UNITED WE STAND

Here we are, facing a President and a Congress who are collectively giving Americans “the bird.” For months, Democrats, Republicans, independents, blacks, whites, Native Americans, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Buddhists, liberals, conservatives, short people, fat people, tall people, thin people…. Citizens of all types and ages showed up at Town Hall meetings and made their displeasure with the proposed government-run health care system well known. Millions of emails, faxes and letters flooded Washington and hundreds of thousands traveled to Washington to demonstrate their positions against this “plan.”

The two Houses of Congress have each moved their versions of the plan, which has ballooned from 1,000 pages to 1,990, to their respective floors. While our President runs around shaking hands and promising that it’s a “done deal,” and “great for the country,” our Senate Majority Leader and House Speaker have both announced that they will pass their respective legislations within the week and that within a very short time after that, a compromise Bill will be passed for the President to sign.

Only 37% of Americans think “the plan” is a good idea. About 26% of Americans think the government is headed in the right direction. 59% of Americans want to replace their Congressional delegations. Yet, Obama, Reid and Pelosi continue to move their cram-down forward, seemingly oblivious to what America wants. Obviously, they have the power, and they intend to use it. So, shut up and get out of the way?

My fellow Americans, this is where the rubber meets the road. This is the true test of what you believe in and how willing you are to stand up for it. You can let these two-bit bastards, and that is basically what they are, run over your beliefs and pound your patriotism into the asphalt. Or, we can stand together, shoulder to shoulder, regardless of individual differences, and we can inundate them with faxes, emails, phone calls…. Whatever it takes to get them to listen to the message. They’ll probably turn off the Congressional email site again, but we can be heard.

I do not believe that any one faction of Americans has the power to rule over the rest. Members of Congress and occupants of the White House are in the clear minority. There are only about 700 of them and tens of millions of us. WE have the power. WE must stand up against this horrible travesty in the making. WE must seize back the reins of governance and WE must drive these calloused, insensitive pitiless idiots from office. We can’t wait until tomorrow or the next day… We need to stand together and do it now.

We cannot let them divide us by race, religion, politics, color, sex, or politics. We must not let them pit us against ourselves any longer. This is the time of reckoning. This is OUR country. This is OUR government. The scalawags must face the music.

UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL. GOD BLESS AMERICA.

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.

CONGRESSIONAL BILLS ARE AN OUTRAGE

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It's no longer even something you can poke fun at. It's an outrage. The Senate version is over 1,500 pages. The House version is over 1,900 pages. This is the response to the summer Town Hall meetings where Americans expressed their opinions that they do not want this government-run Health Care package as it is written? This is their response to polls holding that 90% of Americans are happy with their current plans? Their response is just to leave everything the same, but obscure the details with more pages?

Who in the hell do these gangsters think they are?

Pissed-off American Opinion.

FEDERAL BAN AGAINST ACORN FUNDING ENDS

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The illustrious United States Congress, always one to buffalo Americans into thinking that we should trust them because they give a damn about us, our money, crime, and corruption....told us that they were banning ACORN from getting any more Federal funding.

That's where they stopped.

What they didn't bother to add was that the ban expires October 31, 2009 and there are currently no plans to extend that ban or to make it permanent.

Now, Mr. and Mrs. America, when are we going to have enough of their lies, lies, lies, deception and more lies? This is OUR country, godammit!

Just WHEN are we going to have enough?

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.

HALLOWEEN SHORT SHOTS

It’s been much too long since I posted some short shorts. But, news has been so crappy coming out of Washington these days that I have been distracted…

It seems as if the White House has taken a page from the Soviet Block and set up an Iron Curtain around 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It is rapidly becoming an “Us vs. Them” mentality. Those goombahs don’t understand that they work for us and we have a right to know what’s going on in our government. One would certainly expect that, especially after Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize, they’d be trying to mend fences instead of building them…..

Two things they don’t allow in the White House:

• Tea Parties

• Re-runs of “TO TELL THE TRUTH”

Do you realize it’s been over two weeks now that Obama hasn’t been out of the country? And, it’s been over two MONTHS since news of a great sex scandal has surfaced in Congress…. Wow.

