"The Violation of America, a Year Later"

 ** I am posting this same article with a second title for those who feel the first one is too strong for sharing.

 

There are varied events in history that carry a defining, life-altering impact.  America has had many such events, especially in recent years.  9/11 is one, incomparably tragic, that instantly changed us forever. 

 

There are others far less tragic, yet no less significant and defining.

A year ago, against the impassioned will of the majority of Americans, the infamous Obama Care Bill was brazenly forced upon us, barely passing into Law, destroying the world’s best Health Care System, with the government taking over one-sixth of the economy to achieve it.

With it also came what president Obama promised – America had heartbreakingly begun the process of “fundamentally transforming.”  Many of us felt the anguish of this America –altering moment, grieving the loss of something sacred.  This assault was a huge loss of the America we had otherwise always known.  It disgracefully spit on the shed blood of our forefather’s who died to give us the blessed inheritance of a free America.

And it’s not just that Obama Care passed into Law, it’s equally important who ensured it and even more, how.  By force is un-American and unacceptable.   

No matter how passionately we said “no,” begging and pleading with Obama and the democrats to stop this atrocity, they proceeded with the unthinkable and appalling governmental rape of our Republic anyway, smiling, without shame, like it was perfectly normal.  

Watching then Speaker Nancy Pelosi march with fellow democrats to the Capital with such arrogance, carrying her oversized gavel (the pun not lost on us), was more than we could stomach. 

Emboldened and deluded with the arrogant intoxication of being the super-majority, and believing that they knew better than us, the democrats insisted that later, once we had Obama Care, we would come to like it.  However, no one who’s been raped goes on to later enjoy sexual relations with their rapist.  But they do eventually heal in the fight to take their life back. 

A year later, unwavering from our initial reaction and resolve, we are fully in the fight of our lives, on all fronts, against the tyranny of Obama Care.  

We cherish the gift of the Republic our Founders paid so dear a price to give us.  So if Obama and the democrats still believe we are going to eventually lie down in defeat and acceptance, they completely under estimate our fervent and vehement disapproval. 

We are America; not Cuba, not Europe. Our forefathers left Europe and fought the Revolutionary War to give us the gift of America, the shining light on a hill. Why would we throw that away to become like Europe once again? As Proverb 26:11 says, it is “like a dog who returns to his own vomit.” And yet, this is exactly what president Obama and the democrats want.  

The Constitution has ensured that in America all power is temporary so that liberty is not.  

President George Washington said in 1787, "The power under the Constitution will always be in the People. It is entrusted for certain defined purposes, and for a certain limited period, to representatives of their own choosing; and whenever it is executed contrary to their interest, or not agreeable to their wishes, their servants can--and undoubtedly will--be recalled."  

Our votes hold the winning hand with plenty of Constitutional chips to spare, as proven in the 2010 mid-term elections. 

While the conservative victory of the mid-terms stopped the bleeding out of our liberty and voted our voice back into the game, America is still on life support.  Our Country will not heal and economically recover until we instill the necessary confidence that will only come from stopping Obama’s transformational agenda and by undoing his policies, specifically, Obama Care. 

Recent polls reflect that even more people are opposed to Obama Care than ever before, with 62% favoring its repeal, especially after finally discovering “what is in it.”

In response to a suit brought by 26 states, (Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming), Federal Judge Roger Vinson ruled on January 31st that Obama Care is unconstitutional, stating, "Because the individual mandate is unconstitutional and not severable, the entire Act must be declared void."  

Currently, we are waiting for the case to be escalated to the Supreme Court for final ruling.

The newly Republican-led House, repealed Obama Care 245-189, but as long as Obama holds the veto pen via the Oval Office, his policies will remain in place.  This is why we want Obama to be a one-term President; to ensure the successful total repeal of Obama Care before it can be fully implemented and therefore never reversed.  

It should be no surprise that completely undoing Obama Care is the number one priority; everything hinges on it.  Our Republic’s survival depends on it.  If we fail to do so, indeed, America will be forever fundamentally transformed and it will be all downhill from there.

We don’t want to transform America into a European welfare state; we don’t want to become a socialist Nation, not even one sixth.  We’re not standing for the “remaking” of America; we’re fighting without ceasing to retake Her.  

President Ronald Reagan said, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.”  

Significant baby steps made, there is still a road of struggle ahead.  Obama Care is the “Holy Grail” of the left and thus, will not go down without a fight.  

Our victory depends on both taking back the Senate and electing a conservative president in 2012, as well as the Supreme Court ruling in our favor.  There is little to no margin of error.  Time is of the essence, yet it is far too soon to lose heart.  

They may have knocked us down, but they have not knocked us out.  If we stay the course through 2012 and finish what we started in the 2010 mid-term tsunami, which returned America to a sea of conservative red, they never will.

