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KUHNER: Impeach the president? The 'Slaughter Solution' would violate the Constitution

Posted by Gabrielle Cusumano on Friday, March 19, 2010 2:18:06 PM

(Using the Slaughter Rule) They would guarantee that any bill signed by Mr. Obama is illegitimate, illegal and blatantly unconstitutional. It would be worse than a strategic blunder; it would be a crime - a moral crime against the American people and a direct abrogation of the Constitution and our very democracy. It would open Mr. Obama, as well as key congressional leaders such as Mrs. Pelosi, to impeachment.

KUHNER: Impeach the president?

  The 'Slaughter Solution' would violate the Constitution     Washington Times   by Jeffrey Kuhner

...The Slaughter Solution is a poisoned chalice. By drinking from it, the Democrats would not only commit political suicide. They would guarantee that any bill signed by Mr. Obama is illegitimate, illegal and blatantly unconstitutional. It would be worse than a strategic blunder; it would be a crime - a moral crime against the American people and a direct abrogation of the Constitution and our very democracy. It would open Mr. Obama, as well as key congressional leaders such as Mrs. Pelosi, to impeachment. The Slaughter Solution would replace the rule of law with arbitrary one-party rule. It violates the...  http://washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/19/impeach-the-president/
 
Excerpt:

Yet his primary goal has always been to gobble up the health care system. The most troubling aspect of the Obamacare debate, however, is not the measure's sweeping and radical aims - the transformation of one-sixth of the U.S. economy, crippling tax increases, higher premiums, state-sanctioned rationing, longer waiting lines, the erosion of the quality of medical care and the creation of a huge, permanent administrative bureaucracy. Rather, the most alarming aspect is the lengths to which the Democrats are willing to go to achieve their progressive, anti-capitalist agenda.

Obamacare is opposed by nearly two-thirds of the public, more than 60 percent of independents and almost all Republicans and conservatives. It has badly fractured the country, dangerously polarizing it along ideological and racial lines. Even a majority of Democrats in the House are deeply reluctant to support it.

Numerous states - from Idaho to Virginia to Texas - have said they will sue the federal government should Obamacare become law. They will declare themselves exempt from its provisions, tying up the legislation in the courts for years to come.

Mr. Obama is willing to devour his presidency, his party's congressional majority and - most disturbing - our democratic institutional safeguards to enact it. He is a reckless ideologue who is willing to sacrifice the country's stability in pursuit of a socialist utopia.

The Slaughter Solution is a poisoned chalice. By drinking from it, the Democrats would not only commit political suicide. They would guarantee that any bill signed by Mr. Obama is illegitimate, illegal and blatantly unconstitutional. It would be worse than a strategic blunder; it would be a crime - a moral crime against the American people and a direct abrogation of the Constitution and our very democracy.

It would open Mr. Obama, as well as key congressional leaders such as Mrs. Pelosi, to impeachment. The Slaughter Solution would replace the rule of law with arbitrary one-party rule. It violates the entire basis of our constitutional government - meeting the threshold of "high crimes and misdemeanors." If it's enacted, Republicans should campaign for the November elections not only on repealing Obamacare, but on removing Mr. Obama and his gang of leftist thugs from office.

It is time Americans drew a line in the sand. Mr. Obama crosses it at his peril.

Jeffrey T. Kuhner is a columnist at The Washington Times and president of the Edmund Burke Institute, a Washington think tank. He is the daily host of "The Kuhner Show" on WTNT 570-AM (www.talk570.com) from noon until 3 p.m.

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/19/impeach-the-president/
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Update: House Bill – 3.8% Medicare tax on investment income (interest, dividends, cap gains, annuities, rents)

Posted by Gabrielle Cusumano on Thursday, March 18, 2010 9:33:54 PM

House Bill – 3.8% Medicare tax on investment income (interest, dividends, cap gains, annuities, rents; 222 House Democrats climb aboard the Pelosi-Obama Crazy Train – vote Yes on Slaughter Rule… http://moderateinthemiddle.wordpress.com/2010/03/18/update-3-8-medicare-tax-on-investment-income-interest-dividends-cap-gains-annuities-rents-222-house-democrats-climb-aboard-the-pelosi-obama-crazy-train-vote-yes-on-slaughter-rule-new-union-payo/

From Moderate In The Middle at:

Update: Tom Coburn promises exposure and a fight for any House Dem who sells their vote on Obamacare. No NASA chief job for you!!

Update: The Taxes have increased as predicted- TaxProf h/t Instapundit:

the House Health Care bill unveiled today includes a 3.8% Medicare tax on investment income (interest, dividends, capital gains, annuities, rents) earned by those with incomes in excess of $200,000 (single) and $250,000 (joint).

Update: The Corner has a list of the key votes to call!!!! Call baby call like the wind!!

