Showing posts with label Hillary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hillary. Show all posts
Thursday, March 06, 2008
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Someone get the stunt double on the set
The National Review's Kathryn Jean Lopez:
An e-mail, from a male reader:
Notice how no one is referring to Hillary Clinton as the "Come Back Kid" like they did when McCain was down and out and then started winning.
That's because Hillary doesn't remind anyone of a "come back kid." She reminds most of us of Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction — particularly the scene at the end of the movie where she rises up out of the bathtub and tries one last time to kill Michael Douglas.
I've got your movie poster right here. You can thank Reliapundit for the idea.
Catching pigs
There was a chemistry professor in a large college who had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab, the professor noticed one young man, an exchange student, who kept rubbing his back and stretching as if his back hurt. The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting Communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country's government and install a new Communist regime.
"When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence. They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side. The pigs, used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat that free corn again. You then slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd.
The young man then told the professor that this is exactly what he sees happening in America. The government keeps pushing us toward Communism/Socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, tax exemptions, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare, subsidized housing, school programs, medicine, drugs, etc. We continually lose our freedoms, just a little at a time.
We should always remember two truths: There is no such thing as a free lunch, and you can never hire someone to provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself. If you see that all of this wonderful government 'help' is a problem confronting the future of freedom in America, you might want to send this on to your friends.
Hat tips: Story sent by Steven G. and "pig ready for the spit" photo from Dragon Lady's Den
It's 3AM and somewhere a phone is ringing
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Joe Wilson (husband of Valerie Plame) attacks Saint Obama
Over at the Stuffington Roast, serial storyteller Joe Wilson has formally attacked Barack Obama, calling his judgment "hollow" and his record "empty":
There is no credible reason to conclude that Obama would have acted any differently in voting for the authorization had he been in the Senate at that time. Indeed, he has said as much. The supposed intuitive judgment he exercised in his 2002 speech was nothing more than the pander of a local election campaign, just as his current assertions of superior judgment and scurrilous attacks on Hillary Clinton are a pander to those who now retroactively think the war was a mistake......It is hard to discern whether Senator Obama is a man of principle, but it is clear that he is not a man of substance. And that judgment, based on his hollow record, is inescapable.
I love it when a plan comes together!
Hat tip: The Astute Bloggers
Intrade says it ain't even close: Hillary's toast
Prediction Market Intrade pegs Hillary's chances at precisely between slim and none.
-- Professor Robin Hanson, Professor of Economics, George Mason University
Photo o' the Day: 'Yes, we CAN'!
Even now, at the tail end of primary season, certain themes have begun to emerge and they are worth passing along. Even though she has faced a long, sticky streak of defeats, Hillary has pushed hard to remain a firm and regular candidate.
Having found her own voice, she's released much of what was inside her, eliminating the doubts while bearing down upon her goal. She has fertilized the minds of her listeners and left the droppings of her wisdom along the campaign trail. No longer is she the butt of jokes; her campaign runs have been truly impressive, squeezing out every last vote.
Photo of Hillary's makeshift office in Austin, Texas: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images. Hat tips: Gateway Pundit and Larwyn. With apologies to National Lampoon's Dr. Humphrey C. Cornholt, Principal, C. Estes Kefauver High School.
Monday, March 03, 2008
Hillary: well, Obama... could... be a Muslim...
On the March 2 edition of CBS' 60 Minutes, Steve Kroft interviewed Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton regarding the persistent rumors that Obama is a crypto-Muslim.
KROFT: One of the things that we found in Southern Ohio -- not widespread -- but something that popped up on our radar screen all the time, people talking about it, this idea that you're a Muslim.OBAMA: Right. Did you correct them, Steve?
KROFT: I did correct them.
OBAMA: There you go.
KROFT: Where's it coming from?
OBAMA: You know, this has been a systematic email smear campaign that's been going on since, actually, very early in this campaign. Clearly, it's a deliberate effort by some group or somebody to generate this rumor. I have never been a Muslim, am not a Muslim. These emails are obviously not just offensive to me, somebody who's a devout Christian who's been going to the same church for the last 20 years, but it's also offensive to Muslims because it plays into, obviously, a certain fear-mongering there.KROFT: It happened again last week when this photo of Obama, in ceremonial African tribal dress during a visit to Kenya, was featured prominently on the Internet and attributed to people in the Clinton campaign. Senator Clinton disavowed any knowledge of it.
