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Doubling Down on Death Care

Yesterday the Emperor paraded out a bunch of people in white lab coats – claimed them to be doctors, physicians’ assistants, and nurses – to publicly “instruct” Congress that the time for debate is over. Like a strict father to his petulant children he said (in a nutshell), “the time of tomfoolery is over so get to work and pass my bill.”

Where his clout comes from he hasn’t a clue. But in the opinion of this voting citizen anyone who votes for this sham of a “health care bill” is committing political suicide. I guess he hasn’t noticed but the primary season has begun and at-risk members of the House and Senate are going to be very weary about sticking their necks too far out. They have the fear of a fattened-up turkey on Thanksgiving in their eyes.

He arrogantly touted that this plan has the best aspects of both Democrat and Republican proposals in it. But – it really doesn’t. It has all the destructive aspects of the Progressives in it for sure, but nothing of substance from the right. The American people know this to be true and their Congress-critters know that their constituents aren’t as stupid as the Emperor hopes they are.

Senate Democrats don’t really want any part of using budget reconciliation to placate the far left in the House. Not to mention, they can’t until the House passes the already passed Senate bill which hasn’t a snowball’s chance in Satan’s bedroom of passing in the House.

Harry Reid knows that he’s out of a job come the end of the year so he’s willing to double down with the Emperor. Pelosi, she knows that the libtards in her district are just stupid enough to continue down the road to socialism even as those very policies are destroying their home state. So she’s comfortable in knowing that her job is safe – her job as a US Congress-critter that is. As for being Speaker? In her mind it has been a good 4 years,. But come January, she has to give up her private airline.

Any Senator up for re-election is toast if they sign onto passing this thing under reconciliation. Any Progressive Congress-critter knows that they are toast if they sign on to the Senate bill. Any moderate Congress-critter knows they are as well.

In short, I don’t think this thing has legs. Honestly, I don’t see it passing because too much power is at stake. Too many in Congress will see their political futures go by the wayside with their “yes” vote. The Emperor is still in there punching though. He’s already begun to hand out bribes.

From the Weekly Standard…

Tonight, Barack Obama will host ten House Democrats who voted against the health care bill in November at the White House; he’s obviously trying to persuade them to switch their votes to yes. One of the ten is Jim Matheson of Utah. The White House just sent out a press release announcing that today President Obama nominated Matheson’s brother Scott M. Matheson, Jr. to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

Think back dear reader to the 2006 midterms… Remember a term the left used to gain power by appealing to the politically apathetic? The term was “Culture of Corruption”. What do you call a Democrat Leadership in the House, Senate, and White House who buys votes for legislation using political payoffs, appointments, and graft? How about a Party who keeps disgraced members in Committee Chairs in the midst of ethics investigations? What do you call a Presidential Administration who appoints a tax cheat to head the Department of the Treasury? I don’t know about you but to me that defines what a true “Culture of Corruption” is.

It is up to us – WE THE PEOPLE – to do what we have done since they first set a deadline to pass this monstrosity. Make our voices heard on Capital Hill. The message should be loud and clear. Pass this bill and resign because come November – you are out of a job Jack.

The message to the incoming Congress should be just as clear. Repeal EVERYTHING this Congress has passed immediately.

Make no mistake – there is about to be regime change on Capital Hill. It’s going to happen. The question for Democrats is how much control are you willing to give up? The more of you who sign on the greater the Republican majority will be.

So go ahead lefty – sign on to a bill and a process which short circuits the American people. We kind of want you to.

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Euro Doomed To Collapse

February 15, 2010 Barack Hussein Obama, Democrat Incompetence, Fiscal Irresponsibility, Lunatic Lefties, MSM Ignorance, News, Obama Fascism, Opinion, Orwellian Solutions, Stupidity, The Economy, The Fiction of Global Warming, socialism Comments Off

Europe is in such a shambles that Greece is on the verge of total chaos and the Euro is in danger of complete collapse but yet the President of the United States prefers to follow a EuroSocialist model because he sees it as a success. Every single item on the Obama agenda is EXACTLY what is leading to the collapse of the economy in Greece and the rest of the EU. But he trudges on even considering expanding executive power by issuing Executive Orders as the only way to implement his EuroSocialist modeled agenda.

From the Daily Mail:

The European single currency is facing an ‘inevitable break-up’ a leading French bank claimed yesterday.

