Posts about Obama Health Care Failure as of September 16, 2009

By W.C. Varones ~ September 16th, 2009 @ 5:25 am Jimmy Carter: People who oppose ObamaCare are racist.“I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he’s African-American. I live in the South, and I’ve seen the South come a long way, and I’ve seen the rest of the country that share the South’s attitude toward minority groups at that time, particularly African Americans. That racism inclination still exists.

Is there a gas leak  in here? What the hell is going on lately? You’ve got Joe Wilson screaming at President Obama.  Serena Williams melts down at the US Open, swearing at and threatening a line judge.   Kanye West jumps the stage at some MTV awards show taking the microphone from the surprised winner and berates the crowd because Beyonce didn’t win.  On Saturday,  thousands  ( not millions, not even hundreds of thousands) marched on Washington, still quivering with anger and screaming that they want their country back and that Muslims were taking over Washington.

Health-Care Reform and the Constitution by Andrew P. Napolitano WallStreetJournal.com SEPTEMBER 15, 2009 Last week, I asked South Carolina Congressman James Clyburn, the third-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives, where in the Constitution it authorizes the federal government to regulate the delivery of health care. He replied: “There’s nothing in the Constitution that says that the federal government has anything to do with most of the stuff we do.” Then he shot back: “How about [you] show me where in the Constitution it prohibits the federal government from doing this?” Rep.

Ron Paul was on Fox Business Channel discussing the President’s health care plan and his call for new regulation of the financial industry. Part One: Watch the latest business video at FOXBusiness.com Part Two: Watch the latest business video at FOXBusiness.com Similar Posts: Why We Oppose National Health Care Support For ObamaCare Slips Back To Pre-Speech Levels Joe Wilson Defiant After Outburst At Obama Speech Ron Paul On Paulson’s Bank Socialism

-By Warner Todd Huston This is a pretty stunning admission, but now even the left-wing Associated Press is admitting that if Obamacare gets passed there will be a major doctor shortage that won’t soon be resolved because of the crush of new patients. The AP posted a piece Sunday that warns that Obamacare will make worse the national shortage of primary care physicians using experience of RomneyCare in Massachusetts as a cautionary example.

-By Warner Todd Huston The Associated Press is reporting that Democratic lawmakers are having trouble adding any of Obama’s prescriptions for the nation’s healthcare troubles after the president’s speech delivered before a joint session of Congress last week. Not only are they having troubles adding Obama’s ideas at this late date, some Congressmen are even saying it is impossible to do so. Many have no desire to do so. Rep.

-By Ann “Babe” Huggett How soon Democrats forget! Didn’t we just finish up eight non-stop, miserable, name-calling, hate-filled, invective-slinging years by them aimed at President Bush and his policies? We are not just talking about the Daily Kossacks’ “Chimpy McHitler” taunts either. We’re talking Senator Harry Reid on record calling President Bush a “liar”, Senator John Kerry insulting US troops in Iraq by referring to them as “stuck” there because they obviously failed at school and Rep.

This man is wearing scrubs, but he’s not a doctor.He was part of a ring of violent thugs who posed as Obamacare supporters to pull off a terrifying home invasion robbery.Newsday reports (hat tip – The Anchoress):They were well-dressed when they knocked on the door of a Huntington home last month and said they had information about President Barack Obama’s health care plan.That’s how they got inside to commit a violent home invasion on Aug.

ALL’S Michael Hitchborn Recommends That Congress Run HR 3200 Through the Shredder     American Life League exposes the euthanasia agenda of the sponsors of HR 3200. Henry Waxman and co-sponsors John Dingell, George Miller, Peter Stark, and Frank Pallone all voted against a federal ban on use of drugs for physician assisted suicide. Not only that, Barack Obama equates physician assisted suicide with “end of life issues” and “the elderly.”

Obama says that he won’t sign a healthcare bill that adds one dime to the deficit. I hope he’s right about that, because the people who are financing that deficit are a tad bit worried about the prospect: And yet, there was budget director Peter Orszag rushing to a lunch with Chinese bureaucrats on a Monday in late July. To his surprise, when Orszag arrived at the site of the annual U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED), the Chinese didn’t dwell on the Wall Street meltdown or the global recession.

T he Democrats have made the claim that the AMA, doctors and nurses all support the Obama plan for health care reform. But if a new IBD/TIPP poll is to believed , it is possible a large number of doctors would leave their practice if the present version of health care reform was passed: Two of every three practicing physicians oppose the medical overhaul plan under consideration in Washington, and hundreds of thousands would think about shutting down their practices or retiring early if it were adopted, a new IBD/TIPP Poll has found.

Thomas Sowell has long been one of my favorite conservative commentators.  He happens to be black, and amongst blacks a voice like his is quite unusual.  I just read an excellent piece he did on Obamacare .  A teaser: There was a time, within living memory, when most Americans did not have health insurance– and it was not the end of the world, as so many in politics and the media seem to be depicting it today.

