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Consider what would happen if people suddenly decided that cooperating with insane taxes and regulations is no longer worth the results. Consider what would happen if 50% of the people in any industry suddenly said, “enough is enough”.

We may soon well find out if Barack Hussein Obama has his way with the liberal socialized medicine agenda.

We cannot exclude the possibility of a mass industrial and economic exodus should the trends continue for mass socialism.

A key line from the CNN article:

Of the 12,000 respondents, 49 percent said they’d consider leaving medicine. Many said they are overwhelmed with their practices, not because they have too many patients, but because there’s too much red tape generated from insurance companies and government agencies.

Something to consider anyway, I believe the same holds true over most industries at the moment.

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Related- RedState.com: Republican leaders MUST put principles over politics

The key to the Ron Paul Revolution:

During the debates in the Republican Presidential primary, even though I am a 10-term sitting Representative Member of Congress, I was challenged more than once on my Republican credentials. The fact that I was repeatedly asked how I could be a Republican when I was talking a different language than the other candidates answers the question of how the Republican Party can slip so far so fast.

My rhetorical answer at the time was simple: Why should one be excluded from the Republican Party for believing and always voting for:

• Limited government power

• A balanced budget

• Personal liberty

• Strict adherence to the Constitution

• Sound money

• A strong defense while avoiding all undeclared wars

• No nation-building and no policing the world

How can a party that still pretends to be the party of limited government distance itself outright from these views and expect to maintain credibility? Since the credibility of the Republican Party has now been lost, how can it regain credibility without embracing these views, or at least showing respect for them?

I concluded my answer by simply stating the Republican Party had lost its way and must reassess its values. And that is what needs to be done in a hurry.

Does anyone else out there feel completely demoralized by Obama’s victory?

I know I am.

The utter rejection of constitutional principals frightens me. I just cannot get over how people warmly embraced socialism under the guise of “Hope and Change”. This can only end in bad things, we certainly cannot expect to remain free peoples much longer if government is expected to serve up the answer for life’s hardships.

There is a part of me that just wants to walk away from political pursuits. Fine, you want socialism, you can have it. Don’t say I didn’t present the route of freedom and liberty first. But I can’t do that, I still have to live here. I still have still have to pay my forced conscription to this enterprise via taxation. I have no choice but to stand up and be counted.

Freedom, Liberty, Limited Government. The Spirit of 1776. These are the things I cannot let go of. These are the things I would rather die of exhaustion defending than to let pass on moments whims. These are the only routes our Constitution affords. No amount of lies can overcome their truths.

Rest now my friends, come January 20th the fight for our very freedom will be on.

80% of registered voters in Idaho turned out to vote.

A quick read of Google News headlines suggests that 80% holds in almost every state.

That would be a the most voter turnout since 1968, a record 62.5% of eligible voters.

Oh and don’t believe the lie, this was not a complete landslide for Obama:

Barack Hussein Obama- 64,058,829  (53%)

John Sidney McCain- 56,500,062  (46%)

Sorry Barry, 46% of the people in this country still reject socialism.

TEARS! tears! tears!
In the night, in solitude, tears;
On the white shore dripping, dripping, suck’d in by the sand;
Tears—not a star shining—all dark and desolate;
Moist tears from the eyes of a muffled head:
—O who is that ghost?—that form in the dark, with tears?
What shapeless lump is that, bent, crouch’d there on the sand?
Streaming tears—sobbing tears—throes, choked with wild cries;
O storm, embodied, rising, careering, with swift steps along the beach;
O wild and dismal night storm, with wind! O belching and desperate!
O shade, so sedate and decorous by day, with calm countenance and regulated pace;
But away, at night, as you fly, none looking—O then the unloosen’d ocean,
Of tears! tears! tears!

“Tears” by Walt Whitman

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CNN: Election 2008

Tomorrow a bell will toll. Will it be Liberty’s bell? Or, America, will it Toll For Thee?

We have so much as stake in this election. I simply cannot believe how long it has taken to get the MSM to report on the true nature of the junior Senator from Illinois.

Over the weekend revelations came out about how Barack Hussein Obama wants to “bankrupt” the coal industry.

Let’s be quite clear, Obama wants massive tax increases on energy, massive regulations that will drive up the cost for consumers.

From the WSJ:

“So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can,” Obama said. “It’s just that it will bankrupt them because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted.”

And later on USNews.com:

“I think it is important to send some price signals to change behavior. It’s not going to be painless. Power plants are going to have to adjust how they generate power. They will pass on those costs to consumers…. A lot of us who can afford it are going to pay more for a unit of electricity; over time the electricity bill goes back down as technology catches back up.”