Strategists at Paris-based Société Générale said that any bailout of the stricken Greek economy would only provide ‘sticking plasters’ to cover the deep- seated flaws in the eurozone bloc.

The stark warning came as the euro slipped further on the currency markets and dire growth figures raised the prospect of a ‘double-dip’ recession in the embattled zone.

Claims that the euro could be headed for total collapse are particularly striking when they come from one of the oldest and largest banks in France – a core founder-member.

In a note to investors, SocGen strategist Albert Edwards said: ‘My own view is that there is little “help” that can be offered by the other eurozone nations other than temporary, confidence-giving “sticking plasters” before the ultimate denouement: the break-up of the eurozone.’

He added: ‘Any “help” given to Greece merely delays the inevitable break-up of the eurozone.’

According to the article, the Euro has lost 10% of its value since November. The Dollar and Pound are each gaining on the dominant European currency.

A few weeks ago, I wrote a post asking, “Economic Recovery Or Economic Ruin? What Is He Up To?“, in which I described exactly this scenario possibly happening here in the United States.

Europe is beginning its descent, will the US follow? It will if Congress does not end the insanity. Congress will only act if we force them to.

Today Sen. Evan Bayh announced that he will not be seeking re-election in spite of leading in the generic poll and banking a $13 million war chest. Why? Does he see what his President has done? Does he see the writing on the wall? I bet he does.

The President will now be issuing executive orders to slip in provisions of ObamaCare and Cap and Tax. Economy destroying measures by executive decree. He needs to be shut down NOW!

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The Truth About An Inconvenient Lie

February 15, 2010 Barack Hussein Obama, Barack Hussein Obama Lies, Liberal MSM Bias, MSM Ignorance, News, Obama Fascism, Opinion, Orwellian Solutions, The Fiction of Global Warming, socialism View Comments

As the Emperor contemplates expanding his power through the use of the executive order as a tool to legislate without Congress, stunning news has emerged from the UK which the Emperor will ignore I’m sure. One aspect of his agenda which he has been unable to ram-rod through Congress and is now poised to use executive orders to carry out is his Cap and Trade plan. How he expects to use power that he doesn’t have to forward this job killing measure is beyond me but perhaps he should now actually listen to the so-called scientist that has caused the hysteria upon which his plans have been built.

Professor Phil Jones of the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University is now saying that Global Warming hasn’t existed since 1995. But wait… didn’t they say that 2009 was the warmest year on record? How can that be if Global Warming hasn’t existed since 1995?!?

From The Daily Mail…

The academic at the centre of the ‘Climategate’ affair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, has admitted that he has trouble ‘keeping track’ of the information.

Colleagues say that the reason Professor Phil Jones has refused Freedom of Information requests is that he may have actually lost the relevant papers.

Professor Jones told the BBC yesterday there was truth in the observations of colleagues that he lacked organisational skills, that his office was swamped with piles of paper and that his record keeping is ‘not as good as it should be’.

The data is crucial to the famous ‘hockey stick graph’ used by climate change advocates to support the theory.

Professor Jones also conceded the possibility that the world was warmer in medieval times than now – suggesting global warming may not be a man-made phenomenon.

And he said that for the past 15 years there has been no ‘statistically significant’ warming.

I really really hate to say it but I guess I must -

I TOLD YOU SO!

Now – I have previously gone with information that supported the idea that global temperatures actually plateaued in 1997, but if the guy whose data was instrumental in the formation of the IPCC report says that actually happened 2 years EARLIER, who am I to counter that.

The fact is that the earth hasn’t been warming for ~~the bulk~~ ANY of this hysteria based boondoggle. Al Gore’s movie ‘An ~~Incomplete Deception~~ Inconvenient Truth’, the docu-fiction upon which the hysteria about Global Warming was inflated to pandemic proportions, was released in 2006. According to Jones, Global Warming ceased in 1995. That was a full 11 years before Gore’s movie was released. The movie that he won the Nobel Peace Prize for incidentally.

Since then the propaganda film has been shown in just about every single public school and hyped at many churches. Legislation has been formulated around the claims cited in the movie and by the IPCC report which we now know was doctored to favor a predetermined conclusion. Data was withheld and conveniently lost. Substances have been banned and others are set to be banned based on information that was nothing more than a lie meant to further a political agenda.

