Chart of the Day

Reagan's Tax Cuts Increased Federal Revenues

Why Americans Prefer Conservatives

Ronald Reagan: "Well I've said it before and I'll say it again — America's best days are yet to come. Our proudest moments are yet to be. Our most glorious achievements are just ahead."

Timothy Geithner: "US can no longer drive global growth. The world cannot depend as much on the US as it did in the past."

UPDATE: Joe Biden: "[T]here's no possibility to restore 8 million jobs lost..."

Time to Leave the Bushes Behind

The latest incarnation of attempted elitist eastern political establishment takeover of the GOP has formed as the National Council for a New America (NCNA). A group composed of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and House Republican Whip Eric Cantor and former Gov. Jeb Bush. Advisers include establishment guy former Gov. and former GOP chair Haley Barbour, RINO Sen. John McCain, and the Brown and Oxford educated Gov. Bobby Jindal.

While claiming they are not interested in “recasting” the GOP, former Gov. Bush labeled the GOP rank-and-file’s belief in the Conservative principles as enunciated by Ronald Reagan as “nostalgic” and “irrelevant.” He further said that Ronald Reagan’s message “will not draw people” to his cause. He presumes incorrectly that his cause and the Conservative cause is the same thing.

I would argue after two Bush presidents that spent like drunken sailors and could not grasp the meaning of a small federal government, the "Bush League" is irrelevant, and nobody is nostalgic for it at all.

I hope the NCNA manages to come to my town on their “listening” tour. I would like the opportunity to let them hear me. Ronald Reagan is the last wildly popular Republican President folks can remember watching on TV. Reagan is real to most voters. Last time he stood for election, he won a 49 state landslide.

Compare this to RINO John McCain (multiple presidential campaign loser), RINO Mitt Romney (couldn’t get past the primaries, but he’s changed, really!), Jeb Bush (bravely did not run for the open Fla. Senate seat) and this other bunch of neophytes. These guys are SMART and Reagan was dumb, remember?

B. Hussein Obama will be the easiest sitting President to run against since Jimmy Carter – who, by the way, was vanquished by Ronald Reagan – and any Republican who can form complete sentences and campaign on bedrock Conservative principles will win.

However, if a candidate can’t find the good in Ronald Reagan, why do they want to seek a GOP leadership role if not to purge the GOP of the Conservative rank-and-file?

At its root, I think for starters both liberals and Conservatives can agree on one thing -- no more Bushes in the White House.

It is April 15th -- Tea Party Tax Protest Day!

"Today is the last day for filing income tax returns -- a day that reminds us that taxpayers pay too much of their earnings to the Federal Government. ... While April 15 serves as a reminder, the people of the United States truly do not need to be reminded. They are victims of inflation, which pushes them into higher tax brackets. They are robbed daily of a better standard of living. They are discouraged from work and investment. ... The choice before us is clear. I strongly feel that the great majority of Americans believe that nothing would better encourage economic growth than leaving more money in the hands of the people who earn it. It's time to stop stripping bare the productive citizens of America and funneling their hard-earned income into the Federal bureaucracy." --Ronald Reagan

Today is the day that government demands its pound of flesh.

And today is the day you can do something about out of control government. Please attend your local Tax Day Tea Party. Stand up as our Founders stood up. Stand up and support what our Founders supported. The Founders all supported limited government, but it seems only Conservatives do today.

Support for limited government does not simply mean opposing unnecessary and unconstitutional spending. It also means that Conservatives support the rights of the individual and the several States against the encroachment upon their rights by the federal government. It also means keeping a check on the ability of the federal government to coerce individuals and the several States to behave in a way which is in contravention to their rights. Mostly, it means Conservatives must constantly remind themselves, and the federal government, that whatever power the federal government does enjoy, it enjoys by the consent of the people, which consent may be withdrawn at any time. Rights do not flow from the government down, instead, the power to infringe upon individual rights flows down from individuals and State governments to the federal government.

Today is a good day to remind the federal government of this truth!

RIP -- Jesse Helms

Former Senator Jesse Helms, as stalwart defender of Freedom as ever trod the halls of the United States Congress, passed away, fittingly, on July 4, 2008.

Jesse Helms was forefront on pushing back Communists, Marxists, and Socialists, often having to fight the US State Department to do so. Senator Helms was front and center on pointing out the corruption and uselessness of the United Nations. Senator Helms fought to fund pro-US fighters in what was always a hot "Cold War".

Jesse Helms also revivied the flagging campaign of Ronald Reagan in 1976, helping Reagan win North Carolina when Reagan was losing to Gerald Ford elsewhere. Gerald Ford's White House should never have snubbed Alexander Solzhenitsyn when Jesse Helms brought him to the US. Payback is Hell.

Senator Helms was persistent, consistent, principled, and tenacious. Oh, if only today's GOP could follow his example.