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Hannity’s Rx For America

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Folks, there ain’t nuthin I can argue about Sean Hannity’s “Top 10 Items for Victory”.   Well, except the title… (Items?)

Anyway, ask your candidate for Congress if they have signed onto this pledge for America’s future.

1) To be the Candidate of National security:
a) Victory in Iraq
b) Fully support NSA, Patriot act, tough interrogations, keeping Gitmo open
c) A Candidate that pledges to NOT demean our military while they are fighting for their Country. eg Harry Reid: “the surge has failed”, “the war is lost”
d) Candidate that promises to ensure that our veterans can live out their lives in dignity.

2) The Candidate who pledges to oppose Appeasement:
a) The Candidate will oppose any and all efforts to negotiate with dictators of the world in places like Iran, Syria, N.Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela without “pre-conditions”

3) The Candidate Pledges to support Tax CUTS, and fiscal responsibility:
a) The American people are NOT under taxed, Government Spends too much
b) The Candidate who Pledges to ELIMINATE and VOTE AGAINST ALL Earmarks
c) The Candidate pledges to BALANCE the budget

4) The Candidate Pledges to be a supporter of “Energy Independence”
a) supports Immediate drilling in ANWR and the 48 states
b) Building new refineries
c) Begin building and using Nuclear Facilities
d) expand coal mining
e) realistic steward of the environment
While simultaneously working with private industry to develop the new energy technologies for the future, with the goal being that America becomes completely energy independent within the next 15 years.

5) The Candidate pledges to secure our borders completely within 12 months:
a) build all necessary fences
b) use all available technology to help and support agents at the border
c) train and hire agents as needed

6) Healthcare:
The Candidate will look for Free-Market solutions to the problems facing the Healthcare industry, and will vigorously oppose any efforts to “nationalize healthcare”.
a) The Candidate will fight for Individual health savings accounts, that includes “catastrophic insurance” for every American, so people can control their own healthcare choices.

7) Education:
a) The Candidate pledges to “save” American children from the failing educational system
b) The Candidate will fight to break the unholy alliance of the Democratic party and teachers unions, which at best has institutionalized mediocrity, and has failed children across the country
c) fight for “CHOICE” in education and let parents decide
d) fight for vouchers for parents

8.) Social Security and Medicare:
a) The Candidate will “save” social security and medicare from bankruptcy.
b) Options will include “private retirement” funds so people can “control” their own destiny.

9) Judges
a) The Candidate vows to support ONLY judges who recognize that their job is to interpret the Constitution, and NOT legislate from the bench.

10) American Dream:
The Candidate accepts as their duty and responsibility to educate, inform, and remind people that with the blessings of Freedom comes a Great responsibility. That Government’s primary goal is to preserve, protect and defend our God given gift of freedom.

That Government’s do not have the ability to solve all of our problems, and to take away all of our fears and concerns. We need their pledge that we will be the candidate that promotes Individual liberty, Capitalism, a strong national defense and will support policies that encourage such…

It is our fundamental belief that limited Government, and Greater individual responsibility will insure the continued prosperity and success for future generations.

We the people who believe in the words of Ronald Reagan, that we are “the best last hope for man on this earth,” “a shining city on a hill,” and that our best days are before us if our Government will simply trust the American people.

What’s not to support here?

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

Comments

  1. Great list….
    but I have one more especially if somehow Obama makes it…

    DO NOT APPOINT HILLARY TO ANYTHING..I UNDERSTAND HER STAYING IN IS TO ACCOMPLISH BEING APPOINTED TO A HIGH POSITION, PERHAPS SUPREME COURT.

  2. Right on to #1 by PatriotMom. The Clintons should be personas non grata and just do like MacArthur did and just fade away…

    BTW – did you know that Bill is now pimping out Chelsea as a prez candidate in 2016??? This man has no shame whatsoever!

    Regards,
    Peter H.

  4. Re #6: Republicans promised to fix healthcare in 2000 and 2004. If they had done so I highly doubt they would be in the position they are now. nonetheless, its WAY too late to start “looking” for free market solutions. Republicans need to have them, and be able to explain to Americans exactly how they will bring down the cost of healthcare or we are getting socialized medicine.

    Re #9: This is perhaps my biggest pet peeve ever! It is not the job of the judiciary to “interpret the Constitution!” The Constitution is clearly written in beautifully plain English: it needs no interpretation. It is the job of the judiciary to interpret the cases that come before them and apply the Constitution. If the Constitution is silent on an issue it is their job to do nothing. “interpreting” the Constitution is what judicial activism is.

  5. American Elephant is right! The role of a judge is to apply the law and to make sure it conforms to the Constitution, not the other way around!

  6. To American Elephant, #4 — Then you probably agree with Justice Scalia that no restraints can be put on the government’s right to monitor our conversations by wiretopping or other means because “conversations” are not specifically cited in the Bill of Rights amendments to the Constitution.

