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 The BOPAC Report

Obama’s Health Care Deform  –

The Permanant Handout Herd is Leading America to Slaughter! Everyone Needs a Hand Up from Time to Time, but Expecting it to be a Permanent Fixture is Distructive to America!

VERY IMPORTANT

Yesterday I heard a Rush Limbaugh called who I have heard several times on his show.  She is an insurance company insider and the beginning of the media screw up saying Rush would move to Costa Rica if Health Care Deform passed.  He (in context) said he would seek medical treatment in Costa Rica.

This is a long interview so I urge you to listen to it.  Rush’s caller’s comments reflect the TRUE intention of this legislation and what we all need to question at every TOWNHALL over the Easter Break.  This is powerful ammunition.

The caller makes reference to an industry term, the 65-45 rule, that needs some clarification.  If you add these numbers, they add up to 110 percent.  I think the answer is that each number can vary a few percentage points but the total can’t be more than 100%.  Maybe the rule represents the outside limits? Maybe the numbers reflect some things that apply to both.  Bureaucracies work in mysterious ways. I hope Rush will clarify this.   

This is very important for everyone to be aware of.

This Obama Care will cause a 100 to 200 percent insurance rate increases are coming in January 2011 (past the election).

Most insurance companies will be out of business in 2 to 3 years.

Stacy, Our EIB Insurance Expert

March 23, 2010

Listen To It! WMP | RealPlayer 

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: Stacy in hiding… is this our insurance babe?  Stacy, welcome back.  Great to have you here.

CALLER:  Hey, Rush.

RUSH:  Do you know you have gotten me into so much fun hot water?

CALLER:  I know, I’ve heard!

RUSH:  Do you know how you did that?

CALLER:  I did by coming on about Costa Rica.

RUSH:  You came on and you told me that your insurance company was setting up medical operations in Costa Rica, you’re going to take the doctors and everything down there and you’re going to sell insurance policies if this thing all happened to your customers, and included in the premium would be trips to Costa Rica for medical treatment and so forth.  So after having heard you say that, another caller asked me, “What are you going to do if it passes?”  “I’m going to go get treated in Costa Rica.”  And so now everybody thinks I said I’m leaving the country for Costa Rica.  So I need to ask you, how soon are you going to get those clinics set up so I can go?

CALLER:  Well, I’m afraid that even that’s not going to save us.

RUSH:  Oh, no.

CALLER:  I’ve gotta revise my estimate.  We may last two to three years, tops, and let me tell you why.  The 85-15 provision that has just been signed into law an hour ago –

RUSH:  Yeah?

CALLER:  — by definition of every state and federal insurance regulator makes us financially unsound.

RUSH:  All right, now, I have to take a break here and I want to ask you if you can hold on ’til the top of the next hour where we will get your details on this without any time constraints.  Can you hang on?

CALLER:  I’ll skip a bit of a meeting, sure.

RUSH:  You tell ‘em it will be worth it.

CALLER:  Okay.

RUSH:  Tell ‘em it will be worth it, and if you can’t, you tell Snerdley and we’ll call you back when you have time, okay?

CALLER:  Okay, thank you, dear.

RUSH:  You bet. 

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH:  Now, we welcome back from “in hiding” in Atlanta Stacy, who works for an insurance company who’s been keeping us updated throughout this past year on the fate of her industry should this thing pass.  Now it has passed.  Give us the lowdown, Stacy.

CALLER:  Um, we’re going to make it two years, three tops.

RUSH:  Explain why and start at the beginning.

CALLER:  Okay.  For time immemorial, both state and federal regulation — and also just the industry standard — has been a 65-45 percentage arrangement: 65 in claims payment and 45 for administration and claims expense. Withholding that you store for, you know, a major catastrophe or something.

RUSH:  This is to pay your claims?

CALLER:  No, 65% is to pay the claims.  Forty-five percent is for everything else.

RUSH:  That means 45% is salaries, administration costs, and the offices, all the paperwork, that kind of thing?

CALLER:  It’s that as well as, you know, we are required to keep a certain amount of cash on hand as a percentage of our claims exposure to pay claims.

RUSH:  I got you.

CALLER:  So, for example, if you have a disaster and you suddenly had 400,000 claims come in, you’ve gotta have the money to be able to pay those claims immediately.

RUSH:  Now, I just want to make sure I understand here.  State and federal regulations set those percentages?

CALLER:  State and federal regulations, yes.

RUSH:  So if you wanted to have 85% set aside for claims, you couldn’t. You had to go at 65%?

CALLER:  Exactly.

RUSH:  If you wanted 30% set aside for claims and the rest were administration, you couldn’t do it. It had to be 65%.

CALLER:  That’s illegal, yes. It has to be 65-45, and there’s a couple of percentage either way, but generally when an insurance company falls outside of those guidelines, they are considered financially unstable.

RUSH:  Well, who audits you all to make sure you are within the ratio?

CALLER:  We’re audited by the state insurance departments, primarily.  There are some plans that are audited both state and federally, and then you have your private auditors who will come in as part of the stock market and that kind of thing. So we’re audited often.

RUSH:  How often do these audits take place?

CALLER:  At least once a year, you’ll have one from the industry auditors, and every three to five perhaps for federal and state.

RUSH:  Okay.

CALLER:  More often if they think that you’re unstable, they’ll audit you more often.  So what Obama just did an hour and a half ago is make every insurance company in the country financially unstable.  Remember, the 15% (sic) that we are left has not only to pay salaries, maintenance, upkeep of buildings; it also has to pay the 40% increased taxes that we’ve got. I mean, there’s just no way.  You can’t do it.

RUSH:  Well, you’re getting a little bit ahead of me here.  What did Obama sign that changes this 65-45 split? In what way did Obama now sign you into permanent instability?

CALLER:  The provision in the Senate bill requires that all insurance companies pay 85% of premiums collected every year in claims.

RUSH:  So the 65 is now 85?

CALLER:  Exactly. It doesn’t matter how much we increase the premium, it won’t matter.

RUSH:  And just to satisfy my own curiosity, with the mandates that are in this — such as you now being required to insure children on their parents’ policies to age 26 or 27; and now having to insure (or cover) preexisting conditions — what’s that going to do to your current premium structure starting today?

CALLER:  That’s my other fear, Rush.  I don’t know that November is as big a lock as we would hope and here’s why.  Most group plans renew January 1st of every year.  Most people won’t see the dramatic premium increases until January 1st.  So what they’re going to do is all these people who voted for this — and who likely were swayed by this argument — are going to run around and say, “Well, look, nothing happened. You’re not paying any more. You know, everything’s fine. It was just a bunch of, quote, unquote, ‘fearmongering,’” and I’m afraid they’re going to be reelected.

RUSH:  Well, we’ll do with that when the time comes.  I think there’s a lot more in this than just those two provisions that have people outraged and upset, and I know that your fear is that the people that supported this are going to show up in droves and vote for Democrats on the theory that none of the scare stories that were told had happened because this delayed until January, but there are other things that we can work with on this.  The Democrat Party’s damaged itself in the sense.  They just inflicted great harm on the country. Whenever it shows up, it will be realized.  Now, I want to take you back to the first thing you said: You originally thought that your industry would survive. You’re speaking industry or just your particular company?  

CALLER:  I would say 99% of all insurance companies, health insurance companies in the country.

RUSH:  Okay.  So you originated thought you might have three to five years to stay in business under Obama. Now you said it’s two to three.  Why?

CALLER:  Because of the 85-15.  Plus the additional expenses we’re gonna incur.  Additionally, the mandates, what people don’t understand when CMS (which is the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare) push a mandate down on insurance companies, we have to pay to complement those mandates.  We don’t know how many of those are in this monstrosity.  So we can have our mandate budget doubled, our taxes already up 40% or whatever it is, and our cash flow immediately cut.

RUSH:  Well, how can you know in advance of paying any claims?  Because they’ve now shifted to 65% that you have to set aside for claims to 85%. How in the world can anybody know in advance of paying claims that it’s going to amount to 85%?

CALLER:  Well –

RUSH:  Of course 65%? It seems to be like this is a ridiculous dictate made by people that have no clue how your business works.

CALLER:  Well, they don’t have a clue. But the way that that amount of money is calculated is you look at the past year, past five years, past ten years, and you see what your claims expense have been those years. Then based on your enrollment and your demographics you project forward into what you expect to be paying in the future, in the next year and the next five years.  So you can do that.  It’s not precise to a dollar, but you usually get pretty close.  What he’s done is by saying, for example, the preventative services now –

RUSH:  Those are free.  Those are, quote, unquote, “free.”

CALLER:  Yeah, exactly.

RUSH:  What the hell is a preventative service covered by an insurance company anyway?

CALLER:  Well, that would be your colonoscopies, your mammograms, your yearly physicals, your lab work.

RUSH:  Oh, so those are free now! So if I want to go get a colonoscopy today and I have an insurance policy, I’m not going to pay for it?

CALLER:  Exactly.

RUSH:  But you will.

CALLER:  Well, we will.  We’ll pay out the nose for it.

RUSH: (laughing) Well…

CALLER: I know, bad analogy. I’m sorry.

RUSH:  It is Christmas!

CALLER: (giggling) But, Rush –

RUSH:  Well, no, I don’t look at a colonoscopy as Christmas. Don’t misunderstand.

CALLER: (giggling)

RUSH: But it is Christmas in the sense that I’m not paying for it. I don’t know how you can stay in business even two to three years with this kind of thing happening to you this year alone.

CALLER:  I don’t think we will and that’s why I am seriously considering leaving this industry.  I’m updating my resume.  You know, people who I work with — even people who voted for Obama and thought he was the greatest thing since sliced bread — are shell-shocked.

RUSH:  That just frustrates the hell out of me.  Anybody with a brain has no reason to be shell-shocked about who this guy is, but it is what it is.

CALLER:  Rush, it’s not him.  I didn’t think Congress would sell us down the river like this, especially given the public opinion.  When have you ever seen a politician just say, “I don’t care that the public doesn’t like it and I don’t care if I’m reelected”?  This is something I have never experienced.  I have never seen this, and people that I work with who don’t follow politics, who don’t know what’s going on necessarily, they had no clue this was coming.  At least I had an inkling!  They had no idea.

RUSH:  Well, it’s proof positive is that people who don’t pay attention to politics are now outraged, upset, and don’t quite understand.  It’s time to make ‘em understand.  This is who Democrats are.  This is who liberals are.  You realize, too, I’m sure, that the whole purpose of all these new requirements on you is to put you out of business.

CALLER:  Oh, absolutely.

RUSH:  The whole purpose is to make it unable for you to stay in business financially, and so the government can come in and say, “Okay, well, you know, these damn insurance companies! We never could depend on them. They’re nothing but a bunch of frauds and nothing but a bunch of cheats. They’re still cheating people. They’re still raping people.  We’re going to have to do this ourselves.”

