Friday, March 23, 2012

Remember, it's NOT a death panel: it's just a 15-member board of central planners required to cut $500 billion from Medicare

I mean, it can't be a "death panel", right? It's just a small group of really, really, super-smart people that has to find $500 billion in savings from Medicare, while the Baby Boomers start retiring.

Created in the 2010 health care law, this powerful, 15-member government board is charged with implementing $500 billion in Medicare cuts over the coming decade. The resultant savings will be used to help pay for President Obama’s new health care entitlement, which the Congressional Budget Office recently said will cost significantly more than originally projected.

...[It] may not be a “death panel,” but it is a legal and moral monstrosity. Here, in my opinion, are its “seven deadliest sins.”

1. It will hurt patients. IPAB’s job is to find savings, but it’s barred from implementing or even proposing reforms that would change how the massive Medicare program works. Instead, it’s been given a single tool, a chainsaw. It can only cut reimbursements for doctors and hospitals. If cuts of this sort are allowed to take effect, it will inevitably lead to rationing and care-denials, because Medicare reimbursement rates are already low and cutting them further will force many providers to stop accepting Medicare patients. This could be especially bad for rural and disabled patients.

2. It will hurt doctors and hospitals. The cuts will, in effect, force health care providers to choose between seeing fewer Medicare patients and going bankrupt. Some providers will do both. Right after ObamaCare passed, the top numbers-cruncher at Medicare estimated that IPAB’s 10-year cuts will put 15 percent of America’s hospitals out of business

3. It’s undemocratic. The panel’s decisions carry the force of law, unless two-thirds of each house of Congress votes to stop them—a high bar—and are not permitted to be reviewed by any court.

4. It’s unaccountable. IPAB is exempt from the “sunshine” laws that apply to virtually every other board and commission. It doesn’t have to hold public meetings, consider public input on its proposals, or even make transcripts of its deliberations publicly available. Meanwhile, it “may accept, use, and dispose of gifts or donations of services or property,” providing a not-so-subtle invitation to health-industry lobbyists to lavish board members with favors and goodies in hopes of influencing their decisions.

5. It’s corruption-prone. [It encourages] lobbyists to lavish board members with favors and goodies in hopes of influencing their decisions.

6. Its budget is shielded from congressional scrutiny. IPAB’s annual operating budget is exempt from annual congressional budgetary review like other agencies. Instead, its funding is on auto-pilot, drawn directly out of the Medicare trust funds. Incidentally, a job at IPAB is nice work, if you can get it. Salaries start at $165,300 for the board members, $179,700 for the chairman, and up to $145,700 per employee—plus travel and expenses.

7. It’s unconstitutional. IPAB is an “unconstitutional trifecta”: an executive agency wielding legislative power that's immune to judicial oversight. In effect, it is the sole judge of the laws that it creates and executes. Such an accumulation of powers would have horrified our Founding Fathers, who believed, as Madison put it in "Federalist 47," that “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands ... may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”

The IPAB is tyranny writ large.

If you think it's not a death panel, I urge you to consider what $500 billion in cuts will mean to the Baby Boomer generation.


The Definition of Stupid

Via The Morning Spew:

How stupid are liberals? Apparently, this stupid. From BarackObama.com:


In other words, no matter how many broken promises these temporary politicians like Obama make...

• The Stimulus will keep unemployment under 8 percent
• If you like your health care plan you can keep your health care plan
• We'll create millions of shovel-ready jobs
• We'll create millions of green jobs
• Opening up drilling on federal lands won't increase the supply of oil
• The EPA isn't going too far in fining people $37,000 a day for landscaping their own property
• The average family's health care bill will go down $2,500 a year
• Social Security and Medicare don't need to be fixed
• Mercury-filled light-bulbs are better for the environment than incandescents
• Etc.

...You're expected to believe that this time, with just a bit more of your money, a bit more deficit spending, that millions of overpaid, pencil-pushing bureaucrats in Washington will be able to create more efficient services than the free market.

Only a liberal -- and a really, really dim liberal at that -- could believe this crap.


Update: The Bad offers this enhanced and corrected version:



Tweet o' the Day: Hockeystick

Twitchy is tracking President Obama's new hashtag -- #ILikeObamacare -- which, curiously, was hijacked by conservatives.

One of the best responses:

This is what we mean when we say that "liberalism is the philosophy of the stupid."

Democrats under President Lyndon Baines Johnson implemented Medicare in 1964. Its costs have skyrocketed far beyond any of the highest estimates. It is headed for collapse.

And what do Democrats do? Not only do they demagogue and demonize men like Paul Ryan, who are earnestly trying to save these entitlement programs, but they also create new, even bigger entitlement programs that are guaranteed to bankrupt the country.

It can't be ignorance. It must be intentional.


It appears the media forgot to mention that Barack Obama and terrorist Bill Ayers shared an office for... three years #VetThePrez

Yesterday I highlighted a little-remembered NPR report from 2000 in which Barack Obama, then running for Congress, bragged about his experience running the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC). The CAC, a multi-million dollar left-wing foundation was controlled by domestic terrorist and accused cop-killer Bill Ayers.

