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Majority of American VOTERS DO NOT WANT OBAMACARE- PROTESTS BEING CONDUCTED

Lee S. Gliddon, Jr. — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:54:35 +0000

Dear Conservatives,

With 48 hours to go before the expected House vote, I wanted to let you know just how deeply the grassroots effort you are a part of has permeated the health care battle.

Click to see a snapshot of one of our “Hands Off My Health Care” rallies posted today as the top picture on Drudgereport.com, which is considered the top news compilation site on the Internet.

Click here to see a picture from a different “Hands Off My Health Care” rally that was the top photo on MSN.com, which is one of the top 5 web portal sites in the nation.

If you CLICK to NovemberIsComing.com you’ll see the petition site we just launched at 6 a.m. on Thursday. Well over 100,000 activists have already signed this petition telling their member of Congress: ”If you vote YES on health care, I’m voting NO on you this November.” We’re using your zip code to bombard members of Congress with the petitions from their constituents back home.

In all candor, I do not know if we are going to win in the House of Representatives on Sunday. Our best intelligence says the other side is a few votes short, but no one really knows – after all, we’re dealing with 431 politicians, and vote counts rely on their word…

But, after being on the road in targeted districts, after seeing the photos and videos from rallies, after talking with thousands of our fellow citizens in recent days, I can tell you unequivocally that we are winning with the American people.

Congress knows we’re winning with the people on health care. And, even their friends in the mainstream media know we’re winning. Yesterday I appeared on “Hardball” with Chris Matthews and it was challenging as usual with him. But at the end of the interview I told him you cannot find fired-up crowds calling FOR the health care takeover. Chris, not usually at a loss for words, basically agreed!

A mom in Fairfax, Virginia protested outside President Obama’s health care speech at George Mason University this morning. She told one of our AFP staff, “This is my first rally. … I didn’t think it would come to this.” Neither did we – and we’ve been fighting this health care takeover since Obama was on the campaign trail. Click to see video from the rally.

You’re making a difference in the closing days of this hard-fought battle. I hope to see you at the rally tomorrow – Saturday, at noon, in Upper Senate Park right by the Capitol. We’ve got AFP activists coming in from Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina and even as far away as Wisconsin! It’s going to be an amazing coalition effort of organizations and tea party groups against this health care takeover.

Our friends across the nation who can’t make it to Washington this weekend need to see the rest of us there. As do all the members of Congress.

Tim

P.S. Help spread the word about www.NovemberIsComing.com by calling in to your local talk radio shows! Click for a list of call-in numbers.

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Muth’s News 3/19/2010

Lee S. Gliddon, Jr. — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:28:48 +0000

MARCH 19, 2010

TODAY’S NN&V HEADLINES

Click here to read the following stories at the Nevada News & Views newblog!

Ensign’s refusal to resign harms many in his circle (Chuck Muth) – With subpoena’s flying, the John Ensign scandal appears to now be heating up, not cooling off. And Las Vegas Sun columnist Jon Ralston lays out today how Ensign’s failure to do the right thing is painfully and expensively hurting his family and friends.

J.D. Hayworth to Headline First Friday on April 2nd! (Karri Bragg) – If the trend sweeping the nation continues to head Southwest, then Senator John McCain is going to be in for a rude awakening come November. His opponent, the “Consistent Conservative,” is the resounding choice to replace the former middle-of-the-road presidential candidate.

What about Sharron Angle? (Eric Odom) – The Nevada News Platoon website does not officially launch until April 1st, but since it’s all set up and ready to roll, I thought I might go ahead and write a few posts.

The Mess Nevada Republicans Have Made in CD 1 (Joseph Tatner) – It seems Michele Fiore can’t make up her mind on whether or not she was recruited. She recently said to Examiner.com reporter Sara Crusade:

Why RINOs Are Despicable (Mark Noonan) – As Nevada News Bureau reports, “Republican” Sig Rogich is urging a vote for Reid – because Reid is just so darn important for the future of Nevada.

Click here to read these stories at the Nevada News & Views site!

TARK TALES

On the claim yesterday put out by Republican U.S. Senate candidate Danny Tarkanian’s campaign that he was the only candidate who supports a federal balanced budget amendment and a one-year moratorium on earmarks, I received the following from fellow GOP opponent Chad Christensen’s campaign:

“As for balanced budgets amendments, Chad Christensen has been there, done that. Chad VOTED for the TASC (Tax and Spending Controls) bill in 2005. Chad is one of the very few candidates in this race who can point to his votes on issues so that you can see what he will do in Washington DC. As for earmarks, Christensen supports a total end to all earmarks forever if the states would do it unilaterally. The Fed would have to reduce its individual tax burdens on the citizenry, so that the money would be kept closer to home and spent as needed.”

