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April 3, 2012 · By Bob Ellis · 2 Comments
Rep. Mark Kirkeby (R-Dist. 35, Rapid City)
There was an interesting report on “mainstream” media outlet KOTA tonight. It’s about the efforts of real Republicans in South Dakota to bring some “primary” heat to “Republicans” in South Dakota government who act like Democrats.
Unfortunately, a number of “Republicans” in South Dakota have for years been acting like Democrats by pushing government health care, interfering with efforts to block ObamaCare, shooting down efforts to control illegal immigration, killed a Second Amendment bill for childish and petty reasons, interfering with efforts to protect against the encroachment of Shariah law, blocking attempts to identify and eliminate drug use among welfare recipients, and attempting to hide their liberal voting records from the public.
These “Republicans” in leadership have even tossed from the “Republican” caucus two Republicans who strongly insist that Republicans uphold Republican values. Several legislative scorecards compiled by several conservative groups over the past year make it clear why some “Republicans” can’t abide Republicans who believe in Republican values in their caucus.
Things smell bad in Pierre, these days, and the smell is liberal.
Gordon Howie brings up an extremely salient truth: if many “Republicans” (especially in the GOP leadership) are liberals who share the same values and agenda as Democrats, have we really gained anything with a Republican majority in the legislature? No, we have not. If you have a GOP that has the majority…yet either lacks the testicular fortitude to do the right thing, or actually supports liberal values, then you might as well not have a Republican majority.
In other words, what good is a cure for cancer…that produces more cancer? That is what a “Republican” Party that produces liberal results does: generates more societal cancer.
Rep. Mark Kirkeby (R-Dist. 35) of Rapid City is also featured in the report. Kirkeby is and always has been one of those liberal “Republicans” who can’t be counted on when it comes time to advance the Republican agenda.
Kirkeby says the liberal votes he and other “Republicans” have made were “tough decisions.” Crap! They were cowardly decisions that please the “mainstream” media, take the easy road and continue the governmental and cultural rot that is destroying our state and nation. Taking the easy road has never in any rational person’s mind been considered a “tough decision.”
No one is looking for “robots,” but having Republicans who vote and act like Republicans would be nice. You’d scoff at someone who went around openly drinking and partying and potty-mouthed who called themselves a “Christian,” wouldn’t you? You’d shake your head in wonder at someone who was supposedly a player on your favorite football team, yet ran the plays of the opposing team, blocked his own team’s players, and extolled the virtues of the other team’s strategy, wouldn’t you? Why, then, is it too much to ask for people who call themselves Republicans to support Republican values and platform, and to consistently vote Republican values?
Kirkeby claims people who believe in Republican values are “divisive” in the Republican Party. What a pathetic joke. It is the liberal “Republicans” who vote like Democrats who are being divisive. It isn’t hard to figure out that if someone insists on departing from what is normal and agreed upon (which is what the GOP platform is), then it is they who is being divisive.
This “movement,” as Kirkeby calls it, consists of Republicans who believe Republicans should act like Republicans and uphold items on the GOP platform. If Kirkeby is outside this “movement,” then he is outside the real Republican Party.
Kirkeby’s comments indicate he expects Republicans to oppose liberals in the Democrat Party…but let the liberals in the Republican Party push the same corrosive agenda as the Democrat Party.
Sorry, that’s not going to happen. We will insist that Republicans act like Republicans, or get into the liberal party that better reflects the bankrupt ideas they push. And we will continue to insist upon that integrity.
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Forces antagonistic to religion dominate our courtrooms, our classrooms, and that most potent platform of public influence, the entertainment industry. Stridently ideological and convinced that the forces of reason and progress are on their side, these secular shapers of culture will not be satisfied until every last vestige of religious influence is exorcised from the public square. These individuals reject the fact that the Christian religion played an integral role in the shaping of America's political traditions and the spirit of liberty and equality that is unique among nations.
As Sherlock Holmes and Mr. Spock were always fond of noting, when attempting to unravel a whodunit, a useful postulate is: “When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” Point in case is the targeting by multiple government departments and agencies at the federal and state level, by elected officials, and by Democrat Party organizations of Catherine Engelbrecht, founder of True the Vote, a non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring honest elections and ballot integrity by targeting voter fraud.
South Dakota state legislators Representatives Stace Nelson (R-Fulton), Manny Steele (R-Sioux Falls), “Chip” Campbell (R-Rapid City), Don Kopp (R-Rapid City), Liz May(R-Kyle), Lance Russell (R-Hot Springs), and Senators Tim Begalka (R-Clear Lake), and Phil Jensen (R-Rapid City), join together to express deep concerns and opposition to the wide spread amnesty for illegal aliens proposed in US Senate Bill 744 being considered by Congress.
We have not forgotten the 2007 McCain-Kennedy amnesty bill that was killed in the face of intense outrage from the American people. This administration has engaged in criminal conduct by granting amnesty through presidential edict to certain illegal aliens. If we were outraged back in 2007 at the McCain-Kennedy amnesty bill, we are now outraged to the hundredth power at the latest attempt by Congress to shove amnesty for illegal aliens down our throats.
South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard announced today that he will appoint Vern Larson of Vivian as Commissioner of School and Public Lands. Last month, Commissioner Jarrod Johnson resigned from office, effective Aug. 15. The Governor’s appointment of Larson will be effective at the same time.
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