Democrats who were holding out against SanFran Nan’s 1900+ page, $1 Trillion+ government takeover of health care got a key concession from the Speaker and her band of uber-leftists in the House when it was permitted for an amendment to the Death Care bill to be offered. The amendment addressed a key point of contention between pro-life Democrats and the leftists who are currently running the Party’s Caucus in the House. The Stupak Amendment, named for Rep. Bart Stupak of the Democratic People’s Republic of Michigan, removed federal funding of abortions from the Death Care bill gaining Pelosi the much needed 25 votes necessary for the bill to pass.
We have to give Nancy a lot of credit. Between all the arm twisting and getting members an audience with His Imperial Majesty, Emperor Barry Hussein Obama I – Supreme Ruler of the United Socialist States of Amerika, the Political Messiah of the Masses, and Savior of the World Collective – for a much needed brow beating along with her sublime graciousness in allowing the Stupak Amendment to be offered and passed, got her Death Care bill through the House by a wide margin. A whopping 5 votes. In doing so she has effectively written the American People a prescription of poverty and despair for generations to come. That is… Unless the Senate grows a brain and kills the bill.
Senator Joe Lieberman and others, not happy with the ‘public option’ non-option which in all reality will become a public mandate, have threatened to back a Republican led filibuster. This my fellow peasants is our only salvation. However, should that walking corpse Harry Reid decide to get cute and bypass Cloture and pass the Death Care bamboozle through Reconciliation it may prompt something that I believe the ultra-lefties haven’t considered. Perhaps enough of an electoral swing in the House and Senate to allow for a repeal of this damaging legislation?
Allow me a fantasy for a moment as I outline exactly how this is possible.
54% of the American people are opposed to this government take-over of health care. If these 54% rise up in a mass showing of disapproval of how the current majority in both houses is abusing their power it is possible for there to be a super majority of Republicans sent to Washington for the 112th Congress. The 112th Congress, should it have a veto proof majority, could in all essence repeal every piece of harmful legislation without fear of reprisal from the Emperor.
No matter how unlikely the above scenario seems to be, the American People are approaching the point of open revolt. The key to all of this is for Republicans in the House and Senate along with the incoming Freshmen of the 112th Congress to stand strong with one another and any remaining Democrats willing to cross the aisle in the name of the Will of the People no matter if a Super Majority actually exists or not and it can be done.
Campers, we don’t have the money that the Congress and the Emperor are spending. This money does not exist. And every time they monetize the debt by printing more currency it drives the value of the dollar down. I can only explain this fiscal incompetence on a deliberate and orchestrated effort to destroy the United States as it has existed for over 233 years. Which is precisely what those who desire a full-on socialist America wish.
Some on my side of the blogosphere speculated that Emperor Barry was a Manchurian Candidate when he was first elected. To which I can now respond with a certain level of confidence. No. He wasn’t then and isn’t now anything like a Manchurian Candidate. He was then and is now an openly Communist Dictator who will do whatever it takes to “fundamentally transform America” into his Utopian image. Problem. His Utopian image of America is seen through the myopic failure known as Marxism. And he isn’t even attempting to hide it any longer.
Call Congress and the Senate. Tell them if this bill becomes law you are going to send them into an early retirement.
Since the Emperor got himself elected on the backs of the homeless of this nation which his favorite Community Organizing group ACORN fraudulently registered to vote multiple times[1], this nation has been torn apart over his “health care reform” bamboozle. Those of us on the right who correctly see this as a vehicle toward a British and/or Canadian style single payer government run and MANDATORY health care system have been attempting to warn you about all the eventual failures that the Death Care scheme will necessarily lead to. Apparently many of you are paying attention because support for the destruction of the highest quality heath system in the world is meeting strong resistance from The People.
We can discuss poll numbers all day which suggest that over 50% of this nation is opposed to the Obama/Reid/Waxman/Pelosi Death Care plan but that is information that we are all aware of. In spite of that walking corps Harry Reid’s insistence that a “public option” is strongly favored by the American people. That’s hogwash and everybody but Reid seems to understand that. But then again he can barely remain out of a coma long enough to answer when his name is called for a quorum call.
I digress.
Knowing that any kind of “public option” is opposed by all of us peasants, that is not stopping the Liberal leadership in the House and Senate from forcing one through.
Yesterday, I wrote about Pelosi’s plan including a rationing plan for prescription drugs in Medicare. Wonderful. I wonder how long it would take to filter through the rest of the government plan? Probably about the same time it forces private insurance out of business and everyone is lumped into the “public option” that will no longer be optional.
A word about rationing drug coverage in Medicare before I continue. The Medicare prescription drug program as it relates to Medicare Advantage is actually a premium service paid for by the beneficiary. Medicare Advantage is the only part of Medicare that is working efficiently. But House and Senate Democrats want to trash Medicare Advantage to gain favor of AARP so they can claim seniors are on board. Why does AARP want Medicare Advantage scrapped? Because they do not offer it. AARP sells Medigap coverage which “helps cover the 20% that Medicare Part B does not” but doesn’t fully cover it. Rationing will only reduce the number of drugs that your doctor has to choose from to treat your medical conditions. If drug A is the best at treating your condition but the Pelosi plan doesn’t include drug A, your doctor may be forced to prescribe a less effective drug B to treat you. This does not reflect the quality that they have been promising.
Now we learn that the Pelosi plan does in fact include Abortion coverage in the “public option”. But with a twist.
Section 213 on page 16 of the bill will force all Enrollees of the “public option” to pay a monthly $1 premium to fund abortion coverage. Yep, you may be a pro-life male who is not sexually active but you will be forced under the Pelosi plan to help pay for abortions. Can you see where this is going if private insurance is destroyed in favor of the government plan?
