Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Olympic Sized Payback
All the President's Olympic Cronies
When government officials play the Olympic lottery, taxpayers lose. That has been the disastrous experience of host cities around the world. (Forbes magazine even dubbed the post-Olympic financial burden the "Host City Curse.") So, why are President Obama and his White House entourage headed to Copenhagen, Denmark, this week to push a fiscally doomed Chicago 2016 bid? Political payback.... http://www.creators.com/conservative/michelle-malkin/all-the-president-s-olympic-cronies.html
RushLimbaugh.com 09-30-2009 : Susan in Glendale, California: Her Passion Speaks for Millions
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Speaking of Rush, just a reminder.. Back on 10-02-2007 then Senate minority leader and now majority leader Harry Reid wrote a letter specifically targeting Rush and his radio show distribution partner Mark P. Mays. The current President and Sec. State of the USA are on this list.. The letter was later auctioned off by Rush for 2 million dollars on Ebay. All the proceeds were donated to the
Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation
.Then to top it off, Rush matched those funds to bump the amount donated to 4 million.. More news here http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=643319
The story was basically ignored by the mainstream news. But not ignore by this blogger and or the 20 million who listen to his show across the nation..
Original letter embedded below... Print
Glenn Beck 9/28/09 - A Mother's Challenge
Why Moms Across America Are Upset; The State is in the Way
State to mom: Stop baby-sitting neighbors' kids
By JAMES PRICHARD, Associated Press Writer – Tue Sep 29, 7:23 pm ET
IRVING TOWNSHIP, Mich. – Each day before the school bus comes to pick up the neighborhood's children, Lisa Snyder did a favor for three of her fellow moms, welcoming their children into her home for about an hour before they left for school.
Regulators who oversee child care, however, don't see it as charity. Days after the start of the new school year, Snyder received a letter from the Michigan Department of Human Services warning her that if she continued, she'd be violating a law aimed at the operators of unlicensed day care centers.
"I was freaked out. I was blown away," she said.... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090929/ap_on_re_us/us_baby_sitter_backlash_mich
Against the Will of the People...
Congress’s Secret Plan to Pass Obamacare
09/29/2009
President Obama and liberals in Congress seem intent on passing comprehensive health care reform, even though polls suggest it is unpopular with the American people. And despite the potential political risks to moderate Democrats, the President and left-wing leadership in Congress are determined to pass the measure using a rare parliamentary procedure.
The Senate plans to attach Obamacare to a House-passed non-healthcare bill. Ironically, nobody knows what that legislation looks like, because it has not yet been written. Yet many members plan to rubber-stamp Obamacare without reading or understanding the bill.... http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=33740
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Honoring Communism?
Honor China, Not Its Communism
Posted 07:02 PM ET
Public Relations: The Empire State Building this week will illuminate red and yellow, celebrating China's 60 years of communist rule. There are many things to appreciate about China, but communism isn't one of them.... http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=507484
Spain in Depression Due to Green Economy
'Nuts' To Copenhagen
Posted 07:02 PM ET
Climate: As alternate-energy champ Spain's green economy slides into recession, a German professor says if American "climate illiterates" don't follow, the Copenhagen climate conference will fail. And the bad news is?...
We are not climate illiterates, Professor Schellnhuber; we can clearly read the writing on the wall. It tells us the Earth is cooling and that pacts like Kyoto are recipes for global poverty that will be all pain and no gain.... http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=507486
CNBCs Rick Santelli Rips Media for Ignoring 9/12 DC March (Plus archive video of his hostoric "Chicago Tea Party in July" quote on CNBC)
Posted on YouTube September 14, 2009. Found by us today.
Santelli on CNBC making the call for a "Chicago Tea Party in July". The rest is history..
Monday, September 28, 2009
President Urges Media Bail Out
Its Barry Doody Time
By: adminOn: 09/28/2009 09:57:35
By Carter Clews
Buffalo Bob, we’re told, kept Howdy Doody in tip-top shape. Paul Winchell touched up Knucklehead Smiff on a daily basis. And it is reported (by his lovely daughter Candace no less) that Edgar Bergen treated Charlie McCarthy like a member of the family.
So, it should come as no surprise that Barack Obama is urging Congress to bail out the nation’s “news” organizations as they fall further and further into disrepute and destitution.
