Not yet a long enough “train of abuses and usurpations”…
by John Allison III, editor
…but Democrats are promising more.
The following is part of the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
Tomorrow, it appears the US House of Representatives will vote for President Obama’s government takeover of the US health care system, not only without consent, but AGAINST THE WILL of the governed!
This planned redistribution of wealth is destructive to Americans’ pursuit of happiness by punishing the successful to reward the unsuccessful. The expansion of government power to mandate the purchase of health insurance will destroy Americans’ liberty to choose what type of health insurance to purchase, or not to purchase it at all. And in the end, as evidenced by those foreign nationals who leave their countries with nationalized health care to have their conditions treated here, Americans’ right to life will be sacrificed as wait times are increased for receiving life saving treatments and patients die as a result.
Tomorrow’s vote, if the Democrats succeed will mark the day our government became “destructive to these ends.” Our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness will have all been denied by a narcissistic demagogue whose personal mission more and more seems to be the destruction of the American way of life.
While I am not yet ready to proclaim the past 14 months constitute the “long train of abuses and usurpations” that demands we “throw off such government,” we are certainly moving in that direction. The lavish spending, government seizure of private industry, and complete abandonment of representation of the electorate indeed constitute abuses and usurpations evincing a design to reduce us under the “absolute despotism” of the Democrat Party leadership.
Nancy Pelosi has promised even more changes to the health care system after she “kicks through this door,” or gets this first health care bill to pass. The American people have jammed the phone lines on Capitol Hill, assailed their Congressmen at town hall meetings, and participated in record breaking protests to unequivocally communicate their opposition to the Obama/Democrat agenda. That opposition didn’t begin with the health care debate, it began with Obama’s earliest initiatives.
The American people have stood together to oppose TARP, the auto industry bailouts, cap & trade, cash-for-clunkers, record deficits, bloated budgets, unprecedented levels of national debt, and Obamacare. The entire Obama agenda has been opposed, and that opposition has been ignored time and again. “The consent of the governed” isn’t even a consideration of this administration, or its enforcers in the US House and Senate.
For fourteen months our unalienable rights have been ignored and usurped, with Democrat promises of more to come. Fourteen months is not yet long enough to constitute the “long train” that will demand we take more drastic action.
Not yet, but they’re promising more.
Without a Vote?
The Washington Post: “Pelosi may try to pass health
bill without vote.”
Pelosi & Obama’s Democrat Roundup
by Chad Crowe at the Wall Street Journal
The so-called Blue Dogs are in there somewhere too! We need Congressmen who will vote AGAINST Nancy Pelosi for Speaker next year!
1st District GOP Candidates to speak in Cabot, AR Monday
from the Tea Party of Lonoke County, AR
The Lonoke County Republican Committee has announced both GOP candidates for Arkansas’ 1st Congressional District will speak at the committee’s regular monthly meeting on Monday. Rick Crawford and Princella Smith will address the committee and take questions.
Though the Tea Party of Lonoke County is non-partisan, the course charted by the Democrats who now run our country makes this election cycle unique. The first vote new members make will be to elect the Speaker of the House. In 2010, sending any Democrat to Washington to represent the 1st District will be equivalent to voting for Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for Speaker.
We simply cannot afford another two years suffering under this left-wing zealot who has been a rubber stamp for every part of President Obama’s Socialist agenda.
For that reason, the 2010 Republican primary is crucial. Conservatives in Arkansas MUST participate in the May elections to decide the GOP nominee so we send the very best candidate to the general election in November. We need a GOP candidate who represents Arkansas’ conservative values and understands the concerns of Arkansas’ conservative majority.
We need as many as possible to attend these events to get to know the candidates. For years, we have allowed state GOP party loyalists and even the national infrastructure of the Republican party to choose the nominee who would oppose the Democrats who have failed to represent us in DC. In 2004, only 8484 of the 54000 who participated in the GOP Senate primary were 1st District voters.
We MUST motivate more 1st District voters to participate in the Republican primary this year if we hope to deliver a conservative candidate who will be palatable to a majority of those who vote in November. One way to do that is by getting to know these candidates. Meet them, speak with them, listen to them, and then choose who you think will best represent us in Washington. Then tell your friends. Spread the word. Let people know you’re excited about this candidate, or that one and tell them why!
