The Greatest Scam On Earth


Today the Senate of the United States voted on a constitutional point of order raised by Senators Jim DeMint and John Ensign.

The Senators challenged the constitutionality of the individual mandate in the Democrats’ health care legislation. The individual mandate is a federally imposed requirement that every man, woman, and child in the United States obtain health insurance on pain of financial penalty or, in the Democrats’ proposal, jail.

Put more plainly, if you chose not to have health insurance, the Congress of the United States intends to punish you by taking away your property or your life via incarceration.

All 39 of the Republican Senators still present in Washington today voted that the individual mandate is unconstitutional.

Let me repeat that — every Republican Senator still in Washington, D.C. today voted that it is unconstitutional to impose an individual mandate on the citizens of the United States.

Happy?

Well now ask yourself this: why would Bob Bennett, Lamar Alexander, Mike Crapo, Lindsey Graham, and Judd Gregg be co-sponsors of S.391, the Wyden-Bennett health care plan.

The legislation, named for its chief sponsors Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Bob Bennett (R-UT), imposes an individual mandate on American citizens. Section 102 of the legislation is entitled “Individual Responsibility to Enroll in a Healthy Americans Private Insurance Plan.” The section outlines how the feds will punish you if you refuse to buy an insurance plan.

In fact, that is precisely what Bennett, Alexander, Crapo, Graham, and Gregg today claimed was unconstitutional.

Don’t be fooled by these Senators. Today they got to take a very safe vote and look good for the kids back home when in reality, were they in charge, they’d be doing the same thing. This is not leadership. This is a con.


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Great Job Erick

nelsa (Diary) Wednesday, December 23rd at 4:04PM EST (link)

I would not trust Lindsey as far as I could spit. He is exactly what Charlie Crist would be if elected to the US senate.

The guy gives me the heeby-geebies! (Sp?)

which Repub senator is not in DC today? - nt

Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Wednesday, December 23rd at 4:17PM EST (link)

Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson

Inhofe

Erick Erickson (Diary) Wednesday, December 23rd at 4:19PM EST (link)

He decided to go on home.

Who will stand on either hand and keep this bridge with me?

I have no problem with him leaving early...

JLenardDetroit (Diary) Wednesday, December 23rd at 4:40PM EST (link)

I said days ago… since they weren’t REALLY going to bother to Fight…. that all Republicans should have left DC. Why bother to be there?!?!? Obviously, just to grand-stand a bit while letting it sail on through…. They ain’t foolin’ anyone, but yet they play that game again.

There are ZERO Senators worth re-electing! While I don’t expect such Publicly, as they will still need some squish votes and not want to push the envelope, I want Rubio and Toomey to plan on SHUTTING DOWN THE SENATE any and every chance possible — REAL LEADERSHIP. I don’t care who is the supposedly stated Leader, they better OBJECT to any consent request to dispense with readings OF ANYTHING!!!! They’d better demand any and all Bills, Amendments, the Senate Lunch menu, etc…. ALL BE READ INTO THE OFFICIAL RECORD! once they are there. Anything short and I’ll immediately call for their Resignations also!!!

How is it that only WHIMPY Republicans have managed to get to the Senate?!?!

Regards from NoMoTown (the MOTORlessCITY)
“Liberals, looking to do for? America what they’ve done for? Detroit! which is DESTROY IT!”
“I think, therefore I am Conservative”
“Conservative by choice, Republican by necessity”
“You can lead a Liberal to the Truth/Facts, but you cannot make them THINK!”
“Romney [No, not my first choice] does NOT have a MORMON problem. He has a, far too many Americans; these days; are MORONS problem!”


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Heil “O” Hell No Obamao is NOT MY PRESIDENT! “No U won’t”
I want “O” to FAIL (here, here, & whole Diary (Ofail) here, is why)
The first Liberal was Satan” – a Rush caller (other Quotes)

understandable JLD, but Erick, a legal problem on challenging the mandate - For now, Its VOLUNTARY, and this needs to be shouted from the mountaintops - LINK

Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Wednesday, December 23rd at 7:51PM EST (link)

From Ed at Hot Air:

“The IRS can fine you for flouting the minimum-coverage mandate, but if you refuse to pay, they can’t do anything about it. They can’t fine you, prosecute you, or even put a lien against your earnings or property. They apparently can still send you angry letters, but they’ll have the same impact as deadlines on the Iranian nuclear-weapons program.”

Read it all here and lets discuss in detail later

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/12/22/demint-to-force-vote-on-constitutionality-of-mandate/

There are a lot of legal and fiscal ramifications of this.

Notice in Ed’s analysis that he says the IRS “can” fine and then later says they “can’t fine”.

I have said all along that the only way they can legally pay for this is via and explicit tax on activity etc. Being born in the USA is not enough.

more later

Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson

That's what happens when they don't read the bill! nt

Menlo (Diary) Wednesday, December 23rd at 8:14PM EST (link)

“The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.” -Felix Frankfurter

 
 
 
 
 
 

But it's a CON for the Record.