Patrick Henry said, "The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people; it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government."

Thousands of our forefathers paid forward an America they never lived to see.  Never in our lives have we teetered so close to losing it.  Let us now also pay forward the America we inherited so that no generation ever teeters this close again.  It is the very least we could and should do. 

“The Raping of America, a Year Later”

There are varied events in history that carry a defining, life-altering impact.  America has had many such events, especially in recent years.  9/11 is one, incomparably tragic, that instantly changed us forever. 

 

There are others far less tragic, yet no less significant and defining.

A year ago, against the impassioned will of the majority of Americans, the infamous Obama Care Bill was brazenly forced upon us, barely passing into Law, destroying the world’s best Health Care System, with the government taking over one-sixth of the economy to achieve it.

With it also came what president Obama promised – America had heartbreakingly begun the process of “fundamentally transforming.”  Many of us felt the anguish of this America –altering moment, grieving the loss of something sacred.  This assault was a huge loss of the America we had otherwise always known.  It disgracefully spit on the shed blood of our forefather’s who died to give us the blessed inheritance of a free America.

And it’s not just that Obama Care passed into Law, it’s equally important who ensured it and even more, how.  By force is un-American and unacceptable.   

No matter how passionately we said “no,” begging and pleading with Obama and the democrats to stop this atrocity, they proceeded with the unthinkable and appalling governmental rape of our Republic anyway, smiling, without shame, like it was perfectly normal.  

Watching then Speaker Nancy Pelosi march with fellow democrats to the Capital with such arrogance, carrying her oversized gavel (the pun not lost on us), was more than we could stomach. 

Emboldened and deluded with the arrogant intoxication of being the super-majority, and believing that they knew better than us, the democrats insisted that later, once we had Obama Care, we would come to like it.  However, no one who’s been raped goes on to later enjoy sexual relations with their rapist.  But they do eventually heal in the fight to take their life back. 

A year later, unwavering from our initial reaction and resolve, we are fully in the fight of our lives, on all fronts, against the tyranny of Obama Care.  

We cherish the gift of the Republic our Founders paid so dear a price to give us.  So if Obama and the democrats still believe we are going to eventually lie down in defeat and acceptance, they completely under estimate our fervent and vehement disapproval. 

We are America; not Cuba, not Europe. Our forefathers left Europe and fought the Revolutionary War to give us the gift of America, the shining light on a hill. Why would we throw that away to become like Europe once again? As Proverb 26:11 says, it is “like a dog who returns to his own vomit.” And yet, this is exactly what president Obama and the democrats want.  

The Constitution has ensured that in America all power is temporary so that liberty is not.  

President George Washington said in 1787, "The power under the Constitution will always be in the People. It is entrusted for certain defined purposes, and for a certain limited period, to representatives of their own choosing; and whenever it is executed contrary to their interest, or not agreeable to their wishes, their servants can--and undoubtedly will--be recalled."  

Our votes hold the winning hand with plenty of Constitutional chips to spare, as proven in the 2010 mid-term elections. 

While the conservative victory of the mid-terms stopped the bleeding out of our liberty and voted our voice back into the game, America is still on life support.  Our Country will not heal and economically recover until we instill the necessary confidence that will only come from stopping Obama’s transformational agenda and by undoing his policies, specifically, Obama Care. 

Recent polls reflect that even more people are opposed to Obama Care than ever before, with 62% favoring its repeal, especially after finally discovering “what is in it.”

In response to a suit brought by 26 states, (Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming), Federal Judge Roger Vinson ruled on January 31st that Obama Care is unconstitutional, stating, "Because the individual mandate is unconstitutional and not severable, the entire Act must be declared void."  

Currently, we are waiting for the case to be escalated to the Supreme Court for final ruling.

The newly Republican-led House, repealed Obama Care 245-189, but as long as Obama holds the veto pen via the Oval Office, his policies will remain in place.  This is why we want Obama to be a one-term President; to ensure the successful total repeal of Obama Care before it can be fully implemented and therefore never reversed.  

It should be no surprise that completely undoing Obama Care is the number one priority; everything hinges on it.  Our Republic’s survival depends on it.  If we fail to do so, indeed, America will be forever fundamentally transformed and it will be all downhill from there.

We don’t want to transform America into a European welfare state; we don’t want to become a socialist Nation, not even one sixth.  We’re not standing for the “remaking” of America; we’re fighting without ceasing to retake Her.  

President Ronald Reagan said, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.”  

Significant baby steps made, there is still a road of struggle ahead.  Obama Care is the “Holy Grail” of the left and thus, will not go down without a fight.  

Our victory depends on both taking back the Senate and electing a conservative president in 2012, as well as the Supreme Court ruling in our favor.  There is little to no margin of error.  Time is of the essence, yet it is far too soon to lose heart.  

