ABC NEWS, the Note, Tea Service: Energy served in unequal portions, as health care vote approaches

The Foundry, 10,000 Rally Against Obamacare

Washington Times, The Grassroots is Growing

Americans for Prosperity will be hosting a conference call with Rep. Michele Bachmann and RedState.com’s Erick Erickson tonight (November 4th) at 8pm EST to discuss tomorrow’s Congressional House Call Day. (click below for details)

Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats in Congress tried to re-brand the wildly unpopular and conspicuous “public option” as the softer sounding “consumer option.” The unfortunate part is that the consumer option is neither for the consumer, nor will it eventually be option.

Phil Kerpen
November 3, 2009

With the country focused on today’s elections and the ongoing circus-like attempt of Washington to take over our health care, Sen. Barbara Boxer is trying to pull a fast one on cap-and-trade, forcing her outrageous Boxer-Kerry energy ration and tax scheme through the Senate Environment and Public Workers (EPW) Committee this week, while the country is focused on health care. She thinks the American people won’t notice that she is trying to quietly jump-the-gun on legislation that could amount to the biggest tax increase in American history without even waiting for the EPA to run its models and release its official (and almost certainly unrealistically low) estimate of the cost of the bill and its effect on emissions.

Read the rest here.

Listen to his two-minute KerpenCast on this subject here.

Click here to take action on this issue!

Persistence and innovation seems to be paying off for the Ford Motor Company.

To download our Patients First Real Prescription for Reform click HERE

You've no doubt seen Speaker Pelosi's "final" House bill.  The vote is scheduled for THIS Friday.  That's why I'm asking you to take three key actions.

On Thursday, Speaker Pelosi (D-Calif.) unveiled the most dramatic and costly healthcare bill in the history of this country. Instead of moderating the proposals after months of mounting opposition from the American public, the final bill amounts to an ultimatum.

In my Tuesday post, I discussed how government is addicted to gambling with your money. Today, the focus is on why they are addicted. Americans are naturally optimistic. We live in the most prosperous and free country in the world. Of course our economy has its ups and downs, but when examined over generations, the growth has been continuous.

Click here to view more photos

While speaker Pelosi unveiled her final health care takeover bill in the House, I'm here on the road with Fox New's John Stossel holding town hall meetings to urge folks to keep up the fight against a government takeover of health care.

At 7am this morning-- yes I said 7am--345 activists joined us bright and early in Texarkana for a rousing town hall meeting. We were in the district of Congressional Blue Dog leader Mike Ross, and hundreds of folks signed the “Hands Off My Health Care” petition urging Congressman Ross to do the right thing for Arkansas.

This morning we wrapped up three days of exciting and successful events in South Carolina as part of our Hot Air Tour to let Senator Lindsey Graham hear from thousands of his constituents on the issue of cap-and-trade. As you may know, Senator Graham joined Massachusetts Senator John Kerry in an op ed supporting the job killing, tax increasing cap-and-trade policies.

So, we brought our AFP Hot Air Tour to the Palmetto State for events in Spartanburg, Columbia, Mt. Pleasant/Charleston and finally Myrtle Beach this morning.

The Great Recession of 2008 exposed the dangers that occur when government distorts markets on an economy-wide scale. Banks seized on government guidance to give out risky, sub-prime loans to borrowers that would never pay them back. Without the tax breaks and comparative advantages provided by the government, these loans would never have been granted.

Yesterday, as the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee began hearings on the job-killing tax increase called cap-and-trade, we're in South Carolina holding Hot Air Tour events targeted at Sen. Lindsey Graham on this very issue.

The New York Times reported last week that New York Governor David Paterson is deeply concerned about President Obama’s health care reform and its effects on his state’s already massively imbalanced budget. This is because both the House and Senate versions of the bill require states to pick up at least a portion of the cost for newly enrolled Medicaid beneficiaries.