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• BDS

  11/17/2009 08:44 PM

  

  Dr David (11/17/2009 12:43 PM),

  By Obama's definition, the Bill of Rights also is a "charter of negative liberties" that he doesn't much care for the BOR including the 10th Amendment "says what the Federal government can’t do to you, but doesn’t say what the Federal government or State government must do on your behalf." He would like to have seen the Federal courts break free of those restraints. This explains why he and people of his philosophy are in a hurry to bestow upon the citizenry the biggest entitlements in history.

  "Fundamental transformation" means changing out the foundations that our country was built upon. While I want to see reform and things fixed or improved, I do not think we are any wiser in 2009 than they were in 1787 that we should be ripping out the foundations and replacing them with new ones. That is what the Left, the progressives want to do.

  I would add Big Labor, e.g. AFL-CIO and SEIU to your list of special interests. Here in California, it is the public employee unions, not the "large corporations" that have the CA over a barrel.

  Those pills are mutually exclusive; burying one's head while simultaneously pulling back the curtain is not an opion. I think the pill analogy pretty much sums up the difference between us and why we often come to loggerheads. I am definitely a red pill kind of guy.

• Dr. David

  11/17/2009 12:43 PM

  

  Brian Snow 11/16/2009 04:03 PM. I prefer the purple pill.

  By the way, the Constitution IS a "charter of negative liberties". That is exactly why some were unwilling to sign it unless it also contained a Bill of Rights.

  And the United States DOES need "fundamental transformation", not towards socialism, but away from a semi-Fascist State in which the large corporations, Wall Street, and other special interests have way too much influence on Congress.

• b, richard

  11/16/2009 10:57 PM

  Brian Snow,
  Just wanted to send some words to encourage you in your posting here.
  I agree with much of what you have posted. Actually I agree with at least the spirit, if not the letter, of all I have read. And I have probably read most anyway.
  I'm just posting some of my gut reactions to what has been and is happening with our "servants" in Washington D.C. This is not meant to be eloquent or precise, just what I am thinking about at the moment.
  The politicians (I include judges here, they're political animals as well) have chosen the path we are on. (Or was it indirectly due to a "dumbed down" public that voted for them?) - I just had that thought.
  Anyway, what I am saying is they should at least admit how due to their decisions, we follow little of the Constitution these days - then at least they'd be sincere.
  Now let's look objectively at the results of just a few of their deviations from our founding documents.
  The economy is in ruin, with the dollar at 3 cents of what it was at the inception of the Federal Reserve in 1913. (I won't touch upon the IRS now or I may lose my dinner.)
  And how can one justify Congress delegating our monetary system to this private corporation? With no amendment to the Constitution.
  I believe only 11 Senators were in session on Christmas eve to pass that tyranny. And what has been steadily happening to our rights held sacred by our founders?
  Or what ever happened to Congress having the responsibility of declaring war -- not just passing on the authority so if anything goes wrong they would be "off the hook". I disagree with a lot of what our former president had done but I will say at least he had the courage to act when Congress was "asleep at the wheel". Though I may not always agree with Pres Bush, at least he would not hold us all hostage to Congress's inaction.
  A president can always act at a moments notice if necessary for defense, but the wars we are now involved in have lasted many years. They should have been officially declared by Congress with clear objectives to be met to define when the job would be completed. Theirs is a recipe for great foreign entanglements such as George Washington admonished in his farewell address.

  On to another thought.
  I think I prefer to live in a dangerous but FREE country.
  Most of all, I don't want to be protected from myself. I don't need a warning label to know that a lawnmower misused can do a job on my feet. In fact if I was to worry about reading all their labels, I wouldn't be watching what I was doing and would probably have lost toes to my lawnmower years ago.
  Soon these labels will be in every conceivable language - more on that later.

  With the tower of Babel, they wanted a one world government – to defy God.
  Now we have been steadily losing our Sovereignty to a globalist agenda..
  Instead of a single language in my own country (vs. all mankind), I must now endure "Press this number for that language"…

  And now the powers that be reveal this world government thing in mainstream media. Before they denied, denied and called anyone who said it a kook. Well, now they say it’s here, but IT’S FOR OUR OWN GOOD. – Like the label on my lawnmower.
  Lastly, I wonder if most people want a nanny state government..
  Then my hope will be in our gov being a republic, where the takers cannot employ the force of arms to take violently what the doers have worked for. Wait - they're already doing that..On second thought I think - We're in a lot of trouble..

