Some of the assertions made in our political attack and in our planks are proven here by the links that follow. In some cases a few of the articles that are included may contain some opposing arguments; however, there was other information within those articles that was utilized. Those cases of mixed inclusion illustrate that when both sides of the coin were considered, tit for tat, the overall articles on a given subject demonstrate the stronger case for our postitions.

This list is subject to further additions and is not all inclusive. Note that some links may become defunct over time. If this is the case, please contact us. You can also submit your own links that you have come across which help bolster these arguments.

Illegals want to annex southwestern U.S.
http://www.illegalaliens.us/aztlan.htm

Voice of Aztlan propaganda
http://www.aztlan.net

Bush's Medicare Prescription Drug Plan is confusing and costly. Price for plan had more than doubled by time of implementation. This piece illustrates inherent problems of government intervention, much resulting from politization of processes on behalf of certain constituencies. Article cites statist solutions as ineffective. Alternately, allowing for or emulating free markets yields better overall results. Either way, by violating the old market adage of K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple & Short) does not bode well for consumers (or taxpayers). Effectively describes the old '90s Clinton health care plan and more recent Bush drug plan as economic Fascism as opposed to the common accusation of Marxism. Author states, "Government is well-suited to pool risk and provide insurance, and it does so efficiently with both Social Security and Medicare as a whole." Huh??????

The Bush drug plan like some company-sponsored 401(k) options is intimidating in complexity. Freedom Funds are discussed. Author over-generalizes this scenario as an example that individuals are inherently not able to make decisions for their own good and that a stronger collective society is needed. Actually, it is government intervention that yields more complexity. A free market on the other hand, will let consumers whittle down complexity by letting them patronize or provide the incentive for a more KISS oriented provider without government having to force all into one collective. The Machiavellian suspicion of Bush-ordained complexity or of its tacit acceptance, would have been the better angle to delve into.

Crowd laughed when Bush said his talk on the prescription drug plan wasn't political. Told seniors the paperwork wouldn't be hard to fill out. 'Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif., however, called the drug benefit program "inadequate and overly complex." He said the government's materials explaining the benefit do not provide details about the gaps in prescription drug coverage.'

What was a cause for worry amongst the insurers? 'Of the 14.3 million people who enrolled in the Medicare Prescription Drug Plan since January 1, 2006, only 3.6 million have signed up on their own....Many seniors are willing to risk paying a penalty for not joining the Medicare Prescription Drug Plan by the enrollment deadline of May 15, 2006 because they believe they are saving more money without the program.' This risked premiums going up or insurance companies opting out of the program.

GAO says call centers for the Medicare Prescription Drug Plan give accurate answers only about a third of the time.

'It is poorly targeted. Many of the program's subsidies will go to those who are not exactly needy - to wealthy as well as poor seniors. According to the CBO, three-fourths of senior citizens already have drug coverage. Millions of those seniors will move into the Medicare drug program, where taxpayers will pay bills that seniors and employers are already paying themselves.'

"There is no reason in the world why we ought to be paying the prescription-drug benefits for the wealthiest in society, the Bill Gates, the Barbra Streisands, the Ted Turners, the Warren Buffetts," he said.

“Some wealthy people could be driven to leave Medicare by means-testing, undermining the stability of the program,” said Ruben Burks, Secretary-Treasurer of the Alliance. “Costs for middle and lower-income seniors who depend on it would rise as a consequence of the [drug] program not being universal.”

On proposal by latter Bush administration to raise premiums and deductables on wealthy seniors enrolled in the Medicare prescription drug plan: "As long as this doesn't have an exodus of the wealthy from the program, we think having premiums established based on ability to pay makes sense," Pollack said.

Sounds as if these government promises through herding programs are futile exercises in trying to sweep away the resulting entropy with a whisk-less broom.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/04/AR2007100402655.html

'Under Bush, Congress passed budgets that spent a total of $91 billion more than the president requested for domestic programs. Bush signed every one of those bills during his first term. '

For information on Bush spendthrift-ing, Bush & Paulson TARP, Republican senator earmarks and icon Reagan controversies, the following link will take you to those sources listed on the in-house 'Republicans Should Relinquish' page.

'Those laws....subsidize Democratic and Republican candidates....The Democrats and Republicans use your tax money to subsidize their presidential campaigns.....In addition, your tax dollars were spent on their nominating conventions......Similar laws are imposed as well on state and local candidates by state and local governments. '

Both parties have the ability to fund elections : other parties are severely hampered by their lack of financial backing. Which major backer would financially support a party that had no chance whatsoever of gaining political power?

Reform effectiveness and constitutionality of taxpayer campaign funding questioned: ' Editor John Samples, director of the Center for Representative Government at the Cato Institute, concludes that government financing doesn't reduce alleged corruption in the political process, promote greater equality among citizens, or ensure greater competition in political races.'

The End of Taxpayer Funded Campaigns in Arizona?

FDA Endorses Cervical Cancer vaccine
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/19/AR2006051900138.html

HPV Vaccine
http://www.thoughttheater.com/2006/05/vaccinate.php

Bush said, "Congress needs to pass legislation strengthening the independent regulator of government-sponsored enterprises like Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae." However, 'Dodd called on Bush to "immediately reconsider his ill-advised" reform proposals.'

Sen. Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, received $165,000 from PACs and employees of Fannie and Freddie. He helped blockade reform efforts.

Systemic risks were brought about by the demand of government to give loans to minorities despite bad credit through the Community Reinvestment Act. Fannie and Freddie were backing the subprime loans via introduction of lax standards. Barney Frank comes along and says: ".... these two entities, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, are not facing any kind of financial crisis."

Barney Frank: ' His record is close to perfect as a stalwart opponent of reforming the two companies [Fannie & Freddie], going back more than a decade.....He encouraged the companies to guarantee more "affordable" mortgages, thus abetting their disastrous plunge into subprime and Alt-A loans.'

Yet another government-run economic disaster: 'Fannie and Freddie are owned by shareholders, but have long enjoyed the implied support of the federal government that has allowed them access to capital in the market at advantageous terms.' They were not required to have the same level of reserves as other institutions, so when things got tough their levee of leverage broke.

Summary
http://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/communist/summary.html

Ten Planks interpretation
http://laissez-fairerepublic.com/TenPlanks.html

Ten Planks in America!
http://www.criminalgovernment.com/docs/planks.html

Comparative effectiveness research (CER) is the notion of figuring out the best type or approach to treatment for particular ailments that are cost effective and have have the least amount of consequence. This pursuit will be a rubric as to how to regulate the federal health care system and is a generalized ideal for private providers as well. Thus we start out with two works that battle it out on those grounds: one by the CBO (Congressional Budget Office) as to expanding federal funding for CER and prioritizing certain fields of study and how those findings would effect health care. The other is from the Cato Institute which decries the need for a government funded foray into CER much less an agency to direct such efforts. The Cato piece suggests alternatives in order to encourage such studies to take place while removing current governmental hindrances. Both these works and the links following should shed some light on this core topic of health care effectiveness and efficiency.

'Dr. Sox will lead a panel of nationally renowned medical experts to make recommendations to the U.S. government about which preventive, diagnostic, and treatment services should have the highest priority for research funding using money allotted to the Secretary of the DHHS in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.'

A webcast at Kaisernetwork.org considers comparative effectiveness research implications. 'This roundtable provides an overview of how a national comparative effectiveness research entity might work and the potential benefits for the U.S. health care system. '

An upcoming summit on comparative effectiveness research.

A place for latest updates on the comparative effectiveness research topic.