Meanwhile, PoliticalNevada.com included this little gem in a blog post today:

“(Danny) Tarkanian seems to be like the high school dropout who is ‘willing’ to work as long as he is hired as the CEO of the company that just offered him a job as a busboy, because he knows that he is such a great asset to the world around him.”

Yep.

OTHER NEWS & VIEWS

HERE is yet another DC story about scandal-ridden John Ensign – just the kind of publicity Nevada Republicans need.

And just in case you want a preview of exactly how Harry Reid and the Democrats are going to wrap John Ensign around the necks of every Republican on the ballot in November, catch THIS op/ed by the D’s communications director which came out yesterday.

I’m for cutting taxes in Nevada. Our friend Steve Sebelius over at CityLife wants to raise them. But we both agree that Gov. Jim Gibbons’ stated reasons for keeping taxes low at a Chamber of Commerce meeting this week were…well, weak. Check Steve’s analysis HERE

Blogger Kelly Anderson Wright writes that “Most Nevadans don’t want Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) to win a fifth term this November, but he just might, thanks to a virtual unknown who purchased the Tea Party name, and thinks he owns the movement.” Read more HERE

“Not satisfied with stifling American medicine through crippling regulation,” opines the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Thursday, “the federal government is also plotting a course that would drastically reduce innovation and investment in the Internet.” Read the rest HERE

FAMOUS LAST WORDS

“I think they (grassroots tea party activists) should get behind me, not fall in line like sheep. They’re so paranoid, it makes me think they have weak candidates and they’re afraid.” – Tea Party of Nevada U.S. Senate candidate Scott Ashjian

“There’s no chance that (Sen. John Ensign’s) going to get out of this without being hit. The only question for Ensign is what level of pain he is willing to suffer.” – Unnamed U.S. Senate staffer in Politico today on the dual investigations ongoing over Ensign’s affair and subsequent cover-up efforts

“(John) Ensign is very much like (SC Gov. Mark) Sanford in behavior, but less wise than the South Carolinian in political acumen. Instead of puking his guts up in confession, Ensign has done a slow bleed and is about to discover just how much that hurts the cheating scumbag politician. Whether Ensign’s sins equate to felonies, Senate ethics violations, or simply the kind of thing that makes him a laughing stock at the Smith’s Food King isn’t as important as the fact it’s been established he has no business being a U.S. Senator. Look, a lot of people would like that job and many people would be competent in that capacity. Ensign needs Nevada to massage his ego. Nevada doesn’t need Ensign.” – Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist John L. Smith

“(On health care reform) The Democrats are only doing what Democrats do when they have the power to do it. If Republicans hadn’t done so badly at the polls in 2006 and 2008 this wouldn’t have happened.” – Blogger Rich Galen

“I would like anyone who’s taken a look at any of my earmarks, I invite them to criticize any of them. I think they should be fighting for them. That’s what Congress is supposed to do.” – Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Nevada Newsmakers yesterday

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California – NO to a ‘RINO’

Lee S. Gliddon, Jr. — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:24:24 +0000

Dear Friend,

It’s primary season, and NOM is leading the charge to expose the RINOs.

As you know, RINO means “Republican in Name Only” and if you were to look it up in the dictionary, you’d likely find the picture of former Congressman Tom Campbell. Campbell is a supporter of higher income taxes, higher gas taxes and gay marriage. During the Prop 8 campaign, he actually wrote an op-ed urging voters to reject Proposition 8. Fortunately, over 7 million California voters, including more than 80% of Republicans, ignored him.

Campbell is now running for the US Senate from California. With a record like his, you’d be right to think that he was running as a Democrat. After all, his position on higher taxes and gay marriage mirror those of Barbara Boxer – one of the most notorious uber-liberals in the Senate.

Please help us get this message out by making a donation today!

But Campbell is running in the Republican primary, against two strong, pro-marriage conservatives, Carly Fiorina and Chuck DeVore. Campbell wants to fool Republican voters that he would be a different kind of Senator from Barbara Boxer, but his record on taxes and gay marriage says otherwise.

