Our Lawless President Reviewed...A Summation of Some of the Worst Violations of Law and the Constitution

I haven’t written a post in months, passing through a negative period of ‘what’s the point’? Everything that works, that is good, is under attack. Those are supported by the Jurassic Press, and unless folks read the conservative media, the word just doesn’t get out. (Obama and Eric Holder ordered criminal investigations against Fox News following the 2012 elections.) We have a lawless U.S. president and his political party, a culture that is aggressively for anything that is silly, stupid, damaging or demeaning to good people and traditions that work, and Christians getting slaughtered with what appears to be a tacit approval by Leftists/Democrats and our president. (A result I think of Obama and his Party's antisemitism.)

I need to get back to it. Contribute my little bit. Writing helps commit things to memory, clarifies thinking, and maybe someone not aware of an issue will be introduced to it. Surprisingly, and gratefully, when I was posting nearly daily, I had a pretty solid readership. For that I’m eternally thankful.

All that follows here is linked to our lawless president. Starting with immigration. He and his Party have kept it at the top of their agenda, even though poll after poll showed it’s really low in importance to citizens. That’s until recently though, when he solicited, back in January of this year (documents prove), to have thousands of “children” invade our borders and create a humanitarian crises. His plan is coming to fruition now. He’s spending $millions on this and planting them in communities all over the country without warning causing tremendous burdens. A large number of them aren’t children at all but juvenile gang-bangers with criminal records.

No deportation is in the offing. Prior to this executive ordered humanitarian disaster deportations were not happening. The president has about 300,000 people that should be, but he doesn’t. They’re just processed, given a court date to return, then don’t. At the same time he says he has the highest deportation rate of any president, but does that by including illegals that get turned back at the border when caught (they come back later). That has never been done by any president. The “Dream Act” was rejected by Congress, which would have made legal tens of thousands of illegals permanent residents. So he wrote an executive order which is essentially the Dream Act. That is illegal and unconstitutional. The executive branch cannot write and enforce legislation. He does this because he is an advocate of open borders, and thinks, probably correctly, that once illegally given the right to vote, will vote Democrat. 

Also at the border he’s supposed to build a fence. The 2006 Secure Fence Act requires this by law, and he’s ignored it. This is illegal and unconstitutional. The Israeli’s built one, with only good results. We’re talking about only 650 miles, which would save $trillions by at least slowing down the illegal mass migration. Remember he sued Arizona, supporting an illegal lawsuit by the Mexican government, against legislation supporting already existing Federal border laws. The Mexicans law suit was against Arizona enforcing U.S. immigration and border laws.  I was stunned that even this corrupt executive and Dept of “Justice” would support a foreign government’s lawsuit against an American State.

Moving within the borders of our country, he selectively administers ObamaCare to assist his supporters, Leftists, Democrats, that are inconvenienced by the law. It is illegal and unconstitutional to selectively enforce the law. Some of the things in his and the Democrat Party's law are so egregious they must be put off until after this year's midterms. He uses it to oppress religion (Christians being the focus) and the second amendment’s right to bear arms. He does the latter by making it a requirement of healthcare law for doctors and medical organizations to ask patients if they own guns, then report it to the government. Then there’s the well documented anti-religious (anti-Christian) forcing of businesses to violate their religious beliefs and traditions and obey the selectively enforced “healthcare” act.  Remember, this act was passed only by the Democrat Party in the dead of night on a holiday in December, and made possible with bribes and threats. Just as a reminder of the most noted bribes, there was Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska with the "Cornhusker Kickback" and Senator Mary Landrieu with the $300 million "Louisiana Purchase." This “law” violates the First Amendment and the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act.  It has thrown thousands, if not millions, of citizens out of their health insurance policies, or has risen the costs so high as to be unaffordable. I know mine has gone up, but only by a couple, three $hundred a year, so I’ve been able to handle it so far.

About costs, remember too that Obama said, while lying that we could all keep our doctors and insurance policies, that his healthcare law would cost under a $trillion. So far it’s about $2.4 trillion. The CBO says we’re actually looking at $10 trillion and it will grow, and at the same time stole $716 billion from Medicare (and lied the Republicans did it).  Why adding this financial burden on the productive people of this country, ones that are taking care of themselves and families in the first place (not costing the government), is seen as a good thing is not a mystery. It’s the last piece of the plan to control citizens. Then through it all your personal and private health issues are controlled by the government, guns controlled, religion controlled, business additional control.

