Nowhere is this more pronounced than the in-vogue progressive pronouncement that support for State’s rights is tantamount to a pro-slavery position. This absurdity is showing up everywhere and in common leftist fashion, it is often veiled. I came across a great example on pbs.com (go figure). Or how about this gem from udaton.edu:

Modern states rights arguments, sometimes framed in 10th Amendment jurisprudence, are often a recycling of these older arguments about slavery.

There are many other examples, but you get the picture - progressives are so afraid of the Tea Party movement and about the popular uprising against bloated and ineffectual government, they are trying to categorize any and all detractors as racist, white hooded thugs who want to reinstate slavery. Really, it’s shameful. This vile propaganda has made its way into Virginia politics. There’s a great summary over at the College Republican Federation of Virginia. They’ve posed some hard hitting questions after Loudoun County Democratic Committee Chairman Tim Buchholz started calling Ken Cuccinelli a racist. Great work at the CRFV…we’re going to watch this one…

Algore 1992 (This goes way back! This was before Algore ate Carthage, Tennessee.)

Bill Clinton February 1998 (See Comments at 2:30, 3:10 and 3:45)

Algore February 1998 (See Comments at 00:50)

Nancy “Stretch” Pelosi

And the big finish…Montage 1998 Through the War

Any real scrutiny of this constitutional abomination reveals how bad ObamaCare really is. The National Review Online has a great piece by Stephen Spruiell, which lays out the case against ObamaCare with one twist - the case is made by a team from NPR. Well, well, well…even the left doesn’t like it. The headline of the piece is priceless: Welcome to the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.

Funny thing is…usually the left doesn’t like it because it doesn’t go far enough, vis a vis the public option, funding abortions, etc. But in this case, it is on actual humanitarian grounds - it provides poor coverage.

The Republicans, to their credit, asked Democrat leaders at yesterday’s Health Care Summit, to pledge not to use the underhanded tactic. Harry Reid took offense to the suggestion, and in doing so, told a flagrant LIE. See for yourself…

And to make sure your convinced that he is lying, not only was HE HIMSELF talking about reconciliation, so too were many of his Democrat colleagues…

This next one shows just how out of touch the Democrats are…listen to his OWN constituents…

Click Here to Hear Why I Want Obama to Fail

So here is Hill telling a college student that she can’t video tape the Town Hall meeting…

And here is the link to my conversation with Chris Plante…

Click Here to Listen to ToBeRight’s Conversation with Chris Plante

At least the leftists have not implemented the Fairness Doctrine and I still have the freedom to call into a radio program. If the leftists have their way, that freedom will go away…

This is my lambasting of Senator Warner after his idiotic response to a previous letter…

Dear Sir,

You recently replied to one of my written messages or phone calls, I am not sure which you were specifically responding to. I am writing to tell you that your response was just more of the same political doublespeak that will ensure that I put great effort into voting you out of office, as well as any other supporters of this Health Care monstrosity. To point, here are some of your comments, which apparently take me for a fool…

You said, “While many are concerned about our Federal deficit, most do not realize that the primary cause of our deficit is the increasing per-person costs of Medicare and Medicaid; by 2017, Medicare will be insolvent.”

This is your biggest reason to enact a 2000 page bill and entrust the government with even more? Oh! Are you serious? You admit in the above that the federal government is the CAUSE of the problem, you fool. Now you want me to sign off of two and a half TRILLION more dollars for you to squander?    Did you forget that the Democrat Congress and the Obama administration have jacked up the debt by a TRILLION DOLLARS in 9 months!  THAT is the source of the problem.  Silly me, and here I thought the biggest reason for the deficit was out of control politicians.  Wait, that’s exactly what you’re saying, isn’t  it?  That out of control politicians have recklessly and carelessly spent more money than we can even fathom?  At least you’re honest about the source of the problem, but then you act as if you didn’t have anything to do with it!

You said, “American families also suffer from the rising costs of health care: within the next decade, premiums will consume 40 percent of an average American family’s income.”

Could it be that because the aforementioned Medicare and Medicaid only reimburse doctors for a small fraction of what they are owed, doctors must make up the difference in increased charges? Or could it be because the GOVERNMENT restricts how many insurance companies can operate in each State? Of course, it is both of these things. It is YOUR fault! And again, you ask me to trust YOU to fix this, when you so clearly are the cause of the problem?

