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A PREVIEW OF HEALTH CARE "REFORM"

Those who have the caring personality of the Dept of Motor Vehicles clerk, the managerial abilities of the directors of Amtrak, the temperament of a Postal employee and the bedside manner of an IRS agent are coming to a clinic near you!  Oh yes, and you're going to be paying for it!
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Forwarded to RiteOn by Moberly, MO Guest Editor RT

POLITICS - NOT AS USUAL

By Chuck MacNab

In observing how Gingrich, Boehner and Steele performed in the New York 23rd District race, we can see that they expected to be able to “handle” voters in the same old way and with the same old shopworn techniques they have used up until the emergence of the Tea Party people. It is well worth noting that, within hours after Scozzafava dropped out of the race, she endorsed the Democrat! What an embarrassment for entrenched Republican leaders – so much of the Republican Party machinery was exposed to view!

The Congressional race in New York’s 23rd District and the Gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia have brought large numbers of voters out who oppose the Marxist policies of the Obama Administration and Congress and this is their first real chance to exercise their power at the polls. The election in New Jersey might be a tossup, because the government in New Jersey has a worse reputation for corruption than the Karzai government in Afghanistan! It appears it may be impossible to get an honest vote count.

We don’t want to confuse anyone here. In pointing out the misjudgment of Republican leaders whom we chastise, we would not consider supporting the Democrats. Moderate and conservative Democrats have allowed radical Marxists, under the Democratic Party’s current leadership, Obama, Pelosi, Reid and others, to take over their Party threatening our Constitution, our democracy, our culture, our economic well being and our way of life. There is no way anyone with common sense could support the Democrats.

Boehner’s comments indicate, beyond much doubt, that the Republican Party is heavily influenced by county and state chairmen who mostly do the bidding of campaign donors and special interests as opposed to representing the people in their districts. This approach has been successful in the past when the general public has not shown much interest in politics and has been easily distracted. Now, however, the whole ballgame has changed. The Marxists are in power “big time” and they are out in the open. It’s scaring a lot of people and upsetting a lot of others. The Republican Party has gotten away with operating in this manner because the money to support them has come from those special interests and those special interests are well represented. There is little doubt that the national Tea Party movement is now redefining Republicanism. This situation is reflected in the county where we live and we have been writing about it, to the chagrin of local Republican Party “insiders,” for more than two years. Our commentaries dealing with the subject of local Party corruption, laziness, demonizing and cronyism have not made us popular with some Republicans, especially those steeped in supporting these ways of doing business. The Tea Party organizations provide a welcome breath of fresh air.

It is interesting to note that, even after Sarah Palin was bad mouthed by the media, litigated by enemies and researched into oblivion (they thought), her support of Doug Hoffman, the conservative in the New York Congressional race, contributed in a major way to his surge into the lead while his “moderate” Republican rival tanked. Republican leaders should take note of this. Perhaps another political strategy may be in order for the next election. By that we do not mean that every candidate should think he can simply don the “cloak of conservatism.”  The Tea Party people and others are informing the voters and they will not be fooled.

There is a HUGE problem, considering all of this. There obviously isn’t time to gut the Republican Party from the county chairmen on up, so the most practical option right now is to gain as much control of the nominating process as is practical in order to “re-tread” the Republican Party. That means conservatives need to get HEAVILY involved in primary election campaigns, so that the person representing the Republican Party on the ballot in November is a real conservative. The leadership of our Tea Party group understands this, but I see no recognition of the practical facts as yet among other groups. I’m hoping it will start NOW – because time is of the essence.

TEA PARTY INDEPENDENTS AND CONSERVATIVES ARE NOW BEING HEARD LOUD AND CLEAR

     Tea Party demonstrators at the corner of K & N Highway in O'Fallon, MO

There are indications that conservatives and independent Tea Party voters are scaring the wits out of politicians running for office in 2010. However, there is a LOT of work to do in the days, weeks and months ahead. We are just starting to get "warmed up" but there is a need to avoid being distracted, turn up the energy spigot and press on until the liberal, socialist and Marxist wall crumbles for good! - Chuck
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FOX News today(excerpt):
Republican state Assemblywoman Dierdre Scozzafava has suspended her campaign for upstate New York's 23rd Congressional District seat, giving a possible boost to Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman against Democrat Bill Owens, Fox News has confirmed.

