Clean Energy – Code Word for Restrictions
March 7, 2011
President Obama didn’t mention carbon constraints in his State of the Union message. Such carbon constraints would force the nation to give up most of the energy that currently keeps us warm and productive. Instead, the President proposed a new “clean energy” program—which would force the nation to give up most of the energy that currently keeps us warm and productive. A study by the Beacon Hill Institute in Boston estimates the President’s “clean energy” proposal might well cost the economy $4 trillion over 20 years, and force huge numbers of U.S. jobs overseas.
Mr. Obama’s “new” proposal is obviously being offered as Plan B, since his cap-and-trade proposal failed in the Congress. He obviously hopes to lure some befuddled House Republican votes to pass it. The President is not “moving to the middle.” Instead he is playing bait-and-switch. Either cap-and-trade or “clean energy” would cause chaos in the American economy. Remember his desperate efforts to pass Obama-care, complete with the payoffs to key Senators? He is rigidly persistent!
Now it gets even worse. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon just announced that he will quit pushing for an international agreement to ban fossil fuels. Guess what now rates as worthy of his efforts instead: a “clean energy initiative”! Ban says this is necessary to reduce climate risks, cut poverty, and improve global health. Does anybody think he means substituting kerosene stoves in Bangladeshi huts to prevent the lung diseases women get from burning wood and dung in open cook-fires?
The left has decided that global warming is no longer an effective rallying cry.
Obama Cuts Border Agents
March 3, 2011
While four terror plots were being uncovered in the last week, our dear president decided we are safe enough and will cut border agents. How’s that hope and change working for you? – FedUpEditor
Open Letter to Arizona and South Carolina!
March 3, 2011
Voters,
The year 2012 is the time to make serious changes to the way business is being done in Washington, DC. Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham are most of the problem with the Republican Party.
By introducing unconstitutional legislation, McCain and Graham have moved the party to the “center” by compromising with liberals. Time for a change.
JD Hayworth is going to challenge McCain this year. Let’s hope he wins. The reason we know McCain is scared is because he is moving away from positions he took previously, even with his OWN legislation! Amnesty, Stimulus, etc. the list goes on. Once McCain gets re-elected, he will move back to the left and be what he normally is… a RINO!
This is the year for REAL hope and change!
Unions… again!
March 2, 2011
Note: My excellent appeal to members to respond to the IJ comments posted by the usual brain dead liberals somehow didn’t make it to this page and was submitted as blank.
It included links to Brad’s article and the comments page I am responding to as well as the letter itself. Unfortunately, it didn’t make it to meet-up! I’ll try again:
Marin Independent Journal
Letters to the Editor
Brad,
I saw your excellent article last Thursday. It echoed much of what was written in my editorial printed the following day. However, the majority of comments have refused to acknowledge that, though unions in Wisconsin had already increased their contribution toward the benefits package, it is still well below the national average of private sector employees. I would also suspect these union supporters are union members themselves.
Regardless of their passion, we can’t afford it. Everyone else has had to participate in this recession (which is still going on despite what the pundits say) by taking lower paying jobs just to work. Why shouldn’t the unions sacrifice too? As an independent contractor working less than 20 hours a week and at a much reduced (22% of my contract rate 8 years ago) hourly rate, I have been looking for full time work, but the jobs just aren’t there. Show me one union group that has taken that kind of hit. To add insult to injury, I am being taxed to pay these government union salaries and benefits! Besides, if refusing to negotiate brings down a state, or the country, how does that help anyone?
People in Marin County are smug in thinking this can’t happen to us. I attended a Mill Valley City Council meeting last year. They were discussing a Miller Avenue improvement project even though they were running a deficit. “Maybe there will be money for us from the stimulus,” was the Mayor’s comment. California has much the same attitude. A bailout is not the answer; the federal government is out of money too.
I am not against unions. I am just against irresponsible government spending and people who refuse to look at the truth about what is going on. Remember; if the state fails, we all lose.
Sincerely,
Mick Orton
Vice President
Marin Conservative Forum
Comment from FedUpWithTheEditor is full of It!
March 1, 2011
The person who commented on driving 55 as a sane energy policy is… well, frankly, full of crude! Driving 55 will do very little to reduce the energy consumption in the United States. What we need to do is DRILL! What good is oil when it is left in the ground? If it’s okay to drill in China or Venezuela, then it should be okay to drill here.
Second of all, your assertion that driving 55 is any safer than any other speed is liberal pap. Show me the statistics. In fact, there are more accidents in parking lots where people are going under 5 MPH than there are on the highways.
