Vionovich Sinks the ‘Climate Change’ Knife Deeper into Ohio’s Back

I spotted this snippet from old Comrade Giorgi Vionovich on page two of a sickening article detailing the US Senates disastrous efforts to kill America.

And Voinovich said Democratic sponsors have not reached out to him to negotiate on the legislation. “I think Senator Kerry and Senator Boxer are trying to get the most aggressive bill they can get out of the Senate EPW Committee,” he said. “As a result of that, I don’t think that they are as interested in negotiating as they might ordinarily.”

Voinovich added that he expects Democrats to press for more bipartisan talks early next year once leaders start counting votes and after the conclusion of a major U.N. climate conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.

“If they understand they can’t get cloture on what comes out of committee, I think we’d be more likely to get really serious after we get back after Copenhagen,” he said. “And at that stage of the game, we’ll have much more clarity where everyone’s going.”

Yep, Giorgi has his hands squarely wrapped around the knife the environmental leftists are thrusting in the back of the United States and Ohio.

You know what’s sad; there are people in this state that still think Republicans stand for capitalism and freedom. Sad isn’t it?

DeWine: I Am a Narcissist

DeWine announced his candidacy for Attorney General and his reason for running, bla bla bla…but the truth be told he’s running simply because he’s a narcissist.

If Ohio is in such economic shambles Mike, go start a business, because right now we need more business and less government.

US Democrats Unveil Climate Change Bill

This appeared in a French newspaper (see my comment at the bottom):

Democrats in the US House of Representatives on Friday formally unveiled sweeping legislation to fight climate change and said the 932-page bill enjoyed broad national support.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee will take up the measure on Monday and have legislation ready for a full House vote by the end of next week, the panel’s chairman, Democratic Representative Henry Waxman, said in a statement.

The measure aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 17 per cent from 2005 levels by 2020.

“The American Clean Energy and Security Act” is expected to run headlong into opposition from Republicans, who plan to offer some 449 amendments to the bill, according to a list obtained by AFP.

Democrats say the legislation, which creates a cap-and-trade system limiting overall pollution from large industrial sources and then allocating and selling pollution permits, is needed before December global climate talks in Denmark.

The bill “will create millions of new clean energy jobs, save consumers hundreds of billions of dollars in energy costs, promote America’s energy independence and security, and cut global warming pollution,” said Waxman.

“In support of these goals, this legislation ensures that consumers and industries in all regions of the country are protected,” said the California Democrat.

“This bill marks the dawn of the clean energy age,” said Democratic Representative Ed Markey, who chairs the panel’s subcommittee on energy and the environment, co-author with Waxman of the sweeping bill.

“I am pleased that we have produced a bill that has widespread support from all regions of the country,” said Markey, who called the measure “a once-in-a-generation opportunity.”

The legislation breaks sharply from President Barack Obama’s goal of auctioning off 100 per cent of emissions permits in a bid to raise hundreds of billions of dollars over 10 years, which he had hoped to harness to provide a tax credit aimed at offsetting higher energy costs.

The Waxman-Markey bill aims to soften the blow to consumers and ease the transition for some businesses by allocating about 80-85 per cent of so-called “allowances” to utilities, states, households and vulnerable industries.

The rest will be auctioned.

If the House and the Senate – which has also been working on climate change legislation – pass different versions, they would have to craft and approve a compromise bill before Obama can sign it into law.

The electricity sector would get 35 per cent of the allowances with the goal of keeping consumer electricity prices down.

Oil refiners will get two per cent of allowances starting in 2014 and ending in 2026, a step that helped get Democratic lawmakers from states heavily reliant on that sector to back the legislation.

The bill would require utilities, by 2020, to get 15 per cent of their electricity from renewable resources – solar, wind, geothermal, and biomass – and show annual energy savings of five per cent from efficiency measures.

The European Union plan calls for getting 20 per cent of all electricity from renewable resources by 2020.

Agence France-Presse

Do you think that our mindless representatives will actually read every page of this document, or just vote yes because the party boss is telling them to?

There is another aspect that troubles me, rather than fighting this clear piece of fascism, Republicans have plans to modify it with amendments. Republicans are buying into the crap.

We are screwed. When you combine this crap with nationalized health care, a sinking economy, and the endless war, we are truly screwed as a nation. Secession seems to be unavoidable, but I would be willing to bet Ohio would stay with the tyrannical statist in Washington. Some will leave the Union, but Ohio will continue to live in the misery of government tyranny because we have become to dependent on the federal government and lost the spark of freedom when those that had it moved south or west years ago.

The ORP Reads Reason Magazine?

I was shocked to see that the blogging staff at the Ohio Republican Party actually reads the libertarian magazine Reason. Well miracles do happen! Now let’s see if the party leadership can actually embrace economic freedoms.

How Big-conservatism Fails

There is an article that appeared in the 14 December 2008 edition of the Washington Times titled “How big-conservatism fails” got my attention today. The basis of the article is the ever re-occurring theme of late that so-called conservatives like George Bush and Bill Kristol erred by adopting the ideal of big centralized government.