From Minority Leader Rep. John Boehner (R OH-8):
Health care reform should not be used as an opportunity to use federal funds to pay for elective abortions. Health reform should be an opportunity to protect human life – not end it.
Unfortunately, Speaker Pelosi’s 2,032-page government takeover of health care does just that. On line 17, p. 110, section 222 under “Abortions for which Public Funding is Allowed” the Health and Human Services Secretary is given the authority to determine when abortion is allowed under the government-run plan. The Speaker’s plan also requires that at least one insurance plan offered in the Exchange covers abortions.
What is even more alarming is that a monthly abortion premium will be charged of all enrollees in the government-run plan. It’s right there on line 16, page 96, section 213, under “Insurance Rating Rules.” The premium will be paid into a U.S. Treasury account – and these federal funds will be used to pay for the abortion services.
Section 213 describes the process in which the Health Benefits Commissioner is to assess the monthly premiums that will be used to pay for elective abortions under the government-run plan. The Commissioner must charge at a minimum $1 per enrollee per month.
This is all a result of putting 1960′s radicals in charge and allowing them to dictate to the rest of us their will. In the 60′s these same people were attempting to build a consequence free environment. In 1973, the Supremes sitting on high in Washington DC agreed with the radicals and forced legalized abortions upon the nation under the twisted logic that states rights are a violation of due process laws. The Warren Court created this situation now Nancy Pelosi and her left coast radicals want to force all of you to pay for their bad behavior.
Newton said in his 2nd law of motion, “every action has an equal and opposite reaction”. This not only applies to motion and propulsion, it applies to life. Every action requires a consequence. Not all consequences are negative. Some actions are taken for the express purposes of bringing about a desired consequence. For example sex.
A married couple wishing to bring a child into the world has sex in order to create the child. This is a desired consequence of their sexual activity. A promiscuous woman who has no self control who may be out on the town on a Saturday night gives in to her temptations and has sex with a man she just met and ends up pregnant. The 1960′s mentality of a consequence free world says, that’s ok, we’ll kill it. And then everything is ok.
But now there is a new twist. Not only do they want it to be legal, they want it to be readily available at taxpayer expense. Hence the reason why iron faced Pelosi wants every ‘public option’ enrollee to pay a $1 premium per month. Once the ‘public option’ is no longer an ‘option’ and all 312 million of us are forced to pay $1 a month to fund abortions for those who lack self control – Planned Parenthood and their ilk will be very well funded indeed.
Pelosi wants to not only make promiscuous sex consequence free, but wants to reward those who engage in the practice with no financial burden for their loathsome decision to kill what they’ve created through their stupidity.
There was a time in this country where women who act like the fictional woman I described above – the promiscuous one not Pelosi – were shunned. It is my personal belief that we lost something when this practice was abandoned in favor of acceptance.
Do you want to be forced to pay for abortion? Make sure your elected officials know that you don’t. Call them daily. Write them. Email them. Fax them. And show up and let them know in person. Not only should abortion be aborted from health care, not one single taxpayer dollar ought to be spend funding them.
The GOP has come out publicly with an alternative to the Pelosi plan. I doubt it will ever see a committee in the House much less given an up or down vote on the floor, but here it is…
What Americans want are common-sense, responsible solutions that address the rising cost of health care and other major problems. In the national Republican address on Saturday, October 31, 2009, House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) discussed Republicans’ plan for common-sense health care reform our nation can afford. Boehner’s address emphasized four common-sense reforms that will lower health care costs and expand access to quality care without a government takeover of our nation’s health care system that kills jobs, raises taxes on small businesses, or cuts Medicare for seniors:
Number one: let families and businesses buy health insurance across state lines.
Number two: allow individuals, small businesses, and trade associations to pool together and acquire health insurance at lower prices, the same way large corporations and labor unions do.
Number three: give states the tools to create their own innovative reforms that lower health care costs.
Number four: end junk lawsuits that contribute to higher health care costs by increasing the number of tests and procedures that physicians sometimes order not because they think it’s good medicine, but because they are afraid of being sued.
You can read Republican Leader Boehner’s comments here.
The Democrats have been saying all along that the Republicans are not offering any solutions of their own. This is plain and simple bullshit. The Democrat leadership has locked out the Republican Caucus from the health care debate. They are crafting all of their bills in secret and dropping them in the hopper just hours before they come to a vote. There is no chance to read any bill being offered by the Democrats just “here it is, let’s vote on it now”. And because everything is such a crisis, there is no way to delay the vote long enough to read the bills. UNLESS…
There is a tiny little group of Democrat Congressmen/women in the House who are elected from traditionally Republican districts. They were elected during the mass anti-Republican wave of 2006 and 2008. Now they are facing re-election when the tide is sweeping in the other direction. Tuesday’s election results in Virginia, New Jersey, and yes, even NY-23 have them all pausing. These people all understand that there is a huge backlash against big government and they do not want to be associated with big government. They ran on platforms of fiscal responsibility when Republicans weren’t being fiscally responsible. Their Party is screwing them at every turn and they know it.
This group is only 47 members strong but there are some tag alongs. These people are holding up the Speaker’s plans and if they continue to do so, perhaps we may survive without this thing. These Blue Dogs need to understand that they have a choice to make. It is either big government and political retirement. Or it is small government and a chance at a future.
