We are getting way too complacent these days. As a nation, we are so used to politicians going back on their promises, we now vote to elect “the lesser of two evils”. But, let us not fool ourselves. The lesser of two evils is still EVIL.

The scourge of our Republic is what is known as Campaign Conservatives. Campaign Conservatives are politicians who tell us they will stand and support small government policies, then once elected, go out and vote to support bloated, big government legislation.

Campaign Conservatives tell us they will stand to defund taxpayer- supported Planned Parenthood, then abdicate that stance under political pressure from the Left.

Campaign Conservatives will spout verse and chapter on being against amnesty, then quickly jump that “bi-partisan fence”, and support legislation which rewards illegal behavior.

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Cloward-Piven, you say?  Yes, only not at a city level, not even a country level, but at a Continental one.  Cloward-Piven, you ask?  Summary:

Cloward & Piven were two NYU sociologists and Socialists that predicated that by overloading the welfare system and drive New York City so far into debt, it could not recover and Capitalism would have to be replaced by another form of governance (gee, guess which!).  They almost succeeded.

BTW, go read what Alinsky said in that post and measure it against what is going on today here in the US – but I digress.  Yes, Cloward-Piven – overloading the system of multiple countries – and overloading their cultural norms: the jizya.  Too many posts to keep up on but the question to keep in mind is “Why now?  Why so many – now?  And WHY are these Western countries allowing this to happen to themselves (although a few are starting to go “oh CRAP!”)?  So, once again, a quick tour around some posts over the last few days:

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Right after that piece on Suzanne Venker, they played a snippet of Hillary’s Benghazi Congressional hearing and one thing really caught my attention:

I made it abundantly clear that we had to do everything we could to protect our people.  What I did not and do not believe that any Secretary should do is was to substitute my judgment from thousands of miles away for the judgment of the security professionals who made the decisions about what kinds of security would be, ah, provided.

Yeah.  The obvious reaction is that she disavowed any responsibility for security for her people – a true leader sticks UP for her people and not throw them under the bus.  But, after all, she’s a Clinton – any wave of the hand works.  But in her words, she also through the main mantra of Progressivism under the bus in an effort to save herself:

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Well, of COURSE I’d post this up – we took part of our name (“Grok”) from his Stranger in a Strange Land opus:

As one drives through the bushveldt of East Africa it is easy to spot herds of baboons grazing on the ground. But not by looking at the ground. Instead you look up and spot the lookout, an adult male posted on a limb of a tree where he has a clear view all around him – which is why you can spot him; he has to be where he can see a leopard in time to give the alarm. On the ground a leopard can catch a baboon… but if a baboon is warned in time to reach the trees, he can out-climb a leopard. The lookout is a young male assigned to that duty and there he will stay, until the bull of the herd sends up another male to relieve him. Keep your eye on that baboon; we’ll be back to him.

Today, in the United States, it is popular among self-styled ‘intellectuals’ to sneer at patriotism. They seem to think…

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Or protecting her political posterior? And flushing her campaign chest while flushing the whole idea of limited government?  After all, if Obamacare was the biggest Govt grab in the healthcare market, the out of control EPA’s Clean Power Act (“don’t breath – you’ll exhale CO2”) is worse – under the guise of Global Warming and CO2 control, the EPA is really out to take control of the energy sector just as they are transforming the relationship of patients & doctors to be under the thumb of bureaucrats thousands of miles away.

This is the vision of American that Kelly Ayotte is embracing – an all powerful Executive Branch?  She already caved on Congress’ Congressional power of the Purse (“We CAN’T shut down the Feds – I’ll have a fainting spell!”) and now she is all willing, under the guise of “working across the aisle”.

Well listen, Kelly, throwing away your Constitutional responsibility is not “bipartisanship” nor “reaching across the aisle” – this is an abdication of your responsibility to MAKE LAW – NOT what we sent you to DC to do.  Instead, with your support, you have nodded your support to the Progressive end state – rule by the Administrative State.  Congrats – you have edged that next incremental step to making Congress that much more irrelevant.  This is not, as you are wont to say “Common Sense” – this is just you trying to copy Scott Brown.  How’d that work out for him, eh?

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It isn’t just the Obama IRS that has been shafting conservatives when seeking non-profit status (and then the Obama DOJ now clearing Lois Lerner of any wrong doing – blaming it on incompetent management), or the Obama Labor department going after large Republican donor / entrepreneurs for “labor violations” or the FEC now targeting conservative advocacy groups to force them to name their donors, and now seemingly seeking retribution against Hobby Lobby who embarrassed the Obama Admin at the Supreme Court on the soul crushing abortifacient HHS mandate of Obamacare.

No, not just the present Administration – it’s also Establishment Republicans who have also decided that conservatives should not be allowed to break up their love fest with power.  I ran across this short list – a good way to keep reminding ourselves that while Republicans like Kelly Ayotte are all over “bipartisanship across the aisle” (re: working with Jeanne Shaheen among others), they hardly consider their fellow Republicans as part of the club (like Kelly Ayotte screaming at/about Ted Cruz standing up for principles).  A friendly reminder as the primary approaches:

12 Times the GOP Establishment Kicked the Conservative Base in the Teeth

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