There is an ancient middle eastern parable that has passed down through the ages. That it continues to this day is a testament to the lasting insight of its tale. Although there are many variations of the tale, one variation is quite applicable to today, and it goes something like this:
Once upon a time a fox was trying to cross a river. The river was deep, and the current was strong, but the fox desperately needed to get to the other side. As he pondered his plight, a scorpion approached him. The fox was fearful and backed away in apprehension, but the scorpion spoke to him in reassuring words.
“There is no need to be frightened of me, for we both face the same predicament. I too want to cross the river; but if I try, I will drown.
I have come to make a deal with you. If I take you to a place that is shallow enough for you to cross, will you carry me on your back, so that I too may cross?”
The fox was still suspicious of the scorpion, but he really wanted to cross the river. “What guarantee can you give me that you won’t sting me if I carry you across?”, the fox asked.
“On my life I promise that I won’t sting you”, the scorpion replied. “Besides, if I sting you, we both will drown”. Read the rest of this entry »
The shadow of the head of U.S. President Barack Obama falls upon a copy of the U.S. Constitution as he makes a speech on America’s national security at the National Archives in Washington, May 21, 2009.
REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
“This is the most secretive administration I have ever covered.”
- Helen Thomas, 2006
And in post-Bush Obama nation? How is that sunlight before signing and transparency-thingie going?
While there have been successes, there also have been some outrageous abuses of the public’s right to know, Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by: Aye Chihuahua @ 9:49 am in Barack Obama, Congress, Culture of Corruption, Economy, Health Care, Obamanomics, POWER GRAB!, Politics, Socialism, Socialized Health Care, Universal Health Care, taxes
From the nice folks over at National Review, the truth about ObamaCare, the CBO, and monetary shell games.
Too much meat here for just a few pull quotes. Read the entire article.
Enjoy:
Obamacare: Cooked Books You Can Believe In
‘Not one dime’ will be added to the deficit? Not exactly.
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could use a $100 bill to buy groceries and then deposit that same Benjamin in the bank to help pay your monthly credit-card statement? Regular Americans would call this either magic or fraud. Washington Democrats call this “health-care reform.”
Obamacare rests upon such double counting. It repeatedly shanghais taxpayer funds for Obama’s plan while simultaneously shielding that same money for Medicare, Social Security, and other programs. Such chicanery may explain why only 32 percent of adults support Obamacare, according to a new Investor’s Business Daily/TIPP survey.
“You can’t count a dollar twice,” Sen. Charles Grassley (R., Iowa) observed at President Obama’s February 25 reform summit. “Common sense tells you that. You don’t even have to have an accountant tell you that.” Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by: Curt @ 10:45 am in Barack Obama, Baracks Broken Promises, Congress, Health Care, MSM Bias, Obamanomics, POWER GRAB!, Politics, Socialism, Socialized Health Care, Universal Health Care, msm, polls
Patrick H. Caddell, political commentator and former pollster along with Douglas E. Schoen, a pollster, and the author of The Political Fix: Changing the Game of American Democracy, from the Grassroots to the White House
wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post describing how deluded the media and Democrat politicians have become on ObamaCare:
Their blind persistence in the face of reality threatens to turn this political march of folly into an electoral rout in November. In the wake of the stinging loss in Massachusetts, there was a moment when the president and the Democratic leadership seemed to realize the reality of the health-care situation. Yet like some seductive siren of Greek mythology, the lure of health-care reform has arisen again.
As pollsters to the past two Democratic presidents, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, respectively, we feel compelled to challenge the myths that seem to be prevailing in the political discourse and to once again urge a change in course before it is too late. At stake is the kind of mainstream, common-sense Democratic Party that we believe is crucial to the success of the American enterprise.
Bluntly put, this is the political reality: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by: PatriotGirl @ 4:30 am in Economy, Environment, Health Care, Moonbats, Nanny Government, Obama Euphoric-Rapture Syndrome, Obamanomics, POWER GRAB!, Personal, Politics, Socialism, Socialized Health Care, Universal Health Care
I am one of those “typical Americans” who has lived much of my life in a political dead zone. Life has been good, and “Politics” have been in the distant background most of my life. There were stretches when I didn’t even vote. I was oblivious.
