CALL TO ACTION: ObamaCare Can Be Defeated!! Our Liberty and Tyranny Moment…

Michelle Bachmann R-MN has made an URGENT and HEARTFELT plea for everyone to meet her Thursday, Nov. 5th, by noon in DC on the Capitol Steps..

Minority Leader John Boehner, Rep Michelle Bachmann, Rep John Campbell, Dick Morris, and the list goes on and on are asking Americans to stand up… stand-up now against ObamaCare. They all say that this can still be stopped because many Congresspeople and Senators know that this could cost them their jobs…. but we can’t wait for next elections (except those on Tuesday) or impeachment processes. We need to act now… this week!!

ObamaCare in unconstitutional. And the government now already controls 30% of the private wealth of our entire Country. Add this 1.75 trillion dollar bill (over 10 years) if you all the match and add in the hidden costs like the Doctor Fix and they will control 48% and your costs will be higher, your services will be less and there will be death panels no matter what you choose to call them. And America will 1/4 closer to socialism by the Obama or elitist plan.

This is our liberty and Tyranny moment… at least the first one. The choice is now… and the choice belongs to the American people!!

We need to get to Washington in person if at all possible and also flood their phones, faxes and emails. Getting there in person or by phone is the preference… and then back that up with emails and faxes. Flood them and let them know we will not stand for this!

Go to MichelleBachmann.com for more info

Michelle Bachmann says come to Washington… Congress next week, anytime you can, or join her at noon to walk the halls of Congress and make a house call on Nancy Pelosi

Pelosi, Reid and Obama’s Healthcare nightmare is (Step One) toward socialism; the Crown Jewel of Socialism. Do not let them tell you differently!

Start thinking out of the box…

ObamaCare in unconstitutional. The government now already controls 48% of our entire

If you need more inspiration listen to Mike Rogers R-MI:

If you are still on the fence about going to DC, click here:
http://www.usdebtclock.org/

All the bad things that everyone argued about all summer are back in the HC Bill… all of them!! Sean Hannity and his team have read the 1900+ pages of Pelosi’s Bill. He said the part that matters can be condensed to 5 pages…

The true cost is up to $1.75 Trillion now (when you do the real math

You will be taxed on procedures

Seniors will lose 500 Billion in coverage over the next 10 years

Anyone with a brain knows that the cost of HC will go up and so will taxes

The debt will go up even more if this passes

End of life counseling is back in

Everyone will have to buy coverage, and if you don’t have it by a certain or need to change you will be funneled into the socialized medicine plan

Illegal Aliens will be covered

Tax money will be used for abortions

There will be death panels… by another name… but death panels never the less by government officials over-ruling you and your doctor

This will put the US government in control of another 18% of what was private sector economy (which in-turn puts it in the hands of the Federal Reserve and the International Bankers who really run our government)

Everyone will eventually be forced into Socialized Medicine which has always been Obama’s and the Progressive Dem’s goal

There will be another 800 pages or so of amendments and port added to this bill after the Monday night deadline that they won’t re-post for us to read

Get to Washington D.C. in person on November 4^th and 5th if you possibly can. If not keep up the pressure with calls backed up with faxes and emails all this week, until the vote. Let Washington know that anyone who votes for this bill will be voted out or impeached!

We need to start over on real HC reform once there is a more balanced congress after the 2010 or 2012 Elections!!

WE HAVE 6-DAYS TO FIGHT OR TELL OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN WE WERE ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL… AGAIN

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Minority Leader in the House John Boehner is also asking all Americans to stand up against ObamaCare!!

John Boehner: “Let America Read the Healthcare Bill”

For those who want to read the bill and haven’t started, it may be found at: http://docs.house.gov/rules/health/111_ahcaa.pdf

Let Congress Hear You… Come Join Us or Call and Please Share This Information

Tea Party With Rep Michele Bachman

Time: November 5, 2009 from 12 noon
Location: US Capitol
Street: 1st and Constitution Ave NW
City/Town: Washington DC
Website or Map: http://www.youtube.com/watc...
Event Type: tea, party, protest
Organized By: Lisa Miller

Another Health Care Poem Oy!

The cork's been popped

The bubble burst

The leaky ship has sailed

Pelosi's Health proposal

Has finally been unveiled

It's better than the last one

It fixes all that's wrong

It must be twice as potent

Because the thing is twice as long

Of course, it reads like fiction

That Nancy's quite a plotter

She wraps the whole thing up in 20 pages less than all of

Harry Potter

That Bible on my bureau?

The work of countless sages

Its wisdom is contained in less than 1900

Pages

She fills the presentation

With paradox sublime

She spends 900 billion but it doesn't cost a

Dime

That's nonsense and its bunkum

And put in plainest prose

This transparent grab for power is

The Emperor's New Clothes

There's nothing there that's useful

There's nothing there that's wise

The only thing it covers is a multitude of

Lies

OK, it boosts employment

With each patient, an employer

Cause every office visit will require its own

Lawyer

I'll leave it to the pundits

To filter through and sift it

The darn thing is so massive it's a wonder they can

Lift it

The cork's been popped

The bubbles burst

The leaky ship has sailed

Pelosi's Health proposal

Has finally been unveiled

Source: Tarzana Joe, Oct 30, 2009 – SeanHannity.com

PelosiCare: Liars, Luddites, and Leprechauns

VIDEO: Pelosi Denies Public Access to Public Space for Public Announcement

VIDEO: Pelosi Public Unveiling of Public Option Closed to Public

Pelosi Health Bill Sets Stage for Contentious Debate in Senate

House Health Care Reform Bill Includes Public Option

Is 'Pelosicare' a Trick or Treat?

House Health Compromise Has 'Public Option' With a Catch

Update: STORY TIME FOR CONGRESS! NOV 4TH MOM’s 4 America Grp at 9AM EST – Then Bachmann at Noon Nov 5th at the Capital

Meet us in Washington, DC for "Story Time for Congress" as we read them the Healthcare Bill!

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009, beginning at 9 a.m. EST for Story Time for Congress

Then meet-up with Rep Michele Bachmann on the 5th at Noon to Walk the Halls of Congress and a Tea Party

On Wednesday, November 4th, M.O.M.’s 4 America will be hosting "Story Time For Congress" to oppose the House Health Care Reform Bill. Beginning at 9:00 am all MOMs, who live within a reasonable distance to attend, are being called to report outside the Cannon Office Building at Independence Ave. & First Street, Washington, DC. From there we will walk the halls and meet face to face with our Representatives. They think we have fallen asleep after our march on 9/12 and the town halls. We must remind them that we are watching and we will not fall back to sleep. WE still CAN stop this by numbers.

