. . . just use the same coercion to make them pay for their actual health care bills.
But this wouldn’t help any union out, would it?
Kudos to Andrew Sullivan for an honest criticism of Anita Dunn, although I’d like to ask him why he thinks Hitler’s decrepid National Socialism was an extreme rightwing ideology. Is it because it was to the right of Bolshevism?
Poo on Gawker for assuming our complacence regarding Mao is because he never bombed our grandparents. How many Korean War veterans would disagree?
Drawing comparisons to today should be engaging and fun!
Dunno, just askin’: Senator Al Franken’s margin of victory was well within documented ACORN sweet spots.
If by ‘conservative racist’ you mean leftist man-boy paid to foment violence and prejudice.
Ohh, the hate is just dripping from this man, who was most likely bused in by powerful corporate interests from affluent south Denver.
Which leads the intellectually curious onlooker to ask is there more to this story?. . . and how did we get here from there?
In 2008, the same boisterous anti-Obama crowd was no match for the well heeled Chicago campaign machine that had just finished devouring the previously invincible Clintons. Even with two compromised candidates, Republicans nonetheless presented a no-holds-barred assault to maintain the presidency. Why is Obama having a harder time defeating this round of opposition when the right almost certainly expended all of its ammo in November?
In 2008, a read of Obama’s platform made him look informed and egalitarian.
In 2009, a read of Obama’s actual proposed legislation made him look deformed and totalitarian, and damn near has caused a (proverbial) bloody riot. And it’s caused the administration and its congressional allies to stumble badly and cause a quick retreat on the keystone concept of health care reform.
The real resentment of stronger federal government and creeping socialism is much deeper than he ever realized. After accusing wingnuts of planting phantom Nazis at townhalls, he and his congressional alllies have risen above the fray by . . . . busing unionists and apparatchiks to townhalls!
This has become the year you can’t stand face to face with your congresscritter and give him an earful.
Some things have been made apparent this year:
Plus, does the White House need Linda Douglass? Yes, because when vague law is proposed, critics get to define it. . . and control of the message is lost before the message even got its socks on. Douglass is just the Facts Czarina. But isn’t that what a Press Secretary should be doing?
WHOLLY organic turfing, fer sure.
But I’m sure her supportive words were WHOLLY organic and random, as if they came from somebody interested simply in the “facts” being presented by Congresswoman Lee.
But it’s backwards Southern Americans coordinating massive attacks on public dialogue.
Hard to imagine that somebody like former President Bush’s Chief of Staff or something would have been involved with an important decision by the man he’s . . .umm. . . .advising.
Better go home, Mr. Conyers, and spend quality time with your wife before she goes to prison.
Conyers on the effort required to read all them damn bills.
Obama DID profess a strong preference for single-payer mayhem.
The past starts tomorrow with these weasels.
Nobody–I mean NOBODY could have seen this coming, could they? And so soon!
First, they inherited the mess. Now, they’re claiming they’d have things under control if the meanies would just give them a break.
The wheels are coming off, but it’s not their fault.
Suck it.
The subsidiary of an American manufacturer is now paying ransom to terrorists.
Terrorists, you ask? Yes, when the threat of violence is introduced to the negotiations.
But there’s no coordination happening between these scattered groups of disgruntled bolsheviks unionists, who seem to be united only in their desire for “fair” employment practices. Of course. This is certainly a situation never before seen in modern history.
What is with the French penchant for lighting stuff on fire?
Sorry, we “just can’t afford you anymore.”
In order to reduce the cost burden even more, I propose Massachusetts eliminates state-subsidized healthcare for:
I might have had to stretch a little bit with the list but the esteemed Autocrats Democrats running this progressive New English paradise on the bay should be able to handle it.
Yes, I meant New English.
A curious trend considering the legendary quality control institutionalized in non-union Japanese transplants couldn’t possibly have. Just. Stopped. Working.
It’s like they just started cranking out the lemons.
