Do, or do not. There is no 'try'. - Yoda

Friday, March 12, 2010

Here is how the economics behind government takeover of healthcare proposed in the current monstrous bill congress is going to pass against the will of the people by means of a gimmick, works. Obama’s congress proposes a monster that will cost close to $2 trillion over 10 years and gives government absolute and total control of all things healthcare. Even more frightening, the bill is set up in such a way that by that decade’s end everyone will have been funneled into a government controlled plan. People freak out. So Obama then tells congress they need to find a way to make it happened for a measly $900 billion to make the number more palatable. The congress then proceeds to concoct a scheme that charges you taxes over 10 years to come up with some $1.8 trillion dollars the CBO projected optimistically will be the cost of their behemoth takeover plan, but then offers no care whatsoever for the first four or five years. This then allows them to collect some $850 billion dollars in extra cash during that first 10 year stint, leaving us with a plan that they tell us will now only cost us a measly $1 trillion! Presto, healthcare costs are under control! I should mention that this $1.8 trillion CBO score is for the best case scenario cost of a government healthcare takeover, but we all know that as things go, these collectivist scams usually cost orders of magnitude more than was projected by the biggest pessimists, when they go live.

So after the first 10 years of Obamacare comes to a close, and we roll into the next decade of this wonderful collectivist experiment, we suddenly have government controlled healthcare that is at a minimum underfunded by $850 billion dollars for the next ten years, and likely to be behind a couple of trillion already too. Yet they and the MSM are all claiming this bill will save us money! Maybe they know that the collectivists elite in charge and pushing this plan through even though we don’t want it plan to confiscate our paychecks in their entirety and then distribute to us each according to our needs eventually, and then this stuff wont matter much. Barring that, you can fill in the gaps how they plan to deal with the vanishing of the “savings” they are now tauting sooner than later.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Democrats ran and won in 2006, and then again in 2008, on the bad behavior of republicans. Republicans were successfully and correctly painted as having lost their fiscal sanity for the deficit spending prior to 2006, only to have democrats gain control of congress and the spending purse after the 2006 elections, and set new spending records they then blamed Bush for. The leftwing machine’s manipulations of the facts, with big-time help from a complicit media that didn’t point out democrats were always worse at that stuff anyway when in charge, allowed them to run on the lack of fiscal responsibility of the republicans in 2008 again, using the crisis of their own making that they then blamed on Bush yet again, to win big, only to then proceed to set new deficit spending records. Here is the graph for those of you that want to dispute the deficit spending facts, so spare us the bull:

As this projection showed Obama’s deficit spending in his first year ended up being more than all 8 years of Bush. Oh sure, as I already pointed out Obama is blaming Bush for having to do so. Democrats have successfully convinced so many that the financial crisis we are in isn’t tied to those idiotic collectivist economic lending practices they forced upon the market in the last 3 decades. Even worse, they successfully have covered up the rigged games Franks and Dodd set up with Fannie and Freddie to keep those faulty economic policies afloat, and how those trading scams then led to the implosion of the housing market and then the financial sector. But that “It’s Bush’s fault” excuse is wearing thin as people are slowly seeing the truth. Almost $2 trillion of the tax payer’s dollars has been funneled to democrats and their friends, through one collectivist economic scam or another promising salvation, but delivering nothing but a drastically growing government bureaucracy, while the private sector continues to bleed jobs and contract. And the WH remains focused on tacking on trillions more in new taxes and debt so they can give government control of healthcare moneys and decisions, with a scam which purports to reign in costs and be fiscally responsible by of all things taxing us for 10 years to provide 5 or 6 years of coverage, while ignoring the economic disaster they are leaving in their wake. And the one thing they should be addressing, the lack of jobs, gets nothing but some meaningless political play. In the mean time the hole is growing deeper and the spending of money we simply don’t have continues to rise. This year is looking like it will set even higher and wasteful deficit spending records as this February’s $220.9 billion single month record is showing. This seems to be our economic future thanks to the democrats and their economics. But the fact that democrats are destroying our economy, and are trying hard to destroy healthcare, is not the thing I want to address here. I want to talk a bit about one of the other lies they told to get themselves elected.

