Tea Party RoundTable urges you to not vote for Romney.

A young bright star was extinguished on March 19, 2011.  Army Spc. Rudy Acosta a 19 year old from Santa Clarita was killed by a foreign national paid to guard our troops in battle.

Mr. Holt sites a letter from our Congressman Buck McKeon which was sent to the Signal and to Leon Panetta, our Secretary of Defense.  In it apparently Congressman McKeon expresses his “disappointment” about how long it took to get the report, and he “identified several areas and procedures that could be improved to prevent future insurgent attacks of this nature.”

Are you kidding me?  This is absurd and patronizing first to the Acosta family and secondly to us, whom the Congressman is suppose to represent!

First, let’s fix the immediate issue.  Don’t let citizens of nations that we’re at war with guard our troops.  Rather have either our troops guard themselves or at least US private contractors … Duh!  This is simply common sense.  Would you have criminal street gangs guard our police and sheriff stations?  Would you have child molesters guard our schools?

This is not a complex issue requiring committee meetings and reports.  When our troops are eating meals, sleeping, or enjoying some much needed down time, they should not have to worry that the person guarding them might kill them.

Second, the bigger issue … massive governmental incompetence from our local Congressman to the Secretary of Defense.

Congressman McKeon is the “Chairman of the Committee of Armed Services” for goodness sake!  Assuming he’s being truthful (which I doubt) this means that our government is completely inept.  If the Chairman of the Committee of Armed Services can’t get a simple report from the military than who can?

Moreover, according to the story the report was actually completed on April 14.  That means that Congressman McKeon sat on his hands for 8 months!  He should have demanded that as soon as the report was completed it is to be delivered to his desk.  Or at minimum McKeon should have been checking regularly on the status of the report, clearly he was not.

So what then was the catalyst causing the Chairman of the Committee of Armed Services to check on such an important report?  Well, he received on Friday, December 16, the day after the Signal reported a story on this issue, and three days after McKeon’s Chief of Staff was confronted by Mr. Acosta (Rudy’s dad) at a local GOP event.

Apparently it takes public disclosure of their incompetence for the McKeon machine to do their job.  Congressman McKeon has a duty to provide oversight to our military.  He is our voice to protect our young men and women serving in the military.  Congressman McKeon has a duty to provide answers to a grieving family in his district.  He has failed on both accounts.

It’s time to vote out Congressman McKeon and replace him with someone who will do their job!

Strategically it makes sense.  Look at Brett Favre.  He teetered for several years.  Finally he was forced out (although he didn’t take the hint, and went to another team).  If the Packers held on to Favre for nostalgic reasons, or if they believed that only Favre could carry the torch they would never have had the rise of the amazing Aaron Rodgers … they wouldn’t be in the midst of an undefeated season … they wouldn’t be the defending Super Bowl champions!

Buck McKeon is our Brett Favre!  It’s time for him to hang up his hat.  It’s time find a new champion to carry the conservative torch.  Buck’s effectiveness is waning.  He lacks influence.  He’s not connected to us anymore.  He is part of the political ruling class (especially now with his desire to put his unqualified wife in the seat vacated by Cameron Smyth).

We need a change.  We need someone who will listen to us, respond to us and represent us!  Surely we can find someone with the passion and desire to make a difference for us as our Congressman.

What do you think?  Is there someone out there who can lead?

Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor; and whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me "to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness."

Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of November next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold mercies and the favorable interpositions of His providence in the course and conclusion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted; for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and, in general, for all the great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon us.

And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations, and beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions; to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually; to render our National Government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed; to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations (especially such as have shown kindness to us), and to bless them with good governments, peace, and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and us; and, generally, to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as He alone knows to be best.

Given under my hand, at the city of New York, the third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine.

G. Washington.

Moreover, these states also suffer the greatest casualties from gangs, drug trafficking and human trafficking.  If it’s this easy for thugs to illegally cross the border undetected how much more is it for terrorists who plan for years their strategies?

We must deal swiftly and resolutely with the border issue for our security and economic survival.  However we also need to figure out what to do with those illegal immigrants who have come here just to work and have been here for many years.  Many of them have raised families, which adds to the economic burden but must be acknowledged.

