This week’s show was all about the economy and the foolishness in congress.  We continued our series of shows devoted to coming up with common sense solutions to the myriad problems that Washington is creating.  Enjoy our latest offering.

This week’s show focused on our first in a series of projects as we discuss a more common sense view of fixing some of the problems that our leaders in Washington have created.  Check this one out and join us each week on Live365.com for more ideas and straight talk on taking America back from the fat cats and elitists in Congress.

In this second Garage Politics interview of 2009 Buzz takes on the interview of his life with our newly minted 44th president.  You won’t believe the things he says.

Buzz took on the task of interviewing our outgoing president in a first for the Garage Politics crew.

JFK is often the poster child for the American Left.  Why they do not use Woodrow Wilson as their poster child for the Liberal Cause tells us a lot.  Liberals are scared the American people will truly see what Liberals do to America and it’s citizens.

Do you know Woodrow Wilson?

If you are a conservative, you should.

Woodrow Wilson was the twenty-eight President of the United States.  He served from 1913-1921.  Some scholars rank him as one of the Greatest Presidents of All Time.  I however do not…

Let me put it this way, a liberal President with a liberal Congress give us-

Revenue Act of 1913

This Act reinstituted the Federal Income Tax.  It passed the House 281-139 and the Senate 44-37.  325 liberals screwed us in 1913 and WE have not fixed their mistake in the last 96 years.

 Why discuss Woodrow Wilson Today?  Easy, today marks the 92^nd anniversary of Woodrow Wilson’s speech were he outlined “Peace without Victory” in Europe.

Below is the speech, with my commentary…ENJOY!

On the 18th of December last, I addressed an identic note to the governments of the nations now at war requesting them to state, more definitely than they had yet been stated by either group of belligerents, the terms upon which they would deem it possible to make peace. I spoke on behalf of humanity and of the rights of all neutral nations like our own, many of whose most vital interests the war puts in constant jeopardy.

Please make peace, PLEASE!

The Central Powers united in a reply which stated merely that they were ready to meet their antagonists in conference to discuss terms of peace. The Entente Powers have replied much more definitely and have stated, in general terms, indeed, but with sufficient definiteness to imply details, the arrangements, guarantees, and acts of reparation which they deem to be indispensable conditions of a satisfactory settlement. We are that much nearer a definite discussion of the peace which shall end the present war. We are that much nearer the discussion of the international concert which must thereafter hold the world at peace.

Blah Blah Blah, more liberal crap…  Appeasers, I hate these guys.

In every discussion of the peace that must end this war, it is taken for granted that that peace must be followed by some definite concert of power which will make it virtually impossible that any such catastrophe should ever overwhelm us again. Every lover of mankind, every sane and thoughtful man must take that for granted.

The strong make peace, weakness leads to war.

I have sought this opportunity to address you because I thought that I owed it to you, as the council associated with me in the final determination of our international obligations, to disclose to you without reserve the thought and purpose that have been taking form in my mind in regard to the duty of our government in the days to come, when it will be necessary to lay afresh and upon a new plan the foundations of peace among the nations.

Make love not war.

It is inconceivable that the people of the United States should play no part in that great enterprise. To take part in such a service will be the opportunity for which they have sought to prepare themselves by the very principles and purposes of their polity and the approved practices of their government ever since the days when they set up a new nation in the high and honorable hope that it might, in all that it was and did, show mankind the way to liberty.

Token to our patriotism; I kind of like this paragraph.

They cannot in honor withhold the service to which they are now about to be challenged. They do not wish to withhold it. But they owe it to themselves and to the other nations of the world to state the conditions under which they will feel free to render it.

The cause of good should never act under certain conditions.

That service is nothing less than this, to add their authority and their power to the authority and force of other nations to guarantee peace and justice throughout the world. Such a settlement cannot now be long postponed. It is right that before it comes, this government should frankly formulate the conditions upon which it would feel justified in asking our people to approve its formal and solemn adherence to a League for Peace. I am here to attempt to state those conditions.

Adherence to a League for Peace?  We don’t even adhere to our Constitution!

The present war must first be ended; but we owe it to candor and to a just regard for the opinion of mankind to say that, so far as our participation in guarantees of future peace is concerned, it makes a great deal of difference in what way and upon what terms it is ended. The treaties and agreements which bring it to an end must embody terms which will create a peace that is worth guaranteeing and preserving, a peace that will win the approval of mankind, not merely a peace that will serve the several interests and immediate aims of the nations engaged. We shall have no voice in determining what those terms shall be, but we shall, I feel sure, have a voice in determining whether they shall be made lasting or not by the guarantees of a universal covenant; and our judgment upon what is fundamental and essential as a condition precedent to permanency should be spoken now, not afterwards when it may be too late.