Constitution Online
http://www.cato.org/pubs/constitution/index.html

Overview, Interpretation:
http://www.constitution.org/

Death Tax hurts??
http://www.sbsc.org/news/display.cfm?ID=1979

No Death Tax
http://www.nodeathtax.org/deathtax

Death tax review
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=OWE2M2NiZjkxZTczODk0ZWNkZGE0NzczNjkyMTRmMTU=

Cost per public student
http://www.reformk12.com/archives/000174.nclk

Reform to per student funding
http://www.reason.com/0604/fe.ls.the.shtml

Note how the first two articles dispute that the Gorelick memo was a wall in blocking the military intelligence from Able Danger to the FBI or law enforcement which could have prevented Nine Eleven. However, that is not the whole picture. The first and third articles point out that the memo did create barriers between the CIA and the FBI and also between various departments within the FBI or with the Justice Department. The second article then disputes whether the Gorelick memo was to be a general policy, whereas the other two say it was. Are you following this so far? Anyway, apparently either by misinterpretation or by precedent the memo snowballed in scope. What else would one expect from a memo that refers to two terrorist cases and deals with separating the intelligence and the criminal investigations of them to such an extent beyond legal requirement? This probably created an air of confusion, concern and paralysis to varying degrees in different cases. This may have been inadvertent or as some allege it was cleverly crafted to create hesitancy in pursuing other intertwined intelligence and criminal matters in order to deflect investigation into questionable activities, like maybe inappropriate Chinese campaign contributions. We'll let you decide. Looking at all the facts, one should get a general picture of the effect and breadth the memo.

So-called Gorelick Wall
http://mediamatters.org/items/200508180007

Gorelick
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1505756/posts

Gorelick Wall
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2004/apr/15/20040415-094758-5267r/

A practice that has left the mandates of the HMO-Insurance-Medicare system for a direct patient-pay model which can save 80-90% in costs.
http://www.acchealth.com/

Mandatory health insurance
http://www.reason.com/0411/fe.rb.mandatory.shtml

Healthcare Brief
http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba/ba549/

The Cost of Health Insurance Mandates
http://www.ncpa.org/ba/ba237.html

More Than Half Of All Medical Care Is Now Government
http://www.karlloren.com/healthinsurance/p40.htm

Health & Pension Plans Bankrupt Local Gvt's
http://www.impactlab.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=9335

HMO Rise by Gvt
http://www.forhealthfreedom.org/Publications/HealthIns/HMOsRise.html

Employer health Insurance mandates
http://www.epionline.org/study_detail.cfm?sid=82

Fast Facts US Healthcare crisis
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/PrescriptionForChange/story?id=2563381l

By Any Other Name, Amnesty Bill Still Stinks!
http://vdare.com/baldwin/070530_amnesty.htm

Senate Immigration Bill Would Allow 100 Million New Legal Immigrants over the Next Twenty Years
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Immigration/wm1076.cfm

U.S. Senate: Legislation & Records Home > Votes > Roll Call Vote
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=1&vote=00173#to p

Medicaid waste
http://www.stateline.org/live/ViewPage.action?siteNodeId=136&languageId=1&contentId=16625

Soaring Medicaid Costs
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/8/2/131641.shtml

'Left unreformed, Medicaid will bankrupt every state'
http://www.ncpa.org/commentaries/states-can-avert-medicaid-cost-crisis-dupont

NCPA Search Results: Medicaid Costs Skyrocketing
http://search.ncpa.org/sitesearch/search.php?query=Medicaid+Costs+Skyrocketing&search=1

Medicaid Fraud
http://www.city-journal.org/html/16_2_medicaid_fraud.html

NCPA Search Results: Medicaid Fraud
http://search.ncpa.org/sitesearch/search.php?query=medicaid+fraud&search=1

17 Medicare Facts
http://www.cchc-mn.org/17medicarefacts.php

Fiscal Hole - Medicare?
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6728

Medicare Incompetence
http://www.news-medical.net/news/2005/01/03/7081.aspx

Medicare Myths & Facts
http://www.aapsonline.org/brochures/myths.htm

Fraud Abuse & Medicare
http://www.aapsonline.org/brochures/lhherita.htm

Medicare Denies More Claims Than Private Health Insurers
medicaredeny.htm

Reforms to Medicare
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3257/is_n7_v44/ai_9175721

Quote of current national debt, breakdown of how Congress spends revenue department by department. Interest payments, dollar value and various links to solutions and activist sights on the national debt.
http://www.federalbudget.com/

Site for the Bureau of the Public Debt, an agency of the U.S. Treasury. They borrow money for the national government through selling Treasuries and bonds. This agency pays and redeems the interest on such securities. Site contains a link to the daily tally of the national debt down to the penny.
http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdpenny.htm

'A Border Patrol agent, who requested anonymity, says that the well-armed intruders were drug traffickers who are fully aware US National Guard troops are prohibited from carrying any type of weapon and [the National Guard] have been ordered not to confront lawbreakers coming across the border. The Guard troops are not allowed to apprehend illegal entrants, as well.

"And it looks as if we're going to follow the Bush dog-and-pony show at the border with an Obama dog-and-pony. 1,200 troops means perhaps one Guardsman every 7 miles if you don't give them weekends, holidays, sick days and vacation days off", Baker added. '

Sen. Jon Kyl asserts that Obama said that they do not want to secure the border because by fixing it they believe it would lessen the urgency for pushing their comprehensive immigration reform.

'Obama has called the Arizona law "misguided", even though all it does is give state and local law enforcement officers in Arizona the tools they need to enforce existing federal immigration laws. Those laws, incidentally, require legal aliens to carry papers attesting to their immigration status. So, in effect, the federal government is suing Arizona for attempting to uphold federal law.'

'Rep. Harry Mitchell (D-Ariz.) on Monday sent a sharply worded letter to President Barack Obama urging him not to sue.'

"I believe your administration's time, efforts and resources would be much better spent securing the border and fixing our broken immigration system," the two-term congressman wrote in the letter. "Arizonans are tired of the grandstanding, and tired of waiting for help from Washington. " [A] lawsuit won't solve the problem. It won't secure the border, and it won't fix our broken immigration system."

'The law calls for law enforcement officers, "when practical, to determine the immigration status" of a suspect. If the person is found to have violated immigration law, they're to be transferred to the federal authorities.'

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's response to the federal government's plan to file a legal challenge to SB 1070:

"Our federal government should be using its legal resources to fight illegal immigration, not the law-abiding citizens of Arizona. Despite the law's rigorous safeguards against racial profiling and carefully crafted language to avoid usurping federal authority, several lawsuits have already been filed."

' The suit didn't deal with concerns about racial profiling so that it could focus on the most serious problem with the law, Holder said in an interview broadcast Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation." In six months or a year, his department might look into the law's impact on racial profiling, he said.'

This is key: "If that was the case, we would have the tools and we would bring suit on that basis," - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, who defends the state immigration law as constitutional, said she believes federal officials would have included racial profiling in the suit if they thought it was an issue.

"Why would they have to hesitate, after all the comments they made, and all the outrage that they made against the bill in regards to racial profiling, that it didn't show up?" - Governess Jan Brewer, AZ

' Unclear...whether the $17 billion in savings in 2010 would be used to fund other federal programs or to reduce the country's growing deficit.'

$17 billion in Obama budget cuts is less than half of 1% of the $3.5 trillion 2010 budget. 'Those savings are far exceeded by a phone-book-sized volume detailing Obama's generous increases for domestic programs that will accompany the call for cuts. And instead of devoting the savings to defray record deficits, the White House is funneling them back into other programs.'

' The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that a 15 percent cut of emissions would raise average household energy costs by almost $1,300....... That's how cap-and-trade would tax most Americans. As "allowances" became scarcer, their price would rise, and the extra cost would be passed along to customers. Meanwhile, government would expand enormously.'

At a Washington, D.C., lecture sponsored by Resources for the Future, an environmental think tank, Joskow said virtually any cap-and-trade system designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions would work poorly under the current confused structure of the U.S. electricity industry.

'The whole point of cap and trade -- which President Obama is careful not to make explicit -- is to make fossil fuels so expensive we will use less of them.'

