Congratulations on your victory!

It now means nothing.

Remember who put you there. We, the people.

Remember why we sent you there. Because we are done with the way Congress works today.

You were elected because we are giving you a last chance. We hear a lot of promises and platitudes. The fact is, we’ve heard them all before. What we want is for you, our employees, to do the job that we sent you to do.

This consists of basically two ideals, so it shouldn’t be too difficult. First is limited government. Make certain we have one to pass on to our children.

The second is Free Enterprise. Guarantee it without exception.

Not too bad, eh? You even have this handy guide to help you make decisions! We call it the Constitution of the United States. Keep it on you at all times. There are neat little pocket versions available everywhere. Refer to it early and often and you won’t go wrong.

Here’s the catch, though, in exchange for our vote.

There is to be NO compromise, no “spirit of bipartisanship”. Obama and the Democrats will feed you that line so that you may think it is your patriotic duty to work with them. Make no mistake: if you do, you will be working for them. To quote the Admiral, “It’s a trap.”

Get thee to Washington, but keep one ear turned back to your district. Because we want you to fix it up there. But we also want you to listen to us, back here.

Remember, we are watching and waiting, but our patience has run out.

…we make a grave mistake if we believe that tonight these results are somehow an embrace of the Republican party…

Gold star.

The whole speech:

Click here to view the embedded video.

Should you believe, once this heady time of  ”we the people” is past, that you may continue your ruinous and rapacious ways, we here at Simon Jester – and indeed, all across the country – would advise you to think again.

No more “stimulus” that stimulates exactly nothing.

No more government “support” of private industry.

No more pushing through legislation that you freely admit you did not read.

No. More.

Either act like adults charged with the responsible management of this country, instead of drunken teenagers with mom’s credit card, or we will un-elect you at the first opportunity.

Have a nice day.

Washington, D.C. already lords over some 650 million acres, or 29 percent of America’s land. The federal government owns 45.3 percent of California, 48 percent of Arizona, 57.45 percent of Utah, 69 percent of Alaska, and 84.5 percent of Nevada. No state from the Rockies west is less than 30 percent federal, as are Montana and Washington.

I know the Civil War changed a lot of things, but the land grab of the western states to be held in trust or reserve or whatever just doesn’t sit well with me. Who is the Fed to say that they can manage this land better than the states in whose territory the land exists? I beg the next Congress to stop spending shit-tons of money maintaining this land and return it to its respective state. You are not in the real estate business. In fact (not to get me off on a rant here), you really should only be in the national defense business.

Oh, and we have borders, too. Go over there and stop Mexican drug cartels from invading and shooting American citizens on our territorial waters.

From the moment George Washington took the oath of office until Obama did, America had borrowed $9 trillion. Under Obama, it has borrowed $3.2 trillion more, in less than two years.

To me, it is extremely important to remember that it actually started before the Amateur became president, and it isn’t only the Democratic party who is  responsible.

I’m all for a November fire sale:  everything must go!

Subject:  Veto SB 2600

Apparently emboldened by the mass thievery going on at the national level, I see our Florida legislature has taken the policies of our Dear Leader to heart and started grabbing for cash with both greedy little hands.  I am referring, of course, to SB 2600 in which $6 million dollars from the Division of Licensing Concealed Weapons and Firearm Trust Fund has been raided in a move that would make Vikings, Mongols and Tuskens quite proud.  

I am the kind of voter who insists on research, and ordinarily I would quadruple-check anything disseminated by the NRA, however, I am most irritatingly required to rely on the their report of this misappropriation due to the myfloridahouse.gov website’s pitiful coding, which prompts me to download the ASP file that should instead be displaying the full text of the bill.  

I sincerely hope this isn’t by design.  That’s the sort of thing that could cause people to start filing lawsuits.

As a Citizen of this country, as a CCW holder in the state of Florida, I urge you to put an end to this foolishness.  Line-item veto this misappropriation, line-item veto the threat to our state’s education budget if their trust fund theft is circumvented, and shine the light of publicity on the cockroaches that conceived the entire scheme.  Prove to us that you’re different, that you’re not the typical politician, that you deserve your Governorship and a future Senate seat.

Click here to view the embedded video.

A quick precis, Texas declared independence and became their own country in 1836. In the first elections held in this new country, the citizens of the Republic voted to become a member state of the United States, but backbiting and backstabbing and political infighting between Texas and DC prevented it from happening until 1845.  The annexation of Texas to the US was so divisive (including late-night, quorum-free votes in DC to annex the independent nation whether they wanted it or not and using military force if required) that eventually TX and DC decided the only way it could be accomplished was for the Joint Resolution for Annexing Texas to the United States to be passed.  Unfortunately for Gov. Perry, not once in this agreement, nor any subsequent or supplanting documentation, is the right of Texas to secede and become and independent Republic again ever mentioned.

