As many of you know I had decided a couple of months ago to dedicate my time writing emails to constituents and posting in the Letters sections of News Papers in areas where "Club for Growth PAC's" http://www.clubforgrowth.org/ has been supporting True Conservative Candidates. While there have been a few disappointments the overall record of these Candidates has been phenomenal. I would like to share with you an email I received form Chris Chocola President of Club for Growth on 6/9.
I need to state here that my actions with Club for Growth PAC's are of my own volition and have not been discussed with nor endorsed by any member of the Rome/Floyd GA Tea Party 2010.
Dear Roger,
We did it! Or rather, you did it. Last night may have been the biggest night in the Club for Growth PAC's history. Our candidates won two huge races, including an upset win in the biggest Republican primary of the year. And we could not have done it without you. Thank you.
Thanks to your generous, timely contributions, we helped elect a new congressman in Georgia, put two world-class state legislators another step toward Congress in South Carolina, and in Nevada, pro-growth superstar Sharron Angle won the right to take on liberal Harry Reid this fall!
If you don't know Sharron's story, you will soon. She has been the strongest fiscal conservative in the state for years, was the true pro-growth conservative in the Senate race, and will give Nevadans a clear choice in the fall between Harry Reid's failed spending schemes and the pro-growth principles of limited government and economic freedom. When we endorsed Sharron, she was neck-and-neck with her opponents. In 21 days, Club members contributed more than $150,000 to her campaign, and we spent more than $400,000 in PAC dollars to help her combat the negative attacks that came in the final weeks. Your support made this victory possible.
Sharron Angle's victory last night was one of the great stories in the history of the Club's PAC: Congratulations!
In Georgia, Tom Graves won his runoff special election with 56.5 percent of the vote and is on his way to Washington, to make an immediate difference the moment he's sworn in, likely early next week. Tom will be a terrific leader for our limited government principles. Club members donated $219,109 to Tom's campaign, and thanks to your generous donations, our PAC was able to run $113,000 in TV and other ads to help him win.
In South Carolina, both of the Club PAC's endorsed candidates made their runoff elections, which will be on June 22.
In South Carolina's first district, Tim Scott led a nine candidate field to make the runoff with 31 percent of the vote. He faces Paul Thurmond, son of former Sen. Strom Thurmond in just two weeks! Tim has a terrific record as a fiscal conservative on the Charleston County Council and in the South Carolina Legislature, while Thurmond is a go-along-to-get-along politician. If Scott wins the runoff in this district, which is likely to go Republican in November, he will be the first black Republican to win in South Carolina since Reconstruction.
Last but not least, State Rep. Jeff Duncan made the runoff in South Carolina's third district, taking 23 percent in a six-candidate field in which four candidates got between 19 percent and 25 percent of the vote. Jeff has one of the best records in the South Carolina Legislature on taxes and spending, and if elected will help push the Republican leadership in Congress to stay true to limited government principles.
Sharron Angle, Tim Scott and Jeff Duncan all need your support now. All three need to replenish their campaign funds to kick start the next phase of their races. Duncan and Scott now face the shortest runoff period in American politics - just two weeks.
And Angle? She has won the battle, but now the war begins. Already just today, Harry Reid and his liberal allies have opened up their massive bank accounts to start attacking Sharron. Reid is as nasty a campaigner as he is a legislator, and he wants to smear Sharron Angle right away, before she has the resources to defend herself. Harry Reid has more than $7 million in his bank account. Sharron Angle's account is depleted.
I don't need to tell you that at this critical time, WE are those resources. Every dollar we can send to Sharron NOW is a dollar she can use defending herself from Harry Reid's political war machine and exposing Reid's liberal record. Sharron needs pro-growth, fiscal conservatives in Nevada and around the country to rally to her cause, to stand with her in what will be a brutal and expensive fight. She can win. And if she does, all America will win with her leadership in the Senate. But she needs your help, today.
I thank you for all you have done and continue to do to make our victories for limited government possible.
Best Regards,
Chris
Chris Chocola
President, Club for Growth
2001 L Street, NW, Ste 600
Washington, DC 20036
PH: 202-955-5500
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Monday, May 31, 2010
Rome/Floyd GA Tea Party 2010 Eggs and Issues -Candidate Forum
Rome/Floyd GA Tea Party 2010 Eggs and Issues -Candidate Forum
Date: Thursday, June 10, 2010
Time: 7:00am - 9:00am
Location: Landmark Restaurant, 2740 Martha Berry Highway, Rome GA
We are having a TEA Party.... breakfast and candidate forum..All tea party friends, members or not, are encouraged to gather at the Landmark Restaurant every 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month for Eggs and Issues.
JUNE 10TH, 7:00A.M.-9:00A.M., WE WILL BEGIN OUR FIRST IN A SERIES OF CANDIDATE FORUMS WITH REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE-DISTRICT 14 GREG BOWEN, CHRISTIAN COOMER, and SHEP HELTON. AFTER TWO MINUTE OPENING STATEMENTS THE CANDIDATES WILL RESPOND TO QUESTIONS SUBMITTED BY TEA PARTY 2010 ATTENDEES. THE FORUM WILL CLOSE WITH FIVE MINUTE CLOSING STATEMENTS BY THE CANDIDATES.
RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED.
To reserve, e-mail WeThePeopleRome@comcast.net or mikeofrome@yahoo.com
This is your chance....to get involved, to stay involved. We need you.
Remember in November!!!! We are coming!
Congratulations to Messrs. Helton, Coomer, and Bowen for participating.
Congratulations to TEA Party 2010 for beginning the process of developing an informed electorate.
JOIN US! Reservations required
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
--Edmund Burke
Date: Thursday, June 10, 2010
Time: 7:00am - 9:00am
Location: Landmark Restaurant, 2740 Martha Berry Highway, Rome GA
We are having a TEA Party.... breakfast and candidate forum..All tea party friends, members or not, are encouraged to gather at the Landmark Restaurant every 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month for Eggs and Issues.
JUNE 10TH, 7:00A.M.-9:00A.M., WE WILL BEGIN OUR FIRST IN A SERIES OF CANDIDATE FORUMS WITH REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE-DISTRICT 14 GREG BOWEN, CHRISTIAN COOMER, and SHEP HELTON. AFTER TWO MINUTE OPENING STATEMENTS THE CANDIDATES WILL RESPOND TO QUESTIONS SUBMITTED BY TEA PARTY 2010 ATTENDEES. THE FORUM WILL CLOSE WITH FIVE MINUTE CLOSING STATEMENTS BY THE CANDIDATES.
RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED.
To reserve, e-mail WeThePeopleRome@comcast.net or mikeofrome@yahoo.com
This is your chance....to get involved, to stay involved. We need you.
Remember in November!!!! We are coming!
Congratulations to Messrs. Helton, Coomer, and Bowen for participating.
Congratulations to TEA Party 2010 for beginning the process of developing an informed electorate.
JOIN US! Reservations required
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
--Edmund Burke
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
UPDATE! Here is additional information for our Rome/Floyd GA TEA Party 2010
ACTION TEAM CAUCUS
Thursday, May 20, 6:30-9:00
In Focus Baptist Church Worship Center
710 East 1st Street
Rome, GA
across from Comcast
intersection of Glen Milner Blvd. and East 1st St.
