I urge each and everyone of you to visit their Senator’s office with the message they seem to not have heard. Vote for this Healthcare bill, and you better prepare for retirement.

To that end:

MAKE SURE TO DROP OFF A “HAPPY RETIREMENT” GREETING CARD!

This is our last chance to be heard! If you can’t get to their office just drop one in the mail! Find the addresses here: http://www.senate.gov/ . A list of Democrat Senators up for re-election in 2010 is here: http://www.fireandreamitchell.com/2009/11/21/a-list-of-democrat-senators-up-for-re-election-in-2010/

RSVP here, if you can: http://www.facebook.com/#/event.php?eid=179798034662&index=1

Be sure to invite EVERYONE YOU KNOW!

TIP 1: If there is already someone geared up to run against them, be sure to mention that candidate by name in a note, so they know that YOU KNOW who their competition is! Even better make sure they know you will be working on the competition’s campaign if you are so inclined!

TIP 2: Think about presenting them with a big beautiful Mylar Balloon for a little extra pizazz!!

TIP 3: Spend some quality crafty time with family and like-minded friends to deliver custom-crafted cards and doo-dads.

TIP 4: No time to go to the card shop? Here’s a free retirement card template you can print and send! http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/TC103754971033.aspx?CategoryID=CT101433941033 ht

TIP 5: Get a group together, meet up at a specific day/time and throw a party! Cards, balloons, cake, noise makers! Sing “For He’s a FOLLY Good Fellow,” give them a Barney the Dinosaur watch as a departing gift!

TIP 6: Film the delivery and/or party. Take pictures during your visit or scan your card! Post them here! (We do love your creativity, folks, but PLEASE stay on topic or your image will be deleted)

TIP 7: If your Senator is not there to see you, at least request the office manager. I believe this will provide more impact.

Again, please be sure to invite EVERYONE YOU KNOW!

RSVP here, if you can: http://www.facebook.com/#/event.php?eid=179798034662&index=1

One-page summary of the Senate Healthcare bill

Q. Is the United States, in your opinion, becoming a socialist country?

A. Not quite. The U.S. has been pretty center-left since the days of FDR, and definitely in terms of entitlement spending (Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, SSI, Welfare, Section 8, Food Stamps, Lord know what else). Since nearly half of the country doesn’t even pay any taxes to fund it we’ve got the whole nanny state thing covered.

What has kept us center left, ironically, is capitalism itself. It’s cyclical in nature, so we’re assured boom and bust periods every few years. You may notice that during the bust periods, businesses and people have no problem running to the government to be succored and taken care of. That’s usually when we end up with some massive new entitlement, and once we have them, they’re politically untouchable despite the calamitous economic consequences of maintaining them.

What has kept us from drifting further left, fortunately, is the independence of our states. So while one can move to California and conceivably live off the dole for a lifetime, they wouldn’t be able to pull off the same feat in say, Texas, where the culture is different, government is small and there are virtually no taxes, services, or handouts.

Americans also love innovation, choice, and speed, so likely wouldn’t tolerate a government responsible for running all of our industries, and deciding the output and delivery of our goods and services. Most of us panic when we don’t have enough options available on our iPhones for Pete’s sake, so I doubt we’d ever want to rely on Uncle Sam for our clothes, TVs, remotes, video games, cars, laptops, etc. It would be way too inconvenient. Women may be divided on an issue such as abortion, for example, but they’ll unite if you mess with their department stores. Inhibit their ability to customize their kitchens and there may be be rioting in the streets. 

Q. What do you think was the turning point with The President’s poll numbers?

A. I might be reaching here, but I’d have to say “Gates-gate”. That event will live on in infamy as the day when Obama spoiled the vision of himself as a transformative, post racial, unifying President. Keep in mind many white moderates and independents made the good faith assumption that he would be the cure for what ills this country racially, and he’d be what we needed to assuage white guilt. Not so fast.

In rushing to judgment against the Cambridge police, without having the facts of the matter at hand, and siding with Gates while inserting race into the narrative, he exposed himself as just another huckster…the “angry elitist black man” who sees racism even where it isn’t, and opts to pretentiously ram his sermonizing on the subject down our throats.