We are not done yet. From MarketWatch.com:

Obama: “I think it is appropriate for us to impose a windfall profits tax on our oil companies.”

And from CNN.com:

Obama’s promises about supporting clean-coal technology will be put to the test. His vow to keep coal part of the fuel mix is at odds with government forecasts that mandatory cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions would likely lead to the shuttering of scores of coal-fired power plants and reduce demand for coal.

And let us not forget Obama saying he wished, “gas prices would have risen a bit slower” when gasoline was $4+ a gallon this summer. 

This is a defining election for our times. We can choose a path of liberty, prosperity and energy or we can choose a path of regulation, government handouts and shuttering of the economy.

At the end of the day I feel I have done everything I could with LedeAgenda.com to warn my readers of the true nature and policy positions of Senator Barack Obama. That 51% of this country is considering voting for him makes me question the direction my country is going and my patriotism. I clearly do not have the same concepts of America that some of my fellow Americans out there do.

It makes me feel sick inside. I do not want to be friends with these kind of people. I do not want to associate with people who share Obama’s vision for America. I certainly do not want my daughter educated by them. How can anyone out there think that Barack’s policy positions are ok? Seriously half the country thinks like this socialist-fascist? Really? I’m stunned.

However I do know this: should Barack Obama get elected, I will look forward to treating him with the same level of respect that liberals have treated President Bush the last eight years. Not My President. Don’t Blame Me, I voted McCain! And I guess, at the end of the day, dissent is the most patriotic form of expression.

Unbeknownest to me John McCain is a big fan of Robert Jordan from Ernest Hemingway’s, “For Whom The Bell Tolls”, the inspiration for today’s post.

From NYTimes.com:

John McCain has long spoken of his affection for, and identification with, Robert Jordan, the protagonist of Ernest Hemingway’s “For Whom the Bell Tolls.” After I interviewed McCain this past summer — a conversation in which we discussed Jordan at some length — I reread the conclusion of the novel. The lingering image of the final scene is not one of death but of Jordan, the college professor who has come to Spain to fight the fascists, wounded yet still alive, taking aim at the enemy, his heart still beating against the forest floor. Hemingway does not kill Jordan but leaves him there, engaged to the end in the battles of his time.

McCain sees himself in the same way: as a warrior who never gives in, and never gives up, no matter how hopeless the cause. “Oh, I reread it all the time,” McCain told me. “Robert Jordan is what I always thought a man ought to be.” Jordan’s essential creed is encapsulated in a sentence that gave McCain the title of one of the books he has written with his aide Mark Salter: “The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.” It’s not hard to see how the line would resonate with a romantic fatalist like McCain.

30 Minutes of garbage.

*sigh*

 Who is John Galt?

John McCain isn’t in danger of losing Idaho. Or Utah for that matter. Or any area filled with traditional family value Mormon voters. But John McCain’s strong embrace of powerful women, such as Carley Fiorina or Cindy McCain, begs the question: will moms play a role in this election?

I can recall a conversation I had with a devout Mormon housewife shortly after McCain announced his running mate. They attend seminary every Sunday, have their 72-hour kits packed and generally adhere to Mormon teachings on proper living. Mind you, this person is no candidate for a Obama vote, but was only lukewarm on the subject of John McCain.

Being somewhat perplexed that a fellow conservative voter wasn’t enthusiastic about the Sarah Palin pick, as many around me seemed to be, I picked her brain a bit.

“I didn’t like how the cameras focused on Trig Palin so much” was her initial, and somewhat reserved reply.

“It just seems like she should be there for her kids” she said after a moment’s thought.

Ah ha. Mormon housewife meet hockey mom.

If I hadn’t heard the same argument from so many different Mormon folks, I wouldn’t be writing this post. But once too often living in this conservative Mormon state I have heard comments about Palin needing to put “family first” or “being away from her family too much” because of politics.

To be fair, I would suspect a lot of people face the same dilemma- can a candidate with a new child bear the burdens of parenthood while being effective in office?

But there is another element to the Palin story: her connection to the strongly anti-Mormon Assemblies of God denomination . Certainly that is doing her no favors in Mormon housewife circles. Add in the “she should be at home with her kids” factor and you can see some fraying at the edges of the conservative/Republican alliance.

