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If George W. Bush had been the first President to need a teleprompter installed to be able to get through a press conference, would you have laughed and said this is more proof of how inept he is on his own and is really controlled by smarter men behind the scenes?
 
If George W. Bush had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to take Laura Bush to a play in NYC, would you have approved?
 
If George W. Bush had reduced your retirement plan’s holdings of GM stock by 90% and given the unions a majority stake in GM, would you have approved?
  
If George W. Bush had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved?
  
If George W. Bush had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown had given him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved?
 
If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought this embarrassingly narcissistic and tacky?
  
If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, would you have approved?
  
If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference to the non-existent “Austrian language,” would you have brushed it off as a  minor slip?
  
If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who cannot seem to keep current in their income taxes, would you  have approved?
  
If George W. Bush had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to “Cinco de Cuatro” in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the 5th of May (Cinco de Mayo), and continued to flub it when he tried again, would you have winced in embarrassment?
  
If George W. Bush had mis-spelled the word “advice” would you have hammered him for it for years like Dan Quayle and potatoe as proof of what a dunce he is?
  
If George W. Bush had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a single tree on Earth Day, would you have concluded he’s a hypocrite?
 
If George W. Bush’s administration had okayed Air Force One flying low over millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown Manhattan causing widespread panic, would you have wondered whether they actually get what happened on 9-11?
  
If George W. Bush had failed to send relief aid to flood victims  throughout the Midwest with more people killed or made homeless than in  New Orleans, would you want it made into a major ongoing political issue  with claims of racism and incompetence?
  
If George W. Bush had created positions consisting of 32 or more  ”Czars” who report directly to him, bypassing the House and Senate on much of what is happening in America, would you have approved.
  
If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved?
  
If George W Bush had proposed to double the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have approved?
  
If George W. Bush had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had spent more than all the Presidents combined since George Washington, would you have approved?   

So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive? Can’t think of anything? Don’t worry. He’s done all this in  10  months — so you’ll have  3 years and 2 months to come up with an answer. Or, go ahead and continue with your cult beliefs…

The Mystery of Barack Obama Continues

By Steve Baldwin, Exclusive to Western Center for Journalism

Most Americans don’t realize we have elected a president whom we know very little about.

Researchers have discovered that Obama’s autobiographical books are little more than PR stunts, as they have little to do with the actual events of his life. The fact is we know less about President Obama than perhaps any other president in American history and much of this is due to actual efforts to hide his record. This should concern all Americans.

A nation-wide network of researchers has sprung up to attempt to fill in the blanks, but at every opportunity Obama’s high-priced lawyers have built walls around various records or simply made them disappear. It is estimated that Obama’s legal team has now spent well over $1.4 million dollars blocking access to documents every American should have access to. The question is why would he spend so much money to do this?

The president who campaigned for a more “open government” and “full disclosure” will not unseal his medical records, his school records, his birth records or his passport records. He will not release his Harvard records, his Columbia College records, or his Occidental College records—he will not even release his Columbia College thesis. All his legislative records from the Illinois State Senate are missing and he claims his scheduling records during those State Senate years are lost as well. In addition, no one can find his school records for the elite K-12 college prep school, Punahou School, he attended in Hawaii.

What is he hiding? Well, for starters, some of these records will shed light on his citizenship and birth.
Pictured: “Scott & Barry, 3rd grade 1969” Punahou School in Hawaii.

For example, Obama’s application to Punahou School – now mysteriously missing – would likely contain a birth certificate. And, according to attorney Gary Kreep, “his Occidental College records are important as they may show he attended there as a foreign exchange student.” Indeed, Obama used his Indonesian name “Barry Soetoro” while attending Occidental. Kreep has filed lawsuits challenging Obama’s eligibility to be president and as part of his lawsuit he requested Obama’s records from Occidental. However, Obama’s lawyers quickly moved to stop Occidental from honoring this request.
Furthermore, now that at least three document authentication experts have declared the scanned “Certificate of Live Birth” Obama’s campaign team gave to a pro-Obama website to be an obvious phony; we know that he is hiding something here as well.

