A head-on collision is approaching as the age of information and the Obama administration barrel along at full speed toward each other. Who’s to say whether the Afghanistan/Pakistan wikileaks are appropriate….internet realities are here to stay and nothing hides for long. Obama’s promise of transparency has long ago become a cliché, but it has become the rule of thumb in the information age. The question of what’s necessary to keep secret will be tested until there’s a valid answer.

Certainly politician’s taxes and business dealings aren’t top secret as we are about to see with Charlie Rangel,  nor their aggression toward masseuses as Gore displayed, nor avoiding taxes as Kerry just showed all of us on his 76 foot New Zealand built yacht by keeping it registered in Rhode Island . So, how will the  this administration respond to the information age players who become expert at uncovering lies and deceit? In a very real sense, they are dependent on the lies and deceit, if they lose control of information, they lose power.

Will Obama and his entourage become reactionary and begin to regulate websites that uncover information which threaten their power…more than likely. There needs to be a proactive resistance to the possibility of this type of looming censorship. A counter campaign is necessary for a healthy and free society, because they will use their best minds to begin rationalizing the need to regulate and control information.

Some of the liberal online activists who helped elect Obama to the White House aren’t happy and this last weekend at the Netroots Nation convention in Las Vegas they were not shy about airing their gripes. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, consoled the liberal activists who were disappointed by the final version of the health care law assuring them there would eventually be a public option. Ahh….the resurrection of the public option.

“We’re going to have a public option”, Reid voiced, “it’s just a question of when”.   Transparency, right…more like we’ve shoved through a lot of stuff, but we still have a lot more..so campaign for us again.

So, is Obama out on a campaign to satisfy the liberal bloggers who helped elect him?

Most progressive activists have been quick to voice the need to push the agenda harder. So Obama was quick to address the convention acknowledging come of their concerns. This annual convention,  once known as the YearlyKos,  has become the signature event for the Democratic calendar to meet with the progressive bloggers whose influence grows stronger every passing year. With a critical push for the democratic base to come out and vote given the uphill battle their candidates are facing in the coming midterm elections,  subjects on this year’s agenda during the convention were panels on “blogging a red state to blue” and “beyond the tweet”.

Typically, slanting us to look at the right hand so you don’t see what the left is up to, drafted out of public view the left wing lobbyist move to  ram through Congress the “Disclose Act”, while bypassing committee hearings finance legislation earlier this week.

“At a Rose Garden press conference on Monday, President Obama decried the influence of “shadow groups” on elections and urged the Senate to pass the “reform” sponsored by N.Y. Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer. But the loophole-ridden package exempts large nonprofits with 500,000 or more members. Behemoth labor unions get preferential treatment. Bradley Smith, former Federal Elections Commission chairman, noted that the law places radical speech-squelching restrictions on companies’ ability to run independent political ads: “(I)f you’re a company with a government contract of over $10 million (like more than half of the top 50 U.S. companies) or if you’re a company with more than 20 percent foreign shareholders, you can’t even mention a candidate in an ad for up to a full year before the election. … There are no similar prohibitions for unions representing government contractors or unions with foreign membership.”

During Tuesday’s debate before the Senate, Sen. Mitch McConnell  coined it as a “transparent attempt to rig the fall elections”.  He went on to diagnosis it as, “jobs protection bill for entrenched incumbents more interested in protecting their hides than the Constitution”.  Lib chieftain Sen. Schumer vowed to resurrect this issue when the cloture vote fell three votes short of the 60 needed. This is just another example of the Democratic majority’s endless hide and seek hypocrisy up on the hill.

While Obama and his minions want to feign alarm over the proliferation of fake rightwing grassroots groups surging across the nation,  here are a few more that purposely won’t appear anytime soon on his teleprompter:

-Consumers Organize for Reliable Electricity: David Axelrod formed this front group to push for a massive utility tax hike championed by Commonwealth Edison in his hometown Chicago.

-Health Care for America Now: Funded by George Soros and SEIU, this liberal lobbying conglomerate projects itself as street-based “grassroots”.

-American Public Policy Committee: This is an umbrella group whose mission is to attack tea party activists by a group of union and progressive lobbyists run by Craig Varoga supported by big Washington bucks.

-Americans for Stable Quality Care: This coalition funded by Big Pharma, AARP, AMA and SEIU with $150 million for pre-Obama health care ads all while passing themselves off with the illusion of grassroots support.

-American Rights at Work: Which is the far-left, pro-big labor lobbying group who Hilda Solis (Obama’s Labor Secretary) served as treasurer, while as a congresswomen – which she failed to disclose while lobbying for the Big Labor card-check bill she was sponsoring.

Two years of Obama and his allies touting about transparency…filled with backdoor kickbacks, midnight floor votes, big labor deals, C-SPAN camera evasion, etc….. while they promised America’s right to know and championed open access. Yeah right…….. remember this: http://www.changefor2012.com/2009/09/the-soros-connection/ ?

