Congressman John Carney (D-DE) as Delaware's lone Congressman, is our only voice in the U.S. Congress. But in his first term, he has failed to understand who he represents. Based on the scorecards put out by the Club for Growth and the regional Independence Hall Tea Party Association, he has failed to protect to the general welfare of the citizens that put him in office.
In true form, John Carney has either put party, allegiance to Obama or self above the required service to his constituents in how he votes. In a previous Blue Hen Conservative post, we commented on the coveted Club for Growth scorecard of which Carney failed. He also failed the recent scorecard put out out by the Independence Hall Tea Party Association on votes related to Tea Party principles.
Both scorecards underline a problem with how John Carney views America and how the Democratic Party disconnects with the hard-working middle-class American. Let's look at key votes that highlight a pattern of contempt for the Constitution of the United States of America:
H.R. 2 - Repeal ObamaCare: Congressman John Carney voted against the repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Despite its benign name, the bill is unconstitutional due to the individual mandate and violation of the Tenth Amendment in how it is applied, Carney voted against the repeal.
H.CON.RES 35 - Defund ObamaCare: Congressman John Carney voted against the de-funding of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
H.R. 358 - ObamaCare Conscience Exemption: Congressman John Carney voted against the passage of a conscience exemption for religious institutions.
H.CON.RES 36 - Defund Planned Parenthood: Congressman John Carney voted against the de-funding of Planned Parenthood at the federal level. Planned Parenthood is the largest organization in America that aborts pre-born children.
H.R. 1076 - Defund National Public Radio (NPR): Congressman John Carney voted against the de-funding of the NPR, in light of its media bias.
H.R. 2560 - Cut, Cap & Balance: Congressman John Carney voted against the resolution to address federal spending and balancing the federal budget.
H.R. 1231 - Off-Shore Drilling: Congressman John Carney voted against allowing off-shore drilling and American energy independence.
H.ADMT 596 to H.R. 2354 - Energy Department Budget Cut: Congressman John Carney voted against cutting the federal budge to the federal Energy Department. The Energy Department does not produce energy and allocating funding for the Energy Department is misguided.
H.R. 822 - Right-to-Carry Reciprocity: Congressman John Carney voted against the allowing the federal government to recognize right-to-carry permits passed by the respective states. A vote against is a voted against the Second Amendment.
As you can see, Congressman John Carney is no friend of the U.S. Constitution and in his first term has failed to uphold the oath he took to uphold the Constitution when he sworn in. John Carney can no longer be trusted to be a servant to the citizens of the great state of Delaware.
John Carney is up for re-election this November and must be replaced. New Castle County President Tom Kovach is seeking this office and deserves our support. We cannot afford to give John Carney another term to further erode the U.S. Constitution and America' relevance.
The Independence Hall Tea Party Association released its 2012 Tri-State Area Congressional Scorecard. The scorecard compiles votes of members of both the U.S. Congress and U.S. Senate and rates the members according to Tea Party principles.
For Delaware, lone Congressman John Carney (D-DE) scored a seven out of possible 100. Delaware Senators Thomas Carper (D-DE) scored a nine out of 100 while is junior colleague Chris Coons (D-DE) scored the lowest amongst the Delaware delegation with a six out of possible 100.
Congressman John Carney and Senator Tom Carper are up for re-election in 2012 and analysis on this scorecard for each candidate will be done under separate posts.
Problem: noun \ˈprä-bləm, -bəm, -ˌblem\ a question raised for inquiry, consideration, or solution
Solution: so·lu·tion
noun \sə-ˈlü-shən\
1a : an action or process of solving a problem b : an answer to a problem
An engineer is a professional practitioner of engineering, concerned with applying scientific knowledge, mathematics and ingenuity to develop solutions for technical problems.
You see, Kevin Wade is an engineer and through his firm, Philadelphia Control Systems that he started over thirty years ago, has been successful in solving problems with technical solutions to help Fortune 500 companies bring everyday products that we enjoy to life. From manufacturing bread, automobiles, antibiotics, infant
formula, nylon, chocolate and peanut candies, aircraft, paints and coatings,
oil and electricity and many, many other things.
In a previous post, we highlighted Kevin Wade's first hand knowledge of working on an oil rig as being a key asset to leveraging America's treasured crude oil reserves to be part of America's path to be energy independence. In this post, we would like to share Kevin's own words on energy and the vital importance of our nation's security in being energy independent from foreign energy (oil, etc):
My
decades of professional work and rigorous education allow me to see America’s
energy problems and energy solutions through pragmatic experienced eyes and
with an engineer’s clarity.
First
of all, the politicians continuously confuse the various energy problems facing
the country. This may be by their personal lack of understanding or by their
personal intention to confuse the public.