Back to the border for a minute. Remember “Fast and Furious”? Obama and his “Justice” department are still stonewalling, refusing to respond, illegally and unconstitutionally to congressional subpoenas. He sent thousands of weapons across the Mexican border to arm drug cartels that resulted in the deaths of several hundred people and an American border patrol agent. My view is he and Eric Holder are accessories to murder.

Speaking of accessories to murder, the same is true for Obama and Hillary Clinton for Benghazi. They both ignored, then lied about in a massive cover-up the murder of four American citizens, representatives of our government, on sovereign US territory (the embassy). They both apparently went to bed while the attack was in progress, and the next day Obama flew off to a fund raiser.

The “justice” department under Eric Holder, bringing him up again, has refused to prosecute blacks, and a whistle blower had documents to prove it, and quit because of it. Holder’s department promotes voter fraud if it benefits the Democrat Party. He and Obama filed suit to stop voter ID, and has sued both Arizona and Alabama on their voter laws.

He has his executive branch departments write lots of regulations, which are in fact illegal taxation legislation that causes businesses to shut down because they can’t afford to implement them. The coal industry has been most notably crushed by this. He did say he wanted to raise the price of energy. He’s illegally shut down the Yucca Mountain nuclear repository. Regardless of the environmental controversy, it’s still unconstitutional and illegal.

His EEOC, “Equal” Opportunity Commission, sided with a minister in a Michigan church that sued to get her job back. She was fired by the church because she rejected the church’s doctrines. When did this become the business of the executive branch of government? Well, since this president decided he must control (Christian) religion.  

Then of course is his political enemies list and his use of the IRS to persecute and repress them. Nixon thought about doing this, and was threatened with impeachment which was backed by his own Party. Nixon was caught conspiring to do this and a few other things, many things Obama has in fact done, and resigned from office. Obama is given a pass.

These are just a few of the illegal and unconstitutional actions this president has taken, that upset this citizen the most, and this post would get even longer if I continued. Probably even this is too long.

Unbelievably he has done more social and economic damage than Carter, and broken more laws than any other president. First we must, in the upcoming midterm elections get some more conservatives in congress, and hopefully get a majority in the Senate (entirely possible despite what Dems, RINO’s and the Jurassic Press say); that can support the next president, hopefully a conservative even though the Republican elite are against it, and rescind all the law breaking executive orders and repeal ObamaCare. Jobs one and two.  

There was a Facebook post that said something to the effect that Obama could feed a baby into a wood-chipper on national television and would get away with it.

Obama: Intentions and Promises

Before Obama came to power he made statements about his political goals, Socialist intentions, and his pro Islamist support. His stated goals then were a single payer (to the government) health care system, shutting down the energy sector and military, along with anti US and anti Constitutional freedoms, and support of Islamism.

He's done well shutting down coal and oil production on federal land and water, has gotten most of his government (as opposed to personal) controlled health care, and his support of Islam has reached the point where he is sending military weapons to Al Qaeda, sworn enemy of the US. Aiding and abetting the enemy used to be called treason. He supported the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and is supporting Al Qaeda in Syria.

When he ran for the presidency he made some promises that were not carried out, or partially carried out if it fit within his anti American, anti Constitutional world view. Others he just disregarded.

He was going to close Gitmo. Still open.

Remember his complaint about lobbyists, how evil they were, that they had too much control over politics? Then he said he would not have lobbyists in his administration? He has a lot of lobbyists in his administration, and their companies have gotten a lot of special legislation and tax breaks.

He's covered up Benghazi,  the IRS targeting Conservative and Religious groups, NSA spying on ordinary citizens, and lots of other stuff we all know about if we read and listen to other sources than the Jurassic Press. He has secret meetings that blocks the press, even though they advocate for and support everything he says and does. Yet he had said his would be the most transparent administration in history.  

There was his promise ObamaCare would let everyone keep his\her current plan and doctor (it doesn't) and it would lower costs by about $2500 per family per year (it increases by about that much). He said there was an opt out for abortion based on religious views (it doesn't so there's a bunch of law suits). He has forced with this legislation, passed by Dems only in the middle of the night on a holiday, to make every citizen to pay into it even if they don't want to. That is unless you're a friend of Obama, one of his paymasters, or congressmen and their staffers who can opt out; taxpayers will pay the price difference. Oh, and if you're a young person you'll be paying for most of the freight for this program, against your will, yet you voted en mass for him. 

