These are the ones we’ve been waiting for!

Hey everyone let’s grow The Patriot Caucus Network…

I know we all know 5 people who haven’t had the distinct pleasure of being a member of the Patriot Caucus… so wit that, let’s all agree to bring 5 friends into this network over the weekend (or week) I know we can do it!

The Democrats just robbed you of your liberty and the liberty of your friends and neighbors for nothing more than “Because we can”, “The people don’t matter”, “We know better”, BS we’ve been subject too all year!

I don’t know about you, but I’m hopping mad about it — and ready to roll…..

Let’s all get 5 people to join this network and if we can get them to sign the pledge that would be Sweet!

If you haven’t done your $5.00 this week please do so… the ads we’re planning are awesome and we need help getting them made… I know a lot of you give on a regular basis (and we love you for it) but for those who might be waiting for a big initiative to give to NOW is the time!

Yours in Liberty Steven Foley

Like you need to be told about this abomination…. We have to fight!!!

“Do not allow yourself (or your boss) to get into a discussion of the details of CBO scores and textual narrative. Instead, focus only on the deficit reduction and number of Americans covered.”

“Do not give [opponents] ground by debating details. (For example, the March 11 letter has estimates of discretionary costs not accounted in the [deficit reduction] total). Again, instead focus only on the deficit reduction and number of Americans covered.”

People who have never faced an unpleasant unraveling walk around with a notion that danger would be exotic, fun and adventurous. You get to be Bilbo Baggins, and beat out Gollum at a game of riddles. The end of the world will unspool like those awesome Indiana Jones movies and everyone should get their popcorn and gun collections ready. This isn’t how it works. Bad history becomes tedious, painful, depressing and confusing instead.

Such is very much the case with the current Healthcare Debacle which, as Peggy Noonan has astutely pointed out, “he’s (President Obama) been promising for a year will be passed next week.” While we spent that year waiting for next week, we spent that year essentially paralyzed. The economy, the banks, the business leaders all held up on all but the most essential activities until The Scalpel of Damocles has either been withdrawn or has made its grievous cut. No knew risks were taken, no risky investments in high-tech start-ups got made. The animal spirits of Keynesian fame have all been taken to the pet shelter until we know what the rules will be next week.

The federal government can’t mandate… or force it’s citizens to buy a product or service……. That ‘s what:

But this Democrat controlled Government mandate does exactly that :

NUMBERS TO KNOW:

· $569.2 billion in tax increases

· $523.5 billion in Medicare cuts

· $48 billion more for Medicaid

1. A Job-Killing Government Takeover of Health Care. No amount of changes or legislative tricks can hide the true destructive nature of this bill: $17 billion in new taxes on Americans who do not comply with the individual mandate, $52 billion in new taxes on employers that do not provide health coverage deemed “acceptable” or “affordable” by government bureaucrats, and new taxes on capital gains, dividends and interest that will further stifle economic growth and job creation.

2. New Tax on Capital Formation and Job Creation. The Medicare tax on capital gains, dividends, and other investment income gets bigger, magnifying the destructive power of this new tax. The bill increases the tax from 2.9 percent to 3.8 percent, pushing the top capital gains rate to 23.8 percent and the top rate for dividends to 43.4 percent in conjunction with tax relief expiring at the end of this year. As The Wall Street Journal editorialized this week, this tax will “permanently skew the incentives to work, save and create jobs.”

3. Democrats Continue to Say ‘I Do’ To Marriage Penalty. The bill leaves in place a massive marriage penalty, which will mean higher premiums for those that tie the knot. As highlighted in January by The Wall Street Journal, “the disparity comes about in part because subsidies for purchasing health insurance … are pegged to federal poverty guidelines.” The final bill leaves this unfair penalty on married couples in place.

4. Lower Wages and More Unemployment. The final bill imposes $52 billion in new taxes on employers, including small businesses, that cannot afford to provide health coverage or that don’t offer coverage. The effect of this type of tax, similar to a payroll tax increase, would ultimately fall squarely on workers in the form of lower wages or reduced employment. In fact, the Tax Policy Center concluded that “economists generally believe that the burden of payroll taxes is borne by workers in the form of lower wages, regardless of whether the tax is levied on the employer or the employee.” The tax proposed in this bill will likely have the same effect.

