American Environmentalism and the failure of Utopian Science: 1996 - Malaria in South Africa eradicated, then the ban on DDT. 2000, 60,000 cases of malaria recorded.

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My tribute to the brutality of American Environmentalism and its radicalized science,  something I call "Utopian Science."    

1996 - Malaria in South Africa eradicated, then, the Americans ban DDT.  2000, 60,000 cases of malaria recorded.  The very next year,  that ban was lifted in South Africa,  and reported malaria cases fell to 800 from 60,000.   American Environmentalism is wholly responsible for the deaths of 20 million African children since its ban on DDT.  Today,  there are effective processes used to limit malaria,  but they have come onto the scene 12 years after the ban and before there was protection for the people of Africa.  Still,  chemicals such as Arftmisinin. 40% of the world's population is at risk for Malaria.  Even with the new, Utopian science of this day,  more than 300 million illnesses are due to Malaria,  compared to 40 million because of AIDs.  2000 new cases,  mostly involving children,  are reported each day,  in African countries.  

Thanks to Utopian Science for solving this problem.  Geeeeesh.  

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Related:  From the World Health Organization:  10 Facts of Malaria in Africa

MALARIA VICTIMS: HOW ENVIRONMENTALIST BAN ON DDT CAUSED 50 MILLION DEATHS

When politics kills:malaria and the DDT story - a PDF well worth the read.  

Obama's war against his own military: a brief but critical list:

 From the UK Guardian because the American press did not want you to know:

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The White House blew the cover of the top CIA agent in Afghanistan on Sunday, when the person’s name was included on a list given to reporters during a visit to the country by President Barack Obama.

The name was then emailed by the White House press office to a distribution list of more than 6,000 recipients, mostly members of the US media.

The agent in question, listed as chief of station, would be a top manager of CIA activity in Afghanistan, including intelligence collection and a drone-warfare programme under which unmanned aerial vehicles mount cross-border attacks into Pakistan.

The name appeared on a list of attendees requested by White House officials for the president’s visit to Bagram air base to mark Memorial Day, the national day of tribute to fallen service members. The list of 15 people was drawn up by the military, written into a routine press report and sent to Washington. 

Editor's notes:  Understand that this Administration indicts itself on charges of "gross incompetence," over and over again, almost on a daily basis.  This(the story, above) is, yet,  another sad example of this suicidal phenomena.   

If you are keeping score,  as am I,  you can add this bit of inexcusably pathetic idiocy to a growing list that includes: 

1.  Announcing a surge in Afghanistan while telling the enemy when that surge would be withdrawn.  

2.  Using network news to announce the effects and identities of  personnel used in an under-cover CIA work in Yemen,  resulting in the deaths of a number of American allied forces involved in a clandestine network of spies who had been working (unknown) in the terrorist networks coming out of Yemen.  As a result,  lives were lost and the "program" was shut down.  

3.  Installing a "catch and release" policy in Afghanistan,  giving our forces only 72 hours to transfer a captive,  from the battlefield to an approved prison site  (there are no more than 3 such facilities in the country),  or release them without their weapons,  back into the terrorist fighting force. 

4. Running to the closest microphone and announcing both the death of an irrelevant bin Laden and identifying the special forces unit making that kill.  AS A RESULT,  the enemy was able to plot and carry out a revenge attack,  12 weeks later,  killing 32 Navy Seals aboard a military personnel transport copter,   17 of which were members of Navy Seal Team Six,  the unit exposed by Joe The Blow Biden,  the morning after the killing.

Update:  You can read more on this criminal assault against our own forces,  here.  Admittedly,  the reference is quite partisan,  but it is the only source I could find,  quickly,  that presented the truth of this disaster . . .  a disaster initiated by the self-absorbed Joe Biden,  as he announced the new campaign slogan for 2012,  and sentenced 32 soldiers to their deaths,  in that announcement.  

5.  Hoping to announce a "negotiated peace" as an opportunity to give Obama the opportunity to claim "victory,"  when,  in fact,  Obama's negotiated peace is not the result of a military victory,  at all  . . . . .   just words on a paper that, to date,  the Taliban has refused sign.  

