Mathew Staver, Founder and Chairman
Liberty Counsel

On the same day that President Obama signed his healthcare “reform” bill in a White House ceremony, Liberty Counsel filed a lawsuit to stop it in Federal District Court. Although socialists may be celebrating their so-called “victory” today, this battle has just begun!  Please read below – Mat.

Friends, I’m sure you are finding it difficult to watch giddy liberal Democrats celebrating the passage of ObamaCare. That’s because you and I know that their “win” comes at the expense of our Constitution and through the complete marginalization of the will of the American people.

Here are just a few of the realities that make this such a bitter experience:

Fact One:  ObamaCare was unconstitutional from the beginning!  Congress NEVER had the power to force Americans to buy health insurance or to force employers to provide health insurance.

Fact Two:  It is always difficult for Americans to watch cheaters win.  That’s why we insist on placing asterisks after questionable records.  And we all know this bill was passed under extreme “Chicago Rules.”

Fact Three: No Democrat has yet come up with a credible estimate of what this monstrosity is going to cost. When it comes time to actually pay for ObamaCare, Americans are going to have the biggest case of buyer’s remorse in our nation’s history.

Fact Four: All across America, men and women of good will are asking themselves how they can live with the fact that their tax dollars may soon pay for abortions.

Friends, those are just a few of the reasons why Liberty Counsel filed our lawsuit…and why it MUST succeed.

Socialists twisted the system to get their prize.

Only by using the convoluted combination of “reconciliation” (that was never meant to be applied to this sort of legislation) and the threat of using the “Slaughter House Rule” (set aside only after Democrat leaders were assured of the “Stupak Sellout”), this so-called victory was disgracefully obtained.

That’s not “sour grapes”… that’s the plain truth. And with a CNN poll taken the day after the House vote showing 59% of Americans are still in strong opposition to ObamaCare, Barack Obama has been forced to go back on the campaign trail to try to “sell” his socialization of American medicine.

That means we’re in for more, “let me do a better job of explaining why you’re going to love this plan” speeches and other condescending, arrogant assertions.  Please, Mr. President, we “get it” just fine.

Americans have lost confidence in the legislative process.

At every step of the way in ObamaCare’s long march through Congress, the liberal Democrat leaders used trickery, overt manipulation, and out-and-out vote buying to thwart the American people’s clearly expressed opposition to their socialist takeover of our medical system.

Here’s what the 111th Congress has forced down our throats:

• Abortion coverage Americans don’t want
• Exorbitant costs Americans don’t want
• Mandatory participation Americans don’t want
• New federal bureaucracies Americans don’t want
• A vast expansion of IRS power Americans don’t want

Our Constitution has been subverted right before our eyes.

Friends, the “checks and balances” our Founders gave us are being systematically overpowered and dismantled by the Obama/Pelosi/Reid power axis.  Never before has
the will of the American people been so completely marginalized.

Liberty Counsel has filed our complaint in order to protect the American people from a total government takeover.  I am not being an alarmist – the very survival of the constitutional republic our Founders gave us hangs in the balance!

ObamaCare is unconstitutional!  If Congress has the power to FORCE each person to have health insurance, then individual liberty is totally meaningless.

That’s why we need hundreds of thousands of Americans to sign our Statement of Support for this litigation. Given the sad spectacle we saw play out in the House of Representatives this weekend, we must now win this battle in a court of law.

If you haven’t done so already, please click below to sign your official Statement of Support.  If you have already signed, PLEASE forward this entire message to as many like-thinking friends as possible:

http://www.libertyaction.org/310/petition.asp?rid=23597880

ObamaCare was unlawful from its conception.

There were MANY reasons why Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi allowed no one but their closest insiders — and the White House arm twisters, of course — to participate in developing and managing ObamaCare. For one thing, its “Tooth Fairy” accounting couldn’t stand up to even mild scrutiny.

But the biggest reason was that Congress had NO AUTHORITY to force its socialist healthcare agenda on citizens and businesses in the first place!

The bill that passed the House of Representatives on Sunday night is unconstitutional because:

1. Congress has NO authority to force every American to carry insurance coverage, and,
2. Congress has NO authority to fine employers whose policies do not have the mandated coverage.

No matter the desires of Obama, Pelosi and Reid, there are some things Congress just cannot do!  And the threat to our liberty posed by ObamaCare goes FAR beyond healthcare.  If Congress can get away with this expansive power grab, then individual liberty and state sovereignty will soon vanish.

Nancy Pelosi said as much last week when she told reporters that after “kicking down the door” with ObamaCare, her Congress will push through the rest of its ultraliberal agenda.

EVERY version of the “healthcare reform” bill this Congress produced – even considering whatever “reconciliation” issues are eventually appended to the Senate version – is patently unconstitutional!