Admission: "Packaged snacks" for SOW (Serving Others Worldwide- assisting the homeless in obtaining food, shelter, and work, empowering individuals who are motivated to become self sufficient.) Cookies, crackers, candy, chips, etc.
Donation: A donation of $2.00 will be accepted for a contribution to In Focus Baptist Church for providing the Worship Center hall and to offset other costs of the event.
Refreshments: Refreshments will not be allowed in the Worship Center. Bring your refreshments and snacks for our breaks.
RSVP: Please RSVP that you will attend by replying to this e-mail.
Involvement: This is one more way of answering the question "What can I do?" We'll develop real, tangible action plans for solving the issues we face and that concern or encourage you.
SEE YOU THURSDAY NIGHT.
RSVP please.
Thursday, May 20, 6:30-9:00
In Focus Baptist Church Worship Center
710 East 1st Street
Rome, GA
across from Comcast
intersection of Glen Milner Blvd. and East 1st St.
Admission: "Packaged snacks" for SOW (Serving Others Worldwide- assisting the homeless in obtaining food, shelter, and work, empowering individuals who are motivated to become self sufficient.) Cookies, crackers, candy, chips, etc.
Donation: A donation of $2.00 will be accepted for a contribution to In Focus Baptist Church for providing the Worship Center hall and to offset other costs of the event.
Refreshments: Refreshments will not be allowed in the Worship Center. Bring your refreshments and snacks for our breaks.
RSVP: Please RSVP that you will attend by replying to this e-mail.
Involvement: This is one more way of answering the question "What can I do?" We'll develop real, tangible action plans for solving the issues we face and that concern or encourage you.
SEE YOU THURSDAY NIGHT.
RSVP please.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Racism...Throw It Back In Their Faces! We Are For All Americans! End It Now!
If anyone hasn't been able to tell, I have of lately, been extremely pre-occupied with the racism cry against Tea Partiers. Why? Because I am a history buff. A history factualist. Because I know what has happened with racism in the history of this country and what is happening now with the accusations. Because like myself Tea Partiers are the antithesis of racist – a collection of logical, freedom-loving quasi-libertarians, who care more about the lives their children will have than their own and who could care less about anyone’s color or background. Nevertheless, self-described liberals, progressives, and Democrats persist in telling everyone that the Tea Party Movement is racist, despite the fact they have yet to produce one iota of concrete evidence to prove this absurd point.
So why cry racist when no racist incidences have happened? Why are the Democrats and the liberals spewing racism like the nozzle of a boiling tea pot (No pun intended)? The most popular explanation is their lever on political power. With 99 percent of African-Americans and 77 percent of Jewish-Americans (excuse the reactionary hyphens), not to mention a huge percentage of Hispanic-Americans, voting their way, what’s not to like? Keep America divided according to race and keep getting elected.
Putting it bluntly, the Democratic Party clings to racism because they are out of ideas. They have nothing else to say. At this point, almost everyone acknowledges liberal policies don’t work and the Dems have little they can do but call names. This is even more true of socialism, a system which has consistently shown itself to be the initial ramp on an inexorable glide path to totalitarianism. Progressivism, liberalism, call it what you will, has completely lost its appeal to the majority of Americans on an ideological level. So what’s a poor Dem to do? Wave the white flag? NO. They Cry racism!
A great contribution the Tea Party Movement could make, perhaps its greatest contribution – would be to truly smash racism. Nowadays, hyphenated racial groups do the opposite. They have become inherently reactionary, seeking to divide us as Americans for their own advantage. That preserves racism in perpetuity, just as the American people themselves are fed up with it and long since ready to move on. In effect, the Democratic Party has inadvertently turned itself into the party of racism by depending upon these vested interests to maintain power. The Tea Party Movement could overturn this. That would be truly revolutionary.
Yes....I am obsessed with this. Racism must die. Hear that! MUST DIE! The Democrats and Liberals have used it to divide this country far too long. There isn't one single, God fearing, family loving, Constitutional believing, personal rights, Tea Partier I know that ever considers race. It is the Democrats!
The Democrats brought it up. I hear many people say "just let it go" but I say now is the time to throw it back in their faces. Put the facts about racism and who is really responsible out there. Let the people that support these hypocrites know who is really on their side. On the side of all people. All AMERICANS. I believe that it is the duty of Tea Partiers everywhere not to only go into those areas they know they can win in November but to go into those areas where they say we can't win. In Georgia that is District's 2, 13, 5, 4. They say we can not win there. Why? Because people in those districts believe what the Dems say. Because people there have lived off of Government for so long that they do not know that there is better way. The Dems don't want them to.
It is the best thing for all of us. We may never kill racism. There will always be jerks in this world, but we can stop the cry that keeps a division in this country. The division that allows the loss of freedom. The division that allows socialism.
I know we are just and right in our goals. We must convince those that oppose us that this is in the best interest of us all. We must educate them. For God, For Country, and most of all for our children and their future.
So why cry racist when no racist incidences have happened? Why are the Democrats and the liberals spewing racism like the nozzle of a boiling tea pot (No pun intended)? The most popular explanation is their lever on political power. With 99 percent of African-Americans and 77 percent of Jewish-Americans (excuse the reactionary hyphens), not to mention a huge percentage of Hispanic-Americans, voting their way, what’s not to like? Keep America divided according to race and keep getting elected.
Putting it bluntly, the Democratic Party clings to racism because they are out of ideas. They have nothing else to say. At this point, almost everyone acknowledges liberal policies don’t work and the Dems have little they can do but call names. This is even more true of socialism, a system which has consistently shown itself to be the initial ramp on an inexorable glide path to totalitarianism. Progressivism, liberalism, call it what you will, has completely lost its appeal to the majority of Americans on an ideological level. So what’s a poor Dem to do? Wave the white flag? NO. They Cry racism!
A great contribution the Tea Party Movement could make, perhaps its greatest contribution – would be to truly smash racism. Nowadays, hyphenated racial groups do the opposite. They have become inherently reactionary, seeking to divide us as Americans for their own advantage. That preserves racism in perpetuity, just as the American people themselves are fed up with it and long since ready to move on. In effect, the Democratic Party has inadvertently turned itself into the party of racism by depending upon these vested interests to maintain power. The Tea Party Movement could overturn this. That would be truly revolutionary.
Yes....I am obsessed with this. Racism must die. Hear that! MUST DIE! The Democrats and Liberals have used it to divide this country far too long. There isn't one single, God fearing, family loving, Constitutional believing, personal rights, Tea Partier I know that ever considers race. It is the Democrats!
The Democrats brought it up. I hear many people say "just let it go" but I say now is the time to throw it back in their faces. Put the facts about racism and who is really responsible out there. Let the people that support these hypocrites know who is really on their side. On the side of all people. All AMERICANS. I believe that it is the duty of Tea Partiers everywhere not to only go into those areas they know they can win in November but to go into those areas where they say we can't win. In Georgia that is District's 2, 13, 5, 4. They say we can not win there. Why? Because people in those districts believe what the Dems say. Because people there have lived off of Government for so long that they do not know that there is better way. The Dems don't want them to.
It is the best thing for all of us. We may never kill racism. There will always be jerks in this world, but we can stop the cry that keeps a division in this country. The division that allows the loss of freedom. The division that allows socialism.
