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As Republicans contemplate their response to President Obama’s coming nomination to the Supreme Court, we should go beyond the traditional scrutiny over social issues and demand that any nominee elaborate his or her views about the constitutionality of the recent legislation passed by this Administration. The hearings on his nominee will be an ideal opportunity to convince the public of the unconstitutionality of his power grabs.

The Obamacare bill, for example, not only strips states of the right to determine who will get Medicaid coverage within their borders, but it forces the states to pick up part of the tab. This is a violation of the very concept of the Tenth Amendment which provides that “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

The Medicaid mandate literally takes budgeting and taxing out of the hands of state governments and gives the power to the federal government. About one-third of the difference between the high tax levels in a state like New York (8.5% income tax) and Texas (no income tax) is the difference in their Medicaid eligibility standards. By forcing Texas to come up to New York’s standards — and to pay for part of it — the health care law socks the lawmakers in Austin with a $2.7 billion annual hole in their budget. Effectively, this unfunded mandate takes away from the states the right to determine their own level of taxation for state services.

Obama’s lawyers justify this outrageous usurpation by claiming that states do not have to participate in the Medicaid program and can opt out entirely. But, the courts have held that when such “voluntary” decisions are so draconian that they are really unrealistic, they amount to coercion. For example, states may not require drug tests for welfare recipients claiming that they do not have to apply for welfare. No state is going to throw all of their elderly nursing home patients out on the street by opting out of Medicaid.

Judge Andrew Napolitano, author of the excellent new book, Lies the Government Told You, warns of the unconstitutionality of the limitation on executive pay contained in the TARP program. He cites the doctrine “against unconstitutional conditions,” arguing that “The government may not condition the acceptance of a governmental benefit on the non-assertion of a constitutional liberty.” Because the freedom of contract is constitutionally protected, the government may not “condition corporate welfare on the prohibition of contracts with employees above an arbitrary salary amount.”

The very foundation of the health care bill — the individual mandate that people have to buy health insurance — is unconstitutional. Clearly, the government would have the authority to tax each person and use the money to provide insurance. But can it make everyone buy a privately provided product from a third party?

The Heritage Foundation thinks not, noting that “an individual mandate to enter into a contract with or buy a particular product from a private party, with tax penalties to enforce it, is unprecedented–not just in scope but in kind–and unconstitutional as a matter of first principles and under any reasonable reading of judicial precedents.”

The Foundation correctly points out that “nowhere in the Constitution is Congress given the power to mandate that an individual enter into a contract with a private party or purchase a good or service and… no decision or present doctrine of the Supreme Court justifies such a claim of power.”

The authors of the Obama Bill say that requiring people to buy health insurance is covered by the constitution’s interstate commerce clause, which allows Congress to regulate a “class of activity.”

But where is the interstate commerce? Congress has refused specifically and repeatedly to allow health insurance companies to compete across state lines. Republicans have been seeking this authority for years as a way to use private competition to hold down costs, but the Democrats have always refused.

And the Heritage Foundation asks a further question: What activity is being regulated? The activity of not buying health insurance? As the foundation notes, “proponents of the individual mandate are contending that, under its power to ‘regulate commerce’ . . . Congress may regulate the doing of nothing at all.” The absurdity of this is clear: “never in this nation’s history has the commerce power been used to require a person who does nothing to engage in economic activity. Therefore, no decision of the Supreme Court has ever upheld such a claim of power.”

Liberals who try to justify the individual mandate to buy health insurance often cite state government requirements that drivers must buy automobile insurance. But this comparison misses two key points: First, that requirement extends only to those who wish to drive, not to every citizen. And, second, states do indeed have broad police powers to act in the interest of the public’s health, safety, and welfare. But Washington doesn’t. Its powers are confined to those enumerated in the Constitution–and, try as they might, it’s hard to find any provision allowing the feds to impose such a requirement on all Americans.

The Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee need to ask Obama’s nominee to defend the constitutionality of his legislation and use the hearings as a forum to demonstrate how these bills violate not just the letter of the Constitution but the very spirit of federalism and individual freedom.

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73% of Voting Americans haven’t wanted this monstrosity thrust down their throats, but the Obama  WH Progressives-Liberals-Democrats, better known as left-wing Bottom-Feeder Scum voted for the monstrosity bill, despite 73% not wanting the stinking legislation.

