ONLINE PETITION: Senator Cullerton Should Resign as Senate President
Tell Lisa Madigan to Challenge Obamacare
Democrats in Congress celebrated their victory for government-run health care Sunday night — but we can still fight this monstrosity at the state level.
Attorneys General in at least twelve states are planning to challenge the constitutionality of Obamacare. Not surprisingly, Lisa Madigan is not one of those courageous leaders.
Don’t Illinoisans deserve better from her?
The health care boondoggle is an assault against the U.S. and Illinois constitutions. Democrat supporters of the bill are wrongly using the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution to justify the bill’s individual health care mandate — which is nothing more than a penalty for simply being alive.
As Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli told Reuters last night:
“If a person decides not to buy health insurance, that person by definition is not engaging in commerce … If you are not engaging in commerce, how can the federal government regulate you?”
As the highest legal official in the state of Illinois — Lisa Madigan has a duty to challenge this legislation to protect the Constitution.
Click here to email her today to urge her to challenge Obamacare in the courts.
Never before has the federal government required Americans to purchase any good or service as a condition of U.S. residency. Lisa Madigan must join in these legal actions to represent the interests of Illinois citizens.
Email Lisa Madigan today. Tell her to challenge the health care bill to protect the Constitution and our individual liberties.
Quick Poll: Gov. Quinn’s Budget Proposal
Tell Dick Durbin He Needs Some Dance Lessons
“Democrats are going to have to go it alone.”
That’s the assessment on health care reform provided by our very own Sen. Dick Durbin to ABC News on Monday.
They say it takes two to tango, but Durbin and the Democrats apparently prefer to dance by themselves.
They are threatening to use a little known procedural trick called reconciliation (a.k.a., “The Nuclear Option) to force through a health care bill that the American people don’t want — and can’t afford.
It may be easier — at least for people with two left feet — to dance without a partner, but there’s something profoundly sad about the spectacle, if not downright disturbing.
Democrats may say that they have no choice, that the Republicans don’t want to dance with them — but the fact is that there’s a give and take to dancing and Democrats aren’t willing to give.
They want everything their way. But that’s not how dancing works … or legislation, either.
Unlike some of his colleagues in the Senate, and all members of the House, Durbin doesn’t come up for reelection this year. In fact, he doesn’t run again until 2014 — by which time, he no doubt hopes, his role in the health care reform debacle will be a distant memory for most of his constituents.
Let’s disabuse him of that hope. Let’s let him know that we’re paying attention and we will remember.
Email Sen. Durbin today and tell him he needs to take some dance lessons.
Tell Durbin that he needs to drop the extreme partisanship and work with the Republicans to draft a real reform bill … one that actually lowers costs, improves health care access and doesn’t bankrupt our country.
Tell him we want a bipartisan solution, or none at all.
How does your state legislator rate?
In these challenging times, it is more important than ever to have elected officials who champion proven conservative principles that will get our economy moving, restore our freedoms, and protect our traditional values.
We call these the L.I.F.T. Principles: Limited Government, Individual Freedom, Free Enterprise and Traditional Values.
That is why we have released our Third Annual Scorecard of the Illinois General Assembly.
The Republican Party has traditionally been the party of those who champions these principles — but, as we all know, not all Republicans share these values. The scorecard is a quantifiable measurement of each legislators record. We hope it will remind each legislator to think about the consequences of his or her vote when they return to work later this month.
The L.I.F.T. Principles upon which this scorecard is based represent a new and larger definition of conservatism: one that speaks to all aspects of society, rather than the narrow interpretation that liberals propagandize.
Please click here to view the 2009 Legislative Scorecard.
As you will see, we recognize as “L.I.F.T. Leaders” those legislators who scored 75% or higher on the scorecard.
Did your legislator make the grade as a L.I.F.T. Leader? Click here to find out.
Victory in Illinois is on its Way
First New Jersey and Virginia. Then Massachusetts.
Conservatism won the day each time with the help of independent-thinking Americans like you.
No other organization in Illinois is better positioned to lead the way to victory in November than the conservative United Republican Fund, an independent political action committee that promotes limited government, individual rights, free markets and traditional values — the LIFT principles.
The URF is focused on helping candidates that hold tight to those principles and is doing all we can to communicate far and wide how the LIFT movement can energize community activism, electrify online networks and jolt Illinois’ political battlefield toward a modern day American Revolution.
The next victory for conservatives will be in Illinois, Obama’s home state. Sounds great, doesn’t it?
Join us. Be a part of making history.
Watch the GOP Gubernatorial Debate
Watch the full video of the ABC 7 Chicago/League of Women Voters Illinois Republican Gubernatorial Debate that took place on January 13, 2010:
Buyer’s Remorse Over Barack?
Are Obama voters feeling buyer’s remorse? Do they feel swindled into voting for someone who has turned out to be far more extreme and liberal than they thought?
Do they feel that this is the “change” they don’t need?
Watch this video excerpt from a recent episode of “Morning Joe” to learn more …
Take the Illinois Republican Voter Survey
Let’s face it: the Democrat politicians who rule Illinois have failed us.
Six years in control of Illinois government, and all they’ve given us is huge deficits, a worsening jobs climate and rampant corruption.
The climate is ripe for Republicans to score some major victories in in 2010.
Over the next few months, we at the United Republican Fund will be rolling out a series of initiatives to help conservative Republicans win.
Can you help us make these initiatives successful by completing our brief online survey below?
This survey will help us learn more about our grassroots network, and ensure that we are sending you the content you most want to receive:
