Remember the Healthcare Alamo

On March 6, 1836 General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna stormed the Alamo recapturing the mission-turned-fort for the Mexican Army. The fall of the Alamo was due to… well, the number of fighters. A series of events leading up to the battle (caused in large part by a general feeling that the Mexicans would not be back anytime soon) resulted in a 200 man defense stationed at the Alamo against a Mexican force of several thousand.

Much to the surprise of the commanders at the Alamo, General Santa Anna arrived with thousands of Mexican troops on February 23^rd. Instead of surrendering, the small force decided to hold down the fort and pray reinforcements would arrive before the Mexicans could take it back. Reinforcements did not arrive in time and all defenders of the Alamo were slain including such famous American figures as David Crocket and James Bowie. There simply were not enough of them to hold off the much more numerous Mexican forces.

Upon notification of the fate of the Alamo’s defenders, General Sam Houston had no choice but to retreat until he had enough troops to face Santa Anna’s well-trained army. Finally, on April 21^st with a force of approximately 1,200, Houston caught up to Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto. It took 18 minutes for Houston’s army to take the field and win the battle. The next day Santa Anna was captured and agreed to remove all Mexican troops from Texas — later recognizing Texas’s independence.

The similarities between the Battle of the Alamo and the battle over government-run healthcare thus far have been amazing. For example, the original troop count at the Alamo was around 170 with 32 reinforcements coming in from Gonzales shortly after the Mexicans arrived. In the House of Representatives, each of the 178 Republicans voted against the Senate’s version of a healthcare overhaul bill with 34 Democrat reinforcements joining them.

Additionally, the Republicans in both houses of Congress along with the majority of American people have held back the health care assault for about 13 months now, symbolic of the 13 day standoff at the Alamo.

And just as the fall of the Alamo was an unfortunate result of troop numbers, so was the case with the passage of health care “reform” and the vote count. The defenders of the republic just did not have enough people in office to vote against this legislation and — with the shameless, Chicago-style tactics of the White House and Democrat leadership — its passage was inevitable.

After having lost the Alamo and 200 men in such a brutal fashion, Sam Houston surely wanted to attack Santa Anna’s army right away, but he had to wait until he could raise the number of enlisted men to do so properly. Houston’s prudent strategy enabled him to win the Battle of San Jacinto in swift and devastating fashion. Likewise, the American people are forced to wait until November to vote their reinforcements into office, and it is expected that Republicans will win the 2010 mid-term elections in a comparable way to Houston at San Jacinto.

This is where hope relies on the continuation of similarities between these two battles though.

The November elections are a far way off yet and Democrats will no doubt try changing the subject to new, more popular agenda items immediately after passing this atrocious law to try and get back in the good graces of the public before votes are cast at the ballot box. The assumption is that the public will have a short attention span and forget about the health care process if Democrats can finally be seen as focusing their attention on job creating initiatives. If Democrats could spin a convincing argument that they are acting to improve economic conditions, many of them may stand a chance of holding on to their seats.

While the general public can at times demonstrate a short attention span, it is not likely the Democrats’ strategy will work. The problem being that the health care legislation will have the immediate effect of destroying existing jobs as well as untold amounts of future jobs with increases in taxes and regulation. Furthermore the Bush tax cuts are set to expire at the end of 2010 adding to the massive tax increases the new health care entitlement will create. There is reason to believe the expiration of these tax increases will come into play around election time, since expectations of future costs play a large role in businesses offloading employees. Short of renewing the Bush tax cuts, there is nothing the Democrats can do that will mitigate the negative effects they are having on the economy and the prosperity of average voting citizens.

Moreover, countless lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the health care legislation will be filed once the bill is signed. These suits will be commanding headlines continuously between now and November, and will eventually get to the Supreme Court. As the threat of a decision to overturn the bill gains ground, Americans will be aware and engaged. Having the health care overhaul challenged in the courts will be a strong negative for Democrat candidates and will keep the attention of their constituents focused on voting them out.

Just as Texan soldiers cried out “Remember the Alamo!” at the Battle of San Jacinto, current outrage needs to be kept fresh in the minds of the disapproving public in order to see the predicted mid-term election defeat through to its end. While it is not likely that Republicans can gain enough seats to repeal the bill and override a veto from President Obama, majorities in both houses can be won and the bleeding can be stopped.

The Battle of the Alamo was a heroic fight that played a pivotal role in the eventual addition of Texas to the union, but it was a costly and devastating loss at the time. Fourteen years went by before the U.S. Army rebuilt the fortifications at the Alamo after being destroyed by Mexican troops who were ordered out. Here’s hoping it does not take quite as long to rebuild what the Democrats have destroyed since last January.

November Is Coming

With a vote on health care “reform” possibly coming at any moment, no is the time to let your member of Congress know that if they vote “Yes” on Obamacare, you will be voting “NO” against them this November.
Click on the link below to visit the Americans For Prosperity project where you can sign the petition voting NO on Obamacare:

November Is Coming

The Tide Begins To Turn Against Obama

A Gallip poll released today shows that more Americans are against Obama than there are people supporting him.

This should come as no surprise to anyone who has been paying attention.

Obama has been on a downward trend for months, a decline in popularity unmatched by any other President in recent memory.

Not only is President Obama and his Democrat colleagues in Congress alienating the average citizen, they are also losing the backing of their formerly fawning supporters in the mainstream media:

Obama’s Army Takes To The Airwaves

Organizing For America, in alliance with the Democratic National Committee, is about to become even more annoying than usual.

The latest plan to promote a message that no one wants to listen to is to have OFA members call-in to conservative talk radio shows and try and discuss health care reform.