'The president won't call this a tax. But his most prominent supporter in the business community, billionaire investor Warren Buffett, thinks it's one which will devastate an economy already in "shambles." '

'Although solar- and wind-generated electricity can play a supporting role in supplying Michigan’s electricity needs, neither are 100 percent reliable since the sun doesn’t always shine and the wind doesn’t always blow.' Cites increased cost to taxpayers for bureaucracy, risk of energy shortages, rising gas and electricity costs plus job losses in this piece on a midwest regional version of cap-and-trade enacted in 2007.

Cap-And-Trade increases national debt 26% by 2035, gas 58% and electricity 90%. ' As President Obama pointed out, cap and trade can work only when energy prices "skyrocket." To force consumer-energy cutbacks, the prices need to rise to painful levels '

'They know the major impact carbon liability will have on their bottom line. Make sure you turn their misfortune into your personal gain....Utilities' new burden is cleantech's new blessing. The entire process has absolutely nothing to do with you... until you get your electric bill.'

'Of course, the cap and trade is a double edged sword when it comes to tax relief-since it would make operations more expensive for the likes of oil and electric companies, those costs would probably be passed down to the consumer. And guess who gets hit the hardest by a bigger electric bill? Yup, low income families. So on that front, the billions going to tax relief might end up acting as a sort of equalizer.... Obama's cap and trade proposal has created an intense backlash from many Republicans and rust belt state Democrats; both worry that the cap would hurt industry in strained economic times.'

Even if one thought it was necessary to control carbon outputs, a direct carbon tax is here purported to be the better system as compared to a cap-and-trade regimen. This site says a carbon tax is more transparent, causes less volatility in energy prices, starts quicker, is much simpler and less prone to manipulation or to lining the pockets of middle-man outfits.

'Devastating impact on U.S. manufacturing.' Cites problems of cap-and-trade like the omission of using nuclear power to reduce carbon output while using a heavy reliance on renewables where the science and practibility are lacking. Favoritism for carbon credits would bestow a new lobby and less favored industries would suffer hardships. A rise in manufacturing costs at home would give producers overseas an advantage causing the need for tariffs which may spark trade wars. Instead of cap-and-trade, it would be better to just rely more on natural gas and nuclear power which would attain carbon quotas.

Waxman-Markey bill was passed without thorough reading or debate. $80 billion Obama counted on for revenue was removed from bill to appease industry. Tariffs will be put on foreign trade. Allegations are that emissions won't be adequately reduced but the plan's cost is still great. 'Even if Waxman-Markey were perfectly formulated, it would reduce global surface temperatures by only one-tenth of 1 degree Celsius in 100 years.'

Communist Party USA general endorsement of Obama. Notice the use of terms: democratic, progressive, equality, peace and economic justice.

One of the latest Obama appointees/associates indicating his collectivist beliefs and influences. ' If you thought that every radical member of the Obama administration would've been exposed by now, I'm afraid you're wrong. You see, it seems that White House Communications Director Anita Dunn is one of Mao Zedong's biggest fans... It's sick, of course. Mao killed 70 million Chinese. During peace time. He's one of the worst dictators of the 20th century, and perhaps even in the entire history of mankind. And Dunn considers him her favorite political philosopher? ' Similar type stuff with William Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, Van Jones, Saul Lewinsky, etc.

Points out firings of CEOs under command of the national leader as fitting the working definition of fascism or Mussolini corporatism. Article addends that Bush had instigated some corporatist Fascism but that Obama has intensified the trend.

Piece links to various articles analyzing Obama's approach and comparing that to functional definitions of Fascism and socialism. 'This sounds much like what Barack Obama is doing right now with Chrysler and what he will do with GM, too. '

Obama takeover of GM unpopular with public. ' It didn't take any parsing to realize that in Obama's vision, the government will let GM management handle the small stuff, but when something really, really matters, the new owner -- the United States government -- will do the deciding.'

GM and Chrysler subsidization must meet "an aggressive set of conditions" set forth by the government. They... ' must "fundamentally restructure" their companies in order to qualify for more federal taxpayer dollars.' Obama decrees Chrysler fusion with Fiat in order to manufacture more efficient cars and engines domestically. White House forced GM Chairman Rick Wagoner to resign.

Article points out Obama critique of automaker lobby in Washington, but after winning presidency, Obama willing to bail them out perhaps as a favor to the UAW. 'The cost of the government keeping the Big Three afloat would surely be more mandates for politically correct "green" cars. Holman Jenkins of The Wall Street Journal has pointed out the damage of already-existing mandates: "The Detroit Three have been effectively required to build small cars in high-wage, UAW factories, though it means losing money on every car." '

Obama got campaign contributions from AIG after they had been bailed out by government. Obama second to Chris Dodd in contributions. McCain also on receiver list.

'During late-night, closed-door talks last month, negotiators for the House, Senate and White House stripped out a measure to the stimulus bill that could have restricted the AIG bonuses.'

'Sources in the Obama administration Tuesday said that despite previous media reports administration officials did not know until a couple weeks ago that the officials of the controversial AIG Financial Product Division were set to receive $165 million in bonuses on March 13.'

'Senior White House officials said last night that President Obama did not learn that bonuses worth $165 million were to be paid to executives of American International Group until Thursday, one day before they were issued and two days after his Treasury secretary was informed that the payments were going forward. ' Lawmakers considering to tax against bonuses at 95-100%, but this extreme tax measure would be unconstitiutional according to equal-protection clause.

Sen. Christopher Dodd said that Obama administration officials asked him to add language to last month's federal stimulus bill to make sure the controversial AIG bonuses remained in place. (Y'all following all this?)

'President Obama said Wednesday he'll "take responsibility" for AIG executives receiving controversial bonuses while the company took $173 billion in government bailouts.'

'Obama's staff vowed more recently that the further infusion of taxpayer money into AIG, a firm now 80% controlled by the Federal Government, was appropriate and necessary.' You should note the $165 million in bonuses which has caused the outrage is little compared to the $173 billion bailout of the reckless entity itself. Article describes Obama as feigning outrage, talks of AIG situation as an example for more needed regulation by government. Piece describes Dodd as 'chair of the banking committee that failed to regulate AIG'. He was the highest on AIG donor list referenced in an earlier link above.

For more on Obama's con artistry, economic manipulations and socialist ideology, visit the following in-house page's sources:

To assess Obama's approach or the government's trend in general with regard to Marxism, Fascism or statism, consider the books:

A practice that has left the mandates of the HMO-Insurance-Medicare system for a direct patient-pay model which can save 80-90% in costs. Why not invoke this type of reform instead?

News stories of dysfunctional government-run health care systems like Obama wants.

You've been tricked! Obama and the Democrats misled the public on the number of uninsured:

'This Census report says that within the borders of the United States as of 2007 there were 45.65 million people without health insurance. But this number, according to the Census Bureau, included 9.73 million foreigners, leaving only 35.92 [million] Americans who were uninsured.....'

'The Census Bureau says that there are only 35.92 million uninsured Americans and that this number includes 9.1 million people who earn more than $75,000 a year and simply choose not to purchase insurance. '

'Remember all those statements from Democrats, including Barack Obama himself, that 47 million Americans are without health insurance? That's no longer the operative number. "There are now more than thirty million American citizens who cannot get coverage," the president said in tonight's speech. ' ~ Now don't you want to haggle?!

'But is it accurate to assume that even 37 million Americans cannot afford health insurance? Absolutely NOT. Even Hillary Clinton during her presidential campaign once admitted that 25% of the uninsured could afford health insurance but chose not to purchase it. '

Half of that 20 million is attributable to those changing jobs who get back on health insurance within four months.

'Finally, there are millions of adult Americans and children who have nearly free access to medical care benefits through Medicaid and other government programs who don’t really need the direct cost of health insurance and who don’t carry any.....

