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SIX WAYS TO DEFEAT OBAMACARE…. OBAMA’S DIRTY BACKROOM DEAL THIS WEEK… ELECTION ON THE 19TH – Patriotic Resistance

I’ll start with the least likely…

#6–Union blues

The left is nearly as angry as the Right, calling the Reid bill a bailout for the insurance industry. The unions are upset about the tax on their so-called “Cadillac” health care plans and want that removed. The Left has held the coalition together with a “live together, die alone” motto, but politics changes with the wind. And the Left knows the winds are changing. I list this first because it is the least likely. But it is still possible.

#5–One Democrat Senator can’t make it to the floor to vote.

Despite the backroom deals and dirty tricks, as we understand it there will be one more final cloture vote in the Senate. Rules require 60 votes to invoke cloture. If one Democrat Senator can’t make it to the floor, for any reason (health, accident, death etc.) they don’t have 60 votes.

#4–The Cornhusker Kickback kicks back.

Arnold Schwarzenegger told California’s members of Congress to vote NO unless their state also gets the Cornhusker Kickback. Now Dems are scrambling to give every state a kickback. The more talk about kickbacks and the more uncomfortable everyone is with this entire fiasco.

#3–Abortion issue divides Democrats.

Rep. Bart Stupak has already voiced his opposition to Nelson’s compromise and says he has the votes to stop any abortion-funding ObamaCare bill. An equal number of House Democrats have vowed to torpedo any final bill that includes Stupak’s amendment. One group must blink for ObamaCare to pass.

#2–Three House Democrats change their votes.

Abortion is just one of the issues dividing Democrats. Rep. Cantor has identified 34 House Democrats who are facing a very difficult vote based on three issues: abortion, Medicare Advantage, and state budget crises. It is now an election year. The pressure is building. If three members feel enough heat to switch their votes, ObamaCare fails.

#1–The Massachusetts Miracle.

The Bay State’s special election next week to fill the late Sen. Kennedy’s seat is now a tossup in some polls, and Republican candidate Scott Brown has pledged to be the 41st vote to block ObamaCare. If Brown is seated before the final ObamaCare vote, game over. There is already talk that if Brown wins, Democrats will stall his election certification in order to keep him from casting the deciding vote.

The special election is next Tuesday (1/19), before any final votes will be cast on ObamaCare. If a Republican takes Teddy Kennedy’s seat, I say all bets are off. Democrats from coast-to-coast will suddenly get a lot more nervous about voting for ObamaCare. Unlike old king Belshazzar in the book of Daniel, they won’t need a prophet to interpret the “handwriting on the wall” — vote now for ObamaCare and get defeated in November.

read the rest here… SIX WAYS TO DEFEAT OBAMACARE…. OBAMA’S DIRTY BACKROOM DEAL THIS WEEK… ELECTION ON THE 19TH – Patriotic Resistance.

Op-Ed Contributor – Stacking the Deck Against Proposition 8 – NYTimes.com

THE much-anticipated trial to determine the constitutionality of California’s Proposition 8 is scheduled to begin this morning in the case of Perry v. Schwarzenegger. What’s at stake in this case, filed in federal district court in San Francisco on behalf of two gay couples, is not just the right of California voters to reaffirm the definition of marriage as only between a man and a woman, but also whether marriage may be otherwise defined in any state.

The entire premise of this litigation is disquieting — that traditional marriage is nothing but “the residue of centuries of figurative and literal gay bashing,” as David Boies, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, has written. According to the plaintiffs, there is just no rational basis for government to privilege marriage between a man and a woman. Thus, in their minds, Proposition 8, which was supported by more than seven million California voters, could have been adopted only as a result of “animus,” as the complaint puts it, toward gays and lesbians.

read the rest here… Op-Ed Contributor – Stacking the Deck Against Proposition 8 – NYTimes.com.

Bret Stephens: Airport Security and Our Incompetent Civilization – WSJ.com

Our deeper incompetence stems from an inability to recognize the proper limits to our own virtues; to forget, as Aristotle cautioned, that even good things “bring harm to many people; for before now men have been undone by reason of their wealth, and others by reason of their courage.”

