It is a well know fact that once elected politicians almost immediately forget the very promises that got them elected in the first place.  This administration has been no different.  Of course they have kept some of the promises that they made, but those are only the ones that serve their purposes and drive their agendas. 

What promises have they kept?  Well that is easy, we were promised justice for those held in Guantanamo Bay, they have certainly delivered on that.  In fact those who are now held at Gitmo can rest assured that they will have far more legal rights then the very soldiers that captured them on a foreign battlefield.  You see the Obama administration promised them justice and they shall have it in the form of the American civil legal system, something actually denied our brave men and women who serve and die for this nation.  No, military tribunals or courts martial was not good enough for the illegal enemy combatants who fought our soldiers overseas.  They must have far superior legal rights, attorneys paid for by the American tax payer and access to all the case law, precedence and jurisprudence afforded each and every American citizen.  Who cares that our brave servicemen and women do not get this luxury, those terrorist suspects certainly deserve it.  You see when you become a soldier, airman, sailor or marine in service to this nation, you not only pledge your life to the defense of this nation and her Constitution from enemies both foreign and domestic, you also waive your right to the very guarantees provided by the document that your are duty bound to protect.  You swear to surrender your rights and be governed by the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).  However, now those who fight against American troops on the field of battle do not have to worry about such details.  Now they can have the same rights as any other American criminal, including the right for some sleaze ball attorney to find a legal loop hole to let them go free, because some bureaucratic bookworm did not fill out some piece of paperwork in triplicate or some soldier was insensitive to the cultural needs of a detainee.  Not to mention the fact that in their utmost lack of wisdom, the Federal government has decided to try some of these terrorist just miles from the scene of the ‘crime’.  I be New Yorkers will welcome any verdict that comes out of these trials that they will be forced to host, even if it is an innocent one, so long as the rights of these terrorist who killed 3,000 innocent New York citizen were not violated in even the slightest way.  Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this is one promise that the Obama administration has kept: Far superior legal rights and proceedings for terrorist suspects than is afforded our very own soldiers, all at the expense of the American taxpayer.

You want an American trial for these jihadist?  Well, I agree.  Here is my idea.  Dress them in bright pink jumpsuits, pick a day and time to release them in Hoboken or Queens, broadcast the location and time of release to everyone in the Tri-State area, then let them go.  If they can make it out of the city alive, they are free to go.  It is a hell of a better fate than the three thousand innocent civilians that burned to death or were buried alive in the rubble so many years ago.

What other promises have they kept?  Ah, yes, healthcare.  They told us they would ram a Federally controlled healthcare plan down our throats whether we liked it or not.  Almost a year later they are close to succeeding, but here is where some of the broken promises come in.  Now I am not talking about the one we would have plainly been fools to believe, like that he would not have any activist or lobbyist as his advisors or that he would not sign any bill with a single piece of pork attached to it.  No, I am talking about those that he repeated over and over again that gave all the naive liberal votes hope that we would see the shining light of democracy from the unprecedented transparency promised by the Obama administration.  You see he knew this healthcare thing was poisonous.  He knew that the American people would not willingly sacrifice their choices, their rights and their control over their medical decisions if they really knew what was being planned.  No secrecy would be key to the success of this agenda.  The American people could not really find out what what in this healthcare bill or they would resist, but if he promised us that we would get to see each and every deliberation about this  live on CSPAN it sounded awfully good for the campaign.  Complete transparency, it seems, is just a bit more opaque than we thought.  Where has this CSPAN coverage been?  Why now that people are demanding that he live up to his promises is he hemming and hawing about allowing his bumbling press secretary to blurt out one half-witted excuse after another?  It is funny how those promises that you never meant to keep, come around and bite you in the ass, Mr. President.

On to other promises, how about that unemployment rate?  Hey, I know this one personally.  Both my wife and I had good productive jobs to start off 2009.  Nine months later neither of us did.  So what was this about if we passed the TARP bill, or was it the Omnibus, that we would not go over 8% unemployment?  What about the transparency promised with all of these bailout an stimulus programs?  Oh, sure there was a website created and job loss numbers spewed about, but then we find out that those numbers were complete bullshit.  They included thousands of jobs that had not even started yet and did you know that almost one billion dollars, that is right $920 million of your dollars cannot be adequately accounted for from the funds that were spent in the first six months.  Oh and did you also know that much of this money did not even go to create jobs?  Well that is of the money that has actually been spent of the staggering amounts allocated for these travesties that were voted into law.  That is another thing that apparently was just a flat out lie or just something that this administration does not care much about.  You see, for weeks we were told that we had to act now to avert a crisis.  We had to infuse the economy with these staggering trillions of immediately of face collapse.  Funny, that, because as of today only about 20% of the funds for first $890 billion so called stimulus packages has been spent with another 20% or so in process to be spent within the next six months.  That does not sound like a shot in the arm, but more like a long term prescription plan.  So why the rush if we are going to sit on more than $600 billion dollars until well into 2010?  Why did we have to pass this massive bill in its entirety right then?  Could we not have slowed down and voted to spend the roughly $160 billion dollars that we have so far, then taken our time on the rest?  Hell, now there is even talk of another stimulus package, because the first one was ineffective and the economy has not recovered.  Well no shit, Sherlock.  If $890 billion dollars in funds immediately injected into the American economy was the real answer, then spending $160 billion over six months won’t have the same effect.  That is the difference between a shot and a slow drip IV, not anywhere close to the same thing.

