Go Jim Go!

DeMint.  DeMan.

First – DeMint challenged the Constitutionality of Reid’s supermajority clause in the Government Run Health Insurance Monstrosity.

Now, he and John Ensign are challenging the Constitutionality of the Health Insurance Mandate.

Ensign, DeMint to Force Vote on Health Care Bill Unconstitutionality

December 22, 2009 – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) and John Ensign (R-Nevada), raised a Constitutional Point of Order on the Senate floor against the Democrat health care takeover bill on behalf of the Steering Committee, a caucus of conservative senators. The Senate will vote tomorrow on the bill’s constitutionality. “I am incredibly concerned that the Democrats’ proposed individual mandate provision takes away too much freedom and choice from Americans across the country,” said Senator Ensign. “As an American, I felt the obligation to stand up for the individual freedom of every citizen to make their own decision on this issue. I don’t believe Congress has the legal authority to force this mandate on its citizens.” “Forcing every American to purchase a product is absolutely inconsistent with our Constitution and the freedoms our Founding Fathers hoped to protect,” said Senator DeMint. “This is not at all like car insurance, you can choose not to drive but Americans will have no choice whether to buy government-approved insurance. This is nothing more than a bailout and takeover of insurance companies. We’re forcing Americans to buy insurance under penalty of law and then Washington bureaucrats will then dictate what these companies can sell to Americans. This is not liberty, it is tyranny of good intentions by elites in Washington who think they can plan our lives better than we can.” Americans who fail to buy health insurance, according to the Democrats’ bill, would be subject to financial penalties. The senators believe the bill is unconstitutional because the insurance mandate is not authorized by any of the limited enumerated powers granted to the federal government. The individual mandate also likely violates the “takings” clause of the 5th Amendment. The Democrats’ healthcare reform bill requires Americans to buy health insurance “whether or not they ever visit a doctor, get a prescription or have an operation.” If an American chooses not to buy health insurance coverage, they will face rapidly increasing taxes that will rise to $750 or 2% of their taxable income, whichever is greater. The Congressional Budget Office once stated “A mandate requiring all individuals to purchase health insurance would be an unprecedented form of federal action. The government has never required people to buy any good or service as a condition of lawful residence in the United States.” A legal study by scholars at the nonpartisan Heritage Foundation concluded: “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.”

Democrats: Constitution?  What Constitution?

Now, I don’t have a whole lot of respect for John Ensign, but DeMint has been a model of Conservative Civility and has helped to remind us all of what Mike and I said yesterday: this battle is not over.

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Posterior Teeth

I’m working on a post on the new Amnesty Bill, but then Bernie Sanders (Independent Socialist – Vermont) introduced an amendment to the health care bill.  Remember the post I did about keeping things in focus?  Remember all the bellyaching over whether the Dems would keep the public option, abortion, etc.?  Well…  it’s all B.S.  And here comes their brother in arms, Der Kommisar to act as a proxy for the far-left wing of the Divided Donkey Party.  It’s an amendment to basically extend Medicare to everyone (because Medicare is such a well-run bureaucracy that isn’t likely to bankrupt, say, in the next week or two).

On it.

Fortunately, people are paying attention.  Michelle Malkin is reporting that Sen. Coburn  (Pachyderm-OK) was all over it like a diabetic on a cheesecake.  He’s having the Clerk of the Senate read the amendment…  all 767 pages of it.  The Dems, because they’re obviously not socialists, are trying like mad to stop the reading, but now Jim DeMint (Pachy-SC) has joined in his concern that Senators might not fully understand what they’re voting on, making it necessary that the bill be read aloud in public.

Snicker.  Keep up the good work, fellers.

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When Heroes Fail Us

I get what you’re doing, Newt.  You’re playing the party game.  Dede Scozzafava is a “Republican” and the party’s nominee, so it’s important that the party members support the party nominee, right?

Yeah – I get it.  And you’re wrong.  Very, very wrong.

