Los Angeles Times
November 13, 2010
Re “Republicans tussle over House post,” Business, Nov. 9
GOP leadership
Republican House Speaker-to-be John A. Boehner should urge the selection of committee chairs who have the experience and voting records to lead the committees so important to our future. Certainly the selection to succeed Rep. Barney Frank as chairman of the House Financial Services Committee deserves scrutiny.
Republicans and Democrats must comply with a voter mandate to pull in the reins on regressive finance reform and hideous healthcare legislation by utilizing the best of the best among them to lead the efforts against runaway government, regardless of seniority.
Lest they forget, if they fail, there will be a “tea party” movement working diligently to usher them out in 2012.
The Washington Examiner
November 12, 2010
New chairmen should not be chosen by seniority
Re: "Upton is wrong for Energy and Commerce," editorial, Nov. 8
The Examiner is correct in denouncing Rep.Fred Upton, R-Mich., to succeed Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., as chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Upton is little more than a Republican sellout to the Pelosi Democrats' extreme legislation and abuse of power by imposing unreasonable limits on oil, gas and coal energy resources, and unleashing the economy-busting Environmental Protection Agency.
In these dire times, Republican House-Speaker-to be, John Boehner should urge the selection of committee chairs with the experience, credentials and voting record to lead our economic recovery. The same scrutiny should also be applied to whoever is selected to succeed Public Enemy Number One, Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., as chairman of the House Financial Services Committee.
Republicans and Democrats must comply with a voter mandate to pull the reins on regressive finance reform, health careless legislation and other over-reaching measures by utilizing the best of the best representatives among them to lead the efforts against runaway government -- regardless of seniority -- and replace selfish interests and personal power with common sense, constitutional compliance and accountability.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/nov/9/tea-party-will-take-congress-to-task/
The Washington Times
November 10, 2010
Tea Party will take Congress to task
Deeply concerned and frustrated voters swept out many Democrats in the nation's congressional elections Nov. 2, clearly signaling that the Tea Party revolution is under way. Republicans took the majority in the House, and narrowed the gap in the Senate. However, if they don't hold fast and true to our founding constitutional principles, they will be replaced with those who do.
The same goes for President Obama and for Democrats who were barely re-elected, including those in the Senate up for re-election in 2012. If the president and the Congress don't take the pathway to right the wrongs they've done to society, the economy, our constitutional democracy and the American people, they should certainly be voted out of office.
DANIEL B. JEFFS
Apple Valley, Calif.
Riverside Press Enterprise
November 4, 2010
Voters choose suicide
As if voters aren't suffering enough from the economic crash, the worst case scenario for California is the election of Jerry Brown and the slate of Democrats in the executive branch, the retention of a large Democrat majority in the Legislature, the passage of Prop. 25, and the defeat of Prop. 23's delay of the AB32 global warming law.
This certainly amounts to voter-assisted, job-killing suicide when coupled with the state implementing forced Obamacare and enforcing AB32's skyrocketing energy costs, which will raise the cost of living to new heights.
Indeed, driving the national economy into a ditch will be mild compared to our state government and political zealots driving California's economy over a 2,010-foot cliff, in a union-driven green machine. Problem is, the indoctrinated and deceived majority of voters are pulling the rest of us over the cliff with them.
Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley
Los Angeles Times
Opinion L.A.
November 4, 2010
The Tea Party revolution is on
Deeply concerned and frustrated voters swept-out many Democrats in the nation's congressional elections November 2nd, clearly signaling that the 'Tea Party' revolution is underway. Indeed, Republicans took the majority in the House, and narrowed the gap in the Senate. However, if they don't hold fast and true to our founding constitutional principles, they will be replaced with those who do.
Surely, the same goes for President Obama and many Democrats who were barely re-elected, including those in the Senate who are up for re-election in 2012. If the President, the Congress and for that matter, the Supreme Court, don't take the pathway to right the wrongs they've done to society, the economy, our constitutional democracy and the American people, they should certainly be voted out of office and/or otherwise impeached and removed from office.
Even though there was also a Republican shift in state governments, New York and other hopeless states held fast to their liberal decline. Indeed, clueless Californians kept Sen. Boxer and elected hapless Jerry Brown to lead the Sacramento Democrat hole-in-the-wall-gang, as a defiant gesture of voter-assisted economic suicide. Alas, the Tea Party revolution is unlikely to keep California lemmings from blindly running off the cliff and pushing the rest of us with them.
