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Put Up or Shut Up: My Donation to Scott Brown’s Campaign
It might be hard to believe considering how much I talk about politics but until today I have only ever made one political donation. It was to the Bush legal effort during the Florida recount. I knew if the Democrats could outspend for lawyers they had a chance. It was too important to not be invested with my wallet.
This year is the same. The Terrible Threesome (BO, Pelosi, Reid) are racing to enact an agenda that will ruin this country. Why do they do it? Not because they have compassion for the masses, as they would have you believe, but because they see the chance to amass more power than any government should have over its people. That is why, earlier this evening, I made my second ever political donation to the Scott Brown campaign.
Scott Brown is running in Massachusetts for the senate seat once held by Ted Kennedy. He is a solid conservative with a real shot at winning this thing. He started today looking to raise $500,000 for the last week of the campaign. As of this writing he has raised over $1,300,000. The money is coming from people all over the country.
Think about this: If Brown wins there are two major benefits. First and foremost it stops Obamacare dead. The Dems would only have 59 votes and Republicans could maintain a filibuster to stop it before the final vote on the bill. Second, it would send an undeniable message to BO and his partners in crime that they have deeply offended the electorate and to start packing. We’re taking this country back. A Brown victory would represent the third and most dramatic electoral victory in just two months. Imagine, a Republican holding Ted Kennedy’s old seat!
Please consider what a Brown victory means to this country and consider making a donation. Small amounts are okay. The circumstances are too dire to sit on the sidelines anymore.
LOL! Perhaps if you left your wallet in your pocket during the Florida recount scandal, you wouldn’t have felt guilty for Bush’s last four year in office! (Don’t you try and flip-flop now! I already know your feelings about W!)
You really ought to be getting paid for this…
Baxter Reply:
January 12th, 2010 at 3:35 PM
You know, not to tell you how to run your own site, but can I humbly suggest a little more faith based discussion? Sheeesh! We all know how you feel about the current administration.
Rev Nev Reply:
January 12th, 2010 at 6:33 PM
We cover what is out there as much as we can. This story is big news. And I would submit that supporting candidates who are opposed to the expansion of abortion in this bill (and any other) is a faith-based discussion.
On W, I am exceedingly glad he was elected though he never governed completely as a conservative. The whole idea of “compassionate conservatism” was intriguing because the Bible indicates we should take care of others in need. But, throughout his presidency I was convinced that the Feds should not be the ones doing so. Churches and non-profits should be created to meet the needs of the needy by the generosity of the American people. That is truly compassionate. The Feds just tend to mess it up. Surely you cannot disagree given your earlier reference to Katrina.
Baxter Reply:
January 12th, 2010 at 8:48 PM
Please do a post (or another if you already have) about abortion. I would like to weigh in.
Baxter Reply:
January 12th, 2010 at 8:56 PM
And the Feds ABSOLUTELY messed up Katrina. No argument there. However, Churches and non-profits don’t have the money, nor did they have the resources to handle a situation like Hurricane Katrina. The Feds were the only hope they had.
Rev Nev Reply:
January 12th, 2010 at 9:39 PM
Churches and non-profits would have a lot more money if the Feds didn’t take so much. Plus, how much did American contribute to relief? This article says it was $4.25 billion. That might be a worldwide figure. Don’t tell me money can’t be raised. Your time working for Chuck should have taught you that the money is out there.
The Federal Government messed up Katrina? What a joke. What an unbelievable joke. This reflects the nanny state mentality of certain groups.
Good, Dear Christian Reader – a lesson for you: Why do leftists like to blame the Federal government for supposed “failures” during Katrina? Why not blame the Louisiana Governor (at the time) Kathleen Blanco or the New Orleans Mayor (Ray Nagin Jr.)?
Because both the mayor and the governor are DEMOCRATS. While the President (the guy who headed up the Federal Government in the eyes of the left) was a Republican.
Folks, read up on Ray Nagin… you’ll never meet a more brazenly racist man. Only in a “suck from the teet” entitlement minded cesspool like New Orleans could a man like him find a following. And yet he’s not attacked in the media. It is because he shares the media’s leftist ideals – He wants YOUR money. He wants BIG GOVERNMENT to do more and more to manage your life. He wants freaks to be celebrated while good upstanding conservative folk are lambasted as hate mongers because we’re a threat to his designs.
Folks – Here’s a thought. Here’s a thought that hasn’t been thought by a great many in this country for a long long time. Here it is: Maybe, just maybe, the primary person responsible for taking care of yourself is… YOURSELF. Maybe, just maybe, with a little pre-planning you know better than some government beaurocrat who looks at you as nothing more than a part of the faceless mass.
