Obamacare Is Dead and Here's Why [Obamacare Ongoing Thread]

Town Hall ^ | 1-26-10 | Robert A. Levy

[JustPiper]

As the Massachusetts blame game unfolds, the president’s unpopular health bill leads the list. But the substantive provisions of the bill were just part of the problem. Perhaps more important, voters were appalled by how the deal unfolded.

Consider the pre-election giveaway to the labor unions. Negotiators agreed to exempt union contracts until 2018 from the tax on so-called Cadillac health-insurance plans. That backroom bargain not only outraged the voters, it also violated the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution, requiring the federal government to extend equal protection of the laws to all U.S. persons. Of course, not all voters understood the constitutional nuances, but they sensed that something was very wrong; and they reacted.

I have been disturbed by the socialists for years, ever since I learned many members of Congress 'openly' joined the DSA (Democratic Socialists of America). Several years ago, the names were published on the DSA site. (since removed of course) Please post any info you have, many of you have been on this issue for many years, & if we can store it all on one thread, we have our FreeRepublic Warehouse on the enemies of the state. How DO we combat this, when it's coming at us from every angle? When the people have been asleep for decades. Please post anything you have found or accumulated. Also choose a dictator these people follow, of particular interest,those in D.C. who have been quoted with their adulation of one.

Communism- Marxism-Leninism-Stalinism-Trotskyism-Maoism- Hoxhaism-Hoxhaism-Titoism ETC

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

” ... but less cleverly done.”

Hahahah! Understatement of the year. Some guys actually get burned by those Nigerian con artists. I read a guy in Eastern Europe ranting against one of them: “May she burn in hell!” [Guess he got burned.]

But Pelosi? She might as well just take a bull whip to the House. Better yet, not show up. Her bribes work better than her mouth.

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ROFL!

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Uh, you serious? That would be cool.

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Palin sticks up for Blue Island Navy SEAL accused of mistreatment
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2466548/posts

Pelosi: ‘We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it’...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoE1R-xH5To

SENATE WARNS EMPLOYEES TO AVOID THE DRUDGE REPORT (Drudge)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2467104/posts?page=1

Links/Headlines coming up ....

Nine new headlines/links regarding Massa

Strange Things Happening in Hawaii [Certifigate]

66% Of Independents Say Obama Is To Their Left

36 legislatures fight for citizens’ rights to opt out of health-coverage demand

Obama Pledges to Greek Leader U.S. Will Help (Socialists Need to Stick Together)

New Obama rules may prohibit citizens from fishing the nation’s oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters...

Climate e-mail rerun - Attack sparks memories of McCarthy witch-hunt.

‘Very Troubling’: Chief Justice on Obama’s Court Criticism to Joint Session of Congress

Moscow’s First Tea Party

Detroit looks at turning vacant lots into farmland to save city...

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[Massa one post down. Strange Hawaii Certifigate two posts down.]

36 legislatures fight for citizens’ rights to opt out of health-coverage demand
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=127404

New Obama rules may prohibit citizens from fishing the nation’s oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters...
http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/saltwater/news/story?id=4975762

Internet access is ‘a fundamental right’
http://www.infowars.com/internet-access-is-a-fundamental-right
BBC | Almost four in five people around the world believe that access to the internet is a fundamental right.

Climate e-mail rerun - Attack sparks memories of McCarthy witch-hunt.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2467644/posts

Supreme Court Chief Justice: Scene at State of Union ‘Very Troubling’...
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gyvfRvSPtr5INaLpoyt0_bd8V0AwD9EBCSAG0
‘Very Troubling’: Chief Justice on Obama’s Court Criticism to Joint Session of Congress
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2467620/posts

Detroit looks at turning vacant lots into farmland to save city...
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/09/detroit-looks-at-downsizing-to-save-city

Advice for Newbies
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2451582/posts?page=11#11

66% Of Independents Say Obama Is To Their Left
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2467113/posts

Moscow’s First Tea Party
http://www.infowars.com/moscows-first-tea-party

Wisconsin woman feeds bear at zoo, gets fingers bitten off
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2465616/posts?page=28

Girl wins personal injury suit, receives record $24.3 million in Sacramento Court
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2466924/posts
“Ottoson said the defense was precluded from telling the jury that the girl’s father was driving the truck that injured her.”

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Obama-nomics

Solar Industry Learns Lessons in Spanish Sun
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2467001/posts

Many Nations Passing U.S. in Education, Expert Says
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2467766/posts

Obama Pledges to Greek Leader U.S. Will Help (Socialists Need to Stick Together)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2467674/posts

Obama-nomics & Greece [link-list]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2464021/posts?page=4

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Calling It ‘Stimulus’ Doesn’t Make It So By THOMAS SOWELL
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=525717

Snippets:

Economic Sedative — That was called “pump priming.”

After the Bush administration’s stimulus spending in 2008, business spending on equipment and software fell — not rose — by 28%.

Just two weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal reported, “U.S. banks posted last year their sharpest decline in lending since 1942.”

