SENATE’S OMINOUS VOTE POINTS TO CRAMDOWN

The United States Senate Financial Affairs Committee voted this morning 13-10 to deny an amendment to the Baucus Health Care Reform Bill that would have prevented government funds from being used to fund abortions. The vote leaves open the door in both the House and Senate versions through which abortions might be funded and is a slap in the face to Right-to-Life protesters and religious taxpayers who have opposed the Bills for that and other reasons.

More than that, the vote offers some insight into what will happen in the Senate when the Bill reaches the floor for a full vote. Combined with the recent vote against a proposed requirement that would have allowed the Senate version to be posted on the Internet for 72 hours before a vote was taken and that would also have required Senators to read the Bill before voting on it, the stage is now set for the Bill to hit the floor and be voted on before Americans know what is in it. There was some glimmer of hope in the Committee vote to drop the government-run option yesterday, but we see that move as a matter of convenience to take some of the rising steam out of opposing arguments. Nevertheless, the government option can now be reinserted into the Bill which can, in turn, be voted on and passed in a late-night session while America sleeps.

The vote tally, 13-10, also portends that the Senate will not be able to pass the Bill with a 60% majority. In fact, it is entirely possible that such an attempt will not occur and that Senator Reid will force the Senate into the 51-vote reconciliation option where a simple majority will win the day. In doing so, he avoids the probability of an embarrassing failure that could inflame the passions of those against the Bill’s passage.

Over in the House, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has demurely announced that she would be more than willing to post the Senate’s Bill for 72 hours before the House votes on it, but she does so knowing that the Democrat-controlled House will pass the legislation no matter what Americans think.

In other words, Obama is so determined to win and Congress is so determined to back him that no one cares what Americans are thinking and no one cares about the 2010 elections. How they can proceed on this course, knowing that they will inevitably be tossed out of office, poses an interesting question: Is there something already in the works, some future event perhaps, that is slated to take place between now and 2010 that will prevent the Members running for reelection from being replaced?

Another possibility for this evident and flagrant disregard for American opinion is that Obama and his liberal associates see a defeat or a change of course in their health care as becoming an enormous obstacle to future targets on their agendas… gun control, free speech control and free media/press control. Whatever the reason behind their relentless march toward passage of “The Plan,” Americans are definitely and for decades to come, going to feel the resulting pains in their pocketbooks, in their quality of health care, and in the care of the senior population.

They have seemed willing to reopen the pains of segregation and racism, willing to turn a divide in America into a chasm from which we may never recover… in short, they are willing to risk the future of liberty and justice in this country… in order to in. In their own minds, they are prepared to and must win at all costs, costs which we Americans will be forced to pay.

Are we going to be to blame for this travesty, or are we going to continue to assert our positions?

HEALTH CARE: There's Much More Bad We Haven't Been Told

1. Not only do illegal aliens get free health care, they are specifically exempt from paying for it.
2. A board of medical review will decide whether or not you get treatment.

There's a whole lot more you need to know about...straight from the language of the Bill:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7sQHunYdN8

You really need to finish watching this guy, because he tells it exactly like it is and should be told:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MJsF11PsnQ

Please... Watch them both

Our Congress and our President are about to impose on us, against our will, the worst disservice to our country that has ever been perpetrated by anyone, including the Japanese at Pearl Harbor.

No wonder the U.S. Senate just voted to refuse to allow you to see it before they vote on their bill.

CENSORSHIP BEGINS

SPECIAL POST

The Department of Health & Human Services has sent a letter to insurance companies warning them not to communicate to their policy holders on company positions or information regarding the proposed government-run health care plan. The Department of Health and Human Services on Monday sent out a broad directive to all Medicare Advantage participants, telling them to "immediately discontinue all such mailings" and to remove any such material from their Web sites. DHHS has explained that they don't want the public to be "misinformed."

Nine months into Obama's Presidency, his Cabinet Secretaries are now into censorship, a direct violation of the First Amendment?

WHAT IS HAPPENING TO OUR COUNTRY?