  Signing off, hope I didn’t bore anyone to tears… Just kidding…

  
  

• BDS

  11/16/2009 04:03 PM

  

  RED PILL or BLUE PILL?

  @DoDav (11/16/2009 10:04 AM):
  We were discussing the goals of the present health care legislation, not "the goal" of the Obama administration. Let's try to focus like a laser, and not jump tracks when the discussion isn't going our way, okay?

  But since you brought it up, here is the President in his own words:
  1. (text and audio here)
  "But, the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society. To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as its been interpreted and Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. Says what the states can’t do to you. Says what the Federal government can’t do to you, but doesn’t say what the Federal government or State government must do on your behalf."

  2. (audio here)
  "We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America!"

  Does that sound like a president who submits to the Tenth Amendment and intends to operate within the parameters of the Constitution? Informed and honest people will reach a conclusion quite to the contrary.

  DoDav, again I've offered you the red pill, and again you've opted for the blue one. Good luck, and enjoy spending the rest of your days in the Matrix.

  What about Freedom?

• Hicks, Sue

  11/16/2009 02:57 PM

  Why would these young, unmarried couples sign up to buy health insurance when they have their babies paid for by Medicaid?

• Dr. David

  11/16/2009 10:04 AM

  

  Brian Snow 11/15/2009 01:39 AM.
  If claiming that the goal of Barack Obama's administration is to destroy the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution isn't demagoguery, what is?

  It is all well and good to debate the wisdom of various policies, but when you make such wild claims, how can any but the most uninformed take anything you say seriously?

  
  

• Hall, Phil

  11/15/2009 11:05 PM

  Mr. H -

  Thanks for what you're doing! Hope to see you at the book signing on 11/27!

• Hall, Phil

  11/15/2009 11:00 PM

  Mr. H -

  Thanks so much for what you're doing! I love the blog and plan to keep up with your work. Hope to see you at the book signing at Barnes and Noble in Denton, TX on 11/27!

• b, richard

  11/15/2009 09:08 PM

  Here is an ad being run in Nebraska.
  C4L is also running ads in Nevada and Arkansas and other states are planned.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQBKV5yq6p4&feature=player_embedded

  Sure hope it helps...

• BDS

  11/15/2009 01:42 AM

  

  By the way, the reason legal challenges to New Deal programs found little success is because FDR was fortunate enough to be able to stack the Supreme Court with justices who were sympathetic to, and rubber stamped, his socialistic adventures.

• BDS

  11/15/2009 01:39 AM

  

  WHICH STATUS QUO IS ACCEPTABLE?

  @Dr. David, 11/14/2009 02:53 PM. In view of health care reform, you have railed time and again against the status quo and its guardians. Okay.

  Regarding federal usurpation of powers, however, it appears that you would have us resign ourselves hopelessly to the status quo upon the premise that government lawyers and the failed socialist policies of bygone tyrants have come to trump this one of our timeless and fundamental precepts:

  "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."

  How is it that in the first case you strive to demolish the status quo, but in the second case you are content to accommodate it?

  Could it be that in the first case your health care solution might require the creation of vast new federal powers, and in the second case preservation of the present dispensation is necessary for the creation of those (unconstitutional) powers?

  The Wilsons, FDRs and LBJs of the past hundred years have had their way with our Republic - effecting fundamental deviations until those deviations have become the norms - and now we are reaping the whirlwind.

  For such a time as this, before our country should finally receive a "Mene, Mene, Tekel, Parsin," a remnant of patriots has risen up whose rallying cry is "A rediscovery of our founding principles, and a rebirth of freedom!"

  Your stated alternative to a discussion of constitutionality is to discover the goals of the health care legislation and thereby discuss its validity - but, alas, you still await the revelation of those goals! If, at half past the eleventh hour in the debate over Obamacare, you still don't know what the goals are, I'm afraid you'll still be waiting for your Godot long after the legislation has crossed the President's desk.

  I'll let you in on what the primary goals of the "health care" legislation are:
  1. Final obliteration of the persistent tatters of the Tenth Amendment, and
  2. Eternal empowerment of what political party bestowed the ultimate entitlement upon the masses.

  Those who refuse to believe this will continue searching for "the goals" of Obamacare for a very, very long time.

• Dr. David

  11/14/2009 02:53 PM

  

  Brian Snow 11/14/2009 12:39 AM. If a health care reform bill were to be enacted and signed into law, government lawyers would defend it, not only by reference to the general welfare clause, but also to the legal precedents set in previous legislation, notably the Roosevelt New Deal of the 1930s and the Johnson Great Society program of the 1960s, both of which transferred powers to the Federal government, and neither of which were ever successfully challenged in court. They would point out that legal precedent is crucial in determining the outcome of any court case.

