Pence: The United Nations Has Become A Forum for Invective Against Our Most Cherished Ally, Israel

The speech given at the United Nations by Pres Obama should send chills up the spines of the many Americans who support Isreal. We would like to know why this President disses our longtime friends and cozies up to our enemies? For Obama to go to the UN and make anti-Israel comments from the podium is confirming what so many have been saying that Obama is no friend of Israel. He doesn't seem to be a friend of a democracy either.

Just who is Barack Obama? We know very little about the man who the media helped elect President. Have a hunch we are about to find out a lot more as more and more Americans wake-up!

Pence: The United Nations Has Become A Forum for Invective Against Our Most Cherished Ally, Israel
By Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference

Pence: The United Nations Has Become A Forum for Invective Against Our Most Cherished Ally, Israel Washington, DC - U.S. Congressman Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference, made the following statement on the House floor today drawing attention to the anti-Israel comments spoken at the U.N. Summit yesterday:

"Following the defeat of tyranny throughout Europe in 1945, and in the ashes of the Holocaust, the United Nations was born. It was formed to create a forum to confront dictators before they rose to global power. President John F. Kennedy in his inaugural address warned some four decades ago that the United Nations must not become a forum for invective against the West.

"But as we saw yesterday with the leader of Libya decrying Israel in the terms of the ‘Israeli demon.' As we saw the leader of the discredited regime in Tehran denounce the ‘barbaric attacks of the Zionist regime' and continue to deny the Holocaust in public forums, we have seen the United Nations has become not only a forum for invective against the West, but especially a forum for invective against our most cherished ally, Israel.

"Today, the American people provide 20 percent of the financial support for the United Nations. And today the American people are asking, ‘why?'"

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GOP Principles for Health Care

Note: For months the Democrat House Leadership have continued to ignore what Republicans have to say on healthcare. They are not interested in anything but their own agenda (Obamacare) to take over Government control of our healthcare system and if you oppose them, you are called names.

GOP Chair, Michael Steele with this column in the Wash Post is taking the debate to the America people. Please visit the Wash Post and read Michael Steel's entire article and see if you agree with a lot of us that his ideas are sound and what is needed. If you agree, contact your Representative and Senators and ask them to consider these GOP Principles for Health Care before voting on Obamacare. S.

GOP Principles for Health Care

By Michael S. SteeleMonday, August 24, 2009

Americans are engaged in a critical debate over reforming our health-care system. While Republicans believe that reforms are necessary, President Obama's plan for a government-run health-care system is the wrong prescription. The Democrats' plan will hurt American families, small businesses and health-care providers by raising care costs, increasing the deficit, and not allowing patients to keep a doctor or insurance plan of their choice. Furthermore, under the Democrats' plan, senior citizens will pay a steeper price and will have their treatment options reduced or rationed.

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House Democrats Shut Out Republican Ideas on Healthcare - WHY?

Republicans have been shut out of offering ideas for Obamacare in the House but that has not stopped Republicans from coming up with some great ideas to help all Americans especially those who have trouble getting health insurance due to a precondition, changing jobs, or being laid off from a job and not being able to afford healthcare. You will not find an elected Republican that will not tell you that there is a problem with the healthcare especially the Medicare and VA programs along with the high cost of coverage.

The one item that could lower healthcare cost is Tort Reform. Democrats don't want to hear about Tort Reform since the trial attorneys donate the big bucks almost exclusively to Democrat candidates. This group of vultures have people at the Court House who are paid to give them names of people injured in auto accidents. They then contact the injured party and offer their services. It is a fact, as I was slightly injured when a person ran a stop sign and hit my car and within 24 hours, I had calls from two law firms that handle personal injury lawsuits.

When is the last time that you heard of Trial Attorneys donating to a Republican candidate for federal office? Just doesn't happen especially if it is a Republican conservative.

This morning I received an email from Cong Pete Sessions (R-TX), that dealt with healthcare and ideas which would help the healthcare system. These are good ideas that the American people could get behind BUT the Democrats in the House will not even look at any GOP ideas. Read what Congressman Sessions has to say and ask yourself why Speaker Pelosi refuses to even consider Republican ideas -- how much money is lining the pockets of Democrats in Congress to cause them to take this action?

From Cong Pete Sessions (R-TX) Email:

The Hill Report A Weekly Newsletter from Congressman Pete Sessions Week of August 17 – August 21, 2009

This week, I continued my work in North Texas, meeting with constituents and participating in the ongoing debate about the future of our health care. I’d like to share a few highlights from my week of health care discussions.

Congressional Dialogue with Eddie Bernice Johnson
On Monday, I joined my Dallas colleague, Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX), for a civil but spirited discussion on health care solutions.

Held at the City Place Conference Center in Dallas, the forum included various panel and dialogue sessions and was sponsored by 16 private entities, including Curran Tomko Tarski LLP, SMU Cox School of Business, Deloitte, US Chamber of Commerce, and The Health Care Industry Council.

During the Congressional Dialogue, I outlined the need for reform, Republican solutions for affordable health care, and the problems with government-run health care.

Without question, health coverage is currently unaffordable for many families and small businesses. The need for reform is clear.

I support patient-centered full coverage that provides for pre-existing conditions, chronic disease management, and the creation of large and high-risk pools for coverage.

Second, I support total access in coverage. Patients should have ownership of flexible, competitive, and interoperable plans, and insurance should be portable from job to job and across state lines. And Congress must level the playing field by empowering individuals and small businesses with the same tax advantages that corporations have: the ability to purchase insurance with pre-tax dollars.

Third, more competition in the marketplace is essential in helping drive down the cost of care. Congress should remove barriers for health savings account benefits. Additionally, our health care system needs physician compensation reform to reflect accurately the cost of treating a patient.

Lastly, America must remain focused on innovation for a 21st Century health care system. Medical research must be a top priority, and Congress should provide incentives for Electronic Medical Record interoperability. Tort reform is also essential for reducing defensive medicine and freeing resources for more efficient and effective use.

These health care reform priorities highlight just a few of the steps that Congress and the American people should take to enact solutions for affordable health care.

As you know from previous newsletters, I do not believe that President Obama’s government-run health care plan is change Americans can afford. Rather, it will result in higher costs, fewer options, and interference in the patient/doctor relationship.

In the end, attendees of the Congressional Dialogue could see clearly that Congresswoman Johnson supports government-run health care and I do not. To learn more about our contrasting positions, read our opinion editorials published in the Dallas Morning News on Monday.