"You Are Terrifying Us"

I just sent a letter asking my Congressman to attest as to whether or not any these provisions of the several Health Care Reform bills are true. The list supposedly comes from Free Republic but I have not been able to verify that fact:

Page 16: States that if you have insurance at the time of the bill becoming law and change, you will be required to take a similar plan. If that is not available, you will be required to take the government option!

• Page 22: Mandates audits of all employers that self-insure!• Page 29: Admission: your health care will be rationed!

• Page 30: A government committee will decide what treatments and benefits you get (and, unlike an insurer, there will be no appeals process) This sounds particularly ominous. As the Federal Government, they can't be sued unless they allow it.

• Page 42: The "Health Choices Commissioner" will decide health benefits for you. You will have no choice. None.

• Page 50: All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free healthcare services. So once again we create a magnet to bring in a bunch of illegals.

• Page 58: Every person will be issued a National ID Healthcard.

• Page 59: The federal government will have direct, real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer. Communism at its finest. I produce funds, which are then not my own to dispose as I see fit, but the Governments. I didn't see anyone helping me earn it.

• Page 65: Taxpayers will subsidize all union retiree and community organizer health plans (example: SEIU, UAW and ACORN)

• Page 72: All private healthcare plans must conform to government rules to participate in a Healthcare Exchange.

• Page 84: All private healthcare plans must participate in the Healthcare Exchange (i.e., total government control of private plans)

• Page 91: Government mandates linguistic infrastructure for services; translation: illegal aliens

• Page 95: The Government will pay ACORN and Americorps to sign up individuals for Government-run Health Care plan.

• Page 102: Those eligible for Medicaid will be automatically enrolled: you have no choice in the matter.

• Page 124: No company can sue the government for price-fixing. No "judicial review" is permitted against the government monopoly. Put simply, private insurers will be crushed.

• Page 127: The AMA sold doctors out: the government will set wages.

• Page 145: An employer MUST auto-enroll employees into the government-run public plan. No alternatives.

• Page 126: Employers MUST pay healthcare bills for part-time employees AND their families.

• Page 149: Any employer with a payroll of $400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays an 8% tax on payroll.

• Page 150: Any employer with a payroll of $250K-400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays a 2 to 6% tax on payroll.

Peggy Noonan has a piece in the Wall Street Journal for Friday entitled 'You Are Terrifying Us'. The money quote:

The passions of the protesters, on the other hand, are not a surprise. They hired a man to represent them in Washington. They give him a big office, a huge staff and the power to tell people what to do. They give him a car and a driver, sometimes a security detail, and a special pin showing he’s a congressman. And all they ask in return is that he see to their interests and not terrify them too much. Really, that’s all people ask. Expectations are very low. What the protesters are saying is, “You are terrifying us.”

The Liberty Sphere: Democrats' Bare-Faced Lies on Town Hall Protests

The Liberty Sphere: Democrats' Bare-Faced Lies on Town Hall Protests

The Welshman has a great post over at the Columbia Conservative Examiner debunking the lie that the town hall meeting protesters are astroturf.

This should be a personal affront to every patriotic American who speaks out concerning the issues of the day. If you disagree vehemently with the Washington elite, you are automatically a kook who is to be written off and dismissed or you represent a special interest who has 'bought you off.'

Go read the whole thing.

Obama: A Modern Day Roman Plebeian Tyrant

Finally, for today, I offer you Obama: A Modern Day Roman Plebeian Tyrant by Frank S. Rosenbloom in today's American Thinker.

Read the whole thing. I need to add nothing.

Majority Support Thune Amendment

Say Uncle has a great post up citing the O'Leary Report, which is here. According to O'Leary, 52% of voters would oppose a Senator who voted to confirm Sonja Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. On the question of whether or not people with concealed carry licenses should be allowed to carry across state lines (the Thune Amendment) a whopping 83% agreed they should. The numbers were high in all demographics, with 86% if independents, 80% of Democrats, and 83% of people ages 18 to 49 years.


