I'm Pissed: Walter Jones kicked off House committee

Via NC Links and Thinks

 

 Kicking my Ron Paul Republican Walter Jones out is the final straw for me. It's now Tea Party time win, lose or draw. Screw them all.

"You got all my gold; you got my silver.
All that's left is brass and lead...
You want them?"

News & Observer

VERBATIM

U.S. Rep. Walter Jones, a Republican from Farmville, was kicked off the House financial services committee on Monday, according to Roll Call.

Speaker John Boehner initiated the action, targeting what Roll Call labeled "rebellious Republicans."
Roll Call writes:

"The decisions were made by the GOP Steering Committee at a Monday meeting, which reviewed a spreadsheet listing each GOP lawmaker and how often he or she had voted with leadership, three sources said. … All of the lawmakers other than Jones were rebellious right-wingers."

Jones was recently re-elected in the 3rd District, which stretches from Currituck to Onslow County and includes Camp Lejeune. He will start his 10th term in January. He also is a member of the House Committee on Armed Services. A devout Christian, Jones has often chose to vote his conscience over the party line, and has been an outspoken critic of the country's war with Iraq and Afghanistan.

According to a Washington Post database, Jones has voted against Boehner 31 percent of the time, including the House GOP budget plan proposed by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc.

On the finances committee, Jones has championed small businesses. Jones could not immediately be reached for comment.

IT'S PARTY TIME! Third Party, that is, Tea Party, to be Exact!

Via Don

LT. Commander David Gillie

2009 March On DC

Time to do it again

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A growing number of Tea Party Nation members are calling for the formation of a third political party, no matter the cost...no matter the consequence. We say that while we don't know what we'll get from such a move, we certainly know what we've had over the last two-and-a-half decades.

Even if it means the eventual demise of the GOP, the time for the formation of the Tea Party as a true political party in America has come!

...........This is not strictly a referendum on Barack Obama's presidency. It is a reflection of the serious undercurrent of anger that voters bear due to several factors. Not least among these is the vague, non-committal ways in which the GOP has dealt with numerous serious breaches of law and the Constitution by this administration. By many accounts, the Obama White House is a rogue administration, yet the GOP-controlled House has taken little or no action. So, the disenchantment with government is on two levels.

Many see the Obama Agenda a blatantly socialistic, with a serious disregard for the law. Activities such as the Fast and Furious gun running scandal, the allegedly-bogus birth certificate and Selective Service registration, the shell game surrounding the Benghazi consulate attack, voter fraud, foreign campaign contributions, subterfuge involving Russia, ambiguous support for Israel, Obama's overt support for anarchists, and more fuel what many hope will lead to open and possibly violent revolution. Add to this, the feeling of frustration with the GOP, who has habitually kowtowed and surrendered to the Democrat-controlled Senate, where Harry Reid rules with a razor-thin majority.

The GOP, in the minds of numerous Tea Party Nation members, has abandoned them. They point the history of the last twenty five years. Beginning with the betrayal of the "no new taxes" pledge by George H.W. Bush, conservatives have dealt with a growing sense of frustration with their own party.
Enter the Tea Party!

More @  Examiner

“Let It Burn” – Conservatives Embracing Radical Left Agenda?

Via southwind

  

Came across an interesting take on the origins of the now-popular “L.I.B.” acronym that is popping up on so many conservative-leaning forums.  Could the present anger and frustration of conservatives be used against them to help facilitate the progressive American “reset” agenda?  Perhaps…

EXCERPT:  (via Wilderness of Mirrors)

L.I.B (Let it burn) Burn baby Burn

l…So, basically whether you realize it or not, when you are advocating for the L.I.B (Let it burn) you are advocating for the Cloward-Pivens Strategy. The tragic part isn’t that in advocating for L.I.B you are in fact advocating for the Cloward-Pivens Strategy, the tragic part isn’t even that you have been duped into doing exactly what the Marxist’s want you to do. The real tragedy is that most of you haven’t really grasped what Let It burn really means. It means a complete and total collapse of the American economy. It means people literally shooting and killing their friends and neighbors for things like food and gasoline. It means a complete abandonment of the United States Constitution. It means the construction of William “Bill” Ayer’s extermination camps for the 25 million Americans who refuse to accept the new Marxist government.

Let it burn is exactly what the Marxist elite in both parties are trying to accomplish. It is the only way they can ensure the level of lawlessness and civil unrest required to suspend the United States Constitution and replace it with a “Temporary Emergency Powers Act”. Let it burn means a violent bloody civil war which the political elite have been preparing for for decades. You really think that the department of Homeland Defense need 5.1 BILLION rounds of hollow point ammunition to defend American Borders that they refuse to defend?