Over 49 separate law suits have been filed on the eligibility/birth certificate issue alone, with several of the suits making it all the way the United States Supreme Court, only to be denied a full hearing.

What’s more, there are questions about how he paid for his Harvard Law School education since, despite a claim by Michele Obama, no one has produced any evidence that he received student loans. The Obamas will not release any student loan details despite repeated requests from the Chicago Tribune. However, it appears that his Harvard education may have been paid for by a foreign source. Khalid Al-Mansour, an advisor to Saudi prince Al-Walid bin Talah, told Manhattan Borough president, Percy Sutton, that he was raising money for Obama’s Harvard tuition. Incidentally, Prince Tala is the largest donor to CAIR, a Muslim group declared by the U.S. Government in 2007 as an unindicted co-conspirator in a terrorist financing trial. At least three of CAIR’s leaders have been indicted for terrorist activities. Al-Mansour’s admission opens up speculation as to whether Muslim interests have assisted Obama’s career in the hope he would eventually be in a position someday to promote their interests.

More recently, it was discovered that Obama’s Selective Service card may have been doctored. Federal law requires all American males to register for the Selective Service (the draft) in case a major war broke out. Blogger Debbie Schlussel has discovered solid evidence that Obama’s Selective Service registration form was submitted not when he was younger as required, but rather in 2008 and then altered to look older. Indeed, the forgers forgot to alter the “Document Location Number” which shows that it is clearly a 2008 form. This is fraud and it’s a felony and Schlussel allegations are backed up by Stephen Coffman, a former high-ranking Federal agent. Moreover, the document shows a September 4th, 1980 date and the location of the transaction as Hawaii, but at that time Obama was thousands of miles away attending Occidental College in Los Angeles.
Pictured: Barack Obama’s 2008 Selective Service Card. “Blogger Debbie Schlussel has discovered solid evidence that Obama’s Selective Service registration form was submitted not when he was younger as required, but rather in 2008 and then altered to look older.”

Pictured: Barack Obama’s 2008 Selective Service Card. “Blogger Debbie Schlussel has discovered solid evidence that Obama’s Selective Service registration form was submitted not when he was younger as required, but rather in 2008 and then altered to look older.”

The real reason why Obama probably did not submit this form as a teenager is that he assumed his Kenyan or Indonesian citizenship exempted him from this requirement. But clearly, as he grew older and entered politics, he saw that any documents revealing a foreign birth – Selective Service registration, birth certificate, school applications, etc – would be problematic if he ran for the presidency. Thus, it is not a coincidence that every document which contains information about his birth or citizenship is either missing, sealed, or has been altered.

Indeed, everywhere one looks into Obama’s background, we find sealed records, scrubbed websites, altered documents, deception and unanswered questions. Can anyone imagine for a second if John McCain or George Bush had blocked access to his school, medical, and birth records? It would have been headlines but as with everything else concerning Obama, the media has given him a pass on this.

Of all these marvels, the latest mystery and probably most perplexing is that of Obama’s social security number. It appears that Obama has multiple identities in term of possessing numerous social security numbers. Orly Taitz, an attorney who has filed numerous suits against Obama regarding his eligibility to serve as president, appears to be the first to discover this. In her suit, representing a number of military officers who are refusing to serve under an ineligible commander in chief, she hired private investigator Neil Sankey to conduct research on Obama’s prior addresses and Social Society numbers. Using Intelius, Lexis Nexis, Choice Point and other public records, Sankey found around 25 Social Security numbers connected with Obama’s name.

However, it may not be as many as 25, since Sankey also searched using closely related names such as: “Barak Obama,” “Batock Obama,” “Barok Obama,” and “Barrack Obama.” There may very well be some Kenyans living in America with the same last name and a similar first name. In any case, I will exclude these records for the purpose of this research and focus only on names spelled exactly like his name. Moreover, we can verify many of the Social Security numbers as valid since they’re connected to addresses at which we know Obama resided. Needless to say, there are also a slew of address and social security numbers connected to addresses in states that Obama has no known connection to.

In Obama’s home state, Illinois, Sankey tracked down 16 different addresses for a Barack Obama or a Barack H. Obama, of which all are addresses he was known to have lived at. Two Social Security numbers appear for these addresses, one beginning with 042 and one starting 364.