“Yes” on Obamacare Last Time but Might Want to Switch:

Gabrielle Giffords, (D., Ariz.)—202-225-2542

Ann Kirkpatrick, (D., Ariz.)—202-225-2315

Harry Mitchell, (D., Ariz.)—202-225-2190

Vic Snyder, (D., Ariz.) (S)—202-225-2506

Marion Berry, (D., Ark.) (S)—202-225-4076

John Salazar, (D., Colo.) (S)—202-225-4761

Melissa Bean, (D., Ill.) —202-225-3711

Bill Foster, (D., Ill.) —202-225-2976

Joe Donnelly, (D., Ind.) (S) —202-225-3915

Brad Ellsworth, (D., Ind.) (S) —202-225-4636

Baron Hill, (D., Ind.) (S) —202-225-5315

Bart Stupak, (D., Mich.) (S) —202-225-4735

Michael Arcuri, (D., N.Y.) —202-225-3665

Tim Bishop, (D., N.Y.) —202-225-3826

Bob Etheridge, (D., N.C.) (S) —202-225-4531

Earl Pomeroy, (D., N.D.) (S) —202-225-2611

Steve Driehaus, (D., Ohio) (S) —202-225-2216

Zach Space, (D., Ohio) (S) —202-225-6265

Charlie Wilson, (D., Ohio) (S) —202-225-5705

Chris Carney, (D., Pa.) (S) —202-225-3731

Kathleen Dahlkemper, (D., Pa.) (S) —202-225-5406

John Spratt, (D., S.C.) (S) —202-225-5501

Ciro Rodriguez, (D., Texas) (S) —202-225-4511

Solomon Ortiz, (D., Texas) (S) —202-225-7742

Tom Perriello, (D., Va.) (S) —202-225-4711

Alan Mollohan, (D., W.Va.) (S) —202-225-4172

Nick Rahall, (D., W.Va.) (S) —202-225-3452

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“No” on Obamacare Last Time but Might Need Encouragement:

Mike Ross, (D., Ark.) (S) —202-225-3772

Betsy Markey, (D., Colo.) —202-225-4676

Allen Boyd, (D., Fla.) —202-225-5235

Suzanne Kosmas, (D., Fla.) —202-225-2706

John Barrow, (D., Ga.) (S) —202-225-2823

John Adler, (D., N.J.) —202-225-4765

Michael McMahon, (D., N.Y.) —202-225-3371

Scott Murphy, (D., N.Y.) —202-225-5614

Larry Kissell, (D., N.C.) —202-225-3715

John Boccieri, (D., Ohio) (S) —202-225-3876

John Tanner, (D., Tenn.) (S) —202-225-4714

Glenn Nye, (D., Va.) —202-225-4215

Brian Baird, (D., Wash.) —202-225-3536

Update: MichelleMalkin has the RollCall of the vote on the Slaughter Rule. 222 Democrats in the House climbed aboard Pelosi and Obama’s Crazy Train.I am very proud to report my Critter broke against the flow of dead fish as Sarah would say and voted No. Big Booyah to Harry Mitchell AZ 05!!! The rest of the Crew will be on the Highway to Hell with their constituents come Easter Recess..good luck with that!

(interest, dividends, cap gains, annuities, rents; 222 House Democrats climb aboard the Pelosi-Obama Crazy Train – vote Yes on Slaughter Rule…

Update: Tom Coburn promises exposure and a fight for any House Dem who sells their vote on Obamacare. No NASA chief job for you!!

Update: The Taxes have increased as predicted- TaxProf h/t Instapundit:

the House Health Care bill unveiled today includes a 3.8% Medicare tax on investment income (interest, dividends, capital gains, annuities, rents) earned by those with incomes in excess of $200,000 (single) and $250,000 (joint).

Update: The Corner has a list of the key votes to call!!!! Call baby call like the wind!!

“Yes” on Obamacare Last Time but Might Want to Switch:

Gabrielle Giffords, (D., Ariz.)—202-225-2542

Ann Kirkpatrick, (D., Ariz.)—202-225-2315

Harry Mitchell, (D., Ariz.)—202-225-2190

Vic Snyder, (D., Ariz.) (S)—202-225-2506

Marion Berry, (D., Ark.) (S)—202-225-4076

John Salazar, (D., Colo.) (S)—202-225-4761

Melissa Bean, (D., Ill.) —202-225-3711

Bill Foster, (D., Ill.) —202-225-2976

Joe Donnelly, (D., Ind.) (S) —202-225-3915

Brad Ellsworth, (D., Ind.) (S) —202-225-4636

Baron Hill, (D., Ind.) (S) —202-225-5315

Bart Stupak, (D., Mich.) (S) —202-225-4735

Michael Arcuri, (D., N.Y.) —202-225-3665

Tim Bishop, (D., N.Y.) —202-225-3826

Bob Etheridge, (D., N.C.) (S) —202-225-4531

Earl Pomeroy, (D., N.D.) (S) —202-225-2611

Steve Driehaus, (D., Ohio) (S) —202-225-2216

Zach Space, (D., Ohio) (S) —202-225-6265

Charlie Wilson, (D., Ohio) (S) —202-225-5705

Chris Carney, (D., Pa.) (S) —202-225-3731

Kathleen Dahlkemper, (D., Pa.) (S) —202-225-5406

John Spratt, (D., S.C.) (S) —202-225-5501

Ciro Rodriguez, (D., Texas) (S) —202-225-4511

Solomon Ortiz, (D., Texas) (S) —202-225-7742

Tom Perriello, (D., Va.) (S) —202-225-4711

Alan Mollohan, (D., W.Va.) (S) —202-225-4172

Nick Rahall, (D., W.Va.) (S) —202-225-3452

_______________________________________________

“No” on Obamacare Last Time but Might Need Encouragement:

Mike Ross, (D., Ark.) (S) —202-225-3772

Betsy Markey, (D., Colo.) —202-225-4676

Allen Boyd, (D., Fla.) —202-225-5235

Suzanne Kosmas, (D., Fla.) —202-225-2706

John Barrow, (D., Ga.) (S) —202-225-2823

John Adler, (D., N.J.) —202-225-4765

Michael McMahon, (D., N.Y.) —202-225-3371

Scott Murphy, (D., N.Y.) —202-225-5614

Larry Kissell, (D., N.C.) —202-225-3715

John Boccieri, (D., Ohio) (S) —202-225-3876

John Tanner, (D., Tenn.) (S) —202-225-4714

Glenn Nye, (D., Va.) —202-225-4215

Brian Baird, (D., Wash.) —202-225-3536

Update: MichelleMalkin has the RollCall of the vote on the Slaughter Rule. 222 Democrats in the House climbed aboard Pelosi and Obama’s Crazy Train.I am very proud to report my Critter broke against the flow of dead fish as Sarah would say and voted No. Big Booyah to Harry Mitchell AZ 05!!! The rest of the Crew will be on the Highway to Hell with their constituents come Easter Recess..good luck with that!

