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May 22, 2014

Most of my readers have probably figured out by now that I’m not a fan of President Obama.  A year ago today I was particularly frustrated with the President and the most corrupt administration in my lifetime. I took a day off from beating up on him for being the most abortion-friendly President in history and decided to beat up on him for being the most corrupt and narcissistic blowhard to ever occupy the Oval Office.

I believe that being a man or woman of honor and integrity is more important than being liked or accepted as one of the herd.  I renounced my membership as one of the herd a long time ago.  I’ve finally discovered what is truly important and look forward to a day when every unborn child is safe in its mother’s womb and welcomed into the world.  But…..back to May 22, 2013.   The Obama administration was getting its hands caught in another cookie jar every day and even the left-leaning media was beginning to see just how bad a President he really was.

If the President believed in winning at all costs for a just cause I’d be a supporter.  But winning at all costs just to get reelected doesn’t fly with me.  The following letter put into words my level of frustration on May 22, 2013.

 

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW

Washington, D.C.  20500

Attn:    President Barack Obama

 

May 22, 2013

 Mr. President:

Honor and integrity are the backbone of our Republic and essential components of a civilized, law abiding society.  As Americans, we deserve and expect these attributes from those in public service, and must accept no less.

In the midst of all the scandals plaguing your administration one wonders if there is one person of honor and integrity among you.  Particularly troubling to me is the IRS targeting of conservative groups and the DOJ surveillance of reporters and news organizations.  However, the most egregious of all your current scandals is the obvious cover-up of your administrations’ actions during and after the terrorist attack in Benghazi.

Mr. President, try as you might to alter the facts and even outright lie, you are the only one who could have ordered the military to stand down during the Benghazi attack.   Sir, you screwed up and got caught.  It happens.  Man up and admit that your administration was operating a gun-running organization for the Syrian rebels and be done with it.  With everything else you’ve done so far, why worry about a little violation of international law or the deaths of four Americans, right?

Sir, your abuse of presidential power has had a trickledown effect on all the various and sundry under qualified and overly pompous leftist lemmings you have surrounded yourself with and it’s all starting to fall apart.

Even the far left is starting to realize that your house of cards is starting to crumble, and we both know that when push comes to shove they will abandon you like rats off a sinking ship to save their own skins.

Mr. President, bottom line, you could have authorized a military response to the Benghazi terrorist attack and you chose not to.  You chose not to because you were afraid that if a rescue attempt failed your presidential campaign would suffer.  You chose not to because you were afraid that the rescue team would discover what was really going on in Benghazi.  And you chose not to because the loss of four American lives was an acceptable loss in order to preserve your political aspirations.

Sir, honor and integrity have no place in your administration.

Thank you in advance for your inattention to my concerns.

 

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May 2, 2014

I’ve written previously about President Obama’s 3 votes as an Illinois State Senator against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act.  How anyone could be against providing life-saving medical care to a newly born survivor of a botched abortion is beyond my ability to comprehend.  But that’s just what our President did, and he’s proud of it.

At his press conference today, President Obama expressed his outrage over a botched execution attempt this week that resulted in the condemned criminal dying of a heart attack.  He then went on to say that the Justice Dept. would investigate to determine how an execution could have gone so horribly wrong.   No investigations will be conducted into the deaths of the 3,500 unborn children killed in America today.  As far as the President and his Justice Dept. are concerned, today’s body count in America’s abortion mills was just business as usual.

Last July, as my family awaited the birth of my second grandson, I felt compelled to query the President on his long and sordid history of supporting and enabling the killing of our unborn children.  I dispatched the following letter to him on July 11, 2013.

 

 

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW

Washington, D.C.  20500

Attn:    President Barack Obama

 

July 11, 2013

Mr. President:

Have you ever noticed how a slug leaves a trail of slime in its path, marking its route as it slithers and slinks through life?  It’s kind of like the trail of blood you’ve left throughout your political career; starting as a mediocre State Senator and ending as an abject failure of a President.  You do, however, get high marks for consistency.  You’ve never wavered in your rabid support of the pro-abortion movement.

I’m trying to get my head around how you could have voted against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act 3 times between 2001 and 2003, knowing that by doing so you were sentencing babies who had survived botched abortions to death.  In essence, your vote gave the abortionist a ‘do over’ if they failed to kill the innocent child on their first try.  This is especially troubling since your first daughter, Malia, was 2 ½ years old at the time of your first vote against life, and your second daughter, Sasha, was born alive, and allowed to live shortly after your third vote.

Mr. President, if you think it’s proper to kill a newly born child by performing a procedure to end its life, or by simply failing to provide life saving medical intervention, at what point do you believe that child’s constitutional Right to life begins?  Better yet, at what point did your daughters’ Right to life begin?  Sir, in what I’m sure you thought was a courageous move, you voted Present in 2001 when you had the chance to vote for the protection of children who were born alive.  Your convoluted justification for your vote was your fear that providing life-saving treatment to a child who had just survived a botched abortion would confer constitutional Rights to the child, thereby rendering abortion illegal.

