Posted on 10/15/2009 7:21:42 PM PDT by Newton
House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) held a hearing this morning to certify that H.R. 3200 -- the main House Obamacare bill which was the subject of all the town hall rage in August -- has met all requirements to pass as a “budget reconciliation” measure.
Under reconciliation, the bill can be passed by a simple majority vote in the Senate -- just 51 votes -- and will be given preferential treatment on the House floor as well. The Dems have apparently invoked the “nuclear option” to shut out Republicans and ensure the bill is passed before the end of the year. (see link for more....)
(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...
Add that to the fact the leftists and their cult followers hate us and we hate them. That hate has eventually got to erupt.
People are starved for news because we are not getting it. we get the same fluff stories over and over and over, every day...
whoever is not seeing the news from other countries, states, can only blame themselves if they have a computer.
Here's a list of more newspapers - at home and abroad - than you'd ever have time to read.
I like to compare the reporting on a major story in other newspapers, especially European.
http://www.world-newspapers.com/
Yup. Here’s an example: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363243/posts They’re also starting up the propaganda machine to convince a significant part of the populace that this will be a good thing. Again, see that link.
When I bother watching the ‘national’ news anymore I find myself watching BBC America. Yes, they have a leftist slant to their stories but they also cover international news the other networks don’t.
It seems to me as if the regular network evening news are mainly covering fluff stories.
I really do hope you’re wrong about us being under a dictatorship. I can’t bear that the America I grew up in back in the 50’s and part of the 60’s is not so slowly disappearing.
I don’t know whether it’s just me or not but I’ve been brooding all day about the “let them eat cake” attitude that seems to be infecting our White House.
What truly got my dander up was seeing the Obama’s with their children enjoying what appeared to be a very glitzy affair celebrating something or another about either a Spanish or Mexican event. Sorry, I was just so angry at the pictures of them acting as if they were royalty that I actually couldn’t hear the announcer explaining what the party was about.
Here we are, people losing their jobs or living stressed out because they don’t know what’s going to happen next, homes being foreclosed on (not the one’s where the people should never have qualified for a home loan) because they’ve exhausted their savings, grocery store prices are still outrageous even though there was a supposed drop in grocery prices. If a republican president had thrown the kind of lavish affair the news showed he’d have been crucified by the MSM and the majority of the public.
Anyone with any sense would scale back and have a much more low key affair to reflect that we as a nation are tightening our belts but can still celebrate whatever it was they were celebrating. The celebration could have still been held but at least we wouldn’t have been treated to pictures of ‘royalty’ as in King Obama with his consort, the Queen and the two lovely princesses living lavishly on our damned dime.
I know I’m probably not making sense but I guess I’m what they call in Texas, spitting mad and that’s so mad you can’t find the words to express how damned angry you are so you’re left to spitting it all out.
The man isn’t a President, he’s royalty and he appears to delight in rubbing our collective noses into the dirt because we’re simply lowly serfs and not worthy. Who’s minding the store while our “royalty’ are out-royalling the few remaining royals in England and Europe?
I’m sorry for going off in my post to you. It’s been building for awhile and this Nobel Peace Prize stuff awarded to a man, who has to my knowledge, never finished anything he started, who thinks nothing of jetting off to Copenhagen. Then the over the top affair when something more low key would have been much more in line with the times.
I’m struggling with trying not to hate the man simply because he wouldn’t care and the hate would be eating me alive.
I thought so, too.
“People are starved for news”.... not enough
Not nearly enough people are starved for news yet. It hasn’t yet occurred to them that the familiar faces they have grown used to over the years could actually be traitors to their profession, much less the Republic.
My thoughts too. however, to discuss this further would have to be taken off line.
And to truth in general.
When one works HARD to get a really balanced view of the news from many sources, then the talking heads on the major networks can more clearly be seen to be spouting propaganda in the service of the state.
Credibility becomes strained.
Imagine tuning in to CNN and witnessing Wolf Blitzer or somebody saying: "And in other news ... < pause > ... the moon has been found to be made of green cheese."
How about if I just remove it because I think our freedom has slipped away while we were looking the other way.
“October 15: Budget Resolution deadline for committees to report budget reconciliation legislation (health care reform and student loan reform), although congressional leaders will initially try to move a free-standing health reform bill without budget reconciliation's filibuster-proof protections. “
but that's just the deadline to REPORT ? budget reconciliation legislation (health care reform and student loan reform), ...
Isn't that report what they just knocked together behind closed doors, sans republicans?
I cannot understand how one party can be totally excluded from meetings/deliberations.
One party having a majority has never meant, that I recall, that that party has total power with NO input from the other side at all. And yet that is exactly what has been going on since day one.
It's tantamount to a coup.
I hear you Sally. I am so mad these days I can’t see straight. I have come to detest this person on so many levels. I have and I guess maybe it’s crazy to say, I think that he is the Anti-Christ. I am starting to believe this more and more. He makes me want to puke!
In a blaze of glory.
To my own dismay, I agree with you. All the hoopla with the tea parties is there, sure. But it is also noise they have figured out how to ignore.
Another 5+% rise in unemployment or heck, even another 8+ months of unemployment at its current levels, and that same scant majority of Americans will be on their knees begging the government for a handout. And they will gleefully sign over and and all rights and freedoms in echange.
I’m not feeling very upbeat right now. Other than those of us who follow such issues, who else will notice?
Not former, just too busy to be as active as she once was here
TRUTH -— crying in the wilderness
reminds me of Pilate: “What is truth?”
I’ve been trying to identify the BHO Adm’s particular brand of perverting the truth; it’s more than just plain old lying. Maybe an example:
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John Stossel’s Take
Commentary from Co-Anchor of ABC News’ “20/20”
War is Peace. Up is Down.
07/24/2009 3:04 PM
I couldn’t put my finger on what bothered me listening to President Obama’s relatively smooth answers and reassuring comments about health care at his news conference Wednesday. He said all the right things, like promising to “keep government out of health care decisions.”
Don Boudreaux’s letter helped me understand why I felt queasy: it simply is impossible that increasing government’s role is a way to “keep government out of health care decisions.”
To the Editor:
If an armed man breaks into your house, confiscates money from your wallet, insists that he and his goons are blessed with a grand vision of how you and your family should be provided with health care, and commands you to do as he orders, would you believe his promise to keep armed intruders “out of health care decisions”? (”Text: Obama’s Remarks on Health Care,” July 22).
Of course not.
So why isn’t the entire country furious at being insulted by Pres. Obama’s patently absurd claim that his efforts to give government a greater role in paying for health care will “keep government out of health care decisions”?
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
They see universal healthcare and the carbon cap-and-tax as eschatological events, worth dying for, as it may drag the 12th Imam out of the well for all time. We may have no way to reverse these things. They are willing to die for it, in a perversely rhetorical way. You wanted change? You got change. Now try and undo that, you racists. We will live in infamy on the walls of history forever. From each according to his tax bracket; to each according to his vote.
There's a reputable source.
I agree. This is getting scary.
It is!!!
“Isn’t that report what they just knocked together behind closed doors, sans republicans?”
with barely a whimper from them. WHY?
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