“I agree with Senator Reid that health reform should give Americans more options. Now, I want to work with him to ensure that all Americans can choose those options. The bottom line is that the public option can’t really hold private insurers accountable if it is only competing for 10 percent of the insurance market, because private insurance companies aren’t going to change their business practices if 90 percent of their customers can’t take their business elsewhere. Real reform means empowering Americans to choose insurance that works well for them and their family, while rejecting plans that don’t. Including a public option is a step in the right direction, now let’s remove the firewalls in this bill that prevent Americans from choosing it.”Read More......
Rep. Michelle Bachman (R-Minn.) wants you to meet her on the steps of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, November 5, at noon. She will walk with you through the Capitol Building to the offices of her constituents so you can deliver your message about Pelosi’s 1900+ page health care bill. Then she will accompany you to the gallery of the room where the House of Representatives will hear testimony on the health care bill, The Crown Jewel of Socialism.
From U.S. Senator Jim DeMint, 10/30/2009 - This Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 8:30 PM (EST)/5:30 PM (PST), conservatives from across the country will come together on a live, toll-free conference call to discuss strategy for the 2010 Senate elections. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC, Chairman, Senate Conservatives Fund), will lead the discussion along with Erick Erickson, the editor of RedState.com. They invite conservatives to register for the call and join them on the 3rd (also posted on our events calendar). Click here to register!"This event will launch the formation of a committed conservative community that will work together to win several critical Senate races. It will mark the beginning of a year-long movement to take back our country.
We will discuss which candidates are the true conservatives, answer questions about specific races, and explain what you can do to help defeat the liberal politicians who are destroying our country.
We will also conduct instant polls so you can vote for the candidates you like best using your telephone. And at the end of the call, I will announce at least one major endorsement for the 2010 elections.
Americans are waking up and conservatives are on the march. It started with tea parties, it grew into town halls, and then we marched on Washington. Now it's time to consolidate our efforts, target our resources, and replace the failed leadership in Washington."
It's not hard to argue that government reform is taking a big step in the wrong direction when the Government Oversight & Reform Committee Chairman Ed Towns is doing everything in his power to stop an investigation into sweetheart mortgage deals issued by Countrywide Financial to Sens. Chris Dodd and Kent Conrad. The Ranking Committee Member Darrell Issa has been leading the charge for a formal House investigation, but his efforts have resulted in Rep. Towns literally locking Rep. Issa out of the process. Rep. Towns told Rep. Issa and other Republican committee members today that the locks on the doors of the committee room had been changed and that they wouldn't be getting a key despite the fact the room for the Oversight & Reform Committee was paid for and is maintained by our taxpayer dollars.
The Chief Actuary in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in the Obama Health and Human Services department issued a memorandum late yesterday looking at the potential impact of the House health reform legislation (H.R. 3200). As the Associated Press and other media outlets have been reporting, the study shows that- among other things- the legislation would, as President Obama promised, bend the health care cost curve … but in the wrong direction."And so the guided questioning goes on without anyone losing face or being left out of the decision-making. Every weakness of every proposed tactic is probed by questions.... Is this manipulation? Certainly...." p.88
"One of the factors that changes what you can and can't communicate is relationships. There are sensitive areas that one does not touch until there is a strong personal relationship based on common involvements. Otherwise the other party turns off and literally does not hear....
"Conversely, if you have a good relationship, he is very receptive.... For example, I have always believed that birth control and abortion are personal rights to be exercised by the individual. If, in my early days when I organized... neighborhood in Chicago, which was 95 per cent Roman Catholic, I had tried to communicate this, even through the experience of the residents, whose economic plight was aggravated by large families, that would have been the end of my relationship with the community. That instant I would have been stamped as an enemy of the church and all communication would have ceased.
"Some years later, after establishing solid relationships, I was free to talk about anything.... By then the argument was no longer limited to such questions as, 'How much longer do you think the Catholic Church can hang on to this archaic notion and still survive?' ...the subject and nature of the discussion would have been unthinkable without that solid relationship." pp.93-94
"But imagine that you are a small business owner, and just consider—why expand now or rehire? since (a) I have no idea what the new taxes will be; (b) I have no idea about what all these new regulations, cap and trade, card check; etc will cost me; (c) I am beginning to think all this trash talk about bad doctors, insurance companies, the Chamber of Commerce, CEOs, the wealthy, etc. suggests this administration does not like me or what I do; (d) the government is everywhere: Ford now must compete against Government Motors; Banks against government-affiliated Citibank; Blue Cross against the public option; and so on. If I have a business, somewhere down the line there is going to be a government-run rival, sort of like your local can’t go broke PBS station in every avenue of commerce. Why insist on ensuring hustling employees when the rival, overpaid DMV-like work force can’t go broke whatever they do?"Hanson covers much more than business in "Obamanoia." Read more at Works and Days... Read More......
“It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.” --Barbara Jordan
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"We cannot expect the Americans to jump from capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving Americans small doses of socialism until they suddenly awake to find they have Communism." -- Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev, 1959
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples’ money.” -- Margaret Thatcher
"Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread." --Thomas Jefferson
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have." -- Thomas Jefferson
When government doesn’t agree with the people, it’s time to change the people -- Bertolt Brecht
“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.” -- Sir Winston Churchill
The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed. -- Adolf Hitler
