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Remember Anthem Blue Cross, and how Obama and Democrats blasted away at them for their rate increases? Remember how they used that issue as the immpetus to impose their health care solution? From CBS: The Obama administration is asking why Anthem Blue Cross is raising its health insurance rates by nearly 40 percent for some California customers while making handsome profits -- and is pointing to the rate hike as evidence of why health care reform needs to pass. Okay. Barry Hussein got his ObamaCare passed. So if there are any other rate increases from any other insurance companies, who...

This is Bernie Madoff Accounting. And the same fate that befell Madoff's investors will one day befall the American people. The Democrats only count the costs they want to count, and simply pretend the rest don't exist, or assure that they somehow shouldn't be counted. Positive numbers from unrealistic expectations show up on one side of the ledger, while negative numbers representing massive government and personal spending are ignored. This article will demonstrate the REAL cost of ObamaCare. And what we will find is that it will sneeze chunks bigger than the $940 billion that the CBO score pitches. It's...

I'm sure anyone you meet can tell you all about the self executing rule that the Democrats are now relying upon to pass their health care boondoggle. They will know all about the "Slaughter solution." It will be "transparent" to them. Because this is the most "transparent" administration in history. Right? Wrong. Democrats routinely demonized the Bush White House as "the most secretive administration in history." But it is now a documented fact that the Obama administration is at least 50% more secretive than Bush: PROMISES, PROMISES: Is gov't more open with Obama? By SHARON THEIMER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON...

By a two-to-one margin, independents are saying that Obama is a leftist. And only 14% of unaffiliated voters say they are more liberal than Obama. And for those independents who have strongly made up their mind one way or the other, the margin dramatically increases to a six-to-one margin believing that Obama is a leftist. For a story like this, we need to go back a little further, when we found out that Barry Hussein was THE most polarizing president in history: In his first two months in office, President Barack Obama has succeeded in widening the political gulf among...

When I was a kid, we had a tough little dachshund. Then we got a poodle who was as arrogant as you'd expect a poodle to be. The poodle constantly attacked the dachshund, even though time after time the dachshund would have the poodle on her back with her teeth around the poodle's throat in about 2 seconds every time they got into it. That's sort of like Obama and Bush. With Obama being the poodle, and Bush (despite the fact that he doesn't bother to defend his policies in the media) being the dachshund. Renditions? Obama got his butt...

The next time you see a progressive liberal, realize that there is a good chance that they would love to see you in a soup line - helpless, hungry, desperate, and ready for "change." Back in August of last year, I wrote an article entitled, "Politico Article Reveals Obama’s Cloward-Piven Strategy Backfiring." I pointed out quite a few facts of history which I believed were important. For example, I cited an article that defined the radical leftist Cloward-Piven strategy: In their 1966 article, Cloward and Piven charged that the ruling classes used welfare to weaken the poor; that by providing...

Whenever numbers look bad for Democrats, the media invariably reports them as "unexpected." Well, report THIS, mainstream media: Barry Hussein just broke his own record for failure. Previously, it had been reported that Obama had lost 4.1 million jobs - presiding over the greatest number of job losses under any president in any year since the Bureau of Labor Statistics started reporting jobless numbers in 1940. But now we're finding out that Obama pointed to the center field wall, took a radical swing, and sent unemployment soaring to nearly FIVE MILLION jobs lost with his disastrous failed policies. There's not...

Democrats don't seem to be finding any "hope and change" in their messiah. You know who is? Republicans. After all, it is really an incredibly amazing - frankly a miraculous - "change" that a Democrat president could actually turn Camelot Republican. That's FAR more than we ever could have "hoped" for. How's THIS for a title from a Democrat regarding Barack Obama? "He's Done Everything Wrong." Uber Obama lib Mort Zuckerman has written a mea culpa on the Daily Beast. Here's the essence of the article in bullet points: He's Done Everything Wrong* Obama punted on the economy * He...

Yesterday on ABC's This Week With George Stephanopoulos substitute host Jake Tapper interviewed Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. Bush could not have been more gracious in praising Obama's relief efforts. In other words, he didn't try to do to Obama what Obama and the Democrats so viciously did to him. And I couldn't help but wonder: if Democrats believed their own crap about Bush and Katrina, why on earth would they be asking George Bush to lead an effort for Haitian relief now? It has now been six days since the earthquake that destroyed Haiti. Obama promised an unprecedented...

Is it Massachusetts or Massachusettes? No matter. Not as long as all those pharmaceutical and insurance industry lobbyists spell Martha Coakley's name right on all those fat checks they're writing to buy her election. The line of the evening during last night's debate as reported by Politico: David Gergen pressed Scott Brown on health care and the Kennedy legacy last night, producing a memorable exchange:"With all due respect, it's not the Kennedy seat and it's not the Democrat's seat -- it's the people's seat," Brown says. But that's not true at all if Brown's opponent wins. If Martha Coakley wins,...

