Repeal Petition Update Email - www.repealitnow.org
"February 3, 2011
Dear Petition Signer,
In normally balmy Florida, this year's frigid arctic blast didn't stop Federal District Judge Roger Vinson from ruling ObamaCare unconstitutional.
That now makes two federal courts that have ruled this legislation a gross overreach of federal power. In all, 26 state Attorneys General have filed lawsuits to erase the destructive HealthCare Act.
But that didn't stop every Senate Democrat from voting against Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's repeal bill yesterday. In a straight party vote, 51 Democratic Senators offered a colder shoulder to the American people than this winter itself. It is government arrogance on full display and without apology.
It's not over. In fact, we're just getting started. Even deaf Senators will hear us when, together, we produce a full throated roar that this law WILL be repealed.
We're not going to wait two years for the U.S. Supreme Court, which may rule to repeal. We're not going to watch the federal budget (and our healthcare and pocketbooks) further damaged as China buys up more and more of our debt. We must do what needs to be done -- force Senate Democrats to vote for repeal.
Can it be done? Yes.
We faithfully delivered more than half a million of your petitions to an already willing House of Representatives ...."
To read the rest of this news update, please visit the: "Repeal Healthcare Reform Law: New and Email Updates" page on this blog.
Showing posts with label Repeal Healthcare Reform Law. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Repeal Healthcare Reform Law. Show all posts
Thursday, February 03, 2011
Wednesday, February 02, 2011
U.S. Senate to Vote on Repeal of Healthcare Reform Law Today!
The U.S. Senate will vote today on a Senate resolution to repeal the Healthcare Reform law. The resolution was introduced by Senate Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. A total of 67 votes are needed in order to override a presidential veto.
So if you haven't written to your U.S. Senator yet, do so immediately! Here is the link:
write to your U.S. Senator on-line
2/3/2011 ... Well the Senate did not pass the resolution to repeal the Healthcare Reform law. It was a longshot, but you know me ... always hopeful? I live in a predominately Democratic state now ... a big change from the Texas that I am used to, but you can be certain that I will be out in force campainging against the two senators in this state when they are up for re-election. Unfortunately, Pat Murray just won re-election here somehow? So she will be sitting comfortably in her Senate seat for awhile ... but I will keep writing to her in the meantime, as the need arises.
I am now hopeful that this case will be fast-tracked to the Supreme Court ... I have heard via the news and reading on the internet that several state Governers are already planning to declare this law void in their repsective states based on the Pensecola, Florida ruling of Judge Roger Vinson a few days ago.
So if you haven't written to your U.S. Senator yet, do so immediately! Here is the link:
write to your U.S. Senator on-line
2/3/2011 ... Well the Senate did not pass the resolution to repeal the Healthcare Reform law. It was a longshot, but you know me ... always hopeful? I live in a predominately Democratic state now ... a big change from the Texas that I am used to, but you can be certain that I will be out in force campainging against the two senators in this state when they are up for re-election. Unfortunately, Pat Murray just won re-election here somehow? So she will be sitting comfortably in her Senate seat for awhile ... but I will keep writing to her in the meantime, as the need arises.
I am now hopeful that this case will be fast-tracked to the Supreme Court ... I have heard via the news and reading on the internet that several state Governers are already planning to declare this law void in their repsective states based on the Pensecola, Florida ruling of Judge Roger Vinson a few days ago.
Monday, January 31, 2011
U.S. Judge, in Pensecola, Florida Rules Healthcare law is Unconstitutional
A U.S. Judge, in Pensecola, Florida has ruled this morning ... in repsonse to a lawsuit filed by the Attorney Generals of 26 U.S. States ... that the Healthcare Reform law as passed by the 111th Congress is unconstitutional. This is the second U.S. Judge to rule that the law was unconstitutional, but the first judge to rule that the entire law was unconstitutional. A Virginia judge had previously ruled that the "individual mandate" only was unconstitutional.
In his written ruling, Judge Roger Vinson, stated that the "individual mandate" requiring all individuals to purchase health insuarnce was unconstitutional. He further stated that because this portion of the law was not "severable from the whole", that the "law in its entirety is therefore void."
This is a huge victory for justice, but unfortunately a final judicial say in the matter will not come until this case and likely dozens of others like it finally make their way up to the U.S. Supreme Court which could take up to 4 years. In the meantime, while awaiting appeal at the highest level, this Healthcare Reform law will go into effect and begin the socialization of our U.S. Healthcare System.* Thus, the need to act still remains. We must stop this law now at the Congressional level. The time to act is now!
I urge you to write to your U.S. Senators (you have 2) and urge them to vote against this unconstitutional Healthcare Reform law. Remind them that they represent you ... us ..."We the people" and that WE want this bad and unconstitutional piece of legislation repealed NOW! Let them know that we will hold them accountable for their actions. If they voted for this law under the 111th Congress, now is the chance for them to redeem themselves. Then urge your senator to take the worthy measures in the law up under separate, constitutional, legislation (e.g., no pre-existing condition clauses, malpractice lawsuit reform, requirement for insurance companies to spend at least 85% of their premium intakes on actual healthcare costs).
