Monday, March 22, 2010

Larwyn's Linx: The End of the Beginning

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Nation

The End of the Beginning: GoV
Boehner's Awesome Speech: RWN
State A.G.'s launch lawsuit barrage against Demcare: Malkin

Stupak's Sellout in Quotes: RWN
Obamacare: the coming batles: PJM
Heritage Foundation: 'Intolerable Acts': BMW

Obamacare Isn't Inevitable: NRO
Stupak opponent adds 5,000 supporters in one day: BlogProf
National Health Insurance Reform Done: Moran

Economy

Time to Repeal Davis-Bacon: SOTU
Federal spending is about to leap: Insider
Obama Pays More Than Buffett as U.S. Risks AAA Rating: Bloomberg

Inflation? Where?: Mish
310(g): Big Feed
From little ACORNs, new state-level organizations grow: DC

Climate & Energy

Bill Clinton Mocks Al Gore: Surber

Media

Obama has crossed the Rubicon: Hanson
Steyn: This is even worse than you're thinking: Ace
Glenn Beck's blast from my past: TBO

Where were you when the Republic died?: AT
Stupak: either dim or dishonest: DC
What's Wrong With a Little Socialism?: Marathon

Frum Fumes, Hinderaker Sees a Brighter Future: Wizbang
NYT: “Fantasy in, fantasy out” on Obamacare: Surber

World

Please, kill the bill: it means everything: Gina Loudon
Key Donor Says Obama Needs Relationship Training: Kesler
A response to my UKIP-supporting readers: Hannan

Third Act for the Jerusalem Crisis This Week: AT
Stop the Wars! ANSWER L.A.: AmPower
Khamenei accuses Obama of plotting on Iran: Maktoob

SciTech

Smallest Linux Desktop PC: HandleWithLinux
Unprecedented 25-Year Sentence Sought for TJX Hacker: Threat Level

Cornucopia


Seriously, Doonesbury is still being produced?: iOTW
Half Irish and Half Proud of It: IowaHawk (Tape-Delay)

QOTD:

"Investor’s Business Daily argues that the “health” debate is really a proxy fight on the size and role of government. According to their poll, 64 percent of people think the federal government has “too much power.” Correct. But a big chunk of that 64 percent voted less than 18 months ago for a man and a party explicitly committed to more government with more power, and they’re now living with the consequences. Obama is government, and government is Obama. That’s all he knows and all he’s ever known. You elected to the highest office in the land a man who’s never run a business or created wealth or made a payroll, and for his entire adult life has hung out with guys who’ve demonized (deemonized?) such grubby activities. Many of which associates he appointed to high office: Obama’s cabinet has less experience of private business than any in the last century. What it knows is government, and government’s default mode is to grow, and grow. " -- Mark Steyn


Sunday, March 21, 2010

Barney Frank on the Rule of Law

The toad-like Barney Frank weighed in this afternoon on the Capitol's raucous crowd as Democrats bribed, cajoled and threatened their caucus to vote for a government takeover of health care.

Rep Michael Turner (R-Ohio) walked by carrying a sign saying “I’m voting no!” Trent Franks, a Republican of Arizona and Pete Olson, a Republican of Texas, came down to thank the Tea Partiers for their support.

Inside the House chamber, a protester was ejected by Capitol Police after yelling from the House gallery.

Frank was visibly angry with his GOP colleagues, whom he believed goaded the protesters.

"Did you guys see the Republicans encouraging the disruption?" Frank left the House floor to tell about 15 reporters. "These clowns are out there encouraging violation of the law and making the job of the guys up there harder. It's really disgraceful."

This pathetic excuse for a legislator spits on the United States Constitution, claims to have granted "rights" by stealing the labor of others, and -- to top it off -- promotes the bankruptcy of the country by expanding entitlements at a time when we can least afford it?

And he's angry about a protester?

I'll tell you what I'm angry about. A man like Barney Frank who started his law-breaking days when he allowed a brothel to operate out of his condo and never paid a price. A man who is culminating his career with the destruction of the American experiment, changing forever the relationship between the individual and government. Citizens of Massachusetts: you could select a representative by throwing a dart at a phone book and do significantly better than this disgraceful troll.


Update: Attorneys general launch lawsuit backlash against Demcare.

