This is a Tea Partier:
Go with the Tea Partier.
Posted on 11/11/2009 10:22:40 PM PST by Jim Robinson
The Tea Party Express successfully completes its second cross-country bus tour, tonight, in Orlando, Florida. This second Tea Party Express tour in 2009 included 41 Tea Party rallies in 41 cities covering 17 states in 19 days! Woo hoo! My ears are still ringing and heart still pounding!
Thousands of patriotic citizens turned out all across this great land to help us tell Obama & Co that we're fed up and we're not going to take it any longer! We're determined to take our country back from the Marxist usurpers! No more taxes! No more socialism! No more bailouts! No more takeovers! No more big government spending! No more government intrusion! No to government healthcare! Stop the madness and roll it all back!!
We are delivering notices and pink slips to all constitution ignoring usurpers regardless of party affiliation! We demand our constitution back! We demand our state sovereignty back! We demand our individual sovereignty back! The out of control, unconstitutional federal behemoth must be tamed and its constitutional limits restored! We demand our God-given unalienable rights back!!
When the people fear the government, we have tyranny. When the government fears the people, we have freedom!
USURPERS BEWARE!
The Founders rebelled over much less tyranny than we're experiencing today!
DON'T TREAD ON ME!
Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God!
Floridians please join us in Orlando if you can!
Please join and welcome Deborah Johns, Mark Williams, The Rivoli Revue, Lloyd Marcus, Diana Nagy, Amy Kremer, William and Selena Owens, Kenneth Gladney and other Tea Party Express speakers and entertainers to Orlando!
I'll be there along with FReepers Syncro (as Dr. Zoo), Impeach98, Seekthetruth and many others from the Florida chapter!! Look for the Florida Chapter's Free Republic booth!
Thursday, November 12th at 6:00 pm
Rally Location: Lake Eola Park, 195 N Rosalind Ave, Orlando, FL 32801
See you there!!
Wish I could be there!
Ping your lists. Ping, er, call your friends, neighbors, co-workers and relatives. There’s a tea party going on!!
Good Job, Fearless Leader!
Give them a kick in the keester for me, will ya? “This one’s for Grammie”! WHAM!
This is a Tea Partier:
Go with the Tea Partier.
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ToY.....tea and Florida....bump
Hoping we can keep up the anger with both the Democrats and the RINOs! Let them know we have had enough! I really hope this keeps going!
Amen!
See you there Jim.... :-)
Damn this globull warming. Not a single storm this season, and one comes up in November. :)
Give DC hell.
Will see you there! I bow to you, sir!
I’ll be there! Whoo Hoo!! bttt
Veto of federal public works bill
March 3, 1817
"To refer the power in question to the clause "to provide for common defense and general welfare" would be contrary to the established and consistent rules of interpretation, as rendering the special and careful enumeration of powers which follow the clause nugatory and improper. Such a view of the Constitution would have the effect of giving to Congress a general power of legislation instead of the defined and limited one hitherto understood to belong to them, the terms "common defense and general welfare" embracing every object and act within the purview of a legislative trust. It would have the effect of subjecting both the Constitution and laws of the several States in all cases not specifically exempted to be superseded by laws of Congress, it being expressly declared "that the Constitution of the United States and laws made in pursuance thereof shall be the supreme law of the land, and the judges of every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding." Such a view of the Constitution, finally, would have the effect of excluding the judicial authority of the United States from its participation in guarding the boundary between the legislative powers of the General and the State Governments, inasmuch as questions relating to the general welfare, being questions of policy and expediency, are unsusceptible of judicial cognizance and decision."
James Madison
President of the United States
“What defines the “general welfare”?
As James Madison explained, the general welfare is defined by the list of enumerated powers in the seventeen clauses that follow. These include the power to borrow money, to establish post offices, to define and punish piracy, to raise and support armies.
The fundamental point was that the federal government did not possess a general grant of power, but was limited to enumerated or delegated powers. The rest of the general reservoir of governmental power (known as the “police power”) was left to the states. The Tenth Amendment reiterated the point.
