The Conservative Soldier

OBAMA / PELOSI / REID
2010 OFFICIAL TO-DO LIST
FOR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS:

√ RECONCILIATION
√ HUMILIATION
√ SOCIALIZATION
√ RE-DISTRIBUTION
√ DESTRUCTION*
☐ RE-ELECTION**

*OF AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM
REJECT ‘OBAMACARE’. REJECT ‘RAHMERICA’.
OR, AMERICANS WILL REJECT YOU.
**THIS NOVEMBER, AND BEYOND.

Why should you copy-and-paste and forward the above via fax to members of Congress? Thomas Jefferson said it best.

“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people
of good conscience to remain silent.” – Thomas Jefferson

When I hear President Barack Hussein Obama declare an end to debate on health insurance reform it simply reinforces the chilling fact that the most unqualified president in American history does not understand, or accept, the essence of our great democracy. The fine tuning of a government by and for the people requires perpetual debate.

Remove debate and what do you get? Cuba. Iran. North Korea.

It is incumbent upon every citizen who fears the creeping tentacles of government to elevate the intensity and volume of the anti-ObamaCare debate. Obama desires that we shut up and allow the machinations of parliamentary procedure to hijack the U.S. economy and diminish the quality of the world’s premier medical system.

We will not be muzzled because we heed the words of Thomas Jefferson: “All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.”

Conservative Soldiers, the battleground is before us. The battle lines are drawn. The shadow of tyranny is lurking. I urge you to visit citizen action web sites such as Grassfire.com. Inundate U.S. Congressional offices with phone calls and faxes demanding staunch rejection of ObamaCare and the unethical processes radical liberals are relying on to ram it into law. Two links found on the Grassfire home page (ObamaCare: FAX CONGRESS and CONTACT CONGRESS) provide the tools you need to contact members of the House and Senate.

What to fax? Here is a collection of some of the most coherent arguments for defeating ObamaCare. Cut-and-paste as needed. The debate is not over, President Obama. The debate has just begun.

“(The Democrats’ insurance reform bill) takes $52 billion in higher Social Security tax revenues and counts them as offsets. But that’s really reserved for Social Security. So either we’re double-counting them or we don’t intend on paying those Social Security benefits. It takes $72 billion and claims money from the CLASS Act. That’s the long-term care insurance program. It takes the money from premiums that are designed for that benefit and instead counts them as offsets. The Senate Budget Committee chairman [Kent Conrad] said that this is a Ponzi scheme that would make Bernie Madoff proud.” (Rep. Paul Ryan, R-WI, left)

“Mr. Obama claimed that ‘my proposal would bring down the cost of health care for millions—families, businesses and the federal government.’ He said it is ‘fully paid for’ and ‘brings down our deficit by up to $1 trillion over the next two decades.’ Never before has a vast new entitlement been sold on the basis of fiscal responsibility, and one reason ObamaCare is so unpopular is that Americans understand the contradiction between untold new government subsidies and claims of spending restraint. They know a Big Con when they hear one.” (The Wall Street Journal)

“One of the ways of reducing the costs of medical insurance would be to pass federal legislation putting an end to state regulation of insurance companies. That would instantly eliminate thousands of state mandates, which force insurance to cover everything from wigs to marriage counseling, depending on which special interests are influential in which states. It would also promote nationwide competition among insurance companies– and competition keeps prices down better than politicians will.” (Columnist Thomas Sowell)

“What Obama did to doctors (by using them as props in lab coats during his March 3 pledge) was absolutely humiliating, which is absolutely consistent with how he has treated them from the start.” (Rush Limbaugh)

“For all the talk in Washington about Democrats in the Senate using reconciliation to pass a final version of ObamaCare, one key fact has been overlooked: no reconciliation bill exists. Not in the House. Not in the Senate. Nowhere. It simply has not yet been written, and there are plenty of reasons to believe it never will.” (The Heritage Foundation)

“The president has also touted the new plan as “smaller” and “leaner.” Smaller and leaner than what? This version may actually cost more than the last one — breaking the $1 trillion mark even under the White House’s rosy assumptions. At its heart, ObamaCare hasn’t changed. It still represents a top-down, centralized, command-and-control approach to reform.” (Michael Tanner, CATO Institute)

I watched enormous stretches of Thursday’s surreal gathering of politicians at Blair House. Of course, it was a futile exercise. There is nothing healthy about a “health insurance reform” debate, not when its chief proponents are devout Socialists.

