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For the last year we've been politely asking "Could we please have our country back now?"

With your help, we'll demand it be returned to "We the People" at the ballot box this May 18th and then again on Nov. 2nd.

I'll continue posting my thoughts, but I'm going to do so here at www.MadeiraFor Congress.com. Head over there and sign up so you can get updates on all that we are doing.

I look forward to seeing you on the campaign trail as we take back our country.

God Bless.

David

Whistle Stop Tour Kicks Off Congressional Campaign

Dallas, PA, - February 5, 2010 – An 8 a.m. breakfast stop at Cordaro’s, a family restaurant in Honesdale is the perfect start for a multi-county tour for Congressional Candidate David Madeira. The retired chiropractor is running as a conservative Republican, and will be joined by his wife and 6 children as they make their way through several of the counties that make up the 10^th Congressional District meeting supporters.

After his 8 am start in Wayne County, he will make his way to Luzerne County to spend some time with voters at the Pierce Street Deli at noon. “I look forward to continuing the conversation I have been having with people in the district who want their government to work for them, not against them. Last summer I was asked to speak at a rally just over the river from the deli on the Square by voters who were concerned about some of the votes Chris Carney has taken.”

The last stop on his day-long tour is Zelda’s Café in Lewisburg at 7 p.m. “I get energized talking with people who care about what’s happening to our country and want to get back to ‘We The People’ “ Madeira said, “and that’s what my candidacy is all about.”

Is "Obama's seat"...

...the next "People's Seat?" The NRSC is hitting hard and early to insure that Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mark Kirk has an early advantage in this race. Some pundits are even hinting the Republicans may win the Senate this fall.

Now that's change we can believe in.

3 months too late

Only 3 days after AG Holder unveiled President Obama's plot to bring KSM to NYC for a platform to put former President Bush on trial by proxy, Liberal NY Governor David Paterson came out with his opposition to this crazy plan.

So why did it take Congressman Chris Carney the better part of 3 months to go on record opposing this insane "show trial"?

“As the only member of Congress to have interrogated detainees at Guantanamo Bay, I know full well that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other terror operatives would be provided fair hearings and trying them there would protect our nation from harm,” he said.

Seems after 3 years of hiding, Chris Carney may be finding that strong voice for national security he promised to use. It must be an election year.

What happens in Vegas...

...is unemployment. This according to U.S. Senator Harry Reid:

"Las Vegas is suffering through one of the highest unemployment rates in the country, and we cannot afford for the President to bring us down any further,"

Apparently the President can't help taking pot shots at Sin City when he is not there, leaving Harry Reid to wonder if he is for him or against him. Exchanging insults and apologies is like a hobby with these two.

Early polls are becoming less relevant...

..as voters learn that inevitable doesn't mean what it used to mean.

Rasmussen reports that Conservative "Tea Party" Candidate Marco Rubio has now passed the sitting Governor in the Republican Primary race for U.S. Senate.

This sort of thing just never happened, but it's quickly becoming the new norm. This August primary has the Republican Party establishment befuddled, but they better get used to it as conservative Republican's are going to be zooming past their "establishment" counterparts in primaries all over the country in 2010.

If Conservative Patrick Hughes wins tomorrow's primary battle against "Cap and Traitor" Mark Kirk, it will be another example of a last minute surge of "We the People"asserting themselves like never before.

LATE BREAKING UPDATE: Kirk won the Illinois Republican Senate primary in a 6 way race by moving to the right.

Kirk, who has taken some positions over the decade he's been in the House that have dissatisfied party conservatives, moved noticeably to the right during the primary.

Wow, it's cold!

As I was running across this frozen field this morning, it occurred to me that, given all the scandals surrounding "Climate Change" perhaps it's time to to re-examing the science and economics.

Just saying...

...and here is the exclamation point!

Fellow blogger and fiscal conservative Bob Guzzardi called my attention to a graph that puts an exclamation point on my last post.

It's from IBD and shows the projected debt curve.

Unprecedented!

IBD puts it in perspective:

And, yes, the size of the debt does matter. By 2018, at current spending trends, debt as a share of GDP will reach 85%. In 2022, it will hit 100%. And it will keep rising at least until 2038, reaching 200%.

At that level, our fast-growing, high-innovation, high-wage economy begins grinding to a permanent slowdown. The accumulated debt will become a millstone around our necks. Fleeter, less-indebted competitors in the developing world will sprint right past us.

If you don't think so, just look at Japan. It was the world's fastest-growing developed economy for most of the postwar era. But it stumbled in the late '80s and began a debt-financed binge of "stimulus" packages in the 1990s and early 2000s. Today, it has the worst of all worlds: a 200% of GDP debt load, and low or no growth.

Recent debt debacles in Dubai and Greece, both of which are near bankruptcy, show what can happen to nations when they spend too much. Now, we're on the same path.

It's no mystery why this happens. "Government borrowing reduces resources available for private investment, leading to lower productivity, wages, and economic growth," noted the Heritage Foundation in a recent study. So, yes, all this debt does matter.