WOW! You Don't Say!

One Democratic Senator on the Senate Finance Committee said the following about the 'healthcare reform' bill Congress is considering:

Sen. Thomas Carper (D.-Del.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, told CNSNews.com that he does not “expect” to read the actual legislative language of the committee’s health care bill because it is “confusing” and that anyone who claims they are going to read it and understand it is fooling people.

“I don’t expect to actually read the legislative language because reading the legislative language is among the more confusing things I’ve ever read in my life,” Carper told CNSNews.com.

And so, Senator, the question is, how can you or anyone else in your Party in Congress vote in favor of bills that you clearly do not comprehend?

Read the entire story here.

Only One ACORN Fell From This Tree

Congress voted this past week to de-fund ACORN, the community-activist organization front-group for the 'get out the vote for Obama' campaign. They will not get any more of our tax dollars, supposedly.

That is, unless you consider that the group has dozens of subsidiary organizations that go under different names, each getting their own share of the taxpayers' booty.

But this tree has dozens of acorns that need to fall, not the least of which are SEIU, the Apollo Alliance, the Tides Foundation, and many others--organizations that are also in bed with Obama and get millions if not billions from the public treasury.

By the way, Apollo actually wrote TARP-II, the Obama stimulus package approved by Congress without even being read. No wonder nobody knows what's in these bills anymore--Congress isn't writing the bills as they are required under the Constitution. They are being written by special interest groups with a vested interest in getting certain things funded under the radar screen.

And we all know what a fiasco the stimulus bill was--the bailout of Wall Street big-shots who duped the American people and sent the economy into a tailspin.

Oh, and just so you know, the 'Daddy War-Bucks' who is behind most of these murky, sleazy organizations around Obama is none other than George Soros, the billionaire who wishes to bring down American capitalism.

Back to Business on Healthcare

Congress is now back in session, and citizens should be wary.

Will the loud, angry outcry from the public on healthcare be heeded by our illustrious elected officials? Apparently not, as we report today at Columbia Conservative Examiner.

One good sign, however, is that 23 Democrats in the House have stated they will NOT vote for the healthcare reform bill.

Beware the 8th of September

Tomorrow is a key day when it comes to political shenanigans. There are 2 things that should be watched very closely.

Columbia Conservative Examiner has the story.

This is the time to be ever-vigilant!

Citizen Assault on Washington!

Let the record show that this day, September 1, 2009, is DAY ONE of the citizen assault on Washington.

The lamebrains in Congress are going to renew the push for government-run healthcare by removing the 'public option' and promoting it in Ted Kennedy's name.

No matter. The provisions of the Waxman Committee bill in the House still amount to government-run healthcare, even without the public option.

The details are at Columbia Conservative Examiner.

Time for a top-to-bottom housecleaning in 2010!

From a Reader...

A faithful reader of this blog sent me a copy of a letter he wrote to Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill on the ObamaCare debacle. He gave me permission to use it, and I decided I would.

I offer the letter without comment or response. It speaks for itself. And it represents the views of millions of us.

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This is my response to Sen. MacCaskill on her appearance on The O'Reilly Factor where she said she asked people, at the town hall meeting, to raise their hands if they were on Medicare, then asked them to put down their hands if they wanted to see the program ended. She then used that example as public approval of government health care, even though they may say they do not want Health Care Reform as currently presented.

Letter to Claire MacCaskill 08/13/09- Disingenuousness about Medicare and Health Care Reform

You ignored one very important distinction in your example of Medicare recipients not wanting that program to be discontinued. They had no choice. Paying into the system was not voluntary. It was compelled by law. In many cases more than 50 years of collection for each worker. The bite is now about 20 percent, yeah, I know the employee part is a little less than eight per cent on the paycheck, but don't you think the empoyer's equal contribution affects wage rates?