You know there is a question that I always hear thrown around at election time.  Are you better off today than you were four years ago?  It seems that is how we are to judge the effectiveness of our leaders, most pointedly the President.  Well, Mr. President, I am not better off that I was four years ago, nor even two for that matter.  Two years ago, my wife an I both had very profitable jobs in solid industries, hers in the middle of a growing boom.  We were making significant salaries, had good future prospects, good health insurance, large life insurance policies, a healthy stock portfolio and plenty of money in the savings.  Yeah, uhm, we don’t have any of that anymore.  My wife has spent the last nine months unemployed because her industry freaked out about Cap and Trade and I joined her for two months as the economy wore into my job as well.  Hell I even worked for a government contract regulatory lab.  People HAVE to have done what we did, but it still cut into our business enough that I am not even sure my former company will survive after being in business since it was founded in 1976.  No, Mr. President I am far, far worse off now than I was before you were elected and there are many Americans who are right there with me.  You have had a year and all your policies have done is make worse an already bad situation.  You have three years left.  The clock is ticking.

Since I am in an analogy mood, this evening I will give you another one.   Let’s say you take your car into a mechanic and he charges you $890 dollars to fix your engine.  A week later you have to take it back to him for the very same problem.  This is when you discover that he only spend $160 dollars to fix your car the last time, hides the invoice when you try to look at it, can’t explain to you what some of it was spent on and tells you that it should be running better because the flux capacitor is now in synch with the primary phase coil, but he promises that if you will give him another $1,000 he will make sure it runs right.  Now, ask yourself, how likely would you be to let this man work on your car again, provided you do not punch him out straight away and take your money back forcibly.  Now ask yourself how likely would you be to let him recommend a doctor for you and your family, or decide what medical procedure you need or do not need?  Scary thought isn’t it?

How this nation is not in full fledged revolt at this stage in the game is a mystery to me. Maybe it stems from the apathy permeating our culture or perhaps it is the feelings of complete detachment and helplessness that many people feel about our political process. We are currently faced with one of the most serious threats to life and liberty that we have ever seen in this nation and we are still allowing these people to stand behind their podiums and lie through their teeth.

President Obama was finally publicly called out for lying to the American people about one aspect of this healthcare reform yesterday, when the AARP denied any endorsement or support of any healthcare proposal. During a completely phony town hall meeting stuffed with Obama supporters and strategic plants, he commented that the AARP had endorsed this reform. He further stated that the AARP would not be on board if they thought that this legislation would reduce MediCare benefits to the elderly. Almost immediately, the 40 million member strong AARP organization denied the endorsement or support of any healthcare reform. Although they did admit to agreeing with President Obama that they did not see any threat to benefits from the reduction in MediCare, they strongly denied any endorsement such as President Obama had claimed. Of course the excuse from the Whitehouse was that the President simply misspoke. Really? Has he been simply misspeaking all this time? This is not a new claim. This has been repeated for months now.

Maybe AARP is feeling the wrath of its members. How this organization could even consider supporting this legislation is far beyond my comprehension and that of many of its members that I know. Most of the seniors that I know are deathly afraid of what this legislation means for their future care and do not support it at all. The AARP is playing politics with the lives of its members and they are starting to react.

For those of you who think senior citizens have nothing to fear from this lead into single payer socialized medicine, allow me to introduce you to Barbara Wagner of Springfield, OR. Wagner has the Oregon Health Plan (OHP) as single payer system put in place several years ago in Oregon. She also has lung cancer. When she found this out, her doctor suggested a new form of aggressive chemotherapy that has shown very promising results in treating the disease, even in someone of her age. Unfortunately for this senior citizen, the bureaucrats at the OHP did not agree with her doctor since the treatment cost $4,000/mo. They denied the treatment and offered to pay for hospice care or medically assisted suicide. How nice of the government to tell this woman that she was not worth saving, but she was worth being allowed to die slowly in her home or they were more than willing to pay to have her kill herself right now. Can you imagine a government behaving this way? Well you better start. By the way, there is good news on this front. The greedy pharmaceutical company that produces this incredibly expensive drug has contacted Barbara Wagner and will be giving her the medication for free so that the State of Oregon does not decide to kill her off. How nice of them.

