My thought:

"The Road to Nobel is paved with good intentions"

"32 Bi-Czars and Counting"

Not only will those things in the latest health mandates (not discussions, since it is onesided) eroding the Medicare benefits of senior citizens, it will also erode until abolished the lifetime care that was promised to American Servicemen who remained in the service for 20 or more years after they were 65 years old.

It seems to me that since earlier demise for older Americans will be the result of this "health bill", at 74 years of age, I should plan to leave this planet five to ten years before I thought I would.

There are two ways to correct these abuses:

1. Do to the Democrats and Liberals what we did to George III back in 1776, or

2. Throw the bums out at the next election.

The solution to our governmental problems are simple but not easy to fix. Throw all of the current Representatives and Senators out of office and elect all new. At the same time do away with their obscene retirement and medical plans. Put them all under social security and the same health care the rest of us have. We must take back our government or it will be lost to us forever and we will soon have a dictator as "the one" wants to be.

Incredible writing Mark. Nice work!

I have heard the words "this is unconstitutional" so many times with reference to what Washington is

doing as far as dismantling our economy and threatening our liberty.

So what is the point of having a Constitution if it

has no teeth.....authority? Where do we go for

enforcement of our important founding document?

What is the process put in place for times like these? Do we demand that our legislators appeal to

the Supreme Court? Do we just ignore the unconstitutional laws.....what is the procedure?

I never hear what we are supposed to do to protect

and preserve our nation when our very existence is

threatened by our own government. I need a "to do"

list.

I am a voluntary uninsured 64 year American who believes I have the right to chose how to provide for my health care. But it is not a matter of me or my desires, it is not a matter of Medicare or medicaid cuts. It is a clear matter of the Constitution being violated.

I have asked in emails to my two senators Baucus and Tester where the get the Constitutional authority for Health Insurance Legislation. I have had no reply. Any person voting for the any Health Care Bill should be voted out of office for a clear violaiton of there oath of office to uphold and defend the Constitution.

Government is not the solution it is the problem.

Mark,

Very well written. I am reminded of a case, I forget the details now but it was a case that would have required bakers, I believe, to only work a set number of hours in a day. It had been discovered that there was some health issue if they worked more than - 8 or 10 hours a day. As mentioned I forget the specifics. Anyway a number of the bakers, in spite of this health risk were working extra hours for extra money. One of the States stepped in to stop this in the health interests of the bakers. The Supreme Court (in a time when they actually followed the Constitution) ruled that the Bakers were not wards of the state and could choose to accept the health risk. They had the liberty to make a bad decision. Just so people are opting, to save money, not to buy insurance. I know some can't afford it but there would be better ways of dealing with that percentage. It seems to me that the ultimate intention of the Democratic party is to make everyone a ward of the state. Hopefully they will not succeed.

We do NOT have the Rule of Law. We have the rule of selective enforcement of The Law. By passing more laws than can be enforced we make everyone a criminal and then enforce, only, the laws that promote our agenda and collect fees or taxes. If we pass enough laws we can exert total control over all citizens. We need a new law; that when we pass a law we must repeal two that are already codified. Since we can't conform to the 10 original laws we have passed 1000s of exceprions to those original 10.

It is worthwhile to go back and read the history of the Fabian Socialist infection which overtook Great Britain 100 years ago. Government takover of the British health care industry after WWII was the death blow to the once-most powerful nation on Earth. After healthcare, we must realize the socialist sights are set on our bountiful commodities - water rights are under attack right now - and the Socialists will not rest until they control the life blood of industry.

We have the best roads, highways and freeways in the world. We would not think of turning all of our grand highway system into tow roads just because we need some pot holes repaired.

That is about to happen to the best health care system in the world.

Would someone please get this message to all member of our government and Obama to fix the potholes that needs repair in our health care system.

WOW IS ALL THAT I CAN SAY

Turn up your volume for 61/2 minutes. You need to hear this.

This guy's video on youtube has been so popular that Obama called him personally. He said that he was very disturbed with the video and invited him to the White House. Obama also said he wanted the White House to handle the Press and not to talk about the video or the White House visit. That is interesting. Watch it now. This may be the best six one half minutes invested in your future you may have to turn your Sound Control up some.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeYscnFpEyA

I am copying this essay and distributing it to all of my neighbors. I intend to do this with this publication and others that I think people need to see....to wake them up! Our great Country is being systimatically dismanteled....right before our eyes!!

I am "mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it any more".........I MUST act, now! If not me, WHO...if not now, WHEN. If you want to know who should be standing up for your rights and the rights of your posterity....look in the mirror!

More than once, I have seen proponents of government-run health care express anger and dismay at the "fear-mongering" of opponents. For all of their scornful rebuttals to opponents' statements about "death panels" and "overall diminished quality of care", I must ask:

Can they guarantee that future administrations shall never allow these abominable offshoots to occur? I, for one, lay claim to no prescient ability - but I have observed historical evidence that, given the opportunity, those with power and authority abuse them. That example - repeated throughout recorded history - constitutes scientific proof, according to the definition of scientific proof.

If the proponents of ObamaCare can provide clear and substantial proof that our scientifically-proven misgivings are unfounded, then we must - as rational and intelligent people - accept that evidence.

If, however, they cannot provide such evidence, then they must understand and accept our position as valid, and they must not pursue their agenda without assuaging our fears first. To proceed without consideration for one's neighbor is uncivilized and un-American.

I, for one, appreciated the parenthetical "not provide" Alexander and Clymer add to the Preamble. May I also suggest a parenthetical "not the Individual", i.e. "to promote (not provide) the general (not the Individual) Welfare".

Why has not anyone questioned Obama and Congress about eliminating all wage increases for the elderly on Social Security?...Yet congress all voted for huge pay increases for themselves thereafter and support taxpayers paying for huge bonus for all the CEO's, executives and wage increases for banks and others that received bail-out funds of billions of dollars?

They cut all Social Security increases for 3 years which all combined would not be as much as their pay increases. And they even plan to take money from seniors health care plan and limit their coverage? And nobody protests? This is absurd and reprehensible behavior!

Somebody needs/Must follow up on this total disregard for our seniors and any others it would considered Discrimination!...where is the no more taxes for low income that is always proclaimed by this administration? We are witness to the fact that the democrats are supporting the rich, big corporation executives at the expense of our elderly...all the things they claim the republicans did....