Do you honestly think for one picosecond that America’s Police forces and other Law Enforcement Agencies will not act to enforce whatever laws are passed by congress? Including a full suspension of the United States Constitution? Are you honestly stupid enough to think that the United States Military will refuse to follow the orders of the President of the United States of America and fire on “Revolting” American citizens? Is there one single person on earth insane enough to think that the President of the United States or congress will allow one single state to secede without a single shot being fired or blood being spilled?

Yes, that is right, Let it burn means, no gasoline, no food, no electricity or heating oil, no consumer goods, no medical supplies or treatments. It means violent lawless civil unrest and inevitably full on Martial law or bloody and violent civil war. It is 100 percent exactly what the political elites are planning for, it is the means by which they achieve their end goal, and that end goal is to dissolve the United states Constitution and replace it with a Marxist Constitution.  

More @ Ulsterman

Open letter to General Patraeus from a former Navy SEAL

 

 Human Events

VERBATIM

General Patraeus Sir,

We seem to have a President who was willing to let GOOD MEN DIE to hide something else, something very sinister that was happening in Benghazi. 

You KNOW more than what you let on, Sir.Your recent testimony before Congress appeared to throw the Administration under the bus, but lingering questions remain.  Rice is a distraction.  We want to know the truth.

WHAT WAS OBAMA HIDING THAT HE LET 4 GOOD MEN DIE IN BENGHAZI?

You were the head of the CIA and as such you have the information that the people seek.  Silence will betray your honor, if the full truth is not revealed.

That night we got our rear handed to us by Muslim Brotherhood ideologues who alternately want to kills us or enslave us.  The people YOU call co-workers are either in league with the enemy or have the same objectives.  Four American men and a little piece of America died that night.  They died because someone in this Administration watched the battle rage for 7 hours, yet still gave the order to STAND DOWN as Americans were overrun, tortured and massacred.

WE WERE ROUTED BY THE ENEMY AND OUR OWN GOVERNMENT CHOSE TO LET OUR PEOPLE BE SLAUGHTERED!

WHO GAVE THAT ORDER, SIR?

WAS IT YOU?  WAS IT SOMEONE IN THE ADMINISTRATION?  WAS IT THE PRESIDENT?
WHAT IS THIS ADMINISTRATION HIDING THAT IT WAS WILLING TO LET GOOD MEN DIE?

Is the Obama Administration actively running guns, Fast & Furious style to Libyan rebels?

Was Ambassador Stephens sent to Libya to coordinate something with Al-Queda?

Was the Obama Administration planning to free high level enemy prisoners?

IS THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION ACTIVELY FUNDING AND ARMING THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD?

You are a great General and have served and led your country from the highest levels of power.
We, the American People ask that you to LEAD US NOW.  Come forward with the POWER instilled by your years of service and the HONOR of your Military OATH.  You are an amazing American who has done so much for your country.  Do NOT fail us now, Sir.  STAND for the America you grew up in and fought so hard for all these years. 

It is your civic duty to TELL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THE TRUTH ABOUT BENGHAZI!

For Liberty,

Benjamin Smith

Life Behind the Iron Curtain: The Ultimate Exercise in Big Government

More than 20 years have passed since the Soviet empire collapsed. Telling its history to new generations here and in the countries of Eastern and Central Europe—generations who have at best dim personal memories of this tragic era in world history—has become an important task.

Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1945–1956, Anne Applebaum’s most recent history of the Soviet era, was the topic of a book event this week at The Heritage Foundation. The event was hosted by Lee Edwards, Heritage senior fellow and distinguished president of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.

The questions posed by Applebaum boil down to this: “How did the Soviets do it?”

First of all, Applebaum noted, Joseph Stalin had a firm belief in the revolution he was fomenting. Hard as it is to comprehend today, the Soviets, who took over half of Europe after the Yalta agreement, believed they would be successful. Furthermore, the devastation of countries like Poland and Eastern Germany after World War II was so profound that many of their citizens had little else to believe in.

Applebaum identifies three elements of Soviet totalitarian tactics:

1)      Secret police forces were being assembled even before the end of WWII and started identifying potential future enemies to be dispensed with. Anyone with the capacity to organize—from intellectuals to the former resistance—was seen as a threat. Even boy scouts were targets.

2)      They grabbed the media (primarily radio) as a means of mass communication and had some success in propagandizing the devastated populations.

3)      They undermined and attacked every institution of civil society. Even before the nationalization of industry was complete, the parameters of civil society had shrunk. From sports clubs to leisure time to children’s activities, everything became dominated by the state. Catholic youth leaders became an endangered species.

More with video @ The Foundry

Obama Celebrates Rosa Parks By Publishing Picture of Himself

 

Narcissistic thug.

President Obama really can't help but insert himself into nearly every situation in some way. Remember when he gave Queen Elizabeth of England an iPod full of his speeches? Or how about when the White House changed all of the presidential bios on WhiteHouse.gov to include an accomplishment by President Obama?