Friends, this monstrous, anti-life, anti-family healthcare bill MUST now be strongly challenged in the federal judiciary. Liberty Counsel is doing exactly that!

The battle over ObamaCare is just beginning.

Now more than ever, the socialists and abortion advocates need to understand that WE HAVE NOT GIVEN UP and will resist implementation of ObamaCare to the very end.  Now WE’LL SEE THEM IN COURT!  And we have an excellent chance of winning our federal lawsuit.

Here’s what I’m asking you to do…

1. Sign the Statement of Support for our lawsuit.  If you have already done so, please forward this message to twenty or thirty like-minded friends.

   We want to deliver hundreds of thousands of these Statements to all the key plotters behind ObamaCare.  Reid, Pelosi, Obama and all their confederates need to know they’re not going to get away with this travesty!  Go here right now:

   http://www.libertyaction.org/310/petition.asp?rid=23597880

2. Call your Representative’s and your Senators’ offices.

   Please… take a moment to call your Representative and your two Senators and let them know you are OUTRAGED by the way ObamaCare was handled.  Then let them know you will be supporting litigation against this unconstitutional bill.

   • Sen. Feinstein          202-224-3841
   • Sen. Boxer              202-224-3553
   • Rep. McClintock         202-225-2511
3. Pray for Liberty Counsel’s success in court.  Pray for God’s deliverance from being forced to pay for abortions and from the overt deceit and trickery that has become the norm from the Obama/Pelosi/Reid power axis.  PLEASE keep the heat on, especially now that the socialists have played their hand.

And, of course, this litigation is going to be very expensive.  Please prayerfully consider a significant gift to help offset Liberty Counsel’s expenses to mount a major constitutional challenge to ObamaCare.

I have appended a copy of Liberty Counsel’s official News Release about our lawsuit next to your Statement of Support. You can see it and sign your Statement of Support for litigation against ObamaCare by going here:

http://www.libertyaction.org/310/petition.asp?rid=23597880

Now is NOT the time to be silent!  Join like-minded Americans who will be putting the plotters on notice that we have filed a federal lawsuit to stop this power grab once and for all.

God bless you,

Mathew Staver, Founder and Chairman
Liberty Counsel

P.S.  This battle is NOT over, no matter how much the Pelosi/Reid/Obama power axis wants us to think that it is. Sign your Statement of Support for our lawsuit so we can win this phase of the battle in court and in the court of public opinion!

And please pray! There is always hope in God! Also, let your Senators and Representative know that you WILL hold them accountable for their decisions on ObamaCare and its outrageous handling.  WE MUST NOT SUBMIT to this tyranny! Once again, thank you for praying and speaking out.

Last night, the House of Representatives passed ObamaCare by a vote of 219-to-212. The most bi-partisan aspect of the bill was the opposition to it. Republicans voted unanimously against it and they were joined by 34 Democrats. This bill raises taxes by more than $500 billion. It imposes new taxes on investments and new fines on businesses. It imposes unconstitutional mandates on Americans and funds abortion. This is what happens when liberals get power.

In a weekend of outrageous statements, the worst was to hear Obama and Pelosi describing their takeover of nearly 20% of our economy in the language of liberty. They cloaked one of the biggest expansions of government and retractions of liberty in our nation’s history in conservative rhetoric. For example, Nancy Pelosi hailed the vote as “great act of patriotism.”

After the House vote, President Obama said, “We proved that this government — a government of the people and by the people — still works for the people.” But the American people didn’t want this bill. The latest Rasmussen poll found that likely voters opposed it 41%-to-54%. In fact, there is not a single poll the president can point to in the past 60 days that shows public support for the legislation that passed last night.

Conservatives did everything in their power to stop socialized medicine. The reconciliation process used to circumvent conservative efforts is proof of that. And while the Left is celebrating today, it has damaged our democratic republic in the process. The bill was written behind closed doors. Committee hearings were a charade. It passed the Senate not because of the legislation’s merits, but because of special deals and kickbacks. Until the national uproar, Speaker Pelosi had planned on passing it without even voting on it.

When a Republican doesn’t vote consistently for conservative principles, he is called a RINO – a Republican In Name Only. I don’t know what you call a Democrat who betrays his core principles, but this bill should be called the “Stupak Abortion Subsidy Act.”

Rep. Bart Stupak has been elected to Congress as a Democrat since 1992 in a relatively conservative district. But he was always pro-life. Yesterday, Stupak sold out his pro-life values for an executive order from the most pro-abortion president in history. An executive order cannot override legislation. That’s why the Hyde Amendment was so important and has been reaffirmed by every Congress for more than 30 years. The Senate bill funds abortion, which is why Stupak consistently said he was a “No” vote until the very end.

