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Friday, March 26, 2010

The Foundation

"If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one." --James Madison

Government & Politics

Hope 'n' Change Tramples Constitution

Now that Barack Obama's mission of controlling your health care has been accomplished, the question American Patriots are asking is: what next? You can start by signing the Patriot Declaration, which reaffirms Constitutional Rule of Law. And take heart -- you're not alone.

Seven minutes after the president used 22 different pens to put his left-handed signature on ObamanationCare, 13 attorneys general filed suit on behalf of their states in federal court. Virginia filed suit separately, as other states are considering doing. Led by Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum, the larger suit claims, correctly in our view, that Congress does not have constitutional authority to force individuals to purchase health insurance. The "individual mandate" is the method so-called compassionate leftists used to "extend" health care to all Americans.

As with so many unconstitutional power grabs, Democrats point to the Commerce Clause to justify the mandate. Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), taking a slightly different tack, pointed to the "Good and Welfare Clause." That one must come right after the "Non Compos Mentis Clause" of the "living constitution."

According to the White House and other "experts" (i.e., leftist "constitutional" law professors), the lawsuit is unlikely to succeed. Based on precedent, they're probably right. No entitlement law has ever been overturned. Of course, finding in favor of the law would simply prove (again) that judicial despots, too, have abdicated their oaths to support and defend the Constitution.

In Congress, many Republicans are pushing for repeal. Obama taunted them and told them to "go for it." Very presidential. "I think House Republicans are determined to stand for both repealing and replacing ObamaCare with an approach that gives Americans more choices instead of more government," said Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN). Unfortunately, that may be an even longer shot than defeating it in the courts. First, Republicans must be far more than the minority party they are today, but even should they take control of Congress, when was the last time a majority party repealed an entitlement? Indeed, Republicans created the largest one in almost 40 years with the 2003 prescription drug program.

In other news, Democrats are complaining about racial insults and physical threats from crazed right-wingers. Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) immediately blamed all conservatives, declaring, "If [you] participate in [these threats], either from the balcony or on the floor of the House, you are aiding and abetting this kind of, uh, terrorism, really." He added, "Silence gives consent." Proof, you ask? Don't worry about it -- Democrats would never exaggerate, lie, or flat-out stage these events, even if such tactics are straight out of community organizer Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" playbook.

Regardless, if Democrats are now cowering before an angry public, maybe they should have listened to their constituents instead of ramming through an illegitimate bill that puts the government in charge of 17 percent of the U.S. economy and the IRS in charge of enforcement.

But who are we to object? None other than Cuban communist dictator Fidel Castro has endorsed the "miracle" of ObamaCare. If that island's system is any example, we're in for a real treat.

Quote of the Week

"[T]his hour of liberal political victory is a good time to adapt the 'Pottery Barn' rule that Colin Powell once invoked on Iraq: You break it, you own it. This week's votes don't end our health-care debates. By making medical care a subsidiary of Washington, they guarantee such debates will never end. And by ramming the vote through Congress on a narrow partisan majority, and against so much popular opposition, Democrats have taken responsibility for what comes next -- to insurance premiums, government spending, doctor shortages and the quality of care. They are now the rulers of American medicine." --The Wall Street Journal

On Cross-Examination -- From the Left

"[T]he American public overwhelmingly voted for socialism when they elected President Obama. Let's not act as though the president didn't tell the American people -- the president offered the American people health reform when he ran. He was overwhelmingly elected running on that and he has delivered what he promised. ... They voted for President Obama who said this was going to be one of the first things he would do.... This was not some concept the president introduced after he won." --the "Reverend" Al Sharpton

Sharpton actually gets it partly right -- we were warned. However, the "overwhelming" 53 percent of the vote that Obama received was hardly "for socialism," though a good 10-20 percent of the voting populace does appear to want it. The independents who provided Obama his winning margin voted for flashy, feel-good, substance-free "hope 'n' change."

The BIG Lie

"We clearly believe that the bill's provisions are, in fact, constitutional and will be so held." --House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD)

And you are clearly wrong about the constitutionality.

This Week's 'Braying Jackass' Award

"This is a big f---ing deal." --the ever-classy, ever-eloquent, ever-obsequious Joe Biden to Barack Obama after introducing him at Tuesday's White House signing ceremony. Biden had just finished telling his boss in front of the assembled minions, "You're the reason we're here."

Stupak's 30 Pieces of Silver

One Democrat feeling the heat is Rep. Bart Stupak, the supposed "stalwart" pro-lifer from Michigan. Stupak led a small but seemingly determined band of Democrat congressmen opposed to the Senate bill's permissiveness concerning abortion funding. As it turns out, it was all a show.

Stupak caved after Barack Obama promised an executive order banning the use of federal funds for abortions. Tellingly, even Planned Parenthood didn't object because, first, the executive order isn't legally binding; second, it can be revoked easily; and third, it said nothing that the bill didn't already say. It changed nothing -- federal funds will be used for abortions.

In truth, Stupak was always going to vote for the bill -- he just wanted his 15 minutes of fame. In October, he said, "If everything I want [is] in the final bill, I like everything in the bill except you have public funding for abortion -- and we had a chance to run our amendment and we lost. Okay, I voted my conscience, stayed true to my principles, stayed true to the beliefs of this district. Could I vote for health care? Yes, I still could." His only "principle" was party loyalty and passing ObamaCare.

By the way, just two days before the vote, the Obama administration awarded $726,409 in grants to three airports in Stupak's district. At least those 30 pieces of silver won't be spent in one place.

Demo-gogues on ObamaCare

"If you're making over $200,000 a year, you're going to pay slightly more in taxes. It's the cost, I think, of having the kind of America that we want to have." --Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), who by "we" means "congressional Democrats"

"Well, the drug companies will have their profits reduced by close to $90 billion over the lifetime of this bill. That's part of the strategy moving forward." --job-killing, innovation-crushing Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius

"The harsh fact of the matter is when you're going to pass legislation that will cover 300 American people in different ways it takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people." --Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) caught on tape letting the Freudian goal of ObamaCare slip

"When the deal goes down, uhh, this talk about uhh, rules, we make them up, as we go along..." -- Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL), a former federal judge impeached for corruption and perjury, thus, in the small minds of rule-of-men-types, qualifying him to serve as a representative and member of the House Rules Committee, on the sausage factory recipe used to pass ObamaCare

News From the Swamp: Obama Employment Service

A few weeks ago, we reported on the White House payola scheme of offering plum government jobs to Pennsylvania Demo Rep. Joe Sestak and Colorado Democrat Andrew Romanoff in exchange for their bowing out of primary challenges to weak Democrat Senators Arlen Specter and Michael Bennet, respectively. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs has repeatedly dodged the allegations, despite Sestak's public assertion (and re-assertion) that the offer was made.

We can only imagine what similar deals were struck last week to garner just enough votes to ram ObamaCare through the House. Sen. Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK), made it known before the vote that any House member who sold a "yes" vote in exchange for a post-congressional federal job will have a difficult time clearing the Senate, where Coburn, like all senators, has the power to block nominations to federal positions. Coburn has never been shy about exercising this power, and he stated it clearly: "If you voted 'no' and you vote 'yes,' and you lose your election, and you think [your nomination] to a federal position isn't going to be held in the Senate, I've got news for you -- it's going to be held."

