THE NEW YEAR’S BALLOT RESOLUTIONS

One would hope that the list of New Year resolutions would be for solutions by the GOP for the dizzying insanity Americans have been experiencing since Trump took office is 2016.

If I were in control of the GOP my number one priority would be to try and restore confidence to the voters that our elections are fair, counted with integrity and audited without the need for the loser to find smoking gun evidence to prove fraud.

This means that regardless of those saying that Biden won fair and square; (most think not) we need an independent investigation of all the anomalies that presented themselves in that election first, before we can resolve the lack of voter trust going forward.

Non Citizens should not vote, yet they did.

Mass mailings should not exist but it does.

Ballot harvesting should be illegal but it isn’t.

Early voting must require either a person requesting an absentee ballot or going in person to their town, city polling place and dropping off the ballot. Ban drop boxes.

Ballot signatures must be checked on absentee ballots and voter ID should be made law in all states.

Vote tabulators and computers that count votes via the internet should be banned in all elections but they are still in use. Only tabulators that count without internet and programmable algorithms should be used.

Counting should never be stopped, yet it was in 2020 and 2022.

Chain of custody of ballots needs to be monitored and noted throughout the election but they weren’t.

Voter rolls need updated to reflect, current and eligible voters not just names that have been there for many decades.

Trump did not lose 2020, all American’s lost their 1^st Amendment rights, their faith in the ballot system and their faith in government’s balance of power to stop the fraud we all know put Biden in power.

There is no way to convince the American people that Biden won 80 million votes and that it was 10 million more than Obama.

Unless and until we address the fraud in our elections “We the People” are not running our nation, we are not being heard, and we no longer can claim we are a representative Republic.

In fact, we are currently a socialist’s oligarchy or a banana republic because our government tampered with our elections by twisting the arm of social and mainstream media to suppress the truth of corruption by Joe Biden before the vote.

It was never Russian collusion but always Deep State collusion with big corporation and Big Pharmacy that installed a socialist’s regime with a doddering old man as its puppet.

If the GOP wants to be an opposition party, it must address the anger and frustration of voter’s who feel that their voice is no longer counted and no longer powerful.

They must push legislation to build back that confidence regardless if Biden the fraud vetoes the bills.

WITH SOUR GRAPES YOU MAKE WHINE

The "Never Trump" bunch, along with frustrated supporters of Ted Cruz and other candidates that failed to win the GOP presidential nomination, must dry their eyes, shrug their shoulders and make peace with the results.

Everyone has the post primary blues and the "I don't like either candidate" doldrums prior to a general election. Runners up, are not crowned king, bridesmaids don't walk down the aisle and when your home team loses the pennant, sometimes it is your team's worst rival that makes it to the world series. However, conservatives need to stay focused on what is important, not on what might have been, and remain focused to defeat liberals and social progressive policies.

Left leaning Republicans (RINOs) are attacking Trump, with some, even claiming that they will vote for Hillary. If ever there was a Shakespearian moment of truthful soliloquy then these trashing the candidate asides by establishment Republicans, cynically, answer for us, the often asked loyalty question, as to whether they: be or not be, genuine conservatives.  Because what they fail to realize, is that Trump represents the will of the people. Publically discrediting Trump, is tantamount to arrogantly snubbing the American voter and ignoring Americans viewpoint on policies.

Wise or not, thoroughbred or not, traditional or not, Trump was elected because of the positions he took on three major policy issues, Immigration, Trade Pacts and the restoration of the American economic engine. They want border laws enforced, they want trade to not cost jobs and they want the federal government to stop micromanaging business through over regulation. In fact on almost every major policy issue, the public demands reform. Shouldn't that tell you something? Senator, Congressperson?

It should humble your ego and make you look for the ticket window in the depot, so you can board the right train that rumbled you into Washington and that can equally transport you back home. It should remind you that as a representative of the people, that it doesn't matter how "you" think but rather how "they" think, the American voter, about public policy. It should inspire you to make peace with one man (Trump) in order to create a better America for average Americans clamoring for these policy changes.

Instead, too many of these pompous potentates of puffery can't see behind their enormous ego. They have the audacity to call out Trump as an egoist, but how egotistical is it, to ignore millions of American voters? The answer appears to be part of why people are angry. Washington won't listen to anyone but big donors and the Middle Class's patience with politicians is threadbare thin.

One would think, that instead of whining about what might have been. Instead of complaining that Trump isn't a conservative. Instead of creating doubt as to whether you will support the party, why not play a positive role. Be a representative in the true sense of its commitment and stump for Trump while reminding him every chance you have his ear, that he can't change his policies and betray the voters. Then you would be doing something useful and constructive as a representative of your conservative constituency.

 

Pundits say it is up to Trump to unite the Republican Party, but I think the political spinners are wrong. It is up to the representatives to rally round their flagpole winner.  Ryan and McConnell must govern for the people instead of continually serving the corporately bought  beltway, and getting every policy issue backwards and inside out.