To help identify one another, I suggest we wear three ribbons on our lapels or wrist: red, white and blue. Bring your knowledge of the bill so you can discuss your opposition to it with intelligence. That means we should all commit to reading a section of the bill and share that information with one another in our discussions and blog posts. I would even suggest you print a copy of the section you are committed to read and bring that to Capitol Hill with you. As we walk the halls we can take some time to read the bill out loud, as we would stories to our children. Hence the name of this gathering: "Story Time For Congress." Remember to speak with boldness, not anger, and to hold to the truth.

For those who cannot get to Washington, go to your Representative’s local district offices and let the staff know you oppose this bill. Use the same knowledge and boldness as those of us in D.C.

Finally, if you can do neither, then call like crazy! Those of us in D.C. want to hear the phones in our Representatives office ringing off the hook. We need face-to-face, or voice-to-voice opposition to be heard. This is too important for emails!

I look forward to meeting you on the HILL. Please feel free to contact with any questions or comments anytime at labellew@momforamerica.net. I have a blackberry and I can receive emails anywhere, anytime.

WE ask anyone who can to join us!!!!!!
Thank you for joining this fight!

After the monstrous HC bill was posted just in time for Halloween
Weekend Michele Bachman went on Sean Hannity to call Americans to stand-up against this bill. Meet her in D.C if you can… and then join the Tea Party

Tea Party With Rep Michele Bachman

Time: November 5, 2009 from 12pm to 1pm
Location: US Capitol
Street: 1st and Constitution Ave NW
City/Town: Washington DC
Website or Map: http://www.youtube.com/watc...
Event Type: tea, party, protest
Organized By: Lisa Miller

All the bad things that everyone argued about all summer are back in the HC Bill… all of them!! Sean Hannity and his team have read the 1900+ pages of Pelosi’s Bill. He said the part that matters can be condensed to 5 pages…

The true cost is up to $1.75 Trillion now (when you do the real math

You will be taxed on procedures

Seniors will lose 500 Billion in coverage over the next 10 years

Anyone with a brain knows that the cost of HC will go up and so will taxes

The debt will go up even more if this passes

End of life counseling is back in

Everyone will have to buy coverage, and if you don’t have it by a certain or need to change you will be funneled into the socialized medicine plan

Illegal Aliens will be covered

Tax money will be used for abortions

There will be death panels… by another name… but death panels never the less by government officials over-ruling you and your doctor

This will put the US government in control of another 18% of what was private sector economy (which in-turn puts it in the hands of the Federal Reserve and the International Bankers who really run our government)

Everyone will eventually be forced into Socialized Medicine which has always been Obama’s and the Progressive Dem’s goal

There will be another 800 pages or so of amendments and port added to this bill after the Monday night deadline that they won’t re-post for us to read

Get to Washington D.C. in person on November 4^th and 5th if you possibly can. If not keep up the pressure with calls backed up with faxes and emails all this week, until the vote. Let Washington know that anyone who votes for this bill will be voted out or impeached!

We need to start over on real HC reform once there is a more balanced congress after the 2010 or 2012 Elections!!

WE HAVE 6-DAYS TO FIGHT OR TELL OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN WE WERE ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL… AGAIN

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Minority Leader in the House John Boehner is also asking all Americans to stand up against ObamaCare!!

John Boehner: “Let America Read the Healthcare Bill”

For those who want to read the bill and haven’t started, it may be found at: http://docs.house.gov/rules/health/111_ahcaa.pdf

Let Congress Hear You… Come Join Us or Call and Please Share This Information

Hope to see you on the Hill

United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 or (202) 225-3121

(202) 225-0100 - Speaker of the House Pelosi

Congress.org - Elected Officials

Senators from your State.

Radical leftist GOP candidate Dede Scozzafava quits

By Michelle Malkin • October 31, 2009 11:00 AM

Finally: The spoiler exits the race.

Stacy McCain has the scoop:

Just confirmed that Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava has quit the race. Speaking to supporters, Scozzafava broke down in tears.

UPDATE: Scozzafava, the hand-picked choice of the New York state GOP in the key 23rd District special election, reportedly will throw her support to Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman.

Scozzafava’s withdrawal came shortly after a new Siena College poll was released this morning, showing her in third place, with Hoffman neck-and-neck with Democrat Bill Owens.

Hey, GOP elites: Can you hear conservatives NOW?!

Ed Morrissey at Hot Air has the latest Siena Poll that doomed Scozzafava and adds:

This confirms the basic thrust of the three earlier polls, and especially the Daily Kos poll, which got the ranking of the candidates and the distribution of the vote almost exactly correct. Scozzafava has seen her negatives explode, while her two opponents have only become more accepted as they became more well known. She has no chance of winning this race, and her withdrawal leaves Hoffman with the Republican vote whether she endorses him or not.

Will the NRCC shift gears and start buying ads supporting Hoffman in the final three days of this race?

Just think of all those wasted NRCC/RNC dollars spent on the ACORN-Friendly, Big Labor-Backing, Tax-and-Spend, Margaret Sanger Award-Winning Radical in GOP Clothing.

Shame.

Help Doug Hoffman for Congress now.

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More: 73wire on the campaign trail has Scozzafava’s farewell message:

In recent days, polls have indicated that my chances of winning this election are not as strong as we would like them to be. The reality that I’ve come to accept is that in today’s political arena, you must be able to back up your message with money—and as I’ve been outspent on both sides, I’ve been unable to effectively address many of the charges that have been made about my record. But as I’ve said from the start of this campaign, this election is not about me, it’s about the people of this District. And, as always, today I will do what I believe serves their interests best.

It is increasingly clear that pressure is mounting on many of my supporters to shift their support. Consequently, I hereby release those individuals who have endorsed and supported my campaign to transfer their support as they see fit to do so. I am and have always been a proud Republican. It is my hope that with my actions today, my Party will emerge stronger and our District and our nation can take an important step towards restoring the enduring strength and economic prosperity that has defined us for generations.