CALLER:  And you know how many people are going to die in the interim, Rush?  I say that in all sincerity, because come January 1st you’re going to see 200, 300% increases in premiums and people are going to drop their coverage. So you’ve got the woman who isn’t going to go get the mammogram or the man who’s not going to get the prostate exam.

RUSH:  Wait a minute!

CALLER: People are going to die.

RUSH: I thought the mammogram was free.

CALLER:  Not when you drop the coverage because you can’t afford three times the premium.  Remember, the premiums are going up because of the government, and jobs are being lost because of the government.  If you can’t pay it, you can’t pay it. So people are going to drop it. They’re going to drop their insurance before they drop their mortgage.

RUSH:  They’re going to be clamoring to the government to fix the mean-spirited insurance companies for raising the prices so high and that’s where Obama’s going to step in and say, “You know what? We have no choice here but than to do it ourselves,” and then you get dumped on again first and foremost with Obama portraying the government as the savior.  Look, I gotta take a break. Can you hang on a couple minutes?

CALLER:  Sure.

RUSH:  I still have a couple more questions.  Stacy, our insurance expert, “hiding” in Atlanta to make the call. 

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: We rejoin Stacy in hiding in Atlanta from the insurance industry.  You said just a minute ago that you’re not all that confident about the November election because all these premium increases, group rates, group policy don’t renew ’til January so all of your out-of-pocket expenses are going to start relatively soon but you can’t raise premiums until January to recoup them, correct?

CALLER:  Correct.

RUSH:  All right, we just got a story here from The Politico: “Timing Right for Democrats’ Midterm Election Hopes — Voters will get their first taste of the benefits of health care reform only a few short weeks before the November midterm elections.  They won’t have to swallow most of the bitter pills until much later — well after President Barack Obama faces voters again in 2012.  Match the effective dates of key reform provisions against the election calendar, and it becomes clear that Democrats were as focused on writing a legislative overhaul of the health care system as they were on devising a political road map for selling it to voters.”  Now, of course, this story is celebrating the brilliance of the Democrats here. Basically this story is, “Okay, yep, Americans you got screwed, but you’re not going to know it in time to vote the Democrats out,” which is essentially your fear.

CALLER:  Yeah, and, you know, Rush, Costa Rica is not going to save us because it doesn’t matter where services are rendered, the law is going to cover any policy sold within the United States.  So even though we can send folks down to Costa Rica for care, we’re still going to be under the 85-15 rule, we’re still going to have the additional taxes.

RUSH:  Look, all this is academic. You’re not going to be in business.

CALLER:  I don’t think it is.  That’s why I’m leaving it.

RUSH:  Are you the only one that realizes this in your immediate orb within your company?

CALLER:  No.  Most of us recognize it.  The question is, are you willing to move out of state, you know, go somewhere else to find a comparable job, that’s the question now for a lot of us.

RUSH:  What comparable job?

CALLER:  The technology aspect.  The technology that we work with is not used commonly in small shops around or whatever.

RUSH:  Yeah.

CALLER:  So if we want a position using the technology we use today, we’re going to have to leave, and I don’t know where I’m going to go.

RUSH:  Well, it’s a shame.  And it’s a shame because all of this was predictable based on the details of the legislation.  Stacy, feel free to stay in touch any time to update us on this.  We really do value your input on this.  You sound very confident and know what you’re talking about.  Well, in fact, you know what, Snerdley has a great idea and we’re going to do this.  We are going to start collecting our own sob stories, and Stacy you might want to be one of our sob stories.  Instead of bringing up individuals who have supposedly been treated harshly because of an unfair country and an unfair insurance industry what we’re going to do is create our own roster of sob story people, small businesses who have been put out of business; small business people whose taxes have been raised making it impossible to stay in business for very much longer; people like you, whose entire industry is being targeted for eventual destruction.  We’re going to do people genuinely hurt by the legislation.  And believe me, there will be no shortage.  If you want to be one of our sob stories, I hope you’re not, but if a sob story happens to you, we, the EIB Network, will happily be your outlet.  

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH:  So I got this e-mail question from the subscriber list:  “After listening to Stacy, why aren’t the insurance companies not taking out full-page ads detailing all of these deceptive lies to the American people?  Why are Wall Street companies not doing the same?  Why are they continuing to allow these liberals to demonize them and not fight back?”  I can only take a guess, and as far as the insurance companies are concerned, take a look at the stocks.  Insurance company stocks right now are skyrocketing and so are drug company stocks because the original few years of this bill mandates 32 million more customers, and the insurance companies are going to pay for them somehow, some way, so they’re excited about this.  You jump in on the bubble and you cash out.  I mean, even if you think you got five years left in business, maximize it all you can and then get the hell out if you don’t think you can stop it.  Anyway, my guess.  What do I know?

END TRANSCRIPT

 

Natural Born Citizen Issue –

 

Obama Dreams About Government Run Health Care, Larry Sinclair, Birth Certificates, Natural Born Citizens While America Lives in a Nightmare.

CitizenWells has another update about the Kerchner v Obama lawsuit.  CitizenWells – I hope you will study the transcript from Rush Limbaugh’s show and forward it to those who can verify and clarify.

Kerchner v Obama and Congress, Update, March 24, 2010, Charles Kerchner comments on Appellant’s Reply Brief, Mario Apuzzo attorney

March 24, 2010 ·

Kerchner v Obama and Congress, Update, March 24, 2010, Charles Kerchner comments

From Charles Kerchner, lead plaintiff in Kerchner v Obama and Congress.

“For immediate release – 23 March 2010

Commander Kerchner’s comments on the Appellant’s Reply Brief filed today by Atty Apuzzo in the Kerchner v Obama & Congress Lawsuit Appeal

By now many of you have likely had time to read Attorney Mario Apuzzo’s outstanding Appellant’s Reply Brief filed today with the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia PA. The closing two paragraphs sum up the issues and consequences and the duty of the federal court’s role in resolving the core constitutional legal question of this lawsuit very well. Imo, Atty Apuzzo’s words will live in history. The federal courts must take this case or our Constitutional Republic is doomed and on its way to the scrap heaps of history.

Atty Apuzzo writes on pages 29 & 30:
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“The Supreme Court has warned us what can happen to our republic if its government does not observe the laws of the land. …Continue Reading

 

Ji’Obama’had –

 

When I served in the Navy, I understood that I was risking my life for Freedom, Liberty and the Constitution. I would not have joined if I were defending socialism. Have our most revered sacrificed all in vain? Not yet but we are getting close.

9/11 Mastermind To Be Freed From Guantanamo

Last Updated: Tue, 03/23/2010 – 3:16pm

A federal judge has ordered the Al Qaeda operative who recruited most of the 9/11 terrorists to be released from Guantanamo Bay prison though he is considered a “high value detainee” by the U.S.

The perplexing decision has been classified so there is no explanation why U.S. District Judge James Robertson granted the habeas corpus petition of Mohamedou Slahi, an Osama bin Laden confidant who is considered among the worst terrorists held at the military prison since the nation was brutally attacked nearly a decade ago.  
It marks the 34th time that a U.S. judge frees a Guantanamo terrorist since the Supreme Court ruled that detainees could challenge their incarceration in federal court. Slahi arrived at the military compound in 2002 and claims he was tortured, threatened with death, sleep deprived and moved around the base blindfolded. 

Slahi’s terrorist activities are extensive and detailed in the 9/11 Commission report, which explains how he recruited four of the September 2001 conspirators from the renowned Hamburg Germany cell. They include Mohammed Atta, Marwan al Shehhi, and Ziad Jarrah, the suicide pilots of American Airlines Flight 11, United Airlines Flight 175, and United Airlines Flight 93….Continue Reading

Immunity Granted in Navy Seals Persecution – State Stimulus Crutch – Tea Party Health Care Takeover Protest on Saturday in DC – Obama Care – Mark Levin Lawsuit Coming – Jack Cafferty Calls Obama a Liar – CitizenWells – The BOPAC Report

The BOPAC Report

Navy Seals Prosecution –

 

Coddling Terrorists, Persecuting Navy Seals and CIA, Socialist Takeover of Industry, Political Correctness Allowing Ft. Hood Massacre – Will this be the next thing we see from Obama and Eric Holder?

Sorry I have been remiss in reporting on this vital military issue – the unjust prosecution of our Navy Seals.

From USNavySeals.com:

Judge Orders Immunity for SEAL Witnesses!

Posted March 13th, 2010 by USNavySeals

A key event took place Friday in the assault charges that were brought about against three Navy SEALs. In a previous post, we shared how the request for immunity of five potential witnesses who will give testimonies that will support Navy SEALs Matthew McCabe, Julio Huertas and Jonathan Keefe was denied.

On Friday, however, Cmdr. Tierney Carlos, the military judge who is hearing the case against Julio Huertas, said that the witnesses will be able to provide testimony that may place the allegations brought by a guard who said he witnessed McCabe punch Abed in doubt. Carlos ruled that “not granting them immunity… is either an attempt to gain tactical advantage over the defense or showed the government was overreaching”….Continue Reading

 

ObamaNomics &

States Stimulus Crutch –

 

Obamanomics - It's a Crap Shoot!

This is a story you will be seeing a lot of in the months ahead.  It also explains why Obama has been hoarding the bulk of stimulus money.  Democrats want to prop up union dominated State governments until after 2010 elections.

From the Baltimore Sun:

Cut spending now

Maryland GOP delegates’ plan would dig deep to balance budget, avoid future tax hikes

By Anthony J. O’Donnell and Christopher B. Shank

March 18, 2010

Maryland’s budget deficit is a long-term problem that requires a long-term solution. Over the past three years, the O’Malley/Brown administration has made little to no progress in addressing the state’s budget deficit.

Increased spending, a failed slots bill, the largest tax increase in our state’s history and federal bailouts make for a dismal track record. The Department of Legislative Services projects a cumulative deficit of more than $8 billion for the years 2012-2015 – $1,428 for every person in Maryland – yet Gov. Martin O’Malley has yet to offer a long-term plan to deal with this crisis. Next year, when federal stimulus funding runs out, the day of reckoning will arrive, and the taxpayers will be handed the bill. If we don’t reverse this trend, we are headed for yet another massive tax increase. …Continue Reading

Tea Party Health Care Takeover Protests –

 

ObamaCare - Stand in Line and have a Czar Control Your Doctor! Sen. Lieberman stands tall!

Tea Partiers refuse to go away

By Mike Riggs   03/18/10 at 6:25 AM

Alex Pappas in with an update on those resilient health-care protestors:

We covered the Tea Partier’s “Last Hurrah” extensively this week with their storming of the halls of the Congress on Tuesday, but it looks like they’ll be hitting the Hill again this weekend.

