Conservatives mounted an unprecedented citizens opposition to the US House Nancy Pelosi health care legislation. The rebuff effort has run 4 solid months from the last weeks in July to the November 7th vote and is regrouping to continue for as long as it takes. The US House passed HR 3962 with a 220-215 vote on a Saturday in the wee evening hours. The 215 represent the work of our conservative activism demonstrating our power to persuade. It was an awesome showing.

Democrats Add New Load To Government and the People

Trapped Like Rats
We knew they would pass some health care legislation. Democrats had to because their leader, Nancy Pelosi, had them trapped like rats. If any opposed it, the wrath of their own party will come down on the next election. If they supported it, the wrath of the people they face and that does not look good either. In fact it is less clear and definable in the Washington opaque bubble and so most ignored it and blindly voted yes.

Citizen Conservative Opposition Redoubling
The citizen opposition and activism is on a learning curve since the first tea party events in April and July. Folks learned they had nothing to fear to attend those and hold a sign and support the speakers.

Many have broken off into action groups and just act, period, and some act daily. We have the tea party groups. We have small unaffiliated groups meeting in homes and taking action. We have some national groups independent of parties such as AsAMom.org. We have many who are ready to drop at a hat and take action. [See Don’t Make Us Come Back: Tea Party Minutemen To Washington DC]  These folks need more direction to the infected areas: the congressman and senators door steps in DC, local offices and homes; and often.

November 5th, activists learned in mass how to approach the House offices in DC. [See Kill The Bill: House Calls Put Congress Offices Under Siege] I know one activist who likes to remain unnamed was down in the House Office building again Saturday all day and night lobbying. Now I want to be there next round with a sleeping bag if  necessary. This person called me a few times for help in researching facts on HR3962. This person then confronted Congressmen and aides in the battle.

After I outlined this piece this morning I received two emails talking about next actions their groups were taking. One was particularly detailed and I will append to the end here for you to review.

Is All Lost – No We Have A Long Way To Go
Sure the House vote was a  legislative defeat. The original founders fought many battles and lost. They may have lost them all from what I recall in history classes, but they persisted to win the greatest victory in the history of civilization – individual freedom. Persistence and stamina are keys to success to take defeats to victories.  The fight just got traction a dozen weeks back. We are newbies on the block. Making conservatism the mainstream of government is going to take a long time of many battles to wear down the radical progressives as we did with the English King.

Senate Health Care Battle
The Senate fight over health legislation still remains. There lies the chance to stop this health legislation or to make it less intrusive and less powerful. At least we must make it a painful victory for the other side. This means for New Jersey a statewide focus on the Senators Lautenberg and Menendez. However, there is also going to be an important interstate effort on  Senators from other states believed we can influence.

2010 Elections
We have the 2010 elections that require immediate attention. Primaries are soon and candidate choices are on us now. These are votes that do count. In the long run, the bills like the health bill will require power to change the oppressive parts and powers given to the administrative branch that overseas your health care options and costs. These votes are also how we are going to fight battles to slowly dismantle the oppressive progressive government we now have and will be bigger by 2012, the next national election.

National 10 + 10 Conservative Network
You need to create groups of 10 that meet regularly from weekly to no less that twice monthly to discuss the issues and coordinate team actions doable within the group and items to support larger groups like you have with tea party protests. Each member of the group should also be hosting one group with a different set of 9 people. There is a movement on the way for this that you can link your group into and we can have the power of millions nationwide networked for instant action and solidarity.

Minuteman Force In DC
We need a conservative minuteman force in the House and Senate offices in DC. They need to be a lobbying force with an ostentatious presence. If needed they need to be there daily and we should get support from Republicans on how to play the game and then improve on that.

Addendum – Example Plan In  Action Received by Email Today

Dear Concerned Citizens,

In an odd way many of us have been waiting for the House to pass this atrocious and deceptive healthcare bill. As groups, we are already energized. But we knew that nothing could elevate our energy to irrepressible heights more than a massive overreach by Washington. One that can still be stopped. Well, we got everything we wanted on a silver platter.

Late Saturday Night, November 7th, Nancy Pelosi handed us the single greatest boost of the entire Obama saga! In a 215 – 210 squeeker, Democrats and , John Dingell the sole Republican, passed HR 3962. In her frenzied house chamber, Nancy’s Pyrrhic victory unwittingly fired “the shot heard round the world.” Americans are more galvanized than ever! And here is the plan moving forward.

Step one: Objective: Remove from office all Blue Dog Dems who voted in favor in swing districts by flooding their districts with selected pages from HR 3962 accompanied by clear explanations of the consequences and letting them know their representative voted for this.

A. Will someone please volunteer to identify those Blue Dog Dems in the house who voted in favor and are not in “safe districts?”

Step two: Objective: Notify HR 3962 proponents in the Senate that we are exposIng the bill and all who are planning to vote for it.

B. Will please help identify Senate members to best target?

Step three: Objective: Complete and assemble materials to be forwarded and posted nationwide and accumulate network notification lists.

C. Several people are now designing a flyer that will contain pages from the actual bill, explanatory notes and a covering email.

