Say it ain’t Snowe.

If one lone Republican supporting your socialist bill indicates “bipartisan” support, then Max Baucus and the Democrats got that yesterday as the first hurdle to a government takeover of our insurance industry was cleared.
Here’s Liberal in Republican clothing Olympia Snowe ruminating on whether a “public option” might be the thing to fix “what’s wrong” with [...]

Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize.

Just so we keep this in perspective, Jimmy Carter also won this award once.
The US president, Barack Obama, was today awarded the 2009 Nobel peace prize “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples”.
The Nobel committee said “only rarely has a person such as Obama captured the world’s attention and given [...]

Bumper sticker.

The following is part of a longer piece published by Doug O’Brien over  at biggovernment.com (the site on which all those delicious ACORN videos originated) that unfortunately is too long for a bumper sticker, but which nonetheless captures the spirit driving a majority of Americans in opposition to Obamacare these days:
Every day, the administration’s promotional [...]

Guess who’s coming to dinner?

Someone named Noam N. Levey penned this wonderful little bit of misinformation in today’s LA Times:
Imagine the debate over healthcare legislation on Capitol Hill as a tussle among three friends out for dinner.
All three have been struggling to pay their bills lately. When the check arrives, they try to figure out how to divide it. [...]

Does ‘racism’ even mean anything anymore?

If not, then what a sad, sad day for the genuine victims of racism.
Here’s the AP reporting on Jimmy Carter’s latest steaming nugget of wisdom:
ATLANTA (AP) – Former President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday that U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson’s outburst to President Barack Obama during a speech to Congress last week was an act “based on [...]

Is there anything that the Federal Government is good at?

The title of this post is almost as long as the post itself.
Consider that the Washington DC Public schools are the only public schools in the country that are completely administered by the Federal Government.
Want to take a guess at what they spend per student?
You got it. $16,540.
Bear in mind that the average cost per [...]

Keep your eye on the ball.

Ever get the feeling that Democrats can’t possibly be this stupid? To increase deficits to unmanageable levels on purpose under the guise of ‘fixing’ the economy? To cram health care ‘reform’ legislation through congress without even bothering to understand what it means let alone whether it will actually reform anything or make things infinitely worse? [...]

Death panels? What death panels?

Here’s Obama in April in an interview with David Leonhardt of the New York Times:
[W]hen Peter Orszag and I talk about the importance of using comparative-effectiveness studies as a way of reining in costs, that’s not an attempt to micromanage the doctor-patient relationship. It is an attempt to say to patients, you know what, we’ve [...]

Air dancers.

Remember the anti-war movement? Not too long ago, the Democratic party’s most loyal voters passionately opposed the war in Iraq. Democratic presidential candidates argued over who would withdraw American troops the quickest. Netroots activists regularly denounced President George W. Bush, and sometimes the U.S. military (“General Betray Us”). Cindy Sheehan, the woman whose soldier son [...]

Because they’ve been so trustworthy before.

The socialists are promising that THIS time it will be different. Forget about that whole Medicare thing where we promised to take care of a small SLIVER of our population (the elderly). Forget that we utterly failed. Focus instead how THIS TIME it will be different and that we’re more effectively manage the health of [...]

You talkin’ to me?

When the socialists get up on the podiums in their townhall meetings and advocate a single payer health care system that will put private insurance companies out of business, who exactly is their audience? Are they talking to you?
Consider the latest poll from Rasmussen:

Thirty-two percent (32%) of voters nationwide favor a single-payer health care system [...]

Obamacare–trojan horse for single payer.

I don’t remember if I ever posted or linked to the following video, but even if I did, it doesn’t hurt to do so again. Please watch this so that the next time you hear the socialists talking about preserving choices, you’ll understand that it’s all a ruse.

Remember that nothing competes [...]

We’re gonna need a bigger boat.

Imagine you’re on a boat, ankle-deep in water. In the center of the boat is a large hole. Someone tells you to fix the boat.
What’s the problem? The hole is permitting water to get into the boat. Unless that hole is plugged, the boat will continue to take on water. Fix the hole and your [...]

First, cause no harm.

The Obama administration and the liberal controlled Congress are obstinately trying to impose their demonstrably inept socialist ideology on America. We’re resisting. This is good. If we hold out until November, we can sweep out the rats and permit US citizens to once again achieve a foothold in their own government. It won’t solve the [...]

Why so serious?

What’s your reaction to this poster? If you’re anything like the scribblers over at the Washington Post, your reaction (of course) is that the poster is racist.
Huh?
The only way this thing is racist is if any negative depiction of Obama is racist, and that can’t be true, can it? If so, then nothing is racist, [...]

Uh oh.

The Obama administration has just posted the following press release at whitehouse.gov:
There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care.  These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of [...]

7-minute brownies.

I love Jonah Goldberg, and he absolutely tees off on Obama this morning:
All presidents go through rough patches, and Obama’s no exception. Odds are his poll numbers will get better — and worse — in the years to come. All of this is typical.
But this misses a crucial point: Obama isn’t supposed to be a [...]

Race to the bottom.

When a black man can’t be identified as a black man . . . what’s become of our great Republic?

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) – The woman who reported a possible break-in at the home of black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. says she tried to be careful and honest with her words, never thinking they [...]

The hustler.

That’s right, I’m talking about Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates. You know who he is, right?

By now, you should all be familiar with the sad story of Professor Gates, our unfortunate President, and the eminently professional police Sgt. James Crowley. If not, I direct you here. In a nutshell, a neighbor observed 2 men attempting [...]

Acting stupidly.

Excellent writeup of the Gates/Obama affair by Victor Davis Hanson:
In the jargon of postmodernism, the president asserted one racial narrative as truth, while most of multiracial America accepted quite another: that Professor’s Gates’s contacts and friendships gave him privileged treatment not accorded to others who scream and blow up at policemen, and that minority males [...]

Life.

Here’s what you should be most afraid of if the radical left currently in control of Washington get their way on destroying adequate health care in America:
The Congressional majority wants to pay for its $1 trillion to $1.6 trillion health bills with new taxes and a $500 billion cut to Medicare. This cut will come [...]

The scorpion and the frog.

It’s actually sort of amusing how everyone’s so shocked (Shocked, I say!) about Obama’s “sudden” lurch to the left.  It’s like the proverbial frog being surprised to find that–halfway across the river–the scorpion that he’d been so kind to carry on his back has bitten him. As the poison courses through his body, the [...]

Snapshot.

Has Obama rescued the economy? You very well may think that if you get your news from the NY Times or MSNBC or any one of a trillion other mouthpieces for the Democrat party, but reality (as it often does) has intervened to spoil the party.
Cast thine eyes on this from the indispensible Innocent Bystanders [...]

Fallout boy.

With the economy still faltering and jobs still being lost, Mr. Obama’s credibility is sinking and his job approval rating is declining along with the popularity of his initiatives. Republicans, who had insisted the stimulus was wasteful and wouldn’t work, are being vindicated.
The political fallout that mattered most, however, has been among Democrats in the [...]

Face value.

Just as Obama intensifies his efforts to fulfill a campaign promise and reach an agreement with Congress on health care reform, the number of Americans who say they trust the president has fallen from 66 percent to 54 percent. At the same time, the percentage of those who say they do not trust the president [...]