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Seven Lessons For The Tea Party

Posted by Barry 'Bigbare' Carson on March 29, 2010 at 9:07pm
What went right and what didn't during the health care fight.By Ambreen AliThe tea partyers who waited anxiously outside the Capitol until House Democratspassed the health care bill late Sunday night were back at work before lawmakerswoke up the next day.Mark Meckler of Tea Party Patriots, the largest coalition in the movement,was already in California meeting fellow activists Monday morning. In Georgia,his colleague William Temple was making calls to Congressional offices.Since last spring, their grassroots conservative movement has grown alongsideand in reaction to the health care debate. Now, with Democrats putting the finishingtouches on the bill, the activists are trying to draw lessons from their first big legislativefight and plan for the next.We asked tea partyers and those who study them what they have learned:You don't always win.Even the best grassroots campaign can't guarantee results. Some activists believethe health care bill would have passed no matter what, but that the tea partiessucceeded by drawing out the debate."We almost destroyed it," Temple said of the bill. He credited the town halldisruptions, national rallies, and Republican Sen. Scott Brown's victory with slowingdown the Democrats' legislative agenda.Brown's victory in Massachusetts special election in January cost Democratstheir Senate supermajority and dampened the momentum around health care.Don't give up.The morning after health care passed, Temple was busy making calls to theoffices of Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) to express disappointment for thelawmaker's yes vote."Let’s not be reactive, let's keep our agenda," he said.Tea party leaders around the country had the same hopeful tone.Some like Julianne Thompson of the Georgia Tea Party Patriots are backingstate initiatives to temper the national health plan and campaigning for conservativecandidates ahead of midterm elections."I believe 1994 will be a mere shadow compared to what is going to happen inNovember of this year at the ballot box," she said, referring to the midterm electionswhen Republicans regained control of the House after four decades.Be part of the process.In the weeks preceding the final House vote on health care, some tea partyersswitched from picketing outside the Capitol to meeting with those inside.Thompson said Members paid more attention to the activists willingto sit down with them."It's easy for them to look outside and see a rally going on and go backinto their office and ignore it," she said. "When you have a line of 50people waiting in your office, that's something you can't ignore."Mark Williams of Tea Party Express in California said his group is focused on"infiltrating the political party infrastructure." He encourages tea partymembers to run for local offices and positions within the political party committees.He is heading to Nevada this weekend, where he will introduce former Alaskagovernor Sarah Palin at a kickoff event for a 40-day bus tour to Washington, D.C."We have to take over from the grassroots up," he said.Vote.Many tea party leaders are setting their eyes on the November election,when they hope to punish the lawmakers who passed the health bill."Elections have consequences. We're where we are at todaybecause of the last election," Meckler said.Dominate the debate.The hundreds of tea party activists who picketed outside Capitol Hillin the final week of the debate may not have swayed enough lawmakersagainst the bill, but they drew attention."[The protest] paints a stark picture in the mind of the American publicthat you have a Congress that's completely out of touch with the people,"Meckler said.That was the idea behind an early tea party success: the town hall disruptions.Conservatives showed up to local meetings with protest signs and angrily shoutedat the lawmakers who were laying out the health plan.Instead of talking about the bill's details, people focused on the protesters."The tea party people were able to shout down what was being said aboutthe health care plan," said David S. Meyer, a University of California at Irvineprofessor who studies protest movements.Control your own.Since there is no official tea party group, pretty much anyone can start a localtea party or show up to a rally. That has been both a boon for the movementand its Achilles' heel.Leaders were put on the defensive when a handful of activists shouted racistand homophobic epithets at Democratic lawmakers last week."We all have an obligation to distance ourselves from any kind of racism or bigotry," Meckler said. He added that his group, the Tea Party Patriots, has zero tolerancefor such behavior."If someone like that shows up to our rallies, they are unceremoniously removed,"he said. Meckler noted that not all tea party groups have that policy.Use resources wisely.Not every activist can afford to leave their jobs and come to Washington, D.C.,to lobby. Nor should they.Modern technology has played an instrumental role in propelling the tea partymovement forward.Whether it is Facebook groups, the Tea Party Nation social network,or the many e-mail lists the groups use to coordinate their efforts,activists have found that they can do a lot from home.Temple said he encouraged fellow activists in Georgia not to go toWashington, D.C., this past week."Rather than tiring out our own people and spending all our money,we've got the Internet. We've got phones," he said.Ambreen Ali writes for Congress.org.
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Judas Stupak Sold Abortion Vote For $700K Airport Funds / Loses Award

Posted by Barry 'Bigbare' Carson on March 22, 2010 at 12:40pm


March 21st 2010:
Stupak caves. Obama funds largest Abortion increase since '73.


