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“The GOP must stop abandoning the promises they made to their supporters and get back to advancing the causes of freedom, prosperity and virtue.”

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – ForAmerica Chairman L. Brent Bozell III today released a statement regarding the proposal in the House of Representatives to bolster the Pre-Existing Conditions Insurance Pools (PCIP) contained in ObamaCare.

“It is extremely disappointing to see Majority Leader Eric Cantor become the latest member of the GOP establishment to attempt to position the Republican Party as ‘Democrat-Lite.’ Rather than sticking to his promise to repeal the massive government takeover of healthcare that is ObamaCare, which led to Republicans taking the House majority in 2010, he is actually advocating shoring up a portion of the law that does nothing to use free market-based reforms to cut healthcare costs. Rather than toying with the creation of CantorCare, the GOP must stop abandoning the promises they made to their supporters and get back to advancing the causes of freedom, prosperity and virtue.”

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ForAmerica (www.ForAmerica.org) is an online army of over 3.5 million people. The group is a non-profit 501(c)4 organized to educate Americans about traditional and contemporary American values, to relentlessly fight the growth of government, to oppose any substitute to freedom and self-government, to promote individual liberty and excellence, to promote economic opportunity, and to move America toward her founding principles. ForAmerica is chaired by L. Brent Bozell III, one of the most outspoken and effective national leaders in the conservative movement today.

Cap and Trade is a failure in Europe, there is just simply no other way to describe it. Just last week, the EU voted against propping up the program by artificially inflating the value of carbon credits. As the Wall Street Journal points out, the proponents of Cap and Trade like to pretend that the system is a free-market based scheme, but when it actually provides cheaper fossil fuels, they want government intervention.

The global warming fanatics want it both ways on Cap and Trade, but on both fronts, they fail. They believe that Cap and Trade is free-market, but it isn’t; and they believe it will make fossil fuels so expensive that the only viable option will be ‘green’ energy, but even that failed. Miserably.

At least the Europeans didn’t know for sure their plan would fail, despite the multitudes that told them it would. President Obama and his environmental zealot friends, however, have seen the failure of Cap and Trade in Europe and still want to try it out. Don’t believe us? You need look no further than this year’s State of the Union address. There you will find Obama telling Congress if they don’t support Cap and Trade (a term he artfully avoids,) he will use his executive powers to implement every regulation he can.

That is the Obama way after all – if the democratic process fails to give him what he wants, he shall simply decree it by executive order and impose it on the people. He truly is the imperial President.

Barack Obama’s Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, is now out telling the public that “no one fully anticipated” how difficult it would be to implement ObamaCare. What is absurd is that practically everyone, including ForAmerica, has been saying how difficult it would be from the start.

Shockingly, Sebelius seems surprised that state legislatures, just like the majority of the American people, oppose ObamaCare. What Sebelius and the rest of the Obama administration seem to forget is that we live a federalist system. This means that states don’t have to shut up and take it when their citizens oppose an unpopular boondoggle like ObamaCare.

What the Obama administration calls intransigence, the founding fathers would have called the system working properly. The system they set up was designed for this, when the federal government overreaches, the founders put in place a mechanism for the people to fight back. So, the administration says forget about the lunacy of state planning one-sixth of the national economy, blame the Republicans for standing up for the will of the people.

The Senate will vote later today on gun control measures that will further erode the Second Amendment. That means the time is now to call your Senator and tell him or her that you will not take this affront to your liberty lying down. Here is where you can find you Senator’s office phone number. Act now because tomorrow may be too late.

Between all his newly proposed taxes and fees, President Obama’s latest budget would collect nearly $1 trillion more next year. Chief among Obama’s proposals is to go after charitable giving by reducing itemized deductions on donations to charitable organizations. This is targeting money that these wonderful organizations use to help others.

If you want to hear some serious criticism of the President’s budget you need look no further than the Democratic caucus. There you will find no shortage of Democrats panning the Obama budget. While Democrats and Republicans may disagree about why, the overwhelming consensus seems to be a bipartisan agreement that Obama’s budget is flat-out terrible.

The President’s own Health and Human Services Department has come out and said that the cost of ObamaCare will be $4.4 billion this year, up from the $2 billion it was promised to cost.  That is bad, even for government work.  And it gets even worse, next year, the cost goes up to $5.7 billion.