Move on to more of these town hall meetings. Let us examine the other lies and falsifications pouring out of these dishonest charlatans from Washington. For starters, we will look at the town hall conference hosted by Representative Sheila Jackson Lee in Houston, TX yesterday. This Democrat embarrassment to the State of Texas had the unfettered gall to get on a cell phone while a woman stood and asked her a question about the healthcare legislation. Her pathetic excuse that she was actually trying to get information to answer the woman’s concerns and that they are taught to multi-task in Congress was a pitiful example of her ignorance and detachment. She did not give the woman the common courtesy of her undivided attention at least long enough for her to ask her question and she proves that she has no clue about this legislation and was horribly unprepared to answer her constituents.

To top off this disgraceful behavior, how about the doctor who stood up in support of this legislation? She originally identified herself as a pediatric primary care physician, but with a little research it was discovered that she was actually Roxana Mayer, an Obama delegate for the State of Texas and a campaign volunteer. Let’s make this clear. She was a plant. A dishonest plant who misrepresented herself as a physician (read as she lied through her teeth) to give her comments a false sense of weight in an effort to spread disinformation to the public on behalf of the Obama healthcare initiative.

Lies! Lies from the President, lies from our Congressional members, lies from the mainstream media and even lies from civilian plants placed inside these town hall meetings. You my friends are being lied to on a scale far more massive than you have ever seen before. It is time to wake up and fight back. As I have stated so many times in the past, this is not a debate or a discussion. This is a fight for your life. This is a battle to control your life and death.

Enough. When you can read through the Declaration of Independence and directly pick out offenses in that document that could easily be applied to the Federal government today, it is time that we act and take back this government of the people, for the people and most importantly by the people.

We have seen some frightening developments in the seven short months since Barack Obama was ‘anointed’ to the presidency. One of the aspects that I simply abhor is the Orwellian style ‘newspeak’ that is surfacing from this administration and the blatant hypocrisy of the left. To clarify things, let us go over some of the new rules.

For starters, let us examine some behaviors.

Private Jets

It is apparently absolutely unacceptable for captains of industry to fly on private jets when their companies are struggling and near collapse, even though multiple business analysts have confirmed that by driving to Washington or flying on normal commercial flights, these men wasted more of their shareholders money than the private flights did. However, if you are in Congress while our nation is struggling economically and hemorrhaging taxpayer money at an alarming rate, it is perfectly acceptable for you to order eight high-end Gulfstream G550 jets to ferry them around. Even when the Air Force says they do not need that many new aircraft and don’t have the proper resources to operate and maintain them for the Congressional fleet, you can simply ignore those who actually have a clue about the issue and set aside over half a billion dollars so that you can travel in luxury.

Protests

Apparently, when you are protesting former President George W. Bush and his policies it is your patriotic duty to do so and any form of protests is acceptable. You can carry swastikas or even wear Nazi uniforms. You can call him a murderer, a terrorist or anything else you want. You can stalk him and wait outside his private residence for weeks on end. This is your patriotic duty to do so. As Hillary Clinton once said, “I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you’re not patriotic. We should stand up and say, we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration!” Oh, wait… She must have meant to say any Republican administration.

If you dare to debate or disagree with THIS administration then you are a political plant, an angry mob or a political terrorist and you should be reported by your friends and neighbors. If you carry a sign denouncing his policies, then you are disruptive and unpatriotic. If you carry a banner with a swastika crossed out by a big red circle and slash saying “No Repeat of Socialism” then you are insensitive to the seriousness of the issue surrounding World War II. I guess if you wore one on your arm to protest Bush and called him Hitler, you were somehow being sensitive to those issues? I see. No, wait. I don’t see it at all. Nice double standard you hypocrites on the left have established.

It was perfectly acceptable for thousands of people to hold marches, rallies and protests over whatever struck their fancies about the Bush administration. Fast forward to the Obama administration and suddenly common everyday American citizens who speak out about their governments action by hosting nationwide TEA Party demonstrations are labeled racists, tea baggers (a sexually insulting connotation) and potential terrorists. They are chastised by Congressional members as if they were unruly children disobeying their elders. They are plotted against by the very people who’s job it is to serve their interests and they are ridiculed by a shameful media that has lost all sense of journalistic integrity. This is oppression of dissent is eerily reminiscent of things we have seen before.

Definitions

I was so glad to hear that the War on Terror was over when the administration announced it a few days ago. I was just a tad bit confused as to who won or what we were still doing in Afghanistan if that were true. This behavior is straight out of Orwell’s 1984 novel. The practice of using less offensive or abrasive terms for things was referred to as ‘newspeak’ by Orwell and it is in full swing today. We are no longer fighting ‘jihadists’ but we are fighting someone, so who is it? We are no longer at war with terrorists, just at war with al-Qaida. I am sure that the Taliban are glad to hear this. Even though we are still killing them on sight, it must be nice to know that we are no longer at war with them. At least this will limit the number of unlawful enemy combatants we obtain. Oh, I am sorry. There I go again using plain English to explain things. What I meant to call them was ‘unprivileged enemy belligerents’. That sounds so much better doesn’t it?

