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As the health care debate continues, your representative is cowering in fear because there are people who vocally disagree with them.  Protests and angry mobs have a time and place.  For example, if you’re being refused entrance to your representative’s town hall by union thugs, this is cause for protest and anger.  If your representative is only answering “soft-ball” questions that seem to be pre-selected, this is cause for protest and anger.  If you see someone being beaten up by counter-protesters, this is cause for more protest, anger, and even violence.

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All over America, concerned citizens are showing up at Town Hall meetings and showing their disapproval of their elected lawmakers.  Many of them are switching venues so they can hide behind “human shields” to avoid these citizens.  Nancy Pelosi even pulled the “Nazi Card” by claiming she saw “swastikas” at these Town Hall meetings.

The White House wants people to report “disinformation” to flag@whitehouse.com.  Barack Obama has even said he doesn’t want people who disagree with him to “do a whole lot of talking“.

This is nothing short of a desperate “President” trying to scare his critics into backing down.  But, hey, if he wants to get a whole bunch of e-mails, that’s his business.  I think We the People should report our neighbors for spreading disinformation.  And I say we start with the Obama supporters.

No doubt that this community activist has enlisted a large army of kool-aid drinkers into doing his bidding.  To level the playing field, we should do the same.  In the next week, I’ll be debuting a website where fellow conservatives can report Obama supporters.  Upload pictures of their bumper stickers (including license plates).  Use the Freedom of Information Act in your state to obtain their address, phone number, and any other identifying information.  That information will be publicly displayed for people to see.

Unlike the White House, this list will not be illegal since the information is publicly available.  What people decide to do with the information is not up for the state to decide.

Once I have the website up and running, I’ll make another announcement on this site and on Twitter.

Visit the Legislative Information System to track your own bills.

Bills I support:

• HB 982: Concealed handgun permit applications — Protects from public disclosure permittee names and descriptive information held by the Department of State Police.  Bill forged after The Roanoke Times published a list of names and addresses of those who had conceal carry permits.
• HB 55 : Designating English as official language of State — I think it’s discriminatory that the VA government website only offers Spanish as an alternative language.  Why not Korean?  Make the official language English so there is no discrimination.
• HB 65 : Voters and voting; photo identification required to vote — Voting is important to the democratic process.  We must be able to verify all voters to be sure that they are indeed the person who they say they are.

Bills I oppose:

• HB 904 : Mobile telephone and other wireless electronic devices; use of hands-free accessory while driving — Unfairly targets travelling businessmen as well as more affluent drivers.  I would only support this bill if eating, drinking, and any other activity taking focus away from driving were also banned.
• HB 20 : Primary elections; voter registration by political party — Political party affiliations should not used as a filter.  Current rules are fine.
• SB 233 : Transportation Plan; include quantifiable measures & achievable goals for greenhouse gas emission — Greenhouse gases is a very broad term and measurement of these gases will accomplish nothing except provide an arbitrary measure to reduce a naturally occurring emission.
• SB 2 : Retail Sales and Use Tax; eliminates exemption for certain fuels — We don’t need any more taxes on gas.  And the Use tax should be eliminated, not expanded.

You can view federal bills I’m tracking on OpenCongress.org.

Earlier this week, Bush made an announcement solidifying the Health providers’ conscience rule.  For the most part, this announcement only combines laws that are already on the books.  There wasn’t a new bill passed.  The rule provides doctors, nurses, and health care provider’s a choice to provide or refuse a treatment that they disagree with.

The irony of this is that people from the “pro-choice” camp are saying that it prevents people from getting abortions.  What’s even more ironic is that these “pro-choice” people want to take choice away from health providers to force them to perform a procedure they think is unsafe or that they disagree with.

Why should it matter why?  Doctors refuse treatments all the time when they don’t believe it is safe for the patient.

I cannot support HR7310 (sponsored by Rep. Diana DeGette [D, CO-1] and Rep. Louise Slaughter [D, NY-28]) or S20.  These democrats, who are pro-choice, want to take choice away from doctors and instead give it in politicians.  Call your senators and congressmen and tell them to vote these bills down!