After all, when you have your hand up your puppet’s back, fill his mouth with your own words, and he sits supinely on your lap, the least you can do is keep the buzz saws at bay.... http://blog.getliberty.org/default.asp?Display=1600
In the Dumps!
Feds Target Yard Sales
• Posted September 25th, 2009 at 4.38pm
Thinking of having a fall yard sale to clean out some of the clutter from your house? Be careful, or it could get you in trouble with the Feds, and cost you up to $15 million in fines. Its no joke: the Consumer Product Safety Commission has launched a new enforcement campaign, which it calls “Resale Round-up,” targeting the resale of potentially harmful children’s toys and other consumer products. Potential violators, the CPSC warns, include “thrift stores, consignment stores, charities, and individuals holding yard sales and flea markets.” Even e-bay sales are at risk.... http://blog.heritage.org/2009/09/25/feds-target-yard-sales/
Doctors Will Be Penalized
Key Senate health bill's deadly fine print
By Nat Hentoff
There has been a sudden disclosure that, in the influential Senate Finance Committee's health care bill, there is a dangerous provision that could deny crucial health treatments for Medicare patients...
During the continuous, extensive coverage of this proposed legislation, there has been only very limited mention — and none I've seen in the mainstream press — of a section that penalizes doctors for Medicare patients who, for at least five years (from 2015 to 2020), authorize total treatments that wind up in the top 10 percent of national annual Medicare costs per patient.... http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/hentoff092309.php3
Czars Will Remain Unvetted
Czar Wars
Posted 09/25/2009 07:16 PM ET
Politics: In yet another vote against transparency, the Senate killed an amendment imposing legislative oversight on unconfirmed White House officials. Shouldn't we know who they are and what they're doing?... http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=507195
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Honduras Needs Our Support
Go to Jail! Do not pass go! You did not buy Obamacare Insurance!
Obamacare: Buy Insurance or Go to JAIL!
Posted on Sunday, September 27th, 2009
Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) received a handwritten note Thursday from Joint Committee on Taxation Chief of Staff Tom Barthold confirming the penalty for failing to pay the up to $1,900 fee for not buying health insurance.... http://theliberaldemocrat.com/obamacare-buy-insurance-or-go-to-jail/
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Vote on Taxes Amendment to the Constitution
Dear Concerned Taxpayer,
The "Vote On Taxes" Committee is committed to adding the "Vote On Taxes" amendment to the U.S. Constitution. History has demonstrated that requiring voter approval of new taxes and spending will ensure that future generations of Americans will enjoy significantly higher standards of living than if government continues to tax and spend at will.
The official forecast is for the U.S. to run out of money by 2050 leading to a multi-generational economic decline.
The process of amending our Constitution is difficult, time consuming and needs the broad support of the American people. Never in our history has an amendment been successfully proposed and ratified by state legislatures. But, the founding fathers had the foresight to include a way that the states, without the help of the U.S. Congress, could change the Constitution if there were no other way to preserve the American dream of freedom and expanding economic prosperity.
Are you ready to help add the "Vote On Taxes" amendment to our U.S. Constitution?
Please visit http://www.voteontaxes.com/ for more information.
The Housing Boom and Bust - Thomas Sowell
According to Wickipedia, “Thomas Sowell (born June 30, 1930), is an American economist, social commentator, and author of dozens of books. He often writes from an economically laissez-faire perspective. He is currently a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. In 1990, he won the Francis Boyer Award, presented by the American Enterprise Institute. In 2002 he was awarded the National Humanities Medal for prolific scholarship melding history, economics, and political science. In 2003, he was awarded the Bradley Prize for intellectual achievement.”
Anti-Capitalists Riot in Pittsburgh
Thugs, Tea Parties And Treacle
Posted 09/25/2009 07:16 PM ET
IT'S A RIOT: Young members of anarchist groups hold violent demonstrations during Friday's G-20 finance meetings in Pittsburgh.
Politics: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi berated town hall and tea party protesters this month, tearfully warning they'd incite violence. Well, there's been violence all right, at Pittsburgh's G-20. But it wasn't the tea partiers... http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=507181
California Farmers Held Hostage By Government
Fish Vs. Farmers
Posted 09/25/2009 07:16 PM ET
Environmentalism: Sen. Dianne Feinstein votes to deny water to California's drought-stricken San Joaquin Valley. Farmers, families and food are being held hostage to an endangered fish called the delta smelt.