They may have knocked us down, but they have not knocked us out.  If we stay the course through 2012 and finish what we started in the 2010 mid-term tsunami, which returned America to a sea of conservative red, they never will.

Patrick Henry said, "The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people; it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government."

Thousands of our forefathers paid forward an America they never lived to see.  Never in our lives have we teetered so close to losing it.  Let us now also pay forward the America we inherited so that no generation ever teeters this close again.  It is the very least we could and should do.  

“The Divided States of ObamAmerica”

Barack Obama’s election to the highest Office in our Country is undeniably historic; he will forever be known as the first black man elected President of the United States.  And we’re the generation that finally surpassed this racial threshold signifying how far we’ve come as a Nation.  His election reflects the fulfillment of what Martin Luther King Jr. dreamed about so many years ago, where all men would be judged only by the content of their character and no longer by the color of their skin… as it should be.  

Obama’s election is also historic for what he can uniquely do in the job, as no other President before him.  Having won the highest platform of power and influence in the land, he could bring closure to the wounds of racism in America, and take us to the next level of rising above the sins of the past.

I grieved the night Obama won the Presidency, for two reasons, the second dovetailing the first, and neither had anything to do with objecting to a black man in the White House; on the contrary.  I 100% do not agree with his ideology, his policies, or his desire to “fundamentally transform America.”  I am not disappointed or surprised by his Presidency; it’s exactly what I expected and feared, and therefore why I grieved – I knew what was to come and didn’t want to go there.  Now that we’re here in the thick of it, I feel all I never wanted to feel.  I became part of the TEA Party to express that.  The dovetail is I felt robbed of the joy of fully celebrating the first black president because I couldn’t celebrate Obama being the president.  A black president is something I had longed and prayed for America and always believed I would see in my lifetime, just not someone as far left as Obama.  

After I finished sobbing, I got on my knees and thanked God that at least we could finish healing the wound of racism in our Country.  What an opportunity Obama would have to make that mark on history, something in which I could participate, support, and be grateful from the bottom of my heart.  

How is it, then, since Obama’s election that it’s all been downhill?  There’s never been such racial tension so ratcheted up, let alone from finally having the first black man in the White House.  Shouldn’t the converse be the case? 

Instead of feeling the joy of closure and the dawn of a new day, leftist blacks are feeling unabashedly emboldened to lash out at every perceived opportunity, exposing the stark contrast between how far we have actually come and sadly, how little they yet believe we have.  Therein lays a huge part of this unresolved problem manifesting in projections of racism onto anyone who opposes the policies and agenda of the president who happens to be black.

Since before Obama’s election, the race card has been played at every turn.  Regardless of polls showing that most of the Country is conservative to moderate, opposing his far left policies is blamed on racism.  From musicians and celebrities, to politicians and talking heads in the very liberal, biased, main stream media, constantly crying “racism” wolf has become the disgraceful staple of their strategy to undermine and silence opposition. 

At any time, the president could step forward with a genuinely meaningful exhortation, like the one he gave after the Arizona shooting tragedy, challenging everyone to step up to the better angels of our nature, putting an end to the divisiveness.  He could historically finish the job Martin Luther King Jr. started.  

Cue the crickets from the White House.  

Unfortunately, Obama’s tacit approval has only fomented the ongoing problem, condoning the accusers who are ironically emboldened by his presidency.

Racism is racism whether it is white against black, black against white, or any other racial combination; it is not an exclusive club.  It’s wrong, all of it.  Given America’s history, white against black is understandably the most volatile, but it is not the definition.  

“You white patty!”  This was my first introduction to racism at age 7, racism hurled at me from two little black girls who didn’t want me to play with them.  I had no idea what they meant, but their rejection was crystal clear and hurt me deeply.  This engendered sincere compassion for anyone hurt in like manner.  This vivid experience gave me a keen awareness and a special sensitivity to racism.  I’ve since endeavored to both understand it and help abridge the divide.

To subsequently and falsely be called a racist cuts to the heart.  Three years of it wears out the heart.

Admittedly and obviously, whites will never completely understand what it is like to be black, especially considering the stigma of slavery in America’s past and the subsequent struggles to get from there to here.  I won’t pretend to ever know because I will never get the chance to walk in those shoes.  

Conversely, many blacks do not understand what it is like to be white in today’s America, ashamed of our forefather’s sins, compassionate towards those so offended, yet grateful to live in a day and age where we’re all free to be that one great big melting pot of diversity.  

