Free In Idaho!

Thank you Senator Mike Crapo, for voting against the “crap sandwich” bailout bill.

And thank you again, Representative Bill Sali, for voting against it as well.  Hold your ground sir, it looks like it’s coming at you again.

You other politicians… you’d better pray this works like you think it will, because if it doesn’t, this nation will be in the toilet even worse than it is today.  The thought that we are tossing a huge piece of the Constitution over this fills me with dread.

Bailout.  Rescue.  Whatever.  Dirty Harry Reid is droning on in the Senate this morning.  Every time I hear the man speak, I remember the words of a much better man

You and I, as individuals, can, by borrowing, live beyond our means, but for only a limited period of time. Why, then, should we think that collectively, as a nation, we’re not bound by that same limitation? We must act today in order to preserve tomorrow. And let there be no misunderstanding: We are going to begin to act, beginning today.

The economic ills we suffer have come upon us over several decades. They will not go away in days, weeks, or months, but they will go away. They will go away because we as Americans have the capacity now, as we’ve had in the past, to do whatever needs to be done to preserve this last and greatest bastion of freedom.

In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we’ve been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden. The solutions we seek must be equitable, with no one group singled out to pay a higher price.

We hear much of special interest groups. Well, our concern must be for a special interest group that has been too long neglected. It knows no sectional boundaries or ethnic and racial divisions, and it crosses political party lines. It is made up of men and women who raise our food, patrol our streets, man our mines and factories, teach our children, keep our homes, and heal us when we’re sick–professionals, industrialists, shopkeepers, clerks, cabbies, and truck drivers. They are, in short, “we the people,” this breed called Americans.

              - Ronald Reagan, First Inaugural Address, January 20, 1981

Indeed. 

Here’s a good written primer on the whole problem, from the Patriot Post, in case you didn’t take time to watch the video I posted earlier.

This gentleman gets it.  Do you?

We had a rodeo in Meridian last weekend.  Here’s some youngsters checking out the other team.