Freedom of Speech or Consequences

Many of us are staunch defenders of our constitution and we are pretty adamant about it. I personally have said things to friends regarding this and it was not sugar coated. However there is a difference between a discussion with a buddy over a few beers and what becomes public knowledge.

When Potus 45 was first elected many expressed there displeasure and more than one celebrity talked about killing him. Did they have the right to express that under the first amendment, you bet! Does the first amendment protect them from a visit from the police and or a host of three letter government agencies, absolutely not. One entertainer felt they were protected under the first amendment from consequences from holding a severed head which was a likeness of Potus. Once again, there is absolutely the right to express that opinion and an equal expectation that for the public good and safety they will be investigated.

If you hear someone express they are going to do something to a school you have a moral duty to inform the authorities. That person or persons has the freedom to express their thoughts but no protection from investigation of those thoughts.

Now lets bring it a bit more local. Let’s say there is a county board meeting about a proposed pipeline. Do you have the right to say, “If you vote in favor of the pipeline you are all a bunch of dumb sonbitches!”, obviously yes and you probably would be admonished for your language. Do you have the right to say if you vote yes on the pipeline I will blow it up? You certainly have that right but be prepared for the consequences.

I think I have given sufficient examples for you to get the point, so where am I going with this? Thanks to facebook, twitter, instagram and all the other social media platforms and those lovely smart phones that can easily take video there is a responsibility people have to their cause that they had not thought about.

Here is an example, let’s say you are at a town hall meeting with your favorite or not so favorite senator. Now the issue of gun control comes up and the person before you has said some things that just has your blood boiling, it was a 5 minute tirade about how the constitution didn’t cover the modern weapons of today, yada yada yada, you know the talking points. So you get up to speak and you defend the 2nd amendment, your making your points well and people are nodding their heads and you feel you have the audience in the palm of your hand. So your on a roll and you finish by saying, “Anyone who tries to take my guns will pry it from my cold dead body!” The room irrupts in applause and you are proud of what you did. Will you see a visit from law enforcement or a three letter agency, probably not. We all need to be passionate about our beliefs.

Imagine your horror, when the next morning, a clip of you is shown on CNN and the only part they play is where you say They can have my guns when they pry them from my cold dead body. The announcer goes on to say this is typical of the alt right who claims to support law enforcement until it is something they don’t like and then they will fight to death. Congratulations you have just become the poster child for the left and have dealt a harsh blow to the movement you were trying to support.

So how do we fight the bullcrap from the left? A better response might have been “You probably aren’t aware of it but the 2^nd amendment of the constitution guarantees me the right to have my guns just as it gives you the right to spout your nonsense. Until there is a constitutional amendment which nullifies the second amendment your just wrong.

As we discuss, argue, debate and fight with the left on any topic we need to always be vigilant about what we say and how we say it. Our Freedom of Speech does have Consequences!

I am Chuck Pithy and I say it like it is!

The Biggest Government Waste

We have all read articles about government waste, but sadly the largest government waste is never addressed. I am referring to time. One only has to watch C-span for a short period of time to realize how bad time management is.

First of all, most of the so called “Debate Periods” for bills or legislation are just an opportunity for grandstanding and “air time” for those who speak. I seriously doubt that Sen Cruz will say anything to change Sen. Baldwin’s position or vice versa. But the media sure loves those clips that they can edit for the news shows. What should be done is every legislator who wants to put out a position on an issue should do it on their own government website. Often when you watch these debates we see hundreds of congresspeople bored out of their mind, sitting there for hours and doing nothing. This is time that could be spent being far more productive, by perhaps reading or writing a bill. Congressional or Senate hearings have gotten even worse. We are spending months and years trying to get answers to simple questions. Subpoena’s go unanswered until the very last day and time when most of this information is digitally stored and accessible quickly.

Often times during the hearings each legislator who is at the hearing has an aid or two that is sitting there waiting to give the legislator the information that they might need for the “questioning”. Now the legislator may not even be called upon for questioning for hours or even that day but everyone has to be there for the cameras. What use to be hard hitting discovery questions from everyone has changed to discovery questions from one political party. But for the opposing party we hear editorials about how horrible it is that this fine american has been forced to testify when he or she has done nothing wrong, praise and support for a job well done, and a litany of other wrong doings of the opposing party, none of which has bearing on the hearings.

All of these meeting, hearings, and debates are run under “Robert’s Rules of Order or an adaptation of Robert’s Rules of Order that are then defined as Senate Rules or House Rules. While I understand the need for rules and order, the formality of all of this is another giant waste of time. Often one hears, ”the house will hear from the congressman from the 6th district of Wisconsin, the congressman has 5 minutes”. But it gets even worse, because in the middle of his 5 minutes, he may yield 2 minutes of his time to his esteemed colleague from the great state of Texas, Congressman One. Then Congressman One thanks the congressman from Wisconsin for yielding the 2 minutes. Now this may not seem like much, but multiply this times the hours, days and number of meetings and you see just how critical this becomes.

Now another thing that is a huge waste of time is some of the choices of congressional hearings. One of the the most obvious stupid hearings was into the supposed doping in professional baseball. Yes I realize that it is a federal crime but my gosh, why is the government even regulating a sport? With all the things they need to get done, and do not have time to do, they are worried about that? If there is a need for a congressional or senate hearing, let’s make certain that it is critical and that there is a goal to be achieved. Every day it seems like something happens where people are demanding congressional hearings, we need to stop thinking that everything demands a hearing.

