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Friday, August 7, 2009
Friday August 7 -- Got news or an update?
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ORGANIZING THE 'WRONG' COMMUNITY NY Post
Get this: The party of "community orga nizers" is now whining that President Obama's critics are organizing com munities -- against his health-care scheme.
The nerve of 'em, huh?
Faced with mushrooming opposition to ObamaCare, Democrats have launched a multi-media campaign that attacks foes as "extremists" who've "called out the mob" to "destroy President Obama" and "intimidate and silence regular people." They cite "the playbook of high-level Republican political operatives."
Actually, that sounds more like the tactics of the Chicago street, where Barack Obama and Rahm Emanuel cut their political teeth. Indeed, you can almost hear Richard Nixon grousing about angry anti-war protestors and pleading for "the great silent majority of Americans" to rise up.
THIS week, as President Obama's surro gates denounced worried citizens as a "mob," leftist leaders abroad cracked heads.
More than a few Obamacrats may long for the same freedom of action as Venezuela's Hugo Chavez or Russia's Vladimir Putin.
To say nothing of North Korea's "dear leader," Kim Jong-Il, who made a former US president dance real close. Or Iran's "President" Ahmedinejad, who White House press secretary Robert Gibbs described as "elected." (Had a Bushie committed such a gaffe, it would've made headlines.)
Black Conservative Beating Up by 4 SEIU Thugs at Town Hall Examiner.com
Eyewitness: "I was at the event. My name is David Brown. I am an atty in St. Louis. My friend, Kenneth Gladney, who is black, was passing out Don't Tread on Me Flags and Tea Party buttons at the end of the event to Tea Party supporters and conservatives.
He was then called a racial slur by two SEIU members. He was then attacked by two black males (SEIU reps) and white male, another SEIU rep., and a white woman. The punched him in the face and he fell to the ground. He was then kicked and punched by all four. One fled on foot, and three were arrested.
Kenneth was taken to St. John's Mercy Hospital to the emergency room. He has suffered numerous injuries. For more information, please contact me at PHONE NUMBER EDITED OUT. Thank you."
DEMS SNEAK UNION THUGS INTO CARNAHAN TOWN HALL-- 1,000 Tea Party Taxpayers Locked Out!
Before the event opened, Carnahan staff was sneaking in SEIU members in the side door marked "handicapped.”
Inside the gym they roped off two sections. One was for the tea party taxpayers that quickly filled up when they opened the doors at 6:00 PM, and the other section marked "reserved" was saved for the SEIU union members, with the rest of the crowd being locked out!
Is Significant Drop In African-American Support In Obama's Future? (Townhall Matt Towery)
...I was startled when our firm, InsiderAdvantage, conducted this past week two separate surveys about various issues for corporate clients in the area. Both polls were conducted on the same night..
...I was shocked when one survey showed President Barack Obama with a disapproval rating of 35 percent among African Americans in Georgia, while the second one had it at 38 percent.
Those two results are statistically identical, as both polls had margins of error of plus or minus 4 percent.
Obama still shows relatively strong support coming from blacks in national surveys. So how do these two Georgia polls make sense?
At first blush, they don't. But I'm highly confident in our ability to gauge the opinions of black voters in Georgia and other Southern states. Our firm was the only one that indicated just how well Obama would fare in Georgia in the election last November. He got 47 percent of the vote, and might have done even better had he concentrated campaign resources here until Election Day.
Is Georgia an anomaly, or does it portend ominous things for the president?
Six people, including P-D reporter, arrested at Carnahan meeting (ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH)
MEHLVILLE -- St. Louis County police on Thursday arrested at least four people, including a Post-Dispatch reporter, outside a town hall forum held by Rep. Russ Carnahan, said Dawn Majors, a Post-Dispatch photojournalist who witnessed everything unfold.
It happened about 8:30 p.m at Bernard Middle School on Forder Road in Mehlville. Carnahan, D-St. Louis, had drawn a rowdy crowd that overflowed the school gym and left dozens of people outside. Many of those who showed up at what had been billed as a forum on aging carried signs about the national health-care debate.
Dozens of people were kept out because there was no room for them inside. Members of the local Tea Party Coalition, a movement that has emerged to counter President Barack Obama’s policies, had urged their members to attend, which in turn spurred Democrats to establish a strong presence.
Deficit hits record $1.3 trillion for July (Politico)
The Congressional Budget Office has just released more mind boggling deficit numbers -- the federal deficit topped $1.3 trillion in July, a new record.
Barack Obama faces revolt over health care overhaul (TELEGRAPH U.K.)
US President Barack Obama faced a growing revolt against his $1.5 trillion health care reforms as his approval rating slumped to an all-time low and Democratic congressmen received death threats.
On the eve of Mr Obama's 200th day as president, his ratings slumped to 50 per cent, while a series of public meetings called by Democrats to promote the reforms have degenerated into mob scenes and a congressman received a death threat.
With progress of a health bill - which the White House had hoped for in July - stalled on Capitol Hill and rising concern over Mr Obama's handling of the economy, his national approval rating fell by seven per cent from last month. The new low is a far cry from the stratospheric ratings of his heady first days in office.
James Carville’s New Poll is so Bad For Democrats He Doesn’t Want You to Know it Exists(redstate.com)
Democracy Corps is James Carville and Stan Greenberg’s pet polling organization that always, without fail, issues polling picked up by the media highlighting how Republicans are screwed and Democrats are ever victorious...
...But unlike their other polls that they usher out with great fanfare, this poll was released with no announcement, no fanfare, and no media roll out.
Why?
Because the polling shows the Democrats are in a world of self-inflicted hurt...
...And among their pool of likely voters, 53% of those likely to vote in 2010 think Obama is too liberal. The same number think he’s going to raise taxes. 55% think he doesn’t deliver on his promises.
Blue Dog DEMOCRAT Hides from Constituents [Bobby Bright, D-AL website]
Tonight Bright posted this on his "District Work Schedule" page:
8/6/09 MONTGOMERY, AL - Congressman Bright will be continuing his district work schedule and will be in the River Region on Friday, August 7th. Congressman Bright will be hosting a meet and greet event, as well as two "Congress on Your Corner" to listen to concerns and meet with constituents.
That's it. Event is today. No times. No locations.
If Obama Loses Jon Stewart, He’s Lost America (Big Hollywood)
Luly 15, 2009, - a day that shall live in comedic infamy. The Obama administration’s first direct hit from reliably friendly allies. Former Saturday Night Live star, now stand up comic Dana Carvey was the guest on the new Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien.
When O’Brien asked Carvey his opinion of Obama, Carvey trotted out some fresh material. “I’m worried. The economy just had a heart attack, but Barack just wants to work on the knee,” Carvey riffed.
”Should we do CPR? No, we’re gonna fix this knee. We can do CPR when it’s efficient and cost effective, but right now we’re going to work on the meniscus.
“Carvey concluded the bit suggesting George W. Bush would have used an economic “crash cart.” “Tax cuts for everybody - CLEAR!” The audience roared.
Were they laughing at Carvey’s “dumb guy” Bush impression, or was it the excitement of more money in their pockets as an economic remedy?
No matter the audience response. Carvey saw fit to address economic policy in his comedy. That’s telling....
For fear of being 'ambushed' by Republican "lynchmobs," Democratic congressman Brian Baird (WA-3) said he refuses to hold in person town hall meetings over the summer month long congressional recess.
Citing the G.O.P.'s "Brown Shirt tactics" as the impetus for his decision, Baird told the Columbian he will instead hold a telephone town hall.
Funny, the citizens he’s afraid of facing have a similar fear ... we’re afraid of the (national) socialists, like him, who have taken over our government.
When Laure Cuccarolo went into early labor on a recent Sunday night in a village in southern France, her only choice was to ask the local fire brigade to whisk her to a hospital 30 miles away. A closer one had been shuttered by cost cuts in France's universal health system.
Doctors, trade unions and others have called national protests against French health-care cutbacks this year. One petition signed by prominent physicians said they feared the intent of the reform was to turn health care into a 'lucrative business' rather than a public service. Ms. Cuccarolo's little girl was born in a firetruck.
The problem with France is that they haven't figured out that to pay for something that they've never paid for -- before assuming control -- they needed to 'squeeze out all of the efficiencies from the system'. At least according to the Marxists -- efficiency is the problem -- too brutally uncaring.
GateHouse Media loses more millions in second quarter 2009 (Pulaski County Web)
GateHouse Media, the owner of 89 daily newspapers including the Waynesville Daily Guide outside Fort Leonard Wood where I worked before I resigned to begin the Pulaski County Daily News, announced its second-quarter results with more millions of dollars in losses.
I could say a lot about the decline of the traditional mainline media, but the numbers from their press release speak for themselves. GateHouse's CEO, Mike Reed, wrote this: "Our total revenue on a same-store basis declined 15.2% which was slightly better than the 16.3% decline we saw in the first quarter.
The New York Times: Just the Facts?-six month study shows bias toward Palestinians. (Honest Reporting)
A six month study of the New York Times shows a bias toward the Palestinian narrative.
New York Times coverage often supports the Palestinian narrative without placing events in greater context.
Headlines, eyewitness accounts, and images depicted the Gaza conflict as Israeli aggression against Palestinian civilians. Settlements are misrepresented by having images of tiny outposts accompany articles about settlements.
Issues such as Palestinian incitement are downplayed or ignored.
WaPo: Bush-Joker Kinda Made Sense, Obama-Joker Racist (Breitbart.com)
This required a few passes to be sure my eyes weren’t playing tricks. You keep telling yourself to stop being amazed by hypocrisy and bias, but again and again someone like Philip Kennicott, a staff writer for the Washington Post, comes up with nonsense like this:
And didn’t we see George W. Bush depicted as the Joker not so long ago?
Yes, in an image by Drew Friedman published online by Vanity Fair on July 29, 2008. That drawing at least played into a view of Bush popular among his detractors, that the former president was unpredictable and fast on the draw when it came to geopolitics.
But the danger many of Obama’s detractors detect is more of calculating, long-standing deception, that he is quietly and secretly marshaling a socialist agenda, a view that would be better served by imagery that recalled “The Manchurian Candidate.”
A few paragraphs later the R-word is finally (and predictably) let loose and the anonymity of the artist(s) becomes an issue:
So why the anonymity? Perhaps because the poster is ultimately a racially charged image. By using the “urban” makeup of the Heath Ledger Joker, instead of the urbane makeup of the Jack Nicholson character, the poster connects Obama to something many of his detractors fear but can’t openly discuss.
He is black and he is identified with the inner city, a source of political instability in the 1960s and ’70s, and a lingering bogeyman in political consciousness despite falling crime rates.
Obama’s pattern of intolerance toward dissent. (WTF? SF Examiner Jumps the Shark?)
Dissent, it turns out, is no longer patriotic. President Barack Obama’s White House and his Democratic National Committee have unleashed an all-out assault on what they call “angry,” “manufactured” and “lobbyist-funded” lies about health care reform. Look closely and you realize that’s how they classify all dissent.
Obama, when speaking at Notre Dame University last spring amid anti-abortion protests, said, “When we open up our hearts and our minds to those who may not think precisely like we do or believe precisely what we believe, that’s when we discover at least the possibility of common ground.”
But his record of dealing with actual dissent paints a different picture, one that suggests he has so much faith in his own good intentions and clever plans — and so little skepticism about the power of government to do good — that he sees all disagreement with his policies as condemnable.
“David Freddoso has made a career off dishonest, extreme hatemongering,” Obama’s presidential campaign wrote about my friend and now Examiner colleague David Freddoso last September in an effort to get a radio host to drop him.
The campaign e-mail called Freddoso a “card-carrying member of the right-wing smear machine” and said his anti-Obama book (for which I was the editor) contained “lies and smears about Barack Obama.”
Congress Gets an Upgrade - $550 Million Slated for Purchase of Eight More Exec Jets (WSJ)
Congress plans to spend $550 million to buy eight jets, a substantial upgrade to the fleet used by federal officials at a time when lawmakers have criticized the use of corporate jets by companies receiving taxpayer funds.
Angry Mob of Racist Extremists Beats Black Man at Town Hall Meeting (Patterico)
I guess the Democrats were right after all. At a town meeting held by a Democrat congressman, a rowdy group of organized and angry thugs showed up to make a point about ObamaCare, and then beat up a man. Race was involved, too: the victim was black — attacked by a man yelling racial slurs.
It’s every Democrat talking point you’ve read about in the last day or two, come to life in an ugly fashion.
With one twist. The black victim was a conservative, and the assailants may well have been union thugs:
Kenneth Gladney, a 38-year-old conservative activist from St. Louis, said he was attacked by some of those arrested as he handed out yellow flags with “Don’t tread on me” printed on them. He spoke to the Post-Dispatch from the emergency room of the St. John’s Mercy Medical Center, where he said he was waiting to be treated for injuries to his knee, back, elbow, shoulder and face that he suffered in the attack. Gladney, who is black, said one of his attackers, also a black man, used a racial slur against him before the attack started.
