Gov't Collective Bargaining -- Legal Incest

Government union 'collective bargaining' is an incestuous activity ... the spawn of which is today's Democrat Party!

Public-union goons and knuckle-dragging morons would have us believe that gub'ment employees' "right" to collective bargaining was delivered to Moses, amidst the awful thunders and vivid flashes of Siani! In fact, these wretched abominations of common sense are of relatively recent vintage and, would you believe, in some states, they are not allowed.

Today, Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin is under siege in his bold attempt to rein in public unions. Gov. Walker is among a growing cadre of state governors who aim to close their state's yawing budget gaps while establishing long-term fixes that will avoid a fiscal tsunami -- the otherwise inevitable result of exploding public union pensions and benefits.

Presidential Pretender Obozo condemned Walker's "assualt" on unions... a statement he is now regretting.  If he had studied history instead of playing "Where's Waldo" with his birth certificate, he would have known that even the Liberal god-head FDR considered the prospect of a strike by a government union as "unthinkable and intolerable."  Or that George Meany, the original union goon and AFL-CIO's first president said, "It is impossible to collectively bargain with the government."

We the people know that government collective bargaining is an oxymoron.  It is like a thief negotiating with the 'fence!'  It boils down to the unions hiring their own bosses and then facing them across the bargaining table.  Union leaders take money from union dues, and pass it to Democrat candidates. Once elected, the Democrats 'negotiate' with the unions who bought and paid for them.

James Sherk, labor expert of the Heritage Foundation stated it well:  "The founders of the labor movement viewed unions as a vehicle to get workers more of the profits they helped create.  Government workers, however, don't generate profits.  They merely negotiate for more tax money. When government unions strike, they strike against the taxpayers."

Gub'ment unions' incestuous relationships with politicians who write their checks short circuits the democratic process, giving partial control of public agencies to unelected, unaccountable labor leaders.

The Democrat definition of gub'met collective bargaining goes something like this:  One hand in your pocket, the other hand in the unions' pocket and your other hand in the taxpayer pocket!  I know that sounds really weird ... but so does "gub'ment union collective bargaining!"

Don't Go Wobbly -- Repeal ObamaCare

The Republicans in Congress should remember one thing:  Americans will no longer tolerate broken pledges and incompetence … from either party!

In 2010, the year of the Tea Party, Republicans won, not because they were Republicans, but mostly because they were not Democrats.  That can get you elected, but it cannot keep you there.  Republicans have been given a second chance … now it is time to prove them worthy of that trust! How?  ObamaCare!

ObamaCare has become the battle flag in the fight for the future of a free America. As Mark Levin would say, it is a struggle between liberty and tyranny … you dope!  ObamaCare is the difference between self-determination and central gub’ment control.

By almost a 2 to 1 margin, Americans agree that ObamaCare must be repealed.  The stakes could not be higher, but we all know it cannot be done until Obama is voted out of office in 2012. Democrats are counting on this program, like all their other social programs, to grow to the point that it creates untold legions of wards of the state, addicted to the redistributive goodies of ObamaCare.  If this entitlement program, with its infinite costs, becomes ingrained, it will be the end of our American way of life as we know it.  We must do everything legal and ethical we can to delay the implementation of ObamaCare so that in January 2013, a new president and Congress can finally undo this calamitous mess!

Republicans, take note:  Americans are not clamoring for ObamaCare-lite.  Do not fall for this trap. Tinkering around the edges will send the message that a gub’ment takeover of healthcare (for a start) is acceptable. It is not!  As Maggie Thatcher would have said … Now it not the time to go wobbly! 

Democrats and the Left are going to batter the Republicans no matter what they do … tinker or repeal. They rarely let reality and facts get in the way of blaming Republicans for everything from hurricanes to AIDS and, I am sure, the AZ shooting.  Any attempt of Republicans to gain favor with Dems always results in somewhere, somebody’s taxes go up.

One more word of caution to the new batch of Republicans:  You do not need to seek approval from Democrats!  You should seek approval from the people who brought you to the dance:  The Tea party!

Obamanomics: $5 / Gasoline and Higher Food Prices

Looking forward to hitting the open road for some well-deserved R&R this summer?  If so, your wallet will be taking some abuse! More ‘Change You Can Believe In!’

John Hofmeister, former president of Shell Oil, predicts Americans could be paying $5 per gallon of gasoline by 2012. He observes that rising worldwide demand for oil, tighter supplies and inadequate responses by the U.S. government could have a major impact on the price of fuel.

The price of unleaded gasoline rose to $2.99 in the Mid-West and is in the neighborhood of $2.90 here in the Free Territories of West Tennessee.  The nationwide average is north of $3 per gallon and climbing. This is particularly disturbing because gasoline prices typically decline during the winter months.  Declining oil reserves is cited as one of the culprits.

This assessment is interesting in that, for years, oil industry analysts have been claiming that the world had ample oil reserves, and there was no need to develop alternate sources of energy because of plentiful supplies of cheap fossil fuels would meet global energy needs.

Of course, this did not sync with the Obama administration and his ‘green’ special interest agenda. In order to promote their radical agenda of killing the oil industry (with the bonus of the American economy) and imposing their ‘warm & fuzzy’ theory that autos emit nothing but scented potpourri, they have devised a plan to cause a shortage of oil reserves.  The Obama Gulf of Mexico drilling ban is a prime example. 

More than two months after the Obama administration lifted its ban on drilling in the deep-water Gulf of Mexico, oil companies are still waiting for approval to drill the first new oil well there.  Therefore, the ban is still in effect through intentional bureaucratic permit delays; another example of Obama’s end run tactics around legislation or transparency.  Some experts say this defacto ban could continue until the second half of 2011, and most likely into 2012.

The delay is hurting big oil companies (which appears to be the intent)  such as Chevron Corp. and Royal Dutch Shell PLC, which have billions of dollars invested and tied up in Gulf projects that are on hold and paying hundreds of thousands of dollars a day for rigs that aren’t allowed to drill. 

The impact of this intentional bureaucratic ‘fuster-cluck’ reaches far beyond the oil industry. The Gulf coast economy has been hit hard by the slowdown in drilling activity. The Obama administration itself estimated that 8,000 to 12,000 (this is assuredly a low-ball estimate) workers could lose their jobs temporarily as a result of the moratorium. This ‘temporary’ condition could very well turn permanent as oil companies are forced to relocate these very expensive idle rigs moribund in the Gulf  to parts of the world where thry can work and generate revenue.

Erik Milito, a senior official at the American Petroleum Institute, the oil industry's main lobbying group, said more rigs will leave soon if drilling isn't allowed to resume. "They're doing everything they can to keep the contracted rigs in the Gulf," said Mr. Milito. "But they're idle, they're not able to do the work they intended to be out there doing, and that can only go on so long."

The Obama administration's newly formed offshore drilling regulator, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, says it isn't trying to stall new drilling but won't be rushed by industry pressure. The agency notes it has approved permits for deep-water activity that wasn't covered by the moratorium, such as modifications of existing wells.

"We will not cut corners in the permit review process," agency spokeswoman Melissa Schwartz wrote in an email. "Our priority remains, as it must, to ensure that oil and gas drilling is done in a safe and environmentally responsible manner." 


