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The left is getting bolder with each passing day. How about instead of standing there and saying ‘please don’t hit me‘, we start offering the kind of response they’ll understand.

Am I advocating violence?

I am advocating self defense. If that means the use of force to stop these animals from attacking us, then so be it.

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OK, so obviously this Shelton guy is just another in a long line of lying, black radical leftists, but still, there are people out there who take what this creep says to heart.

I’m not surprised. Disgusted? Yes. Offended? Yes. But, not the least bit surprised considering the lengths the left, with all its various race-hustling factions, has since day one gone all out in their attempts to portray the tea party as something evil, racist, and anti-American.

Anybody with an IQ above single digits knows the claims of the NAACP and their ilk against the tea party are, without exception, outrageously false, but as the saying goes, a lie will travel halfway around the world before the truth even gets its boots on. Hell, we have a sitting president whose entire career and post-election ‘achievements’ have been based on that premise.

The left lies. It’s what they do. The lie is the single biggest tool in the liberal leftist’s bag of tricks, bigger even than that old standby, ridicule. As the November midterms approach, we can expect to see the liberal lie/propaganda/race-baiting machine ratchet things up to never-before-seen levels in order to discredit its opponents - the tea party being the one it fears and despises most.

It starts today with the NAACP resolution, which passed just an hour or so ago.

Says NAACP President Ben Jealous, the Tea Party movement needs to “be responsible members of this democracy and make sure they don’t tolerate bigots or bigotry among their members.”

This coming from the man and organization who has been dead silent on the issue of Shabazz the Clown’s diatribe about killing ‘cracker’ babies and their mothers, or the New Black Panther party’s voter intimidation act in Philadelphia (of which the aforementioned Shabazz the Clown was a participant), or the legions of black ‘leaders’ like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson ( jr and sr ), Louis Farrakhan, Henry Gates, Rev Wright, etc…who routinely attack and lie about all things white in the most hateful and despicable ways imaginable, or a leader of the NAACP’s very own St Loius chapter calling a fellow black man who was beaten down and called a ‘nigger’ by SEIU dirtbags an ‘uncle tom’ for being a conservative, befriending white people, and for “being kissed on the forehead by a european“.

Hey Ben Jealous, why don’t you do something truly noteworthy and condemn the racism inherent not only in the the New Black Panther party, but in your very own organization you lying, hypocritical, racist sack of shit?

But, I digress…this was, after all, supposed to be about the Saint Louis Tea Party’s preemptive strike at the NAACP, so here it is:

St. Louis Tea Party Resolution Regarding NAACP

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The anti-American jackass in the white house could learn lots from principled American leaders like Gov. Brewer; alas King Zero has no interest in protecting our country, its citizens, or the things that have made us great.

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Dio’s career spanned over five decades, from the “Vegas Kings” in 1957 to “Heaven and Hell” in 2010 - with stops along the way in Elf, Richie Blackmore’s Rainbow, Black Sabbath, and his own incredible solo career in “Dio” - the guy was a tireless performer who truly lived for the music he loved.

1984 Dio

1977 Rainbow

Ronnie and the Red Caps circa 1958

Ronnie and the Prophets circa 1963

Heaven and Hell 2009

So long Ronnie, thanks for everything.

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No, not a lesbian, silly. A socialist.

Consider the following from her college thesis entitled “TO THE FINAL CONFLICT: SOCIALISM IN NEW YORK CITY, 1900-1933″

“Through its own internal feuding, then, the SP [Socialist Party] exhausted itself forever and further reduced labor radicalism in New York to the position of marginality and insignificance from which it has never recovered.

“The story is a sad but also a chastening one for those who, more than half a century after socialism’s decline, still wish to change America,” she wrote. “Radicals have often succumbed to the devastating bane of sectarianism; it is easier, after all, to fight one’s fellows than it is to battle an entrenched and powerful foe. Yet if the history of Local New York shows anything, it is that American radicals cannot afford to become their own worst enemies. In unity lies their only hope.”

Yes, that is Elena Kagan, Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, bemoaning the fall of the Socialist party in New York.

Kagan is dangerous, and typical of the leftist radicals he surrounds himself with.

Red State has been forced to remove Kagan’s thesis from their website. We have not. Download Elena Kagan’s thesis here, and do everything you can to ensure it’s seen by as many people as possible.