Ayers hired Barack Obama as Chairman of the Board of the CAC, even though he had no experience whatsoever. Ayers, who supposedly didn't have any relationship with Obama, put the younger man in charge of roughly $110 million and thereby jump-started his career.

And no one in legacy media ever asked why.

Obama, asked about his relationship with Ayers during a 2008 debate, pooh-poohed any ties, stating that he was "just a guy from the neighborhood."

That same year, however, Verum Serum uncovered some fascinating information regarding the relationship between the two men. They had shared an office for three years.

This Chicago Annenberg Challenge website from 2002 shows the total amount of funds given to Bill Ayers’ Small Schools Workshop from 1995 to 2001. The amount is not the $175K I had reported earlier. According to this page, the total given under Barack Obama’s direct supervision was $1,056,162. Adding that amount to the money given by the Joyce Foundation and Woods Fund during Obama’s tenure brings the grand total to $1,968,718. Just shy of two million dollars! That’s a lot of scratch, to put it bluntly. And don’t forget, this doesn’t count the 3/4 million that went to John Ayers during the same time period...

Ayers’ Small Schools Workshop, the one Obama directed all that money too is located at 115 S. Sangamon Street, Chicago, Illinois 60607...

...In 1998, the address for the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, where Obama presumably worked, was 115 S. Sangamon Street, Chicago, Illinios 60607. Here’s a copy of their 1998 tax return with that address:..


And according to this memo dated 1996, Small Schools Workshop was also on the 3rd floor...

So while the media gave Joe the Plumber a colonoscopy and The New York Times published the fictional sexual escapades of John McCain, Barack Obama apparently maintained a close working relationship with the leader of a band of cop-killers.

Just a guy in the neighborhood? We already knew Barack Obama lied about that, but has anyone ever mentioned that the two men were basically living together? Furthermore, they were co-located with Mike Klonsky, a radical communist who (like Ayers) seeks the destruction of the United States government.

In the words of Andrew Breitbart, this time we're going to vet him.

Spread the word.


Larwyn's Linx: DeMint on Romney: 'There’s a lot to like there'

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2012 Elections

DeMint on Romney: 'There’s a lot to like there': Hot Air
People are badly misinterpreting Rick Santorum: Erickson
About What Rick Said: Malkin

Nation

The Relentless Attack on Americans’ Freedom of Conscience: AUL
Obama in 1995: 'Scapegoat' the Top 5%: Scoop
Sandra Fluke Didn't Know Target Sells Birth Control for $9: CNS

Obamacare and Abortion: New Conscience Outrages: Foundry
Obama headed for defeat in Keystone fight: York
New Black Panthers Rip Obama and Holder Over Martin Shooting: DC

Economy

Obama's secret debt milestone: RS
New Ryan budget could balance by 2019: Peth
Beware The Predatory State Of CA, Even If You Don't Live There: Insider

The Obamacare Hydra: Malkin
Open Letter to Occupiers From an NYC Police Officer: SaveJersey
McMorris Rodgers: ‘Democrats are waging a war on reality’: DC

Scandal Central

Obama on Solyndra Loan: ‘This Was Not Our Program’: Beacon
Progressives Now Blame "Big Oil" for... Everything: RedCty
Was Keystone Blocked to Benefit Buffet?: AT

Climate & Energy

Monckton’s Schenectady showdown: Watts
Secretary Chu’s $10 Million Fiasco: Foundry
Oil, Alternatives, and Nuclear Weapons - An Interview with Marc Faber: Oil Price

Obama Mocks Critics As Gas Prices Go Up: Foundry
Obama's Keystone XL Visit A Potemkin Village Photo-Op: IBD
More evidence the Medieval Warm Period was global: Watts

Media

Critical Race Theory: A Cult of Anti-White Resentment: AT
Rush Rips AP's Coverage of Obama's Keystone Pipeline Pretense: NB
Barack Obama's Radical Rabbi: Beacon

Levin on Pelosi: We’re being ruled by the dumbest people in America: Scoop
#VetThePrez : It’s Dan Mahru’s turn to sing: RBO2
Sheriff Joe: ‘Tons’ More Shocking Obama Info: Western Journalism

Evidence of Media Matters coordination disappears from “independent” anti-Rush group website: LI
Bill Maher reaping what Media Matters has sown: LI
Al Qaeda Members Fans of MSNBC, Olbermann: Beacon

World

Going to Canada? Leave Your Comic Books at Home.: Reason
Navy’s Tiniest Warships Could Lead Assault on Iran: Wired
Iran Has Its Eye on the Big Apple: Foundry

Nearing coffin corner: US air power on the edge: AEI
Obama to bypass Congress, Give $1.5B of your taxes to Muslim Brotherhood: Creeping
Farrakhan tweets of retaliation against injustice: Blaze

Sci-Tech

Oracle Plants Its Flag With ‘Secure Cloud’: Wired
VIA Motors, PG&E partner on the Chevy Volt of work trucks: CNet
Duqu Alive And Well: New Variant Found In Iran: Dark Reading

Cornucopia

Lord Monckton: ‘I’m no birther,’ but Obama birth certificate ‘plainly a forgery’: DC
Captain America is Forever Ruined for Me…: Marfdrat
John Edwards named in ‘Millionaire Madam’ probe, unites left/right in scorn: Twitchy

Image: via Marfdrat
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QOTD: "...the decision employers face under ObamaCare is straightforward: Do they pay $20,000 per year for family coverage, or do they pay the $2,000 penalty to the government?

