Andrew Breitbart, the genius behind Breitbart.tv, BigHollywood.com, BigGovernment.com and probably a few others we’re forgetting, offered $100,000 to anyone who could prove that the n-word was used at the anti-ObamaCare rallies in Washington, DC. We would prefer small bills, Andrew.
Andrew Breitbart, the genius behind Breitbart.tv, BigHollywood.com, BigGovernment.com and probably a few others we’re forgetting, offered $100,000 to the United Negro College Fund if anyone who could prove that the n-word was used at the anti-ObamaCare rallies in Washington, DC.
Here you go, Andrew, the n-word in all its glory.
Any chance you could redirect that 100 thou to some deserving bloggers? If so, could you make it small bills?
Source: Noline.tv
Just when the Democrats thought they’d bribed everyone who needed bribing and threatened everyone who needed threatening, along come a group of CEOs complaining that ObamaCare is going to cost them a friggin’ fortune.
Just when the Democrats thought they’d bribed everyone who needed bribing and threatened everyone who needed threatening, along come a group of CEOs complaining that ObamaCare is going to cost them a friggin’ fortune.
An outraged Henry Waxman “…called the chief executive officers of AT&T, Verizon, Caterpillar and Deere & Co. to provide evidence to support costs the companies plan to book related to the new health-care law.
“Waxman, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and subcommittee Chairman Bart Stupak released letters they wrote to the executives, saying their plans to record expenses against earnings as a result of the law contradict other estimates. The lawmakers requested the executives appear at hearing Stupak plans on April 21.”
We’d guess that Waxman and Stupak don’t know that businesses have to use real money instead of the pretend kind Congress throws around with wild abandon.
Waxman stopped short of calling the CEOs liars, but said, “The new law is designed to expand coverage and bring down costs, so your assertions are a matter of concern … They also appear to conflict with independent analysis.”
Translation? Waxman thinks the CEOs are lying, or even worse, telling the truth in a way that makes Democrats look bad.
The congressmen insist they’ve been fair to the CEOs in question. They’re merely demanding that the CEOs bring all pertinent documents, emails, voice mails, etc.
As of this morning Waxman and Stupak have not announced plans to conduct full body cavity searches on the CEOs. But that’s subject to change without notification.
Source: Business Week
The Associated Press reports that insurance premiums will jump by 17% for young adults under ObamaCare. But AP has, we think, under-calculated the real increase.
The Associated Press reports that insurance premiums will jump by 17% for young adults under ObamaCare. But AP has, we think, under-calculated the real increase.
Considering that young adults commonly go without insurance and then considering the fact that ObamaCare will now force them to buy insurance they don’t want, it seems to us that a more accurate description of the premium increase would be 117%.
The Associated Press reports the premium prognostication:
Under the health care overhaul, young adults who buy their own insurance will carry a heavier burden of the medical costs of older Americans — a shift expected to raise insurance premiums for young people when the plan takes full effect.
Beginning in 2014, most Americans will be required to buy insurance or pay a tax penalty. That’s when premiums for young adults seeking coverage on the individual market would likely climb by 17 percent on average, or roughly $42 a month, according to an analysis of the plan conducted for The Associated Press. The analysis did not factor in tax credits to help offset the increase.
The higher costs will pinch many people in their 20s and early 30s who are struggling to start or advance their careers with the highest unemployment rate in 26 years.
So welcome aboard the ObamaCare Express, young Americans. You voted for the guy and now you’ll be forced to pay more for a service you don’t want and can’t afford.
Ahhh, the glories of socialism.
Source: Associated Press
First there was the Fair Deal, then the New deal, then the Square Deal, and Joe Biden’s Big Fucking Deal.
Please allow us to break the bad news to you personally. You’re a bigot. You hate the poor and people of color and that’s the only reason you oppose ObamaCare. Must be true, because Reverend Jeremiah Wright said so and he’s a man of the Lord.