If we can accomplish that mission, we can choose a conservative candidate who can win in November. It will be an historic accomplishment because the last time the 1st District was represented by a Republican was in 1875.
But we need an historic election to undo the historic damage to our country inflicted by the Obama administration.
Crawford entered the race and has been campaigning since last April, long before anyone suspected Marion Berry would choose not to run. In fact, many believe Crawford’s long-running campaign may have dealt the death blow to Berry’s chances to win re-election. The veteran from Jonesboro embraced the Tea Party early in his campaign and promises to support its platform of 1) Limited Government, 2) Fiscal Responsibility, and 3) Accountable Elected Officials. Before Smith announced she would challenge him in the GOP primary, Crawford committed to make himself available to Lonoke County voters at the upcoming Meet & Greet in Cabot later this week.
A Google search for any relationship between Princella Smith and the Tea Party movement turns up empty. In fact, it’s difficult to even find an article that mentions both her and the protest movement that swept the nation last year and turned the 2010 election cycle into a boiling cauldron for many Democrats across the country.
Smith touts her knowledge of “how things work” on Capitol Hill as one of her qualifications to represent Arkansas’ 1st District, but that may not play well with Tea Party activists who are generally disenchanted with Republicans and Democrats in Washington. On the issues, she and Crawford apparently agree with and support the planks in the national GOP platform.
Her youth may become an issue as well. Most of the four years since she graduated college have been spent in DC working with establishment Republicans like former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, and most recently with Congressman Anh “Joseph” Cao (R-LA) who was the only GOP House member to vote for Obama’s government takeover of health care.
So both candidates espouse conservative ideals. But the most important thing in this election cycle will be to nominate candidates who can capitalize on the energy of the Tea Party movement, a person who will be a friend to the movement even after he or she has an office in DC.
Here’s the opportunity to meet your next Congressman Lonoke County!
One of these two will replace Marion Berry next year, if we get involved and work to choose the best one in May.
The Campaign Against Blanche Lincoln
by John Allison III
The past year has shown us what happens when left-wing zealots in the Democrat party completely control the Legislative and Executive branches of our government. We’ve seen government seize ownership of private industry, the Obama administration redistribute assets to its allies, Congress and the President pass and sign spending bills that do nothing to stimulate the economy but saddle our children and grandchildren with monumental amounts of debt, our Commander-in-Chief demoralize our troops and embolden those of our enemies by his apologies and pandering to our enemies, and our own representatives in Congress ignore and impugn us when we dare stand up to demand they honor the oath they swore to protect and defend the Constitution of these United States.
The Campaign Against Blanche Lincoln is excited to welcome Arkansas patriot John Allison to our team. John is a school teacher in Vilonia and active in both the Arkansas tea party movement and the republican party. John has volunteered his already limited time to work with this campaign. Thank you, John!!!–The Campaign Against Blanche Lincoln
I have been deeply moved by the groundswell of grassroots activists who’ve stepped up and stepped out to stand against the Socialization of our economy and the enslavement of future generations by the “unprecedented” debt our non-representing representatives use to finance their failed and unworkable restructuring of our society. Never before have I seen such an outpouring of pride and passion emanate from conservatives in our country. I’m extremely thankful for the new friends and colleagues I’ve met through the rallies, meetings, and other events across the state of Arkansas.
I’ve joined so many conservative organizations and networks in the last year I can’t even keep track of them all. But today I joined one more, and I would like to invite all my patriotic friends to join it as well. The Campaign Against Blanche Lincoln is sponsored by the Western Representation Political Action Committee (WRPAC) and is not authorized by any candidate or candidate committee. WRPAC is also currently sponsoring campaigns against Harry Reid, Barbara Boxer, Barney Frank, Nancy Pelosi, Chris Dodd, and Kay Hagan.
WRPAC has set the following January goals for numbers of supporters of each of its campaigns;
The Campaign Against Harry Reid 12,000 The Campaign Against Nancy Pelosi 12,000 The Campaign Against Barney Frank 9,000 The Campaign Against Barbara Boxer 5,000 The Campaign Against Blance Lincoln 3,500 The Campaign Against Kay Hagan 3,500 The Campaign Against Chris Dodd 3,500
If you agree with us that it’s time for our representatives to truly represent us, if you agree it’s time to stop the reckless spending that will enslave our future generations, if you agree the federal government needs to balance a budget just like the rest of us do, and if you agree that it’s time for a responsible tax policy in America that encourages productivity, then please join our campaigns and help us reach our goals.