The move comes on the heels of a new poll that showed Scozzafava had fallen behind her two competitors in a close race.

The special election is Tuesday, and political analysts believe upstate New York could be a preview of congressional races nationwide in 2010 and 2012 as Republican leaders struggle to rebuild, redefine and regain control of Washington.

MORE THOUGHTS ON THE ENERGY ISSUE

By Chuck MacNab

We wrote last week about the need to develop nuclear energy and want to add to those remarks – so here are some further thoughts on energy.

China is developing coal and energy resources at the fastest rate on earth. With one and a half billion people to feed, house and employ, they need to move without hesitation. The Chinese authorities understand that a nation’s economic well being depends on an affordable supply of energy and they are going about trying to meet their needs for the future. Using the economic slowdown and its attendant bargain prices for resource companies, they are using the money that Americans spend on Chinese goods at Wal-Mart to buy up as much of the world’s commodity resources as they can. Both large and small companies that own promising resources of iron ore, copper, coal, oil, nickel, etc. have recently been bought out partially or wholly by Chinese money. The Iranians are building pipelines into China with money from oil revenues and Chinese bank loans. Saudi Arabia is building the world’s largest oil refineries and storage facilities in China, all with the blessing and possibly the funding of the Chinese government. Coal resources and the infrastructure to reach them are being developed with Chinese money in Mongolia.

It’s not like the Chinese are paying attention to Al Gore’s global warming ideas or that they intend to abide by any agreement between their competitors to limit greenhouse gases. Petrobas, the Brazilian oil company, has found a world-class oil discovery off the Brazilian coast and one of Obama’s main campaign money sources, George Soros, is 30% owner of the company. According to media sources, the oil from the deposit has been pledged to China so not a drop of it will likely be used in the United States. But guess what? That hasn’t deterred Obama from making billions dollars of American taxpayer money available to develop the Petrobas resource. This simply looks like a payoff for George Soros and it smacks of corruption in high places. That’s nothing new or abnormal to a politician from Chicago. Years ago, President Eisenhower had a Chief of Staff who took a Vicuna coat as a gift from a lobbyist and was thrown out of the White House for it. Now, apparently, the President can arrange for his main moneyman and campaign donor to receive billions of dollars of government funding and the major media doesn’t even bat an eye.

Meanwhile, Obama and the left wing environmentalist nut cases are banning all offshore drilling in the U.S., shutting down exploration and development on Federal land, preventing exploration and development on Alaska’s north slope and telling citizens that they will have to buy energy from windmills, solar panels and whatever else costs three times more than traditional sources. They’re not moving forward rapidly in nuclear energy, as they should, and there is no priority for developing clean coal technology either. In fact, they are making it difficult to operate existing coal fired plants. Americans won’t just be expected to pay for a massive climate hoax; they will be forced to by heavy taxation. This isn’t just bad policy.  It’s CRAZY policy that is way beyond the pale!

The whole global warming pandemic is the creating a further economic meltdown for Americans. All of it to create a draconian reality for political reasons out of mythology based on phony science and unreal statistics. Oh, and incidentally, their political pals will get billions to spread around, spend on private jets, and keep their elites in office – while privately acknowledging what suckers ordinary people are.

American prosperity was built on a foundation of relatively inexpensive energy and raw materials. Now the enemies of capitalism are taking revenge on that process by the reversing it. They want every citizen to be dependent upon them for everything. They want total control. And, as we have said before, the Constitution is an inconvenient obstacle that they intend to turn into a meaningless document. If nothing else, if successful, the result will teach us the value of what we so easily let go.