DEAR AMERICAN SCHMUCK

One of the first moves he made was to try and make G.I.’s pay for their own insurance. Then, we ended up with a House Health Care Plan that left a large loophole open to allow illegal aliens to get free government insurance. Then, he denied that the plan would provide illegal aliens with free insurance; when challenged on that by a Member of Commerce, he gave a wry and condescending smile as if to say, “The guy who just called me a liar is not American and should shut up and get out of the way.” The next day, no fanfare provided or intended, Congress came up with verbiage that should specifically prevent illegals from getting free government health insurance. However, bear in mind that the final language of the Bill has not yet been approved and our friends in Congress have a nasty habit of dropping such clauses at 2:00 AM, just before the vote.

To add insult to injury, we today hear that he plans to give them all amnesty, to declare them as citizens and then to put them on the government-run health plan. In his mind, that solves the illegal alien issue and the insurance issue and his lying issue all in one breath.

Whenever someone in government wants to pull the wool over your eyes, they obfuscate, pontificate, postulate and prevaricate; writing ANY legislation with over 20 pages, let alone 1,000, provides the writer the opportunity to do all kinds of things. When you hire someone from outside government to write the Bill and you make the Bill over 1,000 pages and set up a timeline for a vote that denies a public reading and understanding, and then you force the vote before even those voting can read and understand, just what is it that you are trying to accomplish, could it be, “pulling the wool?” Or, would you call it “glorified dictatorship?”

Next, we talk about closing Guantanamo and bringing those terrorist prisoners to the U.S. and providing them with free government lawyers. While Obama absolutely insists that we will be safe and have nothing to worry about, an Al Queda associate terrorist and his buddies got caught red-handed in the middle of a plot to blow the hell out of something in New York, and law enforcement admits there are many terrorist cells active in the U.S. Are we trying to facilitate an Al Queda family reunion right under our noses, or what?

What about questions from prior to the election that got swept under the rug without answers?

1. If you are running for President of the United States and you donate $40,000 to someone named Khalidi and the Arab American Action Group which in turn sends it to the PLO to try and take down Israel, and your wife is a personal friend of the guy named Khalidi who sponsored a web page on your campaign website until someone in the media discovered the implications....Would THAT be good?

2. If two men from the Middle East with direct ties to Hezbollah contributed heavily to his Presidential campaign, to which he admitted and said he would send the money back, but several months later it appears that they never got the money back, is THAT good?

3. If his Presidential campaign took in over $33 million in contributions from foreign countries, and if over 500 "unidentified" contributions came from Iran.....Is THAT good? If he refused to provide names of those contributors, wouldn’t that be even worse?

4. If you ask questions about a candidate's ties to terrorism or voter fraud, is that really, as some Congressman has suggested, racial bigotry? Is the question itself racial bigotry? Or, is the whole scene good, bad, or horse-faced? Who really IS playing the race card here, and what is the object? What's this with Carter, Clinton and Cosby calling us "racists?" Would Obama rather have us on the brink of another Civil War as a penalty for being against his stupid health care bill or for showing up and asking questions at Town Hall meetings? Or, is this all about steering us away from the real issues so that he can get his way while our minds run astray?

5. OBAMA denied being connected to ACORN at all. Nevertheless, he did represent them as their attorney. And, nevertheless, he did volunteer to teach them how to pressure banks into giving home loans to unqualified borrowers. Then, after becoming President, he arranged for them to take the 2010 Census and signed into law a Bill giving them $8 billion of our money, and he has the unmitigated gall to say over the weekend that he doesn’t really know all that much about ACORN or pay much attention to them?

Since ACORN is smack dab in the middle of the biggest voter fraud scandal in recent memory, since they are Democratic oriented and strongly support Obama and have asked him to help them after he gets in the WHITE HOUSE, is that Good, Bad, or totally Un-American and really.......against the law?

6. If he signed a petition saying that Bill Ayers is a nice guy, is that good, bad or downright Un-American?

7. If he, as a Presidential candidate, refused access to any of his life history, what is he really hiding? I mean, we already know about his associations. We already know what kind of people he has surrounded himself with in the White House. We already know that he has family living in squalid conditions and that he has not lifted one finger to help them. We already know that he is a manipulative liar. What else could he possibly be hiding that is even worse than what we already know….in his college records, in his medical records and in his birth records? Just why did he spend over $800,000 of his own money on lawyers to fight of access to his birth records, and just why did Congress and the Attorney General drop that question like a hot potato?

