POST SCRIPT (Corrected and updated)

Just a short note to let you know that just about everything I wrote about in my previous post came to pass during Obama's summit.  At one point, Obama spoke almost an hour, the Democrooks spoke for 108 minutes, and the GOP got 52 minutes.  That meant that the Democrooks got 3 times the face time as the GOP.   While the cable networks aired the summit they got bored at strategic times during the charade, i.e., the gaps in coverage were coincidently on purpose. 

As expected Obama waved off GOP suggestions and was at one point extremely rude to Senator John McCain who was addressing the process that needed to be followed.   Obama acted like a petty tyrant for the most part and displayed his immaturity and inexperience.  Here's the Washington Post account of his interaction with the GOP:

Like any opinionated cable host, Obama sometimes sharply dealt with those who angered him. One eye-opening exchange came when his 2008 election opponent, John McCain, criticized deal-making that bloated the current health care bill.

"We're not campaigning anymore," Obama told McCain. "The election is over."  [NN: Well sieg heil Adolph Jr., I thought that this Summit was supposed to be a bipartisan exchange of ideas!]

On television screens, it harkened back to the presidential debates with cable news showing split screens of the two men. The exchange lit up the blogs. [NN: Especially the Twits at the Daily Kos.]

"Genius!" wrote one Facebook member, Bruce Stevenson.  [NN: He's probably just another leftist Kool-Aid drinking Obamabot.]

Tim McKay had a different view on Facebook: "I'm not John McCain fan, but the way President Obama just treated him at the health care summit was in my opinion, about as classless and unprofessional as they come." [NN: I would have said that Obama showed about as much class as a cracked toilet seat.]

The president also criticized Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia, the House's No. 2 Republican, for piling a copy of the Senate bill on his desk as a prop to make the point that changes should be simplified. "Those are the kind of political things we do that prevent us from actually having a conversation," he said.  He cut off Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell after the Kentucky senator checked his watch to note Democrats had more speaking time. [NN: The Dems have never used children or sob story letters from constituents as props.]

"There's an imbalance in the opening statements because I'm the president," Obama said.  [NN: Mein Führer!]

Writing with an outsider's view, the Times of London wrote that "watching American politicians argue about health care can be seriously damaging to your health. Symptoms include migraines, extreme fatigue and sudden violent urges." [NN: Yeah,  like your system is so damn perfect.]

The true aim of the Liberal-Fascist Democrooks emerged as the Summit trudged on. Their aim is to take over the insurance industry.  That's because unlike their hippy dippy rhetoric of "sharing the wealth," these people are simply greedy corrupt bastards.

 

OBAMA'S THREE CARD MONTE HEALTH SUMMIT GAME

Although his first year in office could be characterized as a mini-disaster, the Master of Disaster--Obama may have a guardian demon on his shoulder.  Thursday begins the big Three Card Monte game also known as the Health Care Summit. 

Joe Biden says that the summit "could be pure theater."  (Is this guy trying to undermine Obama?  Is he lowering expectations?  Is he setting up the scenario to blame Republicans for any lack of progress?)  In a USA Today article on the summit, Biden is quoted as saying, "This could end up not being good," Biden said during an exclusive interview with The (Wilmington, Del.) News Journal. "But I know of no other way than to just keep pushing, saying, 'Guys, OK, this is our idea. What's your idea?'" 

This aggressive stance is a ploy that implies that something must done be right now!  But most Americans don't want this kind of hasty reform. Add to this mix the looming fact Democrats are facing a shrinking window of opportunity to pass their radical leftist agenda.  They will press hard for passage of this Frankenstein piece of legislation before the November mid-term elections.

Here's the possible  Three Card Monte strategy of the Obama and the Democrats for pushing this unwanted legislation down the throats of the American public.  First, the Democrats will suppress or reject any major Republican ideas as being out of touch with what the American people "need."  Second, the Lame Stream Media will spin the Democrat actions by mirroring Biden's remark to Gannett reporter, Nicole Gaudiano that "there ain't no Republican program."   Third, the Lame Stream Media will keep hammering the old Democrat line that the Republican Party is the Party of No!  Amidst all of this misinformation, the weaknesses of the Obama plan will obscured.

The politically naïve Republicans are probably walking into a trap.  But that's the problem with thinking that your counterpart is ethical.  The late, legendary World Wrestling Entertainment wrestler, Eddie Guerrero used to say, "Lie, cheat, and steal."  That sums up the Democrat credo.  Even when it comes to transparency they just can't play it straight or honest.

Because of a continuing commitment to broadcast live Senate and House sessions, there might be NO LIVE CSPAN 1 or 2 coverage and viewers may have to rely upon CSPAN 3 coverage. But not everybody has cable.  According to one survey, only 51% of American households have cable TV.  CSPAN 3, which picks up the overflow from CSPAN 1 AND 2 is carried on very few cable or satellite outlets.  And what would be the Democrat's comment on all of this?

