The Intellectual Thinker

2009-11-05T12:21:00.001-05:00

This past Tuesday Republicans were victorious in two national high profile elections. Conservative Republican Bob McDonnell won his election over Democrat Creigh Deeds for the Virginia Governorship, and Republican Chris Christie defeated New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine. There were also numerous state and local elections all across America that went for the Republican nominee, many of whom were elections that went for the Dems in 2008 and 2006.

I think this is a sign that in next years Congressional elections the Republicans, if they play their cards right, could make major head way. A lot of Americans are backlashing from the uber-liberal policies being put forth by the White House and by the democratically controlled House and Senate. This is just a sign that voters can indeed make a difference in politics, but it starts at the local levels. What I think is just as important as the high profile elections held Tuesday were all the local and state elections that went for the Republicans. This is where the movement has to start. In order for Republicans at the national level to gain control there must be a large push toward conservatism locally. City Council seats, County Commissioner seats and State Legislative seats must be won by Republicans.

This past Tuesday was just a little taste I think of what is to come in 2010. I think the great people of these United States are finally waking up and seeing that the liberal policies the White House and Congress are trying to push through is not what the majority of our nation wants.

Lets keep putting pressure on Congress and if they don't do what we have sent them to Washington to do, then we have the ability to vote them out of office. In 2010 we have the power to turn Congress completely on its head. Congressman and Senators take note, we will vote you out of office if you try to ram down our throats these liberal, non logical policies.

And that is my two cents for today.

Contact the Republican Business Council

2009-08-24T13:36:00.002-04:00

For you local business leaders in the Marion County Area you need to check out this site and become a member. This is a great chance to network with local leaders in your area.

Contact the Republican Business Council

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Senate to pass vote to extend "Cash for Clunkers" by $2 Billion

2009-08-06T12:24:00.002-04:00

Well it looks like the Senate is going to vote to extend the massively expensive to taxpayers "Cash for Clunkers" program by $2 billion so that Americans can purchase new cars and receive up to $4,500 in rebate checks for their old ones.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said that both Democrats and Republicans in the Senate have agreed to vote on a plan while considering changes to the bill. Once passed, the bill will go to the White House to be signed by the President. The House passed legislation for the new changes last week.

The new bill would give automakers until Labor Day to sell new, gas efficient cars in order to beef up their sales numbers going into the fall.

While on one hand yes this "Cash for Clunkers" program may be indeed helping out the automakers, I ask; what is it doing for the taxpayers of this country. Our government is basically handing out checks to people in order for them to go out and buy new cars. This is ridiculous. There are better ways to give incentives to people to purchase more fuel efficient vehicles, without spending our tax dollars.

Our government told us just last week that if the Senate didn't vote to extend the program (and by extend I mean vote to spend more of our money) until this Friday, it would go bankrupt within a few days. Now the Senate will vote to extend it again until Labor Day, and don't think for one minute that if the automakers claim the program is helping boost sales, come September 7th we will see another big push to extend the program again for another period of time. At some point the program has to end and the automakers have to start finding their own ways to sell their cars. This of course presents a problem for our government because it loves that fact that the automakers are now dependent on them. Politicians love having power over that large of a manufacturing segment.

I will leave you with this thought; if the government can't figure out how to run a relatively small program such as "Cash for Clunkers" without it almost going bankrupt before anyone even knew about it, how then do we expect our government to run something as large and complex (and expensive) as national health care.

Obama and House Dems Health Care Bill

2009-07-31T13:55:00.002-04:00

The president assures us that he will cut health-care spending...by adding $1 trillion to health-care spending.

He says that "health-care decisions will not be made by government"...while he sets up a new Federal Health Board to tell doctors what treatments they can offer and to whom and under what circumstances.

When the president says he guarantees the "same coverage" to people who like their current health-insurance policies, he means that their current HMOs, insurers and doctors will be the ones to implement the protocols and instructions the government hands down to them -- not that we'll have our current freedom of decision-making.

When Obama speaks of "14,000 people losing their health care insurance everyday" he is leaving out the fact that those are job losses that his failed policies to end the recession have caused.

Time magazine this week will have President Obama on the cover yet again dressed in a white coat as if he was a medical doctor. His true title should be head spin doctor. For now the spin seems to be working for most of Americans, however, I think we will soon begin to realize that spin will not solve our nations problems with its health care.

Welcome to my blog.

2009-05-20T10:52:00.000-04:00

Hello,

My name is Nick Robinson and I have created this blog to keep people informed about what is going on within American politics. I will be contributing regularly on this page so please feel free to check back every few days for updates.

A little bit about me: I am a proud member of the Florida Federation of Young Republicans, and a member of Republican Party of Florida. I've spent most of my professional life working within the construction industry and have experience in all phases of construction from project management, to accounting and finance, to sales and marketing.

Please feel free to comment about my blog. I look forward to hearing from you all. Thanks.

Nick Robinson