These people have to go!....there is no place for such grave injustice in our govern body.

I believe the Democrats have under estimated our seniors and those to be seniors in the very near future...cutting all benefits from Social Security to health care benefits will cost them in future elections for years to come...Everyone is going to be a senior citizen at some point and these concerns will be felt by all soon...Seniors vote and are not going to sit back while this administration and the liberal democrats in Washington walk all over them and force them into the poverty level of existence.

The Republicans have a great opportunity right now to push for support of our Seniors and gain their trust to support them in the years ahead and thereby win back the Whitehouse and both houses of Congress in light of what has been taking place with this irresponsible leadership we current see.

What are we to do ? My stateis Represented by a Senator who may not complete his term,

, A Senator who has been "rich' all his life and a Representative that is still being investigated by the authorities .

They are Democrates and they no how to help raise taxes and spend it on buidings with their names.

They will not listen to reason. They will listen to their State party officials.

It is time for term limits and common sense. I don't think I am the only one that feels this way.

Like many others I do not know how to make things happen for the regular citizen of this country.

Any help?

If our Constitution is on life-support, then why don't we demand a "Constitutional Congress" be convened immediately? While we still have a Constitution? While we still exist as a Nation? Before we as a Nation are swept into the dust bin of history ourselves?

This health care bill that is trying to go thru Congress is "UN-Constitutional" according to the 10th Amendment. My Senator, Cornyn, put this info in his newsletter. When do "we the people" say enough?

I just wanted to say thank you to you and your staff Mark. With that said, I have been working for several years to inform my fellow "WE THE PEOPLE" of the actual condition our beautiful GOD given Country is in. And the hardest thing to over come is APATHY.

GOD have mercy on America

My Respect and Regards

Smokey

The Patriot Post in its entirety resounds with the thoughts and ideas I have but my question remains, "What do we do now?" When do WE take up arms, put our blood and treasures up for the cause and toe the line that the liberals have drawn? Our Founding Fathers died over less infraction than our own liberal countrymen have yoked us with--how many more words do we waste before we take direct action against the internal threat? Every day I go over Paine's simple statement: "If there be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." In modern terms, Bring it on!

Where do these people get their "authority" to over-ride the laws of our Constitution? (referring to 10th Amendment that is put there to limit the size, and power of Government)

DEMAND A "CONSTITUTIONAL CONGRESS" BE CONVENED IMMEDIATELY. Put the Constitution out on a table and take each article and all 10 Bill of Rights and discuss them one-by-one. Bring forth the Constitutional Scholars and the writings of the Founding Fathers. Bring scizzors and/or matches. Cut out what you don't like about it. Burn the damn thing. Shred it. BUT UNTIL THEN - GET YOUR DAMN FOOT OFF MY CONSTITUTION !

If there is one Comgressional believer in The Constitution of our country, they would be speaking loudly to the media. If the media won't listen they would be decrying these violations on the floor of their respective house. How long will the populace tolerate the trashing of both the ideals of our Founding Fathers and the document they created?

Thank you much for the Patriot Post. I enjoy reading it. I hear so much on talk radio and the the Internet concerning the woes of our country, and truly there are many. We all have our ideas of how to "heal" our country. The prescription is very simply outlined in the Bible found in II Chronicles 7:14 ("if my people who are called by my name (Christians) will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land"). Until we (Christians) take this verse to heart and do what it says, only then can we expect our country to get back on track and again become the nation we once were. We can debate the issues at hand until we can debate no longer, but II Chronicles 7:14 is the only sure prescription from the greatest of all physicians (God) that will heal our national ills. It is a very simple prescription, but one that is hard to swollow by the average professing Christian. Keep up the good work!

I believe during the writing of the constitution one of draftees was a physcian and he wanted to incorporate language that the govenment not provide medcial. This may not be entirely correct but necessary knowledge.

The proble;, Proposed Health care has nothing to do with concerns of health care but a scare tactic to generate government control. Data is schewed by reporting only the limited problems and not covering the magnitude of the successes.

This could be found in a modern day "Federalist Papers" addendum edition!

Our founding Fathers knew what life without liberty was like. Do we have too lose ours before people wake up and would we have men as wise as these? Thank you Patriot Post for keeping the true American dream before us.

I am hopeful that most of this horrible health care bill, which will not be implemented until 2013, will be seriously challanged in the courts as to whether it meets all constitutional reguirements. If not, we are all then slaves and the cycle of society will be completed.

This is a well written Essay. As a student of history and law I wonder if there there a way to get back to the original intent of the founding fathers. It took 250 years to get to this point. Problems not withstanding we live in the best country in the world! Thank God.

You are so right when you said, "to promote (not provide) the general Welfare;" Too often people overlook the fact that the Constitution was a compact between states that created a federal government, to benefit the new nation of states and therefore the people. It was not a compact between the people and the new federal government; they merely ratified it as states because they saw the benefit to the new nation as a whole. The general welfare clause has been twisted and deliberately misused in the name of "social" justice for a very long time. The fact is, the people didn't ratify this Constitution for their own personal benefit any more than they thought that the federal government was empowered to eat out the fruits of their labor for the good of their fellow citizen. In the days and years following the revolution the very concept would be absurd! The Constitution is a charter for government between the states individually and working together for the benefit of the nation as a whole. Please keep reminding everyone about the preamble to the first ten amendments. That makes it clear that the Constitution is a set of rules for the government and not a set of rules for the people. Since that is the case, the general welfare clause applies to the nation of states and not to the people!

This is an excellent essay. Many wonder how we can realistically get back to a more Constitutional governance. May I suggest to all, this website: www.cc2009.us.

"We The People Congress" has held delegate elections in all 50 states and is convening Continental Congress 2009 in November (NOTE: this is NOT a Constitutional Convention). We will review all the federal government violations of our Constitution and will formulate an action plan -- a Petition for the Redress of Grievances, and submit it to the federal government.

The government is obligated to respond. If they respond inappropriately, or do not respond at all, then we are justified in taking the next non-violent steps by withholding our support for this unconstitutional government.

Please support We The People Congress at www.cc2009.us and consider donating to this very worthy effort.

Sincerely,

Larry Graves

Ashland, Oregon

OR-WTPC

This a well written essay And a special thanks to Larry Graves We The People Congress let us stand up and force the Elected to be accountable to the Constitution not their idea but the way it was written by our Forefathers.