If anyone thinks this is for health care, than you better think again. The entire legislation is about “absolute” control over every aspect of our lives. Make no mistake about it, that’s exactly what the left-wing Bottom-Feeder Scum are wanting. And I suspect that’s what they will be proceeding to next. Pelosi has already stated there will be a lot more legislation coming. She made that promise already. Do you want to guess what kind of legislation that might be?

Take for example, if they don’t want you smoking in your own house, then they will just add another amendment to the current bill outlawing smoking in your own house, or any where on your property. Same thing for your automobile. Canada has already passed just such a law under their health care bill.

If they don’t like guns, which they don’t, then they will simply write another amendment outlawing guns, because guns are bad for your health. If they don’t like you eating potato chips, well guess what, another amendment and you can’t eat potato chips or any other food they deem inappropriate. If they don’t want you fishing in that lake, then they will add another amendment, stating that fish from that lake are bad for your health. So no more fishing there. If they don’t like you playing football in that park, well guess what. No more football in that park. After all, it’s bad for your health. Don’t you see, they can simply add anything they want to add. You’ll likely never know about it, until its too late. The police will be hauling your ass off to jail, because you violated their law.

And the list goes on and on and on. There will be no end to the legislation the left-wing bastards and bitches will be adding as amendments under the so called Health Care Bill. Mark my words folks, that’s exactly what will be happening….and soon!

The only redeeming issue at this point will be taking back our House and Senate, starting with the 2010 elections. Let’s make it a real point to vote out ALL Progressives-Liberals-Democrats, you know all those left-wing Bottom-Feeder Scum. You notice democrats comes last. You see, there aren’t really any “caring” democrats in the United States of Obama any more. It used to be the peoples party…Now that’s a JOKE! None of them listen to the people! Many democrats are switching parties as well. We welcome them. Right?

It really makes me sick folks. We used to have the best health care system in the world, bar none, in the United States of Something, but that is no more, if we allow them to get back by with this treason. And it is treason! All of those left-wing Bottom-Feeder Scum swore to uphold the Constitution, but they’ve completely ignored that wonderful paper written by our Founding Fathers. It’s been replaced by the left-leaning bastards and bitches.

As for Obama, Pelosi and Reid and the remaining left-wing Bottom-Feeder Scum, they will all go down in history as absolute degenerates who had no regard for the Constitution or our Rule of Law in this country. I suspect that GOD has a special place for all of those left-wingers in HELL, not HIS Heaven. They won’t stop, just GO straight to HELL. We can thank GOD for that event. I’m certain GOD is aware of this plight.

Perhaps one day we will get back to the United Sates of Something. Only the Conservatives and maybe Republicans can handle that for us. It must all be done legislatively. But so far they haven’t been doing much for the RIGHT side. In the meantime let’s vote all the left-wing Bottom-Feeder Scum out of office starting November 2010. Then vote out Obama and all his Chicago gangsters in 2012. When Obama goes, they all go. This must happen and I believe that it will. There are tens of thousands of good conservatives that can make this happen.

We have some fantastic Conservative-Republicans  that will make extremely good candidates for President. So let’s vote that person in along with ALL Republicans in the House and Senate so we can take back our country from the left-wing Bottom-Feeder Scum. Note heavy on the word CONSERVATIVE!

May GOD Bless us all. Right now we need all the conservative help we can get to fight the left-wing Bottom-Feeder Scum!

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Local chapter has about 800 members on e-mail lists; 200 attended Thursday’s meeting.

By PETER ROPER

THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN

If members of the Southern Colorado Tea Party (SOCO) were feeling cocky at their monthly meeting Thursday night, it was understandable — they’d just seen Massachusetts elect a Republican senator, Scott Brown, with a healthy share of the credit falling to like-minded conservative voters.

Southern Colorado Tea Party

“We don’t want any candidates that have been picked by the anointed,” Sheldon Bloedorn, chairman of the local group, told the audience of nearly 200 people at the Pueblo County Conference Center. He was referring to both mainstream Democratic and Republican officials. “We want candidates selected and elected by the people.”

That got cheers and some fist pumps from the audience.

Which is a reason the Tea Party movement could be posing a challenge to Republican candidates as well as Democrats. The local chapter has about 800 members on its e-mail lists and Bloedorn announced the group is endorsing Bob McConnell, a retired Army colonel and lawyer from Steamboat Springs, in the 3rd Congressional District race.

