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Friday, August 21, 2009

If Democratic lawmakers thought all the furor over President Obama’s health care plan expressed this month at town hall meetings was dying down, they might be in for a surprise Saturday.

That’s when citizens are planning anti-”Obamacare” rallies across the country Saturday in all 435 congressional districts.

And their message is clear: We will not stand for socialized, government-controlled health care.

The same groups who made the “tax tea parties” possible in April are behind this weekend’s movement. American Liberty Alliance, FreedomWorks and Americans for Prosperity are working with The Sam Adams Alliance, among others, to stage the rallies.

 Click here for more information on the rallies.

They come as town hall clashes between Democratic lawmakers and protesters of Obama’s health care plan have captured national attention. Some Democrats have dismissed those protesters as “mobs” organized by special interests. But many protesters have said they attended the town halls out of genuine concern.

Now they can express their concerns at Saturday’s rallies.

“Obviously the idea behind this was to have a unified day for those concerned about government-controlled health care to talk outside their representatives’ offices,” said Paul Miller, spokesman for The Sam Adams Alliance, a Chicago-based political organization which is one of several groups promoting the event through new media.

Miller said this is a personal issue for many opponents, including himself, a 22-year cancer survivor. Miller, who was diagnosed with a rare cancer at the age of 14 and had his right arm amputated to save his life, says he would not have received the same specialized and speedy medical care if the government was in control.

“There isn’t this great conspiracy to say there shouldn’t be health care reform,” Miller told FOXNews.com. “People just want to make their own decisions and keep their insurance if they like. When government’s get involved, they never do anything right.”

Eric Odom, executive director for American Liberty Alliance, the lead group behind the tea parties and the new rallies told FOXNews.com that the rallies differ from the tea parties in that they are being organized from the bottom up.

“We didn’t want to try and do what we did on April 15 because the logistics was a nightmare,” he said, explaining that local organizers now have more control over the rallies and have only received basic information from the top.

“People at the local level have taken it and created their own animal with it,” he said. “This is more bottom heavy.”

Odom shrugged at the fact that most of the lawmakers won’t be present at their offices on a Saturday because he said the ultimate goal is to get more people politically engaged.

“This Saturday is symbolic,” he said, adding that his group will e-mail information to rally-goers on how to air their concerns to their representatives. “Most of these people have never done anything political in their lives.”

Phil Kerpen, director of policy for Americans for Prosperity, cautioned that it’s “impossible to predict” the turnout at these rallies “because it’s very decentralized.”

“It could be another big success,” he said, or the crowds could be scaled back. Kerpen said the packed town halls this month don’t provide much indication either.

“I think there’s no better place to make your voice heard and make an impact when you get face to face with your congressman,” he said. “The impetus is greater to show up there than here.”

Jacki Schechner, spokeswoman for Health Care for America Now (HCAN), a coalition of groups supporting Obama’s health care plan, said the rallies are a waste of time.

“There is no government-controlled health care on the table,” she said. “They’re protesting something that doesn’t exist.

“There’s a lot of people out there feeding lies and misinformation and trying to get people hyped up about something that doesn’t exist. They’re wasting their energy.”

Odom found irony in the objections raised by proponents of health care reform.

“It’s interesting that the world’s most professional organizers are upset that we’re organizing communities,” he said.

But Odom said he hasn’t gotten a lot of pushback.

“Surprisingly, I don’t think they take this very seriously,” he said. But he said what separates his organizers from many of Obama’s supporters, including Health Care for America Now (HCAN), is the passion.

“For them it’s business as usual. It’s what they’re paid to do,” he said.

Schechner said the differences between the two sides goes beyond money.

“We didn’t pop up over night,” she said, noting that the group’s campaign began last summer. “We don’t scream. We’re not angry.”

She rejected the notion that community organizers who are paid lack passion. “There are different kinds of passion,” she said.

Schechner added, “I don’t discount their passion. I don’t ever want to undermine their passion. But I really wish they would take a moment to really understand what this legislation is about, because a lot of people would be helped by it.”

But Kerpen said it’s clear that Obama’s plan would lead to a government takeover.

“Read the legislation that’s been proposed,” he said, adding that the House bill has been “designed as an achievable way to reach a single-payer system,” in which the government acts as the sole middle man with greater leverage to negotiate prices. “A lot of people are playing games, as we would expect them to.”

Fellow American Patriots,

Tomorrow is the day for the Nationwide Recess Rally. This is what we’ve all been working for and we believe we’ll see great success across the country.

As a reminder, tomorrow’s gatherings are a symbolic statement from We The People for those who we elect to REPRESENT us. We recommend that you get pictures, get video, and shake hands with as many people as possible. Make your voice heard and build relationships across your community in the process.

