Sometimes the truth hurts. I look at the Republican Party and I wonder if we have the naïve or the stupid. A year and a half ago, the American media left us for dead as the Democrats led by Barak Obama swept through the November 2008 elections and put the party of Marx firmly in power. As recent as a January Op-Ed piece by Charles M. Blow in the New York Times has the looney left describing the death of the Republican Party and its conservative followers as being “on the wrong side of history. The demographics of the country are rapidly changing, young people are becoming increasingly liberal on social issues, and rigid, dogmatic religious stricture is loosening its grip on the throat of our culture.” Really? Is Mr. Blow describing 1960 or 2010?
The young people of the world have always been more socially liberal. That is part of the psychology of leaving the stages of youth and entering adult hood. I know this without even believing in Freud’s, Piaget’s or others partaking in psycho babble in a clinical way. But, history shows us young people rebel, they spread their wings, they break from what their parents do as norms, they make mistake, get an education, a job, pay absurd taxes and snap back to a conservative reality. Those who don’t follow that pattern go into government, hug trees, question big business and innovation and has a strong want to have everyone just get along. I digress for a reason. The party has been labeled as “dead” and a “regional political party” by more than Mr. Blow and if we do not start becoming the party of solutions, we will be dead.
I long for the days of the Newt Gingrich led Republicans. 8 years and out and let’s get some serious stuff done. Our system by nature is meant to be slow, methodical and wary of swift movements that can take the country by storm but need more thought. With all of Newts faults come a lengthy list of efficient government, partnered with Bill Clinton at times, that produced results. Those results became less effective as those career politicians who vowed to serve only 8 years in self imposed term limits, stayed on for a longer ride. They must have been the most brilliant people in America that we truly could not do without. Here is a list of the fine Republicans who were elected to the House on the premise of the Contract With America’s:

• Charles Bass, NH-02
  Steve Chabot, OH-01
  Tom Davis, VA-11
  Mark Foley, FL-16
  Rodney Frelinghuysen, NJ-11
  Gil Gutknecht, MN-01
  Doc Hastings, WA-04
  J.D. Hayworth, AZ-08
  John Hostettler, IN-09
  Walter Jones, NC-03
  Sue Kelly, NY-19
  Ray LaHood, IL-18
  Tom Latham, IA-04
  Steven LaTourette, OH-14
  Sue Myrick, NC-09
  Robert Ney, OH-18
  Charlie Norwood, GA-09
  George Radanovich, CA-19
  John Shadegg, AZ-03
  Mac Thornberry, TX-13
  Todd Tiahrt, KS-04
  Dave Weldon, FL-15
  Jerry Weller, IL-11
  Ed Whitfield, KY-01
  Roger Wicker, MS-01

• Mike DeWine, OH
  Jon Kyl, AZ
  Rick Santorum, PA
  Olympia Snowe, ME
  Craig Thomas, WY

• 1. Fix health care system. We know it has flaws, stop ignoring the obvious by coming up with responsible solutions that won’t bankrupt individuals or the country.
• 2. Defend our way of life and out allies. Speak softly and carry a big stick sounds about right.
• 3. Infrastructure. It’s a disaster in many areas. Figure it out. If growth in the south is going to be greater over the next ten years than it has been in the last 50 years, you might want to fix roads, build schools, study sustainability and most of all sit in traffic where your constituents live and work to see the daily frustrations that you have helped create through your reactive approach as opposed to proactive governing.
• 4. Government spending. Stop mortgaging our future.
• 5. Social Security. Read bullet #1.
• 6. The least of all, know that we can fire you at any moment. Through our own lackadaisical approach to voting, governance and getting involved you have been lucky to last this long as our leaders. This could change at any moment and would be real change I can believe in. Do not take the American people’s laziness for ignorance. We know what’s going on, we have not had it so badly affect us personally to have acted on it. Do not wake the sleeping giant of the American people who are too busy worrying about keeping their own job to crusade against you still having yours.