There was a time when the San Joaquin Valley was the most productive agricultural region in the world. It was a large part of what made the Golden State golden.
Now it's a place where farmers no longer farm, but instead line up at food banks to feed the families of those who once fed the rest of the country and a good chunk of the world.... http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=507219
Allow the People to Read the Bill!
Friday, September 25, 2009
Indoctrination of Our Children in Public Schools
Free Speech Gagged in Health Care Debate
Insurer Gagged, AARP Rewarded
Posted 09/24/2009 06:53 PM ET
Free Speech: The Senate votes against transparency as the administration silences a private insurer for exposing the president's health care proposal. Meanwhile, AARP is allowed to tout reform as it awaits payday... http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=507046
TAKE ACTION ON HEALTH CARE REFORM TODAY!
If we are to have an impact we need to call Senator Begich and Senator Murkowski now!
Tell them to:
• Drop the taxes on insurance plans
• Adopt medical tort reform plans
• Oppose any new government plan
• Make health reform sustainable
• Do not add to the deficit and burden future generations
Call our Alaskan Senators at:
Senator Mark Begich
877.501.6275 Toll Free
202.224.3004 Washington, DC
907.271.5915 Anchorage
907.456.0261 Fairbanks
907.586.7700 Juneau
907. 225.3000 Ketchikan
Senator Lisa Murkowski
877.829.6030 Toll Free
202.224.6665 Washington, DC
907.271.3735 Anchorage
907.456.0233 Fairbanks
907.376.7665 Matsu
907.225.6880 Ketchikan
907.283.5808 Kenai
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Community Reinvestment Act Needs to be Repealed
Widen Scope Of What Caused Meltdown?
By REP. MICHELE BACHMANN
Posted 05:45 PM ET
In an alleged effort to protect against a recurrence of the financial collapse of 2008, Congress is considering a slew of new mandates, regulations and agencies.
At the top of the list is an expansion of the very government mandate that is at the heart of the financial collapse, the Community Reinvestment Act... http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=506901
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This last weekend marked the one year anniversary of the financial crash. Are we going to repeat history and put these people in charge of bank regulation and again expand the Community Reinvestment Act?Plan for Abuse of Power to Pass Health Care Reform
Passing a Shell of A Bill: Congress’ Secret Plan to Ram Through Health Care Reform
Posted September 22nd, 2009 at 3.34pm
With the President and Congress’s plan to pass comprehensive health care reform reaching increasingly high levels of unpopularity, and reconciliation becoming an impediment, the leadership of the Senate is rumored to be preparing a new secret plan to railroad the bill through the Senate in record time by using a seldom used parliamentary procedure.
Their plan is to proceed to a House passed non-health care bill to provide a shell of legislation to give Obamacare a ride to the House then to the President’s desk. Sound confusing? We lay out the steps below, but essentially the Senate would pass health care reform as an amendment to a completely unrelated bill so the Senate and House could act quickly and without further debate. Even worse? Nobody really knows what that legislation looks like but they plan on voting for it anyway.... http://blog.heritage.org/2009/09/22/passing-a-shell-of-a-bill-how-congress-plans-to-ram-through-health-care-reform/
FISCAL WAKE-UP TOUR
The Fiscal Wake-Up Tour is a joint public engagement initiative by The Concord Coalition, The Brookings Institution, and The Heritage Foundation. U. S. Comptroller General David Walker is an advisor and has participated in each of the Tour's public events. The purpose of the Tour is to educate Americans about our nation's true long-term financial condition and large and growing fiscal imbalance and to encourage Americans to demand action... http://www.heritage.org/research/Budget/FWUT.cfm
Mark Levin Wants You to Take Action - Video
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Contract from America
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 21, 2009
In an initiative that harkens to the core principles of the Declaration of Independence, the Tea Party Patriots and other grassroots activists have established a project which will enable the American people to establish legislative priorities for their representatives. This new project, called "Contract from America," offers the public the opportunity to make specific legislative suggestions in thirteen areas of public policy, ranging from health care to ethics reform, energy and environmental issues.