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time…..but, you can not fool all of the people all of the time.” Abraham Lincoln

June 29, 2010 By Save America

There is hardly anyone in government or currently running for office who can communicate the principles of limited government, a free market and the protection of individual rights with a straight-forward voice. There are Republican candidates giving lip-service and few who  really embrace the principles. While it’s true many of the candidates use the right words and claim to be for a limited government, they go no further to explicate their positions of actually doing anything to limit the growth of government, or empower the free market and work to protect your individual rights. These masked candidates must be expose if we have any hope of getting out of this current mess. We all have a personal responsibility this election to understand before we endorse. We deserve more from our elected representatives.

We need candidates who  will re-educate regarding a free market. This takes knowledgeable individuals standing up and speaking clearly about the principles that are being overshadowed and victimized by this current administration. The public needs to understand there is a viable alternative to bring us back from the road to serfdom by this current overreaching government. Young liberals need to know that the status quo, more less the upsurge of progressives has mislead them. The gatekeepers and the new progressive politicians are protecting a power structure through government growth.

Our country needs clear platforms and voices which will reach the young liberals and confused conservatives who’ve been taught the constitution is outdated, in order to present a new vision. And, not just a conservative call to protect tradition. America needs a vision of freedom within the constraints of the Constitution that will reach all generational levels. Many have been taught to think the Constitution is restrictive and will block progress.  Yet, all the Constitution does is restrict government and free the private sector to innovate and progress. If a society is free to choose its values then a free market can lead to growth in the private sector and restore a stable economic environment. But, we have to have freedom to pursue our moral paths and create and produce a better life. The current path of living a government issued life is not the right path.

Obama’s actions are revealing an ideology which is counter to economic growth.  Do we need Republicans who show a lack of courage by going along with what they see as a populist anger against big business? While there may be evidence the public is angry at some large corporations, an alliance of big corporation and government will not lead us to end corporate favoritism and hang on to a free market. Republicans need to stand up rather than lie down. The Tea Party will embrace such actions.

The Tea Party movement is a reaction to this government’s dis-empowerment of the private sector and gradual assault on our personal liberties. While many want to preserve liberty and choice, many become invested in government as a means to deal with societal problems and control perceived problems of capitalism.  Many have a selfish investment as a means of protection where livelihoods depend of government protection and subsidies.  It’s your choice.

It’s time to step back and assess the role of government and the potential of the private sector. There is overwhelming information available that government intervention in the economy is paralyzing the market, which leads high unemployment not to disappear too soon. Europe is beginning to realize how damaging Obama’s policies have been and are stepping away from his advice.

The American public needs to realize we have to start limiting government power.  Do your homework this election and don’t be taken in by a slick marketing campaign. Don’t defend the indefensible.

The Charlie Brown Syndrome

In the famous Charles Schulz comic strip, Peanuts, Charlie Brown is enticed every year by Lucy to placekick a football that she volunteers to hold for him. Charlie runs down the field toward his beguiling friend, who is holding the football on the ground, and swings his leg in a huge arching kick. But at the last moment Lucy jerks the football away and Charlie flies through the air to land on his back with a loud thump and the scream of “Aaugh!” Every year, Lucy convinces Charlie to try another kick, promising not to pull the football away like she did last time. And every year, Charlie runs down the field and Lucy jerks the football away at the last moment with Charlie falling on his famous fanny.

Why does Charlie continue to fall for Lucy’s con? Because Charlie is a good-natured chap, but gullible about human nature. This priceless scene, which played out every year from the 1950s to 2000 in newspapers all over the world, is metaphor for that exasperating trait of large amounts of humans to fall for the beguiling promises of their fellowmen who seek something from them. Much of history is made — from the daily mundane events of our personal lives to the grand, epochal affairs of nations — because of this naïve trust that so many humans have in the professed benevolence of persuasive fellow humans who wish to enlist their support for a cause, a vote, a job, a war, a venture, a romance, etc. The world is full of guile because it is full of fools. Thus life for us as individuals and societies keeps running off the road into messy ditches of disaster.

America is no stranger to the ditches along with the fools who persist in driving us there; and the world of politics is an excellent arena to demonstrate this fact. For over four decades now from 1968 to 2010, the Republican Party hierarchy has been playing the role of Lucy to Charlie Brown conservatives. Every election year GOP politicians promise to millions of traditional conservatives among the party that if they will donate their money, time and votes to elect them, they as Republicans will vigorously challenge the “horrid Democrats” who are obtusely driving America into ditches of disaster. But year after year, just like conniving Lucy, the Republicans we send to Washington go back on their promises and proceed to do as the Democrats do.

Where the Right Has Gone Wrong

Do conservatives show any signs of ever learning from this? Unfortunately, no. They continue to do what Charlie Brown always did. They buy into Lucy’s con. They agree to cooperate with Republican beguilers giving them valuable money, time and votes. This is happening once again as we head for 2012. The Charlie Brown conservatives are insisting that we must cooperate with the Lucy Republicans of Washington. As if the likes of Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, and Sarah Palin are suddenly going to become Jeffersonians and start fighting for strictly limited government. That will happen when mules qualify to run in the Kentucky Derby.

