Posted on 11/08/2008 3:06:12 AM PST by backhoe
A video has surfaced this evening of the incident today involving civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) and Tea Party protesters on Capitol Hill.
Rep. Lewis has alleged that he was called a n***** by the protesters.
Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN), who was walking with Rep. Lewis, says he heard the word n***** fifteen times.
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) claims "It was a chorus" of people yelling "n*****."
The video, filmed by Marooned in Marin and posted at YouTube, shows Reps. Lewis and Carson walking together, with Rep. Cleaver several yards behind as they fight their way through the Tea Party patriots like they were in 1965 Selma, Alabama.
Reps. Chaka Fattah (D-PA) and Maxine Waters (D-CA) are also walking behind Lewis in the video.
View the shocking video here.
They are just saying “Kill the bill”. I knew they lied. Glad someone took a video PROVING they lied.
IT AIN’T OVER ‘TIL IT’S OVER, and the ObamaCare bill is clearly wildly unpopular. But if it does pass, the media message will be that the whole Tea Party movement has been a waste — when, in fact, without it this would have been passed nearly a year ago, and with far less political cost.
And political cost is the key. If this bill passes, there will be a brutal political cost, as spelled out in the sign below: You Vote for ObamaCare, We Vote For Your Opponent.
That’s what the next eight months or so will be about, and I don’t think that many of the folks you’ve seen demonstrating will give up and go home.
ZOMBIE: Why America Hates Universal Health Care: The Real Reason.
All of these accusations have proven to be unfounded. No video or audio exists to support them and no charges were filed by Emanuel Cleaver.
Related Threads:
Video Surfaces of John Lewis “N*****” Incident at Tea Party Protest on Capitol Hill
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2475759/posts?page=1
See comment 82
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2475759/posts?q=1&;page=51#82
See comment 169
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2475759/posts?q=1&;page=151#169
ABC: Anti-ObamaCare Protest ‘Turned Very Ugly’ with ‘Racial and Homophobic Slurs’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2475865/posts
Obama needs to stay at >95% black approval, AND he needs to radicalize some young blacks to become his sturmabteilungen.
We will see more - MUCH more - “Tawana Brawley moments”. This story is classic mau-mauing, and everyone is falling for it.
Walsh claims to be open minded about Tea Parties, yet she decried all opposition to Obama as Racist as early as Jan.1. (see: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2010/01/01/hardball-joan-walsh-calls-republican-critics-obama-un-american-traitor ) And of course, my favorite reply to the column can be found at: http://letters.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2010/03/20/tea_party_racism/new/form.html
Joan Walsh is a kook:
Can right-wing hate talk lead to murder?
The racist charge is based on a racial hoax being spread by some in the congressional black caucus and the MSM. In fact there were no racial slurs directed at black congressmen. It's all a lie. Listen at:
Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL), who you might remember as a disgraced former judge who was impeached (by a Democrat Congress) for taking bribes:
There ain’t no rules here, we’re trying to accomplish something. . . .All this talk about rules. . . .When the deal goes down . . . we make ‘em up as we go along.
Forget CDOs and other inventions of the great credit bubble. That’s all old hat. Investment bankers are moving on to an area of securities trading that is potentially even more lucrative, and what’s more, even has a social value – saving the planet. Or supposedly so, anyway. I’ve long had my suspicions about the great carbon trading bubble, and I’ve had them pretty much confirmed by a brilliant article which has been drawn to my attention by one Mark Schapiro in Harper’s magazine.
According to Mr Schapiro, carbon trading is now the fastest growing commodities market on earth. Since Kyoto signatories bought in to the cap and trade concept in 2005, there have been more than $300bn carbon transactions, prompting several investment banks, including Goldman Sachs and Barclays, to set up their own carbon trading desks. But that’s just the start. If President Obama and his supporters can institute a cap-and-trade system in the United States – and that’s a big if for this increasingly marooned presidency – demand could explode into a $2 to $3 trillion market.
And here’s the great thing about it. Unlike traditional commodities markets, which will eventually involve delivery to someone in physical form, the carbon market is based on lack of delivery of an invisible substance to no-one. Since the market revolves around creating carbon credits, or finding carbon reduction projects whose benefits can then be sold to those with a surplus of emissions, it is entirely intangible.
“Carbon developers”, many of them employed by large multinationals, travel the world in search of carbon reduction projects to sell, while firms of carbon accountants have been established to verify on the United Nations’ behalf that those reductions are real. The whole thing, though well intentioned, looks wide open to abuse and scams. ...
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Nice essay, Zombie.
There is a further argument to be made against socialized medicine, and indeed the entire structure of the modern-day welfare state; they are all bankrupt. And purposefully creating or continuing a bankrupt system is immoral. It is theft, and it’s every bit as much a crime as grabbing your gun and robbing a bank, or starting a Ponzi scheme and defrauding the pigeons.
Again: They are all bankrupt.
I look around the world, and everywhere I see debt, default, and denial. The stunted among us, those permanent adolescents who believe in the new, man-made “positive rights”, lie, cheat, and steal in defense of their failed belief system. The plain, simple truth is this: Every comprehensive welfare state is deeply in debt; all of them are run by thieves stealing from the future, whether through deficit spending or job crushing (and therefore future crushing) tax rates. They are run by amoral children, who value their wants and wishes far above reality or rationality.
And did I mention they are all bankrupt?
The story of the past 60 years should be called “Failure to Launch”. The changes in our societies have led to the takeover by the man-child, and sadly, those truncated fools think themselves evolution’s prize. We are stopping individual human development in a semi-larval stage.
When a child is born, he is naught but a demanding ball of entitlement, and justifiably so. He cannot meet his needs, he can only demand, and demand again. As a child grows, he gradually sheds the neediness, gradually loses entitlement as his abilities improve and his skills expand. That child enters adulthood only when the last of those entitlements is gone. That’s the choice; entitlement or adulthood. One or the other.
That is the story of the world today. Mewling man-children, demanding endless benefits from a bankrupt state, all the while ruling from their highchairs as only a child could — cruel, vindictive, arbitrary, petty tyrants. Modern-day Sun Kings, dazzled by their own imaginary brightness.
The Red Queen Nancy Pelosi is poised today to fire up the Death Star and aim it square at the Constitution and politics as we know it today.
She and her fellow Leftists are at the absolute zenith of their power on this Sunday.
Once she pulls the lever and passes the unconstitutional Healthcare Rationing bill this evening, the Red Queen will perform an act on par with Grand Moff Tarkin ordering the Death Star to fire upon the halcyon haven of Alderaan — using the Empire’s ultimate weapon to obliterate perceived enemies and flex enormous imperial muscle.
The thing is, that act of supreme destruction didn’t work out so well...
Read it all at the link, dagnabbit!
Never, never, never forget what we have seen in their eyes, their faces, their intentions, their greed, their annoyance with American citizens who didn’t “Heel!” when commanded to….never forget what you have seen.
What you have seen IS who they are.
I don’t care how many Doppelgangers they have: we have seen who they are. If we are to live, they must be defeated. Not reasoned with. Not negotiated with. Defeated.
Tea party protesters use racial epithet against Georgia's John Lewis
ABC: Anti-ObamaCare Protest ‘Turned Very Ugly’ with ‘Racial and Homophobic Slurs’
All of these accusations have proven to be unfounded. No video or audio exists to support them and no charges were filed by Emanuel Cleaver.
Fox News is reporting these lies. I just e-mailed them and challenged them to provide evidence. Let them hear what you think about that at Friends@foxnews.com
REMEMBER: You Can NEVER Trust a Democrat… You can sometimes trust Republicans but… You Can NEVER Trust a Democrat.
Stupak flashback: Remember when “pro-life” fraudster Bart Stupak held his town hall last year and said that he’d vote for Obamacare even if it funded abortion? Of course, at the time he didn’t know he was being recorded.
VIDEO AT LINK OF THE DECEIVER
“If everything I want [is] in the final bill, I like everything in the bill except you have public funding for abortion, and we had a chance to run our amendment and we lost. OK, I voted my conscience, stayed true to my principles, stayed true to the beliefs of this district, could I vote for healthcare? Yes I still could.”
Today Democrat Bart Stupak came back home.
The supposed pro-life Democrat will support pro-abortion Obamacare.
Ma Pelosi needed him and he was there.
Free America- 1776-2010… You were a great nation.
Don’t Give Up…. DAN REIHL: I GOT THRU TO STUPAK ON THIS NUMBER 202-225-4735.
Today's Comment Of The Day, featured at the Toronto Sun.
That, and some superbly argued commentary contrasting the brutal apartheid Jewish state with that beacon of Middle East tolerance known as the Islamic Republic of Iran.
(Is the Star's website down or something?)
If you don't keep up with the payments on that $15M Gulfstream or 110' yacht, the "repo man" is coming for your stuff. Yea, T Coddington Van Voorhees VII, I'm looking at you!
...Ken Cage isn't your typical repo man. Rather than snatch cars from an over-extended middle class, he takes back yachts, planes and other toys from the over-leveraged rich.I think I've found a new career. Swiping phat toys is something I could really pour my heart and soul into.Business is thriving, even as the economy begins to improve. His company, Orlando-based International Recovery Group, repossessed more than 700 boats, planes, helicopters and other property last year valued at more than $100 million. Business, he says, is up six-fold from 2007.
He has reclaimed everything from $18 million Gulfstream jets and Bell helicopters to 110-foot Broward yachts, $500,000 recreational vehicles and even a racehorse...
One Longs For 1776, The Other For 1936. It is true.
When our Dr. Bliss writes on the topic, she tends to put it in terms of peoples' dependency and security wishes which are placed on government, while imagining government as an altruistic, caring, "ideal" parent (as if an ideal parent were a constantly gratifying one without realistic limits, who can make everything right), or Santa or a god.
I know what she means, but I do not think of these things in those terms. I think of it in terms of power. Governments tend to accumulate power. People who work in government tend to enjoy power and, for reasons I cannot comprehend, tend to think that they are smarter and wiser than us regular citizens. Unlike wealth, however, power is indeed a zero-sum game. Any power our federal government accumulates comes from your own personal supply of it, or your town's, or your state's.
Wise adults are not prodigal with their funds, nor should they be with their far more precious freedoms: our funds are got by labor, but our freedoms from external powers are given by God but got by blood. America is uniquely formed on the ideal of limited government and maximum individual freedom. What is idealized, so to speak, is the genius of the individual - not the ancient notion of the divinity of rulers and government and their powers.
