Bill Clinton and Al Gore were speakers at a political rally in Tennessee.  I do not believe that health care was the message at this rally as the media reported.  Both Bill and Al both said the words health care but that wasn’t the real topic. As always, Al was trolling for backing for his Cap and Trade legislation

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but Bill wanted to accomplish 2 very specific things with his speech. First, stay loyal to the party, and trust the government we know what’s best for you ( Besides, Hilary may still get a shot at the White House, yet). And second, only a poor brainwashed, scared individual, would not agree with the government. You we need to feel sorry for the poor, confused, and scared tea party protesters.

 Here are some quotes from  his remarks.

“You need to back these congressmen and let them know you’re not going to let them be steamrollered by a bunch of people who have been frightened,”

 “We need to pass a bill this year. Doing nothing is not only the worst thing we can do for the economy, it’s the worst thing we can do for the country. It’s also the worst thing we can do for the Democrats. Democrats, you stay in there with your congressmen and you get this done.”

 “I don’t think all these people are coming to these town meetings raising cain with your congressman in bad faith. I think they’ve had the daylights scared out of them. And I get it,”

Sorry Bill, you don’t get it, Big Al doesn’t get it and neither do the rest of the Democrats. The people are coming to the town halls and making their voices heard, because they do not want the country, their country, pushed any further to the left. The do no want the country, their country, placed any further into debt to help an administration redistribute the wealth. They do not want to see the country, their country, having anymore back door deals given to “political friends” of the Federal Reserve. They do not want to see the country, their county, infrastructure being stripped and owned by a power hungry, socialist government.

 But I realized, even before the ink was dry on the paper, my words would never change anything for the die hard liberals and for that matter most politicians that have held elected office. Government should be the last stop for people needing a helping hand……..not the first and only stop.

 Gore, most known of late, for his country crippling, Cap and Trade legislation and almost nothing else, was a bit more passionate but much less believable as he closed with this remark.

The Country, “has a moral duty to pass health care reform. This year.”

 Moral Duty? Give me a break………Well, at least it wasn’t Clinton, talking about moral duties.

Sunday, August 30, 2009

If they could vote to keep or replace the entire Congress, just 25% of voters nationwide would keep the current batch of legislators.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 57% would vote to replace the entire Congress and start all over again. Eighteen percent (18%) are not sure how they would vote.

Overall, these numbers are little changed since last October. When Congress was passing the unpopular $700-billion bailout plan in the heat of a presidential campaign and a seeming financial industry meltdown, 59% wanted to throw them all out. At that time, just 17% wanted to keep them.

There has been a bit of a partisan shift since last fall. With Democrats controlling both chambers of Congress, it’s not surprising to find that the number of Democrats who would vote to keep the entire Congress has grown from 25% last fall to 43% today. In fact, a modest plurality of Democrats would now vote to keep the legislators. Last fall, a plurality of Democrats were ready to throw them all out.

While Democrats have become more supportive of the legislators, voters not affiliated with either major party have moved in the opposite direction. Today, 70% of those not affiliated with either major party would vote to replace all of the elected politicians in the House and Senate. That’s up from 62% last year.

Republicans, not surprisingly, overwhelmingly support replacing everyone in the Congress. Their views have not changed. But Republican voters are disenchanted with their team as much as the Congress itself: 69% of GOP Voters say Republicans in Congress are out of touch with the party base.

Fifty-nine percent (59%) now believe that members of Congress are overpaid. That’s up 10 percentage points from last October. Just five percent (5%) think their Congress member is paid too little. Thirty percent (30%) think the pay is about right.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/august_2009/57_would_like_to_replace_entire_congress

U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., was selected to give the Republican weekly address today.  Here are some selected comments form him.

“If Congress and the administration mess this (health care)  up, each and every one of us will pay for the mistakes, as will generations to come.

“We need health care reform – but more importantly, we need to get it right.  We need reforms that will actually lower health care costs for working Americans and we need to make sure we do not increase the deficit and add to the record debt we’re already passing on to our children and grandchildren. 

“The bills introduced by Congressional Democrats fail to meet these standards.

“According to the non-partisan and independent Congressional Budget Office, the House and Senate bills will actually drive up heath care costs.  The Congressional Budget Office also says that the Democrats’ bill will significantly increase our nation’s deficit.

“The Democrats are trying to rush a bill through the process that will actually make our nation’s finances sicker without saving you money.  The American people are growing increasingly concerned about out of control spending in Washington that’s leaving us with trillions of dollars of debt.

“These bills also raid Medicare.  This will result in cutting hundreds of billions of dollars from the elderly to create new government programs.  Savings from Medicare should only be used to strengthen Medicare. 