Tens, maybe hundreds, of thousands of angry Americans stormed Washington last weekend to oppose ObamaCare and government spending. How’d Democrats react? By redoubling efforts to pass “health-care reform” — dissent be damned. True, Dems may pay a price if they succeed. But so will the nation — in terms of a sapped economic recovery, further job losses, lower-quality, rationed health care and, of course, monster taxes. Today, for example, Sen.

Senator Feinstein and I disagree on lots of things – heck, most things – but I’ve always thought of her as one of the two or three adults in the Democrat party… and now she goes and proves it : …After Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress Wednesday night, Feinstein remained skeptical about the wholesale overhauls to the nation’s health care system that Obama contemplates.

Judge Andrew Napolitano has a brief and lucid guide to the serious constitutional problems with ObamaCare, in the Wall Street Journal today. A Mark Fitzgibbons just noted (below), the Left is in the process of demonizing those who point to inconvenient constitutional strictures on government power. Judge Napolitano notes the expansive interpretations of the interstate commerce clause invented in the New Deal, and writes: The Supreme Court finally came to its senses when it invalidated a congressional ban on illegal guns within 1,000 feet of public schools.

MoDo, in “Rapping Joe’s Knuckles,” says the pressure from House Democrats, and a handful of Republicans, on Joe Wilson to apologize was a rare triumph for civility in a country that seems to have lost all sense of it.  The Moustache of Wisdom, in “Have a Nice Day,” says China and Germany understand that prosperity and growth depend on nurturing a renewable energy industry. When will the United States?  Here’s MoDo: Joe Wilson, congressman, argued that Joe Wilson, chucklehead, should not be formally rebuked.

Whatever bounce ObamaCare got from the president’s big speech is gone. In the  Rasmussen poll , voters disapprove by a 52-45 percent margin, roughly what it was before the speech. While the Osama bin Laden book-club advocates for retreat from Afghanistan, real national-security gurus will meet in Washington next week for a Foreign Policy Initiative forum to discuss, among other things, “ Iraq and Afghanistan: Sustaining Success and Achieving Victory .” Wow, “victory”? That’s a term you don’t hear from the White House.

I was stunned over the last few days to find out that the Republicans really do have solutions and actual bills. One thing remains, however. As NPR pointed out, “With only a few exceptions, this year’s health overhaul debate has been pretty much an all-Democrats affair. President Obama, the President that was going to reach across the aisle, said during his speech to the Joint Session of Congress that he was willing to listen to reasonable proposals and that his, “Door is always open.” So Mr.

Notes: Congressman Joe “YOU LIE” Wilson was regarded as a hero at the anti-Obama rally in Washington last weekend that featured such classy placards as, with a picture of a lion, “The Zoo has an African and the White House has a Lyin’ African;” “Bury Obamacare with Kennedy;” “We came unarmed (this time)” and “‘Cap’ [...]

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I know that the President, his administration, and everyone on Capital Hill has that information. They have surveyed and studied the voter’s response on this in detail because to members of Congress on both sides of this debate, health care reform is about reelection. The size of the crowd, the size of the opposition matters. Congress and the President know the size of that opposition. The opponents are being heard. Related posts: Some random thoughts after Obama’s health care speech to a joint session of congress I do see some opportunity from this speech but to…

REDSTATE MORNING BRIEFING FOR SEPTEMBER 16, 2009 Sign up to get the morning briefing by email here. 1. Nancy-Ann DeParle is the Non Sequitur of Obama Appointees 2. Another Obama First: Uncle Sam to Create Education Curriculum 3. Obama Is Opposed By Racists 4. And That’s the Way It Is 5. Reality Check on Joe Wilson 6. Familial Fall Out 7. 84 times 8. Abortion is Lethal — Not Only to Babies, but also to ObamaCare 9.

The six Senate Republicans seeking a “bipartisan compromise” on President Obama’s proposal for a government-run health care system are flirting with a provision – an individual mandate to buy government-approved health insurance – that runs counter to everything the GOP stands for. This “gang of six” includes senators Olympia Snowe of Maine, Charles Grassley of Iowa, Robert Bennett of Utah, Lindsay Graham of South Carolina, Mike Crapo of Idaho, and Lamar Alexander of Tennessee.