In 1960, at the UN, Nikita Khrushchev said, "We will bury you." He said, later, "We will not bury you with a shovel." What he meant was, "Your own working class will bury you."

The creeping Socialism, evident in the United States prior, and at the time of his appearance at the UN led him to believe that the American working class would introduce us all to a "worker's paradise," as was the USSR - Pardon my being facetious.

Little did he know (or maybe he did!) that the liberal element of our society (Read: closet Marxists/Socialists/Democrats/Fellow Travellers/Usual Suspects/KGB & GRU agents) would drag the working class (unions), by the nose, into full blown Socialism and drag the rest of us along for the ride. Vladimir Lenin, the first head of the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic, said that, "Socialism is the bridge from Capitalism to Communism." Nikita was merely quoting Lenin after his fashion. And I dare say they are both, along with Marx and Engles, sitting on the glowing coals and laughing themselves silly.

The grave of Capitalism, and liberty, is being dug in Washington. We need, desperately,to stop the digging. If we don't we will, most assuredly, be buried.

God's Busy . . . . . . .

A United States Marine was attending some college courses between assignments. He had completed missions in Iraq and Afghanistan . One of the courses had a professor who was an avowed atheist and a member of the ACLU .

One day the professor shocked the class when he came in, looked to the ceiling and flatly stated, 'God, if you are real, then I want you to knock me off this platform. I'll give you exactly 15 minutes.' The lecture room fell silent. You could hear a pin drop.

Ten minutes went by and the professor proclaimed, 'Here I am God. I'm still waiting.' It got down to the last couple of minutes when the Marine got out of his chair, went up to the professor, and cold-cocked him, knocking him off the platform. The professor was out cold.

The Marine went back to his seat and sat there, silently. The other students were shocked, stunned, and sat there looking on in silence. The professor eventually came to, noticeably shaken, looked at the Marine and asked, 'What the heck is the matter with you? Why did you do that?' The Marine calmly replied, 'God was too busy today protecting American soldiers who are protecting your right to say stupid stuff and act like an idiot. So, He sent me.'

And all God's people said -- AMEN!

Have a great day!!

Although not citizens of the USA, my wife and I have been following with great dismay what is being done to your once-great country. We have different government structures, yet, many of the problems described in your essays and posts echo strongly with us. We think that the rights enumerated in your Founding documents belong to men everywhere.

Your cry for vigilance and action is stirring us to do something in this country as well.

Thank you once again

Gilles & Elinore Mailhiot (Canada)

I am not surprised about what is going on with the Obama administration. I remember watching an interview and he stated that he hoped he could govern without the constraints of the Constituion that our fore-fathers has imposed. He said it like the original Constituion did not fit todays world.I remember telling my husband that we do not need that type of thinking in our government and it will lead to chaos in America and it has. The political elite left thinks everyone is stupid except them and we have to be led like lambs to a slaughter, of our rights.

THANK YOU

JOYCE MADDEN STARN

I would like to see one of the Christian lawyers' organizations or at least an ethical group of lawyers take on a class action suit against the illegal misrepresentation of the Constitution just to send a message to Washington. I would dare to assert that no one involved with such a class action suit would be the least bit interested in monetary reward, but would be interested in seeing that Washington finally understands that "we the people" are NOT stupid and "we the people" are sending a message to Washington that "we the people" will begin to set term limits by NOT voting for incumbents when they are ignoring us...well, Counselor, do you think it would work?

What can we possibly do to stop this train? Everyone I speak with as a small business owner is fed up to the teeth and sees the demise of our beloved America. The Dems seem to have no regard for their constituency as does Sen. Snowe. The frustration just keeps building. How do we stop them from legislating all this junk that will bring us down?

I have started up a small group in my township that will work hard to get conservatives elected to local and state offices. But, that will not have an immediate effect on stopping what is happening now.

Is there no silver bullet available to put a halt to this onslaught?

God help us!

REVOLT WITH YOUR VOTE.

We have only ourselves to blame for this mess.

Make your voice heard during the mid term election coming up.

Vote out ALL the incumbents.Both parties have lost touch with their constituents.

Keep voting out the incumbents until they understand that they work for us and our voice will be heard.

The real answer to all of this is an Article V Convention which allows the proposal of amendments which can bring real change in the government. For example, one of the 750 applications from all 50 states for a convention, asks for a referendum, initiative, recall amendment. The effects of that amendment alone on the situation described should be obvious to all. You can read the texts of the applications at www.foavc.org.

The "Continental Congress 2009" believes a petition to Congress will be the answer. They will be proved wrong. The petition will be accepted and become a single line entry in the Congressional Record.

But amendments have a proven track record of solving problems in this nation. We no longer, for example, have the issue of slavery in this nation nor do we discuss whether women should have the right to vote. Properly written proactive amendments can solve the issues discussed. Nothing else is going to work and as one by one the tea parties, tenth amendment movement and yes, even the CC 2009 movement meets, fails to resolve anything and passes into history people will come to realize that only by amendment can the issues be solved and that means a convention because no way in ten thousand years will Congress propose the needed amendments.

Let me take this "right to health care" nonsense to its illogical conclusion.

Assume that tomorrow I invent a pill that, if taken every day of your life, will guarantee 100% that you will live in good health to the age of 95 but, if you miss just 1 day of the pill, all guarantees are off. This pill costs $1000 each, thus it would cost $0.365M per year per person.

Do you have a right to that pill? Should such a pill be covered by insurance? Should such a pill be paid for by a universal, government managed, tax payer funded program?

If your answers are NO, then why does someone today have a "right" to an MRI...or a vaccine shot...or angioplasty...or any other current medical technology that did not exist a century ago?

If your answers are YES, then please tell me where you're gonna find $32.85M to pay for 90 years worth of pills for each and every person who wants them.

Alexander's comments 10/15/09 re: last paragraph:

HOW??????

I'm not a defeatist but this looks like a done deal (I could, of course, be wrong). I have been to so many Tea Parties, written so many blogs, have written and called my legislators (even some out of my state) that I have become convinced that it is NOT that they AREN'T LISTENING but, rather, that they WISH NOT TO LISTEN.

My hope is that during the next three election cycles we can get this mess repealed along with a lot of other garbage laws which have been passed over the years and get some much needed laws such as making sure POTUS candidates are really qualified for the office, that bills are read and that laws MUST meet a Constitutional test.

