May 29, 2012
A threat approaches…
There are forces at work in our Nation’s Capitol that wish to dismantle our Constitution and will do so by bypassing Congress by any means possible.
Perhaps the most dangerous threat to our liberties comes from the United Nations Small Arms treaty which is supported by the Obama administration and our Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton.
Our 2nd Amendment reads: ‘A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.’ Our Founding fathers lacked trust in any government including our own to respect the rights of free citizens. They placed in the hands of the law abiding individual(s) the means by which to forcefully oppose a tyrannical government in our Nations future, both foreign and domestic.
The Oath of Office for the President of the United States affirms this in these words: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic;”
The UN Small Arms Treaty is going to be used to circumvent our 2nd Amendment and eventually our total Bill of Rights. They believe that a one world government is sovereign whereas Americans believe that the individual is sovereign.
Appearing before the UN Small Arms committee last summer, Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice President of the NRA had this to say in regards to the make up of the committee.
“Their member list reads like a who’s who of human rights abusers. I was in New York to testify before this committee. I stood in front of representatives from China, North Korea, Cuba, Syria, Sudan-all those great bastions of freedom.”
Under our laws all treaties must be passed by a 2/3 majority in the Senate; no problem you say! Yet we have a president that just bypassed the Senate when, by Executive Order 13547, ratified the LOST Treaty. A Google search for Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) ratified by Obama’s Executive Order 13547 will support this.
We live in dangerous times and it’s becoming obvious that elements within our government are out of control. The man in the oval office has no problem side stepping the legislative branch of government when it suits his agenda.
Perhaps Samuel Adams said it best when he wrote, “Let the Constitution never be construed to authorize Congress..to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms.”
A closing thought. America is still a beacon for the rest of the World…proof that ordinary people can be trusted with extraordinary power and that set free, we can live in peace, govern ourselves and control our own fates.
Louis Call
New Bern, NC
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Monday, January 3, 2011
Mon, January 3, 2011: CQ Roll Call Daily Briefing: Ignore the House for a Minute
Today In Washington
THE HOUSE AND SENATE: Neither is in session until Wednesday, when both will convene at noon for the start of the 112th Congress.
THE WHITE HOUSE: Obama is on the final full day of his Hawaiian vacation. He’s expected back in Washington tomorrow afternoon.
OPENING CEREMONIES: The first days of the year, on both sides of the Capitol, are shaping up to be much more about political tone-setting than about launching grand legislative drives.
Most of the attention, naturally enough, is being paid to how the Republicans are stage-managing their return to power in the House, from the subdued tone Boehner is setting for his ascent to the Speakership to the stately pace and modest expectations that his leadership team is setting for the party’s agenda. (The first spending cut the House will approve this week will be a drop-in-the-bucket $25 million, which will be marketed instead as a bold 5 percent reductions in the office budgets of all House members.)
What’s not gotten much attention, yet, is the potential for an opening day Senate showdown on filibuster rules. The Latin-infused rhetoric and parliamentary maneuvering will sound like a lot of insider mumbo jumbo to much of the nation. But making it more difficult for the minority party to block bills and nominees has the potential to narrow the partisan chasm and alter the way Congress does business much more than an annual recitation of the Constitution’s text on the House floor, which is being arranged by the GOP as a shout-out to the tea party faithful.
In the past two years, Reid had to spend an extraordinary amount of time honing his skill at breaking filibusters, which in the end he was able to do more often than any majority leader before him. But for more than a year now many of his fellow Democrats — mostly first-termers led by Missouri’s Claire McCaskill and New Mexico’s Tom Udall — have been mulling over what’s their highest-percentage shot at a rules change that would weaken the filibuster. They have not yet shown their cards, but they’re expected to make their move this week in the belief that precedent should allow them to get whatever change they want with a simple majority vote (in other words, the GOP won’t be able to block them) if they act right at the start of the new Congress.
Slightly reducing the supermajority of 60 required to invoke cloture, doing away with the power to mount a filibuster on the motion to begin debating a bill, or maybe just requiring senators to make good on their filibusters the old-fashioned way — by standing in the well and talking all night — would all tend to force the weakened minority to be more willing to compromise on legislation. It would not, however, do anything to speed the ratification of treaties, which will still need a two-thirds vote.
SHAVE AND A HAIRCUT: Republicans already are conceding that they will be unable to make good on their highest-profile aspiration, repealing the new health care law, because there’s no way the Senate will go along even if there’s a veto-proof majority for doing so in the House. (Michigan’s Fred Upton, the new Energy and Commerce chairman, yesterday predicted at least a two-third majority for total repeal and said the House vote would come before the State of the Union address, which Obama is likely to deliver Jan. 25.)
