The best symbol of the grassroots worker I can think of is the Republican Assembly… [NFRA’s] thousands of dedicated men and women are the ones who turn all those modernistic campaign devices into real votes.
“[NFRA] provides the nucleus of the Republican candidate’s volunteer work brigade. I know from personal experience. It’s hard to imagine my campaigns being anywhere near as successful as they were without the dedication of Republican Assembly members.
“I urge you to join today.
Like my precious friends Ronald Reagan and Charlton Heston, I am proud to be a member of the Republican Assemblies. There was a time when we in Hollywood fought Communism and believed in America. Now the liberals seem to run everything and want to destroy all that we fought for. But the NFRA isn’t afraid of that fight, and it grows stronger every day, and I am honored to be involved with people who truly understand what America is all about.
We are engaged in a social, political and cultural war, in our country and even in our own party. The Republican Assemblies are some of the most effective forces in that war, and I applaud your work.
The Republican Assemblies are unafraid, to stand up for principle or to stand up to the establishment.
The NFRA fights tirelessly to elect a strong, grassroots Republican Party leadership. The more they succeed, the more we’ll see real change in America.
Now is the time for Patriots to mobilize. The NFRA is a great vehicle for taking back our country.
If you picked up a Coke bottle and saw a rat’s head in the bottom, you’d never think about Coke the same way again. Republicans who vote for tax increases and bigger government destroy the Republican brand name in exactly the same way. It is the job of the Republican Assemblies to defend the brand Reagan built, and stop the people who are ruining it.
As a famous Californian once said, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” That’s why, now more than ever, the National Federation of Republican Assemblies is looked upon as one of the preeminent guardians of Ronald Reagan’s legacy, providing a powerful, unwavering voice for conservative principles amid the pandemonium of modern politics. Their advocacy is vital to our party’s future.
When conservatives took back America’s largest Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, from the liberal leadership which had hijacked it, we used the same strategies and tactics that make the NFRA so potent a force today. Those strategies worked flawlessly then, and they’ll work as conservatives assert themselves in the Republican Party today.
In a political world of rapid changing institutions, the National Federation of Republican Assemblies stands as an anchor of principles on which conservative political leaders can depend. I am proud to be a member of the California Republican Assembly and to stand with Republican Assemblies all across America as they take back our party for true conservatives and stand for the values we hold dear.
The Republican Assemblies are truly a force for renewal within the Republican Party.
The Republican Assemblies are the conscience of the Republican Party.
Unlike too many other Republicans today, [the Republican Assemblies] stand strongly for the moral foundation of our Republic, which is that we are created equal and endowed by our Creator, not by our leaders, with our rights.
I am honored to stand with the National Federation of Republican Assemblies, one of the strongest voices for conservative values and a revitalized Republican Party in America.
If you want to see Reagan conservatives running the Republican Party, then the NFRA is where you need to be.
The NFRA can play a major role in the remaking of our Party. It can certainly be the organizational power behind the Tea Parties, working with those groups to give organizational effect to their outrage and passion.
The Republican Assemblies were the Tea Party movement before there was a Tea Party.
While many so-called Republican leaders would surrender the Culture War and sell out our sovereignty, the NFRA is a bastion of hope standing against them, and standing for a Constitutionalist America.
The NFRA endorsed me early, and it made a huge difference in the outcome of my race. Why? Because the Republican Assemblies are the real grassroots, the true conservatives, the soul of the Republican Party. And if you want more Marco Rubios, more Nikki Haleys and more Sharron Angles, getting involved in the Republican Assemblies is the way to make it happen.
The Republican Assemblies work tirelessly for conservative candidates and legislation.
The NFRA has never been more important than it is right now. We no longer have the luxury to nominate Republicans who, once elected, undermine the principles of individual freedom and limited government that define our party. Republican Assemblies across the country have kept the conservative movement alive and the future of our party and of our country ultimately depends on their success.
I’ve been a Republican all my life, was a precinct committeewoman for 16 years, president of the Illinois Federation of Republican Women for five years, attended every Republican National Convention starting in 1952, and served on the Platform Committee in 1984. I’m proud to be a charter member of the NFRA because I know it is doing the absolutely necessary work of restoring the Republican Party to its proper position of leadership for authentic conservative principles.
The NFRA is the flagship of constitutionalist conservatism within the Republican Party. It is intent on making sure the federal government has limited powers and the states have an independent sovereign place in our system of government. If we, the people, are to arrest the Obama march to collectivism, social democracy and an imperial presidency, we must swell the ranks of the NFRA and maintain its status as a principled defender of liberty.
When I was a high school student, Phyllis Schlafly’s book, A Choice, Not an Echo, was an important influence on my political direction. Today I support the NFRA for that same reason. The Republican Party must be more than just a cheaper, slower echo of the Democrats: it must be a distinct choice, for conservative values and for a future of freedom. If you long for that choice, then you should join the NFRA.