 “The bills would expand comparative effectiveness research that would be used to limit or deny care based on age or disability of patients.  Republican amendments in the HELP Committee would have protected Americans by prohibiting the rationing of their health care.  The Democrats showed their true intent by voting every amendment down and leaving these unacceptable provisions in the bill. This intrusion of a Washington bureaucrat in the relationship between a doctor and a patient is not the kind of reform that Americans are seeking.

 “People across America are telling Congress that current health care bills are the wrong approach and that there should be a course correction on health care reform.  They’ve said we need to scrap these flawed bills and take the time to develop the real solutions that the American people want and need.

 “We need to enact common sense reform that will actually cut costs.

 “More and better choices of competing health plans should be available, so you can find the plan that meets your needs at a price you can afford.

 “It’s important that we help small businesses provide affordable coverage for their workers.  One way to do this is to give small businesses the power to band together across the country and use their combined negotiating power to find quality, affordable insurance plans.

 “We should also reform our current tax system, which drives up costs and makes it difficult for individuals to purchase insurance on their own.  Everyone should get a health care tax advantage or no one should.

 “We need to reform our flawed medical liability system and eliminate junk lawsuits against doctors and hospitals.  Unnecessary lawsuits cause extra costs and drive up health care costs.

 “We need to incentivize healthy lifestyle and push for a greater awareness of the importance of prevention rather than increasing sick care.

 “And, we need to provide patients with more and better information about the price and quality of their health care services, so they can make the right choices for their families.

 “America is a country of choices.  We’re a nation of people who want the ability to choose what will best fit our families’ needs and it should be that way with health care too.  These are the kinds of health care reforms that the American people want to see, and that’s the kind of change I hear that people want as I travel across Wyoming.  A government monopoly just doesn’t serve us best.

 “I hope the President and the Democratic-controlled Congress will reject the go-it-alone path that they are currently on.  If they do, we’ll have a chance to truly work on a real bill that will address those critical issues.  Then we can bring about the reform necessary to decrease health care costs and increase access to affordable, quality health care for all Americans.

Face Fwd Comments:

I still have a ton of questions about any health care bill and worry that any conservatives that are in congress will be “bullyed” into accepting “health care reform” of any type.  No one has yet explained to me which group of american citizens don’t get health care.  Has anyone heard about an individual dying?  Where is the tragic  story?  You know how this works with  liberals……They always try to put a face on whatever their latest crusade is.  Where is there spotted owl?  Where is the bait fish?   There is none.  Except in some rare cases, citizens get health care.  I am pretty sure we don’t need to strip health care from the elderly and spend trillions of dollars to fix some rare exceptional cases.

If they really wanted to fix helath care shut down emergency room health care for illegal aliens and kick them out of the country.  I know it sounds cruel……but I am pretty sure that if I was in illegally in Mexico, their government wouldn’t shell out for my surgery.   Is that because they are cruel?  No, it is because they know they can’t pay for it.

Re-read Mike Enzi’s comments.  You tell me what health care problem needs fixing.  So far, no one has put a face on it for me.  If you can find what’s broken for the American citizen, then leave a comment.  I’d apreciate you pointing it out to me.

Who is that sneaking up on our healthcare system

Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet.

They’re not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting behind closed doors. CNET News has obtained a copy of the 55-page draft of S.773 (excerpt), which still appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency.

The new version would allow the president to “declare a cybersecurity emergency” relating to “non-governmental” computer networks and do what’s necessary to respond to the threat. Other sections of the proposal include a federal certification program for “cybersecurity professionals,” and a requirement that certain computer systems and networks in the private sector be managed by people who have been awarded that license.

“I think the redraft, while improved, remains troubling due to its vagueness,” said Larry Clinton, president of the Internet Security Alliance, which counts representatives of Verizon, Verisign, Nortel, and Carnegie Mellon University on its board. “It is unclear what authority Sen. Rockefeller thinks is necessary over the private sector. Unless this is clarified, we cannot properly analyze, let alone support the bill.”

Representatives of other large Internet and telecommunications companies expressed concerns about the bill in a teleconference with Rockefeller’s aides this week, but were not immediately available for interviews on Thursday.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10320096-38.html

Face Fwd Comments:

I hate being right all of the time…..See previous rant of mine.  “I think the redraft, while improved, remains troubling due to its vagueness,”  Vagueness is a tool of the liberals and enemy of freedom.  While I don’t have time to explain what a false flag is…….you need to understand what could happen using a false flag and how dangerous government control is becoming.

Once again, let your government representatives know that you will not allow this administration to control the media outlets.   The Internet has become the only platform where ordinary citizens can reach a mass audience.  It is the one place left where an individual can know they are not alone in the fight for truth.