Who Congress should have listened to but didn't.?  Who the American people should listen to - especially the first 16 seconds of this 1961 speech?  The same person - Ronald Reagan.

The principal thrust of appellant's attack on the Texas statutes is that they improperly invade a right, said to be possessed by the pregnant woman, to choose to terminate her pregnancy. Appellant would discover this right in the concept of personal "liberty"embodied in the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause; or in personal, marital, familial, and sexual privacy said to be protected by the Bill of Rights or its penumbras, see Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965); Eisenstadt v. Baird, 405U.S. 438 (1972); id., at 460 (WHITE, J., concurring in result);or among those rights reserved to the people by the Ninth Amendment,Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S., at 486 (Goldberg, J., concurring).Before addressing this claim, we feel it desirable briefly to survey, in several aspects, the history of abortion, for such insight as that history may afford us, and then to examine the state purposes and interests behind the criminal abortion laws.

So exactly what is the difference between the US Supreme Court ruling that government cannot deny "personal liberty" via abortion and the federal government denying my personal liberty via the health care bill?  In this persons layman's eyes, there isn't.

Third, get involved.   You've heard it before and now you're hearing it again.  GET INVOLVED!  It doesn't matter which party you subscribe to, but the best way to change the major parties is from the grassroots.  Become a precinct committeeman.  If we get enough people at the base of EACH party, we can make people like President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Sheila Jackson-Lee, and Jan Schakowsky the fringe of their party, not the mainstream - and NOT CONTROLLING THE LEGISLATIVE AGENDA OF THE UNITED STATES!  So how can you get involved?  You can email me here and I will forward your information on to the right people.  Also, visit Steve Balich's site Conservative Precinct Committeeman Project and learn what you can do to help.  Or, you can visit "The Precinct Project" site.  Attend your local Tea Party rallies.  In fact, Effingham will be having our Tea Party on April 15th at 6pm at the Old Courthouse downtown Effingham (Jefferson Ave.).   More details to follow this week.

What happens from here until November 2010 is completely up to you.  The Tyranny of the Majority is ignoring us.  The Republicans seem to be waking up.  The states are suing the federal government for overstepping their bounds.  Our rights are being eroded day after day.  What more needs to happen?  Nothing should be the answer.