Posted on 08/10/2009 8:17:36 AM PDT by IMissPresidentReagan
AND NOW . . . amidst billowing clouds of fragrant, aromatic first- and second-hand premium cigar smoke. . . it is time for . . . that harmless, lovable little fuzz ball, the highly-trained broadcast specialist, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, from behind the golden EIB microphone, firmly ensconced in the prestigious Attila-the-Hun chair at the Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies, serving humanity simply by showing up, and he’s not retiring until every American agrees with him, do NOT doubt him, with shrieks of joy at the mere mention of his name (that’s Rush, for those in Rio Linda),the Mandarin of Talk Radio, with talent on loan from G-d, at the cutting-edge of societal evolution, with half his brain tied behind his back — just to make it fair, the all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling, all-concerned Maha-Rushie! America’s anchorman, truth detector, and doctor of democracy. A Real Man, a living legend, a way of life. Commander in Chief of U.S. Operation Chaos. Chief Waga-Waga El Rushbo of the El Conservo Tribe. Chief of the Patriotism Police. Leader of the Conservative Movement. A Weapon of Mass Instruction. El Rushbo (a little Spanish lingo, there). He is the man who is running America (you know it and I know it). He knows the Democrats like every square inch of his glorious naked body. He is ready to do what he was born to do—that’s host. Get ready to what you were born to do—that’s listen (and post your comments on the Rush Limbaugh LIVE Radio Thread).
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“We have an image of people picking tomatoes — that’s not the whole story. Immigrants are the front-line caregivers
...and construction workers, and many other jobs Americans would do...”
Astounding isn’t it? AARP wants foreigners who can’t speak the language to care for your CITIZEN parents and grandparents.
Let’s not forget too that it was Vast Teddy Kennedy that wrote the legislation that created the very HMO’s that the Dems are now demonizing.
Don’t you just love it.
Thank you.
You forget its all Bush’s fault.
Mama!
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NBC Launches Liberal Site For ‘The’
African-American Perspective On News
“There is not a Black America and a White America and a Latino America and an Asian America — there’s the United States of America.” — Barack Obama, 2004 Democratic National Convention keynote address. “theGrio.com. The African-American perspective on news. Our lives, our world, our stories. theGrio.com. Part of NBC News.” — promo for new NBC News website, August 9, 2009.
http://media.eyeblast.org/newsbusters/static/2009/08/2009-08-09NBCGrio.wmv
And what I don’t get is how people do NOT see that government run health care is just a GIANT, more ineffective HMO.
‘Social justice’ in health care
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/s_637295.html
re: Rush, not mention what will happen when he caps doc pay.
He’ll have to answer for that (and more) soon enough.
Yep, we need to make the O man Marx
Now Lori...as aggrivating as the Libtards are...they aren’t worth giving yourself a concussion or ruining a perfectly good keyboard.
For that matter they aren’t worth a warm bucket of p*ss either.
Barack, meet Friedrich (from July)
snip:
In his book “The Fatal Conceit,” Nobel laureate Friedrich A. Hayek provided some insight into this lethal combination of arrogance and stupidity.
“The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design,” advised Hayek.
Before the “obvious economic failure of Eastern European socialism, it was widely thought that a centrally planned economy would deliver not only ‘social justice’ but also a more efficient use of economic resources,” Hayek wrote. “This notion appears eminently sensible at first glance. But it proves to overlook the fact that the totality of resources that one could employ in such a plan is simply not knowable to anybody, and therefore can hardly be centrally controlled.”
In other words, Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama just don’t know enough — can’t know enough — to design or run a complex economy. It’s not just that neither of them has even run a successful hot dog stand. The problem is that there are too many millions of transactions in an economy, too many interactions and unintended consequences, for any one person or any single committee to understand — even if they all went to Harvard.
The “fatal conceit” is that they think they are able to shape the world to match their collectivist visions.
The good news is that we know what works. What’s delivered the goods to the greatest number of people in world history — delivered unprecedented levels of both freedom and prosperity — is economic freedom, individual initiative, self-interest, competition, voluntary exchange, private property, decentralized and spontaneously self-organized markets and highly limited government.
What hasn’t worked is government coercion and centralized planning, or, as Hayek put it, “the deliberate arrangement of human interaction by central authority based on collective command over available resources.”
