All Eyes are on the Massachusetts Senate Race

As far as the Cap-and-Trade (tax) Bill is concerned, it appears that Senator Lisa Murkowski is a voice of reason in a chamber of confusion and turmoil.

Back in the late Summer 2009, after he voted for the House version of the Cap-and-Trade Bill, I wrote my Congressman, Ike Skelton, to complained about the negative financial impact this bill would have on Missourians and all people throughout the United States, especially those on fixed incomes. In his response, he stated that his vote in favor of this bill was a tough decision. He told me that if Congress did not act, the EPA would, and that he felt that I would much rather have "elected" officials making these types of decisions instead of some unknown "Bureaucrat" in a governmental agency. In my reply, I stated that the EPA was a creation of Congress, December 2, 1970, and could be dismantled by Congress, if Congress chose to do so. But more realisticly, because Congress sets the budget for the EPA, the EPA could be easily reminded that it worked for Congress and not the other way around, as he eluded. And furthermore, I felt that he had given me a choice between a heartless bureaucrat and a brainless politician to be making a major decision that would radically impact the finances of everyone in the United States who pay a utility bill.

Naturally the EPA’s efforts to regulate the Energy Industry, impose more regulation on American citizens, and raise more revenue for the Government without Congressional approval is completely backed by the Obama administration, which has been trying to push the Senate into passing Cap-and-Trade legislation, in much the same manner they used to pass Health Care.

Fortunately, the Senate is still reeling from strong voter backlash over the deals cut in order to pass the Health Care bill and they fear even more outrage from the voters over Cap and Trade.

With the Mid-term elections looming over the Democrats and Liberal Republicans in November, Cap-and-Trade has been slowed down, at least for the time being. Unfortunately, without Congressional action, the EPA is set to regulate vehicle emissions and factory pollutants this spring.

I am happy to learn that Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) plans to introduce an amendment to prevent the agency from taking action immediately, if at all. Her proposal is scheduled for a Jan. 20 vote.

At this time I cannot find out much concerning the specific details of Senator Murkowski's proposal. However, I do know that last fall she offered an amendment that would have delayed the EPA regulation for at least a year. This would have allowed Congress some very needed time to pass a climate bill. However, because the Democratic leadership did not allow the vote, she later withdrew that amendment and joined other Republicans in proposing an even longer delay.

It appears that under a Senate agreement reached in late December, the planned January debate on further increasing the U.S. debt ceiling will include a vote on Sen. Murkowski’s amendment, which according to Robert Dillon, a spokesman for Senator Murkowski, says is very much like the original amendment.

Most people do not understand that the economic impact of the Cap-and-Trade bill will increase your utility bill substantially, and it does not stop there. Everything and everybody that use utilities to support their business will also have to pass alone this increase to consumers, in other words to you. So the home utility consumer not only gets it stuck to them once, but again and again and again, in everything that they buy. My electricity provider says to expect a minimum of a 50% increase the first year and to expect that to double again 3 - 5 years later, if Cap-and-Trade passes. Those who favor this bill say it will create jobs, but one only has to look at the news over the past few days to see that two major "Green" companies are moving their operations out of the United States. One is going to China, the other Mexico. If the idea is to create jobs, shouldn't the be created for those of us in the United States. After all we will be paying for them!

Like Health Care, I believe most people will agree that something needs to be done. But with a negative financial impact of this magnitude falling upon everyone in the United States, we don’t need to rush into a piece-meal solution tomorrow. This problem didn’t occur over night and will not be solved over night. Any attempt to do so would be a grave disservice on the American consumer, and devastating to the American Taxpayer.

If you agree, then I urge you to support Senator Murkowski in her efforts, Lord knows she will need all the support she can get to obtain the 60 votes she needs, to slow down this legislation and think things out, before making more hap-hazzard, poorly thought-out, ego- based legislation that will take more money out of the hands of the American Taxpayer.

Please remember - United We Stand – Keep the pressure on your elected officials, write your senators and congressmen, and always remember – 2^nd Chronicles 7:14, and Keep Looking Up!

Thanks for reading,

Gary

Pearl Harbor Day vs. Islamic New Year!

10.    TARP or as I like to call it the Congressional Relief Action Program -  The money for TARP was so urgent that Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and company didn’t add any transparency to the process and now we don’t know where much of the money went.

9.      First Stimulus Bill - It stimulated spending in Democrat Congressional districts and created almost no new jobs. 

8.      Auto Bailout - Another bailout and another expansion of government. 

7.      ACORN – This corrupt organization was a favorite of House and Senate Democrats and well funded by their congressional patrons. Voters will remember. 

6.      Obama Czars – Special advisors to the President, circumventing the traditional Congressional confirmation process.  The Obama administration’s widespread and deliberate use of “Czars” is a misuse of power and needs to be reined in.