By Rich Younkins, 02/28/2010

Sometimes we at www.bringfreedomback,com must do the things that the mainstream media refuses to do.  We get to sit back and point out the numerous hypocrisies that exist when dealing with liberals.  This isn't hard; you just have to pay attention to what's going on.  While we are frequently too busy to pay attention to things closely around us, these were some you could not help but notice about our friends at the Democratic Socialist Party led by Barak Obama, Nancy Pelosi and the D.C. Kremlin:

• Why is former Governor of NY (D) Elliot Spitzer all over MSNBC, CNBC, ABC, HBO, CBS and NBC after hiring a call girl while in office but Republican South Carolina governor continues to get slammed at every turn by the same stations for having an affair on his wife?  They are both wrong, aren't they?
• Did you notice the Global Warming argument was rewritten to say climate change as soon as we started getting 80 inches of snow every year in the North East corridor of the country?  New York Liberals started to freeze, so they just changed the words around to fit their argument.  I prefer a little more global warming myself.
• If according to the Democrats we aren't paying enough taxes, do you think liberals voluntarily send more money to the government to do their part?
• How many people defected from the United States of America over poor health care options last year?  How about over the last 10 years?
• Have you noticed the great job Barak Obama has done helping the cost of fuel come down?  My campaign commitment, when I ran for Congress in 2004, was a simple undertaking by the government.  Figure out the acceptable price of a barrel of oil that we get from our "friends" in the Middle East.  Allow for inflation at an acceptable rate yearly to adjust pricing.  At that point, whenever the price of a barrel of oil goes above the mark, and therefore all businesses and people pay more for EVERYTHING, ALL TAXES ON FUEL RELATED PRODUCTS WOULD BE SUSPENDED.  End result, if the government has a failed energy policy, the American people do not suffer.  Build more nuclear power plants, allow oil companies to drill more and build more refineries and the tax dollars should flow forever!
• Have the mainstreamers asked this question:  "has anything changed?"  Talk about over a year of getting nothing done!  To steal a line from ESPN's Sportscenter; "only Barnes and Noble lets you stand there and do nothing longer."  
• If we forgave Federal Student Loans to those who are currently employed, tax paying citizens, would we have gotten a better stimulus out of that money as opposed to bailing out the billionaires club?
• Any graduates of the University of Phoenix, and its competition, running AIG, Citigroup, Bank of America, Bear Sterns, Wells Fargo, GM, Toyota, Daimler Chrysler, the housing industry or any of the industries or companies that contributed to the financial collapse of 2008?
• Rasmussen polls are still reporting Democratic Senator Harry Reid behind any of the top Republican challengers. I wonder if the Dems will throw him away like the Governor of New York? Where are Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton when you need? Sorry Governor Patterson you are a liability now. They wish you well, I think!
• Did anyone review President Clinton’s Haiti follow up plan when we deployed 20,000 U.S. troops there in 1994?

• The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.
• No taxation without representation" was a catchphrase in the prior 1763-1774 that summarized a primary grievance of the American colonists in the Thirteen colonies leading to the Revolution. Americans complained vehemently that taxes were imposed by the imperial government in which the colonies had no voice.
• The Tea Act (1773) once again inflames the radicals, in spite of the fact that it will lower tea prices. If the Americans accept the lower tea prices, they also accept the duties (taxation without representation)…
• The Revenue Act, which came to be called the Sugar Act, was actually an extension of an act from 1733 called the Molasses Act. The Molasses Act required a tariff on all sugar products that were imported into America from the West Indies.

• State taxes where I live include the some of the highest property taxes in the nation (NJ), up to 8% sales tax on non essential items, sin tax on cigarettes and alcohol, and business tax that is stifling to small business.
• The average tax payer has to work 4 months before the government’s portion of your salary is garnished.  Some Americans are paying upward of 40% and higher of their salary in personal income tax.
• The current biblical rate of tithing is 10%, if it’s good enough for GOD, why does our government need more?
• We triple tax Social Security, the Democrats link to Marx that can’t be fixed but sure is broken, and wonder why seniors struggle in today’s economy.  They were taxed on the money originally, and then taxed when it was disbursed and if it was invested and a profit was made it is taxed again.