It’s sad really. There are so many conservative women that Republicans can look up too. Locally I was raised during the Helen Chenoweth era. She fought federal intervention and regulation on Idaho lands. Then there is Deloris Crow from Nampa who aggressively fought tax increases and government growth. And Sharon Ullman, running for the Ada County Commission, who has always fought for open and transparent government.

On the national stage what about Pamela Geller who has led the fight against Islamo-Fascism? What about Ann Coulter or Michelle Malkin? And do I really need to remind anyone of Condoleezza Rice? I would hope not.

There are thousands more strong, conservative women- locally, nationally, even internationally, these are just some of the ones that have touched my life.

I’m willing to place a bet- I will bet that uncertainly around the future and direction of the Republican party is only adding fuel to the fire, so to speak. Women who may place family values as a strong first see the Republican party wandering off course and then suddenly get introduced to Sarah Palin out of the blue. It’s only natural that a little doubt would creep in.

But the good news: states that are overwhelmingly Mormon lean heavily Republican. So if McCain manages to pull off an upset special over the next 5 days conservative Mormon women will have 4 years to get to know, and be able to judge, the true character of Sarah Palin. Based on what I have seen so far, she will be able to more than easily dispel the myth that she is anything less than what Republican voters need her to be.

I think once time has given Palin an introduction in more households people will see Palin not as a woman and a conservative, but yet another strong, proud leader with the boldness to carry the Republican ideology. One need only to re-watch her speech at the Republican convention to affirm this belief.

That is at least the hope that Republicans can use to carry them through the next 4-8 years. God help us all if Palin is not what she is cracked up to be or if the cesspool that is Washington corrupts her. Another failed Republican leader would be too much to bear.

WAKE UP!

WAKE UP!

WAKE UP!

The very heart, the very soul of our freedom is at stake. We will wake up come January 20th to an unrecognizable America. Time is so very short, and Liberty so often washed away. We cannot lose this one. It is absolutely essential to anyone who believes in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution or our Bill of Rights to turn out to vote, to speak up, and be heard.

Our right to dissent will be destroyed under Barack Hussein Obama. Our right to freely assemble crushed. Our right to free speech…

It is absolutely essential that you understand what is at stake. If Barack gets in, a restoration of the Fairness Doctrine will be all but complete. Glenn beck has warned us the mainstream media has been in the tank for Obama. They know that if they can will him into power, he will restore their markets by silencing talk radio and blogs. Consider it payback for all that biased reporting over the last year and half.

It is absolutely essential that you understand that Barack Hussein Obama will use the force of law to stop what he deems “untruths” being told about him. Remember the warrantless wiretaps vote? Barack voted in favor of allowing the State to spy on you- he will use this power, he will know when your thoughts are not compliant. Barack has requested various state election officials to “intervene” in the courts for political ads airing “lies and mudslinging”. If you care to speak out against state policy or action, you will find no media outlet willing to cover your story for fear of being “cut off” from the messiah.

Government records have been used to search out information on Joe the Plumber. You, my dear reader, may be next.

Please, please, please. Unlike Glenn Beck, I do not believe America would be able to recover. We would be at the point of no return, reuniting impossible. November 5th will be too late. Americans may have overcome in the past, but we still had a recognizable America then.

I’m not excited about McCain at all. In fact, I can’t stand him. I can’t stand either of them. But I know this, Obama must be stopped. I can endure four years of McCain if it means staying free.