Tea Party Patriots will gather for a brief rally on Capitol Hill Saturday at 10 a.m. before dividing up to walk the halls of congress. ….Continue Reading

 

Natural Born Citizen –

 

Eligibility lawyer says ‘standing’ a no-brainer

‘How can you deny he’s affecting me?’

Posted: March 17, 2010

By Bob Unruh
© 2010 WorldNetDaily

An attorney handling one of the appellate level challenges to Barack Obama’s occupancy of the White House – under the dispute that involves the Constitution’s demand presidents be a “natural born citizen” and Obama’s unwillingness to document that – says the most common reason judges have used for dismissing cases is just wrong.

Most of the dozens of cases that have been filed over Obama’s eligibility have been dismissed by judges who have cited a lack of “standing” on the part of the plaintiffs. In fact, the government’s most recent filing in the case being handled by Mario Apuzzo argues almost exclusively that it should be dismissed for that reason.

But Apuzzo, whose case is pending before the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and in which he will file a further brief within the next few days, says the federal standard for having standing – a concrete and particularized injury potential imminent for an individual – should be a no-brainer for judges.

“How can you deny he’s affecting me?” he asked during an interview with WND. “He wants to have terror trials in New York. He published the CIA interrogation techniques. On and on. He goes around bowing and doing all these different things. His statements we’re not a Christian nation; we’re one of the largest Muslim nations. It’s all there.” …Continue Reading

 

ObamaCare –

 

Well Maybe Obama's Obamacare will save money? But it will suck to be old!

There’s hope that this crap can be defeated.  Everyone needs to call, march, honk, email, shout Hell No!

Stephen Lynch warns on health vote

Says procedural move would hurt Congress

By Jay Fitzgerald
Thursday, March 18, 2010

Even one of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s floor whips, U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch, says a proposed parliamentary move to pass health-care reform would be “disingenuous” and harm the credibility of Congress.

In a sign of how tough it’s been for Pelosi to round up votes for the massive bill, Lynch – a South Boston Democrat who supported a House reform package last year – said he’ll probably vote against a key Senate version of the legislation, unless unexpected major changes are made soon.

Lynch, who serves as one of Pelosi’s key vote counters, said he also can’t support a proposed “deem and pass” procedure that would allow Democrats to vote to strip out controversial portions of the Senate bill and then “deem” that the entire package has passed without a second, direct vote….Continue Reading

If Democrats use dishonest method to pass this socialist takeover, there will be millions engaged to say hell no.

Idaho first to sign law aimed at health care plan

By JOHN MILLER (AP) – 13 hours ago

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho took the lead in a growing, nationwide fight against health care overhaul Wednesday when its governor became the first to sign a measure requiring the state attorney general to sue the federal government if residents are forced to buy health insurance.

Similar legislation is pending in 37 other states….Continue Reading

 I knew we would be able to count on Mark Levin!

From American Spectator:

Mark Levin Readies Lawsuit on Slaughter Rule

By Jeffrey Lord on 3.18.10 @ 6:08AM

Not so fast.

Democrats poised to use the so-called “deem and pass” strategy to force through a health care bill will have to deal with Mark Levin first.

Levin, known to his fans as one of the most popular talk show hosts in the country, is also both a legal scholar and longtime president of the Landmark Legal Foundation, a nonprofit, public interest law firm A former chief of staff to Reagan Attorney General Edwin Meese III, Levin is the author of two New York Times bestselling books on the Constitution and the judiciary, the last, Liberty and Tyranny, at number one for a dozen weeks.

The lawsuit will name President Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder and “other relevant cabinet members” as defendants. Those cabinet members are Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.

Levin’s goal? To stop the government from “instituting this unconstitutional contrivance.” … Continue Reading

 And from Michelle Malkin:

CBO: Covering the Backsides of Obamacare-pushers?

By Michelle Malkin  •  March 18, 2010 09:13 AM

The CBO scoring of the House Demcare bill that the American people have not seen will be released this morning.

The poor number-crunchers have been working overtime as Speaker Pelosi and the Dems have re-jiggered and re-jiggered to meet farcical fiscal discipline goals. It’s Enron-style accounting and everyone knows it.

James Capretta at The Corner breaks it down:

The Washington Post reports today that CBO now says the latest version of the Democratic plan will no longer cut the deficit as the Democrats have claimed. That’s not surprising. To buy votes, they are upping the subsidies in the exchanges, expanding the Medicare prescription-drug benefit, delaying the Cadillac tax, and buying off countless members with other assorted and unseen deals (where are the C-SPAN cameras when you really need them?). Little wonder that even their phony deficit-reduction claims have now evaporated.

But the game is not over. Even now, they are going back to CBO with another bag full of tricks….

…Continue Reading

ChiBama Politics –

 

As Aretha Franklin says: You better think

Can this be true?  Jack Cafferty? Wow! Watch out for 2010 Turdnados  near Washington D.C.  “Voters remember this crap for mid term elections” From CitizenWells:

Obama a liar, CNN, Jack Cafferty, Obamacare, Health Care Bill, Secret negotiations, Obama pledged openness, Campaign promise lies, Nancy Pelosi lied in 2006, Voters remember this crap for mid term elections

 March 18, 2010 ·

Obama a liar, CNN, Jack Cafferty, Obamacare, Health Care Bill

Jack Cafferty on CNN calls Obama a liar.

“CNN – Liar in the White House”… Continue Reading

 

Other Team FOCOA News –

(Full of Crap Obama Administration)

 Generic Congressional Ballot

Republicans Lead Democrats by 10 in Generic Ballot, Highest Lead Yet

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

When I served in the Navy, I understood that I was risking my life for Freedom, Liberty and the Constitution. I would not have joined if I were defending socialism. Have our most revered sacrificed all in vain? Not yet but we are getting close.

Matters of Religion Should Never be Matters of Controversy for Tea Party Protesters – The BOPAC Report

The BOPAC Report:

Matters of Religion Should Never be Matters of Controversy for Tea Party Protesters

Today I’ve been mostly reflecting on recklessness that we’ve been witnessing in Washington D.C. and what some are calling the one year anniversary of the Tea Party Movement.  I want to say is that I am truly thankful that millions of ordinary Americans have been so moved by what they’ve seen in American politics that they made time to care for the country that has been so important in their lives.  Thank you, thank you, and thank you!  I can only imagine how little hope there would be today had you not stood up and shouted ENOUGH loud enough for the politicians to hear. Oh, and thanks CNBC Correspondent Rick Santelli for getting it all started.

At first the Tea Parties were ignored and when they kept growing, the vilification process began in earnest in the Halls of Congress & in the mainstream media.  The disparagement began as commentators’ smirks, belittlement and mischaracterizations as to who was involved and what the they were about.  As the protests grew and politicians began being forced to address hard questions in town hall meetings, the discomfort level of the media and politicians increased exponentially.  So did the insults.

Finally, one term of disparagement/diminution stuck. A few pompous media personalities set out to attach these mostly novice protesters to the derogatory terms Tea-Bagger and Tea-Bagging (some sort of sex act thing). It became a juvenile favorite among Democrat politicians such as Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Schumer.  Why? I have no idea.  If you see images of the hundreds of thousands (millions) of these Americans engaged in peaceful protests, ‘tea-bagger’ is the last thing that would come to mind.  Most of the protesters shrug it off realizing that actually saying the term reflects most badly on those using it.  However, each has their own way of dealing with double standards and ridicule.

I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‘fat cat’ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‘public-spirited philanthropist’.
Ronald Reagan

If an analogy must be made to a Tea Bag, then let’s do with a bit more accuracy to reflect the broad range of ordinary Americans picking up protest signs for the first time.  From what I can tell, Tea Party folks more often than not come with lots of experience because most have a few years under their belts. 

Let’s say we imagine the piece of paper attached to the tea bag string as the label tea party members might use to identify themselves to everyone else – Conservative, Moderate, Independent, Republican, Democrat, Liberal, Native American, African-American, White, Asian, Catholic, Baptist, Jew, Christian, Agnostic, Professor, Professional, Tradesman, etc., etc., etc. (I wanted to include Muslim but I haven’t actually seen anyone self identify.) It’s a big tent based on principle.

The string is the part that connects everyone together, the collective consciousness of experience that reminds each of us that some things are time tested, work well and might just pull America out of the hot water before it’s too late.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905

As far as I can tell, this is the essence of the movement.  It reflects common sense understandings of economics and how to get our economy moving.  Experience shows that private sector does much better than a federal bureaucracy when it comes to jump starting the economy and making the system sustainable because the private sector is concerned facts and success – not their own political ideologies, beauty contests and careers. (Congress tinkering with ‘risk’ in the mortgage market caused the current economic crisis – everyone must own a home even if they can’t afford it. Right now, uncertainty regarding the possibility of tax hikes coming from Obama are what’s shackling the economy.)

Tea party people know the U.S. government’s massive debt is not sustainable.  They want politicians to stop raising taxes (actually most want to cut taxes) and to cut spending. They want America to live within its means and not pass unbearable debt to their children.

They want politicians to face the truth of our economy!  Yes, there will be pain but most Americans surely recognize we can get through it together.  However, if government does not face the truth about our economy soon, the pain will be catastrophic and our liberties could be put at risk because of civil unrest.

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

George Santayana, Little Essays (1920) “Ideal Immortality”

The tea party movement is not anti-government.  They want the federal government to do the things they are authorized to do under the Constitution with as small a ‘footprint’ as possible (including reasonable regulation of business).  I believe a majority wants their own states to do the heavy lifting on tax utilization and governing.  However, they want politicians to not be in bed with union leaders (special interests) because experience shows that union leaders’ greed is a big factor in the fiscal calamities facing many states today. (A 49-year-old NJ public employee (union member) who pays in a $124,000 and receives 3.3 million in benefits from state coffers.)

I suspect a vast majority of the ordinary Americans who make up the tea party movement do not want the government to take over the healthcare system. And yes, they do want reform.  They want incremental steps to be taken to reform healthcare.  They do not want a massive bill when politicians’ motives are suspect and the consequences cannot possibly be fully understood. Start over with everyone at the table.

No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.

African Proverb

Most in the movement want politicians to respect the Constitutional limitations placed on government, respect state rights, and the rights of the individual.

People know instinctually and by experience that child rearing with too much parental control will either be met with some type of resistance (outright rebellion, passive aggression behavior) or cowering (timid, afraid, distrust).  Neither is what America needs of her citizenry.

It is the individual’s task to differentiate himself from all the others and stand on his own feet. All collective identities… interfere with the fulfillment of this task. Such collective identities are crutches for the lame, shields for the timid, beds for the lazy, nurseries for the irresponsible….

C. G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

People realize that the Constitution is the first line of defense protecting their freedoms and limiting a federal government that appears ready to dictate without the consent of the people.  Most understand that the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution established the requirement that the power of the federal government comes from the people and states – not the other way around.  I think most tea party protesters want the federal government to back off and lift the boot off their necks. 

