UPDATE:Gun Grabbing Dem Ignores Tough Question From Female Gun Owner At Town Hall

Nicki over at the Liberty blog was on scene and got a hold of the microphone. Hilarity ensues!!!
Word of caution, Nicki speaks her mind and does not pull punches. Consider yourself warned.

Gun Grabbing Dem Ignores Tough Question From Female Gun Owner At Town Hall

Virginia deserves better than this douchebag POS.

Our favorite moron Moran, decides he's going to ignore Ms Bigelow and her question and moves on to the next "gentleman".

Typical Maroon tactic.

NOVA, when are you folks gonna come to your senses and vote this asshat out of office? He is anti-Israel, anti-women, pro-tax, pro-obama, pro-muslim, pro-assclown. He's guilty of domestic violence against his wife; his son was arrested for violent behavior,, along with perpetrating voter fraud in the last election. They are criminals and y'all keep sending him back to Congress to screw things up for the rest of us. Although, with that record, he would fit right in with the muslim brothers in the hood. muslims don't care about women either.

A Message From My Good Friend Katie O'Malley

Dear Patriot,

Since 2009, millions have marched in the streets against the government takeover of health care. In towns across America, town halls, tea parties and rallies have become a weekly occurrence and to tell Congress and the President, in no uncertain terms, “we do not support the reckless path you are taking us down.”

And yet, in March of this year, our voice was ignored and Washington took over 1/6 of our economy by brute force and against the will of the People. And Healthcare is only the beginning. We have learned that, while our presence in the streets is important, our presence at the ballot box is the only thing that can truly ensure that our voices are heard. Electing strong, brave conservative Congressmen is the only way we can ensure liberty.

We have an amazing opportunity to make sure that Americans are aware of these threats and empowered to battle them at the ballot box. Ensuring Liberty will show them how the value and importance of electing solidly conservative candidates that will truly represent We The People in Washington, elected officials who embrace Ensuring Liberty’s first principles of :

· Less Government

· Lower Taxes

· Fiscal Responsibility

· National Security

· States’ Rights

This is a battle that cannot wait until the fall elections. We must ensure that voters across the Country are aware and educated about the many threats to our liberties. Special elections are taking place across the Nation over the next few weeks and primaries have already begun.

Over the next few weeks, we will be hosting several Virtual Town Halls all across the country. We will have many of our Congressional Caucus members on to hear what you want from Washington and to share their insights on how this can be done.

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Top 40 Smokin' Conservative Ladies

WRVA, the 50,000 watt voice for conservative Virginia is currently running a photo montage of the top 40 hottest conservative women, starting with #40 and working down to the #1 spot.

I already have issues with the lineup.

The first 10 are up and I have to say, I already see 3 that should have been in the top ten. Amanda Carpenter, Ashley Herzog and Pam Geller are 10's with a bullet and Barbara Bush has the same facial constuction as Mary Katharine Ham, and as far as I am concerned, if MK is not in the #1 spot, this contest was rigged.

There is no one hotter than MK. I met this young lady, and I know. She is scary smart and is also one of the nicest people you'll ever raise a glass with.

Tidbits From Townhall Magazine

Cap and Tax:

The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and the American Council for Capitol Formation released a study that predicts the House global warming bill could cut the nation's economic growth by 2.4% and drain 2 million jobs by 2030.

The "American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009" (HR 2454).....
aka The Wacky-Marxist Bill.

It has to make you wonder - what's it going to take for Democrats to realize this cap-and-tax plan is a raw deal for America's families?

Eliminate The Death Tax:

A new economic stimulus package lies waiting to be picked up by Congress. This one grows businesses and increases jobs to the tune of about 50% of what the recent stimulus packages hoped to deliver. But unlike the trillion-dollar packages enacted earlier, it costs nothing.
Not only that, it will actually increase the revenue in the federal till while doing the same for state and local governments. This "magic bullet" is very simple: eliminate estate taxes aka "death" taxes.

Not a Cop; He's a Security Officer

TO: Fairfax County Public School Security Office
RE: Security Officer Behavior at 1st Amendment Protected Assembly

Your security officer was completely out of line and violated the attendees' 1st Amendment rights.

I suggest sensitivity training and a civics class.

His only justification for his behavior was HIS opinion of a sign being carried by the attendee.
Just because HE doesn't like it, doesn't give him the authority to prohibit the sign.

His final comment... "It aint no more" to the attendee's comment about this being America is frightening in its implications.

