Can you select a bad Republican president as your favorite? The US President most admired by Republican US House Representative Leonard Lance is Dwight Eisenhower. He has two principle reasons:  One a balanced budget and two getting the US out of Korea. Ronald Reagan, on the other hand, Lance thinks is faulty as a first choice for not providing a balanced budget.

Lance: Eisenhower Bad Choice For Favorite President

Eisenhower: Key Military Leader But Destructive President
Eisenhower’s key achievement is in the military. All Americans are grateful of the World War II  leadership of Dwight Eisenhower as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in planning and carrying the invasion of France and Germany in 1944–45. This underscores his contributions and earns him respect. Military leaders of WWII were provided with the power to win and we did win. Republicans should embrace our historical policy of military engagement to win decisively and run from abysmal Presidential records inflicting damage on America. This describes Eisenhower and a really bad choice for Leonard Lance as a President to laud as he runs for reelection. It marks the moderate appeaser stance that has gotten Republicans out of power and will keep us there.

Eisenhower: Fostering the Growth of Communism
Dwight Eisenhower is noted as having a do nothing Presidency. The do nothing tag is a faulty interpretation of history! He did serious damage to America. He took many actions that fostered the regrowth of Communism in our schools, government, society and the world. Americans before him discovered this trend and elected him to clean it up. Long after Eisenhower’s terms in office Ezra Taft Benson, Eisenhower’s Secretary of Agriculture, sums up the Eisenhower diversion of our effort to purge communism from government and the world:

Ezra Taft Benson Summarizes Eisenhower’s Fostering Of Communism

This video is keyed to start at time point 3:53 but is also worth watching from the beginning.

Cleaning up communism in government was a key item that he used in winning election in 1952.

“… Eisenhower had a formula for victory — K1C2. The stalemated war in Korea, corruption in the Truman administration, and Communist subversion were the issues that Republicans emphasized throughout the campaign. Eisenhower held a clear lead over Stevenson in the polls, as voters looked to Eisenhower to clean up what even Stevenson had called ‘the mess in Washington.’ — Miller Center of Public Affairs University of Virginia

The phrase “the mess in Washington” underscores how the Democrats had a hard time saying communism and here is how Stevenson, the Democrat candidate against Eisenhower, thought about the sentiments of Americans at the time.

“Stevenson’s Nature of Patriotism speech. ‘The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the Bill of Rights, to the freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak of anti-communism.’” Wikipedia

Eisenhower won the election on the fight against communism in government and then proceeded to implement destructive actions that were duplicated in subsequent Presidents and Congresses bringing us to the precipice Vladimir Lenin predicted in 1924.

“First we take eastern Europe, then the masses of Asia, then we will encircle the United States which will be the last Bastian of capitalism. We will not have to attack. It will fall like an overripe fruit into our hands.” – Lenin

We are now in 2010 tipped to that ominous fall with no rope to climb back up.

Reagan: Fostering the Destruction of Communism
Ronald Reagan did the most of any President to fight back the corruption caused by communistic actions. He started with the “Screen Actors Guild”.

Reagan On Screen Actors Guild Time Point 1:43

He understood it. For example his warning about socialized medicine is about the slip into the abyss of Communism.

He failed more with the Democratic Congress on this issue of as well as the issue of balanced budgets than anywhere. He had control on the world scene and little in Congress. The momentum against communism put into place by Reagan’s Presidency quickly faded. Communism continued its  march forward to what you  see today even in our own leaders!

Balanced Budget with 91% Taxes
As well Eisenhower financed his “balance budget” on the backs of taxpayers where he presided over 8 years of the second highest top Federal marginal tax rate. The rate was 91% second only to 2 years at the end of World War II where it reached 94%. It took until Ronald Regan to fix this theft of property by Government. Still we see an increase tax trend continued not only with the ostentatious “federal tax” but to a greater extent in imperceptible taxes here and there on this and that and now much larger taxes such as we see in the current hideous health legislation. Leonard Lance must realize Reagan was against big government and big spending. However Reagan focused on the bigger threat of communism and corruption and in budgeting dealt with a spend thrift Democrat Congress; a more difficult opponent that even the USSR. This is what Leonard Lance needs to say about the Reagan era and not that Reagan did not balance the budget.

