“Country First”, are you kidding me?

After one of the toughest nights at work I've had in a stone's age I came home to find an email from John McCain in my inbox. How he got my email address I'll never know, probably from some other Republican mailing list I suspect but he couldn't have picked a better morning to send it to me. First read his message and then read the response I sent back to him below it. Trust me; I think you'll agree it's one of my all time epic rants.

My Friend,

It's been a long couple of weeks in Washington and now one thing is clear… America is ready for some straight talk.

It's time for Congress to get back to work at putting America on the right track again.

Our government has shown the world how it can fight over our differences but now it's time to show that we can work together. With some hard work, discussion, and debate, I'm confident we can make a strong investment in restoring the American people's faith in government and end the shutdown politics that serve no one.

Today, I want to hear from you. I think Washington can use more of your input on how to tackle these critical issues facing our country.

Please take just five minutes to complete my National Agenda Survey today.

I hope you will also forward it to your family and friends so that I can get their input on the issues facing our nation. Upon completing your survey, please consider making a contribution of $25, $50, $100 or even $250 to Country First. Your donation will ensure we have the funds necessary to make your voices heard.

Friend, the strongest cure for dysfunction in Washington is an informed citizenry that actively participates in the political process. Please let me hear from you by filling out my National Agenda Survey today.

Thank you for your support.

Sincerely,



John McCain 


MY EMAIL RESPONSE:


“Country First”, are you kidding me? Its John McCain’s self interest first not the interests of the country and certainly not TRUE Republicans. You're the last Republican on earth I would EVER support. For years your repeated attempts to undermine the Conservatives in the party is legendary and has been an utter disgrace.

During your long and destructive career you haven’t advanced any issue I as a Conservative hold near and dear, in fact it’s the opposite. Your contemptuous statements during the shutdown confirmed once and for all that you're a complete fraud and you have no business belonging to the party. In fact you should have switched parties 20 years ago because by my definition you are NOT a Republican and certainly not a Conservative as you tried to convince some gullible Republican and Independent voters during your 2008 Presidential campaign. You certainly didn’t fool me; I knew what your voting record was and where you stood on the important issues.  

Between you, Graham, McConnell and some of the other RINO's in the Senate and the others in the House you've brought the party to its knees and given the Liberals all the power they need to completely destroy the country. Yes, YOU and the other RINO's just like you in the party are just as guilty and responsible for the mess in DC as Obama and the Democrats.

I've completely lost the small amount of respect I once had for you long ago. I wouldn't give you a plug nickel. I'm insulted you'd come to me to with your survey which is a sham and a ruse while also holding your hand out begging for money when you couldn't care less what my input or opinion is because it’s far too “Conservative” or “Extremist.” 

I know your true character Mr. McCain; it is one of being nothing more than a useful idiot for Obama and the Democrat party. It's too late for you to rehabilitate yourself with a phony survey. So please do all of us Conservatives a big favor and just set down, shut up or better yet go away. I can't wait to see you retire. Please take me off your email list and thank you so much for giving us Obama in 2008, he's hands down the most corrupt and incompetent President in American History and makes Nixon and Clinton look like saints. He's truly the gift (or should I say boot on our collective necks) that just keeps on giving."

Jeff Jacques, Conservative

Supreme Court Rules on Obamacare, American Taxpayers Lose

I pay almost $400 a month to cover myself with health insurance which I feel is my own responsibility. Now I'll have the great honor to be taxed some more for people who could and should be paying for their own. I understand helping kids, seniors, the disabled and veterans but paying a single cent for some able bodied person insurance’s is nothing but robbery.

Our federal government is quickly leading us down the path of economic suicide and taking our freedoms away from us one by one in the process. Now the main stream media who fully support Obama will use this victory as vindication for Obama and his Presidency. I don’t even have to turn on the news, I’m sure they’ve all but assured him a win. Romney needed this Supreme Court decision just as bad as we did. He’s in a horrible spot now and Obama will be able to say in every speech or debate that “Romneycare” was the model used for Obamacare.

