“RECONCILLIATION” AND TYRANNY

Democrats in Congress seem determined to pass the health care bill through the “reconciliation process” despite its obvious unpopularity with the people of America. Nancy Pelosi has said this week that Democrats “have set the stage” for the reconciliation process to go forward. Reconciliation is a procedure in Congress whereby legislation can be passed without the usual threat of a filibuster. Reconciliation was a measure designed by the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to allow Congress and the Senate to avoid a filibuster and pass budget bills with a smaller group of “yes” votes. The technique has been used only on bills concerning budgets and deficit spending since its inception; and that was its intended purpose. If readers are interested in knowing what “reconciliation” is all about, they can refer to--http://tinyurl.com/y9xk668. Reconciliation has never been used to modify social legislation of the scale and cost of the present health care bill.

Here is how the Democrats in Congress intend to manipulate this health care bill through the reconciliation process. First, House Democrats would pass a series of “fixes” to the Senate bill. The Senate would then pass the House reconciliation bill, sending amendments to President Obama to a bill that did not exist, because it had not yet emerged from the House. The House would then retroactively pass the Senate bill, as is, and send it to the President for signature. Then the President would sign the Senate bill before he signs the reconciliation bill.

This whole process sounds like a bunch of legislative acrobatics in an attempt to pass legislation that is very unpopular with the American people. To me,it sounds like tyranny.

Nobody in their right mind believes that the government can supply health insurance to 38 million Americans and do it for free—actually decreasing the debt load of the government, as President Obama claims.

Airport Security--Profiling??

President Obama has pledged to ban racial profiling at airport security stations. He outlined this position in his "Bluepring for Change." Is this rational? Is it safe for the American airline passenger? There is a point to quit being politically correct and start protecting Americans. Lately, my 70 year old caucasian wife was extensively searched at the Denver airport to see if she was carrying a bomb. She does not look like any kind of terrorist to me!

The Israelis have an effective and rational way of profiling. They look at the passport. If that passport has a stamp from Yemen, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, or North Aftica, they search that passenger thoroughly. That makes sense to me.

"The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 59% of adults say factors such as race, ethnicity and overall appearance should be used to determine which boarding passengers to search at airports.

Twenty-six percent (26%) say these factors should not be used to determine which passengers to search. Another 15% are not sure.

Interestingly, however, even more Americans (71%) believe such profiling is necessary in today’s environment. Eighteen percent (18%) disagree and see profiling as an unnecessary violation of civil rights…

Nearly half of likely voters (46%) believe current airport security measures are not strict enough."

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/lifestyle/general_lifestyle/january_2010/59_favor_racial_ethnic_profiling_for_airline_security

Obama's Biggest Blunder

Conservatives tend to criticize President Obama’s fiscal and domestic policies to the high heavens; but I think that the biggest blunder of this administration is its neglect of things international, especially of the obvious problems going on in Iran and the Middle East. This administration is extremely slow to act when destabilization is running rampant among our avowed enemies in that part of the world. If you do not believe that is true, just look at how long it took President Obama to decide to send 38,000 more urgently needed troops to Afghanistan—months! Now, he sits still while Hamas perfects a rocket launcher in the Gaza strip capable of delivering a bomb (presumably an Iranian nuclear weapon) to Tel Aviv. Meanwhile, Hamas continues to lob explosive rockets into Israeli settlements in southern Israel.

The latest danger comes, of course, from Iran. President Ahmadinejad announced via state TV yesterday that Iran was going on to enrich uranium, supposedly to make a medical reactor. How long must we stand by and watch this kind of preparation for war going on before we act in our own best interests and the best interest of the whole world, especially the interests of a peaceful Middle East?!

We fail to act, even in words of encouragement, to the democrats in Iran who are protesting tyranny and laying down their lives for freedom. The Iranian regime continues to repress protests of their corrupt national election on June 12 while the United States hesitates to even endorse the actions of the protesters verbally. While the United States sleeps, street protesters around the world came out on Sunday to protest human rights violations in Iran.

We hear a lot of criticism of the Bush administration for apparently failing to understand that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq before our invasion. But now, we stand by and allow the Iranian government to announce openly that they are producing nuclear capability. Talk about “weapons of mass destruction!” This is ridiculous!!

It seems to me that the one hope the free world has is Israel. Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu is not one to let his country be destroyed before his very eyes. A pre-emptive strike against Iran is a very real possibility at the hands of the Israelis; but I doubt very seriously that our American military power is wont to help them if they do act to save their country and their lives.

WE NEED SOME ACTION ON THE PART OF OUR GOVERNMENT TO STOP THE DANGER IN IRAN!!