At the height of this ultimate opportunity, Obama’s failure of leadership, missing perhaps this most significant opportunity to unite all Americans like never before, instead, has divided us more. Instead of this being the defining moment that takes us over that final hump into a higher level of American unity, and a proud celebration of that historic achievement, led by our first black president, we’ve taken 40 years of steps backwards.  We’ve become the “Divided States of ObamAmerica.”  What a legacy; the exact opposite of what it could and should be. 

Now, on the eve of hitting the re-election campaign trail, trying to invalidate opposition, Obama has disgracefully thrown his own voice into the voluminous mix of shameful race-baiters, accusing “race is a key component of the TEA Party,” thus, further validating and encouraging this behavior when he should reprimand it and lead everyone above it.  For any U.S. president to misuse racism for political gain is beyond offensive – it is reprehensible and completely irresponsible.  It’s an egregious offense, undermining the very healing that otherwise lies in his hands and the power of his teleprompter.

My question to the president, and to all who continue to cry “racism” wolf, do you really want to heal racism in this Country?  Or would you rather keep it on life support because it’s an effective tool to obtain the things you want, and that, much more than you want to heal racism in this Country?  

“The Little Boy Who Cried Wolf” learned a harsh lesson: when liars do tell the truth, they are never believed.  Playing the race card in like manner has the same undermining result.  With every false accusation comes the lack of credibility for legitimate cases.  Is this the price anyone wants to pay for political gain?

The truth is revealed in the choices made, not in the accusations laid.  And if the latter choice is the answer, then sadly, the dream was nice while it lasted.

“Near and Dear to My Heart”

Almost 18 months ago, I lost one of my best friends to a resurgence of the breast cancer she had conquered 12 years previous.  Bev was a shining light in my life for many reasons, greatest among them her indomitable spirit that never complained and gave God glory for the gift of her life and whatever the purpose her suffering was to serve.   

For all who knew her, she was a daily inspiration and a reminder to keep life’s ills in perspective.  If ever there was a “wonderful life” it was Bev’s, as our lives were made richer, more humble, and substantially better for how hers so graciously touched ours.  She was known for always saying about her life, “It is God’s will.”  

She made peace with how her health had been affected long before the news arrived that the cancer had returned with a vengeance and it was now in her bones.  And when it was time to go, she was ready, her heart halfway inside Heaven’s gates as she raised her hands in worship to the God she loved and trusted no matter what, while her favorite praise music played in the background of her hospital room. 

 

My last time with her was the night before she removed her breathing tube herself and surrendered.  She kept writing on a tablet that she is “at peace with God” and “now all was right in the world.” She was ready to go.  I drew close to her so she could read my heart through my eyes, and through choked up tears, I was able to let her know how much I loved her, how much her life has meant to me, and that it was okay to let go now.  Her own eyes smiled back with a glistening of tears, and when I said, “I love you, Bev” she pointed to her heart and then to mine to let me know she loved me too.  I never had any doubt of that as she was a true friend in word and deed, always serving the needs of others and never asking for much help for her own.  She preferred it that way, not wanting anyone to pity her for her physical limitations.

Needless to say, my words are not post-mortem hyperbole.  Ask anyone who knew her, the stories are the same.  Each one of us held such a special place in her heart that each of us felt like we were the most special.  What a gift she left behind for all of us to emulate.

About 5 years ago, I had my own personal scare after finding an unusual lump that gratefully turned out to be fibrocystic and not cancer.  Even so, those few weeks of my life brought me face to face with my own mortality in a way that has forever changed me.  Truly, “our lives are but a breath” as Psalms 39:5 tells us.

While Bev eventually lost her fight with cancer, it was not before winning the fight of her spirit.  It is easier to share about this today than it was even 6 months ago, but still not without the tears welling in my eyes.  I share her story today because I know I am not the only one who has had a Bev in their life.  I have lost other women from my life due to breast cancer and I am blessed to have several women in my life who have been mighty conquerors.  And in recent days, news of yet someone else dear to me being touched by this disease has burdened my heart again.

This brings me to the point of my sharing this: Susan G. Komen’s Walk for the Cure and the special friend in my life who has taken up the challenge in such an inspiring way I just have to tell you all about it.  I met Jim Hillmann when we worked together many years ago.  We have remained dear friends since that time and now he is doing something absolutely amazing to me.  After losing his mother to breast cancer in February of 2004, Jim got involved with the 3-day, 60 mile walks in the Bay Area.  After being inspired from these events, he has decided to try to do all 14 events in 2011.   

I am so blessed by Jim's passion for this worthy cause.  I just have to do all I can to support his efforts because he is walking for you and me.

This past December, John Dugan of the Sunnyvale Sun wrote a wonderful article about Jim and what he is trying to achieve.  Jim has also put together his own website which outlines his story and his goals, and how you can be part of what he is doing to support this effort.