“It just seems there’s no freedom of speech without being attacked,” he said.
Not when you have angry mobs of left-wing extremists around . . .
Obooba is calling out the unions to hit back twice as hard at the town hall meetings. He must not realize some people are looking at unions as a negative force in the USA. Taxpayers paying GM’s union debts is about the last straw. Lazy thugs is what I think of most union members, including school teachers. How do the Democrats have the nerve to degrade tax protesters while they unleash a real manufactured protest using union thugs. Thank goodness for bloggers and the Internet. The corrupt media would never have told the true story, but we don’t need them. Watching them commit suicide has been engaging. RIP Corrupted ones.
A nonprofit public interest law firm is demanding that the White House withdraw a citizen "snitch" program that seeks to collect information on those who make "fishy" statements about President Obama's health care "reform."
The White House announced the program Aug. 4, pleading with people around the nation to forward to a White House e-mail address anything they see "about health insurance reform that seems fishy."
An attorney for Red State noted that the White House's actions may be in violation of current U.S. law:
"According to 5 U.S.C. § 552a, United States agencies, including the Executive Office of the President shall, 'maintain no record describing how any individual exercises rights guaranteed by the First Amendment unless expressly authorized by statute or by the individual about whom the record is maintained or unless pertinent to and within the scope of an authorized law enforcement activity.'"
Attorney Eric Erickson noted, "This will be the first significant time the White House has ignored the Privacy Act and may open President Obama up to litigation."
Obooba is calling out the unions to hit back twice as hard at the town hall meetings.
He may be calling but what he doesn't understand is that many of the people he is calling are life long union people who have no desire for community organizers and the government to decide when and how Mom, Dad, Grandma and Grandpa are going to die.
I've been a union member all my life and I am telling you right now that huge numbers of union people do not support a government takeover of our health care system.
I see that the miserable little people are out in full force. So pretty much all you right wing nutjobs do is cut and paste articles from blogs that really have no bearing or substance.
Instead of talking about the employment situation getting better or the stock market having its best July in a generation, let's just keep whining all day about "der leader" or whatever it is you wingnuts call our president.
Fact of the matter is that you are all a bunch of babies. You lost the election because for the past 8 years this country went to hell and now everyone hates us. Just stfu for a minute will ya? Man, you people are stupid.
Attorney Eric Erickson noted, "This will be the first significant time the White House has ignored the Privacy Act and may open President Obama up to litigation."
It will not matter. Obama is aware of what he was doing with this program. He is also aware that federal law prevents them from deleting any of the emails that they have been sent.
Therefore, Obama has an oops moment, claims harmless error (the poor girl misspoke) and still has his target list for ACORN and The IRS to destroy.
Gotta love how the administration is painting the "positive" jobs report. We've lost another 250,000 jobs in July, yet that's great news. The media really needs to go behind the numbers and BS and not artificially paint positive when it's negative. To them, the jobless numbers weren't as bad as expected but who freakin put up those projections? Get a clue MSM!
On the AARP butt-kissing of Obama - that organization has shot itself in the groin. Members are livid about AARP's love affair with Obama at the expense of its membership. Don't join AARP and drop your membership now if you have one. Do not support a group that puts you No.2 in health care!
It's not a temper tantrum. It was my way of merely stating that the vast majority of you people on here are a bunch of whiney babies that would rather sit around all day whining about the state of the nation. Here's an idea, instead of cutting and pasting these hack job articles how about you detail for us what you would do differently to fix all of the chit Bubbabush broke?
On second thought, don't do that. Just keep whining like a little girl all day while we try to fix the things that jackass Bush was too lazy to take care of.
SEIU is a union full of illiterate, overweight morons. The Dems made them a union to buy votes in California. They are universally hated in California, even among many of their own members - who are forced to pay dues that go to ultra lib causes and candidates. They gave Obama millions during his campaign. Next to ACORN, they are becoming the Dems worst nightmare.
///and the government to decide when and how Mom, Dad, Grandma and Grandpa are going to die.///
You right-wing nutjobs keep repeating this lie like you actually believe it. Where, specifically, in any bill being considered, is this provision? For that matter, can you provide even one example of anyone "the government" has ruled has to die under Medicare -- which insures almost all Grandmas and Grandpas over 65, and has been in effect since the 1960s?
Trust me. Complaining about the content of articles that don't fit your agenda while calling everyone who disagrees with you a bunch of childish names and demanding that they talk about only what you want, is by it's very definition a Temper Tantrum.
You're biggest problem is however to find out why they didn't stop between the age of 3 to 6.
Tell me, are you currently incarcerated or employed at a newspaper? There have been well documented cases where such environments that tend to isolate an individual actually cause a severe case of, "arrested developement."
If the answer is yes, maybe we can help. That is, if you still have insurance.
... So this is something new and ugly. What’s behind it?
Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, has compared the scenes at health care town halls to the “Brooks Brothers riot” in 2000 — the demonstration that disrupted the vote count in Miami and arguably helped send George W. Bush to the White House. Portrayed at the time as local protesters, many of the rioters were actually G.O.P. staffers flown in from Washington.
But Mr. Gibbs is probably only half right. Yes, well-heeled interest groups are helping to organize the town hall mobs. Key organizers include two Astroturf (fake grass-roots) organizations: FreedomWorks, run by the former House majority leader Dick Armey, and a new organization called Conservatives for Patients’ Rights.
The latter group, by the way, is run by Rick Scott, the former head of Columbia/HCA, a for-profit hospital chain. Mr. Scott was forced out of that job amid a fraud investigation; the company eventually pleaded guilty to charges of overbilling state and federal health plans, paying $1.7 billion — yes, that’s “billion” — in fines. You can’t make this stuff up.
But while the organizers are as crass as they come, I haven’t seen any evidence that the people disrupting those town halls are Florida-style rent-a-mobs. For the most part, the protesters appear to be genuinely angry. The question is, what are they angry about?
There was a telling incident at a town hall held by Representative Gene Green, D-Tex. An activist turned to his fellow attendees and asked if they “oppose any form of socialized or government-run health care.” Nearly all did. Then Representative Green asked how many of those present were on Medicare. Almost half raised their hands.
Now, people who don’t know that Medicare is a government program probably aren’t reacting to what President Obama is actually proposing. They may believe some of the disinformation opponents of health care reform are spreading, like the claim that the Obama plan will lead to euthanasia for the elderly. (That particular claim is coming straight from House Republican leaders.) But they’re probably reacting less to what Mr. Obama is doing, or even to what they’ve heard about what he’s doing, than to who he is.
That is, the driving force behind the town hall mobs is probably the same cultural and racial anxiety that’s behind the “birther” movement, which denies Mr. Obama’s citizenship. Senator Dick Durbin has suggested that the birthers and the health care protesters are one and the same; we don’t know how many of the protesters are birthers, but it wouldn’t be surprising if it’s a substantial fraction.
And cynical political operators are exploiting that anxiety to further the economic interests of their backers...
Yeah... why all the cut and paste stuff? I could probably just read about all of this in any McClatchy paper. They are staffed with classically trained professional journalists who speak truth to power.
///Complaining about the content of articles that don't fit your agenda while calling everyone who disagrees with you a bunch of childish names and demanding that they talk about only what you want, is by it's very definition a Temper Tantrum. ///
Isn't that exactly what the right-wingers on this site do whenever anyone posts anything they disagree with?
I am as happy as anyone at signs of an economic recovery. But I confess to having mixed feelings about the resurgence of the wing-nut industry.
We now have “The Birthers’’ manufacturing myths that President Obama was not born in the United States and therefore is serving illegally. They are following the business plan of those earlier entrepreneurs selling the idea that Obama had killed his grandma. Consider the scare-biz Internet scribe who penned the memorable line: “Obama flies to Hawaii to visit his grandmother and just a few days later she winds up dead. Coincidence?’’
But now the industry has ratcheted up from accusing Obama of killing his grandma to accusing him of trying to kill your grandma.
The campaign is based on a small provision in the healthcare bill that would allow Medicare to reimburse doctors for time spent consulting with patients about their end-of-life choices.
This modest idea was willfully distorted by people such as Betsy McCaughey, the former lieutenant governor of New York, who said that the bill would “absolutely require’’ end-of-life counseling that “will tell them how to end their life sooner.’’ Republican leader John Boehner offered the same flawed product, saying, “This provision may start us down a treacherous path toward government-encouraged euthanasia.’’
Their views were also sold by right-wing franchise operators. Laura Ingraham warned that government bureaucrats would “come to an old person’s house’’ - yeah, house calls! - for scary death chats. Randall Terry, the Zelig of the pro-life movement, said this was an attempt to “kill Granny.’’
Panic is their most important product. The bill doesn’t really mandate anything. It simply assures that a talk about advance care planning will be covered for the patients and families who want it. As Obama told a woman at an AARP forum, “It strikes me that that’s a sensible thing to do.’’ But who would trust someone who offed his grandma?
All in all, Fearmongers Inc. plays on the notion that advance directives are a sneaky way of cutting costs by cutting life short.
Well, here’s what we know: One-quarter of all Medicare dollars are spent in the last year of life, much of it in the last month. We don’t know yet whether it will cost less (and how much less) for patients to choose high-quality palliative care. It surely isn’t the cheap fix to the health cost spiral...
Isn't that exactly what the right-wingers on this site do whenever anyone posts anything they disagree with?
You're projecting. The topic is your actions and the problem lies entirely within yourself. Not to worry however, this is a common symptom in cases of arrested development.
The key is to recognize when you are having an inexplicable tantrum and heading it off by telling yourself that calling these people names is not only, not going to persuade them to consider my point of view. It may well alienate them even further and reinforce their belief that I am the stereotypical example of my ideological kin and should therefore, never be listened too under any circumstance.
See what I mean. This is where the vicious cycle begins in earnest as the more you rant, the less they listen, increasing your stress and magnifying your childish need to strike out.
///The key is to recognize when you are having an inexplicable tantrum and heading it off by telling yourself that calling these people names is not only, not going to persuade them to consider my point of view. It may well alienate them even further and reinforce their belief that I am the stereotypical example of my ideological kin and should therefore, never be listened too under any circumstance.///
Yes. You've exactly described the right-wing response on this site to anything posted by anyone they disagree with.
Glad to see all you right wingnut jobs are still refusing to take your government supplied drugs. Keep it up and have a horrible weekend. I mean with your pissy outlook on the world I didn't want to wast a "have a nice weekend" on you losers! bahabahbahhhahahahahahahahahaha
Tell me, are you currently incarcerated or employed at a newspaper? There have been well documented cases where such environments that tend to isolate an individual actually cause a severe case of, "arrested developement."
If the answer is yes, maybe we can help. That is, if you still have insurance.
The campaign is based on a small provision in the healthcare bill that would allow Medicare to reimburse doctors for time spent consulting with patients about their end-of-life choices.
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This is actually a bald faced lie. The point, not campaign is based on a huge portion of the bill that designates a board of appointees who will reimburse COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS for their MANDATORY end of life counseling.
The board (not your doctor) will also determine what health care you can receive and WILL appoint their specific doctors who are allowed to make END OF LIFE DECISIONS.
When asked if this meant that ACORN was going to be eligible for such duties, Senator Dodd said that he could not rule that out. ACORN HeathCare coming at you.
Why Obama Care Doesn't Sell (Yahoo)jumps the shark too?
The press and the polls say that public support for President Obama's health care reform is slipping. And, despite denials by the administration, the vast majority of Americans fear Congressional plans will ultimately reduce their choices and lower the quality of their care.
Americans spend much more on health care than any other country without receiving significantly better health outcomes. I am even willing to countenance a government-run program for those who can't afford private insurance. But I still have big questions that make me very uneasy about upcoming legislation. Health Costs
The SEIU thugs are nothing more than an Obama fund-raising union of dumbasses who'd otherwise be getting $10 bucks an hour asking if you want hot sauce with your tacos. They've actually threatened to strike! All us Californians are hoping they follow through so they can be fired and the union disbanded.
Can you feel a big swing starting to the right-center? Thank you Obama for your fringe lefty policies! You're the right wing's best asset and the polls are showing it every week! MOre nutty, unpopular lefty policies - pleeeease!
Yeah baby! Obama is doing a much better job of alienating voters than Bush ever did. Bush was just plain stupid, while Obama is too in love with himself and too deep in denial to even notice he's killing the Dems.
Bush was basically a Democrat disguised as a Repub. Either that or he had no balls when it came to conservative ideals. Illegal immigration was a prime example of Bush as a gutless lib. He was a disgrace to conservatism and a president who should be admired by all good libs. McCain would have been even worse. Can the Repubs come up with worse choices than Bush and McCain in the next election? Now there's a horrible thought.