We lost a great battle today in the quest to stop funding abortion with our tax-dollars.
But I say thank you, to all who joined our fax-campaign and sent nearly 1.4 million

petitions to Congress to save the unborn. Your voices are never in vain.
Ezekiel 3:19 declares,

"If you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way,

he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul."
Together we prophesied truth to power; their blood is not on our hands.

Congressman Bart Stupak (D-MI) and his 12 so-called"pro-life" Dems
caved in today, and sold their souls to vote"pro-abortion" and fund child-killing
on an unprecedented scale. While Stupak boasted his district suddenly received

over $700,000 for airport upgrades, he also dared to claim victory after trading his

vote for a phony executive order that President Obama knows cannot overrule his

new "health" care law that funds abortion.

Two Democrats both admitted the executive order is a sham,

that will not reduce abortion funds by even one penny.

The new abortion funds in the Senate bill, which just passed with HR 4872 on a
219-212 vote,"can't be changed by executive order, because an executive order
can't change the law," admitted pro-abortion Democrat Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL)

on Fox News.

Retiring Democrat Marion Berry (D-AR), one of just a handful to courageously vote

against the bill, agreed:"Despite the recently announced Executive Order addressing

this issue, I remain concerned that this legislation does not go far enough to satisfy

my concerns. As a pro-life Member of Congress, I believe that abortion is fundamentally

wrong, and taxpayer money should not be allowed to support it.

"If only Stupak had such a conscience as Berry.

Obama's proposed executive order contained two false statements:

1) "The Act maintains current Hyde Amendment restrictions governing
abortion policy and extends those restrictions to the newly-created health
insurance exchanges."
(The new law does no such thing, and never did, or there would be no need
for this misleading executive order, that won't stand up to any court challenge,
so abortions will be funded by law.)

2) "Under the Act, longstanding Federal laws to protect conscience
(such as the Church Amendment, 42 U.S.C.§300a-7, and the
Weldon Amendment, Pub. L. No. 111-8,§508d-1) remain intact...
prohibit[ing] discrimination against...health care providers because of
an unwillingness to provide...abortions."
(The National Right To Life Committee rebuked Obama's false statement, saying,
"Nor can the order correct the omission from the pending legislation of the
necessary conscience-protection language ... (the 'Weldon language').")

So no thanks to Bart Stupak, who caved in like the traitor Benedict Arnold,
or Judas Iscariot for his 30 pieces of silver, we must now all pray God will
change the government this November, to oust ALL who voted for this bill,
and demand its full repeal.

Stupak stripped of 'Defender of Life' award he was to receive this week
March 22, 2010,
by Bridget Johnson

An anti-abortion group has stripped Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) of a
"Defender of Life" award he was supposed to receive Wednesday night.

Stupak was to be honored at the annual Campaign for Life Gala of the
Susan B. Anthony List for his efforts to get the Stupak amendments
toughening up restrictions on abortion funding inserted into the healthcare
bill voted on Sunday night.

In an 11th hour negotiation, and refusal by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)
to vote on side bills, Stupak accepted an executive order from President
Barack Obama to ensure funds wouldn't be used for abortions.

"By accepting this deal from the most pro-abortion President in American history,
Stupak has not only failed to stand strong for unborn children, but also for his

constituents and pro-life voters across the country,"
Susan B. Anthony List Candidate Fund President Marjorie Dannenfelser
said in a statement.

"Let me be clear: any representative, including Rep. Stupak, who votes for
this healthcare bill can no longer call themselves 'pro-life.'
The Susan B. Anthony List Candidate Fund will not endorse, or support in
any capacity, any Member of Congress who voted for this bill, or votes for
this bill in any future election."

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Obama Seeks Control Of America’s Waterways & Lakes

Posted by Barry 'Bigbare' Carson on March 12, 2010 at 11:44pm

Traditional Values Coalition

Obama Seeks Control Of America’s Waterways & LakesMarch 12, 2010 – While most Americans are focused on defeating Obama’s plan to nationalize our health care system, the President has been quietly working behind the scenes to engineer another federal takeover.

