Cartoon by Michael Ramirez
Via Powerline
September 16, 2009
Pots And Kettles
Filed under: Getting The Message Out — Tags: Congress, Joe Wilson, Pelosi, Rangel — Northwest Indiana Patriots @ 2:39 pm
August 11, 2009
From Participatory Democracy To Un-American Activities
Filed under: Getting The Message Out — Tags: Bill of Rights, Congress, First Amendment, Healthcare Reform, media, Moveon.org, Obama, Pelosi — Northwest Indiana Patriots @ 3:32 pm
The First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
How did things come to such a pass that the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States feels comfortable calling people exercising their rights to free speech and assembly guaranteed by the First Amendment “Un-American?”
How It Started
–The unprecedented bailout and federal takeover of the financial sector
–The unprecedented bailout and federal takeover of automakers
–The rushed passage of the $787 billion stimulus bill
–The stealthy passage of cap and trade in the House during a late Friday night session, just after the addition of 300+ pages to the bill
–Proposed health care reform legislation that will nationalize 1/6th of the economy
–National debt over $11 trillion
These and other events in Washington led to the formation of the Tea Party Movement, a spontaneous gathering of people who have similar views about the massive expansion of federal government, the rapidly-increasing debt, and a sense that elected representatives are disconnected from ordinary voters. That’s how Northwest Indiana Patriots came into being.
Before organizations like Tea Parties and NWIP were formed, many people would write, email, fax and call their representatives with their views. They would sign petitions, and urge their families, friends and neighbors to do the same. They would write letters to their local newspapers, and call in to local radio talk shows. But mostly, people would complain to each other and shake their heads over the direction in which they saw their country going, feeling helpless to change it.
The Tea Party Movement changed all that. (more…)
August 10, 2009
Dissent Is Not Un-American
Filed under: Getting The Message Out — Tags: Healthcare Reform, Obama, Pelosi, Polls — Northwest Indiana Patriots @ 4:39 pm
Setting the record straight at the Heritage Foundation’s The Foundry Blog:
Whether the source is Gallup, Pew, Quinnipiac, the Wall Street Journal, NPR, the Washington Post, or even the New York Times; every recent poll on the issue shows that either pluralities or majorities of Americans have serious doubts about President Barack Obama’s health care plan. Reviewing the month’s polling data, Gallup’s Frank Newport sums it up: “The bottom line is a sense that, while Americans apparently favor some type of healthcare reform in the long term, they are in no hurry to see healthcare reform legislation passed in the short-term on a rushed schedule. … A Pew Research poll released this week shows that those who are worried about new health care legislation are most likely to say it is because it involves too much spending and would increase the deficit.”
Wrapped in their liberal Washington cocoon, however, the leadership in Congress simply do not want to hear this message. Instead, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) have chosen to pen an op-ed in today’s USA Today calling those who want Congress to hear their concerns about health care “simply un-American.”
Pelosi and Hoyer claim that opponents of Obamacare are disrupting townhalls across the country by “drowning out the facts” about health reform. However, it is not the townhall-attending Americans that don’t have their facts straight. It is Pelosi, Hoyer, and Obama’s allies that are doing violence to the truth.
Read the whole thing at the link.