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THE OBAMANISTA REGIME’S SCAMS

February 1, 2009

Leave it to a Marine to call it as he sees it.

THE OBAMANISTA REGIME’S SCAMS, SCANDALS, CONTROVERSIES, LIES, DECEPTIONS AND EMBARRASSMENTS

Attorney General Eric Holder, revealed to be the man who, as Clinton’s deputy AG, was the driving force behind the sentence commutation of 16 murderous FALN terrorists.

Attorney General Eric Holder’s law firm represents 17 Gitmo terrorists and he is a driving force behind the closing of Gitmo.

On Inauguration Day, Obama granted only ABC News an interview, after they paid him $2 million to sponsor his DC Neighborhood Ball.

After three days in office, Obama ordered an attack on homes in Pakistan. Twenty-one people were killed but only five were reported to have been terrorists; the rest of the incinerated and dismembered victims were children, their moms and dads, and other civilians, according to the New York Times, the AFP, the AP and many other news sources.

On 23 January 2009, Obama demanded that GOP leaders stop listening to Rush Limbaugh or else things would not go well for them during his regime.

William Lind, a powerful defense industry lobbyist, was appointed by Obama to be deputy defense secretary, despite all the rants and promises Obama made about never appointing a lobbyist to a position of power in his regime.

On 23 January 2009, Obama lifted the ban on federal tax dollars funding abortion mill operations in Third World countries where eugenics are now again used to control the population.

Two days after seizing power, Obama signed an executive order to close Gitmo, making it clear that the comfort and happiness of the terrorists therein, and Europe’s opinion of us, are far more important than national security and the lives of American families.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton refuses to reveal all of the big foreign donors to her husband’s “foundation,” but the Washington Times says huge sums of money came from the People’s Republic of China via a secret 2006 stock transaction.

On 24 January 2009, despite his hundreds if not thousands of pledges and promises of total transparency in his regime, Obama held a secret closed-door meeting with his economic advisors as anger over his $1 trillion “economic stimulus” spending scheme, refusing to allow the media and American people access to what was discussed.

On 26 January 2009, Rep. John Boehner revealed that Obama and his Obamanistas in the Congress had added language in the Democrats’ stimulus bill that would allow Obama’s infamous voter fraud organization, ACORN, to receive billions of dollars in federal funding under the farcical guise of “neighborhood stabilization activities.”

On 26 January 2009, U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Susan Rice, stated that the Obama regime seeks direct negotiations with the terrorist regime of Iran.

In a shocking insult to our military’s heroes, on 20 January 2009, Barack Obama became the first president in 56 years–since its inception–to skip the Salute to Heroes Inaugural Ball, which is held in honor of Medal of Honor recipients, Purple Heart recipients, paralyzed veterans and other military heroes. Obama did, however, find time to attend the Neighborhood Ball, which was filled with Hollywood’s ultra elite.

On 26 January 2009, with hat in hand and apologizing for the United States, Obama gave his first formal television interview as president not to an American network, but Al-Arabiya, saying America must stop “dictating,” a move and statement that was immediately seen by extremist Muslims as a sign of sure weakness and fear.

James B. Steinberg, whom Obama nominated to be deputy secretary of state, told the Foreign Relations Committee in writing that Americans have a free speech right guaranteed by the Constitution to taxpayer funded abortions.

On 26 January 2009, Timothy Geithner was sworn in as Obama’s secretary of the treasury despite having serious tax problems and having had an illegal alien housekeeper.

On 27 January 2009, Obama, for some reason confused, attempted to walk through a window to get back into the White House rather than using a door. There were no calls from liberals to have him take a urinalysis to determine why he did this.

The Obamanistas added $325,000,000 to the economic stimulus bill for a program to teach Americans how not to get the clap and other STDs. More additions:

The Obamanistas added $1.5 billion to run a contest to capture carbon.

The Obamanistas added $45 million for ATV trails.

The Obamanistas added $572 million to create 1,235 Coast Guard civilian jobs at $460K each.

The Obamanistas added $4 billion for Obama’s voter fraud unit that is under federal investigation for massive fraud.

The Obamanistas added $3.5 billion for new education facilities.

The Obamanistas added $200 million for DoD alternative energy vehicles.

The Obamanistas added $600 million for new government cars.

The Obamanistas added $134 million for hospices.

The Obamanistas added $50 million for the Endowment for the Arts.

The Obamanistas added $650 million for digital TV coupons.

