The Traditional American Movement Site-FYI

UPDATE: HAPPY NEW YEAR!
 Great news on the TradAm site. They are now hosted by Three Aliens webhosting and the site is optimized for their software. TradAm wanted to pass along special thanks to MITCH for all his extra help beyond the call of duty!


Hopefully our Righting Our Consent readers have been taking advantage of the Traditional American Movement website which is chock full of features available for any conservative groups to use.  Today however the site is down- due to the hosting company having technical issues to resolve which involves them needing to do a full systems check.
They expect the issues to be resolved soon so please keep checking if you are trying to link through!

Central Planning via Republicans: H.R. 5980

If Republicans do not yet "get" that we are against the top-down, central planning style of government by now, when will they?

Just received this alert from the fine folks over at Northern Virginia 912 regarding the Republican sponsorship of H.R. 5980-
‘Bring Jobs Back to America: Strategic Manufacturing & Job Repatriation Act’.

Excuse me GOP, let's roll back government, not increase interference in the free market which our federal government was never supposed to do in the first place.
For more background on this latest bad idea from Congress please read Kenneth Vaughn's release:

Tea Parties Reject Republican's Attempt to Expand Government

 We need repeals of laws that were rushed through, unconstitutional, unaffordable, and unsustainable drains on American enterprise, not more of the same.

Freedom's Battle's

Get your up-to-date political commentary in "toons" from our friend A.F. Branco, otherwise known as Tony! You can see Tony's art in several locations, but his Facebook page called Freedom's Battle's gives you a chance to comment on the toons! These great works are also posted at the aptly named ComicallyIncorrect.com.  If you want to donate to the cause you may do so there. We are glad that Tony is on our side, because he is always right on target in our book!

"Net Neutrality"

"The Takeover"

America's 2010 Message

Just read The Claremont Institute's,  James W. Ceaser's new article,
"The Great Repudiation" and as his opening states:

"Facts speak for themselves."

Righting Our Consent reads a lot of opinions in preparation for our weekly issue of our newsletter. Much has been written about what the results of this election really meant and what it might portend for the near future's politics. This is probably the one best article, which accurately pieces it all together, from this writer's perspective.

Here are two excerpts in particular that demonstrate an accurate assessment of our views:

For many Republicans, and especially the Tea Party movement, the economic issues were linked to a deeper concern. The size of government and the extent of the federal debt represented not only a burden on future generations and a threat to American power, but also a violation of the spirit and letter of the Constitution.

 There was an additional factor in this electoral outcome, then, that was hardly noted or tested in the polls. It was a cultural clash between an elite and much of the public, between liberal intellectuals and the Obama Administration on the one hand, and the Tea Party activists on the other. The one has shown disdain and the other has responded with indignation. It is impossible, then, to say that Barack Obama was not a major factor in this election, for when he was not himself the leader he became the frequent enabler of this dismissal of middle America. That Obama would have to descend from the lofty heights that he inhabited during the campaign and after his election was something that no sane observer-and no doubt Obama himself-could fail to have foreseen. But this loss of bloated charisma has never been the real problem. It has instead been his demeanor as president. Obama modeled himself on Abraham Lincoln, and it is painful in retrospect to draw the contrast in how they have behaved. One showed humility, the other arrogance; one practiced sincerity, the other hypocrisy; one made efforts at cultivating unity, the other seemed to delight at encouraging division; and one succeeded in becoming more and more a man of the people, while the other, despite his harsh populist appeals, has grown more distant.

ROC--Highly recommended reading:
"The Great Repudiation"

Dear GOP Pledge Takers...

In Republicans Still Haven't Learned, NRO's Andrew McCarthy writes about the recent deal cut over the extension of the Bush era tax rates and how the GOP's recent "A Pledge to America" cannot be taken seriously. He also makes the case that in addition to agreeing to 100's of billions of new spending against their pledge, they misplayed their cards so badly that they have actually helped the chances for Obama to be holding the winning political hand in 2012.

We haven't even had a chance for the new Congress to be sworn in-- and already the GOP is showing signs they still lack the confidence they need to take any path but the one of least resistance.

America cannot afford to have wobbly kneed leadership in the opposition to blatant statism.  We didn't vote for more of the same big government irresponsibility. We don't consent. Dear GOP pledge maker...here is a quote from your pledge:

In a self-governing society, the only bulwark against the power of the state is the consent of the governed, and regarding the policies of the current government, the governed do not consent.

The Pledge to America echoed what America has been shouting for the past two years, but if their first actions are indicative of what we will get from them now-- than we are going to have even bigger problems than before.

So please explain it to us GOP pledge makers. What's the deal? Is this going to be more of say this, do that?