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Category: Political CommentaryNow, let me get this straight…
We are going to pass a health care plan written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn’t understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn’t read it but exempts themselves from it, to be signed by a president that also hasn’t read it and who smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn’t pay his taxes…
All to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that’s nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong?
Just a short little tidbit about the continued melt down being suffered by the NJ Dems. I figured I would take a break from papers and finals prep to enlighten you about the newest in the saga that is the New Jersey Democratic Party.
In an effort to protect the US Senate seats, lets face it they are afraid Senator Lautenberg may not make it 5 more years, Jack McKeon our wonderful SHU Assemblyman has introduced a bill which would strip the governor of his power to appoint any qualified person to fill a vacant senate seat.
I remember a while back when Bush was snubbed a few handshakes from foreign dignitaries and it was a big deal. This video is awkward turtle times a thousand–I ascribe to “politics ends overseas,” so it makes me feel kind of annoyed that the US President was treated like this.
I see SNL has finally rolled up its sleeves and has taken a serious jab at Obama. “I am noticing that each of your plans to save money involves spending even more money…”
Fox News: objectively more balanced than the rest?
Independents jumping from the Dem ship.
Supreme Court could potentially incorporate the 2nd Amendment to the states.
Sarah Palin gives Oprah huge ratings.
“Her words came from the heart, not a teleprompter.”
Yes, ObamaCare will lead to federally funded abortions.
MSNBC reporter bullies teenage girl on line for Palin signing.
The video is from earlier this year, but it is still significant. As a sidenote, I find it ironic that Arlen Specter claimed to have switched sides because the Republican Party had grown far “too conservative” under Bush, and yet it was President Bush in 2004 who literally saved Specter from losing his senate seat to a far more conservative challenger in the primary.
If conservatism means enthusiasm for war, using the federal government to oppose gay marriage and flag burning, and increasing state and individual interference by the federal government… then yeah, we’ve probably been too conservative.
However, if conservatism means advocating limited government, defending the Constitution and the restraints it puts on government, supporting freedom, protecting individual rights, and keeping America’s defense strong but unencumbered–then I’d say it’s time to roll up our sleeves and start acting like true conservatives again.
As Barry Goldwater put it in The Conscience of a Conservative:
The conscience of the Conservative is pricked by anyone who would debase the dignity of the individual human being. Today, therefore, he is at odds with dictators who rule by terror, and equally with those gentler collectivists who ask our permission to play God with the human race.
With this view of the nature of man, it is understandable that the conservative looks upon politics as the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order… the Conservative’s first concern will always be: Are we maximizing freedom?
Gun control advocates like the people from the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence have distorted the facts (and logic in general) of the Fort Hood shooting in order to make political hay for their arguments.
Quote the Brady Campaign:
This latest tragedy, at a heavily fortified army base, ought to convince more Americans to reject the argument that the solution to gun violence is to arm more people with more guns in more places.
Problem number one – they imply that the soldiers on this “heavily fortified” base were armed to the teeth. In truth, the soldiers at Ft. Hood were not allowed to carry weapons. All of the victims were unarmed when Hasan began his shooting rampage.
Second problem – the people who subdued Hasan happened to be the first two armed people at the scene, officers Munley and Todd. Hasan was only stopped when weapons were used against him.
Pfc. Marquest Smith, who was at the scene, took cover under a desk and “[laid] low for several minutes, waiting for the shooter to run out of ammunition and wishing he, too, had a gun.”
Obama-McCain (left) and Christie-Corzine (right)
In the presidential election, New Jersey turned out 3,828,000 votes which broke 57-42% for Obama. On Tuesday, about 2,300,000 votes were cast–about two thirds of last year’s turnout, an expectable drop. Check here for the 2008 election interactive map, and here for the 2009 election interactive map.
Let’s take a look at the turnouts of Morris and Essex Counties in these two races, which I feel illustrates the difference between these two elections.
Morris is the biggest voting base of Republicans in the state, and Essex (where Seton Hall and Newark are located) is a typical urban, Democrat stronghold.
In the 2008 presidential election, Obama carried Essex handily with 240,000 votes (76% of the county). Meanwhile, McCain had a rather poor cut of the Morris County vote with 132,000 (54% of the county).
If you notice the endorsement of the ad “Paid for and authorized by Victory 2009, a project of the NJDSC, 196 W State St. Trenton NJ.” Apparently, the NJDSC finds supporting Daggett, instead of Corzine, is a better use of their funding and resources.