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The People’s March

Monday, March 15th, 2010

by jacob
The people are coming out tomorrow to march against Obamacare 2.0. The socialists (Democrats) are desperate. They cannot pass this bill on an honest vote. They cannot pass this bill by bribing their fellow congressmen with our money. So. What do they do. They will pass it in committee and call it a day. The Slaughter proposal takes us into banana republic style government. This would be a law passed by fiat. Do we now call the DOTUS el hefe? What is wrong with this bill? A better question is, “What is NOT wrong with his bill?!” It is:

Riddled with Taxes: This legislation is riddled with tax hikes. They start by taxing those earning over $10,831 year who don’t buy health insurance $750—a tax that escalates to $3,800 as income rises. Health insurance, health care devices and drugs are also taxed, adding to the cost of health care, and decreasing the competitiveness of these businesses.
Medicare Cuts: The bill cuts $500 billion in Medicare spending, including over $130 billion in cuts to Medicare Advantage and nearly $120 billion in Medicare cuts for hospitals that care for seniors. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) says they “expected the Medicare Advantage plans to lose 2.7 million enrollees over the next decade” as a result.
Raises Insurance Prices: CBO also finds “premiums in the new insurance exchanges would tend to be higher than the average premiums in the current-law individual market…” (so we are doing this WHY?)
Force, Not Choice: This legislation includes an “individual mandate” forcing all Americans to purchase health insurance, like the Massachusetts law. Taxpayer subsidies will be given to those earning up to three times the federal poverty level. Those not qualifying for subsides will be taxed up to $3,800 if they do not buy insurance, and the Joint Tax Committee has confirmed failure to pay your fine could result in jail time. The experience in Massachusetts has left those caught in between unable to afford insurance and having to pay the tax.
Big Insurance Boondoggle: Forcing all the uninsured into insurance could bring as much as $200 billion a year in new premiums to insurance companies, including $465 billion in subsidies over 10 years.
Privacy Violation: This legislation would allow law enforcement agencies such as the FBI and the Department of Justice unprecedented unfettered access to medical records.
No Lawsuit Reform: This legislation fails to curb junk lawsuits. It doesn’t even implement the “demonstrations projects” on reform the President called for (despite the fact that states like Mississippi have already done so and seen medical malpractice insurance premiums drop 42 percent). Instead, it will “express the Sense of the Senate that health care reform presents an opportunity to address issues related to medical malpractice and medical liability insurance.”
Bipartisan Opposition: The only thing bipartisan about this bill is the opposition to it.
The Senate:a vote for “cloture” on this legislation is a vote in favor of government-run health care.

We will be watching your vote closely. Congress — VOTE NO! People — Now is the time to call your congressman. Now it is time to call the blue dogs in the house. Blue Dog Democrat means, ‘leftist pretending to be moderate’ in a right leaning district. Let these dogs know the jig is up.

Obama is a leftist ideologue. The press, our dear MSM sold us a bill of goods last November. They refused to look behind the curtain and see the great Oz for what he really is. A man who gives good teleprompter. A man who whether the MSM will report it or not is a pawn of the far left thug-o-cracy of Chicago. This is what we get for refusing to pay attention to the scam the NYT’s and the alphabets were pulling. Shame on US.

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Posted in Abortion, Campaign 2010, Den of Thieves, Federalism, Obamanation, Politics, Socialism, hoodwinked | 7 Comments »

George Will Blasts Democrats & Dependency At CPAC

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

The old war horse has not lost a step. His argument skewers the current administration with a wit devoid of anger, angst and venom. Takes notes people, this is how a conservative message aught to be woven.

- Jacob

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Posted in Economics, Federalism, Personal Resposibility | 8 Comments »

Expanding on 0bama’s Idea

Monday, February 1st, 2010

President 0bama did present a very interesting idea in his State of the Union speech, that all earmarks should be posted online by the requestion congresscritter before it is voted on. That is fine as far as it goes, but it should go farther. The requesting congresscritter should also be required to quote the section of the Constitution that gives Congress the power to do what the earmark says.

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Posted in Federalism, Uncategorized | 21 Comments »

Why This Administration Must Also Fail.

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Jack has been harping on this topic religiously and he gets it as others here do. I got out my crayons and paper so that everyone can get it. Take 10 minutes of your time without regret. We’re going back to school!