Obama’s economic stimulus bill includes his plan to force all American to have their entire health care history recorded in a government electronic database that privacy experts say could result in your most private medical issues being shared and viewed by no-one-knows who.

After the House passed what conservative watchdog Michelle Malkin calls the Generational Theft Act of 2009 worth $1 trillion + in debt to the American people and loaded with leftist pork like $335,000,000 for training Americans how not to catch the clap, Obama, who promised to lead a “new era of responsibility,” served up $100/ounce wagyu steak for some pals at the White House as shocking numbers of American homeless and jobless struggled to survive.

On 19 May 2008, Obama chided Americans that it is wrong for them to keep their thermostats on 72 degrees and stated, “That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen.” On 21 January 2009, Obama’s chief political advisor, David Axelrod, said Obama will be keeping the Oval Office thermostat so high that “You could grow orchids in there” because “He likes it warm.”

President Obama went to bat for accused USS Cole attack mastermind Abu al-Nashiri and told military judge James Pohl to postpone the terrorist’s trial. On 29 January 2009, Pohl refused the presidential order. The attack killed 17 American sailors and wounded several dozen.

On 29 January 2009, it was learned that despite his many repeated promises, Obama was stacking his regime with lobbyists, such as William Corr (finance industry) and Mark Patterson (anti-tobacco industry, despite Obama being a heavy smoker), in addition to William Lynn of the defense industry.

In January 2009, more than 1 million homes from Texas to Maine were without power after a winter storm; dozens of people died in the storm. Estimates for some areas said it could be two weeks or more before power would be restored. Obama did nothing to save lives and restore power, instead cranking up the heat in the Oval Office, according to David Axelrod, to tropical levels. No liberals complained about Obama total lack of response to the calamity, as they did after Katrina about Bush.

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The perils of eating

January 28, 2009

American connoisseurs are being poisoned at every opportunity. I mean, our peanut butter crackers!

Be glad that you are not in Japan though! Your Chef might feed you poison testicles… What next? Will Rocky Mountain Oysters slide into the food hall of infamy?

Dems derail Brophy bill to protect homeowners

January 28, 2009

State Senator Greg Brophy has been stabbed in his own home, so to speak. Despite the logic, and indeed inalienable right to properly and effectively defend themselves Democrats stopped this needed legislation.

A Republican effort that would have reinforced Coloradans’ ability to defend their families against home intruders hit a dead end today in a Senate committee.

Assistant Senate GOP leader Greg Brophy, R-Wray, presented Senate Bill 74 before the Senate Committee on State, Veterans, and Military Affairs, calling it a matter of “statewide concern.”

SB 74 would prohibit local governments from passing any law or regulation that requires a person to store their lawfully-owned firearms in a way that renders them inoperable. The Democrat-controlled committee voted to postpone the bill indefinitely, effectively killing it.

Brophy said the bill addresses and recognizes the landmark United States Supreme Court decision made last summer in the District of Columbia v. Heller case.  The Heller decision held that gun ownership is an individual right and that any government in the U.S. cannot put individuals in the position where they would be inadequately prepared to defend themselves against home invasion.

“We need to pass the ban on safe-storage laws in Colorado,” Brophy said in the committee. “I think the Heller case raised this issue to the national spotlight and brought it forward so that everybody is aware of it.”


Research Director of the Independence Institute Dave Kopel, left, tesifies in favor of Sen. Greg Brophy’s Senate Bill 74.


“This would save the citizens of Colorado the trouble of being forced to go the courts and have the courts say, ‘yes indeed the Supreme Court has already ruled on this,'” Brophy said.

Currently, the cities of Denver and Boulder have so-called “safe-storage” laws that require guns be disassembled or secured with a trigger lock while stored in private homes.

In his testimony in favor of the bill, renowned Second Amendment expert and constitutional lawyer Dave Kopel, who is research director at the Golden-based think tank the Independence Institute, offered evidence showing that cities with safe-storage laws actually have higher rates of home intrusion and violence because criminals are all too aware that homeowners are unable to defend themselves.

“Law-abiding gunowners in Denver and the public in general continue to be in danger due to unreasonable laws that prevent families from teaching gun safety in their own homes and make it way too difficult for crime victims in Denver to be able to protect themselves,” Kopel said after the bill was killed.

While ruling Democrats offered few insights to their opposition to the bill, Fort Collins Democrat Bob Bacon rasied concerns about second-guessing local-government policies on the issue of gun ownership.

Brophy countered that such concerns reflect misplaced priorities.

“They’re giving City Hall the right to preempt your own right to defend yourself and your family,” Brophy said. “And I think that’s just wrong.”

