Republicans Need to Toughen UP!

SPILLING INK!

This is my response to the email Press Release that I received from the MD GOP about the Maryland Republican Chair's response to Barack Obama's speech on Tuesday, February 24, 2009.

Good morning, Mr. Ready,

In re subject email. I do not find it helpful. On the contrary, it is confusing and it does not encourage me to join the Republican Party in their efforts to win back the majority status in the U.S. Congress and White House as a credible political force in the nation. With the Obama Administration, we are up against proven propagandists and liars who have no regard for the Rule of Law (whether God's law or man's law).

The Republican Party has failed to address Obama's ongoing attempts to change our U.S. Constitutional Republic in order to create his own coalition government where the Constitution clearly lays out leadership decisions, to be legal and valid, must come from elected leaders to the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate. It pains me no end to see Obama and his Chicago gang disregard, with impunity and without avenues of redress, the way our government is to be run as a Republic in a democratic fashion.

Take for example last night's speech in the joint session of Congress. In accordance with the Constitution, that is not held during an election year no matter what name Obama gives it. Special sessions can be held after Congress passes a law to allow it. We have not heard that was the case. And the passage of that outrageous stimulus-spending bill was allowed to stand even though our Congressional bodies (U.S. House and U.S. Senate) (were) deliberately never given the opportunity to read it before voting and approving it into law. We are now beholden to laws which won't be fully known for months and years to come. How can that bill be legal when they have said our American housing economy is in trouble today, because home owners did not read the papers that were put in front of them years before?

Why hasn't the Republican Party publicly challenged the DEMS and Obama on their agenda to create a one-party system of government? Why hasn't this party publicly backed Rep. Jack Kingston (R) who recently made the point. Get behind him and Republicans like him. Help their voices to be heard, too, and without apology!

And, if Obama gave an "excellent" speech but had failed to -- at the same time -- render viable solutions to our crushing problems in the nation, as the Maryland Chair, Jim Pelura, says, then I find that foregoing adjective to have been misleading and dishonest (i.e., the term, "excellent.") We need people in and around government who will tell the truth and stick to it (when it is truth) rather than to play word games with people's lives -- and that certainly also includes Barack Obama, who has said on several occasions that this "is a game" and that "We know how to play the game." But when dealing with the livelihood and nurture of citizens, it is no game and the rules don't need to keep changing from the outset, as we are seeing occurring more often than not.

We cannot fight liars with truth, if we keep agreeing in the midst of their (proven) lies. They could care less about how they win and will say and do whatever they have to so that they will win at any cost. It is time for those in leadership to say what they mean and mean what they say. Meekness does not mean weakness. But weakness will be slapped down, however it is perceived. We need strong leadership --- and that even includes from RNC Chair Michael Steele who seems to want to dumb down the Party line for the sake of acquiring more bodies. We have become the laughingstock of the political arena (whether it is warranted or not).

We are in a fight for truth, rights, God, life, the United States of America and citizens' security. At the very least, we need to hear strength coming from the Party instead of meally-mouthed statements of capitulation to DEMS' wrong acts and no matter which segment of society it comes from. Personally, I am fed up with only getting requests for money and finding, in return, a closed Republican organization that can't seem to find either its legs or voice in a fierce battle while ignoring those of us who want to -- and do -- use ours. You have a lot of people just waiting for the signal to get in the fight. But it has yet to come.

The message I get is to shut up and sit down and keep quiet. That's not the way to rally the troops who will volunteer to do the leg work in order to right all the wrongs that DEMS are creating throughout the land.

BTW, your email says to contact you, but you didn't give a return email address on the page.

Thanks for listening.

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If anyone has not seen that subject Press Release, just email me to request it and I will send it along. -Rev. LED Dowell.