Of course, the phrase “environmentally responsible manner’ is code for ‘it ain’t gonna happen!’

Off-shore drilling is not the only target of the enviro-whackos. Massive reserves of Anwar have been sealed off for years.  Millions of acres of oil rich soil within the continental United States are similarly off-limits to exploration and development.

If only our southern border were so effective!

This, however, does not stop the rest of the world from taking steps to meet demand.  China is drilling for oil off the coast of Cuba, within relative spitting distance of our politically embargoed waters. Brazil, as well as Mexico, have discovered and are moving to exploit huge NEW reserves in their waters; reserves that were not supposed to exist, according to US anti-oil experts.

The Obama administration’s idiot energy non-policies have other consequences, either intended or unintended.  As farmers and their landlords know, the prices of the major commodities are up significantly in world markets. Corn futures are currently priced at $6.24 per bushel and soybean futures are at $13.66 per bushel.  There are several reasons for this surge; however, one is particularly troubling:

 The United States has historically been known as ‘the bread basket” to of the world.  The American farmer is the most productive and efficient food producer in history.  But, due to Liberal energy policy continued and expanded by Obama, a large portion of the food grains (corn and soybeans) is being re-directed from food production to ethanol production, a most idiotic and inefficient program. 

This mis-placed effort to reduce dependence on fossil fuels actually takes more energy to manufacture than it produces. Some estimates note it takes approximately 3 gallons of fossil fuel to produce 1 gallon of ethanol.  Only a government program can achieve this type of result and be called a success by the government!  The domino this program has tipped in other parts of the world is a terrible food shortage.  Grain going into ethanol is not going into bellies of the hungry in third-world countries.  How is that for compassionate Liberalism run amok?

‘Professor’ Paul Krugman, Nobel winning moron of the New York Times said, “What the commodity markets are telling us is that we’re living in a finite world, in which the rapid growth of emerging economies is placing pressure on limited supplies of raw materials, pushing up their prices.”

The only thing ‘finite’ is the Liberal left’s and Obama’s ability to comprehend the basics of supply and demand economics.  This inbred disdain and hatred for American capitalism is at the heart of their all-out race to destroy America … and with it, our way of life.

2012 cannot get here soon enough … Mayan calendar or not!

We Have Been Here Before!

Year end presents the opportunity to engage in our most serious reflection of the past and strengthen our resolutions of amendment for the future.  It has been a year to be remembered and a year of warning, in that, we hope the country will reflect upon and realize the consequences of their actions (i.e., the election of B. Hussein Obama).  We must resolve that this type of travesty never be allowed to threaten our country again. We must also resolve to make every effort roll back the most egregious actions of the last Congress and to mitigate the adverse effects of those we cannot.

This past year has produced, under the most inept and corrupt Congress and Administration in history, unimaginable national debt, recession, unconstitutional power grabs and political infighting.  A palpable fear permeates ‘America the Great’ that it will soon be replaced by more vigorous rivals abroad.  This, understandably, is cause for most Americans to feel depressed, anxious, and just plain angry.  Yet, as prominent as these feelings are now, this fear and anxiety is as old as it is unlikely.

The Great Depression of the 1930’s was widely believed to portend the death of entrepreneurial American capitalism; the 1950’s, was portrayed as a morose period of mindless American conformity, McCarthyism and the much maligned corporate group-think.

The assassinations of JFK, RFK and MLK, along with the Vietnam War of the 1960’s spawned the ‘hippie counterculture’ that was supposedly going to replace the ‘evil’ American establishment. (The current administration is rife with the burn-outs from this movement.) Oil shocks, gas lines, Watergate and rust belts were said to mark the post-industrial decline of America of the 1970’s.

We were told, at the same time, that other nations (communist and socialist) were doing far better.

 Mao Zedong took the throne in China and instigated and/or inspired communist revolutions from North Korea to Cuba. Liberal elitists, worldwide and in the US, crowed that Statist central planning was going to replace the perceived unfairness and inefficiency of Western-style capitalism and reign supreme for millennia. Yet, a mere half-century later, most communist dominated countries have (or are about to) implode and now adorn the ash-heap of history.

By the 1980’s, Japan, Inc., with its focus upon the group rather than the individual and its state capitalism was heralded as the perfect balance between the public and private sectors. The bubble burst in the ‘90s with a real estate crisis and a lack of fiscal transparency leading to a collapse of property prices followed by a general recession.  Since then, an aging and shrinking Japanese population, led by a secretive government, continues to struggle in recovery mode.  (These are lessons we should study carefully.)

The beginning of the 21^st century saw the European Union hailed as the enlightened paradigm of Western Civilization’s future.  Now Europe lurches from major crisis to major crisis, dysfunctional with its socialist entitlements. The European system is ossifying as evinced by a shrinking population, a growing atheism, and an inability to integrate immigrants (Muslims) or field a credible military.

Today, the ‘Big C’, China, we are told, will be the global colossus replacing the United States in influence and power. However, these doomsayers fail to account for the mounting social tensions, mercantilism, environmental degradation and state bosses with more a 19^th century mindset than a 21^st century nation.

All this doom and gloom we perceive today has been present in various degress over the decades and begs a couple of observations:

First, America goes through periodic bouts of anxiety and self-doubt only to wake up and snap out of it, more confident than ever.

Second, ‘decline’ is as subjective as it is relative. As the economic and scientific values of the United States ripple out to the undeveloped world, it is inevitable that countries like China, India and Brazil will be thrust into the 21^st century experiencing initial rapid growth.

All this being said, a nation’s strength and future is demonstrated by its demography, culture and institutions rather than temporary lapses of sanity, as demonstrated by the 2008 US presidential election.  America  absorbs and assimilates immigrants of multiple races and ethnicities in a way that Russia, China, Japan and the Islamic world are simply not culturally equipped to do.

The American Constitution, tested for over 223 years, has proved resilient in surviving a bloody civil war, two World Wars, police actions, ‘authorizations of force’, depressions and bouts of self-pity and doubt.  It shall, as shall we, survive our current state of affairs and be the stronger for it.  Our time-honored political, economic, military and social foundations remain strong and able to withstand the assaults, current and future, as they always have.

Be heartened, therefore, America and turn your eyes, at the dawn of a new year, upon the opening scenes of a grand future, secure in the confidence that victory will be ours over all threats … foreign and domestic.

Semper Vigilans (Always Vigilant)!

The Pogo Rule

Barack Hussein Obama and his Democrat sycophants are experiencing the painful axiomatic truth of that timeless philosopher, Pogo:  “We have met the enemy, and he is us.”

With a disingenuousness that can only be described as pathological, Democrats and the Obama administration ceaselessly attribute every shortcoming and mistake they themselves have made on the Great Scape-Goat of Talking Points, ‘the last eight years.’  This, of course, is code for George W. Bush.

They also, in full denial mode, blame their own lack of leadership in being able to produce anything of merit on an “obstructionist”  (code for Republican) opposition party.  They refuse to admit that they, the Democrat Congress, had the super-majority necessary to pass any and all half-baked, lame brained legislation they cared to propose without regard to any Republican opposition.  The Republicans were in no position to obstruct anything!  The Democrats were obstructing themselves.