In fact, several states have recognized the danger this Administration poses to our 2^nd and 10^th Amendment rights and are beginning to take action.  Three states have passed the Firearms Freedom Act and 22 others have introduced it for consideration. The FFA basically says that firearms manufactured and sold within a state’s borders are out of reach of the federal government’s interstate commerce powers. Numerous states have introduced legislation asserting their Tenth Amendment rights under the Constitution.  Several others are introducing legislation that will require candidates to submit proof that they are in fact eligible for the office they are seeking (i.e. being a ‘natural born citizen’). We will see soon if our Federal Courts have become so corrupted and/or influenced by the ’progressives’ ideology that they will not exercise their duties and act as a check to the powers of the Congress and the President.

Tea Party protesters do not want to be treated like sheep by their government and elected representatives.  This is partly why it is important that the ‘tea party’ not be taken over by any major Party.  The tea party idea is about holding all politicians accountable, not just the ones in a particular party. 

People choose politicians who should understand local values and concerns to represent their interests in Washington regardless of which Party they belong.

I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.

Mahatma Gandhi (1869 – 1948)

The people of California are not the same as the people from Georgia and both should have their interests represented in strong state governments and by elected Congressional Representatives – and neither should be blown off their feet.

I’ve been using a few quotes from the philosopher George Santayana to illustrate the need to keep our state governments strong, retaining their rights and responsibilities under the Constitution. Mr. Santayana ”…was committed to a naturalist metaphysics, in which human cognition, cultural practices, and social institutions have evolved so as to harmonize with the conditions present in their environment. Their value may then be adjudged by the extent to which they facilitate human happiness.“

To me, understanding local environmental and ethnic influences reveals the richness of America’s cultural diversity. It’s why we want our representatives to be local becuase they are (should be) more aware of who ‘they’ are and what conditions have shaped the ‘we’ of the locality.  This way change & governance evolve locally in response to the ‘happiness’ or unhappiness of its residents. It also validates the wisdom of our Founders who created a Constitution meant to insure equality of opportunity (not results) and equal protection for every person in every state.  The Constitution is a safety net preventing tyranny or abuse at the muncipal or state level while containing safeguards that protect the individual character of states and their people ( First, Second, Ninth, Tenth, Fourteenth Amendments).

If states like California and New York raise taxes too much or restricts rights and liberties too much, people and business remain free to vote with their feet.  That’s a good thing because it applies market forces to states that might encourage their politicians to act responsibility. States and regions have different flavors that appeal to varied tastes and that’s wonderful.  Just like most people do not want the flavor of another forcibly imposed upon their lives – neither do states.

Even though it’s understandable that some residents of states currently crumbling under the weight of unfair public employee labor and pension contracts and out of control politicians may be susceptible to Obama’s proclivity for a socialist system that might subsidize their state’s excesses with taxes from the innocent states, it must be resisted and responsibility demanded of their own politicians.  The good people of Texas should not be forced to bail out irresponsible politicians in California or any other state.  Today responsible people can always move and let California collapse under the weight of its own gluttony. However, if we allow the federal government to continue grow in power and influence that may not always be the case. Many times taking what appears to be the easiest path is the one that leads to the greatest loss.

The same arguments can be made in support of America’s sovereignty. Most Americans do not want to give up that which has been paid for with the blood and treasure of the millions who came before to France, Germany, Spain, any other country or the UN.  Our freedoms and Constitutional protections are not barter items.  We can fulfill our global responsibilities as good neighbors without sacrificing our sovereignty.

A man’s feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

George Santayana (1863 – 1952)

The tea bag string is the determined call for fiscal responsibility, accountability, equality of opportunity, and limited representative government.

The tea bag is our United States Constitution that has guided this nation for centuries.  It’s the fabric that holds us together and protects our liberties. Without which, we would blow away like dry leaves of tea facing the winds of tyranny.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
Vladimir Lenin

One person cannot stand against tyranny alone. It will take many armed with all of the rights and liberties that they can preserve (including the right to bear arms).

America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.

George Santayana (1863 – 1952)

It’s these influences that are putting our liberties at risk today. 

An educational system that does not adequately teach the Constitution, our founding, or America’s goodness is making it likely our children will not recognize threats to their freedom and liberty.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
Ronald Reagan

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
Vladimir Lenin

It’s the patience of ‘progressivism’ that has been working insidiously for decades to undermine our system of governance. It’s politicians who work diligently to create voter dependency through the sense of ‘entitlement’.  It’s politicians who will not face the truth of our economy and who print trillions of dollars to ensure their positions.

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
Vladimir Lenin

It’s the influence of special interests that corrupt and seduce politicians to do their bidding instead watching out for the interests of the people.  It’s politicians who lack conviction to principles.

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.
Vladimir Lenin

It’s the influence of those in the inner circle of the Administration.

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
Vladimir Lenin

Is Lenin talking about Rahm Emanuel?

The tea is who we are.  It’s the experiences of each individual that has shaped his or her life and views.  It’s the diversity of the tea party movement.  In the tea party movement all ethic groups are represented, many are Veterans, many have family members in the military, and there are Christians, Jews, agnostics, and probably atheists.  There are those who represent rural and urban ways of life. There are pro-life, pro-choice, gay, straight, environmentalists, pro-gun, pro-10^th Amendment, and those calling for the ‘natural born citizen’ provision of the Constitution to be honored.  There are Conservatives, Liberals, and Moderates. There are Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, and Independents. 

From what I can see, people in the tea party movement are striving to be tolerant of the views of others as long as they don’t jeopardize the nation’s future.

Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.

George Santayana, Winds of Doctrine (1913) ch. 4

If the movement is to survive and flourish, egotism and intolerance must be kept in check.  If it’s not, we become them.  At the next local event, maybe I will tie the string from a tea bag around my finger to help me remember to keep my own intolerance in check and to focus on the issues the Tea Party movement has grown around.

It’s my strong opinion that the tea party movement must not be folded into any major party and that it not form its own official party. If it forms its own party, it may then feel compelled to have a platform that addresses the social issues and that could alienate many.  This is such a special movement and it would be sad to see it diminish.

This year it is critical to vote for those who have the best chance of removing absolute control from Obama, Pelosi and Reid’s Democratic Party.  The vote must not be split in 2010.  However, every Republican or Independent candidate who wins needs to be made aware that they will be held accountable for their lack of transparency, lack of fiscal discipline, and lack of adherence to the Constitution.

We will surely disagree in the future about the social issues and that will be okay.  However, today millions are united around a core set of issues that are crucial for the survival of the nation. We must not blow it. Fiscal responsibility, accountability, transparency, and limited government are the issues of the coming election.

I think I will close with one last quote of George Santayana (who was an agnostic) that seems applicable to the idea of focusing on the big picture this year.

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.

George Santayana (1863 – 1952)

Well – unless they want to kill you if they can’t convert you.

In such case, I offer this quote:

It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

Emiliano Zapata (1877 – 1919)

Larry Sinclair Gets Visit From Homeland Security – Outcome Unknown – Enemy Teleprompters Infiltrate State of Union – Afghanistan Women Terrified About Possible Deal With Taliban – Where’s NOW? – Where’s Hillary? – The BOPAC Report

The BOPAC Report

State of the Union Address 2010 –

 

Enemy teleprompters infiltrated the Obama State of the Union - Rep. Joe Wilson relieved he did not have to comment!

Even though I couldn’t bring myself to watch Obama continue with the deception of the American people this year in his State of the Union Address, I have heard that enemy teleprompters infiltrated the event. 

Obama Foreign Policy – Afghanistan -

Hillary Urged to Wear Burka When Negotiating With Taliban. It is aimed at getting American women prepared for what's coming!

A possible deal with the Taliban?  I’m sure Iran will not have a nuclear weapon because of Obama. Not. What is Hillary Clinton saying about all this?  The Taliban will only take the opportunity to regroup and enslave women.

Where is NOW on this issue?

January 27, 2010

Afghan Women Warn Against Possible Deal With Taliban

By REUTERS

Filed at 12:31 p.m. ET

LONDON (Reuters) – Groups representing Afghan women warned the international community on Wednesday against pursuing a peace deal with the Taliban, fearing a return to the austere Islamist rule that saw women banned from education and work.

Women from a United Nations agency, the Institute for Inclusive Security and other rights’ groups told reporters in London that the progress made since 2001 should not be jeopardised by courting conservative elements.

Some 60 countries are to attend a conference on Afghanistan in London on Thursday which has been preceded by a groundswell of support for an eventual political settlement with the Taliban movement which ruled from Kabul from 1996 till U.S.-led forces toppled the hardline Islamists after the September 11, 2001 attacks.

The Afghan women’s groups urged the nations attending the conference to adhere to commitments to women’s rights in 2001.

“I have great fears, and I am greatly confused,” Homa Sabri, national officer-in-charge for UNIFEM Afghanistan, the U.N.’s women’s fund, told Reuters….Continue Reading

Larry Sinclair’s Journey –

Has Obama heard that Larry Sinclair is running for Congress?

It seems that Larry Sinclair has had a visit from Homeland Security tonight at approximately 6:20pm.  Larry is one courageous and determined man to keep putting pressure on the Obama regime.  Larry Sinclair is the man who alleges that he and Obama did cocaine and engaged in consensual sex in 1999.  Since making these and other allegations, Mr. Sinclair has endured all manner of threats to his personal safety and that of his family.  He was even subjected to an outrageous abuse of process last year, June 18^th, when Vice President Biden’s son had Larry arrested outside the National Press Club.  It also appears that the Social Security Administration may have been enlisted to punish Larry for his persistence. 

Good luck, Larry!  We will be watching for news that you are doing okay.

From CitizenWells blog:

Nancy Peacock // January 27, 2010 at 6:20 pm

CW: Larry received a call from Homeland Security. He thought it was a Jacksonville number because they said they were close by. He thought they were on their way over, but they walked through the door when we were on the phone. They are questioning him now.

 

ChiBama Politics -

Loyalty is Required in the Obama Cult!

From World Net Daily we have a bit more information about Ellie Light:

Uncovered! Meet the real ‘Ellie Light’

Letter writer is male health-care worker tied to Daily Kos, Obama-Ayers machine

Posted: January 27, 2010
1:47 pm Eastern

By Aaron Klein
© 2010 WorldNetDaily

A male health-care worker who appears to be Ellie Light – the letter writer whose name appeared in dozens of newspapers nationwide praising President Obama – also is a diarist for the far-left Daily Kos website and an online friend of an individual tied to a radical pro-Obama group associated with William Ayers’ Weathermen terrorist organization. …Continue Reading

American Soldiers – Tortured Duty & Tortured Mission – The Whys and Whats Becoming Harder to Answer? – The BOPAC Report

American Soldiers – Tortured Duty & Tortured Mission

The Whys and Whats Becoming Harder to Answer?

