To listen to the liberal media, you would think conservatives had won the first and only battle on ObamaCare repeal –- but already lost the war.

The Washington Post, echoing the almost universal media theme (including Fox), called the vote “largely symbolic.” Over and over again, we have been told that ObamaCare will never be repealed and we are wasting our time to even think about it.

And, incidentally, the stupid Republicans reinforce this theme when they concede at the beginning of each interview that they are too flaccid and ineffectual to prevail. Compare this to the “We will win!” mantra Obama used to pass ObamaCare in the first place.

Ironically, we are probably only about four Senate votes short of sending the repeal bill to Obama’s desk in the 112TH Congress. And, if Republicans have the courage to tack repeal onto the debt limit or continuing resolution, even without those four votes, the House will have the capacity to present Obama with a choice:

* sign the ObamaCare repeal; or
* shut down the administration’s rule-making powers for the next two years.

That’s right. No regulatory cap-and-trade. No NLRB requirements that employers encourage unionization. No BATF gun registries for multiple sales. No massive new administratively designated wilderness areas. No taxpayer funded TV commercials touting ObamaCare. No ObamaCare implementation.

In September, 2009, Obama was more than four votes short of passing ObamaCare. He initially fell more than four votes short of ratifying START, repealing don’t-ask-don’t-tell, creating a 9/11 entitlement, and regulating small farms. Yet, he moved ruthlessly and methodically to pick up the votes he needed. And the Hypocrite Press, not surprisingly, didn’t whine that these initiatives were “symbolic” or “a waste of time.”

Here are the steps to repealing ObamaCare:

STEP ONE: BRING THE HOUSE BILL ONTO THE SENATE CALENDAR

A single senator can use the Senate rules to force the House-passed bill onto the Senate legislative calendar. And my understanding is that Jim DeMint has committed to us that he will do this.

This is done under Senate Rule 14, which allows any senator to object, on two successive legislative days, to further proceedings on a House-passed bill. After the first objection, the bill is held at the desk. After the second objection, the bill is placed on the calendar.

This is important.

Sure, DeMint can introduce a similar bill with a Senate number. But, even if that bill passes the Senate, it will be “blue-slipped” in the House, because it is a revenue measure which originates in the Senate in violation of the Constitution.

STEP TWO: TARGET FOUR DEMOCRATIC VOTES

Once H.R. 2 is on the Senate calendar, ANY SENATOR can move to proceed to it at almost any time -– and any senator can file cloture on the motion to proceed.

(This assumes that Udall and Merkley are not successful (They were not successful), on January 25, in their effort to abolish the filibuster of the motion to proceed. If that were to happen, a switch of four votes would make H.R. 2 the pending business of the Senate. And, incidentally, if Merkley and Udall pull the trigger on the “constitutional option” on January 25, H.R. 2 goes to final passage and Obama’s desk. I am not advocating this, but I am saying that Merkley and Udall will be held to the rules-related implications of their own sleaziness.)

True, if a GOP senator makes a motion to proceed, Harry Reid will squeal and whine that Republicans are interfering with “his prerogatives.” But as the Manchins and Nelsons and McCaskills stare into the face of electoral defeat, Reid’s “prerogatives” may not be that important to them.

How do you target senators?

With the same ruthlessness that Obama employed in passing ObamaCare. Democratic bills and treaties like the START Treaty, don’t-ask-don’t-tell repeal, the 9/11 entitlement, and ObamaCare itself started out without the necessary votes. But guess what? Barack Obama moved heaven and earth to pick off the votes he needed to prevail on these bills.

Start with all but three of the so-called “Blue Dog” Democrats who won reelection by swearing that they were “independent” and not just “Pelosi puppets” –- only to see their “independence” vanish Wednesday as soon as the Democrat Left pulled on their puppet strings. Talk about giving a big, fat obscene gesture to the suckers who have just been stupid enough to reelect you…

In the Senate, “independents” like Ben Nelson, Bill Nelson, McCaskill, etc., during the ObamaCare battle and the post-election session, jumped over and over again when ordered to by the Far Left. Any argument that a vote for McCaskill is anything other than a proxy for Barbara Boxer should be met with withering resistance.