In California, where Obama attended Occidental College, there are six addresses listed for him, all within easy driving distance of the college. However, there are three Social Security numbers connected to these addresses, 537 and two others, each beginning with 999.

There are no addresses listed in New York where he attended Columbia University, but there is one listed for him in nearby Jackson, NJ, with a Social Security number beginning with 485.

In Massachusetts – where Obama attended Harvard Law School – we find three addresses, all using the 042 Social Security number. After Obama was elected to the United States Senate in 2005, he moved into an apartment at 300 Massachusetts Ave NW; the Social Security number attached to that address is the 042 one. Yet, three years later, Obama used a different Social Security number for an address listed as: 713 Hart Senate Office Building. This was the address of his United States Senate office. This Social Security number began with 282 and was verified by the government in 2008.

This mystery grows even stranger as other addresses and Social Security numbers for Barack Obama appear in a dozen other states not known to be connected to him. Again, I am excluding those records names not spelled exactly like his name.

Tennessee, one address with a Social Security number beginning with 427

Colorado, one address, with a Social Security number beginning with 456.

Utah, two addresses, with two Social Security numbers beginning with 901 and 799.

Missouri has one address and one Social Security number beginning with 999.

Florida has two addresses listed for his him, three if you count one listed as “Barry Obama.” One is connected to a Social Security number beginning with 762.

In Georgia there are three addresses listed for him, all with different Social Security numbers: 579, 420, and 423.

In Texas there are four different addresses listed for him, one is connected to Social Security number 675.

There are two addresses listed for Barack Obama in Oregon and one address listed for him in
the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, South Carolina, and Pennsylvania.

All told, there are 49 addresses and 16 different Social Security numbers listed for a person whose name is spelled “Barack Obama.” In some cases, the middle initial “H” is listed. If you were to expand the search to include closely related names such as: “Barac,” “Barak,” and “Barrack” Obama, you would find more than a dozen additional addresses and Social Security numbers.

Finally, the one Social Security number Obama most frequently used, the one beginning with 042, is a number issued in Connecticut sometime during 1976-1977, yet there is no record of Obama ever living or working in Connecticut. Indeed, during this time period Obama would have been 15-16 years old and living in Hawaii at the time.

Nevertheless, all this mystery surrounding Obama appears to be a generational thing. Researchers have discovered nearly a dozen aliases, at least two different Social Security numbers, and upwards of over 99 separate addresses for Ann Dunham, his mother. We do know she worked for the ultra liberal Ford Foundation but we also know she may have earned some income from pornographic poses, as evidenced by photos recently discovered by some researchers—how embarrassing. The only thing researchers are able to find out about Obama’s mother is the fact she made porn. I’m sure that’s a first for presidential mothers.

But we also know that Obama’s mother and grandparents associated with Communist Party leaders such as Frank Marshall Davis, a man who, according to Obama’s book, Dreams from my Father, was his main mentor during much of his Hawaiian boyhood (although Obama tried to disguise his identity in his book). During the Cold War, Davis was named by congressional investigators as a key member of a secretive pro-Soviet networked that existed in Hawaii at that time.

The lack of documents regarding Obama also extends to his mother and to his grandparents. Indeed, researchers have been unable to find marriage licenses for his mother’s two marriages, assuming she was ever legally married. Ditto goes for the marriage license for Ann’s parents. They cannot find birth certificates for her, her parents, or for even for her grandparents. Even more so, despite Obama’s boast of his grandfather’s military service, there’s no record of that either. For reasons no one knows, much of Obama’s life, his mother’s life and his grandparent’s life has been erased from the records as if they never existed.

But why would someone obtain so many Social Security numbers? According to investigators, those who create additional Social Society numbers are typically engaged in criminal activities such as Social Security fraud, tax fraud, real estate fraud, campaign contributions fraud, voter fraud and so on. While the private investigator who compiled this list says multiple social security numbers does not automatically prove there’s criminal activity involved, he states that “having said that, I have personally experienced many, many cases where such information has led to subsequent exposure of fraud, deception, money laundering and other crimes.“What is interesting to note is that Obama’s grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, was a volunteer at the Oahu Circuit Court probate department and had access to the Social Security numbers of deceased people.
Pictured: Barrack Obama and his Grandmother, Madelyn Dunham. “Madeline Dunham was a volunteer at the Oahu Circuit Court probate department and had access to the Social Security numbers of deceased people.”