Here is the link to locate and write to your U.S. Senator on-line: write to your U.S. Senator on-line
*The "individual mandate" portion of the Healthcare law will not go into effect until 2014, hence the reason that Judge Vinson did not issue a separate ruling to prevent Congress from enacting other portions of this law. I guess, that the Judge is relying upon the notion that the appeal in this matter will reach the U.S. Supreme Court level before the "individual mandate" portion of the law goes into effect.
In his written ruling, Judge Roger Vinson, stated that the "individual mandate" requiring all individuals to purchase health insuarnce was unconstitutional. He further stated that because this portion of the law was not "severable from the whole", that the "law in its entirety is therefore void."
This is a huge victory for justice, but unfortunately a final judicial say in the matter will not come until this case and likely dozens of others like it finally make their way up to the U.S. Supreme Court which could take up to 4 years. In the meantime, while awaiting appeal at the highest level, this Healthcare Reform law will go into effect and begin the socialization of our U.S. Healthcare System.* Thus, the need to act still remains. We must stop this law now at the Congressional level. The time to act is now!
I urge you to write to your U.S. Senators (you have 2) and urge them to vote against this unconstitutional Healthcare Reform law. Remind them that they represent you ... us ..."We the people" and that WE want this bad and unconstitutional piece of legislation repealed NOW! Let them know that we will hold them accountable for their actions. If they voted for this law under the 111th Congress, now is the chance for them to redeem themselves. Then urge your senator to take the worthy measures in the law up under separate, constitutional, legislation (e.g., no pre-existing condition clauses, malpractice lawsuit reform, requirement for insurance companies to spend at least 85% of their premium intakes on actual healthcare costs).
Here is the link to locate and write to your U.S. Senator on-line: write to your U.S. Senator on-line
*The "individual mandate" portion of the Healthcare law will not go into effect until 2014, hence the reason that Judge Vinson did not issue a separate ruling to prevent Congress from enacting other portions of this law. I guess, that the Judge is relying upon the notion that the appeal in this matter will reach the U.S. Supreme Court level before the "individual mandate" portion of the law goes into effect.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Repeal Healthcare Reform Law Update ...
I have previously discussed (in many, many posts) the specific reasons why I feel this piece of legislation is so so very BAD for our country. For this reason, lately I haven't felt the need to restate the same points over and over again. That being said, I got to thinking that maybe someone who is uninformed or undecided might be persuaded to action if I wrote a brief summary once again. So here goes ...
The first and foremost reason for repeal, is the fact that this piece of legislation will ultimately result in the socialization of our healthcare system ... and if you don't know what that means just look at the failed healthcare systems in Europe (e.g., the United Kingdom ... England). It means a lower quality of overall care due to government over-regulation. It means longer wait times for needed treatments and in a worse case scenario the government deciding who gets what treatments and when. I don't know about you, but the latter scares the HELL out of me!!
The second compelling reason for repeal is that overall costs will rise for people like you and me as the insurance companies pass the burden of government increased coverage requirements onto the little guy. A third compelling reason for repeal of the Healthcare Reform law is that some small businesses, not lucky to have won a government "Get Out of Jail" free card, will go bankrupt trying to meet the new government mandates for providing health insurance for all of their employees. Ironically, in many cases paying the penalties for not insuring all employees will actually be cheaper than conforming to the new healthcare coverage mandates in the Healthcare Reform law.
If you're worried about the "pre-exisitng" conditons clause that many insurance companies currently hide behind in order to deny coverage: this issue can and should be addressed in an entirely separate piece of legislation. Same thing goes for addressing sky-rockecting malpractice insurance costs. This should also be addressed in a separate piece of legislation. We shouldn't have to swallow this entire poisonous pill of a piece of legislation in order to address these issues. The latter issues are just camoflauge for the greater end goal of socializing the healthcare system in our country.
And a third reason to vote for a repeal of the Healthcare law: this law is unconstitutional. The Congress has overstepped its powers, as given by the U.S. Constitution, by requiring that all individuals must purchase some form of healthcare insurance.
Now is the time to ACT ... do something positive. Write to your Senators in the U.S. Congress and tell them that you DON'T WANT THIS PIECE OF HEALTHCARE LEGISLATION. Tell them that you WILL HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE and THAT YOU EXPECT THEM TO VOTE FOR A REPEAL OF THE HEALTHCARE REFORM LAW. Then go to the website listed at the top of my page and in the link given below and SIGN THE PETITION (which will be delivered to the U.S. Senate) to have the Healthcare Reform Law repealed. And be sure to pass this message onto all of your friends and family: Together we CAN make a difference!!
