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You thought Obama-Care was bad; wait until you hear about Obama-Ed!

9th District Republicans are delighted to announce that 

Lindsey Burke, Education Policy Expert

from the renowned Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC

will address our public forum on Obama-Ed

WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 2012

7 PM, doors open at 6:30

Bloomfield Twp Offices Auditorium
4200 Telegraph Rd, Bloomfield Hills
(south of Long Lake, west side of Telegraph)

Come learn from this foremost education policy expert how the Obama Administration is over-reaching its authority to impose nationalized standards and curriculum for K-12. Join us to hear about the costs to our state and to educational liberty posed by national common core standards and tests; learn why state leaders should reject this federal over-reach!

What will this mean for the future of education…for the future of America?

For more information, click here.

The following is an open letter Lou Pritchett, former vice-president of Proctor and Gamble,
wrote to President Barak Obama.

Dear President Obama:

You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike
 any of the others, you truly scare me.

You scare me because after months of exposure,
I know nothing about you.

You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive
 Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no
 visible signs of support.

You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth
 Growing up in America and culturally you are not an American.

You scare me because you have never run a company or met a payroll.

You scare me because you have never had military experience,
and thus
 don’t understand it at its core.

You scare me because you lack humility and ‘class’, always blaming others.

You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to
 publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail.

You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the ‘blame America’
 crowd and deliver this message abroad.

You scare me because you want to change America to a European style
 country where the government sector dominates
instead of the private sector.

You scare me because you want to replace our health care system
 with a government controlled one.

You scare me because you prefer ‘wind mills’ to responsibly 
capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves.

You scare me because you want to kill the American capitalist goose
 that lays the golden egg which provides the
highest standard of
 living in the world.

You scare me because you have begun to use ‘extortion’ tactics
 against certain banks and corporations.

You scare me because your own political party shrinks from
 challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals.



You scare me because you will not openly listen to or even consider
 oppposing points of view from intelligent people.

You scare me because you falsely believe that you are both
omnipotent and omniscient.

You scare me because the media gives you a free pass
on everything
 you do.

You scare me because you demonize and want to silence the
 Limbaugh’s, Hannitys, O’Reillys and Becks who offer opposing,
 Conservative points of view.



You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing.

Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will
 probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years.

~Lou Pritchett~

 

Mr. Pritchett confirmed that he was indeed the author of this much-circulated “open letter” quoted above: 

 I did write the ‘you scare me’ letter. I sent it to the New York Times, but they never acknowledged or published it. However, it hit the Internet and, according to the ‘experts’ has had over 500,000 hits.

This letter certainly is a very succinct statement of what hard-working Americans feel concerning President Obama and his policies.

Monday, April 9, 2012 @ 7 p.m

 

presents…

 

Logan Darrow Clements shows what happens when “the government becomes your doctor” using licensed news footage from Canadian TV, interviews with doctors, patients, journalists, a health minister, a Member of Parliament, a doctor who went on a hunger strike as well the producer’s own Canadian relatives. Clements even rents a hospital to show the mismatch between supply and demand in a medical system run by politicians!

SICK and SICKER puts ObamaCare on ice with cold hard facts from Canada.

Check out the movie trailer below:

 

The Romeo Area Tea Party will be showing this eye-opening documentary
Monday, April 9, 2012 @ 7 p.m. at the Washington Township Offices
(senior activity center) 57900 Van Dyke, Washington, Michigan 48094

Admission: Free

From the Heritage Foundation’s blog, The Foundry.

Rare is the occasion when the nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court gather to hear three days of arguments, and rarer still is when it is for a case like Obamacare — one that cuts to the core of the Constitution and whose outcome could fundamentally alter the role of the federal government and its power over the people. But today the Court will do just that when it open its doors and begins weighing the arguments on the constitutionality of President Barack Obama’s seminal health care law.

Were the American people to vote on the issue, they would fall decidedly against Obamacare, as recent polls have shown. But for the Court, the decision is not as cut and dried as an up or down vote, but one that involves the interplay of a series of issues raised by those who are challenging Obamacare — more than half the States of the Union and a collection of interested organizations and private parties — and those brought by the Obama Administration, which is defending the law. And they come to the Supreme Court after conflicting appellate court rulings which have left undecided the question of whether Obamacare is permissible under the Constitution.

