Chronicle

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

The Foundation

"The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest." --Thomas Jefferson

Pelosi lies about transparency

Editorial Exegesis

"Democratic leaders reportedly plan to forge a final reform bill behind closed doors. They should not be able to get away with hiding public policy from the public it will adversely affect. Both the House and Senate must pass identical bills before the president can sign the legislation into law. When differences pop up, as with separate health care bills, the legislation traditionally goes to a conference committee where lawmakers iron them out. The committees are made up of members from both chambers and often from both parties. The committee meetings have typically been conducted in public, as they should be. They can be moved out of public view only when a majority of conferees, in a vote in an open session, agree to hold closed meetings. House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, has called the Democrats' plan to bypass a conference committee a 'shady backroom deal.' An overstatement? Hardly. One House Democratic aide told a blogger that 'this process cuts out the Republicans.' The Democrats fear that if they follow the traditional route, the GOP could use the Senate filibuster rule to shut down the process of organizing the committee. Bypassing a conference committee also cuts out a public that will suffer losses from whatever monstrosity is produced by the cover of darkness. Americans stand to lose their power of choice over health care decisions and be stripped of a significant portion of their earnings to pay for a plan most don't want. They deserve to see in an open forum what is being done to them. Instead, they're likely to get whatever the Democrats want to force on them." --Investor's Business Daily

The Demo-gogues

"There has never been a more open process for any legislation." --House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on the "transparency" of legislating the health care bill (The only thing transparent about the process is Democrats' motive to nationalize private health care.)

The world's oldest profession: "I don't know if there is a senator that doesn't have something in this bill that was important to them. And if they don't have something in it important to them, then it doesn't speak well of them." --Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Godfather) on making offers that Democrats couldn't refuse

That's racist: "Why all this discord and discourtesy, all this unprecedented destructive action? All to break the momentum of our new young president. [Republicans] are desperate to break this president. They have ardent supporters who are nearly hysterical at the very election of President Barack Obama. The birthers, the fanatics, the people running around in right-wing militia and Aryan support groups, it is unbearable to them that President Barack Obama should exist. That is one powerful reason. It is not the only one." --Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) calling opponents of the health care bill racists

The BIG Lie on all counts: "I listened to you and took a common-sense approach to improve the bill. Now it lowers costs for families and small business, protects Medicare, finally guarantees coverage for pre-existing conditions and reduces the deficit. And it's not run by the government. I'm convinced this is right for Nebraska." --Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) on voting for the health care bill after a grand show of playing hard to get

Principled Democrats? "They think I shouldn't be expressing my views on this bill until they get a chance to try to sell me the language [on an abortion compromise]. Well, I don't need anyone to sell me the language. I can read it. I've seen it. I've worked with it. I know what it says. I don't need to have a conference with the White House. I have the legislation in front of me here. ... A review of the Senate language indicates a dramatic shift in federal policy that would allow the federal government to subsidize insurance policies with abortion coverage. ... We're getting a lot of pressure not to say anything, to try to compromise this principle or belief. ... We are not just going to abandon it in the name of health care." --Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI)

On the undi-bomber: "This was a screw up that could have been disastrous. We dodged a bullet but just barely. It was averted by brave individuals -- not because the system worked -- and that is not acceptable. While there will be a tendency for finger pointing, I will not tolerate it." --Barack Obama, who tolerates the blame game well enough when his finger is forever pointed at George W. Bush

Savior of the world: "The most important thing we did this year was to ensure that the financial system did not collapse." --Barack Obama

Insight

"We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality." --philosopher and writer Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

"There should be a tax on every man that wanted to get a government appointment, or be elected to office. In two years that tax alone would pay our national debt." --American humorist Will Rogers (1879-1935)

Upright

"Barack Obama's quest for historic health care legislation has turned into a parody of leadership. We usually associate presidential leadership with the pursuit of goals that, though initially unpopular, serve America's long-term interests. Obama has reversed this. He's championing increasingly unpopular legislation that threatens the country's long-term interests. 'This isn't about me,' he likes to say, 'I have great health insurance.' But of course, it is about him: about the legacy he covets as the president who achieved 'universal' health insurance." --columnist Robert Samuelson

"The president's health care monstrosity is an even more unwieldy government effort than Homeland Security. Its goals are more various and vaguer. Its protocols are already in chaos. The lesson the president should have learned from last week's 'systemic failure' is that government is a very imperfect instrument. A government that takes over 16 percent of our economy promising to bring us good health at a reasonable cost is an instrument doomed to failure and at a catastrophic cost." --American Spectator editor in chief R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.

