Rochester Tea Party Patriots Health Care Freedom Recess Rally this Friday!

Dear Fellow Patriots,

I know we have been asking you to attend many events lately, but it is very important that we keep the pressure on our Representatives up. They are hoping that we will get weary and go back to being the Silent Majority once again. We can not let that happen. Please join your fellow Tea Party Patriots across the Nation this Friday as we rally outside our representatives' offices:

Health Care Freedom

Recess Rally

Sponsored by the Rochester Tea Party Patriots

This is part of a nationwide rally

Friday, August 28th

Representative Walz and Senator Amy Klobuchar's Offices

1134 7th St NW Rochester

12 noon to 1:00 pm

Please stop in for as long as you are able
Bring your signs and plan to stop into their office to chat about Health Care

At the Last Rally we had at their offices on July 17th we had over 150 people.

Please help us double that number and show we are growing in opposition.

( if you are able to walk please park on a side street, the parking lot is private property)

Thanks,

Your Rochester Tea Party Committee

Please forward this to all who would be interested

On The Run

Liberals are on the run. They feel Obama has thrown them under the bus much in the same way he did to his grandmother and the Reverend Jeremiah Wright.

Liberals should now and forever be distrustful of Obama. He’s proven himself to be the typical politician who says conflicting things with feigned conviction to whatever audience he happens to be addressing at the time. Think First District Congressman Tim Walz and State Representative Andy Welti.

Just last week, Obama was saying that the public option was, well ... optional. The next day, Kathleen Sebelius, his Health and Human Services Secretary, tells the Sunday shows that the public option is not an essential element of Obamacare. They even floated the idea of so-called health care co-ops, remember?

None of this was lost on rank-and-file liberals. They had been taking it on the chin for weeks from Sarah Palin on Facebook to grandma and grandpa at town hall meetings across the country. Now, the One on Whom They Had Placed Their Hope and Change seemed to be equivocating on the key element of the socialization of health care in America. Such egregious betrayal so soon after Obama’s Immaculation!

Maybe Obama is the one at whom they are really incensed, not Independents, Republicans and principled Democrats who oppose socialized health care, its death panels and public options. Their rage, however misplaced is palpable, particularly among the President’s Astroturf agents

Where in the World is Tim Walz Hiding? His Constitutents Have A Few Questions About Health Care Reform

Health Debate Turns Hostile at Town Hall Meetings

By IAN URBINA

The bitter divisions over an overhaul of the health care system have exploded at town-hall-style meetings over the last few days as members of Congress have been shouted down, hanged in effigy and taunted by crowds. In several cities, noisy demonstrations have led to fistfights, arrests and hospitalizations.

Democrats have said the protesters are being organized by conser

vative lobbying groups like FreedomWorks. Republicans respond that the protests are an organic response to the Obama administration’s health care restructuring proposals.

There is no dispute, however, that most of the shouting and mocking is from opponents of those plans. Many of those opponents have been encouraged to attend by conservative commentators and Web sites. [More]

Why is it that liberal Democrat groups such as ACORN can "organize" (rabble rouse, really) while conservatives, independents, the elderly, the disabled and, yes, even a few principled Democrats who oppose Obama's socialist, autocratic and intolerant measures are labeled "Nazis," "brown shirts" and worse.

Liberal Democrat legislators should be thankful they do not live in the pre-Revolutionary War days when the populace used to beat, tar, feather and kick agents of the British Crown out of town.

By the way, where is First Distric CongressmanTim Walz? He is apparently not holding any town hall meetings during the August recess, ostensibly for fear that his constituents will ask him a few pointed and hard-hitting questions regarding Barack Obama's health care reform legislation, which the Congressman favors enthusiastically. It would seem that Walz doesn't have any Hy-Vee appearances scheduled this month either. Hmmmm ...

If Mr. Walz is not going to meet with his constituents and give an account of his activities, positions and voting record up to this point of the current congressional session, how will he spend the August recess? Fundraising in the Twin Cities and California, perhaps?

So, where in the world is Tim hiding? Has anyone in Mankato seen him these days? Maybe his pet blogger and faithful flunky, Sally Joe "Ollie Ox" Sorenson of "Bluestem Prairie" infamy, knows where Walz is. But wait, she lives in Hutchinson. That's not in the First District, by the way.

Life Imitates Art: Congressman Tim Walz's Flunky Sally Jo Sorenson - For more of the funniest videos, click here

Profile in Cowardice

Local "librarian" and Olmsted County DFL Party "director" Frank W. Hawthorne feigns courage as he derides those who choose to post anonymously at the Rochester Post-Bulletin online comment pages. It also seems he has become somewhat of a cyber mouth piece for the local DFL as of late. Hawthorne, a pious and self-important liberal (Is there any other kind?) posts under his own name and visage, which is his choice. We are not all as good-looking and fashionable (gotta love those sweater vests he wears year round) as Frank, so it is understandable that not everyone would do the same.
Besides, we all know how intolerant, hateful and vindictive liberals are. Several of the more conservative online posters have expressed concern that if their identities are known, they may face retaliation for their opinions in the form of vandalism or character assassination in the community. Since my identity is known (I post under "paleocon"), I have experienced some of the liberal ire. A couple of years ago, one of these courageous liberals copied and pasted my online comments to paper, put them in a manilla envelope and slid it under the door of the Human Resources department at RCTC after hours. If you guessed it that that courageous act was done anonymously, you know liberals quite well.