We, as a nation,  are being led down the path of "peace at any price,"   for the sake of an undefined and illiterate foreign policy that is convoluted in its lack of definition,  and without direction in its application of some sense of esoteric allegiance to the notion of "fairness to all of mankind."

"Fairness" does not win wars nor protects the populace of any nation  . . . .   never has and never will.  War is hell,  and unless war is fought as an expression of that fact,  it should not enlist our sons to be used as sacrificial pawns.  Democrats believe our youth-filled armies should be the first to die,  in any battle,  and wage war with that premise in mind.  Bush was the first to move away from that criminal nonsense,  and the Left has hated him,  since.  

The late and great news caster,  Paul Harvey,  once built a news cast around his argument that,  the United States,  no longer had to see its soldiers die,  in mass,  in any war,  if only we would use our advanced weaponry to win a war in short order and without friendly deaths.  THAT should be the first priority of any war strategy, but,  sadly,  with Democrat leadership in place,  such is not the case.

One would think that that a "peacenik"  should never to the Commander in Chief,  but,  even that bit of wisdom,  is lost on a Progressive mindset that sees our winning a war, as an act of gross unfairness,  in and of itself.    

Now is the time for the Wing Nuts to come out of the Marxist Woodwork of our society's traditional architecture. This time, the warning is for all men, in our society: "They," really hate you.

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Lierre Keith (the angry butch babe** in the video), has these key words to say, in the video, above.  Before reading or listening,  stop to think,  for a moment.  Ask yourselves,  what rights do male's have,  in this day and time,  as to fatherhood, in deciding school choice for his children,  whether his "wife" can terminate their lives without his permission, his rights to shared custody (in many states),  the forced separation of "husband and wife" as families apply for various government aid programs with husbands/fathers receiving no consideration,  at all,  in welfare homes,  and his right to refuse the influence of such politically minded pervs as Lierre Keith.  The "man" in our society has been under attack for decades,  and has silently stood by and watched the winning strategy to render him "irrelevant" become structural to the way society deals with family issues.    Today,  it is nearly too late for him to reverses these trends.  The Welfare State punishes families applying for assistance if the man remains in the home.  Divorce laws and settlements favor his exclusion from family affairs,  and "family planning,"  where "planning" includes the killing of the off-spring, has nothing to do with the father.      

Understand this:  I am not disgusted with folks like Ms Keith so much as I am disgusted with the men of this country.  Look,  we don't have to father the children of these people;  neither do we have to support or continue to live with women who would abort our young.  It is time to for men to know who they are sleeping with,  who will be the physical carrier of their children,  and what they (men) can do to limit their selfish/destructive ways.  When it comes time to talk "marriage,"  men need to know where their physical partners stand as to the parenting process and the place a man has in that process:  no man,  no partnership, no children  . . . . .   time to move on.  Always remember,  you,  as a man,  are not a lesbian substitute,  so stop acting like one.    

In the world I picture, lesbians are not rarely valued and prioritized but are seen as role models.  Lesbians are neither masturbation fodder for men obsessed with threesomes nor targeted to become hetersexual women…  Liberty and a living planet will only be won when masculinity, its religion, its economics, its psychology and its sex is resisted and finally defeated.
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butch

an overtly/stereotypically masculine or masculine-acting woman. can be used to denote an individual, or the dominant role in a lesbian relationship.  (Urban dictionary)

"Happy" has nothing to do with it. Rather, it is all about honor.

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THE FINAL INSPECTION”
The soldier stood and faced God,
Which must always come to pass.
He hoped his shoes were shining,
Just as brightly as his brass.
“Step forward now, you soldier,
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To my Church have you been true?”
The soldier squared his shoulders and said,
“No, Lord, I guess I ain’t.
Because those of us who carry guns,
Can’t always be a saint.
I’ve had to work most Sundays,
And at times my talk was tough.
And sometimes I’ve been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.
But, I never took a penny,
That wasn’t mine to keep…
Though I worked a lot of overtime,
When the bills just got too steep.
And I never passed a cry for help,
Though at times I shook with fear.
And sometimes, God, forgive me,
I’ve wept unmanly tears.
I know I don’t deserve a place,
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around,
Except to calm their fears.
If you’ve a place for me here, Lord,
It needn’t be so grand.
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don’t, I’ll understand.”
There was a silence all around the throne,
Where the saints had often trod.
As the soldier waited quietly,
For the judgement of his God.
“Step forward now, you soldier,
You’ve borne your burdens well.
Walk peacefully on Heaven’s streets,
You’ve done your time in Hell.”