"It's a (literally) bloody disgrace that our ragtag enemies innovate faster and more effectively than our armed forces and the legion of overpaid contractors behind them. They ask themselves, 'What works?' We ask ourselves what the lawyers will say. The crucial difference? Our enemies believe in victory, even if we don't." --columnist Ralph Peters

"The question should not be how to make terrorists like us, but how to find them, eliminate them and, most important of all, keep them from entering the country in the first place. The Obama administration, like the Clinton administration, continues to view terrorists as criminals who ought to be subject to the American judicial system. In fact, they are soldiers in a war unlike any this country has ever faced. Until we start treating these people as soldiers and not criminals, there will be more incidents like this, as there have been previous ones. Without a serious approach to domestic terrorism, the next attempted attack on an airliner might succeed, as did the ones during another less serious time which gave us 9-11." --columnist Cal Thomas

"For its part, the Obama administration should frankly acknowledge that the 'war on terror' wasn't a Bush-Cheney construct to scare and manipulate the American public. The same Napolitano who initially portrayed the near-miss on Christmas as a vindication did her utmost to avoid even uttering the word 'terror' at a congressional hearing earlier this year, preferring the absurd neologism 'man-caused disaster.' That's a phrase best applied to the shoeless shuffle at the airport security lines, not the heinous acts of war plotted by Abdulmutallab and his inevitable successors." --National Review editor Rich Lowry

"[A]s we approach this new year and reflect upon 2009 and think of ways to improve our situations in 2010, I ask that my fellow Republicans join together to have a respectful debate during our upcoming primary process and then give their full support to our selected nominees even if there remain some philosophical differences. I know this is the approach my father personally took and I cannot think of a better beacon of light than his legacy to help us once again find our way." --radio talk-show host Michael Reagan

Dezinformatsia

Alpha Jackass: "What ... if terrorists were killing 45,000 people every year in this country? Well, the current health care system, the insurance companies, and those who support them are doing just that. ... Those fighting health care reform -- not those debating its shape or its nuance -- people who demand the status quo, they are killing 45,000 Americans a year. ... Remind me again, who are the terrorists?" --MSNBC's Keith Olbermann

What are we waiting for? "The law [in Switzerland], finally approved in a 1994 national referendum, guaranteed health care for everyone by requiring everyone to have insurance. It amounted to a law recognizing health care as a human right.... They choose their own doctors and their own insurance company, and the whole country is covered. True to its national reputation, Switzerland devised a health care system that's been praised as efficient and neutral. Basic insurance is the same price for everyone. Also true to the Swiss reputation, it's turned out to be expensive. ... Given an aging population and high-tech medicine, some say costs are bound to rise three percent or four percent a year. Health care reform [in Switzerland] has been more expensive than reformers predicted." --CBS's Richard Roth

From the Commie Pinko Department: "The most overrated [political concept] is freedom. When faced with economic uncertainty, people don't want freedom. When they can't see their economic future, they want the nanny state." --John McLaughlin, long-time moderator of 'The McLaughlin Group'

Poor guy: "[Obama] had hoped to spend this vacation recharging his batteries, but now he appears to be spending most of it working. For New Year's Eve, he'll be reviewing nearly a dozen new reports from homeland security agencies, all part of a massive effort to figure out what went wrong." --CBS's Chip Reid, lamenting that Obama actually has to do the job he signed up for

Sometimes they get it right: "If we can't catch a Nigerian with a powerful explosive powder in his oddly feminine-looking underpants and a syringe full of acid, a man whose own father had alerted the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria, a traveler whose ticket was paid for in cash and who didn't check bags, whose visa renewal had been denied by the British, who had studied Arabic in Al Qaeda sanctuary Yemen, whose name was on a counterterrorism watch list, who can we catch? We are headed toward the moment when screeners will watch watch-listers sashay through while we have to come to the airport in hospital gowns, flapping open in the back." --New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd

Newspulper Headlines:

Life Imitates the Onion: "Suicide Bombing a Cry for Help, Vengeance Against the Infidel" --The Onion, April 28, 2004 ++ "Web Posts Suggest Lonely, Depressed Terror Suspect" --Associated Press, Dec. 30, 2009

What Would We Do Without Sources?: "Explosives in Detroit Terror Case Could Have Blown Hole in Airplane, Sources Say" --The Washington Post

Yes We Can: "Obama: We Can't Treat Tax Dollars Like 'Monopoly Money'" --RealClearPolitics.com

We Blame Global Warming: "Earth's Upper Atmosphere Cooling Dramatically" --Space.com

News You Can Use: "Meat May Be the Reason Humans Outlive Apes" --MSNBC.com

Bottom Story of the Year: "Democrats See Greater Role for Government in Health Care" --New York Times Web site

(Thanks to The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto)

Village Idiots

Trust her! "The system worked." ++ "In many ways, this system has worked." ++ "Once the incident occurred, the system worked." --Homeland "Security" chief Janet Napolitano on the undi-bomber's attempt to blow up an American airliner on Christmas

Then again... "Why wasn't he flagged at a higher screening level? How did he get an explosive substance on to the plane? All of those are serious questions that we are now looking at. ... Our system did not work in this instance. No one is happy or satisfied with that. An extensive review is under way." --Janet Napolitano

Welcome to the job: "I want to know how this individual got on this plane with this material. I want to know so we can figure out what we should be doing to defeat that." --Janet Napolitano (How about profiling?)

