Fwd: Morning Bell: Blaming Bush Doesn't Create Jobs

08/09/2010 Blaming Bush Doesn't Create Jobs In January 2009 after it became clear that the leftist majority in Congress would pass President Barack Obama's $862 billion economic stimulus bill without a single vote from a Republican, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) defended her partisan approach, telling Politico: "Yes, we wrote the bill. Yes, we won the election." Last Friday, some 19 months after the stimulus bill became law, the Labor Department issued its monthly jobs report showing the U.S. economy shed 131,000 jobs and unemployment tread water at 9.5% as 181,000 workers left the workforce entirely. These numbers are so terrible that the Federal Reserve is expected to downgrade its assessment of the U.S. economic outlook when it meets tomorrow. Desperate to shift blame away from her economic policies, Speaker Pelosi released a statement Friday blaming President George W. Bush for the economy's anemic recovery: "Today's report shows our teachers, police officers, firefighters, and nurses are still feeling the worst of the Bush recession." Notice how Speaker Pelosi is only concerned about the economy's effect on government and unionized workers: teachers, police officers, firefighters and nurses. If you happen to work for the government, Speaker Pelosi is prepared to move heaven and earth to make sure your pay isn't cut. But if you work for the private sector, Speaker Pelosi has nothing to offer you but higher taxes. That is why she is calling back the House to vote on another state government bailout. This time the price tag is $26.1 billion, funded in part by $11 billion in tax hikes on U.S. companies that compete internationally.

Fwd: WikiLeaks or Not, Afghanistan is a War the U.S. Must Win

heritage.org | Heritage research | Blog |                          August 9, 2010 Issue in Depth: Afghanistan Two weeks ago thousands of classified documents relating to the war in Afghanistan were released on the website WikiLeaks. Regardless of the intentions and motivations of the website's founder, Julian Assange, our commitment to this vital part of the world must be unwavering. The fact remains that the United States is fighting in Afghanistan to keep it from reverting to a safe haven for terrorists like those who struck on September 11. Efforts by the U.S. and its allies and partners in Afghanistan to facilitate and defend stable democratic governance are essential to reducing the terrorist threats to U.S. national security. With a new commander in place, a fresh set of counterinsurgency guidelines, as well as tens of thousands of more American troops entering the country, there is little reason to get caught up in "wikisteria." Please see our most recent research on the war in Afghanistan in this week's National Security Update. Latest Research: The Heritage Foundation: Afghanistan: Standing Shoulder to Shoulder with the United States The truth is that operations in Afghanistan—operations for which the Afghans themselves are paying a heavy price along with NATO and other Coalition forces—are a direct consequence of the terrorist attacks of 9/11. To withdraw prematurely would risk both creation of a security vacuum with the return of civil war and the destabilization of Pakistan, which could have unthinkable regional, and even nuclear, consequences. The Heritage Foundation: The Cameron-Obama White House Meeting: The U.S. and U.K. Must Reject a Timetable for the War in Afghanistan On July 20, British Prime Minister David Cameron will meet with President Barack Obama at the White House in what will be Cameron's first visit to Washington as Prime Minister. Cameron and Obama have met on at least two previous occasions, most recently at the G-20 summit in Canada. However, this visit marks the most important meeting of the two leaders to date and comes amid heavy strain on the Anglo–American Special Relationship. The Heritage Foundation: Capture of Taliban Leader Hints Pakistan Reevaluating Afghan Strategy The recent capture of the number two Afghan Taliban leader, Abdul Ghani Bahadur, in Pakistan is a blow to the Afghan Taliban and its ability to coordinate the insurgency in southern Afghanistan. Following months of quiet U.S. pressure on Pakistani officials to crack down on Taliban leaders in their country, Islamabad has come through by helping to capture Bahadur, who was critical in directing and organizing Taliban foot soldiers in Afghanistan. The Heritage Foundation: Expand NORAD to Improve Security in North America To enable NORAD to better fulfill its mission, the United States and Canada should invite Mexico to join NORAD. Mexican participation would greatly enhance NORAD's aerial and maritime surveillance capabilities in North America and help to build a common strategic vision across North America. More Blogs: The Foundry: Wikisteria: Don't Take the Anti-War Bait The aim of releasing thousands of classified documents on the Afghanistan war on the WikiLeaks Web site was apparently to undermine American public support for the war. The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, said he wanted the world to see the "true nature of the war" and equated the WikiLeaks Afghanistan archive with the release of the secret files of the East German police following the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Foundry: Senate Hearing Cautions Administration on Timelines and Taliban Reconciliation "Can we improve the Afghanistan Government? Maybe. Can we do it by July 2011? No." This statement came from Dr. David Kilcullen, an expert in counterinsurgency and former advisor to General Petraeus, during rigorous questioning at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC) hearing last week. The Heritage Foundation: Petraeus Hearing: Obama Needs a Victory Plan, Not an Exit Plan Gen. David Petraeus, testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee today, demonstrated why he is a superb choice to replace Gen. Stanley McChrystal as commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan. Petraeus gave a crisp, smooth, and tactful performance that exhibited the diplomatic skills that will serve him in good stead at his new job.   More Events: August 23 - 27, 2010 Location: Washington, DC The Heritage Foundation: Homeland Security 2020 To carry out an attack on American soil, a terrorist only has to be right once. Thus, America's homeland security apparatus must keep up with the evolving nature of the terrorist threat. While homeland security has come a long way since 9/11, the question remains as to how DHS, state and local governments, and the private sector can ensure that the future homeland security enterprise can take on tomorrow's threats. Join us the during the week of August 23rd as Heritage analysts host a week long discussion dedicated to devising the right security policy agenda for the next decade. August 24 -25, 2010 Location: Washington, DC National Defense University: The Economic Element of National Power: Economic Security is National Security This symposium seeks to illuminate and promote informed discussion on the ways in which government and commercial sector leaders must work together to reform and revitalize our national economy to support enhanced national security. Featured speakers include government officials and a wide range of private sector experts. Copyright All Rights Reserved © 2009, The Heritage Foundation The Heritage Foundation | 214 Massachusetts Ave NE, Washington, DC 20002 | 202.546.4400