He got off easy with the Reverend Wright situation, as well as the “Guns and Religion” comment. He even managed to escape scot-free after calling his own grandmother a “typical white person”. But now that he IS the United States, there are no more free passes for remarks like that, and I don’t think he’ll ever be able to regain the trust of those independents again. When discussing the event with a disappointed white liberal friend of mine, he uttered the words that sum up how much Obama tarnished his image: “I never thought I’d see a U.S. President ever pull the race card.” Ouch. 

Q. What has gone wrong for the Democrats in the health care debate?

A. There’s an old saying in the legal profession: When you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. When you have the law on your side, pound the law. When you have neither, pound the table.

Give you one guess what our friends on the Left have been pounding?

Here are some of their biggest blunders:

• They’ve tried to demonize concerned Americans practicing their right to protest as Nazis, racists, KKK members, astroturfers, corporate stooges, and terrorists. Considering that many of the people at those town halls look like they have 4 pm bedtimes and probably spent WWII fighting fascism, the left’s claims are a little hard to believe. That they represent the majority of this country (the 75% who aren’t liberals) will prove fatal to the Democrat party.
• Obama has been exposed numerous times for not knowing what’s in either of the bills he has floating around Congress. That doesn’t do much for his credibility when he’s out there guaranteeing everyone everything.
• There are numerous Youtube videos of the President floating around where he describes his wish for single payer, and outlines his plans to gradually sneak insert it into our system. That he is all of a sudden against it when the entire left wing of his party is pushing for it, is suspicious and lends credence to the public option being a Trojan horse.
• Congress (and the President) have exempted themselves from this supposedly “wonderful” plan.
• Spamgate. Not so much the incident itself but the White House’s attempts at covering it up.
• Obama has been caught telling some whoppers. Claiming an AARP endorsement? Doctors are reimbursed $50,000 for amputations? They push tonsillectomies on people for fees? Guaranteeing we’ll keep our plans? No rationing? All are foolish declarations.
• The CBO has blown apart all of Obama’s assertions about “bending the cost curve” and bringing costs down. Some say even their estimates are still too low. Yet he won’t let go of savings as a talking point.
• Obama cut a deal with Big Pharma on the side, one of the same “special interests” he purports to be fighting on our behalf.
• He used the Post office as the standard for Government run health care.
• The left wing Democrats (Pelosi and co.) have written all of the legislation and are responsible for some of the more bizarre proposals within the overhaul, placing the moderates and conservatives in their party, many hailing from red states, in a tenuous position. That this Administration failed to realize the effect of such a strategy is either indicative of their supreme incompetence or their willingness to send the lambs to slaughter in order to accomplish their goal. It may very well be both. The lambs, however, are not so keen on being unemployed, certainly not in this economy, and are hitting the brakes right at the edge of the cliff before they fall into the vast pit known as the American center. Left wingers don’t usually make it out of there alive, disappearing into the depths of nefarious political history alongside Jimmy Carter, George McGovern, Mondale, John Kerry, and soon, Dodd/Reid/Frank/Pelosi. But you know who it’s REALLY waiting for, though…

I can go on, but I think I’ve made a pretty good case.

Americans DO want reform, of course, but only the kind that aids the 5% of us who fall through the cracks when it comes to coverage and offers us protection during periods of unemployment, at a lower overall cost. That’s it. Until our President gets that a government takeover is out of the question he can look forward to more declining poll numbers.

Not that it matters anymore. The revised deficit numbers released this past weekend should be the final nail in Obamacare’s coffin, or at least what places it on life support. Call them a death panel. We’re now (officially) looking at a trillion dollar deficit each year through the next DECADE, folks.

I hope the Bammer gets plenty of rest on his vacation.

Q. What do you think of the Democrats using reconciliation to push Obamacare through?

A. They should probably start updating their resumes.

Q. What can Republicans do to get a larger share of the black vote?

A. Stop assuming that it isn’t theirs for the taking right out of the gate. Mike Huckabee, who managed to pull 45% of the black vote in Arkansas, said all he needed to do was ask for it.

