Judge Andrew Napolitano: Regulating Health Care is Not a Constitutional Right of The Government

FreeTheNation
October 02, 2009

Judge Andrew Napolitano gives a speech from the heart about freedom and from where our rights come. The Judge explains the hard core truth about the Constitution and why we must fight to regain and retain our freedoms. Courtesy of www.CampaignForLiberty.com. Edited by FreeTheNation.com
Ron Paul, Rand Paul, Peter Schiff, Tom Woods, Andrew Napolitano and Daniel Hannan are the new FREEDOM FIGHTERS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n2m-X7OIuY

What the Health Care Debate is Really All About

Good article at Real Clear Politics which takes a sensible approach to analyzing the health care cost issue.

What the Health Care Debate is Really All About

While We Scrimp, Congressmen Spent Like Money Grows on Tres

CNN's Cafferty attacks the free spending, junketing liberals in Congress. He's right on this time. ~~~ S. Lane

Global Gun Control Warning

I don't think the facts and warning in this video is exaggerated. ~~~ S. Lane

Michael Connelly on the Health Care Bills

Whether anything can now stop passage of the Obama Health Care legislation is doubtful. However, considering the massive new controls and taxes this legislation would impose on us all, it is certainly worth making that effort, keeping the pressure on our elected Representatives and Senators. This article by retired Constitutional lawyer Michael Connelly underscores the reasons.   ~~~   S. Lane

The Truth About the Health Care Bills

Posted August 12, 2009

            Well, I have done it! I have read the entire text of proposed House Bill 3200: The Affordable Health Care Choices Act of 2009. I studied it with particular emphasis from my area of expertise, constitutional law. I was frankly concerned that parts of the proposed law that were being discussed might be unconstitutional. What I found was far worse than what I had heard or expected.

Mainstream Media Beginning to See a Glimmer -- Quite a Bit Too Late

It seems that at least a few in the major media, despite a consistently liberal bias, are (finally) seeing a few flaws in Barrack Obama. Finally realizing (or finally admitting publicly) that his promises just do not square with reality, with his actions. While this certainly seems like too little, too late, it is at least a bit encouraging that even a few of those who would tolerate no criticism of a man who appeared to be their idol are beginning to realize that he has flaws. I'm not counting on anything here, such as the major media standing up on issues that threaten our Constitutional republic, but even this amount of actual journalistic objectivity is a welcome change.   ~~~   S. Lane

CBS Catches Up with Conservatives and Realizes Obama Has 'Credibility' Problem

Long after conservatives and the American people figured it out, CBS on Monday night came to the realization President Barack Obama has a "credibility" problem fueled by the "disconnect" between Obama's promise to reduce the deficit as he pushes for massive new spending. Back in August, the CBS Evening News denigrated the town hall questioners as "unruly protests," but on Monday reporter Chip Reid warned:

The American people are increasingly questioning the President's credibility. He says the stimulus has saved or created 640,000 jobs, but only seven percent of Americans believe it has created any. And he's repeatedly promised health care reform will not increase the deficit, but a mere 19 percent believe him.

Reid proceeded to relay how CBS News analyst John Dickerson "says for many Americans there's a basic disconnect -- a President who promises to trim the budget but only seems to want to spend and spend." More amazing for CBS, Reid noted how "highly respected foreign policy analyst Leslie Gelb" called Obama's just-completed Asia trip "'amateur hour' for failing to get deals locked in before the President left home." 


Katie Couric set up the story by asking: "Is the honeymoon over? Though President Obama has been in office less than a year, many Americans are growing disenchanted with his handling of the enormous problems he and the country are facing -- from unemployment to health care to Afghanistan." She introduced Reid by worrying: "Are there signs of strain apparent at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue these days?" 


(Meanwhile, over on World News, ABC anchor Charles Gibson fretted over all the "problems" Obama "faces, all coming to a head, it seems, soon. Health care to be debated by the Senate but support could easily unravel, a much delayed presidential decision on more troops for Afghanistan and, on the horizon, the huge ballooning costs of the federal deficit.")

The MRC's Brad Wilmouth corrected the closed-captioning against the video to provide this transcript of the story on the Monday, November 23 CBS Evening News:

KATIE COURIC: Turning to politics now, is the honeymoon over? Though President Obama has been in office less than a year, many Americans are growing disenchanted with his handling of the enormous problems he and the country are facing – from unemployment to health care to Afghanistan. His poll numbers are sliding, and at least one poll, Gallup, shows his job approval rating has fallen for the first time below 50 percent. Chip Reid is at the White House tonight. And, Chip, are there signs of strain apparent at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue these days? 


CHIP REID: There sure are, Katie. The President is getting battered on everything from health care to the economy to foreign policy. Some polls show Americans are increasingly questioning his credibility. It's a speech the President has given over and over-


PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA Our economy's growing again for the first time in more than a year.


REID: -emphasizing the good news and promising to fix the bad.


OBAMA: I will not rest until businesses are investing again and businesses are hiring again and people have work again.


REID: But with unemployment over 10 percent and expected to rise for months to come, he offered no new ideas. He says next week's White House jobs summit will break new ground, but critics are already dismissing the summit as a gimmick. To make matters worse, the American people are increasingly questioning the President's credibility. He says the stimulus has saved or created 640,000 jobs, but only seven percent of Americans believe it has created any [CBS News poll]. And he's repeatedly promised health care reform will not increase the deficit, but a mere 19 percent believe him [Quinnipiac poll].