5.      CAP and TAX – Another massive tax increase on American families and small businesses.

4.      Ben Nelson’s and Mary Landrieu’s Payoff – Ben Nelson sold his health care vote to Harry Reid for $300+ million in lower taxes for Nebraska.   It should also be remembered that Mary Landrieu was the first to sell her vote during the first round, for $300 Million and then bragged about it on her website. And these were just the tip of the iceberg of bribes that took place to get this behind closed door deal through the senate. (Italics indicate information added by Gary)

3.      The $12 Trillion+ National Debt – Democrats in Congress spending money they don’t have.  Mortgaging our children’s future.

2.      Nationwide Unemployment rate at 10% - The Democrats are spending money like it’s going out of style and yet they are ignoring policies that would create new jobs.

1.      The Government Takeover of Health Care - If the bill that comes out of Congress is signed into law, it will amount to a massive government expansion into our daily lives.  It is the number one reason why Democrats should be defeated. 

Some reminders you may also wish to remember during this campaign year, is that during the 2008 Presidential campaign Barack Obama told audiences, “Judge me by the people with whom I surround myself.”

So Okay, let’s take a look:

John Holdren, science czar, advocates for population control using the most extreme measures, such as mandating the number of children Americans can have.

Cass Sunstein, regulatory czar and Harvard law professor, believes that animals should have the right to legal representation.

Ezekiel Emanuel, healthcare czar, believes in using cost-benefit and comparative-benefit analysis to allocate healthcare resources.  This means the fewer years you have left to live, the less cost-effective it is to treat you.

Van Jones, Green Jobs Czar Van Jones: Republicans Are "A**holes"

Mark Loyd, FCC 'diversity czar,' supports Communist Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and believes that what Chavez did to squelch free speech in the media and seize the means of communication is a good model for the United States.

As Candidate and as President, Obama stated “My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government.  We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.” I have to ask what happened to all this promised transparency? All I have seen from this Administration and Congressional leadership is backroom deals being done behind closed, locked doors, through panes of glass that have been totally blackened out!  2000 page plus pieces of Legislation released only hours before votes are taken, not giving legislators or the public the opportunity to read about our Constitutionally guaranteed liberties that may be taken away from “The People.”  News from the White House, by their own admission, is highly controlled.  Sanitized news is being given only to “friendly” media outlets, which included every liberal media outlet but excludes media such as FOX News, which actually reports “news.” The entire transparency “policy” statement can be found at the White House website: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/TransparencyandOpenGovernment/

As I stated in a previous post, I’m not looking forward to three more years of the kinds of changes we are seeing from this Congress and this Administration. Quite frankly, I do not believe the country can survive it.  I am a firm believer that the future of this country, as we knew it and grew up in it, depends on the outcome of these ultra important 2010 elections.  We have the opportunity to change 1/3 of the Senate and totally change the House of Representatives in 2010.  If The People are successful here, then we will have the opportunity to change another 1/3 of the senate and clean up any left-over mistakes in the house, and change our greatest mistake, the White House, in 2012.  If these two elections are successful, the remainder of the elite, self-centered, arrogant senators can be dealt with in 2014 and we will have successfully taken back control of our country. 

Clearly, we have two options. We can get active in the political system and vote for those who share our views, and against those who do not, or we can stay home, set back and watch and listen to Obama media indoctrination and propaganda, which is exactly what it is. 

The future of this country is totally in your hands.  EVERYTHING DEPENDS COMPLETELY ON YOU!  What an awesome responsibility our forefathers left us  –  Though it has a few battle scars and may have been somewhat bruised during this past year, it is still OUR Constitution!  

I want to thank the fine folks at Mike Huckabee's huckpac.com (see website at https://www.huckpac.com) for coming up with the 10 very important election points.  We can all benefit from using these reminders during this campaign.   

I hope each and every one of you has a safe, great, and prosperous New Year.

Gary

Please remember - United We Stand - Keep the pressure on, write your senators and congressmen, and always remember - 2^nd Chronicles 7:14, and Keep Looking Up!

Dear Friends,

What a year to review.  About this time last year many of us were expecting “Change” from the Obama Administration.  Some of us were in fear of exactly what this change might involve.  Some of us were welcoming a change from “same-old, same-old” irresponsible Washington politics we had gotten use to and looking forward to new a change and “transparence” in Government. 