Assistant Senate Republican Leader Greg Brophy, of Wray, sits in disappointment after his bill, which would have given homeowners more power to defend themselves, was killed in a Democrat-controlled committee.

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JBC vice-chairman: ‘Ref C wasn’t designed to fix anything’

January 28, 2009

The big lie, and don’t say that you were not warned. Jon Caldara may have led the charge, but the soldiers of economic freedom were slaughtered at the polls by leftest lies. Want some proof? Read on…

During a Joint Budget Committee presentation before the House Agriculture Committee last week, legislators were discussing the state’s budgetary woes. As it often happens under the Capitol dome, conversations about the budget inevitably lead to questions about Referendum C.


PommerState of Colo.

Specifically, people want to know what happened to the billions of dollars that filled state coffers as a result of the statewide measure passing in 2005.

When voters approved Referendum C by 52 percent, they did so based on promises that the estimated $3.7 billion generated over the next five years would be used to fund higher education, health care, and transportation. Voters were also told they were fixing a “glitch” in the state’s Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, a 1992 constitutional amendment that limited annual growth in government spending.

So we were shocked to hear JBC vice-chairman Rep. Jack Pommer, D-Boulder, assert during last week’s discussion that “Ref C wasn’t designed to fix anything,” and that “Ref C was an arbitrary amount of money.” (Click the player above to hear the audio yourself.) Pommer went on to admit that just last year the CEOs of higher education were asking “what happened to our money?” He told them revenue from Referendum C was just to keep them from “shutting down.”

Calls to Pommer went unreturned before press time.

We’re not sure if Pommer is just exercising selective memory or if that’s truly the way he sees it, but Referendum C was very much sold to the public as a way to fix the budget. And the measure was not an “arbitrary” amount of money. State estimates pegged the new revenue at $3.7 billion, but it has brought in nearly double that amount. Not a small chunk of change.

We would hope a member of the powerful JBC, the vice-chairman no less, would know better.

Note: The first voice in the audio clip is that of Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Yuma, who asks a question then answered by Pommer.

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Time to take on Obamanomics

January 28, 2009

As the news media proclaims government spending the golden bullet that can save us from sure economic demise, someone has finally shot back with an articulate explanation of why such Keynesian hyperbole just doesn’t pass the smell test.

In a YouTube video produced by the Center for Freedom and Prosperity titled “Obama’s So-Called Stimulus: Good For Government, Bad For the Economy,” the Cato Institute’s Daniel Mitchell explains that history provides ample evidence that smaller government is the true engine of economic growth.

As CF&P Foundation President Andrew Quinlan noted in a release, “President Obama’s plan to expand the burden of government is misguided. Redistributing wealth while increasing the size of government is not a recipe for real economic growth. We need a plan that encourages work, savings and investment.”

The piece couldn’t be more timely, especially as Colorado Democrats boast Obama’s plan could bring $2.9 billion to Colorado’s economy. State Treasurer Cary Kennedy is so giggly, she can hardly see straight.

The plan, which would account for more than 3 percent of the nation’s gross domestic project over two years, might sound nice in theory, it brings up a second essential economics lesson for today. Just because you print money, it doesn’t make it have value.

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Has free-market capitalism died?

January 27, 2009

Always, and in  all ways  freedom and individual liberty will forever be the favorite whipping boy of those with a socialist bent. Populist’s, such as the new President are in bed with socialist on a number of issues that are directly related. Be that Gun Control, or taxation. However, the economy is currently at the forefront. Below, is an excellent expose of this better than thou attitude by those that are of the collectivist mind set.

Has free-market capitalism died?

Michael Miller

Who would have imagined 20 years ago — when the Berlin Wall fell and we celebrated the death of socialism — that capitalism would be under heavy fire? The cardinal of Westminster, Cormack Murphy O’Connor, reportedly said 2008 was the year when “capitalism died.”

What are we to make of capitalism in light of all the crises, fraud and government intervention, when even some traditional supporters of markets are supporting bailouts?

Before answering this question, it is important to note that “capitalism” is a Marxist term. It gives the impression that the market is a nebulous force. This impersonal understanding can lead us to blame markets when things go wrong instead of exploring reasons that are harder to diagnose.

Pope John Paul II rejected the term, preferring “market economy,” “business economy” or “free economy.” He did so to illustrate that markets are networks of human relationships. This sheds light on the underlying moral nature of markets.