That’s why NOM has launched a $500,000 campaign in California to expose Tom Campbell. We are running a powerful television ad that points out that Tom Campbell and Barbara Boxer are really two peas in the same liberal pod. The ad documents that Campbell and Boxer both support increasing income taxes on Californians, favor raising the gasoline tax, support gay marriage and opposed Proposition 8. The ad says, “It’s time for conservative leadership.”

Click here to watch the ad!

It’s up to you to help us reach more California voters! Please consider making a $25, $50, or even $500 donation to make sure that California voters know Tom Campbell’s liberal voting record.

Republicans in California are legitimately excited about the prospects of defeating Barbara Boxer, arguably the most liberal member of the United States Senate. The election of conservative Republicans in Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts shows that the nation craves a change in direction. But Tom Campbell would rob California Republicans of a conservative choice and virtually guarantee that Barbara Boxer will be reelected. On critical issues like taxes and gay marriage, there is no difference between the two.

This powerful new campaign is a continuation of NOM’s aggressive leadership to expose liberal pro-same-sex marriage Republicans. NOM helped lead the effort to derail the candidacy of Dede Scozzafava in New York’s 23rd Congressional District last November. Scozzafava was so discredited as a result of NOM’s effort and that of other groups that she was forced to withdraw from the race.

Please help us continue our efforts to elect pro-marriage candidates and expose liberal RINO Republicans. Forward our new ad exposing Tom Campbell to all your friends, family and associates.

And if you can, please make a contribution to NOM so that we have funds available to mount similar efforts in the future.

NOM has become the trusted source for information on where candidates stand on marriage. With your support, we can ensure that voters in key races all over the country know who is standing for true, one man/one woman marriage, and who is with liberal gay marriage backers. After victories in marriage battles in 31 states (and no defeats!), we know that supporting traditional marriage is a winning issue. Please help us make sure that voters have the facts before them when they go to the polls in 2010.

P.S. We rely on your donations to win the fight for marriage. California, Maine, New York, and New Jersey are only the beginning. With your help we will make sure that we keep up the victories in 2010. Will you make a difference today by making an online donation right now?

Faithfully,

Brian S. Brown
Executive Director
National Organization for Marriage
20 Nassau Street, Suite 242
Princeton, NJ 08542
bbrown@nationformarriage.org

Obama, GIVES OUR TAX MONEY TO SUPPORT MARXIST TEACHINGS!

Lee S. Gliddon, Jr. — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:48:09 +0000

Submitted by: Dan Talbot

First you must realize who Saul Alinski is to understand why this is so disturbing to Conservatives.

Saul Alinsky, who died is 1972, was a grassroots Marxist and an organizer that believed in any tactic whatever to attain his Communistic goals. Pastor Lee

Posted: March 18, 2010
11:45 pm Eastern

Obama helped fund ‘ Alinsky Academy ‘

Teaches tactics of direct action, confrontation and intimidation

By Aaron Klein
© 2010 WorldNetDaily

A Chicago nonprofit on which President Obama served as paid director provided startup capital and later funding

to Midwest Academy , an activist organization described as teaching tactics of direct action, confrontation and intimidation, WND has learned.

Also, in 1998, Obama participated on a panel discussion alongside Midwest Academy founder Heather Booth, an extremist organizer and dedicated disciple of radical community organizer Saul Alinsky.

The Woods Fund, a nonprofit on which Obama served as paid director from 1999 to December 2002, provided startup funding and later capital to the Midwest Academy . WND first reported Obama sat on the Woods Fund board alongside William Ayers, founder of the Weather Underground domestic terrorist organization.

Midwest was co-founded by Booth’s husband, Paul Booth, a founder and the former national secretary of Students for a Democratic Society, the radical 1960s anti-war movement from which Ayers’ Weathermen splintered.

In 1999, Booth’s Midwest Academy received $75,000 from the Woods Fund. In 2002, with Obama still serving on the Woods Fund, Midwest received another $23,500 for its Young Organizers Development Program.

Midwest describes itself as “one of the nation’s oldest and best-known schools for community organizations, citizen organizations and individuals committed to progressive social change.”

Read the book that the author dedicated to Lucifer! Get Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals.”

It later morphed into a national organizing institute for an emerging network of organizations known as Citizen Action. Midwest teaches Alinsky tactics of community organizing.

Discover the Networks describes Midwest as “teach[ing] tactics of direct action, confrontation, and intimidation.”

