Comments by Conservative Voter | Eastern NC Now

Fiscally conservative budgeting involves techniques like zero-based budgeting. The Langley - Waters coalition use big spending techniques to keep spending and taxes high. The county commission has two conservatives, Deatherage and Dunn running and two big spending liberals, Waters and Booth, for three seats. We need to elect both fiscal conservatives, and defeat one of the big spenders, and it really does not matter whether that is Booth or Waters.

Commented: Saturday, July 16th, 2022 @ 11:32 am By: Conservative Voter

Russia has been funding major US environmental groups for years for the purpose of undermining American energy security, as happens when we start depending on fickle sources like wind and solar. Republicans in Congress have tried to get this Russian funding of US environmental groups properly investigated but the Democrats stonewall it.

Commented: Tuesday, July 12th, 2022 @ 10:15 am By: Conservative Voter

Part of that oil that Biden has released from our reserves was sent to Communist China, of all places. It looks like Beijing owns Joe Biden, probably through Hunter Biden.

Commented: Wednesday, July 6th, 2022 @ 12:59 pm By: Conservative Voter

There is unquestionally too much power in the hands of the RINO leadership in the NC legislature. The core cause is not the money, it is the ability of the Speaker to succeed himself in the House, and the end of divided power in the Senate. Prior to 1989, Senate powers were divided between the Lieutenant Governor and the Senate President, so that power could not be concentrated either place. Most of the Lt. Governor's powers came through Senate rules and when Republican Jim Gardner was elected to that office in 1988, the Democrats stripped his powers and concentrated them in the Senate President. The power arrangement you describe is the Basnight system, which was created by that concentration of power

In the House, the brake on concentration of power was the very longstanding tradition of one term speakers which began in the 19th century. That tradition was broken by Carl Stewart running for a second term in 1979 because he wanted to run for statewide office as incumbent House Speaker in 1980. His successor, Liston Ramsey decided he wanted to be Speaker for life.

Regretably, Republican leaders in both house of the legislature picked up the bad power habits of the Democrats.

The solution is simply, but probably difficult to obtain. Amend the state Constitution to require one term Speakers and restore the split of power in the Senate. The old system worked great, but based on legislative rules and on tradition was too easy to overturn.

Commented: Tuesday, June 28th, 2022 @ 10:30 am By: Conservative Voter

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy is another RINO but at least he has better political savvy than Mitch McConnell. McCarthy has announced his own opposition to the gun control bill and has his party whip Steve Scalise pushing Republican House members to vote against the gun control bill.

I wish Ted Budd was already in the Senate replacing that crooked RINO Richard Burr. Ted Budd owns a gun store himself and is solid in his support of gun rights and opposition to gun control.

Commented: Thursday, June 23rd, 2022 @ 4:52 pm By: Conservative Voter

Obama is like all the climate alarmist phonies. He says one thing while he does the opposite. He is putting in a huge propane tank to have access to real fuel, not windmills or solar panels. And if he really believed all that hogwash he spouts about rising sea levels, he would not have bought than mansion on the beach in the first place. Al Gore is another climate phony who recently bought a mansion on the beach, and Biden owns one, too. And what do all the climate alarmist mucked-mucks do for all their confabs? Jump on private jets. They consider themselves to be too important to fly commercial.

Commented: Saturday, June 18th, 2022 @ 1:30 pm By: Conservative Voter

Limited voting needs to be replaced. It makes me feel like I am living in a banana republic. But we need to work for the best possible replacement, as quickly as possible.

Commented: Wednesday, June 15th, 2022 @ 12:38 pm By: Conservative Voter

This gun control bill is awful - a sugar coated turd. This announcement does not really tell you how bad it is. Here is an analysis from RedState that DOES: redstate.com

Commented: Monday, June 13th, 2022 @ 7:22 am By: Conservative Voter

The Jan. 6 committee TV production is what a Stalin show trial would have looked like if TV had existed in the Stalin era. It is disgusting that we have this political hackery in America.

Commented: Saturday, June 11th, 2022 @ 8:11 am By: Conservative Voter

Jim Perry is a disgusting RINO who needs to be primaried in 2024. He was also a key player in giving North Carolina the Green New Deal which will jack up our electric bills a lot and probably bring us blackouts. Perry is an opportunist who serves the special interests and the liberals, not the Republican voters.

