According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, Whore is defined as follows:
Whore: \ˈhȯr, ˈhu̇r\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English hore, from Old English hōre; akin to Old Norse hōra whore, hōrr adulterer
Date: before 12th century
1 : a woman who engages in sexual acts for money : prostitute; also : a promiscuous or immoral woman
2 : a male who engages in sexual acts for money
3 : a venal or unscrupulous person
A male who engages in sexual acts for money, hmmm, does raping the American people in order to get a special deal from the health insurance boondoggle bill of 2009 qualify as a sexual act for money? Well, no matter, the third definition certainly fits the situation if nothing else does.
Ben Nelson Senate Whore
Ben Nelson (D) Nebraska, has decided that being a whore in the Senate is worth it when the price is right. Thanks to his seductive ways, Nebraska will not have to foot the bill for their expanded Medicaid System…into perpetuity.
That’s right folks! My tax dollars and yours will be going to pay for Medicaid in Nebraska while they sit back smoking a cigarette and enjoying the afterglow of Ben’s frolics.
When will this abuse ever stop? When will we, as a people force a change? We need to repeal the 17th amendment and go back to the State Legislatures selecting our Senators and stop them answering only to the special interests that can give them the biggest check. I know that I am not alone, and I am as pissed off as I have ever been with politicians and am ready to put my time, money, and effort behind my anger and work to kick the bums out of office.
At the close of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia on September 18, 1787, a Mrs. Powel anxiously awaited the results, and as Benjamin Franklin emerged from the long task now finished, asked him directly: "Well Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" "A republic if you can keep it" responded Franklin.[From Ron Paul’s ‘Speeches and Statements’] Franklin has also been quoted as saying, “He who gives up a measure of freedom for security deserves neither.” To paraphrase this quote, I would say, ‘he who allows freedom to slip through his fingers in order to take his ease, deserves neither.’
There were fifty-six men who were willing to put their lives and fortunes on the line for the sake of freedom. These are the men who signed the Declaration of Independence, the signing of which we celebrate every year with pic-nics and fireworks. These men gave of their time and money to forge the documents that would frame a new nation the likes of which had never been seen on this earth. They did their best to make sure that their posterity knew the cost of the ink these documents contained because they knew that that which is too cheaply obtained is not cherished. They feared for the new republic.
As a people, we need to re-visit our founding documents, immerse ourselves in the Federalist Papers. Learn our Constitution, and know what our founding fathers were trying to accomplish when they set pen to parchment and ensured there could be no turning back on the course they had set for themselves. We need to understand these documents so that when we see things being done by our elected representatives we can call them on it, stop them from ignoring the ‘rulebook’ and keep them in check.
The three branches of our government are supposed to keep each other in check, but over the past hundred years or so they have been slowly moving towards the center and the lines separating the branches have been eroding. We have to put a stop to it now, before, it becomes evident that Benjamin Franklin’s worst fears became true, and we did fail to keep the republic.
During the past few weeks, as the Pelosi health care bill was being cussed and discussed, I called my Congressman’s office in Washington. First, I wanted to add my voice to the others who were opposed to the bill, but I wanted something more. I wanted to know exactly how they justified this bill constitutionally. The staffer I spoke with told me basically that they weren’t constrained by the Constitution unless they were challenged and lost in court.
I’m sorry to say, that I was stunned into silence when I was told that, but I made up my mind right then that I would do everything within my power to unseat Marion Berry from his seat in Congress. If he can’t read the job description in the Constitution, he has no business being in office.
Our founding fathers struggled for years to get our Constitution right, and get it ratified. It was a new idea, the written constitution, a new idea for a noble experiment. Today, we really have no concept of just how precious our form of government is, or how radically our Constitution changed the world.
Today we are living in a time when our government has slowly been taking over our rights for years. Slowly like the way the Grand Canyon was carved out of the desert by the Colorado River. We have reached the point of tyrannical rule by a single mind-set of liberalism. Oh certainly there are voices on the right that decry the fact that we are being overrun with liberal (to the point of socialist) thought and policies.
Samuel Adams warned us of this in Federalist 47 when he wrote,
The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.
We have a liberal court, an upper and lower House controlled by liberals and the Executive Branch not only has a man at the helm who borders on being a socialist, but he has surrounded himself with socialists, Marxists, and Maoists.