I’ve admired you for a long time, Newt.  Your 1994 Republican Revolution that ended the Liberal Democrat stranglehold on our legislative branch remains one of the great political moves of the 20th Century, akin to Lincoln’s election.  While it didn’t permanently shift the Congress, it did make it a much more competitive place to run for office, and you did so based on an agenda of fiscal conservatism coupled with an anti-establishment mindset that would limit individual legislator power and return a sense of responsibility to the American people.

Your moves were never popular, but the sense of responsibility that you brought to the 104th-106th Congresses were exactly what the country needed.  Finally, the American people had a political party that did exactly what it said, not because it would net them political gains, but because those decisions and those stands were the right thing to do.

Fast-forward a few years.

The GOP wins a slim election for the Presidency and maintains a slim hold on the Congress, built on in 2002 on promises of national defense and fiscal conservatism.  And they follow through… for a while.  By 2005, tho, it starts to become clear that the Republican Party of the Republican Revolution is long gone.  Those same Congressmen who promised to term-limit themselves in 1994 were still in office and corruption became something to turn a blind eye to, rather than something that needed to be rooted out.

And you?  Well…   I could forgive the things that caused your resignation in 1999, since you were cleared.  But for some reason, since you left office, you’ve spent a ton of time toeing the line between “we need to be a more conservative country” and “I sure wish I could spend more time with my hardcore liberal buddies”.  Seriously – global warming?  You’re hanging out with Al Sharpton pushing the Obama administration’s education agenda?

And now, you’re backing a woman that is the GOP nominee, but one who is supported by ACORN, who’s backed by unions, who’s backed tax and spend stupidity, and who recently won – and accepted – the Margaret Sanger Award for “leadership, excellence, and outstanding contributions to the reproductive health and rights movement” (aka “blindly supporting the organized, legal culling of human beings so that women can have consequence-free sex under the guise of ‘choice’”).

This is a woman who supports every single possible stand that the Republican Party supposedly takes.  In fact, in digging ’round the net, I’m finding it difficult to find a single thing that this woman believes in that smacks of anything less than classic liberalism.

And you’re supporting her.

Hey – GOP…   compromising with idiots will only make you stupid, and compromising your good conservative principles will only make you bad liberals.  If you think compromise will get you anywhere in the political world, ask yourselves why we’re not complaining about the moderate policies of President John McCain.

The Republican Party took over the Legislature in 1994 because it stood on its principles.  It got Reagan elected in 1980 and 1984 because it stood for conservative principles.  It got Bush I and II elected in 1988, 2000, and 2004 because it stood on its good, conservative principles.

It lost the election of Bush I in 1992, Dole in 1996, and McCain in 2008 because it abandoned those principles.  It lost control of the House and Senate in 2006 because it compromised those principles.

It’s time for the GOP to wake up and for those who control the party (aka “the Republican Voters”) to show the establishment and beltway idjut RINO’s exactly what we think of compromise.  Y0u put up a liberal candidate, you’re going to lose.  You compromise a little to gain a numerical advantage that only exists in your little beltway-driven minds, you’re going to lose.  When you start drawing lines and telling us that the folks who fueled the conservative Revolutions of 1980 and 1994 are the reason the party is losing, you’re going to lose. You throw up an ethically-vacant candidate that wouldn’t know good behavior or morals and expect us to vote for them just because they have an (R) next to their name?  You’re going to lose.

Every.  Single.  Time.

We are the principled backbone of this country.  We are the spine of the Republican Party.  And we are not happy.  You will listen to us now, or you will hear our deafening silence when you beg for our support on election day.

Dump Dede.  Vote Doug.  Get it right.

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NY-23

The big buzz today in political realms is about New York 23rd Congressional district special election being held November 3rd.  Why is it important?  It is important because it is one of the first elections being held since the big O was elected as President last year.  This race has big implications for 2010 and 2012.