Then a couple of decades ago, medicare was separated from the FICA taxes, not by diversion of already being collected funds, but by adding more percentage points of deduction from paychecks for employees or gross income from the small businessman. Not voluntary, so to insinuate that recipients of medicare are in favor of government-run health care is patently incorrect and may even be dishonest.

They had no choice about enrollment in the program. Now that they have reached the age where medical care is more likely to be needed and after decades of having the monies taken from them that they could have used to provide it for themselves, they have a right to expect that contract be honored. Now that it needs to be honored, the administration wants to reduce the likelihood of the cash cows receiving the benefits they were promised for their mandatory support of the system, since they are no longer producing. Even if it means they are denied the care their money has already been paid for.

Money that they could have used to provide health care or insurance for themselves, they have a right to expect that contract be honored.

So, cut the crap. You already know all this. Do not again equate governmental compulsion of citizens into a forced program with citizen approval of that government program. You must give people a choice before you can infer approval.

Not so respectfully,

Charles H. Sawders
Doddridge, Ar.

Pelosi, Hoyer Don't Understand

From reading the op-ed in USA Today by Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer on healthcare, it is clear they don't understand the feelings of the American people.

This is my subject today at Columbia Conservative Examiner.

Citizens want to be heard. They don't want to listen to more of Pelosi/Democrat lies. This is why there is yelling at the townhall meetings.

While Pelosi and Hoyer refer to ObamaCare opponents as 'un-American,' read the article to find out who are REALLY 'un-American.'

Why There Will Be No Sustained Economic Recovery

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner asked Congress to increase the $12.1 trillion debt limit on Friday, saying it is "critically important" that they act in the next two months.

Mr. Geithner, in a letter to U.S. lawmakers, said that the Treasury projects that the current debt limit could be reached as early mid-October. Increasing the limit is important to instilling confidence in global investors, Mr. Geithner said.

The Treasury didn't request a specific increase in the letter.

As we have stated many times, no economic recovery can be sustained with the national debt and budget deficit being what they are under the Obama administration.

Geithner wants Congress to raise the debt limit from 12.1 Trillion Dollars to who-knows-what...which only confirms that Obama and company spend money like drunken juvenile delinquents who just stole a billionaire's credit card.

Read the whole thing here.

Blue Dog Dems Caught Lying About ObamaCare!

Obviously they are taking lessons from Nancy Pelosi.

Columbia Conservative Examiner.

The so-called 'conservative blue dogs' are no more trustworthy than Pelosi, Reid, Conyers, Waxman, or Obama!

The FEAR Factor

More on the story that Congress is afraid to face the voters back home:

Columbia Conservative Examiner.

Our elected representatives are now becoming aware of the rage in the heartland--toward THEM!

ALERT! Watch These in Congress Very Closely!

With the present undercurrent of secret deals and negotiations by the single most corrupt Congress in U.S. History, the following elected representatives should be watched very carefully...to keep them honest (if that is possible).

Stealthy negotiations are under way to give Americans a multi-trillion dollar govt takeover of healthcare that they do not want.

Here are some of the sleazy, underhanded 'negotiators' to watch:

In the House: Henry Waxman, Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer, John Conyers, and ALL blue dog Democrats who seem to be in a 'compromise' mode.

In the Senate: Max Baucus of Montana, Chuck Grassley, Olympia Snowe, Jeff Bingaman, Kent Conrad, Mike Enzi, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Susan Collins.

These 'power brokers' need to be monitored carefully. They will give us a version of Obamacare-lite in the name of 'compromise.'

This is totally unacceptable.

SPECIAL ISSUE! Bizarre Behavior in the House!

What on earth is going on in the U.S. House of Representatives?

Bizarre behavior, that's for sure.

Read all about it in this special issue of Columbia Conservative Examiner.

Thanks.

Stealth Congress-Obama Scheme in Shadows

While all eyes are focused on Sotomayor, as usual the stealth Congress and Barack Obama see this as a golden opportunity to scheme in the shadows as public attention is fixed elsewhere.

See what they're up to at Columbia Conservative Examiner.

