Thanks a lot Joe……

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/12/12/senate-poised-advance-t-spending/

Creeping closer & closer to socialism……

There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.

Led by Mitch McConnell, the biggest eunuch of the bunch. This is the biggest bunch of pussified wimps that I’ve seen in my life. What the HELL do they think they’re accomplishing by rolling over to this bunch of socialist punks?

It just pisses me off more every time you post on this. But frankly, if McConnell is the best we can do for “leadership”, we deserve to have our asses kicked, as we obviously don’t have the brains to put a better leader in place.

Gutless. Cowardly. Wimps.

GOP’s Senators? Everything that can be sent to those elected officials to inform them of the situation – and their situation – is vital.
This should be a call to action.

I often hear that Senators express frustration when we dare to tell them how to fight, and that their frequent refrain is “we just don’t understand how the Senate works.”

sad thing is…McCain Fiengold has insulated them from any real challenges because we can’t band our funds together and challenge them…but we have to do something…and soon!

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

Praise the Lord! (And pass the ammunition). We’re gonna need it if this thing passes. Fight, dammit…FIGHT!

so-called “conservative” Senators from employing the parliamentary tactics you outlined?

Each Senator has the right to invoke these rules (for example, the call for a quorum) on their own, no? Seriously, what “power” do the likes of McConnell and Kyl have over ANY single senator with a backbone?

I believe ALL of them have proven themselves to be cowards. Not one of them has eloquently explained to the American people that the Debtocrats are purposely destroying the economy and infringing on the individual rights of the people. Any one of them could do so on the floor of either chamber. The closest any of the Republicans have come to eloquence and truth-telling has been Joe Wilson: “You Lie!”

And then they all fell all over themselves apologizing.

Pathetic.

Thank you.
ColdWarrior

Erick, you’ve got me fired up and ready to go. I am disgusted with the Senate GOP. I went into this process convinced that this bill would be delayed to death, because that is what the Senate GOP told us would happen after the House passed the bill. I’m not sure if this is how they interperet “delay” or if they were just lying to us, but either way I am pissed.

I am most upset with Tom Coburn and Jim DeMint. These are our front line warriors and I have heard nothing from them on the procedure side of this. Where are they? Unanimous consent implies all 100 Senators agree. Well, Coburn and DeMint cold easily make it only 98 or 99, thereby triggering all the procedures listed in this post. Coburn said he was going to have the bill read on the floor. Gregg issued a “battle plan” of Senate procedures to give us weapons to fight this. DeMint said this would be Obama’s “Waterloo.” Where the heck are they?

No doubt the leadership has shut them up. But these are unanimous consent requests. They don’t need the leadership’s permission to object. That is a right that they can invoke personally. If this is the fight to save our Republic, then why the heck aren’t our guys chucking grenades into the enemy trenches!

Coburn and DeMint, where are you??

Southern Democrat senators forstalled every attempt to pass effective civil rights legislation defying their Party, two of their Presidents, and the popular will outside their states. They used the filibuster, the real stand up and speak filibuster endless to either thwart legislation altogether or to render it merely symbolic as was the case with the ’57 and ’60 legislation.

Any of the Republican senators could endlessly frustrate the majority and prevent passage of CommieCare. It is evident that they care more for their standing in the DC cocktail circuit than for their states and their Country.

This is the perfect example of why the Grassroots Patriots, aka Tea Party people, Must come together and take over the GOP. We know how to FIGHT SOCIALISM! You don’t do it by compromising with them, you get in their face and SCREAM at them!

If the GOP doesn’t grow a set, they will be left on the trash heap of history where they belong. RINOs are going extinct.

Where is the Republican leadership in this fight? These wussies are driving me crazy. Their lack of grit and soine is what got them in trouble with the American people last time and they are just repeating the same mistakes.

Dang it – If the TEA Party movement candidate wouldn’t allow the libtards to keep control of congress I would just vote against every Republican I could. What a bunch of cowardly losers the Republicans are!

Hear me you Republican COWARDS in the Seante! You are as bad as the libtards in selling us out and destroying this country!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is no longer America!

People we have been sold out. The looters in Washington care only about keeping their power and enslaving us so they can steal our homes, our bank accounts and our lives.

Its time to start talking about secession. We have no representaion in Washington. They’re not listening to us! They don’t care what we want, only how they can line their pockets and fill their coffers from our blood, sweat and tears.

If secession is not an option then its time for a real revolution to re-found OUR Country!

Its time to find a region of this country, move there, take it over, vote in conservatives and then secede from the USSA.

…so go on their Facebook pages and write on their walls with this link and a demand that they not just vote against the bill but ACT TO KILL IT.

