That’s Right Nate

Eric Clapton’s song Layla is a very key piece of rock and roll history.   Clapton had written that song to George Harrison’s wife Patty.   In fact, Eric Clapton was eventually successful in getting her to leave the Beatle guitarist for him.  It was a tribute to the two guitarists’ friendship, the  free love of the 1960s, or heavy drug use that the 2 men remained very good friends.   I would have hated to be in Eric Clapton’s position.   When you convince somebody to leave their happily married life you now have a ton of responsibility you wouldn’t normally have in a relationship.   When you tell somebody that you have a once in a life time love and that even the bonds of matrimony shouldn’t hold you apart, it makes it tough to leave her alone the following Saturday to go drinking with your buddies.

There was a big rally in Austin of nearly 200 Texas secessionists yesterday.   These secessionists are sometimes called tenthers because they  believe that everything from Social Security to Medicare to the federal highway system violates the Tenth Amendment. According to the petition, Texas officials must either “immediately move for the restoration of the complete and unadulterated Sovereignty of Texas, explicitly adhering to the 10th Amendment wording of the U.S. Constitution,” or “move immediately for complete Secession from the United States of America.”

I hate to see Texas go, but like all conservatives I am very concerned with following the original intent of our founding fathers regardless of how contradictory it can be at times.   This brings us back to that Eric Claption, George, and Patty Harrison love triangle.

When Thomas Jefferson made the Louisiana Purchase, he had actually sent Robert Livingston and James Monroe to buy New Orleans and West Florida from Napoleon for up to $10 million.   At first, the French weren’t interested, but after losing Haiti and needing money to pay for costly European wars, the French agreed to sell the entirety of the Louisiana Purchase to the Americans for $15 million.  The problem is, this is not what Thomas Jefferson had wanted.   In fact, he was pretty sure he couldn’t do it constitutionally because the Constitution said nothing about a President having the power to buy new land.   In the end, he tried to make the deal as a treaty to get around the Constitution.

When Texas first joined the Union, we made the kind of promises to Texas that Eric Clapton had made to Patty Harrison.   We told Texas that they should be with us and we wouldn’t free their slaves or make them convert to Catholicism like the Mexicans would.   Now at first the United States refused to allow Texas into the Union, but Texas was crafty.  Sam Houston threatened to ally itself with England and the US didn’t think they had a choice.  In many ways, this is analogous to a woman pretending to be pregnant to get you to marry her.   Frankly, our whole relationship with Texas has been based on that kind of deception.   It is clearly time to let Texas go and in fact the really infuriating thing is you know Texas is the type of state that will eventually start calling us and bothering us to take it back when as a country we are ready to move on with our own lives.

Like Eric Claption, we made promises to Texas, but at the time we didn’t reallize we were being played.   Texas has always been a playa and Texas will continue to be one.  The moral of the story is that when you see how a state or territory treats the country its with, it is a very good indication of how it will treat you.   We can still buy our oil from Texas and as they’re trying to replace science with the Bible I am pretty sure there are a lot of things they’ll need to buy from us.   In fact, for every 88 cents that Texas sends to the United States government, it gets $1 worth of services back.  In the end we will be money ahead by letting them go.  Maybe they’ll go back to Mexico.  This was never going to be a long term relationship and unfortunately, it’s gone on way too long.

I must confess, I like #2 better, but this is still pretty unique and cool stuff.  Katie Couric really has a talent.   I really give the Gregory Brothers a lot of credit.

I think this is exactly what Michael Steele was talking about.   We need a Republican to do this sort of thing and we can reach out to a whole new audience.  Their website is located here.

Van Morrison has just released a live recording of Astral Weeks on its 40th anniversary.  It seems to have garnered him a lot more publicity than pretty much anything he’s done since the early 80s.  His voice is not what it once was, but like Frank Sinatra, I think it improved even as it lost range.

Wow!  I can’t believe the support you have given my rap video.  While it has not been the runaway YouTubes hit that my Aerosmith video was, at nearly 500 hits Republican Delight has become one of the biggest hits in the history of  the YouTube.  Among the legendary artists that my rap song has beat are Bing Crosby, The Beatles, and Bruce Springsteen.   It is one thing to be in such distinguished company, but kicking their ass is even sweeter.  Again, thanks to all my fans for helping to make me a YouTubes sensation.  If the reception continues to be so huge, I will look into a potential follow up and possible Summer tour.  If you haven’t given it a look yet, check out Republican Delight.

