It seems the message that progressive Democrats got from the MA election of Brown(R) to Congress was that, even more than ever, Americans really want this health care bill shoved up their rear. It starts to make one wonder who is really running the show behind the curtain. If anything, you would assume the (D) party would regroup and try to steer back to the center on domestic issues. Obama now claims it’s all about the economy and jobs. No, that’s what the issue was when you decided that health care and cap and trade were the only issues that would turn America’s economy around. Just when you thought the health care legislation, in its current form, was dead, those progressive elements in the White House and Congress are looking at some new creative techniques to pass this socialist crap anyway.

The Washington Examiner reports Democrats have thoughts on alternative measures to pass this health care bill. Ok, remember to watch the other hand. Presidential Advisor, David Axelrod, from one side of his mouth spouts”

This president’s never going to stop fighting to create jobs, to raise incomes, and to push back on the special interests’ dominance in Washington and this withering partisanship that keeps us from solving problems.

However, the Examiner reports Axelrod in the same breath states that the MA election had nothing to do with the health care legislation and the people still want it, just proposed differently. In other words, we have made the process too transparent and now we can really take it deep into back rooms of Congress and use parliamentary tricks to pass it.

According to the Examiner

Democrats are weighing two possibilities: Pass a scaled-back version in smaller pieces, or try to move the current Senate health care bill through the House and then make changes to it through a parliamentary maneuver known as reconciliation, which would require just 51 votes for passage.

However, if this goes through reconciliation, only portions of the bill can remain. A scaled down version will be less palatable for the Democrats, so that plan will probably not fly either. So what is the plan? According to a Fox News report, Robert Gibbs says

“Seventy percent of the voters in Massachusetts wanted to work with Democrats on health care reform, only 28 percent want to stop health care reform from happening. ..

OK, the message MA voter sent to the White House and Congress is to keep ramming this bill down their throats. Right! Well, since these progressive folks are hell-bent on being branded traitors, they should go ahead and completely ignore the will of the people and circumvent the Constitution as much as possible.

Newsmax reports the end-around attempt Pelosi and Reid will to get this beast of a bill passed.

Senate Democrats will go to the House with a two-part deal.

First, the House will pass the Senate’s Obamacare bill that passed the Senate in December. The House leadership will vote on the Senate bill, and Pelosi will allow no amendments or modifications to the Senate bill…Behind closed doors Reid and Pelosi have agreed in principle that changes to the Senate bill will be made to satisfy liberal House members — but only after the Senate bill is passed and signed into law by Obama.

This deal will be secured by a pledge from Reid and the Senate’s Democratic caucus that they will make “fixes” to the Senate bill after it becomes law with Obama’s John Hancock…

Reid will provide to Pelosi a letter signed by 52 Democratic Senators indicating they will pass the major changes, or “fixes”, the House Democrats are demanding. Again, these fixes will be approved by the Senate only after Obama signs the Senate bill into law.

Reid has also agreed to bypass Senate cloture and filibuster rules and claim that these modifications fall under “reconciliation” and don’t require 60 Senate votes…

This secret plan being hatched by Pelosi and Reid requires not only a pledge by 52 Democratic Senators to vote later for the House modifications. House liberals must actually believe these Senators will live up to their pledge and pass the fixes at some future date…Still, my Senate source and others in Washington believe that the liberals in the House, grasping at straws after the stunning Massachusetts defeat, will go along with the Reid-Pelosi plan to bypass a conference bill and and will ultimately vote for the Senate version without changes.

All I can read into this is that Democrats are clueless and are on a suicide pact. Hopefully, they will keep moving this bill though. Unfortunately, for a lot of these progressives, their next major move will be packing their bags and leaving Washington-only to become lobbyists and continue to assault the citizens and the Constitution of the Unites States.

What is your next target Mr. President?

Obama has failed to create an environment that leads to the creation of jobs, in fact every effort he has put forth to create jobs has had the opposite effect.

Obama failed to “reform” Health Care as he saw it, total lack of leadership and the ability to negotiate bipartisan support. Clearly the lack of experience is on display with this failure.

Once again he makes a major policy announcement and the stock market takes a dive.