A homeless man in Cleveland, OH was registered to vote up to 9 times. ACORN is under investigation for fraudulently registering him and he is in jail for election fraud [↩]
Senators Kerry, Cantwell and Menendez continue false public witness as Catholic lawmakers – have accepted over $500k from abortion lobby – How many within the Catholic community will be led astray by this public dissent?
Today, the Senate Finance Committee rejected two amendments to the Baucus health care bill proposed by Senator Orrin Hatch that would restrict abortion funding and protect conscience rights for health care workers.
The committee voted mainly along party lines, 13-10, opposing the Hatch amendment #C14 (355), which “prohibits authorized or appropriated federal funds under this Mark from being used for elective abortions and plans that cover such abortions.”
Only one Republican, Senator Olympia Snowe (ME) voted with the majority. Senator Kent Conrad (ND) was the only Democrat to support the pro-life amendment.
Senator Hatch and other pro-life senators believe the present bill, without a specific abortion funding exclusion, would lead to federal funding of abortion through subsidies to private insurance plans. This vote puts three established pro-abortion Catholic lawmakers, Senators Kerry, Cantwell, and Menendez now on record supporting the federal expansion of abortion by opposing an abortion restriction amendment which would protect current federal policy.
Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee responded to the defeat of this amendment:
Events this week in Congress provide fresh proof that top Democratic leaders in Congress are pushing forward with plans to establish massive new programs that would pay for elective abortions and subsidize insurance coverage of abortions — which, if achieved, would break from decades of federal policy.
Also by a 13-10 vote, the committee rejected an additional Hatch amendment that would protect the conscience rights of health care workers to opt out of providing or assisting in abortions. Senators Kerry, Cantwell and Menendez rejected this pro-life amendment further defying the teachings of the Church.
In a 2003 letter to the US Bishops’ Conference, then Cardinal Ratzinger wrote:
The Encyclical Letter Evangelium vitae, with reference to judicial decisions or civil laws that authorise or promote abortion or euthanasia, states that there is a “grave and clear obligation to oppose them by conscientious objection. [...] In the case of an intrinsically unjust law, such as a law permitting abortion or euthanasia, it is therefore never licit to obey it, or to ‘take part in a propoganda campaign in favour of such a law or vote for it’” (no. 73). Christians have a “grave obligation of conscience not to cooperate formally in practices which, even if permitted by civil legislation, are contrary to God’s law. Indeed, from the moral standpoint, it is never licit to cooperate formally in evil. [...] This cooperation can never be justified either by invoking respect for the freedom of others or by appealing to the fact that civil law permits it or requires it” (no. 74).
Senators Kerry, Cantwell and Menendez also rejected another Hatch amendment to reinstate funding for Title V abstinence programs which had expired on June 30, 2009. It was not surprising that the current administration under pressure from pro-abortion lobby groups, did not seek to renew abstinence-only funding in the appropriation bills passed over the summer. The Hatch amendment directs $50 million for the next four years for Title V abstinence-only education.
The U.S. bishops conference supports health care policy that offers coverage for all Americans and legal residents, but say it must protect the sanctitiy of life from conception to natural death, and conscience protection for health care workers. The bishops want restrictions on the federal funding of abortion that are constant and do not have to be renewed each year.
Senators supporting the pro-life amendments were Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Orrin Hatch, (R-UT),
JON KYL (R-AZ), Jim Bunning (R-KY), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Pat Roberts (R-KS), John Ensign (R-NV), Mike Enzi (R-WY), John Cornyn (R-TX) and Kent Conrad (D-ND). Senator Bunning is Catholic.
Senators rejecting the abortion funding restriction and conscience protection amendments were Max Baucus, (D-MT), John Rockefeller (D-WV), Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), John Kerry (D-MA), Blanche Lincoln (D-AR), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Bill Nelson (D-FL), Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Tom Carper (D-DE), and Olympia Stowe (R-ME).
Please contact the Senators who voted for the Hatch amendments and thank them.
Please also contact the three pro-abortion Catholic Senators and their respective local Ordinary. How long will their bishops allow the “sin of scandal” by these Catholic Senators to persist? How many within the Catholic community will be led astray by this false public witness? contact info here
Recent events in this nation have begun to raise some questions about how far we have drifted away from the original intent of the founding fathers of this country. A nation originally conceived as a collection of smaller countries. Each state maintaining a level of sovereignty in the world but banded together for mutual defense. Our nation actually has 2 founding documents. The first, the Declaration of Independence put the world on notice that we no longer considered ourselves subjects of the British Monarch King George III. But more especially, it put King George III on notice that we were not going to accept his oppressive treatment any longer without a fight. The second founding document, established a governmental framework around which that mutual defense was to be structured. This document is the Constitution.
The Constitution is the people’s permission for the federal government to operate. As originally written, any issue not directly given as a responsibility of the federal government was to be left to the states. As specified in the 10th Amendment.
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
The supreme authority in the United States is actually granted to us, the people, by our Creator as stated in the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration was much more than our asserting our emancipation from an oppressive dictator, it was our establishment as a people. This establishment went on without direction until after the American Revolutionary War when the Articles of Confederation were established. This loose agreement among the newly freed former colonies of the British crown established them as independent states with no way to settle disputes among them. This facilitated the Constitutional Convention which was empowered by the states to refine the existing Articles of Confederation.
When it was convened a decision was quickly made that the current Articles of Confederation were so flawed that they needed to be abandoned and a new agreement of the states needed to be made.
The intent of those who drafted our Constitution need not be interpreted as those who believe that it is a living breathing and evolving document would have you believe. For the love of Pete it is written in English. The intent is just as clear today as it was in 1787 when it was signed. The United States was and is to be a Constitutional Federal Republic in that the political power of the nation is to be centered in the various states NOT as some would have you believe the federal government.