As Patrick Buchanan tells us in his book, Where the Right Went Wrong, “Robert Taft Republicanism is dead… There is no conservative party in Washington. There is a Democratic Party of tax-and-spend, and a Republican Party of guns and butter and tax cuts, too. Washington is all accelerator, the brakes are gone.”

“Republicans believe they have found the Rosetta Stone of American politics, the key to the permanent retention of power: Cut taxes consistently, and don’t let Democrats outspend you. As Dick Cheney told a stunned Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill, ‘Deficits don’t matter.’”

“Lobbying groups, manned by conservative activists, have now been set up in Washington to steer clients to the right GOP congressman to get their pet projects funded by taxpayers…. Everybody gets his or her slice of pork, so long as everyone votes for everyone else’s slice.”

“What is the difference” asks Buchanan, “between the compassionate conservatism of George W. Bush and the Great Society liberalism of Lyndon Johnson?”

There is no difference whatsoever. Why is this horrendous profligacy taking place? Because the Democrats and Republicans have a monopoly over the ideas that feed the populace at election time. Statist-collectivist ideology dominates the electoral process and the TV Presidential Debates through the bogus two-party system. Both parties work for the relentless expansion of government to handle all problems. Both parties enshrine egalitarianism. Both utilize Keynesian economics. Both practice wealth redistribution. Both legislate Nanny State cradle-to-grave security. Both espouse open borders. Both tolerate the subordination of American sovereignty to the goal of one-world government. This has been going on for over 40 years ever since Richard Nixon dumped the Goldwater revolution into the Potomac and showed how to win power by becoming Democratic clones.

In other words, the Lucy Republicans have been jerking the football away from the Charlie Brown conservatives for over four decades. And still the gullible conservatives among the GOP buy into the disingenuousness of Republican promises every election year. When does reality set in? When do the Charlie Brown conservatives wake up and realize they are being played by the Gingrichs, Steeles, Roves and Romneys — the political Lucys of Washington.

Rejecting the Snare and Delusion
There is a solution to this fools’ game. It consists of facing reality and cutting the umbilical cord that draws freedom advocates into the Republican trap every election year. It will necessitate accepting that we no longer have a “two-party system.” As Buchanan puts it, “Our vaunted two-party system is a snare and delusion. Our two parties have become nothing but two wings of the same bird of prey.”

What we, who believe in freedom and constitutional government, must do is face up to this reality instead of clinging so naively every election year to the empty promises of Republican Lucys. We must forge a new political party — a conservative party of our own! But not a party that preaches utopianism to the choir and garners 1% of the vote as the Constitution Party and the Libertarian Party do every year.

We need a REAL third-party that can get 38% of the vote, which would win in a three man race. Contrary to conventional thinking this is now possible. For example, all recent polls show the Democrats and Republicans each getting 30% of the electorate. For the first time since Gallup began asking the question in 1992, says USA Today, 40% of voters declare themselves to be Independent.

What is the source of this profound shift in sentiment? Big, arrogant government and 1) its egregious debt pyramiding, 2) its criminal expropriation of middle class wealth to subsidize Wall Street fat cats, 3) its refusal to check the alien invasion of illegal immigration from Mexico, and 4) the monstrous socialized health-care bill that it so haughtily insisted on ramming down our throats, and which will bring intolerable convolution and misery rather than ease and benefit to our lives.

Thus in today’s political climate so outraged with Washington, if a conservative third-party was geared to end the above four tyrannical policies, it could easily draw 20% from the Independents, 15% from the GOP, and 5% from Blue Dog Democrats, which would be 40% of the vote. Even if the remaining Independent vote of 20% splits 12% in favor of Democrats and only 8% for Republicans, that still would leave the Democrats with only 37%, the Republicans with 23%, and our third-party with 40%. Voila! Victory for conservatives and libertarians. Victory for freedom and smaller government.

A New Political Paradigm
I have written a book that demonstrates how to do this, The Conservative Revolution: Why We Must Form a Third Political Party to Win It. It puts forth a cogent reform plan for our tax and monetary systems that will stop the runaway freight train of government growth and restore sanity to the land. It shatters the myth that we must, at all costs, eschew third-party efforts and “remain within the GOP.” It shows how to unify millions of conservatives, libertarians and independents into one party — the Conservative American Party. Its revolutionary reform plan will dramatically challenge the Washington establishment and bring about a pervasive political realignment equivalent to the Republican displacement of the Whigs in the mid-19th century.

The ideological forces of the past 40 years have been steadily building toward such a paradigmatic challenge, and the world’s present economic crisis is the catalyst that can bring it about. The rising disenchantment we see throughout the American heartland is conservative-libertarian disenchantment. We need to tap into it. The Republican Lucys will continue to do what they are programmed to do — default on their promises. But we as conservatives need to quit playing the role of gullible Charlie Browns. We need a political party of our own! We need to become heroic patriots again. This is the only approach and attitude that can bring salvation to America.

Is there nothing to prevent this group of Marxists from achieving whatever plans they have for America? Our Constitution was thrown away yesterday. Only a mask of our country remains so we cannot see the face of this capture and truly understand our peril.

