By FITSNews || Myrtle Beach (S.C.) military mom and GOP Congressional candidate Katherine Jenerette says she invented the tea party movement.
Well, that’s not exactly what she said, but she’s doing everything she can to let voters know that her brand of Republican activism pre-dates the amorphous conservative movement.
According to an email from her campaign, Jenerette says that she “was essentially a Tea Party activist before there were Tea Parties,” and notes that “she’s already a crowd favorite with that group.”
Jenerette – who received 19 percent of the vote against incumbent RINO Henry Brown two years ago – is clearly seeking to brand herself as the most conservative candidate in a crowded GOP field that includes conservative Club for Growth favorite Tim Scott and two candidates from legendary S.C. political families, Paul Thurmond and Carroll A. “Tumpy” Campbell.
Brown announced in January that he would not seek reelection in 2010, and nine Republicans, three democrats and one independent are currently seeking to replace him.
Brown’s seat was previously held by S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford.
Jenerette endorsed Brown in the November 2008 general election, which he won over Democrat Linda Ketner by a 52-48 percent margin.
By Katherine Jenerette March 11, 2010 at 10:47 am
Dear Will
The following was written in the by Robert Morris, Myrtle Beach Sun News Editorial Page Editor on March 10, 2010 at 10:58 AM Sun News Opinion Blog Section VIDEO: Tea Party Six Pack:
“Katherine Jenerette of North Myrtle Beach, an Army paratrooper, was essentially a Tea Party activist before there were Tea Parties, and she’s already a crowd favorite with that group; listen to the moderator’s introduction. A former field employee for Brown, she ran against him from the right in 2008 and won 19 percent of the vote in the Republican primary.”
Okay, so I didn’t invent it. But to see a video of the U.S. Congressional Candidate that singlehandedly did not invent the Tea Party but wanted to at the packed house Candidates night last week:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnmmaHLDm50
By Jen March 11, 2010 at 10:59 am
If she wants to distance herself from the RINO republicans, I suggest she remove John McCain from her brochures. She gave me one of the brochures at the Freedom Rally at the State House in January. You can’t be for the Tea Party movement and support John McCain!! So, which is it Ms. Jenerette?
By No Name March 11, 2010 at 11:32 am
There are a couple of simple maturity problems with the Tea Party movement and unfortunately these problems may not be remedied before the 2010 primaries.
1. The movement encompasses a variety of small and energized insurgencies. So they have yet to figure out to galvanize themselves into a larger endorsement entity and may choose to stay unaffiliated which is a different model for party candidate recruitment or endorsement.
2. A lot of energy is being applied to answering the questions of whether they will become a third party and\or whether they can become a third party.
Co-opting or kidnapping a movements endorsement is a well worn tactic and has some real perils with this volatile and unprecentedly well informed group\groups.
In the Upstate…..the “Barking Loon”… Christine Jeffries….the self proclaimed Boiling Springs Tea Party Candidate….. has pulled every trick she can think of to kidnap the movement …..watching her shake hands for 45 seconds while grinning like a Chesire Cat into her husbands video camera…with the Head Upstate RHINO hunter at a Tea Party movement protest meeting at Tommy’s Ham House…. was a hilarious bit of self exposure pandering that would not have been allowed at a more mature party event. But she stood up and got some video that I am waiting to see.
The Upstate Tea Party gurus are about to start passing around a policy petition for declared candidates to sign….. that asks if the candidate is supporting Lindsey’s Cap and Trade and Citizenship for Illegals positions …..as a sign of whether you are a TPer.
That will help identify the agenda’s ….so KJ….where are you on Lindsey’s heavy petting with Obama on Cap and Trade and Illegals.
By berkeley resident and voter for 20+ years March 11, 2010 at 11:32 am
And have you noticed a handful of strange new blogs have popped up and all endorse/worship Jenerette? Van’s been busy now that his trial has been delayed again.