Jimmy Carter is an idiot. He successfully proves it every time he opens his mouth.Former US President Jimmy Carter says much of the vitriol against President Barack Obama’s health reforms and spending plans is “based on racism”, the BBC reports.Carter told a town-hall meeting there was “an inherent feeling among many in this country that an African-American should not be president”.Angry town hall meetings and a recent taxpayers’ demonstration in Washington have been vitriolic towards the

While Obama is out promoting His plan of free unicorns, fluffy bunnies and calorie-free hot fudge sundaes (sprinkles included), his minions in the Senate Financing Committee are going to fund all that “free stuff” by gutting American medical practice and innovation. Pharmaceutical manufacturing companies fee. This is an annual $2.3 billion fee–$23 billion over the … [ visit site to read more ]

Typically profit-seeking companies try to sell products that their customers want.  Not so with insurance companies when they must charge the same premium to high-risk patients as low-risk patients.  Such a political control is known as “community rating.” Michael Cannon explains an unintended consequence of community rating in Massachusetts: Massachusetts long ago adopted another feature of the Obama plan: price controls that prohibit insurers from varying premiums based on a purchaser’s health status.

ObamaCare will Nullify Much of the Bill of Rights! The Largest Transfer of Power from the American People to the Government in America’s History! A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet ***************************************** Over the past few months we have attempted to warn you about the freedom Americans will lose if the Healthcare bills, which have come to known as ObamaCare, are passed into law by the US Congress.

The Hill reports that not a single Republican supports the version of ObamaCare crafted by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT, 80%)… not even Sens. Olympia Snowe (R-ME, 12%), Chuck Grassley (R-IA, 76%), and Mike Enzi (R-WY, 96%), the three “moderate” Republican Finance Committee members (Grassley is Ranking Minority Member) who form the Republican half of the “Gang of Six,” set up by Baucus to try to find a bipartisan alternative to the House ObamaCare bill.

A lot of ink has already been spilled on the subject. Rather than reinvent the wheel, here’s an analysis of just a few of Obama’s bogus claims by Gary Bauer. 1. Obama’s claim: ‘I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits either now or in the future – period.’” The Truth: Not even one version of the legislation is deficit neutral. The House version, according to the Congressional Budget Office, adds $220 billion to the deficit over the next decade.

Like virtually every issue that faces the nation, our healthcare problem is greatly exacerbated by mass immigration—both legal and illegal.  A total of 43% of non-citizens lack health insurance, compared to just 12.7% of native-born Americans.  These uninsured immigrants impose huge strains on our healthcare system that helped create the crisis we currently face. Plenty of analysts and commentators have exposed how illegal aliens will receive healthcare under Obamacare.

An entertaining summary, complete with pictures , of the D.C. rally this weekend by opponents of the administration’s programs, especially ObamaCare. Those would be the types of folks dismissed by mindless reporters, columnists, (Maureen Dowd, I’m writing about you) and other media types in sweeping terms as racists for opposing the President’s policies.  

Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. – George Santayana“In the simplicity of their minds, people more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have such impudence.

The free clinic will no longer be free in Philadelphia.The city’s Board of Health tonight approved a sliding scale of fees to be charged to the uninsured for care at the city’s eight primary-care health centers.The fees – from $5 to $20 per visit – were announced earlier this year as part of Mayor Nutter’s city budget.No date has been set for when the fees will be imposed, said Health Department spokesman Jeff Moran. He said the fees were not tied to the city’s budget fix that is now pending in Harrisburg.Health Commissioner Donald F.

Do you remember this sorry interview on Face The Nation, where David Axelrod said that the Tea Party Protesters were wrong : Well, a funny thing happened today. Glenn Beck’s Saturday ratings came out and guess what? Beck’s ratings are more than double the combined ratings of CNN and MSNBC, which carried Obama’s speech in Minneapolis. From TVNewser : The 1pmET hour of Glenn Beck ’s 9/12 special drew 2.34M Total Viewers and 608K in A25-54 demo — up a whopping 144% in Total Viewers and up 161% in demo viewers from the previous Saturday.

Obamacare pulling Reid down. The Nevada Senate election in 2010 is yet another example of an incumbent Democrat in serious trouble in a reelection bid. This time it is Senate Majority leader Harry Reid who according to a recent Rasmussen poll trails Republican challenger Sue Lowden 50% to 40% and trails Republican Danny Tarkanian 50% to 43%. What is remarkable is just how far under the 50% incumbent threshold that Reid is. The polling numbers seem to mirror other recent Nevada Senate pol

Obamacare pulling Reid down. The Nevada Senate election in 2010 is yet another example of an incumbent Democrat in serious trouble in a reelection bid. This time it is Senate Majority leader Harry Reid who according to a recent Rasmussen poll trails Republican challenger Sue Lowden 50% to 40% and trails Republican Danny Tarkanian 50% to 43%. What is remarkable is just how far under the 50% incumbent threshold that Reid is. The polling numbers seem to mirror other recent Nevada Senate polling.