You know, the next time I get pulled over for speeding, I need to tell the officer that I was not actually speeding. I was simply traveling at an increased velocity to expedite my transit. Surely, I would not get a ticket for that, right? When someone commits murder, we should call it something else because murder just sounds too bad… Let’s call it an unsanctioned life force termination. Or maybe even an extreme post-term abortion… Those sound more acceptable.

This mind numbing bullshit is just that. It is designed to restrict speech and limit debate and those are but a few examples of the insane amount of politically correct crap spewing out of Washington. Orwell would be shocked at how close he came. He was just about 25 years off the mark.

Policy

The government is tired of wasteful spending by these corporate executives and it is bound and determined to do something about these irresponsible executives. However, Congress and the President continue to waste trillions of dollars on programs that the American people do not approve of. Are we simply to accept this? We are told that we must conserve energy and drive more fuel efficient vehicles, while we watch Nancy Pelosi fly back and forth to California on the taxpayers dime and see President Obama take three times the normal staff on trips with him around the world. How about you give up your fleet of SUVs that you drive around in Mr. President? I am sure some one can figure out how to armor plate a Chevy Volt for you.

We are to believe that insurance companies are responsible for denial of services, massive healthcare costs and limited availability of healthcare to Americans. Yet, when you look at all of the government programs concerning health you actually will find those traits there. The tell us that we must surrender our choices in an effort to reform healthcare, but Congress refuses to adopt the same plan for their families that they are trying to shove down the throat of the American public. They talk of greed and profit in the healtcare industry, yet will not touch the issue of tort reform for that very reason. Having the tort lawyers in their pockets are very profitable for them.

If we take things from another that do not belong to us by coercion or threat of force, it is a felony in most states. When the government does it, they call it taxes.

This hypocrisy must end and it needs to end now.

In a striking turn of events, that actually surprised no one, it has now been confirmed that Nancy Pelosi is one of the most ignorant people that has ever held a public office. I have not given out a Blithering Idiot award in some time, so maybe one is due. Congratulations Nancy Pelosi, you are the Blithering Idiot of the Week. She has plenty of company in Congress right now and they are willingly showing their ineptitude day after day.

Astroturf? Seriously? Did that take you all morning to come up with Nancy or did one of your staffers write that little line for you? The indignation and arrogance on display by our Congressional leaders against the American people right now is simply appalling. These corrupt, out of touch, elitist morons cannot fathom that the American people are completely fed up with their crap and are finally standing up for ourselves.

Just a few short months ago Hillary Clinton stated that it was our patriotic duty to voice our dissent against a government that we disagreed with. There were multitudes calling President Bush everything from a murderer to a terrorist to Hitler himself. We saw morons like Cindy Sheehan literally camped outside his home, shouting horribly insulting and borderline threatening comments at the President. How did the former administration act when these ‘angry mobs’ showed up? Did he encourage other Americans to report them to their government for exercising their free speech? No. Did he chastise them publicly claiming that they were an unruly angry mob? No. Did he demand that others show up to counter their protests? Nope. He simply acknowledged their right to have their own opinions and protest against the actions of their government.

Now we see astounding arrogance coming from Washington in their personal attacks on citizens who are speaking their mind openly and honestly. Nancy Pelosi even went so far as to claim that these citizens protesting the nationalized healthcare were carrying swastikas and similar symbols to the protests. Really? I have done some extensive searching and can find not a single photo or video from these protests containing any such symbols. However, I was able to find multiple photos containing swastika symbols from earlier protests against President Bush. Was that who she was talking about? I wonder… This just goes to further show the feeble intelligence of this woman. If she actually knew anything about the Nazi (or National Socialist) Party, she would realize that it would more likely be those in favor of this national socialized medical program that would bear symbols hailing the Nazi regime. After all, one of the questions often ask of German citizens in the 1930s and 1940s was, “Are you a good socialist?” Well, Nancy, are you?

What they do not realize is that by dismissing these normal, everyday citizens who have legitimate concerns as nothing but an angry mob, they are likely to turn them into just that. Now we hear that they are canceling these town hall meetings in an act of pure cowardice because they do not want to face the truth of a public turned against them. They might as well stand upon the steps of Congress and shout, “Let them eat cake!” This will not sit well with an America already tiring of the wasteful, corrupt and reality deprived administration that has shown nothing but contempt for the will of the populace. I will point you to another time in our history, when the calls from the people went unheeded. A time when taxation was used as a means to control and laws were forced upon a people from a distant, detached government who did not concern itself with what those governed desired. We should learn from this past where the voices of the people went unheard and the protests that they staged were dismissed as a bunch of unruly ingrates and angry mobs. In the end this did not fare well for the governing body responsible for such injustices against the American colonies, nor will it do so now.