Please take the time to review both the article and his website where he is trying to raise funds for what he calls, “900 Miles – 15 Cities – 1 Cure.”  Whatever you can contribute towards such a worthy cause would be greatly appreciated, even if it comes in the form of passing on this message.  If each one could reach one, imagine what miracles we together could do.

Thank you all from my heart,

Wendi

Quick Links:

To read Jim’s story: www.WalkingForACure.info

To Donate: www.900MilesCloserToACure.org 

Jim’s Email: Walking_Them_All@WalkingForACure.info

On Facebook:  900 Miles Closer to a Cure:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/900-Miles-Closer-to-a-Cure/149506038408305

"The Elephants in the Room"

My latest article as published on my column at Examiner.com:
http://www.examiner.com/republican-in-san-francisco/the-elephants-the-room

President Obama is either clueless or he genuinely believes “we the people” are.  I purport it’s the latter.  He has this way of revising history even as it’s being made, smoothing things in his favor, fully expecting we’ll buy it and eat it up like some scrumptious dessert.  It’s as if by his saying so, makes it so, the truth be damned.  If only we could be smart enough to see as he sees, and he tries so hard to help us do just that.  But a funny thing happens on the way to a TEA Party when one becomes the target of such spin… like Dorothy discovering that “The Great and Terrible Wizard of Oz” is just a man behind a curtain, a mouse with a microphone, the truth becomes irrevocably crystal clear and spin becomes obvious, and thus, thereafter impotent.

The Emperor has no clothes and we know it, however, he doesn’t know we know it; at least this is how Obama behaves.  It’s as if he mistakenly believes we still see Oz when we’re staring directly at the man behind the curtain.  It’s embarrassing for him to continue to unabashedly display his goods as if we can’t see them.  Surprisingly, he doesn’t seem embarrassed at all.  Instead of such exposure sincerely humbling and changing him as it did Oz, Obama further insults and alienates us by continuing to act like the ‘Great Oz’ expecting us to keep playing along.

What does a naked Emperor want us to believe, after all?  Not that he is naked but that we aren’t seeing clearly.  And if we aren’t, it could only be that we didn’t hear the message correctly, right?  Please!  It’s like the proverbial elephant in the room that the stubborn mule refuses to acknowledge even when everyone else already has.

Such is the case during the November 3 press conference the day after the wave of the 2010 mid-term elections returned America back to a sea of red.  How does Nancy Pelosi view such “Astroturf” now?  But I digress…

Obama said that living inside the White House bubble, “it is hard not to seem removed.”  Seem removed?  He even claimed in the subsequent “60 Minutes” interview that he was “surprised at the political cost” of Obama Care.  Obama can’t believably go from the retaliatory mocking of the grassroots TEA Party early on in the uprising of the movement, proclaiming, “you see folks waving tea bags around,” to an “I just didn’t realize” type of response almost 2 years later.  Of course he knows!  He just doesn’t think we do.  This is why he is deflecting the truth in a cloak of feigned humility, spinning the reason for this wave as a “messaging” problem he needs to correct instead of acknowledging exactly what it really is: a clear repudiation of his policies, policies that are bleeding the greatness out of America, and at an alarming rate.

The only messaging problem Obama actually has is he’s been “messaging” us to death on our TV’s almost daily for nearly his entire Presidency.  This overkill doesn’t change what we know, no matter how many times and ways he explains, as if we’re stupid children.  We understand that he wants to “fundamentally transform America.”  This is crystal.  We want to prevent the success of that agenda.  No matter how he slices the turkey, it’s still unwanted stuffing inside.

I've been listening to various pundits follow Obama’s lead, speaking for “we the people” as always, minimizing and misinterpreting the truth about the mid-terms.  These are the moments that most frustrate us.  We wish we could jump through the television and “pundit” for ourselves, which is why we rally, blog, and pray that we are heard.  And the left wonders why we are such an “angry mob.”

In addition to Obama’s “messaging” claim, there’s:

-          It’s not about Obama Care but about the economy.
-          It’s not about anti-Democrats but anti-incumbents.
-          It’s about making Obama a one-term President.

The strands of truth are:

-          It’s about remaining the Republic as we were founded.
-          It’s about the economy and Obama Care.
-          It’s about anti-Democrats and anti-RINO Republicans, not anti-incumbents.
-          It’s about making Obama a one-term President…

We cherish the gift of the Republic our Founders paid so dear a price to give us.  We don’t want to fundamentally transform America into a European welfare state; hence, we do not want bail outs, higher taxes, increased spending, big government, or Obama Care which is one sixth of the economy.  We don’t want to become a socialist Nation, not even one sixth.

We don’t want Obama Care, or Hillary Care, or any other Universal, single-payer, Government-run Health Care system in America – period.  We love our private sector, capitalist, free-market America.  Our Country will not economically recover until we instill the necessary confidence that will only come from stopping Obama’s transformational agenda and undoing his policies.