McConnell doesn’t yet have the name recognition or financial support of state Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Cortez, who is also running in the 3rd District race. But McConnell was clearly popular with the local members Thursday night and they are preparing to attend the March 16 GOP precinct caucuses to get themselves elected to the county and state GOP conventions. Meaning they are a new force for the mainstream Republican Party to contend with.

“I had a meeting with (Colorado Republican Party Chairman) Dick Wadhams,” Bloedorn explained to the crowd early in Thursday’s meeting. “And he told me the party is defined by the people who participate in it. And people, we’re going to be participating in it. We’re going to move the Republican Party to the right and that means supporting conservative candidates who believe what we believe.”

Which is why a list of Republican candidates came to the monthly meeting Thursday night to woo that support.

- Dan Maes, a businessman who is running for governor, acknowledged that former U.S. Rep. Scott McInnis is the better-known Republican running for governor this year, but that may not carry much weight in Tea Party circles.

“I’m not a lawyer, is that okay?” Maes asked, knowing the crowd would cheer. McInnis is a lawyer. “I’m not a career politician, is that okay?” Maes went on, getting more cheers. McInnis spent 12 years in Congress. “I’m a conservative and I’m a Republican, and as we all know, those two don’t always go together these days — but with me, you get both.”

Maes clearly understood that scoffing at Democratic themes would be like tossing meat to hungry wolves. “Aren’t you sick and tired of the word ‘green?’ ” he asked to an ovation, saying he would fully develop Colorado’s oil shale and uranium deposits to boost the state’s energy economy.

He made a point of saying he was anti-abortion, opposed to gay marriage, and a strong believer in gun owner rights.

- Cleve Tidwell is a retired businessman running for the U.S. Senate and he even unrolled a copy of the Constitution to illustrate his pledge to stick to it when making laws.

Tidwell is from Georgia and has a soft drawl, but his words were more hard-edged. He will not take campaign money from lobbyists or special interests, he pledged. “That won’t happen. If it does, you call me on the phone and I’ll come home,” he said.

Electing lawyers, lobbyists and others who already work in the political system would just be putting “clones” into the government, according to Tidwell. He’s never been a part of that, he said.

A former Marine, Tidwell said he still reads the Bible at night.

- J.J. Ament is running for state treasurer. The investment banker got a laugh by saying he’d be the first state treasurer in a long time who’d actually been trained in finance. Ament did his best to link Democratic Treasurer Cary Kennedy to Gov. Bill Ritter, saying Kennedy had not opposed any of Ritter’s tax or spending policies.

In fact, most state treasurers get little attention unless they choose it. Former Gov. Roy Romer, for example, used the office to publicly oppose the Colorado Lottery and then ran for governor. But Ament charged that Kennedy had failed to make smart investments with Colorado tax revenues, costing the state money instead of earning more interest revenue.

- Alexander Mugatu, of Pueblo, is running for the state Senate District 3 seat being vacated by retiring Democrat Abel Tapia. Mugatu said he would oppose any efforts in the Legislature to evade the restrictions on taxes and revenue in the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights. He also said he wanted to replace the members of the Colorado Supreme Court.

Mugatu said he would fight to restore state sovereignty from the federal government and “cut the Gordian Knot of socialism” coming from the federal government.

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Watchdogs Cry Foul Over Thousands of Earmarks in Spending Bill

Republicans and taxpayer watchdogs are railing against the thousands of earmarks included in the omnibus spending bill that passed the House Thursday and is awaiting a vote in the Senate.

Republicans and tax watchdog groups are railing against the thousands of earmarks included in the omnibus spending bill that the House passed Thursday and is awaiting a vote in the Senate.

The $1.1 trillion bill includes $447 billion in operating budgets for 10 Cabinet departments. Mixed in are more than 5,000 earmarks totaling $3.9 billion, according to watchdog Taxpayers for Common Sense.

Pork-watchers are only just beginning to sort through the earmarks, which typically are goodies set aside for the districts of members of Congress, as the bill tracks toward a final vote. So far, they’ve uncovered gems ranging from $700,000 for a shrimp fishing project in Maryland to $30,000 for the Woodstock Film Festival Youth Initiative to $200,000 for a visitor’s center in a Texas town with a population of about 8,000.

“Let’s stop the madness,” House Republican Leader John Boehner said, before the bill passed without any GOP support. Twenty-eight House Democrats also opposed it.

House Minority Whip Eric Cantor, R-Va., wrote to President Obama urging him to veto the bill, and pledging that Republicans would stand by him if he did.