Elections have consequences. So, now we watch and wait to see what Obama has next on the agenda. But, I think we all know. We all keep saying wait until November, but what will be left of America by then? Why would they push this mandate through against the will of the American people? Why wouldn’t they be worried about the elections this coming November? You can bet they aren’t leaving things to chance.

As a committed leftist, Barack Obama will push for a quick Amnesty bill for millions of illegal aliens in this country. Depending upon what estimates you look at, there are anywhere from eleven million to fifty million people who are living with America, who are in violation of our immigration laws. Amnesty is definitely on the move. The Washington Post ran a story today which covers the mass D.C. demonstration in favor of Amnesty. If the leftists in Congress grant the Amnesty bill which Schumer and Graham have been diligently been working on….…you can bet the inevitable ‘right to vote’ will be attached. If it happens the game is over.

The balance of the electoral power will then shift to the left for generations to come. Any hope of reversal toward the Right for this upcoming election is not within our grasp if the millions of illegal aliens are given a right to vote in these elections.

Why did America vote for Socialism? How many of the people who voted for Obama were told how ridiculous this accusation was at the time? Many people voted for their mortgages to be paid and all kinds of other stupid “entitlement” reasons. Who hasn’t heard, nothing in life is free…….now we all pay the price. Too bad they didn’t do their homework ahead of time. The American public overwhelmingly voted for socialism when they elected Obama. Now, in America……we are all socialists.

How difficult will it be to forecast the damage that will be done with the passing of the Senate health care bill? At a time when our economy needs stability, a cancer has been introduced. This cancer will cause small business to be even more cautious not knowing what changes will be forthcoming and the associated costs.

The Progressive task in the next eight months will be to completely destroy the opposition. They will try and marginalize the Tea Party Movement and position themselves as the middle option in 2010/2012.  The Tea Party may become the catch all basket to throw anyone deemed an enemy of the progressive movement. The continued smears will heighten now, as radical right-wingers in the battle against the Tea Partiers.

This will be a challenge for all free thinkers. We will be required to engage courage in the face of the onslaught of upcoming attacks to marginalize and smear our fight against this progressive agenda. Each individual will be required to do their part personally….whether it be in person, online, etc. without fear of political correctness. You need to decide for yourself what kind of future do you want. Real change will originate from individuals with solutions to meet these demands.  We all need more than ever now to simply be a free American citizen willing to act and speak out.

To see the change, you must be the change.

Senators Outline Goals For Immigration Reform In Washington Post Op-Ed

03/22/2010

Senators Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) today outlined their bipartisan proposal for immigration reform in a much-awaited guest editorial in the Washington Post, calling for a four-part plan that would require biometric Social Security cards to ensure that illegal workers cannot acquire jobs (AMI has advocated for voluntary pilot project bio-metric); fulfill and strengthen border security and interior enforcement; create a process for admitting temporary workers; and implement a tough but fair path to legalization.

“The American people deserve more than empty rhetoric and impractical calls for mass deportation. We urge the public and our colleagues to join our bipartisan efforts in enacting these reforms,” the senators wrote.

President Obama responded with a statement, saying the proposal “should be the basis for moving forward” and pledged to assist in creating a bipartisan consensus this year around the bill.

The editorial comes in advance of a planned Sunday rally in Washington demanding immigration reform.

AMI is supportive of comprehensive immigration reform legislation and will continue to advocate for a plan that addresses practical employee verification, an earned-legalization process for workers in the United States and a viable expanded employment visa program that can be used for full-time, non-seasonal jobs.

Now that the nation’s paying attention, they don’t like what they see. Passing the health care reform bill becomes the most important progressive goal and the progressives are pulling out all the stops. The nation is watching and if it happens, the public will react. No one knows what the outcome will be, Americans may roll over and accept this power grab….but it doesn’t seem likely.

This week, another sell-out Dennis Kucinich made a statement which was overlooked. It was made earlier in different forms by Obama and his progressive clan…..he said, “we have to control the insurance companies”. Regardless of what you think about insurance companies, just consider the statement of a private company “controlled” by the government. As with GM and Chrysler……now look at the plans to “control” banks, energy proposals, land-grabs, public education (which was slimmed into the Healthcare Bill), student loans, the stimulus, it goes on and on. “Nanny” is way too harmless a word…how about “draconian”, because it introduces the tone of what’s required to wake-up America so we don’t warp into total authoritarian rule. We need to fight for our FREEDOM!

The American people have been deceived into thinking our enlightened representatives through ‘democracy’ would improve upon an outdated Constitution in order to build a world of social justice and equality. Now we face the progressive beast who’s worn several masks but never changes its nature and no longer hides behind the mask. The spirit of America has been suppressed for many years, but now it’s time we battle against the largest State power play in our nation’s history – Obama’s healthcare reform.

We’ve had enough! We are not a nation of dependents. We are a diverse nation comprised of capable and compassionate individuals who can live in freedom and solve our problems without government intervention and mandates.