In true grassroots style, Ryan Hecker, from Houston, Texas, conceptualized and created the Contract from America, and brought it to the Tea Party Patriots. In discussing the project, he spoke of the need for more public involvement in the determination of America's public policies. "Over the past decades, the majority of ideas and policies have originated in the backrooms of lobbyists and legislators in Washington DC. New legislation has often originated from special interests. These ideas and policies have proven to be tired and ineffective. I know the American people have better ideas for our government. Contract from America is their opportunity."
Contractfromamerica.com http://www.contractfromamerica.com/ContractDefault.aspx was launched immediately prior to the Stand up for Liberty! rallies held in Texas and Ohio over the Labor Day Weekend, and was announced to the nation at the 9-12 March on Washington.
As ideas are offered online by grassroots visitors, individuals will be able to vote on ideas or suggest alternatives in each category. Editors selected from among tea party activists from around the country will choose the top three ideas in each policy area. A vote of the people will select the ideas to be presented to elected officials as the choices of the people.
Hecker noted further, "This website provides Americans with the opportunity to offer their innovative solutions to our nation's pressing problems and to vote and comment on the ideas of others. We believe that the result of this grassroots-generated marketplace of ideas will be a document that not only represents the will of the American people, but promotes unique ideas that will breathe new life and new trust into American government. We will have a Contract From America for which we are all responsible and in which we all feel a sense of ownership."
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Michelle Malkin on Health Care Today 9/22
By Michelle Malkin • September 22, 2009 10:19 PM
AARP members who are still wondering why their leaders in Washington want to sell them out on Obamacare, pay attention.
The GOP has uncovered one very lucrative possibility: Kickbacks.
Here’s the deal:...
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/09/22/hmmm-is-the-aarp-getting-kickbacks-from-obamacare/
Video: The White House opposes health insurance competition across state lines
By Michelle Malkin • September 21, 2009 10:22 PM
Stimulus Bill Written by Anti-capitalists?
Radicals Wrote Failed Stimulus
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Monday, September 21, 2009 4:30 PM PT
Policymaking: If the stimulus isn't working, perhaps it's because it was largely written by a collection of leftist interest groups called the Apollo Alliance that counts among its directors a co-founder of the Weather Underground...
“Clearly, the stimulus bill that no congressman read is not working. As it turns out, no congressman may have written it either. It's largely the creation of a coalition of leftist organizations called the Apollo Alliance, whose primary interests are saving the Earth, environmental justice and redistributing wealth. They are not friends of job-creating capitalism.”...
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=338426559999450
Monday, September 21, 2009
Cap and Trade Markup in Senate Soon
Call your Senators today!
Boxer Readies for Climate Bill Introduction, Mid-Oct. Markup
By DARREN SAMUELSOHN
Published: September 21, 2009
The Senate climate debate has largely been in standby mode since June, but Environment and Public Works Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) is ready to kick-start the process with the release next week of a draft bill.
Sources off Capitol Hill say they expect Boxer to start legislative hearings during the week of Oct. 5, with a tentative markup penciled in for the week of Oct. 12.... http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2009/09/21/21climatewire-boxer-readies-for-climate-bill-introduction-83505.html
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Anchorage Town Hall on Health Care 8/20/09
Boehner and Graham on Meet the Press 9/20/09
Saturday, September 19, 2009
March on Washington "SolidariTEA Party" 9/12/09
The Ketchikan Tea Party Patriots had a 9/12 SolidariTEA Party. We met at Jeremiah’s at the Landing for breakfast while watching coverage of the March on Washington. It was good to gather together again with other patriots and to meet some new friends. After that we took to the streets with our signs and enjoyed the honks and thumbs ups from passing cars.
Protectionism Hurts Our Economy
Lost: 600,000 Jobs
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Thursday, September 17, 2009 4:20 PM PT
Economy: As if Big Labor hasn't been repaid enough for its help in electing Democrats, a new report shows that protectionism — the unions' signature issue — costs 585,000 of the rest of us our jobs... http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?secid=1501&status=article&id=338078386864116&secure=1&show=1&rss=1
Friday, September 18, 2009
Deneen Borelli on CNBC Morning Meeting
Deneen Borelli Challenges Jimmy Carter's Statement that Race is the Reason Why Conservatives Are Opposed to President Obama
Daneen quoted on Fox News Wire 09-16-2009 http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/16/carter-racism-claim-draws-widespread-criticism/
Thursday, September 17, 2009
If You Put a Mic. in Front of Maxine Waters...
