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Will your senator stand up to Obama's union thugs?

Phil Kerpen — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:10:10 -0400

We'll find out tomorrow. Thanks to Wyoming Senator Mike Enzi, the U.S. Senate will vote tomorrow on a Resolution of Disapproval that would overturn the NLRB's outrageous ambush elections rule. This rule was a part of the Card Check bill that failed in Congress -- but the NLRB is simply acting as if it's the law and imposing it anyway.

Go to http://StopTheNLRB.com/ NOW to tell your Senators to STOP the NLRB!

it's an egregious abuse of power from the same agency that sued Boeing for locating a new facility in South Carolina and is presently suing the State of Arizona to overturn its state constitutional protections for secret ballot protections in union elections. Ambush elections would let union bosses catch workers and employers off-guard with surprise elections in as little as 10 days. And ends key safeguards employers presently have to make sure eligible workers are properly defined before an elections takes place.

Go to http://StopTheNLRB.com/ NOW to tell your Senators to STOP the NLRB!

NLRB Chairman Mark Pearce has already said that if the rule stands, he'll push further with
force employers to make confidential employee information, including phone numbers and email addresses, available to union organizers. That could subject workers to harassment, intimidation, and even violence.

Go to http://StopTheNLRB.com/ NOW to tell your Senators to STOP the NLRB!

Phil Kerpen
President
American Commitment

P.S. We can't let Obama's regulators and bureaucrats bypass Congress and make the 2010 election irrelevant. If this Senate won't stand up to rogue agencies like the NLRB and the EPA, we must elect a Senate that will. Please forward this message to your friends and family to help spread the word.

Obama to bypass Congress in 2012

Phil Kerpen — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 11:50:59 -0500

The Associated Press wrote a preview of 2012 that started with "President Barack Obama enters his fourth year in office having calculated that he no longer needs Congress to promote his agenda."

The article goes on to quote Josh Earnest, White House deputy press secretary. Earnest says Obama "will have a larger playing field. If that includes Congress, all the better; that's no longer a requirement."

So I write to remind you, my friends, that I wrote the book on this. And if you haven't read it yet, I would urge you to do so expeditiously. This dynamic will define the most significant public policy fights of 2012.

Democracy Denied is the book Mark Levin calls “a must-read for everyone who values our nation’s bedrock principles” and Glenn Beck calls “a literal guidebook on the progressive game plan.”

Democracy Denied exposes the Obama administration's agenda that disregards the American people, Congress, and the U.S. Constitution--and offers a plan of action to stop it.

Order here: http://amzn.to/kx0shO

Let's win these fights together.

Happy New Year,
Phil Kerpen

Today

Phil Kerpen — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 23:17:52 -0400

Today is a big day for me, the official launch day of my book Democracy Denied.

Democracy Denied is the book Mark Levin calls “a must-read for everyone who values our nation’s bedrock principles” and Glenn Beck calls “a literal guidebook on the progressive game plan.”

In the book I expose the Obama administration's head-spinning tactics to implement its extreme agenda via regulation and without regard for the American people, Congress, or the U.S. Constitution. And I offer a plan of action to solve the long-term structural problems that made it possible.

Together, we can win the fight to genuinely limit government and restore freedom and prosperity.

For more information and to order the book, please go to: http://DemocracyDenied.org

Yours truly,
Phil Kerpen

P.S. Please help me get this vital message out by buying the book and sharing information about it far and wide -- via Facebook, Twitter, email, and word of mouth. Thanks!

Please watch this!

Phil Kerpen — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 19:35:21 -0400

My new book is officially out October 18, but Amazon is already shipping orders.

Mark Levin calls it "a must-read for everyone who values our nation’s bedrock principles" and Glenn Beck says it is "a literal guidebook on the progressive game plan."

Please take 90 seconds to watch my new hard-hitting video, which uses Obama's own words to expose his abuses of executive and regulatory power:

http://youtu.be/jOQpwtKJS4Q

If you like the video, I would greatly appreciate you spreading the word via Twitter, Facebook, and email.

You can order the book at Amazon here: http://amzn.to/kx0shO

Thanks!

