TOTO I don't think we are in GOP KANSAS anymore

Picking up from the blog article I wrote a couple weeks ago, I wanted to forward an excellent blog article by Dr. ZERO over at HotAir.com concerning the state of the Republican Party and the overwhelming current success of the grassroots conservative movement. I know many of you have felt as I have the last couple years... screaming at the top of your lungs to GOP leaders or other Republican voters "STOP TRYING TO BE LIKE DEMOCRATS TO WIN ELECTIONS!!!!!!!" Our frustration has mounted as this has continually fallen on deaf ears to many. Case in point, Newt Gingrich scolded Republican voters for not backing liberal pro-gay marriage/pro-abortion GOP candidate Dede Scozzafava in NY-23. The RNC and NRCC gave Scozzafava close to a million bucks for her campaign. And how does she show gratitude to the GOP? Realizing she can't defeat Conservative candidate Doug Hoffman, she drops out of the race and endorses Democrat Bill Owens!!! LOL

(SIDE NOTE: Feel free to hand the RNC a towel to wipe the egg off their face while helping Mega-Ego Newt Gingrich get the foot out of his mouth)

When will these RINO Liberal Appeasement Pushers ever learn? I swear, getting thru to these people is like trying to get Michael Moore to eat a green vegetable.

Well I have great news for everyone! There's no need to pay attention to that man behind the curtain pulling the levers for the GOP anymore. Grassroots conservatives have developed our own courage, our own brain and our own heart. It started with the Tax Day Tea Parties, led to the summer town hall health care protests, carried over to the 912 march on Washington, D.C. and has now landed on Election Day 2009. I say to Obama, the liberal media and the deaf Republican establishment. Do you hear us now? If you don't then check the election results ... PUNK!!!!!!!

The Three Stooges meet Ronald Reagan

Here we go again. As we approach another election cycle, we are starting to hear the same old tired rhetoric from RINOs preaching to the Republican Party and Conservative Voting base how we must be like Democrats in order to win. I wrote about this very topic on November 6th, 2006 and then again on November 05, 2008. The same Three Stooges that led the Republican party to defeat in 2006 & 2008 are trying to guarantee election losses in 2009 and 2010 as well.

Meet the stooges:


NEWT GINGRICH

Fresh off his Global Warming sofa photo-op with Nancy Pelosi, Newt Gingrich has recently endorsed Dede Scozzafava in NY-23 House race over Reagan conservative Doug Hoffman. Dede Scozzafava is an ACORN-friendly, union-pandering, gay marriage supporting, tax-and-spend radical Republican. Doug Hoffman is fiscal conservative, small government, pro-national security Reagan conservative. The Daily KOS has joined Newt in endorsing the ultra liberal RINO Scozzafava. Meanwhile, Sarah Palin, Fred & Jeri Thompson, Michelle Malkin and many other headline conservatives are supporting Hoffman. Tea Party Patriots have taken notice and are starting to send Newt a loud message. Help send a message also and donate to conservative Doug Hoffman.

LINDSEY GRAHAM

We all recall how Lindsey scolded the Republican party and American conservatives over immigration reform. He threw a hissy fit on the Senate Floor and then at a speech to La Raza said we are a bunch of bigots for not wanting illegal immigrants on our soil and we should shut up. Now, Lindsey Grahamnesty is claiming we need to reach out to liberals and moderates or we will be a party of Angry white guys.

JOHN MCCAIN

We are all familiar with the liberal ass kissing pandering of John McCain by now. Whether it was his voting against Bush Tax Cuts twice, his back stabbing of the GOP on immigration reform, his opposition to drilling for oil and energy independence, his vote for trillions in bailouts or his socialist mortgage bailout proposals. John McCain has aligned himself with his Al Gore admiring buddy Lindsey Graham in paving the way to a massive Cap n Trade bill in the Senate. Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Foreign Relations Chairman John Kerry (D-Mass.) unveiled a far-reaching climate measure this past week and are counting on McCain and Graham to be on board.


