Why The Tea Party Movement is a Threat to Both Parties

The tea party movement has enormous potential power.

The threat to the liberal agenda is obvious, we have common sense and the country’s best interest at heart.

The threat to the right is less obvious.  They should- and do fear it too.

The tea party movement can bring an end to the status quo.  The end to an era of business as usual at the expense of the citizens.

To explain what I mean by the right: Those who have dominated the political right from the time of Gerald Ford until now.

These are not conservatives. Ronald Reagan being an exception of course.

There are a few solid conservatives, but they are in the minority within the ranks of the right who hold power.

We know who holds power, the likes of John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell, Michael Steele etc.

Despite being slaughtered in the last two election cycles at the polls, they hold to the losing proposition that they must adhere to being mired in the muck of the middle ground, that they must be bi-partisan, and that they must forever allow for compromises even to our most sacred principles as lain out by our Forefathers!

The left and their compliant media slyly have encouraged this position for the right as the only reasonable position to take.

This they have willingly complied with.  As a result we are bleeding from a thousand cuts instead of dying quickly.

This too plays right into the left’s hands and has enabled them to live by a double standard resulting in a steady increase in their political power.

From filibusters of judicial nominees to watered down, but still liberal socialism plans, on S-chip and prescription drugs entitlement programs, the liberals have won their way.

There is every indication that those in the right still holding power have learned nothing.

There is also every indication that they also believe that they can continue to lead us where we do not wish to go, and to choose a strategically impossible ground from which to fight from.

Many, many people have expressed  that the tea party movement should not allow the takeover by the Republican Party as it is.  Agreed!

Though we cannot afford to lose to the left again in 2010,  likewise we cannot allow a weak and wimpy party to lead us astray because we think we have no other choice!  There is another choice.  Stand our ground!

We do not have time to build viable third parties as they can only be effective if they too are built solidly- from the ground up.

Many people might disagree,  yet look at their history of failure.

The answer lies in changing the leadership of the right.

How do we do this and still fight from a solid position?

We stand our ground.  We make them come to us and fight from the position of republican conservative  principles once again. They come to us, and stay with us,  or fight alone.

This is what must happen, there is no other solution that can work in time.

The largest demographic of people in this country do not need to budge. The polls show that 63% of the country still hold mostly conservative values.

Those that wish to be on the winning team need to come to us, listen,  do what we ask of them.

What we ask is what the Founders laid out-to be followed as intended.

We cannot allow our tea party movement to be swallowed up by the current failure of leadership on the right.  We must guard well what we have started and organized, and beware of this inevitable attempted coup by the current power within the party,  while we continue to scrutinize the left and defend against their radical agenda.

The right needs to get out of the cronyism game of  ‘pay to play’ both parties use now to horse trade for votes, money,  and for power.

While the elitist’s (on both sides) are busy scratching each others backs, they are crushing the peoples backs- with a burden of massive debt,  over regulation,  overspending,  new taxation,  and the taking of our liberty.

The tea party movement has arisen in the nick of time to say ENOUGH!

We now need to stand our ground- and demand that any who seek to be our leaders  get on board our train!

Statewide Conservative Conference scheduled in Bellevue

Many of our friends of this site are participating in this conference

on Saturday, October 10th,2009,  at the Westin Bellevue.

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GOP Job #1

Originally posted at TeaPartyNation.com

Dear GOP-

Your job is not to come in and try and take the lead in the tea party movement- you have one job-

Listen!

One of the things you will hear is- grow a spine!  Fight for what is right!

Another thing you will hear is do not compromise our conservative principles! We do not want or need bi-partisanship as you try to claim, when principles are involved that are pitting liberty against tyranny!

Yet another issue for you to grasp- is that being labeled the ‘party of no’ is a good thing when the ‘party of overspend’ is in power!

Some other notes you may care to take; we like Sarah Palin much more than you,  so maybe you can take some notes on her values, and backbone, and then look in the mirror!

You will also hear us say “quit with the global warming crap”…if you haven’t figured it out by now, not only is it a big liberal scheme, the solutions for fixing the “non problem” make us more dependent than ever on our enemies to survive!

If you really pay a little closer attention you will have noticed that we have no qualms whatsoever calling a socialist by that name, and oh by the way Obama is a socialist, a Marxist, and exhibits a fondness for the communism revolution, not American freedom or capitalism. And what’s up with his snuggling up with all the other tyrants of the world?

Listen and you will hear us ask, where are the investigations of these “trusted public servants” caught red handed as tax cheats and liars and thieves?  Why is a second tier govt. set up out of sight in the Executive?

If you will listen you will see we do not want to be dictated to, we want you to go back to what your job description actually is, servant to the people!

The American people are rising up out of frustration for a reason- you do not listen, neither party listens, and we have had it! We are not going to let you ruin our beloved country! Too many have sacrificed their blood to preserve it!

We expect you to follow our Constitution at all times.

America is not a welfare experiment, quit treating us as if we need your guidance, listen when we tell you to leave us alone to manage our own affairs.

The more you try and fix everything the more it needs repair from your remedies!

Repeal the failures, the unconstitutional big government anchors dragging down our ship!

When you realize what you do is more important than finding money for an election you may regain our respect.

If we say not to do that,  and you continuously tell us you will do it anyways, as has been the case, we will expose you, and the money will not help you to keep your job.

If you voted for cap and tax, or the health reform socialism, or for Sonia Sotomayer you not only do not hear us, but show contempt for America as she was meant to be. We will not forget.

We do not know the grand world scheme that is up your sleeves, but if you are part of it- cease and desist, because we want no part of UN run central power world governance over us!

Restore America, follow the Constitution. Laws are to protect our freedoms, not to deny them.

Do you get it? Listen!

America is screaming at you, listen!

Once you hear us, maybe then you will once again fight for what is right.

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Attention Parents!

Obama Worship Indoctrination scheduled for September 8th, 2009
This is an outrage to use our public school systems for political influence and is something we could expect out of a dictatorial regime but not something that we can tolerate in America.

Read more on the administrations plans to misuse the school systems for this purpose at:

Surge USA – SurgeUSA.org – free to choose against the liberal insurgency

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An open letter to Glenn Beck about the 9/12 protest in Washington DC

An important analysis of where the American people are- and what we need to do to stop an elitist government, and replace it with a representative one. I hope all my friends and readers take the time to read this piece.
An open letter to Glenn Beck about the 9/12 protest in Washington DC

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Md’s Fighting Back

Liberty Belle needs our help calling MD’s

Friday, August 28, 2009

Volunteers Needed to Make Phone Calls!

Volunteers Needed to Call Some Doctors!
What: The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) and Tea Party Patriots have organized a Doctor’s Rally on September 10, in Washington D.C. This rally will take place two days before the big taxpayer march on September 12. They need to get the word out to doctors and they are desperate for people who can make some phone calls in the next couple of days! They need to call over 400 physicians in Washington State. If you have any time at all, please consider helping out.
Contact: If you want to volunteer, please email Kathryn Serkes at kathryn@takebackmedicine.com, and put “Volunteer to call WA Docs” in the subject line. You can check out the AAPS’s website here for more information about how they are fighting against this legislation, and fighting for doctors and patients.

The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons is fighting the health care reform battle

We also note that the White House is now being sued for suppression of free speech over their attempt to silence critics with the fishy and illegal  flag@whitehouse.gov data collection program-

CONTACT: Kathryn Serkes, AAPS
serkes@att.net
www.AAPSonline.org

August 27, 2009
Embargoed until 11 am:

WHITE HOUSE SUED OVER FREE SPEECH VIOLATIONS in healthcare battle: Doctor & patient groups say White House intended to shut up opponents

Washington DC — The Office of the President and other White House officials are defendants in a free speech lawsuit filed by a prominent physician group, and a non-profit advocate for inner-city poor.

The White House has “unlawfully collected information on political speech,” thereby illegally using the power of the White House to chill opposition to its plans for health care reform, according to the complaint filed in District Court for the District of Columbia, by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) and the Coalition for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE) .

