How to Spend Your Weekend

We’ll get to the weekend’s activities.  But first, a little background.

Today, the House of Representatives voted 222-203 to dispense with yea and nay voting on the most important laws.  That action effectively ends the contract between the United States and the People.  “Screw you, America.  We’re Congress.  We’ll do whatever the hell we want.  And you’ll gladly pay for it, you swine!”

But if Congress cut the ties to the contract WE wrote, aren’t we, the people, free from any obligations to the federal government?  It would seem that we are citizens of our states and we owe no allegiance, legal or moral, to the government in Washington.  Thanks, Nancy.

Now, what do we do about it?

Let’s see what our nation’s animating document says.

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 Colonies;

and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.

If Congress continues on its present course – to inflict socialized medicine on America by decree – the reaction from the people will be something that we have never seen before.

If this law passes, wheels will turn that will be difficult to stop. Consolidation among insurance companies, who have already shown remarkable cowardice, will result in only a few huge insurers. Similar consolidation will occur in hospital companies and pharmaceuticals.  These huge companies will then beg government to absorb them like General Motors.  The government will comply and give any remaining competitors the Toyota treatment.

So let’s do this (the weekend part):

* Plan on protesting on Saturday.  Location to be determined.

* Plan on getting a List of Leaners on whom we will focus our letters, calls, and FedEx packages (for Saturday delivery)

* Plan on giving a primary pass to any Democrat who votes NO on this bill

* Plan on hosting a watch party on Sunday, all day, praying that Pelosi does not get the votes

But if this bill passes, all bets are off.  Every aspect of the government in Washington is fair game. 

Finally, be thankful.  Be thankful that you are surrounded by beautiful patriots. I had a conference call with some of them tonight.  They yearn for freedom, and they have worked tirelessly for a year+.  And the reasonable ones even keep ME in line.  Sort of.  Sometimes. After much painful aggravation.  But God help me should I ever be deprived their pastoral reason and good sense. (Thank you, CL and DSM.)