Representative Dave Camp made a statement today to the Rules Committee. This was his opening statement:

Consideration of H.R. 4872, the “Reconciliation Act of 2010,” and
Senate Amendments to H.R. 3590, the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act”

Saturday, March 20, 2010

“Madam Chairwoman, Ranking Member Dreier, and members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify today on this legislation.

The American people have spoken: they do not want the federal government involved in their personal health care and they do not want a bill that spends over a $1 trillion, raises more than one-half trillion dollars in new taxes, cuts Medicare by more than one-half trillion dollars and increases Americans’ health insurance premiums. Yet, that is exactly what will happen if the House passes the Senate Democrats’ health care bill and the Reconciliation bill tomorrow.

The American people have rejected this bill precisely because it taxes too much, spends too much and increases premiums too much. With a total of $569.2 billion in new taxes, these bills represent the single largest tax increase in American history. Just what are those taxes? They are:

• A first-time ever tax on health care benefits, commonly referred to as the “Cadillac tax,” which raises taxes on the American people by $32 billion but that will grow rapidly in the next decade.
• A new Medicare tax on wages, self-employment income and certain investment income that increases taxes by $210.2 billion.
• A new tax on health insurance providers, which will undoubtedly be passed onto consumers in the form of higher premiums, and totals $60.1 billion.
• A new employer mandate tax that will crush small businesses, reduce wages and kill American jobs by directly increasing taxes on employers by $52 billion and indirectly by much more, as employers are forced to spend even more than they do today on health benefits, even though unemployment is already near 10 percent.
• A new tax on drug manufacturers and importers of $27 billion, which will be passed on to consumers.
• A new tax on medical device manufacturers and importers of $20 billion, which also will be passed on to consumers.
• New requirements on information reporting on payments to corporations that raises $17.1 billion.
• A new, higher floor for medical expense deductions for people with high-medical bills that raises $15.2 billion in taxes.
• A new individual mandate tax, which forces Americans to purchase health care they don’t want and can’t afford or else pay this tax. This raises $17 billion and an earlier analysis of this provision by the Joint Committee on Taxation said nearly half of that will be paid by Americans earning less than 300 percent of the federal poverty limit, which is $66,150 for a family of four. This, like so many of the other provisions I mentioned, clearly violates the President’s pledge that no family with an income of less than $250,000 would pay higher taxes.
• There are also new limits on Flexible Spending Accounts in cafeteria plans that raise $13 billion in new taxes.
• There is an elimination of the deduction for expenses allocable to Medicare Part D subsidy in order to raise tax revenues by $4.5 billion.
• Other restrictions on Health Savings Accounts, Health Reimbursement Arrangements and Flexible Spending Accounts increase taxes by $5 billion.
• There is even a new set of taxes on tanning services to the tune of $2.7 billion.
• A limit to the deductibility of compensation paid to employees of certain health insurance providers that increases taxes by $600 million. It is a small number, but I thought it was refreshing to mention one that is in the millions of dollars rather than billions.
• But that’s not all. There is a modification of section 833 treatment of certain health organizations that raises $400 million in new taxes.
• These bills deny the use of the so-called “black liquor” for the cellulosic bio-fuel producer credit, which raises $23.6 billion in tax revenues.
• Then there is codifying economic substance doctrine that increases taxes by $4.5 billion.
• And, JCT tells us there are other “revenue” effects of $60.3 billion.

Again, these 20 different categories of tax increase total $569.2 billion.

These bills cut Medicare by nearly the same amount – a whopping $523.5 billion in cuts to a program that provides health care to our nation’s elderly and the disabled. When the Senate proposed cuts that were 12 percent smaller, the President’s own Medicare Actuaries predicted that, “providers might end their participation in the program (possibly jeopardizing access to care for beneficiaries).” But today we are being asked to send to the floor a bill that cuts even deeper into Medicare and the benefits it provides. Just what are these cuts? They are:

• $202.3 billion in cuts to seniors’ Medicare health plans, including massive cuts targeting the extra benefits and reduced cost-sharing seniors receive through Medicare Advantage. CBO predicted a similar policy would result in 4.8 million fewer seniors will be enrolled in these plans in 2019, while the independent Medicare Payment Advisory Commission predicted a similar policy would result 1 in 5 seniors no longer being able to enroll in Medicare Advantage as a result of this policy.
• $156.6 billion in cuts to inpatient and outpatient hospital services, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, long-term care hospitals, inpatient psychiatric hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, Ambulatory Surgical Centers, hospice, ambulances, dialysis facilities, labs and durable medical equipment suppliers.
• $39.7 billion in cuts to the home health providers.
• $22.1 billion in additional cuts to hospitals by slashing reimbursements designed to assist hospitals that serve low-income patients.
• $20.7 billion in cuts to the Medicare Improvement Fund, which had been intended to fund improvements to seniors’ Medicare benefits, not to finance a new entitlement.
• $13.3 billion in yet-to-be-determined Medicare cuts from the hands of an unelected federal board.
• $2.3 billion in cuts to imaging reimbursements when seniors have MRIs, CT scans, and other procedures.
• $ 800 million in cuts to power wheelchair suppliers.
• $65.7 billion in money taken from seniors in the form of higher premiums and additional cuts to Medicare beneficiaries and providers.

