We are in danger of losing what made this country great. There may be a country that has the name, United States of America, but its heart will have been ripped out. I am talking about all of the assaults on American values by the Obama administration. Part of this is shown by the fact that it appears that it is a requirement that you love “Chairman Mao” in order to be selected as one of the Czar’s. As Glenn Beck said on his show this past week, he always thought that Chairman Mao was one of the worst people that had ever lived.

The worst assault on our values has to be the attack on Fox News. I say it is the worst because it is attacking the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America. That first amendment gives us protection from government doing anything to inhibit the free press in this country. The Obama administration is trying to say that Fox News is not part of the free press and is therefore not entitled to protection under the first amendment. That is the crux of their argument that Fox News is not really a news organization. This assault on Fox News has to stop. We, the people, have to demand that the government keep its hands off of the free exercise of the free press. The other news organizations have decided to go into the tank and not be a “free press”. That is no excuse for now attacking any member of the free press to get them to change or shut down.

The next two assaults are on the economy. One is the Obamacare bill that is still in the House and Senate. The other is the Cap and Tax bill that is being debated. The worst of these two is the Obamacare bill. That bill would socialize our healthcare system in this country. Once the medical system is socialized, it would be extremely difficult for us to change it back to a privatized health care system. There would be a window of opportunity between now and 2013, but Obama is President during that entire time. He would veto any bill trying to repeal his crown jewel in the destruction of the US. The fact that the Obamacare bill would destroy the economy is bad enough. The fact that it is unconstitutional is also bad enough. The worst part of Obamacare is that it would destroy the American spirit. That is something that other countries do not have. If we lose that, we are just another country. With the American Sprit, we can do anything. Without it, we become like Europe today, weak and unwilling to fight for our lives. Obamacare would end up being the cause of our destruction by weakening our ability to defend ourselves.

The Cap and Tax bill is trying to solve a hoax. Since the problem it is trying to solve is a hoax, the problem is already solved. The real reason that the Democrats want to pass this bill is the massive tax increase on the country. They look at the increased revenue stream and think of all the social programs they can start (even though they would all be unconstitutional). This Cap and Tax bill would just destroy the economy of the US. It is easily solved by passing a bill repealing all of its provisions. It is not like the Obamacare bill where it would be almost impossible to end the disaster.

As side notes, Moody’s Bond Service has estimated that our bonds will need to be devalued within the next 3-6 years. That is much shorter than the last estimate under George Bush of 10-12 years. That is because Barack Obama and the Democrats are spending like drunken sailors on steroids. If we cut spending and eliminated the programs started under Obama, we could get our spending under control. That would lengthen the time period once again. Then, we could start eliminating programs that were unconstitutional and get to the point where we could actually pay off our debt. As it is today, paying off the debt is impossible and becoming more impossible as each day goes by.

In the last week, Barack Obama and his henchmen have declared war against Fox News. Over the weekend, David Axelrod said that Fox News was not a “real” news organization and that other “real” news organizations should not emulate their model. I was told long ago, before the internet, that you should not pick fights with someone who uses ink by the barrel. I think the same would be said for someone who broadcasts 24 hours a day.

The Obama administration is remarkably thin skinned. If they are criticized or questioned in any way, they lash out and try to destroy the person or organization responsible. Since Glenn Beck has been a tremendous thorn in the side of Obama for some time, they are lashing out at Fox News. Since they cannot kill the person producing the pain, they would rather destroy the company he works for. I guess they figure that if they make it hot enough for Fox News, they will fire Glenn Beck to satisfy the White House and get them to back off. I do not think that the White House would back off if Fox News would fire Glenn Beck. I think they would just get bolder and start attacking others as well. That means Fox News will have to fight this one to the end. During the dust-up, the one person that cannot be replaced is Glenn Beck. If he goes, the White House wins. If he stays and continues to ask his questions, the White House loses. Right now it is a game of chicken; we get to see who blinks.

The person that announced the beginning salvo in this war against Fox News was the person in charge of communications in the White House. She had said in a commencement speech to high school students that her two most admired people were: Mother Theresa and Chairman Mao Tse Tung. I have no problem with Mother Theresa and I doubt that anyone else in the world would have a problem with her in the list of most admired people. Including Mother Theresa on a list of most admired people would show the sophisticated taste needed to lead any agency or group. The other name, Mao Tse Tung, gives one a chance to stand back and question that person’s judgment. Mao was responsible for killing approximately 70 million Chinese under his rule. He killed more people than any other leader in the entire 20^th century. Having a mass murderer on your list of most admired people is definitely a character flaw on your part. Anyone with the character flaw to have Chairman Mao on their most admired list is definitely having some problems.