As I mentioned last week, RNC Chairman Michael Steele has called on us to change as a party.  He wants us to “convey that the modern-day GOP looks like the conservative party that stands on principles. But we want to apply them to urban-surburban hip-hop settings.”  Well sir, I have taken this call to heart and while I am no MC Rove I was amazed at how easy this rapping is.   First off, sampling is amazing.  Republicans love using songs without permission and now I can do it legally.  Now, I’m the first to admit that I’m no MC Rove, but this rapping is really just talking.

For my regular blog readers, I know that some of you may be frightened of rap.  Don’t be.  We need to reach out to people in all communities who share our views and frankly most of you are too old to really get the vibe on the street.  Even my daughter Emily pleaded with me not to post this video which she called an embarrassment, but you see she doesn’t know the urban experience–in fact I’ve spent most of her life protecting her from it.  If you don’t get it, don’t worry.  I’m trying to reach out to young black men and anybody else who is part of that hip hop culture.  Please appreciate the video for what it is.

It occurs to me that there are a lot of things that unite us Republicans to rappers.  For one thing, we love our big cars and for another we’ve both been accused of mysoginy.  Now that I have this video on the YouTubes, my next goal is to get it on the Itunes.  I’m not going to be happy until I’m in my car and I hear somebody next to me cranking it so loud that the bass is shaking my car.  That will be success so crank this baby up while I lay some dope rhymes on you.

UPDATE: There is an issue with the video sometimes showing up as not available.  At first I thought it was the man trying to keep me down or Steven Tyler again, but it is just a glitch with the YouTubes.  If you get that message try again in a few seconds and you should get it.

Before making my nightly post, I wanted to thank everybody who has tuned into Youtube to see my Living on the Edge video.  So far, the video has a total of 1,321 views which by my calculations makes it the most popular video on the YouTube the last two days as well as one of the 10 most watched videos of all-time on the YouTube.   I’m sorry to report that Aerosmith has forced the YouTube to take down Eric Cantor’s video which inspired me in the first place.  However, despite Steven Tyler’s problems with me over the movie Armageddon (I mean does it really make sense to train deep core drillers to be astronauts?  Wouldn’t it make more sense to train astronauts how to drill?) I am happy to report that so far Aerosmith has let my video remain.

I know that Aerosmith is aware of the video because a certain poster named Vermontah posted on Talking Points Memo the following message to me, “Oh, sometimes you right-wingers are not very smart. They haven’t pulled your pathetic little vid because they haven’t known about it. Thanks to your post, here, Einstein, they will now know about it. I’ve already sent a mail to Stage Three Music with a link to your video and a link to this blog. I’ve also sent a link to your post here to YouTube, who also frown on copyright violation. Consider your video history.You people just don’t get it, do you? You can’t steal people’s music and use it for your own purposes! It’s not yours to take. You fascists keep getting into trouble for this. Rich Tarrant in Vermont. McCain with the Pretenders. Now this. YOU CAN’T STEAL OTHER PEOPLE’S MUSIC! Idiot.”

Now as we all know, nobody takes copyright violation more seriously than the YouTube.   I have no doubt that if Aerosmith had not agreed to allow my video to stay on the air, I’d have been pulled by now and I’d probably be getting a less than friendly visit from the FBI when they found out I posted music that I didn’t have the permission to on Youtube.  As for McCain being with the Pretenders, I didn’t recall that, but I looked it up and sure enough the guy was right.

Today Eric Cantor released a Youtube video saluting himself and the other Republican members of the House for not voting for Obama’s stimulus plan.  I thought it was great and frankly it inspired me.  Here’s Mr. Cantor’s video:

Now that I know that Mr. Cantor is an Aerosmith fan, I chose appropriate music for my response as well:

I mentioned a few weeks ago that I was working on getting my own 527 group together to take on Obama before the election.  The Windy Apple PAC is made up of myself and like minded conservatives from New York and Chicago who know our vote won’t matter for much, but we believe we can use our money to help influence the election.  We have a great Obama attack ad, but we can’t get the networks too touch it.  They are so in Obama’s pocket.  With time running out we decided our only chance was to do this virally.  There isn’t much time until the election.  If you do not want Obama and his anti-American friends in power, please spread this video to everyone you know.   It could make a huge difference.  For those of you who think Obama might not be such a bad President, please watch the video.

I am delighted to report that the video which I made awhile back as a tribute to John and Cindy McCain is being played on Cindy McCain’s Myspace page. I have had celebrity readers in the past like Newt Gingrich, but this is a person who has actually allegedly slept with the President of the United States. Wow!! I feel like this blog has finally made the big time.