The $569.2 billion in new taxes and the $523.5 billion in cuts to Medicare to fund a new entitlement program are unacceptable, especially when you consider these bills will increase the deficit – once the cost of the Medicare doctor fix is factored in – and increase the cost of health insurance for Americans.

Simply put, the Democrats’ bill will not only ruin our health care system, but the tax increases will ruin our economy.

Madame Chairman, I would like to close by making a few simple requests.

First, I urge you not to make these bills in order. They are deeply flawed and ought not to be brought to the Floor for a vote.

Second, if you insist on making them in order, I ask that you wait until we have missing but very critical information about them, such as the impact on health insurance premiums and on national health spending.

With respect to both the Senate bill and the one the House passed, the Congressional Budget Office agreed both would raise the cost of health insurance and the Medicare actuaries agreed both would increase national health spending.

Before we vote on these bills, then, I think we ought to know if the “fixes” to be passed by reconciliation have worked or if they had made the situation worse.

Third, if you insist on moving this to the Floor for possible consideration tomorrow, I request that you not use the so-called “Slaughter Solution” and instead allow a clear and clean vote on each measure; the American public deserves to know where their elected officials stand and not to have them hide behind a procedural vote.

Thank you for the opportunity to testify today.”

For those American’s who love the American way, become an activist and help in the fight to preserve the liberties which have been bestowed upon us. Remember those brave men and women who have fought and forfeited their lives to preserve this nations greatness for all future generations. This next election is the final point we can redirect out Republic. Please get involved, at any level you feel comfortable. Just help in the fight to preserve what we are about to lose.

Thirty two seconds of what American’s think, “Honk to stop Obamacare”;

Click here to view the embedded video.

Americans are beginning to catch on…… Obama and his administration are all about distraction and deflection, so don’t think with the ongoing census there isn’t a correlation between being counted and gaining citizenship. This Marxist driven administration is spending millions of dollars of our tax money to get the illegal’s to come out of the woodwork and be counted and they will be pulling out all stops to make sure this President achieves re-election with the help of the Census, Illegal Immigration, ACORN, etc.

We as Americans need to be on high alert during the 2010 and 2012 elections. The White House has discussed prospects of reviving and initiating a major overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws. Obama is taking up this issue of advancing a bill through Congress before lawmakers become too distracted with the midterm elections.

Democrat Charles Schumer of New York and Republican Lindsey Graham of South Carolina are working vigilantly outlining ways to resuscitate this effort and have spent months trying to craft a bill. The basis of this bill has hopes to advance citizenship for millions of people living in the United States illegally. These Washington insiders will look for ways to spotlight this issue while building  momentum with immigration rallies, one which is set for March 21^st.  Just ask yourself, realistically how many of these newly legal aliens wouldn’t vote for someone who helped craft and institute the best gift possible, American Citizenship?

Obama promised to revamp immigration in his first year of office and risks angering the Latino constituency if he defers until 2011. There is a consensus that a proposal must be moved by April or early May to have a realistic chance of passing this year.

One very inconvenient truth that both the Democrats and Republicans did not mention at their meeting on health care was the impact and cost of providing health care for over thirty million illegal aliens living and working in the United States of America. Nearly every month at least one hospital is closing their doors because they can no longer afford providing medical care to these millions of illegal aliens. Along with nearly 30 million Americans seeking employment the American people want the illegals to just go home or face deportation. Americans want and need jobs, of which many are being performed by illegals.  This is a political scandal that both parties are responsible for…open borders which result in this problem.  This administration now want the illegal alien votes once amnesty is granted to them under comprehensive immigration reform and a pathway to citizenship.

The result is the forgotten American people. The low skilled American worker of all races have been sacrificed so the progressive, radical, socialist could achieve their political objectives. The political elites found in both parties have turned their backs on the American people.  The day of reckoning is approaching…..Americans will choose liberty and life.

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Obama’s leftist fantasy world makes no common sense to many of us. But, if you understand just what Marxism is and how it works, it is all very understandable. Sarah Palin has it dead on…it is evil.

What seems nutty to people who are not indoctrinated to Marxism and not dedicated to its eventual socialist society, makes absolute sense to Marxists. In their mind, when things go bad in a capitalist society like a recession leading to a depression…that’s great. “For things to get better, first they must get worse” qualifies as a Marxist slogan.

The NewZeal Blog has a 45 minute  interview with former student Marxist John C. Drew. He speaks of meeting with fellow Marxist Barack Obama at Occidental College.

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The people in the Obama cabinet expect us to believe that an administration filled with Marxist influence and radical ideologies does not reflect the President. We are supposed to believe that ideologues who distain our American way can improve the system which has offered more prosperity and well-being than any other nation.