The lawsuit was prompted by the White House solicitation for the public to report any “fishy” comments to ‘flag@whitehouse.gov.’ Although the White House slightly revised its data collection procedure last week, the email address still exists, the illegal activity continues, and is part of an “unlawful pattern and practice to collect and maintain information” on the exercise of free speech, which “continues in violation of the Privacy Act and First Amendment even if the Defendants terminate a particular information-collection component due to negative publicity.”

Tea Party Movement Unity

E * Pluribus * Unum~ “Out of Many,  One”

Freedom!

UPDATE:Post 9/12 March on DC

Incredible numbers of patriots traveled to DC to send the message Washington needs to hear;

DC Listen!  You work for us!

Incredibly, many of the elitist’s pretended not to notice, and continue to try to minimize the significant and historic occasion!

As many as 2 million may have traveled to be there.  Chances are we will not know for sure, yet the numbers visible and apparent show that we are significant, and we are coming together to form a strong voice.

The “Pay to Play” DC bureaucrats are in for a rude awakening ,  there are millions more at home who wished to be there also.

Getting organized locally, and finding strong candidates within our ranks, is the general step all groups should be working on now.

UPDATE: Post July 4th, 2009

July 4th weekend brought in a very encouraging new wave of tea party events, with numbers that matched or exceed in all probability the April 15th Tax Day attendance figures!

Membership in groups organized at all levels is still rising, and the planning for and operation of events is very organized compared to earlier.  Most events are seeing a mixture of tea party members from various groups such as Tea Party Patriots, Tea Party Nation, and Smart Girl Politics for example.  Petition drives, counter protests, writing and calling campaigns, “Galt strikes”, and circle of five groups are having an effect though the msm media is trying it’s hardest to ignore it all!

The grand plans of the socialist schemes of  “Cap and Tax” and Socialized Health Care have run into a solid wall of resistance that was practically non existent 6 months ago!

The coalitions of tea party allies is working itself out as the common purposes of limiting government, stopping insane spending and taxation, and restoring state sovereignty are primary focuses in all these groups.

Both the political left and the “status-quo right” are struggling to understand the upstart grass root movement which seeks to remove both groups from the power they have abused- and to restore a representative government to a right of center populous that believes in the constitutional principles of a free republic!

Recent efforts by groups of Acorn members, union bosses,  and the move-on crowd to protest for socialized medicine were flops that were met by even larger numbers of tea party counter protesters!

I look to see more and more of this unity as in the July 17th protest to occur simultaneously at every single congressional office across the nation by most of the major groups of tea party members!

e pluribus unum!

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Original post below

From silent voices to a thunderous roar!

Our tea party movement is growing from a general angst and anger at government’s out of control spending, with people showing up to  hastily arranged rallies unsure about what to do once they got there, to multitudes of new organizational entities all over the spectrum of communications, but especially online.

We call it the “Tea Party Movement” inspired by the historical revolt in colonial times that manifested with actions such as the famous disposal of crates of tea into the Boston Harbor.

By now everyone is aware that 100’s of thousands showed up in every state on April 15th for a tax day revolt.

Since that time there have been dozens of small and sporadic events for various reasons all over- but nothing huge yet since Tax Day.  It gives an outsider,  many of them who can not see the validity behind the movement, (and still don’t “get it”), the impression  that the movement has lost steam.

Believe me, it hasn’t! We are in a quiet phase though,  as people have begun working in earnest to develop websites, social networks, broadcasting alternatives, blogs and other tools of communication for the tea party movement or “counter insurgency” against redistribution and ever increasing burdens thrust upon the taxpayer- by a very determined, and leaning socialist,  government.

Our new organizations are comprised of people that are conservative, and traditional family oriented individuals for the most part.

Our groups are often working separately at the same time on the very same issues- nothing wrong with that at all in my opinion.

The colonists did the same, they worked on their own issues, but they recognized that they too had mutual interests,  and found ways to work together in unity on those issues!

So,  I propose that the time has come- for our diverse, and different groups, to  decide to initiate a “Minuteman alert system“, or “e pluribus unum coalition” if you will,  that we can go to and see,  direct our members to see,  and be able to really accomplish huge results!

I have seen many of the same comments on the various sites…imagine what we could do if we were all working with each other?  We can still have our competitive nature while having a coalition for action too.

The greatest symbol of freedom and strength  of unity is our American flag.  We see still our thirteen stripes together, yet sovereign. We see our states equal, separate, yet united on the flag!

This is the tradition of America and should and can happen with our Tea Party movement !

If we can agree this is needed-

Than we must find a way to make it work,

like our forefathers, we will not have an easy task.

First we agree to the principle, than we agree how to do it, and than we pledge to stay within the guidelines we establish for it.

Finally, the  last step is turning that silence… into a thunderous roar!

If you happen to read this post, and wish to pass this along to your group or organization-

we may see what can happen!

Seattle Counter protest ROCKS!

I will never forget the look of shock on their faces as they marched into Westlake and saw us across the street. They couldn’t believe it because we’ve never stood up to them before. It was the most joyous sight I could ever hope to see. Their guest speakers referred to us over and over again, “Don’t listen to those people over there..” “… like those people over there…” “be louder than those people over there…” Please. They made us the stars of their event. Gracias. We interrupted their mojo and everyone could feel it. It was palpable.

Read Liberty Belle’s account of the Funeral for Health Care!

UPDATES:

1. Check out the total blackout coverage from KOMO. Seems as though they only covered the start of opposition’s rally at the Pratt Park end and then a little bit of their march. Curious as we sent them press releases about our activities at the Westlake Park end, and they didn’t even bother to send one reporter. If you have pictures or video of the event, please send them with an email or letter to our local news media, T.V. and print!

2. Just a few pics to whet your appetites!

Photos via Redistributing Knowledge blogspot

More photos to follow!

An Open letter to KOMO

We predicted your behavior, and sure enough you acted true to form.

We are sure you have your reasons, and excuses, and frankly- I do not need to hear them at all!

You failed at reporting! That’s not news to us!

It wasn’t like you were not notified in advance, because, of course, you were.

It’s OKAY if you  exercise your prerogative and select the news to report.

What’s so big about 400+ people there as counter protesters, whom are truly the grass roots enthusiastic, and committed group of the two crowds gathered yesterday?

The ‘astroturf’ crowd sure noticed our Funeral for Health Care, they were distracted to the point of frustration.

They, the artificial astroturfers held their mass produced union signs, and almost no American flags- while the real grassroots crowd had very creative homemade signs, and were the ones waving all the American flags!

Your story conveniently omits any mention of our crowd while misrepresenting their crowd as attracting people from all over the Northwest.

Excuse me…they were bussed in as planned! Here is an example from one union the Washington Federation of State Employees.

It did not ‘draw’ participants from all over the NW, it was a staged event to project a public image; that most of the people now want socialized medicine .

We had the counter message that you refused to show.  We do not want a government managing our health care, and think such a step is a one way stride into socialism!

We had plenty of alternative solutions and flyers to hand out to those wanting information!

You see, we were not hiding information, we were providing it…like News organizations used to do!

Please see Patients United Now website for alternatives in the Health Care reform debate!

See more photos of event here

A new term has emerged from this type of news coverage;  “Obama Compliant News”

it could be a logo of endearment for the left, while a warning logo to us!

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The reality is not funny, but the cartoons are!

Sometimes we just need to laugh-

You can get these cartoons and/or great editorials e-mailed to you at

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Fighting Liberal Distortions & Deceptions

“What Liberals Say” was developed by Accuracy in Media as a unique and comprehensive resource for statements made by liberals. The objective is to showcase hundreds — and eventually thousands — of statements by high-profile liberals on controversial subjects like gun control, multiculturalism and global warming.

What Liberals Say

Unless you are very naive about life, chances are that you already  know that the ’sound bite’ information, and popular culture “quicky” news,  may not be the most reliable sources to draw any substance,  nor to form an objective opinion on the issues.

The Issues/Experts tab on this site will lead you to excellent and professional analysis of the issues we are facing in America today.  One of the best ways you know you are getting good information is to do the research for yourself!

Health Care Reform Debate Must Occur!

By all indications so far, in this administration, real debate about any issue has been dismissed and policy is being imposed as if  “time for debate is over”.

No “crisis” can be wasted!

The word has been put out to Nanny Pelosi, and the rest of the “Obama-compliant” Congress and his media,

“Obamacare” (universal health care) will be voted into law before the summer break!