Not only does "health" or any related term not appear in the Constitution or the Amendments but neither does "retirement" or "education" or "student loans" or "mortgages" or "environment" or "insurance" or "private business" or "private enterprise." Obama is the pustule that has come to a head after 70 years of gradual infection of the Body Politic. It should come as no surprise that the sickness has become so pandemic. After all, we've done little to immunize ourselves against it. Article 1, Section 8, ENUMERATES the seventeen DUTIES of the federal government. The government is not Constitutionally permitted to exceed them. But, what is the Constitution, anyway? As Obama said, it's "Just words." "All that is required for evil to triumph is for men to do nothing." -- Edmund Burke

Mr. Alexander:

WHAT do we do? I write my senators and congressman to protest, and get a form letter back. I read your excellent articles, and I agree. I talk to my friends, and they agree. But what can I do to stop the erosion of my freedom, short of violent rebellion? How do we organize ourselves to make our officials vote as we deem right, when they disagree with us, the electorate?

Will you or can you suggest some course of action that might prove effective for the common man to register his dissent? The Congress even ignored millions of people on the National Mall last month--what is left, short of another civil war?

I am saddened when I hear so many well meaning fellow conservatives and patriots focus their attention and debate on "the minutia". A rule-of-man-focused opposition to a rule-of-man-focused idea falls right into the Alinsky playbook. Thank you, Mr. Alexander and staff at the Patriot Post, for having the wisdom and enduring commitment to maintain proper focus on the fundamental issue at hand: our federal government's blatant disregard for Constitutional Rule of Law.

Each and every member of Congress should be asked to "lay his/her finger on that article of the Constitution which grants the right to him/her to expend the money of their constituents on objects of benevolence" such as healthcare, corporate bailouts, "stimulus" projects, etc. If they cannot do so and they vote for it anyway, then they should be forced to resign for breaking their oath to support and defend the Constitution. Indeed, if we are not a nation with Rule of Law and meaningful oaths, then we will get what we deserve as a nation with Rule of Man.

Mark, as usual you are right on the money. Our Constitution is being raped right in front of us. What really bothers me the most is the fact that there are 535 members of congress,and not one of them has the courage to say the constitution does not give them the authority to do what they are doing!Wake up America before it's too late.The constitution does give us the right to abolish this government for another one when it becomes oppressive.Think about it.

Sadly most, and in particular most republicans, still don't get what the root problem is. Until we stop going into debt by printing money and paper backing paper with no real commodity backing the dollar nothing will keep prices from rising on anything.

Whether it's a Government plan or just legislation to 'fix' the current healthcare system there all just a short term band-aid. No person should be in Washington who doesn't understand we're in this mess (financial meltdown, government bailout of multiple industries and on the verge of gov't healthcare to 'control' cost) because of what has been done to the dollar through the federal reserve system. We will continue down the path we're on just at a different pace depending on the party in power. Those that understand will keep watching it happen with tears in their eyes.

What happens when you can't pay your debts? You have to sell what you do own to cover them as best you can. America is up for sale and most people just go about there business thinking it can never happen to America. It is heartbreaking.

I agree with the others who have asked "HOW???" I've gone to tea parties, discussed politics with others, written & called my representatives, signed petitions, but the fact is, unless we do something that forces action, results, or change, the elites & political class can just ignore us all they want. They can tune out all protests and communications from their constituents no problem, and just do whatever they're planning anyway. Nothing we are doing is actually STOPPING them. HOW can we stop them? And more importantly, how can we stop them peacefully? I don't think voting will solve the problem--too many voters (as well as voter fraud and gerrymandered districts) will return America's destroyers to power. Yet this is not a tyranny of the majority or pure democracy, but a Republic under the rule of law. No matter how many voters want these people in power, the voters and the voted-for alike must be held to the Constitution and the rule of law. Plus voting won't remove most activist judges.

Usually your comments are spot on such as the Davy Crockett article several weeks ago. Excellent. However, today's article about the 'Constitution being on Life Support' is irrelevent. passe. Simply, put IT IS ALL OVER. We will NOT come back from this catastrophe. I am not a gloom/doomer. Just a realist. The Republicans say we can win back Congress in 2010. They are of course kidding themselves and us. If it even appears that the Repubs are right; BHO will declare some sort of mysterious emergency saying that we have to post-pone the mid-year elections until we can figure this mess out. Please understand. The Dems are not going to give this puppy up and say 'oh geez, we lost the election I guess we have to find another place to steal. And the idiots in this country will say OK and ask for more Kool-Aid. (i.e. money handouts)

No Mark, we have lost our way and are wondering in the desert like the Jews did 1,000's of years ago. The only thing that can possibly save us is for all REAL Christian people to hit their knees REGULARLY and beg Our Heavenly Father for forgiveness. In the Bible it says he will. (And I sent that to you awhile back).

God Bless you, all the readers of the Patriot, and especially all of our military personnel.

Frank Quinn

Dallas, Texas

Sadly, I agree with you that I cannot understand how these allegedly educated and talented people in Washington cannot read and understand the Constitution. Further, they seem to ignore the definition of constitution which is the basis of the nation - and as such is not subject to disregard for whatever whim arises. Unfortunately I lack the eloquence that you deliver regarding these tremulous times. Nonetheless, I stand ready to lend my hand to restore this nation to what it has been.

Frank and everyone,

People in this country lie dormant, and ignorant, as to what is actually happening.

Some are ignorant because of the fact they live of our taxes through the Big G.

Some refuse to believe IT(the loss of our Liberty) could ever happen, and some just don't care.

As for the US Patriots, (there are more than you think), it is our job to spread our faith, our wisdom, our drive, to keep what this country stands for.

"We The People", even the one's who know it or not, are Patriots, they are just not aware of it yet.

We need to be vigilant on two major levels, political, and domestic.

Our domestic lives are filled with those who don't know they are Patriots yet, this herein lies the Revolution we need to spread!

US Patriots need to spread the information that will trigger an epiphany within each and every one of our family members, our neighbors, our friends, our co-workers.

This is our work, this is our cross to bear!

Liberty is not lost, it needs to be refreshed!

Patriots, we all have a mission right now, and the mission at hand is the mission of relaying information!

Remember, Patriots will never believe, never think, never whisper, the loss of Our Liberty, (she may be sick, but she is strong and will pull through).