Here’s my stock tip. Find out who manufactures the green ink for our currency and invest everything you have in that company, because we’re now out of money and we have to print tons more to cover Cap & Trade, Health Care, and the T.C.P. problem…. (Thought Control Police).

Warren Buffet is said to be working on a way to harness all of the potential energy from the natural gas being emitted from Capitol Hill. I hear he’s been following Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid around…

There’s no truth to the rumor that ACORN is investigating CIA spooks for Eric Holder… But, as for the gossip that the S.E.I.U. is organizing the Secret Service, I can’t say. (I suppose I’ll hear from Jimmy Carter, Billy Clinton and Bill Cosby for using “that” word,).

Speaking of Halloween, I hear they’re throwing a big party on The Hill and Nancy Pelosi is going as a vampire bat. Barney Frankfarter is attending as a blubbering idiot. Harry Reid will be in a “Mr. Clean” costume. Charlie Wrangel and Chris Dodd will be in charge of fund raising and ticket sales…..

Quipping right along, Reid, Dodd, Baucus and "Mr. Congeniality" Rambo Emmanuel have been huddling behind closed doors, trying to put a band-aid on the Health Care Plan….. Who knows what they’re dreaming up? Maybe Jack Kevorkian can give them some advice on how to take care of senior citizens…..

Judging by the news, I don’t think we have to worry about the overseas terrorists anymore…. They’re all here in the U.S.

And, the short little Korean has surely been giving us the “Moon,” hasn’t he? Maybe we should nickname him “Johnny Rocket.” Meanwhile, the Russians are jumping up and down in wild anticipation of being able to process Iranian uranium; I wonder what’s up with that?

Ambulance attendants are now planning to charge extra for hauling overweight people to the hospital. In order to determine who has to pay more by the ton, all emergency vehicles will be equipped with scales. Fatsos can officially also be ridiculed and denigrated, but the national obese epidemic will be cured when Washington outlaws french fries and chocolate and starts jacking up insurance rates under the new government-run health plan.

The Administration plans to put limits on how much you can get paid. At the same time, they’re scheming to remove limits on what you can be taxed.

Since the economy has decimated discretionary income, the American cruise ship industry is suffering and desperately needs a stimulus. My recommendation is definitely a “win-win” situation. We can take all of the illegal immigrants, (undocumented aliens or whatever you want to call them), and load them onto the cruise ships. Since cruise ships have medical facilities, that also solves the issue of free health care to illegals. If we have a Mexican Mariachi Band on each ship, and if we anchor the ships on the Potomac, then Congress and the White House can be serenaded with the “Amnesty Rhumba.” (Sorry, Ms. Pelosi, that I came up with the idea first,).

Remember the flap about taxing farmers and ranchers who have cows, because cows emit too much flatulence, and flatulence causes global warming? This year, if you noticed, they had the earliest snow falls ever recorded in the states where we raise the most cows. And, that’s no bull.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM YOUR TEAM IN WASHINGTON!

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.

YOUR REAL COST OF GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH CARE

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This will be a short, not-so-sweet snippet to give you something to mull over before you call, write, fax or visit your Congressional delegates.

I don’t care how they maneuver or hide the figures, we’re talking over $1 trillion for the government cost. That works out to $3,333 for every man, woman and child in the country. Then, they are going to cut Medicare reimbursements by $500 billion, a figure that every senior is going to have to pony up to cover the resulting gaps. Based on 50 million seniors, that’s $10,000 each. Then, the insurance companies who still face enormous malpractice awards, pharmaceutical costs and hospital charges, are going to raise premiums an estimated $4,000 per insured over the course of the next ten years.

That adds up to $17,333 in additional costs per year for seniors by 2019.

How in the hell do they figure seniors are going to be able to come up with that kind of money?

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.

STAND UP, AMERICA! LET FREEDOM RING!

This is the time in life when we all must face the fact that the rubber is meeting the road. Every dream that we have as Americans, every memory we have of our heritage, and every hope that we have for our children and their children is in our hands and the enemy within is trying savagely and desperately to snatch the ball from us and to create the fumble that will bury our way of life now and forever. Totalitarianism, dictatorship and Marxism are pounding on our doors and we, the real people, have to do something about it.