KROFT: You don't believe that Senator Obama is a Muslim?
CLINTON: Of course not. I mean, that's -- you know, there is no basis for that. You know, I take him on the basis of what he says. And, you know, there isn't any reason to doubt that.KROFT: And you said you'd take Senator Obama at his word that he's not a Muslim.
CLINTON: Right. Right.
KROFT: You don't believe that he's a Muslim --
CLINTON: No. No. Why would I? There's no --
KROFT: -- or implying, right?CLINTON: No, there is nothing to... to... base that on, as far as I know.
KROFT: It's just scurrilous --
The reaction from the left wing blogs and the mainstream media (but I repeat myself) was predictable.
Newsweek: All You Need Is Hate
Stuffington Roast: Hillary Crossed the Line
MSNBC: It's close
MyDD asks "what's with the weird qualifiers?"
Media Matters shrieked that it was all a distortion.
Bob Cesca took it at face value: "In case you missed it, Senator Clinton basically said that there could be some truth to the rumors."
Cliff ("never heard of him") Schecter said, "This crossed the line. I am officially angry. Take my word for it."
Drudge Retort asked Hillary to "please shut up."
And Pat Dollard says Hillary's "throwing in 'kitchen sink' stuff, too... She is hitting Obama for not being candid about NAFTA, and she is even making some odd (and unpleasant) statements on his religion."
Well, I for one have no idea whether Obama is a Muslim or not. But I would recommend he steer clear of Malaysia for a while.
Also see: Gateway Pundit rolls up the extensive coverage.
Saturday, March 01, 2008
Barack Obama's Honesty Parade (#183): NAFTA and jobs
Unfortunately for Obama, the brochure's content appears to be as truthful as the politician's image as a bi-partisan healer. According to the Wall Street Journal, thanks to NAFTA, Ohio's biggest trading partners are now Mexico and Canada:
Ohio workers would pay a heavy price for pulling out of Nafta. Canada and Mexico are the top two markets for exports from Ohio, accounting for more than half of the state's exports in 2006. According to the Ohio Department of Development, 283,500 workers in the state earn their living in the export sector, with machinery, car parts, aircraft engines and optical/medical equipment among the leading exports.
Hillary hits the red button
Hillary's new ad -- "It's 3AM, who do you want answering the phone" -- spurred a cacophony of harsh reaction from the left. Don Surber blog-wrangled some reactions into edible form and concluded:
The Kossers are going bananas. That makes the whole ad doubly good: It smacks Obama and makes the Kossers kry: "Clinton Campaign Stoops to Fear and Division."
Yea, the Kossers have been so bipartisan and willing to compromise over the years... maybe more Democrats agree with Obama's Kumbaya naivete, but most Americans want the president to act at 3 AM, not sit there and try to talk to the enemy — without preconditions.
Or someone who instead of pressing the button instead issues a press release denouncing "fear mongering."
Fear-mongering? I'll show you fear-mongering in a campaign ad...
I don't know about you, but thinking about another Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton in the White House when the next terrorist attack occurs (which it inevitably will) isn't very comforting.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
What Democrats won’t tell you about Healthcare reform
Namely, that frivolous medical malpractice lawsuits are one of the biggest causes for the rapid rise in healthcare costs. Why won’t Democrats tell you that? Because trial lawyers uniformly back Democrats in order to fight tort reform and maintain their multi-billion dollar revenue stream.
While [aggressive lawsuits have] been a bonanza for Trial Lawyers, Inc., it has been a drain on the American economy and a serious threat to the livelihood and lifestyle of many Americans. America’s tort system costs over $200 billion annually; even assuming that the underlying lawsuits have merit, much of this cost is wasteful and excessive—at least $87 billion, according to the president’s Council of Economic Advisors.The overall cost of this “tort tax” on our economy over the next ten years will be more than $3.6 trillion... almost triple the size of the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts combined.