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Bachmann Rips Media for Not Covering Deem and Pass

Posted by Gabrielle Cusumano on Wednesday, March 17, 2010 4:42:19 PM
"Where is the mainstream media in all of this not telling this story? This is a compelling story - that the Speaker of the House would even consider having us pass a bill that no one votes on?"  Bachmann said.
 
According to Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., they have. She had some harsh words for the fourth estate on conservative talker Sean Hannity's March 16 radio show. (h/t Kevin Eder)

According to Bachmann, this is such an egregious maneuver by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, to force through health care reform using the Slaughter Rule, as known as deem and pass, that it warrants her impeachment from the post.

"That should laugh her out of the House and there should be people that are calling for impeachment off of something like this," Bachmann continued. "That's how bad this is. I mean, trust me - Dennis Hastert could have never gotten away with this. President Bush never could have gotten away with it."
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeff-poor/2010/03/17/bachmann-rips-media-not-covering-deem-and-pass-suggests-pelosi-impeachmen#ixzz0iT32mV0B

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeff-poor/2010/03/17/bachmann-rips-media-not-covering-deem-and-pass-suggests-pelosi-impeachmen#ixzz0iT2QtDxN

Bachman on Red Eye last night! http://video.foxnews.com/?playlist_id=86926#/v/4111641/rep-michele-bachmann-on-red-eye/?playlist_id=86926

 
 
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Washington Post has had several articles on Pelosi's attempt to destroy democracy. One of them garnered more than 5000 comments.

There's a lot more interest in this "process" than the Democrats imagined. One analyst who did a running analysis said 90% of the comments were anti-deem and pass, and those consisted of folks who had a wide variety of political understandings.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2472787/posts

 
Prominent McCain Supporter: I'm "Absolutely" Concerned That Obama Is Anti-American   http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2472787/posts


Defeat Obamacare call list: List now contains the new MAYBES

 
THEY ARE ANSWERING THEIR LOCAL NUMBERS RUSH SAYS THE LINES ARE MELTED DOWN. USE THEIR LOCAL NUMBERS!

Here is one of the ones Rush gave out on the radio that I’m calling. So far it’s been busy but I’m going to burn it up till I get to tell my congress critter to vote NO!
Join me?..... 1-877-762-8762

KEEP THE CALLS UP! DC OFFICE LOCAL OFFICE

Code Red” - House Target List on Health Care

The National Republican Congressional Committee has published a target list on health care. In addition to continuing to contact the five Tennessee Democrat Congressmen, you can go http://www.votervoice.net/link/clickthrough/ext/94697.aspx to contact some of these targets. Much of the talk following Obama’s announcement has focused on how to defeat this second bill through reconciliation, but that is misleading because the first step to defeating Obamacare is not by concentrating on defeating the “fixer” bill but by defeating the Senate bill in the House when it goes to the floor for an up-or-down vote on Thursday, March 18th.

Rep. Lincoln Davis 202-225-6831 Columbia office: 931-490-8699
Rep. Jim Cooper 202-225-4311 Nashville office: 615-736-5295
Rep. Bart Gordon 202-225-4231 Murfreesboro office: 615-896-1986
John Tanner (202) 225-4714, Union City, (731) 885-7070, Jackson Phone: (731) 423-4848, Millington (901) 873-5690 TN (MAYBE)
Rep. Steve Cohen 202-225-3265 Memphis office: 901-544-4131
Harry Mitchell (202) 225-2190 (480) 946-2411 AZ 5th District
Gabrielle Giffords (202) 225-2542 (520) 881-3588 AZ 8th District
Ann Kirkpatrick (202) 225-2315 (928) 226-6914 AZ 1st District
Jerry McNerney (202) 225-1947 925-833-0643 CA 11th District
John Salazar 202-225-4761 970-245-7107 CO 3rd District
Jim Himes (202) 225-5541 (866) 453-0028 CT 4th District
Alan Grayson (202) 225-2176 (407) 841-1757 FL 8th District
Bill Foster (202) 225-2976 630-406-1114 IL 14th District
Baron Hill 202 225 5315 812 288 3999 IN 9th District
Mark Schauer (202) 225-6276 (517) 780-9075 MI 7th District
Gary Peters (202) 225-5802 (248) 273-4227 MI 9th District
Dina Titus (202) 225-3252 702-256-DINA (3462) NV 3rd District
Carol Shea-Porter (202) 225-5456 (603) 743-4813 NH 1st District
Tim Bishop (202) 225-3826 (631) 696-6500 NY 1st District
John Hall (202) 225-5441 (845) 225-3641 x49371 NY 19th District
Bill Owens (202) 225-4611 (315) 782-3150 NY 23rd District
James Matheson Toll-Free Number 1 (877) 677-9743 (202) 225-3011Mike Arcuri (202)225-3665 (315)793-8146 NY 24th District
Dan Maffei (202) 225-3701 (315) 423-5657 NY 25th District
Earl Pomeroy (202) 225-2611 (701) 224-0355 ND At-Large District
Steven Driehaus (202) 225-2216 (513) 684-2723 OH 1st District
Mary Jo Kilroy (202) 225-2015 (614) 294-2196 OH 15th District
Zach Space (202) 225-6265 (330) 364-4300 OH 18th District
Kathy Dahlkemper (202) 225-5406 (814) 456-2038 PA 3rd District
Patrick Murphy (202) 225-4276 (215) 826-1963 PA 8th District
Christopher Carney (202) 225-3731 (570) 585-9988 PA 10th District
Paul Kanjorski (202) 225-6511 (570) 825-2200 PA 11th District
John Spratt (202) 225-5501 (803)327-1114 SC 5th District
Tom Perriello (202) 225-4711 (276) 656-2291 VA 5th District
Alan Mollohan (202) 225-4172 (304) 623-4422 WVA 1st District
Nick Rahall (202) 225-3452 (304) 252-5000 WVA 3rd District
Steve Kagen (202) 225-5665 (920) 437-1954 WI 8th District
Bart Stupak (202) 225 4735 MI (MAYBE)
Brian Baird (202) 225-3536, Vancouver, (360) 695-6292. Olympia, (360) 352-9768, (MAYBE)
senator mark begich (202) 224-3004 toll free. (877) 501 - 6275 just became a MAYBE
Jason Altmire 202-225-2565, Aliquippa, 724-378-0928,
Natrona Heights, 724-226-1304 (MAYBE)