If you have been following the whole Eric Massa fiasco, you know this stuff has turned into a soap opera writ large. Frankly I do not know if Massa is telling the truth. He is a democrat after all, and lying is second nature for them. However, I do not put it past this WH to do what Massa has accused them of doing either. Based on what I have seen them do in just this first year, I have no doubt that this bunch is probably the most corrupt crew I have ever seen. We are dealing with Chicago politics here, and this – hope & change! - is SOP for these people. My bet is that since Obama wants this monster passed, his team is going to make it happen. Even if they have to do what Massa has accused them of. In fact I do not put it past them to resort to openly committing felonies to do so considering the vested interest they have in making this the law of the lad. After all, they control the levers of power and the press, so whose gonna be able to do anything about anything bad they do? If the stuff that has been going on so far hasn’t made the case yet, I doubt anything they do will.

And that brings me to my point about this whole Massa thing. If you don’t remember Nancy promising to drain the republican swamp and end the culture of corruption back in 2006, here is just one of the instances the sympathetic press gave her words play. Unfortunately, as case after case proves – Chris Dodd, Barney Franks, Charley Rangel, and a plethora of others – Nancy lied, and the corruption and criminal behavior, like the deficit spending and the fiscal irresponsibility I talked about before, is also setting new records. Don’t take my word for it. The case with Massa is more of the same. Even more important is the fact that while Pelosi is now claiming ignorance that’s a blatant lie because Nancy knew months ago about Massa’s behavior. And while Nancy is playing dumb, just a little research would have made it all obvious from records going back to Massa’s NAVY days showing that Massa was a time bomb waiting to explode.

As is the case in all these other stories of corruption that the MSM is ignoring or down playing, we are being lied to by these democrats that want to pretend real criminal activity and serious ethics violations, stuff that makes what happens when the republicans were in charge look tame, isn’t their modus operandi. And keep in mind that it is this scandal driven congress which is ignoring the will of the people and pushing forward with an unpopular government takeover of healthcare. Why isn’t the MSM up in arms about all this corruption and the will of the people being ignored? I guess that’s more of that hope and change for you.

Friday, February 26, 2010

I did not watch that 7+ hour freakshow that the democrats were hoping to use as a vehicle to paint the republicans as evil “no sayers” with no ideas or plans on healthcare with the help of the usual suspects in their controlled MSM – while anyone that had the ability to navigate a web browser and Google could see these donkeys were full of it – and I am glad I didn’t waste my time. The democrats pretended to care and to want bipartisanship, only they meant by bipartisanship that the republicans should do what they wanted and be happy about it. The leftist twits are now threatening reconciliation – a process that has never been used in the way they intend to abuse it, but we are talking about the party of the end justifies the means after all here – despite the public objection to this debacle. It is now or never and all or nothing with these fools. And they are continuing to pretend that they are doing it to help the country and the people economically, while also providing care to all those poor people that can’t afford it. How noble, but al bullshit. The end game still is to have government literally take over and control 1/5th of our economy. Not to mention get the power over life and death decisions. Fun stuff, but I want to talk about the cost to us tax payers.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

In the age of “Hope and Change” deficits no longer matter it seems. This even as a Tax Policy Center released a
detailed 40 page report of the key tax proposals in President Obama’s 2011 budget, and if you look at their numbers they are projecting a whopping $4.9 trillion shortfall, which eclipses the $1.1 trillion claimed by the Obama people. Here is the killer quote:

The budget assumes a baseline in which the 2001-2003 tax cuts are permanent (including the estate tax at its 2009 level), the exemption in the alternative minimum tax (AMT) is permanently indexed for inflation from its 2009 level, and that temporary expansions of refundability of the child tax credit and of the earned income credit are permanent. Those provisions would reduce revenues by $3.8 trillion over the 2010-2020 period. TPC’s analysis measures the impact of the tax proposals not against the administration baseline but rather against a current law baseline that assumes the 2001-2003 tax cuts expire as scheduled in 2011 and that the AMT exemption maintains its permanent level. Against that baseline, the administration’s tax proposals would cause much greater revenue losses than official budget estimates show [$4.9 trillion v. $1.1 trillion].

