Posted on 05/13/2014 10:55:25 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
With decisive primary victories by U.S. Senate candidate Ben Sasse in Nebraska and U.S. House candidate Alex Mooney in West Virginia, the establishment’s dream of electing more status quo-supporting candidates has been stopped after just one week. Sasse and Mooney, both fine conservative candidates, ran smart races and closed strong.
When Thom Tillis won the U.S. Senate primary in North Carolina last week (which took millions in establishment funds to make happen), D.C. elites, along with the mainstream media, were giddy as they wrote a seemingly never-ending stream of conservative candidate obituaries.
I was entertained by the tone of the pro-Tillis celebratory stories rolling off the establishment’s printing presses. It's as if the Washington establishment had done a good job of governing and had earned the victory. It's as if the elites are tackling our debt crisis, lowering taxes, securing our border, and actually repealing Obamacare.
Thankfully, it didn’t work out quite like they drew it up behind closed doors in Washington. The establishment tried to nail the coffin shut by defeating Sasse, but the conservative grassroots fought back and won. Similarly in West Virginia, Mooney’s win is not what the moderate Washington power-brokers had in mind. Mooney has built enormous credentials in the conservative movement over the course of his career, so he will not be tempted by what is offered by members of “The Club” when he gets to Congress. Mooney, like Sasse, is coming to Washington to take the club head on, not join it.
Ben Sasse’s win is big for the movement, there’s no question about it. If Sasse wins in November, which is highly likely in conservative Nebraska, he will join Senators Ted Cruz and Mike Lee on day one as another conservative change agent in the U.S. Senate Republican caucus.Sasse will be a strong...
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Perhaps you don't understand the definition of amnesty. Any legislation that allows the lawbreakers to stay and work here, the object of their crime, is amnesty. The line to citizenship begins in the lawbreakers' home country.
That means no special pathways to citizenship that allow undocumented immigrants to cut in line, Russo cautioned, but rather some reasonable procedures that require “the 11 million people who are here illegally obey the law, pay taxes and come out of the shadows.
That means no special pathways to citizenship that allow undocumented immigrants to cut in line, Russo cautioned, but rather some reasonable procedures that require “the 11 million people who are here illegally obey the law, pay taxes and come out of the shadows.
“We have to get them right by the law in exchange for legal status, but not unbridled amnesty,” Russo wrote. “This should include penalties, background checks to root out criminals, and the requirement that they learn English, understand the Constitution and be committed to our basic freedoms.”
Words have meanings. The Democrats and the mainstream media have hijacked the language surrounding the immigration issue to the point that we had Michael Chertoff, the Secretary of Homeland Security and our nation’s top immigration official at the time, testifying before Congress using the term “undocumented workers” to describe illegal aliens. John McCain and Barack Obama studiously avoided the term “amnesty” to describe their comprehensive immigration reform plans and despite the evidence, baldly declared that it was not an amnesty. Instead, they used such euphemisms as “getting to the back of the line,” “an earned path to citizenship,” and “coming out of the shadows.” The Democrats and pro-amnesty crowd know full well that the American people are against amnesty, hence the avoidance of the “A” word.
This Orwellian use of language fools the uninformed, I am surprised you fell for it.
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Firebrand comment excerpt:
But Tillis is against the federal government establishing a minimum wage, doesn't believe global warming has been proven, and has suggested getting rid of the Education Department.
I'm not from NC and haven't the knowledge that I saw on the forum the night he won, but it does seem that he is not "center right."
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Exactly!
I am from NC (my screen name is a clue), and I voted for Tillis. While he got tagged as being the "Establishment Republican" candidate, by virtue of the office he held (Speaker of the NC House), it is well to remember that "Establishment Republicans" in North Carolina tend to be quite conservative.
As far as liberals were concerned (including the Charlotte Observer, the [Raleigh] News & Observer, the New York Times, the North Carolina Democratic Party, and so on), Tillis was the devil incarnate. As the first Republican Speaker in many years, he rammed through tax cuts (personal state income taxes, corporate state income taxes, and sales taxes), slashes in entitlements, a voter-ID bill, and more. But for whatever reason, while he received the condemnation of liberals (good!), many on the conservative side gave him little credit for his accomplishments.
At the harness races today in Philadelphia, “Tea Party Politics” was the winner of the second race.
Sasse win confirms my belief that the GOP voters pick their nominee, not the GOPe.
I can't help you if you don't understand that Russo wants to allow the lawbreakers to stay and work here. That is called AMNESTY. Citizenship is just the cherry on top.
At least most people understand what Russo means and call it by its right name--AMNESTY.
Wireless power, Thorium based nuclear, cancer drugs that prevents cancer cells from cutting off the alarm communication path to the parts of the cell that cause it to commit suicide, etc., etc., etc., and on and on and on.
There are literally tens of thousands of discontinuous innovations that were developed, in some cases, the turn of the 20th century that may never see the light of day.
The very role of government is to erect barriers to entrants - to kill off good ideas.
Einstein’s theory couldn’t be proven for 15 years. He needed an eclipse in a part of the world where he could have good weather and one without a major military conflict. Sometimes, its those things that hold them up.
I’m not disagreeing with your premise, that it is hard to kill off a good idea, because there is evidence that this is true.
However, government, by its DESIGN is built to ensure that good ideas die. Keystone pipeline is the most recent obvious version of that.
But government is only the instrument. The natural enemy of the good idea isn’t government. It’s natural foe is vested interest. Edison tried very hard to kill off AC power, for example. In the end, he and Rockefeller threatened to bankrupt George Westinghouse (and Tesla) and forced the to sell AC power to GE.
GE is, and always will be, the ultimate evidence of how vested interest kills off good ideas. Had Westinghouse not won the Niagra Falls generating station contract from NY State, it would be interesting to see what the world would be like today.
The story of the Wright Brothers and Glenn Curtiss is evidence for your point. The Wright’s had the first airplane, but it used pulleys and cables to flex the wing to get it to do what you wanted.
Glenn Curtiss invented independent control surfaces, which made aviation viable. The Wrights spent most of their time taking Curtiss to court instead of innovating. Curtiss spent his time building better aircraft - much better aircraft. Can’t keep a good man down would be the moral of that tale.
What your statement caused me to do was to also consider how many additional lives bad ideas seem to possess. Socialism only killed off 35 million last century, not including Asia, which would probably double that figure. And yet, Europe clings to it. It’s so bad, Obama decided we should bring that here. We reelected him.
Vested interest. It’s not money that corrupts. It’s vested interest. Vested interest is why both Jews and Blacks still vote Democrat. It’s why Republicans can’t understand our opposition to immigration.
Richard Nixon was right when he said there was a “Silent Majority” in the American electorate. Most people are not politically active and, despite the fact there are many low info types, there are also tens of millions of Americans who are pissed at the direction this country is going. All seems gloomy at the moment, but I think we need to have faith that a majority of our countrymen will do the right thing in the end and boot out the politicians of both parties who are wrecking our great country.
Bears repeating... agree with all points.
The argument for small government continues to be a good idea that can’t be killed, but it’s very hard to implement. Back when Crockett voted to give the military widow a pension, that was the end.
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