Christian Fundamentalism
Filed under: Local Party Politics, National Party Politics, Social Commentary
Liberal/socialist dogma contends that Christian Fundamentalism is atavistic, a throwback to some pagan past, which our modern society must keenly resist.
It has now become fashionable in the climes of the Upper West Side in NYC or the summer vacation locals where liberal/socialists imbibe and graze such as the Hamptons on Long Island, Cape Cod or the Berkshires in Massachusetts to conflate the Tea Party movement with Christian Fundamentalism. This was hardly unanticipated since Christian Fundamentalists and a majority of Tea Party supporters are against unfettered abortion which is also for liberal/socialists one of the pillars of their dogma along with the anodyne of social justice, a diminished military and a powerful and all-consuming central government. So for liberal/socialists with the addition of the Tea Party movement Christian Fundamentalism takes on a far more sinister religious component and an expansion of its political base. When liberal/socialist pundits complain about the Tea Party movement what they are really concerned about is the enlargement of Christian Fundamentalism as a political force in America.
Isn’t ironic therefore that liberal/socialists correctly view Christian Fundamentalism as an impediment to performing their pagan rituals such as the killing of human fetuses, homo-sexual license along with the pagan celebrations such as the various seasonal bacchanalias all of which Judeo-Christian morality, a fundamental tenet of Christian Fundamentalism, is ignored.
Reality Check
Filed under: National Party Politics, Presidential Watch, Social Commentary, U.S. Economics
For the first time in decades, observing our politicians in Washington dealing with the recent raising of the debt ceiling, Americans received a solid dose of reality. And you know what, they kind of like it.
Americans, unlike Europeans, don’t hide themselves under the covers when faced with a crisis. The problem is our politicians have no faith in the American people and do everything they can to keep them from the truth. The debt ceiling crisis has become a corker and with the introduction of the Tea Party caucus in the House of Representatives there was little our politicians could do, Democrats or Republicans, to keep this one under the hood.
With a 9.2% unemployment rate, a new health care plan passed by Congress and signed by the President which represents 16% of our GDP and now a debt ceiling that has to be lifted by 2.5 trillion dollars to pay America’s ongoing bills, 40% of which is interest on our loans, Americans are stinking mad.
The media tried to make raising the debt ceiling into high drama. But Congress knew from the very beginning that there was little choice in getting the debt ceiling lifted otherwise they wouldn’t be re-elected in 2012. Becoming one of the unemployed at this particular time is certainly enough to focus a congressman’s mind. America is through the woods for the moment. But the next big truth is going to be that the only way we are going to reduce spending is tackling that big bugaboo, entitlements, you know, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. And that’s what the 2012 election for president and Congress is going to be about. And those politicians better be telling the truth because Americans are waiting for them with pitch forks and tar and feather down the road.
Get Out And Vote!
Filed under: Local Party Politics, National Party Politics, Presidential Watch, Social Commentary, State Politics, U.S. Economics
Tomorrow is Election Day and probably the most important day for America since 1945 the end of the Second World War. Tomorrow Americans decide whether their country will devolve into a socialist society or remain what it has always been from the day of its founding a country based upon free enterprise and individual liberty.
This is Roger Madon and this is what I think.
In their recently published book “America’s Four Gods” Paul Froese and Christopher Bader divide religious Americans into 4 categories: The belief in a benevolent God, who is both loving and engaged in the world; an authoritative God, judgmental and engaged; a critical God, apart but watchful; and finally a distant God, more like a cosmic force, removed from the world and therefore forgiving. But the more interesting question which this book addresses is how belief in God affects one’s political point of view.
On April 15, 2009 Americans experienced the beginning of a phenomenon that hasn’t occurred in this country since the abolition movement that expressed itself in the nascent beginnings of the Republican Party in 1856. It was various and disparate groups of Americans throughout the country protesting the increase in taxes and spending that Congress placed upon the shoulders of working Americans. This movement was labeled the Tea Party not as a name of a political party but as tribute to the those revolutionaries in 1773 who threw barrels of tea overboard in Boston Harbor as a protest to what they believed was an unfair tax by the British. But the Tea Party of 2009 became something even more powerful in 2010. Tea Party candidates began challenging the establishment Republicans in their primaries for Federal and State offices and winning.
The criticism of the Left is that these Tea Partiers are nothing more than God believers, not part of the mainstream political movement. Even some establishment Republicans have been saying that. I say it’s probably true and thank God.
