Bill Whittle: What We Believe Part 3

This is the third video in Bill Whittle's "What We Believe" series. This one covers wealth. I really like this series and have been impressed by the way the Mr. Whittle can clearly and concisely state the conservative message.

The direct link to the video is http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=KkXI-MNSb8Q. Post it on your own Twitter or Facebook accounts to help this go viral.

There is a week left until the election. Get the conservative message out there.

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Bill Whittle: What We Believe Part 2

This is the second video in Bill Whittle's "What We Believe" series. This one covers the problem with elitism.

The direct link to the video is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0MESB6VZM4. Post it on your own Twitter or Facebook accounts to help this go viral.

We don't need to water-down the conservative message to win elections, we just need to explain the logic and reason behind conservatism. There are 18 days until the election, so let's get this message out there.

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Liberty 2010, Liberation 2012

Remember in November.

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Bill Whittle: What We Believe

This is the first in a new series from Bill Whittle. It is about ten minutes long, but it does a very good job explaining why conservatives prefer smaller government and free enterprise. At the end of the video, he says that there are more of the "What We Believe" videos to come.

The direct link to the video is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLD6VChcWCE. You may want to pass that along via your own Twitter or Facebook accounts. It would be good to see this series go viral.

There are only twenty-one days left until election day. Get out there and explain and define our positions to those who are still on the fence.

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The Socialist

This is a new one from Ben Howe (h/t Primordial Slack).

It's only twenty-seven days until election day. Remember in November.

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The Last Best Hope

I found this via Joan over at Primordial Slack, who gave a hat-tip to Simon Jester at I am Simon Jester. I followed it back to here to see what else the creator of the video had to offer.

Watch it, share it, and remember in November.

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Latest Rick Barber Ad

Another fantastic ad by Rick Barber, who is campaigning for the Republican nomination for representative of Alabama's 2nd Congressional District. I posted on his first ad here. Check out Mr. Barber's website here, and give him a hand if you can.

(H/T to Agnes at Mulieris Dignitatem)

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Al Gore: Exposed!

I know that the cover story for the 15 March 2010 issue of The Weekly Standard was about exposing falsehoods and inconsistencies surrounding global warming, but in light of the latest accusations against Al Gore, it seemed oddly prescient and appropriate.

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Going Apoplectic Over BP

Last year, when the congress-critters in D.C. were waxing indignant over AIG, a Republican senator suggested that AIG execs commit hari-kari. Well, not to be outdone by his Senate counterpart, Republican Rep. Joseph Cao has now made a similar statement regarding BP.

"Well, in the Asian culture, we do things differently. During the Samurai days, we'd just give you the knife and ask you to commit hari-kari. My constituents are still debating on what they want me to ask you to do."

Rep. Ahn "Joseph" Cao (R-LA02)

First, Rep. Cao, you are in America, and our culture doesn't have a tradition of ritual suicide. If you'd like to fully embrace the Asian culture that you reference, however, you are free to return to your native land.

Second, I'm sick of the bumbling, incompetent leaches in D.C. complaining about the bumbling, incompetent leaders of the private sector. When the federal government gets its own house in order, then I'll listen to their advice; until then, however, it sounds a bit too much like a whore complaining about the lack of virtue and morals in others.

The federal government had regulations in place regarding offshore drilling, and the federal government was supposed to be monitoring the oil companies and enforcing those regulations. Were the regulations not up to par, Rep. Cao? If they were not, then you and the rest of the federal government should be held accountable for that. Or maybe the regulations were plenty strict, but they just weren't being enforced. Again, that would be a failure on the part of a blame-shifting government that never seems to hold itself accountable.

The next time government officials like Rep. Cao and Sen. Grassley want to suggest that others kill themselves for poor performance, maybe they should take a good hard look and the abysmal performance of the very government that they are a part of. And if, after that assessment, they still want to call for private sector leaders to commit ritual suicide, then I would ask that they please lead by example.