For those that are numerically challenged, this means that the difference between all the goodies that the collectivists want to farm out reported in this analysis and the tax intake of Uncle Sam in this business hostile environment are going to leave us with an unbelievable additional $4.9 trillion in new debt. Of course, knowing the way collectivists operate, they will simply raise taxes - and likely also spending - and then be flabbergasted when we end up with something close to a $7 trillion gap.

There is some good news out there - other than the AGW climategate scandal finally ending the death grip the AGW cultists had on the issue, and finally allowing real science to take a look at this issue which will sooner than later kill the AGW cult - and that is that the donkey crime syndicate ACORN is going through tough times and giving up on its national structure. Now, I am not stupid enough to think this is end of these bastards, and would not be surprised that all this leads to is a rebirth under a different name with the exact same agenda and criminal behavior to push that agenda to follow, but in the short term it means a victory for the people that actually do have a problem with this kind of special interest group, masquerading as a community organization intended to help people, pushing a destructive agenda that favors the politicians that enact that agenda. If they are going to just lay low and come back again to do more of the same, there is an election this year after all, I recommend they use the name “Donkey Mafia”. Feel free to suggest your own names as well in the comments.

Monday, February 22, 2010

Well, as I suspected, the Obama Administration’s plan to revive the bloated and vile government takeover of healthcare money and decision making, isn’t about fixing the differences and actually fixing healthcare at all, because the WH strategy is to double down on the same crap. If you needed more proof that these leftist elitists think we are all morons and not smart enough to make our own choices, look at this. After the Scott Brown loss in MA, and the obvious looming disasters at the polls in the elections this coming November, you would figure that the collectivist would figure out they over played their hand and that the people didn’t want any more of the destructive stuff they have given us for the last year. You would expect them to work on getting the economy going and getting people employed. Instead they are using smoke and mirrors and hoping their partners in the MSM can make the republicans out like the bad guys without any ideas of their own. Talk about projection, huh? To me it is not clear that the democrat agenda is to pass this behemoth in order to so drastically shift the balance of those that work for a living vs. those that vote for a living in their favor that they are willing to take the hit for another decade or two, if it then buys them perpetual power. Of course, at this rate, there will not be much of a country in even a decade worth ruling, but then again, marxists think they can make it better when they never, ever, have done anything but the opposite. Don’t let the freak show that is going to come out of DC distract you. These collectivists are dangerous.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

The Democrats are trying to portray Republicans as a bunch of lunatics with a series of questions they want to ask Republican candidates.  Personally, I think they would make more progress portraying the Republicans as morons, but whatever.

The full questionnaire follows the break, with my answers.  What’s interesting is just how bad a strategy this is.  It’s simply a rehashing of every Democrat shriek of the last ten years.  It honestly reads like someone pulled a list of “what Republicans really think” out of Democratic Underground or somesuch. The NRSC has responded with their own list of questions that are equally stupid, but are more cutting because they tie Democrats to policies that actually exist.

Friday, January 22, 2010

So, now that the government healthcare takeover agenda seems to be all bud dead, the leftists are setting their sight on taking over the financial sector. They are going to cripple the economy and get their hands on our money one way or another, because we are too stupid to understand that they know what’s best for us. Wall Street reacted appropriately, and from the looks of it, despite the concern by some, there will be more of the same to come. Before you start ranting about the evils of Wall Street remember that they are not able to do anything without the tacit and regulatory approval of a politician, and while the left has made a great case of convincing people that these favors are the acts of the right, the truth is that the real big and rewarding sweetheart deals – think AIG bonuses for example – come from democrats. They are the ones that are the easiest to buy. Anyway, I guess this is how Obama plans to help the economy create more jobs? How much longer do we have to endure this destructive economic crap before the next elections clean house?

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

The Democrats are sounding a conciliatory tone on healthcare.  Last night’s election was, of course, a part.  But the biggest blow came today.  The AFL-CIO said they won’t support the bill.  Without Big Labor on board, the Democrats can’t do this thing.

While I’m happy with last night’s outcome and the likelihood that this has derailed a bad healthcare bill, I do think we need to get some perspective here.  The Democrats still hold 59 seats. We are also at the peak of public anger.  Unless the Republicans come up with a real agenda—and by that I mean something other than Sean Hannity’s program notes—they will not be able to sustain this success into November.  They’ve given the public something to vote against; now they need to give them something to vote for.