Why the rush on Obamacare?
As Democrats scramble to pass a health care “reform” bill before Christmas, Harry Reid’s 2,000+ page bill is undergoing changes on a daily basis. At least, that’s what we’re led to believe. We don’t really know what changes are being made because a handful of Democrat Senators are meeting behind closed doors to wheel and deal to make something, anything, happen that will get a bill passed before they adjourn.
What’s the rush? Is the country so desperate for reform that a few weeks are too long to wait? Does the bill so drastically change the system that lives will be saved before the ink from the President’s pen dries once the bill is signed into law? Why is it imperative to pass the bill before the Congressional recess?
What’s the rush?
When the Senate leadership released their 2010 legislative calendar, it was clear they expected the health care bill to be passed before the upcoming recess. To make that happen, rumor has it that Reid is threatening to call the Senate into work during Christmas week if it’s not passed. But according to a US News & World Report article, a leadership aide was quoted saying the threat rings hollow. But included in his answer was a more honest reason for the need to hurry and pass something. “…if we get it done, and I think we’ll have to because we need to give Obama that victory, then this should hold, and next year, at least in terms of time in session, will be lighter, especially as we draw closer to the election,” the aide stated.
Not we need to get it done for the American people. Not because it’s the right thing to do. Not because it will never be passed if we don’t finish by Christmas. None of these. But because “we need to give Obama that victory.”
Getting it right be damned. Let’s make sure we prop up our faltering, Socialist President! To stroke Barack Hussein Obama’s ego is why it must be now!
Is the country so desperate for reform that a few weeks are too long to wait?
A November 29 Gallup poll reports a majority of Americans are satisfied with what they pay for health insurance. These results fly in the face of Democrats like California Rep. Mike Thompson who’s “heard from countless folks in my district who can’t afford health care, or are struggling to come up with the money to pay their rising premiums.”
Countless? Maybe Rep. Thompson ran out of fingers and toes, but I’d bet most of us who are products of the American public school system could manage to count them. Or perhaps ACORN did his counting for him. I’m sure they could open a linen closet and find an infinite number of left-wing, Socialist Obama supporters hiding inside.
But the reality is that mainstream America isn’t nearly so desperate for health care reform as are the power hungry President and his political party. In another Gallup poll released last week, Americans said the economy and the Iraq war are more of a concern than health care reform. But over and over again, Obama has made health care his top priority by setting unworkable deadlines that Congress failed to meet in August and November. He’s given speech after speech in an exasperating effort to win public support, but to no avail.
In the latest Rasmussen poll, 56% of likely voters oppose Obama’s plan for the nation’s health care system and his approval ratings continue to plummet. Yesterday, his overall approval rating fell to its lowest recorded level in his presidency.
All of this demonstrates Obama has declared a crisis where none exists in the minds of the American electorate. So no, the country isn’t desperate for reform.
Does the bill so drastically change the system that lives will be saved before the ink from the President’s pen dries once the bill is signed into law?
Not really. According to the White House’s own blog, ” The House bill implements the exchanges in 2013, while the Senate implements the exchanges in 2014.” But the exchanges are an integral part of Obama’s plan to make health care affordable to all. This means Americans won’t benefit from this legislation for at least 4 more years, but taxes to pay for the President’s government-run health care system will kick in long before that.
Since major subsidies and “consumer benefits” don’t kick in for years, it’s hard to convince anyone this bill will become an instant life-saver. What’s obvious is the need Democrats feel to pass a massive tax hike for which the American taxpayer won’t realize any return for years to come. It’s like a “layaway plan” for health care according to Senator Richard Burr (R-NC). Pay now, get your coverage later.
So it isn’t even that this bill will instantly save the lives of the thousands (millions?) who are dying daily at the front doors of hospitals who won’t treat them because they have no insurance. Wait just a sec. Hospitals are treating those without coverage!
There’s really no emergency at all. Except the one President Obama hopes to convince you of. It’s an exercise in fear tactics extraordinaire from the Obama administration.
Plain and simple, without a doubt, the only reason for the mad rush to pass their so-called “reform” is because they know a majority of the American people don’t want it.