On the Bubble (Major developments from the “yes” and “no” columns in the House)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2467046/posts

Congressional Dems on Twitter
http://www.arrghpaine.com/congressional-dems-on-twitter

And here are toll-free numbers we can use to call any Senators or Reps.
At the first number below you must wait through a tape recording urging you to tell your Rep or Senator to vote “yes” for the health care bill. Just hang on and when the recording is over, you will get the Capitol operator. Just ask for your Rep or Senator’s office. Then you will either talk to an aid or have the chance to leave a message for him/her to vote NO on the health care bill.

When you use the second number and the Capitol operator comes on, just ask for your Rep or Senator’s office. Every time I use this number I get the Rep or Senator’s answer machine, so it may be set up that way all the time...to go to their answer machine. Either way you can leave a message to vote NO on the health care bill!

We need to use these toll free numbers that have been set up for the health care/ BO supporters and illegals to use! After all they are FREE!

1-800-828-0498 , 1-866-220-0044, 1-866-338-1015, 877-851-6437, 877-210-5351


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Do Your Duty: Sign the "No Healthcare Reconciliation" petition.

Posted by Gabrielle Cusumano on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 8:32:17 PM
Make it go viral...share with friends ... send to your senators: "We the undersigned ask all Senators to respect Senate tradition and resist using inappropriate "reconciliation" rules to pass the health care legislation on narrow partisan lines.  The traditional  60 vote threshold is meant to avoid the tyranny of the majority and is why the Senate is called the most deliberative body in the world." 
Sign the petition at:  http://www.freedomworks.org/landing/noreconciliation/index.php    (see more on this below)*

 Also
One More Push Against ObamaCare in Washington DC on March 16, 2010

March 16th, 2010
1:05
March 16th, 2010
March 16th, 2010
FreedomWorks is calling everyone that is able to Washington, DC on March 16th, 2010 for one more push against Obamacare. We will meet at the ...  

FreedomWorks is calling everyone that is able to Washington, DC on March 16th, 2010 for one more push against Obamacare. We will meet at the Cannon building at 9am and speak with as many representatives as possible, encouraging them to vote NO on this version of health care reform. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFZUxDudxSA


*In a desperate bid to ram a government takeover of America's health care system through Congress, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid have turned to a parliamentary trick known as "reconciliation" that will allow them to ignore all dissenting voices and pass, against bi-partisan opposition, their bill with only 50 Democrat votes instead of the traditional 60.    
 
The reconciliation process was created in 1974 so that Congress could move quickly on budget matters, but the Left wants to use it to pass their big government agenda -- starting with ObamaCare." http://www.freedomworks.org/landing/noreconciliation/index.php
 
Sign the "No Healthcare Reconciliation" petition. http://www.freedomworks.org/landing/noreconciliation/index.php

"Ask your friends to do the same, and help create the grassroots outcry against ObamaCare and this last desperate effort that the Left is using to pass it at any cost!
The Democratic leadership pushing the use of this parliamentary trick should listen to the arguments they themselves made just a few years ago against such a move."   http://www.freedomworks.org/landing/noreconciliation/index.php

TOLL-FREE PHONE CALLING    1-800-828-0498   1-866-220-0044

These toll free arrangements were set up by Obamuniust organizations to support (pause for sticking out tongue) “health” “care” “reform.” Use them! After all, they are free! . At the first number you must wait through a brief Obamunist tape recording. Just hang on and when the recording is over, you will get the Capitol operator. Just ask for your Rep or Senator’s office. Then you will either talk to an aide or have the chance to leave a message for him/her to vote NO on the health care bill.

When you use the second number and the Capitol operator comes on, just ask for your Rep or Senator’s office

1-800-828-0498
1-866-220-0044

“Code Red” – Tennessee Democrat Congressmen Targeted

Never mind about the so-called “fixit bill”: the way to defeat Obamacare is is by defeating the Senate bill in the House when it goes to the floor for an up-or-down vote on Thursday, March 18th.

