Now I know, I know, why would you even want to get an email from David Axelrod, well I don’t. But I did sign up for one from the President, now I’m sure that in the terms of use I gave the ok for any of his lackies to send an email to me. I would hope that if they did they would not just repeat what the boss said the night before, yes I know that’s there job, but the least you should be able to expect is for them to dress up the lies using different language. Anyway here is the e-mail,

Dear Friend,

Last night, President Obama addressed the nation in a primetime press conference about health insurance reform.

The President made crystal clear what’s at stake in this debate: the fiscal well-being of our nation and the health of our families and small businesses.

In case you missed it, take a look at what he had to say:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/The-Presidents-Press-Conference-Full-Video/?e=8&ref=image

Truth be told — with each passing day, more and more Americans are unable to get the health care they need, when they need it. Skyrocketing co-pays and deductibles and soaring insurance premiums are crushing our family budgets and small businesses. Unless we act now, these problems are guaranteed to get worse and worse.

Under reform, American families will get the stability and security they deserve. They’ll no longer have to fear losing health care coverage if they lose or switch jobs, going bankrupt if they become seriously ill, or being denied coverage because of a pre-existing medical condition. Reform will ensure all Americans have access to quality, affordable insurance.

We all have a stake in this and for the 14,000 Americans who are losing their health insurance each day — reform can’t wait.

Make sure everyone you know understands the importance and urgency of health insurance reform: Watch the President’s remarks and forward this email to your friends and family.

Thank you,
David Axelrod

P.S. Health insurance reform is a complex issue and many of you have questions about what it means for you and your family. To help get you the answers you need, White House Health Reform Director, Nancy-Ann DeParle, is holding a live video chat through Facebook and WhiteHouse.gov. Join the chat today at 3pm ET.

You can find the full transcript here

Truth be told, Truth be told….yeah right.
In the humble opinion of this, first to be kicked off the rolls, Kiwi, see RommnyCare. (Yes the rules do let me just to show up in the ER and I’ll get the care I need, but as I understand the new rules I’m not allowed to buy my own coverage when I’m boated off those government rolls.)
There are three reasons why my private healthcare costs keep going up,
1) the current government entitlement programs are UNDER paying for the services that they cover, thus the private sector has to make up the difference
2) insurance, malpractice insurance that is, I’ve got a couple of friends who are doctors and they tell me that they would be able to reduce what they charge if there overhead was lower and that includes their student loan payments.
and 3) the lack of a true free market in the way that people get/shop for health insurance. Open up the market and allow people to shop around the whole country, I think Deroy Murdock explains it very well. But thats just me.

Anyway back to the email, So 14,000 are losing they insurance everyday, maybe thats got more to do with the economy, which is tanking mainly due to the governments need to borrow so much money, instead of the cost of the health coverage they had, and what of COBRA?

Nancy Pe-Lied-see, What the hell are you doing to me, No more importantly, what the —- are you doing to my SON(and any other children my wife and I Choose to have)?
So Pelosi sat down with USA TODAY’s editorial board on Tuesday and disscussed health care reform, the economic stimulus bill, the two wars: Iraq and Afghanistan, and the CIA briefings. Now of course

Her comments were edited for length and clarity.

Why? Oh Yeah its Nancy isn’t it and they want me to buy even more C.R.A.P (h/t Gov Mike Huckabe) that I have to hale to the Recycling Center. If I’m going to buy a hard copy of any old media outlet its going to be a local paper so SWMBO can clip her coupons, saves me money so I’m all for it. Any way back to our Speaker of the House

Question:Those who witnessed the health care reform effort in 1993 and ’94 feel like we’ve seen this movie before. A young Democratic president with a Democratic Congress offers a sweeping overhaul. It is attacked as being overly complex, socialistic, government-run medicine, and the whole thing collapses. Will the sequel have a different ending?

Answer: It definitely will. First of all, the American people have a sense of urgency about health care. If nothing is done now, health care for them will increase in cost. There are two words that should describe what we’re trying to do: lower cost. Lower cost for the families, lower cost for businesses so they can be more competitive, lower cost for our economy so health care doesn’t take such a big chunk, and lower cost for our budget because health care reform is entitlement reform. We have to take that spiral down or otherwise, it’s endless in terms of growing the deficit. So, lower cost.

