The message of last night's election is pretty clear.  America does not like they way Democrats lead by Pelosi and Obama ruled the land from on high.  The message to the Republicans is don't give us fake conservatives. The message to the Tea Party is vet your candidates better! Agreeing is just not enough, learning some personal editing and decorum is needed also.

Lets talk about Delaware.  O'Donnell losing probably says more about Delaware having standards for candidate credentials higher than say the fools in Minnesota.  This is the state that elected Jessie Ventura and Al Franken.  Al Franken is no more qualified to be in the Senate than O'Donnell and yet there he sits. Problem was Castle was ready to "cross the isle" and be Obama's fig leaf on some key issues, and exit polls show he was not a sure thing either.  We need to make it clear to America what the Democrat progressives own and not add a single name to the list from the GOP.

We can all smile that the face of the Democrats in the Senate is Harry Reid and Al Franken, that should be easy to run against in 2012.  Harry is now impotent, with Nancy gone and the jar she kept his man treasure in gone with her

Unlike some conservatives, I am not opposed to crossing the isle if they are meeting me half-way.  For me as a libertarian thinker, Obama is a nightmare.  He is a progressive, which is not the same as a liberal.  Progressives are about power, personal power and agenda power.  If you look at his agenda it always skews to more control for him, for government, and for his operatives in the unions. This is why he is pro-war and slow to deal with "don't ask don't tell."  This is why he removed the ability of poor kids in DC to have a shot at the same schools his daughters are in.  This is why he has admitted that he knows raising tax rates can hurt real tax revenue for his programs, but he wants it more fair (meaning "let me spend the money").  This is why he has over and over in real action curried favored to Wall Street and helped them recover while many of us are out of work.

Liberals have a desire for more liberty and a feeling that we can all just get along if you buy everyone a free lunch and hug.  That is an over simplification for course, but it is very different from the use of government money to buy votes and favors to gain power vs trying to actually help people who are down and out.  If Democrat liberals are wondering what happened, its simple.  You mistook progressives offers of gifts paid for with the money of others for an actual social conscience.  This is why things like gay rights, help for illegal immigrants who you see as Americans in waiting and Gitmo have had nothing but lip service. Obama and Pelosi don't care about these as they don't advance real power.  They have gained a lot of power from fighting rules asking for proof of citizenship in voting, and they know that pushing too hard on amnesty will cost power from other places so they pretend to care and that is where it stops.

Finally, if you look at what they forced through the congress related to health care.  They did not guarantee coverage so much as guaranteeing that we will all pay more for coverage.  Unions may not see this until their next contract, but your benefits will cost you more in real pay to keep and soon Obamacare will tax you for having such nice plans,  What the bill did do is let the progressives tell us what we can't choose like lower cost plans and health savings accounts.  In the bill they protected control and took away more choice.


Now Republicans need to be clear on what they want to do.  Health care needs some changes.  Insurance companies have violated morals by using technicalities to remove people in crisis.  Their executives do make too much for what they do.  And we as a people do have a moral obligation to make sure there is access to basic and emergency health care for all our people.  Some of this should be the work of active shareholders who need to police pay for executives with votes from their shares.  But some of this might take government, because morals do have a place in government.  However, anyone who knows the reality of "free" government health care knows it is not a moral choice.  (I am close to someone who lost a friend waiting for a test in a good UK hospital, but still his access was slower than in the US.)

GOP HEAR US NOW!!! This is not about you spending on your projects or even you legislating your social agenda where it limits the rights of others.  This is about liberating our economic engine so there is real opportunity for success for all, not a system of Washington DC choosing winners and losers.  Let the people choose.

The Tea Party was smart in not going the third party route.  But the GOP needs to know they failed in what they had become and only succeeded with Tea Party principles of fiscal restraint and expanded power to the individual.  The new GOP needs to stand tough, because it will take years of real restraint to let the economy catch up to the size of government and the debt.

Even today Obama is talking about debt and credit cards for the next generation.   The shopping spree is over!! The truely needy need protection, but programs like we have had here in WA state that helped families making almost 90K buy homes must end.  Things like that just inflate the market and raise prices for everyone.

I am sad to say in Washington State the Kool-aid is still potent. But also the GOP candidate, Rossi, while a generally good man, doesn't get it.  He did not utilize the grass roots of the Tea Party and he ran the same campaign he ran that split the state and cost him the governors race twice.  Both the "I always vote (D)" crowd and the state GOP need to realize no more politics as usual.

My last message:  This is just the start!  Democrats you need to take your party back from the progressives and get it back to where it can work with a strong free market to empower all people and help the needy without punishing success.

 
The human condition is often poisoned by "RIGHT."  The need to be right is so strong that people have fought, died and killed to 'be right.'  Right about god, right about leaders, right about flags, right about family members; needing to be right poisons relationships and cultures.

Right Leads to Collecting

We all want to be right; frankly it is an important part of feeling relevant in a universe that is too big to comprehend.  Where the poison creeps in is how we confirm our place in the universe.  The most common way people confirm they are right, is by counting the people who agree with them and working to collect more.

Some of you may be screaming, I am unique I don't want people to be like me!  Ever been to some of the streets common to university areas?  You will see groups of people making extreme fashion choices to be different, standing in groups all dressed in the same choices.  Preppy or Goth, people want to belong.  Often as we grow up we decide we need to be different from our parents, so we seek out groups not like our parents to join and be right with.

