The 1776 Blog

Rants and Postings from a disgruntled Republican living in a strange world

MSNBC Kicks off guest for disagreeing

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MSNBC, that beacon of balanced news coverage has once again gone above and beyond the call of duty. ( I am sure President Obama is so proud of you all right now.).

You might be asking, “what did they do this time?”. “A hit piece on a Republican?”. Yes. But wait there’s more! “Attacking a guest for calling them out?”. Yes, but still there’s more! “kicking the guest off of the show for calling them out on their hit piece?”. Ding! Ding! Ding!

This was so bad even CNN couldn’t help but respond. Check out the video of the confrontation below as well as CNN’s response.

In their own words: Quotes from the Founding Generation; Part III

Part III: Taxation

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“The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.”
- Thomas Jefferson

“I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”
- Benjamin Franklin

“If, from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are in an advanced stage of improvement we still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised to furnish new pretences for revenue and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey, and permits none to escape without a tribute.”
- Thomas Payne

“As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible, avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, but remembering also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it, avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertion in time of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear. The execution of these maxims belongs to your representatives, but it is necessary that public opinion should cooperate. To facilitate to them the performance of their duty, it is essential that you should practically bear in mind that towards the payment of debts there must be revenue; that to have revenue there must be taxes; that no taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant; that the intrinsic embarrassment, inseparable from the selection of the proper objects (which is always a choice of difficulties), ought to be a decisive motive for a candid construction of the conduct of the government in making it, and for a spirit of acquiescence in the measures for obtaining revenue, which the public exigencies may at any time dictate.”
- George Washington

And Voter Fraud is Not a Problem

20120514-110356.jpgSo, the Democrats are consistent in insisting that voter fraud is not a problem. Typically that is the clearest tell in the Democrats playbook. If it is a “non-issue” according to Dem’s, one can be fairly certain that there is a big problem. Known for their excellent record of cheating in elections,roy should come as no surprise in a very important state (Florida) in a very important year (Election 2012) that over 180,000 non-citizens may be on voter rolls. Lovely. Read article here…

Extreme is as extreme does.

I think that most of us can agree that the media bias against the tea party is far reaching and crude at its best.  Yet, we rarely hear even the slightest whisper of contempt towards the occupy “movement”.  From rapes to drug use to theft, the occupy camps are no different than your run of the mill prison yard.  All the while the media is portraying peaceful and disciplined tea party protests as extreme, racist and violent. Well, The Blaze was kind enough to provide a simple and to the point line graph describing extreme behavior of these polarizing groups.  (Please enjoy the humorous of this graph)

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Enough said. Cheers.

Guy Falls Asleep at Biden Speech

Hollywood can’t make this stuff up.  VP Joe Biden spoke to a crowd on Friday at Davidson County Community College  in North Carolina and had trouble holding the crowds interest (at least on guys)!   The best part about the whole thing is the fact that Biden said, “Americans are tired of being tired” as he espoused the Obama Administrations left wing lunacy and astronomical 2013 Budget.

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Romney and Taxes

I will be the first to admit, Mitt is not my favorite for the GOP nomination (I don’t really have a favorite) but he is a stand up guy receiving a great deal of grief for being nothing more than successful.    In order to clear the air, Mitt released his tax returns…and  what did they tell us?

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1.  Mitt is very successful.  A great trait by any stretch.  Success, if I am not mistaken,

is encouraged in America (unless you are already successful which in that case you are disdained).

2.  Mitt gives a sh*tload of money to charities.

How terrible!  Media Unite!  Mr. Romney obviously should not be allowed to accumulate such fortune and such success.  And charity!  What a waste of good potential tax dollars.  Those funds should be given to the government, no question.  They could manage that money much better than some charity.  In fact, Mitt should turn over at least 99% of his wealth to the government and pay his fair share.  Find a nice 1 bedroom apartment and live like the rest of us poor sinners.

The government clearly is better at managing wealth.  Just compare Mr. Romney’s financials to the governments.

Back and ready to go!

I can’t stay away any longer.  Life is crazy with work and kids but whose is not!