While union lobbyists weren't shy about threatening to withhold campaign funds to any House members who didn't vote for the bill, there is no solid proof (yet) that the White House offered to help ObamaCare supporters find new jobs if (read: when) they are voted out of office. But pay to play has been the Chicago Way for a long time.

New & Notable Legislation

Included in the health care bill was a plan to revamp student-loan programs. The bill cut off federal subsidies and guaranteed backing for commercial banks such as Sallie Mae and Nelnet. Rep. George Miller (D-CA) complained, "Why are we paying people to lend the government's money and then the government guarantees the loan and the government takes back the loan?" Certainly, that doesn't make sense. But the Democrats' solution was, naturally, to takeover student lending, too.

House Democrats passed another so-called "jobs" bill Wednesday by a vote of 246-178. The bill grants $13.2 billion to local governments for construction projects and welfare programs. Seems like we've heard that song and dance before. Or as Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) aptly put it, "Another week, another stimulus."

After "fixing" health care and the rest of the economy, Democrats are turning their attention to another insidious problem: school lunches. A majority of Democrats feel that it's a good idea to further regulate your child's life by allowing the "Agriculture Department to create uniform standards for all foods in schools, including vending machine items, to give students healthier meal options," the Associated Press reports. Whatever happened to "get your laws off my body"?

National Security

Department of Military Readiness: START Replacement

The White House is expected to announce later today that an agreement has been reached with Russia to replace the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), which expired in December. The new treaty, to be signed next month in Prague, will reduce by a quarter the nuclear missiles and delivery systems available to each country. Obama has long advocated a nuclear-free world, which should work just about as well as "gun-free" zones.

This desire is one reason Obama so quickly caved to Russia's ultimatum on the Eastern European missile defense system that George W. Bush had set in place. As the Heritage Foundation notes, the "Russians took President Obama's easy and early capitulation on missile defense as a sign of naiveté and weakness and concluded that the Obama administration was far more desperate for a new nuclear treaty than they were and, as The Los Angeles Times reports, 'used that fact in negotiations.'" Furthermore, the administration is backing away from numerous tough measures against Iran in an effort to placate the Russians.

Details have not yet been released, but early indicators are that it will lack three key national security safeguards: verification of Russia's actions ("trust but verify"), nuclear modernization of our rapidly deteriorating arsenal and missile defense.

Snubbing Israel

Two weeks ago, the Obama administration panicked over Israeli plans to -- gasp -- build homes in Jerusalem. This would completely disrupt the peace process, the White House argued, apparently believing that any breakdown is always Israel's fault. Does any serious person actually believe that not building a few houses in Jerusalem would in any way placate Hamas or Hezbollah? Both of these Iranian-backed terrorist organizations simply want dead Jews.

Earlier this week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came to the White House to meet with Barack Obama, in part over the settlement. Obama was angry about the timing of the announced settlement construction, which came while Vice President Joe Biden was in Israel. However, news of the settlement was leaked by Peace Now, an Israeli group columnist Leo Rennert describes as "heavily financed by European governments to advance the Palestinian agenda against Israel." As usual, facts don't matter to the Left, and Obama responded by snubbing Netanyahu at the White House, leaving him to dine alone. In the Israelis' view, such treatment was humiliating. Apparently, the president was too busy prostrating himself before the Russians to treat a valuable ally with respect.

Warfront With Jihadistan: New bin Laden Threats

Osama bin Laden's latest taped message, broadcast on Al-Jazeera Thursday, threatened retaliation against any captured Americans if Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or any other al-Qa'ida thugs are put to death. The message, believed to be authentic, means that bin Laden is probably still alive. It also proves that he and the senior leadership of al-Qa'ida are virtually out of options for blackmailing or threatening the free world. Threatening to kill Americans? With a statement like that, bin Laden once again joins his Democrat brethren in being even more stupid than they think that we are. What else has he been trying to do for the last eight years? Holed up somewhere in the hinterlands of northwest Pakistan, unable to move or communicate openly, unable to achieve another spectacular attack since 9/11, seeing democracy slowly but inexorably growing in Iraq and Afghanistan, and watching as even Pakistan takes the fight to his followers, bin Laden has been reduced to this kind of toothless, sputtering nonsense.

In another setback for the forces of darkness this week, Saudi authorities arrested 101 terror suspects who were planning attacks against Saudi oil infrastructure. The arrested suspects were described as 47 Saudis, 51 Yemenis, one Somali, one Bangladeshi and one Eritrean. Following vigorous interrogation (that might even include waterboarding), these suspects will likely provide information leading to even more arrests, setting back al-Qa'ida plans for attacks against the Saudi government.

Department of Military Correctness: 'Don't Ask' Guidelines Changed

Defense Secretary Robert Gates issued revised "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" guidelines this week that will make it more difficult to discharge homosexuals from the military. The Pentagon has called for a yearlong review of the law, which bans homosexuals from making their proclivities known while serving. The new guidelines are meant as a stopgap until Congress determines whether it will follow Barack Obama's call for a repeal of the 1993 law. "I believe these changes represent an important improvement in the way the current law" is applied, Gates said, adding that they will provide "a greater measure of common sense and common decency" on a sensitive issue.

Specifically, the Associated Press reports, "The changes raise the level of officer authorized to initiate a fact-finding inquiry into a case, the level of officer who can conduct an inquiry and of the one that can authorize a dismissal." Furthermore, evidence given by third parties must be given under oath, and confidential information, such as that given to medical professionals and clergy, will not be permissible evidence. The Pentagon estimates that 13,000 service members have been discharged under the policy, but proponents of the repeal have been mostly silent on the all-important subjects of unit esprit, cohesion and battlefield effectiveness.

Chinese Academic Paper Sparks U.S. Worries

A curious incident involving a graduate student in China has highlighted American cyber-security concerns, as well as exposing the serious vulnerability of America's infrastructure. Last spring, Wang Jianwei, a graduate engineering student in Liaoning, China, and his professor published a paper entitled "Cascade-Based Attack Vulnerability on the U.S. Power Grid" in the international journal "Safety Science." The paper is a generic engineering exercise, examining ways to enhance the security of power grids by exploring possible cyber-attacks that would cause cascading power failures. Jianwei said he chose the U.S. grid because it was easy to obtain data, as China does not publish data on its power grids but the U.S. does.

Needless to say, the paper aroused concern in the U.S. security community. On March 10, China specialist Larry Wortzel told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that "Chinese researchers at the Institute of Systems Engineering of Dalian University of Technology published a paper on how to attack a small U.S. power grid sub-network in a way that would cause a cascading failure of the entire U.S." Jianwei explained that he was only trying to find ways to protect, not attack, power grids by exploring their cyber vulnerabilities -- a reasonable conclusion given that the paper was actually published.

Regardless of Jianwei's intent, however, China's recent dust-ups with Google over Internet censorship and cyber-attacks suspected of originating in China should be reason enough to compel U.S. security experts to keep China high on their list of potential cyber-adversaries. Perhaps we shouldn't make our own infrastructure information so accessible, either.

Business & Economy

Transparent TARP

The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals forced actual transparency upon the Obama administration when it affirmed a district court's ruling that the Federal Reserve Board must disclose documents identifying financial firms that received TARP funds to prevent their collapse. The Federal Reserve Board argued against disclosure, suggesting the documents threaten to stigmatize borrowers and cause them "severe and irreparable competitive injury" as well as discouraging other distressed banks from seeking help. The courts held the Freedom of Information Act does not prevent disclosure of such information when taxpayer dollars are being appropriated.