All this chatter about Trump lying to the voters is amusing considering that it is coming from politicians (Romney, Rubio, Graham) that have done nothing but swindle conservative votes for decades. The debate is over. The left leaning GOP is a dying dinosaur. The American public is not in a very forgiving mood, so it behooves all the "hate Trump" crowd to either sit down and clamp shut, or join Hillary's campaign.

Real conservatives, principled conservatives will support Trump's presidential campaign. Will stay vocal about the policy issues that America needs to change, and will vilify the only candidate that should be called out as a sour grape in the political vine; crooked Hillary Clinton.

LOUD AND CLEAR OR BACKGROUND STATIC?

Given that speeches are political hot air feasts intended to buoy public opinion on upcoming policy campaigns, they are meaningless without action, yet it is important to make voters feel that Washington is listening. 

It is also an opportunity for both political parties to present a buffet of policy ideas and receive feedback from the public, thereby getting a sense on what policy priorities are more or less popular. Obama's scorecard has already flunked, but the GOP, in its early grades don't seem to be acing any tests so far.  

Americans were not thrilled with either Obama's speech or the GOP rebuttal.

Obama has been deaf to public opinion since 2010, so few expected him to recognize that his Party and policies have nose-dived with independent voters, the same voters the Democrats rely on to make their minority "Kool-aid" policies seem mainstream. Indeed his administration has been marked with arrogant recalcitrant obstinacy that has diminished Democrat power.   

Yet the GOP response to Obama's SOTU speech was underwhelming and disappointing for its lack of inspiration and red meat, leaving conservatives and libertarians feeling wary about the lean, low fat agenda the opposition's menu contains.

Senator Ernst is not to blame, she is just a new member of an old party asked to deliver a speech that has been cooked up by high ranking members of the GOP in the back rooms of Washington's political kitchen.

The policy speech was troublesome for its bland banquet offerings and perhaps more importantly, worrisome because of the absence of sharp knifed proteins left off the table. Especially when a starving public expected and deserved full course satiation at a post game celebration feast.  

The first complaint is that the GOP agenda isn't bold, isn't innovative and somewhat mirrors the left. The left loves (especially Obama) to talk about job creation. The Keystone pipeline isn't going to make a dent in the number of jobs needed to re-energize the economy number one and number two, trade barriers are not the reasons entrepreneurial opportunities and business expansion is shrinking in America. 

Big government, class action lawsuits, high taxation, Obamacare, crony capitalism, myriads of regulations and laws that stifle growth have all have contributed to America's lackluster economy. 

Government need only to get out of the way by downsizing itself and repealing its unconstitutional presence in the marketplace allowing the free enterprise to grow. It is basic conservative policy to remove the mixed market governors from the economic engine that has served our nation well in the past and indeed created the Middle Class. 

Instead of touting un-tethered private enterprise as the curative, they spoke like Democrats by extolling what they (government) can do to fix the economy. They missed the opportunity to state emphatically the Ronald Reagan adage that resonated with Americans of all politically party persuasion: get government off our backs and out of our lives.    

Second complaint, was the hackneyed idea of simplifying the tax code. How many times have we heard that in the past? Today, we have an IRS agency that has been allowed to violate the law, punish political foes, destroy and or cover-up evidence, misuse public funding and to date, no-one has been held accountable, fired or prosecuted. 

Americans never trusted the IRS from its inception, but now more than ever the people want justice and the abolishment of the IRS. Calling for the closing of loopholes in the post Lois Lerner targeting age is beyond lame, it reflects a business as usual corrupt cluelessness over the public's discontentment.

Lastly the complete absence of bared teeth and pitchfork rhetoric we heard on the campaign trail in 2014 by the GOP over Obama's king George the third's impersonation in the White House. GOP Senators and Representatives seeking election assured voters that Obama's unilateral unconstitutional immigration plans would be met with legislative roadblocks that would take away his "phone and pen" by all means necessary. 

In the GOP response speech we instead heard this: "We will work to correct executive overreach."

Work to correct? Does that sound like a strong push back or a wet noodle chastisement? You work to correct mistakes, you don't work to correct defiance. You work to correct problems, you don't work to correct lawlessness. You work to correct mishandling, you don't work to correct a complete undermining of our Constitution and its clear separation of powers.

The GOP speech did not instill confidence in the public that we are being heard "loud and clear" instead it made most voters believe we are still a static background noise to Beltway buddies.  

The GOP seems to want to play nice with the administration until 2016 when it herds us to the table where Jeb Bush, Chris Christie and Mitt Romney wearing hair nets try to slop the same over-processed goop of small appetizers-teasers on our plates calling it gourmet opposition catering.

Most know it to be however, the same old political pablum we were spoon fed as children, albeit now we are not naive political knickers-wearing "Gruber-ites" that can be swooned by empty words that produce imperceptible change in the way Washington operates.  

So we will wait and watch what the GOP will do or not do in the coming months, hoping that they dial in to our strong voter signal because so far, we are holding our spoons ready to either gag and swallow or toss that slop back on their obtuse noggins.

P.S.  Advice to GOP politicians, wear a raincoat to your town hall meetings because Americans don't want to be taken to the cleaners again.