Now that nearly a year has passed since the inauguration of Obama, We now, have a clear view of what kind of change the Obama Administration had in mind.  Obama’s definition of “Transparency” is backroom deals being done behind closed, locked doors, through panes of glass that have been totally blackened out!  2000 page plus pieces of Legislation released only hours before votes are taken, not giving legislators or the public the opportunity to read about Constitutional guaranteed liberties, that may be taken away from “The People.”  News from the White House, by their own admission, is highly controlled.  Sanitized news is being given only to “friendly” media outlets, which is nearly every liberal media outlet but FOX News.  Increased bureaucracy, a.k.a., transfer of power from “The People” to the government bureaucrats, largely accomplished through a transfer wealth from unworthy rich people to more deserving poor people via the government.  Thereby proving, in their eyes, that it is the government who would and should be deciding how wealth should be shared. What cars should be made, what Government approved Health Care Insurance YOU WILL HAVE TO PURCHASE, what banks can loan money on homes and which ones cannot, how much money people will be allowed to earn, who can and who cannot be CEO’s of corporations, and which News Media are acceptable outlets and which ones are not.  Not to mention the majority party leadership has deemed itself untouchable by, as well as being unaccountable to, the American electorate!

I believe at this juncture it is safe to say that many, if not most, of us are pretty dissatisfied with the “Change” we are seeing and is about to impact us.  That is if we care at all, or have taken the simple initiative to research these things on our own, and not just listen to what the media “tells” us is going on or is good for us.  I have sadly learned the BBC is much more accurate and far more informative than the three major American networks.  Most of what I learned about the Health Care bill I learned from the BBC, which was shocked by the stupidity of the Americans at wanting a Health Care system the Brits wanted to get rid of and was proven not to work.  But then again, we do have the very best politicians that money can buy!

Our founding fathers came from oppressive governments that failed because of these very reasons. They created a nation of “The People,” by “The People” and for “The People” using the concept of shared but limited powers between three equal branches of Government that has a system of checks and balances.  This concept is referred to as a Republic.  They gave us a tool by which to maintain this Republic, called the Constitution.  This document guaranteed “The People” that no single branch of government, or any single political party, or any single individual, could get too powerful.

Unfortunately, our Republic seems to be suffering from an illness called “The People’s Apathy.”

Though in recent months, some people have taken to pen, email, and public meetings and voiced their concerns, the fact remains that after only one year we have “Change” but in this form:

•           A fabricated global warming crisis has been promoted by the US worldwide.

•           The administration is willing to commit $100 Billion without Senate consent.

•           The banking system has been nationalized.

•           The real estate credit industry has nationalized.

•           Two of the three car companies have been nationalized.

•           The health care system is about to be nationalized and forced upon you.

•           30 million people have been promised free health care.

•           The Energy infrastructure is about to be nationalized. (Cap and Trade)

•           Unions have been given executive powers over privately owned businesses.

•           America is dependent on foreign oil because US companies are denied from using our own oil – which we have plenty of.

•           Clean Natural Gas Technology being ignored.

•           Arab counties have been encouraged to develop weapons of mass destruction and use them.

•           Obama has nearly turned his back on Israel and reportedly is cutting backroom deals with Islamic Terrorist leaders concerning Israel’s sovereignty.

•           Appeasement of North Korea and Iran.

•           Obama has bowed submissively to foreign leaders and apologized for historic American actions.

•           Our Judicial system has been converted to defend terrorism.

•           Our income tax system will be expanded to confiscate all capital formation.

•           Our educational system is been converted to a cult honoring Obama.

•           Our free capitalist economy is being destroyed, to be rescued by a socialist government.

•           Social Security and Medicare are to be rationed by White House Czars.

•           Private ownership rights in businesses are being ignored.

•           Private property ownership rights being ignored.

•           And a new tax structure that we cannot even conceive, in order to pay the trillions of dollars being spent by this administration, the current congressional leadership, and liberal legislators.

•           Restrictions, fees, taxes and fines about to be placed on energy usage, the likes of which this country has never before seen – again Cap and Trade!     

With all these issues being brought to light, and with Liberal legislators blatantly voting against the wishes of 60% of the people, there has to be a reason the Liberals are so confident in their arrogant actions during an election year.  However, we would be well advised to remember there is nearly 3/4 of a Trillion Dollars (more money than we can conceive) of the TARP money that has yet to be spent.  That is a lot of TV, Radio, Newspaper, Bumper Stickers, and campaign time for the Senators and Congressmen who are in trouble because they voted against our wishes on Health Care and will most likely do the same for the upcoming Cap and (tax) Trade legislation.  That is also a lot of money that can be funneled into districts for “pet” projects, especially those that require “construction” which will also require jobs be created to complete those “pet” projects.  And of course the Media will be slobbering all over themselves because of all the jobs being created by the great messiah and senator and/or congressman “so and so” and no one will think about what happens to the jobs once the “pet” project has been completed.  That is, until unemployment soars once again….