Thus, with reasonable adjustments, there are in fact less than 10 million individuals who are so-called “chronically uninsured.” (The Kaiser Family Foundation says the number could be as low as 8 million). '

Even Bill Moyer's bs on PBS reflects all this. Democrats said roughly there were 45 million uninsured. From the above links we see that nearly 10 million were illegals. Another 10 million were those changing jobs who get health insurance again within four months. Another 10 million were those who simply choose not to purchase health insurance - some young and healthy and some with higher incomes. That would leave 15 million of which some qualifying proportion would have access to Medicaid and such. If roughly half of those are accessing, the remainder falls within the 8 million who are “chronically uninsured” as indicated by Kaiser.

Moyer's PBS site laments:

' The majority of uninsured adults (75%) have gone without coverage for a period of at least one year. '

Well, we see that 45 million uninsured minus the 10 million who are back within four months gets roughly to 75% per year and of those only 8-10 million are “chronically uninsured” citizens. See how the lefties cleverly emotionalize the facts?

While premiums and health costs are rising, we can blame much of that on government programs, interference, mandates and the resulting corruption which is evident throughout all these links. Obama himself said Medicare was so inefficient that he could carve some of it out for a whole new health care initiative as being 'deficit neutral'. What a lovely case record for government-managed health care!

And what is this?! After we spent nearly 1 trillion dollars on the Obama - Reid - Pelosi health care boondoggle and we eventually end up with around 16 million still uninsured? But the above breakdown to Kaiser says we now have 8-10 million uninsured! More money so less people will be uninsured? What is going on here?! Is the timeline being interpreted correctly?

Somebody in the Obama administration needs to explain this immediately.

Obama's Berwick pick to head Medicare and Medicaid via a recess appointment where Berwick has praised the horridly rationing British health care system has brought suspicion upon the administration. Despite him having some appropriate background and the supporting calls that his remarks were out of context, a few other incidents of Obama appointees having said controversial and suspicious things plus some of their spooky backgrounds does not help in allaying fears over the "death panel" accusations in this case. This is not to mention Obama's own ideology.

A bill to allow interstate health insurance policies was opposed by Democrats back in 2005. It would have allowed consumers to choose different types of policies and end statewide health insurance monopolies both of which would help bring down costs.

' Mike Kreidler is insurance commissioner of Washington state and represented the National Association of Insurance Commissioners at a hearing on the bill last month. He says insurance regulators fear the bill will prompt a, quote, "race to the bottom by insurance companies." '

Well, now you have a surging race to the top in your health insurance premiums instead! Aren't you glad the politicians are here to protect you from your supposed incompetence in choosing a worthy policy?

'Mr. McCain backs legislation sponsored by Arizona Rep. John Shadegg. Known as the Health Care Choice Act, it would allow individuals living in one state to purchase health insurance being sold to people living in other states. The policy would still have to meet the regulations of the state in which it is being sold, and would be subject to additional federal oversight.......

Almost no problems have arisen from all of these interstate coverage options. So why are the two presidential candidates fighting about expanding interstate health-insurance options? '

Now they have got you in their talons because the health care legislation has passed. With their record so far, health care costs will explode further and/or taxes will massively increase while your access to treatment and its quality go down.

'Medicare, which went into effect in 1965, and the HMO-subsidizing act, which was passed in 1973, together triggered a non-stop explosion in health care costs which dwarf price increases in virtually all other products and services for consumers.'

The site also has some notable quotes and links (a sizeable portion of outdated ones) to various sources.

Communist Party USA endorses the Obama-sponsored health care plan and calls for action to get it passed. 'The daily on-line edition of the People's Weekly World, as well as the weekly print edition, covers breaking news and provides a deeper understanding of the issue and how to win support. '

A site about the advantages of free market health care which counters the government-run arguments.

Obama health plan proposal would increase costs according to CBO. Kinda sounds like they are toying with some sort of rationing in certain areas to achieve a more desirable version.

'The House measure would bar insurance companies from denying coverage to individuals who are sick, while also requiring most Americans to carry health insurance or pay a penalty equal to about 2.5% of their gross income....The proposal also seeks to raise $75 billion to $100 billion over 10 years by giving states an incentive to issue bonds that would help offset the expanded federal share of Medicaid...."This bill costs too much, it covers too few and it has way too much government involvement" said Michelle Dimarob, a lobbyist with the National Federation of Independent Business... '

'1.09 million of 21.5 million small business owners would see a one- to three-percent surtax on their profits in order to fund the House of Representatives’ trillion-dollar health care reform bill.....While only about five percent of small business owners would be exposed to the extra charge, Ellis says two in every three dollars of profit made by small businesses would be subject to it.....“(So) businesses will continue to try to wring out as much efficiency as they can in the labor force, and that means cutting back hours and cutting back jobs,” he said.'

Obama booed at AMA conference for not supporting cap on awards from malpractice lawsuits. 'Price contended that a committee established within Obama's administration to study the effectiveness of various medical treatments would turn into a "rationing board" to overrule doctors and deny patients care....For instance, he wants to cut federal payments to hospitals by about $200 billion and cut $313 billion from Medicare and Medicaid over 10 years. He also is proposing a $635 billion in tax increases and spending cuts in the health care system as a "down payment" for his plan.

'More than anything else, the administration has moved quickly, recognizing that Obama's popularity might never be higher than in the first year of his presidency...."We are going to make huge decisions about the health care sector - one-sixth of the economy - with very little debate about the consequences," Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said last month.... Some of those fixes also will be unpopular. But true health care reform inevitably will require tradeoffs, and some of those tradeoffs will mean hard choices.'

' The overall impact of these provisions will be to increase the cost of private insurance coverage for individuals, families, and businesses above what these costs would be in the absence of reform.

On average, the cost of private health insurance coverage will increase:

-- 26 percent between 2009 and 2013 under the current system and by 40 percent during this same period if these four provisions are implemented. '

' The first thing to understand is that the result or outcome being espoused by the Whitehouse is illogical. To believe that America can add 30 million uninsured patients [was 47 million including illegals & Medicaid types to exaggerate], cut current health care costs by over $500 billion, have the level of care increase, providing Americans healthier, longer lives at the same time as the government itself estimates that the country will have 150,000 fewer doctors by 2025. Very faulty reasoning, some might even say fanciful or deceptive.'

' Other factors leading to higher costs include a new tax on high-cost health insurance plans, cuts in Medicare payments to hospitals and doctors, and a series of new taxes on insurers and other health care industries, the report said. '

Guess who will pay for a lot of that? We will in our premiums & doctor bills.

' The bill would require insurers to take all applicants, doing away with denials for pre-existing health problems. In return, all Americans would be required to carry coverage, either through an employer or a government program, or by buying it themselves. '

One of the provisions supported by health insurers is one of not lessening the penalties for not buying insurance. On their behalf, that's not so unreasonable since the politicians are going to force health insurers to accept everyone as policy holders who walk through the door. Note that the health insurance industry's haters will isolate the former part of this argument and say that the insurance companies are hell bent on forcing us into being insured so they can make a killing in profits.

Deficit-neutral desperation on trying to find a fundable reform. Public option being dredged up again. 'Reid was trying a bit of Enron accounting: Dump an additional quarter-trillion dollars into general spending and then declare the overall health legislation deficit neutral....More than half the cost of the $900 billion health plan proposed by the president would be paid for in unspecified future Medicare cuts.'

400 Percent Profit Increase for Health Insurers Cited by Health Care Bill Backers is Selective, ‘Meaningless’ Number, Say Analysts

' Overall, the profit margin for health insurance companies was a modest 3.4 percent over the past year, according to data provided by Morningstar. That ranks 87th out of 215 industries and slightly above the median of 2.2 percent. By this measure, the most profitable industry over the past year has been beverages, with a 25.9 percent profit margin. '

Medical News Today site has some editorials from various publications on then President-elect Barack Obama's health care plans and promises. From a Washington Times article: "It is a perfect formula for driving many private insurers out of business and replacing them with a government-run monopoly."

