Continue reading Democrats praising the filibuster & condemning the Nuclear Option.
The only statement of conservative principles we need By Michelle Malkin • February 16, 2010
(Photoshop: W.E. Messamore)
First my condolences to the families of the two people who were murdered today.My thoughts also go out to the 13 people injured & their families.And to the family of Joseph Andrew Stack III.Kudos to the heroic Firefighters,as well as to Robin Dehaven the 6 year Army Vet who with others rushed to help.
Witness becomes rescuer in Austin plane incident - CNN.com
Now that the maniac who flew his plane into the Austin IRS building is being used to smear the millions of innocent men,women & children in the Tea Party movement,
Matthews' Southern Poverty Guest Ties Stack To 'Radical Right'
Alienated in Austin
WaPo's Capehart: Austin Suicide Pilot's 'Alienation Similar To Extreme Elements of Tea Party Movement'
The Austin Plane Incident: An Attack on the IRS?
one wonders if Pres.Obama will stand with the Tea Partiers "should the political winds shift in an ugly direction. ",as he said,(rightly,if there was a attempt to Inter Muslim-Americans as Japanese-Americans were Interred),he would stand w/ Muslim Americans.Does he consider it part of his responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of his fellow Americans wherever they appear,as he said he would "fight against[unidentified]negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear".One wonders if he will urge people "not to jump to conclusions",about the motives of the attacker.I...hullo,whats this?Excerpts from Joseph Andrew Stack's ravings:
HT J.C. Arenas
Follow the Leader
Why is it that a handful of thugs and plunderers can commit unthinkable atrocities (and in the case of the GM executives, for scores of years) and when it's time for their gravy train to crash under the weight of their gluttony and overwhelming stupidity, the force of the full federal government has no difficulty coming to their aid within days if not hours? Yet at the same time, the joke we call the American medical system, including the drug and insurance companies, are murdering tens of thousands of people a year and stealing from the corpses and victims they cripple, and this country's leaders don't see this as important as bailing out a few of their vile, rich cronies. Yet, the political "representatives" (thieves, liars, and self-serving scumbags is far more accurate) have endless time to sit around for year after year and debate the state of the "terrible health care problem". It's clear they see no crisis as long as the dead people don't get in the way of their corporate profits rolling in. I learned that there are two "interpretations" for every law; one for the very rich, and one for the rest of us... Oh, and the monsters are the very ones making and enforcing the laws; the inquisition is still alive and well today in this country. That little lesson in patriotism cost me $40,000+, 10 years of my life, and set my retirement plans back to 0. It made me realize for the first time that I live in a country with an ideology that is based on a total and complete lie. It also made me realize, not only how naive I had been, but also the incredible stupidity of the American public; that they buy, hook, line, and sinker, the crap about their "freedom"... and that they continue to do so with eyes closed in the face of overwhelming evidence and all that keeps happening in front of them. I remember reading about the stock market crash before the "great" depression and how there were wealthy bankers and businessmen jumping out of windows when they realized they screwed up and lost everything. Isn't it ironic how far we've come in 60 years in this country that they now know how to fix that little economic problem; they just steal from the middle class (who doesn't have any say in it, elections are a joke) to cover their asses and it's "business-as-usual". Now when the wealthy fuck up, the poor get to die for the mistakes... isn't that a clever, tidy solution. [Emphasis added.] The recent presidential puppet GW Bush and his cronies in their eight years certainly reinforced for all of us that this criticism rings equally true for all of the government. It has always been a myth that people have stopped dying for their freedom in this country, and it isn't limited to the blacks, and poor immigrants.
I saw it written once that the definition of insanity is repeating the same process over and over and expecting the outcome to suddenly be different. I am finally ready to stop this insanity. Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let's try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well. The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.Great Scott!The mans a commie! Now that we know that Stack was driven to commit this crime by his hatred of Insurance Companies,will Obama end his divisive campaign of hate-mongering & fear-mongering against capitalism?Against the Insurance Companies?Will he take responsibility for his role in the attack?Will he look within himself,& ask "What might I have done to cause this tragedy?".Or will he continue to demagogue the Health Care Reform issue?Also when will Obama take responsibility for the murders he caused Amy Bishop to commit?We know that Bishop was "a "pacifist" who was active on campus in President Barack Obama's campaign, adding she is a member of MoveOn.Org. Clearly she was driven mad by a sense of betrayal by Obama's refusal to close Gitmo,& his escalation of the war in Afghanistan. So,Chris Matthews,Jonathan Capehart,& Mrs.Hilary Hylton,when will see stories like the above about Obama;which I wrote in jest,but which you write seriously about the Tea Party movement,exploiting the murder of two,& the attempted murder of hundreds to smear millions of innocent people.
FDA calls for limits on asthma drugs - latimes.com.
RRD:Though it is graciously "allowing" us to continue taking the drugs
See Obama's view of the Mammogram study
Transcript: NPR Interview With President Obama
The Mammogram study is debunked here :
Mammograms around the world
In other words The Philosopher King continues his race to the bottom w/ "the world",in Health Care spending no matter who it kills.
Mr. Obama received his information about the hospitals from a widely cited analysis called the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care, produced by the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. An article in The New Yorker magazine last year written by Dr. Atul Gawande that used the Dartmouth Atlas as its organizing principle became required reading in the White House last year. But an analysis written in The New England Journal of Medicine by Dr. Peter B. Bach, a physician and epidemiologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan, suggests that much of the Dartmouth Atlas is flawed and that it should not be used to compare the relative efficiency of hospitals.via Dartmouth Health Care Analysis Is Criticized - NYTimes.com.