The DNC was smart enough to realize that your average member of Organizing For America is not intellectually equipped to match wits with a Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh, so they have prepared a list of tips and talking points.

However, with typical liberal stupidity, the script does leave out one major point.

And that is how should one of the members of the Kool-Aid Brigade respond when someone such as Glenn Beck asks them their thoughts on the fact that the majority of American’s don’t want Obamacare?

States Seeking to Ban Mandatory Health Insurance

34 states have read the Tenth Amendment, and decided that Obamacare is un-Constitutional.

Although President Barack Obama’s push for a health care overhaul has stalled, conservative lawmakers in about half the states are forging ahead with constitutional amendments to ban government health insurance mandates.

The proposals would assert a state-based right for people to pay medical bills from their own pocketbooks and prohibit penalties against those who refuse to carry health insurance.

In many states, the proposals began as a backlash to Democratic health care plans pending in Congress. But instead of backing away after a Massachusetts election gave Senate Republicans the filibuster power to halt the health care legislation, many state lawmakers are ramping up their efforts with a new enthusiasm.

The moves reflect the continued political potency of the issue for conservatives, who have used it extensively for fundraising and attracting new supportersThe legal impact of any state measures may be questionable because courts generally have held that federal laws trump those in states.

Lawmakers in 34 states now have filed or proposed amendments to their state constitutions or statutes rejecting health insurance mandates, according to the American Legislative Exchange Council, a nonprofit group that promotes limited government that is helping coordinate the efforts. Many of those proposals are targeted for the November ballot, assuring that health care remains a hot topic as hundreds of federal and state lawmakers face reelection.

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Americans Are Too Stupid To Understand Obama

I’m glad that the New York Times cleared this up for me.
Here I’ve been thinking that health care reform, cap and trade and stimulus packages were just bad ideas.

Health Care In Portland Covers Sex Change Operations

I may have to go back and read President Obama’s health care reform bill because I don’t remember seeing sex change operations covered under Obamacare.
You would think that Barney Frank would have made sure that part was included.
Or deducted, as the case may be.

The city of Portland wants to expand its medical coverage for employees who want to get a sex change, a move that will cost $108,000 a year.

According to Mayor Sam Adam’s spokesman, Roy Kaufmann, the city would pay 95 percent of the cost for the procedure and leave the remaining five percent for employees to pay out of pocket.

He said it would cover a lifetime benefit of $75,000 for each employee who gets gender reassignment surgery. Employees covered under the city’s core plan would pay about $20 a year more in premiums.

It’s an effort to provide equal benefits to city workers, Kaufmann said.

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Democrats Cave In, Will Seat Scott Brown

It’s time for Teddy’s seat warmer to fing a new place to sit.

Sen.-elect Scott Brown of Massachusetts on Wednesday demanded to be seated immediately, saying that while he was set to be sworn in Feb. 11, there are a number of votes scheduled prior to that date — votes that, once he is seated, Republicans can defeat.

Democrats, seeking to avoid a prolonged battle over seating a duly elected senator, quickly assented.

In a letter from Mr. Brown’s attorney to Gov. Deval Patrick and Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin — both Democrats — Mr. Brown argued that the results of the special election in Massachusetts on Jan. 19 are not in doubt. While Senator-elect Brown had tentatively planned to be sworn into office February 11, he has been advised that there are a number of votes scheduled prior to that date, For that reason, he wants certification to occur immediately, wrote his attorney, Daniel B. Winslow. As he is the duly elected United States Senator from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, he is entitled to be seated now.

The lawyer asked that the results of the Jan. 19 special election be certified without delay and no later than 11 a.m. Thursday, in time to allow Senator-elect Brown to be administered the oath of office by the Vice President tomorrow afternoon. Hours before Mr. Brown’s demand, Mr. Galvin delivered official copies of the election results to the Governor’s Council. Mr. Patrick’s staff announced that the governor would sign Mr. Brown’s election certificate in the council’s presence — as is required by law — during a ceremony at 9:30 a.m. Thursday.

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Another Health Care System Failure

Note to President Obama:
We know that you want to pattern American health care after the model used in Europe.
Please don’t use this country’s “experienced” doctors as an example.
This is the sort of thing we could expect under Obamacare.
Although charging a jar of honey as a fee for saving someones life seems pretty reasonable.

A Polish beekeeper pronounced dead after he suffered a suspected heart attack was about to be sealed up in a coffin when a funeral director miraculously discovered a faint pulse.

Jozef Guzy collapsed as he started work among his beloved hives near the southern city of Katowice.

An ambulance was called and an experienced doctor declared that the 76-year-old had died.

Jerzy Wisniewski, a spokesman for the Regional Ambulance Service in Katowice, said: ‘The patient was not breathing, there was no heart beat, the body had cooled – all are the characteristics of death.

Three hours later, an undertaker arrived to take Mr Guzy’s body away.

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Virginia’s Democrat-Controlled Senate Rejects Obamacare

Upon hearing this, Nancy Pelosu is probably choking on her Botox.
I wonder if she would dare to call Democrat legislators from Virginia Nazis or racists because the had the gall to disagree with President Obama.

Yesterday the U.S. Constitution and federalism won a key battle. The Virginia Senate, which has a Democrat Majority, passed a bill prohibiting a requirement for Virginians to purchase health-care insurance. Five Democrats from swing districts joined all of the Senate Republicans in voting in favor of the measure. And with a Republican State House and Governor, this bill is expected to make it into law.

Some would argue that the legislative implications are negligible as the federal government, if it wants, can override state law and that an individual mandate could be authored in such a way to not run afoul of this Virginian measure. However, the practical implications of this effort are widespread. What are these?

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