However, Patriots will shout to the ends of the earth, for all who will listen, the reasons to protect the greatest country in the world. The reasons to protect our children, and give them Liberty, so they may pass it on to their children.

Patriots, we all have a mission right now, and the mission at hand is the mission of relaying information!

Print this article hand it out to all you know!

And to you Mr.Alexander, sir,

Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus et Fidelis!

As usual, Mr. Alexander, your piece on our Constitution being on life support is dead on. The part about the elitists charging on and constituents be damned is so true. Seems as if we are in a position of nothing short of a 2nd American revolution is going to turn things around. If you know what it is, please tell us and if not, let me know where I can sign up.

Please send multiple copies of this to Olympia Snowe. She needs to be awakened.

I have long argued that the issue of "health care reform" is a Constitutional one. The congress has no authority to implement any of the proposals floating in Washington. You essay is spot on. All laws made by congress and signed by the president, are only lawful in so far as they are written to carry out a power given to them in the Constitution.

A constitutional convention is the worst thing that can happen. The crooks and/or mental midgets in Washington could throw out the entire document James Madison authored. They would give us a document that Adolph, Stalin, Mao, etc would be envious of. There is no means to limit what a constitutional convention can do.

As an analogy, they (the current Administration) know the threat to their game plan (total governmental control) by an awakening patriotic ground-swell... but time is running short, they're running a "hurryup" offense, and they've got the lead, the ball, and the momentum! Can we pull it out? If we don't, there's no next season! This is "do or die". The "Fat Lady" is not yet singing, but she's starting to hum!

Well said. Now, with that preface, might we conclude that legislators currently proposing and supporting nationalized health care are violating their oath to defend the Constitution. Might this be grounds for impeachment, if not an actua indictment to treason?

Best regards,

Gail S

http://backyardfence.wordpress.com/conservative-action-plan

Thank you for writing "Our Constitution is on Life Support". You have completely captured what I (and probably a majority of Americans) have been feeling, thinking, and saying. I will (if permission is granted) use this article to argue against health care as a "fundamental right" and "health care reform". Keep up the good fight and thank you again. A. O'Connor

You need to attack Obama's legitmacy as president - There is currently a case filed in California that is being heard by a judge - Make this a big issue and try and get institutions or individuals to release his college and passport records to your organization - There must be individuals that remember him and his situation at that time -

What thinking person could disagree with your summation? While I may lack the brilliance of you literary skills I am able to read and come to understand that the Democrat's do not just control the House,Senate and Executive branch; they hold key positions on the Supreme court, numerous lower courts and over the years have installed key persons in critical bureaucratic positions. Seems we can rail against their excesses and intentional undermining of our Constitution all we want but I am unsure to what effect. Jefferson once commented we would get the government we deserved. If the average individual is unwilling to demonstrate any more character than we are seeing today than it's not just journalism that is dead so is common sense. I close with this, if the Republican Party doesn't show more grit and and conservative leadership ability then they have to date it may be time to find a new home!

Did anyone say secession? I still can't find that section of the Constitution that says a state can not secede. A few states threatening to secede may be what is needed to get rid of the hydra monster in Washington. That is essentially what our Founding Fathers did about the British Crown. A good start would be seizing federal buildings and land that was not given to the feds by a vote of the state legislature (this is a Constitutional requirement).

In truth, our Constitution is on life support. I wonder daily where are all the people who swore on God's Holy Word to defend and uphold the Constitution. Unfortunately, the politicians are relying on a 2010 vote to throw out the Legislature, but I fear that by that time Pres. Obama will become Dictator Obama, with total control of the ballot boxes, as in Soviet Russia.

The Results will be the results HE wants, not what we, the people,want.

By that time, or before, I believe that States should start leaving the union. 40, or more, have already passed resolutions toward that aim. IS IT TIME????

It has been mentioned in this debate by the other side that even 'Teddy Roosevelt called for universal health care', with the notion that we as Conservatives should then in turn support Obamacare.

My understanding is that this was a platform in the Progressive party that we was trying to gain re-election with at that time - I believe his forth attempt to do so - and not an out right personal support of that position. Could someone comment?

Excellent article! We have the law on our side, but what good is law without enforcement? Where is the judiciary? Should the courts not be striking down 99% of what this administration and congress is unconstitutionally concocking? The courts have historically been very active in stricking down all manor of our nations clearly constitutional customs and traditions. Where are the courts now when the clear wording of the constition is violated with apparent impunity?

I am 68 years old. I am old enough to remember our family doctor, who made house-calls. I don't remember anyone wanting to sue him, but I'm sure he had insurance. All businesses should. It wasn't until the late sixties and early seventies that doctors began to take refuge from defending too many lawsuits by forming medical corporations which were eventually bought out by HMO's and we all know how it went from there. So I watched lawsuits cause the health care "crisis". So does the government attack the cause. Naw! They'd rather sock it to us. Lawyers and congressman, congressmen and lawyers.

Excellent article! If the Republican party wants to get back to it's roots, abiding by the Constitution, and the rule of law should be the platform. America is breaking under oppressive government and taxes and now the Dems want to control healthcare. To our peril!

We have laws that forbid Monopolies in commerce and other areas. Why are we not applying those laws to Congress and the administration? Can we hold each and every one of those who sign, promote and insist we are going to accept universal health care, in contempt of the very laws that are on the books?

There must be a way to hold these renegades accountable and rein them in.

I agree, our Constitution and our country is on life support. This must change, we must take back our country and return to a country as defined by the Constitution. The following quote, in my opinion, applies now more that ever before :

The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government....Thomas Jefferson.

I would say there is tyranny in governmen, now more than ever in our history.

To borrow a quote from John Adams, who believed in an educated citizenry as the backbone of a healthy democracy. The bottom line is founding fathers would be very disappointed in the way we handled their inheritance called the U.S. Constitution. I also believe there would have been a time when the U.S. Supreme Court would have intervened and overturned acts of welfare from Congress by declaring them Unconstitutional. Yes- I am calling out the Supreme Court and everyone who reads this article to unite together to prevent the next step in the plan and formation of a tyrannical government. If you the Declaration of Independence, I think that gives believers in America permission to defend what is important.

This article covers all of the bases. I think every patriot should read and pass on to 'restir' the emblem fires that are within each and everyone of us who love our nation and say with tears "GOD BLESS AMERICA"

You can help Starve the Beast!

