Illustration by Nola Lopez, photograph by Damon Winter/The New York Times
Posted on 03/14/2010 10:58:51 AM PDT by mdittmar
SENATOR Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, had a little political advice last week for Barack Obama." President Obama and the Democrats: Don’t pass the president’s health care legislation because you would risk losing in the midterm elections.
Mr. Obama laughed about it afterward. “I generally wouldn’t take advice about what’s good for Democrats” from Mr. McConnell, he told an audience in Pennsylvania. But he conceded that “that’s what members of Congress are hearing right now on the cable shows and in sort of the gossip columns in Washington.” He went on to argue that the issue should be what’s right, not the politics.
But this is Washington and politics are never far from the surface, especially at a decisive moment like this. If the schedule being mapped last week holds – and Mr. Obama’s senior adviser, David Axelrod, said on Sunday that it would -- the fate of the president’s health care plan should be decided within the week. “I believe we will have” the votes, Mr. Axelrod said on ABC’s “This Week,” though Republicans and even some Democrats have questioned whether the votes are there now.
But the plan’s fate could depend on how a couple dozen Democratic congressmen answer the questions Mr. McConnell and Mr. Obama raised: Would passing health care devastate Democratic chances in the fall? Would rejecting it devastate a Democratic presidency?
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Simple caption——A$$HOLE!
Surprised they didn’t show him being “strung up” on the cross....it is almost Easter, ya know...
Wow, why didn’t the photographer just put him ON the cross with blood coming out of his hands and feet. That might have been a little more subtle.
That’s what this is all about. The survival of a communist president. It has nothing to do with “healthcare reform”. This is communism’s last stand in America and the commie ‘RATS know it.
Another not-so-subtle attempt at furthering a ‘messiah’ image.
I like the Swiss Flag in the background. It is reminiscent of his overall plan to turn us into a European socialist country. It is also reminiscent of the Swiss Army knife. Something he can use to stab democrats who ultimate vote for the hc bill in the back.
I’m starting to actually believe the guy is the genuine AntiChrist.
Defeat Obamacare call list: List now contains the new MAYBES culled from FR posts.
KEEP THE CALLS UP! DC OFFICE LOCAL OFFICE
Code Red” - House Target List on Health Care
The National Republican Congressional Committee has published a target list on health care. In addition to continuing to contact the five Tennessee Democrat Congressmen, you can go http://www.votervoice.net/link/clickthrough/ext/94697.aspx to contact some of these targets. Much of the talk following Obama’s announcement has focused on how to defeat this second bill through reconciliation, but that is misleading because the first step to defeating Obamacare is not by concentrating on defeating the “fixer” bill but by defeating the Senate bill in the House when it goes to the floor for an up-or-down vote on Thursday, March 18th.
Rep. Lincoln Davis 202-225-6831 Columbia office: 931-490-8699
Rep. Jim Cooper 202-225-4311 Nashville office: 615-736-5295
Rep. Bart Gordon 202-225-4231 Murfreesboro office: 615-896-1986
John Tanner (202) 225-4714, Union City, (731) 885-7070, Jackson Phone: (731) 423-4848, Millington (901) 873-5690 TN (MAYBE)
Rep. Steve Cohen 202-225-3265 Memphis office: 901-544-4131
Harry Mitchell (202) 225-2190 (480) 946-2411 AZ 5th District
Gabrielle Giffords (202) 225-2542 (520) 881-3588 AZ 8th District
Ann Kirkpatrick (202) 225-2315 (928) 226-6914 AZ 1st District
Jerry McNerney (202) 225-1947 925-833-0643 CA 11th District
John Salazar 202-225-4761 970-245-7107 CO 3rd District
Jim Himes (202) 225-5541 (866) 453-0028 CT 4th District
Alan Grayson (202) 225-2176 (407) 841-1757 FL 8th District
Bill Foster (202) 225-2976 630-406-1114 IL 14th District
Baron Hill 202 225 5315 812 288 3999 IN 9th District
Mark Schauer (202) 225-6276 (517) 780-9075 MI 7th District
Gary Peters (202) 225-5802 (248) 273-4227 MI 9th District
Dina Titus (202) 225-3252 702-256-DINA (3462) NV 3rd District
Carol Shea-Porter (202) 225-5456 (603) 743-4813 NH 1st District
Tim Bishop (202) 225-3826 (631) 696-6500 NY 1st District
John Hall (202) 225-5441 (845) 225-3641 x49371 NY 19th District
Bill Owens (202) 225-4611 (315) 782-3150 NY 23rd District
James Matheson Toll-Free Number 1 (877) 677-9743 (202) 225-3011Mike Arcuri (202)225-3665 (315)793-8146 NY 24th District
Dan Maffei (202) 225-3701 (315) 423-5657 NY 25th District
Earl Pomeroy (202) 225-2611 (701) 224-0355 ND At-Large District
Steven Driehaus (202) 225-2216 (513) 684-2723 OH 1st District
Mary Jo Kilroy (202) 225-2015 (614) 294-2196 OH 15th District
Zach Space (202) 225-6265 (330) 364-4300 OH 18th District
Kathy Dahlkemper (202) 225-5406 (814) 456-2038 PA 3rd District
