Month: January 2014

 I’m addicted to it.  If I don’t get a daily dose I’m depressed and irritable.  On days when I get a double or triple shot I’m in a great mood.

I’m talking about news stories or analyses that predict doom for Obamacare.  Right now there’s a lot of chatter about the death spiral that will take place because not enough young and healthy people are signing up.  It all makes sense to me.  I know they’ll be bringing out all the pop stars and such to convince these kids to sign up.  I’m betting it doesn’t work.  We’ll see.

The problem the D’s have is that Obamacare is little more than a massive scheme of wealth redistribution.  Take $ from the middle class and give it to the lower class.  It’s not a winner, politically, so it was marketed fraudulently.  They lied, repeatedly, and deliberately, with all the sincerity and conviction they could muster.  And now their lies have personally impacted tens of millions of relatively apolitical voters.  Will these people remember all this come November?  Early signs are that the R’s get it.  Clear the deck of other issues.  Let November be all about Obamacare.  This explains the budget deals the R’s are making in D.C.  They’re giving up on a lot, but they have to in order to get a deal.  Do what you have to do to clear the deck — no more shutdowns or other distractions.

The D’s are pushing income equality.  Good luck with that — but it’s about all they’ve got, other than racism.  A family that lost its health insurance and is forced into an inferior and expensive alternative isn’t going to vote based on someone else’s income inequality.

It all adds up to the tsunami I’ve been feeling in my bones the last three months.

When is the media going to pay the price for their criminal negligence in failing to expose the lies of Obama?  A gradual process, I guess; a slow awakening that the networks are completely full of it.  Gotta happen.

Without the media to cover for them, the D’s would be toast.

We are advised today by Virginia Rep. Jim LeMunyon that the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Bill Goodlatte, has volunteered to send letters of support on our behalf to state legislative leaders around the country.  This is huge.  Mainly because one of the points naysayers make against us is that once we get to 34 Congress will then step in to control, or sabotage, the whole enterprise.  This fear is based on ignorance and paranoid fantasy.  The fact that the House Judiciary Chairman says this is all bullshit will carry some weight.  We’re drafting a letter fro Goodlatte to sign, and will provide him with names and addresses of legislative leaders in target states.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has come out in full support of the BBA through Article V.  He’s not real popular with the Republicans in the LA legislature, so it’s not like he’ll push this through for us.  But it does, once again, demonstrate the political attractiveness of embracing our effort.  Jindal is usually mentioned as one of those Governors who could get the R nomination, along with Christie, Walker, Pence, and Kasich.  With him now on board, and Walker shortly to follow (I think) we’ll have a solid base of support in Presidential candidates.  I don’t care about Christie.  The media talk him up, and he’s ahead in some polling, but it’s all bullshit.  Christie won’t get the nomination.  The NRA will see to that.

For the second time lately, a piece in the American Thinker talked about Article V, giving the CoS position its approval.  For the second time, I submitted a comment pointing out the superiority of the BBA4USA approach.  And for the second time my comment was deleted.  The boys at AT are in the tank for Mike Farris of CoS, I’m betting.  No biggie.  Time will tell.  And the truth will out.

And the truth is, we’re picking up steam.

Every four years, right before a Presidential election, Republicans are always worried about an “October surprise”, some last minute attack on our candidate.  They did it to Bush in 2000 with the DUI story.  Almost worked.  They did it to the elder Bush in 1992, with the indictments of Weinberger et al by the Special Prosecutor.  That did work.  In 2016, no matter who our candidate is, we’ll worry about it again. 

How come we never spring any October surprises on the Democrats?  Partly because of the biased media, but that’s not a good enough answer. 

It sure looks like Ms. Hilary is the D choice for 2016.  There’s so much dirt on her in Arkansas that it makes me think there might be a little surprise for her in there somewhere.  Or later in her career.  There are a lot of people who can’t stand her, starting with Dick Morris.  I wouldn’t be surprised if the old toe licker isn’t scheming right now about how he can stab her in the back.

Who knows, maybe I’ll get a chance to talk to him about it someday.

Money is a problem, and it shouldn’t be.  I get very upset about this.  I just got an email from Co-founder Dave Biddulph (A Great Living American) who says a source of funding they were counting on may not be available.  Dave said we’ll just use his credit card to keep the IAmAmerican team working the grass roots.

This is bullshit.  Dave is not a wealthy man . He should not have to do this.

Our problem is a lack of credibility.  The people with the money, who should be funding this thing, don’t actually take it seriously.  Once we get to 28 or 29, people will figure it out.  That we’re for real.  That we can do this.  Then the money will flow, and things will get a lot easier.  I told Dave at ALEC that any money he puts in should be in the form of a loan.  When the money does start coming in, Dave can get paid back.  I feel very strongly about that.

Will things really get easier when we get within four or five of 34?  Maybe not.  It won’t just be our donors who figure things out.  The dark side will figure it out too.  They’ll see us as the threat we are, and they’ll do anything to stop us. 

Things could get interesting.

Good talk with Sen. Marv Hagedorn (Idaho).  There was some miscommunication between him and Lauren Enns of IAmAmerican about a presentation to Idaho Tea Party people.  I think we straightened it all out.  Marv says he wants to wait until later in the session, when our Resolution is “ripe”, for me to appear on a couple of Boise radio talk shows.  He mentioned that he, along with a whole bunch of other Republican legislators, are being primaried by the Tea Party.  They’re hard core in Idaho.  By sponsoring our Article V resolution, and hopefully getting it passed, he and the others should earn themselves some credit with Idaho Tea Party types.  I hope it helps him.  He sure seems conservative enough to me.

Also talked with Rep. Roger Jackson in Maine.  No hope for us there, this year, with the D’s in charge.  But if 2014 goes the way 2010 did, we’ll be knocking on Maine’s door, and Roger will be back in the majority.  His conservative caucus has been reading some Convention of States literature, and were concerned about the latitude a convention might have.  I explained that BBA4USA has a tightly focused approach, one thing at a time, and he immediately understood.  This is confirmation of what we see as a huge weakness in the CoS strategy.  They want the Convention to have the authority to propose any amendment that cuts back the power of the federal government.  All well and good, but it’s too wide open for a lot of people.  The sooner the CoS guys see the error of their ways, and join up with us, the better.

Cold emailed the co-chairmen  of Young Americans for Liberty in Kentucky and Minnesota.  Be nice if they get back to me.  Bread upon the waters.  Found out they had a special election for a Kentucky House seat last month.  The seat flipped Republican, so now we only need a pickup of four, and Kentucky is ours!

My pal Rep. Hal Wick in South Dakota informed me he wants me to drive to Aberdeen for a talk show gig while I’m in state.  So he’s got me flying in to Rapid City for a talk show or two, then drive 193 miles to Pierre to meet the legislators, and, hopefully, the Governor.  Then he apparently wants me to drive four hours northwest up to Aberdeen.  Then about a five hour drive to Sioux Falls for a show, then 90 miles south to Yankton, then back to Sioux Falls for a flight home.  This is ridiculous.  Hal’s a great guy, and I’m earning some cred by doing this whole South Dakota thing in the dead of winter, but come on! 

What the hell does Hal think I am, some kind of Terminator?