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From Fox: School Official in Basketball Flap Is No Stranger to Controversy

The school official who nixed a girls’ high school basketball team’s planned trip to Arizona once supported a controversial program that required ninth-graders to attend a “freshman advisory” class at which gay upperclassmen shared stories of their high school experiences.

Parents who were unhappy with the class were even more outraged to learn that students who attended were asked to sign a statement promising not to tell others — including their parents — about what was said in class.

Suzan Hebson, assistant superintendent of Highland Park, Ill., School District 113, killed the hoop dreams of the Highland Park High School girls’ basketball team this week when she canceled their plans to participate in a tournament in Arizona in December. The decision has some parents and residents of the district crying foul over what they say was a politically motivated protest over the Grand Canyon State’s recently passed immigration law.

But Hebson is no stranger to controversy. She’s been criticized for making decisions based on politics numerous times in the past.

In 2007, when she was assistant superintendent for human resources in the district, Hebson made national news for supporting an initiative at Deerfield High School that required freshman students to participate in orientation panel discussions, one of which was led by members of the school’s Straight and Gay Alliance Network. During the seminars, upperclassmen spoke to the ninth graders about a variety of topics affecting homosexual teens, including their own personal experiences — and all students were required to sign confidentiality agreements swearing never to disclose what they heard.

Read the whole thing here.

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This man, just like his boss, is a disgrace to our country and to the very notions of honesty, integrity, law and order.

From the Washington Times:

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., who has been critical of Arizona’s new immigration law, said Thursday he hasn’t yet read the law and is going by what he’s read in newspapers or seen on television.

Mr. Holder is conducting a review of the law, at President Obama’s request, to see if the federal government should challenge it in court. He said he expects he will read the law by the time his staff briefs him on their conclusions.

“I’ve just expressed concerns on the basis of what I’ve heard about the law. But I’m not in a position to say at this point, not having read the law, not having had the chance to interact with people are doing the review, exactly what my position is,” Mr. Holder told the House Judiciary Committee.

Just perfect.

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I want you to do something. I want you to take a long hard look at our current financial and social situations.

Now, I want you to look at Greece. Then take a look at Great Britain. Then take a look at Zimbabwe and South Africa.

Then understand that those four countries represent our future, and it is by design. It is being done to us intentionally.

Now decide if you are going to let it happen.

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Warning: Disturbingly strong/foul language.

So where’s the media on this? Out inventing new stories of non-existent tea Party violence, no doubt.

These people are beyond disgusting.

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MORE CITIZEN ACTIONS PLANNED THROUGH WEEKEND: Unprecedented TEA Party & Grassroots Coalition Aligns to ‘Kill The Bill’; Rally Saturday at Capitol, Other Events Across Country

WASHINGTON, March 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — An unprecedented coalition of grassroots and “tea party” groups is launching the final push before a possible vote by the House. Coming together under the auspices of the American Grassroots Coalition, various events held by different groups will be coordinated, including a noon rally at the U.S. Capitol on Saturday, a candlelight vigil and “virtual vigil” leading up to the vote.

“All of the groups have a mutual goal — to band together to communicate the frustration of the people and demand the termination of this health bill legislation,” said Jennifer Hulsey, Co-Founder of American Grassroots Coalition.

The past two weeks has seen the “Take The Town Halls To Washington” initiative get nearly 1,000 people to DC to meet with approximately 30 Congressman. The event culminated in the rally at Taft Park near the Capitol, which was sponsored by Tea Party Express. Over 1,500 people assembled to rally against the health care bill and then meet with their representatives.

While the Capitol Police diverted the stage and sound for the park rally, grass roots activists innovated and used a park bench and bull horn to get their message to the attendees!

The following actions are planned for the next 72 hours:

• Calling campaigns to the House by constituents to vote no on the bill
• “Talk to Washington” health care town halls in Mississippi, Pennsylvania and other states
• Code Red rally in Washington, DC at 12 noon on Saturday at Upper Senate Park
• Nationwide “Virtual Vigil” on BlogTalk radio sponsored by DoctorsandPatients.org
• Candlelight vigil around the Capitol on Saturday night

Featured speakers at the Washington, D.C. Rally on Saturday will include:

• Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann (MN)
• Congressman Tom Price (GA)
• Congressman Joe Wilson (SC)
• Congressman Phil Gingrey (GA)
• State Senator Judson Hill (GA)
• Actor & Activist Jon Voight
• Dr. Milton Wolf, Barack Obama’s second cousin who opposes Obamacare
• Colin Hanna, Let Freedom Ring
• Jim Martin, 60 Plus
• Phil Kerpen, Americans for Prosperity
• Tim Phillips, Americans for Prosperity
• Andrew Langer, Institute for Liberty
• Kathryn Serkes, Doctor Patient Medical Association
• Mark Skoda, Memphis Tea Party
• Amy Kremer, Tea Party Express
• Jennifer Hulsey, American Grassroots Coalition
• FreedomWorks Representative
• Ben Cunningham, Founder of the Tennessee Tax Revolt
• Darla Dawald, Grassfire / Resistnet

BACKGROUND

Grassroots activists everywhere have worked to inform themselves, notify their representatives of their objections and take action in the form of rallies, meetings and calls into those representatives. Individual groups have worked to stop the health care legislation while coordinating with each other to amplify their message and their efforts.

Amy Kremer, of Tea Party Express, commented, “We had a great rally this week in DC and people have overwhelmed us with their desire to do it again on Saturday. With so many people concerned about this legislation and the ability to come to Washington on a weekend, we are working within this coalition to expand the Code Red rally participation.”

The coalition of Tea Party and grassroots organizations and leadership is committed to changing the dynamics of this legislative process. “The Democratic led Congress is using procedural and legislative rules to ignore the overwhelming opposition to this,” said Mark Skoda of Memphis Tea Party. “The will of the American people is being subverted by these actions and the grass roots activists who make up this coalition are focusing their energy to kill the bill.”

The coalition includes:

• 60 Plus
• Alexandria Tea Party
• American Grassroots Coalition
• Americans for Prosperity
• Americans for Tax Reform
• Cincinnati Tea Party
• Cincinnati 9/12 Project
• Concerned Women for America
• Constitutional Sovereignty Alliance
• Constitutional Tea Party
• Doctor Patient Medical Association
• Family Research Council
• FreedomWorks
• Grassfire/Resistnet
• Heartland Institute
• Institute for Liberty
• Let Freedom Ring
• Memphis Tea Party
• Mom for America
• National Center for Public Policy Research
• National Taxpayer’s Union
• Nationwide Tea Party Coalition
• New Jersey Tea Party Coalition
• Northern Virginia 912
• Richmond Patriots
• Take the Town Halls to Washington
• Tea Party Express
• Tea Party Patriots Live Radio Show
• Washington DC Tea Party
• We the People of Pennsylvania

For further information or to register and participate or assist others to come to Washington, DC, please check the above websites where details will be posted and updated regularly throughout the next 48 hours and http://www.americangrassrootscoalition.org/.

GRASSROOTS CONTACTS:
American Grassroots Coalition
Jennifer Hulsey
hulsey1873@gmail.com
770.546.0286
Tea Party Express
Amy Kremer
amykremer@gmail.com

678.495.8271

Tomorrow (Saturday 3/20), our lying, conniving, leftist scumbag man-child of a president will meet with the entire house democrat caucus to further pressure them into voting this massive, economy-crushing, freedom destroying, smoke-and-mirrors-filled legislative sham into law. We absolutely must keep the pressure on from our side. If we do, we CAN still stop this.

Tomorrow, big ‘Kill The Bill’ rally in DC with Michele Bachmann:

Time: 12 Noon

Place: Senate Park, across from the Capitol, Washington, DC

Bachmann to Speak at
“Kill the Bill” Rally in Washington, DC

Congresswoman Michele Bachmann will join conservative activists from across the country in a rally at the U.S. Capitol Saturday, March 20 at 12 pm. With a vote scheduled over the weekend on the Democrat health care proposal, voters from around the country are joining together to voice their opposition to the nearly trillion dollar health care bill.

“This is the final push, and the Democrat’s last ditch effort to push through the most unpopular legislation in years!”, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann said.

Speakers will include actor Jon Voight, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, Congressman Steve King and various Tea Party groups and activists.

BTW, Bart Stupak? Tired of hearing about him. He’s on Greta right now…cant trust this motherfucker as far as I can throw him. He’s a yes, mark my words.