America is not for sissies, and was never meant to be. She was designed for the brave, the bold, the resourceful, and the independent. Designed for the New Man of the Enlightenment, rather than for the weary and government-oppressed and controlled of the rest of the world. People who wanted a chance, not to be ruled and "governed" and "helped" by their betters.
That's why people came here from all over: to take their chances for their dreams in a New World of freedom from the Powers. But how much of their - our - depressing history came with them?
What if the founding idea was wrong? What if most humans are more serf-like, dependent, and willing to be ruled than our founders thought? Our founders, after all, were not exactly ordinary people (whatever "ordinary people" means - I've never met one).
How many Lefties would be standing at the 1775 Concord bridge today with a squirrel gun to resist a "tyranny" which was peanuts in comparison to an admittedly elected American government of today? This is why I write here on occasion about the danger of selling our birthright of freedom for a lousy bowl of lentils (not to disparage the lowly lentil - lentils with chopped carrots, shallots, etc makes a fine bed for a medium-rare breast of Ruffed Grouse with a generous drizzle of gibier sauce over it all).
This CS Lewis quote is always worth repeating:
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
If some reports are to be believed, the Democrats will pass the Senate health care bill with some reconciliation changes later today. Thus, it is worthwhile to take a comprehensive look at the freedoms we will lose.
Of course, the bill is supposed to provide us with security. But it will result in skyrocketing insurance costs and physicians leaving the field in droves, making it harder to afford and find medical care. We may be about to live Benjamin Franklin’s adage, “People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.”
The sections described below are taken from HR 3590 as agreed to by the Senate and from the reconciliation bill as displayed by the Rules Committee.
1. You are young and don’t want health insurance? You are starting up a small business and need to minimize expenses, and one way to do that is to forego health insurance? Tough. You have to pay $750 annually for the “privilege.” (Section 1501)
2. You are young and healthy and want to pay for insurance that reflects that status? Tough. You’ll have to pay for premiums that cover not only you, but also the guy who smokes three packs a day, drink a gallon of whiskey and eats chicken fat off the floor. That’s because insurance companies will no longer be able to underwrite on the basis of a person’s health status. (Section 2701).
3. You would like to pay less in premiums by buying insurance with lifetime or annual limits on coverage? Tough. Health insurers will no longer be able to offer such policies, even if that is what customers prefer. (Section 2711).
4. Think you’d like a policy that is cheaper because it doesn’t cover preventive care or requires cost-sharing for such care? Tough.
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THE BRIBES ARE STILL THERE—-
Louisiana Purchase, Cornhusker Kickback, Florida, Connecticut, North Dakota, Montana…
Rep. Jack Kingston (R-FL) just read off a list of the bribes and kickbacks that were never taken out of the democrat’s health care takeover bill:
Bribery is an impeachable offense. So, if Obama signs this piece of legislation which contains these bribes for votes that have been repeatedly pointed out, then the impeachment proceedings may begin.
As soon as Obama signs this, amnesty is next.
He needs the votes of illegals-turned-citizens and their families to get him over the finishline in 2012.
We nominate Bart Stupak for that special place in American history reserved for men who abandon all principles, forsake their countries, their Gods, and their values, and do something unimaginably terrible to bring eternal disgrace upon themselves and all their descendants.
Stupak is particularly ignoble because only a fool would believe a presidential Executive Order will prohibit tax dollars from funding abortions. Executive Orders are not the law.
Here’s the Facebook page for Dan Benishek (R), running against Bart Stupak for Congress.
He seems like a nice man.
In 2008, the president campaigned both against forcing people to buy insurance and against taxing their benefits. The legislation runs counter to the campaign on both points. The president promised to change Washington. He has made its stench more noisome, winning this vote by using every kind of deceit and (legal) corruption, and over the objection of a bipartisan coalition representing most Americans.
(Excerpt) Read more at article.nationalreview.com ...
Demonize the Trial Lawyers
Demonize the Union bosses
Demonize the IRS
Demonize the media 49
I keep telling people to either calm down or buck up. This is a representative democracy. It’s not the first time in its history that legislation has squeaked through by a narrow margin.
It hurts like hell to be on the losing side, I know. But if you did your best — phoning, faxing, emailing, protesting, contributing — you gave it your all. Now take a breather (you’ve earned it) and get ready for the next political battle: the mid-term elections.
This bill is not about Health, it is about expanding the IRS into the Gestapo. This is the first step of Obamas Civilian Security Force that is better equipped than the military. 2300 of the 2700 pages of this bill is about expanding the IRS.
Better be for closing your bank accounts and getting your money out of the country, because the take over of the banks and your accounts is next, just like they hustled the “health” bill through. This bill allows the IRS access to your bank accounts tomorrow. They will take out what they like and you wont even get a receipt for it.
With this takeover of Americas insurance business, the auto industy and other things that they have seized, the Obamites now control 48% of Americas business.
Its time to wake up folks and stand up for our rights. Some of us may shed blood, but we have to make damn certain that a lot of them shed blood also.
Frank J. at IMAO wouldn’t use that title, but I will. Numerous news media outlets have reported that certain members of the CBC were insulted with racial epithets during the course of protesting yesterday. The specific accusation most often repeated is that when Andre Carson (D-IN) and John Lewis (D-Ga) left the Cannon House Office Building yesterday, they were met with a crowd that chanted the “n-word” at them repeatedly. Frank J. had an excellent rundown of all the media outlets who credulously reported the word of these lying race pimps despite the total absence of any video or audio evidence to the contrary.
It turns out, it’s not just that there’s a lack of evidence that this ever happened, there’s actually video evidence of the scene in question which absolutely proves that Carson and Lewis are full of crap:
VIDEO AT LINK
I don’t know if these two idiots are just unaware that protesters and activists tend to carry video cameras everywhere they go now in order to catch news as it happens, or if (more likely) they just figured that their completely fabricated story fit a pre-existing narrative the media would be happy to credulously pass on. The sad thing is that it appears to have worked. I won’t hold my breath for all the media who slandered the Tea Party protesters to retract and publicly these two out for the liars they are, though.
Really, it’s sad in a way. Racism still does exist in this country, but political crooks like Carson and Lewis have turned the owrd into a joke for the sake of their own political gain. Well done, fellas - way to serve the cause.
- this is just the opening act of "an army of Davids" forming a resistance...
We may get the Presidency and control of the House and Senate again.
But:
- We are saddled with entitlement programs that are
dragging us towards bankruptcy.
- We have freely given away our leadership in
technology.
- We are no longer an industrial giant.
- We have lost a generation or two to liberal
indoctrination in schools and media.
- We have about 40% of the population, and growing, that
are dependent on the gov’t and willfully choose not to
be responsible for themselves in any way.
How can that be reversed without a complete meltdown and rebuilding of the country? At what point is Secession the answer?
FROM STATE ATTORNEYS GENERAL: A multistate challenge to ObamaCare?
UPDATE: Reader Bryan Livingston emails:
I read reports today that over three dozen Attorneys-General are lining up to challenge the unfunded mandates and other abuses of the Federal system in the health care legislation.
I smell a Constitutional convention. In the present climate, I think the usual scary arguments against a convention fall away.
Well, that’s something Randy Barnett has been talking about.
Regardless of what you think about health care, tomorrow we wake up in a different political world. . . .
Republicans and other opponents of the bill did their job on this; they persuaded the country that they didn’t want this bill. And that mattered basically not at all. If you don’t find that terrifying, let me suggest that you are a Democrat who has not yet contemplated what Republicans might do under similar circumstances. Farewell, social security! Au revoir, Medicare! The reason entitlements are hard to repeal is that the Republicans care about getting re-elected. If they didn’t–if they were willing to undertake this sort of suicide mission–then the legislative lock-in you’re counting on wouldn’t exist. . . . If the GOP takes the legislative innovations of the Democrats and decides to use them, please don’t complain that it’s not fair. Someone could get seriously hurt, laughing that hard.
Read the whole thing.
MORE: John Hinderaker: “This is a dark day in American history; one of the darkest. But there are many reasons for optimism. Here are a few.”
President Obama actually said this in reaction to passage of the Demcare monstrosity:
It’s “another stone laid in the foundation of the American dream.”
And this: “This is what change looks like.”
Never mind that the “changes” don’t start until 2014 — but the tax hikes and pain start now.
No, Election Day 2010 is what change will look like.
Remember in November.
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As if the night couldn’t get more nauseating, Geraldo on Fox News right now is shilling for Demcare and peddling the Slacker Mandate provisions.
Crikey.
***
It. Just. Got. Sicker.
12:08am Eastern. Pelosi is holding her victory speech. Gloating about the 220 votes she whipped up, she joked: “No money changed hands, of course.”
Mark those words.
***
Waxman moans that “Democrats had to do it alone.” Er, you forgot to reconcile your talking points with the White House, Henry.
Update 12:20am Eastern: Delusional Democrat Sandy Levin: “We spread the American wings of opportunity and community.”
Louise Slaughter: “There is nothing now that we can’t tackle.” Shudder.
Corruptocrat Dems can cackle now. They will eat crow later.
#14 Urban B:
From my quick survey of the blogosphere, I think millions of others feel like you. America does not want to accept the bill, and the fight is on. People are openly talking about repeal, impeachment, secession, revolution, you name it. The Obama administration and the Congressional Dems have just royally pissed off a majority of voting Americans. If they were tarred and feather and paraded through the streets, more than half the country would stand up and cheer, and that is a very dangerous position for any politician to be in. One age of America has ended tonight, but another age is beginning.
A country as large and complicated as the United States basically runs on consensus and widely shared legitimacy. Things happen largely because people are in the habit of cooperating. The biggest danger the administration faces is that it may have destroyed consensus permanently...
READ IT ALL at 32. and then read this:
I agreed substantially with Wretchard’s analysis @32 – even before he wrote it! Although my langauge was a bit more melodramatic, I think we see eye to eye on the big picture. The following comes from a very intersting thread you might want to check out at John Reilly’s site.
“In response to the question “now what?”- I think the answer is that health care reform is well and truly dead, and the Democratic Party with it. Bear with me on this. Even if something passes, it will be so distended, so unpopular, so illegitimate, so economically ruinous, and so unenforceable that it will simply be ignored. Washington has reached the point where it is too convoluted to go on functioning anymore. The Dems cannot proceed with their agenda, and this will be true no matter what happens legislatively. They can sign the bill into law if they want. They can carve it into the stone of Mount Rushmore, spray paint it on the National Mall, and sky write over Texas with a fleet of B-52s, but the American people will never accept it...
M-O-R-E:
Why would think you that resources are not going to be divided by race.