On Election Day my name will appear on the ballot, but victory is unlikely. To those who support me – and to those who choose not to – I offer my sincerest thanks.

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out!

As of 11:13am Eastern, no comment from Scozzafava endorser Newt Gingrich.

The Watertown Daily Times reports:

Ms. Scozzafava told the Watertown Daily Times that Siena Research Institute poll numbers show her too far behind to catch up – and she lacks enough money to spend on advertising in the last three days to make a difference. Mr. Owens has support from 36 percent of likely voters in the poll, with Mr. Hoffman garnering 35 percent support. Ms. Scozzafava has support from 20 percent of those polled.

The Gouverneur resident said she thinks she will receive more than 20 percent of the vote, based on several factors, including her performance during a Thursday debate.

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Thank you, Sarah Palin.

Thank you, Tea Party activists, Club for Growth, and RedState.

Update: Johnny-come-lamely Newt Gingrich endorses Hoffman.

Update from reader Paul:

My name is Paul Brock. I live in Rochester NY and took the five hour drive up to Saranac Lake last Tuesday to see how I could help the Hoffman campaign. I planned on staying a day maybe two but ended up staying till Friday at 11:30 am. I wanted to write you a quick note and let you know that I have never been ACTIVE in any political campaign. After reading many of your articles and Sarah Palin’s facebook page, I knew it was time to get off the couch! What I found when I arrived was a lot of very gracious,extremely busy people. I was able to jump right in and working with Dougs sister Sandie, we were able to accomplish an enormous amount of processing of contributions. The donations were just beyond anyone’s imagination. The letters brought tears to my eyes. The stories of people who have never donated, one person who had bought some neccessities at Walmart and then returned them so he could send a money order for $25.00. The elderly people who are so very afraid for their grandchildren and great grandchildren.

I am not a political kind of person, but I know that helping this campaign is the right thing to do. I have three children, one who is a former navy sailor, another who is still in the navy and a sixteen year old daughter(who has morals and values and ethics!). I fear for their future with this current administration. I know I am not the only one.

The reason for this email is to ask you to keep this story alive for Mr. Hoffman. Keep your readers aware and if possible, keep directing them to Doug’s website to contribute. ALL the support he gets will help guarantee our country a much needed victory.

On a side note, tomorrow I have been asked to go to Syracuse to pick up Captain Scott O’Grady from the airport. He was the pilot shot down in Bosnia in 1995. I get to be his sidekick for two days. How blessed am I?

Again, thank you for the work you do and please continue to spread the word for the Hoffman campaign. The contributions are so necessary and so much appreciated……

Help Doug Hoffman for Congress now.

Source: MichelleMalkin.com

Posted: Knowledge Creates Power – Cross Posted: the Daily Thought Pad

Obama only names 110 White House visitors

Most guests still hidden; list includes Bill Gates, Oprah, Newt Gingrich

Update: White House Visitor List: Bill Ayers – George Soros – Jeremiah Wright – White House Claims They Are Not the Famous People We All Know… How many more lies are the America People going to accept?

I thought Obama barely knew Pentagon Bomber, Bill Ayers? Wasn’t he just “a guy in the neighborhood?”

The President now entertains radical Racists like Wright, and domestic terrorists that bombed our own Pentagon, in our nations Executive Manson.

How many more lies are the America People going to accept?

The White House on Friday released a small list of visitors to the White House since President Barack Obama took office in January.

No previous administration has released such a list, though the information out so far is incomplete. Only about 110 names —and 481 visits —out of the tens of thousands who have visited the Obama White House were made public. Like the Bush administration before it, Obama is arguing that any release is voluntary, not required by law, depsite two federal court rulings to the contrary.

Under the Obama White House's policy, most names of visitors from Inauguration Day in January through the end of September will never be released. The White House says it plans to release most of the names of visitors from October on, and that release is due near the end of the year. There are limitations there as well, including potential Supreme Court nominees, personal guests of the First Family, and certain security officials.

The names released Friday evening included Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, actor George Clooney, former Sen. Thomas Daschle, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, and John Podesta, a former chief of staff under President Bill Clinton who headed Obama's transition.

Other familiar names on the list: Religious Right leader Gary Bauer, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, former Sen. Howard Dean, JP Morgan's James Dimon, Sen. Al Franken, former Vice President Al Gore, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, civil rights activists Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, constitutional scholar Cass Sunstein, and actor Denzel Washington.

Msnbc.com has put the full list in a handy PDF file, and it's also available in an Excel file for those who like to sort.

The White House warns that many names that may appear familiar — and controversial —do not in fact refer to the most famous people to carry those names. Jeremiah Wright is on the list, but it's not the president's former pastor. Michael Jordan is not the basketball player. This Michael Moore is not a filmmaker. And William Ayers, who took a group tour of the White House, isn't the former radical from Chicago. The White House could have avoided some of that sort of confusion by providing more information on the visitors, such as an employer name and the city they hail from.

"This unprecedented level of transparency can sometimes be confusing rather than providing clear information," a White House special counsel, Norm Eisen, wrote on the White House blog

If you spot a name on the list that bears investigating, please drop us a note.

Limited release
Despite the accompanying White House claim of "transparency like you've never seen before," the Obama White House continues to take the same legal position as the Bush White House, arguing that the records are not public records subject to the Freedom of Information Act. Only limited "voluntary releases" are being made to settle a lawsuit filed by an advocacy group, though a federal judge has twice ruled that all the visitor logs are public.

Yet there are severe limitations to the transparency:

Most of the visitors from Inauguration Day to September will never be released by the White House under this voluntary disclosure — unless the public can guess their names. The White House policy doesn't allow members of the public or press to ask for "everyone who visited health czar Nancy-Ann DeParle," or everyone who visited on May 4, or everyone from the American Medical Association. Only individual names can be checked.

What was released Friday were just about 110 names with 481 visits. Those names were among those requested by members of the public so far, for visits during the period from Inauguration Day through July. Members of the public who used the White House online form to check names did not receive a personal reply indicating whether or not the request was received, or whether the name appeared on the list.

A request for all records from the first months of the administration, filed by msnbc.com, remains open. The news organization requested the names of all visitors to the Obama White House beginning with Inauguration Day. That request is pending, and msnbc.com has filed an administrative appeal with the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the Secret Service.

Besides Gates, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt are also on the list. (Msnbc.com is a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC. One of NBC's parents is GE.) Amazing that they are finally publishing any accurate but negative information about Obama.