  I think it would be easier to prevent flawed health care legislation from being enacted by explaining how it would fail to accomplish its goals, rather than by trying to argue that it is unconstitutional.

  But of course we first need to know what those goals really are!
  

• Captain Obvious

  11/14/2009 11:32 AM

  

  Brently Keen,

  Thank you for the Tea Party links. I'd like to echo one of the responders to the second article--rather than supporting the GOP with our donations and support, stand behind true conservatives in the party.

  Here at HuckPAC many of us believe that Governor Huckabee is the strongest voice we have.

  So here comes another donation--it's just money. The REAL support is in prayer.

  God keep us true.

  R23745

• BDS

  11/14/2009 12:39 AM

  

  PROMOTING THE GENERAL WELFARE?

  (Thank you Strider and Richard for your feedback to my post below on the Tenth Amendment.)

  Ask a lib where the Constitution authorizes programs like "Obamacare," Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Prescription Drug Benefits for Seniors, the Department of Education, the WPA, Americorps, the Federal Housing Authority, tuition grants, etc., and she will likely point to the "general welfare" clause of the preamble to the Constitution.

  "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

  Does the general welfare clause mean what the liberal thinks it means?

  If the "general welfare" clause was intended to license the federal government to vest itself with any power that can be labeled "general welfare," then the tenth amendment is logically rendered utterly meaningless, i.e. the states and the people reserve virtually no powers for themselves since virtually any government power or program can be construed as intended for the "general welfare."

  The liberal's interpretation of "general welfare" is therefore fallacious.

  No, the preamble to the Constitution serves to lay out the guiding principles of the federal government, but the body of the Constitution serves to qualify and to specify how those principles are fleshed out. The preamble is not the flesh of the Constitution. That's why the guiding principles, including "general welfare," are sandwiched in between the phrases "in Order to" and "do ordain and establish this Constitution."

  If some power or program is not provided for within the body of the Constituion, it is unconstitutional. The sooner we figure this out, the sooner we can start to unload the burdens and the debt that are breaking the back of our nation.

  Bottom line: the general welfare clause does not authorize the federal government to create any program or assume any power it pleases.

• Keen, Brently

  11/13/2009 02:21 AM

  Tea Party Leader Eric Odom makes an important announcement and I believe the right choice:

  http://ericjodom.com/blog/2009/11/its-time-to-take-over-the-gop/

  http://ericjodom.com/blog/2009/11/more-about-my-thoughts-on-the-gop/

• Keen, Brently

  11/13/2009 02:16 AM

  Tea Parties: Misunderstood and Vastly Underrated
  By Kyle-Anne Shiver

  http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/11/tea_parties_misunderstood_and.html

• Strider for Huck

  11/12/2009 09:33 PM

  

  Mr. Snow,

  That is a very good comment.
  My first response to seeing it was to go to Boxer and Feinstein's websites and ask them to explain how ObamaCare is constitutional with the 10th Amendment. Then I called Rep. Adam Schiff's office and asked him to justify his vote in terms of the 10th Amendment.

  If we can all flood the Congress with such messages, especially the Senate right now, and rub in that we expect them to live up to the expectation that they uphold the US Constitution, then we might jar their self-confidence.

• b, richard

  11/12/2009 06:58 PM

  
  Brian Snow
  11/11/2009 02:02 PM

  What brave congressman or senator has stood up and demanded:

  "Show me where this legislation is authorized in the Constitution!"

  ***********************************

  Regarding your post:
  I believe there is one notable exception. He has not only spoken out against unconstitutional legislation, but also always votes against such bills. And he has done so enough times that it has earned him the nickname "Dr. No".
  By the way did I mention this Congressman is also a medical doctor?

  Ron Paul: More Government Won't Help (Floor speech on healthcare 9/23/09)

  {link]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCy_azrUxkM[/link]

  That's just one speech from the floor, I have many from other venues. I only wish the man had just a little of Mike's oratory skills... He has a lot to offer on medical and economic matters.

