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Key ObamaCare vote within 48 hours! URL to download/read a copy (.pdf format)

From: gg Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 Subject: Key ObamaCare vote within 48 hours! Heads up!  Spread the word.  GG

From the Desk of Steve Elliott, President, Grassfire.org Alliance

Within 48 hours, the Senate Finance Committee is expected to  vote on its draft of ObamaCare -- complete with the Individual Mandate, the Corporate Mandate and its version of the Public option.

I say "draft" because the Finance Committee has not published actual legislative text but instead (as is the tradition of this committee) is working off what is called the "Chairman's Mark" of the bill.

Go here to download/read the 262-page "chairman's mark" of the

'America's Healthy Future Act of 2009' draft that will be voted on this week:
http://www.grassfire.net/r.asp?U=21910&CID=122&RID=22179106

or directly from

http://finance.senate.gov/sitepages/leg/LEG%202009/100209_Americas_Healthy_Future_Act_AMENDED.pdf

While most pundits think the bill will pass the committee, our sources indicate that low-key swing votes on the committee are still undecided.

It may be a long shot, but if this bill fails in this committee, it would be a devastating blow to Obama's plan to push socialized healthcare through this year. We simply cannot let this vote go through without each and every Senator on this committee feeling immense grassroots pressure.

+ +Action Item #1 - Fax the Committee Now!

I'm asking ALL members of our team to join with me in faxing members of the Senate Finance Committee right now--letting each member know what you think about their government-mandated healthcare plan.

Please take advantage of these two options:

Use our FaxFire service. There is no more convenient way to quickly and efficiently communicate your message than by using our FaxFire service. Click here now to schedule your faxes for immediate delivery:

http://www.grassfire.org/1122/targets.htm

Or, send your own faxes. Go here for instructions, fax content, sample text and contacts list. Click here to send your own faxes:

http://www.grassfire.org/1122/targets.htm

+ + Action Item #2 - Call Your Two Senators and Key Committee Members

Because time is short, I'm also asking Grassfire team members to call your two Senators telling them you oppose healthcare reform and any
form of an individual mandate.

Also, contact members of the Senate Finance Committee, URGING THEM TO VOTE
NO.
 Sen. Feinstein      202-224-3841
Sen. Boxer      202-224-3553
Sen. Baucus (Chair): 202-224-2651
Finance Committee: 202-224-4515

We have listed other Sen. Finance Committee member numbers here:
http://www.grassfire.org/1122/targets.htm

+ + How Reid Will Force A Floor Vote

Here's why the Finance Committee vote is extremely important...

If ObamaCare passes this Committee, it would allow Harry Reid to use his procedural authority to merge the two competing ObamaCare bills and bring the Reid version of the bill directly to the Senate floor.

Essentially, Reid will cherry pick what he and Obama want in the bill and force a vote..

This is why I ABSOLUTELY NEED ALL MEMBERS OF THE GRASSFIRE TEAM ENGAGED RIGHT NOW!

Thank you for taking action today.

Steve Elliott, President, Grassfire.org

P.S: After scheduling your faxes, making your calls and forwarding this message to your friends, please visit our ResistNet page for critical information and additional action items:

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Healthcare Maze - Is this what you want?

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source: http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/tx08_brady/health_plan_org_chart_jec.jpg

Washington, D.C. 15July09 - Congressman Kevin Brady (R-TX), the lead House Republican on the Joint Economic Committee, unveiled today a detailed flow chart of the complex health care reform proposal by Democratic congressional leaders.

The chart identifies at least 31 new federal programs, agencies, commissions and mandates that accompany the unprecedented government takeover of health care in America.

“Why should any patient be forced to give control of their health care over to this Faustian pit of Washington bureaucracy?” asked Brady.

“This government takeover has only one guaranteed result: to tell Americans what doctors you can see, what treatments you deserve and what medicines you can have.”

The attached chart depicts how the health care system would be organized at the national level if the Democrats’ plan became law.  These new levels of bureaucracy, agencies, organization and programs will all be put directly between the patient and their health care.

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Obama’s Congress Speech Full of Lies

Newsmax Video News
Sunday, September 13, 2009 By: Ralph Reed

Barack Obama’s speech to a joint session of Congress this week came as his healthcare plan was dying a slow death on Capitol Hill, the victim of a newly emboldened Republican opposition that has suddenly found its backbone and red-state and Blue Dog Democrats who went wobbly after a hot August of town hall protests. In spite of White House claims that these protests were the work of industry-sponsored “Astroturf,” anyone who attended them (and I did) can tell you that the opposition came from citizens concerned about the health of their families and loved ones.