First here is an overview of the Affordable Health Care for America Act - H.R.3962 - which is a combined version of some previous bills and was passed in the House on November 7th '09. Note most supporters of the FairTax bill which proposes to end the burdensome I.R.S. and rid us of the income tax's 22% drag on the economy, oppose H.R.3962 because the proposals in it will effect our health care system analogous to what the I.R.S. and the income tax have done to our economy and to the citizenry within. Instead, we need constitutionally sound health care reform that will reverse what the government has already done to our health care system which made it more expensive while lowering performance and accessibility.

http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3962/show ~ H.R.3962 passed by the House in November '09. Signed into law on June 25, 2010.

http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3590/show ~ ' This is the major health care reform bill, signed into law by President Obama on March 23, 2010. '

http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h4872/show ~ ' This bill would amend the health care reform bill to eliminate some controversial and unpopular items, and bring some of its provisions more in line with what the more progressive health care bill that was passed by the House in Nov. '09. ' Signed into law a week later from the major health care reform bill on March 30, 2010.

Petition to stop the government takeover of health care.

Indepth descriptions of Obama interrogation plan contains red flags that they will apply legalistic court procedures to what should be instead intelligence gathering from usually foreign prisoners of war or domestic insurgents:

' The official familiar with the task force’s work said that the draft report would seek to ensure that “the need for actionable information is mutually compatible with requirements for an eventual court case.” .... The decision would impact whether to immediately provide a detainee with a lawyer in preparation of seeking a conviction or whether to proceed with an interrogation in order to collect intelligence about a broad picture of a terrorist organization or specific plot.'

If one opposes Gitmo processes, there are stumbling blocks to transferring prisoners to new facilities or new modes of trial. 'But it's not at all clear that convictions could be won against even top Al Qaeda suspects .... Federal and military courts are much more protective of a defendant's rights than the military commissions operating at Guantanamo...He could claim right to speedy trial was denied, no Miranda warnings or that confessions were coerced.'

'The new administration simply has not decided on rules to detain and try terror suspects -- those at Guantanamo now, or those captured in the future. Guantanamo detainees were not read Miranda rights, thus dampening efforts to truly try them in a civil court.'

'FBI agents in Afghanistan are reading Miranda warnings to suspected terrorists captured there.' Rep. John Carter - TX "I spent 20 years as a criminal district judge, and I firmly believe that they [captured terrorists] are not entitled to have Miranda rights. Their rights are defined in other ways, they are not defined by our Constitution." Previously Obama said that terrorists would not be given Miranda rights.

"It creates an absurd situation because then we're facing the prospect of people being arrested on the battlefield and read their Miranda rights. And then people who are fighting wars -- soldiers -- will have to decide whether or not they can take action against the enemy or whether they will have to let them go because they won't be able to prove their case against him in a civilian court."

Obama considered having veterans cover their combat or training injuries with their own private health insurance!

'David K. Rehbein, national commander of the American Legion, emerged from a meeting with veterans’ groups and Obama on Monday and said, "He says he is looking to generate $540 million by this method, but refused to hear arguments about the moral and government-avowed obligations that would be compromised by it." '

Bush Deficit vs. Obama Deficit in Pictures

'Obama has already helped quadruple the deficit with his stimulus package....Overall, President Obama's budget would add twice as much debt as President Bush over the same number of years.'

'Fed budget debt to quadruple in 2009..... Deficit would hit $1.75 trillion during 2009... Federal deficits would remain above $500 billion annually for the next decade under the budget proposed Thursday by President Obama, sending the federal debt soaring to $23 trillion by 2019.'

Obama's economic kick-start will quadruple US debt

'The US federal deficit is set to quadruple this year to a breathtaking 12.3 per cent of gross domestic product under Barack Obama's first budget '

Obama Has Nearly Tripled The Debt!

"But, in reality, Obama and Democrats will likely quadruple the national debt in the first few months of their rule..."

Examples of how Obama misrepresents budgets. He refers to tax increases as 'savings' and talks of ending certain Bush budget policies while actually intensifying them. Government to be expanded even more. 'The budget deficit will quadruple in 2009 to $1.75 trillion, and cutting that level in half would still leave deficits twice as high as under President Bush..... Overall, the public debt level would double over the next decade to $15.4 trillion......The annual interest on this debt would nearly equal the entire U.S. defense budget by 2019......Despite the President's calls for tackling Social Security's long-term unfunded obligation, his budget proposes no fix.'

Despite Obama's claims, he is practicing the same failed policies of the Bush administration by cranking out excessive spending and using threats of catastrophe if we don't spend more. He said there had been adequate debate on the stimulus bill when its final form was just determined the night before and was yet to be printed or read in totality by the final representative analytical processes. Stimulus would actually prevent a recovery by taking $2.5 trillion of capital away from the markets. 'So if the problem was created by deficit spending, why is the solution to the crisis to quadruple the annual federal deficit over next year?'

Obama fiscal plan compared to last year's budget means the need for three times more U.S. debt to be sold to foreigners. Usual buyers of U.S. bonds are starting to quit buying or sell instead. Now we are just printing money to cover for all the debt. The Fed doubled the money supply of the U.S. in just nine months.

Administration cannot adequately track the dispersal of the $787 billion in stimulus funds. Their own monitoring site was citing funds to non-existent congressional districts.

' According to data retrieved from recovery.gov, nearly $6.4 billion was used to "create or save" just under 30,000 jobs in these phantom congressional districts - almost $225,000 per job. '

Stimulus Bill: ' $2 billion for "neighborhood stabilization" to radical groups like ACORN '.

AP analysis showed that Obama's Stimulus Bill signed in February 2009 has not really had much effect improving the recession. Even where they focused on road and bridge construction, the study shows little difference in employment rates.

And any positive claims about the stimulus are hard to verify:

'The 400-page stimulus law contains so many provisions _ tax cuts, unemployment benefits, food stamps, state aid, military spending _ economists agree that it's nearly impossible to determine what worked best and replicate it. It's also impossible to quantify exactly what effect the stimulus has had on job creation, although Obama points to estimates that credit the recovery program for creating or saving 1.6 million jobs.'

Some graphical depictions between the stimulus promises and its yield.

Comparison between the Bush tax reductions of 2003 and the Obama stimulus of 2009, 16 months after each invocation.

'Before the Democrats took control of congress the economy was soaring. It continued, almost to the moment Democrats submitted their first fiscal year budget, October 1, 2007.....

The official beginning of the recession was December, 2007.'

Video of an initial approach to the Philadelphia polling place where the New Black Panthers are "securing" the premises.

A follow-up media report on the New Black Panthers at the Philadelphia polling station.

"It is absolutely unprecedented for the Justice Department to dismiss a lawsuit after the defendants failed to answer the suit and are thus in default," he said.

'Mr. von Spakovsky said that the NBPPSD's lack of response was the legal equivalent of an admission of all the allegations made about the defendants' organized effort to threaten and intimidate voters.'

'Adams helped compile a civil voter intimidation lawsuit against the men [Philadelphia poll station New Black Panthers], based on a rarely used section of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. But the Obama DOJ later dismissed the case against all but one defendant, citing a lack of a pattern of intimidation. '

On why the dismissal was not just a usual occurrence by two lawyers on such matters:

'It is also wrong to say that reasonable lawyers could differ in their opinions on this case after reviewing the facts for one very big reason: the lawyers who ordered the case dismissed - Acting Assistant Attorney General Loretta King and Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Steve Rosenbaum - did not review the facts before they ordered the dismissal.'

