SCOTT BROWN IS NO DEBRA MEDINA « Foehammer’s Anvil

What I view is important insight from conservative Alex Wallenwein:

Friday, January 22, 2010

(This article was written last night, 01-20-10. The morning of 1-21-10 I received the email reprinted below that proved my point much faster than I expected)

If Scott Brown can do it, Debra Medina (Texas candidate for GOP nomination for governor of Texas) can do it - several times over.

Of course, it is wonderful that Scott was able to beat what’s her name, but after looking at his web site’s “Issues” statement to see what all the buzz is about, I was slightly underwhelmed.

His web site looks and sounds like he is just another milk-toast republican. (Maybe they should have an organization like that. They have log cabin republicans, so why not milk-toast republicans? Or, how about pancake republicans?)

Anyway, I didn’t see a single word on there about Liberty or the US Constitution, or such. Yes, I am happy that he will probably be able to derail any efforts to get Stealthcare passed this time around, but then again, if it had passed, it surely would have thrown state-level efforts at nullifying it into overdrive, so the result actually could have been beneficial, if taken as a whole.

That’s pretty much where we are in this country, today. If the states don’t come into their own and simply start learning to block federal efforts at intruding into their constitutionally guaranteed sovereignty, we might as well just let Hugo Chavez take us over. We are at the point where nothing good will - or could - come out of any branch of the federal government, for a long time to come, until voters figure out that kicking these high-maintenance hobos out of office at every election until newcomers see there is no point in even trying to have a ‘career’ at taxpayer expense anymore is the only way to go.

Until that happens, we had better focus our energies at the state level. That’s where the Framers always intended for us to spend it in the first place, by the way. The states are where we live. Let the career politicians migrate to Washington DC. Once states (and the people in them, like you and I) figure out what their real power is, their power to nullify bad acts (not ‘laws’!) of the federal congress, those guys can do far less harm in DC than they can in your state capitol. Let’s turn DC into a “Guantanamo Bay for politicians”, of sorts. (We can fence it in, too, if we want!)

All joking aside, when people learn that they truly do have the power, and that they are able to exercise it at and from the state level, that’s when Liberty will smile upon America again - not a moment sooner. Washington is not the answer. It’s not even the question. All it is, at this point, is a rather unattractive nuisance that needs to be remediated, like an open landfill or a toxic waste dump.

“Fencing Washington in” is the least we can do - by nullifying pretty much everything that comes out of it, acting sort of like a national air freshener would act on the bad odors emanating from there. After that, the only people that should ever be allowed into that danger zone would be clean-up crews (like state-legislature-appointed US Senators who can ge their leash yanked when they try to run off with our collective silverware). Now is as good a time as any to repeal the 17th Amendment.

People like Debra Medina are what every state government needs, whether in the governor’s mansion, in the state senate, or in their legislatures, county commissions, or city halls. It won’t be the Scott Browns of the world who will clean up DC. Watch him closely. He will get “turned” rather quickly and start singing a different tune once he is there. If he doesn’t, it’s only egg on my face. If you keep him there and he indeed turns, it’s egg on yours. I’d rather have it on mine. It affects fewer people.

We need more Debra Medinas in America. Watch what a huge boost candidates like her will get after she wins this election. Let’s keep the Debra Medinas at home and send the Scott Browns to Washington DC. That’s my idea of “federalism.” Let Washington DC have the scraps that fall from our states’ tables. We’re not without compassion. DC must “eat”, too.

We just have to make sure it doesn’t keep eating our own lunch!

Alex Wallenwein