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Much attention is being given to the Tea Party movement maybe because it has survived it’s first year and is growing stronger. The Republican party seems to think tea party people have joined up with them so now they will be able to get their party’s agenda accomplished. They need to do some self-examination and realize they are part of the problem.
The Tea Party Movement started with the bank bailouts and the health care debates but soon revealed our country’s problem goes much deeper and wider. Every President, Senator, Representative, candidate and political organization needs to prove themselves in their understanding of and their abiding by the limits placed on government, and the protection of the people’s freedom held in the Declaration of Independence, Constitution of the United States of America and the Bill of Rights. Tea Party people are getting educated all across America and will vote in November based on how well the candidate or incumbent adheres to the Constitution, no matter what title is by their name on the ballot.
| Boehner Marks First Anniversary of Tea Party Movement |
| WASHINGTON – House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) issued the following statement marking the first anniversary of the Tea Party movement: “The Tea Party movement has reminded us who’s really in charge of this country, and that’s the American people. These great patriots have been at the forefront of a growing political rebellion born from the American people’s opposition to greater government control over our economy and our lives. They are leading a diverse and growing movement, one comprised of Americans from all walks of life, many of whom are becoming engaged in politics for the first time because they are so fed up with Washington and the direction of the country.
“It’s not enough, however, for Republicans to simply voice respect for what the tea partiers are doing, praise their efforts, and participate in their rallies. Republicans must listen to them, stand with them, and walk among them.
“In these uncertain times, when government is growing and our nation is being driven deeper and deeper into debt, the Tea Party movement has given Americans who believe in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights the opportunity to band together and say ‘enough is enough.’ Government is no substitute for the hard work and common sense of the American people, and only by preserving this most self-evident of truths can we truly protect the blessings of freedom and liberty. This is exactly why the American people want us to scrap this massive government takeover of health care and start over.”
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Iowa, 1846, Preamble: We, the People of the State of Iowa, grateful to the Supreme Being for the blessings hitherto enjoyed, and feeling our dependence on Him for a continuance of those blessings, do ordain and establish a free and independent government….
At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, James Madison proposed the plan to divide the central government into three branches. He discovered this model of government from the Perfect Governor, as he read Isaiah 33:22;
“For the LORD is our judge,
the LORD is our lawgiver,
the LORD is our king;
He will save us.”
[Baron Charles Montesquieu, wrote in 1748; “Nor is there liberty if the power of judging is not separated from legislative power and from executive power. If it [the power of judging] were joined to legislative power, the power over life and liberty of the citizens would be arbitrary, for the judge would be the legislature if it were joined to the executive power, the judge could have the force of an oppressor. All would be lost if the same … body of principal men … exercised these three powers.” Madison claimed Isaiah 33:22 as the source of division of power in government
See also: pp.241-242 in Teaching and Learning America’s Christian History: The Principle approach by Rosalie Slater]
This stinks no matter what you call it. Congress’ health care takeover will tell private health insurance plans they must cover abortion but they call the killing of unborn babies different names. It’s been called “choice”; “right to privacy” “women’s rights issue” ”reproductive health care”; “in-clinic procedures” and an amendment approved by Senate could now classify abortion as “preventative health services” for women. Planned Parenthood calls the RU486 / abortion pill “medication” . Really? A pill that aborts a baby is called medication? Worldnetweb defines medication as something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of a disease. What really is the disease here? The baby?? Or is it the evil that seeks to destroy life, a deliberate disobedience to the will of God.
Iowa’s Right to Life Resolution – “We believe human life is a sacred gift from our Creator and is an inalienable right as outlined in the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence whereby its value cannot be decided by a legislative body or a judicial branch. This right is innately valuable from conception to natural death. This includes the unborn, the elderly, the terminally or chronically ill, and the mentally or physically handicapped. No human life should ever be diminished, or arbitrarily taken. Therefore, the government and its people must restore this right to life which was intended to protect all its citizens, including the child in the womb.”
Leading state sovereignty caucus strongly opposes the federal health care bill and supports lawsuits based on two violations of the U.S. Constitution.
The Patrick Henry Caucus adopted a unanimous position Wednesday, December 23, 2009, to oppose the Health Care Reform Bills, and to support a lawsuit against the federal government in order to stop the national health care bill from becoming law.
Calling the law unconstitutional, The Patrick Henry Caucus, which is comprised of legislators from both the Utah House of Representatives and the Utah Senate, vows to fight the federal law on multiple fronts.