At what point does he get the hint, he needs to CHANGE…The American people do not want his socialistic/liberal policies. We see evidence of this in the fact that the Senate Seat of the most liberal member of Congress has gone to someone who ran as a Conservative. Liberal policies are being rejected left and right.

What will be your next victim Mr President?

S.424 – TO AFFIRM THE RIGHTS OF SOUTH CAROLINA BASED ON THE PROVISIONS OF THE NINTH AND TENTH AMENDMENTS TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION

South Carolina became the latest state to pass a resolution affirming their state rights over Federal Government intrusions. It included among other things, South Carolina 2nd amendment rights. Most importantly, however, was the provision disallowing the enforcement of compulsory health insurance upon the citizens of South Carolina by the Federal Government.

No law shall interfere with the right of a person to be treated by or receive services from a health care provider of that person’s choice;

No law shall restrict a person’s freedom of choice of private health care systems or private health care plans of any type;

No law shall interfere with a person’s or an entity’s right to pay directly for lawful medical services; and

No law shall impose a tax, penalty, or fine, of any type, for choosing a health care provider, to obtain or decline health care coverage or for participation in any particular health care system or plan.

Be it further resolved that it is the policy of the State of South Carolina that the Attorney General will challenge the constitutionality of any provision enacted by the United States Congress that would violate any of the policies established by this resolution and join with other states that are like-minded to make such a challenge.

Full Text of S.424

AS ADOPTED BY THE SENATE

January 19, 2010

S. 424

Introduced by Senators Bright, S. Martin, Alexander, Campbell, Fair, Knotts, Cromer, Mulvaney, Verdin, L. Martin, Shoopman, Rose, McConnell, Thomas, Cleary, Courson, Coleman, Davis, Reese, Campsen, Grooms, Ryberg, Peeler, O’Dell, Bryant and Massey

S. Printed 1/19/10–S.    [SEC 1/20/10 12:09 PM]

Read the first time February 12, 2009.

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONTO AFFIRM THE RIGHTS OF SOUTH CAROLINA BASED ON THE PROVISIONS OF THE NINTH AND TENTH AMENDMENTS TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION.

Whereas, the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights established a federal government limited in scope and guarantee of personal liberty so that our citizens will be free to pursue their inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as recognized in the Declaration of Independence; and

Whereas, the Ninth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people”; and

Whereas, pursuant to the Ninth Amendment, the people are guaranteed the right to privacy as a basic human right; and

Whereas, the delivery, administration, and receipt of medical care affects personal privacy and involves the most intimate and personal of choices; and

Whereas, the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people”; and

Whereas, the Tenth Amendment defines the limited scope of federal power as being that specifically granted by the United States Constitution; and

Whereas, pursuant to the Tenth Amendment, by limiting the scope of federal power to only those specifically enumerated in the United States Constitution, the states retain plenary power to govern; and

Whereas, despite the clear limitations placed upon it by the United States Constitution, the federal government has steadily expanded its reach into the lives of our citizens and, in so doing, violates the very principles upon which this nation was founded; and

Whereas, the United States Supreme Court has said that states have great latitude in regulating medical care and standards, which have historically and constitutionally been primary state responsibilities and affect areas of core state responsibility, yet Congress and the President are reaching agreement over legislation that will result in the federal government absorbing the regulation of medical care, stripping the states of most responsibility, and taking away the free choice of the citizens of the states; and

Whereas, the federal government has spent trillions of dollars of borrowed money to run deficits, to bail out financial institutions, to prop-up auto makers, and to keep afloat other private enterprises that were mismanaged, took unnecessary risks, or were unresponsive to market demands, thus amassing a debt that will loom over and burden our country for generations to come; and

Whereas, the federal government habitually responds to its annual budget shortfalls by burdening the states with unfunded mandates, shifting costs for programs to the states, limiting state flexibility, and interfering with state revenue systems, undermining the constitutionally created balance between federal and state government; and

Whereas, the United States Supreme Court has ruled that Congress may not simply commandeer the legislative and regulatory processes of the states, and that states may provide their citizens with protections that exceed the protections by the federal government; and

Whereas, the United States Supreme Court has ruled that the United States Constitution allows states to grant rights to their citizens in their state constitutions, beyond rights granted in the federal Constitution; and

