Wilson County Tea Party Reports – YOU DECIDE!

IMPORTANT INFO FROM TEA PARTY PATRIOTS

Today, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 5 Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-cost, Timely Healthcare (HEALTH) Act of 2011to repeal the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) or as Governor Palin referred to them as “death panels.” The bill will NOT repeal the entire law. While the original bill initially focused on IPAB only, the bill now has medical malpractice reform attached to it, which would take the authority to create tort law (i.e. medical malpractice) from the state and hand it over the federal government. This is an outright violation of the 10th Amendment.

Although I suspect their opposing votes were for VERY different reasons, 6th District Rep. Diane Black voted FOR this bill and 5th District Rep. Jim Cooper voted AGAINST it.

You need to decide if your Congressman voted correctly or not.

Here is the good, the bad, and the ugly.

THE GOOD

-The Independent Payment Advisory Board could potentially be repealed, and we would not have to worry about “death panels” making end-of-life decisions.
-Independent Payment Advisory Boards are one of the many unconstitutional federal government overreaches within the ObamaCare law. Repealing this overreach would be a good thing.
-Even Democrats have said this should be repealed. Georgia Democrat Congressman David Scott is one of the co-sponsors of the bill.

THE BAD

-The malpractice reform will affect not only federal law but also state law. It would take the authority to create tort law (i.e. medical malpractice) from the state and hand it over the federal government. This is an outright violation of the 10th Amendment.
-This brings to question a new unconstitutional overreach of the federal government, which goes against our core value of constitutionally limited government.
-By attaching the medical malpractice reform to the Independent Payment Advisory Board Repeal bill, it virtually guarantees passage in the Republican-controlled House and failure to pass in the Democratic-controlled Senate.

THE UGLY

-The malpractice reform contains two components that are troubling. The first is that it is federal malpractice reform, even though tort law is supposed to be made at the state level. Second, not only will it affect federal law but, it goes a step further and overrides existing state law! This brings to light a new unconstitutional overreach by the federal government, violating our core value of constitutionally limited government.
-And by attaching the medical malpractice reform to the Independent Payment Advisory Board Repeal bill, it virtually guarantees passage in the Republican Controlled House and failure to pass in the Democratic Controlled Senate. (Of course the Democrats wouldn’t oppose this because it’s an unconstitutional overreach, but because they are indebted to trial lawyers and do not support any medical malpractice reform.)
-If the Independent Advisory Board Repeal did actually pass all the way through to be signed into law by the President, the rest of the ObamaCare law would still be law.
-There are several groups who think that piecemeal repeal will prevent the rolling back of government controlled health care in its entirety and very likely ensures that it will NEVER be fully repealed.
-Adding malpractice reform to the law knowing it will fail in the Senate is more business as usual in Washington, DC. It winds up being show votes that benefit the Ruling Elite. When running for re-election this fall, the Republicans can say they wanted to repeal death panels but the Senate Democrats prevented it. The Democrats can say they wanted to repeal death panels but the Republicans allowed politics to get in the way and muddy the issue. Both parties keep their current elected officials in office because their constituents think the other party is to blame, and the elites in both parties get to keep the law in place. In the end, Americans suffer the consequences while the Ruling Elite sit comfortable in control of our lives.

SO, DO YOU SUPPORT PASSAGE OF THIS LEGISLATION EVEN THOUGH IT CONTAINS AN EGREGIOUS 10TH AMENDMENT VIOLATION?

We believe that this bill could have passed in the Republican-controlled House without ANOTHER blatant violation of our Constitutional rights!

A 200 page document has been issued outlining the issue positions of Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney.

If you are unsure whether or not Mitt Romney is the candidate for you, we urge you to take a look at his political positions through the years.

Romney Political Positions

We need your help!

We have been asked to participate in a petition drive to stop the encroachment of the Agenda 21 program on our lives by making a plea to our legislators to do whatever is necessary to protect us from this horrific program. Agenda 21, once described as an ‘all encompassing tyranny’ is an United Nations-backed program designed to eliminate just about every individual right that we currently enjoy.

This is how AmericanPolicy.org defines the Agenda 21 project (otherwise known as ‘sustainable development’):

“According to its authors, the objective of sustainable development is to integrate economic, social and environmental policies in order to achieve reduced consumption, social equity, and the preservation and restoration of biodiversity. Sustainablists insist that every societal decision be based on environmental impact, focusing on three components; global land use, global education, and global population control and reduction.”