Simply put I don’t believe her, given the demographics of this country and the fact that end of life care is the most expensive part of healthcare, who can anyone believe her, unless by lower costs she means this. Then there is the way that she sold Cap and Tax “It’s Jobs Jobs Jobs Jobs“. Isn’t that what the stimulas was about, but I’ll get to that. As for the entitlement to health care, what a load of BS, I simply do not feel at all entitled to it, period but thats just me, and as Deroy Murdock says

There is no need for a gargantuan health plan that spends $1.5 trillion — as the Congressional Budget Office estimates House Democrats want — nor for the 29 new federal boards, panels, and agencies that Senate Democrats envision. As for creating a “government option” for health insurance, why not create a government option for grocery stores and clothing shops, lest famine and nudity erupt across the land?

What Americans need is a thriving market in individually owned and controlled health-insurance plans. When you book an airline flight, PriceLine.com does not ask, “What is your group number?” You decide when and where to fly, and then buy your ticket. At least with personal travel, your boss does not fund this. The same is true for car insurance, home insurance, and often life insurance. Why must Americans shop for health insurance at work, rather than online or through independent agents?

That sound prity good to me. Now the only sense of urgency about health care I have is that I had better get it now before I have to start waiting for it, and I’ve had to in the past (Tale of TWO MRIs, I needed an MRI while I lived in the UK and it was 24wks before being told I needed one and getting it, I had an MRI July 16th this year, three weeks after being told I needed one). I have also watched others having to wait, and it killed them. See here.

And what of these lower costs and who are going to pay for them. Now Pelosi said here that given

The bill now moving through the House would raise taxes for individuals with annual adjusted gross incomes of $280,000, or families that make $350,000 or more.

“I’d like it to go higher than it is,” Pelosi said Friday.

The speaker would like the trigger raised to $500,000 for individuals and $1 million for families, “so it’s a millionaire’s tax,” she said. “When someone hears, ‘2,’ they think, ‘Oh, I could be there,’ because they don’t know the $280,000 is for one person.

“It sounds like you’re in the neighborhood. So I just want to remove all doubt. You hear ‘$500,000 a year,’ you think, ‘My God, that’s not me.’”

That doesn’t sound to good to me and I know that its been commented on in the news, which must be why she answered differently when asked by USA TODAY’s editors about the price tag

We should be able to squeeze as much as we possibly can out of the current system. If it’s a trillion dollars, over half of that has to come from savings and then half from a revenue stream, a co-pay, something else. When you say taxing the wealthy, you have to see what you’re comparing it to. What is the choice that is to be made? The Senate started out by saying they were going to have to tax people’s health insurance benefits. That is a tax largely on the middle class.

So where do you go get that much money? Well, at the high end, which has been enjoying quite a fiesta the last eight years in terms of tax cuts in the Bush administration. If the Senate comes up with a potpourri of further cuts or other sources of revenue that don’t hurt the middle class, then that’s something we should all be looking at. But this (reform) is going to happen. And those who oppose it are mainly just opposed to health care.

Just going to point out that I oppose this Reform but I’m not opposed to health care, in fact I love health care, that is, I love the Health Care that I currently have. I do believe that it can be improved but not the way that Pelosi and BO want to do it.

Earlier I said I simply don’t believe anything Pelosi says and asked who would. Now I know that it was 6 months ago now but How can she even say this

Q: The economic stimulus bill sent a lot of money out the door, but it is not working as well as was promised. Why not?

A: This was always a two-year bill. It always was thought to be something that, in the second half of this year, would have its fuller impact in terms of job creation and getting the money out. It takes time. But we’re still optimistic that millions of jobs will be saved or created. I’m not inclined to support a second (stimulus) because we haven’t seen the full impact of the first recovery package. It will happen. As I say, it’s a time-release thing.

Q: Could the first stimulus be accelerated?