Markets are the combined activities of millions of individuals. They are not composed merely of some guys on Wall Street; they are made up by us. Like anything else run by humans, markets can fail. If we become overly speculative and convinced that prices can go nowhere but up — as happened in the Tulip Bubble in 1637, the dot.com bubble in 2000 and the recent housing bubble — sooner or later reality will set in.

Despite their failures, however, free markets have lifted more people out of poverty and helped create prosperity and peace better than any system.

In these days of financial turmoil, we often hear critics speaking about deregulation or “unbridled capitalism.” But try to think of one country where there are no regulations. For free markets to succeed, they require a framework built on rule of law, contracts and secure property rights.

The real question is what kind of regulation and what level of intervention we should choose.

Many contributing causes of this crisis were an overly invasive government. Federal regulators required banks to provide mortgages to customers who could not pay back the loans; the Federal Reserve manipulated the money supply, exacerbating the housing boom; and politicians promised bailouts that created incentives for irresponsible behavior.

How many of us, out of greed, gluttony or pride, used credit cards to buy things we did not need or could not afford? What about Wall Street bankers who took imprudent risks with clients’ money? Markets cannot succeed without a strong moral fabric among the citizenry.

Yet we again hear calls for increased regulation and government involvement.

If we regulate too much, we concentrate the power of markets in fewer and fewer hands. This has led to all sorts of evil and corruption. Socialist economies, cartels, oligarchies and union-controlled industries produce stagnation and create incentives for corruption. It is a false hope to believe regulation will make everything right.

It is likewise delusional to believe markets alone are enough. Our Founders taught us that without virtue political liberty could not long be sustained. The same holds true for economic liberty. And yet without economic liberty there can be no political liberty. Like liberty, the market must be moral, or it cannot exist.

Michael Miller is director of programs at the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty in Grand Rapids. E-mail letters to letters@detnews.com.

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Senate Bill 09-057 The Public School Financial Transparency Act

January 27, 2009

Colorado politics, and politicians… One would think that there were more pressing things that need to be addressed, but? Apparently not.

Please Support Senate Bill 09-057
The Public School Financial Transparency Act
The more transparent government is, the more accountable government is.
This bill will require our public schools to show their spending online. Taxpayers could see how their money is used. Today’s technology would make this extremely affordable. When people can easily find contracting or purchasing options that better cut costs, it might pay for itself many times over.
After all, most Coloradans want to see their public education tax dollars going to the classroom. How much better if we all could see it for ourselves!
This Wednesday, January 28th, the Senate Education Committee is hearing testimony on this bill. The hearing is scheduled to take place “upon adjournment” of the morning session of the entire general assembly.This isn’t a specific time, but 10:30 is a reasonable estimate of when the committee meeting will begin. If you can be there to provide testimony in favor of this bill, Libertarian Party member Amanda Teresi (of Liberty on the Rocks and the Independence Institute) is organizing speakers.

People interested in speaking will meet in the cafeteria, which is in the basement of the capitol.  If you can’t find us, call or text me (David K. Williams, Jr.) at 303-588-2731, I’ll find you. The Education Committee is scheduled to meet in Senate Committee Room 354. The staff at the capitol is helpful, and will point you in the right direction.
There is lots of paid parking around the capitol but I would suggest giving yourself time to find parking, or take publicly funded mass transit.  Also, SB 57 is the first bill on the list to be discussed, but they can change that at any time.  There will be pre-written testimonies prepared for people who would like to testify but don’t know what to say.  If people want to come but not testify, that is good too, we just want to show how many people support the issue.
If you can make it to capitol OR NOT, please contact the members of the Senate Education Committee and let tell them to support SB-57, the Public School Financial Transparency Act.(Don’t wait, send them an email right now!)
The Senate Education Committee is comprised of:
Senator Bob Bacon, Chair 
303-866-4841
E-mail: bob.bacon.senate@state.co.us

Senator Chris Romer, Vice-Chair
303-866-4852
E-mail: chris.romer.senate@state.co.us

Senator Nancy Spence, Ranking Republican
303-866-4883
E-mail: nancyspence@qwest.net

Senator Peter Groff
303-866-3342
E-mail: peter.groff.senate@state.co.us

Senator Rollie Heath
303-866-4872
(no email listed on General Assembly website)
Senator Evie Hudak
303-866-4840
E-mail: senatorhudak@gmail.com

Senator Keith King
303-866-4880
E-mail: keith@keithking.org

PLEASE OPPOSE THESE TWO BILLS THAT EXPAND THE POWER OF THE STATE AT THE EXPENSE OF INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM.

