CBO Number’s In On Anti-gun ObamaCare House Vote On For This Weekend
Thursday, March 18th, 2010 at 8:45 AMTags: Anti Gun PoliticiansGOAGun BannersHealthcare & GunsObama CareWashington DC
CBO Number’s In On Anti-gun ObamaCare House Vote On For This Weekend
The bill would cost $940 billion, and reduce the deficit by $130 billion over the first 10 years and $1.2 trillion in the second 10 years….yeah right what do they think we are stupid!
Gun Owners of America
Washington, DC – The anti-gun health care issue may very well be decided this weekend. Even if you have already called, faxed or e-mailed your congressman, it is imperative that you do so one last time. Please see contact information and suggested letter and talking points below.
This is gun owners’ last shot (so to speak) at saving the country from the worst piece of legislation that we’ve seen in years.
Make no mistake about it: The pivotal vote in the House will be – directly or indirectly – on whether to adopt the corrupt and discredited Senate ObamaCare bill verbatim. And the votes are being corralled by Obama and Pelosi through a new round of bribes, threats, and corruption.
Consider what has been implanted in the bill which will be voted on in the House this week.
1. Restrictions upon gun owners. The Senate-passed version would allow the ATF to troll your confidential medical records in order to take guns away from potentially tens of millions of Americans. The “individual mandate” (in Sections 1501 and 1502) will make it impossible for you to keep private, medical information out of the government-controlled medical database that was created in last year’s stimulus bill.
2. Bribes, bribes, bribes. The bill your Representative will be voting on still contains virtually all of the bribes that made the Senate version such a disgusting spectacle. This includes:
- Mary Landrieu’s $300,000,000 “Louisiana Purchase;”
- A broadened version of the nauseating “Cornhusker Kickback” to get Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson’s vote;
- The roughly $10 BILLION (with a “b”) bribe to Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders for clinics which could well be run by ACORN and Planned Parenthood;
- The $100 million Connecticut “Hospital Handout” bribe to corrupt Senator Chris Dodd; and
- The $300 million Libby, Montana, asbestos bribe.
3. Unconstitutional mandates. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the bill to be voted on this week would increase the cost of private insurance by 10-13% over what it would be if Congress did nothing — and require, under penalty of imprisonment, that you buy it.
4. Corrupt procedures. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D) plan to ram this bill through the Congress and onto the President’s desk using cheat schemes called “reconciliation” and “self-executing rules.” This is nothing other than a slimy attempt to ignore the will of the people, who according to the latest polls, overwhelmingly oppose this legislation:
- Under “reconciliation,” any language qualifying for special Senate procedures had to have been reported out of committee by October 15, 2009. As of March 15, 2010, the language was still not available, even though the House Budget Committee voted to approve the non-existent draft.
- Under the Senate rules, these special procedures can be used only to reduce the deficit. Once you discount the accounting tricks and fraud that Reid and Pelosi are employing, ObamaCare would INCREASE the deficit by half a trillion dollars over the first ten years.
- Despite Obama’s lies, “reconciliation” has never been used for non-budgetary issues which do not reduce the deficit.
- Now, House Rules Committee Chairman Louise Slaughter (D-NY) is proposing a plan (which has been approved by Pelosi) to “deem” ObamaCare passed without having the House vote on it. Read more about this plan at http://tinyurl.com/yk7s5a4 .
According to news reports, the phones are ringing off the hook on Capitol Hill. Estimates as to how close Pelosi is to delivering the votes vary widely. But Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI), who opposes the bill on grounds that it would allow for taxpayer funding of abortions, says he thinks Pelosi is about 16 votes away.
Please take action now!
WHERE DOES YOUR REPRESENTATIVE STAND ON HEALTH CARE? You can go to two URLs to get the latest updates on where your Representative stands. Please see:
- http://tinyurl.com/ya3oulz
- http://tinyurl.com/y99ccy7
CONTACT INFO:
Phone: toll-free at 877-762-8762 or 800-965-4701; or call the regular number at 202-225-3121
E-mail: Visit the Gun Owners Legislative Action Center at http://www.gunowners.org/activism.htm to send a pre-written message to your Representative.
Gun Owners of America—– Pre-written letter and talking points —–
Dear Representative:
I am writing you with one final plea to vote against the Senate’s corrupt and bribe-laden ObamaCare bill.
Despite the fact that the Senate tried to allay gun owners’ concerns, the Senate bill would still allow the ATF to troll the confidential medical records in order to take guns away from potentially tens of millions of Americans. This is because the “individual mandate” in Sections 1501 and 1502 of the Senate-passed bill would make it impossible for people to keep private, medical information out of the government-controlled medical database that was created by the stimulus bill.
The process that put together this Senate bill has been marked with bribes (such as the Cornhusker Kickback, the Louisiana Purchase, etc.), by unconstitutional mandates and by corrupt procedures. As to corruption, any rules vote on your part which “deems” ObamaCare as passed will be held in the greatest contempt by your constituents.
You represent my state, not the “state of Nancy Pelosi.” Americans overwhelmingly oppose this legislation. Please — please listen to your constituents and vote against ObamaCare.
Sincerely,
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8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
http://www.gunowners.org
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Forget this. The only answer I find now is the Free State Project or else its going to get very bloody with politicians hung carcasses lying about galore.
Have to disagree with you. I love my guns, dogs and hunting, but I also support this less-than-perfect health care reform effort. All legislation is messy, but this is NOT the end of freedom in America. Don’t believe what the lobbyists and politicians tell you! Don’t think for a minute that the “conservative” talking heads (Rush, Glen, Bill etc.) actually give a damn about your life or your freedoms. They get paid to make you afraid and paranoid. Period.
Follow the money!
There was a time when the Republican Party stood for sensible and thoughtful public policy (from Teddy Roosevelt all the way through Ronald Reagan), But this loud-mouhted, weak-kneed bunch of so-called republicans don’t give a da__ about the country. They just want to create a ruckus and get back into power. They don’t stand for anything except fear and negativity.
If they had had the courage to lay out a complete, free market-based health reform bill, have it impartially scored for costs and savings by the CBO and actually contribute to the process instead of just sitting back and complaining about what Nancy Pelosi and the liberals were doing, we would have had a much better bill to support. But they didn’t because they are in the pockets of the insurance companies. They’re just shills for big business and the insurance industry. They have no credibiilty left, and I will never vote for a republican until they produce some real leaders, not just loud talkers who through out words like “socialism” and “fascism” to scare us.
I really hate to say it, but it looks to me like the dems are the only folks actually willing to go out on a limb and make any changes. At least they’re doing SOMETHING to protect us from the insurance companies, who are denying coverage to anyone who has been sick as soon as their COBRA runs out. So I am holding my nose and calling my representative to tell him to support this less-than-perfect bill. Yes, it is big and messy, but it is constitutional; it will not cost more money than we would have spent anyway, and it provides much better protections for the lower middle class and the working poor than anything the Republicans have offered.
And frankly, if I show up at the hospital unconsious with a gunshot wound, then there NEEDS TO BE AN INVESTIGATION to find out what the hell happened! The only people who want you to believe that “they” are trying to take your guns away, are the ones who want to SELL YOU MORE GUNS!!
Follow the money!
Just my 2 cents.