STEP THREE: AS OBAMACARE COLLAPSES, SHOUT IT TO THE HIGH HEAVENS

The primary impact of ObamaCare has been to drive premiums through the roof. Employer-provided premiums, which were supposed to DECREASE, according to CBO, have increased as much as 9% or more IN ONE YEAR.

The only reason the insurance industry has not already collapsed is the hundreds of waivers of ObamaCare given by the Obama administration to employers, unions, and AARP.

And guess what? The biggest “gotcha” is yet to come: In 2014, tens of millions of former Obama voters will find out about the bloated premiums they will have to pay, under penalty of law.

STEP FOUR: TACK OBAMACARE REPEAL ONTO A MUST-PASS BILL

If Republicans choose to tack ObamaCare repeal onto the federal appropriations bill (the “continuing resolution”) or the debt limit increase, Obama will have no choice but to repeal his treasured legacy or shut down his rule-making agencies for the remainder of his term.

Yes, yes, I know. The GOP Senate leadership is terrified of threatening a government shut-down, for fear of repeating the 1995 Gingrich debacle.

Let’s ignore the argument, for the time being, that Gingrich lost the political debate not because he stood up to Clinton, but because he cowered and lost. The fact is that the GOP can preempt this problem by introducing legislation that will keep debt payments, entitlements, and defense funding flowing, even if there is not continuing resolution or debt limit increase.

Within the past two days, Pennsylvania Senator Pat Toomey has, at our urging, announced legislation to allow the debt limit to expire -– while requiring that the U.S. continue to pay interest on the debt, thus avoiding default.

Thus, if Obama vetoes the debt limit bill (with ObamaCare repeal attached), the international financial system will not collapse. An even more expansive version of the Toomey proposal could guarantee payment of interest on the debt, entitlements, and defense. Exactly what justification would Obama use to veto that?

So the net impact of killing the CR or the debt limit would be that BATF will not be able to illegally create gun registries of multiple sales. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will no longer be able to implement job-killing “cap-and-trade” by administration fiat. Obama will no longer be able to ban guns in a major portion of the U.S. by designating “wilderness areas” by regulation.

STEP FIVE: DO NOT LET BEN NELSON, ETC., OFF THE HOOK BY ALLOWING THEM TO CHERRY-PICK AT THE REALLY UNPOPULAR FEATURES OF OBAMACARE, LIKE THE 1099 REQUIREMENTS

Repealing the mandate is fine, because it is so central that its repeal will collapse the entire system.

But if the GOP allows ObamaCare to be “cleaned up,” (1) we will never repeal ObamaCare, and (2) the Nelsons and McCaskills will use their votes on these efforts to nibble around the edges to defeat Republicans and retain control of the Senate and the White House.

Let me give you an example. Republicans were in the cat-bird’s seat in the post-election session. At the behest of the liberal media’s call for “bipartisanship,” they capitulated on a variety of issues in order to obtain a tepid two-year extension of the Bush tax cuts. And what did that get them? They revived the Obama administration, opened the floodgates to a raft of Obama priorities, and sent their own numbers plummeting through the floor.

So, the bottom line is this:

The successful legislative strategy of the Far Left over the past year is to pronounce, like a mantra, “We’re going to win. You’re going to lose.” And sad-sacks like Mitch McConnell have all-too-often responded by conceding that he’s going to lose. Which he does -– with unbending regularity.

But we have all the legislative tools we need to repeal ObamaCare –- or shut down the Obama administration — in the 112th Congress.

And guess what? If Republicans can prove that they are not sad-sacks and losers, maybe they will control the White House and Senate in 2013.

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We agree and think 25 to life would be appropriate.

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America needs Obamacare like Nancy Pelosi needs a Halloween mask.

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Q: Have you heard about McDonalds new Obama Value Meal?

A: Order anything you like and the guy behind you has to pay for it..

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Q: What does Barack Obama call lunch with a convicted felon?

A: A fund raiser.

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Q: What’s the difference between Obama’s cabinet and a penitentiary?

A: One is filled with tax evaders, blackmailers and threats to society.

The other is for housing prisoners.

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If Nancy Pelosi and Obama were on a boat in the middle of the ocean and It

started to sink, who would be saved? …. America !

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If Nancy Pelosi has her face lifted one more time she’ll have a beard!

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Q: What’s the difference between Obama and his dog, Bo?