1. He has the most liberal voting record in the Senate in the 110th Congress per National Journal
2. He favors allowing babies who survive botched abortion attempts to be denied food, medicine and water, allowing them to die from lack of attention
3. He favors gun restrictions that would eliminate the second amendment
4. He has connections to William Ayers
5. The fact that he attended, without issue, the church of Rev. Wright who “officiated my wedding and baptized my children”
6. His connection to ACORN, who have deliberately, intentionally and forcefully committed voter registration fraud
7. His willingness to “discuss” foreign policy with terrorist nations
8. The fact that he has called the Islamic call to prayer “the most beautiful sound on earth”
9. His “spread the wealth ideology”
10. The fact that he favors using the force of law to silence his political opponents
11. The fact he is committing fraud raising millions from overseas donors
12. That he would pick a running mate who calls paying taxes “patriotic”
13. His willingness to embrace the North American Union and the UN Charter
14. Obama, if elected, would inherit a Democratic House and Senate super majority
15. It’s still a week away from election day and months away from inauguration, yet The Messiah has already prepped his inauguration speech and 100 Day plan
16. A return of the “fairness doctrine”
17. Obama’s connections to Freddie Mac and Freddie Mae, whose failure triggered the economic meltdown
18. Obama has called for a “New Deal 2″
19. Obama’s socialist-fascist leanings
20. $900 Billion in new spending, more entitlements, more taxes, more government benefits
21. Card-check Union organizing
22. Losing the Supreme Court to leftists again
23. Michelle Obama
24. Barack- “Communities are terrorized by ICE immigration raids”
25. Barack was a member, and currently the Presidential candidate of, the Democratic Socialists of America/AKA New Party
26. Obama wants illegals to have drivers licenses
27. Barack’s embrace of Liberation Theology
28. Michelle on Obama’s candidacy, “For the first time, I am proud of my country”. WTF, for the first time?
29. Obama’s elitist and snobbish attitude cultured by his Harvard education
30. Obama, until recently, refused to say the pledge of allegiance or wear an American flag lapel pin. His official campaign airplane also removed an American flag for his Hitler-style “O” symbol and also featured an upside down American flag on the official DNC Obama acceptance speech press pass
31. Barack has never been to Iraq post-surge and yet would be in charge of the military planning there
32. Obama’s favors national health care
33. His charges of racism to anyone who disagrees with his policies
34. Obama will cut our military budget by 25% despite being in the middle of two wars and an ongoing military campaign against terrorism
35. During his Portland visit he used a police memorial honoring fallen officers to place port-a-potties for his followers to use
36. Barack will discard the Presidential seal in favor of one proclaiming his name
37. Joe Biden is a strong anti-Israel foreign policy supporter
38. Questioning him in any way is “unwelcome”
39. His soviet-style campaign signs and placards
40. He has called for increasing the already massively regulated oversight of the financial industry Anyone who works with stocks or retirement plans knows what I am talking about
41. He will eliminate tax breaks for 401-k contributions
42. He will fight new domestic oil production and will seek to aggressively regulate all forms of energy
43. He favors American tax money for welfare programs overseas. Yes, overseas
44. “I will eliminate 80% of greenhouse gas emissions by 2050″. Well, there goes our already hurting economy
45. Obama favors sex education for kindergartners
46. Delegates to the U.N. overwhelmingly favor Barack. Could that be because of his “compelled cooperation” global worldview?
47. Liberal newspapers and other MSM endorsing Barack in record-breaking numbers
48. Mandatory public service. Hitler would be proud
49. His “hope and change” theme has been used by all sorts of dictators and thugs throughout history. Further hoping and changing away from the Constitution and more toward government is not what we need
50. Obama has signaled early acceptance of a world currency, a new Brenton Woods agreement, to come out of this financial mess

From this video’s info section under the fold:

The Obama campaign whined about WFTV being “unprofessional” when it dared to dish out some tough questions to Vice President hopeful, Joe Biden.

The Obama spokesperson issued this statement about the interview:

“There’s nothing wrong with tough questions, but reporters have the very important job of sharing the truth with the public — not misleading the American people with false information. Senator Biden handled the interview well; however, the anchor was completely unprofessional. Senator Biden’s wife is not running for elected office, and there are many other stations in the Orlando television market that would gladly conduct a respectful and factual interview with her.”

“This cancellation is non-negotiable, and further opportunities for your station to interview with this campaign are unlikely, at best for the duration of the remaining days until the election.”

At least one newspaper is willing to call it as it is.

From the NYPost:

Overall, his plan includes some of the most lethal tax increases imaginable, including a jump in the capital-gains rate. He’d expand government spending massively, with everything from new public-works projects to increases in foreign aid to a surge in Afghanistan - plus hand out a token $500 welfare check that he calls a tax cut to everyone else.

This is clearly the wrong way to go in the wake of an economic meltdown - yet Obama, for all his talk of how willing he is to compromise, of how he’d bring people together, is sticking to his tax guns.

I know at least one top Wall Street executive, an Obama supporter from the start of his campaign, who has recently urged Obama to rethink his tax plan - and that was before last week’s record losses on the Dow.

But if Obama is rethinking, he’s not saying. As his running mate, Joe Biden tells us that it’s patriotic to pay higher taxes, Obama remains committed to squeezing businesses even if the recession grows.

The closest evidence I could find of compromise from Obama on taxes came in a June interview with CNBC, when he said: “Some of those [tax hikes] you could possibly defer. But I think the basic principle of restoring fairness to our economy and encouraging bottom-up economic growth is important.”

See Also: IBD: A Impending Socialist Tsunami?

Let me be perfectly clear: America cannot afford Barack Hussien Obama. America cannot afford Socialism.