In August 1998, Obama participated in a panel discussion following the opening performance in Chicago of the play “The Love Song of Saul Alinsky,” a work described by the Chicago Sun-Times as “bringing to life one of America ’s greatest community organizers.”

Obama participated in the discussion alongside other Alinskyites, including Booth, political analyst Aaron Freeman, Don Turner of the Chicago Federation of Labor and Northwestern University history professor Charles Paine.

“Alinsky had so much fire burning within,” stated local actor Gary Houston, who portrayed Alinsky in the play. “There was a lot of complexity to him. Yet he was a really cool character.”

Booth herself is a notorious radical community activist and self-described dedicated disciple of Alinsky, of whom she says: “Alinsky is to community-organizing as Freud is to psychoanalysis.”

Booth’s vision of uniting various left-leaning organizations and factions has also been the subject of her two books: “Toward a Radical Movement and Citizen Action” and “The New American Populism.”

Former 1960s radical and FrontPageMagazine Editor David Horowitz describes Alinsky as the “communist/Marxist fellow-traveler who helped establish the dual political tactics of confrontation and infiltration that characterized the 1960s and have remained central to all subsequent revolutionary movements in the United States.”

Horowitz writes in his 2009 pamphlet “Barack Obama’s Rules for Revolution. The Alinsky Model”:

“The strategy of working within the system until you can accumulate enough power to destroy it was what sixties radicals called ‘boring from within.’ …. Like termites, they set about to eat away at the foundations of the building in expectation that one day they could cause it to collapse.”

As WND reported, Obama approached Northwestern University professor John L. McKnight – a loyal student of Alinsky’s radical tactics – to pen a letter of recommendation for him when he applied to Harvard Law School . Under the tutelage of McKnight and other hardcore students of Alinsky, Obama said he got the “best education I ever had, better than anything I got at Harvard Law School .”

In a letter to the editor of the Boston Globe, Alinsky’s son praised Obama for stirring up the masses at the 2008 Democratic National Convention “Saul Alinsky style,” saying, “Obama learned his lesson well.”

The letter, signed L. David Alinsky, closed with, “I am proud to see that my father’s model for organizing is being applied successfully.”

With research by Brenda J. Elliott

Lee ADDS: Look at the following and then ask yourself, ‘Is this how I want my tax dollars spent?’

What Saul Alinsky Teaches:

In any event, Alinsky’s rules include:

“Wherever possible go outside the experience of the enemy. Here you want to cause confusion, fear and retreat.”
“Make the enemy live up to his/her own book of rules. You can kill them with this. They can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.”
“Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also, it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.”
“The threat is generally more terrifying than the thing itself.”
“In a fight almost anything goes. It almost reaches the point where you stop to apologize if a chance blow lands above the belt.”
“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it.” (Think Gingrich, Lott and the success of name-calling used by the likes of Bill Clinton, Paul Begala, James Carville, Maxine Waters and others against conservatives and Republicans. Think of how Clinton “enemies” like Paula Jones or Linda Tripp were treated.)
“One of the criteria for picking the target is the target’s vulnerability … the other important point in the choosing of a target is that it must be a personification, not something general and abstract.” (Trent Lott comes to mind. Meanwhile, a former Klansman by the name of Sen. Robert Byrd got away with saying “nigger” on Fox News at least three times, and he still maintains his Senate seat and power.)
“The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.” For instance, Democrats imply conservatives are racists or that Republicans want to kill senior citizens by limiting the growth of the Medicare system, they imply Republicans want to deny kids lunch money without offering real proof. These red-herring tactics work.

Obama is GIVING AWAY our tax money as if it were his own to give!

‘Don’t ASK Don’t TELL’ MUST REMAIN AS POLICY!

Lee S. Gliddon, Jr. — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:38:11 +0000

Gay Dutch soldiers responsible for Srebrenica massacre says US general

A former American general blamed “open homosexuality” in the Dutch army for the failure to prevent the Srebrenica massacre in 1995.

by Our Foreign Staff
Published: 9:31AM GMT 19 Mar 2010

The Dutch government condemned the comments by Gen John Sheehan, a former Nato commander and senior marine officer, as outrageous.

Gen Sheehan made the remarks at a Senate hearing where he argued against plans by President Barack Obama to end a ban on allowing gays to serve openly in the US military.

Gen Sheehan said that after the end of the Cold War, European militaries changed and concluded “there was no longer a need for an active combat capability.”

He said this process included “open homosexuality” which resulted in “a focus on peacekeeping operations because they did not believe the Germans were going to attack again or the Soviets were coming back.”