I know we are just and right in our goals. We must convince those that oppose us that this is in the best interest of us all. We must educate them. For God, For Country, and most of all for our children and their future.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
In Support Of Senator Preston Smith (R-52)
In Support Of
Senator Preston Smith (R-52)
A Resolution
April 14, 2010
Submitted To: Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle
Members of the General Assembly
Appropriate Media
The Floyd County Republican Party
The Bartow County Republican Party
The Gordon County Republican Party
Tea Party Patriots
And other interested parties
Sponsors: Many Activists of Rome/Floyd GA TEA Party 2010
Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle et al
WHEREAS; State Senator Preston Smith (R-52 Floyd, Bartow, and Gordon) has served four terms in the Senate of Georgia representing the needs of his constituents, fulfilling his pledged commitments to them, and providing leadership in the Senate and throughout the governmental arena with his unswerving support for the United States Constitution, limited government, fiscal responsibility, and the free market.
WHEREAS; Senator Smith’s long and meritorious service has been marked by commitment to conservative principles and appreciation of, and by, his constituents.
WHEREAS; Senator Smith was recently called upon to vote for or against HB 307 and chose to vote his principled conviction, and constituent pledged commitment, against the imposed “hospital bed tax.” Senator Smith was one of three Republican Senator’s voting against the tax increase, a position that is the very foundation of conservative values.
WHEREAS; In retribution for his refusal to go along with Lt. Governor Cagle and other Senate leadership and vote for the tax increase, his role as Chairman of the Senate Judiciary was stripped away from him.
WHEREAS; Senator Smith asks, “Of what purpose is it to have a majority if you abandon the very principles for which the voters entrusted that majority to you? If the Republican Majority is going to start down the road towards raising taxes and even punishing their more conservative members who refuse to march like lemmings off that cliff, then why should Georgian’s trust them any longer to lead?” This raw exercise of power was used to crush Senator Smith.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT:
RESOLVED; that the Rome/Floyd GA TEA Party 2010 express the strongest and most unequivocal support for Senator Preston Smith; laud his stand for conservative principles; appreciate his leadership in the General Assembly; and appreciate his continuing service and support of his constituents.
RESOLVED; that we, the aforementioned, strongly express our disappointment with, and dismay of, the exercise of political power by the Senate leadership including Lt. Governor Casey Cagle and Senators Tommie Williams and Chip Rogers. We believe this display of retribution is uncalled for, is an affront to the very values, dignity, and respectful behavior all citizens of Georgia expect.
RESOLVED; that the aforementioned Senate leadership is hereby rebuked for their actions against Senator Smith for their attempts to silence differing opinions and commitment to principle.
RESOLVED; that we request the Senate leadership, Lt. Governor Cagle specifically, issue a public apology to Senator Smith, and all citizens of Georgia for their behavior and unconscionable assault on Senator Smith and the process of governance.
RESOLVED; further that we, the aforementioned, demand that Senator Smith be returned to his rightful role as Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee.
Submitted respectfully for and by:
Don Black Hoyt Brown
Sandra Brown Maggie Crowe
Barbara Dougherty Grant Evans
Anne Goss Nancy Greer
Janice Hadaway Jackie Hesselbrock
Penny King Richard King
Betty Kuss Charles Kuss
Mike Morton Linda Petty
Bob Ragsdale Marsha Ragsdale
Lynn Riedell Michael Rogers
Amy Schriever Babo Segars
Lauren Grace Smith Randy Smith
Bill Steinhauer Virginia Steinhauer
Cheryl Sullins Roger Oehlert
Stewart Orr Vickie Orr
Bob Thacker Linda Thacker
Cindy Upton Janice Smith
Jason Mills Ann Crews
Hoyett Crews Brian Barcomb
And Many Other of the over 500 Rome/Floyd GA TEA Party 2010 Activists
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
--Edmund Burke
In Response To Comments and Emails About "A Letter From NBRA Chairman Francis Rice" Post
I have received several emails and a couple of comments on the blog posting " A Letter From NBRA Chairman Francis Rice".
http://atprome.blogspot.com/2010/04/letter-from-nbra-chairman-frances-rice.html#comments
The question within all of these is basically the same. How did the Republican party...the party that was formed out of one common belief...Constitutional Law...a belief that all men are created equal...that's at the time of it's conception freeing the slaves and allowing them to be equal to all Americans was it's number one goal....How is it that they are now perceived the bad guys? The racist? And now that so many Constitutionalists are forming into the Tea Parties they too are unjustly obtaining this label. How did this happen? I have spent countless hours researching the subject. It will be a huge part on a new blog I am working on promoting minority participation into the Constitutional movement. Without listing the numerous resources I have used I have chosen one link that gives a good basic insight to this question. I urge you to read it.
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/why-is-the-black-vote-in-the-democratic-pocket/?singlepage=true
http://atprome.blogspot.com/2010/04/letter-from-nbra-chairman-frances-rice.html#comments
The question within all of these is basically the same. How did the Republican party...the party that was formed out of one common belief...Constitutional Law...a belief that all men are created equal...that's at the time of it's conception freeing the slaves and allowing them to be equal to all Americans was it's number one goal....How is it that they are now perceived the bad guys? The racist? And now that so many Constitutionalists are forming into the Tea Parties they too are unjustly obtaining this label. How did this happen? I have spent countless hours researching the subject. It will be a huge part on a new blog I am working on promoting minority participation into the Constitutional movement. Without listing the numerous resources I have used I have chosen one link that gives a good basic insight to this question. I urge you to read it.
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/why-is-the-black-vote-in-the-democratic-pocket/?singlepage=true
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
The Truth About Our Debt/Spending and Why We Should Be Very Scared
According to the CBO's recent estimates of President Obama’s current budget proposal, debt held by the public relative to the size of the economy is heading toward heights last seen at the end of the WW II. As we all know the CBO can only use the numbers given it and we all know how reliable this administrations figures have been. The CBO is not allowed to question these figures and this has always led them to underestimate. Former CBO director Douglas Holtz-Eakin said it best when he descibed the process as “... fantasy in, fantasy out.” Now the CBO's figures are frightening enough since the debt after WW II were the countries largest ever. The fact that these are watered down figures should scare the hell out of all Americans.
The two videos below show the truth about debt and spending.
The two videos below show the truth about debt and spending.
Friday, April 16, 2010
Monday, April 12, 2010
A Letter From NBRA Chairman Frances Rice
DO DEMOCRATS COMMIT HATE CRIMES AGAINST BLACK REPUBLICANS?
Racists! That incendiary charge hurled by Democrats at Tea Party activists protesting against ObamaCare was shown to be totally false by Jack Cashill in his article "A Closer Look at the Capitol Steps Conspiracy".
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/03/a_closer_look_at_the_capitol_s.html
Given the Democratic Party's 150-year record of racist rhetoric and racial violence - from the days of slavery until today - it is astonishing to see Democrats sanctimoniously playing the race card. A display of unmitigated gall describes how Democrats are falsely comparing anti-ObamaCare protestors to the anti-civil rights racists of the 1960's who were Democrats. Democrats get away with this racial hypocrisy because they know with absolute certainty that the true history of civil rights has long been buried, and the racism exhibited today by Democrats against blacks, particularly black Republicans, will be ignored by the mainstream media.
