Pain Drives Change!

So now all the things that didn't get fixed in the original bill and whatever else they decided they needed is law. The "fix is in". The companies that have dared to let the public know their part of the "pain" are now being called on the carpet to explain their outrageous behavior. HOW DARE THEY!!! Now we find that Senators McCain and Lieberman are sponsoring a bill to catch and punish "ENEMY BELLIGERENTS" Who would that be? Maybe you and me? Now we find out that the $2500 reduction in health care premiums that the President said was coming is not going to arrive after all. Our pain will go on and on and on unless WE do something about it.

In the 2008 Presidential election, approximately 61% of the total eligible voters actually voted. Only 70% of the those eligible to register had done so. That means that 61% of the 70% elected this administration. Compare this to Australia where 98% vote and other countries whose record should give us great reason to pause and ask ourselves the question,"why have the American people opted out of the process"? No wonder the "political thugs" in Washington don't worry about us.

Maybe we should go to Washington and have a protest March or send Tea Bags to Congress. Or maybe we should ask ourselves the question: "What kind of pain would make them change their ways"? Having been a White House appointee, legislator, Director of Field Operations for a statewide Presidential campaign, let me make some suggestions.

Though the House speaker made it "look like" some of her party would have to "throw themselves on the pyre of political martyrdom" she really doesn't care. The "agenda" is all that counts. They all want to get re-elected and the thought of have to find a "real job" is almost incomprehensible. We must RETIRE every one of them that won't listen, put in term limits to stop this ascension by age not ability, and you can only do this in the States. ALL POLITICS ARE LOCAL, DON'T EVER FORGET THAT. The answer is where you live, not in Washington.

Stop for now the letters, emails and phone calls. They are too easily ignored.Start showing up at your Congressman and Senators constituent office where you live. Let them see you, hear you and know that you are not going away until their is absolute proof that "they have changed", not that they are GOING to change. GOING never seems to happen. Empty promises is all we get.

The first and most important step for us right now is to let them know we are no longer The Silent Majority. Silence is no longer a part of our vocabulary. They will test us to see if they can give us "token" responses and then we will go back to the way we were. NO LONGER! Token anything will not get it from now on. Be on notice, "we are awake, we are now and forever vigilant, and we will never go away again!

True Grit.......

is what we are going to have to have from now on. Some things we just really need to talk about. Who is going to make the tough choices? It appears not the President, not the House or Senate, then who? I believe it us up to us. How long are we going to put our safety in harms way because of our governments and the UN's unwillingness to finally put a stop to Iran's war-like intentions? We need to stop them NOW! What will it take to bring a halt to our governments voracious appetite for spending and bring our budget back into balance? It will take us DEMANDING it!

We have lost the respect that we once had in the world because we seem to be a nation out of control. A nation who can no long be counted on and trusted. I believe we owe no one an apology unless, it be for letting people who will not do our will nor listen to us, rise to our nations leadership and take the country down a horribly destructive path. WE allowed it to happen and we have no one to blame but ourselves.

"It is too big and too out of control you say for us to do anything about it" That's their line, the ones who fed it to us in the beginning and want us to really believe it. The ones that want it not to be government by the people but government by the government!! Those of either party who just want their "cushy" jobs to continue while the country suffers. Why do you think that they "exempted" themselves from certain provisions of the health care reform that you and I have to live with. They believe they are "special" "privileged" and don't have to abide by the same rules as everybody else. As someone said the other day, so succinctly, "We are no longer citizens, we are SUBJECTS".

You CAN'T wait on the Tea Partiers, or the Republican or the Democrats or the Independents or the Libertarians. You have got to get involved and do this for yourself. If we wait for "somebody" else to do it, it will NEVER GET DONE!!! Maybe Beck or Hannity or whoever else will do it? Is that what you think? THINK AGAIN. They are way to busy promoting their own agendas, their own books and the books of others. They are ENTERTAINERS!! When will we get it through our heads that they are about "ratings", not change.

We have got to stop waiting for somebody else to do what we know needs to be done. We do this as a nation, not a group with a title and an agenda, but millions of Americans who have both a sense of history and destiny. If you are one of those, there is no more time to wait or waste. We are needed now. It is time for us to put OUR shoulder to the wheel and do the HEAVY LIFTING because the price of us not doing so would be beyond calculation, beyond dollars and cents, and beyond future American's ability to comprehend how and why WE let this happen to us and them. Don't call your Congressman or your Senator, CALL YOURSELF!

