"ObamaCare has been one of the most widely discussed and debated pieces of legislation in our lifetimes. The public has a pretty good idea about what's in the bill, and they don't like it.
Yes, ObamaCare needs to be explained to Stupid--and I suggest they start with the Democrats who voted for it."
From the Desk of: Steve Elliott, President, Grassfire.org Alliance (modified by me to apply to a broader audience)
The first critical vote on Harry Reid's version of ObamaCare will take place tomorrow (Saturday).
Reid needs 60 votes in support of his "motion to proceed" to the floor debate on his ObamaCare bill. That means 60 Senators must vote with Reid even though they were shut
out of the process and have only been given a few days to look at this over 2,000-page monstrosity.
We have posted several resources on ResistNet, including the full bill text, the "top line facts," and an itemization of more than a half-trillion dollars in new taxes. Go here: http://www.grassfire.net/r.asp?U=23183&RID=21411185
+ + Today's actions
Thanks to so many Grassfire friends who have already taken action, tens of thousands of personal letters are flooding Senate offices by fax and hand-delivery right now.
In fact, we cannot take any more fax orders before the vote on Saturday. So we're asking everyone to do two things:
+ + Action #1 -- Call your two Senators
Go to: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm to find your Senators' contact information.
Or, call the switchboard and ask for your Senator by name: 202-224-3121.
Be sure to tell your Senators that you live in their state or district.
+ + Action # 2 -- Forward this to your friends
The vote will take place on Saturday, scheduled for 8pm. This is the first key vote on Reid's ObamaCare bill -- the first high hurdle that Reid must cross.
Please alert your friends. Forward this message to them. Encourage them to access the resources at ResistNet and to call their Senators.
Again, in this first key Senate vote, clearly the odds are against us. But we must stand. Thanks for taking action.
Steve Elliott, President
Grassfire.org
Unemployment currently stands at 10.2%, the highest in a quarter-century. The stimulus failed and now even more people are out of work.
Rather than creating jobs, the $787 billion pork-filled spending bill has created more debt and more deficits that every American citizen has to pay for in the middle of a recession.
Implicitly acknowledging the failure of the stimulus, the Obama administration has now announced a "Jobs Summit" on December 3rd.
For an administration actively promoting the adoption of job killing health, energy, and labor legislation, holding a "Jobs Summit" is more theater while millions of Americans struggle to find work.
Consider the record of the job killing politicians:
- They promised us that the $787 billion stimulus would keep unemployment below 8%, but unemployment has been above 8% since February.[1]
- They promised us the stimulus would "create immediate jobs,"[2] yet more than 4 million jobs have been "lost and dislocated" since President Obama signed it into law.[3]
- Without reading it, they rammed through a 1,400-page energy tax in the House,[4] which will cost each taxpayer thousands of dollars in higher energy costs and result in the loss of an estimated 1.1 million jobs per year.[5]
- Without reading it, they passed a 2,000-page tax and control bill in the House and called it "health care reform", which will lead to $557 billion[6] in higher taxes and a loss of millions of jobs.
- When faced with the failure to create jobs through the stimulus, they made up, yes made up, a new measurement of jobs "saved or created" that no economist takes seriously. As evidence of what they will do to deceive the public, they produced a "saved or created" report that invented congressional districts that do not exist as recipients of billions of taxpayer dollars[7] and distorted job creation numbers by tens of thousands, all to prove that th e stimulus is working.[8] David Obey (D-WI), chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, even called this "outrageous" and described the mistakes as "ludicrous."[9]
This is the record of politicians who promise new jobs and then vote for job killing legislation, record deficits and excessive government control.
This week our General Chairman, Newt Gingrich, will be releasing an internal strategy memo outlining how we can stop these job-killing politicians before they cripple our economy for good and end America's global, economic, and political leadership. Speaker Gingrich will also outline a bold agenda for American job creation and prosperity.
We can't stop these job-killing politicians alone. We need your help. Thank you for fighting to save America.
Sincerely,
Dan Varroney
Chief Operating Officer
American Solutions
[1] Bureau of Labor Statistics.
[2] White House, "Remarks by the President and Vice President at the Signing of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act."
[3] American Solutions, "The Real Story Behind the Stimulus."
[4] American Solutions, "Pelosi's Crusade to Pass Cap and Trade."
[5] Heritage Foundation, "The Economic Consequences of Waxman-Markey: An Analysis of the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009."
[6] http://jct.gov/publications.html?func=startdown&id=3619
[7] Watchdog.org, "$6.4 Billion Stimulus Goes to Phantom Districts."
[8] American Solutions, "Stimulus Jobs Distorted Coast to Coast."
[9] Washington Post, "Flawed Stimulus Numbers - Or a Flawed Promise to Provide Them?"
A must read from Ann Coulter: The Cal Ripken President
Here are some notable quotes:
"As with the Clintons, Obama so earnestly believes in public school education that he sends his girls to ... an expensive private school. He demands that taxpayers support the very public schoolteachers he won't trust with his own children."
