Who Will Be The Republic’s Savior?

Who Will Be The Republic’s Savior?

by Leon Howard

I guess you could call this my ‘rant’ about our 2 political parties; of which, I am ashamed of both! Neither national party has the interests of the People in mind; neither has the good of the nation in mind; neither give a damn about our children’s and grandchildren’s future and they prove these charges on a daily basis!

Each party is so proud of their mascot: The Democrats are the donkey and the GOP loves the elephant – I do not see the significance as it relates to either party except it allowed me to select nicknames in keeping with the mascot and descriptive as they choose not to represent the People and the nation: Jack Asses and Fat Asses is more befitting of them!

The names of their parties are no longer descriptive of their philosophies or their principles! Although the Democrats have settled on a philosophy, they have no principles – They are, in effect, the National Socialist Party; almost identical to Hitler’s National Socialist Party philosophy and we know they were without principle or conscience! Thomas Jefferson wouldn’t recognize the party he started nor would he be any part of it! And because they have no principle or conscience, they have proven themselves smarter than the GOP politically! They used a created ‘crisis’ to nationalize our banking industry, the insurance industry, auto manufacturers, and the housing market in less than one year! In less than 2 years, they are well on the way of nationalizing our health care system! Everything they have accomplished has been behind closed doors, in secret, without ‘bipartisan’ support, and hated by the American People! But it didn’t stop them; we barely slowed them down and it cost them politically: 84 Freshmen in the House and 7 in the Senate. That did stop any new transformation toward socialism but it doesn’t end the destructive policies in place now and do not look for the GOP to save the Republic; they don’t have it in them and the Democrats know it!

That brings us to the Grand Old Party, the Republicans – What are they? A very good question but don’t ask them because they haven’t a clue as to who they are and what they stand for! Previously called the Whig Party, they supported Congressional supremacy over the Presidency and favored a program of modernization and economic protectionism. They became the Republican Party in 1854, in opposition to expanding slavery into the new states and territories, which the Democratic Party favored! Called the “Radical Republican Congress”, they enacted unconstitutional tariffs against southern cotton in an attempt to force the slave states to end slavery – A noble objective but Constitutionally wrong! The Radical Republicans proved the victors after an unnecessary and bloody war, pitting brother against brother. The War Between the States, as it is referred to in the South, or the more ‘politically correct’ “Civil War” accomplished the first big step in the destruction of the Tenth Amendment by imposing federal mandates against the will of the states! Called “Reconstruction”, the Radical Republicans raped and pillaged the wealth of the southern states for 10 years after the Surrender at Appomattox! During “reconstruction”, the former slave states weren’t allowed elected representation in Congress and, therefore, the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendment were unconstitutionally “passed” and “ratified” by three-fourths of the represented states! How, you ask, could they not be represented? If you are not allowed to be represented, you cannot vote for or against anything; the southern states were not “accepted” back into the “Union” until they had been “reconstructed”!

On the ‘upside’, the Republicans were the majority that gained the vote for “Female Suffrage” and Lyndon B. Johnson couldn’t have gotten the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed without the Republican majority in Congress.

Somewhere in the ‘60’s, these parties switched roles: The Republicans, led by Barry Goldwater, started becoming more protective of the Peoples’ Bill of Rights and the Democrats started becoming more ‘progressive’ by enacting more “entitlements” to create the “Nanny State” role for the federal government and ignoring, totally, the Constitution and the Peoples’ Bill of Rights!

That brings us to today: What good is either party? Nothing! Nada! Zilch! Zero! They have become the Jack Asses and Fat Asses; only concerning themselves with their own reelection and self-aggrandizement! “Serving the People” has become an advertising gimmick rather than the goal of politicians of both major parties!

So, “Who will be the Republic’s Savior”? I wish I could say we can look to the Heavens for the Savior of our souls to save the Republic but, unless it is the “end of times”, we must continue to pray for guidance but look within ourselves for saving the Republic! The Tea Party has maintained from our very beginning to forget the “party” and seek out those men and women wanting to serve the People, without regard to their own personal gain and reelection hopes! We must seek them out, convince them to run for office, and campaign actively for them! We must draft them if they hesitate but accept their refusal if they choose to refuse.

