Judge Napolitano Speaks Out on the Constitution

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Give Senator Harry Reid a WARM New Orleans WELCOME Sat., 12/12

Let’s Give Senator Harry Reid a WARM SOUTHERN WELCOME at Sen. Mary Landrieu’s return favor for the $300 million bribe (of our money!!!) she received to buy her vote for Healthcare.

We want Senator Reid to know how much we appreciate him using $300 million of our money to buy Senator Landrieu’s recent vote on the health care bill, and we want Senator Landrieu to know how much we appreciate her voting against the overwhelming majority of her constituents.

The bus will leave Friday around midnight and return late Saturday night. The bus will seat 55 passengers and has a bath. The cost for round-trip transportation is $61 per person.

If you have questions or would like to come, please contact Julie Turner, Activism Chrmn., North Houston Tea Party Patriots, at 832 928-6672 or julie@hounddogranch.com

Meeting: TOMORROW, 12/7/09 – Los Cucos & Adopt an Airman Update

Meeting Tomorrow:

Los Cucos-KW
Dine: 6 pm Meeting: 7 pm (Dine at 6 pm).
Tables will be set up for dining, so space is limited.
Please reply to this email with RSVP: number dining & attending meeting, or meeting only.
Ex. RSVP: 2 Dining & Meeting
RSVP: 3 Meeting Only

Thank you, and I wish you all a blessed and Merry Christmas and a Happy Hanakkah!

I have emptied out my trunk and car to collect items you’d like to send to our adopted Air Force group in Afghanistan (See email below). We will be packaging and mailing from my office in Cleveland this week (Chris’ mom is a co-worker and friend). So if you have anything you’d like to send, bring it with you tomorrow’s meeting at Los Cucos at 7 pm. We dine together from 6 to 7 pm.

If you’d like to send them Christmas cards, we can include them in our packages. Chris has about 50 airman in his immediate group, and there are about 150 of them on his base. They have no electricity except when generated, and can only call out on the COMSAT at certain times, so batteries; car/sports/special interest (no girlie mags); books (westerns/mysteries etc.); all kinds of beef jerky;and handheld games are wonderful gifts, as well as the standard items listed below and on many websites. I’m conflicted about sending Copenhagen snuff but understand it is like money there.

Robin

To read the original post with more gift ideas, click on “More.”

Congressman Brady Tells Treasury Sec to Resign

Good background information on Rep. Kevin Brady–worth a read.  Robin

He doesn’t like the numbers he crunches
Low-key Woodlands Congressman Brady has become vocal about economy
By MEREDITH SIMONS
WASHINGTON BUREAU
Nov. 27, 2009, 10:38PM

Excerpt:   From his perch as the top Republican on the Joint Economic Committee — a role that former Texas congressman Dick Armey parlayed into the majority leader’s job — Brady has emerged as a staunchly conservative advocate with a studious demeanor. He made national headlines when he devised a gigantic, multicolor chart depicting the complexities of the Democratic health-reform plan.
 
In his clash with Geithner, the congressmen bluntly told the treasury secretary to resign.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6742356.html

ObamaCare’s Cost Could Top $6 Trillion

Posted by Michael F. Cannon (H/T Flopping Aces)

Congressional Democrats are using several budget gimmicks to disguise the cost of their health care overhaul, claiming the House and Senate bills would cost only (!) about $1 trillion over 10 years.  Now that critics have begun to correct for those budget gimmicks, supporters of ObamaCare are firing back.

One gimmick makes the new entitlement spending appear smaller by not opening the spigot until late in the official 10-year budget window (2010–2019).  Correcting for that gimmick in the Senate version, Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) estimates, “When all this new spending occurs” — i.e., from 2014 through 2023 — “this bill will cost $2.5 trillion over that ten-year period.”

Another gimmick pushes much of the legislation’s costs off the federal budget and onto the private sector by requiring individuals and employers to purchase health insurance.  When the bills force somebody to pay $10,000 to the government, the Congressional Budget Office treats that as a tax.  When the government then hands that $10,000 to private insurers, the CBO counts that as government spending.  But when the bills achieve the exact same outcome by forcing somebody to pay $10,000 directly to a private insurance company, it appears nowhere in the official CBO cost estimates — neither as federal revenues nor federal spending.  That’s a sharp departure from how the CBO treated similar mandates in the Clinton health plan.  And it hides maybe 60 percent of the legislation’s total costs.  When I correct for that gimmick, it brings total costs to roughly $2.5 trillion (i.e., $1 trillion/0.4).