For some illustrative tit-for-tat over the DOJ dismissal of the New Black Panther case, we visit American Prospect where liberal coverage of the event is repudiated by reader comments:

Adam Serwer posted: ' I'm simply pointing out that none of the political appointees being blamed for dismissing the case were even at the DoJ when the case was dismissed. ' Here he's referencing the date of January 7th , 2009 in order to defend the not as then yet inaugurated Obama administration.

Comments: "Isn't the hubbub about the civil case and not the criminal case? It's my understanding that officials intervened in the prosecution of the civil case in May 2009?"

'The hubbub is about the civil case, which Obama-appointed officials at the DoJ intervened. After the government one the civil case, the DoJ dropped all but one of the charges against one of the NBPP members [slap on wrist] and all of the charges against the other two. Mr. Serwer hasn't come close to following this story before putting out this ridiculous post. ' - Says a respondent: SteveAR.

...And there are more examples of such exchanges in the original and update pieces' comments sections.

' The Obama Administration recently used red tape to force Louisiana to stop using 16 barges that were cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico by sucking thousands of gallons of oil out of Louisiana's oil-soaked waters. Earlier, it delayed the clean-up of the Gulf of Mexico by months, by blocking foreign crews from operating sophisticated clean-up vessels. '

' ...Instead, they have insisted on using untested techniques, one of which involves the use of chemical dispersants manufactured and sold by a company in which Obama cronies, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Hathaway-Berkshire, and BP, are heavily invested.......Increasingly it is beginning to appear that the Obama Administration and BP together deliberately closed their eyes, ears, and brains to fairly simple solutions that could have spared the Gulf coast from an historic catastrophe. '

' Incredibly, the president's team has cited the fear that too many berms would alter tidal movements, as though that theoretical worry trumps the very real oil headed toward shore. Bureaucrats also mumbled that too many berms might just shift the oil toward Mississippi --without explaining why berms couldn't be built there, and without making any judgment over which part of the Gulf Coast shoreline is most fragile and thus most deserving of protection.

"Here, the president doesn't seem to have a clue," Vitter told Houma Today. "His decision on the emergency dredging barrier-island plan is a thinly veiled 'no.' Approving 2 percent of the request and kicking the rest months down the road is outrageous, absolutely outrageous." '

Video of James Carville lambasting BP and the lack of response in containing the oil by the Obama administration.

'Diamond Offshore moved one of its rigs to Egypt. Murphy Oil Company is also moving operations to the Congo. And Bloomberg News reported that "the number of offshore rigs operating in U.S. waters has plunged 71 percent to 16 from 56 before the blowout, according to surveys by Baker Hughes Inc."

' If "safety" demands a blanket halt to deepwater drilling, she said, then all oil tanker traffic in the Gulf of Mexico should be halted, too. '

"An oil tanker is a four times greater risk of spilling its cargo than an oil well blowing out," Randolph pointed out. "Tankers carrying 3 million barrels of oil traverse the Gulf daily en route to Houston." That's roughly the amount of oil BP spilled over the past three months.

After the first hearing this week, Reilly openly challenged the White House foot-dragging on 33 oil rig safety assessments, wondering "why it's going to take so long to convince people the existing rigs are safe." '

' "When you shut down [deep water] drilling in the Gulf of Mexico ... you're killing jobs," warned Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas. Eighty percent of all new oil production in United States occurs offshore, he said, and the majority of that production is in the Gulf.'

' Sen. Mary Landrieu, a Louisiana Democrat, said in testimony to the presidential oil spill panel that she was "alarmed" at the Interior Department's statement that its decision is supported "by an extensive record of existing and new information indicating that allowing new deep-water drilling to commence would pose a threat of serious, irreparable or immediate harm or damage to the marine, coastal and human environment."

Landrieu said that statement "contradicts testimony given by drilling experts and ignores the history of oil and gas operations in the Gulf." '

'Dan Pickering, a financial analyst with Tudor, Pickering Holt & Co. Securities, said the legal uncertainties surrounding the ban - and the administration's plan to issue a new, revised moratorium - ensure that no companies will resume deep-water drilling in U.S. waters anytime soon.

Brady said. "I'm afraid this is the first of many rigs and many American jobs to leave the Gulf."

Once the rigs relocate, it could be a minimum of five to 10 years before they return, predicted Rep. Pete Olson, R-Sugar Land.'

In a C-SPAN interview with Steve Scully, Obama admits we are out of money and reliant upon deep deficits.

Partial-Birth Abortion: Objections and Misunderstandings
http://www.str.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5081

Partial Birth abortion facts
http://www.abortionfacts.com/literature/literature_9313pb.asp

Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act & supporters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial-Birth_Abortion_Ban_Act

Media slick on Partial Birth abortion
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=Y2NhNWQ2YTAxNzdlZGUzMWQ4ZmQ3NjM3MmY1MWJjZWM=

Petroleum World article
http://www.petroleumworld.com/Ed032306.htm

Cuban Oil Drilling off Coasts
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,196891,00.html

Gas Prices
http://www.eia.doe.gov/bookshelf/brochures/gasolinepricesprimer/eia1_2005primerM.html

Foreign Oil has most of market
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=7276986

Oil Company Profits, Taxes, Gas Prices
http://www.conocophillips.com/NR/rdonlyres/AA5E28F6-04B8-4FE9-9854-01C5C144039B/0/energyanswersedition1.pdf

Gas taxes exceed oil company profit growth over years
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2005/10/gas_taxes_excee.html

Who's Gouging Whom at Pumps
http://jb-williams.com/4-25-06.htm

Declaration of Political War Against Nancy Pelosi
pelosi.htm#categories

'The change in plan, revealed by Obama is to prevent US firms from enjoying foreign tax credits on income that is not subject to US taxes. Also the firms that are now able to shift income legally from one foreign subsidiary to another, to avoid taxes, cannot do so anymore.'

How allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire will effect the masses. Child tax credit reduces by half and marriage deductions for joint filers would fall short of the double for single filers, thus returning to the previous marriage penalty.

'Also, the prospect of rising prices, higher interest rates and more regulations next year will further entice demand and supply to be shifted from 2011 into 2010. In my view, this shift of income and demand is a major reason that the economy in 2010 has appeared as strong as it has. When we pass the tax boundary of Jan. 1, 2011, my best guess is that the train goes off the tracks and we get our worst nightmare of a severe "double dip" recession.'

'Although they have blamed Democrats for record budget deficits, most Republican lawmakers want to extend all of the tax cuts, adding at least $2 trillion over the next decade to the national debt. President Obama and senior Democrats want to extend the cuts only for families making less than $250,000 a year.....'

Both parties ignore the basic solution: smaller government, less spending and thus the need of less taxation to begin with:

'Conceived during Bush's 2000 presidential campaign as a way to return huge projected government surpluses to taxpayers, the cuts were enacted in 2001 and 2003. But because they were expected to eventually cause huge deficits, Republicans wrote them to expire in 2010.....'

'Reluctant to take the political hit either for raising taxes or for increasing the deficit, Obama and Democratic lawmakers have postponed action on extending the middle-class tax cuts.'

All this political football is totally unnecessary! The FairTax would solve all these problems by acting as an effective tax cut for virtually all classes while broadening the tax base so everyone above poverty level pays their fair share. It is achieved by simply replacing the 22% drag resulting from the convoluted income tax system, jettisoning both for a national retail sales tax that occupies 23% of every dollar spent while staying near current price levels for goods and services. We can lower that rate as the debt dissipates.

NOW WHEN THE HELL IS THE FAIRTAX GOING TO BE PART OF THE COMMON DISCUSSION?!!! IT IS INTEGRAL TO SAVING OUR ECONOMY AND NATION!!!!!!

For Obama administration's consideration of the Value Added Tax (VAT), see the VAT section within.

"The new health care law creates two double standards. The congressional staff who wrote the new law exempted themselves from the new health care system, while other staff will be in it," Grassley said today in a statement.

