Thursday
18Mar2010
VP Joe Biden Roasts Fox News, Dick Morris and Sarah Palin at Correspondents Dinner
Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 10:01AM Always a class act, that Joe.
Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 10:01AM Thursday
18Mar2010
Paul Ryan: "Dems Don't Have the Votes to Pass Healthcare Bill"
Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 09:08AM Republican Congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconson told Fox News’ Greta Van Sustren that he believes Democrats are bluffing about having enough votes to pass President Obama’s healthcare bill, referring to the ‘inevitability strategy’ in which Dems demoralize opponents and use happy talk to convince their own ranks they are winning.
The interview was excellent.
Ryan:
- Describes the reconciliation and bill mark up process used by Dems because they do not have support to pass the bill by ordinary means
- Says Dems added a motion at yesterday’s mark up session that would essentially open the back door to the public option and drive private healthcare out of business
- Says Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and President Obama never talk to Republicans about healthcare and haven’t in a year because they are dedicated to passing it without bipartisanship
- Claims Dems are employing the ‘inevitability strategy’ to win through bluffing and says they do not have the votes to pass healthcare reform.
Thursday
18Mar2010
Obama Makes Last Ditch Effort to Sell Healthcare on Fox News
Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 08:01AM The interview last night of President Obama by Fox News’ Bret Baier was incredible. Rather than edit down the 19 minute interview into sound bytes, I’m posting the video in two parts: I & II. Sound bytes don’t do this exchange justice. I’ve never seen a sitting president give a campaign style interview from such a position of weakness.
Part I:
Obama:
- Discusses his lack of interest in upholding the Constitution, primarily Article 1.
- Refused to directly answer the questions, essentially pleading the 5th to avoid self-incrimination
- Said many of the Democratic bribes and kickbacks from the Senate bill will remain in the bill (and the “Louisiana Purchase” will also cover Hawaii, which went through an earthquake??)
- Doesn’t know what’s in the bill but we’lll all know once its voted on!
Part II:
Obama:
- Says that everyone knows what’s in the bill, even though we’ll find out what’s in the bill once it’s passed
- Is confident his healthcare bill will pass and even though no one likes it, he will someday be vindicated.
Wednesday
17Mar2010
Kucinich Changes Vote to 'Yes' on Healthcare, But Why?
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at 10:44AM After spending the day with Barack Obama aboard Air Force One, Democrat Congressman Dennis Kucinich changed his ‘no’ vote to a ‘yes’ vote on the healthcare bill President Obama is trying to ram through the Congress without an up or down vote. Kuchinich says he still doesn’t like the bill but… he also muttered something about controlling private health insurance and Obama not being a socialist.
KUCINICH: This is not the bill I wanted to support, however, after careful discussions with President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, my wife Elizabeth and close friends, I’ve decided to cast a vote in favor of the legistlation. If my vote is ot be counted, let it count now for passage of the bill, hopefully in the direction of comprehensive healthcare reform.
We must include coverage for those excluded frmo thsi bill. We must free the states, we must have acontrol over private insurance companies and the cost their very existence imposes on American families.
Kucinich went on to say that clearly Obama is not advocating socialism in this bill, but clearly Kucinich believes his utopian ideal of socialized medicine, including the control of and probably the elimination of private insurance companies, will be possible only with this this healthcare bill. That is the bottom line.
David Axelrod once said “Americans will never know what’s in the healthcare bill until the President signs it into law”, and we’ll probably never know what perks Kucinich’s vote earned until after the bill is signed. You have to wonder what Ohioans will be getting for this vote.
Monday
15Mar2010
Obama Admin Pressures Israel, Leads to 'Crisis of Historic Proportions'
Monday, March 15, 2010 at 07:36AM The Obama administration is succeeding in driving relations with Israel to a 35 year low by pushing for Israel to stop its plan to build Jewish housing in disputed historic territory in Israel….
Israeli media carried Ambassador Michael Oren’s remarks as officials said the Obama administration is pressuring the Jewish nation to scrap the east Jerusalem building project that has ignited turmoil.
U.S.-Israeli relations have hit a 35-year low over a contentious east Jerusalem building project that threatens to derail peacemaking efforts with the Palestinians, Israel’s envoy to Washington was quoted as saying Monday.