Mr. President, the semantics box you and the pro-abortion crowd have pigeon-holed yourselves into with terms such as previable fetus (living baby), late-term abortion (murder prior to birth), and CNS decompression (suctioning a living child’s brains from its skull) are closing in on you.  Modern ultrasound and sonogram technology provide irrefutable evidence that a developing baby is a separate, unique, living human being.  Sir, seeing the beating heart of a living child is incontrovertible proof of life.

Mr. President, I won’t give up on bringing you over to the pro-life side.  With your obvious failings as President, one would think you would jump at the chance to climb onboard a movement whose mission is the protection of all unborn children. Think about it and get back to me.

In the meantime, try hanging out with a better crowd.  Being associated with the likes of Cecile Richards and the eugenics crowd has to be a real buzz kill.

cc: Planned Parenthood

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April 24, 2014

I’m not a fan of Lindsey Graham, but I had to let him know that I appreciated his efforts to introduce the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act in the U.S. Senate.  The House passed this bill last June and there is no excuse for the Senate not taking it up, passing it, and overriding President Obama’s promised veto.  No sane person could make a cogent argument for killing pain-capable unborn children.  To date, Harry Reid refuses to allow a vote on this bill.  His refusal to allow a vote is motivated by his desire to provide political cover for the President, not the welfare of mothers and their unborn children.

I believe a nation gets the leaders it deserves.  Until we stop the killing of our children we will continue to have leaders like Harry Reid, Barack Obama, and even Lindsey Graham.  I felt compelled to let Senator Graham know what I thought last November 7 in the following letter.

 

Senator Lindsey Graham

290 Russell Senate Office Building

Washington, D.C. 20510

November 7, 2014

 Senator Graham: In the interest of full disclosure, I feel that dinosaurs like you, John McCain, and Mitch McConnell should be run out of office and replaced with true conservatives.  I must, however, applaud your efforts to bring the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act before the Senate for a vote.  Senator Graham, if this bill is passed by the Senate and President Obama’s promised veto is overridden, the lives of at least 15,000 unborn children will be saved every year in America.  Sir, these children will be saved from a ghastly, indescribably agonizing death and will go on to claim their Right to life, just like you, me, and every other American was able to, whatever side of this issue we may be on.

Senator Graham, the President seems to have a tenuous grasp, at best, on the truth, so here’s an incontrovertible truth.  100% of the people voting for or against this bill were allowed to be born.  Don’t our unborn children deserve at least the same consideration?  Should the most pro-abortion President in history, along with his cronies at Planned Parenthood, be allowed to continue the slaughter of America’s children?  A third of America’s unborn children die at the hands of America’s abortion mills.  Your pro-abortion colleagues in the Senate continue to say they want abortion to be safe, rare, and legal while 1.2 million babies are killed every year in our country.  They all know that killing unborn children is neither safe, rare, nor should be legal, but it sounds good to their uninformed constituents and it gets them reelected so, what the hell, let the killing continue.

Senator, it’s gut check time for America.  We are sliding into tyranny and it’s time for all men and women of honor and integrity to stand up for the things that really matter; God, life, freedom, and family.  It’s time to stop worrying about elections or the consequences of doing what we know is right.  Senator, you have some heavy lifting to do in order to get the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act through the Democrat controlled Senate.  Ask your colleagues who are against this bill to explain to the American people why they feel that unborn children, who can feel the agony of being ripped apart, should continue to be killed in our country.

Planned Parenthood and the abortion lobbyists are hard at work twisting arms in the Senate to defeat this bill.  Sir, the lives of our children are worth fighting for and worth whatever price we have to pay, personally or professionally, to stop the killing.  Senator Graham, in closing, a simple quote from Ronald Reagan: “We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.”

All my letters are published on my pro-life blog at www.prolifepoppop.com.  Should you choose to reply, I’ll publish it, unedited.

 

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April 1, 2014

As usual, on Christmas morning last year I was the first one up at my house.  I was feeling introspective and took advantage of the quiet time to look back at the past year and to look ahead at what I wanted to accomplish this year.  I wondered why I have been given so much and why others have so little. Just 4 days earlier my oldest grandson had suffered a serious health crisis, and his well-being was weighing heavily on me.  At this time in my life I know that the material things are fleeting and ephemeral.  I’ve also come to realize that family and friends are much more important than money and possessions. Lately I’ve been asking myself what really makes me happy and what do I want to leave as my legacy. I’ve come to realize that I’m happiest when I’m helping people, and I’m at peace when I write a piece that I hope will touch at least one heart.  In quiet times like this I also think about the pain and suffering that America’s unborn children endure every day at the hands of Planned Parenthood and America’s abortion industry.  I knew on this crisp, cool morning my children and grandchildren would be arriving in a couple hours for our traditional Christmas breakfast.  I also knew that somewhere in America as I waited for my loved ones to arrive, 3,500 unborn children were nestled comfortably in their mothers’ wombs, oblivious to the fact that they would die tomorrow at the hands of America’s industry of death.