We need Clint Didier! We need more Michele Bachmanns, Ron Pauls, Rand Pauls, Alan Wests, Herman Cains, Sarah Palins, Clint Didiers, Bill Spencers, Ron Haydens, Jamie Wheelers, and more representation from servants like the Representative from Utah, Jason Chaffetz, who sleeps in his office, rather than being beholden to any special interests but the folks who sent him there!

We need to seek out candidates who will hold their ground, not only against the ‘progressives’ but will hold their ground against their own party! We don’t have representation like that now in our Congressional District and I know we are not the only congressional district seeing that!

We need to look passed the R’s and D’s behind the names and look at the person – We must eliminate the Jack Asses and Fat Asses and elect staunch defenders of the Constitution, OUR Constitution, to office if we want to leave any legacy for our children and grandchildren!

Our Republic – How Do We Get It Back?

We keep saying we are a Republic because that is what our founding fathers called it. It sounds noble but then you look around the world and you see the Peoples Republic of China, the Republic of South Korea, the Peoples Republic of North Korea; I could go on but you see my point: Everybody calls themselves a “Republic”! So what is a “Republic”?

According to Merriam-Webster, a Republic is: (1) : a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who in modern times is usually a president (2) : a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government. Sounds like all those mentioned above qualify but their form of government doesn’t resemble ours very much; in fact, many nations calling themselves a “Republic” are communist and/or having an “elected” dictator for life!

We need to know what our Republic is, or, what it is supposed to be. According to Thomas Jefferson, we are: “The way to have safe government is not to trust it all to the one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to everyone exactly the functions in which he is competent….To let the National Government be entrusted with the defense of the nation, and it’s foreign and federal relations….. The State Governments with the Civil Rights, Laws, Police and administration of what concerns the State generally. The Counties with the local concerns, and each ward direct the interests within itself. It is by dividing and subdividing these Republics from the great national one down through all it’s subordinations until it ends in the administration of everyman’s farm by himself, by placing under everyone what his own eye may superintend, that all will be done for the best.”

Is that what we are? All the political divisions are still in place as mentioned above but they don’t seem to function as they’re designed to – What happened? A friend contends we have lost our Republic to the ‘regressives’ – Is he right? I believe so; we have an administration who thinks they are the elected dictator and a Congress who supports that idea! No longer are the People in charge, no longer are their voices heard, and no longer do the elected officials fear the People! As Thomas Jefferson said: "When governments fear the People, there is Liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.” Do you fear your government? I do!

How did this happen? How did we, the People, lose control of our elected officials? I believe two (2) words can sum it up: Apathy and Ignorance! And these two (2) things didn’t just happen – It was planned!

Paranoia? It would easy to dismiss it that way but I ask you to consider the evidence before condemning the messenger. The messenger says, “I have good news and I have bad news … ”  The bad news first! Both political parties have contributed to the loss of our Republic – There is no pride in being a Democrat or Republican if you love Liberty and Freedom!

Oh, it started out with the noblest of causes: Ending slavery. But they violated our Constitution to do it: The radical Republican Congress passed unconstitutional export taxes on southern cotton in the hopes of pricing the slave holders out of the world market – They violated the Commerce Clause! The Democrats were no better: They seceded from the Union and entered into the bloodiest war on this nation’s soil! Hundreds of thousands of Americans died in that conflict; the North raped the South of it’s wealth under the guise of “reconstruction” and did not allow the southern states elected representation until Congress decided when each southern state had been “reconstructed” enough – The last of which was the Seat of the Confederacy, Virginia, in 1875 – Ten years after the war ended! But the slaves were freed; the only good thing that came from the conflict! “The ends justify the means”? I don’t think so but the Republicans have never apologized for it but it was the first “nail in the coffin” of our Republic because of it usurpation of Tenth Amendment: States Rights.