Inch by inch, freedom by freedom, they are stealing our country away from us. They deny us the right to speak openly and freely about matters that concern us. They shout us down and call us names when we voice our opinions. They steal away from us our rights to religious beliefs. They mislead and misrepresent the truth to us through misinformation, disinformation, and outright lies. They tell us what to think and how to act and they call us names and talk down to us when we assert our American rights.

They would have us live in fear, afraid to walk on the streets. They allow thugs and thieves to stalk our parks, to rape our women and children, and to be turned loose upon us again because they interpret our laws they way they want them to read. They have corrupted our justice system and stolen our equality. They allow judges, politicians and government servants to be bribed and corrupted and they sneer at us when we question what they are doing to us.

They want to dictate to us what to eat, what car to drive, what doctor to see, how much we can weigh, what house we can own and whether or not we can buy a sports team. They are indoctrinating our children in our schools into their political ideologies and at our expense. They are engaged in taking our hard-earned money and giving it to those who sit on their duffs and acts as their androids.

Enough is truly enough. They have used our liberties and rights against us and they have almost defeated us. But, we are strong and determined that our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution, both written and defended with the blood of our forefathers, shall prevail. We are Americans. We will rise to the challenges presented to us by the enemies within. We will stand together, shoulder to shoulder, elbow to elbow, Christians and Jews, Democrat and Republican, black and brown and white and native, Irish, English, Indian, Hispanic, Italian… We are Americans and we will not allow our dreams to die or our liberties to fade on this hour, day or year now or forever.

We will yell and scream and fight to our dying days… In the streets, in Town Halls, on the air, in the papers. We have the right to speak. We have the right to be heard. We have the right to determine our future and we have the right to eliminate from our midst those traitors to our country who would try to shut us up and get us out of the way. We can, we must and we shall prevail.

God Bless America! Let freedom ring!

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION. Let it be heard, loud and clear.

ATTENTION, REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE!

I’ve been a registered Republican for 48 years. That doesn’t mean that I’ve always voted straight party lines; I’ve always voted for the best candidate, regardless of party. I’ve been registered as a Republican because that party has represented good, clean and conservative American values for much of that time. What I’ve seen in the last nine years, however, turns my stomach.

Now comes the inevitable plea from the RNC Chairman, Michael Steele, asking me to kick in some money. The letter is written along the lines of "we need your money so we can beat the nasty Democrats" in November of 2010. Well, that’s a nice cavalier attitude but, just what makes the damned Republicans think that they are so lilly pure right now? As far as I’m concerned, they haven’t shown me anything that can even begin to convince me that they, too, are not part of the growing problems in Washington:

• Corruption

• Lack of responsibility to constituents

• Fiscal irresponsibility

• Loss of fundamental American values

• Lack of vision

In fact, the Bush Administration enjoyed a majority in Congress during its first four years and the only thing the Republicans accomplished was maintaining the status quo of the time: squabble, squawk, and screw. The Republicans deserved to lose the 2008 elections and, thanks to their track record, they managed to saddle us with such a far-left government that the country is in danger of being destroyed.

I do want to see a 100% change-out in Congress. I want every incumbent replaced, I don’t care what party they belong to. In my opinion, the only way we can scour out the imbedded cultures that are listed above is to get out the bleach and sanitize Congress. Every damned one of them has been in office long enough to be tainted by their surroundings to some extent. We can’t risk a regrowth of their current cancers upon our country.

The Republicans want, and expect, that I will pony up a contribution so they can beat the Democrats? For what reason? So that they can get back in charge and screw it all up again?

Republican National Committee: Take heed. We are tired of “business as usual” in Washington. We are tired of the lies, the deceits, and the continued failures to do your jobs.

Come up with a new, relevant and American platform. Put forth some new candidates who have not been in politics long enough to be part of the problems. State some patriotic conservative values that you intend to live by. Step up to the plate of American liberty, justice and responsibility to the American people. Get that done first… don’t show me promises, show me results.

Then and only then can you count on a donation from me.

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.

ACORN MUST GO

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ACORN President Bertha Lewis, in defending her organization, has said that the money allegedly embezzled by organizer Wade Rathke's brother Dale, was NOT $1 million as has been reported, but "slightly less than that." In saying so, Lewis not only refuted recent allegations that the sum was closer to $5 million and appeared to be making the case that things are really okay at ACORN.

