Posted on 03/14/2010 11:50:57 AM PDT by MaxCUA
If Senator Reid, Speaker Pelosi, and President Obama get their way, soon our country will be changed forever. Using every partisan parliamentary trick in the book (including some they invented just last week), Washington’s Left intends to ram through their takeover of our health care system regardless of the consequences.
The latest twists and turns in the Obamacare drama seem almost surreal. One minute the Democrat leadership is trying to amend a bill before the president has even signed it into law, and the next minute they’re trying to draft a new rule that will allow the House to “deem” a bill passed without actually voting on it! They’re determined to use the Senate reconciliation process as a parliamentary trick to bypass the regular voting procedure (and by the way, to add insult to injury, they’re now going to ram through federalization of America’s student loan industry with this same reconciliation vote). Is there any other wildly unpopular legislation they’d also like to sneak in? Perhaps the anti-energy-independence policy “Cap and Tax” (aka Cap and Trade) is next?
And make no mistake, the Obamacare bill is wildly unpopular. The Democrats’ own pollsters warn of an “unmitigated disaster” for them in November if they don’t abandon their plan and start over with real incremental health care reform. Incredibly, at this point, they don’t seem to care. Speaker Pelosi thinks Congress must pass the bill so that the American people can then “find out what’s in it.”
(Excerpt) Read more at governorpalin4president.blogspot.com ...
AWESOME facebook post. She is right on the money again.
"Do you save the President, or do you save "the People's" liberty?"
"Found in: John Adams, The Works of John Adams, vol. 4 (Novanglus, Thoughts on Government, Defence of the Constitution) - NO. III. - paragraph 144
"Obsta principiis (translation: resist the beginnings), nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers, and destroyers press upon them so fast, that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachment upon the American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour. The revenue creates pensioners, and the pensioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited, and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity, and frugality, become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, luxury, foppery, selfishness, meanness, and downright venality swallow up the whole society."
John Adams words castigate the "arbitrary power" holders in Washington today who have gained their offices by promises to "redistribute" the earnings of hard-working citizens, thereby encouraging dependency among the citizenry, and a certain path to tyranny by those who hold the reins of power in government.
This week determines the fate of our Republic.
If Senator Reid, Speaker Pelosi, and President Obama get their way, soon our country will be changed forever. Using every partisan parliamentary trick in the book (including some they invented just last week), Washington’s Left intends to ram through their takeover of our health care system regardless of the consequences.
The latest twists and turns in the Obamacare drama seem almost surreal. One minute the Democrat leadership is trying to amend a bill before the president has even signed it into law, and the next minute they’re trying to draft a new rule that will allow the House to “deem” a bill passed without actually voting on it! They’re determined to use the Senate reconciliation process as a parliamentary trick to bypass the regular voting procedure (and by the way, to add insult to injury, they’re now going to ram through federalization of America’s student loan industry with this same reconciliation vote). Is there any other wildly unpopular legislation they’d also like to sneak in? Perhaps the anti-energy-independence policy “Cap and Tax” (aka Cap and Trade) is next?
And make no mistake, the Obamacare bill is wildly unpopular. The Democrats’ own pollsters warn of an “unmitigated disaster” for them in November if they don’t abandon their plan and start over with real incremental health care reform. Incredibly, at this point, they don’t seem to care. Speaker Pelosi thinks Congress must pass the bill so that the American people can then “find out what’s in it.” We know what’s in it. We don’t want it. The Democrats will take short-term electoral losses in exchange for long-term radical change of the United States of America. They assume we’ll come to accept this new intrusion of government once we’re stuck with it. That’s why we can’t concede this battle. Americans must stiffen our spines and stand against this action that violates the will of the people with centralized government mandates and crippling costs.