Can't we all just get along? "This should not be a tug-of-war between the two political parties. I hope that everyone will resolve in the new year to make protecting our nation a nonpartisan issue." --White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs (It's a partisan issue because Democrats are completely wrong, not because Republicans are just "mean-spirited.")

Village Idiot, California style -- with an accent: "When it comes to effort, [Obama] should get a straight A. He's out there with tremendous energy and he's selling his ideas. And he has great enthusiasm there. He's a great speaker, a great communicator. He has to hang in there, be tough, just continue on, never give up, eventually he's going to get all those things done." --California RINO Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger

Short Cuts

"Put enough money on the table and just about any Democratic U.S. Senator will think, gulp, blink, and drag the pot with the rationalization that 'this is all for the greater good.' Pelican Pellets. This is no different than putting a horse's head into Jack Woltz' bed to force him into giving Johnny Fontaine a part in his movie in The Godfather. It was a deal [Senator Ben] Nelson couldn't refuse." --political analyst Rich Galen

"And just to make sure even the dimmest understand, Obama banishes the term 'war on terror.' It's over -- that is, if it ever existed. Obama may have declared the war over. Unfortunately al-Qa'ida has not. Which gives new meaning to the term 'asymmetric warfare.' ... More jarring still were Obama's references to the terrorist as a 'suspect' who 'allegedly tried to ignite an explosive device.' You can hear the echo of FDR: 'Yesterday, December 7, 1941 -- a date which will live in infamy -- Japanese naval and air force suspects allegedly bombed Pearl Harbor.'" --columnist Charles Krauthammer

"President Obama was ripped Tuesday for responding slowly to the failed airline bombing. He did everything he could. When word got to him on the fifteenth hole that the country had been attacked he asked the next three groups if he could play through." --comedian Argus Hamilton

"All I know is that at my age, I can do without blankets, pillows and even honey-roasted peanuts. But I think the airlines better rethink those bathroom restrictions. The last thing they're going to want is a planeload of seniors sounding like cranky four-year-olds, screaming for the last 500 miles of the flight, 'Are we there yet?'" --columnist Burt Prelutsky



Comments

Neal Tolodxi Sr.

The Lord God Almighty will take care of all of the evil ones!! America needs to get back to God!!!And beg forgiveness!!

Posted January 6, 2010 at 11:23:28 AM


Pat

With respect to the Michael Reagan comment asking conservatives to support party line candidates, regardless of "philosophical differences," I reply, no thanks. That sort of thinking got us "compassionate conservatism", the failed John McCain, Arlen Specter, and the farce in New York's congressional district, just to provide a few examples. The RNC is starting to talk like conservatives again, but if they walk the northeastern elite and beltway walk as in the past, I will not support them. I prefer to vote for Republicans, but will not uncritically accept every candidate who tacks an R on behind the name. The Republican party may be able to recover principles and constitutional understanding again, but if I see pork, earmarks, and powergrabbing tendencies in Republican candidates on my ballot, as too often occurs, I will either go with a third party candidate or none at all.

Posted January 6, 2010 at 11:26:41 AM


Dave

McLaughlin was berating on people, not freedom.

Posted January 6, 2010 at 11:26:42 AM


Mary B Bayer

Regarding the California "republican" governor's encouragement of Obama to "keep on persevering to achieve his goals", when did Gov Schwerzenegger announce his conversion to the Democratic party?

Do his constituents know of his switch? Or, considering his family affiliations, was he always in drag???

Posted January 6, 2010 at 11:27:44 AM


Jack Kaltenhauser

The actions of Senator Reid and Congressman Pelosi remind me how Tony Soprano does construction business in South New Jersey, everyone gets a taste and who cares what happens to final project. If you don't go along with the program then something of yours gets broke or you get killed.

Posted January 6, 2010 at 11:34:30 AM


Andrew Eifert

In spite of all the madness we are being informed of by this organization, and or by the media's provided the big question is; What as AMERICAN citizens can we do about it. There has to be means to stop the madness that the government has become. So I ask you as to what can we do besides be informed when its to late, or make personal judgement rants that you find entertaining to this organizations supporters. It makes no sense to speak without change, or educate with direction, other then the power phrase "vote".