Republicans Search for a Favorite President: Its Reagan
Republicans who are running from the record of Ronald Reagan and saying the era of Reagan is over then need to select another President; hopefully Republican. So lets start the search.  They have trouble with Bush II because of their own failure to rein in the spending and squeamish support on winning a war versus unheroic  support they give it. Heroic support would be risking their political careers on winning.  They failed and thus helped Bush II fail and usher in Obama. They cannot select Bush I because he was scooted out of office for failing to deal with the economic issues in same way Reagan did. He apparently learned nothing from being Reagan’s Vice President. You have to  skip over Richard Nixon because he was forced into resignation. Soon we are heading on a fast track back to Abe Lincoln. Not a bad choice just not current. The winner then is Reagan because he was keen on doing what you will learn Eisenhower promised and did not do.

A RINO Pick for Favorite President: Eisenhower
When Eisenhower’s Presidential actions are revisited you can see the modern day RINO (Republican in Name Only) tag fits him.  Many of his policies were liberal. He had some good intentions but they were carried out in liberal fashion. Thus moderates find him a safe choice: good intentions but liberal solutions.

2010 Elections
Republicans running from conservatism are doing so because they still believe they need to be in the middle somehow. The middle is conservative. Get used to it and learn from the past so we do not repeat it as we, conservatives, take back control entrusted to us.

Series on Eisenhower and Communism
This is a series on Eisenhower and the growth of communism in American and in the World. No disrespect to a honored military leader and American, however honored military leaders do not necessarily translate into great political leaders and Eisenhower was a prime example. You will learn in this series how Eisenhower is a key root of the problems we have today in America. The series will look at the Eisenhower presidential role in the:

• Failure to clean up  communism as an election promise.
• Military and economic aid and concessions to communist leaders.
• Failed “cultural exchanges” with communists.
• Abandonment of winning freedom fighters behind the Iron curtain.
• Presence of communism on our borders: Cuba.

Warning to Republicans and RINOs
This series also should be a very strong warning to RINOs  and all Republicans on who you select as the best Presidents for the party and more importantly the reasons you select them. In the grassroots conservative movement, the restudy of American history is underway in full force. Old books and records are being dusted off to reveal American History deleted from our government run educations and communist infested higher learning institutions. Eisenhower is not the only example of Presidents asleep at the wheel over Communism but the one selected for the series because of his key early role setting us back and establishing precedents we still follow. We can easily do Kennedy for example and Democrats if we must we will.

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What does the Tea Party movement have in common with Alcoholics Anonymous, Apache Indians, Apache Server Software, Wikipedia, Napster, and Craigslist?  They all represent the unstoppable power of leaderless organizations.

The Starfish and The Spider

Starfish and Spiders
In a matter of 10 months tea party activists, or more generally conservative activists, have amassed a rapidly growing powerful organization poised to take down the two largest political parties and not even realize it themselves. They represent the power of a decentralized starfish organization. The power of decentralized organizations is chronicled in The Starfish and the Spider The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations by Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom. The political parties represent spider organizations that need a leadership to direct them.

In The Starfish and the Spider you can read how Napster and its followers like Kazaa, eMule and iTunes removed the centralized power the record label companies like MGM had over music. They did it without warning and in light speed time. Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is another decentralized example that continues today. AA meetings run on their own without the need for a central head. Unlike the Incas and the Aztecs, the Apache Indians were able to resist the Spanish because there was no centralized head to cut off.

Tea party activists can learn a great deal about themselves in The Starfish and the Spider book. For example starfish organizations sneak up on you unexpectedly. This has evidence with the push back of health insurance legislation in August 2009 and the July 2009 behind singeing given to Republicans who voted for Cap and Trade and thus placing that legislation in limbo.