JOHN DICKERSON, CBS NEWS POLITICAL ANALYST: The more he talks about these hard issues, the less people are buying it.


REID: Dickerson says for many Americans there's a basic disconnect – a President who promises to trim the budget but only seems to want to spend and spend.


DICKERSON: People want something to be done about the deficit, and here he's talking about spending a trillion more dollars.


REID: All this comes as the so-called debt bomb is getting ready to explode. The national debt is now more than $12 trillion – simply paying the interest on the debt is expected to soar from $200 billion to $700 billion by 2019. The President is also suffering a credibility gap on foreign policy. He called his eight-day Asia trip a "job strategy" but came home with little to show for it. Highly respected foreign policy analyst Leslie Gelb calls the trip "amateur hour" for failing to get deals locked in before the President left home. On Afghanistan tonight, the President holds his ninth meeting with his war council, a full month after Dick Cheney accused him of dithering over the decision – and the President says it's still several weeks away.


REID, AT WHITE HOUSE BRIEFING: Are you concerned that Americans are increasingly looking at this President as simply indecisive and uncertain?


REID: It's a topic that dominated today's White House briefing.


ROBERT GIBBS, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: I think the American people want the President to take time to get this decision right.


REID: But while the President is taking all that time, some Democratic opponents of a troop surge are stealing the spotlight. They're calling for a war tax to pay for any additional troops.

— Brent Baker is Vice President for Research and Publications at the Media Research Center

Letter to President Obama - Harold Estes

I checked Snopes on this. According to Snopes the truth of it is "Unverified."  However, everything it says rings true as something a retired Navy Chief would write and it's very well stated.  ~~   S. Lane

snopes.com: Letter to President Obama - Harold Estes

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Here is an email letter circulating the Internet. The validity is still to be determined but the point is still clear.  Source: TCUnation

This venerable and much honored WW II vet is well known in Hawaii
for his seventy-plus years of service to patriotic organizations and causes
all over the country. A humble man without a political bone in his body,
he has never spoken out before about a government official, until now.
He dictated this letter to a friend, signed it and mailed it to the president.

Dear President Obama,

My name is Harold Estes, approaching 95 on December 13 of this year. People meeting me for the first time don't believe my age because I remain wrinkle free and pretty much mentally alert.

I enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1934 and served proudly before, during and after WW II retiring as a Master Chief Bos'n Mate. Now I live in a "rest home" located on the western end of Pearl Harbor, allowing me to keep alive the memories of 23 years of service to my country.

One of the benefits of my age, perhaps the only one, is to speak my mind, blunt and direct even to the head man.

So here goes.

I am amazed, angry and determined not to see my country die before I do, but you seem hell bent not to grant me that wish.

I can't figure out what country you are the president of.

You fly around the world telling our friends and enemies despicable lies like:

" We're no longer a Christian nation"

" America is arrogant" - (Your wife even

announced to the world,"America is mean-

spirited. " Please tell her to try preaching

that nonsense to 23 generations of our

war dead buried all over the globe who

died for no other reason than to free a

whole lot of strangers from tyranny and

hopelessness.)

I'd say shame on the both of you, but I don't think you like America, nor do I see an ounce of gratefulness in anything you do, for the obvious gifts this country has given you. To be without shame or gratefulness is a dangerous thing for a man sitting in the White House.

After 9/11 you said," America hasn't lived up to her ideals."

Which ones did you mean? Was it the notion of personal liberty that 11,000 farmers and shopkeepers died for to win independence from the British? Or maybe the ideal that no man should be a slave to another man, that 500,000 men died for in the Civil War? I hope you didn't mean the ideal 470,000 fathers, brothers, husbands, and a lot of fellas I knew personally died for in WWII, because we felt real strongly about not letting any nation push us around, because we stand for freedom.

I don't think you mean the ideal that says equality is better than discrimination. You know the one that a whole lot of white people understood when they helped to get you elected.

Take a little advice from a very old geezer, young man.

Shape up and start acting like an American. If you don't, I'll do what I can to see you get shipped out of that fancy rental on Pennsylvania Avenue. You were elected to lead not to bow, apologize and kiss the hands of murderers and corrupt leaders who still treat their people like slaves.

And just who do you think you are telling the American people not to jump to conclusions and condemn that Muslim major who killed 13 of his fellow soldiers and wounded dozens more. You mean you don't want us to do what you did when that white cop used force to subdue that black college professor in Massachusetts, who was putting up a fight? You don't mind offending the police calling them stupid but you don't want us to offend Muslim fanatics by calling them what they are, terrorists.

One more thing. I realize you never served in the military and never had to defend your country with your life, but you're the Commander-in-Chief now, son. Do your job. When your battle-hardened field General asks you for 40,000 more troops to complete the mission, give them to him. But if you're not in this fight to win, then get out. The life of one American soldier is not worth the best political strategy you're thinking of.

You could be our greatest president because you face the greatest challenge ever presented to any president.

You're not going to restore American greatness by bringing back our bloated economy. That's not our greatest threat. Losing the heart and soul of who we are as Americans is our big fight now.

And I sure as hell don't want to think my president is the enemy in this final battle.

Sincerely,

Harold B. Estes