"Federal meddling in education has been an abject failure, so the Democrats' plan is to keep doing more of the same. If only there were some aphorism about people who fail to learn from history -- oh, well!"
Straight from the Speaker's mouth:
Since there are only 305,831,640 people in the US (http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html), how can we possibly lose 500,000,000 jobs a month? Since she appears to have said this on our before January 24th, 2009, doesn't that mean that as of February 11th, 2009 all of the jobs are gone now? What are we to do?
-Bob
Another interesting hidden truth from B. Hussein Obama - "Change We Need". Think about those words for just a minute. Let's decode the words behind the slogan:
Democrats will commonly use the term "redistribution of wealth". This is liberal code speak for "you have too much and you must be punished". Liberals are always talking about new ways of punishing (taxing) those that have some money (most often "rich" people and "big" business).
The fable of Robin Hood tries to glorify the "redistribution of wealth" concept. In reality, one who steals is a criminal. It really doesn't matter who you steal from.
A place where I have seen "equal misery" in action: Union offices. Here's a place where I would have expected to see the happiest people you could find. I couldn't been more wrong. The truth is that these are some of the most grumpy people around. Why is this so, you ask? By punishing the employer ("big" business) you bring about equal misery for all.
When I discussed this with my wife, she references "The Secret". She says that by thinking that money is in short supply and coveting the money of others your are thinking negatively and bringing on the shortage (misery) yourself.
What does this all mean? More taxes = more misery. Less taxes = less misery. Which would you choose?
-Bob
Thanks to all of you who called the campaign offices of Dianne McGuire to demand an explanation of her anti-gun views, including campaign worker promises to close down Naperville Sportsmen’s Club “. . .once and for all.”
Based on the feedback we got from many of you callers, the McGuire staff was generally rude to you and claimed that they, the McGuire staff, are actually NRA members and that the ISRA-PVF is lying about McGuire’s stance on guns.
The real truth is that McGuire has been running on an anti-gun platform. Here is what we know to be the facts:
Perhaps the U.S. should pull out of Chicago!
Body count:
In the last six months:
292 killed (murdered) in Chicago ;
221 killed in Iraq .
Senators: Barack Obama & Dick Durbin
Rep: Jesse Jackson Jr.,
Illinois Gov: Rod Blagojevich,
Illinois House leader Mike Madigan,
Illinois Atty. Gen. Lisa Madigan (daughter of Mike),
Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley (son of Mayor Richard J. Daley)
.....our leadership in Illinois .....all Democrats.
State pension fund $44 Billion in debt, worst in country.
Cook County ( Chicago ) sales tax 10.25% highest in country. (Look 'em up if you want).
Chicago school system rated one of the worst in the country.
Mayor Daley’s band of antigunners is on the move in the Western Suburbs.
Dianne McGuire, Democratic candidate for the 96th District House seat, is distributing flyers promising to ban and confiscate your semiautomatic rifles, shotguns and handguns.
McGuire’s campaign personnel are also telling citizens that McGuire will, “Shut the Naperville Sportsmen’s Club down – once and for all.”
All gun owners from across Illinois, and across the nation, must band together to put a stop to Dianne McGuire.
Here is what you need to do to help save your guns.
This is a "must read" post: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=28714
Here are some notable quotes:
"A decade later, the housing bubble burst and, as predicted, food-stamp-backed mortgages collapsed. Democrats set an affirmative action time-bomb and now it's gone off."
"Political correctness had already ruined education, sports, science and entertainment. But it took a Democratic president with a Democratic congress for political correctness to wreck the financial industry."
From my friend Ron:
Some relevant information to ponder over when people open there mouth before.... well lets just say thinking.
It's all about Perspective! Perhaps the finest synopsis of recent history I've seen as it pertains to the perspectives of the political parties and the media. As Oliver Wendell Holmes said '.....truth is the perfect defense...' It's all about perspective!
In the years since terrorists attacked us, President Bush has liberated two countries, crushed the Taliban, crippled al-Qaida, put nuclear inspectors in Libya, Iran, and North Korea without firing a shot, and captured a terrorist who slaughtered 300,000 of his own people. And the Democrats are complaining about how long the war is taking.
For those of us who spent time in the military, believe in our military and support the men and women of our military, read on.............
John Glenn (DEMOCRAT) said this -- It should make you think a little.
There were 39 combat related killings in Iraq in January. In the fair city of Detroit there were 35 murders in the month of January. That's just one American city, about as deadly as the entire war-torn country of Iraq.
FDR (DEMOCRAT) led us into World War II. Germany never attacked us ; Japan did. From 1941-1945, 450,000 lives were lost ... An average of 112,500 per year.
Truman (DEMOCRAT) finished that war and started one in Korea. North Korea never attacked us. From 1950-1953, 55,000 lives were lost ... An average of 18,334 per year.