Where Are The Statesmen?

Have ideologues taken over in both major political parties? I believe the answer is YES! The President in his appearances today was gloating over the passage of the health care bill and taunting Republicans. Congressman John Boehner,House Minority Leader, is sending mailings all across the country asking for contributions to help make him the Speaker of the House. How about making us, the people, the Speakers of the House. Then IF, you and your colleagues do that, THEN AND ONLY THEN, should you be considered for a leadership position based on PERFORMANCE,not seniority. We don't want another "party hack" as Speaker, we want a statesman. The peoples voice is not being heard and the peoples business is not getting done! Hear us and hear us LOUD AND CLEAR, it's not about political parties, it's about the AMERICAN PEOPLE! Get it?

Death threats and violence have no place in this country in our debates over what things should be done for the good of the American people. I condemn those actions vehemently.

What has happened to our political process that makes it very difficult to even get the best people in our country to even want to think about running for high political office? What has happened that allows elected officials to hold and maintain office even after committing crimes and acts of emotional violence against their families? How is it that people will say of a crooked politician, "Well at least he is OUR crooked politician."

We as a people have lost sight of the "greater good" If we have a high profile Congressman/Congresswoman or Senator in our district or State, way to often we are only interested in "what have you done for me lately" than we are them being an effective part of the national conversation about what is best for "all the people". I believe that we have become selfish. Selfish to the point that we don't care whose ox is getting gored as long as it is not OUR ox! We have ALLOWED a system, based on seniority, name recognition, money and power, to foster candidates who take advantage of our lost vision.

Have you ever heard someone say, "It doesn't matter who we elect, they all turn out the same way." As if there is a defective gene in anyone who wins an election, that turns them into something they hadn't intended to be. Nonsense! They are absorbed into a system that WE ALLOWED to develop. I have talked with members of Congress who say "well it's better to COMPROMISE MY VALUES and stay in there so I at least maybe can do some good" In this system that compromise is at first a chink, then a crack and finally a bottomless pit.

We must change this system so that their whole lives aren't about getting re-elected. We need term limits, 5 two year terms for Congress and 2 six year terms for Senators or some limitations that lets them know, IT IS GOING TO END,and allows them to vote on the issues not their party leaders dictates. If you and I will get involved enough, and please don't tell me you don't have the time, MAKE TIME, and become "partners" with our elected officials, we can give them backbone when necessary and a kick in the butt when necessary.

Never in my lifetime has there been a time with this much momentum for fixing something that a majority of American people feel is broken. Thousands will show up in Searchlight, NV this weekend to confront the House Majority Leader for his part in the Obamanation they call Health Care Reform. When was the last time that happened? Between now and November let your voice be heard by your representatives. But in November, let it be "the vote heard round the world" as we take back our country and our government. But let that only be the beginning. EVER VIGILANT has to be our mantra from now on. I know we can do this. I have faith in you. Have faith in yourselves and you will find the strength to do what we have to do, by law,
by faith and by remembering: "In God We Trust"

What Will History Record?

As I write this there is a room full of our elected representatives, waiting on the entrance of the President to sign the legislation that I believe will be the biggest mistake of government in my lifetime. We elected them, but they would not listen to us. This law is going to shackle and chain our nation going forward financially and encourage a path of government by the government, for the government and through the government. We must ensure that they never get the chance to do this to us again.

But this act has also steeled my determination. I have watched the American people elect a President they knew almost nothing about. And what they did know they ignored. We did not just elect a new President, we gave encouragement to the people who want to destroy the freedom, liberty and will of this great nation. They want to enslave us.

I believe that if we, after today, go back to our lives of passive involvement in our government, they will get away with it. I believe that generations to come, if we just stand by and let this happen, will ask of our generation, "why didn't they stop it?." We will be gone, and all that will remain will be our legacy which may well be entitled "The Worst Generation".

This does not have to be. It is not inevitable! Let then history record that we saw the danger, we girded up our loins and we fought, some even to the death, but we prevailed. For we are a God fearing nation, not a man fearing nation. The world has always turned to us when they are in need, and we respond. It needs to be, that in this world, there has to be nation state that will preserve or protect not only our own liberty, but that of others who seek to be free and unafraid.