I read daily all that you supply but I only find rage and or discuss feelings which create negativity in my life, and I was looking for a more positive outcome from these exercises.

Please let me know if there are any supports that can involve me and other like people, so we can move towards a positive outcome.

A concerned and supporter of a good cause for a better America.

Andrew Eifert

Posted January 6, 2010 at 11:49:10 AM


Jeanne Propp

Hi,

Are you going to market the Monopoly game in your Patriot Humor of January 5, 2010? If so, let me know. I have many friends, family who say they want it, and I think it will spread the word so well!!! Everybody has time for games, even those who have time for nothing else! Keep me posted on this, please.

Thank You for your consideration.

Jeanne Propp

Posted January 6, 2010 at 12:06:13 PM


Matthew Clark

In regards to Sen. Whitehouse's (D-Lerious) comments (January 6, Chronicle) regarding referring to opponents of the health care bill as racists ... you can't blame him: anyone with the last name 'Whitehouse' would have to stoop so low to squelch any public comments against their policies.

Posted January 6, 2010 at 12:25:24 PM


Leonard Farias

If I need to go to the bathroom during the last hour of the flight and am not allowed to visit the restroom, honestly and seriously, I will do my business at my seat on the floor in front of me!

No kidding!

Posted January 6, 2010 at 12:46:54 PM


Susan Hastings

Where are all the Constitutional lawyers to stop the backroom deals and un-Constitutional efforts by Congress to deny American citizen the chance to watch the people they elected in the performance of their duties? We are paying their salaries. We have the right to know what they are doing. If this was the private sector, they all would have been fired a long time ago. November can't come fast enough.

Posted January 6, 2010 at 1:14:48 PM


Keith Hamilton

Regarding the ongoing commiseration most Americans are having about health care reform, I can't help but recall the statistics, that roughly 2/3 of Americans are consistently against Obamacare in all its various incarnations. I also can't help but state what I've stated before, that this health care reform is not about them doing something for us that we want, rather, it's about them doing something to us that we don't want. If 2/3 of Americans are against it, then we don't want it! Period. Of course the "them" are our "leaders" in government. Their behavior violates every oath of public service they have sworn to, is insubordination against the people, and is made worse by their ever-increasing tendency to hide their activities and obfuscate the details of their plans. Looks like a hostile takeover to me.

If any worker did the opposite of his boss's directives, that worker would be reprimanded or fired. If a member of our military opposed his senior's directives, he would probably end up facing a military tribunal. In my opinion, our president and most of our legislature deserve no less discipline, and probably more. I suggest time behind bars.

Posted January 6, 2010 at 1:22:47 PM


Edward

Concerning Sen. Nelson's sell-out: I'm not so sure that there are ANY Democrat's currently in office who wouldn't sell their vote if the bribe would benefit them. The same could be said for an Independent and a lot of Republicans, providing the cost was sufficient beneficial to their constituencies.

Posted January 6, 2010 at 1:41:03 PM


connie

Someone told me to watch Obama's nose grow as every time he talks, he lies.

Unfortunately, he does not tell white lies like the Disney character.

My suggestion is that you watch him grow his horns as he takes our Republic further and further into Totalitarian Rule and pretends he's a "savior."

Posted January 6, 2010 at 2:00:48 PM


Keith Hamilton

Responding to Pat's comments at the top of the comment stack: Pat, we've all heard or read others expressing the same frustration as you have over RINO's in the Republican party. And I'm sure hard-lefters get disgruntled whenever one of their own opposes abortion or supports the 2nd Amendment.

I concluded a long time ago that this problem lies in the fact that we rely on a bipolar two-party system where so many of us consider the merit of all the various issues that arise in life, through the prism of party guru rhetoric. Just who are these gurus that know the right and wrong of the issues better than anyone, and why do we persist in believing them? And what knucklehead(s) think that the entirety of all political and sociological philosophy can be adequately encapsulated into two discreet political parties that are diametrically opposed on every issue???!!! Life is much more complicated than right and left and every thinking person knows it.

As a freedom-loving individual, I'm usually loath to talk of things being banned, but I'm idealistic enough to want political parties banned - to enable the issues to stand on their own, in every voter's mind - without a filter. This would undoubtedly be a much more accurate way for the people to improve our society as we see fit, because our issues would be debated without party smokescreens. After all, the will of the majority is the goal, isn't it? If not, then why did our founding fathers reject kingdoms?

In short, I see your frustration but don't really have a solution for you. RINO's do indeed damage the Republican party. It's true; we've all seen it. But I'm afraid that until many more like you get sufficiently frustrated enough to drag the powers that be out into the streets, and replace them with idealists like me (and maybe you), idealism will continue to take a back seat to the status quo and we will continue to be ruled by a very small minority.