I’ll wager anyone any amount that this information does not hit the evening news casts. ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and MSNoBodyCares will ignore this information as long as they can get away with. Why? To support Obamaramadingdong’s agenda.

For further reading on this information check out:

Climategate U-turn as scientist at centre of row admits: There has been no global warming since 1995
MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: The professor’s amazing climate change retreat
THE GREAT CLIMATE CHANGE RETREAT
Obama Making Plans to Use Executive Power

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Democrat Cannibalistic Munchfest…

February 9, 2010 Death Care, Democrat In-Fighting, Elections, News, Opinion, U.S. House, US Senate View Comments

…Let The Feeding Begin

Today class, we are going to examine the Democrat Tribe. They are a less developed community of humans as they become cannibalistic when threatened. Let me explain…

Political failure leads to finger-pointing which then morphs into a sort of twisted political brand of cannibalism. This is especially true for Democrats. It manifested itself rather conspicuously during the Clintonian Infestation and, to this point at a lesser degree, in the Obama Infestation. We haven’t yet seen a massive “redistribution” of the proverbial deck chairs – but it’s coming.

More than at the White House, Democrats in Congress are more apt to throw each other under that political bus than anywhere else. If a Representative or Senator steps out of the pre-carved political groove you can pretty much assume that their current term will also be their last if they have not already entrenched themselves in their seat. We see this already as incumbent Democrats are beginning to face primary challenges in their midterm races. More often than not, moderates are being challenged by the far-left.

What brings about this observation today is a story that appears in The Hill’s online version – Congressional Democrats point finger of blame at Rahm Emanuel. The Hill’s Alexander Bolton points a spotlight on the frustration of Congressional Democrats who are beginning to smell blood in the water. It seems that before the cannibals begin to swarm and close in on someone, there has to be a transgression committed by the individual that makes them already vulnerable, and that is what is happening to Rhambo.

Rham already took a political hit for his choice of words that drew the firestorm begun by former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. This transgression combined with his intense personal involvement with the Infestation’s failed effort to get national Death Care passed has driven him underground. While he is in political purgatory, those looking to save their own hides are taking aim at Emanuel and will eventually put enough pressure on the Emperor to make a change. If they can shift the focus from their failure and project[1] it upon Emanuel, thereby lessening the blow to themselves in their re-election efforts, then perhaps they may survive the retribution from the voters for their shameful practice of ignoring their constituents.

Progressives do not believe that Emanuel did enough to swoon impressionable Republicans to the cause. Moderates think the Infestation and Congressional leadership tried to do too much at one time, thus creating a large opposition where Emanuel was the point man for the Infestation.

In a sense, Emanuel used a “scorched earth” policy on Death Care which left the Democrats and the Emperor without a major victory in the first year of this Congress. It is a well known in national politics that the only productive year of a Congress is the first year. Every House member and 1/3rd of the Senate spend year 2 of the Congress running for re-election so nothing generally gets done. Certainly nothing that would risk re-election prospects. No productive first year means an impotent Congress.

With the impending anti-incumbent political tidal wave set to crash into the Democrat majority in November, entrenched Democrats are no longer in a position of safety. The uber-left see 2009 as the wasted opportunity to achieve a century of planning. They came out of their political holes to put forth the most aggressive push toward socializing the United States since FDR and have failed again. Much worse, they’ve exposed themselves for the world to see.

We’ve already begun to see the re-branding of themselves. First they were “progressives” until that became a dirty word in America. They then switched to “liberal” until they destroyed that image. They then wanted to re-claim “progressive” believing it to be a more appealing description of what they are. Now that Americans again know what they wish to “progress” toward, they are re-branding themselves as “POPULIST” because they believe it to be more appealing than “progressive” or “liberal”. As the old saying goes, “You can put lipstick on a pig, but it is still a pig.”

In the dust-up to the 2010 midterms we will begin to see changes made. Loyalties will be tested and some abandoned. We’ve seen how Democrats treat their own once they are drummed out of the corps. Ask William Jefferson how it was to be abandoned by his Speaker and his Party. Or John Edwards for that matter. And if you need any further evidence of what I have written ask Senator Joe Lieberman. First his Party runs someone else for his seat forcing him to defend it as an Independent. Then, because he sided with the Republican candidate for President (albeit a PROGRESSIVE Republican), they threatened to strip him of his Committee Chair. THEN, because he opposed the Emperor’s Death Care bill, his wife’s job was threatened. Those power hungry Democrats want to feed. They are eager to feed and nothing will stop them from feeding…even if it’s on their own kind.

