1/19/2006

Well I have heard for months about the "100 hour"  agenda of the new democratic majority in the House.  Well somehow, since taking office on 1/5, they are still on the 100 hour clock.  Interesting, and according to Speaker Pelosi's web site they still have 50 some odd hours left.  Funny.  One day is 24 hours long, by my math 100 hours equal a little over 4 days.  If your scracthing your head, like I was, its ok. 

According to this new math by the new majority, the roman empire would have fell in 1952, about the same time Ike was elected to the presidency.  Lincoln would have known Ceaser, and I'm sure the conspiracy folks would link Booth to Brutus.  "Et to Brute" and "Sic semper tyrannis i'm sure came these two close friends over some fine beer. NEWS FLASH; by Speaker Pelosi's new time calculations, Napoleon just surrendered to the Russians.

If your going to employe a cheap political stunt, at least make it realistic.  Maybe this explains the $100 hammers, $500 toilet seats.

1/18/2006

Well for the first post, I think I need to share who I am and what I stand for.  The root of my beliefs could easily be described as conservative.  However, I call just plan common sense.  Life in the United States has become way to complicated, I feel we need to slow down, take a breath, and get back to basics.  I found this article some time ago, written by Fmr. Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater-R, who is regarded as the father of the conservative movement. While I tend to align myself more with Ronald Reagan, Goldwater tends to be overlooked, mostly do to his lack of national appeal.  Those in the "Know" are aware of Goldwater, but few regular Joe's  would know anything about the man who brought to this country the ideas that have shaped and influenced millions.  Smaller government, tax cuts, spending restraint, privacy, etc....all are outgrowhts from Goldwater's ideas.  Ideas that as it turns out, were well ahead of their time, ala his 1964 landslide defeat to President Lyndon Johnson.  Americans were not ready in 1964 for these "radical" ideas, of limited government.  The Roosevelt era, New Deal liberals still controled the status qua, and many Americans still trusted the government, and looked to Washington for answers.  At the hight of the Great Society, and the Civil RIghts movement, when government intervention was viewed as appropriate to solve our nations ills, Goldwater never stood a chance.  However his ideas have endured, some have been taken to the extreme, and the movement highjaked by right wing extremists, as he later would concede, and of which I agree. 

In any event, I hold dearly my conservative principles.  The following, from Goldwater, sums up what and where I stand and should serve as a refresher course to those in the National Republican party who have lost their way, and cave into the Government/Media complex that trys to run our lives.  More to follow.

The Conscience of a conservative:

"I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.  I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom.  My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.  It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old onesthat do violence to the Constitution, or that have failed in their purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden.  I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is "needed" before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible.  And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents' "interests", I shall reply that I was informed their main interests is liberty and that in that  cause I am doing the very best I can."

And with that I say good night.