WE THE PEOPLE

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

On October 1st, millions of Americans will be required to enroll in Obamacare and could lose access to their doctors and be forced to pay higher premiums and higher taxes. But there's still time to stop it. Republicans in Congress can stop Obamacare if they refuse to fund it.
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Mike Lee

"This is the last opportunity we’re going to have to stop Obamacare before the January 1 deadline so we have to refuse to fund it now."— U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT)

Ted Cruz

"We can de-fund Obamacare if Republican leaders who tell their constituents they’re conservative stand up and act like they’re conservative."— U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX)
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Senate Republican Whip List

Democratic Leader Harry Reid needs 60 votes to fund Obamacare, but there are only 54 Democrats in the Senate. If Republicans hold strong, they can stop it.
Tell the Republicans to sign Senator Mike Lee's letter pledging to OPPOSE the government spending bill ("CR") if it funds Obamacare.
NOTE: If they say they SUPPORT bills to defund Obamacare, that does not help us because those bills won't be considered and don't have to pass. We need them to OPPOSE the CR if it funds Obamacare. The CR must be passed in September and it is our only point of leverage.
Mike Lee Letter"For these reasons, we will not support any continuing resolution or appropriations legislation that funds further implementation or enforcement of Obamacare."
STATESENATORPHONEINFOPLEDGED TO OPPOSE 2014 FUNDING
AKMurkowski, Lisa202-224-6665 
ALSessions, Jeff202-224-4124 
ALShelby, Richard202-224-5744 Won't Pledge
ARBoozman, John202-224-4843 
AZFlake, Jeff202-224-4521 Won't Pledge
AZMcCain, John202-224-2235 Won't Pledge
FLRubio, Marco202-224-3041 Pledged
GAChambliss, Saxby202-224-3521 
GAIsakson, Johnny202-224-3643 
IAGrassley, Chuck202-224-3744 Pledged
IDCrapo, Mike202-224-6142 Pledged
IDRisch, Jim202-224-2752 Pledged
ILKirk, Mark202-224-2854 
INCoats, Dan202-224-5623 
KSMoran, Jerry202-224-6521 
KSRoberts, Pat202-224-4774 Pledged
KYMcConnell, Mitch202-224-2541 Won't Pledge
KYPaul, Rand202-224-4343 Pledged
LAVitter, David202-224-4623 Pledged
MECollins, Susan202-224-2523 
MOBlunt, Roy202-224-5721 Won't Pledge
MSCochran, Thad202-224-5054 
MSWicker, Roger202-224-6253 
NCBurr, Richard202-224-3154 Won't Pledge
NDHoeven, John202-224-2551 
NEFischer, Deb202-224-6551 Pledged
NEJohanns, Mike202-224-4224 
NHAyotte, Kelly202-224-3324 
NJChiesa, Jeff202-224-3224 Pledged
NVHeller, Dean202-224-6244 
OHPortman, Rob202-224-3353 
OKCoburn, Tom202-224-5754 Won't Pledge
OKInhofe, Jim202-224-4721 Pledged
PAToomey, Pat202-224-4254 
SCGraham, Lindsey202-224-5972 Won't Pledge
SCScott, Tim202-224-6121 
SDThune, John202-224-2321 Pledged
TNAlexander, Lamar202-224-4944 Won't Pledge
TNCorker, Bob202-224-3344 Won't Pledge
TXCornyn, John202-224-2934 
TXCruz, Ted202-224-5922 Pledged
UTHatch, Orrin202-224-5251 Won't Pledge
UTLee, Mike202-224-5444 Pledged
WIJohnson, Ron202-224-5323 
WYBarrasso, John202-224-6441 
WYEnzi, Mike202-224-3424 Pledged
Please report what you hear from these senators so we can update our background information.

Senate Candidate Pledge

Here are the Republican candidates running for the U.S. Senate in 2014. See who has pledged to stop the funding for Obamacare and who has not.
 Candidate Has Signed Pledge    Candidate Has Not Signed Pledge
"I, ___________, pledge to the taxpayers of the state of ___________, and to the American people, that I will: ONE, support the full repeal of Obamacare (also known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act); and TWO, oppose any bill or budget resolution that provides funding to implement or enforce any part of it."
STATECANDIDATES
AKJoe Miller    Mead Treadwell   
ARTom Cotton   
ALJeff Sessions   
COKen Buck    Owen Hill   
GAJack Kingston    Karen Handel    Paul Broun    Phil Gingrey   
IADavid Young    Joni Ernst    Matt Whitaker    Sam Clovis   
ILDoug Truax   
KYMatt Bevin    Mitch McConnell   
LABill Cassidy    Rob Maness   
MESusan Collins   
MITerri Lynn Land   
MSThad Cochran   
MTChamp Edmunds    Corey Stapleton   
NCGreg Brannon    Heather Grant    Thom Tillis   
NEBart McLeay    Ben Sasse    Shane Osborn   
SCLee Bright    Lindsey Graham    Nancy Mace    Richard Cash   
SDAnnette Bosworth    Larry Rhoden    Mike Rounds    Stace Nelson   
TNBrenda Lenard    Joe Carr    Lamar Alexander   
TXDwayne Stovall    Erick Wyatt    John Cornyn   
WVPat McGeehan    Shelley Moore Capito   
WYLiz Cheney   
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Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Awesome Quotes: 9 beautiful messages ...