That is our destiny. And although this nations Constitution shall "hang as if by a thread" we shall not let it break. We are a good people, I really believe that. History may record that we lost our way for a while, but let it also record that it
was us, the children of a loving God, that found our moral compass once more, and prevailed in the end. Our reward to be, at the end of days, when we hear, "well done though good and faithful servants"

The President Without A Country

The President Without A Country
by Pat Boone


© 2010
"We're no longer a Christian nation." – President Barack Obama, June 2007

"America has been arrogant." – President Barack Obama

"After 9/11, America didn't always live up to her ideals."

– President Barack Obama

"You might say that America is a Muslim nation."

– President Barack Obama, Egypt 2009

Thinking about these and other statements made by the man who wears the title of president … I keep wondering what country he believes he's president of.

In one of my very favorite stories, Edward Everett Hale's "The Man without a Country," a young Army lieutenant named Philip Nolan stands condemned for treason during the Revolutionary War, having come under the influence of Aaron Burr. When the judge asks him if he wishes to say anything before sentence is passed, young Nolan defiantly exclaims, "Damn the United States! I wish I might never hear of the United States again!"

The stunned silence in the courtroom is palpable, pulsing. After a long pause, the judge soberly says to the angry lieutenant: "You have just pronounced your own sentence. You will never hear of the United States again. I sentence you to spend the rest of your life at sea, on one or another of this country's naval vessels – under strict orders that no one will ever speak to you again about the country you have just cursed."

And so it was. Philip Nolan was taken away and spent the next 40 years at sea, never hearing anything but an occasional slip of the tongue about America. The last few pages of the story, recounting Nolan's dying hours in his small stateroom – now turned into a shrine to the country he foreswore – never fail to bring me to tears. And I find my own love for this dream, this miracle called America, refreshed and renewed. I know how blessed and unique we are.

Is Shariah law coming to a court near you? Get "Stealth Jihad" – Robert Spencer's expose about efforts to quietly establish the Muslim system in Amerca

But reading and hearing the audacious, shocking statements of the man who was recently elected our president – a young black man living the impossible dream of millions of young Americans, past and present, black and white – I want to ask him, "Just what country do you think you're president of?"

You surely can't be referring to the United States of America, can you? America is emphatically a Christian nation, and has been from its inception! Seventy percent of her citizens identify themselves as Christian. The Declaration of Independence and our Constitution were framed, written and ratified by Christians. It's because this was, and is, a nation built on and guided by Judeo-Christian biblical principles that you, sir, have had the inestimable privilege of being elected her president.

You studied law at Harvard, didn't you, sir? You taught constitutional law in Chicago? Did you not ever read the statement of John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and an author of the landmark "Federalist Papers": "Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers – and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation – to select and prefer Christians for their rulers"?

In your studies, you surely must have read the decision of the Supreme Court in 1892: "Our lives and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible that it should be otherwise; and in this sense and to this extent our civilization and our institutions are emphatically Christian."

Did your professors have you skip over all the high-court decisions right up till the mid 1900s that echoed and reinforced these views and intentions? Did you pick up the history of American jurisprudence only in 1947, when for the first time a phrase coined by Thomas Jefferson about a "wall of separation between church and state" was used to deny some specific religious expression – contrary to Jefferson's intent with that statement?

Or, wait a minute … were your ideas about America's Christianity formed during the 20 years you were a member of the Trinity United Church of Christ under your pastor, Jeremiah Wright? Is that where you got the idea that "America is no longer a Christian nation"? Is this where you, even as you came to call yourself a Christian, formed the belief that "America has been arrogant"?

Even if that's the understandable explanation of your damning of your country and accusing the whole nation (not just a few military officials trying their best to keep more Americans from being murdered by jihadists) of "not always living up to her ideals," how did you come up with the ridiculous, alarming notion that we might be "considered a Muslim nation"?

Is it because there are some 2 million or more Muslims living here, trying to be good Americans? Out of a current population of over 300 million, 70 percent of whom are Christians? Does that make us, by any rational definition, a "Muslim nation"?

