Dear Patriots,

The buzz on Capitol Hill is that the Democrats are now considering what is being called the “Slaughter Solution” that will allow ObamaCare to be signed into law WITHOUT HOUSE MEMBERS EVEN HAVING TO VOTE.

According to Congress Daily, House Rules Chairwoman Louise Slaughter…

“…is weighing preparing a rule that would consider the Senate bill passed once the House approves a corrections bill that would make changes to the Senate version.”

The Washington Examiner explains that this will allow Democrats to approve ObamaCare without actually voting on the bill:

“In the Slaughter Solution, the rule would declare that the House “deems” the Senate version of Obamacare to have been passed by the House. House members would still have to vote on whether to accept the rule, but they would then be able to say they only voted for a rule, not for the bill itself.”

+ + Dems escaping the “Catch 22″

The Slaughter Solution would allow Democrats to escape their
“Catch 22.” Simply put, the House must pass the Senate bill
BEFORE the “reconciliation” tactic can be employed —
trusting that the Senate will actually do what is promised.

The “Slaughter Solution” solves that — and gives House members an “out” because they never actually had to vote on the Senate ObamaCare bill.

+ + Pelosi says backroom deals “pretty close” to final

Whether by the “Slaughter Solution” or another means, it is clear that Democrats are rapidly pushing ObamaCare to a final vote. After yesterday’s backroom deals, Speaker Pelosi said they were “pretty close” and Majority Leader Reid added:

“[H]ealth reform is going to be done. We don’t have it all worked out, but we made a lot of progress.”

As I noted a few days ago, grassroots pressure from the Left has increased in recent days, not-so-coincidentally timed with this final push to pass ObamaCare.

+ + Three ways to let your voice be heard

If you want to get a message right now to your members of Congress and other key Congressmen, one of the best ways is our FaxFire system.

Go here to schedule faxes:

http://www.grassfire.com/3122/offer.asp?ref_id=500062

(As always, we provide all the information for you to send your own faxes if you prefer. Just click the above link.)

#2 — Petition ADDENDUM opposing “Reconciliation” and other procedural tricks like the “Slaughter Solution”

We recently modified the text of the “Stop ObamaCare” petition you signed to reflect the concern over the use of procedural tricks like “reconciliation” to pass ObamaCare.

If you would like this new language to be added to your petition, go here to approve the PETITION ADDENDUM. It takes just a few moments:

http://www.grassfire.com/122/petition.asp?ref_id=500064

Petitions from those concerned about reconciliation will be delivered to Congress prior to the upcoming vote.

#3 — Call your Senators and Representative

It is your right as a citizen to contact your members of Congress and express your voice on this issue. Here are the numbers:

http://www.congressmerge.com/onlinedb/index.htm

Rep. Call the Congressional Switchboard (202) 224-3121

As always, if you want to network with other grassroots conservatives, be sure to visit our social networking site, ResistNet:

http://www.resistnet.com

Thank you for your vigilance.

Your friends at Grassfire Nation and ResistNet.com

Comment from American Grand Jury:

If these communists pass Obamacare the GLOVES MUST COME OFF. We would need to stop paying taxes. We would need to heavily petition the State Legislatures to STOP Obamacase from being enforced in each State. We would need to file hundreds of lawsuits against the Constitutionality of Obamacare.

WE WOULD NEED TO TAKE BARACK OBAMA DOWN BY CRIMINAL PROSECTION IN COURT. WE COULD DO THIS. ALL LEGISLATION THAT OBAMA SIGNED WOULD BECOME NULL AND VOID. THIS WOULD STOP THE ENTIRE COMMUNIST TAKEOVER OF OUR COUNTRY. REMOVE THE HEAD OF THE SNAKE AND THE LIBERAL PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT IN THIS COUNTRY WOULD START TO CRUMBLE.

I just received this from Miki Booth. The National Tea Party is making a CODE RED call to ARMS. Please go to this website, TeaPartyPatriots.org, to find out which of your Congress members are going to vote YES on Obamacare and email them, call or visit them IMMEDIATELY.

I just emailed my 3 Congress members in Arizona. My letter wasn’t all the pleasant. We MUST stop the Obamacare CRAP SANDWITCH that is heading for a vote in Congress.