For instance, the liberal media expressed no outrage and not one word of condemnation was uttered by any Democrat after SEIU (Service Employees International Union) thugs attacked Kenneth Gladney, a black man. Gladney was beaten, kicked and called a racist name while working as a vendor at a health care reform town hall meeting in St. Louis on August 6, 2009 called by U.S. Rep. Democrat Russ Carnahan.
The assault was a calculated attempt to intimidate and silence Tea Party protestors and town hall activists. On the morning of the Gladney attack, the White House presented to Senate Democrats a "battle plan" to quell the protests. The advice given to the Democrats by the White House was to "punch back twice as hard", and the first casualty was Kenneth Gladney. In the emergency room of the St. John's Mercy Medical Center, Gladney was treated for injuries to his knee, back, elbow, shoulder and face suffered in the attack.
The six people arrested in the Gladney case, including a Post-Dispatch reporter, were charged with mere misdemeanor ordinance violations, with a total of ten charges spread out among the six offenders. Not one Democrat rushed to a microphone to denounce the attack against Gladney as a "hate crime".
Based on the lack of any outrage by Democrats over the Gladney beating, it seems that the newly enacted "hate crime" legislation pushed by Democrats would not apply to cases of hateful brutality against black Republicans. The Hate Crimes Prevention Act was signed into law by President Barack Obama on October 28, 2009 and is designed to punish crimes of violence against people because of their race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability.
At the core of why Democrats are feverishly painting conservatives and Republicans as racist, especially Tea Party activists, is the need to divert the public's attention away from the fact that President Barack Obama and the Democrats in control of Congress are slowly and deliberately transforming America from a free society with a representative form of government into a socialist dictatorship. A move applauded by the Cuban Communist dictator Fidel Castro.
Obama is now governing as a hard-core leftist, after campaigning for president as a centrist. His cynical charade was designed to convince the majority of white Americans to vote for him, the very citizens Obama now castigates as racist.
What Obama and the Democrats are ignoring while trying to silence protestors with charges of racism is the fact that average American citizens are angry because they do not want socialism. They understand that ObamaCare and Obama's out-of-control spending will produce massive deficits, high costs for consumer goods and fewer jobs. Citizens have tried to communicate this message to Obama and the Democrats in every way possible, from protesting in record numbers to historic votes against Democrats in New Jersey, Virginia and Massachusetts.
Obama and the Democrats have chosen, at their peril, to ignore the will of the people and enact the economy-wrecking ObamaCare with one-party rule, bribing unprincipled Democrats with sleazy deals.
The powerful video posted on YouTube called "America Rising: An Open Letter to Democrat Politicians Patriotic Resistance" implores Americans to hold Democrats accountable in the 2010 elections.
A video posted on YouTube called "We The People" provides an inspiring call for us to take back our country from the socialists.
In the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., this call is made for all Americans to unite, engage in nonviolent civil disobedience and vote in November to stop the Democrats from shredding our Constitution and governing without the consent of the governed.
History shows that during the 1960's Democrats used racist slurs and brutality against Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a Republican until the day he died, and other nonviolent activists who were trying to stop the Democrats from denying civil rights to black Americans. Today, Democrats are using similar reprehensible tactics against conservatives and Republicans, especially black Republicans, who are trying to stop the Democrats from stripping civil liberties from all Americans.
While claiming to be racially sensitive, Democrats use racist invectives to denigrate black Republicans, demeaning them as "sellouts", "Uncle Toms", "House Negroes", "House N-word", or worse. The list of black Republicans attacked by Democrats is long and includes RNC Chairman Michael Steel, Dr. Condoleezza Rice, General Colin Powell and Justice Clarence Thomas.
On the left-wing Internet website called "The News Blog," Democrats posted a doctored photograph of RNC Chairman Michael Steele while he was the Lt. Governor of Maryland and running for a Senate seat. Democrats depicted Steele as a "Simple Sambo" with a blackened minstrel-style face, nappy hair and big, think red lips. The cartoon caption read: "Simple Sambo wants to move to the big house". This contemptible racist stereotype is the same one Democrats used to demean black men during the era of slavery and segregation.
Dr. Condoleezza Rice was the object of particularly vicious racist attacks by Democrats. In addition to several other appalling images of Dr. Rice produced by several Democrats, cartoonist Jeff Danziger denigrated Dr. Rice as an ignorant, barefoot "mammy", reminiscent of the stereotyped black woman in the movie "Gone with the Wind" about the slave era black woman who remarked: "I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' no babies". This is the type of racist stereotype Democrats used to demean black women during the era of slavery and segregation.
A video was shot by WKRN Video Journalist Beau Fleenor at Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tennessee that shows Al Sharpton demeaning Gen. Powell and Dr. Rice, when Sharpton was asked to give his opinions about whether Powell and Rice were "House Negroes".
An article that appeared in a Portland, Oregon paper was one of many exposing how hardly a ripple of protest was made by black Democrats when Harry Belafonte publicly denounced Gen. Powell as a "House Negro".
Posted on the Internet is an article entitled "A Black Man, The Progressive's Perfect Trojan Horse" by black entertainer Lloyd Marcus exposing Democratic Party racism toward black Tea Party protestors.
http://www.newswithviews.com/Marcus/lloyd120.htm
The truth about Democratic Party racism can be harsh medicine, but is sorely needed to finally eject the race-baiting poison injected into our body politic by Democrats, the architects of modern-day racism. As stated by author Michael Scheuer, the Democratic Party is the party of the four S's: slavery secession, segregation and now socialism. A prominent pundit affirmed that the Republican Party is the party of the four F's: family, faith, freedom and fairness. Civil rights history details are in the NBRA Civil Rights Newsletter that is posted on the website of the National Black Republican Association.
Written out of our history books are the following facts. The Republican Party was started in 1854 as the anti-slavery party and, after the Civil War, Republicans amended the US Constitution to grant blacks freedom (13th Amendment), citizenship (14th Amendment) and the right to vote (15th Amendment). Republicans then passed the civil rights laws to ensure blacks could exercise their Constitutional rights, including the Civil Rights Acts of 1866, 1867 and 1875. After Democrats took control of Congress in 1892, Democrats passed the Repeal Act of 1894 that overturned civil rights legislation enacted by the Republicans. It took Republicans nearly six decades to finally achieve passage of civil rights legislation in the 1950's and 1960's pushed through by Republican Senator Everett Dirksen over the objection of the Democrats.
In addition to their reprehensible of record of fighting against civil rights legislation, Democrats have a long history of racial violence. Recorded by liberal professor Dr. Eric Foner in his book "A Short History of Reconstruction", is the horrifying fact that Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan in 1866 to lynch and terrorize Republicans - black and white. The Klan became the terrorist arm of the Democratic Party, killing over 2,000 black Republicans and over 1,000 white Republicans.
The violence against the 1960's era civil rights protestors was inflicted by Democrats. Democrat Public Safety Commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor in Birmingham let loose vicious dogs and turned skin-burning fire hoses on black civil rights demonstrators. Democrat Georgia Governor Lester Maddox famously brandished ax handles to prevent blacks from patronizing his restaurant. In 1954, Democrat Arkansas Governor Orville Faubus tried to prevent desegregation of a Little Rock public school. Democrat Alabama Governor George Wallace stood in front of the Alabama schoolhouse in 1963 and thundered, "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever."