While the dubious constitutionality of TARP was not raised, clearly the Obama administration felt that furtive circumvention of transparency outweighed vague suggestions of stigmatism and discouragement.

Nevertheless, the Obama administration insists that the bailed-out institutions must disclose executive compensation information to the federal government even though the government has no authority over this. TARP funds, after all, have little to do with executive compensation. Evidently, Obama continues to believe his administration can have its cake and eat it too.

Around the Nation: EPA Sued Over Emissions

Fifteen states have filed suit against the Environmental Protection Agency to prevent the mammoth bureaucracy from issuing regulations controlling greenhouse gas emissions. "Florida, Indiana, South Carolina and at least nine other states filed the petitions in the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. on Thursday," Reuters reports, joining "petitions filed last month by Virginia, Texas and Alabama." The EPA is set to issue harsh new rules in the coming weeks that will regulate energy efficiency in certain models of automobiles and, later, power plants and industrial manufacturers. Despite the dire economic threat of these job-killing regulations, 16 states, including debt-ridden California and debt-ridden New York, support the EPA.

In the suit, the states are demanding a stay on the rules until a re-examination of its scientific findings is carried out. As we have noted repeatedly, the EPA based its "endangerment finding" on "scientific evidence" from the disgraced UN climate scientists who doctored reports and withheld evidence in order to promote their fraudulent theory of global warming. The EPA has since fallen back to the Algorian refrain that all this is "settled science." Obviously, it's not.

Post Office Aims for Five-Day Delivery

In a bid to cut costs, the gubmint-run United States Postal Service took its first formal step this week toward reducing mail service by cutting Saturday delivery. However, Post offices now open on Saturdays would remain open and Express Mail delivery service would continue seven days a week. The Postal Service, which lost $3.8 billion last year and is forecasting $7 billion in losses this year, expects this move to save more than $3 billion annually. Before enacting the plan, the USPS needs approval from the independent Postal Regulatory Commission and from Congress. Call it foreshadowing, because it won't be long before such cost-cutting rationing will also be necessary for ObamaCare.

Culture & Policy

ACORN Is Dead (But So Was ObamaCare, Once)

ACORN made it official this week that its national organization will cease to operate as of, ironically, April 1. Alas, the community organization never recovered from the blow inflicted by undercover filmmakers James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles, whose acting job as pimp and prostitute may not have been Oscar-worthy but was certainly good enough to incriminate workers at several different ACORN field offices.

While their remaining employees whined about "right-wing activists," "partisan operatives" and attacks "unprecedented since the McCarthy era," the reality is that many of the key local operations have already re-formed under new names -- sleeper cells, if you will. "I don't think it's really dying," said Matthew Vadum of the Capital Research Center, a conservative think tank. "It's just retreating for the time being until it thinks it's safe to resurface." Kind of like rats and cockroaches do.

The "demise" of ACORN comes at a time when one of its main goals, registering voters in so-called under-served areas (which coincidentally run rampant with voters targeted by Democrats), could be called into play as Congress takes up yet another amnesty program later this year. As Investor's Business Daily points out, "There's still $4 billion at stake in federal government funding for 'neighborhood stabilization activities' out there. By changing its name, the former Acorn can continue its business as usual without any legal sanctions." Hope 'n' change, baby.

Faith and Family: ECUSA to Ordain Lesbian Bishop

On May 15, against the wishes of the global Anglican Communion, the Los Angeles Diocese of the Episcopalian Church (the Communion's American branch) will ordain its second openly homosexual bishop. This time, it's 56-year-old lesbian Mary Glasspool. The Church ordained Vicky Gene Robinson in 2003, causing an international uproar that threatened a permanent split. The ECUSA then backed off, declaring a moratorium on such ordinations while Anglican leadership tried to repair the damage. This moratorium, however, was lifted in 2009.

Glasspool herself displayed typically leftist arrogance toward the decision: "While I understand that not everyone rejoices, I don't understand what will functionally be different tomorrow than today with respect to our relationships around the world." Glasspool believes that the Communion will "fall in line," though clearly she is ignoring both biblical teaching on the matter and the Episcopalians who are deeply distressed by the church's decision. Indeed, many conservative members have left the Church in recent years, some to create the Anglican Church of North America, others to worship with other denominations.

Ignoring founding documents and the will of the people seems to be a common refrain for leftists these days. Whether in religion or politics, they seek to erode (from the inside) every institution known to man. Not content with improvement, they are bent only on destroying foundations -- sort of like termites. It often seems irrelevant what that institution is, as long as these leftists are successful in bending it to their will. Indeed, they bask in the glow of "change" without ever mourning the damage they have wrought.

Climate Change This Week: Deniers Lack 'Cognitive' Brain Function

Call it a brain freeze. According to George Lakoff, University of California-Ber-serk-ely professor and author of "The Political Mind: A Cognitive Scientist's Guide to Your Brain and Its Politics," conservatives who disbelieve the threat of global warming are victims of their "cognitive" brain functions. Lakoff told CNSNews.com that bodily experience-based perception "relates directly [to global warming] because conservatives tend to feel that the free market should be unregulated and [that] environmental regulations are immoral and wrong." Therefore, conservatives "try to ... show that the science is wrong and that the argument is wrong, based on the science. So when it comes back to science, they try to debunk the science." Liberals, of course, are not equally plagued. Their cognitive process permits their famed "open-mindedness." Then again, as Fr. John Corapi said, "Don't be so open minded that your brains fall out!"

Ironically, from unsubstantiated research claims to (whoops!) "miscalculations," global warming alarmists are doing a fine job of self-immolating without the help of conservatives.

Still, Lakoff parrots the "imminent" crisis mantra, calling the conservative view "deadly," painting it as "a place where a certain moral world view comes into conflict with scientific fact in a way that is harmful to the Earth." He further argues, laughably, that "99.999 percent of the science [on global warming] is final." Did Lakoff not get the memo on Climategate? Perhaps he was too busy dissecting the brain functions of conservatives.

In other news, don't forget that "Earth Hour" is Saturday night. If you don't remember what the means, it's when treehuggers turn out the lights for an hour and pat themselves on the back for saving the planet.

To Keep and Bear Arms

An 82-year-old woman was approached by a man in Sierra Vista, Arizona, in a Walmart parking lot when he began to threaten her. "This is your day," the man told her. "You are too old to be alive anyway." He then took her cane away and began beating her with it. However, he was unaware that she was carrying her handgun, which she quickly pulled from her purse and began firing at the suspect. Witnesses nearby were alerted by the gunshots and came to help the elderly woman. The suspect was taken into custody by police shortly afterward. Impending charges include attempted murder. The courageous woman later told the media, "If I go naturally or to a sickness or something, fine. I'm ready to go, but I'm not ready to let some idiot like that take me out."

Editor's Note

We're pleased to announce the arrival of yet another baby Patriot. Little Samuel Edward was born to The Patriot's Creative Director, Ron Locke, and his wife Alison last Friday. Mother and son are doing great, and Sam's three older siblings are thrilled with their new toy.

And Last...