A: I’d be interested in that, to see if there’s some way that it can be accelerated. Again, that relates to how government does its work.

To me at least she is saying that either the economic stimulus bill was actually a spending bill, which it was, or she, the leadership and BO lied to me, those many months ago. Silly me it both isn’t it?

Update. I guess the lies are going to continue until the fall. See here

The talk of a second stimulus seems to be increaseing, and given the fact that the friends of the powers that be seem to be making out on the first one, I’m beginning to think that number two, three if you like, is a foregone conclusion.

Given that (bolding mine)

Legendary investor Warren Buffett said in an interview aired on Thursday unemployment could hit 11 percent and a second stimulus package might be needed as the economy struggles to recover from recession.

………….

He likened the first $787 billion stimulus package passed by Congress to “half a tablet of Viagra and then having also a bunch of candy mixed in — it doesn’t have really quite the wallop.”

“I think a second one may well be called for. It is not a panacea. A stimulus is the right thing. You hope it doesn’t get watered down,”

how can we possibly beleive that Obama and the Dems are not going to try for yet more pork stuffed Keynesian economics …. given the site rules I had better move on. 11% sounds like a lot but it could be alot worse, especially when you concider that GM is being pushed through bankrupcy so quickly, just imagine how bad it would be if Obama wasn’t trying to do that. Which means that Obama was at least 25% to 37.5% off in his predictions. I would say that he is more than likly right when he say this

“We’re not in a freefall, but we’re not in a recovery either,” he told ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

“We were in a freefall really in the last quarter of last year, starting in the financial markets and spreading to the economy, and we had this huge change in behavior.”(you don’t say, with all of the crisise)

“We’re going to come out of this better than ever, the best days of America lie ahead but not next week or next month,” he said.

But thats only IF the Feds get out of the way of the American Poeple and let US get on with the business of doing business, making money. My gut tells me that this isn’t going to happen until 2011 at the earliest, when God forebidding the adults have taken back the Poeples House. I know I’ll be working for that.

I’m just not sure what to make of all of the ‘yes we do’, ‘no we don’t’ and ‘well maybe, but not now’ that’s coming out of the administration and its advisers.
All three view points are being reported here via Drudge

The U.S. should consider drafting a second stimulus package focusing on infrastructure projects because the $787 billion approved in February was “a bit too small,” said Laura Tyson, an outside adviser to President Barack Obama

Now correct me if I’m wrong but wasn’t infrastructure projects and the much needed employment that these things are suppose to produce, one of the main reasons given for the first Obama stimulus. Now I’m not sure how we are going to pay for all of this but

Tyson, 62, later told reporters that the U.S. can afford to pay for a second package, even as the fiscal deficit soars. She said the budget shortfall is “likely to be worse” than the equivalent of 12 percent of gross domestic product that the administration forecast for 2009 and the 8 percent to 9 percent it projected for next year.

The professor at the University of California’s Walter A. Haas School of Business downplayed worries from China and other countries with dollar reserves that the U.S. will let inflation soar as the deficit expands.

“The concern is that the U.S. will have to inflate away its debt. I do not think that is a valid concern,” she said. “The Federal Reserve is not going to let the U.S. government inflate away its debt.”

The U.S. needs to communicate its determination to reduce the annual shortfall once the economy recovers, she said.

Now

Tyson’s comments contrast with remarks made two days ago by Vice President Joe Biden and fellow Obama adviser Austan Goolsbee, who said it was premature to discuss crafting another stimulus because the current measures have yet to fully take effect.
AND
Obama said last month that a second package isn’t needed yet, though he expects the jobless rate will exceed 10 percent this year. When Obama signed the first stimulus bill in February, his chief economic advisers forecast it would help hold the rate below 8 percent.

And of corse unemployment is now sitting at 9.5% and heading skyward. And given the fact that

“The economy is worse than we forecast on which the stimulus program was based,” Tyson, who is a member of Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory board, told the Nomura Equity Forum. “We probably have already 2.5 million more job losses than anticipated.”

What does that say about how much we should trust the Obama economic team. I know that I don’t.