Because at some point, the public is going to notice a few things.  Breitbart runs down Obama’s first year, by the numbers.  There are few things that work in Obama’s favor:

7,949.09—Dow Jones Industrial Average close on Jan. 20, 2009.

10,609.65—Dow Jones Industrial Average close on Jan. 15, 2010.

$296.4 billion—Federal spending from the financial crisis bailout fund before Jan. 20, 2009.

$173 billion—Federal spending from the financial crisis bailout fund after Jan. 20, 2009.

$165 billion—Amount of bailout funds repaid by banks and automakers.

34,400—U.S. troops in Afghanistan in January 2009.

70,000—U.S. troops in Afghanistan as of Jan. 12, 2010.

139,500—U.S. troops in Iraq in January 2009.

111,000—U.S. troops in Iraq as of Jan. 12, 2010.

152—U.S. military deaths in Iraq from January 2009 through Jan. 15, 2010.

We have a larger presence in Afghanistan.  The Iraq War continues to wind down.  The bank bailouts are tapering (and were far less than under Bush) and the hysteria about nationalization proved mostly unfounded.  If unemployment turns around and/or Obama takes a serious stab at debt—the likelihood of which I leave to your imagination—the tide of public opinion could turn in a hurry.

The biggest concern out there, the one driving the tea parties and the one that croaked Martha Coakley’s senate run, is debt. The GOP needs to strike while the iron is hot and come with a serious plan to reduce the debt, short term and long term.  I fear this will not happen.  All I hear from them is mindless burbling about cutting taxes and protecting Medicare.  We saw how well tax cuts and spending hikes worked in the last decade.

Last night showed that they have a chance to turn the country around.  Will they blow it yet again?  I think the next few months, maybe even the next few weeks, will give us the answer to that question.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

The count is almost over and they are basically saying that it is a done deal, a nail in the democrat coffin, and the less nutty donkeys are already seeing the writing on the wall and backing away from the government healthcare takeover. The message was loud and clear: your government takeover plan sucks, and we don’t want it and we also don’t want Cap and Tax either. The left’s response? We can’t win them all? WTF?? I pray you keep pushing for this government healthcare takeover plan and the Cap and Tax plan that Pelosi & Reid are ramming through, bud. Then you can lose a ton more come November.

Just a year ago the leftist twits were telling us that the age of conservatism was dead. That the republican party was toast. While I certainly want the republican party to be toast unless they start acting like conservatives, I am going to toot my own horn and point out that I told everyone that once the democrats got to doing what they do, people would turn against them. The democrats were in a hurry because they knew time was against them. Lucky for the American people they are such moronic idiots that they could not destroy us in one fell swoop. Not saying they can’t still screw us over hard, but the odds they pass any of the damaging and destructive crap they want is now seriously diminished, if not gone. Oh, how I am going to enjoy the fake attempts by the leftists to minimize this loss. Call me petty if you want, but I don’t care. Payback is a bitch. 

Here’s Jon Stewart on the Mass election:

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
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The reaction of the Left to the potential Brown victory is a perfect illustration of why I may hate the Republicans, but I really fucking hate the Democrats.  They are crying and weeping because the “Tea Partiers”, guided by nihilists and lunatics, has killed their healthcare reform for a generation with the dirty underhanded trick of (apparently) winning an election.

This line is total utter claptrap.

First, let’s ignore the policy and concentrate on the politics.  If you can’t get legislation passed with 59 votes in the Senate and a big majority in the House, you need to close up shop and seek a more useful line of work.  Healthcare is not dead; not by a long shot.  All the Democrats have to do is have the House pass the Senate version.  That’s it.  It’s law.  Done deal.  Mission accomplished.

Moreover, even if this option were not available, the Democrats have 59 votes in the Senate. Bush got highly divisive policy passed with less.  Reagan got policy passed with a Democratic Congress.  Clinton got legislation through a Republican Congress.  Obama got his stimulus without 60 votes.  What’s the problem here?

It’s evil obstructionist Republicans, they say.  Really?  Do you think the Republicans would be so obstructionist if they didn’t have the polls behind them? Do you think Snow and Collins and McCain and those guys would hold out if there were an outcry across the land for Obamacare? I have no use for opinion polls, but they do inform the actions of politicians. If this policy were as wildly popular as it’s supposed to be, the GOP would have no choice but to compromise.  Some of them, at least.