“if a man had her resume, he’d probably be a US Senator and perhaps on the way to a nomination for the presidency…”
The voters in South Carolina are so fortunate to have Pennsylvania blogger Steve Maloney tell us how to vote. Even though he’s never been to our state and only knows the Jenerette’s from online communication, he’s so much smarter than us ignorant hicks who’ve merely observed their amusing and shocking antics for years. I personally don’t want to stuff a new clown into the car and onto the national stage, but what do I know?
For years I’ve watched in amazement as the Jenerette’s bragged so loudly for so little. Her resume is below average but she and her two busy minions actually believe she’s Audie Murphy, Ronald Reagan and Joan of Arc all rolled into one. Of COURSE she thinks she’s the mother of the Tea Party. They have an insatiable need for attention.
So, let’s say all politicians should be obnoxious narcissist to some degree. She’s also incredibly dumb. Repeal the 17th amendment? THAT’S her priority? Is anybody else screaming for that? ANYBODY?
I’m just glad it sounds like the scales are beginning to fall from your eyes Will.
By sclawboy March 11, 2010 at 11:32 am
So what’s the half-life on this whole Tea Party thing? Has it jumped the shark yet?
By Katherine Jenerette March 11, 2010 at 11:33 am
I don’t distance myself from veterans. The picture is just what it says. It’s called having a U.S. Senator, a Patriotic former POW pin on my Lieutenants Bars when I was commissioned an Army Officer. I have a great deal of respect for all Soldiers, Airmen, Sailors and Marines no matter which political party they belong to. I don’t have better answer than that; it’s just what it is.
By WorkingTommyC March 11, 2010 at 12:21 pm
By that definition, I invented protesting Lindsey Gaham. But, no, I don’t deserve nor will I claim that distinction.
If nothing else, Mrs. Jenerette was already surfing the current wave before it built up to where it is now.
I must agree with the sometimes disagreeable poster “Jen” however and insist that, in order to have credibility, there has to be a dissolving of any connection with the infamous McCain who, even now, is prancing around the country with Lindsey Gaham to elect similarly-minded neo-con fascists to office: http://www.countryfirstpac.com/candidate/norton.aspx
By Ed March 11, 2010 at 12:53 pm
Katherine Jenerette,
A nice personal touch above .
As another poster mentioned, you can’t be fiscally conservative and have John McCain endorsing you. They are mutually exclusive. McCain voted for the bank bailout and even withdrew from campaigning so he could make sure he could give away our money to the big bankers. His own campaign advisor was receiving money from Freddie Mac for years and years. McCain also insulted out intelligence by indicating that doing away with earmarks was his cure for our deficit problems.
Now your “hero” McCain is out with a bill with his liberal buddy Lieberman trying to have the ability to illegally detain u.s. citizens without Miranda rights if they might be thinking of doing something illegal. Google “McCain belligerent ” and put on your 1984 glasses.
So if McCain is your kind of man, you aren’t our kind of woman.
By me March 11, 2010 at 1:19 pm
Katherine was a fan of mayor rhodes and his destruction of myrtle beach. She wont get my vote for that and a whole bunch of her neo-con positions. it would be nice to have an actual conservative rep us, not a phony mccscum/gramesty wannabee.
By Joseph Reynolds March 11, 2010 at 1:46 pm
You cant be a Republican OR a tea Party activist is you still support socialistic government programs liek Social Security, Nedicare and medicaid.
Until you advocate their elimination, you are just another “big Government” Rino…
By Psst March 11, 2010 at 1:51 pm
I don’t like McCain and understand the “concern” but in all honesty, I think she was showing off being pinned not necessarily showing off a photo shot of her with a “hero”. We all no McCain is nothing of the kind. I don’t care how many wars that jerk fought in. He is nothing more than a tried and true NEOCON. If I were Jenerette, I would redesign that brochure.
By Katherine Jenerette March 11, 2010 at 2:28 pm
Please. Guys and Guyettes.
All I did is try to invent something that that rhymed with 1773 and British ships in Massachusetts!
I’ve learned my lesson. Okay?
I confess; I didn’t invent the tea party; I didn’t even invent the quote about me inventing the tea party.
But, I have to admit I did like the way it sounded here on FITS!
That’s all for now.
