Another Attack on the Constitution

I write a little blog that protests the way our government officials are doing business in Washington and, on occasion, locally. Other than that I'm an average American: I get up each day, go to work, clean my house, take care of my family. . . but one of these days I could be arrested and thrown under the jail. Why? Because someone in the government I'm protesting decided I was a "threat".

Far fetched? Nope. Not if the “Enemy Belligerent, Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010" passes. The bill in pdf form is here.

An article about the bill is here, that goes into more detail. But if passed it would enable our government to toss search and seizure rights out the window and come after dissenting bloggers, Tea Party activists, protesters, even your loud-mouthed neighbor down the street.

Who sponsored this? Senators John McCain and Joseph Lieberman. Hmmm.

Check it out. I need more coffee and a couple of aspirin.

Down to the Wire

We are racing towards the finish line with Obamacare. The Great One wants it passed by Easter break. Under no circumstances does he want senators and congressmen to go home to their districts and face the "angry mobs" with the bill un-passed.

If that should happen, one or maybe more might listen to us and decide political suicide is not an option they want to face.

I'm still emailing my senator and congressman. I'm still getting a form letter (Hagan) or no reply at all (Shuler) for my efforts. However, I'm sure some intern is reading our emails and counting the yeas and nays. I haven't tried calling their offices recently... I stopped after it became apparent that all calls were being directed to a full voice mailbox... a not so cute method of ignoring us, but it works.

I have been reading history books (not the biased ones they are using in our schools) and the Constitution during each and every free moment I can find. The more I learn about what the Founder's envisioned for our country and see how far off-track it has been driven; the angrier I become. We are so far left of what the Founder's meant for the United States to be that they would not recognise it.

We have almost lost our republic. I think more and more people are beginning to understand this on some level. I just hope we aren't too late.

Once again, I beg you, call, fax, email, or write a letter to your representatives. Tell them how you feel about this government takeover of our healthcare system. Keep up the pressure.

Let them know that they will be held accountable if they follow Obama's lead and pass the healthcare bill. Let them know that from this point forward they are being watched and watched closely. Let them know that the days of unchecked abuse of power are over.

We are and will continue watching them. We will exercise our right to vote and they will be the next Americans standing in line at the unemployment office

Dr. Dan Eichenbaum: GOP Candidate for NC District 11

Dr. Dan Eichenbaum delivered this closing speech to conclude the Transylvania County GOP Candidate Forum held on February 20, 2010. A straw poll was conducted following the Forum, with Dr. Dan earning a landslide victory. Dr. Dan received 36 votes and the nearest competitor received 7.

Just One of the Reasons I Don't Watch MSNBC

They Won’t Give Up

I've been surfing around this morning catching up on news and commentary. It seems like the president and his henchmen are bound and determined to shove government run health care down our throats. This article for instance:

Democratic congressional leaders hope President Barack Obama's unveiling of his final health care package Wednesday will help resuscitate an effort that seemed all but dead until recently… (snip)…

Now, Democrats are aiming toward a two-step approach. The House would approve a sweeping Senate-passed overhaul bill, then both chambers would make changes in it — like making subsidies more generous — by passing a separate measure.

Democrats would use a fast-track process — called reconciliation — for that second bill that would let them approve it with only a majority of Senate votes. Republicans say that process should not be used for such major legislation and accuse Democrats of subverting the rules, but White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel defended it Tuesday after meeting with top Democrats, calling it "a normal procedure."

What part of "no" don't they understand? We the People have told them over and over that we do not want their program.

I'm sure that the Founding Fathers are standing as close to the pearly gate as possible, shouting, yelling and waving their arms at us to wake up and stop this fiasco and the many other efforts to snatch our country and freedom out from under us.

Whether you like Glenn Beck or not, listen to him and learn what the Founders had in mind when they wrote our Constitution. It wasn't a nanny state, where everything goes to the government only to be doled out to us in tiny bits in return.

No, it was for us to have the freedom to work and work hard to accomplish great things in our individual lives….or to choose not to work hard and live at poverty level if that's all we aspired to! That's what we were given, and it looks like we aren't going to be able to keep it after all.

Every adult and child in this country should grap hold of a good American History book and a copy of the Constitution and the Federalist Papers. Read what those men were thinking and how they envisioned this nation. This, my friends, is not what they saw as our future.

It will require hard work, hardship, and sacrifice to turn our nation back to what She is meant to be. Look at the hardships and turmoil faced by our founders and those brave colonists who said, "We have had enough!" and fought for their freedom. Are we less able to do so than they? Or, are we so spoiled by the nanny state that we no longer have the will to stand up for what is right?

UPDATE:
Read this WSJ article

Al Gore Surfaces – Cancel the Amber Alert

Well, well. Al Gore has resurfaced to let us know that all this snow really is due to global warming. Read his article here.

If you buy his explanation, I have a nice bridge to sell up in New York…..

Fed Up – Yes I Know I’m Rambling…

I'm getting depressed over this entire health care thing. Obama, Pelosi, and Reid are going to do their best to force it down our throats by reconciliation. They may succeed in doing so. We have to face that fact.

My worry is what will happen next? Will the American people roll over and play dead? Will we just wring our hands and weep over the fact that "they" didn't listen to us? Will we buckle down and try to work harder and more hours just to pay the increased taxes this terrible bill will lay on our shoulders? What will we do?

The hours and minutes are ticking onward toward the death of the United States as we know it.

The cult following that elected Barack Obama president has doomed us to life in a carbon copy of European nations or a second revolutionary war to save our nation. Which will it be? I have no idea. Are we still cut from the same cloth as the Founders? I hope and pray we are.

The good thing about the health care bill is that it doesn't take effect immediately (the taxes do, however). There is a chance we can overturn the democratic majority at the ballot box this November with representatives pledged to repeal the health care bill. Maybe they will even call for investigations into the backroom deals made by Pelosi and Reid. Maybe they will vote to impeach Barack Obama. Ahh, but that is the stuff of Patriot dreams.

I'm going to keep up the fight by calling and emailing my representatives, even though I know they aren't listening and don't care what I think or want. Never in my life have I felt so helpless at the hands of my leaders. Never!

I am sickened and fed up with our leaders and their godlike assumptions that they know what's better for me than I do. What about you? What do you think? Are you fed up too?