People are now beginning to realize America is under attack. Obama’s popularity has slipped considerably, yet how much do they realize just how engrained this attack is to certain segments of our society? From religious institutions to unions, it is directly related to Cloward and Piven. Witness the messes Obama has made in just twelve months:

-       Media complicity

-       Race to global governance and loss of US Sovereignty

-       The rise of unions/ACORN type organizations

-       Health care “reform” agenda

-       Cap and Trade

-       Out of control government spending and economic justice

-       Unemployment rates

-       Loss of the “American Lifestyle”

-       The grab for control of our waterways

-       Indoctrination of our children

-       Funding the IMF and World Bank

-       Government takeover of General Motors and Banks

-       The attempt to diminish religion

-       Threats to Freedom of Speech

The Obama agenda isn’t about saving the American economy rather about putting “big brother” in control of our lives. It’s about a Nanny State, government intrusion into every aspect of our lives under the pretense of “protecting” us. It’s about destroying capitalism and tearing down our economy in order to build a new economic system based on rewarding certain Americans, social justice…those who support Obama and his agenda.

Think long and hard about what caused this  economic tsunami: too much government spending, too many handouts, wasted spending, too many government employees with increased salaries, pensions and health benefits, too much deficit, too much debt. Just an enormous amount of blank check government promises all paid for by the taxpayers.

And to be fair what are Obama’s solutions? He proposes more spending to get us out of bankruptcy.  Obama offers billions of dollars to state and local governments which will virtually guarantee they’ll do it again.  He suggests more regulations which helped to create this current crisis.

His economic stimulus plans are about buying votes . It’s about giving away billions to state and local governments to lock up votes of government employees and union members for a generation to come.  It’s about handing out tens of billions of dollars to a failing education system and rewarding a teachers union. Why reward a system of consistently lower test scores and higher dropout rates? These same employees will not only keep their jobs but get pay raises while the private sector struggles to survive. This is about buying millions of votes.

He gave away billions of dollars to failing auto companies which rewarded auto unions. The same workers who earn robust annual salaries, pensions and benefits for cars that have become so overpriced  and unpopular no one wants to buy them. And if you’re not a Union member, Obama wants to pass legislation that bans a secret ballot which will ensure every worker will become a union member.  It’s the same with unionizing the healthcare workers and rewarding SEIU, Andy Stern.

Obama is about government takeover. He’s shown this with the banking debacle. This is all about control of who gets a loan, which hasn’t been the private sector and small business. This is about government intrusion and bureaucratic control in directing the banks money to politically correct projects……the ones where Obama’s friends will profit . Time and again this administration has given unions privileges denied to other Americans. This is of no surprise, Organized Labor spent hundreds of millions of dollars electing President Obama and the current Congress. Now the President has given them a healthy return on their investment. Isn’t that the way Obama’s Washington works? Obama promised to change politics as usual, he’s delivered on this promise.

For those of you who didn’t catch Fox’s coverage last night of Sarah Palin’s speech at the Nashville National Tea Party Convention, she launched a full-throttle assault on the leadership of Obama. Palin declared the U.S. needed a commander-in-chief and “not a professor of law standing at the lectern”.  I applaud her for her constraint, Obama has consistently and falsely claimed he is a Constitutional law professor at the University of Chicago….not, try a senior lecturer at the school. I thought all academia’s knew there is a vast difference between the two titles. So, as a ‘Constitutional law instructor’ Obama the scholar (who thinks the Constitution is a flawed document) should have gotten it correct when he stated during his State of the Union address, “We find unity in our incredible diversity, drawing on the promise enshrined in our Constitution: the notion that we are all created equal…..”. He got his documents confused, doesn’t say much for his grasp of the Constitution……this is from the Declaration of Independence. I digress, Palin went on to blast Obama on his foreign policy reaching out to U.S. enemies and to quote Ronald Reagan, “rein in the spending”.

Sarah Palin embraces the Tea Party philosophy and if our future ‘elected’ representatives have hopes of holding office they’d better jump on board with her sentiment, “It’s a beautiful movement because it’s shaping politics”.  She went on to say, “We don’t have all the answers as fallible men and women so it would be wise for us to start seeking some divine intervention again in this country, so that we can be safe and secure and prosperous again”.  Oh my, the progressives are holding their chests at this point.

The media will criticize the Tea Party Convention and ruthlessly pick out all the un-PC moments and messages from speakers….(I’ve already received emails highlighting talking points from our local progressive), and they will consequently deepen their misunderstanding and ignorance to right and center by doing so. For we all know the Tea Party is NOT the opposition movement, yet a gathering of like-minded conservatives who want our Government to abide by the Constitution. Included in Sarah Palin’s convention address, “When the work of Washington violates our Constitution, then we will stand up and we will be counted”. “Only limited government can expand prosperity and opportunity for all. Freedom is a God-given right that’s worth fighting for.”

Half of this country’s population doesn’t vote and there is a tendency for the political elite to dismiss those who are not politically active, they don’t vote so they don’t count. Well, get ready because they are about to come out in droves.  Many of them are averse to government matters, they’d rather be left alone and do their thing without having to be concerned about politics, politicians and bureaucracy. They now are awakened. Americans trusted the American system to keep politicians under control so they don’t do anything adverse to our well being, but with Obama’s limitless appearances, speeches and policy initiatives combined with the medias love affair covering him 24/7, many Americans been stirred from apathetic disgust to paying attention and getting involved. A large portion of our society is beginning see just how convoluted our political system has become. Gone are the days of people voting out of superficial partisan distinctions and family tradition rather than informed interest.