The biggest losers under in a loot-and-distribute system are the poor. Unemployment among young blacks is astronomical. It won’t improve, no matter how many fake jobs are announced in the papers...
...I think you have to put the double-dip recession back on the table...
...Those who have read me here and watch "Mad Money" know that I was out there early thinking that 2010 would not produce a double-dip, despite ample commentary that it would. But if health care reform passes, I am going to revise my thinking -- and you know I think it will -- especially because immigrant amnesty will cause the health care system to be overloaded and our taxes to soar...
...the president will get a second wind. That means the whole agenda -- cap-and-trade, Card Check for easier organizing (...) and amnesty for immigrants who are currently not citizens -- will quickly come to pass, perhaps even before the election. To pay for these items I see a dramatic increase in ordinary tax rates and perhaps capital gains and dividend tax rates in 2011 either reaching or exceeding those ordinary income rates as this current version of the Democratic Party believes that only rich people own stocks....
I want to find that woman you hear on the sound clips saying she no longer has to worry about paying for her car, or her mortgage. I'd like to ask her how that's working out.
Peggy the Moocher
"If I help him he's gonna help me"
FROM THE NANNY STATE TO THE BULLY STATE: “The Bully State will be this decade’s ‘bad cop’ to the Nanny State’s ‘good cop’ of past decades.”
UPDATE: Bill Whittle on Free Will and Destiny.
HAD ENOUGH? As I have argued now for months – first, in August, here; then, in November, here and here; and, more recently, here, here, and here – a genuine political realignment may be in the offing. This has happened at irregular intervals in our nation’s past – most notably, in 1800, 1828, 1860, and 1932 – and on each occasion the political party benefiting from the upheaval was able to paint a plausible picture depicting their opponents as being parties to a conspiracy to overthrow the liberties possessed by their fellow Americans.
UPDATE: Moe Lane: Things We Were Told We Couldn’t Do.
THE L.A. TIMES LOOKS AT NOVEMBER: “Victims of the ‘he-cession’ are turning against the Democrats...
March 22, 2010 01:11 AM by Michelle Malkin
In January, I blogged about the first line of defense against Demcare by the states: Opt-out initiatives.
The backlash continued over the last several weeks with state attorneys general signaling plans to sue the feds. Idaho’s governor signed an order last week.
Tomorrow, several AGs will unveil their official efforts:
Writing for the Telegraph, Gerald Warner argues that President Obama could face impeachment:
The nasty car crash that is Obamacare is dragging down Barack Obama’s presidency. The cancellation of his visit to Indonesia and Australia to stay at home offering pork-barrel enticements to doubtful House Democrats is the kind of desperate expedient we expect from Third World dictators...
Since the Democrats last night offered anecdote-after-anecdote in order to justify the passage of Obamacare, I guess anecdotes are now completely fair entries into the debate. Let me offer two of them.
A friend of mine listened to the healthcare vote while driving home from a hospital, where he’d spent the day with his 80 year-old father.
His father is a robust man, fully in his wits, who only retired “for good” about six months ago. He had retired from his job as a line man and became bored after a few years of retirement (“how many times can I clean out the gutters and fix the boat engine?”) so he had become a part-time flag man -the guy who flags traffic as roads are repaired- for about a decade.
Over the winter my friend’s father went for a routine physical, during which (and through subsequent testing) it was discovered he had lymphoma, and lung cancer.
The two cancers were not connected -they were two separate events in his body- and so the lymphoma was addressed first. Mr. K. spent the winter going through chemo. This week, the lung cancer and one lobe of his lung was removed, and the doctors feel pretty confident that the pathology report will show additional tissue to be clean.
Mr K., as you might expect, is feeling pretty lousy right now, but he has hope. “In about six to eight weeks, you can do everything you ever did,” the doctors told him. Good news for a man who likes to stay busy.
As my friend was driving home last night, he couldn’t help but think back to the “healthcare townhall” President Obama held, where a woman talked about her 105 year old mother, who was in excellent health thanks to a pacemaker inserted when she was 100 years old by doctors who saw her “joy for life” and ignored her age. The woman wondered if Obamacare was going to be interested in giving her mother the sort of medical attention she currently enjoys, or will she simply be considered “too old,” when the bureaucrats who will now decide how public monies for health care are spent, consider her case.
Obama’s answer was, unsurprising. He said many words -he always does- but not the words “your mom will get the exact same level of care she now enjoys.”
In fact, he ended his remarks with, “…maybe you’re better off not having the surgery, but taking the painkiller.”
Remembering this, my friend wondered: under Obamacare, would his father, at age 80, have been denied chemo and surgery, and simply offered palliative care as he was sent home to die, when he is a man who has the spirit and drive to enjoy many more years, with proper medical care?
A man who worked hard all his life, paid his taxes, played by the rules and served his nation in the military should be able to hope for more, in his old age, than “take the painkiller,” shouldn’t he?
We spent last night at a birthday party, with the debate on in the background, and one SIL told me of a friend whose mother came to the US, from Europe, because she could not get vascular surgery in her country. Over 70, it turns out, was “too old” for such a waste of public money.
“But for goodness sake,” said my SIL, “Mom and Dad both had surgeries in their 70’s; that’s when a lot of people have vascular surgeries, stents, all kinds of procedures…”
Well…maybe not so many, any more.
More:
Another anecdote from Bookworm
Patrick is feeling frustrated
Neo-neocon has more thoughts
The ONLY thing that ObamaCare provides an entitlement to is PAYMENT of money into the system. Actually getting treatment is ENTIRELY up to the government.
You are now a ward of the state. The state owns you and will do with you what it will — you do NOT get treated unless and until government says so. And more times than you will care to hear, it will say you do not get treated. Certainly, all those young and healthy people who will be forced to pay into the system or go to jail are not expected to actually take anything out, the whole plan depends upon them NOT receiving any benefits, it depends entirely on them only paying into it and receiving nothing in return."
If you are reading this, then you are the Resistance.
We’ve cleared our schedules for the next two days and are going to hole up here in Buzzquarters to work nonstop on our strategy to defund the DNC and alienate large Democrat Donors from their support for Leftists in office.
It is our mission in life, as of today, to see to it the Democrat Party is sent to the dust heap of history with the Whigs and other extinct political animals whose time on this Earth came to an end. To thunderous applause in the case of Democrats, in our opinion.
Professor Jacobsen over at LegalInsurrection has a good pep talk up today. You should read it.
Then, you should sit down with a cup of coffee, collect your thoughts, and decide what you want to do going forward.
The MSM will be in full-on masturbatory congratulations mode, heralding the Lightbringer as a golden god sent from the stars who has achieved “something historic and unprecedented” yesterday. This is the same circle-jerk these buffoons have patented since Dr. Utopia announced his run for president in 2007. You should be used to it by now. It will continue until November 2012, at which time it will Sybill itself into the MSM’s next personality: morose sadness and despair, with endless mourning over Dr. Utopia’s defeat.
You have a choice between three things:
(1) Being a depressed little Eeyore like the MSM wants you to be
(2) Completely ignoring politics for the rest of your life and no longer following the news
(3) Finding your niche to fight back against the Left and help bring down the DNC once and for all
We know exactly what we want to do and how we want to do it: we want to focus on cutting off the DNC’s revenue stream, exposing all the bribes and corruption Democrats have engaged in for the last two years, and seeing to it that ACORN, the SEIU, the Race Industry, and other Democrat thugs are eliminated. Permanently.
It’s going to be tough, folks.
It’s going to take sacrifice. Less trips to the movies. Fewer nights out. No more watching DVDs or goofing off.
The Left declared war on America yesterday. America needs to fight back against the Left. They’ve gone too far this time…so far that the DNC itself should not be allowed to exist going forward. The only way to make that happen is to defund them, expose them, and eliminate their thugs and allies.
In short, use Alinsky Methods on the people who invented them.
See how they like it.
_Cooking Alinsky’s Goose: The New Capitalist Cookbook_
Amazon review:
“In just 100 pages, author Charly Gullett takes you on a clearly written, bright,
witty, and, most of all, USEFUL tour of the tips, tricks, and tactics that have
resulted in a socialist America that is about to become unrecognizable.
Gullett believes that the time now has come to borrow the clever,
successful RULES of the socialist Saul Alinsky … and use them to save
and reconstruct our imperiled capitalism. What is good for the goose,
indeed, is good for the gander.
While I do not agree with some of the tactics the author describes, I found
Gullet’s cookbook a fast and easy read, and it just might get YOU off the couch
in time to save your country, your job, your wealth, your family, your guns, and
YOURSELF from the socialist sock puppets.
Below is a snippet from pages 49-50. This will give you just a taste of what Gullet
sees that has gone wrong, and what Americans might want to do about it:
“…What has transpired with Governor Sarah Palin is right out of Alinsky’s
`Rules for Radicals.’ To date she has been challenged by over 20 ethics charges,
many of which were thrown out as ridiculous. Five of the continuing saga of filings
have been charged by the same person who has clearly figured out how the process
works, understands both the emotional and financial impact to Governor Palin,
the State of Alaska and the Republican party. Palin announced…that the one-half
million dollars in attorney fees has decimated her family and has served to provide
a psychotic left-wing media with regular headlines. In Alinsky terms, the Alaska Ethics
Manual was the rule book, the target was identified as Palin, the issue was frozen
(each time a different ethic complaint was filed), Palin was personalized as the only
responsible party, and the media has dutifully polarized the issue.
“The entire premise of this book [`Cooking Alinsky's Goose'] is that we do the same
thing back at them, using exactly the same tactics, achieving the same well-proven
results. Imagine the stink if Speaker Nancy Pelosi was suddenly faced with 10,000
ethics charge violations. Impossible? Not really. Consider that one motivated person
with a home computer in Alaska created 25% of all the time, millions of dollars of
money and effort to answer Governor Palin’s ethics charges ….
“… What are we doing? Why aren’t we locating the ethics violation rule book on the
web sites in our home states and the federal government and filing charges against
all the idiots that have tanked the economy, taxed our children, and titillated the
welfare addicts into voting a totalitarian endgame into the White House?”
Gullett’s message is scary, succinct and urgent: Only YOU can get yourself up off
the couch, and YOU better get busy before they stop by YOUR house and take YOUR
couch to give to someone who they say “needs” it more than you do. “
King Obama and Queen Nancy just raped us. Now the Democrat party is going to feel it.
Hell hath no fury.
interesting article from Canadian Free Press:
Billionaires for Big Government
What’s Next for George Soros’s Democracy Alliance?