You said, “…the coverage must be cost-effective and based upon data-driven medical standards.”

And what, pray tell, are these data points? Are they costs? Are they treatment success percentages? And who is going to determine these “data-driven standards?” You? The same government who has bankrupted Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and put our country $12 Trillion in debt? I don’t want you, or anybody else making ANY decisions about my health care except my doctor and me. And I will be damned if those decisions are based on “data-driven standards!” They are based on what my doctor and I decide!

Your email fiends sincerity and thoughtfulness, but it betrays your condescending arrogance. You are the problem. Government is the problem. You ruined Medicare. You ruined Medicaid. You ruined Social Security. You bloated our federal debt. And now you have the audacity to tell me that if I pony up another trillion dollars, you can solve the problem?

And another thing, you even lie about the costs. It is not $1 trillion - that only covers 6-7 years of costs. Over 10 years it actually costs some $2.5 Trillion. Yet, in common fashion, you have such disdain for us and think citizens so stupid, you think we can’t figure out your shell game? You start taxing us immediately and don’t provide services until year 4. We are on to your politically driven lies and maneuvering and we will rally against it!

This is a disgrace. That you would support ANY part of it speaks volumes about your character. I am talking about your PERSONAL character. If you were an honorable person, you would recognize how destructive this is to our Republic and try to put a stop to it. I won’t hold my breath.

Regretfully,

ToBeRight

Dear Sir,

I am writing to express my extreme dissatisfaction with the Health Care Bill currently under consideration in the Senate.

If you vote “yes” for this bill, I want you to understand exactly what that will mean to me and my family.

If you vote yes, I will make it a top priority to make sure not only are you not re-elected, but I will use all of my energy, resources and influence to make sure that no Democrat is elected to office in Virginia.

I will use Twitter, Facebook, blogging, I will call people, I will write letters, I will do EVERYthing I can think of to (lawfully) prevent any Democrat from getting elected in Virginia, starting with you. Also understand that I have never been politically active before now.

This Bill is an abomination. It raises taxes. It creates massive bureaucracy. It takes away individual choices. It sets the stage for further erosion of our rights. It will bankrupt the country. It is the most disgusting assault on the USA I can imagine.

My family has 9 voting age members. I can tell you with absolute confidence, my family and I are going to not just rally votes against you, but also against every Democrat running in every elected office. From County officials, to state Representatives, to our Congressmen and Senators.

I just want you to understand that by supporting this bill you will not be just putting yourself in political jeopardy, we will take it out on all of you - every Democrat in every office.

I would further ask that you please go home tonight and read the Constitution. If after doing so, so still think that this piece of legislative excrement is even remotely constitutional, then there is no helping you. If you come to that conclusion, you are either criminally negligent, or a complete moron.

Sincerely,

ToBeRight

Think he’ll understand how I feel?

“The public is saying to all of us: ‘Quit passing 1,000-page bills (and) concentrate on trying to improve the economy.’”

The problem here is tha he is missing the point entirely.  He is on the right track, but he still doesn’t get it.  I had to set him straight - with any luck, he’ll listen.  Here is the letter I just sent him:

Dear Sir,

I just read a Reuters piece that quoted you as saying, “The public is saying to all of us: ‘Quit passing 1,000-page bills (and) concentrate on trying to improve the economy.’”

With all due respect, Sir - that is not what we are saying.  We (the people) want the government to get out of the business of trying to “fix” the economy.

I know I am not a career politician, and I only have a BA from a mediocre state school in Virginia, but even I can tell you how the economy will improve: Get government out of our lives.

I could fix the economy in 2 weeks.  Freeze all spending and then cut all government programs by 30% - across the board except for military spending.  Cut tax rates by 25% across the board.  Cut capital gains taxes by 15%.  Eliminate the FED.

That’s it.  The economy would EXPLODE.

“Oh, but George, that is not realistic,” you say.

But ask yourself this - do you think it would work?

Of course it would.

The shame is that you politicians are so corrupted, so blinded by the power you wield, you cannot fathom something as radical as STOPPING.

While you are a man I respect, I fear that you are mistaken with what you think “the people” want.  We don’t want the government to “fix” anything.  You have proven time and time again that your (the government) ability to fix anything is nonexistent.  The government has made a shambles of our country.  You are to blame.

Sincerely,

ToBeRight