“The case in point that I’m referring to is when the Dutch were required to defend Srebrenica against the Serbs,” he said, referring to the UN peacekeeping force deployed to protect Bosnian Muslim civilians.

“The battalion was understrength, poorly led, and the Serbs came into town, handcuffed the soldiers to the telephone polls, marched the Muslims off and executed them.”

Carl Levin, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, pressed him to clarify his comments.

“Did the Dutch leaders tell you it (the fall of Srebrenica) was because there were gay soldiers there?” asked an incredulous Levin.

“Yes,” Sheehan said and added: “They included that as part of the problem.”

Gen Sheehan, who retired from the military in 1997, said he had been told that by the former chief of staff of the Dutch army.

Mr Levin vehemently rejected Sheehan’s allegation, saying that drawing a connection between the massacre at Srebrenica and gays in the Dutch military was “totally off-target”.

The failure of the Dutch UN troops to fend off an attack by Bosnian Serb forces had “nothing to do with sexual orientation” but was related to “their training and the rules of engagement,” Mr Levin said.

The Dutch government angrily rejected the claim.

“It is astonishing that a man of his stature can utter such complete nonsense,” said Roger van de Wetering, the Dutch defence ministry spokesman. “I have never heard of a single statement by a Dutch political or military leader that drew a link between the fall of the enclave and the fact that there were Dutch homosexual soldiers.”

Nearly 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were killed after Serb forces captured the eastern town on July 11 1995, in the worst massacre in Europe since World War II.

Thursday’s hearing included testimony from both sides of the debate over the law known as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” which requires gay service members to keep quiet about their sexual orientation or face expulsion from the military.

Two former US officers who were discharged under the 1993 law appealed to lawmakers to repeal the ban, saying it was preventing qualified Americans from serving the country.

Former air force officer Michael Almy said he had kept his homosexuality secret for years but was forced out after a commander ordered a search of his emails written to friends and family.

“‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ failed me, despite the fact that I upheld my end of this law by never disclosing my private life,” Almy said.

He said he believed a younger generation in the military was ready to accept openly gay members in the armed forces.

After his dismissal, when he asked former troops to write letters of reference for him, “it was a complete non-issue for my troops,” Almy said.

“The young men and women that are coming into the military today, fresh out of high school or college, have grown up with gay and lesbian characters on TV … know gays and lesbians in their schools, in their communities, on their sports teams and most assuredly in their military.”

ARIZONA – SHERIFF JOE, DESERT CONSERVATIVE SALUTES YOU!

Lee S. Gliddon, Jr. — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:29:56 +0000

Arizona sheriff launches immigration sweep

By JACQUES BILLEAUD, Associated Press Writer Jacques Billeaud, Associated Press Writer – Thu Mar 18, 8:16 pm ET

PHOENIX – The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office in Arizona has launched a two-day, countywide crime and immigration sweep that authorities say will focus on drop houses, drug violators and human smuggling vehicles.

Four hundred deputies and volunteer posse members are taking part in the patrols. The sweep, which began Thursday, is Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s 14th since early 2008.

During the sweeps, deputies flood an area of a city — in some cases heavily Latino areas — to seek out traffic violators and arrest other alleged lawbreakers.

Critics say Arpaio’s deputies have racially profiled Hispanics. The sheriff says deputies approach people only when they have probable cause to believe people have committed crimes.

MEDICARE – Going, Going, SOON GONE!

Lee S. Gliddon, Jr. — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:24:58 +0000

When Obama says, “This Health Care Bill will help MEDICARE,” he is really saying, ‘In this Bill MEDICARE WILL BE A THING OF THE PAST IF I have a say.”

Dr. Obama and Dr. Pelosi to America’s Seniors: “Take $523.5 Billion in Medicare Cuts; Don’t Call Us in the Morning”

Friday, March 19, 2010

Having ignored the Medicare Actuaries’ warnings,
Democrats prescribe additional cuts to seniors’ safety-net program

The Senate Democrats’ health bill cuts Medicare by a whopping $463 billion. These cuts were so drastic that the Obama Administration’s own Medicare Actuaries predicted that “providers might end their participation in the program (possibly jeopardizing access to care for beneficiaries).” But President Obama and Congressional Democrats ignored this warning and pressed ahead with $60.5 billion in additional Medicare cuts in their “reconciliation bill” (H.R. 4872), bringing the grand total to a staggering $523.5 billion to fund a new entitlement.

