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Join the Tea Party

One version of it, anyhow, The Tea Party dot Net whose ordinary tax-exempt status still is pending from the corrupt Democrat IRS. The kind Leftist groups such as People for the American Way already have, not to mention the Jihadi-lovin’ CAIR.

I have a couple of San Antonio friends who consider themselves Tea Partiers, though, for the most part, Tea Partiers are not card-carrying members of any of the thousands of such named groups. That would be a significant disadvantage for a third-party political movement except the Tea Party groups concentrate on reforming both major parties from within.

The Tea Party dot Net, claims more than 3 million members at the moment. I’m one of them, because I agree with the movement’s small-government aim, as do, among others,Texas Republican (and ObamaCare-fighting) Sen. Ted Cruz. It’s the best way to seek change since I’m too old to march and too busy to call or write letters to pols, even if I thought that would help, which I don’t.

The other best way is to vote to throw out incumbents, every chance you get, including Ted when his term is up. No more career pols like idiot Biden and slack-brained McCain.

UPDATE:  Especially because it now looks like Boehner is getting ready to sell out. As the TPN’s Jennifer Burke puts it: The Left is “saying, ‘RINO’s, we know that you have no spine. We know that you don’t stand on principle. We know that you enjoy your cushy little life here in DC with all of the perks and are complacent just to be in second place. Do as we say or else.”

Or else meaning take bigger hits in the polls than Obutthead is. (As if the polls were trustworthy to begin with.) Because when you’re like slack-brained McCain, the career pol who doesn’t work and doesn’t want to, the perks rule.

Abolish the IRS, part 2

What with all the taking of the Fifth by IRS officials in testimony before Congress, including two who had to be subpoenaed because they wouldn’t appear voluntarily, Ed Morrissey wants to clean house.

“…the IRS, which has demonstrated that it cannot provide accountability for the great power it wields now, let alone the power it will wield as Obamacare comes into force [or, more likely, farce]….is too large, too intrusive, too costly, and too insular – which means that it’s a microcosm of all the problems we have long predicted about big government.”

He wants to scale it back, thereby limiting its potential for political abuse. But it would still remain almost 90 percent Democrat. And the alphabet snooze media and big newspapers would still cover for it a hundred percent of the time.

Which are the main two reasons why I’m with Ted Cruz in wanting the IRS to be abolished.

Abolish the IRS

What a concept. Flat-rate income taxes with a “form” on a post card. Ted Cruz’s delightful idea. Probably doomed to failure because of all the partisan Democrat bureaucrats who would lose their jobs.

Not to mention loss of the graft so many pols of both parties get backing tax favors for various lobbies. And, as we have been reminded of late, the agency’s usefulness as a Democrat weapon against political opponents, such as the Tea Party and pro-Israel charities that don’t toe Obama’s line. But what an idea, Ted, and after only five months in the Senate!

UPDATE:  The IRS is full of scoundrels whose usefulness to the people is nil.

MORE:  Here’s what the IRS is really about, helping the rest of us subsidize Obama’s brother in terrorist-state Sudan. Meanwhile, it’s being expanded to handle Obamacare. Watch how you vote if you want that operation in time to survive.

AND… Ted has a Web site now to promote abolition. Good luck, senator.

Thank you, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz

Texas senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn voted against John Kerry’s confirmation as secretary of state. Didn’t stop him from confirmation, of course, but it was nicely symbolic.

Any opposition to Lurch, the lying clown who slandered a generation of Vietnam veterans and caused us unending problems in the post-war job market, is a very good thing. Now we’ll watch to see how the pol who never met a dictator he didn’t like, gets his international comeuppance. I hope.

Although I would prefer he not get any ambassadors killed, like Clinton did.

DiFi’s assault weapons lies

Not that she’s the only one. The Clintons also have been telling “assault rifle” lies since 1994. No one with a loud-enough voice, other than the NRA, certainly no one in the Democrat media, has ever called them on it.

Comes now Ted Cruz, our newest Texas senator, to set the record straight:

“Real assault weapons—machine guns—are already functionally illegal, and they have been since 1934. [DiFi’s gun bill] would have done nothing to prevent the terrible murders in Newtown, but it would limit the constitutional liberties of law-abiding citizens.”

DiFi’s life in the Leftist bubble worlds of D.C. and San Francisco has led her to try to ban tens of millions of commonly-owned AR-15s,  shotguns and handguns. She’s blind to the real world of gun ownership these days, says Mr. Eddington at Shooting For Liberty:

“The popularity of guns like the [semiauto] AR-15 has exploded in the last decade, with millions of Americans using ARs for hunting, target shooting, competition, and home defense. The AR-15, a relatively uncommon rifle when I was growing up, has become mainstream among shooters.

“The power of the gun rights movement has grown since the 1990s because gun culture has been spreading far and wide among people who defy the stereotype of what a gun rights supporter is supposed to be. Just as an anecdote, when I go to the NRA Headquarters Range in Fairfax I see blacks, whites, and Asians all shooting together—not just overweight white guys in John Deere hats.”

Will this stop DiFi? Of course not. But I doubt even she expects her proposed law to pass. She’s probably mainly trying to fire up the base for the congressional elections of 2014. Meanwhile, she’d settle for banning manufacture of 10+ round magazines, and some spineless Republicans doubtless will go along with that. Enough of them? Maybe.

And that would be a pity. Because it will only limit law-abiding people, not criminals, not the insane, and not even the body guards who protect the pols who always hold themselves immune from the laws they create for us.

The magazine makers, meanwhile, already are on double shifts making new 10+ ones that can be grandfathered in to any ban. One thing old DiFi is good for is capitalistic profits. All you have to do is keep the 10+ magazines cleaned and oiled and they’ll last for decades. So even that law is stupid.

But then, maybe, Cruz or someone like him finally will launch a workable effort to get insane monsters like the Newtown shooter off our streets and into the help they need. And take down those damned “gun-free zone” signs at school entrances. You know, a real solution to our intolerable mass killings instead of more attempted disarming of the law-abiding?

UPDATE:  In New York State and Canada, defiance of new gun registration laws already is gathering strength. This is what government overreach will do. The bureaucrats, even the cops, are simply outnumbered. Molon Labe, suckers!

MORE: DiFi’s gun ban exempts herself. No surprise, really. The pols always exempt themselves from the new laws the rest of us must obey.