Here is why Benghazi is so much worse than Watergate: men were dying but not yet dead, while Obama slept, flew to Nevada and was giving speeches. Why is this a partisan issue? Shouldn't we all be furious?

 <<<<  Benghazia is not "Benghazi" because of a pretend video or the cover-up;  it is "Benghazi" because    Obama decided his sleep and the campaign trip scheduled for the next day were of a higher priority  than men screaming for 20 hours, begging their Commander to "come, save us."    And if you don't agree,  it is because you are just as cold blooded as he.  

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks to supporters during a campaign stop on September 12, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Obama is focusing his speech on economic policies during his two days of campaign events in Nevada and Colorado.

(September 11, 2012 - Source: Isaac Brekken/Getty Images North America)

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Again,  while Obama is giving this very speech,  while the ignorant Millennial crowd,  behind him, cheer, men under his command,   are dying,  without mention and without a care.  

Harry Reid is Overlord of the slowest acting Senate in American history. Among the 240 House bills sent his way, he has stalled on 40 House bills dealing with immigration and 12 bills seeking VA reform. The current VA mess is ALL on the Dems and their VA healthcare union buds . . . . . . . period.

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Editor's notes:  No one in this Administration can claim "They didn't know until they read about it in the papers."  Besides, aren't we paying these clowns to,  at least,  know what is going on?  Otherwise,  why not hire the Editor in Chief of the NYTimes and call that,  "presidential governance?"

Thanks to Weasel Zippers for the news lede and cartoon

BPR  While the president pounds his fist and proclaims he’s “madder than hell” over the Veterans Affairs scandal and then just asks for more time to review and investigate, House Republicans are getting pretty tired of the do-nothing Senate and a president who claims to only learn about problems in his administration on cable news.

Rep. Jackie Walorski, R-Ind., sits on the Veterans’ Affairs Committee in the House and she told [Larry O'Connor] Wednesday on WMAL radio in Washington, D.C., that the House has passed a dozen bills for reform of the VA and they are collecting dust on [Sen.] Harry Reid’s desk:

Let me use Democrat talking points as I defend the GOP funding of Tom Cotton's campaign for a House seat out of Arkansas:

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Here is the headline up for discussion:  

Molly Redden / Mother Jones:

Someone Just Spent $1.5 Million on a GOP Senate Candidate.  We'll Probably Never Know Who.  —  Was it you?  —  One of the super-PAC ads blanketing Arkansas.  Courtesy Government Integrity Fund Action Network  —  Arkansas is witnessing what may be the most expensive political ad campaign …

And here is our discussion:  

Editor's notes:  Let me use Democrat talking points as I defend the GOP funding of Tom Cotton's campaign for a House seat out of Arkansas:  

1.  The IRS plotted to cheat Republicans and (especially) conservative,  teaparty types,  out of their rightful place as fund raisers for their party's preferences;  360 conservative funding organizations  to ZERO liberal groups,  were targeted by the IRS,  when the dust and lies had settled.   

2.  The first campaign lie,  told by H Obama,  was his broken promise to abide by the McCain/Feingold campaign funding laws.  Both McCain and Obama agreed to follow the law's limitations.  Only McCain followed through.  

3.  While GOP haters have no idea where Tom Cotton's  $1.5 million came from,  neither does the public know where $400 million of Obama's money came from,  either.  McCain,  the goodie-two shoes that he was,  revealed all of his donors.  Obama did not,  and much of Obama's money came to his campaign via US donations sent to foreign countries and back,  again,  into the United States.  

4.  Finally,  while the Demos whine about the GOP following their (the Dems) lead on campaign funding,  no one really cares.  The American people know that a great deal of "cheating" goes on,  as to fund raising and,  no one cares   . . . . . .   hence this is neither a news item or a "PR" issue.  

