The Contraception deception…

“If you like your plan, you will get to keep your plan!” Remember Obama promising you that about ObaMAOcare?!?!?!

Do you think Religious institutions, exercising their conscience by not having their plans include contraception and the (Morning after) Abortion pill, like their plans the way they are?!?! Obama shows how “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan” is, and always has been; as well as most everything else out of his mouth is; A LIE!

There is something else that everyone is missing here. This is a purposeful, willful, and with malice of fore-thought, a direct attempt to get Religious endeavors TO DROP THEIR PLANS causing countless more Americans to be in that “Public Option,” which was, is, and always has been, their (Liberals) goal. They are moving to complete, outright, Government controlled Socialized Medicine; ObaMAOcare was designed to do this from the outset – to destroy and move people away from Private Health Care Insurance plans to a Government option.

Time and time again, we warned people this was the plan/goal from the outset and so many just buried their head back in the sand – too lazy to pay attention and do any research for themselves, just buying into any and all lies from Liberal/Progressive Democrats about the ObaMAOcare scheme. They have been pushing for this since the 1930′s (long before HilaryCare) and only now under Obama and while they had Democrat control of the House and Senate were they finally able to (do what they couldn’t, but tried, to do under Clinton, and) ram it through.

Shamefully, Mitt Romney continues to struggle on finding the “right message” (response) to the ‘Obama-care is just Romney-care on a National scale’ meme. While there are similarities (Mandate), they are NOT exactly the same. The words Romney, and other Republicans, must be putting forth is the simple truth: Obama-care was designed to DISGUISE itself as a Romney-care clone, but is little more than a Trojan-horse (Wolf, in Romney-care clothing). While it (Obama-care) keeps the facade of “Private Insurance” coverages, countless other pages/sections are designed and in-place to undermine that (“If you like your plan, you can keep your plan”) concept and drive more and more people unto the “Public Option.” Obama-care was/is designed TO FAIL over the long haul, at which time having harmed Private coverage and driven people off their plans onto the Public Option, and usher in the Democrats next calls for out-right and complete 100% Government-run Socialized Medicine.

I have seen many Religious spokespersons asking that we contact our Representatives and ask that “this policy” be “corrected!” THAT IS THE WRONG APPROACH, ALL OF OBAMA-CARE MUST BE REPEALED – that is the correct/only option and course of action that will stop Liberals/Progressives from exerting control over any and all aspects of your Life in the name of Health Care. Our Representatives must STOP trying to tinker around the edges and continue to demand complete repeal – no Republican that offers/promises any less should be supported!

Obama’s mistake was letting this cat out of the bag before this 2012 election. Rest assured, if they cave on the issue now, it will only be to get past the election and to once again push this issue. It’s all about pushing people from Private coverage (by badgering, bullying, regulating into submission, or HC inflation to cause cost prohibition, organizations into dropping their coverages – pushing their people) to the Public Option.

Obamaocare primers: here, here, here, here, here, and HC summary here.

As always, Regards from JLenardDetroit from “NoMoTown (The MOTORless CITY)”
“Remember, Liberals – looking to do for America, what they’ve done to Detroit. – Destroy it!”
“I think, therefore I am Conservative”
“Conservative by choice, Republican by necessity”
“The more things ‘hope and change’ the more they stay the same”
“You can lead a Liberal to the Truth (Facts), but you cannot make them THINK!”
“Romney (No, not my first choice) does NOT have a MORMON problem. He has a, far too many Americans; these days; are MORONS problem!”
“No more Lawyers to DC, send Accountants!”
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cross-posted: “Rattle With Us” Tea Party, Before It’s News, and RedState

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I encourage you to attend a free event this weekend, focusing on three important topics:  ObamaCare, immigration reform, and tax reform.  It’s Friday night in Overland Park, and Saturday in Wichita.  No, Wichita is not like it’s portrayed in “Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.”

It’s co-sponsored by two Kansas City-area center-right groups: the Union of Patriots and FairTaxKC.

I think you’ll find this event educational, even if you don’t come to the exact same conclusions on all of the issues.

The flyer is below (or click here to download the PDF).

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Nothing exemplifies the history and accomplishments of the Obama administration like the Chevy Volt.  The Chevy Volt was an experimental electric car that was supposed to bring our nation into the future.  The Obama administration was an experiment that would change our economy from a capitalist, free market economy, into a centralized command and control economy planned by the brightest and the best.  The Chevy Volt was the transformation of General Motors from a company that wasted resources into one that would create clean, green jobs and provide a template for the rest of America.  The Obama administration would make the United States the country that made collective socialism work and thereby provide a template for the world on smart economics.