• Ohnesorge, Katherine

  11/11/2009 10:12 PM

  I really don't think these elected officals care if they are re-elected or not. They receive the pay if they are in office or not, because of the programs they set up for themselves. Now, let's close that special program, transfer those dollars to the national debt (our officals should not mind this, they do want what is best for our country), then allow them to join the peoples S.S. system and our medical system, then these decisions would be a united way to a better way of life.....for all. Thank you, KO

• SarahAnn

  11/11/2009 02:50 PM

  

  If the health care bill passes , taxpayers will be paying for sex change operation's...

  
  http://action.afa.net/Blogs/BlogPost.aspx?id=2147489389

• BDS

  11/11/2009 02:02 PM

  

  THE TENTH AMENDMENT
  to the U.S. 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."

  Democratic and Republican legislators alike have spent a lot of time this year playing X's and O's with health care legislation.

  Has anyone once stood up and asked where in the Constitution the federal government is authorized...
  * to create insurance programs to compete with the private sector,
  * to compel you and me to purchase services under threat of fines and imprisonment?

  What brave congressman or senator has stood up and demanded:

  "Show me where this legislation is authorized in the Constitution!"

  Does anyone even consult the Constitution anymore? If we're not going to play by the rules, then it's a free-for-all.

• gracepraying

  11/11/2009 07:29 AM

  

  It was so good to greet you in Wichita, Governor Huckabee, at the book signing for the book, A Simple Christmas. Ere the night was through, I had read through the entire, wonderful book.

  I was the lady with the red Team Huck shirt whom you told, "I like your shirt." It was fun going down the line (like a politician?) :-) and meeting enthusiastic supporters of yours. Democrats and Independents as well as Republicans and those not much of any stripe were there. The common denominator is that they are all very concerned with the future freedom of America and the future of their jobs and their children and grandchildren. They love America and do not want to see her become a socialist state.

  I am glad to give to your cause of supporting conservative candidates. I have heard the excellent radio spot on our local ABC affiliate endorsing Kelsey for Representative. Also, I shook hands with our good Representative Todd Tiahrt (running for Senator)and saw that he met with you on board your tour bus. I hope you will consider endorsing and supporting him, too, through this PAC.

  God bless you, Governor and Mrs. Huckabee as you face the future confident in the Lord to guide.

  I will keep on praying...

  Sincerely,
  GRACE, in Kansas, PRAYING

• SSC - Hardcore Texan

  11/10/2009 11:39 PM

  

  I greatly appreciate and admire Governor Huckabee for holding politicians accountable, especially those who may be in the Republican Party but are very ultra-liberal on many vital issues. This PAC will only endorse and give support to candidates who meet high moral standards and are truly conservative. Of course, no person is perfect, but we must examine their deeds not just their rhetoric. It will take our money not just our words to get the right people elected thus I will give a contribution now on a regular basis to this important endeavor.

• mxnwilson

  11/10/2009 06:06 PM

  

  Jim Skelton--

  Thank you so much for sharing your story. I am sure the trials you have experienced in the past and your willingness to fight for your country will be an inspiration to many!

• Talk, Frank

  11/10/2009 05:43 PM

  The anti-abortion amendment that was passed as part of the health care bill is interesting. If nothing else, it's probably the most anti-abortion legislation that has ever passed the House, so at least it's a good marker -- a good indication of the poliltical winds on the abortion issue.

  Most people will be surprised to know that the amendment likely would reduce the number of abortions from the rate they are happening today.

  Here is an explanation from the LA Times:
  http://xml.latimes.com/features/health/la-na-health-abortion10-2009nov10,0,4326760,full.story
  " . . . At issue are the insurance policies offered in a new "exchange," or marketplace, where many people would use federal subsidies to buy coverage.

  The House measure bars any insurance policy from covering abortions if it was purchased with a federal subsidy.

  That would probably force insurance companies to drop abortion coverage in the exchange to keep their policies open to the potentially large pool of subsidized customers.

  As a result, abortion rights supporters say, even a customer who received no subsidies would be unable to purchase a comprehensive policy covering abortion. . . .

  "The House amendment, which was sponsored by Reps. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) and Joe Pitts (R-Pa.), would allow people buying insurance in the exchange to purchase separate "riders" that would cover abortions.

  Abortion rights advocates say few would do so because few anticipate an unplanned pregnancy and few insurers are likely to offer such a separate service...."

  The democrats are promising to strip the amendment out of the bill before it becomes law, which they would do in the conference committee that matches up the House and Senate bill (the house and senate must pass the exact same bill, so after each house passes their own version, then a committee puts the two together into one, and then the House and Senate vote on them again).

  It's unlikely the Senate will pass the healthcare bill at all, so there likely will not be anything to reconcile in committee.

