Women have come a long way since women’s suffrage and the ratification of the nineteenth amendment in 1920. The emergence of the women’s voice, women’s ingenuity and women’s intellect has been chiseled from the stoic stones of yesterday’s heroines. The evolution of liberty has been an interesting trajectory and the path varied for many Americans. Yet, upon the platform of our founding fathers’ ideas, based on Mosaic Laws and Christian principles, liberty has continued to grow, adapt and advance.
 
Women, who were once pigeon-holed and restricted by men who had the upper hand in society, are now a challenge in the colleges, a match in the marketplace, and a force with which to be reckoned in the culture. Yet, the prodigy of the suffragettes, who banded together to parade across the Brooklyn Bridge with baby strollers, are now facing a new type of attack. Hysteria versus reason kindled by the liberal, leftist phony war on women.
 
A perfectly reasonable and rational resistance of the Catholic Church against a government mandate that infringes upon their religious freedom, a basic American tenant, has been hi-jacked by the liberals and twisted into a lie. A radical violation of the First Amendment has taken place and the Obama Administration and the liberals, realizing their mistake, quickly did what they do best – spin. Desperate to win the women’s vote in 2012, they created a fictitious Republican War on Women.
 
This message has been manipulated, massaged and manufactured through the media. Though it feels like old news, it is not, and it will be the signature song of the Democratic Party.

The irrelevancy and inaccuracy of the Republican War on Women is frightening. The overlay of the real issue is foreboding. The writing is on the wall is foretelling. Look away, while we impede your fundamental bill of rights.
 
Enter Moveon.org to propagate this phony war on women message. The irony is that Moveon.org was launched during the Clinton Administration to “move away” from Clinton’s misbehavior with women. Are they really looking after the best interest of women?
 
Now, Moveon.org is pitting women against women in a phony debate. There is no war on women. There is no return to the dark ages. Women are not being denied birth control. This isn’t even a birth control issue. The issue is one of Obama’s political ideology – government intervention – and they are preying on women’s vulnerabilities to achieve their goal.
 
Moveon.org and the Obama campaign are hoping that women across America can be
fooled by this sham. However, women are smarter than this. Any woman who believes this phony war on women simply wants to perpetuate the lie and wants Obama re-elected – at any cost.
 
The “move on” tactic, the Republican War on Women, is designed to move attention away from President Obama’s real failings. Obama cannot win with jobs and women. Obama cannot win with the economy and women. Obama cannot win with fuel prices and women. He cannot even win with Obamacare and women and Obama needs women.
 
Yet, women are smart. Women are intuitive. Women know that they, their husbands and their children are dealing with unemployment. Women know they are choosing between fuel and food.
Women know that Obama has stifled the economy, putting his ideologies above the best interests of the people. 
 
Women know they need electricity. Women know they are curtailed as business owners. Women know the dangers of the devastating debt. Women know that our national security is being compromised. Women know that government run health care will be a disaster, already feeling the impact on veterans.

Women know that Constitutional laws are being violated. Women know their liberty is being threatened. Women know their children face a diminished America if they do not act.
 
Women are worried. Women know. Women are smart.
 
Moveon.org move over. Women can always smell a phony. Women are smarter than this.
 
Janine Turner

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Do Damage Democrats

October 15, 2011

Make no mistake, President Obama, the ultimate community organizer has a plan. He crafted one of his of self described “elegant, academic” policies, the American Jobs Act, and he knew it would be dead upon arrival in Congress. He did this, not because it was best for the country, but because he knew, when the reasonable Republicans balked, he could build a 2012 election campaign around Harry Truman’s tired old campaign slogan, “Do Nothing Republicans.”

Obama hopes this sound bite, “Do Nothing Republicans,” along with his “organizing” tactics, such as inspiring class warfare, which has resulted in his premeditated, “Occupy Wall Street,” will result in a win in 2012 – and it just may.

To negate the “Occupy Wall Street” movement simply as a bunch of, “Do Nothing No Goods,” is naive. There is a mission and it is to sub-plant democracy with socialism. “Occupy America,” the take over of our democracy, is propelled by the engine of union involvement, not to mention, Obama’s rich corporate buddies such as George Soros.

Corporate greed is acceptable when it benefits Obama’s cause.

If the hypocrisy of ObamaPolitics isn’t enough to frighten Americans then the “Occupy Wall Street” movement should be. I call them the “Do Damage Democrats,” and whether they are in the White House, Congress, or supinely “occupying” the neighborhood park, they should not be taken lightly. The word Occupy means to “take over.” The dam of the constitution, which holds back anarchy, is vulnerable and the checks on the division of powers are in grave jeopardy.