Clever guy that Obama, he could have done this summit on a Saturday or Sunday when transparency could be maximized.  And no, none of the alphabet "nooze" networks will do live coverage of the event, allowing Obama to do his weasely thing.  You can bet that the leftist lame stream media stooges will spin and distort the event to Obama's advantage.

However, the taped delay of the summit will be aired after the House and Senate adjourns and will be programmed opposite the Olympics.  Good luck getting an audience for either event.  My guess is that  more people will watch the Olympics than will watch six hours of political pablum.  FoxNews.com will be doing the job of CSPAN, PBS, and the alphabet networks by streaming live coverage of the White House summit in its entirety.  Too bad that there isn't better coverage of what might be the issue of the decade.  There are many flaws in the Obama "plan" and they need to be exposed.  John F. Cogan, Glenn Hubbard, and Daniel Kessler write in WSJ-Opinion Journal:

Its key elements—mandates, heavy-handed insurance regulation, and entitlement-based, middle-income subsidies—must go. None of them address health care's fundamental problem: high and rising costs. Instead, the various versions of health reform put forth by the president and his party are based on expanding health-insurance coverage. The inevitable consequence will be to exacerbate the cost problem. And the American public knows it...

...To reduce the growth of costs, individuals must take greater responsibility for their health care, and health insurers and health-care providers must face the competitive forces of the market. Three policy changes will go a long way to achieving these objectives: (1) eliminate the tax code's bias that favors health insurance over out-of-pocket spending; (2) remove state-government barriers to purchasing and providing health services; and (3) reform medical malpractice.

We estimate these three changes will reduce health-care costs by over $100 billion per year and permanently reduce the number of uninsured by up to 13 million.

As we all know, the Democrats are in the hip pocket of the trial lawyers so there will be no medical malpractice reform.  States will not easily give up their power to regulate insurance companies.  Anti-business Liberals  only use the tax code to wring every penny of revenue out of taxpayers.

Instead what we have are mid-20th century leftist intellectual Neanderthals using an 19th century ecomomic philosophy, socialism, to solve 21st century problems.  The net result will be that future generations will bitterly curse the self-centered power-mad Baby Boomers for stealing their futures.

PWJs

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  Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and former President Clinton will be attending a summit on health, nutrition and obesity in Los Angeles this week.  The governor is a former competitive bodybuilder that will join with health professionals and educators to discuss ways California can fight obesity while promoting physical fitness.  The former President is the epitome of a reckless lifestyle and is probably there to illustrate how being a wastrel can lead to dire health consequences.  Clinton will also give the keynote address at an all you can eat comfort food restaurant in West Hollywood. 

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  Liberal-Fascists in California are calling for Meg Whitman to release her tax returns.  She hasn't become the Republican gubernatorial nominee yet so what's the hurry?  Besides, since when have Liberals ever given a damn about taxes except to extract confiscatory taxes from hard working people with small businesses.  Liberals like Tim Geithner, Treasury Secretary, seldom pay their fair share because they either have a bad copy of Turbo Tax, a foundation or are trust fund babies. Libs are also attacking Whitman for earning a multi-million dollar salary while succesfully helming ebay a private sector corporation.  Libs of course have no problem with Democrats Franklin Raines and Jim Johnson drawing big bonuses at Fannie Mae, a government sponsored corporation, using cooked books.  The only capitalism that Liberal-Fascists believe in is predatory capitialism in which the playing field is leveled of any competition contrary to greedy leftist plutocrats like George Soros and the boys at Goldman-Sachs.

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  According to the latest Rassmussen poll, only 10% of the American public think that Congress is doing a good job. Seventy-one percent say that Congress is doing a poor job. Ten percent say that Congress is doing an excellent job   Query: Did this 10% include SEIU workers at the Capitol Cafeteria and ACORN workers?

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  Fortune Magazine reports that former CEO Fritz Henderson is back at Obama Motors, the auto company formerly known as GM, as a consultant for international operations.  Henderson reportedly gets $59,090 a month for 20 hours of work a month or $3,000 an hour.  He was eased out as President and CEO of GM after only eight months on the job.  While not strictly in line with definition of insanity, i.e., doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result.  Why would you pay top dollar for a guy you didn't think could do the job running the whole operation?  Maybe it's because there's mostly political operatives in Obama's cabinet.  There is very little "hands on" business experience in Obama's Cabinet and it shows.

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  AP reports that sales of new homes set a record low in January.  According to the Commerce Department new home sales dropped 11.2 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual sales pace of 309,000 units, the lowest level in 50 years. Wasn't the mortgage bailout supposed to fix this?  There is very little "hands on" business experience in Obama's Cabinet and it shows.  Subsidizing mortgages for people that can't afford home ownership does not work.  Wasn't this same approach that brought about the toxic assets debacle?
  