Both are abject failures.

The Chevy Volt had been on the drawing boards at GM when they went belly up.  The Obama administration took over GM and decided to make the Volt their car of the future.  Planners had said it wasn’t ready, but that didn’t stop Obama.  Whether the design was ready or not, it was time to show the world and the rest of America what the progressive/socialist economic planners could do.

The Obama administration decided it would recreate the Clinton economic miracle by retooling the energy sector with ‘green’ energy.  Clinton’s economic miracle was an accident of economy and technology.  Computers became smaller and fast enough to do a lot of good.  Ordinary Americans got computers and businesses refitted with these increasingly faster models with better, more useful programs.  The Internet exploded and we had tons of jobs and new industries created.

The Obama administration wanted to arrange conditions so the new, green technology would affect the same economic miracle.  But, the efficiency and effectiveness of the green solar, wind, and alternative fuels weren’t nearly advanced enough.  Didn’t matter.  Obama and his team began pouring money and mandates into experiment after experiment.  Didn’t work.  These companies are going broke and so goes the rest of the country.  Solyndra, Sun Power, and a bevy of other green energy businesses are failing because the technology isn’t ready.  Just like the Volt.

The Chevy Volt isn’t safe.  After crashes, it can burst into a ball of flames.  The federal government knew this.  GM knew this.  But, regardless of safety issues, they sold them anyway.  They wanted to prove to the world and to Americans just how much smarter they were than the rest of us.  They’d hope these cars didn’t burst into flames.  They hoped nobody would notice they produced a product that was unsafe at any speed.  They even hid the fact it didn’t work, but we figured them out.

The Obama administration and the Democratic Party wanted to reform health care.  They hobbled together a series of ideas to have our health care payment system controlled by the president.  Critics argued this entire mousetrap of bizarre notions and half-baked theories would force business to drop employee insurance plans.  They were also warned that all these mandates  would make insurance costs higher and therefore raise prices for premiums.  The Obama administration put their fingers in their ears and went;  la, la, la, la, la.  We are now watching as people get booted from their insurance at work and costs escalating even more dramatically than they did before.

The Chevy Volt isn’t selling.  They have sold just a few thousand cars even with expensive government subsidies and tax breaks.  Nobody wants the car.  Most people intuitively understand it was a rushed product made for political purposes and probably not a good vehicle.  They also know just because a car runs on electricity, doesn’t mean it’s cheaper.  In fact, it increases electric bills far more than it saves money on gas.  It isn’t a product that works as it should.  It’s just a silly experiment done by sillier government fools.

Obamanomics isn’t selling either.  The bizarre mix of tax cuts here, tax increases there, a subsidy for him, a regulation for her has all made people question the concepts.  How is this supposed to save the economy?  How will paying off teacher unions increase sales?  How is subsidizing a train to nowhere making products cheaper?  Where are the jobs when it seems all we do is cut unemployment checks?    It doesn’t work on a common sense level.  It doesn’t pass the smell test.  It doesn’t even pass the ‘hold my nose, and say a prayer’ test.

Neither the Chevy Volt nor the Obama administration are good bets.  I think that is becoming increasingly obvious.

Crossposted at Looktruenorth.com

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(H/T Instapundit) Come, I will conceal nothing from you: I respect Barney Frank‘s political skills.  I absolutely can’t stand what he uses those skills for, but I recognize that Rep. Frank has them, and that he knows how to use them effectively.  To give just one example, Rep. Frank was about the only Democrat to make it through last year’s August health care meltdown without looking like either an abject coward, or a purblind fool*. You don’t have to like him – and I don’t – to recognize that.

Which is why Rep. Frank calling the Obama administration “dumb” for putting out an expectation of 8% unemployment if the stimulus passed is so interesting. First off, it’s a refreshing change from the previous narrative, which was that you were a dirty racist right-wing homophobe for taking the Romer-Bernstein graph seriously in the first place**.  True, it turns out that people were idiots for taking the stimulus as a job saver seriously, but that’s a different issue.

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(H/T Instapundit) Come, I will conceal nothing from you: I respect Barney Frank‘s political skills.  I absolutely can’t stand what he uses those skills for, but I recognize that Rep. Frank has them, and that he knows how to use them effectively.  To give just one example, Rep. Frank was about the only Democrat to make it through last year’s August health care meltdown without looking like either an abject coward, or a purblind fool*. You don’t have to like him – and I don’t – to recognize that.

Which is why Rep. Frank calling the Obama administration “dumb” for putting out an expectation of 8% unemployment if the stimulus passed is so interesting. First off, it’s a refreshing change from the previous narrative, which was that you were a dirty racist right-wing homophobe for taking the Romer-Bernstein graph seriously in the first place**.  True, it turns out that people were idiots for taking the stimulus as a job saver seriously, but that’s a different issue.