Pictured: Barrack Obama and his Grandmother, Madelyn Dunham. “Madeline Dunham was a volunteer at the Oahu Circuit Court probate department and had access to the Social Security numbers of deceased people.”

It is clear that more research needs to be done on this issue. The Western Center for Journalism
( http://www.westernjournalism.com) is inviting our readers to join the search for the truth. If you have any information about any of the addresses listed, we would love to hear from you. To find a complete list of all the addresses and Social Security numbers listed in the public record for Obama and family, please go to the Western Center for Journalism.

Obama is waging a war against America–against her values, her economy and worst, her constitution. I say worst because modern Democrats rarely exhibit values and we have lived through several of their eroding value-administrations in this country; liberals have often ruined the economy and when the conservatives get back in power, they usually have been able to clean up the mess and turn things around before the next Democratic control’s governing; but the war against the constitution will spell the end of us if won. His army is the likes of Dodd, Franks, Reid, Pelosi, Schumer, Holder to name a few with behind-the-scene puppetry by Axelrod, Soros and Emanuel. The Democrat party is imploding and unfortunately unless we can reverse the damage, we will be the casualties.

Consider: Bailouts, Gitmo, Tarp mis-spending, E-Verify, Card Check, FOCA, SCHIP, SEIU thugs against protesters, fishy snitching, ACORN, Porkulus Stimulus Bill, moves toward the Fairness Doctrine, Sotomayer, Cap and Trade, The Apology Tour, Czars, CIA interrogation memos, the birth certificate debacle, illegal immigration threat/amnesty, the GIVE Act, more spending than the entire history of the country combined, the car industry, buying the banks, false global warming, AIG smoke and mirrors, money for HAMAS, the spread my wealth and home mortgage debacle, threats and moves toward gun bans, record unemployment, false global warming claims, Copenhagen, the circus court trial of 911 terrorists and now health care. All this in less than a year’s time…we move toward liberty’s end at breakneck speed.

We’ve protested at home and in DC, wrote, faxed, emailed and called. Obama is leading the charge albeit behind the scenes to the worst take-over of a free country ever launched on THIS free country. We are on a dangerously totalitarian road to fascism. The leaders of our country do not care about us, their constituency. I’d lay down my arms (the ones that dial the phone and write the letters) but I’m sure that’s what they are hoping we will do. Still, I’m exhausted. I wake up every day to a new assault on our liberties. I have never seen nor read or heard of such corruption on such a large scale in this country. Maybe I have not been paying attention but although I know corruption is in each administration regardless of party, I don’t think I’m being naive when I say this administration tops the worst of the worst and there are 3 years left.

God help us.

From RedState:

5.5 million — Number of jobs that could be lost as a result of taxes on businesses that cannot afford to provide health insurance coverage, according to a model developed by Council of Economic Advisors Chair Christina Romer

$729.5 billion — Total new taxes on small businesses, individuals who cannot afford health coverage, and employers who cannot afford to provide coverage that meet federal bureaucrats’ standards

$1.055 trillion — New federal spending on expanded health insurance coverage over the next ten years, according to a Congressional Budget Office preliminary score of the bill

0.7% — Percentage of all that new spending occurring in the bill’s first three years-representing a debt and tax “time bomb” in the program’s later years set to explode on future generations

$88,200 — Definition of “low-income” family of four for purposes of health insurance subsidies

114 million — Number of individuals who could lose their current coverage under the bill’s government-run health plan, according to non-partisan actuaries at the Lewin Group

43 — Entitlement programs the bill creates, expands, or extends-an increase from H.R. 3200

111 — Additional offices, bureaus, commissions, programs, and bureaucracies the bill creates over and above the entitlement expansions-more than double the number in H.R. 3200

