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- The political mood of the country is angry and more polarized
than ever. Left and Right are now worlds apart and headed for a major clash
at the polls for the mid-term elections in November. Republicans are set
to make big gains, but if the Republican leaders have their way, following
in the pattern of the failed Contract With America of 1994, they will once
again sabotage the potential victory and lead conservatives away from real
change. For now, the Democrats are headed for a number of losses at the
polls and some are planning to resign rather than face the inevitable defeat.
Obama and Democratic leaders have decided to go for broke--get all the
bad legislation passed while they have the power and then let Team B take
over. As for the Powers That Be (PTB) who control both parties at the top
levels, they are already preparing to make sure the growing conservative
backlash is derailed by promoting compromised Republican leaders to make
sure the bad laws passed by the Democrats don't get overturned. This week's
Texas GOP primary was the first step in that direction.
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- Democratic politics are being driven by blatant appeals
to health and welfare benefits couched in the populist rhetoric of false
rights. It's pure pandering to their own growing constituency, but America
still hasn't reached the point (yet) where the benefit-corrupted minority
becomes an absolute majority. When that happens, Democracy will take on
the full mantle of official plunder via majoritarian powers. The PTB continue
to move towards that day of irreversible power using stealth intrusions
that slowly eat away at the public will to resist.
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- For now the standard operating procedure is to blame
every government regulatory and control failure on events beyond their
control (a lie, but effective in diverting blame) coupled with the trumped
up need for MORE intervention, not less. That is what they have done with
the health care crisis.
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- Except for creating wars, I can't think of a more perfect
vehicle for Hegelian conflict creation and deception than our current partly-free,
controlled health care system. The perfect ploy for continual intervention
is an issue that has no solution. Health Care can never be fixed as long
as the AMA has a lock hold on who gets to practice medicine and how, and
as long as establishment medical protocols are controlled by drug companies.
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- Americans themselves share much of the blame for evading
their responsibility to eat properly--in large part due to slick marketing
by industry about the wonders of cheap modern food processing, avoiding
the negative truth about how nutritionally hollow that food is. Then too,
it is hard for most people to avoid the lure of low prices in favor of
higher quality.
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- The bottom line, is that the more the current system
fails to either heal people or reduce costs, the more justification there
will be for government intervention. That, in a nutshell, is why the current
system isn't working. No one inside the system wants it to be cheaper.
The proposed reforms will make it all much worse by increasing control,
limiting choice and undermining most of the free market attempts to penalize
people for decades of bodily abuse. The reforms also intend to spread the
costs to those of us who are making huge strides to stay healthy and out
of the hospital insurance system.
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- For all of the above reasons, the Democrats have decided
they must pass something --anything to get their foot in the door. As long
as they get the basics of a mandatory system, no matter how watered down,
no one will ever be able to escape the system in the future. Both Democrats
and Republicans can then tinker with it at will.
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- Republicans got suckered into participating in Obama's
televised health summit, and now Obama is leveraging off of that claiming
to include several of the Republican proposals in the new bill. No one
believes this new attempt is acceptable to Republicans, and it will be
a hard sell to many Democrats who don't want to be turned out of office
in November. Let me comment on view of ABC News:
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- "Political strategists doubt whether there is enough
support among 'Democrats to pass President Obama's health care legislation,
even though 'House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., expressed confidence
Sunday she 'would eventually have enough House votes to do so [She's right.
The Dems won't take no for an answer, and dozens of Congressmen have enough
skeletons in the closet to be subject to political arm twisting].
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- "Polls show that even though a majority of Americans
dislike the Democrats' bill, they do want health care overhaul. Republicans
[would] like this bill to pass, because they know how unpopular it is,
[which is really stupid, failing to understand how difficult it will be
to remove once passed. Too many people can be conned into thinking that
something is good because "at least we are started down the road to
reform." They fail to realize it's a road of no return and the illusory
promises of positive change will never happen]."
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- As John Fund points out, however, "A new Gallup
Poll finds that, by 52% to 39%, those surveyed oppose attempts by Democrats
to circumvent a filibuster by passing health care by a simple majority
vote. A separate poll by CNN found that only 25% of voters want Congress
to pass a bill similar to the ones already voted on by the House and Senate.
A full 48% want Congress to start over, and 25% want lawmakers to stop
working on health care altogether."
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- The will of the people be damned: "To pass the health
care bill, the House and Senate bills would need to be meshed together
into one piece of legislation that can pass both chambers. But since there
are significant differences between the House bill and Senate bills, Democrats
are discussing [planning on] first passing the Senate bill in the House,
then passing a separate bill with House Democrats' revisions through reconciliation,
a legislative process that would require only 51 votes in the Senate [to
avoid a Republican filibuster]. Proponents of the bill argue that Democrats
need to step up and push the bill through because if it doesn't pass, it
will only hurt them." It will hurt them either way, but the leaders
don't care. Getting something passed is all that matters, and sadly, I
think that is going to happen.
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- INSIGHTS FROM THE TEXAS GOP PRIMARY
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- The Texas Republican primary is the first indicator of
how well we can expect constitutional conservative rebels to fare against
establishment Republican candidates who feign being champions of states
rights and the constitution but who are, in reality, globalists. The unofficial
leader of the rebel conservative Republicans is Congressman Ron Paul --more
than ever a thorn in the side of the FED and big government Republicans.
