Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Obama Sacrifices Alabama Condom Plant
Perhaps by hope, Obama means hopefully Chinese condoms won't split on you. Don't forget to buy American.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Monday, March 23, 2009
Taxation Without Representation
I personally recommend that all of those who cherish liberty and freedom should read LookTrueNorth as it slips away from the great people of Minnesota.
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Socialist Army on the Move
From the Desk of:
Steve Elliott, President, Grassfire.org Alliance
XXXXXX,
We've just learned that President Obama is getting ready to
unleash the massive grassroots army he built during the
campaign to pressure Congress to pass his big-spending,
big-taxing budget.
As we predicted in Grassfire's own booklet "Living in an
Obama Nation," Obama is using the same community organizing
tactics that got him elected to push his agenda...
In other words, the presidency has become Obama's
personal platform to push his radical agenda!
+ + Obama's Radical Budget
As Grassfire's research staff has detailed, the Obama budget is
a radical, big government blueprint that will greatly expand
government, impose a new global warming "carbon tax," and add
at least $1.6 trillion in new taxes.
Some Senators are now beginning to realize that Obama is using
this budget to impose socialistic healthcare and radical carbon
taxation through the back door!
XXXXXX, this could be the most important battle we
face this year. That's why Grassfire is fighting back in
every way possible, and we need you to take action as well.
Action Item #1 - Sign our "Stop The Spending" Petition
The Senate is expected to vote NEXT WEEK on the Obama Budget
and we want to deliver at least 200,000 petitions before that vote.
Our records show you have not yet signed!
Please go here to sign the "Stop The Spending" petition
now and be included in this important delivery:
http://www.grassfire.net/r.asp?u=17209&RID=19165359#J1
Action Item #2 -- Visit Your Congressmen's Offices
In addition to signing the petition, we are asking ALL team members
to visit their members of Congress' district offices.
We are coordinating these meetings through our ResistNet
social network. To find out if a meeting has been planned in
your area and to network and plan these visits with others
in your state, go here:
http://www.grassfire.net/r.asp?U=17207&RID=19165359
Action Item #3 - Alert Your Friends
Finally, spread the word. The Obama Budget is the lynchpin for his
entire socialistic agenda, and we need members of our team spreading
the word about what is happening.
As I noted earlier, Obama is unleashing his grassroots team to force
Congress to pass his budget. And he's using the budget process to
basically get approval on the three key components of his socialistic
agenda:
--massive tax increases
--state takeover of healthcare
--oppressive global warming carbon tax
Keep in mind, the truth isn't being told. The liberal media has
already shown they are giving Obama a free pass. That's why it's
up to you and me to get the truth out to grassroots Americans.
To date, Grassfire.org is the ONLY organization that has published
the real total of new taxes in the Obama budget (over $2 trillion).
Thank you for your efforts!
Steve Elliott, President
Grassfire.org
P.S. Congress is fast-tracking the budget to get this done before
their Spring break in just over two weeks. Please sign the petition
and consider joining with others in your state to visit your member
of Congress' in-state office.
To sign the petition:
http://www.grassfire.net/r.asp?u=17209&RID=19165359#J1
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
(Note: Please do not "reply" directly to this e-mail message. This
e-mail address is not designed to receive your personal messages.
To contact Grassfire.org with comments, questions or to change your
status, see link at the end.)
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
+ + + + +
Grassfire.org Alliance is a non-profit 501(c)4 issues advocacy
organization dedicated to equipping our 1.5 million-strong network
of grassroots conservatives with the tools that give you a real
impact on the key issues of our day. Gifts to Grassfire.org are not
tax deductible.
+ + Comments? Questions?
http://www.grassfire.net/r.asp?U=17208&CID=112&RID=19165359
Steve Elliott, President, Grassfire.org Alliance
XXXXXX,
We've just learned that President Obama is getting ready to
unleash the massive grassroots army he built during the
campaign to pressure Congress to pass his big-spending,
big-taxing budget.