The liberals would love nothing more than to see a split in the Republican Party and that is a distinct possibility.  I’m not at all happy with the Republicans.  I view my voting for most of them as voting for “the lesser of two evils.”  I consider myself to be a strong conservative, but most definitely not a Republican.  The disgruntled conservatives, like myself, and independents, like many of my friends, are completely fed up with both parties and could easily agree on enough of the issues to come together and create a most formidable third party.  Though I’d absolutely love to see this occur, it would be totally disastrous at this time.  The result would be simply putting all those congressmen and senators we promised to never vote for again, right back in office, though-be-it without our votes.  I’m a firm believer of “Change” from within.  We need to get more active in seeking out good conservative candidates who will run for office.  Support them verbally, monetarily, physically and get them elected, and thereby change the party from within.   

I’m not looking forward to three more years of these kinds of changes, and quite frankly I do not believe the country can survive it.  I am a firm believer that the future of this country, as we knew it and grew up in it, depends on the outcome of the 2010 elections.  We have the opportunity to change 1/3 of the Senate and totally change the House of Representatives in 2010.  If we are successful here, we will then have the opportunity to change another 1/3 of the senate and clean up any left-over mistakes in the house, and change our largest mistake, the White House, in 2012.  If these two elections are successful, the remainder of the elite, self-centered, arrogant senators can be dealt with in 2014 and we will have successfully taken back control of our country.  Clearly, we have two options, get active in the political system and vote for those who share our views, and against those who do not, or stay home, set back and watch and listen to media indoctrination and propaganda, which is exactly what it is.  The future of this country is totally in your hands.  EVERYTHING DEPENDS COMPLETELY ON YOU!  What an awesome responsibility our forefathers left us  –  Though it has a few battle scars and may have been somewhat bruised during this past year, it is still OUR Constitution!  

I hope each and every one of you has a safe, great, and prosperous New Year.

Sincerely,

Dear Friends,

I remember hearing this story years ago. I think, though it may shock some of you, it is an appropriate example of the current administration’s policies of forcing legislation on all of us, support it or not.

A very wealthy, gentleman, early in his golden years of life, entered a very exclusive hotel to obtain his reserved and waiting room. 

As he stood patiently awaiting a bellhop to assist him with his luggage, a very beautiful young lady entered the lobby and stood near his side, as she waited for her room key.

Stunned by her beauty, the gentleman inquired of the young lady, “Miss, I am quite wealthy. I have been a widower for slightly over two years. I am quite lonely and desire the company of a beautiful lady such as yourself. Would you consider spending the evening with me, if I paid you $10 million dollars?

Shocked by the gentleman’s advance, not to mention his offer, but without hesitation the beautiful young lady replied, “Yes! Yes, I would.”

Perfectly pleased by the young lady’s response, the gentlemen looked directly into her beautiful green eyes and asked, “Would you spend the evening with me for $100?”

Shocked, stunned, and offended, the young lady responded, “No! Absolutely NOT! Just exactly what do you think I am?”

Totally in stride and with a calm soothing voice, the gentleman replied, “Miss, we have already established exactly what you are, now, all that is left, is for us to negotiate a price.”

This is an old story that you may have heard years ago. However, I believe it accurately describes what is currently going on in the House and Senate of the United States.  I honestly hope this cavalier comparison between prostitutes and politicians does not offend any honorable prostitute who may happen to read what I am about to write. 

Sadly, certain House and Senate members have voluntarily elected to sell their dignity, their honor, their values, their commitments to their constituents, along with their Constitutional oaths of office, to the Congressional Leadership at “individually negotiated prices, while at the same time, selling out the vast majority of their constituents. 

Unfortunately, unlike the elderly gentleman in my story above, the American Tax Payer was not allowed to negotiate the price for the “servicing” we got. The Tax Payer was Pimped Out by the likes of Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi and Senator Harry Reid. As best as I can determine  from information available on the internet, Senator Reid paid over $1.1 Billion dollars for 2 votes, not counting the “sweet heart” deal Senator Ben Nelson demanded for Nebraska, just to make sure the Health Care bill would pass the latest round in the Senate. That is, of course, above and beyond the $300 Million, Harry Reid paid to the harlot Mary Landrieu (D-LA) for her deciding vote during the first round that virtually guaranteed the passage of this controversial and partisan bill.

Now whether you favored this bill or, like the majority of my friends and family, did not want passage of this bill, I do not believe either of these is the actual damming issue at this point.  As an adamant opponent of this Health Care bill, though I am extremely angry at those members who accepted the “bribe” money for their votes, I am far more angry at Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi for spending “MY” tax dollars, to promote passage of a bill that I bitterly oppose, and “Bribe” members of the House and Senate to vote against my wishes and the wishes of most of the American People! 

Fortunately, this fight is not entirely over. There is a slim chance the bill can still be defeated - very slim, and then only if the people keep up the pressure on their Senators.  However, the chances of defeating this bill are absolutely ZERO, if the people do nothing and remain silent. Please write your elected officials.