By Capital Research Center: Matthew Vadum & James Dellinger Thursday, January 10, 2008
Summary: Just three years ago the Democratic Party was in disarray. Despite record high-dollar donations from affluent supporters, Democrats had failed to reclaim the White House and Congress. Shell-shocked by their defeat, George Soros and other wealthy liberals formed a loose-knit group to consider how to fund a political comeback.
Their answer: Create a permanent political infrastructure of nonprofits, think tanks, media outlets, leadership schools, and activist groups—a kind of “vast left-wing conspiracy” to compete with the conservative movement. The group they created–called the Democracy Alliance (DA)— is meant to be a financial clearinghouse. The Alliance got off to a rocky start, but to date it’s brokered more than $100 million in grants to liberal nonprofits. The goal is not merely to elect Democrats this November, but to permanently realign U.S. politics
The rest of the article, including partners as of 2008: http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/1297
Hey everyone…I hope this list gets some ‘looks’…as it is buried at the end of a wonderfully long thread…
But I found this over at Free Republic…a nice compilation of those running against the Dems who sold out:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2476912/posts?page=301#301
I’m starting a list of Democrat yes voters and their challengers. Please pass it around and let me know of additions. Thanks.
MI-1 Bart Stupaks opponent, Daniel Benishek, http://www.benishekforcongress.net
OH-1 Steve Driehaus’ opponent, Steve, http://www.stevechabot.com/
OH-15 Mary Jo Kilroy’s opponent, Steve Stivers, http://www.stivers4congress.com/
OH-16 John Boccieri’s opponent, Jim Renacci, http://www.renacciforcongress.com/
PA-11 Paul Kanjorski’s opponents, Chris Paige, http://www.chrispaigeforcongress.com or Lou Barletta (Hazleton mayor), http://loubarletta.com/
Kanjorski is also facing a primary challenge from Corey O’Brien, http://www.obrien2010.com/
The State of Florida joined nine other states today to file a lawsit against the democrat’s rationed health care system.
Reuters reported:
“The health care reform legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last night clearly violates the U.S. Constitution and infringes on each state’s sovereignty,” Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum, a Republican, said in a prepared statement announcing a news conference.
“On behalf of the State of Florida and of the Attorneys General from South Carolina, Nebraska, Texas, Utah, Pennsylvania, Washington, North Dakota, South Dakota and Alabama if the President signs this bill into law, we will file a lawsuit to protect the rights and the interests of American citizens.”
The Change You’ve Been Looking For…
Al Sharpton told Geraldo Rivera last night (you probably had already switched the channel and missed this) that,
“Americans overwhelmingly voted for socialism when they elected Barack Obama.”
Via NewsBusters:
“First of all, then we have to say the American public overwhelmingly voted for socialism when they elected President Obama,” Sharpton said. “Let’s not act as though the president didn’t tell the American people – the president offered the American people health reform when he ran. He was overwhelmingly elected running on that and he has delivered what he promised.”
This is another example that every once in a while, a democrat forgets his talking points and speaks the truth.
Barack Obama explained it this way last night– “This is what Change looks like.”
Already Republicans plan on introducing a bill this week to repeal last night's historic healthcare vote.
Obviously that's going nowhere.
But looking out, Republicans will probably try to run on repeal in the runup until November. It's possible that will play okay at the ballot (we don't know) but anyone who thinks this is a realistic prospect is smoking something illegal.
First of all, to repeal the vote would be just as difficult legislatively as passing healthcare was, so just think of how hard that was. Republicans would need 60 pro-repeal votes in the Senate to defeat a Democratic filibuster. And remember, they'd need a President who wouldn't veto the bill (i.e. not Obama or any Democrat).
But even that's putting too fine a point on it. Here's the real story, and it gets down to the fact that this new bureaucratic superstructure is now permanently ossified into our federal government.
[snip]
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Health Overhaul: Sunday's vote exposed the ugly truth that ObamaCare is not really about health care at all. It's all about who pays for it and who controls it — in effect a massive wealth-redistribution scheme.
Those who believe this will lead to some medical nirvana will likely be disappointed. Fact is, this poorly designed monstrosity will lead to lower-quality care, higher costs, fewer practicing physicians, higher taxes and fewer jobs.
We've done more than 150 editorials in the past year or so documenting these problems. Democrats surely understand them. Yet, despite a recent CNN poll showing that 59% of Americans oppose ObamaCare, Congress approved it anyway.
Why? Because it's not really about health care. It's the largest wealth grab in American history, masquerading as health care "reform," another step in the socialization of Americans' income in the name of "fairness" and "spread(ing) the wealth around," as Obama himself has put it.
That's why we call the program a lie.
The idea behind all this, simply put, is control. This is a vast expansion of government that will require as much as $3 trillion in added spending over a decade. All claims of deficit neutrality are a joke.
(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...
With the passage of the legislation letting the federal government take control of the country's medical care system, a major turning point has been reached in the dismantling of America's values and institutions.
Even the massive transfer of crucial decisions from millions of doctors and patients to Washington bureaucrats and advisory panels — as momentous as that is — does not measure the full impact of this largely unread and certainly unscrutinized legislation.
If the current legislation does not entail the transmission of all our individual medical records to Washington, it will take only an administrative regulation or, at most, an executive order of the president to do that.
Our New Masters
With politicians now having access to our most confidential records and having the power of granting or withholding medical care needed to sustain ourselves or our loved ones, how many people will be bold enough to criticize our public servants, who will in fact have become our public masters?
Despite whatever "firewalls" or "lockboxes" there may be to shield our medical records from prying political eyes, nothing is as inevitable as leaks in Washington. Does anyone still remember the hundreds of confidential FBI files that were "accidentally" delivered to the White House during Bill Clinton's administration?
(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...
I just wanted to take a moment to congratulate all of the Obama Kool-Aid drinkers for a job well done. You wanted “Change” and you got it. With the passage of this bureaucratic escalating, power grab that you call national health care we are now well on our way to becoming a Third World country, nice, very nice.
(Excerpt) Read more at crosshairs.archangelsandwitticism.com ...
It was disgusting.
I can not understand for the life of me why these wetbacks want amnesty in a country that they obviously hate. Many of them aren’t carrying American flags, but are carrying Mexican flags."
In my article from Sept 2009 titled Why Government Health Care Will Pass - IT IS A GIVEN. HERE'S WHY (vanity) I predicted it would be rammed down our throats regardless of any campaign ramifications. The reason is they win by passing it, and have now won entirely. Let me go onto to tell you what is now going to happen. They are outplaying you (or rather the republican's it's .. well, frankly, embarrasing)
1) The new health bill can never be, nor ever will it be repealed, it will be the law of the land.
2) All the state lawsuits against it will come to nothing.
3) Within a matter of a few weeks Healthcare will fall off the radar and Amnesty will be front and center, and it too will pass, and they will then have healthcare being legal citizens.
4) There will be 20 to 30 million more very energized voters in the Democratic camp hungry to keep them in power and ensure they maintain thier free health care (paid for by hard working Americans). This will take the pain out of any backlash in the upcoming elections. The Republicans and Tea Partiers will tear each other apart like fools fighting in a burning house, but they can do nothing else, the RNC is on the other team.
Like me playing my 8 year old son in game of chess, the opposition will be picked apart. My son and daughter were playing each other and my son won a few times, he came in bragging he was going to mop the floor with me, he managed to take only a single pawn and he was in checkmate, stunned.
The republicans think the fight is on, however, the democrats are looking 4 to 5 moves down the road, health care won't even be in the news in a month or so, it will be a given that it's the law of the land as the Amnesty debate rages on (allowing the MSM to ingore all opposition and voices to the Health Care bill).
Check and Mate.
- Scythian out. Back into retirement, will repost when this all comes to pass.
maybe your tagline lights ought to be on the decline again.
Yeah, I've considered it.
"All across America
the lights are being extinguished
We shall not see them
relit in our lifetime..."
On that other hand, I'm sensing a bigger pushback than 1994... will it last through November?
Beats me- the collective America was duped in to electing The Chicago Ward Heeler...
Then again,
"Fool me once, a curse on you
Fool me twice, a curse on me!"
We'll see...
POLL: 59% of Americans oppose ObamaCare. Doug Mataconis comments: “This is pretty extraordinary. I don’t think there has ever been a time in American history when such an unpopular piece of legislation has become law by such a narrow, and completely partisan margin. The political consequences could be very interesting.”
UPDATE: I guess you’d have to count Jane Hamsher among the disapproving 59%.
CONGRESS’S APPROVAL RATING: IN THE TANK:
A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released today found that 59 percent of Americans surveyed opposed the Obamacare. 39 percent favored it.
Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s favorability rating is at 11%.
(CBS)
Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid’s favorablity rating is at 8%.
And, for the first time, a CNN poll has found that a majority of Americans disapprove of socialist President Obama’s job performance.
Exempted From ObamaCare: Senior Staff Who Wrote The Bill.
DANA LOESCH: Now it’s our turn.
Last night the Democrat party died as it drove a spear through the torso of the Constitution and passed legislation that the majority of Americans overwhelmingly opposed. Nancy Pelosi sauntered into the capitol surrounded by fellow socialists, carrying the gavel used in 1965 to pass the now-bankrupt Medicare.
All summer long Americans filled town halls, emailed, called, and faxed their lawmakers, and they were forsaken. They were called Nazis, racists, homophobes; they were threatened, beaten, and called stupid because they disagreed with the minority who feels that the government should run our lives. Our lawmakers unofficially stopped representing us last spring.
Last night, our legislators officially broke the contract with America that is the Constitution.
A TALE OF TWO TEA PARTIES: Prof. Chris Kobus writes:
Glenn – people here are ticked off and rather than tucking tail, came out fighting today. First up was a tea party right in front of Gary Peters’ office at noon:
Then another in front of a hospital in Royal Oak where a petition drive was begun to put a ballot proposal together for a Constitutional amendment to exempt Michigan from ObamaCare.
Incidentally and appropriately, signatures are due July 5th – right after independence day.
I think we’ll see more of these.
More here on the desperate effort to smear tea parties as racist. "My brother, flaming liberal that he is, has accused me and our mother of racism for our opposition to all things Obama.
I consider the racism canard to indicate that the other person's argument has no philosophical underpinnings."
IF YOU OPPOSE OBAMACARE, YOU’RE RACIST.
Kinda depressing to think that 59% of Americans are racist. And Jane Hamsher, too?
UPDATE: Related item here.