There
are two different energy problems in the US. The first and most critical to
our security is our reliance on imported oil. The second is the artificially
high cost of electricity. Both energy problems are due to the bad hands and
failed policies of the career politicians in Washington. They are guilty of one or both
of the charges of not knowing what they do or not caring what they do to the
American people. This must end at election day in 2012.
Imported
Oil – Today
and everyday America
imports 10 million barrels of foreign oil. This drains more than 1 billion
dollars each day and every day from our sick and anemic economy. This is one
billion dollars not here to build schools, hospitals, new plants and offices or
to create new American jobs and a real sustainable prosperity. This treasure of
dollars runs to waste from our hands into foreign hands. This drain has killed
our national prosperity and armed so many of those in the Mideast
who are at odds with our values.
American
Oil – Every
new barrel of American oil directly offsets imported oil. Dollars stay at home.
Jobs are created here. North Dakota
is producing lots of oil in spite of Federal policies because the oil is
produced on private and state owned lands. North Dakota’s 500,000 barrels per day
in oil production has created a booming economy and very low unemployment. It
is an island of prosperity beyond the reach of Washington. There is far more oil to be
discovered and produced across this country and in our offshore waters. There
is far more prosperity to be found using the new technologies developed by unfettered
free enterprise. The road block between us and the treasure of resources
beneath our feet is the willful blindness of the bleed America first crowd in Washington.
Oil
Prices, the Dollar and Gas Prices – Gasoline
is only made from oil. No number of windmills or solar panels will ever put
gasoline in our tanks. Any career politician who speaks of energy security and
gasoline prices when promoting solar or wind sources of electricity is guilty
of misleading the American people. There is no connection. Repeat, there is no
connection.
Oil
is bought and sold worldwide in US dollars. As Washington policies destroy the value the
dollar and of our dollar savings and dollar wages, it also increases the dollar
price of oil. Every dollar increase in a barrel of oil results in a 2 cents per
gallon increase at the pump. Fifty years ago, 2 silver dimes bought a gallon of
gas. Two silver dimes still buy a gallon of gas because the price of silver in
terms of oil is almost unchanged. It is the value of the dollar that has been
destroyed. Who did this? Look again to Washington and the career politicians
there.
Oil
is a commodity that has a special economic property. Its supply and demand
curves are economically “inelastic”. This means that consumption
changes little with changes in price. If grape fruit suddenly doubles in price,
most consumers switch to an alternate fruit to save money. They buy cheap cantaloupe,
for example, and stop buying expensive grapefruit. Oil has no equivalent
replacement. As oil prices soar people have no choice but to pay. School buses
must make their rounds and people need to drive to work. As an inelastic
commodity the slightest changes, up or down, in supply result in a great change
in price. America
can drive down the cost of oil (gasoline) by pumping more oil. Small changes in
the total world output will bring major price reductions. The price of gas will
tumble when combined with policies to protect your dollar savings and ensure a
sound and stable currency.
American
Electricity – There
is no shortage of fuel sources or generating technologies to produce cheap
American electricity. Electricity is made primarily from American coal with
significant contributions from nuclear, natural gas (methane) and hydro
sources. Federal policy and overreaching regulation have limited access to coal
and restricted the use of coal fired power plants. Federal policy has delayed
for a generation of small and safe nuclear designs. Federal intervention impede
the use of new technologies to produce extremely cheap natural gas. This has
limited the rapid drop in natural gas prices needed to fuel modern gas fired
turbine driven electric power plants. If we remove the onerous regulations
American can see electric rates drop more than 30% in the coming years.
Inexpensive
electricity is the essential building block to a high standard of living. It is
electricity that moves our industrial sector of the economy and its high wage
manufacturing jobs.
America
has hundreds of years of natural gas and coal supplies. Washington’s distorted focus on solar
and wind sources of electricity has blocked our natural energy advantages. This
forced artificially high prices on the American consumer and crippled our
ability to compete in the world of high value/high wage manufacturing. Solar
power and wind power are technical curiosities today. They are not solutions to
rebuild our country.
The technical analysis above by Kevin Wade on the current state of imported oil and high electric rates, and the alternatives are why we need someone to represent Delaware in Washington who will actually look at practical solutions rather than kicking the can down the road. In true engineer form of offering solutions rather than rhetoric, Kevin Wade has a unveiled a robust platform to preserve America's national security through energy independence:
Increase
American oil production to 20 million barrels a day over the next 12 years;
become oil independent by opening Alaska and most Federal lands to safe and responsible
drilling and production to those willing to take a the risk of safe and
productive exploration and production; NO TAXPAYER dollars
All
new oil is for use of the American people and is not for sale overseas; American
oil independence before multinational oil company profits
Stabilize
the value of the dollar to eliminate currency decline affects on oil and gas
prices
Reanimate
the country with the treasure of resources beneath our feet
Remove
Federal regulations that prevent use of high MPG engines operating on clean
diesel for autos and trucks
Allow
alternate technologies to flourish in a free enterprise economy; the best ideas
win in a fair marketplace
Remove
ALL energy subsidies and let the market decide; this applies to wind, solar, “Green”,
oil, gas, coal and nuclear
U.S. Senate candidate Kevin Wade (R-DE) takes on long-time Delaware U.S. Senator Tom Carper over failure to lead on U.S. energy development including drilling for oil resources here in the U.S.