Thus we reject profiling on the commendable grounds that human beings ought not to be treated as statistical probabilities. But at some point, the failure to profile puts innocent lives recklessly at risk. We also abhor waterboarding for the eminently decent reason that it borders on torture. But there are worse things than waterboarding—like allowing another 9/11 to unfold because we recoil at the means necessary to prevent it. Similarly, there are worse things than Guantanamo—like releasing terrorists to Yemen so they can murder and maim again (and so we can hope to take them out for good in a “clean” Predator missile strike).

read the rest here… Bret Stephens: Airport Security and Our Incompetent Civilization – WSJ.com.

FOXNews.com – Tea Party Movement Poised for Strong Start in 2010

The most ambitious of the tea party events planned is a 20-day, 42-city road trip that is scheduled to start in March — a cross-country caravan tour called the “Tea Party Express III.” Organizers are encouraging supporters to get in buses and join them at Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s hometown of Searchlight, Nev., on March 27.

The caravan then will go across the country stopping in cities like Little Rock, Ark., Springfield, Ill., Davenport, Iowa, Detroit, Erie, Pa., and Boston. The final stop is Washington, D.C., on Tax Day, April 15.

read the rest here… FOXNews.com – Tea Party Movement Poised for Strong Start in 2010.

What’s Islam? Don’t Ask Google Censors – FOXNews.com

Type a few words into the search field on Google’s home page and the engine automatically returns a helpful list of popular, similar searches for the words you’ve typed in so far — a convenient way to find the right information.Enter “Christianity is” and you’ll find results that, while offensive, at least indicate common discussions on the Internet. Likewise, type “Judaism is” and Google suggests other, potentially offensive searches such as “Judaism is false” and “Judaism is not a race.”But type “Islam is” into the search engine and Google’s auto-results pane mysteriously vanishes, leading some to conclude that Google, whose mantra is “don’t be evil,” is censoring its search results.

read the rest here… FOXNews.com – What’s Islam? Don’t Ask Google.

The Fundamental Transformation of America

Laundry list of Obama sins. Worth a refresher…

When Obama wrote a book and said he was mentored as a youth by Frank, (Frank Marshall Davis) an avowed Communist. People said it didn’t matter…

When it was discovered that his grandparents, were strong socialists, sent Obama’s mother to a socialist school, introduced Frank Marshall Davis to young Obama, People said it didn’t matter…

When people found out that he was enrolled as a Muslim child in school and his father and step father were both Muslims, People said it didn’t matter…

When he wrote in another book he authored “I will stand with them (Muslims) should the political winds shift in an ugly direction”. People said it didn’t matter…

When he admittedly, in his book, said he chose Marxist friends and professors in college, People said it didn’t matter…

When he traveled to Pakistan, after college on an unknown national passport, People said it didn’t matter…

When he sought the endorsement of the Marxist party in 1996 as he ran for the Illinois Senate, People said it doesn’t matter…

When he sat in a Chicago Church for twenty years and listened to a preacher spew hatred for America and preach black liberation theology, People said it didn’t matter…

When an independent Washington organization, that tracks senate voting records, gave him the distinctive title as the “most liberal senator”, People said it didn’t matter…

When the Palestinians in Gaza, set up a fund raising telethon to raise money for his election campaign, People said it didn’t matter…

When his voting record supported gun control, People said it didn’t matter…

When he refused to disclose who donated money to his election campaign, as other candidates had done, People said it didn’t matter…

When he received endorsements from people like Louis Farrakhan and Mummar Kaddafi and Hugo Chavez, People said it didn’t matter…

When it was pointed out that he was a total, newcomer and had absolutely no experience at anything except community organizing, People said it didn’t matter…

When he chose friends and acquaintances such as Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn who were revolutionary radicals, People said it didn’t matter…

When his voting record in the Illinois senate and in the U.S. Senate came into question, People said it didn’t matter…

When he refused to wear a flag, lapel pin and did so only after a public outcry, People said it didn’t matter…

When people started treating him as a Messiah and children in schools were taught to sing his praises, People said it didn’t matter…