MY CONCLUSIONS

Until the Republican Party decides to weed out this idiotic, big tent, run to left, moderation ideology, they will continue to see embarrassing election losses as they did in 2006 & 2008. The Tea Party movement is a Reaganesque conservative grassroots movement that is fed up with big government, big taxing, big spending politicians whether they are Democrat or Republican. People like John McCain, Lindsey Graham and now Newt Gingrich are exactly the reason the GOP has become an impotent party. How many more election losses will it take until these liberal azz kisser realize their strategy is flawed?

Ronald Reagan said it best on March 1, 1975:

"Since our last meeting we have been through a disastrous election. It is easy for us to be discouraged, as pundits hail that election as a repudiation of our philosophy and even as a mandate of some kind or other. But the significance of the election was not registered by those who voted, but by those who stayed home. If there was anything like a mandate it will be found among almost two-thirds of the citizens who refused to participate......
Let our banner proclaim our belief in a free market as the greatest provider for the people. Let us also call for an end to the nit-picking, the harassment and over-regulation of business and industry which restricts expansion and our ability to compete in world markets. Let us explore ways to ward off socialism, not by increasing government’s coercive power, but by increasing participation by the people in the ownership of our industrial machine. Our banner must recognize the responsibility of government to protect the law-abiding, holding those who commit misdeeds personally accountable. And we must make it plain to international adventurers that our love of peace stops short of “peace at any price.” We will maintain whatever level of strength is necessary to preserve our free way of life. A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers. I do not believe I have proposed anything that is contrary to what has been considered Republican principle. It is at the same time the very basis of conservatism. It is time to reassert that principle and raise it to full view. And if there are those who cannot subscribe to these principles, then let them go their way."

TOP 10 Responses heard after OBAMA won the Nobel Peace Prize

TOP 10 Responses heard after OBAMA won the Nobel Peace Prize (UPDATES)

10. Did the Nobel Committee really feel that bad over Chicago losing the Olympic bid?

9. I guess the Nobel judges skipped the talent portion of the peace prize competition this year
8. The French judge must have given him a Perfect 10 for artistic impression.
7. How was ACORN able to infiltrate the Nobel Committee?
6. Nobel Scoring System= (Racial Beer Summit= 10 pt's)(Appeasing Muslims= 20 pt's) (Condemning or apologizing for the USA= 30 pt's) (Banning the phrases "War on Terror" and "Terrorism"= 40 pt's) (Denying the USA is a Christian Nation= 50 pt's) (Doing the best Jimmy Carter Impersonation= priceless)
5. He must have been the 10th caller.
4. Did Saturday Night Live do another Obama skit already?
3. When did Cracker Jack start placing Nobel Peace Prizes in the Box? I'd rather have the stickers & tattoos!
2. Damn it Ashton Kutcher! I just got PUNK 'D didn't I?

And the Number 1 response heard after OBAMA won the Nobel Peace Prize?
1. Where's Kanye West when you need him?

Update 1: Lunatarians demand a recall after Obama bombs moon!!!

Update 2: Michael Vick has just been awarded by the American Humane Society

Update 3: BREAKING NEWS!!!!! OBAMA has just won the NBA's Most Valuable Player Award even though it's just Pre-season. See footage below...

Update 4: Obama wins more awards!!!!!

READ MY LIPS----- $315 BILLION IN HEALTHCARE TAXES, MANDATES, PRISON TIME & PUBLIC OPTION !!!

• OBAMA: “And If You're A Family Making Less Than $250,000 A Year, My Plan Won't Raise Your Taxes One Penny -- not your income taxes, not your payroll taxes, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.” (Barack Obama, Remarks, Orlando, FL, 8/3/08)

• OBAMA: “You Will Not See Any Of Your Taxes Increase One Single Dime.” “And if you make less than $250,000 -- if you make less than $250,000 a year, you will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime.” (Sen. Obama, Remarks At A Campaign Event, Espanola, NM, 9/18/08)

• OBAMA: “No Family Making Less Than $250,000 Will See Their Taxes Increase.” “And I can make a firm pledge: under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 will see their taxes increase – not your income taxes, not your payroll taxes, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.” (Barack Obama, Remarks, Dover, NH, 9/12/08)

President Obama has already broken his tax promise. On April 1, cigarette taxes went up. Certainly many people who smoke make less than $250,000. Obama's signature put into effect a 156 percent increase in the federal excise tax on tobacco, a hike of 61 cents per pack.

