When will Congress stop?

If you don’t like the idea of government-run health care, then sit down and shut up. Barack Obama's Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), prompted by Senator Max Baucus, actually imposed a gag order on private health insurance companies. Why? Because one of those insurance companies, Humana Inc., made the mistake of warning the American people that ObamaCare could result in drastic cuts to Medicare Advantage.
In defending the egregious and draconian effort to muzzle their dissenters, Baucus barked: “does the first amendment include lies?” But who’s doing the lying?
According to the New York Post, Baucus' ObamaCare 6.0 plan does indeed call for funds to be cut "from Medicare Advantage - a program that offers more choice than traditional Medicare - to help pay for the overall ObamaCare tab."
And former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich told Fox News' Greta Van Susteren "that Medicare Advantage senior citizens would lose over 50 percent of their added value on Medicare under the Baucus plan."
Here's what happened: Humana sent a letter to seniors, which read: “[I]f the proposed funding cut levels [in the current health care legislation] become law, millions of seniors and disabled individuals could lose many of the important benefits and services that make Medicare Advantage health plans so valuable.”
Baucus and the Obama Administration cried foul and the HHS Centers for Medicare and Medicaid threatened to launch an "investigation" and demanded Humana cease from communicating the truth to their clients about ObamaCare. “As we continue our research into this issue, we are instructing you to immediately discontinue all such mailings to beneficiaries and to remove any related materials directed to Medicare enrollees from your Web sites.”
In other words, Baucus and the Obama Administration are so desperate to pass their government takeover of health care that they’ve resorted to silencing the truth-tellers through gag orders and intimidation.
Don't these egregious slaps at the First Amendment simply illustrate why it is fruitless for Republicans to continue their so-called negotiations over ObamaCare?
Don't they give us another pressing reason to demand that they scrap ObamaCare totally?


A Sweetheart Back-Room Deal For Harry Reid....
As if the mighty power of Big Government to silence its critics weren’t enough, we learned of even more ObamaCare shenanigans this week.
According to news reports, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid cut a sweetheart deal whereby you and your fellow taxpayers get to foot the cost of ObamaCare for the folks in his fair State of Nevada.
Strange isn't it... how Reid is forcing the rest of us to foot the bill for something that's supposed to be "paid for?"
According to the National Center for Policy Analysis: "The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, has secured a special deal protecting his state against the costs of expanding Medicaid under one of the major health care bills moving through Congress."
At least we now know why Barack Obama and liberals in Congress don't want to give the American people time to see what's in this Obamanation we call ObamaCare... why many of them don't want to bother to even read it. Enough is enough. We don't really need to demand that Congress give the American people time to read the bill. That's pointless.
We already know enough. We need to tell them yet again, until they finally get the message, that the American people want ObamaCare gone... kaput... off the table... no deals... no fixes... no compromises... no amendments.


At Least We Now Know Why They Don't Want You To Read The Bill.
Are you willing to stand by slack-jawed and watch the Obama Administration disregard the First Amendment in their quest to take over America’s health care system?
Are you willing to let the extreme left use federal agencies to batter and bully honest critics of ObamaCare until they stand in mute silence – beaten by this conscienceless Administration and the weary apathy of the American people?
Are you ready to let Barack Obama reduce the practice of medicine in America to a system as ineffective as the U.S. Postal Service and as caring as the IRS?
At least it is obvious by now why some of our federal legislators have no intention of reading the bill before voting on it. It is certainly obvious why they have no intention of letting you – and the rest of the American people – read it before they vote.
Are we going to let the far left get away with this mockery?
They’ve already gone after Humana for criticizing ObamaCare. If we don’t draw a line in the sand, they may be coming after you and me next.
We can stop Obama, Baucus and the other proponents of government-run health care dead in their tracks. All we need to do is stand tall, arms linked and say, “No!”


A Few Republicans Are Starting To See The Light. Others, At Least, Are Starting To Feel The Heat.
Senator Jim Bunning (R-KY) proposed an amendment to Baucus' ObamaCare 6.0 that would have required the Senate Finance Committee to post the text of Baucus' ObamaCare 6.0 and the cost estimate on the Internet 72 hours prior to the Committee voting. “This bill will impact every American,” Bunning said. “It is too big and too important for us to rely on conceptual language and a preliminary estimate of cost.”
Senator Orrin Hatch, supporting Bunning’s amendment, said: “If this were some itty-bitty bill, I could back off very easily. But this is not some itty-bitty bill. It could wreck the country.”
In summary, some of our elected officials were actually saying: “Just give us time to read the bill,” and “Just give the American people time to read the bill.”
But guess what!
The Party that promised “transparent government” beat down Bunning’s amendment on nearly a straight party-line vote.
Why do you suppose they don’t want us to read the bill – aside from the fact that they don’t intend to read it themselves? As we've already said, it's obvious... they don’t want you to know what’s in it.
They don't want you to know that Humana told the truth and that what Barack Obama and Max Baucus say is not necessarily so. They don't want you to know about Harry Reid's sweetheart deals.
And they don't want you to know all the other things you haven't uncovered yet.
As Democratic Congressman John Conyers, chairman of the House Judiciary, put it: “What good is reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don’t have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?”
Of course, Conyers trusts the slick, sly, backroom boys who write vague, deceptive bills over 1,000-pages long. And why not? They’re left-wing ideologues just like Conyers.
But we don’t trust them to operate behind our backs under the cover of darkness. And that’s why we’ve got to stop them now.


The Obama Strategy: Hide And Gag.

The Obama strategy is obvious: hide all the details... gag all critics, then give the president stage center – with his magic teleprompter, his air of absolute authority, and his own glittering version of the truth.
After all, the major news networks – with the notable exception of Fox News – seem to be on board, so why not?
But on the issue of government-run health care, Obama’s act is starting to wear thin. According to the latest Rasmussen poll, approval for his health care program has plummeted to 41 percent. A whopping 56 percent disapprove of his plan.
But the fight is far from over, Barack Obama and the extreme left are like cornered rats, snarling, baring their pointed teeth.
They're not done... they will continue to fight... and deceive... and make back-room deals... they will not let something as innocuous as the will of the American people dash their dreams of socialized health care.
We must fight all the harder... to the very end.


I urge you to write to President Barack Obama and each and every member of the House and Senate. Tell them once and for all to stop negotiations... no deals... no fixes... no compromises... no amendments. Tell them that giving the American people the courtesy of reading bills before Congress votes on them, while required, is not enough when it comes to ObamaCare. Tell them that you want ObamaCare gone... finished... kaput. Tell them to scrap ObamaCare in total and start over again from the drawing board with some real health care reforms that include less government regulation and increased competition across state lines... measures that will make health care coverage more affordable and more accessible to Americans.