But what are the action items to follow the Recess Rally?

VITAL FOLLOW UP ACTION

Most people don’t know this, but Senator Jim DeMint succeeded in passing procedural votes (one by unanimous consent) which bind the Senate to filibuster (60 vote) rules rather than the simple majority requirement of the reconciliation process. Therefore, without Republican complicity and votes, Obama Care would likely be dead in the Senate.

What the negotiating Republican Senators do will determine the end game. The Senators who have the power to see Obama pass or fail are Grassley (IA), Enzi (WY), Snowe (ME), Collins (ME), Graham (SC) and Bennett (UT). These six Senators should stop negotiating a compromise and let this monstrosity die.

So after the Recess Rally, you should take the following action steps:

-Visit, call and email YOUR Rep/Senator
-Call and email the six Senators listed above
-Write letters to your local editor and mention the six Senators
-Post reminders about the six on your Facebook, Twitter and social media profiles
-Post reminders about the six on your blog
-E-mail your friends and family and explain the details about these six Senators
-Contact the RNC/GOP and demand they put pressure on the six Senators

We The People employ these elected Senators. It’s our job to demand they do their jobs and look out for the interest of America.

Lastly, I want to personally thank the hundreds of Americans who have put in countless hours to make the Recess Rally effort happen. Your work is much appreciated and your contribution is potentially game changing for the direction of our great country.

Good luck tomorrow and have a great Recess Rally!

For Liberty,

-Eric Odom

Here are some of the discussions that we have been able to procure for our readership regarding Wisconsin Congressman Steve Kagen and his fellow Democrats and their behaviors with regards to the Healthcare Bill / Healthcare Reform HR 3200, TARP, TALF, Bailouts, Corporate takeovers, Nationalization of companies, private companies “fusing in with Government”, Stimulus packages, Cap-n-tax, pork barrel, all sorts of “free” social services and healthcare for ILLEGAL Immigrants throughout America, and all manner of Socialism, Communism and Fascism under the Voodoo of Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi and Senator Harry Reid :

Above: Local northeastern Wisconsin citizens talking about Congressman Steve Kagen and Congresswoman Priestess Nancy Pelosi Healthcare Voodoo

How is our U.S. economy going to survive Social Security and Medicare, $90 Trillion Dollars in UNFUNDED Liabilities, over the infinite horizon, just for these TWO programs alone? ? ?   How are we going to afford another Ponzi scheme like NATIONALIZED “free” Healthcare?

Somehow I think only a zombie under the Hoodoo and Voodoo of Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi could live with anymore “free stuff” from the U.S. Government.  How are we citizens going to afford all of the “free stuff” like Social Security and Medicare and all manner of other free stuff like “Cash for Clunkers” when the bill comes due in a year or two?  What are we citizens going to do when they take the costs for all of this “Free Stuff” out of our paychecks next year in the form of Federal Withholding to the tune of 80% or more of our earnings?  Then we will all be Zombie Socialists with nowhere to run.

8/5/2009Thank you for listening to your constituents yesterday and Monday in Green Bay and Appleton. Listening. The operative word. Unlike media suggestions (your suggestions?), the crowds were not manufactured by shady “corporate interests,” but were caring, frustrated Americans, there to listen to you because they’re desperately fearful about the future of their beloved country – and the future we’re building here for our kids.I was moved by the passion – and I hope you were too. 300 people filled that auditorium a half hour before your meeting’s start time in both Green Bay and Appleton hearings. Perhaps next time your staff can find you a larger room, so that 300 or 400 constituents need not be locked out.As an aside sir, it’s interesting that I knew of your meeting schedule from friends and neighbors. In talking with the Steelworkers Union member (the emblem proudly emblazoned on his shirt) sitting behind me, I learned he received an email invitation from your office. You have my email sir, as I’ve contacted your office numerous times. You have my email sir, as I receive pleas for dollars from your campaign committee at the close of every campaign reporting period. Why didn’t I receive a notice of your “listening session” in Appleton?

Such passion Dr. Kagen. I’m not sure you got the message these caring and concerned constituents were sharing.

When asked how you were going to pay for any health care reform bill coming out of Congress, you said you would find $800B – $1T wasted. Wow. When asked if you will vote for health care reform if the majority of your constituents oppose the bill, you took a big sidestep – “It’s [the final bill] something that doesn’t exist yet.”

When a constituent said she heard the benefits of the medicine you and Congress are prescribing, now could you please share with us the side effects, you shrugged her off repeatedly, unable to “explain the whole thing because it will raise controversy.” Well, that surely is being honest, Rep. Kagen. Wow.

Rick Sense, writing for his “The Inside Scoop,” shares further goings-on from yesterday’s gathering.