Obama in March waved off controversy over a $410 billion spending bill that also was riddled with earmarks, arguing that it represented “last year’s business.” This time around, Boehner said, the president needs to crack down on the pork under his watch.

Republicans, though, have hardly shied away from the earmarks. Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., is pushing $200,000 for the Washington National Opera. Sen. Judd Gregg, a fiscal hawk, is behind a $1 million earmark for renovation at the Portsmouth Music Hall.

Taxpayers for Common Sense reports a total of 5,224 earmarks in the 2010 spending bill, which also includes funding for Medicare and Medicaid. Groups like Citizens Against Government Waste, as well as Sen. John McCain’s staff, have drawn attention to dozens of items they consider questionable. Here’s just a sampling:

– $150,000 for educational programs and exhibitions at the National Building Museum.

– $400,000 for renovation of the Brooklyn Botanical Garden.

– $150,000 for exhibits at the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site Foundation in Buffalo, N.Y.

– $500,000 for Mississippi River exhibits at the National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium in Dubuque, Iowa.

– $200,000 for the Washington National Opera.

– $30,000 for the Woodstock Film Festival Youth Initiative.

– $2.7 million for the University of Nebraska Medical Center, to support surgical operations in space.

– $200,000 for a visitor’s center in Bastrop, Texas.

– $700,000 for a project called, “Shrimp Industry Fishing Effort Research Continuation,” at the National Marine Fisheries Service in Silver Spring, Md.

– $292,200 for the elimination of blight in Scranton, Pa.

– $750,000 for exhibits at the World Food Prize Hall of Laureates in Iowa.

– $1.6 million for a tram between the Marshall Flight Center and Huntsville Botanical Garden in Alabama.

– $655,000 for equipment at the Institute for Irritable Bowel Syndrome Research in Los Angeles.

Republicans have been on a tear over earmarks and excessive spending over the past week, particularly as Congress prepares to take up a new jobs-creation package and raise the debt ceiling by nearly $2 trillion.

Rep. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., and Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., on Thursday named what they called the 11 most wasteful spending projects considered by Congress so far this year.

On Wednesday, four Republican lawmakers demanded an audit of the $787 billion stimulus program following reports of exaggerated or inaccurate accounts of the number of jobs created.

McCain, R-Ariz., and Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., on Tuesday released a report on 100 “questionable” stimulus projects worth nearly $7 billion.

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Here’s the latest shock: Average current health care insurance premiums will likely triple under ObamaCare!

The new data comes from well regarded, state-by-state study conducted for WellPoint, Inc. The most dramatic premium boosts will hit young people. These are the actual individuals that often opt out of insurance plans now.

Reaction from the Obama White House was swift and harsh. Linda Douglass, Obama’s healthcare spokesperson , had the audacity to compare the health insurance firm with tobacco companies. Since the White House refuses to argue the facts, they instead turned to using one of their favorite tactics, which is demonizing any voices of dissent.

The reason for the dramatic insurance premium increases is the result of ObamaCare regulations. First cause is the mandate that insurance companies take any customer. Insurance traditionally is an actuarial business that rates different based on risk factors. This is the reason a driver aged 19 with two speeding tickets pays more for auto insurance than a customer aged 35 with no speeding tickets. Nineteen-year-olds have more accidents! Therefore they pose more risk.

Traditionally, health insurance companies charged customers with risk factors and chronic illness more than young, healthy 19-year-olds. ObamaCare stands the the concept of insurance on its head. Since an insurance company will be forced to sell to any sick patient, the incentive to buy insurance when you are healthy decreases. Why not wait until you are sick; get cancer, diabetes or some other severe illness before you buy? To circumvent this problem, Obama is riddling the program with police-state mandates on healthy, younger citizens. Perverted, negative incentives such as threats of large fines and even prison time will hang over young people’s heads to force them to join and stay enrolled in Obama’s healthcare scheme. Does this sound like America to you?

Democratic leaders in Congress are seeing support slip through their fingers because Americans are learning that they will end up paying more for less-adequate care.The beneficiaries of this plan are still lobbying hard. Big business will likely dump most of their current employee-based plans and pay the less expensive tax. Big unions are facing the reality that they are going to be bankrupted by their generous membership health plans. Many want to dump their responsibilities on the new government option recently revived by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. AARP is salivating at the money they will make selling new, bigger Medicare-gap plans after the current program is gutted!

