Wade’s Announcement
Jan 31st, 2010 by David Anderson
Levy Court Commissioner Eric Buckson flanked by his future basketball star son introduced Kevin Wade to Kent County. He got to know Kevin Wade when both explored a run for Lt. Governor in 2008. He found him to be a serious and thoughtful person with a vision worthy of support. This former opponent is now a leading supporter of Kevin Wade’s campaign for Congress.
Wade showed that he has support across the state even in bad weather with several scores of supporters showing up including a packed house in his hometown of New Castle. Wade showed Republicans that he is in the game to win. Whether he can or not is an open question that only a campaign can answer.
Wade spoke to concerns of Americans left out in the cold by a government that seems to be growing unemployment lines, deficits, and congressional salaries, but nothing else. Instead of encouraging energy independence, the government is encouraging the sending of $600 million dollars a day off our shores for foreign oil. He blasted a Congress that turned down raises for Social Security recipients and gave themselves raises. He declared that he would limit himself to 3 terms and dedicate himself to fixing Washington.
Below is the text of his speech.
My name is KEVIN WADE. It is a short name and easy to remember. KEVIN WADE.
I want to thank you for coming out this cold January day to greet me and to be with other conservative Republicans; as “We The People” enjoy this blessing called Free Speech. Though we know Free Speech is not free but comes at a terribly high price; so let us use it well and wisely.
I am engineer. I fix things. I own my own business.
I grew up in a factory town in Pennsylvania; on the harsher side of life.
I am proud to say that the experience gave me strong, conservative, beliefs.
On cold winter nights, growing up, there was ice not only on the outside of my bedroom window but on the inside too. I asked my Mom to send up more heat! She said she was saving for the girls. She was right. We did without, but we took care of each other. That’s what is important.
I learned the value of a dollar and hard work, and sacrifice…and I have never forgotten this valuable lesson. Prosperity comes from hard work…not from a government printing press that will create staggering taxes and inflation.
Two or three days after finishing high school, I put on a helmet and a pair of work boots, and began work in a steel mill. I dodged hot steel and earned a paycheck while waiting for a letter, quite common in those days, that started with “Greetings…”.
The letter never arrived, and I never quit working to learn more, know more, and grow. A few years later I came to Delaware, took a job with DuPont, and began learning about engineering.
I and my wife have made a good life as Delawareans.
My faith is an intensely personal aspect in my life. I am a Christian, though no Biblical scholar. I know that life is a long journey and it is best to not walk alone. I know that our country was founded on Judeo-Christian principles. This is a historic fact; though there are some today who would tell us otherwise. They are wrong. I think I can sum up my personal view of faith best with a quote attributed to Abraham Lincoln. He said, and I paraphrase,
“I often find myself going to my knees in prayer…When I realize I have nowhere else to turn”.
As I said, I started a business, an engineering business, on my kitchen table. We still operate successfully 28 years later and have performed on projects around the country and around the world. We are one of the best firms in the country at what we do.
I can say, coming from the poorer side of a factory town in Pennsylvania that I have had a wonderful opportunity: An American life of work and struggle; accomplishment and setback, but the opportunity to try. As Americans, we believe in free enterprise, and we want opportunities to work hard and grow. This is a point of view that too many in Congress have forgotten.
Now …
Our Nation is mired in a Great Recession. Banks fail, retirements are lost, manufacturing plants large and small close, construction projects halted, and homes foreclosed. The only growth in America is in the length of the unemployment line. The warm glow of prosperity is replaced with a cold fog of despair. That fog stretching across the land. No one is spared. It touches every community and every family.
“We The People” did not undermine our financial system. “We The People” did not ruin the value of our homes or our retirements. No one of us “We The People” chose to close our work place and end a career of purpose and meaning and reliable paychecks needed to feed our families.
No my friends, “We The People” did not poison the well of our national prosperity. But, it does fall to us to restore our prosperity, to fix what’s wrong.
In order to fix what’s wrong, we need to get to the core of the problem. We need to fix Washington.
Only in Washington do people believe prosperity comes by borrowing and wasting more and more money until our nation is bankrupt. We need to fix Washington.
Only Washington would prevent us from drilling our own oil while forcing us to send 600 million dollars a day to buy it from foreign hands. We need to fix Washington.
Only Washington would propose a new tax on the energy needed for the most simple joys in life; morning cup of coffee, a hot shower, a piece of toast and call this tax CAP AND TRADE. We need to fix Washington.