Did the speech work, which is to say, did it revive Obamacare? The preliminary evidence suggests that it did not. The latest Rasmussen survey shows an uptick of only 2 percent in support for Obama’s healthcare scheme, from 44 to 46 percent. Obama’s speech will likely lift his job approval and healthcare numbers for a while, but it will be ephemeral. Within a short period of time, the afterglow of the speech will fade, and we will be back to status quo antebellum.

The reason is simple. Obama’s problem can’t be solved with eloquence and speech-craft. The White House’s problem is not one of communications. It has to do with substance. The American people have reviewed the bidding on the healthcare issue, and they have decided (I believe with a certain finality) that they do not want a Big Government, one-size-fits-all solution from Washington that herds millions of people into a public plan and puts a bureaucrat between patients and doctors.

Most of the mainstream media’s focus (predictably) has been on Congressman Joe Wilson, who said during the speech, “You lie.” I am not defending Congressman Wilson’s remark, and, by the way, neither has he. The remark was ill-advised and inappropriate, and he swiftly apologized, as he should have. But two wrongs don’t make a right, and it was just as wrong for the president to tell falsehood after fib after misrepresentation after distortion about both his plan and his opponents’ opposition to it.

Obama’s speech was remarkable for its petulance, its partisanship, and its falsehoods. To put it mildly, Obama told repeated falsehoods about his plan, falsehoods that were bald-faced, audacious, and shameless. Consider just a few of the dishonest statements in Obama’s speech:

First, he said, “I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits — either now or in the future.” If so, then the president should have announced his public opposition to the Senate leadership bill and H.B. 3200, the so-called tri-committee bill that is the House leadership’s approved legislation, months ago. In June the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) found that the legislation will increase the budget deficit by $240 billion over the next 10 years. That’s just the beginning. A new study by the Lewin Group finds that in the second 10 years, it will increase the deficit by $1 trillion. The White House has publicly praised and supported both these bills. So Obama stated a whopping $1.24 trillion falsehood.

Second, Obama said he would not cut Medicare and affect basic care for seniors. On the defensive, he said that “Medicare is another issue that’s been subjected to demagoguery and distortion during the course of this debate.” He called Medicare a “sacred trust” and said “I will protect Medicare.” But the Obama plan includes $600 billion in unspecified Medicare cuts. It destroys Medicare Advantage with $250 billion in cuts, decimating a pro-consumer option that one out of every four seniors takes advantage of and allows them to choose the best insurance and doctor for them.

Even The Associated Press has called Obama on this lie. AP reported that “although wasteful spending in Medicare is widely acknowledged, many experts believe some seniors almost certainly would see reduced benefits from the cuts. That’s particularly true for the 25 percent of Medicare users covered through Medicare Advantage. Supporters contend that providers could absorb the cuts by improving how they operate and wouldn’t have to reduce benefits or pass along costs. But there’s certainly no guarantee they wouldn’t.”

Third, Obama took a cheap shot at Sarah Palin and others who have pointed out that the healthcare rationing implicit in the plan combined with panels of experts approving of certain procedures that allow younger patients to receive care while certain older patients are denied care based on a “quality of life” standard will lead inexorably to the denial of care to the elderly and the dying. Obama said — falsely — that Palin and others have claimed that “we plan to set up panels of bureaucrats with the power to kill off senior citizens.” This is totally false, and Obama knows it. What critics have pointed out is that seniors will be required to submit regularly to “end of life” counseling sessions (detailed on page 425 of H.B. 3200) that, combined with cost controls and rationing of care, could lead to them being denied life-saving treatment.

Moreover, as healthcare expert Betsy McCaughey, chairman of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths, has pointed out, the bill includes “substantial funding for comparative effectiveness research, which is generally code for limiting care based on a patient’s age. Economists are familiar with the formula, where the cost of treatment is divided by the number of years (called QUALYs, or quality-adjusted life years) that the patient is likely to benefit.”

