Help euthanize Obamacare with just $10!

Sen. Harry Reid is currently 11 points down in Nevada versus Danny Tarkanian, his Republican opponent. Nothing will curb Reid’s enthusiasm for Obamacare more than the threat of losing his seat in Congress. Hugh Hewitt, Instapundit and others are encouraging “$10 for Tark” as a way to send a message to Harry Reid.

The process is simple:

1. Donate money to Danny Tarkanian’s campaign.

2. Email Harry Reid and let him know that you’ve donated to Tarkanian and that you’ll keep giving him money so long as Reid threatens our health care system.

3. Drop Hugh Hewitt an email to let him know you’ve joined the cause - hugh@hughhewitt.com.

Here’s the friendly email I sent to Harry today:

Dear Sen. Reid,

I’m writing to ask that you stop pushing socialized medicine in the guise of a “public option.” I follow the debate quite closely, and believe it will be disastrous for our Republic. I have just donated campaign money to Danny Tarkanian, and will continue to do so long as you advocate socialized medicine. I’m sure you get many such emails claiming such support, but mine can be verified through Tarkanian’s financial reports.

I write this with all the respect due to you as one of the leaders of our country. God bless!

Yours,

J. Wesley Bush

Downtown Sarasota Tax Day Tea Party

DATE: 15 April 2009
TIME: Noon-2pm
LOCATION: Marina Jacks Sarasota Bayfront

NOTE: The location has been changed, and is no longer in front of the courthouse as previously stated

Bradenton Tax Day Tea Party

DATE: 15 April 1009
TIME: 5-7pm
LOCATION: Mixon Fruit Farm, 2712 26th Ave E. Bradenton

From the Mixon site: We invite everyone to come together across party lines, share ideas, voice concerns, and inspire one another to take action. The Government is meant to be in the hands of the people, so let us unite and make it so. . . “We want this to be a high energy positive experience”, says Stephanie Fuhr. Come armed with optimism, an open mind, and an open heart. We are planning on having lots of entertainment and some good old fashion flag waving.

Venice Tax Day Tea Party

Wow. You know this thing is getting big if even sleepy Venice is roused to action. . .

DATE:15 April 2009
TIME: Wednesday Noon - 1 PM
LOCATION: Gazebo in Centennial Park (in downtown Venice) on West Venice Ave., Venice, FL

POC: Patricia Rule at Prule_fl_mi@yahoo.com and Karen Rodemaker at birder2@verizon.net

Lakewood Ranch Tea Party — Update

The final details on the Lakewood Ranch Tea Party:

DATE: 15 April 2009
TIME: 3-7 pm
LOCATION: Off the patio from Ed’s Tavern on Main Street

In addition to flags and signs, the organizers are asking people to bring bags (burlap bags, 50lb rice bags, etc) filled with bubble wrap and marked TEA. There are several speakers and performers lined up, and 1280 AM will be covering the festivities. My kiddos will be out there, and I’m going to try and pop in between classes. . .

Embezzling Ukrainian Pastor Invites Obama to Church Celebration

“In celebration of the 15th anniversary of the Church «The Embassy of God», we invited the President of Ukraine Victor Yushchenko, President of the USA Barack Obama, Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko, Kiev Mayor Leonid Chernovetsky and the Party of Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych.”
Sunday Adelaja, pastor of the church “The Embassy of God”

Pastor Sunday Adelaja, disgraced pastor of the “Embassy of God” mega-church in Kiev, just invited President Obama to the church’s 15th anniversary celebration. Now understand, this is a pastor who was just arrested for helping embezzle $120 million dollars in funds from his own parishioners through a pyramid scheme called “Kings Capital.” At first I was confounded — why would Pastor Sunday imagine Obama would be interested in him?

Then I remembered — the Treasury Department still needs several more tax cheats and frauds to assist Tim Geithner!

Catharsis.