Whereas, the United States Supreme Court has recognized that federal law restricting certain rights may be ineffective in denying those rights protected in state Constitutions; and

Whereas, the State recognizes that as an independent sovereign, the State along with the other states of the union took part in an extensive bargaining process through the adoption of the Constitution and the various amendments thereto, and like any other party to any other agreement, the State is bound to uphold the terms and conditions of that agreement. Through this agreement, the states have collectively created the federal government, limiting the scope of its power and authority, as well as ensuring that certain fundamental rights are guaranteed. Also, through this process the federal judiciary has interpreted the Fourteenth Amendment to limit states’ governmental authority by providing that important rights and protections afforded by the United States Constitution to the people as citizens of the United States are also extended to each person as a citizen of an individual state. Pursuant to that interpretation, this State is bound to uphold the principles and protections afforded by the Fourteenth Amendment which guarantees the privileges and immunities of the United States, due process of law, and equal protection under the law; and

Whereas, the federal government is considering legislation that may, among other things, obligate residents in South Carolina and other states to purchase health insurance; and

Whereas, the federal government is considering legislation that may, among other things, mandate that this State and other states increase its spending for Medicaid; and

Whereas, the General Assembly of this State reaffirms that the people of this State, have collectively, through the exercise of their authority as citizens of a sovereign state determined the constitutional balance of power in this State; and

Whereas, the citizens of this State have exercised their sovereign authority both directly through the passage of this state’s constitution and the amendments thereto and representatively through their duly elected representatives in the General Assembly, and the General Assembly exercises the power of the people without limitation except as provided by the State Constitution; and

Whereas, one of the most fundamental powers of any state in the exercise of its sovereignty is through the power of appropriation and under our state’s constitutional balance of power, the power of appropriation is firmly placed within the province of the General Assembly; and

Whereas, the General Assembly rejects any attempt by the federal government, either through the actions of the Congress or the federal courts, to limit, alter, or otherwise affect in any manner whatsoever the General Assembly’s sovereign exercise of the power of appropriation; and

Whereas, there is concern that the federal government will also overstep its authority and violate the Tenth and the Second Amendments of the United States Constitution by enacting far-reaching restrictions or even a ban on gun purchases and ownership; and

Whereas, the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution provides: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed”; and

Whereas, intervention by an armed South Carolina militia may prove to be the sole means for this State to protect the Liberties guaranteed it and all other states under the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution; and

Whereas, due to the potential need for intervention by an armed South Carolina militia, the protections afforded under the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution are of upmost importance to the Citizens of South Carolina and the State of South Carolina; and

Whereas, it is vitally important for the future of our nation that the states stand against the relentless expansion of the federal government and restore the proper balance to our federal system. Now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring:

That the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, by this resolution, claims for the State of South Carolina sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the United States Constitution.

Be it further resolved that it is the policy of the State of South Carolina that:

No law shall interfere with the right of a person to be treated by or receive services from a health care provider of that person’s choice;

No law shall restrict a person’s freedom of choice of private health care systems or private health care plans of any type;

No law shall interfere with a person’s or an entity’s right to pay directly for lawful medical services; and

No law shall impose a tax, penalty, or fine, of any type, for choosing a health care provider, to obtain or decline health care coverage or for participation in any particular health care system or plan.

Be it further resolved that it is the policy of the State of South Carolina that the Attorney General will challenge the constitutionality of any provision enacted by the United States Congress that would violate any of the policies established by this resolution and join with other states that are like-minded to make such a challenge.

Be it further resolved that no state agency, agent, department, instrumentality, or subdivision shall cooperate or participate in any way with any mandate passed by Congress upon notification by the Attorney General that the mandate has been successfully challenged in a court of competent jurisdiction, and further provided that there is not an order to the contrary by a court of competent jurisdiction.

Be it further resolved that the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, by this resolution, claims for the citizens of South Carolina and the State of South Carolina freedom from all laws and mandates that violate the rights granted under the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Be it further resolved that this resolution serves as notice and demand to the federal government, as South Carolina’s agent, to cease and desist immediately all mandates that are beyond the scope of the federal government’s constitutionally delegated powers.