If we stare into the Abyss long enough, the Abyss stares back at us. Right now we stand at the edge of the Abyss, what we do will define the future of this nation for generations to come. I say we stand and fight.

Arise you sons and daughters of Liberty. Stand firm in your beliefs and make your voices heard from the tip of the Aleutians to the Florida Keys. Call them out and give them no quarter to the lies being told. Fight for your freedoms and liberty, lest they be stripped from you while you sleep.

Now that the veil has begun to lift and the public is opening its eyes to the massive assault on our healthcare industry that is occurring in Washington, it seems that a new movement has been spurned in the style of the TEA Parties. This past weekend at town hall meetings across this nation, common citizens shouted their dissent at politicians over the issue of nationalized healthcare. America is finally rising up and her citizens are demanding to be heard. The odor in the air that you smell if fear and it is coming from Washington, D.C.

Even the Democrats in Congress have started to feel the sting of public opinion, but they still fail to grasp the reality of this message. As if they were alcoholics in denial, they have begun to deny the validity of these protests, claiming they were staged by insurance companies who fear the passage of healthcare reform. They have gone so far as to accuse the people protesting of being paid plants, who were bused in and given instructions on how to appear that they were not together. They cannot come to grips with the reality that the American people do not want, need or trust the Federal government to control our healthcare.

In Austin, Texas this weekend, one of the embarrassments of our state, Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Tex) held a poor excuse for a town hall meeting in the parking lot of a supermarket. It quickly became clear that the citizens at the meeting were far better informed about the healthcare issue than Doggett himself was. When he was pressed with someone asking him if he would support this bill even if he found the majority of his constituents strongly opposed it, he admitted that yes he would. Suddenly a voice arose from one of the many protestors carrying signs opposing socialized medicine and this Obamacare initiative, yelling, “Just say no!” The cry quickly rose across the group turning the meeting into an ad hoc political protest.

This was not an isolated event. In Philadelphia this weekend both Senator Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius were met with vociferous protests shouting “Read the bill!” Of course, the Democrats were not having it. Sebelius coyly chastised the crowd saying, “Excuse me… Excuse me! We can either stand here and shout at one another and then we can leave the stage, or we can have a conversation. It’s really up to you.” However, when the crowd engaged them in conversation, asking specific pointed questions about the bill, they were not impressed with their answers. When she talked about making sure Americans receive the best healthcare, they shouted “We already do!” When Specter spoke of the supporting Obama’s healthcare program he was quickly shouted and booed down. At one point a man shouted to Specter a simple question, “Will you sign up for it?” All Specter did was avert his gaze and continue prattling on about government run healthcare. At the mention of a single payer system, it almost seemed the crowd was about to set upon him. Shouts calling him a liar and demanding to know where the constitutional authority for this was could be heard among the continuous booing

Again, this was not an isolated incident. These happened everywhere, all around this nation. Yet, it seems that it is not enough to penetrate the stupidity and arrogance that permeates Washington, D.C. Today the Democrats are ignorantly claiming that all these events were staged. They seem to actually believe that the American people could not possibly be this passionate or have this much will to fight over the matter of healthcare.

I find this argument so odd coming from the Democrats, until you remember that this is not at all about healthcare, but about power over the individual. Most Democrats support a woman’s right to choose by claiming that it is her body and it should be her decision alone as to what to do with it and what medical procedures can be performed on it. Following that logic, it should be safe to assume that the right to decide what medical procedures can be done would extend to every American citizen, not just a woman attempting to use abortion as a form a birth control. However, with this plan that is not the case at all. Apparently, your right to choose is only important when you want to kill an unborn child, not when you want to determine which doctor you go to or what treatment you or your children receive to treat an illness. It seems that this warped form of logic makes perfect sense to Democrats, but it is completely lost on me.

As I have stated before this is a struggle for life and death and our ability to control both aspects personally. This is potentially one of the most threatening pieces of legislation that the American public and our individual liberties have ever faced. This must be defeated at all costs, or we lose the very ability to make decisions of a very personal nature.

I have not had much time to write over the past few days. Some changes are taking place in my personal life that have had me quite busy and I have been working on getting a project off the ground that has taken some of my time as well.

However, I have been keeping a close eye on this healthcare debate and it is scaring the hell out of me. I cannot believe that this is even under consideration, until I look at those pushing this agenda. There is so much subterfuge and deception surrounding this issue that it is almost impossible for the average American to get their minds around and understand what is really occurring. This administration and many in Congress are trying to shove this legislation down the throat of the American people, yet do so with coercion and deception.

Lie Number One – 47 Million Uninsured

For starters, the number of uninsured Americans in this country is greatly inflated. The 47 million that the President claims he is trying to cover is not as clear as you might think. Within that 47 million exist around 10 million illegal aliens, around 17 million that make well over the median income of $46,300 annually who could afford health insurance but choose not to have it and a small percentage of people who lacked health insurance for short periods of time only. Even if you just take number of illegal aliens and those who could afford insurance, but choose not to, you more than cut the 47 million figure in half, leaving only 20 million Americans uninsured, just 7% of the population. Some estimated put the number of critically uninsured as low as 8.2 million or 3% of the total.