The picture above and the inset below are a display of Frank's peculiar brand of liberal courage. Last year, Congressman Tim Walz's yellow (brown would have been more fitting) shirts thought it civil, courageous and appropriate to heckle then First District Congressional Candidate Brian Davis during the Rochesterfest parade. When I showed up with my camera to document their asinine and intolerant behavior, they were understandably reluctant to resume it. Granted, these are interns in their late teens or early twenties. I may put their behavior in the context of the stupidity of youth, not as a justification, but as an explanation, though young Republicans do not seem to behave that way in public.




What surprised me was to see Frank Hawthorne as a part of the group. In retrospect, I shouldn't have been. Hawthorne was wearing a red Tina Liebling shirt (a LIEbrarian supporting Tina LIEbling, how appropriate). Unlike Tim Walz's young hecklers, Frank and his female companion chose to hide their faces, which hardly demonstrates any courage of their liberal convictions. What was Frank hiding from? Certainly not his own shameful behavior. Regardless, whenever you read Frank howling about how cowardly the anonymous posters over at the P-B online comment line supposedly are, remember to mention the Rochesterfest parade incident last year when Frank Hawthorne hid his shameful behavior behind kids. Courageous indeed.

Tim Walz: Teaching Responsibility

"As a high school teacher, the most important lesson I taught was responsibility."

-- Tim "D.U.I." Walz


Walz should run for president. Linda Pfeilsticker would make an ideal running mate.

Walz Campaign Spreading Lies About Davis' Tax Plan

Walz Campaign Flounders While Spreading Lies
Can't Get Away with Attacks on Davis

For Immediate Release
October 28, 2009
Contact: Michael Spellings
507.424.2010

Rochester - After Tim Walz's unsuccessful attempt to fool the people of southern Minnesota into believing Brian Davis wants to increase the national sales tax, ABC News Channel 6 Rochester reported, "Davis says this tax would replace all other taxes thereby putting money back into the wallets of the people who need it most." This is the fact about the "Fair Tax" the Walz campaign doesn't want citizens to know.

Since the truth would tarnish the Walz campaign's attack on Brian Davis, the people are left to rely on news outlets like Channel 6 to illustrate the facts. In an attack unworthy of a United States Congressman, Tim Walz conveniently leaves out the fact that the "Fair Tax" would be a sales tax on consumer goods, which don't include things like groceries or used cars, and eliminate all taxes from the federal government - the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) would cease to exist, including the need to file tax returns.

Speaking about the false claims from the Walz campaign, Davis Campaign Manager Mike Spellings stated, "This attack simply relieves Tim Walz and his campaign from any credibility they may have held coming into this election. I can't imagine why they think they can get away with telling less than half of the story here - I would personally be embarrassed to make these claims - it took the media a matter of hours to reveal how petty and false this attack is."

Spellings continued, "What Tim Walz and his campaign don't want the people to know is A. Brian stated the Fair Tax is a 'good idea' but never said he supported it or would vote for it and B. the 'Fair Tax' would eliminate all federal taxes and people would only be taxed on what they spend. In other words, when a worker is told they will be paid three thousand dollars a month, they will actually get three thousand dollars, not what the government leaves for them to spend or invest."

Davis has previously indicated he would like to see the Fair Tax studied further before he would lend his support to it. Presently, the Fair Tax is supported by at least 60 Congressmen, and is designed to allow citizens to control exactly how much in taxes they will pay. Under the Fair Tax, the federal government would have no authority to take any funds from an American's paycheck. The Walz campaign has deliberately and falsely described the Fair Tax as if it would be levied in addition to federal taxes - a message that fails the truth test on the first read of what the Fair Tax plan includes.

ABC News 6's coverage of this story can be found here: http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://kaaltv.com%2Farticle%2Fstories%2FS635079.shtml%3Fcat%3D10219


Tim Walz's ratings on taxes:

American Conservative Union: 0 rating in 2007

Americans for Tax Reform: 0 rating in 2007

National Taxpayers Union: F grade in 2007 (ranked 398th in Congress)

Club for Growth: 0% score on 2007 RePORK Card (0/50 votes)

Citizens Against Government Waste: 2% score in 2007

Tim Walz's Double Life

I have said it for years, liberal Democrats sing one song in the district and quite another when they are palling around with the leadership of their party. While in the district, they talk like us and say they believe like us. When they return to the Capitol or to D.C., they couldn't be less like the folks back home. Tim Walz is no different.

Terry Morrow Saves Congressman Tim Walz

Too funny.

Three Blind Mice

Brian Davis' "Drill Here, Drill Now" Ad: Right On!

Great ad, Brian! While gas prices rise with adverse ripple effects on the American economy, incumbent Congressman Tim Walz vacations, campaigns for reelection pretends and postures on the issue of domestic oil drilling and energy independence.

Vote Brian Davis on the September 9th primary!