  But it is an interesting postive anti-abortion step that was taken, even if the bill never becomes law.

• Donlon, Thomas

  11/10/2009 04:26 PM

  Patrick Moynihan predicted how certain government policies would lead to the disintegration of many Black families. Bill Clinton recently remarked that Patrick Moynihan was also against comprehensive health care reform.

  From a news article (see the story headline linked from the Drudge Report about a remark by Bill Clinton)---

  "Clinton also used Baucus to highlight a key difference from 1994. Then-Finance Committee Chairman Pat Moynihan (D-N.Y.) was not on board with comprehensive health care reform like Baucus is today, Clinton said, according to a Senate aide."

• Friedman, Lindy

  11/10/2009 03:30 PM

  I have not been involved in politics
  since 1968. I am petrified and angered over what is going on in our
  government. I don't recognize it anymore.

• Steffen, Darlene

  11/10/2009 03:15 PM

  Now is the time for all good people to come to the aid
  of their party. Now is the time for all good people to come to the aid of their party. Now is the time for all good people to come to the aid of their party. Now is the time for all good people to come to the aid of their party. Now is the time for all good people to come to the aid of their party. Now is the time for all good people to come to the aid of their party.
  STOP PELOSI STOP OBAMA STOP CORRUPTION
  Now is the time for all good people to come to the aid of their party.

• Dr. David

  11/10/2009 02:03 PM

  

  Peggy Erickson 11/10/2009 12:26 AM. Many thanks for the link. I won't have the time or the patience to read it through, but trust that it will be so modified by subsequent events as to be rendered all but meaningless.
  

• Peggy Erickson

  11/10/2009 01:59 PM

  

  Here is how you can find out how your representatives voted on HR 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act. (It makes me choke just to type the title.)

  Roll Call 887

• Crowl, Debbi

  11/10/2009 12:27 PM

  I have donated my money very little to anything political in nature as it always seemed like there were areas like hungry children, medical research and ministry needs that needed my money more. Working to stop this country from becoming a socialist country has now risen to the top of my list. If bills like this health care bill go through I will have no more money to give to areas of need. Thank you for your work in this area!

• Mathis, Philip

  11/10/2009 11:47 AM

  Darren Cline: Congressman Childers voted against cap n trade, and against the health reform bill just this past Saturday. I'll have to look up whether he voted for the stimulus in January (although I don't see how I can in good faith count this as a strike against him, since BOTH of my REPUBLICAN Senators voted for it).

  It's become irrelevant since I see that Gov. Huckabee has endorsed Nunnelee. On his facebook page, Sen. Nunnelee said that he supported the Fair Tax (along with any plan to lower taxes), and I'm pretty sure that Rep. Childers is not a supporter.

• Skelton, Jim

  11/10/2009 11:43 AM

  Dear Gov. Huckabee:

  I am 61 years old. In 2005 I was divorced which cost me half of my accumulated assets. In 2007 I lost my left leg to a blood disorder and am now confined to a wheelchair. Due to these health problems, I lost my job in 2006. To cover health care costs and living expenses, I ran through my entire savings including retirement accounts. I borrowed against the equity in my home to sustain myself and now owe approximately twice what it might sell for on the market. The foreclosure process has begun. I have consumer debt that is huge and am unable to keep up with the minimum monthly payments. The collection calls are coming daily and bankruptcy looms large. In late 2008 I had to stop paying the health care premiums of $809 per month so I am totally uncovered at present. My medications cost approximately $300 per month. Thankfully, I finally was approved for Social Security Disability benefits that have just begun to arrive and give me the smallest of breathing spaces.I am a poster child for what has happened to our economy over the past four years.
  Nevertheless, after I send this note, I am going to the site you have established and make the $25 donation to assist you and your team in fighting to throw the Pelosi lap dogs out of Congress. I may be broke, but I love this Country and will do what I can to help good, sensible people such as yourself preserve it for my kids and grandkids. God bless you in your efforts.
  And oh yes - I do and will vote in every upcoming election. No one who voted for the health care bill will get my support at the polls.

• Dorn, Rachel

  11/10/2009 10:09 AM

  My suggestion is that we put a fence around DC and turn it into an insane isylum with Pelosi in charge and Reid as her assistant!

• Winn, Heather

  11/10/2009 02:10 AM

  I wrote this to those who voted for the HC Bill...