When he stood with his hands over his groin area for the playing of the National Anthem and Pledge of Allegiance, People said it didn’t matter…

When he surrounded himself in the White house with advisors who were pro gun control, pro abortion, pro homosexual marriage, anti-capitalism, anti-free markets, pro government control over everything and wanting to curtail freedom of speech to silence the opposition, People said it didn’t matter…

When he aired his views on abortion, homosexuality and a host of other issues, People said it didn’t matter…

When he said he favors sex education in Kindergarten, including homosexual indoctrination, People said it didn’t matter…

When his background was either scrubbed or hidden and nothing could be found about him, People said it didn’t matter…

When his first act as President, literally within 5 minutes of taking office, he signed executive order #13489 that sealed his own records, People said it didn’t matter…

When the place of his birth was called into question, and he refused to produce a birth certificate, and continues to spend millions in court to keep the material sealed, People said it didn’t matter…

When he had an association in Chicago with Tony Rezco, a man of questionable character, who is now in prison and had helped Obama to a sweet deal on the purchase of his home, People said it didn’t matter…

When it became known that George Soros, a multi-billionaire Marxist, spent a ton of money to get him elected, People said it didn’t matter…

When he started appointing czars that were radicals, revolutionaries, and even avowed Marxist/Communist, People said it didn’t matter…

When he stood before the nation and told us that his intentions were to “fundamentally transform this nation” into something else, People said it didn’t matter…

When it became known that he had trained ACORN workers in Chicago and served as an attorney for ACORN, People said it didn’t matter…

When he appointed a cabinet members and several advisors who were tax cheats and socialist, People said it didn’t matter…

When he appointed a science czar, John Holdren, who believes in forced abortions, mass sterilizations and seizing babies from teen mothers, People said it didn’t matter…

When he appointed Cass Sunstein as regulatory czar and he believes in “Explicit Consent”, harvesting human organs without family consent, and to allow animals to be represented in court, while banning all hunting, People said it didn’t matter…

When he appointed Kevin Jennings, an overt homosexual, and organizer of a group called gay, lesbian, straight, education network, as safe school czar and it became known that he had a history of bad advice to teenagers, People said it didn’t matter…

When he appointed Mark Lloyd as diversity czar and he believed in curtailing free speech, taking from one and giving to another to spread the wealth and admires Hugo Chavez, People said it didn’t matter…

When Valerie Jarrett was selected as Obama’s senior White House advisor and she is an avowed Socialist, People said it didn’t matter…

When Anita Dunn, White House Communications director said Mao Tse Tung was her favorite philosopher and the person she turned to most for inspiration, People said it didn’t matter…

When he appointed Carol Browner as global warming czar, and she is a well known socialist working on Cap and trade as the nation’s largest tax hike in history, People said it doesn’t matter…

When he appointed Van Jones, an ex-con and avowed Communist as green energy czar, who since had to resign when this was made known, People said it didn’t matter…

When Tom Daschle, Obama’s pick for health and human services secretary could not be confirmed, because he was a tax cheat, People said it didn’t matter…

When as president of the United States, he bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, People said it didn’t matter…

When he traveled around the world criticizing America and never once talking of her greatness, People said it didn’t matter…

When his actions concerning the middle-east seemed to support the Palestinians over Israel, our long time friend, People said it doesn’t matter…

When he took American tax dollars to resettle thousands of Palestinians from Gaza to the United States , People said it doesn’t matter…

When he upset our European allies by removing plans for a missile defense system against the Russians, People said it doesn’t matter…

When he played politics in Afghanistan by not sending troops the Field Commanders said we had to have to win, People said it didn’t matter…

When he started spending us into a debt that was so big we could not pay it off, People said it didn’t matter…

When he took a huge spending bill under the guise of stimulus and used it to pay off organizations, unions and individuals that got him elected, People said it didn’t matter…

When he forced the takeover of insurance companies, car companies, banks, etc, People said it didn’t matter…

When he took away student loans from the banks and put it through the government, People said it didn’t matter…

When he designed plans to take over the health care system and put it under government control, People said it didn’t matter…