The crime of illegally immigrating to the United States must be punished, and it can be done in a humane way using common sense and justice.  Here’s my simple idea:

1. If you’ve been here for less than 10 years with no criminal history you get deported with an option to return legally.

2. If you have been convicted of any felony you get deported and refused re-entry permanently.

3. If you’ve been here for longer than 10 years with no criminal history you are given temporary transitional visas under the following guidelines:

• You must acquire legal residency within 5 years
• You’re wages are garnished for back taxes of $4,000 per year, split evenly between the state and federal government (that would be equivalent to what they would have paid in federal taxes if they earned about $27,000 annually)
• Any felony conviction results in immediate deportation with permanently refused re-entry

I’m sure this plan is not perfect, but let’s bring some sanity to this problem and solve it!
 

If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then the Occupy contingent would be more closely aligned with Al-Qaeda.

Al-Qaeda has for years targeted Wall Street as the source of capitalism, greed and materialism.  Occupy … ditto.

Al-Qaeda implemented plans to disturb or destroy Wall Street.  Occupy … ditto.

Al-Qaeda has engendered support from the national mainstream media and the left (same thing).  Occupy … ditto.

Clearly Al-Qaeda and Occupy have differing motivations however their target and goals seem identical.  The problem is that if they achieve their goal then our economic and political system will be vulnerable to the agendas of both the Occupy misfits and the Al-Qaeda terrorists.

Are you grateful that you can worship or not as you want? – Thank a Vet

Are you glad that you speak English instead of German or Japanese? – Thank a Vet

Are you excited to publicly express being gay? – Thank a Vet

Are you empowered because you can vote? – Thank a Vet

Are you thankful that you can sit in front of a government building for weeks demanding to be given benefits paid for by the very people you complain about, while other men and women are sitting thousands of miles away from their homes risking their lives in some stinking desert? – Thank a Vet!

My dear young friend, It’s not a “bubble” it’s a value system.  If someone is Republican they might be either liberal or conservative.

If you are liberal you believe that the federal government has the primary responsibility to protect you and provide for your needs.  They believe we are protected by government regulations, and we are provided for by taking money out of your paycheck and giving some of the money you’ve earned to other people.

If you are conservative you believe that the federal government’s responsibilities are outlined and limited to what is in the Constitution and the subsequent Amendments.  Specifically:

• Protecting citizens God-given rights (on-going)
• National Defense (on-going)
  
• Establishing Federal Courts (done)
  
• Copyright Protection (on-going)
  
• Establishing a national set of weights and measures (done)
  
• Establishing Post Office (on-going)
  

Everything else should be taken care of by the individual citizen or the state government.

The problem with getting outside a “bubble” is that requires destroying the bubble … and that bubble can never be restored.

If you think that you should make the decision about who to help with your money and how much you should give them, then you my young friend are not liberal, you are conservative.

Currently there is a man, a husband, a father of two, sitting in prison waiting for his execution.  His crime?  He’s a Christian in a Muslim country.

Youcef Nadarkhani an Iranian citizen has been tried and convicted in the Iranian judicial system for being a Christian.  He was given three chances to deny his faith in Jesus to spare his life … He did not recant.

Congress has launched a major bipartisan effort to empower Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton to apply political pressure to Iran for this crime against humanity.  To date 39 Congressmen have signed it.  However, my Congressman, the “Conservative” Howard P. Buck McKeon (R CA-25) has not!

Buck I can’t understand why you would be silent on this important issue.

As my representative in Washington I demand that you make my voice heard and sign this letter!  If you refuse I will do all I can to replace you with someone who will represent me … Mr. Congressman you represent me, not your interests.  You work for me and I will fire you and replace you if you don’t do your job!
 

The Second Amendment reads, “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”

Thus our right to keep and bear arms is not to hunt or to keep thugs from stealing our stuff … it’s to have citizens armed with weapons and able to form militias to protect our State from oppressive governments!

Funny how it seems to get back to an out of control Federal government usurping the rights of individuals and States.