A very inspiring speech by Representative Allen West (R-FL) at yesterday’s March for Life rally.
A fitting verse from the devotional he shared.
“In the sight of God, who gives life to everything, and of Christ Jesus, who while testifying before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, I charge you” 1 Timothy 6:13 (NIV).
(H/T – The Blaze)
Interesting, but not surprising.
The 8th Congressional District’s new congressman has never held elective office before. So Republican Reid Ribble says he feels a bit like Jimmy Stewart in the 1939 classic movie “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.”
“Matter of fact, when I won my election I got four copies of it as gifts,” he said
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Ribble says it’s impossible not to be impressed by the surroundings of more than two centuries of making law.
“You stop and it does make you pause and say ‘Look at the giants of American history who have served here’, guys like Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln,” Ribble said. “You look at how the American people view Congress today with an approval rating of less than 20 percent.”
Ribble says this freshmen class hopes to reclaim that image over the next two years.
Hopefully Congressman-elect Ribble and the other newcomers to the Washington D.C. scene remember why they were elected. If they remember that and understand “we the people” will be holding their feet to the fire that image will be reclaimed.
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Now that the Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have propelled this great nation even farther down the road to socialism it’s time to take steps necessary to take back our country. It’s time to step up to the plate and do whatever it takes to return the USA to its roots. And it’s time to do this PEACEFULLY.
Robert Moon has a great piece on how to do this.
Now that Democrats have needlessly (and illegally) destroyed the free market health care system that 84% of us were happy with, we have only 4 options left before things get ugly:
1) Vote them out in 2010. This option requires much patience and will not actually mean anything unless those elected actually reverse all the spending, bailouts and takeovers.
Most likely, Democrats will be punished for a few years while Republicans ride the tidal wave of public outrage into office, at which point they will throw us some symbolic scraps from the table, rather than making a serious commitment to uprooting federal tyranny.
2) Legal challenge in the courts. There is a chance that the Supreme Court could reverse parts of this law based on the “Commerce Clause” debate (a few states being bribed and blackmailed into submission at the expense of all the others).
3) Nullification. This is where states stand up for their 10th Amendment rights and declare that, since this law is blatantly unconstitutional, they refuse to acknowledge that it was even passed.
And no, the Founders never intended for the federal government to be the sole determiner of the size and scope of its own power. State nullification was always intended as a natural check against federal encroachments.
If the federal government defies a legitimate nullification action, which it will, then this could lead into a secessionist movement. And as I have noted, the majority of states have already introduced some form of sovereignty movement.
4) Civil (or un-civil) disobedience. For this not to backfire, it requires numbers, coordination and legitimacy in the eyes of the people. ObamaCare will offer many such opportunities (people being denied health care, punished for not buying insurance, etc.).
Moon also reminds us of the question we all as AMERICANS need to be ask ourselves in the face of this full-frontal assault on the fabrics of this great nation. How far our we willing to go to defend OUR republic?
Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence that when government becomes adversarial to the interests of The People, it is both the right and the responsibility of The People to rise up and “alter or abolish” that government.
The Founders revolted over taxation without representation, and after Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts…and all the polls, and Democrats still having to openly bribe and blackmail their own super-majority into voting for this treason, I would say we are pretty much there.
It is time to step up and take back what is ours. Hopefully, this can still be done peacefully. (Source: Conservative Examiner)
It will be a long, hard road but as an army of Davids we can take it back.
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Great letter to the editor.
I attended Rep. Steve Kagen‘s listening session at the Brown County Central Library and have since heard concerned citizens described as Nazis, brownshirts, terrorists, unAmerican, evil-mongers and paid mobs.
We have been contacting senators and representatives for months regarding their rushed massive spending and government takeovers. Unemployment is skyrocketing, businesses are closing, and the federal deficit is projected to quadruple last year’s record.
If nationalization of health care passes, the Congressional Budget Office projects an additional deficit of almost $300 billion. This government has not exactly earned the confidence of the American people.
Our outrage is about government bureaucrats, appointed by the president and overseen by Congress, mandating our health care; it is about financially penalizing American taxpayers and businesses if we don’t take a “government-approved” plan; it is about covering “non-U.S. citizens.”
These are all in the bill and more. Yes, we are frightened — these officials are supposed to be our representatives, not our rulers.
Thomas Jefferson said, “When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”
George Washington said, “Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force … it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.”
Jan Weycker
(Source – We elect representatives, not rulers – Green Bay Press-Gazette)
It is pretty sad when elected officials act the way the Representative Steve Kagen and others have acted when it comes to responding to concerned citizens. Look at the actions of the federal government since the liberal Democrats have been in control. The crap that has been shoved down the throats of the American people is ridiculous. These people are ELECTED Representatives and should be listening to constituents, respecting constituents. Instead they continue to act as rulers who can do whatever they want.
Hopefully people of the 8th District remember what Steve Kagen and his liberal buddies have done to this great nation when November 2010 rolls around.
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