Maxine Waters was asked by a reporter if she thought that Jimmy Carter was right about the TEA Party protesters being racists. She answered, " I think that if you put the microphones in front of them, if you do the interviews, they'll tell you what they believe, and what they think. It will come out. I think it's very important for them to define themselves." I think she is right. I think if a microphone were put in front of them they would tell the world and their congressmen what they think. But, they won't be about racism. They will be about Freedom.
September 17 is Constitution Day!
Happy Constitution Day from the Ketchikan Tea Party Patriots!
"The Essential Liberty Project is an educational initiative to support the restoration of constitutional integrity and Rule of Law.
Our objective is to distribute millions of our Constitution booklets to students, as a primer on our nation's founding documents and liberty."
Is Nancy Pelosi Threatening TEA Party Patriots?
Pelosi worried about angry health care rhetoric
Anyone voicing hateful or violent rhetoric, she told reporters, must take responsibility for the results... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090917/ap_on_go_co/us_pelosi_angry_rhetoric
Amazing Photo for the 9/12 March on Washington
Click on this link to see this amazing photo of the 9/12/09 Tea Party in Washington taken by photographer Michael A. Beck from the top of the Capitol Building. It is AWESOME!!
http://iowntheworld.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/capitol-view-lo-res.jpg
Debate rages over 'tea party' crowd size
Estimates run from 'tens of thousands' to near 2 million
Thursday, September 17, 2009
A fierce numbers battle has erupted in the aftermath of Saturday's Capitol Hill rally by "tea party" conservatives that is not over the growth of government, the budget deficit or even the $1 trillion cost of President Obama's health care plan, but about the size of the crowd.
Most news organizations reported that the boisterous, anti-big-government rally at the West Front of the Capitol drew "tens of thousands" of demonstrators from.......... http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/17/debate-rages-over-tea-party-crowd-size/?feat=home_cube_position4
"Cap and Tax" - Disaster For Families
Smoking Papers On Global Warming
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Wednesday, September 16, 2009 4:20 PM PT
Climate Change: A Treasury Department analysis says a cap-and-trade law could cost American families more than $1,700 a year. No wonder administrators tried to keep the study secret.
Had it not been for the efforts of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the analysis would have likely remained a guarded secret.
A handful of Treasury documents related to cap-and-trade, carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases were made public Tuesday, but only after CEI's Christopher Horner used the Freedom of Information Act to force its disclosure.... http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=337991812954735
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Baucus's Health Care Bill Unfavorable on Both Sides of the Isle
ONLY BIPARTISAN PART OF BAUCUS'S BILL IS OPPOSITION TO IT
By MClemente on Sep 16, 2009
Wednesday morning, Senator Max Baucus (D-MT), Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, released his proposal for health care reform (attached here). The bill, which would cost an estimated $856 billion over the next 10 years, seems to have overcome the partisan divide that exists in Washington and brought Senators from both sides of the aisle together. Unfortunately for Baucus and his liberal peers, the bipartisan cooperation that has emerged is not in favor of, but rather opposition to, the 223 page proposal... http://www.freedomworks.org/blog/mclemente/only-bipartisan-part-of-baucuss-bill-is-opposition
Investors Business Daily Special Series on Health Care Reform
The link to this site has been added to our other favorite links on the left hand side of this site.
Condition Critical: What Doctors Think About Health Reform
Lost in all the debate about health care reform is a key question: What do doctors think?
To find out, IBD/TIPP – America’s most accurate pollster – conducted a nationwide survey of physicians. As this exclusive series shows, doctors have serious reservations about the reforms being proposed.... http://www.ibdeditorials.com/series28.aspx
Physician Shortage May Become Critical
45% Of Doctors Would Consider Quitting If Congress Passes Health Care Overhaul
By TERRY JONES
News Analysis by IBD | Posted Tuesday, September 15, 2009 4:30 PM PT
Two of every three practicing physicians oppose the medical overhaul plan under consideration in Washington, and hundreds of thousands would think about shutting down their practices or retiring early if it were adopted, a new IBD/TIPP Poll has found.