We will be bombarded with a lot of twisted rhetoric, pro-nationalization anecdotal evidence, that “this is the time and now is the time”, and heavy propaganda by the left about the success of national health care programs elsewhere, and the “right” of everyone in America to have access to affordable health care via such a system.

Never mind that socialized medicine is actually bankrupting other countries, eating up budgets and delivering inferior care… pay no attention to that!

Like the “Man-made Global Warming”  hoax- the facts will not matter, only peoples perception of the facts really matter to the politicians, and the left- has a monopoly in manipulating this aspect of the “debate”.

Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy’s “blueprint for health care” is being toted by the Left as the prime example we should  follow for reforms, but the “Massachusetts Model” is not exactly a success.

See Massachusetts Miracle or Massachusetts Miserable…by CATO’s Michael D. Tanner

An actual debate would need to ask this question-

Is healthy competition even being allowed to take place in the US health care system?

In a different article Mr. Tanners states:

Other countries are loosening government controls and injecting market mechanisms, particularly cost-sharing by patients, market pricing of goods and services, and increased competition among insurers and providers. Pat Cox, former president of the European Parliament, said in a report to the European Commission, “[W]e should start to explore the power of the market as a way of achieving much better value for money.”

There is even evidence of a growing shift from public to private provision of health care. If many of the proposals in Congress would push us toward more of a European-style system, the trend in Europe is toward a system that looks more like the U.S.

The politicians created an impression in the public’s mind about both the causes and effects of so-called environmental catastrophes awaiting mankind,  if we failed to act.  Once they became certain enough people believed the “evidence”, ( that they had largely fabricated ) they declared that “the debate was over”, and that the time for solutions (theirs) was here!

That method is about to saddle us with the biggest tax increase in the history of the world, and it is based solely on people believing a lie!

We must continue to expose that lie for what it is, before it destroys us, and also have actual debate on health care reform before it to becomes an excuse to plunge into the “no return world” of government control, collectivism, and socialism!

The power brokers are actually reforming our country, this is not even really about health care, or energy  problems.

This is about the ability to control massive amounts of people by having control over what they do or do not get, or are allowed to keep for themselves.

This is ultimately a  debate  about transferring our own self-determination as individuals,  over to an all powerful government.

This is a debate we must have, and that we must win to stay free!

“ObamaCare” Poster Contest- Driving Message Home!

All hail Obamacare…………….Not!

Yesterday on Michelle Malkin’s blog,  she announced a contest

— spearheaded by Scott G. at Ah, Shoot for the photoshoppers out there to

use their creative talents to help spread the word against the huge push the leftist have orchestrated to impose ’socialized medicine” upon us.

The new results(Rx) coming in with the WWII theme are exactly what the doctor ordered!

What is Bioethics? Why Should You Care?

What is Bioethics?

Why should you care?

It’s a matter of life or death!

Bioethics is the discipline that looks at life and the decisions involving it.

As we enter into the intense debate over Health Care Reform it becomes critical to understand that our lives, health, science,  law, and politics are all on a collision course!

Abortion, cloning, stem cell research, ‘right to die’, medical decisions,  new drugs,  lifestyles, informed consent, organ procurement,  children’s rights, and many  more,  are all affected.

Bio means life,  and ethics is what society decides is right.

Our government is exercising more and more authority over the autonomy of the individual.

Auto meaning self and nomos meaning law…in other words -”self-determination”,  based on ones morals and values.

Politically, we have been losing more autonomy of our lives daily it seems.  We have elected and unelected officials directing what we can or can not do,  say,  or even think!

It is worse than just troubling to think about what decisions they will claim away from us next, it is actually frightening!

When it comes to our health care decisions it is a nightmare, we cannot awake from!

We are in this predicament for one reason, our Constitution has been ignored and stretched beyond its actual meaning,  allowing government to seize power over people they were never allowed,  nor ever intended to have!

Their  power is than used to leverage behavior over people, to act or not act a certain way.

Those in power now, are not at all satisfied with the excessive power they have seized, and wish to seize even more!

Health care control is one of the biggest levers they have always dreamed of having.  This power tool gives them unprecedented (in this country) control over any remnants of autonomy the people hope to retain.

Should America be foolish enough to accept any form of socialized medicine (that isn’t already in place), they will have will have forfeited that most important “self” part out of autonomy!

Family members will be leveraged to use the new ethics of ‘doing what is best for the family‘ in letting their loved one expire.

Social needs not to pay for “unneeded” and expensive medical procedures will be the “new patriotic thing” they promote as normal.

There is almost no limit to the deception, and unethical games,  played in politics these days, and those political decisions for your life, and your loved ones lives, are speeding our way.

Soon we will be hearing ‘experts’ from The Hasting Center,  Harvard Medical School,  and others, that will be talking heads to let us know they have already figured out all these complex ethical questions—for us!

I don’t know about you but I think I’ll pass~

I still consider the “self ” part of autonomy…the most important part!

For more on Bioethics see-

Legal Trends in Bioethics

American Society for Bioethics + Humanities

When Will President Obama Make the Case for Freedom?

Our First President-George Washington

It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position.

Washington’s Farewell Address of 1796

The case for freedom is America.

Millions seek to come here for that reason alone!

Appreciative Americans realize that and thank God that they were fortunate enough to be either born here, or become a citizen here.

Millions more around the world live without freedom, but hope to experience it someday.

It does not take a whole lot of education to understand that we are blessed, while others are not so fortunate.

Obama is exploiting the difference for his own political purposes.

Past presidents have shown the world what freedom  offers, and encouraged people from around the globe to not only consider freedom, but to strive for it.

America is not a selfish nation.  We have never felt that freedom and liberty was solely our domain to jealously guard without sharing.

So why now is our president acting as if that is the case?  Why does he travel  to places devoid of any true freedom- and state we are standing on common ground?

Just when exactly is he going to start to speak the truth about the way things really are?

People that live under freedom live the best, period.  They have the most, need the least as far as basic survival and in quality of life.

People that live under powerful thugs or where an elite political class controls everything have the least, and need the most.

Our freedom grew out of our economic freedom, that is how we became the superpower we are compared to other nations. That superpower status does not just refer to military might, it applies across the categories of human endeavors.

Innovation, generosity, justice, compassion, and economic might.

Our freedom enabled us to become who we are.  We are free to speak, to worship, to own property and to have a representative government.

Our freedom has created such a powerful momentum that we have been propelled along by this even as many have worked tirelessly against our rights and freedom.

Now though, all those chips and cracks against our principles, by so many, for so long, are really taking a toll on our Charters of Freedom, the Declaration of Independence, and the U.S. Constitution.

I do not see  or hear our president making the case for freedom at all.

In fact, I am not alone in believing,  that the president has actually been making the case against freedom everywhere he goes,  with both words and deeds.

We can easily find apologists and defenders alike that insist that we, whom cherish our freedom, have judged the president all wrong.

They call us “extremists” as they work feverishly to deny all religious worship as the work of “zealots” if it does not conform to their worship of the State.

They call us “fringed elements” while they work ingeniously to disguise their attempts to stifle and suppress speech that does not conform to their views.

As they seize control over private industries right and left, they claim free enterprise is the evil in our country.

They openly admit to plans to further deprive of us our freedoms and how they will spend a lot more money we do not have, to make energy unavailable for use, to punish those with special sentences for daring to think for themselves about social issues, and to openly flood our society with workers they know will vote for entitlements over freedom.

Not only is our free economic system being dismantled without regard to freedom, our personal freedom is also under attack.

Our Constitution guarantees the right to own and bear arms an essential right in a free society, yet Obama has not been straight with America, and does seek to disarm us.

Nothing can be more personal than seeking and having control over your own health care decisions, and also maintaining your privacy as an individual, so why than is Obama pushing so hard to to seize these personal rights and personal freedoms away too?

How can society be free if they have no say in their lives?

I do not know exactly why our media threw in so completely with the anti-freedom, pro-control left.  It is bad for us all (that love freedom) that they have chosen this.

Most of us can appreciate and understand the special role and rights afforded a free press by our Founding Fathers.  They recognized that our freedom would come under attack, they saw the press as having a vital role in warning of an overreaching and abusive government.

