GOP Weekly Address

[Scott Brown]

I delivered the GOP weekly address, please take a look at tell me your thoughts.

[Bogdan]

It shows you're reading, but it's OK, the message was OK. Plus being a picture perfect speaker (like BO) kinda cuts on the sincerity of the message. I think the effort to keep in touch with the voters will pay off in two years.

[Lisa Lenoch]

Thank you for keeping up your spirits and
can do" attitude...we really need you!

[Emmy]

Scott,
Fabulous Job. The most important message that MUST filter through all the liberal media noise is that leaders are elected to represent the will of THE PEOPLE as was your very clear campaign message. Instead, Obama and the Dems in DC are determined to impose their will IN SPITE of the people. It is unAmerican and dangerous and must be stopped. Thank you for continuing to keep us, the people of Massachusetts, your number one priority.

[1789 Patriot]

Has anyone stopped to consider why President Obama is waiting until tomorrow to sign the healthcare bill? If this is truly as important to him as he has claimed what possible reason could he have for waiting an additional day before making it the law of the land?

He is not signing it today because of the historical significance of March 22nd.

Today is the 245th Anniversary of the British Stamp Act, the act of tyranny that eventually led to the American Revolution.

British Stamp Act of 1765 passed March 22nd.

I am sure the parallels between these acts of tyranny aren't lost on the executive branch of our government. Here is a summary of the Colonial Williamsburg website.

The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed. The money collected by the Stamp Act was to be used to help pay the costs of defending and protecting the American frontier near the Appalachian Mountains (10,000 troops were to be stationed on the American frontier for this purpose).

The actual cost of the Stamp Act was relatively small. What made the law so offensive to the colonists was not so much its immediate cost but the standard it seemed to set. In the past, taxes and duties on colonial trade had always been viewed as measures to regulate commerce, not to raise money. The Stamp Act, however, was viewed as a direct attempt by England to raise money in the colonies without the approval of the colonial legislatures. If this new tax were allowed to pass without resistance, the colonists reasoned, the door would be open for far more troublesome taxation in the future.

Few colonists believed that they could do anything more than grumble and buy the stamps until the Virginia House of Burgesses adopted Patrick Henry's Stamp Act Resolves. These resolves declared that Americans possessed the same rights as the English, especially the right to be taxed only by their own representatives; that Virginians should pay no taxes except those voted by the Virginia House of Burgesses; and that anyone supporting the right of Parliament to tax Virginians should be considered an enemy of the colony. The House of Burgesses defeated the most extreme of Henry's resolutions, but four of the resolutions were adopted. Virginia Governor Fauquier did not approve of the resolutions, and he dissolved the House of Burgesses in response to their passage.

Looks like we need new resolves against this tyrannical and oppressive government.

[1789 Patriot]

There is absolutely no proof of the so called spitting or name calling. Allegedly someone was detained by the Capitol police. Well, where are they and what is their name? I am all for checking out who they are. I have viewed several videos and none show the alleged offenses. If any such offenses occurred, I am sure they would be SEIU or ACORN thug plants. I know how these communists work. I denounce all racism on both sides. Yes, racism exists on the left.

This is just more lies spread by the racists on the left. As a light skinned minority I find more racism on the democrat/progressive side than I do on the right/conservative side. I asked my democrat Senator and democrat Congressman to denounce the words of the racist Harry Reid and they wouldn't. I guess they support him and are as racist as he is.

Know your enemies Senator Brown.

Senator Brown, I would like to provide the following information to you
for your consideration. I want you to understand who and what the enemy
of this country is. You are a good man with a good heart and a good
soul. You have lived a good life. You believe in America as I do. You
probably cannot believe why anyone living in this country would want to
destroy the system that created it. I think you are living in the naïve
world of most Americans.

I have the experience of coming from a communist country and I have seen
the face of evil. I understand that evil does not live outside of our
borders alone. In fact, that evil serves in the mind and body of some of
our elected officials. Please view the following facts so you may be an
informed General against the enemies of this country. I am but a
minuteman willing to protect the Constitution and freedom at all cost
and at your disposal. I was born under oppression and tyranny, I’ll be
damned if I will die under it.