Ah, but the public has been lied to and infuriated by the evil Fox News and the vile Right Wing Ecosphere.  Really?  How many people do you think watch Fox News?  How many people listen to Rush Limbaugh?  How many hard core conservative Republicans live in Massachusetts, for Christ’s sake?  You’ve lost the independents, guys, because they have thought about it and don’t like what’s being done.  Strange as it may sound, they get suspicious when a bunch of smug people in suits sidle up and offer free healthcare.  Strange as it may sound, big complex pieces of law make them nervous.

Now maybe their opinion will change once the law is passed.  Maybe it will get worse.  That’s the gamble you take when you ... you know ... govern.  But to claim your massive majority failed to pass your key legislation because of some guys with signs on the Mall?  Please.

Now let’s put the policy back in.

As I have argued, as everyone on the Right and Center has argued, this is a crummy piece of legislation.  It would have been quite easy for Democrats to put together something that could have passed.  It could have been smaller and more incremental.  It could have incorporated conservative ideas.  But there’s no breaking down of state barriers to competition.  No move toward consumer-controlled (i.e., high deductible) insurance—quite the opposite.  The bill has extremely vague and soon-to-be-forgotten promises of eliminating “waste” from Medicare.  And it has a budget shoehorned into a time baseline and bounded with unrealistic cost controls to force the CBO to agree that it will reduce the deficit even when everyone knows it won’t.

Let’s imagine a piece of legislation that could have gotten passed.  Keep in mind, this is not my ideal.  But it would have been a lot less objectionable and is the sort of thing I could imagine emerging from a Democratic Congress to big support.

* Allow insurance to be sold across state lines. To sell across state lines, however, insurers would agree to fall under federal regulation. This regulation which be much stricter on rescission and mandate that insurance policies be portable—from employer to individual, individual to employer, employer to employer—without having to be re-approved.  This would greatly reduce the pre-existing condition problem in the future.

* Allow, and through tax policy, encourage, high-deductible consumer controlled insurance.  If a mandate is included, make this the minimum acceptable level.  Also, make it available as a cheaper option to those on Cobra. This would increase the number of insured while creating consumer pressure to drive down costs.

* Provide subsidies or Medicaid to those who have pre-existing conditions or are, through loss of employment or disability, unable to insure themselves.  This would be paid for with a broad-based tax and/or reduction of the insurance tax deduction.

Now this leave Medicare unfixed.  But, frankly, so does the current legislation.  The only way to fix that is to keep increasing the retirement age or to link copay amounts to age of retirement to encourage people to stay out of the system longer.

Again, this is not my ideal.  But this would accomplish more than the Democratic proposal and would likely have passed with some Republicans in support.  But the Democrats had to mandate comprehensive policies, had to carve out special dispensations for Big Labor, and, most of all, had to stick it to “the rich”.  And now they will ... unless they pull their heads out of their asses ... pay the price.  We all will.  Especially those of us without insurance.

Now I hold no illusions about the Republican Party.  Scott Brown, in particular, has praised the Massachusetts healthcare reform that is almost identical to Obamacare and is quietly bankrupting the state.  The GOP has disgracefully decided to hide behind Medicare and accuse Democrats of gutting it—a tactic the Democrats long used to oppose any GOP attempts at reform.  But the hysterial reaction to the election tonight demonstrates, once again, why Democrats are even more useless than Republicans.  59 seats, a popular President and a mandate for change—and they still can’t get it right.

Update: Continuing Sullywatch: he has a more moderated response here.  The essential argument is that he knows the legislation is bad but thinks the crisis is so bad we have do something now and this is a decent start.  We can fix it later.

Bad bad things result from such thinking.  The problem is that legislation, once passed, creates a legacy.  People become dependent on subsidies. Bureaucracies spring up and zealously defend their turf.  Spending goes up.  Cost controls go down.  Flaws do not get fixed.  Something as massive as this healthcare reform creates an incredible amount of political inertia.

We knew the welfare system was wrong very quickly.  It took thirty years to fix it.  And that only applied to poor people, not the entire nation.  Medicare is forty years old and is still a disaster.  Social Security is seventy years old and every fix has made the situation worse.