When questioned about the talk and her inclusion of Mao and Mother Theresa, she said that she was just telling a joke. I heard the tape of the commencement address on TV and radio. It did not sound like a joke to me. It sounded like she was serious. Glenn Beck had a parent that was at the commencement address. The parent said that the comment was definitely not a joke.

 We do not need a communications director in the White House that thinks that Chairman Mao Tse Tug is someone to be admired. Chairman Mao is someone that should be despised. Mao does not have anything to offer that would make Americana better people. In fact, he does not have anything to offer that would make anyone a better person. Anyone that would follow Mao’s teachings would be a worse person after employing the policies and procedures that Mao set down. Someone you admire should make you a better person, not a worse person.

If you asked me to list the top couple of people I admire, I would list, Joseph Smith and Ezra Taft Benson (if I could include prophets) or George Washington and Ronald Reagan (If I could only include political types). Any one of those four would make you a better person, if you tried to live your life like that person. I would like to think that a person following either pair would be substantially the same person. Following Mother Theresa and Chairman Mao would make you a definitely poorer person to be around. I am glad that I live in America and can still say things like that last comment. Obama’s people are making it increasingly more expensive to say things they disagree with. If Obama has his way, these kinds of comments will be outlawed in the future.

Barack Obama has a huge thorn in his side. That thorn is Glenn Beck. Robert Ringer writes about this at World Net Daily. Robert Ringer believes that Glenn Beck has the power to take down Barack Obama by the 2012 elections. That remains to be seen.

We do know that Barack Obama and his minions have thin skins. You cannot criticize them at all without getting threatening calls, emails or other communications. Right now, the Obama team has their noses out of joint about Fox News. During the media blitz over the last weekend, they “punished” Fox News by not giving them access to Barack Obama. Big whoop, their programs made money while the other stations lost money carrying the President.

At some time, Barack Obama and his team will have to address the problem that is Glenn Beck. During the election they got into a tit for tat with the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate, Sarah Palin. That went on until the Obama team convinced Barack that it was beneath him to trade barbs with the Vice-Presidential candidate. As I remember it, she was cleaning his clock when he cut it off.  Glenn Beck is not a problem that Obama will be able to ignore. Glenn has a radio show where he talks for 15 hours a week and he has a TV show where he talks for an additional 5 hours. The tactics employed by the White House to date have driven many people to wonder who this Glenn Beck guy is, anyway. As a result, his numbers are climbing through the roof. His TV show is the number one TV news show on cable TV. The top 10 are essentially all at Fox News.

Robert Ringer said that Obama would most likely give in and give an interview to Fox News. He then speculated on who would get the interview. He figures that O’Reilly is the most likely candidate to snag the interview. That is a possibility, but Glenn Beck is still there. Glenn Beck will still have to be dealt with. Obama will have to go into the Lion’s Den at some point and talk to Glenn Beck. The problem is that Glenn Beck is not like all the other TV and Radio hosts. All the others are comfortable with their lifestyle and would not be likely to give it all up if the chips were on the line. Beck has stated that he would not be afraid of being poor again. He has been poor before and would be willing to be poor again, if it got the truth to the American people.

Glenn Beck is a personification of the Refounders that he is talking about. The original Founding Fathers pledged everything, including their own lives to secure the freedoms this country had. Glenn has taken those ideals to heart and would be willing to make a similar sacrifice if it meant the rebirth of the United States. That means he would be difficult to defeat. Anyone who has the integrity and honor to have that stand is unlikely to be moved by half truths. If Obama meets Beck, Obama will have to give the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Beck will cut through the BS that is Obama’s stock in trade. Since Obama does not want the whole truth to get out, he cannot afford to meet Beck on the current terms. Obama’s only hope in the contest with Glenn Beck would be to wait for a favorable time. In my opinion, that favorable time period Obama needed to have passed a few months ago.