Ambassador Michael Oren’s remarks clashed with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s assurances that the political turmoil resulting from the settlement announcement, which the Obama administration slammed as “an insult,” was under control.
“Israel’s ties with the United States are in their worst crisis since 1975 … a crisis of historic proportions,” the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper quoted Oren as saying to Israeli diplomats in a phone briefing over the weekend.
Israeli officials said that the U.S. is pressing the Jewish nation to scrap the east Jerusalem building project.
Israeli newspapers and radio stations said Washington wants the construction project canceled.
They also reported that the U.S. wants Israel to make a significant confidence-building gesture toward the Palestinians. Suggestions included releasing hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails; turning over additional areas of the West Bank to Palestinian control; removing some of the roadblocks hampering the movement of Palestinians and goods in the West Bank; and easing the blockade on the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, media reported.
Washington, they added, also has demanded that Israel officially declare that talks with the Palestinians will deal with all the conflict’s big issues, including final borders, the status of Jerusalem, and the fate of Palestinian refugees who fled or were driven from their homes during the war that followed Israel’s 1948 creation.
The unusually harsh U.S. criticism has undercut Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s efforts to suggest that the crisis had passed. Israeli newspapers reported Monday that Israel’s ambassador to Washington, Michael Oren, told Israeli diplomats in a conference call Saturday night that their country’s relations with the U.S. haven’t been so tense since 1975.
Mr. Obama, why not focus a little bit of effort on the ECONOMY and not on your narcissistic foreign policy?
Saturday
13Mar2010
Dems: Healthcare Bill Needs Abortion Coverage Because Kids Cost Too Much
Saturday, March 13, 2010 at 09:11AM Sick bastards.
Democrats “just want this (healthcare bill) over” so badly that they are reportedly planning to push Obama’s healthcare through via the Slaughter Solution and break Obama’s promise to not have any federal funding for abortion. We all knew Democrats are liars but do we also realize how perverted their minds are? According to Michigan Congressman Bart Stupak, a pro-life Democrat whose been a leader for pro-life Democrats opposing funding for abortion in the healthcare bill, children are just too much money and the government can save a lot by simply covering abortions:
“Their (Democrats’) position says that women, especially those without means available, should have their abortions covered.” The arguments they have made to him in recent deliberations, Stupak adds, “are a pretty sad commentary on the state of the Democratic party.”
What are Democratic leaders saying?“If you pass the Stupak amendment, more children will be born, and therefore it will cost us millions more. That’s one of the arguments I’ve been hearing,” Stupak says. “Money is their hang-up. Is this how we now value life in America? If money is the issue — come on, we can find room in the budget. This is life we’re talking about.”
Sort of reminds me of Nancy Pelosi saying “family planning services” cut healthcare costs:
Democrats are ignoring other Democrats who oppose abortion or have reservations about the legislation, have completely cut the Republicans out of the process and are thrusting their thumbs in the eye of the American people who do not want this healthcare bill.
Saturday
13Mar2010
Dems May Be Set to Bypass Constitution Using 'Slaughter Solution' to Pass Healthcare Bill
Saturday, March 13, 2010 at 08:38AM In a stunning move of arrogance and disregard for the US Constitution and the will of the American people, House Democrats appear to be ready to pass Barack Obama’s healthcare plan without voting for it, which the US Constitution requires.
Because Democrats don’t have the votes to pass the Senate version of the healthcare bill, they appear ready to use the ‘Slaughter Solution’ to ram this discipicable legislation down our throats:
Republicans now expect Democrats to pass health care through the House with a trick only Capitol Hill could dream up: approving the Senate bill without voting on it.
Democrats will vote on a separate bill that includes language stating that the original Senate bill is “deemed passed.”
So by voting for the first bill — a reconciliation measure to fix certain things in the Senate bill — that will automatically pass the second bill — the original Senate bill — without a separate roll call taking place.
It’s called the “Slaughter Solution”.
And after debating House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer on the chamber floor, Minority Whip Eric Cantor emerged convinced that Democrats are going to use the tactic, and that they won’t allow Republicans, and the public, to see the text of any legislation for 72 hours before a vote.
Here’s the reason Democrats are using such a complicated procedure: many in the House completely do not trust the Senate to pass fixes to the bill passed by the Senate in December. But according to the rules of reconciliation, the House must go first in passing the Senate bill and passing a reconciliation fix.