Families that honor military service are spread all across this nation.  I grew up in one. Even as a teenager in the sixties, I remember knowing that freedom wasn’t free.  My father had served in Patton’s 3rd Army, fought in the Battle of the Bulge, and served as a guard at the Nuremberg War Trials. How could I not know the price of freedom? WWII, now that was a just war.  Everyone knew it.  Everyone knew the war had to be won at all costs because failure clearly meant tyranny and death for an entire people, the Jewish people. Everyone knew, even the media knew the Whys and Whats.  Why they were fighting? What they were fighting for? They knew the cost of winning and losing! And,  victory wasn’t a dirty word.

However, my brother and I served in the United States Navy during a time in America’s history dominated by numbing callousness, selfishness, and indifference.  The loss of the Vietnam War brought about by the media and endless protests of duplicitous, naïve dreamers and schemers; the festering pain of Watergate continuously exploited by politicians in D.C., the good but lackluster caretaker President Ford portrayed as a bumbling stumbling fool on Saturday Night Live, the My Lai massacre and Lt. Calley’s conviction not quite distant enough to avoid its stench, and a war/corruption weary people’s vote for change promised by Jimmy Carter all marked this period.  Amazingly, like today, Carter’s change didn’t live up to expectations. Instead it brought gas lines, high inflation, 20+ percent interest rates and high unemployment – despair.

And the military was not spared in the mid 70’s. My awareness was that Carter was always attacking their budgets, minimizing the Soviet/communist threat, and interfering with matters that should have been left with the military, like his pardon of draft dodgers. Like closing GITMO, that action was certainly more of an appeasement to the far left than anything else. Democrats have been courting them for a long time.

Not unlike today’s media, the 70’s media reported much of their “news” in ways that portrayed the military, its leadership and contracting in the worst possible light. At the time, having credibility, it did appear as though reporters were merely following “the story” where it led. You know, paying homage to the type of Journalism that revealed the dirt in Watergate.  But, considering the corruption of today’s media, I’m probably being too kind. The price of every screw, hammer and ladder was held up as symbols of systemic corruption. And just like today, the broad-brush criticism and vilification drifted through the ranks to land on the individual soldier.

The cloud of post Vietnam warmonger shame continued staining the uniform in the minds of many Americans. The 70’s media and Jane Fonda had done a good job of mixing up the good and bad guys, buying time for the Vietcong. I suppose they weren’t comfortable with the concept of winning either. Thankfully though, Carter’s dreadful economy and gas lines were overwhelming and required most of the media’s attention.   The vast majority of those who did love the military were tired and let down by Nixon; and those who had been in the streets had their guy in Oval Office. So almost everyone seemed to be trying to turn the page. And with that turn of the page, the American soldier seemed to be all but forgotten.  The soldier’s duty to protect and defend remained but the camera’s glare was gone. That’s my memory anyway.

Carter’s negative effect on military morale and cohesion was palpable. The lack of any real resolve or credibility was clearly visible.  His handling of the Iranian Revolution and the rise of the Ayatollah Khomeini were abysmal.  It was weird, we were training Iranian pilots at Naval Air Memphis in 75 – a couple of wrong moves by a weak President and poof, 52 Americans were being held hostage for over a year.

The loss in Vietnam, Watergate, protests in the streets, President Ford, President Carter, hard ball politics and a deepening economic crisis were conspiring against the military. We were not immune to the tumult.  It was like a powerful magnet kept our compass spinning.  Drugs seemed to be everywhere in the military and military discipline a nearly foreign concept.  To be fair, after Vietnam, many military officers were not that gun ho. (I suppose some had begun to believe that Vietnam was an un-winnable shameful mistake – maybe some felt that everyone should be forgiven their part- including draft dodgers – some were just tired of it and decompression, down time was what the American soldier needed. Who knows?)

To illustrate how bad it was – in my squadron (I was an In-Flight Electronics Tech), when one of our P-3’s was scheduled to be washed, it was not unheard of for the wash crew leader to provide a few lines of cocaine to speed up both the process and the morale.   Officers seemed willing to see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil.  We were lucky no one ever got hurt. (Remind anyone of the PC military leadership today?)

Come to think of it, the “cold war” with the USSR (which was fairly hot then) was probably one of the main forces that held together our sense of “duty” and “responsibility” during the Carter years.  The soldier’s duty to protect and defend always remains.  But at any given time, the military is more – or less capable and the junior soldier accepts it as he or she finds it. What choice do they have? (I joined when I came of age and was expecting to find the military my older brothers served in.  But – it was very different.)

It was a perfect storm that had brought us Carter Presidency.  And with it’s battered and bruised image, the United States military seemed to have a hell of time riding out that storm until President Reagan could put his hands to the reigns. Reagan’s zero-tolerance drug testing came along after I got out and things started turning around rather quickly according to my brother.  I believe the foundation that President Reagan built (or rebuilt) continues to serve soldiers today and will not be easily surrendered by the military leadership.

Well, hopefully it won’t.

It’s one of my regrets concerning my military service that Ronald Reagan was not yet President.  If evil were there, Reagan would have seen, heard, spoke about & done something about it. He didn’t close his eyes and hope evil would go away.  I checked a dozen or so years ago with another In-Flight tech I served with about some of the guys (friends) in our electronic shop and learned that 3 had done some jail/prison time and 1 had gone through rehab.  Problems usually don’t just go away.

As a young enlisted man at that time, I went with the flow because…because I was a kid, had never been out of the country, military was not my career and I didn’t know shit from shinola.  The military and the flow of the military felt much bigger than I was. But, I loved the mission and flying was where I wanted to be. Who knows, if Reagan had been there, I might have retired from the Navy.

See no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil is not a command structure that serves the military or the individual soldier well.  Neither is going with the flow.

But it’s the military leadership, the career guys and gals, who have a shot at controlling or changing the flow. Yes, sometimes they fail, but it’s their job to address the issues. It’s especially egregious when they, like politicians, just won’t see or acknowledge that something is becoming a problem – when they don’t want to get ‘their’ hands dirty or risk jeopardizing ‘their’ career paths.  Two words – Ft. Hood.

And so I come to write this conflicted accolade to today’s American Soldier.

Tracking submarines, keeping tabs on ships, flying cover missions, no matter the whether, joint exercises, injuries and casualties, doing the mission, doing my duty were what kept me most grounded in the military.  It answered the Whys and Whats for me.  It was when politics, drugs, alcohol and all the BS disappeared and one knew Why they were serving, What they were protecting and how much it could cost.  I knew, understood and believed down deep that I was protecting freedom, the Constitution and my family.  As corny as that may sound, it made it worth doing – no matter how flawed.

Soldiers serving in the first few years after 9/11 must have had an incredible sense of the Whys and Whats that carried them through each and every day.

In the 70’s, war weariness, drugs, alcohol, lack of strong leadership, lack of discipline, being made to feel like polar opposites of the culture promoted by the media, and a general lack of encouragement from a tired American public were as great a threat to our concepts of duty, cohesion, sacrifice, morale and the mission as was the U.S.S.R and communism.  I’m sure these same factors give al qaeda, the taliban, and other Islamic terrorists cause for hope.

Of course, we had politicians undermining the military for their own advantage and a biased media.  But from my perspective, the corruption of politicians and the media in the 70’s – pale to what the military encounters today.  It has seemed that for the past half dozen years, the far left  and the media have been actively trying to bring about the defeat of the American military by taking political correctness to the extreme, urging untenable rules of engagement and intentionally mixing up the good & bad guys for political/ideological gain. And yet, our military continued doing an amazing job defending freedom around the world.

And of course, we had politicians who would have undermined the American economics system to replace it with a bigger nanny state. Democrats did control Congress during President Ford’s term and during President Carter’s disastrous four years. They did screw things up but they didn’t do it in a manner that couldn’t be undone. But they were nowhere near as bad as today’s leftist/Marxist Democrats. 

Today, we have Obama in the Oval Office and a Democratic controlled Congress (dominated by the radical left since 2006) and they are galloping as fast as they can towards creating a socialist system that would make Vladimir Ilyich Lenin proud. If you look past the rhetoric you easily see that they are attempting to create larger and larger voting blocks that are wholly dependent on the federal government, hands out, afraid to question anything, afraid to vote for anyone calling for personal responsibility. Having a nation of sheeple, like birds at a bird feeder, is not good for the country or our future. Look at the recent action Obama took diminishing our American sovereignty on Dec. 17. Constitution be damned.  Does anyone really think the Second Amendment is safe?

And yet, today’s military continues to do an amazing job defending freedom overseas.

I use the phrase “defending freedom overseas” instead of “around the world” because, as much as I love them, I’m not sure they are defending our freedoms at home.  I can’t really blame the enlisted soldier because when I was in the military, I didn’t have time to keep up with what politicians at home were attempting to do to us. I basically thought politicians were all self-serving pieces of crap and the voting process would weed them out.  Unfortunately, that’s not the case today. (The statement that politicians “were all self-serving pieces of crap” is still accurate, but the vote might not be able to undo the damage they are doing to our freedoms and the Constitution.)

And the military leadership continues to see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil and ignore “the flow” that’s becoming more and more turbulent.

(And the American soldier is expected to accept “the flow” as he or she finds it?)

It seems to me that today’s American Soldier now finds him or herself in the untenable position of having their oath, duty and mission tortured by Obama and the Congress. (It must be especially untenable for the soldier who joined because they thought they were protecting freedom and the Constitution.)

The mission – I think of this as each bomb dropped, bullet fired, enemy captured or killed, each military plan executed, each foot of ground captured and held, each training and standing up of local police and military to make it possible for our exit, taking reasonable measures to safeguard the innocent in the battle theatre and continually maintaining readiness in order to protect those of us at home.

The mission becomes tortured when political correctness runs amuck allowing terror attacks like in Ft. Hood, when rules of engagement make it more dangerous for our guys, when war plans and decisions are made by politicians for their own political reasons (closing GITMO, the trial of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in NY), failing to realize that sometimes terrorists deserve and receive fat lips from a Navy Seals during capture (PC amuck), persecuting the CIA for being a little rough on terrorists when the information they are seeking could save lives, when winning and neutralizing the enemy is not the objective, etc., etc., etc.

This is when it becomes hard to answer Whats and Whys.  What the hell are we doing fighting like this? What is this doing to keep my family and their freedoms safe?  What will happen when some politician pulls us out? What will keep us from having to come back?  What can I do to make it right? Why won’t they let us win?

It must be hard to go with the flow under such circumstances, hard to keep morale high and harder to think about signing up for more.

The duty – I think of this as the soldier doing his or her best to live up to the oath they took when they enlisted.  Basically the duty is to support, protect and defend the Constitution and the freedoms/protections flowing from it to each and every citizen.

The Oath of Enlistment:

…I, (NAME), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God….

Even though Obama, Pelosi and Reid would prefer that our American soldiers protect and defend some socialist version of the Constitution drafted in conference without consulting the People or States (like healthcare), thankfully that is not the case.  Not yet anyway. 

Hopefully every soldier read and understood the Constitution before they put on the uniform because it is an awesome responsibility.

A soldier’s duty and the Oath become tortured when the rights of terrorists are elevated (created out of thin air) and are put above the safety of the American soldier, when Obama diminishes our American sovereignty, when Obama’s Attorney General’s  personal vendetta against President Bush and the CIA appears to influence his decisions to try the 9/11 mastermind in NYC and to bring other enemy combatants to the US for show trials, and when Obama and Eric Holder appear more interested in prosecuting a war against the CIA to appease the far left instead of against Islamic terrorists, when military officers put political correctness above their duty to protect soldiers under their command (Ft. Hood), when military officers and politicians choose to ignore critical parts of Constitution because it would bring trouble to them (they may be called names).

All of these illustrate situations where officers up the chain of command, including the “Commander In Chief”, appear ready to shirk their duty to the Constitution and America Soldiers under their command so they can protect their relatively trivial career ambitions and/or pursue their personal political agendas.

This is when it becomes hard to answer the Whats and Whys.  What does support and defend the Constitution mean?  Who are the enemies of the United States?  Why am I defending something that seems optional for my superior officers?   What is really important to the chain of command – advancement, career or the Oath? Who are the Oathkeepers? Why should I obey my superior officers when they choose to ignore parts of the Constitution? What’s the point? What am I doing that protects the Constitution and the Freedoms of my family and friends?

For me and millions of other Americans, the one provision of the Constitution that has been most blatantly ignored by Command – and has followed/plagued Obama throughout his time in the Oval Office, cost him “at least $1.7 million” keeping his records hidden, and seriously calls into question whether he can legally act as Commander In Chief and issue any “lawful orders” is Article II, Section 1.

Article II, Section 1 – …“No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President”…

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil is not a command structure that serves the military or the individual soldier well.  

The “natural born citizen” issue will not go away and I’m sure it’s on the minds of many in the military; it affects morale, re-enlistment decisions, and how many traditional military supporters view the institution.  It’s similar to how the epidemic of drug use in the 70’s military effected civilians & soldiers who knew about the problem and cared about what it said about the institution. 

When I served, the military had a disease that needed to be cleaned up before the uniform could shine in all its glory.

Our military has a disease that can only be healed by thoroughly investigating the allegations against Obama and taking the appropriate actions.  Shine the light on all his records. If the answer turns out that Obama is in fact a natural born citizen, then that’s great – the disease will be cured.

But having the Joint Chiefs, General Petraeus, General Stanley McChrystal and the Judge Advocate General’s Corp continue seeing no evil, hearing no evil, and speaking no evil is not acceptable.  It disrespects everyone who ever wore the uniform.  America and its citizens can handle the truth!

To the American Soldier – Thank you for your service and sacrifices for this country.

I am truly sorry to be in the position of having to speak so bluntly about an institution that I love.

Constantly Ignored by Congress, Americans Left Little Choice but to Shut Washington, D.C. Down!

Constantly Ignored by Congress, Americans Left Little Choice but to Shut Washington, D.C. Down!

(I would like to suggest a date – the day of the 2010 State of the Union Address)

Today I was listening to Rush Limbaugh’s radio program when one of his listeners shared an interesting idea that got my attention.  The listener was a small business owner, 30 years in business, who was fed up with Congress not listening to the wishes of the American People.  He was calling for all small business owners to fire half of their employees (for a few weeks?) and the resulting loss of tax withholdings and concurrent demands for unemployment benefits, food stamps, etc. by the fired workers would overwhelm the system.

Rush immediately recognized that this idea was actually the same idea that Obama and the left are employing, the Cloward-Piven strategy. 

…”The Cloward/Piven Strategy is named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. Their goal is to overthrow capitalism by overwhelming the government bureaucracy with entitlement demands. The created crisis provides the impetus to bring about radical political change….”

It is an interesting concept of turning a wholly leftist/fascist strategy for radical change back on the instigators.  Naturally, the caller understood that his idea would involve substantial “short-term pain for long-term gain” and would require a lot of employers taking part to be effective.

What’s obvious is that Rush’s caller was basically expressing the extreme frustration that millions of Americans are feeling right now. How can ordinary citizens get the attention of Congress when they are taking the phone off the hook and locking their doors?

Even though it’s probably not ripe today, the Rush caller idea is simple, powerful, and definitely would get Washington and the media’s attention.  However, I believe the pain to the “innocent” temporarily unemployed would be too much.  It might be something to try next year during hunting season for hunters looking for some time to hunt and draw a check; or when school’s out for summer so they can go on family vacation.  By summer, prior to the 2010 elections, both the to be laid off employees and millions of stressed employers could be eager to take part in such an act of political disobedience.  I’m ready now but later might be better.

So what can be done now to get the attention of Obama, Reid, Pelosi and Congress?  What if for the days before and the night of the next Presidential State of the Union at the end of January another “Tea Party”/strike is organized to descend on Washington, D. C.?  Trucks, RV’s, Cars, Motorcycles, Bikes, Strollers, Wheel Chairs, Veterans, Law Enforcement, Firefighters, 9/11 Families, Navy Seals’ families, College Students, High School Students, Elementary School Students, Lawyers, Judges, former AARP members, Ordinary Americans carrying bull-horns, cowbells, bag pipes, drums, and every other manner of noise making device imaginable coming to Congress to be HEARD!  Wow!

Maybe, everyone could ask his or her Congressional Representative to boycott the 2010 State of the Union Address. (Are you there Representatives Bachmann and Wilson?)

Even though previous D.C. Tea Party demonstrations have had over a million participants, the media have found ways to ignore/ridicule/minimize them.  What if 2 or 3 million Americans came to Congress to be heard – could the media ignore that?  I don’t think so!  What if the sound could be heard when Obama begins spinning his lies and misrepresentations – could the media ignore that?  I don’t think so!  What if traffic is tied up for days – could the media ignore that? I don’t think so!

Americans are upset and frustrated because they are not being listened to by Obama or the Congress.  If fact even Blue Dog Democrats are frustrated.  The level of frustration must be extremely high to cause a Freshman Democratic Representative from Alabama, Parker Griffith, to switch parties today.

Why are they so upset and frustrated?  Let me count the ways:

Obama and Eric Holder are planning to have 9/11 mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s trial in NYC!  Polls show that 59% of Americans are opposed to this travesty.  Congress has power to prevent it but again they choose not to listen the American people.

Obama is closing GITMO and bringing the terrorists to Illinois (within 20 miles of a nuclear power plant).  When you ask Americans you find that 64% are opposed to bringing GITMO terrorists to America.  Is Obama or Congress listening? No.

Three Navy Seals are being prosecuted for allegedly giving Islamic terrorist, Ahmed Hashim Abed, a fat lip during his capture.  Abed was the mastermind of the brutal attack in Falluja in 2004 where 4 Blackwater security contractors were hung on a bridge and burned.  Where is Obama and Congress?  AWOL.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff are ignoring the very real possibility that Obama is not a “natural born citizen” and is therefore not eligible to serve as President or Commander in Chief.  Are they listening? No.  Is Congress listening? No.  All that is happening is that Obama has/is spending over 2 million dollars trying to keep his school records, long form birth certificate, bar application, college papers, etc. hidden.

Americans opposed to Obamacare are being ignored by Congress. The latest Quinnipiac poll show that “53 percent of voters disapprove of plans to make over the health-care system, with 36 percent in support.” Will Congress listen? No.

Shockingly, Reid and Pelosi’s Democrats are putting measures in the Healthcare legislation that tries to make parts of it not subject to repeal.  How’s that for Congress not listening!

No matter what you believe about abortion, the vast majority of Americans (72%) recognize that it is wrong to force taxpayer who believe abortion is wrong to fund abortions.  Will Congress listen? No.

The majority of American small business owners (66 against/24 for) and the public (53 against/37 for) are against Cap and Trade legislation. Is the Congress listening? No.

Americans, who keep their own budgets balanced, expect Obama and Congress to keep America’s budgets balanced!  Do they listen? No.

And there’s Inspector General Walpin’s firing, Obama bowing to every world leader he can find, Obama photo ops with our returning war dead, ACORN, SEIU, Larry Sinclair, attacks of FOX, Obama’s boot licking media, Cambridge Police “acted stupid”, coming attacks on the Second Amendment, not showing proper respect when our soldiers were slaughtered by a terrorist at Ft. Hood, etc., etc., etc.  It never ends.

Americans have been trying hard to have their voices heard vis-à-vis Tea Parties nationwide.  Were they heard? No.  They were ridiculed and vilified by Obama, Gibbs, Pelosi, many Members of Congress and the mainstream media.

Everyday, more Americans are waking up.

It is time to start saying ENOUGH a little more loudly.

Dogs of Blue – What Will They Do? Find Their Voices for Their Constituents or Will They Choose to Betray the Founding Concept that America is a Representative Republic

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Dogs of Blue – What Will They Do?

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Find Their Voices for Their Constituents or Will They Choose to Betray the Founding Concept that America is a Representative Republic

Democratic extremists, now in charge of the “Democratic Party”, are poised to force all of America and the “Democratic Party” of my parents on a possibly irreversible socialist path without regard for what Americans are thinking.  At this moment, just one group holds the reigns of America’s future in their hands.   A handful of Blue Dog Democrats have the power to block Obama’s people in their attempt to rest power and control away the People, States and the Constitution under the guise of saving the planet and providing government run healthcare.

The question is what will the Blue Dogs do.  Will they follow their articulated positions that got them elected by the people they represent?  Positions like promises of fiscal responsibility, of having balanced budgets, fair taxes, belief in a strong dollar, the need for a strong defense, respecting the Constitution, energy independence including drilling and nuclear, the need for more scientific discussion/investigation of global warming and the solutions, job creation and articulated views on social issues such as abortion, illegal immigration and gun control – are the ones that got many moderate/centrist Democrats elected in the era when Republicans had seemingly gone wild. Will Blue Dogs put Party leadership commands above the beliefs, principles and desires of their constituents?

Make no mistake, millions of Americans have been watching the Democratic leadership and Obama demand that Democrats (Blue and otherwise) get in line, shut up and vote for this “historic” government-run healthcare legislation.  Regardless of the fact that “Historic” does not always equate to good legislation, it doesn’t seem to matter to Obama, Pelosi or Reid. Of the millions who are watching, I’m sure that the vast majority can’t help but come to the conclusion that the Obama Administration cares much more about creating an unbreakable dependence on the Federal Government, rather than on actually making reforms that would improve healthcare and benefit most Americans.

Why would a majority of Americans oppose this legislation if they trusted the Democratic leadership or the federal government?  Why would 10% of Democrats and 5% of those who voted for Obama be calling for the impeachment of Obama so early in his term? Are they waking up? Of the 52% of who oppose Obamacare, 90% say that too much government is involved.  Let me be clear, Americans are overwhelmingly for sensible healthcare reform.  But what is critical for Blue Dogs to understand is that most Americans are also fully aware that improvements to healthcare can be made without infringing upon our freedoms, rights and responsibilities.

In the efforts to pass some sort of government run healthcare bill, any sort, Obama’s forces have been arm-twisting, threatening, and buying votes to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars and with tons of pork.  Regretfully, many Blue Dogs have been coerced. It seems that politicians today rarely fail to live up to American’s low opinion of them.  Nevertheless, I do continue to hold out hope for Sen. Lieberman.  (Come on Joe, don’t sell America out.)

Are these Blue Dogs so insulated and isolated in Washington that they can’t see that the vast majority of rural Americans actually realize the proposed healthcare legislation in the Senate will push America over the cliff to bankruptcy and a downgrading of her sovereign credit rating?  How can they not know what their constituents want?

Yes – the government run healthcare reforms and the coming Cap & Trade legislation are “historic”.  But, they are “historic” in that they will collapse America’s economy and her values.  What a way for a “Blue Dog Democrat” to be remembered! Blue Dogs remembered for allowing irresponsible Democratic spending, control and taxing to take America to a dung-pile of mediocrity with fewer rights and protections for its people.  Blue Dogs remembered for creating the new America where the masses do only the minimum to get by and everyone else funds Obama’s stash.  Now that’s something they should be proud to tell their grand children about!

Yes, America is waking up to the reality that we made a terrible and dangerous mistake by electing Obama and giving his Party control of both Houses of Congress.

Blue Dog Democrats like Sen. Lieberman stand at the precipice.  The decision of what America will look like is theirs.

Here’s what’s amazing. What they need to do to save America from a socialist future is not that hard.  It will probably get them re-elected in the process.

The first thing is they need to vote against any healthcare reform with any kind of government run option; or anything that has the effect of crippling private insurance.  Blue Dogs need to tell Harry Reid to stop and start over with Republicans at the table. (They can consider tort reform, deductibility of premiums, buying insurance across state lines, medical savings accounts, more options for catastrophic coverage, etc.)

Second, they need to quickly open up the debate on the science of climate change and find commonsense solutions to the effects of an increase CO2 in the atmosphere.  They must investigate climate-gate and try to re-establish some credibility in the scientific community and their methods. Cap and Trade is not a commonsense solution.  It is not a solution at all and has failed everywhere it has been tried.  It is a vehicle for more government control, diminished U.S. sovereignty, and fraud.   Commonsense solutions involve looking for technology to remove CO2 as needed from the atmosphere; and using or converting the by-products into something that can be used.  Commonsense is to push for nuclear power while exploring more “clean” energy.  Commonsense is not increasing taxes and prices on energy in a time of recession.

Blue Dog Democrats need to claim the center strongly and proudly.  They need to identify what that means to them.  I’m sure that many Republicans and Independents would join them. They need to recognize that the Tea Party protesters are not the radical right. They’re nothing other than ordinary Americans with serious concerns.

Tea Party people are Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Constitutionalists, Conservatives, etc., and they are not in lock step on social issues.  They are people like me who have differing views depending on the issue – abortion, marriage, legalization of drugs, capital punishment, etc. They do however seem to be strongly united around ideas such as limited government, lower taxes, fiscal responsibility, and adherence to the Constitution.  What’s not to love about that?

Blue Dog Democrats need to distance themselves from Pelosi, Reid, the far left, SEIU, ACORN, and Obama. 

They need to encourage the press to report accurately and fairly the shenanigans that are going on in Congress and the Obama Administration.  America will not survive long without a free and independent press.  When something not right is going on some Blue Dog Democrat, Republican or Independent needs to let people know.  Transparency and accountability needs to be the norm.

If any Blue Dogs do really exist, they should be able to easily appeal to the Tea Party Movement if they are sincere.

A real good start to get things really going would be to organize and declare that they are going to caucus with Republicans until the Democrats come back to their senses.  

When you run for re-election, I even have a suggestion for a theme song to play at your rallies.   It’s a take off of an old standard that Louie Armstrong used to sing.

What a Wonderful ‘Tea Party’ World

I see Dawgs of Blue, Tea Parties too
I see them Stand for me and you
And I think to myself what a wonderful world.

I see Dawgs of Blue and Doing What’s Right
A Sound Dollar’s day, A Bark Sounding Might
And I think to myself, what a Tea Party world…

 

Bring the Troops Home – Joseph Farah – Pelosi Shut Down Congress to Prevent Information Reaching Americans – Atlas Shrugs – 9/11 Families Protesting in Washington on November 18th – Join Them – The BOPAC Report

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The Taliban and Al Qaeda are not the biggest threats our military is facing. The biggest threat is their leadership!

Joseph Farah of World Net Daily has written an important piece that I regretfully agree with.  Even though I know in my heart of hearts that in couple of years we will be returning to Afghanistan to fight a stronger and more determined Taliban and al Qaeda, this Navy Veteran understands that  Obama’s ‘I don’t want to fight to win’ worldview will only result in more loss of life for our military. Therefore, it is time to bring our brave men and women home.  Hopefully by 2012, we will have a legitimate Commander in Chief who believes in America, her forces, her goodness, and believes in winning when we put our soldiers at risk.

Bring the troops home now!

Posted: November 15, 2009
11:05 pm Eastern

I was a supporter of both the Afghanistan invasion and the Iraq war.

I believed then, following the Sept. 11 attacks, that it was a matter of national security to hand Islamic terrorists stunning defeats in their own backyards.

Even a year ago, I would have said bringing the troops home prematurely would be tantamount to surrender to an enemy determined to do us in.

But that was then. This is now.

Things have changed and changed dramatically.

The biggest change is one in America’s leadership.

I do not believe Barack Obama is capable of achieving anything remotely resembling victory in either Iraq or Afghanistan – at least not victory for the United States of America.

A president incapable of recognizing that war came home Nov. 5 at Fort Hood is certainly incapable of waging foreign wars.

A president incapable of recognizing that terrorists are among us could never be counted on to do the right thing in remote places like Afghanistan and Iraq.

A president whose own worst enemies are the Republican Party, Fox News Channel and the tea party movement couldn’t possibly ever understand the nature of real combat.

It’s time to bring the troops home now!

It’s not without considerable reflection and sadness that I make this call. Like most Americans, I hoped to see the forces that attacked our country without provocation eight years ago utterly destroyed, incapacitated, defeated, devastated, annihilated, demolished and obliterated.

It’s clear that is no longer an option.

Obama has been vacillating since August over what to do in the quagmire that has become Afghanistan – the one conflict he claimed to support in his election campaign. The man he chose to be his field general has requested a surge of 40,000 combat soldiers to finish the job we began eight years ago. Obama can’t decide whether to listen to him and seems determined to meet him in the middle. ….Continue Reading

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No Turds In 2010 - Democrat, Republican, or Independent Turds - Vote For Fiscal Responsibility and Those Who Will Support The Constitution! Note: I'm not calling Obama a Nazi. I'm calling his movement fascist because it constantly seeks to ruin, ridicule, intimidate and/or censor everyone who questions Obama's honesty or his policies. It's crap!

Yet another example of how important it is for Pelosi to keep the truth from the American people!

From Atlas Shrugs:

Monday, November 16, 2009

FREE SPEECH ALERT: Democrat fascists Silence Republicans

Pelosi Censors Republicans by Rep. John Carter

Monday night Democrats voted to shut down the U.S. House of Representatives rather than allow a handful of Republican Congressmen to speak on the floor. What could have been so offensive or frightening about our comments that Speaker Pelosi felt she had to protect her party by gagging free speech in the House?

In fact, we had planned to speak on the lack of transparency of the House since Democrats took control. We had planned to criticize Speaker Pelosi for repeatedly denying Members, the media, and the public to right to read legislation before it was voted on. We were set to discuss House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer’s statement last week that if his Members were required to read the Democrats’ healthcare reform package before it was voted on, it would fail.

So the Speaker obviously feels that if the public is truly aware of her party’s agenda, they will reject it. She is now making sure the public is kept in the dark by trampling the centuries-old democratic traditions of the House. …Continue Reading

 Important NOTICE

Tea Party - Supporting Those of Any Party Who Support The Constitution, Limited Government, Responsible Fiscal Policy, Lower Taxes, and Free Markets

This comes from a CitizenWell’s Reader -

Jacqlyn Smith // November 16, 2009 at 4:22 pm

Please pass this everywhere and if you are close….please attend!!!!
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Dear Supporters,

Americans, it is time to unite, not as Republicans or Democrats, not as conservatives or liberals or progressives. It is time to unite as citizens.

President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder have forgotten that their chief duty is the safety and the security of the American people. It is time for us to remind them.

AG Eric Holder will appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, November 18, to testify about the administration’s plan to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed back to the scene of Al Qaeda’s greatest single atrocity — Ground Zero — where he will brag about the slaughter of 3,000 innocent men, women and children and his lawyers will tell a “jury of his peers” that HE is a victim of the U.S. Government.

This is insanity.

Please join 9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America, the firefighters of TheBravest.com and Keep America Safe in Washington, D.C. to tell Eric Holder, President Obama and their supporters in Congress: “We will fight you all the way!”

We know this is short notice, but that’s how the Administration planned it. They are counting on you just sitting this out, yelling at the cable news coverage of this outrage — instead of showing up and changing the narrative in the MSM echo chamber.

Where:
Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room G-50
Constitution Avenue and 1st Street, NE
U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.

When:
Wednesday, November 18, 9:30 am (Get there at very early, as seating is limited.)

Who:
Attorney General Eric Holder

Sincerely,

Keep America Safe

P.S. Over 100,000 concerned Americans have joined us and signed our letter to President Obama. If you haven’t done so already, please read and sign the letter today!

This Veteran’s Day – Ft. Hood Soldiers Deserve Purple Hearts – Obama’s Lack of Regard For Military – The BOPAC Report

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Happy Veteran’s Day!

Thank you to all the brave men and women currently serving in the U.S. Military and their families.  Thank you to all  who have served before and their families. Thank you to all who have lost a son, daughter, husband, wife, sister, brother or other family member in service to America protecting freedom.   Thank You! Remember that many of us pray for your safety and safe return to your families.