The wave most definitely was repudiation of Obama’s policies and of anyone, regardless of Party, who aided in the success of his agenda.  We don’t want any more tyrannous rule of Democrats or the enabling help of RINO Republicans who have held open the door for them to do so.  It’s not just that Obama Care passed into law, it’s equally important who ensured it and how.  By force is un-American and unacceptable.  We’re cleaning house – our House.

As long as Obama holds the veto pen via the Oval Office, his policies remain in place.  This is why we want Obama to be a one-term President; not for partisan political reasons or because of racism, but to ensure the successful repeal of Obama Care before it can be implemented and therefore never reversed.

All of these strands are tied together like fingers forming a fist.  The mid-term wave was just our first punch.  To mistake the Conservative wave as anything but stopping the bleeding and voting our voice back into the game is to miss the whole point.  A 2 year gridlock, if necessary, is preferred to save our Country.

But America is still on life support.   This is why the elections of 2012 will be a tsunami in comparison.  Anyone who stood with Obama and aided his agenda will be voted out right along with him.  It makes zero difference what any of them do between now and then.  They brazenly forced their hand when we had no say, thus sealing their fate.  Now they have no more say.  The lesson must be learned that we the people hold the power of our Nation and we’ll never accept going down this road ever again.  John Boehner, and Republicans like him, gets that.  His election night speech and his press briefing the following day articulated it well.

Dr. Phil has said, “You cannot change what you do not acknowledge.”  Obama would be wise to heed those words.  We know the Emperor has no clothes.  We believe what we see and hear with our own eyes and ears.  Ignoring the elephant in the room has only multiplied the herd and filled the House with them.  Election night was a Republican stampede he shouldn’t paint as anything else.  There are just too many elephants in the room now to ignore.  

“It’s About the Votes, Stupid”

As shared at my Column with Examiner.com:
http://www.examiner.com/republican-in-san-francisco/it-s-about-the-votes-stupid


When I was young, my mother used to say to me, “Do as I say, not as I do.” For as wise as she was sweet, this clever quip never worked for me. The example set in what she actually did had the greater impact on my own choices and behavior. I have otherwise heard it aptly put, “Your actions speak so loud, I cannot hear what you are saying.” In the current political climate heading into the 2010 mid-term elections, the usual siege of campaign rhetoric, promises and smears are no different; these mere, empty, last minute words cannot undo 20 months of choices and behavior, and therefore, no longer have enough depth to hold air let alone our trust.

The polarizing issues of the 2008 Presidential Elections began disturbing the slumber of the politically apathetic. Unfortunately, as often goes with apathy, the awakening comes a day late and a dollar short, now racing from the disadvantage of the back of the field. It’s like “The Frog in the Kettle” analogy: toss a frog into boiling water, it will immediately jump out, but, put the frog in tepid water and slowly turn up the heat, it will boil alive because it won’t even feel it.

While the cost of our apathy eventually gave us an Obama Presidency, fortunately, we the people did feel the heat (called the TARP Bill) soon enough to begin our subsequent uphill fight, furiously calling and writing our respective Congressional Representatives to not support the Bill, all to no avail. Against the will of “we the people,” especially those of us in the Republican Party, even John McCain, the 2008 Republican Presidential Candidate, voted in favor of it, speaking huge disappointing volumes.

What a rude awakening. Not only was our voice not heard, worse - while we’d slumbered, our voice became irrelevant to those voted into Office to serve us. Instead, Congressional Representatives, including Republicans, were lording over us and serving themselves, as if this was normal and acceptable, as if they knew what was best for us, the ignorant and stupid. We were just asleep and therefore silent… but no more.

This under-estimation of we the people has subsequently exposed that it’s not we who are the ignorant and stupid or the only ones asleep. While we are now wide awake and motivated to action as reflected in the grassroots TEA Party movement, they remain clueless, especially to the fact that we feel most betrayed by the votes of those in our own Party, the “moderate” Republicans, or RINO’s (Republicans In Name Only).

From that first vote for the TARP Bill to all the votes that quickly followed Obama’s Presidential Inauguration, we the people have been taking copious notes. RINO’s made 3 key mistakes, thus, outing themselves and forever etching their names in our minds: 1) they voted for Obama’s radical agenda at every turn, 2) they believed we would forget these votes, and 3) they demonized us for opposing them. They’re like the dross which surfaces and is then removed in the process of purifying silver. All it took was turning up the heat to expose them. As we fast approach the 2010 mid-term elections, we haven’t forgotten. Anything but – we’ve been like a stampede of horses chomping at the bit to get out of the gate and to the ballot box to finally be heard.  The heat of the TEA Party is purging the dross of compromise right out of the Republican Party.