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Massa scandal explodes (Hoyer, Rangel in the mix?)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2467635/posts

MASSA: NUDE RAHM MADE IT CLEAR ‘I BETTER VOTE WITH THE PRESIDENT’...
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/03/09/nude_rahm_emanuel_told_massa_he_better_vote_with_the_president.html

‘There are text messages’...
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/10/massa-defends-himself-on-glenn-beck-show

FOXNEWS BECK TELLS AUDIENCE: ‘I’VE WASTED YOUR TIME’...
http://www.breitbart.tv/glenn-apologizes-for-massa-interview-sorry-for-wasting-your-time-america/

PELOSI: ‘This is a very sick person’...
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aJYii1K41DOE

Larry King: ‘Are you gay?’...
http://www.drudgereport.com

White House: ‘Silly and ridiculous’...
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100309/D9EB3QLO0.html

ABCNEWS: ‘Self-contradicting, borderline paranoid ramblings’...
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2010/03/massa-drama-democratic-congressman-muddles-rahms-message.html

REPORTS: Massa was investigated for allegedly groping male staffers...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2467376/posts
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/09/AR2010030902157_pf.html

We have just experienced yet another ...
Close Encounter with the Loony Left [link-list]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2464035/posts?page=2

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Strange Things Happening in Hawaii [Certifigate]

Hawaii Wants to Fine Me After Framing Me [fellow FReeper]
by Butterdezillion
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2466896/posts

“The Office of Taxation wants to fine people who are labeled “vexatious requestors” and Fukino has said there are 4-6 people who are all set to be labeled this.”

[Butterdezillion’s buddy, Fukino, is caught in a scandal]

HI Director of Dept. of Health Perjures Herself before HI Senate Committee(Fukino; Obama’s Records)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2467713/posts?page=1
[My limited take is that Fukino tried to pump up the “vexatious requests”.]

Related:

Meet McCain ‘birthers’: ABC, CBS, NBC, FactCheck, N.Y. Times, more
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2466865/posts

Are there multiple records of Obama’s Selective Service registration?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2467021/posts?page=41

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I posted today’s ping here. Not as bad as it looks. The ping-ees only saw the first post unless they wanted to read more. FRegards ....

[Anyone want to try this once-a-day ping list? One million dollars a ping {don’t worry — just tax money}. Money-back guarantee after I flee to the Carribean.]

[JustPiper]

Roberts: Scene at State of Union `very troubling’

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said Tuesday the scene at President Obama’s State of the Union address was “very troubling” and the annual speech has “degenerated to a political pep rally.”

Obama chided the court, with the justices seated before him in their black robes, for its decision on a campaign finance case.

Responding to a University of Alabama law student’s question, Roberts said anyone was free to criticize the court, and some have an obligation to do so because of their positions.

“So I have no problems with that,” he said. “On the other hand, there is the issue of the setting, the circumstances and the decorum.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gyvfRvSPtr5INaLpoyt0_bd8V0AwD9EBCSAG0

[stephenjohnbanker]

“Pelosi: ‘We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it’...”

Yes, and I need to jump off the San Francisco bridge, to see if I will drown.

And I need to kick my dog, so I can ask her if it hurts.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Calling It ‘Stimulus’ Doesn’t Make It So By THOMAS SOWELL
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=525717

A must read for FReepers who don’t understand why banks and businesses are frozen in place.

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ROFL!

[blackie]

What a despicable cretin that Michael Moore is!

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Worship of intellectuals is the root of leftist power.

I referred to Sowell as one of the Big Three in debunking worship of intellectuals:

Intellectuals Step ‘Off The Cliff,’ Drag Rest Of Us Down: Sowell
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2461148/posts?page=12
[Exposing the failed history of the loony left wing “intellectuals”. I go on a diatribe in one of the earlier posts.]

[stephenjohnbanker]

“Worship of intellectuals is the root of leftist power.”

Dr. Sowell proved that, did he not ;-)

I once gave a speech to my fellow YAF folk at Boston College, entitled” Intellectuals Ain’t”

” Intellectualism is like honor....to claim it, is to lose it”

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Interesting speech. Maybe you could post it on the FR?

[stephenjohnbanker]

I wish I could remember all of it. I was 20 years old. I will be 56 on March 23rd ;-)

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Ah well, no worries, FRiend. Sowell, Coulter, and Mark Levin are doing a great job [just to name a few].

Snowmageddon and Climategate are also doing a lot.

— FRegards ....

[stephenjohnbanker]

“Sowell, Coulter, and Mark Levin are doing a great job “

Yes!

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Slaughter Preps Rule To Avoid Direct Vote On Senate Bill (House to pass ObamaCare without vote!)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2468184/posts

Uncovered Shocker: Sen. Byrd Single-Handedly Stopped President Clinton From Using Reconciliation
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2468186/posts

MOB TACTICS USED TO PUSH HEALTHCARE THROUGH...
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/final_reform_push_0pwRMzHMNshlHQZg8LWmcJ