Few spectacles are more chilling these days than to watch as our press is virtually silent during press conferences with the President, or even his press Secretary, on issues across the board that are having long term impacts to Americans freedoms.

Some of the media remarks are so absurd and beyond belief in unadulterated adulation for a president that has barely taken office, yet has done considerable damage to Americas image and to freedoms image as well thus far, that you find yourself double checking the sources to make sure they are true!

I have come to the conclusion that this president has no intention of making the case for freedom, this president intends to make a case of government control over freedom, and the press has decided to aid and abet him in that effort.

So I would make this case.  We are not the “extremists” here. We who love freedom, we love liberty and we want our children and grandchildren to also have freedom and liberty are not any of the names or labels used to distort what we stand for.

We are doing what so many others have done throughout our great history.  We are following tradition, celebrating freedom,  and always doing our part to both preserve and protect it.

We have lost so many good men and women fighting for our country.  They vowed to protect and preserve our Constitution, the doctrine of freedom,  from all enemies foreign and domestic.

When will President Obama make the case for freedom?

I do not believe he ever will, or ever wanted to.

So everyday we must do it for ourselves!

Obama Fired IG Who Was Exposing Fraud, Waste, and Abuse

Inspector Generals have the duty to fight against waste, fraud, and abuse in Federal programs.

Evidently Obama feels his Federal programs, and his cronies are “hands off”.

This President has much to explain about his political firing of an IG,

who had the temerity to buck the presidents wishes, and be diligent

in performing his functions.

It is our money that is being wasted fraudulently, so how is a president that speaks of openness, and transparency,  going to reconcile this contradictory action with the American public?

Obama Fired IG Who Investigated Friend | Sweetness & Light

Michelle Malkin has more on this here!

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Health Reform: Debate over “How?”

The Health Care reform debate is shaping up to be a contentious one, again.  On one side you have the Obama administration and his push to bring some form of a socialized national health care,  on the other you have the people that believe free enterprise will provide needed reforms if given a chance to do so.

While Washington fights over philosophies we take  a look at the local debate.

The debate over whether or not reform is even needed seems to be stipulated…it is widely agreed upon  reforms are needed,  due to the increasingly high cost of care and also many other factors.

So once again the real debate is over the “how“  to achieve reform that works.

Nearly half of the industry is already controlled by government, and it is certainly not the efficient half of the system  of the two!

Personally, I am on the side of  vigorous “free market competition“, and some common sense tort reforms to allow doctors some protection against the constant lawsuit threat due to astronomical awards given (even in settling baseless claims) for malpractice.

Of course the “entitlement side” that Obama represents is adamantly opposed to both these concepts.

The ever present “fairness” label is being applied once again as the left tries to assert that equal care for one and all is “a right“,  which of course it isn’t!

A fellow tea party member of several local and national groups,  Tawnya recently brought to my attention a good debate being waged in the “letters to the editor” pages of the Monroe Monitor over the last couple of weeks.

Obama is using his alliance with a  compliant media to help push his vision for us on this debate-his vision is clear-he wants national government control.

Meanwhile the regular folks are fighting back, as they realize if they don’t nobody else will, and this is too important to the welfare and well-being of ourselves and families!

We want our freedom, and individual control over our decisions, especially our health!

Two of my children were delivered by a doctor that no longer delivers babies after government controls at the state level drove out the insurance companies and drove up malpractice insurance rates.  Many of those government control decisions had to be altered and reversed,  insurance “reform” had created a crisis–the  shortage of OB/GYN doctors!

Tawnya noticed how the media was using “heart touching stories” to promote Obamas vision, she had one of her own,  so when a similar story appeared in her local paper she wrote in response.  I think the editor of this paper is getting slammed with letters at this pont, but Tawnya was still able to get  her letter in response published.  Tawnya’s  story is as heart touching as the original with a much different perspective on a similar story.

Reading the various responses to the editor is actually very educational, and one thing is very clear to me.  There is no consensus, and this debate is very far from over!

Original article (pdf) and responses (pdf)- here Tawnya’s  letter here and  here

They seemed to get away with the “debate is over” and “there is consensus” about the global warming hoax but that will not happen with the health care reform debate- if we step up and be heard, like Tawnya has done!

Excerpt from Tawnya’s letter–

I too have had a friend with cancer fly from Alaska to Seattle to have treatments. I’ve had my heart break watching what she was going through as she struggles to survive and raise her little girl on her own.  Unfortunately she could not afford to make many trips from Alaska. My friend ended up having to swallow her pride, which was not an easy thing to do, and ask for assistance. It is what she chose to do to survive. I don’t feel the need to give a blow by blow of her daily life and struggles to pull at your heartstrings to sway your opinion, but I would like to give some food for thought. I’m sure we all have stories that would touch each other on an emotional level that we could pass back and forth for days.  It all comes down to individual choice.  The one thing in this world that is truly mine is my body.  My body, My choice, I would like to keep it that way. One size doesn’t fit all. I don’t want rationed healthcare where government dictates what medical service I can or can’t have. That should be left between my doctor and me.

First work session on Senate health care bill

Are they out of their minds?
Check out the estimates on costs of Obama care(Kennedy) plan!
Just where would this money come from again?
The attempted dismantling of our economy continues, I guess this is Obamas idea of reducing the deficit!

Democrats in power = America -$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$’s
First work session on Senate health care bill

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Independence Day tea party tally explodes

They thought we would just fade away….

They thought wrong!
Independence Day tea party tally explodes

We are organized and stronger than ever, they haven’t seen nothing yet!

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EastsideTeaparty Blog Salutes Janet Contreras

EastsideTeaparty Blog salutes Arizona resident Janet Contreras for her letter to our leaders that is so profound and strikes a chord with all of us.

It is quickly going viral across the internet and has become known as the name “the Letter”

In case you missed it here is the link-

Glenn Beck – Current Events & Politics – Glenn Beck: The Letter

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Seattle Action Network Events update

Liberty Belle has updated the upcoming events with the email update below-

In case you do not get the email I posted it below-

To sign up visit her blog (link below) and look for -

The Seattle Sons & Daughters of Liberty:
A Seattle Action Network

Upcoming Events* June 27th: Olympia Tea Party Picnic at Heritage Park
Bring your family, friends, and a picnic to show your resistance to tax-and-spend policies at Heritage Park in Olympia, WA, just steps from the Capitol. Speakers, games and music are on the agenda. This venue holds 20,000 people, imagine our impact if we fill it.
Time: 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Where: 330 5th Ave. SW, Olympia, WA
Contact: olympiateaparty@gmail.com
Look for an email about t-shirts in the next couple of days!!!

July 4th: Independence Day Tea Parties
There is no better way to honor and celebrate our freedoms than to attend a Tea Party on this, our Day of Independence. Please make an effort to attend one of the tea parties scheduled for this day. The list is below, but for details of each event you will need to visit the official Washington State Tea Party Website at www.teapartywa.org or click on the links below.
Bellingham
North Seattle/Everett
Seattle/Bellevue/Mercer Island
Olympia
Tri-Cities
Clarkston
Monroe (July 3rd)
Prosser (July 3rd)

July 17th: Mini Health Care Rallies
On Jul 17, Tea Party Patriots across the nation will rise up and gather for one hour in front of the US Senate and House offices in their districts to protest government-run health care. These Mini-Tea Parties will begin at 9:00 a.m. (PST). There will be no speakers or formal program. This will simply be patriotic citizens showing up at the offices of their elected representatives and saying NO to their destructive plans with signs and peaceful protest. Holding simultaneous events across the country will maximize the impact and the media coverage. More details to come, but start thinking about this now!

Useful Websites:
www.teapartypatriots.org (National site)
www.teapartywa.org (State site)
www.renewliberty.com
www.seedsofliberty.net
www.surgeusa.org
www.kclibc.com
www.olympiateaparty.com
www.eastsideteaparty.wordpress.com
www.consenthus.hypermart.net/id5.html
http://northwestteaparty.org/

In this email:
June 27th Tea Party
July 4th Tea Parties
July 17th Mini Rallies
Useful Websites
Contact Information

The Seattle Sons & Daughters of Liberty:

A Seattle Action Network

News Highlights

When you go to bed at night, and when you awake in the morning, news from the domestic front has been pretty consistent, bailouts, government takeovers, deficit spending, and every socialist solution ever thought of, is hurriedly being foist upon the American people.