Vassar Bushmills (Diary) Wednesday, December 23rd at 4:26PM EST (link)

That matters, DeMint and Ensign did a good job, knowing you and others would carry the water a little further down the line.

At least DeMint is showing some fight....

rcyclist Wednesday, December 23rd at 4:34PM EST (link)

Which is more than I can say for the “leadership” in the Senate.

 
 

miserable. /nt

Veronica (Diary) Wednesday, December 23rd at 5:08PM EST (link)

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Pray as if everything depends on God, and work as if everything depends on us. – St. Augustine

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Bennett, Bah!

saintgeorgegentile Wednesday, December 23rd at 6:43PM EST (link)

Article from December 1st, 2009.
“Two of every three Utahns want to see Sen. Bob Bennett, R-Utah, ousted in his re-election bid next year. ”
“Pollster Dan Jones said the last time he saw such weak numbers for an incumbent was when former Rep. Merrill Cook, R-Utah, sought re-election in 2000 amid scandal over his erratic behavior.”

Can’t happen quickly enough.

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705348498/Utahns-growing-tired-of-Bennett.html

Freedom is the glue of capitalism, that amoral wisdom of the markets that most efficiently allots goods and services to a citizenry.
-Victor Davis Hanson

 

too narrow a focus...

larryp Wednesday, December 23rd at 6:55PM EST (link)

Like Andy McCarthy said at NRO (iirc) we are focussed on winning a battle and the Donks are focussed on winning a war. It is a war for socialism. If they win this Health thing they can control the lives of all of us. We can’t escape.
They could lose the whole Senate and the Congress . Don’t care. Obama doesn’t care.The job to ef all Americns is done.
We ought to form and train something like “Constitutional Parties” in every state.Teach what we know.U.S. history.
I could never believe that Americans would vote to enslave other Americans. I would have thought it would come from the outside. And they have been ready to go for years.
But seeing the example of East Gemany and how they destroyed their own families,ratted them out and imprisoned them, I can see how the Senate
behaves against us.
The Gop Senators, have fought the good fight. It looks like for them the day is done, and they are going home for….Christmas….

 

Deceit and chicanery in the Greatest Deliberative Body in the World?

RedBeard Thursday, December 24th at 7:23AM EST (link)

Say it ain’t so, Joe!

Standard-bearer for grouchy curmudgeonry since, oh, 1975 or so.

 

14 admentment

sarge324 Thursday, December 24th at 7:53AM EST (link)

they still have to abide by the 14 admentment,what all these pay offs are unconstitutional.cant do for one and not the other.the supreme court has the last say.since obamas been in office our country is living in fear.i believe in 2010 will make us a country again.so please stay mad all through 2010.and vote these marxist out of office.we out number them by a landslide.

 

Nature itself levies the ultimate tax on stupid

towerclimber Thursday, December 24th at 7:53AM EST (link)

These jackanapes are simply trying to make money off of the rest of us and take our individual liberties.

“The ultimate result of shielding man from the effects of his folly is to fill the world with fools.”
Herbert Spencer

 

DeMint

quinlansh Thursday, December 24th at 11:13AM EST (link)

I truly believe that Jim DeMint is the one senator who deserves reelection. I think he is a true patriot.

 

Violation of Our Civil Liberty and Rights under the Constitution of the United States of America!

madmarv Thursday, December 24th at 11:21AM EST (link)

Letter Written: Today @ 11:22am
Kerry, Butler, TN

Dear Senator, Congressman, Oversight Committee, Judicial and Homeland Security, Please Respond in Writing, and On the Floor of Both Houses of the Congress, and Senate the Reason and Justification for this Egregious Usurpation of our Sovereignty?

I was Brought to My attention that On Dec. 16th,in the dead of night, no press, President Obama signed order giving INTERPOL immunity in the USA and giving them Authority to act with homeland security– guess who’s coming to dinner?

Executive Order 12425 – INTERPOL now has immunity and impunity to function inside our country Starting to get the picture now?
Guess who is coming to your doorstep with the DHS.

EO: AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER 12425 DESIGNATING INTERPOL AS A PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 1 of the International Organizations Immunities Act (22 U.S.C. 288), and in order to extend the appropriate privileges,
exemptions, and immunities to the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), it is hereby ordered that Executive Order 12425 of June 16, 1983, as amended, is further amended by deleting from the first sentence the words “except those provided by Section 2(c), Section 3, Section 4, Section 5, and Section 6 of that Act” and the semicolon that immediately precedes them.

Here’s the text of 2(c), which this EO now has applying to INTERPOL:

(c) Property and assets of international organizations, wherever located and by whomsoever held, Shall be immune from search, unless such immunity be expressly waived, and from confiscation. The archives of international organizations shall be inviolable.