All of these racist Democrats remained Democrats until the day they died. One survivor from that era, Democrat Senator Robert Byrd, a former recruiter in the Ku Klux Klan, is still a Democrat and a prominent leader in the Democrat-controlled Congress where he was honored by his fellow Democrats as the "conscience of the Senate." It does not even make common sense to believe that after the Republicans spent over 150 years fighting the Democrats and won, the racist Democrats suddenly rushed into the arms of the Republicans. In fact Democrats declared that they would rather vote for a "yellow dog" than any one in the Republican Party, the party for blacks.
(Read he truth of the Democratic Party)
http://exlibhollywood.blogspot.com/2006/01/offer-of-proof.html
If our soldiers did and do voluntarily put their lives on the line to preserve our freedoms, then we can do no less. If Dr. King had the courage to fight for civil rights for blacks in the face of racist slurs by Democrats and threats of imprisonment or death, then we surely have the courage to stand up for our civil liberties in the face of such threats. This we owe to ourselves, our country and future generations..
Frances Rice is a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel and Chairman of the National Black Republican Association. She may be contacted at: www.NBRA.info
Racists! That incendiary charge hurled by Democrats at Tea Party activists protesting against ObamaCare was shown to be totally false by Jack Cashill in his article "A Closer Look at the Capitol Steps Conspiracy".
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/03/a_closer_look_at_the_capitol_s.html
Given the Democratic Party's 150-year record of racist rhetoric and racial violence - from the days of slavery until today - it is astonishing to see Democrats sanctimoniously playing the race card. A display of unmitigated gall describes how Democrats are falsely comparing anti-ObamaCare protestors to the anti-civil rights racists of the 1960's who were Democrats. Democrats get away with this racial hypocrisy because they know with absolute certainty that the true history of civil rights has long been buried, and the racism exhibited today by Democrats against blacks, particularly black Republicans, will be ignored by the mainstream media.
For instance, the liberal media expressed no outrage and not one word of condemnation was uttered by any Democrat after SEIU (Service Employees International Union) thugs attacked Kenneth Gladney, a black man. Gladney was beaten, kicked and called a racist name while working as a vendor at a health care reform town hall meeting in St. Louis on August 6, 2009 called by U.S. Rep. Democrat Russ Carnahan.
The assault was a calculated attempt to intimidate and silence Tea Party protestors and town hall activists. On the morning of the Gladney attack, the White House presented to Senate Democrats a "battle plan" to quell the protests. The advice given to the Democrats by the White House was to "punch back twice as hard", and the first casualty was Kenneth Gladney. In the emergency room of the St. John's Mercy Medical Center, Gladney was treated for injuries to his knee, back, elbow, shoulder and face suffered in the attack.
The six people arrested in the Gladney case, including a Post-Dispatch reporter, were charged with mere misdemeanor ordinance violations, with a total of ten charges spread out among the six offenders. Not one Democrat rushed to a microphone to denounce the attack against Gladney as a "hate crime".
Based on the lack of any outrage by Democrats over the Gladney beating, it seems that the newly enacted "hate crime" legislation pushed by Democrats would not apply to cases of hateful brutality against black Republicans. The Hate Crimes Prevention Act was signed into law by President Barack Obama on October 28, 2009 and is designed to punish crimes of violence against people because of their race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability.
At the core of why Democrats are feverishly painting conservatives and Republicans as racist, especially Tea Party activists, is the need to divert the public's attention away from the fact that President Barack Obama and the Democrats in control of Congress are slowly and deliberately transforming America from a free society with a representative form of government into a socialist dictatorship. A move applauded by the Cuban Communist dictator Fidel Castro.
Obama is now governing as a hard-core leftist, after campaigning for president as a centrist. His cynical charade was designed to convince the majority of white Americans to vote for him, the very citizens Obama now castigates as racist.
What Obama and the Democrats are ignoring while trying to silence protestors with charges of racism is the fact that average American citizens are angry because they do not want socialism. They understand that ObamaCare and Obama's out-of-control spending will produce massive deficits, high costs for consumer goods and fewer jobs. Citizens have tried to communicate this message to Obama and the Democrats in every way possible, from protesting in record numbers to historic votes against Democrats in New Jersey, Virginia and Massachusetts.
Obama and the Democrats have chosen, at their peril, to ignore the will of the people and enact the economy-wrecking ObamaCare with one-party rule, bribing unprincipled Democrats with sleazy deals.
The powerful video posted on YouTube called "America Rising: An Open Letter to Democrat Politicians Patriotic Resistance" implores Americans to hold Democrats accountable in the 2010 elections.
A video posted on YouTube called "We The People" provides an inspiring call for us to take back our country from the socialists.
In the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., this call is made for all Americans to unite, engage in nonviolent civil disobedience and vote in November to stop the Democrats from shredding our Constitution and governing without the consent of the governed.
History shows that during the 1960's Democrats used racist slurs and brutality against Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a Republican until the day he died, and other nonviolent activists who were trying to stop the Democrats from denying civil rights to black Americans. Today, Democrats are using similar reprehensible tactics against conservatives and Republicans, especially black Republicans, who are trying to stop the Democrats from stripping civil liberties from all Americans.
While claiming to be racially sensitive, Democrats use racist invectives to denigrate black Republicans, demeaning them as "sellouts", "Uncle Toms", "House Negroes", "House N-word", or worse. The list of black Republicans attacked by Democrats is long and includes RNC Chairman Michael Steel, Dr. Condoleezza Rice, General Colin Powell and Justice Clarence Thomas.
On the left-wing Internet website called "The News Blog," Democrats posted a doctored photograph of RNC Chairman Michael Steele while he was the Lt. Governor of Maryland and running for a Senate seat. Democrats depicted Steele as a "Simple Sambo" with a blackened minstrel-style face, nappy hair and big, think red lips. The cartoon caption read: "Simple Sambo wants to move to the big house". This contemptible racist stereotype is the same one Democrats used to demean black men during the era of slavery and segregation.
Dr. Condoleezza Rice was the object of particularly vicious racist attacks by Democrats. In addition to several other appalling images of Dr. Rice produced by several Democrats, cartoonist Jeff Danziger denigrated Dr. Rice as an ignorant, barefoot "mammy", reminiscent of the stereotyped black woman in the movie "Gone with the Wind" about the slave era black woman who remarked: "I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' no babies". This is the type of racist stereotype Democrats used to demean black women during the era of slavery and segregation.
A video was shot by WKRN Video Journalist Beau Fleenor at Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tennessee that shows Al Sharpton demeaning Gen. Powell and Dr. Rice, when Sharpton was asked to give his opinions about whether Powell and Rice were "House Negroes".
An article that appeared in a Portland, Oregon paper was one of many exposing how hardly a ripple of protest was made by black Democrats when Harry Belafonte publicly denounced Gen. Powell as a "House Negro".
