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At the close of an address on health reform to Congress, President Obama reminds people: “I will not waste time with those who have made the calculation that it’s better politics to kill this plan, than to improve it.”

“If you misrepresent what’s in this plan, we will call you out,” he adds. “And I will not accept the status quo as a solution. Not this time. Not now.”

He also talks about a letter he received from late Senator Ted Kennedy that was written in May, but delivered to Obama after Kennedy’s death. In the letter, Ted called health reform “unfinished business” but was confident that “this is the year” that it would pass.

Obama also remarked on when it is necessary fo government to step in.

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Barbara Levy Boxer (born November 11, 1940) is the junior United States Senator from California and a member of the Democratic Party. Boxer was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1992, becoming the second female Jewish U.S. senator, after Sen. Dianne Feinstein. She was reelected in 1998 and in 2004 for a term ending in January 2011.

With the convening of the 110th Congress, Boxer became the first female chair of the Environment and Public Works Committee and, following the resignation of Sen. Tim Johnson (D-South Dakota) from the post, she was also chosen as chair of the Select Committee on Ethics. This made her the only senator to preside over two committees simultaneously. She holds the record for the most popular votes in a statewide contested election in California, having received 6,955,728 votes in her 2004 re-election over former Republican Secretary of State Bill Jones.

She currently holds the position of Chief Deputy Whip of the Democratic Majority.

On August 17 at the Republican convention in New Orleans, Louisiana, George H. W. Bush called on Quayle to be his running mate in the 1988 United States presidential election. The choice immediately became controversial. Press coverage of the convention was dominated with questions about “the three Quayle problems”, in the phrase of H. Brent Bozell, executive director of the Media Research Center, a conservative group that monitors television coverage. The questions involved his military service, a golf trip to Florida with Paula Parkinson, and whether he had enough experience to be President. Quayle seemed at times rattled and at other times uncertain or evasive as he tried to handle the questions. Delegates to the convention generally blamed television and newspapers for the focus on Quayle’s problems, but Bush’s staff said they thought Quayle had mishandled the questions about his military record, leaving questions dangling. Although Republicans were trailing by up to 15 points in public opinion polls taken before the convention, they received a significant boost that put them in the lead, which they did not relinquish for the rest of the campaign.

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America’s Freedom Fighter, Larry Greenley, takes a look at the status of the health care reform debate and calls on Congress to let the matter drop in order to prevent an unconstitutional government takeover of the health care industry.

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Approach-avoidance question #499 & #330 in 2007 CNN-YouTube Presidential Debates. Now “Signing Statement 9/29/2009: Public Vote on Congressional Bills” http://healthcare.change.org/actions/view/signing_statement_9292009_public_vote_on_congressional_bills

Constitutional Upgrade 28.0 inserts just 18 hard words into the 1st sentence of the 2nd paragraph of Article I section 7:

…Every bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, OR AT THE DISCRETION OF CONGRESS, EVERY COMPETING VERSION OF A BILL HAVING GAINED THE PUBLIC VOTE MAJORITY, shall, before it become a law, be presented to the President….

Generating a purely psychological restoring force–to the present government by psychological operations. Job 1 of Party machinery is to spin every new idea or issue apart by its extremes culminating in a bait-and-switch, wherein private interest power is retained at the last minute.

Is the Shadow Govt real? Just follow the money trail–until you are told you can look no further. SHAGGED, as it were.

28.0 is purely a psychological restoring force in that Congress has this Option right now without an amendment–as a binding resolution, binding on only Congress itself to pass along the public vote majority winning version of a bill to the President.

The opportunity this 28.0 alternative to the zeitgeist paradigm http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/ offers to the secret-societies is in its anti-SHAGGING effect: The opportunity to conduct the financial global theater of operations under the higher protocols of the more productive Consent of the Governed.

There you have it–fascism and communism stem from the same philosophical roots, and it’s back to them uglies we be charting a course, ya scurvy scoundrels. Or else, here be a new modus operandi anyone with a drop of American Revolution remaining in his/her profile should find a proper Constitutional alternative.

This video appeared several times a night on the background monitors in Paula Zahn’s CNN’s weeklong show explaining the new debate format…and it even seemed like the CNN VP was talking it over one night with the Decision Team: “When he asks that question, they’re just going to…” and then the camera cut away. Well what could any presidential candidate or media commentator say about how a bill really becomes a law…except both parties have America living a lie, and this 28.0 Emergency Spin Recovery Procedure is the only way to pull out of the spin before all this Reagan-emulation finishes flying the whole works into the ground.

The Crisis of Democracy is worldwide–28.0 is the means to regain US Moral Authority after the crash. SunTzu says: Rule #1 in “Art of War” is hold Moral Authority high ground. Once we emerge from what will effectively be ONE WORLD CURRENCY BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDINGS, meanwhile the media expert commentators heads spin faster and faster to throw off blame.

In actual practice though moderation would prevail, since the competing Republican and Democratic versions of a bill would need to be written away from party base extremes in order to gain the public vote majority. In a process that would REDIRECT THE CASH FLOW, effect the line-item veto, and effect campaign finance reform, while pulling out of the CNN/FOX spin.