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Gather Your Armies

The fantastic ad above is for congressional hopeful Rick Barber, who has forced a runoff election on 13 July 2010 against Martha Roby to see who will be the Republican nominee for representative of Alabama's 2nd Congressional District. Mr. Barber is a former Marine and an entrepreneur who has been campaigning with a message of limited government, lower taxes, the right to life, and fidelity to the U.S. Constitution. Click here to visit his campaign website.

Best of luck, Mr. Barber. Our nation could use more men like you. Semper fi!

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In Charge Yet?

We are now 508 days into Obama's presidency, or about 35% of the way through this presidential term. At what point does everything stop being George W. Bush's fault?

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Ushering In Civility

Remember how President Obama was going to return civility to politics? Remember what a refreshing change he was going to be after eight years of Bush's "cowboy mentality"?

President Obama was embracing civil discourse a year ago at Notre Dame.

Obama, delivering the commencement address at the University of Notre Dame, stressed the need for intelligent, open discourse instead of angry, destructive bickering.

"When we open our hearts and our minds to those who may not think like we do or believe what we do," he said, "that's when we discover at least the possibility of common ground."

President Obama, May of 2009

Now, however, he is looking to pay a visit to the Gulf to chew bubble-gum and kick some ass; and he's all out of bubble-gum.

"I was down there a month ago, before most of these talking heads were even paying attention to the gulf. A month ago I was meeting with fishermen down there, standing in the rain talking about what a potential crisis this could be. And I don’t sit around just talking to experts because this is a college seminar, we talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick."

President Obama, June of 2010

It looks like President Obama has come full circle on that civility thing. Maybe that's what he meant by "change you can believe in."

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Read The Bill

I know that this is a recurring problem with our so-called leaders in Washington, but maybe the puppet will be able to reach them in a way that we the people have not been able to.

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Did Congress Take Away Their Own Health Care?

There are many news reports floating around today that reference a Congressional Research Service report that has found a provision in Obamacare that appears to prohibit members of Congress and their employees from participating in their current government health care plan. I haven't heard any member of Congress speak about this yet, and I still have not seen the CRS report. I do have access to the Obamacare bill, though, so I started reading.

There it was, only about 150 pages into the law, in Section 1312(d)(3)(D):

SEC. 1312(d)(3)(D) MEMBERS OF CONGRESS IN THE EXCHANGE.

(i) REQUIREMENT. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, after the effective date of this subtitle, the only health plans that the Federal Government may make available to Members of Congress and congressional staff with respect to their service as a Member of Congress or congressional staff shall be health plans that are—
(I) created under this Act (or an amendment made by this Act); or
(II) offered through an Exchange established under this Act (or an amendment made by this Act).

(ii) DEFINITIONS. In this section:
(I) MEMBER OF CONGRESS.—The term "Member of Congress" means any member of the House of Representatives or the Senate.
(II) CONGRESSIONAL STAFF.—The term "congressional staff" means all full-time and part-time employees employed by the official office of a Member of Congress, whether in Washington, DC or outside of Washington, DC.

This was signed into law about three weeks ago, and unless Congress writes specific language into the legislation regarding the date that a provision is to take effect, provisions of legislation take effect when the legislation becomes law. That means that, unless there is something else somewhere else in the Obamacare monstrosity that would counteract or delay this, it would appear that the new law now requires that members of Congress and their staff may only have health plans made available to them by the federal government that are created under Obamacare or offered through an Exchange established by Obamacare.

Contact your Congress-critters and ask them if they are aware of this provision, and whether or not they intend to abide by it.

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Hope n' Change Cartoons

I found this last night, and the cartoon above related nicely to my last post.

There are many more over at Hope n' Change Cartoons. You should check them out.

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The Left Wants Us To Tone It Down?

I'm sure that you have seen or heard the appeals from the political Left for the political Right to "tone down the rhetoric" leading up to, and following, the ram-through of Obamacare. They allege that the "dangerous" speech of those on the Right might push someone over the edge, and it is not the way our political discourse should work. In case you haven't, though, here are three examples of such statements from last month.

On the eve of last weekend's crucial health-care-reform votes in the U.S. House, Republicans were warning of the end of the world as we know it. [...]