School = free
Pre-requisite = a brain with cognative thought processes
Video = 10 minutes
Topic = our government system
Understanding = priceless
Liberal comprehension about our Founding father’s model = ZERO!

Watch video here.

I learned one thing for sure. It appears that in actuality, I am a friggin’ moderate. Oh, Dan; the irony of it all. HA.

Posted in Economics, Federalism, Politics | 6 Comments »

The Myth of Equal Protection

Monday, January 18th, 2010

There is perhaps no more bastardized phrase in the Constitution than “the General Welfare.”  As anyone with a brain knows, the actual phrase is,

“The Congress shall have Power… to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States.” 

It is “the Welfare of the United States,” not of “the Welfare of the People of the United States.” Furthermore, the full clause is:

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

The “to pay…” part is evidently, both by it’s position and lack of capitalization, clearly the reason, not an enumerated power in itself.

Coming in a close second is the Commerce Clause:

To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;

In this case, rather than simply having the power to make such commerce regular, Congress has taken power over absolutely everything that might conceivably be related to interstate commerce.

There is another phrase that is being subtly twisted, but actually in a good way.  Well, not twisted, simply taken out of context, as the General Welfare clause is.  That is the Equal Protection clause in the 14th Amendment:

No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United Statesnor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

President Obama has just exempted union-negotiate health insurance plans from the 40% tax that the rest of the people will have to pay.  Obviously, if this becomes law, it will not protect all people equally.  However, the federal government is not mentioned in the 14th Amendment.  The States cannot make or enforce such laws, but the federal government can.

Anyone for a new Amendment?

Posted in Federalism | 3 Comments »

Republican Ideas

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

The Article “A Question For Conservatives” asks a valid question.  Is the party at war with itself?  The short answer is no.  There is sharp debate, such as is needed after the Republican 8-year-long spending spree.  The good news is no one is defending the 6000+ earmarks of the 109th congress.  The spending binge that the Republican party engaged in was counter to conservative ideals of the party.  The corruption that came with such spending was joyfully announced in the left wing media.  The 110th came in and outdid the 109th — in all the wrong ways: 9000+ earmarks and even more corruption.  The 111th Congress  has surpassed anything that has gone before — the Louisiana Purchase and the Nebraska Privilege will become two eternal stains on the Senate record.  Gov. Kaine is whistling past the graveyard — the Democrats have come out of the closet.

The Republican Party must now return to its fiscally conservative roots. It must confess of its excesses.  The Republican Party does not have the luxury of circular firing squads. The enemy is inside the gate. The nation has come to realize that our biggest troubles are coming from the modern Democrat Party — a party that has drifted so far left, it is socialist in all but name.  Look at Obama’s Czars.  Van Jones was but one example — an avowed communist.  The socialists must be rendered impotent.

What the Republican Party currently lacks is a voiced set of ideas and ideals.  A goal to compare to the Hopey Changey socialist hooey that has become the Democrat Party’s platform. Conservatives need a rallying cry. Something akin to Reagan’s “Morning in America” or Gingrich’s “Contract with America.”

Conservatism recognizes the right to self defense as being non-negotiable. Conservatism’s bedrock is adherence to federalism and the diffusion of power that comes with it. I propose four simple principals that will reflect these two ideals — four simple principals that every Republican can agree to:

1. Kill the terrorists before they kill us — We are in a war with Islamic Fundamentalism; this is not a crime problem. They are not interested in stealing; they are interested in killing us.

2. Give us back our money — Tax us way less. Give back the TARP and unspent funds from the porkulus, the deficit is not helping us. Government is not the answer. Economic freedom makes all the other freedoms possible.

3. Zero Earmarks — This is the root of the corruption problem, the politicians are bribing each other with OUR money.

4. Obey all of the Constitution — The separation of powers also means the state and local governments AND the people have power. Federal power should be the most abridged. It is now the most profligate. The Interstate Commerce Clause does not overturn the remainder of the constitution.

People voted for change. We as a nation were told by the fourth estate that Obama was a moderate, that Obama had conservative leanings, that Democrats are the party of fiscal conservatism, that Obama would transcend race, party, and ideology. We all would join hands and sing kum-bay-ya!  The people, much to this citizen’s dismay, believed this overwrought drivel. The country really wanted to see the 6000 earmarks per year go away, what it got was 3000+ new earmarks per year added on.