As we predicted in Grassfire's own booklet "Living in an
Obama Nation," Obama is using the same community organizing
tactics that got him elected to push his agenda...
In other words, the presidency has become Obama's
personal platform to push his radical agenda!
+ + Obama's Radical Budget
As Grassfire's research staff has detailed, the Obama budget is
a radical, big government blueprint that will greatly expand
government, impose a new global warming "carbon tax," and add
at least $1.6 trillion in new taxes.
Some Senators are now beginning to realize that Obama is using
this budget to impose socialistic healthcare and radical carbon
taxation through the back door!
XXXXXX, this could be the most important battle we
face this year. That's why Grassfire is fighting back in
every way possible, and we need you to take action as well.
Action Item #1 - Sign our "Stop The Spending" Petition
The Senate is expected to vote NEXT WEEK on the Obama Budget
and we want to deliver at least 200,000 petitions before that vote.
Our records show you have not yet signed!
Please go here to sign the "Stop The Spending" petition
now and be included in this important delivery:
http://www.grassfire.net/r.asp?u=17209&RID=19165359#J1
Action Item #2 -- Visit Your Congressmen's Offices
In addition to signing the petition, we are asking ALL team members
to visit their members of Congress' district offices.
We are coordinating these meetings through our ResistNet
social network. To find out if a meeting has been planned in
your area and to network and plan these visits with others
in your state, go here:
http://www.grassfire.net/r.asp?U=17207&RID=19165359
Action Item #3 - Alert Your Friends
Finally, spread the word. The Obama Budget is the lynchpin for his
entire socialistic agenda, and we need members of our team spreading
the word about what is happening.
As I noted earlier, Obama is unleashing his grassroots team to force
Congress to pass his budget. And he's using the budget process to
basically get approval on the three key components of his socialistic
agenda:
--massive tax increases
--state takeover of healthcare
--oppressive global warming carbon tax
Keep in mind, the truth isn't being told. The liberal media has
already shown they are giving Obama a free pass. That's why it's
up to you and me to get the truth out to grassroots Americans.
To date, Grassfire.org is the ONLY organization that has published
the real total of new taxes in the Obama budget (over $2 trillion).
Thank you for your efforts!
Steve Elliott, President
Grassfire.org
P.S. Congress is fast-tracking the budget to get this done before
their Spring break in just over two weeks. Please sign the petition
and consider joining with others in your state to visit your member
of Congress' in-state office.
To sign the petition:
http://www.grassfire.net/r.asp?u=17209&RID=19165359#J1
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
(Note: Please do not "reply" directly to this e-mail message. This
e-mail address is not designed to receive your personal messages.
To contact Grassfire.org with comments, questions or to change your
status, see link at the end.)
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
+ + + + +
Grassfire.org Alliance is a non-profit 501(c)4 issues advocacy
organization dedicated to equipping our 1.5 million-strong network
of grassroots conservatives with the tools that give you a real
impact on the key issues of our day. Gifts to Grassfire.org are not
tax deductible.
+ + Comments? Questions?
http://www.grassfire.net/r.asp?U=17208&CID=112&RID=19165359
ALERT - Baby DNA Taken Without Parental Consent - ALERT
House DFL Leadership railroads Baby DNA bill to passage
Amended House Bill (HF1341) will enable the Health Department and the Mayo Clinic to KEEP their Baby DNA Warehouses
- Citizen Rights Quashed
- What's Next?
- Critical Action Items
Rights Quashed
Yesterday, members of the Minnesota House pushed the Baby DNA bill (HF 1341) through the House health policy committee at break neck speed, focusing on testing rather than storage and use of baby DNA, preventing testimony from being heard, and ruling against attempts to add parent consent requirements. Footage of the hearing starting at 1:04:21 and ending at 1:42:00
Most at fault:
Rep. Tina Liebling (D-Rochester) - representing Mayo Clinic (see letter)
Rep. Kim Norton (D-Rochester) - representing Mayo Clinic
Rep. Jim Abeler (R-Anoka) - Republican Lead **see action item below**
Here's what happened:
- CCHC's "baby DNA" signs (8.5x11in.) were shut down. (1:05:37) Against First Amendment rights, Rep. Liebling, acting as Committee Chair for hearing on Chairman Thissen's bill, announced publicly that it was against House rules for CCHC supporters to have signs in the committee room.