PLEASE CALL ………....... WASHINGTON DC ..….. LOCAL DISTRICT …..…
Rep. Lincoln Davis 202-225-6831 Columbia office: 931-490-8699
Rep. Jim Cooper 202-225-4311 Nashville office: 615-736-5295
Rep. Bart Gordon 202-225-4231 Murfreesboro office: 615-896-1986
Rep. John S. Tanner 202-225-4714 Jackson office: 731-423-4848
Rep. Steve Cohen 202-225-3265 Memphis office: 901-544-4131

Kill the bill!
Kill the bill!
Kill the bill!
Kill the bill!
Kill the bill!
Kill the bill!
Kill the bill!

 

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MoveOn Threatens Dems Voting Against Health Plan

Posted by Gabrielle Cusumano on Saturday, November 07, 2009 6:44:07 PM
MoveOn Threatens  to fund primary challenges against 'any Democratic senator who blocks an up-or-down vote on health care
 
FOXNews.com   http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/06/liberal-activist-groups-threatens-democrats-opposed-government-run-option/

 - November 06, 2009

MoveOn Threatens to Push Primary Opponents to Dems Voting Against Health Plan

Moveon.org has reportedly raised $3,578,117 in contributions to fund primary challenges against 'any Democratic senator who blocks an up-or-down vote on health care reform with a public option,' according to an e-mail sent to group members on Thursday.
 

A civil war is threatening to erupt within the Democratic Party as liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org looks to punish moderate Democrats opposed to the sweeping health care overhaul proposed by party leaders.

MoveOn has reportedly raised more than $3.5 million  in contributions to fund primary challenges against "any Democratic senator who blocks an up-or-down vote on health care reform with a public option," according to an e-mail sent to group members on Thursday.

The e-mail warned that any Democratic House member who joins Republicans to filibuster the health care reform measure will "face an enormous backlash from the grassroots."

The group also highlights a letter from Democracy for America, the nation's largest progressive political action founded by former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, which urges Senate Democrats to strip committee chairmanship from "any Democrat who filibusters health care."

MoveOn.org, which has...   Excerpted. More at: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/06/liberal-activist-groups-threatens-democrats-opposed-government-run-option/

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READ THE BILL! H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act

Posted by Gabrielle Cusumano on Thursday, October 29, 2009 11:49:56 PM
H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act
You can download it here:
 

Some Quickies

starting on p. 16
Upon passage of the bill, there will immediately be set up a High -Risk pool of people to give them the public option of health care coverage. on p. 18 line 14 - if you meet the requirements to be in this high risk pool which is described above...such as haven’t had health care coverage for the last 6 months....

Then you CANNOT be considered for coverage under an employment based health plan at all!!!

So if you actually get a job, you can’t get enrolled into their plan you are stuck with the governement plan!!

p.25 top of p.26 of the bill
If the $5 billion runs out that they have alloted then the Sec. of Health has the right to reduce benefits, increase premiums and establish waiting lists.

Also
p.297 the section heading is taxes on individuals without appropriate health care coverage.
right...
look on p. 299
2) Non-resident aliens..this subsection will not apply to them.

If they don’t have purchase appropriate health care coverage yet, they get to use it...they will NOT be taxed like the rest of us if we don’t comply!

It appears on P. 299 top p. 300 that we might be saved if we just say that we are religious thus not having to pay the tax

Above is  comment # 14 posted  Explodo.  From FreeRepublic.com at: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374242/posts
 

Thursday, October 29, 2009
2,000 Pages of Mandates, Taxes, and Bureaucracy
Posted by: Michele Bachmann at 12:05 PM  Excerpt
"This morning, House Democrats held a press conference to unveil their health care reform bill, which they claim will expand coverage for all and decrease costs. Sounds good, but once you peel away the “feel good” rhetoric, there’s nothing to be excited about."  
"H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act includes a job-killing employer mandate, an individual mandate that requires Washington bureaucrats to define what kind of coverage is acceptable, burdensome tax increases, Medicare cuts, and a huge expansion of Medicaid that will break already strained state budgets.  

You see, the Democrats are playing a game of bait and switch when they talk about the costs of this legislation. For instance, they say that costs will be kept under the arbitrary $900 billion cap that President Obama has requested. Well, they’ll stay under the cap simply by expanding Medicaid eligibility. In other words, they’ll be shifting the costs off one set of taxpayer-funded books to another set of taxpayer-funded books.  And, don’t forget: we just had to bail out those states in large part because their Medicaid budgets were bleeding them dry!"

 Excerpt  More at: http://townhall.com/blog/g/f94310b5-b892-4de7-a570-47886acb27e3?comments=true&commentsSortDirection=Descending
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ABC Comes Up Empty-handed in Manufactured Protest Investigation

Posted by Gabrielle Cusumano on Thursday, August 06, 2009 12:52:06 PM
"There were no lobbyist-funded buses in the parking lot of Mardela Middle and High School on Tuesday evening, and the hundreds of Eastern Maryland residents who packed the school’s auditorium loudly refuted the notion that their anger over the Democrats’ health care reform plans is “manufactured.”
 
Thursday, August 06, 2009
ABC Investigates, Reports Truth on Town Halls
Posted by: Meredith Jessup at 11:53 AM http://townhall.com/blog/   Excerpted
As we've been reporting, heated health care town hall meetings have been somewhat unwelcoming for Members of Congress returning home for the August recess.  Speaker Nancy Pelosi has complained they are full of Nazi symbolism; and Senator Barbara Boxer is worried about how many "well-dressed" people are showing up.  The White House and the Democratic National Committee are characterizing American citizens attending town hall meetings as angry "mobs."  True to form, most of the mainstream media didn't hesitate to run these rumors and false accusations as headlines. 