America is witnessing the spectacular implosion of a once proud and dynamic political party right before their eyes.  Flailing about wildly, lashing out at anyone and everyone, including themselves, in a disparate attempt for survival, this cataclysmic event is being fueled by an even more spectacular disintegration of a President. 
An inexperienced administration led by an inexperienced president is on the path to complete and utter failure and will go down in history as such.

Obama may have been able to organize a community, but he is completely out of his league now … much to the detriment of the country.

The Bloom Is Off - and none too soon!

It has taken right at a year for the opiate of the Obama ascension to dissipate from the life blood of America. The voting public, going through the withdrawal process and none too happy with the date-rape drug it was slipped in 2008, is retaliating with a vengence.

The heady speeches, grand promises, the sweeping 'hope and change' have proved fleeting and empty. Obama, the temporary occupant of the White House, has been revealed the empty suit he always was but cleverly hidden. Proving that marketing and packaging can sell anything.

Everyone, except the delusional Democrat/Liberal ruling class, saw this coming last spring with the explosion of the Tea Party movement and manifesting itself with the Massachusetts Miracle this Tuesday past with the election of a Conservative Republican to fill the chair of the most liberal lion of the past fifty years in the United States Senate!

The outrage, anger, disgust, mis-trust and outright revulsion that our current Congress and President engender, was channeled and focused through the person of Scott Brown of small town Wrentham, MA.

The message sent is clear and unmistakable. "We the people" of the United States are fed up with lies, pork-pies, back-room deals, and just about all else that Washington has become. Of course, the Delusional Ruling Class are in deep, deep denial that they have been found out and rejected.

"How dare the little people", they say to each other. "Don't they know they are dependent upon we, who know all, see all? Do they really think they have the ability to know what is best for them? No, they really did not mean what they did in MA; a childish tantrum that will pass. There, there little man. Just take a deep breath and send us your money. We know how to spend it for you better than you...don't worry about a thing."

Democrats are consoling and convincing themselves that the 'Brown episode' is just an anomaly. MA votes just suffered some form of mass insanity and will quickly come back around. This attitude was verbalized in the recent interview given by Obama on ABC. The Denier-In-Chief said that the "same anger that swept Scott Brown into office is the same that swept me into office." This anger, thinks he, is at the "past eight years" (ie. Bush)! A psychotic fixation if there ever were one. Mental health specialists all over the country lept to their feet in joy. The President is pathological. What a boon for their trade! The diagnosis de jour; the botique treatment of the year. "Bush Derangement Syndrome" is offically a disability!

No, Obama. It was not lingering anger at George W. Bush....it was current anger at YOU and your ilk in Washington! The sooner you come to grips with this, the better for the country.

MA, the little state that roared, has sent a message, loud and clear: smaller government; Constitutional adherence; a military second to none; and across the board tax cuts to right our sinking ecomony.

Republicans, better listen! This was not an endorsement of you either. This message had best be adopted by the new Republicans seeking office in November. A Conservative Republican Party had better emerge...dare I say a Tea-Party Republican Party.

Just another little message about your agenda, Obama ... "No We Won't!"

Obama Heckeled in MA....Left Speechless!

Here is a clip of today's (1/17/10) rally in MA for Coakley.  First of all, he could not even fill the hall.  Second..., he was heckled during one of his 'perfect' speeches.  he did not know how to handle it.  The experience left him speechless.  A beautiful thing to see!

The Democrat Congressional Creed – “Ubi Est Mea”

For those of us who were fortunate to attend public schools when they actually taught something, you will understand the title of this piece. For those who are product of the U.S. Department of Education, you may need some help.

"Ubi Est Mea?” is Latin (a lost language, as English is fast becoming) and the English translation is: “Where’s Mine?”

The late columnist from Chicago, Mike Royko, used this phrase a few years ago to describe Chicago politics. It is relevant today since the Chicago brand of politics has been fully implemented in the Congress of the United States. This is ample proof the only good thing to come out of Chicago is the pizza.

Bribery and extortion has been the ‘dirty little secret’ in Congress for some time and discreetly practiced by both parties to some extent. However, it has never been so blatant, in-your-face and arrogantly defended as now by the Democrats who are temporarily the majority party.

Some of the more egregious contemporary examples from the Health Care Cash-for-Cloture Bill are as follows:

“The Louisiana Purchase, circa 2009" – The reported $100 million in extra Medicaid money secured for the state by Democrat Senator Mary Landrieu to purchase her vote for the Senate Health Care train wreck. Not the least bit chagrinned by her extortion, she had to rub salt in the wound of the rest of the country and boast that she actually extorted $300 million from the rest of us for the welfare capital state of the nation.

“The Cornhusker Kickback” – A similar bribe/extortion for the pivotal vote of Democrat Senator Max Baucus of $100 million (the first year) and an exemption for Nebraska from having to pay increased Medicaid costs resulting from the Health Care bill – FOREVER! This is the same Senator who showed up drunk as a skunk on the Senate floor recently berating the Republicans for opposing the bribery and extortion of the Health Care Bill (http://tnconservative.blogspot.com/2009/12/democrat-senator-max-baucus-drunk-on.html).

“The U Con” – Here is $100 million for Connecticut extorted by Democrat Senator Chris Dodd (of the Kennedy/Dodd Waitress Sandwich fame) for a medical center at the University of Conn. Three guesses who it will be named after!

These are only three of the more public bribes and extortions larded up in this bill. It is still early, the damn thing is over 2,400 pages long and the footnotes are still being written therefore this number will surely grow!

The HC Bill, in all its monstrous glory, sired by the cadaverous Harry Reid made it out of the Senate and is now headed for the unholy union with the 'Spawn of Pelosi' in the House-Senate Conference. This is where honor and virtue magically appear and upright Senators and Congress-critters will strip out all the offending items forthwith.

Yea right! It is more likely a healthy dose of Ex-Lax curing cancer. What is more likely? More lawmakers extorting billions more of other people’s (yours and mine) money for their states.

Why do I say this? Simple – there are many more than three crooks in Congress. Just read the response from Senate Majority Leader Democrat Harry Reid when asked about all the pay-offs contained in his bill: “I don’t know if there is a senator that doesn’t have something in this bill that was important to them. And if they don’t have something in it important to them, then it doesn’t speak well of them.”

In other words, in the Democrat's world, a senator is not doing his or her job if they are not extorting and accepting bribes for their votes. Only in Congress is bribery and extortion not considered illegal by the perpetrators.

“Ubi Est Mea” – “Where’s mine!”  -- No longer whispered in the cloak room, but now shouted out loud in the halls!

Democrat Senator Max Baucus Drunk on Senate Floor

This is the idiot in charge of the Senate Finance Committee and wants to run (ruin) our lives. He is also one of the main characters who wrote the Senate Health Care rationing bill.

Remeber this link for the 2010 campaign!

Can you just imagine if this had been a Republican Senator?  This would be running on an endless loop on MSM.

GMWinslow
The Tennessee Conservative

MERRY CHRISTMAS - delightfully politically incorrect!