Who is Barack Obama? What does he believe? He proudly calls himself a
progressive as do many democrats. Let’s take a listen as to what he
thinks of our Constitution in his own words.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck

He calls the Constitution a negative liberties document. I guess he
means from a government point of view because he later says that it
fails to say what the government “must do for you.” I think he really
meant what the government must do “to” you. Both statements I consider
to be un-American.

Well, let’s see what kind of candidates he supports.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6vBRJIBp2I&feature=related

And I bet you thought he was only 0’fer here in the States. Adds a whole
new meaning to the kiss of death.

Just as a reminder let’s throw out a few names he has associated with
besides Raila Odinga. Bill Ayers, of Weather Underground and numerous
bombings fame. Reverand Wright, twenty year pastor and known America
hater. Frank Marshall Davis an admitted communist who Barack calls a
friend and mentor. In his own memoirs, Obama admits he sought out and
associated with the radicals in college including Marxist professors.

So what does he think of our Judeo-Christian heritage. Let's take a
look.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi-V_ilJu0w&feature=related

So is he really Christian? Let's see, he has also said we are no longer a
Christian nation. He still has not selected a church to attend in DC.
He did not participate in any Christmas celebrations during the
holidays. The first president to not attend any. We know his mother was
not religious and his father and step-father were Muslims. The church he
did attend in Chicago was anti-American and spewed hate.

Are you getting a clear picture of your enemies now? Does his
multitrillion dollar budget make sense now? Do you think he and the
other progressives have the best interest of our Constitution and our
country in mind? Do you understand now why he continues to try and
strangle free markets? You have to destroy something before you can
“transform” it. What do you think he wants to destroy? Do you understand
now the progressive enemies that you are fighting? Do you understand
that the only compromise they will accept is to do it their way?

[lindsey vonn]

Oregon Country Girl
It was the "right" infiltrators who spat at the Congressmen and used the "n" word.
And the Congressmen who voted for the Healthcare Reform Bill were more concern about doing the right thing.
At least, they're not a member of the "Party of No".
I guess you have healthcare insurance and don't give a damn about those w/out it. How selfish of you.

[lindsey vonn]

Hey, Grandpa(Mark)
I can write at great length too.

[lindsey vonn]

Health Care Reform, at Last

The process was wrenching, and tainted to the 11th hour by narrow political obstructionism, but the year-long struggle over health care reform came to an end on Sunday night with a triumph for countless Americans who have been victimized or neglected by their dysfunctional health care system. Barack Obama put his presidency on the line for an accomplishment of historic proportions.
The bill, which was approved by the Senate in December and by the House on Sunday, represents a national commitment to reform the worst elements of the current system. It will provide coverage to tens of millions of uninsured Americans, prevent the worst insurance company abuses, and begin to wrestle with relentlessly rising costs — while slightly reducing future deficits.

Amendments approved by the House and awaiting approval in the Senate would provide additional coverage and make somewhat deeper reductions in the deficit.

All of this was managed despite the fact that not a single Republican in the House or Senate was willing to vote for the bill. Efforts by the White House and Congressional Democrats to draft bipartisan legislation were met by demagoguery. That is not likely to end now.

Republican leaders, who see opportunities to gain seats in the elections, have made clear that they will continue to peddle fictions about a government takeover of the health care system and about costs too high to bear. Mr. Obama took too long to get into the fight, but came on strong in the end and will have to keep pushing back so all Americans understand the benefits of reform.

Most Americans — those who already have employer-based insurance — will not see much change for a while and certainly not in the seven months before the elections. They will get one important benefit quickly: for an additional fee, parents will be able to keep adult dependent children on their policy through age 26. That is good news when so many young people are struggling to find jobs during the recession.