Why are we not, then, a "Chinese nation"? A "Korean nation"? Even a "Vietnamese nation"? There are even more of these distinct groups in America than Muslims. And if the distinction you're trying to make is a religious one, why is America not "a Jewish nation"? There's actually a case to be made for the latter, because our Constitution – and the success of our Revolution and founding – owe a deep debt to our Jewish brothers.

Have you stopped to think what an actual Muslim America would be like? Have you ever really spent much time in Iran? Even in Egypt? You, having been instructed in Islam as a kid at a Muslim school in Indonesia and saying you still love the call to evening prayers, can surely picture our nation founded on the Quran, not the Judeo-Christian Bible, and living under Shariah law. Can't you? You do recall Muhammad's directives [Surah 9:5,73] to "break the cross" and "kill the infidel"?

It seems increasingly and painfully obvious that you are more influenced by your upbringing and questionable education than most suspected. If you consider yourself the president of a people who are "no longer Christian," who have "failed to live up to our ideals," who "have been arrogant," and might even be "considered Muslim" – you are president of a country most Americans don't recognize.

Could it be you are a president without a country?

Who Will Drink The Kool-Aid?

What I share with you in this space is what I believe to be true based on my own research, reading, thinking and my version of common sense, and share it because I believe with all my heart and soul that I am trying to advance the well being of mankind and especially here in America. I am fallible. I do make mistakes. That is why you should always do those things for yourself, that I have done, and don't let anybody else tell you how to believe. You are smart enough to figure out the truth.


I believe that we have not had the opportunity to examine this legislation any where near as thoroughly as we need to. I believe that the Congressional Budget Office,and I am told that they admit this in their report, bases their numbers on many assumptions about what will happen in the future, especially what action future Congresses will take to make those assumptions come true. NO ONE REALLY KNOWS! I believe that our Constitution is under attack and this legislation will be challenged on it's constitutionality all the way to the Supreme Court.

A special thanks to WN and TT for all of their input,it is so appreciated. Today's vote is not the end, one way or the other. The American people, like the sleeping giant, have awakened. It will be a part of all of our jobs to be sure it never goes back to sleep again. But if it does, we will awaken it again because we are EVER VIGILANT!!

Who Do You Believe?

I have spent the better part of the day searching CNN, MSNBC, ABC and many others about what will go into effect immediately IF health care reforms goes into effect Sunday. It seems that there is some differences of opinion. Why should we be surprised when the 2700 page bill conceived in secret, just became public? Here is a link from MSNBC that gives you their take: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35876568/
Good luck making any sense out of it.

The only way to know what we are really voting on or backing is to give Congress and the American public time to read it and then everybody can decide. If it is such a GOOD THING, why wouldn't you want to post your pride and joy where everybody can see it, read it, and gloat over it? Assuming that it is readable for you and me and we can follow all of the sub section references and legal terms and all the other legislation that is referenced, we should be able to understand what a few people are jamming down our throats in say, a year or so.

Someone wrote me that doing something is better than doing nothing. Really. Even when you don't know what the something is? And you can't as of now. What kind of thinking is that. Do you trust the government who has screwed up almost everything it has touched and tried to run, to overhaul and devise a health care system that represents 1/6 of the American economy. Sounds like someone who wants to be taken care of rather than taking care of themselves. Maybe you, but not me!

I had another reader send me a well thought out response as to why he told his Congressman to vote no or he will not vote for him again. But his email made sense, and he was thoughtful about what he said and I RESPECT THAT! You know who I am afraid of? Those people who know they don't know what is in the bill and I believe don't care what is in the bill, because what they are really interested in is the SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE POWER agenda, and since this bill was created in a dark room by a few select people who fit their profile of PROGRESSIVE POWER in Washington, they are willing to back it no matter what it says.

What if you are one of those "do your due diligence" kind of people. I agree with that. I think that makes sense. But why then would you abandon your "pro due diligence" ways for this piece of legislation. I thought due diligence meant checking it out, doing the research and anything else you have to to know what the heck it is your talking about? How long will that take you? Why would you then abandon your principles now? I can respect those that have principles and stick with them, but you really have to wonder when they abandon them because it is not politically expedient to stay with them. They can't have it both ways.

