RUMINATIONS AFTER THE ELECTION

The election is over, save a few pending counts.  The House is ours.  The Senate is not.  The people have spoken.  If the House of Representatives is the voice of the people, then the people have stood up and shouted down the Socialists, big government, spendthrifts.  We have fired Nancy Pelosi.  And that is worth a little dance around the room.   The people have spoken out for freedom from the Nanny State, and from Nanny Nancy.  Hip Hip!!!  Cheers all around!!!

Remarkable things happened here in North Carolina.  Two in particular: the first Republican woman State Senator was elected, and our State legislature is now a majority Republican for the first time since 1870.  The campaign I worked on, with and for Kathy Harrington for State Senate, was successful.  She is strong on principles, energetic, well spoken, and an advocate for conservative government.  I am happy and proud to know her and to have helped her get elected.  (Heretofore, I have not been much of a political animal, but since the ship started going down, I felt it was time to step up and start rowing in some effort to save us. Her campaign was my small contribution to the cause this year.)

The majority party in our state gets the privilege of drawing the district lines for future national races.  I have no experience in that matter, but the importance of those district lines has come to the forefront of my awareness due to the national implications.  This is why all politics is local.  This is why Constitutional conservatives all over the country, from here on out, must get with the program and start pulling their weight.  If we could get rid of gerrymandering districts, not just in North Carolina, but all across the country, our chances of survival would be much better.  It is gerrymandering that has put 70 Democratic Socialists of America in our Congress.  Count Them  (Reminder...Mel Watt was reelected from a gerrymandered district and is one on that list of Socialists)  So ridding our country of the practice of affirmative gerrymandering is one answer to a lot of our problems.  Gerrymandering used to be illegal. It still should be illegal, but racial quotas in the form of affirmative action have somehow, mindlessly, taken precedent over our laws against gerrymandering.  Creating districts to put Socialists into our government is a big problem and must be disallowed again.  I can't say that emphatically enough. 

So here we are with Nevada's Harry Reid still in position to do more damage.  California is down the rabbit hole again with Moon Beam Brown as its governor.  There are not enough pyschologists who could ever explain California.  The place truly is off the planet.  We're still waiting on Alaska for the Miller / Murkowsky debacle.  Russ Feingold is gone!!  Alan Greyson is gone!!  Hip Hip!  

Now it is Nov. 3rd,  the day after.  Really it is the day we should realize how much difference we can make when we stand and fight back.  We made some healthy steps toward restoring the nation.  I'm still holding my breath, but maybe I'm feeling just a little more hopeful.  Just a little.

Rand Paul won!

Marco Rubio won!

Pat Toomey won!

John Kasich won!

Nikki Haley won!

To all the conservative, tea party, candidates who won, congratulations and thank you!  And now you must get to work!  We are counting on you!

WHAT HAPPENED TO AUDIT THE FED?? WATT HAPPENED

I was initially researching the subject of gerrymandering, a subject that crosses my mind periodically when I ponder how career politicians keep getting elected in spite of voters dissatisfaction with them.  Despite what we were all taught in school on the subject of gerrymandering, it is alive and well and has been manipulating our electoral system for years.  2010 being the year of the census, the drawing of district lines is on the table again.  I wonder what our chances are of ever having a truly impartial district apportionment.  The Democrats and Republicans are both culpable in skewing the districts to their favor in one area of the country or another, at different times, and for different reasons.  With our current capability of computer math programs, it seems to me that something could be done to assure a more fair and equal distribution of districts which would favor neither party, but give the voters the equal and individual say in the matter of electing whomever they wish.  This may be a pipe dream on my part, but hope springs eternal, as they say.

My research, not surprisingly, led to our local gerrymandered, snake shaped, district belonging to Mel Watt.  Up popped the article below regarding the "Audit the Fed" bill initiated by Ron Paul last year.  The public would like transparency of the Fed, but as long as Mel Watt has anything to say about it, we'll be in the dark.

American Banking News

With most Americans outraged over the behavior of the Federal Reserve and the part it has played in the bailouts of huge institutions in the financial and automotive industries, Ron Paul introduced H.R. 1207, which would have required a full audit of the Federal Reserve and its activities, which crosses international lines.

According to Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, the House Financial Service Committee’s panel on domestic monetary policy, Rep. Mel Watt, D-N.C., essentially stripped the bill of just about everything that would have required transparency, and pretty much is now worthless as to its original purpose of letting the American people and Congress see what their secretive dealings have entailed.

After Watt got hold of the bill, it no longer includes the communications reports between the reserve banks and its various workers, and also the Board. What was especially wanted to be seen was what types of deals were made with foreign central banks and how recent bailout money was spent and what banks received it and how much. Paul asserts those loopholes, which had been closed in the original language of the bill, are now reopened.

Citing a telephone interview with Paul, Bloomberg reported Paul said about the revised bill: “There’s nothing left; it’s been gutted. This is not a partisan issue. People all over the country want to know what the Fed is up to, and this legislation was supposed to help them do that.”

Especially troubling about the gutting of the bill is the connections the Democrat Watt has with the banking industry. Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) has its headquarters in his congressional district, which is based in Charlotte, but worse, the majority of contributions to Watt’s campaign has come from corporations in the real estate, finance and insurance industry.

Watt’s largest contributors included American Express (NYSE: AXP), Wachovia, Bank of America and the American Bankers Association. Altogether the financial industry donated over $217,109 to Watt, which was over 35 percent of the overall contributions he received.

Paul’s bill had widespread support, with over 300 co-sponsors in the house. Per Bloomberg, Paul says he plans on introducing an amendment to the bill which would bring it back to the original language it included at the time it comes to the floor of the House to be voted on.