Go to your HR or payroll Dept. and get a new W-4 Form and Actually READ it. Why do you think there is a line where you can EXEMPT your earnings from federal withholdings?

Then investigate the issue of LIABILITY for your own self.

Also write to the IRS and your US Representatives and demand they tell you concisely if you, as an individual (not a corporation) are LIABLE for any Direct federal taxes...don't expect an answer though. I believe this is the basis for VP Candidate Joe Biden's statement when stumping (in Florida I think) that "Federal income taxes are VOLUNTARY"

Look keenly at the US Constitution, Art. 9 Sec 1, wherein you find a Prohibition on DIRECT Tax. Then look at the 16th Amendment....I can't find where the 16th changed the Prohibition on DIRECT Tax in Art 9....only the apportionment requirement in Art. 9 was cited.

This is NOT legal advice...just points to ponder :)

Mr. Alexander...great essay. I have been reading and listening to all of you out there who see this administration as one playing the role of usurper. I have heard the cries of those who rightly terrified of what is happening to our Constitution under not only this administration, but all administrations since Marbury vs Madison.

The word is erosion...erosion of our basic rights. But, what to do, what to do? Some in this blog have advocated term limits, voting out incuments, and yes some have hinted at armed revolution.

Realize that there is no silver bullet that will cause our situation to change in one felled swoop. It will take time to correct our course just as it took time to come to where we are now.

Voting out incumbents is throwing out the baby with the bath water. We have some good representatives out there and removing them for an unknown is just not logical. I charge all of you who read this to take your responsibility as a citizen seriously and evaluate who your represenatative is and what he/she stands for. Then cast you vote accordingly.

But your responsibility does not end at the ballot box. You need to keep tabs on those whom you have elected and "keep them honest." Let them know how you see things and then at the next election cycle exercise your incumbent option.

Term limits is a good idea for all three branches of our government and, yes, that includes the Supreme Court. This would break the power of a president to stuff the court and saddle us with their politically-driven interpretation of the Constitution.

In our county Republican Party organization, we drafted a resolution that we are encouraging all party units in the state to adopt and forward to the House and Senate. It compels our representatives to show which article in the Constitution allows for the creation of the proposed law. It's not the solution to the problem, just a beginning.

Reading this excellent essay, I am reminded of the far-reaching foresight of the early republican party. Over 81 years I have watched as greed, hunger for power and disdain for country have crept into the political party I once avowed. Since the RNC no longer speaks for the opposition, tilting, unceasingly, at the windmills of the Obama camp, is it not time to close up shop and develop anew an exciting "Patriot Party" of "We, the People", those offended by the continuing quest for response to biased questionnaires and the attendant wasteful monetary support? The growing base of independent, patriotic citizens could, with leadership, bring our magnificent experiment back to the centrist views of its founders. It would be a reward for sticking around to see it come to fruition.

With the Executive branch completely taken over by the now fully exposed Kenyan usurper, and an illegal alien operating as "chief executive" openly, the only question is what to do about it.

The court system has told the American People we do not have the right to question his provenance through the court system, the supreme court having dismissed its opportunity is sufficient evidence of this. The Congress has shown it knows it has the authority to do so, in having done it with Senator McCain, but in do so selectively, and refusing to do so with the candidate who most appeared to need provinence, has shown it will not challenge the electing of an alien.

It is obvious the executive branch will not investigate its own, so we have the choice of accepting the illegal central government, altering the form of our Nation without our consent indeed without consulting us, having taken on the qualifications of a Fascist government in assuming control of private industry, determining the holdings in those companies by dictate, without regard to the established law in bankruptcy cases, and violating the primary holders. In taking over the lending industry in similar manner, and withholding all real information about what has been done, and who has been paid what, we have a very real Fascist Government right now.

With its announced intent of taking over the Health care industry, as well as the energy producing industry, the control of the entire production in this nation will have been taken, and no vestige left of the Confederate Republic, which the Constitution allows as our government.

We can either allow this to stand, allow our Nation to be reduced to a communist Nation with our dictator in office, and servilely surrender our Sovereignty as Citizens of a Sovereign Nation, or we can exercise the power of Sovereign Citizens, formally withdraw our consent from this unlawful government, declare it unlawful and enumerate its failings as our first Declaration of Independence did, following suit to the "t", and then count on the courage and willingness to fight of our Citizens, and declare a war of Independence from our illegal government, and then re-establish our Constitutional Republic.

Sincerely,

John McClain

GySgt, USMC, ret.

Vanceboro, NC

I am not an expert by any means but I was taught that the purpose of the three branches of the federal government was for each branch to be a "check" on the other two.

I used to think that the Supreme Court was supposed to make sure that the executive and legislature are held to the confines of the constitution.

When was the last time the Supreme Court ruled that a law passed by congress was unconstitutional? I don't know the answer to that, maybe because I am uninformed or maybe because it hasn't happened in a long time.

I can see a lot of things the federal govenment does that are not constitutional in my oppinion.

Why do we never hear from the court on these things?

Pertinant to the health care debate is the October 15 episode of Oprah-owned Dr. Oz TV show which was a paean to universal health care. One of his uninsured "victims" was a man with a terribly disfiguring lip cancer that had spread to his lymph nodes. Dr. Oz and his volunteers to the rescue. But the shocker was Dr. Rosen's promised participation in helping this victim stop smoking! Another "victim" was a man who ignored having a colonoscopy while insured. Happpily, his problem was a small internal hemorhoid. An earlier "victim" was a young woman deeply traumatized by a facial port wine stain but was clueless until Dr. Oz's expert showed her how effective medical makeup covered it. Is personal responsibility dead in America?

Whatever feelings of angst, helplessness and anger we are feeling now, will only multiply in months and years to come if we don't stand up now to the government that is supposed to fear us and not the other way around. I am not talking about insurrection or anarchy. I am saying that we all must GET INVOLVED in some meaningful way, one way or another, NOW to stem this tsumani of socialism-facism that is staring us in the eye. We must take it upon ourselves to educate our relatives and neighbors...be damned their opinion of us. Fear will not do at a time like this when our Nation and its citizens needs us to be STRONG!!!

