11/21/2009 (12:30 pm)
Imminent Cloture Vote in the Senate
The US Senate will be facing the first procedural vote on the Senate’s version of ObamaCare tonight. We must contact key Senators and urge them to vote “No” on cloture immediately, and I do mean right now.
The bill is following the pattern of deception already marked out by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. In this case, 2000 pages of bill have been introduced as “H.R. 3590, “To Amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the first-time homebuyer’s credit in the case of members of the Armed Forces and certain other Federal employees, and for other purposes.” Yes, you read that correctly. Immediately following that heading is Sen. Harry Reid’s amendment to the bill, striking the enactment and replacing it with the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.” It was introduced Wednesday, and the first cloture vote will occur tonight. They do not intend for the public to be well-informed, because they know perfectly well that they are jamming the measure down the throats of a hostile public. The will of the people means nothing to tyrants.
A “no” vote on cloture means that the Republicans’ filibuster will continue, and the Senate version of the bill will not be considered on the Senate floor. It will essentially kill the bill in the Senate until the Democrats can muster enough votes to obtain cloture and vote for consideration of the bill. There are bypasses being considered in the event that cloture is not obtained, but we’ll cross those bridges when we come to them.
Please contact by whatever means available the following Democrats in the Senate, who are known to be somewhat less than friendly to Reid’s disingenuous measure.
• Mark Begich (D-AK)
o Email: http://begich.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=EmailSenator
o DC Phone: (202) 224-3004
o DC FAX: (202) 224-2354
o State Phone: (907) 271-5915
• Blanche Lincoln (D-AR)
o Email: http://lincoln.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm
o DC Phone: (202) 224-4843
o DC FAX: (202) 228-1371
o State Phone: (501) 375-2993
• Mark Pryor (D-AR)
o Email: http://pryor.senate.gov/contact/
o DC Phone: (202) 224-2353
o DC FAX: (202) 228-0908
o State Phone: (501) 324-6336
• Michael Bennet (D-CO)
o Email: http://bennet.senate.gov/contact/
o DC Phone: (202) 224-5852
o DC FAX: (202) 228-5036
o State Phone: (303) 455-7600
• Joe Lieberman (D-CT)
o Email: http://lieberman.senate.gov/contact/
o DC Phone: (202) 224-4041
o DC FAX: (202) 224-9750
o State Phone: (860) 549-8463
• Evan Bayh (D-IN)
o Email: http://bayh.senate.gov/contact/
o DC Phone: (202) 224-5623
o DC FAX: (202) 228-1377
o State Phone: (317) 554-0750
• Mary Landrieu (D-LA)
o Email: http://landrieu.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm
o DC Phone: (202) 224-5824
o DC FAX: (202) 224-9735
o State Phone: (504) 589-2427
• Jon Tester (D-MT)
o Email: http://tester.senate.gov/Contact/
o DC Phone: (202) 224-2644
o DC FAX: (202) 224-8594
o State Phone: (406) 728-3003
• Ben Nelson (D-NE)
o Email: http://bennelson.senate.gov/contact-me.cfm
o DC Phone: (202)-224-6551
o DC FAX: (202) 228-0012
o State Phone: (402) 391-3411
• Mark Warner (D-VA)
o Email: http://warner.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=Contact
o DC Phone: (202)-224-2023
o DC FAX: (202) 224-6295
o State Phone: (804) 739-0247
• Jim Webb (D-VA)
o Email: http://webb.senate.gov/contact.cfm
o DC Phone: (202) 224-4024
o DC FAX: (202) 228-6363
o State Phone: (804) 771-2221
I am emailing a letter that reads as follows. Whether you want to write in as incendiary a fashion as I have chosen is entirely up to you. I do not know whether my approach is a good idea or not. It does express precisely how I think and feel about this proposal. I offer it as my thoughts, and as a possible model for yours.
I urge you to vote “no” on cloture regarding the Senate’s version of the national health insurance bill. The bill itself appears to be deceptively titled “H.R. 3590, To Amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the first-time homebuyer’s credit in the case of members of the Armed Forces and certain other Federal employees, and for other purposes.” Immediately following that heading is 2000 pages of Sen. Harry Reid’s amendment to the bill, striking the enactment and replacing it with the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.”
Please consider carefully what is at stake if you vote for cloture on the Senate version of the national health insurance bill:
The House and Senate versions of this bill constitute a massive removal of the liberties of free citizens in a crucial area of their lives. Moreover, it represents an alarming new threshold in fiscal irresponsibility, by urging to spend trillions at a time when the dollar is in such grave danger that we can no longer finance our debt without inflating the currency. Does anybody really believe that national health care can be produced without massive spending increases?
Large numbers of citizens have responded throughout the summer of 2009 to what they perceive as massive removals of liberties by the Obama administration in a series of demonstrations called “Tea Parties.” Contrary to Democratic party myth, these are not organized by the Republican party, they are for the most part actions by citizens concerned for the loss of their liberties. Those losses, though, pale before those to be lost by passage of the health bill, and by the loss of prosperity that will surely attend such an irresponsible increase in federal obligations.
Passage of the”Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” will constitute such an enormous loss of liberty that many of these citizens, plus some who have not taken action yet, will remove the consent by which they participate in American government, and will be forced to take action to find new guards for their future security. You may recognize the phrase “find new guards for their future security,” and the notion that governments only govern by consent of their citizens — both are found in the Declaration of Independence. For a number of us, government takeover of health care will be the final straw, and we will no longer be able to consent to being governed by this government.
I do not know what form the removal of consent will take. I can guarantee you, though, that it will be unpleasant for all, and will mark the death of the United States as a cohesive republic.
This is not to be taken as a personal threat. I have no quarrel with any individual Senator. We are peaceful citizens, and do not want trouble. But we will not live under tyranny. This bill is tyranny.
Please consider carefully what is at stake if you vote in favor of cloture.
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Comment by John Cooper
…Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
It’s time.
Comment by RM
Instead of a revolution with protests and force (although that may be a precursor), I think of Atlas Shrugged, and the productive members of society simply saying “No mas” and withdrawing their talents and efforts.
I remember the passages about the lights going off in the great factories, one by one. The cannibals who operated through the preferred system of government favors held on for a while, but that ultimately imploded. Without the John Galts, Hank Reardens, Ellis Wyatts, and Dagny Taggarts; the Wes Mouches and Orren Boyles can’t make it for long.
I believe at this point there is a high enough proportion of people who are drawing from the system far more than they put in, so that a withdrawal of say 5% to 10% of the productive people would cause a total collapse of the system.
This is all pipe dream stuff, but there is part of me that would love to see this. We don’t fight them so they can demomize us or kill us in the name of Obamanation. We just say, “We’re done. No more. Our politically incorrect contributions and way of life are obviously not important in your scheme of things. We’re through spending more time for the benefit of those who choose not to be productive. We’re finished being thought of as revenue streams to be plundered. You can figure out how to make it all work without us. And here’s a clue. In the short term, we may have to change our lifestyles and how we live. But we can do that because that is what we do, we work hard, adapt and thrive over time. Ultimately, we can survive without you. But you can’t survive without us. Good luck.”
Comment by John Cooper
RM writes:
Ultimately, we can survive without you. But you can’t survive without us.
You done broke the code, my friend.
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