Update II: Eight Health Care Charts That Depict the Utter Cruelty of DemCare.

Eight Health Care Charts That Depict the Utter Cruelty of DemCare








Rather than honestly address the impending entitlement catastrophe, Obama, Pelosi and Reid are adding a brand new unfunded entitlement.

These Democrats are historic alright; they will live in infamy.


Source: Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI). Hat tip: Charlie Foxtrot.

The Health Care Travails of Citizen Barack Obama


What if Barack Obama were just a normal citizen? A normal, taxpaying schmoe like you and me. These are his stories. These are the travails of Citizen Obama.

Mr. Obama, I'm sorry to say that your wife's mother is suffering from some serious ailments.

We'll need to do an extensive battery of tests. Her white blood cell count is elevated, which could mean a variety of things.

Also, it appears she needs a hip replacement.

Doctor, thank you. Even though this is family, I don't want you to go to extraordinary lengths.

You know what? We should cut costs.

It pains me to say this, but don't do any tests.

Don't give her that expensive drug. It treats a rare disease and is very expensive. The last thing I'd want to do is run up costs for other Americans.

No, she's getting up there in years, and according to Ezekiel Emanuel's "Complete Lives System", she's consumed enough of our precious community health care resources.

No, we're not going to go to the Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins or some other top-notch facility.

Who am I to demand cutting-edge treatment? Those extra tests? Cutting-edge drugs? No, we don't want any of those.

And look. She's 79, for heaven's sake. Forget about the hip replacement.

She can handle it, she's tougher than nails.

Look, bottom line: just give her some painkillers. It's the progressive thing to do.

Stupak: the Sanctity of Life is Important to Us, Which is Why We Will Slash Care for Old People and Further Enslave Children to Massive Deficits

Moments ago, Democrat Bart Stupak announced that a deal had been brokered between the President and the Democrat pro-life contingent in the House.

In exchange for their votes, the President will sign an Executive Order banning -- supposedly -- federal spending on abortions. Nancy Pelosi gets a dozen or so hard-fought votes that almost guarantee the successful passage of the Senate health care bill in the House.

Ironically, Stupak's pro-life posse of Democrats are assuredly condemning children and generations yet unborn to massive deficits, when our existing entitlement programs are already broken.

The bill uses every account gimmick known to man -- including slashing Medicare payments (really humane, Bart) and double-counting the cuts -- and invents a few new ones to create a brand new entitlement when the country is already in dire financial straits.

This bill fundamentally changes the relationship between the federal government and the people; and it does so in a despicably evil way. Health care will, there is no doubt, be wielded as a political weapon to reward and punish.

Congratulations, Bart Stupak and your so-called "Pro-Life" Democrat Caucus, you've sentenced the unborn generations of this country to misery, poverty and economic ruin. Way to stay true to your beliefs.

You aren't pro-life, you're low-lives.


Update: "You deserve better."

Update II: Eight Health Care Charts That Depict the Utter Cruelty of DemCare.

President Creates or Saves 16,500 Jobs of IRS Agents Who Will Work in the New Federal Health Care Enforcement Division

The Internal Revenue Service, the country's most beloved agency, will soon be hiring if CubaCare passes.

Obamacare will result in the creation of at least 16,500 new jobs. Doctors? Nurses? Ha! Dream on, suckers. That’s 16,500 new IRS agents, who’ll be needed to check whether you — yes, you, Mr. and Mrs. Hopendope of 27 Hopeychangey Gardens — are in compliance with the 15 tax increases and dozens of new federal mandates the Deemocrats are about to “deem” into existence. This will be the biggest expansion of the IRS since World War II — and that’s change you can believe in. This is what “health” “care” “reform” boils down to: fewer doctors, longer wait times, but more bureaucrats.

Oh, please, Senator Nogoodnick, I need that kidney transplant! I know my age exceeded the government-approved limit on Life Quality Years™, but I really want to live...

The health bills being pushed through Congress put important decisions in the hands of presidential appointees like [Rahm Emanuel's brother] Dr. [Ezekiel] Emanuel. They will decide what insurance plans cover, how much leeway your doctor will have, and what seniors get under Medicare.