These powerful lobbies are the driving force for change. Individual family finances will pay the higher costs and see no benefit!

There is still time to kill this wrong-headed plan and replace it with reforms that will truly work. Selling insurance across state lines will increase competition and lower prices. Tort reform that eliminates outrageous judgments in malpractice cases will get lawyers out of medicine; this will result in eliminating billions currently spent in the name of defensive medicine.

Insurance can work, but the costly mandates and regulations, already choking the healthcare system are a big barrier to cutting costs.

Free markets deliver to Americans consumer goods, groceries, veterinary services, and even plastic surgery at affordable prices with little government meddlling. Let the free market price and correct the distortions currently in the health care system.

Government has bankrupted Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Social Security, Medicare and the U. S. Postal Service. Let’s not let the politicians destroy the greatest healthcare delivery system in the world! Bar none!

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And if you are watching what is going all around you, then you know what I
mean.  If this email doesn’t make any sense to you, then you are in deep
trouble.  This would mean you are not aware of what is going on all around
you.

I have noted that many elected officials, both Democrats and Republicans,
called upon America to unite behind Obama.

Well, I want to make it clear to all who will listen that I AM NOT uniting
behind Obama!  I didn’t unite behind Obama!  I will respect the Office
which he holds, and I will acknowledge his abilities as an orator and word
smith and pray for him, BUT that is it.

I have begun today to see what I can do to make sure that He is a one-term
President!

Why am I doing this?

It is because I do not share Obama’s vision or Value system for America ;

I do not share his Abortion beliefs;

I do not share his radical Marxist’s concept of re-distributing wealth;

I do not share his stated views on raising taxes on those who make $150,000
+ (the ceiling has been changed three times since August);

I do not share his view that America  is Arrogant;

I do not share his view that America is not a Christian Nation; (THIS JUST
SHOWS HE CERTAINLY ISN’T UP ON HIS AMERICAN HISTORY!)

I do not share his view that the military should be reduced by 25%;

I do not share his view of amnesty and giving more to illegals than
American Citizens who need help;

I do not share his views that Radical Islam is our friend and  Israel is
our enemy who should give up any land; (GIMME A BREAK!)

I do not share his spiritual beliefs (at least the ones he has made
public);

I do not share his beliefs on how to re-work the healthcare system in
America ;

I do not share his Strategic views of the Middle East, and certainly do not
share his plan to sit down with terrorist regimes such as Iran .

Bottom line, my America is vastly different from Obama’s, and I have a
higher obligation to my Country and my God to do what is Right!

For eight (8) years, the Liberals in our Society, led by numerous
entertainers who would have no platform and no real credibility but for
their celebrity status, have attacked President Bush, his family, and his
spiritual beliefs!

They have not moved toward the center in their beliefs and their
philosophies, and they never came together nor compromised their personal
beliefs for the betterment of our Country!  They have portrayed my  America
as a land where everything is tolerated except being intolerant!

They have been a vocal and irreverent minority for years; they have mocked
and attacked the very core values so important to the founding and growth
of our Country!

They have made every effort to remove the name of God or Jesus Christ from
our Society!
They have challenged capital punishment, the right to bear firearms, and
the most basic principles of our criminal code; they have attacked one of
the most fundamental of all Freedoms, the right of free speech!  And, they
forgot this country was built on…Christian principles!  They fail to
realize when they took “God out of everything” this country went on a
downhill spiral fast and still is!

Unite behind Obama?  Never!

I refuse to retreat one more inch in favor of those whom I believe are the
Embodiment of Evil!

PRESIDENT BUSH made mistakes during his Presidency, (EVERY PRESIDENT DOES)
however; I believe that he weighed his decisions in light of the long
established Judeo-Christian principles of our Founding Fathers!!!

Majority rules in America, and I will honor the concept; however, I will
fight with all of my power to be a voice in opposition to Obama and “his
goals for America”  because I am going to be a thorn in the side of those
who, if left unchecked, will destroy our Country!! Any more compromise is
more defeat!

I pray, now that Obama is President and has shown his true colors, everyone
concerned will wake up the many who have sat on the sidelines and allowed
the Socialist-Marxist anti-God crowd to slowly change so much of what has
been good in America!

“Error of Opinion may be tolerated where Reason is left free to combat it.”
- Thomas Jefferson

“If we ever forget that we’re one nation under God, then we will be a
nation gone under.”- Ronald Reagan

GOD BLESS AMERICA.

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