This time, he’s targeting America’s waterways for seizure by the federal government.

First it was our financial institutions, then it was General Motors. Currently he’s working for complete control of our health care system. Now, he wants control over our water.

Under Obama’s federal seizure plan, he would set up nine regional bureaucracies to “decrease user conflicts, improve planning and regulatory efficiencies and decrease their associated costs and delays; and preserve critical ecosystem function and services.”

This is code for having federal bureaucrats determining who can fish in our oceans, coastal areas, lakes and rivers.

Obama’s Ocean Policy Task Force is overseeing the federal takeover and the selective banning of fishing. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is involved in this takeover as well. NOAA is headed by Obamunist Janet Lubchenco, who has ties to radical environmentalist groups. Lubchenco was a trustee of the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and served on the Pew Oceans Commission.

Shortly before Obama was elected, a coalition of environmental groups issued a report called “Transition To Green” to push the Obama Administration toward radical environmental policies. According to ESPN, Obama’s task force has followed lockstep in implementing this document.

Recreational fishermen are outraged by what they see as the destruction of a major industry in the U.S. More than a million jobs in America are linked to recreational fishing. Obama’s task force could kill this industry if it begins regulating who can or cannot fish on our nation’s waterways.

“Transition To Green” is a blueprint for the complete takeover of environmental policies by radical greens. The document recommends that Obama enforce green policies largely through the use of Executive Orders, which avoid Congressional oversight.

While the recommendations sound okay on the surface, there is a sinister side to this that will result in a socialist state.

If all of the recommendations in “Transition To Green” are implemented by Obama during the next few years, our nation will be transformed into a European socialist state with a stagnant economy and few freedoms left.

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Had O-nough?

Posted by Barry 'Bigbare' Carson on February 27, 2010 at 8:29pm
Vince HaleySpecial to AOL NewsFeb. 24, 2010In 1946, Republicans ran on a campaign slogan of............................"Had Enough?".........................to mobilize voters who had grown tired of 16 yearsof Democratic control of Congress.Yet only one year after electing him to office, voters have grown tiredof President Barack Obama, or more precisely, his agenda to "transform"the United States. So much so, in fact, that the 1946 slogan is againfinding traction. With a nod to the ubiquitous Obama campaign logo,the simple question that frustrated Republicans, Democrats and Independentsare asking family and friends is now:............................................."Had O-nough?"..........................................There's a joke going around Washington.President Obama can take credit for exactly three new jobssince he's been in the White House:one in Massachusetts, one in Virginia and one in New Jersey.And now he's creating a fourth in Indiana, where Evan Bayh is walking away fromthe U.S. Senate. Bayh was surprisingly honest on CBS' Early Show last week:"If I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business,that would be one more than Congress has created in the last six months."It sounds like Bayh has...............................................Had O-nough..............................................The Department of Labor announced last week that 473,000 new unemploymentbenefits applications were filed. Picture the crowd at this year's Super Bowl inMiami's Sun Life Stadium. Now multiply by six. Yet, the White House insists that2 million jobs have been created, and Vice President Joe Biden assures us that"the best is yet to come." Biden may believe this, but almost nobody else does.A recent CBS News poll notes,"just 6 percent say the stimulus package has created jobs ...".................................................Had O-nough?.............................................When the Bush administration put forward a plan just before he left officeon energy exploration in the Outer Continental Shelf, public comments rantwo-to-one in favor (which is in line with public surveys on the question).But as the Wall Street Journal's Washington Wire reported, Obama's InteriorDepartment was more interested in hiding this fact than acting on it."The Secretary may get questions about this ... while he's in Houston,"an e-mail said. "We do have a preliminary tabulation of the comments,it has not yet gone to the Secretary. So the Secretary can honestly sayin response to any questions that he's not yet seen the analysis of the comments."...................................................Had O-nough?..............................................Americans' frustration with Obama's agenda goes beyond jobs.A week after the Justice Department announced 9/11 terroristKhalid Sheikh Mohammed would be tried in a federal court in New York City,the Gallup organization found, "By 59 percent to 36 percent, more Americansbelieve accused Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed should betried in a military court."Yet, the White House adamantly defends the rights of terrorists..................................................Had O-nough?................................................Let us not forget the health care debate.Rasmussen Reports noted "61 percent of U.S. voters say Congressshould scrap that plan and start all over again."But Obama insists on trying to ram it through............................................Had O-nough?.........................................Evan Bayh took the easy way out.The question remains whether or not American public opinionwill rise to such a boil that President Obama changes his agenda –but one thing is for sure, and that is the question every American is asking:.......................................................Had O-nough?....................................(Vince Haley is vice president for policy at American Solutions,which recently launched www.hadOnough.com – an online portal forcitizens to let it be known that they have had enough with PresidentObama's agenda and want a new direction.)
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More Tea Party Activists and Groups Wanted