5. Employers Targeted By Even Higher Taxes to Enforce Employer Mandate. The final bill incorporated President Obama’s suggestion to rake in a little more cash to pay for a massive government-takeover of health care by nearly tripling the job-killing mandate tax on employers who do not offer health coverage to $2,000 per employee. Sure enough, the President’s suggestion raises an additional $25 billion on the backs of American employers, according to CBO.

6. Individual Mandate Tax Reduced? No, Not Really. Democrats are highlighting their generosity by lowering the amount of the tax for not complying with the mandate. But just how generous are they? Not very. Democrats propose to reduce the individual mandate tax flat payment amount by a scant 14¢ a day. And, while Democrats “reduce” the individual mandate tax flat payment amount, they actually raise $2 billion more by making other alterations to the individual mandate, according to CBO.

7. The Power to Tax Our Health Care. The Democrats’ final bill doesn’t just tax individuals and employers if they don’t comply with the complex mandates in the bill. The bill sends the IRS out to tax the very products Americans use to maintain and restore their own health. New taxes on medical devices, on prescription drugs, and on health insurance itself are all targets of the bill. And, with $10 billion in new enforcement resources, you can bet the IRS will be taking its full share out of the pockets of every American who uses any of these products or services.

8. Even More Subsidies, Even Greater Threat to the Economy. The bill increases the subsidies provided under the bill from those provided in the Senate bill by $65 billion, a significant and unsustainable increase. In fact, the Associated Press reported a warning from Massachusetts’ state treasurer, who stated that Congress will “threaten to wipe out the American economy within four years” if it adopts a health care overhaul modeled after the Bay State’s.

9. Taxpayer-Funded Abortion Coverage. The final bill does not include the Stupak amendment language that would prohibit federal funds from being used to fund elective abortions. Instead, states are given the option to opt-out of providing insurance coverage of abortions. Still, taxpayers in a state that opts-out would still see their federal tax dollars fund elective abortions in other states. Additionally, each state through the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) can provide access to two multi-state plans, and only one of them will exclude abortions. OPM’s current health care program – the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) – does not include any plans that cover elective abortion. For the first time, a federally funded and managed health care plan will cover elective abortions.

10. Medicaid Rolls And Waiting Lines to Swell Even More. CBO estimates that as a result of the Democrats’ bill, one million more Americans will get their coverage from Medcaid, which is plagued with financial woes and wreaks all kinds of budgetary havoc on cash-strapped states. The Democrats’ bill, as the New York Times highlighted, will push even more Americans into a program where they will have trouble finding doctors and have to wait for potentially months to receive care. That’s not meaningful reform by any measure.

BONUS: Republicans have proposed a health care bill based on common-sense reforms that, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, would reduce premiums for families and small businesses by up to 10 percent. It is not too late to start over.

For generations after the Moses-Joshua era, the Israelites had been ruled by nobody. They had been governed by God's law handed down to Moses, guided loosely by citizen judges under the watchful eye of the Lord Almighty. Other nations were ruled by kings, and at long last the foolish and shortsighted Israelites were no longer content to be God's chosen people, operating under His providence:

Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel, and said to him, "Make us a king to judge us like all the nations."

And the LORD said to Samuel, "Heed the voice of the people; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me, that I should not reign over them. However, you shall solemnly forewarn them, and show them the behavior of the king who will reign over them."

So Samuel told all the words of the LORD to the people: "This will be the behavior of the king who will reign over you: He will take the best of your fields, your vineyards, and your olive groves, and give them to his servants. He will take a tenth of your grain and your vintage, and give it to his officers and servants. And he will take your male servants, your female servants, your finest young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work. He will take a tenth of your sheep. And you will be his servants. And you will cry out in that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, and the LORD will not hear you in that day."

Nevertheless the people said, "No, but we will have a king over us, that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles."

So the LORD said to Samuel,"Heed their voice, and make them a king." (excerpts of I Samuel 8:4-22, KJV)

The good old days, when oppressive governments only took 10%...

Fast forward to 1787.