Like sharks, Congressional Democrats are beginning to hunt for a scapegoat. Emanuel has been identified as the most vulnerable high profile member of the Infestation. He is someone who does not face re-election this year and is a fitting scapegoat to project their insecurities upon. Let the feeding frenzy begin.

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References and/or Footnotes:

Projection is a defense mechanism in which anxiety-arousing impulses are externalized by placing them, or projecting them, onto others – Personality: Classic Theories And Modern Research – Third Edition ©2006, pg.97 [↩]

Rep. Jim Jordan Responds To SOTU

January 28, 2010 Announcements., Barack Hussein Obama, Democrat Incompetence, Fiscal Responsibility, News, Opinion, Taxes, The Economy Comments Off

Rep. Jim Jordan (R OH-4) has issued a statement in response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union (aka: Democrat pep talk).

For the past year, President Obama and Speaker Pelosi have led the nation on a reckless course of uncontrolled spending and a massive new government expansion into the private businesses and personal lives of Americans.

These big-government policies, from the $787 billion stimulus bill that failed to create jobs, to the budgets and bailouts that are creating an insurmountable debt for our children and grandchildren, have been disastrous to our economy.

Tonight, the President said he wants to increase federal spending even more, then “freeze” spending at an ultra-high level. Continuing this irresponsible level of spending will further put this country on a collision course with disaster.

Last week, the voters of Massachusetts sent a clear message to Washington – stop the big spending. The President heard the same message when he visited with job-creators in Ohio last week – big spending doesn’t create jobs.

I have supported the concept of a freeze, but the baseline number must be much lower. If the President is willing to freeze non-security spending at the levels from when he took office last year – before the stimulus, before the other big increases – then you will find Republicans ready to work with him.

If the administration is serious about fiscal responsibility, then let’s get to work – but it’s going to take more than budget gimmicks and bloated baselines to get our economy moving again.

The only reason why Obama is proposing a freeze on spending now is to insure that Republicans don’t lower spending on the designated programs for the remainder of his Infestation. The numbers being thrown around concerning budget savings generated by the proposed freeze are insignificant in relation to the over-all budget. It is my feeling that this proposal by Obama is disingenuous. He only wants to insure that the political payoffs that he was able to forced through Congress while his Party had the 60-vote super majority remain in place.

Last week I was watching an interview on Fox News that involved Bob Beckel (Democrat Strategist) and a Conservative (who I don’t recall). Beckel was attempting to make a point that allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire is “just allowing them to return to Clinton era levels”. Fine Bob. How about we first cut spending back to Clinton era levels before we mess with tax rates. Then if the country is still running a budget deficit, we can discuss tax increases. Because raising taxes will do nothing to cut the deficit as long as Congress continues to spend money.

Oh, and before the Clintonian Koolaid Kids claim that I’m endorsing Clinton era policies remember 1 thing. A Republican Congress passed the budget that ran a surplus. More over, it was a Republican who wrote the bill – John Kasich who happens to be running for Governor of Ohio.

/rant

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Death Care Bill On Life Support?

January 13, 2010 Death Care, Democrat In-Fighting, Fiscal Irresponsibility, Health Care, News, Opinion, Pelosi - The Wicked Witch of the West, Stupidity, U.S. House, US Senate Comments Off

Both Congressional bodies passed bills independent of each other that include two different and massively expensive approaches on how to implement the President’s Death Care plan. With only gaining 1 Republican vote in the House and no Republican support in the Senate, the Death Care bill is a completely Democrat show. The hold-up with the bill is within the Democrat Party. It is the Dems that can’t reconcile on the best way to implement a bill the Republicans cannot block on their own.

It goes without saying that any significant deviation from the Senate bill will result in a deadlock in the Senate. A cloture vote will not happen. Without a significant deviation from the Senate bill, the egomaniacs in the House leadership will not be able to muster the required 218 votes for passage; especially as more and more House members see in this bill the road to early retirement.