BLOGGER ILLUSTRATES THE "ESSENCE" OF WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT

Please go to the following link and view the work of Bob McCarty. (The picture is one of Bob "capturing" the crowd.)

http://bobmccarty.com/2009/10/24/68-year-olds-message-continues-to-resonate/

Bob is a local St Louis, MO blogger that has spent the past few Saturdays following the weekly rallies conducted at a major highway intersection by the K & N Patriots organization. He truly deserves national recognition for both the quality and content of the video clips he produces!.... Chuck

THE STRATEGY OF BEING OVERWHELMED

By Chuck MacNab

The road to success in the current battle to preserve freedom in America lies in recognizing what is happening on a larger scale and focusing our attention on winning the major battle - the 2010 elections. It is necessary to put distractions aside and recognize the nature and purpose of left wing, socialist strategies as they unfold in Congress and elsewhere. Currently, there are all sorts of “distractions” being generated and the “good guys” are constantly called to “general quarters.” This can lead to battle fatigue and those of us who believe we are on the right side need to keep this firmly in mind. A “good general” instructs the troops to “hold your fire until you see the whites of their eyes.” We should pay attention to that instruction. We see leaders both large and small calling for “emergency” action to fight this issue or that one when we really need to focus on the main issue - to take Congress back in massive fashion in 2010.
 
Let’s get down to specifics and the reason for writing this commentary. The current political climate makes it important to be aware of a tactic that is well known and common in the legal business. That is, to throw so much “paper” at the opposition that it overwhelms them. (Does a 1400 page health care Bill, to be read overnight, look familiar?) This technique works particularly well when one side is represented by a less experienced and under resourced opposition. (you and me.) In litigation proceedings this tactic usually forces a settlement because one side, the side that’s smaller and many times right, is unable to pay the time and cost of going through truckloads of paperwork. It’s a win-win for the lawyers on both sides because, as the issue continues, the lawyers collect more fees and, if the “little guy” settles, then the lawyers still get paid whether or not the issue is settled!  

As we observe the way the current Administration and their fellow travelers in Congress operate, we see a great similarity with the aforementioned legal strategy. The Administration and its fellow socialist allies in Congress are throwing so much rule making, “change,” legislation, appointments and actual and threatened actions at the system and engaging in so much campaigning (instead of governing) that those who oppose them are being overwhelmed. Not that many issues aren’t important; it’s just that we can’t afford to lose sight of our main goal. Jumping from one ”emergency” situation to another tends to make people lose sight of the forest because the trees get in the way. The role of leadership, and why it is essential, is to see these developments and guide the effort in the direction of ultimate victory. In our case, going in too many different directions at once bleeds energy and resources and represents a significant danger to the final goal of achieving the removal of the socialists and their sympathizers from power. This is the objective that MUST be achieved and all of the rest are simply “fixins.”

WE NEED TO START BUILDING NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS RIGHT NOW

Missouri has been a net exporter of power to neighboring states but, according to the experts at some of the state’s electric utilities, that has changed. We now import our power so instead of being sellers of electricity, we are buyers of it. As a result we will be paying higher electricity costs in the foreseeable future and that’s even without Cap and Trade taxes and the ridiculous “save the planet” regulations that are being proposed by left wing politicians. Missourians will suffer at least a doubling of the cost of electric power as coal plants are shut down, new ones are not built and nothing practical replaces them.

This could change, however. Missouri COULD become a net exporter of electric power once again and provide its citizens with even cheaper electric power in the future if two or three nuclear power plants were constructed in the state. This would mean immediate jobs for those building the new plants. It would mean that Missourians could buy power at a much lower cost and nobody can argue seriously that construction of a few nuclear power plants in the state would not be a huge advantage, offering all sorts of benefits, for residents.

Nuclear power has proven to be a reliable, non-polluting, cheap and a practical source of energy in France and elsewhere but the images left in the public’s mind by Hollywood lefties like Jane Fonda (the movie The China Syndrome), the Three Mile Island fiasco and the phony claims of the environmental lobby have frightened politicians and those in industry as well.

With few exceptions, such as Senator Tim Green of St Louis, political leaders continue to ignore the obvious potential of nuclear power and intend to stick the people who must work for a living with a huge but politically correct energy policy that is bound to lower the standard of living for everyone except the elites with big trust funds where "work" is a social activity, not a necessity.

