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By Roy Antoun at 5:46AM

Mar 17, 2010

Venting On Local Ignorance

I find it extremely odd how many GOP establishment types continue to support and endorse “Republicans” who act like their socialist counterparts.

I recently came across a blogpost on the Brooklyn GOP website titled, “Congratulations, U.S. Senator Brown.” If the Brooklyn GOP knows anything about politics or conservatism, it would understand that Senator Brown is a quasi-socialist who campaigned on promises such as extending public education and increasing foreign aid to Israel while increasing sanctions on Iran (so much for peace and small government). Immediately after his election, Senator Brown voted for a Democrat jobs bill, increasing the role government plays in your wallet and how much it wants to take away from it. Perhaps congratulating him isn’t the most conservative thing to do either.

Considering that the Brooklyn GOP consists of old, right-wing neoconservatives such as District Leader Clorinda Annarummo, it is really difficult to classify many elites in the Brooklyn GOP as “conservative” to begin with.

Two New Videos from the Southern Avenger

Worth watching, as always. The first is on "Ron Paul People," and the second on the false conservatism of Scott Brown.

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By Kelse Moen at 6:39AM

Jan 25, 2010

Lessons for an Anti-Establishment Movement

Daniel McCarthy at The American Conservative's blog has an interesting post on the pro-life movement 37 years after Roe v. Wade. Despite some obvious discrepancies between mainstream pro-lifers and libertarians, I have never believed that the two must be as antagonistic as many "economically conservative, socially liberal" Libertarian Party members would indicate. And the problems that McCarthy points out are important ones for any anti-establishment, minority movement (including our own) to consider:

The right-to-life movement has been impaled on the horns of a dilemma for 37 years. Republican politicians and conservative movement hacks have long wanted pro-lifers to keep their mouths shut and loyally vote for the party that throws them table scraps. Pro-lifers who want to be realistic think they have to settle for this, even to the point, apparently, of valorizing the pro-Roe Scott Brown. The pro-lifers who commit themselves to principle over partisanship, on the other hand, all too often run down the blind alleys of third-party politics (which isn't politics at all, but is to politics what "Dungeons and Dragons" is to medieval history) and New Left-style protest theater. (The March for Life itself, of course, is modeled on the civil-rights and antiwar marches of the 1960s, whose successes are vastly exaggerated - if marches could end wars, we wouldn't be in Iraq today.)

Obama Calls for Scaled-back "Reforms"

Following the victory of Scott Brown in Massachusetts:

President Barack Obama suggested he's open to Congress passing a scaled-back health-care bill, potentially sacrificing much of his signature policy initiative as chaos engulfed Capitol Hill Wednesday.
One day after losing their filibuster-proof Senate majority in a Massachusetts special election, exhausted Senate Democrats looked downtrodden as they filed into their weekly lunch in a second-floor room at the Capitol. "People are hysterical right now," said one Senate aide.

According to the article, one of the things that may be dropped is in the unconstitutional individual mandate. All in all, it's still bad reform and we'd be better off without it, but for now it looks like we're going to dodge the worst of the worst.

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By Bonnie Kristian at 7:05AM

Jan 21, 2010

Lessons from the Brown Victory in Massachusetts

Hat tip to Jeff Hubbard.

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By Alex Kharam at 8:34PM

Jan 20, 2010

Brown's Victory a Vote of Anger with Government

Scott Brown isn't great on all issues, but his win is interesting because it shows that people are at least putting some thought into voting. Places like California and New England will no longer automatically vote blue, but may be willing to elect candidates based on more than party. As Mish Shedlock explains,

Brown's victory was not so much a vote for Brown, but a vote out of anger, anger of backroom deals, anger over jobs, anger over wars, anger over special deals for politicians and unions, anger over banks, and most importantly, anger because "Yes We Can" morphed into "Business As Usual, Only Worse"....
Without a doubt, Brown sent a message to Obama specifically and Democrats in general that the public is fed up. Indeed, this special election shows Obama's message is as out of place as a bullfrog on the lead microphone at an opera.

Read more here, and keep in mind Shedlock's conclusion: "[R]est assured the music will fall on deaf ears unless you act." Brown's win will destroy the Democrats' filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. This will undoubtedly be good in the short term -- and may stop universal health care from passing -- but in the long term we need change more substantial than this.

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By Matt Cockerill at 7:05AM

Jan 20, 2010

Reading between the lines in Scott Brown's MA Win.

I don't expect "MA <3's GOP" t-shirts are going to be flying off the Boston shelves anytime soon. But the GOP should be excited about their electoral prospects for 2010, given the improbable victory of Republican Scott Brown who will be taking over Ted Kennedy's senate seat. (This is not an endorsement of Brown or any candidate from YAL or me, just to be clear.)

Still, I don't think this election is a reflection of some lame pro-Republican sentiment, but rather a taste of the budding energy behind a glorious, anti-incumbent movement. The people are becoming cynical about every awful thing our "public servants" are doing to humanity, including a rapidly growing police state, the sickening "health reform" bill, and Obama's massive military expansionism.

The key is for groups like YAL to remind the populace that real change requires revolution, and that electing country club Republicans to replace country club Democrats is nothing more than rearranging deckchairs on the freakin' Titanic.

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