Oh look, the darling child of Liberals, “progressives, and populist Republicans – Green Energy – is unable to sustain itself with out massive government mandates and subsidies.

Short circuit looms in Minnesota’s promising wind energy industry

Promising? Bravo sierra!

Great Example Of Why GOP Blew Their Chance At Reform – Grassroots Tea Party Aiming To Correct The Problem

Read this and pay attention to the “Beltway” types and pansy assed Republican members of Congress who enjoy the perks of “serving” as a member of the exclusive elite club of Congress more then they do serving the people and the Constitution.

Trent Lott, we owe a large portion of our nation’s current economic and political crisis on you and Republicans like you.

Bachmann is mentioned. She’s attempting to start a Tea Party Caucus in the US House. Of course that isn’t sitting well with some legacy lifers in the GOP ranks. By gosh if theirs a caucus of US Representatives that is entirely beholden to their constituents and the Constitution, by gosh the GOP old guard careerists will loose power and influence to protect their cushy backsides from accountability.

An interesting thing is who is the Tea Party favored candidate for Senate? Details Schmetails.

Term limits can solve a lot of this problem. If I were a candidate for Congress, I’d be running with that as a major plank in my agenda.

Oh look, another day starts out with blood shooting out of my eyes.

U.S. marks 3rd-largest, single-day debt increase

$166 billion jump spurs concerns over policy

For those of you who think we can tax our way out of this mess with out reforming and reducing the spending of Government, I ask you to look through history and find examples of where spending at will while taxing to “pay for it” has lead to a sustained nation.

Our states have all pretty much broke their piggy banks and needed a bailout to avoid reality. There is no one to bail out America. Our debt outpaces the economy, and the policies being implemented now will contract it and stifle future growth. Meaning less private capitol for the federal government to confiscate and redistribute.

This little experiment of defying the laws of economic reality needs to end before our nation is destroyed.

Payback’s a b!tch. The tidal waves that drove Republicans out of office in 2006 and 2008 also came with them riptides that thrust Democrats into office. Democrats have controlled Congress and the MN Legislature since 2006 and for some reason little attention has been paid to that.

Now sure, Republicans up til the point where they turned over the gavels governed liberally. Excessive spending and the growth of government are traits best exhibited by Democrats, but Republicans thought they were the road to reelection. They abandoned their principles and behaved like Democrats trying to buy votes.

Well the public is getting a rude awakening of just what the big difference between a big government Republican and a liberal Democrat looks like. On the national stage, President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, and Senator Reid have done more to erode liberty, freedom, and prosperity in 18 months than decades of work by previous Democrats. In Minnesota, even though held somewhat in check by Republican Governor Pawlenty, the Democrats who controlled the Legislature enjoyed wide latitude in growing the size and most importantly scope of state Government.

Here we are now in the 2010 election. Voters are upset at the direction of our government and the anemic economy. Debt, deficits, and the economic rebound (thru real sustainable private sector jobs) are taking the lead in voter interest. We’re 2 or 3 years into a recession. The media isn’t covering just how bad it is or the idea that it has been prolonged due to actions the Democrats have taken. But the voters are beginning to see it.

The people no longer need to be educated by the media or talking head spinsters on what is going on. Most people realize that the problem with Washington and state government is not necessarily party affiliation, but just the people. Anti-incumbent sentiment is at an all time high, and faith in public servants is at an all time low.

For the people running for office I urge great caution not to take this for granted. Seriously, just because you are the outsider isn’t enough. Just because you opposed Obama or this or that spending boondoggle, isn’t enough.

You need to present real ideas to get us out of this mess. Now I know that having Republicans in charge of the gavels in MN and Washington is the odds on favorite for pulling America and Minnesota back from the edge of the bankruptcy cliff many of other nations in the world are on. European nations are facing the cold hard truth of socialism, that eventually you run out of other people’s money and the chickens will come home to roost. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

In America, even while we have prime examples around the globe that prove the government cannot spend the country back to prosperity or that entitlement programs and forcing people to depend on government for basic needs – simply leads to unsustainable budget projections, voters still bought the line that this was change you can believe in.

The problem with the nannystate is that eventually when people realize they can simply vote themselves a government handout of check, they lose the will to be free.