The annual White House Easter Egg Roll is coming up, and readers will be glad to know that it'll be environmentally friendly. The White House announced that the eggs are made from paperboard that doesn't contain wood fibers from endangered forests. The eggs are also recyclable and feature vegetable-oil inks and water-based coating. No word yet on whether whether the eggs will take on traditional pastels, or be blood-red with a yellow hammer and sickle.

Meanwhile, there are 3,000 tickets reserved for students at DC-area public and charter schools only. That's right -- private and parochial school children have been, er, left behind. This, of course, left us wondering whether the privately schooled Obama daughters would miss out on all the fun, though perhaps the president has promised the Easter Bunny a nice federal job if he'll look the other way.

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Bob W

Mark,

Great idea!

I have already copied, pasted and sent to my friends and family via email.

I also asked them to forward a copy of the petition to their representatives (State and Federal) once it recieves 100,000 signatures.

Let's keep this going at least until November to remind Patriots and citizens the need to remove all Socialist and Constitutional Traitors from office.

Keep up the fantastic work of promoting and protecting conservative ldeals and personal values!

Posted March 26, 2010 at 10:45:19 AM

Lawrence Neumann

The whole nation has been hoodwinked with the, "phrase Health Care". We in fact have been sold a bill of goods on, "Health Insurance", America already has the greatest health care in the world and Obamacare can destroy it if we don't take care of our nation. The recently enacted bill is actually a concealed socialist takeover of the nation's medical insurance companies and all our lives through the enforcement provisions in direct violation of the US Constitution.

Posted March 26, 2010 at 11:38:42 AM

Steve

It was just minutes ago that I suggested a mission accomplished cartoon to you guys and there it was.

You guys are the best!!!!

Posted March 26, 2010 at 11:39:47 AM

linda kitchens

similar to obamacare, we pick and choose...why isn't everyone included....the senate, the house, the pres and family..if it is so wonderful, include yourselves!!!! same for the easter egg hunt, if is isn't for everyone, it just quite simply, isn't fair!!

Posted March 26, 2010 at 11:40:09 AM

David

Can we somehow get more good news?

I would like the Patriot to give me more "hope" for a conservative future. It's almsot becoming too depressing to read.

Posted March 26, 2010 at 11:43:13 AM

Lawrence Neumann

I want to make a warning that Earth Hour though well intetioned is a very bad idea because it will impact all distribution systems with first a sudden dropping of load and an hour later with a surge in demand tha may shut down the circuits.

Posted March 26, 2010 at 11:46:37 AM

Mary Louise Turner

So the Democrats struck their Faustian bargains and jammed "trial lawyer/union" care (aka health care reform) through! I hope all those weak Democrats who made their deals with the devil come to regret it one day.

Posted March 26, 2010 at 11:55:56 AM

Christopher Popham Smith

Well, with all the corruption in Washington these

days, it's no wonder that we are indeed entering

the 21st Century American Revolution. It's time for

everyone to read the first four paragraphs of the

Declaration of Independence.

The "fanning of the flames" as stated by Mr. Cantor

yesterday are widely speculated to be nothing more than left wing "false flag" hysterics, in order to

incite societal unrest. Just a simple little

federal entitlement package stirring up so much

controversy. Shocking, isn't it?

Posted March 26, 2010 at 11:56:53 AM

William Pitman

YES SIR!!! You may add my name to the Patroit Declaration. In fact, I would like to obtain a copy. If it is available, what is the cost?

Bill Pitman

Posted March 26, 2010 at 11:57:20 AM

Judith A Thompson

Today's Post was particularly GREAT!! Parts made me outraged, parts made me laugh...Good Job!!

Judy

Posted March 26, 2010 at 12:01:45 PM

Bill R

Lets pretend that all Americans use phoney eggs for easter

First the ACLU will state it is not seperation of mchurh and stae and then the damocraps will complain when the illegal chicken farm workers are no longer working and cannot send their pay checks to Mexico (millions of dollars a month. Ok so they have time to apply for health care :-)

Posted March 26, 2010 at 12:05:47 PM

Bill Wright

After reading today's Digest I'm reminded again the only thing we can look forward too will be the ability to 'take 'em all out' in November. The socialist politicians and their minions in DC truly do not understand how angry the 'grassroots' population of America really is. But then neither did King George...

Posted March 26, 2010 at 12:14:10 PM

MNIce

The socialists think they have just purchased our birthright of liberty with a bowl of gulag-recipe cabbage soup (recipe: dip a shred of limp cabbage into a large pot of hot water. Take it out and dip it into the next pot.)

At least Jacob gave Esau a decent serving of lentil stew for HIS birthright.

Our response should be to throw the "cabbage soup" back in their faces.

Posted March 26, 2010 at 12:19:29 PM

MNIce

Can we have an election countdown clock on the Patriot Post home page?

Posted March 26, 2010 at 12:21:44 PM

R. Reynolds

Is it not time to take up our muskets?

Posted March 26, 2010 at 12:23:56 PM

Jimmy Wayne Cosby

Thank you for the information!! "The more right you are the closer to the Constitution". We will take our Country out of the hands of leftist cheats and liars.

Posted March 26, 2010 at 12:24:27 PM

charlie westlake

This is an off topic comment but please bear with me,as this is the only way I know how to contact you.

The Federal govt has started a program to enhance local news coverage because so many local reporters have been laid off and fired that news is not being properly covered,in their opinion.The grants will be awarded to and administered by local PBS and NPR stations,and the reporters hired by the stations.It is to be done in five regions of the country.Here in Florida,the topic they will be covering will be healthcare-no chance for a conflict of interest is there?

You can either track down the info on your own or write me back and I will send you what I have.I type painfully slow so if you want me to send you my info,please send me a fax # and I will send it to you.

Thanks for what you do,

Charlie Westlake,Tampa

Posted March 26, 2010 at 12:26:52 PM

JTC

Needless to say Christ's resurrection will not be celebrated at the White House.

Posted March 26, 2010 at 12:27:35 PM

Dan P.

The more the socialists / democrats / progressives push us with un-Constitutional "orders" the closer they come to "Unintended Consequences" where we vote from the roof-tops.

Cheers to the Patriots of our great country!

Posted March 26, 2010 at 12:30:29 PM

MG

I see the Dems are very concerned about the so-called threats they have been receiving since they passed the unconstitutional health insurance bill. Politicians and pundits alike have decried violence and threats. Fair enough, but aren't the criminal provisions of the law backed up by the threat of force?

If I refuse to subsidize my lazy and overextended neighbors by buying their insurance through my tax dollars will Nancy Pelosi introduce a bill forbidding federal Law Enforcement personnel from using force? No violence? Sounds good to me. Let them disarm federal Law Enforcement or stop whining. Isn't it hypocritical of them to create criminal sanctions for non-compliance, backed up by agents with guns (or even tanks - remember the Waco massacre started over alleged failure to pay the $200 tax to register a non-existent machine gun), then complain about threats of violence.

I'm not advocating violence: I'm just tired of the hypocrisy.

Posted March 26, 2010 at 12:41:06 PM

George

Since the Ojio Distric 14(??) US (Mis-) Representative Dennis Kucinich did the Sen Kerry flop-flop on his vote AFTER the flight on Air Force 1 recently, I cannot help but wonder if the conversation was something similar to this:

"Dennis, we are flying at 34,000 feet. Vote FOR health care reform, or get out...NOW. P.S. all the parachutes are being re-packed, so none are available."

