Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann explains to radio host Chris Baker the democrats’ latest outrageous trickery that may be used to pass Obamacare, with what is called the “self-executing” rule.
Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann explains to radio host Chris Baker the “self-executing” rule — the democrats’ latest, outrageous trickery that may be used to pass Obamacare.
We can go one better than Nancy, Harry, Barry and their co-conspirators. How about trying the “mass self-executing rule?”
Anyone think this photo that ran in the New York Times article, As Health Vote Awaits, Future of a Presidency Waits, Too, might have had a teensy weensy bit of ever-so-slightly biased Photoshop work? Or was it simply divine intervention?
Anyone else think this photo that ran in the New York Times article, As Health Vote Awaits, Future of a Presidency Waits, Too, might have had a teensy weensy bit of ever-so-slightly biased Photoshop work? Or was it simply divine intervention?
Well, let’s give Andrea Mitchell credit. She says what she thinks and thinks what she says. Of course, she oozes liberalism, which sounds horribly unpleasant.
Here’s a quick clip in which the so-called reporter openly shills for ObamaCare with Congressman Elijah Cummings because, well, just because the President needs it, damn it.
Well, let’s give Andrea Mitchell credit. She says what she thinks and thinks what she says. Of course, she oozes liberalism, which sounds horribly unpleasant.
Here’s a quick clip in which the so-called reporter openly shills for ObamaCare with Congressman Elijah Cummings because, well, just because the President needs it, damn it.
Mitchell: Bottom line, what happens if you don’t get health care for this president is, this is really all-or-nothing for the sense of his power, his legacy, he’s invested so much in this, in this first year. You’ve got to get this for him.
Cummings: Andrea, I agree with you a million percent.
“Gimme an O, gimme a B, gimme an A, gimme an M, gimme an A. What does it spell? Bankruptcy.”
Uh-oh. Sounds like Michigan Democrat Bart Stupak has had it just about up to here with promises from Nancy Pelosi the Obama administration. He doesn’t like their attempts to rahm ObamaCare through the House of Representatives. And he doesn’t like the endless series of meetings where nothing is accomplished. Not one little bit.
Uh-oh. Sounds like Michigan Democrat Bart Stupak has had it just about up to here with promises from Nancy Pelosi the Obama administration. He doesn’t like their attempts to rahm ObamaCare through the House of Representatives. And he doesn’t like the endless series of meetings where nothing is accomplished. Not one little bit.
He explains it all in this hilarious clip with Greta Van Susteren.
Greta: So what happens at these meetings?
Stupak: Nothing, the same people just get up and talk.
We say, man up, Stupak. We’re just as tired of hearing about it as you are.
H/t: Gateway Pundit
Robert Byrd now favors passing ObamaCare via reconciliation, but he opposed it back when the Clintons suggested it. Here’s what he said on the floor of the Senate back on April 5, 2001.
We’re a little shaky on the history on this one. How many centuries has Robert Byrd actually been in the Senate? How did he get along with Abraham Lincoln?
Byrd now favors passing ObamaCare via reconciliation, but he opposed it back when the Clintons suggested it. Here’s what he said on the floor of the Senate back on April 5, 2001:
The Democratic leadership pleaded with me at length to support the idea that the Clinton healthcare bill should be included in that year’s reconciliation package. They came to my office on the floor below. President Clinton got on the phone and called me also and pressed me to allow his massive health care bill to be insulated by reconciliation’s protection. He called me on the telephone.
I felt that changes as dramatic as the Clinton healthcare package, which would affect every man, woman and child in the United States, should be subject to scrutiny. I said, ‘Mr. President, I cannot in good conscience, turn my face the other way. That’s why we have a Senate, is to amend and to debate freely. And that health bill, important as it is, is so complex, so far reaching, that the people of this country need to know what’s in it. And moreover, Mr. President, we senators need to know what’s in it before we go there.
He accepted that, thanked me and we said goodbye. I could not, I would not, and I did not allow that package to be handled in such a cavalier manner. It was the threat of the use of the Byrd rule.
Reconciliation was never, never, never intended to be a shield, to be used as a shield for controversial legislation.
Maybe he’s changed his mind. Maybe he’s lost his mind. Maybe he’s just a confused old man. Take your choice.
George Will took Berkeley professor Robert Reich to school on this week’s edition of ABC’s This Week, on healthcare and liberalism.
George Will took Berkeley professor Robert Reich to school on this week’s edition of ABC’s This Week.
You almost felt sorry for Reich. Almost, but not quite.
Reich: The health insurers are not, George, you said they’re popular and everybody likes their health insurer. They like their doctor. They hate their health insurer. And health insurance is going up in terms of rates 20, 30, 40, 50 percent in many states. In fact, Goldman Sachs just this past week has said to its many of its investors, “Invest in some insurance companies because they don’t have competition, and they have, are exhibiting huge profits.” That is money directly out of the pockets of Americans.
Will: A, you say they have huge profits. As you know, confiscate all the profits of all the health insurance companies, with those profits you could finance our healthcare for 48 hours. What you do for the next 363 days I don’t know. Second, you say there’s not enough competition? Fine, let them compete in a national market across state lines.