"And, President Obama himself will not live under Obama health care. The message to grassroots America is that it's good enough for you, but not for us."

' This legislation - the Affordable Health Choices Act that's being drafted by Sen. Edward Kennedy's staff and the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee - will push Americans into stingy insurance plans with tight, HMO-style controls. It specifically exempts members of Congress (along with federal employees; the exemptions are in section 3116).

Members of Congress "enjoy the widest selection of health plans in the country," according to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. They "can choose from among consumer-driven and high deductible plans that offer catastrophic risk protection with higher deductibles, health saving/reimbursable accounts and lower premiums, or fee-for-service (FFS) plans, and their preferred provider organizations (PPO), or health maintenance organizations (HMO)." These choices would be nice for all of us, but they're not in the offing. Instead, if you don't enroll in a "qualified" health plan and submit proof of enrollment to the federal government, you'll be tracked down and fined (sections 3101 and 6055).'

'Tax exemptions for the rich union health benefits: 'The sweetheart deal, hammered out behind closed doors, will save union employees at least $60 billion over the years involved, while others won't be as lucky -- they'll have to cough up almost $90 billion.'

' Why the desire to exempt unions? Well it gets a favored constituency off their back, is a measure of payback for their support and union members can then enjoy their "gold plated" coverage while $11 an hour workers pay the freight......liable for $495 at 15% of the difference. '

' To make up for the lost [union exemptions] revenue, the bill applies an increased Medicare payroll tax to investment income as well as [to] wages for individuals making more than $200,000, or married couples above $250,000. The tax on investment income would be 3.8 percent. '

This piece presents the contended good and the bad of Sarbanes-Oxley. Taking those aspects into account, does this law regulate commerce in terms of standardizing its interstate transactions for ease and soundness or rather does it overregulate and create burden greater than any advantages? Questions of the constitutionality of the law are slated for the Supreme Court. A government oversight corporation was created, which should invoke suspicion about its over-regulatory prospects and inefficiencies like the new G.M. Costs of internal reviews ordained by Sarbanes-Oxley are disproportionately higher for smaller companies. Ron Paul seeks to repeal Sarbanes-Oxley.

'When Worldcom announced the earnings restatement that would lead to its bankruptcy, the Bush administration and congressional Republicans went into crisis mode and approved Sarbanes's bill with very minor changes.... It undermines federalism, by going where the federal government has never gone before in areas of corporation law that had long been provinces of the states....Many companies are hurrying to escape Sarbanes-Oxley by leaving the stock exchanges: According to a Wharton study, 198 American companies deregistered from exchanges in 2003, the year after the law was passed - nearly triple the number that deregistered in 2002.'

'Former Rep. Tom Davis, a Virginia Republican who has regularly urged his party to be more open to moderates, said Republicans like McDonnell and Brown have smartly tapped into populist outrage by "seeing it as an opportunity."

The first is that for all the talk about tea party insurgents and fulminating radio and cable commentators taking over, the GOP remains above all an establishment party.

GOP leaders easily swatted down a proposed "purity test" for candidates at last week's Republican National Committee meeting - an indication that party officials are no more willing to turn over the keys to right-wing activists now than they were during the Bush years......In fact, before the general session even began, the state party chairmen unanimously passed a resolution expressing their opposition to such an idea. '

' Enter the Republican establishment. They sold this country out when they were in power and can't ever be trusted again. But they see an opening and are setting the stage for their own return. They are handpicking candidates -- Bush-likes and Bush-lites -- to run against conservatives in primaries. Many are retreads, all are available for purchase. Then the party elite endorses their candidate early in the primary, fills their coffers with millions from corporate PACs and special interests, pressures party regulars to get in line, and sends word to the grassroots candidates: "Drop out -- you can't win". '

'Look at the pattern, led by Rob Jesmer, the Executive Director of the NRSC, who has rallied Senate Republicans to oppose conservatives nationwide:

In Pennsylvania, the GOP went with Arlen Specter over Pat Toomey.

In Florida, it is Crist over Rubio.

In Connecticut, the GOP has stayed neutral as to the moderates in the race, but made clear the conservative is a loser.

In California, it is Fiorina over DeVore.

Across the board, the GOP Establishment is staying neutral between moderates and endorsing moderates over conservatives. In some cases, it is endorsing liberals over conservatives.'

'George the First soon regained the elephantine heft it sported before Reagan put the brakes on federal regulation. Since then Republican poobahs and money-men have supported countless RINOs (often against solid conservative candidates), careerists with no philosophy or soul, and other me-toos who gave us a Republican president and a Republican Congress better at spending than even the Democrats and no detectable progress on any conservative social issue. This was the lot that was routed in '06 and again in '08.

Charlie Crist, who campaigned in his own state for our rookie president's bank-busting goodie package, aka the stimulus bill. Crist has tried to get the Florida Legislature to adopt a carbon cap and trade program. '

Some Republicans sure know how to screw up things. The RNC backed a Republican candidate in the New York 23rd that was more Democrat than the Democrat opponent was!

'New York's 23rd congressional district has historically been one of the most Republican districts in the United States. The district's seat had been in Republican hands since 1873. '

'Scozzafava was designated as the Republican nominee and Hoffman later received the nomination of the Conservative Party of New York. On October 31, 2009, Scozzafava suspended her campaign and, on November 1, 2009, endorsed the Democratic candidate for the seat.'

'On Election Day, Owens (D) appeared to defeat Hoffman with the margin initially reported as 49.0% to 45.5%. Scozzafava, whose name remained on the ballot, reportedly received 5.5% of the vote.

'Scozzafava has been endorsed by the Republican leadership in Congress and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and has received roughly $1 million from the National Republican Congressional Committee.'

'But much of the conservative establishment in Washington is throwing its support behind Douglas Hoffman, an accountant from the Adirondacks who is running on the state's Conservative Party ticket. '

'The candidacy of the official Republican nominee, liberal Dede Scozzafava, selected by local party officials and supported by the national Republican establishment, is collapsing. The Republican who has a real chance to defeat Democrat Bill Owens is Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate-'

'...for every Cato Institute libertarian, the GOP harbors a moralist who wants government to regulate your private life; for every anti-tax crusader, there is a neocon who believes that government should strive to instill such virtues as patriotism, educational discipline and marital fidelity'

'If voters wanted bigger and more intrusive government, more regulation, and more welfare, they should have voted for Republicans in a landslide. It was a Republican Congress that put the regulatory nightmare of Sarbanes-Oxley in place, that outlawed online wagering, and that created the catastrophically expensive Medicare prescription drug benefit.'

Republican Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts who took the seat from Democrat Ted Kennedy decides to vote for the questionable $15 billion jobs bill. Two votes were needed for passage and Scott was one.

"All of us, Republicans and Democrats, have to work together to get our economy back on track. I hope my vote today is a strong step toward restoring bipartisanship in Washington."

Republicans in the Senate were holding against the Wall Street reform bill until Scott Brown decided to vote for it.

'Brown is in many ways the third member of a troika that includes moderate Maine Republicans Olympia J. Snowe and Susan Collins. They occasionally break with the other 38 GOP members of the Senate. '

As of this article, he may vote for Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court.

'Eager not to be defined by ideology, he declared himself a "Scott Brown Republican."

"I think most people come at this realizing that he's a Massachusetts Republican, so I think people give him the benefit of the doubt that he is not as conservative as lot of us in the 'tea party' movement," said Christen Varley, president of the Greater Boston Tea Party, who nonetheless criticized Brown's vote on the Wall Street bill. '

'Republican Scott Brown owes his election in part to the public furor over the so-called Cornhusker Kickback, the backroom deal that Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska struck for his vote to pass the health care bill. Now he is following Nelson's example, winning concessions in the financial overhaul bill on behalf of Massachusetts banks. '

"Scott Brown promised in the fall of 2009 to stand up for free markets and constitutional principles," the group added. "A yes vote on this bill - a bill that disregards Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, greatly expands executive authority and reach, creates a perpetual and permanent bail-out system and fosters the creation of even more bureaucracy - defies the commitment he made to thousands of activists and donors across the nation who swept him to office in January in one of the biggest political upsets of all time."