They are in a hurry to push all these programs, and push them fast because they know if people get a chance to actually look at them …we will not accept them!

When you are in a hole- “stop digging” the saying goes, yet the Democrats not only won’t stop digging, they keep digging faster.

The personal charm of the president is starting to lose its sheen as people look at staggering numbers and realize we will never recover, or leave a free society for our children if we cannot stop the relentless irresponsibility of excessive spending, and huge tax increases looming for present and future generations.

Getting the real truth from the media these days would be like getting an actual photo of Sasquatch or Loch Ness’’s “Nelly”, and it isn’t likely to happen.  They are all propagandists now at the three networks having sold out integrity for access and leaving the rest of us with story of Obama as a master fly swatter to be in awe of!

So I really appreciate the News highlights at Surgeusa.org and the comments associated with the stories.

I can go there and get a real assessment of what those headlines actually will mean to the American people.

The hurried push for Cap and Trade, Health care, increased Financial regulation of the free markets, and health care reform are just a few of the attacks we face on all fronts.

The VAT or Value added Tax will be another hurry up and get this passed because ‘we can’t afford to wait‘ socialist plan.

Action Alert: There is talk in Congress again about creating a value-added tax (VAT), and perhaps trying to sell it by offering some other tax breaks at first.  This could be a huge tax burden on everyone, raising the cost of almost everything we buy, while hiding the cost in the prices and making businesses responsible for the collection of it, somewhat like a sales tax system (but different – because the consumer doesn’t see the added tax cost, somewhat like the way that excise and other taxes are buried in the prices of gasoline, utilities, cigarettes, etc.  That maintains the fiction that income taxes are not being raised while dramatically increasing the actual tax burden on everyone.

You can read more about this at the link below

News Highlights

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Fight the Socialists Plan for Mega Taxes

Face it, the Democrats of today are now socialists!

The mega tax they are trying to enact in the name of the environment in the Cap and Trade scheme

will be devestating to America.

Scientists on both sides of the issue know that solar cycles warm the the Earth(and all the other planets in our system) and climate is a direct result of those cycles. They know man is of little if any consequence to the climate on Earth.

The whole plan is about controlling people, and it is largely a Democrat party scam!

The estimates of the effects on the American people by their regulations to control our behavior in the name of preserving our living environment are ugly!

For one it will devastate the economy as millions will not have money to buy food or power much less anything else!

It will cost lives , as people are forced to sacrifice safety for mobility in smaller unsafe vehicles.

It will result in the loss of millions more jobs.

It will cost an estimated $7 trillion loss  to our economy-

“Economic Unilateral Disarmament”

You can take action-

Dear Supporter of American Energy,

While the American economy continues to struggle, the Obama Administration is attempting to raise energy prices by forcing Americans to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions. The only way to do this is by regulating and reducing the energy we get from natural gas, coal, and oil—the sources of 85 percent of our energy.

We must fight back. The Administration will only accept comments until June 23rd. Please join us and tell the Administration that we should be free to use the energy sources that work the best and cost the least.

If the Obama Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) moves forward with their plan, bureaucrats will regulate your lawnmower’s gas mileage, your car, the light bulbs in your house, the heating and cooling system in your children’s school, and even your electricity use. These are just a few of the likely outcomes if the Administration decides to regulate greenhouse gases using the Clean Air Act.

The Administration must hear your voice. Send a comment to EPA today.

AEA believes the Clean Air Act is not the appropriate tool to regulate greenhouse gases. If Congress wants to regulate greenhouse gases, it should explicitly authorize such regulations instead of allowing a bunch of unelected bureaucrats at EPA to do so.

EPA is currently soliciting public comments on their proposed plan to regulate greenhouse gases using the Clean Air Act. Let your voice be heard! Time is of the essence! We can only stop this harmful plan if you weigh in today.

Sincerely,

Thomas Pyle
American Energy Alliance

Trust Them: They Are Doing This For Your Own Good!

Actually it is for their own good and to our detriment.

The two plans the liberals want to permanently control you and I, and the rest of America, are Socialized Medicine and the Cap & Trade Energy Seizing  Mega Tax.

By controlling our energy they have the reins on all our economic endeavors, and by meddling in our health care they have direct control over our lives.

This is about becoming a dictating government- a tyranny, not a representative or freedom promoting one.

Reasons to Distrust Your Government

By Alan Caruba

Dallas Tea Party billed as~”America’s Tea Party”

Obama and his minions have a problem!

Seems they forgot America is filled with good old fashioned freedom loving patriotic souls called Americans!

Across the land this Fourth of July our Independence celebrations are going to mean a little more than in years past.

Our heritage and our traditions and even our very freedom have come under a relentless attack by an elitist crowd of leftists intent on transforming America into a drab and dreary society with no hope of getting out from under their controlling thumbs!

Seems like they forgot freedom loving people do not shrink or fall at their feet just because they demand it!  We are Americans  after all, born of revolution and fierce defenders of freedom and liberty with a very long history of fighting to preserve it!

This Independence Day is going to be special all over the country!

Dallas has a grand extravaganza planned for their event billed as America’s Tea Party

to be held on the world-famous  Southfork Ranch of Dallas fame.

Nationally-known speakers – World-famous musicians – Fantastic fireworks extravaganza – Food, fun and more!Tens of thousands of citizens from Texas and around the region are expected to turn out on July 4, 2009 for America’s Tea Party, a FREE rally and fireworks show to be held at the famous Southfork Ranch near Dallas, TX. Southfork is internationally known as the film location for the legendary “Dallas” television series.

Meanwhile Nashville is not to be out done, with it’s own all-star lineups of speakers entertainers, and more in the July 2,2009 Nashville Patriotic Revival Rally

sponsored and organized by Tea Party Nation members

Come kick off your July 4th weekend with a family friendly event in Downtown Nashville! We will have a pre-Tea Party mixer/meet and greet from 4 – 6 with music, information booths and more. At 6 the Tea Party begins with Blue Collar Muse Ken Marrerro hosting, Ralph Bristol of Talk 99.7, Laurie Cardozo Moore from Proclaiming Justice to the Nations and our Special Keynote Speaker, the Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson of Bond.org. Rev. Peterson will speak to us about the dangers of Socialism in America. You won’t want to miss this, so mark your calendars! This event is going to be BIG!!!!!

Of course in our own area there are dozens of events listed and you can use the new coalition of organizations for Washington State WA Tea Party Movement to find one you wish to attend.

All across the land the “second wave” has begun, the “surge” if you will.

The Independence Day surge and beyond

We are organized now, we have numbers, we have economic power, and we are coming on strong!

The “statists” are unprepared for the backlash they have caused.  Like the aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in WWII caused Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto to utter the words “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant”, so too will these socialist liberal Democrats who have run amok with their excessive power find  out they have also awakened the heart and soul of America!

“Change” by Our New Anti Freedom Government

Our president has demonstrated he is Anti-Freedom.

For the first time in my adult life I feel that we have been infiltrated by enemies of freedom.

I know other feel this too.  It is an almost surreal situation where the popular culture and media ignore the most obvious facts of the times.

Look at Iran today where millions look for any acknowledgment from a newly silent US Government that they are right to stand for freedom for themselves!  It is a travesty to whom we are as a people, and what we represent, to let these people be crushed by a brutal regime, and by the deathly refusal of this anti-freedom president to speak up!

I don’t know why Michelle Obama could not ever see any good about my country before, but since her husband was elected I can honestly say his policies have made me ashamed of who we are being now.

His buddies around the world are all  the worst enemies of freedom, and I have not heard him promote freedom at all in his travels.  I have only heard apologies for having played a role in the spread of democracy and his pledge to end such practices.

In fact everything is so anti-American and anti-freedom with this administration and his ideological and obedient cousins in Congress that one wonders if we are missing something?

You are not missing a thing, this is what it is, our “change” is a systematic dismantling of all things that makes America strong.

Our prestige, our economic might, our military might, our free society, our moral standing, and our liberty are all being dismantled deliberately.

When one believes as Barack Obama does- in an ideology that demands a completely level field and equality amongst all peoples, than what other choice would one choose if one were in the position to make those directional choices?

