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Being involved as I am in so many political organizations, TEA Party, 10th amendment Center and the Republican liberty Caucus, I get to talk to a lot of people who are very upset about the out-of-control unconstitutional growth of our federal government and the loss of our freedom and liberty at every level from Dade County to Washington DC. Most of these people are well-informed and "get it" about what caused the problem we’re experiencing and who has been and is responsible. It seems that most of the people who don't "get it" are those diehard supporters and party faithful of the two major parties. Many, if not most of these people still have to willingly disregard the facts to justify why they still support candidates and parties that are behind the policies that are leading to their own destruction. They still espouse what I call the “he may be a lying weasel but he’s our party’s lying weasel” theory of politics.

Let me give you an example. The other day I got an e-mail which had been forwarded to me by a very delightful lady here in North Georgia. She was urging me to vote for Nathan Deal who, in her opinion, is the most qualified candidate for governor of Georgia. She claims his proven conservative voting record in defense of conservative values will make him a great governor. I wrote back and told her that I cannot support someone who has as little regard for the Constitution as he does. I pointed out that he had supported the Bush sponsored No Child Left Behind which really should have been called No Child Gets Ahead and has given the federal government even more control over public education which is not permitted by the Constitution.

I reminded her that Congressman Deal also voted for Medicare part D, another unconstitutional program authored by Republican George W. Bush, which is on track to be more costly than the entire Medicaid program. I pointed out that Nathan Deal voted for the Patriot Act which has thrown huge chunks of the Bill of Rights out the window by giving federal agents the ability to take a self written search warrant, not signed by a judge, to your bank and look through your personal records, tap your phone or even to break into your home and search it without having to tell you that they were ever there, all without probable cause except that the federal agent says so.

Couple all the above with his votes in favor of every farm bill, also not permitted by the Constitution, and his “present” vote, not once but twice, on the unconstitutional Cash for Clunkers bill and I think there are better choices for governor of Georgia. What was her response to all the above? She replied that we would have to agree to disagree and that we shouldn't “nitpick” our best Republican candidates when they seek to serve us in public office. We have come to a point where insisting that our elected officials uphold and defend the Constitution as they are sworn to do is considered nitpicking by the party faithful.

Just in case you think your freedom and liberty is only under attack in Washington DC you can actually find instances a lot closer to home that you might not have noticed.

Since being elected to office Sen. Jeff Mullis has taken almost every opportunity he has had to turn more control of your life over to the state of Georgia. Although everyone able to cast a vote in the election is considered an adult who should be able to run their own lives Jeff Mullis has decided that you are incapable of making many decisions for yourself and has consistently voted to let the government take control, for your own good of course. He decided that you are incapable of deciding whether you should put a quarter in a video poker machine so he voted to prohibit you from doing so. I’ve never played video poker but I think that at age 60 I should be allowed to if it’s my quarter I’m putting in. He's obviously not against gambling because if he was he would propose legislation doing away with the lottery. So like most proponents of the nanny state he's just against gambling when the government doesn't get its cut.

Sen. Mullis also cast a vote proving he has no respect for private property when he voted in favor of legislation telling restaurant owners they could not allow smoking in their own businesses that they invested their own money to start and run. I’ve never smoked a cigarette in my life but I’m not willing to let the government tell me, or anybody else, that they can’t allow smoking on their own property.

Most recently Sen. Mullis decided that you're not smart enough to know you should wear a seatbelt when driving a pickup truck and voted to make it a crime not to do so. I personally think you'd be very foolish to not wear a seatbelt but I don't believe it is the state's duty to tell me I have to wear one if I choose not to.

It's obvious to me Sen. Mullis has no problem turning over control of more and more of my life to the government as long as HE decides it’s for MY own good. How far is he willing to go? If he thinks the government can "protect" me by requiring me to wear seat belts, not allow me to put quarters in game machines and not let me freely patronize places where people smoke why shouldn't the government "protect" me by prohibiting me from eating an unhealthy diet of fatty fast food and other things that might not be good for me? After all more people die from unhealthy diets that lead to obesity, diabetes and heart disease every year than there are who die from not wearing seatbelts in pickup trucks. Where does it stop?

It should stop by people not voting for candidates who want to erode more of our liberty by turning over control of our lives to government bureaucrats.

We also need to quit electing people who take us for fools. Last week Senator Mullis announced that he would sponsor legislation giving Georgia an Arizona-like law on illegal immigration. Ordinarily this would be good news except for one thing. On March 9th of this year Senator Mullis voted in a committee in favor of a Democrat sponsored bill, SR 570, which essentially calls for a repeat of the 1986 amnesty for illegal aliens and would legalize tens of millions of people who are in the country illegally. The text of the bill and verification of Senator Mullis’ vote can be found on the Georgia General Assembly web site here: http://www.legis.ga.gov/legis/2009_10/v ... 676S_4.htm. Senator Mullis must take us for fools when the law he says he is now going to propose is the complete opposite of the bill he voted for just 4 months ago. Could his turnaround have anything to do with the fact that he has not one but two opponents in the Republican primary for his seat on July 20th?

Nathan Deal and Jeff Mullis could be the poster boys for why people have lost faith in Republican elected officials.

Senator Jeff Mullis was named one of only 21 lawmakers current or former that took more than $5000 from lobbyist last year. ($5704) the report says. That is a lot of eating. http://www.atlantaunfiltered.com/2010/0 ... last-year/

It looks like he is well on his way this year. I wonder if that is how the two magazines that list him rate who is at the top. Is is who takes the most money from lobbyist?
You can decide here:
http://www.ethics.ga.gov/Reports/Lobbyi ... scription=

SHHHHHH. Don't tell all the Mullis myrmidons, especially those from out of state, who defended him in the paper this week or they'll be on you like white on rice.

By the way, I was correct in my guess about what the letters would be.

It's astonishing that one of the letters was word for word what some guy from Chickamauga wrote to the Walker County paper. What are the odds of that happening?

In Case you want to read a calander of events of how the spouses are treated during the session. Here is is.
http://www.atlantaunfiltered.com/wp-con ... inment.pdf
You see lobbyist don't have to report what money they spend on the wives. So one way to get to a Lawmaker is to treat the wives to eleborate tea's and more.

PS. If you want to have some real fun export the lobbyist report above and sort it by date. #howmanymealscanyoueatinaday