This country was founded by men who began a war over taxation that was far less odious than what the typical American is happily laboring under today. A tax on our national breakfast beverage caused riots in Boston and people took to the streets armed and ready to die for their rights.

The right to live in freedom and to pursue happiness — not by the leave of some self-appointed betters was the goal. Sound familiar? We have the power of the ballot box today. All who would trample our freedoms can be dealt with in that arena. Vigilance is the price of freedom, and we as a nation have been asleep at the wheel for far too long.

It is not enough to come out and vote every two years. Conservatives all need to engage and know what is going on down there on the shores of the Potomac. Primary season must become a time of terror for those who hold office and vote contrary to the will of those who voted for them. An informed electorate will purge the dross from the system. The time of the professional politician must come to an end.

Posted in Campaign 2010, Federalism, Politics | 62 Comments »

The Real Enemy of Freedom

Monday, December 21st, 2009

This is the face of the true enemy of freedom in this country.

The Democrats have decided that any semblance of debate regarding the facts of any topic is too much trouble. Instead rank name calling is the order of the day. There was a time when this sort of thing was done by activists in order to rabble rouse. Now the party is cutting out the middleman, and Democrat Senators are engaging in empty, banal, name calling — on the floor of the senate.

If you are against the government take over of 1/6th of the economy, you are a racist. Really? If you are against a 2000 page bill getting voted on w/o anyone taking the time to understand what is involved, you are a member of the Aryans? The second worst thing that can happen to the Democrats is failure to pass this bill. The worst thing is them succeeding in this kleptocratic effort.  This mess is that bad.

The bill is unconstitutional. The federal government does not have the power to force people to buy a product. The 14th amendment demands that federal laws apply equally to all individuals. That means the amendment to the H.C .bill where Nebraska is exempt from paying in perpetuity its share of the Federal Health care is unconstitutional on its face. Noting the blatant illegality of this bill, and the fraud it is perpetrating on the American people will no doubt be called racist, homophobic, bigoted, fattening and will cause the polar ice caps to melt.  The correct answer to this level of debate is, “I know you are, but what am I?!”

The best part of this is that we now have it in the congressional record that the Democrats have crafted a bill to kill the insurance industry.  They denied it at first, and wrapped their rhetoric in business model talk — cost savings, consumer choice etc.  Lying through their teeth they claimed this is a market based  solution.  How can that be if you are killing the market?  Oh!  Is that question racist?

Posted in Campaign 2010, Economics, Federalism, Health Care | 20 Comments »

Public Service – A Republican Perspective

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

When Rome was a Republic, selfless public service was considered a a virtue, if not a requirement.  “For the good of the nation!”, men of talent stepped forward and built Rome into a powerful nation from a motley set of villages atop seven hills.   Everyone served in the military, many served in public works, some served in the Senate and its supporting bureaucracy.  Cinncinatus, while human, was an example by which many of the founders of our country lived:

His [Cinncinatus] immediate resignation of his absolute authority with the end of the crisis has often been cited as an example of outstanding leadership, service to the greater good, civic virtue, and modesty.

Washington followed this creed, as did the members of the continental army who followed Washington.  Our country was blessed by Washington’s stepping away from the presidency after two terms.  This was a tradition that was not broken until the progressive FDR — masquerading as a Democrat — selfishly felt the country needed him for four terms.   Unfortunately, selflessness in public service today is not a virtue followed by many, if any at all.  Congress follows Roosevelt’s not Washington’s model.  We are poorer for it.

I believe that the military (Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force) should remain all volunteer. What we could do, as a nation, is enforce a 2 year period of service. This could include firefighting, nursing, BORDER patrol, coast guard, prison guard, EMT, CUSTOMS inspection etc, etc. Unlike the draft earlier in mid-twentieth century, all would serve.  No exceptions.  No waivers for those in college, nor for a medical condition.  No exceptions.  For example, a paraplegic could answer phones in an emergency call center.

The Military would require 4 years of service, two is not enough for a modern force.  Military service would still be voluntary.  A battery of aptitude tests, both academic and athletic,  would put the incoming eighteen year old’s on scale.  Those with the highest scores would get first pick.  The Military could very well itself get an inductee class that is better than ever.

As the choice of assignment is based on merit, the better assignments would go to the more adept.  Military, EMT, nursing, and other choice positions would go to those who scored well.  Guarding the Alaska-Yukon border would go to those at the bottom of the barrel.

