The time for political correctness is over.  The frauds that run the House of Representatives have just voted to pass the most horrific piece of legislation in the history of the United States of America…and cheered as they did it.

They won the healthcare vote with FIVE votes.  One of them is Joseph Cao – RINO and Junior Congressman.  Step One of shedding Political Correctness is to make sure that the GOP “tent” is no longer welcoming to this Junior Congressman.  Jospeh Cao is Benedict Arnold.  Period.  and his career is over within the GOP.  Period.  We cannot afford mistakes like this in 2010 and either the GOP is on board or they need to be voted out as well.

After a long day and evening of watching C-Span, Lady Libertas allowed a few moments of feeling defeat last night but no more.  We are in the fight for our values, our liberty, our way of life.  The liberal trolls parroted the good cheer of their leadership last night, completely clueless that this will affect them the same as everyone, no matter party affiliation.  Taxes have no care for party affiliation.
As countries around the globe struggle to return right from years of hard left rule, America is sliding towards Socialism at an alarming rate.

This vote was not about healthcare – it was about the takeover of the American government, the expansion of Federal power, the extensive reach of the power brokers in Washington DC and the subjugation of the American people.  Nancy Pelosi and her gang of bully boys do not care about the state of American healthcare; if they did, this would have been an issue much sooner than present day.  What they care about is expansion of their own pork bellies and they have no problem stepping directly on at least half of America to take it.

The vote we witnessed last night was a desperate push by extreme Liberals to inflict their will on this country before they lose control.  FIVE VOTES – certainly not a resounding endorsement for a majority.  Obama has not been the success that they banked on to carry them on waves of victory to a complete takeover of the United States and this country overwhelmingly has no faith in their elected Representatives -  In an October 29, 2009 Rasumussen poll:

Just 15% of voters now give Congress good or excellent ratings, while most (53%) rate the legislature as poor. Those ratings have held relative steady for the past few months but are noticeably worse than those found in May. At that time, 23% gave Congress positive ratings while 44% rated its performance as poor.
Forty-two percent (42%) of voters see most members of Congress as corrupt, the highest level measured in over a year. Thirty-seven percent (37%) say most congressmen are not corrupt, while another 21% are undecided.
Just 15% of voters believe most members of Congress are more interested in helping people than in furthering their own careers. Seventy-six percent (76%) think most congressmen put their own careers first.

As Conservatives, we have been ignored, marginalized or outright derided in the past months.  Obama not only ignores the Conservatives but he and his Administration actively attack Conservative talk show hosts and FOX news and the Tea Party Movement.  There is more divisiveness in this country than ever before.  Obama the Unifier has become the Emperor with No Clothes and we will continue to point that out.  Our rallying points though are strong and we cannot forget New Jersey or Virginia or even New York, where a Conservative running alone only lost by a few points.

The point that Lady Libertas would like to make to Patriots everywhere is WE HAVE ONLY JUST BEGUN.  We have had some  victories and some losses but we cannot lose the will to keep fighting.  The words of James Madison remind us: “The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.”

There were 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence and their commitment to the fight for Liberty was astronomical:

Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army; another had two sons captured. Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War. They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners; men of means, well educated. But they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured.

The only question that remains is this:

Are we willing to make the same commitment that our Founding Fathers made?

Lady Libertas is willing to make that commitment…let the Seeds of Revolution be thrown to the winds to gain foothold in all corners of our great country.  Let the Tyrants and those who would see Liberty be laid low or traded for slavery be put on notice – The Will of the American People is not to be ignored.  We commit to the vision of the Founding Fathers and the preservation of the Constitution of the United States of America.  We commit to the values and ideals that have made our Republic the most powerful in the world: less government, low taxes, free markets, strong national defense, individual freedom and personal responsibility.  We commit to American exceptionalism.  We commit to Action.  From one Patriot to Another – I give YOU my commitment.  Let the Revolution begin…

Lady Libertas would like to indulge in a bit of a rant inspired by the video that I have included at the end of this post.

Shut up.