House Bill 09-1094
Cell Phone Prohibitions for Drivers

Deems the use of a wireless telephone by an operator of a motor vehicle as a class A traffic infraction.

This bill would expand the power of police to STOP drivers WHO ARE DRIVING PERFECTLY SAFELY while talking on a cell phone.
The primary sponsors of this bill are:
Representative Clarie Levy (D) 303-866-2578 claire.levy.house@state.co.us
Senator Bob Bacon (D) 303-866-4841 bob.bacon.senate@state.co.us
This bill has been assigned to the House Committee on Transportation and Energy.
This committee is composed of:
Representative Buffie McFadyen, Chair
303-866-2905
E-mail: mcfadyen2002@hotmail.com
Representative Gwyn Green, Vice-Chair
303-866-2951
E-mail: gwynithgreen@yahoo.com
Representative Glenn Vaad, Ranking Republican
303-866-2943
E-mail: glenn.vaad.house@state.co.us

Representative Randy Baumgardner
303-866-2949
E-mail: randy1485@hotmail.com
Rep. Randy Fischer
303-866-2917
E-mail: randyfischer@frii.com
Rep. Jerry Frangas
303-866-2954
E-mail: kjerryfrangas@earthlink.net
Rep. Steve King
303-866-3068
E-mail: steve.king.house@state.co.us
Rep. Marsha Looper
303-866-2946
E-mail: marshalooper@gmail.com
Rep. Frank McNulty
303-866-2936
(no email listed)
Rep. Michael Merrifield
303-866-2932
E-mail: michael.merrifield.house@state.co.us
Rep. Dianne Primavera
303-866-4667
E-mail: representativeprimavera@yahoo.com
Please let these representatives know you oppose the expansion of this police power and that reckless driving is ALREADY illegal. This bill would
House Bill 09-1019
Cat Identification Law for Cities

Requires the owner of a cat to ensure that the animal has a proper form of identification and allows for fines on owners who do not comply.
Sponsors:
Representative Cherylin Peniston (D) 303-866-2843 cherylin.peniston.house@state.co.us
Senator Joyce Foster (D) 303-866-4875 joycefoster@comcast.net
This bill was passed out of committee and to the House Committee of the Whole. Contact your personal Representative and tell him or her to oppose this bill!
You might mention that according to the Fiscal Note attached to the bill, “Implementation of the bill in cities of population greater than 100,000 may result in increased
costs for code enforcement, legal expenses, and other administrative activities.”  Of course it will.

Income Redistribution: Smooth-brained economics

January 18, 2009

Keynesians, the Left’s economic leper colony of choice, having been banished from planet Earth during the prosperous Reagan years, have de-orbited and once again control the nation’s economic levers. Readers may not remember their name, but they are certainly familiar with their otherworldly theories, such as the idea that rising unemployment will lower inflation. This pearl, tested during the Carter years, produced a brand-new dictionary term: “stagflation.” Unfortunately, as The Wall Street Journal’s George Melloan highlights, a related Paleozoic idea from the Left’s intellectual crypt is now being dragged out and dusted off — the notion that the government can “stimulate” an economy by shoveling massive amounts of paper into it.

The problem with Keynesian paper-pumping theories is that value doesn’t derive from money (i.e., paper), but rather, from the intrinsic worth of products or services exchanged. This worth is measured, in the aggregate, as a nation’s Gross Domestic Product. For a given GDP and a specified supply of money in circulation, an increase in money supply simply dilutes the value of the base currency — in this case, the U.S. dollar.

That dollar is about to become a lot weaker, too. Just this week President-elect Obama asked Congress to release the second half of the enormous $700 billion bailout package known as TRAP — er, TARP. Both houses quickly obliged, and Obama pledged to use as much as $100 billion to help homeowners facing foreclosure. Conservative estimates now put total bailout costs at roughly $2 trillion. Where does all that money come from? Well, it’s simply printed up — really. So how much is a trillion dollars? Well, one trillion dollars laid out end-to-end would stretch from the earth to the sun (roughly 93 million miles), with four million miles in spare change; a fighter flying at the speed of sound would take almost 15 years to span that distance. That’s a lot of paper.

All of this is to point out that we have been down this road before, and we should reflect on the costly lesson the Carter era taught us: “loose money,” while temporarily easing the pain, is nowhere near worth the ultimate suffering it brings.

