Fellow Conservative,

The most critical congressional vote in generations will probably happen THIS SUNDAY.

That’s when the Democrat leadership wants to ram its ObamaCare bill through the House – without even voting on it!

Contact your Representative and say NO today!

Believe it or not, Pelosi and other House Democrats are trying to rig a vote under a special “rule” that will incorporate the changes they want the Senate to make to the Senate bill – and then allow the full House to simply vote for the “rule” without actually voting on the Senate bill itself.

They say they will simply “deem” that it has been passed.

They want to hide what they’re actually voting for and let wavering Democrats be able to claim they didn’t actually vote for the bill when they run for re-election this fall.  read more »

Kudos to the folks over at the NRCC for producing the following video which, in a nutshell, explains just how we got where we are in the ObamaCare debate when it comes to the shifty procedures the Dems are employing to ram it through.

Pass it on.

One expects to get news about what big government programs like ObamaCare would do from, say, the Heritage Foundation.  But the Associated Press?  Yes, the AP, that othewise reliable bastion of cover for liberals and/or Democrats alike.

But here we are, with the AP putting out a report on their own study today which verfies what conservatives have said: that American health insurance premiums will go UP as a result of Obamacare.

Heck, even Democrat Senator Dick Durbin admitted as much last week, (see video below)...

But now we have even more "bi-partisan" verification, via the AP:

WASHINGTON — Buyers, beware: President Barack Obama says his health care overhaul will lower premiums by double digits, but check the fine print.

Premiums are likely to keep going up even if the health care bill passes, experts say. If cost controls work as advertised, annual increases would level off with time. But don't look for a rollback. Instead, the main reason premiums would be more affordable is that new government tax credits would help cover the cost for millions of people. ...

"There's no question premiums are still going to keep going up," said Larry Levitt of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a research clearinghouse on the health care system. "There are pieces of reform that will hopefully keep them from going up as fast. But it would be miraculous if premiums actually went down relative to where they are today."  read more »

Given that there is so much news coming from all different directions about just how far along (or not) Pelosi and the House leadership is to wrangling up the votes to pass ObamaCare, it's sometimes hard to know just where things stand.

But today, (just like the last few days), I get an email from BarackObama.com, (join the list, it's always good for a laugh), asking for people to target Louisiana Republican Representative Joseph Cao and pressure him to vote "yes".

Of course, Cao was the only Republican in the House that voted for the House version of ObamaCare last fall, but he has since changed to a "no" vote.  And while I understand that he's not exactly sitting in a Republican district (it's the district he won after the criminal fall from grace by the former Dem Rep. William Jefferson), it still doesn't make much since to dedicate an entire daily blast to your email list encouraging people from all over the country, (I'm in SC for goodness sakes), to target this guy.

In short, it smacks of desperation.

If it's really down to trying to turn a Republican, rather than just focusing on getting 216 out of the 257 Democrats that are in the House to support it, then things aren't going so well.  read more »

With each passing day lately it seems we're treated to another flip-flop by Obama and/or the Democrat leadership on their big health care "reform" boondoggle.

The latest the admission this weekend by the White House that they're no longer concerned about - or plan to oppose - any of the special "deals" that are in the Senate version of the health care bill.  You know, those things like the "Cornhusker Kickback" and the "Louisiana Purchase" that were necessary to buy off enough Democrat Senators to get to 60 votes and overcome the Republican filibuster of the bill.

In the overwhelming negative popular reaction to those deals, Obama and other Democrat leaders proclaimed that the "new" new and improved version (which they would hammer out via a reconciliation bill with the House) would NOT have those deals.

And now we get this:

Still seeking votes for his proposed health care overhaul, President Barack Obama appears ready to reverse his position and allow unpopular deal-sweetening measures in the hopes of finding Democratic support for legislation whose future will be decided in coming days. …

Clinching support, though, might require Obama to back away from his insistence that senators purge the legislation of a number of lawmakers’ special deals.

Taking a new position, Axelrod said the White House only objects to state-specific arrangements, such as an increase in Medicaid funding for Nebraska, ridiculed as the “Cornhusker Kickback.” That’s being cut, but provisions that could affect more than one state are OK, Axelrod said. ...  read more »

This is it.  The moment of truth in the US House...and what is probably our last, best chance to stop the liberal,big-government takeover of our health care system.

