Official Endorsement: AGAINST Texas Constitutional Amendment 6 (aka. Joe Straus' Water Slush Fund)

It's amazing how much horse manure the Republican 'leadership' of the Texas Legislature expects us to swallow; just like the Obama administration, Texas Republican 'leadership' won't let a good crisis go to waste.

Faced with an ongoing, exceptional, drought Texas Republicans, led by Speaker Joe Straus, are attempting to hoodwink voters into draining the state's savings account to enrich Joe Straus' cronies without solving our genuine water problems.

Specifically, Prop. 6 would amend the Texas Constitution to create a "water infrastructure bank."  This "water infrastructure bank" would "set up a historic revolving loan program available to local governmental entities." In other words, a bunch of lobbyists in Austin would make "revolving loans" to the same Texas local government entities that have already run up $288 BILLION in debt (principal plus interest).

All this talk of publicly financed "water infrastructure banks" making "revolving loans" to "local government entities" is politician-speak for the insiders getting rich while the rest of us foot the bill.

Making matters worse, the concept of an infrastructure bank was first proposed by Franklin Roosevelt.  It's most prominent modern proponent has been the former Democrat Governor of Pennsylvania, Fast Eddie Rendell.  That Joe Straus and his cronies are pushing ideas originally proposed by Franklin Roosevelt and Fast Eddie Rendell tells you everything you need to know about Joe Straus and his cronies.

Over the next two months, Texas voters should expect a hysterical and disingenuous campaign designed to sow panic.  They shouldn't fall for it.  The Texas "water infrastructure bank" is a classic attempt by politicians to use an alleged crisis for personal enrichment.

The time has come to send a message to Joe Straus and the rest of the corrupt Republican leadership in the Texas Legislature: Vote AGAINST Texas Constitutional Amendment 6.

3801 Lancaster

Seeing as how the media has refused to cover it, you might not be familiar with the Kermit Gosnell story, 3801 Lancaster will bring you up to speed:



Highlights:

• Gosnell had a good reputation; people liked him.

• "You'd see some weird stuff around there, but I had no idea what he was doing."

• One woman had eight abortions in fourteen years.

• "How many black people look the other way while black babies are slaughtered by abortionists."

• The Department of Health did nothing in response to a decade worth of reports.

• "My body was so ravaged from abortion that I became sterile."

EXCLUSIVE: Ted Cruz on Elena Kagan, Eric Holder, the Federal Administrative State, and Energy Development

Today, I had an interview with Texas U.S. Senate Candidate, Ted Cruz.  Audio here:



I'll (hopefully) do a detailed write up over the next few days, but here are the highlights:

• Ted Cruz wants to serve on the Appropriations and Judiciary Committees.
• We discussed Justice Elena Kagan and questions surrounding the propriety of her hearing the Obamacare case.
• We discussed the ongoing Fast and Furious scandal, for which his campaign has produced this video:

• The bottom line for Ted Cruz on both Elena Kagan and Eric Holder is that all administrations need to be held accountable for their actions and that accountability 'certainly could' extend past January 20th of next year.
• We discussed the growth of the administrative state and what Ted Cruz intends to do about it.  Ted Cruz supports legislation called the REINS Act that will require an affirmative vote of Congress before any Federal Regulation with an economic impact over $100 million goes into effect.
• Finally, we discussed energy development and the controversy over fracking.  Ted believes that, in the unlikely event Barack Obama is re-elected, he will actively seek to ban fracking.  Being from New York originally, this issue hits home for me.

I'll (hopefully) get to do a longer write-up in the next few days, but in the meantime enjoy and share at will!!!

Why Obama Just Can't Win -- Pennsylvania

I've been saying for some time that, based on how he has alienated specific groups in traditional swing states, Barack Obama simply cannot get to 270 electoral votes.  This past weekend, the Wall St Journal examined the swing states, and in so doing revealed the lameness of the conventional wisdom with which most people view this election.

Going through each of the swing states would be too time consuming, so I'm going to limit my analysis to what they say about Pennsylvania:

His [Obama's] campaign strategy in Mr. Biden's home state is threefold: In Pittsburgh and western Pennsylvania, emphasize manufacturing.  In the Philadelphia suburbs, hit social issues.  Elsewhere, argue that the administration's policies are more fair to the middle class.