"In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man (woman); brave, hated, and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot"... Mark Twain

WE must be the patriots of today...for the old adage of never bring up religion or politics at a function or gatering is cowardly! BRING IT UP...be not afraid...others will join in...believe it...they are just waiting for some other brave soul to start the discussion. Take it from me. I am 66 years old. I've been an activist for 40 years. First pushing for husbands in the delivery room and re-establishing breastfeeding, then fighting to defeat the Equal Rights Amendment. Then working to return the "right to life" to all from conception to natural death through the Pro-Life movement. Runing for Congress in 1978...the first woman in the 8the Congressional District in PA to run for that seat, then starting my own radio show...two hours a day, five days a week, all conservative talk, from 10am to noon, Mon. through Fri., for 5 1/2 years between 92 and 97....and I paid for my own air time back then!! I have been an avid "letters to the editor" contributor. I stand at a busy intersection on 9/11 with a huge American Flag..all day long..to bare witness to the horror of that date in American history....etc., etc., etc. I've been attending rallies way before the Tea Parties started, in my state and in Washington. If this little woman, who has raised four children, and kept one man happy and healthy for 45 years can do all that surely YOU can do SOMETHING MORE than complain about our government and what BO is doing to our country.

We MUST speak up...and work together...to defeat this evil that is being hailed as progress by BO.

NOW!!!...IS THE TIME FOR ALL GOOD MEN TO COME TO THE AID OF THEIR COUNTRY!!!

What are we to do now? Most people I know are at the very least extremely uneasy about the government doing anything concerning their healthcare.

I have done my best to make a difference and help stop this thing. I went to the "Tea Parties" and demonstrations with my home-made signs, proudly waving my American flag with my pocket constitution in my back pocket to keep it handy. We far outnumbered those who showed up against us. I went to the town hall meeting featuring my congressman, Peter Visclosky with my question in hand. I've called, sent emails and wrote letters to all my elected representatives. It appears to me that "We the People" have risen up and made our voices heard more than I ever thought possible. Yet still after all the effort and all the voices and all the rhetoric, the healthcare overhaul abomination is going to pass anyway. Nothing has changed. Only the names given to the various programs within the bill have changed to make them look like something different when they're not. It's going to pass anyway lock, stock and barrel. How are we not supposed to get discouraged and come to a determination that it doesn't matter what we believe anymore? This is going to change everything and it's certainly not change most Americans can or even should believe in. I'm not sure we can even contemplate at this point how bad this is.

May God Bless the Patriot Post and you Mr Alexander. You are a voice that cries in the wilderness ~ and we hear you! we hear the message and we know in our hearts that it is right and true. We thank God that He has raised up leaders such as you, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and others. And God has planted determination in our hearts ~ that we MUST WAKE UP!

I applaud your grasp of the essential problem we face with the left in control in Washington. It is the reason I chose to stand up and run for the 1st Congressional District of WV. It is my fervent prayer that at least 220 like-minded citizens will answer the call and are successful in gaining election to the House next year. With that majority, we may be able to reverse the destructive course our country is on as it leaves the blessings of our Constitution rotting in the dung of despotism. I also solicit your support in the encouragement of others to so step up to the challenge of beating back the leftist onslaught by running for office.

I print out copies of the Post (have for over a decade) and leave them all over the Dr's office and the VA clinic.

We thank you for your excellwnt publication and opinions.

As an old Geezer(80+)may I offer some observations that may answer recent questions raised by reader comments and at the same time satisfy my own rant.

The Founding Fathers in their infinite wisdom gave We The People the method to rid ourselves of a tyrannical government,not the ballot box--- the 2nd ammendment. However,those that we have consented to govern us,through the ballot box,the political aristocracy (D)/(R), over the years have diminished the most important part of that ammendment into obscurity--- The Militia.

Gasp!.A dirty word! This along with the right to bear arms is OUR Constitutional recourse! Our only legal recourse. The arms issue, which has to be the most frightening to the politicos, has been under assault for as long as I can remember

The political ariistocrcy (THEY)are both out of the same mold. For at least the last 150 years THEY have been violating the Constitution--breaking the law with monotonous regularity. Some major infractions some minor but illegal none the less .The only difference between the two parties is idealogical,all else is merely a distraction to cover the crimes committed or those anticipated, therfore a change in party in 2010 or 2012 is NOT going to affect the political mindset(D) or (R)

Where we as a nation are headed is to me obvious.This administration seems determined to destroy our country---- in 10 months they a have great start--- this destruction is not by happenstance tho' by design.

Are there those today who would match the founders resolve and be willing to forfeit all their worldly goods ,families and possibly their lives to retain the republic and return it to WE THE PEOPLE. The prospect of more tyrany is abhorent it's overthrow frightening. We have been given a choice.

I would ask Mr. Alexander to what Constitution is he referring to? Perhaps I'm being a pessimist, but I don't believe we have an effective constitution anymore. Furthermore, I would challenge anyone to convince me that save the Third, none of the Amendments in the Bill of Rights is intact. I suppose such beliefs make me a domestic terrorist, particularly since I own Bibles and am a vet, a disabled one at that who has had every promise made to me by the government should I make it to retirement broken.

I am sick of people being elected to office in the

swamp, supposedly swearing an oath to uphold and

defend The Constitution, and then promptly doing

just the opposite. Party affiliation makes no

difference, they are all morally corrupt! I urge

everyone to do like me, and "keep your powder dry"!

I am really starting to think that elections alone

may not be enough to get our government back to

serving us, instead of the other way around.

Ed Anthony, I applaud your efforts for coping TPP and placing copies in Doctor's offices and VA Clinics. Huge public service. Keep it up!

To Republicans and Democrats

Neither of these parties do what is "required" when they come to office. When wicked, unconstitutional legislation is passed, it remains, never repealed, and is left to "haunt and disgrace us as a Nation." Why aren't the legislators REPEALING unconstitutional laws? These "laws framed by mischief" have multiplied over years, not to our benefit, but to destroy someone or something when they "want to get you!"

Take the "Office of the President" now "a government within a government." Executive orders, originally used "to empty trash

cans at the White House" are means to "writing legislation, not according to our legislature within the bounds of our Beloved Constitution, but according to the caprice of the "Office of the President."

How do we rid ourselves of this usurpation of power? Find out who writes the Checks to pay the "legions" in this office that daily "eat out our substance." TIP - Try the Senate Finance Committee. Somebody has the "power" to cut off the money to the "vast hordes" who are under the "Office of the President." "The Office of the President" should consist of the President and his cabinet, but what are these "vast hoards" that are in these "bureaus"??? Cut off the check from the Senate, it will end the "reign of the bureaucrats" and the "Office of the President" will return to the Founder's intent.