This legislation isn’t a good start—it resembles what you might get after a program careens out of control for years.  We’d be starting out with the system fucked.  That’s not the way to go.

I agree that we have a problem with healthcare.  I agree the Democrats were elected, in part, because they promised to do something about it.  This is not the solution.  The more I look at it, the more I think it will only make things worse.

Sullivan is heavily emotionally invested in healthcare reform.  With a potential Brown victory approaching, he’s already in a funk.  He’s not alone.  Many leftist are practically in tears.  It reminds me of Election 2004 (an election that, not coincidentally, also turned on a crappy candidate from Massachusetts).  Every liberal I knew was acting like their dog had died.  While listening to Limbaugh.  And applying for a conceal-carry permit.

Fortunately, we have people like Megan McArdle to slap some sense into them:

Being unable to imagine what the majority of Americans might be thinking doesn’t indicate a problem with them.  It suggests you kind of need to get out more.  Ask around.  If there’s one thing any American is always happy to share, it’s his opinion.

But for the shut-ins, and those who are too busy with their needlepoint, I have a useful little shortcut that you can use to try and understand why this vast, pulsating blob of undifferentiated evildoers might be opposing the Democrats’ health care agenda:  they think it’s a bad idea.

That’s not so hard to imagine, is it?  You have had ideas, and you have opposed the bad ideas of others.  You have experience in the domain, so to speak.  Think of it as sort of a visualization device. 

The next time you are trying to imagine why the people who disagree with you are actively promoting the destruction of all that is good in the universe, grab a soothing cup of mint tea, put your feet up on a comfy pillow, and then close your eyes and imagine what those people would look like campaigning against something that is a very bad idea.  99 times out of a hundred, you’ll find that they look . . . well, exactly like they look when they’re campaigning against your idea.  And suddenly the whole thing is no longer so inexplicable, isn’t it?

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When I realized that health care was probably going to pass, I was, as you can imagine, sort of unhappy.  I thought that this was, over the long run, very likely to result in the untimely deaths of lots of people, maybe including me.  I may have been in error about this belief--but it was sincerely held.

Had I gone off into a despairing and rage-filled rant about how I just could not understand how all those people could be so determined to kill millions and millions of innocent people with their stupid central planning schemes that never work, haven’t they seen what happened to the Soviet Union, ferchrissakes . . . should my views get a respectful hearing?  I think not.  Had I said anything like that, I would have sounded like an idiot.  As, indeed, some of the more benighted conservative commentators kind of did.

Read the whole thing.  It’s beautiful.  And I agree with her 100%.  This does not indicate that Americans oppose the idea of healthcare reform; it indicates that they oppose this healthcare reform.

McArdle doesn’t add it, because she doesn’t need to, but conservatives need to get a grip as well.  The hyperbole I’ve heard about ... well anything Obama does ... makes us look like ... well, like a bunch of panty-waisted liberals.  And if if—and this is the Bay State so it’s an “if” until the lawsuits end and the man is sworn in sometime around August 2016—if Brown wins, that doesn’t suddenly mean the nation has come its senses and embraced everything Republican either.  It means people don’t like healthcare reform and are a growing impatient on the economy.  There is a danger of overplaying the hand.  And if the GOP is still listening to twerps like Karl Rove, that danger becomes a certainty.

I’ve never gotten that upset about an election myself.  I’ve been disappointed or angry.  But never ranting and raving and foaming at the mouth.  This is the advantage of being a conservative—you’re never surprised when the peepul disappoint you.

Monday, January 18, 2010

The supporters of Martha Coakley Healthcare Reform are latching onto this clip as proof that Scott Brown is an evil monster:

This, apparently, is a slur on Ann Dunham and an embrace of right wing conspiracy theories.  Listening to it—and your judgement may vary—it sounds like he doesn’t know whether Ann Dunham was married or not.  Someone not familiar with the Obama family history might legitimately be confused about this.  Obama’s mother married when she was three months pregnant.  And there is some debate over the legitimacy of that marriage since Obama Sr. was already married to a Kenyan woman and lied to Ann when he said he was divorced.  None of this, of course, has any bearing on Obama’s suitability as President.

