Peter Morrison: Support Rep. Simpson for Speaker of the Texas House

Summary of this week's report:

Rep. David Simpson is running for Speaker of the Texas House, in a
direct challenge to Joe Straus. Rep. Simpson is a strong, reliable
conservative. If he becomes Speaker of the House, we'll have
one of our own in the most powerful office in Texas who will work
to promote our conservative ideals. If Joe Straus is re-elected,
we'll face two more years of RINO style business as usual and
we simply can't afford that. Conservative Texans need to
contact our state representatives today to express our strong
support for David Simpson, and urge them to vote for him in
January. Find out your representative's contact information by
going to:
http://www.house.state.tx.us/members/find-your-representative/

Full report:

The next session of the Texas Legislature begins on January 8th,
just a few weeks from now. One of the first orders of business
will be electing a Speaker of the House. Because of the authority
the Speaker has to promote or block legislation, this office is in
many ways the most powerful position in Texas government. The
current Speaker, RINO Joe Straus, has been in office for two
sessions, and he hasn't been a friend to conservatives.

On the contrary, he has worked hard to block a lot of the
conservative agenda. Straus was elected Speaker in 2009 by a
coalition of Democrats and RINOs, and he paid them back immediately
by appointing Democrats as chairmen of nearly half the committees
in the House. (There's a reason he's one of Planned
Parenthood's favorite Republicans.) In emails, some of
Straus' closest cronies have insulted Tea Party activists,
using names such as "idiots" and worse to refer to them.
Straus used his power to draw up redistricting maps that led to the
defeat of some very conservative House members. He has even gone
so far as to openly campaign for a Democrat who was running against
a staunch conservative.

Joe Straus needs to be replaced with someone who's actually on
our side. Thankfully, we've now got an excellent candidate for
Speaker, Rep. David Simpson. Rep. Bryan Hughes had been running,
but he has now dropped out and endorsed Simpson. Rep. Simpson came
up with the bill that would have made it a criminal offense for TSA
agents to perform invasive body searches without probable cause.
(Straus called it a "publicity stunt" and said passing it
would turn Texas into a "laughingstock.") Unfortunately
the bill died in the Senate after Straus ridiculed it and the feds
threatened to ban flights in or out of Texas, but Rep. Simpson
showed that he's not afraid to take a stand for liberty.

He is a true conservative across the board. David Simpson knows
that the Second Amendment isn't about hunting - it's about
being able to defend our families and our property from thugs and
tyrants. He believes life begins at conception, and should be
protected by law from then on. He knows that illegal immigration
makes a mockery of our nation's sovereignty. I can't think
of a single issue where he has come down on the wrong side, from
Obamacare to photo ID. David Simpson is exactly the kind of man we
want to see as Speaker of the House in Austin. He'll fight to
guide conservative bills through the legislative process, instead
of trying to block our legislation at every turn as Joe Straus has
done.

Giving Straus the Speaker's gavel for another House session
would be bad enough under normal circumstances, but it would be
disastrous in the current political situation. Millions of
Republicans across America are still reeling from the shock of Mitt
Romney's loss, and many of them are falling for the advice from
"experts" that if conservatives don't get behind the
push to give amnesty to millions of illegal aliens, the GOP is
doomed. The truth is exactly the opposite - giving citizenship and
voting rights to millions of illegal aliens would more likely be
the death of the Republican Party, and that's particularly true
here in Texas.

The fact that so many Republican leaders across the nation are
going soft on illegal immigration and amnesty is another important
reason why we need a Speaker who is truly conservative. It looks
like it's going to be up to us Texans to help bring the
national Republican Party back to its senses, and lead the fight
against amnesty. Frankly, if we don't win this battle, the war
might be over. We're not simply talking about which direction
the GOP should take in the next few years. The question is whether
the country our children and grandchildren inherit will be anything
like the America we grew up in. The stakes are truly that high,
and we need a leader in Austin who is on our side, and who's
able and willing to lead this fight. I can't think of anyone
more qualified than David Simpson, and I urge everyone to contact
your representative and tell them to vote for David Simpson for
Speaker of the House.

Take action:

Contact your state representative. Call or fax them to let them
know you don't want another two years of Joe Straus as Speaker.
Stress how important this vote for Speaker is for Texas and
America, and tell them to vote for David Simpson. You can find out
the contact information for your state representative by going to:
http://www.house.state.tx.us/members/find-your-representative/

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Sources:
http://www.texastribune.org/texas-house-of-representatives/speaker-of-the-house/simpson-files-speaker-texas-house/
http://www.texasconservativerepublicannews.com/2012/12/rep-simpson-files-against-texas-speaker.html
http://www.redstate.com/2012/11/04/private-emails-from-texas-speaker-joe-strauss-office-reveal-war-against-conservatives/
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2010/11/17/republican-does-not-equal-conservative-even-in-texas/

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Peter Morrison Report: Election Night Analysis: Our Nation's Future

Peter Morrison Report:


Election Night Analysis: Our Nation's Future

I know a lot of you are in shock today with the results of the
election. In the Peter Morrison Report, one of my continuing
themes is that the problems America faces demographically are
becoming more and more intractable. I kind of expected this to
happen, though like a lot of you I was hopeful over the last few
weeks. The root of the word patriotism is the Latin word for
father, and I would compare the emotional hurt washing over the
conservative movement to that of caring for an aging parent with a
degenerative disease. You know how the story is going to end, but
it is very painful every step of the way as you see it happen.
Last night America took one more step towards the abyss.

