Only one incumbent member of Congress merits the endorsement of the Republican Liberty Caucus and that Congressman is Dr. Paul Broun. From his first vote in the United States House of Representatives, Congressman Broun has shown that he doesn’t fall lock-step with his party’s leadership when they trample on the constitution to score political points with powerful special interest groups.

Alas, Dr. Broun’s opponent is perfectly willing to pander to the prejudices of his district. Broun’s opponent was the primary sponsor of a bill that would lower the number of jurors needed to decide to sentence someone to the death penalty. The act of taking a person’s life is the penultimate punishment that can be meted out by the state, and it is the only one that can not be undone if the person is later exonerated. If anything the threshold for sentencing someone to death should be raised, not lowered.

Based on the records of both candidates, it is clear that Paul Broun is a man of integrity. He is a man who takes his oath of office – to support and defend the Constitution of the United States – with the utmost regard. We encourage all RLC members and supports in the 10th Congressional District to cast their vote for Paul Broun on Tuesday July 15th.

Georgia State Senate:

• Senator Jeff Chapman, 3rd District
• Senator Ralph Hudgens, 47th
• Senator Eric Johnson, 1st, President Pro-Tempe
• Senator Chip Rogers, 21st
• Senator Mitch Seabaugh, 28th
• Senator David Shafer, 48th

Georgia State House:

• Representative Steve Davis, 109th
• Representative Tom Graves, 12th
• Representative Mike Jacobs, 80th
• Representative Jill Chambers, 81st
• Representative Martin Scott, 2nd

All of these candidates have signed the RLC’s Liberty Compact.

President Kennedy once spoke of a rising tide that would lift all boats. Obama wants us to pull into shore and tie them to a dock.

Worse than that, a disturbing pattern of rhetoric indicates he will not only counsel a draconian lifestyle, but also mandate it.

The man who made over $4 million last year, who lives in a $1.65 million house and who probably doesn’t get his great suits off the rack, advised graduates: “You can take your diploma, walk off this stage and chase only after the big house and the nice suits and all the other things that our money culture says you should. But I hope you don’t.” I got mine.

He hopes you don’t walk off the job and do something greedy like finding a way to economically retrieve the 2 trillion barrels of oil locked up in North American shale, lowering fuel and transportation costs, and helping America achieve energy independence.

Don’t be another Bill Gates and amass a fortune making people more productive and, uh, successful in their daily lives and giving your countrymen a standard of living the world will envy. Exchange your cap and gown for sackcloth and ashes. Leave your possessions behind and come follow Obama.

“Fulfilling your immediate wants and needs betrays a poverty of ambition,” he opined….

So far, Obama’s idea of hope and change sounds an awful lot like the Marxian vision of taking from each according to his ability and giving to each according to his needs. Though we’re already the most charitable and giving nation in history, Obama doesn’t seem to think volunteerism is part of it.

In a speech in California, wife Michelle, who has made a small fortune in the “helping industry,” said: “Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zone. . . . Barack Obama will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual — uninvolved, uninformed.”

Frankly, we like our comfort zone, even if Barack Obama doesn’t. Campaigning in Oregon, he said: “We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times . . . and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK.

“That’s not leadership,” Obama added. “That’s not going to happen.”

Not going to happen? Require? Demand? Never allow? If you detect an ominous tone of authoritarianism, so do we. It’s almost enough to make one cling bitterly to one’s guns and Bible. Heck, we write conservative opinion and watch Fox News. We’re uninformed and uninvolved. Obama will make us see the light…..

Barack wants to raise their taxes by letting the Bush tax cuts expire and eliminating the earnings cap on Social Security taxes. But if you don’t want to enlist in the Obama army of change, you will be drafted.

They have ways to make you volunteer. ( From Investors Business Daily)