Los Angeles Times
Opinion L.A.
November 3, 2010
California's worst case scenario: Voter-assisted economic suicide
As if voters aren't suffering enough from the economic crash -- and Washington-aggravated aftermath -- the worst case scenario for California is the election of Jerry Brown and the slate of Democrats for the executive branch, the retention of a large Democrat majority in the Legislature, the passage of Proposition 25, and the defeat of Proposition 23's delay of the AB-32 Global Warming laws.
Coupled with the State implementing forced Obamacare -- and enforcing AB-32's skyrocketing energy costs -- raising the cost of living to new heights, that certainly amounts to voter-assisted -- job-killing -- economic suicide.
Indeed, driving the national economy into a ditch will be mild compared to our state government and political zealots driving California's economy over a 2010-foot cliff, in a union-driven green machine. Problem is, the indoctrinated and deceived majority of voters are pulling the rest of us over the cliff with them.
The Washington Examiner
November 3, 2010
Re: Jon Stewart gets laughs, but now the joke in on Obama
Editorial - October 31, 2010
Political inmates now in charge of the asylum
Coupled with President Obama's hapless appearance the "Daily Show," Jon Stewart's "Rally to Restore Sanity" in Washington is clear and convincing evidence that America's doctors of democracy have lost control, and that the political inmates are now in charge of the nation's asylum.
Surely, the bad joke is on everyone, and it certainly isn't funny. President Obama and the Democrat-controlled Congress have practiced over-reaching government without a constitutional license since the 2008 elections, miring the country in even more tyrannical laws, rules, regulations, in insurmountable debt.
Indeed, malfeasance, nonfeasance, misfeasance and political malpractice have run rampant over the American people to such an extent, that a change in the political party guard may not be enough to resolve the malignant problems in this election cycle. Hopefully, cutting out the remaining cancers in 2012 will stop them from metastasizing.
Mad As Hell:
How the Tea Party Movement Is Fundamentally Remaking Our Two-Party System
By Scott Rasmussen, Doug Schoen
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
September 2010
Synopsis
Today's raucous revolt against Washington and Wall Street is a classic populist uprising. In Mad As Hell, two respected political pollsters show what it means for the future of American politics.
The riotous tea parties and angry town hall meetings of last summer seemingly took everyone by surprise. They shouldn t have: populist movements have always arisen in times of economic hardship and uncertainty. In Mad As Hell, pollsters Scott Rasmussen and Doug Schoen use extensive and original research to explore the mind and heart of the populist uprising that has suddenly thrown American politics into turmoil.
In the past, populist movements have taken root either on the right or on the left. Today s populist revolt is unusually broad and has two wings: a left wing that wants universal health care and redistributive economic policies, and a right wing that wants to reduce the power of government to interfere in our lives. Both are hostile to the Washington political class, Wall Street, and the mainstream media all of which they consider out of touch with the concerns of real Americans. The key difference is that left populists are effectively represented by Barack Obama and congressional Democrats who are pursuing their agenda, while right populists are chiefly represented by Fox News and Rush Limbaugh an angrier and potentially more powerful political force.
So-called professionals in politics, business, and media have completely failed to comprehend the new populism and have dismissed it as marginal and extreme. The authors explore the broad-based nature of the new populist movement and explain how it is reshaping American politics whether politicians and elite journalists like it or not.
The Tea Party movement is not a flash in the pan, as many have assumed. Nor is it a movement of racist rednecks and ignorant boobs, as its detractors have crudely suggested. To the contrary, it is an authentic grassroots movement of concerned American citizens demanding to be heard by an out-of-touch political establishment. Their concerns are real and their issues are legitimate, the authors maintain; moreover, the new populism is here to stay, and it has already changed our politics for the better.
In Mad As Hell, Rasmussen and Schoen have produced an authoritative guide to the new populism, featuring a combination of proprietary polling data, political analysis, results from online focus groups, and interviews with on-the-ground players. It is must-reading for anyone interested in American electoral politics for the remainder of the decade.
The Washington Post
October 31, 2010
Voter remorse won't help when you're broken
The 2010 campaigns and elections will undoubtedly be the nastiest in recent history -- replete with lies, deception, personal attacks, abuse of power and voter fraud.