McClunker stock is up on the "good news" about unemployment. Can the government spin unemployment numbers any better? The mainstream media is happy to oblige and spin them to readers. What a disgraceful piece of fecal matter the media has become. They don't represent the common man, they work for the White House.
AFL-CIO's Trumka Denounces Town Meeting 'Mobs,' (Ignores His Own Union thugs) NLPC
Almost nobody doubts that come September, Richard Trumka will become the AFL-CIO's next president, replacing the retiring John Sweeney. Having occupied the labor federation's secretary-treasurer position for nearly 14 years, he's done everything his boss and the ideological faithful could ask of him. That's a major reason why he and his slate are running unopposed.
But more than Sweeney, Trumka, a trained lawyer, has a palpably combative edge, much of it honed during his tenure as head of the United Mine Workers of America.
His far Left populism was on display Thursday in his written denunciation of the "mob rule" allegedly exercised by attendees at meetings across the U.S. organized by members of Congress to discuss White House and congressional health plans.
The statement provides a sneak preview of what Trumka will bring to the AFL-CIO's top spot.
Obama has always been a fraud. Now we can see the true extent of what the corrupt media has done to the USA with their selected news. George Soros must be horrified at the feckless Obama after all the money he has spent. “You can’t fool all of the people, all of the time.” Yeah man, you can’t!
Obama as the great unifier? That is a good one! Never has the USA been divided as it is now. The Democrats want us to snitch on each other. Obama uses thugs and lies to sell his failed health care plan. The Democrats won’t appear in public to answer questions, stating the staged protests, but send out union thugs to hit back twice as hard. A black man was assaulted in ST. Louis, and peppered with racial slurs, and the Jesse Jackson crowd says nothing. What a crock of shit this Hope and Change agenda is. Perhaps 50% of the voters are brain-dead, but even they see what is going on now, how could they not?
///Sweetheart/// Could you learn one or two more pat lines for your posts? Your words are golden to me, but you write the same thing over and over. Even I tire of repetition, and I am your number one fan.
Gay America, get your priorities straight New York Daily News, by S.E. Cupp
On the cover of this month's The Advocate, the Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgendered (LGBT) magazine, is a version of the now iconic Shepard Fairey poster of Barack Obama. In The Advocate's version, instead of the word "Hope" under Obama's stoic visage, it reads "Nope?" And this Barack doesn't look proud and presidential - he looks downright shifty. Needless to say, it's a jarring image. (Snip) What is going on here? Via Lucianne.com
Obama has never done much for the gay advocates. He believes marriage is between a man and a woman, etc. The gays have been very vocal in their displeasure with Obama (at least the activist gays). I think he has more important issues to deal with than the tiny gay population and their annoying demands.
Government Medicine Kills - The U.K. and Canada prove it. (NRO)
Imagine that your two best friends are British and Canadian tobacco addicts. The Brit battles lung cancer. The Canadian endures emphysema and wheezes as he walks around with clanging oxygen canisters. You probably would not think: “Maybe I should pick up smoking.”
The fact that America is even considering government medicine is equally wacky. The state guides health care for our two closest allies: Great Britain and Canada. Like us, these are prosperous, industrial, Anglophone democracies.
Nevertheless, compared to America, they suffer higher death rates for diseases, their patients experience severe pain, and they ration medical services.
Look what you’re missing in the U.K.:
Breast cancer kills 25 percent of its American victims. In Great Britain, the Vatican of single-payer medicine, breast cancer extinguishes 46 percent of its targets.
Prostate cancer is fatal to 19 percent of its American patients. The National Center for Policy Analysis reports that it kills 57 percent of Britons it strikes.
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development data show that the U.K.’s 2005 heart-attack fatality rate was 19.5 percent higher than America’s. This may correspond to angioplasties, which were only 21.3percent as common there as here.
Democrats and their union hirelings are beating up people to prevent them from asking questions in town hall meetings about one of the most important pieces of legislation in our lifetimes – and none of our watchdog media wire services can even be bothered to report it.
So to the media, union thugs beating up granpa’s in combination with the White House implementing a website to monitor free speech is not as important as the Yankees Redsox?
But I’m supposed to willingly subscribe to a McClatchy newspaper
The DNC might want to rethink calling outraged taxpayers a mob. === Latest Poll Shows Health Care Outrage is REAL! Flopping Aces ^
The only thing that is being "manufactured" or "ginned up" is the phony Democrat charges against real Americans! Scrap Health Care Reform If It Adds To Deficit, U.S. Voters Tell Quinnipiac University National Poll; Voters Disapprove Of Obama's Handling Of Health Care August 5, 2009 American voters, by a 55 - 35 percent margin…
WH: We’re not collecting names, we’re storing your e-mail addresses Hot Air
Robert Gibbs assured Jake Tapper that the new White House initiative to get people to snitch on their neighbors for dissenting on ObamaCare had nothing to do with collecting names. Oh, no — that would not be Hope and Change! Instead, it has everything to do with collecting our e-mails:
Asked about Cornyn’s letter on Thursday afternoon, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said, “nobody is collecting names.”
The blog and tips email was because, Gibbs said, “we have seen, and as I’ve discussed from this podium, a lot of misinformation around health care reform. Some of it I think spread purposely. We have used on many occasions the Web site to debunk things that are simply not true. We ask people if they have questions about health care reform and about what they’re hearing about its affects on them, to let us know and we’d provide them information to show that that wasn’t true.”
It won’t take much to convince Americans that some union members are nothing but thugs. Who was it that went in bus loads to intimidate people in their homes? Most everyone I know has seen a union thug in action. Union people act as if their employer is their enemy. They disgust me, and I am not alone in that opinion. I would not buy a GM car at any price.
You have to laugh at the Dem-wits. They said nothing when thuggish ACORN people were fraudulently doing their community organizing job, like Oboob taught them. Now, they accuse taxpayers of being part of a mob. I wasn’t part of anything, but I am going to be from now on. I made my first call and found another pissed off taxpayer ready to swing into action. We are now a group of ten. We read the bill, we are armed with questions, and we want straight answers! Democrat politicians aren’t used to their constituents knowing more about a bill than they do.
FOXNews ^ The White House, reacting to the latest jobless report showing the unemployment rate fell unexpectedly to 9.4 percent in July, predicted that despite the good news the rate would still hit 10 percent before year's end. But in effect it already has. The actual percentage of Americans who remain unemployed -- including those who have stopped looking for work -- is considerably higher than 9.4 percent and surpassed 10 percent months ago. By one measure, the unemployment rate is really 10.7 percent. www.foxnews.com
Headline #1: 2:06pm: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq at new 2009 highs after a smaller-than-expected number of jobs lost and a surprise drop in unemployment.
Headline #2: Right wing nutjobs will continue to come to this site and scream that the world is ending and nothing is every going to get better until Obama leaves office.
Democrats and their union hirelings are beating up people to prevent them from asking questions in town hall meetings about one of the most important pieces of legislation in our lifetimes – and none of our watchdog media wire services can even be bothered to report it.
They should be beat up. These wackos in the town hall meetings are nothing but immature, disrespectful idiots. It's okay to disagree but all yelling and screaming will do is completely minimize their message. They are crazy fools and should be tasered.
CNN Exposes Government's Funny Math for Clunker Program, SUV Really Most Popular By Julia A. Seymour
The Senate stepped in to save Cash for Clunkers Aug. 6, giving it a $2billion extension. But on Aug. 7, CNN.com found a big difference between independent analysis and government claims of which cars were most popular buys.
Peter Valdes-Dapena explored the difference between government data on the clunkers program (claiming small cars were most popular) and Edmunds.com analysis which showed that "two full-size trucks and a small crossover SUV were actually among the top-ten buys."
"The discrepancy is a result of the methods used. Edmunds.com uses traditional sales measurements, tallying sales by make and model.
The government uses a more arcane measurement method that subdivides models according to engine and transmission types, counting them as separate models," Valdes-Dapena wrote.
Obama is a failure, no more taxpayer's money. Stop him now before he ruins our country! ---- -Obama's Jobs Plan: A Promise Unfulfilled- The Heritage Foundation James Sherk & Rea S. Hederman, Jr.
“Since President Obama signed the stimulus bill, job creation has hit new lows and the total number of hours that employees work has continued to fall.”
...5 freedoms you'd lose in health care reform ...
They forgot one: Freedom to lose your insurance if you are laid off; or are hospitalized and they find that you were treated for something minor 30 years ago and forgot to mention it when you signed up for the insurance.
Right on lefty Bro. You said, …“nothing is [ever] going to get better until Obama leaves office.” Who could argue with that? Impeach Obama, bumper stickers available now.
COLUMBIA, S.C. – South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford says he supports his wife's decision to move out of the governor's mansion, just weeks after he admitted to an affair with another woman
Let me get this straight. This lying, cheating, taxpayer stealing scumbag "supports" his wife as she moves out. He did the lying. He did the cheating. He flew to Latin America to see this ho bag at taxpayer expense and HE is the one offering support?
Taking the word scumbag to another level. Thank you Mr. Sanford for showing us that you can support your wife as she moves out because you cheated on her.
Democrats rejoice, "drop" from 9.5%unemployment to 9.4% ???
This shows how desperate the Democrats are. This is just the beginning. The Obama mystique is over. He is a fraud, pure and simple, and now everyone will see how ridiculous he is. That didn’t take long.
Mrs. Sanford should have stayed on like Hillary Clinton and Liz Edwards did. Democrats forgive cheaters, it’s what they are. JFK being the best at what he did, a movie star at least. BTW, Little John’s main squeeze is in the news today. No comment from Liz, or John. Imagine that?
Lets see...White House asks Americans to turn in their neighbors for fishy ideas about health care reform, Union thugs attack voters at public Town Hall meetings, Obama needs Bill Clinton to pull Al Gores bacon out of the fire with North Korea...its been a bad week for the lefties.
If Union thugs show up in my district they better bring a bus load because the crowd is too pissed off to be intimidated by a couple of out of work union goons.
JUST CLICK ON THE BELOW LINK FOR YOUR LIST, HOW ELSE CAN I HELP?
"Burning Internet question: Can someone PLEASE forward a list of organizations opposing Obamacare?"
Stalin's Poster Boy for Snitching
Young Pavlik Morozov, 13, at the height of Stalin's purges in 1932, reported his own father to the NKVD for failing to comply with Soviet ideology and the party line.
His father, Trofim, was arrested and sent to a labor camp. Pavlik became a Hero of the Soviet Union and a role model for all Soviet youth.
There are many slang names for an informer: squealer, snoop, fink, narc, SNITCH... Alexander Solzenitsyn has described unforgettably how suspicion and near-paranoia infected families, friends, associates and neighbors and how they became obsessed with the prospect of saying or doing anything - or perhaps NOTHING - because anyone was a potential informer.
I am writing you this email from my blackberry. I have been standing online here at the Department of Health and Human Services appeals office for the last 3 hours.
My feet are killing me. I can't believe I am missing the Hanson reunion tour just so I can try for the fifth time to get the government to pay for your pain medication.
It didn't work the first four times and it isn't going to work this time.
More about union thugs: (Another downside to the misnamed ‘Free Choice Act.’) -- Don’t Employers Deserve Free Speech? Wall Street Journal John S. Irving The debate over the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) is being reframed now that the notorious “card check” provision—which would have taken away the right to secret ballots on union representation—will be pulled from the bill. Business groups and members of Congress on the fence will now come under tremendous pressure to support the act, although equally objectionable provisions, such as mandatory arbitration, remain. Yet there has been virtually no debate over the bill’s onerous and unprecedented penalties against employers who may fall afoul of vague National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) rules as workers try to unionize. These penalties will... Via: FreeRepublic.com
KEEP THIOSE COBRA PAYMENTS UP TILL DEATHCARE KICKS IN
Man pulls out 13 of his own teeth with pliers 'because he couldn't find an NHS dentist. (dailymail.co.uk)
A former soldier pulled his own teeth out with a pair of pliers because he could not find a dentist to take on NHS patients.
Iraq War veteran Ian Boynton could not afford to go private for treatment so instead took the drastic action to remove 13 of his teeth that were giving him severe pain.
The 42-year-old, from Beverley, East Yorkshire, had not had his teeth looked at since seeing the army dentist in 2003. He had not been registered with a dentist of his own since 2001.
I have not seen people this angry in decades. Obama has united parts of this country in ways that I could not have imagined. They are united that socialized healthcare is a bad idea. They are united that union thugs should not be allowed to intimidate voters. they are united that the MSM is lying about Obamacare. They are united that Obama is spending money like a drunk sailor. They are united that Obama is out of good ideas and that we wish he were out of time.
