Midnight Blue Says

Captain Larry Bailey, SEAL, USN (Ret.) presented to the citizens of New Mexico an open letter exposing the fraud of Adam Kokesh.  Adam Kokesh is running as a Republican candidate for the 3rd congressional district of New Mexico.  A Republican…now you know why I am conservative.

Captain Bailey spent time talking to G. Gordon Liddy about  the mired history of Adam Kokesh.  You can listen in HERE

Captain Bailey – Luv Ya!

You can read Captain Bailey’s letter below the fold:

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Last week I read an article posted on Time.com speculating on which GOP candidates would be the next Scott Brown. Realizing Time is not known for fair reporting on the GOP or the Teaparty movement, I laughed out loud (LOL) at Pat Meehan listed as a potential ‘Scott Brown’.

Pat Meehan is a longtime GOP hack who initiated charges against former Representative Curt Weldon. His efforts have paid off, Pat has been tapped by the GOP to run for Curt’s former seat in Pennsylvania’s 7th district. All fun aside, news items like this should make one pause and take a closer look at candidates vying for Congressional seats in Pennsylvania and across the nation.

Scott Brown’s stunning win in Massachusetts (not Massachusettes) sent tectonic ripples through both parties. In three consecutive elections, Americans voted for a change in leadership they thought they voted for in November 2008. After the MA special election, many GOP candidates have been quick to adopt the brand of ‘Independent Leadership’ into their campaign. As this political tsunami breaks across campaigns, it would be wise to take a close look at the candidates allowing themselves to be swept up in this tidal wave. Too often voters elect candidates who claimed to be concerned about the cost of government and when sent to DC, betrayed the voters trust. Pennsylvania has witnessed this closer to home at the state level with the ‘Clean Sweep’ movement a few years back. Today, the stakes are far greater and the impact of sending a political opportunist to DC would be devastating.

With this in mind, lets take a closer look at the Republican candidates vying for a chance to run for a seat in the 6th congressional district in Chester County, Pennsylvania. This is a contentious race, with a stunning turnaround by the man who occupies the seat, Jim Gerlach,who bowed out of the Governors race to campaign for his congressional seat. This action forced the best candidate for the 6th congressional district to leave the race. In the interest of disclosure, I supported Curt Schroder’s campaign and will do so again when he decides to run for the seat in the future. For me there is no better candidate in this race. That being said, lets get to the candidates.

Jim Gerlach can best be described as the devil we know. An establishment politician who has a voting record that you can review at Project VoteSmart.

Pat Sellers, a Ron Paul organizer who favors a narrowly defined foreign policy and suspects Bin Laden is dead. Many red flags around a candidate who favors fringe foreign policy.

Then there is Steve Welch, a business man running in Pennsylvania’s 6th district. Since he has not held elected office, my opinion is based on the evidence of his past registration and donation records. Let me lay out the facts regarding this candidate:

In 2006, while still registered as Republican, he donated to Democrat Joe Sestak’s campaign. He subsequently changed party affiliation to Democrat after the disastrous 2006 election cycle. In an article in Philly.com from July 2009, Welch explains his donation was born out of frustration with the GOP leadership. He remained a Democrat, voting for Obama in the 2008 Pennsylvania primary and perhaps the General election, until May of 2009. At that time, he changed his party affiliation back to Republican and commenced his campaign in Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional district. It is unclear if his decision to become a Republican again was based on his frustration with DNC leadership. A few months later,the GOP leadership directed him to run in the 6th district and he complied with their request. Yes, this is the same GOP leadership that he was so frustrated with a few years ago.

Some have stated that this is a competitive race and Welch is well financed. In an earlier post , I described the anemic public support for Welch’s campaign in the 6th district based upon donation receipts.

Despite such questionable actions, some groups have been swayed by his updated explanation for voting and financially supporting Democrats as being a ‘foolish vote’. I cannot help but wonder who’s fooling whom? It is irresponsible to ignore these action. His past actions reveal a candidate that is less of an independent leader and more of a political opportunist in the style of Arlen Specter.

With the best qualified candidate out of the race, Republican voters in the 6th district are challenged with an immensely difficult choice. Will they chose an establishment politician, a party jumping political opportunist or a Ron Paul candidate. This is one of the few times I’m glad I live in Philly.

Boston.com reports on comments made by the son of the dead Kennedy:

Kennedy (D-R.I.) told The Hill’s Blog Briefing Room on Thursday, “Brown’s whole candidacy was shown to be a joke today when he was sworn in early in order to cast his first vote as an objection to Obama’s appointment to the (National Labor Relations Board).”

