We know the tactics.  We’ve seen them before, and now that they are cornered, we will be treated to another election cycle of mind numbing redundancy with a bit more vitriol to spice it up.  If the Democrats are anything, they are consistent.  I say that… kindly.

My friend, who wishes to remain anonymous, and I were working on a camp in the far reaches of North Schoodic Lake.   While crawling beneath the camp in the mud between broken bottles of Dr. Zhivago’s famous elixir and carcasses of various rodents of unusual size, we discussed Augusta’s arrogant disregard for the residents of Maine.  What… what do you mean you don’t believe we were… we were too!!  You mean to tell me, when you are crawling around in the mud with about four inches clearance for your head between broken bottles of Dr. Zhivago’s famous elixir and rodents of unusual size, you don’t discuss politics.  Well, I’m sorry, I don’t use that kind of language.  Rehashing the various and sundry ways the Democrats preen and primp their blind self-absorbed detachment from reality is the closest this preacher’s kid will ever come to swearing.

So anyway… as we lay, slowly settling into the dark muddy underworld of Schoodic Lake, I asked my friend, who is still anonymous, wet and muddy, but anonymous, what would happen to us as sopping wet businessmen if we were to repeat the same catastrophic mistake over and over again?  What if I, a carpenter, found that one of my levels was faulty giving me false readings?  How would I be viewed in the world of the trades if I were so attached to that little four-foot level that I continued to use it, despite all the evidence that it was wrong?  (i.e., leaning walls, fellow tradesmen wanting to wring my neck and employers wishing to fire me.)  It all seems rather ridiculous to average Mainers, doesn’t it?  Yet, Democrats continue to do this very thing.

An overburdened, overtaxed Maine is not working.  Instead of acknowledging this and changing course, liberal Democrats like Libby Mitchell and Eliot Cutler, are pulling the same faulty tools out to fix the problem.  Now they have come up with a mileage tax.  Yes, you see, frugal Mainers in hard times don’t travel as much.  Consequently, Maine is not receiving enough toll revenue.  Now we can’t have Mainers saving money, can we?  Not when Democrats can steal it.  So, Democrats propose to tax you for every mile you drive.  Yes, the moment you crank up Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in the morning, to the time she coughs to a stop at night, not only will it cost you fuel, wear and tear to try to survive in Maine’s socialist state, but now it will cost you for just rolling.

I know, I know, you are thinking it is time to buy a horse.  Well, how do you know the liberals haven’t got that covered, too?  Who’s to say taxocrats won’t implant a counter in the buttocks, I love that word, of your horse for every time it steps?  I would suspect they would also attach a laser trigger across the dairyair of your “vehicle.”  If your horse should happen to pass carbon fumes or something more substantial, this would trigger the infamous flatulence tax, increasing your transportation budget exponentially.  Heaven forbid, the poor animal should get into a batch of bad hay.  Your household could incur the kind of debt only a liberal can embrace.

So back to the mud in north Schoodic.  My friend, who wishes to remain anonymous, and I came to this conclusion.  Trust -fund Democrats have never held jobs in the real world.  They have never had to face the consequences of their own mistakes.  In my world when I screw up, I fix it.  Then I try my best not to do it again.  Democrats pass more legislation to cover up their mistakes.  Perhaps it is time to send these liberals back to the private sector on education in the real world.

Finally, I would like to announce that there will be a tea party in Dover –Foxcroft this Saturday, June 19, at the Kiwanis Park.  It will get started around two p.m. and goes to four o’clock.  Paul LePage and Jason Levesque will be speaking.  Paul Davis, the lion himself, will be the emcee.  They are even going to let me speak.  Afterwards, at five, there will be a lasagna dinner and auction for the Piscataquis County Republicans at the American Legion Hall.  I hope to see you all there.

Yes, once again, the Democratic Party is dragging out its tired, worn out catch phrases for this election.  Perhaps they think we really believe them?  Even this hard-boiled Conservative can’t bring himself to say that those of the Democratic leadership are that stupid.  No, I think the reason for the cyclical bi-annual reflux of the mind numbing liberal socialist prattle that has all the substantive merit of a water vapor in the Sonoma Desert is simply this… it’s all they got!

For years the Democratic Party has capitalized on loyal voters who voted for the (D) on the ballot still hoping that their vote was still for the Party of the workingman.  This past year and a half has been shaking Democratic voters to a slow realization that this Party is not the Party their Grandfathers voted for.  The Party of the working class is now the Party of the trust-fund elites and Chicago style corruption.  These voters are finally facing the hard cold facts that their party functions off creating a crisis rather creating a solution.  Hard working Maine Democrats have had enough and are jumping ship.  The socialist rehash won’t work in 2010, but just for chuckles, let’s go over them, shall we?

Catch Phrase Number One: We are doing this for the children.

Yeah, I thought I’d start with the biggest lie of all.  Has it ever bothered you that the Party of Liberal Slogans thinks they know what’s best for your children better than you, the actual “I birthed these kids and have a sane grasp on reality” parent?  Socialist never try to answer why their policies have accelerated the school dropout rate of our children.  They are perplexed to why more and more children become permanently mired in the Maine welfare system.  The Dems have blocked the passage of  “Jessica’s Law” at every turn.  The law would protect children from pedophiles.  The Democrats seem at a loss why all of our children, who want to carve a future for themselves, are leaving the State of Maine to look to acquire wealth elsewhere.

When the Party of Unending Debt is asked for solutions, they answer with “we need more Government”.  When asked how we intend to pay for more Government, the Party of Pass the Buck smiles to calm the peasants fears and says, “Don’t worry, the children will pay for it”.  As parents, we are confused.  Silly us, we thought our job description entailed working for our children’s future not working off our children’s future.  Thanks for the clarification, Democratic Party.  The catch phrase should read “We are doing this for the children to pay through the nose for our ineptitude”.

Catch Phrase Number Two; We are doing this for our environment.

This is as big a lie as the first, but less heinous since it does not involve the exploitation of children.  In Arizona, the wildfires could not be contained because environmentalists and Democrats outlawed control burns and control cuts.  With an overabundance of dry brush and no access to cut off the fires, the wildfires raged out of control doing untold damage to the eco-system and property.  In Louisiana, an oil spill has pumped into the waters unchecked because enviro-Democrats would not allow drilling in shallow waters, therefore, forcing the much more dangerous deep water drill in 5,000 feet of surging ocean water.  In Maine, every year our bug infestation grows worse.  We play Russian roulette with our forest hoping this is not the year we lose an entire eco-system to some ravenous bug.  Why?  Environmentalists will not let us spray to stop the spread of these precious bugs.  Need I say more!

Catch Phrase Number Three: We Love America, too.

Really?  Than stop insulting my beloved Country every chance you get all over the world.  Can somebody please tell Mr. Joe Biden that Brussels, Belgium is not the seat of Democracy?  The best description of Brussels I’ve heard is a city that the Germans drive through on their way to try and conquer the world.  Hillary, Hillary, just stop, please stop!  Nobody wants to be Brazil… not even you, Mrs. Clinton.

Catch Phrase Number Four: We are for the little guy.

Well, not if you are a small business.  They detest those little guys.  With programs like LeadDumb, I mean, LeadSmart, the Democratic Party has insured that only large business can survive.  If you can’t pay big city contractors, than the Democratic Party says you can’t renovate your home.  They have no Constitutional right to dictate to the consumer who can and cannot afford to have repairs.  That should be the consumer’s choice.  Remember, all those regulations, trust-fund elites just buy exemptions from those.  Are you sure you want to vote Democrat?

It is just one more chapter in the tortured legacy of the Democratic Party.  One more example of the crazed fixation to European Socialists policies that propel its headlong rush to drive every remnant of small independent business out of the already anemic private sector of the State of Maine.  The Democratic Party disdains small business; especially, the small two to three man construction businesses that work throughout the North Woods.  I am one of these dastardly businesses and so are some of my closest friends.