Posted on the Internet is an article entitled "A Black Man, The Progressive's Perfect Trojan Horse" by black entertainer Lloyd Marcus exposing Democratic Party racism toward black Tea Party protestors.
http://www.newswithviews.com/Marcus/lloyd120.htm
The truth about Democratic Party racism can be harsh medicine, but is sorely needed to finally eject the race-baiting poison injected into our body politic by Democrats, the architects of modern-day racism. As stated by author Michael Scheuer, the Democratic Party is the party of the four S's: slavery secession, segregation and now socialism. A prominent pundit affirmed that the Republican Party is the party of the four F's: family, faith, freedom and fairness. Civil rights history details are in the NBRA Civil Rights Newsletter that is posted on the website of the National Black Republican Association.
Written out of our history books are the following facts. The Republican Party was started in 1854 as the anti-slavery party and, after the Civil War, Republicans amended the US Constitution to grant blacks freedom (13th Amendment), citizenship (14th Amendment) and the right to vote (15th Amendment). Republicans then passed the civil rights laws to ensure blacks could exercise their Constitutional rights, including the Civil Rights Acts of 1866, 1867 and 1875. After Democrats took control of Congress in 1892, Democrats passed the Repeal Act of 1894 that overturned civil rights legislation enacted by the Republicans. It took Republicans nearly six decades to finally achieve passage of civil rights legislation in the 1950's and 1960's pushed through by Republican Senator Everett Dirksen over the objection of the Democrats.
In addition to their reprehensible of record of fighting against civil rights legislation, Democrats have a long history of racial violence. Recorded by liberal professor Dr. Eric Foner in his book "A Short History of Reconstruction", is the horrifying fact that Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan in 1866 to lynch and terrorize Republicans - black and white. The Klan became the terrorist arm of the Democratic Party, killing over 2,000 black Republicans and over 1,000 white Republicans.
The violence against the 1960's era civil rights protestors was inflicted by Democrats. Democrat Public Safety Commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor in Birmingham let loose vicious dogs and turned skin-burning fire hoses on black civil rights demonstrators. Democrat Georgia Governor Lester Maddox famously brandished ax handles to prevent blacks from patronizing his restaurant. In 1954, Democrat Arkansas Governor Orville Faubus tried to prevent desegregation of a Little Rock public school. Democrat Alabama Governor George Wallace stood in front of the Alabama schoolhouse in 1963 and thundered, "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever."
All of these racist Democrats remained Democrats until the day they died. One survivor from that era, Democrat Senator Robert Byrd, a former recruiter in the Ku Klux Klan, is still a Democrat and a prominent leader in the Democrat-controlled Congress where he was honored by his fellow Democrats as the "conscience of the Senate." It does not even make common sense to believe that after the Republicans spent over 150 years fighting the Democrats and won, the racist Democrats suddenly rushed into the arms of the Republicans. In fact Democrats declared that they would rather vote for a "yellow dog" than any one in the Republican Party, the party for blacks.
(Read he truth of the Democratic Party)
http://exlibhollywood.blogspot.com/2006/01/offer-of-proof.html
If our soldiers did and do voluntarily put their lives on the line to preserve our freedoms, then we can do no less. If Dr. King had the courage to fight for civil rights for blacks in the face of racist slurs by Democrats and threats of imprisonment or death, then we surely have the courage to stand up for our civil liberties in the face of such threats. This we owe to ourselves, our country and future generations..
Frances Rice is a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel and Chairman of the National Black Republican Association. She may be contacted at: www.NBRA.info
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
A Lesson On the Second Amendment...A Constitutional Right
Record numbers of American citizens are now legally carrying firearms for personal protection. Evidence shows that homicide rates have declined dramatically during a period when gun sales have skyrocketed. Everything the gun prohibitionists have been claiming and predicting over the past two decades has been fundamentally wrong. They have repeatedly argued that more guns will equate to more crime and more firearms deaths. Washington, DC with its extreme gun control has the highest murder rate in the nation, while Utah, with very liberal gun laws, has the lowest rate. The obvious truth is that firearms in the hands of law-abiding citizens are not a threat to anyone except the criminal that may harm them, their loved ones, or property.
With all the evidence showing that Americans are safer with guns why would the government continue to place bans and/or restrictions on them. That too is obvious. Fear of the people.
I invite you to watch the video below on the Second Amendment. It will enlighten you.
With all the evidence showing that Americans are safer with guns why would the government continue to place bans and/or restrictions on them. That too is obvious. Fear of the people.
I invite you to watch the video below on the Second Amendment. It will enlighten you.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Washington Betrayal
As the American people stare down the barrel of so-called "healthcare reform," it is tremendously important that we take heed of how Progressive Democrats are going about achieving their long sought-after goal. It has been an ugly and often times unconstitutional process consisting of the bribing of Senators with taxpayer monies (the same taxpayers that overwelmingly oppose the bill), the bartering of favors by the White House, and the threats of withheld support for Democrat candidates by Pelosi, Reed, and even Obama hiself.
Congressional leadership has not only violated their Oaths of Office to uphold the rules set down in the US Constitution, but they have demonstrated, in no uncertain terms, that they hold it (the covenant between the governed and their government) in contempt. By blatantly employing tactics that literally ignore specific mandates set forth in the Constitution, they are proving beyond all doubt that an ideologically-driven coup is taking place in the United States of America.
We are at a very important moment in time; a crossroads for our nation. We must decide if we are a Constitutional Republic or whether we are an oligarchy. We must decide if we are governed by the rule of law – constitutional law – or by the ideological whims of an elitist class.
I, like most of you believe in the rule of law, the rules set down in the US Constitution. There is no doubt in my mind that it's Founders and Framers had it right and that James Madison was more intelligent than Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Barack Obama.
Unfortunatly, I think the bill will pass today. The US Constitution will be stepped on and then tossed aside. I hear over and over that the American people will forget about this betrayal in a few months and go back to business as usual.
WRONG!
In the words of Isoroku Yamamoto after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Washington should be saying: "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve."
Congressional leadership has not only violated their Oaths of Office to uphold the rules set down in the US Constitution, but they have demonstrated, in no uncertain terms, that they hold it (the covenant between the governed and their government) in contempt. By blatantly employing tactics that literally ignore specific mandates set forth in the Constitution, they are proving beyond all doubt that an ideologically-driven coup is taking place in the United States of America.
We are at a very important moment in time; a crossroads for our nation. We must decide if we are a Constitutional Republic or whether we are an oligarchy. We must decide if we are governed by the rule of law – constitutional law – or by the ideological whims of an elitist class.
I, like most of you believe in the rule of law, the rules set down in the US Constitution. There is no doubt in my mind that it's Founders and Framers had it right and that James Madison was more intelligent than Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Barack Obama.
Unfortunatly, I think the bill will pass today. The US Constitution will be stepped on and then tossed aside. I hear over and over that the American people will forget about this betrayal in a few months and go back to business as usual.
WRONG!
In the words of Isoroku Yamamoto after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Washington should be saying: "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve."
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Government Pay Off to Medical Insurance..My God...How far Does This Go?
This week the President started out on yet another cross-country campaign tour promoting his Washington takeover of health care. President Obama's main theme so far has been the outrageous profits of the insurance companies and how his plan is going to keep them under control and protect patients against their abusive practices. Like much of the health care debate, though, President Obama seems to be speaking out of both sides of his mouth.