Blah, Blah, Blah…  Treaties do not end and prevent wars, only total victory does!

No covenant of cooperative peace that does not include the peoples of the New World can suffice to keep the future safe against war; and yet there is only one sort of peace that the peoples of America could join in guaranteeing. The elements of that peace must be elements that engage the confidence and satisfy the principles of the American governments, elements consistent with their political faith and with the practical convictions which the peoples of America have once for all embraced and undertaken to defend.

Safe against war?  That is easy; defeat all your enemies and do not stop until everyone is kissing America’s ass.

I do not mean to say that any American government would throw any obstacle in the way of any terms of peace the governments now at war might agree upon or seek to upset them when made, whatever they might be. I only take it for granted that mere terms of peace between the belligerents will not satisfy even the belligerents themselves. Mere agreements may not make peace secure. It will be absolutely necessary that a force be created as a guarantor of the permanency of the settlement so much greater than the force of any nation now engaged, or any alliance hitherto formed or projected, that no nation, no probable combination of nations, could face or withstand it. If the peace presently to be made is to endure, it must be a peace made secure by the organized major force of mankind.

No sir, peace is only achieved via VICTORY.

The terms of the immediate peace agreed upon will determine whether it is a peace for which such a guarantee can be secured. The question upon which the whole future peace and policy of the world depends is this: Is the present war a struggle for a just and secure peace, or only for a new balance of power? If it be only a struggle for a new balance of power, who will guarantee, who can guarantee the stable equilibrium of the new arrangement? Only a tranquil Europe can be a stable Europe. There must be, not a balance of power but a community power; not organized rivalries but a organized, common peace.

Again, you can guarantee peace when you eliminate the enemy.

Fortunately we have received very explicit assurances on this point. The statesmen of both of the groups of nations now arrayed against one another have said, in terms that could not be misinterpreted, that it was no part of the purpose they had in mind to crush their antagonists. But the implications of these assurances may not be equally to all–may not be the same on both sides of the water. I think it will be serviceable if I attempt to set forth what we understand them to be.

Ha, they promise peace!  Like every liberal, you were proven wrong in 1938.

They imply, first of all, that it must be a peace without victory. It is not pleasant to say this. I beg that I may be permitted to put my own interpretation upon it and that it may be understood that no other interpretation was in my thought. I am seeking only to face realities and to face them without soft concealments. Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor’s terms imposed upon the vanquished. It would be accepted in humiliation, under duress, at an intolerable sacrifice, and would leave a sting, a resentment, a bitter memory upon which terms of peace would rest, not permanently but only as upon quicksand. Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit. The right state of mind, the right feeling between nations, is as necessary for a lasting peace as is the just settlement of vexed questions of territory or of racial and national allegiance.

At this point, you should be impeached for being an idiot.

The equality of nations upon which peace must be founded if it is to last must be an equality of rights; the guarantees exchanged must neither recognize nor imply a difference between big nations and small, between those that are powerful and those that are weak. Right must be based upon the common strength, not upon the individual strength, of the nations upon whose concert peace will depend. Equality of territory or of resources there of course cannot be; nor any other sort of equality not gained in the ordinary peaceful and legitimate development of the peoples themselves. But no one asks or expects anything more than an equality of rights. Mankind is looking now for freedom of life, not for equipoises of power.

Common strength?  Would you like some Vodka comrade?

And there is a deeper thing involved than even equality of right among organized nations. No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples about from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property. I take it for granted, for instance, if I may venture upon a single example, that statesmen everywhere are agreed that there should be a united, independent, and autonomous Poland, and that, henceforth, inviolable security of life, of worship, and of industrial and social development should be guaranteed to all peoples who have lived hitherto under the power of governments devoted to a faith and purpose hostile to their own.

No sir!  The power you refer to is taken, just like taxing us, you steal and we can’t defend ourself.

I speak of this, not because of any desire to exalt an abstract political principle which has always been held very dear by those who have sought to build up liberty in America but for the same reason that I have spoken of the other conditions of peace which seem to me clearly indispensable because I wish frankly to uncover realities. Any peace which does not recognize and accept this principle will inevitably be upset. It will not rest upon the affections or the convictions of mankind. The ferment of spirit of whole populations will fight subtly and constantly against it, and all the world will sympathize. The world can be at peace only if its life is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.