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Of the many arguments regarding the unconstitutionality of the Health Care Act, its containing an un-apportioned Capitation tax is the strongest.

Article 1, section 9 of the U.S. Constitution provides:

No capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken.

As the Supreme Court correctly explained in Knowlton v. Moore, 178 U.S. 41 (1900), Congress may levy either direct or indirect taxes.  Direct taxes must be apportioned among the states by population.  Indirect taxes must be uniform.  The Constitution specifically authorizes indirect levies such as duties, imposts, and excise taxes.   In 1913, the 16th Amendment authorized an income tax without apportionment, essentially treating it as an indirect tax, which merely requires uniformity.

In the 1900 case, the Court approved as constitutional an inheritance tax, which it referred to, interestingly, as a “death tax.”  Such a tax was an excise tax because Congress levied it on the activity of transferring wealth at death.  It was not, as the Court explained, a tax on property or a person or income, each of which would not be an “excise tax,” but instead would be a direct tax necessitating apportionment.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care ACT of 2010 requires all individuals – whom it inconveniently refers to as “taxpayers” – to pay a “penalty” on their failure to act, i.e., on their failure to purchase proper health insurance or to enroll in a proper plan.  I know of no case describing inactivity as the type of transaction or action which can be the subject of an excise tax; indeed, I doubt such a case exists.

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I called your office yesterday to note my objection to the health care legislation currently being considered by the House.  I am writing today to reiterate my opinion of this legislation.

This legislation will not do anything to reduce the actual costs of medical care, but will only change who is paying the bills.  The president and other supporters of the Senate Bill cite its CBO Score to present this legislation as a cost saving measure, but this score is a result of accounting gimmicks that defy common sense.  It uses 10 years of tax increases and medicare cuts to offset 6 years of spending.  Additionally, I am highly suspicious that the planned Medicare cuts will never happen, just like the cuts passed in the 90′s are being eliminated by the “doc fix”.  We cannot pay for our current entitlement programs, and along with its permanent enshrinement of Pell Grants, this legislation adds 2 new entitlement systems on top of them.  This will bankrupt the country.  Congress should start from scratch on a truly bipartisan bill.

Additionally, the methods being considered to pass this legislation are despicable.  The tactic being referred to as the “Slaughter Rule” or “deem and pass” should not be used to pass any legislation, especially not something of this scope.  Article 1, Section 7 of The Constitution specifically states “in all such Cases the Votes of both Houses shall be determined by Yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively.”  Using a rule to “deem” that a bill has passed based on the results of the vote on another bill does not meet this constitutional requirement.  You should vote against any bill or rule that attempts to use this maneuver on constitutional grounds, independent of its content.

Members of your caucus have cited examples of Republicans using this tactic in the past as their justification for using it in this case.  I wouldn’t accept this “They did it first” excuse from a child, and I certainly don’t accept it from a Congressman.  If the Republicans did it in the past they were wrong, too.  Maybe that’s why we voted them out of power.  This isn’t the Change America voted for.

If the Senate bill is too flawed to pass as is, it should be amended and sent back to the Senate for their reconsideration.  You should not pass a flawed bill with the hope to “fix” it later.  Obscuring a vote on the Senate Bill by hiding behind the “fix” doesn’t make sense, because if the Senate Bill is approved by the House, it will be sent to the President and become law, no matter what happens to the Reconciliation Bill.  Just because the House passes a “fix”, there is no guarantee that it will pass the Senate.  Therefore the Senate Bill MUST be judged on its own merits, independent from the fix.  If it doesn’t have the votes, it must die.

Nancy Pelosi proves that it is possible to give “tells”, even if your face can’t move and you are an accomplished liar. First, the “she made an utter fool of herself” part, because any chance to point and snicker at Pelosi is A-Okay with me. While giving a speech to the National Association of Counties, Pelosi said the following:

“You’ve heard about the controversies, the process about the bill…but I don’t know if you’ve heard that it is legislation for the future – not just about health care for America, but about a healthier America,” she told the National Association of Counties annual legislative conference, which has drawn about 2,000 local officials to Washington. “But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it – away from the fog of the controversy.”

Pelosi is basically saying, as the Left tends to do, “You silly rubes! You just don’t realize how super awesome it is and how smart we are. We can’t wait around for you common folk to figure it out, so we’ll just ram it down your throats without any of your pesky input. Just be grateful that you still have tonsils in those throats, no thanks to nefarious tonsil reaping doctors and evil Republicans!”

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