Dawn on November 3rd, 2010 brought a blazing sunrise.  I haven’t felt this good in years.  The rising sun has sent many arrogant politicians packing for a much-deserved retirement.  The American people have witnessed the brave new world of “hope and change” and didn’t like what they saw.

As heartwarming as the day is, dark spots still remain in the land.  Californians pushed the accelerator to the floor to speed even faster on the liberal path that has been leading the state to destruction.  Super liberals like Barbara Boxer, Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, and Henry Waxman will return to Congress.  Jerry Brown will be governor again.  Perhaps the California state motto should be changed to “The Moonbeam State.”   What were California voters thinking?  Maybe they weren’t!  If there is any redeeming factor about Jerry Brown, it is that he can think out of the box, usually way out of it, a needed skill considering the mess the state finds itself in.   The new governor shouldn’t count on the rest of us bailing them out.

Various “Moonbeam” candidates were elected across the land, including Harry Reid, who mysteriously won by 5 points on election day after being down in the polls.  ??  Barney Frank, Coons, Dingell, Blumenthal, Schumer, Cuomo, and other moonbeamers remain as dark splotches on an otherwise sunny day.  How is it these people are elected?   What were voters thinking?  Maybe they weren’t!  Perhaps voters simply chose the one who can bring home someone else’s bacon.   Maybe they fell for the line that anyone who believes in the principles of the country’s founding is a dangerous, radical extremist.  Count me in!

A caller to 97.1 Talk Radio in St. Louis told of overhearing a conversation between two young voters who were voting to prevent the Republicans from “taking away our free health care.”   Is this what we have come to, a nation of moochers?  Is this what elects a Barbara Boxer?   The two young voters need to realize the people are increasingly fed up with moochers.   Too many parasites are killing the host.  John Galt is speaking, but some are not listening.  What are voters thinking?   Maybe they aren’t!

Perhaps many voters still believe in “hope and change.”  Harry Reid, in his victory speech, said:

Nevada chose hope over fear.

What they were supposed to fear isn’t clear.  Perhaps the Senator feared being restrained by the Constitution.  If Nevada chose “hope,” they fell for the same old Obama slogan, which in essence means “magic.”  Voters who chose such a candidate on the basis of “hope” have voted for a magical fantasy, pasting their wants upon the word “hope.”  They must believe Harry can still make the fantasy come true.  Never mind that it isn’t working and has never worked.  As Spock would say, “This is illogical.”  Of course, being logical requires thinking.  What were they thinking?  Maybe they weren’t!

What is distressing about liberal acceptance speeches is that they are always talking about fighting.  Again, Harry Reid:

…to fight for each of you.
I’m not finished fighting.

I don’t know for whom he is fighting, but it is definitely not for me.   More likely, it is for moochers and his union supporters and against me. When I hear a politician talk about fighting, a red flag goes up.  Did voters think Harry was going to fight for them?  If so, who is he fighting against?  Is someone resisting giving up their bacon?

It is depressing and embarrassing to see some of my fellow Americans vote for the likes of Barbara Boxer and Barney Frank.  Clearly they have not been linking to places like Red State or American Thinker.  Maybe they should.

The fire in my pen will remain. This is a lifetime effort.  None of us can retire early, for we have a sacred duty to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America, for the moonbeamers will not.
In the end the American people will reclaim our Republic.  As Winston Churchill said:

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

Just as Parliament in 1774, you are passing Coercive Acts aimed at your own people.  If you think the American People will not resist, you are mistaken.  While I deeply hope there is no violence, you will reap what you have sown.  Perhaps you believe all of us will now be willing parasites ready to feed on your latest hand-out, and you will have created millions of new “moocher voters” for your party.  You are wrong!

Your treatment of us, the American People, as a bunch of dunces unable to appreciate your elitist wisdom, is going to come back at you very hard!  Your use of force against us will destroy your party.

I, for one, will never, as long as I live, vote for any Democrat for any office.  Your party’s arrogant disregard for the will of the people earns it a place in the dust bin of American history.  Your party’s corruption and radicalism will eventually leave it marginalized, only able to win votes in isolated far-left regions of the country.