Some recent examples: Toyota’s Prius has crap headlights. Honda’s Insight sucks. But Obama’s people’s car Chevy’s Volt? It’s gonna kick both their asses.
Don’t think for a minute that the hard earned record of marketplace success enjoyed by Japanese automakers over the decades– witnessed by millions of objective consumers — is immune from the extraordinary influence of a political-media machine mostly concerned with propagating the worst kinds of marketplace manipulation in the name of “Change”.
Tom Maguire on Paul Krugman’s fine whine about deadly heat waves caused by climate change.
Heat is already the leading cause of weather-related deaths in the United States. More than 3,400 deaths between 1999 and 2003 were reported as resulting from exposure to excessive heat.
That is about 850 deaths per year. Each untimely death is tragic and Krugman is surely vexed that this number might rise. But by way of comparison, a 2002 study estimated that higher CAFE standards would put Americans in smaller cars and result in an additional 2,000 deaths per year; Krugman, as a party-line progressive, surely supports higher CAFE standards. I denounce Krugman as a traitor to the national highway system Not to mention as a traitor to the safety of my wife and kids.
Progressives like Krugman are willing to heartlessly sacrifice thousands of innocent lives to pursue “well meaning” policies that have little chance of producing realistic outcomes.
‘Bout time we dictated the g*damn situation over there.
With a coveted seat on the Guardian Council, al Sadr would undoubtedly speak for millions of disaffected Iranian Gen Y’ers.
Oh yeah, this is a completely unfounded rumor.
Painting in support by groups of five at a time.
Just saying. No evidence, but why not?
Must see photos from the Iranian protests.
You can’t hold down tens of millions of young people forever.
Let’s get this shit done before the mid-terms!
The Congress-critters are lining up right now to vote on this without reading it, just like TARP.
Did anti-Obama campaign contributions dictate which Chrysler dealers were shuttered?.
We’re not interested in censoring bloggers. We’re just interested in imprisoning them.
I’m pretty sure it doesn’t get more awesome than this:
The sources, who represent creditors to Chrysler, say they were taken aback by the hardball tactics that the Obama administration employed to cajole them into acquiescing to plans to restructure Chrysler. One person described the administration as the most shocking “end justifies the means” group they have ever encountered. Another characterized Obama was “the most dangerous smooth talker on the planet- and I knew Kissinger.” Both were voters for Obama in the last election.
One participant in negotiations said that the administration’s tactic was to present what one described as a “madman theory of the presidency” in which the President is someone to be feared because he was willing to do anything to get his way. The person said this threat was taken very seriously by his firm.
For this first time in my life, I’m proud to be an American. We have a President willing to “take it to the greedy” with more zest than with our sworn enemies.
The federal government is in the process of seizing ownership of two major American corporations with the sole intent of dividing its equity between the government and one of its largest political donors.
But it was Bush who trampled the Constitution with “illegal” wiretaps and, in other matters, fired his own employees for political reasons.
What constituency did Bush reward with wiretapping?
Where are the consitutional critics who not only blasted Bush’s “overreach” on legal (and congressionally-approved) warrantless wiretaps but went as far to call for his impeachment over the matter?
The silence is strange. After all, the wiretapping program had received congressional support, and although parts of the program were rebuked by the courts as unconstitutional, the current administration not only supports the concept but employs it as deemed necessary in the global fight against terror.
How possibly can we view the Chrysler takeover as a constituional action?
Cliff Asness couldn’t have described the Chrysler annexation more clearly:
“The President’s attempted diktat takes money from bondholders and gives it to a labor union that delivers money and votes for him. Why is he not calling on his party to “sacrifice” some campaign contributions, and votes, for the greater good? Shaking down lenders for the benefit of political donors is recycled corruption and abuse of power.”
Of course, we’re told, it’s NOT socialism. It’s NOT fascism. So what the hell is happening here?
Caught wearing something slightly less than a contestent’s bikini, Miss California continues to have to defend her own damn free speech.
She may have fake tits but her primary antagonist doesn’t even use his real name to call her out.