He was going to lower unemployment and it's gone up. It even was over 8% which he said would never happen on his watch. I remember the Jurassic Press and Dems screaming bloody murder whenever, under a Republican Administration unemployment got into the high 4% range. Now 8% is the "new normal" and we must accept it. The 7 point whatever percent  it is now is seen as a recovery and improvement when in fact more people are unemployed, 46 million. More people are underemployed than ever. More people are on food stamps than ever. He was going to create millions of "green jobs". Most went bankrupt after they took and kept the taxpayer money or took the money and opened plants overseas. More Blacks are unemployed than ever yet they voted for him en mass, again, for a second term. 

Black on black violence is up, black on white violence is up. Groups hating each other is up even though he ran saying he would bring groups together. That he would smooth over and negotiate mutually beneficial political resolutions between political parties, yet over the years has stated several times he will not negotiate with Republicans. He has however negotiated with Russian Tsar Putin, leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, the murderous Syrian dictator, is willing to sit down Hamas and Iran's dictator. He admired Venezuelan dictator Chavez. But Conservative, non-RHINO Republicans and Christians are his (and Democrat Party's) evil enemy.

He said he would slash earmarks out of any budget sent to him, that he would go through each budget line by line. He hasn't. His own budgets have gotten nearly 100% rejection every year, and his Democrat controlled senate has not passed a budget since he came to office, and it's required by law.

I could go on and on, but I think you get my drift. This is the biggest lying incompetent president in our history. We have the least transparent, most law breaking, division producing, most dictatorial, poverty producing presidency ever, and it's breaking our country up.

Don't forget either he also was going to "heal the planet" and "slow the rise of the oceans".

His breaking down our country is breaking my heart.

Dr. Benjamin Carson at National Prayer Breakfast: Truth Be Told In Front of Obama

This is a speech given by Dr. Benjamin Carson at the National Prayer Breakfast, with Obama in attendance. It was a remarkable speech, faith filled, and made more remarkable because Dr. Carson addressed political correctness (a Leftist tool suppressing free speech and Obama is a Leftist), education (we are at the bottom of nations), taxation (he advocates a flat tax using Scripture and Leftists advocate progressive taxation), the national debt (increased more in Obama's administration than all previous presidents combined) and privatized healthcare and health savings accounts (vs State controlled like ObamaCare). What he has to say is profound and true and well worth the 26 min. 

Summation of Obama's Record to Now

Just summing up Obama's record so far. Now that he doesn't have the fetters of re-election expect more of this but worse. 

-Record four straight years of trillion dollar deficits

-Only president to preside over the downgrade of the US economy.

-Spent a trillion dollars on a failed ‘stimulus’ plan. Most of that money went to unions that put it back in his campaign coffers, and his Wall Street buddies.

-One-third of the national debt is his.

-Added $5.8 trillion to the national debt.

-Record number of people on food stamps.

-Record number of people on disability (people have found out they can do this when their 99 weeks unemployment runs out). Pelosi and many Dems say unemployment stimulates the economy. Yes, it's on vid. I see stupid people.

-Average income has fallen $5,000 per household. Plus, Jan 1 everybody's taxes went up, not just those make over a quarter $Million a year like he promised over and over.

-Al-Qaeda and Muslim Brotherhood on the rise. He's funding the Muslim Brotherhood.

-Last week he handed Afghanistan back to the Taliban. In a year Karzi will take $Millions out of the county and retire, Taliban will be back in control, with the deal just brokered.

Fast and Furious several hundred dead Mexican's and a dead American.

Four dead American's in Benghazi with a cover-up.  

-He quashed getting oil from Canada, quashed getting oil from federal lands and offshore, paid foreign countries to drill, and forced US to be mostly dependent on enemies of America.

Republicans campaigned on this; Debt, economy, energy, jobs, foreign policy, health care. Dems ran on abortion, contraception, Marxism\class warfare. Dems won, it's no longer "the economy stupid". It's about how people "feel". Used to be and economy was trashed by a president, he was voted out. Now the president is voted in because he say's he "cares" and the other guy doesn't because he earned a lot of money.

Republicans are indeed "the Party of Stupid", though I'm somewhat heartened by what Rubio and Jindal are saying. Our problems are, at the source religious. My prescription here. It's in Biblical principals that work 100% of the time they are applied. The Left's vision and principles fail 100% of the time they are tried. Time to smarten up.