Read the entire description of the Agenda 21 project here.

The petition drive will take place at our January 23rd WCTP meeting (more info here). We ask you to PLEASE attend & participate in our petition drive!

The State Senate and House approved the new redistricting plans this past week with only a few minor changes.

These maps will be used in the 2012 election process this fall.

The TN State House has released their redistricting map.

Middle TN old map

Statewide new map

The TN State Senate has released their redistricting maps.

Middle TN old map

Middle TN new map

For more info on other Senate redistricting info, please click here.

Wilson County will remain in District 17 (currently Mae Beaver’s district). Senator Beaver’s district will remain relatively intact other than the loss of Trousdale County (which will move to the 18th district).

The Congressional redistricting map for TN was recently released based on 2010 Census statistics. According to the Republican majority, it will correct some of the gerrymandering in the previous district divisions that were designed to keep the left in power. (Article)

Current map

New map

In a move welcomed by many conservative voters in the west part of Wilson County, the new map eliminates the Congressional split in Wilson County between the 5th and 6th Congressional District. It will be incorporated into the 6th District.

March 6, 2012 is Primary Election Day in Tennessee!

To assist you in determining which candidate to vote for, we’ve put together these 2 charts comparing the campaign platforms of six of the top candidates for the Republican Presidential nomination. The first eight rows under each candidate lists their campaign promises and beliefs as outlined on their campaign website. We have taken the words from their websites as much as possible.

The remaining two rows contain bits of info NOT provided by the candidate but are items we believe are critical to understanding the candidate.

We urge you to compare the positions of each of these candidates before arriving at your voting decision. We also encourage you to investigate other candidates running for this position who are not listed on these charts such as Jon Huntsman, Gary Johnson and others.

Each chart contains 3 of the Republican primary candidates. The candidates are listed in alphabetical order and their order on the charts in no way reflects our support for a candidate. Chart 1 contains Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul. Chart 2 contains Rick Perry, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum.

Chart 1: Bachmann, Gingrich, Paul

Chart 2: Perry, Romney, Santorum

We MUST defeat Barack Obama in 2012! Please participate in the voting process!

Obama’s latest ‘We Can’t Wait’ ploy is an attempt to change the Obamacare legislation to correct some of the ‘problems’ in it without the input of Congress!

According to a recent article written in The Blaze website, the Administration is proposing an IRS rule that shows a blatant disregard for Congress as well as past Supreme Court rulings on similar situations:

“The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act offers “premium assistance”—tax credits and subsidies—to households purchasing coverage through new health-insurance exchanges. This assistance was designed to hide a portion of the law’s cost to individuals by reducing the premium hikes that individuals will face after ObamaCare goes into effect in 2014. (If consumers face the law’s full cost, support for repeal will grow.)

This is where the glitch comes in: ObamaCare authorizes premium assistance in state-run exchanges (Section 1311) but not federal ones (Section 1321). In other words, states that refuse to create an exchange can block much of ObamaCare’s spending and practically force Congress to reopen the law for revisions.

The Obama administration wants to avoid that legislative debacle, so this summer it proposed an IRS rule to offer premium assistance in all exchanges “whether established under section 1311 or 1321.” On Nov. 17 the IRS will hold a public hearing on that proposal. According to a Treasury Department spokeswoman, the administration is “confident” that offering premium assistance where Congress has not authorized it “is consistent with the intent of the law and our ability to interpret and implement it.” (Full article)

We urge you to call or write your U.S. Rep’s office as well the offices of both of our U.S. Senators and DEMAND that they stop the President from bypassing Congress and, therefore, the American people on this issue. Congress wrote this law and ONLY Congress can change it.

Rep. Black: http://black.house.gov/
Rep. Cooper: http://cooper.house.gov/
Sen. Corker: http://corker.senate.gov/public/
Sen. Alexander: http://alexander.senate.gov/public/

Please do not allow the President to make the voice of the people irrelevant!

In case you haven’t heard, legislation was recently signed into law that requires TN residents to provide identification in order to vote. We fully support this legislation but also want to ensure that each and every person is prepared to vote in 2012.

Here are the new requirements. If you do not already have the proper ID, we urge you to begin the processing now of obtaining an ID.

Message from the Tennessee Secretary of State

New Voter ID Requirements for 2012