The last time I will discuss in this post is fact finding missions. Often times a politician will declare that he or she needs to go to another country or even someplace in the United States to find out what they call key information on their own. These “missions” rarely reveal anything they did not know before or change anything the government does about the issue. But when campaigning they often refer to these missions as being greatly important. However those of us who follow this closely, understand it is a ”look at how important I am moment and how much I care”, rather than anything being accomplished.

The sad truth is this time wasting is not just on the federal level, but it is also at the state and local level too! If government was more like business where time matters many of these things would be done way more efficiently. Our government has become an entity that is only interested in growing itself and consuming more tax payor dollars.

Until this major issue is addressed don’t look for much of anything in government to change. Remember, time is the one thing we can never get back.

I am Chuck Pithy and I tell it like it is!

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Do You Want 306 People To Decide The Fate Of The Entire World?

 With all the drama that abounds in the world, it seems that a few of the GOP delegate have found a way to add more drama to our lives.  The movement is called “Delegates Unbound” and comes from Speaker Paul Ryan’s home state of Wisconsin.  Is it just coincidence that this group’s organizers come from the state that elected the man who will control the control the convention with his gavel?  I will leave that for you to decide.  Their plan has two parts to it.  The first is to get the enough members of the rules committee to change the rules to unbind the delegates on the first ballot, their hope is enough people will not vote as directed by the state party that sent them to the convention thereby denying Donald Trump a first round ballot victory.  Now if that plan should fail, they plan to to try and convince enough delegates (306) to abstain from voting as is their duty as state delegates and thereby denying Donald Trump a first ballot victory.

So what, in essence could happen, is 306 people could change the course of history.  If you were, as I was, one of the people who voted in the primary because I felt I had some sort of voice, well that goes out the window if their plan succeeds.  If this plan works the next time I am contacted for money, time, boots on the ground etc I will just direct them to the 306 who changed the way a convention was held for many years. contacted to help in the next presidential primary.  My first response if this plan is successful is why don’t you contact the delegates who abstained because they knew better than the entire country what they wanted.  Let those people go out and do the work, let those people donate all the money to beat the democrats, my time, effort and vote were not considered last time, so how can I have any assurance it will be considered this time.

I understand their arguments about how they feelTrump is so bad, will lose so badly, will destroy the GOP and all the other arguments, but it should not matter.  The primaries were held and I am sorry they do not like the results, but they are what they are.  When Donald Trump first entered the race these same sort of people said he will never win, he does not have any kind of ground game in most states.  But state after state we saw Donald Trump do well.  Then they said well Cruz would win but his votes are being split between all the other candidates.  But as candidates started dropping out, instead of Ted Cruz doing better, it was Donald Trump that kept winning.  Even with Mitt Romney endorsing one candidate for one primary and then another at the next primary to try and stop Donald Trump it did not work.  To me this shows that he was a fairly strong candidate. But wait, he is not a conservative so we are doing this for the good of the country!  Funny but they did not do the same thing 4 years ago when we were left with Mitt Romney.  There was a considerable delegation of Ron Paul supporters who not only weren’t heard last convention, they specifically changed the rules to prevent him from being able to even speak at the convention.

Now all the Cruz supporters will start screaming that it was cross over Democrat votes that propelled him to victory and in part that did help.  Donald Trump did not create that rule nor did he try and change it for his benefit, he just did what he needed to do.  If your a member of the GOP and you do not like that rule change it for the next election cycle, do not try and alter the outcome of this one.  Here is another interesting fact that the Cruz supporters need to think about.  Roughly 15-20% percent of registered republicans voted in this presidential primary.  If Ted Cruz had such a great ground game, was such a great conservative candidate, then why didn’t more of the other 80-85% of registered republicans who didn’t vote come out and support him?

For those that feel this will be a slam dunk I want you to consider this explanation of the complex Republican National Convention Rules.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/unconventional-33-paul-ryan-could-000000761.html?soc_src=mail&soc_trk=ma

So to wrap this up, these few people are certain they know more about what the American people want, then do the American people themselves.  If this plan works it will be the end of the Republican Party! I hope these people realize they will live with this decision the rest of their lives!  Buckle up it is going to be a hell of a bumpy ride.

I am Chuck Pithy and I tell it like it is!

A Storm This Way Comes!

For all the Cruz supporters who feel once the rules are changed and Donald Trump is not the nominee all will be right with the world, this is what he will be facing.

Potential Hilary Commercials

The Republicans ask you to vote for them and they promise to carry out the will of the people. However over 14 million people voted for a candidate and they choose someone else. Sure seems like the Republicans feel they know better than the American voter, this is not representation, this is tyranny.

Ted Cruz is asking for your vote to be president, however during the primaries not even his own party trusted him enough to vote for him to be their nominee, he got it through back room dealings like most Republicans do. The Republican voters must know something they aren’t telling us, do you want to take that much of a risk with our county.

Ted Cruz, America’s 2^nd choice in the primaries and second choice now, vote Hilary.

Yes I know Abraham Lincoln was not a first ballot choice, but that was long before the age of digital media. The Dems will have a field day with this happening and lord only knows what other things they have waiting. I am glad you feel so confident that Ted being a constitutionalist and an evangelical christian will be more than enough to win, but the truth is who ever the nominee is they need support of the independents and the moderates to win. Ted Cruz will be portrayed as such a hard line right winger that his stand on abortion and gay marriage will make him appear to be way out of touch with main stream America. Look what they did with moderates John McCaan and Mitt Romney. If you think Trump is unelectable you have not seen anything yet.

 

I am Chuck Pithy and I tell it like it is.