It is not as if dropping health coverage will expose their employees to financial risk. They will thereby make employees eligible for huge subsidies in the health-care exchanges—$10,000 if their household income is $64,000 per year. In a competitive environment, ObamaCare provides the incentive for employers to drop coverage.

According to the CBO, 154 million Americans are covered under employer-sponsored plans. What would be the cost to taxpayers if 50% of those individuals lost their coverage and became eligible for subsidies?" --Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI)

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Keystone Commanda-In-Chief: President Obama's Hilarious Pipeline Sham

Anyone who buys into President Obama's latest, spastic response to high gas prices is exceedingly dim. Or Ezra Klein.

The president stages a photo-op in Oklahoma to take credit for the portion of the Keystone XL pipeline that doesn't need his approval and for oil production on private and state lands beyond his jurisdiction...

...Obama is scheduled to appear in Cushing, Okla., known as the pipeline capital of the world, to take credit for the southern half of the Keystone XL pipeline, a project announced weeks ago by TransCanada, the Keystone builder.

It's the section that doesn't need presidential or State Department approval since it does not cross an international boundary...

...The part that does require State Department approval and a presidential blessing, and which holds as much as 24 billion barrels of oil, runs from the rich oil sands of Alberta, past the booming oil fields of the Bakken shale formation in North Dakota and down to Cushing. It is the portion Obama killed in January.

In short, Obama is into optics while he continues to destroy America's energy infrastructure.

And he could free up gulf oil production in, oh, about three minutes if he chose to do so.

But he won't. He wants to "fundamentally transform" America by turning it into a third world country. Don't believe me. Believe his own statements, from the very inception of his career.


Not suitable for concealed carry. Unless you're Fat Bastard or Michael Moore. But I repeat myself.

Daddy like:

With the Arsenal Firearms Double Barrel Pistol ($TBA), you can fire two bullets with a single hand...

Built in part to commemorate the Colt 1911-A1, this new pistol — given the model number AF2011-A1 — shoots two .45 caliber rounds at a time, accurately, and spaced incredibly close — at 15 yards, both rounds will fit into an orange — yet still manages to use a number of interchangeable internal parts, which can be swapped with standard 1911 replacement parts. Available in silver or black finishes.

Consider this the handgun equivalent of the Ultimate Zombie Apocalypse Survival Shotgun.


Hat tip: Marfdrat.

Obama in 2008: Bill Ayers? Never Heard of Him. Obama in 2000: Dude Launched My Career! #VetThePrez

In 2008, in one of the only interviews Barack Obama ever granted to an independent -- as opposed to obsequious -- member of the media, Bill O'Reilly queried the candidate regarding his affiliation with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers.

BARACK OBAMA: ...on this Ayers thing, which you've been hyping, Bill.

O'REILLY: Not that much.

BARACK OBAMA: This guy did something despicable forty years ago.

O'REILLY: Despicable last week. He said he didn't do enough bombing. That's last week.

BARACK OBAMA: Here's a guy that does something despicable when I'm eight years old. Alright? I come to Chicago. He's working with Mayor Richard Daley, not known to be a radical. So, he and I know each other as a consequence of work he's doing on education. That is not an endorsement of his views ... This guy is not part of my campaign, he's not some adviser of mine.

But on local television in 2000, Obama told a very different story.

Interviewer: One of the criticisms that arises in connection with your candidacy is you simply haven't been in the Senate very long, the State Senate. You have a limited track record in terms of time, what is your argument based on the one term that you've served so far? What makes you prepared for the Congress?

Obama: Well, I'm in my second term, but it's true that certainly both Senator Trotter and Congressman Rush have been in elected office longer than I have. I can't deny that. I would argue, though, that my experience previous to elected office equips me for the job. I have a background as an attorney, I've represented affordable housing organizations to build affordable housing, something that's a major issue in the district.

I've chaired major philanthropic efforts in the city like the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, that gave fifty million dollars to prompt school reform efforts throughout the city.

Yet this important qualification in Barack Obama's career has been utterly and completely omitted from the 'official biography' on his website.

In 1995 Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn -- who advocate the overthrow of the U.S government to this very day -- launched Barack Obama's career by hosting a "Meet the Candidate" event in their home.

