Official Newsletter of The Patrick Henry Caucus; December 2009

[Gordon Ray Kissinger]

Official Newsletter of The Patrick Henry Caucus; December 2009

Contact: Rep. Carl Wimmer
801-608-4763
Email: [e-mail]



**For immediate release**



UTAH PATRICK HENRY CAUCUS UNANINMOUSLY SUPPORTS A LAWSUIT AGAINST THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN ORDER TO STOP THE FEDERAL HEALTH CARE BILL



Leading state sovereignty caucus strongly opposes the federal health care bill and supports lawsuits based on two violations of the U.S. Constitution.



The Patrick Henry Caucus adopted a unanimous position Wednesday, December 23, 2009, to oppose the Health Care Reform Bills, and to support a lawsuit against the federal government in order to stop the national health care bill from becoming law.



Calling the law unconstitutional, The Patrick Henry Caucus, which is comprised of legislators from both the Utah House of Representatives and the Utah Senate, vows to fight the federal law on multiple fronts.



The Patrick Henry Caucus has an opt-out provision drafted and ready for presentation to the Utah Legislature next month. The opt-out would make it illegal for Utah agencies to implement any portion of the new federal law. The Caucus is calling on the State of Utah to join in with other States and take the lead on filing a lawsuit to stop the bill, should it receive final approval.



The Caucus believes the law is unconstitutional in at least two respects. First, the law unfairly gives preferential treatment to residents of Nebraska as a result of efforts by Senate Democrats to court the vote of Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson. The Caucus believes that this preferential treatment violates principles of due process and equal protection and is therefore unconstitutional under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments.



Second, the law amounts to an excess of Congress's enumerated powers inasmuch as it requires every American to acquire health insurance. This legislation marks the first time in history that Congress has required every single American to purchase a particular good or service, and cannot be reconciled with the notion that Congress possesses only those limited powers granted by the Constitution.



The Patrick Henry Caucus calls on the leaders from all States to join in the effort to file a lawsuit against the federal government in order to stop this wrongheaded piece of legislation. We must not allow Congress to commandeer one sixth of our nation's fragile economy while simultaneously undermining the authority of the States.



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God Bless,


Representative Carl Wimmer
The Patrick Henry Caucus
Co-Founder

The Patrick Henry Caucus
PO Box 1215
American Fork, Utah 84003
USA

[Gordon Ray Kissinger]

By Ben Stein - The American Spectator

Why is President Barack Obama in such a hurry to get his socialized medicine bill passed?

Because he and his cunning circle realize some basic truths:

The American people in their unimaginable kindness and trust voted for a pig in a poke in 2008. They wanted so much to believe Barack Obama was somehow better and different from other ultra-leftists that they simply took him on faith.

They ignored his anti-white writings in his books. They ignored his quiet acceptance of hysterical anti-American diatribes by his minister, Jeremiah Wright.

They ignored his refusal to explain years at a time of his life as a student. They ignored his ultra-left record as a "community organizer," Illinois state legislator, and Senator.

The American people ignored his total zero of an academic record as a student and teacher, his complete lack of scholarship when he was being touted as a scholar.

Now, the American people are starting to wake up to the truth. Barack Obama is a super likeable super leftist, not a fan of this country, way, way too cozy with the terrorist leaders in the Middle East, way beyond naïveté, all the way into active destruction of our interests and our allies and our future.

The American people have already awakened to the truth that the stimulus bill -- a great idea in theory -- was really an immense bribe to Democrat interest groups, and in no way an effort to help all Americans.

Now, Americans are waking up to the truth that ObamaCare basically means that every time you are sick or injured, you will have a clerk from the Department of Motor Vehicles telling your doctor what he can and cannot do.

The American people already know that Mr. Obama's plan to lower health costs while expanding coverage and bureaucracy is a myth, a promise of something that never was and never will be -- a bureaucracy lowering costs in a free society. Either the costs go up or the free society goes away.

These are perilous times. Mrs. Hillary Clinton, our Secretary of State, has given Iran the go-ahead to have nuclear weapons, an unqualified betrayal of the nation. Now, we face a devastating loss of freedom at home in health care. It will be joined by controls on our lives to "protect us" from global warming, itself largely a fraud if believed to be caused by man.

Mr. Obama knows Americans are getting wise and will stop him if he delays at all in taking away our freedoms.

There is his urgency and our opportunity. Once freedom is lost, America is lost. Wake up, beloved America.

http://spectator.org/archives/2009/07/24/weve-figured-him-out/print

http://dancingczars.wordpress.com/2009/12/26/weve-figured-him-out/
http://spectator.org/people/ben-stein/all

[Ron Miller]

It is amazing how the Healthcare bill got to this point, especially, knowing it is against the will of the people. Once again. we see the arrogance and total disregard of the citizens will and needs, by the politician. They have forgotten who elected them and who they are to represent or really work for. We have allowed this to happen by going along with, and using, a pacifists, liberal and compassionate mentality, thus undermining and even destroying the very foundation of our nation. We need to get back to basics.
Work, Earn, Purchase, Acquire/Achieve and Enjoy Your Chosen Life Style.
No Work, Nothing Earned, Nothing Purchased, Nothing Acquired/Achieved, Enjoy Your Chosen Life Style. (But, "Don't Tread On Me")
Remember. whichever politician promises to give, or do the most for the non-achiever, they will be elected/re-elected, even if that politician knows full well that they have no chance of fulfilling their campaign promises. It is simple, the non-achievers out number us, and they want their share of what you earn. That's how they get elected.

[Roger Dail May]

Great we need that. I hope Missouri does somthing. But we have old Clare.

[Linda Maddox]

This is the best news I've heard lately! Thank you sharing it! You go Patrick Henry Caucus!