Let's make sure everyone's up to speed. On Christmas day a terrorist with a bomb just like the one a terrorist tried to use 8 years ago nearly creates an explosion that would have murdered 290 passengers, plus whoever happened to be in the jumbo jet's path as it crashed into the airport. The only thing that saved us from mass death and unmitigated disaster was pure dumb luck and the heroism of a passenger - who dragged the terrorist down and separated him from the device he was still attempting to detonate. Obama's Secretary of Homeland Security trotted out...

Yesterday Charles Schumer came out with this: Schumer: Penalize foreign airports that have lax security By Tony Romm - 01/03/10 03:05 PM ET The United States should penalize countries that fail to implement tough screening standards at their airports, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Sunday. Moreover, U.S.-based airlines should threaten not to fly into those airports either, in order to send a strong message about the importance of international passenger safety, he added. "You don't have to be Albert Einstein to realize that flights that originate in foreign countries pose a greater danger," Schumer said during a press conference Sunday,...

Obama was awarded the Nobel Prize only twelve days after his inauguration. By then, some anonymous figure decided Obama had already saved the world, and by then, the liberal/socialist fix was in. Obama now shares the honor of receiving a Nobel Prize with his fellow agent of man-caused disaster (which the left likes to call "change"), Yassar Arafat. And of course, he also shares the great honor of the Nobel with the previous Worst American President Ever, Jimmy Carter. Someone tracked down the itinerary of the Twelve Days That Saved The World: January 20: Sworn in as president. Went to...

At the Oct. 7 presidential debate, Barack Obama said, "If you make less than a quarter of a million dollars a year, you will not see a single dime of your taxes go up. If you make $200,000 a year or less, your taxes will go down."I point this out so that you realize that Obama supports your (note: use any word but "taxes" here) going up by 85800 dimes if your family makes $66,000 a year. More on that later. And as part of my "I told you so" moment, allow me to cite my October 2008 article entitled...

9/11 should be a time for every American to ponder the events of that fateful and horrific day in 2001. We had just suffered more casualties from a foreign enemy in an act of war than had ever been sustained by America on its own soil in its entire history - including the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and the attack on Pearl Harbor. Most Americans were angry and demanded action. Fully 90% supported George Bush as he laid out his plans to respond to the attack. And that support was still above 70% when President Bush ordered the...

I got attacked by the Village Voice today for expressing my rather nasty response to the ObamaDay speech to schoolchildren and the accompanying ideological White House-dictated Department of Education lesson plans for kids (e.g., "Write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president. These would be collected and redistributed at an appropriate later date by the teacher to make students accountable to their goals"). I don't particularly mind being attacked by the Village Voice. I mean, at least they spelled my name right, as they say. If anything, what bothers me is the smarmy, "They're unhinged...

Asked about the problems Obama is facing in Afghanistan, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs went to his tried and anything-but-true playbook of demagoguery, saying: "You can't under-resource the most important part of our War on Terror - you can't under-resource that for five, or six, or seven years.....and hope to snap your fingers and have that turn around in a few months." It's all Bush's fault. That's pretty much all you have to know about the Obama administration's political strategy, in a nutshell. Gibb's by now completely expected demagoguery doesn't account for why Barack Obama has already lost more...

Virginia Slims used to run an ad campaign called, "You've come a long way, baby." The ads for the women's-marketed cigarette brand ran on the theme that it was hip and modern for women to smoke. But the hidden subtext of the campaign was, "Look how far you've come: now you can die a nasty preternatural death of cancer just like the men." In a lot of ways, Barack Obama is the new "You've come a long way, baby" poster boy. He was marketed as the historic first black president in American history - but now that we've come this...

There's a debate going on in this country that is far wider than health care. Health care is the current battle; but the war is over the size, scope, and power of government over our lives. Years prior to World War II, in 1931, Pope Pius XI denounced Benito Mussolini's socialism as "Statolatry," the idolatry of a worship of and dependence upon the state rather than God. And less than a decade later it would be socialism - both fascist and Marxist - which would bring hell on earth rather than the utopias the socialists had so falsely promised. Today,...

"It is critically important that Congress act before the limit is reached so that citizens and investors here and around the world can remain confident that the United States will always meet its obligations," Geithner said. Oh, thank God! Our leaders have finally - FINALLY! - recognized the critical need to bring in some semblance of fiscal sanity to our federal government. Treasury Secretary Geithner is at last demanding that Congress put its clown-shoe-clad foot down and insist that we finally begin coming to grips with our $11.6 trillion debt. I take it all back. Everything I said about these...