  Dear “Representative”,

  You do not know me, but I know you; for I have been watching your work in Congress very carefully. Unlike my previous letters and phone calls to the so called representatives in Washington DC, this is not a plea for my voice to be heard, and I am not going to ask that you “take my views into consideration” when you vote on legislation that can affectively eliminate my personal liberties. The time for pleas has come and gone, and so has my tolerance for your complete disregard of The Constitution. No, this letter is not coming in the form of a request, but more it should be regarded as a warning of what is to come for you and your colleagues on the Hill.

  In August, 2009 thousands of Americans attended town hall meetings to voice their displeasure with the healthcare reform bill; you mocked us. On September 12, 2009, an estimated ONE MILLION patriotic Americans gathered on your front lawn to protest the growing strong arm of the government; you ignored us. On November 5, 2009 an estimated 40,000 Americans left their families and jobs on only days notice to protest the passage of “Pelosi/Obama-Care”; again you ignored and mocked us. We have taken every civilized measure to prevent the American Dream from morphing into a socialized nightmare, and yet we have been ignored.

  We are done being ignored, and quite frankly we’re tired of being the only ones that are playing nicely. So we’ve decided to play the game your way; bat in hand and target in site. And who is our target, you may ask? Well…you are. Like our forefathers, the time has come to make war with our oppressors to preserve our freedoms. Unlike them, our weapon will be action, not artillery. Over the span of mere months we have built an army of millions, all willing to sacrifice their time, money and sweat to one cause, and that cause is to remove you from office and regain control of this country. From this day forward we will dedicate ourselves fully to the cause, and we will not stop until you have either agreed to abandon party politics and defend the Constitution with every vote you cast, or until you are removed from your position of power.

  After we are finished organizing thousands of impassioned voters in your district to campaign against you, whether that be going door to door delivering handouts, financing commercials or supporting your opponents, we will move on to those entities that have pledged their financial support behind you. Slowly but surely we will expose every corrupt tie you have forged, every lie you have told, and every promise you have made to every special interest that backs you. The downfall of ACORN was just the beginning, and you can rest assured that you and the entities that have pledged their allegiance to your corrupt ways will not only suffer a similar fate, but all of the public humiliation that followed.

  Like you, General Cornwallis underestimated the power and wrath of We The People before he was defeated by “mere farmers with pitchforks,” and like your career in politics, this miscalculation will be short-lived. We have put down our pens and picked up our pitchforks, and this is only the beginning.

  With a Watchful Eye,

  
  An American Patriot

  
  "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
  

• Hartnett, Leonard

  11/10/2009 12:33 AM

  Although the rallying cry is "throw the rascals out", I believe that when the voters go into the voting booth, many will say, "MY Congressman is not one of them. It's the other guys" and will vote to return their Congressman to office. An example that comes to mind is Senator Robert Byrd. Considering the amount of federal tax dollars Senator Byrd has sent to West Virginia, if the voters in the other 49 states could could vote for West Virginia Senators, he probably would have been out of office long ago. He "brings home the bacon" and West Virginia voters have loved him for that for years, and years, and years, and.... If everyone thinks the same way, there will be no change in Washington.

• Peggy Erickson

  11/10/2009 12:26 AM

  

  Doctor David - The text of the bill as introduced in the house has been online for about a week. The version currently online is updated, but doesn't appear to have the amendments attached. You can get a copy in PDF format at:

  HR 3962

• Barbie

  11/10/2009 12:16 AM

  

  I am a Registered Nurse and as I read through much of healthcare bill HR3962 I am very concerned, because it has nothing to do with real healthcare reform. HR3962 instead hinders the excellence of our healthcare dramatically and has as its' main purpose advancement of an extreme power takeover of the Obama administration, Congress and the Senate to control our lives and our freedoms.

  My concern is also for small businesses which are the backbone of this country compromising 65-70% of the business in this country. The healthcare bill greatly punishes small business for productivity and will put them out of business.

  My concern is that the United States dollars' value has been gradually falling, since President Obama took office. Since October 28th, the dollars' value has fallen an additional 28% compared to the Euro. HR3962 will weaken the dollar further by increasing our deficet dramatically. It is 1/6 of our economy and it could trigger a "global crisis." OUR NATION NEEDS REAL HEALTHCARE REFORM OF THE PRIVATE INSURANCE SECTOR TO ENCOURAGE COMPETITION AND LOWER PRICING, WHILE MAINTAINING THE BEST HEALTHCARE IN THE WORLD. We do not need a government run healthcare with government monopoly. It is unconstitutional. HR3962 dramatically will cause higher taxes for everyone and is hostile to the value of the dollar.