Upon its signing, the US Constitution was nothing more than 7 Articles establishing the responsibilities of the Congress, President, Supreme Court and subordinate courts, interstate relations, a method of amendment, an establishment of authorization for the payment of debts, supremacy, and oaths of office, and the mode of ratification. It was to be understood, that if the Constitution did not address an issue specifically, it was for the states themselves to deal with or the people.
The USA Began to Unravel Before the Ink Was Dry
Since it’s ratification in 1789, the United States Constitution has been modified for better or for worse according to Article V.
The first fracture in this limited government was made with the adoption of the Bill of Rights. Jefferson, the Democrat that he was, believed that by establishing a bill of rights it would open the Constitution up to assumptions. If the government can assume one right over the people, where would it end. We now know. It doesn’t end.
How Abortion Has Led to the Downfall of a Nation
The next crack was with the adoption of the 14th Amendment. As necessary as the 14th was at its time in history, the amendment was written so broadly that those who cannot understand that a document written in English needs no interpretation will find meaning in its lack of wording to define rights or responsibilities that were never intended. This is how a Constitutional right to terminate life can be found in an amendment adopted to establish citizenship for all persons living in the United States at a specific moment in time regardless of previous state of servitude; and that those persons could not be denied due process under the law. I’m sorry people but slavery has been illegal in the United States since 1862. NO ONE living in 1972 – or since – had ever been a slave. Subsequently they could not be denied due process of law based upon a previous status of servitude. The basis for the legalization of abortion in the United States as legislated by the Supreme Court – a clear violation of Articles I and III of the Constitution – could not and should not have been made by the Warren court. The Amendment cited does not apply.
In contrast to the Warren Court’s establishment of the superiority of the 14th Amendment over all other provisions of the US Constitution, the 10th Amendment shines brightly above it. Or at least with any free thinking individualist with skills to comprehend a sentence written in plain English.
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
Abortion is in the most liberal of terms a medical procedure. There is no Constitutional authority for the federal government to regulate, over-see, fund, or otherwise interfere with medical procedures in this country in spite of the establishment of Medicare and Medicaid. There simply exists no authorization the federal government to do so in the Constitution. However, under the 10th Amendment the states have such a right.
The Warren court decided to supercede the right of the State of Texas to deny a woman an abortion because the state had established the procedure as being not lawful within its jurisdiction. The Warren court’s decision to hear the case much less find some twisted “Constitutional right” was a clear violation of states’ right as defined under the 10th Amendment. Their justification for even hearing the case in the first place – interstate commerce. A medical procedure – legal or illegal – has suddenly become a matter of interstate commerce. This will be the justification for Obamacare next. But I digress.
With this decision, the Warren court made it possible to argue that since every product and/or service performed in this country – legal or illegal – has an intrinsic value and might be a cause for an individual to cross a state line in order to seek said product or service, it is automatically a matter of interstate commerce and thus the jurisdiction of the federal government. And if a product or service is denied to a citizen of a state by the state, it can be argued that the citizen’s rights of due process have been violated even though, that person had no previous condition of servitude.
Using that argument, in Nevada, anyone can walk into any public building and play a slot machine. Here in Ohio we cannot. Therefore my right to feed a potential gambling addiction (which I don’t have) cannot be satisfied. Because companies in Nevada supply these type of machines, it can be argued that Ohio’s anti-gambling laws constitute a violation of my 14th amendment rights under interstate commerce. I don’t have readily available access to those machines. (note: this is actually a better argument for interstate commerce due process interference than the Roe decision was.)
In a sense, the Roe decision opened the 14th amendment up for bastardization by any liberal crazy with a wild hair to do anything that is currently forbidden by a state government.
The Income Tax and the Beginning of Class Warfare
The next modification to our Constitution that contributed to our demise as a country is the 16th Amendment. A very simple amendment the establishment of an income tax.
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
This removed the requirement established in Article I requiring an enumeration of the people before the levying of any taxes in Article I Section 2 Paragraph 3. I know the reason for doing so however, that does not justify the levying taxes without an enumeration of the people as required by our founders. Removing the racial make-up and devaluation of the human-being implied by Article 1 Section 2, it still should be required that if any new tax is to be imposed on the people, an enumeration of the populous should be conducted in order to know how much revenue would be generated by said tax. This only makes common sense and thus why it was originally written into article I.
This income tax has been a vehicle by which a particular political party has created a separation of the people based solely on one’s ability to earn. Hard work, effort, and the taking of risks in this country is what makes it great. Those who wish to impose some twisted sense of social equality based solely on existence have created in a sense a war among the classes that takes place every 4 years at the ballot. Those who ‘have’ continue to be vilified in this nation rather than rewarded for creating wealth and providing opportunities for others to establish themselves and provide for their families. A progressive and overly burdensome tax system has been implemented in order to spread the wealth in a quest to redistribute the wealth of the nation according to Karl Marx and Frederick Engels.
The worst kept political secret in this nation is that the Democrat party has been working towards full implementation of social Communism by way of income redistribution. And the vehicle used most often is the 16th Amendment.
The Popular Election of Senators – The States Are Removed from the Equation
With the passage and ratification of the 17th Amendment, the people would in a sense have two Houses of Representatives. Originally, the state legislatures had the responsibility of appointing 2 Senators in different term classes to the United States Senate for terms of 6 years. This is outlined in Article 1 Section 3 of the Constitution.
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof, for six Years; and each Senator shall have one Vote.