Obama used, “Hope and Change” as his 2008 campaign slogan and Americans hoped for a change that would bring unity in government. Instead it brought a substantial “change” in government, socialistic policies. What will “Occupy Wall Street” bring us? I say, “Occupy America.” The writing is on Wall Street.

The “Do Not Republicans” slogan must be countered with “Do Damage Democrats.” Here are some of the consequences resulting from the “Do Damage Democrats” by the Numbers, as compiled by the Republican National Committee:

1. $4.2 Trillion added to the National Debt Since Obama took Office ((U.S. Treasury Department, Accessed 10/6/11)
2. $2.6 Trillion The True Cost of Obamacare once Fully Implemented
   (Office Of The Speaker Of The U.S. House Of Representatives, Report, 1/6/11)
3. $1.75 Trillion Annual Cost of Federal Regulations (Small Business Administration, September 2010)
4. $1.17 Trillion True cost of Obama’s First Stimulus with Interest (CBO, 8/24/11, CBO, 1/27/09)
5. $1.17 Trillion American Debt Held by China (U.S. Treasury Department, Accessed 10/6/11)
6. $825 Billion Price Tag of Obama’s First Failed Stimulus (CBO, 8/24/11)
7. $575 Billion Amount of Medicare Cuts in Obamacare (CMS Chief Actuary Richard S. Foster, Memo, 4/22/10) (Who is pushing Granny of the cliff?)
8. $447 Billion Price Tag of Obama’s Second Stimulus (WhiteHouse.gov, 9/8/11)
9. $347.1 Billion Debt Service Costs to Pay for Obama’s First Stimulus (CBO, 1/27/09)
10. $175 Billion Increased Spending in Obama’s Second Stimulus (CBO, 10/5/11)
11. $81.9 Million Annual Paperwork Burden Hours Imposed by Regulators in 2011 (American Action Network, 9/30/11)
12. 46.2 Million Record Number of Americans Living in Poverty (U.S. Census Bureau, 9/13/11)
13. 45.3 Million Record Number of Americans Receiving Food Stamps (Department Of Agriculture, 9/29/11)
14. 14.0 Million Unemployed Americans (Bureau of Labor Statistics, Accessed 10/7/11)
15. 3.4 Million Workers Granted Waivers so that Obamacare Would Not Outlaw Their Healthcare Plan (HHS.gov, Accessed 10/6/11)
16. 2.6 Million Number of Americans That Fell into Poverty Between 2009 and 2010 (U.S. Census Bureau, 9/13/11)
17. 2.2 Million Jobs Lost Since Obama took Office (Bureau of Labor Statistics, Accessed 10/7/11)\
18. 1.59 Million Personal Bankruptcies in 2010 (United States Courts, 2/15/11)
19. $1.5 Million Stimulus Funds Sent to Indonesia to Discourage Air Pollution in Jakarta (The Daily Caller, 7/7/11)
20. 1.0 Million Americans That Have Given Up Looking for Work (Bureau of Labor Statistics, Accessed 10/7/11)

The “damaging” numbers are indefatigable.

1. $48,120 Your Share of The National Debt (U.S. Treasury Department Accessed 10/6/11; U.S. Census Bureau, Accessed 10/6/11)

2. $15, 500 Annual Cost Per Household of Federal Regulations (Small Business Administration, September 2010)

Startling Numbers:

1. 1,578 Number of Waivers Granted to Unions and Business So That ObamaCare Would Not Outlaw Their Health Care Plans (HHS.gov, Accessed 10/6/11)

2. 1,000 Number of Jobs Obama’s National Labor Relations Board is Trying to Kill in South Carolina (The Denver Post, 5/2/11)

“Do Damage Democrats” have taken a toll not only financially but they have also inflicted a malaise upon the general spirit of Americans.

81% of Americans are dissatisfied with the way things are going. (Quinnipiac Poll, 2118 RV, MoE 2.1%, 9/27-10/3/11)

American Republicanism cannot sustain another four years of “Do Damage Democrats.” Our Constitution cannot withstand another four years of “Do Damage Democrats.” Our freedoms and liberties cannot withstand another four years of “Do Damage Democrats.” America cannot withstand another four years of “Do Damage Democrats.”

The choice is stark: Occupy America or Save America. Which will it be? The Obama campaign and his “Do Nothing Republicans” slogan must be curtailed with a sharp, crisp and coherent counter: “Do Damage Democrats.”

Reason must prevail.

As Thomas Jefferson said,

“If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.”

