Italics are mine – Frank Trejo – Yesterday’s News Today
Jeffery T. Kuhner, a columnist at the Washington Times wrote the following article in 3-16-2009.
Time to terminate the Terminator:
California is on the verge of economic collapse. The Golden State was once the envy of America. Its prosperity and coastline beauty was a magnet for millions. Now, its government is broken; its major cities are infested with drugs, crime and massive illegal immigration; (allowed intentionally by the federal government) its economy is sclerotic; and businesses and middle-class households flee in record numbers.
The crisis is an indictment of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. The “Governator,” as he is known, promised to revive economic growth and job creation, slash taxes and regulations, and curb government spending and the power of the public-employee unions. The very opposite has happened. California’s budget has expanded 40 percent since his predecessor, former Gov. Gray Davis, held office. Income, car and sales taxes have risen.
Unemployment has sky-rocketed to 9.3 percent – the fourth-highest in the nation. Spending on public schools has soared eating up half of the state’s budget (and doing little to improve the dismal quality of education). The state faces record deficits. It no longer has the money to pay for tax refund checks. The crippling debt threatens to bankrupt the state. Not too long ago, Mr. Schwarzenegger was being hailed as the future of the Republican Party. After his speech at the 2004 GOP National Convention, he was anointed by the mainstream media as the standard-bearer of the GOP’s liberal wing. He held the key to a new winning political formula: fiscal conservatism combined with social liberalism.
This “liberal wing” of the Repussycans are the ones responsible for allowing the “compassionate conservative” Bush to give the controlled press the opportunity to attack conservatism. There are several in the GOP the tea-party people should help run out of office. McCain – Graham – Snowe – Collins – Hatch – newly arrived Brown from Mass. – already has casts votes with the left. These people play both sides too often. They should be retired.
For years, Beltway pundits (communists) have urged Republicans to jettison Christian conservatives in favor of courting independents and suburban professionals. The Governator was their man: He is pro-abortion, pro-environment, open-borders Republican. Yet, his failed leadership reveals the political and moral bankruptcy of Rockefeller Republicanism. Any Republican running a state government controlled by Democrats is rarely a success.
Mr. Schwarzenegger joins a long list of liberal Republicans feted by the media – Christine Todd Whitman, William Weld, George Pataki, Jim Jeffords. Today, it is Maine Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe. (I add Newt Gingrich – he’s the insider of all) They all have one thing in common: the inability to forge an enduring movement. This is because liberal Republicanism is an oxymoron, it is philosophically incoherent. Liberalism is a form of water-down socialism, constantly expanding the state at the expense of the private sector. In theory, the GOP is the party of equality of opportunity, self-improvement and unfettered capitalism.
Fusing liberalism and Republicanism is like mixing oil and water. You can try it, and it may even work for awhile, but eventually the wet conservative-libertarian base will reject the greasy big-government film. Moreover, as Mr. Schwarzenegger’s tenure demonstrates, liberal Republicans are not fiscally conservative. Their idea of fiscal responsibility is to increase taxes, not roll back government spending. Mrs. Collins and Mrs. Snowe – for all their talk about being “budget hawks” and hating deficits – voted for the most expensive boondoggle in U.S. history: the nearly $1 trillion stimulus package. This is on top of the bank bailouts, the housing bailouts and earlier stimulus bills. They are drowning the next generation in red ink. They are frauds masquerading as green-eyeshade Republicans. You heavy donors to the RNC demand they quit supporting these traitors.
At its core, liberal Republicanism is not so much an ideology as a cynical pose, as an attempt to position oneself as a centrist by splitting the difference between right and left. It has no transcendent principles. It is guided only by self-interest and power. This is why it has no long-term shelf life. It cannot achieve the one thing needed for a successful movement: inspire supporters in mass numbers. It is a recipe for political stagnation and permanent minority status.
The GOP has a great opportunity to do otherwise by adopting the Tea-Party as an arm of the party. Already, a Tea-Party caucus has been established in the Congress – it’s about time. Any elected GOP representative of yours should be told to join the caucus. But don’t forget – names like the ones I mentioned should be eliminated ASAP. It won’t be long before the communists in and out of government begin to label the T-Party caucus a racist organization. We should do the same and start referring to the black and brown caucuses as radical communists organizations. Under President Pinocchio, Attorney General Holder, NAACP, Black Radicals, it appears THAT THEY are fomenting racial strife that could lead to civil unrest. If it ever happens, and I hope it doesn’t, I believe this communists led movement will execute executive orders to further the loss of freedom and liberty – it’s as clear as day to me.. . . article continues…
Rockefeller Republicanism is a form of surrender to the forces of cultural liberalism sweeping America. The media establishment may praise Mr. Schwarzenegger for his support of abortion rights, as well as other trendy issues like gay rights, stem-cell research and global warming. But if he can’t – or won’t – oppose liberal special-interest groups on the cultural front, he will do the same on the economic front.
The public-employee unions, the trial lawyers, the environmentalists – all these major Democratic constituencies have derailed the Governator’s economic agenda. The result: California has become a basket case. Mr. Schwarzenegger may still be personally popular. His old buddies in Hollywood may still back him. And the chattering classes may still seek to prop him up. But his brand of Republicanism is a road to nowhere; it is an albatross for the GOP – both in California and nationally. Republicans must wake up to this fact and do what they should have done a long time ago: terminate the Terminator. . .end of article. . .
SOMEBODY CALL ORKIN AND RAID!
This is the reason as explained in the article why the Chaoscratic Party is always in turmoil. It has too many different radical organizations to please. The California Legislature is full of communists. Any State which is controlled by the Chaoscrats is always in fiscal trouble. But Republicans Mr. Kuhner writes about are also to blame for some states in debt – you can’t please everyone. You have to be tough like some Governor Republicans getting states out of the hole. It is happening.
We must do the same thing in November. It is vitally important that we cleanse the Congress of the vermin that’s entrenched. When it happens we MUST NOT ALLOW another Bush GOP failure. We must throw out the first black/white president in 2012. He has failed us. They called Clinton “Slick Willie” the “first black president,” for pandering to the black for votes – this guy we have now is authentic – he is the first black/white president. Ideal example of integration embodied in one person – unfortunately, President Pinocchio appears to favor one side only.
I enclose the following as an example of the Right of a State to make its own laws if not found in the Constitution. The Supreme Court has no authority in this matter (right to die) – unless you allow it to. This is also why States should win their law suits in regards to the unconstitutional health bill being forced upon the American people. The federal government has no constitutional right to do so – PERIOD! – health is not in the Constitution. Abortion is another, but the Court created a loop-hole in the First Amendment and declared it to be a “privacy” issue. It gave us infanticide.
Cruzan v. Missouri Dept. of Health, 1990
While the Constitution protects a person’s right to reject life-preserving medical treatment (their “right to die”), states can regulate that interest if the regulation is reasonable.
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Still, I think it is a constitutional right reserved under the 9th and 10th Amendments for the States to declare what is reasonable and NOT the Court – they are not the law – your Constitution is. . . I love you, America
I AM SORRY I HAVE ONLY ONE BAT TO SWING FOR MY COUNTRY
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