Fwd: Morning Bell: The Obama Tax Hikes, Another Step Toward a European Welfare State

08/06/2010 The Obama Tax Hikes, Another Step Toward a European Welfare State Last night, the Senate voted 61-39 in favor of a $26 billion bailout for states and government unions financed in part by an $11 billion tax hike that will kill American jobs at U.S. companies that compete overseas. Worse, before that final vote was taken, the Senate also defeated two amendments by Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC), both by 58-42 votes, that would have prevented the largest tax hike in American history. And earlier this month, Vice President Joe Biden told ABC News that the only thing wrong with President Barack Obama's first $862 billion economic stimulus was that it didn't borrow and spend enough. The message to the U.S. economy's job creators from this Administration and Congress is clear: You can expect higher spending, higher taxes and higher deficits for years to come. The verdict on this approach is in. Today the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor and Statistics released its monthly jobs report showing the economy shed 131,000 jobs in July as 143,000 temporary census workers lost their government jobs. With the private sector only managing to add 71,000 jobs and averaging only 51,000 jobs over the past three months, the private economy appears stuck in first gear. Despite the job losses, the nation's unemployment rate didn't budge from 9.5% because another 181,000 discouraged workers left the workforce. All told the U.S. economy has now lost 2.4 million jobs since President Barack Obama signed his stimulus bill, and his administration is 7.6 million jobs short of what he promised the American economy would support by 2010.

Fwd: Almost Half of U.S. Fatalities in Afghan War Took Place Since Obama Took Office