Goldberg writes a great article, says, “Pelosi lying when she says protesters are bringing swastikas to these town halls” *** Democrats’ Fear Is Showing on Health Care “This administration feels it is the only legitimate beneficiary of “people power.” National Review By Jonah Goldberg
The Democratic party is panicking, lashing out like a cornered animal, all because its effort to take over the health-care industry is coming apart like so much wet toilet paper. Nancy Pelosi, who will get her own bound volume in the annals of asininity, has outdone herself. When asked by a reporter whether the protests at various town-hall meetings represented legitimate grassroots opposition or were manufactured “AstroTurf” stunts, she replied, “I think they’re AstroTurf. You be the judge. They’re carrying swastikas and symbols like that to a town meeting on health care.”...
God help the congress people who vote for Obamacare. We won't. Every congressman in this state who votes for Obama care will have an army of in-state volunteers who will work for a donate to his opponent in the next election. Voting for Obamacare will be a political death sentence for all but the most whacked out liberal districts.
Sounds like all of you conservatives prefer to keep paying for indigents and illegal immigrants who go to public hospitals and spend our taxpayer dollars.
So glad to see you taking the long view of any proposed healthcare plan.
The media nearly refused to cover the John Edwards scandal until they were outdone by a tabloid, even thought he was a presidential candidate. Now they beat a dead horse writing volumes about a southern governor. Both men are reprehensible, but the uneven media coverage is even more so in my opinion. Someone needs to tell the media to wise up, well, it may be too late already. Oh yeah, it is too late already.
The 42-year-old, from Beverley, East Yorkshire, had not had his teeth looked at since seeing the army dentist in 2003. He had not been registered with a dentist of his own since 2001.
I don't care if he served in the police action. He's stupid and deserves what he gets. If you don't go to the dentis in 8 years, you pay the consequences. The pain he feels should remind him that is the penalty he pays for being stupid.
Isn't the republican party all about self reliance? But then if it works to your advantage you will exploit the person for polical gain. Way to play both sides of the fence.
Only I leftie would say that we should vote for Obamacare so that we don't have to pay for health care for illegals. The dems include the illegals in the "46 million" uninsured people in America. Obamacare insures them all!
The media nearly refused to cover the John Edwards scandal until they were outdone by a tabloid, even thought he was a presidential candidate. Now they beat a dead horse writing volumes about a southern governor. Both men are reprehensible, but the uneven media coverage is even more so in my opinion. Someone needs to tell the media to wise up, well, it may be too late already. Oh yeah, it is too late already.
August 7, 2009 1:50 PM
This is a blatant lie and another republican tactic of moving the truth elsewhere. Every major network had Elizabeth Edwards on their show going on and on about her husband. He's a scumbag too so I'll play it both ways.
I think it's funny because since the most current string of cheating scumbags are repukelicans, you talk about uneven media coverage.
The White house says to "punch back twice as hard" and the next day we get voters beat up by union thugs at a town hall meeting. 1. When will Obama apologize for this outrage and call off his goon squads? 2. When will Emanuel realize that the US is not Chicago and bullyboy tactics won't work? 3. When will the mainstream media tell the truth about the beatings and the goon squads?
I don’t think most Americans approve of union goon squads attending town hall meetings, that tactic will only hurt the health care cause. Unleash your goons Oboob, that just cost you another five points on your sinking poll numbers. Keep it up cool bro, keep it up!
The very latest news about a liar and stealing Democrat is William Jefferson (D) LA. That was yesterday, why don’t we discuss him for awhile? Let’s stay current.
TOTALY TRUE. IN FACT, THE LA TIMES BLOG EXPLICITLY REFUSED TO TALK ABOUT EDWARDS BABY. THE SAME TIME, THEY REFUSED TO AIR AN ANTI-SEMETIC OBAMA TAPE.
The media nearly refused to cover the John Edwards scandal until they were outdone by a tabloid, even thought he was a presidential candidate. Now they beat a dead horse writing volumes about a southern governor. Both men are reprehensible, but the uneven media coverage is even more so in my opinion. Someone needs to tell the media to wise up, well, it may be too late already. Oh yeah, it is too late already.
Getting the skinny on Bill Clinton's revision of the CRA, Tsk,tsk. --- Obama: ‘Don’t Want the Folks Who Created the Mess to Do a Lot of Talking’ Breitbart.com
The arrogance of this man to tell anyone they don't have a right to speak. And Democrats would say Bush was intolerant of opposition? If Bush had ever told his opponents to sit down and shut up he'd have been skewered. And if Obama doesn't want "the people who created this mess to do a lot of talking" then I guess he better tell his party to stuff a sock in it since they're the ones who created the subprime mess with Bill Clinton's revision of the CRA forcing more and more subprime lending on the mortgage... Video link: http://www.breitbart.tv/obama-dont-want-the-folks-who-created-the-mess-to-do-a-lot-of-talking/
Remember Obama saying, “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.” “That’s the Chicago way.” Who thought he meant it literally? --- SEIU Thugs Teach Protesters the ‘Chicago Way’ of Politics
Pajamas Media Jim Hoft Barack Obama told a crowd of supporters in Philadelphia back in 2008, [“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.” ]He added, “That’s the Chicago way.” Last night in St. Louis, Missouri, a local conservative found out first hand about the “Chicago way.” Kenneth Gladney, a black conservative from the city, was handing out “Don’t Tread On Me” flags after a Russ Carnahan town hall meeting on health care in Mehlville. This didn’t go over well with the Obama supporters and union thugs who attended the meeting. They punched him in the face, kicked him in...
Cash-strapped Cuba says toilet paper running short Yahoo/Reuters
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba, in the grip of a serious economic crisis, is running short of toilet paper and may not get sufficient supplies until the end of the year, officials with state-run companies said on Friday.
Officials said they were lowering the prices of 24 basic goods to help Cubans get through the difficulties provoked in part by the global financial crisis and three destructive hurricanes that struck the island last year.
"Cuba has taken various steps to boost output, including putting more state-owned land in private hands and pushing for salaries to be based on productivity."
What a novel idea!
As Cuba tip toes toward capitalism we rush head first into their failed communist system, and with the media's blessing too!.
Michelle Obama Can Haz Cheezburger, But You Can No Haz Camera While She Eats It (The Powers That Be)
After all the Obama administration’s harping on ending obesity and healthier eating, I can understand why they might not want anybody taking pictures of them scarfing on junk:
Michelle Obama, like her husband, enjoys a good burger, but not as well done. The first lady brought daughters Malia and Sasha to former “Top Chef” contestant Spike Mendelsohn’s Good Stuff Eatery in DC for cheeseburgers, onion rings, fries, and milkshakes. “They got the burgers medium,” says a spy.
(President Obama was mildly ridiculed after ordering a burger medium-well in January.) “Three starving Secret Service guys were literally standing over the grill as Spike made the burgers, but didn’t eat,” our source adds.
Fellow patrons had their cellphones temporarily confiscated to prevent pictures from being taken.
Hey, cameras weren’t banned when Bill Clinton bought a double burger (hold the mayo), onion rings, french fries, apple pie and a milkshake a couple of weeks ago —and on the eve of a conference on obesity no less:
Good advise: Everyone, take videos of your town hall meetings. It seems it is the union thugs that start yelling and disrupting the town hall meetings. Everyone needs to video these thugs from the get-go, get their faces on film. Obama even has to stage these events, and the media will never tell the true story. That is about the only thing the corrupt media can be counted on to do, lie and cheat with the best of the liberal scum, IMO.
What about the Democrats that traveled to Cuba a few months ago? Wasn’t everything just hunky-dory? Maybe they never went to the bathroom during their stay. We know they didn’t talk to any dissenters, but found the people of Cuba so happy, so very happy! We can envision a time of no toilet paper if the whacko environmentalists continue on their course with Obama at the helm.
The Democrats won’t tell the truth about how many illegal aliens will be covered by the Obama Healthcare scam. It would tick taxpayers off beyond belief. So they lie and evade, lie and evade. Seems like the new MO for the corrupt Democrats and their media puppets.
White House Move to Collect 'Fishy' Info May Be Illegal, Critics Say
The White House has been under fire since posting a blog on Tuesday that asks supporters to e-mail any "fishy" information seen on the Web or received electronically.
The empty words of a journalist turned flack (Washington Examiner)
Linda Douglass, the former CBS and ABC News correspondent who joined the Obama presidential campaign and later the administration, has emerged as the point person in the White House push back against “disinformation” regarding national health care.
She’s one of several former journalists who are part of Team Obama, and her story, in particular, illustrates the difficulties that politically connected Democratic journalists can face both inside and outside the government. (Although a few Republican reporters have joined GOP administrations, this is mostly a Democratic problem, given the left-leaning sympathies of most journalists.)
As a reporter, how does one keep from rooting for the home team? And as a government official, how does one flack for the boss while ignoring the questions any journalist should ask?
SHE IGNORED ASKING ANY QUESTIONS OF HIM WHEN SHE WORKED AS A REPORTER ANYWAY.
Susan Estrich, a liberal pundit, said calling tax protesters names is a stupid thing to do, and Democrats will live or die on this healthcare fiasco. She opined something will be done on healthcare even if it is a tiny bill, so Obama can sign it in front of the cameras. What a fraud he is, even the Democrats are afraid if him. He will self implode, it is in the works already, and he is dumb. He really is dumb.
Nearly half of the nation's uninsured are illegals. While the government lowballs the figure at around 12 million, it's generally thought to be more like 20-plus million illegals sucking off our tax teats. That's who we'll be paying for in our bankrupt country - illegals.
The Democrats know that all the illegal aliens will vote for them. They will try and make them citizens before the next election. That these people broke our laws by illegal entry makes them a good Democrat already, the politicians can skip that step of indoctrination, and get them right into unions. The old saw that they do jobs no one else will do, is a laugh, they will bankrupt our country in more ways than healthcare expenses.
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ORGANIZING THE 'WRONG' COMMUNITY
NY Post
Get this: The party of "community orga nizers" is now whining that President Obama's critics are organizing com munities -- against his health-care scheme.
The nerve of 'em, huh?
Faced with mushrooming opposition to ObamaCare, Democrats have launched a multi-media campaign that attacks foes as "extremists" who've "called out the mob" to "destroy President Obama" and "intimidate and silence regular people." They cite "the playbook of high-level Republican political operatives."
Actually, that sounds more like the tactics of the Chicago street, where Barack Obama and Rahm Emanuel cut their political teeth. Indeed, you can almost hear Richard Nixon grousing about angry anti-war protestors and pleading for "the great silent majority of Americans" to rise up.
WORLD BURNS AS 'DOC O' FIDDLES
NY Post
THIS week, as President Obama's surro gates denounced worried citizens as a "mob," leftist leaders abroad cracked heads.
More than a few Obamacrats may long for the same freedom of action as Venezuela's Hugo Chavez or Russia's Vladimir Putin.
To say nothing of North Korea's "dear leader," Kim Jong-Il, who made a former US president dance real close. Or Iran's "President" Ahmedinejad, who White House press secretary Robert Gibbs described as "elected." (Had a Bushie committed such a gaffe, it would've made headlines.)
Black Conservative Beating Up by 4 SEIU Thugs at Town Hall
Examiner.com
Eyewitness: "I was at the event. My name is David Brown. I am an atty in St. Louis. My friend, Kenneth Gladney, who is black, was passing out Don't Tread on Me Flags and Tea Party buttons at the end of the event to Tea Party supporters and conservatives.
He was then called a racial slur by two SEIU members. He was then attacked by two black males (SEIU reps) and white male, another SEIU rep., and a white woman. The punched him in the face and he fell to the ground. He was then kicked and punched by all four. One fled on foot, and three were arrested.
Kenneth was taken to St. John's Mercy Hospital to the emergency room. He has suffered numerous injuries. For more information, please contact me at PHONE NUMBER EDITED OUT. Thank you."
DEMS SNEAK UNION THUGS INTO CARNAHAN TOWN HALL-- 1,000 Tea Party Taxpayers Locked Out!
Before the event opened, Carnahan staff was sneaking in SEIU members in the side door marked "handicapped.”
Inside the gym they roped off two sections. One was for the tea party taxpayers that quickly filled up when they opened the doors at 6:00 PM, and the other section marked "reserved" was saved for the SEIU union members, with the rest of the crowd being locked out!
Just wait Dear Leader signs "Card Check" into Law. You ain’t seen nothing yet.
Sounds like Obama wants to beat Granny up, before he euthanizes her?
Is Significant Drop In African-American Support In Obama's Future?
(Townhall Matt Towery)
...I was startled when our firm, InsiderAdvantage, conducted this past week two separate surveys about various issues for corporate clients in the area. Both polls were conducted on the same night..
...I was shocked when one survey showed President Barack Obama with a disapproval rating of 35 percent among African Americans in Georgia, while the second one had it at 38 percent.
Those two results are statistically identical, as both polls had margins of error of plus or minus 4 percent.
Obama still shows relatively strong support coming from blacks in national surveys. So how do these two Georgia polls make sense?
At first blush, they don't. But I'm highly confident in our ability to gauge the opinions of black voters in Georgia and other Southern states. Our firm was the only one that indicated just how well Obama would fare in Georgia in the election last November. He got 47 percent of the vote, and might have done even better had he concentrated campaign resources here until Election Day.
