TWO VIDEOS to INSPIRE

A video two-fer.

From the makers of the above video, Minnesota Majority:

On January 19, 2010, a special election will be held in Massachusetts to select a new US Senator. Mainstream media pundits would have you believe Democrat Maratha Coakley is the undisputed leader …
On January 19, 2010, a special election will be held in Massachusetts to select a new US Senator. Mainstream media pundits would have you believe Democrat Maratha Coakley is the undisputed leader in the race. But the so-called ‘experts’ may be in for a bit of a surprise.

Freedom-loving Americans from across our nation are rising-up to support Republican candidate Scott Brown. In the days leading up to the election, Brown has advanced such that some polls now actually show him within the margin of error.

Brown would provide the critical 41st vote in the Senate to break the Democrat’s filibuster-proof majority and stop the unprecedented assault on our personal liberties that is now taking place in Congress.

Scott Brown has pledged to vote against the government takeover of our health care system and is also opposed to cap-and-trade.

Martha Coakley, on the other hand, supports Obama’s socialistic agenda.

The political elite should not underestimate the resilience of the American people to defend their liberty from a tyrannical government.

The video below is much better-known, have garnered over 650,000 hits on YouTube.

AMERICA RISING:
An Open Letter to Democrat Politicians

CORRECTION: The above video is by gizgreen. Gotta give credit where credit’s due!

Who, on the Republican side will step up to put love of country ahead of scorn by a corrupted Senate and and even more corrupted media?

One sure way to get bypassed for a Washington Post or New York Times Style section profile would be to try and pull a Mr. Smith-style stunt.

Who will be 2010′s Mr. Smith? Will there even be one?

AmSpec’s Quin Hilyer has it exactly right in Thermopylae for Health Care.

Voters don’t want promises to repeal. They want to strangle this puppy before it’s born.

What infuriates conservatives is the attitudinal signals the Senate leadership sends. The health care bill is treated as just another piece of legislation — certainly more important than most, as Atlanta was a more important city than most, but not ground to be defended by every available means, to the death, as if a civilization hangs in the balance the way Greek civilization was threatened by the Persians. Yet for millions upon many tens of millions of Americans, the health-care battle is indeed their generation’s domestic version of the Greco-Persian War, and nothing less than a Thermopylae-like stand will be acceptable. These middle-Americans don’t want amendments to the bills. They don’t want to force bill supporters into tough votes that will be used against them in the 2010 fall campaigns. They don’t care about positioning for future battles on other legislative subjects, and they don’t give a flying expletive about maintaining the alleged dignity of the Senate.

What they want is to beat Obamacare: They want to ward off this abomination, this vicious assault on the Constitution and on the free market, this affront to individual liberty in a realm that is intensely and profoundly personal. They want to defeat it, trip it up, smother it, by any and all means within the law. They hate Obamacare. They see a government that already has taken over banks and financial companies and car companies, a government blob that wants to limit the very air we exhale, and they see it now trying to suck in one-sixth of the whole economy in one massive power grab.

This may well be the single instance where conservatives are in favor of abortion: a health care bill abortion.

This monstrosity is too big, too dangerous, too freedom-destroying to be allowed life. Republicans should be doing everything–EVERYTHING–to stop its implementation.

Let’s see some damn scorched earth, people!

Procedurally, also, McConnell could do far more. He could tell Majority Leader Harry Reid that he will tie the Senate in knots for the entire year unless Reid backs down. No unanimous consents all year. Holds on every nominee. Every single one. Forced readings of every word of every bill and every amendment, all year.

Is there not one Republican who yearns to be Mr. Smith, saving his country from this cesspool-of-corruption-POS legislation?

In Frank Capra’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Jimmy Stewart played Mr. Smith, a simple man who put love of country, freedom and the American way ahead of corrupt, backroom dealings in the Senate.

Is there not one Senator who prizes stopping this affront to the American people over backroom corruption masquerading as Senate dignity?

America would cheer.

And never forget.

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Rasmussen has a couple tidbits for a Sunday.

The president’s approval rating is -15 and almost one in three respondents think the Indianapolis Colts are going to win the Super Bowl.

From 29% Expect Colts to Win Super Bowl

Prior to this weekend, there were two undefeated teams in the NFL, and most football fans expected that one of them would emerge as the Super Bowl champion at the end of the season.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of football fans finds that 29% expect the Indianapolis Colts to win it all while 26% say the New Orleans Saints will win their first title. But that was before the Saints lost 24-17 to the Dallas Cowboys on Saturday night.

While the Colts and Saints are the favorites, 14% think the Brett Favre and the Minnesota Vikings will win the title. Earlier this season, 17% picked the Vikings to win it all. At the time, that was enough to make them the favorites. In that October survey, 12% thought the Saints would win and 9% picked the Colts.

The president’s daily tracking numbers: Daily Presidential Tracking Poll.

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows that 26% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -15.