Think of the benefits outside the military arena.  Currently we cannot inspect every ship, and every container coming into the country.  With a manpower pool in the 7M range, this issue would to go away.  Considering the repercussions of a nuclear weapon coming into port and detonating, such a force is warranted.  Considering the fallout of finally being able to really stop the flow of drugs coming into the country, such service would also be highly beneficial.

Service to the country is a republican ideal, not a Republican ideal.  This country is a Republic,  we would be well served to remember that.

Posted in Culture, Federalism, History, Philosophy | 8 Comments »

Owen, Democrat, Breaks 4 Campaign Promises in First Day

Monday, November 9th, 2009

One more time with feeling: Thank you Dede!! You liberal piece of trash. You were embraced by the party for 20 years, and when you suffer your first real setback you came out for the Democrat in the 11th hour.

Owens was brought into the Democrat fold real quick.  He lied on the campaign trail, and the idiot moderates, like Charlie Brown trying to kick the football Lucy is holding, voted for the Democrat expecting him to keep his promise.   Rats!  Owens said he would not support a public option, well he voted for it.   He broke that and three other promises the first day in office.  Where is that football now Charlie?  From the Gouverneur Times:

Many feel that it was unlikely Mr. Owens would have won those crucial few thousand votes if the voting public was aware of his intent with regard to the Health Care bill.  The majority of residents in this district do not support the Health Reform bill as it is now written and many feel like they’ve become victims of a fraud perpetrated by their chosen candidate.

Ya think?  Message to the great pho-intellectuals of the middle — read some history!  Democrats migrate leftward in a flash once they reach Washington.  Wishing it were otherwise will not make it so, accept reality.  Read up on economics and find out that there are NO moderate economic theories.  Either you are a socialist central planner, or you allow the market to make choices.  Mixing the two always leads to the former squeezing out the later. Always.  Wishing it were otherwise, will not make it so.

Let this be a lesson to Newt, Owens was the 219th vote. Owen’s win gave Pelosi enough ammunition to finish off conservatism in the US. Public Healthcare is the holy grail for liberals. Why, because historically it causes the country to drift ever leftward.  Gingrich has mud on his face for supporting Dede, and 2012 will be harder for him.

Note to Republican leadership, try to at least run a moderate.  Running leftists makes it difficult for the conservatives (who are 3/4’s of the party) to vote for the candidates you field.  Scozzafava not only threw her support behind Owen, she was more liberal.    I guess it would be more embarrassing if she voted for the bill, but, there was another option.  The primary reason for a political party is to espouse a philosophy in the political arena, and bring this philosophy to life in legislation.  Picking candidates that are hostile to this philosophy makes no sense.

This is the US, not France, not England. We are made of sterner stuff. I hope conservatives do not go quietly into the night.  This vote today will seal the fate of the Democrat party in 2010.  But if the Republicans cannot hold on till then, or, overturn Obamacare, we as a nation are sunk.

Posted in Campaign 2009, Federalism, Health Care, Politics | 18 Comments »

Pelosi Bill Will Create a Monstrous Bureaucracy

Sunday, November 8th, 2009

Check out this Byzantine labyrinth.  I wonder how many evils dwell in that?

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It really does speak for itself, doesn’t it?  There is no way in the world that the Pelosi Lemmings could have had a clue as to what they are voting for.  ‘Do it or else!’, was the message from the Democrat Mafia leadership.  The old, “It’s a deal, you no can refuse.” as Vito Corleone would put it.  The next line of defense for our Republic is the Senate.  Considering the track record of those stalwart defenders of the constitution.  I hold out little hope.

Posted in Federalism, Health Care, Politics, Socialism | 12 Comments »

Thank You, Dede Scozzafava

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Thank you, Dede Scozzafava.  You have made what was oh so obvious, even more obvious.  Before the election, Dede was the Republican who was picked by the 11 county chairmen in the New York’s 23rd Congressional District, and by the RNC, to represent this section of the State in the House of Representatives.  What a most excellent choice you were.  Markos Moulitsas, founder of the dailyKOS, called Ms. Scozzafava “actually the most liberal candidate in the race.”  Do not listen to the lies of MSM, Dede is not a moderate. Scozzafava is left of moderate; but most of all, Dede is a Republican.  Dede is not a RINO, Dede is a Republican.  Dede is a leftist and Dede is a Republican.