Being appointed by the state legislature made a Senator accountable to the state from which he/she was appointed. This gave the state more power. With the passage of the 17th Amendment, the people of this nation removed this accountability to the states and in a sense made the states subservient to the federal government. And the end of our Republic was begun.
Clause 1. The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures.
Clause 2. When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of each State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct.
Clause 3. This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution.
As of the ratification of the 17th Amendment, we are no longer a collection of 50 separate and independent nations, we are nothing more than 50 provinces or districts within the out of control monster known as the United States.
Conclusion
Many cite the Constitution as the ultimate authority in the United States. This idea is nothing more than fiction. It is the will of the people as expressed by the people. We will it or it cannot be so. This authority is granted to us by GOD and declared to the world as such by the Declaration of Independence.
With the growing emergence of the sovereignty movement among the states, I can see a day when the United States as we know it could – and I emphasize the word COULD – be obsolete. If every one of the 50 states declared itself independent again – like the Constitution originally intended – then perhaps a new agreement among the states could replace the now totally flawed and bastardized Constitution like it replaced the Articles of Confederation. One could only hope.
Since an estimated 80% of the population already has health care coverage, the rush to pass the Obama/Pelosi/Waxman/Reid Death Care package can only have one reason – overwhelm the system.
Saul Alinsky said in his ‘Rules for Radicals’ -
RULE 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules.
This is the same tactic employed by ACORN and its affiliated groups when they swamped the states with millions of fraudulent voter registration cards. It was impossible to weed out all the bad registrations so many of them passed through the system like shit through a goose. Hence the reason why a man in Cleveland was able to vote 9 times.
Obama, Pelosi, Waxman, and Reid all know this works. The chief advocate of pushing legislation through before it can be read is Rham Emanuel who has a special reason for wanting a rush on Death Care. His brother is set to become Obama’s czar.
Other Alinsky tactics at play here? Let’s take a look…
RULE 1: “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.” Power is derived from 2 main sources – money and people. “Have-Nots” must build power from flesh and blood.
The “Have-Nots” were the Democrats in 2006. They used whatever means available to them including deceit to get YOU to put THEM into power. Remember the “Culture of Corruption”? While you ponder that term let me mention former U.S. Representative from Louisiana William Jefferson. The A #1 example of political corruption is William Jefferson followed closely by Rod Blagojevich. Both DEMOCRATS.
Power is the only concern for liberals. They crave it like a crack addict craves a rock. And they will employ any tactic they can to achieve and hold on to, if not expand, their power. This Congress and this President are all about power consolidation. They want to centralize power in Washington to make as many of you dependent upon them as possible. After-all, they rush these bills through so fast only they know what’s in them. As I wrote a few days ago, even Obama doesn’t know what’s in his Death Care bill. This is done on purpose. The term is Plausible Deniability.
If passed, harmful aspects of a bill can be avoided by the President if he does not know they are in the bill. He can deny knowing it was there and escape the normally apathetic public’s scrutiny during his re-election campaign. Their policies are stupid, I never said they were. Ignorant to the facts of life maybe, but brilliant in fooling you into believing their tripe.
A few of Alinsky’s other greatest hits…
RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.
RULE 8: “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.” Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new.
RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.
We see this at play with Pelosi’s announcement the other day that Death Care opposition protesters are carrying swastikas to these townhalls as if it were the protesters themselves saying “We Are Nazi’s and You Must Fear Us.” What drivel. Pelosi is trying to scare moderates and rank-in-file Democrats into not participating in the opposition because she is now associating the opposition with Nazis.
The truth of the matter is the swastikas being displayed at these townhalls are in reference to the President’s and the Congress’s tactics. The completely fascist way in which they are driving home their agenda without debate. Their appeal to their supporters to turn-in anyone talking about Death Care negatively via the White House’s “snitch” program is straight out of Nazi Germany’s Gestapo playbook. To the point that I asked the question, “Who is their Himmler?”
As you think about your position during this “debate” keep one thing in mind. Roughly 80% of this nation is already insured. And it is roughly this same percentage of people who are satisfied with this level of coverage. Many of the remaining “uninsured” choose to be. Many others still aren’t even US citizens. Still others would qualify for medical care under current government funded programs. The number of actual uninsured that need to have coverage is somewhere in the neighborhood of 7 million. Can a way be found to cover these people? Yes. But does it have to include a $1 trillion price tag? No. Does it need to eliminate choices? No. Does it need to include end of life counseling that can be morphed into a forced eugenics program in the future? No. Does it need to include taxes on existing employer provided health care with exemptions for union employees as an incentive to join labor unions? Hell NO!
The answer is not in the Obama/Pelosi/Waxman/Reid Death Care bills. The answer is expanding market solutions to make health care more affordable for more people. There exists in this country barriers to expanded risk pools. Insurance companies cannot offer coverage under a particular group across state lines. This limits the risk pool and raises prices. This could be eliminated.
Currently, malpractice insurers will settle malpractice claims out of court in order to avoid limitless awards granted by judges. This is costing billions of dollars annually to the insurance industry and in turn raising the cost of health care. This process has led to the requirement of needless testing to confirm and re-confirm a diagnosis that a doctor has made. These tests are expensive and cost the insurance industry still more billions a year. Without meaningful tort reform that protects patients and doctors, costs will continue to be driven up. This all said however, the Obama/Pelosi/Waxman/Reid Death Care bills do not attempt to address this vital portion of the complex problem. Tort reform is key to controlling costs. Not Obama’s death summits every 5 years or federally funded abortions.
