The pas-de-deux between the Republican House and the Democratic president and Senate can get old pretty quickly.
The Republican House passes repeal of ObamaCare. The Senate either kills it or Obama vetoes it. The Republican House passes
spending cuts. The Senate ... you get the drift.
The only way to break the deadlock and proceed with the urgent task of rolling back the Obama agenda is to
use three key confrontations:
1. The debt limit extension 2. The demands of states for more bailouts 3. The 2012 budget
The need to repeal his radical agenda is ever more apparent as it unfolds further. The legislative enactments
were bad enough. But now Obama is using his executive authority to implement anything he couldn't get through even his Democrat-dominated
Congress. By administrative order, the Environmental Protection Agency is about to impose a carbon tax more draconian than
the aborted cap-and-trade legislation. The National Labor Relations Board is reversing the Dana decision, which requires secret
ballots in union elections. Having failed to pass card-check legislation, the board will impose it by a party-line 3-2 vote.
And now the Department of Health and Human Services is about to reimburse end-of-life advice from physicians even though this
was specifically deleted from the healthcare bill in order to assure its passage. Finally, the Federal Communications Commission
(FCC) is about to impose regulations on talk radio requiring locally produced programs, shortening the license period to four
years (from eight) and reining in conservative programming. It is also using the rubric of net neutrality to regulate the
Internet. These administrative rulings are Obama II and will be as far-reaching as Obama I, but will not enjoy the sanction
of legislative approval. And there is plenty from Obama I that needs changing. ObamaCare must be repealed, or its funding
and implementation blocked. We must move ahead with cuts in domestic discretionary spending and block-grant Medicaid to bring
down the budget deficit to about 3 percent of GDP. So how do we roll all this back? We need to use the tools at hand.
The three bills Obama must pass are our leverage. The Republican House needs to demand rollbacks in his legislative agenda
and curbs on his executive actions as the price for permitting the government to operate. It will not be time for the
faint-hearted. The conservatives seeking to block arbitrary expropriation of vast segments of our private sector will be accused
of irresponsibility and worse. But every one of the elements of the confrontation agenda has one thing in common: The public
agrees with the Republicans. On ObamaCare, Medicare cuts, enforcement of the individual mandate, healthcare rationing, administrative
imposition of carbon taxes, FCC controls over talk radio, card-check and spending cuts rather than tax increases, Americans
side with the GOP position against the Democratic/Obama agenda. Americans will support the Congress in the coming confrontations. But
if Republicans stray over the line of public opinion themselves by cutting Medicare or Social Security, they will lose. Americans
oppose Medicare cuts. Check out HillaryCare in 1994, Gingrich's budget cuts in 1996 and ObamaCare in 2010 to see how strongly
they feel about it. And they oppose changes in Social Security -- see the defeat of the Bush agenda of 2005 for reference. These
two fundamental changes must wait until after 2012. If we attempt them now, it will defeat our efforts to roll back Obama's
socialism. And these cuts are not needed to bring the deficit to 3 percent of GDP over the next three years. Block-granting
Medicaid at 2008 levels (imposing a 3 percent retroactive annual allowable increase), freezing domestic discretionary spending
at 2008 levels and projecting a cut to 60,000 troops deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan by 2015 will get you there without any
self-inflicted political wounds. But the central mandate for the Republicans in the House is to fight. Fight. Fight. Fight.
Hold firm. Don't blink. Don't give in. This our best chance to save our political and economic system.
SAUL ALINSKY
Identified a set of very specific rules that ordinary citizens could follow, and tactics that ordinary citizens could
employ, as a means of gaining public power
Created a blueprint for revolution under the banner of "social change"
Two of his most notable modern-day disciples are Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
This site follows in the footprints of the States of Vermont
and Texas as well as other states who proclaim the right of secession. The federal government is out of control and out of
touch. The United States Constitution gives the states the right to secession via a Constitutional Convention.
This site will espouse my conserverative views as well as the views and writings of other well known conservatives. Common
sense at the federal level has long been lost and it is time that "WE THE PEOPLE" shove it back down their throats until they
get it.