Commented: Thursday, June 2nd, 2022 @ 6:44 am By: Conservative Voter

It is not just the governor candidates of the GOP that Michigan Democrats are kicking off the ballot, it is other races as well. This America First conservative seeking a State House seat is another example:
bigleaguepolitics.com

Commented: Monday, May 30th, 2022 @ 8:04 am By: Conservative Voter

What is needed is to arm vetted and trained teachers and staff. As a father of a victim in the FLorida school shooting pointed out "when seconds count, the police are minutes away." Making schools "gun free zones" makes them soft targets attractive to nutjobs. If they don't know which teacher or staff member will pull out a concealed carry weapon and shoot back, it is a huge deterrent. Polls show that the majority of Americans support arming teachers, so why do we have head-in-the-sand school boards who fail to take this important step to protect students?

For that matter, we have liberal county commissioners like Frankie Waters and Jerry Langley and Ed Booth who have opposed allowing county employees who are trained and licensed to concealed carry on the job. That helps protect both county employees and citizens.

Commented: Friday, May 27th, 2022 @ 2:15 pm By: Conservative Voter

Your analogy linking Russia with the Unionist north of the War for Southern Independence period played out in the breakup of the Soviet Union, when anti-communist demonstrators carried the Confederate battle flag as a symbol of liberty and overthrowing the communist yoke in demonstrations against communist rule.

I had a friend who spent several weeks in Berlin during the period before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall. On a number of days before the wall actually fell, he had gone to a place he could overlook the wall and see the demonstrators on the other side. As a Southerner, he immediately noticed a large Confederate battle flag being waved by two men in the anti-communist demonstration. He noted the same men with that flag on a number of different occasions, and also noted a few smaller Confederate flags among the demonstrators. After the wall fell, his curiosity about the Confederate flags led him to make inquiries of East Germans who had flooded into West Berlin. What he learned was that Gorbachev had made a speech that was widely reported in communist countries comparing himself to Lincoln and "saving the [Soviet] union". That speech had led to anti-communists adopting the Confederate flag as a symbol, and apparently it was used in other anti-communist demonstrations in places other than Berlin.

Commented: Wednesday, May 25th, 2022 @ 6:01 pm By: Conservative Voter

Greg Murphy is running an ad that is at best a half truth, and is really a lie. He says "his opponent" is a lifelong Democrat. But Murphy has 4 opponents and does not say which one! Tony Cowden is NOT a lifelong Democrat, and is Murphy's top opponent. So it appears that a minor opponent has been a Democrat and by not specifying which opponent, Murphy expects voters to falsely conclude it is Cowden. Murphy is being sleazy, dishones, and underhanded and we do not need that in a Congressman.

Commented: Wednesday, May 11th, 2022 @ 4:13 pm By: Conservative Voter

The two recent documentaries - "Rigged" and "2000 Mules" show absolute corruption in the elections in 2020. There needs to be a special prosecutor appointed to indict and jail those responsible, right up to the nerdy little thug Zuckerburg, who needs to be wearing an orange jump suit for the rest of his miserable life.

Commented: Saturday, May 7th, 2022 @ 7:59 am By: Conservative Voter

Using "patrioto" instead of "patriot" is popular, I am told, in the Q-anon movement.

Q-anon believes that there is a senior career bureaucrat who goes by the code name "Q" high in government who is an anonymous whistle blower on what the deep state is up to, a sort of deep throat in the deep state. "Q" comes from the special weapons guy with the same code name in the James Bond movies. Q-anon followers are sometimes colorful like the "Q-anon Shamen" who was arrested in the Capitol riot wearing animal skins and a horned Viking hat. A shamen is a sort of Indian medicine man. They also come up with ideas that are downright strange like the contention that there is a "Jewish space laser". All in all, they are prone to conspiracy theories.

The persistent use of this term "patrioto" makes one wonder if Mr. Cratch and perhaps Mrs. Slann are Q-anon.

Commented: Thursday, May 5th, 2022 @ 7:43 am By: Conservative Voter

Tillis is totally unacceptable. He is a good example of why the lesser of two evils is still evil. I will NEVER vote for Tillis under any circumstances or for his clone McCrory.

Commented: Friday, April 29th, 2022 @ 2:28 pm By: Conservative Voter