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/s_635189.html
Obama doesn't want the United States to succeed as a Powerful Country, he wants "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" an idiots Utopia that never did nor ever will exist. He will always be an elitist, never caring what hurts America. He is "taking back" what he and his ilk believe is theirs...hell bent on BLT...no not Bacon, Lettuce & Tomato...try again.
You’re right. I’ll stop.
read it aloud to them if necessary
SEC. 102. PROTECTING THE CHOICE TO KEEP CURRENT COVERAGE.
(a) GRANDFATHERED HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE DEFINED.—Subject to the succeeding provisions of this section, for purposes of establishing acceptable coverage under this division, the term “grandfathered health insurance coverage” means individual health insurance coverage that is offered and in force and effect before the first day of Y1 if the following conditions are met:
(1) LIMITATION ON NEW ENROLLMENT.—
(A) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day of Y1.
(B) DEPENDENT COVERAGE PERMITTED.—Subparagraph (A) shall not affect the subsequent enrollment of a dependent of an individual who is covered as of such first day.
(2) LIMITATION ON CHANGES IN TERMS OR CONDITIONS.—Subject to paragraph (3) and except as required by law, the issuer does not change any of its terms or conditions, including benefits and cost-sharing, from those in effect as of the day before the first day of Y1.
(3) RESTRICTIONS ON PREMIUM INCREASES.— The issuer cannot vary the percentage increase in the premium for a risk group of enrollees in specific grandfathered health insurance coverage without changing the premium for all enrollees in the same risk group at the same rate, as specified by the Commissioner.
(b) GRACE PERIOD FOR CURRENT EMPLOYMENTBASED HEALTH PLANS.—
(1) GRACE PERIOD.—
(A) IN GENERAL.—The Commissioner shall establish a grace period whereby, for plan years beginning after the end of the 5-year period beginning with Y1, an employment-based health plan in operation as of the day before the first day of Y1 must meet the same requirements as apply to a qualified health benefits plan under section 101, including the essential benefit package requirement under section 121.
(B) EXCEPTION FOR LIMITED BENEFITS PLANS.—Subparagraph (A) shall not apply to an employment-based health plan in which the coverage consists only of one or more of the following:
(i) Any coverage described in section 3001(a)(1)(B)(ii)(IV) of division B of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111–5).
(ii) Excepted benefits (as defined in section 733(c) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974), including coverage under a specified disease or illness policy described in paragraph (3)(A) of such section.
(iii) Such other limited benefits as the Commissioner may specify. In no case shall an employment-based health plan in which the coverage consists only of one or more of the coverage or benefits described in clauses (i) through (iii) be treated as acceptable coverage under this division
(2) TRANSITIONAL TREATMENT AS ACCEPTABLE COVERAGE.—During the grace period specified in paragraph (1)(A), an employment-based health plan that is described in such paragraph shall be treated as acceptable coverage under this division.
(c) LIMITATION ON INDIVIDUAL HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Individual health insurance coverage that is not grandfathered health insurance coverage under subsection (a) may only be offered on or after the first day of Y1 as an Exchange-participating health benefits plan.
(2) SEPARATE, EXCEPTED COVERAGE PERMITTED.—Excepted benefits (as defined in section 2791(c) of the Public Health Service Act) are not included within the definition of health insurance coverage. Nothing in paragraph (1) shall prevent the offering, other than through the Health Insurance Exchange, of excepted benefits so long as it is offered and priced separately from health insurance coverage.
Where did that bank bailout go?
Watchdogs aren’t entirely sure
WASHINGTON — Although hundreds of well-trained eyes are watching over the $700 billion that Congress last year decided to spend bailing out the nation’s financial sector, it’s still difficult to answer some of the most basic questions about where the money went.
Despite a new oversight panel, a new special inspector general, the existing Government Accountability Office and eight other inspectors general, those charged with minding the store say they don’t have all the weapons they need. Ten months into the Troubled Asset Relief Program, some members of Congress say that some oversight of bailout dollars has been so lacking that it’s essentially worthless.
“TARP has become a program in which taxpayers are not being told what most of the TARP recipients are doing with their money, have still not been told how much their substantial investments are worth, and will not be told the full details of how their money is being invested,” a special inspector general over the program reported last month. The “very credibility” of the program is at stake, it said.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090809/pl_mcclatchy/3286769
I think they’re seeing it now...hence the people showing up asking tough questions and the Libs cowering in fear like a bunch of mice.
He’s a lying sack of donkey dung!
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