My First Amendment

[Scott Brown]

Today, I gave my first speech on the Senate floor. I feel that it's time to return tax dollars back in to the pockets of American workers and provide across the board tax relief for working families.

These tax cuts have had bipartisan support in the past, and I believe that individual citizens know better on how to spend their own money. For almost 130 million American workers will benefit from these tax cuts.

[Grandpa]

So the yearlong production, set to close after Massachusetts' devastatingly negative Jan. 19 review, saw the curtain raised one last time. Obamacare lives.


After 34 speeches, three sharp electoral rebukes (Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts) and a seven-hour seminar, the president announced Wednesday his determination to make one last push to pass his health care reform.

The final act was carefully choreographed. The rollout began a week earlier with a couple of shows of bipartisanship: a Feb. 25 Blair House "summit" with Republicans, followed five days later with a few concessions tossed the Republicans' way.

Show is the operative noun. Among the few Republican suggestions President Obama pretended to incorporate was tort reform. What did he suggest to address the plague of defensive medicine that a Massachusetts Medical Society study showed leads to about 25 percent of doctor referrals, tests and procedures being done for no medical reason? A few ridiculously insignificant demonstration projects amounting to one-half of one-hundredth
of 1 percent of the cost of Obama's health care bill.

As for the Blair House seminar, its theatrical quality was obvious even before it began. The Democrats had already decided to go for a purely partisan bill. Obama signaled precisely that intent at the end of the summit show -- then dramatically spelled it out just six days later in his 35th health care speech: He is going for the party-line vote.

Unfortunately for Democrats, that seven-hour televised exercise had the unintended consequence of showing the Republicans to be not only highly informed on the subject, but also, as even Obama was forced to admit, possessed of principled objections -- contradicting the ubiquitous Democratic/media meme that Republican opposition was nothing but nihilistic partisanship.

Republicans did so well, in fact, that in his summation, Obama was reduced to suggesting that his health care reform was indeed popular because when you ask people about individual items (for example, eliminating exclusions for pre-existing conditions or capping individual out-of-pocket payments) they are in favor.

Yet mystifyingly they oppose the whole package. How can that be?

Allow me to demystify. Imagine a bill granting every American a free federally delivered ice cream every Sunday morning. Provision 2: steak on Monday, also home delivered. Provision 3: A dozen red roses every Tuesday. You get the idea. Would each individual provision be popular in the polls? Of course.

However (life is a vale of howevers) suppose these provisions were bundled into a bill that also spelled out how the goodies are to be paid for and managed -- say, half a trillion dollars in new taxes, half a trillion in Medicare cuts (cuts not to keep Medicare solvent but to pay for the ice cream, steak and flowers), 118 new boards and commissions to administer the bounty-giving, and government regulation dictating, for example, how your steak was to be cooked. How do you think this would poll?

Perhaps something like 3-1 against, which is what the latest CNN poll shows is the citizenry's feeling about the current Democratic health care bills.

Late last year, Democrats were marveling at how close they were to historic health care reform, noting how much agreement had been achieved among so many factions. The only remaining detail was how to pay for it.

Well, yes. That has generally been the problem with democratic governance: cost. The disagreeable absence of a free lunch.

Which is what drove even strong Obama supporter Warren Buffett to go public with his judgment that the current Senate bill, while better than nothing, is a failure because the country desperately needs to bend the cost curve down and the bill doesn't do it. Buffett's advice would be to start over and get it right.

Obama has chosen differently, however. The time for debate is over, declared the nation's seminar leader in chief. The man who vowed to undo Washington's wicked ways has directed the Congress to ram Obamacare through, by one vote if necessary, under the parliamentary device of "budget reconciliation." The man who ran as a post-partisan is determined to remake a sixth of the U.S. economy despite the absence of support from a single Republican in either house, the first time anything of this size and scope has been enacted by pure party-line vote.

Surprised? You can only be disillusioned if you were once illusioned.

[Grandpa]

The White House on Friday announced a "summit on entrepreneurship" to build economic ties with the Islamic world, part of President Barack Obama's outreach to Muslims.
The White House said it has invited participants from more than 40 countries over five continents for the April 26-27 conference in Washington.

"The summit will highlight the role entrepreneurship can play in addressing common challenges while building partnerships that will lead to greater opportunity abroad and at home," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said.


http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.c429eac8e6bddb6d430d2b4...

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[CJ]

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=s2010-40 Reposting the vote for those who watch the above video....agree with what Scott is saying about a tax decrease helping our economy and Job situation accross the board. I'm disappointed that it was voted down, but I think all americans need to look hard as to who is voting against them. The Dems still seem to thing we need to spend more and create more Gov't to create Jobs. We can all see how thier 900K stimulous didn't stimulate. So now lets give the folks back there money and watch the seeds grow for spring? Nope says the Dems. "Let them Eat Cake if they don't have Bread"....or maybe let them Eat Healthcare instead of Jobs.

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[Grandpa]

We’ve been waiting for a really good example of the most effective trolling that’s out there: a troll who derails something it does not want us to do, because we’re onto something that could seriously harm the Left.

This is a troll who goes out of its way to say how much it agrees with you, and how they think some specific action item is “a good idea”, BUT the troll then launches into a plea to convince people to not do that “good idea” and instead keep doing the things that have never worked, and will never work, because then energy and activity is diverted essentially into the toilet.

That would be Mission Accomplished for the troll…to break focus, splinter an effort, and rechannel activity to where it will do little or no good.

An effective “nuclear counterattack” on the Left for using Reconciliation is to do what’s never been done before: to go directly after Democrat big donors and pressure them on a nationwide basis to stop donating money to the Left. If we cut off their funding sources, we’d cause panic at the DNC, which depends on socialites writing big checks. Socialites do not want to keep giving money if it means they start receiving thousands of letters a day from the public. Socialites hate “the public”. They’ll find somewhere else to donate that’s more fun for them, and that doesn’t result in stacks of mail, phone calls, and endless faxes eating up paper all day at their offices.

We’ve mentioned this strategy before, and instantly got the same troll response we got today, along the lines of, “this is a good idea guys, and I really want to stop the DNC, BUT I think we should just keep calling the same Senators who never care that we call them. After that, we should probably just blow up balloons and write messages on them, and then release them into the air and then go try to find those balloons, and take several weeks to do this. That’s a better idea”.

Trolls really and truly dont want us to encourage the country to identify and pressure the Democrats’ top donors to JUST STOP GIVING TO THESE MARXIST LEFTISTS.

That means we need to seriously focus and make this grassroots effort happen. If the most effective and best trolls out there come out of the caves to try psy-ops to keep this effort from happening, then we know we are onto something.

Look into democratic fundraising efforts and target their biggest contributors in your town. Find out who is going to the luncheons and dinners, then letterbomb them, email them, notify your contact list who they are, slow their business, send them a personal letter letting them know that you are aware of their support for a marxist agenda and you are going to blow the whistle on them. If you put that much of a spotlight on them, they will back away from financial support. That is how we cripple the left wing agenda.

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Mark(Grandpa)
Thanks for the photo of yourself.
Now it has been embedded in my mind. (don't think I'll be able to sleep, at least for tonight)

[lindsey vonn]

Flynn
The cover is of Scott Brown.
The article is quite lengthy especially for those with short attention span.
You'll like it. The article that is.