For all those who blindly voted for a Congress that put Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid in charge, then elected Barack Obama as President: Voter remorse won't help when you're broken.
Indeed, if you haven't wised-up to the dirty deeds passed by the Congress and signed by the President -- and you vote for them again in this election and in the 2012 presidential election -- you might as well step up on a chair, put the economic noose around your neck, and step off.
Alas, beating your head against the symbolic social, political and economic walls leaves your ideals bruised, your freedoms bleeding, your liberty legs wobbling and your wallet empty.
Tea Party people know what's at stake, and that means the vast majority of Americans are determined to survive and prosper. And that's why it's so important to have truthfully informed voters in charge of government by consent of the governed.
Los Angeles Times
Opinion L.A.
October 31, 2010
Re: Analyzing the midterm elections with editorial board member, Jim Newton
By Alexandra Le Tellier
October 28, 2010
Voter remorse won't help when you're broken
The 2010 campaigns and elections will undoubtedly be the nastiest in recent history -- replete with lies, deception, personal attacks, abuse of power and voter fraud.
For all those who blindly voted for a Congress that put Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid in charge, then elected Barack Obama as President: Voter remorse won't help when you're broken.
Indeed, if you haven't wised-up to the dirty deeds passed by the Congress and signed by the President -- and you vote for them again in this election and in the 2012 presidential election -- you might as well step up on a chair, put the economic noose around your neck, and step off.
Alas, beating your head against the symbolic social, political and economic walls leaves your ideals bruised, your freedoms bleeding, your liberty legs wobbling and your wallet empty.
Tea Party people know what's at stake, and that means the vast majority of Americans are determined to survive and prosper. And that's why it's so important to have truthfully informed voters in charge of government by consent of the governed.
Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley, CA
Los Angeles Times
Opinion L.A.
October 26, 2010
California's worst case scenario
Though there is hope on the horizon for congressional elections, hopefully, California's worst case scenario won't materialize as a result of the people's vote November 2, 2010. Indeed, as it is often said, as California goes, so goes the nation. However, since the national social, political and economic meltdown jerked most people to their senses, California government has played its usual suspects role of Mad Magazine's Alfred E. Neuman's, "What? Me worry?
Unfortunately, California has a long decaying history of progressive political ideology, more so than most of the country. Alas, if it were not for a few bright spots such as Governor Ronald Reagan, the Proposition 13 backlash, and the energy crisis recall of Governor Gray Davis -- California would be even further along to becoming a socialist state under the indoctrination of bureaucrats, public education's factories of ignorance, extreme environmentalists, and the entitlement culture. In effect, under the benevolent dictatorship of the ruling elite.
As if voters aren't suffering enough from the economic crash, the worst case scenario for California will be the election of Jerry Brown and the slate of Democrats for the executive branch, the retention of a large Democrat majority in the Legislature, and the passage of Propositions 19, 21, 24, 25 and 27. That would certainly amount to voter-assisted state suicide, and ensure the demise of the California economy. Surely, the worst scenario would not be complete without remembering the gross mistake of electing RINO, Arnold Schwarzenegger as governor instead of Tom McClintock.
On the other hand, there is a better case scenario of electing Meg Whitman and the Republican slate, plus passing only Propositions 20, 22, 23, and 26 as a matter of survival. Clearly, the best case scenario would be to break the progressive stranglehold on Sacramento, including the public miseducation money-pit, with a voter initiative repealing Proposition 98's grip on half of the state budget. As always, it's up to we the people to be self-sufficient and responsible, and limiting government to only that which is necessary to ensure our security, liberty and freedoms. I, for one, have already voted to survive.
Dan Jeffs
Apple Valley, CA
THE O'REILLY FACTOR
(Founder's e-mail sent to Bill O'Reilly at the O'Reilly Factor on October 26, 2010)
Bill,
Charles Krauthammer is the Oracle of political commentary, and a plus for the Factor. You should allow him to answer your question(s), without interruption. I for one, will rely on his prediction of Republicans gaining 55 seats in the House, and 8 seats in the Senate.
