UNLEASHING AMERICA

I’m sure you’re pretty happy today.  Not quite as happy as you would be if Little Harry Reid had lost – but realize that he’ll be Senate Majority Leader for only two more years.

Every two years roughly one-third of the Senate’s 100 seats are up, but the party balance shifts.  This year it was even, 18 Rep and Dem seats up each.  In 2012, it will be 10 Rep and 25 Dem seats up for grabs.  The odds for a GOP Senate majority will be high.

(Note that those 25 Dems include Joe Lieberman and Bernie Sanders who call themselves "independent," and just-elected Joe Manchin and Kirsten Gillibrand.  Since the latter two are filling out Robert Byrd’s and Hillary Clinton’s terms, they have to run again two years’ hence.)

So – taking the Senate was a bridge too far this year.  Let’s instead be overjoyed at  the awesome massiveness of the GOP/Tea Party victory yesterday and the concomitant obliteration of the Zero-Pelosi Agenda for the Ruination of America.

And you’re asking:  Yes, Jack, I’m happy and drank way too much Famous Grouse in celebration, but – what happens now?  Good question.  Here we go.

First, Zero is LBJ redux.  He hasn’t got the emotional intelligence nor the political savvy of Bill Clinton (or of an aide like Dick Morris), who pivoted off a GOP House takeover in ’94, suckered Gingrich into doing stupid things while working with the Pubs to accomplish real things like welfare reform, and won easily in ’96.

In June of 2009 I issued the Zero Resignation Challenge.  What I said then goes double today:

"This is a doomed presidency.  So doomed that I think the issue is not whether he will be re-elected in 2012 but whether he will run at all – like Lyndon Johnson who overwhelmingly defeated Barry Goldwater in 1964, and had become so overwhelmingly unpopular that he didn’t run for re-election in 1968.   So doomed that I think the odds are growing that he may not only refuse to run in 2012 but resign in mid-office."

Second, there’s a lot to be said for Zero being unable now to blame his failures on recalcitrant "Party of No" Republicans in  Congress when Little Harry Dems are in charge of the Senate.

Third, while it is an obscene shame that Boxer beat Fiorina for the Senate in California, there’s something to be said for Moonbeam beating Meg Whitman for Governor.

The Dems are now in full control of California’s government, and Moonbeam is going to drive the state into full-out broke bankruptcy.  His only choice will be to beg for a bailout from Congress.  Boehner & Co will laugh in his face and cheerfully tell him and California to Drop Dead. 

Moonbeam is exactly what California deserves.  Under him, California will become the poster child for the Failed Democrat State.

Fourth, the motto, slogan, and battle cry of the Republican Majority in the 112^th Congress, the Republican Governors, and Republican majorities in State Legislatures (before yesterday, the Dems had 60 state chambers and the Pubs 36 – today the Dems have 40 and the Pubs 56:  truly stunning) is going to be Unleashing America.

As one Congressman told me this morning (a bit groggy as I woke him up – too much tequila at his victory party he said):

"If you ask my Democrat colleagues what their governing vision is, they will say something like ‘harnessing the energy of Americans to accomplish great things.’  You don’t know how many times I’ve heard them say this, specifically using the word ‘harnessing.’

"Republicans by contrast – and especially these newly-elected Tea Party Republicans whom I’m so pleased to welcome – don’t believe in harnessing Americans but in un-harnessing them.  A "harness’ is a ‘leash.’  ‘To harness’ means to domesticate, to tame, to rein in, to control.  That is exactly what we are against for Americans.  We want the precise opposite.  We want to Unleash America."

This is what Speaker-elect John Boehner means when he says a Republican House means "less government, more freedom."  He means if you get the government out of the way of the American people, you unleash them to create whole new dimensions of prosperity.

This goes beyond undoing the damage Zero and the Pelosicrats have done to us – such as by defunding ObamaCare.  Here are four specific examples of innovative thinking you are going to see emerge out of the 112^th.

Commercial wealth creation in space.  The 112^th will pass legislation designed to encourage private sector space transportation systems and profits from commercial space ventures.  Tax incentives will be no personal income taxes nor cap gains taxes on profits in space.

This requires removing NASA’s government enforced monopoly, which ironically is most rabidly supported by Republican Congresscritters fromTexas (a lot of NASA money is spent there).  They’ll be told to shut up.

Massive reduction in the cost of prescription drugs and the development of new ones.   Currently, FDA regs prohibit the importation of foreign-manufactured drugs – which cost pennies to the dollar of US-made ones – unless they are made in a facility that meets the thousand-page maze of FDA requirements called Good Standard Manufacturing Practices.

