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.
Friday, October 2, 2009
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
"Obamacare" -- NO!
The Baucus healthcare reform plan is chock-full of provisions calling for new government mandates, higher taxes, increased spending and government-dictated, rationed health care.
In fact, it’s so bad that Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl said of Baucus’ plan: “This is a stunning assault on liberty!”
As previously stated, the Baucus bill hasn’t even been written yet, much less read by the Senators who are doing the negotiating.
It’s nothing more than a 200-plus-page shell of ideas to be rammed down the throats of the American people with all deliberate speed... before you and other concerned Americans have the time to find out what hit you.
Senator Lindsay Graham, speaking on FOX News, probably gave the best explanation of what exactly is going on: “[T]he Baucus bill… literally changes everyday… we’re making this up as we go… they’re trying to buy votes… the vision here is to pass something… they don’t give a damn what it is and nobody understands what they’re doing.”
These so-called leaders just don’t get it. Republicans and Democrats are quibbling over what type of government-run health care they believe to be best for you and your family and no one is fighting for the American people.
The words is out... the game is played... the man behind the curtain has been exposed... and it's now as plain as the nose on your face. Obama and the leftists in Congress don't want you to know what's in ObamaCare... they just made it clear that they just may try to hide all the sordid details from you.
But what's even worse, Obama and the leftists in Congress may even be trying to muzzle, and intimidate, those who dare to speak out against ObamaCare.
It's becoming more and more apparent that Obama and the leftists in Congress don’t want the American people to know... or read... or hear anything negative about ObamaCare... and that they may be willing to shut-down debate by any means necessary.
One thing is certain, Obama and the leftists in Congress are leaving the door wide open to enact ObamaCare in the dead of night... under the cover of darkness... shove it down our throats before any of us are any the wiser.
When Senator Jim Bunning offered an amendment that would have required that the language of the bill be made available to the American people 72 hours prior to a vote, Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee squashed it.
Michael Franc, writing for the Heritage Foundation’s blog, The Foundry gives us the sordid and sickening details:
“During the Senate Finance Committee mark up of the Baucus health bill … Senator Bunning of Kentucky put forth an innovative amendment. This amendment stipulated that before voting on the measure in Committee, legislative language would have to be accessible to the public for 72 hours and that the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) would need to publish an official tally of how much this bill will cost the American people and what the real impact will be on health costs."
Franc continued:
“The amendment failed 11-12 on nearly a party line vote. Senator Blanche Lincoln (AR) was the sole Democrat to support this attempt at transparency. The bottom line: when the committee completes its work on this re-make of one-sixth of our economy, Senators will have voted on a phantom - a bill that does not exist with costs that are unknowable until, that is, the unelected legislative draftsmen write the real bill in some back room on Capitol Hill.”
If nothing else that has transpired up to this point has convinced you that ObamaCare must be rejected... thrown aside... taken off the table... these shenanigans should.
It's time to tell our elected officials that no good can come from ObamaCare... that's it's rotten to the core... and that it must be scrapped.
We need every person reading this urgent appeal to use their letters, faxes and phones and barrage Barack Hussein Obama and each and every member of the United States Senate with your personal messages. Make no mistake, you're not going to change America with a couple of faxes or letters or phone calls only directed at your two Senators. Each of us needs to barrage each and every one of these Senators with a mountain of objections. They all need to see that the American people are united. Only then will they wake up and smell the coffee.
Tell them that you believe that the only thing keeping ObamaCare alive is the willingness of some Republicans to negotiate and that ObamaCare would be defeated once and for all if they all stood firm in total opposition to ObamaCare. Tell them that no amount of so-called "compromise" will make government-run health care acceptable to the American people. Let them know that if they spent the same amount of energy to defeat ObamaCare as they are spending negotiating, the job would be done. Demand, once and for all, that they stop negotiating and win this fight against socialized health care for the American people.
The American people for months have been sending the message loud and clear that they want no part of ObamaCare, period, regardless of what form it takes. The American people have been telling politicians in Washington that no amount of so-called "compromise" will make Obama’s government-run health care scheme acceptable or palatable.
It’s time for these politicians to finally get the message. The American people do not want them to “fix” ObamaCare… no more so-called “ObamaCare compromises”… the American people want ObamaCare gone… never to be heard from again.
The bills the public has been allowed to see have placed taxes on the poor, the middle class and the wealthy. Yet Obama continues to say, “My plan will not tax the citizens a single dime.”
The bills the public has been allowed to see allocate certain amounts of those taxes to pay for abortions. Yet Obama continues to say, “My plan will not use a single dime for abortions.”
Obama also says, “My plan will make healthcare affordable for every American. If they like their health plan and want to keep it they can.” Sure they can… for a price. What Obama fails to say is that he doesn’t have a plan!
I believe Obama and Congress have been working in concert to come up with a multitude of healthcare bills each of which has such complicated language or so many different plans for different incomes that the public ALWAYS finds something objectionable. By doing so, Obama (who has pledged to pass a healthcare bill this year) will ram through his version (“Obamacare”) which will be a single-payer, Medicare-like, government-funded plan. The exact type of plan he claims he didn’t want but planned on getting passed from the beginning.