That’s nice . Thanks for the change, Mr. President. Technorati Tags: healthcare , Obama

By PoliPundit ~ September 15th, 2009 @ 10:05 pm Democrats couldn’t even get Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME) to support their Senate bill!They don’t have the votes to get ObamaCare through both chambers of Congress. Subscribe to blog feed. « They Report, We Decide Leave a Reply Name (required)Mail (will not be published) (required)WebsiteComment RSS  |  Trackback URI

       I have been what could only be called belligerent today.  I was on facebook, responding to a few people who I happen to think are off of their rockers, they were commenting on a particular poll there, about whether President Obama should be impeached.  About 2/3 of those who saw it said yes.  The reason why is obvious.  For people who dislike him, it gives them a chance to not just vote, but vent their anger at our President.  For people like me, who like a good fight, and like starting and finishing them, it gives us a chance to have a bit of fun.

It’s official: Senate Democrats will be jumping off the cliff for ObamaCare/BaucusCare by themselves with no Republican colleagues to blame for the results. Senator Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), who voted for the $787 billion stimulus package pushed by Barack Obama, has walked away from Senate Finance Committee after Democrats insisted on socializing our nation’s health care system. Senate Democrats are going to have to move forward on healthcare without a single Republican supporter after Sen.

One of the criticisms of Obamacare is how will doctors be able to handle the extra patients if all of a sudden all the uninsured become part of their case load. If he new study of doctors performed by IBD is to be believed, the problem will be worse than originally thought, as 45% of all doctors will consider leaving the profession if Obamacare is passed in its present form (take that American Medical Association). More than 800,000 doctors were practicing in 2006, the government says.

…..with this crap below from the racist Carter. The Dems are just trying to demonize their opponents in order to deflect attention away from the content of their health care proposal. It won’t work. Jimmy Carter: Wilson comments ‘based on racism’ATLANTA – Former President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday that U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson’s outburst to President Barack Obama during a speech to Congress last week was an act “based on racism” and rooted in fears of a black president.“I think it’s based on racism,” Carter said in response to an audience question at a town hall held at his presidential center in Atlanta.

…..with this crap below from the racist Carter. The Dems are just trying to demonize their opponents in order to deflect attention away from the content of their health care proposal. It won’t work. Jimmy Carter: Wilson comments ‘based on racism’ATLANTA – Former President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday that U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson’s outburst to President Barack Obama during a speech to Congress last week was an act “based on racism” and rooted in fears of a black president.“I think it’s based on racism,” Carter said in response to an audience question at a town hall held at his presidential center in Atlanta.

Californians represented on most corrupt members of Congress list -4 of 15 California is home to four of the most corrupt members of Congress, according to an annual report released today by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). It’s a bipartisan distinction in California. The list includes Democrats Maxine Waters and Laura Richardson and Republicans Ken Calvert and Jerry Lewis. Here’s the list: Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-FL) Sen. Roland Burris (D-IL) Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA) Rep.

By Regina Sztajer Just who is funding President Barack Obama’s Obamacare campaign? The leftist billionaires, union bosses and partisan community organizations are pushing the socialized medicine agenda. Who is Obama’s biggest sugar daddy? The radical George Soros!!!. Soros was born in August 1930, in Budapest Hungary and managed to survive the Holocaust as a self- hating Jew. He came to the United states in 1956, and became one of the world’s leading hedge fund investors and currency traders.

A brand new Investor Business Daily poll came out today on Obamacare, and the results are shocking. In the IBD poll, doctors were asked if they would consider quitting under Obamacare, and almost half answered ‘yes’ (45%). The poll also showed that 2 out of 3 doctors appose HR3200 as it is written today and 72% of doctors feel the government would not be able to cover the additional 47 million Americans with better care at a lower overall cost.

45% Of Doctors Would Consider Quitting If Congress Passes Health Care Overhaul. Two of every three practicing physicians oppose the medical overhaul plan under consideration in Washington, and hundreds of thousands would think about shutting down their practices or retiring early if it were adopted, a new IBD/TIPP Poll has found. Posted in Kennedy- Kopechne Healthcare Program Tagged: congress, doctors, healthcare, obamacare, poll, survey

While the Government threatens to cut child benefit for the middle class in order to reduce the country’s banana republic-level of national debt, the Independent is calling for heroin to be made available on the NHS, along with boob jobs, Viagra, non-medical abortions and all the other things William Beveridge had exactly in mind when he set it up . This “clamour” for free heroin, at the cost of £15,000-per-(smack)-head, came about after a group led by the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse successfully reduced the amount that addicts stole over a certain period.

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Tagged with: 60 MinutesBarack Hussein ObamaFlip Flopgovernment healthcareObamacareTort ReformAuthor: Guest Blogger StephenIs Obama this desperate to push through state-run health care? First he flips on the public option and now Tort reform. Sure one can change their mind but with all the mind-changing Americans will be utterly confused on what Obama truly believes in. That may very well be the intent, to deceive believers of both sides in order to push agenda through.