More @ Townhall

Diversity Comes to Africa

Via Billy

On the Lighter Side: Little-Known WWII Facts

Via Cousin Colby

Old, but first time I've seen it.

     45th Infantry Division

1. The first German serviceman killed in World War II was killed by the Japanese (China, 1937), the first American serviceman killed was killed by the Russians (Finland 1940), the highest-ranking American killed was Lt. Gen. Lesley McNair, killed by the U.S. Army Air Corps - so much for allies. If you include Pearl Harbor, Rear Admiral Isaac C. Kidd was the highest ranking American killed. He was killed on board the U.S.S. Arizona when the Japanese launched their surprise attack on December 7, 1941.

2. The youngest U.S. serviceman was 12-year-old Calvin Graham, USN. He was wounded and given a Dishonorable Discharge for lying about his age. (His benefits were later restored by act of Congress). 

More @ Military.com

GOA Alert: Stop Dirty Harry from Ramming Gun Control Down our Throats

 

 

The Washington Post headline pretty much says it all: “Obama backs [Harry] Reid’s filibuster reform effort.”

Wonder why?

Why, for instance, would Barack Obama support Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s efforts to change the Senate rules, by brute force, so that it would be easier?

    To implement the UN Arms Trade Treaty to register, ban, and microstamp firearms?
    To reinstate the semi-auto ban?
    Or, to allow Obama to turn anyone into a “prohibited person” and take away their guns, simply by putting them on a secret “watch list”?

To ask such questions is to answer them.  The political Left would love to disarm us all and take away our guns.  To wit, the nation had to endure Bob Costas’ rant over the weekend when he essentially suggested that otherwise law-abiding people shouldn’t have guns.
 

Click hear to see GOA Executive Director Larry Pratt’s answer and rebuke to Bob Costas for his ill-informed comments in the wake of the Javon Belcher suicide.

But, in order to push a progressive agenda through the Senate, Reid is first going to have to use his deceptive “cheat scheme” in order to change the Senate rules to make it easier to pass the Left’s anti-gun initiatives.

By eliminating the filibuster (on the motion to take up legislation), Reid intends to eliminate our most effective way to kill a bad anti-gun bill -- that is, by weakening or eliminating the time-honored filibuster that makes the Senate so different from the House.

But, even more important, if Reid uses the “nuclear option,” as he’s threatening to do, the Senate no longer has any binding rules. The majority can pass any gun legislation it wants, at any time, by brute force, with 51 votes.

So, did your Senator run for re-election by telling you he or she supported the Second Amendment?  Well, this is their chance to prove it -- or to show you that they’re nothing but bald-faced liars.

There will be no gun vote during the 113th Congress that will be more important than the rules votes.

And that is why it’s imperative that ALL GUN GROUPS are fighting this attempt to nuke the filibuster rules.  Please contact any gun organization that you belong to and ask them if they are actively lobbying against Dirty Harry’s efforts to weaken the filibuster … and against any attempt by him to ram gun control down the throats of the American people!

ACTION:  Click here to write your Senators. Insist that they vote against the anti-gun proposals to change the Senate rules.  And don’t forget to urge ANY and ALL pro-gun groups that you are affiliated with to take similar action, as well.

Victory: Senate Rejects Ratification of UN Disabilities Treaty

 

 Dear HSLDA Members and Friends,

Due to your calls, emails, and office visits, the Senate minority
stood strong and ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) was rejected by the U.S. Senate a
short time ago.

The CRPD, which would take away American sovereignty and threaten
parental rights, needed two-thirds of the Senate in order to pass.
Although it gained a majority of votes, it failed on a vote of 61-38.
This is a great victory for parental rights, homeschool freedom, and
children with special needs. The U.S. Senate rejected a treaty which
would have allowed UN bureaucrats to decide what is in the "best
interests" of children with disabilities, instead leaving those
decisions with parents and caregivers, which is what existing U.S. law
already requires. Visit http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=16434 to
find out why HSLDA opposed this treaty.

We encourage you to visit http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=16435 to
find out how your senators voted, and please send them an email of
thanks (this information will be posted in a few hours, but we wanted
to let you know this good news right now).

Yet despite this victory, the battle is not over.  This treaty and
other dangerous UN treaties can come up at any time. We must stay
informed and be ready at any moment to take action again.   Without a
Parental Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which would
supersede these treaties, we are susceptible to these constant attacks
against our rights as Americans and the right the raise our children
how we see fit. You can find out more about the Parental Rights
Amendment at http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=16436 .

Thank you again to all of you who took action against this treaty and
special thanks to those of you in the Congressional Action Program
(CAP) who came out to Washington, D.C. to lobby senators against the
CRPD.

Sincerely,

J. Michael Smith
HSLDA President