Here is my letter:

HEALTH CARE.. OBAMA HEALTH CARE.. THIS IS CRAP.

Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick
Rep. Harry Mitchell
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords

I don’t personally know you but I can assure you that if vote “yes” on this Healthcare crap-sandwitch we in Arizona will never let up on you. Your career as a politician will be over. No matter what it takes, no matter how long it takes I will personally find Arizonans to campaign against you.

The United States has no place for socialized Medicine. You are not representing the American people if you allow a social-facist-communist such as Obama to ram this $10-Trillion bill down our throats.

We ABSOLUTELY mean no harm to anyone in Congress. Violence is never the answer, but peacefully getting rid of politicians that vote against America and our American life style has no stopping place. Many, many Democrats and Republicans are going to lose their jobs come November if they even think about supporting this bill. The Democratic party is already imploding before your eyes.

PLEASE DO NOT VOTE YES FOR HEALTHCARE. If you do vote yes I can assure you that I belong to groups that can rally hundreds of thousands of people against you when your time for reelection comes up.

We also have the numbers to force the Arizona Legislature to turn up the heat on accepting 10th Amendment “States Freedom Acts” that can effectively force the Federal Government out of Arizona if they attemp to push unwanted legislation on Arizonans.

WE WILL FIGHT BACK. The sleeping giant known as the American Patriot is alive and well and we will not stop fighting for justice.

Thank you for your time. My advice to you is to read this email and understand it only takes one or two really upset leaders to rally the Patriots. Take this letter serious. We mean business.

Regards,
Bob Campbell
American Grand Jury
Arizona Tea Party Network

The organizers of the four largest Arizona Tea Party organizations – including the Tucson Tea Party, Greater Phoenix Tea Party, Flagstaff Tea Party, and Mohave County Tea Party – issued a joint press release regarding their unified decision to decline endorsing a candidate in the Arizona Senate primary race between John McCain, J.D. Hayworth, and Jim Deakin.

“The Tea Party is a non-partisan, grassroots movement that stands for limited government, free markets, and fiscal responsibility. Both McCain and Hayworth’s records during their many years in Washington leave much to be desired on these issues,” said Robert Mayer, co-founder of the Tucson Tea Party. “It is their job to hold themselves up to these values and fight for our votes.”…

“It is not appropriate to make an endorsement in this race at the drop of a hat, as some other groups are doing,” said Kelly Townsend, organizer of the Greater Phoenix Tea Party. “The movement must stand for ideas, and do everything possible to provide information to people so that they can make the best personal decisions.”

Comments by the HOTAIR:

A shrewd move, actually. Commenters in Headlines were speculating that this was meant as a statement that Birthers aren’t welcome in the tea party ranks, but I don’t think that’s the point. (Or rather, not the main point.) Hayworth voted for Bush’s Medicare prescription-drug bill and for the bridge to nowhere; by refusing to back him against the RINOiest RINO of them all, they’re making a statement that endorsees have to be pure in the abstract, not just purer than the alternative. Or, as Beck put it at CPAC in addressing Dick Cheney, “It’s not enough just to not suck as much as the other side.” By picking this race to lay down that marker, they’re implicitly saying they’d rather see John McCain back in the Senate than compromise their principles on a less-than-optimal challenger. Strong stuff. I wonder if Beck — and the boss emeritus — agree.

hattip to News.RightSideofLife.com

Comment by American Grand Jury:

The folks at HOTAIR push the limits of being a liberal blog some of the time. If they don’t mind being called “liberals” we don’t mind being called “birthers.”

Posted on World Net Daily

NASHVILLE – Sarah Palin received a rousing welcome from a crowd of more than 1,000 tea partiers last night at the first national tea party convention as she sent a strong message that she supports lower taxes, smaller government, transparency, energy independence and strong national security.

A large banquet room at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel was crowded from wall-to-wall with energized tea partiers and as many as 120 press organizations from around the world – including broadcasters from Spain, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Croatia and Japan.

“I’m a big supporter of this movement,” she said. “America is ready for another revolution.”

Palin applauded Scott Brown’s recent Senate win in Massachusetts.

“Scott Brown represents what this beautiful movement is all about,” she said. “He was just a guy with a truck and passion to serve our country. It took guts, and it took a lot of hard work. But with grass-roots support, Scott Brown carried the day.”