Back to work on legislative issues and Nancy Pelosi in an elevator…
By Rick March 11, 2010 at 3:18 pm
Katherine, I served for 20 years and watched while John McCain always found a way to join Murtha in screwing the service members until election time when the hero badge came out. While I honor his service while a Naval Officer, and his obvious love for this country (evidenced by his sons service), he forgets that this country was based not on emotion but pragmatism. As much as I loved my step grandparents and respect the life they gave to my stepmother/aunts/uncles, if they had violated the immigration laws upon entering this country from Mexico, I would still believe they would need to be deported. No individual that violates the laws of a country to enter and illegally work is worthy of consideration for citizenship. It’s a short distance from one crime to another. John McCain forgets that adherence to the law is essential to a well ordered society. Ditch John McCain….
By ebenezer stevens March 11, 2010 at 3:48 pm
LOL!!!! i liked that joke better the frst time i heard it: when al gore claimed he invented the internet. just be honest. you didnt invent the tea parties, the marketing strategists at fox news did.
By dirtbogger March 11, 2010 at 3:51 pm
Amnisty is not the problem, government is the problem, (any government). Whats worse someone jumping the fence and stealing from you what they want, while you already pay taxes to keep them up on wellfare, or some one giving you an honest days labor so they can buy their own. These are people not human cattle, they may sneak into our country but not to steal, they come to work. Yes we pay taxs but thats our fault for allowing our labor to be stolen from us by the useless tax feeders such as POLITICIANS. Politicians are not worth the dog shit that gets stuck to my heel, so fuck’em all!
By Old Bike Dude March 11, 2010 at 4:16 pm
I don’t know which is the bigger joke, the Teabagger Party or KomWom?
By Liberty for Me March 11, 2010 at 6:30 pm
“dirtbogger”…..You are right again.
“Katherine”….Just because it is more popular to be pro military ocupation does not make it right.We have enough Neo-cons now and soon the tide of generations will turn that ship around.
By WorkingTommyC March 11, 2010 at 9:14 pm
DIRTBOGGER: “Whats worse someone jumping the fence and stealing from you what they want, while you already pay taxes to keep them up on welfare, or some one giving you an honest days labor so they can buy their own.”
Dirtbogger:
You haven’t been paying attention: they do BOTH! They come here and work, frequently don’t pay taxes and, I’ve seen it myself, apply for EVERY possible social welfare program they can get on. They are net losses for the taxpayers to the tune of $50,000 EACH (multiply by 20-30 million) over their lifetimes. We wind up subsidizing cheap labor for corporations at the cost of further deterioration to our culture, lives, and livelihoods.
But, hey! Let’s play the “what’s worse” game, shall we?
You tell me what’s worse: Someone jumping the fence to come here and get drunk and kill a U.S. citizen or that citizen still being alive today feeling secure in the country whose government’s BASIC duty is to protect our borders?
You tell me what’s worse: Someone jumping the fence to come here and spread TB to a child or an elderly person causing the death of a U.S. citizen or that citizen still being alive today feeling secure in the country whose government’s BASIC duty is to protect our borders?
You tell me what’s worse: Someone jumping the fence to come here and join a gang and then murders a U.S. citizen or that citizen still being alive today feeling secure in the country whose government’s BASIC duty is to protect our borders?
You tell me what’s worse: Someone jumping the fence to come here and raping a U.S. citizen or that citizen still feeling secure in the country whose government’s BASIC duty is to protect our borders?
You tell me what’s worse: People jumping the fence to come here taking jobs, depressing wages, and otherwise flooding the market with virtual slave labor during an economic crisis or where citizens are still able to find jobs where the free marketplace of labor supply and demand is not manipulated by politicians to benefit mega-corporations in the country whose government’s BASIC duty is to protect our borders?
These worse case scenarios have been occurring by the tens of thousands every year over the past few decades. And, yes, bad things happen from the people we have here legally but why do we allow MORE than that to occur? We’ve got too much crime from our legal citizenry already without adding illegal alien crime to it.