Merry Christmas to each of you and your families.  I say Merry Christmas, first and foremost in the manner in which it is intended.  A warm heartfelt greeting and wish for your well being as bestowed upon our souls from God who gave them and celebration of the birth of His presence on earth...Jesus Christ.

I also say Merry Christmas as sign of my defiance to the unholy horde who purport to rule this country because the mere mention of those two words does so irk them!  I am sorry, it should not be that way...but it is what it is. 

America has reached a crossroads.  We either adhere to the values and great moral principles upon which this country was founded, and thereby continue to thrive and prosper; or we slide deeper and deeper into the deadly bog of 'diversity', 'political correctness', 'social justice' and forced dependency that demands the rejection of all that is good, true and just, and perish. We must return to the principles as taught in the Sacred Volume (for most of us, The Holy Bible)  we receive as the rule and guide of our daily lives. 

We are currently ruled by thieves and criminals hell-bent on destroying the country given us, earned by the blood, sweat, tears and treasure of our past and greatest generations.  We the "baby-boomers" let this happen.  Spoiled, demanding, arrogant and blissfully ignorant, we have let the government be taken over by those inherently dangerous and unfit to lead, but now have the power.  We have sat around and tut-tutted and rolled our eyes at the corruption and power grabs of our politicians then go out and buy the latest usless toy waved in front of our eyes without another thought about what is being done to us.

It is our time, albeit past due, to take up the mantle and reponsibility of keeping America free and growing.  Our brave troops are doing that abroad.  It is our responsibility ... no, duty, to fight just as hard here at home. 

Entire generations have succumbed to the siren song of the 'free-lunch of welfare' mentality and we (the ones who actually pay taxes) have provided it out of a manufactured sense of guilt foisted upon us by the people who believe in the re-distrubution of wealth. Unending welfare breeds unending hopeless dependency. Liberals promote welfare, not out of a sense of compassion, but as a means of maintaining power over people. This must end!  Responsibility, accountability and work ethic must be restored.  When help is deserved, it will be given . . . but not in perpetuity!  A 'hand up' . . . not a 'hand-out.'

The holiday period between Christmas and the New Year traditionally is a time of reflection on the past year and the making of resolutions of amendment for the coming year.  I urge all patriotic 'real' Americans to seriously reflect on how we got into this mess and whole-heartedly resolve to amend our present condition in 2010.  This means much more than the ususal "tut-tutting!" This means a very pro-active and un-relenting push to re-take the greatest country on earth ... our country... back from brink of destruction by the cleptocrats, theives and idiots now in control. 

November 2, 2010 is the day of reckoning.  This election will be the most important in our history.  Here we draw the line in the sand and halt this destructive downhill slide into socialism, dependency and despair facing us. On this day we can re-take control of the House of Reprobates and the Senate and start the process of  righting our badly listing ship of state.  To continue the maritime metaphor, we must pump the putrid bilge from Washington, affect the necessary repairs to our battered hull and, once again, sail proudly upon the seas of history.

We all all angry now! Angry at what we see happening in our Capitol. The lies, corruption, back room deals and complete disregard, and somtimes outright disparagement, of "We the People."  In 2010, let us reslove to maintain that anger and turn it into a force, never before seen, at the polls that will sweep clean the halls of power of the dispicable creatures which now inhabit them.  Channel this anger to the ends of restoring power to men and women of good and noble character.  These men and women are out there. We are not alone.  Find them, support them, work for them this coming year.  Donations are one thing and are necessary, but we need to do much more.  Educate your circle of friends, enlist them in the casue and get them and thier friends to the polls. One begets two; two begets four to create an exponential tsunami washing away the vermin infesting the halls of power.  Constantly write, talk and communicate the values of freedom, liberty, and fiscal and personal responsibility that is sorely missing in Washington today and must be restored.

A revolution is coming and we are the foot soldiers.  Read the history (the real history, not what is taught in our schools) of the untrained, uneducated rabble lead by the likes of George Washington who, despite all odds, won our freedom and created the greatest country in history.  We are much better equiped for our battle than they, except for one thing ... heart!  We must have that firey heart that drove the original patrioits to risk all and more for the radical idea of freedom and self-rule.  That firey heart is within us.  We feel it rising, burning, getting stronger everyday.  We must fan these flames, maintain the anger and turn it into action. 

I do hereby reslove to do just that.  Join me in the Second American Revolution.  Return America to its rightful place among the shining jewels of human history and banish, forever, from power the ones who would do otherwise.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

GMWinslow
The Tennessee Conservative

Don't Tell Me What Is Best For Me!

I know I am not alone in my irritation (quickly turning to rage) of being told by people who could screw up a one-car parade what is best for me and to shut up and do what I am told.  Didn't like it as a kid ... and really do not like it now! Especially by the likes of Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and the temporary occupant of the White House, what's-his-name!

In their ideal world, everyone lives in abject poverty and stands in long lines, but we all live in the same abject poverty and stand in the same long lines -- (Except themselves.  who get excellent health care, food, housing, maid service and no lines.)

The bald-faced audacity of this cleptocracy is brewing a backlash that has not been seen since England's King George treated us the same way.  Just saying....

The American people have been chaffing at this attitude from our self-annoited betters for a long time.  It is with this Health Care Bill (a misnomer in that this is a thinly veild power-grab) is the catalyst that will make 1776 look like a Tea-Party!

The 'know better than the average voter, and more government is the answer to all issues' crowd (ie, Democrats) are pusing this unwanted legislation to implement their beliefs;  not those of the people they represent.  The polls cannot be ignored on this issue, no matter how hard Congress tries.

The temporary occupant of the White House is declaring 'victory.' "Health Care (socialism) reform is not a matter of if," said White House designated idiot / press secretary Robert Gibbs, "health care reform is a matter of when."  (So is the next election!)

When the House sent the Health Care  Bill to the Senate, the final vote included 176 Republicans and 39 Democrats voting no ... and one Republican voting yes.  Nancy Pelosi, in full botox and perpetually delusional, declared this a bi-partisian victory.  What a colossal jewel  of ignorance, she is!

What words in the U.S. Constitution allow the federal government to compel every American to purchase health insurance? Where does the Constitution allow the federal government to take money from some Americans and give it to others so that they may purchase health insurance?


Recall the anger at former President George W. Bush, who, to fight the war on terror, "trashed" and "shredded" the Constitution. The same people who railed against the Patriot Act, the terror surveillance program and "illegal" torture happily unleash the power of the federal government to redistribute wealth for ObamaCare, a socially desirable objective. Never mind the absence of authority in the Constitution.

The left tells us that "health care is a right, not a privilege." Surely the Constitution says so. No, it does not. Article I, Section 8 details the limited power, duties and responsibilities of the federal government. Extracting money from your paycheck and giving it back to you when you retire -- Social Security? Not there. Taxing workers to pay for the health care of seniors -- Medicare? Not there. Mandating that employers pay workers a minimum wage? Not there.

Folks, we MUST re-take control of the ayslum and send these overt socialists packing!  Get Up -- Get Out -- Get Mad and Get Involved in November 2010!