Not satisfied with that, the federal government “partnered up” with Private Enterprise with one of the largest land giveaways in any nation’s history! To build the Transcontinental Railway from coast to coast and the government hasn’t looked back: They’ve been meddling in and controlling business since then! The Republicans started this debacle but the Democrats have been just as complicit and now even more so! Now, the government controls two (2) of the Big Three auto manufacturers, the banking industry, and just shoved Obamacare down our throats to control if we live or die!

I want to keep this reasonably short so I won’t go into all the bad presidents this nation has suffered through but I will mention the worst ones by name: Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Lyndon Johnson – Another time, maybe, I can write about each of them.

Now for the Good News! Everybody wants to give the credit for the resurgence of the Constitution to the Tea Party movement and I am proud to be part of that; the Tea Party movement has become the voice of the Constitutional movement but the real start was in 1971, with the Libertarian  Party; they are the largest Third Party in the nation and advocate strict adherence to the Constitution.

In June, 2008, Ron Paul started the Campaign for Liberty (C4L) and began trying to turn the GOP into a Constitutional party; they were trying to do this through the election and appointments of PCO’s; they are being somewhat successful in several states but not enough to change them from the “Good Ol’ Boy” system. Limited success but most of what were termed “Tea Party candidates” ran as Republicans – I think that is indicative of the fact there are more fiscal conservatives in the GOP. And we cannot forget the 9-12 Groups, started by Glenn Beck. Sixty-five (65) new congressmen/women are the results of the hard work and dedication of the Liberty groups – I hesitate to say Tea Party here because the other Liberty groups worked with the Tea Party to get these people elected.

But the job is far from over and to keep the Good News rolling, we cannot sit back on our laurels, like we did after the 1994 election, and expect them to do what’s right and what they promised! The Good News is we have notified them all they are a short leash to do as they promised to do and we are doing as Ronald Reagan advised: “Trust but verify!”

It takes involvement, folks; it ain’t gonna happen unless all of you don’t help! Find the Tea Party in your neighborhood and ask them how you can help the cause of Liberty – I am certain they can find something you can do that will be as much fun as it will be effective!

American Prosperity

The “class war” being promoted by the ‘progressives’ is being very effective among, what is supposed to be, the conservatives and should cause us all to pause, breathe slowly, and then evaluate statements like the following, which I copied off “America Speaking Out!”:

• ·    Eliminate tax benefits for US companies that use outsourcing.
  ·      Increase taxes for US companies that choose to outsource.
  ·     Provide tax breaks for US companies that hire US workers in industries that typically outsource.
  
  
  ·     Strictly punish industries and companies that are caught employing illegal immigrants.
  
  
  ·      Immigration problems could be significantly reduced if employers found it extremely difficult to hire illegal immigrants and the risk of doing so was severe.

What is most disturbing about this is not that it was suggested on a supposedly conservative site but that the majority of people visiting the site are voting for it! Since when do conservatives punish small businesses for trying to survive? Why would anybody wish further harm to the economy? That is exactly what will happen if the Congress were to enact these bullet-points as “law”!

We have allowed the ‘progressives’ and environmentalists to totally deindustrialize America; our jobs went overseas because of a 35% corporate tax rate, environmental regulations that choked  companies to death with over-reaching regulation, and immigration law that hasn’t been rewritten since 1954!

Don’t blame the job creators; blame the job killers! We must first secure our southern border and, at the same time, take the time to rewrite the immigration law with a Guest Worker Program! That will stabilize our work force.

Next, we must change the tax laws and the only sane way to do that is with the FairTax Bill! The day after that bill is signed into law, we need to have a very large bonfire in front of the Capitol Rotunda! What will we burn? How about the entire U.S. Tax Code? Over 65,000 pages of the most regressive tax policy ever visited on the People and companies of the United States!

Can you imagine the power this one act would relinquish to the People and the States? No longer will you be singled out for a tax increase just because you are successful! No longer will you have to fear a phone call or letter from the IRS, informing you they are going to audit your honesty!

No longer will you have to worry about finding a job in the field you are educated in or have selected as your career! Why? Because the FairTax eliminates the 35% Corporate Income Tax – It becomes a 0% Tax – Can you imagine how many companies will want to be in business in the United States? Canada is saying they are going to reduce their Corporate Tax to 15% to attract new industry – I think 0% will attract more!

