Enough is Enough

Ron Paul on the floor of the Congress last night, speaking on the ridiculous treatment of citizens by the TSA:

Terrorism is bad.
The 4th Amendment is good.
Fear should not rule our intellect.
Fear does not trump inalienable rights.
Let's reinstate the 4th amendment--then there wouldn't be a need for his bill.

The News and Ron Paul

This illustrates where we are with "news" in the United States.  I am not going to take a stance (other than my quotation marks), but would love to hear your point of view.  I have listed the "news" anchors responses to Ron Paul's words below the clip.

Mark Haines: "This is not going as planned"

ErinBurnett: "No it is not"

MarkHaines: "We were told that there would be a very limited number of opening statements, and it seems to be getting out of control."

ErinBurnett: "Here’s what we forgot, everybody is taking this live, you know what that means? Why would they miss an opportunity for free air time?"

MarkHaines: "We’re going to take a commercial break and get them out of the way, so that when something really substandard [hahaha-think he meant substantial] is happening, we don’t have to interrupt them."

Letter to Lamar Smith re: Economic Stabilization Bill

Thankfully, the vote to have working Americans pay for the golden parachutes of crooks and liars fell short today.  You can read the verbiage of the bill here.  The bill failed 205 to 228. 

I watched the news and they are saying that the bill needs to be renegotiated.  We need to keep on our representatives in both houses to keep them from redistributing wealth from working American citizens to banks and corporations that have acted irresponsibly.

Rep. Ron Paul provides his view on the failure of the bailout bill right after the vote:

I wrote a letter to my State Representative before and after the vote. If you feel like contacting your representatives, you can do it easily by clicking here and filling in your zip code in the "my elected officials" search box.  

Here is the letter I wrote to my State Representative.  (He is one of the few Texas Reps that actually voted for it.):

Dear Representative Smith,

I saw how you voted on the Economic Stabilization bill and am surprised. I have differed with your views in the past, but am shocked you voted for this...as is everyone I have spoken with today.

As a constituent, I ask that you stem the socialization of debt & privatization of profit this bill and others like it provide. This is one of the most impacting decisions of our time. Please side with conservatism, responsibility, accountability, free markets, transparency and the American way. Please be a fiscal conservative, please stand up for your constituency, please be a defender of our country's financial interests in the future.

I know you speak to people around you about the issues that face us. As someone who offices in the same complex as you, I speak to a lot of the same people you would. I have not met a single person in your district that supports the way you voted this time. I hope that you continue to speak to the people you represent and that time provides insight that might change your mind regarding this huge redistribution of wealth.

Sincerely,

Erik Kuykendall

Hope you write Your represenatatives and Senators.

First Shot in the Revolution?

The Ron Paul Revolution has been quite interesting to follow. I have loaded pictures from the Ron Paul Boston (Austin) Tea Party fund raising rally in Austin, Texas. There were people from many walks: Businessmen, soldiers, hippies, parents, students, different races and socio-economic backgrounds.

I feel the picture below is the right cover shot for today's event.

Click on the photo below or here to see today's photos.

(Photo by Erik Kuykendall)

You can see the graph of donations as they came in through the day. It appears he broke another record. Actually another record was broken for him as he wasn't involved.

The video was taken by a young man named Jimmy and I thought some might like a video peek at the event, too:

Ron Paul Tea Party 2007

I am on my way out the door to go to the capitol to take photos of the march and the Tea Party at the Congress Bridge. If you want to find out more about the National Tea Party, click here. To check out today's the Austin event...click here.

Re: Questions for Ron Paul

I was on one of my favorite blogs this morning and ran across a thread where one of the readers had some questions for Ron Paul. He wanted to know more about Paul's anti regulative stances regarding media consolidation, net neutrality and privatizing social security. All good questions I think should be posed to anyone running for president.

I'm not on board yet, but I am intrigued by Dr. Paul. I have been following him for years. He's impressed me with his integrity and reason thus far. I would love to see a Kucinich/Paul ticket or a Paul/Kucinich ticket.

Ron Paul- Don't Tread on Me

The video is of Congressman and Presidential candidate Ron Paul being featured in a YouTube video that someone aptly entitled, "Don't Tread on Me".



I don't agree with everything Congressman Paul says or stands for, but am repeatedly impressed by his integrity, his consistency and his reasonable/reality-based Populist approach.

Ron Paul on Tucker Carlson

As I have shared a couple of Ron Paul videos lately, some have written to ask if I am conservative or Republican. I am neither conservative nor Republican. I do, however, enjoy watching the good 'ol boys shifting in their seats as Conservative Republican Congressman Ron Paul keeps wiping the floors with their butts. As he is winning all of the debates but being missed by most of the media, I will continue to post on him.

Texas Congressman Ron Paul on Tucker Carlson's show on 6 June 2007:

Ron Paul with Jon Stewart on Daily Show

Ron Paul appears on the Daily Show on June 4, 2007. As bad as the media wants to forget this guy, I think I should do my part and remind you of him.

Ron Paul Wins Debates!!!

Ron Paul won both Republican debates by a substantial margin, but he isn't being spoken of as the winner of the debates on ANY of the news programs I have seen this morning or in any of the major news outlets. Ron Paul's 39% with the next closest contender at 9% in the MSNBC polls after the MSNBC debates was attributed to the viewership of MSNBC wanting to skew the numbers of the debate. This time the debate was on Fox News and Ron Paul's 30% in the Fox News poll is being attributed to Mr. Paul's ability to mobilize his supporters to vote in the polls.

Fox News Results:


Ron won the Vote.com poll. As of 7:50 am the results are as follows:

SAM BROWNBACK (15)	(1%)
JIM GILMORE (7)	(0%)
RUDY GIULIANI (310)	(15%)
MIKE HUCKABEE (43)	(2%)
DUNCAN HUNTER (72)	(3%)
JOHN MCCAIN (41)	(2%)
RON PAUL (1,226)	(60%)
MITT ROMNEY (244)	(12%)
TOM TANCREDO (86)	(4%)
TOMMY THOMPSON (16)	(1%)

The MSNBC poll as of 7:52 this morning has Ron Paul at 55%, Mitt Romney 24% and Giuliani at 19% as the leaders.

He also won the World Net Daily poll with 32% at the time this was written.

FOX listed McCain and Giuliani as the winners in their latest reports:

"The latest survey by respected Republican pollster Whit Ayers, who is unaligned with any campaign, shows McCain at 25 percent, leading Giuliani by 5 points. The poll has a 4.4 percent margin of error. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is in fifth place at 8 percent and behind two men — former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich — who aren't even in the race."

FOX "News" only mentions Paul as an afterthought and doesn't mention him as a serious contender. Most major news source stories aren't discussing how he is whomping people in the debates, they are focused on making Mr. Paul a distant memory by casting his comments in the light of blaming the U.S. for being attacked on 9/11.