The basic principle is a moral question of right and wrong. The government is wrong to not protect its citizens. Lindsey Graham and John McCain are guilty of negligent homicide along with most of the other corrupt politicians in D.C.
Here’s another related question: you tell me which is worse: terrorists coming here and the bureaucracy ignoring their presence due to not being capable of keeping up with the masses of people here on an unenforceable and way too lenient visa programs which allow them to train for and then hijack airplanes in order to kill thousands of American citizens or–never mind! Too late on that one.
And don’t think they can’t still do something similar. We’ve allowed way too many of the wrong people to immigrate here LEGALLY. Since taking away more than reasonable restrictions and opening up our country to the vast hordes out there in the 1960s, our population has an estimated 100 million that would not have otherwise been here.
In other words, the politicians have treated US citizens like dirt in order to further their own ambitions despite the increased deaths, disease, crime, etc. suffered by citizens who have to live in the real world.
By Liberty for Me March 11, 2010 at 9:56 pm
WorkingTommyC….
You are right there are criminals that come here as well as the workers.
But that is life.Would you expect all mexicans or Canadians to be 100% crime free..Yeah ,like we should be a able to condemn that based on our population.
Lets go a step futher with fixing this problem..Most of the crime from Mexico is drugs…So yes, you know where this is going.Legalize all victim-less crimes.We could reduce our prisons by at least half and then have room to hold all the murderers and rapists that get released.
I have no problem with workers coming here as longs as we cut off federal handouts.I would be with you on limiting new citizenship,especially from Muslim countries.
By scooter March 11, 2010 at 10:00 pm
Anyone who claims to be a tea-party member automatically gets no attention from me. Except for the pro life activists, I have never seen such energy for serious limitations of free thought and free will. These people are beyond understanding.
By tammy March 12, 2010 at 1:17 am
Where’s Linda Ketner when you need her? This poor district is as doomed as the rest of us.
By Liberty for Me March 12, 2010 at 7:53 am
By berkeley resident and voter for 20+ years..
Your response about the 17th amendment is so uneducated..It may not be the no.1 issue in peoples mouths,but it should be.
Anytime our representation is confiscated in the name of Liberty should be enough to rile the masses.Ignorance and apathy is the main ammunition the power brokers of this country have.You seem to be giving them all they need.
By WorkingTommyC March 12, 2010 at 8:21 am
No, LFM:
I’m saying that we have a LEGAL procedure–as flawed as that is and as many criminals and diseased and gang members who come in that way–and therefore, the government is negligent in its BASIC duty of securing our borders from those that would do us harm.
Criminals coming illegally over the border are no less, and in fact, are MORE dangerous in terms of deaths and injuries to the civilian population than foreign armies have ever been.
But, ah, “that is life,” eh? Why don’t you leave your doors open at night and your jewelry out and lock yourself in a closet after advertising the situation to anyone and everyone? That makes about as much sense as how the politicians are treating our borders.
And yes, I agree, let’s end the “war on drugs” and get rid of the social benefits and they wouldn’t come here to begin with in many cases. Unfortunately,that’s a very long term problem that may never be accomplished and is, at most, a side issue in the moral and legal argument of right and wrong in defending our borders.
As for blaming other countries as being more crime ridden–that’s not what I did. The fact is, IF (as is NOT the case) 99.99% of the people from Mexico were not criminals (other than illegally crossing the border here) and would be good workers, good citizens, etc. we still have to deal with the .01% criminals that shouldn’t be here. People would STILL die and be otherwise harmed due to the government’s negligence in not even making a real attempt to cut off the flow of illegals.
Yet again, I ask, why should we allow MORE criminals into the country when we have laws and borders that should be enforced to protect us from EXTRA crime?
If your spouse were raped and murdered by an illegal alien that had already been deported five times would you still be saying, “that is life?” No, that is DEATH. Those are the politics of surrender and death of our country and culture.
We cannot know what we’re capable of as a country if we do not define ourselves more strictly according to the Constitution that was formed PRIMARILY to defend the states from invasion. Yet, Lindsey Graham and John McCain and others do not allow even that basic duty to be performed.