Some of the people we have known for a great deal of our lives are seemingly blissfully unaware that this is exactly the “change” Obama has brought.  They seem unconcerned and locked into the identity they long ago chose for themselves.

They see themselves as JFK Democrats, or sympathetic to the cause of the little guy or working class.

Little do they realize that JFK would fall into their class of “right wing extremist” as issued by the left as a dirisive term applying to any and all that oppose them.  Given JFKs positions on cutting taxes and strong defense he would probably be to the right of every Democrat in Congress today!

And Martin Luther King was a Republican people!  He believed in God too, by the way! Today he would be targeted for legal takedown by the anti-American ACLU!

Our problem of having the major news outlets editors presenting a distorted perspective to every single story is enabling this anti-freedom “change” Obama has brought.

The little guy and the underdog?  Ask yourself this, where did all our manufacturing capacity go and why is it gone?  The unions are now in the only industries left, (the service and construction sectors) having forced businesses to seek labor where it makes economic sense.

Meanwhile thousands of the “little guys” that trusted the unions no longer have any job much less a good paying job.

The Democrats pander to special interests groups of every ilk for one reason only to garner votes, yet they show their true colors by embracing tyrants where gays,women, and the working class are brutally repressed.

So it can be very discouraging to see friends falling for all the games being played by the liberals who’s only actual purpose is to secure permanent “ruling” powers for themselves, while acting as if they are the new gods and saviors of mankind.

Fortunately the patriotic “teaparty movement” came about and a second wave of powerful and now organized protests to the insanity of todays governments actions is underway.  Try as they might, the media that sold their integrity to retain access, will not be able to dismiss us as a passing fad.  we are here now,  and we are a force in place to take a stand for our principles once again!

Many people have expressed frustration, so deflating have been the unrelenting assaults on our principles cherished by our people, but now is not the time to be discouraged!

Read  Give Up? Are you Kidding?

Get yourself and family out to an Independence Day rally they will be going on across the nation and the numbers will exceed those we saw on April 15th , so it will be huge.

Encourage people to read the Constitution and understand the limits of power on government, and how the out of control spending and growth of big government, and the assault on liberty- must be stopped!

Obama as “Leader of the Free World”

The Presidency of the United States had become analogous with the realistic title of the “Leader of the Free World”, that is until now.

With Obama it now reads “Leader of the Free World”,  evidently.

He has shown us this week just what lengths he will go to in avoiding promoting freedom anywhere, as the people of Iran bravely and defiantly attempt to stand up against tyranny, our leader defers,  not wanting to be seen as interfering.

Yet Obama is not doing anything new, he has not really spoken of freedom since he became the president.

I believe it is because he is an anti-freedom ideologue and proves it more every day he has had power.

While searching for speeches on freedom given by Obama, I stumbled upon this article by Christine Smith

Socialist Obama Speaks

From Christine’s list of recommended sites, I found the site Downsize DC which I really like-

This article about the proposed Health Care reforms was especially insightful as the author boils it down into a

simple set of questions we can ask!

Complexity, Simplified

So though the search for speeches given by Obama on freedom proved fruitless,never-the-less I was able to locate a couple of great sites and add them to the links available for you here at Eastsideteaparty!

Over The Cliff: “Stimulus” No Chute!

On a site named Innocent Bystanders they have charted the effects of the “emergency stimulus” money as it has related to joblessness rate using the Obama projections for a backdrop.

The illustration clearly shows the “stimulus” has failed miserably, that  this administration has no clue as to what it is doing with regard to the economy.

If the chart were to be inverted in its presentation, it would accurately depict jobs falling straight over the cliff without any change in trajectory!

Walpin-gate opens wider – Washington Times

Can we call this a cover-up now?  It is now reported the FBI is on the case at St. Hope!

Americorp?  St Hope?

How many more of these federally infused grant programs are fraudulent in their use of our taxpayers money?

Is this  the Chicago way of political graft?

The “audacity of hope” is turning out to be that one hoped he could continue the Chicago style politics as SOP, without everyone in the entire world noticing what he was doing!  Illegally firing Walpin was ill advised, to say the least.

I keep imagining the feeding frenzy of the blood smelling leftist media that would be occurring over this if President Bush had done this!

The “audacity of hope” is also ignoring and advocating ones responsibility as the “Leader of the Free World” while the largest upheaval against tyranny, and for freedom,  plays out in a crucial region of the world!

If this FBI investigation somehow gets squashed, this country is in very serious trouble!

It is well know that forensics can recover “erased emails” so this should lead to some interesting information at the very least, with people going to jail for obstruction of justice!
EDITORIAL: Walpin-gate opens wider – Washington Times

It also was learned last week that the White House is involved in major disputes with two other inspectors general who were poking around the administration’s business, including Neil M. Barofsky, whose job is to serve as watchdog for spending the $787 billion in controversial economic bailout funds.

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Some Votes are Unforgivable

Some votes are unforgivable.

Eastside Tea Party is of the opinion that any and all support for a candidate holding office and voting for the hoax that is represented today by the Cap & Trade scheme is wholly unqualified, and unfit to deserve any future support either monetarily,  or by your  votes.

UPDATE:6/27/09

Photoshop: Leo Alberti

Cap and Tax sets off angry taxpayers impromtu protests across nation

Will Small Business Sponsor Those Fighting for Them?

There are hundreds of tea party groups now ready and able to make a difference!  These groups are digging into their own pockets to put on events and voluntarily contributing hundreds of hours of their time.  They are busy doing all they are doing in between doing what they normally do,  working and taking care of families.

While the opposition is flush with money diverted to a web of  “community groups” and unions- from out of the pockets of taxpaying working people and small businesses.

The large corporations may agree with the principles of the movement, but they are not going to do a thing to sponsor any of us in these politically correct  times.

Large corporations are not the ones that will be hurt  the most by these big tax, big spend, big government policies taking place, it is the small business and middle class that are about to have the hammer slam down upon them!

We are not recovering or even leveling out economically, and just think of the further damage next year as those tax cuts expire and these new energy taxes and regulations are beginning to be implemented.

Small businesses are going to have to cut their workforces even more, and may even limit the amount of business they can  do as they try to find the magic point that still yields profit without being consumed by new taxes and costly regulations.

They may not have any money left over to contribute to a candidate much less sponsor a group of  tea partiers,  yet I would submit,  at least they will know that by sponsoring a tea party event- they are helping empower people devoted to the same causes and principles verses what we have  with these unreliable and unprincipled politicians!

As the small business donor dollars dwindle, so too will all hope of representation in government if the current trend continues, the tea party movement is giving small business another possibility to look at in trying to invest in  and rebuild for the future.

Among Reichert’s reasons; We lack vision to see bigger picture…

Washington, DC – Congressman Dave Reichert’s Statement on  American Clean Energy and Security Act:

“Energy independence and our national security are critical issues for America. These issues transcend politics. The future of this country is on the line and we can spare no effort when it comes to  leading on these issues at a global level.

Energy independence and national security are indeed related and gambling that America can magically supply its energy needs by cutting off its availability from efficient sources is the lefts political plan.  The right has said let’s increase domestic production here at home in a clean and responsible manner with technologies that are available now while working to improve on those technologies to make them even better and cleaner!

“This bill is not perfect, but it is a vital step toward energy independence.

A bill based on a lie is not even in the same category as perfect! I would not be surprised if our energy dependence actually increases after this scam was wrought considerable damage for a couple of years!

“America cannot maintain global leadership without innovation and new ideas, and we cannot lead if we increasingly depend  on foreign nations to heat our homes and move people and goods.

Congress has deliberately created the dependence by continually working against the domestic production of our own energy and use of existing technologies. Innovation and new ideas come from free enterprise and not from government strings of control!

The price of inaction is too great; America cannot stand on the sidelines while our competitors embrace new energy efficient technologies.

The new technologies cost a fortune and deliver little in the way of efficiency while causing a myriad of brand new problems.  American business does not stand on the sidelines, now or ever, did Obama give him this line?

It’s also important that we engage in a bipartisan discussion as we move forward – this bill has many other hoops to jump through before it becomes law and I will continue to work with my colleagues across the aisle and in the Senate to gain more tax relief for middle-income families.