People who cry RINO whenever they see a liberal with the Republican label get it all wrong.  The big tent has room for liberals.  From Applied Semantics a conservative blog:

I want to start poaching some RINO GOP comittee chairs in the the NY 23rd congressional district.

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This is the wrong attitude.  Yes, according to Gallup, the Republican Party consists of 73% conservatives, 24% moderates and 3% liberals.  Given the overwhelming number of conservatives in the party, one would imagine the party face would be conservative, but no matter.  The party leadership handpicked Dede, and Dede is a Republican.

Now, according to Gallup, 40% of the country is conservative, but half of that group are not Republican.  So why did the party establishment pick someone from the tiny liberal wing of the party?  Why does  the party leadership see fit to ignore 73% of the party, a.k.a. the conservative wing?  Furthermore, why does the party ignore the conservative 20% of the American electorate that is outside the party — a segment of the populace equal in number to all the liberals?  Why does the party pursue the minority of  leftists instead of the plurality of conservatives?

Conservatives want to uphold Federalism, and the Constitution.  Why do self proclaimed progressives such as McCain and Graham find this so distasteful?  Far down in popularity from its days under Reagan and the revolution in 1994, could someone explain how a party that now enjoys a 25% approval rate — refuse to realize it is on the wrong path?

Lets take a look at Dede, Republican, great gal — she is:

1. A supporter of abortion rights
2. A supporter of tax hikes
3. A supporter of the Obama porkulus (stimulus)
4. A supporter of gay marriage
5. A supporter of the public medical option
6. A supporter of Card Check  (ending the secret ballot)

There are many blue dog Democrats I would find more in common with than this Republican.  Thank goodness she is not a supporter of gun control.  At least, according to Ms. Scozzafava, we all are still free to go blow our brains out.  Dede is a poster child for closed primaries, the party leadership may want to consider this thought going into the future, “No more hand picked candidates!!”.

Lets look at who else supported Dede, Republican, hand picked by the local and national Republican establishment: ACORN.  Need I say more?  No.  Really.  ACORN approved of Dede.  The Working Families Party (WPF) also approves.  Who is the WFP?  They are a socialist party splinter whose ‘real solution’ for tax relief regarding property taxes is to increase taxes on the rich.  NY State already has the highest taxes in the nation on wage earners.  Considering the ‘flight of the able’ has already seen a loss of revenue over the past several years in NY, this is just another brain dead leftist idea based on envy and ignorant of the impact of the Laffer curve.  Try something else, WFP, like cutting spending.  You know, live within your means.  It’s quaint, but thrift is the time-tested approach to successful governance.  KOS, ACORN, and the WFP — with Republicans like this, who needs Democrats?

This is the gift the Republican Party leadership gave us?  So revealing.  When the 73% of the party asserted itself and said, “Enough!” Dede showed her true colors.  She withdrew from the race, and, now supports the Democrat!  The moral of the story is that the current leadership of the GOP prefers Democrats to conservatives.  Conservatives have felt this disdain for years, the country club blue bloods put up with Reagan, but they never liked him.  Now they are trying to tell us he was a moderate?  William F. Buckley enthusiastically supported Reagan.  He was indifferent to Bush senior, and hostile towards the shrub, a.k.a. GW.  Buckley gave voice to the conservative wing of American thought in the 1950’s and started the movement.  Buckley knows a conservative when he sees one — Reagan was a conservative.

Reagan Democrats were social conservatives, not fiscal conservatives — and so were considered moderates.  The moderate wing of the public is a hash of both social and fiscal liberals and conservatives.  The country club Republicans are typically fiscally conservative, but are socially liberal and make up a large chunk of the 24% of the party that are self-identified moderates.  This 24% of the Republican party, however, is not large enough to be a viable base upon which a party can win national elections.  Trying to hash out a party platform that will please all of  the 35% of the American Electorate that is self-identified as moderate, is a challenge that up to now has eluded both political parties.

According to the Republican Party leadership, conservatives  are just supposed to vote for the liberal Republican and shut up.  That is why we are in a fight.  Given no voice in the party, half of all conservatives are no longer in the GOP.  Why are conservatives expected to be tolerant , but those who are not conservative are not brow-beaten into being broad minded? Why are the moderates not tolerant of the majority of the party?  Why are liberals intolerant of anyone who is not for the public option, and not criticized for their ideological stance?  Why are only conservatives held to a different standard?