However, ABC has attempted to try something different--actually investigating the story!  ABC's Steven Portnoy attended a local town hall meeting in eastern Maryland to try and root out the clandestine operatives sent by evil insurance companies, and the supposed organized groups of Republicans who--as the DNC claims--are apparently just bitter about losing the 2008 election.  Unfortunately, undoubtedly much to the chagrin of the liberal left, Portnoy came up empty-handed.  In fact, he reports:
There were no lobbyist-funded buses in the parking lot of Mardela Middle and High School on Tuesday evening, and the hundreds of Eastern Maryland residents who packed the school’s auditorium loudly refuted the notion that their anger over the Democrats’ health care reform plans is “manufactured.”

“I went to school in this school,” a man named Bob told me.  “I don't see anyone in this room that isn't from Mardela Springs right now.”

“We’ve been quiet too long,” said a woman named Joan... More at link in title and http://townhall.com/blog/

 
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House Orders Up Three Elite Jets. Pelosi Should Walk The Talk Back To SF

Posted by Gabrielle Cusumano on Wednesday, August 05, 2009 12:40:33 PM
"the House approved nearly $200 million for the Air Force to buy three elite Gulfstream jets for ferrying top government officials and Members of Congress. "
 
House Orders Up Three Elite Jets
 
August 5, 2009
By Paul Singer
Roll Call Staff
http://www.rollcall.com/media/37552-1.html

Last year, lawmakers excoriated the CEOs of the Big Three automakers for traveling to Washington, D.C., by private jet to attend a hearing about a possible bailout of their companies.
But apparently Congress is not philosophically averse to private air travel: At the end of July, the House approved nearly $200 million for the Air Force to buy three elite Gulfstream jets for ferrying top government officials and Members of Congress.
 
The Air Force had asked for one Gulfstream 550 jet (price tag: about $65 million) as part of an ongoing upgrade of its passenger air service.
 
But the House Appropriations Committee, at its own initiative, added to the 2010 Defense appropriations bill another $132 million for two more airplanes and specified that they be assigned to the D.C.-area units that carry Members of Congress, military brass and top government officials.

Because the Appropriations Committee viewed the additional aircraft as an expansion of an existing Defense Department program, it did not treat the money for two more planes as an earmark, and the legislation does not disclose which Member had requested the additional money.

An Appropriations Committee staffer said the military was already planning to replace its passenger fleet, and the committee “looked at the request and decided they should speed up the replacement.”

The Gulfstream G550 is a luxury business jet, which the company advertises as featuring long-range flight capacity that “easily links Washington, D.C., with Dubai, London with Singapore and Tokyo with Paris.” The company’s promotional materials say, “The cabin aboard the G550 combines productivity with exceptional comfort. It features up to four distinct living areas, three temperature zones, a choice of 12 floor plan configurations with seating for up to 18 passengers.”

The version Gulfstream sells to the military is reconfigured for the government with modest accommodations, not the luxury version sold to private customers, said a source familiar with the planes.

Rep. Sanford Bishop (D-Ga.) had submitted a request to the Appropriations Committee for a $70 million earmark for one airplane on behalf of Georgia-based Gulfstream, and Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.) lists the airplane as one of the earmarks that he was asked to request, though his office said he never made the request to the Appropriations Committee.

“The committee saw fit to fund it at that level” without Kingston’s involvement, his spokesman said.

Bishop’s office did not return several calls requesting comment for this story.

Air Force spokesman Vincent King told Roll Call: “This line item provides funding to purchase C-37 aircraft. The C-37 is the military variant of the commercial Gulfstream 550 executive jet. C-37s provide executive airlift for senior U.S. government officials including Congress and combatant commanders.”

The language of the appropriations bill specifies that of the three aircraft, the Air Force will provide “one aircraft each for the 201st Airlift Squadron and the 89th Airlift Wing.” Both are based out of Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland.    More of lengthy Roll Call article at: http://www.rollcall.com/media/37552-1.html

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"Should any Bush officials get prosecuted, GOP needs to go nuclear!"

Posted by Gabrielle Cusumano on Friday, April 24, 2009 12:47:16 PM
" Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., told Politico that the GOP should “shut down” legislative activity across the board – if any Bush-era officials are singled out for prosecution. “We would need to have a scorched-earth policy..."http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/king_GOP_torture_trial/2009/04/24/207009.html
 
 
 
As House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ramps up Democratic pressure for a torture “truth commission,” a Republican Congressman is firing back that should any Bush officials get prosecuted, his party needs to go nuclear. Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., told Politico that the GOP should “shut down” legislative activity across the board – if any Bush-era officials are singled out for prosecution. “We would need to have a scorched-earth policy and use procedural means to bring the place to a halt – go to war,” he added. Pelosi has fueled the political fires by declaring that President Obama – who has nixed...   More at NewsMax.com at: http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/king_GOP_torture_trial/2009/04/24/207009.html
 
 
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Economists slam Barack Obama's stimulus package, Pelosi Writes Panic Memo

Posted by Gabrielle Cusumano on Thursday, January 29, 2009 7:46:37 PM
"That memo shows that her bunched up panties have more wrinkles than her upper lip. (sorry for the visuals!)"
Comment #2 about "Is Pelosi Panicking? Leaked Memo Lashes Out at Republicans" posted by laweeks at: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=30473&page=2#c1
 
Is Pelosi Panicking? Leaked Memo Lashes Out at Republicans
 
by Human Events at:  http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=30473&page=2#c1
01/29/2009
This is a memo from Speaker Nancy Pelosi's communications director, Brendan Daley, to Democratic members and staff sent after the stimulus vote yesterday. Pelosi is apparently panicked at Republicans’ success in uniting against her hyperpartisan actions in shutting them out of the formulation of the stimulus bill and in peeling nearly a dozen Dems off to vote in opposition.