President Obama's health care plan would actually provide a massive bailout to the insurance industry, a total of $336 billion in government subsidies for private health insurance, while requiring every American to buy their product. This is a backdoor way of paying off the big insurance companies.
And there's more. In addition to the subsidies, the government would use its powerful collection agency, the Internal Revenue Service, to make sure that every individual complies with the mandate to buy expensive private insurance. Yet President Obama insists on promoting himself as America's protector against the insurance industry.
How gullible does he think we are? No wonder President Obama has a major credibility problem.
ABC’s Z. Byron Wolf reports:
President Obama and Democrats launched a campaign to vilify insurance companies in the final stretch of their health reform effort.
Republicans, meanwhile, pointed out that those very same insurance companies would get huge checks from the government if health reform is enacted.
“(Health Insurers) will keep on doing this for as long as they can get away with it. This is no secret,” the president said. “They're telling their investors this – ‘We are in the money. We are going to keep on making big profits even though a lot of folks are going to be put under hardship,’” the President told supporters at a stop in Pennsylvania today.
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, meanwhile, wrote to insurance company executives demanding that they justify premium hikes.
Neither mentioned that the Senate health reform bill, which is the basis for Democrats' last best chance at comprehensive reform, would give the insurance companies millions of new customers required by law to buy health insurance. It would also require insurers to cover everyone, regardless of age, gender or pre-existing condition.
To help pay for the new insurance requirements the government would give to people money to buy insurance - $336 billion over the next ten years. That money, ultimately, would have to go to... drum roll... insurance companies.
People without employer-sponsored insurance who make too much money to qualify for Medicaid and less than about $88,000 for a family of four, would get tax credits to help them buy insurance on the open market. But the payment of the tax credits would be made, point out Republican researchers, directly to insurance companies. See page 37 here of the Senate Finance Committee's exhaustive explanation of the plan:
During the 2008 Presidential campaign, then-Senator Obama criticized a proposal by Sen. John McCain because it would send government help for people to buy insurance directly to insurance companies.
“But The New Tax Credit [For Health Insurance] He’s Proposing? That Wouldn’t Go To You. It Would Go Directly To Your Insurance Company – Not Your Bank Account," said Obama in October on the Campaign trail.
And yet that’s exactly what Democrats' proposal would do and why so many would prefer public insurance option to compete with the private market. Supporting the Senate bill will be tough for many liberal Democrats in the House.
To the Republicans’ (and Obama’s on the campaign trail) point about the payments going directly to insurance companies, remember that people with employer-sponsored insurance or current federal medical benefits do not usually get a separate check to buy insurance either. They pay premiums directly to the insurance company and so does their employer. The Senate proposal would create a similar relationship between people who don't have employer-based insurance and the government.
So why do Insurance companies, if they're set to receive more than $330 billion in government subsidies to insure people without insurance now oppose the Senate bill?
"Health plans proposed more than a year ago robust insurance market reforms and new consumer protections to guarantee coverage for pre-existing conditions. Much more needs to be done in the current legislation to address the skyrocketing cost of medical care, which is making health care coverage unaffordable for working families and small businesses," said Robert Zirkelbach, a spokesman from America's Health Insurance Plans, in a statement today.
He argued that health insurers should not be targeted by the President and their profits are lower by margin than other sectors in the health industry.
"For every dollar spent on health care in America, less than one penny goes towards health plan profits. The focus needs to be on the other 99 cents," he said.
President Obama's health care plan would actually provide a massive bailout to the insurance industry, a total of $336 billion in government subsidies for private health insurance, while requiring every American to buy their product. This is a backdoor way of paying off the big insurance companies.
And there's more. In addition to the subsidies, the government would use its powerful collection agency, the Internal Revenue Service, to make sure that every individual complies with the mandate to buy expensive private insurance. Yet President Obama insists on promoting himself as America's protector against the insurance industry.
How gullible does he think we are? No wonder President Obama has a major credibility problem.
ABC’s Z. Byron Wolf reports:
President Obama and Democrats launched a campaign to vilify insurance companies in the final stretch of their health reform effort.
Republicans, meanwhile, pointed out that those very same insurance companies would get huge checks from the government if health reform is enacted.
“(Health Insurers) will keep on doing this for as long as they can get away with it. This is no secret,” the president said. “They're telling their investors this – ‘We are in the money. We are going to keep on making big profits even though a lot of folks are going to be put under hardship,’” the President told supporters at a stop in Pennsylvania today.
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, meanwhile, wrote to insurance company executives demanding that they justify premium hikes.
Neither mentioned that the Senate health reform bill, which is the basis for Democrats' last best chance at comprehensive reform, would give the insurance companies millions of new customers required by law to buy health insurance. It would also require insurers to cover everyone, regardless of age, gender or pre-existing condition.
To help pay for the new insurance requirements the government would give to people money to buy insurance - $336 billion over the next ten years. That money, ultimately, would have to go to... drum roll... insurance companies.
People without employer-sponsored insurance who make too much money to qualify for Medicaid and less than about $88,000 for a family of four, would get tax credits to help them buy insurance on the open market. But the payment of the tax credits would be made, point out Republican researchers, directly to insurance companies. See page 37 here of the Senate Finance Committee's exhaustive explanation of the plan:
During the 2008 Presidential campaign, then-Senator Obama criticized a proposal by Sen. John McCain because it would send government help for people to buy insurance directly to insurance companies.
“But The New Tax Credit [For Health Insurance] He’s Proposing? That Wouldn’t Go To You. It Would Go Directly To Your Insurance Company – Not Your Bank Account," said Obama in October on the Campaign trail.
And yet that’s exactly what Democrats' proposal would do and why so many would prefer public insurance option to compete with the private market. Supporting the Senate bill will be tough for many liberal Democrats in the House.
To the Republicans’ (and Obama’s on the campaign trail) point about the payments going directly to insurance companies, remember that people with employer-sponsored insurance or current federal medical benefits do not usually get a separate check to buy insurance either. They pay premiums directly to the insurance company and so does their employer. The Senate proposal would create a similar relationship between people who don't have employer-based insurance and the government.
So why do Insurance companies, if they're set to receive more than $330 billion in government subsidies to insure people without insurance now oppose the Senate bill?
"Health plans proposed more than a year ago robust insurance market reforms and new consumer protections to guarantee coverage for pre-existing conditions. Much more needs to be done in the current legislation to address the skyrocketing cost of medical care, which is making health care coverage unaffordable for working families and small businesses," said Robert Zirkelbach, a spokesman from America's Health Insurance Plans, in a statement today.
He argued that health insurers should not be targeted by the President and their profits are lower by margin than other sectors in the health industry.
"For every dollar spent on health care in America, less than one penny goes towards health plan profits. The focus needs to be on the other 99 cents," he said.
Rome's National Guard Troop, Company A Comes Home Today
Rome's National Guard Troop, Company A, is expected home today between 1-1:30. A procession that will take the soldiers from the East Rome Wal-mart to Dean Street, Turner McCall Boulevard, down Broad Street to Second Avenue to Redmond Circle, then out to the Rome bypass to the back entrance of the armory on Wilshire Road. A small ceremony will be planned at the armory for the estimated 45 to 50 soldiers with the unit. Most of them are not from the Rome area, she said.
If you can make it out on to the route somewhere or for the ceremony at the armory today please do. Show our soldiers how much you appreciate them and welcome them home.