The conservatives in the Republican party share a common ideological ground with much of the half of the nation’s conservatives who are not in the party.  The party can grow in that direction naturally.  How are the liberals in the party going to grow the party?   The Democrat party owns this end of the spectrum, while both parties ignore the conservatives outside the Republican party.  How does the Republican party recruit leftists and hold on to its principals?

The Specter wing of the party, a.k.a. the McCain wing or the Lindsey Graham wing, needs to understand that they are welcome, but they have no business leading the party.  The path of the liberal Republican leads to the same place as a that of the leftist in the Democrat party.   The difference is that the liberal Republican offers the nation a death by 10 thousand cuts.  The Democrat will bring change to this nation far more quickly.  The end result is the same, whether the face of this change be Obama or Scozzafava.

Posted in Campaign 2009, Federalism | 10 Comments »

Republicans Want You to Die

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Well. What can I say. It was only a matter of time. Claiming repeatedly that everyone who opposed the government takeover of health care was a Republican Astro-Turfing Stooges did not work. Claiming the bill did not cover illegal aliens, offer abortion, limit real health care options when it did all of the above did not work either.

One of the big reasons is that even though the bill is close to a thousand pages long, enough people have read HR3200 to know better.  The bill needed amendments to close these loopholes.  The Democrats voted these amendments down.  Then the poor little dears had the nerve to look surprised when there where typically 1500 skeptical citizens coming to what once were sleepy affairs with 150 fans.  The citizens were not buying the Democrat talking points.  This really surprised the Democrats.

So the next response was to bring in thugs from SEIU.  That did not work out to well either because the Democrat media a.k.a. MSM does not have a lock on information anymore.  The end result was youtube was getting more news hits than the NY and LA times combined.  Now the Democrats are proposing legislation to bail out the NYT’s.

So out came the heavy artillery.  Obama.  Monday Obama night, Obama on Tuesday.  Wednesday was Prince Obama night.  Then more Obama on the Weekend.  Guess what?  The bloom is off that rose folks.   The pied piper came out.  Claimed everyone against him is lying, then giving NO real detail said this would be change.   We must hurry and pass the legislation NOW, so we can start rolling it into effect in 2013, or disaster will strike NOW.  That did not work out to well either.

Desperation setting in, the Democrats played their trump card.  James Earl Carter.  That is right.  James Earl Carter.  The political equivalent of PeeWee Herman.  You are all racists for opposing the government take over of 1/6 of the US economy said Carter, oh so convincingly, that overnight support for the bill dropped another 2%.  This tripe from an anti-semite who takes money under the table from the Saudis also did not appear to work out too well (Call it a stretch, but I am detecting a pattern here).  For those who support the president, I strongly recommend avoiding any further Obama-Carter linkages in the future; then again, it might just be me … naaggh.

The funniest part of the whole rant by the Democrat Congressman Grayson above is that there are not enough Republicans in either house to stop the bill.  So the trouble is some Democrats.  That is right.  While Republicans are against the Obamacare plan, some Democrats are also against the Obamacare plan.   But, the facts on the ground never deter a good socialist.  Alinsky said “Attack!”  So this idiots attacks, though he obviously knows not why.  If I had to guess, this will not work out to well.

UPDATE:
The Democrat Congressman Grayson, just apologized:

“I apologize to the dead and their families that we haven’t voted sooner to end this holocaust in America,” Grayson said.

Six Million Jews are currently rolling over in their graves.  This is not going to work out too well.

Posted in Campaign 2010, Den of Thieves, Federalism | 17 Comments »

Forget cursing or mud slinging, Ted Kennedy is dead

Saturday, August 29th, 2009

Forget cursing or mud slinging. It doesn’t do anyone any good.

What can do some good is working to undo much of what was done. I would suspect there are plenty of laws that need to be removed from the books … instead of wasting time on beating a dead horse, work to get the course of the country back on track.

National health-care is just about dead, but it needs to be put to sleep.

No Child Gets Ahead needs to be repealed.

Real immigration reform (closing the boarders) needs to be passed.

Those three ought to be enough to get people moving. It would help to push a national prohibition on restriction of firearms as well. There are a number of things that might be possible to push. Don’t waste breath on what changes nothing. Get motivated. Start working to push appropriate legislation through.