There have already been several announcements declaring retirement in lieu of re-election efforts. One Congressman, Rep. Parker Griffith (AL-5), has even left the Democrat Party and is now aligning himself with the GOP. Still more are facing almost certain defeat on November 4th because of their support of massive spending bills in a recession that seems only to be getting deeper.

Voters see this as a political quagmire. The die hard leftists in the House won’t vote on any bill not including a public option, whereas the Senate can’t achieve cloture on anything that includes a public option. There are major differences in each bill on how to fund them. The Senate bill would tax so-called “Cadillac” health plans at a rate of 40% which would be a blow to the middle class. Many union members have these so-called “Cadillac” plans. House members see this as an affront to their political base.

The House bill, on the other hand, proposes to pay for itself by taxing millionaires. This sentiment is popular with the dregs of society who don’t realize that this is the very group of people who create jobs…but then again most of the public that supports this fiasco don’t want to work to begin with.

Both bills require health coverage of all Americans and include a system of fines for not carrying coverage. This issue has prompted many to discuss the Constitutional implications of the bills. Let us not forget this: nowhere in the Constitution is the federal government granted the responsibility of overseeing the health care industry. The mere discussion of these bills in itself is a violation of the 10th Amendment.

Some in the House are claiming, as Rep. Anthony Weiner (D NY-9) has, that negotiating with the Senate is like negotiating with a gun to their heads. Good. I love the in-fighting. It gives me hope that this POS bill will ultimately fail.

Another problem for the Emperor is that the further we get into 2010, many House members will be less willing to stick their necks out for this plan. This is especially true if the possibility of failure in the Senate exists. If House members stick their necks out and Reid fails to get the 60 votes required for cloture, the Death Care bill will die on the table and flat-line the careers of House members who support it. Because if it should die on the table in the Senate, House members who supported the bill in the House will have sacrificed their political careers for nothing. Make no mistake, support of the Death Care bill will mean the death of many a political career.

Compounding the problems for the Emperor is the fact that the Secretary of State of Massachusetts cannot stall certification of Scott Brown’s victory (assuming he wins next Tuesday) indefinitely. If the House and Senate are going to act, they will need to act quickly or Brown’s ‘NO’ vote will definitely table the bill in the Senate no matter what they come up with.

The best thing for this nation is for them to do nothing at this point. With this Congress, they are doing their best work when they are on recess. It appears to me that unless they get this done now, it won’t get done and a lame duck session of Congress will begin early. If this should happen, this Congress will be hitting their stride.

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WAPO: Rangel, Step Aside

Anyone who believes the media in the United States is controlled by right leaning ideologues must have been in a drug induced coma for the past 9 years and missed the whole media bombardment of Richard Nixon in the mid 70′s. The garbage wrapper most responsible for all of Nixon’s trouble in 1974 is now turning on a Democrat – one Charles Rangel (D NY-15).

In what can only be termed as liberal cannibalism, WAPO says…

We called on Mr. Rangel to resign his coveted post last November while the House ethics committee probed his contact with a potential donor to a pet project who also had business before the committee. Mind you, that committee already was looking into his using official stationery to raise funds for that pet project, paying below-market rents on four Harlem apartments, failing to report income from a Florida condominium sale and failing to pay taxes on a home in the Dominican Republic. There’s another subcommittee investigation into lobbyist-paid trips by Mr. Rangel and four other members of Congress.

Much is expected of elected officials. Much more is expected and demanded of those entrusted with chairmanships and the power that comes with them, especially when it involves the nation’s purse strings. From all that we’ve seen thus far, Mr. Rangel has violated that trust continually and seemingly without care.

Democrats never let a short-coming of any Republican go without pressuring a resignation. In this case, the Dems are conspicuously silent and the Republicans aren’t doing any better. A tax cheat is in charge of writing tax law and another is charged with enforcing tax law. The Obama Infestation is teeming with radicals and criminals but no one in the press seems to care and the Republicans are perfectly content to allow the Dictator-in-Chief have his way without challenge.

Charlie Rangle thought that he could get away with not disclosing over half his income but yet he is left in charge of writing tax law for this Congress? He has already written into the Porkulus increased enforcement penalties for those who attempt to cheat on their taxes but somehow I think he’ll escape prosecutions, interest, and/or penalties.