My friends, this is just the beginning. Obama said recently that he was going to wear us down. The Left isn’t done. Immigration “reform” is next. This is gut check time for our values and American Values is not giving up. We have serious concerns with the constitutionality of the healthcare legislation, as do several states. We are exploring various legal avenues to continue the fight for our values in the courts.

Now if your reaction is to throw your hands up in despair, give up and walk away, then the Left has worn you down. But if your reaction is to recommit to the values we cherish and fight even harder, then it’s not too late to make America the “shining city upon a hill” our Founding Fathers envisioned. I’m not giving up and I pray you will continue to stand with me!

On Monday, Senate Democrat Leader Harry Reid announced a grand compromise on healthcare “reform” legislation. To please the leftwing base of his party, Reid’s bill would include a government-run public option – the first step toward socialized medicine in America. That’s not my opinion, but Barney Franks’. To attract the votes of moderate Democrats, Reid announced that his plan would allow states to opt-out of the public option.

The state legislature would have to vote on legislation to opt-out, and the governor would have to sign the opt-out bill. But here’s the catch: There is no opting-out of the taxes to pay for this new $1 trillion entitlement program. All the taxes and penalties would remain in effect, so citizens of states that opt-out would still end up paying for a program they can’t access. As Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) said, “the big [liberal] states will [opt-in] and the rest of us will end up paying for their excesses.” Remember what happened to the conservative governors who tried to “opt-out” of the stimulus money?

Last night on MSNBC, leftwing radical Ed Schultz was effusive with praise for Harry Reid’s “opt-out” deception. Schultz stated flatly what drives liberal politics: get constituents hooked on government programs and you have a guaranteed voting base. Schultz said of the public option:

“This is a great move by the Democrats. …Once you give it [the public option] to them, they don’t want to give it up. That’s the way it’s gonna be. I think this is a great move by Harry Reid. The public option is a public option. And it is – it is – the first step toward single payer [socialized medicine]. That’s what we progressives want. This is just the road to get there.”

It couldn’t be clearer than that. Liberal politicians and leftwing progressives are taking us down the road toward socialism, toward confiscatory tax rates, even bigger government, greater spending and more debt.

Your freedom is at stake. The standard of living you have enjoyed will be denied to your children and grandchildren if this new trillion-dollar entitlement program passes. And the quality of healthcare that is available today will be destroyed if government gets involved.

Compared to other proposals the administration has thrown at the American people this past year, the home buyer tax credit was not bad. Unfortunately, the government could not even effectively run this program.

New home buyers would receive up to $8,000 in tax credits under the plan. The money was supposed to be available for first-time buyers who bought a primary residence after April 9, 2008, and only individuals making less than $75,000 or couples making less than $150,000 would be eligible. However, during a Ways and Means oversight subcommittee hearing yesterday, House members were informed that thousands of fraudulent claims were made.

The Treasury Department said that at least 19,000 filers who had not bought homes claimed $139 million in tax credits and were in turn reimbursed. An additional 74,000 tax-credit claims, totaling $500 million, could become invalid because of previous home ownership. Even more surprising, 500 people under the age of 18, including a 4-year-old child, had their names on applications for the credit, which has no minimum-age requirement according to federal officials. Evidently some adults used a child’s name as the purchaser of the home because they were ineligible to receive the credit due to their incomes.

Many of these fraudulent claims occurred before the IRS had updated their computer programs. If they had done this correctly, the program would have automatically checked the claims to ensure that they were valid based on the information submitted.

When added up, the total potential waste of your tax money from fraudulent home-credits could be upwards of $639 million. This is the same government that wants to take over our entire healthcare system! We have seen the government’s ineptitude in recent months with cash-for-clunkers, a behind schedule H1N1 flu vaccination and now this. When will liberals in Washington learn that government isn’t the solution to every problem? As my former boss Ronald Reagan correctly said, “Government is the problem.”

ABC’s one hour infomercial with President Obama promoting his socialized healthcare plan was a ratings bomb for the network. Despite airing in primetime at 10 p.m. on Wednesday, the president attracted fewer than 5 million viewers. The show had the lowest ratings of all the major networks for that hour. It wasn’t as if the other networks aired their most popular shows either. NBC debuted a new show titled “The Philanthropist” and CBS aired a repeat episode of “CSI: NY.”

It appears the American people are getting sick of seeing Barack Obama everywhere. The argument the major news networks use when they receive complaints for giving Obama too much air time is that he is a ratings booster. That argument has lost credibility after Wednesday’s bomb. It is getting harder and harder for Big Media to disguise its true intentions, which is to promote a radical leftwing agenda to the American people. But evidently the American people aren’t that interested in the new ABC — the “All Barack Channel.”