Limit the power of the central government to what the constitution says.

Posted in 2nd Amendment, Abortion, Federalism, Health Care, History, Judiciary, Politics, immigration | 15 Comments »

Democrats Show Real Respect For the American People

Friday, August 14th, 2009

Shiela Jackson Lee, Democrat, Congresswoman, servant of the people, is a real class act. Note her paying close attention to her concerned constituent. This particular constituent is suffering from cancer and is worried what Obamacare will do to her coverage and treatment options.

It is rude to take a phone call at the dinner table. It is unbelievably rude to do so in a meeting when you are already being addressed. The next step up is when the the person you are blowing off is sick and in a public forum.  The most wonderful part of all is that this congresswoman did this phone routine several times during the course of the same meeting.  The arrogance of Representative Lee, public servant, is astounding.

She later claimed she was calling a White House hot line to help her answer questions.  So much for preparing for a town hall.  She must have figured that the astro-turf would not have any real questions to ask.  The whole thing really takes a turn into the bizarre when Lee is interviewed by CNN.

Lee refuses to answer the question. She goes into full spin mode. Finally, she claims in the end that the video was doctored.  After Sanchez pins her down on that whopper, she then disavows any knowledge of the video and at that point and ‘cannot speak to it’.  The ‘big lie’ only works so often.  Congresswoman Lee, why then claim the video was doctored in the first place if you never saw it?

Posted in Federalism, Obamanation, Politics | 17 Comments »

The Health Care ‘Dialogue’: Union Thugs Helping Democrats

Sunday, August 9th, 2009

The following three clips are of a recent health-care town-hall staged by Representative K. Castor, Democrat from FL.  Castor, a pathetic party hack, tried to conduct the meeting like a campaign pep rally.  Why?  Because Castor could not afford to allow the town hall to develop into a discussion of the real issue, “What happens to private insurance after Obama-care gets passed?”  Castor tried to keep a lid on this question, and failed miserably despite help from a pack of union thugs used to pack the room and intimidate members of Castor’s constituency who came to the town hall with legitimate questions.

In the first clip, it appears that trying to push out the protesters is not really working.  This is because attacking a woman and beating up other protesters is not the way to make friends and influence people .  This all went on with the room watching as the union operatives pushed the door close.  The people (astro-turf-alert) on both sides of the door were influenced, in all the wrong ways.

Once Castor (Democrat FL)  got that bunch of pesky grass roots folks (astro-turf-alert) out of the room with the help of her Democrat sponsored union muscle, the pep rally began.  It appears that trying to intimidate the rest only worked so far.  The room exploded when more citizens (astro-turf-alert) did not buy the Democrat party line on the take over of 1/6 of our economy.  Despite the union toughs trying to look menacing.

I guess in Obama’s America only the one with the microphone can speak, especially if the one with the microphone is a Democrat operative; at least that was the ‘reasoning’ that the union thug presented when he told someone to shut up.  The rest of us members of the great unwashed are supposed to cheer.   Who can not clap for the sacrifice of veterans?  Amazing how the hippies of yesteryear, who spat on our returning troops, now try to use them as political props.  Being a Democrat means never having to say you are sorry.

Some do cheer until Castor, the one with the microphone, mouths one too many platitudes.  Then, when the BS-o-meters hit the red line, even the sheeple will erupt. This is supposed to be a dialogue.  These kinds town halls are the Democrat party’s idea of a dialogue?  Well, Obama said so — shut up, the Democrats want to clean up the mess.  Too bad, Barry, in America everyone gets a voice, even conservatives.  When Bush was president protest was considered the highest form of patriotism according to the left.   Now they left is insulted that someone dares to protest against them. The protesters are called mobs, and worse.

The people are allowed to speak after Castor leaves, and has her sound bites for the Democrat controlled media.  A woman asks the obvious question (astro-turf-alert), “Why did the Union Boss use his thugs to filter who got access to the room?” The answer is shockingly inadequate and mendacious.

The Obama White House asks people to report ‘fishy’ speech.  The White House sicks its goons on people at town halls.  This is how the left rewards patriotism of protesters?  Threats and beatings?!?  No wonder Obama did not condemn the Iranians, they are amateurs in comparison.  Hypocrite thy name is Democrat.

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