Sunday may or may not be the "vote". Whenever it is, I hope that all principled people will stick to their guns and work for the side they really believe in. For the political hacks, wanna be's, never were's, go watch a basketball game. You have been a spectator most of your life and that suits your decades of sitting on the sidelines. If you want to get in the game, then at least know what you are talking about. If not there will be plenty of games on Sunday.

What they will Never tell you.

The President said today that even though the health care reform bill will cost nearly ONE TRILLION over the next 10 years, that it will reduce the federal deficit by 150 billion dollars. How can a health care bill reduce the deficit by 150 billion dollars? Here's how and what they are not telling you.

The health care reform act, at least the current version and what we have seen,and some provisions of it don't go into effect until sometime in 2014 and the President reiterated that today.If the bill is signed this Sunday, the bill allows them to start funding it on Monday. So the money that is re-directed, starting Monday, to fund health care reform, will NOT be put in a savings account to be used toward that ONE TRILLION dollar liability,it would be spent to reduce the federal deficit. ONCE IT IS SPENT, IT IS SPENT! Yet we still will owe ONE TRILLION dollars to fund a program that won't be in effect for 4 and 1/2 years, so the ONE TRILLION dollar liability will just start accumulating over that time, OR if there would be no direct cost during that time, leaves us with a ONE TRILLION bill that now has to be funded over 5 1/2 years.

If there is a direct cost starting right away, the money collected would not REDUCE the federal deficit, it would just keep it from going up 150 billion dollars a year. If that be the case, the 150 billion taken in just keeps the deficit from going UP, unless they find some other way to increase our unfunded liabilities. BUT in 4 1/2 years that will no longer be true, because as the direct cost of ONE TRILLION dollars kicks in, with no savings, we now have to find ONE TRILLION dollars over 5 1/2 years. They didn't tell you that did they.

How do you suppose they are going to raise that money. BY RAISING YOUR TAXES!!! They didn't tell you that either did they. In a country that spends today, 50% of it Gross Domestic Product on the big three entitlement programs, Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid, how much do you think that percentage will go up when this bill becomes law. They want us to be DEPENDENT on government. Now do you see why a jobs bill was not "job one". If they control 16% of the GDP through controlling health care, and create 155 new government agencies as this bill will do, they are well on their way to OWNING US!!!!.

Increasing productivity and increasing the incentives to start a business and hire people is what will put people back to work. We need to incent people to work, go to work and hire others, not look to and depend on the government to take care of them. WE NEED TO TAKE CARE OF OURSELVES! There are two kinds of people that most often will support "being taken care of", those who are lazy and haven't made anything of their lives because of their own choices, and those who believe in a socialist re-distribution of wealth.

We WILL, being the compassionate and giving people that we are, always work to take care of those who suffer harm or loss through no fault of their own. We will always give them a "hand up" to help them get back on their feet for as long as it takes.

If you are a "red blooded" American in the best sense of those that this country has produced, all you want is to be given the opportunity or take the opportunity that is all around you, and have people get out of your way so that you can do what Americans do best, work and prosper.

How to contact your Congressman or Senator

Highlight the link, copy and paste it into the subject line, hit enter. The rest is easy. Good luck.




http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/congdir.tt

Legislation without Representation

We overthrew a King because of this the last time. The Speaker is about to, through the rules committee, construct a "trick" rule that will allow the rank and file of her party to pass the health care bill without there being any record of how any of her colleagues voted. As a result, the vote will be "secret".

Why are they afraid of having their voted counted out in the open? BECAUSE THEY ARE COWARDS. They are afraid of Speaker Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Reid, and the President.Those three have convinced them that if they don't do what they want they will make them PAY dearly. They are more afraid of THEM, than they are of US.!!!There are thousands on the Capitol Mall today protesting, but nobody seems to be listening. Have you called your Congressman or Senator yet? There is still time.

How did we get to the point in this Republic, that people we don't like or trust, can break or change the rules, to pass legislation that 53% of the American people have said they don't want, and the ballot is secret? It is because WE, the American people, opted out of being a part of the political process and CHOSE to let them do it to us. If they can do this to us on health care, what is there to keep them from doing it again, and again and again. NOTHING! Have you thought about that?

It is not too late! You and I can still keep this from happening. It is only INEVITABLE if we ALLOW it to be. Burn up the phone lines to Washington, call your local television and radio stations. Let YOUR VOICE be heard!!