I know it’s impossible to completely secure the borders but then political masochists like Lindsey Graham say, in that case, why bother? By the same logic, you can’t stop determined criminals from breaking in your house when you’re gone so why bother locking the door? We’re being invaded and colonized and all Lindsey Gaham and John McLame and others want to do is fight with the Dems for their illegal votes.
If an army were massed on the border that was so large that we had no real chance of defeating them, should we not fight? Yet the situation now is MUCH easier to deal with. Pull our troops home from overseas and build new forts along the borders would be great–but we could just build a fence (we can get a man on the moon but can’t build a d___d fence???) and use the military if necessary which is a more than appropriate and legitimate role in defending our borders and therefore our country. I still can’t see the logical connection of how we’re better off defending the borders of other countries and not our own as is the current practice.
Fine employers and state employees $25,000 each who knowingly hire or give benefits to illegals and let’s see what happens to them. We’ve successfully sent illegals home before and put men on the moon so we can’t do something as simple as defending the border NOW?
Nations have borders as a basic, defining characteristic and raison d’etre. Without defending those borders, there are no borders. Without borders, there’s no nation.
Some folks may wish to be a citizen of the (mostly 3rd) world. However, I think most folks here want to be Americans.
By WorkingTommyC March 12, 2010 at 8:26 am
LFM:
You’re right about the 17th Amendment. It has been the single most destructive instrument in destroying consent of the governed.
By dirtbogger March 12, 2010 at 10:25 am
WorkingTommyC, Alot of the violence that you speak of is attributed to the illeagal drug trade. The laws that make drugs or growing your own here illeagal creates a lucretive martket for the element you speak of, as well as turning otherwize good people into criminals. Yes I think government is the problem period, ours theirs and the rest of the world. and you sound like a coward worring about the boogie man terrorist. And futher more I would never fight to protect the government or guard their fucking border, I no longer feel that I have a dog in that fight. I am also not affraid of the boogie man mexican, generally speaking they are good people and cook really good food. Now I’ll give you a little credit, some of the most ruthless immigrants are comming here from Elsalvador. They were war torn and oppressed for many years in the past which our government had its hand in. Now those folks who have grown up in violence are lured here by the drug trade and human trafficing. Legalize grow your own and you kill the life line to the gangs. I do agree about them taking an advantage of social programs and running up the cost of helth care, but in my perfect world there would be sound money and barter, no tax, no laws, no regulation, and best of all no government!
By Liberty for Me March 12, 2010 at 10:35 am
I think you are misunderstanding me….If you let people come in with a id card they wont have to sneak in….The ones that do sneak in must be put into prison,not deported.If you are forced into a labor prison for a year,I bet the next time you will have your papers in order to be legal..
I know that we have the technology to defend against illegal crossings and it would not take a fence or army.
How about taking the cameras off OUR intersections and putting them on the border….
My point is the whole thing is flawed and intentional.It must be fixed and fixed proper.Security wise and Liberty wise
By Liberty for Me March 12, 2010 at 10:41 am
dirtbogger….”They cook really good food” You are hilarious brother.I think you,me and working tommy could fix this country if the socialsits and power brokers would get out of the way.
That should take an afternoon..Then we could have a couple of beers
By Sarah Palin of the South March 12, 2010 at 12:05 pm
Katherine Jenerette on why the 17th Amendment needs to be repealed…
Katherine Jenerette is a Constitutional Originalist and argues that the 17th Amendment adopted in 1913 needs to be repealed.
Jenerette argues that States all over the country are busy with resolutions of State Sovereignty and 10th Amendment resolutions that have no legislative teeth and do little more than invite legal battles with the Federal Government.
“What they seem to ignore is that the States had a voice in the Congress that was present for 126 years until 1913 when the basic structure of the Government was changed – coincidentally the same years that the Federal Government imposed an income tax on the people with the 16th Amendment,” Jenerette said.
“The year 1913 was a clear power grab banner year for the Neo-Federalist who are the role models for the present Administration in Washington in 2010.”
The danger was clearly stated in 1788 by a Federalist in the Federalist papers No. 51 by Madison – “In a republican form of government the legislative branch is the strongest, and therefore must be divided into different branches, be as little connected with each other as possible, and render them by different modes of election.”