Posted by Barry 'Bigbare' Carson on February 5, 2010 at 10:27pm

Last Tuesday, I filed with other tea party leaders filed a lawsuit in Federal Court against the Mr. Fred O'Neal and Doug Guetzloe (attorney and political consultant) that started "Tea Party" as a political Third Party.The reason why we filed this lawsuit is because Mr. Fred O'Neal and Doug Guetzloe are threatening tea party leaders. He is also claiming all rights to the name "Tea Party." See article "Florida Lawyer Claims Rights To Tea Party Name --http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/01/florida_lawyer_claims_rights_to_tea_party_name_--.phpWe would like to add other tea party leaders to our lawsuit. It will not cost you anything to join. You can see a copy of our complaint at http://bit.ly/5BYdqc or for more information contact:Michael R. Caputomichaelrcaputo@gmail.comCaputo Public Relations, Inc.12864 Biscayne Blvd, #332North Miami, FL 33181-2007305-733-3431Let's not let the politicians and political parties take over our movement. We can and we will hold true to our mission and values.Sincerely,Everett WilkinsonSouthFloridaTeaParty.orgTeaPartyPatriots.orgPress Release(MIAMI, FL) Legal counsel for Florida Tea Party activists and organizations today filed a complaint against a new political party of the same name seeking a declaratory judgment separating the twogroups. The conservative activists also asked the court to order the newly registered Florida Tea Party to stop threatening them and their colleagues with trademark litigation. “We believe the identity of the Florida Tea Party has been hijacked by cynical forces,” South Florida Tea Party chairman Everett Wilkinson said. “We are especially concerned the group is improperly leveragingthe tea party movement to support the gubernatorial campaign of Sen. Paula Dockery.”Republican campaign consultant Doug Guetzloe and his associates Fredric O'Neal and Nicholas Egoroff registered the name “Tea Party” as a political party with the Florida Secretary of State in August 2009. Two of the founders are cashiered county GOP committeemen; none wereactive in the state’s Tea Party organizations. Since registering, the group has represented themselves as leaders of the Florida Tea Party movement to the media, endorsed Sen. PaulaDockery for governor in the Republican Primary and threatened authentic Tea Party activists with legal action over use of the name. Officers of the new party have also threatened to run third partycandidates against both Republicans and Democrats. Longtime Tea Party activists in the Sunshine State are working toward reform within the Republican Party and view third party candidacies as county- productive.“The registered party and original Florida Tea Party activists are miles apart in our political agenda and priorities,” Wilkinson said. “Make no mistake: the Tea Party on the Florida ballot is not thegrassroots group you may think it is.” “Only through a declaratory judgment will activists across Florida know who is who in this important election year,” Wilkinson said. “Likewise only a judge's order will end the new party’s threats of litigation.”A copy of the complaint can be seen here: http://bit.ly/5BYdqc Plaintiffs in the lawsuit include the following tea party activists and organizations:TIM MCCLELLAN,A Tea Party activist,EVERETT WILKINSON,A Tea Party activist,SOUTH FLORIDA TEA PARTY, INC.,A Florida non-profit corporation,JUST PATRIOTS, INC.,d/b/a UNITED AMERICAN TEA PARTY,A Florida non-profit corporation,MARTIN 9/12 TEA PARTY COMMITTEE,A group of concerned citizens,NAPLES TEA PARTY,A group of concerned citizens, At press time, more Tea Party activists and groups are signing up asplaintiffs in the complaint. For a PDF of the complaint and more information, please contact Michael Caputo at 305-733-3431 or cap...@caputopr.com.©2010 South Florida Tea Party | 510 S Broadway Lantana Fl
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