This is for "starters."

For God & Country

Ruth Ann Wilson

Observing President Obama and Cogress insisting that "the Government" provide "health care" for all people who live in The United States reminds me of Parliament and King George lll in the 1770's in that the Colonists were saying they did not want what King George and Parliament were cramming down their throats. Yet, King George lll and Parliament would no listen. It seems President Obama and Congress have not learned from history!

But, Mark, how does a normal, average, everyday person who goes about his or her life deal with this? I am 68 years old, a Christian, conservative republican who served honorably in the USAF. I uphold and support the constitution of the U.S. and would gladly take up arms to defend and protect this country again if called upon to do so. What can someone like me do to counter this so-called "transformation of America" that obama and his minions what to do?

I am grateful to God for you and your organization and will continue to support you and your efforts with prayer and $$.

Patriot Readers, the U.S. Constitution is on life support. To prevent it from flat-lining, we must exude high dudgeon, we must slice through the Left's onslaught of minutia, and we must surgically endeavor with our every thought and deed to restore a healthy Rule of Law.

YES!!! My question is HOW TO DO THIS?????

OMG Have you and your blog hit it out of the park everytime. I fear for my country. It will soon I will look and this will no longer the America of my birth.

When we started to give out a free lunch, lots of people charged to the table.

I fear we will never see or hear the likes of our founder's. Who I believe were guided by God to start this republic.

You have a great voice here, keep using it. Keep ringing the bell. Someone my finally hear and head the call. I fear it will get worse before it gets better.

I leave you with this sad note about the people we elect to office. I think it is about 90% true. "If their not crooks when they get in. Theirs by the time they leave."

I didn't get the name of the author and I don't want to go back looking for it but this one of best essays I have read, so simple, so true. I have also read others by Krauthammer regarding our actual political situation but not related with our founding fathers. I think there is nothing we can do. Those liberals in Congress and Senate are the same as usual but not they feel encouraged with this narcissist, as Krauthammer defines him, president (he doesn't deserve a capital letter) that they think History will remember them from now to thereafter. Yes, we will always remember them as the sheeps that were in Capitol Hill in this crucial moment we are living. They are destroying our Country. I came from Cuba in 1968 and we know very well what Communisn is. They won't need to impose the Fairness Doctrine because when they take over everything the first industry to collapse will be the ADVERTISEMENT industry. During the campaing every time that black guy spoke my wife and I looked at each other with a question mark in our eyes. We knew what he, if elected, would bring to this great nation. From the most powerful and rich country of the world to the most weak and poor.

Sincerely, A. Bitar, Miami, Fl.

I think a Civil War is approaching.

I'm quoting, ex-Marine, Robert A. Hall- "I'm tired of being told how bad America is by left-wing millionailres like Michael Moore, George Soros and Holllywood entertainers who live in luxry because of the opportunities America offers. In thirty years, if they get their way, the United States will have the economy of Zimbabwe, the freedom of the press of China, the crime and violence of Mexico, the tolerance for Christian people in Iran and the freedom of speech of Venezuela. Isn't multiculturalism beautiful?" Thank You Mr. Hall!

God help us all if the people of the "REAL AMERICA" don't vote these politicians out of office in 2010!

Glad to see you people coming out and actually stating it. Maybe their is hope for us. I wrote about this over five years ago in my essay, Why Conservatives Will Never Win." Which has been posted on my TownHall blog since 2007. http://justalittleguy.blogtownhall.com/2007/11/09/why_conservatives_will_never_win.thtml

If you want to know how middle America feels about the worthless RINOs and "conservative" media. It's worth the minute and a half it takes to read it.

Keep up the good work and God Bless.

Live free or die. Airborne all the way.

Former 1Lt John K. Borys, Jr.

Simply put, Obama is nationalizing health care.

You know, during W's presidency, I used to wonder why liberals would foam at the mouth while insisting he was a liar, why they wouldn't even try to hide how much they hated him, how they couldn't even stand the sound of his voice. Until Obama was elected. I've been almost to that point myself over our 'historic' new president before I realized what I was doing and pulled myself together. It is, of course, their respective political points of view. I completely understand how the liberals felt. What, then, do we use as our compass? What should determine True North? Our Constitution and Bill of Rights, without question. Thank God for Mark Alexander and the dedicated staff of The Patriot Post for keeping us on track. Our current elected leaders are so very far off track I have to wonder - how can it be legal for them to run for office on a platform so unconstitutional? And how do we get back on track? The Essential Liberty Project is it, again without question. Liberals are wrong and we must educate our young people of this fact. The education has begun, it must continue. Continued thanks and blessings to you all at The Patriot Post and all of your loyal readers and supporters.

It is sad that our representatives in congress did not conform their actions in support of our Constitution and thereby allowed the federal government to assume States Right powers illegally.

But what can we expect of a congress that votes on bills that they have not read and do not understand ... taxation without representation!

Posting of what individuals are doing to fight back should be done. However, not their names, nor location of residence; for protection. The patriots did not openly publish theirs.

I have bee quietly, on my own fighting the Courts; when they arbitrarily make up their own Court rules, as they go along. As well as attend Court Cases, to evaluate Judges, and to publish how the Judges, follow the law.

It is not just the left that wants more and more centralized government. Both parties are just two wings of the same bird, generally speaking. It is the Progressives, Communists, and Marxists in BOTH parties that have been working tirelessly for over one hundred years to abolish the America us Patriots know and love.

Uh wow Article 1 Section 8 DOES say "provide" NOT "promote" general welfare. Not that there's a difference when it comes to simply lowering the cost of health care by taking the profit motive out of claims processing. I don't care if it ends up costing the same due to bureaucratic inefficiency although I seriously doubt that would be the case...it's IMMORAL at this point to have people dragging themselves into emergency rooms for basic care when there's a better way, proven by every other Western civilization; instead you right wing basket cases want to twist yourselves into pretzels to make sure insurance companies stay as rich as possible. Why? Because you're sheep led by ratings hound drama queens like Rush and Levin, echoing their tortured logic and fake outrage. Ah well, in the end conservatism will always lose in the long run, by definition. Think about that. Always has, always will. Always.