Has the legislative branch ever so blatantly gone against the wishes of the American people with such landmark legislation that oh, by the way, increased their own power so exponentially?  I was already thinking what many pundits were saying, that this would prove to be a pyrrhic victory for the Democrats.

Like you I was really pissed off Sunday night after Stupak caved, and I am glad that being behind in my coding kept me from commenting on things before I had calmed down a little.  Don’t worry,  I am going to stay pissed off (I am southern), and I hope that all of you do as well.  But we need to redirect our justifiable anger and outrage.  Remember the old phrase: Don’t get angry, get even.  Freedom took one on the chin last night, but the people on our side are not the glass-jawed crowd, and we did not even merit the standing eight count.  It’s time to get the hell back up.  If it was just us guys, like the pro-gun movement in the early 90s, I would say that it is time to seriously man up, but this is bigger than that.  Every country has men, but only we have Americans.  It’s time to American Up.  I like the sound of that.

Last night when I was working and trying to avoid Twitter, which is hard to do in the best of circumstances, I saw one from a good guy by the name of @CalebHowe:

So it turned out to be Asculum rather than Waterloo.

I admit that even though I had been thinking that this was a pyrrhic victory for the Democrats, I could not place the battle to which he was referring.  It was of course the very battle won by Pyrrhus with such great cost, giving rise to the phrase so often uttered in the last few days.  Caleb’s point was that while this did not end up being Obama’s Waterloo – as was hoped by the excellent Sen. Jim DeMint – it will be his Asculum.  But I am absolutely certain that it will be up to us to make that a reality.

This challenge is about whether or not our children and grandchildren will enjoy a prosperity and freedom that was given to us by previous generations of Americans.

We need to stay focused and even more active.  I think that we all know that we are playing for keeps, and perhaps more importantly, we know the other side is.  This battle is not about some slight tax increase or a new regulation about how much water our toilets can hold.  This is about an attempt to redefine the historical American perspective on the appropriate relationship between the State and the Individual.  This is about a government that accepts absolutely no limit, constitutional or otherwise, on its spending or its acquisition of new powers over us.  This challenge is about whether or not our children and grandchildren will enjoy a prosperity and freedom that was given to us by previous generations of Americans.

There are always a few around who will talk about bailing and going to Costa Rica or New Zealand.  I invite them to go ahead now so that we do not foolishly count on them when things have gotten worse.   May posterity forget that you were our countrymen.  Many better men and women than me have sacrificed and died to hand me this America.  I’ll be damned if I am about to make it about me and walk away from the greatest country in the history of mankind.

The rest of you: enough said.  I know you’re with me.  I’ve got your back.  It is time for us to finally earn the label of American that we are lucky enough to share with people like Dr. Joseph Warren and Nathan Hale.  The actions and sacrifice of Americans like that are what gave the words patriot and American the very meaning for us that they possess.  Are we up to it now that our country needs us?

We can peacefully retake our country.  It’s finally time for us to reassert the United States Constitution.

It’s time to American Up!

So, Scott Matheson appears to have the credentials to be a judge, but was his nomination used to buy off his brother’s vote?

Consider Congressman Matheson’s record on the health care bill. He voted against the bill in the Energy and Commerce Committee back in July and again when it passed the House in November. But now he’s “undecided” on ramming the bill through Congress. “The Congressman is looking for development of bipartisan consensus,” Matheson’s press secretary Alyson Heyrend wrote to THE WEEKLY STANDARD on February 22. “It’s too early to know if that will occur.” Asked if one could infer that if no Republican votes in favor of the bill (i.e. if a bipartisan consensus is not reached) then Rep. Matheson would vote no, Heyrend replied: “I would not infer anything.  I’d wait to see what develops, starting with the health care summit on Thursday.”

The timing of this nomination looks suspicious, especially in light of Democratic Congressman Joe Sestak’s claim that he was offered a federal job not to run against Arlen Specter in the Pennsylvania primary. Many speculated that Sestak, a former admiral, was offered the Secretary of the Navy job.

Obama and his henchmen are corrupt Chicago thugs (which is odd given that they are a gaggle of beta males) who will stop at nothing to seize more control over the lives of Americans.

In the video below from Larry King Live, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) calls for an independent investigation while pointing out that this is just the latest in a line of underhanded deals wielded by a corrupt Democrat Party in their increasingly brazen attempt to ram their unpopular statist health care agenda down the throats of an angry citizenry.

We really need to have a independent investigation into this matter because we have seen the Cornhusker Kickback, the Louisiana Purchase, the Union Loophole, and now the big question is is the White House trading health care votes for judgeships?  This is a pretty serious issue, Larry.

Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) responds like the Kool Aid drinking one termer that he is, calling it simply a “distraction” and a ”tangent”.  I wonder if Mr. Grayson would have given the previous occupant of the White House the same benefit of the doubt?

Responding to Grayson’s trite dismissal of this as a “tangent”, Ed Morrissey over at Hot Air had this to say:

Besides, which candidate for President promised to change the way Washington works?  Which candidate promised “Hope and Change,” and a new era of transparency?  Which political party promised in 2006 to provide “Open, Honest Government”?  Those weren’t “tangents” in 2006 or 2008.

That being said, the likelihood of an independent probe into this is about the same as Barack Obama suddenly announcing that he’s converted to supply-side economics and proposing the elimination of the Department of Education.  The Department of Justice under Eric Holder will treat it with the same urgency as voter-intimidation tactics in Philadelphia, and the current Congress will get right on this obvious bribe immediately after looking into Nancy Pelosi’s power grab on Ways and Means.

Rasmussen’s latest numbers show only 47% in favor of their health care takeover, but it is more important to note the intensity factor.  While 25% strongly favor the plan, 39% strongly oppose the plan.  That is hardly a mandate from the American public for a government takeover, but that will not stop these statists from attempting to seize control of our health care.  Seizing more control over their “subjects” is the raison d’etre of the Marxist ruling junta in our country and they are going for broke.

As everyone has heard by now, the statist Democrat leadership bribed Sen. Landrieu (D-LA) with our money in order to get her vote.  One hundred million dollars of our money bought her cloture vote and she will now attempt to insult the intelligence of 300+ million Americans by then voting against it when it comes to the floor, but the Marxists can lose 9 votes and still pass this egregiously offensive assault on the constitution and our freedoms.  Make no mistake, a vote for cloture was a vote for the health care takeover.  Mary Landrieu is one of the fake moderates who, along with Bayh, Lincoln, and Nelson, has chosen to make this her last term as a Senator.  Additionally, I cannot adequately express my disappointment in Sen. Lieberman (alleged I-CT).  Joe, you are a dishonest piece of excrement.  THAT’S RIGHT I SAID IT!

What would the founding fathers say about this health care takeover being rammed down the throats of Americans who do not want it?  Not that I am suggesting or condoning this yet, but there is no doubt that they would think that it is time to “alter or abolish” this government.

“when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security” - The Declaration of Independence

Just who do these freedom-loathing dependency whores think that they are?  Have they forgotten about that little dose of Yosemite Sam that so many of us in flyover country possess?  It would seem that they think that we are like the meek sheep who dominate their party.  They are in for a rude awakening.

They serve us, not the other way around.  They have forgotten that.