Lie Number Two – The Government is the Solution

While I acknowledge that some healthcare reform is needed in this nation, I flatly reject the notion that it is the right, duty or business of the Federal government to mandate or control it. Constitutionally, not only does the Federal government lack any and all power over this issue, but it is explicitly barred from action on matters such as these via the 10th Amendment. Not to mention that what they are currently proposing will be drastically harmful to the healthcare industry in this nation. Just look at the example that the government provides in Social Security, Medicare and the Veterans Administration. All dismal examples of government waste, corruption and bureaucracy at one time or another. Now we are told that the government can reduce healthcare cost, improve quality and not reduce services. Even when the Congressional Budget Office releases report after report disagreeing with this claim and greatly expanding the projected cost of this program, it is just ignored. Even when the very sections of the bill that point out planned cuts to Medicaid and Medicare are pointed out, excuses are made and those calling foul are branded as cold hearted obstructionists. The plan currently in the House would create twelve additional government agencies just to deal with this massive undertaking, creating more inefficiency, waste and bureaucracy.

Lie Number Three – You Will Still Have a Choice

This is one of the most grievous fallacies of this entire fiasco. You will lose your ability to choose, period. For starters, the President has already made it clear that you will be forced to have health insurance whether you want it or not. No choice there. Now we hear that doctors will be rated and paid based on how well they treat an illness, not per patient or per procedure. Really? I want to know who in the hell decides by what benchmarks to gauge my doctor? What if I think my doctor has performed admirably, but some distant, detached bureaucratic moron in Washington, who has no clue about me or my doctor, decided that he is not as ‘efficient’ as they would like and decides not to pay him? How to I have a choice in that? When my personal physician that I have had for well on twenty years has to quit his practice because he cannot afford to function on his government allowance, where is my choice?

Now we discover the horrible truth about other aspects of this bill such as end of life care. After a certain age you will be compelled to meet with a ‘counselor’ every five years to discuss your future healthcare needs. Really? Discuss what about them? Why would I need a counselor at the age of 65 and beyond to discuss my healthcare requirements, unless you are planning on restricting the services available to me due to my age and failing health? You see once you pass the age of 65, you are not as good of an investment as when you are young and healthy. You have less time to live and you consume more resources via the healthcare system, therefore it only makes sense to a cold, calculating government bureaucracy that they not spend money on you. Sure they will offer to make you comfortable, but will not approve the procedure that might extend your life because the return on investment will not be enough.

Lie Number Four – Not a Single Payer System

While this statement may be true at this point, it will not be so for long. As Barney Frank openly admitted a few days earlier, this is a gateway to a single payer system.

“If we get a good public option it could lead to single payer,” Frank said. “The best way to get single payer — the only way — is to have a public option and demonstrate the strength of its power.”

You notice the words he chose there? Power. This is after all what this is really all about. Power. Power to control. Power to have millions depending on the government for their very health and survival.

The other part of this lie is that the private insurance companies can survive this ‘public option’ when it is more likely that it will cause the failure of most major insurance companies, costing this economy precious jobs and destroying the healthcare industry as we know it. The government option could be as much as 20% lower in cost for private business, since it will use taxpayer money to support the implementation of this program. How many businesses do you think would love to get a 20% reduction in the cost of benefits they provide to their employees? Suddenly, millions of people will be shoved onto this government program, taking critical market share away from the private insurance companies. Without the monthly premiums, these companies will not be able to provide for their remaining insured parties and will quickly fold, leaving even more people with nowhere else to turn but the government. Of course, that it the real objective of this, not healthcare at all.

Those are just four obvious ones. There are multitudes of more that I could expound upon, but these should be enough to wave us off of this destructive past. With the example of failures in the States where these single payer models have been tried such as Wisconsin and Massachusetts, we should be scare to death of even discussing any government run options at all. I sincerely hope that the governor of my great State meant what he said early last week. Governor Perry stated that if the Congress was foolish enough to pass this destructive legislation, Texas would assert her right under the 10th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, and flatly refuse to conform or participate in any way. God bless that man and give him the strength to stand his ground should this disaster find its way into law. Should Texas refuse Federal interference and further usurpation of her citizens right by the Federal government, I believe that others would follow her lead.

This is a battle of life and death. Either you control your life or the government will control both it and your death.

Welcome to the USSA.

Is no one getting tired of this crap yet?

Seriously, this man stands before this nation and lies through his teeth knowing full well that he cannot prove a single thing he says. At least when Clinton lied to the nation, he did so skillfully and made it so that you were never sure when he was shooting you straight or filling you full of bull shit. He was an artist when it came to dishonesty and misdirection. Obama simply does not care if what he says is true or not, much less who believes him.