With the New Year the 2010 election campaigns will begin to pick up steam. More Americans will begin paying more attention to what’s going on and bending the ear of their elected representatives. So-called “conservative Democrats” will feel more pressure from their constituents and will grow less inclined to support a President whose poll numbers continue to drop like a duck that had a heart attack in midair.
If that happens, this President’s vision of “Hope & Change”won’t materialize. His “Hope” to “Change” the system and seize more government control over citizens’ lives will be shattered. His image tarnished. His ego bruised.
Why the rush?
Because more Americans are awakening every day and realizing Barack Obama’s “Change” isn’t what they hoped for last year.
Cheer up! You don’t have it so bad.
Whenever you’re feeling down. Whenever you’re feeling blue. Whenever you’re feeling like you just can’t make it anymore. Whenever you’re feeling like there’s no point in going on.
Just remember…it could always be worse. In fact, someone somewhere has it worse than you.
Because…
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somewhere in the world is a Mr. Pelosi!
Sarah Palin on Tonight’s Tragedy in the US House
from Sarah Palin’s note on Facebook
The Pelosi Bill Was Rammed Through on Saturday, But Sunday’s Coming
We’ve got to hold on to hope, and we’ve got to fight hard because Congressional action tonight just put America on a path toward an unrecognizable country.
The same government leaders that got us into the mortgage business and the car business are now getting us into the health care business.
Despite Americans’ decisive message last Tuesday that they reject the troubling path this country has been taking, Speaker Pelosi has broken her own promises of transparency to ram a health “care” bill through the House of Representatives just before midnight. Why did she push the 2,000 page bill this weekend? Was she perhaps afraid to give her peers and the constituents for whom she works the chance to actually read this monstrous bill carefully, if at all? Was she concerned that Americans might really digest the details of a bill that the Wall Street Journal has called “the worst piece of post-New Deal legislation ever introduced”?
This out-of-control bureaucratic mess will be disastrous for our economy, our small businesses, and our personal liberty. It will slam businesses at a time when we are at double-digit unemployment rates – the highest we’ve seen in a quarter of a century. This massive new bureaucracy will cost us and our children money we don’t have. It will rob Americans of more of our freedom and further hamper the free market.
Make no mistake: we’re on course to have government commandeer one-sixth of our economy. The people who gave us Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac now want to run our health care. Think about that.
All of us who value the sanctity of life are grateful for the success of the pro-life majority in the House this evening in its battle against federal funding of abortion in this bill, but it’s ironic because we were promised that abortion wasn’t covered in the bill to begin with. Our healthy distrust of these government leaders made us look deeper into the bill because unfortunately we knew better than to trust what they were saying. The victory tonight to amend the bill and eliminate that federal funding for abortion was great – because abortion is not health care. Now we can only hope that Rep. Stupak’s amendment will hold in the final bill, though the Democratic leadership has already refused to promise that it won’t be scrapped later.
We had been told there were no “death panels” in the bill either. But look closely at the provision mandating bureaucratic panels that will be calling the shots regarding who will receive government health care.
Look closely at provisions addressing illegal aliens’ health care coverage too.
Those of us who love freedom and believe in open and transparent government can only be dismayed by midnight action on a Saturday. Speaker Pelosi’s promise that Americans would have 72 hours to read the final bill before the vote was just another one of the D.C. establishment’s too-common political ploys. It’s broken promises like this that turn people off to politics and leave them disillusioned about the future of their country.
But despite this late-night maneuvering, many of us were paying close attention tonight. We’ll keep paying close attention. We need to let our legislators in Washington know that they still represent us, and that the majority of Americans are not in favor of the “reform” they are pushing. After all, this is still a country “of the people, by the people, and for the people.” We will make our voices heard. It’s on to the Senate now. Our legislators can listen now, or they can hear us in 2010. It’s their choice.
– Sarah Palin
Will Vic Snyder Support Nancy Pelosi’s Government-Run Healthcare?
Will Vic Snyder Support Nancy Pelosi’s Government-Run Healthcare [i.e, Obamacare]? He voted for Nancy Pelosi’s TRILLION DOLLAR Simulus, her wasteful budget, even her wasteful National Energy Tax. Time to call Vic Snyder and ask him if he will now support Nancy Pelois’s Government-Run Healthcare?