Constitutional Legal Challenges Looming for ObamaCare

Organizations and congress-critters are lawyering-up to field constitutional challenges to Obama-Care if it survives the sausage making of the House/Senate conference and makes its way to the desk of the temporary occupant of the White House.


The two key issues they are targeting are:

1. A mandate for individuals to purchase health insurance and;

2. The special treatment that states like Nebraska are getting in the bill.

Senator John Ensign, R-NV has called for an examination the constitutionality of whether the federal can require Americans to purchase a product.

“I don’t believe Congress has the legal or moral authority to force this mandate on its citizens,” Ensign said in a statement, raising what’s known as a “constitutional point of order.” Procedural challenges such as this are rare and typically lead to a vote. This will force the Democrats to publicly state which side of the constitution they are on, something they do not wish to do.

Groups such as the non-profit Fund for Personal Liberty, as well as a Virginia-based group called the 10th Amendment Foundation, already have threatened to file suit in federal court over this issue if the health care bill passes.

The Constitution allows, among other things, Congress to tax, borrow, spend, declare war, raise an army and regulate commerce.

"I personally do not believe the Congress has the authority to enact an individual mandate requiring a person to purchase a product from a private seller," said Kent Masterson Brown, lead counsel with The Fund for Personal Liberty. "I don't think the power is there. This is not regulating anything." "This thing may be stillborn, even if it passes," he said.

Even though Obama argues that the mandate is similar to laws requiring drivers to obtain auto insurance, opponents cite several key differences. First, the auto insurance mandate is avoidable, since anyone who doesn't want to pay doesn't have to drive. Second, auto insurance is mandated in large part so that drivers carry liability insurance to cover damages to other people and cars -- not themselves. Third, auto insurance regulation occurs at the state level.

Other legal objections are emerging in the wake of a concession that Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., won for his state as a condition for his support of the health care bill. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid agreed to provide for full and permanent federal aid for Nebraska's expanded Medicaid population. It was only one of a slew of hand-crafted sweetheart deals for those senators who agreed to support the bill.

But the Nelson deal swiftly drew the ire of Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who has asked his state's attorney general to give the issue a legal review. He told Fox News on Tuesday that other states can probably bring a "constitutional challenge" over the issue. He said it's unfair for one state to get special treatment while others pick up the tab.

"I don't believe most senators believe this is OK," Graham said. "I think it stinks. I think it's sleazy."

Graham said his state could file an equal rights suit under the Constitution. The Constitution calls for "equal protection" of all citizens.

Likewise, two Republican state representatives from Tennessee on Monday asked their state attorney general to look into the issue -- they called the Medicaid expansion an "unfunded mandate."

Rep. Debra Young Maggart and Rep. Susan Lynn claimed the Nebraska deal was unfair to other states and asked that Attorney General Robert Cooper take "appropriate legal action" against the federal government if the bill becomes law.

"It is clear by the wording of the legislation itself that not every state would face a similar and equal burden," they wrote. "We see this as a violation of equal protection of the law, an affront to our sovereignty, and a breach of the U.S. Constitution."

The non-profit Liberty Legal Institute is poised to assist states that are considering filing suit against the government over the health care bill. The group would not disclose where the suits might come from, but claimed great interest in putting health care reform to the legal test.

"There are a lot of states that are concerned that this violated the 10th Amendment and they are weighing their options," Kelly Shackelford, chief counsel, said in a statement.

The 10th Amendment declares that powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution are "reserved" for the states or "the people."

Still another challenge is coming from Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., who on the Senate floor raised concerns about a section in the health care bill that appears to say that the Senate cannot make changes to it in the future.

"It shall not be in order in the Senate or the House of Representatives to consider any bill, resolution, amendment, or conference report that would repeal or otherwise change this subsection," the section says.

DeMint said he found that "particularly troubling."

"We will be passing a new law and at the same time creating a Senate rule that makes it out of order to amend or even repeal the law," DeMint said. "I'm not even sure that it's constitutional."

It is time to us to take back control of our country.  The 2010 elections are the key.  But we must keep unrelenting pressure on our lawmakers until it is time to vote them out and get "real Americans" in their place.  Get mad - stay mad - vote and take a friend with you!

I Fear For My Country

I am now officially afraid.  With the passage of TARP at the end of the Bush administration, I was concerned.  With the election of the temporary current occupant of the White House, I was disturbed. With the passage of the so-called 'Stimulus Bill', I was worried.  Now, with the looming passage of a bill to take over 1/6th of a free-enterprise economy, I am afraid and on the verge of terrorized!

I am afraid we are losing the heart and soul that made America unique in human history.  Oh, this did not happen in a flash with the election of the temporary occupant of the White House, it has been incremental for the past half-century or better, just as planned by the Left.

Watching the freak show in Copenhagen last week, I was alternately furious and filled with dread.  Promises from Secretary of State Clinton that the US will help fund a fund to transfer $100 billion a year to third world countries out of some misguided 'climate guilt' is just one of the lunatic activities of the global leftists.  The world has gone absolutely bonkers and the lunatics are in charge of the asylum!

Need more proof?  Mugabe and Chavez are treated with respect and the United Nations is serious about wanting to regulate OUR industry and transfer OUR wealth to kleptocrats and genocidal maniacs. 

Even more frightening, our own leaders (and I use the term loosely) joined the circus. We seem to have a Congressional majority and a temporary occupant of the White House amenable to this idea. Marching to the beat of international drummers, they uncoupled themselves from the 'will of the people' they were elected to serve.

Many of those who voted for the temporary occupant of the White House now regard his campaign  as a sly bait-and-switch operation, promising one thing and delivering another.  (We, the rational, tried to warn the country but to no avail.)  Equally surprising to Obamaites, is that he has become an insufferable bore.  The grace and charm channeled from the teleprompter have vanished.  His default emotions are peevishness and petty spite ("Don't think we are not keeping score, brother.")

His much hyped rhetorical gift of teleprompter reading now serve his loathsome habit of fear-mongering.  "Time is running out," he says over and again. He said it on health care, on the stimulus, in Copenhagen, on Iran.  Chicken Little has a new avatar.

His assertion we will go bankrupt unless Congress immediately adopts the health montrosity, cooking in Harry Reid's caludron, marks a new low.  At least it did until he barged into a meeting, uninvited, in Copenhagen to insult the Chinese with the same 'do-it-now' arrogance on carbon emmissions.  Just how did that work out for you, B. Hussein?

Washington has its own freak show and is more dangerous than the preening and posturing done by wannabe world leaders jockeying for camera angels in the middle of a blizzard ironically hyping global warming.  No person of rational mind could possibly support a federal takeover of the massive health system.  But, it is now apparent, we are not represented by rational minds. 

In fact, it is a myth the fight is over health care at all.  Carefully concealed and orchestrated, it is a vulger power dispute between anti-capitalist liberals and extreme anti-capitalist liberals, with health care a convenient stalking horse for a socialist command-and-control of 17 percent of the our economy.  Whatever it is....it's definately not reform!

The still rational public intuitively understands the con-game being played, which is why it prefers the flawed status quo.  Voters tell pollsters, by as much as 3-to-1, they think a federal takeover will cost them and the country more money and will produce more red tape instead of better care.