This is an admission that middle class income families will be economically harmed by the legislation. A real bi-partisan discussion would to be allow the thousands of scientists that have expressed dissent to be heard and listened to before drafting legislation that devastates an entire country!

“Teddy Roosevelt was the true example of a Republican engaged in conserving resources for our children and grandchildren, but he also had the foresight to seek a brighter future for them. Republicans must be at the table as we look for solutions in energy independence and preserving our environment, while also looking at the bigger picture and working with all of our colleagues for a stronger nation.”

Thank God for Teddy Roosevelt! What a great leader, who had vision, and had principles, and stayed true to them without making our country weaker (in every area) with hair-brained schemes sure to cost jobs, money, status, and freedom, for all of America,  like we have on the way with the Cap and Tax!

Related Article at NWbloggers

Media “Lapdog Act” continues with Health Care Reporting!

Obamas poll numbers are actually below what George W. Bush had at the same stage of his presidency.

This is incredible, as the media has done everything they can to promote both the man and his policies since he became the presumptive Democrat nominee last year, something never afforded to Bush by a long shot!

Fortunately we have actual facts reported by others like Brent Bozell, President of the Media Research Center.

Brett knows what media should be doing and what they should not be doing, and when it comes to reporting on most anything involving the liberal agenda you can pretty much take it to the bank that they (the media) will not be doing their job!

Alexandria, VA – Media Research Center President Brent Bozell today called on the media to stop reporting on the American health care system as a “crisis” situation.  The facts simply belie the claim.

A poll conducted by the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and Zogby International (http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.cfm?ID=1722) finds that 84 percent of Americans, including 46 percent of Americans without health care insurance, are “very satisfied” or “satisfied” with the health care they currently receive.

Released on Wednesday, the poll was glaringly absent from most news reports late last week and over the weekend.

MRC President Brent Bozell:

“The media need to stop acting like arsonists when it comes to their reporting on the U.S. health care system, starting a fire and then suggesting to put it out the government takeover of 1/5th of our economy.

“There is no health care crisis.  The American people are overwhelmingly satisfied with the health care they currently receive.  The media should report this instead of helping incite for the socialist solution – the government making our most vital life and death health decisions.

“The real crisis here is the crisis of confidence that the American people have in the media.  The press need to stop creating calamities where there are none, and instead do what they are charged with doing – reporting the facts.”

MRC.org – The Media Research Center

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Just a few reasons to despise Obamacare proposal!

Alan Caruba highlights just some of the provisions of Obamacare

Page after Page of Reasons to Hate Obamacare

Here are just a few very good reasons to hate Obamacare:

• Page 22: Mandates audits of all employers that self-insure!

• Page 29: Admission: your health care will be rationed!

• Page 30: A government committee will decide what treatments and benefits you get (and, unlike an insurer, there will be no appeals process)

• Page 42: The “Health Choices Commissioner” will decide health benefits for you. You will have no choice. None.

• Page 50: All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free healthcare services.

• Page 58: Every person will be issued a National ID Healthcard.

• Page 59: The federal government will have direct, real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer.

• Page 65: Taxpayers will subsidize all union retiree and community organizer health plans (read: SEIU, UAW and ACORN)

• Page 72: All private healthcare plans must conform to government rules to participate in a Healthcare Exchange.

• Page 84: All private healthcare plans must participate in the Healthcare Exchange (i.e., total government control of private plans)

• Page 91: Government mandates linguistic infrastructure for services; translation: illegal aliens

• Page 95: The Government will pay ACORN and Americorps to sign up individuals for Government-run Health Care plan.

• Page 102: Those eligible for Medicaid will be automatically enrolled: you have no choice in the matter.

• Page 124: No company can sue the government for price-fixing. No “judicial review” is permitted against the government monopoly. Put simply, private insurers will be crushed.

• Page 127: The AMA sold doctors out: the government will set wages.

• Page 145: An employer MUST auto-enroll employees into the government-run public plan. No alternatives.

• Page 126: Employers MUST pay healthcare bills for part-time employees AND their families.

• Page 149: Any employer with a payroll of $400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays an 8% tax on payroll

• Page 150: Any employer with a payroll of $250K-400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays a 2 to 6% tax on payroll

• Page 167: Any individual who doesnt’ have acceptable healthcare (according to the government) will be taxed 2.5% of income.

• Page 170: Any NON-RESIDENT alien is exempt from individual taxes (Americans will pay for them).

• Page 195: Officers and employees of Government Healthcare Bureaucracy will have access to ALL American financial and personal records.

• Page 203: “The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax.” Yes, it really says that.• Page 239: Bill will reduce physician services for Medicaid. Seniors and the poor most affected.”

• Page 241: Doctors: no matter what speciality you have, you’ll all be paid the same (thanks, AMA!)

• Page 253: Government sets value of doctors’ time, their professional judgment, etc.

• Page 265: Government mandates and controls productivity for private healthcare industries.

• Page 268: Government regulates rental and purchase of power-driven wheelchairs.

• Page 272: Cancer patients: welcome to the wonderful world of rationing!

• Page 280: Hospitals will be penalized for what the government deems preventable re-admissions.

• Page 298: Doctors: if you treat a patient during an initial admission that results in a readmission, you will be penalized by the government.

• Page 317: Doctors: you are now prohibited for owning and investing in healthcare companies!

• Page 318: Prohibition on hospital expansion. Hospitals cannot expand without government approval.

• Page 321: Hospital expansion hinges on “community” input: in other words, yet another payoff for ACORN.

• Page 335: Government mandates establishment of outcome-based measures: i.e., rationing.

• Page 341: Government has authority to disqualify Medicare Advantage Plans, HMOs, etc.

• Page 354: Government will restrict enrollment of SPECIAL NEEDS individuals.

• Page 379: More bureaucracy: Telehealth Advisory Committee (healthcare by phone).

• Page 425: More bureaucracy: Advance Care Planning Consult: Senior Citizens, assisted suicide, euthanasia?

• Page 425: Government will instruct and consult regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney, etc. Mandatory. Appears to lock in estate taxes ahead of time.

• Page 425: Government provides approved list of end-of-life resources, guiding you in death.

• Page 427: Government mandates program that orders end-of-life treatment; government dictates how your life ends.

• Page 429: Advance Care Planning Consult will be used to dictate treatment as patient’s health deteriorates. This can include an ORDER for end-of-life plans. An ORDER from the GOVERNMENT.

• Page 430: Government will decide what level of treatments you may have at end-of-life.

• Page 469: Community-based Home Medical Services: more payoffs for ACORN.

• Page 472: Payments to Community-based organizations: more payoffs for ACORN.

• Page 489: Government will cover marriage and family therapy. Government intervenes in your marriage.

• Page 494: Government will cover mental health services: defining, creating and rationing those services.

A tip of my hat to my friend, Ben Cerruti, for providing this look at the Obamanation called Obamacare. Write, email, fax or call your Senators and your Representative and tell them to vote NO!

Obamacare murders patient choice regardless of name they use

The month of August 2009 is a critical one to the American people.

Regardless of Pelosi or Obamas rhetoric about who the villain is in stopping them, the American people need to step up our opposition while the legislators grace us with their presence!

Regardless of the name they apply to their “plan” it is going to mean economic disaster and long term misery  to Americans.

I have reprinted Senator Demint’s email below from the Senate Conservative Fund

Co-ops = Public Option = Single Payer

Knowing that Americans would reject the idea of a “single payer” government health care system, Democrats began calling their plan a “public option.” Now that Americans have rejected that idea too, Democrats are peddling another proposal called health care “cooperatives.”

Unfortunately, these federally-backed co-ops are nothing more than a public option by another name. Washington will set up and subsidize them so private health plans are squeezed out of the marketplace. Then, like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the costs will catch up with these government-sponsored entities and Congress will tell us they are “too big to fail” and must be nationalized.

Some Democrats are willing to admit that co-ops are the same as a public option. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said earlier this month that, “We’re going to have some type of public option, call it ‘co-op,’ call it what you want.”

Some Democrats are also willing to admit that the public option is the same as a single payer system. Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) said this week that, “I think if we get a good public option it could lead to single payer, and that’s the best way to reach single payer.”

