Stop ObamaCare 2.0: D.C. Activism Opportunity — Tuesday, March 16

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Tabitha Hale of FreedomWorks explains it all:

We are calling everyone that is able to come to Washington, DC on March 16th, 2010 for one last push against Obamacare. We will meet at the Cannon building at 9am and speak with as many representatives as possible, encouraging them to vote NO on this version of health care reform.

Here is Tabitha in the official video announcement:

Smitty and I dropped by Friday to see Tabitha at FreedomWorks, and decided that it was a good time to record an unofficial video:

OK, maybe our version lacks smooth professionalism but it’s got that crucial grassroots authenticity, you see.

Tabitha’s FreedomWorks colleague Nan Swift reports that Tuesday’s forecast in D.C. is 64 degrees and partly cloudy — great weather to go to Capitol Hill and tell Congress to stop this ObamaCare trainwreck.

Also be sure to sign the “No Reconciliation” petition — it’s already got more than 100,000 signatures.

Monumental Greatness

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Smitty has not yet been honored with his own equestrian statue in D.C., but it’s probably just a matter of time. If the federal government wants to “save or create” some more jobs, maybe we can get an earmark for the Smitty Monument to stimulate the equestrian statue industry, which has been devastated by the recession . . .

Of course, the feds could save money by funding an equestrian statue of Harry Reid — a 50% discount, because the sculptor would only need to depict one end of the horse.

(BONUS TRIVIA: Which general is depicted in this superb monument, and where is it located?)

Dude, I Totally Figured Out This ObamaCare Problem

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by Smitty

Rep. Louise Slaughter is such a source of inspiration. See, if you don’t like your existing Constitution, why bother?
Peep this. As a bureaucracy, we remain committed to failing upward. All we have to do is get the Senate to ratify the Treaty of Lisbon!
No one would ever suspect surprise governmental suicide. We could really have the last laugh on these Tea Parties. How could we possibly be more like Europe without actually becoming part of the EU?
Oh, sure, there would be some surprised faces, particularly among the Conservatives, as there would need to be 7 or 8 RINOs in the Senate turned to the cause, but we all know the appropriate clowns to approach.
Once the surprise wears off, we can go throught the chores of actually joining the EU. If we tell them that we’ll feed the PIIGS, they’ll let us in straight away, as long as we promise not to go all Prodigal on them.
I love the smell of a simple solution at an odd hour of the night. It smells like . . . bootybeauty.

Religion, Politics and Tea Parties

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Richard Cizik is a fool, which explains why he’s a go-to source for Ben Smith of the Politico:

“As far as I can tell [the tea party movement] has a politics that’s irreligious. I can’t see how some of my fellow conservatives identify with it,” said Richard Cizik, who broke with a major evangelical group over his support for government action on climate change, but who remains largely in line with the Christian right on social issues. “The younger Evangelicals who I interact with are largely turned off by the tea party movement — by the incivility, the name-calling, the pathos of politics.”

Cizik did not specify exactly where and how he “interacts” with these “younger Evangelicals,” but perhaps he met them through his fell0wship at the (Ted Turner-funded) United Nations Foundation. You reckon he got some of that Turner money for his new organization?

Oh, but global warming wasn’t the reason for Cizik’s split with the National Association of Evangelicals. NTTAWWT. 

Please see my further observations at the American Spectator blog.

Jumping in Pools has a poll on religion and politics.

Klavan

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The Brilliance of Breitbart

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The first time I met Andrew Breitbart — at CPAC 2007 — the recognition of genius was  immediate. Some people are fearful of superior intelligence and others are envious. Admiration is more appropriate, and Breitbart combines raw brain power with a fierce contempt for liberalism and a refusal to be intimidated by power.

This is not to say that Breitbart is faultless or immune to criticism.  It is, however, to say with unexaggerated sincerity that he is a man as potentially valuable to American conservatism today as Buckley was in 1951. One quote from the Wired magazine feature:

“They call us tea-baggers. They call us racist, sexist, homophobic, and we are finally punching back. It’s over, dude. It’s over. You think you’re gonna be able to put the genie back in the bottle? It’s over. And if you don’t like my aggression, there are going to be millions more of me . . .”

You should read the whole thing, and see if you notice the little “gotchas” that Noah Shachtman evidently feels compelled to intrude into the article, such as describing Breitbart as a “beefy 41-year-old” in the third paragraph.

Breitbart is over 6 feet tall and probably a lot less “beefy” than the average 41-year-old. Had he grown up in Alabama instead of Brentwood, Calif., some football coach would have spotted  him in the school hallway and made an all-state linebacker out of him. His most remarkable feature is his blue eyes, which glare with a luminous intensity whenever he begins talking about anything he is passionate about. Yet Breitbart’s owlish eyes go unmentioned by Shachtman in favor of “beefy.”

Such are the little darts that Gulliver must suffer from the Lilliputians . . .

UPDATE: ACORN Baltimore drops its lawsuit against Hannah Giles and James O’Keefe. (Hat tip: Inside Charm City.)

ObamaCare Swindle Makes DC Beltway Look Like a Kiddie-Car Ride

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When it comes to cussing people straight to Hell, the experience of driving I-495 would tempt a saint, but it can’t hold a candle to the spontaneous-Tourette’s factor of Lynne Woolsey’s latest proposal:

As House Democrats press for final passage of a health care bill, a legislative scenario has emerged whereby the House wouldn’t have to take a formal roll call vote to endorse the Senate version of the legislation.
Instead, the House would craft a special piece of legislation declaring the Senate bill to have been passed by the House when the House approves its package of “fixes” under the budget reconciliation process. That would spare House members of the perception of endorsing politically explosive Senate deals such as the “Cornhusker Kickback.” . . .
“I don’t need to see my colleagues vote for the Senate bill in the House. We don’t like the Senate bill. Why should we be forced to do that?” said Woolsey, D-Calif. “But what we need to know, before any Senate bill is passed, that we have enough of the fixes that we’ve asked for, that we will be satisfied with the final product as a beginning for health care [reform].”

Are you saying, you contemptible harridan, that you intend to ram this damnable monstrosity down our throats on a voice vote? Generations yet unborn will  curse the name of Lynne Woolsey.