Dogwood Pundit: 9/6/09

Saturday, September 12, 2009

I'm Thinking Protesters Don't Care For Pelosi

Tea Partiers Tell CNN Where To Stick It

Protesters March on Washington

In interviews, they gave an almost uniform diagnosis of the country's problems: The Obama administration and congressional Democrats are spending too much money on programs that insert government too far into people's lives. And Washington, they say, ignores or vilifies those who object.

"This is not about being anti-Obama, even though I personally dislike his policies," said Constance Campbell, 58, a retired state administrator who organized the Tallahassee bus. "It's about a feeling of powerlessness in We the People."

9-12-2009 We're Not Going To Take It Anymore

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"It's Time To Party" Rockin' Town Hall / Tea Party Song! 9-12 Project March on Washington D.C.!

The Nine Principles of the 9-12 Project

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1. America is good place, not perfect, but good.

2. I believe in God and He is the center of my life.

3. I must try to be a better, more honest person than I was yesterday.

4. The family is sacred. My spouse and I are the ultimate authority.

5. If you break the law you pay the penalty. Justice is blind and no one is above it.

6. I have a right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness and not a guarantee of equal results.

7. I work hard for what I have. I will share it with who I want to. Government cannot force me to be charitable.

8. It is not un-American for me to disagree or share my personal opinion.

9. The government works for me. I do not answer to them. They answer to me.

Why The 9-12-2009 Tea Party Protest in Washington? This is Why.

Friday, September 11, 2009

9-11 Remembered

Photo gallery here.

Another here.

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Van Jones: A Left-Wing Extremist in the White House

The Obama White House and liberals in general need to explain just how far to the Left is too far. Because Van Jones was as far to the left of the reservation as you can get. Read this:

Van Jones spent the 1990s as an avowed Communist. He is an unabashed political hater. He traffics in poisonous "truther" conspiracy theories about 9/11 as an inside job. And, yet, he is a mainstream figure within environmentalism. The real Jones scandal is less his wince-inducingly sophomoric radicalism than how comfortably he fits within the broader world of contemporary liberalism.

Exactly.

Obama's Lies Matter, Too

Read this:

The president pushes back against health care misinformation, then spreads a bunch of his own. Again and again last night, the president's numbers didn't add up. "There may be those—particularly the young and healthy—who still want to take the risk and go without coverage," he warned, in a passage defending compulsory insurance. "The problem is, such irresponsible behavior costs all the rest of us money. If there are affordable options and people still don't sign up for health insurance, it means we pay for those people's expensive emergency room visits." No, it means that, on balance, the healthy young don't pay for the unhealthy old. The whole point of forcing vigorous youth to buy insurance is using their cash and good actuarials to bring down the costs of covering the less fortunate.

There is nothing in HR3200 that excludes illegal aliens from the various coverage provisions (with a few limited exceptions). The Congressional Research Service agrees with this assessment (full report embedded below). For example, with regard to health care exchanges, the CRS found:
H.R. 3200 does not contain any restrictions on noncitzens—whether legally or illegally present, or in the United States temporarily or permanently—participating in the Exchange.
Since the Obama administration wanted a full House vote passing HR3200 prior to the August recess, Obama was okay with a bill that included illegal aliens.