Your third assertion is also asinine. Read the book “Climate Confusion” by Dr. Roy Spencer and you will see what a small percentage of the air is made of up of carbon dioxide that even doubling it would be negligible. Besides, as a liberal don’t you like plants and trees? After all, they use CO2 to grow and release more oxygen. Seems to me more carbon dioxide, the healthier the plants. The healthier the plants, the more oxygen produced. The world keeps spinning.
Typical of liberals to figure legislation is the only solution. Passing laws does very little to improve our lives. In California we have no cell phones while driving, it’s a law you have to have your lights on if you run your windshield wipers and there are seat belt laws. Does that stop anyone from doing or not doing these things? NO!
So crawl back into your little hole and shut the heck up until you can prove what you are saying is the truth!
Fed Up Editor (and I will always get the last word!)
More about the Tax Deal – OPINION
December 18, 2010
Friday morning I woke up fuming mad convinced that all incumbents had to go, Republican or Democrat. We had been told on the news all day Thursday that Republican Senators were considering voting for the pork barrel spending additions. That’s when I heard Reid had pulled the bill due to lack of support… from BOTH parties. I believe that is thanks to all of us who made phone calls and wrote letters. Again, the Tea Party Patriots ride to save the day!
Though there was relief that the omnibus spending attachment failed to get added to the tax extension, I still feel incumbents need to go because too many RINOS like Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, Chuck Grassley and Lindsey Graham, among others, all too often feel that “getting things done” is Congress’s job, regardless of the legislation. Not so fast.
Had Congress “gotten things done” by locking in a Democrat budget for the incoming Republican House, it would not only have been an outrage, it would have been unconscionable. Democrats have been running government with a continuing resolution in lieu of passing a budget (which is unconstitutional by the way) so as to keep from shutting down government. Why was it so important to try and pass it? Politically speaking, so it could have been hung around the neck of the incoming Republican majority, even though they would have had nothing to do with it. Thanks to waffling from the likes of the Senators mentioned above, it almost happened!
Besides, who says it is such a bad thing to shut down government anyway? I look at all the government employees and about the only ones I think DESERVE lifetime pensions and healthcare are those who put their lives on the line every day. And that is NOT Congress nor the hundreds of thousands of bureaucrats who push paper from one office to another in federal, state and local governments. In fact, about the only ones I think deserve lifetime compensation for a job well done are police, fire and the military. This does NOT include the people at TSA. It’s just my opinion.
Government office holders’ benefits are based on tenure; how long they have been there, not how good their performance has been. Does how long a person has worked in a job really qualify them for 70% of their salary for the rest of their life? Those of us in the private sector are responsible for our own retirement. Why shouldn’t government employees be too?
FedUpEditor
OPINION – Why “Decline to State” is cowardly
November 6, 2010
After Tuesday night’s election, someone came up to me and told me how corrupt the California Republican Party has become. There is no doubt about that.
With representatives like Morgan Kelley from Marin being sent to guide our politics in Sacramento and RINO Abel Moldonado being the GOP’s choice to run against Gavin Newsome (I call him Gavin Nuisance) there is no question why Republicans are in the minority in this state and Decline to States and Independents are becoming more common. Having Governor Arnold representing the GOP was another reason Republicans didn’t fare well. However, what I heard this person say next gave me the shivers.
“…That is why I re-registered as Decline to State,” they proudly announced.
It’s true I went on a rant to my wife about leaving California when I got home Tuesday night. Though heartened by the “red” wave across the country, I was discouraged that there were no major changes made for California. Then I realized the brave thing to do is stay and fight to change it. So that is what I am going to do… or die trying. Now is the time to double down.
I feel it is this frustration that causes people to leave the GOP and choose Decline to State. But is it not cowardly to say, “The Republican Party in California is corrupt and full of Democrat plants so I am leaving the party.”? How does the GOP get changed if everyone leaves it? Form a third party? Hell no! That makes sure the Democrat party remains the ONLY party in California.
So while I understand the frustration many people feel about the GOP choosing squishy RINOS, now is not the time to leave the party. Even more, now is the time to stand and fight back.
The MCRCC (Marin County Republican Central Committee) has already begun to clean house by removing the former “moderate” chair and replacing her with a more conservative member; a far better choice, in my opinion. And that is how it must be done all over the state, from the bottom up.
This year Decline to State voters were allowed to participate in either party’s primary election. But that may not always be so. It is important to be a part of the selection process if we are to get good solid conservative candidates to run. The only way to ensure that is to register Republican.
As many of you have pointed out in your responses to my Marin IJ letter, now that California is completely run by Democrats, perhaps we will have our New Jersey moment too. Let’s hope so for the sake of our state and our country.