It’s becoming clear that no matter what name Democrats put on it, all of their ideas lead to a government takeover of our health care.

Join the Recess Rally At noon on Saturday, August 22, 2009, citizen rallies will take place outside congressional offices across the country. If you would like to participate, click here to find your Congressman’s local office and get more information.

The latest government bailout

This week, the Senate moved beyond bailing out industries that it has driven into the ground to bailing out its own programs that it has failed to manage.

Proving once again that the federal government is incapable of managing the federal highway system, the Senate passed $7 billion to shore up the failing program. The bill also provides $7.5 billion to bail out the failing unemployment insurance program and $185 billion to bail out several government-managed home-ownership programs.

Only 17 Republicans had the courage to vote against this rip-off. Click here to see how your Senators voted.

Question: If the government cannot manage these programs, what makes anyone think it can manage our health care?

9/12 March on DC

The people are being dictated to by the government, but the government is supposed to work for us. We the people have organized and are going to deliver the message to the elites in Washington DC!

They work for us!

09*12*09 March on Washington

Tea Party Movement goes to Capitol Hill

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“Our Government” Turning on Americans

Those who are joining the tea party movement have one goal in common,we are  Americans reclaiming our power.

But our own government cannot allow us to retake our power from them, so they blame others for misleading us and not knowing what is best for us!

“Angry mobs of rabid right-wing extremists.”
Brad Woodhouse, Democrat National Committee

“Astroturf.
“….manufactured anger. “
Robert Gibbs, White House spokesman

“experts at fake grassroots campaigns that promote corporate interests.”
Rachel Maddow, MSNBC

“oil industry and Republican operative millionaires’ club“
Rachel Maddow, MSNBC

This is the year 2009.  Our country is the land of the free and the home of the brave.  Our country is the champion of liberty and individual rights.  Our country celebrates over  two centuries of prosperity and and more freedom and innovation than the world has ever witnessed. We have become the most powerful nation on earth because of the most perfect document guaranteeing our rights, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness ever penned, our US Constitution.

However there are those that have worked slowly but surely to erode every joint in our framework for our free republic.  They are doing this without the consent of the governed while pretending to protect and preserve our core strengths.

Now our most basic, God given rights, are being challenged by a government confused by what they are allowed to do with their delegated power and with what they do not have authority to do.

The very first and most important right listed in our Bill of Rights  is appropriately  freedom of speech.

For government at the highest levels to order surveillance and reporting of those speaking in a dissenting voice and to be falsely named as unruly mobs is a sign that should concern all Americans greatly.

One party has come to monopolize the flow of information to the people and are crossing the line and identifying ordinary concerned citizens as something we are not!

Today a blogger wrote who we actually are very eloquently

at the website Hot Air.com and I wanted to share his thoughts-

Who We Are

posted at 8:48 am on August 6, 2009 by Doctor Zero
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There seems to be a bit of confusion among Democrats about the nature of the opposition to their plans. Maybe I can help clear things up, by telling them a few things about us.

We’re not paid minions of any corporate interest or lobby. Most bloggers working to stop the Obama health-care disaster are like me, writing when they can find the time, because we care about the future of our country. The same is true of the people showing up at town hall meetings, and organizing rallies. Some of us are well-dressed in tailored suits. Others wear jeans and T-shirts. Most of us are dressed in what we wore to work.

Our support for a massive government program does not increase when you tell us we’re not allowed to ask questions about it.

We’re not racists. We’re also not racialists. We don’t think a wise Latina is inherently more qualified to do anything than a wise Asian woman, a wise white woman, or a wise white man. We’re tired of being fed excuses for high government offices staffed by anything but the best people for the job. There are too many high government offices, so we’d like some of Obama’s absurdly incompetent appointees to take their titles with them when they leave. We remember what it was like when we got rid of the Clinton mob, so we’ll be conducting inventories on the contents of those vacated offices, before we turn out the lights and pour cement in the locks.

We don’t like having to fight desperate battles to save our freedom and future from socialist politicians every ten or twenty years. We don’t like having our time wasted with trillion-dollar statist fantasies, when our government is already trillions of dollars in the red. We’re tired of checking the papers each day, to see which group of us has been targeted as enemies of the State. We’re growing impatient waiting for the Democrats to come up with ideas that don’t require their supporters to hate someone. We’ve had our fill of “progressives” who act as if we’re living in 1909, and none of their diseased policies have ever been tried before.

We believe government should be punished for failing to live up to the expectations of its citizens, not the other way around. We don’t think people who destroy thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in market value should get a pass because they meant well. We’ve had enough of dodging a massive State that wants to organize, subsidize, penalize, and divide us. We refuse to pay tithe to a religion we don’t support, including the official State religion of global warming. We demand honesty, humility, and transparency from our public servants, no matter how many elections they’ve won. We won’t settle for making the only important decisions about our futures in the voting booth, once every couple of years.

We don’t blame people for showing up to grab their share of a government handout. We blame the people who stole the money from the rest of us, and put it on the table for them. We don’t think respect for private property ends at a certain income level, or that only some people should be applauded for doing their best to get ahead in life. We believe in the power and righteousness of capitalism, the exchange of goods and services between free people acting in their own best interests. There is no moral substitute for it. Every other scheme for governing human affairs amounts to a few dominating some, to the applause of others. Our freedom is not for sale, and we reserve the right to defend it from theft.

We don’t invest our hopes in the government. It is beneath the dignity of free men and women to spend their days hoping a politician decides to provide for our needs. We face the future, not with passive and helpless “hope”, but with active and dynamic faith in ourselves, and our fellow Americans. We are opposed to a political class that tries to cultivate our hopes by showering us with fear. We don’t trust politicians with our fortunes, much less with our lives. In fact, we don’t trust politicians much at all… but we absolutely require them to trust us.

We do not regard America as the sole country on Earth that should be forbidden from taking pride in its history, traditions, and achievements. We reject the notion that celebrating our traditions is an automatic insult to anyone else. We owe absolutely no apologies to murderous dictators or unelected tyrants, and we care little for their feelings. We believe there are many lessons to be learned from our history, by all the people of the world, and we cannot teach those lessons if we allow ourselves to be shamed into silence. We will never hesitate to call evil by its proper name, or give evil men good reasons to fear us.

Now, if you’ll excuse us, we have a lot of work to do. There’s an election coming up next year.

Learning Arizona

Obamacare Public Option

This article was received via e-mail from Small Business Against Big Government.

Last week I attended a luncheon with some other small business people to hear the Arizona State Treasurer address Arizona’s private and public economic status.  The Treasurer pulled no punches. The state legislature is deadlocked over the budget and barring either immediate spending cuts or an immediate tax increase the state is 30-60 days away from being out of money.

Arizonians were sold a bill of goods involving the big tobacco settlement from 1998, remember that?

By the next election cycle Proposition 204 sealed their fate- as what was sold- was not what was written in the bill, just as the Obama administration is doing now.

This is an excellent article that clearly lays out what awaits America with the Trojan Horse called the Public Option!

Anatomy of a Trojan Horse

If you think by some miracle that Obamacare actually has a chance of bringing any of the improvements promised, take a look at reality, than get out there and help stop this before it is too late!

Manufactured Healthcare Crisis

James Simpsons article hits the nail on the head.

Manufactured Healthcare Crisis

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First National Tea Party Convention

Tea Party Nation is pleased to announce the First National Tea Party Convention. The convention is aimed at bringing the Tea Party Movement together from around the nation for the purpose of networking and supporting the movements’ multiple organizations principle goals. This event will be co-sponsored by other national groups that believe in a responsible and limited federal government that is responsive to all the people. National Taxpayers Union, American Majority, Smart Girl Politics, and SurgeUSA are just a few of the organizations contributing their talents and time to this convention.

Special Keynote Speaker for the event will be Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska (2006-2009) and 2008 Republican Vice Presidential Nominee.

The convention will feature well known speakers, workshops, seminars, information centers, and organizational tools for attendees to take back to their respective local Tea Party organizations.

The Opryland Hotel code to reserve your room at their special convention rate is; TEA10.

* A portion of the Convention ticket price will go to form the TPN PAC which will be dedicated to finding and supporting Traditional American candidates in the future.

www.nationalteapartyconvention.com