Ayers, who controlled the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), then hired Barack Obama as Chairman of the Board of the CAC, even though he had no experience other than as a "community organizer."

Ayers gave a completely unqualified Obama a job in which he administered $50 million (and another $60 or more million in matching funds). This single act helped jump-start Obama's political career, as evidenced by the interview. The question no one is asking: why?

Ayers and Obama also served together on the board of the Woods Fund of Chicago. Among those who received funds from the pair were the Arab-American Action Network, founded by a member of the PLO, and ACORN, a group infamous for vote fraud and subsequently exposed as a criminal operation by Andrew Breitbart and James O'Keefe.

Reverend Meeks, Father Pfleger, Reverend Jeremiah Wright and Trinity United Church all received funds from Ayers and Obama.

In return, the mega-churches are alleged to have delivered thousands of votes to Obama.

Summary


While the New York Times crack investigative staff busily pursued Sarah Palin's emails, they completely missed the biggest story of the 2008 election cycle.

Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn are unrepentent terrorists who even today advocate communism and the overthrow of the United States government. They launched and orchesterated Barack Obama's career, providing him with the qualifications necessary to run for major political office.

Repeat: communists and terrorists launched Obama's career. And the fossils at the Times, who are rapidly sinking into financial quicksand, couldn't bother to report the story.

Update: An important note concerning the Chicago television interview from 2000. NPR had this transcript on its site at one point (via Google), but it has since been expunged! Since NPR doesn't permit caching, the search engines (and the Wayback Archive) don't appear to have copies. I've reproduced the transcript myself, so any errors are my own.

* In April 2008, Ayers wrote:

Capitalism played its role historically and is exhausted as a force for progress: built on exploitation, theft, conquest, war, and racism, capitalism and imperialism must be defeated and a world revolution... must win.

In 2006, Ayers described his life underground while he operated as a terrorist. It doesn't sound too different from his current patter.

In some ways life underground was [in some] ways... extraordinary because we felt that our lives had a serious purpose that we were conscious of and earnest about every day: to end a war and overthrow a system—imperialism—that made war after war inevitable, and to upend centuries of racial oppression and white supremacy creating a society based on equality, justice, and love.

He forgot the "by killing cops" part.


Democrats Give Americans the Gift That Keeps On Taking: U.S. Bankruptcy Likely In 30 Years (or Less)

The laws of mathematics are certain and irrefutable: a few more years of President Obama's trillion-dollar deficits will result in a fiscal apocalypse as surely as night follows day.

This new fiscal study—from Richard W. Evans and Kerk Phillips of Brigham Young University and Laurence Kotlikoff of Boston University—is worrisome, to say the least:

Most developed countries appear to be running unsustainable social policies. In the U.S., federal liabilities (off icial debt plus the present value of projected non-interest expenditures) exceed federal assets (the present value of projected taxes) by $211 trillion or 14 times GDP. Closing this fiscal gap requires an immediate and permanent 64 percent hike in all federal taxes. … Our simulations, calibrated to the U.S. economy, produce an average duration to game over of about one century, with a 35 percent chance of reaching the fi scal limit in about 30 years. … When our economy reaches game over, the government is forced to default on its promised payment to the contemporaneous elderly.

Is $211 trillion a legit number?

AEI’s Andrew Biggs thinks it is:

Generational accounting is a well-established methodology to measure the burden of government on specific generations. A generational account for any given generation measures the generation’s remaining lifetime net tax bill as a present value—what the generation will pay net of what it will receive, all valued as of today. This amount has to cover the government’s official debt plus the present value of all future government purchases of goods and services (discretionary spending). If it doesn’t, the difference that’s not covered is called the fiscal gap.

You don’t like Paul Ryan’s Path to Prosperity (and solvency), fine. Come up with something better. But plan beats no plan.

George W. Bush was a big spender, to be sure, but no one in world history has spent as much borrowed money as Barack Obama -- along with Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid -- to push America perilously close to collapse.

That's quite a gift that Democrats and RINOs are bequeathing to the next generation.

It's the gift that keeps on taking. Taking from generation after generation, leaving America as close to a third-world country as one could imagine.


Hat tip: BadBlue.

Six Views of Barack Obama [The Looking Spoon]


Between The Looking Spoon, iOwnTheWorld, The People's Cube, and Chris Muir's Day By Day, conservatives are kicking the crap out of liberals on the all-important graphic artistry front.