Watch:
Kevin wade eloquently brings up the absurdity of the Democratic progressives who fail to connect available U.S. crude as part of the sustainable energy solutions we should be exploring as a nation. As Americans continue to feel the pain of gas prices at the pump, lack of action by Senator Carper and his liberal colleagues on Capitol Hill.
As Wade mentions, the U.S. is blessed with these natural resources for our use so we can be energy independent. This is not only an economic issue on gas prices and its affects on consumers wallets and added costs to goods shipped, but also a national security issue as we are dependent on foreign crude oil. The latter is the biggest tragedy of them all as American sovereignty continues to be at risk every time we purchase foreign crude, which is something we could be doing within our very own country.
American taxpayers can no longer afford to send entrenched progressive career politicians like Senator Tom Carper back to Washington who continue to ignore the founding documents of this nation and erode Americans independence. Every Delaware taxpayer who is feeling a budget pinch due to higher fuel costs should take a look at Kevin Wade.
As Kevin mentions he worked on oil rig platforms and knows first hand at the massive opportunity we as Americans have will a "drill here, drill now" approach to our energy independence platform. As an engineer by trade who led his engineering firm to develop solutions for Fortune 500 companies world-wide, Kevin Wade will be asset as he seeks practical solutions the problems created by career politicians. Delaware can no longer adhere to the Delaware Way of governance, and sending Kevin Wade to Washington means that being the First State to ratify the U.S. Constitution meant something. Sending Kevin Wade will preserve it, not shred it like Carper has done by collecting a government paycheck and turning the other way while the spending machine ran on overdrive.
Mark your calendars. The Conservative Caucus of Delaware will hold a free lecture and discussion event on Austrian Economics. The event will be held on Wednesday, March 14th 6:00 PM at the Brandywine Hundred Library in North Wilmington, Delaware.
Given where we are economically with rampant big government, this discussion is so vital to reversing the current trajectory. Come find out what Austrian Economics is, who Mises was and how both can be implemented to restore America's greatness.
In case you missed it, the Club for Growth released its annual Congressional Scorecard for both U.S. House and U.S. Senate members on pro-growth votes. The methodology Club For Growth used to score each member is found here.
Delaware's federal delegation did not fare all that well. In fact, they flunked.
Senior U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) voted 14% of time in favor of pro-growth economic policies during 2011. Throughout his entire tenure, he voted 10% of the time as pro-growth. Junior Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) supported pro-growth policies 12% of the time and lone Congressman John Carney (D-DE) supported pro-growth policies only 8% of the time.
If anyone in Delaware is unemployed, they need to look no further than the Carper, Coons and Carney. For Democrats, they sure are not looking out for their constituents.
BlueHenConservative will evaluate the scorecard in further detail for specific votes and provide further analysis in a future post. It is important to note that Sen. Tom Carper and Rep. John Carney are up for re-election in November 2012. Clearly, given the meager results for improving the economy, neither can be re-elected. Remember, elections matter, and there are consequences.
Earlier today, the conservative movement was stunned to hear of the passing of Internet blogger and conservative activist Andrew Breitbart. Simply put, Andrew left us far too young.
While I never met Andrew Breitbardt personally, I admire his tenacity in seeking the truth and fighting the good fight against the Left. No truer words were spoken by Rush Limbaugh today, when he called Breitbart "a bulldog".
Evidence of this conservative warrior are no other than his taking on Occupy DC at CPAC 2012, and his speech at the same event. In the speech, Breitbart admits he takes the fight to the other side to show who they really are. You have to admire someone who puts the other side on full display for the whole world to see.
Conservatives can honor Breitbart by picking up where he left off. Nothing would please him more watching from heaven seeing his fellow conservatives soldiers take the liberal movement head on. Learning from Breitbart, we must be courageous in showing the world just how radical the liberals really are, and how they are not who we can trust. Like Breitbart did with ACORN, Anthony Weiner Shirley Sherrod was fearless in showing what these groups and people really stood far.
If we are to win the 2012 elections, we must do the same. If we are to advance the conservative movement, we must do the same. In true Breitbart form, we must be vigilant and fearless.
Fight on, fellow patriots! Fight on for Breitbart!