Oh how our country would change if whole sectors of our society woke up and quit blaming their ills and problems on wrongs that have long sinced ceased to exist or who have been cowed into believing that they “can’t” do it on their own and that they “need” help from the outside.
Yeah. Great input Ben. I can tell you put, literally, one second of thought into your response before you started typing.
Anyways, RevNev, the charity groups needed TIME to raise that money. That is my only point. Charity groups and churches did – and are still doing – a stand up job rebuilding the Big Easy, but it was the TIME issue that the Feds would have been really handy. They needed immediate help.
Ben, allow me to educate you of but a FEW outstanding failures of the Fed concerning Hurricane Katrina:
- They failed by cutting FEMA’s budget in 2001 because they felt it was an “oversized entitlement program” (Joe Allbaugh – FEMA director at that time). And then, when a “national emergency” actually happens, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is under equipped, understaffed, and unprepared.
- The President Bush, Ray Nagin and Nancy Blanco all failed by ignoring REPEATED warnings that the levies WILL – not might but WILL – break, and not ORDERING a city wide evacuation. (What is it with government ignoring warnings of imminent danger?)
- They failed by cutting the Army Corps of Engineers budget for levee construction to fund the invasion of Iraq. And the Army Corps of Engineers took the brunt of the blame for not reinforcing the levees.
- They failed to utilize state resources (remember the pictures of the parking lots FULL of yellow school busses?) to evacuate the people who had no means of getting out on their own, i.e. the sick, homeless and the elderly. I’m sure you think that was their fault though, huh?
- And the biggest Fed failure was placing Michael Brown as head of FEMA, knowing full well he had no experience in disaster management. I mean, this man was fired because he was no good at directing horse shows. What genius thought he was the perfect choice for handling natural and un-natural disasters? I’m sure it had nothing to do with him being Joe Allbaugh’s college roommate.
On a side note: A lot of conservative talking heads are screeching about how President Obama didn’t cut his vacation short after the Christmas bomber was already captured and in custody. People were actually DYING while W finished his vacation after Katrina.
I don’t care if the administration was right, left or independent. Concerning the issue of Hurricane Katrina, the Feds blew it. Period.
What a bunch of liberal entitlement minded drivel. Basically, because something bad happened – and it could have happened anywhere, at any time, – the government “messed up.” Good grief. Fortunately, I have friends in the military who were part of massive relief efforts and can recount story after story of how people were saved, criminals stopped, a city rebuilt (a dumb idea if ever there was one), on and on. Even the entitlement minded folks got the hook up. I used to have a clip where a certain low income woman was complaining that the tv she received from Uncle Sugar Daddy wasn’t big enough!
Folks – This is the liberal blameshifting that occurs. See how they take a bunch of unrelated coincidences and act like it represents negligence? And yet the people at the local level get a pass? This is because leftists don’t want you taking care of yoruself. They want the federal government doing that. They trust and rely on the government for everything, including their bread if possible… our resident leftist failed to include in his list of failures a bona fide failure: How the city issued an unconstitutional order to “de-arm” the populace in the aftermath. So law abiding citizens were forced by the police to turn over there weapons, which in many cases where the only thing standing between them and looters. Fortunately, a suit was filed and they had to stop confiscating lawfully owned guns, but not before the police banged up an old lady in her home for refusing to hand over her pistol. Leftists DO NOT want you able to resist. They’ll lie to you, spread half-truths and de-contextualized info, they’ll withold info at the drop of a hat, and if necessary they’ll use force.
If you love your freedom, if you believe in personal responsibility, if you believe that it is morally wrong to steal from some to pay for things that you want, then you are a threat to leftists. They can be defeated, but you must be vocal and you must be clear, and you must be persistent.
Baxter Reply:
January 13th, 2010 at 4:26 PM
You keep on with this “entitlement minded” thing. What is it that you think that I or any other non-conservative is entitled to? You seem like a pretty educated guy, so I’m left to assume that you are being willfully dense for the sake of debate. Which is fine. I love a good debate. This, however, is not a good debate.
I just provided a small list of actual facts, and you sum it up as “unrelated coincidences”? They are DIRECTLY related to one another. Fact: We pay taxes, and those tax dollars are used to fund organizations like FEMA. Fact: The former head of FEMA suggested that the budget for FEMA be reduced. Fact: The government, national and local, knew for decades that the levees surrounding New Orleans needed to be torn down and rebuilt or at least reinforced and did nothing. (This is not limited to just the Bush administration. This includes Clinton, Bush Sr., Regan, Carter etc.) Fact: The ACE (Army Corps of Engineers’) budget for levee construction was cut to fund the invasion of Iraq.