While I do not condone cheating,  I certainly have no intentions of listening to those who support a party that believes the "ends justify the means,"  that "winning at all cost" is demanded in national politics.  The Dems codified lying as an accepted means to the end in condoning and teaching Rules for Radicals.  As a result,  the rest of us should never allow that party to ever lecture us on some faux sense of morality when it comes to the rules of engagement for winning an election. 

Time for them to eat their own words.  Hope they are hungry,  because there are millions of us who want to cram their own words down their collective throat.   

Latest Watcher Council's listing of noteworthy conservative articles published this past week following a succinct review of the political news of the week.

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Editor's notes:  A great source for the conservative/research minded pundit.  More often than not,  Midknight Review makes this listing.  Last week,  however,  I took time to take my 1800 bike to Boise and back AND am recovering from an accident on 99,  during rush hour,  a week ago, Thursday (no broken bones but a very, very sore rib-cage).  But this 69 year old man is on the mend.  I finished my ride to Boise, btw. (Had to go to the ER, this past Thursday, however  . . . . .    pressure from my ER doctor, Cal State wrestling champion,  son and my board-certified nurse, suma-cum-loude/head cheerleader/homecoming queen,  daughter).   Joshua Pundit is the home turf of Watcher's Council.  It is time for an united conservative citizen-journalist assault against the Marxist inspired,  World Without Borders  cabal,  that includes Obama and his several alliances (network news,  many of the national unions,  his Wall Street,  CEO, Progressive Buds,  his military Progressive leadership Buds,  all of the CBC, the mindless sector in Hollywood and on and on).  

The Council Has Spoken!! This Weeks’ Watcher’s Council Results

JoshuaPundit on May 23 2014 at 3:18 am | Filed under: The Council Has Spoken!

Alea iacta est…the Council has spoken, the votes have been cast, and we have the results  for this week’s Watcher’s Council match up.

“What did the President know and when did he know it?” – Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker (R-TN), 1974

“Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi — why aren’t we talking about something else?” - Rep. Nancy Pelosi, May 1, 2014

“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. -Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

Benghazi refuses to go away, it rots and festers like an open wound. Speaker of the House John Boener was finally forced to name a select committee to investigate it fully, and the Obama Regime’s defenders lost no time in surfacing to spin the unspinnable and defend the indefensible. This week’s winning entry, The Left’s Forked Tongue Brigade Continues To Circle The Wagons On Benghazi over at Joshuapundit is my reaction. Here’s a slice:

The Professional Left continues to try and disparage the Benghazi select committee investigations with all its might, and the Obama media are certainly doing their best to help by ignoring the actual facts as much as possible.The Forked Tongue Brigade is out in all their putrid glory.

Two old Leftist camp followers conveniently provide us with an overview of the sort of talking points being used to attack the committee in advance, so that its findings can be ‘discredited’ before they surface. Lets look at them, shall we?

Eleanor Clift is simply an old line, loudmouth Marxist whom the Daily Beast inherited from News-weak.She hasn’t has an original thought in years, but pretty much parrots the usual talking points going around. However, when she does improvise, it’s a real doozy. On PBS’ The McLaughlin Group the other day, she actually managed to come up with one – That Ambassador Chris Stevens wasn’t murdered in Benghazi..he, umm, died of smoke inhalation:

The fact that Chris Stevens may very well have been clinging to life when he was raped and beaten (we have no way of really knowing) and the violent way the other three Benghazi victims died doesn’t seem to make an impact on Eleanor Clift. Using her logic, I suppose if someone sneaked into her penthouse digs, tied her up and put duct tape over the nose and mouth on her heavily botoxed face, we could say she wasn’t murdered either..it was, you know, respiratory failure.

After discussing her faux pas with the usual suspects and getting a fresh briefing on the proper talking points, Ms. Clift decided to double down today in the Daily Beast (I refuse to link to this garbage but I’m sure you can easily find it).

Now her story is that she was taken out of context (she wasn’t) that it was the CIA’s fault, and that it was Chris Steven’ fault because he ‘took risks he shouldn’t have’.

