Party Nation and Sarah Palin coming after him.
And she is called Sarah Barracuda for a reason.

Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin will headline a “tea party” rally next month in Searchlight, Nev., the home town of embattled Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.), tea party movement organizers said.

Palin, who is delivering the keynote address at the National Tea Party Convention this weekend in Nashville, is stepping up her campaign activities for conservative activist groups this spring. The March 27 Nevada event will kick off the Tea Party Express’s 42-city bus tour, which will end April 15 with what organizers are billing as a major march on Washington. In addition to the Searchlight rally, Palin will headline a tour stop in Boston on April 14, said Mark Williams, chairman of Tea Party Express.

Reid responded to Palin in a statement to The Post: “Make sure you stop by the Nugget for a ten-cent cup of coffee with free refills — and make sure to say ‘Hi’ to Verlie.”

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Obama’s Army Is Expanding It’s Recruiting Efforts

Parents. think about this.
Your taxpayer dollars are being used in our public education system to indoctrinate your children into becoming members of Obama’s Army.
What, you don’t feel that Saul Alinsky’s Rules For Radicals is the greatest book since The Communist Manifesto?
What are you, a racist?

An Atlas reader, Chuck,  has a student in the eleventh grade in an Ohio High School. Her government class passed out this propaganda recruiting paper so students could sign up as interns for Obama’s Organizing for America (OFA is the former mybarackobama.com site.)

Obama is using our public school system to recruit for his Alinsky-inspired private army. Organizing for America is (and I quote) recruiting in our high schools to “build on the movement that elected President Obama by empowering students across the country to help us bring about our agenda” …………of national socialism.

The Ohio High School is Perry Local in Massillon, Ohio.

This is incredible. And evil. Suffer the little children — enlisted like SS youth. This is no accident. Obama is poisoning our public school system. He acts as if it’s his own private breeding farm. Once again academic learning  and achievement is hopelessly abandoned, and supplanted by radical leftist activism from the leftwing Alinsky indoctrinators in the perverse public school system.

Children must be advised to expose this ugly propaganda. Children must tell their parents how they are being used and manipulated. Parents, warn your kids. Better yet, home school.

Check out the rest of this report from our friend Pam at Atlas Shrugs

President Obama Calls For An End To Perpetual Campaigns. Except His Own Of Course

President Barack Obama speaking during his State Of The Union Address:

“What frustrates the American people is a Washington where every day is Election Day. We can’t wage a perpetual campaign.”

Sounds like a call for the end to partisan politics.
Perhaps brought on by Scott Brown’s recent victory in Massachusetts, which to anyone besides the most egotistical man to ever occupy the White House, is that the Republicans, nor the Democrats for that matter, are not really currently running a political campaign.

The American people are running a political campaign.

They are campaigning for conservatives, and against liberals, as a means to voicing their opposition to the Obama administration’s never ending push to ram healthcare “reform” down our throats, in spite of overwhelming public opposition to Obamacare.

And of course there are a few other minor details that are causing this campaign that’s not a campaign, such as Obama’s out of control spending, unemployment figures, and the general state of the American economy.

So what answer does President Obama come up with to change Washington from running a “perpetual campaign?”

The answer lies within this picture:

Mere minutes after the President finished delivering his State Of The Union message, the members of Obama’s Army, otherwise known as Organizing For America, sent out the following mass e-mail on the President’s behalf:

“I just finished delivering my State Of The Union address. I set out an urgent plan for restoring economic security for struggling middle-class families.”
“Help fuel our fight for the middle class with a monthly donation of $15 or more.”

So a few minutes after Obama saying that we must put an end to every day being seen in washington as Election Day, what does the part of Obama’s campaign team known as Organizing For America do?

Sends out an e-mail to millions of supporters, many of whom are the same middle-class families the President spoke of, soliciting campaign contributions!

News flash Mr. President: The election that you ran in is over, and you won!!

Isn’t it about time you stopped asking for money?

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