Here is the link to write to find and contact your U.S. Senator. In most cases you can write to your Senator on-line and have your message sent directly to your Senator electronically: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
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(Email from Ken Hoagland, Chairman of http://www.repealitnow.org/)
"Week of January 24, 2011: Repeal focus shifts to the Senate
After Repeal It Now delivered 530,000 names to House leadership, the House of Representatives voted to repeal! Now the battle shifts to the Senate, where we must fight to bring a successful vote for repeal to the floor...
Hours before the State of the Union speech last night, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell offered an amendment to repeal the HealthCare Act that will bypass the refusal of Majority Leader Harry Reid to schedule a vote!
If taken today, such a vote would fail--along party lines--but we can change that outcome with massive public pressure. We must immediately signal the Senate that there is overwhelming support for repeal.
You helped make this call for repeal powerful in the House and that has now translated to the Senate. Help us get the job done for the sake of the country.
In the aftermath of the historic House vote to repeal the HealthCare Act Washington pundits and liberal politicians rushed to the cameras to claim it was merely "symbolic".
It wasn't.
In truth, this was their way to deflect the will of the American people and convince some citizens that any further effort would be wasted. It didn't work.
We have the power to convince more than 20 Senate Democrats who will face re-election that the will of the people must be respected.
It's up to us.
The TV ads with Mike Huckabee and Mike Reagan helped us raised 660,000 petitions. We presented more than a half million of your petitions to House leaders the day before the House vote to repeal! We bought low cost TV time to reach the most people we could in the shortest amount of time. To raise this many petitions in such a short time is nothing short of amazing. Thank you for helping us.
We're just getting started. Now we must raise at least five million petitions almost immediately. It's a big job but we can do it.
We ask you for contributions only so we can get more TV ads on the air, reach more people and gather more petitions--and momentum--for outright repeal. Your dollars go right into new television ads and a growing tidal wave of pressure on the Senate. This is how we get it done!
We are producing New ads focusing on the Senate as you read this and will on the air by early next week. Please help us buy more air time and massively turn up the heat on Democratic Senators now by clicking HERE.
Thank you for standing up for our country.
Ken Hoagland, Chairman
RepealItNow.org.
PS. Even if you can't afford a contribution you can still help. Ask five friends to sign our petition at: www.repealitnow.org. Now is the moment we must stand up and be counted. Please pitch in.
Paid for by Repeal HealthCare Act
P.O. Box 12956
Pittsburgh PA, 15241, United States "
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To see more related news and updates, please visit the: "Repeal Healthcare Reform Law: New and Email Updates" page on this blog.
The first and foremost reason for repeal, is the fact that this piece of legislation will ultimately result in the socialization of our healthcare system ... and if you don't know what that means just look at the failed healthcare systems in Europe (e.g., the United Kingdom ... England). It means a lower quality of overall care due to government over-regulation. It means longer wait times for needed treatments and in a worse case scenario the government deciding who gets what treatments and when. I don't know about you, but the latter scares the HELL out of me!!
The second compelling reason for repeal is that overall costs will rise for people like you and me as the insurance companies pass the burden of government increased coverage requirements onto the little guy. A third compelling reason for repeal of the Healthcare Reform law is that some small businesses, not lucky to have won a government "Get Out of Jail" free card, will go bankrupt trying to meet the new government mandates for providing health insurance for all of their employees. Ironically, in many cases paying the penalties for not insuring all employees will actually be cheaper than conforming to the new healthcare coverage mandates in the Healthcare Reform law.
If you're worried about the "pre-exisitng" conditons clause that many insurance companies currently hide behind in order to deny coverage: this issue can and should be addressed in an entirely separate piece of legislation. Same thing goes for addressing sky-rockecting malpractice insurance costs. This should also be addressed in a separate piece of legislation. We shouldn't have to swallow this entire poisonous pill of a piece of legislation in order to address these issues. The latter issues are just camoflauge for the greater end goal of socializing the healthcare system in our country.
And a third reason to vote for a repeal of the Healthcare law: this law is unconstitutional. The Congress has overstepped its powers, as given by the U.S. Constitution, by requiring that all individuals must purchase some form of healthcare insurance.
Now is the time to ACT ... do something positive. Write to your Senators in the U.S. Congress and tell them that you DON'T WANT THIS PIECE OF HEALTHCARE LEGISLATION. Tell them that you WILL HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE and THAT YOU EXPECT THEM TO VOTE FOR A REPEAL OF THE HEALTHCARE REFORM LAW. Then go to the website listed at the top of my page and in the link given below and SIGN THE PETITION (which will be delivered to the U.S. Senate) to have the Healthcare Reform Law repealed. And be sure to pass this message onto all of your friends and family: Together we CAN make a difference!!
Here is the link to write to find and contact your U.S. Senator. In most cases you can write to your Senator on-line and have your message sent directly to your Senator electronically: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
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(Email from Ken Hoagland, Chairman of http://www.repealitnow.org/)
"Week of January 24, 2011: Repeal focus shifts to the Senate
After Repeal It Now delivered 530,000 names to House leadership, the House of Representatives voted to repeal! Now the battle shifts to the Senate, where we must fight to bring a successful vote for repeal to the floor...