Reich: Yes, let them compete across state lines, fine. But not a race to the bottom. Set minimum federal standards because we’ve seen over and over again that the recipients of health insurance don’t know what they are buying very often. Until there are common standards, minimal standards, then people are going to be taken. And that is what’s happened over and over again.
Will: There you have the premise of this legislation and the core of today’s liberalism: the American people are such dopes they can’t be counted upon to buy their own insurance.
A few minutes later, Reich was undoubtedly in the producer’s office begging not to be booked on the same show as Will ever again.
H/t: NewsBusters.org
President Obama had a brief lapse – yeah, let’s call it a lapse – toward the end of the ObamaCare Summit.
President Obama had a brief lapse – yeah, let’s call it a lapse – toward the end of the ObamaCare Summit.
If malpractice reform is so important to the Republicans, he wondered, then why didn’t they do something about it when they ran the show in Washington, DC.
Obama: Medical malpractice has been mentioned. Now, look, let me be honest. This is something, historically, that Democrats have been more resistant to than Republicans. I will note that, when we had a Republican president and Republicans controlled the House and Republicans controlled the Senate, somehow it didn’t happen. And I’m surprised.
(Unknown): We needed 60 votes in the Senate, too, Mr. President.
Obama: Well, the — see… (LAUGHTER) See there?
Greatest President In History. And smartest darn professor of Constitutional Law Ever, too.
Source: HotAir.com
Chris Matthews and the talking heads discuss ObamaCare. Hilarity from the boys over at IOwnTheWorld.com.
Chris Matthews and the talking heads discuss ObamaCare. Hilarity from the boys over at IOwnTheWorld.com.
Source: IOwnTheWorld.com
Pardon our Iranian, but “holy friggin’ moly.” Is it November yet?
Pardon our Iranian, but “holy friggin’ moly.” Is it November yet?
Saturday Night Live savages ObamaCare
Pollster Frank Luntz offers up evidence that 2010 is going to be the best damn year since 1994. Unless you’re a Democrat.
Pollster Frank Luntz offers up evidence that 2010 is going to be the best damn year since 1994. Unless you’re a Democrat.
Luntz: I will tell you two things will happen. One is that everyone who is opposed to this (Obamacare) will positively come out and vote because they will feel that it is not only their right but their responsibility to send a message and two, you will see democrats defeated in places that haven’t elected a Republican since 1994.
Party at IHateTheMedia.com headquarters. BYOB.
Perhaps we should have said, “Repeat ad nauseum.” Because as this CNN clip shows, when President Obama wasn’t talking at the healthcare summit, he was posing.
Perhaps we should have said, “Repeat ad nauseum.” Because as this CNN clip shows, when President Obama wasn’t talking at the healthcare summit, he was posing.
Source: NewsBusters.org
The only thing President Obama loves more than hearing himself talk is interrupting anyone else who may want to get a word in edgewise.
The only thing President Obama loves more than hearing himself talk is interrupting anyone else who may want to get a word in edgewise.
Flashback: Obama says dems should not pass healthcare with a simple majority
It’s a reconciliation nation and Barack Obama is the king.
We don’t know Maksim, but take a look at his site. Just our opinion, but we don’t think anyone on the internet can match his mad PhotoShop skills. He’s also a full blown pseudo-Communist, which is, of course, the best kind of Communist.
Source: iMaksim.com
Thanks to the miracle that is Libya’s healthcare system, the Lockerbie bomber is alive and well.
Remember the tragic tale of the Lockerbie bomber? The poor chap was diagnosed with advanced terminal prostate cancer, freed from prison in Scotland and allowed to return to live out his few, final days in Libya. We were told in the gravest of tones that he had but three months to live.
But thanks to the miracle that is Libya’s healthcare system, the Lockerbie bomber is alive and well.
The UK Daily Mail has the inspirational story:
… six months later, Abdelbaset Ali Mohamed al-Megrahi is still living–and doing it in the lap of luxury.
Yesterday, his elderly father even held out the prospect of him beating the prostate cancer that doctors said would kill him by last Christmas…
Megrahi, 57, no longer receives hospital treatment after ending a course of chemotherapy.
Last night, the British cancer specialist who gave the three-month prognosis was forced to defend his prediction.
He insisted that Megrahi remained gravely ill and was not expected to live much longer.
Call us cynical, but we thnk we’ll be reading this same story a year from now. And we still won’t know the real reason this murderer was released to live in Libyan luxury.
Source: Daily Mail UK
Billionaire Warren Buffett, one of President Obama’s strongest supporters, thinks the current health-care bill should be ditched in favor of a new plan that focuses on “cost, cost, cost.”
Billionaire Warren Buffett, one of President Obama’s strongest supporters, thinks the current health-care bill should be ditched in favor of a new plan that focuses on “cost, cost, cost.”
Buffett accuses Obama of “dream[ing] up 2,000 pages of other things.”
“I believe in insuring more people, ” Buffett said, “but I don’t believe in insuring more people until you address … the cost aspect of this.”