...In the Lancet, Jan. 31, 2009, Dr. Emanuel and co-authors presented a "complete lives system" for the allocation of very scarce resources, such as kidneys, vaccines, dialysis machines, intensive care beds, and others... Dr. Emanuel concedes that his plan appears to discriminate against older people, but he explains: "Unlike allocation by sex or race, allocation by age is not invidious discrimination...

When you add politics into health care, you've created a truly evil brew. These malevolent Democrat hack politicians will, if this bill passes, use health care as a weapon against the people. They will reward allies and punish enemies. They will withhold treatment, share personal data, and exercise control over every American's life.

In fact, every single aspect of their despicable activities are at odds with the American founding, the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

And they don't care. Not a bit. Because, for Democrats, socialism trumps patriotism.


Today is a momentous day. Today we lose our right to choose.

by Victor the Contractor

Today is a Momentous Day!

Today is the day! Today is the day that all Americans see the naked ambition of fifteen percent of the population as they exert their will over the silent, hard working 85 percent. Today is the culmination of many years of hard work in swaying public perception, breaking down the walls of decency and building a climate of victimization and entitlement. Today the House of Representatives votes on the Senate Health Care Reform Act.

Never mind that no one has actually read this pork nirvana: this bill that nationalizes one sixth of the economy. Never mind that this bill is a slap in the face to all who work hard and don't expect or would accept a handout from anyone. Never mind that, on its face, the bill is a brazen attempt to subvert the Constitution of the United States and assign obligations to buy a service and criminalization of the God-given right to choose.

The right to choose not to buy a service one may see as a bad bargain, or the right to decide what is right for your own body. Those who have eroded the belief in right and wrong for decades; who have literally made a federal case over the right to control a person's body; who have cried that the state had no business, indeed no say at all, about what what one put in their body, believed in their head, and even what they did to their unborn children. Now those very same harpies have turned that tenet on its head as they grasp at the ability to regulate every aspect of what we do with the body God gave us.

A God they do not believe in and they do not seem accountable to. For we live in a time where the ugliest of motivations are cloaked in compassion. A time where the killing of an unborn child is seen as 'kind' as opposed to saddling a selfish couple with the 'burden' of raising unwanted offspring. A time where the lazy and the losers in the lottery of life are trying to maintain a lifestyle by taxing the driven and conscientious people who make this country hum with productivity. These are times that try the morals of men as those who want to invalidate hard work and drive have control of the levers of power and use that awful responsibility for their own gain and avarice.

Before you go on and whine about the poor and stricken and the addict who can neither care for themselves or have the tools to prosper in this world, know this: Life is a harsh taskmaster who punishes the dumb, the lazy and the foolish with scourge and tribulation until they learn to operate within the constraints of civilization. Lessons you don't learn or fail to heed as a child will be revisited repeatedly until you get with the program, succumb to the destruction brought on by your own lusts. Attempts to rewrite God's law, or common sense, for those agnostically inclined, will always result in an unbalanced society that careens hither and yon morally, until it sputters to a halt, mired in the ambivalence of indecision and relativism. A civilization that feels more empathy for the sinners than the sinned-against is destined to fail as the criminals achieve a critical mass and take the controls in efforts to profit from the moral decline.

We have such a state of affairs now. The ugly girl at the dance is now calling the tune, much to the chagrin of the highly offended orchestra. The drop-outs who threw stones at the University's stained glass windows now are the faculty; destroying the ideas and ethics that made this country great. There is a joke in the trades that men teach their children to work before they go off to college and get ruined. The ability to define right and wrong is the hallmark of a great society and the lack thereof the talisman of a civilization in decline. The loafers and anti-establishment crowd of the sixties are now deciding the tax rate for the rest of us, and they are not amused anymore. They are out for revenge. Revenge on the 'boy scouts' who kept their collective noses clean and worked eighty hours a week and put their kids through college and took care of their ailing parents and saluted on Veteran's Day all across this fine country.

'Liberal' doesn't even begin to appropriately label these Marxists! They really are the failed Communists who sewed the cancer of relativism into our public psyche and tried with all of their drug-addled reasoning to convince the rest of us that drive and vigor were not valid traits and conscientiousness was tantamount to selfishness. That success was to be punished, or at least taxed to support the 'less able' among us.