You speak this because you are a liberal and hate America.

So far as practicable, moreover, every great people now struggling toward a full development of its resources and of its powers should be assured a direct outlet to the great highways of the sea. Where this cannot be done by the cession of territory, it can no doubt be done by the neutralization of direct rights of way under the general guarantee which will assure the peace itself. With a right comity of arrangement, no nation need be shut away from free access to the open paths of the world’s commerce.

Again, peace only happens when victory is achieved.

And the paths of the sea must alike in law and in fact be free. The freedom of the seas is the sine qua non of peace, equality, and cooperation. No doubt a somewhat radical reconsideration of many of the rules of international practice hitherto thought to be established may be necessary in order to make the seas indeed free and common in practically all circumstances for the use of mankind, but the motive for such changes is convincing and compelling. There can be no trust or intimacy between the peoples of the world without them. The free, constant, unthreatened intercourse of nations is an essential part of the process of peace and of development. It need not be difficult either to define or to secure the freedom of the seas if the governments of the world sincerely desire to come to an agreement concerning it.

Want peace, destroy your enemy!

It is a problem closely connected with the limitation of naval armaments and the cooperation of the navies of the world in keeping the seas at once free and safe. And the question of limiting naval armaments opens the wider and perhaps more difficult. question of the limitation of armies and of all programs of military preparation. Difficult and delicate as these questions are, they must be faced with the utmost candor and decided in a spirit of real accommodation if peace is to come with healing in its wings, and come to stay.

Blah, Blah,  Blah

Peace cannot be had without concession and sacrifice. There can be no sense of safety and equality among the nations if great preponderating armaments are henceforth to continue here and there to be built up and maintained. The statesmen of the world must plan for peace, and nations must adjust and accommodate their policy to it as they have planned for war and made ready for pitiless contest and rivalry. The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.

No sir! There is no question concerning arms!  They key is to be better armed than your enemy!

I have spoken upon these great matters without reserve and with the utmost explicitness because it has seemed to me to be necessary if the world’s yearning desire for peace was anywhere to find free voice and utterance. Perhaps I am the only person in high authority among all the peoples of the world who is at liberty to speak and hold nothing back. I am speaking as an individual, yet I am speaking also, of course, as the responsible head of a great government, and I feel confident that I have said what the people of the United States would wish me to say.

Your speaking as a liberal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

May I not add that I hope and believe that I am in effect speaking for liberals and friends of humanity in every nation and of every program of liberty? I would fain believe that I am speaking for the silent mass of mankind everywhere who have as yet had no place or opportunity to speak their real hearts out concerning the death and ruin they see to have come already upon the persons and the homes they hold most dear.

Blah, Blah, Blah……….go hug a tree!

And in holding out the expectation that the people and government of the United States will join the other civilized nations of the world in guaranteeing the permanence of peace upon such terms as I have named I speak with the greater boldness and confidence because it is clear to every man who can think that there is in this promise no breach in either our traditions or our policy as a nation, but a fulfillment, rather, of all that we have professed or striven for.

America will not be joining the world and guarantee peace, we will make peace through COMPLETE VICTORY!

I am proposing, as it were, that the nations should with one accord adopt the doctrine of President Monroe as the doctrine of the world: that no nation should seek to extend its polity over any other nation or people, but that every people should be left free to determine its own polity, its own way of development–unhindered, unthreatened, unafraid, the little along with the great and powerful.

The only time a liberal sounds smart is when he agrees with something conservative!

I am proposing that all nations henceforth avoid entangling alliances which would draw them into competitions of power, catch them in a net of intrigue and selfish rivalry, and disturb their own affairs with influences intruded from without. There is no entangling alliance in a concert of power. When all unite to act in the same sense and with the same purpose, all act in the common interest and are free to live their own lives under a common protection.

Common protection comrade Wilson?

I am proposing government by the consent of the governed; that freedom of the seas which in international conference after conference representatives of the United States have urged with the eloquence of those who are the convinced disciples of liberty; and that moderation of armaments which makes of armies and navies a power for order merely, not an instrument of aggression or of selfish violence.

Blah, Blah, Blah

These are American principles, American policies. We could stand for no others. And they are also the principles and policies of forward-looking men and women everywhere, of every modern nation, of every enlightened community. They are the principles of mankind and must prevail.