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In alarming conjunction with recent headlines reporting that the global influence of the United States has slipped dramatically due to the dereliction of government regulators largely responsible for triggering the current recession, the 15th annual Index of Economic Freedom published jointly by The Wall Street Journal and The Heritage Foundation reveals the U.S. saw a corresponding slip in its rankings to sixth place. Hong Kong is tops again, followed by Singapore, Australia, Ireland and New Zealand to round out the top five.

Evaluating numerous criteria relating to economic freedom, the study again shows an affirmative correlation between economic freedom and national income. Freer countries enjoy per capita incomes more than 10 times higher than those in “repressed” countries occupying the bottom of the rankings. In a chilling highlight, it was repressed nations that turned to deficit spending, government seizure of land and resources, and government support of favored enterprises, eventually devastating their economies even further with government mismanagement. Not to suggest that our government’s current bailout debacle bears a striking resemblance to government mismanagement that landed many of the repressed countries at the bottom of the rankings, but as Founding Father John Adams once said, “Facts are stubborn things.”

When the engines of capitalism occasionally backfire, socialists sing their siren song that only government can save the economy. What these same 19th-century thinkers never can explain is how an entity responsible for today’s recession through sheer incompetence is supposed to solve the debacle by taking even more money away from the productive segment of society. Yet the audacity of big government arrogance will only grow worse beginning next week.

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Colorado Castle Doctrine to be voted on!

January 18, 2009

COLORADO: Important Castle Doctrine Reform Bill to be Considered on Wednesday, January 20! On Wednesday, January 20, the Colorado Senate State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee will vote on Senate Bill 8, a bill sponsored by State Senator Ted Harvey (R-30). This legislation seeks to expand Colorado’s Castle Doctrine law. SB 8 would amend Colorado’s current version of the Castle Doctrine to ensure that all citizens have a right to use force, including deadly force, against a violent attacker, not only within their own dwellings, but their places of business as well. SB 8 is critically important as it expands Coloradans’ right to self-defense and protects victims from frivolous civil lawsuits by criminals or their family. Please contact the members of the State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee TODAY and respectfully urge them to vote for SB 8. Contact information can be found by clicking here.

Just say no, to Eric Holder

January 16, 2009
Gun Owners of America Opposes Attorney General Nominee
— Urge Your Senators to Vote “NO” on Eric Holder

Gun Owners of America
8001 Forbes Place Suite 102
Springfield VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Barack Obama is wasting no time poking a sharp stick in the eyes of gun owners.

The incoming President’s choice for U.S. Attorney General, Eric Holder, is an anti-gun extremist who has assailed gun owners since his days in the Bill Clinton administration.

Holder, who served as Deputy Attorney General from 1997-2001, supports a 3-day waiting period for handgun purchases, one-gun-a-month rationing, licensing and registration of all gun owners, mandatory so-called smart gun technology, a lifetime gun ban for certain juvenile offenses and regulating gun shows out of existence.

As Janet Reno’s top deputy, Eric Holder was the go to guy on gun control issues. In a 1999 statement, Holder told members of Congress not to cave in to “the special interest that value the cold hard steel of guns more than the lives of children, neighbors and police officers,” and urged them to pass legislation that would have destroyed the gun show industry.

Gun Owners of America members flooded the Congress with postcards and e-mails and stopped Holder’s gun control plan.

In 2000, Holder was instrumental in the Clinton Administration’s effort to strong arm firearms manufacturers into voluntarily accepting regulations that had stalled in the Congress.

In a brazen legislation-by-extortion plot, the federal government filed suit against gun makers but offered to drop the suit if the companies would bow to the administration’s demands.

Again, GOA and its members took the lead in opposing Holder and the Clinton Administration and slowed down implementation of the agreement until it completely went away when Clinton left office.

One company went along with the deal but after intense pressure from gun owners, no others joined the unholy alliance.

After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, in an op-ed in the Washington Post, Holder pushed for more gun control and greater restrictions on gun shows, even though the terrorists were armed with box cutters that could be purchased at any hardware store.

Just last year, Holder joined Janet Reno and 11 other former Justice Department officials in an amicus brief before the Supreme Court arguing in favor of the gun ban in Washington D.C.

The Holder/Reno brief also took the position that the Second Amendment protects a collective government right, not an individual right.

GOA and its members have defeated Eric Holder and his agenda in the past, and we need to do it again. The Holder nomination is subject to Senate confirmation in a vote which is set to occur at any time.

Gun Owners of America has asked all members of the U.S. Senate to reject this anti-Second Amendment activist.

Now we’re urging gun owners across the country to contact their own Senators and insist that they vote “NO” on Eric Holder.