Yet, because power corrupts, and one-party rule corrupts absolutely, dissenters are considered heretics and persecuted thusly.....until the next election!

Mother Nature seems to have delivered her  verdict on all this non-sense with a providentially epic blizzard in Washington.  We can now say, with certitude, hell has frozen over!

The 'Crisis-Monger' In-Chief

Barack Hussein Obama, the temporary occupant of the White House, grimly warned America this week that if HIS health care plans fail, the nation will go "bankrupt."  The sheer lunacy of this statement is only exceeded by its audacity.  He has already bankrupted the country!

Sure, adding another trillion dollar entitlement program to the credit-card bill B. Hussein has already run up may seem counterintuitive to staving off economic ruin, but who are we, the poor schlups who have to pay for it, to argue?  Don't we know this man is the smartest who has ever, or will, live.  If you do not believe it, just ask him!

As is the case with just about every issue raised, B. Hussein adorned his rhetoric with sharp warnings of calamity should he fail; fabricated consensus to buttress his case and a promise of rapture should he succeed.  Uuh-boy!

You'll remember it was B. Hussein who cautioned that failure to pass the stimulus boondoggle (aka the 'bribe-a-congressman' fund) would "turn a crisis into a catastrophe." He claimed that a failure to act on cap and trade (aka: crap and tax) will lead us to "irreversible catastrophe" and that a failure to pass a government-run health care system will mean "more Americans dying every day." 

Chicken Little now occupies the White House.  The sky is falling twice a day, it seems. 

Of course, IF you believe the bilge spewing from the White House (wonder when Michelle O will change the name), everyone -- and I mean everyone -- agrees with the presidential pretender.  B. Hussein stressed this week that can "talk to every health care economist out there (not 'some' or 'most' but 'every') and they will tell you that ... whatever ideas exist in terms of bending the cost curve and starting to reduce costs for families, businesses and government, those elements are in this bill."  Hell!  We have not even seen the bill yet.  How do we know? Oh, silly me, we know because O told us so.  And if you don't believe him?  As he told a recalcitrant Democrat congress-critter the other day, "Don't think we are not keeping score, brother!"

Guess he kinda missed the 200 economists from major universities, found by the Cato Institute, across the country who does disagree with his health care claims --  and juding from the stimulus plan's impressive impotence, perhaps the temporary occupant of the White House should have lent them an ear.

So when B. Hussein says that "whatever ideas exixt" to help with cost are featured inthe health care bill, let's chalk it up to his propensity to exaggerate, embellish ... oh hell, he just outright LIES!

There are several ideas supported by a Republican lawmakers who have been completely shut out of the sausage making process.  Among them are:

*  Re-importation of pharmaceuticals
*  Making premiums paid by individuals and families tax-deductiable
*  Medical malpractice tort reform
*  Allowing the sale of insurance across state lines and protability of coverage.

Just some of the ideas the DO NO exixt in the current bill written in secret and never to be seen until voted on.

Obama's fondness for creating imaginary consensus and offering false choices to the American people has been something to behold ... and must come to and end!

The temporary occupant is right about one thing...a catastrophy did occur.  It happened on the second Tuesday of November in 2008.

And These People Vote!

Remember, these folks reproduce and can be found on your highway...and even worse....they vote!

ONE
Recently, when I went to McDonald's I saw on the menu that you could have an order of 6, 9 or 12 Chicken McNuggets.
I asked for a half dozen nuggets.
'We don't have half dozen nuggets,' said the teenager at the counter.
'You don't?' I replied.
'We only have six, nine, or twelve,' was the reply.
'So I can't order a half dozen nuggets, but I can order six?'
'That's right.'
So I shook my head and ordered six McNuggets (Unbelievable but sadly true...)

TWO
I was checking out at the local Wal-Mart with just a few items and the lady behind me put her things on the belt close to mine. I picked up one of those 'dividers' that they keep by the cash register and placed it between our things so they wouldn't get mixed.
After the girl had scanned all of my items, she picked up the 'divider', looking it all over for the bar code so she could scan it.
Not finding the bar code, she said to me, 'Do you know how much this is?'
I said to her 'I've changed my mind; I don't think I'll buy that today.'
She said 'OK,' and I paid her for the things and left.
She had no clue to what had just happened.

THREE
A woman at work was seen putting a credit card into her floppy drive and pulling it out very quickly.
When I inquired as to what she was doing, she said she was shopping on the Internet and they kept asking for a credit card number, so she was using the ATM 'thingy.'
(keep shuddering!!)

FOUR
I recently saw a distraught young lady weeping beside her car. 'Do you need some help?' I asked.
She replied, 'I knew I! should have replaced the battery to this remote door unlocker. Now I can't get into my car. Do you think they (pointing to a distant convenience store) would have a battery to fit this?'
'Hmmm, I don't know. Do you have an alarm, too?' I asked.
'No, just this remote thingy,' she answered, handing it and the car keys to me. As I took the key and manually unlocked the door, I replied, 'Why don't you drive over there and check about the batteries. It's a long walk....'
PLEASE just lay down before you hurt yourself !!!

FIVE
Several years ago, we had an Intern who was none too swift. One day she was typing and turned to a secretary and said, 'I'm almost out of typing paper.
What do I do?' 'Just use paper from the photocopier', the secretary told her. With that, the intern took her last remaining blank piece of paper, put it on the photocopier and proceeded to make five 'blank' copies.
Brunette, by the way!!

SIX
A mother calls 911 very worried asking the dispatcher if she needs to take her kid to the emergency room, the kid had eaten ants. The dispatcher tells her to give the kid some Benadryl and he should be fine, the mother says, 'I just gave him some ant killer......'
Dispatcher: 'Rush him in to emergency!'

The Myth of '08, Demolished

By Charles Krauthammer

WASHINGTON -- Sure, Election Day 2009 will scare moderate Democrats and make passage of Obamacare more difficult. Sure, it makes it easier for resurgent Republicans to raise money and recruit candidates for 2010. But the most important effect of Tuesday's elections is historical. It demolishes the great realignment myth of 2008.

In the aftermath of last year's Obama sweep, we heard endlessly about its fundamental, revolutionary, transformational nature. How it was ushering in an FDR-like realignment for the 21st century in which new demographics -- most prominently, rising minorities and the young -- would bury the GOP far into the future. One book proclaimed "The Death of Conservatism," while the more modest merely predicted the terminal decline of the Republican Party into a regional party of the Deep South or a rump party of marginalized angry white men.

This was all ridiculous from the beginning. 2008 was a historical anomaly. A uniquely charismatic candidate was running at a time of deep war weariness, with an intensely unpopular Republican president, against a politically incompetent opponent, amid the greatest financial collapse since the Great Depression. And still he won by only seven points.

Exactly a year later comes the empirical validation of that skepticism. Virginia -- presumed harbinger of the new realignment, having gone Democratic in '08 for the first time in 44 years -- went red again. With a vengeance. Barack Obama had carried it by six points. The Republican gubernatorial candidate won by 17 -- a 23-point swing. New Jersey went from plus 15 Democratic in 2008 to minus 4 in 2009. A 19-point swing.