FedUpEditor
California – Stuck on Stupid
November 6, 2010
The state is deeply in debt. Strict regulations and high taxes are chasing businesses out of state. People are following them in order to keep their jobs. What voters don’t seem to realize is the only place government can fund the government is with tax revenue they get from the tax base. Yet it’s shrinking while spending is going up. So what is California’s solution?
Vote to return the same group of people back into office… the ones who got us here in the first place. Jerry Brown should be saying, “Fooled you once, shame on me. Fooled you twice shame on you. Fooled you three times… what are you, stupid?”
After all, the man has failed as Governor, as Mayor of Oakland and now as Attorney General. In his latest role, responsible for enforcing immigration laws, he slams Meg Whitman for having an illegal alien work for her. Huh? Whose fault is that? Now he’s Governor again? Stupid is as stupid does.
Don’t be surprised if we see unemployment skyrocket as our state sinks deeper into debt. But we deserve it for re-electing the same fools who brought us to this place. The rest of the country got the message. It’s a shame California no longer leads the way.
FedUpEditor
Obama Wants to Extend the School Year – OPINION
September 29, 2010
An article by CBS News says, “Part of the Obama Education Agenda includes more money and extending the school year, as well as implementing an aggressive program for education reform. “ More money? And this is going to come from where? Oh, I forgot. Taxing the rich. If your kids were in love with Obama, that may not last long. And imagine the nightmare of planning summer vacations. Not only that but it will increase school budgets dramatically.
Moving on, let’s look at it this way. I grew up in Iowa and the school year was shorter than it is now. Our public education system was extremely efficient in teaching the basics: reading, writing and arithmetic. We were number one in the country during the 60′s. Now that schools are teaching diversity training, ethnic studies, conflict resolution, environmental issues and who know what else, there just aren’t enough hours in the school year that we need another month? Give me a break.
What worked in the past (much like our economic system that put us at the top of the food chain) will work today. Our education system needs to be reformed all right… reformed back to what it was when we were world leaders. It’s apparent the education system, as it stands now, does not work for the most part. Kids are being graduating without knowing how to read or write. This is not a matter of money. In fact, so much of it is going to education now that it’s time we look at WHERE the money is going. Can anyone say, “audit?” They talk about Big Business, I say what about Big Education?
Going back, why would another month needed in the school year? Is it that too many days are taken off during the course of the regular session that another month would fix that? And don’t most teachers assign homework? So isn’t most of the learning happening outside the school hours anyway? I don’t get it.
Part of the reason for extending the school year could be more time for indoctrination. I see so many little “hippies” leaving the Tam High school yard every day to sit over at the Safeway across the street and drink mochas or Jamba Juice or whatever. Little Liberals in the making. And the ones that drive have a Prius which daddy bought them and is plastered with “save the earth” or “eat vegan” bumper stickers.
How about this? What if the kids stayed in school and extra hour or two? Wouldn’t that take care of the much needed extra school month? It certainly would make it easier to shop at Safeway if nothing else! Bottom line? Extending the school year and giving education more money will never solve the problem of kids not learning. What needs to happen is change the system, run by the teachers’ union and turn it into a merit based system. Until we get politicians elected that are not beholden to unions will we see real change in education. Unfortunately it may already be too late.
FedUpEditor
Lisa Murkowski is What is Wrong With the Republican Establishment – OPINION
September 20, 2010
If you ask me, Lisa Murkowski [clueless] is the perfect example of what is wrong with what the Republican Party has become. It also shows why many people think there is no difference between the two parties. I mean, how many times have we seen Democrats clinging to their seats amid scandals and illnesses instead of doing what’s best for the country and stepping down?
Joe Miller won the primary; the mechanism for choosing someone to represent the party… and it wasn’t the incumbent. Yet Murkowski, seemingly a spoiled child who was originally APPOINTED by her father to the position, will not go quietly into that good night.
Her excuse for mounting a write-in campaign is that most of Miller’s money came from out of the state. So what? His VOTES didn’t! Miller was elected by Alaskan Republicans overwhelmingly. Why? Because he was the only conservative on the ticket!
There are other Tea Party candidates who won their races, and the Republican establishment seems truly afraid… Which makes you wonder whose side they are on.
Well, they should be scared. For years they have represented nothing but a lighter version of Democrat; but pro big government all the same. Now when the grass roots rise up, they don’t like it. We don’t understand, they say.
Nonsense. We understand perfectly. We KNOW what’s in the Constitution and what is happening in government is NOT even close!
FedUpEditor