So House Democrats have been searching for a way to alleviate members’ concerns that if they vote for the Senate bill and the Senate does nothing to fix it, they will be hung out to dry as having supported a piece of legislation that many across the country dislike, either for spending reasons, or because of special provisions like the extra money for Nebraska’s Medicaid population (the “Cornhusker kickback”).
Technically, using the “Slaughter solution,” they’ll never have voted for the bill they find odious, even if their vote on the reconciliation legislation will have been the vote that passed the Senate bill into law.
The “Slaughter solution” is named for House Rules Committee Chairman Louise Slaughter, the New York Democrat who came up with the idea. She told the Daily Caller on Thursday that the chances of her procedure being used were “pretty good.”
Despite doubt among some on Capitol Hill on whether the “Slaughter solution” was feasible, Minority Whip Eric Cantor expressed no doubt that the tactic could be used.
“It’s a self-executing rule. It is akin to passage but hidden in a rule as a side-note, passing the 2,700-page, $1 trillion bill, oh by the way,” he said.
Thursday
11Mar2010
Democrats Run Up Largest Monthly Deficit in History in February
Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 07:42AM Democrats managed to surpass the record they set last February by 14% for defict spending. While most of us know this spending is unsustainable, the Obama administration insists on spending its way out what it calls the worst economy since the Great Depression. So far it isn’t working.
The government ran up the largest monthly deficit in history in February, keeping the flood of red ink on track to top last year’s record for the full year.
The Treasury Department said Wednesday that the February deficit totaled $220.9 billion, 14 percent higher than the previous record set in February of last year.
The deficit through the first five months of this budget year totals $651.6 billion, 10.5 percent higher than a year ago.
The Obama administration is projecting that the deficit for the 2010 budget year will hit an all-time high of $1.56 trillion, surpassing last year’s $1.4 trillion total. The administration is forecasting that the deficit will remain above $1 trillion in 2011, giving the country thrree straight years of $1 trillion-plus deficits.
The administration says the huge deficits are necessary to get the country out of the deepest recession since the 1930s. But Republicans have attacked the stimulus spending as wasteful and a failure at the primary objective of lowering unemployment.
The administration defends the economic stimulus bill that Congress passed in February 2009 with a pricetag at the time of $787 billion as the right medicine to get the economy back on its feet. President Barack Obama has said even more is needed to battle an unemployment rate that remained stuck in February at 9.7 percent.
The White House says that job creation will remain a top priority, hoping to convince voters that Obama did not spend too much time during his first year in office trying to get Congress to pass health care reform.
The government’s monthly budget report showed the record $220.9 billion deficit for February reflected outlays of $328.4 billion and revenues of $107.5 billion. The February receipts marked the first time that revenues are up compared with the same month a year ago since April 2008. Revenues had fallen for 21 straight months as the recession cut into both individual and corporate income tax payments.
Wednesday
10Mar2010
Jesse Ventura: 9/11 Was an Inside Job
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 07:40PM Who knew that Jesse Ventura was a conspiracy theorist?
Former wrestlemania celebrity and Governor of Minnesota from 1999-2003 Jesse Ventura is promoting his new book American Conspiracies, which chronicles cover-ups and evil plots by our government from the assassination of Abraham Lincoln to 9/11.
On NBC’s Today Show, Ventura talks about the inside job by our government on 9/11, specifically blaming the Bush administration:
Former Governor of Minnesota….hmmm….. isn’t Al Franken a Senator from Minnesota? Apparently the people of that great state are into circus clowns and novelty items.
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9/11, Conspiracies, VIDEO Wednesday
10Mar2010
With Biden Looking On, Obama Has the Nerve to Congratulate Iraqis on Elections
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 11:12AM What a sickening sight to see Joe Biden and Barack Obama, two of the Senate’s biggest critics of the war in Iraq, offer congratulations to Iraqis for their successful democratic election process. Both Biden and Obama called for an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops for years during the toughest times of the war effort that would have left thousands of Iraqi civilians slaughtered in the streets and the United States losing a war.
OBAMA: I congratulate the Iraqi people on their courage throughout this historic election.
Sickening. Obama should be congratulating George W. Bush along with the Iraqi people.
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Barack Obama, Elections, Iraq, VIDEO