Hours before the State of the Union speech last night, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell offered an amendment to repeal the HealthCare Act that will bypass the refusal of Majority Leader Harry Reid to schedule a vote!
If taken today, such a vote would fail--along party lines--but we can change that outcome with massive public pressure. We must immediately signal the Senate that there is overwhelming support for repeal.
You helped make this call for repeal powerful in the House and that has now translated to the Senate. Help us get the job done for the sake of the country.
In the aftermath of the historic House vote to repeal the HealthCare Act Washington pundits and liberal politicians rushed to the cameras to claim it was merely "symbolic".
It wasn't.
In truth, this was their way to deflect the will of the American people and convince some citizens that any further effort would be wasted. It didn't work.
We have the power to convince more than 20 Senate Democrats who will face re-election that the will of the people must be respected.
It's up to us.
The TV ads with Mike Huckabee and Mike Reagan helped us raised 660,000 petitions. We presented more than a half million of your petitions to House leaders the day before the House vote to repeal! We bought low cost TV time to reach the most people we could in the shortest amount of time. To raise this many petitions in such a short time is nothing short of amazing. Thank you for helping us.
We're just getting started. Now we must raise at least five million petitions almost immediately. It's a big job but we can do it.
We ask you for contributions only so we can get more TV ads on the air, reach more people and gather more petitions--and momentum--for outright repeal. Your dollars go right into new television ads and a growing tidal wave of pressure on the Senate. This is how we get it done!
We are producing New ads focusing on the Senate as you read this and will on the air by early next week. Please help us buy more air time and massively turn up the heat on Democratic Senators now by clicking HERE.
Thank you for standing up for our country.
Ken Hoagland, Chairman
RepealItNow.org.
PS. Even if you can't afford a contribution you can still help. Ask five friends to sign our petition at: www.repealitnow.org. Now is the moment we must stand up and be counted. Please pitch in.
Paid for by Repeal HealthCare Act
P.O. Box 12956
Pittsburgh PA, 15241, United States "
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To see more related news and updates, please visit the: "Repeal Healthcare Reform Law: New and Email Updates" page on this blog.
Thursday, January 06, 2011
Newsletter Update: "Petition to Repeal Healthcare Reform law" ... Jan. 6, 2011
"January 6th, 2011
Repeal Report
News, notes and updates from Repeal HealthCare Act
TOP STORY »First Repeal Petition Delivery Scheduled
Vowing to obey the will of the people, new Members of the House of Representatives promise a vote to repeal the HealthCare Act on January 12th. Your Repeal It Now campaign has been asked to begin delivery of petitions the day before this historic vote.
“We will be bringing 500,000 petitions to the steps of the Capitol. Our petitions will include the names and hometowns of all of those who have joined our massive petition drive,” said Ken Hoagland, chairman of the campaign to force immediate repeal.
“We anticipate that the mainstream media will dismiss this House vote as merely ‘symbolic’ because of resistance by the Democratic majority in the Senate,” said Hoagland. “Far from it, we will make sure that this vote is not ‘symbolic’ but the first step in our tough battle to make our elected officials actually represent the wishes of their constituents. There are many Senators who will be looking for other work if they ignore the legitimate demand of Americans to repeal it now,” said Hoagland.
News reports may cover the first of many petition deliveries and other grassroots advocacy tactics planned for coming months. “We will keep turning up the heat, degree by degree, until we see this destructive bill -- and insult to our democratic process -- erased from the books,” said Hoagland.
Want to write a comment or share this article? Visit our blog @ http://wp.me/p1ddNO-3O "
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So this campaign has generated 500, 000 petitions: Awesome!!
I wonder how many actual signatures that amounts to? Need to find that information out.
But, way to go Americans! Nice to see that "We the People" do, in fact, have a voice after all.
PJP
~M
To see more related news and updates, please visit the: "Repeal Healthcare Reform Law: New and Email Updates" page on this blog.
Repeal Report
News, notes and updates from Repeal HealthCare Act
TOP STORY »First Repeal Petition Delivery Scheduled
Vowing to obey the will of the people, new Members of the House of Representatives promise a vote to repeal the HealthCare Act on January 12th. Your Repeal It Now campaign has been asked to begin delivery of petitions the day before this historic vote.
“We will be bringing 500,000 petitions to the steps of the Capitol. Our petitions will include the names and hometowns of all of those who have joined our massive petition drive,” said Ken Hoagland, chairman of the campaign to force immediate repeal.
“We anticipate that the mainstream media will dismiss this House vote as merely ‘symbolic’ because of resistance by the Democratic majority in the Senate,” said Hoagland. “Far from it, we will make sure that this vote is not ‘symbolic’ but the first step in our tough battle to make our elected officials actually represent the wishes of their constituents. There are many Senators who will be looking for other work if they ignore the legitimate demand of Americans to repeal it now,” said Hoagland.