The 112^th will pass legislation to remove this prohibition, and replace it with a "standards of purity" requirement.  As long as a drug meets the standard of purity via independent certified testing, it can be legally sold by e.g. CVS or Eckerd’s no matter where or how it was made.  This will save Americans scores of billions on medicines.

In addition, the 112^th will pass legislation removing the efficacy requirement for FDA new drug approval.  "Efficacy should not be the basis of legality," as one Congressman puts it, "safety should be – proof that the drug is not poison.  If it’s not poison, the FDA should approve it."

Currently, it costs over $1 billion and 10-12 years to get FDA approval for a new drug – of which some 80% or more of both involves proving efficacy.  Thus removing the efficacy requirement could reduce drug development costs and the time to bring it to market by over 80%, potentially saving millions of lives.

Ending the man-made global warming/alternative energy scam.  The 112^th will hold real hearings on this with real scientists testifying instead of airhead actresses and celebrities.  Subsidies for "green" scams will be eliminated – possibly even those for ethanol.  Cap-and-tax is of course roadkill.  The EPA will be told to get out of the way of shale gas development, and US energy production will be given every encouragement.

Another scam that will die is that of "rare earths."  You’ve seen the rash of scare stories about China’s production monopoly of 17 "rare earth" metals like neodymium and lanthanum, upon which our hi-tech society depends.

Yes, these elements are necessary to make cell phones, hard drives, and cruise missiles – but in tiny amounts, fractions of a gram per product.  Green scam technologies, however, needs tons of rare earths.  The battery of every Toyota Prius uses 33 pounds of lanthanum.  Every new wind turbine uses some 660 pounds of neodymium.

China is happy to ramp up the scam because they get to screw the West and Japan while making lots of money, a real two-fer.  By ending subsidies for green scam tech like electric cars and wind turbines, the 112^th will engineer the death of China’s rare earth scam as well.  For without the green scams, the market would know the real demand for rare earths, and thus the real value, demand, and prices.  The Chicoms will be unhappy.

Ending the Fed’s destruction of the dollar.  The Treasury Department’s budget must and can only be paid for by an appropriation of Congress.  In response to Bernanke’s announcement today (11/03) that the Fed will buy $600 billion in new Treasurys, this paragraph is being considered for inclusion in the 112^th‘s Treasury Department’s appropriations bill:

"None of these funds may be used to sell additional (non-rollover) Treasury Bonds to the Federal Reserve and if any such Treasury Bonds are sold, no Treasury funds may be used to redeem said Bonds.  Moreover, no funds received from the Federal Reserve for the purchase of such Treasury Bonds may be spent for any purpose. If the Treasury Secretary or any other party authorizes the sale of any additional Treasury Bonds to the Federal Reserve, no funds shall be used to pay the salaries or benefits of such person or persons."  

Congress cannot stop the Fed from printing money without radical legislative revision.  But it can prevent that money from being spent.  It can stop the banks from getting their scammy fingers on it.  Ask yourself – why isn’t all this printed money being loaned out?  Where is it, for it’s certainly not out into the economy.

The Bank-Fed Scam is:  the Fed prints money which the banks can borrow at a quarter-percent, and which the banks refuse to loan out but buy T-bills at 2-3%.  They can make money doing this, and finance the government deficit, from here to the moon and no money ends up growing the economy.  The 112^th will devise a plethora of ways to end the scam.

There are other things in the works, some of which you won’t hear about (except on To The Point!).  Here’s one.

The Pentagon is subject to astronomical numbers of attacks every day on its computers.  By far the greatest number of them, and the most sophisticated, are from the Chicoms.  The DOD’s Cyber Defense Team is staffed by amazingly brilliant 25 year-old whiz kids who get burned and bummed out playing nothing but defense.  They quit and newbies hired because they can’t stand just protecting their goal line and never being allowed to play offense.

"You have no idea what we could do to Chinese military computer systems if my guys were greenlighted to take them down," the leader of one of the cyber teams told me.  "We’d teach the Chicoms to never dick with us ever again.  We could take down practically the entire Chinese economy if we wanted to.  My guys are light years better than theirs – but our hands our tied behind our backs."

So expect a delegation of majority members of the House Armed Forces Committee to pay a visit to the Pentagon early next year and start untying those hands.  The message will be:  The Chinese must be taught a series of very instructive lessons that cyber-war with the US is a game they will seriously lose.

Zero and Little Harry will do everything they can to prevent any success for the 112^th, while pretending to cooperate, and then take all the credit for any of those successes.  They are terminally perfidious.  We need to pray for the 112^th, and pray that they won’t be conned by pretensions of Dem wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing niceness. 

Now let’s celebrate.  Yesterday was a thrilling victory for the return of sanity and freedom in America.  It’s what we’ll be celebrating at the Victory Rendezvous this weekend.  Congratulations to us.  Congratulations to America.