Checkpoints Here There and Everywhere

We have the TSA groping citizens flying within the country, not coming across borders. From the looks of this we have check points on highways not crossing borders. I understand local checkpoints for drunk drivers. We have a check points going into California checking for produce, which is just a job holder since most of the time we're just waved through without being checked; its just a mini traffic jam in the middle of the desert.

This vid done Westbound I-8 in Southern California

http://youtu.be/fDCXzqgD99o

The comments section on this vid are just amazing. As usual one must cut through the insults, profanity, and profane insults, and more profanity, what's the problem with these people? ....totally missing the point of this exercise. There are many that see not problem with this expansion of government authority, or that it's futile to resist. Amazing.

Our next checkpoints are the "exchanges" to get health care, see a doctor, get treatment because of ObamaCare.

Kosher Deli's, Pork, and Religious Freedom

Great analogy for religious freedom, which the Dems and Obama are against.

http://youtu.be/qWeX81uzaJA

ObamaCare to ObamaTax

From ObamaCare to ObamaTax. Here are the taxes being imposed by the Democrat's healthcare law. Only Democrats passed this, and the American people have been against it since the start; polls show at least 57% against as of this posting. The lowest has been 51% against. Some polls show as high as 67%. There's a lot in the law that has absolutely nothing to do with health or medicine. There's twenty or twenty one new taxes, some listed below. Full article here.

Health and Human Services (HHS)  taxes (this is already in effect) charitable hospitals $50,000 if they don't meet new "community health assessment needs," "financial assistance," and "billing and collection" rules. Don't know the number, but my bet is most charitable hospitals are Christian institutions, and we know Obama is an anti-Christian bigot. Obama is against charity; remember one of the first things he did was reduce deductions for charitable giving.

There's a tax increase of $4.5 billion for a specific type of bio fuel. This has what do to with health care?

This was one of the first to be noticed by the public: a 10% tax on tanning bed usage.

If you have a flex account through work to purchase medical stuff, that's off the table now. You can only use it for the purchase of prescription meds, not over the counter except for insulin. For cryin' out loud, prescription meds you get through your health insurance.

Your employer starting this year will be reporting your insurance on the W2. How long before that's used to tax your health benefits? Right now those are pre tax. This is the set up to take that away.

There's a 3.8% surtax on investments. What's this have to do with health insurance?

"Other unearned income includes (for surtax purposes) gross income from interest, annuities, royalties, net rents, and passive income in partnerships and Subchapter-S corporations.  It does not include municipal bond interest or life insurance proceeds, since those do not add to gross income.  It does not include active trade or business income, fair market value sales of ownership in pass-through entities, or distributions from retirement plans.  The 3.8% surtax does not apply to non-resident aliens."

Medical devices will be taxed. Need a wheelchair or prosthetic device? Taxed.

Have a special needs child? Before there was an open ended flexible spending account for them. Now it's capped. It was unlimited.

Then, most famously, the mandate. If you decide not to participate in ObamaTax, you'll pay a penalty, er, tax, on something you don't use. Same for employers, but for them it may be cheaper to pay the tax than carry employee insurance. Look to lose your private health insurance. The ultimate goal of ObamaTax is to force everyone onto a single payer system. Obama stated this several times, it's on vid, that he wanted this; he just stopped saying it when he started to campaign for president.

If you have a health plan with lots of bell and whistles, a "Cadillac" plan, there will be an 40% tax increase on that. Congress has a "Cadillac" plan. They are exempt. Of course, they are exempt from all of this.

This really really really must be repealed. It's the death knell of our constitutional republic if left in place. If the government can manage your health needs, and take even more of your money if you don't comply, you have no freedom.

In the early 1960's Reagan spoke against the very thing that's happening to us now. If you haven't heard this yet, please, listen up.

http://youtu.be/fRdLpem-AAs

Credibility - Not in the White House

Obama said many things during his 2008 campaign. Most famously that in his divine presence the rise of the seas would slow and the earth would begin to heal.

He said Guantanamo would be closed within a year of his election. Instead he's released terrorists back into the wild. It's still open. 

He's anti-lobbyist, unless their his. He raged against them, yet in the first 14 days he hired 17.

Stimulus package with "shovel ready" jobs. When all the money disappeared, and no such jobs were created, he made a joke about it; 'not as shovel ready as expected'.