What else dop you need to say.

Sarah Palin hits FOXNEWS tonight for the big ‘Told Ya So’ interview, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

As President Obama vows to spend the ‘stimulus’ faster, Governor Palin tells host Sean Hannity: ‘You gotta quit digging that hole!’

MORE

HANNITY: What do you make of – look at the state of the economy now…

PALIN: Well, when you consider that the federal government is about eleven trillion dollars in debt, and we’re borrowing more to spend more.. it defies any sensible economic policy that any of us ever learned through college. It defies economy practices and principles that tell ya ‘you gotta quit digging that hole when you are in that financial hole’

Palin continues:

“America is digging a deeper hole and how are we paying for this government largesse. We’re borrowing. We’re borrowing from China and we consider that now we own sixty percent of GENERAL MOTORS – or the U.S. government does… But who is the U.S. government becoming more indebted to? It’s China. So that leads you to have to ask who is really going to own our car industry than in America.”

HANNITY: You know but it goes back – It does go back a little to the campaign. I mean, ‘spread the wealth, patriotic duty…’

PALIN: Kind of a ‘we told ya so’.

HANNITY: Well, is that how you feel?

PALIN: That’s how I feel! I feel like… and I think that more and more constituents are going to open their eyes now and open their ears to hear what is really going on and realize ok… Maybe we didn’t have a good way of expressing that, or articulating that message of ‘here is what America could potentially become if we grow government to such a degree that we cannot pay for it and we have to borrow money from other countries, some countries that don’t necessarily like America.

And this many months into the new administration, quite disappointed, quite frustrated with not seeing those actions to rein in spending, slow down the growth of government. Instead Sean it is the complete opposite. It’s expanding at such a large degree that if Americans aren’t paying attention, unfortunately our country could evolve into something that we do not even recognize.

HANNITY: Socialism?

PALIN: Well, that is where we are headed. That is where we have to be blunt enough and candid enough and honest enough with Americans to let them know that if we keep going down these roads… nationalizing many of our services, our projects, our businesses, yes that is where we would head. And that is why Americans have to be paying attention. And we have to have our voices heard. And ultimately it need to be our will, the American people’s will imposed on Washington, instead of the other way around.

The interview is set to air tonight on FOXNEWS, 9 PM ET.

I’ve already set the DVR and I would suggest that everybody who can does. I’m sure it will be all over the blogs tomorrow anyway.

Should ‘In God we Trust’ be removed from our money?

MSNBC is running a poll Here

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10103521/

Go and Vote

I have just received this email

Dear Friend,
Yesterday, literally hundreds-of-thousands of American citizens from all walks of life stood up for their freedoms by standing up and cheering at almost 1,000 Taxpayer Tea Parties across the nation.

Standing on the same stage Sean Hannity would later speak from in Atlanta, Georgia last night, I looked out over a crowd of more than 15,000 people – a young couple with their three young children in tow holding a sign that said, “Our children…Our future.”, an elderly gentleman standing with the assistance of a cane wearing a 101st Airborne Veteran baseball cap and waving a sign that said, “Got Freedom?”, two University of Georgia t-shirt-wearing coeds holding a large sign that said “Tell the Politicians to cut THEIR budgets – we’re already cutting ours,” dozens of folks holding “I am AFP” signs and so many more.

The day before the Atlanta rally, FOX News covered the pre-event preparation party with our own Georgia AFP team, Virginia Galloway and Jared Thomas.

Our Americans for Prosperity Texas state director, Peggy Venable, helped organize the rally in Austin, where thousands of folks showed up, including Governor Perry — one of the few governors in the country fighting the good fight for our freedoms.

In Madison, Wisconsin – yes Madison, one of the most liberal big government areas of the nation – our Americans for Prosperity State Director Mark Block welcomed more than 8,000 people to a rally for freedom, for lower taxes and less debt!

In Sacramento, California – home to the largest state budget deficit in American history last year – our Americans for Prosperity team, David Spady and Jennifer Kerns, were partners in the coalition welcoming more than 5,000 grassroots activists demanding an end to tax and spend policies that are literally killing what was once a vibrant state economy.