Posted January 6, 2010 at 2:07:20 PM


Jon Oram

Given the current Washington regime and its legislative trends, soon the only place American women can go for a breast screening will be at airport security.

Posted January 6, 2010 at 2:15:41 PM


Tony Mayfield

California RINO Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. um guys... he doesn't have a California Accent.

Posted January 6, 2010 at 2:25:21 PM


Guy Arnold

Village idiots are all housed in DC. They think money grows on trees and they keep themselves well paded with our tax dollars. All Village Idiots scramble for the bucks when village Idiots see our tax dollars pilling up in front of themselves.

We will remove the Village Idiots in 2010.

Posted January 6, 2010 at 2:45:13 PM


Frank Weir

You folks have a very nice newsletter. However, while you present interesting little tidbits, you do not seem to be working toward developing more cohesion in developing and promoting whatever organization will be used to effectively counter the current administration and congress in 2010 and 2012.

There are three groups with generally common goals: (1)the RNC, (2)the Tea Party folks, and (3)the independents. Your organization would be well served to start trying to meld the interests of these groups. No one or two of the three groups will have the power to retake a governing role in America. Retaking control of congress will only be accomplished by a concerted effort by the groups nemed above, to forge a strong bond with one another. They can then work toward the common goal of re-taking the reins of our soon-to-be-destroyed Government.

Posted January 6, 2010 at 2:49:51 PM


Eugene A. Byers

Well we know where Obama was when the telephone rang at 3:00 a.m.

Posted January 6, 2010 at 3:09:07 PM


Crystalake

What we are seeing in Washington, is History Repeating it's self, out of the Ashes of Nazi Germany. Add to that The Formation of a one world Government, where the Government takes complete control, of the People, Captislim is Dead, But Hello to Socialism, Perhaps even Marxism. Americans Have for so long been to Apathic. In A recent article, I read that that the Obama Adminstration,is looking at bringing in the { ICC } or Rome Statue, & Could be in place by May of this Year. Yet this Rome Statue is in Violation of our Own & what is left of the U.S. Consitition. of what I and every other American serviceman / woman has taken an oath to defend..

Yet I admit we / I can only defend it Through web sites such as the Patriot Post & Others such as WND.

Please Stand with Us All in Getting the Courts to Review Obama's College Records Etc. including his True Place of Birth.Until those Records are brought forth, This Cancer is going to continue to spread across this Great " God " Given Country

Posted January 6, 2010 at 3:13:08 PM


Edward

The ends ALWAYS justify the means with liberals.

Posted January 6, 2010 at 3:36:35 PM


FREDO

How do you punish a suicide-bomber? He's "gone".

Think about it. There is an answer. More later.

Posted January 6, 2010 at 3:51:24 PM


Berwyn Steele Sr.

We wait until the bomb gose off and then say didn't happen on my watch. If its not broke don't fix it.Or oh gosh did it really happen. Obama and his rag tag group of commies.I would not trust him across the street and back. Nice guy runs our country like the commies do just a hit and a lick. Its coming to that if we don't put a stop to it very soon. God help us.God bless america.

Posted January 6, 2010 at 4:22:01 PM


Berwyn Steele Sr.

I am very upset with our goverment wanting to give illegal aliens the right to anything that the hard working american has had to work his whole life for and then our goverment giving them the free stuff and at the working mans cost. That ticks me off big time and the person that brings that up at goverment will never recieve a vote of yes from this old farm boy and vetrean. That person wants those people to help him stay in office and I well work very hard to see that person dose not stay in office. God bless america and god bless our working people. The crooks our in our goverment lets vote them out ASAP.

Posted January 6, 2010 at 4:47:22 PM


Laurie Trlak

My faith in the electoral system is at its lowest point ever, and it will not be restored unless a major sea change occurs in this year's Congressional elections. For far too long we have allowed members of both parties to pull the wool over our eyes and carry on business as usual, spending like the profligates they are, without regard to the future, or to the damage they have done to the Republic. They have no concern for the will of the people, and we the people have no concern for actually learning anything about the history of the Republic which we have inherited. Reading publications such as the Patriot lets me know that sane people still exist, but I have to wonder if enough of us exist to make a real difference? Only time will tell. I pray that the polls this November will unleash an earthquake of REAL change, not the usual BS that is fed to us from Washington. I am so disgusted with the arrogance of our elected officials, with the presumption of this so-called "Democratic" Congress, that I could almost wish for another rebellion such as the Shays rebellion of 1786. Maybe that would get their attention; maybe they'd start paying attention to our Constitution again, in the same way that the original Shays rebellion prompted the first Constitutional Convention.