Today's Headlines Thursday, August 5, 2010

Almost Half of U.S. Fatalities in Afghan War Took Place Since Obama Took Office (CNSNews.com) – As of July 31, almost half of all U.S. fatalities in Afghanistan have happened on President Barack Obama's watch. Since Obama took office in January 2009, 558 U.S. troops have died in Afghanistan, out of 1,127 since the war began nine years ago, according to CNSNews.com's tally. And the violence is escalating. White House Doesn't Know, DOJ Mum on Whether Kagan Received Full Salary Since She 'Ceased' Full Duties as Solicitor General Washington (CNSNews.com) – Neither the White House nor the Justice Department are saying whether Elena Kagan has been collecting her full government salary since she "ceased" performing her full duties as solicitor general after May 10 when President Barack Obama nominated her to serve on the Supreme Court. "I'd point you over to the Department of Justice on that. I don't know what the pay records are," White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told CNSNews.com. However, the Justice Department public affairs office has not responded to numerous inquiries from CNSNews.com on the matter. 1.2 Million Who Signed Obama's 'Birthday Card' Asked to Send Fundraising Chain Letter to 'Five Friends' (CNSNews.com) – Michelle Obama's e-mail campaign to "Wish Barack a Happy Birthday," a fundraiser sent out by the Democratic National Committee, has generated over 1.2 million signatures, according to a new e-mail from BarackObama.com. But organizers want even more names and email addresses. Obama, Speaking to AFL-CIO, Calls for Dumping Secret Ballots in Union Elections Washington (CNSNews.com) – President Barack Obama, seeking to rally support for embattled Democrats in the upcoming midterm elections, on Wednesday pledged his support for a card check bill, which would eliminate secret ballots in elections to unionize workplaces. "And we are going to keep on fighting to pass the Employee Free Choice Act," Obama told the AFL-CIO Executive Council. Black Conservatives Say Black Liberals Are Using Race to Discredit the Tea Party Movement Washington (CNSNews.com) – Black conservative leaders from around the country gathered in Washington on Wednesday to denounce the NAACP for its resolution charging that elements of the Tea Party movement are racist. Speakers at the event also blamed the Black Congressional Congress for injecting racism into politics and using it as a weapon against the Tea Party movement. Alan Keyes: Under Obama 'We Shall All Become Slaves on the Government's Plantation' Washington (CNSNews.com) – Alan Keyes, a conservative activist and former diplomat, said Wednesday that President Barack Obama and liberals in Congress are promoting a dependence on government that mirrors slavery. Keyes said real racism occurs when race is connected to ideology -- as was the case, he said, when Obama was campaigning for president. Bipartisan Bill to Permanently End Taxpayer-Funded Abortions Introduced in House (CNSNews.com) – A bipartisan bill meant to permanently prohibit taxpayer-funded abortions in every federal program has been introduced in the House, with over 150 original cosponsors, including 16 Democrats. Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.), a cosponsor of the bill, said the health-care reform legislation that passed Congress this year showed that the current system of preventing taxpayer funded abortions is "dangerously fragile." Republican Senator Isakson Refuses to Say When Jesus Got Right to Life (CNSNews.com) – Republican Senator Johnny Isakson of Georgia declined to say whether Jesus Christ got the right to life at the moment of conception, although he did say that Jesus is his savior and he believes in him. CNSNews.com asked Sen. Isakson about the issue because House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) had said in May that she must pursue policies "in keeping with the values" of Jesus, the "Word made flesh," but had declined, last week, to say when "the Word" received the right to life. China Holds More Military Exercises Amid Tensions With U.S. (CNSNews.com) – Chinese armed forces on Thursday continued a second set of back-to-back exercises, underscoring expanding capabilities and ambitions that have prompted unease among top U.S. military officers. Relations between China and U.S. have taken several hits in recent weeks. U.N. Backs Israel's Position on Border Clash, But Israel's Arab-Islamic Critics Are Not Backing Down (CNSNews.com) – Arab and Muslim governments that accused Israel of aggression against Lebanon this week did not withdraw their accusations Wednesday, despite confirmation from U.N. peacekeepers that Lebanese troops opened fire on Israeli soldiers who were on the Israeli side of the international border. The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon affirmed Wednesday that the incident happen in Israeli territory, prompting the U.S. State Department to denounce the firing by the Lebanese Armed Forces as "wholly unjustified and unwarranted." CNSNEWS.COM VIDEO Rep. Gutierrez Sees A 'Fundamental Contradiction' Among Pro-Lifers Who Back Changing 'Birthright Citizenship' (CNSNews.com) - Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) said there "seems to be a fundamental contradiction" between being "pro-life," "pro-family," and being in favor of denying citizenship to children of illegal immigrants born on U.S. soil. At a press conference on Capitol Hill, Gutierrez was asked about an idea recently floated by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) to introduce an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would change the rules for citizenship as defined in the 14th Amendment. OTHER CNSNEWS.COM HEADLINES U.S. Army Begins Relief Missions in Flooded Pakistan Russia Bans Grain Exports Amid Drought, Sending Wheat Prices Higher Mexico Says Cartels Are Moving Beyond Drugs in Quest for Domination Obama Administration Hails Kenya's Move Toward American-Style Democracy Appeal of Wednesday's Marriage Ruling Could Delay Same-Sex Weddings in California Obama Celebrates 49th Birthday With Friends, Including Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King Giuliani's Daughter Arrested for Alleged Shoplifting Wisconsin Candidate Wants to Use Racially Charged Phrase to Describe Herself on Ballot Group Sues to Stop Mosque Near NYC's Ground Zero Judge Blocks Firefighter Hiring in NYC, Saying Entry Exam Is Discriminatory Google, Verizon Reportedly Nearing A Net Neutrality Plan Donate Today! Please help CNSNews.com keep bringing you 'The Right News - Right Now!' Make a contribution to CNSNews.com today. It's fast, simple and secure. Help CNSNews.com and Donate Today!  NEWSPAPER ROUNDUP Senate Majority Leader Reid plans September showdown on extension of tax cuts Geithner: Let Bush tax cuts expire Environmental groups, coastal residents skeptical of government's oil dissipation claims San Francisco considers fee on alcoholic beverages Pelosi's interruption of August recess is unwelcome news for vulnerable lawmakers Federal judge hears arguments in lawsuit over crisis pregnancy centers Archdiocese claims Baltimore is restricting protected speech, singling out facilities Waxman sees bright side to midterm election: 'Difficult' Dems won't be back Illegal drug cargoes turning up more often on Texas beaches Obama's birthday dinner with Oprah Report: 'Stigma' at State Department for those seeking mental health treatment After flood of outrage, police will investigate shooting of dog in dog park On Facebook, wife learns of husband's second wedding N.J. appeals court rules 911 operators can be sued for mistakes COMMENTARY Is Profiling Racist? By Walter E. Williams Not every choice based on race represents racism, and if you think so, you risk misidentifying and confusing human behavior. In many cases, an individual's race or sex is useful for guessing about other unseen characteristics. Let's look at it. Oh, No! They're Coming Back! By Rich Galen House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is calling the Members of the House of Representatives back from their Summer District Work Period early next week to vote on a Senate bill that will help the states keep teachers on the payroll. You and I will not only foot the bill to keep the public employees' unions happy, but to fly all those Members of Congress to Washington from where ever they are, and then back from Washington to where ever they were.

