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From RedState:

Finally, and here is my big point — you have to win this fight. If you do not win this fight, there will be no more chances to turn back government. Why? Because President Obama is holding senior citizens hostage with their social security checks.

If the President can force your hand by using entitlements as a lever to punish the American people if you don’t do as he wants, you will have established this as a precedent. From here on out, if you lose this fight, every time you balk at expanding government, social security checks will be withheld, medicare payments will be withheld, and in just a few short years, surgeries will be cancelled, vaccinations withheld, and hospitals shuttered.

It will all be because if you lose this fight now, the Democrats will know for certain from here on out that they can use withholding entitlements as a tool to force your hand.

You must win this fight. You must show you are not afraid. When Ben Bernanke brings the Grim Reaper in on August 1st to tell you we are all going to die, you must mock death and choose life — not bipartisan compromises that will keep growing government and ever more rapidly turn this nation into a third class banana republic. In short, you must hold the freaking line!

Full article @ http://www.redstate.com/erick/2011/07/15/dear-house-republicans-this-is-your-time-for-choosing/

The Obama administration next week will embark on a fresh pitch for the health-care overhaul, seeking to boost public support for the law on its one-year anniversary.

But lawmakers and some policy experts say the next phase of the overhaul will be more difficult to sell. Between now and the 2012 presidential election, few consumer-oriented changes kick in. That gives the administration few tools to break a deadlock in public opinion over President Barack Obama’s top domestic achievement, which he signed March 23, 2010.

for the full Wall Street Journal article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704360404576206902721858680.html

“Protesters spent the night on the floor of the Capitol. A friend of mine said the entire place smelled when she walked in on Friday morning. There was garbage everywhere. This is one of the most beautiful Capitol buildings in the country. The mob had no respect for the place, for what happens there, or for the citizens whose freedoms it represents.”

 
“On the other hand, one of the freshmen (Republican) members of the assembly tells me that the leggies are united and have bonded in a way that would never have been possible in other circumstances. On Thursday night, behind locked doors she said, they wept, held hands, and prayed, vowing unity. Another Senator says she thinks the tide has turned. Another (Repub) answered in response to my question; “This is kinda fun!”

 
“The Governor stands firm. I understand that there are strategies in place for next steps which will shake up the stalemate….I have known him for at least 15 years, but he is different now. He is a man who has met his time and his place, and he seems to know it.”
 

      Some will agree, others will disagree. But one thing is for sure, we CANNOT let the Empty Suit occupy 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue ONE MINUTE more than Noon on January 20, 2013.

January 3rd, 2007 was the day the Democrats took over the Senate and the Congress. 

At the time: 

 

The DOW Jones closed at 12,621.77
 

The GDP for the previous quarter was 3.5%
 

The Unemployment rate was 4.6%
 

Republican policies before the day that historic day had SET A RECORD of 52 STRAIGHT MONTHS of JOB CREATION!


 

Remember the day…
 

January 3rd, 2007 was the day that Barney Frank took over the House Financial Services Committee and Chris Dodd took over the Senate Banking Committee.
 

The economic meltdown that happened 15 months later was in what part of the economy?  It was in BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES!
 

Thank Congress (not the sitting President) for taking us from 13,000 DOW, 3.5 GDP and 4.6% Unemployment to this CRISIS by dumping 5-6 TRILLION Dollars of toxic loans on the economy from YOUR Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac fiasco’s!   Side Note: Bush asked Congress 17 TIMES to stop Fannie & Freddie – starting in 2001, because it was financially risky for the U.S. economy, but the Democrats run by Pelosi, Reid, Frank and Dodd blew it off and would not respond (Remember Dodd’s now infamous comment that the proposed changes to Fannie and Freddie “would limit home ownership to only those who could afford it”.


 

And who took the THIRD highest pay-off from Fannie Mae AND Freddie Mac?  OBAMA himself.
 

And who were the combatants against reform of Fannie and Freddie???  OBAMA and the Democrat Congress.
 

So the next time someone tries to blame “Bush” …
 

REMIND THEM OF JANUARY 3rd, 2007…. THE DAY THE DEMOCRATS TOOK OVER! “Bush” may have been in the car, but the Democrats were in charge of the gas pedal and steering wheel.  Congress was driving. Set the record straight!
 

So, as you listen to all the commercials and media from the Democrats who are now distancing themselves from their voting record and their party, remember how they didn’t listen to you when you said you didn’t want all the bailouts, you didn’t want the health care bill, you didn’t want cap and trade, you didn’t want them to continue spending money we don’t have.
 

I’m not forgetting their complicity in getting us into this mess, and I’ll be marking my vote accordingly!
 

“It’s not that liberals aren’t smart, it’s just that so much of what they know isn’t so.”  Ronald Reagan

WASHINGTON – Preparing for political life after a bruising election, President Barack Obama will put greater emphasis on fiscal discipline, a nod to a nation sick of spending and to a Congress poised to become more Republican, conservative and determined to stop him.

He is already giving clues about how he will govern in the last two years of his term.

Obama will try to make gains on deficit reduction, education and energy. He will enforce his health care and financial overhauls and try to protect them from repeal should Republicans win control of Capitol Hill. He will use executive authority when blocked by Congress, and steel for scrutiny and investigations if the GOP is in charge.

While trying to save money, Obama will have to decide whether to bend to Republican and growing Democratic pressure to extend Bush-era tax cuts, even for the wealthy, that expire at year’s end. Obama wants to extend them for people making less than $200,000 and married couples making less than $250,000, but a broader extension is gaining favor with an increasing number of Democrats.

Moving to the fore will be a more serious focus on how to balance the federal budget and pay for the programs that keep sinking the country into debt.

for the full article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101024/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_how_will_he_govern

http://freedomslighthouse.net/2010/10/15/demplosion-video/

“In even worse news for congressional Democrats, likely voters say they are considerably more likely to vote for a candidate the president opposes than one he supports. On the other hand, 50 percent of voters said they would be more likely to vote for a Tea Party-backed candidate while a third of Americans said Tea Party support would dissuade their vote for a candidate.”

 http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/24/cnn-poll-obama-at-all-time-low/

Former president Bill Clinton, a champion of healthcare reform, admitted on Sunday that he made the wrong prediction about the popularity of President Obama’s healthcare bill.

Initially, Clinton had predicted that the polls in favor of Democrats would be boosted as soon as the legislation was signed into law. Instead, Clinton said on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” his prediction was wrong for two reasons.

“First of all, the benefits of the bill are spread out of three or four years. It takes a long time to implement. And secondly, there has been an enormous and highly effective attack on it,” he said.

Several leading Republicans have vowed to repeal the healthcare reform bill next year.

On CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Clinton said Republicans deserve “their fair share of credit” for Obama’s stumbles, including a sinking approval rating.

“I think he was shocked at the intensity of the Republican opposition,” Clinton said. “But they learned from my first two years that, if you just say no, even though people hate it, you get rewarded for it because it discourages the Democrats and it inflames your base. So they’re doing just what they did in ’93 and ’94. And so far it appears that they’re being rewarded for it.”

For full article: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/119633-clinton-says-he-was-wrong-on-healthcare-bills-popularity

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