Posted January 6, 2010 at 4:56:02 PM


Stephanie Landaas

Electing Obama was the worst mis

mistake this country has made

in a long time!Looking forward

to replacing him in 2012 with

a good sensible republican.

Posted January 6, 2010 at 4:57:24 PM


David (Denver, CO)

RE: "What ... if terrorists were killing 45,000 people every year ..."

Remind me again how many babies are aborted every year?

Then let's talk honestly about quality health care in the US and the numbers of people dying in the streets because of policy and not disease.

Posted January 6, 2010 at 5:14:11 PM


Rifleman

Our (Conservatives') troubles took root under "progressive" President, Teddy Roosevelt, who opined that "Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it" -- and -- "We grudge no man a fortune in civil life if it is honorably obtained and well-used. It is not enough that it should have been gained without doing damage to the community. We should permit it to be gained only so long as the gaining represents benefits to the community." LBJ gave us his "Great Society," which cost $4 Trillion in welfare programs. Hillary's book, "It Takes a Village," echoed Roosevelt's "progressive" politics and Obama with his calculated Marxism has brought the entire infection to a head. The American Body Politic has been growing ever sicker for over one hundred years. It's just that we're now noticing that we've not been preventing the cancer, hoping that it wouldn't get so bad that it couldn't be reversed. The treatment was written into the Constitution. Jefferson warned that a rebellion every twenty years would be a good thing. Franklin warned us that keeping this Republic would be relative to The People's strength of character. The difficulty with cancer is that the patient is invariably weakened by the disease and that recovery is not guaranteed. We've weakened ourselves in and of ourselves. It isn't Obama or the Democrats or the RINOs who are the problem. We've not maintained the health of the organism. It is we who have created this monster. Will he awaken and once again be "filled with a terrible resolve"?

Posted January 6, 2010 at 6:02:12 PM


Sam

If, in fact, the health care bill ends up giving federal funds for abortions, can Americans who are against the extermination of human babies in the wombs of their mothers legally withhold tax payments...what about taxation without representation? What if all those who stand for life refuse to pay taxes? There would be millions involved...I just don't see how any pro lifer could, in good conscience, pay taxes knowing their money would go towards the killing of human babies...

Posted January 6, 2010 at 6:06:06 PM


Ann

Pat: AMEN!!! Arnold Schwarzenegger's quote in this very issue proves that we should not support someone with an "R" by their name no matter what. Conservative values FIRST, or we end up in a situation where we will support anyone, no matter how bad, just because he or she is "better" than the other guy. That is the system we have had for a very long time and it is not the system I want. We will never get good lasting change that way.

Posted January 6, 2010 at 6:12:05 PM


Ann

Sean said: "I just don't see how any pro lifer could, in good conscience, pay taxes knowing their money would go towards the killing of human babies..."

It already does, via the UN, other organizations that support abortion in other countries (whenever a president like Obama overturns the Mexico City policy) and probably worst, the over $300 million that Planned Parenthood gets right here at home. All pro-lifers who pay taxes (and that includes myself, although I loathe it and am conflicted about it and not sure what to do) already support the slaughter of the unborn.

Posted January 6, 2010 at 6:16:55 PM


DBC

How are our Congressional leaders different from the underworld bosses that Robert Kennedy so aggressively prosecuted in the 1960s? For their world would appear to be one of backroom deal making, corruption, bribery, deception and taxpayer theft. Will the esteemed lady from Louisianna please step forward and explain how the acceptance of $300,000,000 from taxpayers wallets for the purchase of her vote rises above the level of bribery? Will the gentleman from Nebraska rise and explain what ethical principles apply that obligates 49 states to cover his states medicaid bills FOREVER? Folks, the time has come to call the baby ugly. If anyone else did what our fine leaders in Congress are doing, we would call it what it is; blattant corruption. We all know what bribery is when we see it, regardless of party affiliation. And CSPAN? Not a chance.

Posted January 6, 2010 at 6:26:30 PM


Frank E. Waterstraat

12/06/10

I watched the Glenn Beck 12/06/10.He mentioned our

legislators will be passing some form of AMNESTY to

boost the demoRAT vote count.He also played a tape

of a S.E.I.U.menber who said in BROKEN ENGLISH there are many undocumented[ILLEGALS belong to our UNION.If FARM OWNERS can't hire ILLEGALS HOW CAN

ILLEGALS BE UNION MEMBERS!!!

Posted January 6, 2010 at 6:49:08 PM


Steve

Regarding those who suggest not paying taxes or are otherwise conflicted about what to do regarding taxpayer funds being used for abortions, the last thing we want to do is not pay our taxes and risk jail time and confiscation of our assets. That would make it even easier for Obama and the Democrats to complete their takeover of this country.