- Only about 12 out of 70 letters sent by the public to the Committee were published as written testimony. The rest were omitted.
- Of the five people who asked to testify against the bill, only Twila Brase, CCHC's president (wearing a "PROTECT BABY DNA" sticker) was allowed to testify. Everyone else was shut out. (1:30:20)
- Rep. Liebling interrupted Ms. Brase while she was testifying to let Rep. Norton challenge Brase's assertion that the health department did not have the right to collect, store and use baby blood when they began in 1997. (1:33:48
) Brase explained Norton's error to everyone in the audience and everyone watching the television coverage. Norton had earlier argued (1:21:25) for Mayo retaining the blood for Mayo research, pointing our the Mayo Clinic letter to the committee and saying they aren't an "evil entity." Rep. Leibling interrupted Ms. Brase again toward the end of her testimony to say "wrap up, Ms. Brase."
- Rep. Abeler, co-author of HF 1341, offered an amendment to KEEP the nearly 12-yr old baby DNA warehouse in operation for two more years, until 2011 (1:12:56). However, his likely intent is to promise to discard the DNA in 2011, but to keep the warehouse intact long after. Here's how: in 2011, (when Governor Pawlenty is likely gone), the department can simply bring a bill to extend the expiration date into the future or to repeal the discard requirement altogether. As in the past, Rep. Abeler appears to be working in sync with the health department adding future expiration
dates to controversial legislation so the expiration date can later be repealed when public outrage has died down. See HF 1554 (this year's repeal of Abeler's 2005 expiration date regarding due process rights)
- When Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Delano) tried to add a parent consent amendment, (1:38:10) Liebling ruled that it was not allowed. When Liebling's ruling was challenged, Rep. Abeler refused to support his Republican colleague Rep. Emmer in the roll call vote on Liebling's ruling. Instead of voting in support of Emmer, Republican Lead Abeler chose not to vote. On a vote of 13-6, Liebling's rule held and no parent consent amendment was allowed to be offered.
- After raised voices, the committee passed the bill with Abeler's "keep the DNA warehouse" amendment included.
- Also, Rep. Thissen, author of the bill, discussed the pending lawsuit against MDH. When asked why he's not waiting for the conclusion of the lawsuit, he said, "we want to get this law clarified." He added, "It'll save litigation costs if we pass this bill because that'll take one part of that lawsuit and maybe most of that lawsuit away." (1:15:00).
What's Next?
The amended House baby DNA bill will soon be heard in the House Civil Justice Committee, at a date yet to be announced. Rep. Mary Liz Holberg (R-Lakeville) is a member of the committee, and a strong advocate of privacy.
In the Senate, introduction of a new Senate bill is possible. Or...the Senate could simply use the amended House bill for a Senate vote. Once that happens, it will be sent to the Governor, perhaps as soon as the end of the month. Then it'll be up to the Governor to pass or veto it.
Critical Action Items
- Rep. Abeler: Given his failure to support Rep. Emmer on a procedural vote, perhaps it's time for new Republican leadership on the committee. To validate his leadership, Rep. Abeler should have spoken up and requested that his Republican colleague Rep. Emmer receive the normal courtesy that he deserved. If you agree that new leadership is needed, please contact Minority Leader Rep. Marty Seifert (651-296-5374, 888-234-1242, rep.marty.seifert@house.mn) to request that he appoint a new Republican Lead on the Health Care and Human Services Policy and Oversight Committee.
- Governor Pawlenty: Contact the Governor. Ask him to VETO the bill if it comes. And ask him to shut down his health commissioner's efforts to eliminate genetic privacy and informed written consent.
- Legislators: Contact your state Representative and Senator to oppose the baby DNA bill (HF1341).