Undoubtedly, the White House is busy telling Obama sweet little lies that -15 will invert itself by the next election.

ONE QUESTION: How long before those numbers start looking good? How long before the daily approval hits -20?

ONE GUESS: After a possible health care bill passes. There will be no bounce: true-believing lefties hate it, independents hate it, libertarians hate it and of course, conservatives hate it.

Where would any bounce come from? Joe Biden and Dick Durbin only have one vote. Well, Durbin’s from Illinois, so he might have more than one.

Beware of Democrat Senators bearing amendments to bills that threaten free speech.

Or in this case: that don’t protect the very foot soldiers of citizen-journalists.

FROM Democrats: Criminalizing Dissent:

Democrats Diane Feinstein and Dick “Turban” Durbin – who have long been the Dems’ official trial-balloon-floaters for assaults on free speech like the “Fairness Doctrine” – are proposing an amendment to a Senate bill (S.448) clarifying the press shield law.

And it’s aimed squarely at citizen journalists like you and I. Via RWN, here’s the amendment text, with some emphases added:

The amendment to the press “shield law” is then presented. It seems to cover anyone explicitly working for a news business–but not citizen-journalists.

Here’s the lawyerspeak of the amendment:

In section 10(2)(A), strike clause (iii) and insert the following:

[a "journalist" is shielded if he/she] (iii) obtains the information sought while working as a salaried employee of, or independent contractor for, an entity—

(I) that disseminates information by print, broadcast, cable, satellite, mechanical, photographic, electronic, 1or other means; and

(II) that—

(aa) publishes a newspaper, book, magazine, or other periodical;

(bb) operates a radio or television broadcast station, network, cable system, or satellite carrier, or a channel or programming service for any such station, network, system, or carrier;

(cc) operates a programming service; or

(dd) operates a news agency or wire service;

It doesn’t seem like it would have covered those two crazy kids so beloved by ACORN for their child prostitute stings, Jame O’Keefe and Hannah Giles.

Why does it matter that, in order to fall under the amendment’s protection, you have to be employed by a news business?

The left, on the other hand, has built up a network of “business” entities and non-profits, from the pseudo-newspaper-y “MNPost” to the not-very-covert propagandists at the “Center for Independent Media” (parent of the Minnesoros “Independent”), at exquisite cost; one might now presume that this money was spent to get ahead of the legislative curve that the Feinstein/Durbin proposal represents, as a further attempt to shut down independent, non-government-vetted thought in this country.

This is Obama’s America.

Indeed.

And to Feinstein and Durbin goes the coveted “Progressive Tool” award.

NOTE: Maybe I’ve got this all wrong. Am I missing anything? It’s tough to listen to the many “proposals” and “conferences” being held lately to regulate and “keep the Internet” safe and not see this as part of it all.

After some thought, the original verdict stands: Feinstein and Durbin are Tools of the Oppressor. Never thought I’d be using that phrase without my tongue in my cheek.

The Internet is one place that politicians currently do not control. As such, it represents a threat to their power. Therefore, the push over the last several months to regulate it and those who use the Internet to disseminate their writing.

[To see entire piece, Democrats: Criminalizing Dissent]

Democrats love taxes and the greatest stealth tax of them all is the Value Added Tax: the VAT. According to Newsmax, it’s buried deep in the Senate version of ObamaCare.

From Value Added Tax Hidden in Health Reform:

The Senate bill’s “fee” on medical devices operates much like a VAT, and could end up being the model for future adoption of an unprecedented VAT on all goods and services in the United States.

Deep into the 2,074-page bill, on page 2,020, is “SEC. 9009,” the “Imposition of Annual Fee on Medical Device Manufacturers and Importers.” It orders that “Each covered entity engaged in the business of manufacturing or importing medical devices shall pay to the [Treasury] Secretary not later than the annual payment date of each calendar year beginning after 2009 a fee in an amount determined under subsection (b).”

The amount of tax would be based on “gross receipts from medical device sales.” Treasury bureaucrats would have the formidable power of “identification of medical devices” and the new tax would be retroactive, applying to “any medical device sales after December 31, 2008.”

The VAT is an insidious tax, extracting wealth from private companies and individuals each step of the production and marketing process of a product. It’s one of the primary reasons why Europe is essentially non-competitive in most industries.

The European VATs suck money from private enterprises into the gaping maw of inefficient governments–and does it in such a way that is hidden to the consumer.

That the Democrats would attempt to use the health care bill to set up the framework for such an odious tax is instructive. Hopefully, voters will remember the lesson come Election Day 2010.

CAN YOU SAY “CONFLICT OF INTEREST”?

Undoubtedly overlooked in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s 2006 vow to “drain the swamp” of House corruption is Alan Mollohan’s conflict of interest.

Both the Washington Post (Justice probing lawmaker with oversight over department) and TPM Muckraker (Dem Rep Controls DOJ Budget While Under DOJ Investigation) noticed.

