We needed a pep talk. I have been faxing undecideds 3 or 4 different letters every day since Monday, so they’re hearing from me a lot. And I’ll be doing it again tomorrow, and I’ll be doing it Saturday. Giving up is what the Dems are counting on us to do. I for one will not give them the satisfaction.

“I have not yet begun to fight.” We do not surrender, not now, not ever. Even if we have to adjust strategy at the higher levels, tactics at this level, we cannot falter.

If it does not go our way, we will regroup. Since Christmas, it has been discouraging, the Left has wanted to wear us down, remember they read this site.

Our Founding Fathers fought even tougher battles; we must remember and not give up.

Thanks eburke! Its been a long hard week and its not going to end, it will drag on through Sunday. Well be in church with our phones out scanning drudge and twitter… Calling congress-critters…

But we WILL be there, to the bitter end. No Kippling for this one, this requires Shakespeare.

Henry V
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead.
In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour’d rage;
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
Let pry through the portage of the head
Like the brass cannon; let the brow o’erwhelm it
As fearfully as doth a galled rock
O’erhang and jutty his confounded base,
Swill’d with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit
To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.
Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof!
Fathers that, like so many Alexanders,
Have in these parts from morn till even fought
And sheathed their swords for lack of argument:
Dishonour not your mothers; now attest
That those whom you call’d fathers did beget you.
Be copy now to men of grosser blood,
And teach them how to war. And you, good yeoman,
Whose limbs were made in England, show us here
The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not;
For there is none of you so mean and base,
That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game’s afoot:
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry ‘God for Harry, England, and Saint George!’

Nancy hears a Who.

Or as Reagan said” If you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.”

thank you so much!

And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart. Galatians 6:9

And I thank you for this diary.

I lead a pro-life Christian group here in Wisconsin. We’ve been melting phones AND combining it with prayer campaigns. I urge those of you who are people of faith to take this not just to the streets or the phones, but also to your knees.

In fact, as a Catholic, we set up a very last-minute Mass tonight to pray for the outcome of this vote. Our email server went down and very few people got the email. Still, the church was packed. People just gathered. Almost reminded me of 9/11. And we’re going with a 24/7 prayer campaign at the church into the weekend.

Work and prayer friends. Work and prayer.

created by this: You bet Nancy Pelosi’s botox-injected bottom I do.

“Ugh” isn’t a strong enough word, eburke.

Seriously, you make good points at an important time in this debate. I’ve no doubt the MSM will try to push this thing across the finish line.

I recommend we all look at our local newspapers to see what pressure (if any) their editorial staffs are putting on local Congresscritters. In my home (Tucson), the only local newspaper hasn’t run any editorials this week that I can find on Gabrielle Gifford’s vote. Methinks they’re trying to give her cover, by “starving the story of oxygen” by ignoring it, until after the vote. They can criticize her then, when it’s safe to do so.

The lines toward the end applies now as much as back then:

‘Who will be a traitor knave?
Who will fill a coward’s grave?
Who’s so base as be a slave? –
Let him turn, and flee.

‘Who for Scotland’s [Patriot's - ed.] King [Rule -ed.] and Law
Freedom’s sword will strongly draw,
Freeman stand or freeman fall,
Let him follow me.

‘By oppression’s woes and pains,
By your sons in servile chains,
We will drain our dearest veins
But they shall be free!

‘Lay the proud usurpers low,
Tyrants fall in every foe,
Liberty is in every blow,
Let us do or die!’

Thank you, Robert Burns…we face our own 21st Century Longshanks,…history repeats….

Once more, dear friends, to the breach…indeed!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sCkAvh50Vs

opps

And reminding me that more prayer and less worry is what I need to do.

for the 3rd time this Saturday (March 20th).

Steve King and Michelle Bachmann are asking for people to come to Washington D.C one more time for a rally and hopefully visits with House members. They want a million people.

They can’t just keep ignoring us and get away with it. I know it is hard to drop everything and go to D.C. Most of us have JOBS. I have two jobs, but the country comes first. I swore an oath to the Constitution when I entered the Military and although I am no longer in the military I still take that oath seriosly, unlike Obama and many of our representatives.

Think about it. Take off and drive down to Washington D.C.

The best thing I have found is not to drive into the city. get on the washington D.C website and look up the Metro. It goes well out of the city in every direction. I drive from PA down to Maryland and get on the first stop (redline) in shady grove MD. They have parking for 5000 cars. Just costs a few dollars for the 30 minute ride right to Union Station. Get off and walk right over to the Capitol building.

http://www.wmata.com/rail/maps/map.cfm

When I went down on 9/12 it took three hours to drive to metro station and 30 minutes into Union Station. I stayed a few hours got back on the metro and boom home in 3 1/2 hours just in time to make my sons football game.