If the political class of 2010 has any savvy, they’ll begin their trek down this learning curve and attempt to understand this movement. The controlled sheep is a changing paradigm under the umbrella of “tea-baggers” who have awaken and gotten involved. Our Federal Government has become a ‘National Government’ which is what our Founding Fathers warned against, it has become so powerful it has infiltrated the private sector in intrusive ways which cannot be ignored.

The last thing our ‘elected representatives’ should do is dismiss, smear or attempt to suppress this movement. These voters are likened to homeowners who entrusted their property to caretakers only to learn they’ve been looted, their valuables hocked and their property turned into grow houses.

This is so much more than a convention in Nashville. Washington DC is up for a mighty shakedown. America is about to be restored.

For more go here: Palin: ‘America is ready for another revolution’

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As predicted Fred O’Neil and Doug Guetzole have stepped upon too many patriotic toes in Florida who have now filed a federal lawsuit against them. The plaintiffs have suggested to O’Neil to back off with the threats of exclusive and intellectual property rights to the Tea Party name.

This is going to get very messy, grass root groups throughout the state use “Tea Party” somewhere in their name. This lawsuit is asking the court to compel O’Neil to change his third political party’s name to avoid confusion with the other state Tea Party groups who are not affiliated or endorse/ approve of his name filing.

O’Neil responded last Tuesday stating he won’t change the name without a court order. He said, “if the plaintiffs wanted exclusive rights to it, they should have beaten him to the punch. They didn’t register it, I did”.

O’Neil is fooling no one, he has had no affiliations to any prior Tea Party group and as we stated earlier, he was a registered democrat UNTIL he filed the name with the Florida Division of Elections. He is the more ‘credible’ front man for Orlando profiteer, Doug Guetzloe.  Guetzloe hosts a conservative radio show and has been accused in the past of a string of political dirty tricks. Some of which have alleged involvement with O’Neil.

After we broke the story of the threatening letters,  Everett Wilkinson of the South Florida Tea Party coordinated the efforts in filing this federal lawsuit against these political insiders. This is nothing more than the creation of a  new political entity  taking advantage of the increasing popularity of this grassroots movement.

Barry Willoughby has included his name as a plaintiff to this filing representing the Naples Tea Party.  While Guetzloe has responded to this filing accusing the plaintiff’s of being supported by well-funded GOP operatives and ‘others’ ramping up to destroy the tea party movement, be assured the Naples Tea Party is truly grass root with no ‘well funded’ operatives behind the movement. To assert this charge is the lowest form of political divisionism and speaks to the possible intentions behind the third political party filing.

With the early launch of the Florida Political Tea Party, how better to divide and conquer in 2010?

Here is a copy of the lawsuit: http://www.scribd.com/doc/25434547/SFTP-v-Tea-Party

The age of information is in full bloom and Americans are thinking for themselves. America is no longer asleep, our apathy has been eradicated and the mainstream media smears and marginalizing no longer work.

I hope the Republicans are watching and taking notes because the Democrats are showing what a political party shouldn’t try and put upon the American people. The arrogance of politicians is no longer acceptable. We the  People have built this nation and created the wealth the politicians are wasting through force.  It’s an old playbook swelling the size of bureaucracy while shrinking the power of the economy and private sector.

As we saw this week in Massachusetts, American’s are not interested in following this playbook. The political class has become a group of out-of-touch manipulators who lack the ability to innovate and lead against the challenges which face our nation. This nation is changing, trying to frame the general movement of the nation as a Tea Party is misleading and another tactic to marginalize.

Private citizens of all political persuasion are rejecting the progressive policies and over-reaching government. This movement has grown too large to politically fit into one category. Chris Matthew and the likes will continually rant about “tea baggers” because they draw from the progressive agenda.

The Tea Party Movement is not monolithic and only one expression of the push against this national change the Obama administration has brought to America. In the sixties we saw an anti-establishment movement which fundamentally  was a reaction to the social problems. This burst of freedom was an attempt to turn away from politics while we suffered under Carter.  By the 80’s and moving forward, government has become so powerful and involved in every aspect of our lives…this resurgence is a move to slow down this growth of government power.

America has been incrementally moving toward progressivism/socialism for a long period of time. More government and more control over the economy and our private lives and behavior. The generations who understand the 60’s understand the philosophy of freedom.

The Tea Party Movement is not driven by uneducated racists from the south as this administration would like to nation to believe. This movement encompasses Americans from all walks of life who are beginning to realize the power of the private sector and how we need to prevent further encroachment  of big government.

Republicans need to understand this is not just a blip from a small, vocal group rather our nations demand to return to how this nation thinks about government and the private sector.  We need a government who turns to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and remains non-intervening.

If you’ve been paying attention, you’ve probably realized the political class is showing signs of mental incompetence. The political bullies have pushed one too many times, Massachusetts is just the beginning.

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