Why should you care?   Because New York is one of those special states that has a Conservative Party.  And I am not talking about Republican or Democrat either.   You can actually become registered as a card-carrying Conservative in New York.  Think about that for a moment.  You don’t have to deal with the party rhetoric that the Republicans or Democrat put out, you can actually register and vote on principle.  What a concept.

What is so important about the 23rd New York Congressional District is that the Conservative candidate Doug Hoffman is current leading in the polls over 2nd place Democratic Challenger Bob Owens, and 3rd plcae Republican Candidate Dede Scozzafava.  Why is Scozzafava dead last?  Because she is a liberal Republican, ala like Olympia Snowe.  Scozzafava is one of those Rino’s who support abortion, votes for tax increases and votes with the liberal Democratic party than with her own party.

In fact she is so liberal, that party insiders secretly agree that Democrat Bob Owens is more conservative that Scozzafava.  However, bring in Conservative Party Doug Hoffman, who is a fiscal Conservative who wants to reign in Big Government and end the wasteful spending that is going on today.  If fact, Hoffman is like you and me, an ordinary citizen that is not a career politician.  If you think of the movie “Mr. Smith goes to Washington”, Doug Hoffman is Mr. Smith.

And even with New York being a liberal state, Doug Hoffman has brought in big endorsements from Sarah Palin, Fred Thompson and Sean Hannity, amongst others because people recognize that he is a principled man who shares the same views that other conservatives do.  Scozzafava has only the support of Newt Gingrich and it makes me wonder whether Newt is all out the party or about principles.  I’m not sure but supporting a Rino like Scozzafava makes me think Newt is all about party.   People are sick of politics as usual and have decided to support someone who will go to Congress and take a stand.  That someone is Doug Hoffman.  Sure, one man may not be able to do much, but with the Government in crises, exorbitant spending, a threat to Health Care and Taxes on Energy,  a truly conservative revolution has to start someplace with someone and that someplace is the New York 23rd district and someone is Doug Hoffman.

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Jim DeMint Refuses to Toe NY Times Line – Must Be Silenced

While I earlier spoke of a corrupt South Carolina politician who needs to disappear from the political scene, Jim DeMint has risen to show us all what it looks like when a conservative has testes.  At a recent Town Hall meeting that didn’t erupt into a mob of unruly, well-dressed, astroturfed, swastika-waving Republican Party plants (just like every other Town Hall meeting), Senator DeMint called the left out when he said, “This is about more government control.”

Jim Demint Has These

Needless to say, the New York Times is unimpressed with his refusal to share the truth (aka “their far-left opinion”) on the matter, wagging their finger at him in a recent article, disappointed that “Mr. DeMint did little to correct (the crowd’s) misimpressions about health care legislation”.

A Republican who doesn’t act like a Democrat!  How DARE he!  Doesn’t he know that there’s no such thing as death panels on pages 425-430 of HR 3200?  Doesn’t he know that there’s no way the bill authorizes the government to access your bank records at the whim of the Secretary of Health and Human Services on page 59?  And certainly, there’s no way that the sections beginning on pages 284-288 and again on page 801 that authorizes the government to pick and choose which medical procedures it will cover have anything whatsoever to do with “rationing”.

That’s just silly.  Why only people who’d bothered to read the bill would think such things!  The New York Times has checked and re-checked the full text of the Barack Obama for President 2008 Website (bookmarked on every employee’s browser), and there’s nothing about it there!  That’s some crack reporting, there!

And by “crack reporting”, I mean, “only by smoking crack could you possibly consider what the New York Times does to be reporting”.

Now, the New York Times has every right to print this crap.  The same first amendment that guarantees my right to say that the President is a slobbering, drooling retard also protects their right to slobber, drool, and go retarded every time B. Hussein Obama appears (light glowing over his head, soft choir music in the background).  It also protects our right to cancel subscriptions, close our accounts, and boycott advertisers.

Do it.

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