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Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Unbelievable Robotic Dance

It's totally amazing the talents God provides His children... You will never see anything else like this! Unbelievable!

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Monday, June 24, 2013

OLD FARMERS ADVICE

            Old Farmer's Advice:

Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong. 

Keep skunks and bankers at a distance. 

Life is simpler when you plow around the stump. 

A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor.

Words that soak into your ears are whispered... not yelled. 

Meanness don't jes' happen overnight. 

Forgive your enemies; it messes up their heads. 

Do not corner something that you know is meaner than you. 

It don't take a very big person to carry a grudge. 

You cannot unsay a cruel word. 

Every path has a few puddles. 

When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty. 

The best sermons are lived, not preached.

Most of the stuff people worry about ain't never gonna happen anyway. 

Don't judge folks by their relatives. 

Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer. 

Live a good, honorable life... Then when you get older and think back, you'll enjoy it a second time. 

Don 't interfere with somethin' that ain't bothering you none. 

Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a Rain dance. 

If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin'. 

Sometimes you get, and sometimes you get got. 

The biggest troublemaker you'll probably ever have to deal with, watches you from the mirror every mornin'. 

Always drink upstream from the herd. 

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment. 

Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin' it back in. 

If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' somebody else's dog around..

Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God. 

Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.
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Monday, June 3, 2013

OBAMA AND CONGRESS ABSOLUTELY LIED TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!

IRS: Cheapest Obamacare Plan Will Be $20,000 Per Family

January 31, 2013 - 2:45 PM
By Matt Cover
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Barack Obama, Kathleen Sebelius, Nancy Pelosi
President Barack Obama hugs HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi after signing the Obamacare law on March 23, 2010. (White House photo/Pete Souza)
(CNSNews.com) – In a final regulation issued Wednesday, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) assumed that under Obamacare the cheapest health insurance plan available in 2016 for a family will cost $20,000 for the year.
Under Obamacare, Americans will be required to buy health insurance or pay a penalty to the IRS.
The IRS's assumption that the cheapest plan for a family will cost $20,000 per year is found in examples the IRS gives to help people understand how to calculate the penalty they will need to pay the government if they do not buy a mandated health plan.
The examples point to families of four and families of five, both of which the IRS expects in its assumptions to pay a minimum of $20,000 per year for a bronze plan.
“The annual national average bronze plan premium for a family of 5 (2 adults, 3 children) is $20,000,” the regulation says.
Bronze will be the lowest tier health-insurance plan available under Obamacare--after Silver, Gold, and Platinum. Under the law, the penalty for not buying health insurance is supposed to be capped at either the annual average Bronze premium, 2.5 percent of taxable income, or $2,085.00 per family in 2016.
In the new final rules published Wednesday, IRS set in law the rules for implementing the penalty Americans must pay if they fail to obey Obamacare's mandate to buy insurance.
To help illustrate these rules, the IRS presented examples of different situations families might find themselves in.
In the examples, the IRS assumes that families of five who are uninsured would need to pay an average of $20,000 per year to purchase a Bronze plan in 2016.
Using the conditions laid out in the regulations, the IRS calculates that a family earning $120,000 per year that did not buy insurance would need to pay a "penalty" (a word the IRS still uses despite the Supreme Court ruling that it is in fact a "tax") of $2,400 in 2016.
For those wondering how clear the IRS's clarifications of this new "penalty" rule are, here is one of the actual examples the IRS gives:
“Example 3. Family without minimum essential coverage.
"(i) In 2016, Taxpayers H and J are married and file a joint return. H and J have three children: K, age 21, L, age 15, and M, age 10. No member of the family has minimum essential coverage for any month in 2016. H and J’s household income is $120,000. H and J’s applicable filing threshold is $24,000. The annual national average bronze plan premium for a family of 5 (2 adults, 3 children) is $20,000.
"(ii) For each month in 2016, under paragraphs (b)(2)(ii) and (b)(2)(iii) of this section, the applicable dollar amount is $2,780 (($695 x 3 adults) + (($695/2) x 2 children)). Under paragraph (b)(2)(i) of this section, the flat dollar amount is $2,085 (the lesser of $2,780 and $2,085 ($695 x 3)). Under paragraph (b)(3) of this section, the excess income amount is $2,400 (($120,000 - $24,000) x 0.025). Therefore, under paragraph (b)(1) of this section, the monthly penalty amount is $200 (the greater of $173.75 ($2,085/12) or $200 ($2,400/12)).
"(iii) The sum of the monthly penalty amounts is $2,400 ($200 x 12). The sum of the monthly national average bronze plan premiums is $20,000 ($20,000/12 x 12). Therefore, under paragraph (a) of this section, the shared responsibility payment imposed on H and J for 2016 is $2,400 (the lesser of $2,400 or $20,000).”
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Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Speak up, take action: Everybody Blog About Pigford Day