Absent outright repeal, the GOP strategy is to pick away at the health overhaul’s most contentious provisions through a combination of hearings, narrow legislation and — probably most effective of all — single-line amendments to spending bills that prevent the spending of any money to carry out a narrow provisions of law, or the regulations to carry it out.
One of the first efforts will be to try to prevent Medicare bureaucrats from spending money on their new regulation designed to promote discussions about end-of-life issues between doctors and patients — the sort of talks that were going to be written into the law, but got dropped, after Sarah Palin famously derided the idea as leading to the creation of government “death panels.”
THE FIELD NARROWS: Only four of the people who want to replace Michael Steele as the Republican Party’s national chairman will be debating him at the National Press Club at lunchtime. That’s because the fifth would-be challenger — Gentry Collins, who stepped down as RNC political director just after the election — dropped out of the race overnight.
The front-runner is clearly anybody but Steele, whose support has been sagging in the runup to Friday’s voting at the party bosses’ annual winter meeting. The man to beat has been Wisconsin GOP chairman Reince Priebus, but his star has faded the longer people ponder that he was once Steele’s general counsel. (Two of the chairman’s current top aides, chief of staff Mike Leavitt and spokesman Doug Heye, are on their way out of GOP headquarters even if their boss scores an upset win for a second term.) The remaining candidates for party chairman are former Missouri party chief Ann Wagner, onetime GOP convention chief executive Maria Cino, and former Michigan party chairman Saul Anuzis.
TAMPA TICK-TOCK: The new year signals the unfettered, unambiguous start to the 2012 presidential campaign — with almost all the attention focused on maneuvering by the Republicans who could form a potentially enormous and fractious field of would-be Obama challenges. (One of them will be nominated on Florida’s Gulf Coast fully 20 months from now.)
The big New Year’s weekend coup went to Mitt Romney, who secured the endorsement of the senior senator from a crucial early primary state: South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham, as he prepares to seek a third term in his own right next year, apparently has concluded he’s not going to go out of his way to curry favor with the tea party crowd by endorsing someone more overtly and reliably conservative. Someone like, for example, the state’s other senator, Jim DeMint, who is among the huge GOP crowd still toying with the idea of a White House run.
As for Sarah Palin — whose own intentions continue to mystify GOP professionals — she continued to get attention for intensifying her connection to a state in the Lower 48. A week after word that her daughter Bristol paid $172,000 for a five-bedroom house in the hard-hit-by-foreclosures Phoenix suburb of Maricopa, a Palin acolyte has been named chief of staff to one of Arizona’s three new Republican congressmen: Paul Gosar of Flagstaff. The new top aide, Rob Robinson, has been a dentist just like his new boss. It was Robinson who introduced Gosar to the former Alaska governor, who ended up giving him a pivotal endorsement.
— David Hawkings, editor
Become a Facebook fan at facebook.com/DavidHawkingsDC. Or follow me on Twitter at twitter.com/davidhawkings.
THE HOUSE AND SENATE: Neither is in session until Wednesday, when both will convene at noon for the start of the 112th Congress.
THE WHITE HOUSE: Obama is on the final full day of his Hawaiian vacation. He’s expected back in Washington tomorrow afternoon.
OPENING CEREMONIES: The first days of the year, on both sides of the Capitol, are shaping up to be much more about political tone-setting than about launching grand legislative drives.
Most of the attention, naturally enough, is being paid to how the Republicans are stage-managing their return to power in the House, from the subdued tone Boehner is setting for his ascent to the Speakership to the stately pace and modest expectations that his leadership team is setting for the party’s agenda. (The first spending cut the House will approve this week will be a drop-in-the-bucket $25 million, which will be marketed instead as a bold 5 percent reductions in the office budgets of all House members.)
What’s not gotten much attention, yet, is the potential for an opening day Senate showdown on filibuster rules. The Latin-infused rhetoric and parliamentary maneuvering will sound like a lot of insider mumbo jumbo to much of the nation. But making it more difficult for the minority party to block bills and nominees has the potential to narrow the partisan chasm and alter the way Congress does business much more than an annual recitation of the Constitution’s text on the House floor, which is being arranged by the GOP as a shout-out to the tea party faithful.
In the past two years, Reid had to spend an extraordinary amount of time honing his skill at breaking filibusters, which in the end he was able to do more often than any majority leader before him. But for more than a year now many of his fellow Democrats — mostly first-termers led by Missouri’s Claire McCaskill and New Mexico’s Tom Udall — have been mulling over what’s their highest-percentage shot at a rules change that would weaken the filibuster. They have not yet shown their cards, but they’re expected to make their move this week in the belief that precedent should allow them to get whatever change they want with a simple majority vote (in other words, the GOP won’t be able to block them) if they act right at the start of the new Congress.
