Houston Area Liberty Campaign

Here is the link to the “amendment” which was the legislation that was passed on Sunday, March 21.

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[From ExposeObama.com, article here.]

Well, I have done it! I have read the entire text of proposed House Bill 3200: The Affordable Health Care Choices Act of 2009.* I studied it with particular emphasis from my area of expertise, constitutional law. I was frankly concerned that parts of the proposed law that were being discussed might be unconstitutional. What I found was far worse than what I had heard or expected.

To begin with, much of what has been said about the law and its implications is in fact true, despite what the Democrats and the media are saying. The law does provide for rationing of health care, particularly where senior citizens and other classes of citizens are involved, free health care for illegal immigrants, free abortion services, and probably forced participation in abortions by members of the medical profession.

The Bill will also eventually force private insurance companies out of business and put everyone into a government run system. All decisions about personal health care will ultimately be made by federal bureaucrats and most of them will not be health care professionals. Hospital admissions, payments to physicians, and allocations of necessary medical devices will be strictly controlled.

However, as scary as all of that is, it just scratches the surface. In fact, I have concluded that this legislation really has no intention of providing affordable health care choices. Instead it is a convenient cover for the most massive transfer of power to the Executive Branch of government that has ever occurred, or even been contemplated. If this law or a similar one is adopted, major portions of the Constitution of the United States will effectively have been destroyed.
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[From the North Houston Tea Party Patriots' website: http://www.thewoodlandsteaparty.com/content/tea-party-etiquetteaccording-democrats]

If you feel exhausted from calling, emailing, faxing and have any doubt on the impact that your action is having, check out below the “rules of Etiquette” towards the Tea Party just sent by Nancy Pelosi’s assistant to the Democratic Congressmen. This interesting document has been sent to us by Amy Kremer with the Tea Party Express.

Suzanne Guggenheim

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Breaking News!!!

As many of you know, activists are once again coming to DC to flood the halls of Congress tomorrow (Tuesday, March 16, 2010). They want to have their voices heard by their elected officials.

This afternoon, the Office of the Assistant to Speaker Nancy Pelosi circulated the following email to Freshman and Sophomore Democratic members of Congress advising them how to deal with all of the visitors to their offices tomorrow.

They know we are coming, so make the most of the visits tomorrow!

From: Thornell, Doug [mailto:Doug.Thornell@mail.house.gov]
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 5:25 PM
To: Thornell, Doug
Subject: Tea Party Etiquette

TO: Freshman and Sophomore House Democrats
FROM: Office of the Assistant to the Speaker
DATE: March 15, 2010
RE: Tea Party Etiquette

As many of you have read, tomorrow, Tuesday, March 16, 2010, tens of thousands of conservative and Tea Party activists will be on the Hill as part of what they are dubbing a “Surge Against Obamacare.” Rick Scott, a multimillionaire investor and former hospital executive, is helping to lead the grassroots effort along with a number of other groups on the right like Dick Armey’s Freedom Works. While many of you have met with outspoken activists in your districts in the past, we wanted to remind you of some of the best practices to review with your DC staff:

1. Be prepared. Activists are expected to begin arriving around 9am and they have been given instructions to wait in your office until they can have a meeting. Please have an orderly process and enough staff and interns to welcome what could be a very large number of visitors throughout the day:

· Have staff and/or Member time set-aside to visit with attendees in small groups;

· Ask for extra chairs or seating to be brought to your office or the hall in case there are seniors or disabled visitors that need to be accommodated;
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The European Medicines Agency warns that young children given GlaxoSmithKline’s swine flu shot may get a fever after their second dose.

In a statement issued Friday, the European drug regulator said data from GlaxoSmithKline PLC showed a higher number of children aged six months to 3 years had a fever after their second dose of the Pandemrix vaccine, compared with the first. Kids were also more likely to have side effects like muscle pain, drowsiness, and irritability.

The European regulator recommends children get two doses of swine flu vaccine, though Glaxo says one dose is enough.

Last month, Glaxo advised health authorities not to use one batch of its Canadian-manufactured swine flu vaccine in case it triggered life-threatening side effects like anaphylactic shock.

Judge Napolitano was on Glenn Beck on Tuesday, November 11th.   Part 1 of 6 of the video is below.

Visit the poster’s You Tube Channel to view the remaining five parts.

From: http://www.medinafortexas.com/
Published 11/09/2009 – 3:58 p.m. CST

Debra Medina, a registered nurse and candidate for governor, is taking the lead in defending Texas against the nationalization of healthcare.

“This bill devastates freedom and destroys healthcare. Texas must nullify the action by congress and fight for an injunction in the federal courts. I am urging Governor Perry today to call the Texas Legislature into special session. I am encouraging Attorney General Abbott to begin the work necessary to obtain an injunction against the IRS and the 111 other federal agencies empowered in this legislation to further embed Washington D.C. in our lives. These actions are critical to insuring that Texans are free to make our own decisions about healthcare” stated Medina.