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Yesterday the White House circulated a memo by pollster Joel Benenson. It was designed to create momentum for Obamacare by convincing wayward House Democrats that support for the President’s plan has been building since the State of the Union. As with everything else that comes out of the White House on health care these days, the memo is nothing but pure fantasy.

This Tuesday, Gallup released its latest poll showing that by a 48%-45% margin Americans would tell their representative in Congress to vote against President Obama’s health plan. Compare that to the last time Gallup asked the question in January, Americans supported the President’s plan 49%-46%. That’s a net six point loss in support for the President’s plan since the State of the Union. That is momentum. Against Obamacare.

And Gallup isn’t alone. The Associated Press released a poll this week showing that 68% of Americans believe the President and Congressional Democrats shouldn’t pass their health care plan without Republican support.  “Nothing has been more disconcerting than to watch Democratic politicians and their media supporters deceive themselves into believing that the public favors the Democrats’ current health-care plan,” Democratic pollsters Pat Caddell and Doug Schoen add in today’s Washington Post, “A solid majority of Americans opposes the massive health-reform plan.”

Yesterday was particularly tough for the President’s plan. First, the White House underwhelmed the Democratic Caucus in a presentation of the new (still unwritten) reconciliation bill. Then, the Senate Parliamentarian killed the Democrats favored procedural path for passage by signaling he would rule that President Obama must sign the original Senate bill into law before the Senate could act on the President’s new reconciliation package. Finally, the Associated Press reported that House leaders have abandoned all hope of finding language to satisfy Rep. Bart Stupak’s (D-MI) concerns that the Senate bill funds abortion. By the end of the day, the leftist firedoglake site had dropped its count of committed House Democrats for passage to 189 (Speaker Pelosi needs 216 for passage).

With the loss of Stupak and his 7-12 member caucus opposed to taxpayer-funded-abortions, Speaker Pelosi will have to find the remaining dozen plus votes from the ranks of cost conscious Blue Dog Democrats. For example, Rep. Suzanne Kosmas (D-FL) who voted against the House bill in the fall explained at the time: “According to the Congressional Budget Office, the House health care bill will actually increase federal health care spending over the long term, while proposals being considered by the Senate would have a net decrease.” But according to a new CBO score of the Senate bill passed on Christmas Eve (the one with the Cornhusker Kickback), it actually increases health care spending. And the reconciliation bill only make things worse, since, among other increased spending measures, President Obama “fixed” the Cornhusker Kickback not by eliminating the new spending, but by extending it to all 50 states.

With no votes piling up, and  “yes” votes materializing, the Democratic plans to shove Obamacare down the throats of the American people are becoming more and more desperate. This Monday, the House Budget Committee will begin markup on the new reconciliation bill even though actual legislative text does not exist for it yet. The Democrats plan to pass a shell of a bill through the appropriate committees so that the Rules Committee can then substitute the bill that is being drafted completely behind closed doors by the White House and Senate and Democrat leaders.

Politico reports that despite the Parliamentarian’s initial verbal ruling, they will press on with their Slaughter Rule plan to pass the Senate bill without voting on it. NRO’s Yuval Levin quips: “Democratic leaders should be asking themselves just how they have gotten to the point that their strategy is to amend a law that doesn’t exist yet by passing a bill without voting on it.”

But President Obama’s progressive base is way past rational thought when it comes to health care. They want it passed at any cost. And as George Will pointed out yesterday, the very essence of progressivism sublimates the democratic process to the rule of experts in Washington. No one can say if this bill will finally pass, but if it does, it is abundantly clear that our republican form of government will be permanently damaged by it.

From ESPN:

As ESPN previously reported, WWF, Greenpeace, Defenders of Wildlife, Pew Environment Group and others produced a document entitled “Transition Green” shortly after Obama was elected in 2008. What has happened since suggests that the task force has been in lockstep with that position paper.

Then in late summer, just after he created the task force, these groups produced “Recommendations for the Adoption and Implementation of an Oceans, Coasts, and Great Lakes National Policy.” This document makes repeated references to “overfishing,” but doesn’t once reference recreational angling, its importance, and its benefits, both to participants and the resource.

Additionally, some of these same organizations have revealed their anti-fishing bias by playing fast and loose with “facts,” in attempts to ban tackle containing lead in the United States and Canada.

That same tunnel vision, in which recreational angling and commercial fishing are indiscriminately lumped together as harmful to the resource, has persisted with the task force, despite protests by the angling industry.