I, for one, will resist, by all peaceful means, your coercive acts.  I WILL NOT cooperate in any way with your “healthcare” mandates.  As they were fond of saying in 1776, …..DON’T TREAD ON ME!

Congressmen (esp. Senators) returning home for their January break deserve to run into a hornet’s nest of angry e-mails, letters, and phone calls.  I know previous communication attempts have been futile, but let’s not give up now.  No Congressman should be allowed the delusion that what he or she is doing is popular.

They need to experience the Cowpens strategy.  At the Revolutionary War battle of Cowpens, the militias fired three rounds at the oncoming British, then, as planned, rotated out.  The British, thinking they had routed the enemy, came on into the withering fire of the Continentals, suffering severe losses.  Likewise, Congress is coming on in thinking they have won.  Let them have the second round.  Open fire!

While non-violent, we should feel no need to be civil to those who are trampling us underfoot.  I have already started firing my literary musket (It was not civil):

Dear Ma’am

Merely returning the lump of coal you sent me for Christmas, Senator Ma’am!

Open letter to Claire McCaskill, D-MO

Ma’am,

As promised in my previous letter, I will no longer refer to you as Senator because your yes vote on the “health care” bill violates your most basic duty as a Senator.  The Constitutional purpose of a Senator is to represent their state, but your yes vote will burden your own state with unfunded Medicaid liabilities.  If that were not enough, you have voted for Missourians to pay the Medicaid liabilities for Nebraska.  If you are not in Congress to represent Missouri, what are you there for?

Despite the anger at your town hall meetings in August, e-mails and phone calls to your office, and numerous polls, you have voted for something the majority of Americans do not want.  You have flashed the bird to your own constituents.  If you are not in Congress to represent the people, what are you there for?

Despite the clear and obscene violation of the Constitution and the rights of the people, you have voted for this 2000+ page manure pile.  You seem to have no reservations about the use of force against your fellow Americans.  I suggest while you are on Christmas break, you read the Constitution, the Federalist Papers, and other writings of the Founders, because you don’t seem to have a clue what the Constitution is about.  If you are not in Congress to uphold the Constitution, what are you there for?

You stated on Fox News that you would vote against any bill that is not “deficit neutral.”  This program is in deficit every year of its operation, even if you believe the CBO estimate.  For you to vote for this bill indicates you are either profoundly stupid or a liar.  In neither case should you be in the U.S. Senate.

You also stated that you would vote against any bill that increased out-of-pocket costs for people, yet this bill does increase costs for many even by the CBO’s estimation.

You, ma’am, think the American people are so gullible they will believe that this program will reduce the deficit.  We don’t buy it!! You, ma’am, think the American people are so gullible they will believe you can pay for this with more than 460 billion dollars of savings from Medicare.  We don’t buy it!!

I will not cooperate with your attempt to use force against me, and neither will many Americans:

- I will refuse to purchase government-mandated health insurance.  Any attempt to use other people’s money to help me pay will not work.  I will refuse!

- I will refuse to pay any fine for not purchasing insurance.

- I will participate in any effort to block and reverse this unconstitutional abuse of power.

If you intend to use force against me, be prepared to go all the way.

You voted for a bill that bought the votes of other Senators with hundreds of millions of dollars, paid in part by Missouri taxpayers.  You can call it what you may, I call it corruption!

A visit to your government web site is like a visit to Never-Never Land, everything is fine and you and the Congress are doing wonderful things.  This is like wallpaper pasted over an outhouse.  Evidently you think your constituents are easily fooled.

Your yes vote ensures your defeat in the next election.  Even an unknown ugly, bald, old guy like me with a closet full of skeletons could defeat you.  Regrettably we will have to wait until 2012, but then it’s adios and good riddance.

By then it will also be adios and good riddance to Dear Leader, you know, the one who cocks his nose up in the air like Mussolini, and whose favorite word is “I”.  I know you are very fond of Dear Leader.   If you think most Missourians share your fondness, think again.  The attitude of most of us was summed up in the loud chorus of boos at the all-star game in St. Louis.   Those in this administration would never be allowed past my front door, and neither would you.

Ma’am, you and your party stink!  While trampling us under their feet, they complain about our not being civil.  The Democratic party has become corrupt, arrogant, radical, and tyrannical.   Your support of this party reveals you to be incredibly naive.  The Democratic party is destined for the trash bin of American history, and I will do everything in my power to help it on its miserable way.