He said over and over, even testily to his supporters, ObamaCare was not a tax. Turns out to be the biggest tax increase in history. He said no increased taxes for people making less than $250,000 a year. Everybody is going to be paying more taxes after ObamaCare was ruled constitutional by a lawless Supreme Court. This would be tyranny full on, except the Left controls damned near everything. They've been the establishment since the 1930's. Got any gripes the way things are going, it's on them. Cowardly, spineless Republicans have just gone along and pretended they were the opposition to socialism. It's on them too.

We certainly can't count on Republican presidents. They often side with the "progressives" and appoint Supreme Court judges that do the same. We can thank George Bush for giving us John Roberts to make up legislation from the bench. Ford was a RINO, Nixon was a RINO, George 1 was a tax increasing RINO, George II was a RINO.

With all those RINO's and the same in Congress since the 1930's, is it any wonder we have a racist, communist and a monumental liar in the White House?  

We must stop this. ObamaCare must be repealed, or we can honestly say we have given up on being a constitutional republic and have become a totalitarian state. If government controls your health, it controls everything.

If you believe the Constitution must be upheld, that the government has no right to tell you how to live your life, vote. If you've never voted and believe in the rule of law, vote. If you know people that don't think their vote counts, remind them of how narrowly Our Dear Leader won, and the damage he's done in three and a half years.

Vote for Liberty.

Some Headache Inducing ObamaCare Details

At one time, back when I was a kid, one went to the doctor, got treated, mostly paid cash or wrote a check, and was done. It was affordable. Then the government started controlling it more and more, causing costs to skyrocket. Of course the Statists said they had to step in because insurance companies were doing unfair stuff, like not paying for abortions and contraception. One of the Statists' big deals was treating pre-existing conditions. Big government stepped in, saying health costs are too high, people aren't getting the kind of treatment they, the government wanted, so in the name of good treatment and low costs, they implemented a takeover, ObamaCare, that raises costs and reduces quality treatment. Just a note here, insurance used to be for the purpose of covering oneself for bad stuff happening in the future. Now it's for anything that happens anytime for any reason.

Obama during his campaign in 2008 said absolutely no taxes will be raised on those making less than $250,000 a year. Here's what ObamaCare will charge these "rich" people beginning next year. There will be a 3.8% "investment surtax", and that's broken into brackets. There will be a 0.9% Medicare surtax added then too, once again bracketed. Well, he did say their taxes will go up. Oh my goodness, he actually told the truth about something!

Everyone, whether you want to or not, will have to by health insurance. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts determined that if you don't purchase health insurance, you'll have to pay a penalty, except it's not a penalty, it's a tax. Huh? If you don't have something, you'll get taxed on the nothing you don't have? What the hell is that?

Here's some of the "tax" breakdown for not having a product the government says you must purchase, and what happens when you don't.

2014: Families––$285 or 1 percent of total household income, whichever is greater. Individual adults- $95                                                                  

2015: Families––$975 or 2 percent of income, whichever is greater. Individual adults-$325

2016: Families––$2,085 or 2.5 percent of income, whichever is greater. Individual adults––$695.

Increasing taxes, yearly. Even after the lawless, misbegotten ruling of the Supreme Court, saying the individual mandate is a tax, the Dems and Obama are still saying it's not a tax.

If you don't have employee insurance, there will be a list of government approved insurance carriers to buy from. If you are financially strapped, you get an exemption. Gee, wonder how many people will get an opt out 'cause they're too poor, and the rest of us working our asses off will have to pay for them?

There are added restrictions for flex pay programs. Heaven forbid you have any latitude to spend your own saved money on health services and products of your own choosing. There's a lower cap on what you can put in your flex program, and the IRS! of all organizations mandates what can and cannot be purchased through the flex program.

Pharmaceutical companies will have fees (taxes) assessed against them, increasing each year. Of course, to pay for them, they'll raise costs to consumers. Yep, that'll sure drive down the cost of meds.

Full article here.   

Mark Levin On Supreme Court ObamaCare Decision

Mark Levin is a constitutional scholar and practicing lawyer, has one of the most listened to radio talk shows, has written four books (on law, culture and politics which I highly recommend), and is president of Landmark Legal Foundation. Arguably one on the best legal minds in the country. This is the clearest, most detailed analysis of  the lawless Supreme Court\Chief Justice Roberts ObamaCare decision I've found. This will take some time, but it's important to know these details; freedom in America is at stake, and those of us not Statists, need to make the case for the repeal of it to everyone we talk to about this.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Test of Fire: Uber Powerful Catholic Church Election 2012 Ad

“Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain.” Psalm 127:1

http://youtu.be/D9vQt6IXXaM

That the Catholic Church is standing for what is right and moral lifts my spirits. We pray this is the beginning of  people waking up the threat to this country faces from this administration and his political party. We pray too that we Protestants begin to pay attention to this threat too. We to are having our religious liberty threatened and need to form a strong coalition, a bond to thwart this challenge to the Body of Christ. It has been said here and elsewhere many many times, one of the first things a totalitarian government needs to strike down is religion. 