Palin warned tea partiers not to let the movement be defined by one leader or politician.

“The tea party movement is not a top-down operation. It’s a ground-up call to action that is forcing both parties to change the way that they’re doing business,” she said.

She said Americans are discouraged by what they see in Washington, and the “Obama-Pelosi-Reid agenda” is leaving the nation less secure, deeper in debt and more submissive to big government.

WND daily story continued here…

Posted on World Net Daily
By Chelsea Schilling

Tea partiers told ‘Obama has ignored history, apologized to Arabs, pursued socialism’

NASHVILLE – Citing American patriots such as Thomas Paine, James Madison, Samuel Adams and Patrick Henry, Judge Roy Moore lit a fire in the hearts of tea partiers tonight – inspiring four impassioned standing ovations with his reading of a “bill of particulars” against President Obama.

Moore, WND columnist, author of “So Help Me God” and candidate for governor in Alabama, began by quoting Thomas Paine as he made his case for independence from England:

“These are the times that try men’s souls,” he told a packed banquet room at the first national tea-party convention in Nashville.

“Once again we live in a trying time, not just trying to the souls of men and women, but the soul of our nation,” he continued. “Once again, people across our country are rising up, tired of politics as usual, angry about the direction of our country.”

The recent elections in New Jersey, Virginia and Massachusetts send a strong message to the Democratic Party that Americans are weary of the direction in which the nation is headed, he said.

“Equally, if not more importantly, the election in New York sent a strong message to the Republican Party that we’re tired of liberal Republicans who don’t hold the principles of their party,” he told a cheering crowd.

Judge Roy Moore signing books, with his wife, Kayla

Moore condemned “senseless treaties” like the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, and the Central America Free Trade Agreement, known as CAFTA. He said the nation’s borders have been opened to criminals and terrorists, the Constitution discarded, the federal government grown in size and scope “far beyond anything our founders ever imagined,” and the nation’s debt is soaring.

“Our state sovereignty, routinely ignored by an all-powerful federal bureaucracy, and our concept of virtue and morality has been distorted and twisted to a point that good is now called evil, and evil is now called good,” Moore said. “I’ll tell you, ladies and gentlemen, we not only find ourselves in a great economic recession, but in a great moral and spiritual depression as well.”

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The convention attendees took to their feet as the room instantaneously exploded in cheers.

“I admit that often it is not easy to identify those responsible for these ills in our society, for they call themselves Democrats and Republicans,” he continued. “They call themselves conservatives and liberals. They pose as Christians and non-Christians.”

However, Moore said those responsible have a few things in common.

“They hate our country and our past,” he said. “They have no regard for our beloved Constitution. They have a love of wealth and power more than of liberty and freedom.”

He added that they have yet another thing in common: They don’t quit.

“One of those who said he didn’t quit is our current president, Barack Obama,” Moore noted.

He then began to paraphrase the Declaration of Independence. But rather than addressing grievances to the king of Britain, Moore presented Obama with his own “bill of particulars”:

He has ignored our history and our heritage, arrogantly declaring to the world that we are no longer a Christian nation. He’s elevated immorality to a new level, setting aside the entire month of June last to celebrate Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender pride.

He now threatens to change our law, 10 U.S.C. Section 654, to allow homosexuality in our military in direct opposition to the law which says that the attempt to engage in homosexuality will create an unacceptable risk to the high standards of morale, good order and discipline and unit cohesion that are the essence of military capability.

He has apologized to the Arab world for our past, subjugated our national sovereignty by bowing down to the king of Saudi Arabia.

He has pursued a socialist agenda by taking control of private companies and pushing a national health-care plan with a public option. Backed by a willing Congress, he has bought off our senators and our representatives with our own money in an effort to mandate this agenda. And when opposed by members of the Senate, he smugly smiled and said, “I won.”

Moore concluded his list with a direct quote from the Declaration: “A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”

Judge Roy Moore’s campaign for governor in Alabama

Once again, the crowd went wild with applause.

Then Moore recalled a moving speech from another famous patriot – Patrick Henry.

“Our chains are forged!” he declared. “Their clanking may be heard [in the halls of Congress] on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable – and let it come! I repeat, we must let it come.

“It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace – but there is no peace. … Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? … Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”

The room erupted in cheers and booming applause once more – this time lasting several minutes.