When he set into motion a plan to take over the control of all energy resources in the United States through Cap and Trade, People said it didn’t matter…

When he announced he was returning the masterminds of 9-11 to New York City to stand trial as ordinary criminals — not war criminals — and thus allow them the benefits from our system of jurisprudence, The mainstream media loved it and the people said it didn’t matter…(Oh really? Go ask an FDNY FF, NYPD Cop, NY EMS, NY Port Authority Cop or Transit Worker, or a 9/11 Families member who was at the World Trade Center 9/11/2001 and see if it matters…)

When he finally completed his transformation of America into a Socialist State, people finally woke up, but it was too late…

Any one of these things, in and of themselves does not really matter. But when you add them up one by one you get a phenomenal score that points to the fact that our Obama is determined to make America over into a Marxist/Socialist society. All of the items in the preceding paragraphs have been put into place. All can be documented very easily. Before you disavow this, do an internet search. The last paragraph alone is not yet cast in stone. You and I will write that paragraph. Will it read as above or will it be a more happy ending for most of America ? Personally, I like happy endings…

If you are an Obama Supporter, please recognize that you have elected a president who is a ‘socialist’. There is simply no debate about these facts. But you need to seek the truth; you will be richer for it. Don’t just belittle the opposition. Search for the truth. I did. Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Constitutionalist, Libertarians and what have you, we all need to pull together. We all must pull together or watch the demise of a society that we all love and cherish. If you are a religious person, pray for our nation…

Never before in the history of America have we been confronted with problems so huge that the very existence of our country is in jeopardy. Don’t rely on most television news and what you read in the newspapers for the truth. Search the internet. Yes, there is a lot of bad information, lies and distortions there as well, but you are smart enough to spot the fallacies. Newspapers are a dying breed. They are currently seeking a bailout from the government. Do you really think they are about to print the truth? Obama praises all the television news networks except Fox who he is currently waging an open war against. There must be a reason. He does not call them down on any specifics, and he has failed to refute any facts presented – because it is all true. If they lie, he should call them out on it but he doesn’t. Please, find the truth, it will set you free…

Our biggest enemy is not China, Russia or Iran; no, our biggest enemy is the current contingent of politicians in Washington DC led by the Progressive Left Liberals who support the previously mentioned things…

Wake Up America! There’s still time in 2010 to take back America and send a message LOUD and CLEAR to those who think ‘it doesn’t matter’…

I happen to think ‘it does matter’…

God Bless America!

Matt Bruce
An American Independent Conservative Who Thinks ‘It Matters’…

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Passing health reform could be a nightmare for Obama – The Washington Post

…So Obama’s plan amounts to this: partial coverage of the uninsured; modest improvements (possibly) in their health; sizable budgetary costs worsening a bleak outlook; significant, unpredictable changes in insurance markets; weak spending control. This is a bad bargain. Health benefits are overstated, long-term economic costs understated. The country would be the worse for this legislation’s passage. What it’s become is an exercise in political symbolism: Obama’s self-indulgent crusade to seize the liberal holy grail of “universal coverage.” What it’s not is leadership.

read the rest here… Passing Health Reform Could Be a Nightmare for Obama

Our Year of Obama by Victor Davis Hanson on National Review Online

For millions of believers, Obama was to be our version of Truman or Eisenhower — centrist competence, but spiced up with 21st-century postracial pizzazz.

The people took Obama at his word, and here we are a year later with the largest drop in popularity of a first-year president in poll-taking history. A clear majority of the country is now opposed to almost all of the Obama program — more stimuli, bailouts, deficits, and takeovers; statist health care; cap-and-trade; and therapeutic-apology/reset-button diplomacy abroad.

I think it is a fair generalization to say that both the Right and the Left agree that Obama ran as a moderate in order to move America sharply to the left. The former calls it perfidy; the latter, necessary politics to achieve the desired ends. So what we now have is a progressive, grass-roots populist who is doing his best to obfuscate his own goals and ignore the desires of the great majority of the people.

read the rest here… Our Year of Obama by Victor Davis Hanson on National Review Online.