Some of [Rep. Kagen’s] less than stellar moments included a claim that “the United States Senate is the real enemy” and that he believes it is “unconstitutional” for a pharmacy to be able to charge different people different prices for the same medication (ever buy a used car Rep. Kagen?). When asked if he would support healthcare legislation despite the majority of his constituents being opposed to it, he first replied, “Well, let me explain the legislative process to you,” later adding the cliché “these are complex issues” and ending his answer with, “I will vote for the best interest of our constituents.” At one point, obviously frustrated, Kagen yelled at a constituent, “How dare you!” during an exchange with a member of the audience on how to possibly help a different audience member facing the tough prospect of covering healthcare costs with her husband out of work.

Yes sir, the majority of your constituents understand the need for reforms in our health care system. But no sir, the majority of your district is not in favor of huge new federal bureaucracies taking over health care in America.

You are well aware of those needed changes sir – and indeed have advocated for them.

• Incentivize self-reliance and individual responsibility. More of us must understand what our health care is costing us before we care about what health care is costing us.
• Incentive individual responsibility via extensive price and quality transparency.
• Incentivize wellness
• Help us make good choices by standardizing basic health insurance policies
• Support modified community rating and yes, require that insurance be available for those with pre-existing conditions. 

Hold your ground sir. You are not beholding to Speaker Pelosi or President Obama or any of your congressional colleagues. You sir, are beholding to us. The majority of your district does not want government running their health care. The majority of your district believes HR 3200 or anything like it must be scrapped and substituted with much more basic changes that will control costs in the system and build on individual – not government – responsibilities.

Jo Egelhoff, FoxPolitics.net

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The Liberty Tree Lantern - would like to ask Dr. Kagen which prescription he is writing for himself and his family, the one he is writing for us Wisconsin citizens and our fellow countrymen across America, or the “special” one that each member of Congress and their families get?

Today Congressman Steve Kagen will be in Oconto and Marinette, WI:

Wednesday, August 5th

10:30 AM
Health Care Listening Session
Oconto Falls Senior Center
512 Caldwell Ave
Oconto Falls, WI

Note that the Oconto Falls listening session is BY INVITATION ONLY.  The Liberty Tree Lantern has confirmed with the Green Bay office of Congressman Steve Kagen, that you as a constituent are NOT INVITED and you will be turned away at the door.

6:00 PM
Health Care Forum
Marinette Senior Center
1603 Ludington St.
Marinette, WI

The Liberty Tree Lantern has confirmed, with the Green Bay office of Congressman Steve Kagen, that as of 09:21 this morning if nothing changes, constituents will be allowed into the Marinette listening session.

Isn’t it amazing the fools that the U.S. Government takes us for?  Basically, as you can see for yourself, the U.S. Government is stating, in so many words, that either we are as stupid as the day is long or the only other possibility is that we have been gathered and bused out to the listening sessions to make it “lo0k like” we care and that we are upset at what they are doing to us.  The U.S. Government is trying to make it look like everything we, here in N.E. Wisconsin are saying is nothing more than a ginned up “sham”.

See for yourself:

Fox Valley Initiative had their own listening session:

I must say that I am very proud of N.E. Wisconsin people for really learning about the issues of this debate, which are obviously very Socialist or even Communist in nature.  It is very impressive how N.E. Wisconsin people are getting involved supporting their freedom, liberty, rights and private individual healthcare.  Our founding fathers would be very very proud of each one of you.  – - Capt. Karl

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Our mission to RECALL DOYLE for our people of Wisconsin and our posterity will be accomplished!

WE ARE in the process of FLUSHING THE DOYLE-LETT!

We The People will make sure Wisconsin doesn’t stink!

It is self-evident, from years of budget, taxation and “special interest” pay to play issues like:
• Indian gaming facilities
• Big Unions,
• State and County public “serpents” workers with benefits we taxpayers are paying, for them, which we can’t even dream of affording for ourselves and especially
• WEAC teachers super healthcare, pension and other benefit issues are costing each one of us dearly
that the vast majority of our State of Wisconsin representatives don’t give a “crap” about us, with the exception of honorable ones like John Nygren of Marinette and a “few” others.

This RECALL is NOT a partisan issue. It is simply an UP or DOWN issue and I think it is time to stand up, pull up our britches and push the lever because either the ENTIRE State of Wisconsin, with a nearly $7 BILLION Dollar DEFICIT, is going down the crapper or Doyle is.

The vast majority of our State of WI representatives are doing NOTHING but filling up the budget and taxation DOYLE-LETT with all sorts of crap. AND, BOY, DOES IT STINK!

Diamond Jim Doyle needs to understand that the people of Wisconsin COME FIRST, We Are Number One!