By Bill Dedman - Investigative reporter - msnbc.com – contact at: Bill.Dedman@msnbc.com

Some of the Scary Points in the House HC Bill and a Wasted Week in Congress From John Campbell (One of the Good Guys)

Friday, October 30th, 2009

Boo: By far, the scariest things out there will not be at your door tomorrow night but will be in Washington DC next week. That is when the Speaker intends to call a vote on her 1,990 page Pelosi Health Care Bill. This bill, which was crafted entirely behind closed doors, was just revealed publicly yesterday.  But already we know that the mandates, taxes, deficits, spending, lawsuits, and restrictions in this bill are enough to scare any freedom loving American.

I write you this, as I usually do, while flying home Friday for a short weekend in Orange County. We were in session in DC all week. What did we do all week? Well, here is a complete list of every bill or resolution we voted on the floor. All of them passed.  I have excluded only the procedural votes:

H. Res. 368 - Congratulating the University of Iowa wrestling team on winning the NCAA national championship

H. Res. 562 - Congratulating The Syracuse University's Men's Lacrosse team for winning the NCAA national championship

H.R. 2489 - National Land Remote Sensing Outreach Act

H. Res. 854 - Recognizing Weber State University on its 120th anniversary

S. 1694 - Allowing Funding for the interoperable emergency communications grant program to extend through 2012

H. Res. 838 - Welcoming to the United States His All Holiness Bartholomew, Archbishop of Constantinople.

H. Res. 784 - Honoring the 2,560th anniversary of the birth of Confucius
(No, I am not making this up. We do some lame resolutions in Congress but this one has to be one of the top 5 most inane. We are honoring a guy who is not an American, who has been dead for 2,500 years, on the 2,560th anniversary of his birth? Not the 2,500th or the 3,000th. The 2,560th! Huh?)

H. Res. 824 - Congratulating the Northwestern University women's lacrosse team on winning the NCAA championship

S. Con. Res. 45 - To call on the government of Iran to release the 3 American hikers held captive

H.R. 2996 - The Interior Appropriations Bill

H. Res. 783 - Recognizing Hispanic Heritage Month.

H.R. 3854 - Small Business Administration Financing and Investment Act.

H. Res. 729 - Designating National Firefighters Memorial Day

Not a lot of critical issues there. You might think that instead of, or in addition to, some of this stuff we might be....oh...trying to help improve job growth or dealing with the situations in Iran or Afghanistan or a myriad of other actually pressing issues to the country. So why aren't we?

Well there are a variety of reasons. A bipartisan bill to impose refined petroleum sanctions on Iran until they end their nuclear program is being held up by the White House.  Even the French have decided that we need to get tough with Iran but the President has not. Additional stimulus for the economy is running into trouble as the Democratic leadership worries about the political ramifications of admitting that the existing stimulus is not working and tries to figure out how they can create jobs while simultaneously raising taxes. Any action on Afghanistan is awaiting the President's decision on whether to keep or change his strategy that he announced 6 months ago. And they are completely flummoxed on how to reduce the massive deficit they created while still increasing spending.

Furthermore, the Speaker and the President are determined to socialize medicine and to permanently put 1/6th of the American economy in complete control of the government. But the American people don't want that, not a single elected Republican in Congress wants that, and a significant number of elected Democrats don't want that. Pelosi needs to get 218 Democrats to vote for her bill. That means she can lose 39 Democrats, but no more. She is keeping Democrats in town "working" because she wants to keep trying to convince them to vote for her bill. She also knows that if they go home, most of them will hear the opposite message from their constituents. So, she keeps us all in town with busy work so that she can keep using carrots and sticks to get the votes for her awful bill. Don't underestimate the power of the Presidency and the Speakership to convince Members of Congress to vote their way.

And just what is in this bill? Well, having had it for less than 24 hours, I can't tell you everything. But here are a few facts you may find interesting:

• It is 1990 pages long.
• It has about 400,000 words. That is 5 times the length in words of the Torah.
• It contains a government-run "option,” which will effectively not be optional over the next 5-8 years.
• It spends over $1 trillion. That amounts to over $2.2 million per word.
• It uses the word "shall" 3,429 times. So, 3,429 times it compels someone to do or not do something.
• But one place where it uses the word "may" is in reference to whether Members of Congress "may" join the government run system. So, much of the public will be forced onto the government-run system but we in Congress will not. (Do what I say, not what I do)
• It increases taxes on small business, wealthy individuals, all medical devices (including wheelchairs, bandages, and such), people who save for their own health care costs through health savings accounts, payroll taxes and anyone who does not buy health insurance.
• It authorizes government funding of abortions, which is not allowed under current federal law.
• Any state that has a limit on attorney's fees or punitive damage awards in malpractice cases (like California) must change that law to remove all limits or the state loses federal money under the bill. (blatant trial lawyer provision)

And that's just the beginning.

Next week is D-day week for this bill. You will receive updates from me during the week as news progresses.

I sincerely hope that all of us together can persuade at least 40 reasonable Democrats that there are much better ways to reform health care than this monstrosity.

Happy Halloween. Let's hope that we can keep this ghoulish policy locked away forever.

I remain respectfully,

Congressman John Campbell
Member of Congress

Story Time for Congress! November 4th! – Join American Moms and Minority Leader John Boehner and Fight Obamacare

John Boehner: “Let America Read the HC Bill… – Boehner Encourages All Americans to Stand Up Against This Bill!!

STORY TIME FOR CONGRESS! NOVEMBER 4TH

Meet us in Washington, DC for "Story Time for Congress" as we read them the Healthcare Bill!

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009, beginning at 9 a.m. Story Time for Congress:

On Wednesday, November 4th, M.O.M. for America will be hosting "Story Time For Congress" to oppose the House Health Care Reform Bill. Beginning at 9:00 am all MOMs, who live within a reasonable distance to attend, are being called to report outside the Cannon Office Building at Independence Ave. & First Street, Washington, DC. From there we will walk the halls and meet face to face with our Representatives. They think we have fallen asleep after our march on 9/12 and the town halls. We must remind them that we are watching and we will not fall back to sleep. WE still CAN stop this by numbers.