Posted March 26, 2010 at 12:47:46 PM

Bill DeFelice

Acorn is not dead.They are going to use Ho Chi MIHN"S play book,and break up into smaller bands.They might have different names,but their commie/puke ideaoligy remains.They will rear their ugly heads,at election time.

Posted March 26, 2010 at 1:11:23 PM

Billy Finch

Ron and Alison, Congratulations on BABY SAM! From the Finch House. My wife ,Carol, and I are just about the only conservative, freedom loving entertainers left out here. Thank you so much for the Patriot Post. If you need a PAMPER fund raiser just let us know. The best to all three of you and God Bless America.

Billy Finch

www.BillyFinch.com

Posted March 26, 2010 at 1:13:23 PM

Lisa

It does my heart good when I read that when people try to pick on the elderly that they fight back Good going to the lady in Arizona.

Posted March 26, 2010 at 1:20:22 PM

Bill Stalter

Hi,

As usual another fine article by the Patriotpost. I just read todays Digest article "Government & Politics Hope'n Change Tramples Constitution"

I wish you would please get President Obama's dream for America correct, as you keep spelling it incorrectly. It's " Hope & Chains" please get it Right

Thank you

Bill Stalter

Pittsburgh,PA

Posted March 26, 2010 at 1:21:17 PM

Bill DeFelice

No worries.I could tell those postings with the name Patriot,were cheap imatations.I just delete them.

Posted March 26, 2010 at 1:21:22 PM

JeffT

The time will come, unfortunately sooner rather than later, when companies producing pharmaceuticals will stop doing so. When there is no profit to be made, as it will be "taken" by the government, why bother? We are truly going to "kill the goose that laid the golden egg," and then we can expect out life expectancies to return to 1905 levels. Wow, that's the same year the greenies want out carbon emissions returned to. Anyone remember what life was like in 1905?

Posted March 26, 2010 at 1:43:00 PM

Ed Cerny

There is a more fundamental problem, one underlying the health care debacle, with which the nation now struggles.

The government has degenerated into a system whereby one man is forced to pay another's bills.

Such a system, first, is immoral, because it confiscates property by force and denigrates our God-given rights of life and liberty; and, second, is a system that does not work because it corrupts our natural desire to better our condition.

We should call this system by its correct name, Socialism, and condemn it. We should condemn it for the people of the world, because it inevitably leads to poverty, war, and destruction, and condemn it for us in particular because it is contrary to the hopes, aspirations, and compacts of our Declaration of Independence and Constitution.

There are many reasons that the health care law violates our Constitution. One of these is that it conscripts the labor of physicians, nurses and other practitioners, who rank among our most dedicated citizens, for the benefit of others, imposing involuntary servitude in violation of the 13th Amendment.

I have today called upon Governor Christie of New Jersey to commence an action against the United States to declare the Health care law unconstitutional, including upon this ground.

Posted March 26, 2010 at 1:46:32 PM

Harold (Wyatt)

I don't care what they do to try to RIG the elections here in PA for Specter, I have never voted for him, and I never will. He along with Carney(who I did vote for) are on their way out. I don't care who runs against them, that person got my vote. So if there is a nobody out there that wants my vote-RUN. I will never vote for an incumbent again, if they don't listen to the people. We vote them into office to be our representitives and that is what I expect, not for them to follow some sweet talking namby-pamby.

Posted March 26, 2010 at 1:51:13 PM

Harold (Wyatt)

Follow up;;Since all those in Washington make over $200,000/yr, I guess their taxes go up too. I think they should fall into a 50% bracket. That way they would be paying back some of what they have stolen from the people.

Posted March 26, 2010 at 1:55:32 PM

Tim Harris

As a retiree, there are a number of conservative and Constitution-supporting causes and politicos that I support in a small way. Many of them sell my name and address to their friends and associates. As a result, my daily mail usually weighs several pounds. 90% of it has nine to 12 cents postage or a non-denominated "Non Profit Org" stamp. Is it any wonder that the Post Office loses money? I nlote that the discounted rates don't seem to change while the rates for the rest of us rise annually.

Posted March 26, 2010 at 1:58:28 PM

Bill Garrison, Moscow, TN

How can the Dems claim that the Health Care Takeover is covered by the Commerce clause when, by law, the insurance companies are not allowed to sell out of state. That means no interstate commerce and no control by Congress. Insurance regulation is a State responsibility (see 10th Amendment).

Posted March 26, 2010 at 2:12:48 PM

Chris

So stupak "held out" for a paltry less than a million dollars.

Compared to his colleagues, he's not only a whore, but a cheap one at that.

Posted March 26, 2010 at 2:17:27 PM

George Mears

I was up in DC’s health care protests last Saturday and after visiting a VA Congressman's office in the Cannon Building and attending the protest on the Capital lawn, I and a friend found a spot across the street from the Cannon Office building --and only 15 yards from the corner where all the Congressmen, staffers, and folks leaving the Cannon building crossed the street to head over to the Capital for the Capitalism Into Socialism event hosted by Obama, Pelosi, Reid, and their fellow travelers in the 111th Congress .

I was present when the John Sullivan contingent crossed and, while I heard a lot of “Kill the Bill” and boos, I never heard anybody calling out the N word that the MSM is so persistent in reporting. I also went on line last night and watched and listened to the You Tube video of the crossing and transit and never heard it there either—nor did I see anyone in Mr. Sullivan’s group reacting to anything that they might have heard either.

I’m guessing three possible scenarios: 1.) It’s a bold faced lie deliberately being invented to paint the TEA Party folks with a broad racial brush (most probable. Can you say Tawana Brawley?). 2.) A left wing plant. 3.) May actually have happened--but not 15 times and someplace else and this would have to be veru isolated and nowhere near the mood or the temperment of the vast majority of the 40,000 or so of the TEA Party folks present. Of course, if possibility #2 were in play, that loser would be sure to be talking into a conveniently positioned microphone which surely would have been there to capture such an obvious travesty—and we’d also be seeing it 24-7 played back to us. I'm betting heavily on possibility #1 knowing how many times the left have played this card with a 100% chance of the MSM picking up on it and running it 24-7. What about the 188 professor lynch mob at Duke? What ab out Tawanna Brawley? Oh yeah, the left has this trick down pat, plays it often, and the media runs with it every time!!

And for the record, I've got 2 masters degrees (engineering and MBA), and I also participated in the 9/12/09 TEA Party events in DC. From my observation, any randomly selected collection of TEA Party activists would put the average citizen voter (and most in Congress) to shame when it comes to formal education, knowledge of history and especially American History and civics, common sense, and economics. When you have facts and knowledge at your fingertips, there is little reason to stoop to racial slurs. But I'm not saying you won't find a couple of ignorant racist rubes in any collection of tens of thousands of people. But the MSM will find those clowns every time--or make them up if they can't.

Posted March 26, 2010 at 2:25:02 PM

Lawrence

Patriot Post is my daily 'must read'. Without it, I feel I'm missing the pertinant facts of political truth in the steady attempt to destroy our Republic.

My wife, originally from Burma, raised in England as the daughter of a diplomat before the Socialist coup, is terrified at the way politics is progressing in America. She's seen it before.