Fourth, Obama claimed that the bill does not use taxpayer funds for abortion. This is also false. The Democrats rejected amendments in a House committee that would have specifically excluded abortion from coverage under the so-called government option. In its place, the Democrats took the private portion of the premium (not the public subsidy) and specified that only those funds could be used for abortion services. This is an accounting gimmick. Funds in an insurance policy are fungible, and the fact is that abortion will be massively subsidized with billions of dollars in taxpayer funds for the first time in U.S. history.

Fifth, Obama claimed that his plan did not provide care for illegal immigrants. Here again, false. By rejecting a Republican amendment requiring proof of legal residence prior to receiving care under the government-run plan, the Democrats have opened the door for non-citizens and non-legal residents to receive care for which they have not paid into the system. If one refuses to require proof of citizenship or legal residence, one cannot claim to limit benefits to only citizens.

Joe Wilson has apologized; Obama has not. And when it comes to calling your opponents liars, Obama has no peer. He did so Wednesday night repeatedly. He previously held a conference call with liberal faith groups and accused his opponents of “bearing false witness.” He has told falsehoods about his own plan, repeatedly and shamelessly. As he has done so, he has not only taken the glow off his “Hope, Change” campaign mantra, he has diminished his office. That is a loss not only for his political team, but for all Americans.

© 2009 Newsmax. All rights reserved.

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Civil Unrest - Jon Voight Explaining Why Obama is A Danger

Why Obama is A Danger 30Aug09

..dangerous Obama.. 13Jul09

2009 GOP Senate-House Dinner (full speech)

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o'censor - ABC & NBC knuckle under on "health care" but support o'nocchio state

In a pathetic display of partisan bias in the news, ABC and NBC have refused to air a 33 second ad that questions Obamacare. The refusal of ABC and NBC to run a national ad critical of President Obama's healthcare reform plan is raising questions from the group behind the spot —particularly in light of ABC's healthcare special aired in prime time last June hosted at the White House. A doctor in the League of American Voters ad asks: "How can Obama's plan cover 50 million new patients without any new doctors? It can't."

"It's a powerful ad," said Bob Adams, executive director of the League of American Voters, a national nonprofit group with 15,000 members who advocate individual liberty and government accountability. "It tells the truth and it really highlights one of the biggest vulnerabilities and problems with this proposed legislation, which is it rations health care and disproportionately will decimate the quality of health care for seniors."

ABC Responds:

"The ABC Television Network has a long-standing policy that we do not sell time for advertising that presents a partisan position on a controversial public issue," spokeswoman Susan Sewell said in a written statement. "Just to be clear, this is a policy for the entire network, not just ABC News."

Dick Morris, a onetime adviser to former President Bill Clinton, said he was particularly troubled by ABC's decision not to air the spot.

"It's the ultimate act of chutzpah because ABC is the network that turned itself over completely to Obama for a daylong propaganda fest about healthcare reform," he said. "For them to be pious and say they will not accept advertising on healthcare shuts their viewers out from any possible understanding of both sides of this issue."

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AARP walks out on members, Tu.4Aug09, Dallas, TX

AARP Won’t Apologize for Organizer Walking Out of Dallas Health Care ‘Listening Tour’ "I'm not going to apologize for the way that somebody tried to handle a meeting and got shouted down."

source: http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&streamingFormat=FLASH&referralObject=7930048&referralPlaylistId=07373bea2a547ca71dccc8cfc357419426028f5c

AARP isn't comfortable listening to its members, but pretends to represent their interests.
video source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoMNDdQ1_h0

Senior citizens who went to a meeting sponsored by AARP were left to themselves after the AARP hostess walked out. The seniors were trying to get answers concerning ObamaCare and why AARP would support a government controlled health system that many believe would lead to euthanasia and rationing of health care. Watch the video.

AARP officials walk out of meeting, refuse questions concerning ObamaCare from angry seniors
Watch this must-see video! AARP supports government controlled health care!

Why would AARP, the nation's largest seniors group, supposedly working for the elderly, support an ObamaCare bill? Here is what Dick Morris, former advisor to President Clinton, said: "The interest groups that usually speak up for the elderly, particularly AARP, are in Obama's pocket, hoping to profit from his program by becoming one of its vendors. Just as they backed Bush's prescription drug plan because they anticipated profiting from it, so they are now helping Obama gut the medical care of their constituents."

Like the National Education Association, AARP has been taken over by liberals. With millions of members, AARP is using its clout to push ObamaCare on the elderly, even if it includes euthanasia. AARP supported homosexual marriage by opposing Prop 8 in California.

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