After this plan breaks Medicare, the government plan will be the only plan available. “Obamacare” will be everything no one in their right mind wanted. His ideas about education are the same. Force all schools to attend year-‘round. This will break every state’s tax system so that schools will all be federally funded. By one estimate, year-‘round schooling would increase spending on education by more than $1,300/day for each student, and that’s only in Massachusetts.
In my opinion it’s the first step in doing away with our Constitution. The Democrats in Massachusetts changed their constitution in 2004 so that then Gov. Mitt Romney could NOT name a replacement for Sen. John Kerry when he ran for the presidency. Now they’ve changed that state’s constitution BACK so the people can not choose a replacement for Ted Kennedy. Because there is now a democratic Governor, they changed it back so he CAN name a replacement for Kennedy.
The first Constitutional assault was on the Massachusetts constitution. Passing ANY bill without allowing the public to read it would be the second assault made, this time on the U.S. Constitution. The next assault may be to do away with our Constitution entirely. Can we stop them?
In fact, it’s so bad that Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl said of Baucus’ plan: “This is a stunning assault on liberty!”
As previously stated, the Baucus bill hasn’t even been written yet, much less read by the Senators who are doing the negotiating.
It’s nothing more than a 200-plus-page shell of ideas to be rammed down the throats of the American people with all deliberate speed... before you and other concerned Americans have the time to find out what hit you.
Senator Lindsay Graham, speaking on FOX News, probably gave the best explanation of what exactly is going on: “[T]he Baucus bill… literally changes everyday… we’re making this up as we go… they’re trying to buy votes… the vision here is to pass something… they don’t give a damn what it is and nobody understands what they’re doing.”
These so-called leaders just don’t get it. Republicans and Democrats are quibbling over what type of government-run health care they believe to be best for you and your family and no one is fighting for the American people.
The words is out... the game is played... the man behind the curtain has been exposed... and it's now as plain as the nose on your face. Obama and the leftists in Congress don't want you to know what's in ObamaCare... they just made it clear that they just may try to hide all the sordid details from you.
But what's even worse, Obama and the leftists in Congress may even be trying to muzzle, and intimidate, those who dare to speak out against ObamaCare.
It's becoming more and more apparent that Obama and the leftists in Congress don’t want the American people to know... or read... or hear anything negative about ObamaCare... and that they may be willing to shut-down debate by any means necessary.
One thing is certain, Obama and the leftists in Congress are leaving the door wide open to enact ObamaCare in the dead of night... under the cover of darkness... shove it down our throats before any of us are any the wiser.
When Senator Jim Bunning offered an amendment that would have required that the language of the bill be made available to the American people 72 hours prior to a vote, Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee squashed it.
Michael Franc, writing for the Heritage Foundation’s blog, The Foundry gives us the sordid and sickening details:
“During the Senate Finance Committee mark up of the Baucus health bill … Senator Bunning of Kentucky put forth an innovative amendment. This amendment stipulated that before voting on the measure in Committee, legislative language would have to be accessible to the public for 72 hours and that the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) would need to publish an official tally of how much this bill will cost the American people and what the real impact will be on health costs."
Franc continued:
“The amendment failed 11-12 on nearly a party line vote. Senator Blanche Lincoln (AR) was the sole Democrat to support this attempt at transparency. The bottom line: when the committee completes its work on this re-make of one-sixth of our economy, Senators will have voted on a phantom - a bill that does not exist with costs that are unknowable until, that is, the unelected legislative draftsmen write the real bill in some back room on Capitol Hill.”
If nothing else that has transpired up to this point has convinced you that ObamaCare must be rejected... thrown aside... taken off the table... these shenanigans should.
It's time to tell our elected officials that no good can come from ObamaCare... that's it's rotten to the core... and that it must be scrapped.
We need every person reading this urgent appeal to use their letters, faxes and phones and barrage Barack Hussein Obama and each and every member of the United States Senate with your personal messages. Make no mistake, you're not going to change America with a couple of faxes or letters or phone calls only directed at your two Senators. Each of us needs to barrage each and every one of these Senators with a mountain of objections. They all need to see that the American people are united. Only then will they wake up and smell the coffee.
Tell them that you believe that the only thing keeping ObamaCare alive is the willingness of some Republicans to negotiate and that ObamaCare would be defeated once and for all if they all stood firm in total opposition to ObamaCare. Tell them that no amount of so-called "compromise" will make government-run health care acceptable to the American people. Let them know that if they spent the same amount of energy to defeat ObamaCare as they are spending negotiating, the job would be done. Demand, once and for all, that they stop negotiating and win this fight against socialized health care for the American people.
The American people for months have been sending the message loud and clear that they want no part of ObamaCare, period, regardless of what form it takes. The American people have been telling politicians in Washington that no amount of so-called "compromise" will make Obama’s government-run health care scheme acceptable or palatable.