' Brown, as a state senator in Massachusetts, voted in favor of the universal-coverage law in that state. The bill he supported in Massachusetts has a number of features in common with the Democrats' legislation, including a mandate for nearly everyone to be covered. '

'Former Rep. Tom Davis, a Virginia Republican who has regularly urged his party to be more open to moderates, said Republicans like McDonnell and Brown have smartly tapped into populist outrage by "seeing it as an opportunity."

The first is that for all the talk about tea party insurgents and fulminating radio and cable commentators taking over, the GOP remains above all an establishment party.

GOP leaders easily swatted down a proposed "purity test" for candidates at last week's Republican National Committee meeting - an indication that party officials are no more willing to turn over the keys to right-wing activists now than they were during the Bush years......In fact, before the general session even began, the state party chairmen unanimously passed a resolution expressing their opposition to such an idea. '

False Moderate
http://www.progressive.org/mag_rc052808

JOHN McCAIN IS A LIBERAL GUN GRABBER
http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin430.htm

John McCain: Liberal in Disguise
http://www.nationalledger.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=1&num=4925

John McCain: The Candidate of Nothing
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/04/john-mccain-the-candidate-of-n.php

Obama and McCain had mutual pool constructed of Republican and Democrat appointees.
http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2008/11/scoop_mccain_an/

Colin Powell and the Failure of Moderate Republicanism
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/05/26/colin-powell-and-the-failure-o/print

Powell openly mocked by some
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30916186/

Colin Powell endorses Obama
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/19/colin.powell/index.html

Schwarzenegger and global warming
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-climate13-2008nov13,0,2520416.story

Schwarzenegger's Failure
http://www.reason.com/news/show/130760.html

Report: Schwarzenegger suggests U.S. Republicans move leftward
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-12-19-arnold-gop_x.htm

Specter Says Moderate or Die
http://www.theroot.com/views/specter-says-moderate-or-die?page=0,0

Longtime GOP Sen. Arlen Specter becomes Democrat
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/28/specter.party.switch/

Republican moderate Arlen Specter is running for his political life
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/040419/19specter.htm

'In a move reminiscent of the alcohol prohibition of early 20th Century America, a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee on Wednesday approved a bill that would ban Internet gambling, an estimated $12 billion industry.'

Outlawing gambling for moral reasons is seen as a petty excuse. The real reason may be to protect physical casinos and gain political clout about the religious right.

'When the lobbying reform package fell apart, the Republicans tried a new approach, bundling the ban with flag burning, gay marriage, and a number of policies on the GOP social agenda as part of the "American Values" agenda......U.S. Department of Justice's recent penchant for plucking foreign gaming site executives out of U.S. airports and tossing them in prison, despite the fact that their businesses were legal in the country where they were incorporated'

Critics say ban will only increase problems with fraud and with the criminal syndicates behind online gambling as opposed to when it was legal and regulated in the U.S. Intensity of accusations concerning online gambling addictions espoused by bill supporters are not founded by adequate number of scientific studies. Poker, by the way, is not just a game of chance but relies on skill as well.

Ron Paul and Barney Frank unite to oppose law detrimental to banking and foreign trade relations. They wanted to keep the federales from enforcing against credit card companies who process payments towards offshore internet gambling.

While one may not necessarily agree with this piece's conclusions about various wars or certain policies or presidents, it does illustrate the Republican party's historical nature which hasn't really been based on limited government or free markets. 'The party began as a coalition of Americans who wanted to expand federal power. Its heritage was with the Hamiltonian Federalist Party, which more or less transformed into the big-government Whig Party. When the Whig Party became defunct, the Republican Party emerged to include centralist big-government Americans and other opponents of the Democrats without a party. '

'Republican Party was just a reincarnation of the Whigs who were big-government...Republicans hypocritically touted "limited government" only as a way to criticize Democrats and regain control of Congress.'

'In Congress, the party passed major legislation to promote rapid modernization, including a national banking system, high tariffs, an income tax, many excise taxes, paper money issued without backing ("greenbacks"), a huge national debt, homestead laws, and aid to education and agriculture......Rockefeller Republicans ....favored New Deal programs, including regulation and welfare. They were very strong supporters of civil rights. They were strongly supported by big business on Wall Street (New York City). In fiscal policy they favored balanced budgets and relatively high tax levels to keep the budget balanced.'

Realignment: The South becomes Republican ---- That section helps illustrate the absurdity of limiting ourselves to the two-party system. Why bother with such when one party is a contested coalition of moderates, liberals and conservatives acting as a crutch for industrialists & business factions throughout its history (the Republicans) and the other was once a more conservative party but accepting of the slave to segregationist eras and then suddenly becoming an intense liberal Marxist machine (the Democrats).

History is rife with strife, but wouldn't having more choice from multi-parties provide some finesse in our political structure?

In this article from the pro government-intervention publication Slate, even relatively hands-off Republican president Calvin Coolidge gave into critics and allowed federal involvement in the Mississippi Flood relief of 1927. ' Despite the president's reluctance, the 1928 bill was a landmark. Not only did it provide needed aid but (as Coolidge had feared) it overturned the expectations that Washington could leave regional crises to state and local governments.' Article cites Bush for lack of interest in activist government -- huh??

'The Republican Party came to be split along new lines between a conservative wing (dominant in the West) and a liberal wing (dominant in New England)..... Goldwater represented the conservative wing of the party, while Rockefeller represented the liberal wing. '

Depending on the perceived history of the party, it has either been infiltrated or is just reverting to its usual dubious role:

'Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam argue for restoring the Republican Party through a new activist government agenda focused on addressing the problems and concerns of the working class'

Criticizing that: 'They draw on the ideas and thinking of this neoliberal crowd, the future heart of the Democrat party, rather than the conservative and free market think tanks and institutions that form the intellectual base of the Republican Party.'

Is that true? Or is it just that some noticeable conservative faction of the Republican voters think they are the base of the party, rather than the actual officials, officeholders and p.r. machine it puts forth?

A proposal for Oregon to Opt Out of Social Security, from Cascade Policy Institute.
http://www.cascadepolicy.org/social-security/

“The poor have the most to gain from privatizing Social Security.”
http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/st217.pdf

José Piñera is president of the Santiago based International Center for Pension Reform and cochair of the Cato Institute's Project on Social Security Privatization in Washington.....
http://pensionreform.org/articles/wired.html

CATO's Project on Social Security Choice: FAQ, Topics, Resource Links, Update. [Same link as on Political Attack page.]
http://www.socialsecurity.org/

Tax Day Serfdom USA
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_18_17/ai_74440108

The Tax Foundation - Number of Americans Outside the Income Tax System Continues to Grow
http://www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/542.html

The Tax Foundation - Upper half of income earners pay 97% of federal income tax burden.
http://www.taxfoundation.org/news/show/250.html

Namely Kent Conrad (D) chairman of the Senate Budget Committee endorses a VAT (Value Added Tax). Unlike the FairTax, VAT is a national retail sales tax which would occur in tandem with the federal income tax which would fry the economy. Burman, a Democratic political consultant voices support as does Rahm Emanuel's brother who has been summoned by the White House.

'But the VAT, on top of encouraging bigger government budgets, has another problem: Middle class taxpayers would be hit harder by a VAT because they spend more of their income on goods like clothing and cars than high-earners.. ... [thus] lackluster growth and a dearth of dynamism and entrepreneurship.'

Some Democrats in Congress, White House, DC want ...... ' to include a value-added tax (VAT) to pay for a government-controlled national health insurance scheme. The White House has even brought in Rahm Emanuel's brother to consult on this. '