The central issue before the Court is whether Congress has the power under the Commerce Clause and the Necessary and Proper Clause to impose the individual mandate on the American people, forcing them to buy health insurance or pay a penalty.

If the Court holds that Congress was outside the bounds of its authority, it can strike down the individual mandate, leaving the justices to then decide whether all or part of Obamacare should fall along with it.

If the Court upholds the mandate, America will be in the same position it finds itself today — facing a law that vests untold power and resources in the hands of the federal government, that transfers health care decision making from individuals to unelected bureaucrats, and that increases costs while decreasing access. In short, America’s health care crisis will get worse, not better, and future generations will be left paying the tab. What’s more, if the Court allows the individual mandate to stand, it will unhook Congress from its Constitutional leash, empowering it to regulate commerce and individual behavior in new ways never before imaginable.

There are other issues, too, besides the individual mandate. Even before the Court reaches that subject, it must broach the issue of the Anti-Injunction Act, a 145-year-old federal tax law which could bar the Court from evenhearing a challenge to the individual mandate. Under that law, one cannot sue over a tax until they have paid it. If the penalty for violating Obamacare’s individual mandate is considered a tax under that law, then the challenge could not be brought at this time since the penalty has not yet taken effect. Obamacare’s challengers and even the Obama Administration agree that the Anti-Injunction Act shouldn’t prevent the Court from hearing the case, but the issue will still be heard, and some think that the Court could rely on the Act as a way of avoiding having to answer the question of whether the mandate is constitutional.

If the Court finds the Anti-Injunction Act doesn’t apply, it will move on to the individual mandate. Its decision on that issue brings with it a whole other set of problems — namely, if the Court finds that the mandate is unconstitutional, it must next decide the issue of severability — whether Obamacare will operate as Congress intended if it is stripped of the mandate, or whether all or parts of the law must be struck down with the mandate. If the Court finds that the mandate is severable, the Court can strike it down and leave it up to Congress to clean up what’s left, or, as the Obama administration has recommended, it can strike down the mandate and related provisions of the law that depend on it. Finally, if the justices find that the mandate is not severable, then it will throw out all of Obamacare, and it will again be up to Congress to enact real market-based health care reforms that bring down costs while increasing access to care.

There is another issue, too, tied to Obamacare, and that has to do with Congress’s decision to impose new requirements on states forcing them to expand the Medicaid program and abide by the federal government’s conditions, leaving them to shoulder much of the costs while operating Medicaid according to Washington’s whims. If the states don’t comply, they could lose all Medicaid funding, putting them in an untenable position in which both their autonomy and their sovereignty collapse under Obamacare’s weight. It is up to the Court to decide whether Congress overstepped its bounds.

America waits for the Supreme Court to weigh the facts and the law, to consider the precedents and the policy, and to issue a decision that will have implications far into the future. Will Congress be limited by the Constitution, or will its authority expand beyond the limits that the Founders intended? Will Americans’ liberties stand? Will Obamacare fall? No matter the outcome of the Court’s ruling in June, Congress can and should act now to repeal Obamacare and rid the land of this intolerable act.

Read the original article on the Heritage Foundation’s blog here.

Commentary from Dave Janda –  surgeon, author, and radio host

Friends,

Today The U.S. Appeals Court for the 11th Circuit upheld the lower court’s ruling that Obama Care is Unconstitutional.  The administration was reportedly “shocked”…… not me and not you.  The reason why Obama, his minions, and his supporters are “stunned and shocked”….. is very simple…… they NEVER read either The Stimulus Bill which contained the first part of Obama Care ( the rationing and enforcement boards) or the second part of Obama Care…. The Health Care Bill.  They rubber stamped what was given to them from The Tides Foundation….. just what Soros and The Global Elite and the TelePrompTer told them to do.  If they had read both parts, they would have come to the same conclusion I reached in February 2009….. ” this legislation strips more Freedom and Liberty from EVERY American than any other piece of legislation in Our country’s history.”  So let’s see what “The Great Communicator ” and his TelePrompTer do now….. push for an expedited verdict by the Supreme Court or try and delay the hearing of the case by The Supremes….. my guess….. it’s “rope a dope time.”  The Attorney Generals of the 26 states should be congratulated on pursuing the case that ultimately lead to today’s decision.   In Michigan, former A.G.,  Mike Cox, was the force behind Michigan’s involvement.  It was an honor to work with Mike on his opposition and involvement in the case.  Unfortunately, the new Michigan A.G., Bill Schuette, has not been responsive to input or advice from those of us on the health care front line …. luckily other insightful A.G.’s from the other states are more than happy to get input and advice.  I believe those A.G.’s willing to get help from the front lines will win the war in The Supreme Court.