Fwd: Morning Bell: The Obama Elite vs The American People

08/05/2010 The Obama Elite vs The American People This Tuesday voters in Missouri, by a 40-point margin, approved a ballot measure rejecting the individual mandate at the core of President Barack Obama's health care law. Asked what the vote meant to the White House, press secretary Robert Gibbs said: "Nothing." Yesterday in San Francisco, federal judge Vaughn Walker gave the exact same weight to a California ballot measure that affirmed marriage as an institution between one man and one woman. Specifically Judge Walker overturned the California Marriage Protection Act after concluding, as a matter of fact, that the majority of Californians who voted to protect marriage were bigots who had no rational basis to define marriage on their own terms. Here are just some of the "facts" Judge Walker found: Religious beliefs that gay and lesbian relationships are sinful or inferior to heterosexual relationships harm gays and lesbians. The campaign to pass Proposition 8 relied on stereotypes to show that same-sex relationships are inferior to opposite-sex relationships. The Proposition 8 campaign relied on fears that children exposed to the concept of same-sex marriage may become gay or lesbian. The genetic relationship between a parent and a child is not related to a child's adjustment outcomes. Children do not need to be raised by a male parent and a female parent to be well-adjusted. How did Judge Walker arrive at these "facts"? By agreeing with everything the same-sex marriage proponents "experts" said while ruling that the traditional marriage witness was "unreliable" and "provided no credible evidence to support any of the claimed adverse effects proponents promised to demonstrate." In so doing, Walker not only ignored the views of millions of Californians, but by basing his decision on the 14th Amendment, he also ignored the factual determinations of every single popular vote that has been held on the issue in the past two decades. According to Judge Walker's reasoning every single one of these Americans is a bigot whose opinion on marriage has no place under Judge Walker's Constitution.

Fwd: New Common Sense: Will Bureaucracy Kill Self-Government?