John F. Kennedy (DEMOCRAT) started the Vietnam conflict in 1962. Vietnam never attacked us.
Johnson (DEMOCRAT) turned Vietnam into a quagmire. From 1965-1975, 58,000 lives were lost ... An average of 5,800 per year.
Clinton (DEMOCRAT) went to war in Bosnia without UN or French consent. Bosnia never attacked us. He was offered Osama bin Laden's head on a platter three times by Sudan and did nothing. Osama has attacked us on multiple occasions.
It took less time to take Iraq than it took Janet Reno (DEMOCRAT) to take the Branch Dividian compound. That was a 51-day operation.
We've been looking for evidence for chemical weapons in Iraq for less time than it took Hillary Clinton (DEMOCRAT) to find the Rose Law Firm billing records.
It took less time for the 3rd Infantry Division and the Marines to destroy the Medina Republican Guard than it took Ted Kennedy to call the police after his Oldsmobile sank at Chappaquiddick.
It took less time to take Iraq than it took to count the votes in Florida!!! Our Commander-In-Chief is doing a GREAT JOB ! The Military morale is high!
JOHN GLENN (on the Senate floor - January 26, 2004) Some people still don't understand why military personnel do what they do for a living. This exchange between Senators John Glenn and Senator Howard Metzenbaum is worth reading. Not only is it a pretty impressive impromptu speech, but it's also a good example of one man's explanation of why men and women in the armed services do what they do for a living.
This IS a typical, though sad, example of what some who have never served think of the military. Senator Metzenbaum (speaking to Senator Glenn): “How can you run for Senate when you've never held a real job?”
Senator Glenn (D-Ohio): “I served 23 years in the United States Marine Corps. I served through two wars. I flew 149 missions. My plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire on 12 different occasions. I was in the space program. It wasn't my checkbook, Howard; it was my life on the line. It was not a nine-to-five job, where I took time off to take the daily cash receipts to the bank.”
“I ask you to go with me ... as I went the other day ... to a veteran's hospital and look those men ... with their mangled bodies, in the eye, and tell THEM they didn't hold a job!
You go with me to the Space Program at NASA and go, as I have gone, to the widows and orphans of Ed White, Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee ... and you look those kids in the eye and tell them that their DAD'S didn't hold a job.
You go with me on Memorial Day and you stand in Arlington National Cemetery, where I have more friends buried than I'd like to remember, and you watch those waving flags. You stand there, and you think about this nation, and you have the gall to tell ME that those people didn't have a job?”
I just signed a petition to stop anti-faith "hate crimes" legislation.
A vote could take place in Congress very soon. Please sign here:
http://www.libertyaction.org/r.asp?u=10696&PID=17717056
-Bob
In a classic Democrats vs. Republicans battle, we now have the battle over energy. So far, it boils to two strategies:
Here's a clip from the NRCC that sums up the Democrats in Congress pretty well:
-Bob
From the Desk of: Steve Elliott, President, Grassfire.org Alliance
Dear Robert,
Our message has reached the President!
According to the Associated Press, President Bush, campaigning to lift
the offshore drilling ban said "All the Democratic leaders have to do
is allow a vote."
He concluded saying, "They should not leave Washington without doing so."
Robert, pressure is mounting for this "do nothing Congress
to do something," and once again Grassfire is in the eye of the storm--
delivering petitions EVERY DAY demanding the ban be lifted before
Congress takes a break.
How many people knew that we were all going to be required to use CFLs? Again, wrong-headed thinking by the left is making life more difficult for everybody.
I wonder what would have happened if he had dropped that light...
Mandating a particular technology is always a very dangerous proposition. This will likely ruin the market for better technologies to come. Why bother coming up with something better and safer when you know that the consumer has to use CFLs? See, everyone loses...
-Bob
Here's another petition demanding that Congress take Immediate Action to Lower Gas Prices!
From nrcc.org:
WHEREAS,
Democrats in Congress REFUSE to hold a vote on drilling for more oil in America.
Nancy Pelosi has promised to send Congress home for a month-long vacation WITHOUT PASSING AN ENERGY BILL to lower gas prices.
The Democrat Majority is putting their extremist ideology ahead of common-sense solutions.
We, the American people who are paying a national average of more than $4 per gallon of gas, demand Democrats in Congress VOTE NOW!
http://www.nrcc.org/actioncenter/default.asp?ID=288
The House speaker has faced heavy criticism from House Republican leader John Boehner, who is leading a congressional delegation to ANWR this weekend and has said Pelosi's action does not adequately address the problem.Read the rest here: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/17/pelosi.interview/index.html
He's also said Pelosi is leading the moderate faction of her party "off a cliff" by refusing to allow a vote in the House on offshore drilling.
"Just because John Boehner, who is my friend, has my respect, says it doesn't make it so," she responded, reiterating that she will block any vote to allow lifting the ban.