For God's sake, enough already!
To all you political pundits and expert analysers. Stop with the "That will never happen, Americans
will never put up with that." It is happening and Americans are putting up with it, with their give me entitlement
mentality. Every day I hear this and everyday the American people put up with more crap. From cap & Tax which had
already passed the house, to universal health care. Soon the left will make an assult on the Second Amendment (for those
of you that went through the Public School system that is the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution). The
amendment that gives citizens the right to bear arms. Ms Wise Latina is against this. Then they will attack the twenty-second
amendment. This limits the president to two consecutive terms or if you don't know that's 8 years. They will try to have this
appealed so that the annoited one "Barrack-a-san" can match FDR's 4 terms or even surpass that and get a lifetime appointment
such as "Ms. Wise Latina" will have.
Any state and any country that will allow a person like Al Franken to become a Senator will allow anything. This country
as it now stands is down the toilet, thanks to the majority of apathetic and spineless Americans, and I predict it will only
get worse, so stop with the "That Will never happen routine"
Lou Marino
Message From Our Chairman: S&P Warning
Like a drunken teenager with our "borrowed" credit card, Washington has spent us to the point of near ruin. The result:
Standard and Poor's downgraded US debt to "negative" for the first time in the history of the nation.
The Federal government has spent our money to buy votes and make Americans forever dependent on government. For too long
they’ve pushed off hard choices for easy ones, giving us, our children and grandchildren a life which is the opposite
of liberty.
It’s not too late. We can start serious cutting with repeal of the $2.5 trillion healthcare act enacted over our
objections. Bullhorn to Washington: Repeal it now or get out of the way.
We’ve tightened our focus in anticipation of a new Senate vote, targeting our messaging and grassroots pressure on
the 20 Democrats Senators up for re-election.
All men are, by nature, free and independent, and have certain inalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and
defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and seeking and obtaining happiness and
safety.
§ 02 Right to alter, reform, or abolish government, and repeal special privileges (1851)
All political power is inherent in the people. Government is instituted for their equal protection and benefit, and
they have the right to alter, reform, or abolish the same, whenever they may deem it necessary; and no special privileges
or immunities shall ever be granted, that may not be altered, revoked, or repealed by the general assembly.
"The people of the State of Ohio have the right to acquire, possess,
and protect their property from the confiscation by the federal government by dubious and arbitray means.
The people
of the State of Ohio have the right to alter, reform or abolish their form of Government by the right of secession"
Lou Marino
Secession from the U.S.
The group Republic of Texas generated national publicity for its actions in the late 1990s. There have been repeated attempts to form a Republic of Cascadia in the Pacific Northwest. The Hawaiian sovereignty movement has a number of active groupings which have won some concessions from the State of Hawaii.
Additionally some members of the Lakota people of Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, and the Dakota region are also making steps
to separate from the United States. The self-proclaimed Republic of Lakotah has made a point to say that their actions are not those of secession, but rather an assertion of independence of a nation
that was always sovereign and did not join the United States willfully. They note a failure of the United States government
in honoring treaties, and abuse of Native peoples throughout its history. A statement of independence was released as of January
2008, and the United States government has not commented on the issue.[37]
On April 1, 2009, the Georgia State Senate passed a resolution 43-1 which affirmed the right of States to nullify Federal laws. The resolution also included the assertion
that if Congress took certain steps, including restricting firearms or ammunition, the United States government would cease
to exist [38].
In April 2009, Rick Perry, the Governor of Texas, raised the issue of secession during a speech at a Tea Party protest: "Texas is a unique place. When we came into the union in 1845, one of the issues was that we would be able to leave if we
decided to do that...My hope is that America and Washington in particular pays attention. We've got a great union. There's
absolutely no reason to dissolve it. But if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, who knows what
may come of that."[39] After Perry's comments received considerable attention and news coverage, Rasmussen Reports polled Texans and found that 31% of them believed that Texas has the right to secede from the United States, although only
18% would support secession.[40]
Throw The Bums Out By David Limbaugh
Here they go again -- our faithful representatives in Washington, that is. They're about to pass, without
reading its 1,200-plus pages, an incredibly expensive and destructive cap and trade bill, which has little prayer
of accomplishing what it sets out to accomplish but satisfies their urgent need to pay homage to their liberal ideology and
secular humanist worldview.