It’s time for these politicians to finally get the message. The American people do not want them to “fix” ObamaCare… no more so-called “ObamaCare compromises”… the American people want ObamaCare gone… never to be heard from again.
The bills the public has been allowed to see have placed taxes on the poor, the middle class and the wealthy. Yet Obama continues to say, “My plan will not tax the citizens a single dime.”
The bills the public has been allowed to see allocate certain amounts of those taxes to pay for abortions. Yet Obama continues to say, “My plan will not use a single dime for abortions.”
Obama also says, “My plan will make healthcare affordable for every American. If they like their health plan and want to keep it they can.” Sure they can… for a price. What Obama fails to say is that he doesn’t have a plan!
I believe Obama and Congress have been working in concert to come up with a multitude of healthcare bills each of which has such complicated language or so many different plans for different incomes that the public ALWAYS finds something objectionable. By doing so, Obama (who has pledged to pass a healthcare bill this year) will ram through his version (“Obamacare”) which will be a single-payer, Medicare-like, government-funded plan. The exact type of plan he claims he didn’t want but planned on getting passed from the beginning.
After this plan breaks Medicare, the government plan will be the only plan available. “Obamacare” will be everything no one in their right mind wanted. His ideas about education are the same. Force all schools to attend year-‘round. This will break every state’s tax system so that schools will all be federally funded. By one estimate, year-‘round schooling would increase spending on education by more than $1,300/day for each student, and that’s only in Massachusetts.
In my opinion it’s the first step in doing away with our Constitution. The Democrats in Massachusetts changed their constitution in 2004 so that then Gov. Mitt Romney could NOT name a replacement for Sen. John Kerry when he ran for the presidency. Now they’ve changed that state’s constitution BACK so the people can not choose a replacement for Ted Kennedy. Because there is now a democratic Governor, they changed it back so he CAN name a replacement for Kennedy.
The first Constitutional assault was on the Massachusetts constitution. Passing ANY bill without allowing the public to read it would be the second assault made, this time on the U.S. Constitution. The next assault may be to do away with our Constitution entirely. Can we stop them?
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Do we need a new Constitution?
At the rate Obama is making televised speeches we're going to need "The Obama Channel." The Senate wants to push through the Baucus healthcare reform bill (and its 564 ammendments) BEFORE it is printed so the people of the United States can't even READ IT.
The Baucus health care reform plan is chock-full of provisions calling for new government mandates, higher taxes, increased spending and government-dictated, rationed health care.
In fact, it’s so bad that Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl said of Baucus’ plan: “This is a stunning assault on liberty!”
In my opinion it’s the first step in doing away with our Constitution. The Democrats in Massachusetts changed their constitution in 2004 so that then Gov. Mitt Romney could NOT name a replacement for Sen. John Kerry when he ran for the presidency. Now they’ve changed that state’s constitution BACK so the people can not choose a replacement for Ted Kennedy. Because there is now a democratic Governor, they changed it back so he CAN name a replacement for Kennedy.
The first Constitutional assault was on the Massachusetts constitution. The second has been made, this time on the U.S. Constitution (with Congress trying to sneak through the Baucus bill). The next assault may be to do away with our Constitution entirely. Can we stop them?
Perhaps we should just wave a white flag and surrender. We can go one better: Let's change the Constitution FOR them. Our current preamble reads:
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Maybe the preamble should read:
We the people of the United States Congress, in order to form a less problematic dictatorship, abolish justice, insure domestic subservience, provide for the dictator's desires, promote the general disgust, and secure the nation for our dictator and his posterity, do abolish this Constitution of the United States of America.
If we don't stand up and stop this Congress, it could happen.
The Baucus health care reform plan is chock-full of provisions calling for new government mandates, higher taxes, increased spending and government-dictated, rationed health care.
In fact, it’s so bad that Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl said of Baucus’ plan: “This is a stunning assault on liberty!”
In my opinion it’s the first step in doing away with our Constitution. The Democrats in Massachusetts changed their constitution in 2004 so that then Gov. Mitt Romney could NOT name a replacement for Sen. John Kerry when he ran for the presidency. Now they’ve changed that state’s constitution BACK so the people can not choose a replacement for Ted Kennedy. Because there is now a democratic Governor, they changed it back so he CAN name a replacement for Kennedy.
The first Constitutional assault was on the Massachusetts constitution. The second has been made, this time on the U.S. Constitution (with Congress trying to sneak through the Baucus bill). The next assault may be to do away with our Constitution entirely. Can we stop them?
Perhaps we should just wave a white flag and surrender. We can go one better: Let's change the Constitution FOR them. Our current preamble reads:
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Maybe the preamble should read:
We the people of the United States Congress, in order to form a less problematic dictatorship, abolish justice, insure domestic subservience, provide for the dictator's desires, promote the general disgust, and secure the nation for our dictator and his posterity, do abolish this Constitution of the United States of America.
If we don't stand up and stop this Congress, it could happen.
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