In 2006, SanFran Nan used the term “Culture of Corruption” as a tool to fraudulently gain the majority in both houses of Congress. At the time, we on the right warned you that Democrats are the true “Culture of Corruption” but you didn’t listen. With a track record that could circumnavigate the earth multiple times, the Democrats are known for short-cutting the system, political favors, pay-offs, and pay-to-play schemes.

In 1960, it was the Democrats who benefited from the mob stuffing the ballot box in Chicago which resulted in John Kennedy defeating Richard Nixon for the Presidency and launched the mythical comparison of the Kennedy family with Camelot. But no one complained. At least those who did were ignored.

From Kennedy’s victory to his brother’s not being charged for murdering Mary Jo Kopechne to the unindicted co-conspirator (Jack Murtha) to William “Cold Cash” Jefferson to Charlie Rangel (among numerous others which I haven’t the room to list), the Democrat party has been corrupt since the days of Tammany Hall.

Today we have Chicago mob style politics complete with threats from the Chief of Staff and pay-for-play. They use union thugs to use intimidation and violence against anyone who opposes the Emperor. Anyone who says Chicago mob style politics is NOT corrupt should have a head CT because something is amiss in their cranium.

Do I think Charlie Rangel should resign his position on the Ways and Means Committee? Hell yeah I do. As-a-matter-of-fact, I’d like to see every last Democrat in national office resign because their isn’t an honest one among them. They are all corrupt. And the vast majority of them do not have the best interest of this country in mind when they go to work. They are progressives. And what do progressives seek to progress toward? SOCIALISM!

In true Alinskyite fashion, the ends will justify the means. If the goal is achieved, how you got to that goal does not matter. You can cheat (they do). You can steal (they have). You can lie (they are). If they are talking they are lying. If they are running for office, they are cheating. And if they lose and it goes to a recount, they will magically inherit hundreds of votes thereby effectively stealing the election (ask Norm Coleman).

Rangel is a symptom and we cannot just focus on him. He needs to go – yes. But so do Congressional Democrats and the entire Infestation because it is comprised of thugs, thieves, criminals, and radicals. They are the disease of American politics. Corrupt from the top down and in all directions. Thus creating another “I told you so moment” for Gribbit’s Word because I warned you Obama was a radical before the election. And you, as usual, ignored me. America, it is your fault these turds have power. When are you going to quit drinking the Democrat Kool-aid and think for yourselves?

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Obama/Pelosi/Waxman/Reid Death Care Reminds Me of Auto Insurance

August 10, 2009 Barack Hussein Obama, Barack Hussein Obama Lies, Democrat Incompetence, Fiscal Irresponsibility, Health Care, MSM Ignorance, News, Obama Fascism, Opinion, Pelosi - The Wicked Witch of the West, Presidential Distortions, Presidential Politics, Stupidity, The Nanny State, The Wicked Witch of the West, U.S. House, US Senate Comments Off

The Obama/Pelosi/Waxman/Reid Death Care bills making their way through Congress seem to indicate one slight detail that NO ONE in the State Controlled Media, Talk Radio, or the underground are talking about. The bureaucratic mess created in an attempt to control out of control costs seem to center around an auto repair shop model. Let me explain…

Like an insurance adjuster, the board of bureaucrats empowered by these bills would make determinations on whether it is cost effective to approve a medical procedure or manage symptoms until you die. Plain and simple. Like an insurance adjuster, this board can make a determination that the costs involved in your care may not be justified by the “quality of life” you would possibly have after receiving said care. They may simply say that you are not worth fixing, authorize medications to manage your symptoms and send you home to live out your days in agony or waste away in an approved nursing home or hospice.

We are treading in dangerous waters when we start applying cost analysis to human life. But that is the heart of the Obama/Pelosi/Waxman/Reid Death Care bills. being considered in each house of Congress.

Call your Congresscritter and tell him/her that you demand they oppose the Obama/Pelosi/Waxman/Reid Death Care proposals.

And while you are at it, ask them to explain to which Article or Amendment of the Constitution gives the federal government the authority to oversee much less control health care or any other private industry.