I cannot blame the Romney campaign for the loss. In the debates,
Romney mostly held the line on taxes, immigration and other issues.
Some may have felt that he was the lesser of two evils, but he was
a lot lesser of an evil than McCain in 2008. It's a shame,
because Romney was probably the smartest person to run for
President since the Founders, and if he would have continued his
data-driven approach to management in government, he could have
done a lot of good. In the America of 2012, being successful and
smart can unfortunately be a political liability, not an asset.
Many Americans would rather the affirmative action poster boy
who's never worked a real job in his life.

Romney is a numbers guy, and so we now know he was absolutely
correct when he stated behind closed doors that 47% of the nation
was automatically against him because of government dependency;
Obama only needed a few "useful idiots" to deliver the
election. I think Romney saw the polls last week and decided on a
risky strategy of playing for Pennsylvania as his only way out.
Just as it was 149 years ago, the fate of the nation was decided in
Pennsylvania. The Romney campaign may be remembered as the
Pickett's charge of the conservative movement, a last desperate
effort to stave off the cruel arithmetic of superior numbers
overcoming principle and valor.

Last night on Fox News, the Bush-Rove wing of the Republican Party
was on the air pointing fingers at Romney's immigration
policies as the cause of his loss. This is false because Romney
and McCain both did about as well among Hispanics despite McCain
being the biggest immigration panderer to the right of Ted Kennedy.
It is amazing, however, to see the Cheap Labor Lobby attempt to
squeeze out one last ounce of profit as the Republic burns. The
simpler explanation is that many members of minority groups are
simply racist against the party most white people happen to vote
for. Take Asian Americans, for example. If any group should be
Republican, it should be this group, as they earn more money and
pay more in taxes than white Americans. They, along with whites,
bear the brunt of affirmative action policies; Barack Obama is the
living personification of why their kids have to score 200 points
higher on the SAT to get into the Ivy League. Yet, exit polls
revealed they voted about 70% for Obama. I'm afraid Karl
Rove's bright idea that these groups will vote in their
individual self-interest (if we pander to them) instead of on an
irrational ethnic basis is delusional. It would be nice for
Republicans if the facts were different and we could build a
multi-ethnic, colorblind, conservative America, but the evidence is
quite to the contrary.

If we can take comfort in anything, it's that the debt and
spending binge of the federal government cannot go on forever. If
something cannot go on forever, at some point it must stop. Like
the remainder of Lee's army after Gettysburg, it is our duty to
keep fighting to the bitter end, in hopes that Providence might
shine upon our cause before it is too late. We must contest every
single inch of ground and delay the baby-murdering, tax-raising
socialists at every opportunity. But in due time, the maggots will
have eaten every morsel of flesh off of the rotting corpse of the
Republic, and therein lies our opportunity.

For the liberals are at war not with just the conservative core of
this country, but rather with God and Nature. You simply cannot,
in perpetuity, take more and more people out of productive work and
onto the government dole. Just as the Soviet Union fell, and Rome
with its bread and circuses fell, this government will fall, and a
remnant of the American people may, with God's help, redeem
some portion of our founding vision.

In probably the most unintentionally Orwellian lyric in country
music, Lee Greenwood sang "the flag still stands for freedom,
and they can't take that away." Lee was right about that,
but it's cold comfort when "they" can take away
everything else. "They" re-elected Obama last night. He
is their President. And we must admit to ourselves at some point,
it is now their country. Just as Scotland is currently
contemplating her own independence from Great Britain, it is time
for the more conservative constituent parts of this country to
consider whether this sacred union is really quite so sacred
anymore. Countries all over the world, like the Baltic States and
the Czech Republic, have been over the last 20 years securing
amicable divorces as the most humane way to settle fundamental
cultural differences that lead to the type of governmental
paralysis and partisan division we see in America today. The bond
between a husband and wife is sacred. National borders, once they
have exhausted their historical purpose, are not.

In this respect, Texas can lead the way. Texas was once its own
country, and many Texans already think in nationalist terms about
their state. We need to do everything possible to encourage a
long-term shift in thinking on this issue. Why should Vermont and
Texas live under the same government? Let each go her own way in
peace, sign a free trade agreement among the states and we can
avoid this gut-wrenching spectacle every four years.

In the near term, we have very important battle coming up for the
Texas House Speaker. Joe Straus is once again being challenged by
a true conservative. Start calling your state representatives now
to let them know that we will remember how they vote in 2014. If
voting is the best revenge, the low turnout of an off-year
Republican primary will offer many opportunities for payback.
I'm sure I'll be in touch as the situation develops.

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