Is Georgia an anomaly, or does it portend ominous things for the president?
"Obotomy"
A New Poster That Recently Popped Up In Atlanta.
Maybe Obama’s poll numbers will go up now that he is telling SEIU and other thug unions to go out and beat up seniors and to “hit back twice as hard.”
Growing up we never dreamed our President would tell union thugs to go out and beat up our parents and grandparents.
Six people, including P-D reporter, arrested at Carnahan meeting (ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH)
MEHLVILLE -- St. Louis County police on Thursday arrested at least four people, including a Post-Dispatch reporter, outside a town hall forum held by Rep. Russ Carnahan, said Dawn Majors, a Post-Dispatch photojournalist who witnessed everything unfold.
It happened about 8:30 p.m at Bernard Middle School on Forder Road in Mehlville. Carnahan, D-St. Louis, had drawn a rowdy crowd that overflowed the school gym and left dozens of people outside. Many of those who showed up at what had been billed as a forum on aging carried signs about the national health-care debate.
Dozens of people were kept out because there was no room for them inside. Members of the local Tea Party Coalition, a movement that has emerged to counter President Barack Obama’s policies, had urged their members to attend, which in turn spurred Democrats to establish a strong presence.
Deficit hits record $1.3 trillion for July (Politico)
The Congressional Budget Office has just released more mind boggling deficit numbers -- the federal deficit topped $1.3 trillion in July, a new record.
Barack Obama faces revolt over health care overhaul (TELEGRAPH U.K.)
US President Barack Obama faced a growing revolt against his $1.5 trillion health care reforms as his approval rating slumped to an all-time low and Democratic congressmen received death threats.
On the eve of Mr Obama's 200th day as president, his ratings slumped to 50 per cent, while a series of public meetings called by Democrats to promote the reforms have degenerated into mob scenes and a congressman received a death threat.
With progress of a health bill - which the White House had hoped for in July - stalled on Capitol Hill and rising concern over Mr Obama's handling of the economy, his national approval rating fell by seven per cent from last month. The new low is a far cry from the stratospheric ratings of his heady first days in office.
James Carville’s New Poll is so Bad For Democrats He Doesn’t Want You to Know it Exists(redstate.com)
Democracy Corps is James Carville and Stan Greenberg’s pet polling organization that always, without fail, issues polling picked up by the media highlighting how Republicans are screwed and Democrats are ever victorious...
...But unlike their other polls that they usher out with great fanfare, this poll was released with no announcement, no fanfare, and no media roll out.
Why?
Because the polling shows the Democrats are in a world of self-inflicted hurt...
...And among their pool of likely voters, 53% of those likely to vote in 2010 think Obama is too liberal. The same number think he’s going to raise taxes. 55% think he doesn’t deliver on his promises.
Blue Dog DEMOCRAT Hides from Constituents [Bobby Bright, D-AL
website]
Tonight Bright posted this on his "District Work Schedule" page:
8/6/09 MONTGOMERY, AL -
Congressman Bright will be continuing his district work schedule and will be in the River Region on Friday, August 7th. Congressman Bright will be hosting a meet and greet event, as well as two "Congress on Your Corner" to listen to concerns and meet with constituents.
That's it.
Event is today.
No times.
No locations.
If Obama Loses Jon Stewart, He’s Lost America (Big Hollywood)
Luly 15, 2009, - a day that shall live in comedic infamy. The Obama administration’s first direct hit from reliably friendly allies. Former Saturday Night Live star, now stand up comic Dana Carvey was the guest on the new Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien.
When O’Brien asked Carvey his opinion of Obama, Carvey trotted out some fresh material. “I’m worried. The economy just had a heart attack, but Barack just wants to work on the knee,” Carvey riffed.
”Should we do CPR? No, we’re gonna fix this knee. We can do CPR when it’s efficient and cost effective, but right now we’re going to work on the meniscus.
“Carvey concluded the bit suggesting George W. Bush would have used an economic “crash cart.” “Tax cuts for everybody - CLEAR!” The audience roared.
Were they laughing at Carvey’s “dumb guy” Bush impression, or was it the excitement of more money in their pockets as an economic remedy?
No matter the audience response. Carvey saw fit to address economic policy in his comedy. That’s telling....
Democratic Congressman Fears 'Ambush' By 'Brown Shirt' 'Extremists' (Calls Townhall Protestors Nazis)
RedState
For fear of being 'ambushed' by Republican "lynchmobs," Democratic congressman Brian Baird (WA-3) said he refuses to hold in person town hall meetings over the summer month long congressional recess.
Citing the G.O.P.'s "Brown Shirt tactics" as the impetus for his decision, Baird told the Columbian he will instead hold a telephone town hall.
Funny, the citizens he’s afraid of facing have a similar fear ... we’re afraid of the (national) socialists, like him, who have taken over our government.
When I read “Brownshirts” I immediately though of ACORN.
This is such an old tactic, accusing your opponents of that which you yourself are doing.
The Obama Admin and the Dems know that there are now frequent comparisons being made to their regime and that of Hitler’s regime.
One set of thugs immitating another, Chicago thugs immitating Hitler’s brownshirts.
CNN 200 Days Report Card (lots of D's and F's!)
France Fights Universal Care's High Cost (WSJ)
When Laure Cuccarolo went into early labor on a recent Sunday night in a village in southern France, her only choice was to ask the local fire brigade to whisk her to a hospital 30 miles away. A closer one had been shuttered by cost cuts in France's universal health system.
Doctors, trade unions and others have called national protests against French health-care cutbacks this year. One petition signed by prominent physicians said they feared the intent of the reform was to turn health care into a 'lucrative business' rather than a public service. Ms. Cuccarolo's little girl was born in a firetruck.
The problem with France is that they haven't figured out that to pay for something that they've never paid for -- before assuming control -- they needed to 'squeeze out all of the efficiencies from the system'. At least according to the Marxists -- efficiency is the problem -- too brutally uncaring.
GateHouse Media loses more millions in second quarter 2009
(Pulaski County Web)
GateHouse Media, the owner of 89 daily newspapers including the Waynesville Daily Guide outside Fort Leonard Wood where I worked before I resigned to begin the Pulaski County Daily News, announced its second-quarter results with more millions of dollars in losses.
I could say a lot about the decline of the traditional mainline media, but the numbers from their press release speak for themselves. GateHouse's CEO, Mike Reed, wrote this: "Our total revenue on a same-store basis declined 15.2% which was slightly better than the 16.3% decline we saw in the first quarter.
BEARS DO DEFECATE IN THE WOODS?
The New York Times: Just the Facts?-six month study shows bias toward Palestinians. (Honest Reporting)
A six month study of the New York Times shows a bias toward the Palestinian narrative.
New York Times coverage often supports the Palestinian narrative without placing events in greater context.
Headlines, eyewitness accounts, and images depicted the Gaza conflict as Israeli aggression against Palestinian civilians.
Settlements are misrepresented by having images of tiny outposts accompany articles about settlements.
Issues such as Palestinian incitement are downplayed or ignored.
WaPo: Bush-Joker Kinda Made Sense, Obama-Joker Racist (Breitbart.com)
This required a few passes to be sure my eyes weren’t playing tricks. You keep telling yourself to stop being amazed by hypocrisy and bias, but again and again someone like Philip Kennicott, a staff writer for the Washington Post, comes up with nonsense like this:
And didn’t we see George W. Bush depicted as the Joker not so long ago?
Yes, in an image by Drew Friedman published online by Vanity Fair on July 29, 2008. That drawing at least played into a view of Bush popular among his detractors, that the former president was unpredictable and fast on the draw when it came to geopolitics.
But the danger many of Obama’s detractors detect is more of calculating, long-standing deception, that he is quietly and secretly marshaling a socialist agenda, a view that would be better served by imagery that recalled “The Manchurian Candidate.”
A few paragraphs later the R-word is finally (and predictably) let loose and the anonymity of the artist(s) becomes an issue:
So why the anonymity? Perhaps because the poster is ultimately a racially charged image. By using the “urban” makeup of the Heath Ledger Joker, instead of the urbane makeup of the Jack Nicholson character, the poster connects Obama to something many of his detractors fear but can’t openly discuss.
He is black and he is identified with the inner city, a source of political instability in the 1960s and ’70s, and a lingering bogeyman in political consciousness despite falling crime rates.
Obama’s pattern of intolerance toward dissent. (WTF? SF Examiner Jumps the Shark?)
Dissent, it turns out, is no longer patriotic. President Barack Obama’s White House and his Democratic National Committee have unleashed an all-out assault on what they call “angry,” “manufactured” and “lobbyist-funded” lies about health care reform. Look closely and you realize that’s how they classify all dissent.
Obama, when speaking at Notre Dame University last spring amid anti-abortion protests, said, “When we open up our hearts and our minds to those who may not think precisely like we do or believe precisely what we believe, that’s when we discover at least the possibility of common ground.”
But his record of dealing with actual dissent paints a different picture, one that suggests he has so much faith in his own good intentions and clever plans — and so little skepticism about the power of government to do good — that he sees all disagreement with his policies as condemnable.
“David Freddoso has made a career off dishonest, extreme hatemongering,” Obama’s presidential campaign wrote about my friend and now Examiner colleague David Freddoso last September in an effort to get a radio host to drop him.
The campaign e-mail called Freddoso a “card-carrying member of the right-wing smear machine” and said his anti-Obama book (for which I was the editor) contained “lies and smears about Barack Obama.”
Narcissistic people do not respond well to ridicule,irony or sarcasm.
Congress Gets an Upgrade - $550 Million Slated for Purchase of Eight More Exec Jets (WSJ)
Congress plans to spend $550 million to buy eight jets, a substantial upgrade to the fleet used by federal officials at a time when lawmakers have criticized the use of corporate jets by companies receiving taxpayer funds.
Will DeathCare sink the AARP?
First, I was surprised that they allowed members to post opposition comments.
Then I was further surprised on how many comments were negative, about 99%
Angry Mob of Racist Extremists Beats Black Man at Town Hall Meeting (Patterico)
I guess the Democrats were right after all. At a town meeting held by a Democrat congressman, a rowdy group of organized and angry thugs showed up to make a point about ObamaCare, and then beat up a man. Race was involved, too: the victim was black — attacked by a man yelling racial slurs.
It’s every Democrat talking point you’ve read about in the last day or two, come to life in an ugly fashion.
With one twist. The black victim was a conservative, and the assailants may well have been union thugs:
Kenneth Gladney, a 38-year-old conservative activist from St. Louis, said he was attacked by some of those arrested as he handed out yellow flags with “Don’t tread on me” printed on them. He spoke to the Post-Dispatch from the emergency room of the St. John’s Mercy Medical Center, where he said he was waiting to be treated for injuries to his knee, back, elbow, shoulder and face that he suffered in the attack. Gladney, who is black, said one of his attackers, also a black man, used a racial slur against him before the attack started.
“It just seems there’s no freedom of speech without being attacked,” he said.
Not when you have angry mobs of left-wing extremists around . . .
Obama Cancels War on Terrorism to Focus on War on Americans! (Jamie Wearing)
Obooba is calling out the unions to hit back twice as hard at the town hall meetings. He must not realize some people are looking at unions as a negative force in the USA. Taxpayers paying GM’s union debts is about the last straw. Lazy thugs is what I think of most union members, including school teachers. How do the Democrats have the nerve to degrade tax protesters while they unleash a real manufactured protest using union thugs. Thank goodness for bloggers and the Internet. The corrupt media would never have told the true story, but we don’t need them. Watching them commit suicide has been engaging.
RIP Corrupted ones.
So much for the 'Debt President' being the great unifier. That has to be the joke of the century.
Obama 'Snitch' Program Put On Notice
A nonprofit public interest law firm is demanding that the White House withdraw a citizen "snitch" program that seeks to collect information on those who make "fishy" statements about President Obama's health care "reform."
The White House announced the program Aug. 4, pleading with people around the nation to forward to a White House e-mail address anything they see "about health insurance reform that seems fishy."
An attorney for Red State noted that the White House's actions may be in violation of current U.S. law:
"According to 5 U.S.C. § 552a, United States agencies, including the Executive Office of the President shall, 'maintain no record describing how any individual exercises rights guaranteed by the First Amendment unless expressly authorized by statute or by the individual about whom the record is maintained or unless pertinent to and within the scope of an authorized law enforcement activity.'"
Attorney Eric Erickson noted, "This will be the first significant time the White House has ignored the Privacy Act and may open President Obama up to litigation."
Obooba is calling out the unions to hit back twice as hard at the town hall meetings.
He may be calling but what he doesn't understand is that many of the people he is calling are life long union people who have no desire for community organizers and the government to decide when and how Mom, Dad, Grandma and Grandpa are going to die.