Be it further resolved that the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, by this resolution, affirms its support of the Ninth and Tenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.

Be it further resolved that copies of this resolution be forwarded to the President of the United States, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, the President of the United States Senate, and each member of South Carolina’s Congressional Delegation, all at Washington, D.C., and to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate of the legislatures of the other forty-nine states.

Targeting Citizens Is Getting Too Serious To Ignore

Robert A. Bonelli

The Senatorial campaign of Scott Brown, the Republican candidate in the special election in Massachusetts, is gaining momentum and causing his opposition in the Democratic Party to panic. Panic reveals the worst in people and panic also reveals the truth of what people really think. Has panic over a possible Brown victory resulted in the Democratic Party stepping up its verbal attack on American citizens to the point that it is now becoming too serious, and possibly too dangerous, to pass off as simply politics?

Brown’s opposition is now targeting the TEA Party movement as “his radical backers.”  In recent remarks by prominent Democratic Politicians, as published on the Fox News website this weekend (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/01/15/democrats-accuse-brown-radical-ties-senate-election-nears/), Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called Brown a “far-right tea-bagger” in an e-mail, using a term that also can refer to a sexual act. Then on Friday, Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., wrote in a fundraising e-mail that Coakley (Brown’s Democratic Party opponent) was “being attacked by tea partiers and right-wing radicals.”

Patriotic citizens exercising their free speech against the big government policies of the Obama Administration have been attacked repeatedly since the TEA Party movement began to grow across the Untied States last summer.  Democratic House (of Representatives) leader Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Senate leader Harry Reid, the left leaning old media and even Mr. Obama, have used the term “tea-bagger” as a pejorative reference to everyday Americans who decided to leave their comfort zones and speak out for the preservation of personal liberties and for less government in their lives.  These current attacks on Scott Brown should awaken all Americans to the planned targeting of opposition speech.

The increased targeting of TEA Party patriots by the Obama Administration, the Democratic controlled Congress and the old media should be a major concern for all Americans.  If we don’t recognize what is beginning and quickly speak out to stop it, we could be on the verge of a Crystal Night (name that’s been given to the night of 9-10 November 1938. In almost all large German cities and some smaller ones that night, store windows of Jewish shops were broken, Jewish houses and apartments were destroyed, and synagogues were demolished and set on fire. Many Jews were arrested, some were beaten, and some were even killed. The “Reich Crystal Night” (Reichskristallnacht) was one of the most shameful events of National Socialist Germany) in our own nation.

The Crystal Night reference should be disturbing to every citizen of our great country, but it should be even more disturbing to see American citizens singled out and targeted – verbally, for now – by our own government.   History teaches us that tyranny is supported by creating an internal enemy to be the target of anger, anger that is then diverted away from the tyrannical government and toward the innocent citizenry identified as that internal enemy.

TEA Party patriots speaking out against big government policies that are driving our nation deeper into debt and stripping us of personal liberties should not be vilified, but praised.   Every American exercising his or her constitutional rights should be honored by our government.  Unfortunately our government has clearly forgotten that it is subject to its citizens and not the other way around.

All American citizens regardless of their political beliefs should not tolerate the targeting of their fellow citizens.  All of those who have taken the oath “to support and defend the Constitution of the United States”, should make it clear to the government that you will stand with your fellow citizens and defend their right to speak out.  Now is the time.

In another case of the Federal Government being complicit and covering up the events of the AIG bailout/payout and America’s manufactured meltdown, the SEC has allowed the details of the AIG fiasco to remain secret until 2018. Of course, if that date holds up, those complicit in this corruption will be far removed from its association and lessen the likelihood that revelations of the details will result in criminal charges.

As reported by Reuters News,

It could take until November 2018 to get the full story behind the U.S. bailout of insurance giant American International Group (AIG.N) because of an action taken last year by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

In May, the SEC approved a request by AIG to keep secret an exhibit to a year-old regulatory filing that includes some of the details on the most controversial aspect of the AIG bailout: the funneling of tens of billions of dollars to big banks like Societe Generale, Goldman Sachs (GS.N), Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE) and Merrill Lynch.

and

The SEC’s decision to approve AIG’s request for confidential treatment…could spark controversy now following the release last week of 14-month-old emails that reveal that some at the New York Fed had discussions with AIG officials about how much information should be disclosed to the public about the Maiden Lane III transaction.