[ Click image to enlarge. ] Demand ObamaCare NOW! “Hi! My name’s Barack Obama. I’m not a doctor, but I play one. You may have seen me on TV.” Just Imagine: The Actuarial Acumen of * Medicare! * Social Security! * Medicaid! The Efficiency of * The US Postal Service! * Amtrak! The Hard-nosed Business Sense of * Fannie Mae! * Freddie Mac! All wrapped up in One Convenient Single payer Big Government Program! Doc Obama Sez: “Let’s bring that ‘can-do’ spirit of Big Government and the IRS into your doctor’s waiting room! Don’t waste this crisis, call your representative now! Our operators are standing by.

One of the criticisms of Obamacare is how will doctors be able to handle the extra patients if all of a sudden all the uninsured become part of their case load. If he new study of doctors performed by IBD is to be believed, the problem will be worse than originally thought, as 45% of all doctors will consider leaving the profession if Obamacare is passed in its present form (take that American Medical Association). More than 800,000 doctors were practicing in 2006, the government says.

One of my favorite professors in law school was Professor Cavanagh, who, among other subjects, taught Antitrust Law. He once told a story about price fixing, the illegal practice of businesses that are supposed to be competing, that instead agree to charge consumers the same (elevated) price. Price fixing is often more subtle than a contract written in invisible ink–it can be the result of a collusive atmosphere where companies casually discuss cost, price and future trends; tacitly agreeing to set prices.

Olympia Snowe is either afraid of losing her Senate seat in Maine or she’s, for once in her useless senatorial life, actually remembered she’s a Republican. She certainly hasn’t acted like it, from voting with treasonous Democrats to try to undermine the war effort in Iraq to voting for the pork-filled stimulus package with only two other Republicans and more. But, it’s looking like she deserves some rare kudos, as she’s apparently pulled her support of Obama’s government run health care .

Yeah boy, that’d do wonders!  That’s just what the American people need… FEWER doctors. From Investor’s Business Daily : Two of every three practicing physicians oppose the medical overhaul plan under consideration in Washington, and hundreds of thousands would think about shutting down their practices or retiring early if it were adopted, a new IBD/TIPP Poll has found. The poll contradicts the claims of not only the White House, but also doctors’ own lobby — the powerful American Medical Association — both of which suggest the medical profession is behind the proposed overhaul.

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“Over the weekend, hundreds of gatherings occurred across America to protest taxes, government spending, and Obamacare, and nobody got shot. Statistically, out of a random group of 100 Americans, one will be carrying a concealed weapon. In most states, many more could be legally carrying weapons openly. Since these crowds were largely conservative in their political bent, I would bet the percentage lawfully carrying guns was skewed higher since this is the same demographic that favor second amendment rights.If that is so, in a Georgia or Texas event with 10,000 exuberant protesters, there would be at least 100 people with guns, probably 200 or more.

JIMMY CARTER – STUPID AS AN APE! Why does the good Lord take Patrick Swayze but leave Jimmy Carter? One was a fine actor and a good man while the latter is the worst American in history. One was a class act while the other is one of the worst examples of douchebaggery. I guess the Lord just wants to teach us patience…or something. But damn, haven’t we suffered enough with Jimmy Carter? Carter’s latest buffoonery has him saying Joe Wilson’s calling Obama a liar during Hussein’s Obamacare infomercial was part of an “inherent feeling” of some in this country who feel that a black man should not be president.

Today Congressional Democrats took the day off from the problems facing our country to engage in politics. They spent the day debating how to slap congressman Joe Wilson for shouting “you lie” at the POTUS, a charge that was true but the timing and venue was inappropriate. Wilson had already apologized to the President, but the Democrats wanted Wilson to apologize to the entire congress on the house floor.

As Michelle Malkin notes , the IBD poll provides a glimpse of the grim future under Obamacare. It’s not just about patients and consumers getting screwed. It’s about the enormous disincentives government-run health care would bring to the medical profession. We pointed this out here in a similar manner when we said that paying providers less for their services results in even greater rationing of care because fewer doctors will be willing to postpone retirement for less money and fewer rural

Zero Hedge Submitted by Jeff Harding, of The Daily Capitalist We are plunged deep into the biggest credit-business cycle in world history. Many cycles have been worldwide, but this one dwarfs all others, including the Great Depression. An ocean of money and credit flooded every corner of the globe. The culture of easy wealth worked its way into the smallest economies from Norway to Chile, from Iceland to Mongolia. Economies built on commodities exports, even energy exporters, have felt its impact.

Here’s a glimpse of the grim future under Obamacare. It’s not just about patients and consumers getting screwed. It’s about the enormous disincentives government-run health care would bring to the medical profession.Investor’s Business Daily reports on the results of its heart-stopping poll of doctors:Two of every three practicing physicians oppose the medical overhaul plan under consideration in Washington, and hundreds of thousands would think about shutting down their practices or retiring

by John Allison, III: They’re lying through their teeth when they say their goal isn’t a single-payer system like Canada’s and Great Britain’s! Their goal is to eliminate the private health insurance market. Not for the good of the people, but to control the people. Don’t believe it? Watch what they were saying not so long ago. Ask yourself this question, where are the most economically depressed areas in the country? The major metropolitan areas that have been run by left wing liberals for decades have the highest crime rates and the highest poverty rates of anywhere in the country.