This is Roger Madon and that’s what I think.
The Groucho Marx Tea Party Movement
Filed under: Local Party Politics, National Party Politics, Presidential Watch, Social Commentary, State Politics
When the husband barges into his bedroom and finds Groucho Marx in bed with his wife there is little to explain even as Groucho protests vehemently. Finally, knowing that his life may be at stake Groucho blurts out, “Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes!”
This is Roger Madon and this is what I think.
When the Tea Party came exploding on to the American political scene in April last year pundits from the left immediately marginalized it as a kooky, racist bunch of red necks with a large space between their 2 front teeth and with not an ounce of political sophistication. Fast forward today and what we have are numerous Tea Party candidates, having won positions on Republican tickets throughout the country running against Democrats, in some cases entrenched Democrats, either leading or neck and neck in campaigns in which incumbent Democrats can’t even get above 50% in the polls.
On January 3, 2011 President Obama will be running into the brick wall of the United States Constitution, the very Constitution about which he has expressed derision, accusing it of being defective by failing to include a provision which requires the distribution of wealth. During this fall campaign the President has been going around the country claiming that the Republican Party is the party of “No” and it was the “No” of the Republican congressional representatives that stopped the necessary legislation to cure the ailing American economy by spreading the family wealth to those poor Americans who have been adversely affected by capitalism. The American people haven’t been listening and will going to the polling booths throughout the country to express their idea of the Constitution that they love and wish to preserve.
This is the Constitution that Peter Berkowitz of the Hoover Institute recently said contains enumerated powers; a separation, balance, and blending of these powers among branches of the federal government; and a distribution of powers between the federal and state governments which operate to leave substantial authority to the states while both preventing abuses by the federal government and providing it with the energy needed to defend liberty. That may be a mouthful but that’s what the Tea Party movement is all about. And what’s so apparent is that it doesn’t take a pinheaded law school professor to figure it out.
So who are you going to believe the President of the United States or Groucho Marx? This is the one time I’ll pick Marx.
This is Roger Madon and that’s what I think.
Don’t Burn O’Donnell
Filed under: Local Party Politics, National Party Politics, Social Commentary
We are told that Christine O’Donnell, yes the one that won the Republican primary for U.S. Senate of the state of Delaware, lied about her bachelor’s degree, didn’t pay her taxes, suffered a foreclosure on her house and just recently a tape of 11 years ago has surfaced with her on the Bill Maher Show claiming that she is involved in witchcraft. Because of these allegations some members of the Republican establishment have their underwear in a twist about O’Donnell’s ability to beat her Democratic and very liberal opponent Chris Coons.
This is Roger Madon and this is what I think.
There is no question about it, Christine O’Donnell is not your garden variety Northeastern Republican. Northeastern Republicans support rent control, spend taxpayers’ money when they have an opportunity to hide behind their Democratic spendthrift colleagues, cut deals with public sector unions, and seem to have no problem in joining the liberals in passing legislation that supports corporate welfare and promotes government interference with free enterprise entrepreneurs. In effect, they usually are nothing more that Democrat light.
Ms. O’Donnell is pure Tea Party who believes in small government, low taxes, reduced spending and a strong military. She has stated that she is for the repeal of Obamacare, will vote against the passage of any legislation that creates more government control and wants to tackle the deficit and debt now rather than wait until it become truly unsustainable.
A vote for Coons is a vote for the same old, same old that we just experienced over the last 18 months of Democratic control of both houses of Congress that’s got us into this mess. From that perspective I don’t think the people of Delaware would care less if O’Donnell got dressed up in a Minnie Mouse suit and flew around the White House on a broom stick. If the choice is between O’Donnell and Coons, they’re going to go with Minnie witch because with Coons they smell a rat.
This is Roger Madon and that’s what I think.
Obama Economics Puts The Squeeze on Liberal Entreprenuers
Filed under: National Party Politics, Presidential Watch, Social Commentary
What is it going to take to get those small business entrepreneurs who happen to be liberal and voted for Barack Obama in 2008 to realize that they voted for a Socialist.
This is Roger Madon and this is what I think.