Dan Jeffs
Apple Valley, CA
The following (edited) e-mail was read by Bill O'Reilly on the O'Reilly Factor, October 27, 2010:
"Dan Jeffs, Apple Valley, California: Bill, you should allow Charles (Krauthammer) to answer your questions uninterrupted."
O'Reilly's reply: "No one…No one, gets that luxury, Dan."
Letters to the editor from DDC Founder, Daniel B. Jeffs:
The Victor Valley Daily Press
October 20, 2010
Re: Today's Editorial and Letters to the Editor
It's getting worse
Jerry Brown's record is available to voters
A perfect storm brewing in California
Today's Daily Press Opinion Page reflects cautious optimism about a change in the control of Congress and a warning against electing Jerry Brown as the governor of California. With the angry wave of Tea Party-inspired voters poised to put Republicans back in control of the House and possibly the Senate, there is hope that a political moratorium will be placed on the reckless legislation, debt and spending coming out of Washington against the nation.
There is, however, ample reason for skepticism considering the fact that since the 1994 Newt Gingrich-led Contract with America controlled spending and balanced the budget, Republicans lost power in Congress and went along to get along, allowing the housing market crash that crushed the economy. Of course, all of us are painfully aware of what congressional and presidential abuse of power have done to make it worse -- if not checked -- probably terminal.
California, on the other hand -- replete with saturation political ads -- is facing a reckoning with what promises to become a social, political and economic perfect storm descending after election day, November 2, 2010. Indeed, our already critically battered, wounded and grossly unprepared state is now suffering from coerced compromise making us vulnerable to voter-assisted suicide.
If the Democrat cabal of Jerry Brown, Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris and Dave Jones are elected governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and insurance commissioner -- respectively. And Propositions 19, 21, 24,25 and 27 are passed. The perfect storm will surely fall upon us with a vengeance, and most of us -- including those who voted for helping develop the storm -- will not survive the onslaught of damages.
Alas, even if Republican Meg Whitman & Co. are elected -- and our self-defense Propositions 20, 22, 23 and 26 pass -- it is highly unlikely that we can survive the strangleholds of the Democrat-controlled legislature, debt-ridden government, the liberal state news media, the tyranny of extreme environmentalist machines, and the teacher union/unions cartel. Sadly, it doesn't seem to matter that we are saddled with economy and freedom-inhibiting taxes, fees, laws, rules and regulations -- a costly and dismal public miseducation system -- overwhelming entitlement programs, and facing imminent bankruptcy.
It is often said, and how true it is, that as California goes, so goes the nation. In this dilemma, however, California is a runaway train on a dead-end track.
The Wall Street Journal
October 18, 2010
Re: California's cap-and-trade war
Editorial - WSJ
October 18, 2010
Thank you for the editorial regarding California's cap-and-trade war over Proposition 23. We are indeed defending ourselves against environmental zealots and the green machine that has already damaged our state's economy beyond recognition, not to mention the economy of the nation.
It is painfully clear that California's liberal Legislature and government are poised to do more damage to our economy by implementing an even harsher blow by global warming advocates' manipulated studies and junk science, with their carbon emission legislation AB 32 -- which is being challenged from the trenches of democracy with Proposition 23. If passed, the ballot measure would not repeal, but would suspend the implementation of AB 32 until unemployment fell to 5.5% or less for one year. However, even if Proposition 23 passes, the Legislature has S. 722 ready to bring it back in another form.
Governor Schwarzenegger has certainly betrayed Californians by turning into the "Terminator" of the economy with higher fees and taxes -- touting AB 32 as his crowning achievement, when in fact it will be a job-killing cost of living booster. Indeed, a liberal lemming election of Jerry Brown as governor would surely lead to economic suicide.
The angry wave of voters generating across the country against over-reaching government comes from a social, political and economic aftershock caused by President Obama and the political party in power shaking the foundations of our nation at the worst possible time. Indeed, in the absence of a cap-and-trade energy tax bill being passed by Congress, Obama's Environmental Protection (global warming) Agency is poised to cast a wide net of heavy-handed rules and regulations controlling carbon emissions at the expense of what is left of our nation's economy.
Coupled with Obama's EPA striking out against Texas and all states by pre-empting the permit process -- in favor of illegal carbon rules that will stall or prohibit energy exploration and production to force costly/unreliable green energy upon the land -- the blatant abuse of political power will certainly drive the cost of energy and the cost of living to unbearable levels.