I just wrote on David Vitter’s wall. The link is here, if you can see it: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/pages/Senator-David-Vitter/53906687963?ref=nf

Well said!

Your prescription is exactly what needs to happen!

EXACTLY!

Who has the courage to stand and OBJECT?

WHO WANTS TO BE A HERO?

WHO?

Eric I agree with everything you have stated in this Blog. I am going to forward this to my congressman here in California, Buck McKeon and maybe he can get it to a conservative senator that can help and see that these actions are pursued. Wish we had Senators in this state that we could rely on, but unfortunately that is not the case. Both are Democrats, liberal ones at that…..and both just totally worthless. No redeeming qualities what-so-ever.
Anyway…be well in all that you do.

at his disposal. If you are a general, I think I just saw you slap and punch a few men who were facing the wrong way.

My prayer is that McConnell really was running reconnaissance like he told Rush a couple of days ago. He said the messaging amendments were in order to figure out who they could work on.

In any case, thank you so much for all you do.

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Activists Taking Action: Unified Patriots

It’s time to take the gloves off and call the Dems what they are: Political gangsters who don’t give a rip about the Constitution.

Eric,

You encapsulated our dilemma an provide an excellent blueprint for fighting back!

YOUR LETTER NEEDS TO BE HAND DELIVERED TO EVERY REPUBLICAN SENATOR!

What part of the gravity of the situation do the Republicans not get?

A number of RINOs need leave in 2010, but for now we can not sit idly by while week kneed Republicans don’t even try to fight with EVERY tool and EVERY last breat they have.

Semper Fidelis,
Semper Vigilante,

Jacques Ditte

“A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.”
–John Adams in a Letter to Abigail Adams (July 7, 1775)

You wrote a brilliant and much-needed summary of where we are headed and what needs to be done to stop it.

I immediately faxed it to McConnell’s office (he probably has about a thousand copies by now).

I also posted a snippet on the Asheville Tea Party blog. I hope that’s OK.

Just what do the Republicans see as the down-side of fighting this?

- They’d be with the Majority of the American People– that’s not “obstructionist” and the polls show the people are ignoring the MSM on this issue

- They’d show everyone they are “re-branded” and not the party of ‘04-’06 aka “Democrat-lite”

- They’d be killing a horrible, monstrosity piece of legislation – Senators should do that regardless

- They’d keep their base fired for the next election up rather than pissing it off

IF NOT THIS BILL – WHAT ISSUE WOULD THEY “GO TO THE MATS” FOR?

The immediate threat is 60 for Cloture, 50+Biden to pass (10 Dems get cover), over to Pelosi and her “bunch of miss nancies” (ref UrbanDictionary), no conference, 218 there, and onto Obama for signature by Christmas

PS – Is McConnell so naive to believe the Dems will be this “gentlemenly”, if happens to become the next Majority Leader?!

‘All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing’ — Edmund Burke

For some time now my little group has been suggesting that the GOP put the mark of anathema, what Moses Sands called the “skunk eye” on any GOP member who voted with the majority, with Snowe and Collins in mind. Cut them off, bar them from meetings, refuse to speak to them. Let them keep their own council. No Christmas cards.

Maybe we had it backwards. Maybe, as Mr Erickson suggests, that an act of high drama needs to executed in order to draw attention not just to the capriciousness of the majority, but the timidity of the minority.

You bet. Who can forget Mr Smith Goes to Washington? Is Jim DeMint the man?

But it does seems one man, ONE MAN, staking out a spot, under a banner we already know over 50% of the American people follow…on high ground…and announcing to the world he is cutting off all cordiality, collegiality and social intercourse with his own party…etc…Wow!

Imagine, with flashbulbs going off, DeMint telling McConnell and the whole rest of the pack…If you want to let Olympia Snowe and Susie Collins hang out with you…from where the sun now stands, I won’t hang out with you…forever.

Now that’s drama. That’s also what I would do, knowing the stakes. I suspect Mr Erickson would to. Who would want to share the comfort of the Senate Clubhouse with those who are unwilling to shed their blood with me? (Henry V, sort of.)

Is there even one in the United States Senate, Jim DeMint included, however vile, would want to have his condition truly made gentle…for all history, to the ending of the world?

Yes, that’s the ticket.

Thanks, Mr Erickson.
VB

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we deserve, so to speak… now perhaps comes the time when the government starts coming to get us?

(posted by random thought criminal #19538302 and in no way affiliated with anotherindyfilmguy last time I checked…)

According to a recent Rasmussen poll November 30, 2009, only 33% of all Americans feel their congressional representatives deserve to be re-elected, translation : 67% of us are awake and ready to hand out some pink slips of our own in 2010, even more in 2012.