Only in Washington would our tax dollars go to the group ACORN that provides advice in setting up houses of prostitution using teenage girls smuggled into the US to be victimised. We need to fix Washington.
Only in Washington, would our Congress accept in 2008 a $5000 raise in salary in the midst of a national economic collapse. We need to fix Washington.
Only in Washington, would the Congressional leadership buy themselves a fleet of executive jets, G5s and a Boeing 757 for their personal comfort and convenience. This is not what the founders of the country had in mind for the leaders of our Republic. We need to fix Washington.
Only in Washington would the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi spend in the past 2 years over $100,000 for “booze and food” to stock her executive jet (according to Judicial Watch Jan 29, 2010). We need to fix Washington.
This is not a time for one more professional politician. Not this time.
It is time to return to the idea that the common sense of the common man to serves the common good.
It is time to rebuild the trust between We The People and people’s Congress.
These troubled and difficult times require a fresh start a fresh voice an honest commitment to serve the people of the First State.
For these reasons I stand before you and announce my candidacy for the PEOPLE’S SEAT FOR DELWAR IN THE US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Today I make the covenant with you ….
I will limit myself to 3 terms and no more. I go to Washington to work for Delaware and not to work to build a political career.
I will accept no raise.
I will explain every vote at a website for all to see.
I will never sponsor or cosponsor a bill that overreaches the Constitutional limits on the powers of the Federal government.
I will never vote for a bill that weakens the authority and intent of the Bill of Rights; including the 2nd Amendment.
AND
I will introduce a bill to sell the fleet of executive jets used by Congress; we’ll put them on sale at the Harrington Fair Ground, 30 million or Best Offer.
In Closing –
Liberal Democrats call us Republicans the Party of NO. I say we Republicans are the Party of KNOW.
Unlike the liberal Democrats, I know Americans trust themselves and one another to make their own choices and follow their own paths.
Unlike the liberal Democrats, I know a man and women work to feed their family and not to feed the Federal bureaucracy.
Unlike the liberal Democrats, I know Mom’s and Dad’s want to pass on a life of American opportunity for their children and not allow Washington to pass on a lifetime sentence of foreign debt, endless toil, and cruel taxation.
Unlike the liberal Democrats, I know Americans understand that ever since July 4, 1776 our flag will not dip, and our people will bow to no King, no Emperor, and to no mortal man.
Unlike the liberal Democrats, I know that military and economic weakness lead to hazard and hazard is the doorman to national tragedy.
Unlike the liberal Democrats, I know the government is the servant of the people’s freedoms and that the American people are not servants of the government.
Unlike the liberal Democrats, I know the BIG GOVERNMENT is not the answer, BIG GOVERNMENT is the PROBLEM.
I am an engineer. I fix things. I’m going to Washington to fix what’s broken.
My name is KEVIN WADE. It is a short name and easy to remember.
God Bless You and God Bless the United States of America
Sounds like an earnest person - but way too much Rush Limbaugh anti-liberal, not enough pro-America real problem solving stuff. There is not shortage of people who can bad mouth liberals. There is a shortage of insightful leaders. Unfortunately, Mr. Wade seems to have gathered with the former.
Why would anyone who really understands America, the difficult times we are going through, mention ACORN but not AIG? How can anyone in touch with the real problems mention Nancy Pelosi’s expense account, but fail to mention predatory lending and Wall Street corruption?
One of the actually meaningful issues touched on was energy. Drilling for more oil is fine, but has nothing to do with how much we import, being energy independent, or the price we pay.
Drilling for more implies there is a “shortage” of oil. Fact is there is plenty of oil, but the price is controlled by the people who control 80% of the oil. OPEC. The Arabs, Iran, Venezuela. We only have 4% no matter how much we drill. We use 4x more than we could ever drill. Any oil we drill sells for the price OPEC sets, not some special made in the USA price. If Exxon hit a gusher in the middle of Rehoboth, it would sell on the world market for the OPEC controlled price. Drilling may be fun to argue about, but it has nothing to do with ending our dependence on Arab oil.
If Mr. Wade is for us being independent, why be against Cap and Trade. Independence is a lot of what cap and trade is all about.