Fast forward to 2008. I smelled snake oil with Obama and I couldn’t put my finger on it, other than the shady connection with ACORN. At that time I was only getting my news from the lame stream media. The week before the election my brother & I were celebrating our birthdays, and I realized that everyone in the room (except me) was seized by the fever of Obamamania. And then my brothers liberal girlfriend singled me out by saying “with your feelings about guns do you have to vote for McCain?” Bitch, I thought. Time to educate myself about what I knew I didn’t like, but was unable to articulate.
I began to realize that it was a luxury to take for granted our constitution and all the freedoms that I enjoyed. Perhaps in the past I was living in a more innocent time. Or perhaps not. But today that luxury has vanished. Today we must be vigilant to the forces that are FAST at work to destroy our way of life. Read the rest of this entry »
There are at least 3 viable healthcare bills and one healthcare proposal out there. There was a bill passed in the Senate which could not be passed in the Senate today. There is a House bill passed in the House which the Senate could not pass today.
The Republicans have a much shorter bill which they have had online for about 6 or 8 months.
President Obama has presented a bill—well, sort of. It is not really a bill but a collection of ideas, not that different from the Senate bill, and a document which cannot be scored by the CBO (the Congressional Budget Office).
The Obama bill is just slight of hand; it does not mean anything, it is not being drafted into legislation. Obama’s “bill” it is something which may have had some meaning had he come out with it prior to the House and Senate bills, to indicate that it is the target they ought to be aiming for. However, it is about 1 year too late for that.
About a week later, the President gave some remarks about healthcare, surrounded by doctors and nurses, all wearing lab coats and scrubs so that we know who they are. In this talk, he essentially says that it is time to act. Read the rest of this entry »
Now that Obama is sounding the death knell for many Congressional Democrats, he now intends to deliver to deliver the proverbial coup de gras with the immigration bullet to the back of their heads. He is now pushing for a ‘pathway to citizenship’ for the ten to forty million illegal aliens residing in the United States. In an unprecedented move, he has said, they will be expected to pay a fine, pay taxes, and obey the law. These harsh moves will surely be met with opposition from immigration reform proponents who will view the requirements as an imposition to illegal aliens working here illegally and drawing heavily upon the welfare coffers of states like California who supports one third of the welfare population in the United States and the illegal alien population occupies one third of the prison population of the US. Read the rest of this entry »
Inquiring minds want to know: Is Obama trying to bankrupt America? One short year ago, asking this this question would have guaranteed my inclusion among the ranks of right-wing nuts and/or conspiracy theorists. Today, it is a serious question being asked by Neal Boortz, Rush Limbaugh and many other leadng conservatives. Here’s why.
In the summer of 2008, as John McCain and Barack Obama were campaigning for president, a series of economic events (started by Sen. Schumer) resulted in shifting the focus of the presidential campaign off the Iraq war, and on to the economy. These events ultimately resulted in Barack Obama’s election as President.
June 26, 2008: Democrat Chuck Schumer leaked a memo questioning the solvency of IndyMac bank. This memo precipitated a run on IndyMac which led to its failure. Federal regulators pointedly cited U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., in explaining the bank’s failure. “The immediate cause of the closing was a deposit run that began and continued after the public release of a June 26 letter to the OTS and the FDIC from Senator Charles Schumer of New York.” Read the rest of this entry »
Excellent commentary by Dan Gerstein at Forbes about the Democrats pushing to pass the behemoth known as ObamaCare even though most of America does not want it:
As I listened to the same tone-deaf talking points from the congressional Democrats at the White House health care summit last week, I was reminded of the classic excuse politicians use about their comments being taken out of context. In this case, and many others, the Democrats are suffering from the exact opposite problem–their arguments and actions are not taking in the context of the times. Indeed, over the past 14 months they have continually been trying to jam a square political peg into a round historical hole. The result has been a disastrous fit with the public mood and a deepening credibility gap.