I believe that what makes a person good to serve in elective office isn’t that they are willing to listen to people, or that they know how to make government work especially for you, its that they know what government isn’t supposed to do. Our Founders were well ahead of their time in building the framework for a system that would prevent the nanny state.

Again, what liberals, of any political affiliation, fail to recognize is that the big government nannystate uber utopia has never worked anywhere. There are no shining examples of a government controlled society ever being sustainable, especially one where freedom is the prime directive. Our Constitution was not designed to empower politicians, bureaucrats, and regulators – it was designed to limit them and allow the society to be as great as the individuals who make it up cared to make it.

Legislators are supposed to live under the laws that they make, but instead they pass special rules and privileges for them. They’ve become an aristocracy, a ruling class. I could go on for ever about the absolute moral and ethical disgust some politicians have for the citizens of America, but I won’t.

The point of this rant?

Republicans cannot take for granted that they will win in November by simply not being Democrats. The voters thought the opposite was true in 06 & 08. they bought the fools gold of Obama and company and when they went to the Gold exchange to get a return on their investment, they realized they were had.

The liberals who have the most to lose, special privilege, kickbacks, and power are not going to lie down. A couple great examples come from Minnesota.

The Washington Democrats are doubling down on defeating Congresswoman Bachmann. Many people think that running against a darling of the tea party and conservative rockstars is suicide. I’ve even thought that the DCCC would not waste money trying to defeat her, but I and the others are wrong. The DCCC has decided to lend their aid and comfort to Taxin Tarryle Clarke. Bachmann shouldn’t have any troubles, unless she doesn’t take it seriously.

You all know how I have been a critic of the Minnesota Republican tactics in the past. That the road to victory is not paved with mud and negativity. Clarke will be instantly thrust onto the national stage. The media and lefty interests will assume it their role to prop up Clarke tot he level Bachmann has earned, out of ‘fairness’. Clarke will be given free rides on facts and truths. Its going to be an expensive and nasty election. It won’t be won solely with TV and radio ads.

In the Governor’s race, a mega-consortium of liberal special interest that make up the Democratic party here have pooled together and are planning to spend tens of millions to defeat Tom Emmer. While some of us were looking forward to an election season with out TV nastygrams from US Senate candidates and national interest groups, it appears that is not going to be the case.

Republicans are going to be painting as the party of no. They will be painted as people with out ideas. They will be dragged into arguing on the margins of what Government isn’t supposed to do, in a sense debating the theoretical. They cannot take anything for granted. they must continue to work. they cannot forget what got them to where they are. Whether it was thru hard fought endorsement fights, or records of conservative leadership in the Legislature or in the private sector, they can’t forget what got them to where they are.

You know me, I am very skeptical about the political establishment amongst the Republican party in Minnesota. I do not trust their judgement and their tactics. There have been some rays of hope, but there are also some unforced errors of past being repeated.

I worry that we have great candidates up and down the ballot that are not taking this seriously, that are listening to all the wrong people.

I pray that I am wrong, but I feel it is important to put this out here in hopes that we the people don’t get screwed again.

Republicans do need a plan to show voters. I’m no fool to believe you need to lay out a certified blueprint ready to build off of. But you need to lay out the reasons for why people should vote for you. It needs to start with Emmer and trickle down so that Legislative candidates can hammer it home at the doors. Again, I’m not talking about laying out the finalized budget, but the common message and goals needs to start to be decimated.

The election calendar of past years must be thrown out. We cannot wait until the State Fair to roll out the traveling salesmen schtick. With the early Primary and national 24-7 focus on what Government can do to solve every crisis, its our turn to lay out some ideas.

These ideas are not something that can be found by polling or focus groups. If we are going to be the party of ideas and solutions, by gosh it is about time we start acting like it.

Every day we sit back and let the Democrats give Tony award worthy performances about how Republicans are to blame for what happened under the last 4 years under the Democrat’s watch, is 2 days too late.

Please don’t just dust off the playbook of old, through in some new voter ID gizmos, Facebook, and Twitter and think that will be enough. We got into trouble as a party because we lost sight of our own agenda. We forgot to stand for what we say we stand for. Simply saying we now stand for what we used to stand for isn’t enough.