3,425 — Uses of the word “shall,” representing new duties for bureaucrats and mandates on individuals, businesses, and States-also more than double the number in H.R. 3200

$60 billion — Loss sustained by taxpayers every year due to Medicare fraud, according to a recent 60 Minutes expose; the government-run health plan does not reform the ineffective anti-fraud statutes and procedures that have kept Medicare on the Government Accountability Office’s list of high-risk programs for two decades

Zero — Prohibitions on government programs like Medicare and Medicaid from using cost-effectiveness research to impose delays to or denials for access to life-saving treatments

$634 Billion — Amount that could be saved by denying individuals access to treatments that are not “cost-effective,” according to a report by the liberal Commonwealth Fund; Section 1160 of the bill gives bureaucrats in the Obama Administration virtual free rein to develop a new “high-value” reimbursement system for Medicare by May 2012

2017 — Year Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund will be exhausted-an entitlement crisis exacerbated by the bill, which according to the Congressional Budget Office will increase the federal budgetary commitment to health care by $598 billion in its first ten years alone

$2,500 — Promised savings for each American family from health reform, according to then-Senator Obama’s campaign pledge-savings which the Administration’s own actuaries have confirmed will not materialize, as the Pelosi health care bill would increase the growth of health care costs

From The Foundry at Heritage.org:
Congress has outdone itself. On Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid unveiled a health care bill weighing in at 2,074 pages, a new record. A vote on the bill is expected Saturday.
By Amanda Reinecker
Heritage Foundation experts are still working through the specifics of the massive, $849 billion health care bill, as it is estimated to take up to 34 hours to read the entire thing. But they already know that “the major outlines of the bill are no different than the policy train wreck the House passed earlier this month,” reports Heritage’s Conn Carroll.

Both the House and Senate health care “reform” bills include:

1. A government “option.” Both the House and Senate proposals would create a one-size-fits-all public plan to “compete” with private insurers. But the government will retain its role as regulator and thus stifle any competition and causing millions to lose their private coverage.
2. More people in failed programs. Both bills would place millions of Americans under the failing government-run Medicaid program, reducing subsidized benefits from those who truly need them and increasing the financial burden on the states.
3. Employer mandates. All employers of 50 people or more will be required to provide coverage that meets new federal standards or else face a hefty penalty. This mandate will disproportionately impact low-income workers.
4. Individual mandates. For the first time in history, all Americans will be forced to purchase federally approved coverage minimums. Those who fail to comply are subject to new tax penalties and, in some cases, jail time.

The bill’s supporters may be congratulating each other for producing a health care bill that meets the President’s $900 billion cap. But its $849 price tag is a preliminary estimate only, and it really only has one place to go — up. “As history has proven, government health care programs end up costing much more than first promised,” writes Carroll.

Both the House and Senate health care reform bills require individuals to purchase federally-approved health insurance, and those who fail to do so could face criminal prosecution. “Using [criminal law] to enforce one particular notion of appropriate insurance coverage is nothing less than a tyrannical assertion of raw government power over the private lives and economic rights of individual Americans,” write Heritage legal scholars Brian Walsh and Hans von Spakovsky. This abuse of governmental power does not bode well for freedom, as it specifically targets those who choose to make their own decisions regarding their health insurance.

Remember how the Democrats reacted when the Bush Administration started replacing U.S. Attorneys? At least they were actually political appointees employed at the will and whim of the President.

Posted by Erick Erickson On Red State

“This is what happens in third world kleptocracies and totalitarian regimes.”

Via Instapundit comes word that the federal government’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM) intends to purge the federal government of Republican civil servants all in the name of purify the federal bureaucracy.

You can read the OPM memo here.

It is a typical Washington process that many political appointees are able to take jobs within the civil service once their political appointment expires — usually at the conclusion of one administration. What often happens as well is Congressional staffers, before an election or shortly thereafter, will move over to the Executive Branch placed into the civil service, in effect, by appointment.

So, for example, when George Bush became President in 2001, a number of Clinton political appointees became civil service employees. As a result, they became subject to civil service hiring and firing rules, which meant they could no longer be replaced simply for having been a Democratic appointee.