The establishment always tries to defeat Ron Paul every two years by inducing
various mainstream conservatives to run against Paul, always portraying
Dr. "No," as he is called, as a radical. It didn't work. As UnitedLiberty.org
points out, Ron Paul won by a landslide:
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- "Despite all of the news coverage about the 'tea
party candidates' running against him, It didn't take long on Tuesday night
to see that Rep. Ron Paul would easily win the Republican Party nomination
in the 14th Congressional District by winning over 80% of the vote in the
four way race. Paul, who has served in the House since 1997 (not including
earlier terms from 1979 to 1985), was being accused of not spending enough
time in the district since his bid for president in 2007 to 2008. Republican
primary voters in TX-14 overwhelmingly disagreed.
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- "Every two years it seems there is a lot of attention
paid to Paul's primary opponents, more than is reasonably necessary outside
the district or state. They never succeed, despite the wishes of pro-war
bloggers and commentators."
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- But, the establishment did succeed in helping Texas Governor
Rick Perry ward off a challenge from Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson and, more
importantly, by libertarian-constitutionalist Debra Medina. Perry won just
enough to avoid a runoff with Hutchinson, by gaining a slim majority of
52% to Hutchinson's 32%. A runoff between those two would have yielded
virtually no change in ideology. Both have globalist allegiances. It is
rare that a sitting Senator with high ratings in the polls offers to give
up senatorial prestige to seek the governor's chair. I suspect that Hutchinson
did this at the bidding of the PTB in order to make sure Texans didn't
have a clear choice between Perry and a true conservative--Debra Medina.
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- Medina, who garnered 18%, had much higher poll ratings
and was climbing rapidly until Glenn Beck tried to sabotage her campaign
by trying to make an issue of her openness to the 9/11 truth movement (those
who challenge the official government story that Muslim terrorists only
were responsible for the physics-defying collapse of WTC buildings 1, 2,
and especially 7. Even though Medina was careful not to fully commit to
it nor alienate the truth movement, the damage was done and Medina was
dogged by people accusing her of believing in conspiracy. Horrors! Nevertheless,
Medina is still a force to be reckoned with in Texas politics. She's young
enough to run again and again. If Perry goes back to his mainstream ways
of betraying conservatives, Texan may well look to Medina to replace him
next time around.
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- Perry made outlandish claims of being a state's rights
conservative, even going so far as to talk about Texas secession, always
popular with the Texans of an independence nature. But his verbiage was
a fraud. As Kurt Nimmo rehearses for the readers of PrisonPlanet.com, Perry's
real roots are with the globalists--as are Hutchinsons.
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- "Reuters describes Perry as a conservative with
strong anti-Washington rhetoric in a report this morning on his primary
win for the Texas governorship. We're taking our country back -- one vote
at a time, one election at a time, he said. Perry will face former Houston
Mayor Bill White in the November general election. White beat Houston [Muslim]
businessman Farouk Shami in the Democratic primary [Shami received only
20%].
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- "Rick Perry has masqueraded as a proponent of states'
rights while pushing through the NAFTA superhighway and the globalist agenda.
The Texas leg of the NAFTA superhighway, also known as the Trans-Texas
Corridor, will be financed by Cintra Concesiones de Infraestructuras de
Transporte, a foreign investment consortium based in Spain. In 2007, it
was reported that Perry received substantial campaign contributions from
Cintra and Zachry Construction Company, the San Antonio-based construction
firm selected by TxDOT to build out the TTC.
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- "In February, 2007, Perry bypassed the Texas legislature
and issued an order making Texas the first state to require that schoolgirls
get Gardasil vaccinations. Despite the fact that Gardasil is dangerous,
government agencies have been subsidizing its sales, recommending its use,
and even talking about requiring it. Perry attended the 2007 Bilderberg
meeting in Istanbul, Turkey. Kay Bailey Hutchinson is also a member of
the Bilderberg Group. She voted for the so-called Emergency Economic Stabilization
Act of 2008, which authorized the creation of the Troubled Assets Relief
Program and facilitated the bankster bailout."
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- Overall, as the Houston Chronicle pointed out (with glee)
"Medina also failed to buoy up other Tea Party candidates across the
state. Anti-establishment voters simply didn't materialize at the polls
on Tuesday, and most Republican incumbents cruised to victory over their
Tea Party challengers.
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- "There were some local Tea Party successes. Roy
Morales, who finished fourth in the Houston mayor's race last fall and
whose Tea Party support fueled something of a surge toward the end of that
campaign, won the GOP nomination for the 29th Congressional District this
time. Don Sumners, who knocked off incumbent Harris County tax assessor-collector
Leo Vasquez... Sumners said he believes his anti-tax message, an integral
part of the Tea Party movement, resonated more strongly with voters than
Vasquez's pledge for businesslike efficiency. But the only clear Tea Party
winner outside of Houston was David Simpson, who vanquished state Rep.
Tommy Merritt, R-Longview. Simpson credited his victory to shoe leather,
prayer and the power of the people. Merritt had held the seat since 1997."
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- In another important tea party race, Rand Paul, son of
Congressman Ron Paul has a strong lead over all his establishment Republican
competition for the May 18 GOP Senate Primary in Kentucky. In polls, the
younger Paul is also leading against every potential Democratic challenger.
In general, the tea party movement will defeat a few establishment Republicans,
but not enough to stop establishment control of the Republican party agenda
after November.
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