WHAT anti-terror effort?

We the people will have to lead the anti-terror effort by replacing incumbents in November, starting with every state primary. We created this mess by letting our political parties go so far off the rails by neglect of our own civic responsibility to hold them accountable for their actions before they created this mess. They aren't going to fix it. We have to replace them and remind their replacements that national security is one of the few responsibilities which we have actually delegated to our federal government. Time to pay attention to it. When employees don't do what you hire them to do, and do harm instead, you fire them. Fire Congress.

We obviously have to push back in every primary this year to get their attention.

We obviously have to push back in every primary this year to get their attention.

Note the low turnout among Democrats relative to past elections. The real news was in the Republican primary, including Tea Party favorite Joe Walsh winning the IL 8th race for Congress in a crowded field, Adam Kinzinger winning IL 11th with Tea Party supporters in the Joliet / Will County area, and Randy Hultgren surprising Ethan Hastert (Denny's son) in the IL 14th.

Off to Nashville for the National Tea Party Convention! www.SurgeUSA.org

We need to move beyond griping about the latest legislative atrocity. That is like stamping out fires while the arsonists run wild, starting more fires faster than you can respond. We have to defeat these arsonists.

That means shifting the focus in 2010 to getting organized behind solid candidates in their primary races, so that we are not left with a Hobson's choice again in November between progressive statists on the Democratic side and RINOs who seem to share their delusion that it is the job of the federal government to do whatever they think may be a good idea at the time, as though they were our rulers rather than public servants who we have trusted to perform the limited tasks outlined in the Constitution. They will not restrain themselves. We have to get organized and defeat them, and that requires a lot of hard campaign work this year so that the incumbents are already doomed by voter support for better candidates before the August recess and the fall attack ad season.

Did anybody notice that the budget assumes passage of cap and trade, and thus hundreds of billions of new taxes from that?

Remember that "not one dime" quote about taxes? How many trillions of dimes are we talking about in new taxes now? Guess what - they won't just be hitting the rich or the groups of corporations which they like to demonize (if they aren't willing to be bribed into supporting their statist agenda).

And we all know how well the Carter years turned out ... at least after he was replaced. It took Reagan several years to get the economy moving again, during which time the liberals blamed everything on him and asserted that his economic plan was insane and doomed to failure..

Doesn't this budget plan need a better name? How about "No Dollar Left Behind" or "The China Syndrome"? The economic meltdown continues.

Do you suppose that there are enough conservatives in Australia to give him the sort of reception that Tea Party folks in Texas would like to give him if he were to show up to help candidates in the March primary? He may have tried to help in Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts, but he has stayed away from the Illinois primary this week and probably won't show his face in Texas, either. Maybe he still has fans in Indonesia.

The only jobs which they are trying to save or create are for themselves and their progressive friends - such as through more wasteful government positions to oversee bloated programs and corruption at our expense, without any real accountability for results. It's all just about alleged good intentions, rather than any serious focus on what demonstrably works. There is no sign that unemployment is going to get better anytime soon. Maybe after 2012 ....