No longer would you have to distinguish between “Gross” and “Net” because their would be no Federal Deductions on you paycheck! No Federal Withholding, no FICA, no Medicare/Medicaid, no more Social Security withheld from you or your employer! FairTax covers it all!

You will no longer have to worry whether or not you’ll be able to keep the family farm/ranch with the 55% Estate Tax because under the FairTax, there is no Death Tax!

Two logical questions arise with the FairTax:

·      Why would Congress pass a law that would relinquish their power to freely tax the People anytime they wanted to?

They wouldn’t! We will have to educate the People and force the Congress to act on it! That’s looking better this session that in past sessions: Already this session, 55 Representatives have signed-on as co-sponsors and the session has just begun!

·      Wouldn’t the FairTax passage just mean that now we have the Consumption Tax and the Income Tax?

Actually, no! The FairTax Bill has companion legislation to repeal the Sixteenth Amendment and “sunsets” in seven (7) years; which means, if 3/4^th of the state legislatures doesn’t ratify the Repeal Amendment, the FairTax ends and the Income Tax is imposed again!

And can you imagine what the Governors will do if the federal government tries to impose an unfunded mandate on the states? My state’s governor loves big federal and state government but even she would have to option of saying: “Fine, you, Washington, D.C., want to impose this mandate (content of mandate unimportant), we just will not send the FairTax monies for this month and if you still have that unfunded mandate imposed on my state, we will withhold the FairTax monies again! We will continue to withhold the FairTax monies until you rescind the mandate!”

It makes me all warm and fuzzy when I think of a time, once again, where the states have their power back from the Nanny State!

Learn more at: http://www.fairtaxnation.com/ 

                   or: http://www.fairtax.org/site/PageServer

There will be a FairTax “Take Action” Meeting on Friday, January 14, 2011, from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm, at the Kennewick Library, 1620 South Union St. Make it a point to attend and meet Jamie Wheeler, on the Nat’l FairTax Board and the Washington State FairTax Coordinator,. Jamie is the most enthusiastic and knowledgeable person I know on FairTax and will answer your questions. Show up and help plan the action needed next. You can also call Jamie at: 509-586-7124, to get more information about FairTax.

Go-o-o-o-o FairTax! An idea whose time has come!

The New Republican Revolution?

Well, we have a new Speaker of the House: John Boehner. “Princess” Nancy was dismissed by 19 of her Democrat Congressmen for the job as Minority Leader.

But let’s see what the GOP is doing: First, they announce they are going to read the Constitution before any business is conducted ~ This, I am certain, was to appease the Tea Party movement; I know I was duly impressed by this act because it has never been done before! It turned out to be an ‘act’ because they left out critical parts thinking they needed to be politically correct and destroyed the effect.

Why not read that slaves were only counted as 3/5ths of a man? Because it sounds racist? The southern slave states wanted to count slaves as a full person, while the northern states didn’t want to count them at all ~ Why? It makes the northern states appear racist but had they allowed the slaves to be counted as a full person, there would be no way to end slavery because the southern states would have had more votes and carried more weight in the House! In reality, it was “Step-One” to finally eliminate slavery but to not read it is to hide our mistakes.

They didn’t read the 18^th Amendment but did read the 21^st Amendment ~ Why? This was an attempt to legislate morality and it failed because you cannot legislate morality! Morality is a learned trait and you learn morality from your parents, your church, and you leaders! Do  not pretend mistakes weren’t made; it cheapens what the nation has become!

It appears the GOP is going to vote to repeal the egregious “Health Care Reform” (Obamacare); a promise made to the People. Even if they get the repeal passed in the Senate, Obama will undoubtedly veto the repeal and the GOP doesn’t have the 2/3 majority to override a veto and the GOP can start defunding aspects of this socialist program! The Republicans know they are on “probation” by the Tea Party movement so they’re trying to do enough to keep us happy but the “leadership” needs to listen to their Freshmen Congressmen because they’re carrying the Peoples’ message!

From Friday's (1/7/11) Spokesman-Review:

"I promised a more open process. I didn't promise that every single bill was going to be an open bill."
     House Speaker John Boehner.