The language of the Constitution was quite explicit about this precise to the point of punctuation. A draft of the document at the Constitutional Convention contained a semicolon between the taxing phrase and the general welfare phrase. As an independent clause, the taxing power could have been used for any purpose under the sun. Instead, the sharp-eyed founders substituted a comma for the semicolon, thus tethering the taxing power to the general welfare clause and the enumerated powers.
It is notable that the enumerated powers all involve subjects that are of genuinely national significance many concern foreign affairs, the territories, and the federal district. Hardly anyone would deny that the army and navy could be left to states or individuals. The enumerated powers are also notably specific. Why write that Congress has the power to “provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States” if Congress could punish all sorts of other crimes?
Of course, the list includes the power “to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers.” But this simply meant that Congress enjoyed a choice of means by which it could achieve the foregoing ends.
It is true that, contra Madison, Alexander Hamilton regarded the general welfare clause as a grant of power beyond those enumerated. But even Hamilton agreed that the end had to be general. ...”
Read it all: http://biggovernment.com/2009/10/24/the-education-of-congressman-hoyer/
Alexander Hamilton, in Federalist 22 writes : The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to flow immediately from that pure, original fountain of all legitimate authority.
That’s us. That’s we, the people.
In Federalist 23, he writes of the “principal purposes” of a union of the states: “...the common defence of the members; the preservation of the public peace, as well against internal convulsion as external attacks; the regulation of commerce with other nations and between the States; the superintendence of our intercourse, political and commercial, with foreign countries. “
Those are the principal purposes of our United States government. Not taking over private corporations like banks and auto companies and insurance companies. Or, the entire health care system. Not determining and confiscating the pay of private individuals. Those, my friends are the principal purposes of Socialist regimes.
Consent of the People http://www.wiseandfrugalgovernment.blogspot.com/
You know, folks, time for a little philosophy here.
Government’s role... You look at the Constitution; you read the Constitution. Government’s role is to secure liberty, not seize it. As is stated in the Declaration of Independence, in fact, Americans are “endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights: life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness.”
We all know that phrase. But what follows is just as important. Here’s the whole thing. “Americans are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights: life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. To secure these rights, governments are instituted among men,” da da da.
To secure the right to life, to secure the right to liberty, to secure the pursuit of happiness. “To secure these rights governments are instituted....” The United States government’s purpose is to secure our unalienable rights, not seize them, as socialized medicine certainly does.
That’s self-evident to a majority of Americans and because of that we’re being force-fed a diet of lies from the alleged guardians of our freedom.
The object of nationalizing the relationship between a doctor and patient and putting the government in the middle of it does not bring the object of government, securing our rights, any nearer. Obama’s attempt to seize control of the healthcare industry will put our rights at a greater distance.
Barack Obama feels that is the power of the office of the president. He feels it. He forgets the rights of the people. Our liberties are sacred yet we find them being treated with all the concern of the swatting of a fly by our own president and his political party.
The cost of healthcare is a concern to people, but it’s a red herring as it relates to the relationship of the US government to those who have granted them the privilege as guardians of present and future liberties; i.e., our elected officials.
The president and this Congress are behaving as captors and oppressors. Not only in healthcare, but this whole cap and trade BS, and this must not stand.
Thomas Jefferson said in his first inaugural address that the president was to lead, quote, “a wise and frugal government which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government and this is necessary to close the circle of our happiness.” Now, most of these are felicities, but happiness? Most Americans are not happy with the state of affairs in Washington. In fact, most are outraged and are frightened. Under this administration, our pursuit of happiness has grounded to a complete halt and it’s been replaced with a pursuit of survival.
James Madison, the speech delivered in 1788 in favor of the federal constitution, said: “Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgments of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachment of those in power than by violent or sudden usurpations.”
It’s amazing. Every time you go back and consult Founding Fathers, you find that their wisdom was timeless. Their ability to foresee the future was incomparable. Liberty is the birthright of every American. The usurpation of liberty — whether it be by nationalized healthcare or taxing the energy we need to live — that’s a seizure of liberty. That’s a usurpation of liberty under the false pretense of providing security or “saving the planet.”