• 55 percent of smokers are "working poor."


• One in four smokers live below the poverty line.

President Obama is already denying Merriam Webster's Dictionary as to what a “tax” is. And here I thought Bill Clinton’s deposition was absurd and comical. Clinton debated what the definition of “is” is.

President Obama refuting the dictionary takes the cake. Maybe President Obama wants to deny the exact text of the Senate Finance Committee Bill also? It reads: “The consequence for not maintaining insurance would be an excise tax.”

You think the cigarette tax is a broken tax pledge just read below and discover what Senate Democrats have in store for Americans!!!!

SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE HEALTHCARE BILL

$315 Billion in Middle Class Tax Hikes!!!

DEMOCRAT AMENDMENTS & BILL MARKUP - (ALL THESE AMENDEMENTS & MARKUPS PROPOSED BY DEMOCRATS HAVE PASSED)

If You Have Insurance, You Get Taxed- DEMOCRATS PLAN TO COLLECT $215 BILLION By Imposing A 35 Percent Excise Tax On Insurance Companies or Employers That Offer Plans Valued At $8,000 For Individuals And $21,000 For Families.” Nationwide, about one in 10 family insurance plans would be subject to the new excise tax, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal-leaning policy and research group

If You Don't Have Insurance, You Get Taxed- DEMOCRATS PLAN TO COLLECT $20 BILLION FROM NEW FINES ON THE UNINSURED The consequence for not maintaining insurance would be an excise tax of up to $1900 per uninsured individual and $3800 per family.

If You Don't Have Insurance and don't pay the excise tax- DEMOCRATS & THE IRS WILL SEND YOU TO PRISON The consequence for Americans who fail to pay the penalty for not buying insurance would face legal action from the Internal Revenue Service, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation. Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) received a handwritten note (see below) Thursday from Joint Committee on Taxation Chief of Staff Tom Barthold confirming the penalty for failing to pay the up to $1,900 fee for not buying health insurance.Violators could be charged with a misdemeanor and could face up to a year in jail or a $25,000 penalty, Barthold wrote on JCT letterhead. He signed it "Sincerely, Thomas A. Barthold."

If You’re An Employer and Can’t Afford To Provide Health Insurance To Employees, You Get Taxed- DEMOCRATS PLAN TO COLLECT $27 BILLION FROM EMPLOYERS - The penalty payments by employers whose workers received subsidies via the exchanges, which would total $27 billion

If You Use Medical Devices Like Hearing Aids or Artificial Hearts, You Get Taxed - DEMOCRATS PLAN TO COLLECT $30 BILLION IN NEW TAXES ON MEDICAL DEVICES - Impose annual fee on manufacturers and importers of medical devices … $29.9 [billion].”

If You Need Laboratory Tests For Prevention, Screening, Or Diagnosis, You Get Taxed- DEMOCRATS PLAN TO COLLECT $5.6 BILLION IN NEW TAXES ON LABORATORIES. - “Impose annual fee on clinical laboratories … $5.6 [billion].”

If You Take Prescription Drugs, You Get Taxed- DEMOCRATS PLAN TO COLLECT $17 BILLION IN NEW TAXES ON MEDICINES. “The Chairman‘s Mark would impose a fee on any person that manufactures or imports prescription drugs for sale in the United States.”

SCHUMER & ROCKEFELLER AMENDMENT- Senators Charles Schumer of New York and Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia will push for a government-run insurance plan to compete with private insurers.

(Note: There was no vote because Senator Baucus was in a hurry to get out of town for a 4 day weekend and thus shut down the Senate Hearing at noon. The day before, Baucus accused Senator Kyl and Republicans of stalling by proposing that Legislative Language Must Be Publically Available On The Finance Committee’s Website For At Least 72 Hours.)