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The ‘Cash for Clunkers’ Fiasco

August 1, 2009 Barack Hussein Obama, Barack Hussein Obama Lies, Democrat Incompetence, Energy, Fiscal Irresponsibility, Libtards on Parade, Lunatic Lefties, News, Opinion Comments Off

In an effort to remove inefficient vehicles from the road because the libtarded Democrat Congress is SO CONCERNED about the environment, Congress sets aside $1 Billion to fund a vehicle recycling program in which a dealer would give a $3,500 – $4,500 trade-in for a car meeting specific fuel “inefficiency” criteria. The dealer then sets the vehicle aside for the government to crush and recycle. Sounds simple enough right? Problem – $1 Billion wasn’t nearly enough to make it through the first week of the program let alone the 4 months designated.

To combat the funding short-falls, the government changed the EPA standards significantly eliminating most “clunkers” from the program. Out of curiosity I was interested in whether or not our older car qualified. Not that we are in any position to buy another car at this point, I was just curious if our “clunker” qualified. Ironically, it doesn’t.

The government’s website for the program asks a series of questions about the car. Year, make, model, size of the engine, etc… However, when it tallies the results it uses the fuel economy ratings of the vehicle when it was new not in its current condition.

Our vehicle when new supposedly got 26 MPG. If it is getting 20 at this point I’d be surprised. Since our car did not fall below the required 18 MPG fuel “inefficiency” standard, it does not qualify.

Meanwhile, dealers and car companies are flooding the airwaves with advertisements for ‘Cash for Clunkers’ when in fact most cars will not qualify. Many of these same dealers are getting in a bind with the program because the government’s computers cannot keep up with demand. They are crashing. A caller to the Rush Limbaugh program Friday who is car salesman explained the program. He informed Rush’s listeners that there is a backlog of deals waiting to be processed by the dealers. In many cases, the dealerships are allowing prospective buyers to drive off the lot with a car assuming a deal exists but as the EPA and the bureaucrats running this program begin to change the standards, many of these deals are falling through. The dealers then are faced with calling the prospective buyers back to either pay the extra $4,500 or turn in the cars they thought they had just bought.

Cash for Clunkers is just another example of Democrat Incompetence. They think an idea sounds good. They think it makes sense. But they fail to understand how it would work in practice. They fail to consider what happens to others by its implementation. They fail to understand what would happen if their plan fails to work as drafted on paper. In other words, this program is just another example of Democrats failing. But what else is new.

This program was hailed by the main stream press as such a victory for the environment. This program was touted as a way to help the American people by giving them the opportunity to buy a new more efficient car. And in doing so allowing the new car buyers to save money on gasoline because of the better fuel economy. What a bunch of bullshit anyway.

First of all, only those who have the disposable income to buy a new car in this economy would even be able to take advantage of this program anyway. They are the only people able to handle a car payment in this economy. The very economy created by the main stream media. After-all, they are the ones who talked this nation into a recession when it didn’t actually exist.

Those of us still feeling the crunch of the recession that Newsweek boastfully declares is now over in spite of the GDP being at -1% cannot buy a new car. So who is helping the rich now Mr. Obama?!?

Because the automakers and dealers are now on the hook for a program that was improperly funded by the government, the House yesterday authorized another $2 Billion for the program. That won’t get through the recess. Not to mention, the Senate left without acting to my knowledge. (*Note – if this turns out to not be the case, this sentence will be removed.)

Another entitlement created by libtarded morons elected to higher office who themselves couldn’t understand the plight of the common man in a hundred million years. In their infinite stupidity they failed to fund the program so that it could last more than 4 days and since funding fell short, decided to change the rules of the game after the program was implemented.

Obama has t he audacity to be shocked by his dramatically falling poll numbers?!? No wonder Nancy doesn’t care that she’s the most despised politician in America. Anyone with a D next to their name will soon be in the cross-hairs of anyone with a brain. House members are up for re-election next year. 36 Senators as well. Democrats are beginning to fear their control of Congress will evaporate quickly especially if this economy fails to improve (pay attention Newsweek).

The Truth of the matter is that Congress should naturally swing the other direction in 2010 since the American people distrust 1 party rule. After-all, look where it is taking us now!

Nancy knows that come January 2, 2011 she is out of a job. Harry knows that it is a very real possibility that he won’t be re-elected let alone maintain his leadership position in the Senate. The people of Nevada know that Harry is a fugitive from the Alzheimer’s ward. Too bad their isn’t a government program call “Cash for Clunker Politicians”. ::snap:: OH That’s right! There IS such a program it’s called an election. Elect the right party and you get to keep more of your own money.