Does this headline news honestly come as a big surprise to anyone?

On several occasions in just the past 90 days our “elected officials” you know, those whom we’ve sent to Washington D.C. to represent us, aka “we the people” have voted in direct contrast to what “we the people” want.

They can’t use the excuses that seem quite popular and ‘en vogue these days especially when it comes to “The One” in the Oval Office, “I misspoke” he was “misunderstood, miss-informed” he “miss-calculated” “that’s not the Reverend Wright I knew,” “That’s not the Bill Ayers I knew” or my personal favorite, “the police acted stupidly.”

With such a stellar example of what our “elected officials” in many cases have become, is it any wonder why the American people see many of their current congressional and senatorial representatives as pathetic examples of “We the people’s” representatives?

This isn’t exactly rocket science, in just Wisconsin alone over 8,500 people gathered on the front lawn of the capital building in Madison on April 15, 2009, followed through the summer by countless other gatherings, 3,000 in Greenville, 1,500 in Fond Du Lac, more than 4,000 in Sheboygan, and 15,000 people in Milwaukee stopped what they were doing, took the time to attend a T.E.A. Party(s) trying to send their message and “Make a Roar They Can’t Ignore”.

Similarly, on 9/12/09, 2 million traveled to Washington D.C. and then 60,000 gathered there again a few short weeks later, for the same reason adding to millions of others in every state across the country, I’d say the writing is for the most part not just on the wall, but indeed all over the wall!

Yet still, despite millions chanting their opposition all over the country, and EVERY poll that comes out indicating the same sentiments, somehow, some way, in a land far far away from Sheboygan, WI. called Washington D.C. our congressional and senatorial leaders just can’t, or won’t hear us, and neither apparently will our president.

Senators have now changed the rules of who can enter the Senate Building in order to keep constituents at bay; they take their phones off the hook to ignore our calls; refuse to accept faxes and emails; refuse repeated requests to meet with constituents, and on the rare occasions they do respond, they send form letters thanking us for supporting them.

Senators call American citizens “evil-mongers,” “terrorists” and “radicals.”
This Senatorial disdain for the majority of American citizens is an outrage, they believe they, as one individual, are far more informed, knowledgeable, and enlightened than those they represent, and as a result, they continue to cast their votes against the wishes of the people insisting (among other things) that we “just don’t understand” or that they are “doing it for the good of the people”.

STOP THE MADNESS! Get off the couch, Turn off the T.V., Put away the video games, gather your friends and loved ones, and get moving.

WAKE UP!!! at this very moment, Your COUNTRY, your RIGHTS, and your FREEDOM are in very serious JEOPARDY.

Do you REALLY want the government, any government, let alone this one, deciding your fate or that of Your children and grandchildren?

Do you REALLY believe the government will do what is best for you or your loved ones when you or that loved one are seriously ill and in need of extensive medical care? Or, will they do what is least expensive, or most “cost effective,” all the while spending lavishly on European Vacations, Hawaiian luaus at the White House, and New York Dates?

Do you REALLY believe, based upon all the broken promises in the past 10 months, that much of anything this administration says is truthful, or in this county’s best interest, not to mention yours, your children’s or grandchildren’s?

If you do, I’ve got some swampland in the Arizona Desert to sell you, that is, if you can get a loan, or hold on to your job long enough to make the payments on it… but hey, the good news is, you might qualify for a nice big Tax credit courtesy of… yup you guessed it, “The Government” and “The ONE”.

If you’re one of the REALLY lucky ones, you can drive to your new Arizona swampland in your new vehicle bought at a steal of a deal when…Gasp, yup you guessed it AGAIN, your Government and “The ONE” gave you that “Cash for Clunkers” program incentive / deal!

Come on people… what are you waiting for?

Do you honestly think a handful of people, your loved ones, friends and neighbors, can win this battle alone while you sit back and do nothing except “talk” about what “a sad state of affairs things are right now”, and how “someone, should really do SOMETHING” but, you? Well your too busy watching American Idol, or playing “Fantasy Football.”

Do you think all there is to it, is attending a tea party, and once you’ve done that you have done your part?

ARE YOU GOING TO STAND AND FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHTS AND FREEDOM?

Or will you sit quietly in front of your T.V. watching eating and drinking only what they still allow you to, when they allow you to, (which will be of course) always done in the “best interest of the health and welfare of all Americans.” That has already begun, i.e. transfats? Banned. Sugar? Taxed. Caffeine? Limited,..etc. (that is, for as long as they allow you to get it at all) before they march you out to the street for, oh say… Mandatory Volunteer Government Service? foxnews.com/…/house-readies-passage-volunteerism-critics-pricey-forced-service/

If you think I am joking think AGAIN, I’m not.