Plus this: “The Left’s plan for November is to promote exactly this kind of thinking, shaming opponents into staying at home rather than going to the polls to vote the bums out, while fooling proponents that opposition is nothing more than the most atavistic form of prejudice. With every poll showing that far more voters hate Obamacare than love it (with the balance made up of the lukewarm on both sides of the issue), this is the New York Times’s effort to help shift voter intensity — which spells turnout in November — in favor of Obamacare. We suspect the electorate won’t prove so gullible.”
ANOTHER UPDATE: Reader Stephen Clark writes: “So, 59% of Americans are racists? Doesn’t that mean that a whole passel of racists voted for Obama – not just poor Ms. Hamsher? Man, talk about confused!” Yeah, as Obama has noted, he was black before he was elected, too. . .
REIHAN SALAM: PREPARED FOR FAILURE. “The Democrats already have their excuse ready when their health-care reform falls short. The solution, of course, will involve more spending.”
Reader C.J. Burch writes: “All the really professional con jobs work this way.”
JOHN HINDERAKER offers us some Alcee Hastings history. “We are being ruled by people who should be behind bars.”
UPDATE: Reader Kevin Greene emails: “As long as you’re waltzing down memory lane, how about some Robert Byrd history, courtesy of Tony Snow?”
SO AT THE GYM THIS MORNING, a trainer who said she’s never given money to the Republicans before told me she gave $40 to the Fire Pelosi site and then joined the Knoxville Tea Party. How common that reaction is will determine how things go — will people get mad, or give up?
Mark Steyn:
I try to be a sunny the-glass-is-one-sixteenth-full kinda guy, but it's hard to overestimate the magnitude of what the Democrats have accomplished....
Mathew Vadum:
America suffered an atrocity of catastrophic proportions last night and it’s not clear if the nation will ever recover.
David Horowitz:
The President was right about one thing. The vote on Obamacare tonight was a historic one. The Democratic Party has...revealed itself to be an anti-democratic Party and an anti-liberty party. It is a party that has demonstrated its contempt for the Constitutional framework, for the democratic process, and for the expressed will of the American people. Its brazen contempt for the compact that holds the diverse factions of this country together has initiated a political war at home that will extend not only into the next elections but into the next generations....The people of this nation are still sovereign, and their voice will be heard. Tonight’s vote was lost but it is not the end of the battle. It is the beginning.
From the "Idaho Health Freedom Act", passed last week:
The power to require or regulate a person’s choice in the mode of securing health care services, or to impose a penalty related thereto, is not found in the Constitution of the United States of America, and is therefore a power reserved to the people pursuant to the Ninth Amendment, and to the several states pursuant to the Tenth Amendment. The state of Idaho hereby exercises its sovereign power to declare the public policy of the state of Idaho regarding the right of all persons residing in the state of Idaho in choosing the mode of securing health care services.
It is hereby declared that the public policy of the state of Idaho, consistent with our constitutionally recognized and inalienable rights of liberty, is that every person within the state of Idaho is and shall be free to choose or decline to choose any mode of securing health care services without penalty or threat of penalty.
The thread is open for your comments, quotes, links, etc.
From the former Democrat supporters at HillBuzz:
"The Democrat Party is a Leftist party only now."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/05/AR2009110504327.html
"Obamacare's nasty surprise
Fewer insured, higher costs "
Posted by Darleen @ 12:32 am
Comments (5)
As a business owner with 28 employees, I've had much to contemplate after the passage of the "historic" bill. I cannot possibly provide health insurance to my workers as my payroll exceeds 55 percent of total revenue. I consulted with my crew leaders and have given them the choice of a 12 percent pay cut or we must eventually release three men. Our $1.2 million payroll translates to around $100,000 in annual penalties added to our tax burden because we cannot afford to provide health insurance. We have decided to proceed with firing three men and will do so within the next few months. We will take shortcuts on the service for our customers to somehow make up for their loss. Our business will survive this setback. I'm sure the three men who will lose their jobs as a direct result of this bill will be comforted in knowing they now have health insurance.
How did we get here? Bottom line is that we are a generation of trust funders. Apologies for the self promo, but I managed to get cross posted on Flopping Aces last November on that final question:
http://www.floppingaces.net/2009/12/01/how-a-mix-of-70s-music-helped-me-appreciate-where-we-are-today-as-a-society-reader-post/11. Subotai Bahadur:
To expect truth in argument from the Democrats, or in evaluating the results of the nationalization of our health care, is fantasy. The Democrats in general and the Obama regime in particular regard the entire concept of truth as a “bourgeois construct” that has no meaning compared to their revolutionary ideals. Keep in mind that the statistics we get about the economy are jiggered with horrendously as a matter of course. If they cannot gloss them, they are always “unexpected”. If they can gloss them, they make no contact with reality AND are always revised for the worse as soon as attention is elsewhere. As far as Frum is concerned, he, David Brooks, and Peggy Noonan, et. al. are nothing more than the modern equivalent of “Lord Haw Haw” or “Tokyo Rose”. They are actively working for the enemy, which explains what they say. Rush Limbaugh’s Opening Monologue: “America Hangs By a Thread” “We need to defeat these bastards. We need to wipe them out. We need to chase them out of town.” Click on Photo For Video– The focus has to be on defeating Democrats in November in these mid term election, we have the people, we have the intellectual arguments, we have the common sense arguments, we have history but they won yesterday, they won because they held Congress and the Presidency, therein lies the lesson, we have to defeat these bastards, we need to wipe them out, we need to chase them out of town” The whole transcript is here. Sojourner, what you asked is exactly what they’re doing over at HillBuzz. Prisoner #0000001 in the re-education camp...
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/03/22/assassination-tweets-accompany-health-care-push/#ixzz0iw7xiquW Here’s the guy that twittered (tweeted?) death threats to d’ohbama: http://gawker.com/5498712/meet-the-obama-death-tweeter-who-will-be-arrested-today Earlier today you met Solly Forrell, the conservative blogger now under investigation by the Secret Service for threatening Obama on Twitter. Well, here's another Twitter user helping to keep the Secret Service busy with his own death threats. Comin' soon- To Obozo's Mo-Merica: The Packard Motor Company was a luxury automobile company founded in 1899. It was the first large automobile plant in Detroit consisting of 74 buildings, and 3.5 million square feet. Stretching over half a mile this mammoth factory produced luxury cars that carried Presidents, and engines that carried American aircraft in WWI and WWII. They produced every engine used in American PT boats.
Sadly, like so many structures in Metro Detroit the building has outlived the company.The last car rolled off the assembly line in 1958. For over 50 years this magnificent structure designed by famed architect, Albert Kahn has been standing alone, slowly succumbing to the scrappers, graffiti artists, vandals, and mother nature. All around there is this vast…..nothingness. Boarded up and bombed out houses as far as the eye can see. People occasionally walking by with shopping carts or on bicycles. Or standing like zombies. Homeless men standing near barrels with stuff burning to keep them warm. Guys standing on street corners always watchful. Watching us as we drive by. Looking out for who knows what. There is a strange odd quietness to the area, right in the center of a large ( formerly ) vibrant urban space. It’s as if you came after some nuclear war or terrible disease. All that remains are the buildings and the stragglers of humanity… and the explorers. We encircled the perimeter once ( the whole complex is about 1 mile all the way around ) looking for any open business where we could park the car. We found none. Eventually we just decided to park next to part of the building with an obvious gaping hole. I kissed the Jeep goodbye as I got out. Checked my pack : Flashlight, pepper spray, camera, battery, sim card. Check. In we went. Please photoshop this into an indelible image that will forever capture the insanity of what Red Queen Nancy did yesterday. We think this picture of Nancy Pelosi laughing so gleefully as she marches across the Capitol grounds with a hodge podge of other assembled fools will come back to haunt her, and Democrats in general, in the days, weeks, and months ahead. This picture is a big “F.U. to the American people”. Monday, March 22, 2010, 4:01 PM
Jim Hoft
Rush Limbaugh:
It is a must read.
Blogger Solomon Forell, proprietor of the blogs “Barack Obama Was An American Electorate Mistake,” “Anybody But Barack Obama 2012,” and “The Audacity of Hype,” tweeted Saturday, “ASSASSINATION! America, we survived the assassinations of Lincoln and Kennedy. We’ll surely get over 2 BarackObama’s head!” Later on Saturday, Forell tweeted, “The next American with a clear shot should drop Obama like a bad habit. 4get blacks or his claim 2 b black. Turn on BarackObama!”
Urbex, by Doppelganger
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Filed under Art, Guest Post, Open thread at March 22nd, 2010 - 1:30 pm
Blogmocracy in Action!
Guest post by: Doppelganger!
Detroit 1912 : A happier Time. A Happier Place
read more ›We really think this picture is going to come back to haunt Red Queen Nancy in a big way
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"Without question Decarlo Flythe is the kind of moronic parasite that the Permanent Government democrats hope to convert 55% of the population into. "
YouTube - Free Obama Money -- Skip to 30 second point.
"Obama Money. He got it from his stash to hep us."
Well, it’s time for a new bumper sticker: “Honk if I’m Paying for your Health Care” A hammer and sickle over Zero’s stupid symbol would be a fun extra too.
Well, they've already admitted that they make up the law as they go. They can make anything "legal." We just basically live in Uganda now, and some day soon, the national language is going to be a series of pops and clicks.
Yes- next fool question?
Yes, he is...to quote mine own evil sef', here:
9,520 posted on Wednesday, November 05, 2008 12:00:00 AM
You know there were warning signs...
I kept telling people when Bill Clinton slithered in to office, and clung to it, despite all the scandals, and Impeachment itself-- “He's just a symptom. Like a fever is of a disease- there's something wrong with America.”
Like Popular Culture- look at the magazines-- I call it “thugs & jugs,” or “which Pop Tart is popping out whose baby this week?”
Or Katrina- ever seen so many people milling around with their hands out, when they should have been helping themselves?
We did it to ourselves, and The New, Improved Black Jesus is merely a symptom.
All civilizations have a shelf life- once enough citizens figure out that by electing the “right” representatives, they can use the power of the government to pick the pockets of others,
...it's all over, except for the details.
Well, we're in the “details,” now.
Meanwhile, I have to figure out what Miss Emily and I do with what's left of our lives, and bush hog her Mom's old place in the country, because City Life isn't going to be worth living from here on out.
I'll catch you all later...
...maybe...
Remember Obama's 'civilian national security force'
"Obama's New Health Care Army - The IRS"
House Ways & Means Committee minority staff estimates up to 16,500 new IRS personnel will be needed to collect, examine and audit new tax information mandated on families and small businesses.