The numbers supporting the Thune Amendment surprised the h*** out of me. When I first became aware of the gun rights movement in the late 60s, gun control looked to be the wave of the future. Everyone I spoke to mouthed the common "wisdom" that fewer guns meant less crime. My point, that a law on the books making guns illegal would be ignored just like the laws that say you can't murder, fell on deaf ears. It is good to see that the writings of people like Stephan Holbrook, Dave Kopel, Alan Korwin, John Lott, as well as organizations like Gun Owners of America, Jews For the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, the Second Amendment Foundation and the Citizens Committee to Keep and Bear Arms are having an effect. More and more people are seeing the failure of gun control to deliver on its promises, and are saying "no more." Of course, it we slack of now, the battle will be lost. We have to keep reminding people, but I am optimistic that in the end we will succeed.

Sotomayor Support Even Split Among Public

Jillian Bandes has a piece up today on the upcoming Sotomayor vote on Townhall.com entitledKey Senator Thinks Sotomayor Vote Represents Crossroads. Bandes notes that the split among the general public was 49% in favor, 49% opposed. Given the hugely favorable treatment the nomination received in the MSM, this result is surprising. Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama thinks the Republican questioning may have made the difference.

“I don’t believe that we should confirm anyone to the court who is not faithfully committed to follow the law whether they like it or not,” said Sen. Jeff Sessions, (R-Ala.), the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee. “If they feel empowered to avoid doing that when they don't like the law then they weaken all laws and they weaken the Constitution.”

Exactly right...er...correct.

Alan Korwin notes here that Sotomayor ignored 14 Supreme Court cases dealing with self defense in order to come out with her statement that she couldn't think of a single Supreme Court case involving self defense. This kind of selective reading of these cases puts the lie to her statements in support of stare decisis. Evidently, if she agrees with a precedent, it is there. If not, she seems unaware of it. I would certainly not trust such a person with my rights, and Senator Sessions is right to oppose her confirmation.

Single Payer Healthcare from Someone Who Should Know

The Smallest Minority has an e-mail posted from a student (American I think) living in the UK talking about the health care debate. It is both humorous and sad in ways I can't begin to put into words. Go read it.

The Endgame of the Left

So here is some doom and gloom for a gloomy day. It is overcast here, and the whole region has been under a sauna now for a week. Andrew Thomas has a piece up at the American Thinker today entitled The End Game of the Left. The opening paragraph:

Within the world of the far left, individuals have no value. Only the state matters. That is why the modern American statist devalues individual achievement and wealth. If, as in the socialist world of Marx, Engels, and Adolf Hitler (yes, Hitler, as I will explain later), God does not exist and humans have no souls, then the state determines the value of a human life. This philosophy leads to an ominous conclusion.

This is the same point, in different ways made by Goldberg in Liberal Fascism and by Levin in Liberty and Tyranny. Collectivists view the State as of maximum importance. To the degree that the individual buys into their rubbish, all is good, but if not, the individual is expendable. Contrast that with the Constitution, wherein the individual has protected rights, which, at least in theory, can not be trampled even by an overwhelming majority. Thomas again:

The statist philosophy, whether Islamic or otherwise, appears to condone and even embrace the concept of eliminating the members of the opposition by murdering them.

Or maybe just putting them in prison on trumped up charges, while letting miscreants go free because they were acting as the state wanted.

But after all, nothing like this could happen in America, right? Obama's building up of ACORN community organizers and the AmeriCorps civilian army with billions of dollars from the Stimulus couldn't be used against its own citizens, could it? His statement that "We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded (as the military)" doesn't scare you, does it? ...

We have not really seen yet the shape of the "Civilian National Security Force" but its outlines may already have been legislated with the porkulus. Time will tell.

The end game of the left is the abortion and eugenic elimination of the "undesirables", the euthanasia of the old and infirm, and the genocide of those who disagree. Its objective is the purity of socialist thought. And it is pure evil.