I’m sure most of you have heard clips of the Daniel Hannan p!mp-slapping of British PM Gordon Brown. Here’s the full version of the video. Wow. In my perfect world, I’d have a chance to say the same things to Obama, and do so with the same measure of poise and righteous anger.

Now a Lakewood Ranch Tea Party?

Schweet. It looks like Lakewood Ranch (east Bradenton, FL) may be joining the Tea Party movement. The sec’y of the Manatee County Republican Party contacted me today. According to her, they’ll be closing down “Main Street” on April 15th for a time so we can have a tea party. I’m calling the local tea party POC tomorrow.

If this is accurate, which it seems to be, I’ll post up the details tomorrow.

“Obama can’t be any worse than the Republicans. . .”

This was a sentiment often expressed by independents, libertarians and disgruntled Republicans during the last election cycle. Well, the data is in. We can now state empirically that YES HE CAN!

Is this the change you were waiting for?

HT: Fausta’s Blog, via Facebook.

Georgia: April 9th protests could be explosive

Much like Ukraine’s Orange Revolution, the Rose Revolution in Georgia was more unified in what it opposed than in what it wanted. Today, former allies of the Rose Revolution are bitter political enemies. President Mikheil Saakashvili, a key U.S. ally and a leader of the Revolution, has seen his support decline since Georgia’s disastrous war with Russia last August.

Saakashvili was wildly popular when first elected in 2004, but he now faces strong, though fractious opposition throughout the country. He’s accused of a long list of political abuses. A partial accounting includes: election tampering, using force against protesters, staging a ‘terrorist’ attack during the last elections, and censoring media to exclude the opposition. Supporters of the president point out, however, that these claims of censorship are generally made on nationally-broadcast TV stations. Also, print media is generally hostile to Saakashvili, which belies too strong a claim to censorship. Nevertheless, Freedom House downgraded Georgia from “free” to “partly free” in 2008, based largely on concerns about electoral democracy.

Opposition groups are planning a massive series of protests for April 9th, a date with strong national associations. It was on April 9th, 1989 that the Soviets cracked down on a Georgian pro-independence protest. Opposition figures are calling for the resignation of Saakashvili, and hope to use the April “mass permanent meeting” to springboard such a development.

The political stakes have definitely risen in the past few days. Internal security agents have begun arresting opposition figures, nine from Nino Burdzhanadze’s party, and two others from a minor party, for attempting to buy weaponry. Saakashvili claims that opponents are planning a military coup against his administration. The opposition, meanwhile, ridicules the charges, arguing that Saakashvili is building a case so that he can crackdown on the upcoming protests.

What gives some credibility to Saakashvili are a pair of videos released by the government which appear to show opposition figures planning a coup. I’m linking them up without comment, because I neither speak Georgian nor have the technical knowledge to spot tampering.

From the perspective of American national interests, this seems to be something of a blue-on-blue fight. Both Saakashvili and his primary opponent, former Rose revolutionary Nino Burdzhanadze, orient toward the United States. Much as with Ukraine, it’s heartbreaking to see fratricide, when the real threat to both Georgia and Ukraine stems from Russia. But politics is always messy, cultural change comes slowly, and revolutions usually disappoint their participants. Best to take a long view when it comes to politics in the former Soviet Union.

Asides

• More sad-making news for liberal fascists -- Krugman blasts Obama's banking recovery program. #
• Justice for Immigrants, a Catholic organization, is having a convention to train pro-illegal activists. What an Orwellian name -- a group that ENABLES lawbreakers calls for justice. When you break the law, "justice" means facing consequences for your crime, not being assisted in continued lawlessness. #
• Dynamo Kiev in UEFA Quarter-Finals! Woot! They'll be taking on Paris Saint Germain. Donetsk is also in the quarters, but who cares? #
• I'm not sure if this is good or bad -- Twitter made the Columbia Journalism Review. Twitter is the New Beatles. #
• Stimulating Ourselves to Death -- They might sound great, but do stimulus packages work? Read more over at ReasonOnline. #