News reports may cover the first of many petition deliveries and other grassroots advocacy tactics planned for coming months. “We will keep turning up the heat, degree by degree, until we see this destructive bill -- and insult to our democratic process -- erased from the books,” said Hoagland.
Want to write a comment or share this article? Visit our blog @ http://wp.me/p1ddNO-3O "
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So this campaign has generated 500, 000 petitions: Awesome!!
I wonder how many actual signatures that amounts to? Need to find that information out.
But, way to go Americans! Nice to see that "We the People" do, in fact, have a voice after all.
PJP
~M
To see more related news and updates, please visit the: "Repeal Healthcare Reform Law: New and Email Updates" page on this blog.
Tuesday, January 04, 2011
Highlights From Repeal Healthcare Act: Newsletter #2, Vol. 1, Report 2
Repeal Report - Received 12-23-2010
News, notes and updates from Repeal HealthCare Act
TOP STORY »Mr. Obama, Top Leaders Exempted from ObamaCare!
Now it turns out that the President, staff and family, the Vice President and his staff and family, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and their staffs and all the cabinet officers, as well as Congressional Committee staff, were written out of the new HealthCare Act.
“Upon penalty of law we are required to participate in a HealthCare system that, by law, Washington insiders wrote themselves out of,” said Hoagland. “It's so typical and so completely wrong,” he said.
Back in March the President said that "people will have choice and competition just like members of Congress have choice and competition." And in December when he signed the bill into law the President said that every American would be, "…part of a big pool, just like federal employees are part of a big pool. They'll have the same choice of private health insurance that members of Congress get for themselves."
It turns out that the President and others, including Congressional Committee staff who wrote the bill decided that the “public pool” was not quite good enough for themselves or their families. The committee staff that drafted the legislation opted themselves out.
Under withering criticism from Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley and Oklahoma’s Senator, Tom Coburn, most Congressional staffers were written into the bill last March. But by December, Majority Leader Reid included language taking senior administration officials and himself out of the bill. Mr. Grassley and Coburn’s amendment to close this loophole and extend the law to themselves and senior members of the executive branch was then blocked by Senate Democratic leaders.
“They used their personal power to protect themselves from this new law. Now we’ll use our combined personal power as citizens to do the same thing for ourselves,” said Ken Hoagland.
Want to write a comment or share this article? Visit our blog @ http://wp.me/p1ddno-38
Please help us continue to drive petition signatures by forwarding this email to every family member, friend and co-worker you know and ask them to click here and sign the petition today!
What You Can Do
If we want our country back, we have to take it back. That’s what this fast growing campaign is all about. If we all pitch in, we will repair the damage done, create a better future and erase this stain on faithful representation by tone-deaf politicians. Each supporter is a part of this renewal of America’s promise.
In our Constitution and Bill of Rights our Founding Fathers gave us all the tools we need to direct and limit our government and we will first employ one of the most important -- the right to “…petition our government for a redress of grievances.”
By acting together we will burn away the arrogance of “public servants” and replace it with appropriate humility. By powerfully restoring the voice of the American people, we will save our nation from those who advance their own political ambitions at the cost of the best interests and will of the people. The days of misleading the people and outright lies are coming to an end and not a moment too soon given the challenges facing us and the damage already done.
The Framers of the Constitution knew then what we are seeing now -- every government grows and grows and grows, favoring those inside government or near government. Eventually even the most-noble design falls prey to human ambition and human weakness -- and that is what we are seeing now.
Help us get the word out by telling your family, colleagues and friends about our massive petition drive to repeal this destructive law. If you can, please help us grow the “snowball” effect by contributing as generously as possible to our TV ad fund.
CLICK ON THE "INVEST" LINK at the bottom of the "Sign the Petition" Home Page.
Spread the word by commenting on Facebook and Twitter and other social media. Take our message to Tea Parties, favorite websites and across the lunch table to everyday Americans -- we are taking our nation back.
No one has ever said that a government, “of, by and for the people.” was easy because it’s really not. If we put in on "automatic pilot” we suffer what we are seeing now -- maybe the end of the America we know and love. To have the greatest nation on Earth once again, we have to control our government and be ready to act. Now is the time, please do everything you can for the sake of our country, our children and our future.
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We’ve Been Pushed as Far as We’ll Go
In the days leading up to Christmas last year then Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid were on non-stop calls with the White House deciding how to ram the HealthCare Act through Congress.
Using “Reconciliation” instead of a straight vote with debate on the matter in the House, Ms. Pelosi found the means for Democrats to hurriedly “accept” the recently passed 2,700 page Senate bill—which made actually reading the bill before the vote, virtually impossible.
The fact that most Americans objected to the new law didn’t slow down Ms. Pelosi, Mr. Reid or Mr. Obama in the least. “It was the usual arrogance of power that has so damaged our nation in recent years", said the Repeal It Now campaign chairman, Ken Hoagland. “So many people in Washington don’t care anymore what we think that it has turned the whole idea of a government ‘by the people’ on its head.”