Liberals have figured out how to end an arguement and they think America is falling for their tactics. The tactic employed is, no matter what the subject of the arguement, to cry ‘RACISM…You are a RACIST!’ Ask about Obamacare as you point out legitimate alternative programs and you hear, “Racist…You don’t want the Public Plan simply because Obama is a Black!” HUH? Ask about Guantanamo and Obama’s plans to find a solution and ask, “Why not just keep the terrorists there?” The Liberal reply, “Racist…Just because Obama is Black you want to keep Guantanamo open?” HUH?

Obama is on a media blitz , but does he know that Obamacare is in bad shape and looking worse by the minute ? Tagged: Economics, Health, Law, Money, News, Politics

Politicians, pundits, and partisan activists from across the political spectrum frequently decry policies or government actions they dislike as “unconstitutional”. Unfortunately, because this word is so frequently bandied about, it has lost the impact that it should have. That being said, Andrew Napolitano has written on op-ed on the conflict between the U.S. Constitution’s Commerce Clause and President Obama’s proposed health care reform.

I created a new category for this. I like to oppose ObamaCare on first principles, but the craptastick reputation of other government services can be very effective. Some people would not know an enumerated power if it bit them in the ass (I think that’s in Article III) but the DMV and Post Office are universal.TaxProf Blog reports that the IRS is going to get serious about protecting your data, now (after) 500 laptops are missing.The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration released a

† JMJ/AMDG “We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.” – St. Teresa of Avila I found this information on: Catholics Against Obamacare I signed it, and I penned and sent this email below as an ‘Open Letter’: † † † President Jenkins, I respectfully request that you drop the charges against Alan Keyes and the other peaceful Pro-Life people who were not doing anything illegal – it is obvious they were ’singled-out’ due to their slogans, signs, and a wooden cross, all defending the sanctity of LIFE.

RNC Statement on the Democrats’ Resolution Condemning Rep. Joe Wilson   WASHINGTON – Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Steele released the following statement today:   “In another stunning example of hypocrisy, congressional Democrats are wasting taxpayers’ time and resources on a legislative measure to censure Congressman Joe Wilson so they don’t have to talk about their exceedingly unpopular health care plan .

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“In the long run, Saturday’s event will likely have little effect — sure, it might sway a few ‘blue dog’ Democrats to vote against Obamacare or tax increases for the rest of their current terms in office, but it won’t seriously undermine anything. Now, instead, imagine the effect if the percentage of eligible voters participating in November, 2010, were to drop into the single digits? Imagine if the same percentage of parents stopped sending their kids into public schools.

” At issue, of course, are the two words ‘death panels,’ uttered widely in opposition to Obamacare, most famously by Sarah Palin, the prominent politician to whom the president alluded. The phrase may indeed be ‘cynical’ shorthand for a new government role in deciding on appropriate care as one nears the end of one’s life; certainly it is polemical. And it may even be ‘irresponsible’ — in exactly the same way that Democratic political operatives for decades have irresponsibly tried to frighten the elderly into believing Republicans were going to take away their Social Security benefits.

“By federal fiat, US state schools and hospitals must bear the costs of teaching and treating illegal aliens because of federally granted rights. Unless the courts overturn these mandates, Obamacare will uphold federal provisions that are already on the books. By logical extension, Joe Wilson, South Carolina’s Representative, was correct — if indecorous — in asserting, during Obama’s address to the chambers last week, that the president was not being truthful.” (09/15/09)

Now boys and girls, I want to tell you a wonderful fairy tale about a talismanic land where only happy endings are allowed. And all you have to do is surrender your “liberty and freedom for all.” You all know that Ezekiel “Zeke” Emanuel was aboard the Clinton Express when it tried to take us to the magical world of universal health care in the early 90s. Sadly, that train broke down on the way and never arrived at Utopia. But, not to worry, because now Zeke has boarded another train, the ObamaCare Special.

Rep. Mark Kirk offers a Republican alternative to Obamacare. Posted in America, Current Events, Health Care, Politics

well, the dems did it. by a 240-179 vote (with 5 present votes), the house of representatives has approved a ‘resolution of disapproval’ of congressman joe wilson’s ‘you lie!’ shout out to obama during the speech to congress on obamacare. we know that the house democrats had offered joe wilson ‘a deal’ in which if he had publicly apologized on the floor of the house, there would be no resolution, but wilson rejected the offer of having nancy pelosi rub his nose in it.