The poll contradicts the claims of not only the White House, but also doctors' own lobby — the powerful American Medical Association — both of which suggest the medical profession is behind the proposed overhaul.
It also calls into question whether an overhaul is even doable; 72% of the doctors polled disagree with the administration's claim that the government can cover 47 million more people with better-quality care at lower cost.
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=337909690110379
Tea Party Patriots Called Racist By Former President Carter
President Obama's supporters have attributed racist motives to opponents of his health care plan for weeks, but former President Jimmy Carter is the highest-profile person to push that claim.
Former President Jimmy Carter drew widespread criticism Wednesday for saying that Rep. Joe Wilson's "You lie!" outburst last week was "based on racism" and that an "overwhelming portion" of similar demonstrations against President Obama are rooted in bigotry... http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/16/carter-racism-claim-draws-widespread-criticism/
Congress Halts ACORN Funding
Acorn's Cash For Hookers
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Tuesday, September 15, 2009 4:20 PM PT
After Acorn workers were caught on tape in three cities allegedly abetting what they believed was a fraudulent-mortgage and sex-trafficking scheme, the Senate has voted overwhelmingly to strip the group of funding in the Transportation/Housing and Urban Development appropriations bill.... http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=337909690188191
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Thomas Sowell
By THOMAS SOWELL | Posted Monday, September 14, 2009 4:20 PM PT
Many years ago, as a small child, I was told one of those old-fashioned fables for children. It was about a dog with a bone in his mouth that was walking on a log across a stream.
The dog looked down into the water and saw his reflection. He thought it was another dog with a bone in his mouth — and it seemed to him that the other dog's bone was bigger than his. He decided that he was going to take the other dog's bone away and opened his mouth to attack. The result was that his own bone fell into the water and was lost.... http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=337818314299940
Reverand C.L. Bryant Speech
SPEECHES FROM THE MARCH ON DC
By bstein80 on Sep 15, 2009
Here are some of the speeches from the 9-12 March on Washington on Saturday.
I’ll begin with my favorite one, from Reverand C.L. Bryant, from Shreveport, Louisiana.
part two and other videos here...
http://www.freedomworks.org/blog/bstein80/speeches-from-the-march-on-dc
Murkowski Says Public Concerned about a ‘Tsunami of Government Intrusion’
Tuesday September 15 2009
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, said today that Americans are not only concerned about the Democrats’ health care proposals, but the “cumulative effect” of federal spending that is increasing the national debt by trillions of dollars.
“I think one of the things that we cannot lose sight of here in Congress is what our constituents have clearly not lost sight of, and that is the cumulative effect of what is happening here in Washington, D.C. – the ever-growing debt,” Murkowski told reporters at a Republican leadership news conference.
Murkowski, vice chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, said Alaskans expressed concerns to her at a series of town hall meetings in the state last month that the “government is into everything right now.”
“They’re (the government) running the credit cards. They’re manufacturing automobiles. They are setting pay compensation for executives. At what point do we pull government back?” Murkowski asked.
Murkowski said public concern extended from “rallies in places as far away as Fairbanks, Alaska” to the tens of thousands of people who gathered on the Washington Mall this past weekend to protest President Obama’s initiatives and government spending.
“When we’re talking about health care reform, we need to keep in mind that the Americans’ concern is not necessarily just this 800- or 1,000-page bill that we have in front of us, but what is coming at them in what they feel to be a tsunami of government intrusion,” Murkowski said. “We’ve got a lot of work to do.” http://murkowski.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=3a4a85e1-b4b8-464f-bacd-5fc57deb115d
Monday, September 14, 2009
March on Washington 9/12/09 - Is It Counted Yet?
HOW MANY PEOPLE CAME TO 9/12 TAXPAYER MARCH ON WASHINGTON?
By Max on Sep 14, 2009
President Obama drew 15,000 people to hear him pitch his health care overhaul in Minnesota this past Saturday. Meanwhile back in Washington, we had that many people waiting in line at the port-a-potties at the Taxpayer March on Washington because we woefully underestimated how many people would travel across the country to bring their message of limited government and fiscal responsibility to DC.... http://www.freedomworks.org/blog/max/how-many-people-came-to-912-taxpayer-march-on-wash