Shut up.  We may have lost an election but we have not lost our minds, our values, our pride, our work ethic, our love of country or our voices.

Shut up.  We are not an angry mob, un-American, crazies, astroturf, militant extremists, fucktards, racists, wingnuts, evil-mongererererers, domestic terrorists, white hoods, Nazis, brown shirts, deathers or any of the other labels that our own elected officials and fellow Americans have seen fit with which to denigrate our desire to make our voices heard in our country regarding monumental bills that will affect the rest of our lives.

Shut up.  Hate Speech is Hate Speech even when directed against people that you disagree with and agreeing to disagree is the very fabric of the United States and the spirit of our Founding Fathers.  Dissent IS American.  We are fighting to be heard because it is our Right to express ourselves just like those that disagree with us have the Right to express their opinions.  Shouting IS American.  Ask Europe all about loud Americans.

Shut up.  We have no lobbyist money or taxpayer money funding our outrage.  We have no buses or pre-printed signs or t-shirts or fancy flyers.  We do not have 18 million dollars to spend on websites or organizations with millions in the account.  We do not have databases with hundreds of thousands of names or employment rosters to call upon or union memberships.  We do not have paid community organizers or people who have been “trained” to organize or rule books.   We have lots of volunteers and late nights and sheer force of will.  We have commitment and intelligence and passion.  And lots of poster boards and markers.  And we have pretty good senses of humor.  (Although, as Lady Libertas has stated before, if someone would like to pay me to do this, please call…please…like now is good!)

Shut up.  with your fishy.  with your reality check.  with your email lists.  with axelrod spam.  (actually – we may keep the fishy)

Shut up.  We have watched the Democratic Congress that came to power in November 2006 serve up the same things that I found offensive and upsetting that have been attributed to Bush.  Lest we forget, Presidents only sign the bills – Congress is really where it happens and by June of 2007, this Congress had reached an all time low confidence rating.  Interestingly, Obama said that he did not want to talk to the people who had made the mess, but since he was part of that Congress (briefly albeit) and since many of those members are sitting on the Hill with him, I can only wonder who he thinks made the mess?

Shut up.  Keep your lies to yourself.  How dare you stand in front of me and speak untruth and expect me to comply or believe anything else that comes out of your mouth.

Shut up.  Medicare is broken.  Medicare is a single payer system and most Medicare recipients have to pay out of pocket for additional Medicare supplemental insurance.  Medicare has 60 billion dollars per year in fraud.  Medicare has run out of money.  Medicare has lowered their reimbursement rates and passed the burden onto providers who have in turn had to pass it along to private insurance holders.  Putting an entire country on a system that cannot support what it has now is a disaster.  Keep your Medicare for All and let’s fix Medicare for Now.

Shut up.  No more evil doctors that steal tonsils and perform amputations for $30,000.  Just Shut up.

Shut up.  There is nothing that can be said to reassure us that any healthcare plan brought to the board will be deficit neutral.  The CBO agrees with us.  Without analyzing the legislative language (how dizzying is that concept?!), the CBO predicts that HR3200 will add hundreds of billions to the deficit within a 10 year period.  The CBO Director was also told to shut up, but thankfully he did not.

Shut up.  Noone is going to Cuba to take advantage of their fabulous healthcare system.  Noone is making a run for the border to partake of Canada’s physician described “imploding” system.  The United States has some of the best healthcare outcomes in the world.  The World Health Organization life expectancy report is a ridiculous argument – it does not compare apples to apples.  Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic which are two of the top healthcare providers in the world have spoken against the proposed healthcare reform.  I choose to side with healthcare professionals rather than career politicians who are more interested in power brokering than listening to the people that they represent.

Shut up.  The AMA (American Medical Association) represents less than 29% of all physicians in the United States.  Their membership is split and many were shocked that the AMA came out in support of HR3200.  On 8/15/09, the AMA stated the following: “The AMA continues to oppose nationalized health insurance, and we continue to express opposition to elements of public plan proposals that we believe could lead us down the road to a single-payer system or ‘socialized medicine.’”  It appears that this is not the ringing endorsement that Obama has led everyone to believe.