However:

New States of convenient size not exceeding four in number, in addition to said State of Texas and having sufficient population, may, hereafter by the consent of said State, be formed out of the territory thereof, which shall be entitled to admission under the provisions of the Federal Constitution

Nowhere does it say that what these four additional states will be called, where they will be located within the territory of the Republic, how large these states must be, or, and here is the kicker, that they MUST treat to become states of the United States.  That’s right folks, we have ourselves a loophole. Now, let us look at a map:

An argument could be made, not a good one mind you, that Texas already did this when the State of Texas sold off the chunk of land to the US that eventually was incorporated into several other states.  But you would be wrong. At best, it only means that Texas has divided itself ONCE and the Federal government did the dividing.  That still leaves three more states that can be added into the current borders of the State of Texas. (Really it is still four, but I’m trying to throw a bone here since the State of West Texas was later dissolved.)

Nowhere, in any of the eight constitutions that the State of Texas has been under since it first declared independence, seceded from the US and joined the Confederacy, rejoined the Union under Reconstruction, no where, has anything ever been written to disallow the division of Texas into several smaller States.  Further, nowhere does it say that those states have to join the Union if they do separate.

Gov. Perry, your duty seems clear.  You have the power, never once retracted, to divide your State into five States.  You can leave the borders of “Texas” as the city limits of El Paso if you want to do so and divvy up the rest into  New Texas, South Texas, Panhandle Texas, and East Texas.  These four new Texan States would be free to join the Union dependent upon the will of the voters in each area.  Or, you know, to not join.  Personally, I just want to know you are doing for the right reasons.  Your Bill Of Rights has remained more full bodied and well enumerated since the inception of the Republic. (Your current hash of amendments to the Constitution of 1876 is worse than here in FL, and that’s saying something; but that’s another show.)  If you are ready to follow the letter of the law, to stand up to what you see as an over-reaching, over-taxing, power hungry Federal government, do it the right way.  Use the Law correctly:  not as a sword to thrust at your political opponents, but as a shield to protect your citizens.  You have a moral obligation, sir, to do what is right for your people.

And I will stand with you.

This week we have been called racists, bigots, revolutionaries, and sore losers.  That is just what the news broadcasters have called us.  Short sighted celebs have had to go out and make sure that their own vapid excuses for thoughts were heard.  The blogs have been worse, trying to  incite, to intimidate, and following blindly a course that I can’t even begin to understand, let alone consider even remotely intelligent.  But when asked to explain themselves, they go off on tangents, attack the questioner rather than answer the question, and act like the logical answers we are asking for are just too complex for us little people.  We are the chattering masses after all.  Our politicians, the ones who are supposed to have the ENTIRE country’s future in mind, jump right down in the gutter with the blogs and the press. And isn’t it just wonderful that 44′s staff say the Man isn’t even aware of these Tea Parties?

So you know, as far as a week in review goes, there ain’t nothing new here.

We knew before Wednesday that the press wouldn’t get it.  We knew that J9 Gaff-o-tron would react the way she did.  We knew that certain members of our legislature would downtalk it.

Ain’t nothing new here.

Well, here’s something you might not have known.  At the Tampa Tea Party, a woman, a black, and a Cuban, were the speakers.  And they were cheered by the crowd for what they had to say, not because it was politically correct to be polite to minority figures.

Here’s something you might not have known…that CNN reporter who made an ass of herself in the Land of Lincoln is now on an unscheduled vacation.

Here’s something you might not have known… parks and downtowns and courthouses where the Tea Parties were held around the country, were actually cleaner when we left than when we got there.  The crowd was as polite as any you could ask for. “Pardon me, thank you, let me help you with that, please” were the rule, kinda like at a crowded gun show.

One more thing you might not have known:  This Party Is Not Over.

Plans are in the works around the country for more rallies.  Statehouse steps are going to be filled by patriots and malcontents alike.  We are going to keep reminding our hirelings that we are in charge.  We are going to keep voicing our concerns.  We are going to keep writing, emailing, and calling our representatives, to give them the chance to actually represent US.  This time, we had somewhere between 200,000 and 300,000 people show up.  Next time it will larger.  This time, some of our speakers wandered a bit in their message. Next time we are going to focus tighter.  This time, we had Republicans, Democrats, Green Party, Ron Paulers, Constitutioners, and Libertarians all standing together with folks who were none of those things.  Next time, we will have the same thing, only larger.

This. Party. Is. Not. Over.

And now, pictures of the Tampa Tea Party:

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