Nicely done, Dr. Sowell, nicely done. From nationalreview.com by Thomas Sowell dated 09/11/2009 entitled, “ Charlatan-in-Chief; The core of Obama’s medical-care plan is the promise of something for nothing “: ‘Hubris-laden charlatans” was the way a recent e-mail from a reader characterized the Obama administration. That phrase seems especially appropriate for the Charlatan-in-Chief, Barack Obama, whose speech to the joint session of Congress was both a masterpiece of rhetoric and a shameless fraud.

It is no secret to readers of this blog that Jonah Goldberg kicks some serious ass, and this  article does not disappoint.  Apparently anyone who opposes the President is a racist.  It does not matter if the reason you oppose him has nothing to do with his race; it is automatically assumed because our President and his crappy policies have set the Civil Rights movement back at least 40 years.  Everywhere I turn I am reminded that I am a racist because I don’t want his stupid Obamacare, I don’t

Senior citizens beware … It is unfathomable to me that the President of the United States and members of Congress continues to make coverage promises to America’s senior citizens which they obviously do not plan to keep. Denying cuts to Medicare while planning to eliminate Medicare Advantage which serves approximately 25% of Medicare-eligible senior citizens and squeezing additional funds out of the program to be used elsewhere.

This morning I did my monthly radio show in Virginia. It was an intense two hours. (Perhaps it will be available for all who are interested to hear on this site.) The rest of my day has also involved a great expenditure of energy. Hence, I am spent. And for that reason, I would like to enlist the folks here to address a couple of issues that arose during the course of the program.

Georgia Congressman Hank Johnson thinks this is a photo of you. Would we be accused of racism if we said Georgia Democrat Hank Johnson is an idiot? Johnson is a member of the Congressional Black Caucus. You know, the group that traveled to Havana last year to bese el asno de Castro. (Translation available at Babelfish.com). This duly-elected Democrat fears that a failure to rebuke South Carolina Republican Joe Wilson will prompt you to get your favorite white hood and robe out of the closet and head for the nearest the Ku Klux Klan meeting, perhaps stopping along the way to lynch a few random darkies.

Georgia Congressman Hank Johnson thinks this is a photo of you. Would we be accused of racism if we said Georgia Democrat Hank Johnson is an idiot? Johnson is a member of the Congressional Black Caucus. You know, the group that traveled to Havana last year to bese el asno de Castro. (Translation available at Babelfish.com). This duly-elected Democrat fears that a failure to rebuke South Carolina Republican Joe Wilson will prompt you to get your favorite white hood and robe out of the closet and head for the nearest the Ku Klux Klan meeting, perhaps stopping along the way to lynch a few random darkies.

In a pot calling the kettle black moment, president Obama lectured Wall Street about “responsibility, not recklessness.” Obviously the president, like the rest of Congress, never bothered reading the so-called stimulus bills he signed, not mention the Democrats’ other perverse pieces of legislation from Obamacare to Cap and Trade. Nor did the Washington elite seem to notice the sea of angry citizens who marched against them on 9/12. But government recklessness and irresponsibility with taxpayers’ money apparently isn’t a problem.

Either the collective media is stupid or they are in bed with Barack Obama. When the larger issue is the fact that Pres. Obama DID LIE about illegal aliens getting health care, the media prefers to make headlines about the ”You lie!“ incident, which has already been resolved between Wilson and Obama over an apology and acceptance of apology. WHEN WILL THE MEDIA FOCUS ON THE LIES AND MISDIRECTIONS IN Obamacare? Here is Pres.

Hundreds of thousands of people marched to the U.S. Capitol on Sunday, carrying signs with slogans such as “Obamacare makes me sick” as they protested the president’s health care plan and our so-called “out-of-control spending.” The marchers were chanting “enough, enough” and “We the People.” Others, channeling their inner Joe Wilson, screamed “You lie, you lie!” while waving U.S.

Posted by Tom Knapp at Kn@ppster : [Note: This is part of an informal "what X should do" series about ObamaCare; I've previously posted on "what President Obama should do" and "what the insurance companies should do" ] To quote Nancy Reagan, “just say no” . Specifically, just say no to this : [U]nder my plan, individuals will be required to carry basic health insurance — just as most states require you to carry auto insurance.

The Democrat Congress has released a new primer banning certain words and phrases from floor debate . Likewise, it has been held that a member could not: • call the President a “liar.” • call the President a “hypocrite.” • describe the President’s veto of a bill as “cowardly.” • charge that the President has been “intellectually dishonest.” • refer to the President as “giving aid and comfort to the enemy.” • refer to alleged “sexual misconduct on the President’s part.” You can’t call a president who lies that his health care plan is deficit neutral and doesn’t cut Medicare a liar.