Yesterday I was perusing through my AOL page and came across a news story about small business entrepreneurs and what they would say to President Obama if they could get him alone in the oval office and speak to him one on one. “Mano y mano”, so to speak. Now these interviewees were not your garden variety candy store operators. These were college educated, articulate and successful young men and women, who voted for Obama, and are now extremely disappointed with the way the economy is going. They sincerely believe that all they have to do is get this President in a room and offer him the fruits of their education and experience and all will be well.
Well, boy and girls, after listening to these entrepreneurial geniuses I am more convinced than ever that we are far deeper in trouble than I ever considered. First of all not one of them showed any anger, any sense of betrayal, any sense that the election of Barack Obama, along with a Democratic Congress has created a major sea change in the American economic system and they are going to be the first ones overboard. They are the new Kulaks of the Bolshevik Revolution. They aren’t the ones President Obama and his gang of the left want to benefit. They are the ones that they want to fleece, starve and from whom they will squeeze every last tax dollar. And these liberal small business entrepreneurs haven’t a clue. At least the Kulaks put up a fight.
So where to turn? The only group that seems to have more than a clue is the Tea Party movement and believe it or not the Republican Party is catching on.
This is Roger Madon and that’s what I think.
Uncle Sam Wants To Carry A Gun
Filed under: National Party Politics, Social Commentary, U.S. Economics
Imagine taking a walk in any city park in America one hour after sundown. Are you packing?
This is Roger Madon and this is what I think.
I don’t know what you imagined the first time but I’ll bet the farm that when you imagined it the second time you were carrying a loaded pistol. And that boys and girls separates conservatives from progressives.
Progressives support an economic and political philosophy that holds to the proposition that the government knows best and that people generally are better off following the dictates of an educated and powerful few rather than leaving them to their own devices. But it goes beyond that. In the progressive philosophy people just can’t be trusted and to have a fully armed citizenry is grounds for worry. The fact is that in those states where carrying a concealed weapon is lawful, Arizona, Vermont and Alaska crime rates are substantially lower than the rest of the country. But that doesn’t cut it for progressives. Their view is that on balance it is better that the citizenry suffer the additional burden of experiencing more violent crime from hoodlums than having them armed for self-defense.
Conservatives on the other hand have little faith in the good intentions of government or its usually stated claim that it will be there when needed. They are quite willing for example, to accept the unhappy of consequences of the occasional accidental discharge of gun going off in the house than dealing with a home invasion with no real ability of the home dwellers to protect themselves from the unhappy consequences of that event.
It all boils down to control. Progressives are consistent in their view that government control of our economy, our politics and our social arrangements create a better and more dynamic society. Is there any wonder what with the current administration carrying out their progressive policies that there is the Tea Party movement in the United States?
This is Roger Madon and that’s what I think.
Who’s Bosom Should The Tea Party Coddle?
Filed under: Health Care, International War, National Party Politics, Social Commentary
In a recent article in the Weekly Standard William Kristol, editor and renowned conservative stated that experience has shown that liberals are more disposed to have the rest of us suffer, than to right themselves by rethinking the dogmas by which they are enthralled. Enter now the Tea Party movement.
This is Roger Madon and this is what I think.
Democrats, fearing the gaining political influence of the Tea Party movement have adopted the strategy of accusing it of racism, extremism by wanting to do away with Social Security and Medicare and being chauvinistically patriotic causing the alienation of our friends and enraging our enemies. The last accusation I find somewhat amusing since the current administration has adopted a foreign policy that has enraged our friends and encouraged our enemies.
However intransigent the Democrats have revealed themselves to be with respect to their failing socialist policies the Tea Party movement must remain willing to stay at the edge of promoting alternative policies if it has any hope of convincing a majority of Americans that it is a movement that’s viable and dynamic. If the Republican Party, having drawn the Tea Party movement to its bosom, wants to win a majority of Americans over to its side it cannot be with the same old, same old ideas that it provided us while George W. Bush was in office.
But if the American people are not ready to address the overwhelming debt that awaits payment over the next generation, if they are not ready to abandon the Health Care Reform Act as currently written, if they are not prepared to understand that global warming has little to do with human activity and that America must win the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan perhaps it is better that the Republican Party seek limited gains in the 2010 election rather than accede to the Socialist mantras of the Left.
If the so called radical ideas of the Tea Party movement are not acceptable to a majority of Americans in the 2010 congressional election then these ideas must be preserved for some future day when their truth becomes undeniable and their adoption by the America people becomes unassailable.
This is Roger Madon and that’s what I think.
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