Barack Obama is changing that. He intends to purge all Republicans from the federal bureaucracy retroactive to five years ago.

Under his new rules, made retroactive for five years, the Office of Personnel Management will examine civil service employees who got their start as political appointees in the Bush administration and terminate those employees. The order is retroactive to 2004, that moment when a number of Republican congressional staffers and others sought to embed into the second Bush administration right after the election.

According to John Berry, the Director of OPM:

Beginning January 1, 2010, agencies must seek prior approval from OPM before they can appoint a current or recent political appointee to a competitive or non-political excepted service position at any level under the provisions of title 5, United States Code. OPM will review these proposed appointments to ensure they comply with merit system principles and applicable civil service laws. I have delegated decision-making authority over these matters to career Senior Executives at OPM to avoid any hint of political influence.

The memorandum goes on to apply this change to civil servants who were political appointees in the last five years, in effect freezing these employees out of other positions, denying them promotions, and forcing them out of their jobs.

No one is allowed to stand in the way of Barack Obama’s agenda, including his own bureaucracy. This is what happens in third world kleptocracies and totalitarian regimes.

This is scary stuff.

Just for perspective: remember the Democrats threatened to throw Bush administration people in jail for firing United States Attorneys who happened to be Democrats. In that case, it was clear as crystal that U.S. Attorneys serve at the pleasure of the President and he can fire them whenever he wants. In this case, these people are now civil service employees who do not serve at the pleasure of the President and cannot be fired just because they are Republicans. in fact, the law is very clear on that point.

Barack Hussein Obama wants us to look the other way at the radical islamic Nidal Malik Hasan’s murderous spree against his fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas. Political Correctness must be abolished in this country and our PC in chief Obama who bows to Muslim kings tells us to not “jump to conclusions.” Hasan wrote “Allah” on his door, according to a neighbor, in Arabic…During his postgraduate work at the Uniformed Service University of the Health Sciences, he was reprimanded for preaching Islam to his patients and other doctors. He drew attention from law enforcement officials with Internet postings under his name that praised suicide bombing, saying that their intention was to “save Muslims by killing enemy soldiers,” and that “if one suicide bomber can kill 100 enemy soldiers because they were caught off guard that would be considered a strategic victory.” (Atlas Shrugs)

From Pamela Geller: “Nidal Hasan was doing what Muslims are compelled to do – invade, invite to Islam, destroy, take over. Nidal is a good Muslim – a savage yes. But a good Muslim according to the quran.”

“Again, I ask, is there anywhere Muslims have colonized where they live in peace with the host country. Anywhere?”

Thirteen people are dead in this, the latest jihad action against Americans, but this is nothing new under the USA sun. In the last 35 years, the following has happened on US soil:

We have radical mosques all over our country. There are 1209 mosques in America, well over half founded in the last 20 years. Three out of four of these mosques are considered radical.

Killing a young woman in the name of family “honor” is so appalling, so medieval, that we imagine it can’t happen here.

Yet a Glendale man is accused of running down his daughter last week because she refused to follow traditional values. Police say Faleh Hassan Amaleki, an Iraqi immigrant, had threatened his 20-year-old daughter, Noor, for being too Westernized. Now, he’s a fugitive and she’s in the hospital with life-threatening injuries. (It has been recently reported she died of her injuries.)

Around the world, honor killings claim the lives of an estimated 5,000 girls and women and probably far more, because the crime is often hushed up. The Middle East and Southeast Asia are the epicenter, where the killings are often based on a warped interpretation of Islam.

Rifqa Bary, a teen from a Muslim family, ran away from home fearing an honor killing by her parents for her conversion to Christianity. She was recently found and forced to return to her home state under foster care.

How will we know if Rifqa is not being psychologically abused, physically abused? How will we know if she is ok? Rifqa Bary should be posting to a facebook page everyday. These Islamic apologists are not protecting this girl but rather endangering her life. They say there is no threat but they would not release details about her trip back to Ohio “for safety reasons”.  They are going to kill this girl. Ohio is enforcing sharia law. Female apostates must be imprisoned until they recant.

