Email from Liberty Counsel
Mathew Staver, Founder and Chairman
Liberty Counsel
ObamaCare may well be the greatest fraud ever
perpetrated on the American people. As the
current Congress has discovered, their
predecessors in the Pelosi/Reid 111th Congress
buried many “self-funding” provisions in their
healthcare bill. This trickery was designed
to make it impossible for subsequent Congresses
to “undo” this tangled mess. But there is a
solution: Cut it to pieces as soon as possible!
See my urgent message below – Mat.
Willard,
Congress is once again facing a Continuing Resolution (CR)
Bill to keep our federal government operating.
As debate begins, attention has turned to the ObamaCare
“self-funding” provisions that the ultraliberal 111th
Congress wrote into the law to provide AUTOMATIC funding
for 10 years!
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) and Rep. Michele Bachmann
(R-MN) have called on the House leadership to
sign a pledge to include a total defunding of
ObamaCare in any proposed CR.
To put these self-funding mandates into perspective,
Congressman King wrote a very insightful Op-Ed piece which
was published on-line by Politico comparing “undoing”
ObamaCare to an ancient puzzle faced by Alexander the
Great.
++The ObamaCare Gordian Knot.
King’s article first reacquaints us with the fabled history
of what was called the “Gordian Knot.” It seems that in
333 BC, Alexander the Great faced the challenge of untying
the enormous and complicated Gordian Knot. An oracle had
proclaimed that whoever solved the knot’s challenge would
receive the kingship of the ancient nation of Phrygia.
Representative King’s article goes on to explain:
“Alexander drew his sword and slashed the knot
in two. The ‘Alexandrian solution’ was born.
Alexander received the kingdom of Phrygia, and
he went on to spread civilization throughout
the known world.”
“ObamaCare is today’s Gordian knot. The law was
drafted to be incredibly difficult for lawmakers
to unravel. When then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi,
President Barack Obama, and Senate Minority
Leader Harry Reid drafted ObamaCare, they quietly
included provisions that automatically spend
$105.5 billion over the next 10 years to implement
the law.”
“Unprecedented in scope, these self-enacting
provisions grant ObamaCare its own self-contained,
automatic money machine. These are the resources
that fertilize this malignant tumor, which is
extending its roots into every aspect of our health
care system. These roots are tightening their grip,
despite the House’s vote to repeal it, the public’s
opposition to it, and the decisions of two federal
courts ruling it unconstitutional. These roots are
the ObamaCare Gordian Knot.”
++Liberty Counsel supports all efforts to DEFUND ObamaCare!
We applaud efforts to take away ObamaCare’s funding at every
level. But that’s not the only way to defeat this dangerous
law. In the spirit of “the Alexandrian solution,” we are
also swinging a very sharp sword of litigation at it!
In fact, we have deployed a THREE-pronged strategy to win
this battle. We are: Fighting in the courts; pushing for
repeal in the legislature; and working to defund ObamaCare
through legislative or administrative processes.
Most importantly, my team and I are just weeks away from a
major showdown with Attorney General Eric Holder’s Department
of Justice (DOJ) at the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals over
the constitutionality of the personal “mandates” in ObamaCare.
Please consider a special gift to Liberty Counsel to help us
defeat ObamaCare in court by going here:
http://www.libertyaction.org/r.asp?U=38674&CID=310&RID=26170012
++ObamaCare’s damage gets worse from week to week.
Beside the fact that the number of “waivers” from
having to comply with ObamaCare’s dictates passed
1,000 (!) this week, it is notable that Rep. John
Conyers (D-MI), ranking Member of the powerful
House Judiciary Committee, just admitted that
the law is a good “platform” for creating a
socialist, “single-payer” system!
We should not be surprised that the steady inroads ObamaCare
is making in our healthcare system are intended to lead to
something even more oppressive – a full-blown, nationalized
Health Service like the one Medicare Chief Dr. Donald
Berwick champions.
When recently asked by CNS News if he foresaw a single-payer
healthcare system in the United States, Conyers answered,
“Of course…every industrial country on the planet
already has a universal system of healthcare.”
Each week ObamaCare survives and sends its roots deeper into
America’s healthcare system, the closer we come to being
just another socialist, European-style nation!
++ObamaCare threatens to destroy America’s freedom.
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear my oral
argument against ObamaCare in the case of “Liberty University
v. Geithner” in early May – the same day as the Commonwealth
of Virginia’s case is heard.
ObamaCare embodies an astonishing extension of the
federal government into the personal and business
decisions of every American citizen. If ObamaCare
should be upheld by the courts, then there will be
no limit on what Congress can do. Congress FAR
exceeded its authority when it passed the so-called
healthcare “reform” bill.
Our May presentation is critical because it lays the
groundwork for what will likely be the final argument
before the United States Supreme Court. And it is
imperative that my team successfully anticipates the
Department of Justice’s counter offensive.
That’s why our lawsuit against ObamaCare is so
vitally important to EVERY citizen of the United
States. That’s also why your support of our lawsuit
is so crucial.
Your financial support will help keep our legal team engaged
in defeating ObamaCare while also defending the Defense of
Marriage Act (DOMA) and stopping the ACLU from criminalizing
Christianity. We must also be able to meet the many other
challenges 2011 has thrust upon us.
Please consider a special gift to Liberty Counsel to meet
this critical need by going here:
http://www.libertyaction.org/r.asp?U=38675&CID=310&RID=26170012
I have often made reference to former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s
now infamous comment, “But we have to pass the bill so that
you can find out what is in it…”
This was one of the most arrogant and condescending
statements ever made by a congressional leader. It
was a complete dismissal of the will of the people
by an elitist legislator.
The truth is, the 111th Congress didn’t WANT us to know what
was in ObamaCare, because it is blatantly unconstitutional…
filled with abortion loopholes…overhauls our healthcare
system into a socialist- oriented wealth redistribution
program…and contains “self-funding” provisions that grant
life to its implementation over the next 10 years,
regardless of the will of the people or any subsequent
Congress!
++We can’t postpone the defense of American liberty!
As I wrote to you last week before the tragic events in
Japan, I need your help to get through the next several
weeks. Liberty Counsel’s need has not changed.
Our team is intensely committed to defeating ObamaCare,
defending DOMA, stopping the ACLU’s latest offensive against
Christian expression in the public square, and dealing with
the rest of our very challenging caseload.
Every gift is deeply appreciated and gifts of any size help:
http://www.libertyaction.org/r.asp?U=38676&CID=310&RID=26170012
Even if you have recently contributed to our litigation
fund, and your heart is extended to those suffering around
the world right now, your gift to Liberty Counsel today
will be very strategic.
Yes, these are very difficult times, but there is never a
good time to postpone the defense of American liberty. If
America can remain strong and free, we can continue being
a light to the nations and a friend when other nations
need our help. Losing our liberty is a disaster that is
just too horrible to contemplate!
THANK YOU in advance for standing with Liberty Counsel as
we fight to end the scourge of ObamaCare once and for all!
Mathew Staver, Founder and Chairman
Liberty Counsel
P.S. Of course, right now our thoughts and prayers are with
the people of Japan, Libya, and other scenes of devastation.
But America is facing a disaster of another sort. If you
can financially help Liberty Counsel right now, I would be
deeply grateful! Please go here to contribute:
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