    And you would probably strongly disagree with Chief Justice Roberts who not long ago said the Court might have to update its rulings on search warrants, etc., because of advances in technology, including devices that can “see” through the walls of buildings and give police an idea of what’s going on inside.

  7. To American Elephant, #4 — Then you probably agree with Justice Scalia that no restraints can be put on the government’s right to monitor our conversations by wiretopping or other means because “conversations” are not specifically cited in the Bill of Rights amendments to the Constitution.

    I agree with a policy that scans/targets communications under suspicion of being related to attacks on Americans/ in America/ our foreign interests.

    We’re at war.

    The people plotting against us are not criminals, they’re warriors and need to be counter-acted in a war footing.

    I dont believe any of the intellegence not under the cover of a warant should be permissible in criminal court. This the protection against prosecution by the government with illegal evidence.

    I dont believe our enemies should be sent to criminal court.. instead to military court.

    This is entirely consistant with the Consitution.

    And you would probably strongly disagree with Chief Justice Roberts who not long ago said the Court might have to update its rulings on search warrants, etc., because of advances in technology, including devices that can “see” through the walls of buildings and give police an idea of what’s going on inside.

    Depends on the purpose.. is it for intellegence.. or is it for a court prosecution. You dont distinguish.

  8. Vince P is right: the Constitution is there to protect Americans from the abuses of their gov’t, not to protect our enemies and make us vulnerable to them!

  9. Trace,

    Would you please provide me the quotes you are referring to. I can tell right off the bat that you are misrepresenting what Scalia said.

    And it doesn’t sound as if Roberts is talking about interpreting the constitution at all, it sounds as if hes talking about applying it. suspect I will agree with both their decisions and that they both woulg agree with me.

  10. It’s a great list, of course. And we’re at a point in our history where all of these proposals are based on what we know WORKS and is RIGHT. This isn’t a list of untested, think-outside-the-box, cross-your-fingers proposals that are worth a try to find solutions to our greatest problems. For example, drill in ANWR, gas prices go down, as does our dependence on Islamo-psychos for oil–just 8th grade, tried-and-true economics.

    What’s REALLY depressing is going back and reading the list item by item because that’s when you suddenly remember…oh yeah, the liberals are against EVERY SINGLE PROPOSAL. All of it sounds like Nazism to them. School vouchers? A direct assault on our nation’s schools. Build nuclear power plants? Are you crazy?! You’ll kill us all! Not to mention that they would dismiss the entire list out of hand simply because it was prepared by that neocon fascist, Sean Hannity. Oh yeah, and I’ll bet they QUESTION THE TIMING of the list too!

    I can’t believe this is where we are. That 7 years after 9/11, the front-running Democrat’s solution to terrorism is to sit down and “talk” with Islamo-psychotics because it’s more important that we “restore our standing in the world” than blow these animals to kingdom-come. Looking at this list, I finally realize, it’s the Republicans who really want CHANGE.

  11. Speaking of Lists of things that Leftists/Regressives won’t let us do.. here is an email I sent to my God-awful Senator , the vile little Dick Durban in response to his obsene performance at the Senate hearing with the oil execs:

    You are an embarrassment. I heard your outrageous questions to the oil executives yesterday acting as if they’re the reason for the price of oil.

    It’s your fault oil is high. Apparently you don’t understand supply and demand. You’re doing your best to get demand to go down by demonizing anyone who drives a car but you’re doing even better cutting off supply

    – Can’t drill in ANWR
    – Can’t drill off the coast in FL or CA even though China, Venezula and Cuba are
    – You’re going to implement some Stalinist cap and trade system to cripple industry, and the EPA says will increase the price of gas by $1.50/gal
    – You’re shutting down oil production in Colorado
    – Oil shale fields in the West are off-limits
    – You passed a stupid law enabling OPEC to be sued… as if they’ll just sit back and take it and not do anything in response
    – You allow oil companies to be sued for possible / alleged harm to Eskimos, similar to tobacco lawsuit/settlement
    – Indirectly put the Polar Bear on the endangered list
    – Going to tax “windfall profits” which obviously will be passed down to me
    – Have allowed some drilling in some very small areas in Alaska while simultaneously creating very generous environmental laws which have tied up the very production you authorized through years of litigation
    – Created and prolonged policies that have resulted in no new refineries in 30 years
    – The operational number of refineries today is half that in 1982
    – Established policies detrimental to nuclear and hydroelectric electrical production
    – No coal-to-oil innovation
    – Allowing States to dictate their own blends of gasoline, fragmenting production even more
    – Will not reduce the Federal gas tax, not even for summer.

    And you’re going to blame them? Disgrace.