Please allow us to break the bad news to you personally. You’re a bigot. You hate the poor and people of color and that’s the only reason you oppose ObamaCare. Must be true, because Reverend Jeremiah Wright said so and he’s a man of the Lord.
As in, “Good Lord, what a friggin’ lunatic.”
H/T: Breitbart.tv
Coming soon! They admit Van Jones is a communist. They admit that “comprehensive immigration reform” really means amnesty. They admit cap-and-trade is just one giant tax. And who knows? Maybe they’ll even admit that Obama was born in a manger in Bethlehem.
Coming soon! They admit Van Jones is a communist. They admit that “comprehensive immigration reform” really means amnesty. They admit cap-and-trade is just one giant tax. And who knows? Maybe they’ll even admit that Obama was born in a manger in Bethlehem.
H/T: Bluegrass Pundit
Just for fun, let’s combine two quick clips with a personal story and then laugh our asses off at the naivety of Obama voters.
Just for fun, let’s combine two quick clips with a personal story and then laugh our asses off at the naivety of Obama voters.
The first clip is North Carolina resident DeCarlo Flythe (one of our all-time favorite names, by the way).
“It’s just going to be like Christmas,” Flythe said of ObamaCare. “It’s going to be great. You know, no worries (about) the bills. We are going to go ahead and pay our co-pay and be alright.”
Then let’s go back in time to the woman who said “Obama’s going to pay for my gas and mortgage.”
Continue reading ““It’s just going to be like Christmas.” And other fairy tales.”
According to the Seattle Times, conservatives are running wild in the streets and the post-ObamaCare violence is spiraling out of control. The paper breathlessly reports on one case in Cincinnati, Ohio.
According to the Seattle Times, conservatives are running wild in the streets and the post-ObamaCare violence is spiraling out of control. The paper breathlessly reports on one case in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Protesters have been demonstrating at (Steve) Driehaus’ Ohio home, said Tim Mulvey, a spokesman for the anti-abortion Democrat who joined Stupak in voting for the health bill. A rock was thrown through the window of Driehaus’ Cincinnati office Sunday, and a death threat was phoned in to his Washington office a day later, Mulvey said.
“It’s getting out of hand,” Mulvey said.
Just one problem with the story. Driehaus office is on the 30th story of this building.
What an arm. We expect the evil conservative rock thrower to be contacted immediately by the Cincinnati Reds, signed to a ten year, $100 million contract, and made a starting pitcher.
H/T: Gateway Pundit
Thursday was a big day for Montana Democrat Max Baucus. First he admitted that ObamaCare was really about redistribution of wealth. Now he admits that it will cause President Obama to break his tax pledge to the middle class.
Thursday was a big day for Montana Democrat Max Baucus. First he admitted that ObamaCare was really about redistribution of wealth. Now he admits that it will cause President Obama to break his tax pledge to the middle class:
“One other point that I think it’s very important to make,” Baucus said, “is that it is true that in certain cases, the taxes will go up for some Americans who might be making less than $200,000.”
What? Gasp! We are shocked. Shocked, we tell you. Who ever could have foreseen the day when Barack Obama would need to backtrack on one of his campaign promises.
Why, next thing you know, he’ll hire a tax cheat to run the Treasury Department.
Source: RealClearPolitics.com
You know, we somehow respect socialist Senator Max Baucus a little more just because he tells the truth about ObamaCare that the President won’t tell.
You know, we somehow respect socialist Senator Max Baucus a little more just because he tells the truth about ObamaCare that the President won’t tell.
Baucus: Too often, much of late, the last couple three years the mal-distribution of income in America is gone up way too much, the wealthy are getting way, way too wealthy, and the middle income class is left behind. Wages have not kept up with increased income of the highest income in America. This legislation will have the effect of addressing that mal-distribution of income in America.
Got that? Mal-distribution. Not even mis-distribution. Baucus goes straight to mal-distribution.
Sort of like the mal-distribution of power in Washington, DC.