Take the time and lets do this

team , we carry a heavy load but we owe it to the Founding Fathers to win through. No imposter will defeat the will of a UNITED opposition.

Stany by to repel boarders.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT5wPFx_8G4

We will see if the Bravehearts will take the sword when they need to.

And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.

Most Conservatives are ready to wage ideological and procedural war against the Leftists who have managed to take over the Democrat party, but how many of you are really willing to lay down your lives to secure your liberties. I am personally itching for a real fight because I think the Left doesn’t think we actually have the stomach for a real fight. We’re Americans and the last time we fought each other was over 140 years ago. I doubt most comfortable, middle-class Americans are actually willing to fight for their liberties and are rather quite content to simply vote for the candidate that promises harm them the least. I think real liberty can only be guaranteed by a small cadre of those willing to die for it. I count myself among that cadre.
Nancy Pelosi believes that the American people will go willingly into the goodnight of socialism if we lose in the House. We have to prove her wrong.

This is just the pep talk we needed before the fourth quarter starts!

Awesome eburke

My favorite from Lord of the Rings:

Never surrender! I hope 2010 is the Political Earthquake that America needs to survive. The Government no longer listens to the people, it is useless! Throwout every Democrat out in 2010 and if possible Bob Bennett too! I will never vote for a Democrat ever! The Democrats will pay BIGTIME in 2010!

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Sir Winston Churchill, Speech in November 1942

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2UP86bciVA

“THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. ”

Thomas Paine

“The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle. ” – Alexis de Tocqueville

If it must be…let it be.

there are more of us than there are of them! They will only have this if we give it to them and I will not.

“Surely it is worth a supreme effort—-the laying aside of every impediment, the clear-eyed facing of fundamental facts, the noble acceptance of risks inseparable from heroic endeavor—-to control the hideous drift of events and arrest calamity on the threshold. Stop it! Stop it! Stop it!!! NOW is the appointed time.” -Winston Churchill

Each of you fighting against this unprecedented and indefensible government seizure of power from the people has my deep gratitude, and this country owes you a great debt. Today, I cannot join you save in spirit, for the ethical restrictions of my employment prevent me from expressing public political opinions and from making political contributions. Someday soon that will change, and in the future I will stand beside you when liberty is threatened.

I wish that I could stand beside you today. This legislative monstrosity (the government takeover of health care / student loans / who knows what else?), that has been pushed, pulled, dragged, and twisted through Congress against the will of the American people, is the largest domestic threat to the American dream that I have ever seen. The underhanded and unconstitutional means which have been and are being used to enact it are quite despicable. The American dream, which made us the envy of the world, was the truth that here an individual could improve his quality of life through his own hard work and abilities. The emerging nightmare should this “reform” be enacted will be an enforced equality of mediocrity, which will remove all incentive for individual achievement and punish success.

Embarking upon the voyage of this “reform” is a journey towards the ruination of this country. That is why it must be stopped, now. I pray that all of you find some way to stop it.

That simple.

That’s why I try to recruit conservatives to become Republican Party precinct committeemen.

Take back the Party from the RINOs.

Get better, more conservative candidates winning the primaries.

They will to on to win the general elections.

It’s all about having conservatives win the general elections. No?

They can’t unless they get onto that ballot. No?

Best way to make that happen is to get into the Party. No?

Thank you.
ColdWarrior
No More Scozzafavas!
Become a Republican precinct committeeman. NOW!

There is no difference except the latter may have left some DNA.

Slaugherr?

Yes.

I see that both sides are ruled by their emotions rather then reason, it leads to endless warfare and no solutions. A curse upon both your houses.

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=CT7xfoSiH5Q&feature=player_embedded

I feel what you feel and I am saying what you say and it is NOT over until it is over! I say it OVER & OVER, LETS ROLL!

I can’t add any more to what’s been said – only in what needs to be done. It’s overtime, the other team’s on the court, and the red is ready for the tipoff. Let’s go.

Phones, faxes, and rally today

Rock and Roll!!! Time to push harder than ever.

When I talk to the staffers, and I will talk to them in their local offices, I will ask them how old they are. When they say what they think they will say, I will then ask them if they truly understand that they are sacrificing any chance they ever had of being successful at the altar of Barack Obama’s ego. I will ask if they understand that Social Security and Medicaire are enough to bury their generation, and that adding this will make their bright future a complete joke.

