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Ellis Wyatt| 8.6.09 @ 1:41PM

"help us show that the American people overwhelmingly want health insurance reform this year"

The problem is the American people don't want what the government rationed healthcare that the left is trying to shove down our throats by arrogant leftists. And, to the dismay of the White House, we don't need form letters to tell us to voice our opinions. The left is scared as evidenced by Pelosi's attacks on concerned Americans calling the nazis and Obama continuing to lie about the plan and its effect on individuals own health insurance.

The answer is not to take away freedoms and allow government bureaucrats to try and manage health decisions. The answer is to give Americans more freedom of choice. The healthcare companies can only act in a manner that laws dictate. Drop the state and federal mandates, allow competition across state lines, and allow more people to have choice of what they want to purchase and this issue goes away. Close to 80% of the public is happy with their healthplan. As for covering the approximately 12 million people without insurance we can debate that. This debate isn't about that 12 million, it is about the liberties we enjoy as a free people and those who seek to take it away. The proposals from the democrats obviously can't stand on their own merits and when deception and strawman attacks are the only route the American people won't be fooled.

They have to know this won't end if a bill is passed. This current government proposed takeover will end up in the courts for years to come, and if abortion is deemed a right, I suspect any other health decision will be too.

Tim| 8.6.09 @ 2:11PM

Dear Mr. President:

This how you can win on healthcare:
Go to one of these townhalls that you know will be full of troublemaking bourgeois reactionaries. Let them shout you down and run wild, then your press people go with the action line: from angry mob to lynch mob. Imagine the value of you being harangued by angry bubbas. If you're really lucky they might even throw something.

Tim| 8.6.09 @ 2:19PM

Ask your commissar about new GULAG*, The Opiate of the People!

-What if my insurer won't pay for GULAG?

-Under government plan, everybody qualifies for GULAG with no co-pay.

*Warning :GULAG side effects include sudden weight loss, insomnia, hypothermia, diarrhea, crab lice and pneumonia.

OLDMAN92071| 8.7.09 @ 2:36AM

THIS IS FROM THE FOLLOWING SITE:
http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2009/08/05/who-we-are/
SEEMS TO BE VERY APPROPRIATE FOR THE PELOSI GROUP......

WHO WE ARE.....
posted at 4:57 pm on August 5, 2009 by Doctor Zero
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There seems to be a bit of confusion among Democrats about the nature of the opposition to their plans. Maybe I can help clear things up, by telling them a few things about us.
We’re not paid minions of any corporate interest or lobby. Most bloggers working to stop the Obama health-care disaster are like me, writing when they can find the time, because we care about the future of our country. The same is true of the people showing up at town hall meetings, and organizing rallies. Some of us are well-dressed in tailored suits. Others wear jeans and T-shirts. Most of us are dressed in what we wore to work.
Our support for a massive government program does not increase when you tell us we’re not allowed to ask questions about it.
We’re not racists. We’re also not racialists. We don’t think a wise Latina is inherently more qualified to do anything than a wise Asian woman, a wise white woman, or a wise white man. We’re tired of being fed excuses for high government offices staffed by anything but the best people for the job. There are too many high government offices, so we’d like some of Obama’s absurdly incompetent appointees to take their titles with them when they leave. We remember what it was like when we got rid of the Clinton mob, so we’ll be conducting inventories on the contents of those vacated offices, before we turn out the lights and pour cement in the locks.
We don’t like having to fight desperate battles to save our freedom and future from socialist politicians every ten or twenty years. We don’t like having our time wasted with trillion-dollar statist fantasies, when our government is already trillions of dollars in the red. We’re tired of checking the papers each day, to see which group of us has been targeted as enemies of the State. We’re growing impatient waiting for the Democrats to come up with ideas that don’t require their supporters to hate someone. We’ve had our fill of “progressives” who act as if we’re living in 1909, and none of their diseased policies have ever been tried before.
We believe government should be punished for failing to live up to the expectations of its citizens, not the other way around. We don’t think people who destroy thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in market value should get a pass because they meant well. We’ve had enough of dodging a massive State that wants to organize, subsidize, penalize, and divide us. We refuse to pay tithe to a religion we don’t support, including the official State religion of global warming. We demand honesty, humility, and transparency from our public servants, no matter how many elections they’ve won. We won’t settle for making the only important decisions about our futures in the voting booth, once every couple of years.
We don’t blame people for showing up to grab their share of a government handout. We blame the people who stole the money from the rest of us, and put it on the table for them. We don’t think respect for private property ends at a certain income level, or that only some people should be applauded for doing their best to get ahead in life. We believe in the power and righteousness of capitalism, the exchange of goods and services between free people acting in their own best interests. There is no moral substitute for it. Every other scheme for governing human affairs amounts to a few dominating some, to the applause of others. Our freedom is not for sale, and we reserve the right to defend it from theft.
We don’t invest our hopes in the government. It is beneath the dignity of free men and women to spend their days hoping a politician decides to provide for our needs. We face the future, not with passive and helpless “hope”, but with active and dynamic faith in ourselves, and our fellow Americans. We are opposed to a political class that tries to cultivate our hopes by showering us with fear. We don’t trust politicians with our fortunes, much less with our lives. In fact, we don’t trust politicians much at all… but we absolutely require them to trust us.
We do not regard America as the sole country on Earth that should be forbidden from taking pride in its history, traditions, and achievements. We reject the notion that celebrating our traditions is an automatic insult to anyone else. We owe absolutely no apologies to murderous dictators or unelected tyrants, and we care little for their feelings. We believe there are many lessons to be learned from our history, by all the people of the world, and we cannot teach those lessons if we allow ourselves to be shamed into silence. We will never hesitate to call evil by its proper name, or give evil men good reasons to fear us.
Now, if you’ll excuse us, we have a lot of work to do. There’s an election coming up next year.