ALG Statement: "Public Option" Defies Representative Government

November 23^rd, 2009, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today issued the following statement:

"On Saturday, the Senate voted 60-39 to proceed to the so-called 'public option,' legislation that will cost more than $2 trillion over ten years when fully implemented, ration health care away from seniors, raise the cost of premiums, drive the American people off of private health options, and bankrupt the Treasury. 

"This vote, however, is completely out of step with public sentiment about the legislation.  In a Rasmussen Reports poll conducted Saturday and Sunday, a full 56 percent of likely voters say they oppose this legislation.  Only 38 percent support it.

"And yet the Senate is moving rapidly to enact this legislation in direct defiance of the American people's express wishes.  They are defying representative government, raising the question: If not the people, who do they represent?"

 

CHQ - Will a Leader Embrace Our "Constitutional Moment?"

Richard Viguerie: Will a Leader Embrace Our "Constitutional Moment?"

Richard Viguerie writes in today's Washington Times that Americans-especially those involved in the grassroots Tea Party movement-are looking for political leaders who separate themselves from the political establishment, and embrace the Constitution and our founding principles as the bases for their policies.  Viguerie says that Americans are more and more turning to the Constitution as the only answer to runaway deficit spending and grave assaults on personal liberty.

We are in a "constitutional moment." The people get it.  Which leaders will, too?

Viguerie writes:

People have already come around - and many others are starting - to conclude that our policy problems are a direct result of elected officials, judges and government bureaucrats having exceeded and abused constitutional authority.

The anti-incumbent rage of the tea parties and grass-roots uprisings are being fueled by many things. Americans are opposing major legislative initiatives such as Obamacare, cap and trade, and card check not just as bad policy, but are also increasingly viewing such policy choices through the text of the Constitution.    . . .

Political movements are not static. They coalesce and even recoalesce. Right now, a powerful movement of this constitutional moment is coalescing. Any candidate not appealing to the heightened sense and awareness Americans now have about limited government by thinking, speaking and acting consistent with the Constitution is missing the tide.

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CHQ - Richard Viguerie: GOP Leaders Wanted

Richard Viguerie: GOP Leaders Wanted
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Richard Viguerie, editor of ConservativeHQ.com and author of the book Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause, talks with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and says, "This 2010 election could make the 1994 election look like a squeaker, almost. I think it could be devastating against the Democrats. But right now the Republicans don't have that leadership there."  Find This Story at News From The Front

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Congress' Ignorance About Constitutional Legislation
ConservativeHQ.com - The American public, in what Wall Street Journal Contributing Editor Seth Lipsky calls a "Constitutional moment," is looking to the Constitution as one of the only available weapons to combat the rapid expansion of Big Government.  Yet, while Americans beef-up on their constitutional literacy, Congress continues to show its constitutional ignorance, and perhaps even contempt.  [Read the Blog Here]

Catholic Campaign for Human Development in Chicago
Spero News - The Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), an annual fund organized by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, is supposed to send a message about the sanctity of life by helping the needy.  Unfortunately, the fund has been used to finance ultra-Left groups that have agendas completely opposite of Catholicism. 

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Effectivepolicy.org - CONGRESSIONAL INTRODUCTION OF THE CONSTITUTION & CITIZENSHIP DAY ACT OF 2009

CONGRESSMAN ELIJAH CUMMINGS (MD-7) TO INTRODUCE THE CONSTITUTION AND CITIZENSHIP DAY ACT OF 2009 TO THE 111^TH CONGRESS ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Washington, DC, September 16, 2009 – Congressman Elijah Cummings' Office with the assistance of the Center for Effective Policy in Government and have been working to draft and introduce 'The Constitution and Citizenship Day Act of 2009'.  On Constitution Day of each year (September 17th), this piece of legislation will provide public and charter high schools with an incentive to expose students to the importance of the Constitution through coordinated assemblies and/or events, as well as to distribute and collect voter registration forms from eligible students of those schools pursuant to state law.

This federal legislation will have a generational effect on the civic education of public school students across the country, and it will ultimately lead to a vast overall expansion of our nation's electorate. This bill is patterned after SB 128, a successful piece of state legislation passed and signed into law in Maryland in 2007 under the same name. Since the passage of the state measure, the Maryland Board of Elections, between the 2006 and 2008 electoral cycles cites a 90% increase in voter registration of 17 and 18 year old new voter applicants in the state.

Organizations and elected officials such as Common Cause, Democracy Matters, The Washington Metropolitan Council AFL-CIO, Hip Hop Caucus, the Student Association for Voter Empowerment, Governor of Maryland Martin O’Malley, co-sponsors Congressmen Kendrick Meek, (FL-17); Charles Rangel, (NY-15); John Conyers,  (MI-14); Eleanor Holmes-Norton, (DC); Maxine Waters, (CA-35); Diane Watson, (CA-33); Donald Payne, (NJ-10); Melvin Watt (NC-12); Andre Carson, (IN-7) all have formally endorsed this important piece of federal legislation that will assist new young voters in becoming fully aware of the document that binds us all in a democratic union and their responsibility within the political process is legislation long overdue.

CoSponsor Letter

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Editorialist: Constitutional Justifications, and Webolutions

Backlash of the Basics
New legislation from Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) will put Congress back in touch with it's long lost father: The Constitution.

In Honduras and Iran: How the Web Can Control Government
The "webolution" has begun. Are you apart of it?

Reid Pushes Hate Crimes onto DOD Funding Bill
The Arkansas GOP Wing mentions Americans for Limited Government's Executive Editor Carter Clews and his piece on the Hate Crime Bill.