The statists are fond of saying that ours is a “living, breathing Constitution,” which can be interpreted according to the prevailing winds of politics. But when words have no fixed meaning, then they have no meaning at all. Let us consider a Constitution that guarantees citizens ”freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration.” Sounds pretty good doesn’t it? It’s the Constitution of China. Maybe that’s what the statists want.
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A Living, Breathing Constitution is a Dead Constitution
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010Posted in Politics, Socialism | 8 Comments »
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.
Tags: Democrats, GOP, Obama
Posted in Abortion, Campaign 2010, Den of Thieves, Federalism, Obamanation, Politics, Socialism, hoodwinked | 30 Comments »
Red Nancy Has Lost It On Healthcare
Thursday, March 11th, 2010The woman is cracking up before our very eyes. The on going gaffathon, the delusional statements, the outright falsehoods delivered with all the believability of a four year old with their hand in the cookie jar. It would be funny if this woman where not third in the line of Presidential succession. Nancy Pelosi is Joe Biden’s life insurance. How is that for scary? Get a load of this latest howler:
So much for accountability. So much for the most open and honest congress ever. Now, if we want to see the legislation, we have to first enact it as law?!? Hey, Nancy this is not the ’surprise’ in a box of Cracker Jacks. This a law that will heavily impact one sixth of our economy. This is a law that will impact who controls our choices regarding which doctor, what procedure and what medicine we can choose to use. This is a law that will impact how we make our choices near the end of life, the beginning of life, and everything in between. This insane woman expects such a choice to be made in the dark?
What do we do after the bill passes and is signed into law? Yell “Surprise?!?” Nancy Pelosi has more than likely succumbed to dementia, that has been caused by the stress from the task of trying to pull off the greatest con job the world has ever seen. She will go down in the books as the crazy aunt of our congress. We as Americans have witnessed this health care fiasco unfold over this past long year. Time and time again the Democrats shut the Republicans and the American Public out as they schemed behind closed doors, cutting deals to somehow get this travesty signed into law. We as Americans can do better, and should demand better of our government.
Tags: Democrats, Health Care, Nancy Pelosi
Posted in April Fools, Den of Thieves, Politics, Socialism | 79 Comments »
Simple Series #2-Economics.
Thursday, February 4th, 2010I didn’t know how to post the picture so you don’t get to see it. I got out the crayons and paper again for those lead-headed individuals that just can’t seem to grasp reality. It doesn’t get more simple than this.
An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had once failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Obama’s socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer..
The professor then said, “OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama’s plan”. All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A….
After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little. The second test average was a D! No one was happy.
When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F. The scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else. All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.
The by-product from this message has to do with competition, which is healthy and necessary for a good economy and personal drive. One thing I can tell you for sure: this professor would never be allowed to teach at Harvard!
Posted in Economics, Environment, Socialism | 10 Comments »
update your resume?
Thursday, January 21st, 2010While I might want to have a Republican win the senate seats for Virginia as they come up for election, I also want to stop the health care “reform” that is currently the goal of the liberal politicians.
A simple letter sent to all my representatives:
A Republican elected in Mass. Did you get the message, or do you want to brush up your resume?
Stop health care “reform” now.
I think it might be effective if enough people send something that short and “sweet” to their congressmen. What do you think?
Please note, I’m not saying that I don’t want to change the people, I’m saying this can be used as leverage to stop what could be a true disaster in the meantime.
Posted in Campaign 2010, Health Care, Politics, Socialism | 2 Comments »
So are the Dems going to get the message?
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010In a very real sense, I hope the Democrats get the message.
If the people of Boston reject the present Democratic leadership in the direction they are going to the point of handing the GOP a Senate seat, then someone of that party needs to stand up and admit the people of this country are not the liberals they thought they were. Now why would I want them to do that? Because removing them from office will take years. Those elected in 2008 to the Senate, it will take until 2014; too long in my view to have those world views around.
There is a down side to the Dems getting their collective heads on straight though. If they do, the people might forget how stupid they were in their first year in control of the both House and Senate and Presidency. But at least if they get their head on straight, we might have a country in another 4 years to worry about. If they don’t, I’m not so sure we will.