This most certainly IS America. We still have a Constitution. People are still free to speak their mind.



Earlier reports that Officer Wesley Cheeks Jr. is a police officer were in error. Further investigation has revealed Officer Cheeks is a member of the Fairfax County Public Schools' trained School Security Officer team. To contact the school's security force, e-mail Fred Ellis, the director of safety and security for Fairfax County Public Schools, or Jim McLain, the security coordinator.

Heritage Morning Bell

Morning Bell: Is Obamacare Consistent With Our First Principles?

During one of Sen. Arlen Specter’s (D-PA) early health care townhalls in Lebanon, Pennsylvania; mother of two Katy Abrams told the audience: “I don’t believe this is just about health care. It’s not about TARP. It’s not about left and right. This is about the systematic dismantling of this country. I’m only 35 years-old. I’ve never been interested in politics. You have awakened the sleeping giant.”

Abrams is dead on. Our federal government has, unfortunately, long been drifting away from the limited government principles first envisioned by our founders. But over the past eleven months, that drift has turned into an all out sprint towards an undemocratic, technocratic, leviathan state … a type of government that our Constitution was specifically designed to prevent.

As Abrams points out, both political parties have been complicit in the rapid deterioration of our founding principles. It was after all President Bush who pushed for and signed the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 which created the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).

When the Bush administration submitted their legislation to Congress we warned: “From a constitutional standpoint, the current versions of the legislation are different in scope, and especially in kind, from almost any federal legislation that has come before.”

Specifically we identified: (1) Congress’s enumerated power—or lack thereof—to intervene with private markets in the manner contemplated, (2) the lack of meaningful standards to guide the extremely broad grant of discretion to the Treasury secretary (the “legislative delegation” problem), (3) limitations on judicial review over the exercise of that almost limitless discretion, and (4) related separation of powers concerns.The only thing that truly surprised us after the legislation’s passage was just how quickly our worst fears were realized. The TARP plan, as sold to Congress, was never even implemented and, instead, it quickly devolved into a political slush fund.

Because of the broad delegations of authority in the bill, the American people were left with no real avenue to check the federal government’s unprecedented interference in the U.S. economy. When Members of Congress voted for the bill in October 2008, could any of them honestly say they thought they had just voted to bailout General Motors and Chrysler?

The proposed health care legislation is just as bad, if not worse, than TARP. Sec. 142 of H.R. 3200 grants the new Orwellian titled “Health Choices Commissioner” broad lawmaking authority including the power to set standards for every Americans health insurance plan, to determine which of your current insurance plans do or do not meet that standard, and then to punish plans that do not meet that standard. Even worse is what is not yet in the bill, but is desperately wanted by the Obama administration. A super-empowered Medicare Payment Advisory Commission that is specifically designed to “save money in an apolitical, technocratic way.”

The entire purpose of this part of Obamacare would be to take medical decisions away from patients and vest it in a panel of experts specifically designed to be completely unaccountable to the American people. Is this what the Framers of the Constitution had in mind?When the Constitution was being ratified, James Madison, writing as Publius, sought to allay fears that the new national government would turn into a Leviathan. In the 45th Federalist Paper he emphasized that adoption of the Constitution would create a government of enumerated, and therefore strictly limited, powers.

Madison said: “The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined… [and] will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce….” Federal tax collectors, Madison assured everyone, “will be principally on the seacoast, and not very numerous.” Exactly six months after publication of this essay, New York became the 11th state to ratify the Constitution. Is turning over one-sixth of our nation’s economy to Obama’s super-MedPAC panel in any way consistent with this vision?

DC Protest Warrior: Dirty Tricks Redux

DC Protest Warrior: Dirty Tricks Redux

Doctor is not really a doctor.
Link will take you to an event notice page from Organizing for America. Just because it lists the phone number, does not mean you have to call and tell her how stupid this stunt was.

This link takes you to the Lonestar Times page with the story on the plant.

Now, what really scares me about all this is that this is Biblical prophesy confirmed.

"All that is hidden is made known"

Plants at Townhalls

Video: Man Carrying Obama ‘Hitler’ Sign at Rep. Dingell Event Was Democratic Plant

Hold On A Minute

If, as Her Majesty Princess Nancy says, the citizens protesting the government takeover of healthcare at the Townhall meetings are being organized and paid by the insurance companies and drug companies, why has the drug industry come out in favor of the government takeover of the healthcare system?