Our representatives seem to have forgotten the fact that they are there in Washington to REPRESENT us, not make rules for us to follow. The power resides with us, the people of these United States, it is time to make sure they hear this in a way they won’t soon forget.
How does Sheila “Cellphone” Jackson Lee have the audacity to stand on the House floor and criticize a private citizen, Rush Limbaugh, for trying invest his hard-earned money in a business venture?
This is a joke yet no one is laughing. We don’t have enough to keep Congress busy that they have time to get involved in a private business venture? This bid to purchase an NFL team is not a matter that affects public policy. There are no national interests involved. By what authority does she stick her official nose into this affair.
Sheila, you need to mind your own business and let the rest of us mind ours! When you stand up in Congress, you are on MY DIME! Sit your happy butt down and shut your pie hole unless someone calls on you!
Once upon a time in a fantasy land filled with wonder, there were journalists who spent their time trying to dig out truth from the flood of statements and declarations made by politicians and others whose actions affect our lives.
Over time, these watchdogs of Liberty slowly gave in to the lure of being accepted into the halls where they once lurked, poking around to find the truth about what was going on. Popularity with the very people they were supposed to be watching had made them soft. They rested at ease as lapdogs for the politically powerful, accepting tidbits of ‘news’ as it was fed to them as absolute truth. They knew that to question the one who gave them the story was tantamount to biting the hand that feeds them.
Look here to see what happens when someone dares to ask a question of Al Gore about his theory of climate change:
Once in a while a true journalist shows up and remembers what those heady days of yore were like, or more accurately, they imagined how those days might have been since they were too young to have known them.
We need to support journalists when they dare to show their heads in this world. Let them know that they too are truly public servants whose job it is to open up the body politic and dig out the cancer that grows in the dark. Open it up to the air so that it can heal. Their job is not to lay on the rug before the fire accepting tidbits from their master, they are to stir around and find out what lies in the dark corners protecting the people from the cancer that is the lust for power that so many politicians suffer from.
After her vote for moving the health care bill to the floor on Tuesday, I wrote the following letter to Senator Lincoln of Arkansas:
Senator Lincoln
WHY?
It cannot possibly work, and you know it will raise taxes. I want answers, and not patronizing ones either! This is socialism, this is an overstepping of authority, and the bill hasn’t even been written yet. Is the Apollo Alliance going to write this one too? What special interests are being ‘taken care of’ with this health care monstrosity?
I want to know, by what authority granted in the Constitution, you felt that you even had a right to vote to proceed with this boondoggle.
Senator, since President Obama first took office there has been what seems to be an organized effort to destroy our Constitution. We were guaranteed the RIGHT to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
What right to life is left when our healthcare is in the hands of a government bureaucrat?
My liberty is being constrained by being forced by government to purchase a product I may or may not want.
How can I pursue happiness when my children’s future is being destroyed by government spending?
Senator Lincoln, I have voted for you in every election since you first went to Washington. Right now, unless there is a major change I cannot envision ever doing that again as I feel as if you have violated my trust and your responsibility.
Sincerely
I’ll let you know if I get answers to anything I have asked
I had to pull the car over onto the shoulder as I was laughing so hard I couldn’t see. My wife and I had just left the house on our way to pick up our daughter from college to take her to the doctor’s office. I had just turned on the radio to listen to Glenn Beck on the way and the first thing I heard him say was that he wanted to break the news and to hang on past the commercial.
Back in the day, back when the residents of our country were still subject to the Crown of England, people were neighbors. They lived in small communities and even the largest of cities were small compared to the standards of today. In fact, many people today drive farther to work each morning than our forefathers could travel in a day.
Damn it! Look, if you have enough waste in government programs to pay for this freakin’ health care program you want, fix the damn waste first! Then let’s talk. Until then, take a long walk down a short pier!
Insurance, a sore subject lately. Mr. President let’s take a look at this shall we? First of all, we are talking HEALTH insurance, not AUTO insurance. They are not the same, and they are not purchased for the same reason. Auto insurance is purchased for the same reason we buy homeowner’s insurance, to protect the lender, that is comprehensive. Liability, the part you keep trying to associate with your plan for forcing us to buy health insurance isn’t to protect our vehicle, it is to protect us from legal actions resulting from our incompetent use of the vehicle.
The first of forty-three installments, each approximately 10 minutes long. You can find them all on YouTube. This is highly recommended viewing, entertaining and enlightening.
Jonah Goldberg :: Cheer Up! The Worst Is Yet To Come.
