The way to beat Congresswoman Herseth-Sandlin.

If you want to defeat our current Congresswoman at the ballot box, you have to go for her field soldiers. They are the ones that go door-to-door, man the phones, and wave signs on election day.

Since the beginning of her political career, her followers have always assumed she was a progressive Democrat and would vote that way. And from the start she talked a good game, but it was easy to vote against Bush and the Republicans.

2008 was the pinnacle with her drawing an amazing 50% of registered Democrat voters. Compare that to the Republicans only pulling a 28% turnout of our registered voters. Early 2009 was to be the beginning of Big Government with Obama and both houses of Congress all controlled by the Democrats. But our Congresswoman voted against all the important bills for libs starting with climate change and ending with the health reform bill. She also failed to submit bills dealing with gay rights, gun control and ending the wars in Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan.

To win in 2010 you must shine a light on her voting record. Show it to her ground troops and let the see they have been supporting a Representative that votes like a modern day Republican.

Big government liberals need to oppose this health bill.

Under threat of a monetary fine and/or prison every citizen will participate in this new health care bill. Check under H.R. 3962, section 7203, 7201.

There is no difference between this and a mandatory draft to serve in the U.S. military. The health bill claims to help strengthen medicare and continue prosperity for all Americans. A draft could use the same language, just replace medicare with the military.

In my opinion, liberals would be mortified providing their children to a mandatory tour in the armed services. I am asking all liberals to call congress and demand this bill be taken down. Forcing Americans to submit is not the way to pass legislation.

Freedom from want.

I caught a little of Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd on the Senate floor and his speech on the current health care bill. President FDR said Americans deserve four freedoms - speech, religion, from want and from fear. Dodd said he was proud to carry on the legacy of FDR and said this bill will free Americans from having to fear about paying for health care. No longer will bankruptcy come with medical care.

There is plenty of fear right now with the current government control in health care. Medicare borrows a large portion of their money now from the general fund, Indian Health Services always runs out of money before their fiscal year renews, and the VA is always before congressional committees to explain their problems.

If it was truly people without health care, the federal government could just buy insurance policies for all that need the help. This is about control and a congress that wants more.

I urge congress to vote no on the Cobell settlement.

Recently a decision from our courts came down that gave a monetary award to our Indian tribes. The federal government assumed a fiduciary responsibility for the Native Americans and for decades neglected their role and mismanaged billions of dollars of tribal properties.

Congress now has to vote to approve this settlement. In my opinion, I believe it should be no. I would not trust congress to balance a checkbook, let alone manage property for the entire Native American population.

The federal government needs to get out of the business of tribal management. Let the land trusts be managed by the Natives. Allow them to be independent and provide for their people. We have to remove this crutch and the Natives have to stop blaming the federal government for their problems.

Giving just enough to tribes so they can scratch out a living is destroying their desire to live. Handouts cause boredom which leads to violence, alcohol abuse and suicide. We all must be strong and have the courage to end this cycle.

An open letter to Governor Rounds.

Dear Governor Rounds,

I would like to suggest a fellow citizen that deserves to be pardoned. Mr. Bob Newland was arrested and convicted of having 3.4 oz. of marijuana. Mr. Newland has served his jail time and is currently on probation.

Some believe that you promote from within your own circle of friends, campaign contributors and business partners. A pardon for Mr. Newland would end these accusations and rumors, it would show that you are a kind man and are willing to be compassionate to those less fortunate.

Sincerely,

Thad Wasson

Republican candidate for U.S. Congress South Dakota 2010.

Fraud and waste and we're in charge.

One of the selling points for the Health Care bill before the Senate right now is the desire to remove fraud from Medicare. The Democrats announce that there is waste and unnecessary payments to insurance companies but we will not fix that unless you give us control over the entire health care system.

If you have a vote in either chamber and you know about waste and fraud, do the right thing and stop the waste now! Your duty to maintain the Medicare program comes before any political gains or threats.

I was hoping it was 10%.

I caught the NPR interview this afternoon on the Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction. His name is Arnold Fields, a retired Marine Corps Major General. He was asked what percentage of the 39 billion dollars that American taxpayers have spent in that country, intended to build or rebuild infrastructure, has gone to waste or graft. The answer was between 60-70%.