As expected from these Federally-appointed crooks, the SEC declined comments on this.

The Fed’s bailout of AIG long has been controversial because the banks that sold CDOs to Maiden Lane III were paid 100 percent of face value, even though many of the securities were worth substantially less

This country, along with its economy will continued to be drugged into submission. It seems the design of this collapse was well designed and orchestrated. The intergral players were chosen to help grease the skids as to allow the American economic collapse while these banking and moneyed interests of this country lined their pockets with taxpayer dollars.

If that’s not enough, in an supposed unrelated matter, Rahm Emanuel was a Director at Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae (Clinton appt.) when the decisions were made to cook the books to mislead and swindle shareholders as to actual losses and to use accounting methods that would prolong disclosure of these events until after those who collapsed Fannie and Freddie were long gone. You know, those people who made millions out of their fraud. The result was the collapse of Fannie and Freddie being backstopped with an endless amount of taxpayer dollars, including the $800 billion given to them the last day of 2009.

Under the protection of Executive Privilege, the Obama administration has refused to cooperate with information requests for the minutes of meetings attended by Rahm during his 14-month stay.  Unfortunately, the statute of limitations runs out soon, so for now, Obama and gang have kept the hounds at bay. This is key to uncovering the massive corruption within the White House.

Rahm used money from his Fannie/Freddie piggy bank to help finance his successful Congressional race. The more onerous issue is the fact that during Rahm’s Congressional stint, he co-sponsored a bill that took away regulatory oversight on Freddie/Fannie by leaving the Federal Housing Finance Agency(FHFA) without an Inspector General, as reported by ABC in November 2009.

Amazingly enough, Rahm, ended up being appointed to the House Financial Service committee and also on the sub-committee that oversaw Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae. A good read on this can be found here, titled Rahm Emanuel’s Freddie Mac Profits.

And of course, there’s Barney Frank’s involvement in this fraud and the fact that he had a homosexual relationship with then executive of Fannie Mae, Herb Moses. A good read on that can be found in this article, ‘Media Mum on Barney Frank’s Fannie Mae Love Connection’.

So, as we peel back more layers of this rotten onion, we start to see intentional efforts to sink the American economy by financial and moneyed interests as they steal taxpayer money.

In a story reported last week, BusinesWeek reported that the current U.S. Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner, while heading up the New York Federal Reserve Bank, told AIG to not publicly disclose the payout it provided to banks with taxpayer bailout money.

A statement by Congressman Darrell Issa revealed the findings:

“It appears that the New York Fed deliberately pressured AIG to restrict and delay the disclosure of important information”. Issa said Taxpayers “deserve full and complete disclosure under our nation’s securities laws, not the withholding of politically inconvenient information.”

AIG refused comment and U.S Treasury Dept. deferred comments to New York Federal Reserve Bank. The Fed wanted to keep that AIG payout detail out of the public disclosure, with Donald Kohn of the NY Fed testifying that revealing the information would hamper AIG’s ability to continue operations.

The e-mails span five months starting in November 2008 and include requests from the New York Fed to withhold documents and delay disclosures…The NY Fed and its lawyers declined comment on the emails.

the New York Fed suggested that AIG refrain in a filing from mentioning so-called synthetic collateralized debt obligations, which bundled derivative contracts rather than actual loans.

As part of a bailout that swelled to $182.3 billion, AIG and the Fed created Maiden Lane III, a taxpayer-funded facility designed to remove mortgage-linked swaps from the insurer’s books.

I think it’s obvious that the banking and moneyed interest in the U.S. designed America’s economic meltdown. As the layers of this onion are peeled back, more corruption is revealed. In a follow-up to this you will see the continued corruption, with the likes of Tim Geithner,  the Federal Reserve Bank, the U.S. Treasury. the SEC, and others. As reported on 1/ 12/10, the SEC agreed to allow the details of the AIG bailout/payout to be kept secret until 2018. Talk about covering your ass.