Larwyn's Linx: The Successful Desensitization of the American Voter

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Nation

The Successful Desensitization of the American Voter: CDN
Progressive phase 1 complete: on to phase II: Blaze
Political Rope-a-Dope: Williams

How to Beat Obama: Hawkins
Protests Against Obama Mandate to Take Place in 129 Cities: LifeNews
For Government - No Limits: Thomas

Economy

HUD Pays Leftists $42MM to Teach Homeowners How to Pay Bills: GWP
Did The US Actually LOSE 1.8 Million Jobs In 2011?: Insider
Obama Campaign Spends $750K on Swag in February: ABC

Not On His Wach: Beacon
Braces for the Kids Just Got Pricier: Obamacare Tax Hike Case Study: ATR
Obama's Outrageous New DOL Rules Will Slam Family Farms: GWP

2012 Elections

The Consummate Etch-a-Sketch: RS
Obama Campaign Likely Censoring YouTube Comments: Dossier
Just a Brief Interlude: Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler

Faith-based energy policy: Hanson
Revisiting the Guy in Obama's Neighborhood: AT
Jeb Bush Backs Rubio for VP Nominee: NatlJrnl

Scandal Central

Holder Concealed Evidence of Gunrunner’s Release: Morris
ObamaCare Still a Disaster — No Matter How the Supreme Court Decides: Elder
Fox News debunks Obama’s oil lies: RS

Climate & Energy

"I Don't Get It:" Obama Baffled As His "Green" Investments Produce No Jobs: Ace
Obama Now Scrambles To Approve Transcanada Pipeline... Or At Least Half Of It; Environmentalists Furious: ZH
Court backs Idaho couple in battle with EPA: Times

Media

Axelrod Can't Explain Why Democrats Haven't Passed a Budget in 1,040 Days: WS
'Rush Limbaugh Show' responds to Brock: Politico
Wasserman-Schultz Lie of the Day: MRC

Report: Al-Qaida was saddened by Keith Olbermann’s MSNBC firing: DC
Bristol Palin: Bill Maher is Much More Than a Comedian: C4P
Conservatives hijack #WhyImIn: Twitchy

The 30 Best Conservative Twitter Feeds Of 2012: RWN
Philly owes $900K after failed attempt to evict Boy Scouts: Bruce
New Washington-ABC poll: Women prefer Rick Santorum to Mitt Romney:

World

Soviet Leader: Chernobyl Nuclear Accident Caused the Collapse of the USSR: ZH
France shootings siege: Live Report: Jakarta Globe
Obama UN Ambassador Bypasses Congress, Restores UNESCO Funding After 'Palestine' Recognition: WZ

Sci-Tech

Robots could be future playmates for kids: Fox
Nokia’s magnetic tattoo: Why your arm may be ringing someday soon: Star
Unseen Titanic: New images of wreck reveal entire ship for first time: Fox

Cornucopia

FLAT FLOTUS Shovels Food: Michelle Obama's New Cutout: Cube
Why I am a Democrat: IowaHawk
Live By the Sword, Die By the Sword, My Friend.: MOTUS

Image: Girl Goes Crazy in Class (NSFW)
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Rick Santorum for President

QOTD: "Just as every hardworking American family crafts a budget to keep track of its income, expenses, essentials and priorities, the United States government must do the same, lest we find ourselves in the same economic crisis year after year. For over 1,000 days, Senate Democrats have refused to pass a budget, while President Barack Obama’s budget is much of the same, more spending and debt. The definition of insanity is continuing to do the same thing over and over again, expecting different results. America’s hope for the future is the House Budget, a new plan of action with a fresh, bold, smart, approach to the way we have done things in the past. I am confident America will be better off once the House Budget is passed and put into law." --Rep. Allen West (R-FL)

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Munchkin WaPo Journolist Ezra Klein Bashes Ryan Plan, Somehow Omits Fact That Marxist Democrats Haven't Passed a Budget in 1,030 Days

Folks, this is how societies collapse. I don't just mean the virulent spread of corrupt, Marxist politicians that launched a successful coup inside the modern Democrat Party (as The Blaze observes, progressivism has transformed itself into full-blown Communism). It's also the tacit approval of tyranny, the abdication of journalism, the complete endorsement of lawlessness by pencil-necked Leftist hacks like Ezra Klein.

The country is headed down the fiscal tubes. Everyone from Peter Orszag to the CBO, from the Medicare Actuaries to the Social Security Administration agree we're headed for an economic catastrophe.

And yet thoughtless kooks like Ezra ("The Constitution is, dude, like a hundred years old! Who can understand it?") Klein have massive, though thankfully diminishing, bully pulpits at DNC press release outlets such as The Washington Post.

Unless you're really feeling masochistic, I'll spare you from reading Klein's latest tripe, entitled "Why the Republican budgets make the poor pay". Suffice it to say that Klein tries to paint Paul Ryan's budget as some sort of extremist plan to shortchange the poor.

Hey, dumbass: how's African-American and Hispanic unemployment working out under the masterful Obama?

Hey, idiot: how'd that multi-trillion dollar "Stimulus" package help unemployment and underemployment?

Hey, schmuck: how do you think the poor and seniors will fare when the interest on the debt is a trillion dollars in just a handful of years?

Hey, crackpot: how do you think seniors will like having $575 billion pulled out of Medicare to pay for a new, insanely complex, Rube Goldberg experiment in central planning called "Obamacare"?