Identifying a Starfish Organization
Brafman and Beckstom give us a list of questions to identify a starfish organization. We can apply them to the current conservative citizen activist movement:

1. Is there a person in charge? No
2. Are there headquarters? No. Groups meet in homes, church halls, factory conference rooms, restaurants and just about anywhere.
3. If you thump it on the head, will it die? Thump, heck tea party activists are stomped, kicked, beaten and sassed but still grow in numbers.
4. Is there a clear division of roles? Anyone in a tea party group can perform any task and often do.
5. If you take out a unit, is it harmed? No. Even internal squabbles have resulted in more units.
6. Are knowledge and power concentrated or distributed? If anything the efforts to centralize power keep failing. Knowledge to take action is possessed by each  member. They do take action and often. This can explain why you are seeing social media filling with conservative messages.
7. Can you count the participants? No. Only centralized organizations can do this. The unknown factor of numbers in the conservative movement has all elected officials shaking. If there is any measurement it is the conservative media growth: TV, radio and books. They are exploding.
8. Is the organization flexible or rigid? Tea party groups come and go and overlap. They are morphing from protest and information groups into political action groups.
9. Are they self funding or get money from a central pool? Self funding to the point many out of pocket expenses are born by individuals and not even shared with the group members.
10. Do working groups communicate directly or through intermediaries? Information flows in all directions. No need for the top down to provide the information to act unlike Organizing for America.

Ori Brafman Relates Cortez Aztecs and Apaches To Starfish and the Spider

The Starfish Template
Brafman and Beckstom provide a template for the starfish organization. This template will help you understand how we got this far.

1. Circles. We use the term cells for terrorist groups like Al Qaeda. A circle is really a cell. In a circle all members are equals. Generally circles of 14 or less and that meet in person have the strongest bonds. Internet based circles are less strong such as eBay users sharing ratings.
2. Catalyst. This is the motivational leader. It is the iron that causes hydrogen and nitrogen to form ammonia. Not really sure who we could single out in the conservative movement. However Beck and Limbaugh are possible names. It may well be Brafman and Beckstom have missed but implied that there can be more than one catalyst combining to get the results. Catalysts to starfish organizations generally fade into the background and are not the leaders. Often they are not credited with final result.
3. Ideology. This is the glue that binds the circles together. AA believes other alcoholics can help one another. This represents a strong bonding ideology. Free sharing of music is the ideology that challenged the music industry and represents a weak bond. Do not expect folks would not back you up if you got caught doing it illegally. For conservatives the ideology of freedom, smaller government and the strength in the individual having liberty is a strong glue. The patriotism is powerful and why circles routinely start with a Pledge of Allegiance with the under God part emphasized.
4. Pre-existing Network. The Quakers were critical to how Bill Wilson grew the AA. Tea party groups from what I see so far are building their own networks. They used existing networks to start slowly binding them together. This is an area that can be improved and the Social Media can help [See Social Media Is Freedom’s New Voice] .
5. Champion. Slavery had Thomas Clarkson. The conservative champion is yet to arise. It was Ronald Regan. It is not Newt Gingrich or John McCain. They are part of the disconnected centralized political organizations. It is not Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh. They are more catalysts. It might be Sara Palin. She did remove herself from a central organization. It will need to be someone from an unexpected background who connects like Regan. It may not occur in 2010.

The Sweet Spot
The balance between decentralized starfish and centralized spider is called the sweet spot in The Starfish and the Spider. Toyota for example has a central organization, but uses decentralization on the factory floors. This is a factor cited for higher quality products and better worker discipline. The factory floor became circles where each member performed as peers. Nothing like those peers to keep you focused.

The Sweet Spot of For Conservatives
Will conservative tea party circles remain as a pure starfish movement? The answer could be the high story for 2010. For conservatives the sweet spot is still in flux. It may well turn out that the Republican party is overhauled and becomes the spider. That is already happening as tea party circles are already looking to Republican primaries. This includes conservative candidates as Republicans. We also see the message changing to conservative with incumbent Republicans who are often called RINOs. It may be too late for them. A third organization like GOOOH [See To GOOOH or not to GOOOH: That is the Question] or one not yet invented could become the spider. Perhaps the sweet spot is already reached as a highly decentralized movement and no centralized unit.