The Patrick Henry Caucus has an opt-out provision drafted and ready for presentation to the Utah Legislature next month. The opt-out would make it illegal for Utah agencies to implement any portion of the new federal law. The Caucus is calling on the State of Utah to join in with other States and take the lead on filing a lawsuit to stop the bill, should it receive final approval.
The Caucus believes the law is unconstitutional in at least two respects. First, the law unfairly gives preferential treatment to residents of Nebraska as a result of efforts by Senate Democrats to court the vote of Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson. The Caucus believes that this preferential treatment violates principles of due process and equal protection and is therefore unconstitutional under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments.
Second, the law amounts to an excess of Congress’s enumerated powers inasmuch as it requires every American to acquire health insurance. This legislation marks the first time in history that Congress has required every single American to purchase a particular good or service, and cannot be reconciled with the notion that Congress possesses only those limited powers granted by the Constitution.
The Patrick Henry Caucus calls on the leaders from all States to join in the effort to file a lawsuit against the federal government in order to stop this wrongheaded piece of legislation. We must not allow Congress to commandeer one sixth of our nation’s fragile economy while simultaneously undermining the authority of the States.
God Bless,
Representative Carl Wimmer
The Patrick Henry Caucus
Co-Founder
“The Conventions of a number of the States having, at the time of adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declatory and restrictive clauses should be added, and as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government will best insure the beneficent ends of its institution”
The Bill of Rights is the name for the first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution. These rights include such things as trial by jury, free speech, freedom to practice (or not practice) religion, freedom from cruel and unusual punishment, freedom to own and use firearms, freedom from arbitrary searches and property seizures by government.
The Constitution was passed in 1787 and the Bill of Rights was added in 1791. The Bill of Rights was absolutely required by the founders. Some states refused to ratify the Constitution unless a Bill of Rights was added. Because Americans had just escaped one tyranny, they were very worried that a strong central government might turn tyrannical. The Bill of Rights was designed to prevent that from happening.
The Bill of Rights is a list of things the government is forbidden to do (for instance, government can’t search your house or possessions without a warrant, force you to give evidence against yourself in a criminal case, or impose a state religion).
The Bill of Rights did not create or grant any rights. It merely protected rights that all human beings are born with and that all human beings are entitled to by their very nature.
Today, December 15 is a day to celebrate the Bill of Rights. Be thankful that our founding fathers thought wisely to write out the Bill of Rights for our protection. May we the people continue wisely, to guard these rights.
There are many logical and relevant aspects that must be presented to the Congress and the American people as this health care bill’s debate is supposedly winding down this month. We must act now and be very vocal…continually vigilant for our own sake as well as our posterity’s.
1. Hypocrisy: Why aren’t all Americans asking the elites in Congress “if this is such a great health care plan, why aren’t you willing to sign onto it for yourselves and your staff members?” While the Republicans add this amendment, it is repeatedly shot down by the Democrats. Reid didn’t even let it see the light of day out of Committee.
2. Health care for who? Why are the unborn unprotected by this bill? If we don’t allow their births, who will pay for this monstrosity in the coming generations? How can we morally sit back and allow taxpayer money to fund aborting the unborn? Even if you aren’t appalled by abortion on a moral level, can’t you at least see the economic need for continued life so that this bill can be paid for…..
3. Fraud: The current stimulus package fraud of $6 million given to Clinton’s pollster for 3 jobs (let’s see that’s $2 million per job?????!!!!) is nothing but a warning siren as to what will happen to taxpayer’s money with this huge health care bill. The only ones to reap the benefits of the health care bill will be lawyers, politicians, high paid lobbyists and bureaucrats.
And finally, something that must seem “annoying” to so many in Washington, D.C.: the Constitution and its limits.
4. When a reporter asked Nancy Pelosi where in the Constitution it is written that Congress has the right to impose this health care bill on the American people, her response was: “Are you serious? Are you serious?” Yes, Nancy, we are serious. More serious about the Founding Father’s intents than you obviously are. We’re reading that document and we know what you’re trying to do is not in there. She needs to hear this as well as every other politician that is willing to run roughshod over that precious document.
Tammy
Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution allows taxing for the general welfare but nowhere does it even remotely state ”health care for everyone.” The Founding Fathers understood that charity of a moral people would be necessary to attend to the unmet needs of the citizens and they understood that a government that fell into thinking it’s role was to provide everything for its people also had the power to then take liberties away.
Thomas Jefferson warned again the welfare state where government endeavors to take care of everyone from the cradle to the grave. He wrote “If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy.” (Bergh, Writing of Thomas Jefferson, 10:342)
Patriot Tammy