Oh, and hey, Leftist tool: did you know that the Party of Marxism -- your party -- hasn't passed a budget in 1,030 days or so? And you're complaining about a thoughtful attempt to save the country from fiscal collapse? How about some vitriol for this egregious, unlawful, treasonous failure by Democrats in Congress?

These are all rhetorical questions, because the device has yet to be invented that can measure the amount of intellectual honesty possessed by the likes of this hack.

Oh, and by the way, all of those names I called Klein are the terms he prefers, I hear.

Until legacy media erases its mastheads of thoughtless tools like Klein, they are flat-out doomed.


Turns Out Bluto Really Did End Up In Congress: Keith Ellison Asserts That the Nazis Bombed Pearl Harbor

Yes, this is what passes for informed commentary among the intelligentsia of the Democrat Party. And these are the idiots who want to rule our health care, our access to energy, our automobiles, our light bulbs, our toilet paper, our factories, and every other aspect of our lives they can think of.

Bluto: Hey! What's this lying around s***?

Stork: Well, what the hell we s'posed to do, you moron?

D-Day: War's over, man. Wormer dropped the big one.

Bluto: Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!

Otter: Germans?

Boon: Forget it, he's rolling.

Bluto: And it ain't over now. 'Cause when the goin' gets tough... [pauses to remember the rest of the phrase] ...the tough get goin'! Who's with me? Let's go! [runs out, alone; then returns]

Bluto: What the f*** happened to the Delta I used to know? Where's the spirit? Where's the guts, huh? This could be the greatest night of our lives, but you're gonna let it be the worst! "Ooh, we're afraid to go with you Bluto, we might get in trouble." Well, just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I'm not gonna take this! Wormer, he's a dead man! Marmalard, dead! Niedermeyer—

Otter: Dead! Bluto's right. Psychotic, but absolutely right. We gotta take these bastards. Now we could do it with conventional weapons, but that could take years and cost millions of lives. No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part.

Bluto: And we're just the guys to do it.

D-Day: Let's do it.

So it turns out that Bluto really did end up in Congress!

Congressman Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) made some astonishingly ignorant statements during a discussion about the Iranian nuclear issue on Fox News's The O'Reilly Factor Tuesday... The pièce de résistance was him telling host Bill O'Reilly that the Nazis bombed Pearl Harbor...

CONGRESSMAN KEITH ELLISON (D-MINNESOTA): No, they [Iran] don’t have a weapon. They have not made a decision to do one. The inspections…

BILL O’REILLY, HOST: How would you know they have not made a decision to do one? How would you know that?

ELLISON: Because. I’m glad you asked. Because we have satellite technology. We have technology that can detect.

O’REILLY: They’re underground. The satellites can’t penetrate the earth. They’re underground.

ELLISON: We have inspections that have gone on.

O’REILLY: They won’t let the inspectors in as I’ve said three times.

ELLISON: Yes they have. There have been a number of inspections.

O’REILLY. No there haven’t. They went two weeks ago and they wouldn’t let them go in.

ELLISON: Well, Bill, I’m sorry, but I’m not going to back a war based on a maybe. 4,409 Americans are dead because somebody—

O’REILLY: Congressman, the reason we like you as a guest is because you’re an honest man, But I will point to history. I will point to history. The same mindset was taken when dealing with Nazi Germany. We’re not going to go in aggressive action. We don’t believe they’re going to do this. We don’t believe they’re going to do that. And they absolutely did everything. So I think you’ve got to learn from history.

ELLISON: Let me tell you in World War II, in World War II they attacked Pearl Harbor. That would be enough.

O’REILLY: No, this is the German theater not the Japanese.

I suggest that we start a Twitter meme -- hashtag #EllisonHistory -- to memorialize Bluto Ellison's brilliance.


Postscript: I haven't been over to Ace's place yet today, but I have the sinking feeling that he beat me to this precise post -- only about 75 times funnier.


Stunning Photos Released: Complete Wreckage Map of Titanic on Sea Floor

National Geographic is commemorating the 100th anniversary of the SS Titanic's fateful voyage with new images constructed using a "mosaic" of photographs that are stitched together digitally. The results are fairly spectacular.

On 10 April 1912, the largest and must luxurious liner in the world -- the SS Titanic -- departed Southampton, England on her maiden voyage to New York City.

Upon striking an iceberg, it sank rapidly, overwhelming the capacity of the lifeboats and costing 1,517 their lives.

The stern (top image) and bow (bottom) of the ship were separated during the catastrophic sinking. These images were constructed using "optical mosaics" of hundreds of high-resolution photographs, stitched together using sonar location data.

"This composite image, released by RMS Titanic Inc., and made from sonar and more than 100,000 photos taken in 2010 from by unmanned, underwater robots, shows a small portion of a comprehensive map of the 3-by-5-mile debris field surrounding the stern of the Titanic on the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean. The luxury passenger liner sank about 375 miles south of Newfoundland, Canada."

This is the bow on the ocean floor.

You can see the entire album here.


Magazine Cover o' the Day: Semper Fi!

