Representation?

Do we really have representation in congress?

This isn’t about health care, but my point is made by an example from that debate. Mary Landrieu, Democrat senator from Louisiana, voted for cloture of the health bill – after an amendment was added that sees to it that Louisiana will receive $300,000,000 dollars is benefits the other states won’t get.

On the face of it, Landrieu is bargaining for benefits for her state, and I cannot argue with that.

On the other hand, nationwide only 38% of voters now favor the current health care plan. I was unable to find statistics just for Louisiana.

So it seems likely that Landrieu is voting for a bill that her constituents do NOT want.

I’m not picking on Landrieu; it’s just that this is a convenient example of how our government is NOT a representative democracy. In point of fact, our ‘representatives’ can do any damn thing they want to, and our ONLY recourse is to vote them out in the next election.

It’s nice to have a recourse. But I’d rather our elected representatives would, well, you know, represent us.

-Popgun

THIS is What Obama Calls Smart Diplomacy

This is what Britain thinks of Obama.

-Popgun

Global Warming is a Fraud!

The ’scientists’ have been fraudulently stroking the data to support the global warming hypothesis. In these emails they clearly admit that even they can not find true evidence for global warming. Here’s a link to the Fox News story. And here’s one to John Lott’s article. And here’s another John Lott article with a more detailed breakdown. The climatologists have been distorting the numbers for a very long time.

In point of fact, the last ten years has shown a decline in global temperatures. As mentioned in the emails, and noted elsewhere.

We need to put a stop to the Cap and Trade Bill – NOW. It is the most insane thing I can imagine to wreck our country financially for a stated purpose that does not exist!

Now that this is out in the open, just watch – the Obama and the Democrats will still try to push Cap & Trade through, anyway. If they succeed, it will really hurt this country economically (while lining Al Gore’s pockets), and turn even more of our economy over to control of the government. Which is the real purpose of the bill.

Ask your Senators – what is the Cap and Trade bill for, if global warming is not a risk? And tell them NOT to vote for it.

-Popgun

How to Buy a Senator’s Vote

Interesting article over on John Lott’s Blog.

This is one major reason our government is so screwed up.

-Popgun

Terrorist Trials in NYC – a Distraction?

I bet the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed drags on for a looooong time.

Where the hell are they going to find twelve unbiased jurors in the United States? The whole idea of giving constitutional protection to a non-citizen of the U.S. is just wrong. And besides that, we know he’s guilty, he’s bragged about it. Shoot him now and save us a lot of money and time. This would have the added benefit of denying a whole bunch of lawyers from feeding at the public trough.

While all this hoopla is moderately important, we need to keep our eyes on the ball.

Isn’t it interesting that this kind of thing comes up to distract us just when other interesting things are going on.

Such as the fast one Obama, Pelosi and Reed are trying to put over with their 2000 page plus ‘health care bill’? Shucks, The Holy Bible is only 608 pages long (in this edition). God gave us our entire owner’s manual in less than 1/3 the pages of this health care bill. By definition, it is an atrocity waiting to happen.

Or the cap and trade bill, which will constitute the largest increase in the cost of living in the United States in history, and which is totally ineffective at it’s stated goal of stopping the alleged global warming, but, if passed, will make Al Gore obscenely rich.

BOTH of these bills have the actual purpose of putting more of our economy in the direct control of the government, furthering the statist and socialist goals of Obama, Pelosi and Reed. Neither of them will actually achieve anything the American public wants.

-Popgun

A Sign of Things to Come?

Is this a sign of things to come?

The U.S Preventive Services Task Force has changed the recommendation for regular screening for breast cancer. They want to minimize the quantity, and not start regular screening until age 50. Another article is here.

I have a good friend that would very likely be dead today if she had followed these new regulations.

The motivation for the change is unclear, but this may be what we can expect if ObamaPelosiCare gets through the senate. Cutting costs, don’t you know…

Palin was exactly right when she was talking about ‘death panels’. It’s inevitable, and it is in the PelosiCare bill.

-Popgun

Amazing Fiscal Incompetence

An example of the amazing incompetence of the government which wants to control your health care:

There are 435 actual congressional districts, total. $6.4 billion dollars of bailout money went to ANOTHER 440 ‘phantom’ districts that don’t actually exist. Now, that’s a serious competence deficit, there, no matter who you are.

I wonder where all that money actually went?

-Popgun

Out of Touch

Obama and his administration is clearly out of touch.