Apparently Princess Nancy didn't recieve that memo. So which is it? Are they funding above average American citizens to induce them to harass politicians, or are they funding politicians to execute a perfectly orchestrated takeover of 20% of the American economy?

Some Words of Advice

The videos of the Townhall meetings I saw amounted to shouting matches, and that will only work for so long. I understand the passion being displayed because I've been there.

Now that you have their attention, (that could be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on your point of view and level of paranoid cynicism.), you must be prepared to ask the questions you want answered. Its time for the debate.

There comes a time when the questions need to be asked and the answers listened to, and then ask another question.

Now is the time. They're not going to listen to a mob. They will listen to objective questioning of their motives and/or agenda.

The more reasoned and calm we remain in the face of this onslaught of negative media coverage, the more we will piss off the left.

Trust me. I've done it. It works. Let them be the screamin' meanies. We will be the voice of reason.

Heritage Morning Bell...I'm Late

From Long Island to Philadelphia to Austin, Texas, Democrats returning from Washington to host Townhalls are getting an earful from constituents about their concerns over President Barack Obama’s health care plan. Despite the fact that all recent polls show that a majority of Americans do not support Obamacare, the left still has the audacity to claim that the concerned citizens showing up at these events are health insurance industry stooges. So Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) told the Center for America Progress: “These health insurance companies and people like them are trying to load these town hall meetings for visual impact on television.”

But when actual journalists have reported on who is showing up at these events, they are telling a different story. Reporting on events in Pennsylvania and Texas, the New York Times describes the protests as “organized by loose-knit coalition of conservative voters and advocacy groups.”

This country deserves a respectful, honest debate about health care. And the hundreds of townhall’s Members of Congress will be hosting across the country this August are just the place for that conversation to happen. Here are just five questions Americans should be pressing their elected leaders on over the coming month:

Can you promise me that I will not lose my current plan and doctor?
President Obama says it is “not legitimate” to claim the “public option is somehow a Trojan horse for a single-payer system.” But Reps. Barney Frank (D-MA), Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), and Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman have all admitted that the public option will inevitably lead to government-run health care. The independent and non-partisan Lewin Group estimates that about 83.4 million people would lose their private insurance if Obamacare became law.

Can you promise that you and your family will enroll in the public plan?
Members of Congress and their families currently receive health care through the popular, and completely public-option-free, Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) which allows members of Congress to choose between 283 private health insurance plans. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) proposed an amendment that would require all members of Congress and their staffs to enroll in the newly-created public health insurance plan. His amendment passed by just one vote in the Senate Health Committee. In the House, Rep. Dean Heller (R-NV) offered a similar amendment and all 21 Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee voted it down. If the public plan is so great, then Members of Congress should by willing to forfeit their private coverage and join the millions of Americans who would be moved into the public plan.

Can you promise that Obamacare will not lead to higher deficits in the long-term?
President Obama said that he would not support health care legislation that would add to the national deficit. But Congressional Budget Office director Douglas Elmendorf has stated that the House health care legislation would “generate substantial increases in federal budget deficits during the decade beyond the current 10-year budget window.” To help Obama keep his promise, Rep. Patrick Tiberi (R-OH) offered an amendment that would require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to submit an annual report to the President and Congress, comparing the expected revenue and spending under the bill’s provisions for the upcoming 10-year period. In the event that projected spending under the bill outpaced revenue, the Secretary would have to reduce spending so that it would not exceed revenue. Democrats defeated Tiberi’s amendment.

Can you promise that government bureaucrats will not ration health care for patients on the public plan?
President Obama promised on July 22 that health care reform would keep the government out of health care decisions, but both the House and Senate bills call for an increased role of comparative effectiveness research (CER). More information on health care effectiveness is good as long as doctor’s and patients are the ones empowered to use that information. Conservatives in both the House and Senate offered amendments prohibiting the use of CER by government to mandate, deny, or ration care. These anti-rationing amendments were defeated in both the House and Senate.

Can you promise me that my tax dollars will not fund abortions?
The House bill, as currently drafted, allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services to outline the minimum benefits that must be included in any health plan. There is no specific provision in the bill that would require insurance coverage of abortion. However, since the decisions over benefits are left to the Secretary of HHS, with recommendations from a newly created Health Care Benefits Advisory Committee, there is nothing to prevent the current or future Secretary from including abortion coverage in Americans’ health insurance. Conservatives in both the House and Senate offered amendments that would prohibit the use of taxpayer dollars to fund abortions. The tax payer funded abortion bans were defeated in both the House and Senate.