We must prove that we are the party of ideas and solutions. It has to be in full view of the public. We shouldn’t be afraid of the other side finding out our ideas for the future f this country and state. We know that they already have opposing views.

Politics has changed, we need to embrace that. Press releases and private events are not enough.

(There, I said it, I have more that’s been rumbling around my thick skull, but at least I got some of this off my chest)

More proof that more often then not, the media is running the PR coverstory/propaganda ops for lefty politicians.

CBS’ “Evening News”: Gore’s Loss To Bush Contributed To Separation

There’s video to go along.

Do they actually think that We the People are this stupid. That somehow in the mystical unicorn world where social engineers and authoritarians live, people get divorced for completely different reasons then the rest of us out here in pee-on world?

And they wonder why we think they are biased. Anyone care to run a fact check on this doozey from CBS?

Oh look, it appears that the GM takeover is going to make some people incredibly rich, not to mention be used as an election gimmick to help Obama and the Democrats who spent billions of taxpayer dollars in the first place.

And of course, all to kill Hummer.

Carrots and sticks.

The Chanting Points Information War is underway.

Operation Out Of Context is in full affect these days in Minnesota politics. DFL Governor candidates are in a pickle. They love big Government. The same type of Big Government that the public dislikes and doesn’t trust. They know that with the national tide that swept them into power in 2006 & 2008 has turned into a riptide and any politician that isn’t bolted down to their office is going to get tossed out by the anti-incumbent and anti-Big Government sentiment in November’s elections.

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And that’s where the media comes in. DFL politicians are scrambling to try to change the subject of the election away from their own records. They are cherry picking Tom Emmer and Republicans’ statements for anything they can take out of context and mislead voters with. Eric Black, the former Strib hatchet political reporter who even did a stint with the George Soros rent-a-bloggers at MN Indy, is now taking the DFL talking points, splattering in a bit of his own dislike for anything Republican, and going on the offensive for the liberal army of nanny state politicians trying desperately to keep their seat at the social engineering tables at the Capital.

Freedom is the latest problem for Democrats and their allies in the media. The fact is that the Democrat agenda is rationing freedom. Its main goal is to take away freedom and liberty. Its undeniable, unless they are able to redefine freedom.

Freedom, Liberty, and personal responsibility are the cornerstones  for the conservative movement. Just about everything else that makes up the movement relies on those pillars. Thanks to 8 years of a Republican President acting more like a Democrat and the last 4 years of unbriddled liberal Democrat control of Congress and the MN Legislature, Americans and Minnesotans now realize that conservatism is not tantamount to Republican. That most Democrats are beholden to the nanny state (anti-freedom) policies of Democrat leaders.

There are few if any rank and file Democrats in elective office who differ on major issues with their leadership. For those that raise a fuss, they do so with one hand out looking for the best offer of kick backs or ear marks to buy their votes in order to pass legislation that takes away freedom and liberties from Americans, but more importantly, makes more people dependent on Government for their “survival” whether literally or financially.

The search for the elusive true Blue Dog or conservative Democrat is like a snipe hunt. People always tell those new voters sitting around the political news camp fire to go out and look for a Democrat who doesn’t vote in lockstep with their party leadership on a regular basis. To look for a Democrat who stands on principle, not party orders. One that will look their President or Speaker in the eye and say no, this is not the role of the State or Federal government. But there is never one there, and if you do find one…. Actually, a real principled conservative Democrat may be more like a unicorn. Anyways, you get the point.

So the Democrats running for cover from their own records and agenda. They think the solution to what ails people can only be found by politicians doing something. they think profits are evil and that people can’t possibly make “the right” decisions on how to spend their own money. They seek to have a consequence free society by governing through the lowest common denominator.

They believe that Government doesn’t serve the people, but rather that it rules over them. That’s why this freedom offensive is under way. They know they are on the wrong side of the freedom argument. They know that their agenda will take away liberties. They know that what made America great was not its Government, but that America was the first nation to protect its citizens’ freedoms and liberties from Government. The citizens built this nation into the shining city on the hill that most humans desired to see and feel with their own eyes.