I've been a union member all my life and I am telling you right now that huge numbers of union people do not support a government takeover of our health care system.
I've read this bill. It is horrifying.
I see that the miserable little people are out in full force. So pretty much all you right wing nutjobs do is cut and paste articles from blogs that really have no bearing or substance.
Instead of talking about the employment situation getting better or the stock market having its best July in a generation, let's just keep whining all day about "der leader" or whatever it is you wingnuts call our president.
Fact of the matter is that you are all a bunch of babies. You lost the election because for the past 8 years this country went to hell and now everyone hates us. Just stfu for a minute will ya? Man, you people are stupid.
Attorney Eric Erickson noted, "This will be the first significant time the White House has ignored the Privacy Act and may open President Obama up to litigation."
It will not matter. Obama is aware of what he was doing with this program. He is also aware that federal law prevents them from deleting any of the emails that they have been sent.
Therefore, Obama has an oops moment, claims harmless error (the poor girl misspoke) and still has his target list for ACORN and The IRS to destroy.
Fact of the matter is that you are all a bunch of babies.
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But it's you that is throwing the temper tantrum. How interesting.
Gotta love how the administration is painting the "positive" jobs report. We've lost another 250,000 jobs in July, yet that's great news. The media really needs to go behind the numbers and BS and not artificially paint positive when it's negative. To them, the jobless numbers weren't as bad as expected but who freakin put up those projections? Get a clue MSM!
On the AARP butt-kissing of Obama - that organization has shot itself in the groin. Members are livid about AARP's love affair with Obama at the expense of its membership. Don't join AARP and drop your membership now if you have one. Do not support a group that puts you No.2 in health care!
Where is socialist AARP allowing people to post comments on health care? It it on their site? Please post link.
It's not a temper tantrum. It was my way of merely stating that the vast majority of you people on here are a bunch of whiney babies that would rather sit around all day whining about the state of the nation. Here's an idea, instead of cutting and pasting these hack job articles how about you detail for us what you would do differently to fix all of the chit Bubbabush broke?
On second thought, don't do that. Just keep whining like a little girl all day while we try to fix the things that jackass Bush was too lazy to take care of.
SEIU is a union full of illiterate, overweight morons. The Dems made them a union to buy votes in California. They are universally hated in California, even among many of their own members - who are forced to pay dues that go to ultra lib causes and candidates. They gave Obama millions during his campaign. Next to ACORN, they are becoming the Dems worst nightmare.
///and the government to decide when and how Mom, Dad, Grandma and Grandpa are going to die.///
You right-wing nutjobs keep repeating this lie like you actually believe it. Where, specifically, in any bill being considered, is this provision? For that matter, can you provide even one example of anyone "the government" has ruled has to die under Medicare -- which insures almost all Grandmas and Grandpas over 65, and has been in effect since the 1960s?
It's not a temper tantrum.
Trust me. Complaining about the content of articles that don't fit your agenda while calling everyone who disagrees with you a bunch of childish names and demanding that they talk about only what you want, is by it's very definition a Temper Tantrum.
You're biggest problem is however to find out why they didn't stop between the age of 3 to 6.
Tell me, are you currently incarcerated or employed at a newspaper? There have been well documented cases where such environments that tend to isolate an individual actually cause a severe case of, "arrested developement."
If the answer is yes, maybe we can help. That is, if you still have insurance.
The Town Hall Mob
... So this is something new and ugly. What’s behind it?
Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, has compared the scenes at health care town halls to the “Brooks Brothers riot” in 2000 — the demonstration that disrupted the vote count in Miami and arguably helped send George W. Bush to the White House. Portrayed at the time as local protesters, many of the rioters were actually G.O.P. staffers flown in from Washington.
But Mr. Gibbs is probably only half right. Yes, well-heeled interest groups are helping to organize the town hall mobs. Key organizers include two Astroturf (fake grass-roots) organizations: FreedomWorks, run by the former House majority leader Dick Armey, and a new organization called Conservatives for Patients’ Rights.
The latter group, by the way, is run by Rick Scott, the former head of Columbia/HCA, a for-profit hospital chain. Mr. Scott was forced out of that job amid a fraud investigation; the company eventually pleaded guilty to charges of overbilling state and federal health plans, paying $1.7 billion — yes, that’s “billion” — in fines. You can’t make this stuff up.
But while the organizers are as crass as they come, I haven’t seen any evidence that the people disrupting those town halls are Florida-style rent-a-mobs. For the most part, the protesters appear to be genuinely angry. The question is, what are they angry about?
There was a telling incident at a town hall held by Representative Gene Green, D-Tex. An activist turned to his fellow attendees and asked if they “oppose any form of socialized or government-run health care.” Nearly all did. Then Representative Green asked how many of those present were on Medicare. Almost half raised their hands.
Now, people who don’t know that Medicare is a government program probably aren’t reacting to what President Obama is actually proposing. They may believe some of the disinformation opponents of health care reform are spreading, like the claim that the Obama plan will lead to euthanasia for the elderly. (That particular claim is coming straight from House Republican leaders.) But they’re probably reacting less to what Mr. Obama is doing, or even to what they’ve heard about what he’s doing, than to who he is.
That is, the driving force behind the town hall mobs is probably the same cultural and racial anxiety that’s behind the “birther” movement, which denies Mr. Obama’s citizenship. Senator Dick Durbin has suggested that the birthers and the health care protesters are one and the same; we don’t know how many of the protesters are birthers, but it wouldn’t be surprising if it’s a substantial fraction.
And cynical political operators are exploiting that anxiety to further the economic interests of their backers...
Paul Krugman
http://www.nytimes.com/
2009/08/07/opinion/
07krugman.html?_r=1&ref=opinion
Yeah... why all the cut and paste stuff? I could probably just read about all of this in any McClatchy paper. They are staffed with classically trained professional journalists who speak truth to power.
Right?
///Complaining about the content of articles that don't fit your agenda while calling everyone who disagrees with you a bunch of childish names and demanding that they talk about only what you want, is by it's very definition a Temper Tantrum. ///
Isn't that exactly what the right-wingers on this site do whenever anyone posts anything they disagree with?
In a wing-nut world, Granny is toast
I am as happy as anyone at signs of an economic recovery. But I confess to having mixed feelings about the resurgence of the wing-nut industry.
We now have “The Birthers’’ manufacturing myths that President Obama was not born in the United States and therefore is serving illegally. They are following the business plan of those earlier entrepreneurs selling the idea that Obama had killed his grandma. Consider the scare-biz Internet scribe who penned the memorable line: “Obama flies to Hawaii to visit his grandmother and just a few days later she winds up dead. Coincidence?’’
But now the industry has ratcheted up from accusing Obama of killing his grandma to accusing him of trying to kill your grandma.
The campaign is based on a small provision in the healthcare bill that would allow Medicare to reimburse doctors for time spent consulting with patients about their end-of-life choices.
This modest idea was willfully distorted by people such as Betsy McCaughey, the former lieutenant governor of New York, who said that the bill would “absolutely require’’ end-of-life counseling that “will tell them how to end their life sooner.’’ Republican leader John Boehner offered the same flawed product, saying, “This provision may start us down a treacherous path toward government-encouraged euthanasia.’’
Their views were also sold by right-wing franchise operators. Laura Ingraham warned that government bureaucrats would “come to an old person’s house’’ - yeah, house calls! - for scary death chats. Randall Terry, the Zelig of the pro-life movement, said this was an attempt to “kill Granny.’’
Panic is their most important product. The bill doesn’t really mandate anything. It simply assures that a talk about advance care planning will be covered for the patients and families who want it. As Obama told a woman at an AARP forum, “It strikes me that that’s a sensible thing to do.’’ But who would trust someone who offed his grandma?
All in all, Fearmongers Inc. plays on the notion that advance directives are a sneaky way of cutting costs by cutting life short.
Well, here’s what we know: One-quarter of all Medicare dollars are spent in the last year of life, much of it in the last month. We don’t know yet whether it will cost less (and how much less) for patients to choose high-quality palliative care. It surely isn’t the cheap fix to the health cost spiral...
http://www.boston.com/
bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/
oped/articles/2009/08/07/
in_a_wing_nut_world_granny_is_toast/
Isn't that exactly what the right-wingers on this site do whenever anyone posts anything they disagree with?
You're projecting. The topic is your actions and the problem lies entirely within yourself. Not to worry however, this is a common symptom in cases of arrested development.
The key is to recognize when you are having an inexplicable tantrum and heading it off by telling yourself that calling these people names is not only, not going to persuade them to consider my point of view. It may well alienate them even further and reinforce their belief that I am the stereotypical example of my ideological kin and should therefore, never be listened too under any circumstance.
See what I mean. This is where the vicious cycle begins in earnest as the more you rant, the less they listen, increasing your stress and magnifying your childish need to strike out.
///The key is to recognize when you are having an inexplicable tantrum and heading it off by telling yourself that calling these people names is not only, not going to persuade them to consider my point of view. It may well alienate them even further and reinforce their belief that I am the stereotypical example of my ideological kin and should therefore, never be listened too under any circumstance.///
Yes. You've exactly described the right-wing response on this site to anything posted by anyone they disagree with.
Glad to see all you right wingnut jobs are still refusing to take your government supplied drugs. Keep it up and have a horrible weekend. I mean with your pissy outlook on the world I didn't want to wast a "have a nice weekend" on you losers!
bahabahbahhhahahahahahahahahaha
Ano 7:58 LMAO
Tell me, are you currently incarcerated or employed at a newspaper? There have been well documented cases where such environments that tend to isolate an individual actually cause a severe case of, "arrested developement."
If the answer is yes, maybe we can help. That is, if you still have insurance.
The campaign is based on a small provision in the healthcare bill that would allow Medicare to reimburse doctors for time spent consulting with patients about their end-of-life choices.
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This is actually a bald faced lie. The point, not campaign is based on a huge portion of the bill that designates a board of appointees who will reimburse COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS for their MANDATORY end of life counseling.
The board (not your doctor) will also determine what health care you can receive and WILL appoint their specific doctors who are allowed to make END OF LIFE DECISIONS.
When asked if this meant that ACORN was going to be eligible for such duties, Senator Dodd said that he could not rule that out. ACORN HeathCare coming at you.
READ THE BILL! IT IS TERRIFYING.
Obama Video: "I Don't Want The Folks Who Created The Mess To Do A Lot Of Talking"
Ano 7:58 LMAO
Thank you, however, I feel a little guilty. I've come to think of the poor little fella kind of like our very own little pet troll.
Why Obama Care Doesn't Sell
(Yahoo)jumps the shark too?
The press and the polls say that public support for President Obama's health care reform is slipping. And, despite denials by the administration, the vast majority of Americans fear Congressional plans will ultimately reduce their choices and lower the quality of their care.
Americans spend much more on health care than any other country without receiving significantly better health outcomes. I am even willing to countenance a government-run program for those who can't afford private insurance. But I still have big questions that make me very uneasy about upcoming legislation. Health Costs
The SEIU thugs are nothing more than an Obama fund-raising union of dumbasses who'd otherwise be getting $10 bucks an hour asking if you want hot sauce with your tacos. They've actually threatened to strike! All us Californians are hoping they follow through so they can be fired and the union disbanded.
Can you feel a big swing starting to the right-center? Thank you Obama for your fringe lefty policies! You're the right wing's best asset and the polls are showing it every week! MOre nutty, unpopular lefty policies - pleeeease!
Yeah baby! Obama is doing a much better job of alienating voters than Bush ever did. Bush was just plain stupid, while Obama is too in love with himself and too deep in denial to even notice he's killing the Dems.
Once the bleeding starts, it's impossible to stop. The libs are two quarts low right now and the bleeding has just begun.
Bush was basically a Democrat disguised as a Repub. Either that or he had no balls when it came to conservative ideals. Illegal immigration was a prime example of Bush as a gutless lib. He was a disgrace to conservatism and a president who should be admired by all good libs.
McCain would have been even worse. Can the Repubs come up with worse choices than Bush and McCain in the next election? Now there's a horrible thought.
McClunker stock is up on the "good news" about unemployment. Can the government spin unemployment numbers any better? The mainstream media is happy to oblige and spin them to readers. What a disgraceful piece of fecal matter the media has become. They don't represent the common man, they work for the White House.
AFL-CIO's Trumka Denounces Town Meeting 'Mobs,' (Ignores His Own Union thugs) NLPC
Almost nobody doubts that come September, Richard Trumka will become the AFL-CIO's next president, replacing the retiring John Sweeney. Having occupied the labor federation's secretary-treasurer position for nearly 14 years, he's done everything his boss and the ideological faithful could ask of him. That's a major reason why he and his slate are running unopposed.
But more than Sweeney, Trumka, a trained lawyer, has a palpably combative edge, much of it honed during his tenure as head of the United Mine Workers of America.