Your children can no longer get a student loan anywhere except through the government, the Government now controls who gets an education and who doesn’t, did you know this? www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/09/17/politics/main5317823.shtml

Rasmussen Reports 53-56% of Americans oppose any health care legislation at all, 60% of Americans say it will increase the deficit, and 71% of Americans are angry at the Federal Government. Yet the US Senate is determined to vote this bill into law anyway. http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/september_2009/health_care_reform

WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE UP! YOUR ALREADY LATE, SOON YOU WILL BE TOO LATE .

Sherrod Brown bought by Soros, Voinovich sits and watches congress steal us blind and votes Present because he’s retiring. SO WHAT, you should still do your job while you’re there!! WE still have to pay your Present only a$$!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’m with Erick: the Senate GOP must stop this bill. Erick’s laid out all sorts of ways in which they can do it. It won’t be pretty, but I prefer that to losing quality healthcare.

I think Senator McConnell is a much better legislator than many on these boards give him credit for. Neverthless…the bottom line is that this bill not pass.

I can understand McConnell not blowing the bridges the minute this debate began. Maybe there were some opportunities to kill the bill through negotiation.

But, if the time comes that blowing the bridges is our only option, then light the fuse.

Now, if Senator McConnell and the GOP leadership have some bold plan, under which we’d all benefit if this bill WERE to pass…OK; let’s hear it. I can’t think of anything that would make me root for this bill’s passage, but I’ll listen. For a little while longer. But they’ll have to sell all of us on it—and I can’t imagine any case so compelling that it would convince us to go along with Obamacare.

Any sensible plan I can think of results in Obamacare being killed. Erick’s right; it’s so bad at its core that you can’t improve it enough to make it palatable.

Therefore, Senate GOP, be sure you kill this bill. Even if you have to blow the bridges.

Erick –

Such an extremely important post. So much so that I reposted on my site (hope that’s ok) and I emailed our safe Georgia senators to reiterate that we expect them to take advantage of the relative safety of their seats to be leaders and to prevent this crap with every ounce of their being.

We shall see. Keep up the fight. Nice to see you on TV these days taking the fight to the enemy.

it will be that the Republicans let them.

Who should I despise more?

Sharing with all my FB peeps. I am working hard to make as many people as possible understand that America is in a fight to the death for our freedom and liberty. The fight is here with Congress over this abomination of a bill.

If Republican senators allow this disaster to pass, we need to ensure every one of them gets targeted for removal at the earliest opportunity besides all the Dems we have to remove. What worries me is there is NOTHING they care about; not even their careers. Certainly not their country.

What on earth kind of awful people have we elected to office?????

If you think that Senate Republicans are friends of conservatism, then I think that you think wrongly.

Time to pray.

I am conservative, I am Inalienable Individual Liberty, I am Natural Law and Common Sense, and I am Individualism and Exceptionalism. When I hear a politician say we have equal rights governed by the government, especially healthcare, I know it is wrong and the majority knows it is wrong as well. Adolf Hitler and Anton Drexler were equal rights and we know how that turned out. Distracters of this fact only cite the results as politically incorrect whereas the conservative knows the Common Sense that stepping on to this path is wrong. We have Inalienable Individual Liberty and not rights given out in some socialist allotment. Natural Law is that we must have Suspicion of Power because we cannot foretell the future and Common Sense is that government is not always a benevolent provider. Therein so written in our Constitution, government must be limited and shall have enumerated power and the remainder shall be in the hands of the Individual States and mostly the Individual. Distracters call this blind adherence to the past and ridicule this as an obstruction of Progress forgoing the lessons history teaches. If our Elected few surrender the lessons history teaches they will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government. The Magnitude and Enormity thereof cannot be expressed in simple words, therein resulting in some Confrontation or Fight of equal proportion. The path these Elected few have stepped onto is extremely dangers and a threat to all. If not the Senate Republicans then who is going to fight? Will it be in the Senate with some resemblance of civility or without? At best, they have ended their career and at worst, it will be civil war if the Constitution is further perverted and subverted in to a bastardized form of illegitimate government.

The next Tea Party may well be over two million, it is Common Sense that push leads to shove and it is a very foolish to play that game with those numbers just outside your door. It is hard to believe they are that stupid and ignorant, please tell me they are not.

YOU will be blamed if this bill goes through and you did not do everything you could to stop it.