Liberal Authors
I digress but I need to mention that the authors, Brafman and Beckstromm, exhibit a strongly liberal bent with the usual liberal ignorance such as not knowing that FDR’s centralized policies prolonged the Great Depression and contributed to the destruction of lives for years longer than necessary (see page 39). Even contradicting themselves in making a comparison of today’s centralized Federal Government and Katrina as a failure yet believing the proven incorrectly written history of New Deal being a success. With the FDR reference, Brafman and Beckstromm revisit the comparison of how progressives prolong economic down cycles as you are now living through.

As well the positive light they depict Aztecs runs contrary to the book. The Aztecs were a highly centralized government as argued in The Starfish and the Spider. Aztec good works of temples, pyramids, roads and so on were at the expense of bloody barbaric ritual: public murders of its inhabitants. Cortez’s actions may not be praised, but he did end this hell for humans lauded as an “advanced civilization”. Brafman and Beckstromm clearly exhibit liberal communist indoctrination symptoms many suffer from during their collegiate years and need some serious deprogramming. Tyrants are evil; its that simple. However conservatives can learn from liberals as we are fighting them and the communist vulnerabilities they exude.

Required Reading For Fighting Communism
The Starfish and the Spider provides a key tool to understanding the evolution of the new conservative movement and tea party activism. It also provides the knowledge on how to combat and take down organizations based on their starfish or spider characteristics. The Apache Indians’ starfish organization eventually succumbed to the infusion of elements that made them adopt their own centralized spider organization. This lead to their demise from within and eventual subjugation.

Communists at one time were seen by Americans as a spider in the USSR. A highly centralized organization with some of its fatal foibles mentioned in The Starfish and the Spider. The USSR fell as communism is destined to do. Communism regrouped as a world wide starfish and grew within its opposition just about everywhere including within the US. The UN may represent the emerging spider for communism and together may be the dangerous sweet spot awesomely poised to eradicate the only known freedom for individuals known to civilization.  Thus for conservatives that wish to develop strategies against communists, this is a required reading assignment.

“Dirty” Harry Reid is now on Santa’s naughty list for allowing 180,000 Americans to die in the next 4 years. Working feverishly to bribe US Senators to close debate on a health plan at 1 AM Monday December 21st Harry got  60 Democrat Senators to sentence 180,000 Americans without health insurance to die in the next 4 years. The Senators closed debate when Ben Nelson (D-NE) accepted a bribe for his consent to these deaths.

60 Democrats Sentence 180,000 Americans to Die

Congress Health Bills Let Americans Die
Lacking in jubilation and covered with solemnity, Senate leader “Dirty” Harry Reid, announced the last bribe to Ben Nelson and the success to close debate. In his victory remarks he outlined a Harvard study that reported 45,000 Americans without health insurance died in 2009.

Using these unchallenged results means in 4 years 180,000 Americans will die without health insurance because the bills in both the Senate and House Of Representatives do not provide coverage for 4 years. Additionally they do not cover all uninsured Americans. Add to that thousands and thousands lacking access will have contracted illnesses that will lead to their premature deaths or diminished quality of life by the time they are “entitled” to free health insurance.

Congress: America Pay Now And Die Now!
In order to make the Senate and House of Representative bills budget friendly, Congress needs to collect taxes in advance of offering health insurance to those without it and who are dying as claimed by the Reid quoted Harvard report. This is because they have created such a bloated solution without the money to pay for it now. That budget problem is left to the future where realities of free health services runs a muck as does all government freebies. Get ready younger generation for the largest cost to your pockets and freedom to pay for this monster.

Simple Cheap Life Saving Solution
Rather than rush such a complicated and bloated plan to fix health care costs for the long term and allowing the claimed deaths to mount, there is a compassionate solution. During the American Christmas season, we have a tradition that does not let us pass a street Santa or overlook a charity to share our fortunes. Many do this year round.

There is no accounting system that tracks who has or does not have health insurance and needs any help. All we have are letters received by Congress representatives that are read without statistical credence. The numbers we do hear are statistically computed in academia think tanks and thus range widely based on assumptions. However 12 million is  a solid number that includes those most in need.

