It Is Constitution Day!

September 17th is Constitution Day. You can read the document here:

http://patriotpost.us/document/the-constitution-of-the-united-states-of-america/

On this day, of all days, we should remember that the Constitution says what it means, and means what it says. It needs neither embellishment, discovery of penumbras, interpretation, nor improvement.

What it DOES need is a government that believes it is bound by the terms of the Constitution, or a citizenry that is willing to force the government back within the limited powers set forth in the Constitution.

The Constitution is a living document, not because judges unconstitutionally create new rights from the bench, but because of this one important clause:

Article. V.
The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.

Article V sets forth the only manners by which the United States Constitution may be changed. You will notice that Article V does not say "a majority of the supreme Court determine so."

If there is a finer national Constitution, I have not found it. We should all rededicate ourselves to being governed by the letter of the Constitution.

God bless our Republic. God save the Constitution. Let freedom ring.

Message to the GOP Establishment

During times of intense crisis, the greatest directive we had in the United States Army Infantry was "Lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way!"

The United States is in a time of crisis, and the GOP establishment is bound and determined to stay in the way and point fingers at those who are acting to save the nation.

Charles Krauthammer - get the hell out of the way.

National Republican Senatorial Committee - get the hell out of the way.

Michael Steele - get the hell out of the way.

RINOs - get the hell out of the way.

Bill Kristol - get the hell out of the way.

I've read the Federalist Papers from cover to cover. I respect James Madison, John Jay, and Alexander Hamilton. With all due respect, Bill Kristol is no James Madison.

Citizen patriots, not career politicians and pundits, will do what it takes to save this country. It must be tough for these career politicians and pundits to come to realize they are irrelevant. But, irrelevant they are.

Get the hell out of the way.

Krauthammer Gets It Wrong on Delaware

Krauthammer says of Delaware's senate election that GOP members voting for Christine O'Donnell is "capricious" "self indulgent" and irresponsible".

On the other hand, I say voting for entrenched incumbent RINOs like Mike Castle that support abortion on demand, mandate cap and tax, oil drilling bans, and gun bans is irresponsible, unpatriotic, and anti-constitutional.

Krauthammer is not alone in his advice - many weak-kneed Republican leaner types agree with him. But Krauthammer is the biggest of the bunch to come out hard for Castle, so he gets my attention.

Krauthammer invokes the Buckley Rule: vote for the most electable conservative candidate. I see this rule as having a precondition and then an effect. The precondition is that an election need two or more conservative candidates running for the same office. If there are two or more, then choose the most electable one.

In Delaware, the precondition is not met. Mike Castle is a RINO with a mere 52% lifetime ACU rating. He has the lowest rating among the GOP every year as measured by the Club for Growth - even worse than Arlen Specter. Mike Castel is NOT conservative. The best that can be said for Mike Castle is he is reasonably popular in Delaware and he is not a ideological liberal. But he is a liberal, and he is not a conservative at all.

Krauthammer distorts the rule by trying to determine at the outset which candidate is more electable, and them try to convince himself that Castle is "conservative". He's not. Castle is merely a registered Republican from a liberal state.

So, there is only one conservative in the race - Christine O'Donnell. Buckley's rule, correctly applied, says vote for O'Donnell, not Castle.

In short: those who support voting for Castle are playing party politics, not engaging in a discussion regarding what governing philosophy is best for the country. Preferring party to country is not admirable -- in fact, it is wrong.

Krauthammer is also wrong that Obamacare is "irreversible." Don't take your victory plans from defeatists.

No matter what happens in this off year election, Barak Hussein Obama is going to still be president of the United States. There will be liberals in the Senate and conservatives in the Senate. In my opinion, it is best to isolate the liberals to the Democrats so that in the general election two years, the parties can have an ideologically-driven election from top to bottom, without outliers, exceptions, and -INOs between them.

Remembering 9/11

Yesterday was the 9th anniversary of the Islamic attack that destroyed the twin towers in New York City, hit the Pentagon in Washington DC, and forced the passengers of a jet to crash in Shanksville, PA.

President Barak Hussein Obama spent it trying to appease Muslims.

While my motto about 9/11 is "never forgive, never forget, and never submit", we have a President far more interested in convincing Americans that heretical Islam is "true" Islam because he says so.

While it may well be in the United States' best interests to pervert Islam into some sort of watered down Rick Warren-esque meaningless mainstream religion, he should not spend time trying to convince the American people that madrases funded by Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan already instruct Muslims in that manner. They don't.

Never Forgive. Never Forget. Never Submit. Not even if a President named Barak Hussein Obama tells you that we have nothing to worry about from Islam.

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Down Goes Murkowski!

First, let me concede that Lisa Murkowski has, so far, taking her loss with a fair amount of class, conceding before all the votes were counted, but knowing that she lost.

Now, let me celebrate another Tea Party truth - the Tea Party is against big spending/big government types of all parties, and Joe Miller's win proves it.

We should also mention that Sarah Palin is the biggest political force on the Right today. She just is. No other right wing politician has the weight of her endorsement.