 Let me translate for those of you who don't speak bull-crap: when Obama talks about 'manufacturing' it's code for green energy.  When Obama talks about "fair to the middle class" it's code for food stamps. I'll save the discussion of 'social issues' for another day.

This means that, in the Western two-thirds of Pennsylvania, Barack Obama is going to run for re-election based on Windmills, Solar Panels, and Food Stamps; can someone say Solyndra?!?

Contrast Obama's message of Hippie power and welfare against a Republican argument that will be based around traditional energy development that will simultaneously lower gas prices AND increase employment.

Oil and Gas vs. Solar Panels and Welfare.

It's that simple.

Why Barack Obama Wants Chaos

Barack Obama and the Hard Left are laying a trap for the next President.  Unless the Republican nominee recognizes and prepares for this trap, he risks walking right into it when he assumes office next January.  Barack Obama and the Hard Left are currently sowing chaos that they hope will overwhelm the first year of the next administration in order to entrench the "Fundamental Transformation" he's already got written.

To prepare for this trap, the next President must understand Barack Obama's real agenda.  Barack Obama's actions over the last year reveal a man clearly uninterested in re-election.  For example, Catholics are swing voters in traditional swing states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Florida; why would any politician interested in winning an election in those states issue a mandate that offends the deepest moral beliefs of The Catholic Church?!?  Clearly, a politician interested in those states would NEVER take such an action.  Thus, one must conclude Barack Obama is uninterested in re-election.  What, then, is Barack Obama's real agenda?!?

Barack Obama's primary agenda, at this point, is to ensure the legislative changes he has already accomplished go fully into effect.  To secure his fundamental transformation of America, Barack Obama and the Hard Left will sow chaos throughout the United States and the World in 2012.  Expect that chaos to spillover into 2013/14 and the first year of the new administration, regardless of the new President's identity.  Barack Obama and the Hard Left understand that, in American politics, major changes in policy occur almost exclusively in the first year of new Presidential administrations.  Thus, Barack Obama and the Hard Left understand that if the new President spends 2013 reacting to National and Global Chaos, this window for major policy changes can pass without unwinding Obama's previous legislative victories.

Barack Obama's allies in the #Occupy movement have clearly stated their intention to "Recreate [the chaos of 19]68" in 2012.  To understand why recreating 1968 benefits the hard left, one needs to properly understand the events of 1969.  In 1969, Richard Nixon assumed the Presidency following the Biggest Expansion of Government (prior to Obama) in American History.  Nixon's inauguration was followed shortly thereafter by Leftist Campus Takeovers, the Emergence of the Weathermen, Homosexual Attacks on the NYPD, the Manson Murders, and the Marxist-inspired 'Days of Rage.'  Against this backdrop, and a continuing War in Vietnam, conservative efforts to unwind Medicare and the War on Poverty floundered.  From the perspective of the Hard Left, which seeks to expand government and does not particularly care who holds elected office at any given time, 1969 (and Richard Nixon's entire Presidency) was an unqualified victory.

At CPAC 2011, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels said the left "need only play good defense.  The federal spending commitments now in place will bring about the leviathan state they have always sought.   The health care travesty now on the books will engulf private markets and produce a single-payer system or its equivalent, and it won?t take long to happen."  Conservatives MUST remember this fact as we move forward into 2012 and beyond.  Between Obamacare, Dodd-Frank, and Automatic Defense Cuts, Barack Obama's fundamental transformation of America is already law.  During the coming chaos, whether it's in the form of #Occupy Related Violence, Drug Cartel Violence, a shooting war in the Middle East or any other source, the Federal Bureaucracy will continue business as usual.  Under current law, business as usual will entrench Barack Obama's fundamental transformation.  That's one of the reasons we should expect the coming chaos to continue (at least) into 2014 which is, NOT coincidentally, the year Obamacare goes into full effect.

Fortunately, the coming chaos is a surmountable challenge.  The key, for conservatives, is to recognize the coming chaos for what it really is and act accordingly.  That means electing to Congress committed conservatives who will enact conservative legislation NO MATTER WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING IN THE WORLD.

The coming chaos is deliberate, and Barack Obama and the Hard Left are behind it.  Their goal is to distract and confuse the new administration in 2013 the same way the hard left did to Richard Nixon in 1969.  Forewarned is forearmed and, as long as a conservative Congress is willing to move forward no matter what, they will fail....