Every time the USA tries to invent electric hybrid hydrogen solar alternatives, OPEC just lowers the price of oil and the alternatives we invent look way too expensive. Soon as we forget about alternatives, they up the price of oil again. And so on and so on. It’s been that way since the first Arab oil embargo in 1973 when we promised ourselves we were going to get off imported oil.
Policy devices like Cap and Trade are intended to end this catch 22 cycle by making carbon fuel permanently more expensive while at the same time subsidizing the home grown alternatives. Cap and Trade makes Nuke power more attractive. The transition will not be without pain. Carbon fuel will cost more. Just don’t dismiss these Big Idea solutions as no go - without thinking it through. Sure not a good idea to trash a good idea just because Rush Limbaugh is not on board!
I always fly the flag both front and back at my house. What a proud day it would be for America if we could even cut our dependence on carbon fuel, imported oil by even 50%. Really get this alternative green vision thing going.
The real generational problems facing us, the global challenges in front of us, have nothing to do with ACORN, liberals, or Nancy Pelosi.
Founded on “Judeo-Christian” Principles?!?
Dictionaries define “Judeo” as a combinative form. Thus, the compound word “Judeo-Christian” implies that Judaism (Torah) is no more than a dependent element of Christianity.
In typical supersessionist and displacement Christian tradition (see Oxford historian James Parkes, The Conflict of the Church and the Synagogue as well as the History Museum pages of http://www.netzarim.co.il), Christians thoughtlessly presume the prefix “Judeo-” to subsume and lay false claim to Judaism (Torah) by means of an impossible union of “Judeo-” (pro-Torah) with “Christian” (supersessionist and displacement antinomian=anti-Torah=misojudaism). Thus, the phrase “Judeo-Christian” implies supersession and displacement by Christianity, relegating Judaism to an ancient, no longer existent, historical people replaced in the distant past by Christians. This is no less misojudaic (hatred of Judaism) and repugnant than labeling the Tanakh (the original, Jewish, Bible) the “Old Testament.”
Where values are shared, the accurate (and honest) way would be to state “Judaic and Christian…” (values, traditions, etc.) instead of “Judeo-Christian.”
Now that you know an accurate and acceptable alternative there is no reasonable justification to insist on continuing to use misojudaic terminology.
It’s reasonably clear to most that the founders of America were primarily Christians. Be content with that and stifle your greed to lay false claim to Judaism along with it. The history of the original Christian church of 135 C.E. was indisputably antinomian, and even viciously misojudaic (see Oxford historian James Parkes, The Conflict of the Church and the Synagogue). The 10 Commandments are an indivisible whole. Rejecting any one constitutes rejecting of the whole… and the Church rejected the 10 Commandments when it superseded and displaced #4 (and shredded #1-3 as well). Examples are endless. Dt. 13.1-6 explicitly precludes the Christian NT exactly as it does the Quran, Book of Mormon, Watchtower, etc. Consequently, claiming your “New Testament” is included in a “Judeo-Christian Bible” is no less wrong and offensive. The “New Testament” is NOT part of the original Bible.
Greed to claim supersession over, and displacement of, Judaism introduces self-contradictions that undermine and negate your arguments.
Christians’ religious greed results in fecklessness that enables the postmodernists to disassemble and destroy America.
Contrary to many modern Christian overstatements, the founders of America guaranteed that religion be free to all in private and imposed on no one in public.
Unfortunately, America’s freedom to practice one’s religion in private doesn’t satisfy religious greed–particularly that of Christians–toward dominance. In such case, religions in America need to be declawed. By over-reaching you ensure the opposite–and probably disproportionate–reaction.
“The real generational problems facing us, the global challenges in front of us, have nothing to do with ACORN, liberals, or Nancy Pelosi.”
In that light I propose that we keep ACORN, liberals, and Nancy Pelosi as far from the real problems facing us as possible. IF… they have nothing to do with our real problems let’s keep it that way. Kick them out of Washington. Personaly I don’t agree with your premise, but I am willing to help you make it come true.
Tim, not looking for an argument here. Not defending liberals or conservatives. Just truth seeking.
Just saying Acorn and Pelosi could vanish tomorrow - it ain’t gonna fix what ails us. Nice distraction from the real problems. Gets the juice flowing, but no connection to a better future.
Just suggesting we keep our eye on the ball. Energy independence, fighting the war, making sure we don’t get a repeat of the Wall Street Bankers rip off. Mr. Wade is all against liberals, but what the heck, it was the conservatives that took us down. I’m trying to see through the bull fog.