The Democrat majority in both Houses and the Marxist in the White House are poised to enact their vengeance today on all those who ignored their pleas for fairness and charity to the losers and lazy in society. Today they can 'get over' on the corporate toadies and millionaires who rule over and abuse the working class. If it were that easy, FDR, LBJ or even Ralph Nader would have so changed the collective zeitgeist to such an extant that this latest populist farce would be ignored, even maligned by the healthy, prosperous and well adjusted masses.

Instead we have an anti-St. Patrick leading the snakes from the swamps right into the halls of power. Its ironic that the 'most transparent' government in history has hidden its agenda and blocked public reflection on its programs. Its ironic that even the President is not sure what is actually in the health care bill and more troubling that he doesn't care by what process it arrives at his desk. It will be law, no matter how many seats are lost in the coming elections.

This rush to political suicide by an overtly socialist Democrat Party barely disguises the real intent of this travesty of legislative process: the health care reform bill is Communism. Socialism is a 'cooperative' between business and Government. Communism's hallmark is the Government's possession of the means of production. I trot out this aged mare to make a point: a government that can nationalize the better part of a native automobile industry is, by its very nature, Communistic. Such a Government should not be trusted to 'nurse' a substantially healthy industry. Period. If its too big to fail, its just too big.

If the Government can decide that an entire industry needs to be saved and defies its own Constitution to do so, then that Government is invalid and must go. I trust that the Supreme Court will strike this law as soon as the mountain of lawsuits start. But what do we make of a process by which a minority of the population forces its mindset on the majority? Under what authority have GM and Chrysler been seized? Its not Constitutional. And neither is this health care bill.

Yes, today is a momentous day! It is the day we declare war on Liberalism. Today is the day we record the vote for this Communistic legislation. Today we make plans to campaign against our socialist Senators, reprobate Representatives and power-hungry President. And, pass or fail, we will know who voted for our 'right to choose' and who opted for a 'Stalinization' of our legislative process. It works both ways: Freedom of choice extends to the right to choose NOT to do, buy or consume anything, for whatever reason.

"Give me Liberty or give me death!"

Victor The Contractor


Larwyn's Linx: A Historic Vote on Health Destruction

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Nation

A Historic Vote on Health Destruction: RWN
Wreckonciliation Sunday: Today's House Schedule: Malkin
List of Investigations: when the GOP retakes power: RedState

Olga's Story: Patterico
'We make 'em up as we go along': Instapundit
Process is Liberty: AT

Huh? First they deem it, then they reconcile it?: RWN
Now let's move on to amnesty for illegals!: Hanson

Economy

Intended Consequences: Protein Wisdom
The Real Reason We Hate Universal Health Care: Zombie
When will Obama learn it's not 1931 anymore?: Times

Job Insecticide: Caterpillars and Job-Killers: Cold Fury
Get Ready for Health Insurance Slumlords: PJM
Michelle's Dress Designer Closes Doors: Powers

AFL-CIO getting federal dollars to support HCR?: RedState
Assuming the worst, how is it Constitutional for Leftists to force anyone to buy anything?: HillBuzz

Climate & Energy

More Colossal Scaremongering Hubris From Sci Am: CBullitt (Language warning)

Media

Media Lying About Racist Attacks on Black Reps By Tea Party Protesters… VIDEO PROOF: GWP
Hey, House Members: How You Like Me Now?: Ace
Notes from a liberal friend: Wizbang

Daily Kos in full-on pants-wetting meltdown over “Motions to Recommit”: HillBuzz
Tens of Thousands Protest ObamaCare in D.C., Legacy Media Unimpressed: PJM
CBS called you a 'tea-bagger'. Are you good with that?: Sundries

Reclaiming the American Spirit: MNR
Top Ten Differences Between Thomas Edison and Alcee Hastings: Cold Fury
Romney in the O.C.: AmPower

World

Obama Bludgeons Israel Into Releasing Palestinian Terrorists, Easing Up On Hamas: Mere Rhetoric
Trying to help out Nancy Pelosi, North Korea celebrates socialist health care: Sipsey
Other Than Apartments in Jerusalem, What Else is Going on in the Middle East?: BRubin

The Demonization of Israel Continues: Wizbang
The CAIR Observatory: GoV
Russians Rally Against Economic Policy: S&L

SciTech

Finally…Star Trek Style Force Fields on the Way: Verum Serum
Fresh Hot-Popped Soy Nuts?: iOTW
Neofonie announces WePad 11.6-inch Android slate: Engadget

Cornucopia

In Observance of National Meatout Day: Powers
AOTW 3-19-2010: Denny


Saturday, March 20, 2010

Democrats libel 'Kill the Bill' crowd as racist, violent crackpots when 99.99% are patriots concerned with the evisceration of the Constitution

Leftist blog Drink Progress offers an ironic take on these two signs.