Still fresh in our minds are the names of every RINO who voted for the passage of Cap and Trade, the Stimulus Bills, the Obama Care Bill, and the confirmation of radicals to our National Supreme Court, all in spite of the passionate opposition from the majority of we the people, essentially shoving their will down our throats time and time again. When Cap and Trade barely passed, due to the votes of just 8 RINO’s, a “Wanted Poster” of them quickly circulated over the internet.

The reason there is such uproar over the primary election of Christine O’Donnell instead of incumbent Mike Castle is because RINO’s still don’t get it. Dick Morris does.

        Morris said labeling candidates like O’Donnell “extremist” was based on outdated political calculations. “There is a basic misconception which the establishment has about these primaries. When a tea party candidate or an ‘extremist’ wins the primary, normally that would mean there’s a lesser chance of winning the election.”

        “The issue is not extremism or moderation, its sincerity or insincerity.”

        “Fiscal and economic concerns are more important to voters.”

        “Someone who is an ‘extremist,’ in the words of the establishment, is probably more trustworthy on those issues.”

We don’t care about O’Donnell’s “dabbling in witchcraft” as a teenager, or any other stupid issue for which she has been attacked, and more scrutinized and scandalized than Obama ever was. We only care about the conservative principles she stands for and how she will vote. We already know by the aforementioned "Wanted Poster" what Castle believes and how he votes.

What is so surprising then about the ousting of these RINO’s like Crist, Murkowski, and now Castle? Their votes for Obama’s radical agenda, against our will, were painful to helplessly witness. We prayed, we called, we wrote, we rallied, we did all we could to make it clear, “Please do not vote for Obama’s agenda!” Proverbs 13:12 says, “Hope deferred makes the heart sick.” For each vote that betrayed the will of we the people, our hearts grew increasingly sick with deep disappointment. Of course we no longer want them to have the opportunity to vote against us again. We don’t want any more painful and hopeless angst with each vote cast against our will; we want the peace and confidence that the votes will represent it.

Call it extremist, purist, or foolish, we don’t care. We only care about one thing - the votes. That’s what it boils down to. There’s no mystery here. It’s about the votes, stupid!

We don’t care about the attacks on the TEA Party or the candidates we endorse, attacks which only reinforce our assessment of the opposition. We are not swayed but their deflection of blame onto Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, or Fox News. They have no one to blame but themselves. No one else placed their vote in the box.

We don’t care about last minute campaign ads trying to save their hides; our minds were made up when they voted. Campaigning now doesn’t erase all they’ve done and how they voted in the previous 20 months.

Fortunately, in the beauty of our sacred Republic our Founders established the failsafe of empowering us, the people, with voting these public servants not only into but also out of Office.

President George Washington said in 1787, "The power under the Constitution will always be in the People. It is entrusted for certain defined purposes, and for a certain limited period, to representatives of their own choosing; and whenever it is executed contrary to their interest, or not agreeable to their wishes, their servants can--and undoubtedly will--be recalled."

Patrick Henry said, "The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people; it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government."

Instead of building upon Reagan’s proven conservative legacy after he left Office, RINO’s have dragged the Republican Party away from it by the leaven of their compromise. First it paved the way for an Obama Presidency, and now it’s been paving the way for the blasphemous Obama agenda to fundamentally transform America. They have dragged us so far away from true Reagan conservatism that our current efforts to return to our Founding principles of smaller government, fiscal responsibility, and a strong national defense, are now ironically viewed as extremist.

Every time we have been diminished, mocked, attacked, and ignored, it has only fueled our resolve. We want public servants who indeed serve the will of the people and not a radical Presidential agenda.  It is time for the Republican Party to get behind we the people and no longer the other way around.

In the end, if they do not represent the will of the people when they vote, they will be purged by the votes of the people they refuse to represent. If they vote for us, we will vote for them. If they don’t – we won’t. It doesn’t get clearer than that.

"No More Leaven of Compromise"

As shared at my Column with Examiner.com:
http://www.examiner.com/republican-in-san-francisco/no-more-leaven-of-compromise
(includes the sourced links)


The recent primary battle between longtime Republican Senator Mike Castle, an establishment politician liberal Republican, and the grassroots TEA Party citizen contender Christine O’Donnell, perfectly exemplifies the very serious problem that conservatives have with the Republican Party; they keep endorsing the wrong candidate, just as they did when John McCain became the only option for the 2008 Presidential Election. It wasn’t until the principled conservative, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, joined the ticket that conservatives felt they finally stood a fighting chance against the Obama campaign machine.