New Common Sense Applying First Principles to the Issues of Today At Heritage What can you do to restore liberty in America? Check out Heritage's new Patriot's Guide. Happy Birthday Alexis de Tocqueville! Why is he still relevant after all these years? Around the Country A Battle is Brewing: First, William Voegeli wrote a book, Never Enough: America's Limitless Welfare State. Then, George Will praised the book and endorsed the central argument. But, Salon's Michael Lind attacked Voegeli and Will and accused certain scholars (including many of our friends) of unfairly maligning contemporary liberalism. Now, William Voegeli replies to Lind in National Review Online. Quick Thoughts The Constitutional Accountability Center wants to join the conversation about the Constitution. Too bad that they misunderstand the Constitution, the Founders, and the contemporary debate. Which Supreme Court Justice refused to hire women? Hint: he denied the self evident truth of the Declaration of Independence that "all men are created equal." What We're Reading: The Citizen's Constitution: An Annotated Guide by Seth Lipsky.    Will Bureaucracy Kill Self-Government? We have all been plagued by it at some point in our lives: in our schools, in our offices, and now—even more so—in our health care. How did our lives become so overrun by petty tyrants of bureaucracy? Was this trend inevitable in American politics or was it a "creature of the choices made well within living memory"? In "Bureaucratic Tyranny or the Renewal of Self Government: The Beginning of Centralized Administration in America," the late John Adams Wettergreen argues that "the most serious ills of American government are due to bureaucratization," also known as the "centralization of administration." But, centralized administration is a creature of 20th century decisions and does not need to be the future of American politics. To be clear, centralization itself does not lead to bureaucracy. Alexis de Tocqueville, in his seminal work Democracy in America, distinguishes between centralized government and centralized administration: "Certain interests are common to all parts of the nation, such as the enactment of its general laws and the maintenance of its foreign relations. Other interests are peculiar to certain parts of the nation, such as local enterprises. When the power that directs the former or general interests is concentrated in one place or in the same persons, that is centralized government. To concentrate in like manner the direction of the latter or local interests, I call centralized administration." Since government relates to "general or national interests" and administration "is proper to personal or parochial interests," centralization of the former enables self government, but the latter leads to the soft despotism of bureaucracy. American politics did not fully embrace the centralization of administration and the bureaucratic state until the Great Society under President Lyndon Johnson. In this period, the "public sector" assumed vast new authority and proceeded to regulate every aspect of American life. For instance, Wettergreen argues that "when the American government, in principle, assumed responsibility for the socioeconomic well-being of every American, it also had to introduce programs for managing, in detail and from the center, the relations between the races, the sexes, employees and employers, electors and elected, state and local governments and their citizens, consumers and producers, husbands and wives, parents and children, and so on." The Great Society aimed to take away the "trouble of thinking" and the "pain of living," to use Tocqueville's words. Centralized administration is still a grave threat to America self government (look no further than the health care bill and the financial regulation bill for proof). Yet, we are not destined for bureaucracy; we would have to choose it. We are at a cross roads in American politics: one path leads to greater centralization of administration and bureaucratic despotism; the other path decentralizes administration and emphasizes individual self-government. Which path will you choose? Keep Reading about the Choice Between Bureaucracy and Self Government                        Forward this message to a Friend!   Quote of the Week                            If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one, subject to particular exceptions. ~ James Madison, letter to Edmund Pendleton For more quotes, visit westillholdthesetruths.org About The Heritage Foundation Founded in 1973, The Heritage Foundation is a research and educational institute -- a think tank -- whose mission is to formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense. The Heritage Foundation | 214 Massachusetts Ave NE, Washington, DC 20002 | 202.546.4400

Fwd: Morning Bell: Let's Get the Gulf Back to Work

08/04/2010 Let's Get the Gulf Back to Work Last night after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) pulled his oil spill response bill, Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) told reporters: "The key question is, whose side are you on? Are you on the side of Big Oil, or are you on the side of citizens in coastal communities?" Menendez does not represent any constituents who live on the Gulf Coast, so we should forgive him for not knowing that thousands of Gulf residents recently packed the Louisiana Cajundome to protest President Barack Obama's oil drilling ban, a policy reinforced by punitive regulations in Reid's oil spill legislation. If Menendez wants to know how actual "citizens in coastal communities" feel about oil, he should pick up a copy of Lafayette's Daily Advertiser where Louisiana Oil & Gas Association President Don Briggs recently wrote: There remains a public sentiment and misconception that companies operating the Gulf of Mexico are comprised of large transnational conglomerates, or "Big Oil" companies. This could not be further from the truth. The president, media and policy makers in Washington all overlook the most important aspect of oil and gas operations in the deepwaters of the Gulf. Those most threatened by this moratorium are the independent oil and gas operators. Independents produce and drill nearly 50 percent of all wells and represent 70 percent of all lease activity in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Fwd: Small Businesses Won’t Find a Friend in Obamacare