Janine Turner
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Desperately Seeking Statesmen

Monday, October 10, 2011

Americans are smarter than Washington, D.C. thinks. Americans have an inner, inherited intuition about freedom, loyalty, republicanism and Americans don not like what they currently see.

Division. Impasse. Demise. Unemployment. Stagnation. Debt.

Americans know that to get any job done, anywhere, there must be cooperation. Americans know that to achieve this objective there must be a leader who inspires such unity. Americans know that their representatives need to respond to their rallying cry, Think about America and Americans, not Democrats and Republicans.

Americans, whether they are the Tea Party movement or the Occupy America movement, a frightening thought,  are desperately seeking action. Americans see a government that is caught in the mire of division. Let’s face it, no one likes to live in a home where there is anger, bitterness and unproductivity and no one likes to live in a country where there is anger, bitterness and unproductivity.

Our government is being sucked into the quicksand of ineptitude. Obama is giving unrealistic speeches inciting class warfare as he meanders around the country aloof to the needs of the people, focusing purely on his own re-election. He dumps his impractical, incoherent, financially lame jobs bill onto Congress where even his own party is left teetering on the abyss. Democrats represent their constituents after all, not the President. Oh, but who is looking at the Constitution?

Obama inspires slogans like “I’m the 99%” which is arcane, certainly creates no new jobs and inspires no incentive to find resolutions to the crisis at hand. So, America is without a statesman at the helm as President but America is also without a statesman in the Senate. Democrats know that Obama’s job act is nothing more than a campaign ad and community organizer tactic. But does Harry Reid, who knows he doesn’t have the votes among his own party, take a stand against it? No. Who does Harry Reid represent? The President?

Americans are looking for statesmen, not party men, in leadership positions. Americans know that party divide, class warfare and the blind ambition of its leaders are counterintuitive to the extreme crisis at hand. Is it really a surprise that the poll numbers of Congress are at an all time low? Americans are desperately seeking answers, solutions, action and reason. “Where is Reason?”

Americans are wringing their hands and waving flags to a blind government. Perhaps the character of John Adams said it best in the movie “1776,” to a deadlocked Congress,

“Is any body there? Does anybody care? Does anybody see what I see?”

Janine Turner

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Wednesday, October 5, 2011

I was awakened this morning at 3:30am. I always hate it when I awaken earlier in the morning because I am never able to go back to sleep. When this happens in the still of the dark night, I reach out to God. It is a perfect time to commune with him. All is quiet – no texts, no e-mails, no television, no demands. In order to keep my mind from steering into deep and disturbing directions, I consciously seek God.

These are the times I have received some of my best inspirations. I can only imagine what the results would be if I did it more often.

This morning, I was thinking about my daughter, Juliette, and one of her entrepreneurial ideas. She told me about her inspiration a few months ago. It was a political club for kids. She named it, “Polikids.” I told her that I thought it was a great idea and to continue her quest.

She proceeded to design her logo with an Elephant and a Donkey. I was intrigued by her vision and thought that this was admirable yet, challenging.

She informed me that her club is not, “Young Republicans,” or “Young Democrats” but “Young Americans.”

This is the message that our Republic needs to survive. This is the message our children need to learn. We may disagree – we may have different beliefs, cultures, religions, agendas – but we must come together to find common ground. There must be reason.

James Madison said, “Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire.”

However, Washington warned against the dangers of party loyalty.

Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally.

This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but, in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension… is itself a frightful despotism… The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this despotism to the purposes of his own elevation on the ruins of public liberty….

It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasional riot and insurrection.

Somewhere between the ideologies of our great leaders, Washington and Madison, lies a balance. Faction brings social, political, environmental and religious awareness. Republican reason brings justice.

Thomas Jefferson puts it best:

If there be any among us who wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.

Thus, I pondered this morning at 3:30am, as the millennial rise to take their posts as liberty’s leaders, the idea of a unity of factions that results in reason and justice is of paramount importance. Polikids.

Faction kindles the fire that ignites the passion, love of republicanism compels the unity and reason perpetuates the “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

Thus, Juliette is going to spearhead her Polikids with the brave ambition of uniting kids of all parties to meet bi-weekly and discuss timely issues, debate them, and implement solutions, with reason. They will become a future generation of political citizens who love America and respect fellow Americans.

Where is reason? It is steeped in our history. It needs to be taught and nurtured in our children. It starts with us, the parents. We are the examples. If only our current Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches would rest the rhetoric and just be reasonable.

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Juliette’s Website is http://www.polikids.com (work in progress)

Constituting America’s website is http://www.constitutingamerica.org