Among the new powers the IRS would assume, the report says: The authority to confiscate tax refunds, to impose fines of over $2,200 per taxpayer, and to verify whether taxpayers' health insurance coverage is "acceptable."
(Excerpt) Read more at atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com ...
Washington's new power couple, with supervillain chaperone
What is George Soros doing there?
So the ‘fire nancy pelosi’ money bomb made great progress yesterday. I like their fun map of states who have donated the most – populous states, but also states fired up.
http://www.firenancypelosi.com/
While the reality of this hideous healthcare/student loan takeover law is really just sinking in past my total rejection of it – also do you *realize* the endless campaign ads this gives the Reps?
Another O/T: saw this on Redstate … its about getting involved with your local precinct … It’s for R’s, but I’m sure they would welcome former D’s and I’s. This is what Palin was talking about in getting involved … we can run better candidates in the primaries who will have the guts to repeal all the crap being passed.
http://theprecinctproject.wordpress.com/
The Neighborhood Precinct Committeeman Strategy, outlined below, entails a tried-and-true, peaceful, Constitutional, ballot box solution to our present political predicament. The procedures and system for this solution have been in existence for decades. Obama used them.
Do Not Waste Your Time.
If you think you already have the solution for stopping the Democrats’ headlong rush to destroy our country, I don’t want to waste your time. Stop reading.
Stop wasting your time and do not read any further if you will not go to a Republican Party meeting or walk a precinct on behalf of a candidate. If the future of your country is worth a few hours a month outside your comfort zone, read on.
Just one or two generations ago, our forefathers all knew their precinct committeemen. My dad did (I’m 53 and I remember, when I was knee-high to a howitzer, the Kennedy-Nixon contest – my dad was, alas, a Kennedy guy. But I still adored my dad. He was my “main hero.”) My dad was a precinct committeeman.
Obama Used The Neighborhood Precinct Committeeman Strategy To Defeat Billary.
Need more recent evidence that the Neighborhood Precinct Committeeman Strategy can work? Obama and his minions used this Neighborhood Precinct Committeeman Strategy to defeat Hillary and Bill Clinton and the Democrat Party establishment in the Democrat Party presidential primaries. Obama and his backers came out of nowhere to defeat the complacent “powers that be” of the Democrat Party. You don’t have to believe me – see the evidence with your own eyes. Search YouTube using the search words obama precinct captain. That search will bring back many videos of brand new Democrat Party precinct committeemen (also referred to in some states as precinct captains) explaining how they were recruited into the Democrat Party’s precinct committeeman ranks and how important their efforts will be for Obama to win the nomination.
This strategy has already worked in 2009 in Nevada and Minnesota. And Utah grass roots conservatives have united there to INVADE the Republican Party to vote in the upcoming 2009 Party primary elections at the GOP state convention.
Obama and those who write the speeches for his Teleprompter now want to further solidify their power through ACORN and by taking over the Census. All the more reason for conservatives to implement the Neighborhood Precinct Committeeman Strategy in the Republican Party.
We need more than feel-good Tea Parties. Do not get me wrong; the Tea Parties are great for networking and for physically demonstrating our numbers and wrath to the existing officeholders. The April 15, 2008 Tea Parties affected Obama and his minions. They first tried to ignore them. After the Tea Parties received media coverage, Obama and those who write his teleprompter scripts started to bad-mouth them. Obama’s friends in the mainstream media ridiculed the Tea Partiers. But, we need more than rallies and choir-preaching on internet blogs and web sites. Let’s face it – no Tea Party on April 15, 2008, had the numbers that Obama had at many of his rallies. Not one of those Tea Parties would have even filled up half of a Major League ball park. Those are the facts. With Twitter and Facebook, etc., those numbers increased, as we saw on 9.12.2009 in Washington, DC and around the country. But, here’s the bottom line: unless those Tea Parties translate into election victories in 2010, they are worthless.
A Few Hours A Month Is All It Takes — And It’s Easy.
Rather than spending a few hours at a Tea Party, do YOU have a couple of hours a month to spend on a weeknight and, perhaps, on a Saturday, to take our country back? Is your, and your children’s, liberty not worth at least that?
Don’t Have A Few Hours A Month? Stop Reading.
Where do the candidates on our primary ballots come from? An estimated 95 per cent of the candidates of the Republican and Democrat parties who win the primary election are those who are endorsed by the leadership of those parties.
Do You Know Who Elects The Party Leaders? Did You Elect Them?
Who elects the leadership of the parties? Do you know? Are you a registered Republican? Guess what? As a “mere” registered Republican voter, without more, you DID NOT have a vote in the election of the present leadership of the Republican Party. Sorry, but those are the facts.
ONLY elected precinct committeemen get to vote for the leadership of the Party. Do I yet have your attention? Ponder the fact that ONLY elected precinct committeemen get to elect the Party leadership. Don’t you want to have a vote in those elections?
About 3,141 counties exist in the United States. Each has a county party organization. And, those county organizations almost always endorse candidates in the party primaries. And, usually, those party-endorsed candidates win. Tired of the kind of Repubican In Name Only Republicans who are winning the primaries? Then DO SOMETHING REAL and become a Republican Party precinct committeeman! Guess what? About half of the Republican Party precinct committeeman slots, nationwide, are unfilled!
Do I yet have your attention? Has the light bulb above your head clicked on yet? In some counties, like the one where I reside, Maricopa County, Arizona, within which Phoenix sits, TWO-THIRDS of the precinct committeeman slots in the Republican Party sat unfilled on Election Day, 2008. Well, it’s now January, 2010, and we’re now at 53 per cent strength instead of where we were a year ago, 31 per cent.
Spend a few moments and picture this in your mind’s eye: thousands of conservatives flock to the Republican Party and join it as precinct committeemen. And, in the next internal party elections, these conservatives (you, me and others) elect NEW, CONSERVATIVE leadership. (Or, instead, these same conservatives (me, excepted) sit behind their computer screens and put first on their priority list, instead of second, writing that next, great blog post that is going to, somehow, save the republic.)
Exit your mind’s eye. Back to reality. The Neighborhood Precinct Committeeman Strategy CAN work. Now. I have seen it work first hand. Click on the Nevada and Utah links here for more proof. I was, just by chance, part of achieving this kind of outcome in my legislative district in the 2008 internal party elections. Somewhat by design, somewhat by chance (I was one of those “newbies” who just, by chance, came into the Party PC ranks), conservatives, in my legislative district, defeated the old-guard, moderate Republican candidates by electing conservatives to the leadership positions. Same thing happened at the county and state levels. (Don’t know what a legislative district is? Hang in there – an explanation follows.) But the margins were razor-thin. And since then, we just elected 5 conservatives to the county Executive Guidance Council five “at large” positions. With all the new conservative precinct committeemen we recruited, those 5 won over 80 per cent of the vote on the first ballot. One long-tiime John McCain moderate got less than six per cent of the vote. The conservatives won because about a thousand conservatives left their keyboards for a couple of hours each month and got into the REAL political ball game. So, I and others continue to try to recruit more conservatives into the precinct committeeman ranks. We try to get people off the sidelines and into the ACTUAL, REAL ball game. The rough-and-tumble hard work of actually showing up – God forbid – at a Republican Party legislative district meeting once a month. Instead of typing away to the conservative choir on the internet. Egads! Oh, the misery! For example, on July 4th, 2009, I attended two Tea Parties in an attempt, with posters and flyers and conversation, to recruit conservatives into the Republican Party precinct committeeman ranks. Several other PCs, at my urging, committed to do the same and helped me.
Every state is divided up into legislative districts from which your state assembly and senate candidates are elected. Each legislative district is divided up into precincts. Precincts generally, in a city, are about the size of five or ten city blocks, depending upon the population density of the city. (My precinct, in suburban Tempe, Arizona, is about a half mile on each side.) Each precinct is allowed a number of precinct committeemen. For example, in Arizona, each party is allowed one precinct committeeman, plus an additional one for each 125 registered voters of that party as of March 1 of the general election year. (My precinct is allowed to have 8 precinct committeemen, and three of the slots are vacant – I’m working on filling those vacant slots with conservatives.) Arizona has over 2,239 precincts, with 1,142 in Maricopa County. Two thirds of the 6,231 Republican Party precinct committeeman slots in Maricopa County currently were unfillied on Election Day, 2008. Not any more. Were over half strength now.
So, What Does One Have To Do To Become A Precinct Committeeman?
The requirements vary from state to state, but Arizona is typical. One has to get 10 registered Republican or independent voters from their precinct to sign a nomination form requesting that their name be placed on the primary ballot. (In Ohio, for example, one needs only 5 signatures.) Most precinct committeemen run unopposed. I was able to get my ten signatures in fewer than three hours on a Saturday. As suggested by the existing PCs, I got five extra signatures just to be safe (people move!). Before gathering your signatures, the Party will give you a computer print out showing where all the voters in your precinct live. And how often they voted in the last four elections. You go to the homes of those voters who ALWAYS vote. They will be happy to sign your nomination papers. It’s fun. I took my impressionable then-eight year-old boys along. A great, real-life civics lesson.
Because most precinct committeemen run unopposed, most counties, to save money, get the parties to agree that all non-contested precinct committeeman candidates be omitted from the ballot to save printing costs. That’s one reason why most voters don’t know about the office of precinct committeeman. Another reason: public schools no longer teach Civics.
So, what to do? About 200,000 precinct committeemen slots nationwide in the Republican Party are vacant. Hmmm. The NRA has about 4 million members. Think we could get some of them to become Republican Party precinct committeemen? Or Federalist Society members? Or other Constitution-loving folks?
If our existing elected Republican Party leaders will not respect our Constitution, then we must kick them out of office and replace them It’s a pure numbers game. The more Constitution-respecting conservatives join the precinct committeeman ranks, the more Constitution-respecting, and conservative, the leadership will be. And then, that conservative, Constitution-respecting leadership will endorse the candidate in the primary who is most faithful to the Constitution.
Is this all new to you? Why? Think about it. I was taught all of this in Civics in seventh grade in my public school in 1968. (I grew up in a rural county in the Midwest in the Sixties and early Seventies – we learned this stuff and saw its implementation first-hand.) Plus, I had the benefit of having a great dad (an Army veteran of Korean War vintage), who was a city councilman, county board member and county board chairman (among other public offices), and he taught me all of this early in life. My 1968 school class photo shows me wearing a “NIXON NOW” button despite the fact my dad HATED Dick Nixon! We had great political discussions! God, how I miss him (my dad, not Nixon!). And I had a couple of uncles who were involved in party politics. One was a mayor of a small town (he drove a truck from Normandy Beach to Berlin and fought in the Battle of the Bulge), the other a dairy farmer and rural town clerk. Their highest academic degree was a high school diploma. Back when that meant something. They are at the top of my list of heroes.