A: Bo has papers

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To put a human face on the grim effects of severing that lifeline, Robert Pear, long due for a Pulitzer for his health-care reporting, introduced Delmer A. Wilcox, 89, of Caribou, Maine. He “lives alone, is losing his vision, uses a walker and has chronic diseases of the lungs, heart and kidneys. He said his condition would deteriorate quickly without the regular visits he received from Visiting Nurses of Aroostook, a unit of Eastern Maine Home Care.”

But President Obama has emphasized (as he did during an interview with New York Times’ columnist David Leonhardt): “The chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80 percent of the total health-care bill out here.”

For cost purposes, should Reid take into account how much longer Mr. Wilcox has to live?

Another senator, the often-independent Maine Republican Susan Collins, does not make such terminal calculations. “The Medicare home benefit,” she told The New York Times (Dec. 6), “is under attack. The impact of these cuts will ultimately fall on seniors. Home health agencies will simply not be able to afford to serve seniors living in smaller communities off rural roads.”

With regard to the president’s intense concern with health-care cost-effectiveness, Collins adds (New York Times, Dec. 5): “Home care and hospice have consistently proven to be cost-effective and compassionate alternatives to institutional care.”

This has been true not only in smaller communities off rural roads, but throughout the nation. As Republican Sen. Mike Johanns of Nebraska tried to remind his colleagues across the aisle (a transcript is available on his Web site, johanns.senate.gov): “These are truly some of the most vulnerable Americans. Yet in order to finance this new entitlement, this bill takes money out of that much-needed program, and it places the cuts on the backs of these Americans, our most vulnerable Americans.”

The great majority of congressional Democrats, however, obediently followed “commander” Reid. As John Fund reported in the Wall Street Journal (Dec. 4): “The party leadership has made it clear that anyone who votes against health care (as written by the leadership) will have a difficult time passing their own bills in the future.”

When I was a kid, I used to read that the U.S. Senate was “the greatest deliberative body in the world.” Not that Republican majority leaders have been averse to ensuring party loyalty by stringent means; but for the Democratic machine to use such bare-knuckles tactics to pass this legislation so directly involving the future lifespans of so many Americans (regardless of age or political affiliation) should make President Obama pause.

But he is a very cool (as in cold) caretaker of the national budget.

Sen. John McCain is decidedly uncool during this debate, much to his credit. In a Dec. 5 interview with Don Imus, McCain said of the fears of Obamacare around the country: “There’s not a lot of happy people out there, so you see tea parties, and you see people who are madder than they’ve ever been in their life. And frankly, I’m madder than I’ve ever been.”

Me, too.

The day after Reid secured his 60 votes to continue Senate debate on Obamacare, CBS’ “60 Minutes” — “The Cost of Dying” – presented a cold, clear case for cutting the $43 billion Medicare spending on home health services that serve not only the elderly, but certainly many other Americans. Opening the program chillingly, Steve Kroft played the actuarial rather than the compassionate blues:

“Every medical study ever conducted has concluded that 100 percent of all Americans will eventually die. This comes as no great surprise, but the amount of money being spent at the very end of people’s lives probably will. Last year, Medicare paid $50 billion just for doctor and hospital bills during the last two months of patients’ lives – that’s more than the budget of the Department of Homeland Security or the Department of Education.

“And it has been estimated that 20 to 30 percent of these medical expenditures may have had no meaningful impact.”

If I may interrupt, sir, what about the impact on the other lives? During the program, we hear from Dr. Ira Byock in the intensive-care unit at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H.:

“Denial of death at some point becomes a delusion, and we start acting in ways that make no sense whatsoever. And I think that’s collectively what we’re doing.”

Toward the end of “The Cost of Dying,” Dr. Byock lectures us on our moral responsibilities in these matters: “Collectively, as a culture, we really have to acknowledge that we’re mortal,” he said. “Get over it. And start looking at what a healthy, morally robust way for people to die looks like.”

John McCain isn’t getting over it. And in next year’s midterm elections, we’ll see how many other Americans won’t. Are they immoral?

The economy will surely be a major factor in these coming elections, but I expect many Americans going to the polls will indeed be thinking robustly of their own mortality.

Nat Hentoff is a nationally renowned authority on the First Amendment and the Bill of Rights. He is a member of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and the Cato Institute, where he is a senior fellow.