Prior to the 17th Amendment, the U.S. House was chosen directly by the people, while the Senate was chosen by state legislatures. Under the original structure of the Federal Government both the States had a loud voice and the people had a loud voice in the Congress.
“The government is guarded from usurpations because it is divided into DISTINCT and SEPARATE departments.” – Madison.
Jenerette went on to say, “If my critics say that the repeal of the 17th Amendment is wrong then at least part of their argument is with the Founding Fathers and the Constitution as it was originally written and followed for 126 years.”
If the founding fathers had it right in 1787 then Katherine Jenerette has it right in 2010 – the Sovereign States of this United States need to take back their Senators.
Source:
http://sarahpalinofthesouth.blogspot.com/2010/03/jenerette-on-why-17th-amendment-needs.html
By WorkingTommyC March 12, 2010 at 1:18 pm
Dirtbooger:
I can’t give you ANY credit for understanding basic concepts and definitions of what constitutes reality.
If you can get marijuana or whatever legalized, fine. I have no problem with that.
Otherwise, you did not address any principle I put forth so I don’t feel any obligation to debate someone who sounds as if he just wants to smoke some high quality weed with his Mexican drug dealers.
By WorkingTommyC March 12, 2010 at 1:45 pm
LFM:
I’m sorry if I misunderstood you.
I’m GLAD you realize the set-up and I agree–it’s intentional and crooked.
Unfortunately, we must even overhaul our visa system because it is overwhelmed and virtually useless. We owe no one access to our country. If we need to eliminate virtually every visa entry for a while until we straighten this mess out, then so be it.
And the perpetrators of the next big terrorist action are probably here already due, perhaps, to the flawed visa system. Even if it were the right thing to do–and it is NOT–we couldn’t handle an amnesty now nor for the foreseeable future due to the rotten, inefficient bureaucracy in place.
BTW: I EASILY, as ANYONE with common sense should have been able to do, predicted a big terrorist attack before 9/11 (and before the WTC basement bombing) due precisely to the fact that I saw how many of the people from countries we’ve pissed off were here at will doing whatever they wanted. I went to school with a lot of them from those countries and they never hesitated to tell me what they thought.
And I’ll tell you this: we’re going to get hit by Muslim terrorists again–BIG TIME probably within the next five years. I would not be surprised if it were nuclear or a dirty nuke. That’s not fear mongering–I’m not making anything off it. It’s just common sense.
We need to straighten our country out to the point that we’re not allowing the Congress to put its fingers in pies all over the world and we need to bring our troops home to defend our own borders.
If we don’t do it now due to common sense, we’ll have to do it eventually due to having no other choice due to financial and security reasons.
By dirtbogger March 12, 2010 at 2:19 pm
WorkingTommyC, thats not all I want to do, I would like to smoke some high quality weed with a lot of other people too! I havent smoked a joint in 10 years, so I’m well over due.
By WorkingTommyC March 12, 2010 at 2:45 pm
Dirtbogger:
Well, at least you’re an honest and good natured burn-out, eh? =:>)
By dirtbogger March 12, 2010 at 3:07 pm
WorkingTommyC, I just quit taking government and politics serious. I get what you are saying, I actually thought a lot like you do now and agree with much of what you say. The deal is I am going to see people for people and will not let devide and conqure tecniqes work on me. Our biggest difference is you want the Government to solve the problem, I say Government is the problem.
By Liberty for Me March 12, 2010 at 3:20 pm
WorkingTommyC … The new technology they have would pretty much cut down the visa problem…retinal scans.DNA,fingerprints. All you have to do is get them Identified.Between that and cutting off the handouts,you would stop 99% of illegal traffic.That is after drugs are legal….
As far as terrorists go..If they wanted or had the means to attack us they could do it anytime they want.You cant guard all the borders and coasts.I agree with Ron Paul..The best way to stop it is to not give people reason to hate our government.