To help identify one another, I suggest we wear three ribbons on our lapels or wrist: red, white and blue. Bring your knowledge of the bill so you can discuss your opposition to it with intelligence. That means we should all commit to reading a section of the bill and share that information with one another in our discussions and blog posts. I would even suggest you print a copy of the section you are committed to read and bring that to Capitol Hill with you. As we walk the halls we can take some time to read the bill out loud, as we would stories to our children. Hence the name of this gathering: "Story Time For Congress." Remember to speak with boldness, not anger, and to hold to the truth.

For those who cannot get to Washington, go to your Representative’s local district offices and let the staff know you oppose this bill. Use the same knowledge and boldness as those of us in D.C.

Finally, if you can do neither, then call like crazy! Those of us in D.C. want to hear the phones in our Representatives office ringing off the hook. We need face-to-face, or voice-to-voice opposition to be heard. This is too important for emails!

I look forward to meeting you on the HILL. Please feel free to contact with any questions or comments anytime at labellew@momforamerica.net. I have a blackberry and I can receive emails anywhere, anytime.

WE ask anyone who can to join us!!!!!!
Thank you for joining this fight!

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Minority Leader in the House John Boehner is asking all Americans to stand up against ObamaCare!!

John Boehner: “Let America Read the Healthcare Bill”

For those who want to read the bill and haven’t started, it may be found at: http://docs.house.gov/rules/health/111_ahcaa.pdf

Let Congress Hear You… Come Join Us or Call and Please Share This Information

Hope to see you on the Hill

United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 or (202) 225-3121

(202) 225-0100 - Speaker of the House Pelosi

Congress.org - Elected Officials

Senators from your State.

Attacks on Media and the First Amendment

Mr. President, here’s how the ‘hate crimes laws’ trample religious freedom

ALERT: 35 GOP Senators Vote Against Defense Bill With Attached Hate Crimes Amendment

McCain Moves to Block FCC’s Net Neutrality

Words From a Concerned Grandpa…

Obama has set upon a path of bringing America to its knees in submission to socialist ideas. Obama shares the elitists’ low conception of the world’s opinion of us. Obama, being one of those elitists, and controlled by others with unending resources and power,  who believe America should be brought down to its knees has initiated his plans to do just that and is strong-arming the American citizens by legislative fiat from on high. Obama has begun his objective of bringing America down, making everybody equal by income distribution taking from those who produce, taking the fruits of their labors and distributing to those who are satisfied to slothfully and idly sit by and share in the labors of the Industrious of the country. How does Obama plan to bring America to its knees, By spending America into bankruptcy... Obama to spend $10.3 trillion on welfare: uncovering the full cost of means-Tested welfare or aid to the poor.

And while the president preaches fiscal responsibility he wants to spend another $1 trillion on a new health care benefits America can ill afford, doesn’t want, and will still leave millions uninsured  in an attempt to grab more power.

Obama plans to bring America to its knees by secretiveness and edicts.

Obama has often talked about his administration being a more open administration, not going to attempt to hide anything but the Democrats have an Obama health care plan bill that is over 1000 pages long and growing which representatives admitted to not having read because of the number of pages and its complexity. The final version isn't completed but yet the representatives are asked to go ahead and vote on a bill that they haven't even read, a bill full of amendments and "IFs, as If you find that you don't like it later, you, as a state can "Opt-out, maybe! (Actually Governor Tim Pawlenty already pointed out yesterday that the opt-out is a complete slight of hand.  The states will be able to opt out of the benefits of a Public Option… little that they are after having had to pay in to the kitty for 4-full years before it goes into affect and then continue paying whether they participate or not.  He also said that whether they call it a trigger, co-op, opt-out or find some guts and really say what it is… socialized medicine heading toward a single-payer, it will end up as the later to the detriment of Americans and America.) What's buried in those thousand or more pages that is yet to be discovered and consequently is hidden in the maze of paragraph after paragraph of mind numbing ink covered pages, is this the openness Obama was talking about.

"Democrats once warned about"....Loss of... "privacy and the shredding of the Constitution when President George W. Bush sought to monitor the communications between foreign terrorists and their American contacts".... but yet

"They had no objection to the administration openly asking citizens to report rumors, casual conversations and the contents of emails to the government. The White House Web site brazenly asked: "If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy — send it to flag@whitehouse.gov."

The Obama government has their eye on the private American citizen.

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"Bill would give president emergency control of Internet,"... monitoring who you talk to and what you say and post on the internet.

by Declan McCullagh - August 28, 2009 12:34 AM PDT

"Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet."

"They're not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months [drafting behind closed doors.] isn't that what the democrats have been doing when working on the Obama health care plan... secret and stealthy.]..." CNET News has obtained a copy of the 55-page draft of S.773 (excert), which still appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency.The new version would allow the president to "declare a cybersecurity emergency" relating to "non-governmental" computer networks and do what's necessary to respond to the threat. Other sections of the proposal include a federal certification program for "cybersecurity professionals," and a requirement that certain computer systems and networks in the private sector be (managed) by people who have been awarded that license."

Is the Big, Obama Government listening and watching you,is this the type of America we want, this America we citizens are now living in.

Former President Ronald Reagan once gave a speech at Eienhower College in which he said, "I know it is something of a cliche to draw a parallel between the rise and fall of Rome and our own republic. Certainly, in academic circles, this is so, and yet the parallel is there in such detail as to be almost eerie. Dr. Robert Strausz-Hupe recently published a series of articles based on the observations of historians such as Spengler, De Reincourt, ferrero, and gibbon.The history of the Roman Empire has been better recorded and documented than almost all of the great civilizations of the past. We know it started with a kind of pioneer heritage not unlike our own. Then it entered into two centuries of greatness, reaching its height in the second of those two centuries, going into its decline and collapse in the third. However, the signs of decay were becoming apparent in the latter years of that second century....."It has been pointed out that the days of democracy are numbered once the belly takes command of the head. When the less affluent feel the urge to break a commandment and begin to covet that which their more affluent neighbors possess,they are tempted to use their votes to obtain instant satisfaction. then equal opportunity at the starting line becomes an extended guarantee of at least a tie at the finish of the race. Under the euphemism "The greatest good for the greatest number," we destroy a system which has accomplished just that and move towards the managed economic which strangles freedom and mortgages generations yet to come."