Next, she puts out some cock and bull tale she’s sourced to an unnamed ‘ambassador’ about the reason for the attack being an attempt to free prisoners being held at the CIA annex. Of course, that fable doesn’t account for why the consulate was attacked, rather than just the annex. And even if that was remotely true, what about all the lies on ‘it was the video’? And why the subsequent cover up?

After that it’s time to play ‘look at Reagan’. She cites an article written by a fellow Leftist shill that calls what happened in Beirut in the 1980′s ‘Reagan’s Benghazi’. She relates how the Democrat majority House investigated and found ‘very serious errors in judgment’ and recommended additional security measures, but ‘did not see it as an opportunity to score political points’.

Actually, there’s a pretty good reason for that. The ‘serious errors in judgment’ had nothing to do with the president or anyone else in DC, but the judgment of the house committee that the commanders on the ground at a time before this kind of tactic was common should have somehow foreseen that some Hezbollah jihadi would drive a truck though the barriers and set off a suicide truck bomb.

And the reason the Democrats failed to ‘score political points’? Well, that’s another difference between Benghazi and Beirut, Ronaldus Maximus and Barack Obama. The Left didn’t score political points because they couldn’t. From Day One, President Reagan was completely cooperative with the investigation. He allowed Congress complete access to all information, and instead of lying and stonewalling, the Reagan Administration was an active partner in wanting to get to the bottom of what happened.

There were no lies for partisan political purposes, no documents hastily reclassified in an effort to hide them, no witnesses or survivors hidden away. And could anyone even remotely imagine President Reagan leaving our people to fight to the death for nine hours and doing nothing to save them because he was busy resting up for a fundraiser?

A different kind of president and a different kind of man entirely. Someone the Forked Tongue Brigade could never understand.

I’m taking the time to deconstruct this because trust me, you’re going to hear this kind of horse manure again and again.

As a matter of fact, none other than the junior Senator from California, Barbara Boxer, came out with her version of White House talking points today on the always amusing Huffington Post.

Good old Senator Babs is no quiz kid as anyone familiar with her record knows, but she has at least a few IQ points on Eleanor Clift, and of course, much better staffers.

The senator starts out using the standard Democrat slogan for the select committee, calling it ‘a political witch hunt’. She calls it that because ‘the committee ‘rejected House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s offer to have a fair panel with equal representation from Republicans and Democrats’ and because a few Republicans are ‘fundraising off this tragedy’.

I’ve already dealt with that previously, but it obviously bears repeating. The ‘even split’ San Fran Nan wanted is something she would have rejected outright when she was Speaker after she stopped cackling. Actually, no select committee in history has ever been set up in that manner. And does anyone recall how Democrats instantly sent out fundraisers after Sandy Hook, Katrina, Columbine,the Gabby Giffords shooting and every other tragedy you can imagine? Pot, meet kettle.

Much, much more at the link.

In our non-Council category, the winner was Iowahawk with an absolutely hilarious piece, Iowahawk –In New York, Scrappy Local Newspaper Struggles For Survival submitted by Joshuapundit. You are hereby warned not to drink coffee or other liquids near the keyoard while you read it.

Here are this week’s full results. Only TheIndependent Sentinel was unable to vote this week, but was not subject to the usual by the 2/3 vote penalty:

Council Winners

• *First place with 4 1/3 votes! – Joshuapundit-The Left’s Forked Tongue Brigade Continues To Circle The Wagons On Benghazi
• Second place with 3 votes – The Independent Sentinel – 19 Nifty Ways to End Free Speech in America
• Third place with 2 votes –Liberty’s Spirit – The Fascist-Left and the Destruction of the Liberal Mind
• Fourth place *t* with 1 vote –The Noisy Room – Director of National Intelligence James Clapper Has Uncomfortably Close Ties To The Chinese Government
• Fourth place *t* with 1 vote –The Razor – No Sympathy for Fast Food Worker Strike Here
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote – Nice Deb – Will Obama Reach Out To His Half-Brother Malik To Save Condemned Christian Woman In Sudan?
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote – The Right Planet – Alarmists Issue Fatwa on Renowned Climate Scientist
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote – VA Right! - Cantor Trying to Hide His Record – Here is an Amazing Graphic that Shows Cantor’s Liberal Ideology
• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote – The Colossus of Rhodey – Tim Tebow vs. Michael Sam
• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote –Simply Jews – Dear Canucks – please explain Doug Saunders. Please?