An INTERPOL branch in the US now cannot be searched, it’s files are not subject to legal subpoena nor discovery. If any branch of government wants to keep documents out of the hands of the court system, just hand them over to INTERPOL until the smoke clears. INTERPOL will now be able to maintain files on US citizens.

By this EO, Obama has conferred diplomatic immunity upon INTERPOL, exemption from being subject to search and seizure by law enforcement,
exemption from US taxes, and immunity from FOIA requests, etc.

Obama just declared INTERPOL records immune from search and seizure — “The archives of international organizations shall be inviolable.”

Does INTERPOL have a file on Obama — on his associations?

Gentlemen I would ask that you please look into why we need this organization doing business of such a nature in our Country.

If EVER “WE THE PEOPLE” Needed Our States Representative to ACT FOR US, This Sir Is the TIME! I Urge you to Remember, the Tenth Amendment to OUR State Sovereignty!

Propose Legislation in Our State to Reject this Unconstitutional Takeover of Our Rights, Liberties and Pursuit of Happiness that Violates Our Civil Rights, and Takes away our Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech, and Freedom from Tyranny!

Sir’s,
Remember; the Constitution?
Remember; “Why” It was Written over 200 Years Ago?

These were the Actions, That Sparked the Fire of Revolution;
The straw that broke the Founding Fathers’ backs. Not Just the TEA PARTY!

The Intolerable Acts of 1774. When you listen to this stuff, these intolerable acts, this is the stuff that broke the camel’s back for the founders.

This makes what’s happening today seem like child’s play.

“The British government responded by passing several Acts which came to be known as the Intolerable Acts, which further darkened colonial opinion towards the British.

They consisted of four laws enacted by the British parliament.
The first was the Massachusetts Government Act, which altered the Massachusetts charter and restricted town meetings.”
That ticked them off. That’s why freedom to associate is in the Constitution, because it was restricted.

“The second Act, the Administration of Justice Act, ordered that all British soldiers to be tried were to be arraigned in Britain, not in the colonies.
” That ticked ‘em off.

“The third Act was the Boston Port Act, which closed the port of Boston until the British had been compensated for the tea lost in the Boston Tea Party (the British never received such a payment).” That ticked them off.

“The fourth Act was the Quartering Act of 1774, which allowed royal governors to house British troops in the homes of citizens without requiring permission of the owner.”

Those were the four things that sent Founding Fathers over the edge.

They already escaped for freedom of religion. So that was already in the deck. Now, these things seem like child’s play compared to what is happening today.

Your Support for the Repeal, and Outrage For this EO Mr. Obama Just Signed, And Propose For the Citizens of TENNESSEE, Legislation That;
“Will” Give US “WE THE PEOPLE” of Tennessee Back our Constitutional Rights, UNALIENABLE! BY GOD!
And Protected By this Document! “You Swore” to Uphold!

( If ) You Will Not do it In the Senate in Washington, Then We the People Demand, Our State to Represent US in Tennessee!

The real way to resist DC is not by begging politicians and judges in Washington to allow us to exercise our rights…it’s to EXERCISE our RIGHTS whether they want to give us “PERMISSION” to or not.

NULLIFICATION – STATE-LEVEL RESISTANCE to UNCONSTITUTIONAL FEDERAL LAWS – IS THE WAY FORWARD!

I Submit to You Sir,
This Outrageous Law by Fiat Accompli, Is UNCONSTUTUTIONAL, and Against Our Rights!

It Takes away “Our Civil Rights to Redress”, and “Justice”, Just as The British King George, Did in 1774!

I Demand, My Rights, and Swore My Oath to Defend the Constitution From “ALL EMNEMIES” FOREIGN OR DOMESTIC! October 21st 1968!

The Action’s, of this Sitting President Violate MY Rights, and Every Citizen in AMERICA!
Whether it is the Unconstitutional Mandates, on Health Scam, or the Cap and Trap, This One;
“Added Insult to Injury to the Rest? Ice’s the Cake. And “Freezes my Soul” in “Fear” for this Country!

If this Action along with the Birth Certificate Issue Is Not Reason for “Impeachment”??
THEN, Maybe “TREASON” to the Constitution and Oath of Office “IS” !!

It is Not Too Late for you To Act on Your Oaths of Office,
to Declare Your Oath as Sacrosanct and Inviolable as Mine Sir!

Kerry Marvin/USN/DAV/68-77.

 

OK SPELL CHECK, NEXT TIME.

madmarv Thursday, December 24th at 11:24AM EST (link)

“ALL ENEMIES”

Easy to overlook a little spelling error when you're mad as hell...[nt]

qixlqatl (Diary) Thursday, December 24th at 12:34PM EST (link)

“Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying,
Streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.”

George Gordon Noel Byron

 
 

United states VS Brown

irishamerica (Diary) Friday, December 25th at 8:35AM EST (link)

Look up Bill of attainder. The people do not want this bill the way it is writen. If it continues this way my party will find a way to succeed from the union.