“We have to pass it to know what’s in it…” said Ms. Pelosi. Now we know and in the words of former Governor and past Presidential candidate, Mike Huckabee, “It’s not pretty…”. The Obama Administration now admits that most people won’t be keeping their own health insurance coverage, as promised time after time. We know that costs won’t be capped but have already begun a steep climb to finance both expanded coverage and millions of new beneficiaries--who won’t be paying into the system. We know that business costs will skyrocket just at the moment when we all need American businesses to be spending money on expansion and new hires instead of mandated new benefits and tax reporting.
As the “fine print” comes into focus we have learned that the entire idea of “universal coverage” is a fiction and that future taxes on America’s children have exploded because of ObamaCare. “It is intergenerational theft, pure and simple,” said Hoagland. “They may have started with good intentions but it turned into a monstrously destructive law that satisfies almost none of their original goals,” said Hoagland.
We Have the Last Word
The American people have the ability to replace arrogance with humility by reminding elected officials that the last word on new laws and regulations still resides with the public. “If they want to keep their jobs—and they do—they had better pay attention to the millions of petitions we are gathering now,” said Hoagland. “We are gathering a head of steam that will be impossible to ignore and along with it comes a badly needed lesson to Washington,” he said.
New TV ads by Mike Huckabee begin airing soon on an expanded base of networks and cable channels. “We have an updated website coming soon and our Facebook and other social media sites continue to grow exponentially” said Hoagland. “We will see the American people, themselves, become a needed force in every future public policy debate and action by our elected officials. That is the way it was supposed to always work and the way it will work again,” he concluded.
Want to write a comment or share this article? Visit our blog @ http://wp.me/p1ddNO-32 Note from the chairman
Vol.1, Report.2
Dear Friend,
We’re probably like a lot of American families -- at our house, we are tickled silly watching the children’s nervous anticipation on Christmas Eve and the frenetic joy that always arrives too, too early the next morning around the tree.
Then, with the house alive with Christmas music and rich with both scent of the tree and the intoxicating hints of the roasting turkey we talk and we watch the kids play and we reflect with friends and family on the year past and the reason we celebrate this very special day.
Even during these hard times, we find this a special time for love and for prayers of thanks and reflection.
From all of us at Repeal HealthCare Act, we wish you every joy and good will and Merry Christmas to all!
Ken Hoagland, Chairman
Repeal HealthCare Act
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TOP STORY »Mr. Obama, Top Leaders Exempted from ObamaCare!
Now it turns out that the President, staff and family, the Vice President and his staff and family, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and their staffs and all the cabinet officers, as well as Congressional Committee staff, were written out of the new HealthCare Act.
“Upon penalty of law we are required to participate in a HealthCare system that, by law, Washington insiders wrote themselves out of,” said Hoagland. “It's so typical and so completely wrong,” he said.
Back in March the President said that "people will have choice and competition just like members of Congress have choice and competition." And in December when he signed the bill into law the President said that every American would be, "…part of a big pool, just like federal employees are part of a big pool. They'll have the same choice of private health insurance that members of Congress get for themselves."
It turns out that the President and others, including Congressional Committee staff who wrote the bill decided that the “public pool” was not quite good enough for themselves or their families. The committee staff that drafted the legislation opted themselves out.
Under withering criticism from Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley and Oklahoma’s Senator, Tom Coburn, most Congressional staffers were written into the bill last March. But by December, Majority Leader Reid included language taking senior administration officials and himself out of the bill. Mr. Grassley and Coburn’s amendment to close this loophole and extend the law to themselves and senior members of the executive branch was then blocked by Senate Democratic leaders.
“They used their personal power to protect themselves from this new law. Now we’ll use our combined personal power as citizens to do the same thing for ourselves,” said Ken Hoagland.
Want to write a comment or share this article? Visit our blog @ http://wp.me/p1ddno-38
Please help us continue to drive petition signatures by forwarding this email to every family member, friend and co-worker you know and ask them to click here and sign the petition today!
What You Can Do
If we want our country back, we have to take it back. That’s what this fast growing campaign is all about. If we all pitch in, we will repair the damage done, create a better future and erase this stain on faithful representation by tone-deaf politicians. Each supporter is a part of this renewal of America’s promise.
In our Constitution and Bill of Rights our Founding Fathers gave us all the tools we need to direct and limit our government and we will first employ one of the most important -- the right to “…petition our government for a redress of grievances.”
By acting together we will burn away the arrogance of “public servants” and replace it with appropriate humility. By powerfully restoring the voice of the American people, we will save our nation from those who advance their own political ambitions at the cost of the best interests and will of the people. The days of misleading the people and outright lies are coming to an end and not a moment too soon given the challenges facing us and the damage already done.
