November, 2009

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Add Taxation Without Representation to that New Declaration

Monday, November 16th, 2009

Back in March, I wrote a new Declaration of Independence. Amazingly enough, it was almost identical to the original except that the specific grievances were updated and were significantly more egregious.

That was just two months into Obama’s assault on America. We had already tasted the results of his contempt for this country, but the breadth and depth of his loathing could still only be discerned from his books and past speeches. His imps, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, had been running roughshod over the United States Constitution for a couple years before the puppet master took their strings and solidified their attacks. Then the immaculation of Obama (as Rush Limbaugh so aptly dubbed it) has congealed all of the anti-Americanism that has been oozing through the 1960’s radical and radical-wannabe classes for generations.

Since laying out that declaration, we have been treated to an openness in Constitutional contempt from our Democrat congressmen and other officials like this country has never seen before. Our elected officials are not confining their anti-Americanism to off-the-record remarks and denials, even when their own video slips out. The response to our Tea Parties, the way they handled we, the people at their August town hall meetings, their refusal to even hold town hall meetings or their attempts to hide behind electronic filters, and their lockstep regurgitation of DNC talking points instead of addressing real questions were all illustrative of their disgust with America as it was constituted.

Our Democrat leadership is now openly anti-American, and the so-called Health Care Bills have really illustrated the situation. Both my Democrat freshman congressman and my Democrat senator (no need to name names - they’re all the same) have openly admitted that they do not plan to represent their constituents, but instead intend to represent the B. Hussein Obama in direct violation of their oaths of office and, of course, the Supreme Law of the Land.

My congressman (since I cannot refer to him as a representative) actually wrote to me, in response to a letter pointing to the unconstitutionality of his positions, that he feels he will be measured based on whether or not he acts, not on whether his actions are legal or not. He understands that most people out here are either not paying attention or are too ignorant of our founding or our history to even recognize that he is urinating all over the Constitution. (Thank you Jimmy Carter et al for nationalizing education and replacing true education with Marxist indoctrination.) In other words - we, the people, are just too darned stupid to be paid attention to. Damn the Constitution, full speed ahead.

These are just two of 535, far too many of whom share their contempt for America as constituted. It should now be absolutely clear, even to the mainstream press, that our Democrat officials have absolutely no intention of representing their constituents. Support for Pelosicare and Obamacare is approaching the approval rate of Congress, yet our “representatives” are open in their refusal to consider their constituents’ views. Taxation without representation was a significant trigger for our founders to rebel against the most powerful military on the planet. Our arrogant “leaders” are openly telling us that they do not intend to represent we, the people, as they add tax upon tax upon tax. We can therefore consider everything they do to be Taxation Without Representation!

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, …

To secure these rights, Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. Clearly then, Governments which refuse to acknowledge the consent of the governed have no desire to secure these rights … these UNALIENABLE rights. Who elected them “our creator?”

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

It is time folks. It is time to abolish this current form of Government, which is clearly destructive to these ends, and to institute a new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and … well … and simply reinstating the United States Constitution as our foundation. We don’t need a new government. We just need a return to the one stolen from us by a decades-long encroachment of government tyrants.

Obama has called for a new foundation and has declared that he finds fault with the Constitution because it limits government and prohibits tyranny instead of requiring tyrannical control of the populace. It’s time that we, the people, stand up right in his face and tell him that we will not tolerate his tyranny any longer. It’s time that we, the people, stand up right in his face and tell him that we demand a return to Constitutional governance. It is time that we, the people, stand up in the face of ALL of our Government officials and tell them that we will no longer tolerate unconstitutional attacks on our freedom!

Let “No Taxation Without Representation” once again be our rally call. The spirits of our founders are watching. Will we honor them by upholding their foundation, or will we feebly sit around watching a contemptuous bunch of anti-Americans replace the foundation of our fathers with yet another failed Marxist state?

This is OUR TIME!

“No Taxation Without Representation”

1,990 Page Abomination

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

Late last week, Nancy Pelosi announced the House’s 1,990 page version of Obamacare. 1,990 pages, and that’s BEFORE House Democrats add their typical hundreds and hundreds of pages of amendments. 1,900 pages, and it is basically a placeholder for details to be filled in by bureaucrats and political appointees at some point after it is signed into law!

The United States Constitution, the document which defines this entire nation and which created the most prosperous, most free, most envied nation in the history of the world, clocks in at 4,500 WORDS. If you add every single amendment, the Constitution is still below 8,000 words, and Democrats insist that it takes Constitutional scholars who spend their lives studying the document and who must then get together in aggregate to argue it out all in order to simply understand what those 8,000 words mean. Apparently, it’s too difficult for the average boob out here in the populace to truly understand words as mystifying as “All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.” It HAS to be because all of those Democrat Constitutional Scholars have concluded that the judiciary can legislate AND that executive branch scrambled-letter agencies can legislate as well. So much for Constitutional Scholars.

Even though the US Constitution was written in words that the average 18th century farmer and merchant could understand, Democrats NEED us to believe that only Ivy League scholars who have spent their careers studying can possibly grasp the document’s meaning. BUT Pelosi’s 1,900 page behemoth, written in language the average Philadelphia lawyer would find difficult to digest if they spent five lifetimes trying, is so straightforward that our congressmen (average IQ of …what… 90?) can read it, understand it thoroughly enough to vote on it and cast their votes in less than a week!

4,500 words defined an entire nation. Over more than 200 years, another 3,500 defined changes to them. Pelosi and the Democrats need roughly 500,000 words (typical written page is 250 words) to define a placeholder! Are you SERIOUS?

The Washington Post reported on Saturday:

According to a preliminary estimate by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, expanding coverage to an additional 36 million Americans would cost $1.055 trillion over the next decade under the House plan, counting tax breaks for small businesses, subsidies for low- and moderate-income families, and the largest expansion of Medicaid since its inception more than 40 years ago.

That’s more than $2,000,000 PER WORD! WOW! Must be important words from some really, really intelligent people, huh? Well, actually, Democrat leaders in the House got together behind closed doors, locking all opposition voices out of the discussion, and told their staffers what to put into the bill. Nancy Pelosi, who announced that 500 million Americans would lose their jobs every month if the Porkulus bill didn’t pass. Steny Hoyer, who actually laughed at the idea that Congressmen would actually read the bill before voting on it. Charlie Rangel, the man in charge of writing tax bills but who didn’t know he had to pay taxes himself. These House leaders, etc. who cannot have an aggregate IQ over 100, turned the task over to their staffers - 20-something clerks with no real-world experience - at a cost of $2 million per word!

Democrats, of course, had to get the bill under Obama’s $900 BILLION target, so they deduct the penalties they are going to impose on US Citizens who do not comply with their citizenship requirement to buy insurance, and get the number down to $894 billion. That’s $159 BILLION ($159,000,000,000) Democrats are counting on from punishing formerly-free American citizens who do not comply with Government-Almighty’s despotic dictates!

Oh…and by the way…

The entire thing is UNCONSTITUTIONAL!

America. It was great while it lasted.