On Dec. 16, 1773, the Boston Tea Party took place as American colonists boarded a British ship and dumped more than 300 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to protest against a government unrepresentative of the people. Today, as the Congress rushes towards a vote to thrust us deeper into debt and burden us with earmarks and pork barrel spending, we hope they’ll think about the Boston Tea Party and all of its implications. Whether Congress remembers the country’s history or not, Tea Party Patriots do, and we are watching them.
Now the bad news, the US House passed a rule called the “Martial Law Rule.” According to a house email sent yesterday to Congressmen: Martial Law: Members are reminded that last Wednesday, December 8, the Democrat Majority adopted a Martial Law Rule. This Rule allows for the consideration of any legislation, at any time, with very little notice, through December 18.
This means that the US House of Representatives & Nancy Pelosi can bring up and pass almost anything without notice – and according to GOP Leadership, Republicans can do nothing to stop them. Furthermore, we can expect them to pull out every liberal piece of legislation because they fear that the Left will NEVER come back into power.
In addition Sen. Harry Reid is threatening to keep the Senate till January 5th, 2011! Which means we must continue the fight through Christmas and New Years!
Game Plan
1. We must halt all bills till January, 2011. The best way for his a Senate Filibuster. This is when one Senator keeps speaking and does not let Senate bring up or pass any bills. An example would be similar to the James Stewart Movie “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.” Unfortunately, there doesn’t appear to be many Senators willing to do this. Now is the time for guts. Two Senators that may do this would be Senators DeMint and McCain. You can read about this rule here: http://uspolitics.about.com/od/usgovernment/a/filibuster.htm Please contact them and tell them to Filibuster!
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Tax Compromise & Republican Pledge
Attacks from right take toll on Obama’s tax plan
Following are excerpts of Tea Party Patriots NoTaxCompromise petition:
Do not let Congress compromise with President Obama. “The Compromise” is against everything the House Republican Leadership agreed to in the “Pledge to America.” This type of behind closed door politics is not what “We the People” voted for in November.
“The Deal” was forged in secret, without consultation with the scores of new representatives and senators who campaigned on a much different agenda.
“The Deal” like Obamacare, isn’t reduced to writing even now. Like Obamacare, we are being told we will have to pass the bill to find out what is in it.
“The Deal” revives the death tax, an immoral “vampire tax” that sucks the blood from the dead, ruins family businesses and double taxes savings that were accumulated over a lifetime.
“The Deal” spends billions and billions of dollars that the country does not have in order to prevent a tax hike that the country voted against…the GOP bribed the president to follow the will of the people.
There are at least five provisions of the Pledge that are violated by “The Deal.”
. Focus on keep pressure on just three key bills. There are 3 bills that need to be defeated and it is coming down to the line on these bills. They are: Dream Act,The Obama Tax Compromise and The Omnibus Spending Bill.
PORK FILLED OMNIBUS BILL
It has become clear that the current Senate leadership and some Senate Republicans may be hearing impaired. They completely ignored the results of the November 2nd election by creating a pork fest with the Omnibus spending bill. It is very important that you call your Senator and ask them to oppose this Omnibus bill. The contact information is listed in a link below.
The Republican leadership is very strongly opposing this bill, but some Republicans are leaning toward supporting this bill and have even added earmarks to the bill. Please call Sen. McConnell and thank him for opposing this bill and encourage him to continue. I have listed the Republicans that are leaning toward supporting this bill below. If you are in their state, please call or visit their local offices and ask them to oppose the bill.
Republicans leaning toward supporting the Omnibus pork fest as reported by several news outlets: (Remind these Republicans the omnibus includes $1.25 billion to start implementing Obamacare and that if they voted against Obamacare, they cannot in good faith vote for the omnibus)
Dream Act Details
We are working with different groups to help defeat the “Dream Act”. Chad MacDonald, with “Immigration Action Report”, has been providing us with daily, and sometimes hourly, updates on the “Dream Act”. The Senate will vote on the House version of the “Dream Act” either this weekend or early next week. Please make calls to the targeted Senators, even if you don’t live in their state.
Update from Chad:
GOP Confirmed Today
Graham will vote NO on the DREAM Act. He is with us on this one.
Scott Brown is a NO, he says the DREAM ACT is a backdoor amnesty.
Kirk is a NO. Good with us.
We are counting that Lugar will vote YES, he will cross the GOP because he is a sponsor of the DREAM Act bill.
Democrats Leaning toward No
Ben Nelson will vote NO on the DREAM Act and anything that does not improve the economy, create jobs, or reduce debt.
Pryor from Arkansas is a NO on the DREAM Act as well. He is with us.
Baucus is leaning NO. He needs to hear from people in Montana only. He’s not listening to out-of-state from either side.
We are hoping Manchin will vote NO, will be a major vote for him, and he is just getting settled.
PROBLEMS
Here is the deal, they need to get to 60 and they are not there yet. We need all 42 GOP to stick together and hold a handful of Democrats to beat this thing. All fire power needs to be focused on the swing vote Republicans!
Target Republicans: Collins, Murkowski, Voinovich, Snowe, LeMieux Target: Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine)
DC Office: (202) 224-2523 State Office: (207) 945-0417 Bangor Email: http://collins.senate.gov/public/continue.cfm?FuseAction=ContactSenatorCollins.EmailIssue Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/susancollins Twitter: http://twitter.com/SenatorCollins
Target: Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska)
DC Office: (202) 224-6665 Email: http://murkowski.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=EMailLisa
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SenLisaMurkowski
Twitter: http://twitter.com/lisamurkowski
Target: Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio)
DC Office: (202) 224-3353 State Office: (216) 522-7095 Cleveland
Email: http://voinovich.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.ContactForm
Target: Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine)
DC Office: (202) 224-5344 State Office: (800) 432-1599 toll free in Maine
Email: http://snowe.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactSenatorSnowe.Email
Target: Sen. George LeMieux (R-Florida)
DC Office: (202) 224-3041 State Office: (866) 630-7106 toll free in Florida
Email: http://lemieux.senate.gov/public/?p=EmailSenatorLeMieux
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/George-LeMieux/153771371660
Twitter: http://twitter.com/George_LeMieux
http://www.SouthFloridaTeaParty.org
http://www.FloridaTeaParty.com
http://www.TeaPartyPatriots.org
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