Signed,

An enraged Missourian,

Wentzville, Mo.
December 24, 2009

An open letter to Senator Claire McCaskill, D-MO

Dear Senator,

You declared on Fox News Sunday that you would vote no for any health care bill that is not deficit neutral.  Yet, despite this statement, your vote is evidently being counted as a yes.  This is a contradiction.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services state that the bill will cost more than projected, thus will not be deficit neutral.  Even if you accept the incomplete CBO projection, the program will be in deficit every year of its operation.  Trying to hide this fact with 3 or 4 years in taxes before the program goes into effect us not going to fool the American people.  If it wasn’t clear the first time, I will repeat it:

The program will be in deficit every year of its operation.

You also stated that you would vote no if out-of-pocket costs for individuals would be increased.  Both the CMS and CBO clearly state that for many individuals, the costs would be greater.

If you intend to vote as you stated to Fox News, your vote must be NO.  If it is not, you are either fooling yourself or lying.

Signed,

Waiting for a NO vote

An open letter to Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO)

Senator McCaskill,

The evidence suggests that you intend to vote for the so-called health care legislation currently under consideration in the Senate.  Why any rational person would do such a thing is impossible for me to grasp.  Perhaps you really believe this is a great thing you are doing.  Most of us in Missouri know a cow pie when we see one, and this is a big one.  No amount of compromise will turn this into an apple pie.

You, Senator, whose duty is to represent the State of Missouri, intend to force unfunded Medicaid mandates on your own state.  To vote for all the many aspects of this bill which usurp the powers reserved for the States under the Constitution is to contradict the Constitutional role of Senator.

You, Senator, who pretend to represent your constituents, intend to proceed with a bill that the overwhelming majority of those in your state do not want.  If you do not understand this from the polls, or calls to your office, constituents made it forcefully clear in the Town Hall meetings in August.  You in Congress have no ears, imagining yourselves with unlimited power, unrestrained by the Constitution, and with no need to bother with the opinions of the people.

Senator, you and your party are attempting a degree of coercion of your own citizens unprecedented in the history of the United States.  You, Senator, intend to force the American People to purchase expensive health insurance under the threat of fine or imprisonment.  Don’t count on my cooperation!  No one who has read the writings of the Founding Fathers would seriously consider this kind of coercion, as it is totally and obscenely out of Constitutional bounds.  The seeds of coercion, excess taxation, onerous regulation, and gigantic deficits now being sown will create a forest of weeds which will take generations to clear.

You, Senator, seem to believe the American People are so gullible they will believe counting 10 years of taxes against 5 years of benefits is an ethical accounting practice.  This is not being straight or honest.  You, Senator, seem to believe the fantasy of 436 billion dollars to be “saved” from Medicare.   Your party claims to be working to reduce the cost of health care, yet the Senate bill fails to achieve this, and, in fact, will increase insurance premiums for many of us.

My ancestors were here before the American Revolution, some of them fought in it.  Some died in the Civil War and the World Wars.  Some were in Missouri before statehood.  These people did not clear their lands and plow their farms and raise their children for this!  They didn’t fight at Guilford Courthouse for this!  They didn’t risk their lives settling new lands for this!

Senator, if you vote for these 2100 pages, even Alfred E. Neuman could defeat you in the next election.  I, for one, will do everything in my power to insure Alfred wins, and you no longer walk the halls of Congress.  If you thought people in your recent town halls were less than civil, see what happens after your yes vote. Never in my 64 years have I seen such anger as I now see daily!  I would never use or condone violence, but civility is going to be out.  Ask yourself, “What is the source of this uncivility?”

Senator, if you vote for this, I will no longer honor you with the title “Senator,” for you will have dishonored the Body in which you serve, and violated your oath to uphold the Constitution.  Your vote will be a betrayal of your own people, and you will have become an Anti-American.

Signed,

A very angry constituent.

We are constantly being told that forcing people to buy health insurance with the threat of fine or imprisonment is just as harmless as requiring drivers to purchase auto insurance.  The analogy is comparing apples to kumquats and fails on several counts:
The requirement for auto liability insurance is a state mandate.  The states may impose such a mandate in accordance with the 10th Amendment of the Constitution.