THINK PROGRESS Throughout the summer, Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) has attacked President Obama’s efforts to reform health care in America, bragging on his Twitter page about how he is “ fighting Obamacare .” At the same time, Vitter has told his constituents that he does support some reform, but that he doesn’t want “ to throw the baby out with the bathwater ” or push “a lot of people off insurance that they have now, that they enjoy now.” But Vitter supported doing just that yesterday as he endorsed a plan that would privatize Medicaid and scrap the nation’s employer-based health insurance system: U.S.

From USA Today : “A USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken after the president’s dramatic address to a joint session of Congress last week shows Americans almost evenly divided over passing a health care bill and inclined to think it would make some of the system’s vexing problems worse, not better. “ Six in 10 say Obama’s proposal, if enacted, would not achieve his goals of expanding coverage to nearly all Americans without raising taxes on the middle class or lowering the quality of health care.

After a routine annual exam I asked my physician what she thought of Obamacare proposals. She’s all for them. One thing she mentioned is that after a patient nears 90 years of age they should not be given all kinds of costly tests and treatment, concluding, “Just let them die of old age”. I may change doctors. In any case, it is neither government nor doctor – but the patient – of any age – who should make the decision whether or not to be given tests or treatment.

Brooks:  ”Obama rested the credibility of his presidency on what you might call the Dime Standard. He was flexible about many things, but not this: “I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits — either now or in the future. Period.” This sound bite kills the House health care bill. That bill would add $220 billion (that’s 2.2 trillion dimes) to the deficit over the first 10 years and another $1 trillion (10 trillion dimes) to the deficit over the next 10 years.

“I’m a pretty laid-back guy that loves his kids and his country,” Hendrickson said. He added, however, that he had just been released from jail a month earlier on an assault charge for pepper-spraying a customer at a Cub Foods in Brooklyn Center, where he worked as a security guard. Hendrickson said he still believed he was following his training when he pepper-sprayed a Cub Foods customer, although he acknowledged it cost him his job and 60 days in jail.

President Obama gave yet another speech on his healthcare plan before a friendly audience and continues to say the same things that even his most ardent supporters know to be false : when you’re talking with some of your friends and neighbors, they might say, “Well, that all sounds pretty good, but how you going to pay for it?” That’s a legitimate question, because I inherited a $1.3 trillion deficit when I came into office. That’s the other thing people have been a little selective about.

By Richard Larsen August Recess for the nations’ lawmakers was certainly not business as usual this year. With headlines and debate centered on the controversial overhaul of our health-care system, it could be fair to say many of them ran into constituent buzz-saws in their town hall meetings across the country. While the exchanges at these meetings were sometimes confrontational, the freedom behind such truly grassroots response to a proposed totalitarian health-care system was inspiring.

Los Angeles Times Obama Rallies Labor Crowd for Health-Care Reform Washington Post President Obama urged the nation’s largest labor federation Monday to get behind his proposal to overhaul the US health-care system, saying that reform would help revive an economy that is still struggling with high unemployment. … obamacare v.

A Rasmussen poll indicates that support for ObamaCare is where it was BEFORE Obama gave his “historic” speech before Congress last Wednesday. So our wonderful POTUS decided it’s not enough for him to be in our face 263 times since he was inaugurated and 123 times on health care, we need MORE Obama cowbell to win the day for ObamaCare. This Sunday, Obama will flood the zone by appearing on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN and Univision (?) —Fox didn’t make the cut.

After endless speeches and the biggest protest march in recent U.S. history, one would think that the Obama administration would get the message that Americans do not want them or the present Congress to tamper with Medicare other than to eliminate waste. […snip…} If you think Obamacare is a nightmare or as Rush Limbaugh now calls it “crap legislation”, you have no idea what the Obama gang have in store for you. H.R.2454, the American Clean Energy And Security Act of 2009 , barely passed the House in June.

Has anyone noticed how quiet Harry Reid has been on pushing ObamaCare? Reid has let Max Baucus (D-MT) take the public lead in pushing for health-care reform and has limited himself mostly to general statements of support for industry reform. Rasmussen’s new polling in Nevada shows why. Reid trails both of his potential Republican challengers, and has gone under water on favorability in his state:In what is currently a difficult political climate for Democrats, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid

It really is amazing the extent to which the left will play racial politics at every turn. It’s even more amazing how brazen some members of Congress are in supporting illegal aliens. Rep. Luis Gutierrez, a Democrat from Illinois ripped into President Obama today over his decision to add citizenship provisions to his health care plan. The new enforcement measures would prevent illegal aliens from accessing whatever new health care bill eventually becomes law. It was a lack of citizenship verification that prompted Rep.

Capretta : “It’s pretty clear at this point that Pres. Obama will do just about anything to get a health-care bill to his desk this year.   It remains to be seen if he is so persuasive that he can convince his fellow Democrats that they are better off endorsing taxation of health benefits and a cap on Medicare than compromising with Republicans. “