Another story making the rounds is that the duo who video-taped and broke the story about criminal intent among those working for ACORN offices a few weeks ago, was actually refused by several ACORN offices, thereby intimating that ACORN is really a clean machine at heart. This claim has been examined and refuted by FOX News.

The misbehavior by the ACORN organizations is criminal. It involves everything from phony voting registrations, to embezzlement, to criminal behavior in offices, to money laundering, to voter intimidation, to White House connections... and who knows what else?

ACORN and all of its subsidiary, lateral, and hidden entities must be thoroughly investigated. Those responsible for criminal acts must be charged and tried and, where federal funds have been involved, federal prosecutions must occur. This giant labyrinth of fraud, corruption and crime must be totally dismantled, and this process must start at once.

And, if it turns out that the trail of stench leads all of the way into top levels at the White House, as seems to be the case, then those involved must be exposed, regardless of who they turn out to be.

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.

IT'S IN OUR HANDS: A NEW, BOLD AMERICAN SOLUTION

TERMINATE CONGRESS

According to a NBC/New York Times opinion poll conducted September 17^th through the 20^th, only 22% of Americans feel that Congress is doing a good job, and 66% specifically disapprove of the job that Congress is doing. The difference is a minus 44%. But here’s the shocker. The public has rated Congress at an overall -20% or worse for the last five years or more, (I can only go back to December of 2005 in my research).

The question is: WHY?

Regardless of political inclination, at least 66% of Americans will tell you today that Congress is not doing the job we elected Members to do. They will then go on to cite multiple symptoms of what they don’t like… corruption, total lack of ethics, outright lies, sexual scandals… Americans are sick and tired of being treated like third-class citizens while Congress conducts itself like a fourth class government. But, they are quick to shrug their shoulders when you suggest that we need to elect fresh blood. “If you can find a clean, capable and dedicated American who is willing to take the heat of running for Congress, and if they should by some miracle win, they will soon be corrupted by the existing culture of Congress.”

Bingo! Therein lays the problem. The cavalier attitude of Congress toward the people, the total disregard of propriety in office, the corruption and the downright dirty politics have all been in place for so long that they have evolved into a cancerous culture that has metastasized and is spreading like wildfire through all corridors of Washington and into the rest of society like a deadly viral plague.

You know it and I know it. They don’t give a rat’s ass what you think.

This “culture” transcends party lines. It has permeated every dark corner of all Congressional buildings. It knows no boundaries as to sex, age, party affiliation, religious background, color or creed. The only way to pry it out is to kill it. The only way to kill it is to terminate every last Member of Congress that we can, and then to fumigate the halls, corridors, offices and meeting chambers.

Here’s my proposition. It will take teamwork, with all Americans working side by side starting today. There’s an election coming up in 2010. One third of the Senate seats and all of the House seats will be up for election. Primaries will be held next summer. By working together, we can guarantee that every seat will have a new body sitting in it. If the Democrats, Republicans and Independents start to work right now to find a replacement for their Senators or Representatives currently in Congress, and if they vote them in to be their party's candidates during the primaries, then we go into November elections with fresh faces. This guarantees that, whichever party ultimately wins the seats, we have fresh blood in Washington, and I find it difficult to believe, after such a “voters’ revolution,” that the 2/3 of the Senators remaining can control or corrupt that much fresh blood.

In this process, we will have negated the corrupting influence of lobbyists, and we will have made it abundantly clear to Congress and the world that American government belongs to "We, the people," and that "We, the people," expect and demand excellence and professionalism from our elected representatives in all respects.

When I say “fresh blood,” I mean people who have not served in Congress before; people who have not made a career out of politics and who, regardless of party are patriotic Americans; people who have created a successful track record in their professions and who can bring to the table a fresh, bold new look to the heart and spirit of American government.

This may sound like a tall order and one big mountain to climb. I’m not suggesting that it will be a cake walk. But, if we can lay down our differences and stand side-by-side as Americans in this endeavor, we can succeed. We owe it to ourselves, our ancestors and our descendants. Truly, and we all know this to be true, if we fail, we fail America.

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.