Step four: Objective: To create a door to door nationwide transparency program exposing HR 3962.

D. Once the flyers are completed, we will ask everyone to forward them to everyone they know; pass the email on and; print 10 copies. Hand out 5 to individuals and neighbors and tack 5 copies on local community boards such as a local supermarket or laundramat.

THIS IS IMPORTANT: Several of us have already spoken to representatives in DC, no names mentioned, and they think it is a fantastic idea. Anyone who can help getting FreedomWorks and Americans for Prosperity onboard, please step up!!!!

Target dates:

* Flyer creation will be completed by Sunday evening, Nov 8

* Lists being accumulated today Sun., Nov. 8

* Blasts out by Monday, Nov 9 at 5 PM EST

* Door to door campaign and public postings November 11th – 13th.

Please forward this to all patriots to get ready!

A unexpected minuteman force assembled in Washington DC on November 5th 2009 with the sound threat of “Don’t Make Us Come Back Again”. How far will we need to go?

Minutemen Descend On Moments Notice To DC

A Highly Mobile Rapid Response Force
They came on a moment’s notice from all across the United States by plane, car, bus, train (even on the financial failure called Amtrak) and on foot (from local office buildings) to oppose US Government take over of every American’s health and the radical loss of freedom to bureaucrats.

Months Planning 9/12 To Days for 11/5
The DC Tea Party rally on 9/12 took two or more months of planning at local levels for participants as well as a central level for the permits and speakers in DC. No one could expect that a ready force could muster an event in less than 72 hours with massive impact. And it may go unheeded for the House health bill! Yet such a nationwide rapid response is intimidating for any elected official in 2010.

American Revolution Minuteman Reinvented
The minutemen were among the first people to fight in the American Revolution. They were organized as a fast response to threats in the American Revolution. Folks showing up on 11/5 in DC would not think of themselves as these early patriots, but they are just that, a new minuteman militia armed with freedoms. They did not carry muskets. They came with a weapon won by fighters like the minutemen, the freedom of speech. They used it as powerfully and with the swiftness of the minutemen.

America Hijacked By Career Politicians!
The more I attend events, the more I hear that our Government under a single party rule is destroying the foundation of the nation, violating the Constitution and taking actions not to protect people and freedom but to preserve the Democrat party’s power. This is a hijack of America by career politicians.

The motive to preserve power is based on a power gotten under media populism and not under supportable principles. The Democrats know their ideas and programs are unsupportable, fail in colossal magnitudes and are easily defeated in open debate.

Nancy Pelosi Squelches Freedom Of Speech
We know Nancy Pelosi will not allow publishing  an over 2,000 page highly legalistic technical and oppressive bill for Americans to read. This denies the freedom to review for appeal to their representative any parts or all of the bill that they do not agree should be passed. Certainly the representatives need that input just based on the size and complexity of language.

[UPDATE: HR 3962 available to read at the 11th hour but besides its technical legal nature and cross references to existing bills like those for Medicaid and Medicare, it also does not include the IRS penalties and taxes you may need to pay if you do not comply. See "Buy a $15,000 Policy or Go to Jail".]

Many representatives admit they do not have the capacity to read and understand it. The $787 billion stimulus bill was passed this way and it failed to produce jobs. We have 10.2% unemployment and that does not count idled independent contractors and those who are now off unemployment roles or working in lesser pay or part time jobs bringing the number to 17.5%. Bad bills are rushed through so they cannot be aired – get it!

Will We Need The Right to Bear Arms?
This is an affront on the free speech and shows a fear to air unsupportable ideas and programs. Free speech is the first weapon people have in their arsenal against Government. If it is blocked or minimized, the next weapon is the right to arms. That talk has started because the most ostentatious effort to show that a majority of Americans do not want this bill or any like it is not being addressed by Democrat elected representatives. People only have one avenue left if future votes cannot remove those who oppose the will of the people. Don’t open that door, listen to this and stop the rush to political insanity.

Minuteman responding 5:30 am to Call To Go To DC

Chants for “Kill the Bill” and Nancy! Nancy! from thousands standing in line to enter the US House of Representative  Cannon Building echo in the streets. Similar lines occurred at the  Longworth and Rayburn office building on November 5, 2009 following a rally outside Capitol.

Kill The Bill Chants From Protesters In Line for House Cannon Office Building

Protesters orderly and vocal waited patiently to enter the building. Security was tight but very efficient at processing everyone. Still it took 2 hours to get most into the building.

Kill The Bill! Kill The Bill!
When “suits” exited the Cannon building, protesters in line began chanting “Kill The Bill” regardless of who might be in the suits. They wanted desperately to communicate with law makers who were scarce.

Nancy! Nancy! Nancy!
In between the chit chat among the line waiters, chants of Nancy! Nancy! referring to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. She is supposed to have offices in the Cannon building. However everyone in line was convinced she had isolated herself from robust feedback from the country with hoisting ill conceived bills on us. Some from South Jersey reported they did get into her office, signed their names and added the message “Kill The Bill”.

