October, 2010

October 26, 2010 - Joe Miller, the Tea Party candidate who knocked off Senator Lisa Murkowski in Alaska’s Republican primary, says that Border Security is the nation’s most pressing problem. "The first thing that has to be done is secure the border.” He said,. “East Germany was very, very able to reduce the flow. Now, obviously, other things were involved. We have the capacity to, as a great nation, secure the border. If East Germany could do it, we could do it."  Alaska is a far cry from Mexican Border and he seems to have forgotten that the East German border fences, machinegun sprouting guard towers and barren mine fields were designed to keep people from escaping to freedom.  Not many were clamoring to get in to East Germany in order to find job but the would-be Senator thinks America should emulate East Germany........click here for entire article

October 20, 2010 - The Tea Party’s Red Queen, Sarah Palin recently sent a Tweet urging Pennsylvania voters to vote for John Raese for the United States Senate. There was a problem.  Raese is the Republican Nominee for the West Virginia Senate seat held by the late Senator Robert Byrd. 

Raese has taken some curious positions in his campaign.  He is one of two Republican Senatorial nominees to make the argument that Federal minimum wage legislation is unconstitutional.  The other is Joe Miller, the Tea Party favorite who ousted Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski in Alaska’s primary.  Miller was also endorsed by Palin.  They don’t call for repeal of the legislation.  They argue that Congress has no authority to pass a minimum wage or any other legislation to protect workers in the market place and any such law is an unconstitutional invasion of the liberty of contract – a proposition that the United States Supreme Court unanimously rejected in 1941.......click here for entire article