Non-Council Winners

• First place with 2 2/3 votes! – Iowahawk – In New York, Scrappy Local Newspaper Struggles For Survival submitted by Joshuapundit
• Second place with 2 1/3 votes – Sultan Knish –The Progressive Red Guard submitted byThe Noisy Room
• Third place with 1 2/3 votes -Daniel Greenfield/FrontPage Mag –Never Again, Againsubmitted by The Independent Sentinel
• Fourth place *t* with 1 vote-Point Of No Return – Of Nakbas, fools and fingers submitted bySimply Jews
• Fourth place *t* with 1 vote-Mark Steyn – The Descent Of Mann submitted by The Right Planet
• Fourth place *t* with 1 vote-Allen B. West – Sam’s kiss was “brave?” Villanueva has a Bronze Star – now THAT’S brave submitted by Rhymes with Right
• Fourth place *t* with 1 vote-Jews Down Under – Israel: Separated for Security submitted byThe Watcher
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote -The DiploMad 2.0-Shaking Hand : A memory of Pakistansubmitted by Bookworm Room
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote -The American Interest – The Real Policy Failure in Libyasubmitted by The Glittering Eye
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote -Daniel Henninger/WSJ – Bonfire of the Humanities submitted by Liberty’s Spirit
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote -Kevin D. Williamson/NRO – The Narcissistic Creedsubmitted by Watcher
• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote – Breitbart – Rand Paul: Do We Continue to Arm the Enemies of Israel and the U.S. in Syria? submitted by VA Right!
• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote -PJ Tattler - A Millennial Trashes the Class of ’14 submitted byAsk Marion

See you next week! Don’t forget to tune in on Monday AM for this week’s Watcher’s Forum, as the Council and their invited guests take apart one of the provocative issues of the day and weigh in…don’t you dare miss it. And don’t forget to like us on Facebook and follow us Twitter..’cause we’re cool like that!

He thought he could sit around and do nothing on the international front, and have plenty of time to get his golf game right, to give speeches, and to raise political cash. Turns out, he was wrong.

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http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/05/23/Report-Russia-Planning-to-Build-Up-to-Eight-Nuclear-Reactors-in-Iran

Editor’s notes:  Indeed,  if Obama sat around long enough,  this disastrous alliance between two evil powers was going to take place.  Now like Syria,  Libya,  whatever is happening in Egypt,  North Africa and the Boko Haram,  Russia and the Crimea takeover,  and the growing influence of both China and Russia in  South America,  if you sit around long enough making "a good golf score" your highest personal goal,  the incessant giving of speeches and raising political cash, your highest political priorities,  this sort of thing was bound to happen.  

Now,  after five stinking years of playing word games,  the time to do something about Iran is passed    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   we told you so.  

It’s a rule of foreign affairs politicking,  that is irresistible:  run from your responsibilities,  create a void/an opportunity for evil to fill,  and that will happen.  

Either Obama is not aware of this “law of nature,”  or he does not care.  I am not sure which is worse.  Updated thought: I do know Obama and the roofing contractor who said this,  have a lot in common:  "If it isn't raining,  you don't need a roof repair;  if it is raining,  it is too dangerous to work on the roof."  

If the "teaparty" is a political party, it is losing ground. If it is a movement, it has already taken back the GOP and is the strongest political influence in the nation.

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“Everybody runs like a tea party candidate now.  Everybody is running against Obamacare and against overspending in Washington. It wasn’t always like that with the Republican establishment. I don’t even recognize McConnell from where he was a few years ago.”  ~  Matt Kibbe, president of FreedomWorks

Editor's notes:  I know this is not accepted "teaparty language,"  but I have always been a qualified fan of Mitch McConnell.  Making note of McConnell's more conservative stance,  as did Matt Kibbe (above),   is more the consequence of giving Senator McConnell a larger conservative base  (Cruz, Mike Lee,  Rubio,  Paul, etc.,) than before.  