Through the mist of utter BS we need to realize a fact straight away; you are not a “Conservative,” a big “C” Conservative if you support the ideal of big government.

One of the enduring tenets that Conservatives sustain is the belief in the principle of subsidiarity. The principle holds that nothing should be done by a larger and more complex organization that can be done as a well by a smaller and simpler organization. These smaller groups include local communities, private organizations, labor unions, churches, and the family.

While the principle was first articulated through the Catholic Church by Pope Leo XIII in the encyclical Rerum Novarum (1891) and re-applied in modern terms by Pope John Paul II in Centesimus Annus (1991), it was however realized and practiced first in the United States. Subsidiarity is the fundamental concept of the founding of American political thought.(1)

Russell Kirk advocated the principle of subsidiarity through much of his writing. We can see this clearly in two of his principles of conservatism, “to uphold voluntary community, quite as they oppose involuntary collectivism,” and “the conservative perceives the need for prudent restraints upon power and upon human passions.”

Alexis de Tocqueville also warned against the all-powerful state , opposed to what Bush and Kristol now trumphant:

“For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness; it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?”

No, I adamantly disagree with anyone that advocates that a one can be both a Conservative and an advocate of big centralized government. Can one be a socialist and advocate freedom of choice and small government?

There in lies the truth about those in the Republican Party and news media that have embraced, sponsored and advanced big government, they are not Conservative. They may seek to “conserve” big government intrusion in our lives, in that they are small “c” conservative, but they are not of the tradition of Conservativism. They are charlatans, liars, but not Conservative.
1. Lawrence P. Grayson, Subsidiarity and American Democracy.

Why The Republican Party Is Dying

I came across this so called Republican Blog titled Greg Lawson’s Blog, and if you ever wanted to know how utterly lost Republicans are and why there is absolutely no difference between the Democrats and Republicans read his posting, called “Team Obama.”

“Rather, it appears he is assembling an extremely competent team that will adjust the excesses of the Bush years and calibrate a shrewd foreign policy for a time when the waters of international relations seem especially troubled and magnified by the worst economic crisis in a generation.”

Our troubled waters have been caused by US imperialism, big government, and getting involved in quagmires in this narcissistic need to be the world policemen, not to mention the road to socialism laid by the collusion of republicans and democrats since the New Deal. Yet here we have your typical “republican” giving accolades to “Team Obama,” a team that is going to give us more war, more imperialism, more socialism, and I guarantee, more “one world government.”

Folks there is only one party right now, yet we are told there are two and most believe the media. Yet this country should have come to that conclusion through the last election where there was no distinction between Obama and McCain.

I gave up on the RP two years and will never go back. Mr. Lawson you can have Team Obama, he is after all the real Republican.

HR 5405 Police State National ID Card

Folks be aware that Representative Mark Kirk, Republican (IL-10), introduced H.R. 5405 Social Security Identity Theft Prevention Act, which is an attempt to create a national ID Card. The card will be a smart card with all of the biometric elements, and I’d be willing to bet if this passes, they’ll add the RDIF technology to it as well. That would enable the U.S. Government to track our movements.

 

Congress is going to keep hitting us from multiple angles with either the plastic passport cards, driver’s licenses or the social security card approach, all to put us under a control grid tracking system, and to conform to the United Nations agreement they unconstitutionally agreed to. 

 

Write your Congressman today and tell them hell no; and to all of you folks in the Illinois 10^th Congressional District, you need to send Kirk packing and kick him out. This is one man that abhors civil liberties and the U.S. Constitution.

 

And to you moron Republicans, Kirk is one more fine example of the malevolence nature of the Republican Party.  This is not a party of republican norms, of freedom and liberty, it is a party of police state fascism.

It’s One Party You Fool

The boys or girls, at Buckeye State Blog are bemoaning the fact that Senator Joe Lieberman (S) will be speaking at the Republican National Convention (RNC). Come on dpotts, wake up! It’s one party!

It doesn’t matter who gets elected, the same course will be taken. In either case we will still be in Iraq and Afghanistan, the federal government will grow, so BSB should be happy about that, our borders will be unprotected, and the dollar will continue to weaken as the international banking community screws our country as it gets poorer economically. Oh yeah, China will continue to grow, and Russia will be our new enemy while we dance the Israelis’ foreign affairs tune.

But do you know what will actually be more troublesome dpotts, the silly neo-cons will be jumping for joy and not realizing how they have been used as useful idiots by the same people that are backing Obama and McCain. You see the oligarchs choose both candidates to ensure their candidate always wins; it’s called hedging the bet.

One last point for the useful idiot neo-cons; Joe Lieberman’s speaking engagement is another indicator that the GOP is dead.

Another Indicator the GOP is Dead

It was announced today that Rudy Giuliani will give the key note address at the Republican National Convention validating the death of the GOP. As Giuliani exemplifies the police state, abortion, big government, civil liberty infringements, and the power hungry politician, to name a few of noteworthy descriptors, the same images contrast the lost principles of the GOP. Besides Giuliani, Schwarzenegger, McCain, Bush, and of course Cheney, will speak; the line up looks like the who’s who of fascist central.