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The details were sketchy when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., announced the deal Tuesday night, but on Wednesday President Barack Obama praised it. According to congressional and White House sources, the deal would jettison a full-blown government insurance plan in favor of expanding Medicare to people when they reach 55 and creating new private plans modeled on the federal employee program.

But those who oppose a government takeover of the entire health system should not get up and start dancing in the aisles, for this in reality is a bait-and-switch strategy. The liberals still want a single-payer socialized health system, and in the Senate they have made a tactical maneuver to buy time.

They realize they must buy time right now, because a growing majority of Americans simply do not want their government to take command of health care. So this week’s move is a holding action.

The bill still contains severe restrictions and mandates on private insurance, and if allowed to become law they would slowly but surely choke the private insurance industry out of existence. Then the only option would be the public option. It may be THE classic example of bait and switch.

Provisions in the legislation would assign a value to employer-provided benefits for each worker and report it on employees’ W-2 forms. That would make health insurance a taxable benefit.

What happened to the president’s promise that ObamaCare would not raise taxes?

The legislation has insurance companies squarely in the Democrats’ sights. Insurers will have to provide information on everybody they cover so bureaucrats in Washington can determine if an individual owes a penalty. And guess who is given enforcement power? Our friends at the IRS.

There still are mandates on how much coverage private insurers must offer and limits on how much they can charge, which makes private coverage actuarially impossible to stay in business.

When the private health insurance industry starts to fade away, the public will demand insurance, and guess who the Democrats in Congress want to offer that coverage? The tender ministrations of the federal government.

No, Tuesday’s “compromise” is a true Trojan Horse. The whole bill should be scrapped so that individual reforms can be debated, each on its own merit.

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As this bill enters its next phase in the Senate, let’s all remember that the Democrats need to win every vote. We only need to win one to kill the bill.

The debate in the Senate takes place against a backdrop characterized by two contradictory forces: public opinion is moving more and more against this bill in particular and Obama in general and at the same time, the Democratic leadership in Congress is ratcheting up the pressure on its members to stay in line and back the bill.

One top Democratic strategist conceded to me that “we are losing the message war.” In fact, he implicitly conceded that they have given up on the message war and “are concentrating on holding our guys in line.”

In the long run that’s great for us! It means that if they eventually do pass this bill, it will be a big nail in their coffin for the 2010 election…but we can still beat this bill!

The key is to force the moderate Democratic Senators to demand amendments that move the bill so far to the right that the House can’t pass it. By putting restrictions on the use of funds for abortion, modifying or eliminating the public option, reducing the subsidies for insurance premiums, cutting the penalties for not buying insurance, reducing the Medicare cuts, modifying the cuts in doctor reimbursement, cutting back the Medicaid mandate to expand coverage, and moving in a number of other areas, we can so modify the bill that the House liberals won’t accept it.

We also need to buy time by fighting on each of these amendments in the Senate.

Meanwhile, we need to really pour it on in the message war. We have the public opposing this bill by 38-56 in the Rasmussen Poll of last week. If we can move those numbers to something more like 30-60, we will create irresistible political pressure. Politicians seeking re-election are not made to withstand pressure like that!

If, eventually, the bill — in some form — does pass the Senate, the more we have forced moderate amendments, the more the conference committee will be a long and bloody deadlock.

Obama is alienating the left by sending more troops to Afghanistan. The left will not take kindly to the moderate amendments the Senate will likely add. And the longer the bill remains in conference committee, the more public pressure can build to kill it…and the closer the 2010 elections loom. The more his popularity on the left ebbs, the more liberal Senators and Congressmen will refuse to go along with modifications of the bill.

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The only states that won’t have to raise eligibility because of the Senate bill are Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Vermont and Wisconsin (plus the District of Columbia). And the House bill would force even Massachusetts and Vermont to pay more.

Hardest hit would be Texas ($2,750 million a year in extra state spending under the Senate bill), Pennsylvania ($1,450 million), California ($1,428 million) and Florida ($909 million). Who knows if Florida could avoid imposing an income tax if it has to meet so high an unfunded mandate?

The required increases in state spending are likely to be quite high in some states whose senators are swing votes on ObamaCare:

* In Arkansas, home to swing Sens. Mark Pryor and Blanche Lincoln, the annual increased state spending would come to $402 million (not counting the federal share) — about a 10 percent increase in the state budget, which is now $4 billion a year.