In Oklahoma, AFP’s Stuart Jolly called me from the road as he criss-crossed the state hitting some of the approximately two dozen rallies he was a part of organizing there.

Attached you can see several pictures from these rallies and media clips. For more pictures and more information on the Taxpayer Tea Parties go to our website at americansforprosperity.org.

At nearly 40 rallies across North Carolina, our AFP State Director Dallas Woodhouse had volunteers getting folks signed up for future battles.

And that’s what I want to talk with you about for just a moment more.

You see, we cannot view these Taxpayer Tea Parties as an end.

Instead, we must use them as a beginning.

So today I want to share with you the next steps.

First, on October 2nd in Washington, D.C. Americans for Prosperity will be hosting the National Taxpayer Tea Party at the Capitol. Why October 2nd? That’s when we expect the final debates to be occurring over the massive Obama budget.

Please make plans now to attend this massive event. For more information click here.

Second, please consider hosting a local grassroots organizing event at your home or somewhere in your community. We will provide a “Home Organizing” kit to help guide you through the process but it’s pretty easy. You may get 12 people out or you may get 50 – either way you’ll get more people involved.

It’s so important for grassroots activists like you to get to know the folks who care as much as you do, who believe like you do. These local events are not that hard and they’re a lot of fun. Plus, we will help you organize these events. More information is coming on these home events!

Third, go to our website, americansforprosperity.org and pull down the contact information for your two U.S. Senators, your member of the House of Represenatives and your state representatives. Then, commit to contacting them on a consistent basis about key issues such as taxes and spending beginning with the outrageous Obama budget. Also commit to forwarding their contact information to your friends and family whenever an important issue comes up.

Not long ago, I was speaking with Senator Jim DeMint and I asked him if it mattered when people call, email or fax their members of Congress. Senator DeMint said, “Tim, it matters more than ever before.” Most Senators get a daily update on the number of people contacting their office and where they stand on the issues.

I realize we’re asking a lot from you.

But, we face the most dangerous threat to our economic freedom in generations. The very fabric of our lives – from the way our health care is handled, to the way our children are educated, to the way our incomes are taxed, to the way our businesses are run, to the way we use energy, to the way the government impacts the basic personal decisions we make – hangs in the balance.

Unfortunately, we face a President and Congress determined to make government bigger, stronger, and more dominant. They really believe that government knows best. And if they get their way, freedom – your freedom and mine – will wane.

So, we must do what Americans always do when faced with a challenge: We must work and fight and sacrifice our time and treasure in order to protect our freedom.

Thank you for all you are doing and more importantly, for all you are going to do for freedom.

Tim Phillips

P.S. Save the date of October 2nd for the National Taxpayer Tea Party in Washington at the Capitol to make the final push of the year! Go to our website to let me know you’re interested or even better, committed to coming. And, remember to take a look at the pictures and coverage of the Taxpayer Tea Parties from yesterday. They were great – but remember they’re a beginning, not an end.

Americans for Prosperity members joined a crowd of thousands in Austin, Texas to speak out against bailouts, wasteful spending, and higher taxes.

Tim Phillips speaks in front of more than 15,000 people at the Atlanta, GA Taxpayer Tea Party.

Thousands braved the cold and rain in Washington, D.C., packing Lafayette Park, directly across from the White House.

Sean Hannity broadcasting live from the Atlanta, GA Taxpayer Tea Party amongst thousands of AFP citizen-activists.

Over 8,000 people joined AFP-Wisconsin state director Mark Block at the Taxpayer Tea Party in Madison, WI.

Americans for Prosperity members at one of over thirty Taxpayer Tea Parties that took place in Oklahoma yesterday.

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Just sharing it.

Comes to you from Daniel Hannan

A blog has just done something that I thought no one could do: elicited an apology (or as close as we’ll ever get to an apology) from Gordon Brown. Indeed, according to The Guardian, the McBride-Draper scandal might cost Labour the next election. If so, Guido Fawkes would have succeeded where his baleful namesake failed 404 years ago: he would have brought down a government. Even if you think the Guardian story is a bit de trop, the idea that one man with a laptop could do so much damage would, until very recently, have seemed risible.