Obama Blames GOP for Problems…Again

Ask a liberal: Were Reagan’s and George H.W. Bush’s policies the reason for the booming economy of the 1990′s?  Was Clinton responsible for 9/11 and the uninhibited rise of fundamentalist Islam around the globe?  Most would say no.  But ask them if the current state of the US economy is the fault of failed policies of the George W. Bush administration and the answer you will receive is a resounding YES!

Aside from the fact that liberal’s are incapable of applying logic to a problem, why are they so quick to pick and choose?  The answer is simple,  they cannot grasp that liberal, socialist policies do not work.  The economic woes of America must be caused by some other reason.  There is no way it could have anything to do with excessive federal spending, increased reforms on the private sector (causing historical unemployment), or a complete lack of leadership in the White House.

But alas, the cold, hard truth is that our President has radical views on America, our economy and our place in the world.  As Karl Marx explained, Capitalism is necessary for Communism to be realized.   In the simplest of terms, Capitalism must fail, socialism must take hold and eventually Communism will set in just as soon as the benevolent leaders give up their power, position and money.  Obama, no doubt, seems more than happy to help the cause and destroy Capitalism under the false pretense that it does not work.

So, there he was last night on 60 Minutes, our most gracious and benevolent leader, pointing fingers at the GOP and crying wolf.  He spoke of the GOP being unwilling to make “common sense” concessions due to their “ideological baggage.”  Talk about the pot calling the kettle black (uh oh call the PC police), Obama has enough ideological baggage that even Southwest Airlines would charge baggage fees.  Obama is positioning himself to run against congress in 2012, not the GOP candidate.  Why?  Because he cannot run on his record or against any of the GOP contenders.  He has to run against congresses record and if the populist masses buy into his lies once again he might just succeed.

The GOP is far from perfect, many of the party elite are nothing more then big government Republicans.   What Obama clearly missed, as was evident in his interview last night, is that people blame the guy at the top, and in this case rightfully so, for the economic hardships that are effecting each and every one of us.  There are times to work together and there are times to stand up and say enough is enough.  This is one of those times and there is no room for failure on the conservative front.  I say, continue to stop each and every tax increase that the Obama administration tries to push through congress, continue to challenge each and every socialist program and idea that comes out of the white house, and continue to ensure the failure of President Obama’s administration, because anything less might ensure the failure of our great Nation.

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Rick Perry warns Fed’s Ben Bernanke against ‘treason

The Texas governor said he would view it as “treasonous” if Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke printed more cash between now and the 2012 election.

The White House accused him of threatening Mr Bernanke.

Mr Perry entered the race on Saturday for next year’s Republican nomination to challenge President Barack Obama.

The 61-year-old, who succeeded former President George W Bush as Texas governor in 2000, is tipped as a strong contender to be the party’s nominee.

Obama Officials attack S&P over credibility after downgrade

Once again, Barry and the crew are blaming everyone else for the problems they caused and the new target is none other than Standard and Poors.  You now, that bastion of market intelligence for over 125 years, who obviously lacks the fortitude and intellect of such savvy economists as our tax cheat Secretary of Treasury or Barack “I’ve never ran a business” Obama.  The Obama administration has decried that S&P is clueless and has no reason to downgrade our worthless credit.  According to a Reuters report, the Obama administration called the decision ”A judgment flawed by a $2 trillion error” that would have changed the decision.  In response “David Beers, the top S&P official behind the ratings decision, told Reuters in an interview that any change in the rating agency’s calculations would have been taken into consideration before the decision was made public.”  Can you say “IN YOUR FACE!”.   As always the Obama administration is doing what it does best, talk out both sides of its mouth and lie.

Yes, yes, it’s an S&P screw up that caused our credit rating to fall, not out of control spending (on both sides of the aisle) that put us in this position.  But wait, make sure not to forget the Tea Party and those extremist “religious” types doing whatever it is they do to impact our credit negatively.  Oh yea, and don’t forget the global warming, I mean climate change, I mean global cooling, that is causing the heating of the streets of New York , which in turn, are causing those at Standard and Poor’s to misjudge the greatness and awe that is President Obama and his group of merry socialists.

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