“I don’t care what Warren Buffett thinks about healthcare,” Vice President Biden said, “But I have to admit that I love that Margaritaville song. ”
Fox News Channel drew the most viewers during the health care summit, by far.
It’s becoming increasingly difficult for the left to explain Fox News’ dominance every time new ratings come out. The most recent spin seems to boil down to, “Oh, #%$@.”
MediaBistro.com reports the ObamaCare Summit ratings rout:
Fox News Channel drew the most viewers during yesterday’s health care summit, by far. During the summit hours (9:45am-5:30pmET), FNC drew more Total Viewers and A25-54 demo viewers than CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, and HLN combined.
FNC, which did not interrupt the feed from the summit’s start until the 1pm lunch break, drew its most viewers in the 11amET hour, as did MSNBC. CNN drew the most in the 4pmET hour.
CNN, which had the second most viewers, was up +98% against its year-to-date average for the 10am-5:30pmET hours. MSNBC was up +75% and FNC was up +45%.
The White House says 3.9 million users streamed the summit at its website.
(Note: MSNBC only carried the summit until 2pm, and HLN and CNBC did not carry it in full).
The left contends that only stupid Republicans watch Fox News. But they’re going to need a new argument since that one now leads to the inescapable conclusion that the country has more Republicans than Democrats.
Source: MediaBistro.com
All that phony civility on display at the ObamaCare Summit was boring. And horribly insincere. Here’s how it should have looked and sounded. It doesn’t look like European MP Nigel Farage cares much for the Belgian President of the European Parliament.
All that phony civility on display at the ObamaCare Summit was boring. And horribly insincere. Here’s how it should have looked and sounded.
It doesn’t look like European MP Nigel Farage cares much for the Belgian President of the European Parliament.
“…I don’t want to be rude – but, you know, really, you have the charisma of a damp rag and the appearance of a low-grade bank clerk. And the question that I want to ask … the question that I want to ask is: Who are you? I’d never heard of you. Nobody in Europe has ever heard of you. I would like to ask you, president, who voted for you?”
And it goes downhill from there.
Source: Jonah Goldberg, National Review
Obama inadvertently reveals that he doesn’t understand how insurance works. This is a teachable moment.
The President is fond of what he calls teachable moments. So what have we been taught by this video clip?
1. If you want to be covered when you get rear-ended, purchase collision and comprehensive insurance, not just the legally-required, minimum liability policy.
2. If you get rear-ended, it’s probably the other guy’s fault so you should call his insurance company, not your own.
3. Just because you graduate from Harvard doesn’t mean you know how the real world works.
And that, friends, is what you call a teachable moment. Just not the kind the President intended.
Source: HotAir.com
“Bipartisanship is a two-way street,” Princess Pelosi said. “A bill can be bipartisan without bipartisan votes.”
“Bipartisanship is a two-way street,” Princess Pelosi said. “A bill can be bipartisan without bipartisan votes.”
What the hell is wrong with the people of San Francisco who keep electing this dim bulb?
Source: TheHill.com
You could almost hear the collective gasp of horror that came from Democrats in the room. And if were not mistaken, Nancy Pelosi came down with a bad case of the vapors.
Republican Paul Ryan told the ObamaCare Summit that Washington doesn’t have all the answers.
You could almost hear the collective gasp of horror that came from Democrats in the room. And if were not mistaken, Nancy Pelosi came down with a bad case of the vapors.
Quote of the day from the Obamacare Summit came from Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) is about dentures.
Quote of the day from the Obamacare Summit came from Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY):
“You will not believe this and I know you won’t, but it’s true. Her sister died. This poor woman had no dentures. She wore her dead sister’s teeth, which of course were uncomfortable and did not fit.”
Bite me.
Warning: watching American politicians argue about healthcare can be seriously damaging to your health. Symptoms may include migraines, extreme fatigue and sudden violent urges. In the event of exposure to competing statistics — regarding “donut holes”, “HMO deductibles”, “reconciliation devices” or suchlike — seek immediate medical help
The Times UK summed it up perfectly:
Warning: watching American politicians argue about healthcare can be seriously damaging to your health. Symptoms may include migraines, extreme fatigue and sudden violent urges. In the event of exposure to competing statistics — regarding “donut holes”, “HMO deductibles”, “reconciliation devices” or suchlike — seek immediate medical help.
If you have time, click through to read the entire Times UK story. It’s so dead-on that it deserves a death panel.
Source: Times UK
Delusional Pelosi promises that ObamaCare will create 400,000 jobs “almost immediately.” Great. 400,000 grifters, drifters, scalawags, mischief-makers, rogues, scamps, rascals, scoundrels, rapscallions, imps, felons, oulaws, malefactors, bloodsuckers, parasites and, of course, attorneys.
Great. 400,000 grifters, drifters, scalawags, mischief-makers, rogues, scamps, rascals, scoundrels, rapscallions, imps, felons, oulaws, malefactors, bloodsuckers, parasites and, of course, attorneys.
But we repeat ourselves.