The son of the late U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy alleged that his father’s successor is “in the tank for the Republicans,” but Brown has denied any hidden agenda in moving up by a week his Feb. 11 swearing-in.

With all due respect, Senator Brown has laid out a platform that puts him “in the tank for the American people“. Senator Scott Brown called the remarks ‘mean spiritied’ and I agree.  Patrick Kennedy’s statement provides more evidence of how out of touch with ordinary American are the Democrats these days.

Congressman Mike Pence on the Fiscal Year 2011 Budget - 3.8 Trillion in spending proposals.

You know, Mr. Speaker, when I look at the president’s budget for fiscal year 2011, I think about what Albert Einstein said one time. He said that ‘doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result’ is the very definition of insanity.

Well, after years of runaway federal spending under both political parties, and after promises by this administration of fiscal discipline and reform, the president’s budget more than doubles the debt, it drives spending to a record $3.8 trillion, it pushes the deficit to a record $1.6 trillion, raises taxes by more than $2 trillion by 2020, during the worst recession in 25 years. Despite future spending freezes promised and commissions doesn’t change the fact that by any measure this budget is insane.

The American people know we can’t borrow and spend and bail our way back to prosperity. They know that deficits and debt threaten our prosperity and our posterity.

House Republicans have a better plan, a plan built on hard choices, fiscal responsibility and entitlement reform. “On behalf of our families, on behalf of our economy, we say: let’s reject this irresponsible and unsustainable budget, and lets come together around the principles of fiscal responsibility and reform, and let’s put our house in order.

Check out Better Solutions – a compilation of policy proposals House Republicans have developed and introduced since January, 2009.

It has been one year since President Bush left the White House.  In the space of a year, the nation has come to realize the real measure of this man as the current administration quietly follows in his footsteps.

Andrew Breitbart  - Rethinking Bush

A year after he left office, it looks more and more like others will now not only start appreciating our 43rd president, they might start wishing they helped him when he had the toughest job in the world and they could only wish him ill.

Once again: thanks, President Bush.

Several blogs and Fox News will host coverage of Tuesday’s special election in Massachusetts (not Massachusettes):

Blog Talk Radio: Spin This

73wire

HillBuzz

Fox News

Legal Insurrection *live coverage*

Keep checking in to see the latest on Tuesday’s historic election.  Oh, don’t forget to cast your virtual vote in my Massachusetts Special Election poll.

Interesting News via Politico:

Rep. Jim Gerlach (R-Pa.) announced today that he’s dropping out of the Pennsylvania governor’s race, paving the way for him to run for reelection to his suburban Philadelphia House seat.

….Former newspaper editor Doug Pike (A favorite in Southeast Asia) and Iraq war veteran (read Anti War Veteran) Manan Trivedi have been running for the seat and have put together strong campaigns.

The question remains – will Steve Welch step aside if Gerlach decides to run for his abandoned seat in Chester County or will he vote for the Democrat?

The Republican Ways & Means Committee released a table comparing the Obama Administration’s February 2009 predictions on the number of jobs created by the stimulus law with actual change in state payroll employment through September 2009.

What the numbers reveal is startling, but not surprising:

According to the data, 49 States and the District of Columbia have lost jobs since stimulus was enacted. Only North Dakota has seen net job creation following the February 2009 stimulus. While President Obama claimed the result of his stimulus bill would be the creation of 3.5 million jobs, the Nation has already lost a total of 2.7 million – a difference of 6.2 million jobs.

I don’t think anyone voted for this type of change in 08…right?

Have you seen this video? Another example of the consequences of irresponsible voting. Don’t let this happen in your district in 2010 and 2012.

Hit the Road Jack: Oversight Democrats Run Away From Countrywide Bribe Program Vote:

Via The Hill:

For months Towns has refused Republican requests to subpoena records in the case. Last Thursday Committee Republicans, led by Issa, were poised to force an open vote on the subpoenas at a Committee mark-up meeting. The mark-up was abruptly canceled. Only Republicans showed up while Democrats chairs remained empty.

Republicans charged that Towns canceled the meeting to avoid the subpoena vote. Democrats first claimed the mark-up was canceled due to a conflict with the Financial Services Committee. Later they said it was abandoned after a disagreement among Democratic members on whether to subpoena records on the mortgage industry’s political contributions to Republicans.

A GOP committee staffer captured video of Democrats leaving their separate meeting in private chambers after the mark-up was supposed to have begun. He spliced the video to other footage of the Democrats’ empty chairs at the hearing room, set it to the tune of “Hit the Road, Jack”

Rep. Michele Bachmann answers a heckler: