These Guys Have Guts

I'm gonna step back into time a bit here - back to November of last year. The conservative blogosphere was quite surprised by a post by a bunch of self proclaimed liberals thanking George W. Bush, Laura, and even Dick Cheney for the jobs they did and being as classy as they are, particularly considering the contrast with who I call Teh Won and they refer to as Dr. Utopia.

I am of course referring to the gay guys who write Hillbuzz - supporters of Hillary Clinton. They caught a lot of flack from the Soros machine - The Daily Kos and Democratic Underground leading the way. Plus, being from Chicago didn't help, either, since they were in a sense right smack dab in the middle of Mordor. They are anonymous bloggers as well.

However, they also came out in favor of Scott Brown (R) instead of the party approved Martha Coakley (D).

Without getting into the ugly details and specifics, because we’re trying to cling to some semblance of privacy and a personal life here, we were warned two weeks ago to discontinue our support for Republican candidate Scott Brown or suffer consequences for backing him, at the expense of Martha Coakley. We were told, point blank, by Democrats in Chicago that people on the Left had “had enough with (us), and were going to come after (us), in a big way” if we didn’t stop rallying the troops for Scott Brown’s win over Coakley. We were given the ultimatum: either drop our support for Brown and the Left would leave us alone, or continue speaking out on Hottie McAwesome’s behalf and “just see what happens”.

Well, never let it be said that a hot and awesome guy needed help and we just sat there and did nothing, especially not when we felt America itself was at stake with what’s been going on in the Senate lately.

We told you previously that a main reason we aggressively backed Brown for the Senate seat was because of the way Democrats conducted themselves in the week before Christmas. Perhaps it was Christmas itself that really brought the fire out in us, since we were so disgusted Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Rahm Emanuel, and the current president were so shameless as to use CHRISTMAS, and the distraction it naturally causes, as cover to ram through an unconstitutional piece of legislation riddled with pork, graft, and corruption that few in this country seem to want. That repulsed us.

We were further sickened by the fact that Demcorats insisted on handling this legislation in the dead of night, behind closed, locked doors, with no cameras in sight, rushing to vote on it at breakneck speed before Christmas Eve.

This is not how legislation this complex and world-changing should be handled. This is not how the United States Senate should operate. Regardless of what you think about healthcare reform, as an American, we don’t know how you could support EITHER party behaving this way with legislation that has such a vast and unprecedented impact on our economy, at a time when so many we know are out of work, and so many Americans’ jobs are hanging by threads. This healthcare bill should have been written in sunlight, after spirited debate not only in the Senate, but in town halls across the country where Americans of all stripes could have come together and, after much thought and consideration, devised a plan that would work for this nation. Something we could afford. Something we could pay for. Something that would not bankrupt us and cross the unconstitutional line of forcing, for the first time in history, citizens to purchase products against their personal will and free choice.

But, that’s not how the 60 Democrats in the Senate chose to conduct themselves.

That’s when all 60 of these people lost our support.

It’s why we started rooting for whomever will oppose them in their next elections.

There is more - and I highly recommend if you missed their thank you to the Bushes to read it as well.

They are suffering for their cause - and they feel they are being patriotic and trying to preserve the Union. Whether one agrees with their lifestyle is one thing, but it's hard to not admire them for their sheer guts in this battle. It is a battle for them.

I've seen bloggers pay the price for their beliefs before. Kim DuToit is basically unemployable because of his blogging about the second amendment and he and his wife's conservative views - when in fact they are actually very progressive in a lot of areas - while blogging they were excoriated for not being conservative enough. Chris Byrne lost a job because of his desecration of the Koran on video. Never mind that the Bible is desecrated daily by members of the Religion of Peace without second thought. That was his point, and it cost him dearly and still costs him in some ways to this day. Joe Huffman is another whose second amendment activities have cost him employment in the past.

So, I often feel I'm not contributing enough of my time in some ways, but I'm also pretty insulated from most of the blue state shenanigans as well. My two Senators and my Representative already vote the way I want - against Dr. Utopia's plans. Even when I travel in Illinois or Iowa (just examples of blue states) - if politics are up for discussion with a customer I find they generally agree with me and are quite upset that their votes don't count for much. Since I deliver to small business owners, oil companies, big chemical companies and some pretty big time farmers, this is really no surprise. They don't like what they see, either, and so confronting them with a big WTF do ya think yer doin'? doesn't get anywhere, because they're in a siege mentality already.

I've certainly tried to stand against stupid policies here in Kansas - no one was happier than I to see Kathleen Sebelius Peter Principled out of Kansas politics - the damage she's done with our energy policies and our school budgeting defies belief. I tried to help bring attention to the gun confiscations after the tornado struck Greensburg. Frankly, there isn't much around here that irks me as those issues did, and they're not issues anymore. I doubt I had anything to do with solving any of that, but it did feel good to bitch about it.

So, when I read the calls to action from the Hillbuzz boys, I feel out of sorts because my job here is done - all I do is maintenance. My state Senator (Tim Huelskamp) is running for the Big First as a U.S. Representative, and he certainly has my support for that job. Any Tea Parties are many hours from here and I don't have the time or money to attend. And, covering national politics is not a strength of mine - there are others who do a far more knowledgeable and credible job than I could ever attempt.

But, I can point to things that others may miss or I find interesting and meaningful. This is one of those times. Go and read what those guys have to say. I guarantee you will be touched at how brave they are considering what they're up against. I'll be doing what I can to make sure things don't "slip away" here in Western Kansas.