Barack Hussein Obama sees “reform” as a path to nationalized, single-payer medicine, consistent with his denouncement of all things fundamentally American. While Thursday’s summit was a triumph for Republican lawmakers, who boldly demonstrated they are not backing down in opposition to a $1 trillion wealth transfer and a bill loaded with kickbacks, Obama clearly viewed them with the same contempt he held for that briefly famous insect. No, not Joe The Plumber. I refer to the winged life form he flicked — after it landed on his arm — into sudden death a few months ago while taping an interview.

Regardless of what becomes of Obama’s socialized health insurance conspiracy — if sanity prevails, it will be flicked into oblivion — his defiant handling of this particular item on his “transformational agenda” has been useful. It seems an odd conclusion that anything that has so distracted from the mending of our economy would be useful, yet the hubris displayed by Obama and his messengers throughout this health insurance reform blitz is useful because it sheds bright, penetrating light on this unexamined, unqualified President.

Barack Hussein Obama ran in a free election for President but interpreted the results of November 2008 as an anointment. He does not want to serve as our President, never did. He stands before us as a reigning despot, a tyrant. If Newsweek was writing the headline, its editors would proclaim, “We’re All Flies Now”.

While attending the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington last weekend, I made sure to be in the hall first thing on Saturday morning to hear from former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton. His words became a preview of what would be witnessed less than a week later.

The rude, smirking, combative Obama who spoke for 119 of the 343 minutes consumed by Thursday’s “summit” did not simply wake up on the wrong side of the bed before strutting across the street to Blair House.

“He sees the inevitability of American decline as a kind of natural phenomenon,” Bolton said last week. “(Obama) is the first post-American President. Fundamentally, the President doesn’t believe in American exceptionalism.”

I would advance Mr. Bolton’s take on Obama further. This self-absorbed 44th President is in reality America’s first Dictator. I didn’t merely read this on some homemade poster at a Tea Party rally and file it away. This is the only conclusion that can be drawn after 14 months of Maobama Occupation of the White House.

Return to his performance in Thursday’s summit. With compliant Socialist zombies flanking him, Soviet Politburo-style (Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden and Kathleen “Sneeze As I Say” Sebelius), Obama instructed that time he took up commenting was not on the clock “because I’m the President”. He didn’t chuckle. Without a writer’s eloquent phrasing via teleprompter to guide him, Obama showed his true leadership style. He apologized for interrupting, then interrupted. He said he didn’t want to cut someone off in mid-sentence, but had done so in the same breath.

Tellingly, as would any dictator, he dismissed topics raised for debate by Sen. John McCain, Sen. Lamar Alexander, Rep. Eric Cantor and Rep. Paul Ryan as rehashed “talking points”. At his lowest moment, Obama derided a testy McCain, reminding him in an utterly contemptuous tone, “John, we’re not campaigning anymore.”

Obama’s dictatorial self-image is apparent in a broader sense as well. What is the one attribute we frequently see in ruthless dictators? They delude themselves with their “agendas” and “visions” while their people suffer in the shadows. As Obama and liberal lawmakers zealously pursue the hijacking of health insurance and medical care by the federal government, unemployment rates remain alarmingly high, small businesses continue to survive but not thrive and the federal budget deficit soars.

The brilliant columnist Charles Krauthammer observed post-summit that Americans accept that our Presidents are given keys to the White House, 24/7 access to a 747 aircraft and a personal chef. (Remember the lingering Bill Clinton at Andrews Air Force Base in January 2001? He did not want to let it go.)

But Obama seems more enamored of his inevitability, of his victory in November 2008, of reminding John McCain over and over that he was vanquished. Most of all, Obama is consumed by his power, which he believes is absolute.

Despite the trappings, Krauthammer said, “you do not become the arbiter of legitimacy of American discourse” when elected President of the United States.

The only conclusion, then, is that we take Obama at his word. He said he’d rather be a “good” one-term President, and he meant that — as in one who succeeds at dismantling the United States as quickly and thoroughly as he possibly can. Throughout history, tyrannical dictators intuitively have known that time is of the essence because their time will be short.

Obama essentially vacated the Presidency soon after he claimed it, perhaps in the same moment when he abruptly ordered a bust of Winston Churchill be removed from the Oval Office. Now we know that this was not solely an anti-Bush gesture. An avowed Saul Alinsky radical seething with dictatorial ambitions does not stare across his office at Churchill.