Surely it can come as no surprise to the anti-American Left -- i.e., the Democrat Party -- that the U.S. military despises Barack Obama. After all, this is the president who promised to "fundamentally transform" America, and started by gutting NASA, all branches of the service, and our nuclear deterrent force.

Sgt. Gary Stein might be saying things about President Obama that a lot of Marines think, but some are saying he took it too far.

Stein has come under fire for stating on Facebook that he wouldn’t follow certain orders given by his commander in chief. And Marines say Stein’s not alone in his disapproval. More anti-Obama talk is being heard in the workplace and new Military Times poll data shows declining approval among military service members for the president’s job as commander in chief.

The Marine Corps depends its chain of command structure, especially in a time of war. Some Marines say Stein and other vocal Marines like him are undermining that system.

The full article requires a subscription, but suffice it to say this behavior is simply quid pro quo.

A president who has defied multiple court orders, operated outside the bounds of the Constitution on numerous occasions, and runs arguably the most lawless administration in history should know: what goes around comes around.


Hat tip: Wanda.

Larwyn's Linx: Joe Biden, a Sobering Reminder of Who Will Run Your Health Care

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Nation

Joe Biden, a Sobering Reminder of Who Will Run Your Health Care: Sundries
Illinois abandons gun rights, empowers criminals: Events
Axelrod Jokes About Voting Early And Often In Illinois: RCP

Bloomberg blocks food to homeless for high salt, fat content: Hot Air
Abortion, Sonograms & The War On Women: Wolf Howling
Doctors Create New Ad: Obama Throws Granny Off the Cliff: GWP

Economy

It’s official: Obama increased the national debt more than Bush: Hayward
Tampa's tax fraud epidemic gets national scrutiny: TBO
Genius: State Dept. announces search for Amelia Earhart's plane: Fox

The Simple Problems Of Too Much US Debt: ZH
Obama-Endorsed Occupieres: "Only Blood of Rich Will Stop Occupy": GWP
Alan Grayson Beclowns Himself, Again: Ace

“ObamaCare” Sparks Rallies for Religious Freedom Nationwide: CFP
Obama's 6/100th of One Percent Solution: Power Line
A Look at Obama’s Budget Priorities: RS

2012 Elections

Obama Bundler Bails Over Israel Borders: Beacon
Romney’s Win In Illinois: Yet Another Reason To Root For A Brokered Convention: Hawkins
Illinois: More delegates for Romney but no end in sight: USA Today

Scandal Central

Obama’s Algae Racket: Malkin
Fast & Furious: New evidence that ATF deliberately armed drug cartels: Scoop
Issa Report Uncovers Fraud in DOE Loans: CFP

Climate & Energy

The Administration’s Anti-Energy Record: Chapter and Verse: Power Line
Salazar Lied About Oil Production on Federal Lands: NRO
Here's Steven Chu, Conservin' and Stuff: Ace

Media

MSNBC's Sharpton Sinkhole: NB
BREAKING [must credit protein wisdom]: Robert Deniro at fundraiser: “It’s too soon for a black first lady.”: ProWis
Paul Ryan talks about his plan to prosperity with Mark Levin: Scoop

Bret Baier Strikes Back At President's Alleged Claim Fox Says 'Obama Is a Muslim 24/7': NB
Hume rips Obama documentary: ‘Winners take responsibility. Losers blame others’: DC
Will this drive the Leftist Loons crazier than they already are?: AWD

Tom Hanks, Narrator of Obama Hagiography, Performed With Guy In B L A C K F A C E,at Fundraising Auction: Ace
Pointing At Conor Friedersdork And Laughing At Him: Riehl
Why Mainstream Media Ignores Conservative Bestsellers: Friedersdork

White House Admits Asking Media to Scrub Reports of Malia Obama's Mexican Vacation: NB
The story of Malia Obama’s Mexican vacation reveals double standards and a noodle-spined media: Bookworm
Beleaguered Rush advertiser: This is not a boycott, it’s an organized terrorist attack!: Scoop

World

Toulouse shootings: police arrest man and corner suspect in raid: Guardian
The Jawa Report: France: Horrifying Account of Murder Of 8yr old Jewish School Girl: Jawa
Toulouse no longer safe: JPost

World's Smartest Man Sends Daughter to Failed Narco-Terror State That Gets Hit by Earthquake: Fausta
Anatomy of a Slander: EU Official Compares Toulouse to Gaza: Commentary
Socialized Medicine Success Story 3,504,606: Low staffing levels in UK 'harms elderly care': BBC

Sci-Tech

Yes, Your New iPad Actually Runs 10 Degrees Hotter Than Your Old One: Insider
Job seekers getting asked for Facebook passwords: smh
Free Portfolio Advice, For Real: CNet

Cornucopia

"John Carter" Turning Into Costly Flop; With Mini-Review-- It's Pretty Good!: Ace
Controversial Painter Depicts Obama With Burning Constitution: CBS Washington
Potential Employers Now Have The Nerve To Ask For Applicants' Facebook Passwords: Consumerist

US Secret Service Says No Anti-Obama Rallies Allowed!: CFP
Man Successfully Flies With Custom-Built Bird Wings: Wired
Museum confirms still life it holds is by Van Gogh: Yahoo

Image: CBS Washington
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Rick Santorum for President

QOTD: "A week ago I was talking with a Republican Congressman from Minnesota who described an encounter with President Obama, in which he tried to explain to Obama that FDA regulations are devastating the medical device industry, of which Minnesota is a major center. After the Congressman had explained the problem, Obama put his hand on his shoulder and said, “There isn’t really much I can do about that. The FDA is an independent agency, you know.”