REPUBLICAN AMENDMENTS & BILL MARKUP - (ALL THESE AMENDEMENTS & MARKUPS PROPOSED BY REPUBLICANS HAVE BEEN VOTED DOWN)

HATCH AMENDMENT-To Preserve Seniors’ Medicare Advantage Plans: “This Amendment Would Strike The Medicare Advantage Provisions Of The Chairman’s Mark If CBO Certifies That Beneficiaries Currently Participating In The Medicare Advantage Program Will Lose Plan Benefits when the Medicare Part C reductions are implemented by the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services. CBO is required to make this certification 3 months after the enactment of the health reform bill.”
Amendment Rejected 9-14(Hatch Amendment #D7, Rejected 9-14; R 9-1; D 0-13, 9/23/09)

BUNNING AMENDMENT: Amendment To Provide Legislative Language & “Critically Important” CBO Score “This Amendment Requires That Before The Finance Committee Can Vote On Final Passage Of ‘America’s Healthy Future Act Of 2009,’ The Legislative Language Must Be Publically Available On The Finance Committee’s Website For At Least 72 Hours.”
Amendment Rejected 11-12 (Bunning Amendment #C4, Rejected 11-12; R 10-0; D 1-12, 9/23/09)

HATCH AMENDMENT: Amendment To Preserve Seniors’ Medicare Advantage Plans “This Amendment Would Strike The Medicare Advantage Provisions Of The Chairman’s Mark If CBO Certifies That Beneficiaries Currently Participating In The Medicare Advantage Program Will Lose Plan Benefits when the Medicare Part C reductions are implemented by the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services. CBO is required to make this certification 3 months after the enactment of the health reform bill.”
Amendment Rejected 9-14 (Hatch Amendment #D7, Rejected 9-14; R 9-1; D 0-13, 9/23/09)

BUNNING AMENDMENT: Amendment To Provide Legislative Language And Price Tag Before Voting “This Amendment Requires That Before The Finance Committee Can Vote On Final Passage Of ‘America’s Healthy Future Act Of 2009,’ The Legislative Language Must Be Publically Available On The Finance Committee’s Website For At Least 72 Hours.”
Amendment Rejected 11-12 (Bunning Amendment #C4, Rejected 11-12; R 10-0; D 1-12, 9/23/09)

BUNNING AMENDMENT: Amendment To Remove Federal Mandates to purchase Insurance or Pay Excise Taxes “Reduce the federal poverty level threshold for premium credits in the bill by the amount necessary, starting with the premium credit for individuals between 300% and 400% of poverty”
Amendment Rejected

KYL AMENDMENT: Amendment To Stop “Gag Order” “Amendment That Would Clarify That A Health Plan May, Pursuant To Constitutional Rights Guaranteed By The First Amendment, Express Its Views About Legislation Or Legislative Proposals.” (Amendment To The Chairman’s Mark, “America’s Health Future Act Of 2009,” U.S. Senate, Finance Committee, 9/23/09)
Amendment Rejected 10-13(Kyl Amendment, Rejected 10-13; R 10-0; D 0-13, 9/23/09)

KYL AMENDMENT: Amendment Prohibiting A Federal Rationing Board “The amendment would strike the following language from the Medicare Commission in subtitle E of Title III: ‘By April 1, 2014, the Senate Finance Committee, along with the relevant House committees, would be required to report out either the Commission’s (or Secretary’s) proposal or an amended proposal that achieves the same level of reductions in excess cost growth.’”
Amendment Rejected 8-8(Kyl Amendment D7, Appeal Ruling of the Chair Failed 8-8; R 8-0; D 0-8, 9/23/09

Medical Liability Reform Amendments All Ruled Out of Order

ENSIGN AMENDMENT: “The amendment will insert language in Title III, Subtitle H of the Chairman‘s Mark to improve patient access to health care services and provide improved medical care by reducing the excessive burden the liability system places on the health care delivery system.”
CORNYN AMENDMENT: “Any state receiving funding under Medicaid shall enact a limit on total noneconomic damages against doctors and health care facilities of one million dollars or less
KYL AMENDMENT: “This amendment would limit noneconomic damages in a civil medical liability lawsuit to $250,000 from any provider or health care institution, not to exceed $500,000 from all providers and health care institutions. It would also make each party liable only for the amount of damages directly proportional to such party's percentage of responsibility.”

