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The Gettysburg Address – 150 Years and 2 Minutes Ago…

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Tomorrow will mark the 150th anniversary of arguably, the greatest speech ever delivered by an American president but, there are things you may not realize about the Gettysburg Address.

To fully understand the monumental moment in American history, one must first stand back just far enough to see more of the picture.

The Battle Itself.

Gettysburg pitted the Confederate army under Robert E. Lee against the Army of the Potomac under General George Meade.

In all, 170,000 fought in that battle between July 1st and July 3rd and, on July 4th, 1863, Lee retreated but…Not before nearly 1/3 of his army was killed or wounded and…1/4 of the Union forces were likewise.

The dead had been hastily buried in shallow graves and most were either not or poorly identified.

There was a need to commemorate the battle and pay proper tribute to the Union soldiers whose lives ended there, and that leads us to…

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Weekend Edition: The REAL Solution to the Obamacare Disaster

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So…

Obama’s Obamacare “fix” will have the same effect on the Obamacare DISASTER as drilling holes in the bottoms of the Titanic lifeboats would have had in “fixing” THAT disaster.

As Americans are focused, and rightly so, on the most current and direct effects of the lie and bribery induced Obamacare “law” there are other and equally dire implications as well.

Employers, having dealt with the gross uncertainty of the “law’s” implications have already started laying employees off and/or cutting employees from full to part-time status.

Many more have simply put on hold, the inevitable and will make those moves next year as time runs out on their 1 year delay.

The economy, propped up only by the furious printing of money by the Fed remains stagnant because businesses, large and small, refuse to grow or expand due to the overbearing consequences related directly TO Obamacare for doing so.

At this point, the number of Americans that have received cancellation notices from their policy holders has hit 5.1 MILLION and we all know there are many, many more to come.

The rates of Obamacare policies are, in the majority of cases, much higher than folks were paying for their privately held policies and, they simply can’t afford…Obama’s “affordable” healthcare.

There is, in fact, only ONE way to fix this.

REPEAL OBAMACARE…Run all 2700 pages of it and the 18,000 regulations attached TO it through the shredder…Burn the remains and bury the ashes in THE deepest recesses of the sea.

The REAL fix for the healthcare system in America is…

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Weekend Edition: Don’t be Fooled by the Fix

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On Thursday, Obama said…“We are going to solve those problems. We are going to get this right, and the Affordable Care Act is going to work.”

He’s lying…Bald-faced, with purpose and malice of forethought…Obama is LYING…AGAIN!!!

Obamacare is precisely the unmitigated disaster Conservatives have always claimed it to be.

There is no getting around that fact and it matters not the spin put on this economic and personal disaster befalling our nation and the people by liberals and socialists now DESPERATE to maintain their seats in congress.

There are inescapable facts from which they cannot hide.

From the very start…

ONLY Democrats voted FOR Obamacare.

Not ONE SINGLE, SOLITARY Republican voted to pass the bill that nobody was allowed to read.

Not one.

Obama had to BRIBE members of congress from his own party just to get it passed.

The litany of lies emanating from Obama and the Democrats in congress is far too long to reprint again and by now, we all know what they are so, I will spare you the list.

Here is another inescapable fact…

At each and every step along the path to destruction…ONLY the Republicans…The Conservatives and the Tea Party tried to stop this disaster from becoming the reality it is today.

More than 40 times, the REPUBLICANS tried to defund or repeal this disaster and at every step along the way…the DEMOCRATS blocked each and every move INCLUDING the REPUBLICAN resolution that would have SEEN TO IT that ANY AMERICAN WISHING TO KEEP THE EXISTING PLAN AND DOCTORS THEY HAD COULD KEEP THEM.

Now…Obama has attempted to institute a purely political “fix” to the 3 years worth of lying regarding people being allowed to keep their existing plans and the doctors they liked but…Both sadly AND predictably…

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Friday Fume

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Oh boy…Where do I even begin with this week’s list of liberal lunacy???

Nancy Pelosi actually said of Obamacare…“All of the implementation has gone very well.”

I’M SURE SHE ALSO BELIEVES THE PRODUCTION OF “OUR AMERICAN COUSIN” AT FORD’S THEATER ON APRIL 14TH, 1865 WENT…SWIMMINGLY!!!

Then…the crusty old moonbat TWEETED…”FACT: Despite website glitches ­­≈ 1m have applied and are eligible to #getcovered on #ACA marketplaces. 500,000 have already secured coverage”

Ummm She issued that AFTER Sebelius ADMITTED that ONLY 106,000 had…”SELECTED” coverage but, SHE ALSO REFUSED to say how many had ACTUALLY PAID for it.

Obviously, Pelosi is using the same tabulation system liberals used to count the votes in 2012.

AND…

Over in Moscow…Pyotr Pavlensky decided to protest the Kremlin’s crackdown on human rights by…STRIPING NAKED…SITTING ON THE RED SQUARE BRICKS AND…NAILING HIS NARDS TO THE STREET!!!

Ummmm…

First…Just let me say…

YEEEEEEEOOOOOOOWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay…Now then…

It’s not at all unlike the way OBAMA protested CAPITALISM by STAPLING his to a 2700 PAGE SOCIALIST HEALTHCARE MANIFESTO!!!

