Top 2010 villains and heroes

The following was inspired by a radio program I heard on American Family Radio (AFR.net), AFA Report,  which discussed the villains and heroes of the past twelve months. I listened to that program and interjected some of my own thoughts and opinions in the content below.

HERO

Tea Party participants and Tea Party supported politicians like Joe Miller across the nation

These are the everyday men and women who rose up against a growing tyrannical Leviathan, which is extending its powerful tentacles from Washington, D.C. to the four corners of the nation. Although Joe Miller, the Republican who upset Senator Lisa Murkowski in the GOP Primary Election in Alaska, but just recently indicated that he would not contest her being seated next week as Senator from Alaska. Joe typified the discontent felt by a lot of people with the status quo in both major political parties. The Soetoro/Obama-Pelosi-Reid leftist agenda was resoundingly rejected in November. We are now expecting a lot from newly elected leaders like Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Tim Scott, Daniel Webster and other strong principled conservatives being sworn in the new Congress on January 6th, 2011. 

VILLAIN

The President and the 111^th Congress

The President and the Democratic-led Congress robbed the American people and America of a great amount of liberty. The deficit was increased more than any other President or Congress ever had before. They did this with unwise socialistic spending sprees. They took money they did not have and gave it to businesses that they should have let fail, they passed a Stimulus bill that stimulated only the cancerous growth of government and favored unions and other of their cronies. The weakened the military and our national defense by insisting on the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and the quick, thoughtless passage of START. They used every trick and lie to pass the Health Care Control bill.

HERO

Salvatore Augustine Giunta

Giunta is a staff sergeant  in the United States Army. He is the first living person to receive the United States military's highest decoration for valor, the Medal of Honor, for actions that occurred since the Vietnam War. Giunta was cited for saving members of his squad on October 25, 2007 during the Ware in Afghanistan. What a contrast with low lifes such as the Jihadist Major Nidal Malik Hasan who killed soldiers at Fort Hood or traitor Private Bradley Manning who compromised many secrets by releasing them to WikiLeaks.

VILLAIN

Bradley E. Manning.

Army private and traitor Manning was charged in July 2010 with the unauthorized disclosure of U.S. classified information He is being held in solitary confinement at the Marine Corps Brig Quantico, and is expected to face a court-martial [and hopefully, a firing squad]    in the spring of 2011.  

HERO

Pastor Cary Gordon and the Voters in Iowa

The patriotic and principled voters in IOWA in November removed three Iowa Supreme Court Justices, who had taken it upon themselves to declare same-sex marriage to be legal against the will of the people and against law of nature. The people felt that the judges overstepped their bounds and booted them out of office. 

VILLAIN

National Public Radio (NPR) for firing Juan Williams

NPR, the taxpayer funded voice of subversion, fired Williams for expressing his honest opinions regarding his discomfort in seeing Muslims clad in their traditional garb boarding a plane. One of the first tasks of the new Congress should be to cut off all taxpayer funds to this anti-American anti-Christian leftist propaganda machine, NPR and its evil sister PBS.

Lame Duck Congress To-Do it to US list, part 2

This is the second of a two-part series discussing some of the bills that will be taken up by the lame duck Congress between now and Christmas. You can review part 1 here.

Here are two more large ticket items that we can expect that this miserable radical-left led 111st Congress will try to pass between now and Christmas:

       

·                    ·                  The nightmarish DREAM Act rises its ugly head once more. Commenting on this dastardly disguised amnesty legislation, the folks at TeaPartyNation.com wrote in an email to me, “This week shows the utter contempt the liberals in Congress have for the American people.  Despite the fact the American people sent the word back, through the elections, in no uncertain terms, we do not want their agenda; the liberals are dead set on pushing it through in their final gasp.” The obstinate Harry Reid led Senate sometime this week is going to take up the DREAM act again. Once more we must do all we can to stop it.  

If you have missed the features of this disastrous bill, they include:

Illegals under 35 (at least for now), can apply for legal status if they have a high school diploma or a GED and have enrolled in an “institution of higher learning.”

They have to only complete “two years” of a program and they have eight years to get that done. 

Once they complete this two-year program, then they are eligible for citizenship. 

If the illegal cannot complete his two-year program within eight years, they can apply for a waiver if they show their deportation would cause a hardship to a family member, a permanent US resident or to THEMSELVES!

Any information the illegal provides cannot be used against them for deportation proceedings!

Just by APPLYING for the DREAM act, all deportation proceedings are stopped.

Even worse, illegal alien criminals are not excluded from the DREAM act.  They can participate, even if they have committed felonies in America. 

And once someone is legalized under this measure, they can legalize all the members of their families to come to America.

·                    ·                    S 510, the so-called food safety bill will try to be passed by the Democrat led Congress. This bill is just another grab for power to control the food supply and limit the rights of the people. Like ObamaCare it is an intrusion in an area that may need some reform, but not the massive revamping called for by this bill. It could impact the local farmer’s market or our own vegetable gardens.

Diana Katz on the RepublicanAmerican website wrote, “Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., reportedly is pursuing a vote on a massive expansion of food regulation. Proponents contend the very security of America's food supply is at stake. Rhetoric aside, the nation's food supply has never been safer, thanks largely to technological advances and market forces. Consequently, granting vast new powers to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) would raise the cost of food without increasing consumer protection.” 

I like Katz's conclusion which could sum up much of what will be attempted during this unpleasant present lame duck session of Congress, "The Reid bill clearly contradicts the message sent by voters just three weeks ago: Americans do not want and cannot afford more unnecessary regulation and expansion of government. This proposal constitutes a costly and ineffective answer to a manufactured crisis."

You can read her entire article, “Food safety bill a bad idea” here.

It’s Lame Duck Season

This week begins what could be more destructive legislation by a lame duck Congress and a lame duck President. I say lame duck President, because for all practical purposes this ideologue will not seek the middle road with the new Republicans in Congress, he will stand firm and maneuver even further left, if that is possible. The Democrats, it will be shown, are slow learners. As I said before, this is the last hoorah of the controversial and increasingly unpopular President and his sidekick Speaker of the House Pelosi. Gridlock will be the best that can be hoped for in stopping the grand socialist agenda of the current regime and current Congress.

Looking at the next few weeks, here is what we can expect from this last ditch effort of the 111^th Congress to seal the legacy of Madame Speaker Nancy Pelosi, less-of-a-majority leader Harry Reid, and the one-term President Barry Soetoro a/k/a Barack Obama:

·                    Attempted passage of Amnesty in Disguise (the DREAM Act)

·                    Attempted repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

·                    Attempted repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act

·                    Attempted passage of Card-Check granting additional rights to unions to organize

·                    Attempted passage of Cap and Trade energy legislation which would increase how much a family pays to heat its home and drive their automobiles.

·                    Allowing the Bush Tax Cuts to expire

·                    Removal of current protections against unethical human embryonic experimentation

See my previous article concerning what the mandate of the 112^th Congress should be to counteract or overturn the destructive policies of this administration and the 111^th Congress.