» Now Obama Discovers GOP Health Care Proposals? - Big Government.
[Note I am not endorsing Rep.Price,just his response.]
The reconciliation process which the Dems plan to use to pass Obamacare requires that any provision of the bill be intended only to alter budget outlays and reduce the deficit.Normally,this is determined by the Senate Parliamentarian.But as Robert Dove fmr.Senate Parliamentarian has noted:" Biden, in his constitutional capacity as President of the Senate, could override any ruling by the parliamentarian, though 'no vice president, frankly, since Nelson Rockefeller in 1975, has exercised that right.'"
Healthcare reform and reconciliation a bad mix, ex-parliamentarian says
By Jeffrey Young -The Hill 02/16/10
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http://www.westandfirm.org/blog/2010/02/obamacare-nuclear-option.html
"Paul Ryan, who's the ranking member on our budget committee, has done an awful lot of work in putting together his roadmap," Boehner said. "But it's his. And I know the Democrats are trying to say that it's the Republican leadership. But they know that's not the case."
via Boehner Distances Republicans From Ryan Budget...But He Can't Name A Single Objection | TPMDC.
Last Friday, Rep. Paul Ryan looked like President Barack Obama’s new Republican best friend. The president showered praise on everything from his substantive budget proposal to his family during the now-legendary question-and-answer session with House Republicans. But rather than opening a hopeful new avenue for bipartisanship, the White House and Hill Democrats quickly went to work ripping apart Ryan’s “Roadmap for America’s Future” — which Obama himself said he had read. via Democrats rip into Paul Ryan's roadmap - Jake Sherman - POLITICO.com.
Obama faces a 44-52 deficit among both all Americans and registered voters, according to a CNN/Opinion Research poll released Tuesday. Four percent had no opinion.via 52% say Obama doesn't deserve reelection - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room.
“I do not believe there will be an excise tax enacted,” said Larry Cohen, president of the Communications Workers of America. “It appears that the administration and Congress will be taking a much more modest approach to health care reform. The cost and value of such reform would not justify using an excise tax.”via Excise Tax Loses Support Amid White House Push - NYTimes.com.
Now, an editorial in this week’s issue of Annals of Internal Medicine, the medical journal that first published the new guidelines last November, suggests that a divide has emerged between doctors and patients — with the doctors more inclined to accept the new recommendations and the patients wanting to stick to early and annual screening.via Doctors and Patients Divided Over Mammography Guidelines - NYTimes.com.
In a speech to Gaza students, Rep. Brian Baird (D-Wash.) also urged President Barack Obama's Mideast envoy to visit the small but turbulent strip to survey damage from the Israeli military offensive there last year, according to the Associated Press. "We ought to bring roll-on, roll-off ships and roll them right to the beach and bring the relief supplies in, in our version of the Berlin airlift," he said.via Dem says U.S. should break Gaza blockade - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room.
a new Zogby International-University of Texas Health Science Center poll said that lawmakers should start from scratch. Of the more than 2,500 people surveyed from Jan. 29 to Feb. 1, 57 percent agreed with a statement that Congress should start over — which is exactly what Republicans are demanding and what President Barack Obama insists he will not do.via Most Americans think Congress should start over on healthcare reform, poll says - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room.
I'll be brief.Rep. Gary Miller, R-Brea & Rep. Howard P. "Buck" McKeon, R-Santa Clarita "are sponsoring a bill that seeks to abolish birthright citizenship for children born in the United States to illegal immigrant parents." ..'The measure would limit birthright citizenship to children born to at least one parent who is either a citizen, lawful permanent resident or actively serving in the U.S. military. The legislation would only apply prospectively and would not affect the citizenship status of people born before the bill's enactment. '
RRD:This is unconstitutional.It violates the plain text of the Constitution.If you wish to change the Constitution,fine,propose a amendment & we'll debate it.But the proponents of the 14th Amendment intended for it to apply to slaves?So does this mean that only former slaves are citizens according to the Constitution?Since the 14th Amendment only protects the citizenship of slaves does this mean that the Congress can strip the rest of us of our citizenship?By the way are women protected by the 14th Amendment?Other than female slaves,that is.Those who object to illegal immigration have many legal avenues.Securing the border,to the extent possible,(which we should be doing anyway for national security reasons),would be a good first start.
GOP bill aims to retool immigrant birthright citizenship - DailyBulletin.com.
He comes in about 5 minutes into the video
YouTube - Fifth Congressional District Debate - 01/22/2010 - Part I.
A user named Mike wrote on the fan Web site "Naviblue" that he contemplated suicide after seeing the movie.Video: Depressed after 'Avatar'?RELATED TOPICS James Cameron Movie Reviews Entertainment"Ever since I went to see 'Avatar' I have been depressed. Watching the wonderful world of Pandora and all the Na'vi made me want to be one of them. I can't stop thinking about all the things that happened in the film and all of the tears and shivers I got from it," Mike posted. "I even contemplate suicide thinking that if I do it I will be rebirthed in a world similar to Pandora and the everything is the same as in 'Avatar.' "via Audiences experience 'Avatar' blues - CNN.com.
“We’re going to be talking about a need to move forward and address health care, energy, security and the economy in a step-by-step manner that makes people on Main Street comfortable,” one GOP aide said of the messaging strategy for the Presidents Day recess.via CQ Politics | GOP Plans to Stay on Offense Over Recess.
First, they said, is a return to the disciplined messaging that was a hallmark of the 2008 campaign, in which unhelpful themes were filtered out in favor of topics that advanced the candidate's goals.via White House revamps communications strategy - washingtonpost.com.
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