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.

That the states can require liability insurance says nothing about the federal government’s ability to make any similar requirement.  In fact, the states’ ability to do so implies that the requirement is not a legitimate power of the federal government, having been delegated to the states.  Proponents of forced insurance coverage should be arguing the opposite, that the states have no right to mandate insurance since, as they say, it is a power of the federal government.
The Constitution is a relatively concise, easy-to-understand document.  Unlike the 1000+ page bills in Congress, the Constitution does not require a team of lawyers to understand what it says.  It says the federal government does not have any such power.
The auto insurance requirement is for liability insurance, to insure against any actions of an individual which may harm others.  This is the novel idea of holding people responsible for their own actions, not analogous to health insurance covering only the individual himself.
The liability insurance requirement is for an optional activity (driving a car).  If one wants to drive, one has to have liability insurance.  Mandated health insurance is not for an optional activity (if one wants to live).  It is no less than a tax on living itself!
Both Nancy Pelosi and President Obama argue that forcing people to buy health insurance is needed to prevent people from “gaming the system,” ultimately forcing others to pay their bills since they are uninsured.  Huh?  What do you call all the millions of people who will be getting others to pay for their insurance under the new plan.  They aren’t “gaming the system?”  What “system” will there be to “game” anyway if this law isn’t passed?
The argument continues that those with insurance coverage are already paying for the uninsured.  The proposed solution goes something like this:
Presently, the hospital bills of millions of uninsured are paid for by others.
Therefore a very complex law with a huge new government bureaucracy will be passed so that…
the hospital bills of millions of insured will be paid for by others.

MY PLEDGE

I pledge:

• I will not pay for government-mandated health insurance.
• I will not accept government (some else’s) money to buy mandated health insurance.
• I will not pay any fine levied on me for refusing to pay.
• I will oppose any attempt to extract a fine from me by force.
• I will oppose this use of force by my own government against me by all peaceful means at my disposal.

These I do solemnly swear.Who will join me in this pledge?

Gary Horne
Wentzville, Missouri
November 10, 2009

This will go to all those representing me in Congress, even in the house where another vote would be required should the Senate join this madness.  If Congress understands the resistance that will come as a result of such a bill, they may have second thoughts.

President Obama recently tried to make the case that it was a moral obligation to support his health care ideas.
Pardon me, Mr. President. If you want to pay someone else’s medical bills, be my guest. If you propose to put a box on tax returns to be checked for a voluntary contribution, that’s fine, but that is not what you are proposing.
You want to force all of us to be “our brother’s keeper.” That, Sir, is not Christian!  What Christian principle do you think allows taking from another under threat of force? You tried to use one of the Ten Commandments against your opponents, but seem to have overlooked some others. One of the Ten Commandments is “Thou shalt not steal,” which, by the way, applies to politicians and community organizers. Another is, “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house.”
You want the minister to send the sheriff down the road to tell the neighbors that, if they want to stay out of jail, they have to pay for Brother John’s appendectomy. Christianity does not advocate theft or the use of force. Once you try to force others, you have left Christian County and crossed over into Marx County.
I hope you enjoy your stay there. Most Americans don’t care much for the place.

Unfortunately, Senator McCaskill “represents” me in the Senate.  The following is my response to her canned response to me.

I appreciate your response to my letter about Cap and Trade.  However, the response did not address any of my concerns, seemingly a canned piece.
I have an engineering degree and know science when I see it.  Global Warming is not.
I have researched the issue, which, judging from your response, you have not.

1.  There is NOT a consensus on the issue.  There are thousands of scientists who disagree.

2.   The model used to predict warming was constructed by throwing out data from earlier periods which did not fit.  Such a model should never have been taken seriously by any ethical scientist.  I can make a model to predict anything you want if you let me throw out what doesn’t fit!

3.  Recent data contradicts the model.  See http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/5955955/Weather-records-are-a-state-secret.html

4.  Such legislation is economic suicide since nations like China and India are not going to do it.

5.  The real agenda behind Cap and Trade is under-the-table taxation and drastically increased government control.

I suggest you do two things:

a) Research the issue and think for yourself.

b) Listen to your constituents.

Gary Horne