Action Alerts, Debate Videos and a big thank you to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow: I’m a Tenther!
on March 24th, 2010 at 8:14 pm
Check out this blog entry from Rachel Maddow on MSNBC.com. Since like 24 people watch MSNBC, you probably missed this, but Maddow is equating Ken Cuccinelli and the rest of us that are fighting for our 10th Amendment rights to “truthers.”
Maddow users the term “tenthers” to describe us. As if believing in the 10th Amendment is equivalent to believing that 911 was an inside job. That is the metality of the left. And these are the kind of people that are attacking Ken Cuccinelli as he fights to protect our 10th Amendment rights. And according to Ken his office is being inundated with hateful emails and calls.
I don’t know about you but:
I’m Proud to be a Tenther!
We are going to make some T-Shirts proclaiming that we are tenthers…look out for them on our online store soon.
Show your suppport for Ken Cuccinelli by signing this petition today. Have your friends, relative, co-workers and everyone you talk to that’s angry about Health Care “reform” sign it. We need to make sure everyone in the USA knows that we suppport our Attorney General.
Contact his office in Richmond to voice your support for his legal challenge in defense of the citizens of Virginia.We are not only fighting for our rights…but the success of this lawsuit can change the course of our entire nation. While the petition is not strictly necessary, we need to ensure that our leaders don’t lose heart when the enemies of freedom attack and distort Cuccinelli’s record.
Spread this far and wide!
The Roanoke Tea Part co-sponsored a debate between candidates for the chair of the Botetourt County Republican Party and the 6th Congressional Disctrict Republican Party. The video is now available on line and on Valley Vision TV.
The Roanoke Tea Party does not have a position on these internal GOP positions. However, many of our members have expressed an interest in participating in upcoming mass meetings. While leadership of the Tea Party will not engage in these meetings, we certainly encourage our local members to attend the meetings. We offer this video to give you some insight into the candidates so you can make up your own mind, if you are interested in attending a mass meeting.
Here is contact information for all 4 candidates.
Botetourt County Chair
6th District Chair
UNCONSTITUTIONAL seems to be the buzzword meant to summarize the position of those opposed to health-care reform. Typical that issues involving MONEY bring protests yet issues involving FREEDOM elicit nothing. The federal government disregarded the constitution approximately 100 years ago with the stirrings of prohibition. The federal government controls all of you. The “Tea Party” is NOT a genuine grassroots political movement. The American sheep do not care when the government takes away rights, they do not care when the government taps their phones or reads their mail and there is little protest when their children are sent to a foreign country to die for big oil interests. What gets the attention of the sheep? The same companies that lobby (BRIBE!) congress in order to control them run some commercials on TV stating health-care reform is so undesirable (poor insurance companies that benefited from the bail-out will not make as much profit) and the masses get so upset that they actually take an interest in government. I’m not saying that this applies to all of you but it certainly applies to most. IF THE TEA PARTY OR ANY OTHER GROUP WANTS TO TAKE POLITICAL ACTION TO RESTORE OUR CIVIL LIBERTIES THEN I’D BE INTERESTED.
Whoever the A-HOLE is that messed with Rep Periello’s brother better learn to restrain their criminal behavior. I voted for Tom and have to say he’s following through on EXACTLY what he said he would do if elected. HOW MANY IN CONGRESS EVER DO THAT? Whether you agree with Mr. Periello or not HE DESERVES YOUR RESPECT FOR NOT BEING A TYPICAL POLITICIAN. The people of this country need to wake up and realize that health-care reform is the least of America’s worries.
I disagree with so much of your post…but let me hit on a few key points.
Our position against the use of violence is on the front page of our site…enough said.
Health care reform is about money and freedom. It is going to wreck the best health care system in the world, instead of fixing it’s warts, have the government control 1/6 of the US economy and wreck the Constitution. I would say that that constitutes something to be very worried about.
Insurance companies aren’t the biggest issue and their ads haven’t somehow caused millions of people across the country to join the tea party movement. Special interest groups do that all of the time….what you are seeing is an unprecedented paradigm shift in the US body politic. From being sheep…to rising up and taking control of our country back.
The Republicans biggest mistake in fighting the health care bill was not focusing more on the Constitutional issue. All of the bad things that are in the bill are certainly worthy of disdain, but it is a moot point if the whole concept of the bill violates the 10th Amendment of the Constitution. Now it looks like a ploy…since they lost the legislative fight.
The Constitution matters. The bill requires people to purchase something. The Feds are using the Commerce Clause that allows the US government to regulate interstate commerce as their justification for usurping states rights that are laid out in the 10th Amendment. But if I choose not to buy health care coverage, there is no commerce? So how can you use the commerce clause for that? It makes zero sense and that is why the bill is patently unconstitutional.
As big an issue as health care is
The Roanoke Tea Party has always been focused on the Constitutional issues and if you were to review past blog entries on our site….you’ll see it is a recurring theme. That is why, while others were focused on the bills specific language, we and other Tea Party groups were in Richmond helping to get the Health Care Freedom Act passed so that the state has the basis in place to fight constitutional issue in the Federal Court system and through nullification at the state level.
The Constitution matters. As big of a deal as the health care bill is, it pales in comparison to the long term negative affect of allowing this law to stand. Because if the Federal Government can compel you to purchase something against your will with the threat of fine or imprisonment, that destroys the last vestige of constraint on the Federal government. It destroys the very contract that we have between the government and the governed. The 10th Amendment matters. The US Constitution matters.That is why I am proud to call my self a 10ther.
The real sheeple are those that will allow the Federal Government to have practically dictatorial powers…and not expect them at some point to use that power to control the US citizenry. Socialists know they can’t push their agenda through democratically…so they will cram it down our throats…just like they did with Obamacare.
I am appalled by what happened to Periello and to Eric Cantor as well. But Periello is a typical politician. He was put into power with a huge infusion of DNC cash, He is beholden to Nancy Pelosi. He knows that his support of Cap and Trade has already damned him forever with conservatives…so he voted for health care to secure his base. Now he’ll run a campaign trumpeting his political courage. Hogwash.
I respect your passion, but you are misinformed. Hopefully, you can keep reading our site material and get your facts straight.
Chip Tarbutton
Roanoke Tea Party
here is the link to the official timeline breakdown done by the house ways and means committee http://republicans.waysandmeans.house.gov/UploadedFiles/WM_hcr_timelinel.pdf
Let this thread serve as an example to those who would like to post here with a respectfully worded opposing viewpoint – note that the moderator let the post stand on it’s merit, rather than censor that which we disagree with.