Why I decided to write a letter to President Obama on Christmas morning, I can’t tell you.  But I did, and below is my Christmas Day letter to the President, just as it appeared to the White House staffer as he or she fed it into their shredder.

 

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW

Washington, D.C.  20500

Attn:    President Barack Obama

 

December 25, 2013

 Mr. President:

As I sit here on Christmas morning waiting for my children and grandchildren to arrive, I’m reflecting on my purpose in life.  I have a stressful, albeit, well-paid job, but I feel the pull to work full-time towards the betterment of my fellow man, regardless of the compensation or lack thereof for doing so.  I’m conflicted over the financial obligations I have for my family and the unrelenting sense of purpose I feel to use the gift of life I have been given to dedicate my life to save the world’s children from the scourge of abortion.  Do I abdicate my duties as a father and grandfather and work to save the many, or focus on my own family and encourage them to join me on my mission to end abortion?

Despite the calling I feel to end abortion, my love for my children and grandchildren compels me to focus my efforts to insure they are all safe and happy.  The confliction I feel is this:  While I’m spending quality time with my family, always in the back of my mind is the realization that every 26 seconds in America, while I laugh and play with my grandsons, another child is dying at the hands of America’s abortion industry.  Mr. President, doing nothing as millions of children die every year in my country is not an option for me.  The principles our country was founded upon would never even consider the indiscriminate killing of our unborn children a Right that was granted by God to their mothers.  Evil empires like Planned Parenthood could have never been imagined by the men of honor and integrity that formed our nation as the one place on earth where our Creator’s intention that all men are created equal would stand as our foundational principle.

As the New Year approaches, Harry Reid has refused to allow the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act to be voted upon in the Senate.  Mr. President, no debate should be necessary on this bill.  What man or woman with even a modicum of humanity could vote against a bill designed to prevent the killing of unborn children who have developed to the point that they can feel the pain of being killed?  Sir, you owe all Americans an explanation as to why you have threatened to veto this bill if it is passed by the Senate.

Thousands of American children will die in our nation’s abortion mills tomorrow.  Today, while millions of children celebrate Christmas, thousands of scared, confused mothers are preparing to have their unborn children killed tomorrow, many of them feeling they have no other option.  We are better than this as a nation and as parents and grandparents.

Mr. President, hug your children today and think about the ones doomed to die tomorrow.

As always, my letters to you are published on my pro-life blog at www.prolifepoppop.com.  Write back and I’ll publish it, unedited.

 

cc:  Planned Parenthood

 

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Legislative Accountability Act of 2013

Legislative Accountability Act of 2013

 

Since the Obama administration took office they have been hell-bent to rush one massive spending bill after another through Congress before the American public could see what was in them; with few, if any, members of the House or Senate even taking time to read them.  These bills were all rushed through Congress without giving average Americans time to review them or comment to their elected representatives, all with the goal of implementing President Obama’s radical leftist agenda as quickly as possible; damn the details or consequences.

Finally, some good news for a change:

The Legislative Accountability Act of 2013 has been introduced in an effort to slow the process down and allow all Americans time to review pending legislation before it can be rushed to passage.  This bill will also require all members of Congress to certify that they have completely read and fully understand every piece of legislation before voting for or against it.

Highlights from the draft version of the bill are as follows:

Once a draft version of a given bill is complete, the general public will be given a minimum of 5 business days plus 1 additional day for every 100 8 ½”x 11” pages contained in the bill to review and comment on the provisions contained therein.  Congress will begin assembling the final draft 2 business days after the end of the review and comment period and post the final draft for review within 5 business days.

Congress will publish the final version of the bill with an attachment highlighting any changes that were made subsequent to publishing the initial draft.  The general public will once again be given a minimum of 5 business days  plus 1 additional day for every 100 8 ½”x 11” pages contained in the bill to review and comment on its contents.  At the end of the review period, members of Congress will have 2 business days to provide written certification that they have completely read and fully understand the bill they are about to vote on.  With the written certification, each member of Congress will state whether it is his or her intent to vote for or against the bill.  Final House or Senate votes will take place no more than 2 business days after providing their certifications.

After the final public review and legislator certifications have been completed no further amendments will be permitted to a bill.

Should the House and Senate be considering separate bills concurrently, review and comment periods will run consecutively.

Any bill introduced as “Emergency Legislation” will have an automatic 48 hour hold placed on it so the member introducing the bill has ample time to explain to the media and American public the circumstances that warrant the bill’s emergency status.

I endorse this bill and feel it will revolutionize the concept of government transparency and hold our elected representatives accountable for each and every vote they cast.

Problem is, I made it all up.  No such bill exists or has been proposed.

I will, however, be contacting both my Senators and my Congressman and asking them to sponsor legislation similar to what I have proposed.  I won’t be holding my breath waiting for their replies.