For years now, much has been done to mis-identify the Tea Party as an extreme, minority faction of the Republican Party; these past months are no exception. Hoping to present us as ill-informed and resentful, our detractors have had some success in their efforts to demand that their followers ignore our facts and concerns. Presenting [...]
A vote on raising America’s debt ceiling may take place as soon as today. America needs leaders who place responsible, fact-based decision-making above all else. They might actually be in office today, fully aware of both pertinent fact and the best course of action. Their challenge lies in legislating from a perspective of whole truth [...]
The House of Representatives voted Thursday to eliminate funding for nine “Czars” in the Obama Administration. The affected posts include health care, energy and climate, green jobs, urban affairs, the closure of the Guantanamo Bay, oversight of TARP executive compensation, diversity at the Federal Communications Commission and the auto industry manufacturing policy. “Czar” is a [...]
On Friday January 28, I spent several hours in a packed General Assembly Committee Room. Members of the Immigration Subcommittee listened to numerous supporters and opponents, often commenting themselves as they considered 16 separate pieces of immigration-related legislation. The general intent of these bills pertains to 1) taking meaningful steps to address the rapidly growing [...]
The House of Representatives yesterday, by a 245-189 vote, passed landmark legislation for the repeal of the governmental overreach known as Obamacare. Votes in favor included three Democrats, although Virginia’s Dems voted “nay”. It may help to take time for a call or note to those who have honored well-considered campaign promises. We should [...]
We’ve heard that the CBO scores the Health Care bill somewhere between deficit-neutral and revenue-friendly. How can that be? More taxes, of course. This detailed summary of Obamacare taxes from Ryan Ellis, Tax Policy Director at Americans for Tax Reform, will separate these mythical future savings from soon-to-be real-life costs to us all. It’s class [...]
I attended the Town Hall Wednesday evening at James River High School in Chesterfield County. Sponsored by The Virginia Tea Party Patriots Cooperative Legislative Action Committee and moderated by RTP’s Legislative Committee Chairman Joe Guarino, the event attracted (my estimate) 150-200 citizens and seven state legislators: Delegate M. Kirkland Cox Delegate Riley E. Ingram Delegate [...]
Four sunrises. Saturday. Sunday. Monday. Tuesday. Four sunrises. Then the fifth, the first of 730-plus sunrises of consequences. I consider these next few days a countdown to as close as you’ll ever get to a do-over in politics. On November 5th 2008, the sun rose on a different America, and those who won the elections [...]
I’d appreciate you taking a few seconds to work with me here, dusting off those agile imaginations of your teen years in order to anticipate upcoming possibilities. No matter your current age, you can all remember those frustratingly hopeful days spent visualizing a future in which you were allowed to be adults. You looked forward [...]
1. Constitutional Adherence 2. Limited Government 3. Fiscal responsibility 4. Virtue and Accountability 5. Free markets I’ve listed the five Tea Party Principles above as a reminder to us all that we started this rebellion over far more than recent frustrations and indignation. We recognized that Tarp, Stimulus, Health Care, soaring unemployment and an economy [...]
That’s right, my fellow Americans, WE will again choose our nation’s path in just a few weeks. We will awaken the morning of Wednesday, November 3rd to the consequences of our individual decisions, and I’m not talking about the decision we make in the polling booth. I’m talking about the decision we make regarding our [...]
Virginia requires that voter registration forms be submitted 22 days prior to the Nov. 2nd mid-term election. That’s October 11th, fellow Virginians, and we must be ready. True, our voices and questions have proven impossible to ignore these past few years, despite an onslaught of efforts to silence us and to suppress our message. Our [...]
