Not Just A Lucky Guess Friends

As this administration, with help from Congress, continues to speed down the path to big government mediocrity I find myself concerned about losing the big focus while trying to counter every insane thing the government does?

Stimulus II doesn't work? Let's do stimulus III!
The stimulus is working perfectly.
We underestimated the condition of the economy.
We wouldn't do anything different.
She didn't mean what she said she meant what she meant.
The CIA lies! Oh wait, they didn't? ......uh,.... all Americans need free health care!

And on and on and on . . . . until everything loses all meaning.

It can all be simplified very easily. I hate this government because I love Federalism.

Federalism is our system of separation of powers. The Federal government responsible for some things, the State responsible for everything else and an independent judiciary to uphold the Constitutional rule of law.

All of that is in the process of being destroyed. The role and Independence of the State is being depleted rapidly. This is partially due to weak state governments who would rather pass problems off to the Fed rather than deal with them but it also because the Fed is highjacking State roles by having agencies (like the EPA) manadate Federal standards for everything and by attaching so many strings to bailout money that the State is simply a marionette at the control of Congress and the White House.

The judiciary is an even bigger joke. A judge who is at best an activist and at worst a racist is going to be on the Supreme Court barring some miracle. Justices all over the country are admitting to deciding cases based on their own feelings of fairness or justice and finding laws to fit the ruling, even if they have to use laws from other countries. Law should be the easiest of all branches to control, it's words on paper, easily understandable, yet even that is in doubt as judges redefine words to fit their personal preferences. Judges who simply apply the law as its written are considered draconian or ultra right wingers but pointing out that all these activist judges are left wing radicals? Oh no! Conspiracy theorist!!! Please.

So now we have the most liberal Administration and Congress ever working hand-in-socialist hand working their hardest to consolidate power by taking it from the States and the People, we have States that are in cahoots or are too weak and stupid to resist. Whatever power the Fed can't get through these methods, the courts give them through judicial fiat.

This centralization of power is exactly why the founders of this country set up a federalism, to keep any one group of people from consolidating too much power. this was to protect us from the kind of passive tyranny we are experiencing now. Luckily, they haven't taken away elections yet, we can save our federalism in 2010 & 2012.

After that, who knows.

Of Cowards, Carbon and Commies

The god awful cap and trade legislation passed the house today because 8 Republicans are either cowards or liars.

This bill is built around the myth that carbon dioxide is bad for the planet and must be restrained by humans, even though appx. 95% of CO2 in the world comes from water vapor and that CO2 only makes up 4% of the atmosphere.

Either way, this bill does nothing to curb carbon emissions, all it does is make carbon a commodity to be traded and regulated. This will cause massive off-shoring of American jobs by companies seeking to avoid the massive penalties for non-compliance or the massive cost of compliance. Obama himself warned us that this plan will also called the price of our utilities to "skyrocket". The job market for all those coal miners, gas technicians, etc. would be decimated if it actually was passed into law.

The promise of new "green" jobs is also a myth, the bill tells that it is. Vast sums of money are being given to inventors to create new green technologies over the next 20-30 years. If the government is trying to bribe inventors into developing technologies, it means we don't have it yet,; therefore no new jobs in that sector.
If you need an example of this failure, just go ask Spain who had the highest commitment to green technology in the world and now have an unemployment rate of about 18%.

Now this bill is being announced as dead in the Senate, which is good but there was a time when this would never have been proposed.

This bill essentially makes anything which uses or produces carbon the jurisdiction of the EPA. This gives them a hand in just about anything they want being that carbon is the building block of all life on this planet.

There are some good developments though.

First, a whole slew of Democrats in moderate/conservative districts just signed their own death warrants politically. The only reason they were in office was because people were mad at Republicans, not because they suddenly became liberals. Good to know you.

Secondly, now we know who needs to be out of the party. If we can't rely on them to vote against this abortion of legislation and capitalism, then they should really not claim to be members of the GOP.

The unfaithful 8 are:

Mary Bono Mack - CA 45
Michael Castle - DE
Mark Steven Kirk - IL 10
Leonard Lance - NJ 7
Frank LoBiondo - NJ 2
Chris Smith - NJ 4
John M. McHugh - NY 23
Dave Reichert - WA 8

All of these guys are either not conservatives, to weak to stand up to Nancy Pelosi or were bribed out of their principles. One thing we do know is that nobody in Congress has actually read the entire bill they just voted on.

Good to know you fellas, now hit the F'n road.