Here is the full text of the memo leaked to HUMAN EVENTS this morning. http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=30473&page=2#c1

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"...at the exact time when economists of every ideological stripe agree that government investments are the only way to get our economy moving again and make us competitive for the long term." Pelosi

Wrong, Wrong, Wrong. I would direct your attention to the full page ad in the NY TIMES signed by over 200 economist that said just the opposite.
Jan 29, 2009 @ 10:53 AM Michael Hamm, Charlottesville, Va
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Economists slam Barack Obama's stimulus package

The line from Barack Obama and Joe Biden is that all economists agree with a stimulus package to expand government spending. So they won't have been happy to see a full page advertisement in (January 28's) New York Times disagreeing, signed by around 200 academic economists, including three Nobel prize-winners.

(T)he economists who signed the advert, funded by the Cato Institute in Washington DC, say that: "we the undersigned do not believe that more government spending is a way to improve economic performance. More government spending by Hoover and Roosevelt did not pull the United States economy out of the Great Depression in the 1930s. More government spending did not solve Japan's "lost decade" in the 1990s."

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ALERT:Is November 4, more a coup d’etat than it is a general election?

Posted by Gabrielle Cusumano on Monday, October 20, 2008 7:03:41 PM
"Minister Louis Farrakhan claiming a “new beginning for the Nation of Islam” and Barack Hussein vowing to “change the world”, it certainly seems more coup d’etat than presidential election. "
 

imageIs November 4, 2008 more a coup d’etat than it is a general election?

Is Election ’08 a mere formality?

With ACORN under investigation for registering bogus voters in at least 15 states; with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi--who leads a Congress even more unpopular than a fast-fading- from-the-scene George W. Bush--claiming “It’s 100% that Barack’s gonna win”, with Minister Louis Farrakhan claiming a “new beginning for the Nation of Islam” and Barack Hussein vowing to “change the world”, it certainly seems more coup d’etat than presidential election.

If it weren’t for the fact that the future of the United States of America is at stake; that a group of rich and powerful, elitist malcontents such as George Soros and Kyoto godfather Canadian Maurice Strong have an agenda to usher in a new era of Socialism for the USA, Obama for all of his media and Hollywood hype, would be something of a joke.

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Wake up America!
 By David Dastych

Editor’s Note: Former CIA operative David Dastych reminds us that the power elite in New York began to reform the financial market in May, 2007, and did so to retain the coveted ideal of New York City as a world financial centre.  “Did they provoke the financial crisis to attain their goals?” he asks.  “Now it seems they need the election of Senator Barack Obama as President of the U.S. to ensure political support for their far-reaching plans.  The “bailout” plan was ordered in New York city in May, 2007.”

"I mean you can’t just make stuff up. You can’t just recreate yourself. You can’t just reinvent yourself. The American people aren’t stupid.” - Barack Obama, Flint, Michigan September 8, 2008

I am convinced that Obama with his Marxist and Islamic friends planned Obama’s Presidency many years ago, and that the game plan was something like this:
 
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General Blind Spots

“Spread the Wealth,” Thinking Caused Economic Meltdown
 By John Lillpop

"Progressive” insanity cost American taxpayers more than a trillion dollars
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"Pelosi Used Political Donations to Pay Husband's Firm" Fox News

Posted by Gabrielle Cusumano on Wednesday, October 01, 2008 12:07:59 PM
"The Washington Times is reporting that the California Democrat's husband, Paul F. Pelosi, owns Financial Leasing Services Inc., which has received $99,000 in rent, utilities and accounting fees from the speaker's "PAC to the Future" over the PAC's nine-year history."

"Last year, Pelosi supported a bill that would have banned members of Congress from putting spouses on their campaign staffs. The bill banned not only direct payments by congressional campaign committees and PACs to spouses for services including consulting and furndraising, but also "indirect compensation," such as payments to companies that employ spouses."

House Speaker Pelosi Used Political Donations to Pay Husband's Firm

Wednesday, October 01, 2008    Excerpt from http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,431204,00.html

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WASHINGTON — 

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi paid her husband's real estate and investment firm nearly $100,000 from her political action committee over the past decade, a practice that she voted to ban last year and that her party condemned as part of the "culture of corruption" when Republicans did it.

 

The Washington Times is reporting that the California Democrat's husband, Paul F. Pelosi, owns Financial Leasing Services Inc., which has received $99,000 in rent, utilities and accounting fees from the speaker's "PAC to the Future" over the PAC's nine-year history.

Last year, Pelosi supported a bill that would have banned members of Congress from putting spouses on their campaign staffs. The bill banned not only direct payments by congressional campaign committees and PACs to spouses for services including consulting and furndraising, but also "indirect compensation," such as payments to companies that employ spouses.

The bill passed the House in a voice vote but died in a Senate committee.

Last week, Pelosi's office defended the payments, saying they were legal because she is compensating her husband at fair market value for the work his firm has performed for the PAC.

Ethical watchdogs called Pelosi's arrangement "problematic."

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This National Crisis Defines Everyone In The Country

Posted by Gabrielle Cusumano on Tuesday, September 30, 2008 12:27:09 PM

"Free-market Republican House members gave high-minded speeches and then panicked in the face of populist outrage just when the country needed their calm, hand-in-glove with Democratic House ideologues — the one claiming we are getting socialism, the other robber-baron capitalism.They are as  captive to public outrage over the bailout now as they soon will be to the  next phase of outrage over shattered retirement accounts. "

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

A Defining Moment   [Victor Davis Hanson]  Excerpt from: National Review Online at: http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NWVkNmRkMjU0YTlhYmI0MjEyYTk3NGQ0ZmI2MGY0ZjU=

The stage is set for someone to play Washington, Lincoln, or Churchill. An entire generation of leadership is failing, as the world watches aghast.