The Framers of the Constitution knew then what we are seeing now -- every government grows and grows and grows, favoring those inside government or near government. Eventually even the most-noble design falls prey to human ambition and human weakness -- and that is what we are seeing now.
Help us get the word out by telling your family, colleagues and friends about our massive petition drive to repeal this destructive law. If you can, please help us grow the “snowball” effect by contributing as generously as possible to our TV ad fund.
CLICK ON THE "INVEST" LINK at the bottom of the "Sign the Petition" Home Page.
Spread the word by commenting on Facebook and Twitter and other social media. Take our message to Tea Parties, favorite websites and across the lunch table to everyday Americans -- we are taking our nation back.
No one has ever said that a government, “of, by and for the people.” was easy because it’s really not. If we put in on "automatic pilot” we suffer what we are seeing now -- maybe the end of the America we know and love. To have the greatest nation on Earth once again, we have to control our government and be ready to act. Now is the time, please do everything you can for the sake of our country, our children and our future.
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We’ve Been Pushed as Far as We’ll Go
In the days leading up to Christmas last year then Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid were on non-stop calls with the White House deciding how to ram the HealthCare Act through Congress.
Using “Reconciliation” instead of a straight vote with debate on the matter in the House, Ms. Pelosi found the means for Democrats to hurriedly “accept” the recently passed 2,700 page Senate bill—which made actually reading the bill before the vote, virtually impossible.
The fact that most Americans objected to the new law didn’t slow down Ms. Pelosi, Mr. Reid or Mr. Obama in the least. “It was the usual arrogance of power that has so damaged our nation in recent years", said the Repeal It Now campaign chairman, Ken Hoagland. “So many people in Washington don’t care anymore what we think that it has turned the whole idea of a government ‘by the people’ on its head.”
“We have to pass it to know what’s in it…” said Ms. Pelosi. Now we know and in the words of former Governor and past Presidential candidate, Mike Huckabee, “It’s not pretty…”. The Obama Administration now admits that most people won’t be keeping their own health insurance coverage, as promised time after time. We know that costs won’t be capped but have already begun a steep climb to finance both expanded coverage and millions of new beneficiaries--who won’t be paying into the system. We know that business costs will skyrocket just at the moment when we all need American businesses to be spending money on expansion and new hires instead of mandated new benefits and tax reporting.
As the “fine print” comes into focus we have learned that the entire idea of “universal coverage” is a fiction and that future taxes on America’s children have exploded because of ObamaCare. “It is intergenerational theft, pure and simple,” said Hoagland. “They may have started with good intentions but it turned into a monstrously destructive law that satisfies almost none of their original goals,” said Hoagland.
We Have the Last Word
The American people have the ability to replace arrogance with humility by reminding elected officials that the last word on new laws and regulations still resides with the public. “If they want to keep their jobs—and they do—they had better pay attention to the millions of petitions we are gathering now,” said Hoagland. “We are gathering a head of steam that will be impossible to ignore and along with it comes a badly needed lesson to Washington,” he said.
New TV ads by Mike Huckabee begin airing soon on an expanded base of networks and cable channels. “We have an updated website coming soon and our Facebook and other social media sites continue to grow exponentially” said Hoagland. “We will see the American people, themselves, become a needed force in every future public policy debate and action by our elected officials. That is the way it was supposed to always work and the way it will work again,” he concluded.
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Vol.1, Report.2
Dear Friend,
We’re probably like a lot of American families -- at our house, we are tickled silly watching the children’s nervous anticipation on Christmas Eve and the frenetic joy that always arrives too, too early the next morning around the tree.
Then, with the house alive with Christmas music and rich with both scent of the tree and the intoxicating hints of the roasting turkey we talk and we watch the kids play and we reflect with friends and family on the year past and the reason we celebrate this very special day.
Even during these hard times, we find this a special time for love and for prayers of thanks and reflection.
From all of us at Repeal HealthCare Act, we wish you every joy and good will and Merry Christmas to all!
Ken Hoagland, Chairman
Repeal HealthCare Act
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Thursday, December 16, 2010
Dec. 16th - Healthcare Reform Repeal Petition Newsletter
Here is the newletter that I just received from the Campaign for the Petition to Repeal Healthcare Reform ...
Dec. 16th, 2010
TOP STORY »Petition Drive is "Red Hot"
The Repeal It Now! Campaign to erase the disastrous HealthCare law is off to a red-hot start. Even in its first few weeks, the campaign has produced overwhelming results. Americans from coast to coast have responded strongly to television ads calling for outright repeal of the HealthCare Act. "We are well on our way to our first million petitions," said campaign chairman, Ken Hoagland.
"Mike Huckabee, Michael Reagan and even Joe the Plumber have helped us gather a growing momentum that will inevitably result in outright repeal of this destructive law in the coming year," said Hoagland. "We will use the largest petition drive in the history of the nation and a variety of overwhelming grassroots and legislative tactics to force a veto-proof vote for repeal in the coming months," he said.