  HR3962 is 1,990 pages long. It has 43 new entitlement programs that reward lack of productivity. It has 111 new buracracies. It is estimated to be 1.055 trillion dollars in spending, which is $500 million dollars per each page of the bill. The bill causes over 729.5 million dollars in taxes in a short time. The bill will over a short period of time loose over 5.5 million "real jobs."

  The Congress denied an amendment to the bill for them to have the same healthcare they are promoting in
  HR3962.

  As someone I admire greatly said,"Whenever the government promises to give you something, they have to take it from you first...and than their handling charge is extraordinary and exuberant," quoted by Governor Mike Huckabee.

  As someone else I admire greatly said, "The nine worst words you could ever hear are, "I'm from the government and I'm here to help," quoted by President Ronald Reagan.

  I recommend that anyone that voted "yes" for this healthcare bill or anyone that politically maneuvered and voted "no" on the healthcare bill to keep their Congressional seat, will immediately be removed from office.

• Pool, Teri

  11/09/2009 11:39 PM

  Thanks, Pam from Tustin, re: Chuck DeVore, whom I am now following on twitter! Thank goodness, finally, we have a real conservative to vote for in Caliberalfornia.

  I don't which I find more offensive and despicable: the notion of a forced healthcare "mandate" which completely undermines our liberty as a people, or; the sheer arrogance of power demonstrated by Pelosi and 219 others who voted in the middle of the night on a weekend--isolated from voters--to expand government to unprecedented levels in utter defiance and in unmitigated contempt for the people they supposedly represent.

  Huntington Beach

• Jeremiassen, Judi

  11/09/2009 11:01 PM

  I'm with you ..... enough is enough. Bring on the elections 2010!! How do we find out how each member in the House voted? I really want that list to make my calls more effective. Thanks and keep up the good work!! Sincerely, Judi Jeremiassen P.S. Love your show!!

• Greer, Cynthia

  11/09/2009 10:52 PM

  STOP PELOSI
  STOP OBAMA
  I will be putting my donation in the mail tomorrow. Use it well. Pelosi has overstayed her welcome. Since 1987!!! I'm from California and can't vote her out, but you may use my donation to STOP PELOSI.
  And to the "transparent" Obama ... I don't think you know what transparent means ... OUT YOU GO, ALSO. cg 11/9

• Teson, Deborah

  11/09/2009 10:45 PM

  Govenor,
  As an American, woman,taxpayer,registered nurse, wife mother and grandmother, I am for health care reform. I feel though my needs and input concerning health care reform are not being met. I want my voice heard proclaiming I am not for the present bill before the Senate. Mr Todd Akin is the only member of congress who has listened to me and actually heard what I had to say. I, as a nurse have seen the ravages of abortion, to the unborn and the mother. W@e must stop this senseless killing as one day we eill stand before an Awesome God and have to answer His Question, "Why did you koll all of those innocent lives?" Not one American should be responsible to pay with our tax dollars for fedarally funded abortions. God help us. If Ms. Polosi and her followers wants abortion for all women then let them pay for it and have the blood of these unborn on her/their hands. I do not want rationing, end of lofe counseling or socialized medicine, period.

• Ron and Dottie in Fl

  11/09/2009 10:35 PM

  

  It is mind boggling the route legislation for Health Care and Cap and Trade has been through in the House. The people have spoken and Congress just doesn't listen. It appears the AGENDA trumps constructive input from the citizenry.
  We have watched how the House works, including closed door sessions where deals for votes are being made. Let hope the Senate uses common sense and encourages open debate. Like many Republicans have stated we don't need to replace a neighborhood to fix a few leaking faucets. Be respectful of The Constitution / We The People / Our Liberties and Freedoms.

  Please don't sign any treaties / pledges with the United Nations or other world organizations that could take away Freedom or Liberty or anything else from the United States or its citizens.

  The following comments are duplicated on the open discussion thread.

  To those who believe the Fair Tax H.R.25 would be a good replacement for the Federal Income Tax.

  Please go to FairTaxNation.com and sign up. It is just as easy to comment and ask questions there, as it is here on Huckpac. Currently there are about 7,000 it could easily grow to 70,000.

  I watched many of the comments made Saturday by Republicans and Democrats giving their side of Health Care bill issues. It reminded me of the Cap and Trade that was recently passed by the House. The House already had their votes, so it was a matter of time to have to wait to cast their vote for Pelosi Health Care.