If you can't make it, please take a moment for prayer thanking god for their safe return and to remember those who did not make it.
Don't forget a special little prayer for Jeffery Jordan from Rome killed less than a year ago. While not in Company A, he was part of the 108th.
If you can make it out on to the route somewhere or for the ceremony at the armory today please do. Show our soldiers how much you appreciate them and welcome them home.
If you can't make it, please take a moment for prayer thanking god for their safe return and to remember those who did not make it.
Don't forget a special little prayer for Jeffery Jordan from Rome killed less than a year ago. While not in Company A, he was part of the 108th.
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Thursday, March 4, 2010
The Democratcs Seem to Have Forgotten Their Own Words About Reconciliation
"The president was at it again today, ignoring the will of the people and insisting on shoving his health care plan down the throats of the American public. In his latest plea, President Obama called for an "up or down" vote on his plan, claiming all the best ideas from both sides of the aisle have been incorporated and that the debate is now over.
In reality, the president's plan is essentially the Senate-passed bill with a few minor tweaks to appease House Democrats. Right now the only bipartisan agreement that exists on health care is opposition to the current plan. Someone should tell the president you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig.
As for an "up or down vote" -- well, that's just a cynical euphemism that the president is using to describe a parliamentary trick known as reconciliation that numerous Democratic senators (including then-Senator Obama) denounced only a few years ago as an "arrogant power grab against the Founders' intent."
(Copied with permission from "Patients First" Click title above for web site.)
The video below will show how congress thinks. Some things are bad, until they work in your favor. Then they are okay.
In reality, the president's plan is essentially the Senate-passed bill with a few minor tweaks to appease House Democrats. Right now the only bipartisan agreement that exists on health care is opposition to the current plan. Someone should tell the president you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig.
As for an "up or down vote" -- well, that's just a cynical euphemism that the president is using to describe a parliamentary trick known as reconciliation that numerous Democratic senators (including then-Senator Obama) denounced only a few years ago as an "arrogant power grab against the Founders' intent."
(Copied with permission from "Patients First" Click title above for web site.)
The video below will show how congress thinks. Some things are bad, until they work in your favor. Then they are okay.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
The Proper Way to Address A Letter to a Congress (Not the way you would like to)
Below is the proper way to address both Senators and Members of the House when writing and emailing. I know most of you, like myself, have thought of many less respectful ways you would like to address them but we must use restraint if we are to be heard. I urge you to please write, not only your Congress-person, but all of them and express your views and remind them that they work for us and must abide by the Constitution. I am sitting here right this minute listening to the Senate on C-span 2 . I am amazed how many times I hear a Democratic talk about how they are doing what the people want when the polls clearly show this is not want the people want. I am not sure what "people" they are listening to but apparently they have limited hearing because the people, Americans, have made it clear what they want, and these Democrats aren't expressing those views. We need to make it clear what we want. We need to write over and over. We need to tell them to listen, get out, or we will get them out.
You can click the title above to go to About.com's Government Info page. There is a lot of very good information
Addressing Members of Congress
To Your Senator:
The Honorable (full name)
(Room #) (Name) Senate Office Building
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510
Dear Senator:
To Your Representative:
The Honorable (full name)
(Room #) (Name) House Office Building
United States House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515
Dear Representative:
The above addresses should be used in email messages, as well as those sent through the Postal Service.
You can click the title above to go to About.com's Government Info page. There is a lot of very good information
Addressing Members of Congress
To Your Senator:
The Honorable (full name)
(Room #) (Name) Senate Office Building
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510
Dear Senator:
To Your Representative:
The Honorable (full name)
(Room #) (Name) House Office Building
United States House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515
Dear Representative:
The above addresses should be used in email messages, as well as those sent through the Postal Service.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Canadian Premier Comes to U.S. For Health Care
Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams will undergo heart surgery later this week in the United States.
Deputy premier Kathy Dunderdale confirmed the treatment at a news conference Tuesday, but would not reveal the location of the operation or how it would be paid for.
“He has gone to a renowned expert in the procedure that he needs to have done,” said Ms. Dunderdale, who will become acting premier while Mr. Williams is away for three to 12 weeks.
“In consultation with his own doctors, he’s decided to go that route.”
Mr. Williams’ decision to leave Canada for the surgery has raised eyebrows over his apparent shunning of Canada’s health-care system.
“It was never an option offered to him to have this procedure done in this province,” said Ms. Dunderdale, refusing to answer whether the procedure could be done elsewhere in Canada.
Mr. Williams, 59, has said nothing of his health in the media.
“The premier has made a commitment that once he’s through this procedure and he’s well enough, he’s going to talk about the whole process and share as much detail with you as he’s comfortable to do at that time,” she said.
This is a politician. What chance do you think the common Canadian has? This should be a lesson. Fix it, don't socialize it. Quality will suffer!
Just a follow up on this. The Premier had his operation in Florida. Here is his explanation. He had been told that his heart would probably give out within 4 months. The first opening for surgery would be in 9 months. (WOW, must suck to be Canadian and under that health care system if your really sick). As a politician however, he could jump to the front of the line (whoops! must suck to be Canadian and under that system if your really sick and not a politician) but he didn't feel that was fair. Honesty! Fair play! Not sure he is really a politician. After our politicians destroy our heathcare system, I wonder if they will push their way to the front of the line or fly to India? At our expense of course.
Monday, February 15, 2010
Tea Party Youth
The new Tea Party Youth Twitter site is up. I saw the intelligent young lady that started it in an interview on PJTV. A blog site is in the making. The link is at the right side of the page. If you have a teenager in your house you may want to send them the link.
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Added Pages
I have added two new pages linked at the top of the home page. The first is Washington Brainwashing which was taken from a previous home page posting. The second is a new one on the Laffer Curve. Watch for more pages to appear at the top that are going to be more educational than editorial. Most will have videos or links attached which will give you much more information than my post. I would urge you to to watch or link to them. I hope you enjoy and learn from them.
Sunday, February 7, 2010
I Joined The Abigail Adams Project
The Abigail Adams project (while still being set up) will be a link to all the information about every elected official Federal, State, County, City. It will list qualifications, voting records, and their stand on issues. It is a non-partisan site giving voters the information they need to make informed decisions about candidates for elected office. I have volunteered to set up the Floyd County Group. While I may (just a little) express my opinions on the American Tea Party site, my work with The Abigail Adams site will be totally unbiased listing of candidates and who they are.
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Friday, January 29, 2010
If you have never been there please check out Pajamas TV
You my have seen the link at the side of the page for Pajamas TV. I encourage anyone that has not been to this site to check it out. It is one of the most informative, fact filled, editorial news sites, on the web. Bill Whittle spoke at the Tea Party rally in Washington DC last year and was great. This man has a better grasp of the political world than anyone I see out there today. Steven Crowder, Andrew Klavan, Alfonzo Rachel, Sonja Schmidt, and Joe Hicks are also very common sense people that I follow. You can click their names at the top of the page and it will take you to a listing of their videos. Don't stop with them though. There is much more on this site.
If You Would Like to Post
Anyone that would like to post directly to this blog can email me directly at future4seen@comcast.net with their email address.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
In The Words Of A Great Man...Ronald Reagan
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan
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