Watch the Little Things
Former Fed Chairman, Alan Greenberry said a curious thing one time.
He allowed that he followed certain indicators outside of the normal ones you might expect to give him a sense of how the country’s finances were financing.
I could imagine him sitting in his car each day counting the number of freight cars passing by on the morning train. He never said exactly what he was watching…so I suppose that is as good as anything. Could have been how business was going down at the hotdog stand. Who knows? But it put a bug in my ear.
Personally, I find the little things very intriguing. Take my “cuzzin” Alex, my long time friend in mother Russia. Today in my inbox I find a note. He said, simply:
This is a first politician who could say the truth:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57340910-503544/gingrich-sticks-by-comment-calling-palestinians-invented-people/
I didn’t need to follow the link to translate what he was talking about. He was speaking, of course, about Newt’s statement about our friends the Palestinians, hardly any of which wouldn’t give away the chance to have their own nation complete with guaranteed breakfast in bed each morning if only they could add a few Jewish scalps to their hairpiece collection.
Beyond the obvious point cuzzin Alex was making, you will observe that Russians respect powerful American presidents, and Alex respects Newt above all. Unlike a great many of our elected officials, you’re more likely to get truth from a Russian citizen than lies. They may lie out of politeness, but outside of that, they don’t play games.
This is a little thing, to be sure…but it’s a big indicator to me which candidate our foreign friends find worthy.
In other matters, the TV talk yakkers on the other side of the aisle (and not a few on our side) are going through breathless writings and contortions to explain to us simple people what’s REALLY going on….but friends, they over think. The truth is very simple.
As you know, Beck is waiting for George Washington to ride out from behind the monument that bears his name on a white horse to set things right in a troubled nation.
IF Washington did suddenly appear, he wouldn’t be elected if the elites decided to shove him down our throats. He would be elected in a landslide if we thought it was our idea. Likewise, Romney’s problem is not Romney so much as Romney’s friends in the GOP.
This is the year that WE WILL NOT vote like we’re told. This is the year we’ll vote for the MOST conservative candidate that we can find that is electable.
Right now, the choice is overwhelmingly Newt Gingrich, and a big reason he is so popular with us is because he so unpopular with them
Right now the Tea Party is exactly 180 degrees out from the left and the elitists. And this is exactly where we need to be, because a confirmed lib will tell you each and every time who you SHOULD NOT vote for by telling you WHO to vote for. Trust the libs in this. Listen to what they have to say, and then do the exact opposite. It works every time is is tried. Tis a shame it is not tried more often.
Gingrich Veers Into Dangerous Perry Territory – Viva La Newtie
I invited Newt to respond to my open letter…ummn a week ago. I expect he has been busy with his Mexican turkey.
In the meantime, Gingrich got real close to the Perry Zone with his comment that he can’t believe that conservatives are so mean and heartless as to give illegal aliens a bus ticket home if they have been living illegally in the good old USA for 25 years.
When I heard him utter those words, my thoughts harkened back to my imperious open letter where I axed Gingrich if he’d do something dumb despite the wishes of his electorate. I expect this is just such a thing.
Newt says that it makes him real mad whenever anyone uses the word “amnesty” in his presence. However, if they can think of some other word that means the same thing, then that’s perfectly ok. (Ex: Amnistía)
As Rush pointed out last week, suppose an illegal alien from Mexico, Guatemala, or Uranus has been here for 24 years and 11 months. Do we put him and his muchachos and muchachinas on the next mail rocket home?
All that said, I have some news for you. Here is what will happen. Most illegal aliens who swam the Rio Grande, or dropped from a hovering flying saucer will stay in America, if they choose to.
Actually, a lot won’t. They dropped in to make a quick buck before heading home. But those who want to stay…will stay.
Here’s the problem…
If you happen to live in a part of the country where there are no illegal aliens, you have an easier time to say,” Dump ‘em all into a one way freight car south.”
It gets a little more dicey for those of us who have more experience.
Many of us have neighbors, good neighbors, who just happen to be from some other country or planet. Or our kid’s or grandkid’s best pals say ola instead of hello. Many of us have a conflict of interest.
Once you have some heart invested with these pesky invaders, it’s not so simple as to say, “Send ‘em all packing!”
Besides, how do you ship 11 million alien people back to where they came from? There aren’t enough boxcars, Greyhound busses, or spaceships to do it. You can forget that line.
The problem Newt has with me, at any rate, is the way he put it…. You’re heartless if you don’t agree with his cockamamie 25 year plan.
Besides, we ALL know that the courts will, in time, screw it over so badly that everybody who is OUTSIDE the country and doesn’t try to slip into America will be in VIOLATION of the law. Can you imagine 6 billion people being held incommuacado in Gitmo?
Generalissimo Newt’s current plan is unworkable in the extremis. El grande unworkable.
The question arises… Will Newt do something completely stupid and make us live with it? That’s my question.
I submit this 25 year thing is example #1, and he hasn’t even been nominated.
We had three years of really bad medicine from Obama to swallow plus the eight previous of soppy pro illegal legalization with Bush. The LAST thing we want is for another bad medicine giver to get the top office.
Newt has a heap (el grande pile) of explaining to do, and calling conservatives heartless and bad won’t cut it. (Whether he believes it or not.)
Open Letter From AlabamaTeaParty.org To Newt Gingrich Nov 18 2011
I’ve been workin’ on the railroad,
All the live long day.
I’ve been workin’ on the railroad,
Just to pass the time away.
Don’t you hear the whistle blowing?
Rise up so early in the morn…
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Hello Newt,
This is Norm with the AlabamaTeaParty.org website with an open letter to you. I invite your comment.
I have been following your career from the time of the contract until today. Around my house you have always been affectionately known as “Newtie.”
A little about me. I’m a conservative and I vote Republican, sometimes whether I like it or not. I am not affiliated with any Tea Party, but this site has been around nearly from the start of the movement and I know my writing represents the most common thoughts of the group.
The point of my letter to you, briefly, is that, as I see it, being honest, you are THE consummate Washington insider, and the ultimate Republican insider in particular. This is why many folks who think like I do gave you a slow start.
Now that your star has risen, it looks like you have been given the benefit of the doubt and a pass on that pesky past, but it may not last. I believe whether you stall or go all the way depends on the single issue that I’m going to ask you about.
I believe the single most important question for you is this: As the ultimate insider who has spent a great many years rubbing shoulders with the powerful and often anti- Tea Party Republican elite, can we trust you to pursue our (Tea Party) values?
In other words, when push comes to shove, and you are confronted with some inevitable unpopular agenda or the other, and the majority of the Tea Party who has delivered you says, “Whoa up Newt!” …Will you whoa up?
Or will you say, “I am the president and I know what’s best for you, so I will continue to give you something you don’t want.”
Newt, I think you would agree that Tea Party types are smart enough to know when it’s raining, and when some other kind of liquid is falling. As of now, you are in a near complete sync with the Tea Party.
Convince us that you won’t go off the rails on some unpopular tangent (because it’s for our own good) and I believe you will be rewarded with the contract for president.
Convince us that you will be our insider in Washington, and it’s a lead pipe cinch.
I know where you stand on the issues Newt. A simple assurance on my point would mean a great deal to me, and others who think as I do.
Sincerely,
Norm with the AlabamaTeaParty.org.
(You can send a reply to me at me…. ( alabamateaparty AT alabamateaparty.org ) . Give me a way to verify that it’s really from your campaign…a return address, etc. and I’ll print your reply verbatim. Thanks!