Dave Janda

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/appeals-court-finds-obamacare-mandate-individual-health-insurance-unconstitutional

Dr. Dave Janda was our guest speaker at a Romeo Area Tea Party meeting in April “09, shortly after the health care bill passed.  Click to watch the videos from his meeting, Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.

Dr. Janda–Operation Freedom

David continues to inform and educate us in his new career(Hobby?) as a talk show host.

Every Sunday from 3-5 PM, WAAM Talk 1600 AM turns on the bright lights and fires up it’s own Operating Room.

He’s still our “Weapon of Mass Instruction.”

Click to visit his website to find out more about his radio show, Operation Freedom.

Obama Care Individual Mandate Unsuccessful

Obama Care Individual Mandate Unsuccessful

Speaking of Friends of the Romeo Area Tea Party, another Favorite RATP Speaker, Chris Kobus, weighs in on the issue on his blog.

VICTORY! (For Now): 11th Circuit Rules ObamaCare UNCONSTITUTIONAL! <<Click to follow link to his blog.

Warning: This post falls into the ‘tongue in cheek’ category.

Our future looks better by the minute. On Monday, I pinched a copy of  The Wall Street Journal from a local business mailbox to hide some, let us call it, contraband. Later, after my ‘delivery’ was complete I decided to actually read the newspaper as I waited for my bacon and eggs. Best decision I’ve made in a long time. Here’s what I found out.

In the near future, work becomes even less a requirement. The article in question caught my eye with the title “How Health Reform Punishes Work.”

Here’s what it said that made my morning:

Starting in 2014, subsidies will be available to families with incomes between 134% and 400% of the federal poverty line. (Families earning less than 134% of poverty are eligible for Medicaid.) For example, a family of four headed by a 55-year-old earning $31,389 in 2014 dollars (134% of the federal poverty line) in a high-cost area will get a subsidy of $22,740. This will cover 96% of an insurance policy that the Kaiser Family Foundation predicts will cost $23,700. A similar family earning $93,699 (400% of poverty) gets a subsidy of $14,799. But a family earning $1 more—$93,700—gets no subsidy.

Now, I’m not a genius, but this sounds perfect to me. Keep your legitimate, taxable income around $35,000 or so and you get a free health insurance plan. Then you can spend the other 4 days of the week at more lucrative endeavors, ‘off the books’ as they say.

Do I feel guilty about this special talent of mine of soaking the public treasury? Not at all, because let’s face it, even the big earners are going to be doing the same thing. Don’t tell me that there are going to be a lot of families that make sure to keep their income under $93,700.

Well, after my eggs and bacon the world looked a little brighter. Punishing work – now that’s change a fella can believe in!

Was the Health Care Reform Law the best legislation to pass congress in years? Some conservatives are starting to think so, as the country heads down the path, returning to traditional values.

Obamacare has already been found unconstitutional by two Federal Judges. It would appear only a matter of time before the Supreme Court makes the same conclusion.  So, what’s the big deal about Obamacare?

Well, analysts are now linking the tactics used by Progressives who passed Obamacare, directly to the defeat of their own Progress.  So bold were Progressives in the first year of the Obama administration, that their Freudian slips awakened the sleeping giant of conservatism.  Who can forget our own John Dingell’s plan to control the people and John Conyers brilliant “Judiciary” constitutional analysis of Obamacare.

Just for grins, I include my favorite Freudian slip from California’s Maxine Waters.

Long gone is the Democratic control of the U.S. House of Representatives.  Nearly gone is Democratic control of the Senate. Likewise, many state houses and governorships swung decisively in the conservative direction in 2010 midterm elections.

