The Indianapolis Tea Party

is calling all Hoosiers to rally & tell Congress to…

KILL the BILL!

Featured Speaker:

US Congressman MIKE PENCE

Join us at the Indiana Statehouse as we make a

LAST Stand Against

Government-Run Health Care!

Monday, March 15

4:30 PM

Indiana Statehouse–South Steps

200 W Washington Street

Indianapolis

Please bring signs, patriotic flags, & loud voices.

RedState has the full quote:

“You’ve heard about the controversies, the process about the bill…but I don’t know if you’ve heard that it is legislation for the future – not just about health care for America, but about a healthier America,” she told the National Association of Counties annual legislative conference, which has drawn about 2,000 local officials to Washington. “But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it – away from the fog of the controversy.”

Rational and thinking people would want to, you know, know what was in legislation before it got voted on.

From the Rochester Sentinel:

President Barack Obama wants Congress to vote yes or no on a comprehensive reform measure from the Senate. Donnelly likes a lot about the bill, but its language on abortion is a “fatal flaw.” For him, it is a deal breaker. “I would not vote for it,” he said. He figures there will be a vote within a month or so. The abortion language is unpopular with “a significant” number of congressmen. It has the potential to kill the bill, he said.

And then there’s this:

Donnelly says that health reform is needed, and needed soon. The cost of Medicare is an “unsustainable cost burden” that will “overwhelm” the budget if nothing is done, he said. But, he will not vote for the measure approved in the Senate because of that abortion language.

Medicare is going to go bankrupt, and Donnelly’s solution is to expand Federal health care entitlements to be even bigger?

Congressman Pence was on fire today in his response to the President’s health care speech today.  This is the most worked up I’ve seen Pence.  He assails the president’s call for health care to be rammed through in the next two weeks and reiterates what poll after poll after poll and the election of Scott Brown have said.  And that is American’s don’t want a government run health care system.  But the health care line of the day comes from House GOP Leader, John Boehner said “You can’t add some Republican sprinkles on top of a 2,700 page bill and claim it’s bi-partisan”.

Poor Brad the Beautiful. Without a wave at his back and a weak opponent to let him slide, he’s in deep trouble indeed.

The Courier & Press:

As he begins the statewide roll-out of his Senate campaign, U.S. Rep. Brad Ellsworth is doubling down on Democratic efforts to lower health care costs while reducing the number of Americans who are uninsured.

“We can’t just sit back and stop. It’s not fair to the American people,” he said Monday after a stop at Thompson & Skinner, Inc., an Indianapolis plant that manufactures magnetic materials for military use.

But if they are to do that, national Republicans say negotiators should scrap bills that have passed the House and Senate and start over. Ellsworth, who voted for the health care reform bill that won passage in the House, said he wouldn’t go that far.

“There’s a lot of good ideas in those bills,” he said. “They’re not perfect, but to stop this piece of legislation dead and start over is not the answer.”

Republicans immediately criticized Ellsworth, saying Monday he “let his true liberal colors show” while going against Hoosiers’ wishes.

“I don’t think it’s coincidental that at the moment he most needs the help of liberal Washington Democrats, he’s more willing to sing from their song book while ignoring the broad opposition back home,” said Trevor Foughty, spokesman for the Indiana Republican Party.

That’s what Indiana needs, right? More votes for ObamaCare in the Senate.

Here is the summary of the most important and productive points we need to take away from yesterday’s Health Scare Care Summit:

Wasn’t Obama supposed to supply the first case or two for today’s Beer Health Summit?  I don’t know about you, but I kept this thing on for most of the day while at work.  Was anything accomplished by anyone?  No.  Frankly, today’s summit was so boring the the cable networks were cutting away to their regular programming:

…and television networks eager to cover it at first lost interest as time went on.

