Republican Party of Door County

It took conservative politicians and policies decades to undo the damage of Great Society hubris, post-Vietnam weakness, and ’60s cultural foolishness. Much wreckage still remains.

Similarly, in the America of our time, we have a ghostly version of the liberalism of the 1960s, led by a man who is only a caricature of the vigorous if often mistaken liberals who once sought to reshape the nation.

Read more: http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/eighteenth-brumaire-barack-obama

The Democrats had no mandate to take these steps. In 2008, the president campaigned both against forcing people to buy insurance and against taxing their benefits. The legislation runs counter to the campaign on both points. The president promised to change Washington. He has made its stench more noisome, winning this vote by using every kind of deceit and (legal) corruption, and over the objection of a bipartisan coalition representing most Americans.

The Democrats have abused the system, ignoring both the Founders’ design and public opinion. The first step toward undoing that abuse is to make them pay a political price for it.

Read more:http://article.nationalreview.com/428841/obamacare-isnt-inevitable/the-editors?page=1

In November 2008, Americans elected a socialist as their president.  In March 2010, they woke up stunned to find themselves living in a socialist country.

In 1776, the American Republic boldly announced its birth with the Declaration of Independence  In 2010, it quietly expired with a declaration of dependence - on government, on entitlement, and on the Democratic party.

read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/03/where_were_you_when_the_republ.html

Fix-it bill? This so-called "fix-it" bill, released yesterday at the behest of the House, makes a bad Senate bill even worse: It adds more entitlement spending and Medicare cuts, further increases taxes on the middle class, and double-counts savings in a way that would make Bernie Madoff blush.

Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma put any House member on notice who switches from voting No last November to Yes on the final bill. They should be forewarned if they retire or are defeated at the polls in November and think they will then get an administration appointment that requires Senate confirmation (Rep. Bart Gordon, NASA Administrator?). He said he absolutely will put a hold on Senate confirmation of their nomination, assuming that the nomination was a pay-back for their vote for ObamaCare. And Dr. Coburn said that he and the staff of seven other senators will be scrubbing every future bill introduced to see if there is pork for any district as a payback for a yes vote.

Read more: http://www.galen.org/component,8/action,show_content/id,14/category_id,0/blog_id,1381/type,33/

In his 1961 Coffee Cup Speech, Ronald Reagan summed up the health care debate raging in Congress at the time this way:

“One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It’s very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project. Most people are a little reluctant to oppose anything that suggests medical care for people who possibly can’t afford it. Now, the American people, if you put it to them about socialized medicine and gave them a chance to choose, would unhesitatingly vote against it. We had an example of this. Under the Truman administration it was proposed that we have a compulsory health insurance program for all people in the United States, and, of course, the American people unhesitatingly rejected this."

Fifty years later, a majority of Americans continue to reject socialized medicine, but President Obama and Congress aren’t listening.

As the nationalized "Healthcare" debacle nears its end game, the people of America are increasingly shocked and disgusted by the raw ugliness of the Obama "governing" philosophy. Those platitudes of "hope and change" are gone, and in their place a thoroughly regretful American populace now witnesses, to its horror, the total desecration of this once triumphal constitutional republic.

More significantly however, such criminal usurpations of constitutional governance will not stop there. If this scheme is allowed to stand, its effects will ultimately redound disastrously to the rest of us. Every congressional district in the country could conceivably be choked and repressed over some insignificant precept with which the government ostensibly finds fault, with redress only being permitted if the affected Senators or Representatives from that state or district comply with the demands of the Administration.

Read more: http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/cadamo/2010/cga_03191.shtml

Obama’s vaunted equanimity and judgment are not on display when it comes to the Israelis. Hugo Chávez, Syria’s Basher Assad, the Chinese, and Iran’s Ahmadinejad constantly humiliate America, and the administration does not make a peep. Instead, Obama reserves his ire for an ally.

Clearly, the double standards that are at work cast doubt not only on Barack Obama’s competency, but also his judgment and equipoise. He ignores true insults to America, such as Syria’s invitation to Ahmadinejad and Hezbollah right after America announced that we were returning our Ambassador to Syria. His apathy towards Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons is also notable.

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/03/how_obama_is_turning_america_a.html

At this point, however, the arguments for passage resemble another Animal House scene, with Obama in the role of Otter when he announces, "I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part." It remains to be seen whether House Democrats will supply Bluto’s famous answer: "We’re just the guys to do it."

Read more: http://spectator.org/archives/2010/03/19/democrats-in-the-deathmobile

If you cannot trust government’s numbers, you cannot trust government’s words.

There’s an old saying that "figures don’t lie, but liars sure do figure." Every major Demcare statistic — from the inflated number of uninsured to the politicized junk-science statistic on the number of Americans who purportedly die from lack of health insurance to the mythical savings that will come from squandering "$940 billion" — is a single-payer-promoting figment of liberal imagination.

As Pelosi vowed last week, "Kick open that door, and there will be other legislation to follow. We’ll take the country in a new direction." Yep — straight to a red-ink-stained hell in a handbasket.

Read more: http://townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2010/03/19/the_deem-o-crats_towering_deception?page=full

“Mr. President, you ran for president and won. Looking back on your life, what made you think you were qualified to be president?

“Finally, is there anything, on any subject, on which you do not know better than everyone else?”

http://newsmax.com/BenStein/Stein-Obama-healthcare-nuclear/2010/03/17/id/353017