8. Why did he list about $850,000 in donations from his Presidential campaign to ACORN as being for staging and lighting set ups instead of for donations, when in fact ACORN was the principle supporter for getting out voters for his campaign? What did he anticipate covering up?

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Mr. and Mrs. America, how do you feel about spending an extra $1,700 a year in energy costs under “Cap and Trade?” How do you feel about paying an extra $3,800 per year in medical insurance expenses while getting declining services and declining access to health care entirely? How do you feel about saddling your children with these ongoing and growing expenses PLUS untold more thousands of dollars a year in tax burdens because your Congress has been a rubber-stamp for everything he says until you held tea parties and showed up at Town Hall meetings and in Washington to protest… And how do you feel about that same Congress, who told you flat out that they don’t have to listen to you… now manipulating to pass a Health Care Plan by using a little known and not-much-used provision in the rules to avoid the 2/3 majority vote required by other legislation and to allow only a simple majority of 51 to enact it?

I should rephrase that question: Mr. & Mrs. Schmuck, how do you really feel about all of this?

GOVERNMENT TO BAIL OUT NEWSPAPERS?

Now, the government will own the major banks and the newspapers? Is this truly the end of freedom?

THE TEACHER, THE PREACHER AND ACORN

ACORN is finally in trouble for dirty deeds that it has been undertaking for many years. Back in the days of its conception, ACORN was intimidating bankers into funding loans for less than qualified home buyers; many of those loans went kaput and were part of the Freddie Mac and Mannie Mae debacles. Who taught them how to do these things? By his own admission, Barack Hussein Obama, a Chicago attorney with nefarious connections to Bernadette Dorn, Bill Ayers, Tony Rezko, Farrakhan and others, was the teacher. Was Obama being coached by Jeremiah Wright?

When Obama, the community "organizer," decided to seek public office, ACORN was there to make sure that Illinois voters went to the polls to get him elected to the state senate and then the United States Senate. Obama repaid ACORN by steering state and federal funding into its coffers. ACORN was involved in purported election fraud both in the second-term Bush election and in the Obama election. Obama's campaign donated almost $900,000 to ACORN to get out the vote, a donation that was initially classed as stage work?

Although allegations of voter fraud surfaced across the country, both the Federal Elections Commission and the Attorney General of the United States elected not to investigate the matter and... at Obama's direction, the Commerce Department announced that the 2010 Census would be conducted by..... ACORN.

Now come video tapes of ACORN teaching clients how to break the law, evade taxes, bring underage prostitution into the country.... all while being a tax exempt 501 (c) 3 entity receiving federal grants. Current and former officials of ACORN have been caught embezzling money...taxpayer money... from ACORN, but ACORN did not file criminal charges against them. Neither did the Attorney General, for that matter, and embezzlement of federal funds is a federal crime.

Now, who taught ACORN? What was his name again?

ACORN AND THE PRESIDENT

They’re joined at the hip.

How does it feel to have an ACORN thug as your President?

Do you realize how close we came to having ACORN conduct the 2010 Census?

Does it bother you that ACORN gets massive government funding?

Did you know that ACORN is tax exempt?

Would you be concerned to know that the Administration and Eric Holder, as well as Congress, actively thwarted an investigation into ACORN's crooked election activities?

Was ACORN going to be knocking on your doors to conduct your end-of-life consulting?

If this is the way Obama and his cohorts are running this country, just wait until we get Obama’s Government-Run Health Care Plan. They'll be able to pick and choose who gets treatment and what treatment we get.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NmaZIdz6Vo

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THEY PRETEND NOT TO HEAR OUR MESSAGE

Have you noticed the almost total lack of coverage of the dozens of Tea Party protests over the weekend?

Maybe they think that by ignoring us, we will dry up and blow away?