They need to know that when I am dead and gone, they will have to live with the knowledge that, with their earnest help, the people they worked for caused the catastrophe they will have to endure, and they will have to live with that shame forever.

Right on, but when Democrat-engineered government health care is implemented, I’m going to be the first in line to get me some.

We have America’s promises to keep, and hours to go before we sleep, and hours to go before we sleep.

it seems appropriate to post this one.

For days we’ve been calling…and many times not getting through to these washington people. They don’t want to hear us anymore. They’re taking phones off the hook

Here’s a new plan for you….

I noticed my governor sent a letter to one of my senators and one representative. (One is committed yes and the other a no.) He outlined why this hc bill was bad for our state. Will this help, who knows.

If the Washington bozos aren’t listening then our at-home bozos just might. If you can find your at home critters call them and bug them and get them to put pressure on our washington people. You might even be able to get through to them. Email, call whatever.

Think about it. If you overload your governor or your state representative with calls he can get through to your washington critter better than we’re able to.

They need to be in this fight. We elected them too, now they can start earning their pay.

http://truthandcommonsense.com/2010/03/18/the-true-cost-starts-to-come-out-on-healthcare-and-guess-what-you-and-i-cant-afford-it/

We are still in the civil discourse mode. Thankfully. But sooner or later either their side or our side is going to move away from peaceful protests and letter writing to civil disobedience. That will mean the government, run by zealots (frankly this is the only word that now appears to apply to them), will have to react. How they do, well, that is the mystery isn’t it. I have my theory and my fears. Nothing in their behavior indicates they will be people of compassion or leniency. In fact, it appears they just bribed the representatives of the people other zealots are denying life saving water to… with just a few more drops of water. Stories like these are what fables about mad Medieval kings and biblical parables are made of. Yet, nobody flinches, nobody even wonders how far down the rabbit hole we’ve traveled.

In my post I go into detail about what must come next, if no cooler heads prevail. (As you know I wrote a novel about this very period of time. www.revoltthebook.com) Over at punditandpundette.com they linked to the AEI article (AEI is a solid source, I used to write for them.) on just how much the average Joe may end up paying for healthcare. It is around fourteen grand a year. Not pesos, dollars (of course with the fed printing so much, the dollar may become as worthless as pesos- but I digress).

In my post, which is depressing, even by my account, I comment on just how bad it could get when we simply will not or cannot pay the taxes. How aggressive will the government get? How violent with the confrontations get? Who will they make examples of, and believe me that is definitely coming- it has to. Who will stand at that person’s shoulder and say “No one passes here.” Who?

Here is the first part-

“PandP highlights, through AEI.org, the costs for the average citizen in America for healthcare under the new system Obama is wanting to force upon us. According to the article the average cost for a family around 100,000.00 a year income will be around $14,000.00. Yep, dollars, not pesos. Frankly, I can’t afford that. Nobody I know can afford that and we all know it won’t cost that much, so where is the extra money going?

It is going to keep the unions happy, the bureaucrats happy and the left in power. It is a robbery. Funny thing about healthcare being forced upon us- laws and taxes being pushed down on citizens of this country have led to two wars, one revolutionary and one civil. How can this new set of little dictators not see how dangerously close to the edge they are treading?

Let me do the numbers for them. There are three hundred million people, give or take, in America, not counting illegals, (but illegals won’t get involved- this is not their home). About a hundred and twenty are legally armed. Some are just hunters, some self-defense advocates, some are shooters for fun and sport. All are very aware of their right to keep and bear arms to protect themselves from enemies, both foreign and domestic. I know these people; they are regular folks- your mother and father, your brother, your boss, your husband or wife, your best friend. They are decent people for the most part, they are always looking for the good in others, despite the fact there may be no good in those others. What they aren’t are people willing to stand aside while the government rapes them financially and makes their own children go hungry or without while the upper strata rules and lines their pockets.”
–
I try to remind people that beyond this, we are all Americans, brothers and sisters to each other. No police officer should find himself the heavy hand of any political body. If they do, they are no longer serving their citizens or doing the job. Here is that portion-