Now that Obama has taken over the car companies and healthcare, it’s only a matter of time until the two industries begin intersecting at intersections across America.
Now that Obama has taken over the car companies and healthcare, it’s only a matter of time until the two industries begin intersecting at intersections across America.
What could go wrong?
O’Reilly simply asks which federal government agency will be in charge of fining people who don’t buy health insurance. Getting an answer proved more difficult than O’Reilly anticipated.
Step One: Bill O’Reilly asks a simple question. Step Two: Guest answers. In theory, that’s the way it’s supposed to work, but that’s not quite how it turned out when Bill O’Reilly quizzed incredibly annoying New York Congressman Anthony Weiner.
O’Reilly simply asks which federal government agency will be in charge of fining people who don’t buy health insurance. Getting an answer proved more difficult than O’Reilly anticipated.
We be surprised if anyone can watch this clip without asking the same question we did:
“Who voted for this guy?”
We swear this is our final story on Joe Biden’s f-bomb at the White House signing ceremony for ObamaCare. But please indulge us, because we just noticed something about Obama’s reaction that we haven’t seen anyone else comment on. Watch the video again, this time keeping an eye on President Obama’s face. The sequence of events is as follows:
We swear this is our final story on Joe Biden’s f-bomb at the White House signing ceremony for ObamaCare. But please indulge us, because we just noticed something about Obama’s reaction that we haven’t seen anyone else comment on.
Watch the video again, this time keeping an eye on President Obama’s face. The sequence of events is as follows:
1. Obama smiles broadly.
2. Biden drops the f-bomb.
3. Smile suddenly disappears from Obama’s face.
4. Obama wonders to himself, “What was I thinking when I chose this moron?”
We’ve been wondering the same thing, Mr. President.
While being questioned by Fox’s Bill O’Reilly about why there is so much bitterness following the ObamaCare vote, Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell falls back on the tired old liberal argument that the average American just isn’t quite smart enough to understand the complicated health care bill.
While being questioned by Fox’s Bill O’Reilly about why there is so much bitterness following the ObamaCare vote, Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell falls back on the tired old liberal argument that the average American just isn’t quite smart enough to understand the complicated health care bill.
Maybe so, Governor, but you’d be surprised how many of those stupid Americans are smart enough to spell ‘liberal elitist’.
– Written by Patrick Michael
You’ve surely read the story of Joe Biden leaning over to President Obama and saying, “This is f@ckin’ big” during Tuesday’s ObamaCare signing ceremony. But c’mon, man, this is Joe Biden. The man is too big to screw up just once a day.
You’ve surely read the story of Joe Biden leaning over to President Obama and saying, “This is f@ckin’ big” during Tuesday’s ObamaCare signing ceremony.
But c’mon, man, this is Joe Biden. The man is too big to screw up just once a day.
Top of the Ticket reveals Joe’s other special moment:
Biden is fond of quoting poets in public, usually Irish ones and often in the Mideast for some reason. But today the man who was a senator while Obama was in the sixth grade chose another nationality.
Here’s what he said, according to the White House transcript:
As I said just before the president signed the healthcare bill, I quoted Virgil, the classic Greek poet, who once said, ‘The greatest wealth is health.’ The greatest wealth is health. Mr. President, you’ve made us a nobler and wealthier nation by providing for the health of your fellow citizens.
Here’s the problem, as loyal Ticket reader Mike points out:
Virgil wasn’t Greek. He was Roman. Very Roman. So Roman, in fact, that the author (70 BC-19 BC) of the “Aeneid,” among other famous works, is buried in Naples.
“Stand up, Virgil, let ‘em see you. Oh, what am I talking about?”
Source: Top of the Ticket
The White House is all smiles, the citizenry is mostly placated, and the media are ignoring our real problems. But, underneath all that, the survival of America as we know it is at stake. People paying attention are seeing the decline of America’s power, and see the fall coming on more quickly than most of us would expect.