Tags: Brown, GOP
Posted in Obama files, Politics, Socialism | 13 Comments »
Global Warming Keeps on Giving
Thursday, December 31st, 2009Get a Load of this Article:
Snowstorm squelches climate change protest
Judy Fahys
The Salt Lake Tribune
Updated: 12/30/2009 06:36:58 PM MST
A downtown protest of the climate change talks in Copenhagen became a victim of Wednesday’s snowstorm.
“Not many people showed up because of the blizzard conditions,” said organizer Clea Major, an international studies student at the University of Utah.
The irony of it all is so sweet, one must see the hand of God in all this. This other Article make things even more problematic:
No Rise of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Fraction in Past 160 Years, New Research Finds
ScienceDaily (Dec. 31, 2009) — Most of the carbon dioxide emitted by human activity does not remain in the atmosphere, but is instead absorbed by the oceans and terrestrial ecosystems. In fact, only about 45 percent of emitted carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere.
So if the CO2 level is not changing, why is the climate changing? Inquiring minds want to know. Inquiring minds want to also know how rich is Al Gore getting off his snake oil salesman routine. Inquiring minds want to know if the watermelons who are running the AGW scam will ever have to face charges for inflicting this fraud on the people of the world.
Posted in Den of Thieves, Environment, Socialism | 5 Comments »
Democrat Worldview Becomes Clear
Thursday, November 12th, 2009ObamaCare legislation reveals what some of us have been warning about: Democrat vision for America is a police state:
… I am not fretting here about some remote and unlikely possibility. We are not speaking here of “slippery slopes” or in terms of “what comes next?”
We are instead objecting to a black-letter law spelled out for all to see in the very first piece of legislation you’re proposing.
Right out of the box. The state here — Pelosi, Reid, Obama — are claiming that they can imprison people for behavior that has never before even been hinted as being a crime, on the theory that such behavior constitutes unpatriotic economic behavior which is detrimental to the state’s balance sheets.
Read all of Ace’s essay. The point he makes deserves wide distribution. Then, we can start talking about impeachment.
Posted in Campaign 2010, Den of Thieves, Economics, Socialism | 6 Comments »
Pelosi Bill Will Create a Monstrous Bureaucracy
Sunday, November 8th, 2009Check out this Byzantine labyrinth. I wonder how many evils dwell in that?
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 »
House Democrats: Buy a $15,000 Policy or Go to Jail
Saturday, November 7th, 2009Just when you thought that Health Care Reform could not get any more Draconian :
Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in the Pelosi health care bill (H.R. 3962, as amended) could land people in jail.
Prosecution is authorized under the Code for a variety of offenses. Depending on the level of the noncompliance, the following penalties could apply to an individual:
• Section 7203 – misdemeanor willful failure to pay is punishable by a fine of up to $25,000 and/or imprisonment of up to one year.
• Section 7201 – felony willful evasion is punishable by a fine of up to $250,000 and/or imprisonment of up to five years.” [page 3]
When confronted with this same issue during its consideration of a similar individual mandate tax, the Senate Finance Committee worked on a bipartisan basis to include language in its bill that shielded Americans from civil and criminal penalties. The Pelosi bill, however, contains no similar language protecting American citizens from civil and criminal tax penalties that could include a $250,000 fine and five years in jail.
Read Full Story at House Committee On Ways And Means Republicans
Posted in Den of Thieves, Socialism, Uncategorized | 13 Comments »
What The Money We Stole From Our Kids Just Bought Us
Thursday, September 17th, 2009Well – the generations after us should be saying – thank you President Obama, for allowing us to co-sign.
By spending over $700 billion dollars we don’t have, the Obama administration promised to increase the number of jobs in America:
By not spending all that money we don’t have, Mr. Obama explained, unemployment might reach 9% by September 2009.
But by spending all that money we don’t have, unemployment would be below 8% by now.
The reality: We spent the money, and went further in debt, and unemployment is at 9.7% right now and is projected to top 10% in four months.
This is exactly like if you were carrying $8,000 in debt on your credit card, and someone convinced you to pick up another $20,000 in charges because it would make everything better – but lo and behold, the getting better part did not happen, and now your credit card balance is $28,000.
And as an added kicker: The $28,000 owed would be levied on your children if you could not pay it … which you can’t.