“6. To the officers trying to do their duty, please remember the lesson I learned about five years into my career. Everybody is just as human and just as vulnerable as you are. I used to worry about a boss who constantly harassed me, always concerned he would get me fired and I couldn’t feed my family. I followed orders, even the questionable ones. Then one day something snapped inside me and I decided he wasn’t all that. He was a weak man in a powerful position. He was not going to control my behavior or set my principles. It made me the officer I ended up being, a man who believed in one principle above all others- First do no harm. It is and never has been our job to be the heavy hand of the political body. Here was what I believed. As officers, our job is to maintain the peace, keep people safe, and protect their property. That’s it. If we find ourselves enforcing tax collections by the use of force and arrest we have strayed far, far beyond any reasonable power given us by the citizens. Remember, that is a key. We serve only as long as the people allow us to serve. The day we lose their trust we will no longer be able to do the job. We might as well just hang up the pistol belt and throw away the badge.”
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Just how long it is before people begin an active period of civil disobedience is anybody’s guess. I am sure if this bill passes, literally over the prostrate bodies of the Republicans and the vast majority of the people in America, we are a hundred steps closer than we were the day before. This is exactly what the founding fathers warned us about. Sooner or later someone would come along and try to squeeze the freedom right out of you. They warned us to be vigilant, and we weren’t. They warned us to be strong and we haven’t been. They cautioned that sacrifice is a necessary part of remaining a free people, and we dismissed them as a bunch of old irrelevant, gray wig wearing, fools. Well, shame on us.

I am amazed over just how little history the left seems to be aware of. Is it ignorance or is it blind arrogance? Is it they are betting that we will sheepishly follow the path that the Europeans have?
Frankly, it wears me out a little trying to climb inside their heads. Their minds are either seized with madness like Olbermann and Matthews or filled with delusions of grandeur like Pelosi or Obama. Worse I think some others are filled with a burning desire for control and power. It is a cancer that eats away at any remnant of humanity they may have once possessed.

In doing the post I ran across a few lines from wiki about the Boston tea party. It reminded me of today.-

“Protesters had successfully prevented the unloading of taxed tea in three other colonies, but in Boston, embattled Royal Governor Thomas Hutchinson refused to allow the tea to be returned to Britain. He apparently did not expect that the protesters would choose to destroy the tea rather than concede the authority of a legislature in which they were not directly represented.” ”

See, overreaching, stupid politicians existed in all eras. On occasion, sadly, they get into power and do stupid things that cause everyone grief.

How the left thinks they’ll get out of this mess unscathed is beyond me. Like I said, trying to understand them is tiring.

an article named we need to take it at http://www.TheseSelfEvidentTruths.com challenges us to retake our republic from the thieves in Washington. It was a little bit depressing as I read the article, but then I realized it was a call to action. Churchill is right; we will fight and never surrender.

He is sounding like he is going to vote for this garbage. He’s got people telling sob stories on Fox News right now. But I do agree with the poster here, that this is a huge part of a astroturfing policy.

This doesn’t end in 72 hours. It ends only when by hook or by crook the Left gets what it wants. This will fail Sunday, only to rise again as an amendment to a must-pass budget resolution, or buried in some innocuous bill, like extending the hours of the National Park Service tours in Arizona.

Like Al-Qaida terrorists, the Left only need be successful once. Like our homeland defenders, we need to be successful EVERY time.

From now, until the day in January 2011 when a new Congress is installed, and a new Speaker is elected, the danger of this bill becoming law will be omnipresent.

Don’t kid yourself…this doesn’t end on Sunday. Not by them if they lose. And not by us if we lose.

Fred Graham had a great column yesterday. This fight will go on for decades to come, as even the British to this day speak about nothing so much as the state, the funding, and the condition of their National Health Service.

Like Islamic extremism, socialism never sleeps…it merely waits till we get exhausted, or let our guard down., then begins anew its inexorable and cancerous march onward. And not till we pass a Constitutional Amendment, stripping the Commerce Clause and General Welfare clause of all their unintended meaning will we reign in and defeat this.

I fear nothing less than a Constitutional Convention, called by the 38 states required, will get us there. I know Virginia’s ready — is your state?

I don’t know that much about him, but I hear he’s a Glenn Beck fan which gives me a little bit of confidence in what he’s being taught.

To get to the point though, this week he went over the Articles of Confederation with the kids. And of course my son is in on the study of history and politics with me, and he was telling me that the teacher’s lecture had an undertone that maybe the Confederation wasn’t all that bad.

I thought about it for a little while, and while it seems even more radical than what I consider myself to be, maybe it isn’t such a bad idea to cut out the extra layer on the top. They say the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, but perhaps a some chaos as the result of freedom is better than a lot of chaos as result of tyranny from the central government.

http://www.redstate.com/aceintx/2010/01/07/never-in-the-field-of-human-conflict-was-so-much-owed-by-so-many-to-so-few/

The long night is Darkest just before the dawn!

The “Big Tent” analogy isn’t the correct one…the correct one is a MAGNET…we need to be a MAGNET that draws these independents in who are sick and tired of what’s going on in Washington—Fred Thompson