I attended the 912 Project Meeting at the Salmon Falls Church on Salmon Falls Road in Rochester, New Hampshire tonight where United States Representative Frank Guinta was the guest. Frank was taking a lot of heat from people for voting for the Debt Ceiling Deal. He had a few people go out of their way to encourage him, and he received good support for his overall performance this year, however the heat was on for Frank’s voting for the Debt Ceiling Deal. Most were opining that it would have been better to vote the Debt Ceiling Down and not pay the bills.
I had my hand up but like many didn’t get a chance to do a question even though they ran it another 1/2 hour beyond the planned end time.
I am even more convinced that Republicans can’t see the victory, aren’t enjoying the victory, and are having way too much fun going cannibalistic savaging each other than focusing on the vision and doing the work to gain a Republican Senate and Presidency.
There is way too much discord since we didn’t get a shutout and win The Stanley Cup all in one game. This was a major win, again as Pat Buchanan noted in his Day of the Hobbits piece and former New Hampshire State Senator George Lovejoy noted on Saturday at the Tea Party event in Barrington, New Hampshire.
This bit about we should have closed our eyes, closed our ears, and damned the torpedoes in voting the deal down and not paying our bills reminds me of those just learning to play hockey who keep their head down and look at the puck all the time. Sure you can keep better control of the puck when that’s all you look at if nobody else is around. But there are others around in a hockey game and they will swoop in and scoop up the puck from you easily when your head is down. You won’t see them coming.
It’s much better to keep your head up and see the whole sheet of ice with all the players and watch the puck through your peripheral vision. You can move the puck forward more and get knocked down less. In fact it is one of my favorite taunts tossed around, “Keep your head up!” with the unsaid follower being that I am out to cream you.
We need to keep our head up in a number of ways. First, we have to stay positive. Second, we have to realize that we need to sell this to everyone. We need more than committed conservatives to see the beauty, simplicity, and efficacy of the Vision Course. Staying positive will help us sell this. Third, we have to keep our head up to the reality of the situation on the sheet of ice we are on. Although we wanted in the worst way what Frank cosponsored, the Cut, Cap, and Balance Bill HR 2560, IE The Stanley Cup, we have to start with this first big win that is the Debt Ceiling Deal.
As many parts that there are about this Debt Ceiling Deal that we Republicans don’t like, the Democrats like it less. We won, they lost.
It is now onto the next step of selling all of our Citizenry on the mutual benefit of engendering a vibrant, growing, bustling, economic environment sufficiently. If we keep the vision, do the work, and sell this Vision Course, everyone wins. Fear, Fragmentation, and Isolation are Flushed down the toilet. A vibrant and growing economic scene is fostered by adding oxygen to the mix by removing stifling, snuffing, overtaxation and overspending. Enough of Stimulus! We need Oxygen! Revenues to the treasury actually increases with the lower taxes due to Increased Volume. People become in demand from expanding businesses instead of stomping and demanding assistance. It is much more holistically healthy.
As Frank correctly noted over and over, the Vital Ingredients for achieving this Stanley Cup of a Vibrant Nation are for us to gain a Conservative Republican President and a Conservative Republican Senate. There were others around that Frank was dealing with during this game. The solution is not to take out Frank, the good player. The solution is to get more good players.
So Keep Your Head Up, Smile, Enjoy, Sell, and Work.