This is way, way over the top. Whipped into a frenzy by such rhetoric, some demonstrators against the Democrats' plan [allegedly - ed.] shouted racial slurs at a pair of congressmen, and spit at another. - Orlando Sentinel Op-Ed, 23 March 2010


I warned during the summer recess town hall meetings that if some of the rhetoric wasn't toned down that things would get out of hand. I wish today that I had been wrong. But something is terribly wrong with our society when those who vote for legislation that some are passionately opposed to are threatened. - Gary Baumgarten, Salon, 25 March 2010


The hyperventilating from Republican politicians over the health care bill signed into law this week by President Barack Obama includes plenty in Alabama. [...]

Yet, Congress passed the bill, and the president signed it into law. While that made a lot of people angry, the proper way to respond is at the ballot box, and voters will have an opportunity to be heard in June's party primaries and November's general election. - Birmingham News Editorial Board, 26 March 2010

Got that? Hyperventilating from Republican politicians. Way, way over the top. The proper way to respond is at the ballot box. Something is terribly wrong with our society when politicians are threatened.

So, when the Republican Governor of New Jersey says that there will need to be cuts to education because the state is financially strapped, a union leader decided to state this in an email that he sent to the roughly 17,000 members of the Bergen County Teachers Union.

Dear lord, this year you have taken away my favorite actor, Patrick Swayze, my favorite actress, Farrah Fawcett, my favorite singer, Michael Jackson, and my favorite salesman, Billy Mays. I just wanted to let you know that Chris Christie is my favorite governor.

The Progressives tell us to "tone down the rhetoric" when they ram through Obamacare, but a Republican governor says that his state will need to look at reducing the amount of money spent on education, and a union leader responds to that by sending out a veiled prayer for that governor's death. And consider that the email wasn't just an off-color joke to a few of his friends and family; the email was to 17,000 members of the union that he represents.

There's your tolerant Left, folks. The next time one of them tells you to tone down the rhetoric, tell that person that he or she is your favorite little liberal - and that you'll be including them in your prayers.

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Flashback

The last statement in the video from one of the tolerant Democrats is, "Ya know, we'll have to come out and kill somebody I guess."

Ah, the tolerant Left.

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New Obamacare Departments: Offices of Health Insurance Consumer Assistance or Health Insurance Ombudsman Programs

I'm sick of hearing from the Progressives that the talk of Obamacare expanding government is just a scare tactic. Well, I found a list of newly created offices or progams in the Obamacare bill here, so I am going to go through the list, verify the language in the text of the new legislation, and then present the summary of any new departments and a link to the actual text at the official House website.

Offices of Health Insurance Consumer Assistance or Health Insurance Ombudsman Programs (Section 1002)
Note: The above link opens a PDF of the full text of the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" to the page on which Section 1002 begins

Summary
Grants will be provided to the states, or to health insurance exchanges operating in the states, in order to establish, expand, or provide support for Offices of Health Insurance Consumer Assistance or Health Insurance Ombudsman Programs. In order to be eligible for such a grant, the state must designate an office or ombudsman. Funding of $30,000,000 for the first fiscal year, and sums as may be necessary for each fiscal year following the first fiscal year.

Here's the tally:
Sections Reviewed: 1
New Funding: $30 million +

(h/t to Vir Speluncae Catholicus for the list)

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Spreading Around The Wealth

Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana) admits that Obamacare is going to redistribute income.

"Too often, much of late, the last couple three years, the mal-distribution of income in America is gone up way too much, the wealthy are getting way, way too wealthy, and the middle income class is left behind. Wages have not kept up with increased income of the highest income in America. This legislation will have the effect of addressing that mal-distribution of income in America."

Equality doesn't mean that you have equal outcomes, it means that you have equal opportunities. The Progressives want equal outcomes, but since they are not able to make everyone wealthy, they take from the wealthy to buy votes from the poor and un-industrious. The only equality that we will have under Progressive policies is the equality of being equally miserable.

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What Change Looks Like

And he didn't even have the common courtesy to give us a reach-around.

(From Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler via Hookers and Booze via Logistics Monster via Daletoons/Out of Order the Blog)