"Because Congress forced this law down our throats over the objections of a majority of Americans it is only right that the American people answer back with an overwhelming demand for repeal," said Hoagland. "The many destructive realities of the new law have already begun to damage the fabric of American society and our economy and are fuel for the fire that now burns in the American people for outright repeal of this destructive legislation," he said.
The Repeal It Now campaign announced its first petition delivery will be in January to greet the incoming Congress. "There must be no mistake by Congress that the American people are determined to see this law overturned," said Hoagland. Through this newsletter and special e-mail reports the Repeal It Now campaign will inform supporters of both our progress and the expected "maneuverings" that Washington will offer to avoid faithful representation of American citizens. "We won't be accepting any excuses," said Hoagland.
"Yes, many pundits don't believe that the Senate can be made to vote for repeal," said Hoagland. "We strongly disagree because we believe in the power of Americans to force true representation. We believe that with determination we can change the political reality that now exists in Washington," he said.
Please help us continue to drive petition signatures by forwarding this email to every family member, friend and co-worker you know and ask them to click here and Sign the Petition Today!
White House Friends Get Hundreds of ObamaCare Waivers
The White House has quietly granted more than 200 waivers for new healthcare act requirements, essentially granting repeal to more than a million people. For average Americans, however, only outright repeal through our campaign will bring relief from this destructive law.
Unions like the Service Employee's International Union (SEIU), perhaps the most partisan of all Mr. Obama's supporters (who devoted millions of dollars to attacking Republican candidates), was one of the first waivers granted -- allowing their members an "escape hatch" from ObamaCare. All unions were granted exemption from income taxes on the value of high cost plans -- unlike every other American.
Adding salt to the wound, the law exempts the President, Vice-President, cabinet officers and Capitol Hill staffers who work for Congressional Committees, among others.
The promise repeated over and over again that average Americans could keep their health care coverage has now been admitted to be false with the Administration itself conceding that as many of eight out of ten existing programs will disappear under onerous new coverage requirements.
A full list of exempted unions and others business will be detailed in upcoming newsletters.
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Dec. 16th, 2010
TOP STORY »Petition Drive is "Red Hot"
The Repeal It Now! Campaign to erase the disastrous HealthCare law is off to a red-hot start. Even in its first few weeks, the campaign has produced overwhelming results. Americans from coast to coast have responded strongly to television ads calling for outright repeal of the HealthCare Act. "We are well on our way to our first million petitions," said campaign chairman, Ken Hoagland.
"Mike Huckabee, Michael Reagan and even Joe the Plumber have helped us gather a growing momentum that will inevitably result in outright repeal of this destructive law in the coming year," said Hoagland. "We will use the largest petition drive in the history of the nation and a variety of overwhelming grassroots and legislative tactics to force a veto-proof vote for repeal in the coming months," he said.
"Because Congress forced this law down our throats over the objections of a majority of Americans it is only right that the American people answer back with an overwhelming demand for repeal," said Hoagland. "The many destructive realities of the new law have already begun to damage the fabric of American society and our economy and are fuel for the fire that now burns in the American people for outright repeal of this destructive legislation," he said.
The Repeal It Now campaign announced its first petition delivery will be in January to greet the incoming Congress. "There must be no mistake by Congress that the American people are determined to see this law overturned," said Hoagland. Through this newsletter and special e-mail reports the Repeal It Now campaign will inform supporters of both our progress and the expected "maneuverings" that Washington will offer to avoid faithful representation of American citizens. "We won't be accepting any excuses," said Hoagland.
"Yes, many pundits don't believe that the Senate can be made to vote for repeal," said Hoagland. "We strongly disagree because we believe in the power of Americans to force true representation. We believe that with determination we can change the political reality that now exists in Washington," he said.
Please help us continue to drive petition signatures by forwarding this email to every family member, friend and co-worker you know and ask them to click here and Sign the Petition Today!
White House Friends Get Hundreds of ObamaCare Waivers
The White House has quietly granted more than 200 waivers for new healthcare act requirements, essentially granting repeal to more than a million people. For average Americans, however, only outright repeal through our campaign will bring relief from this destructive law.
Unions like the Service Employee's International Union (SEIU), perhaps the most partisan of all Mr. Obama's supporters (who devoted millions of dollars to attacking Republican candidates), was one of the first waivers granted -- allowing their members an "escape hatch" from ObamaCare. All unions were granted exemption from income taxes on the value of high cost plans -- unlike every other American.
Adding salt to the wound, the law exempts the President, Vice-President, cabinet officers and Capitol Hill staffers who work for Congressional Committees, among others.
The promise repeated over and over again that average Americans could keep their health care coverage has now been admitted to be false with the Administration itself conceding that as many of eight out of ten existing programs will disappear under onerous new coverage requirements.
A full list of exempted unions and others business will be detailed in upcoming newsletters.
Want to write a comment or share this article? Visit our blog @ http://wp.me/p1ddNO-G
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