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Congress could cover these 12 million folks for $30 billion per year. Quadruple to 48 million and you have $120 billion per year.  Considering the trillions of Congressional spending these amounts are the same as dropping a few bucks in the Santa pot on the street. In fact we already have the funds allocated unspent from the $787 billion stimulus bill. Half or $360 billion is still in our pocket or the Chinese bankers’ pockets. Already enough to pay 10 years of health insurance for these 12 million uninsured Americans and a long way for the others however you do the math to total them up.

Sadly, Harry Reid as a part of 60 Democrat party Senators walked past that Santa pot with their wallets closed but stuffed with funds and looked away at their Christmas gift for themselves brightly displayed in the store window: full control over American’s health and bodies creating the foundation to regulate every aspect of human activity in America.

Is It Communism?
Even if there is a humane solution at hand Communists will take a different route when gaining control is at stake. The need to subjugate who they rule when they have a higher priority. Allowing folks to die is part of the process. Like the chicken on your table, you do not see the deaths but they will occur as Harry says, 10 every 10 minutes.

The American way is not that and not communism. We recognize instantly the choices and will sacrifice the prize, no matter how great, to stop and help those in need first; its heroic. We do not have that in the Congress and surprising not in one Democrat Senator. Sadly it is communism and lacks a hero.

Harry Reid and likely many Democrat Senators have no or weak religious beliefs and may disdain the Christmas tradition altogether. In the Santa story they are all on the bad list passing up an opportunity to provide health insurance to 12 million people and being generous as Americans are, many many millions more, as a Christmas present to be opened immediately and not after 180,000 of them die waiting. That is something that would have bound all representatives in Congress and thus all Americans in a joyous Christmas of Peace.

Update: December 28th  Its Called Communism on Canada Free Press: http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/18338 Once you read about it you start getting it.

John Adler (D-NJ) met on several occasions with Obama, Biden and Pelosi to express his concerns that Pelosi HR 3962 will fail to reduce health care costs for most Americans in the United States. Adler revealed this at his town hall in Willingboro New Jersey on November 14th, 2009.

HR 3962 Cannot Stop Skyrocketing Health Care Cost Increases

HR 3962 Will Not Make Health Care Affordable
Adler claims the Pelosi HR 3962 bill voted on November 7th, 2009 will not curb health costs. Adler knows, like most Americans in recent polling, that Pelosi HR 3962 does nothing to curb rising health care costs. The Pelosi HR 3962 bill establishes a beach head for a communistic takeover of the most precious right of Americans which is their health and their bodies. It does not address the real issues facing the capitalist market place that has brought the world its current standard of health care and where here in the United States capitalism can continue to flourish for new health innovations and procedures. A large number of those issues are government anti-capitalism regulations already embedded into the pharmaceutical, health insurance and health care industries. Adler admits publicly:

“The bill going through the House didn’t have as good of measures to make insurance more affordable for more people… . The budget office told most of Congress including those in Congress that support those things in the bill [public option] that it didn’t go nearly far enough … to make health care affordable in the long run. …

In fact the bill has unintended consequences that will accelerate the cost increases as generational taxes. The cost of Pelosi HR 3962 is so large that the taxes need collecting years in advance of their use of helping anyone significantly which is not until 2013 or after. After that there are no provisions to handle the health costs the government takes on starting 2013. Taxes are a key item in cost increases passed to consumers or in causing unprofitably and thus lost jobs.  More will be coming.

Obama, Biden, Pelosi Ignore Warning Over The Catastrophic Damage To GDP
Adler was very concerned with budget office numbers showing that Pelosi HR 3962 would not control health costs. He was concerned enough to arranged multiple meetings with Obama, Biden and Pelosi to urge them that the bill does not go far enough. He and many in DC want, through government control, to reduce health care costs as a percentage of  gross domestic product.