* In Louisiana, whose Sen. Marie Landrieu sold her vote on a key procedural motion in return for more Medicaid funding, the increase would come to $432 million (a 5 percent hike in state spending) — more than wiping out the extra funds she got in return for her vote.

* In Sen. Evan Bayh’s Indiana, spending would go up by $586 million a year, a rise of 4 percent.

* In Sen. Ben Nelson’s Nebraska, the added state spending would be $81 million a year, a 2 percent increase.

The Sebate ObamaCare bill would cost North Dakota, home of Sens. Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan, $14 million. South Dakota, represented by Sen. Tim Johnson, would have to boost Medicaid spending by $33 million.

The Medicaid-expansion provisions of the Senate bill are complex. In the first year of the program (2013), states must enroll anyone who earns less than 133 percent of the poverty level in their programs. For a family of four, the national average poverty level in 2009 is $22,000 a year. So any family that size that makes less than $29,000 would be eligible for Medicaid.

Many states, particularly in the South, actually have Medicaid cutoffs below the poverty level. Arkansas, for example, cuts off its Medicaid eligibility at only 17 percent of poverty level, and in Louisiana it goes up to only 26 percent. For these states, the spending increase required by the new bill is huge.

For the first three years of the program (2013-15) the federal government would pay for all of the costs of the Medicaid expansion. But, starting in the fourth year of operation — 2016 — the average state would be obliged to pay 10 percent of the extra cost.

For Democratic governors, this provision means sudden death. Particularly in states with limited Medicaid coverage, it would require huge tax increases.

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The Senate just voted to advance the Obama-Reid health care takeover bill by a vote of 60 to 39. If the bill ultimately passes, every one of the 60 Senators who voted for it tonight will be responsible.

Everyone knows that any health care bill passed by this Congress and signed by this President will allow the government to take over our health care system in a way that rations care, increases taxes, explodes our debt, and kills jobs. Nothing is going to happen during the Senate debate to change that. By voting to allow this bill to come to the Senate floor tonight, each of these Senators provided the crucial vote needed to pass this dangerous bill.

Every Senator who voted for this legislation tonight should be voted out of office, and SCF will specifically target any swing-vote Senator who tries to fool their constituents into believing they are not responsible for passing this bill. That means vote out every democrat in the Senate. They are all too LIBERAL!

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You see, I have absolutely no use for Obama. Many millions of other good Americans feel the same way. Back in my 30′s I believed that Jimmy Carter was one of the worst presidents that ever walked the face of the earth. He was a deserved one term president. However, Obama, the anointed one, has him beat in all issues. This has nothing to do with race, but everything to do with total incompetence on Obama’s part. He should have never been elected to that office. Hell, he’s never really run anything in his lifetime. Never so much as a soda-pop stand. A hamburger shop or paperboy enterprise. I’m confident he would screw them up too. 80 percent of the public doesn’t want his ObamaCare, but Obama, Pelosi and Reed are determined to ram it down our throats. Maybe we can get it ultimately derailed in the senate. I don’t believe the Senate and House can reach a compromise with their separate abortion and public option issues. At least I hope that’s what happens. I’m praying for it daily.

Obama, Pelosi and Reid, with others, are forcibly driving us down a terrible path towards socialism, approaching communism, from which we might never return. He (they) must be stopped with any tools at hand.

I’m really worried about the state of affairs for this great country. Right now we have 106 trillion dollars of “unfunded debt” staring us in the face for years to come. My great grandkids will have to face these debts. I’m already retired and past that time. Very little of that debt from the Bush years. The majority from the last 11 months. We have 10.2 percent unemployment. In reality the number is over 17 percent, when including the many who have just quit looking for a job, no longer on the unemployment compensation rolls. Obama is selling out this country at every opportunity. That is his agenda.

The Fed is printing money at such a fast rate, I hate to see the inflation Obama and the Congress are pushing towards us. Once again, shades of Jimmy Carter. Good God what a mess they are creating. Do you remember 15%, then 20% etc inflation. It’s not a pretty site. The dollar becomes worthless. That’s why many are buying gold now. The dollar is going to hell. The dollar used to be the world standard. It seems like India just bought around 12 “tons” of gold in the last few days. That’s India, mind you!