His far Left populism was on display Thursday in his written denunciation of the "mob rule" allegedly exercised by attendees at meetings across the U.S. organized by members of Congress to discuss White House and congressional health plans.
The statement provides a sneak preview of what Trumka will bring to the AFL-CIO's top spot.
Obama has always been a fraud. Now we can see the true extent of what the corrupt media has done to the USA with their selected news. George Soros must be horrified at the feckless Obama after all the money he has spent. “You can’t fool all of the people, all of the time.” Yeah man, you can’t!
Obama as the great unifier? That is a good one! Never has the USA been divided as it is now. The Democrats want us to snitch on each other. Obama uses thugs and lies to sell his failed health care plan. The Democrats won’t appear in public to answer questions, stating the staged protests, but send out union thugs to hit back twice as hard. A black man was assaulted in ST. Louis, and peppered with racial slurs, and the Jesse Jackson crowd says nothing. What a crock of shit this Hope and Change agenda is. Perhaps 50% of the voters are brain-dead, but even they see what is going on now, how could they not?
///Sweetheart/// Could you learn one or two more pat lines for your posts? Your words are golden to me, but you write the same thing over and over. Even I tire of repetition, and I am your number one fan.
I'd ask the press to do it's job, and ask tough questions of Dear Leader, instead of just reading DNC talking points.
But Joe the Plumber was the last person to ask Obama a tough question.
Gay America, get your priorities straight
New York Daily News, by S.E. Cupp
On the cover of this month's The Advocate, the Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgendered (LGBT) magazine, is a version of the now iconic Shepard Fairey poster of Barack Obama. In The Advocate's version, instead of the word "Hope" under Obama's stoic visage, it reads "Nope?" And this Barack doesn't look proud and presidential - he looks downright shifty. Needless to say, it's a jarring image. (Snip) What is going on here?
Via Lucianne.com
Obama has never done much for the gay advocates. He believes marriage is between a man and a woman, etc. The gays have been very vocal in their displeasure with Obama (at least the activist gays). I think he has more important issues to deal with than the tiny gay population and their annoying demands.
Government Medicine Kills - The U.K. and Canada prove it. (NRO)
Imagine that your two best friends are British and Canadian tobacco addicts. The Brit battles lung cancer. The Canadian endures emphysema and wheezes as he walks around with clanging oxygen canisters. You probably would not think: “Maybe I should pick up smoking.”
The fact that America is even considering government medicine is equally wacky. The state guides health care for our two closest allies: Great Britain and Canada. Like us, these are prosperous, industrial, Anglophone democracies.
Nevertheless, compared to America, they suffer higher death rates for diseases, their patients experience severe pain, and they ration medical services.
Look what you’re missing in the U.K.:
Breast cancer kills 25 percent of its American victims. In Great Britain, the Vatican of single-payer medicine, breast cancer extinguishes 46 percent of its targets.
Prostate cancer is fatal to 19 percent of its American patients. The National Center for Policy Analysis reports that it kills 57 percent of Britons it strikes.
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development data show that the U.K.’s 2005 heart-attack fatality rate was 19.5 percent higher than America’s. This may correspond to angioplasties, which were only 21.3percent as common there as here.
Hitler's Brown Shirts were run by Homosexual Ernst Roehm.
In fact, lots of Brown Shirts were, “Butch” Homosexual men.
So don't sell your Dear Leader short. Check into ACORN's make-up
and maybe start an off shoot.
You could call yourselves the "Brown Eyes" or even the "Teabaggers."
Media Ignores Town Hall Thug Attacks
Democrats and their union hirelings are beating up people to prevent them from asking questions in town hall meetings about one of the most important pieces of legislation in our lifetimes – and none of our watchdog media wire services can even be bothered to report it.
But the Yankees beat the Red Sox.
So to the media, union thugs beating up granpa’s in combination with the White House implementing a website to monitor free speech is not as important as the Yankees Redsox?
But I’m supposed to willingly subscribe to a McClatchy newspaper
The DNC might want to rethink calling outraged taxpayers a mob.
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Latest Poll Shows Health Care Outrage is REAL!
Flopping Aces ^
The only thing that is being "manufactured" or "ginned up" is the phony Democrat charges against real Americans! Scrap Health Care Reform If It Adds To Deficit, U.S. Voters Tell Quinnipiac University National Poll; Voters Disapprove Of Obama's Handling Of Health Care August 5, 2009 American voters, by a 55 - 35 percent margin…
...what the corrupt media has done to the USA with their selected news...
I thought just about everyone can get Faux or listen to Hannity. Looks like the voters make free-market choices on who to watch and listen to.
...what the corrupt media has done to the USA with their selected news...
I thought just about everyone can get Faux or listen to Hannity. Looks like the voters make free-market choices on who to watch and listen to.
OR NOT BUY McCLATCHY
WH: We’re not collecting names, we’re storing your e-mail addresses
Hot Air
Robert Gibbs assured Jake Tapper that the new White House initiative to get people to snitch on their neighbors for dissenting on ObamaCare had nothing to do with collecting names. Oh, no — that would not be Hope and Change! Instead, it has everything to do with collecting our e-mails:
Asked about Cornyn’s letter on Thursday afternoon, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said, “nobody is collecting names.”
The blog and tips email was because, Gibbs said, “we have seen, and as I’ve discussed from this podium, a lot of misinformation around health care reform. Some of it I think spread purposely. We have used on many occasions the Web site to debunk things that are simply not true. We ask people if they have questions about health care reform and about what they’re hearing about its affects on them, to let us know and we’d provide them information to show that that wasn’t true.”
It won’t take much to convince Americans that some union members are nothing but thugs. Who was it that went in bus loads to intimidate people in their homes? Most everyone I know has seen a union thug in action. Union people act as if their employer is their enemy. They disgust me, and I am not alone in that opinion. I would not buy a GM car at any price.
You have to laugh at the Dem-wits. They said nothing when thuggish ACORN people were fraudulently doing their community organizing job, like Oboob taught them. Now, they accuse taxpayers of being part of a mob. I wasn’t part of anything, but I am going to be from now on. I made my first call and found another pissed off taxpayer ready to swing into action. We are now a group of ten. We read the bill, we are armed with questions, and we want straight answers! Democrat politicians aren’t used to their constituents knowing more about a bill than they do.
REAL Jobless Rate Already Tops 10 Percent
FOXNews ^
The White House, reacting to the latest jobless report showing the unemployment rate fell unexpectedly to 9.4 percent in July, predicted that despite the good news the rate would still hit 10 percent before year's end. But in effect it already has. The actual percentage of Americans who remain unemployed -- including those who have stopped looking for work -- is considerably higher than 9.4 percent and surpassed 10 percent months ago. By one measure, the unemployment rate is really 10.7 percent.
www.foxnews.com
5 freedoms you'd lose in health care reform (CNN WEB SITE EXPOSES HUSSEIN'S LIES)CNN Money
1. Freedom to choose what's in your plan...
2. Freedom to be rewarded for healthy living, or pay your real costs...
3. Freedom to choose high-deductible coverage...
4. Freedom to keep your existing plan...
5. Freedom to choose your doctors...
Headline #1: 2:06pm: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq at new 2009 highs after a smaller-than-expected number of jobs lost and a surprise drop in unemployment.
Headline #2: Right wing nutjobs will continue to come to this site and scream that the world is ending and nothing is every going to get better until Obama leaves office.
A "drop" from 9.5% unemployment to 9.4% is statistically significant? On what planet?
The press is acting like this is the best news since Obama got elected. These people are deranged!
Media Ignores Town Hall Thug Attacks
Democrats and their union hirelings are beating up people to prevent them from asking questions in town hall meetings about one of the most important pieces of legislation in our lifetimes – and none of our watchdog media wire services can even be bothered to report it.
They should be beat up. These wackos in the town hall meetings are nothing but immature, disrespectful idiots. It's okay to disagree but all yelling and screaming will do is completely minimize their message. They are crazy fools and should be tasered.
CNN Exposes Government's Funny Math for Clunker Program, SUV Really Most Popular By Julia A. Seymour
The Senate stepped in to save Cash for Clunkers Aug. 6, giving it a $2billion extension. But on Aug. 7, CNN.com found a big difference between independent analysis and government claims of which cars were most popular buys.
Peter Valdes-Dapena explored the difference between government data on the clunkers program (claiming small cars were most popular) and Edmunds.com analysis which showed that "two full-size trucks and a small crossover SUV were actually among the top-ten buys."
"The discrepancy is a result of the methods used. Edmunds.com uses traditional sales measurements, tallying sales by make and model.
The government uses a more arcane measurement method that subdivides models according to engine and transmission types, counting them as separate models," Valdes-Dapena wrote.
Obama is a failure, no more taxpayer's money. Stop him now before he ruins our country!
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-Obama's Jobs Plan: A Promise Unfulfilled-
The Heritage Foundation
James Sherk & Rea S. Hederman, Jr.
“Since President Obama signed the stimulus bill, job creation has hit new lows and the total number of hours that employees work has continued to fall.”
Oh, oh, CNN is going to be on the White House shit list. No one is supposed to tell the truth about ‘ObamaScare’ Who is going to snitch on them?
CNN telling the truth? Is this for real?
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CNN Exposes Government's Funny Math for Clunker Program,
SUV Really Most Popular
By Julia A. Seymour
...5 freedoms you'd lose in health care reform ...
They forgot one: Freedom to lose your insurance if you are laid off; or are hospitalized and they find that you were treated for something minor 30 years ago and forgot to mention it when you signed up for the insurance.
Right on lefty Bro.
You said, …“nothing is [ever] going to get better until Obama leaves office.” Who could argue with that?
Impeach Obama,
bumper stickers available now.
COLUMBIA, S.C. – South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford says he supports his wife's decision to move out of the governor's mansion, just weeks after he admitted to an affair with another woman
Let me get this straight. This lying, cheating, taxpayer stealing scumbag "supports" his wife as she moves out. He did the lying. He did the cheating. He flew to Latin America to see this ho bag at taxpayer expense and HE is the one offering support?
Taking the word scumbag to another level. Thank you Mr. Sanford for showing us that you can support your wife as she moves out because you cheated on her.
Democrats rejoice, "drop" from 9.5%unemployment to 9.4% ???
This shows how desperate the Democrats are. This is just the beginning. The Obama mystique is over. He is a fraud, pure and simple, and now everyone will see how ridiculous he is. That didn’t take long.
Mrs. Sanford should have stayed on like Hillary Clinton and Liz Edwards did. Democrats forgive cheaters, it’s what they are. JFK being the best at what he did, a movie star at least.
BTW, Little John’s main squeeze is in the news today. No comment from Liz, or John. Imagine that?
The "grass-roots mom" turns out to be a Republican official:
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/
2009/08/grassroots-protester-actually-gop-official.php?ref=fpblg
Burning Internet question:
Can someone PLEASE forward a list of organizations opposing Obamacare?
Lets see...White House asks Americans to turn in their neighbors for fishy ideas about health care reform, Union thugs attack voters at public Town Hall meetings, Obama needs Bill Clinton to pull Al Gores bacon out of the fire with North Korea...its been a bad week for the lefties.
I got my Obotomy and now I am an Obamoron. I support Obamacare.
If Union thugs show up in my district they better bring a bus load because the crowd is too pissed off to be intimidated by a couple of out of work union goons.
JUST CLICK ON THE BELOW LINK FOR YOUR LIST, HOW ELSE CAN I HELP?
"Burning Internet question:
Can someone PLEASE forward a list of organizations opposing Obamacare?"
Stalin's Poster Boy for Snitching
Young Pavlik Morozov, 13, at the height of Stalin's purges in 1932, reported his own father to the NKVD for failing to comply with Soviet ideology and the party line.
His father, Trofim, was arrested and sent to a labor camp. Pavlik became a Hero of the Soviet Union and a role model for all Soviet youth.
There are many slang names for an informer: squealer, snoop, fink, narc, SNITCH... Alexander Solzenitsyn has described unforgettably how suspicion and near-paranoia infected families, friends, associates and neighbors and how they became obsessed with the prospect of saying or doing anything - or perhaps NOTHING - because anyone was a potential informer.
(Several Years from now...)
Dear Grandma,
I am writing you this email from my blackberry. I have been standing online here at the Department of Health and Human Services appeals office for the last 3 hours.
My feet are killing me. I can't believe I am missing the Hanson reunion tour just so I can try for the fifth time to get the government to pay for your pain medication.
It didn't work the first four times and it isn't going to work this time.
More about union thugs: (Another downside to the misnamed ‘Free Choice Act.’)
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Don’t Employers Deserve Free Speech?
Wall Street Journal
John S. Irving
The debate over the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) is being reframed now that the notorious “card check” provision—which would have taken away the right to secret ballots on union representation—will be pulled from the bill. Business groups and members of Congress on the fence will now come under tremendous pressure to support the act, although equally objectionable provisions, such as mandatory arbitration, remain. Yet there has been virtually no debate over the bill’s onerous and unprecedented penalties against employers who may fall afoul of vague National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) rules as workers try to unionize. These penalties will...