I am a relative newcomer to Glenn Beck. I work when his TV show and radio show are on. I was introduced to the Glenn Beck show by a friend. I access Glenn Beck on the Fox News website. I do not get all of his show, but I do get most of it. I wish I could get more, but am glad for what I do get. I rarely get to hear the radio show. I rarely am off during his radio show. It also comes on an FM station. I only listen to FM on the third Thursday of each week. I find Glenn Beck to be funny and right to the point. If Obama ever met with Glenn Beck, Obama would be rolled in the first five minutes. Glenn can pull jokes out of thin air and at the drop of a hat. Obama has to have jokes pulled from him with pliers. Obama also has to have carefully laid plans for the jokes. In a situation like that, there is no way Obama could even be expected to hold do well against Beck. Reagan could give as much as he got. Clinton might be able to pull off one of his empathy sessions. The two Bush Presidents would not do well against Beck. The reason is that Beck is fast on his feet and the two Bush Presidents are slow. Either Bush would do much better than Obama because either Bush is much more nimble.

  Obama will have to take care of Beck to still be President on January 21, 2013. I do not see it happening under the circumstances as they exist today. In politics, a day is a long time and a month is an eternity. Circumstances could change between now and Election Day 2012. The longer Obama waits for Election Day 2012, the higher the stakes for him. Beck’s stakes remain the same regardless of the time frame involved.

This month, Congress is debating the Health Care bill also known as Obamacare. The Democrats are trying as hard as they can to get the total cost below $1 trillion, but are finding that task extremely difficult. No matter what they do, the total cost remains firmly above $1 trillion. We all know that the true cost will be several times more than the estimated cost, but they have to get the estimated cost below the $1 trillion mark to sell it to the public. So far, that has been impossible. As a result, the public polling indicates that support for Obamacare is now about 50-50. That is hardly enough support to destroy our medical system.

On the way to work, I heard Stuart Varney from Fox News interviewed by Mike Gallagher. He said that there was little reason to tax our health insurance and other benefits to insure the uninsured. The approximately 30 million uninsured include about 10 million illegal aliens, 10 million people earning over $75,000 who want to self insure and 10 million people between 18 and 24 who are invincible and don’t want health insurance. At no point in that equation are there people that truly need our help. There are people included in the uninsured group that are between jobs, but they generally get another job within a very short period of time. Again, that is not a reason to change our health insurance system to include these. There is just not a good reason to justify changing our health insurance system to include people who do not want, do not need or should not receive health insurance. As a whole, Americans are happy with the health insurance they currently have. Any health insurance system designed by the Democrats will force everyone out of the health insurance they currently have into government insurance, which will not be as good.

Making everyone have insurance is one thing. It creates a problem in that if everyone has insurance, they will be tempted to use it more often. If they use it more often, it will tax the ability of our medical community to give us the level of care that we have traditionally received. Government insurance will mean that the waiting rooms will be packed. That will ultimately lead to rationing of care by the government. The government would have to decide who gets priority to the doctor and who does not. The older and sicker you are the less ability to use the medical system will be available. We will be starting a form of medicine like the movie, “Logan’s Run”. In that movie, you received medical care until you reached a certain age. Once you reached that age, you were killed. I am not saying this will be that bad, but I am sure that there will be restrictions on what health care will be available to those over a certain age.

I cannot think of a single advantage, except for the hospital administrator. They will know that the person being treated has health insurance and what coverage is included. Other than to hospital and doctor billing offices, there are really no benefits to the public at large. There is the liberal benefit of being able to say that you were able to get everyone covered with medical insurance. I suppose that is a noble goal, but at least two-thirds of those that are uninsured do not want to be insured. You are forcing them to do something they do not want to do. That is taking freedom away from them. We cannot go around taking freedom away from people. Sooner or later we run out of freedoms and nobody is free. That time is fast approaching. People are too willing to give up freedom for security. As Winston Churchill is supposed to have said, “Those who would give up freedom for security soon find themselves neither free nor secure.” There is a lot of truth to that statement, whether Churchill said it or not.

This month will determine whether there will be an America in 2010. If the Democrats succeed in passing Obamacare, America will cease to exist as an idea. It will still exist as a country, but no longer as the free country it had been for 233 years. It would forever be a socialist country from now on and never again hold the truths of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution as true. For those reasons, if for no other reason we have to stop Obamacare. We cannot put forth Obamacare lite. That would just do the same thing only with a Republican twist. We need to stop the Obamacare as proposed and any other government option for healthcare. That is the true AMERICAN way.