Just days ago we were treated to a speech about how Americas was one of the largest Muslim nations in the world. Uhm, not true. If you take the latest CIA estimates of about 1.8 million Muslims in the country that would place us somewhere around 58th out of 60 ranked nations. I wonder how the 76.5% of Americans that identify themselves as Christian like to constantly hear that we are not a Christian nation. How do they feel when the President of this country tells us that the Muslim population in this country that is less than 1% of the whole makes us one of the biggest Muslim nations on the planet? How about the fact that we are the largest Christian nation on the planet? Or do we Christian simply not count anymore?

I have already covered the other lies in that speech in a previous article, so I will not dwell over the idiocy of expecting people to believe that Islam gave us modern printing, the compass, algebra or our base understanding of the spread of diseases and how to cure them. What I want to focus on today it the sheer arrogance that it takes to stand before the American people and promise to cut our non-defense based deficit in half on one hand, while you other hand spends this country into massive debt. Does he think we are that naive? Does he really believe that we are that stupid? Or does he even care?

Where is the recovery? Where is the stimulus? Where are the jobs that were supposed to be created by the trillions of dollars of our money that Congress has plundered from the already overdrawn coffers? Oh, I see. Those jobs have not been created, but they have been saved! All rejoice and hail the mighty one for he has saved however many jobs he claims he has.

How do you count a job as saved? This is pure conjecture. The economy either creates jobs or loses them. Since Obama has taken office millions of Americans have lost their jobs. Our unemployment rate has soared to 9.4% and is only beginning to show hopeful signs of slowing. I will consider jobs having been saved when the number of jobless claims stops increasing and the unemployment rate begins to decline. Only then will we be saving jobs by *gasp* actually creating them.

I can barely listen to this man speak anymore for knowledge that if his lips move, we should beware. While other nations raise their heads to test our will and resolve, he tours around countries that have teetered on the edge of hostility against this nation for decades apologizing for OUR behavior. He panders to regimes whose citizens cheered as the towers fell and thousands of innocent Americans perished. He wants to talk with nations who openly show their hatred of this nation and threaten everything that we stand for. He cowers at the feet of our enemies and hides in fear from his responsibilities to uphold the constitution of this nation.

I am through with this. I have never before even come close to thinking this before. I have often argued against this notion with good friends in the past, but it may be time for Texas to find its own path. I am sure that there are many other fine states that may like to join us. Maybe not, but for the first time in my life, I would actually consider it.

Once again we see the intolerance, violence and hatred of the left. There have been many leftists that I have disagreed with, vehemently at times. However, I can recall not one single incident where I actually wish physical harm to come to one, especially not publicly or to such a vicious level at to completely demean the subject.

Here is your tolerant left. Here are your champions of women’s rights. No. The sarcasm fails me. They are nothing of the sort.

Today, Playboy Magazine published a list a list called So Right, It’s Wrong. This is a list of the top ten conservative women that they would like to hate f*ck. You heard me right. I did not coin that term, it was used many, many times in the vile article posted on the Playboy website. That is until the cowards pulled the article due to the outrage it caused. If you want to view some of the postings, I found a website that captured screen shots of the insulting article before the spineless scum at Playboy pulled it. You can view the comments on these professional women and the abhorrent languages used to describe how they would like to have violent sex with them, on RedState (Caution: Content Possibly NSFW).

What I find so infuriating about situations such as this is that when it is a leftist showing their complete intolerance of, hatred of and violence towards others it is somehow acceptable. There has been no mainstream media condemnation of this vile assault against these women. None on the left have come forward to condemn the actions of these petulant children for their assault on these women. Just as when that complete waste of skin Perez Hilton assaulted Carrie Prejean because she gave an honest opinion that he did not share, the left can call these women horrible names and suggest vile actions against them and it seems acceptable.

However, we are not to criticize a judicial nominee based on her racist comments or horrible record from the bench, when the Democrats schemed to prevent Miguel Estrada from being nominated to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals based solely on the fact that he was Hispanic, ignoring that he was one of the most well respected trail lawyers and was supremely qualified.

We are told to be nice and not criticize President Obama’s dishonest, appeasing, apologetic speech where he panders to those who would just as well see us dead, when the left spent the last several years calling multiple members of the Bush administration everything from murders to Hitler himself.

We are said to be the sexist, racists, intolerant, ignorant rednecks, clinging to our guns and religion, but when you look for intolerance and hate, you only need to look to the left to find abundant examples. I will not stand for this hypocritical double standard bullshit any longer. Every single one of the people responsible for this article should be immediately terminated from Playboy. That means authors, producers, editors, researchers, etc. Everyone needs to be gone for this abomination against these women. I mean if Don Imus gets canned for a nappy headed ho comment, then these guys have to hit the pavement and hit it now.