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The Great “Un-American” Debate

written by: strmclouds


“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty", Thomas Jefferson. These timeless words hold so much truth. From one of the founders of our nation, these few simple words are as true today as they were when they were first uttered so many years ago. As conservative, democratic and independent Americans gather at town hall meetings across this great nation, they face a barrage of charges and insults from those who would claim the right to judge what makes an American. Here is a compilation as to what Democrats think of town hall dissenters:

The Democratic National Committee ran ads claiming these people are “angry mobs”
Nancy Pelosi says they are people carrying swastikas
Harry Reid accused the protesters of trying to "sabotage" the democratic process
Barbra Boxers claims they are phony protesters because they are well dressed
WH Press Spokesman Robert Gibbs claims they are the "Brooks Brothers Brigade" Astroturfers paid and flown in by the Republican Party
Congressman Dingell says Health Care Reform protesters remind him of Ku Klux Klan members.
UPDATE Aug. 13: Harry Reid today says protesters are are disrupting town halls with "lies, innuendo and rumor," and not letting others speak. They are, he said, "evil-mongers."


Called mobs and Nazis, harassed and threatened for simply voicing their opinions, these everyday Americans have become modern day symbols to what Jefferson was expressing.

A letter written as part of a column in USA Today Nancy Pelosi (D- California) in concert with Steny Hoyer (D-Maryland), charged that those Americans who would exercise their constitutional rights to free speech and expression are "Un-American". The letter states: "These disruptions are occurring because opponents are afraid not just of differing views -- but of the facts themselves. Drowning out opposing views is simply “Un-American”. What a contrast to the words of Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the declaration of independence, Vice President and twice elected to the office of President of the United States. I wonder does the arrogant and haughty Madame Pelosi purport to know better than Mr. Jefferson what makes an American? One must wonder if she knows better than the current Secretary of State?

""I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration." Hillay Clinton

To the Honorable Madame Pelosi and Mr. Hoyer, I offer the following words: “What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?" Thomas Jefferson. Perhaps Madame Pelosi would like to accuse Jefferson of being “Un- American”? If Jefferson were alive today, can there be any doubt but that he would support the boisterous and vociferous opposition being raised by our citizens? Would these same ugly accusations be thrown at one of the founding fathers?

The pending health care bill being advanced by President Obama has sparked heated debate both in the halls of congress and in the churches, libraries and locations throughout America. It is a bill that promises, on its face, to provide health care to all Americans but in reality it's so much more than that. Many of its provisions assault the beliefs and traditions that millions of Americans hold dear. Are those voices not to be heard? Thomas Jefferson again offered us some insight that is truly astounding and nearly prophetic in its intent. "To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical". However, our own President Obama has called those who oppose his healthcare plan, cap and trade energy bill and other legislation “obstructionists". Again I wonder would he level the same charge against Jefferson?

Let’s examine a few more quotes from our esteemed Democratic leadership shall we? In addition, I will post a few statements from some of our founders and leaders of democracy and freedom from our history.

"I think we all have something to lose ... if we let cable television come to town hall meetings and kill health care reform for another year, and put the special interests back in charge,” WH Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.

“The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter.” Thomas Jefferson

"The Republicans and their allied groups — desperate after losing two consecutive elections and every major policy fight on Capitol Hill — are inciting angry mobs of a small number of rabid right wing extremists funded by K Street Lobbyists to disrupt thoughtful discussions about the future of health care in America taking place in Congressional Districts across the country," Democratic National Committee spokesman Brad Woodhouse

“The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak or to publish their sentiments; and the freedom of the press, as one of the great bulwarks of liberty, shall be inviolable.” “We have staked the whole future of America civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future…upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to sustain ourselves, according to the Ten Commandments of God.” James Madison

"In spite of the loud, shrill voices trying to interrupt town hall meetings and just throw a monkey wrench into everything, we're going to continue to be positive and work hard." Senate Majority leader Harry Reid

“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” George Washington.

So there you have it folks. Some quotes from those “Un-American” shrill voiced mobs that founded the greatest republic the world has ever known and who worked hard to ensure that our liberty, our freedom would never be taken away by a tyrannical government. I leave you with one final quote I feel says it all about this dishonest Liberal attempt to paint themselves as decent and civilized proponents of well mannered debate while those who disagree are labeled as mobs and thugs.

"Be not intimidated nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These as they are often used are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice...” John Adams (2nd President of the Unites States).

God Bless America!

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