These cuts include:

$202.3 billion in cuts to seniors’ Medicare health plans, including massive cuts targeting the extra benefits and reduced cost-sharing seniors receive through Medicare Advantage (MA). CBO had predicted a similar policy would rob 3 million seniors currently receiving their health benefits through Medicare plan, while the independent Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) predicted 1 in 5 seniors would no longer be able to enroll in MA as a result of this policy.
$156.6 billion in cuts to inpatient and outpatient hospital services, inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs), long-term care hospitals (LTCHs), inpatient psychiatric hospitals, skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), Ambulatory Surgical Centers (ASCs), hospice, ambulances, dialysis facilities, labs and durable medical equipment (DME) suppliers by permanently instituting a new “productivity adjustment” payment cut, which Democrats assume will make providers more efficient in delivering care. Inpatient and outpatient hospital services, inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs), long-term care hospitals (LTCHs), inpatient psychiatric hospitals, hospice, labs and DME suppliers are further subject to years of additional cuts to their reimbursement rates through reduced “market basket updates”.
$39.7 billion in cuts to home health reimbursements.
$22.1 billion in additional cuts to hospitals by slashing reimbursements designed to assist hospitals that serve low-income patients.
$20.7 billion in cuts to the Medicare Improvement Fund, which had been intended to fund improvements to seniors’ Medicare benefits, not to finance a new entitlement.
$13.3 billion in yet-to-be-determined Medicare cuts from the hands of an unelected federal board.
$2.3 billion in cuts to imaging reimbursements when seniors use MRIs, CT scans, etc.
$800 million in cuts to power wheelchair suppliers.
$65.7 billion in money taken from seniors in the form of higher premiums and additional cuts to Medicare beneficiaries and providers.

NEVADA -Sue LOWDEN for U.S. SENATE – LET’S DUMP REID!

Lee S. Gliddon, Jr. — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:11:20 +0000

Friends,

Our 13-point lead, 52%-39%, over Harry Reid in the most recent Mason-Dixon poll is the biggest margin we’ve ever held, and it is a result of our hard work together, so thank you.

You are part of a growing grassroots army that is fed up with Harry Reid, a career politician so out of touch with reality that he recently declared “only 36,000 people lost their jobs today, which is really good.” With over 13% unemployment in Nevada, how can he think it’s “really good” when another 36,000 people are out of work?

It’s time for Harry Reid to lose his job, and we’ve built strong momentum to make that happen.

But we are facing a critical test that is key to maintaining our momentum, and that’s why I am sending you this message and hope you will forward it to your friends and family.

The Federal Election Commission’s (FEC) reporting deadline is fast approaching for all 2010 Senate campaigns.

I have until March 31st to show strong fundraising results if I’m going to stay competitive with Senator Harry Reid and his campaign war chest funded largely by Washington, DC lobbyists and special interest groups.

Will you help me post a strong report by making an emergency contribution of $50, $100, $250 or more now?

As someone who knows politics, you understand how important the FEC filing is to my campaign — it’s the initial indicator or “benchmark” on the strength of my campaign organization and our fundraising efforts now that we’re in the election year. When filed, the FEC report will detail all expenditures, total amount raised and the critical “cash-on-hand” figure.

This is important because Harry Reid has already raised almost $15 million. And he is going to spend every dime he can get launching attacks at me. His attack strategy has been underway for several months, and even though it’s not helping him in the polls, he knows his only chance of winning is to “vaporize” me — as he has actually threatened to do.

So a poor showing for me in this quarterly FEC report is simply NOT an option.

Because Harry’s FEC report will show big numbers — there is no doubt about that. He’s spent his career doing favors for the Washington lobbyists, and now that he needs them to repay those favors, they are filling his campaign account with mountains of money.

And as you know, President Barack Obama has already made two trips to Nevada to try and rescue the career of his favorite Senator. He needs Harry Reid to continue on as Senate Democrat Leader. It’s important to the President and to the survival of his far-left agenda.

But I have something Senator Reid doesn’t have and never will have — the grassroots support from leaders like you.

Can I count on you again today?

I am running to defeat out-of-touch Harry Reid and to end the Obama-Pelosi-Reid big government agenda. With your help, I will bring our conservative values to Washington.

Will you help me by making an emergency contribution of $50, $100, $250 or whatever you can afford right now using our secure online contribution form?

I am only asking my most loyal supporters who understand how critical this political “litmus test” is to the campaign.