No longer will I stand for the racist, sexist, hateful, bigot claims of the left. I dare anyone to bring that argument to me. I will bury anyone who does in multiple examples of bigotry and hypocrisy from the left. I am done with this hateful bullshit. I will stand for it no longer.

I find it simply amazing how Nancy Pelosi knew about water boarding, knew nothing about water boarding, knew about it but thought they wouldn’t use it, knew about it once they had used it and was simply lied to by the CIA all along. Now it is apparently her belief that the CIA lied to her the entire time and continuously lies to Congress on a regular basis. Isn’t that nice? Slam the CIA just to cover your own incompetent ass.

In the absolute height of arrogance, this woman is demanding investigations and possible criminal charges for those who acted in good faith on information that they thought was lawful and appropriate. She wants to retroactively target CIA operatives, advisors and administration officials for actions taken that were lawful at the time they were carried out, regardless of their legal status now.

Now we see the treachery and deception present on the left. This woman knew full well about all of these procedures and interrogation techniques and signed off on them. She knew before anyone was ever water boarded that it was a technique that had been approved by the CIA and would be employed in the most severe cases. She knew after it happened and never raised any alarm until it was politically profitable for her to do so. This is not about torture. This is not about interrogations. This is about political capital and maneuvering. This is about revenge against the Bush administration and retribution against political opponents. This is petty, corrupt, unethical, deceitful and dishonest. Where is the outrage from the left? Where are the objections to her knowing this was occurring but staying silent until it politically benefited her not to?

She needs to go. Not because she supported the water boarding of vicious, murderous bastards bent on the destruction of as many innocent Americans as possible. Hell, she should be commended for that. No, she needs to go for lying through her teeth and attempting to have dedicated professionals who simply did their jobs brought up on charges for doing the very things she knew there were going to do to keep this country safe.

Seriously, let us remember who we are dealing with here.

I have been watching a growing trend among the right for the past few months and it is absurd at its best. There seems to be a fragment within the right that fancies themselves conservatives, but continuously pulls the reigns of the Republican Party farther and farther towards the left. They seem to want to redefine conservatism and modernize it somehow. They are the ones to you will hear decrying the nostalgia of the Reagan revolution and the legacy it left. They us that the era of Regan is over and now it is time that we move on. These people may clad themselves in conservative mantles, but they are nowhere near the mark of a true conservative. No matter what they left may tell you, they are nothing more than a fringe element of the right who have moved so far away from the core principles of the founders that it makes them uncomfortable to face what they have become and with to bring the rest of the movement in line with their ideology.

If you were to reform or redefine conservatism by adapting it to modern, secular ideas, it would cease to become conservative at all. Instead it would be the Democrat Party of years past, thinking itself as progressive and evolving to a more utopian state. To hold true conservative principals is a difficult thing. It means that you acknowledge that there are a strict set of rules to which you must adhere. It forces you to accept personal responsibility for your own actions and understand that these actions bear consequences. Conservatism does not allow you to arbitrarily change the rules or redefine the playing field as you go. It does not provide for concepts such as equality of outcome or the presumption of rights that do not exist. It does not change to suit the whims of its followers. By its own right, it is the ideology that cautions against such arbitrary and whimsical change and forces us to live by the laws that society has established and not reinterpret those laws to suit our needs and desires.

Many times you hear people claim that the founding of this nation was so long ago that these men could never have envisioned the challenges that we face today. While this may be the case, it does not in any way invalidate the structure that they put in place to deal with such challenges and adapt to them. It does not mean that the warnings that so many of them gave in their letters, journals, speeches and addresses did not specifically warn us against the very actions our government has taken to make this nation into something wholly unrecognizable when compared to what it was at its birth. Furthermore, it does not in any way diminish the fact that if we were to apply the standards set forth in the Constitution of the United States as it was written and intended, to today’s political environment, that such an application would completely destroy the power that the Federal government has amassed. Even the adherence to one single amendment laid out in the Bill of Rights, if applied today, would massively diminish the scope and power of the Federal government.

No, I believe that the men who founded this nation were inspired and possessed a level of insight not often seen in the history of this world. I believe that each and every principal laid down in those documents or amended there too, would apply perfectly in our world today. I also believe that the application of these principles would threaten the scope, reach and power of the Federal government and many of the politicians who hold themselves entitled to their positions and above the will of the people. This is why they fear conservatism. This is why they want you to think that these ideologies are dead and antiquated. This is why they portray the conservative movement as comprised of backwards, fearful people clinging to their guns and religion. They live in fear of losing this power that they have amassed.

Conservatism is not dead. It does not need to be redefined. It is a threat to those who hold dear their power and consider themselves above the law and above the people. It is the only way to preserve a true free society that offers equal opportunity and liberty to all.

I wrote an article titled Liberalism Leads to Communism about a funny thing I noticed in a video game the other day. However, I think the concept is a sound one. So if Liberalism leads to Communism, it must follow that Conservatism leads to the antithesis of Communism: freedom, liberty and individual prosperity.