Ronald Reagan warned of the perils of the Welfare state when he remarked, "Those who would trade our freedom for the soup kitchen of the welfare state have told us that they have a utopian solution..." Does what Obama is offering sound like a utopia for Americans or a socialists plans for the dissolution of America just as the once great Roman Empires suffered dissolution. Obama's welfare state, do we dare accept its utopian solution.

Yesterday the president signed the Hate Crimes Bill attached to the Defense Budget making 35 members of the GOP vote against defense… that should say it all.  It will no doubt be used to attack the freedom of speech and press of anyone who disagrees with the Dems and the White House.

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery." - Winston Churchill.

Came across this  movie everyone should see if they haven't:  Fall of the Republic or at FOTR (if the other isn’t working).

If there is something on the Internet or you are sent a link that is worthwhile and especially if it is not posted on a private site or source that archives its information, watch or read it right away and then download or copy it.  The White House regularly scrubs the Internet now.  I have seen many things disappear already!

I have never in my 73-years been more afraid for my Country and future generations than I am now!!  My greatest fear is that Americans have become too weak, too selfish, to complacent to fight, even for the future of their children and what was the greatest country in the World.  If you are awake and honest to yourself you realize that the noose is tightening and we only have a very short time left!  (20 years ago… 40 years ago America would be up in arms and have stopped this already!)

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“If we lose freedom here (in America), there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth!” ~Ronald Reagan

(The last two real U.S. presidents we had were John F. Kennedy who fought overtly and Ronald Reagan who fought them indirectly.)

John Boehner: Let America Read the HC Bill – Bill Link Here…

Special-interest deals forged in secret behind closed doors. Massive bills unveiled in the dark of night and rushed to a vote before anyone in America could possibly know the details. Wasteful pork projects stuffed into giant bills passed without scrutiny or debate.

This is what passes for business as usual in Congress today. It is the way Washington has done business for generations, under majorities Republican and Democratic alike.

This year, under the Obama administration and a Democratic Congress, things have gotten out of hand. Beginning with the trillion-dollar "stimulus," a number of massive and consequential bills have been rammed through without any member of Congress having read them. These sad spectacles have sparked a public backlash, with millions of Americans demanding that Congress stop the nonsense and "read the bill!"

It's time for Congress to change.

Did the Republican Party miss an opportunity to do away with these broken congressional rituals when it held the majority in Congress? Yes.

As a result of the 1994 Contract with America, which I helped write, important reforms were implemented, such as subjecting the House to audits by a private independent auditor, requiring Congress to live under the same laws as the rest of America and banning the practice of "proxy voting" or "ghost voting" by lawmakers who hadn't actually shown up to vote at all. These were meaningful changes, but unfortunately, things stagnated, and Republicans were subsequently turned out of office.

This is why every day I challenge my Republican colleagues to consider one simple question: If we suddenly found ourselves back in the majority tomorrow, what would we do differently?

When it comes to the issue of congressional transparency, House Republicans are providing a clear answer. We've listened to the American people, and we're united in our support for common-sense changes such as "read the bill" reform that would require all bills to be posted online for a minimum of 72 hours before they are brought to a vote. We also believe:

• Members' committee votes should be posted online within 48 hours so the American people can see how their representatives voted.
• Committees should be required to post the text of adopted bills online within 24 hours of adoption to end the practice of "phantom amendments" being added to bills secretly after they pass at the committee level.
• Major negotiations on sweeping bills that would dramatically expand the reach of the federal government – such as the current government takeover of health care – should be open to the public and subject to a full and honest debate when bills reach the floor.
• Cameras should be allowed in the secretive House Rules Committee, the panel that decides which bills and amendments come to a vote.

These initiatives, which House Republicans will be officially unveiling in the coming days, enjoy bipartisan support at the rank-and-file level, and all stand ready for adoption by the full House.

What's more, 176 Republicans in the House, including me, have already signed a petition circulated by Rep. Greg Walden, R-Oregon, that would force a vote on "read the bill" reform. Only six Democrats have signed the petition to date. Why just six? Because the leaders of the Democratic majority, seeking to protect the status quo and preserve their ability to rush bills through the House without scrutiny, have forbidden their caucus members from signing the petition. They won't even allow a hearing on the matter.

It's past time for Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democratic leaders in Congress to rethink their opposition to these common-sense reforms. Rebuilding trust between the American people and their elected representatives starts with changing Congress itself. Americans deserve a government that is open, transparent and accountable to the people it serves.

John Boehner is minority leader in the U.S. House and may be reached through gopleader.gov.

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Thanks John Boehner… We Can Read the Bill

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead

The Dems healthcare bill is online & we have 72 hours to read it (time started at 11:15 today). We are taking volunteers who can commit to reading & reporting what's in their section ASAP. Please post your commitment in the Blog which will be appearing shortly on our site MOM4America.org.

For those who want to read the bill, it may be found at: http://docs.house.gov/rules/health/111_ahcaa.pdf

Governor Tim Pawlenty already pointed out yesterday that the opt-out for the states is a complete slight-of-hand.  The states will be able to opt out of the benefits of a Public Option… little that they are after having had to pay in to the kitty for 4-full years before it goes into effect and then continue paying whether they participate or not.  He also said that whether they call it a trigger, co-op, opt-out or find some guts and really say what it is… socialized medicine heading toward a single-payer, it will end up as the later to the detriment of Americans and America.

Dump all the ObamaCare Bills and Start Over With Real Reform!!!!!!!!!!!

The Reality is that this is Smoke and Mirrors…  The costs are based on partial or misleading figures.  If there were large amonts money to be saved in Medicare… it would have been done, many expenses have been moved to other bills to “fix” the CBO scoring and hide costs and much of this will not start until years after the programs are funded… and the lies and untruths go on!!

“NO” to Socialized Medicine by any Name!!

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FEMA Spends $5M to Find Lost $28 Billion

A top FEMA official admitted to a House panel that his agency has no way to assess the effectiveness of homeland security improvements made from the $29 billion spent since 2002.

Timothy Manning, deputy administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, told the House Homeland Security Emergency Communications Subcommittee Tuesday that his organization spent $5 million during the past 18 months reviewing how it spent the original $29 billion the federal government provided, the Washington Examiner reported.

Manning insisted that the expenditures have made the nation better prepared for a terrorist attack, but he wasn’t able to say exactly how.

“Existing data tells us very little about our return on investment," Manning testified before frustrated committee members.