My final proof would be that Anarchists who show up at rallies to disrupt, do it with organization and in a uniform of black.  Organized anarchist!!

Two Parties Making Each Vote about Being Right

In American politics we have a two party system.  In some states you have to choose one or be left out of the process of voting in the primary.  Each election voted as a Democrat or Republican creates a moment of choice that then must be defended as being "right" with each new vote.  This need to be right makes it easy for party leaders to poison our minds with fears about other groups.  "Democrats hate Christians" , "Republicans hate Blacks" I have heard both of these spouted by people trying to create fear.

Guess what, both are true and both are false, because these groups are made up of people and sadly people hate.  So yes I know of Democrats who hate Christians and I know Democrats in my own family that are devote church going, charity working Christians.   I have met Republicans that hate blacks (I either tell them they need to rethink their attitude or I run away, I have no place for racism in my life)  I also know many Republicans that are black and the Republicans I associate with want economic success for ALL Americans.

If you get one thing out of this blog, get this.  When someone trying to collect you into their group of "right" tells you a group made up thousands or millions "hates you" unless it is a hate group like the KKK or HAMAS they are lying, they are using your need to feel right, to keep you from learning and listening to other ideas.  Run away from that person!!!

Here is my challenge. Your being right has nothing to do with the party.  Party affiliation is a part of how you judge a candidate's views.  Always, always take the time to vote for the person or the issues, especially for leadership positions like Mayor, Governor and President. 

How do you avoid being poisoned by "right"?  It's not easy, it appears to be pretty deeply part of the human programming to join and follow strong leaders.  This is my advice.  Be Your Own Leader!!  Avoid being collected by someone looking to prove THEY are right.

How to Be Your Own Leader!

Twenty years ago, maybe we had to rely on others to feed us a truth that we used to "be right."  No more, if you are reading me, you are on the Internet.  Learn to question anything told you in order to collect you into a group of "right minded" people.

Polls show most of the news-media votes and favors Democrats and liberals.  If you are using the "news" to measure your rightness, they are trying to collect you, Beware!.  But also while Rush Limbaugh will play audio clips the news media tends to hide, he also edits them to make them match his interpretation, he is trying to collect you, Beware!  If you see something on MSNBC or FOXNEWS that makes you mad, that makes you feel like you agree with them, they may be collecting you.  If it evokes an emotion that makes you distrust someone or change your vote, it is worth the time on the Internet to find the other side or the full video clip.

The Teaparty and Being Right

The Teaparty is not about a party. It it is about economic liberty.  If someone tells you it's just Republicans, they have lied to you and are trying to collect you.  The Teaparty has to work in the two party system because of laws and our current culture.  They have chosen the Republicans for a couple of reasons.

• The GOP platform and voters are closer to agreement about stopping the dangerous overspending and cutting taxes so the economy can recover.  Trust me too many of the GOP politicians are no different from Democrats in wanting money for their own pet projects and contributors. 
• The GOP right now has fewer incumbents. Incumbents tend to use name recognition and cash shake downs to fund re-election so its easier to beat non-incumbents in the primaries.  The Teaparty is cleaning out the GOP spenders in the primaries; you have to help clean out the congress in the general election.

Why should a Democrat or Independent vote GOP this year?

Why should someone who has been a Democrat all your life vote for a Republican or Teaparty candidate.  Because every other right you might care about or program you want to be saved hangs on a strong economy and economic freedom.  We can not get out of this by expanding the debt or taking money from the economy siphoning off the typical cut for special interests and sending back less to a weak economy.

Except for property taxes, we tax money when it moves.  If people are scared or unsure they stop spending. If it costs too much to move money, take a profit etc. their money stays where it is. That means higher tax rates that seem more fair end up hurting the poor who have to spend and can't leave money in an investment. Lower tax rates (within reason) tend create more movement of money in spending and changing investments, the rich end up paying more in tax with the money they move, vs paying less when they store the money.

I totally disagree with some stands on social issues the GOP has and that many Teaparty people may hold, but those won't matter if we lose our ability to choose.  We are losing the ability to choose, choose to move (underwater mortgages are anchors for people), to choose the insurance that has lower coverage the the government wants to force you to pay for, to choose to get the care that lets Grandma live six months to see her grandchild born.  Most importantly we are losing our ability to choose not to be in debt and managed by Washington D.C.

Be your own leader! Do you care about jobs or someone's personal religion?  Do you care about reducing the debt your children will pay or what someone does for recreation?  Most of all beware of those are trying to collect you, with agreement on things that this year don't matter!!!

You are not wrong for being a Democrat and the Teaparty I know welcomes you.  I for 15 years called myself an Independent because I didn't trust elected Republicans to keep their promises. This year I did adopt the label Republican, because I think we need to choose a power party that is closest to our key views.  I am libertarian in most views, we need to keep economic liberty first or the rest of the liberties that you care about might not matter.  As a Teaparty supporter and Republican for the moment, I will talk to others about why it makes sense to support or allow things legal gay marriage, outside of religion I can make a strong conservative case for this.  (I will probably write about this in the next few weeks)

This is about choosing theoretical economics that have failed or proven policies that helped the US recover from recessions. Polices that were carried out by both John F Kennedy and Ronald Reagan.  At the very least it is about stopping uncontrolled change that has businesses too scared to hire new people.  This is about jobs, that fuel the economy, that fuels the government and dealing with those that have it backwards.

If you read my whole blog I thank you, now go out be your own leader and don't be collected, even by me :)