By passing Obamacare as we know it, Reid and Pelosi may have done more for conservatism than long time politicians like Newt Gingrich.  The lesson of slow progress (towards socialism) was entirely lost on Reid and Pelosi, as they overshot the mark of tolerance of the people.  In a weird sort of way, upon the Supreme Court’s ultimate decision that Obamacare is unconstitutional, conservatives might want to thank Reid and Pelosi for the awakening, as they roll back the progress.

And finally, Click here to Review the Lesson of the TEA Party.

Time Magazine predicted the Tea Party would soon break up like the Beatles,

but they were unable to predict who would be dating Yoko Ono.

Now Harry Reid is making a similar claim.

In an exclusive interview that aired on NBC’s “Meet the Press” this weekend, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid predicted once the nation’s economy improves, “the Tea Party will disappear.”

We’re pretty sure Harry Reid is wrong

and the New York Times is right: “No One wants to date Yoko.”

Your comments welcomed.

On December 13, 2010, Judge Henry Hudson made clear in a 42 page ruling that he thinks the idea of forcing people to buy health insurance – and punishing them with a federal tax penalty if they do not – is outside the bounds of the Constitution.

In his 42-page order, Judge Hudson declared there was no legal precedent under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution to allow the Congress through federal legislation “to compel an individual to involuntarily enter the stream of commerce by purchasing a commodity in the private market.”  The judge also ruled that the mandate could not be validated under the General Welfare Clause of the Constitution, which permits broad federal power to tax, because it is “in form and substance, a penalty as opposed to a tax.”

Hudson, a 2002 appointee of George W. Bush, thus became the first federal judge in the nation to endorse the merits of a legal challenge to the mandate provision — which requires individuals to purchase health insurance, some for the first time, to help reduce the overall costs of health care.  The Virginia lawsuit which generated the ruling is one of dozens around the country (another challenge, out of Florida, will move forward with a hearing later this week).  Earlier this year, a federal trial judge in Michigan, and another federal trial judge in Virginia, dismissed similar constitutional challenges to the new law.

Click either photo above

and the links below to read additional news coverage on the topic.

Judge Strikes Section of Health Care Law
YouTube Video of White House response to Obama Health Care Overhaul Suffering Setback
Supreme Court Review Expected

I know, I know, it’s hard to have to hear about it again, especially when the folks in Washington have no interest in listening to any of us. But, the recently passed ObamaCare legislation is taking all kinds of strange forms as it moves through our lives and through the economy.

It was recently announced that two Democratic operatives, one a former member of the President’s communication team, are readying a couple of different, but well coordinated, efforts aimed at presenting ObamaCare as the greatest thing since sliced bread as we head into the fall elections. So you will be hearing a lot about the benefits of ObamaCare this summer, be prepared. But fear not, the forces of truth have not been quieted.

So one question that arises is why Democrats believe the bill must still be sold to the public. Once it passes, we were told, all would be well. People would settle down and see what the good folks in Washington had wrought. Hmm, it has not turned out that way at all. Here’s a good article about the latest effort to get the public on board and why it is necessary.

Of course selling ObamaCare is a job that is never complete, especially when they continue to try and sell ideas that are not only ridiculous, but false, like the idea that lower cost hospitals provide better care. This idea was recently blown up in, of all places, The New York Times, as reported here in The Weekly Standard piece on the true costs of ObamaCare.

And remember how we were told that if you liked your plan you can keep it? Well it turns out that what they really meant to say is that if they like your plan you can keep it; and frankly, they don’t like your plan. Dr Scott Gottlieb provides the details in this article. This is not a pleasant article to read because it details how the federal bureaucracy is now writing regulations that will become the ObamaCare marching orders (and we really do mean marching orders, in this case).

If you would like to stay abreast of what’s happening as healthcare mutates under ObamaCare, you can always visit ObamaCareWatch.org where the entire mess is laid out in excruciating detail. They do a great job there of uncovering what’s really happening and over the next few months as Health and Human Services write the new regs it would be a very good idea to keep your eye on this site for updates. The legislation was only the beginning. The next few months the rubber hits the road.