The Congressman described this as an instance of Obama’s “cluelessness,” but I think he gave the president too much credit. Obama knew perfectly well what the consequences of staffing the federal alphabet-soup agencies with hard-line left-wingers would be. He tries, now, to distance himself from the terrible consequences of his own appointees’ actions, but he is fully responsible for them. The Obama administration has gone out of its way to make you poorer. Anyone who votes to re-elect the president deserves another four years of misery." --John Hinderaker

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Great news: Iran allied with Obama 'spiritual mentor' Jeremiah Wright to foment violence at radical Anti-Israel protest

Isn't it time legacy media vetted Obama -- or do they just want to wither and die, leaving real journalism up to the Army of Breitbarts? I'm wagering on the latter.

The Iranian regime is behind a global, anti-Israel protest movement that has attracted endorsements from former government officials and allies of President Barack Obama—including his longtime pastor and mentor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

Billed as a purely peaceful protest movement, the Global March to Jerusalem (GMJ) is an amalgam of anti-Israel activists from across the world. On March 30, the group plans to storm Israel’s borders, likely provoking a bloody conflict.

The Global March adheres to a radical left-wing ideology that denies Jewish historical connections to Jerusalem. Organizers have vowed to “end the Apartheid, ethnic cleansing and Judaisation policies affecting the people, land, and sanctity of Jerusalem.”

At the center of the movement lies Iran, which has provided moral and logistical support to various anti-Israel proxy groups participating in the march, according to an Israeli intelligence group and other experts.

Iran’s ultimate goal, they say, is to foment global disdain for Israel, thus diverting attention away from its disputed nuclear program.

True to form, the usual cadre of Islamofascists, useful idiots, and progressive Democrat Marxists -- like Barack Obama's longtime friend and mentor, Jeremiah Wright -- will find a way to demonstrate their open hatred of America and Israel.


Related: Six Degrees of Barack Obama

Tweet o' the Day: It's the New Math

For the supposed party of "science and knowledge", Democrats sure seem to need a lot of remedial math help.

Back-story here.


The very definition of cool

Spotted at iOwnTheWorld:


In fact, there may be only one thing cooler than Spock leaning on a Riviera.

In your heart of hearts, you know what it is.

Kirk. With a green chick.

Checkmate.


4 Charts: "Ryan’s tax plan is a powerful antidote to Obamanomics"

The quote, from Investors Business Daily, summarizes the battle between good and evil, fiscal sanity and economic collapse, Paul Ryan vs. Barack Obama.

Faced with the economic failures of a Democratic president, Rep. Paul Ryan is, like Ronald Reagan, "raising a banner of no pale pastels, but bold colors." Ryan's Rx for America: a jobs-generating tax code.

...He would cut the top marginal tax rate from its current 35% to 25%. (A second Obama term could mean a big tax increase, with the top rate going back up to Bill Clinton's 39.6%, as President George W. Bush's tax cuts expire next year.) ... Instead of the six brackets under our current punitive tax code, Ryan gives us just two: 25% and 10%.

And America's corporate tax — at 35% the highest rate in the world, with the exception of Sub-Saharan Africa's one-party socialist state of Cameroon — is cut to 25%, and it largely eliminates the taxation of U.S. companies' overseas profits.

Individuals and businesses would be taxed $2 trillion less over 10 years under Ryan's plan than under President Obama's budget, while the federal government would spend more than $5 trillion less.

Ryan also scraps something politicians have been promising to get rid of for years, but haven't: the infamous Alternative Minimum Tax. The AMT was passed over 40 years ago to punish a tiny handful of tax-sheltering "super rich," but — surprise, surprise — soon started slamming the middle-class.

...Ryan's tax reform would help bring America back to what it could, and should, be. It may just be the best weapon in the GOP arsenal.

Where is the Democrats' budget?

For more than 1,000 days -- a record period of time -- the Party of Economic Suicide has failed to produce one.

Where is Obama's budget?

He doesn't have one. He even rejected all of the recommendations from his own "Deficit Commission".

Instead, Obama's "solution" is to demonize various productive members of society, including energy companies, doctors, health insurers, small business owners (the so-called "rich"), and the like.

So you won't see any charts or graphs produced by Democrats. Because they know that we are on the road to fiscal collapse or, as the modern Marxist Democrat Party likes to call it, "fundamental transformation".