Shut up.  AARP supports HR3200.  AARP does not support HR3200.  Obama says that AARP does support HR3200.  AARP says that they do not (today).  Since July 1, AARP has lost 60,000 members.  AARP should have shut up while they were ahead.

Shut up.  The main stream media may as well use the same teleprompter as the White House.  We are treated to more non-reporting and the liberal agenda promotion has become not just expected but blatant.  Youtube may just be the new network of the people along with Fox.  And those who do not believe that there is a strong Conservative base in the USA should perhaps refer to Fox’s ratings and market share versus other cable news outlets.

Shut up.  with your government mandated lightbulbs.  with your inconvenient truth.  with your Green agenda.  with your electricity taxes couched in an environmental language.  with your smart cars.  with your Soros companies and stocks that will blossom if Cap&Trade is passed on the backs of the American People.  Green is the new Red and you can keep it.

Shut up.  Capitalism, free market, profit and competition are not evil.  Socialism is evil.  Bailouts are evil.  Nationalization of any private industry is evil.

Shut up.  Afghanistan is your war, Obama.  Your vehement protests pre-presidency are falling a bit flat as you not only continue Bush’s Iraq policy but fully engage us in Afghanistan.  Where is Code Pink now?

Shut up.  You cannot have our guns or our bibles.  You cannot have our tacit approval to make decisions that violate the very core of what we believe.  You cannot have our minds or the minds of our children.  You cannot have the lives of our Senior Citizens or the chronically ill.  

Shut up.  You cannot have the blood, sweat and tears of America without being accountable.

The Video : Shut up.

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Guest Blog Post by: Lady Libertas aka Kimberly

I have never attended a MoveOn.org meeting or received their literature – I have had enough conversations with their followers to know that it is not the place for me.

This week, however, I received a call out from the South Florida Tea Party to attend a MoveOn.org meeting at a local library here in Delray Beach, Florida about healthcare reform, so I packed my camera and notebook and headed out today to see for myself what was happening on the other side of the issue.  Pure lunacy would be harsh but it was, in fact - pure lunacy.

I was one of about 12 TEA Partiers that came to the meeting.  There were approximately 60 people total at the meeting – most of them Senior Citizens.  No signs were allowed in the library from either side.  I was asked to sign in and sign their petition – I did but declined the petition.

They identified me as a TEA Partier immediately (not sure what gave me away – the T-shirt or the Fair Tax hat), but while I was waiting one lady commented that she hoped things would be calm.  *eye roll*

A woman asked me why I wouldn’t sign the petition and I explained that I had experienced Socialism & Socialized Medicine after living in the UK and that I also work in healthcare.   She said – oh, we should have asked you to speak and I sweetly offered to come to any of their meetings and speak.

Another lady said she was from Holland and had “survived socialized medicine” and I replied that she was lucky and I exclaimed that I was worried about the quality of survival here.  I also asked them for a list of their speakers and was told that the list was not available for public distribution.  OOOK.  Big smiles – I thanked them and moved to take my seat.  I was first TP there but I was soon joined by fellow Patriots and we all sat together in the back.

Before the speakers began, we were approached by one of the organizers who asked us to please be nice and not make any threats.  V and I both assured her that we are Americans who like other Americans and we would not be threatening anyone.  Good Grief!  *eye roll*

And then the speaker began…  The introduction set up their mantra: “MEDICARE FOR ALL” and took a couple of shots at Sen Bill Nelson (D) who has voted against healthcare reform.  They have accused him via their only handout of taking $3.2 million from big insurance and health interests in his race for federal office.  Their source for this info is a website called opensecrets.org.

I took copious notes and I would like to share some of my WTF moments of the day.

