ALERT: Did you think that, because Barack Hussein Obama has called for a “bipartisan healthcare reform summit” on Feb. 25th, that the Democrats were serious about starting over and including the Republicans’ ideas in their plans?
Here’s the “trick” that Obama, Pelosi and Reid are planning to use to ram ObamaCare through: it’s called “reconciliation”. As the Wall Street Journal explains, “House Democrats would pass a series of ‘fixes’ to the Senate bill. The Senate would then pass the House reconciliation bill, sending amendments to President Obama to a bill that — strictly speaking — didn’t exist, because it hadn’t yet emerged from the House. The House would then retroactively pass the Senate bill as is.”

So by using the “reconciliation” process, the Senate will only need 51 votes to pass their socialized healthcare bill!

Regardless of the fact that the biggest reason Republican Scott Brown was elected to Ted Kennedy’s old Senate seat was because he promised to help kill ObamaCare — Democrats are still willing to use more corrupt tactics to get it passed! In fact, the liberals on the far left have their own interpretation of why Brown won: “people want more change… bolder change… more populism… and the public option is that in this healthcare fight.” Check out this YouTube video where they state very clearly that the socialized healthcare “public option” is “back on the table” and will be passed by using the “reconciliation process” — because in their minds, that’s what “Americans want”!

Are they serious about using this trick to pass their bill? You BET they are. Nancy Pelosi, on a conference call with bloggers, said, “We will not be deterred from this course of getting something done one way or another, and I’m hoping it will… be mainly by passing the comprehensive bill. That’s our plan.”

Democrat Rep. Charles Rangel of New York stated that they are looking to start the process soon, and that he believed both chambers could muster the votes needed for passage, despite virtually unanimous GOP opposition. And Harry Reid said a scenario in which the House produces a reconciliation package “seems like a strong possibility.” In fact, As of Thursday afternoon, 17 Senate Democrats were pushing Reid to use reconciliation rules to sidestep a Republican filibuster of health care reform.

We CAN still stop ObamaCare, by STOPPING the Democrats from using the “reconciliation” parliamentary trick… but we can’t do it without YOUR help!

TELL CONGRESS TO REJECT SOCIALIZED HEALTH
CARE — BETTER KNOWN AS “OBAMACARE”:
SEND YOUR FAXES, MAKE YOUR PHONE CALLS NOW!

TAKE ACTION: It’s obvious that Barack Obama and House and Senate Democrats intend their proposed “healthcare reform summit” as a public display and NOT a genuine dialogue. But their game has been exposed. Senate Republican Whip Jon Kyl of Arizona told CNN that “they’ve devised the process by which they can jam the bill through that the president has supported in the past, without Republican ideas in it.” But the problem, Kyl said, is that “reconciliation is not the process for comprehensive bills like this. It’s for balancing the budget!”

We don’t have much time to stop the Democrats’ trickery in their march towards socialized healthcare. Congress returns from their President’s Day recess this coming week. We CANNOT let the radical liberals in Congress — and the White House — force this plan for socialized health care on the American people! That’s why we’ve set up our website to enable you to send a strong message to every single member of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, OPPOSING this outrageous plan.

For about what it would cost you in time and telephone charges, you can send Blast Faxes to Democrats, Republicans, Independents — EVERYONE in BOTH houses of Congress, DEMANDING that they REJECT this socialized health care plan NOW!
TELL CONGRESS TO REJECT SOCIALIZED HEALTH
CARE — BETTER KNOWN AS “OBAMACARE”:
SEND YOUR FAXES NOW!
This fight CAN BE WON! Please, take action right away to STOP this bill in the U.S. Congress!

WRONG! According to liberal bastion The New York Times, “President Obama will put forward comprehensive health care legislation intended to bridge differences between Senate and House Democrats ahead of a summit meeting with Republicans next week, senior administration officials and Congressional aides said Thursday.”

But that’s not all they’re reporting:
Democratic officials said the president’s proposal was being written so that it could be attached to a budget bill as a way of averting a Republican filibuster in the Senate. The procedure, known as budget reconciliation, would let Democrats advance the bill with a simple majority rather than a 60-vote supermajority.
So, in other words, Obama is LYING about compromising on his healthcare plans, and Reid and Pelosi are preparing to use a parliamentary trick to ram ObamaCare down the throats of the American people!

Anti-Tea Party Web Site Part of Scheme to Funnel Funds

By Joseph Abrams – FOXNews.com

A new Web site targeting the tea parties is a part of a complex network of money flowing from the mountainous coffers of the country’s biggest labor unions and trickling slowly into political slush funds for Democratic activists.

A seemingly grassroots organization that’s mounted an online campaign to counter the tea party movement is actually the front end of an elaborate scheme that funnels funds — including sizable labor union contributions — through the offices of a prominent Democratic party lawyer.

A Web site popped up in January dedicated to preventing the tea party’s “radical” and “dangerous” ideas from “gaining legislative traction,” targeting GOP candidates in Illinois for the firing squad.

“This movement is a fad,” proclaims TheTeaPartyIsOver.org, which was established by the American Public Policy Center (APPC), a D.C.-based campaign shop that few people have ever heard of.