Recalled from England for a new posting in Burma, her father was uneasy at what he saw. Shortly thereafter, the coup of General Ne Win ushered in the 'Burmese Socialist Program Party' and the 'Burmese Way to Socialism'. Business owners woke up one morning, went to their businesses and found government troops and vehicles on every corner and blocking every business door. You couldn't get in to your own business as it was now 'state property'. Every building, all inventory, all moneies left in the store/business safe was confiscated. Any personal items were now owned by the government. Those who protested were hauled off to prison or shot.

The land once known as "The Land of Rice and Rivers' and the major exporter of rice to the world became one of the most impoverished countries on earth, barely willing to feed it's own people. Goods still produced and grown for export were still exported, but the revenue from this export went into the pockets of General Ne Win and his cronies.

Rationing was a requirement for goods moving to the populace. Consequently, the blackmarket flourished. Women were allowed enough cloth for one wraparound skirt (the 'longyi') per year. One pint of cooking oil per month was legally authorised. 'Block captains' lived on each residential block and reported to their supervisors who went and who came to each house on the block. Overnight guests were prohibited unless investigated and authorised by committee, even if it were a relative or a baby just days old.

My wife came to America after almost twenty years of living like this, caring for a father who had been placed on what constituted house arrest for being privy to the old regime. Her sister, a chemist, had married an American embassy Marine and it took my wife (an economist) six months of effort to leave Burma, now Mynmar, to visit her sister. She was allowed to leave with 30 pounds total baggage weight and virtually no money could leave Burma.

We met two weeks after she arrived and promptly turned up her nose at me. Being a hardened Marine Corps combat vet, I wasn't used to this so employed my vast knowledge of Marine Corps leadership skills for a full year before she would consent to marry me. Thirty one years later, we're still happily married, have two well adjusted, well educated children, and careers of our own.

The purpose of this note is to point out that after all this time away from the horrors of socialism, seeing her friends killed during the student riots for democracy in Burma, my wife is still terrified. She sees what is happening in our government today and starts shaking. When I mentioned that it couldn't happen here because the American people are too strong and too well armed, she tells me that the Burmese people felt the same way. One of her great loves has been our American Constitution, studied in depth on her road to American citizenship, a journey of five years. We instilled this love of the American Constitution and Patriotism into our children. And now, she fears America is on the road to loosing it all.

Lawrence

USMC Retired

Posted March 26, 2010 at 2:27:39 PM

Lawrence

BTW Ron and Alison, congratulations on the new little ankle biter Sam. Hope your other three enjoy their new 'toy'.

Posted March 26, 2010 at 2:33:36 PM

James W. Friedt

I personly think abortons should Be mandintory For all Obama suporters!

Posted March 26, 2010 at 2:36:34 PM

Long Horn

They could roll watermelons, as they are environmentally friendly.

Posted March 26, 2010 at 2:59:42 PM

Lawrence

On a different note than by above posts, I'd like to add a bit about the current administrations 'flap' with Israel.

Long before the so called 'Palestinian People' existed, (nearly 2,000 years before) the land being contested in Israel now was part of the ancient kingdoms of Judea and Samaria. Hebrews were the dominant group of people, well educated, wise and benevolent. They ruled justly.

The contested land is not inhabited by the so called 'Palestinian People'. It is land they wish to own in the future, that belongs to the Jewish people. A look at history will show that.

When Israel became a Jewish state, and Jews once more controlled land that had been stolen from them, the so called 'Palestiniasn People' were forced to leave, NOT by the new government, but by their own islamic brothers. If they stayed under a Jewish controlled government, then they were traitors to islam. Once they left Israel and went to ixslamic controlled countries, they were not allowed to become part of that country, but were told they 'belonged' in the territory they had vacated. They were required to stay in refugee camps as if they were displaced people, forced out of their homes by an occupying force. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Angry at their position and at their own islamic brothers and not yet finding a place of their own, they sought to take over another people's land and homes. The islamic peoples have always done this rather than live in peace with those of other faiths.

Where did they turn to?? Maronite Christian Lebanon. That's right, Maronite Christians were to dominant faith in Lebanon until the slaughter perpetrated by the self made islamic refugees.

History..................

Let's not let it's negative experiences happen here.

Posted March 26, 2010 at 3:04:04 PM

meachamd

You can always tell a person by their fruits: abortion, condoning homosexual life styles, not supporting Isreal, bad mouthing America. Wake up people!!! Are they all so blind they can't see the truth? Unbelievable.

Posted March 26, 2010 at 3:46:39 PM

Boyd

Regarding the knuckle-headed comment that proposed legislation be "deemed" necesary; I just mailed a letter to Speaker Pelosi which closed with this paragraph: 'In the November election, those of us who still believe in this constitutional republic will "deem" you out of a job! Then, two years later we will "deem" a new President. No more "Louisiana Purchase" or "Cornhusker Kickback"--------just a fusillade of "re-deeming" ballots!'

Posted March 26, 2010 at 4:04:34 PM

Gordo

I Protest! The essential separation of church and state is violated by the festival called Easter Egg Roll to be held at the White House. Remove the Easter designation in favor of "Spring". The ovoid items to be rolled are not eggs, either. Remove the Egg designation in favor or "balls". (Some say that any time Obama speaks.) Maybe this is all just an example of Obama Newspeak. Orwell was prescient. ~~Gordo in the Tidewater

Posted March 26, 2010 at 4:38:29 PM

Marcus Brown

"...the president used 22 different pens to put his left-handed signature..."

Was that sinister inclusion, a slam on us who enjoy left-handiness, or envy of our ambidexterity? It is embarrassing to have something in common with this "president."

Posted March 26, 2010 at 4:52:53 PM

Mitch Graves

Hello,

The video file below proves the constitutionality of "nullification".

IE, That any state can 'opt-out" of any federal law they disagree with.

The report is very well researched. Libs rage against it but they have no grounds.

It is taught by Thomas E Woods and would make an excellent show subject:

LINK: http://mises.org/multimedia/video/Woods/Woods1.wmv

GOD bless your work!

Posted March 26, 2010 at 5:40:23 PM

Jeffrey S. Wilson

Gentlemen,

I am with you on every particular of the Patriot Declaration, save one: term limits by law.

Our republic already enjoys a term limits mechanism. it's called "vote the bums out." Come this November, if voters fail to exercise that remedy, they get exactly the government they deserve.

Regards,

Jeff Wilson

Posted March 26, 2010 at 7:22:03 PM

W.T. Door

Hey guys, with the passage of the health travesty, and your further disclosures of the bribery and dirty politics involved, shouldn't the Post bear a symbolic black border as a memorial to our lost Constitutional liberty? No. Wait. Belay that. Just read the readers' comments, and they reveal the American spirit is not dead. If that 82-year-old lady can take on her attacker; so can we take on that bunch of crooks that currently infest Washington.

Posted March 26, 2010 at 7:56:10 PM

Michael F. Misczuk

Sir,

The male human who tried to kill the 82 year old Arizona woman said she was too old to be alive. He sounds like a Progressive to me, out to celebrate, in deadly fashion, the passage of Obamacare.

Mike Misczuk

Posted March 26, 2010 at 10:19:24 PM

Jason

Post Office Aims for Five-Day Delivery....

In case any one wants to know (and no i'm not a postal worker and never have been. My parents were but not I) The post office hasn't been run by the "gubmint" in a long time.