Via: FreeRepublic.com
Dear Sir or Madam,
According to our records you have been on kidney dialysis for more than 5 years. This has now become the legal limit.
Our records also show you are #123,000 on the waiting list for a new kidney.
While our department will no longer fund your dialysis, we can pay for your assisted options for end of life.
We can help make your last days comfortable with only a 3week waiting list.
Sincerely,
KEEP THIOSE COBRA PAYMENTS UP TILL DEATHCARE KICKS IN
Man pulls out 13 of his own teeth with pliers 'because he couldn't find an NHS dentist. (dailymail.co.uk)
A former soldier pulled his own teeth out with a pair of pliers because he could not find a dentist to take on NHS patients.
Iraq War veteran Ian Boynton could not afford to go private for treatment so instead took the drastic action to remove 13 of his teeth that were giving him severe pain.
The 42-year-old, from Beverley, East Yorkshire, had not had his teeth looked at since seeing the army dentist in 2003. He had not been registered with a dentist of his own since 2001.
I have not seen people this angry in decades. Obama has united parts of this country in ways that I could not have imagined.
They are united that socialized healthcare is a bad idea.
They are united that union thugs should not be allowed to intimidate voters.
they are united that the MSM is lying about Obamacare.
They are united that Obama is spending money like a drunk sailor.
They are united that Obama is out of good ideas and that we wish he were out of time.
Goldberg writes a great article, says, “Pelosi lying when she says protesters are bringing swastikas to these town halls”
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Democrats’ Fear Is Showing on Health Care
“This administration feels it is the only legitimate beneficiary of “people power.”
National Review By Jonah Goldberg
The Democratic party is panicking, lashing out like a cornered animal, all because its effort to take over the health-care industry is coming apart like so much wet toilet paper. Nancy Pelosi, who will get her own bound volume in the annals of asininity, has outdone herself. When asked by a reporter whether the protests at various town-hall meetings represented legitimate grassroots opposition or were manufactured “AstroTurf” stunts, she replied, “I think they’re AstroTurf. You be the judge. They’re carrying swastikas and symbols like that to a town meeting on health care.”...
God help the congress people who vote for Obamacare. We won't.
Every congressman in this state who votes for Obama care will have an army of in-state volunteers who will work for a donate to his opponent in the next election.
Voting for Obamacare will be a political death sentence for all but the most whacked out liberal districts.
Sounds like all of you conservatives prefer to keep paying for indigents and illegal immigrants who go to public hospitals and spend our taxpayer dollars.
So glad to see you taking the long view of any proposed healthcare plan.
The media nearly refused to cover the John Edwards scandal until they were outdone by a tabloid, even thought he was a presidential candidate. Now they beat a dead horse writing volumes about a southern governor. Both men are reprehensible, but the uneven media coverage is even more so in my opinion. Someone needs to tell the media to wise up, well, it may be too late already. Oh yeah, it is too late already.
The 42-year-old, from Beverley, East Yorkshire, had not had his teeth looked at since seeing the army dentist in 2003. He had not been registered with a dentist of his own since 2001.
I don't care if he served in the police action. He's stupid and deserves what he gets. If you don't go to the dentis in 8 years, you pay the consequences. The pain he feels should remind him that is the penalty he pays for being stupid.
Isn't the republican party all about self reliance? But then if it works to your advantage you will exploit the person for polical gain. Way to play both sides of the fence.
Only I leftie would say that we should vote for Obamacare so that we don't have to pay for health care for illegals. The dems include the illegals in the "46 million" uninsured people in America. Obamacare insures them all!
The media nearly refused to cover the John Edwards scandal until they were outdone by a tabloid, even thought he was a presidential candidate. Now they beat a dead horse writing volumes about a southern governor. Both men are reprehensible, but the uneven media coverage is even more so in my opinion. Someone needs to tell the media to wise up, well, it may be too late already. Oh yeah, it is too late already.
August 7, 2009 1:50 PM
This is a blatant lie and another republican tactic of moving the truth elsewhere. Every major network had Elizabeth Edwards on their show going on and on about her husband. He's a scumbag too so I'll play it both ways.
I think it's funny because since the most current string of cheating scumbags are repukelicans, you talk about uneven media coverage.
The White house says to "punch back twice as hard" and the next day we get voters beat up by union thugs at a town hall meeting.
1. When will Obama apologize for this outrage and call off his goon squads?
2. When will Emanuel realize that the US is not Chicago and bullyboy tactics won't work?
3. When will the mainstream media tell the truth about the beatings and the goon squads?
AARP is somehow getting a payoff from Obama. Why else would they put their insurance company’s welfare on the line?
Liz Edwards went on TV to sell her book. Are you daft?
I don’t think most Americans approve of union goon squads attending town hall meetings, that tactic will only hurt the health care cause. Unleash your goons Oboob, that just cost you another five points on your sinking poll numbers. Keep it up cool bro, keep it up!
The very latest news about a liar and stealing Democrat is William Jefferson (D) LA. That was yesterday, why don’t we discuss him for awhile? Let’s stay current.
TOTALY TRUE. IN FACT, THE LA TIMES BLOG EXPLICITLY REFUSED TO TALK ABOUT EDWARDS BABY. THE SAME TIME, THEY REFUSED TO AIR AN ANTI-SEMETIC OBAMA TAPE.
The media nearly refused to cover the John Edwards scandal until they were outdone by a tabloid, even thought he was a presidential candidate. Now they beat a dead horse writing volumes about a southern governor. Both men are reprehensible, but the uneven media coverage is even more so in my opinion. Someone needs to tell the media to wise up, well, it may be too late already. Oh yeah, it is too late already.
Getting the skinny on Bill Clinton's revision of the CRA, Tsk,tsk.
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Obama: ‘Don’t Want the Folks Who Created the Mess to Do a Lot of Talking’
Breitbart.com
The arrogance of this man to tell anyone they don't have a right to speak. And Democrats would say Bush was intolerant of opposition? If Bush had ever told his opponents to sit down and shut up he'd have been skewered. And if Obama doesn't want "the people who created this mess to do a lot of talking" then I guess he better tell his party to stuff a sock in it since they're the ones who created the subprime mess with Bill Clinton's revision of the CRA forcing more and more subprime lending on the mortgage...
Video link: http://www.breitbart.tv/obama-dont-want-the-folks-who-created-the-mess-to-do-a-lot-of-talking/
Remember Obama saying, “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.” “That’s the Chicago way.” Who thought he meant it literally?
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SEIU Thugs Teach Protesters the ‘Chicago Way’ of Politics
Pajamas Media
Jim Hoft
Barack Obama told a crowd of supporters in Philadelphia back in 2008, [“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.” ]He added, “That’s the Chicago way.” Last night in St. Louis, Missouri, a local conservative found out first hand about the “Chicago way.” Kenneth Gladney, a black conservative from the city, was handing out “Don’t Tread On Me” flags after a Russ Carnahan town hall meeting on health care in Mehlville. This didn’t go over well with the Obama supporters and union thugs who attended the meeting. They punched him in the face, kicked him in...
PAGING SHERYL CROW!, PAGING SHERYL CROW!
Cash-strapped Cuba says toilet paper running short Yahoo/Reuters
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba, in the grip of a serious economic crisis, is running short of toilet paper and may not get sufficient supplies until the end of the year, officials with state-run companies said on Friday.
Officials said they were lowering the prices of 24 basic goods to help Cubans get through the difficulties provoked in part by the global financial crisis and three destructive hurricanes that struck the island last year.
20 years ago I remember being in Cuba and using newspaper. So Why is this new news?
I guess this is what keeps Pinchy in business?
What has happened to our country. Union thugs dispatched by the President of the US to silence his opponents!!!!!
Time to impeach Obama.
"Cuba has taken various steps to boost output, including putting more state-owned land in private hands and pushing for salaries to be based on productivity."
What a novel idea!
As Cuba tip toes toward capitalism we rush head first into their failed communist system, and with the media's blessing too!.
First Lady Obama Has Cell Phones Confiscated at Restaurant, Objected to Pictures Being Taken
"Fellow patrons had their cellphones temporarily confiscated to prevent pictures from being taken."
What if Bush did that?
No snitching on Michelle Obama allowed! By Michelle Malkin
The Obama administration encourages you to report “casual conversations” and “fishy” statements of your fellow Americans to the health care czar.
But if you want to take a cell phone photo of the First Lady eating a cheeseburger, you are out of luck.
Michelle Obama Can Haz Cheezburger, But You Can No Haz Camera While She Eats It
(The Powers That Be)
After all the Obama administration’s harping on ending obesity and healthier eating, I can understand why they might not want anybody taking pictures of them scarfing on junk:
Michelle Obama, like her husband, enjoys a good burger, but not as well done. The first lady brought daughters Malia and Sasha to former “Top Chef” contestant Spike Mendelsohn’s Good Stuff Eatery in DC for cheeseburgers, onion rings, fries, and milkshakes. “They got the burgers medium,” says a spy.
(President Obama was mildly ridiculed after ordering a burger medium-well in January.) “Three starving Secret Service guys were literally standing over the grill as Spike made the burgers, but didn’t eat,” our source adds.
Fellow patrons had their cellphones temporarily confiscated to prevent pictures from being taken.
Hey, cameras weren’t banned when Bill Clinton bought a double burger (hold the mayo), onion rings, french fries, apple pie and a milkshake a couple of weeks ago —and on the eve of a conference on obesity no less:
The Obama Joker poster has been made into a fake dollar bill. A joker says. “Free Obama money, print it up, pass it around.”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/41200056@N02/
Good advise: Everyone, take videos of your town hall meetings. It seems it is the union thugs that start yelling and disrupting the town hall meetings. Everyone needs to video these thugs from the get-go, get their faces on film. Obama even has to stage these events, and the media will never tell the true story. That is about the only thing the corrupt media can be counted on to do, lie and cheat with the best of the liberal scum, IMO.
What about the Democrats that traveled to Cuba a few months ago? Wasn’t everything just hunky-dory? Maybe they never went to the bathroom during their stay. We know they didn’t talk to any dissenters, but found the people of Cuba so happy, so very happy! We can envision a time of no toilet paper if the whacko environmentalists continue on their course with Obama at the helm.
Re: First Lady Obama Has Cell Phones Confiscated at Restaurant-
How can anyone do that? What is happening here?
The Democrats won’t tell the truth about how many illegal aliens will be covered by the Obama Healthcare scam. It would tick taxpayers off beyond belief. So they lie and evade, lie and evade. Seems like the new MO for the corrupt Democrats and their media puppets.
What happened to the Michelle Obama patient dumping story? Oh right, the media is not interested.
What she could tell us about health care, right?
White House Move to Collect 'Fishy' Info May Be Illegal, Critics Say
The White House has been under fire since posting a blog on Tuesday that asks supporters to e-mail any "fishy" information seen on the Web or received electronically.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/07/white-house-collect-fishy-info-health-reform-illegal-critics-say/
The empty words of a journalist turned flack (Washington Examiner)
Linda Douglass, the former CBS and ABC News correspondent who joined the Obama presidential campaign and later the administration, has emerged as the point person in the White House push back against “disinformation” regarding national health care.
She’s one of several former journalists who are part of Team Obama, and her story, in particular, illustrates the difficulties that politically connected Democratic journalists can face both inside and outside the government. (Although a few Republican reporters have joined GOP administrations, this is mostly a Democratic problem, given the left-leaning sympathies of most journalists.)
As a reporter, how does one keep from rooting for the home team? And as a government official, how does one flack for the boss while ignoring the questions any journalist should ask?
SHE IGNORED ASKING ANY QUESTIONS OF HIM WHEN SHE WORKED AS A REPORTER ANYWAY.
Who knew? Ling and Lee are part of an Algore cult?
Ling and Lee and the Al Gore Religion
http://pundits.thehill.com/2009/08/06/ling-and-lee-and-the-al-gore-religion/#more-6974
Susan Estrich, a liberal pundit, said calling tax protesters names is a stupid thing to do, and Democrats will live or die on this healthcare fiasco. She opined something will be done on healthcare even if it is a tiny bill, so Obama can sign it in front of the cameras. What a fraud he is, even the Democrats are afraid if him. He will self implode, it is in the works already, and he is dumb. He really is dumb.
Nearly half of the nation's uninsured are illegals. While the government lowballs the figure at around 12 million, it's generally thought to be more like 20-plus million illegals sucking off our tax teats. That's who we'll be paying for in our bankrupt country - illegals.
The Democrats know that all the illegal aliens will vote for them. They will try and make them citizens before the next election. That these people broke our laws by illegal entry makes them a good Democrat already, the politicians can skip that step of indoctrination, and get them right into unions. The old saw that they do jobs no one else will do, is a laugh, they will bankrupt our country in more ways than healthcare expenses.
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