They have ignored the voice of the people on financial policy, blowing off the tea parties as merely a bunch of activists – which, if they had truly looked into it, they would have seen that it is a popular movement that the majority supports.

They have ignored (so far) the backlash against the government take-over of health care. Health care does need reform, but most of us recognize that having the federal government take it over will not be an improvement. Yet the administration still intends to ram it through against the majority.

They have ignored the large majority who do not want the massive increase in taxes that will be brought on if the senate passes the cap and trade bill, which, insanely, tackles global warming ineffectively, at massive cost to every one of us citizens.

They have completely misread the reaction of the public to having our chief of state bowing to foreign monarchs, making a mockery of our own country abroad.

Now they are ignoring the large majority who do not want to give citizen’s rights and privileges to terrorists, and are bringing them to New York City to try them as civilians.

Obama and his administration have ignored the accumulating evidence that their policies are not working, with unemployment MUCH higher than the maximum they projected, and the value of the dollar falling like a rock. Banks are failing right and left, we all fear for our jobs, and the Democrats continue their agenda to enlarge government and tax private industry, and private citizens.

They have ignored our protests against the entire idea of ‘czars’ which bypass legal channels of authority, and many of which sport radical left ideologies.

They ignore our distaste for socialism, statism and marxism. Because they think they know what is best for us. They want us to be good little sheep, whether we like that idea or not.

This is what happens when the media manipulate the emotions of the population to the point that a president is elected on the basis of popularity, and no notice is taken of the history of the individual. Few people took a look at Obama’s history, his associations, his lack of real experience at managing anything. Few people noticed his radical left ideology, which he concealed when possible during the campaign. There were MANY signs that it would go like this; and the mainstream media suppressed this information so that most voters were unaware of just what they were voting for.

The voters wanted change, but they didn’t count on just how much change they were going to get.

I hope to God that the voters are smarter in the next election. We need to examine the record and history of every individual we vote for, so we at least have some idea of what we are getting.

-Popgun

Interesting Gotcha’s in Pelosi’s Health Bill

Isn’t it interesting that these little gotcha’s come to light AFTER the House has already passed the bill?

Gotcha #1 – Taxes and Tort Reform.

Gotcha #2 – Abortion Funding.

This points to a major flaw in the way our laws are created. These issues were buried in that 1900 plus page bill that, among many others, come to light only after it passed in the House. Did those who voted for it know about them?

This is how abusive legislation gets passed.

-Popgun

Terrorist Attack on U.S. Soil

It really hadn’t sunk in. Someone said something on the news last night that made me realize:

The murders at Fort Hood by Hasan the terrorist constitute the first successful terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9/11.

Eight years of safety, under Bush. Then comes Obama, who renamed the War on Terror to be an “Overseas Contingency Operation”. I wonder why Obama has trouble saying the word ‘terrorist’?

I’m not being totally fair here; we will never know if anything would have been any different if Bush was still in office. However, Obama has most certainly de-emphasized the terrorist threat and lowered our defenses. Heck, he apologized to the Muslim nations for our defense of ourselves. Obama hasn’t got the cojones to say “Enough is enough. I’m going to protect my people”. I think he’s a wee bit confused about just who his people are.

The highest priority of the President of the United States is to protect the people of the United States. It says so, right here on the Homeland Security webpage. Obama is not doing as well on this as his predecessor.

The presidential oath:

“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States“.

That part about “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States”? Obama is not doing so well on that, either. As witness his attack on Fox News for telling it like it is. Their crime is speaking the truth that the other networks distort or ignore. Obama wanted to suppress that any way he can, because the other networks suppress news that would make Obama look bad. Hello? FIRST AMENDMENT. In that debate, you will notice that Obama never once pointed out any specific fact that Fox lied about – because he couldn’t. The very fact that Obama tried to suppress Fox violates his oath of office.

Then, there is the pending health bill, parts of which very likely violate the constitution. To begin with, there is nothing in the Constitution that gives the federal government the right to mandate that you purchase a product. ANY product. Yet here they are – buy insurance, or go to jail. This will almost certainly wind up at the Supreme Court, if it passes.

There is no mandate in the Constitution that the federal government provide health care, in any case. Congress and the President are clearly attempting to ram their socialist power grab health care plan through, regardless. It’s not about health care – it’s about power.

Obama not only breaks his oath, but he shows no respect for the Constitution at all. Maybe he should read it.

That’s the way it looks from here.

-Popgun