What happened? The vaunted Obama realignment vanished. In 2009 in Virginia, the black vote was down by 20 percent; the under-30 vote by 50 percent. And as for independents, the ultimate prize of any realignment, they bolted. In both Virginia and New Jersey they'd gone narrowly for Obama in '08. This year they went Republican by a staggering 33 points in Virginia and by an equally shocking 30 points in New Jersey.

White House apologists will say the Virginia Democrat was weak. If the difference between Bob McDonnell and Creigh Deeds was so great, how come when the same two men ran against each other statewide for attorney general four years ago the race was a virtual dead heat? Which made the '09 McDonnell-Deeds rematch the closest you get in politics to a laboratory experiment for measuring the change in external conditions. Run them against each other again when it's Obamaism in action and see what happens. What happened was a Republican landslide.

The Obama coattails of 2008 are gone. The expansion of the electorate, the excitement of the young, came in uniquely propitious Democratic circumstances and amid unparalleled enthusiasm for electing the first African-American president.

November '08 was one-shot, one-time, never to be replicated. Nor was November '09 a realignment. It was a return to the norm -- and definitive confirmation that 2008 was one of the great flukes in American political history.

The irony of 2009 is that the anti-Democratic tide overshot the norm -- deeply blue New Jersey, for example, elected a Republican governor for the first time in 12 years -- because Democrats so thoroughly misread 2008 and the mandate they assumed it bestowed. Obama saw himself as anointed by a watershed victory to remake American life. Not letting the cup pass from his lips, he declared to Congress only five weeks after his swearing-in his "New Foundation" for America -- from remaking the one-sixth of the American economy that is health care to massive government regulation of the economic lifeblood that is energy.

Moreover, the same conventional wisdom that proclaimed the dawning of a new age last November dismissed the inevitable popular reaction to Obama's hubristic expansion of government, taxation, spending and debt -- the tea party demonstrators, the town hall protesters -- as a raging rabble of resentful reactionaries, AstroTurf-phony and Fox News-deranged.

Some rump. Just last month Gallup found that conservatives outnumber liberals by 2 to 1 (40 percent to 20 percent) and even outnumber moderates (at 36 percent). So on Tuesday, the "rump" rebelled. It's the natural reaction of a center-right country to a governing party seeking to rush through a left-wing agenda using temporary majorities created by the one-shot election of 2008. The misreading of that election -- and of the mandate it allegedly bestowed -- is the fundamental cause of the Democratic debacle of 2009.

7 Lies In Under 2 Minutes !

Folks...do not try this at home. Only Professional Liars can do this safely and without recourse!

Amazing Performace of National Anthem

This is an amazing performance by a group of young Texas girls. The name of their group is the "Cactus Cuties". They have become a YouTube phenomenon with over 6 million hits. When you hear this you will know why.

With kids like this out there, there may be hope for our country yet!



The Tennessee Conservative

Glenn Beck & Pastor Broden: "We Are Losing Our Freedom"

This is a great clip. Pastor Broden is a black pastor from the Dallas-Ft Worth, TX area and nails our current situation.

I wonder how long it will take before he is vilified in the black community?

On The Brink !

Democrats are on the brink of a complete self-induced meltdown . . . and they are blaming US ... ordinary conservative, independent citizens (across the spectrum) who are terrified at what Washington is doing to this country.

They, and they alone, created this mess and just cannot understand how we, the American people, can be so insubordinate, so inconsiderate as not to approve, sheeple-like and without dissent, their every whim and misbegotten fantasy. How dare we, mere serfs, question our elected representatives! Unheared of! The nerve! This cannot be tolerated!

Liberal democrats put themselves in this very uncomfortable place through a combination of hubris, unmitigated arrogance and just plain old incompetence. Having won an election, not by a landslide but interpreting it as such, they mistakenly assumed a mandate for any and all whimsical, far-fetched, moronic plans for government expansion and centralized power. Never in their wildest dreams did they think there was a limit to the unquestioned acceptance of rule that was believed their birthright.

We accepted, reluctantly, the Stimulus Plan after being scared to death by the administration of the "dire and immediate" crisis that had to be dealt with ... damn the torpedoes and pass the bill... don't worry, we will fill in the blanks later!

We accepted, grumbling and figiting, the take over of the auto industry and the financial world, again, threatened with imminent Armageddon in failing to do so . . . Plan? We don't need no stinkin' plan! Remember, we are the government and we are here to help!

Cap and trade brought this witch's brew oh so close to the boiling point but now seems to have simmered, lost in the Senate chambers.

Emboldend by thier own self-importance and false sense of immortality, the three-headed Cerberus (Obama/Pelosi/Reid) went for the hat-trick: ObamaCare! BOOM!

Discontent, fear and just plain anger boiled the pot over and what a mess it has made. This is not just about health care. Healthcare is just the straw breaking the taxpayer's, heretofore, very sturdy back.

This is about the very fundementals of the American republic. Elected represetative government representing the wishes of the people. Or, in our present condition, the lack thereof!

Democrats, having been tharwted in the planned fast track passage before the summer congressional recess of this monstrosity by members of their own party (prior to the bribery, threats and intimidation), are now at home (or on taxpayer funded junkets) cowering and hiding from their constituents. The ones who made it home first and went out in public caught an earful! They really did not take into account the mood of the people in the midst of a great recession and how it has changed the national mood on spending, government control and politicians being accountable to thier public.

And so the abject shock on the faces of Congressmen who've faced the grilling back home. They had no idea, not a clue how people were feeling. The passions of the protesters are entirely understandable. They hired (elected) a person to represent them in Washington. Gave him a nice car and driver, a staff and lots of perks to listen to them and do what is best for them. That's all. Not very high expectations. Just represent our interests back here and take care of our business in Washington. Instead, the people are terrified at what their 'employee' is doing in the name of the company (country).

What has been most upsetting and freighting is not the congressmen's surprise, but their hard-nosed response to the will of the people. The Lib-o-crats and their media charged that the town-hall meetings weren't authentic, the crowds were ginned up by insurance companies, lobbyists and the Republican National Committee. But, as Peggy Noonan writes, :... you can not get people to leave their homes and go to a meeting with a congressman, of all people, unless they are engaged to the point of passion."

What the town-hall meetings represent is a feeling of rebellion, an uprising against change they do not believe in. And the Democrat response has been shockingly crude and agressive. It has been to attack. Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, in effect calling people who question thier congressmen Nazis. Union thugs, attending town-hall meetings at the behest of the DNC and the White House, rousting the elderly and beating up a black conservative voicing their opinions. But most potentially damaging to our freedoms and liberty, was the new White House email address to which citizens are asked to report instances of "fishy" information or conversations against the administration policy. That's right! A Snitch Line! (Please add my name to that list!)

All this is divisive and provocative. They are mocking, menacing and intimidating concerned citizens. But this will not work! Instead of allowing ourselves to be intimidated and slinking away to toil away at our jobs and happily send more tax money to these professional theives, we will, in the words Obama himself instructing Democrats how to handle us, "punch back twice as hard!"

Let your congress-critter know exactly how you feel and let no one silence you!

Health Care Reform All About HIM!

