The Kentucky, Tennessee and South Carolina Tea party Tests are discussed toward the end:

Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Rand Paul and a few others, did a better job at exposing the *real* side, the hidden side of the establishment Republicans, than ever before.
That –regardless of the pain in recognition– is a big win.
Rule #1 in any conflict is KNOW YOUR ENEMY.   I have personally always explained it a little further, saying:  Know your enemy, not as they wish to be known, but rather as they know themselves.

I do not believe that Senator McConnell was responsible for the "anomaly" earmark for the Olmsted Dam project in last night's budget deal

— John McCain (@SenJohnMcCain) October 17, 2013

When you know your enemy as he knows himself – you are able to see all of the associations and intents clearly. The distant horizon gets much closer and you do not to spend time trying to analyze the back-lit shadow.
When the enemy is known as they know themselves – you can make strategic decisions in your own best interests, and you don’t have to waste time identifying all those angles normally considered when you are in a relationship of tenable trust.
Secondly, failure to accept the intent of the enemy does not protect you from it.   Being blind to the intentions of your opposition is automatic entry into a room of weakness because you will always be evaluating yourself from a position of risk management.
Being fully aware of the intents of the opposition allows you to draw bold distinctions based on principle; and empowers your decisionmaking from a position of strength.  There is, quite simply, no longer anything to fear, and solutions become far easier to determine.
Sarah Palin pens an article for Breitbart which outlines the following conclusion: (more…)

RT @reidpillifant: Pete King calls for a Republican war on Ted Cruz http://t.co/ONBx8oUGbj

— Pete King (@RepPeteKing) October 16, 2013

New York […] To King, the fault doesn’t lie broadly with Congress, but falls squarely on Cruz and his 30 or 40 “acolytes,” who put pressure on other Republicans.
“I think it’s important for people in the Republican Party around the country not to just come in at the end and say, ‘Congress was dysfunctional,’ or ‘Congress screwed up.’ That’s too easy to do,” King said. “Say who it was. Because it wasn’t Congress. It was one person who was able to steamroll Congress and unless we target him for what he is, he’s going to do it again. So I’m hoping other Republicans will join me and start going after this guy, and say we’re not going to let it happen again.” (more…)

The Old and Busted politically dependent, self-serving corruptocrats

The New Principle-Centered Leaders !

We shall crawl naked over broken glass if needed, and do everything we can to defeat every single establishment Republican in the 2014 election.  Beginning with Mitch McConnell (Kentucky) and Lyndsey Graham (South Carolina).

• The big government freedom-destroying Democrats and Decepticons said the Sequester cuts would be the ‘end-of-the-world’ type painful.
It wasn’t, no-one noticed the cuts – they were Chicken Little.
• The big government freedom-destroying Democrats and Decepticons said the federal government shutdown would be ‘end-of-the-world’ type painful.   Having learned from the Chicken Little sequester narrative, they moved to insure this time it would be more visible and painful.
Yet, it really wasn’t, the cuts weren’t even noticed except on TV – Just more Chicken Little.
• The big government freedom-destroying Democrats couldn’t allow the debt ceiling breech cuts to take place because the American people would see it’s all just more Chicken Littling.  So:

You can read about the “DEAL” HERE.
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We knew sooner or later someone in the media would pick up on this.  It appears Forbes is the first large media outlet to share what we have outlined for the past two weeks.  

The HHS website issues/flaws stem from the structural design to keep users from recognizing their cost. 

Forbes Magazine – A growing consensus of IT experts, outside and inside the government, have figured out a principal reason why the website for Obamacare’s federally-sponsored insurance exchange is crashing. Healthcare.gov forces you to create an account and enter detailed personal information before you can start shopping. This, in turn, creates a massive traffic bottleneck, as the government verifies your information and decides whether or not you’re eligible for subsidies. HHS bureaucrats knew this would make the website run more slowly. But they were more afraid that letting people see the underlying cost of Obamacare’s insurance plans would scare people away.

HHS didn’t want users to see Obamacare’s true costs – “Healthcare.gov was initially going to include an option to browse before registering,” report Christopher Weaver and Louise Radnofsky in the Wall Street Journal. (more…)

The Democrats want to add removal of the “Sequester Cuts” into the budgetary maneuvers.  Essentially, last year the Dem’s made a strategic blunder;  thinking they had the Republicans backed into a corner with the following proposition:  ‘Either raise taxes *OR* watch horrible cuts to Defense spending”.  
What Dem’s didn’t realize at the time was the strength of the conservative pressure on the traditional GOP.   As a consequence the “Sequester” was not seen as unpalatable as Harry Reid thought, the common sense conservative electorate shrugged off the threat and said fine let the future military spending shrink – and retain tax rates. 
The outcome was Dem’s proclaiming the Sequester was the end of the world.  It didn’t end.  And so today….. 

(Baseline for discussion stems from Reuters Article Outline ) – Some U.S. senators said they were closing in on a deal Monday that would reopen the government and push back the deadline on the hard Debt Ceiling/Spending decisions for several months, though many hurdles remained as a Thursday 10/17 deadline drew near. (more…)

Every time we see the media lie and hide behind this talking point…:

‘Obamacare is a law passed by congress, signed by the president, and upheld by the Supreme Court’.

….we will highlight the falsehood and update with recent events.

This week NBC’s David Gregory used it in an interview of Senators’ Dick Durbin-(D) and Rob Portman-(R):

Let me just raise this issue about ObamaCare, because I want to come back to that. One of the issues is that for conservatives, this has been such a huge issue, even though the law’s been passed and upheld by the court, they still argue, “No, there’s a basis to really try to make it better, to replace it, to get rid of it.” – David Gregory on Meet The Press

FIRST WATCH THIS VIDEO:  [<— It has not been seen enough]

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Another video from today’s Veterans’ March shows another angle at confrontation with the regime.
What I find interesting is how the liberal left, who supported the entire construct of the Occupy Wall Street movement, now find themselves demanding the police begin to attack the protesters.   The same people who rallied for visible confrontation for their Occupy cause’s are now the same people proclaiming the Tea Party is just too aggressive in their voice demanding freedom and reduction in government influence.

It’s an interesting psychological reconciliation on display. It will be further interesting to see how the media covers it.
The parasite Occupiers who, in vast majority and their own comfortable proclamation, did not pay federal taxes and yet were demanding more government benefits, rec’d warm underdog treatment from the liberal media as they confronted the regime.   So how will the media cover increasingly frustrated tax payer expressions from those within ‘middle America’ who ultimately are the providers of the underwriting?
Lastly, as you review the media response, imagine for just a minute that George W Bush was still in the White House against the backdrop of these confrontations. How would that change their coverage?

Heroic pit bull, Jack, took on a pack of coyotes to save his cat best friend from certain death…

FLORIDA – Jack is no ordinary Pit Bull. ‘Jack is a  hero,’ says his Florida owner Sherrie Lewis. The dog protected Lewis’ cat, named  Kitty, from a bunch of coyotes.
‘As I was walking to the door, I could see  the coyotes over here,’ she motioned.
‘It happened in an instant at the Seminole  neighborhood. One had her by the neck and the other had her by the tail,’ she  told My Fox Tampa  Bay.
Jack ran as fast as he could to defend  Kitty.  Jack attacked the coyotes who eventually let go of their injured  prey. (more…)