No - we have to continue to seek correction of these abuses thru the election of principled citizens and changing of the damage they have done. We have to lead by example and principles, as Ronald Reagan did. Only if they succeed in completely taking over the government should we revolt by financial and other means.

Posted January 6, 2010 at 7:00:50 PM


Howard Last

All I can say to Michael Reagan is, Lets see who the republican leadership (still an oxymoron) tried to push down our throats. There was Arlen Spector, Lincoln Chaffee and John McRINO. Now they are pushing Crist in Florida and a political hack in Kentucky against Rand Paul (Ron Paul's son). These are just the tip of the iceberg. In the Peoples Republik of New York they pushed George Pataki. He signed anti-gun bills that made Upchuck Schumer envious. Of course don't forget the Council on Foreign Relations members Gingrich and Bush 1. Who tried to shove amnesty for illegal aliens down our throats, why Bush and McCain. Who gave us the expansion of socialized medicine, Bush with his Part D for Medicare. George Romney the latest fair haired boy, pushed thru while gov. of taxachuseets have medical insurance or pay a fine to the state. He also said he agreed with Taxachuetts anti-gun laws. The only difference between the democraps and the republicans is degree. When have you heard a republican leader say government control of healthcare is unconstitutional? If the so called republican leaders where around in 1776 we would have a queen insted of a king (oops czar). Am I the only one who wants to puke when a so-called republican leader say, "The republican Party is the big tent party?

Posted January 6, 2010 at 9:02:48 PM


Janice Woodford

These people that think they know it all are forgetting we are the ones that put them there and we can take them down too.

When they are through makeing a mess of this country they had better go into hiding.

Posted January 7, 2010 at 7:13:30 AM


Ruth Ann Wilson

Dear Howard,

And guess who gave us the Department of Homeland Security under the "Office of the President?" Instead of destroying the bureaucrats in all of those agencies that "eat out our substance daily" Both Democrats and Republicans have added to our burdens and created this huge bureau under the "Office of the President" that was never intended by the Fathers and it is unConstitutional. DE FUND the "Office of the President" and let the President have a cabinet and that is it. No more of this "government inside a government" that has all the powers designated to the different branches of the government, executive orders - legislative, Judicial - the President says the word and the lawyers and Judges tremble, Executive - just by a stroke of a pen, we loose our God-given Liberties.

Well, Mrs. Wilson, what do you propose we do????How many times do I have to tell you?????? Would you mind to do it.

We have all these people who seem to have "power" but this "incremental communism" is destroying our Constitutional Republic. So if it is in the power of your hand to get this DE-FUNDED (the Office of the President) from the Senate Finance Committee, you'd better get with it.

ENOUGH SAID.

For God & Country

Ruth Ann Wilson

Posted January 7, 2010 at 7:43:59 AM


Dave G

How's this for logic?

I'm on record as saying that taxing Cadillac plans that don't make people healthier but just take more money out of their pockets because they're paying more for insurance than they need to, that's actually a good idea, and that helps bend the cost curve," the president said in an interview with National Public Radio just before Christmas. "That helps to reduce the cost of health care over the long term. I think that's a smart thing to do."

Mr President please explain to me how taxing me more will lower my cost of health insurance??????

Posted January 7, 2010 at 2:24:49 PM


Michael

They have just dispensed with dealing with the GOP, the idiot "Party of No" Why bother anymore? The GOP is only interested in the party, not the country.

Posted January 7, 2010 at 2:36:43 PM


StuRat

C-SPAN has been denied.

Obama lied, transparency died,

Nancy was snide, but then she lied.

She replied, "there are a lot of things that he was for on the campaign trail."

Without pride, Nancy tried to hide,

Obama lied, transparency died.

Posted January 7, 2010 at 10:31:36 PM


Fred

Burt Prelutsky's comment is a hoot: I heartily agree

Posted January 8, 2010 at 8:13:07 AM


Fred

To Ruth Ann Wilson: This isn't incremental this a clear leap right over the cliff into the yawning black chasm of communism. The people that his nibs Obama has surrounded himself with were making headlines for criminal acts protesting the Vietnam war back when I was in high school in the late '60's and into the '70's. They must be beside themselves with glee now that they "OWN" the White House and Congress.

Posted January 8, 2010 at 8:18:52 AM


karl anglin

Almost any Republican who runs in 2010

should get elected. If you want to know

Obama's economic policies will fail, read

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.

Posted January 8, 2010 at 12:24:05 PM


Jerry Krupiczewicz

Okay!

Once more!

By the numbers!