Intro to Precinct Level Politics for Every American Citizen: Mon., 11/30 Spring Creek BBQ, 7 pm

Join us at 6 to dine; meeting starts at 7 pm
Spring Creek BBQ
5613 FM 1960 East (East of Timber Forest)
Atascocita, TX 77346

Party policy begins here.
The real grass roots grow here.
Our energy and effort will pay off here.

Continuing education in effective political action…no  c.e.c.s awarded but you’ll gain insight into party structure and function. What you must know if we are to effect REAL change in 2010.

Plan to attend our intro to precinct level activities including attending your precinct convention and possibly becoming a precinct chairman. Even if you don’t want to be a chairman, and/or your precinct already has one, come and learn how you can participate in politics from the ground up–the way it was meant to be.

 

 

ClimateGate: Hide the Decline Video

Republican Lawmakers Encourage Health Care Protests at Planned Town Halls – FOXNews.com

Republican Lawmakers Encourage Health Care Protests at Planned Town Halls – FOXNews.com (Posted using ShareThis)

Click here for GREAT downloadable/printable  Email/Phone Contact List for Senators (includes aides emails)
Taken from http://www.onenationpac.org/takeaction/healthcare/callfaxemail.html

A Tribute to Our Veterans

From Military.com:

Click here for video tribute to our Veterans, past and present.

Click Here for video 2.

Obamacare Endorsements: What the Bribe Was by Dick Morris & Eileen McGann

Obamacare Endorsements: What the Bribe Was
Sunday, November 8, 2009 10:39 AM
By: Dick Morris & Eileen McGann

As the suicidal Democratic congressmen proceed to rubber-stamp the Obama healthcare reform despite the drubbing their party took in the ‘09 elections, the president trotted out the endorsements of the AMA and the AARP to stimulate support. But these – and the other endorsements – his package has received are all bought and paid for. Here are the deals:

·The American Medical Association (AMA) was facing a 21 percent cut in physicians’ reimbursements under the current law. Obama promised to kill the cut if they backed his bill. The cuts are the fruit of a law requiring annual 5 percent to 6 percent reductions in doctor reimbursements for treating Medicare patients. Bravely, each year Congress has rolled the cuts over, suspending them but not repealing them. So each year, the accumulated cuts threaten doctors. By now, they have risen to 21 percent. With this blackmail leverage, Obama compelled the AMA to support his bill…or else!

· The AARP got a financial windfall in return for its support of the healthcare bill. Over the past decade, the AARP has morphed from an advocacy group to an insurance company (through its subsidiary company). It is one of the main suppliers of Medi-gap insurance, a high-cost, privately purchased coverage that picks up where Medicare leaves off. But President Bush-43 passed the Medicare Advantage program, which offered a subsidized, lower-cost alternative to Medi-gap.

Under Medicare Advantage, the elderly get all the extra coverage they need plus coordinated, well-managed care, usually by the same physician. So more than 10 million seniors went with Medicare Advantage, cutting into AARP Medi-gap revenues. Presto! Obama solved their problem. He eliminates subsidies for Medicare Advantage. The elderly will have to pay more for coverage under Medigap, but the AARP — which supposedly represents them — will make more money. (If this galls you, join the American Seniors Association, the alternative group; contact sbarton@americanseniors.org. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .)

· The drug industry backed ObamaCare and, in return, got a 10-year limit of $80 billion on cuts in prescription drug costs. (A drop in the bucket of their almost $3 trillion projected cost over the next decade.) They also got administration assurances that it will continue to bar lower-cost Canadian drugs from coming into the U.S. All it had to do was put its formidable advertising budget at the disposal of the administration.

· Insurance companies got access to 40 million potential new customers. But when the Senate Finance Committee lowered the fine that would be imposed on those who don’t buy insurance from $3,500 to $1,500, the insurance companies jumped ship and now oppose the bill, albeit for the worst of motives. The only industry that refused to knuckle under was the medical device makers. They stood for principle and wouldn’t go along with Obama’s blackmail. So the Senate Finance Committee retaliated by imposing a tax on medical devices such as automated wheelchairs, pacemakers, arterial stents, prosthetic limbs, artificial knees and hips and other necessary accoutrements of healthcare. So these endorsements are not freely given, but bought and paid for by an administration that is intent on passing its program at any cost.