You watch, Democrats and their gleeful apologists and defenders and attackdogs in the media will do everything they can to redefine freedom, liberty, and try to convince people that anyone who believe in freedom and liberty is actually a racist. You’ve already seen a full blown assault on the Tea Parties like this. Millions of Americans spontaneously gathered together and said enough was enough. Teabaggers, racists, extreme, right wingers, etc etc.

Its dishonest for people who purport to be anything other then a shill or liberal activist to write pap like this.  If something like this was written by someone who would come out and admit that they support one side of the political isle, or that they oppose a candidate due to their own beliefs, it could be tolerable. People would read it, go yeah, liberal slant, and move on. You see, I make no bones about what I believe, my readers know that I am a conservative who will support a Republican 8 times out of 10. But when “journalists” pretend to be the political rhetoric police or “truth detectors” and simply use opposition research to debunk or trump up something often taken out of context, they sully the entire framework of the American electoral system.

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And now time to go exercise my evil freedoms and try to earn a living so I can maybe squeak out a nasty profit with my liberties.

PS: Didn’t even go into the whole Cap & Control or Amnesty crap Democrats are trying slip under the door of Americans. Real reporters would report how America is fed up with what Democrats are selling, not try to distract them.

I think state Republican parties are starting to get it. You have a number of State Parties and their elective office members starting to understand what the party is supposed to stand for and what America is really craving. I’m happy to say that so far it looks like Minnesota is one of those state with a renewed set of priorities from the Republican Party leaders. But when we look to some recent decisions by Washington Republicans and the party, we unfortunately see people grasping at straws.

You’ve all heard about the stupid fundraising and spending waste that has been happening under RNC Chair Michael Steele’s nose, some even at his book tour behest. Its something that makes many of us rank and filers worry that our central planning office is still out of touch.

But 2 key things that the inside the beltway Republicans did this week show the lack of leadership and disconnect that worry me greatly.

1) The RNC’s decision to hold the 2012 convention in Florida. Why? Also in the running is the new whipping boy for every leftist open borders, amnesty lover out there, Arizona. At a time when a number of cities, states, and major businesses are orchestrating boycotts and media attack campaigns against the state for simply codifying federal law into their state laws, not to mention when a majority of the nation bi-partisanly supports what Arizona did, deciding to “go a different direction’ is like pulling the chair out of people doing what we are supposed to as a party support.  Border security.   It may be one of the boldest dunderheaded moves on a policy or issue from the current elites that run the national GOP.

2) The Congressional Republican’s online poll for what programs/spending to cut. In what is the most blatant display of finger in the wind – sundress blowing up over their head leadership I have seen, the Washington leaders of the GOP are punting principles to the internet. I’m sorry, but if sitting members of Congress can’t figure out what spending is wasteful and what is not out of the $4 Trillion budget, they don’t deserve to be in elective office let alone leadership positions.

I gauge party and elective leaders on key decisions. In the first you see them refuse to take a bold step in supporting our principles. In the second one you see them surrendering leadership to the internet polls. In both cases you see people in charge of leading the party either making bad decisions or sitting on their hands and letting others do it for them.

In other words we either have a DC GOP that is still willing to avoid bold leadership on key issues that America cares about or we have Congressional leaders that are asking others to tell them what is wasteful spending. Both examples have me incredibly worried about the national aspect. We may very well see huge realignments across the nation in Republicans winning back Legislatures, Congressional Seats, and statewide seats like Governorships – but it will be on their own hard work, not by the graces of principled bold leaders in Washington.

And if we can’t look to the RNC and Congressional Leaders and hold them up in the eyes of swing voters as an example of why we should be given another chance to lead the country – well, what good are they?

Let me try to put on my best faux outrage hat here.

Tom Emmer’s pick for his runningmate worked on a report that said the Lt. Governor position was obsolete and could be eliminated. That’s right, someone running for Lt. Governor once said that the very position they are seeking could be eliminated.

The hypocrisy, the horror, the nerve.

I’ll take a break while you collect yourselves, I know this has to be very VERY troubling to us all.

[2 minutes pass]

OK, now that you have stopped hyperventilating, let’s take a look at something here.

Remember the ballot back in 1998? Me neither, but it had something on it back then that the ones since haven’t. We used to have a State Treasurer. But in 1998, while we had a Republican running for the position, there was also a Constitutional Amendment to eliminate the position. His name was Kevin Knight. I suppose Marty Seifert was outraged back then considering he voted for the Amendment to be on the ballot and a Republican was running for it.