In fact they have run better than any "gubmint" run institution ever probably because of it. They are however, heavily government regulated. IE: every podunk town has to have a post office, the post office HAS to deliver everywhere (fedex/etc do not) and for the same money on a whatever cent stamp. Also the fact they need congressional approval to go to 5 day delivery.

One need only look back as recently as 1990 or so, when AOL made email easy to note when the "change" started happening. Even this (and I'll say reveared because i love 99.9% of what this publication states) publication is going out via email... unlike what informational things you could subscribe for previously that had to pay for postage.

My parents and grandparents sent letters all the time... the phone changed that to the "weekly call" which changed even more when nationwide plans for unlimited calling hit. And then think of the letters that now go out over email instead of using the postal service. The business model target has changed dramatically and yet thier regulated service level agreement has not. It was only a matter of time till they started running in the red (which until recently they have never done... )

You want true gubmint run crap... look to social security that is hurting for some of the same reasons and for some of the reasons like gubmint couldn't keep its hands out of the SS money pie. The avg person when it was instituted didn't live to the age we currently do (under our draconian "old" health care) lol So it ends up paying out more... its one very good reason why they are running out of cash. (along w/ as i said dipping into the "fund" for paying for some crud or another)

So i'd say the curse of these entitlement programs has more to do w/ the government's inability to change than anything else... IE sounds like a good idea until you have to vote to change it and look like a turd to yer constituancy and don't get re-elected ... yet another reason there needs to be term limits... so at least someone who isn't getting re-elected can vote for the intelligent choice instead of "what keeps me in a job"

at any rate... keep the thorns out of the USPS, they were fine until (and i'm sorry i gotta say this cause its gut wrenchingly funny) Al Gore invented the internet...

hehehe

Take care everyone!

-Jason

Posted March 26, 2010 at 10:23:06 PM

Trudy

If the left/Democrats are so afraid of the Patriots, maybe we should start a groundswell movement--maybe start sending them some Pampers? I don't throw bricks--I vote (hasn't gotten me arrested, not yet, anyway). But I would send a package of Depends if they are so very afraid of me.....

Posted March 27, 2010 at 6:41:50 AM

Heather Clark

I wonder how long the White House Easter Egg Roll will have the word Easter applied to it--especially since private and parochial schools have not been included.

Posted March 27, 2010 at 9:32:01 AM

Guy L W Hardy

Regarding the Saudi terrorist capture - KUDOS!!! I love it! Just think of our knock-kneed left wing trying to tell the Saudis how to conduct their own internal interrogations... I cannot help laughing when I think of that.

I don't hear a whole lot of clamoring from the UN or all of the soft-on-terrorism winkies across the pond about the Saudis' interrogation efforts. Maybe we could take a page from that book - the page that says, "take care of your own, and to hell with the neighbors!"

Good for the Saudis!!

Posted March 27, 2010 at 12:12:38 PM

Guy L W Hardy

"Indeed, they bask in the glow of "change" without ever mourning the damage they have wrought."

Like arsonists.

I suppose I could take this a step further: if arson is a crime, sociopolitical arson is treason.

Any takers?

Posted March 27, 2010 at 12:25:56 PM

Guy L W Hardy

"In other news, don't forget that "Earth Hour" is Saturday night. If you don't remember what the means, it's when treehuggers turn out the lights for an hour and pat themselves on the back for saving the planet."

Makes me wonder how they feel about the bonfire, candles, or oil lamp they are adding to the global temperature and atmospheric CO2 with...

Posted March 27, 2010 at 12:29:47 PM

Connie Lain

I honor the post by "Lawerence" above. It is long but please read it through.

The coup described by his Burmese wife is, in many ways, exactly what is happening to America. Our redistribution is more subtle and will take more time. However, it is every bit as ruthless and final. This is a different time and context but the destruction of our system is as inevitable and total as that in Burma. Only a miracle can save this country. Of course, that is what George Washington and the founders thought at one time. "Only a Miracle".

Posted March 27, 2010 at 1:02:19 PM

Connie Lain

Lawerence made several posts. I refer to his first. The one referring to his wife's history in Burma.

Posted March 27, 2010 at 1:07:41 PM

Jack

Brilliance is shown on both sides of almost every issue. The problem is that the "side that is right"(who determines which side is right?) is most always the ones who write the history. The side that loses ,as in a war, is usually not in a position to rebut the winner. I am strongly opposed to the current administrations way of handling things. The problem is when I was in a position to vote for or against. My "against" vote was in the loser side. Does that mean those who voted "for" are smarter than I was? Now the situation is what it is. IN November we will have a chance to see if we are right or wrong. My take is that to forestall the question a trumpted up National Emergency might happen and because of "it" the elections called off. Then what? We are then faced with a constitutional crisis. Do we go along with the "majority" into the belief the constitution is a "living document" to only be used as a guide? or do we Revolt? Many have made the comment to "lock and load" But lets go slow on that. If blood is to be spilt lets be sure it is necessary. We have people in places of power who are commiting treasonus acts. IF we can oust them in November at least we will have clipped their power. I see no one looking to arrest anyone in power so according to my premise I must be wrong. AM I?

I seek not for power but to bring it down

Posted March 27, 2010 at 1:13:38 PM

Jeff

On the Chinese cyber attack paper. I seem to remember a story about the Japanese Imperial Naval Acadamy having a final exam question for several years before Pearl Harbor "How would you attack the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor".Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Winston Churchill said that if I remember right, though who said it isn't near as important as what was said.

Posted March 27, 2010 at 2:30:39 PM

Bob W

After the Senate passed a "fix-it" bill Thursday to make changes to the new health care law, Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., chairman of the influential Finance Committee, said the overhaul was an "income shift" to help the poor.

"Too often, much of late, the last couple three years, the mal-distribution of income in American is gone up way too much, the wealthy are getting way, way too wealthy and the middle income class is left behind," he said. "Wages have not kept up with increased income of the highest income in America. This legislation will have the effect of addressing that mal-distribution of income in America." Yahoo News

Punishing the sucessful, harder-working, more energetic industrious people has always been the Socialist Liberals ideology. Max Baucas finally said what we all knew. This was never about rising costs for health care, it was about income redistribution and "income shifts."

To our democrat liberal friends reading the patriot. Is this what you really wanted? You will be next when the tax man cometh. Think about it.

The socialists will soon be calling it "forced charity."

Posted March 27, 2010 at 4:35:23 PM

JAMES BURK

Best of luck to little Samuel Edward Locke on his life's journey. In this country today,he'll need it....

Posted March 27, 2010 at 5:17:50 PM

John Eckenrod

As Obama basks in his great "victory" and then proceeds to dare anyone to undo it, we wonder about the enormous power grab going on. We all seem to be in the back of the Toyota deeply in debt along with our destitute grandchildren; the pedal stuck to the metal and the nation careening toward the edge of the cliff. Lord, with the constitution in tatters and "executive orders" replacing the Congess, the only thing missing is Leni Riefenstahl filming one of His speeches: "The Triumph of the Shill", perhaps. Can November come soon enough?