Greedy Wall Street hot shots are worse than discredited.

Rep. Nancy Pelosi at the hour of national crisis proved why she may well be the worst House Speaker in the history of the Congress.

The more Sen. Dodd and Rep. Frank shout and demagogue in front of the cameras, the more desperate we know they are to talk their way out of their own past reckless and unprincipled conduct.

Lame duck President Bush is spent, tired and knows only that he will blamed for something he tried to prevent.

Sec. Paulson thought he could bark out orders at Treasury and expect underlings to snap to attention as they did once for him as Goldman Sachs. And when they didn't, in vain he went to one knee — arrogance to fawning in a matter of hours.

The utterly corrupt Left-wing members of the House who green-lighted the thievery at Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae that started the panic will be lucky if they are not targets of a special prosecutor.

Free-market Republican House members gave high-minded speeches and then panicked in the face of populist outrage just when the country needed their calm, hand-in-glove with Democratic House ideologues — the one claiming we are getting socialism, the other robber-baron capitalism.They are as  captive to public outrage over the bailout now as they soon will be to the  next phase of outrage over shattered retirement accounts.

Barack Obama is again voting present, clueless while trying to act cool, waiting for calls, and issuing hourly contradictory statements adjusted to perceived CNN punditry and Drudge headlines...      [Can John McCain seize the moment and transcend the campaign?]  Excerpted from:  The National Review Online at: 
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NWVkNmRkMjU0YTlhYmI0MjEyYTk3NGQ0ZmI2MGY0ZjU=
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"...So The Conservative Republicans Can Take (Share?) The Rap!

Posted by Gabrielle Cusumano on Monday, September 29, 2008 5:46:48 PM
There's been a lot of theater, but what's really going on is that Ms. Pelosi is trying to make sure that any bailout only passes with conservative Republicans and John McCain fully on board to share the rap.
 

The Bailout Passion Play

There will be blood – and a vote.

By BRENDAN MINITER http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122257181932583099.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

"It's not me blowing this up, it's the Republicans." So said Nancy Pelosi this week to Hank Paulson, who was reportedly on bended knee soliciting for his bailout plan.

There's been a lot of theater, but what's really going on is that Ms. Pelosi is trying to make sure that any bailout only passes with conservative Republicans and John McCain fully on board to share the rap. But Democrats have all the votes they need to pass the Paulson plan. If Ms. Pelosi and the White House really believe the financial markets will fall apart Monday morning without a bill, they can deliver one -- as President Bush hinted in his own nonpanicked remarks Friday morning.

Straight from a meeting with John McCain on Thursday, one of the central villains in Ms. Pelosi's melodrama, Rep. Eric Cantor, gave us an update. Mr. Cantor, a rising GOP star from Virginia, also happens to be his party's chief deputy House whip responsible for rounding up votes on key pieces of legislation. Though Democrats control the House, he explains, conservative Republicans for the moment are able to drive policy on this issue because "the Speaker has pledged that there will be no bill without a majority of Republican support."

That has allowed House GOP conservatives, though a minority of a minority, to put some brakes on a runaway train and allow some due deliberation. With their constituents burning up congressional switchboards to complain about the deal and conservatives aghast at a massive open-ended government intervention in the economy, Mr. Cantor has been hammering out a "statement of principles" with Reps. Paul Ryan and Jeb Hensarling. Those principles are the nucleus of a plan to modify or replace Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's $700 billion proposal to unfreeze credit markets by buying up distressed financial assets.

But -- deep breath here -- in the end, "there is no way there isn't a vote" on the bailout, says Mr. Cantor.

As for Mr. McCain, accused by Democrats and the media of disrupting the talks to help his presidential campaign and play up his role as bipartisan savior, Mr. Cantor says having Mr. McCain on Capitol Hill "signaled the severity" of the crisis and can help produce a compromise.

Essentially, the alternative being drawn up by Messrs. Cantor, Ryan and Hensarling aims to free up private capital to buy distressed securities by pushing through a series of tax and regulatory reforms, and by creating government insurance for mortgage-backed securities that are now burning holes in financial firms' balance sheets. Washington has more experience running guarantee programs, they note, than running a hedge fund (the Paulson plan). Their proposal would avoid committing hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to the discretion of the Treasury Department to "save" the financial system. And it doesn't turn the U.S. government into a giant (and conflicted) owner of U.S. financial institutions.

Mr. Cantor isn't willing to name names yet, but he says even some Democratic members are attracted to a scaled-back plan that wouldn't stick a giant bill on "taxpayers, who did nothing wrong here."  For more of this excerpted article go to The Wall Street Journal at: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122257181932583099.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

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House GOP leadership blamed Speaker Pelosi for the defeat of bailout bill.

Posted by Gabrielle Cusumano on Monday, September 29, 2008 3:09:13 PM
The House GOP leadership blamed Speaker Pelosi (D-CA) for the defeat of the $700 billion financial intervention bill. Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) said members must "find a true middle ground to avert a crisis."
Watch Spkr. Pelosi Speech | Watch House GOP Ldrs.
Read Financial Markets Bill | Watch Pres. Bush
Read Fed. Chair Bernanke Statement
Read H.R. 3997 Vote Tally | Read GOP Blames Pelosi
House Floor Now on C-SPAN
Congressmen's Speeches
Finance Bill Fails in the House  at http://www.c-span.org/
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