As more evidence of collusion, the green groups began clamoring for an Executive Order to implement the task force’s recommendations even before the public comment period ended in February. Fishing advocates had no idea that this was coming.

Perhaps not so coincidentally, the New York Times reported on Feb. 12 that “President Obama and his team are preparing an array of actions using his executive power to advance energy, environmental, fiscal and other domestic policy priorities.”

Read the whole thing here

How far off course have we gotten when environmental extremists can exert this much influence over a sitting president?

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Another day, another stream of health care fantasy from the White House. A quick look at two health care events from yesterday, one in Glenside, Pennsylvania, and the other in Tawas City, Michigan, clearly exposes the yawing gap between the Obama administration’s health care rhetoric and cold hard legislative reality. First in Glenside, President Barack Obama turned up the volume on his already tired “final push” for health care reform. In addition to the usual litany of false claims about the legislation in Congress (in fact, you don’t get to keep your doctor, it isn’t paid for, it doesn’t reduce costs) President Obama also repeated his new line from his doctors-in-lab-coats address last week:

We have now incorporated almost every single serious idea from across the political spectrum about how to contain the rising cost of health care … Our cost-cutting measures mirror most of the proposals in the current Senate bill…

But, as we pointed out last week, there is one not-so-minor difference between the Senate bill and the President’s new proposal: the Senate bill actually exists. Now, Democrats may be telling their conservative counterparts that they will have reconciliation legislative text in front of the Budget Committee by tomorrow, but don’t hold your breath. The “fixes” that the White House is promising wavering House Democrats they will make all sound easy at first glance: 1) scaling back the tax on high-end health insurance policies; 2) closing the Medicare D loophole; 3) boosting insurance subsidies; 4) increasing Medicaid payments; and 5) fixing the Cornhusker Kickback. But when you take a second look, you see that all of these “fixes” will cost more money. Just look at the Cornhusker Kickback which the President chose to address, not by taking away Nebraska’s special Medicaid payments, but by extending those extra Medicaid payments to every state! Every single item in the President’s proposal either increases spending or reduces new revenues. And he didn’t put forward any way to pay for them. If passing health reform were as easy as giving away free candy, Obamacare would be law already. Finding a way to pay for all these fixes is going to be just as difficult as every earlier effort to pay for this bill. So don’t expect any solutions anytime soon.

And we haven’t even mentioned “abortion” yet, which brings us to Tawas City where Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) hosted his own health care townhall. Now the Associated Press headline may read “Stupak: Health bill abortion fight can be resolved” but then the AP actually reports “Rep. Bart Stupak said he expects to resume talks with House leaders this week…” In other words, there is no agreement yet. And what kind of timeline is Stupak looking at for such an agreement? WJRT reports: “[Stupak]’s confident a bill will pass sometime this year.” “Sometime this year” is a bit longer of a timeframe than the White House deadline of next Thursday. But even more importantly, look at the process Stupak suggests for final passage: “According Stupak, until the House and the Senate bills and the president’s proposals become one piece of legislation, health care will remain in limbo.” Considering that everyone agrees that abortion cannot be fixed in reconciliation, Stupak’s position is a total rejection of the White House’s current plan to have the House pass the Senate bill now on the promise that the Senate might come back and try and fix it sometime in the future. Stupak clearly wants “one piece of legislation,” and the only way to accomplish that is to scrap the current Senate bill and start over.

In the meantime, legislative “limbo” has not been kind to the Senate bill. Every day seems to bring news of yet another yes vote switching to undecided or no vote. Just yesterday, former-yes votes Reps. Michael Arcuri (D-NY), Dan Maffei (D-NY), Bill Owens (D-NY) and Dan Lipinski (D-IL) all confirmed they were either now undecided or would vote no. And Rep. Artur Davis (D-AL), who voted no the first time, said he would suspend his campaign for Governor just so he could come back to Washington to vote against Obamacare again. The President can travel the country talking about an up-or-down vote for “our proposal” all he wants, but the reality is he simply doesn’t have the votes in the House for the only piece of health care legislation that actually exists.

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The author of this reprehensible piece of ‘journalism’, Christina Hoag, should be ashamed of herself for her blatant and intentional - since there’s no way she couldn’t know the whole story - misrepresentation of the types of situations she claims to be reporting on. In almost all cases, the offending item (noose/swastika/spray-painted racial slur, etc…) has been shown to have been placed by a member of the target minority themselves as a way to garner sympathy for their ‘plight’.