The left is insisting that the Republicans are not offering solutions. This is pure unadulterated bullshit. Republicans have been attempting to reform tort law for decades and the Democrats resist because they are in bed with the trial lawyers. Hell one of their most recent Presidential candidates and a former Democrat Nominee for Vice President was a trial lawyer. How can you possibly control the costs of health care if you continue to reward one of your pet special interest groups who is driving up costs? You can’t.
There is one other thing that you need to consider when deciding whether you support the Obama/Pelosi/Waxman/Reid Death Care bills, if 80% are covered and satisfied with their coverage, what is the rush? If no crisis exists why rush it through as if there is a crisis?
Don’t fall for their Alinsky ‘Rules for Radicals’ tactics again. You did once and elected them. See them for the charlatans they are and reject their scare tactics. Read the bill for yourself and insist your Congresscritter reads it BEFORE he/she votes on it.
Programming Note…
From this point forward, anytime this site refers to the current debate on “health care reform” it will be referred to as the Obama/Pelosi/Waxman/Reid Death Care bills. Why might you ask? Because there is nothing healthy about abortion, eugenics, care rationing, and waiting lists. Neither is removing the doctor and patient from decisions about care and placing the decision making in the hands of a unfeeling, disinterested bean counters in Washington. Death is the only possible result of these bills.
This is tardy, but as they say, “better late than never”.
The Obama/Pelosi/Waxman/Reid death care proposals include language which would provide for federally funded end of life counseling for seniors within the first 5 years. Giving the President’s explanation of this the benefit of the doubt for a moment, what is to say if passed this won’t morph down the road just as Medicaid and other plans have?
Let me explain…
Medicaid was originally proposed as a health care safety net for women and children. It now covers millions of men who find themselves impoverished and sick. My pointing this out is not to say that I don’t believe these men deserve coverage under Medicaid. More accurately I point this out to show how a well intentioned program can over time be morphed into something totally different than originally intended.
So if Mr. Obama is correct in saying that the counseling is voluntary as currently proposed, what is to say down the line it won’t become mandatory? Worse yet, what is to say that that counseling may not be dictated by future legislation to include a forced Eugenics program?
“Mr. Smith, the government has determined that your termination date is set for September 5th. How would you like your estate to be handled?”
-OR -
“Mr. Smith, His Imperial Highness Emperor Barack Obama has commanded you to be Euthanized so that you will no longer be a drain on government health care, what is your chosen method of termination?”
Setting that aside for a moment, the current bill has provisions in it for government funded (see also taxpayer funded) abortions. Millions of Americans find abortion morally repugnant but yet their tax dollars will be used under this proposal to fund that very repugnant procedure. Why should people who have a moral objection to this procedure be forced to fund them? After-all, if a person has a moral objection to war they can apply for an exemption from conscripted military service as a Contentious Objector.
I can only take away from these two simple examples that the true goal of Obama is to kill as many Americans off as quickly as possible in order to fund the program for the healthy. I envision Obama as Emperor sitting in the newly decorated Throne Room (the current East Room) at the White House directing his Minister of Health to order this segment or that segment of the population’s extermination in the name of cost.
The elderly, terminally sick, disabled, and yet unborn should fear this bill because it contains no guarantees that a forced Eugenics program will never be started from this program. And all of you who value human life should be opposed to this bill because if left to the liberals, it will morph and you will be forced into a death for the sake of patriotism situation.
One more thought…
What is to say that this bill couldn’t lead to a one or two child policy a la China?
Short answer to all my questions is – nothing. There is no guarantee that these things will never happen. After-all it has been the goal of liberal America to control the US population by forced Eugenics.
And watch out African-Americans! Keep in mind that under the current abortion climate, your community suffers 1/3 of all abortions performed in this country. I see that number rising if it ever becomes mandatory under a one or two child policy.
In the lead up to the 2008 elections, the extremely left leaning media of this country were trying to convince you that the nation was in recession when key indicators suggested economic growth not recession. They created the current recession by convincing you it existed when it didn’t. Now, one of the leftarded media outlets is trying to convince you that the recession that they helped create is over when the key economic indicator of the existence of a recession shows evidence that it the recession is continuing..
But according to all of the economic indicators, Newsweek is a bit premature in that announcement. This includes the most important indicator – the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
A recession is defined as 2 or more consecutive quarters of negative GDP. The main stream media all were announcing that the United States was in recession when the nation still had positive GDP numbers. And now, Newsweek in their infinite stupidity is announcing the end of said recession unilaterally with no evidence to back it up. But what the hell, evidence doesn’t mean a fucking thing to these assholes.
“I don’t know whether you’ve seen the cover of the latest Newsweek magazine on the rack at the grocery store, but the cover says: ‘The Recession is Over,’” the president said as part of his prepared remarks at the event.
“I imagine you might have found that news a little startling,” Obama continued. “I know I did.”
Obama went on to say while certain indicators are improving, like the stock market and home sales, “That’s little comfort if you are one of the folks who have lost their job.”
For the first time in his short Presidency, Barack Obama is correct. It is little comfort for the couple of million people who have lost their jobs since the Man with the Middle Name Hussein took over. He has been consistently wrong in every prediction that he has made from the campaign on.
He warned us that if we didn’t pass his economic stimulus package that unemployment would climb to 8.5%. With the national unemployment numbers flirting with 10% and the jobless rate in the Democratic People’s Republic of Michigan tipping the scales at a whopping 15%, somehow I believe the douchebag from Chicago got that one wrong.