Posted March 27, 2010 at 5:29:37 PM

Stephen M. Grgurich

I just hope that they aren't painted in that awful Obama motif, or that the children have to share each to the needs of the less fortunate egg hunters who may or may not be citizens

Posted March 27, 2010 at 5:36:08 PM

J.NormanSayles

Salaries are being cut in every area of the U.S. economy except the Postal Service.It would be interesting to see what the wages and benefits are for carriers, clerks and executive staffs. I'm still waiting for an answer from the Post Master General as to whether , now that we have an Islamomarxist President, they intend to resume issuing stamps to commemorate self-confessed Communists. One was issued for a Mexican Marxist! Her name: Frida Kahlo. She was buried with a flag with a Red Star on it covering the casket. There is no Congressional oversight, just a rubber-stamp committee can't be bothered with details or customer complaints. It would be worth a reporter's life to investigate the transformation that took place in the Postal Service 40 years ago. It is embedded now, covered with alternating layers of concrete and boiler plate. Those who witnessed it are dying out or too cowed to talk.signed, A Repository of Dirty Secrets.

Posted March 28, 2010 at 1:47:59 AM

Joseph Blough, Jr.

Jeff: Your quote about history came from George Santayana: "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

Another quote you might find interesting: "What experience and history teach is this -- that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles." --George Wilhelm Hegel

Posted March 28, 2010 at 6:07:32 AM

Joseph Blough, Jr.

I have watched for many years the ever-greater encroachment of the government — particularly federal — into nearly every facet of our lives. It has been especially egregious by the congress and aided and abetted by the executive and judicial branches. Members of all three branches have violated their sacred oaths to preserve, protect and defend our constitution. They have given up the right and honor to hold the high offices to which they were elected.

I sincerely hope and pray that in November these charlatans will be thrown out of office via the ballot box. However, the existing power structure, through the gerrymandering of congressional districts, has made it all but impossible to vote out entrenched incumbents. I fear it is unlikely that enough of these reprobates, both Republican and Democrat, will be turned out of office to truly make a difference. Is the vote our only recourse?

It is the peaceful change of power via the ballot box that our founding fathers strove for and set in motion in 1787. However, we must never forget that these same men just eleven years earlier were willing to fight and die to throw off the chains of an oppressive government that was unwilling to govern justly. We must be no less willing to protect our freedom and liberty than they were to earn it for us.

I am a veteran of two tours in Viet Nam and am proud to have fought and defended the ideals upon which our country was founded. I have seen war, and pray that I shall never see it again. I do not advocate the violent overthrow of our government, nevertheless if that is the last resort, so be it. I have long been retired, but would once again be willing to take up arms to defend “certain unalienable Rights” as guaranteed by our constitution.

As Patrick Henry so eloquently stated, “Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!”

To this, I pledge my Life, my Fortune, and my sacred Honor.

Posted March 28, 2010 at 7:25:50 AM

Ken

I would like to ask everyone take a moment to read the article "Cloward-Piven Government by James Simpson" (you can load this in your browser to find the article in American Thinker) It is a short read, but exquisite in its simplified explanation of what and how this government is undermining our Liberty and American Freedoms. I believe we are heading for a desperate collapse if we do not turn things around in these next 3 election cycles.

There is no mistake there is an organized effort to discredit and discount the Tea Party movement, as "right wing nut jobs" as soon as is practical at all possible costs. I believe their "Party" (remember in Russia the Government was called the "Party" along with Czars?) is desperately afraid this movement will wake the rest of 'Amerika' up to what is happening. And they are pulling out all stops to crush it.

All grass roots efforts need to make every possible connection and coordination with like-minded group efforts to create a voting bloc that cannot be ignored now! Complete turnover of Congress is essential. And election finance reform must happen before it is all lost. Which could happen rapidly now.

Thank you for your time.

Posted March 28, 2010 at 10:08:00 AM

Mike W.

Big article about the healthcare bill in the paper. It took me nearly an hour to read all the ins and outs. There's nothing in this bill that will help anyone. It's just a big government expense which will land in our wallets. As they say, "It's time to toss the bums out".

Posted March 28, 2010 at 10:29:46 AM

james wilson

A five day week for the Post Office? Why fool around, let us go straight to a one day week. That will be sufficient for the vast majority of us.

Right after we eliminate the penny, circa 2210.

Posted March 28, 2010 at 7:09:18 PM

Ed

"Sharpton actually gets it partly right -- we were warned. However, the "overwhelming" 53 percent of the vote that Obama received was hardly 'for socialism,' though a good 10-20 percent of the voting populace does appear to want it. The independents who provided Obama his winning margin voted for flashy, feel-good, substance-free "hope 'n' change."

No, the illegal alien in the White House was not elected by the people. Like Al Franken of MN, he was elected by voter fraud.

Posted March 28, 2010 at 8:55:53 PM

Harper

The silent majority has been silent too long. When will people wake up and realize that sitting on the sidelines is not going to cut it? Spread the word, look for like-minded people and groups, organize and make your voice heard. Like the Boy Scout's motto... "Always be prepared..." and well we should be!! Next comes Amnesty for illegals, then I predict they will pass legislation to outlaw our guns.

Posted March 29, 2010 at 4:19:40 AM

Kevin V

I can't help but remember the recent joke after reading BOB W.'S comment above. "The Taxman cometh..."

To paraphrase, REMEMBER Liberals & Progressives; the IRS is now charged with enforcing the NEW HEALTHECRE REFORM LAW you wanted O so badly! If you think your LAST IRS AUDIT was a real bend over and pull down your pants job....

JUST WAIT TILL "HE COMETH" TO GIVE YOU your next PROCTOLOGY EXAM! Seems I remember that PREMIER BARRY has a lot of Cabinet "Ministers" and "CZARS" appointed that have memory problems come Apri15th each year!

What a FUN time it will be in the White Kremlin, eh? I'm getting to really enjoy BOB 'W's comments. Maybe he need a guess spot on the Post occasionally!

Posted March 29, 2010 at 12:01:21 PM

Kevin V

To Mike W: Your comment while very interesting made me wonder a "JUST A LITTLE" ???????

DOESN'T IT TICK YOU OFF THAT AFTER THE BILL IS NOW SIGNED AS LAW...YOU ARE FINALLY READING ABOUT IT IN THE PAPER? You should be outraged as much about that fact as you are of what is or isn't in it!!

Even worse, a LARGE MAJORITY of the supposedly "enlightened" fools that have supported it AND AND AND the even more (and I'm trying to remain printable here) asinine Jacka**es(think Democrat symbol) that voted for it STILL haven't READ the law!

Posted March 29, 2010 at 12:20:58 PM

Ken

On the good news front it looks like Texas is restoring some truth back into their history and social studies textbooks. With Texas being the largest single buyer of textbooks most other states will end up with what Texas authorizes. On a couple of notes the U.S. will be described as a constitutional republic instead of a democracy and the falicy that it was founded on the seperation of church and state is now omitted. They'll teach the free market system is a good thing and the second amendment will be shown as a vital and ligitimate part of the bill of rights. Thank God for stubborn Texans.

Posted March 29, 2010 at 1:00:39 PM

Robert Daniels

We had biodegradable when I grew up- My mother made them-they were called eggs

Posted March 31, 2010 at 1:04:39 PM

Michael Lyons

"We can't expect the American People to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have Communism." -- Nikita Khrushchev

Every time I hear about Obama Care and this country's move towards Socialism, I think of this quote. I just wonder how close to the thruth this comment is.

Posted April 3, 2010 at 12:50:11 PM

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