Please be as generous as you can. The filing deadline is almost here so I need to hear from you in the next few days, if that’s possible.

Thank you for your continued support.

Sincerely,

Sue Lowden

P. S. Harry Reid’s campaign team, the media, and the National Democrat Party will go through our 1st Quarter FEC report with a fine-toothed comb, looking for any signs of weakness they can use against us. This report is due in just a few short days, so I’m asking you for immediate action. Can I count on you to rush one urgent gift of $50, $100, $250 to my campaign? I would not ask if this report wasn’t so critically important to defeating Harry Reid this November. Please let me hear from you soon! Thanks again for everything. — Sue

Friends,

Our 13-point lead, 52%-39%, over Harry Reid in the most recent Mason-Dixon poll is the biggest margin we’ve ever held, and it is a result of our hard work together, so thank you.

It’s time for Harry Reid to lose his job, and we’ve built strong momentum to make that happen.

But we are facing a critical test that is key to maintaining our momentum, and that’s why I am sending you this message and hope you will forward it to your friends and family.

The Federal Election Commission’s (FEC) reporting deadline is fast approaching for all 2010 Senate campaigns.

Will you help me post a strong report by making an emergency contribution of $50, $100, $250 or more now?

So a poor showing for me in this quarterly FEC report is simply NOT an option.

But I have something Senator Reid doesn’t have and never will have — the grassroots support from leaders like you.

Can I count on you again today?

I am running to defeat out-of-touch Harry Reid and to end the Obama-Pelosi-Reid big government agenda. With your help, I will bring our conservative values to Washington.

Will you help me by making an emergency contribution of $50, $100, $250 or whatever you can afford right now using our secure online contribution form?

I am only asking my most loyal supporters who understand how critical this political “litmus test” is to the campaign.

Please be as generous as you can. The filing deadline is almost here so I need to hear from you in the next few days, if that’s possible.

Thank you for your continued support.

Sincerely,

Sue Lowden

Obama – An ADDICT to OBAMACARE?

Lee S. Gliddon, Jr. — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:05:01 +0000

Submitted by: John Butler

Health Care Fight Delays…And Delays…Obama’s Other Campaign Priorities

By Stephen Clark

- FOXNews.com

While President Obama has spent the first third of his term in office waging war to pass a health care reform bill, the dust appears to have settled on many of his other campaign priorities, in particular immigration overhaul, energy reform and a comprehensive jobs bill.

President Obama speaks before he signs the HIRE Act jobs bill in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 18, 2010. (AP)

For 14 months — nearly a third of his elected term in office — President Obama has been fighting an almost constant battle to pass a health care reform bill. During that time, dust appears to have settled on many of his other campaign priorities, in particular immigration overhaul, energy reform and a comprehensive jobs bill.

– Despite Obama’s promise to reform the immigration system in his first year, Congress has yet to introduce a bill.

– Climate change legislation barely passed the House last June and has stalled in the Senate ever since.

– Though Obama just signed into law a package of tax breaks and spending designed to encourage the private sector to start hiring again, he admitted the bill is “by no means enough.”

The same applies to a series of other issues:

– More than a year after Wall Street greed and excess led to the biggest financial meltdown since the Great Depression, Senate Democrats just introduced a financial reform bill this week.

– Obama’s proposed $3.8 trillion budget, which he released last month, has been placed on a back burner.

– Several of the president’s nominees to federal positions are waiting for confirmation hearings. Sixty-four nominees are pending in the Senate.

– As of Dec. 31, the number of top positions vacant in the Obama administration was about 40 percent, according to a report by the Partnership for Public Service.

The administration’s singular focus on health care reform has left political observers scratching their heads.

“It’s a strange White House,” said GOP strategist Matt Schlapp, a former White House director to President George W. Bush.

Schlapp told FoxNews.com that the administration is “too focused on one fight” and “not multitasking.”

“What’s on deck? There’s nothing on deck,” he said, describing the White House as having a “crisis mentality” that is unable to focus on other issues.

Schlapp said the Bush White House employed an overarching strategy to its agenda, focusing on a sequence of bills instead of just one.

“What we did always led to the next battle,” he said. “In this White House, it seems they say, ‘I’ve got to go here because this guy is undecided on health care.’”

The president is so focused on closing the deal on health care, he postponed his trip to Asia so he can stay in Washington for a possible vote on a bill in the House on Sunday.