What Will You DO?
But what about you? Is this new to you? If not, why are you not a precinct committeeman? And if it is new to you, don’t you think you should become one? I do.
Thank you.
I am only one. But I am a conservative Republican precinct committeeman. And trying to recruit more.
American first, conservative second, Republican precinct committeeman BY NECESSITY!
“Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.” (Northwest Ordinance of 1787, Art. 3, http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/nworder.asp.)
“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked: Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.” (President George Washington’s Farewell Address to the Nation, 1796, http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/washing.asp.)
“The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.” (President George Washington’s Farewell Address to the Nation, 1796, http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/washing.asp.)
Two short video clips about THE SOLUTION — participation by conservatives WITHIN the Republican Party as voting members of it — as precinct committeemen:
READ IT ALL, dammit!
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SMEARING THE TEA PARTIES: Dana Loesch responds on O’Reilly. And, yes, that’s a “Public Enemy” t-shirt she’s wearing. And yes, O’Reilly was fairly clueless.
Video here- scroll down: http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/
UPDATE: Related thoughts from Roger Pilon at CATO:
One hesitates to weigh in on this mud-slinging for fear of getting muddy oneself. But neither should commentary on Republican and tea-party reaction to Sunday’s House vote be left to the suddenly self-righteous Democratic left: After all, it’s their appalling disregard for democratic principles and processes that gave rise to the weekend’s demonstrations and outbursts. So a few points are in order, simply to put things in perspective.
First, let’s not leap to factual conclusions. Last evening the Lehrer News Hour reported (along with Politico this morning) that Rep. Randy Neugebauer shouted “baby killer” as Rep. Bart Stupak was speaking Sunday night. Yet NPR reported that Neugebauer actually shouted “It’s a baby killer” — referring to the bill, not to Stupak. Neither version is acceptable, but there is a difference. Likewise, claims about protesters taunts should be treated cautiously as well, especially since they’ve been denied, and as yet no footage has emerged to support them. Yet we see here at the Arena this morning that Harvard’s Theda Skocpol is writing, without a shred of evidence, that ”Quite a few Republican public officials are even flirting with threats of violence against political figures they oppose.” So let’s not pretend that the right has a corner on irresponsibility.
Second, even if the claims about protester’s taunts prove to be true, how is that a warrant for condemning the entire tea-party movement, or the Republican party, as many on the left are doing? No broad political movement can control its every “member.” Yet we find people like House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn saying that GOP leaders “ought to be ashamed of themselves for bringing these people here to Washington.” Perhaps Rep. Clyburn has forgotten that we still have the right to protest. That’s what the first tea party was about. And let’s remember that George Washington had to wade into the “mob” from time to time to keep order.
And that brings me to a final point. The symbolism of the Democratic left’s hostility to the “tea baggers” should not go unnoticed. The tea party movement’s roots are in the American Revolution. These ordinary Americans are protesting the Washington ”Establishment” — which presently is the Democratic juggernaut – much as American Patriots were protesting the oppressive British Establishment that was “eating out their substance” with “a long train of abuses and usurpations.” The Democratic left should think long and hard about those parallels. The times they are a-changin’.
I should also note — as Dana points out above — that when goons, wearing SEIU t-shirts even, beat up Ken Gladney and called him a “nigger” the press wasn’t interested at all despite the presence of video, and charges filed, while it’s been happy to run with a story about tea partiers that the video contradicts. So the whole have-you-no-decency routine here seems kinda contrived and desperate.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Members of Congress playing the race card. “These people are very powerful members of Congress. It’s unbecoming to act like you’re some woebegone victim.”
MORE: Further thoughts at Power Line.
STILL MORE: Ed Frank emails:
I’ve seen your coverage of the “racial slur” charges on the Hill last weekend, and I know there’s no way to prove a negative, but the video posted on Instapundit seems to show Congressman Jesse Jackson filming the crowd with two Flip video cameras as he and his colleagues walk toward the Cannon Building. Since he apparently walked the entire way with those cameras rolling, at least one of them presumably would have picked up any racial slurs that were uttered along the way. Interestingly, I don’t think Congressman Jackson has released the video he filmed on Saturday – maybe it’s out there, but I can’t find it anywhere. And I’m pretty sure that if there were racial slurs captured on his camera, he would’ve had the clips out there in a heartbeat. In any case, he should probably release whatever footage he shot, just to add some additional transparency to the discussion.
Indeed.
It doesn’t appear to bother Bob Herbert at The New York Times approves when his paper publishes crude offensive sexual jokes about conservative protesters. He didn’t say anything when his comrade called tea party patriots- “teabaggers.”
But, he sure gets steamed about fake racist accusations by the liberal media and Huffington Post.
This is what the radical far left columnist Bob Herbert wrote today:
In Washington on Saturday, opponents of the health care legislation spit on a black congressman and shouted racial slurs at two others, including John Lewis, one of the great heroes of the civil rights movement. Barney Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat who is chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, was taunted because he is gay.
At some point, we have to decide as a country that we just can’t have this: We can’t allow ourselves to remain silent as foaming-at-the-mouth protesters scream the vilest of epithets at members of Congress — epithets that The Times will not allow me to repeat here.
…But The Times will allow him to repeat “teabagger” as many times as he wants.
That’s just perfect.
Of course this story was debunked earlier.
The liberal media reported that tea party protesters shouted racial epithats (the n-word) at black Congressional members as they walked from the Longworth office building to the Rayburn office building on Saturday. One Congressional member even claimed it “was a chorus” of racist hate. But, a video released after the incident debunked these claims. There was no spitting, no shouts of N*gger, and no “chorus” of racist hate.
It was all made up.
The only victims were the tea party patriots who were slandered by the state-run media.
But, apparently Bob Herbert doesn’t care. It would ruin his fake hate story.
More… Dana Loesch spoke with Bill O’Reilly about these exaggerated racist attacks.
So you thought it was hard to find foreign doctors, eh?
"Dennis" nails it (in the comments):
Obamacare contains a critical contradiction that is bound to result in the total collapse of the American health ins. industry. As the Martin Feldstein article in a November Washington Post article points out, if the fines for not buying ins. are set too low, it's financially advantageous to pay them and forgo ins. altogether.
Since the bill prohibits health ins. providers from denying ins. based on pre-existing conditions, it may be cheaper in many instances to wait until you are sick before getting coverage.
This will set in motion a progressive unbalancing of health ins. whereby the pool of healthy people in an ins. scheme becomes swamped by the sick. Premiums must therefore skyrocket. But since Obamacare also promises to slap price controls on health ins. the system is set to become vastly unprofitable. At some point not too far down the road, the whole health care ins. system in the U.S. will utterly fail like Chrysler and GM.
At that point, there will be increasing calls for the outright nationalization of the whole mess, which was Obama's goal all along.
Bingo. "It's going to be like Christmas"
From the CPUSA’s Peoples World (formerly the Daily Worker):
Yet another victory lap from the CPUSA’s Peoples World (formerly the Daily Worker):
From the CPUSA’s Peoples World (formerly the Daily Worker):
They, the CPUSA, the unions and so many of the elements who rammed through ‘healthcare reform’ hate this country.
So what does that tell you about ‘healthcare reform’?
Megan McArdle is willing to bet that there will no improvement in infant mortality or death rates over the next decade beyond those trends which were already established before its enactment. Nor will any of the reductions in bankruptcies nor costs claimed by health care “reform” advocates be observed. McArdle is waiting to see whether anybody will take her up. I think someone should. After all if health care “reform” is an improvement then its benefits should be measurable. If it’s not measurable then its not an improvement. But maybe she’s not broadminded enough.
Those who are reluctant to take up the McArdle bet are offering up another benefit. The President has “saved” his Presidency and shown that he could succeed where Bill Clinton could not. That doesn’t mean they’ll take McArdle’s bet; it only means they’re changing the currency of scorekeeping. They’re bringing history into the picture. Barack Obama has achieved something “historic” and that has a value which transcends mere death rates or dollars and cents. David Frum appears to share McArdle’s doubts about healthcare “reform”’s efficacy while adopting the historical political scorecard. Frum argues that by not playing nice with Obama, the Republicans passed up a chance to mitigate the bill’s worst features.
12. Obama is at The End of This History | Snowflakes in Hell:
[...] The Belmont Club has an excellent post up about this health care bill, and points out: The obvious difference between Roosevelt’s position in 1940 and Obama’s in 2010 was World War 2. That global conflict destroyed practically the entire productive capacity of the industrialized world with the exception of the US. It allowed for an unparalleled economic expansion and was followed by a burgeoning demographic explosion we know as the Baby Boom. Those two factors together made Roosevelt’s entitlements appear to be sustainable. Even Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society 20 years later could still count on riding those two trends. Today’s crisis is largely the result of the final exhaustion of those twin booms. Where FDR found himself at the beginning, Obama finds himself at the end. [...]
18. whiskey:...Meanwhile, a nuclear free America without any real defense is at the mercy of Iran, North Korea, China, Russia, Pakistan, and others. Just as Obama wants it. Obama’s plan is to turn America into Vichy France, with himself as President for Life. Following his idealized father’s African tradition. Obama WANTS a devastating attack so he can force a surrender and make America into Sharia Lite. Ruling forever as America’s Vizier.
Obama’s play is to encourage an attack on the US so he can rule by martial law — while surrendering like Marshal Petain. He also plans to import about 30 million Mexicans and legalize (instant voters) the 20 million here. To make Whites a permanent and sudden racial minority.
Cap and Trade, Amnesty for all those illegals, that’s a pretty much guaranteed deal. Its going to happen in the same way as Health Care...
FIRED UP! READY TO GO!
13 states sued the federal government this morning after President Barack Obama signed his Obamacare bill into law.
The AP reported:
Republican attorneys general from 13 states are suing the federal government to stop the massive health care overhaul, claiming it’s unconstitutional.
The lawsuit was filed immediately after President Barack Obama signed the overhaul bill Tuesday. It names the U.S. departments of Health and Human Services, Treasury and Labor.
Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum is taking the lead in the lawsuit. Attorneys general from South Carolina, Nebraska, Texas, Michigan, Utah, Pennsylvania, Alabama, South Dakota, Louisiana, Idaho, Washington and Colorado are joining in. Other GOP attorneys general may join the lawsuit later or sue separately.