- Letter to Editor: Write a letter to the Editor of your local paper. Give www.itsmydna.org as the place to access forms for parents to opt-out of the DNA warehouse.
Governor Tim Pawlenty: tim.pawlenty@state.mn.us; 651-296-3391; 1-800-657-3717
State Representative: rep.firstname.lastname@house.mn
State Senator: sen.firstname.lastname@senate.mn
House Information: 651-296-2146
Senate Information: 651-296-0504
- CCHC -
Monday, March 16, 2009
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Obama's Press Secretary Wags the Dog
Rather than including congressional republicans in the process, congressional democrats took the low road in excluding republicans from the Stimulus Package entirely. Perhaps Stimulus is a misnomer. Rush Limbaugh has deemed it Porkulus, and imitators have deemed it Spendulus, but it is what it is. That is a bill designed solely for the survival of democrat special interest groups. It has nothing to do with the economy.
This can be illustrated many ways. One is by pointing out some of the hundreds of items that waste millions and billions of dollars that create homework for the people, putting Americans behind gov't desks instead of lasting private sector positions. It was jammed down the collective throats of "us" with a complicit media who intends to keep us out of the loop.
It has only succeeded in galvanizing opposition, and rather than take a step forward and address the economy. Obama has yet taken another step backward and address Rush Limbaugh through his Press Secretary Gibbs in a media food fight. The point is to try to marginalize mainstream conservatism as something fringe and unusual (which cannot be farther from the truth), and to distract people from political underhandedness in Washington. Rather than being government watchdogs, as is a proud tradition of the media, the pundits have become subsidiary government cheerleaders. The only criticisms these days are marginalizations of those who dare criticize legitimate concerns, and their talking points are directed from Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and Press Secretary Gibbs.
This all could have been avoided with Rush Limbaugh's Bipartisan Plan. Republicans won 46% of the vote, so they spend 46% of the bill in the form of tax cuts. Democrats won 54% of the vote, so they spend 54% of the money on spending plans. This would have the support of nearly every American, and would turn the page on partisan politics. However Obama has made no single move towards bipartisanship.
Gibbs is simply 'wagging the dog', aiming that Americans won't hold him and congressional democrats accountable. Hopefully Obama will get around addressing Wall Street and Main Street one of these days after growing the government into oblivion. As stunning as this is, Obama has grown the government in his first six weeks than every other American President before him combined.
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is powerful enough to take away everything you have." - Thomas Jefferson
This can be illustrated many ways. One is by pointing out some of the hundreds of items that waste millions and billions of dollars that create homework for the people, putting Americans behind gov't desks instead of lasting private sector positions. It was jammed down the collective throats of "us" with a complicit media who intends to keep us out of the loop.
It has only succeeded in galvanizing opposition, and rather than take a step forward and address the economy. Obama has yet taken another step backward and address Rush Limbaugh through his Press Secretary Gibbs in a media food fight. The point is to try to marginalize mainstream conservatism as something fringe and unusual (which cannot be farther from the truth), and to distract people from political underhandedness in Washington. Rather than being government watchdogs, as is a proud tradition of the media, the pundits have become subsidiary government cheerleaders. The only criticisms these days are marginalizations of those who dare criticize legitimate concerns, and their talking points are directed from Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and Press Secretary Gibbs.
This all could have been avoided with Rush Limbaugh's Bipartisan Plan. Republicans won 46% of the vote, so they spend 46% of the bill in the form of tax cuts. Democrats won 54% of the vote, so they spend 54% of the money on spending plans. This would have the support of nearly every American, and would turn the page on partisan politics. However Obama has made no single move towards bipartisanship.
Gibbs is simply 'wagging the dog', aiming that Americans won't hold him and congressional democrats accountable. Hopefully Obama will get around addressing Wall Street and Main Street one of these days after growing the government into oblivion. As stunning as this is, Obama has grown the government in his first six weeks than every other American President before him combined.
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is powerful enough to take away everything you have." - Thomas Jefferson
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