"Tea Party sign threatens gun violence if health care passes."

And the author somehow takes offense at this Hitler analogy for President Obama.

Gee, after every Democrat in the country alluded to Bush as a Nazi or approved of the representation, this seems a bit -- how you say? -- hypocritical. For just a small taste, do a search on "Bushitler".

Seems a tad curious that Stink Progress is complaining when, in fact, the Democrat Party is orchestrating a government takeover of a full 48% of the economy (health care, the banks, AIG, GM, Chrysler, the student loan business...).

Meanwhile, The Huffington Post breathlessly reported an anecdote that made it appear Tea Partiers are racists -- without audio, video or even named attribution.

A staffer for Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) told reporters that Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) had been spat on by a protestor. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), a hero of the civil rights movement, was called a 'ni--er.' And Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) was called a "faggot," as protesters shouted at him with deliberately lisp-y screams. Frank, approached in the halls after the president's speech, shrugged off the incident.

But Clyburn was downright incredulous, saying he had not witnessed such treatment since he was leading civil rights protests in South Carolina in the 1960s.

Of course, the last time this sort of incident happened, it turned out that the so-called racists were actually Democrat plants helpfully seeded by the SEIU. Remember this golden oldie from last year?

This screenshot was used in reports by the [media] who painted the protesters as Nazis. Here's the thing, though - that black man is a Dingell supporter!

Last Friday, Frank Beckmann on his show broadcast on WJR 760 AM interviewed an eyewitness that said not only were union thugs let in through a side door before anyone else was let into the venue, but that he clearly saw from his vantage point that very Obama as Hitler poster in that back hallway after the union thugs took their seats.

So take every report of "racism" with a grain of salt.

I'll eagerly await the video to see if (a) this incident really occurred; and (b) whether the perpetrator was a union member hired for the occasion.


Update from Neomom:

I was there. I saw the CBC group walk both from the Office Building to the Capitol and then again from the Capitol to the office building.

Were they boo'd? Yep. Rude? No more than ignoring the will of the people. Was the "N" word said? Yep.... "Vote NO!" and "NOVEMBER 2" Along with a raucous chorus of "Kill.The.Bill."

Update II from Gateway Pundit: Media Lying About Racist Attacks on Black Reps By Tea Party Protesters… VIDEO PROOF.


Related: "Manufactured Outrage of the Day: Left Horrified Over Alleged Gay Slur at DC Rally ." Linked by: Michelle Malkin, Jammie Wearing Fool, Protein Wisdom and Memeorandum. Thanks!

Microcosm of all that's wrong with Demcare: Former Impeached Judge Alcee Hastings (D-FL) Defends New Taxes on Medical Devices and Innovation

Here's an example of everything that's wrong with Democrat Health Care Reform: the Chairman of the Rules Committee's Subcommittee on Legislative and Budget Process -- Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL) -- just debated Rep. Erik Paulsen (R-MN) over a 2.9% "medical innovation tax" introduced by the Demcare bill (streaming video on C-Span). So let me make sure I understand: a former impeached judge (Hastings) is going to decide the ramifications on medical innovation through the introduction of new taxes on health care manufacturers?

Democrats believe that central planning -- a la the Soviet Union -- can somehow work for one-sixth of the American economy when we all know it can't work... and has never worked. This ludicrous excuse for a political party is not simply a polar opposite to the American founding and experience; its leadership is a poisonous pack of economic illiterates who ruin everything they touch. But I suppose that goes without saying, given everything this Congress has accomplished since November of 2006.

Best Photos from the 'Kill the Bill' Tea Party Rally in DC

Great coverage from InstaPundit, Michelle Malkin, Gateway Pundit, The Other McCain, Nice Deb and Business Insider. Some of the best photos spotted thus far:






















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