This is nothing.  This isn’t a “nappy-head hoes”.  This isn’t even close to a “wise Latina”.  Jesus, guys, are so desperately desperate that this, this is what you’re staking a Senate seat on?

Regardless, massive alarm bells should immediately ring when you watch this.  In this clip and a longer version on Youtube, both cut off immediately after the supposed offending remark (which was a discussion of Bristol Palin, not Obama).  Brown is literally cut off in mid-sentence.  I very much want to see what Brown said immediately after this.  I would bet my copy of The Declining Significance of Race that he said something positive about Obama and his family.  (It’s also possible I’m wrong and he says something worse.  But I doubt the clip would be cut off in that case.)

The Democrats aren’t even out of power and they’re already crazy.

The democrats are now threatening to ignore the rules.

BOSTON (AP) - A panicky White House and Democratic allies scrambled Sunday for a plan to salvage their hard-fought health care package in case a Republican wins Tuesday’s Senate race in Massachusetts, which would enable the GOP to block further Senate action. The likeliest scenario would require persuading House Democrats to accept a bill the Senate passed last month, despite their objections to several parts. Aides consulted Sunday amid fears that Republican Scott Brown will defeat Democrat Martha Coakley in the special election to fill the late Edward M. Kennedy’s seat. A Brown win would give the GOP 41 Senate votes, enough to filibuster and block final passage of the House-Senate compromise on health care now being crafted.

I wonder if the leftists see the irony that this story originated out of Boston Mass., where we all know the democrats, whom took the Kennedy seat for granted, seem poised to lose that Senate seat in the special election to Scott Brown. Obama’s visit Sunday was a bust - AP reports mixed results because they are MSM shills, but barely 2000 - 2500 people showed up for that freakshow - while the Scott Brown meeting was a big win. And while democrats have plans for the 2010 elections and likely are counting on more of the same in MA., with some union thuggery thrown in for good measure. After all, the Obama Admin is likely to turn a blind eye to any kind of voter intimidation or fraud that helps them as the dismissed cases of blatant criminal activity in the 2008 election proves.

But, let us get back to the government healthcare takeover attempt by the collectivists. It looks like the troops are reading the writing on the wall, and many are not liking it much. Maybe they figure no amount of cheating or cover from the MSM will spare them a defeat in 2010. Lucky for us most of these hyenas will not simply go along with something that spells suicide for their personal political careers even if it helps their party cement a permanent hold on the American political landscape (when people need you for their benefits, they must keep you in power). Their problem is that the writing is on the wall. The democrats managed in but a single year to remind America why they should never be trusted with power. I hope that idiotic meme that democrats are better for the economy dies a painful and quick death. I never understood how anyone could take the collectivist’s view of the economy as anything good for anyone but the politicians.

UPDATE: And if you doubt that the left thinks cheating is a fine thing as long as they are doing it, here is MSNBC’s Ed Schultz making a startling remark on his radio show yesterday about supporting voter fraud in Massachusetts. You got that right. The advice from the MSM cronies is to cheat. Not like they would ever report it if it hurt “the cause”.

Saturday, January 16, 2010

How desperate is Martha Coakley?  So desperate, she’s resorted to a vile smear of her opponent.

This is absolutely brutal: Massachusetts Dems have dropped a mail piece accusing GOP Senate candidate Scott Brown of wanting hospitals to turn away “all” rape victims.

The mail piece — sent over by the Brown campaign — shows pictures of women who are supposed to have been raped, one of them in a wheelchair bent over with her head in her hands. It says: “1,736 WOMEN WERE RAPED IN MASSACHUSETTS IN 2008. SCOTT BROWN WANTS HOSPITALS TO TURN THEM ALL AWAY.”

Click through to see the mailer.  It is truly awful.

What’s the real story?  Massachusetts passed a law requiring hospitals to provide emergency contraception (i.e., the morning after pill) to rape victims.  Brown sponsored an amendment that would have allowed healthcare workers who had a religious objection to the pill to let someone else do it (or to have it done at another facility at no cost to the victim).  When the amendment was rejected, he still voted for the bill.

Smears don’t get more disgusting than this.  I don’t care if you are liberal Democrat who wants healthcare to pass.  This sort of thing can not be rewarded with election.