Health care for all denied by crazy, rabid, extreme rightwing troublemakers

This seems to be the latest Dem meme. Really, this is the best argument they can make?

Reality Check: The Dems have a sizable majority in the House, a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate and President who is just dying to scribble his signature on any bill that can remotely be labeled as health care reform. Not to mention the West Wing Cheerleading Squad that like to refer to itself as the press corp. The Republicans can rant, rave and hold their breath and there is not a damn thing they can do to stop ObamaCare.

So why are they scared to pass it?? Why do they desperately seek Republican votes as cover ??The Dems know that the public's anger is real . Hell, it's practically palpable. If this were "AstroTurf" as they were claiming and so widely popular wouldn't they just pass it on a party-line vote claim the credit all to themselves and brand the Republicans as the party of "No!!" ??

They are scared and 2010 is approaching quickly.

Keep up the good work people!!!!

Hearing only what you want to hear

Video of AARP's "listening session".

"Do you work for us or do we work for you?"

They don't look dangerous or seem unruly to me. In fact, the meeting seemed less contentious after AARP left. And... not a swastika in sight.

Cavuto soon to be broadcasting from a re-education camp ??

“I take issue not with the color of this president’s skin. But maybe the thickness of it.”

Well done Neil.

Freezer sent to the cooler

William "the Freezer" Jefferson convicted of bribery and money laundering charges.

Former U.S. Representative William Jefferson, who was caught with $90,000 in cash in his freezer, was found guilty on 11 of 16 charges related to a bribery and money laundering scandal, a U.S. official said on Wednesday.

The ex-Louisiana lawmaker was accused in 2007 of soliciting millions of dollars in bribes from a dozen companies while using his office to broker business deals in Africa.

In a search of his residence, FBI agents said they had found the $90,000 in a freezer.

Jefferson faces up to 150 years in prison and could face forfeiture of payments totaling $456,000, plus stock certificates, according a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Virginia, where Jefferson was tried.

Culture of corruption?? Hard to tell since Reuters seems to have forgotten to list his party affiliation.

Presidential modesty

The man sought to speak before the Brandenburg Gate before accomplishing anything, created the Office of the President Elect, created his own campaign seal, and had Greek columns akin to Mount Olympus at his acceptance speech in Denver. So is it really a surprise that he would have a birthday cake like this:




But once again the media rides to the rescue. NBC wants to make sure you fully understand just stylish the Prez is; and has the obligatory gratuitous poke at birthers as well.

Most open administration EVER ...

withholds data. This time regarding cash-for-clunkers.

The Obama administration is refusing to quickly release government records on its "cash-for-clunkers" rebate program that would substantiate — or undercut — White House claims of the program's success, even as the president presses the Senate for a quick vote for $2 billion to boost car sales.

The Transportation Department said it will provide the data as soon as possible but did not specify a time frame or promise release of the data before the Senate votes whether to spend $2 billion more on the program.
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LaHood, for example, promotes the fact that the Ford Focus so far is at the top of the list of new cars purchased under the program. But the limited information released so far shows most buyers are not picking Ford, Chrysler or General Motors vehicles, and six of the top 10 vehicles purchased are Honda, Toyota and Hyundai.

LaHood has called the popular rebates to car buyers "the lifeline that will bring back the automobile industry in America." He and other advocates are citing program data to promote passage of another $2 billion for the incentives -- claiming dealers sold cars that are 61 percent more fuel efficient than trade-ins.

LaHood also said this week that even if buyers aren't choosing cars made by U.S. automobile manufacturers, many of the Honda, Toyota and Hyundai cars sold were made in those companies' American plants.

But there's no way to verify his claims without access to DOT's data.

So transparent it's opaque !!!

Another Health Care subversive

Neither particularly clean nor articulate. Kinda creepy actually.

Your dissent will be noted; and you will be hauled off to work in the rice fields

Remember when dissent was the highest form of patriotism?? That was in the America AmeriKKKa of George Bush. In Barack Obama's America ... not so much.