Obama has been apologizing or bowing for America at every turn, when he should be talking about the great generosity of the Americans towards all of the world. No country, since time began, has been as generous towards all other nations, as the United States Citizens. Why isn’t he talking about this? Not only with contributed monies, but with thousands of soldier’s lives in democratic pursuits, struggles and wars.

I’m more than just a little bit disgusted with Obama. I’m doing everything I can to see that he and all other “liberal democrats” are voted out of office, when it comes around to each individual’s turn. Starting with the 2010 elections. We can change 1/3 of the Congress then. “Liberal democrats” must go! We must get rid of all the left-wing liberal democrats who are driving this great country right into oblivion. Salazar, Bennett and Udall are all less than worthless. They are pathetic. I thought Salazar was a blue dog. But when it came to ObamaCare, they “all” simply rubber-stamped what Obama and his minions desired. Paying no attention whatsoever to what the “voting public” wants. That being, we don’t want ObamaCare or anything resembling that 2000 page monstrosity. Our great U S Constitution, when printed, is under 20 pages. Obama and the Chicago mob want to cram over 2000 pages down our throats. They want total control of everything we do or say each and every day of our lives. It’s time for the other 20 to 30 percent of the public to wake up. 70 to 80 percent of us are already awake. We are sliding into socialism. God have mercy!

Personally I believe that Obama is a definite “One-Term President”. Thank God for that! He proves my point daily. Having the five Islamic-Jihadist Terrorist Radicals set for trial in New York City is just the latest occurrence, when 65% plus of the public doesn’t want in in NYC. It’s all for left-wing show! More pay back to the left-wing liberals. How can they hate Bush that much? Frankly voting Obama and his Chicago Mob out-of-office is all I want for each one of my birthdays, Thanksgivings and Christmas’ from now until election time 2010, then 2012. Let’s work towards that end. OK?

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Why is President Barack Obama in such a hurry to get his socialized medicine bill passed?

Because he and his cunning circle realize some basic truths:

The American people in their unimaginable kindness and trust voted for a pig in a poke in 2008.

They wanted so much to believe Barack Obama was somehow better and different from other ultra-leftists that they simply took him on faith.

They ignored his anti-white writings in his books.

They ignored his quiet acceptance of hysterical anti-American diatribes by his minister, Jeremiah Wright.

They ignored his refusal to explain years at a time of his life as a student.

They ignored his ultra-left record as a “community organizer,” Illinois state legislator, and Senator.

The American people ignored his total zero of an academic record as a student and teacher, his complete lack of scholarship when he was being touted as a scholar.

Now, the American people are starting to wake up to the truth. Barack Obama is a super likable, super leftist, not a fan of this country, way, way too cozy with the terrorist leaders in the Middle East , way beyond naïveté, all the way into active destruction of our interests and our allies and our future.

The American people have already awakened to the truth that the stimulus bill — a great idea in theory — was really an immense bribe to Democrat interest groups, and in no way an effort to help all Americans.

Now, Americans are waking up to the truth that ObamaCare basically means that every time you are sick or injured, you will have a clerk from the Department of Motor Vehicles telling your doctor what he can and cannot do.

The American people already know that Mr. Obama’s plan to lower health costs while expanding coverage and bureaucracy is a myth, a promise of something that never was and never will be — a bureaucracy lowering costs in a free society. Either the costs go up or the free society goes away..

These are perilous times.. Mrs. Hillary Clinton, our Secretary of State, has given Iran the go-ahead to have nuclear weapons, an unqualified betrayal of the nation. Now, we face a devastating loss of freedom at home in health care. It will be joined by controls on our lives to “protect us” from global warming, itself largely a fraud if believed to be caused by man.

Mr. Obama knows Americans are getting wise and will stop him if he delays at all in taking away our freedoms. There is his urgency and our opportunity. Once freedom is lost, America is lost. Wake up, beloved America .

Ben Stein is a writer, actor, economist, and lawyer living in Beverly Hills and Malibu . He writes “Ben Stein’s Diary” for every issue of The American Spectator.

The title “WE FIGURED HIM OUT!”does not apply to me. I knew all about him for over a year. I’m teed off at those who put him there, for being either too lazy or too stupid to know better.

They may have ruined my country and yours.

You must as an American FORWARD this to all, or you will wake up one morning and your freedoms are no longer there.

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“A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned — this is the sum of good government.”

Thomas Jefferson

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