Senator Johnson Questions Sebelius Regarding Obamacare Cost Estimates

One would think, having been a governor that she would have a better grasp of the costs/budget of her department. Ummmmm, did she used to work for Enron? This is a continuation of first female ex-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's 'we'll have to pass it to see what's in it'. We, Conservatives and Republicans know what's in it, these Statists keep passing on fiction as truth and reality. If any of us knew so little about our job, we'd be fired.

What waivers? Good grief.

"I Owe You an Update" Cardinal Dolan

This is an excerpt from Cardinal Dolan, written March 1.  Full letter here. I would go a step further; this isn't just about religious freedom either, it's about freedom from the government mandating how we live our lives. Statists have taken how we take care of our bodies away from us with ObamaCare, and they're using ObamaCare to oppress religious freedom. 

“This has not been a fight of our choosing.  We’d rather not be in it.  We’d prefer to concentrate on the noble tasks of healing the sick, teaching our youth, and helping the poor, all now in jeopardy due to this bureaucratic intrusion into the internal life of the church.  And we were doing all of those noble works rather well, I dare say, without these radical new mandates from the government.  The Catholic Church in America has a long tradition of partnership with government and the wider community in the service of the sick, our children, our elders, and the poor at home and abroad.  We’d sure rather be partnering than punching.

Nor is this a “Catholic” fight alone.  As a nurse from Harrison emailed me, “Cardinal, I’m not so much mad about all this as a Catholic, but as an American.”  It was a Baptist minister, Governor Mike Huckabee, who observed, “In this matter, we’re all Catholics.”

And it is not just about sterilization, abortifacients, and chemical contraception.  Pure and simple, it’s about religious freedom, the sacred right, protected by our constitution, of any Church to define its own teaching and ministry.

When the President announced on January 20th that the choking mandates from HHS would remain — a shock to me, since he had personally assured me that he would do nothing to impede the good work of the Church in health care, education, and charity, and that he considered the protection of conscience a sacred duty — not only you, but men and women of every faith, or none at all, rallied in protest.  The worry that we bishops had expressed — that such government control was contrary to our deepest political values — was eloquently articulated by constitutional scholars and leaders of every creed.  Even newspaper editorials supported us!

On February 10th, the President announced that the insurance providers would have to pay the bill, not the Church’s schools, hospitals, clinics, or vast network of charitable outreach.  He considered this “concession” adequate.

The President invited us to “work out the wrinkles,” and we have been taking him seriously.  Unfortunately, this seems to be going nowhere: the White House Press Secretary, for instance, informed the nation that the mandates are a fait accompli (and, embarrassingly for him, commented that we bishops have always opposed Health Care anyway, a charge that is simply scurrilous and insulting). The White House already notified Congress that the dreaded mandates are now published in the Federal Registry “without change.” The Secretary of HHS is widely quoted as saying, “Religious insurance companies don’t really design the plans they sell based on their own religious tenets,” which doesn’t bode well for a truly acceptable “accommodation.”  And a recent meeting between staff of the bishops’ conference and the White House staff ended with the President’s people informing us that the broader concerns of religious freedom — that is, revisiting the straight-jacketing mandates, or broadening the maligned exemption—are all off the table.  Instead, they advised the bishops’ conference that we should listen to the “enlightened” voices of accommodation, such as the recent hardly-surprising but terribly unfortunate editorial in America.  The White House seems to think we bishops are hopelessly out of touch with our people, and with those whom the White House now has nominated as official Catholic teachers.

So, I don’t know if we’ll get anywhere with the executive branch.”

Our Anti-Christian, Anti-Catholic (Specifically) Administration

It’s not enough that we have an anti-Semitic Executive Branch, but it’s also virulently anti-Catholic specifically and anti-Christian generally. The Obama Administration is violating the Constitution (which it has done on several occasions) by not acknowledging the Establishment Clause, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…”

The Administration is using Health and Human Services (HHS) to shut down Catholic institutions. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act., aka Obamacare, requires all health plans pay for contraceptives, sterilizations and information on how to use both. Catholics of course don’t use contraceptives and sterilization, and their institutions certainly don’t want to be advocates for them.