Meritless lawsuits:
...Trial Lawyers, Inc.'s medical-malpractice lawsuits are legion: of the 46,000 members of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, 76 percent have been sued at least once, 57 percent at least twice, and 41.5 percent three times or more. And the litigation industry tends to file far more cases than actually have merit: nearly half of malpractice suits — 49.5 percent — are dropped, dismissed, or settled without payment. Indeed, in a study of medical-malpractice cases filed against New York hospitals, the Harvard Medical Practice Group found that in the majority of medical-malpractice claims, the plaintiff exhibited no medical injury whatsoever; the plaintiff was injured by doctor negligence only 17 percent of the time.
The High Costs of Malpractice Liability:
So if Trial Lawyers, Inc.'s suits against doctors are wide-ranging, and often meritless, just how much do they cost? By 2003, medical-malpractice liability costs in the United States had reached an astounding $26 billion annually. That staggering sum represents a 2,000 percent increase over costs in 1975. At 12 percent per year, the growth rate in medical malpractice costs since 1975 is four times the rate of inflation and twice the rate of medical-care inflation.
In jury trials, million-dollar verdicts are now the norm. Fifty-two percent of all awards exceed $1 million while the average award now weighs in at $4.7 million...
The Investments:
...PAC donations from the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA)—Trial Lawyers, Inc.'s government-relations "home office"—are perennially among the nation's highest to the Democratic Party.[224] Democrats receive 93 percent of ATLA's contributions, which helps explain why every Democratic senator opposed the president's medical-malpractice reform bill in the last Congress.[225]PAC gifts, however, only scratch the surface of litigation-industry giving, which Trial Lawyers, Inc.'s leaders and their firms bundle and distribute directly to candidates. Senator John Edwards's presidential campaign was almost wholly funded by the lawsuit industry..
Ann Coulter adds:
...the Democratic Party treats doctors like they're Klan members. They wail about how much doctors are paid and celebrate the trial lawyers who do absolutely nothing to make society better, but swoop in and steal from the most valuable members of society.
Maybe doctors could get the Democrats to like them if they started suing their patients.
It's only a matter of time before the best and brightest students forget about medical school and go to law school instead. How long can a society based on suing the productive last?
(Has anyone else noticed the nonexistence of a charitable organization known as "Lawyers Without Borders"?)
[My ex-roomate, now a Doctor] makes $380 for an emergency appendectomy, or one-ten-thousandth of what John Edwards made suing doctors like her, and one-fourth of what John Edwards' hairdresser makes for a single shag cut.
Edwards made $30 million bringing nonsense lawsuits based on junk science against doctors. To defend themselves from parasites like Edwards, doctors now pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical malpractice insurance every year.
If we're going to reform healthcare, I’d suggest we start with the trial lawyers and cap every single form of medical malpractice lawsuit.
Monday, February 25, 2008
Did the Clinton campaign release pictures of Obama in Somali Muslim Garb?
US News & World Report implies that the Clintons may have been behind the controversial photo of Obama wearing Somali Muslim clothing during his 2006 visit to Kenya.
An internet posting of a simple photo of Sen. Barack Obama today became the best example yet of how the Democratic presidential campaign has turned into a nasty and bitter fight as Sen. Hillary Clinton sinks from the inevitable nominee to an also-ran. It all started early today when the Drudge Report posted the picture of Obama in a tunic and turban while visiting Wajir, a rural area in northeastern Kenya in 2006. It was standard stuff, apparently, as visiting dignitaries typically try on the local garb, our friend Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Matt Drudge wrote that the photo was being circulated by Clinton staffers in an apparent attempt at fear-mongering. Said his sources: "Wouldn't we be seeing this on the cover of every magazine if it were HRC?" the standard reference to Clinton...
Error Theory, Sweetness and Light, Astute Blogger and Gateway Pundit have excellent follow-ups on the controversial photo.
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Obama's myth of the "suffering" middle class
Barack Obama, John Edwards and Hillary Clinton have all highlighted the "suffering" of the middle class... the "two Americas"... and that the average Joe is getting squeezed by the wealthy.
Reason TV has produced an exceptional series of videos that shatter conventional myth-making using (brace yourself, "progressives") facts. This quick summary of Living Large - the vanishing Middle Class should encourage you to watch the entire seven minute video.
Shhhh... no one tell the Democrats that many middle-class Americans have toys like motorcycles, boats, luxury SUVs, etc.... and that some are even obese.
Hat tip: Parkway Rest Stop
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