Patrick Murphy (202) 225-4276 (215) 826-1963 PA 8th District
Christopher Carney (202) 225-3731 (570) 585-9988 PA 10th District
Paul Kanjorski (202) 225-6511 (570) 825-2200 PA 11th District
John Spratt (202) 225-5501 (803)327-1114 SC 5th District
Tom Perriello (202) 225-4711 (276) 656-2291 VA 5th District
Alan Mollohan (202) 225-4172 (304) 623-4422 WVA 1st District
Nick Rahall (202) 225-3452 (304) 252-5000 WVA 3rd District
Steve Kagen (202) 225-5665 (920) 437-1954 WI 8th District
Bart Stupak (202) 225 4735 MI (MAYBE)
Brian Baird (202) 225-3536, Vancouver, (360) 695-6292. Olympia, (360) 352-9768, (MAYBE)
senator mark begich (202) 224-3004 toll free. (877) 501 - 6275 just became a MAYBE
Jason Altmire 202-225-2565, Aliquippa, 724-378-0928,
Natrona Heights, 724-226-1304 (MAYBE)
On the Bubble (Major developments from the “yes” and “no” columns in the House)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2467046/posts
Congressional Dems on Twitter
http://www.arrghpaine.com/congressional-dems-on-twitter
And here are toll-free numbers we can use to call any Senators or Reps.
At the first number below you must wait through a tape recording urging you to tell your Rep or Senator to vote “yes” for the health care bill. Just hang on and when the recording is over, you will get the Capitol operator. Just ask for your Rep or Senator’s office. Then you will either talk to an aid or have the chance to leave a message for him/her to vote NO on the health care bill.
When you use the second number and the Capitol operator comes on, just ask for your Rep or Senator’s office. Every time I use this number I get the Rep or Senator’s answer machine, so it may be set up that way all the time...to go to their answer machine. Either way you can leave a message to vote NO on the health care bill!
We need to use these toll free numbers that have been set up for the health care/ BO supporters and illegals to use! After all they are FREE!
1-800-828-0498
1-866-220-0044
not the “haloed head” again - PUKE
Pagan idolatry from the New York Times
Wow these guys make the Nazis propaganda campaings look like kindergarten drawings.
The cross was a nice touch.
Trying to make him look like a Christain. Lies of the Lying liars.
For the first time since the yellow journalism of a century ago, the United States has a major news organization devoted to the promotion of one political party.
Its news operation can, in fact, be called many things, but reporters of my generation, with memories and keyboards, dare not call it journalism. -Howell Raines
That is a truly bizarre picture. Obviously they still worship him. They would NEVER put up a cross for Jesus in the New York Times, but evidently they’re willing to do it for Holy Hussein.
The caption reads: “Illustration by Nola Lopez, photograph by Damon Winter.” So, they took a photograph and turned it into an “illustration.” Not photoshopped, but artified. I wonder if the National Foundation for the Arts will pay her this? I’d be curious to see if she comes up with an award from them.
Here’s her web page:
Epic Fail, epic traitor.
I guess the photographer thinks not showing Zero’s face is more favorable. They’re now going one step removed and trying to elicit support with the de-personalized Messiah ploy. In any other book, this is called desperation.
Let me get out my editor's red pen:
"Rejecting it would result in devastating a Marxist/Muslim presidency."
Vital to saving our country.
Question: Can America survive a conflicted man who fights within himself over his heritage, who's childhoods roots are Islam in a foreign land, who's mentor's were Islam/Marxist/American haters, who suffers from narcissism?
That is a toxic mix. Pray for our country.
"Do you save the President, or do you save "the People's" liberty?"
"Found in: John Adams, The Works of John Adams, vol. 4 (Novanglus, Thoughts on Government, Defence of the Constitution) - NO. III. - paragraph 144
"Obsta principiis (translation: resist the beginnings), nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers, and destroyers press upon them so fast, that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachment upon the American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour. The revenue creates pensioners, and the pensioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited, and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity, and frugality, become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, luxury, foppery, selfishness, meanness, and downright venality swallow up the whole society."
John Adams words castigate the "arbitrary power" holders in Washington today who have gained their offices by promises to "redistribute" the earnings of hard-working citizens, thereby encouraging dependency among the citizenry, and a certain path to tyranny by those who hold the reins of power in government.
The great glowing master levitates in mid-atmosphere while a Swiss-style cross spontaenously floats down in a peaceful blue transparency to bring him confidence and well-being.
There, I captioned it.