From WashPo: “For three years, Rep. Alan Mollohan has chaired the important Appropriations subcommittee that controls the Justice Department’s $65 billion budget. At the same time, he has been under a Justice Department investigation, according to documents and two sources briefed on the probe.”

Why is he still there? Readers may want to ask Nancy Pelosi. Though Mollohan was forced down from his chairmanship of the House Ethics(?!?) Committee, he retained his place at the Appropriations trough.

TPM Muckraker reports, “Republicans in his district are lining up to take on Mollohan next year, and his ethics issues will no doubt be a liability,” and cites Don Surber’s Charleston Daily Mail as the source.

Surber noticed last week: Justice Department investigates Mollohan.

Will this have any effect on whether Alan “Money” Mollohan, the Overnight Millionaire, is prosecuted?

Time will tell. But no time is needed to recognize a clear conflict of interest.

MORE: Alan Mollohan: Corruption, Cronies and Crocks of Earmarks in WV. Why Mollohan is being investigated in the first place. “Egregious” is the word that first comes to mind, though others may have other words.

Synonyms for Kent Conrad, a man who is, for the present, a senator from North Dakota.

Arrogant. Constitutionally- and historically ignorant.

Readers are invited to supply other definitions as they occur.

Story at Sen. Conrad Suggests That People Who Don’t Believe in Civilian Trials for Terrorists Should Leave America and ‘Go Somewhere Else’

Always thought North Dakota folks were pretty sensible. How’d this joker get through the cracks?

This is another example of the arrogance of Senators who go to Washington and forget where they came from. Oh, yeah, one more: dumbass.

MORE: Dem senator: Americans who don’t want KSM tried in civilian court can “go somewhere else”

Tea Party: The Documentary trailer

Coming to theaters at Thanksgiving.

Tea Party: the film website

Will Congressman Alan Mollohan (D-$$) be the victim of not only ethics probe, but also A Jacksonian Republican sweep?

Michael Barone, Washinton Examiner:

Arkansas 2 is part of what I call the Jacksonian belt, the swath of counties from southwestern Pennsylvania along the Appalachian chain and extending to Oklahoma and Texas which were largely settled by the Scots-Irish immigrants that streamed into America in the dozen years before the Revolution and their descendants. Their great hero, and the son of Scots-Irish immigrants himself, was Andrew Jackson, the victor of Horseshoe Bend and New Orleans, who set about removing Indians from much of this territory and was the founder of the Democratic party. In 2008 voters in the Jacksonian belt voted heavily against Barack Obama in both the Democratic primaries and the general election, as you can see on these national maps and by clicking on individual states to see the county-by-county returns. This map showing the counties which cast a higher percentage of votes for John McCain in 2008 than for George W. Bush in 2004 is essentially a map of the Jacksonian belt.

Mollohan’s WV-1 district is in what Barone calls ‘The Jacksonian Belt’. First elected in 1982 to a seat held by his father, Mollohan has only faced major party opposition in a few of his election bids since then.

According to documents filed with the Secretary of State’s office, by the end of September four Republicans had filed pre-candidacy paperwork announcing plans to challenge Mollohan, who was first elected in 1982.

State Sen. Clark Barnes, R-Randolph, has also said he’s considering a challenge to Mollohan, although Barnes hasn’t filed paperwork yet.

ALAN MOLLOHAN SUPPORTS PELOSI CARE

Mollohan doesn’t address any of the many objections to the bill, such as mandates that will land anyone who doesn’t buy health insurance in jail. “Progressive” Mollohan: progressing the power of the police state to take your money.

Don’t let the Congressman weasel out of his vote–which he will inevitably do once he’s engaged with real voters back in the 1st congressional district.

GOOD STUFF ALERT
TWITTER BUSTED

HA exclusive: ATR, AWF demand probe of SEIU’s Stern for illegal lobbying:

At 9 am ET today, Americans for Tax Reform and the Alliance for Worker Freedom will deliver a letter to both chambers of Congress and to US Attorney Channing Phillips in Washington DC, demanding a federal investigation of Andrew Stern, president of the SEIU. They will claim that Stern, who stopped registering as a federal lobbyist in 2007, has continued his lobbying efforts. They claim to have compiled evidence of Stern’s lobbying from the recently released White House visitor logs, media reports — and Stern’s own Twitter feed, in what has to be a first for the social networking service.

Our thoughts: 30 days in the electric chair is too good for this power-persuading thug.

Really.

MORE: SEIU Gets busted in California. Will anyone do anything about it? Union and whistleblower complaint documents SEIU ballot fraud

Don’t look for Attorney General Moonbeam (Jerry Brown) to take a hard line with SIU–or ACORN. They’re members in good standing of his ground forces in his upcoming California battle for governor…

MORE: SEIU thugs vs. the Boy Scouts — and other related Big Labor antics.
SEIU vs. a Boy Scout?!? They sure know how to pick their fights…