He said that his stimulus package would create jobs. Wrong again. Green jobs – wrong. The only evidence that I personally have been able to find that any of his stimulus claims are being implemented is a sign on I-75 southbound into Dayton, Ohio that claims that a project begun 8 years ago, the I-70/I-75 Interchange, and near completion is part of the Obama Porkulus package. I’m sorry, but I’m sure funding for that piece of road work was secured before ground was broken. The same can be said for the other I-75 project. Ground was broken on that in early 2008. So somehow I doubt Porkulus funding got those projects off the ground or created any jobs there since they were both going before Obamaramadingdong secured his Party’s nomination.
Barry followed up his extremely expensive political payoff package with another aimed at cutting greenhouse emissions when in fact, it does nothing of the sort. It is another tax package dreamed up by the President and put into a bill by SanFranNan, both of whom have never seen a tax proposal they haven’t absolutely been in lust with. The House Cap and Trade bill doesn’t curb the emissions of greenhouse gasses. It only taxes them. Somehow they have the idea that raising taxes on businesses in this country will somehow create jobs. I’ve never heard anything more ignorant in my life. But they truly believe this tripe.
Now Barry, Nan, and Harry Reid (the human sleeping pill) have another brilliant idea. Let’s place greater mandates on the health care industry by forcing Doctors out of the profession through regulation and lower compensation for government funded options. Let’s place a mandate on the American people to get private coverage before this bill becomes law or be forced onto a government run health care system that will create waiting lists, rationing of care, and the end of privacy. Let’s remove the patient and the doctor from the decision making process and put an empathy free board of bureaucrats in charge of making health care decisions for people they’ve never met. And while we are at it, how about ending care for seniors and fund as many abortions as we can to reduce the population.
What’s next for this turd? Soylent Green?!?
So no Newsweek, the recession that you helped create by instilling fear into the minds of many non-thinking lemmings out there who wrongly believe that you are an independent news service is not over. It is alive and well and about to receive a huge shot in the arm if the House and Senate pass Obama’s health care scheme.
With over 100 unfilled positions in the Obama Infestation, President Juggears will have the opportunity to fill another vacancy – Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. National Public Radio is reporting that Justice David Souter – a Republican disappointment to say the least – will be announcing his retirement from the high court.
This prompts the question – Who will the POTUS appoint to fill turn-coat Souter’s seat on the high court?
Using the logic that Barry will be under tremendous pressure to replace Souter with a woman and understanding the political debts that he owes the Chicago Democrat Machine for his election, I predict that he will select Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan. Madigan has a 100% rating from Planned Parenthood which fulfills Juggears’ pro-death agenda. AND Madigan served in the Illinois Senate with Juggears. They are pals according to her Wikipedia page.
My other suggestion would be ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero to pander to the gay community but I think that he’s saving Romero as a replacement for Ginsburg or Stevens.
Comments are open (until noon Eastern Friday May 1. 2009) on this post so feel free to express who you think Juggears will appoint.
In a move that shows just exactly how stupid our new President is, Obama signed the 465-page Omnibus package which, in section 509 of Title V makes his executive order of two days earlier moot. The amendment to the Omnibus package makes it illegal to use funding included in the Act to finance “research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death.” Just 2 days earlier, Obamaramadingdong signed an executive order reversing a Bush era EO that banned the use of federal funds for the creation of and the research on new embryonic stem cells.
The amendment says, in part: “None of the funds made available in this Act may be used for—(1) the creation of a human embryo or embryos for research purposes; or (2) research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death.”
Found in Section 509 of Title V of the omnibus bill (at page 280 of the 465-page document), the federal funding ban not only prohibits the government from providing tax dollars to support research that kills or risks injury to a human embryo, it also mandates that the government use an all-inclusive definition of “human embryo” that encompasses any nascent human life from the moment that life comes into being, even if created in a laboratory through cloning, in vitro fertilization or any other means.
“For the purposes of this section,” says the law, “the term ‘human embryo or embryos’ includes any organism … that is derived by fertilization, parthenogenesis, cloning, or any other means from one or more human gametes or human diploid cells.”
At a widely publicized White House ceremony on Monday, President Obama signed his own executive order lifting an executive order that President Bush had signed in 2001. While allowing federal funding of research involving embryonic stem cell lines that had already been created from embryos that had already been destroyed, Bush’s 2001 order denied federal funding to research that required the killing of any additional embryos.
“For the past 8 years, the authority of the Department of Health and Human Services, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to fund and conduct human embryonic stem cell research has been limited by Presidential actions,” said the order that President Obama signed Monday. “The purpose of this order is to remove these limitations on scientific inquiry, to expand NIH support for the exploration of human stem cell research, and in so doing to enhance the contribution of America’s scientists to important new discoveries and new therapies for the benefit of humankind.”
The order went on to say: “The Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary), through the Director of NIH, may support and conduct responsible, scientifically worthy human stem cell research, including human embryonic stem cell research, to the extent permitted by law.”
Obama’s signature making the Omnibus package law negates his earlier signature on the EO thereby shows the world that he is more interested in spending our grandchildren’s money than furthering causes – unless of course that cause is universal socialism.
The text of the Amendment reads as follows (courtesy of CNSNews)
SEC. 509. (a) None of the funds made available in this Act may be used for—(1) the creation of a human embryo or embryos for research purposes; or (2) research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death greater than that allowed for research on fetuses in utero under 45 CFR 46.204(b) and section 498(b) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 289g(b)). (b) For purposes of this section, the term ‘‘human embryo or embryos’’ includes any organism, not protected as a human subject under 45 CFR 46 as of the date of the enactment of this Act, that is derived by fertilization, parthenogenesis, cloning, or any other means from one or more human gametes or human diploid cells.
The following is the opening rant from the newly named Full Frontal Lobe Assault show on BTR that was formally The Gribbit and Kender Show. The show streamed at midnight Saturday night.