Security and Other Staff Report House Calls Unprecedented
Most who I talked to from security to staff said they have never seen anything like this in DC. You can see in the video the Longworth building balcony caught white shirted workers looking down at the event. That focused attention on the windows of the Longworth building and we noticed heads bob in and out and many windows were opened. We guessed they were opened because the building was too hot. But gee we are asked to cut our energy and they have the audacity to allow heat to escape. I give credit to security to their efficiency of processing everyone expeditiously and politely at the Cannon building entrance.

Watch The Kill The Bill And Nancy Nancy! Chants

10.2% Unemployment Predicts How Health Bill Will Fail
Democrats were tallying the jobless while the protesters were in line. Today the number 10.2% is out and if you ran out of unemployment benefits or are an independent contractor out of work you are not in that number. The Democrat gigantic, biggest in history and more than combined spending of previous Congress’s, jobs stimulus bill has failed. Democrat representatives have had to come up with open lies to support its colossal failure . [See Rush Holt 3 Lies About $787 Billion Stimulus] [Just received news alert from visitors at Holt's office in DC 11/5. Audience questions had him RED FACED! This is because he is fronting the lies on stimulus and being in an indefensible position he had to stomp off mad and angry. See Democrats what your life is going to be like for years to come.]

Pelosi Has Democrats on Suicide Mission
Democrats are loaded down with failed Pelosi leadership and forced failing legislation. Pelosi has Democrats cornered in a suicide mission to vote on Saturday November 7th on another colossal failure; a gigantic untried experiment on the Nation’s health care system impacting everybody.  Designed so that when it fails like bankruptcies of gigantic experiments Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and sub prime lending through Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac, everyone gets hurt badly. This will include a loss of jobs starting with those fine people with families who work for insurance companies offering medical insurance. Get resumes out as your next job is with the Government.

Fox You Were Late!
To my surprise on leaving the building the line had dwindled to a few hundred and then Fox news reporter Griff Jenkins finally discovered the big news item happening outside of House office buildings. Griff Jenkins had gotten popular with the first few Tea Party express bus stops reported for Greta Van Susteren. However in my opinion he went down hill after those missing the points and the individual stories of the people for the rest of the tour. However people still love him.

Fox needs to embed reporters into the folks who get up at 3 am to get to DC or travel the previous day to find the good stories  or hire me to do it with a good camera crew rather than my dinky Panasonic that is seeing more that the main media big ones. An ABC news reporter was on our bus down getting first hand accounts I am sure ABC will twist against us if they bother at all.

Modern Minute Men
Police estimated between 50,000 to 75,000 at the Capitol Building. Everyone was called to action within 72 hours of the event. Even Pelosi is not giving 72 hours to read her bound to fail big time health bill. Most people traveled 4 to 12 hours one way to attend. They were from Florida, Illinois, Washington State, New Jersey, Virginia, Minnesota and Ohio. Some got on planes, some on trains even Amtrak, some by car, some by two day bus rides. [See Don’t Make Us Come Back: Tea Party Minutemen To Washington DC.]

Just Try Us Democrats!

Do Not Make Us Come Back
I would not want this energy against me if I held a nice cushy House seat. The arsenal of protest exercised is only at level one now. This is the people’s right to speech aimed to steer you in the correct direction. What other rights will they need to deploy to persuade you that your are voting for another colossal failure? Take real heed of these warnings Democrats. You do not want to us come back.

GOP is growing perhaps reluctantly to accept the conservative activist movement manifested in the Tea Parties. At a Chris Christie ralley on November 1, 2009 , Congressman  Rodney Frelinghuysen thanked the Tea Party movement for their support.

Rodney Frelinghuysen Holding 1990 page Pelosi Health Care Bill

The ralley was the end of the 21 country tour Chris Christie has laid out for the end of his campaign and held on the Morristown Center Green a plce where over 10,000 people have attended The Morristown Tea Party events since April 15th this year. The latest was just the day before.

The conservative activist movement this year has given strength and support for exposing and opposing the current Congress moves to expand government to unprecedented levels. GOP is virtually powerless in Congress  without an active citizen movement.

Even large lobby groups for industries have one by one been  lured in to support these government expansions with the promises of the basic stuff called money and to some extent the appearance of no Whitehouse reprisals. However on the latter point they are seeing how fast the Whitehouse and certain members of Congress can turn on them if they step out of line. Something you see in dictatorships and communist countries.

Recognizing the independents from both major parties behind Chris Christie, Rodey reached  out with gratitude returned by applause.

“There are a lot of people who support the Tea Party movement. And we want to thank the Tea Party movement.”

Well we are not done yet and all politicians need to get used to us.

GOP Sees Value Of NJ Election For Washington
Rodey brought the new Pelosi Health Care bill to stage. The photo for this story shows the marveling faces of Rodney and the other Christie supporters on stage. Rodney tied the New Jersey voting on Tuesday to a message for Washington DC

“On November 3rd, you have an opportunity to send a message  not only to Trenton  but to the Whitehouse – your not going to take it anymore!”

This is evidence that the GOP is looking for all political momentum to form their battle strength in DC. Conservatives of course are daily taking action from homes, their computers, in the streets, in meetings with elected officials and even running for office from school boards to State legislatures around the country.