Do you not see how the Scots and Irish would hate the British??….In the worlds eyes(and mine) we are the 20th century version of the British Empire.Bring our troops home(all of them)mind our own business and stand ready to attack anyone that brings an army to our shores.Every other country can protect themselves as it is not our job to subsidize everyone else’s lives.Our military is the perfect example of socialized government.We pay and the other countries receive the benefit for free…..what bullshit
By lowcountry March 13, 2010 at 3:36 pm
Sarah Palin of the South? So you believe in redistributing your state’s assets to all its residents(hmmm, what do they that call that?), raise pork barreling to an art form, and you will abandon your constituents halfway through your term?
By WorkingTommyC March 14, 2010 at 7:15 pm
No, sir, Dirtbogger, you do not know me and your assumption regarding who should be making the changes are 180 degrees out of phase.
I do NOT want the government as it exists to solve any problems. I want We, The People to take responsibility and take over our government again. That means government has to pushed out of the way and the fascist, tyrannical controls over our states and the people dissolved. 2/3rds (at least) of the current federal level government is unconstitutional. The remaining third is too powerful and big and spends too much money as well.
I want We, The People to beat the current oligarchy with a sledgehammer until it is a manageable size.
My biggest difference with you is that I’m actually getting inside the process and working with folks who are changing things here at home first. And believe me, before you even freakin’ think of it: I’m not selling out. The establishment people all around me in the party hate my Constitutional/natural law politics with a passion but they know we’ve already screwed them over and will continue to do so until they’re gone or cowed into submission.
Jake Knottzi knows my name among others and he knows he’s targeted to go down in his next bid for re-election (2012). We’ve already got a young, energetic, reform candidate. Knottzi’s fat ass is about to be kicked out of office and I’ll enjoy seeing him bounce down the road a ways.
I don’t take politicians seriously. I take people seriously who want to reform politics however. I have fun despite not smoking–nor wanting to–smoke pot. But at some point we all have to take our responsibilities seriously.
I know an elderly fellow citizen who gave up trying a long time ago and calls himself clever for doing so. He tells me to my face that we can’t do anything and we’ve already proved him wrong and will continue to prove him wrong.
He and his generation screwed us all over when they constantly refused to do anything about government spending and growing tyranny. Enough of them knew where this was all heading a long time ago. They did not stand up. Of course, most of them don’t give a crap now as long as they get theirs from the government dole. The younger generations now have to take over and take the blame and credit for what needs to be done.
“Then I say, the earth belongs to each of these generations during its course, fully and in its own right. The second generation receives it clear of the debts and incumbrances of the first, the third of the second, and so on. For if the first could charge it with a debt, then the earth would belong to the dead and not to the living generation.” –Thomas Jefferson, 1789
No zombie government for me. If I go down, I’m going down fighting. And yeah, I’ve got a chip on my shoulder.
By WorkingTommyC March 14, 2010 at 7:21 pm
LFM:
I concur with you. I don’t want us to be the policemen of the world as we’ve been suckered into. There’s never been a time in my life when I’ve thought otherwise.
You’re bringing that up when I haven’t said anything to contradict that.
However, you’ve got your priorities backwards. We’re going to have to fix some things going on here first before we’re even able to stop the war on drugs and the rest of the abuses.
Securing the borders comes first and revamping the visa system comes immediately afterwards. I like your ideas as long as it is the foreign nationals that are treated like cattle and not US citizens.
By Liberty For Me March 15, 2010 at 9:10 am
WorkingTommyC…I guess you mean by catlle the ID cards.I guess that is all in perspective,but the price you would have to pay to visit the US…As far as a time line,I suggest it all be done simultaneously.Because the drug “WAR” is probably 50% of the illegal crossing problem.Its like getting rid of a roach problem…You clean up the crumbs of food left on your floor that attracts them before you spray the insecticide.
By WorkingTommyC March 25, 2010 at 8:28 pm
LFM:
All at once sounds good to me–if it can happen.
I suspect it will eventually become more of a case of “have to” rather than any real plan to it.
As for being treated like cattle to visit here, yeah, that’s fine. I did not mean to imply otherwise–just did not want citizens to be treated that way.