Case in point: I was invited to speak at a conference on party identification and voting at a University earlier this year to a group of minority underclassmen. My liberal counterpart made the mistake of doing the thinking for them, and assumed there was nothing to discuss beyond the same usual talking points. I had other plans, and made mincemeat out of her (in a polite way, of course).

Once I was done, I was approached by about 7 or 8 of the students, and each one told me they’d either be registering Republican, voting Republican, or were leaning Republican and wanted to talk to me some more and ask questions. A few others wanted me to recommend the reading materials that shaped my own ideas.

8 students out of 30 or so, at a liberal institution, in New York, with a black Democrat President in office. That’s 25%. I didn’t need any cheap slogans, PR people, teleprompters, or a multimillion dollar campaign to sway them either.

Here’s a secret: Black people, and by extension all minorities, want the same thing everyone else wants- freedom of opportunity, safety, an education, better lives for their children, etc…. Don’t treat us like aliens that need to be studied and dissected. We’re not a group incapable of independent thought. We are reasonable human beings! Sure we’ve got our liberals, but we also have many moderates and conservatives who simply vote Democrat because it’s all they know. The same probably goes for Latinos and every other group out there. Go after everybody without using condescending tactics, let them examine your ideas and principles, and you’ll get results.

 Q. The Republicans still haven’t been able to distinguish themselves or make any gains amidst all of the turmoil. They’re the party of “No”. Shouldn’t they be out there making alternative proposals to the people in order to be taken seriously?

A. When has a minority party ever been able to take the lead on agenda setting? Nothing Republicans propose will ever make it out of Committee in this Congress. I’m actually happy they’re sitting the sideline, because it’s galvanizing Americans, regardless of party, to take up the fight. Partisan politics are good for sport, but this is real life, and those labels mean nothing here.

Sorry, but the Dems own the stimulus, they own the porkulus, they own the quadrupling of the Bush deficits, they own the doubling of the national debt, they own the auto bailouts, they own the unemployment rate, they own any pending tax increases, they own cap and trade, and they will own Obamacare.

Why should Republicans get involved? I’d stay as far away as possible. When your opponents are busy burning down their house, it’s better to save some water for your own.

Their main focus now should be developing candidates, leaders, and a message to help navigate us through the rough years ahead and better defend the interests of their constituents.

Better to be the party of “no” then the party of “can’t”.

Q. Was Cash for Clunkers a good idea?

A. Not for car dealers, who’ve yet to be paid. Certainly not for the government’s reputation for managing programs. Or poor Americans who typically can only afford clunkers. Or even for consumer spending, which declined in July.

So I’d say no.

Auto union workers might probably disagree, but they also thought auto bailouts were a good idea, so who cares?

Obama and Democrat Congressional leaders uncorked the bottle and the peoples’ Genie is out.
He’s not happy, this Genie. In normal times, he sits there quietly inside the bottle. Sometimes watching. Mostly not. He finds politics boring, if not disgusting.

He sat and watched in silence as the TARP bill passed. Told the sky was falling, he looked up and saw it wasn’t. But he shrugged, trusting the bipartisan nature of the effort. Then, as TARP rolled out, he stood up. The bailouts plowed a furrow across his forehead; his eyebrows lowered; his gaze intensified. But he stayed inside the bottle.

Along came the Stimulus Bill. Or, in the language of the big spenders, The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The Genie smelled the bacon through the glass bottle. He heard the squeals coming next from the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009. Another stampede of pigs.
Inside the bottle, the Genie’s leaned forward, pressing his hands and nose flat against the glass. As he watched banks and car companies yield to government control, his jaw slid up. His lips pressed tight. His breathing shortened. But he stayed inside the bottle.
In his peripheral vision he saw a dancing troupe dressed like Cossacks enter the side door of the White House and disappear within. The Czars had come. The Genie watched, and wondered.

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If government healthcare was run three times as well as the post office that would not be good enuough…