These are the liberal principles, not American principles or policy.  You sir are the poster child for liberalism!

There you have it, even through history, liberals are idiots!

Here in the Garage, we salute everyday Americans for their contributions to our way of life.

Today’s Blog will focus on the actions of a twenty six (26) year old man. 

Picture this…

You are a twenty six year old sitting in an airplane getting ready to jump into the arms of an enemy waiting to kill you.  While over the drop area, your plane comes under heavy fire and you are told to jump.  Your jump begins badly; the plane was going to fast and was way to low.  The cold air hits your face interrupted by your weapon tearing away from you and falling into the black abyss below. Your chute opens slowing your fall to certain death.

You land unarmed and behind enemy lines.  The only light is from the AA guns firing at your fellow troops overhead.  You are alone, your cold, and the sound of heavy weapons rip through the night like a thunderstorm without the rain.

You find other troopers and make your way to the rally point unarmed and unafraid.  You are an American Paratrooper on June 6, 1944.

After a rough morning, your orders come down-“There’s fire along that hedgerow there. Take care of it.”

What would you do?

Would you freeze?

Would you ask questions?

Would you call your Congressman?

On the other hand, would you rally some fellow troopers and head to battle?

Imagine you head to battle with 13 men.  You get to the hedgerow and find-

Four 105mm Artillery pieces

60 German Soldiers

Think quickly, 13 men depend on you and the lives of thousands of men landing at Utah beach are on your shoulders.  Hard to imagine? This was reality at Brécourt Manor on June 6, 1944 for a twenty six year old American.

Fog of war-details are up to you to find, it is a good read.

Simply put, you succeed; you are an American.

You find a map showing the placement of every German Artillery Unit in North Western France; you are an American

For your actions, you are nominated for the Congressional Medal of Honor, but downplay the event; you are a humble American.

Medals awarded for the attack on Brécourt Manor-

Distinguished Service Cross-

You

Silver Star

Lynn Compton

William Guarnere

Gerald Lorraine

Bronze Star

Carwood Lipton

Robert Wynn

Cleveland Petty

Walter Hendrix

Donald Malarkey

Myton Ranney

Joseph Liebgott

John Plesha

Joe Toye

Purple Heart

Robert Wynn

At twenty-six years old, could you have handled it?

Happy Birthday from those of us at Garage Politics Richard Winters, you are an American!

In this weeks show we interview President George W Bush and take a look back at his two terms in office.  Buzz did a great job with the interview and the show went off very well for this first episode of 2009.

This weeks contribution consists of our parody song, courtesy of “Guitar” Don Russo, for the upcoming inauguration of Barack Obama.  Check out this latest offering and send us your comments.

I searched the archives of history looking for a topic today.  There were many topics to choose from- Martin Luther King, General “Hap” Arnold, the opening of the Pentagon, and many others.

No one deserves my blog time more that Mathew Brady.

Who is Mathew Brady you may ask? 

Chances are you have seen his war photographs.

Mr. Brady was THE Civil War Photographer.  His photos of Antietam are history’s first pictures of the destruction of War.  Battlefields captured uncensored for a public relying on the word of mouth and the printed word to provide visual remembrance of important events.  This man created the preservation of American History.

“I had to go.  A spirit in my feet said, “Go” and I went” were his words when he left the safety of New York City to photograph the First Battle of Bull Run.  Seizing his place in history, Mr. Brady provides us a glimpse of years gone by.

Ulysses S. Grant

George Custer

William Sherman

Stonewall Jackson

James Longstreet

Robert E. Lee

Perhaps the best know photo is graces the five dollar bill.  Yep, Brady took most of the pictures you see of President Lincoln.

The history this man ensured was passed down to us is amazing, as is the circumstances of his death…

He died penniless in the charity ward of Presbyterian Hospital in New York City on this day in 1896.

Amazing…

On January 14, 1741 a man was born.  Because of the actions of this man, America won its independence from Britain.

A lone monument stands at Saratoga in memorial to this man.  The monument says:

“In memory of the most brilliant soldier of the Continental Army, who was desperately wounded on this spot, winning for his countrymen the decisive battle of the American Revolution, and for himself the rank of Major General.”

For those that do not know, this leader won the Battle of Saratoga, which persuaded the French to join America’s side. As bad as I hate to say it, if the French had not joined our side, history could be much different…

Oh yeah, Happy Birthday Benedict Arnold!