 The Soldiers Killed or Injured at Ft. Hood

Deserve the Purple Heart! -

When I think about the soldiers at Ft. Hood who were killed or injured during Major Hassan’s Islamic Terrorist Attack, it makes my blood boil.  From Obama, Pelosi, Reid, on down to General Casey, political correctness run amuck is controlling the narrative, the investigation, and the media.  It’s Veteran’s Day and America has lost 13 of its finest to an Islamic Terror Attack and all Obama wants to do is point everyone away from the true source of our loss – Islamic Terror on American soil. 

Every one of these brave soldiers are entitled to receive a Purple Heart, but political correctness won’t allow America paying tribute to these soldiers killed or injured in combat because the phrase “Islamic Terrorists” might have to be used. Disgusting.  Obama repeatedly ignores the Constitution our servicemen and women have sworn to defend – (he’s not a “Natural Born Citizen” thus not entitled to serve as Commander In Chief, the appointment of Czars without Congressional approval is likely unconstitutional, there’s no Constitutional authority for his takeover of businesses and healthcare, etc.).

Obama’s constant attack and disregard of the military evidenced by his dithering about Afghanistan troop levels, slashing military programs, undermining the work of the CIA and military interrogators, shouting out for nearly 2 minutes before informing America of the Islamic attack on Ft. Hood and not knowing the difference between Memorial Day and Veteran’s Day last year is inexcusable. It’s obvious that Obama’s loyalties lie not with the military but elsewhere.

My biggest worry is that if Obama’s march towards a socialist takeover of America is allowed to continue unabated, then every soldier who has made the ultimate sacrifice for Freedom will have died in vain.  As a Veteran, this prospect breaks my heart.

Unknow Soldiers!

However, Obama may not be able to get away with calling this anything other than a terrorist attack.

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Senior Official: More Hasan Ties to People Under Investigation by FBIAlleged Shooter Had “Unexplained Connections” to Others Besides Jihadist Cleric Awlaki

By MARTHA RADDATZ, BRIAN ROSS, MARY-ROSE ABRAHAM, and REHAB EL-BURI

Nov. 10, 2009 —

A senior government official tells ABC News that investigators have found that alleged Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan had “more unexplained connections to people being tracked by the FBI” than just radical cleric Anwar al Awlaki. The official declined to name the individuals but Congressional sources said their names and countries of origin were likely to emerge soon. …Continue Reading

 

Americans Might Want To Heed the Admonitions of The Past Regarding Election

Americans Might Want To Heed the Admonitions of The Past

We are quickly approaching the day when the direction of America will be decided. Will America follow a course steeped in ideology tempered by history or will she follow a course steeped mainly in ideology? Will the electorate be aware that these are America’s choices? Probably not, looking at the current polls, it appears that this election will be based mostly on faith and hope for change. If informed reason were being applied, the poll results would most likely be different.

One can easily draw the distinction between Senators McCain and Obama based on ideology tempered by history verses ideology alone by looking closely at their lives.

A person I admire, Oprah Winfrey, once said, “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” I think this is sound advice that proves true 99 percent of the time. America has seen Sen. McCain through many years and he has remained a consistent and dedicated public servant. Early in his career in the military he probably held strongly to some sort of ideology that grew out of the cold war. Maybe it involved the concepts of good forces prevailing over unjust forces. Just as the Vietnam War grew out of the cold war and threw light on the realities of conflict; the Vietnam War experience threw light on Sen. McCain’s own view of life.

When I look at Sen. McCain, I see a man who understands that core principles are what you are and they must not change simply because a situation changes. A severely battered John McCain had had an opportunity to leave his prison in Vietnam before other prisoners who were more senior, but he refused. Sen. McCain looked the immigration issue in America with compassion and tried to find a practical solution, an action that brought him condemnation by many. Sen. McCain warned of the financial nightmare that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac abuses were causing; but the Democrats in charge chose to ignore his advice. Many times Sen. McCain has reached across the aisle, pragmatically, to try to find solutions to America’s problems.

Sen. John McCain is a man of core principles and the one he holds most dear is “Country First”. I believe him because as Oprah said, “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” Whatever ideology Sen. McCain may have held as a younger man has been tempered by his own history and America’s history into a commitment to put the interests of America above his own. This is the America voter’s choice of ideology tempered by history.

When I look at Sen. Obama, I see a man who has burst on the scene and captured the imaginations of millions. Surprisingly, supporters seem to have developed an incredibly strong attachment to the idea of Obama and what they perceive that means; so strong, in fact, that it boarders on religious faith. Many issues that would have sunk any other politician have disappeared in the mist. The Senator’s backers appear more preoccupied with his rhetoric of the future than anything about the past, any past, including Sen. Obama’s. The past is cliché, boring, out of date, damaged goods with no place in today’s world. However, Albert Einstein might have a little different view of the past. He has said, “The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion”. I think Albert Einstein would consider Sen. Obama’s past just as important as the man being presented today.

Given the relative lack of leadership experience of Sen. Obama, reason would seem to dictate that his past should be even more important as a predictor of his future actions. However, in the politics of the day, the Media has assumed the role of advocate and obscurer for Sen. Obama’s campaign. Americans, who are trying to make a reasoned decision, are therefore having a very difficult time discerning what information is truthful and accurate; and what is not. What are the facts? This is a very real question in the minds of many voters. Quills drawn, the Media’s theory is that Obama is the one who must lead America. To support their vision, the Media does as Einstein, in a different context, counseled; “If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.”

Sen. Obama has been relentlessly pounding the theme that McCain equal four more years of George Bush, a narrative that has been sold in lockstep with the Press and Democratic Party leadership. One would think that common sense could see through the sales pitch, but it hasn’t. The Press has been constantly bashing President Bush for going on eight years. (I suspect mostly because they think he’s stupid, inarticulate and beneath them.)

Many of the America’s newly registered voters are younger; and therefore, they may be more susceptible to the myths of the Media. Apparently, their minimal life experience hasn’t given most of them much of an accurate barometer or enough common sense to judge fact from fiction. “Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen” another truism from Einstein’s repertoire that is at play here. The anti-Bush prejudice is raging, gathering steam, and Sen. McCain has been unjustly caught up in it web.

One other fact that the Media has attempted to distort is that somehow the current financial crisis was the result of the mean old Republican attempts to deregulate everything in sight. This is just another collection of prejudice reinforced by the Media that it is untrue, especially for Sen. McCain. He was one of the leaders in the efforts to rein in Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac; unfortunately, his efforts were blocked by the Chris Dodds and Barney Franks of the Democratic Party.

Where does Sen. Obama stand on the economy? He has stated and restated a desire to redistribute the wealth in America. This is exactly the wrong approach. Even a basic level of understanding about economics would act as a bar against trying to tax our way out of the current financial crisis. You don’t damage (over tax) those who are creating jobs and wealth for America and Americans. Regrettably, somehow too many Americans today have become accepting of the notion that the world (well the Federal Government) owes them a living and that wealth should be redistributed more ‘fairly’ to them.

The history of the ‘Great’ Depression clearly reveals that the measures implemented by government to overcome it were the reasons that the Depression became ‘Great’. Almost everyone recognizes that a thorough knowledge of the past is critical if we are not to repeat the mistakes of yesterday. However, I don’t think Sen. Obama understands it quite that way. Higher taxes and too much Federal intervention are not what the American economy needs today. As much as he hates to hear it, Sen. Obama’s economic ideas reek of socialism. We need to get back to the ideas of American innovation and personal responsibility.

Sen. Obama has been hailed as a superior intellect and amazing orator. But, who is he? What is his past? Who were those that stimulated and helped to form his thinking and beliefs? Sal Alinsky? Is he the same person today that he has been for the past 20 years?

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich

How much has the media allowed us to know about the depth of the relationships Sen. Obama had with William Ayers? Sen. Obama said he was just a guy in his neighborhood.

How much has the media allowed us to know about the depth of the relationship with Frank Davis? Andy Martin raises some interesting questions about this relationship.

How much has the Media allowed us to know about the depth of the relationships with Father Michael Pfleger, Minister Louis Farrakhan, and Rev. Wright? Aren’t these all company Obama’s mind kept? Are the ideologies encapsulated by many of Sen. Obama’s past associates very far from those espoused by Socialists and Marxists?

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich

How much has the Media allowed us to know about the relationship with Tony Rezko and his associates? Are the ideologies encapsulated by Tony Rezko’s actions those of corrupt politics?

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich

How much has the Media allowed us to know about the alleged relationship with Larry Sinclair?

To date, Sen. Obama has disavowed most of these people and/or their statements and actions. How much weight should Americans give to such a disavowal?

Should we accept the revelation of Rev. Wright?

“He’s a politician. I’m a pastor. We speak to two different audiences. And he says what he has to say as a politician. I say what I have to say as a pastor. Those are two different worlds. I do what I do, he does what politicians do.”

Or should we follow Oprah’s direction?

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”

Common sense and reason tell me to listen to both Oprah and Rev. Wright in Sen. Obama’s case. Sen. Obama, at the very least, has shown an incredible naiveté concerning his past associations and their impact on his reputation.

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company.
George Washington

Common sense and reason also implies that if Sen. Obama were the man he is portrayed as, there would be a line of people from his past standing, waiting to tell his story. The story of how Sen. Obama became such a partisan divide bridge builder, such a healer, such a patriot, such a reconciler, such an economist, such a negotiator, such a defense strategist would all be stories I would like to hear.

Who from Sen. Obama’s past is standing or waiting to tell his story?

What is the Media not telling America about Sen. Obama’s relationship to ACORN?

How many other scandals and allegations are there just from our view? Are there some yet unknown scandals being hidden by the Media? What about the Berg v. Obama lawsuit that is challenging Sen. Obama’s eligibility to hold the Office of the Presidency? What about the other lawsuits is several states? What about the validity of Sen. Obama’s birth certificate? What about all the allegations set forth in Berg v. Obama? What about the allegations that Sen. Obama was born in Kenya? Why is that not news? What would happen should he win the election and then be found to be ineligible to hold office? What about the questions about the allegations about Obama’s past and/or current Indonesian citizenship? What about Sen. Obama’s alleged membership in a Socialist organization, New Party? What about Sen. Obama’s extreme views on abortion? What about the allegations that Sen. Obama violated provisions of the Logan Act during his last trip to Iraq and during the run-up to the Kenyan elections?

There is so much about Sen. Obama that Americans don’t know. Some people are choosing to ignore the reasonable inferences from Sen. Obama’s past, some people don’t care and some people are not informed or misled by Obama’s campaign and the Media. The mainstream Media has done a grave disservice to America in 2008. The full consequences of Sen. Obama becoming President, under so many clouds as are set forth above, cannot be fully predicted or prepared for.

Therefore, it is critical that Americans take this election seriously and start considering the numerous allegations facing Sen. Obama before November 4^th.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
Theodore Roosevelt

In conclusion, America needs to take a breath and give another American voice a few moments of consideration.

The words spoken by Benjamin Franklin:

To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly

&

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her

The End

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