Republicans in Congress are holding the line, and some Democrats are standing with them. Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) said he won’t vote for the Senate bill if federal funding of abortion is included. Last Friday, he told National Review Online that some Democrats have told him that if abortions aren’t covered in Obamacare then “more children will be born, and therefore it will cost us millions more…Money is their hang-up. Is this how we now value life in America?” As I wrote in my first post on this topic, human rights and human dignity must be at the center of any health care discussion. Government health care will not reduce the cost of medical care; it will simply refuse to pay it. And who will get left behind when they have to ration care to save money?
Please ask yourself: who will be left behind? And who will decide – what kind of panel will decide – who receives the health care that government will obviously have to ration?
There’s a great deal of pressure being put on Stupak’s pro-life Democrats. They’re already dwindling in number. Their party is threatening them, and so are powerful SEIU labor union bosses. The Democrats respecting the sanctity of life have every incentive to buckle under the pressure, so they need to know that we’ll support them if they do the right thing and vote no on Obamacare.
Please take the time to get involved in the debate this week. There are many grassroots efforts under way. There will be a march on Washington on Tuesday, March 16th (see here for details). Rep. Michele Bachmann has a “Kill the Bill” online petition that you can sign here. Most importantly, contact members of Congress and offer your support if they do the right thing.
We know we’ll beat them at the ballot box, but we have to kill this bill before November. This is the final push. We must stand up and stand together one last time to insist on true market-oriented, patient-centered health care reform that reflects America’s values and the will of the people.
- Sarah Palin
(needed repeating, and larger)
This just encourages those who love their country and their constitution.
Keep it up, Governor. :-)
(By the way...who wrote this for you? They deserve a raise.)
Sarah, one again, taking the lead on this. Where is Romney? Huckabee? McCain? Hunter????
Exactly right. She has bigger kahunas than anyone out there today.
I don’t know if anyone noticed that Sarah’s threads are very very slow lately? This scares me a bit...seems that people are not interested anymore in what she has to say. Could we bump those posts in a way or another (never knew the difference between post and thread..sorry)- Admin - would that be possible to put that in frontpage news? I am sure Jim would agree. I think this facebook post is very good and very important because of the timing. Could you do that please ? Thanks :-)
Here’s the C4P link:
http://www.conservatives4palin.com/2010/03/sarah-palin-with-stiff-spine-america.html
And the Facebook link:
The ‘American Idol’ thread is where the action is...get with the program.
“She’s the only Republican out there calling Obama and the Dem Congress out. “
The notion that Palin is fighting some lone battle against ObamaCare is preposterous.
DeMint: Takeover of Health Care Can’t Be Fixed, Must Be Scrapped
http://www.bignews.biz/?id=848403&keys=Senator-JimDeMint-HealthCare-obama
McConnell: GOP will repeal ObamaCare
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2463452/posts
Duncan Hunter: On ObamaCare, RomneyCare and Americans!
http://conservativecentral.us/?p=887
Tea Party rally to Kill Obamacare March 16 - Capitol Hill, Taft Park, Washington D.C. (Bachmann, Pence, Wilson, Balckburn, Price)
Obamacare Still A ‘Toxic Stew’ (Steve King)
http://dateline.radioamerica.org/?p=5027
Haley Barbour Rips ObamaCare
http://www.thehopeforamerica.com/play.php?id=3153
Scott Brown Slams Obamacare in Weekly GOP Address
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/scott-brown-slams-obamacare-weekly-gop-address
Governor Schwarzenegger Slams ObamaCare
http://blogcritics.org/politics/article/governor-schwarzenegger-slams-obamacare/
Newt: ObamaCare Is “the Most Corrupt Legislation I’ve Seen in My Lifetime,” GOP Should Run a Repeal Campaign
http://polijamblog.polijam.com/?p=12788
Yes, they talk and talk but did nothing in Congress since Obama is there...they are just waking up a bit because WE are waking up. That’s all...
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
This is the week, that’s for sure.
This is the moment of truth. Friday or Saturday, Nancy will call for a vote.
If there’s no vote, then we know they don’t have enough support. But if the vote gets scheduled, that is a danger sign that they think they have enough support.
Heck, if they had the votes already, they would have voted long ago on this.
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