A nice piece to perk us up from the Weekly Standard. While it is easy to despair, its not the battle but the war that determines the outcome. Worth going over for a read.
Last night’s victory was the culmination of Obama’s health care effort, which has been his version of Napoleon’s Russia campaign. He won a short-term victory, but one that will turn out to mark an inflection point on the road to defeat, and the beginning of the end of the Democratic party’s dominance over American politics. Last night was Obama’s Borodino. Obama’s Waterloo will be November 6, 2012.
The editors of National Review sensibly counsel conservatives, in the wake of last night’s victory for Obamacare: “‘Nil desperandum’–never despair.” I agree, though I’m more inclined to the mock-Latin motto of the Harvard band: “Illegitimi non carborundum”–don’t let the bastards get you down.
Why not? Because we can repeal it.
As National Review’s editors explain (and see also the strong Wall Street Journal editorial this morning), this legislation “will increase taxes, increase premiums, and increase debt, while decreasing economic growth, job growth, and the quality of health care.” So it will–if it is allowed to go into effect.
Luckily, key parts of Obamacare–especially the subsidies–don’t go into effect until 2014. So what Republicans have to do is to make the 2010 and the 2012 elections referenda on Obamacare, win those elections, and then repeal Obamacare. http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/special-editorial-repeal It’s going to take real effort.
My grandma was a tiny, German lady who came over to America at the tender age of fourteen, worked in a tuna canning factory for two cents for every can she packed, and managed to save enough money to bring her whole family to this blessed country days before Hitler’s occupation. That is the stuff from which this country and its families emanated.
Today, most folks I know are horrified, depressed, and afraid. We have watched, with disbelief, as our freedoms and our voices have been snatched away by a government that would disgust my grandma. When she stepped foot onto American soil, she did not speak English, did not have a place to live, and had only a few pennies that my Great Grandfather had hidden away for her voyage. America did not give her a hand-out. This new country did not offer her subsidized housing or free (?) medical care. There were no employment counselors or social workers awaiting her arrival with extended unemployment benefits or career training. She could not get a student loan. She was alone in a foreign country with the fate of her loved ones weighing heavily on her heart. We will now use her courageous model to get through this difficult time.
1. The time for mourning is over. We have power and pull with our government. It is only if we quietly accept this outcome that those who would enslave our citizens win. And so, if your congressman or senator voted “yes” on Health Care, write, email, or call them and express your disdain. Most legislators will begin a dialogue with you. Be informed and stand your ground. Keep the dialogue going as long as you can. Months would be best.
2. Place signs and bumper stickers on your yards and cars expressing your outrage and determination to repeal the law.
3. Attend caucus meetings, if you are inclined, and make your voice heard. Do not let them bully you into defeat.
4. Comment on as many blogs as you are able. Use key words like repeal, revolution, socialism, grassroots, tea party, conservative, civil disobedience, and the reformulation of Congress.
5. Stay informed as much as possible. If you do not actually know the truth, you can easily believe lies.
6. Get serious about a food supply. It is going to get very expensive to live in America.
7. Tone down the rhetoric so that your information does not sound like the raging of an angry lunatic. However, do not miss an opportunity to educate those who have not yet figured out what happened yesterday.
8. Calm down. We must be focused, prayerful, informed, and wise. The other side is wildly drunk with power. It is easy to defeat an opponent that is out of control.
9. Keep the political spotlight on at all times. The progressives think we will forget our angst by November, learn to appreciate what they did to us, and settle in to apathy.
10. Become involved in a group that is a champion of freedom like The Fair Tax Campaign, a local Tea Party group, a Christian ministry like American Heritage or Christian Seniors Association, Focus on the Family, or ACLJ.
11. Tear up your AARP cards. Research the platform of ANY group you currently support. If there is even a breath of community organization, scandal, unrighteous endorsements, or progressive platforms, cancel your membership.
12. Donate, if you can, to organizations that support the American philosophy of free enterprise, free speech, life, liberty, and protection of the unborn.
13. Go to the polls in November and give every, single legislator that voted “yes” on the health care bill their walking papers. Carefully and thoughtfully, choose new representatives. Hold their feet to the fire.
14. Do not despair. There is One who holds everything in His Holy hands. “Be still, and know that I am God.” Your faith will sustain and strengthen you through it all.
An AP writer reveals the scary and illegitimate power of the US presidency, as well as his own bias for dictatorship and legalized plunder:
Rarely does the government, that big, clumsy, poorly regarded oaf, pull off anything short of war that touches all lives with one act, one stroke of a president’s pen. Such a moment now seems near.