“The bill going through the House wouldn’t still the growth of health care as a percentage of our gross domestic product. For this one omission I have had a chance to speak about that with President Obama, with Vice President Biden, with Speaker Pelosi on many many occasions; probably 7 or 8 occasions …” – Adler

Raw video without annotations available for release to news organizations by request

Government Imposed Treatment Paths
Adler’s goal is forcing the health industry to be more efficient in taking care of you. This requires government control over hospital and doctor procedures. Health professionals will need to check with government approved procedures to determine the direction of your treatment. This may occur before you even reach a doctor to minimize your exposure  the higher health costs. Your treatment will go down a prescribed path regardless of your or your doctor’s concerns because any other path will increase the cost to GDP. This is a typical communist ploy to convince everyone it is necessary for the good of the State.

At Rush Holt (D-NJ) before the Pelosi HR 3962 bill on September 17th at his town meeting in South Hunterdon High School reveals his same deep understanding of this need to control your health care outcomes as well as a prediction it would be in the bill. It is clear this is kicking around and may be inserted at anytime before we get to a final bill.

[NJ Common Sense believes from studying Holt town halls, Holt is a key architect in the communistic parts of this health bill. Traditionally communists are intellectuals that are professors with little work experience who move into political arena to effect communist goals. Holt talking points are just that, communist propaganda for a government take over of your life choices.]

Raw video without annotations available for release to news organizations by request

Destruction of American Capitalism That Improved Health Quality Worldwide
Capitalism in turn looks to increasing GDP so health care costs are a lower percentage as well as providing competitive alternatives so individuals can select health insurance and services that best meets their needs like age, sex, activities and so forth. Think about the Progressive Insurance ads and you get the idea. This works to reduce costs and is something that is marginally available now in pockets and may never become nationwide. America is the last Bastian of capitalism, although crippled by government especially in health care and health insurance. Because of the excellence brought out by capitalism, American becomes unequal with the entire rest of the world that is not capitalism based. Communism works to eliminate such inequities. In the US guilt of the affluent and intellectuals work as communism to undermine the capitalist engine for the sake of being the same as the rest of the world.

We see other communist ideas such as TARP and the stimulus have failed at being good for those suffering. Suffering is the ploy needed support the lie of health care costs being a high percentage of GDP. Government propaganda has aided in lowering GDP expectations and use the “growing percent of GDP” scare tactic as a simple way to lie with statistics to unfortunately a large number of Americans who are suffering from failed government programs.

HR 3962 “Affordable Health Care For America” Propaganda
Pelosi HR 3962 is titled “Affordable Health Care For America”. Adler openly claims it is not “affordable” for anyone who has provides their own health care now. At a East Windsor Rush Holt (D-NJ) town hall, 4 days after the Saturday night passage of HR3964, there were literally boxes of color printed propaganda available for hand out by Holt agents. Given the Pelosi HR 3962 bill title “Affordable Health Care for Americans”, the question is affordable for which Americans? The answer is vulnerable Americans where communist ideas like universal health care can attract and eventually further enslave them as government wards.  Adler’s own words reveal the doublespeak in the propaganda word “Affordable”:

… affordable short-term through tax subsidies to working Americans is very very good and did not make it affordable for businesses and families and consumers  of insurance individually.

Affordable to those who do not pay for it. Not affordable for productive capitalist Americans and in fact increases their subjugation via punitive taxes filtered to every productive American via business. Generally the more you engage in productive capitalist activities the more you are taxed under the “affordable” Pelosi HR 3962. The real answer may be not affordable for anyone.

Warning from the Past – Americans Go To Silently In The Night To Communism
At the end of the Adler video above, you hear the beginning of the wrath from Willingboro pro health care group that made up of nearly 50% of the small audience. They arrived somewhat organized to encourage the passage of anything in Congress regardless if it works and diss Adler on his no vote. This is a known incremental strategy for communists and we have our warning here from Ronald Regan. Regan who kindly called it Socialism. It is not capitalism and today he would have seen we have reached the non-capitalism level of communism in Pelosi HR 3962. Just substitute communism for socialism in the video and you get it.

Lenin died in 1924. His plan for world domination summarized and paraphrased

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