In section 8 of the Constitution, it does grant Congress the power to provide for the general welfare of the United States. This means the country as a whole, however. Not the individual citizens! Further, the constitution also limits the purview of the federal government to matters either international in nature or matters BETWEEN states!

Then, of course, there is the all-important tenth amendment:

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

Now, this is the part of the Constitution the socialists in Congress would rather no one ever remembered. But it's not rocket science!

Public health is a great idea, but the federal government, in simple terms even an attorney can understand, has no Constitutional standing in the matter! The health care of individual citizens does not cross state lines! It is not enough for the issue to exist nationwide! Since each individual resides entirely within one State, anything concerning that individual's health care is, by very definition, a State matter!

And if they bring up the matter of precedent, I have a radical thought! Since, by a well-known exercise in Aristotelian logic, you can actually prove a white horse is black, I think it long past time that "We, the People," INSISTED our alleged representatives hold each and every law they pass, and each and every rule or regulation any committee or employee of or acting for the government issues, up to the ORIGINAL DOCUMENT for legitimacy!

Only then, will this great country return to a "rule of law", as opposed to a rule of opinion!

NO ONE IN THIS COUNTRY IS ABOVE THE LAW!

It's time we started making OUR government adhere to that! It's like I told a newly elected person many years since when he ventured to tell me what "his" opinion was: "You no longer have an opinion. By taking that oath of office, your opinion is now what the people you were elected tell you it is! I suggest you talk to them!" What I'm seeing in Washington, unfortunately, is a government that consistently does what IT wants to do, and really doesn't seem to be listening to US at all! Hence the tide of laws that no one supports!

Okay, speaking of that, I have another radical thought.

Each and every attorney admitted to the bar becomes an officer of the court. We have had entirely too many laws passed that almost require another attorney to even understand them. This, I put to you, is NOT government of, for, or by the people!

My thinking?

The Constitution draws a firm line between the legislative and judicial branches.

I put it to the voters that any attorney holding any legislative office is an open and shut case of conflict of interest. As everyone knows, common practice in this country is for a conflicted person to recuse themselves from the source of the conflict. You want to see a return to simple, black and white law? The solution is simple.

Besides, what we have now is simply a bunch of lawyers lining the pockets of their cronies. They pass "gray" laws, and someone ends op paying someone a fee to sort it all out. Or a BUNCH of lawyers go to court to challenge and defend the constitutionality of these laws their buddies are passing, and, either way, put thousand or even millions, sometimes, in their pockets! You want to cut down the cost of government? Get rid of these guys!

And if you want to really cut down the cost of health care? Cap the injury settlements to a flat table, and push laws that require the "ambulance chasers" to set fixed service rates, weaning them off the "percentage" cow.

Okay!

Get to work!

Posted January 8, 2010 at 1:42:46 PM


Diane

RE: FREDO - How do you punish a [successful] suicide bomber?

If he's an Islamic extremist, I have just the thing. Douse the body with pig's blood and bury him in a pigskin lined coffin, and tell the world that's what we'll do to every successful suicide bomber. I'll bet that they get a lot less volunteers to blow themselves up. If that doesn't work as a deterrent, we could cremate the remains with leftover pig entrails.

It doesn't matter what I believe, it's what he believes. - John Wayne, in The Searchers

Note to moderator: If some find this offensive - so be it. I am offended by some idiot blowing up innocents or beheading people to prove a point.

Posted January 8, 2010 at 2:22:46 PM


Guy L W Hardy

"On the undi-bomber: 'This was a screw up that could have been disastrous. We dodged a bullet but just barely. It was averted by brave individuals -- not because the system worked -- and that is not acceptable. While there will be a tendency for finger pointing, I will not tolerate it.' --Barack Obama"

It is shocking to see these words attributed to a man who has shown far more faith in the system than he has in brave individuals. This is irrefutable evidence of his political character; he has no ethics - only agenda.

Posted January 9, 2010 at 9:23:39 AM


Darrell Rylatt

Bert Prelutsky might have also added;

seniors might also urinate on the floor.

Posted January 9, 2010 at 1:46:56 PM


Joshua

The left seems to tag profiling as a negative thing, but it's only like that if it's done because one dislikes a particular group people.

Profiling a group because the people involved fit a discription or have characteristics matching offenders involved in crime or terrorism is not being racist. It's not negative. If a bank gets robbed and the police are told the suspect is a white male with a brown beard and bird tattoo on his left arm, should they not get that info because it might cause them to "profile" white men with brown beards and a tattoo?

What these liberals fail to realize is that they are "profiling by suggesting muslum and islamic followers almost be exempt and not questioned or flagged for security checks just because they are muslum and/or islamic.

Posted June 19, 2010 at 4:40:17 AM


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