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The intent of this blog is to remind Americans of the power they rightfully hold over the United States government and the clowns we currently have in office.

Senators like Joe Lieberman, John McCain and other republicans, conservatives and other self proclaimed “blue dogs” would like you to believe otherwise.

As of December 14th, the American “health care reform” has become another enabler to the insurance companies and the Senators who continue to take payments from the insurance lobbyists.

These crimes against humanity shall not go ignored and the people of the United States will take a stand and return our country to its former glory.

Wars shall be fought with words and knowledge and violence will be returned with violence. We call upon you, the American people, to take a stand and fight for what is just!

The reign of conservative America must come to a stop!

Open Letter to The US Government Revision 1

The White House

Attn:  President Barak Obama and Vice President Joe Biden

1600 Pennsylvania Ave 20500

Washington, DC 20500

CC:  Office of the Speaker

Attn: Nancy Pelosi

H-232, US Capitol

Washington, DC 20515

RE:  The State of Our Country

To whom it may concern:

The following document is a revision to our Declaration of Independence written by our Forefathers  in the year of 1776. The revision comes forth as the House and Senate have become oppressive to citizens of the United States, have interfered with our right to life, liberty and the purist of happiness and have become not for the people, but for the business.

It is with a heavy heart that we submit this document to you and ask you to step down from your elected offices so, we the people, can correct the tyrannical hold insurance companies, gas companies, big banks and pharmaceutical companies have over the citizens of the United States and abolish the corruption that has consumed Capitol Hill.

These are not light matters and we hereby invoke our rights per the Declaration of Independence:

Declaration of Independence

Revision: December 16, 2009

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

Such has been the patient sufferance of these States; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the House, the Senate and the Administration is a history of abuse, usurpations, and corruption leading to Tyranny over the United States of America. To prove this let facts be submitted to a candid world:

The Senate and the House have repeatedly ignored the public majority on health care reform and the majority support of the proposed “public option” on the request of insurance companies and lobbyists for insurance companies.

The Senate and the House have failed to pass a bill allowing its citizens to purchase prescription medicines from overseas pharmaceutical companies that offer drugs at a cheaper cost, thus infringing on the right of the citizens choice, on behalf of the pharmaceutical companies and the lobbyists for the pharmaceutical companies.

The Senate and the House have used tax payer money to bail out big banks and insurance companies unethically.

The Senate and the House have blocked financial reform bills that would prevent corporations from taking advantage of the citizens of the United States on behalf of international banks and lobbyists for international banks.

The Senate and the House have broken constitutional law and allowed religion to be used to block gay rights and same sex marriage.

The Senate and the House have become corrupted.

The interests of the House and the Senate are no longer for the people, but are for the business and profit.

The Senate and the House have allowed lobbyist to buy their votes, ignoring what is in the best interest of the citizens of the United States.

The Senate and the House have abused their positions to gain political power and financial gain.

The Senate and the House have denied its citizens the right to the same socialized health care they receive at the expense of tax payer money.

The Senate and the House have denied its citizens the right to the same Universal health care that they fund in other countries with American tax dollars.

The Senate and the House are unable to set aside partisan politics thus they are unable to fulfill the duties the people have elected them to fulfill.

The House and the Senate have repeatedly given sole power in decision making to a single party representative through use of filibusters and “compromise”.

Lobbyists have been allowed full control of the Senate and the House through the use of financial blackmail, campaign contributions, and bribery of public officials.

The Senate, the House and the Administration have failed to prevent the bribery of public officials by banks, insurance, and petroleum companies.

The Senate and the House have attempted to block legislation for regulation of pollutants coming from industry leaders at the request of the industry leaders and lobbyists for the industry leaders.

The Senate, the House and the Administration have failed to create jobs and increase lending to those in need.

The Senate, the House and the Administration have failed to protect its citizens from the abuse and tyranny of banking corporations.

Thorough the failures of the House, Senate, and Administration the American people have suffered job loss, poverty, extreme debt, and loss of their homes.

The Senate, the House and the Administration have repeatedly ignored requests made by the majority for Universal Health Care, Equal Rights, and Consumer Protection for their own personal, religious, political, and financial gain.

Members of the Senate and the House have dismissed requests and concerns of its people by referring to them as “socialist” or “McCarthyism”.

Members of the Senate and the House have used unnatural “evidence” to promote fear, hate and support.

Members of the Senate and the House have been unethically and repeatedly dishonest with the citizens of the United States.

Through out these Tyrannies petitions from the Right and the Left have been rejected and the Senate and the House have made decisions based on their gain rather than the people. We have asked several times for the corruption and the bribery be ceased and have only met with injury. Therefore, we the people have been left with no other choice, but to dissolve the power of our current officials and remove the legislation that is no longer fitting for our country and its citizens.

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Another Sad Day for Health Care

President Obama and the Senate leadership can’t whip up the votes necessary to pass a public option or even a Medicare buy-in compromise, but they didn’t have any trouble persuading 30 Democrats to vote against prescription drug reimportation Tuesday night — thus preserving the deal cut between the Senate Finance Committee, the White House and Big Pharma.

The amendment’s sponsor, Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.), was asked after the vote if Democratic leadership opposed his amendment in order to preserve the deal.

“Well, and they apparently did,” said Dorgan. “The last seven days, we’ve seen a lot of votes stripped away. What did we get, 51 votes tonight for my amendment? I believe seven days ago we had sufficient votes to pass it, but I think what is happening in the intervening period is other things developed. It’s a great disappointment because it seems to me very hard to do health care reform without doing something about the escalating prices for prescription drugs.”