August 3, 2010 Another Victory on the Road to Repeal Last month at a town hall in Hayward, Calif., a constituent asked Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) about Obamacare: "If this legislation is Constitutional, what limitations are there on the federal government's ability to tell us how to run our private lives? … If they can do this, what can't they?" Stark, a long-time advocate of government-run health care, gave an honest yet troubling answer: "The federal government can, yes, do most anything in this country." Yesterday a federal court in Virginia agreed with the logic, but not the Constitutional understanding, of Stark's view of federal government power. In the first substantive legal ruling on President Barack Obama's health regulation law, U.S. District Court Judge Henry Hudson held that the Commonwealth of Virginia raised a valid substantive theory to challenge Obamacare and that its democratically passed Virginia Health Care Freedom Act provided it standing to challenge the federal individual mandate. On the issue of that mandate, Hudson wrote: "Unquestionably, this regulation radically changes the landscape of health insurance coverage in America. … No reported case from any federal appellate court has extended the Commerce Clause or the Tax Clause to include the regulation of a person's decision not to purchase a product, notwithstanding its effect on interstate commerce." Echoing the court's ruling, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli said: "This lawsuit is not about health care, it's about our freedom and about standing up and calling on the federal government to follow the ultimate law of the land – the Constitution." And it is becoming more and more clear that Obamacare makes it next to impossible for Americans to even track, let alone check, federal power. While the Joint Economic Committee released a report showing that the President's health law created an impenetrable web of at least 47 new bureaucratic entities, a CRS report from earlier in the month drew an even starker conclusion: "The precise number of new entities that will ultimately be created pursuant to PPACA is currently unknowable." How are the American people supposed to check the power of the federal government if even the official research arm of Congress cannot keep track of all the bureaucracies Congress creates? It can't. The CRS report goes on to say: "Under the new law, the Government Accountability Office must appoint at least 83 new members to six new boards. It is unclear how GAO will be able to independently audit these entities when the [Comptroller General] has appointed their members." And the matters these new bureaucrats will be regulating are not minor. One such entity, the Independent Payment Advisory Board, is empowered to make Medicare payment policy, including which procedures (like mammograms) the federal government will or will not pay for. And the President insisted on making the IPAB's decisions virtually impossible to overturn. As long as President Obama is in the White House, full repeal of Obamacare is not possible. But its web of undemocratic, unaccountable bureaucracies can be defunded. And that is exactly what conservative candidates across the country are promising the American people they will do. This is a good first step, but it is not enough. The Obama administration will stop at nothing to protect the expansion of government. Just last week it wasted $700,000 of your tax dollars on a national cable television propaganda campaign promoting the President's new law. In the ad, celebrity Andy Griffith tells American seniors that under Obamacare "like always, we'll have our guaranteed [Medicare] benefits." But as documented by FactCheck.org, "the truth is that the new law is guaranteed to result in benefit cuts" for the 10 million seniors currently enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans. The American people are already fighting back against these tactics, and they are winning. In total, 33 states have mounted legal and legislative challenges to Obamacare. The American people are going to continue to fight this intolerable act in Congress, in the courts and in the states. It may take some time, but they are going to win. Too see how our sister-organization Heritage Action for America is responding to Obamacare, click here. RECENT ENTRIES Premium Hikes for Arizona State Employees, Courtesy of Obamacare Small Businesses Won't Find a Friend in Obamacare Share Today's Side Effects Facebook Myspace Digg Linkdin Twitter   Facebook Twitter YouTube Kindle Flickr Support our work by becoming a member with your gift of $25 or more. The Heritage Foundation 214 Massachusetts Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002-4999 Call us at (202) 546-4400 Add newsletters@heritage.org to your address book to ensure that you receive emails from us.