The war between the conservative wing and the liberal wing of the Republican party continues. Recent stories posted on the Drudge Report show that establishment Republicans have unified their support for the RINO Republican Mitt Romney and have critical words for Newt Gingrich. Moderates such as Bob Dole attacked Newt Gingrich this week with the charge that News caused his loss to Clinton in the 1996 campaign.
During the budget battles in 1994, Newt and his fellow conservatives balanced the national budget for four consecutive years, leading to the economic boom of the 1990s. During the debates over government waste, Newt used an empty ice bucket to illustrate how government tends to continue wasteful practices. During the days before refrigeration, ice was once delivered to congressional offices to provide cool drinks. The practice continued for many years after refrigerators in congressional offices could make their own ice. Newt carried an empty ice bucket to speeches in order to illustrate government waste. Newt fought to eliminate the government ice budget program and saved $400.000 a year of hard earned tax payer money. Photos of Newt carrying ice buckets were ridiculed by the press and used as political weapons against Bob Dole.
Dole blamed Newt for his loss to Bill Clinton. “In my run for the presidency in 1996 the Democrats greeted me with a number of negative TV ads and in every one of them Newt was in the ad. He was very unpopular and I am not only certain that this did not help me, but that it also cost House seats that year.”
Bob Dole has been carrying a grudge for loosing the ‘96 election when in fact he lost because he was not a conservative budget cutter and could not understand or refute the media attacks against Newt who actually effective. During the years since Bill Clinton’s presidency and the decade since he was president, the Democrat media have pushed the false narrative that Clinton was responsible for the vibrant economy and plentiful jobs. Absolutely no credit is given to the speaker and conservatives in the House of Representatives and Republicans in the Senate who actually submitted balanced budgets for the president to sign. Conservatives lead by Newt Gingrich were tarred and feathered by the liberal press for cutting waste. Voters did not question media attacks against conservative led by the speaker.
Clinton never balanced the budget in the 1990s.
He merely signed balanced budgets submitted by the Newt led conservative congress!
Apparently voters forget their eighth grade civics classes which explained the Constitution. The House of Representatives submits the budget, the Senate approves or rejects the budget and the President signs it. If the conservatives did not fight so valiantly for a balanced budget in the 1990s, it would never have happened. Newt left government because the moderates revolted against the conservative budget cutters. The moderate wing of the party chased the conservatives out of the party.
Today’s Republican congress has attempted to submit cost cutting budgets, but Democrat controlled Senate has rejected budget cutting, failed to prepare a budget in over a 1,000 days, so President Obama has never signed a budget, not once. Obama blames the Republican controlled House for being obstructions, and the media does nothing to change that false narrative.
During this campaign, moderates like Bob Dole blame conservatives for their loss of power. Big government Republicans fail to understand that voters rejected them because they are not trusted to govern as true fiscal conservatives. While George W. Bush was president, the congress never once submitted a balanced budget and Bush never once used his veto pen to force them to cut wasteful spending. And not they wonder why Obama was elected on a Change platform.
Recent Matt Drudge has featured links to articles by Mitt Romney supporters which are false and misleading. Drudge Report headlines from moderate republicans question Gingrich’s conservative credentials.
Conservative author Peter Schweizer explains how some members of Congress personally profit from insider trading. In this Newsmax.TV video, the author of book “Throw Them All Out” details how then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her husband made millions off of a Visa IPO “targeted for them.”
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
To pursue happiness is to the right to work, save invest and keep more of your own money in order to acquire and own personal property. These are truths for all Americans regardless of race or color. On Martin Luther King Day we remember his dream for all people, including the former slaves of Georgia. I believe in his dream for all America.
I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.”
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.
This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
I have the dream of seeing black youth who now suffer 40% percent unemployment will one day have real jobs and become a full part of the American promise of owning a business and having property. I have a dream that all our citizens prosper through their own efforts rather than a government handout, for we know government handouts are never a hand-up.
Has the powerful EPA bureaucracy overstepped it’s authority to protect rivers and streams by declaring a dusty rock strewn property a “jurisdictional wetland” and have been levying a massive fine against property owners? The Sacketts are testing their legal claim in the highest court of the land. Their question before the court is tests whether the EPA can levy massive fines against private property owners without judicial review of their wetland determination. EPA Officials began assessing them a $37,500 daily fine for not complying with their edict.
The Sacketts took their claim to court and the decision is now before the Supreme Court. Has the EPA overstepped their authority? If they are not stopped, is any private property safe from their unchecked power? The total fines now stand at $40 million dollars for failure to heed all steps deemed by the EPA to satisfy the property be returned to wetlands status. In hearing about this case, I thought I’d try to find a video story on the case and discover for myself what constitutes a wetland according to the EPA. The following video indicates a property covered with rock, weeds, and powdery sand that is located 500 feed from a lake. By this outlandish assessment, any property located along a lake, river on the continental United States could be declared a “wetland” and residents fined and property confiscated.
Sackett v. EPA : Supreme Court Will Decide Property Rights Case