The amendment had been scheduled to come up for a vote last week, but was held up amid much speculation that Dorgan had the votes. The vote Tuesday was 51-48, or nine shy of the 60 needed to overcome a filibuster. A total of 30 Democrats and independent Joe Lieberman of Connecticut voted against it.

One of those things that developed in the intervening period: a deal to kill the Dorgan amendment in exchange for closing the so-called doughnut hole — the period of time when Medicare recipients must pay the full cost of drugs.

HuffPost asked Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), who is generally supportive of reimportation but voted against, why he did so.

“The colloquy yesterday, between Leader [Harry] Reid and Chairman [Max] Baucus and Chairman [Chris] Dodd, did not happen in a vacuum,” said Whitehouse, carefully choosing his words. A colloquy is a public conversation on the Senate floor that often is used to ratify a deal struck in private.

What was the subject of the colloquy?

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“Closing the doughnut hole,” said Whitehouse. A senate Democratic aide confirmed that the doughnut-hole move was largely made in exchange for votes to kill Dorgan’s amendment. “That was more or less the arrangement,” he said. (The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.)

Dorgan was asked if he was aware of the deal. “You’ll have to ask others that,” he said.

HuffPost asked Sen. Kent Conrad (D-Neb.), a longtime supporter of reimportation, if he was aware of the deal. “I don’t know that firsthand, but I’ve heard that,” he said. Conrad, regardless, voted for Dorgan’s amendment.

The commitment to close the doughnut hole was quickly applauded by AARP. “Thank you for your commitment — and that of Chairmen Baucus and Dodd — to closing the Medicare Part D coverage gap or ‘doughnut hole’ by 2019 during the upcoming House-Senate conference committee on health reform legislation. We understand, given Senate constraints, that this action must wait until conference,” AARP CEO A. Barry Rand said in a letter to Reid Tuesday.

Dodd’s vote on Dorgan’s amendment only makes sense in the context of the doughnut-hole deal. Dodd is facing an increasingly difficult reelection race and a vote against reimportation is a political loser in Connecticut, where he has no room for error.

When the roll was called and Dodd’s name was announced in the nay column, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), betrayed his surprise loudly enough to be heard in the press gallery. “Dodd?!” said Sanders, in a rising stage-whisper that indicated disbelief.

Ken Johnson, senior vice president for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), said that if Congress or the White House wants to close the doughnut hole, they haven’t talked to him about it. He did, however, leave the door open for further negotiations.

“We have had absolutely no discussions with anyone in the Senate or the White House about how they plan to pay for closing the doughnut hole. It’s a laudable goal, but we are already committed to providing a huge amount of money to help seniors who hit the coverage gap, and no one has asked us to date to provide any additional funding,” he said in an e-mail to HuffPost.

“Will that change moving forward? Who knows? Who could have predicted that the so-called Medicare buy-in would be in and out of the mix in a blink of an eye? We made an $80 billion iron-clad commitment to help make health care reform a reality back in June, and we have never, at any time, retrenched from that position. That said, we will continue to keep an open mind as the Senate moves toward a final vote.”

The defenders of the PhRMA deal were forced to round up so many Democratic votes because the GOP decided to make mischief on the Senate floor. Eighteen Republicans — nearly half their total — broke with their traditional opposition to reimportation and voted with Dorgan, many of them smiling as they watched nervous Democratic leaders huddled around the table in front of the Senate president’s desk. When it was clear it would fail, two of them -= Sens. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) and John Ensign (R-Nev.) =- switched their votes back to no. Ensign was rewarded for his flip-flop by a sharp Senate-floor tongue-lashing from Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), a longtime and serious supporter of reimportation.

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), acknowledged to reporters that his yes vote had something to do with causing trouble for the overall bill. “It did occur to me that this could be for the greater good,” he said.

Here’s the full roll call:

YEAS — 51

Alexander (R-TN)
Begich (D-AK)
Bennet (D-CO)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Bond (R-MO)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Coburn (R-OK)
Collins (R-ME)
Conrad (D-ND)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Franken (D-MN)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Harkin (D-IA)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Johanns (R-NE)
Johnson (D-SD)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
LeMieux (R-FL)
Leahy (D-VT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
McCain (R-AZ)
McCaskill (D-MO)
McConnell (R-KY)
Merkley (D-OR)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Pryor (D-AR)
Risch (R-ID)
Sanders (I-VT)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Shelby (R-AL)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (D-PA)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Thune (R-SD)
Udall (D-NM)
Vitter (R-LA)
Webb (D-VA)
Wicker (R-MS)
Wyden (D-OR)

NAYS — 48

Akaka (D-HI)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Bennett (R-UT)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Burris (D-IL)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Cochran (R-MS)
Dodd (D-CT)
Durbin (D-IL)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hagan (D-NC)
Hatch (R-UT)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Inouye (D-HI)
Isakson (R-GA)
Kaufman (D-DE)
Kerry (D-MA)
Kirk (D-MA)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Lugar (R-IN)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Roberts (R-KS)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Schumer (D-NY)
Tester (D-MT)
Udall (D-CO)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (D-VA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)

NOT VOTING — 1
Byrd (D-WV)

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Health Care Poll

I would like to take a moment to collect some information in a poll about preferred health care options.  Just a simple ordinary poll that collects nothing other than a response from you. As time goes on; I’d like to branch these out into full on surveys, but for now I’d like to get an idea of what people are actually looking for in health care.

Results are made available once the poll is closed to voting. They are intentionally hidden to prevent malicious voting from reform opponents.

I thank you kindly for your input.

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