Posted on 08/16/2009 11:10:02 AM PDT by Zakeet
In a small middle school library a man is shouting and wagging a finger at Rep. Tom Perriello. Perriello, a Democrat who represents Virginia's mostly rural 5th District extending from Charlottesville to the North Carolina border, has just embarked on his monthlong listening tour, and residents are unloading their anger about the Democratic agenda.
They're mad about government spending, legislation aimed a curbing global warming and, most of all, plans to create a massive public health care system that would cover all of the nation's uninsured.
"So you're going to steal my money," shouted the middle-aged man as he waved a miniature copy of the Constitution at Perriello, "and give it to somebody else who is not even a citizen?"
Elected eight months ago over Republican incumbent Virgil Goode by a thin margin, Perriello faces a daunting challenge.
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Many constituents are angry that Perriello helped his party narrowly pass a global-warming bill in the House that could dramatically increase energy costs. And in a region where unemployment is still climbing, Perriello's vote for the $787 billion stimulus bill rankles many. The record-shattering deficits of the past eight months were front and center as the freshman Democrat took his listening tour across the district.
But it is health care legislation that could have the most effect on whether Perriello returns for a second term, say constituents who fear the Democratic proposal will lead to rationing, high taxes, and an end to the private insurance industry.
"If health care goes through and he votes for it, he's a dead duck," said Phillip Koger, 67, of Martinsville. "People hate this thing"
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Looks like at least one Rat down. A couple hundred more to go.
Sucks. Yet another formerly patriotic part of the USA infested by an excess of liberal human waste.
Any Republicans or Democrats who "compromise" for the sake of popularity now on this important principle involving future generations should be recalled at the next election cycle!
This is not about a frivolous question of which provisions are acceptable and which are unacceptable. This is about a power struggle between the principles the founding generation were willing to stake their "lives, property, and sacred honor" for, and those who, throughout the history of civilization have arrogated unto themselves power over other people's lives.
The current "issue" called "health care reform," or its equally obnoxious semantic twin "health insurance reform," is just the invasion of liberty by arrogant elected officials which has finally aroused citizens who, heretofore, ignored the decades-long power grab by those who were supposed to protect "We, the People's" constitutional principles.
Now, citizens are seeing that it is a matter of "principle," not an issue of semantics over wording.
They should not allow their elected representatives to be coopted by "blue dogs" or any other "wolf in sheep's clothing" that would allow what may turn out to be the most important watershed moment in the history of American liberty to be further threatened. Now, Conrad and Sebelius, and others, sensing the voter mood are throwing out "compromise" talk this weekend, all to punt for better position down the road. Seize the moment for the sake of posterity and just say, "no"!
A word from the author of our Declaration of Independence regarding citizens and oppressive government might give some backbone to today's citizens:
"The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate . . . the minds of the people at large, and more especially to give them knowledge of those facts which history exhibits, that they may. . . know ambition under all its shapes, and . . . exert their natural power to defeat its purposes." - Thomas Jefferson
And, for more wisdom from the same source:
" . . . this is a tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second, that second for a third, and so on, till the bulk of the society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sin and suffering. Then begins, indeed, the bellum omnium in omnia, which some philosophers. . . have mistaken it for the natural, instead of the abusive state of man. And the forehorse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follws that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression."- Thomas Jefferson
Unless he switches parties and becomes a true conservative republican throw him out anyway in 2010. Why take any chances-—vote for only true conservatives whenever possible.
....and....
Many constituents
....blatantly confirms that they actually elected this bozo. I guess we really get what we ask for, after all.
So, when our elected officials ultimately and inevitable demand we become their slaves, who will we blame?
Vote him out on this vote for CapnTax and the Porkulus..he becomes the “Unforgiven”. Send him packing.
Looks like a lot of congressRATS are going down next year. Can’t happen too soon.
Maybe, maybe not. Who is going to run against him in 2010?
Is the GOP candidate (if there is one) run and practice a conservative message?
Can't beat someone with no one.
Here in NH, I haven't even heard of a serious challenge to the two nitwits we have here as our “reps”. And the last Repub in NH (Senator Gregg) is not running again.
The Dems probably will win by default in 2010.
Many of these new Dem reps got swept in on Obama coat tails in 2008. They are more vulnerable now in 2010 now that the tide is turning and Big O losing ground too. Take out the trash in 2010-—both parties!
At any rate.
Thank you, too, tflabo, for the Noah Webster words. If today's citizens will just elevate this current debate by using the Founders' warnings, they can bring it to the point where the ignorance of current politicians and media talking heads will be shown for what it is: total lack of understanding of how America became the beacon of liberty and prosperity in all the world.
If they don't like the rat agenda, then why the *@#&@#%^ did they vote for a rat?
Another dem winning because Acorn=cheating.
Virgil Goode is ruuning against him in 2010 and will clean his clock.
Throw the bum out!
How about voting out the LIBERAL DEMOCRATS FIRST?? Geesh...you people that are so damn PURE. A RINO is better than ANY LIBERAL DEMOCRAT....ANY! Grow up!! This is serious business. Lots of really conservative people do not want to run because they make one bad little vote and YOU want their heads while the LIBERAL DEMS slip by you unremarked on!
The GOP is targeting 70 seats in 2010.
Attorney General Kelly Ayotte is exploring a run for Gregg’s seat.
We’ve got two first-tier recruits. AG Ayotte for the Senate race and Manchester Mayor Frank Guinta for Che-Porter’s seat. Hodes’s seat will be open, so in a good year, we have a decent shot at taking it back with even a lesser candidate, and ‘10 will probably be for us.
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