The reasoning behind this answer/question, is explained way too metaphorically in my book “The Maturing of the Democratic Process” published by iUniverse.com, http://www.iuniverse.com/Bookstore/BookDetail.aspx?BookId=SKU-000045833

As book points out, more amendments have dealt with the extension of voting rights than any other single issue. An NRA would form the next logical term in the series. Which Marilyn vos Savant and Constitutional Law Prof. Jonathan Turley of George Washington University have been asked to comment–also with no reply.

INITIATIVES aka privately written laws are NOT supported. 28.0 legitimizes present govt by competing private-sector polls, and focus groups–now configured to find out what lies to tell to get through continuous campaign election/news cycle.

One thing the conservatives, liberals, and communists all say is eventually their government will “just wither away.” (Sleep with the fish.)

Perspective here is to re-strike balance of power–promoting human-spiritual growth accompanying every step in the extension of voting rights vs. era of govt by psych-ops keeping America in adolescent state via media-generated scapegoats.

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KokeshForCongress.Com – This video was made by a supporter, and is in no way affiliated with the Adam Kokesh campaign.

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Republican Congressional candidate William “Bill” Randall is suggesting that the Obama Administration and BP conspired to intentionally spill oil in the Gulf, resulting in 11 deaths and the worst environmental disaster in the nation’s history. Randall, who has aligned himself with the Tea Party movement, readily admits that he has no evidence that what he says is true. But that is not stopping him from from making the claim as he campaigns for in the June 22 GOP runoff to face incumbent Democratic Rep. Brad Miller on the November ballot. Video is from News 14 Carolina.

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Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) says Washington Democrats’ unprecedented decision to cancel this year’s budget will wreak havoc on our economy and make it even harder to put people back to work.

The House Budget Committee’s top Republican, Ryan says Democrats’ plan to continue their out-of-control ‘stimulus’ spending spree and raise taxes on middle-class families is a “recipe for disaster.”

He also challenges President Obama and Washington Democrats to stop running out the clock and “make the tough choices they promised they would, put moral obligation before political expedience, and focus on what’s in the best interests of the next generation, not the next election.”

With economists saying immediate fiscal discipline is needed to create jobs, Ryan notes that Republicans have already identified $1.3 trillion in specific spending cuts that could be implemented right now.

Rep. Ryan is in his sixth term representing the people of Wisconsin’s 1st Congressional District.

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http://www.mindbites.com/lesson/4301-american-government-campaign-finance

This lesson was selected from a broader, comprehensive course, American Government. This course and others are available from Thinkwell, Inc. The full course can be found at http://www.thinkwell.com/student/product/americangovernment. The full course covers constitutional principles, civil liberties, civil rights, people and politics, choosing representatives, political institutions, public policy, key Supreme Court cases, changes in democracy, and more. The course features three renowned professors: Gerald Rosenberg, an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, Mark Rom, an Associate Professor of Government and Public Policy at Georgetown University, and Matthew Dickinson, an Associate Professor of Political Science at Middlebury College.

Gerald Rosenberg directs the American Politics Workshop and lectures at the law school at the University of Chicago. He holds a Masters Degree in Politics and Philosophy from Christ Church, Oxford University, has a law degree from the University of Michigan, and has a Ph.D. from Yale. As a specialist on the judiciary, Prof. Rosenberg is the author of The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? and spent the 2000-2001 academic year teaching at Northwestern University Law School as Jack N. Pritzker Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law. He has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and spent the 2002-2003 academic year teaching US law at Xiamen University in China. He has also been awarded the Llewellyn John & Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching at the University of Chicago.

A three-time winner of his school’s Outstanding Faculty Member Award, Mark Rom received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Wisconsin and worked for four years as a senior social science analyst for the General Accounting Office. Prof. Rom is the author of Fatal Extraction: The Story Behind the Florida Dentist Accused of Infecting His Patients with HIV, Poisoning Public Health, Public Spirit in the Thrift Tragedy, and coauthor of Welfare Magnets: A New Case for a National Standard.

Matthew Dickinson received his Ph.D. from Harvard. A specialist on the presidency, he is the author of Bitter Harvest: FDR, Presidential Power and the Growth of the Presidential Branch. Prof. Dickinson has published numerous articles and has provided television commentary on the presidency, presidential decision-making, and presidential advisers. His current research examines the growth of presidential staff in the post-World War II era.

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http://transparencycaucus.org/

Transparency Made Easy: How to Make the Government More Open and Accountable.

Harlan Yu, a member of the Transparency Advisory Committee, speaks about the barriers to accessing public court records. Yu is the creator of RECAP, a Firefox plugin that gives free and easy public access to PACER, the federal court record database.

On June 22, 2010, the Advisory Committee on Transparency, a project of the Sunlight Foundation, met with congressional staffers for a focused conversation on issues related to contractor performance oversight, access to federal court records, and online access to Congressional Ethics Information.

We invite your ideas, comments, and expressions of interest for future meetings at act(at)sunlightfoundation.com

Panelists:
*Daniel Schuman, Director, Advisory Committee on Transparency, Policy Council for the Sunlight Foundation, and Moderator
*Scott Amery, General Council, Project on Government Oversight
*Harlan Yu, Center for Information Technology, Princeton University

For more information, please visit http://transparencycaucus.org/

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BREAKING NEWS: We have confirmed that the federal budget planned for fiscal year 2011 has been canceled.

The cause: Washington Democrats’ out-of-control spending spree.

We are here now outside the Capitol awaiting an apology from Washington Democrats for this betrayal of hard-working American taxpayers.

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