PK 2009 Highlights

Phil Kerpen — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:21:24 -0500

In 2009 we saw a continuation of the unprecedented threats to economic freedom that emerged late in 2008--never-ending bailouts, unconstrained growth of government spending, enormous Fed money creation, and a crippling debt burden for our children and grandchildren.

We also, however, saw the emergence of a mass-based resistance that promises to restore fiscal sanity to our country, standing up to the big spenders in both political parties and saying that enough is enough. The grassroots uprising at tea parties and town halls and rallies gives me confidence that our democratic system will work and will right the fiscal ship.

Come to the AFP Defending the Dream Summit October 2 and 3!

Phil Kerpen — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:56:56 -0400

Things have been busy. Lots to update you on.

Lots of recent TV appearances, including quite a few regarding our now-erstwhile green jobs czar, Van Jones. You can see all my recent TV clips here: http://www.philkerpen.com/?q=taxonomy/term/66

I've also been writing a fair amount, mostly for Fox Forum, and if you haven't been paying attention please do come to www.PhilKerpen.com and take a look.

The main purpose of this email is to ask you to register for the 2009 Defending the American Dream Summit, sponsored by Americans for Prosperity Foundation: www.DefendingTheDream.org

I'm excited to be speaking to this gathering of free-market activists and especially excited to be speaking on the same program as some incredible world-class leaders in the fight for freedom and prosperity. Speakers like Larry Kudlow, Newt Gingrich, Jim DeMint, and my mentor: Stephen Moore of the Wall Street Journal.

We need to send Congress a strong message that we are paying attention and fighting back against big government power-grabs. This event will keep the momentum from the tea parties, town halls, and 9-12 march going strong into October when it will likely be crunch time on health care and possibly also on cap-and-trade.

The early registration price is only available for a few more days. Please register today at www.DefendingTheDream.org.

If you do register, please take a moment to reply to this email and let me know that I will see you there!

Yours truly,
Phil Kerpen

P.S. Please connect with me on Twitter (http://twitter.com/kerpen) and Facebook (http://facebook.com/PhilKerpen) if you haven't already! And listen to my daily 2-minute podcast, available on www.philkerpen.com or through iTunes (search "kerpen"). Thanks!

KerpenCast, Tea Parties, and Energy Taxes

Phil Kerpen — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:41:32 -0400

Apologies for once again going months between newsletters. I hope you've been checking out www.philkerpen.com from time to time, and I want to encourage you to stay tuned two other ways.

One is my new a daily podcast, just 1-2 minutes in length, that I started yesterday. You can check it out here:
http://kerpen.hipcast.com/rss/kerpencast.xml

The other is Twitter. Please follow me!
http://twitter.com/kerpen

Also, please do me a favor and forward this email to your friends and encourage them to sign up at PhilKerpen.com and check the site regularly!

1. Now, on to tea parties. I was a speaker at the DC Tea Party, which despite a pouring rain was a great success. I wrote a Fox Forum post about it on my cell phone from the scene, which here:
http://www.philkerpen.com/?q=node/240

and I was on Fox twice last week talking about it, on Greta the day of the tea party:
http://www.philkerpen.com/?q=node/242

and on Cavuto (Asman guest-hosting) the day before:
http://www.philkerpen.com/?q=node/241

I also wrote this piece defending that the tea parties are genuine populism:
http://www.philkerpen.com/?q=node/239

and was quoted in a variety of newspapers. Several lefty outfits flatteringly accused me of being an evil architext of the whole tea party movement, but of course my real role was much more modest.

2. Energy taxes, a.k.a cap-and-trade
In my most commented-on Fox Forum piece to date (3200+ comments at last count) I explained the desperation and illogic behind MoveOn.org's latest effort to spend millions trying to convince the public that a tax is not a tax if you call it cap-and-trade. Check it out here:
http://www.philkerpen.com/?q=node/243

Amazingly Obama and Pelosi are pushing forward with this huge new energy tax despite the fact that there is no environmental upside and the costs to ordinary Americans will be huge. Who stands to benefit? The same financial bad actors on Wall Street, like AIG and Goldman Sachs, at the center of the financial meltdown. I wrote about that in Washington Times here:
http://www.philkerpen.com/?q=node/231