The first speaker was billed as a local small business owner – what she did not say was she was the one that was from Holland – so they opened with a Socialist.  She did discuss healthcare savings accounts but she lost me when she complained that there are “no laws requiring everyone to have healthcare” and that the government should not only make such laws but  should also be providing the healthcare as well, and that no one should have to contribute more than the first $3000 of healthcare.  Confusing but understandable as she was a Socialist; I was feeling a bit better that I was still copiong at this point.

The second speaker was a Nutter!  She was introduced as a Mental Health Practitioner and yup – that explained it.  Not just politically kooky, but she was so enamored with herself and her stories – she led us down a winding road about how she helped two poor girls years ago through the Jewish Family Service and one found her on Facebook and could we imagine helping everyone with healthcare, “even people with tattoos of skulls and crossbones and don’t tread on me”.  She closed with this nugget: “Everyone should be blessed with Medicare.”  So – I am still breathing steadily – we Patriots were whispering a bit here and there amongst ourselves but I was still feeling okay.  Unfortunately, things went a bit downhill from here.

The third speaker was a local Professor of Bilingual Studies.  Her lines were pretty standard Socialist-borderline-Communist-Kumbaya – the USA sucks and we all need-big-government-to-take-care-of-us nonsense.  Then she began quoting studies about life expectancies and how we were all in danger, as she shrilly announced that the “USA ranks 45th in the world in life expectancy, below even Jordan” and that our quality of medical care is only going to improve through government intervention.

Her final nugget of Communist wisdom:  “Yes! We DO want government bureaucrats making our healthcare decisions!”.  OK – our Patriot whispers were getting a bit more fierce and a few snickers snuck out – just a few, but I guess we had to make allowances for her condition – Marxist and all. (Will that be covered)?

The fourth speaker took the cake.  I had a brief fantacy of hijacking the microphone and making an impassioned speech until the police carted me off in handcuffs.  But that would be bad. 

So – the fourth speaker was a Haitian who was very difficult to understand but clearly stated that he had been brought in by the SEIU from New Jersey.  “THAT’s ACORN – the SEIUS IS ACORN” burst from my lips.  I couldn’t help it.  SEIU/ACORN man kept going.  He regaled us with a tale of a house he went to that had a lady who had been stricken with a pain in her stomach for five years.  This lady was a Haitian immigrant as well, who had no access to healthcare here in the United States.  So he suggested that she go to Cuba.  But she could not go to Cuba.  So he suggested she go to Canada.  But she could not go to Canada.  So he suggested she go to Haiti.  She said she would go to Haiti but she was afraid that during the operation the hospital would lose power and she would die. 

So here was this woman, very ill, with a pain in her stomach, unable to get healthcare.  He paused – for sympathetic effect (although due to his accent, I doubt 80% of the audience couldn’t even understand him),  and said that he believes in union health insurance and that even 80/20 coverage would not help anyone. 

Direct quote: “ The American workforce is sick & have no access to healthcare”.  Jaw dropping.  Really.  This is ACORN folks – they are frigging scary.

Speaker #5 was a local Dermatologist.  He was calm and reasonable – said that we have the best quality healthcare in the world but the problem is accessibility and his answer is….MEDICARE FOR ALL!  Why?  Because Medicare runs on a 3% overhead versus a 30% overhead like  private insurance companies, so it will save us tons of money in the end.  He even acknowledged that MassCare in the great liberal state of Massachusetts was a “complete failure” and said that Medicare will save us all.  My palms were itching a bit at this point to smack someone.  No threats – just a nice resounding SMACK.

Speaker #6 trots out and here it comes – the Politician!  Mark Alan Siegel – Chairman of the Palm Beach County Democratic Party!  WOOHOO!  Gladhands all around!  He announces that he is going to reveal to us the objectives of our President and the Democratic Party!  And here they are:  they want to get us as close to UNIVERSAL healthcare as they can!  They will bring down the cost of caring for the people of this country!  We all know private insurance is just an “ineffective bureaucracy” that requires us to do nothing but fill out pages and pages of paper! (IRS or private insurance I wondered) Then he babbled about the “spiritual component” of the medical profession and how committed they are to taking care of ALL OF US!  They will incorporate best practices and cost savings and give us EVERYTHING!  And no one believed that they could legislate tolerance but they DID!  And NOW they are going to legislate a “CULTURE CHANGE and adjust the culture in this country”!  They are committed to “reducing the cost for caring for each and every individual in this country”! AND…AND…if we do not do this……”there will be bankruptcy of the state and federal government.”

By this point, we were getting a few dirty looks as the whispers and snickers got a bit louder and Miss B burst out with a few IDIOT comments.  But we were trying – really really trying.  I could not believe that these are the lines that 50% of our country actually buys!

The next speaker jumped up and read a prepared statement from Congressman Alcee Hastings – it sounded like blah blah blah blah because I was still reeling a bit.  This gentleman had also given everyone a handout earlier “compliments of Congressman Hastings” that was about free and low-cost info from….Pueblo, Colorado.  EH?  no idea.  His t-shirt said he was outraged but apparently, he was confused as well.

Now this next speaker was my personal favorite.  He got so nutty that the organizers started looking uncomfortable and even approached him to try and get him to stop talking.  He was introduced as a physician and Neurologist.  The doctor opened by saying that drug research and medical imaging are not curing anything.  He then went on to explain that even with all of our supposed advances in healthcare, a stroke patient who has a bleed in their brain is still treated the same as in the 70’s and that the expensive surgery that is done today is pointless.  He said that there should not be any scientific experimentation because his medical opinion is that it will not go anywhere – it is all just useless and high cost.  AND THEN IT HIT ME – OMG – they brought this whacko in to prep these poor old people to not expect life-saving healthcare – OMG OMG.  I almost jumped out of the seat again.  He apparently had a real…issue with Medical Imaging and denounced that one of our cities had more MRI machines than some countries.  We should be ashamed – and what happens to old MRI equipment he asks???  NOTHING.  We need to create jobs to fix it and send it to poor countries that do not have them.  SEE!  he says that would be job creation – fix old broken MRI machines and send them to other countries.  This got him warmed up to his real agenda: “We need to create an ARMY!” he said. “an army of healthcare providers who will go out and provide healthcare to the WHOLE WORLD!  WE must fund this army and send them out to give good healthcare to everyone in the world! and bring our old MRI machines!”  this was when the organizer began approaching him to swipe the microphone.

We then were regaled with a letter from Congressman Wexler – who, by the way, does not even live in his district here.  He lives in Maryland.  Congressman Wexler who had the police meet constituents at his office a few weeks ago when they called and asked if they could come and air some of their concerns.  Not TEA Party folks either – this was a church group.  They were met at the door by a police officer and told them that they were not welcome there.  AT THEIR CONGRESSMAN’s office.  yup.

At this point, I had it.  I had to get out or get loud.  I was going to be rude and that would not do anything other than confirm to them that we are indeed unruly and extreme…which I am but I have manners!  plus, this was their party so they were not under obligation to give us any time.  And they were starting to say that they were out of time so I knew that I would not have an opportunity for a comment.

We all met in the parking lot.  Our little TEA Party group and we had a blast chatting and exclaiming.  We ranged in age from late 20’s to 90’s (actually toddlers if you count the munchkins) – there were 12 of us total I think.  And we exchanged info and laughed and I thought…this is IT.  This was what it is about.  Laughing and exchanging information and not sitting and having some lunatics hand out brainwashed ideas.  A gentleman came up and started talking and then went and got his Mom – said she had to meet all of us.  She was from Israel and had been saying from day one that Obama was a Muslim and he thought she was just talking but now he has grave concerns and maybe Mom wasn’t so far off.  They want to come to a TEA party now!

The moment of the day for me?  The elderly lady (I guesstimate late 80’s to 90’s) said to me – They are going to put us in the concentration camps again.  I was horrified and I said No – they won’t.  She said – They will – what can you do?  and I said – I will fight to the death and I will not let them put you or anyone else in a concentration camp.

No drama, people.  I mean it.  THEY CANNOT HAVE OUR COUNTRY.

South Florida Tea Party Patriots!