The subcommittee chairman, Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, scoffed, “For $5 million, I think we can do better."

Manning said the $5 million review that FEMA performed confirmed that FEMA and other Homeland Security divisions “had never asked grant recipients to measure the benefits of the funding,” according to Congress Daily.

"It still seems to be a work in progress," Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said of FEMA's response to a congressional mandate three years ago to develop a comprehensive system to measure emergency response programs.

Thompson, who described the review system as seriously flawed, said it is time for FEMA to decide whether to scrap the initiative before more taxpayer money is wasted.

"While a good effort," Thompson said, the program "simply does not do what it is supposed to do, which is help states and urban areas objectively capture how homeland security grants are improving their preparedness capabilities."

The program cannot distribute money effectively without taking risk into account, he said.

David Maxwell, director and homeland security adviser for the Arkansas Department of Emergency Management, confirmed Thompson’s assessment and told lawmakers “the tool requires a subjective judgment of our base capabilities and, perhaps more importantly, how much an investment has increased a capability."

Thompson and Cuellar also took Manning to task for a FEMA policy shift last month barring the use of new funding to maintain equipment acquired with old grants, leaving state and local funding applicants in a difficult position.

"If you keep moving the ball, can you imagine what our state and local governments are going through?" Thompson said.

He and others warned Manning that the committee is on course to approve legislation sponsored by Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy, D-Ohio, that would reverse FEMA’s policy shift.

By: Rick Pedraza – Newsmax

Does anyone really believe that FEMA does not know where the money went?  Just like Bernanke not be able or willing to say were the TARP and stimulus money went!

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Mr. President, here's how 'hate crime' laws trample religious freedom

California using 'LGBT hate crime' definitions to squash people's cherished moral values

Sacramento -- SaveCalifornia.com, a leading West Coast pro-family, pro-child organization, is warning Americans that the homosexual-bisexual-transsexual "hate crimes" law signed today by President Obama will, unrestrained, lead to "LGBT rights" trampling religious freedom and everyone else’s rights.

California's experience with "hate crime" laws clearly demonstrates how moral conscience is trampled by placing definitions of anything-goes "sexual orientation" and "gender" into the law.

"In 1998, California first placed homosexuality into the state's hate-crime law," said Randy Thomasson, a legislative analyst and president of SaveCalifornia.com. "Ten years later, largely hidden from the general public, these hate-crime definitions are being used to sexually indoctrinate schoolchildren, trample parental rights, and infringe upon the religious rights and moral standards of business owners and property owners."

“By awarding special preference to alternative lifestyles in hate-crimes laws, today in California, the homosexual-bisexual-transsexual agenda has more legal power than religious citizens, parents, business owners and property owners,” said Thomasson. “Children, parents, contractors, business owners, and physicians have all been hurt by the ‘LGBT hate crimes’ law. Given California’s experience, it is reasonable to expect that, unless restrained by voters, Congress will expand the federal ‘LGBT hate crimes’ definitions throughout the U.S. Code, trampling religious freedom, parental rights, moral standards, and ownership rights in the process.”

"Connect the dots," said Thomasson, "and you'll see how 'LGBT hate crimes' definitions are the beginning of the intolerant homosexual-bisexual-transsexual agenda trampling other people's basic rights throughout the law. It's imperative to understand that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender activists are demanding their own way at the expense of Americans' basic rights to exercise their religious and moral beliefs."

DOCUMENTATION: From the Penal Code to the Education, Civil and Government Codes

California in 1998 enacted a law that makes the offense of vandalism a “hate crime” because of a person's race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, gender, or sexual orientation.

California's "hate crimes" law set forth in the Penal Code, Section 422:55 and 56, became the foundation for the homosexual-bisexual-transsexual "rights" agenda in the rest of state law.

Penal Code Section 422:55
For purposes of this title, and for purposes of all other state law unless an explicit provision of law or the context clearly requires a different meaning, the following shall apply:
   (a) "Hate crime" means a criminal act committed, in whole or in part, because of one or more of the following actual or perceived characteristics of the victim:
   (1) Disability.
   (2) Gender.
   (3) Nationality.
   (4) Race or ethnicity.
   (5) Religion.
   (6) Sexual orientation.
   (7) Association with a person or group with one or more of these
actual or perceived characteristics.
   (b) "Hate crime" includes, but is not limited to, a violation of Section 422.6.

California Penal Code, Section 422:56
(h) "Sexual orientation" means heterosexuality, homosexuality, or bisexuality.
(c) "Gender" means sex, and includes a person's gender identity and gender related appearance and behavior whether or not stereotypically associated with the person's assigned sex at birth.

California laws advancing the homosexual-bisexual-transsexual agenda, empowering “LGBT rights” to trump everyone else’s rights, is based on Penal Code 422.55 and 56:

Based on Penal Code, Section 422.56, the California Government Code allows fines up to $150,000 against business owners and property owners who are morally opposed to homosexuality, bisexuality and transsexuality.

• Government Code, Section 12926
(p) "Sex" includes, but is not limited to, pregnancy, childbirth, or medical conditions related to pregnancy or childbirth. "Sex" also includes, but is not limited to, a person's gender, as defined in Section 422.56 of the Penal Code.
(q) "Sexual orientation" means heterosexuality, homosexuality, and bisexuality.

Based on the Government Code, which is based on Penal Code, Section 422.56, the California Civil Code requires businesses open to the public to elevate homosexuality, bisexuality and transsexuality above their own religious values or moral standards.

• Civil Code, Section 51
(4) "Sex" has the same meaning as defined in subdivision (p) of Section 12926 of the Government Code.
(6) "Sexual orientation" has the same meaning as defined in subdivision (q) of Section 12926 of the Government Code.

Based on Penal Code, Section 422.56, the California Education Code allows teachers and other school employees to cross-dress and be openly homosexual and bisexual in front of children, and indirectly requires positive portrayal of homosexuality, bisexuality and transsexuality to schoolchildren in school "instruction" and campus "activities." (See http://rescueyourchild.org/SB_777.html and http://leginfo.ca.gov/pub/99-00/bill/asm/ab_0501-0550/ab_537_bill_19991010_chaptered.html)

• Education Code, Section 200 
It is the policy of the State of California to afford all persons in public schools, regardless of their disability, gender, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic that is contained in the definition of hate crimes set forth in Section 422.55 of the Penal Code, equal rights and opportunities in the educational institutions of the state. The purpose of this chapter is to prohibit acts that are contrary to that policy and to provide remedies therefor.
• Education Code, Section 220
No person shall be subjected to discrimination on the basis of disability, gender, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic that is contained in the definition of hate crimes set forth in Section 422.55 of the Penal Code in any program or activity conducted by an educational institution that receives, or benefits from, state financial assistance or enrolls pupils who receive state student financial aid.