So America – take advantage of a 227 year old economic program brought to you by the founding fathers. “Cash for Clunker Politicians” also known as elections. Vote the tax and spenders out on November 2, 2010.

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Normally Dem Friendly AP Calls Obama Out on Deficit Responsibility Denial

President Juggears attempted to shift blame for the escalating federal budget deficit onto his predecessor…

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“Number one, we inherited a $1.3 trillion deficit…. That wasn’t me. Number two, there is almost uniform consensus among economists that in the middle of the biggest crisis, financial crisis, since the Great Depression, we had to take extraordinary steps. So you’ve got a lot of Republican economists who agree that we had to do a stimulus package and we had to do something about the banks. Those are one-time charges, and they’re big, and they’ll make our deficits go up over the next two years.

However, the normally liberal friendly Associated Press isn’t buying it. In an unusual confirmation of just exactly how the federal government is defined by the United States Constitution, the AP reminds us…

Congress controls the purse strings, not the president, and it was under Democratic control for Obama’s last two years as Illinois senator. Obama supported the emergency bailout package in President George W. Bush’s final months – a package Democratic leaders wanted to make bigger.

To be sure, Obama opposed the Iraq war, a drain on federal coffers for six years before he became president. But with one major exception, he voted in support of Iraq war spending.

The AP even goes further confirming Republican and Conservative reminders that President Obamaramadingdong is actually making the economy worse with his “fix” for our nation’s financial woes.

The economy has worsened under Obama, though from forces surely in play before he became president, and he can credibly claim to have inherited a grim situation.

Still, his response to the crisis goes well beyond “one-time charges.”

He’s persuaded Congress to expand children’s health insurance, education spending, health information technology and more. He’s moving ahead on a variety of big-ticket items on health care, the environment, energy and transportation that, if achieved, will be more enduring than bank bailouts and aid for homeowners.

The nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimated his policy proposals would add a net $428 billion to the deficit over four years, even accounting for his spending reduction goals. Now, the deficit is nearly quadrupling to $1.75 trillion. – emphasis mine

For all the excuses that the AP makes for the man with the middle name Hussein in their article, they also are pointing out his disconnection with the truth. Which is in fact something that we on the right have been telling you since before YOU voted for him. YOU, the American voter, are responsible for what is happening with our country. YOU, allowed Barry the Wonder Turd to become POTUS in spite of questions that have gone unanswered to this day. YOU elected him without knowing who he is. And YOU buried your head in the sand when he began to show his colors before the election writing off verbal mistakes which gave us glimpses into his intent.

YOU, whether YOU voted for Barry the Wonder Turd or not, are equally guilty as those who did because YOU didn’t do enough to prevent his election. YOU, allowed him to get away with avoiding substantive debate and taking his eloquent speeches on face value.

By failing to demand answers to the questions about his place of birth and his associations with known domestic terrorists, racist pastors, and known Communists, YOU have failed the American people past, present, and future.

My conscience is clear. I did my part. I voted against him and wrote about him. I asked the questions to which I am still demanding answers to. Where were YOU?

I find it incredibly disconcerting that the AP – the liberal propagandists that they are – are doing more to counter Obamaramadingdong’s pretty speeches attempting to absolve himself of all culpability than YOU are. It is time to act. It’s actually past time to act but the time for burying your head in the sand is OVER.

With the defection of Arlen Spector to the Democrat Party the Senate Majority Leader has the super majority required to bypass the Will of the People. It is now more imperative than ever to take away that majority.

1/3 of the Senate is up for re-election next year. We need to either reduce that majority to make it possible for the Republicans to block harmful legislation (no matter how well intentioned) or regain the majority in the Senate. Every single House seat is up and it is possible – no matter how improbable – to regain the majority there as well.

We also need State Houses. For example – Ohio.

Commie Ted Strickland is up for re-election in 2010. If not for the corrupt way in which his predecessor governed, he would NOT have that office now. Ken Blackwell would. But that wasn’t in the cards thanks to Bob Taft. But Ohioans have a shot in 2010. If someone like John Kasich can be persuaded to run, he would be elected by the Buckeye State.

It is YOUR job to find qualified candidates in YOUR state to throw these Commie Bums OUT OF OFFICE. So get up off YOUR [three letter term for Democrats] and get it done.

News Source – The AP via MyWay News

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