Bartow County Republican Party Meeting Saturday

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Bartow County Republican Party Monthly Meeting Saturday

Bartow County Republican Party Meeting

DATE: Saturday, July 25, 2009

TIME: 9:00 AM

LOCATION: Slope's BBQ

1132 N. Tennessee Street, Cartersville

Featured Speaker: Congressman Nathan Deal

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Keeping Up With The World of Politics, Government and Social Issues of the Day

The "coup" that took place in Honduras, which Obama whined was illegal, is no such thing. National Review explains how Honduras is trying to preserve their constitution, and Obama has sided with anti-American Cuba and Venezuela against an ally.

President Obama has increased our national debt more in six months than all presidents between George Washington and George W. Bush combined! And we haven't even passed Cap-and-Tax or the misnamed Health Care Reform yet...

Speaking of Cap-and-Tax, have you seen what the Democrats have funded in the bill that is supposed to save us from global warming? How about an increase in the Earned Income Tax Credit, payments for those making up to 150% of poverty level, and open-ended funding of new Medicare and Social Security payments to deal with job losses and lower tax revenues caused by passage of the bill (huh? I thought we'd gain jobs with the new "green" economy).

Spain has already tried this Cap-and-Trade nonsense and has lost 2.2 jobs for every job created, with unemployment climbing to 18.1%. That's change we can believe in!

As Billy Mays would say, "But wait, there's more!" The Cap-and-Tax bill includes a provision that would send billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to foreign countries so that they won't cut down trees in their countries.

I'm normally a fan of Wal-Mart as being one of the best examples of free-market capitalism, but occasionally they irritate me, such as when they pressure local governments to use unfair exercise of imminent domain. Now I add to the list cynical sucking up...they have done a 180-degree turn on health care reform and now support the Democrats because they know it will make it near impossible for smaller competitors to keep up.

As a result of the NEA (National Educators Association, the nation's largest teachers' union) a very successful washington, D.C. area charter school program is losing its funding. Now those students, along with students of military families and others lose any chance they had that their children will receive anywhere close to the same quality of education as the children of President Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan (who can afford to send their kids to private schools or public schools in affluent areas). The Wall Street Journal exposes the egregious hypocrisy.

I guess this is what Al Gore means when he says the science is settled: One of the world's top polar bear researchers has been banned from the upcoming meeting of the Polar Bear Specialist Group because he said that his research shows that, far from declining due to global warming, polar bear populations are now higher than they were 30 years ago. He was told that his views are "extremely unhelpful" and contrary to the political views of the group.