I guess we will have to watch and see what he means by this statement but it had better not be that the GOP’s going to start making “back-room deals” and keeping their agenda secret from everyone; that isn’t what we sent them to D.C. for!

If there are Democrats willing to work with conservatives, then the GOP should work with them but if all they want to do is cause problems for the Peoples’ agenda, the GOP should ignore them and shove our agenda down the Democrats’ throats ~ Just like they did to the People with Obamacare, the “stimulus” bill, the bail-outs, and corporate take-overs!

Mr. Boehner and his GOP majority had better realize that to do the Peoples’ agenda, the conservatives are at war with the ‘progressives’! There can be no compromise on the Tea Party Principles because anything the ‘progressives can retain of their Marxist programs, they will count as a victory! They’ve been taking us down this road ever since Teddy Roosevelt, a little bit at a time so we wouldn’t see it and panic ~ No COMPROMISE!!! None! Nada!!! Nyet!!

If it cannot be repealed, it must be defunded! Obama cannot veto zero! Make him veto anything he wants to ~ If it is part of the Peoples’ agenda and he vetoes it, we will gain more conservatives in 2012, and he will be a one-term President!

Unintended Consequences

Where Are The Real Conservatives?

How many of you watched in dismay as Pelosi and Reid continued to set the agenda in the “lame duck” Congress? How many of you sat there in abject horror as the “conservative” GOP went to bed with the enemy?

The new Congress, taking office next month had better find new leadership because Senator Mitch McConnell has shown himself to be a feckless leader! Why in the hell did this man allow any significant legislation to reach the floor for a vote? He proved he is just another Harry Reid: Making “deals” behind closed doors with no input from anybody! Mitch McConnell is as transparent as lead! He rolled over and “played dead” for Mr. Obama and the ‘progressives’ and that makes Mr. McConnell my enemy and the enemy of every freedom loving American!

McConnell says, “It was the best deal we could get and it shows what bipartisanship is!” Easy words from an accomplished liar! We will never know if it was “ … the best deal …” because we saw no fight from the GOP on this deal. What we saw was the GOP “leadership” so anxious to save the Bush tax cuts, they agreed to spending more money we do not have! We saw cowards leading cowards; still heading for financial disaster because they don’t know how to lead!

The American People gave the Congress a clear mandate on November 2^nd, and it should have been taken as a clear warning but, obviously, McConnell cannot read or doesn’t have the “cojones” to ‘just say NO’! The man has been drinking the D.C. Kool Aid too long and has a terminal case of Potomac Fever! A true conservative leader needs to be selected and I would nominate Jim DeMint or Tom Colburn for that role!

My cousin, Pat, advised me I shouldn’t condemn the new members of Congress before they get sworn in and I want to make it clear I am referring to the current Congress. But, the new members need to know that they are on probation; the “R” behind the name lost any meaning of Responsibility decades ago! The grassroots voters have adopted Martin Luther King, Jr.’s mantra: “To be judged not by the color of the skin but by the character of the person.” The same can be said of the letter behind the name!

We will be watching the House more closely also and I hope the “rookies” coming in take their direction from the promises they made while running for office and not from John  Boehner! Mr. Boehner has been drinking the D.C. Kool Aid since 1995, so we will have to determine whether or not he has contracted Potomac Fever like McConnell. The People cannot put up with feckless leadership in both Houses, so we shall see.

But we do not need Congressman Darrell Issa as saying: "It's pretty clear the American people expect us to use the existing gridlock to create compromise... They [the American people] want us to come together after we agree to disagree." Mr. Issa and the current members of the House had better come to the realization  that we are at war with the ‘progressives’ and compromise to them is stealing more of our freedoms, a little at a time! There can be no compromise on American principles; stick to the restrictions of the Constitution and the ‘progressives’ lose! We have to follow Ronald Reagan’s strategy on the Cold War: “We win; they lose!”