Yet, even now, a number of print and broadcast journalists dismiss, disdain and depreciate internet-based news. Read the Guardian’s own Michael White responding to the way my attack on Gordon Brown spread online. Read Peter Wilby’s reedy complaint that the internet “lacks quality control”. It is difficult not to sympathise with journalists of their generation. They can see local newspapers dropping all around them, and know that some nationals will soon follow. Every newsdesk is shedding staff, and journalists’ are having to work longer hours for lower salaries. The Whites and Wilbies perceive, even if they do not properly understand, that amateurs are driving out professionals. It makes them frightened and bilious.

What irks them most of all is that bloggers refuse to apply Leftist filters. Until very recently, few people could watch a politician’s speech or read his statement in full. They relied, instead, on the Whites and Wilbies to select, précis and interpret stories for them. Now, the masses can make up their own minds without bien-pensant intellectuals telling them what to think. Good news for libertarians, bad news for Lefties.

Today’s newspapers generally cover l’affaire McBride-Draper in one of two ways. Some of them helpfully explain to their readers what these blog thinggies are – which is funny when we consider how many more people now get their news online than from dead trees. Several reporters evidently still struggle to grasp the extent of the differential. An analysis piece in the Guardian speaks of the “big three” Right-of-Centre blogs, ConservativeHome, Guido Fawkes and Iain Dale, as having 100,000 hits a month. Er, guys: this blog – not one of the big three – got 393,413 hits last week. That’s more than the circulation of the Guardian. Of course, the Guardian is a daily newspaper – I am among its appreciative readers – so it’s not an exact parallel. A fairer comparison would be with the main hebdomadal Left-of-Centre publication, Peter Wilby’s New Statesman. The NS is currently selling around 26,000 copies. In other words, more than seven times as many people read my blog as read the Staggers. The “big three” blogs are considerably larger. Even if you count unique users rather than page impressions, all three are massively over 100,000 a month.

Which brings us to the second-line defence trotted out by some MSM journalists: that they are more accurate than bloggers. Really? When you strip it down, the only difference between a blog and a traditional news-source is that the blog is disintermediated: no editor stands between writer and reader. So, do editors guarantee greater accuracy? Let me refer you to the profile of me which appeared in Saturday’s Independent (circulation 240,000). As well as inventing a totally untrue story, it attributed a false quotation to me, referring to me as “a self-styled ‘Tory maverick’” (its quotation marks). I asked the author of the piece when I had so styled myself: I made the transition from Tory to Whig many years ago and, while there is no dishonour in being a maverick, it would be an unusually cocky thing to go around calling yourself a maverick. The writer, Andy McSmith, apologetically explained that he hadn’t said any such thing: it had all been inserted behind his back after he filed the piece. He added: “This sort of thing doesn’t often happen here. A combination of bank holiday and the fact that we have been shedding staff in the past month like we were some sort of toxic bank.”

Yup. That’s the thing about newspapers in decline: all sorts of things start slipping, including the accuracy of reports. Why, in the circs, should we take newspapers at their word, and assume that they are more accurate than blogs? The answer is that we don’t. The statistics speak for themselves. If there is anyone out there still insisting that traditional journalists are more reliable than bloggers, I have two words for you: Kevin Maguire.

I believe Moe Posted something on the the back ground story, Sorry I can’t find the link but I know I first read about it here at RedState. Basic background is that some high Labour Gov Offical got caught trying to smear the Conseravtives with some of his Blogging buds, anyway here is the explanation

Now while I’m at it just wanted to share this also

Thank you . . .

. . for contacting me regarding your opposition to universal health care coverage. I understand your concerns.

When it comes to health care, our families and businesses are in a serious crisis. High health care costs are causing cuts in benefits and increases in premiums, adding to the ranks of the uninsured at alarming rates. But the impact of this problem goes beyond individual families. Skyrocketing health care costs make our businesses less competitive in the global marketplace and cost us good-paying jobs. We are already paying for the uninsured through overuse of the emergency room-the most inefficient and expensive way of providing care.