Ms. Hoag won’t tell you, for example, that the UC San Diego noose was planted by a (unspecified) minority female, while the ‘compton cookout‘ was organized by a black man.

Why? Because it won’t fit the narrative of Hoag and her ilk that the white man is the biggest single perpetrator of racism among us.

The fact, glaringly obvious to anyone capable of honest analysis, is that nothing is further from the truth.

The overwhelming majority of racism in this country emanates from the very people who cry about it the loudest….who also happen to be the very same people who view every person and every situation in terms of race. It’s always race first. Before character. Before merit. Before accomplishment.

It is a disgraceful situation that will continue to tear our country apart unless the people - you know, us -  and our elected representatives develop the spine to say ‘No More”. And, of course, until responsible news organizations throw agenda-driven hacks like Ms. Hoag out onto the street where they belong.

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On March 5th of last year, firefighter Travis Ulerick, of Dublin, Indiana, introduced President Barack Obama at a White House summit on health care. Upon hearing the first rumblings of dissent about the President’s plan, Ulerick tells USA Today he thought at the time: "I definitely think it’s going to have to be a huge consensus." It’s now 12 months later, and the only consensus that exists among the American people is strong opposition to the President’s health care plan.The White House, however, is now completely uninterested in establishing a consensus for their health care plan before they jam it through Congress. Today, in a speech from the White House, President Barack Obama will urge Congress to move swiftly to pass his health care plan by implementing a legislative tactic that can be used to pass legislation that has failed to gain broad support among the American people. It’s known as reconciliation.

Reconciliation has been used in the past, but only for procedural reasons, not because the underlying policy change was unable to muster 60-vote support. So, for example, the 1996 welfare reform law signed by President Bill Clinton was passed through reconciliation, but it also ended up getting 78 votes in the Senate (28 of them from Democrats). President Ronald Reagan also passed seven bills through reconciliation, but every single one of those bills passed through a Democratically-controlled House and won Senate votes from both parties. Never has reconciliation been used to pass any bill on purely partisan lines.

In an attempt to provide some political cover for his nakedly-partisan health care push, President Obama released a letter yesterday identifying "four policy priorities" that "I am exploring." Specifically he is "open" to: 1) random undercover investigations of health care providers that receive reimbursements from Medicare and Medicaid; 2) $50 million in cash for states that reform medical malpractice laws in ways the White House approves of; 3) increased spending on Medicaid; and 4) language that clearly allows Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) to qualify as health insurance.

The White House has not yet released any legislative language for any of these "policy priorities." In fact, his letter does not even promise that whatever legislation the White House does eventually offer will contain language on each of these issues. He only says he is "exploring" the issues. This is beyond a sham of bipartisanship. Details matter. The American people must be allowed to see real legislative language and they must be allowed the time to read and comment on it before any votes are taken.

Most importantly, simply adding so-called conservative ideas to the bill does not change the fundamental direction of the proposal. The bills before Congress, including the President’s new additions, would still result in a massive shift of power over health care financing and delivery of care to Washington politicians and bureaucrats. The public has spoken, and it does not want a federal take over of health care.

Julia Denton of Yorktown, Virginia, another of the Obama administration’s hand-picked March 5 health summit attendees, tells USA Today: "The legislation as proposed is so long and tough to read that people are afraid of it. Health care is such a highly personal issue. I cannot see how anyone will win if unpopular reforms are forced through over vigorous opposition." Denton is 100% correct. The American people should not have unpopular health care reform forced down their throats in the face of strong bipartisan opposition. At a bare minimum they should have the opportunity to see actual legislation from the White House and be allowed to speak to their members about it while they are home in their districts over Easter break.

Conservatives should continue to press the Administration and leaders in Congress for bipartisan solutions that are based on elements of common ground, including letting states take the lead on health reform, tackling the tax treatment of health insurance, sensible insurance market reforms, and an honest commitment to fixing existing health care programs that the government already controls.

For real bipartisanship to work, the President must set aside the current proposals that are based on consolidating power over health care in Washington and instead embrace solutions that would give individuals and families more control over health care dollars and decisions. Simply adjusting the magnitude of the existing proposals or adding so-called conservative provisions does not change this fundamental direction.