Legislation such as Cap and Trade and restrictions on building nuclear power plants make no sense at all today and people should tell the politicians to ignore the hysteria about nuclear power and start planning for the future in a practical way. They could at least act to change the economic fate of those living in Missouri if they would exhibit some common sense and make it possible to start construction of nuclear power plants right now.

Barack Obama Awarded the Stanley Cup!!

Breaking News for hockey fans:
NHL cancels season, awards Stanley Cup to Barack Hussein Obama

(Hockeytown , USA - 10/9/09) In a stunning announcement today, a spokesperson for the NHL Commissioner issued the following short statement:

"We are pleased to present the 2009-2010 Stanley Cup to President Obama for his innate ability to skate around every issue that comes his way. Forwards, backwards or sideways, his skating ability is second to none."

"We are also seriously considering awarding him the Defenseman of the Year award not only for his backwards skating ability, but also his ability to defend against everything he's done wrong by effectively blaming all ills on someone who hasn't been in office for almost a year. The fact that people actually buy this defensive maneuver is testimony to his skills."

OBAMA AND THE TROOPS

 

"Dear Leader" (in constant campaign mode) is engaged full time in lobbying congress to support his "Obamacare" legislation (Whether you agree or not this legislation WILL create government "death panels"). It will force many young people who would normally opt out of spending for health care insurance to pay a huge part of their income to buy it or be fined. It will cut 500 billion from Medicare and thereby create health care rationing like we have never seen in the U.S. and cause premature death among many. It will cost at least twice what the highest estimated cost is now. This is all about POWER folks.... NOT HEALTH CARE!

This is what Obama and his Administration are currently occupying themselves with while our troops wait for critical support of their mission in Afghanistan! How could policy makers advising Obama not have expected confusion in the Afghan government after they sent Carville over there to meddle in the Afghan elections and advise the existing government's opposition candidate! Now they are using the excuse of the confusion THEY created to engage in deadly delay of support for the troops. They either don't know what they are doing or are creating an excuse for delay. Either or both are amateur, inexcusable and immoral!

by Chuck MacNab

In conversation the other day with one of the leaders of a local Tea Party group, I recalled this biblical parable. When asked how she might help to coordinate our opposition to the socialist legislation coming from Washington, she simply answered with, "I pray a lot" and "God will provide the answers."

Her response reminded me of a military inquiry where the Saudi Arabian Air Force ditched its four new (U.S. Taxpayer provided) aircraft in the desert short of an acceptable place to land. An investigation revealed that they had not taken enough fuel to reach their destination.

Fortunately, the desert is a good place to belly-land an aircraft and, even though all four aircraft were destroyed, the Saudi pilots survived. When asked how they could have departed without enough fuel to reach their destination, they answered in unison with "We believed that Allah would provide!" When then asked how they could make such a mistake, they answered, "It was written." (Translation: it was not our fault.)

There is an essential and basic difference between Christianity and the Muslim religion. Christians believe that they are the instrument through which God provides and that success in this world is obtained through hard work, practical education, ingenuity, dedication, knowledge and the observance of His commandments. To my friend, who sees no need to act and who would leave such basic decisions as human organization to God to provide, I would offer the following observation.

Those Godless liberals, who have fooled the majority into believing that all should be left to them, are believers in ideas similar in nature to the Muslim religion. They would have us leave every decision in our lives to them and not worry because "they will provide." If we don't go along with this, they will seek to force us in the same way that the Mullahs in Muslim countries use the local police to whip and cane the population out of the streets and into the mosques several times a day. Religious leaders in these countries force the people to accept the word of God through them and deny personal choice except in matters of little consequence.

Liberal leaders tell us that there is no God so they can replace God's values with theirs. In effect, they think they can become God. They, like the Mullahs, are preaching that people are incapable of understanding and that our basic beliefs are all wrong anyway. They seek to weaken us and force us to obey their rules.

So, in realizing where we are, let's get organized, expose the liberal agenda for what it is and preserve and strengthen freedom, personal responsibility and individual choice. What we need to do is to determine our own actions as individuals and follow God's rules. That's easy enough to do, not complex. All that is required is recognition that God helps those who help themselves.