“The president believes right now the place for him to be is in Washington, seeing this through,” his press secretary, Robert Gibbs, said on Thursday.

Gibbs said once debate has ended, the administration will quickly shift its focus to overhauling Wall Street.

“We will wake up a week or two weeks from now with the need to get credit flowing to small businesses,” he said. “We will discuss financial regulatory reform so the rules of the road are different than what caused the type of greed and risk taking on Wall Street. So we will wake up and there will be more to do. I think that’s true and safe to say about every day you’re here.”

Democratic strategist Martin Frost, a former Texas congressman, told FoxNews.com that he believes Congress will be able to pivot back to a jobs agenda “very quickly” if health care reform passes.

He said Obama’s slow pace at enacting his agenda doesn’t worry him.

“It’s hard for a new president often to get things done as quickly as he wanted,” Frost said, noting that Bill Clinton had similar problems in his first two years in office. “Even though he had to deal with a Republican Congress after that, he got better the longer he was in office.”

Frost said he believes the White House should focus on jobs to the exclusion of everything else after health care is resolved.

“I don’t think immigration overhaul is in the cards. I think it’s too hard,” he said. “Energy remains too hard. But there’s opportunity for the president to accomplish other things.”

Lee ADDS: Obama’s ADDICTION to the Health Care Bill is astounding. Could it be that so much is hidden therein that will allow his SOCIALIZATION of America to be accelerated!

DEMS WILL DO, and are doing, ANYTHING TO PASS OBAMACARE!

Lee S. Gliddon, Jr. — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:44:51 +0000

Submitted by: Dan Talbot

Washington Chaos Portends Obama’s Vision For America
By Christopher G. Adamo
March 19, 2010

As the nationalized “Healthcare” debacle nears its end game, the people of America are increasingly shocked and disgusted by the raw ugliness of the Obama “governing” philosophy. Those platitudes of “hope and change” are gone, and in their place a thoroughly regretful American populace now witnesses, to its horror, the total desecration of this once triumphal constitutional republic.

At last, the stark reality of liberalism is unmasked in its undiluted form. What cannot be discussed honestly and succinctly is couched in lies and fraud, and then sold to the public as benevolence and compassion. Those in Congress who cannot be convinced, based on the merits of the effort, to participate and support it are coerced or bought off. The means of garnering “votes” in the Senate or House is irrelevant. In the end, all that matters is that the leftist agenda, of which Obamacare is a cornerstone, becomes the law of the land.

Over the past few months, Americans were outraged by such denigrating manipulations as the vote buying of Senators Mary Landrieu and Ben Nelson (cynically nicknamed the “Louisiana Purchase” and “Cornhusker Kickback” respectively). Two prominent Democrat Senators were willing to abandon any consideration of the good of the country (ignoring the Constitution completely in the process) in return for a promise of plunder from the nation’s already thoroughly ravaged treasury. Yet despite such shameless tactics, the Obama/Pelosi/Reid cabal still lacks the votes to impose their statist nightmare on America.

In a saner time, decorum and respect by the government for the will of the people would have necessitated that the effort be dropped, and the socio-economic fabric of the country be allowed to remain intact. But as the nation is realizing, the current “leadership” in Washington is significantly different from anything ever contended with in the past. These people have never had the slightest intention of “deriving their governing power from the consent of the governed,” as advised in the Declaration of Independence.

Rather, their modus operandi has consistently been to fool enough people, enough of the time, to pass milestones from which they anticipate the nation can never turn back. The despicable previous lies and bullying employed in this strategy are daily exceeded by the current lies and bullying. And in the process real America is increasingly shut out and maneuvered towards eventual extinction.

The latest development in this nauseating battle offers a glimpse of just how far down this slippery slope things have gone. Congressmen Dennis Cardoza and Jim Costaand of California, Democrats both, are changing from “no” to “yes” votes on Obamacare, according to a report from the National Republican Congressional Committee. At the same time, it seems that the Interior Department has suddenly opened the floodgates (literally) of water reserves into their agricultural districts, which had been previously starved for water on account of purported “environmental concerns.”

It would require a mindless naivete to ignore the timing of this sudden, otherwise inexplicable surrender by Interior, which had steadfastly refused to do so in the past, despite enormous hardships inflicted on the people of the region. Yet in consideration of the equally sudden professed change of sentiments on Obamacare by Cardoza and Costa, the big picture becomes all too inescapable. And its hideous ramifications for the future of the country cannot be overstated.