I think we should all take a close look at the graph above, which showed in the higher line what the Bush administration had supposedly left us with (according to Obama’s experts) – minus the $750 billion dollars in new spending – and consider carefully what change Barack Obama has actually brought to America.
It’s change spelled “ruination.” Barack Obama is throwing our gross domestic product down a rat hole, and our children and grandchildren will have to pay the bill.
Tags: Obama
Posted in Economics, Obama files, Socialism | 6 Comments »
The Message From The 9-12 Project/ Tea Party Demonstration in Washington DC
Sunday, September 13th, 2009Yesterday’s videos and photos of walking around the 9-12 Project/ “Tea Party Express” demonstration in Washington DC give a decent sense of the size and composition of the crowd, and the general tenor of the afternoon.
(Press reports have the crowd up to 2 million people, although like all these DC marches it’s guesswork. In any case the size rivaled that of Barack Obama’s inauguration – which is fitting since this was like an inauguration, only in reverse.)
We had some discussion in yesterday’s thread about the message of the Tea Party demonstrators; after giving it some thought and reviewing the videos and photos, I think the overall theme was simply “it’s time to take our country back.”
With a sub theme of, “Barack Obama, you sure turned out to be somebody we do not want in the White House.”
UPDATE: Stacy McCain makes a good case for over a million people.
Tags: 9-12 project, Glenn Beck, Joe Wilson, Obama, Tea Party, Tea Party Express
Posted in Campaign 2010, Campaign 2012, Obama files, Politics, Socialism | 79 Comments »
“These people want to destroy the system that we live under, and create their fantasy”
Saturday, September 5th, 2009Stop whatever you are doing and watch Glenn Beck’s interview with David Horowitz if you want to understand where the Obama administration is trying to take this country.
Not that I think Obama himself is any sort of evil genius. Far from it – I think the guy is a bumbling moron who gets a whoopie cushion placed on his chair before every Cabinet meeting. But the people he has brought into leadership positions in our government are in most cases really bad news. And we already knew the Democrat leadership in the House and Senate were really bad news. Dig in, folks, it is going to be an intense few years.
Posted in Den of Thieves, Socialism | 11 Comments »
The Health Care ‘Dialogue’: Union Thugs Helping Democrats
Sunday, August 9th, 2009The 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.
Posted in Den of Thieves, Federalism, Health Care, Obamanation, Socialism, hoodwinked | 6 Comments »
flag@whitehouse.gov — Report Your Neighbor
Friday, August 7th, 2009The White House is violating the 1974 ‘Privacy Act’, and its amendment in 1977. Obama’s administration is behaving in a criminal manner by asking people to report their neighbor voicing ‘fishy’ information regarding health care. The 1977 amendment makes such a request illegal.
The purpose of the first amendment of the Constitution’s Bill of Rights, is to encourage robust debate on matters of public policy. The sustained push by the Democrat party to nationalize our health care industry is a matter of public policy. The request by Obama and his minions for people to report their neighbors is a criminal act. The attempt to frighten the public that opposes the bill is criminal. See below:
There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.
Such behavior by our government demands action. I recommend that instead of having this outrageous behavior chill our discourse, we instead let the White House know that we are not afraid. Send an email to our president with ‘fishy’ speech. I recommend the speech be Obama in his own words extolling the Health Care take over. For example:
If you already have health insurance, the reform we’re proposing will provide you with more security and more stability. It will keep government out of health care decisions, giving you the option to keep your insurance if you’re happy with it.
Which is really fishy considering the text of HR3200, that states that if your HC insurance changes in anyway, including price, the government steps in and puts you on a government plan, one as good as medicaid. Go read the bill, since your congressman won’t.
Or, try sending Red Nancy Pelosi’s latest “they have swastika’s” tirad:
Interviewer: Do you think there’s legitimate grassroot opposition going on here?
Pelosi: “I think they’re Astroturf… You be the judge. “They’re carrying swastikas and symbols like that to a town meeting on healthcare.”
Send the message … the only speech that is fishy is the socialist garbage that the criminals in our government are trying to foist on us. Pass this idea on to your friends. Get this idea to go viral. Give them a response that they won’t forget. The Democrats claim opposition to their loopy socialist ideas is nothing but astro-turf. Send them the message that grass roots does not bloom only on the left.
Posted in Obama files, Obamanation, Socialism | 77 Comments »