Read more about Rifqa on her friend, Jamal Jivanjee’s, blog

At any rate, we can see that the creeping horror of political correctness leading this country down the path of a dangerous inertia.

First they came for the Communists but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists but I was not one of them, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews but I was not Jewish so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.
Martin Niemoeller

By Paul Revere

From Tea Party Patriots

Near midnight on Saturday November 7th, when most Americans were either sleeping or otherwise distracted, democratic members of the House of Representatives ignored the clear will of a very vocal American majority and implanted the tentacles of a growing tyrannical government into the spine of the republic that was built on the back of hard working Americans.

The merits of the democrats proposal have been debated and it is well known that the bill will result in an enormous breakdown of the American health care system.

This did not stop Nancy Pelosi and her fellow democrats from grabbing trillions of dollars directly from the paychecks of average citizens. An amount equal to one sixth of the American economy.

What does that mean? Well, in simple terms, if the final step of the bill is realized, Americans will spend 1 of every 6 hours working for the government to pay for nationalized healthcare. Essentially your paycheck is now one step away from being laundered through the government monopoly called nationalized health care.

Those who voted the big gorilla into the room happen to have nothing to lose, as they are exempt from participating. They opened the cage, released the beast and ran. Their plan is to leave Joe Public to his fate against a monster of impersonal legislative bureaucracy.

The fight now moves to the senate, and forces for smart reform based on conservatism, capitalism and compassion for the less fortunate will fight harder than ever to prevent a final bill created by a tyrannical government from ever seeing the light of day.

Join us in the fight today!

What has the biggest impact?
Email and letters while simple to do, have minimal impact. The fight must be taken to them. You must go to your local or national offices to be heard. Letters can take up to three weeks to make it into the hands of your representatives and email often ends up as spam or in their junk folders. For maximum impact please visit your senators’ offices and let them know how you feel.

FIND OUT WHO VOTED FOR THIS BILL AND WHO DID NOT!

OK of abortion limits clear{ed} way for historic health care vote

By David Lightman | McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — With a personal push from President Barack Obama, the House of Representatives Saturday inched closer to passing historic health care legislation that would guarantee virtually all Americans access to care.

Three key votes pointed to its passage: one, 242 to192, authorized the bill to be debated, a key test of Democratic strength.

A second vote banned government subsidized health insurance from covering elective abortions. That vote was 240 to 194, with most Democrats opposing what opponents of the abortion limits calling them the greatest restriction on health care imposed on women in a generation. Republicans, however, overwhelmingly backed the amendment.

Passage of the amendment, however, was considered critical to win the support of anti-abortion Democrats for passage of the final health-care proposal, which needs 218 votes.

The final hurdle was a low one, rejection of a Republican version of the legislation, which lost 258 to 176, with one Republican, Timothy Johnson of Illinois voting with the Democrats.

That left only the final vote on the bill, was not expected until nearly midnight.

As the debate began, Obama visited Capitol Hill to meet for half an hour with House Democrats as the all-day debate was starting Saturday morning, and compared the health care effort to Democrats’ championing of Social Security and Medicare.

“Now is the time to finish the job,” Obama said later in brief remarks in the White House Rose Garden.

On the House floor, Democratic leaders appealed to members’ sense of history, reminding them this was one of the most significant votes, short of war, they are likely to take.

“There are few moments when we have the opportunity to do so much good with one vote. This is one of those moments,” said Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md.

Republicans countered with arguments that the health care plan did little to improve coverage or affordability.

“Astoundingly, Democrats are bringing to the floor a bill today that will not reduce the costs of health insurance, it will grow the size of government,” said GOP Conference Chairman Mike Pence, R-Ind..

Democratic leaders scheduled a final vote on the bill late Saturday night, and were confident they had enough for passage after a last-minute abortion deal.

The House bill would make the biggest changes in the nation’s health care system since Medicare was created 44 years ago to provide coverage for seniors and the disabled.

Passage of the bill by the House would be the first crucial step to overhauling health care; the Senate hopes to act by the end of the year, and the two Houses would then craft a compromise that would need approval of each chamber.

The House measure would create a government-run health care plan to compete with the private sector, bar insurers from denying coverage because of pre-existing conditions and set up health care “exchanges,” or marketplaces where consumers could easily shop for coverage.