Tell a friend?

Stimulus Bill Barely Squeaks By Senate

In a late-night Senate session, the 1.2 trillion-dollar stimulus package insisted upon by Obama and the Democrats barely squeaked by the Senate with just the 60 votes needed for approval.

Unfortunately, the robust conservative campaign to stop the bill by bombarding the offices of the 3 Republican turncoats--Specter, Snowe, and Collins--was to no avail. All 3 voted in favor of this national outrage.

The good news is that the vast majority of Republicans in Congress held firm against this bill. The package didn't get a single GOP vote in the House and only 3 in the Senate. This is a Democrat-Obama bill from top to bottom, and they will have to pay the piper when it fails.

But the bad news is that the country just allowed its elected representatives to send its heritage, its values, its principles, and its soul down the river. Democrats who sponsored that bill admitted repeatedly on Friday that they had no idea what was in the bill since they had not read it. Yet they took to the floor of Congress to denounce those with some intelligence who prefer to actually read legislation before casting a vote. And they themselves voted en mass to approve a bill they had not read.

How's that for prudence, responsibility, and professionalism?

We obviously have a Congress that is run by clowns, and the chief clown is in the White House.

But the American citizens will be the ones, unfortunately, left holding the bag when the payment comes due on this astronomical spending spree.

And what we do know about this bill is enough to make any thinking person wince.

Senior adults will have their healthcare rationed and withheld if they are deemed too old and sick to justify the cost of treating them. Yes, that's in the bill.

Gun rights are under attack in the bill as veterans will be forced to register with a national registry in order to buy a firearm.

The fraudulent group ACORN got 50 billion dollars to continue their ruse as a 'voter registration organization,' when in actuality they are a partisan Obama promotion gang.

Governors of states that refuse to accept stimulus money in the bill will be punished, such as South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, a fiscal conservative who decries the wasteful spending in the bill.

And this is only a small sampling. Billions more are going toward liberal pet projects that will do nothing but help Democrats get elected in the next election cycle.

I hate to sound pessimistic, my friends, but at this point the future of the country looks dire. It will be a miracle if we survive unless we find a way to oust the traitors in Congress in 2010, if we make it until then.

STOP THIS BILL!

This evening at approximately 7 PM, Eastern Standard Time, the Congress of the United States will vote on a compromise 'economic stimulus package' that costs, with interest, 1.2 trillion dollars.

But members of Congress have not even seen the bill and do not know what's in it!

You read that right. Members of Congress do not even know what all is included in the bill due to the fact that various and sundry members drafted parts of the bill without knowing what was included in the rest of the legislation.

As of this hour members of Congress still have not been given a copy of the bill they are supposed to vote on. And the final document will be over 700 pages long.

My friends, this thing is incredible and embarrassing. Apart from the bill itself, which is a tax-payer robbing monstrosity that will do little to help the economy, the manner in which the bill was put together by the Democratic majority is a case study in ineptitude, befuddled thinking, and outright chaos that results from haphazardly throwing something together just because Obama wants it and they want to appear to be 'doing something.'

It is still not too late to defeat this bill. I would recommend bombarding with phone calls and emails the Congressional offices of Arlen Specter, Olympia Snowe, and Susan Collins, as well as others who could be persuaded to vote no.

This bill needs to be stopped. Your country may depend on it.

Crowley: The Democratic Trainwreck of 2009

We've got Al Franken, about to get away with stealing his Senate seat.

We've got The Bama without a clue about Gaza, which is why he hasn't said anything about it beyond "It's concerning."

We've got The Bama nominating CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta to be Surgeon General. (What---Dr. Pepper wasn't available?)

Syndicated columnist, radio talk show host, and TV commentator Monica Crowley sees nothing but a trainwreck in the Democrats' first few days of the new Congress. Her words above are but a sampling of her commentary on Obama, Congress, and the incoming administration.

She just about says it all in a concise nutshell.