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Every month we will keep you informed on the latest projects and progress of the Tea Party, with an updated link to our monthly newsletter. It is important to understand that the Tea Party is not a third political party. Nor does it represent all the slanderous falsehoods hurled upon them by those who hate America and her Founders. It is organized to restore Constitutional principles to the government of America. If you love the USA with good, old-fashioned patriotism, then the Tea Party is the best organization to work for the principles and values you cherish.

 

You must remember that if we leave the governing to others, then others will govern, and possibly not as we would like. In a country such as this, none of us is free of responsibility. Good government is everybody’s business. ~ Louis L’Amour (Rivers West, 29)

 

Tea Party Victory in Nebraska Primary

 

Ben Sasse won the Republican primary in Lincoln, Nebraska, in Nebraska yesterday.  And you don’t hear the media saying the Tea Party’s dead today because he is full fledge Tea Party.  And of course the Department of Justice had to send in monitors.  Yes, my friends, monitors, civil rights violations were likely, they thought, because it’s the Tea Party showing up to vote.  You know how corrupt the Tea Party is.  Oh, you know how corrupt those people are, steal elections left and right.  So the State Department, the Justice Department had to send monitors in there to make sure everything was on the up and up.  Let’s go back, I just want to remind you what I said on this program last Thursday about the Tea Party and the media and the upcoming midterms.

SASSE: Kemp said that we can only fight big government with bigger ideas and that we have an obligation to offer alternatives to liberalism’s path of decline.  We have to offer real plans, renewed opportunity and conservative optimism and that’s what this campaign has been about for the last eleven months and it’s what it’ll be about for the next 174 days.

RUSH:  Well, there you have it.  Here’s somebody openly indicting liberalism and the liberal path to decline.  It’s so easy to say.  You just don’t find Republicans willing to say it anymore.  But Ben Sasse did, and he won.  And then he talked about conservatism, opportunity, conservative optimism, real plans.  It’s what he did; it’s what he’s going to do.  And he won.  Admit it folks, it’s what’s so frustrating.  The blueprint’s there.  The blueprint for huge Republican, conservative victory is there is there.  It’s just bypassed, it’s ignored, and in fact it’s impugned by even and especially the Republican Party establishment.  Every time it’s tried, a qualified person, every time it’s tried, properly explained and articulated, it wins.

The Health Care Compact is Gaining Momentum

By Leo Linbeck III

Republicans and Democrats in Washington DC deeply disagree about what to do on health care. Republicans want to repeal and replace; Democrats want to fix Obamacare.

But amidst all of the partisan bickering and deadlock, both groups agree on one thing: Washington DC should decide for everyone.

And why not? Regulating 1/6th of the economy gives them enormous power; controlling more than $1 trillion a year in spending helps them make friends and punish enemies; and when it’s time for re-election, big insurance, pharma, hospital, and lobbyists become easy marks for donations to their campaign.

There is another way to fix health care: give states a way out of the centrally controlled system designed, built, and operated by Washington DC bureaucrats, lobbyists, and policy wonks.

It’s called the Health Care Compact. It is a grassroots-led, bottom-up reform that will allow the repeal of Obamacare on a state-by-state basis, cut up to $3.6 trillion out of federal spending over the next 10 years, and rebalance our system of federalism by allowing control over health care to move from the federal to the state level. And it is a strategy that can be replicated in other policy areas, from education to campaign finance.

This is not a drill; it is not a white paper idea; it is a real, live campaign that is gaining traction. The Health Care Compact has already passed a dozen state legislatures and been signed into law in nine states – including Kansas this week – and more states are coming. Rep. James Lankford of OK, chairman of the House a Republican Policy Committee, has introduced a bill – HJR 110 – that provides Congressional consent. And it is a program that can solve the biggest challenge facing conservatives on health care: how to bring together grassroots activists and establishment Republicans and be FOR something, rather than just against Obamacare.

Together, we can turn a Washington, D.C. failure into an America success.

Leo Linbeck III is CEO of Aquinas Companies LLC and faculty member at Stanford Graduate School of Business