The changes are expected to mean that by 2019, 96 percent of eligible Americans would have health insurance, up from the current 83 percent.

Obama took no questions from lawmakers, but his presence was a vivid, and highly partisan, reminder that the president has put health care overhaul at the top of his domestic agenda _ a change that has eluded presidents for nearly a century.

“He came here to say, ‘This is what we said we would do in the campaign. Let’s do it,’ ” Hoyer said.

Democratic leaders said that they doubted many votes would change as a result of the Obama appearance; but that “the energy he brought to this debate will be helpful,” said Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, D-S.C.

A bigger boost likely came from the abortion deal.

As originally written, the House bill would have required insurers to separate public and private money, so that only private funds could be used for elective abortions. Abortion opponents were concerned that such a policy would effectively expand the government’s role in improving access to abortion, and as many as 40 Democrats threatened to withhold support from the health care bill unless changes were made.

After tense negotiations Friday night _ with White House officials and representatives of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops as well as key Democratic members of Congress _ House Democratic leaders agreed to allow a vote Saturday on sweeping changes to the abortion provision.

The change would permit abortion coverage for people receiving federal aid for their insurance only in the case of rape or incest or where the mother’s life is endangered. That change is consistent with a 1970s-era federal law governing public funding of abortion.

Under the new provision, only people buying private insurance with their own funds would have an elective abortion covered.

Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., a leader of the anti-abortion forces, said the new language was “strong,” strong enough that he expected most of the approximately 40 anti-abortion Democrats to back the final bill.

But many abortion rights advocates were angry, and the brief debate often pitted Democrat against Democrat.. “This amendment is government interference in the decision between a woman and her physician,” said Rep. Lois Capps, D-Calif. “Unnecessary and reprehensible,” added Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y.

“Today we’re on the brink of passing health care reform that honors and respects life in every state,” countered Rep. Brad Ellsworth, D-Ind.

With the abortion agreement, House Democratic leaders said they were confident they had the 218 votes needed to pass. The Democrats control 258 seats, but 27 Democrats, most from conservative states or freshmen facing tough re-elections, were seen as solid “no” votes.

Republicans tried throughout the day to create more doubt and delay, loudly shouting objections to routine parliamentary requests by objecting when Democratic women tried to discuss their concerns on the House floor.

GOP members then pushed their own plan, which would make it easier for small businesses to band together to purchase competitively-priced coverage, allow consumers to buy policies across state lines, and effect strong medical malpractice reforms.

Since the GOP controls only 177 seats, it was expected to fail — and did.

The bigger obstacle for Democrats was fellow Democrats, as dozens of members continued to express reservations about the bill.

Some were freshmen elected by slim margins in conservative districts.

Rep. Walt Minnick, D-Idaho, wanted to see more cost-cutting. “Unfortunately, the new health-care bill in the House does not adequately meet those goals, so I will vote ‘no.’ ” he said.

Some were veteran members of the Blue Dog Coalition, a group of 52 Democratic conservatives. Many objected to the bill’s price tag and worried it would increase the federal deficit.

The House bill misses a critical opportunity to address access, quality and costs on the one hand, and solidify our fiscal future on the other hand,” said Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, D-S.D.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated the bill’s net cost would total $891 billion over 10 years and reduce the deficit by $109 billion. But many Democrats were wary.

“While the Congressional Budget Office predicts this bill is paid for over 10 years, there is no mechanism in the bill to force spending cuts if those complicated projections turn out to be wrong,” said Rep. Chet Edwards, D-Texas.

But enough Blue Dogs and freshmen were expected to back the leadership _ which was stressing how the bill could be changed later _ that passage seemed likely.

In the Senate, where moderates’ concerns have stalled progress, Democratic leaders are hoping for a debate and vote before the end of the year.

“My vote is not an endorsement of all the provisions of the bill, because I find much of the bill to be deeply flawed,” said Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn., a Blue Dog who backed the measure. “My reason for voting ‘yes’ is to advance the cause of health care reform by forcing the Senate to act.”
McClatchy Newspapers 2009