With THE most socialist individual to ever infest 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue pushing his leftist agenda, many on the right are fearful of his socializing the medical industry. I’m not going to snow you into thinking that this doesn’t frighten me, because it absolutely TERRIFIES ME!
Being the father of a child with extensive, and expensive, medical needs, I fear for the quality of that care once the Obamaramadingdong has his way with the industry. What fears me even more, is the idea that a government bureaucrat being in charge of the decision making process on which procedures are medically viable. This puts said bureaucrat into the position of being GOD. And I’m sorry, but a government appointed deity is frightening.
Who is to say if a child is viable or not? Who is to say if medical procedures on the elderly are worth it or not?
Friday, my little one had a visit from her Early Intervention Specialist. A federally mandated program funded by the local MRDD Board for children who are physically or mentally delayed. Why my daughter has to be visited I’ll get into another time, but her Early Intervention Specialist told us of a story of a woman in her family who recently had to have a procedure done. She couldn’t get anyone in the area to perform the procedure so she went to the Cleveland Clinic. The doctor there even was reluctant to perform the procedure because this woman is in her 80’s. My fear is that under the Obama plan, she would have been denied the procedure solely based upon her age.
Where are we going with this idea of placing the federal government in control of the health care, or any industry for that matter? Whether it is banking, health care, transportation, energy, or under water basket weaving, the truth is that as soon as the feds get involved it becomes more expensive and less efficient.
Decades ago the federal government took charge of a couple of rail companies. One became known as ConRail and has since been privatized and taken over by CSX and Norfolk Southern Railroads. The other? Well it is still run by the feds and is known as Amtrack.
Kender knows all about the efficiency of Amtrack and I’m sure he’s getting poised to jump in with a few comments about this massively inept organization but Congress doesn’t see it that way. Those members who live outside of the Northeast Corridor fly when they need to travel to and from their home districts. Those who use Amtrack think it is the best thing since the invention of the wheel especially since they fund it.
And of course I could mention the level of incompetence that the United States Postal Service is run with. Do we really want the same people in charge of health care that run the Post Office so efficiently?!?
The biggest fear that I have is abortion. We all know that King Hussein I has a propensity for killing the unborn. He has proven his loyalty to Planned Parenthood on multiple occasions.
When we found out that our little princess was going to be born with Spina Bifida, the first option given us was abortion. Mind you, by law they only had 4 weeks to terminate because by the time it was confirmed via ultrasound Mrs. Gribbit was in her 20th week.
I find it inconceivable that anyone, without knowing the extent of the defect, which cannot be known until after the repair is performed by-the-way, can make the decision to abort their child.
I know from studying what Spina Bifida is and how it comes about that the spinal cord of a baby forms around 12 days after conception. The presence of a spinal cord equals the ability for the baby to feel PAIN.
Abortion advocates spend a lot of time trying to convince the general public that before 24 weeks a baby is nothing more than a collection of tissue incapable of feeling pain. I have news for all of you, as soon as the central nervous system forms that baby, and it is a baby by-the-way, feels pain.
My biggest fear is that under Obama, the medical profession will become socialized and that government appointed deity in Washington would mandate that babies such as mine would be killed in the womb at 20 weeks. How could I possibly look my daughter in the eye if I supported that creep? How could I look her in the eye if I voted for that creep? How could I look her in the eye and tell her that she is special and allow that moron to kill babies who are just like her before they are born without opposing him?
And just as a matter of clarity, my daughter’s condition is nowhere as bad as the doctor who confirmed her defect made it out to be. It was a L2 level lesion and had a very great probability of being as bad as he said, but it isn’t. He led us to believe that she would never walk. That said however, she has full leg, ankle, foot, and toe movement. Her neurosurgeon suspect that she may have a little ankle weakness but that can be corrected with Orthotics.
If children such as mine are going to be prevented from birth because of the extensive medical support they need throughout their lives, then I will be advocating Euthanasia for AIDS victims because their outcome is much more dire than my child’s.
This episode features Conservative Film-maker Jack Marino. Jack made a film called Forgotten Heroes available at www.forgottenheroesthefilm.com.
I must apologize in advance for the quality of the audio in my rant. The system by which I connect to BTR needs to be revisited. That said however, Kender’s audio as well as Jack’s is excellent.
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In a move that shows just exactly how stupid our new President is, Obama signed the 465-page Omnibus package which, in section 509 of Title V makes his executive order of two days earlier moot. The amendment to the Omnibus package makes it illegal to use funding included in the Act to finance “research in [...]
The following is the opening rant from the newly named Full Frontal Lobe Assault show on BTR that was formally The Gribbit and Kender Show. The show streamed at midnight Saturday night. With THE most socialist individual to ever infest 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue pushing his leftist agenda, many on the right are fearful of his [...]
Democrats who were holding out against SanFran Nan’s 1900+ page, $1 Trillion+ government takeover of health care got a key concession from the Speaker and her band of uber-leftists in the House when it was permitted for an amendment to the Death Care bill to be offered. The amendment addressed a key point of contention between pro-life Democrats and the leftists who are currently running the Party’s Caucus in the House. The Stupak Amendment, named for Rep. Bart Stupak of the Democratic People’s Republic of Michigan, removed federal funding of abortions from the Death Care bill gaining Pelosi the much needed 25 votes necessary for the bill to pass.![[del.icio.us]](http://gribbitonline.com/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/delicious.png)
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With over 100 unfilled positions in the Obama Infestation, President Juggears will have the opportunity to fill another vacancy – Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. 