What we need are tough, red-blooded, freedom-loving Americans to stand up and fight, and go toe-to-toe with the communist faction in Congress, to stand on the Capitol steps with a bull-horn if necessary and let the American people know what’s really going on. Instead, we’ve elected people who want to play patty-cake.

Erick,

Great post. I wanted to take the opportunity to let your readers know of a group called Tea Party Support – http://teapartysupport.org. Tea Party Support and the Social Security Institute – www.socialsecurityinstitute.org – were running a campaign called “I Object” starting early last week covering this exact topic. Over 1.5 million emails were sent out.

The purpose of the campaign was to expose the cowardice of the Republican leadership and the bravery of Senator Jim DeMint. DeMint’s strategy was to throw every procedural hurdle possible to block ObamaCare. No other Republican stood with him. In fact, when Durbin threatened to keep the Senate in session 24 hours a day, 7 days a week the Republicans folded – vacatin over country. McConnell’s real strategy is to give the appearence of fighting this bill while actually wanting it to pass so the GOP can use this as a weapon next year to secure more seats. Self-interest over country. The strategy is so myopic that McConnell deserves to lose his leadership seat. I agree that if the Senate GOP does the right thing and throws procedural hurdles we should applaud them. If they do not, then we should take every necessary step to let the public know of their treachery.

Rush Limbaugh picked up on our story and The Hill wrote a piece about Rush’s verbal tongue lashing of McConnell. The story can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/yjgjx56. The story refers to us as Tea Party and in the comments you can see multiple attempts to get them to correct their story and mention Tea Party Support. You were also mentioned in that story.

Some progress is being made. A few days ago, CBS reported that Michael Steele sent a memo to the Senate GOP telling them to pull out all the stops and use every trick in the book to stop ObamaCare – http://tinyurl.com/ylx53t7. TPS followed that story up with a press release this morning: Rush Limbaugh & Michael Steele Join Tea Party Support & Social Security Institute-Demand GOP Senate Stop ObamaCare by Any Means Possible – http://tinyurl.com/ydvarwg.

We all need to keep presurring the Senate GOP to do the right thing and stand with Senator DeMint and object.

“Fight” is exactly right.

This is not a bill about which to be worried about style points. The Dems had no compunction about bringing the Senate to a crawl over routine judge appointments.

This is not a bill for Senators to be afraid of offending their colleagues. They should be offended that the “World’s Greatest Deliberative Body” is trying to foist this abomination on their country.

Fight!–every day, every hour, to the max!

what are the republicans doing.they have to fight these parasites from taking our freedom.democrates are all about greedom as long as their pockets are lined with your tax money.for god sakes ever one on the side of live liberty and the persuit of happiness should speak loud let their voices be heard over those who want to take it away.

and, although those consequences are pretty grim from the last election, it does no good to whine about them.

I guess it’s fair to criticize Mitch Mcconnell’s senate strategy however, to fillibuster every amendment is kinda pointless unless ones goal is to delay. I think his goal is to kill the bill and failing that, limit the damage as much as possible. He simply does not have the numbers to do much else.

senate parliamentarian in my view but the idea that he would engage in “blowing up the bridges” just isnt in the cards. He is going to give it his best shot and if he loses, live to fight another day.

These Leftist/statist have been dismantling our Constitution and Rights as a free people for a hundred years now. This HealthCare sham is to date their biggest power grab-far beyond Healthcare.

As they have come this close I do not see the Leftist/statist giving up power to anything so trite as an election in 2010.

Remember what Stalin said: “Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.” They don’t care what the polls show, they don’t care that they would lose seats in a fair election because they don’t intend to allow a fair election to take place.

I’ll be there tomorrow at 1:30, along with Laura Ingraham and others, but I do not expect them to listen. I’m going so that I can tell my grandchildren that, back in the olden days, when Communism was just taking hold in America, I really, really tried to stop it.

Tell us what to do to change the fact that the Republican Senators are not listening to the people. I call, write and email, all to no avail. I get pat letters back that prove they don’t even read what I write. We have had the tea parties, Town Hall meetings, and these with little or with no results as far as the Senators responses go. I am willing to do things, if you tell me what I need to do. I am one person, with limited capabilities as I am handicapped, but will work hard for the cause. We are in need a strong leader, one who can pull the party together and we need to stop the in-fighing. From what I can observe that is why we get nothing done. we are finger pointing and spinning our wheels. There is NO way this bill should have gotten to this point. And if it is signed we will never get rid of it.

Notwithstanding the differing responses to the GOP’s heretofore tepid approach to this egregious legislation …

This topic header has got to be one of the most motivationally inspiring pieces that I have read in some time. I have emailed Eric’s patriotic and impassioned call to “Fight” to everybody that I know.

Ned Reck