I could go on, but I think you see what I’m saying… no… you probably don’t, so I’ll just say it plainly: You can’t argue fact. Well, you can, but you just end up looking silly and people stop taking you seriously. That too is a fact.
Now, of course there were people who take advantage of the system, like the woman who was complaining that her TV was not big enough. But just because you expect the government to do what our tax dollars are paying for them to do doesn’t mean they have a sense of entitlement. FEMA was created to handle situations like Hurricane Katrina. That is FEMA’s sole purpose. They happen to be run by the government. They handled Katrina with supreme incompetence. Even W said that it was handled incompetently. Brown resigned after Katrina. (Though he shouldn’t have been there in the first place.)
And let me tell you why W. ordered the state police to start taking peoples fire arms. As I mentioned in my earlier post, my wife is a Katrina evacuee. I now have relatives who lived through the nightmare that was Hurricane Katrina. Stupid a– gang members were looting and starting turf wars, as if things weren’t bad enough already. White militias started forming to fight off the gangs. Very quickly, they started shooting black people on site rather they looked like gang members or not. Gang members were shooting anyone who wandered onto their “turf”. Rather than guessing who was using their guns for protection and who was using them for malice, the decision was made to take EVERYONE’S guns. Another fact: Most, not all, but most of the guns that were confiscated were not registered to the people they were taken from. As far as the old lady who was attacked was concerned, I don’t understand why she felt she needed to take her gun while she was being rescued, but they shouldn’t have used excessive force to take her down. But that is what police do. They are the law and they expect to be treated with respect. I personally have been roughed up by the police for far less than surrendering a firearm.
As far as your thoughts on what “the left does”, lie, spread half truths, withhold information, come now. The public is smarter than that.
Your knowledge of facts is typically leftist. The order to confiscate weapons was done by the Mayor and the Police Superintendent. The woman was in her home. There is a reason why the order was declared to be unconstitutional: people need to be armed precisely BECAUSE gang members and looters were running rampant.
The government did their job- thousands of lives were saved. The local government dropped the ball. But more significantly, while there were some bona fide helpless folks who literally couldn’t get out, I remember the parade of people on the news who WOULDN’T get out. And pardon me, but when you’re in a stupidly designed city below sea level near the sea anda major hurricane is barrelling down on you… well, in the army we have a saying and it goes, “You can’t fix stupid.”
The tax dollars were spent as they needed to be spent and thousands of lives were saved in the rescue.
I suppose if an earthquake splits San Francisco in two tomorrow you’ll be in line to say how the government dropped the ball and this led to the destruction of the city, blah blah blah. Oh wait, you won’t… there’s a Democrat in office.
Ben Reply:
January 13th, 2010 at 4:45 PM
Regarding the firearms not being in the name of the original purchaser… that’s because many of them were family heirloom pieces. Fortunately, the city’s attempt to disarm a law abiding populace was found out, videos were taken (including the jack booted thugs tackling an old lady!) and they got caught and over a thousand weapons had to be returned.
But this brazen attempt to disregard the Constitution was hardly reported was it? I wouldn’t have heard about it except for a friend who is an attorney.
Baxter Reply:
January 13th, 2010 at 4:49 PM
Read my post again. I think you missed the part about WHY the decision was made to take the guns in the first place. And the part about who ordered the police to take them.
Baxter Reply:
January 13th, 2010 at 4:55 PM
Whatever. Facts are facts. Left or right. And if help doesn’t touch San Francisco soil until four days after the earthquake hit, I’ll be all over the current administration as well. I don’t partake in the whole party over person madness.
I think you two have gotten way, way off topic but since you are now discussing NOLA I will weigh in a little. The Army Corps of Engineers is a branch of the Federal Government and they failed to maintain the levee system in NOLA. That is why the catastrophe of the hurricane occurred; remember, Katrina wasn’t as bad a storm as it was originally forcast. People were out of their homes walking around after the hurricane passed. Then the levee system failed, hence the flooding. Our government knew the levees were inadequate, and that a major storm could cause massive flooding, and took a chance. There are cities below sea level, it’s not unheard of or stupid. The Dutch have it right, their levee system is state of the art, it’s not rocket science and we have sent engineers over there to study it, but haven’t updated ours.