It doesn’t seem to matter what the issue is, Americans seem to have truly lost their minds – incapable of looking at history as a road map for the future, or a predictor of outcomes. The current oil price crisis is a great example. With literally hundreds of years of oil under our own land, we continue to finance communists, Islamic terrorists, and countries hostile to the concept of freedom and democracy by deliberately remaining dependent on oil from these rogue regimes.

Why won’t we get our own oil, which we know is readily available? Because we are stupid. Democrats in Congress, with the aid of northeast "Republicans", have continually blocked national energy policy in the US Senate that would have the effect of increasing domestic supplies.

The President of the United States needs to declare a national emergency and sign an Executive Order opening up the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge NOW so we can get our own supply of oil in the near future. Without even the threat of this happening, foreign oil producers will continue to gouge American consumers and destroy the domestic… Read More

Mitt Romney has had a great week in California.

First, on Wednesday night, the Young Republican Federation of California’s Board of Directors voted to endorse the Romney campaign – becoming the first grassroots group in the state to endorse Governor Romney.

To add to that, just minutes ago, the California Republican Assembly joined the YRFC by overwhelmingly voting to endorse the Romney campaign.

By a vote of 148 – 73, CRA took a big step in showing clearly that the conservative base of the Republican Party is coalescing around Governor Romney.

Primary elections are traditionally dominated by the bases of each Party – and within California, there aren’t more representitive voices of the conservative base than YRFC and CRA.

Like I said, it was a big week in CA for Mitt Romney.

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Courtesy of The Hill, we can share this information with you, on which California Congressional Delegation members have endorsed a candidates running in the Democrat or Republican Presidential primary: A few surprises:

Not one California Democrat Member of Congress has endorsed Barack Obama Only one of Duncan Hunter’s California colleagues, Gary Miller, has endorsed his candidacy. Hillary has not been endorsed by Barbara Boxer. It’s surprising that only Dan Lungren has endorsed McCain, given that for a time, he was the frontrunner. Chris Dodd’s four California endorsements isequal the entire Democrat delegation of his home state of Connecticut. Despite Fred Thompson’s splash into the GOP primary, he’s "endorseless" when it comes to the CA GOP Congressional delegation. Only four Republican candidates have California Congressional endorsers. Only two Democrat candidates have California Congressional endorsers.: Given the unpopularity of Congress these days, perhaps those with no … Read More

Courtesy of The Hill, we can share this information with you, on which California Congressional Delegation members have endorsed a candidates running in the Democrat or Republican Presidential primary: A few surprises:

Not one California Democrat Member of Congress has endorsed Barack Obama Only one of Duncan Hunter’s California colleagues, Gary Miller, has endorsed his candidacy. Hillary has not been endorsed by Barbara Boxer. It’s surprising that only Dan Lungren has endorsed McCain, given that for a time, he was the frontrunner. Chris Dodd’s four California endorsements isequal the entire Democrat delegation of his home state of Connecticut. Despite Fred Thompson’s splash into the GOP primary, he’s "endorseless" when it comes to the CA GOP Congressional delegation. Only four Republican candidates have California Congressional endorsers. Only two Democrat candidates have California Congressional endorsers.: Given the unpopularity of Congress these days, perhaps those with no … Read More

When you are a popular politician, especially one that likes to do "big things" it is always more challenging and thrilling to be on the offense. But in order to be a winning team, you have to not only get excited about your offensive game, but your defensive game as well. The reality is that with this massive fiscal crisis facing California state government, Governor, it is time to bench your offensive team, and huddle with your defensive team and figure out how we are going to keep California in the game.

Clearly you have a prefered agenda of items that you would like to pursue, including increasing government’s role in health care, and implementing a lot of regulations to reign in man-made production of carbon dioxide. But the reality is that, with these two agenda items in particular, they are going to make California’s financial crisis worse, not better.

On healthcare, it is simply not credible to say that you are going to create a massive new government program with upwards of 14 billion… Read More

When you are a popular politician, especially one that likes to do "big things" it is always more challenging and thrilling to be on the offense. But in order to be a winning team, you have to not only get excited about your offensive game, but your defensive game as well. The reality is that with this massive fiscal crisis facing California state government, Governor, it is time to bench your offensive team, and huddle with your defensive team and figure out how we are going to keep California in the game.

Clearly you have a prefered agenda of items that you would like to pursue, including increasing government’s role in health care, and implementing a lot of regulations to reign in man-made production of carbon dioxide. But the reality is that, with these two agenda items in particular, they are going to make California’s financial crisis worse, not better.

On healthcare, it is simply not credible to say that you are going to create a massive new government program with upwards of 14 billion… Read More

Santa Clara City Clerk Rod Diridon Jr. was considered one of three serious candidates for Assembly District 22. His fundraising has lagged behind his opponents in the Democrat primary — Paul Fong and former Republican staffer Dominic Caserta.

He sent the message below to his supporters last week..

Many in the business community feel that Fong was not a good vote for business but that Diridon and Caserta were going to hand him the election. They are both young moderate candidates from Santa Clara.

Now the whole race has changed. Republican staffer Caserta is now in the running to win this seat. With Diridon in the race he would have been splitting a similar base.

Oh — did I mention that Caserta is running as a Democrat?

Dear Friends, First, let me say how much I have appreciated all of your support and friendship during my campaign for the State Assembly. Our effort is in good stead, with major supporters, a large fundraising base still to be utilized, and polling numbers that show us in the lead. With great forethought, and respecting your trust… Read More

Who knows what evil lurks in the text of the Governor’s health care plan?

"The Shadow knows…"

With a h/t to Shane Goldmacher over at the now-free-but-you-must-register Capitol Alert Blog at the Sacramento Bee, Goldmacher tells the tale about the maneuvers that have taken place in the State Capitol to have the Governor’s big-government health care plan introduced into bill form — without and actual author! It must be The Shadow!

We’ll chalk this up to one more reason to oppose Proposition 93. If Fabian Nunez, who seems to be brainchild this authorless bill idea, thinks that this kind of gimmickry Under the Dome is good public policy, well, then it IS time for him to retire. The end of next session can’t come soon enough!

Well, I guess when you come up with a dumb idea that nobody likes, it takes a devious mind like Nunez has to figure out… Read More