In fact, the White House blog is compiling its own snitch list.

There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.

It's not hard to imagine Keith Olbermann getting apoplectic if this were done by the fascist Boooosh!!! The left equated requests to report suspicious activity immediately after 9/11 as akin to the formation of the secret police.

And don't underestimate what can happen to individuals who end up crossing PrezBO -- just ask Joe the Plumber.

Well in any case, being the concerned citizen that I am, I am submitting these two videos by some subversive guy, with afunny name, that is clearly lying about the administration's plans for health care:





He does seem to be clean and articulate though.

Team Obama decides to meddle

Robert Gibbs calls Ahmadinejad "the elected leader of Iran".

Apparently the strategy is for the One to suck up to the mullahs so that they will have some meaningless dialogue with him, wherein he obtains some meaningless concessions from a then nuclear Iran causing Time to once again put him on the cover and allowing the sycophant press corps to lobby for his Nobel peace prize. In other words, legacy building.

Those Iranian protester dying in the streets who believe otherwise -- distractions.

Funny how the same people, who for 8 years would never acknowledge the legitimacy of George W. Bush, are strangely silent. Must be all that nuance.

Racist ?!?

L.A. Weekly thinks so.

The poster, which bears a very superficial resemblance to Shepard Fairey's famous Obama Hope illustration, has been pasted on freeway supports and other public surfaces. It has a bit of everything to appeal to the drunk tank of California conservatism: Obama is in white face, his mouth (like Ledger's Joker's) has been grotesquely slit wide open and the word "Socialism" appears below his face. The only thing missing is a noose.

Of course the left had no problems with this, from Vanity Fair:



UPDATED: To emphasize the hypocrisy, Mark Hemmingway at National Review makes the catch of the day by noting that L.A. Weekly had no problems with a noose when applied to Sarah Palin.

More benefits of single-payer health care: assisted suicide is cheaper than chemo

From Oregon's single-payer system. Yes it's a story from 2008 but the principle is still the same; rationing is needed to control costs. It's all about cost effectiveness.



Via Ed Morrisey

Behold the majesty of nationalized health care

Britain's NHS's denies painkillers for patients with chronic back pain.

The Government's drug rationing watchdog says "therapeutic" injections of steroids, such as cortisone, which are used to reduce inflammation, should no longer be offered to patients suffering from persistent lower back pain when the cause is not known.

Instead the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is ordering doctors to offer patients remedies like acupuncture and osteopathy. Specialists fear tens of thousands of people, mainly the elderly and frail, will be left to suffer excruciating levels of pain or pay as much as £500 each for private treatment.

The NHS currently issues more than 60,000 treatments of steroid injections every year. NICE said in its guidance it wants to cut this to just 3,000 treatments a year, a move which would save the NHS £33 million.

But the British Pain Society, which represents specialists in the field, has written to NICE calling for the guidelines to be withdrawn after its members warned that they would lead to many patients having to undergo unnecessary and high-risk spinal surgery.

Just wait until the bean-counters are sitting by your bedside weighing the costs of chemotherapy against your life-expectancy.

Obama: If you like your insurance plan you can keep it." -- except when you can't

Video of Obama explaining how ObamaCare will eliminate private health insurance.

Hope and Change !!!

Gone but not forgotten

Thurman Munson

My favorite Yankee. Has it really been 30 years ?!?

Clinton ooze contaminated White House grounds

Serioulsy.

Various sources within the Buzz are reporting that Michelle Obama's "organic" garden has been besieged by icky goo in the ground. As a result, the veggies aren't quite what the first lady had in mind. According to Daily Finance, the National Park Service tested the soil in the vegetable patch and found "highly elevated levels of lead" due to sewage used as fertilizer.

So the question is: Who to blame? While dumping sewage into the ground sounds like a crime worthy of Mr. Burns from "The Simpsons," the actual perpetrators were none other than the Clintons. Yep, back when Bill and Hillary were living it up in the White House, their gardening team used "sewage sludge for fertilizer."