All of you were elected with that thought in mind and if you fail in your promised duty, we will find somebody with the intestinal fortitude to get the job done! No compromise! None! Nada! The ‘progressives’ shoved these bills down out throats and we will not compromise our principles! Every time you “compromise” with ‘progressives’ they win a little more, that is how we got here! That is why we have said there is not 10¢ difference between the parties because the GOP has “compromised” away its principles for the appearance of being “bipartisan”!

What happens if the GOP lives up to their campaign promises only to have Obama veto them? Keep in mind, those of you with slow wits or weak conviction, Mr. McConnell: You have a mandate from the People and if Obama vetoes the “will of the People”, the People will elect more conservatives so you can get the job done!

We got this bad off because we, as a nation, forgot our heritage and why our founders created the form of government we originally had; I think Patrick Henry stated it best: “It cannot be emphasized too clearly and too often that this nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religion, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason, peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.”

I repeat his quote daily because I had forgot about American exceptionalism! We cannot afford to forget it again!

We have reached a turning-point today and if we do  not turn back toward our Creator; if we do not beg for His guidance and forgiveness, we are doomed to the annals of history and I don’t think it will speak kindly of us! Because we will have squandered our freedom  of individualism and self-reliance for the appearance of security!

We must, once again, become the Beacon of Liberty for the world, so that the people of other nations will try to emulate us out of envy! We must turn away from meddling in other nation’s affairs because we now know that causes them to hate us!

The King and His Court ...

The following is a short speech I wrote for our first Tea Party Rally, April 15^th, 2009, held in John  Dam Plaza, Richland, Washington. I reprint it now because as effective as the Tea Party movement has been in these last 20 months, the only one of the idiots mentioned in it will be gone in January, 2011, and he had to retire! Chris Dodd retired; Pelosi, Reid, and Frank were reelected!

That tells me the Tea Party groups have a big job ahead of educating the people as to the differences between Free People and Sheeple who keep returning these elitists to rule over us! Just a thought.

Welcome to you all to our Tea Party! And we’re gonna party like it’s 1773! (And we did – Over 1500 people showed up and  railed against our out of control government spending!)

Last Fall, our own “King” George scared the Congress into passing the biggest bailout in American history! This wasn’t King George III, this was “King” George W. Bush! After Congress caved in, like a house of cards, and with the stroke of a pen, “King” George made the Treasury Secretary the most powerful Treasury Secretary in history!

And so as not to waste a good panic, they set about to nationalize our banking industry and our insurance industry; almost immediately, the Big 3 auto makers wanted to be bailed out; even flew in on private planes to cry, “Poor me, poor me!” to Congress!

That didn’t happen until we changed “kings”! Now we are saddled with King Barrack Hussein Obama, Princess Nancy Pelosi, Prince Harry Reid, and his Court Jesters Barney Frank and Chris Dodd!

This isn’t something new ~ It’s just the first time we noticed what Washington, D.C. is doing to us ~ By the way ~ The D.C. is short for District of Criminals! And what they are doing is nothing short of criminal!

As I said: This is not something new ~ The congress has been passing “laws” that fly in the face of our Constitution for almost 100 years and we let them! Some of the more egregious ones: In 1913, they enacted the Federal Reserve Act, which made 10 banking families, mostly European, our central bank ~ The Constitution calls for the U.S. Treasury to mint our coinage ~ Paper money would have taken a Constitutional Amendment and they’d already enacted 2 Constitutional Amendments: The Sixteenth, which they use as the justification for the income tax, and the Seventeenth, which is when we started electing our senators!

In 1933, Congress enacted, and FDR signed into law, the 1933 War Powers Act ~ Question: Who were we at war with in 1933? Some constitutional scholars put forth the notion they declared war against the People! It is the law FDR used to confiscate privately held gold bullion, in exchange for Federal Reserve Certificates!

Congress hasn’t passed a Constitutional Declaration of War since WWII ~ They have sent our young men and women in harm’s way with U.N. Resolutions, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, and the 1973 War Powers Resolution! They pay lip service to the greatest document created by men building the richest and freest nation ever witnessed by anyone!

Where are our freedoms and liberties today? We have let the government become so powerful, they “allow” us the use of our God-given liberties when it serves their purpose! We have to take our country back and this is but the first step in a long journey and may God help us to victory!