After today’s final beat down on Romney, the GOP and hardworking taxpayers everywhere I hope a 3rd Party candidate runs for President. I’ve had it with the GOP. Romney’s chances of winning are slim and I’d rather vote for a candidate who’s a real Conservative. And NO it isn’t Ron Paul either. Paul is a moron. Maybe someone will step forward who I can vote for and feel as though I voted for real change but I have no idea who that person is because these politicians have no courage to stand up and fight for what they know in their heart is really right. At least I could say I did voice my opinion with my vote even though it’ll be in vain.

It’s a sad day, I pray for my country and my kids because our country is going right straight to hell and doing it in record time. And I personally feel totally hopeless and powerless to anything to help stop it.

In Washington DC Nothing Changes

I'm so disgusted with the Republican Party today over the debt ceiling deal. I feel this was maybe the last chance I could stand with them on what should been a paradigm shift in how government does business. Instead they blew it and sadly what I see happening now is that the party will likely split in two because these entrenched RINO's are no different than the Democrats. They didn't listen to the voters in 2010 when they swept the House.

John Boehner and Mitch McConnell had control over the narrative and sold out, rolled over and negated the momentum that should have been theirs with the majority in the House. If they get reelected to their leadership positions in 2012 I'm done with the party. I've always considered myself first and foremost a Conservative and not a Republican. But if the split occurs and it's officially called the Tea Party that will be the group I'll form an alliance with. There must be no other way to gain any ground than split the party and join people who align with most of the principles I believe in. The party of Lincoln, Goldwater and Reagan is nearly dead in the water and is nothing but a hollowed out Keynesian Neo-Con shell of its former self.

Now Barack Obama will get to claim a victory (even though it wasn't) and use this wasted moment by the leaders of the GOP to get reelected. They had him on the ropes and could have knocked him out but he's come back by winning the fight with a half-assed tie. The beltway bureaucrats call that a "compromise" by the way. It's not a tie for us Conservatives; instead in this case it's a catastrophic loss for the people who voted in 2010 and the future of the country. Nothing was gained; the same problems will loom larger but just a year down the road. Incomprehensible debt, a bad economy, unemployment, bad energy policy, bad foreign policy, bad fed policy, bad taxation policy (and still higher taxes to come), Obamacare looming, Social Security and Medicare billions in the hole, EPA gone wild, over regulation and the list goes on. Nothing changed it's just more of the same.

The main stream liberal media won't see it that way of course, they'll consider this a mandate of great resolve for Obama and continue to pitch him as the glorious leader who saved us all from default, misery and complete collapse of the nation. The reality is even without their help some won't need to be convinced anyway because they blindly believe in his cult of personality. If only they could see how his vision of a "Social Utopia" has been a miserable failure but they cannot. They still believe big government has the answer to everything and can "fix" things.

In truth the government should be a nation of laws not of men, not of men who temporally hold office and make us suffer as a consequence because of their lack of vision or courage to do what they know is the just and right thing. The massive size and scope of the federal government is taking more and more of our money (private property), and freedoms away and giving to these power hungry politicians who think they know better than we do how to take care of ourselves.

This is an ideological civil war that is being fought today and the far left is still holding the field. I just wonder how long it will remain civil. I wonder what will happen if the people we elect continue to ignore ours wishes?

They and the media ignored the 500,000 9/12 Tea Party Protest on the DC mall a few years ago who peaceful protested against spending, high taxes and Obamacare and still didn't listen. It makes you wonder when the civility will be tossed out the window and instead a group of 500,000 or a million converge on Washington only this time armed with guns. This may sound extreme but if the voices of the majority of the people continue to be ignored it's not an impossible scenario.

Thankfully I have a Higher Power in my life and I'll continue to believe in prayer and that God will intervene at the right moment as he always does. Ultimately he always has the final say and control over such things not this gutless group of bureaucrats.

I'm hoping that I can take a mental break from this madness and rejoin it when the Presidential Primary season begins. I'm going on vacation starting Aug. 5 and won't go back to work until Aug 16. It's time for some fun and relaxing days with family and friends. I'm so due, so due.