from the Cleveland Tea Party
Saturday, December 31, 2016
Thursday, December 29, 2016
Updates:Gov. Kasich (RINO) on renewable energy and other bills
art credit: redstate
In an
article “Kasich Veto Draws Cheers From Environmental Lobby,” Steve Byas at The New American reports:
Once again, Ohio Governor John
Kasich used his veto power to kill yet
another bill favored by conservatives in his state. On Tuesday, he killed a
bill that would have made renewable energy benchmarks voluntary, rather than
mandatory, for the next two years.
Kasich defended his action,
saying, “Ohio workers cannot afford to take a step backward from the economic
gains that we have made in recent years, however, and arbitrarily limiting
Ohio’s energy generation options amounts to self-inflicted damage to both our
state’s near and long-term economic competitiveness.” Of course, how suspending
mandatory benchmarks imposed on electric companies would limit the companies’
“energy generation options," as opposed to doing exactly the opposite,
Kasich did not explain.
Not surprisingly, the
Environmentalist Lobby cheered Kasich, who ran for president this year as a
Republican. The Sierra Club, National Wildlife Federation, National Audubon
Society, and Ohio Consumers’ Counsel all praised the veto. The “benchmarks,” as
they are called, were created by legislation in 2008, requiring electric
companies to gradually obtain more energy from “renewable sources,” rather than
being allowed simply to make a free market decision to buy the least expensive
electricity.
Senator Bill Seitz
(R-Cincinatti), however, was not pleased. “It is apparent that Gov. Kasich
cares more about appeasing his coastal elite friends in the renewable energy
business than he does about the millions of Ohioans who decisively rejected
this ideology when they voted for President-elect Trump,” Seitz said in a press
release. “We can only hope that President Trump and his amazing cabinet of free
market capitalists will save us from this regulatory overreach of Al Gore-style
policies that take unnecessary money out of ratepayers’ pockets.”
Seitz said he would move to
totally repeal the mandates in the next legislative session.
Kasich made it clear by his
veto that he does not trust the free market to sort out which type of energy
source is best for Ohio consumers. This veto is a confirmation for many more
conservative Republicans that Kasich is simply not a conservative.
Ohio legislators can return to
Columbus to override this veto, if they wish. . .
During the Republican
presidential contest, Kasich defended the implementation of controversial
Common Core standards in his state, and attacked fellow Republican candidates
who opposed them — fellow governors Scott Walker of Wisconsin and Bobby
Jindal of Louisiana, as well as former Governor Mike Huckabee, and U.S.
Senators Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio. At the time, Donald Trump was
not mentioned, although Trump also opposed Common Core, seen by conservative
opponents as an attempt to nationalize public education.
There have been numerous other
deviations from conservative principles by Kasich, including his backing of the
expansion of Medicaid in Ohio under ObamaCare. When Kasich was in Congress, he
was one of only 42 Republicans who voted for President Bill Clinton’s ban on
assault rifles. He also favors granting U.S. citizenship to illegal aliens.
Clearly, Republican primary
voters made a good decision to reject John Kasich for the Republican nomination
for president.
And
another item on the 2017 New Year’s Wish List to Columbus lawmakers: Pass the
Ohio Health Care Compact.
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Tuesday, December 27, 2016
Dr. Thomas Sowell retires
art credit: Benjamin T Brixey
One
of my favorite columnists, Dr. Thomas Sowell, is retiring. His farewell column
is here. And here are a few take-aways from it:
Most
people living in officially defined poverty in the 21st century have things
like cable television, microwave ovens and air-conditioning. Most Americans did
not have such things, as late as the 1980s. People whom the intelligentsia
continue to call the “have-nots” today have things that the “haves” did not
have, just a generation ago.
In
some other ways, however, there have been some serious retrogressions over the
years. Politics, and especially citizens’ trust in their government, has gone
way downhill.
.
. .
Years
of lying presidents – Democrat Lyndon Johnson and Republican Richard Nixon,
especially – destroyed not only their own credibility, but the credibility
which the office itself once conferred. The loss of that credibility was a loss
to the country, not just to the people holding that office in later years.
With
all the advances of blacks over the years, nothing so brought home to me the
social degeneration in black ghettos like a visit to a Harlem high school some
years ago.
When
I looked out the window at the park across the street, I mentioned that, as a
child, I used to walk my dog in that park. Looks of horror came over the
students’ faces, at the thought of a kid going into the hell hole that park had
become in their time.
When
I have mentioned sleeping out on a fire escape in Harlem during hot summer
nights, before most people could afford air-conditioning, young people have
looked at me like I was a man from Mars. But blacks and whites alike had been
sleeping out on fire escapes in New York since the 19th century. They did not
have to contend with gunshots flying around during the night.
We
cannot return to the past, even if we wanted to, but let us hope that we can
learn something from the past to make for a better present and future.
Dr.
Sowell is also a prolific author of books; he has made esoteric or
downright boring subjects (such as economics) accessible and interesting. Check
out some of them here. Most will be available at your local library. But his regular columns will be much missed.
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Sunday, December 25, 2016
Merry Christmas
And so as Tiny Tim observed,
art credit: Pinterest
Merry Christmas
from the Cleveland Tea Party!
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Friday, December 23, 2016
Wednesday, December 21, 2016
Ohio Electoral College reports
cartoon credit: Margulies [okay, so it's 4 years old!]
Gateway Pundit posted this report on the Electoral College vote on Monday in Columbus:
Ohio GOP
Delegate Casts Vote for TRUMP – Then Torches All of His DNC Troll Letters in
Yard Pit
Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones received
HUNDREDS of harassing letters from Hillary trolls begging him [to] reject
Donald Trump.
Sheriff Jones ignored the
letters, emails and phone calls and voted for Donald J. Trump for President on
Monday in Columbus, Ohio.
Then he went home and dumped
his pile of letters into a yard pit. Poured lighter fluid on the pile. … And
torched them all.
Sheriff Jones posted the videos
on Twitter . . . [scroll down on GP website here]
And
in the comments section, we find some photos of the Sheriff and Cleveland Tea Party’s
own Ralph King, who also served as a member of the Electoral College and cast his
vote on Monday for Donald J. Trump:
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Monday, December 19, 2016
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