We The People of Wisconsin need to pull an Austin Powers here, grab Doyle by the ankles and dunk him head first into the Doyle-lett and FORCE him to talk by asking him; “Who — does — NUMBER TWO — work — for????”

People and newspapers from our neighbor sovereign independent States, in their own private cubicles hearing the ruckus, have been calling over to us Wisconsinites; “How about a courtesy flush here?”

www.RecallDoyle.com

There are many in Wisconsin media who scoff at suggestions that our State’s survival depends on drastic measures like a recall.  But many beg to differ on this implication by such local news sources for a multitude of reasons, the least of which is a nearly $7 BILLION Dollar deficit that Jim Doyle is working feverishly to implement all sorts of fees and taxes on our citizens and our small businesses to cover.  It should be rather obvious that such massive taxation will not only drive out small business from our State but with them taxpayers who are left to foot Jim Doyle’s eminent Socialist tab and agenda which ultimately flies in the face of the intent and spirit of both OUR State and Federal Constitutions and, thereby and therefore, result  in the detriment of our prosperity producing individual liberties and freedom.

Many people have expressed great dismay with these news organizations and wonder if these outlets are trying to control political outcomes by preventing news accounts from getting out to the Wisconsin public.

Take a look at the following video and decide for yourself if any of these Wisconsin citizens, or very many of them at least, are really interested in recalling Wisconsin Governor James Doyle or whether some people are blowing such interest way out of proportion and that there are not very many but a very small fringe group that wants to be active in this recall effort.  When you see this video, perhaps you might also ask yourself whether your local newspaper is doing a good job of deciding what news to bring you and WHY they may not be letting you know about certain events that you might consider important.

• Now would you consider over 8,200 Wisconsin citizens traveling all the way to a Madison Tea Party on April 15th to scream RECALL DOYLE anything news worthy? 
• Do you know that there were MANY more Tea Parties across the State of Wisconsin, besides this one at Madison, each with thousands of people in attendance screaming RECALL DOYLE? 
• If you didn’t know that, how come? 
• Didn’t your local newspaper or local TV news let you know that there are so many THOUSANDS on top of THOUSANDS of people from MANY cities and towns across our State of Wisconsin that want Gov. Doyle recalled?
• If your local news organizations are not letting you know the news that your own fellow citizens by the THOUSANDS are MAD as Hell about Jim Doyle and his usurping, despotic, tyrannical spending policies, stealing and using our earnings in the form of fees and taxes to do it, then are these organizations not controlling and manipulating you through purposeful “lack” of news coverage?
• Are you going to keep paying for news services who don’t even let you know what is going on in your own State? 
• At the very least you should contact your local news outlet and tell them what you think for not letting you know about this.
• If you know of a local Wisconsin TV news or newspaper organization that appears intent on a blackout of RECALL DOYLE news from Wisconsin citizens, please post a comment below and we will formally publish their names after confirmation.  (Thank you!)

In the weeks to come The Liberty Tree Lantern will be naming names of local Wisconsin news organizations who are refusing to print or broadcast news on this HUMONGUS news event of gigantic importance to the people of Wisconsin – THE RECALL OF GOVENOR JAMES DOYLE. 

The first on the list of local newspapers or organizations who absolutely refuse to print anything of the Doyle Recall is:

•  THE EAGLE HERALD of Marinette, WI. 

The following local newspaper, competing in the same area however, was quick to publish an article of this importance in their editorial/opinion pages:

• The Peshtigo Times of Peshtigo, WI

It appears self-evident who, of these two local papers, is in the pocket of BIG Wisconsin tax spending Government and who is on the side of the people of Wisconsin.  Don’t let media bias keep you from the news you need and have a right to know.

In the interest of full disclosure, as posted elsewhere on this blog, the writer, Capt. Karl, is one of the original 15 Wisconsin citizens who started the www.RecallDoyle.com campaign.

 For more information that you may not be getting from your local TV news or newspaper go to: www.RecallDoyle.com

We post this, however, for the larger point.  Why don’t we all appreciate our real “heroes”, who protect us from The Caliphate, who are under marching orders direct from the Koran, to kill us if we do not convert to the Muslim religion?  How many of them would be here in America blowing us and our children up at restaurants and/or taking out a city or three, if they wouldn’t have killed them in Iraq?  In a free country it is impossible to completely stop them from coming over here.

We all need to think about and appreciate the work, service and sacrifice our soldiers made to keep us safe and free in these Caliphate troubled times!

Guest column: Mr. Favre, take time to meet a real hero

Wesley Emch of Brimfield, Ohio, describes himself as the “proud father of a Devil Doc.” His son, Hospitalman Lucas Emch, was a hospital corpsman assigned to 1st Marine Logistics Group, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.