The White House is all smiles, the citizenry is mostly placated, and the media are ignoring our real problems. But, underneath all that, the survival of America as we know it is at stake. People paying attention are seeing the decline of America’s power, and see the fall coming on more quickly than most of us would expect.
One such thinker is David Murrin, CIO of Emergent Asset Management and author of Breaking the Code of History, who outlined the currently unfolding scenario to CNBC’s Squawk Box Europe. He contends that the course Obama has put America on with Obamacare reminds him of the dismantling of the British empire after World War II, when the nation created their National Health Service, which ensures universal health coverage in Britain. But the Obama Administration is not only setting us on this path with his social policy, he is also appeasing our enemies around the world.
Longtime Congressman John Dingell, appeared on NewsTalk WJR on March 23, and ‘fessed up what other Democrats know, but won’t admit.
Longtime Congressman John Dingell, appeared on NewsTalk WJR on March 23, and ‘fessed up what other Democrats know, but won’t admit.
“Let me remind you this [Americans allegedly dying because of lack of universal health care] has been going on for years. We are bringing it to a halt. The harsh fact of the matter is when you’re going to pass legislation that will cover 300 [million] American people in different ways it takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people.”
Repeal and replace, baby.
You’ve probably heard that the Democrats went out and celebrated their ObamaCare victory until the wee hours of the morning. Here’s an exclusive look at what that party looked like.
You’ve probably heard that the Democrats went out and celebrated their ObamaCare victory until the wee hours of the morning. Here’s an exclusive look at what that party looked like.
Click image for a larger view. This iMaksim.com guy is a PhotoShop genius.
Update: Just saw that you can buy this image in a poster at the artist’s store.
Source: iMaksim.com
Thaddeus McCotter, one of our favorite congressmen, notes that Hope & Change has degenerated into Tax & Hate. We’ve never heard him sound quite so serious.
Give ‘em hell, Thad.
Thaddeus McCotter, one of our favorite congressmen, notes that Hope & Change has degenerated into Tax & Hate. We’ve never heard him sound quite so serious.
Give ‘em hell, Thad.
Unf–ingbelievable. The day liberals have been waiting for, what Obama spent his entire first year on, the bill that’s been “100 years in the making.” And what does Joe Biden have to say about it? He whispers to President Obama, with millions watching–and listening–“this is a big f–king deal!”
Unf–kingbelievable. The day liberals have been waiting for, what Obama spent his entire first year on, the bill that’s been “100 years in the making.” And what does Joe Biden have to say about it? He whispers to President Obama, with millions watching–and listening on the open mic–“This is a big f–king deal!”
The Obama administration: Fascist. Dishonest. Vulgar.
Our president has a bit of a problem with telling the truth. No, let’s be more clear, he’s a pathological liar. Today, we see that he’s about to break the promise he so sternly made back on the campaign trail, when he said the “public will have five days to look at every bill that lands on my desk” before he signs it into law. It looks like Obamacare won’t even make it two days.
Our president has a bit of a problem with telling the truth. No, let’s be more clear. He’s a pathological liar. Today we see that he’s about to break the promise he so sternly made back on the campaign trail when he said, “The public will have five days to look at every bill that lands on my desk” before he signs it into law. It looks like Obamacare won’t even make it two days.
To recap, in that campaign speech candidate Obama manages to tell seven, count ’em, seven lies in only two minutes.
Where’s Congressman Joe Wilson, the most honest man in Washington, when we need him?
The President, Vice President, cabinet members and top White House staff are all exempt from ObamaCare. And Republican Senator Chuck Grassley wants to change that.
The President, Vice President, cabinet members and top White House staff are all exempt from ObamaCare. And Republican Senator Chuck Grassley wants to change that.