Do you remember when Barack Obama was forced to give an answer to justify his advocacy of a capital gains
tax increase in view of such taxes' history of actually decreasing revenues? The revenue reductions are worth it because
it's a matter of "fairness," he said. Spread the misery. Likewise, with cap and trade, Obama and his congressional
cohorts will wreak untold destruction on the economy and get little benefit in return.
I'm not exaggerating here. Doesn't it make sense that before enacting legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions for the purpose of reducing
man-made global warming,
Congress would investigate whether significant man-made global warming is occurring (as opposed to watching Al Gore's propaganda
film and simply declaring, by fiat, that scientists have reached a consensus on the issue when they clearly have not)?
And if, after a thorough and balanced inquiry, they determine that it is occurring, shouldn't they next examine
whether their proposed legislative remedy is likely to significantly ameliorate the problem?
But they not only have not conducted a bona fide examination of the man-made warming issue but also have not
attempted to examine, in any remotely scientific way, how much their proposed bill would reduce global warming (assuming it exists to the extent
they contend) or whether any such reductions would make any difference at all to humanity's short- or long-term health or
happiness or anything else.
All of this would be outrageous enough if there were no economic costs associated with their proposal. But in
fact, the costs would be astronomical and way beyond the calculations they are presenting -- fraudulently -- to the American people to stunt the opposition they'd encounter if the truth were revealed.
The truth is that there is no crisis, and all the hysteria they're generating is solely for the purpose of ramrodding
this odious bill through Congress before the public realizes it has, once again, been duped and betrayed.
The Heritage Foundation's senior policy analyst for energy and environment, Ben Lieberman, has produced a stellar paper on these questions -- reproduced
from his remarks at The Heartland Institute's Third International Conference on Climate Change on June 2.
Let me share a few of the highlights and encourage you to read the rest of his report -- and others like it -- online.
Based on available evidence and analysis, Lieberman concludes "that both the seriousness and imminence of anthropogenic
global warming has been overstated." But even if we assume the problem is as bad as the hysterics claim, the proposed bill
"would have a trivial impact on future concentrations of greenhouse gases.
... (It) would reduce the earth's future temperature by 0.1 to 0.2 degree C by 2100, an amount too small to even notice."
The bill would bind only the U.S., not other nations, many of which, like China, are "polluting" at a record pace. Also note
that many European nations that have already imposed similar emissions restrictions have seen their emissions rise.
But what would the costs be for this quixotic legislative paean to earth goddess Gaia? Contrary to the flawed analyses
being advanced by the bill's proponents, Heritage estimates that the direct costs would be an average of $829 per year for
a household of four, totaling $20,000 between 2012 and 2035. But when considering the total cost as reflected in the cost
of allocations and offsets, the average
cost to that family unit would be $2,979 annually from 2012 to 2035. Adding insult and hypocrisy to injury, the bill
would hurt the poor the worst because they would bear a disproportionate burden of the higher energy costs the bill would
trigger.
Now here's the kicker. The bill is also projected to harm the manufacturing sector and cause estimated "net"
job losses, averaging about 1.15 million between 2012 and 2030. The overall gross domestic product losses would average $393
billion per year from 2012 to 2035, and the cumulative loss in gross domestic product would be $9.4 trillion by 2035. The
national debt for a family of four would increase by $115,000 by 2035.
Enough already. Throw the bums out.
Freedom from big government
"Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed... Whenever government becomes destructive
to life, liberty, or property [i.e., the pursuit of happiness], it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it...
It is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security." — American Declaration of Independence (1776)
A Better Life for Ohioians with less big government