Despite what B. Hussein Obama says, he owns the health care reform issue lock, stock and barrel and it is all about him! With his job approval ratings now below 50% (Welcome back Carter), the Snake-Oil Salesman-in-Chief has become a regular sit-com on broadcast TV to air his infomercials for ObamaCare -- the cure for all ailments! With a practiced straight face he looked right in the camera and lied to America -- "This is not about me!"

Nonsense! It is all about him. Health care is his signature effort -- his line in the sand. And he knows if he produces nothing, the mystique of The One is forfeit. This is why Obama keeps moving the goal posts of deadlines and details. Universal coverage? Well maybe, maybe not. No middle-class tax increase? Well, maybe just a little, as long as they don't "primarily" bear the burden. It is all about him and he will put his signature on anything as long as the title says "health-care reform." So he just keeps putting lipstick on this pig and trots it out on stage almost daily.

If this is not about politics (and politics is all about him), then why is it that his grand-scheme for health care does not address in any shape, form or fashion one of the worst sources of waste in American medicine - - the outrageously insane cost and arbitray rewards of medical malpractice?

When a doctor, a neurosurgeon for example, pays $200,000 a year for malpractice insurance before he even turns on the lights in his office, hires his first employee or sees his first patient -- who do you think pays for this overhead? Patients, in higher doctor fees and insurance premiums. Why? One word answer -- Lawyers!

With lotto-like awards in which one claimant collects giga-bucks and 1/3 of everything goes to lawyers -- where do you think the money comes from? The insurance companies, which then pass it on to you in higher premiums. Unlike the Fed, insurance companies just can't print money to pay claims.

But the greatest waste is the hidden cost of defensive medicine. These are all the tests and procedures that doctors order for no good reason other than to protect themselves from the bottom-crawling, scum-sucking scavengers, and I am not talking about catfish! Every doctor's worst nightmare is a malpractice suit and the increased cost of unnecessary medical procedures is incurred with an eye not on medicine but on the law.

Tort reform, not ObamaCare, would yield tens of billions in savings alone. Yet it is nowhere in the Democratic bills. And Obama breathed not a word about it in his recent hour long infomercial. Why? Simple -- Democrats are parasitically dependent on the huge donations from trial lawyers.

I seem to remember The O promising a new politics that puts people ahead of special interests. What am I to believe? The reality of his actions-- or my lying ears?

Green Shoots of Hope

There may be some ‘green shoots’ of hope for Conservatives just six months into the nightmare called “The Era (Error) of Obama.” While his poll numbers remain fairly strong at 56%, they do not represent the kind of strength with which one can ‘walk on water’!

There are a couple of trends that should provide some encouragement to Conservatives and irritate the Obamaites. First of all, a recent Gallup poll found 40% of Americans described their political views as conservative. Compare this to only 21% who say they are liberal. That would indicate that 39% of Americans are independent. Guess who is becoming disenchanted with Obamaism? What’s more, Gallup also found that Americans, by a two-to-one margin, say their political views have become more conservative in recent years than liberal. And a Pew survey in May shows that there has been “no consistent movement away from conservatism, nor a shift toward liberalism” since the last election.

What does that mean for the good guys? (That would be we Conservatives, in case there is some Liberal interloper reading my blog). It means that the ‘American Idol’ election of Obama in 2008 did not represent an ideological shift toward Liberalism, as fantasized by the Cerberus of Obama, Pelosi and Reid. The “mandate” claimed by Liberals is simply not there!

Secondly, Republicans, while still working through an identity crisis, are gaining ground with the American voter on issues. Even the Obama mouthpiece, the New York Times, in a poll earlier this month, shows almost 70% expressed a “great deal” or “quite a bit” of concern about the expanding role of the federal government under Obama.

When it comes to party affiliation, Democrats have lost more support this year than Republicans. In addition, Republicans are closing the gap and, in some areas, pulling slightly ahead of Dummycrates in generic Congressional polls.

B. Husseins’ 56% approval rating, as noted earlier, is down from 65% in the last month. The decrease in his job-approval ratings is driven in part by a 15 point drop in support among independent voters. This must really have caused a ‘loose bowel moment’ in the White House!

These trends are now manifesting themselves in the views of lawmakers. For example, Blue Dog Democrats are growing a pair and bucking the Obama reckless spending agenda.

Now it would be wishful thinking on the part of Conservatives and Republicans (for the two are not necessarily the same) to pretend that Obama is in a free-fall. However, he is no longer skating on smooth ice. A public who bought into the ‘snake oil cure-all’ sales pitch are now having the first twinges of buyer’s remorse. He is much more liberal than advertised and his ‘jus words…jus speeches’ are beginning to fall a bit flat. Obama is sounding like politics as usual.

We Conservatives should take Obama’s advice to Congressional Democrats: it is time to “buck it up” and “not slow up or lose heart” in our fight to restore America to the country it should and can be. We are at a rare nexus in history when what we do now, really does have long lasting, even existential, consequences for “life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

Fight the good fight and let it be known, “We Will Remember In November!”

Put Me on the Health Care Waiting List Now Please: An Open Letter to My Congressman

The following is a great spoof about the 'waiting lists' under ObamaCare. It was written by fellow blogger, Annette Bybee. You can read more of her material at: http://pitchforkandtorch.blogspot.com/

Re-printed with permission:
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Dear Congressman,

I need to ask you a favor. I hate to bug you, because boy, are you guys busy back there in Washington! I mean, wow! You don't even have time to read your bills. Not even the ones you wrote yourselves. First there were all those bailouts, then there was stimulus, then that whopper of a cap and trade bill, and now you're getting ready to hit us with socialized medicine. I know, I know, you don't like to call it that. It's 'health care reform' or a 'single payer option' or a 'public plan'. Yada, yada, yada. It's socialized medicine. And you want me to have it, even if I actually like the health care plan I already have, like 70% of the population does. But never mind what we want. Just go ahead and push your agenda on us, under the whip cracking of Pelosi. Have you ever noticed how she has that self-satisfied smirk when she's in front of the cameras? And what's with those kindergarten wooden bead necklaces?

But I digress. I really need your help. You see, I like to plan for the future. And the future means possible unemployment because of all the stimulating you folks are doing to the economy, or if not unemployment, at least high taxes to pay for all that stimulating and all that 'free' health care. And because my electric bill will "necessarily skyrocket" I won't be able to afford heat or air conditioning, or TV, or lights. I'll be sitting around in the dark shivering or sweating, not listening to Rush because I'm sure you'll pass the fairness doctrine at some point.

There I go again, digressing. Okay, so I've heard that in countries with socialized medicine there are waiting lists for some minor frivolous health care procedures, like cancer treatments or necessary surgeries. And I'm kind of worried about it. So could you be a pal and ask that future Health Care Rationing Czar to put me on the waiting list to get on the waiting list? Just in case I actually get sick in the future. I like to plan ahead. And while you're at it, can you please put me on the waiting list for psychiatric treatment as well? I feel a nervous breakdown coming on, what with watching you destroy my country and all.

Sincerely,

Your Humble Constituent

P.S. You might want to put yourself on that list as well, because of course you'll be under the same health care plan as us peons, right?