The Administration claims the Catholic Church can opt out. The catch to that is the organization can do so only when it serves its own group pretty much exclusively. Catholic services such as foster care, adoption, feeding the poor and now health care, serve much more than that, any they don’t only hire Catholics to provide these services. Since that’s the situation, the Catholic Church is being forced to make a decision to obey the government or suspend these services. If the Catholic Church were to restrict itself to only serving and employing Catholics, one can only imagine the hue and cry of bigotry and exclusion.

This intervening of the government into religious practices extends into marriage. Current pushes by government to make homosexual marriage acceptable, against the wishes of a majority of Americans, forces the hand of not just the Catholic Church but Protestant ones too. This Administration no longer supports the “Defense of Marriage Act”, that marriage is between a man and a woman. Archbishop Timothy Dolan wrote a letter to the President expressing his concern the Administration no longer supports marriage being between a man and a woman. He states:

“…This past spring the Justice Department announced that it would no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in court, a decision strongly opposed by the Catholic Bishops of the United States and many others.  Now the Justice Department has shifted from not defending DOMA—which is problem enough, given the duty of the executive branch to enforce even laws it disfavors—to actively attacking DOMA’s constitutionality.
“…That is why it is particularly upsetting, Mr. President, when your Administration, through the various court documents, pronouncements and policies identified in the attached analysis, attributes to those who support DOMA a motivation rooted in prejudice and bias.  It is especially wrong and unfair to equate opposition to redefining marriage with either intentional or willfully ignorant racial discrimination, as your Administration insists on doing.
Full letter here.

By engaging in these acts of government regulations of what the Church can and cannot do, in violation of the Constitution, the Obama Administration can effectively shut them down or force them to comply in contradiction to the teachings, traditions, values and beliefs of the Catholic Church specifically and Christians generally. The government mandate is jettison your Faith and obey the government, or they shut you down. The bigotry against Christianity is so deep in government that they would rather see the poor not served, those hurting not helped, than them being disobeyed. The essence of this is the government must shut down Christianity to ensure they replace God with themselves to be obeyed and worshipped. This historically has been the modus operandi of every totalitarian government. 

Non-Leading Leadership

"Leadership is not proposing a plan for the sake of having it voted up or down, and likely voted down because it is — look, you know how this town works and how Congress works."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4Lxk0C2JJ8&feature=player_embedded

Obama during the rebellion of the citizens of Iran, "The Green Revolution" stood on the sidelines. The term "leading from behind"  from Ryan Lizza of the New Yorker was praised as foreign policy doctrine. Obama in Libya got involved illegally in a war and sits on the sidelines, resulting in a deadly, bloody stalemate. He didn't lead on the "stimulus package", Reid and Pelosi (the first female ex-Speaker of the House) did, and he didn't lead on Obamacare, Reid and Pelosi did. Now he holds a bunch of press conferences, words, saying we need leadership now more than ever. Well, how about some?

Two and a half years into his regime, it's still Bush's fault. Leadership.

Nope, Didn't Happen

Before lying to scare seasoned citizens that they wouldn't get their Social Security checks if the debt limit wasn't raised (they will get their checks) he lied about health care in America when promoting Obamacare.

http://www.mrctv.org/video/103791

Weinie Waivers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSm2cGn8UwQ&feature=player_embedded 

http://www.wheresmywaiver.com/

26 States and growing, hundreds of businesses and a bucket load of unions have gotten waivers from Obamacare because they can't afford it. Well, we know who union thugs support, and we know two states that were given lots of goodies for voting for it, and I can only guess what businesses had to promise Barry to get those waivers.

A Giant Wave of Waivers

The first woman ex-Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, famously said about the passage of ObamaCare, they “had to pass it to see what’s in it”.

As of today the Obama administration has granted 1,040 waivers. When government controls things, as proven in any communist country, services are provided to the politically connected. At its worst in this case, the government will decide based on political actuarial tables, who will get life saving care or not.

The way it’s starting out is that the big donators to the Obama campaign, especially the Unions, and most especially SEIU, is being given waivers. SEIU spent $27 million on Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. SEIU Local 25 is in Obama’s hometown.

Plus 26 states are suing to opt out, plus two federal judges have ruled the legislation unconstitutional; this horrible plan is crumbling under its own weight.