Economic security is the role of the private sector. Economic security is the role of the individual. Economic security is the role of a person born with liberty exercising that liberty to secure whatever he can for himself and his family in life. The safety and defense of the country is the role of federal government. Economic security is not. Barack Obama is on a relentless march to weaken the private sector, to deplete it of money and capital, to seize control of our lives. His words may not convey that. His actions, however, establish his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. I am the foreman of this jury and the verdict is guilty as charged. Barack Obama and the Democrat Party are usurping the liberty of American citizens. See, I think that there are millions of Americans who know in their hearts and minds what Barack Obama and Democrats are doing is wrong.
[]I know it. The revulsion that most Americans feel when it comes to socialized medicine comes from the instinctive feeling and understanding in a concept of liberty. We know the difference between securing liberty and seizing it. So the answer is, “No, we won’t.” Our personal liberty is not for sale and it’s not up for a vote. It’s our birthright. We’ve made the mistake of electing somebody who thinks his job as president is to secure his power by seizing our liberty. Members of his party agree with this, and this is the foundational building block of virtually everything that you hear them talking about. I don’t care if it’s immigration reform, cap and trade, nationalized healthcare, the stimulus bill. All of this stuff is designed to... Look, folks, it’s very simple.
Look at the cap-and-trade bill. All it’s going to do is take away more of your disposable income by raising the cost of energy. Energy is something that everybody needs. It’s like food. When you raise the cost exorbitantly on a need like energy, you are going to rob people of disposable income. When you rob people of their disposable income, you’re robbing them of their liberty. You’re making them more and more dependent on something other than themselves to just get by. And if we have a nation of people who are just trying to get by, we are going to cease being America and there will be no such thing as American exceptionalism. I’m not even going to talk about Obama’s motives. They’re not important to me. I know what they are. But I can just tell you that Obama looks out across this country as a giant pot of gold.
He can go get it — from here, there — and he thinks that somehow it’s going to be magically replaced once he grabs it, because his policies are smarter than anybody in the private sector. You know, he’s never run a damn thing in his life. All he’s done is agitate people. He’s never ever run anything. So he can seize little bits of the private sector here, a large chunk of it there. Transfer the power of that particular entity to the federal government where everybody is a brilliant individual, can make it work better than anybody in the private sector. Of course it never works. And to him the private sector is never going to be depleted. There’s always going to be some more of it to grab and put under his control. It really doesn’t matter why. All you have to do is come to grips and admit that is what’s happening.
And it’s time to say, “No, he won’t,” when he starts to gin up this whole little chant, “Yes, we can.”
Friday, June 26, 2009
The Role of Government is to Secure Our Liberty, Not to Seize It
Our Founding Fathers foresaw the dangers of statism.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_062609/content/01125113.member.html
What happened to my picture? It was there when I posted.
See you in a few hours...godspeed!
Hey, James!!
Where are you? Where is the after Rally report?
Hi Jim, Thanks for all you do! I’m working on the committee for the AZ TEA party and we are ramping up to have a great event. Hope to see you there.
East Valley TEA Party Patriots to Help Our
Desperate Neighbors in California!
Environmentalists have pushed the government to shut off the water to 1 million acres of farmland in California (25% of our nation’s produce supply).
Unemployment in the area is now approaching 40%.
California is now leading the United States in the suicide rate.
The environmentalists are trying to shut down water delivery in many more states which will create a bigger crisis!
This is 1 of 60 TEA Parties to be held across the nation to bring awareness and raise donations to aid the California Central Valley farmers and families. Join us to help the farmers and families.
How Can You Help?
Come to the TEA Party Event in Mesa, Arizona
Friday, November 20th from 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM.
We are asking for donations of canned food and money to send to the families in crisis.*
Mesa Municipal Complex
55 N. Center Street, Mesa, AZ 85211
We will be located on the East Lawn across from the library
Music - Speeches - Food
www.savingthevalley.org
www.teapartypatriots.org/FarmReliefFreedomRelay
Yep...to me Obama's most like Mussolini....too many vowels and not enough brains. Another thing in common, nobody likes them. Those that claim to like them were bought off.
Pictures???? Videos????
Where’s the photos, videos of the grand finale??
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