debisimons, Author at Intentional Conservative

Them Chickens Ain’t Even Had Time to Roost!

January 4, 2019December 13, 2016 by debisimons

Let’s see if we can get this straight.

Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council, back in October when the “Access Hollywood” tapes had been released:

“My personal support for Donald Trump has never been based upon shared values, it is based upon shared concerns about issues such as: justices on the Supreme Court that ignore the constitution, America’s continued vulnerability to Islamic terrorists and the systematic attack on religious liberty that we’ve seen in the last 7 1/2 years.”

Tony Perkins yesterday on the Tillerson SOS appointment:

Support the Constitution!

January 4, 2019December 12, 2016 by debisimons

The Electoral College casts its votes on Monday, Dec. 19. This is the last chance we have to change the results of this election–as provided for in our Constitution. This is not some kind of rogue, rebellious movement. It is profoundly Constitutional. Those of my readers who say that they are in favor of following the intentions of the Founding Fathers–then get with the program! I challenge you to read as many articles as you can this week, either here on this site or on sound, truthful, conservative websites. I’m going to be posting like crazy. Stay away from the Water Carriers for Trump. (This group includes, but is by no means limited to, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham, The Gateway Pundit, WND.com, and Breitbart News. And, need I say this? InfoWars.com. Puh-leeze!)

You have a couple of options for signing a petition:

1. What I did: Go to change.org and sign the petition asking the electors to change their votes to Hillary Clinton. While I have said repeatedly that my vote for Clinton does not mean support for many of her policies, I do support this movement. I would love to see someone such as Evan McMullin or John Kasich or Ben Sasse take office, but that’s a subject for 2020. Right now, we need to take the most direct route we can to stop Donald Trump from actually taking office.

2. You may say that you will not petition directly for the electors to vote for Clinton. Okay, fair enough. Then join the Hamilton Electors movement, which petitions the electors to vote their consciences.

Either way, we do not have to sit by and let this dreadful election stand. We can at least try to make a difference! The proposal has been made, the wedding venue has been reserved, and the marriage license is ready to be signed. But the bride hasn’t walked down the aisle yet.

A Last-Ditch Effort.

February 15, 2017December 12, 2016 by debisimons

I would be thrilled to see Evan McMullin as our President, but that ain’t a-gonna happen.

So we’re back to the choice we had in the general election.

As Alexander Hamilton writes in “The Federalist Papers,” the Constitution is designed to ensure “that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.” The point of the Electoral College is to preserve “the sense of the people,” while at the same time ensuring that a president is chosen “by men most capable of analyzing the qualities adapted to the station, and acting under circumstances favorable to deliberation, and to a judicious combination of all the reasons and inducements which were proper to govern their choice.”

I know that many of my readers are going to be appalled that I’ve signed this petition. Hey, you can go online and find one that asks the electors to stay faithful, if you want to. It’s called freedom of choice.

“Electoral College: Make Hillary Clinton President.”

Funny Money 101

January 4, 2019December 11, 2016 by debisimons

I am indebted to a commenter on my Facebook page for this post.

Usually my Facebook policy is “no response to comments,” as responding is pretty much a complete waste of time. I’ve relaxed that policy a little since the election, but I respond very rarely. Sometimes I will delete a comment and I’ve blocked exactly one person. (I wish now I’d kept up his final-straw post as a reminder of how obnoxious some people were about the Trump victory: it was a meme—I guess that’s what you call it—with a picture of a frat-boy-looking man yelling, “Say it! Say it! Trump won!” Woa. Or, maybe, Woe.)

More Carrier Controversy

January 4, 2019December 8, 2016 by debisimons

I don’t want to beat a dead horse here, as I’ve already posted material on this whole Carrier deal. But George Will is such a national treasure and is so clear about this one relatively small deal’s portents for the future that I’m posting his article of today. I think it’s somewhat encouraging that someone so serious and thoughtful, who is not always an easy read and does not condescend or pander to his readers, has been out there writing his columns for 40 years.

