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Frank
Salvato, Managing Editor |
The Tea Party Movement,
The GOP & Making It Work
Only the most partisan and/or politically ignorant among us would fail to
recognize the magnitude, importance and the consequences of the Tea Party
Movement. To be certain, it is a force to be reckoned with. But, as with the
science of storms, there is a danger when two forces compete to occupy the same
space. We of the Right side of the aisle must recognize this danger and insist
that actions are taken, definitions are designated and roles are recognized,
lest we turn an important moment in time into catastrophic history.
The first thing we have to do is to recognize and understand exactly what the
Tea Party Movement is, where it came from and why.
Many in the political world have erroneously identified the Tea Party Movement
as a political group not unlike the Democrats, Libertarians or Republicans. In
fact, this couldn’t be further from the truth. Proof to this reality is in the
fact that people who have embraced the Tea Party Movement come from every flavor
of politics. When over a million people descended on Washington in the name of
the Tea Party Movement last Fall, the crowd was comprised of people from every
political party – sans the Progressives, every social background, every religion
and every race. To say that it is dominated by any one political party is to
make a huge mistake...
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About Defining the “Win”
American Liberty v. Obama’s Social Engineering
Is the Constitution Just a Grand Suggestion? |
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Nancy
Salvato, Senior Editor |
To Faithfully Execute the
Presidency of the United States
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme." -- Mark Twain
In his column, "Not the first president to break promises" found in The
Baltimore Sun, Ron Smith writes:
"There's a video online lasting less than two minutes of a speech candidate
Obama made, in which he promised the following things of his presidency: 1)
making government open and transparent; 2) making it 'impossible' for
congressmen to slip in pork barrel projects; 3) making meetings where laws are
written open to the public; 4) promising 'no more secrecy'; 5) that the public
would have five days to look at any bill before he signed it into law; and 6)
saying 'We will put every pork barrel project online.'"
When studying history, it’s not so much a memorization of the details but
noticing the emerging patterns that is most important. Any study of the 20th
century American presidency would reveal that candidates actively seeking to
become the Chief Executive of the United States make campaign promises to the
people that cannot be addressed using the powers of the executive office. Once
one detects such a pattern playing out in a presidential campaign, one can more
realistically assess how successful a presidency might prove; in essence, it is
possible to anticipate the next verse in the rhyme...
Recent Articles:
Can You Help
Me Out with Some
Change?’
For the Gen. Welfare
or an Encroachment on Rights
The Turkey That Is Obamanomics
An Abridgement of Constitutional Rights
Utopia or Dystopian Nightmare? |
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"Wherever they burn books they will also, in
the end, burn human beings." -- Heinrich Heine |
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This Week in US History |
February 7, 1904: In Baltimore, Maryland, a small fire in the business
district is wind-whipped into an uncontrollable conflagration that engulfs a
large portion of the city by evening.
February 8, 1862: Union General Ambrose Burnside scores a major victory
when he captures Roanoke Island in North Carolina. The victory was one of the
first major Union victories of the war.
February 9, 1825: As no presidential candidate received a majority of
electoral votes, the US House of Representatives votes to elect John Quincy
Adams, who won fewer votes than Andrew Jackson in the popular election, as
president.
February 10, 1965: Viet Cong guerrillas blow up the US barracks at Qui
Nhon, 75 miles east of Pleiku on the central coast, with a 100-pound explosive
charge under the building. A total of 23 US personnel were killed
February 11, 1861: President-elect Abraham Lincoln leaves home in
Springfield, Illinois, as he embarks on his journey to Washington.
February 12, 1999: The five-week impeachment trial of Bill Clinton comes
to an end, with the Senate voting to acquit the president on both articles of
impeachment: perjury and obstruction of justice.
February 13, 1861: The earliest military action to be revered with a
Medal of Honor award is performed by Colonel Bernard J.D. Irwin, an assistant
army surgeon serving in the first major US-Apache conflict. |
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