Believe Life Begins at Conception? You're an extremist and radical.

(CNSNews.com) - Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), chair of the Democratic National Committee, said Thursday that for states to enact constitutional amendments that say human life begins at conception is “an extreme and radical step.”

“For the vast majority of Americans, including people on both sides of the abortion issue, this is an extreme and radical step,” she said.

Federal Deficit and Bad Economy Not Going Away Anytime Soon!

from: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100723/ap_on_bi_ge/us_budget_deficit_2

WASHINGTON – New estimates from the White House on Friday predict the budget deficit will reach a record $1.47 trillion this year. The government is borrowing 41 cents of every dollar it spends. That's actually a little better than the administration predicted in February.
The new estimates paint a grim unemployment picture as the economy experiences a relatively jobless recovery. The unemployment rate, presently averaging 9.5 percent, would average 9 percent next year under the new estimates.

What should I eat? Ask Obama!

It just seems like it keeps coming. This president is the most radical big government proponent we have EVER seen. Regulate, regulate, regulate.
As I've said before: when you take Jesus out of society, what you are left with is either 1) anarchy and a moralless society where acts of immorality are rampant, or 2) a completely regulated, law-filled land that tells moralless people how they are to live (and die). Our current president is strongly in favor of #2. The ONLY answer is Jesus (as He's always been).

from: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=167317

The online Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders says "behavior modification," a controversial psychological treatment, can be accomplished through positive reinforcement or "punishment" – and now President Obama has signed an executive order specifying the treatment for all Americans, to be prescribed by government bureaucrats.
Obama's order appoints members to a new government committee set up by the Democrats' new health law that will evaluate, make recommendations about and establish rules for everything from how people exercise to whether they smoke to the food they eat and the medicines they use. And it specifically requires the committee list the priorities for "lifestyle behavior modification" that the government will pursue.
The encyclopedia report describes "punishment" as "the application of an aversive or unpleasant stimulus in reaction to a particular behavior." Two experts who reviewed the president's June 10 executive order establishing the National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public Health Council say the plan easily could encompass exactly that.
Herb Titus, a veteran constitutional expert and lawyer, told WND, "The council is designed to basically implement future policy that ultimately everything will be governed by federal authorities, from food to dietary supplements to vitamins."

Quit Spending...

We, as a nation, have an addiction to spending. I appreciate that this bill is significantly smaller than it was at first, but we need to put a freeze on spending for a time. It will temporarily hurt us all, but this spending is going to devastate us for generations if we don't stop.

from: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/24/senate-vote-jobs-passage-likely/

WASHINGTON -- Companies that hire the unemployed would claim new tax breaks under a jobs-promoting bill the Senate passed Wednesday, delivering President Obama and Democrats a much-needed victory.

The 70-28 vote sends the bill back to the House, which passed a far more costly measure in December. Many in the House consider the Senate bill too puny, but they may simply adopt it and send it to Obama in order to get a win. Democratic leaders promise more so-called jobs bills are on the way.

The bill contain two major provisions. First, it would exempt businesses hiring the unemployed from the 6.2 percent Social Security payroll tax through December and give them an additional $1,000 credit if new workers stay on the job a full year.

Second, it would extend highway and mass transit programs through the end of the year and pump $20 billion into them in time for the spring construction season. The money would make up for lower-than-expected gasoline tax revenues.

The Senate's $35 billion proposal is a far smaller measure than the $862 billion economic stimulus bill enacted a year ago.

Back to the Basics

Paying off Senators with YOUR Tax Money

One question for everyone reading this: is this how you want your government working? If they can't get the votes needed, they begin promising large amounts of money toward pet projects. Where is that money coming from? Your tax dollars. I can hardly stomach it. In my opinion, the whole group needs to be elected out of office and start over.

from: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/12/18/nelson-cites-real-progress-health-care-talks/

WASHINGTON -- President Obama on Saturday praised the compromise reached on the Senate's version of his health care overhaul plan, saying, "We are on the cusp of making health care reform a reality in the U.S."

"It appears the American people will finally get a vote on health care overhaul they deserve," Obama said shortly after returning to the White House from his trip to Copenhagen.

Obama's comments came not long after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, with a self-imposed Christmas deadline looming, announced the Democrats had reached an agreement to secure the 60 votes needed to pass a sweeping overhaul of the U.S. health care system.

When asked directly at a news conference whether had the required votes, Reid replied, "It seems that way."

Reid's announcement came after he and other party leaders engineered a last-minute compromise on parts of the legislation to win the support of the lone Democratic holdout, Sen. Ben Nelson. Under the latest revisions, the Congressional Budget Office estimates the bill would cost $871 billion over the first 10 years and reduce the federal deficit by a cumulative total of $132 billion in that period.

Marathon negotiations among the White House, Senate Democratic leaders and Nelson, a conservative Democrat from Nebraska, produced fresh concessions that will mean additional abortion restrictions in the legislation and funding to cover poor people for Nelson's state and others.