  What bothers me about these bills are they are attempting to use our current tax system the catalyst for funding and providing credits for Pelosi Health Care and to some extent Cap and Trade. They say Pelosi Health Care will be 1.2 trillion for 10 years, we know it could be a lot more.

  It will only be a matter of time before the wealthy people being taxed find loop holes, leave the country or just say this is a losing battle here in America, where more people are becoming dependent on government every day.

  We have to remind ourselves that the Health Care and the Cap and Trade won't be law until the Senate passes it and the President signs it. When the Democratic House members are able to have closed door meetings, no telling what incentives are to get votes needed. Also watch what happens just before the recess before Christmas (the pork, bills, acts of 2009, favors and presents that normally wouldn't be passed or given).

  All the dependencies Congress is putting on the current tax system, makes it even more difficult for The Fair Tax to get the job done.

  We need to be talking up the Fair Tax. The Fair Tax would bring jobs from within and from afar.

  R24189 for the Fair Tax H.R. 25 and accountability in our government
  

• RGeorge

  11/09/2009 10:19 PM

  

  God Bless Charlotte Deere~

• RGeorge

  11/09/2009 09:53 PM

  

  Donor Code: R23778

• RGeorge

  11/09/2009 09:52 PM

  

  Sara Palin,
  
  Gov. Huckabee has extended you his hand by asking you to his Show. Please go? For the Quest of us all, including Ron Paul tcot
  
  R. George Dunn
  rgdunn@veionline.com

  extended:
  
  We all know that things are really bad morally at the federal level. Trust is gone and history portrayed since 1913 is real. Of the tin hat thoughts, what is true? Maybe it is like science fiction becoming reality. The key to this is the Second command of Jesus. Use the ballot box to clean it up and close the book. Let's Refound America~ What a blessing it is to recall the final Speech Marko Rubio gave as FL Rep. Sort of warms my heart to think of you on stage sitting with Mike

• RGeorge

  11/09/2009 09:50 PM

  

  From the lips of Children

  Subject: Amazing 11-year-old girl!!! YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE THIS YOUNG LADY.....
  ---I thought you might enjoy this young lady.

  ?Notice there is no teleprompter. In fact, I'm not sure she even has a script. Enjoy the speech. Now if only we could get our supposed leaders to Step-Up and take responsibility for their actions--Maybe, just maybe, this young lady's speech can and will have some affect. Her name is Sarah!You're gonna love this young lady........

  11yr. Old gives her "America's Freedom" Speech to crowd of over 2,000 at Tea Party fireworks rally in Tallahassee, FL. July 4th, 2009
  Freedom Rally-Sarah
  Posted By R. George Dunn to Northern Light at 11/09/2009 09:25:00 PM

• Tumbleson, Martha

  11/09/2009 09:48 PM

  You go, Huck!

  Living in Hawaii where Obama took the election last fall with 78% of the vote, we who are on the 'other side of the fence' feel like fish swimming up stream every day.

  Please support conservative John Willoughby who has announced that he will challenge Mazi Horono for the 2nd Congressional District seat in the 2010 General Election!

  Mahalo for your support.

• Wild About Huck

  11/09/2009 09:47 PM

  

  Hey Mike,

  I hate to correct you but they are no longer "Christmas" decorations they are now "holiday" decorations.

• b, richard

  11/09/2009 09:22 PM

  
  Gooderham, Pam
  11/09/2009 05:56 PM

  I could not agree more on Chuck
  DeVore.
  I worked at HP all the years "Carly" was there and for nearly ruining the company she was rewarded with $22 Million in bonuses.
  Thus, she is already of the TARP/Banker-Bailout mentality and regardless of what she might say would be in full support, after all.
  She is firmly parked on Wall Street - NOT Main Street.
  And she is the master at PR...
  She was able to pull off an incredibly unpopular merger while at HP, even when it was firmly opposed by the families of the founders, especially Walter Hewlett, the son of co-founder Bill Hewlett.
  She, like Dr. Rand Paul's opponent in Kentucky - Trey Grayson, will be the Darlings of the GOP, not the true conservatives like Rand Paul and Chuck DeVore.
  I'm glad the folks at ronpaulforums.com are also supporting Chuck. They held a multi-candidate moneybomb on Nov. 5.
  I heard they raised over $133,000 that day, but it was shared among many of their "liberty" candidates.
  I wonder if HuckPac has been or is considering supporting him..
  There are so many good folks running without party money that the only solution is to "step up" and donate to them whenever possible.