Tell them you will not stand for LEGISLATION without REPRESENTATION and that if they persist WE the people, will make them PAY DEARLY!

Thank you, God bless you and God bless this great nation!

You Are The Answer. You Can Make A Difference

The House will vote tonight on a bill that the CBO has not put a price tag on yet and less than 5 members of Congres know what it says. So they will effectively be voting on a piece of blank paper. Are you willing to allow your Congressman or Senator to vote to give the President and the House and Senate leadership a BLANK CHECK to mortgage this country's future?

Some say, "it's out of my hands" it to big for me to do anything about.There are only 2 kinds of people who say that. Those that don't want to get involved and/or are too scared to get involved, or who are just willing to ignore U.S. history. It has been done, make a difference, by people like you and me, and it can and should be done again, NOW!

THEY WANT YOU TO BELIEVE THAT THEY KNOW BETTER THAN YOU WHAT IS BEST FOR YOU! Do they? They will listen to you, IF we, in significant numbers, tell them NO, when we believe that what they are doing and is against our country's best interest and the people's will. Why are so many people, willing to HAND OVER to people they have already said they don't TRUST, their future.

THEY want you to think that you can't do anything about what happens in government. YOU CAN. They want you to believe that it's just too big for us to get our arms around. IT ISN'T. This is a week that history will record as one in which either the American people stood up for themselves, or CHOSE to do nothing and suffered the consequences. Those, in the future, whose futures were mortgaged by us financially, and whose rights were trampled by us TODAY, acquiescing to the dictates of people who were only interested in their power and putting government chains on America's people.

They want to break us and we are letting them. They want to bankrupt us and we are letting them. They want to enslave us and we are letting them. Our posterity amidst their tears will be asking the question: "What were they thinking." May the "God in whom we trust" when the government hangs as if by a thread, have mercy on us for this act of negligence.

May God bless this great nation and forgive us for our trespasses!

Blind Sided?

The Democrat leadership in the House and Senate and the President of the United States are about to jam legislation we don't want, down our throats! If we, the American people, don't do something about it, no one else obviously is. Why aren't we hearing "loudly" from the opponents of this legislation?

Let me take a guess. 36 have already bailed by not running for re-election.The Democrats who will lose their seats because of this vote won't be around anymore either to have to answer for this or because they will be on their congressional pensions.The Republicans aren't fighting because they want the power back in Washington.So they sit back and watch the Democrats go down in flames, and all the while your and my children's and grandchildren's future gets mortgaged. So it's not about what's good for the American people, it's all about HAVING, HOLDING OR GETTING BACK THE POWER. The public " be da_ _ed"

No one but a handful have even seen what is in this bill. The Democrat leadership is about to use a rule in the House that lets them pass legislation saying that they voted on the Senate version of health care, even when they haven't. This, then allows them to take the Senate bill, finish changing it and put all the pork barrel projects in it to bribe the members just like they did in Nebraska and Louisiana.

Then they add school funding and other things that have nothing to do with this bill, so they can say their opponents are voting against motherhood and apple pie issues, that members would normally not vote against. But they have to to defeat this horrendous health care bill. All because Rep. Pelosi, Rep. Hoyer, Sen. Reid and the President have decided they want control of 16% of the GDP of the U.S. to further break this country. That is what this legislation is all about, BREAKING the bank, back and will of the American people.

If they succeed, then this administration will have taken a giant step toward socialism in health care and will be on to socializing as much as they can. They know they can be tossed out in 2010 and 2012, but they don't care. The damage will be done and they are counting on the fact that the American people don't have the backbone and will to undo what they are about to do to us.

If, this week, we are not calling our representatives, taking to the streets, and doing whatever we have to to stop them from running over us because we set back and say, "oh I have my job, my family, my golf game and I am too busy to get involved", if we do that then we are a part of the problem, not a part of the solution. That's what got us here, "DOING NOTHING"! We are not getting blind sided .We saw what was coming and CHOSE not to do anything to stop it. Don't count on someone else to do this, DO IT YOURSELF!

God bless this great nation!

Who Will Put on the Armour and Fight?