It’s time to finally say “stop!”  These people obviously have no idea what they are doing with ObamaCare, otherwise, how could they be so wrong when it comes to the cost?  And you have to ask yourself, if they can be more then 100% off on the cost of the program, what else about ObamaCare are the 100% wrong about?  We need to stop fooling around and repeal the whole thing.  Only then can we start fresh and develop a plan that is worthy of the American people.

“This budget does absolutely nothing to steer us back toward fiscal sanity, nothing to generate growth that would help lift 50 million Americans out of poverty and off food stamps.”

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – ForAmerica Chairman L. Brent Bozell III today released a statement regarding the budget released by the White House this morning.

“President Obama finally got around to submitting his budget – months after the legally-mandated deadline – and it’s another clunker full of tax increases, giveaways to his corporate cronies and even more spending during a time of fiscal crisis. After running around the country for years asking for a ‘balanced approach’ to the shambolic budgetary situation he has made worse during his time in office, his budget never actually balances. So, after previous budgets got zero votes in Congress, the President has shown once again that he has no intention of balancing our books. This budget does absolutely nothing to steer us back toward fiscal sanity, nothing to generate growth that would help lift 50 million Americans out of poverty and off food stamps. This budget is a cruel joke on those who have suffered the most under Barack Obama.”

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ForAmerica (www.ForAmerica.org) is an online army of over 3.5 million people. The group is a non-profit 501(c)4 organized to educate Americans about traditional and contemporary American values, to relentlessly fight the growth of government, to oppose any substitute to freedom and self-government, to promote individual liberty and excellence, to promote economic opportunity, and to move America toward her founding principles. ForAmerica is chaired by L. Brent Bozell III, one of the most outspoken and effective national leaders in the conservative movement today.

April 8, 2012

Mr. Reince Priebus
Chairman, Republican National Committee
310 1st Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003

Dear Chairman Priebus,

On behalf of the millions of grassroots conservatives around the country that our organizations represent, we are writing in support of the efforts of our friend and colleague Morton Blackwell, outlined in the letter he sent to you last month. Your work to turn around the RNC financial situation has been commendable. Movement conservative leaders and grassroots activists have supported much of it. We urge you not to betray that goodwill and earned respect by failing to enact the positive reforms that would undo the rules power grab done in Tampa last year.

Like you, we believe that the strength of the Conservative Movement and Republican Party lies in the strength of our ideas and the millions of citizens who believe in them and work tirelessly through the political process on behalf of our shared principles. Enacting rules changes that centrally consolidate power not only violates our political principles, it will alienate the very people who have been the most loyal foot soldiers in support of Republican candidates.

We also ask you to carefully consider any proposed changes recommended in the “Growth and Opportunity Project.” Conservatism and the Reagan coalition that created the modern Republican Party represents the fusion of economic conservatives, social conservatives, and national security conservatives. Rather than allowing political consultants and other elite minorities to shed our principles in the name of political expediency, we must reaffirm our commitment to these timeless American principles and the work that it will take to again make them relevant to a majority of our citizens. Thank you for your efforts and for your attention to these requests.

Sincerely, (more…)

The media will have you believe that things are getting better just because the unemployment rate has been declining, what they won’t tell you is why the number is falling.  One may assume that the unemployment rate is going down because more people are finding work, which is reasonable, but wrong.  The truth is that the number is falling because more and more people are leaving the labor force.  In fact, the percentage of people in the labor force is at the lowest rate since the end of the Carter administration.

When people leave the labor force their status as unemployed no longer gets factored into the unemployment rate.  This makes sense when looking at people who retire, can no longer work for medical or psychological reasons, or people who leave jobs to take care of their kids; but this doesn’t make sense for those people who simply can’t find work and have either given up, or the government determines they have spent so much time unemployed that they simply aren’t part of the work force anymore.

Make no mistake about it, the number of people claiming unemployment is growing every day, and the number of jobs added is consistently missing projections.  So when the media tells you the unemployment rate is falling, its time to start demanding to know exactly why that is.

Demand Broadcast Networks Stop Censoring Gosnell ‘House of Horrors,’ Planned Parenthood Post-Birth Abortion Stance

Twenty prominent leaders of the conservative movement have joined Media Research Center President Brent Bozell in demanding the broadcast networks stop censoring coverage of the trial of Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell and the testimony of the Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood Affiliates in favor of murdering children who survive botched abortions. Although abortion has re-entered the news cycle following the passage of pro-life measures in North Dakota and Arkansas, the MRC’s Culture and Media Institute finds that ABC, CBS, and NBC have completely censored both of these outrageous stories: (more…)