The good news is that we won a huge victory a couple weeks ago when the Senate rejected passing cap-and-trade through the back-door of budget reconciliation with only 50 votes. I helped lead that fight, and wrote about the victory here:
http://www.philkerpen.com/?q=node/235

Yesterday's podcast was on this topic:
http://kerpen.hipcast.com/rss/kerpencast.xml

3. Unfortunately there is still a substantial risk of a government takeover of health care (including "cost-cutting" by refusing treatment to people judged too old or sick) being slammed through by the budget reconciliation trick. I wrote about that threat and the other budget gimmicks in the Congressional budget here:
http://www.philkerpen.com/?q=node/237

4. Happy baseball season! Let's go Mets! (If you check the Cavuto clip I linked to above, you'll notice I wore a Mets tie.) Off to a slow start but still the time of year when hope springs eternal. Unfortunately, our new ballpark is still called Citi Field, named for a disgraced bailout bank. I wrote about that here:
http://www.philkerpen.com/?q=node/238

I'll try to send these a little more regularly so they aren't so long. Please check out the podcast (http://kerpen.hipcast.com/rss/kerpencast.xml) and follow me on Twitter (http://twitter.com/kerpen). Thanks!

Yours truly,
Phil

P.S. I'll be speaking at the following events next week. Please attend if you can!

Date: Tuesday, April 28th
Location: Libertyville, Ill. (Austin’s Saloon)
Time: 6:00-8:00pm
What: Special Event with Fred Barnes
http://www.americansforprosperity.org/040709-afp-il-special-event-0

Date: Wednesday, April 29th
Location: South Bend, Ind. (St. Patrick’s Park)
Time: 9:00-10:30AM
What: AFP Hot Air Tour
http://www.hotairtour.org/index.php?content=south_bend

Date: Wednesday, April 29th
Location: Sterling Heights, Mich. (Sunnybrook Golf Course)
Time: 5:00 – 7:00 PM
What: AFP Hot Air Tour
http://www.hotairtour.org/index.php?content=sterlinghe

Stimulus Fight Can Be Won

Phil Kerpen — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:32:47 -0500

First some personal good news--we're engaged! Joanna Enstice and I will be married this June.

Next some good news for America. The stimulus bill is not inevitable. Ignore what you've been told--it's a ploy to get us to give up the fight. We can win.

In fact, the bill's proponents are struggling, and President Obama is starting to distance himself from the unpopular Pelosi/Reid bill. If you haven't signed the petition yet at www.NoStimulus.com, I encourage you to do so. We'll be delivering the signatures soon to get them there in advance of the Senate vote, which will probably be this weekend.

On the www.NoStimulus.com site you can also find talking points and easy links to contact your senators in advance of this important vote.

I posted a column today answering the idea that this bill is inevitable. It isn't. That column is here:
http://www.philkerpen.com/?q=node/208

We should also take note of the fact that the federal budget outlook is already the worst in all of U.S. history, with a $2 trillion deficit now within the realm of possibility. I analyzed the current budget outlook here:
http://www.philkerpen.com/?q=node/207

You also may not have noticed yesterday that we already have the first tax hike of the new administration. I had a soundbite about this on Lou Dobbs last night, and wrote about it here:
http://www.philkerpen.com/?q=node/206

Sorry for not sending these newsletters more regularly. Please do check out www.NoStimulus.com and get involved in the fight over this bill. The stakes are high and we can win!

Yours truly,
Phil Kerpen

Bridge to Nowhere, McCain Isn't Bush, Energy Freedom, AFP Summit

Phil Kerpen — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:29:05 -0400

Congress is back for a mad dash to finish (as little as possible of) their work and get out of town. Expect possible action on the defense bills, extenders package, AMT patch, a highway-fund transfer bill, a continuing resolution, and little else. (Apologies to the handful of people who got this newsletter yesterday. There was a glitch and it didn't go to most people, so I used the opportunity to add a new item.)