Slightly reducing the supermajority of 60 required to invoke cloture, doing away with the power to mount a filibuster on the motion to begin debating a bill, or maybe just requiring senators to make good on their filibusters the old-fashioned way — by standing in the well and talking all night — would all tend to force the weakened minority to be more willing to compromise on legislation. It would not, however, do anything to speed the ratification of treaties, which will still need a two-thirds vote.
SHAVE AND A HAIRCUT: Republicans already are conceding that they will be unable to make good on their highest-profile aspiration, repealing the new health care law, because there’s no way the Senate will go along even if there’s a veto-proof majority for doing so in the House. (Michigan’s Fred Upton, the new Energy and Commerce chairman, yesterday predicted at least a two-third majority for total repeal and said the House vote would come before the State of the Union address, which Obama is likely to deliver Jan. 25.)
Absent outright repeal, the GOP strategy is to pick away at the health overhaul’s most contentious provisions through a combination of hearings, narrow legislation and — probably most effective of all — single-line amendments to spending bills that prevent the spending of any money to carry out a narrow provisions of law, or the regulations to carry it out.
One of the first efforts will be to try to prevent Medicare bureaucrats from spending money on their new regulation designed to promote discussions about end-of-life issues between doctors and patients — the sort of talks that were going to be written into the law, but got dropped, after Sarah Palin famously derided the idea as leading to the creation of government “death panels.”
THE FIELD NARROWS: Only four of the people who want to replace Michael Steele as the Republican Party’s national chairman will be debating him at the National Press Club at lunchtime. That’s because the fifth would-be challenger — Gentry Collins, who stepped down as RNC political director just after the election — dropped out of the race overnight.
The front-runner is clearly anybody but Steele, whose support has been sagging in the runup to Friday’s voting at the party bosses’ annual winter meeting. The man to beat has been Wisconsin GOP chairman Reince Priebus, but his star has faded the longer people ponder that he was once Steele’s general counsel. (Two of the chairman’s current top aides, chief of staff Mike Leavitt and spokesman Doug Heye, are on their way out of GOP headquarters even if their boss scores an upset win for a second term.) The remaining candidates for party chairman are former Missouri party chief Ann Wagner, onetime GOP convention chief executive Maria Cino, and former Michigan party chairman Saul Anuzis.
TAMPA TICK-TOCK: The new year signals the unfettered, unambiguous start to the 2012 presidential campaign — with almost all the attention focused on maneuvering by the Republicans who could form a potentially enormous and fractious field of would-be Obama challenges. (One of them will be nominated on Florida’s Gulf Coast fully 20 months from now.)
The big New Year’s weekend coup went to Mitt Romney, who secured the endorsement of the senior senator from a crucial early primary state: South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham, as he prepares to seek a third term in his own right next year, apparently has concluded he’s not going to go out of his way to curry favor with the tea party crowd by endorsing someone more overtly and reliably conservative. Someone like, for example, the state’s other senator, Jim DeMint, who is among the huge GOP crowd still toying with the idea of a White House run.
As for Sarah Palin — whose own intentions continue to mystify GOP professionals — she continued to get attention for intensifying her connection to a state in the Lower 48. A week after word that her daughter Bristol paid $172,000 for a five-bedroom house in the hard-hit-by-foreclosures Phoenix suburb of Maricopa, a Palin acolyte has been named chief of staff to one of Arizona’s three new Republican congressmen: Paul Gosar of Flagstaff. The new top aide, Rob Robinson, has been a dentist just like his new boss. It was Robinson who introduced Gosar to the former Alaska governor, who ended up giving him a pivotal endorsement.
— David Hawkings, editor
Become a Facebook fan at facebook.com/DavidHawkingsDC. Or follow me on Twitter at twitter.com/davidhawkings.
Sunday, August 22, 2010
THE PATRIOT POST
Fix the Constitutional Falsehoods Congress Carved Into the Capitol's Marble
By Terence Jeffrey (Archive) · Wednesday, August 18, 2010
The Exhibition Hall at the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center, which opened at the end of 2008, has enshrined in marble a false interpretation of the Constitution that opens the door to an ever-expanding federal government. Read the article @
http://patriotpost.us/opinion/terence-jeffrey/2010/08/18/fix-the-constitutional-falsehoods-congress-carved-into-the-capitols-marble/
By Terence Jeffrey (Archive) · Wednesday, August 18, 2010
The Exhibition Hall at the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center, which opened at the end of 2008, has enshrined in marble a false interpretation of the Constitution that opens the door to an ever-expanding federal government. Read the article @
http://patriotpost.us/opinion/terence-jeffrey/2010/08/18/fix-the-constitutional-falsehoods-congress-carved-into-the-capitols-marble/
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