By 2:30 p.m., at the opening of the session’s second half, Fox News Channel had shifted to its studio show (occasionally showing a mute picture of the summit on a portion of its screen) and CNN’s Wolf Blitzer was reporting on poll results. Both covered it fitfully in the afternoon. MSNBC moved on to the Finland-Sweden ice hockey game from the Olympics. PBS aired “Between the Lions.”

Online streaming was the best option for people who wanted to watch the session uninterrupted.

Exactly. I ended up watching/listening most of the summit via my good friend, c-span.org.

(Read more after the leap)

The potential exists under Senate rules for Republicans to offer an indefinite number of amendments, effectively filibustering the legislation.

So much for ramming it through in the post-Massachusetts Senate.

A letter in Sunday’s News & Tribune:

Resident unhappy with Hill’s votes

Dear Congressman Baron Hill,

I believe you could save the taxpayers a lot of money if you would just throw the Constitution in the trash, get rid of the House of Representatives, and Senate, with the exception of Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and, of course, the president. They are making all the laws anyway.

That way we could save all your salaries, the salaries of your staffs, the expense of your offices, the expense of all those “fact-finding trips,” their travel to and from Washington, and the expense of upkeep of the Capitol. Perhaps, we could rent it to the Chinese. They will probably be looking for a large office building soon.

You may be able to see the sarcasm in the above statement. I believe in the Constitution, even if you, as my elected representative, don’t.

As I understand that document, you are to represent your constituents, not your leaders. According to the polls, 61 percent of us are against the health care bill. That doesn’t seem to affect you in your vote.

You call yourself a Blue Dog Democrat. Your record doesn’t support that. I cannot vouch for all bills, but lately you have voted right down the line with Pelosi.

The so-called “stimulus bills” have failed, I feel, and now I am hearing that the president wants another one. I have always heard that, “an idiot is one who keeps doing the same thing and expects a different outcome.”

I wish you would take a page from the Democrat’s hero playbook — President Kennedy — and reduce taxes to the people that do the hiring, putting people to work.

Tax revenues go up and we will surely need to have more tax money to pay for all the free money you have given out. This has worked every time it has been tried, so we shouldn’t get a different result.

— Gordon McCall, Charlestown

Exactly. It’s like I said earlier:

Baron is always there when Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi need him.

When the vote margins on the Obama-Pelosi agenda are close or when the issue is important to them, Baron is there.

When they don’t need him or when the issue is minor, Baron makes a big phony celebration of being “independent.”

When Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi needed his vote for the $787 billion “stimulus” boondoggle, Baron was there.

When Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi needed his vote to raise taxes on working Americans, Baron was there.

When crooked Congressman Charlie Rangel needed Democrats to vote to cover up his corruption, Baron was there.

When Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi needed his vote for cap-and-trade to strangle Hoosier jobs, Baron was there.

When Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi needed his vote for a government takeover of health care paid for by slashing Medicare, Baron was there.

When they need him, Baron is always there.

Show me one place where Baron voted against something on final passage that Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi wanted when what they wanted didn’t pass anyway, and it will be the first.

An interesting quote from Bloomington’s Dr. Rob Stone, a vocal advocate for a single-payer, government-run health care system (and a very close friend of Baron, if you go back and rewatch the full video of his infamous Bloomington town hall from last year).

I posed this to [Rahm Emanuel]: “Many Democratic politicians, including our Blue Dog Rep. Baron Hill, tell us in private conversations that they believe we have to get to single payer eventually. What advice would you give on how to get there?” Without a blink, he replied it’s “going to be a long haul”, and if we don’t pass this bill it’s going to be even longer. He asserted that this bill begins building the required infrastructure for any future progress.

So apparently Baron Hill believes that the eventual goal of health care reform should be a single-payer, government-run health care system: fully socialized medicine.

Under such a perspective, I can see how Baron would say that he is willing to vote for any bill that comes down the pike.

It doesn’t matter how bad the legislation he’s voting for is. It just has to move the ball toward socialized and government-controlled health care.