They call it LeadSmart and, although there is nothing safe about it for the Maine economy, it is sure full of leaden dead weight.  I speak of Augusta’s illustrious “Squeeze every last penny out of the residents and send small business packing” program.  They call it LeadSmart.

It started with a desire to protect residents from concentrated airborne dust particles, which result from extended sanding on leaden paint, specifically for interior renovation situations.  You will never believe this, but the Democrats got a hold of this and decided to regulate it up the Ye Olde Borestone Mountain.  Now it has reached a tipping point.

Some years ago, I sat through a …captivating (ahem), some would say enthralling training seminar, in Augusta (where else), on LeadSmart construction practices.  Part of the session dealt with the dangers, or should I say danger, singular, of lead paint.  You see you can walk up to a wall painted with lead paint and lick it, if you wish, and it won’t hurt you.  It’s intact.  A chip of lead paint could float through the air, somehow lodge in your mouth, and, if by chance you lacked the reflex to spit it out, should you swallow it, that wouldn’t hurt you either; save for the painful excursion through your intestinal tract as it meanders the way towards its final culmination.  The paint chip is intact.  You can look at lead and it won’t hurt you.  You can speak to lead and it won’t hurt you.  This is a comforting thought when in close proximity to Democrats, though I’m not sure they are intact.

The only time lead paint becomes dangerous is when it is sanded into microscopic dust particles and can be breathed.  It is no longer intact and can become part of the breathing apparatus and the blood stream of a human being.  This is the danger of lead paint as I was taught at this seminar.  I may have embellished the intestinal tract thing.

Well, years ago, much to the chagrin of the Democrats, these “dumb backwoods” contractors had a simple solution to this problem.  Don’t sand the paint off!  Scrape it off, peel it off, throw it in trash bags, and be done with it!  Democrats would have none of that.  Mainers were being much too resilient, there was not a sufficient enough burden on the taxpayer, and businesses have not been punished as severely as they could be.  So now our friends from the DeadWeight program, I mean, LeadSmart program have come up with some new regulations with a twist.

My friend, who wishes to remain anonymous, recently spoke with another contractor friend who had come from the latest LeadPants, I mean, LeadSmart meeting.  Some of the latest regulations are if you disturb paint on a pre 1970’s dwelling anywhere, interior or exterior, it becomes a LeadSmart construction site.  The construction area then must be quarantined with poly panel zippered vapor barriers.  You think us little guys can afford those?  We can’t.  So, you the customer will have to.  Oh, here’s another brilliant regulation.  If the wind gusts over 20 mph, the job site must be shut down.  Now, were in the state of Maine can a man even work?!!

If I, the contractor, am shingling your roof on your camp on Sebec Lake and my ladder disturbs a flake of paint on your fascia trim it becomes a LeadBrain, I mean, LeadSmart construction site.  Now if the wind decides to blow across Sebec Lake, which it does EVERY DAY, I’m done, shut down, can’t work.  The Democrats like the sound of that…can’t work.  Now you need nanny government.

Of course, the Demosocialist need someone to enforce these new laws.  They are looking for, I kid you not, out of work contractors to inform on their fellow contractors.  There haven’t been many takers, though.  In Massachusetts, yes, Massachusetts, there has been a whopping one, in Maine, to date, none.  Citizens informing on their fellow citizens, it has always been the crowning achievement of socialists.  Maybe Maine contractors realize there is a new danger of lead poisoning, its called buckshot in the backsides as you’re running away from an angry construction crew.

I have much more to say on this and the Hallmark achievements from the Democratic Party leadership that Governor Johnny “LeadThoughts” Baldacci said had better candidates and better ideas.  I will save it for next week.  Hopefully, in November of 2010 there will be fewer lead sinkers poisoning Augusta.