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Don't accept the premise

Posted by Dale Debelak on Thursday, November 18, 2010 2:17:09 PM
With the new conservative majority in the House and a stronger conservative contingency in the Senate, this is no time to accept the liberal media's premise on any issue.  They are masters of deceit and can manuever any discussion into their snare of liberal politics.  Nothing underscores this strategy more than the the question "what exactly would you cut in the federal budget?"  Following this question the liberal usually does not pause for an answer but launches into "will you cut Social Security or Medicare?"  Rather than try and list cuts per se, just outline the excesses of federal spending.

The obvious retort from the statist is you must raise taxes because the "Bush tax cuts have to be paid for".  Hence the premise from the left: You cannot cut spending without raising taxes.  Tax cuts are not a spending problem, they are a solution to reduced government revenue.  Has been every time they have been done since at least the Kennedy administration.  The spending in the federal government as well as in some state governments is triggered by the expansion of their bureaucracies, i.e. government employment.  The media will always protect the government employees unions because they work with them on electing liberals like Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.
 
Just deny their premise and declare what you want to see happen in Congress using conservative principles and stick to your guns.  Deny the supposed "fact" that you must raise taxes.  When you cannot afford something for your household you just do not buy it.  Buying things on credit is how we got into this quagmire in the first place.  Who's going to pay for the spending of this session of Congress?  Your children and grandchildren that is who.  Turn the liberal correspondent on his head and ask them "are you being responsible with the suggestion to raise taxes on your children?"
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A Winning 2008 Strategy

Posted by Dale Debelak on Monday, December 10, 2007 10:28:30 AM
Any Republican presidential candidate that publically announces his intention to limit the size of government and the reach of government bureaucracy  and does it consistently throughout the 2008 election cycle will win in the general election.  Don't get me wrong.  National security, immigration, the economy and health care will still be predominent issues.  However, the viablility of all these issues is directly tied to how we budget the everyday operations of the federal government.

For the past seventy years we have had the Democrats set the tone and direction of the federal governments spending habits.  Republicans from Nixon to George Bush 43 have only been able to make slight corrections to the course this country has been following.  We as conservatives have to more completely wrest control of the nation's "rudder" from the Democrat policy machine led by the drive-by media as Rush Limbaugh calls it.

All Republican candidates from the congressional on up the the presidential have to start setting the agenda in this much needed discussion with the American people.  No longer must we acquiesce to the news media's questioning and policy direction.  When asked another inane question about global warming we need to counter with questions and answers of our own regarding real issues and solutions.  Anyone with half a brain realizes that we cannot do anything to significantly affect global warming, but we can develop the energy resources and technology we have to make them function more efficiently and with less pollution.

The drive-by's may not like it and may even cut conservatives off for a short time but if we act in concert in this way they will have to adjust their tactics.  This will give us the momentum to turn the tables on the liberals for the attention of the vast majority of the American public.  The conservative principal of limited government is a winning argument and must be advanced for the sake of this country's future.  Limiting the influence of the national news media should be the first goal of the Republicans in the grand stategery [sic] of taking control of our government for the next seventy years.  
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