Pelosi-Bonier-McConnell-Reid et al are not exactly inspiring figures. But when it comes to new candidates, people to replace the Old Guard, what we need wise policy makers, not just critics that know call names and label people left or right. Repeating Rush Limbaugh crap is not the answer.
Fact is liberals did not attack us on 9/11, do not control OPEC, did not sell worthless mortgage securities stamped AAA. That’s where the problems are.
So when any “conservative” candidate comes along saying the same stuff I have been hearing for years about how bad liberals are, how good conservatives are - I hope you understand why one might pause and think - it this more of that same bull that sounds good on Rush Limbaugh but does nothing for the People? Rush Limbaugh conservatives had Congress from 1994 to 2006 plus the White House from 2001 to 2009. I’m not so convinced our problem is liberals anymore.
Was there News Journal coverage?
There was radio coverage, but I guess the snow scared the print media away (I am smiling guys.). I also heard that some accounts had problems opening the pdf with the press release. I didn’t, but at least a couple did. Maybe the resend did not reach them before they scheduled everyone off. I can not speak for the media, but I was at two of the events. The weather was too bad to travel up to Wilmington though I did have two sources.
I have to address this statement, “But when it comes to new candidates, people to replace the Old Guard, what we need wise policy makers, not just critics that know call names and label people left or right. Repeating Rush Limbaugh crap is not the answer.”
Did you read his speech or the first interview with him? I think there is much more than just the typical critiques. He is a mainstreet businessman airing his grievances. Over the coming months, he will fill in the outline. That is how it is done. If you put everything out at once, the media says I heard it all before and do not cover you. You then can not get your message out in digestible bites.
I do agree that this speech was not one of his more substantive ones. It was a broad outline of themes.
You have been around a minute. You understand how the system works. Why do you act as Kevin and Fred should try to operate under different rules than everyone else. You can try that, but then again you will likely crash and burn with about 1% of the vote in the party convention.
Now I believe that it is perfectly valid to say that the left’s policies are not wise. They run the country. The commenter did not have a problem with those who criticized Mr. Bush. In fact he blasted the “Christian Right” and Limbaugh crowd as ruining both America and the Republican Party.
Think123 and Renovator, you guys really need to get together for a drink. Think123, supporting Cap and Trade, by your argument, is another step towards government control of industry. Rather than let the free markets deal with oil price fluctuations, government will impose a phony market. They can tax the crap out of us and promote the mostly phony and extremely expensive green energy sources. We lose through taxation and lose through business loss due to high energy costs. Nuke power isn’t being suppressed by the marketplace, it’s being suppressed by the green weinies. Renovator, welcome to the Jihad.
What kind of engineering does he do?
Anbupro, I like to practice my writing. Nobody has to read it. I know I run way way long. But it is fun for me.
You say:
“Rather than let the free markets deal with oil price fluctuations, government will impose a phony market.”
I wish it was that simple. I would be right there with you.
Please agree, there is no free market for oil. There is a Cartel. That is what OPEC is. A Cartel. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. They control most the worlds oil, meet regularly to decide how much oil they will produce. The definition of Cartel is when controlling industries set production levels to control prices.
That is just the way it is. That is what OPEC does. Repeat. There is no “free” market for oil. OPEC manipulates a phony market. The government of the USA is powerless.
Notice we attacked Iraq instead of Saudi Arabia where the 9/11 hijackers and Osama bin Laden actually came from? That’s what ya call being dependent on Arab oil. I’m fine with attacking Iraq. I wanted to attack somebody, but it’s sad Saudi Arabia is off limits because of our weakness to their oil.
Drill more ( I have nothing against drill more. Not off Rehoboth maybe, but hey drill all you want.) trouble is drilling more is more of a political argument with no real bearing on, or hope of solving the problem. If we drill in the Grand Canyon or off Miami Beach that might be good spitefood for anti-environmentalist, but it won’t help us get off OPEC. The oil drilled off Florida will sell for the price that OPEC and the hedge fund future traders set. It’s called supply and demand and corruption.
Additional monkey wrench is that complex futures trading, hedge fund, further manipulating prices with no real connection to supply, demand, or free market principles.
Remember just a couple years ago? When gas was hitting $5 dollars a gallon? How it killed us, made you cry, spending $80 to fill up the tank? There was no shortage of oil. No shortage of refiners. No free market. We got robbed. Not by Government, but lack of Government.