The House will be voting soon on whether or not to pass the Senate version of "ObamaCare", and we have to stop it.

Contact your members of Congress and tell them to vote NO!

Right now, liberals from the White House and the Democrat leadership are meeting behind closed doors trying to create a "compromise" package that will give Democrats in the House enough cover to vote for the bill...promising them that the Senate will enact these changes AFTER they approve the current Senate bill.

In other words, they're saying "trust us".

Tell them "NO". Let them know that the American people do NOT want this bill - and that we do NOT trust them withour health care.  read more »

Just when you begin to sorta' feel good about how things are going for Republicans, thanks largely to Barack Obama and the Democrat leadership, you seem them do the kind of things you expect from people who really just don't want to win.

For example, take the NRSC (please!) and its continued fundraising for Charlie Crist, who (as we pointed out) is getting "waxed" by Marc Rubio in the Florida Senate primary by 32 points in the latest poll.

I understand that the NRSC has a job to do, that being to recruit candidates and help them win US Senate seats.  Fine.  And I also understand that there will be times that someone there will screw up and recruit the wrong candidate, although this seems to happen waaayyy to often to just be a screw up, but I digress.  But it's another thing entirely to continue to waste the party's money...and encourage GOP donors to waste even more money...supporting someone that Republicans in that state have CLEARLY indicated that they don't want.  read more »

Talk about hand-writing on the wall.

In what can be termed as nothing less than "big", the latest poll of the Republican candidates in the Florida Senate primary has House Speaker Marco Rubio ahead of incumben Governor Charlie Crist by 32 points.

Via Public Policy Polling:

Rubio now leads Crist 60-28, including a staggering 71-17 lead with conservatives. Crist has a 49-36 advantage with party moderates, but they account for just 31% of likely primary voters compared to 65% who describe themselves as conservative.

Rubio is benefiting from a widely held sentiment among Florida GOP voters that Congressional Republicans are too liberal and that Crist would add to the problem. 41% of them think that the party leadership in Washington is too liberal, and with those folks Rubio holds an 83-10 lead. 50% think that Crist himself is too liberal and with those voters Rubio’s advantage expands even wider to 90-5.

Wow.  And, believe it or not, it gets worse for Crist.

It also looks like it’s too late for Crist to audible and make another run for Governor. GOP voters say they’d prefer likely nominee Bill McCollum over Crist by a 49-35 margin. In fact Republicans generally just want Crist to go away- 56% say they’d like him out of office a year from now to 19% who’d like to see him continue as Governor and only 14% who want him in the Senate.  read more »

What difference a year makes!

We're a long way from where we were after "The One" took office.  The economy is still in the tank, most of his agenda is stalled (thankfully), and his polling numbers continue to head south.

For Republicans, things are looking up as we approach the mid-term elections.

But how should Repubicans continue to deal with Obama?  Who would you like to see in a leadership role?  What direction should the party take overall?  Where are the best Republican ideas coming from?

All important questions.

The Republican Leadership Survey is an ongoing project we use to take the pulse of the conservative base, and we want to add your opinions to the mix.

So if you haven't taken the survey yet, click here and do so today. Then pass it on to someone else.  read more »

Some of the latest from the ongoing debate over ObamaCare...

Obama orders full speed ahead

The Washington Times op-ed has a nice paragraph that summarizes fairly simply why the plan needs to be defeated.

At stake is the biggest policy initiative of the year-old Obama presidency, a rewrite of the nation's health care system that would trim hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicare, expand Medicaid, mandate that every American join a plan and rewrite rules telling insurance companies how they can operate.

Exactly.

Are Democrats whistling past the graveyard on ObamaCare?

Via Julie Mason:

Republicans warned they will use Obama's reliance on parliamentary moves to push the unpopular bill through as a top campaign issue in the fall. Democrats are hoping Americans ignore rhetoric about voting procedures in Congress and credit them with passing something.

"I don't know how this plays politically, but I know it's right," Obama said of his latest proposal.  read more »