John Cornyn Named NRSC Chairman

Yesterday Sen. Cornyn was chosen to lead the republican senatorial committee.  The big job of the senatorial committee is getting republicans elected into senate seats, and this is going to be a huge burden given the current political climate.

What Sen. Cornyn and the rest of the committee needs to do is focus not on winning elections for the pure fact of getting republicans elected, but on making sure that our candidates are running the right ticket.  Every year, after primary polls are closed and we have our great race for the middle, both parties start to turn into one in the same.  And, this is not how we’re going to win elections in the future.

Both George Jr and Sr, and McCain ran on this platform of compromised conservative values.  True, they were closer to conservative than their opponents, but that’s simply not enough.  As the two parties melt into the same philosophy with different animals, Americans become apathetic.  The only way to win with these types of elections is to have the candidate that more people like for a person.

Sure, running for the middle will gain you a lot of the undecided votes and maybe a couple of the opposition, but at what cost?  You lose the core of your party and your strength.  Elections are won by who can turn out the most supporters.  Obviously that sounds almost oversimplified, but the implications thereunto are grave.  The candidate who wins is not necessarily the person who most people would have voted for, but it is the person who had the most supporters actually show up.

When the core of your party is disinterested or feels alienated, you certainly will not have the numbers at the polls that you should have.  This is the latest ailment of the republicans.  As they strive to keep their votes up, they have been saying whatever the polls do.  Sure it seems like the logical thing, but when you’ve loosened your stance on abortion, illegal immigration, gun rights, government spending and government size for the sake of the poll numbers, those who trusted you before will lose their confidence in you.  As a result, you lose those people actually showing up, and worse yet, you lose the influence of those people who would have supported you around their friends and families, which could have been a deciding endorsement.

Hopefully in these next two years, senate republicans will realize the errors they have made and return to the conservative principles of the party we knew under Reagan.

Big Labor’s Big Lies

So, now the big three automakers in America are looking for a bailout from our ever so benevolent government.  Some may call me a mystic for being able to predict that this sort of reaction from all sectors of the economy whenever we passed the first bailout package, that so far has worked so well to fix our financial crisis.  Others will just call me not an idiot, because I was able to notice that there will be a direct creation of moral hazard caused by giving money to failing companies.  But, I digress.

Now, don’t get me wrong, I love the big three automakers.  I’ve never owned a car, or even wanted a car, that wasn’t made by General Motors.  However, no amount of bailouts and government regulation to increase fuel mileage standards is going to be able to save the American hand in this sector of the economy.

The big three didn’t just stumble into this problem after this possible recession, or even after gas prices started to rise.  American automakers have been in trouble for years now because of the shady practices of UAW.  And, if we’re going to save the American production industry, we are going to have to start regulating labor unions.

Labor unions have been doing things in the market place that would quickly land many CEOs and presidents in jail if the ever tried them with their corporations.  Unions create monopolies and force their employers to buy from their stock.  They demand artificially high wages, and do this by forcing artificially low production.  They remove the ability of any competitors in the market through terrorism, and law makers turn a blind eye.

If you look at the composition of the auto market, it’s not hard to tell that UAW is what is sinking the American automakers.  When we look at BMW, KIA, and Toyota, who are all doing fairly well, considering the market right now, we see that they are all operating plants in the south with non-unionized labor.  Yes, those who work at these non-union plants take a slight pay cut, however they make sure that they keep a job that still pays well, and they make sure that an entire sector of the economy doesn’t get come crashing to the ground.

It is only going to get worse for American industry.  The democrats will almost inevitably pass legislation that removes the secret ballot when it comes to voting for a union.  This will allowing union bosses (the only ones who actually benefit from unions) to bully workers and increase the power of their union.  We don’t allow most monopolies when it comes to goods and services, why do we allow these monopolies in the Labor market?

Who cares how the people voted?

Now that the election season is over…well kind of, you’ll see that the corruptocrats are poised to use the courts to their advantage as well as seedy recounts conducted by a board of unseemly characters to get their man elected in Minnesota.
Having lived in the land of ten-thousand lakes and having family that still lives there, I’ve always been interested in politics in Minnesota.  But, ever so much more this year.  This year, in the senate race between Norm Coleman and big-gay-Al Franken, the our country is in the dangerous position of becoming filibuster proof to the socialist, far left causes which have been scheming in the shadows for years now.  The magic number is 60 seats for an officially filibuster-proof senate, but given the quality of several republicans in the senate now, the real number is closer to 57, which is where the left will be if they are allowed to steal this election.
Since the polls closed and the votes were initially counted, the democrats have somehow mysteriously found scores upon scores of uncast ballots in everywhere, from the trunks of cars, to the back of mail boxes, and some where even hidden in the crevices of Paul Bunyan’s shoes.  It’s honestly ridiculous that these ballots could be possibly ever taken seriously.  And, finding a couple hundred uncounted votes for Franken with almost none found for Coleman is pretty much a statistical impossibility (I’m not sure if it isn’t none, but I’m going to assume that the fraudsters aren’t that dumb).
What’s more is that they plan to have a recount, where the vote counters can “ascertain the voter’s will.”  Holy Jesus, are you serious?  Just because someone votes for Obama, that doesn’t mean they want to vote for Franken.  If it’s left blank, it’s probably for a good reason.  I personally leave the dog catcher position blank, not because I’m too stupid to fill it in, (and, this is the case that they are making against potential Franken voters, that if you left it blank, you’re just too stupid to fill it in) but because I don’t care who takes this position.  And, if I were forced to chose between one or the other, I would go against the rest of my ballot and vote for the democrat in the off chance that he might get bitten.
Anyways, there’s something rotten in the state of the North Star.