Bretibart has more:
The lawsuit was filed in Pensacola after the Democratic president signed the bill the House passed Sunday night.
“The Constitution nowhere authorizes the United States to mandate, either directly or under threat of penalty, that all citizens and legal residents have qualifying health care coverage,” the lawsuit says.
Yeah, that Barack Obama… He sure is a uniter.
Everyone MUST either (1) buy health insurance or, (2) pay a fine to the government, and the IRS will CONFISCATE that fine from your income tax return or add interest and penalties to your tax bill if you owe taxes. The premium will be deducted from your paycheck if you work for a company, and you will have to add it to your quarterly payments if you run a business or are self-employed…and then there is the 3.8% tax on your investments, capital gains, annuities, etc…. How’s that “Hopey Changey” thing working out for you?
After their recent imposition of a Eugenics based health care reform against the will of the American people, the Progressives are now planning on revisiting Cap-N-Trade. Nevermind the fact that there is no Global Warming and in fact temperatures are cooling, the Left is going after this bill anyway. Assisted by Progressive Republican quisling Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Marxist traitor John Kerry (D-MA) is leading the charge in the Senate. The bill is nothing more than a power grab by the government to impose controls over the economy. This is another step in the Left’s goal of a Neo-Fedual society controlled by Elites.
After a hard-fought victory on health care reform, President Barack Obama’s allies in Congress are setting their sights on climate change — but some on both sides are already crying foul.
Environmentalists hope Obama will seize on new political momentum to push forward climate legislation, though some observers question whether he would seek another divisive vote as November congressional elections approach.
Senator John Kerry, who has spearheaded climate legislation, said that White House officials can now “pour their energy and attention” into the issue after Sunday’s down-to-the-wire vote on expanding health care coverage.
Read the rest: After health, Obama allies zero in on climate
This bill is the ultimate example of how Progressives really believe they are God-like divine beings. Do they really think they can control the weather? Apparently. That is the logic behind the bill, that they can control the climate! This is just another example of the narcissism of the Totalitarian Progressives and their agenda of control.
Update:I am not giving the phony Independent Joe Lieberman (I-CT) a pass here. He’s a Progressive Neo-Wilsonian so he implied also in this post as well. My focus was on the 2 main Culprits, Traitor Kerry and Quisling Lindsey.
(Update Hat Tip: Vagabond Trader)
A quick place to donate to get all 219 out… or to figure out who to target to get pitched out in November, go to:
http://firethe219.blogspot.com/
Awhile back, Krugman loudly insisted that if you ban pre-existing conditions clauses, you also have to mandate insurance. While the new bill has a mandate, it doesn't begin until 2014, and the penalty clause is absurdly small. Here's what passes for "promoting individual responsibility":
Requires most individuals to obtain acceptable health insurance coverage or pay a penalty of $95 for 2014, $325 for 2015, $695 for 2016 (or, up to 2.5 percent of income in 2016), up to a cap of the national average bronze plan premium. Families will pay half the amount for children, up to a cap of up to a cap of $2,250 per family. After 2016, dollar amounts are indexed. If affordable coverage is not available to an individual, they will not be penalized.In practical terms, then, "Heads I win, tails I break even" remains the winning strategy. And as adverse selection drives up the drive of insurance, paying the uninsured penalty until you're seriously ill gets smarter and smarter.
Got that? Avoid getting health insurance and pay the fines. When you get sick, buy health insurance. It's that easy.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
"...did you miss the part where they are going to check your bank accounts every month, and make you send in evidence that you have paid that month’s premium?
What else are all those new IRS agents for, anyway? And, they are going to get sawed off shotguns for them, just in case you get testy when they come to your door."
"The Bully State." That is the perfect term.
Sort of related: Healthy Community Initiatives: A Microcosm of What We're In For
Some pundits have said that Obamacare completes the welfare state project begun back in the Progressive era and by FDR and Johnson. Does that mean there is nothing else they want to do?
Cobb has a message for black male youth. h/t, Vandy. I wonder whether Cobb appreciates that his message is for everybody (he probably does).
Federal efforts on education do not work. Of course not.
Explain to me why anyone would equate racism with being opposed to goverment medical care.
Google vs. China
Guardian admits wind causing Arctic ice loss
Sharpton: “Americans Overwhelmingly Voted For Socialism When They Elected Obama”
British Wind Farms Failing Due to Lack of Wind. I have an idea for all those bird-chopper wind machines: Plug them all into a power source and use them as fans to cool the rapidly baking planet.
No chance that courts will strike down individual mandates. I agree. "Commerce" has come to mean anything.
Repeal is hokum. Sad to say, I agree. Adjustments possible, but repeal will not happen.
Krauthammer has it right:
"We are on our way, there is absolutely no chance we are not going to end up with national health care."
And Krauthammer said our system will soon look like the one in the United Kingdom and in Canada.
"This is nationalizing health care, the insurance companies are now utilities, they are contractors," Krauthammer said. the government makes all of these decisions, only a matter of time and will probably happen after the Obama administration. But he will be remembered as the father of national health care as they have in Canada or Britain and it starts tonight.
Lowry: Dem win is built on sand
Zomblog: The real reasons Americans hate government healthcare
Someone is going to have to send the politicians that tax money (consumer, gasoline, tobacco, property, etc.) to pay for all these new socialist programs, and someone is going to have to send the politicians money to support the new millions of illegals.
Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI), the great conservative thinker and orator, delivered these remarks following the Democratic takeover of the health care industry:
Representative McCotter on the democratic takeover of the health care industry:
“So this is what change looks like? I would remind the president that he is not the leader of a party or ideology. He is the leader of our country, one founded not to humiliate others but to inspire the world. As families lose their jobs, their homes and their dreams for their children; as our troops fight and sacrifice in foreign fields for our liberty and security, President Obama’s obsessive-compulsive pursuit of an abominable government takeover of health care has defied the public’s objections and spoiled this House and further alienated Americans from their representative government. As President Obama’s campaign mantra of hope and change has degenerated into tax and hate…”
Logistics Monster has the full transcript of this excellent speech.
Image credit: Big Fur Hat w/thanks to Applecross Media
President Obama will sign the Demcare House of Cards today. But as I said over the weekend, while the House debate is over, this fight has only just begun.
More states are joining the core group of state attorneys general who are suing over the constitutionality.
The repeal-the-bill-movement is burgeoning.
There’s a Fire the 219 campaign.
Oh, and this:
For the first time, a CNN poll has found that a majority of Americans disapprove of President Obama’s job performance.
According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released Monday, 51 percent of respondents disapprove of Obama’s job performance and 46 percent approve of it.
As Winston Churchill counseled: “In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance…”
Gerald Ford once observed that “a government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.” Not everyone would agree with Ford but what about a weaker form of the statement? “Any government able to redistribute your money is able to tell you what do with it.” Now that the State is in healthcare it is talking about what you can and can’t ask your doctor to do. In detail. Should health care provide money for Viagra? Barbara Boxer makes the argument that if it does then it should also provide money for abortions.
Alright. Viagra is good and maybe abortions are good from Senator Boxer’s vantage. Now what about sex offenders. They’re people too? Shouldn’t Obamacare provide Viagra for sex offenders. After all people who’ve “paid their debt to society” shouldn’t continue to be punished by using health care as a weapon. Believe it or not the issue is being debated in the Senate, because unless sex offenders are specifically excluded, they’ll get Viagra too.
10. It isn’t just delays in getting an appointment with your doctor. Hillbuzz has a thread on job losses as a result of small businesses cutting staff to avoid the penalties imposed by HCR. A number of posters have commented about job cuts that are already happening:
See? You can yell "fire" in a crowded theatre after all!
Via Rightgirl - "...word is coming out of Ottawa that the Coulter event had to be canceled because volunteers were attacked by "anti-racists".
Details at the Ottawa Sun. Update: It's just hit Drudge, making this in all probability, the biggest publicity coup of Ann Coulter's career.
Congratulations, Ottawa! She couldn't have done it without you.
March 23, 2010 04:41 PM by La Shawn Barber80 Comments
Earlier this evening, we had a troll who decided to infect a couple of threads with some racist comments. The morons responded admirably with anger, wit and impressive amounts of profanity aimed at the idiot. While there's nothing more beautiful than a moron flash mob tearing into rancid troll meat, it would be really helpful to those of us who clean up the troll's droppings if you guys didn't quote the offensive statements.
As the president and Congress grow more unpopular, I think we're going to see more of these types of Axelturfing crapweasels. The left is going to do whatever it can to paint conservative blogs as hotbeds of racist teabaggin' rage. So please let the co-bloggers know when and where we can find the Moby in question, and we'll zap it.
Oh, and please keep flaming the ever-loving crap out of the trolls. Not only is it the right thing to do, it's extremely fun to watch.
But he promises he'll do it "soon."
President Obama signed the Senate health care bill into law Tuesday. He did not sign the executive order on abortion negotiated with Michigan Democratic Congressman Bart Stupak in an 11th-hour arrangement that may well have saved the entire health care reform effort.How stupid were Bart Stupak and the other so-called "pro-life Democrats" to get played on this? Not only is the executive order basically worthless, the president isn't even pretending to give a damn about the agreement he made.A White House official told Fox, Obama will not sign the Executive Order Tuesday and has set no specific date to do so. Stupak predicted Obama would sign the order later this week. The White House said only that Obama would sign the order "soon."
In two celebratory speeches Tuesday - one at the bill's signing, the other at the Interior Department with health care advocates - Obama said nothing about the abortion issue or the executive order.
If you haven't read William McGurn's beautifully brutal takedown of the "pro-life" Democrats, here's the link.
How far has Stupak fallen? This far.
330 Obama strong armed and bribed and ultimately sacrificed his entire party for this one issue and his own self indulgence. History will look at this bill as one of the biggest political blunders of all time.
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Video….. Democrat Congressman Jim McDermott.
Understand this and understand it good: The people he’s talking about are not just on the radio and television, not just in the blog world, or other media. He’s talking about YOU……. That you SHOULDN’T have the RIGHT to speak.
http://www.breitbart.tv/congressman-stages-floor-rant-against-beck-limbaugh-malkin-teabaggers
Question: How much do you allow the government to take out of your check each week?
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Rationing Watch Open Thread
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"And to all before me I bring Chaos. Let all that was be ripped asunder. For I am the Hope and I am the Change, the Lightbringer to cast all before me into darkness".
If you are near a TV or radio and are monitoring events unfolding in the House, please use this thread to update the drama as it unfolds.
Will the Red Queen Nancy Pelosi find the votes she needs to unleash Hell upon this nation?