During that $5 a gallon rip, that almost took us to our knees, Goldman-Sachs, fresh off selling phony mortgage backed securities to pension fund suckers worldwide, switched to oil as a way to make dough, was a big power player trading oil futures. Made billions just swapping paper with the word “oil” on it, while we suffered at the pump. Sure it’s all too complicated for us little folks. We don’t understand these free markets. We are told just to trust them. Not so much for me anymore.
My idea of a conservative is somebody who’s savvy enough to recognize who it is that’s robbing you.
Am I supposed to pay $10 a gallon while middlemen stuff $9 in their pockets for something that’s worth 10 cents, then I’m told I have to shut up and call that a “free” market. Maybe that’s okay with you. I want to break the back of these suckers. I want my government to defend us from economic predators, enemies of the People, both “foreign and domestic” as they say when they swear in new Presidents. Will we be forced to pay $8 a gallon this summer. Maybe because Valero closed or some other bullshit reason. Then when we are on our knees begging for air they will take it back down to a more reasonable $4 a gallon. You don’t want to tamper with this? You don’t like cap and trade? I don’t get it.
Regarding taxes, how much did we send overseas when oil was $150 a barrel? Was that a tax? Was that Don’t Cap and Don’t Cry? It came out of my pocket. What shall I call it - a free market non-tax? Now it’s back down to $75 a barrel - just in time to make the price of alternative energy look not so good? There has to be a way out of this racket.
Cap and Trade is a start. Tax carbon, subsidize the new homegrown stuff. That’s national policy. That is leadership. It’s trying to find a way out from being a weeny Nation that has to depend of Arabs to keep our economies cars trucks running.
The cost of Cap and Trade has to be less than the cost of $5 gasoline - plus the money does not got to the Arabs.
By the way it was not just greenies who screwed nukes in America.
Did Reagan built nukes? Did Bush build nukes? Did the Gingrich Congress build nukes? Did your conservative Grandma want a nuke in her town? Did the conservative Wild West anything goes Nevada want nuke waste in the desert mountains? No. No. And more No. From all sides. Not just greens and Al Gore. It was all of us to blame while France has 80% nuke energy to fuel the new electric cars we are stuck at 20%.
It’s time to stop wasting energy fighting “liberals”. We need to use that energy advancing policy ideas that are so good liberals and conservative can agree a little.
Now along comes Cap and Trade favoring nuke and solar, disadvantaging carbon - are “free marketeers” are going to hold this up? C’mon man. We’ve been dancing this same do nothing dance for fifty years. We need to roll. This is national security here. Not to mention a chance to invent new a home industries.
Flashback 1973, when in response to President Nixon’s support for Israel during the 1973 Arab Israel War - the Arabs cut us off totally from mid-east oil. The United States shut down. People could not drive. Gasoline had to be rationed. Stations closed. Out of Gas. People waited for hours at the ones that had gas.
We’re even more vulnerable today. Rely more on OPEC oil than we did back then. To top it off, as refineries closes in the USA, we are increasing imports not just of crude oil, but of refined products like gasoline. We are dredging the Delaware to make way for a whole new breed of humungous tankers to quench our thirst for imported oil. It is getting worse not better.
There is no free market answer. It’s the duty of Federal Government is protect national security. Mandating us away from imported energy is a national security issue. The Arabs now have to ultimate power to drive the final nail into the coffin of our once great American economy.
Saying let the markets take care of this, is the same as saying do nothing.
That is exactly what OPEC is hoping for, lobbying for. Take a serious look at Cap and Trade. I am not totally sure of all the details. It sure does not address every problem and probably does create some new kinds of problems.
I do know that Cap and Trade is a attempt at a Paradigm shift in the energy equation. Is it “liberal” to want to take desperate measure to free us from being held hostage? Is it “conservative” to say do nothing in the face of a grave threat to our national security?
Anbupro - 99 words.
Think123 response - 1,208 words.
Ratio = 12.2/1
Response - Bullshit!
Expected rebuttal - 12.2 words
Anbupro, you are a man of few words, and understandably so.
I take it you agree then? There’s no “free market” when it comes to oil? You’re the one who said the “free market” should control oil prices. That’s obviously not feasible as long as there is OPEC. The Government of the United States should be way down near the bottom on your list of enemies.
Sorry to complicate things. Maybe I should just say you are full of shit? Or drill baby drill?