“It’s pretty unbelievable that the President and his closest advisors remain untouched by the reforms they pushed for the rest of the country. In other words, President Obama’s health care reform won’t apply to President Obama,” Grassley said. “Last December, the effort to apply any new law to administration political leaders was rejected by the Senate Majority Leader. But there’s no justification for the double standard, and I’ll continue to work to establish fairness.”
The Senate legislation passed…by the House of Representatives includes an amendment Grassley sponsored and got adopted by the Finance Committee last fall to have members of Congress and their staffs get their health insurance through the same health insurance exchanges where health plans for the general public would be available. During the closed-door negotiations on the bill late last year, the Senate Majority Leader carved out Senate committee and leadership staff from this requirement.
Subsequently, Grassley and Senator Tom Coburn attempted to offer another amendment to restore the requirement during Senate debate on the health care bill, but the Senate Majority Leader would not let their amendment to fix this loophole even come up for a vote. In addition to Senate committee and leadership staff, the amendment Grassley and Coburn filed during the Senate debate would have made the President, the Vice President, top White House staff and cabinet members all get their health insurance through the newly created exchanges. It would not have applied to federal employees in the civil service.
Grassley said, “It’s only fair and logical that top administration officials, who fought so hard for passage of this overhaul of America’s health care system, experience it themselves. If it’s as good as promised, they’ll know it first-hand. If there are problems, they’ll be able to really understand them, as they should.”
Grassley said the motivation for his amendments is simple: public officials who make the laws or lead efforts to have laws changed should live under those laws.
Let’s reverse this, Senator Grassley, and demand that the kind of healthcare the top Democrats receive.
Hairplugs like Joe Biden’s for everyone! Botox like Nancy Pelosi’s for everyone. Dull pills like Harry Reid’s for everyone!
Now that’s a healthcare plan we could support.
Source: Grassley.Senate.gov
Workers of the world unite. In song, that is. Now that ObamaCare has passed and America is officially a socialist nation, you might as well begin learning The Internationale, the anthem of socialists around the world.
Workers of the world unite. In song, that is. Now that ObamaCare has passed and America is officially a socialist nation, you might as well begin learning The Internationale, the anthem of socialists around the world.
Taxes are, like, hard to understand, and stuff. It’s even worse when you’ve spent your entire political career creating new taxes and fees and tax categories and tax loopholes. Just ask Nancy Pelosi who has a hard time figuring out exactly what a tax on unearned income is. Pelosi was explaining a new tax that will help pay for Obamacare.
Taxes are, like, hard to understand, and stuff. It’s even worse when you’ve spent your entire political career creating new taxes and fees and tax categories and tax loopholes.
Just ask Nancy Pelosi who has a hard time figuring out exactly what a tax on unearned income is. Pelosi was explaining a new tax that will help pay for Obamacare.
When a reporter asked whether that meant there would be additional tax on capital gains, Pelosi responded the tax would hit all “unearned income, whatever category that is.”
The reporter dared to actually repeat the question again, “So, capital gains?”
And Pelosi retorted, “No, unearned income, whatever category that is.”
OK, by the way, Nancy, unearned income is, in part, defined as: Income from interest, dividends, annuities, royalties, and rents, other than such income which is derived in the ordinary course of a trade or business.
Sounds a lot like capital gains to us.
But what do we know? We don’t create taxes, we just pay ‘em.
Source: CNSnews.com
– Written by Sven Waring, DotPenn.com
ObamaCare will undoubtedly go down in history as the most corrupt bill ever passed. And to make it even worse, most of the bribes took place right out in public.
Just in case anyone’s been sleeping through this debacle, Congressman Jack Kingston (R-GA) recited a list of all the bribes and payoffs just before the vote took place.
ObamaCare will undoubtedly go down in history as the most corrupt bill ever passed. And to make it even worse, most of the bribes took place right out in public.
Just in case anyone’s been sleeping through this debacle, Congressman Jack Kingston (R-GA) recited a list of all the bribes and payoffs just before the vote took place.
And yet it passed.
H/T: Bluegrass Pundit