"I know this is hard for some of my colleagues to accept and I appreciate their right to disagree. But I would not have voted for this bill without these provisions," Nelson said at a news conference in the Capitol.

Democratic leaders offered Nelson a deal similar to the $300 million in Medicaid assistance Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana got for her support, numerous sources told Fox News.

What many of us are fearing...

from: http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/090309/new_489061975.shtml

MADISON - U.S. Rep. Paul Broun is again raising the specter of Democrats turning the United States into a totalitarian state.
Broun, R-Athens, apparently has not changed his belief that President Obama may be a fascist since he made similar remarks in Augusta in November and then in an Associated Press interview.
He told a meeting of the Morgan County Republicans on Wednesday night that Obama already has or will have the three things he needs to make himself a dictator: a national police force, gun control and control over the press.
"He has the three things that are necessary to establish an authoritarian government," Broun said. "And so we need to be ever-vigilant, because freedom is precious."
...At a town hall meeting in Clarkesville last month, Broun called Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid a "socialistic elite" and agreed with a constituent who said they might use a flu pandemic to declare martial law.
"They're trying to develop an environment where they can take over," Broun said. "We've seen that historically."

Majority of Americans are Pro-life!

from: http://www.christianpost.com/Society/Polls_reports/2009/05/more-americans-identify-as-pro-life-than-pro-choice-15/index.html

For the first time in over a decade, more Americans say they are pro-life than pro-choice, a new Gallup poll revealed.
Just over half (51 percent) of Americans stand for the sanctity of human life while 42 percent consider themselves pro-choice, according to the May 2009 survey released Friday.
This marks the first time a majority of U.S. adults identified themselves as pro-life since Gallup began asking the abortion question in 1995 when only 33 percent called themselves pro-life.
Since then the highest percentage identifying as pro-life was 46 percent in 2001 and 2002.
The Gallup Poll found the dramatic shift occurred just in the past year. In 2008, 44 percent said they were pro-life while 50 percent were pro-choice.
...The Gallup Poll confirmed Americans' recent shift toward the pro-life position with two other surveys. The Gallup Values and Beliefs survey showed that 50 percent consider themselves pro-life while 43 percent identify as pro-choice. Moreover, a recent Pew Research Center survey also found that the percentage of Americans who say abortion should be legal in all or most cases dropped from 54 percent to 46 percent while the percentage of those who say the procedure should be legal in only a few or no cases jumped from 41 to 44 percent.
Increase in pro-life sentiment is seen across Christian religious affiliations. Fifty-nine percent of Protestants and "other Christians" identify as pro-life, a rise from 51 percent in 2008. Pro-lifers among Catholics rose from 45 to 52 percent. Even within the "other/none" group, there was a rise in pro-lifers from 27 to 31 percent.
The rise in pro-lifers was also largely seen among conservatives, moderates and Republicans, they survey found.
Among conservatives, pro-lifers rose from 66 to 71 percent. Pro-lifers also increased from 38 to 45 percent among moderates. Among Republicans and those who lean Republican, the poll found a rise in pro-lifers from 60 to 70 percent over the past year and a drop (36 to 26 percent) in those who call themselves pro-choice.
Liberals and Democrats, meanwhile, showed essentially no shift in their views with 19 percent and 33 percent identifying as pro-life, respectively.

A Christian Response to an Open Letter

The Letter:

My fellow Republicans:
As our party is going though a much-needed period of introspection, please consider that there was a time when this party stood for the Constitution, the rule of law, national defense, free enterprise, limited government, low taxes, balanced budgets, and individual rights. We still honor those principles; but those who now govern have no concern for or even understanding of such matters.
While the other party has been winning elections and undermining everything we have traditionally valued, what issues dominate our political discourse? Our party has been talking about sex and religion.
When we say “sex,” we mean topics like abstinence, promiscuity, homosexuality, pre-marital relations, contraception, sodomy, nudity, pornography, masturbation, same-sex marriage, sex education, abortion, and morning-after pills. Does that list sound familiar? It should, because those are the issues that too often dominate your campaigns.

My Reply:

Many people in the United States still stand for Biblical principles of morality. The Democratic Party is looked on by many of us in a negative way because most every bill directly contradicting our Biblical morality is introduced by a Democrat. I think many of the Republican politicians are simply realizing what many filmmakers realized after the movie "The Passion of the Christ" made its mega-millions: there is a large audience or constituency of Christians. And many of us Christians are looking to SOMEONE to speak up and fight on our behalf at the national level so that our Christian morality and the world we grew up in don't quickly become a thing of the past. I don't personally care WHY they are standing up for Christian morality--whether they really believe in it or just for votes--I just care that they are fighting. As a pro-life Christian, I long to hear about more Democrats stepping up and saying they are pro-life. Then, I would have a choice with my vote. Right now, I don't feel I have a choice. I could vote pro-abortion, but I would not be able to look myself in the mirror, and I would be ashamed before my God who created the disposed-of babies. I am concerned for any Christian who CAN vote pro-abortion; I can only conclude that these people have seared consciences and have decided that they are not going to be ruled by anyone, even God.