• Education Code, Section 51500
No teacher shall give instruction nor shall a school district sponsor any activity that promotes a discriminatory bias because of a characteristic listed in Section 220.

• Education Code, Section 66251
It is the policy of the State of California to afford all persons, regardless of their sex, ethnic group identification, race, national origin, religion, mental or physical disability, or regardless of any basis that is contained in the prohibition of hate crimes set forth in subdivision (a) of Section 422.6 of the Penal Code, equal rights and opportunities in the postsecondary institutions of the state.  The purpose of this chapter is to prohibit acts that are contrary to that policy and to provide remedies therefor.

• Education Code, Section 66270
No person shall be subjected to discrimination on the basis of sex, ethnic group identification, race, national origin, religion, color, or mental or physical disability, or any basis that is contained in the prohibition of hate crimes set forth in subdivision (a) of Section 422.6 of the Penal Code in any program or activity conducted by any postsecondary educational institution that receives, or benefits from, state financial assistance or enrolls students who receive state student financial aid.

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SaveCalifornia.com is a leading West Coast nonprofit, nonpartisan organization representing children and families. We stand for marriage and family, parental rights, the sanctity of human life, religious freedom, financial freedom, and back-to-basics education.

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Pelosi Prepares Release of Public Option Bill

WASHINGTON – House Democrats are poised to unveil health care legislation that would vastly alter America's medical landscape, requiring virtually universal sign-ups and offering a new government-run plan for people without affordable coverage.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was making plans to release the bill Thursday morning, contingent on the outcome of a meeting of House leaders Wednesday afternoon, according to lawmakers and aides.

The rollout would cap months of arduous negotiations to bridge differences between liberal and moderate Democrats and blend health care overhaul bills passed by three separate committees over the summer. The developments in the House came as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid tried to round up support among moderate Democrats for his bill, which includes a modified government insurance option that states could opt out of.

The final product in the House, reflecting many of President Barack Obama's priorities, includes new requirements for employers to offer insurance to their workers or face penalties, fines on Americans who don't purchase coverage and subsidies to help lower-income people do so. Insurance companies would face new prohibitions against charging much more to older people or denying coverage to people with health conditions.

The price tag, topping $1 trillion over 10 years, would be paid for by taxing high-income people and cutting some $500 billion in payments to Medicare providers.

"I'm pretty confident that we've got the right pieces in place," said Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., chairman of the Education and Labor Committee, one of the three panels involved in writing the bill. "We can quibble over parts of it, but the fact is when you're taking a 60-year-old system that grew up in a rather haphazard fashion and you're trying to bring some coherence to it, these are sort of the things you have to do at the beginning of that process."

In the end, Pelosi, D-Calif., and other House leaders were unable to round up the necessary votes for their preferred version of the government insurance plan — one that would base payment rates to providers on rates paid by Medicare. Instead, the health and human services secretary would be allowed to negotiate rates with providers and the program would be optional for states, the approach preferred by moderates and the one that will be featured in the Senate's version.

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Stupak: Take Abortion Out of Obamacare Bill

Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., threatened to work with Republicans to reject healthcare reform, unless House leaders allow a floor vote on a measure to remove abortion rules from the bill.

The issue is whether health plans that receive subsidies from the government should be allowed to provide coverage for abortions.

Stupak’s amendment would ban taxpayer funds from being used for abortions.

“This has been federal law since 1976,” Stupak said in an interview with C-Span. He pointed out that President Obama has said he won’t allow healthcare reform to pay for abortions.

“We have to have a vote,” Stupak said. “I don’t know why we have to change that basic principle in our law.”

He said Democratic leaders aren’t pleased with his stance. “The speaker (Nancy Pelosi) is not happy with me,” Stupak said.

He said he has been working with Democratic leaders on a compromise, but they haven't reached agreement.

Stupak has no plans to retreat. “I’m comfortable with where I’m at. This is who I am. It’s reflective of my district. If it costs me my seat, so be it.”

Stupak said he has support from about 40 Democrats who will vote against healthcare reform unless the bill’s abortion language is changed. That would be enough to sink the bill if every Republican representative votes against it.

Meanwhile in the Senate, Majority Leader Harry Reid’s insistence on putting a public option in the bill brought to the floor is facing increasing opposition.

Independent Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman said he will probably vote against the measure if it includes a public option, and other moderates are undecided.

Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., told The Washington Post, "I'm skeptical about what Senator Reid has proposed." She opposes a public option but said she will "stay open to a principled compromise."

By: Dan Weil

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'Defaced flag' video is finalist in contest

One of the 20 finalists in health care video contest run by Barack Obama’s campaign arm features a mural of an America flag splattered with health care graffiti until it’s covered completely by black paint.

In the video – which is accompanied by the sound of a heart monitor pumping and then flat-lining – words such as “pre-existing conditions,” “homeless” and “death panel” ultimately obliterate the flag, which reappears on screen seconds later with the words “Health Will Bring Our Country Back to Life” on the blue field where the 50 stars usually are.

According to the Organizing for American Web site, the 20 finalists in the “Health Reform Video Challenge” were chosen by a panel of “qualified” Democratic National Committee “employee judges.”

A contestant whose video didn’t make the final-20 cut complains that a video “defacing the flag” won’t do much to help President Barack Obama or the Democrats sell health care reform.

“They should never pick that,” said the contestant, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. “It makes the Democrats look really, really bad.”

A spokesman for Organizing for America said the group was not prepared to provide immediate comment on the video, which, according to the OFA Web site, was produced by Daniel Lahoda and Saber.

According to the OFA Web site, the 20 finalists will be judged by the public and a panel of experts that includes DNC Chairman Tim Kaine, Obama campaign chief David Plouffe, Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-Pa.), singer will.i.am and Hollywood stars Rosario Dawson and Dule Hill.

Daniel Libit contributed to this story.

Remember when these statements were supposed to be “hope”… instead of lies???

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