OBAMA CALLED A "LIAR" DURING SPEECH

In an unusual outburst from the Republican side of Aisle, Representative Joe Wilson, R-S.C., shouted out "You lie" when the president said illegal immigrants would not benefit from his new Government-Run Health Care Plan. Obama continued his speech without suggesting that a provision might be included in the Bill to rule out Illegal Aliens from taking advantage of the plan at our expense.

That single moment defined everything that the President had to say as he addressed Congress and the nation.

There was nothing new in his speech, but there were denials that what the public is increasingly saying about the plan is true. He continued to insist, in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that he can increase coverage, improve insurance and reduce costs... all at the same time. In the same breath, he said that seniors would not not be adversely impacted by his plan.

In suggesting that he will cut $600 billion plus from Medicare, he virtually guaranteed that the Medicare Advantage program that retirees have the option of buying in to will be eliminated, meaning that health care for seniors will, in fact, get worse. And how any body in their right mind has the gall to stand up before America and tell us that the government is going to cut costs on ANY government program is way beyond me.

His speech is dismissive of all of the issues we Americans have put forth in Town Hall Meetings this summer. He so much as thumbed his nose at us. He did indicate that he might be willing to give in on the "Government Option," but this comes after a remark from a top Democratic Congresswoman this morning to the effect that such a "waiver" of the Presidents "option" would only be temporary.

Frankly, as I have been saying for several months... This Government-Run Health Care Plan is going to be crammed down our throats whether we like it or not. Obviously, you did not make yourselves heard in the Town Hall Meetings. And the President and his puppets in Congress obviously think that you and I are not going to do anything about it. They think that, just as we've always done, we ARE going to shut up and get out of the way.

Could they be correct?

HEALTH CARE ISSUE: NO ROOM FOR NEW IDEAS?

SPECIAL POST

It’s obvious that certain members of Congress, most of them, are oblivious to what the public thinks. They want things done their way, and they intend to have them done their way whether Americans like it or not.

Here’s a fact: Their way will greatly increase the national debt that our grandchildren will have to pay. Since it doesn’t address tort reform, malpractice awards will continue to climb and the cost of malpractice insurance will continue to climb and the costs to us, the taxpayers who are footing this damned bill, will also continue to climb.

Here’s a fact: Since their bill does nothing to address the high costs of drugs or to allow us to purchase from Canada, the cost of drugs will continue to climb, and the cost of health insurance will continue to climb and the costs to us, the taxpayers who are footing this damned bill, will also continue to climb.
Here’s a fact: They have already openly admitted that they will be cutting Medicare benefits and Medicare Advantage will be history, which means that the seniors in this country will be forced into paying more for the coverages and availability of treatment they currently have. When faced with this, seniors will be forced to the government-run health care plan, and the costs to the taxpayers who are footing this damned bill, will also continue to climb.

Here’s a fact: Their bills do not deny health care coverage… full government health care coverage… for illegal aliens. So, the costs of the government-run health care plan will continue to rise, and the costs to the taxpayers who are footing this damned bill, will also continue to climb.

Here's a fact: Their bills allow for government-funded abortions, an absolute atrocity in the ethical and moral minds of most people who have any religious background at all. In fact, more than one Congressman has said that the government should encourage, or even force abortions where the parents are on welfare or unable to care for their newborns. Not only is this outrageous, but the costs to the taxpayers who are footing this damned bill, will also continue to climb.

Here’s a fact: The country is already faced with a shortage of adequately trained medical professionals and staffers. Adding 47 million more people to the system as it now stands while refusing to address the issue of shortage will only mean longer waits, less service, and worse treatment, all leading to more serious ailments requiring more treatment, and the costs to the taxpayers who are footing this damned bill, will also continue to climb.

So, the costs to us, the taxpayers will continue to climb. The lawyers will continue to get rich, the drug companies and insurance companies will continue to get rich, the seniors will get worse and more expensive care, we’re not encouraging more people to get into the medical profession, and by the time everyone realizes how we have royally screwed ourselves, it will be too late to undo what has been done.

The bills as written and being written are both immoral and repugnant to every sense of decency and financial responsibility to our seniors, our children and our grandchildren.