But a close look reveals the APPC’s place in a complex network of money flowing from the mountainous coffers of the country’s biggest labor unions into political slush funds for Democratic activists.

Here’s how it works: What appears like a local groundswell is in fact the creation of two men — Craig Varoga and George Rakis, Democratic Party strategists who have set up a number of so-called 527 groups, the non-profit election organizations that hammer on contentious issues (think Swift Boats, for example).

Varoga and Rakis keep a central mailing address in Washington, pulling in soft money contributions from unions and other well-padded sources to engage in what amounts to a legal laundering system. The money — tens of millions of dollars — gets circulated around to different states by the 527s, which pay for TV ads, Internet campaigns and lobbyist salaries, all while keeping the hands of the unions clean — for the most part.

The system helps hide the true sources of funding, giving the appearance of locally bred opposition in states from Oklahoma to New Jersey, or in the case of the Tea Party Web site, in Illinois.

To read the whole story go to www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/09/anti-tea-party-web-site-scheme-funnel-funds/%20–%20/

HJR 1054 is still available for a hearing in the House Rules committee anytime within our committee deadline which extends for another four weeks. The practice of placing a bill or resolution on an agenda one week and hearing it in a subsequent week is a common practice.

While many may have assumed that HJR 1054 would be heard this week simply because it was placed on an agenda is a misplaced assumption.

The House is currently reviewing a myriad of state question proposals and viewing each in both the context of each resolutions language and the overall number of questions that could go on the ballot.

Again I can assure you that having a bill or resolution not heard in the first week of committee meetings does not equate to that legislation not moving forward.

Finally, for the record, no one has disdain and concern over “Obama-care” more than I.

Sincerely,

Chris Benge

ACTION ALERT!!!
OKLAHOMA HEALTHCARE OPT-OUT IN JEOPARDY!

Fellow Oklahomans,

Speaker of the House, Chris Benge (R), District 68, has pulled house bill HJR 1054, the Freedom of Health Care Choice Act, from the House Rules Committee agenda. We ask those of you who are against the federal takeover of healthcare to call, email, or visit Mr. Benge to voice your support for the bill and to ask why this important legislation was removed from the agenda.

To read the bill, go to:

www.scribd.com/doc/25904527/HJR-1054-Oklahoma-Healthcare-Freedom-of-Choice-Act

Important News from the
Oklahoma Constitutional Alliance (OCA)

Rally at the capitol on Monday, February 2, 2010, 10 am, first floor rotunda. Be ready to visit your Senator and Representative and start twisting arms. We have a massive legislative agenda including a law that stops Obama Care at the state border.

After a short rally, we go up and pack the House and Senate galleys. If the seats fill up, keep circulating between the two. The legislators will be conducting business, but they will notice a large crowd filing through the galleys. They won’t have time to realize that you are coming in and going back out; they will think there are far more people than there are if we use this trick.

If you can’t attend, please send as many emails and phone calls as you can between 9 am and 5 pm. Pick the email addresses and phone numbers of the state sites show below. Please mention the OCA (Oklahoma Constitutional Alliance) legislative agenda and that you support our goals. Try to get friends and family to attend or call the capitol. This is “do or die” day for the conservative constitutional movement here in Oklahoma.

Find your legislator:

Senate Roster: http://www.ok.gov/redirect.php?link_id=331>

House Roster:

District maps:

HOPE TO SEE EVERYONE THERE!

Margie

UPDATED INFORMATION!!

When: Saturday, January 9th

Where: Coca-Cola Bricktown Events Center
425 East California Avenue
Oklahoma City, OK 73104-4210
(405) 235-1205

Time: Doors open at 6:00 pm
Open Mic begins at 6:15 pm
T-Cam begins at 6:15 pm
Program begins at 7:00 pm

Tickets will be available beginning at noon December 11 from www.Ticketstorm.com

Reserved seating tickets are $20. General admission (standing, no seat) tickets are $10.

Our Headliner will be the band “Overdrive”. For more information about Overdrive http://www.myspace.com/overdriveok

It’s the most wonderful time of the year…..at least that’s how the song goes. For some, it is a very lonely time of the year. Please remember our military men, women, veterans and their families this year while remembering all those on your Christmas card list.

LET’S ALL JOIN GLENN BECK IN AUGUST

On November 21, 2009, Glenn Beck announced his “100 year plan” for America. At the foot of the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington D.C. he will unveil the specifics of the plan on August 28, 2010, the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech.

He is asking us to join him there to witness “the birth of a national movement to restore our great country.”

The OKC Tea Party, in support of this historic event, is organizing bus transportation to and from the rally. More details to come.

Margie
Director, OKC PIA Association, OKC Tea Party

http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/33398/

CONTACT COBURN WITH YOUR SUPPORT!

Oklahoma’s Tom Coburn is an old-school conservative, and an old-school Senator. How traditional can Dr. Coburn get? Politico reports that Coburn wants to read Harry Reid’s ObamaCare bill before he casts a vote on it — and to make sure he has the time to do it, Coburn plans to force the bill to be read in its entirety on the Senate floor.