  
  
  
   

FIRST AMENDMENT WOES (Corrected)

Silly me.  I thought that the First Amendment allowed all of us to have differing opinions. Yeah, silly me.  I forgot that Liberal-Fascists don't like anyone that disagrees with them or their agenda.

Within the last week I have been compared to Joe Stack, the man that flew and crashed into the IRS building in Austin, Texas because I have strong opinions.  I was told in an e-mail that if ten random people were to read this blog that it would appear to be a rant that was no different than the suicide letter that Joe Stack left.  For readers that haven't read it, here’s a link to the text of Stack’s suicide letter.


The following cyber answer appeared  on answers.yahoo.com. Yes, I know that it's not scientific or statistically accurate, but it is random.  (Besides, science is whatever you want it to be, just ask Professor Phil Jones of the Climate Change Unit at the University of East Anglia.)  The cyber answer was in response to a question on whether Joe Stack was a Liberal or not: 

By his own rants, he showed his true colors:

He was anti-religion,
He was anti-Bush,
He was anti-corporate America,
He was upset over lack of Health care coverage,
He believed he was smarter than the rest of us (feeling intellectually elite),
He believed he was a victim (took no responsibility for his life),
He favorably quoted a communist creed,
He was critical of Capitalism,
He refused to pay his taxes (like Tim Geitner [sic] and the bevy of liberals that could not make   it onto Obama's Cabinet.)
He is a classic example of a self deluded liberal.

Unlike poor Joe Stack (RIP), I try to provide readers with written as well as visual sources to show readers how I arrived at my opinions.  I also do it to encourage readers to do their own investigation.  I cite Liberal as well as Conservative sources because there are nuggets of information in most all POVs, even from the bastion of irrational rabid leftists, the Daily Kos.

Early last week I was told by another reader commenting on one of my blog entries that I was a "pot calling the kettle black," i.e., that I’m a hypocrite for being critical of Robert Gibbs, Propaganda Minister to Chairman Obama. That’s his opinion for which he is entitled as I am entitled to mine. Unfortunately, under his weltanschauung, only he can have fun at the expense of his Conservative foes.  

I support free speech. That means that unlike most Liberals and Progressives, I don’t support the Fairness Doctrine, college speech codes, or political correctness. As an aside, political correctness is what we used to call politeness and discretion. It involved self-control and self-discipline something of which many Baby Boomers have none of. 

The upshot of all the "helpful criticism" that I got is that I should try to be "civil and kind" to Liberals and the (self)-righteous people that call themselves “Progressives.”  To do that, I would have to pretend that Liberals and Progressives are rational thinking people and that facts do not exist. But it never ceases to amaze me how Liberals and Progressives get so outraged whenever anyone questions their agenda.  This is true even if--as with Climate Change--the agenda item is plainly wrong.  Many of my Boomer acquaintances have told me that they have been Liberals or Progressives since their college days.  Now that’s a “no [intellectual] growth” policy if I’ve ever heard of one.

I think that the problem with our Liberal and Progressive friends is that they are so used to not being questioned about their flamboyantly irrational opinions and dogma. But it's okay for Libs and Progs to name-call, distort, lie, or just simply be the irrational ideologues that they are.

These ideologues are similar to the true believers discussed by Eric Hoffer in his 1951 book, The True Believer: Thoughts On The Nature Of Mass Movements. Here's a little film that covers pretty much of what the Left is all about.

WARNING: Some readers might find some of the images in this film short very disturbing.  Those of you that are offended by the South Park or the Family Guy TV shows should skip viewing this film short and continue reading.

 

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Below is Ed Schultz's impassioned defense of Climate Change.  He calls this MSNBC segment "Psycho Talk," a term which he thinks applies to the Conservatives that he's bashing.  As you listen to this you'll see an argument and proof that Liberals evolved from lemmings.  On February 10, 2010, despite the Climate Change/Global Warming hoax being discredited on a daily basis, Sergeant Schultz is still defending Climate Change. He "sees nothing" that contradicts what his handlers have told him to say.  This "True Believer" may indeed be talking about himself when he mentions "Psycho Talk" in the clip below.

As a tribute to Sergeant Schultz and Ed Schultz we present the following:

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Here's the trifecta with Keith Olbermann, Rachael Maddow, and the ever bubbly Chrissy Matthews commenting on Obama's State of Confusion address.  Note the subliminal racism abounding in Chrissy's words.  He means well, but Liberals just can't help being bigoted. He claims that he doesn't think about race all of the time (just most of the time).  Chrissy says that for one hour he forgot all about Obama's blackness.  Funny, but Chrissy also forgot that Obama is also half white.

 

Well, I guess all this is going to get me in trouble again.