Ah the left, how they love to label the conservative crowd with an overtly negative catch phrase. We all know the popular ones that can be heard daily on MSNBCCCP; like the labeling of good GOD fearing folk as the “religious right.” How about those Americans, who are 2nd Amendment defenders, being labeled by the left as the “gun crowd”? Another favorite of mine is the “extremists” who decided to stage Tea Parties around the country to express their outrage about the government’s monetary policy at home.
The Democrats have positioned their argument as the “party of inclusion” or the “party of yes.” I would say they are the Party of Ignorance is more like it and for the country this ignorance is not bliss. The liberal media, backed by the Democratic Party, is refusing to label Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the Fort Hood Murderer, as a Muslim Extremist. Some news sources, spewing the propaganda of the Democratic Party, have labeled him as “deranged”, “psychopathic”, “troubled” and “mentally unstable” as if he had no ties to the fundamental teachings of Muslim Extremists. Treading ever so carefully as to not offend anyone in President Obama’s religious and political circles, the media wants the American people to believe Hasan went off the deep end because of a fear he had deploying to a combat zone. If you say something out loud and it sounds like crap, it is crap, and this said out loud reeks of liberal propaganda in the spirit of another mislabeling in the respect shown Yasser Arafat.
The liberal media developed a love for Arafat in a slobbering affection that has only recently been duplicated for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a communist’s the liberals can’t stop swooning over. Arafat caught the eye of the liberal media that never fully recognized that he was Bin Laden before Bin Laden was Bin Laden. Arafat was a killer, who robbed his people, sucked them into an endless war, charmed President Clinton, and actually won a Nobel Peace Prize from a delusional group willing to ignore his past terroristic activities. The media ignored the body of Arafat’s work and labeled him a “hero”, “freedom fighter”, and “peace seeker”.
The media has shown to be unreliable in dealing with Muslim related terrorist activities. I would love to blame this on the behavior modeled by President Clinton when he was in office, but the Clinton News Network (CNN) was at it long before the 42nd President hit the scene. Labeling the shootings at Fort Hood as a “tragedy” is an insult to all those who watched the details of this terrorist unfold. And I know it pains the liberal media when one of the groups they love to defend proves to be the scumbags they are, the media outlets has to go in deflection or justification mode.
You can not justify or defend the media’s reporting in this terrorist attack, they are blind to the fact that Hasan is a Muslim terrorist who killed 14 not 13 people at Fort Hood (I do count the unborn child) and has sympathy and ties to Al Qaeda and our enemies in the Middle East. The left will not label Hasan as a “terrorists” and that is a crime against the victims of this attack. In the spirit of Ann Coulter the Democratic Party and liberal media have earned the label “treasonous” in their response to the attack on Fort Hood by a Muslim extremist terrorist.

• My grandmother telling me of the 4 YEARS my grandfather spent on a Navy ship during WWII. He battled the Axis powers, malaria and time spent apart that none of us today can imagine.
• Going to the recruiter when I was 17 and being intrigued by the adventure of joining the ARMY.
• Milfred Winter, from my high school homeroom, being the first person I knew to join the ARMY and was sent to the DMZ in Korea right out of basic training, at 18!
• Watching the first bombing of the World Trade Center on television and wondering how long it will take the military hating President Clinton to respond appropriately to the terrorists.
• Enlisting in the ARMY on March 17, 1993 so my family and I could have a roof over our heads and eat. The prospect of the $742 monthly paycheck sealed the deal as it was more money than I had at the time to feed my family of 3.
• Leaving for basic training on Good Friday and missing my daughter’s first Easter.
• 56 days and a wake up call until I leave Fort Jackson, South Carolina.
• Getting to Fort Drum, New York and wondering how I am going to survive the next 4 years.
• Seeing the soldiers from our sister unit, 2/14 Infantry, come home from Somalia with arms and legs missing and some of their battle buddies in a pine box.
• Hearing about our deployment to Haiti from the Clinton News Network (CNN). They had such little respect for the troops they broke the news to me instead of SSG Ricky Gaines, my platoon sergeant.
• Standing in line for my malaria shots at 2 a.m. waiting to be deployed. My daughter was 19 months old and my son 4 months old.
• Hiring a videographer to spend an hour taping me with the kids incase I did not come home from the deployment.
• Driving away from Ashley and Brandon waving as I left for Rome Air Force Base in New York, then onto Roosevelt Roads Navy Base in Puerto Rico and then some god forsaken field in Cape Haitian, Haiti.
• Sitting under the stars guarding ammunition at 3 a.m.
• Seeing 1300 soldiers come for the same breakfast everyday, with a smile on their face.
• Kissing the ground when I landed in South Carolina from my Haitian deployment.
• Giving up two weeks in the summer to drill with my National Guard units in Florida and New Jersey.
• Serving my unit, 2/15 Communications Battalion in Westfield, NJ, on September 11, 2001…before the terrorist attacks started.
• Not knowing if the war against terrorism would take me away from my family once again, but having my bags packed every day for a year just in case.