What my mother said:

Thursday – April 7, 2011 What my mother said: My mother told me, look at who your friends are and I will tell you your future. With the possible shut down of the government looming, the American political dance is on display. The politics of envy and separation are now on display. The politics of blame is shameful and the distortion of fact is confusing. But the choreography of this dance is spectacular. The new Democratic National Chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, didn’t waste any time on getting out on the dance floor to strut to the tune of personal destruction and distortion that the Democratic Party is once again advancing. She said: "During my tenure, there will be nothing more important to our party or to the American people than advancing President Obama's agenda and ensuring that he is elected to a second term so we can continue to move our country forward," Wasserman Shultz said, in a statement released Tuesday by the DNC. Congresswoman Schultz also said that people would die if the government was forced to shut down under the Republican controlled Congress. This distortion should be front and center of the debate. Her analysis and her views are extreme and dangerous to the discourse. She should be marginalized and asked to step down. Her claims are baseless and it demonstrates her lack of understanding and her biased one way perception of what government was intended to be. She wasted no time is saying that the Obama agenda needs to be advanced. These words, these thoughts and these people are dangerous to America. They should be closely viewed and watched, so that every word is met with a more educated and more sophisticated view of what our country is and should be. This Democratic Party, in my opinion, is now the party of destruction and slander. This week, Representative Paul Ryan (R) laid out a well articulated and succinct federal budget. It is the only budget that has been presented that takes out duplicate spending for duplicate programs. It clearly reduces spending and will freeze spending limits at 2008 levels. It doesn’t go far enough, but it is a start. The Democrats and Wasserman Schultz do not have a budget, they never have and they never will have one that takes America back to prosperity. The President’s party refused to draft a budget when they had control, because they thought it would be best to wait until the President’s spending commission submitted their report on what to cut and how to proceed. The president has not included one of their ideas, quite frankly, he wasted time and money on a report that was criticized as being unrealistic. When the president takes the time to commission a report and does not follow the advice he paid for then we should examine the reasons. The reason the president did not follow the reports blueprint in reducing spending is that he had no intention on doing that from the outset. It was smoke and mirrors and it was choreographed to make it look like he was leading the dance. Speaker of the House Boehner said the president has been absent in leadership on this budget. The Senate minority leader Mitch Mc Connell said the president waited until his report was submitted and did nothing with it. The Senate Majority Leader Reid has made claims about how the Republicans have not done their job. The fact remains is the Democrats have not done theirs. Former Speaker of the House Pelosi claims, “If the Republican spending cuts are allowed to pass six million seniors will go hungry.” The Democrats have been to busy finding ways that make the Republicans look bad for their own political expediency. The Republicans should push for another spending resolution and take their budget on a road trip and tour the nation with every Republican congressman and senator selling it to the people. In the mean time, the Presidents party would be forced to pass spending resolutions with spending cuts attached in it for the Senate to pass and the President to sign. The President would have no option but to sign the extension because Debbie Wasserman Schultz says people will die if the government is shutdown and Pelosi’s claim that six million seniors will go hungry. Here is a little story for you. As Lewis and Clark prepared to leave Fort Mandan, on this day in 1805, they did not know the trials ahead and were likely filled with optimism and excitement. As the keelboat shoved off and started down the Missouri with Lewis' report to Jefferson, the Corps of Discovery (and their female guide, Sacagawea) resumed the far more difficult task of rowing their small boats upstream. That night, Lewis wrote in his journal, "Our vessels consisted of six small canoes, and two large pirogues. This little fleet altho' not quite so rispectable as those of Columbus or Capt. Cook, were still viewed by us with as much pleasure as those deservedly famed adventurers ever beheld theirs." As Lewis began his journey into a land, "on which the foot of civilized man had never trodden," he proclaimed this day of departure as, "among the most happy of my life." I bring this story up because we are lacking a mission and vision of how to grow this country. I want to know where the Jefferson’s are of our time. Where are the men that have the need to explore and the courage to reach that next mountain peak in order to see that next horizon? Where are the men that want to expand America and that are willing to take that story to the American people? Our government consists of people without vision and without the courage to reach that next mountain peak. Politicians like Wasserman Schultz are self indulgent and men like our president lack the vision that Jefferson had and certainly the courage of Lewis and Clark. Look at who your friends are and you will see your future! Gregory C. Dildilian Founder and Executive Director Pinecone Conservatives A footnote: Just go back two years and read who the people were that the president decided he needed to run this country. We know who his friends were and we know what they wanted for the future. For me there is nothing else to consider.