http://www.firefifty.com/wordpress Time to clean House. Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:55:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en FireFifty was founded in the summer of 2009 as a Tea Party organization dedicated to one objective: "Fire Fifty members of Congress in 2010 and take control of the House away from the Democrats - and the Republicans". Our goal was to support Independent Conservatives in the North and East ... http://www.firefifty.com/wordpress/?p=139 Who drove that bus into the ditch?   Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and President Obama have coalesced around the Progressive Hail Mary for 2010:  The economy is terrible because for the past 10 years the Republicans didn't regulate their fat cat friends on Wall Street and in Big Oil.  Republicans drove the ... http://www.firefifty.com/wordpress/?p=133 1 Bill Clinton elected as a Centrist Democrat. National consensus to balance the budget. 2 Clinton goes left, 1st attempt at health care nationalization fails 3 Democrats lose the House for the first time in 40 years. 4 Republican House reins in spending. 5 1st balanced budgets since 1969 (98-01) 6 "Compassionate conservatism" 7 9-11 8 The ... http://www.firefifty.com/wordpress/?p=122 Rasmussen reports today that "Running under the Tea Party brand may be better in congressional races than being a Republican" . That is particularly true in the districts we have been targeting. http://www.firefifty.com/wordpress/?p=119 Researchers at CALIT2, a state and federally funded collaboration between University of California at Irvine and UC San Diego have engineered a device to help illegal aliens cross the border, with our tax dollars. Boing Boing has an article congratulating the researcher for developing this system to violate ... http://www.firefifty.com/wordpress/?p=112 All you have to do is vote in favor of the Health Care bill that San Fran Nan is pushing on Saturday. You may have won big in 2008 but remember that you're district is only Cook D+5, and your party has shut off the water to your constituents. ... http://www.firefifty.com/wordpress/?p=106 Dede Scozzafava, for suspending her campaign. We hope she will work this weekend to send her supporters to Doug Hoffman and we wish her the best in her future endeavours.  Update 1 Nov.  Scozzafava endorses Owens. Sarah Palin, for her willingnesss to lead from the front, to put her conservative principles ... http://www.firefifty.com/wordpress/?p=98 This monstrosity is Illinois Congressional District 4. The incumbents in Illinois of both Parties created this perversion as part of an overall plan to save their seats. Congressional districts are routinely carved up by state political Machines to protect incumbents. In this particular case, the district is a ... http://www.firefifty.com/wordpress/?p=90 Many people are worried that if the Tea Party Movement supports anyone but Republicans we will help elect Democrats. We want to address this directly. Strategically there is a very simple solution: win big. A necessary condition for winning is having a plan to win, and we plan to win. We ... http://www.firefifty.com/wordpress/?p=85 Sarah Palin endorses Conservative party candidate Doug Hoffman in the special election for NY-23. Congratulations to Governor Palin on a brilliant decision, and to Doug Hoffman for the national attention this endorsement will bring his campaign. A dollar to Doug Hoffman today is = $10,000 to the RNC ... http://www.firefifty.com/wordpress/?p=80