Here’s the list from the HHS website of companies and unions given waivers. Lots of them are unions that donated to Obama. A lot, if not most, of the “stimulus” money didn’t go to the private sector or small businesses, but went blue states to pay union government employees, who pay dues to the unions (collected, deducted from paychecks by the various governments) and sent back to Obama’s campaign coffers. I think that not only should the union thugs not be given waivers, but every Democrat in Congress that voted for this monstrosity be required to use it and give up their fat corruptocrat healthcare program.  

Judicial Watch has filed suit against the Administration’s Department of Health and Human Services for records about the decision to grant waivers.

These are some of the unions that Obama has given a pass to, all of them contributors to his campaign.

    * The Service Employees Benefit Fund

    * United Food and Commercial Workers Allied Trade Health & Welfare Trust Fund

    * International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Union No. 195

    * Asbestos Workers Local 53 Welfare Fund

    * Employees Security Funds

    * Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 123 Welfare Fund

    * United Food and Commercial Workers Local 227

    * United Food and Commercial Workers Maximus Local 455

    * Service Employees International Union Local 25

    * United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1262

    * Musicians Health Fund Local 802

    * Hospitality Benefit Fund Local 17

    * Transport Workers Union

    * United Federation of Teachers Welfare Fund

    * International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (AFL-CIO)

It’s a healthcare animal farm. Some groups are more equal than others.

Double Dip, and We Ain't Talkin' Ice Cream

Representative John Shimkus (R-IL) vs Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukaIZ7pmabo
Yep, take $500 mil from here and put it over there. See, I saved money! 


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNL9xIiwB1E
We'll even hide $millions and tell you that we're saving money. 

Stupid is as Stupid Does

Amazing the really low powered intellect of some of the people we elect to office. This is Sheila Jackson Lee, a Congresswoman from Texas. Usually Texans have it pretty together, but this woman’s utterances on a regular basis amazes.

Recently she was commenting on the judicial rulings that Obamacare is unconstitutional. Two federal judges have said the Federal government cannot force citizens to buy a product from the private sector.

Here’s Lee’s response in defense of Obamacare and why it’s constitutional.

“The Fifth Amendment speaks specifically to denying someone their life and liberty without due process.” “That is what H.R. 2 does and I rise in opposition to it. And I rise in opposition because it is important that we preserve lives and we recognize that 40 million-plus are uninsured.

 “Can you tell me what’s more unconstitutional than taking away from the people of America their Fifth Amendment rights, their Fourteenth Amendment rights, and the right to equal protection under the law?”

Gibberish. She is clueless human being.

She thought the Superbowl Pepsi ad, where a black couple was arguing, the woman throws a Pepsi can at him and it hits a blond white woman in the head. The blond falls to the ground and the black couple runs away. It’s apparently racist because it demeans black people. Huh?

During a tour of the NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratories in 2005 she asked if the Mars Pathfinder had taken an image of the flag planted there in 1969 by Neil Armstrong!  Huh?

This Congressman serves on these committees:

• Member, House Committee on Foreign Affairs
• Member, Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health
• Member, Subcommittee on The Middle East and South Asia
• Member, House Committee on Homeland Security
• Member, Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, and Global Counter terrorism
• Chair, Subcommittee on Transportation Security and Infrastructure Protection
• Member, House Committee on the Judiciary
• Member, Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property
• Member, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security
• Member, Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law

Really? She’s also on the House Science Committee’s space subcommittee. Science?

She complained that hurricanes didn’t have black names. All racial groups should be represented. Huh?

Just huh?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK3rTUgoQD4

Side by side, North and South and huh?

She also has said “countries like Europe”.

This from her racist address to the racist NAACP last summer:

And I thank you professor very much. I’m going to be engaging you with those very powerful numbers that you have offered on what the tea party recognizes, uh, or is recognized as. Might I add my own P.S.? All those who wore sheets a long time ago have now lifted them off and started wearing [applause], uh, clothing, uh, with a name, say, I am part of the tea party. Don’t you be fooled. [voices: "That's right.", applause] Those who used to wear sheets are now being able to walk down the aisle and speak as a patriot because you will not speak loudly about the lack of integrity of this movement. Don’t let anybody tell you that those who spit on us as we were walking to vote on a health care bill for all of America or those who said Congresswoman Jackson-Lee’s braids were too tight in her hair had anything to do with justice and equality and empowerment of the American people. Don’t let them fool you on that [applause]….

Really? This is an elected representative of citizens?  How does this happen? I understand people that have a different socio-economic-political philosophy or world view, but downright stupid?