This failure to factor can be traced back to the watershed vote on the stimulus bill, the Democrats’ single big accomplishment in the Obama era. The Democrats considered the $787 billion recovery package not just an essential step for saving the economy from depression, but also a first strike in White House’s “big bang” strategy. It would, by their way of thinking, build political momentum for a range of other major Obama agenda items like climate change. But for much of the public, the poorly conceived and marketed stimulus plan was the last straw in the unsettling explosion of government and debt that began with the bipartisan bailout bonanza in the waning days of the Bush administration. Read the rest of this entry »
Andy McCarthy on the left’s gamble with reconciliation, and his take is not really surprising. The far left has always had the goal of remaking this country into some kind of Communist “paradise,” and reconciliation is the only way of taking that first big step. They see the handwriting on the wall. They see they will be losing power in November. But they also understand that once a behometh like ObamaCare is put in place its going to be very hard to take it back:
On Sean’s panel last night, when the conversation turned to how nervous Democrats supposedly are over what for now is teeing up like a very bad November, I felt like I was channeling Mark Steyn, Mark Levin, and Rush. That is, I think our side is analyzing this all wrong: Today’s Democrats are controlled by the radical Left, and it is more important to them to execute the permanent transformation of American society than it is to win the upcoming election cycles. They have already factored in losing in November — even losing big. For them, winning big now outweighs that. I think they’re right. Read the rest of this entry »
President Obama has decided to repackage his failed Health Care Bill by calling on bipartisanship when his own Democrats rejected the bill. The bipartisanship is merely a masking agent of aromatic odor to try and sell this bill to the American people.
He has now told the American people and the Senate that he will push the bill through with an extortionist technique called reconciliation, a measure that is normally reserved for emergency passage of budgets that only requires a 51 vote majority.
The issue of bipartisanship has become Obama’s Ambergris. Ambergris is a substance from the gut of the Sperm Whale found floating upon the ocean or washed up on beaches. Ambergris, sometimes confused with the amber that is washed upon beaches, is completely different; amber a yellow clear substance is the ancient sap of prehistoric trees: Ambergris is a grey substance produced in the bowels of a sick Sperm Whale that is easily mistaken for whale crap. The Turks use it for cooking, the French use it for perfume, it has been used for various medicinal purposes from treating migraines to hemorrhoids, during the Bubonic Plague it was thought to ward off the disease, it has also been used with varying success as an aphrodisiac: yet the most consistent proponent of Ambergris is its pungent odor that resembles whale crap. Read the rest of this entry »
The arrogance of these people astound me. First it was the messiah movement in which they believed they had the mandate to move our country into Socialism. Then…when the polls tanked and it was shown that the people DID NOT want Socialism what do they do?
Try to shove it through anyway:
Four Democratic senators, including two facing potentially challenging election campaigns this year, are asking Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to use reconciliation, a procedural maneuver requiring only 51 votes, to push for a public health insurance option.
Sens. Michael Bennet (Colo.), Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.), Sherrod Brown (Ohio) and Jeff Merkley (Ore.) signed a letter to Reid saying they support this plan for four reasons: the cost savings the public option is estimated to achieve, continued public support for the public option, the need for increased competition in the insurance market and the Senate’s history of using the reconciliation process for health care reform.
“Put simply, including a strong public option is one of the best, most fiscally responsible ways to reform our health insurance system,” the letter says. “Although we strongly support the important reforms made by the Senate-passed health reform package, including a strong public option would improve both its substance and the public’s perception of it.”
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From The People’s Cube comes this handy chart to use on friends, family, and co-workers.
Just give this handy chart to anyone, and ask them “how much does it hurt your wallet?” If they say 0, they have too much money, and we need to take their wallet. If they say 10, take their wallet, what are they doing with one anyway? With their wallet in Party approved hands, we can ensure better quality at our local government-approved hospitals, fix a pot hole in our roads, or whatever else is deemed needed by The Party.
King George III was the King of Great Britain during the time of the American Revolutionary War. The tyrannies that King George III perpetrated over the American colonies are what ultimately led to The Declaration of Independence, the American Revolutionary War, and the formation of The United States of America. In The Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson listed the tyrannies exercised by King George III over the American colonies. We are now faced with an administration whose actions are very similar to those tyrannies listed by Thomas Jefferson. I have made up a list of the similarities between the actions of the Obama administration and the tyrannies listed in The Declaration of Independence (Each listed item starts with a quote from The Declaration of Independence followed by the similarities in the Obama administration): Read the rest of this entry »