We need more people like you [the Republican Assemblies] who truly believe in the Constitution, in liberty and in standing up to an establishment that believes in neither.
The loyal patriots of the National Federation of Republican Assemblies…stand for the enduring principles that have made our Nation great. I thank the NFRA for standing at the ready to defend freedom and liberty no matter what the cost. Real hope is alive in the NFRA.Fast and Furious: House Oversight Votes on Contempt Charges for Atty Gen Holder Next Week
Well, it looks like Eric Holder’s weird testimony before the House Judiciary Committee last week didn’t go over very well. The process of holding the Attorney General in contempt of Congress has begun moving forward, as CBS News reports the House Oversight Committee will vote next week on whether or not to press charges.
CBS notes this is “the fourth time in 30 years that Congress has launched a contempt action against an executive branch member.”
Holder is still sitting on tens of thousands of subpoenaed documents, which has been grounds for contempt of Congress citation in the past. The standing excuse for failing to hand over these documents is that the Justice Department is conducting its own “internal investigation” of the Operation Fast and Furious outrage – an investigation so obsessive that it would impress Captain Ahab, since it’s been “in progress” since February 2011, without a shred of results.
In fact, no one is exactly certain when this “internal investigation” started, because Holder testified to Congress in December 2011 that he launched the investigation with some sort of offhand verbal comment to somebody-or-other, leaving no written evidence of his actions. “I was, in fact, the person who requested, ordered the Inspector General to begin this investigation,” he told the Judiciary Committee six months ago. “I don’t think I did that in any written form. I think that was transmitted from me either through my chief of staff, through the Deputy Attorney General, to the I.G. There might be a writing that exists in that regard, but I don’t think that I signed off on anything actually.”
Oversight Committee chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) said that Holder can still avoid contempt charges if he turns over the requested documents. It’s growing clear to everyone that the fabled internal investigation, already running for 470 days (versus 303 days for the Warren Commission’s investigation of the JFK assassination) probably won’t be wrapping up before Barack Obama is either safely re-elected, or positioned to hand Holder a blanket pardon on his way out of the White House.
Holder should be removed from office, not just held in contempt – not only for his past conduct, but because his incompetence and stonewalling have already cast doubt upon his ability to conduct the recently-announced investigation into leaks of sensitive national security information from the Administration. The idea of leaving such an operation in the hands of the man who claims rank incompetence as his defense against perjury charges is risible.
It looks as if the House Republican leadership is aligning behind contempt charges, after the events of last week. House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) released a statement Monday morning that said, “The Justice Department is out of excuses. Congress has given Attorney General Holder more than enough time to fully cooperate with its investigation into ‘Fast and Furious,’ and to help uncover the circumstances regarding the death of Border Agent Brian Terry. Agent Terry’s family, the whistleblowers who brought this issue to light, and the American people deserve answers. Either the Justice Department turns over the information requested, or Congress will have no choice but to move forward with holding the Attorney General in contempt for obstructing an ongoing investigation.”
Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA), the lead Fast and Furious investigator in the Senate, also expressed strong support. “Congressman Issa deserves credit for moving forward on contempt,” Grassley said in a statement. “The Attorney General and the Justice Department are thumbing their nose at the constitutional authority provided to the legislative branch to conduct oversight.”
However, House Democrats have proven willing to obstruct investigation into Fast and Furious with every means at their disposal. Even if contempt charges made it out of Congress, it’s not entirely clear what practical effect they would have, beyond embarrassing an Attorney General who appears incapable of embarrassment. This is the guy who just claimed, on the record, that an email clearly referencing Fast and Furious wasn’t really about Fast and Furious, based on his “superior knowledge” of operations he otherwise claims are obscured from his thoughts by invincible ignorance and amnesia.
Holder has enough unconditional political support from certain quarters to stall for a few months by posturing as a martyr. He still has a few underlings he could throw under the bus in a pinch, and White House claims of executive privilege lie inside a box on the Oval Office wall labeled “In Case of Emergency, Break Glass (and Constitution).”
On the other hand, House Oversight has already obtained white-hot documents proving Holder’s duplicity from whistleblowers inside the Justice Department. There might be a few other hole cards on the table in front of Oversight chairman Issa. Will the Justice whistleblowers turn over more of the subpoenaed documents Eric Holder has been keeping under wraps… and has Issa revealed everything the moles already gave to his committee? Hopefully Holder will ask himself those questions between now and Wednesday, June 20, when the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee convenes to vote on holding him in contempt of Congress.
Editor's Note: We have reprinted here in full "House Oversight Votes on Contempt Charges for Attorney General Holder Next Week" by John Hayward from Human Events. We encourage you to visit the original.
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