At least the BOLSHOI stands to get a new SOPRANO out of the deal.

Anyway…It’s been quite the week but, here we are…On Friday and…

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In Spotlight of Truth – Liberals Running From Their Own Shadows

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Liberals and socialists in congress are lining up against their Dictator because they know they don’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell in the 2014 midterms if they don’t.

They are desperate to be seen as standing AGAINST Obamacare…Now…But they and ONLY they voted FOR Obamacare.

That is a matter of RECORD that cannot be run away from.

Bill Clinton came out and called for changing the law to allow people to keep their previously existing insurance because HE’S trying to provide distance for Hillary’s run in 2016 but…

HE is on record of being Obama’s Obamacare MOUTHPIECE in the 2012 campaign and SHE is on record too.

Here’s Bill as late as September 4th…3 weeks before the roll out of Obamacare:

“We need all hands on deck here. The health of our people, the security and stability of our families and the strength of our economy are all riding on getting health care reform right and doing it well. That means we have to do it together.”

And about 4 weeks AFTER the roll out?

“The computer deal will get fixed up. Don’t worry about that, But our side, we’re not so ideological,” said Clinton. “So, instead of bashing them and screaming about how incompetent they were, most of our people just tried to help people understand the law and make it work and then wait for it to get fixed.”

“There’s a big difference in being an ideologue and being practical, putting people first as opposed to some abstract philosophy first.”

On September 13th, just 2 weeks before the Obamacare roll out, HILLARY Clinton stated:

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A Letter to Liberals Flabbergasted by Obamacare

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Dear Liberals Shocked by the Reality of Obamacare,

So…

You voted for Obama in 2008 and, again in 2012.

You have received a cancellation letter from your insurance company even though you liked your insurance and liked your doctor.

You’ve been to the Obamacare website.

It took you more than a month to get on the thing and now you’ve seen the cost of your new insurance.

You’re shocked.

Your premiums AND your deductible have BOTH gone WAY up.

Your new plan covers you for things you will never need but DOESN’T provide the same level of coverage for what you DO need and certainly not the sort of coverage you USED to have.

You can’t afford it.

You make too much for a taxpayer funded entitlement to lower the cost.

You’re screwed.

What do you do?

What DO YOU DO???

You go to the government and demand answers. You go to the government and demand to know how this could happen.

And what is the government’s official response?

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Veterans Day: Thanks is Not Enough

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On the eleventh hour or the eleventh day of the eleventh month…

That was when, in 1918, the fighting ceased in WWI.

It started as Armistice Day…The recognition of WWI Veterans at the time the war to end all wars…Ended.

Over the years and the decades, the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month came to be a day of recognition for all veterans of the United States military.

Today is that day.

There are those, thankfully few and far between, who can’t for the lives of them bring themselves to honor our veterans, and shame on them.

They are the most ignorant of fools and the most foolish of the ignorant.

They are of the ilk bent on burning the flag to make their statements and far, far too knot-headed to realize that those for whom they display their disdain are the very reason they have the right to do so.

To hell with the fools and the ignorant.

Today…

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Weekend Edition: Obamacare Slapping Liberals With Reality

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When it comes to Obamacare and, Obama himself, there is a very telling quote out there from Dr. John C. Drew.

Drew was introduced, by his girlfriend, Caroline Boss, to Obama back in 1980 at Occidental College at a time when Drew himself had just given up the idea that a communist America was possible.

The college student, Drew, had converted. He no longer believed that communism in America could work.

Here is what the now, political scientist and PHD said of Obama in 2010:

“The young Obama was a garden variety Marxist-Leninist. He and Boss and his sophomore year roommate, Hasan Chandoo, believed that social forces where creating an inevitable Communist revolution in the U.S. and that it was important to have a highly trained elite of educated leaders guide this revolutionary process and oversee it once the revolution took place. Remember, this was at the height of the Cold War in 1980. Ronald Reagan had just been elected president and the USSR was still our mortal enemy.”

That quote will not be so important about what it “reveals” regarding Obama’s ideology to those of us who have known it all along but…

It is the last part of the quote and, the date, that will come as a startling revelation to those who have ignored the lessons of history.

Allow me to explain.

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2016 – How to Make Liberals Say, “OH SH..”

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Given the results of the Virginia Governor’s race and the proclivity of the GOP to embrace RINO’s like Chris Christi, I believe we, as the Tea Party, must make some changes.

I have written in The National Patriot of my disgust for the GOP and the RNC and that hasn’t changed but, I do believe there are 2 ways to go about winning.

One way is to go to war with the RNC and the GOP establishment and why not?

They have declared war on the Tea Party and, at first blush, if war is what they want, we’ll give it to them.

Right?

Well…

I believe there is another way.

Put up a front so formidable they will have 2 choices.

Join us or…

Be relegated to the annals of history.

To fully explain this, we must first take a look at recent history.

The Tea Party, an organic resistance to big government, high taxes and government intrusion sprang into existence in 2009-2010 as the force behind trying to stop Obamacare.

The early success of the Tea Party can be seen in the flipping of the house from liberal to conservative control and Obama himself referred to the 2010 midterm election as a “shellacking.”

Then came the 2012 general election and the Tea Party, still green behind the ears…

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