After a year of riotous argument, decades of failure and a century of spoiled hopes, the United States is reaching for a system of medical care that extends coverage nearly to all citizens. The change that’s coming, if Sunday’s tussle in the House goes President Barack Obama’s way, would reshape a sixth of the economy and shatter the status quo.
What line of reasoning can justify such power, this infringement of the property and individual rights of choice of the people? What can legitimize it?
When did we all consent to allow one man (or 500) to rule our lives?
So shall I keep Your law continually, Forever and ever. And I will walk at liberty, For I seek Your precepts. Psalms 119:44-45
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Today all the news programs were reporting on the eventuality of Obamacare becoming law. There were all the news anchors giving their assessments as to how many more votes were needed to pass this law, but not too many of them were addressing the underlying problem with this whole process. It is entirely unconstitutional. The manner in which the House of Representatives is going about trying to garner votes for a very unpopular bill is not permitted in the laws and statutes of our land. But this congress has proven itself to be totally lawless, and having no compunction they rush full speed ahead in shredding the very Constitution they swore to uphold. Although they have taken an oath to defend the Constitution, their daily actions betray that oath.
Once we stray from the statutes and limitations laid down by law, nothing is off limits, there is nothing to restrict our lusts for power and control. Congress is out of control. They are taking over more and more of the private economy and restricting personal freedoms by treating the Constitution as a list of suggestions rather than the law of the land it is supposed to represent.
God too laid down a foundation of statutes for which he intended his people to obey. These limitations on our freewill were statutes of liberation not domination. But when these laws are violated and disregarded then, instead of being a free people, we find ourselves enslaved to our own wants, needs and desires. We find ourselves unable to control our appetites for more and more. We find ourselves violating not one but all of these statutes repeatedly because we did not hold them up as infallible.
Each who calls himself a child of God, must hold to the statutes set forth by God so that our behaviors do not contradict our oaths of allegiance. These commandments are meant for a free people and not intended to enslave them. Our Constitution limits the reach of the federal government in order to protect the Freedoms and rights possessed by the people given to them by God. These rights do not need to be legislated nor granted, they are inherent in our natural birth, they do need to be protected however.
Once when Jacob was cooking stew, Esau came in from the field, and he was exhausted. And Esau said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am exhausted!” (Therefore his name was called Edom. ) Jacob said, “Sell me your birthright now.” Esau said, “I am about to die; of what use is a birthright to me?” Jacob said, “Swear to me now.” So he swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob. Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew, and he ate and drank and rose and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright.Gen 25:29-34 (ESV)
When Obama speaks about the congress giving rights and adding to these rights, what he is really saying is that congress is eliminating our “natural rights” and replacing them with legislated permissions which must be granted by the government and by so granting they can also be regulated and controlled. Therefore you are no longer free for you have been bought with a price. These government rights are not rights at all but privileges granted under law, which of course will be regulated by the same law making body. True rights however are not regulated by any form of government but are granted freely by GOD to all equally. We have been born free, and yet so many are so quick to willingly trade their “birthrights” for a mortal of government stew, mere crumbs from the King’s table. Why beg for the stew of servitude when you can have the bountiful feast of freedom?
By rejecting the Creator who has granted to us all unalienable rights our actions subject us to rule by force and domination. By not holding God up as the source of our rights and freedoms we replace Him with edicts and dictates of men. These edicts and dictates enslave us and rob from us the freedoms granted to us by Almighty God (our natural birthrights). We therefore replace his statutes of liberty for laws of servitude.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. –That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
But those who are waiting for the Lord will have new strength; they will get wings like eagles: running, they will not be tired, and walking, they will have no weariness. Isaiah 40:31 (BBE)
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There is a tension in America like there has never been before. This country’s leaders regardless of party are no longer listening to the American people. We are in the process of setting up a government over the people rather than a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. The government now knows what is best and has forgotten that they are people just like everyone else. There is the growing feeling that the government is the solution to the problems that we are faced with. Also, there is this growing feeling that the government is the grantor of rights. This is the tension – the government is replacing God.
A government has been established by God to not rule and control but to provide an atmosphere where good takes place. This is a land where there is peace. This is a land where fear does not exist. This is a place where government is God’s agent against those who practice evil. (Please read Romans 13 in the New Testament of the Bible). The early founding fathers understood this and understood that power and money comes along with government and this power and money often corrupts humans. They understood that if not set up right the political system lends itself to tyrants. Thus a government of the people, by the people, and for the people was established with an understanding that God is the grantor of rights not man.