Speak up, take action: Everybody Blog About Pigford Day

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By Michelle Malkin  •  May 1, 2013 10:03 AM
One of the last things I talked about with Andrew Breitbart before he left this earth too soon last year was the persistent, poisonous scourge of identity politics and racial demagoguery. Those of you who followed his work knew about his passionate pursuit of the truth in the Pigford farmers’ settlement scandal. Last week, the Fishwrap of Record finally got around toacknowledging the racially-driven racket. Today, Lee Stranahan at Breitbart.com is leading Everybody Blog About Pigford Day:
Andrew knew that the Pigford scandal was something that was too big to just be covered by conservative media so when I suggested going on the road to do interviews with some key figures in the story, Breitbart took a leap of faith that a guy he’d just met who wrote for HuffPo and had done work for MoveOn would report the story honestly. Andrew had checked out the work I’d done on the John Edwards affair and could see I placed a higher value on truth than staying in lockstep with liberal messaging but still, it was a risk on his part and an example of his dedication to the truth.
A funny thing happened on the road, though; I stopped being a liberal.
Such is the transformative power of the farmers’ settlement story, which lays bare the moral bankruptcy of the left by showing their pretense of altruistic concern on race issues is really just a way to buy votes and line the pockets of lawyers and fraudsters. Knowing what I knew about Pigford, it was impossible to maintain any respect for President Barack Obama and his cohorts in corruption.
People talk about how tireless Andrew was on this story but very few actually saw what that meant firsthand –the late night strategy sessions, the constant batting back and forth of information and the amount of time Breitbart spent on the phone talking to the actual black farmers that were the source of the some of the most important leads on the story. Anyone who knew him well will tell you Andrew Breitbart really cared about these hard working men and their stories of betrayal at the hands of the USDA.
When we lost Andrew, very few of the posthumous accolades mentioned that he had absolutely nailed the Pigford story. The Breitbart News team knew we’d gotten it right but for a long time there was cold comfort in that.
The New York Times didn’t just validate the facts of the story, however. The front page placement of their Pigford exposé proved correct Andrew’s instinct that this was a major story, worthy of deep investigation.
As I said last week in tribute to Andrew, our social media/new media outlets are not just for correcting false narratives, but for exposing suppressed narratives. Every blog post, every Facebook comment, every tweet from a user whether he/she has 5 followers or 500,000 makes a difference.
Speak up.
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Unsurprisingly, this cash bonanza spawned a cottage industry of mountebanks and small-time frauds, including a few who toured the churches of the rural South recruiting “farmers” to stake their claims in lieu of reparations. And the number of claims exploded. Some claimants were as young as four years old; others had their forms filled out by lawyers just to “keep the line moving.” There were many reports of duplicative, even identical forms written in the same hand. In some towns, the number of claimants exceeded the number of farms there operated — by individuals of any race. The Times quotes several USDA employees whose job was to process — and ultimately rubber-stamp — these claims. “You couldn’t have designed it worse if you had tried,” one says of the process. “You knew it was wrong,” says another, “but what could you do? Who is going to listen to you?” “Basically, it was a rip-off of the American taxpayers,” says a third.
But as the Times reports in great depth, instead of closing the spigot, in 2010 the Obama administration did not just acquiesce to, it spearheaded the expansion of, the Pigford con on the taxpayer’s dime, and saw to it that not just black Americans, but any woman, Hispanic, or Native American who could so much as gesture at discrimination had access to a billion-dollar pool of easy money.
It did this over the objections of career lawyers in the Justice Department. It did this by dubiously tapping a Justice Department fund reserved for court-ordered, not politically dispensed, payouts. And it did this, in most cases, under evidentiary standards even looser than the ones governing the original settlement.
…At a minimum, a congressional investigation is needed, as is congressional intervention in the continued administration of the payouts. Representative Steve King (R., Iowa) has long called for such measures, and it is time his calls are heeded. It is shame, to the tune of billions in taxpayers’ dollars, that it has taken this long for the mainstream media and its readers to catch up to the reality of Pigford. But now that they have, perhaps they can be shamed into helping put an end to it.
Interview with key Pigford lawyer, Othello Cross:
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