But first..... a minor detour to 1775, then 1783. Read this with 2010 in mind. That's where we're headed.

Promoted because it's a good question

To the Justices of the Supreme Court:
This is no time for taciturnity. Many millions of us believe this president, and the Democrat House and Democrat Senate, are openly subverting—ignoring—the dictates of the Constitution. It is my understanding your Branch can tell an overreaching Executive Branch that its actions are not allowed by the Constitution; that you can tell the Congress that a law it passed violates the Constitution and, therefore, ceases to be a law; that you can even tell a state’s government that one of its laws breaks a rule in the Constitution.

Tell us at this critical hour that you’ll execute your duty to be the final judge in every case involving laws of Congress, and of the ultimate law of the land: the U.S. Constitution.

Looks like North Dakota might have gotten a little backroom love from the Democrat leadership. Just received this from Leader Boehner’s office:

Boehner: Pomeroy Needs to Provide Some Answers on “Bismarck Bank Job” in Gov’t Takeover of Health Care

GOP Leader: “This ‘Bismarck Bank Job’ provision looks like exactly the sort of backroom deal that makes the American people hate Washington and the whole process that has led to this massive, awful government takeover of our health care.”

WASHINGTON, DC – House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) issued the following statement today after analysis of the Democrats’ just-released government takeover of health care legislation suggests that page 145 of the new bill includes a provision that would exempt the Bank of North Dakota from the onerous new student loan provisions included in the reconciliation package:

“This ‘Bismarck Bank Job’ provision looks like exactly the sort of backroom deal that makes the American people hate Washington and the whole process that has led to this massive, awful government takeover of our health care. Rep. Earl Pomeroy, the only House Member from the State of North Dakota, has some questions to answer. Did he know about this provision? Was it inserted in an attempt to secure his support for the health care bill?

“Democratic Leaders owe the American people an explanation: did they cut a backroom deal on this issue? What other backroom deals have they cut in their eleventh-hour push to jam through a bill that the American people have soundly rejected? The American people want answers, and they deserve the truth.”

Lots of Health Care news so I’ll do a quick round-up with what we know so far today (noon Pacific)

The House vote on the Slaughter Solution: Update: Constitution-butchers prevail, 222-203; Roll call vote added (Michelle Malkin)

GOP Doc Asks Pelosi: ‘Are you so arrogant … ignorant … incompetent?’ (ABC’s The Note)

“I have three simple questions Ms Pelosi,” said Rep. Paul Broun, R-Ga. “Are you so arrogant that you think you know what’s best for the American people? Are you so ignorant that you are oblivious to the wishes of the American people? And are you so incompetent that you are going to ignore the Constitution of the United States, use tricks, deceptions, bald faced lies to try to ram down the throat of the American people something that they do not want and is going to be absolutely worse for their healthcare?”

Boehner: House Democrats Endorse “Slaughter Solution,” Vote to Protect Themselves Instead of Their Constituents

GOP Leader: “The ‘Slaughter Solution’ is nothing more than an incumbent protection program for Democrats afraid to stick their necks out because they know how much the American people oppose this bill.”

WASHINGTON, DC – House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) issued the following statement after House Democrats voted to authorize the use of the controversial “Slaughter Solution” to force a massive government takeover of health care through the House without voting on it:

“Today, House Democrats voted to protect themselves instead of their constituents, who are fed up with the lack of accountability and transparency in Washington. The ‘Slaughter Solution’ is nothing more than an incumbent protection program for Democrats afraid to stick their necks out because they know how much the American people oppose this bill. Speaker Pelosi, who promised to lead the ‘most honest, most open, and most ethical’ Congress in history, gave rank-and-file Democrats a chance to pass this job-killing monstrosity without actually voting on it and they jumped at the opportunity.

“This legislative trick has been around for a long time, but it’s never been used for a bill so controversial and so massive in scope. Republicans will continue to stand up for taxpayers and fight to ensure they get a clean, up-or-down vote on the Senate-passed health care bill. The American people won’t let House Democrats hide from this vote.”

House GOP: Obamacare’s IRS Connection (NRO)

Health Bill Said to Add 3.8% Tax on Unearned Income (Bloomberg)