The Time is NOW

The Time is Now !

The time is now to act. The time is always now. When would there be a time when we would not act to stop what is going on in Washington? We are talking about the health care issue at this moment. Just when we thought the Christmas break and the election of Scott Brown in Massachusetts had slowed the White House initiative, they accelerated their efforts. They are putting it all on the line. We must put it all on the line as well. NOW!

What does that mean? In simple terms it means that the things that reinvigorated conservatives, Tea Party goers and other Tea Party types have been doing, are working. We must keep doing what we have been doing. That does not mean that we have done enough and we can just wait for our efforts to pay off. It means that we have to keep working. Believe me, the Rahm Emanuel’s and David Axelrod’s of the world are not going to relax until they have this rammed down our throat.

There is an old expression that suggests that if something (no matter how wrong or inaccurate) is repeated often enough, it becomes believable. The White House and other progressives/liberals are going to continue to repeat how good their health care proposal is until they lose their voice or pass it. We clearly understand how bad it is, but they will keep demanding that we believe them. We must keep up the rebuttals one for one until we lose our voice.

It is clear that the grass roots efforts by all of us, has been profoundly impactful, probably beyond our wildest dreams. We need to continue working and build upon this success. Again, how do we do this? Well, this has always been a challenge to me as well. I started by attending Tea Parties. Then I actually went to the local Republican phone bank and helped out making calls to help get Chris Christie elected. And now I attend monthly or bi-monthly local Tea Party meetings. This will help you remain informed and enthusiastic. Do we have time for this now? Maybe, but we need more action, sooner. This week.

There are probably web sites for your local Tea Parties. They will have many local suggestions and contract numbers for your Congressional representatives and Senators. This information will be very helpful as we are out of time for the moment. Call the contact numbers now….this week. Politely express your desires to your duly elected reps. Tell them that you do not support the current health care proposal and to please vote against it. If your representatives are Democrats and are on the fence, insist that they vote against it and that you will work with them to get something that we can all support in a non-hurried fashion or time frame. This entire health care process has had a contrived and false sense of urgency built into it. This is intentional. It is to get us to make hasty, thoughtless decisions to accommodate the Democratic majority. The good news is that we recognized this and reacted.

A more concrete recommendation is to view the “Tea Party Patriots” web site. They are the self proclaimed ‘official grassroots of the American movement’. I only say ‘self proclaimed’ because I am not sure that the Tea Party has become that fully organized yet. It probably ultimately needs to be that well organized, so that it can become more effective. For now I really like the organization and their web site. Their web address is www.teapartypatriots.org. One of the most recent messages that I received from them has some excellent local, right now suggestions. Here is a link to that specific message. It has comments about local targeted reps. and their most recent votes: https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#inbox/12759de684492f07.

Make some calls, talk to your friends. Become an active constitutional conservative. Be creative. Do things that you think will work. Share these ideas and actions with your friends and neighbors. Share them with that folks in your life that are undecided or still trying to make a decision. Do not waste your time trying to convince the hard core zealots that you may know who have been liberals for a long time. This will likely frustrate you and again, you can be spending you time more efficiently elsewhere.

I recently received an email from a friend of mine in Dallas who attended a morning networking meeting where their speaker was prominent Dallas attorney Barrett Richards and a health care expert. While am paraphrasing the story as related by my friend, Richards essentially said that if health care passes and even if the Conservatives were to retake Congress, and the Presidency in three years, once an “entitlement” is passed and begun, it is almost impossible to repeal it. WE MUST STOP IT NOW. Keep on keeping on Gang. We have done some awesome work and there is more to do….RIGHT NOW! Act, react today!

Let me hear from you.

Jan Hruska