  13. Sean, it suddenly occured to me, reading your post… the best way to get nuclear power in America? Get the French to start mocking us for not utilizing it! They get more than 70% of their power from nuclear, they love any opportunity to look down their noses at us, and libs wouldn’t be able to bear the disapproval!

  15. LOL. The Republicans were in full control of 2 branches of government from early 2001 to early 2007. 6 years and what did they accomplish? not too much in the list I see here. Folks are getting a better clue that all that feel good stuff they heard is a lot of baloney.

    Look at 1d: We heard a lot of blather about supporting our troops, but congressional support of the rank and file military was undercut at every turn both in combat (families having to scrape money together to get necessary items like bullet-proofing) to deplorable conditions at home (low benefits, deplorable conditions at veterans hospitals). I was appalled to read about our simpleton-in-chief talking about a moment of silence tomorrow – at the same time he, his administration and the pentagon roundly oppose legislation (being pushed now by democrats, thank you very much) that would give better, ongoing, material support.

    7d: Vouchers: Proved over and over again to be a failure to ordinary citizens. In places where they’ve been used, vouchers essentially ended up being discount coupons to families who were financially well-off enough to afford private schools for their kids.

    Full Republican control of both the legislative and executive branches of government did nothing but slowly erode the quality of life of people of this nation. It did nothing but further the “rich get richer” agenda of the super-wealthy. In nearly every point made here, the problems can be whittled down to the lack of money: too many tax cuts for the wealthy did nothing but to remove more financial resources from not only use by the government but from the economy at large as well. The US economy stinks right now and we’re in a huge recession now. go republicans!

    Sorry folks, but you had your chance – time for a change.

  16. Full Republican control of both the legislative and executive branches of government did nothing but slowly erode the quality of life of people of this nation

    Well if the Democrats increase their office holdings then the quality of life will erode much more quickly. Or are you going to seriously suggest that the Democrats are goign to be any less irresponsible than the Republicans?

    What a laugh. The Democrats , i swear, are systematically trying to turn this country into a energy-starved dependent third-world shithole.

    Name me ONE thing that doesn’t include increasing taxes that the Democrats are going to do?

    name one.

  18. Thomas Sowell has a great article explaining why idiots like Kevin are nothing but ignorant demogogues when they use that old chestnut about the “rich get richer”.

    Dangerous Demagoguery: Part II

    http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2008/01/22/dangerous_demagoguery

    Among the many lies we can expect to hear this election year, none will be bigger or more often repeated, in the media as well as by politicians, than the lie that there is a widening income gap between the rich and the poor.

    Why is that a lie …

    First of all, there is a fundamental difference between statistical categories and flesh-and-blood human beings.

    When there is a growing disparity between one statistical category and another statistical category over time, that does not mean that there is a corresponding growing disparity between flesh-and-blood human beings over time, since human beings move from one statistical category to another.

    …

    The even bigger joker is that taxpayers whose incomes were in the bottom 20 percent in 1996 had a 91 percent increase in incomes by 2005.

    Meanwhile, taxpayers in the top one-hundredth of one percent — “the rich” or “superrich” if you believe politicians and the media — had their incomes drop by 26 percent over those very same years.

    Obviously, when millions of people’s incomes nearly double in a decade, many of them move up out of the bottom income bracket. Similarly, when other people who were at the top see their income drop by about one-fourth, many of them drop out of that bracket.

    …

    Yet politicians and the media treat people and statistical categories as if they were the same thing.

    …

    Moreover, a study conducted at the University of Michigan, following the same individuals over an even longer span of time, likewise found most people moving from income bracket to income bracket over time — especially among those who began in the bottom 20 percent.

    The University of Michigan Panel Survey on Income Dynamics showed that, among people who were in the bottom 20 percent income bracket in 1975, only 5 percent were still in that category in 1991. Nearly six times as many of them were now in the top 20 percent in 1991.

    …

    Among the intelligentsia, it is fashionable to sneer at income mobility as a “Horatio Alger myth” — and, as someone once said, you cannot refute a sneer. But, among people who have not yet abandoned facts for rhetoric, it is worth stopping to consider whether they are being played for fools by politicians and much of the media.

    And ignorant cliche-believing deceivers like Kevin.

  19. 17: LOL. I’m sure Roy Cohn would be proud of you. Don’t like that someone disagrees with your ideas? Just call ’em a commie!

    18: yes, and the civility in public discourse continues to march on.

  21. Vince P, I am one of those people who was born into the lowest quintile and worked my way to the upper quintile. The real world is a great prophylactic against the shrill cluelessness of folks like Kevin.

  23. Just remember, if it is good for America, it’s bad for the DNC. And vice versa.

    I’ve quoted this line before and I’ll quote it again: liberals love America the way OJ loved Nicole.

    Checkmate.

    Regards,
    Peter H.