The RNC continues to make the mistake that they need “moderate” candidates in order to secure independent votes. Even under the leadership of Michael Steele, the RNC fails to recognize that such compromise of true Republican principles, conservative principles, secures the liberal agenda, as often, these “moderate” Republicans, otherwise known as RINO’s (Republican In Name Only), tend to cast Congressional votes in favor of the liberal agenda. This compromise is exactly how Obama Care, as well as all the other tax and spending Bills which Americans passionately oppose, was shoved down the throats of the American people.

Conservatives do not want leaven-like Republicans in Office who “reach across the aisle.” Americans want candidates who have enough principle and conviction to stand firm on the conservative side of the aisle. Never before in America’s history has this mattered more as the Obama Administration is in full force to “fundamentally transform” Her.

If the RNC fails to understand that the TEA Party movement is not just about opposing Obama’s radical “fundamental transformation” agenda, but also about conservatives taking back the Republican Party in order to have an arm to fight with let alone a leg to stand on, then they demonstrate why their own tone-deaf candidate endorsements will cause their eventual removal from Office as well, via the cleansing affects of the ballot box.

A majority of Conservatives today still hold to the same convictions of former President Ronald Reagan who shared in a 1977 CPAC speech about revitalizing the Republican Party. He encouraged Republicans to stand on conservative principles, and then make room for others to join. He demonstrated the success of this concept, eventually winning the respect of the Democrat Party, hence the term, “Reagan Democrats.”

Sacrificing conservative principles to make room for independents was not the compromise Reagan encouraged. He did not espouse trading in common sense to win them, only to then hand over the reins of the Party to them. If it takes apples of compromised principles to get them, it will take those same apples to keep them. This is exactly how the Republican Party became the tail wagging the neutered dog; conservatives and TEA Party patriots are passionately trying to correct this crippling error.

However, if independents, most of whom are center-right, are won without compromise, because of common sense principles, then the Republican Party will once again be the empowered Party of the successful Reagan era. This is not a complicated task. Until they do, the Republican Party will continue to be a lukewarm losing Party, something this Country desperately can no longer afford.

One well known definition of insanity is continuing to travel down the same road and expecting a different result. How insane has the RNC become? Compromise does not work! If you give the left a peephole, they make it into a loophole to advance their agenda, an agenda that a majority of Americans adamantly do not want. The Bible says in Galatians 5:9, “A little leaven, leavens the whole lump of dough.” It doesn’t take much.

Americans have been making this as clear as possible every time they get behind candidates that better represent conservative principles, even as far as rejecting the “RNC endorsed” anointed candidates. This recently happened again in Alaska with the primary win of Joe Miller over the RNC backed Lisa Murkowski.

Why then, is the RNC working so hard like a Democrat to demonize the people’s choice of Christine O’Donnell to secure the win of Mike Castle? If there is even a remote chance he could vote with the Democrats on any part of Obama’s transformational agenda, as he has already done, he is of no help to conservatives fighting to remain the America of our blessed inheritance.

Thursday, the Christian Science Monitor crafted an article that asks, “Could Mike Castle be part of a new Republican middle?” The answer is a resounding “no!” Mark Levin clearly explained on his Facebook page, “This is what I’ve been warning about both on my show and here. So-called moderates will be swept into office on the coattail of the anti-Democrat, anti-Obama, pro-TEA Party surge in November, and they will organize against conservatives and the conservative agenda… It will mean the end of the GOP as a potential conservative party that can counter statists, and more importantly, it will mean that America has crossed over to a socialist nation.”

Sarah Palin called into Sean Hannity’s radio program Thursday to officially give her endorsement to Christine O'Donnell. "Let me go ahead and endorse Christine O'Donnell because, Sean, she's the conservative in the race," Palin said. "She is against Obama's cap-and-tax scheme, she is against Obamacare, and she is for the free market principles that need to get plugged in to put our economy back on the right track."

There is a clear line drawn in the sand in this a tug-of-war for the Republic which we cannot afford to lose; either America will be fundamentally transformed into a European style welfare state, looking more like Venezuela, or America will remain the Republic of Her founding. There is no middle ground. America still has a chance, but the window of opportunity is quickly closing. Risks of compromising shots in the dark between these two camps will all but secure the unacceptable success of the Obama agenda.

Compromise, therefore, is no longer an option. It is how Republicans have been needlessly drawn this far into the battle to begin with; we are far too close to that middle line. Any closer to the fire and it will consume the small hope that still remains, which is why conservatives will no longer concede to their compromise; they will never give up this fight. Instead, they will continue to vote for solid and unleavened candidates in order to revive America and, once again, become that shining light upon a hill.

The RNC would be wise to finally get a clue and get the leaven out of the Republican Party already. America cannot afford to become like a fluffy loaf of white bread stripped void of all its nutrients. It is up to them to come back to the people and stop dragging the people away from conservatism. It isn’t working. If they do not, they will make themselves a losing third party with no one to blame but themselves.