Testimony for State Board Of Education, Texas
By Peggy M. Venable, Director
Americans for Prosperity-Texas
November 18, 2009

The Health Care Bills are the Real Turkey This Thanksgiving

1) Harry Reid has had his bill for 6 weeks – shouldn’t the American people have the same time period to review it and know what the bill contains? After all, 2,074 pages isn’t exactly light reading.

Conservatives have fallen dangerously behind in this age of online communication.

Radical left wing activists have been effectively using the internet to drive the public policy agenda, influence mainstream media coverage, and mobilize their so-called “progressive” movement at an alarming rate.

The time has come for conservatives to stand up and fight back against so-called “progressives” who are pushing a left-wing agenda in Texas!!

Bill Ames has declared war on the committee charged with rewriting the state’s social studies curriculum, saying the heavy use of liberal teachers is putting a left-leaning slant on class lessons, especially in revisions to American history.

The real fight is still to come, and we're going to win. I won't sugarcoat it: We lost last week, and it hurts. It was down to the wire, but Nancy Pelosi's outrageous trillion-dollar-plus budget-busting, tax-hiking Washington takeover of health care passed the House Saturday night. But keep it in perspective, because this very narrow defeat gives us great hope for ultimate victory. AFP policy advisory Phil Kerpen put it in perspective: Keeping Tonight’s House Healthcare Perspective