I would especially encourage two groups within my readership to read Will’s article:

1) Those of you who want to say that “Donald Trump is going to be a better President than Ronald Reagan—you’ll see!” Reagan was a reader of the authors Will cites and was a serious student of history. Whatever you may say, or want to say, about our Presdent-elect, the words “reader” and “serious student” do not apply.

2) Those of you who want to say that we should “give Donald Trump a chance.” The problem is, we need to do exactly the opposite. All of the behaviors he exhibited during that campaign that concerned and indeed frightened those of us who opposed him are still completely on display now. Believe me, if after the election Trump had suddenly shown a serious, thoughtful side, (and if he had refrained from tweeting), then I’d be breathing a sigh of relief along with everybody else. But that’s not what is happening. We can’t “give him a chance” for the first year or so and then wake up and suddenly realize that the damage he has inflicted is, well, YUGE.

Okay. Enough of that. Please read this article.

“Trump’s Carrier Deal Is the Opposite of Conservatism”

Is the First Amendment under Threat?

January 27, 2017December 5, 2016 by debisimons

Just a brief intro here with the link to a very troubling article. With all the hoo-hah over the Second Amendment, we may have shot ourselves in the foot. (Sorry.)

“Pray for the First Amendment. Now.”

Carrier Crony Capitalism.

January 4, 2019December 2, 2016 by debisimons

I’ll end the work week with some commentary on the Carrier deal (hope you know what I’m talking about here–it’s the much-trumpeted keeping-factories-in-the-US agreement made with the big AC company):

First, quoted in a New York Times article:

“I don’t want them moving out of the country without consequences,” Mr. Trump said, even if that means angering the free-market-oriented Republicans he beat in the primaries but will have to work with on Capitol Hill.

“The free market has been sorting it out and America’s been losing,” Mr. Pence added, as Mr. Trump interjected, “Every time, every time.”

Broken Promise #2: “I Am Pro-Life. Really!”

January 4, 2019November 30, 2016 by debisimons

To begin with, perhaps I should address the “shut up and deal with it” attitude I’m running into from some of my readers. To which I reply:

1. This is how I’m dealing with it. I refuse to disengage from the political sphere.

2. As citizens we have the responsibility to hold our leaders accountable, no matter which party they represent.

3. Those who do not learn from the mistakes of history are doomed to repeat them.

So, Am I In for a “Rough Four Years”?

January 4, 2019November 29, 2016 by debisimons

That’s what someone said in a comment on my Facebook page. (That, or “a hard four years”–I can’t seem to find it now.) Well, I can only assume that this person meant his statement as an expression of concern, right? So I will admit to a certain amount of hand-wringing and weeping the first week after the election, but that passed. I kept reminding myself that God is sovereign and that, however surprised everyone else was about the results, He wasn’t.

So I’m re-posting below what I wrote exactly two months ago about how I’d feel if Donald Trump did indeed win the election. I haven’t changed the date, but if there’s any doubt about when I originally wrote it, please note the date of the National Review article included with it. You can go back on my timeline and check, too, just to be clear.

Actually, we’re all in for a rough time, sad to say.

”In My Selfish Moments I Imagine a Trump Victory”

As I said when I posted this originally, don’t expect complete gentility here:
“If Candidate Trump Can’t Be Managed, What Makes You Think President Trump Would Be?”

Broken Promises Week, Part I: “Lock Her Up!”

January 4, 2019November 28, 2016 by debisimons

I was all set to write a post about this topic last week but got distracted by the many excellent articles out there that I thought needed an airing. The more I’ve thought about this particular issue, however, the more I see it as emblematic of Donald Trump’s entire campaign and now, scarily, a precursor of how he will run his Presidency. As we move forward (notice how I keep using this phrase, as my purpose is to apply the lessons of the campaign to the mess we’re in now, not, as I’ve said, to “re-fight the election.”)