I understand that my opinion is not the popular "teaparty" point of view.  But,  I am "teaparty" and  participate in our local,  600 member,  teaparty association.  What gets lost in all the talk about party reformation (from the Right) is that McConnell ranks in the top 10% of all Congressional Conservatives,  when his views and legislative efforts are scored for conservative bias  . . . . . . .  top 10%.  

 

What lost me to the cause of hyper-critical, GOP,  review (emphasis on "hyper"),  were the attacks,  from the Right,  of Orrin Hatch,  Senator from Utah.  Me?  

To be clear,  I would vote for Senator Hatch as president,  in a heartbeat.  His conservative scores put him in the top 5% of  GOP leadership.  To brand this man a "progressive,"  is short sighted and the product of confusion,  plain and simple.  More than this,  such trash talk is an assault on trust,  an absolute necessity when it comes to the political/party process and party leadership. 

The Conservative Revolution absolutely must come to appreciate that election politics are duplicitous in nature and demanding of compromise at some level.  When it comes to the political/legislative process,  very little is straight-forward or linear in scope.  In the convoluted world of opposition politics,  nothing gets done without compromise.   But,  smart compromise is the talking point,  here.  

For example,  the nation is not ready for a ban on all abortions.  What do we do,  as "the party of life?”  Abandon the cause?  Or carry on the battle for the right to infant life,  on a state to state basis and the use of regulations?   We should make it some kind of  rule that a number of social/domestic issues are best served by state and local politics.  The reader should look to Texas as evidence of how this works,  emphasis on how the Texas battle against abortion WORKS.   At last news,  only 6 abortion clinics in that state,  remain "open for business."   The pro-life contingency in that state,  is making serious inroads against the criminality of abortion,  and doing so without going “national.”   

Another example of "smart compromise,"  can be found in the wedding cake industry.  Christian cake makers, to be specific,   should have an across the board policy  against lettering a cake with anything other than general,  wedding messages, thus avoiding references to homo or hetero messaging – but, especially, homo references.  And Christian cake makers should not sell figurines with their cakes, hetero or homo,  thus avoiding a male on male fantasy display.  Cakes are made,  protocol is followed,  consciences are clear and all are happy,  happy,  happy. 

I could go on,  but you get the message, hopefully.  

When we cannot win battles that need to be fought,  education is the best starting point.  Democrats call this process, "social conditioning."  But, the better term and best intellectual process,  is education.    

Education has worked with regard to late-term abortions.  More than 75% of Americans do not support such abortions.  That is a battle we can win,  therefore,  on a national level.  80% of Americans see the need for health regulations as to abortion clinic service.  They see the need for doctors to be certified as abortion trained professionals and accepted into local hospitals,  upon demand,   should an abortion procedure become a survival issue for the abortion minded patient.  Again,  these are issues we can win,  in a national election.

But when we "stand on principle," and take an "all or nothing" position,  we lose even the battles that could have been successfully fought.  The Rick Santorum,  principled "all or nothing" stance against abortion,  has actually cost millions of unborn lives,  if you accept that education coupled with incremental legislation,  makes perfect sense.   There is no advantage to an "all or nothing" political agenda,  when that leads to consistent defeat.    

Strategy is strategy.  Personal assaults and destructive inter-party quarreling are not necessary strategies,  they are party suicide. 

We need to stop branding all Party conservatives with whom we disagree,  as evil "progressives" and,  therefore,  unqualified to represent conservative politics.  Heck,  under the present Conservative Rules for Radicals,  Ron Reagan would not survive a primary bid,  if his legislative record was made an issue  . . . . . .  and Reagan is or was the heir-apparent to Goldwater and the modern day,  Conservative Revolution.  Reagan's First Rule of (GOP) party politics was called "The 11th Commandment."  It’s  cautionary proclamation, "Thou shalt not speak evil an fellow Republicans,"  is a critical aspect to the  theme of this post.     

We need to recognize the fact that teaparty values  -  balancing the budget,  pushing a profound regard for Constitutional law, states rights, the need for personal responsibility and an allowance for traditional/populus family values -  are at the heart of teaparty "politics."  Couple these values with the  Reagan Rule,  and we have a winning platform for party unity and,  just as importantly,  winning national elections.