I believe that health care is a right, not a privilege. There is no doubt that the problems we face are complex, but there are real solutions. We can create a system that is uniquely American and shares the cost between the government, businesses, and individuals in a way that is fair and equitable. Now is the time to show the political will to tackle these issues because there is so much at stake. I am committed to working with both my Democratic and Republican colleagues on the Senate Finance Committee to find solutions to America’s health care crisis.

Thank you again for contacting me. Please don’t hesitate to do so again if my office can be of assistance to you or your family.

Sincerely,

Debbie Stabenow

United States Senator

Bolding mine, now I have some serious problems with this heathcare is a right bs, one being very personal, my mother now being just one of those NHS waiting list statistic, but thats beside the piont. If health care is a right just like ,say Life, Liberty and the pursuit Happiness, why are there only ever problems with government(its a right and we should run it) health care and it’s need to ration said health care. As with everything I can think of health care and the need to advance care are best left to the free market, can you image if it was the US gov that was deciding if this or that drug was worth investing in given the time it takes to develop and the political views of the companies involved, just saying.

Agian I find that Daniel Hannan articulates why Government run Health Care is a Bad idea

So you’ve got Larry Elder say this

While President Obama busies himself changing the very foundation that made America great, he might sign an executive order — granting immediate citizenship to Daniel Hannan.

I can agree with him in spirt but fully understand Daniel Hannans Response

Larry Elder wants Barack Obama to sign an executive order granting me immediate US citizenship. Many Britons, of course, have gratefully made the journey. Even that great patriot Oliver Cromwell toyed constantly with the idea of emigration. Thomas Jefferson confidently boasted that, while many Europeans would take themselves across the Atlantic, few Americans would return – a prediction that came spectacularly true.

Believe me, Larry, when I say that I’m flattered. Your founders were men of matchless vision. The constitution they agreed was the most sublime political accord ever drafted. Its precepts made you happy, prosperous and free. Its promise drove your fathers to bring liberty to other continents.

Hannan then goes on the explain why a weekend spent in the English counrtyside, makes him want to stay and fight for the Britain that he wants to see. He knows what he faces.

Heaven knows my country has its problems. Our Parliament has been vitiated, our local councils scorned. Our public services are increasingly run by and for their employees. Britain is almost the last place in the Western world where you’d want to fall ill. (Labour politicians are trying to fabricate a row about the fact that I made this point on Sean Hannity’s programme, but everyone knows it to be true.) Our people are governed, not by their elected representatives, but by quangoes, human rights judges and Eurocrats.

Then again, each of these problems has its solution. Indeed, several solutions could usefully be imported from your country: dispersed jurisdiction, states’ rights, the separation of power, open primaries, regionalised welfare, elected sheriffs, a local sales tax. I’ve even co-written a book showing how all this could be done in just one 12-month parliamentary session: it’s called The Plan.

Hannan in no forlorn hope and I see good things from him in the future.

And where did the ideology that actuated the American Revolution originate? Who first came up with the idea that laws should be passed only by elected legislators? We did. That idea was Britain’s greatest export, our supreme contribution to the happiness of mankind.

Forget subsequent flag-waving histories of the War of Independence, and go back to what the colonist leaders were arguing at the time. They saw themselves, not as revolutionaries, but as conservatives. In their eyes, they were standing up for what they had assumed to be their birthright as freeborn Englishmen. It was Great Britain, they believed, that was abandoning its ancient liberties.

And here, my friends, is Britain’s tragedy. The things those colonists feared – the levying of illegal taxes, the passing of laws without popular consent, the sidelining of Parliament – have indeed come about. They have come about, not as the result of Hanoverian tyranny, but in our own age, driven by rise of the quangocracy and the EU.

To put it another way, British freedoms thrive best in America, and British patriots should be campaigning to bring them home. I’ll be staying here, Larry, working to repatriate our revolution.

And just think it all started with this
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I just love this song, and just wanted to share it.

The video is not bad either.