What do 19 Republican and 16 Democrat Members of Congress have in common with Congressman Patrick Kennedy? They are all NOT running for re-election. Why? Because they either don't like the way things are being handled in Washington, apparently by both parties, or they all have served long enough and are now eligible for their government service pensions or they are still scared of reprisal even though they are not up or re-election. What kind of a system can stifle members of Congress from standing up for what they believe? A ROTTEN one!! Congressman Kennedy, yesterday took out his frustration on the House floor for everyone to see. Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana has shared some not so complimentary remarks about how he has been treated by his own party. That's 2 out of 36. Oh yes, there's Congressman Massa of New York who seems to have his own set of problems. So OK maybe that's 3. What about the other 33? Would they like to be able to speak out and now hopefully with no fear of political or other backlash? Will they? Stay tuned for them!

What do you do when you are a zealot for particular cause, thought you had the votes to get what you wanted, and an election in Massachusetts upsets your apple cart? You try to change or bend the rules so that you can get what you want by a different set of rules. In Congress it is called reconciliation. Both parties have done it, BUT is now the time to skirt the process when what you are trying to drive down the throats of Congress and the American people represents 1/5th of the entire U.S. budget? And when ALL polls show that a majority of the American people don't want it, and the reform their hearing about, because they can't see it because it is being done behind closed doors by a small handful of people who don't want you to see it until it's to late, SUCKS!!

Why do you think they think they can be so brazen? Because they think they can get away with it. And history many times has proven them right. Are you willing NOW to finally get out of your doldrums and fight for what you believe in? I hope so because a huge piece of our future depends on whether you and I say"let somebody else do it" or we sum up the courage to stand up and take on those who think they can do anything to us and because of our apathy, GET AWAY WITH IT!!!!

If not US who, if not now WHEN! It is OUR time and this is the PLACE to get involved.

God bless you and God bless our marvelous nation.

p.s. Our thoughts and prayers are with Sen. Reid and his family as his wife and daughter struggle for life after their car accident today in Washington.

Thank you!

Taking Our Country Back

Did you know that your Congressman or Senator has more to fear from their party leadership than they do not being re-elected by you. Why? Because the seniority system in Washington rewards, not for excellent service, but for staying alive and in their seat. Leadership of the party "punishes" those who get out of line by giving them the worst committee assignments and losing the legislation they write. Also statistically, an incumbent has an 89% chance of being re-elected just because they are the incumbent. Members of Congress have a saying, "It not what they are saying about you that counts, it's that they are talking about you that counts." Name recognition is the name of their game. We have re-elected "cheaters" on their families, ethics violators, fraud perpetrators, and all manner of sleaze bags not because of their deeds, or lack their of, but because we know their names and they have the most money to spend on the election and the fact that we don't go see them, challenge them and hold them accountable.

How do we fix it? First, by imposing term limits. Second, by becoming the "spine" of the representative so they have more to fear from us than the House Speaker or Senate Majority Leader. Third, holding them accountable and letting them hear from us. Age, or seniority, should not determine yours and my future. What should determine it is because they serve us not the other way around. Why do you think this President and Congressional Leadership ignore us? It is because they believe, based on history, they have no fear of reprisal from us when they jam things down our throat. You and I can make sure those days are gone. Let's stand up together and let them know their arrogance and ego-maniacal agenda will not stand. They work for us, not the other way around. IF NOT NOW WHEN, IF NOT US WHO?

Be Ever Vigilant!

"Don't let them demonize the "American Spirit"

Well it looks like we are getting down to the last ditch effort on health care, thank goodness. Anybody who votes for Obama's version of socialized medicine should loose there seat in Congress and I intend to help that happen. Interesting, 17 Dems and 19 Repubs have already said they are not going to run for re-election. The rats deserting a sinking ship. Where are the "guts" on either side to stand in there in fight. This whole thing has been the best evidence yet for term limits. Don't just look at the D or R along side their name look at what they do or don't do and say or not say as an individual member of Congress. They are all afraid to stand up because of fear of retaliation from their leadership, on both sides. We have elected cowards to Congress and you and I are paying the price. We need representatives who can and will speak their mind. People who approve of the current way of doing things are no better than those in Washington who "hide behind" their party's position rather than thinking for themselves. Come on America, wake up. This isn't what has made this country great, "groupthink". Get out of the "herd" and back to being the American with the entrepreneurial spirit that grew us into what we are today. We can and will do it again!!

Be Ever Vigilant!

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