That Amendment passed 56 % to 44%.

Point?

Source: http://deucers.com/main/wp-content/gallery/july-2009/sinks.jpg

Delegates pretty much know where they each stand on the issues. On that, Emmer had a lead. Seifert was out of anything he could do to expose more of his appealing side, so he and his campaign climbed down into the gutter and launched the DWI smears. And oh yes, they are smears.

Emmer still had a trick up his sleeve. Not a dubious trick, but a smart campaign step held until as late as possible. While Seifert was forced to announce his runningmate in February to try to stop his downward momentum. It didn’t work save for a small pocket of her friends and political circle of ‘influence’.

Seifert’s campaign managed to squander a 10% lead from the Precinct Caucus poll. His campaign allowed Emmer to pull ahead in the Congressional Convention polls. And Emmer had yet to announce his runningmate. Again, on the issues, the Delegate knew pretty much all they could know, and Emmer was already ahead.

And now that Tom Emmer has announced Annette Meeks as his runningmate, well, Emmer’s flight to the endorsement has been cleared for takeoff. Now look, Seifert was a good Legislator for us. He’s really really wanted to be Governor for a long time and one has to feel bad for him. He and his cronies have spent years building their campaign and frontrunner status.

For a whole lot of Delegates who support Emmer, it isn’t that we dislike Seifert, we just like Emmer and his appeal better. Sure, some of us think the DWI and other smears are beyond the code of ethics and have tarnished what was previously a good Republican’s legacy. But still, its not like we are seeing a Jim Abeler or Ron Erhart vs Tom Emmer contest.

Both Emmer and Seifert are good conservatives. Yes, both have some faults or hiccups in their voting or issue part of their record. On those differences, Seifert’s are more of a turnoff for me. He’s been a big supporter of green environmentalism be it Ethanol subsides, wind, and then there’s that Midwest Renewable Energy Standard crap.

So let’s set that aside and look at the guys on the stump. Everyone and their 2nd cousin has had the chance to see Marty Seifert speak a number of times. He’s made sure his floor speeches are out there. We can predict the zingers and one liners because he mistakenly over saturated himself in the base’s vision.

Emmer was a guy most of us heard of, but only as a firey Legislator or that guy who did that one thing at that convention once. He left an impression, but not verbatim quotable due to repetition. As more and more Delegates got to see and hear him upclose, the appeal of Emmer was unstoppable.

The Republican endorsement is not a popularity contest like the DFL. It isn’t about what you have done, or how long you’ve been there. The DFL is more interested in someone who may have a chance at winning, then actually governing. Republicans are looking for someone who is electable, but more importantly will hold the their principles once elected.

Performance is our key character trait. Add to that the electability factor and the cream rises to the top. For both of our front runners, we’d be pretty well served if either wins, I can safely say that was how most people felt before the DWI smears of last week. For people like me, who thinks that politicians who want a job so badly that they’ll do anything to get it, are the same sort of politicians who will do anything to keep it.

Tom Emmer is the guy who I supported from the beginning. I know Tom, I like Tom, I trust Tom. And that’s the big key. So here we are, 48 hours before the endorsement. Seifert has been out of positive options for a week. He’s been firing torpedo after torpedo at Emmer’s ship that’s sailing fast and straight to home port. The Meeks announcement was like the ship ahead in the final leg hoisting a massive sail to catch even more wind and widen the lead.

So watch out everyone for kitchensinks flying through the air. Seifert’s campaign is trying to not only sink the Emmer ship, but shred the Meeks sail. Seifert and his campaign’s only hope is to knock Emmer off course. It is going to get nasty, real nasty these next couple days. Seifert is going to throw everything and the kitchensink at Emmer and Meeks.

The attacks about her having analyzed the Lt. Governor position and been part of a report saying the office could be eliminated and thus she and Emmer are hypocrits, is laughable, but a sign that things are going to be very interesting. He knows he is down and it will take a hailmary to catch up.

Heads up everyone, there may be kitchensinks flying around between now and Friday.

Check this out. More proof that the Global Warming worshipers are authoritarians.

Censorship and all.