Commenting on the townhall phenomenon, University of Pennsylvania political scientist Kathleen Hall Jamieson tells Politico: “If this comes down to vocal individuals, the Obama campaign ought to be able to always outnumber their opponent. And if they’re not, then that’s a problem.” So far it appears that Obamacare has a townhall problem.

The Republicans Have A Plan

WASHINGTON, DC - House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) today released a new web video on President Obama’s health care plan that uses footage from a classic ‘80s TV ad in a humorous way to make a serious point – despite what the President and congressional Democrats say, government doesn’t know best when it comes to the very personal health care decisions that families and doctors make every day.


“Like the old joke goes, President Obama isn’t a doctor, but he plays one on TV -- giving Americans a discomforting glimpse of life under ObamaCare, with government leaders and bureaucrats dispensing medical opinions that are better left to doctors, medical professionals, and patients. This is a lighthearted video, but it underscores a serious point that Congressional Democrats are going to hear throughout August as they travel outside of Washington: Americans want lower health care costs – not a trillion-dollar government takeover of health care that increases costs and lets Washington bureaucrats make decisions that should be made by doctors and patients.”
NOTE: For information on the House GOP health care reform proposal, visit the House GOP Health Care Solutions Group website here. For more information on the Democrats’ government takeover of health care, visit http://republicanleader.house.gov/Components/Redirect/r.aspx?ID=23546-2118299.

No Heart No Compassion

H/T Viper

Diana West
Townhall.com

Taking it from the top: The last thing President Obama [The Chosen One, may peace be upon him] did not do before leaving for Saudi Arabia, "addressing" the Muslim world from Cairo, and commemorating D-Day in Europe (in that order) was condemn a bona-fide jihadist attack on a Little Rock, Ark., Army-Navy recruiting station that left U.S. Army Pvt. William Long, 23, dead, and U.S. Army Private Quinton Ezeagwula, 18, wounded. The killer was Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, 23, an American convert to Islam originally named Carlos Bledsoe. Muhammad had recently returned from studying jihad in nearby Yemen -- nearby, that is, to Saudi Arabia, President Obama's first stop abroad.

The horrific shooting took place Monday morning when the soldiers, both of whom had just completed basic training, were taking a break outside the office. The hours passed, then the entire day, but no statement came from these soldiers' commander-in-chief (Obama). Never mind that just the week before, as Michelle Malkin has pointed out, President Obama personally condemned the murder of abortionist George Tiller within hours of the crime ("I am shocked and outraged by this heinous crime ..."). The Justice Department also issued a timely statement condemning Tiller's murder, additionally dispatching federal protection to abortion clinics. But there was nothing on Monday from Washington for these U.S. soldiers who had come under fire in a sleepy shopping mall on U.S. soil, and no federal assistance was put forward for the country's recruiting stations, long subjected to harassment, vandalism and now worse.

The silence was even more noticeable on Tuesday when President Obama held a press conference in Washington to announce his selection for secretary of the Army. While blah-blahing about preparing our soldiers "to meet the challenges of our time," the president failed to note the "challenge" of homegrown jihad that had tragically cost Pvt. Long his life and put his comrade in the hospital. And then Obama was off on his own jarringly personal mission of perpetual outreach to the Islamic world, this time setting out in Sharia-ruled, oil- and jihad-exporting Saudi Arabia. "I thought it was very important to come to the place where Islam began and to seek his majesty's counsel," Obama said on Wednesday.

The place where Islam began? Spare us. How about the president instead going to the place where Islam ended the life a U.S. soldier, an unexpected casualty of jihad in the young man's own back yard?

Little Rock is where the president of the United States should have traveled this week to address the Muslim world. There, he should have declared that the 21st century era of Islamic jihad is over, that Pvt. Long had not died in vain, that his memory would be served by a new American resolve to join with its kindred allies in liberty to contain and ultimately reverse the militarily- and demographically pressed advance of Sharia (Islamic law) across the non-Muslim world.

But such a pilgrimage to the heart of America to denounce jihad obviously doesn't interest Barack Obama. Not when he could make a pilgrimage to the heart of Islam where jihad is a sacred institution. Finally, on Wednesday afternoon, as criticism of the president's silence began to achieve a critical Internet mass, a statement came from the White House: "I am deeply saddened by this senseless act of violence ..." it said.