As the U.S. Senate takes up HR 3962, the “Affordable Health Care for America Act,” Texans must mobilize now as never before! We must not wait, there can be no delay. We must prepare for the eventuality that the U. S. Senate will pass this bill and be ready to immediately defend the sovereignty of the great state of Texas.

The Texas Legislature must act. Please call your state representative and state senator today. Find your district and their number here:  http://www.fyi.legis.state.tx.us/. Ask them to demand that the governor call a special session to address the nationalization of healthcare; to nullify those actions by Congress that undermine the sovereignty of Texas.

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[Original CNSNews.com story here.]

Friday, October 23, 2009
By Matt Cover, Staff Writer

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

(CNSNews.com) – When CNSNews.com asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday where the Constitution authorized Congress to order Americans to buy health insurance–a mandate included in both the House and Senate versions of the health care bill–Pelosi dismissed the question by saying: “Are you serious? Are you serious?”

Pelosi’s press secretary later responded to written follow-up questions from CNSNews.com by emailing CNSNews.com a press release on the “Constitutionality of Health Insurance Reform,” that argues that Congress derives the authority to mandate that people purchase health insurance from its constitutional power to regulate interstate commerce.

The exchange with Speaker Pelosi on Thursday [October 22nd] occurred as follows:

CNSNews.com: “Madam Speaker, where specifically does the Constitution grant Congress the authority to enact an individual health insurance mandate?”

Pelosi: “Are you serious? Are you serious?”

CNSNews.com: “Yes, yes I am.”

Pelosi then shook her head before taking a question from another reporter. Her press spokesman, Nadeam Elshami, then told CNSNews.com that asking the speaker of the House where the Constitution authorized Congress to mandated that individual Americans buy health insurance as not a ”serious question.”

“You can put this on the record,” said Elshami. “That is not a serious question. That is not a serious question.”

Continue reading here… http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/55971 .

THE WASHINGTON TIMES

[Here is The Washington Times original story, links added by HALC.us staff.]

When it comes to having past views that should frighten every American citizen, Ezekiel Emanuel (see above editorial) has nothing on the president’s “chief science adviser,” John P. Holdren. The combination of Mr. Holdren with Dr. Emanuel should make the public seriously concerned with this administration’s moral compass concerning care for the old and weak.

Earlier this month, Mr. Holdren served as co-chairman when the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology met for the first time. It’s a disgrace that Mr. Holdren is even on the council. In “Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment,” a book he co-authored in 1977 with noted doomsayers Paul R. and Anne H. Erlich, Mr. Holdren wrote: “Indeed, it has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society.”

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Source: CBS News

President Obama’s plan to remake the nation’s health care system is one step closer to reality after the pivotal Senate Finance Committee approved sweeping legislation Tuesday requiring nearly all Americans to purchase insurance and ushering in a host of other changes to the nation’s $2.5 trillion medical system.

The committee approved the measure by a vote of 14 to 9, with all Democrats supporting it, along with one Republican – Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine.

“Ours is a balanced plan that can pass the Senate,” Committee Chair Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said Tuesday before the vote. “Our bill should win the support of Republicans and Democrats alike… My colleagues, this is our opportunity to make history.”

Baucus ultimately failed at winning any more than one Republican vote, even after marathon negotiating sessions.

Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) called the vote another step toward the “flawed solution… of more spending, more government and more taxes.”

Snowe cautioned that her vote for the committee bill did not indicate she would support the Democrats’ final plans.

“I [support the committee bill] with reservations because I share my Republican colleagues’ trepidation about what will transpire on the Senate floor” and later on in the legislative process, Snowe said. Still, she said she would vote for the measure because “when history calls, history calls.” Read the rest of this entry »

By STEPHEN MOORE

Art by Benito Segovia

The Obama Administration’s health care public option, which is the key to an eventual government-run system, is starting to look like one of those corpses out of the grave from Zombieland. Last week the public option failed in the Senate Finance Committee and Democrat Max Baucus, the committee chairman from Montana, announced that the votes aren’t there on the Senate floor for a government-operated and subsidized insurance option. But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, under pressure from unions and welfare groups, won’t take no for an answer, so expect a knock-down drag-out floor fight over the issue on the Senate floor.

Some Democrats, notably Senator Tom Carper of Delaware, are trying to forge yet another compromise. Mr. Carper is promoting a bill to allow a quasi-public option in states where private insurance competition is scarce. That plan is a derivative of the co-op insurance system that many Democrats favor as their “Plan B.” Call it a public option in disguise.

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[HALC.us Editor’s Note: this original story was posted on U. S. Rep. Kevin Brady’s homepage on July 15, 2009.]

Baffling Flow Chart –
Public Gets Peek at Complicated Bureaucracy in Democratic Health Care Plan

Washington, D.C. - Congressman Kevin Brady (R-TX), the lead House Republican on the Joint Economic Committee, today unveiled a detailed flow chart of the complex health care reform proposal by Democratic congressional leaders.

The chart identifies at least 31 new federal programs, agencies, commissions and mandates that accompany the unprecedented government takeover of health care in America.

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