House Dems: If you can’t beat ’em, censor ’em!
It’s obvious to all who’ve been paying attention that President Obama and his Democratic lackeys are struggling to keep their dreams of a government-run health care system afloat. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) was recently forced to admit that any bill able to pass on his side of the Capitol may not contain Obama’s centerpiece of a public option. Though she remained obstinate long after the writing was on the wall things weren’t going her way, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) finally capitulated and admitted she may not be successful in ramming a bill out of the House by the August recess. Recent polls show more than 80% of Americans are satisfied with the current health care system so maligned by Democrats. And finally, we’ve seen Obama’s poll numbers plunge as he forged ahead with a full court press in an effort to regain momentum on his signature issue.
But Obama and his left-wing allies in Congress haven’t given up on their efforts to seize control of another 1/6 of the American economy. Since Republicans and other conservatives have been so successful in getting the truth out about the Democrats’ Obamacare bill, House Democrats have changed tactics. Now they’re blatantly censoring members from telling their constituents the truth about what’s in HR 3200, the House version of Obamacare.
On Tuesday morning, Rep John R. Carter (R-TX) made an appearance on Fox News to explain how Democrats on the House Franking Commission refused to approve a mass communication to his constituents unless he changed the message to reflect the Democratic talking points intended to misinform the American people about the un-American policies and regulations that will result if this bill becomes law. Carter sought to use his franking privilege to distribute an audio message to his constituents on the health care plan being pushed by Democratic leaders in Congress.
The message he wanted to distribute contained the phrase “The House Democrats unveiled a government-run health care plan.” The Commission informed him it would be required that he change “House Democrats” to “the house majority” and change “government-run health care plan” to “public option” or “health care plan.”
It’s quite obvious such censorship is designed to help stop the bleeding currently being suffered by Obama and the Democrats on their signature issue, health care reform. This obvious partisan censorship is intended to deny voters the opportunity to hear anything other than the Pelosi-Obama view on the House version of Obamacare. The Franking privilege can be used to inform constituents of their representative’s views of legislation making its way through the House. The following is taken directly from the Commission’s Franking Manual in the section titled “The Intent of Congress.”
It is the intent of Congress that such official business, activities, and duties cover all matters which directly or indirectly pertain to the legislative process or to any congressional representative functions generally, or to the function, working, or operating of the Congress and the performance of official duties in connection therewith, and shall include, but not be limited to, the conveying of information to the public, and the requesting of the views of the public, or the views and information of other authority of government, as a guide or a means of assistance in the performance of those functions. *Emphasis mine
Carter’s attempted communication clearly falls under the category of conveying of information to the public. It might not be conveyed as propaganda for the Democrats wishing to force Americans to seek bureaucratic clearance for any and all of their health care decisions, but it most certainly conveys information to the public.
After seeing Carter’s interview, I discovered the Franking Commission is made up of three Democrats and three Republicans. I immediately leaped to the assumption that at least one Republican had voted with the Democrats to block Carter’s communication. However, John Stone, communications director for Rep. Carter, cleared that up for me. He explained anything that gets past the Franking Commission must do so with at least 4 votes. So at least one Democrat on the Commission would have had to vote to approve Carter’s submission for it to be approved. I was relieved to know that this wasn’t the result of a turncoat Republican sitting on the Commission. In fact, Stone assured me none of the three Republicans sided with the Democrats in this case.
This is simply another extension of the tyranny of the Democratic majority in the US House. Pelosi and her ilk have changed House rules, held middle of the night votes on important legislation to pass legislation for which they didn’t have the votes, and will now only permit congressional Republicans to use their franking privilege to distribute Democratic propaganda in their Blitzkrieg to implement Socialism in these United States.
While this devious Democratic move prevents Carter from using taxpayer funds to distribute the truth about Obamacare, it doesn’t prevent him from using campaign funds to get the word out. Of course, this drain on his campaign bank account will place him at a disadvantage next year in his bid for re-election. Even though it will make next year’s race mroe difficult, Stone assured me that Carter will forge ahead in his campaign to get the truth in the hands of his constituents.
Call, email, and phone the three Democratic congressmen on the Commission and let them know the US Congress is not the Propaganda Office for the President and the DNC!
Democrats on Franking Commission
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