The Washington Examiner
October 17, 2010
Re: Dems target conservative speech
By Michelle Malkin
The Washington Examiner
October 17, 2010
Michelle Malkin is on the mark as usual with her insightful political analysis. In self defense, Karl Rove should be commended for pushing back against the blatant, mudslinging lies thrown at him by the Democratic National Committee with a TV ad falsely accusing him, former GOP National Chairman, Ed Gillespie, and the groups they advise and raise funds for of taking secret foreign money to influence our elections. Surely, the stakes of damaging our democracy are raised when the DNC falsely accuses opponents of crimes.
Indeed, the president's scurrilous attacks against the U.S. Chamber of Commerce -- coupled with Senate Finance Committee Chairman, Max Baucus sending the IRS out against tax exempt 501c political opponents -- is clear and convincing evidence that President Obama and the Democrat-controlled Congress are anti-free enterprise and anti-free political speech by any and all opposition.
As if that wasn't bad enough, the far left Move-On organization -- which so strongly supported Obama's election as his left money arm -- pulled a sneak attack against the Target retail corporation in a Minnesota election campaign. Lest we forget, Move-on was established during the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal to defend him against, "The politics of personal destruction," and move-on. And they did -- to a heightened brand of social, political and economic destruction of their enemies (with the help of the destroyer himself, George Soros). Lies and deceit means nothing to them, even to wrongly exploit volatile gay rights activists as attack dogs against one of the finest retail institutions, Target.
Considering a rapid and hostile record of seizing control of health care, industry, finance, housing and energy -- if anyone is a threat to free speech, free enterprise, freedom, liberty and our democracy, it is President Obama, the DNC & Co.
The Washington Times
October 15, 2010
Re: Obama shafts the economy - editorial
The Washington Times
October 14, 2010
President Obama & Co. are doing much more to us than shafting the economy.
Indeed, the spontaneous, angry waves of voters being generated across the country against over-reaching government comes from social, political and economic aftershocks caused by President Obama's abuse of power, which is shaking the very foundations of our nation at the worst possible time.
The most disturbing realization for voters is the fact that Obama's presidency is becoming dictatorial, with monarchial declarations, edicts and executive orders disregarding the economic consequences of bureaucratic inefficiency, waste, fraud and abuse inherent in most government programs.
Coupled with the legislative mania of the Democrat-controlled Congress, and the Supreme Court hanging by a thread, White House power grabs over health care, the auto industry, finance, housing and energy leaves our failing economy and our country steeped in fear, anxiety and uncertainty.
Surely, the diagnosis points to President Obama & Co. as an ideological malignant cancer metastasizing throughout America -- which would likely become terminal with a second term….
The Wall Street Journal
October 14, 2010
Re: I am no threat to democracy
By Karl Rove
WSJ - October 14, 2010
Obama & Co. are a threat to democracy
Karl Rove should be commended for pushing back against the blatant, mudslinging lies thrown at him by the Democratic National Committee with a TV ad falsely accusing him, former GOP National Chairman, Ed Gillespie, and the groups they advise and raise funds for of taking secret foreign money to influence our elections. Surely, the stakes of damaging our democracy are raised when the DNC falsely accuses opponents of crimes.
Indeed, the president's scurrilous attacks against the U.S. Chamber of Commerce -- coupled with Senate Finance Committee Chairman, Max Baucus sending the IRS out against tax exempt 501c political opponents -- is clear and convincing evidence that President Obama and the Democrat-controlled Congress are anti-free enterprise and anti-free political speech by any and all opposition.
As if that wasn't bad enough, the far left Move-On organization -- which so strongly supported Obama's election as his left money arm -- pulled a sneak attack against the Target retail corporation in a Minnesota election campaign. Lest we forget, Move-on was established during the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal to defend him against, "The politics of personal destruction," and move-on. And they did -- to a heightened brand of social, political and economic destruction of their enemies (with the help of the destroyer himself, George Soros). Lies and deceit means nothing to them, even to wrongly exploit volatile gay rights activists as attack dogs against one of the finest retail institutions, Target.
Considering a rapid and hostile record of seizing control of health care, industry, finance, housing and energy -- if anyone is a threat to free speech, free enterprise, freedom, liberty and our democracy, it is President Obama, the DNC & Co.