When we remove God and replace God with man we establish a government over the people. This government no longer seeks to serve but rather to rule and enforce. Look at America today. Are we not in a transition?
The purpose of government as I understand it is to provide an atmosphere that protects, brings opportunity, and peace for life. The founding fathers set up this great experiment of setting a government of representatives of the people. These are leaders, statesmen and stateswomen who care for and give their lives to serve the people and provide this atmosphere of freedom and peace. However, when we remove God these safeguards are removed and the tension grows. The system of checks and balances begins to collapse. Leaders stop serving the people and begin to make decisions without considering the future ramifications. They believe that their opinion is the best and thus override the process. Their hearts may be right but by overriding the process they put the country in grave danger.
All of a sudden the very organizations put in place to regulate for the purpose of peace, liberty, protection, and justice become a political arm for twisting and control. The tax laws become so complicated they serve to beat on the people. The goal no longer is to help the citizens be successful in whatever endeavor they choose but to tell them what endeavor they should do. Freedom slowly disappears. It begins slowly. Smoking cigarettes, eating trans fat, salt, and sugar, health insurance, college bank loans, and cars we drive.
We are replacing God with the government. This is just the first evidence that demonstrates the death of the great American experiment (see previous article). I do not know the present president (nor do I know any from the past). Perhaps his motives are right. However, the truth, there is only one person who has the answers and solutions and He is God. If we continue down this path of rejection of God the result will be tyrannical rule. The government will seek to control our lives. Understand – this means telling you and me what to do and how to do it. Today the area of control may be something that you have no interest in, but mark my words, the day will come when it will.
Thus, in our desire to have everything there are those who will tell us it is possible –but you need to be real, please. We cannot nor will we ever have everything we need or want on this earth under the conditions that now exist. As well, in this world we never get something for nothing, thus do not believe that this government or any other will ever be able to give us anything we want or need without extracting something from us.
If we continue to give lip service to God and turn control of our life over to other people sooner or later a tyrant will rule. A government over the people will only result in the destruction of the great American experiment and why will this happen? First and foremost, because we have sought to replace God with humans.
A squeezed economy gives every collection of halfwitted chancers the opportunity to slip their own nasty little wheezes through the back door under the blanket of economic necessity.
So it should be no surprise that the high priests of stasiism have started lobbying the fountainhead of authoritarianism to cut costs on churning out free bus passes for pensioners. Producing passes costs money, and that’s money that could be saved if the old dears used those nice new ID cards instead. And Meg Hillier, Minister in charge of knowing where you live, is, of course, more than happy to have her arm twisted up her back on the issue.
Standing out amidst all the other shit dripped on us by this toxic collection of faceless megalomaniacs over the last 13 years is their sheer gracelessness in defeat. Nobody wants their bloody cards, nobody supports their grubby meddling in our lives: even from a position of power they can’t make their own flaccid arguments stand up, but will they just quietly move on to something else? Will they bugger. With all the shameless determination of the truly second rate to prove somehow, anyhow, that they are right they keep on trying to stuff their poxy cards down our throats.
I, along with large numbers of other people it seems, had a bit of a wobble a couple of weeks ago and couldn’t see a photo of Cameron without thinking of all the people whose lives are going to be buggered up just a little bit more by the return of the Conservatives and their less than caring approach to those at the bottom of the heap. Thanks for putting me right again Meg. Cameron might want to drown the minimum wage in formaldehyde, but Labour wants to steal our soul.
The time is now for the American people to get in their cars and trucks and come to Washington D.C. this Saturday and Sunday in the millions to stop political tyranny of the progressive radical socialists.
The goal is three million plus.
Otherwise, Obama Care or socialize medicine will pass.
Next on the progressive radical socialist agenda is amnesty and health care for illegal aliens, also known as comprehensive immigration reform.
If you doubt this, guess who is coming to Washington D.C. Sunday?
Illegal aliens demanding both amensty and once they get it, health care as well.
Heads Up American Citizens–Illegal Aliens Marching for Amnesty For Illegals in Washington D.C. on Sunday, March 21, 2010–We The People Tea Party Counter March Planned–Be There with American Flags Flying!
Benjamin Franklin was right when asked what type of government do we have:
Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, “A republic, if you can keep it.”
Preserve, protect and defend the American Republic by marching in Washington D.C. on both Saturday and Sunday, March 20 and 21, 2010 for the Mother of All Tea Parties!
Join The Second American Revolution.
Make History not Socialized Medicine!
Bring your cameras and video camcorders to document the millions marching.
If you do not march, the progressive radical socialists will win:
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