Four items to note:

1. Palin, Obama, and the Bridge
Obama's flip-flop attack on Palin is crazy in light of his and Joe Biden's record of supporting the bridge, not once but twice, unlike John McCain, a consistent opponent of pork-barrel earmarks. My new column goes through the history of the bridge and Palin's role in pulling the plug.
http://www.philkerpen.com/?q=node/193

2. The McBush Smear
I have a piece (note: not in an AFP capacity)in today's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that takes the offense against the Democratic theme that McCain is Bush. I argue that not only is the charge factually incorrect, but that it is a dirty campaign tactic that cuts against the Obama theme of hope and change. It's available here:
http://www.philkerpen.com/?q=node/191

3. Energy Freedom Day is just 21 days away and counting.
The bans on offshore drilling and oil shale development expire at the end of this month. As the clock ticks down supporters of increased energy production will have to hold strong and avoid a bad compromise to allow the ban to expire as scheduled. The most likely path to victory is a strong veto threat from President Bush, which we still haven't seen. I recently wrote about this in the Washington Times:
http://www.philkerpen.com/?q=node/190

4. Have you registered for the Americans for Prosperity Defending the American Dream Summit?
If not, you should. This is sure to be a phenomenal event and will send a strong signal to the political class and the media that there is genuine grassroots energy behind limited-government reforms and a pro-production energy policy. The event will bring thousands of AFP citizen-leaders from around the country to DC to rally for limited government principles. Some of the speakers include George Will, Dinesh D’Souza, Senator James Inhofe, Edwin Meese III, John Stossel, Fred Barnes, Steve Moore, and Erick Erickson. If you sign up for the event please put my name in for how you heard about it--we're competitive about recruitment. For more information and to register please check out:
http://www.defendingthedream.org/

Yours truly,
Phil Kerpen

Special event discount and other updates

Phil Kerpen — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:22:50 -0400

Dear friends,

I have several items to update you on, especially a great deal on our national summit.

Register now for an incredible price of $24.50!! For a limited time we are accepting early registration for $49 per person. On top of that and for just the next couple days, you can use the code DREAM08 to get an additional 50% off! This offer only lasts until this Wednesday, July 2nd, so don't miss it! This event was a great success last year and we hope to make it an even bigger and better event this year. Go to www.defendingthedream.org now and register with the promo code DREAM08 to get 50% off our already discounted early registration price!

Please remember to type "Phil Kerpen" under "Other" where the registration page asks how you heard about the summit. We're competitive about recruitment! Again the site is: www.defendingthedream.org

2. RightOnline Summit in Austin, Texas, July 18th and 19th, 2008
This is another great event coming a little sooner, down in Austin. We're running a new media-focused, free-market counterweight to the DailyKos Netroots Nation conference, which will be taking place at the same time in the same town. I'll be there speaking on several panels about policy issues, and we have top-flight national speakers including Michelle Malkin, Barry Goldwater, Jr., Erick Erickson, Michael Steele, and Bob Novak. For more information and to register, check out: www.rightonline.com

3. Hot Air Tour and No Climate Tax
We've been out on the road with a hot air balloon to highlight the ballooning costs of global warming alarmism, and to keep the pressure on against environmentally ineffective and economically devastating cap-and-trade climate policies. To find out more about the tour and our upcoming stops next week in the Mid-Atlantic Region, check out: www.hotairtour.org

We also have begun a candidate pledge campaign to ask candidates for federal, state, and local office that they won't hide a net tax hike in a climate bill. Increases in the tax burden should be openly debated on their merits, not buried within feel-good environmental legislation. To learn about the pledge and ask candidates to sign it, check out: www.noclimatetax.com

4. Recent Television Appearances
I was on CNBC twice in last couple of weeks debating the issue of gas taxes. You can see the clips here:
http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-us&vid=c4fc2882-f1a1-45bf-b2f5-a2c3cf22f3d1
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=765478300

5. Recent Columns
Some analysis of the now-House-passed AMT patch bill, including several ill-advised tax hikes:
http://www.philkerpen.com/?q=node/173
Analysis of the payment card reporting provisions of that bill in particular:
http://www.philkerpen.com/?q=node/174

My take on carbon cap-and-trade, Lieberman-Warner-style:
http://www.philkerpen.com/?q=node/172

That’s all for now. Thanks.

Yours truly,
Phil Kerpen