Given general agreement that health care costs to damned much in this country and that it should be available to all Americans at an affordable price, why is it that we cannot roll up our sleeves and work together to address malpractice awards, drug profits, insurance profits, cost-containment for retirees, coverage for the unemployed, and incentives to enter the health care industry? All of this can be accomplished without the government getting its nose another expensive boondoggle like Amtrack or the Post Office, or bailouts, or stimulus... or religious beliefs.

There can be only one answer to the question of “Why.” Those in power in Washington are hell-bent on gaining more control over us. I, for one, will not sit still for any more government infringement on the liberties and freedoms our forefathers gave their blood for. My position is well-stated in www.myamericanopinion.com

This cavalier mismanagement of our country must stop, and it must stop now. We can, and we must, set aside our Democrat vs. Republican mentalities and put America first. And, unless we Americans are willing to insist that it be done OUR way, by working together and seeking rational solutions, WE will be to blame for the decline in morality, the debt burdens and lack of freedoms our grandchildren will be left with as our legacy to them.

Shame on us if we turn our backs on our country and its future now.

OUR UGLY, LYING, CONNIVING GOVERNMENT

SPECIAL REPORT

They’ve been ballyhooing the fact that things are “all right” now, the recession is over and that they were "in control" all along; their stimulus plan and bailouts worked. Tell that to about 18 million people who are out of work. Here’s what our government is really saying…

18 million? I know we’re at 9.7% unemployment, but I thought that was only 15 million. Oh, yeah, we just happened to forget to mention the 3 million who have been out of work and who have already fallen off the unemployment eligibility roles. Just a slight oversight… we’ve made a few lately. No big deal.

Oh…I guess you’re right. There are a few million others who need and want to work full-time but are only working part-time, but they’re not really included in the statistics. Now, don’t you “assholes” forget that we saved you 750,000 jobs already this year and the government is going to hire 273,000 additional employees with your money. So, actually, that’s a positive surplus from the predictions and that’s why we’re out of the recession.

Uhhhh, yeah, I guess I did read someplace that 1.3 million more people will fall off the unemployment rolls by the end of the year, but that will reduce the unemployment figures from the current 9.7% down to about 9.0%, which is another sign that we’re making great progress.

Why we’re not talking about the now 89 bank failures this year? Well, they either did not qualify for bailout money or they did not apply for it, so they don’t count. The economy is fine, take my word for it and…. Hey! Listen up you Nazi moron! You unpatriotic mobster, you! Shut up and get out of the way! We’ve got a new Government Run Health Care Plan to get passed and we don’t want you confusing the public with your meaningless, impertinent facts! God damned Town Hall Meetings, anyway….full of paid Fox stooges….

(Just give us six more months to finish getting everything into place and they can take their so-called Democracy and shove it anyway, right Leonid?)

AMERICA REBORN: LET'S ROLL!

As I traveled along Interstate 80 on my way from California to Wyoming, I passed the American Tea Party caravan that was on its second day of a coast-to-coast tour; its mission: to hold rallies and raise awareness of the many problems facing our nation today, from taxes to runaway spending to the national economy, to cap and trade and to national health care. I honked at them and waved at them. I was probably one of tens of thousands of people who will honk and wave by the time their trip is over on September 11th in Washington, D.C.

In the one week since this blog last was written, the winds have changed direction. Americans are heeding the warnings and they are listening closely to what is being said or printed, by whom and to whom. And, as Americans are discovering for themselves that what has been said here and in "MY AMERICAN OPINION," is the truth and has always been the truth, they are coming to grips with the fact that our country IS in serious jeopardy.

Liberty, freedom and justice are under attack from every direction. Members of Congress and our President have set a course for this nation that can only end in violence and loss of life; it must be stopped at all costs. And, when we stand up and ask questions and point out our concerns, they are "playing dumb" and turning a deaf ear because most of them know in their hearts and souls that we are right and they don't have the guts to admit it. They prefer to talk us down, call us names, and to bully and intimidate us instead of admitting the errors of their ways.

Members of Congress. Mr. President. This year on September 11, 2009, America will be reborn, and there is not one damned thing you can do to stop us.