The biggest difference for Americans who have employer-based insurance is the security of knowing that, starting in 2014, if they lose their job and have to buy their own policy, they cannot be denied coverage or charged high rates because of pre-existing conditions. Before then, the chronically ill could gain temporary coverage from enhanced high-risk pools and chronically ill children are guaranteed coverage.

The focus of the reform is on improving the dysfunctional and hugely expensive insurance markets for individuals and small businesses, and on expanding Medicaid coverage for the poor. The big expansion of coverage will start in 2014, but some reforms start quickly, like tax credits to help small businesses provide coverage.

Over time the reforms could bring about sweeping changes in the way medical care is delivered and paid for. They could ultimately rival Social Security and Medicare in historic importance.

NEAR-UNIVERSAL COVERAGE The United States is the only advanced industrial nation that does not provide or guarantee health care coverage for virtually all of its citizens. It is a moral obligation to end this indefensible neglect of hard-working Americans. The bill does not quite reach full universality, but by 2019, fully 94 to 95 percent of American citizens and legal residents below Medicare age will have coverage. The bill achieves that by requiring most Americans to obtain health insurance, providing subsidies to help the middle classes buy policies on new competitive exchanges, and expanding Medicaid coverage of the poor to include childless adults and others not currently eligible.

INSURANCE REFORMS The legislation would rein in many of the insurance industry’s worst practices. Insurers would no longer be able to reject applicants with “pre-existing conditions” or charge them exorbitant rates. They could not rescind policies on specious grounds after people become sick (that becomes effective immediately) or cap the amount they are willing to pay toward a beneficiary’s illnesses in any given year or over a lifetime.
The most important reform — forcing insurers to accept all applicants regardless of their health status — cannot be achieved unless nearly all Americans are required to have coverage, so the costs can be spread among the healthy and the sick.

A START AT COST CONTROL The legislation won’t quickly bend the cost curve for medical care or insurance premiums — no one has yet found a surefire way to do that — but the reform will make an important start. Some experts believe it will lay the structural framework to mount the most serious effort ever made to control medical inflation. It will create competitive insurance exchanges that should help lower premiums for individuals and small businesses by offering an array of private policies and rates comparable to large group coverage.

The legislation will impose an excise tax in 2018 designed to drive employers and their workers away from the highest-cost insurance policies, which typically provide generous benefits at little out-of-pocket cost to the workers. Health economists consider the excise tax a very strong cost-control measure, because if workers have to pay more of the cost themselves, they and their doctors are apt to think more carefully about whether a test or procedure is really needed. The impact of the excise tax gets increasingly strong as the years pass.

The legislation creates an array of pilot programs within Medicare, to test other innovative cost-reduction strategies. They include encouraging new medical groups to better coordinate care of the chronically ill, and paying doctors and medical institutions based on the quality, not quantity, of services they deliver. The reform measure will establish an independent board to push approaches that work into widespread use in Medicare and ultimately, by force of example, the private sector.

With so many mechanisms available to hold down medical costs, it’s hard to believe that they won’t bear fruit, if not in the next several years then in the decade thereafter.

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Just as Social Security grew from a modest start in 1935 to become a bedrock of the nation’s retirement system, this is a start on health care reform, not the end. A lot will depend on whether future presidents and Congresses stick to the savings and deficit targets set in this legislation; on how aggressively states administer the new exchanges; on how health care professionals and institutions respond to the challenge of changing their ways; and on how the public responds to the mandate that everyone obtain insurance or pay a penalty.

Our hope and belief is that this reform will in the end accomplish its great objectives. Right now, the good news for all Americans is that despite all the politics and the obstructionism, the process has finally begun.

[lindsey vonn]

House Approves Health Overhaul, Sending Landmark Bill to Obama

After Abortion Deal, Democrats Secure 219-212 Victory

Congress gave final approval to legislation that would provide medical coverage to tens of millions of Americans and remake the U.S. health care system along the lines proposed by President Obama.

[Thomas D. Louwers]

Nancy Pelosi and HR 3590 sent me.

Senator, let's give 'em a Code Brown.