Obama doesn’t care if the Democratic party goes down in flames. He is so desperate to get this passed because he will *instantly* establish the 13 new bureaucracies and fill them with SIEU union loyalists and thugs.
that’s what he wants -— the bureaucracy. and the unions to man them. All his loyal cohorts, his homies, his little ink-stained army.
And some, of course, will be outright thugs.
He wants the BUREAUCRACY, dear readers. Thirteen brand-new ‘health-care’ bureaucracies. And once that is in place he will fight tooth and nail to keep them from being fired.
He doesn’t care about the Democratic party. It’s too well, democratic. They have to be elected, they have to please the masses.
He probably doesn’t even like it very much. I am sure he doesn’t really like any political party that has to be elected by the people. he’s an authoritarian.
He thinks ‘the masses’ are greedy and retarded. They wear polyester. They have spinach stuck in their teeth. They can never be trusted to do what is best for themselves.
Only people with advanced views and are well-grounded in socialist theories are fit to run this country.
Most revolutionaries/communists will put up with ‘democracy’ for only so long.
Obama is looking forward to the time he and his friends can run this country through radicalized and union-controlled bureaucracies. then elections be damned.
As many people have noted, he is uncomfortable with the public or with any dissent.
That’s the plan. The Democratic party is merely a stepping-stone.
Here’s a telling excerpt:
“Rahm Emanuel, a former top adviser to Mr. Clinton who now serves as White House chief of staff, has often said Mr. Clinton’s problem was not taking on health care but losing on health care.”
He actually thinks the Democrats would have held on to Congress if they had rammed HillaryCare down the voters’ throats in 1994. That explains a lot.
Aside from blatant blasphemy, notice the insignificance of the mini White House, overshadowed by hussein's "majesty."
In reference to your post on Soros’ involvement in the Secretaries of State Project, many thanks to cripplecreek from Michigan for posting this yesterday and alerting us to this potential crisis in American elections
http://www.secstateproject.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Benson
And thanks to Paul Kib
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2470040/posts
The Secretary of State Project is a Soros organization that puts up money to get their people elected to Secretaries of States in various states. So far they have elected 11 of the 13 people they have backed.
If their people get keep getting elected, there won’t be a chance for a fair election for years to come.
This is the ACORNIFICATION of state elections! Ask yourself this: Why would they be so concerned about getting their people elected in Secretary of State positions if they didn’t plan on effecting the outcome of the elections?
The Anti-Christ pushing his stealth plan to destroy America.
Well he’s the messiah to them after all.
I like the Swiss Flag in the background. It is reminiscent of his overall plan to turn us into a European socialist country. It is also reminiscent of the Swiss Army knife. Something he can use to stab democrats who ultimate vote for the hc bill in the back.
That was OJ.
Caption: I’m gonna start with this finger right here and stick my whole arm where the sun don’t shine by the time I get done with my presidency.
Of course, these are not the issues. They are the response to way the Rats seem to intend to respond to the issues. That said, here's one point that no one is making about the second question, "would rejecting Obamacare devastate a Democratic presidency?"
Apparently, this is the pickup line Obambi is using to try to seduce wavering Rats into voting for this monstrosity. For this to be true, though, Rats have to believe that IF Obamacare is passed, THEN Obambi's presidency will be nothing but bellowing trumpets of victory and rose petals from here to history.
Wrong. Obambi's presidency is ALREADY devastated. It will REMAIN devastated even if Obamacare is passed. (I would argue it would be even more devastated, if that is possible, if Obamacare passes.)
Even if some Rats believe that Obambi is not in irreversible political trouble with the American people, do they seriously conclude that Obambi's next blunder and the next --- crap and tax, amnesty, civilian trials for terrorists, etc. --- all the garbage that has been somewhat overshadowed by the Obamacare debacle --- do the Rats seriously see ANY scenario under which Obambi does not devastate his presidency by ticking off the American people?
Finally, do the rank-and-file Rats really want to stake their own political hide on the thin reed that Obamacare gets Obambi a second term? Really?
The point is that the Rats are being had as bad as Obambi is trying to have the American people as a whole. They are being told "don't devastate me" when (1) the devastation already is irreversible and (2) even if they commit political suicide and vote for Obamacare, Obambi himself will continue the devastation of his presidency all by himself. Because he's a dumb president. And he's a horrible politician. And he's not culturally an American. And everyone is on to him now.
“He actually thinks the Democrats would have held on to Congress if they had rammed HillaryCare down the voters’ throats in 1994. That explains a lot.”
I think Rahm’s way too smart to believe this bullcrap. But he’s counting on Dem’s ignorance of history to ram this thing through. It’s a self-serving lie being deployed to whip up support for a wretched health plan. As we’ve seen repeatedly, the ends justifies the means with this crowd. The president has shamelessly told lie after lie to the American public in a futile effort to dissuade them from their own common sense.
Perfect.
Mark Steyn did a brilliant job of explaining why Obama and the Dems are willing to go “kamikaze” (IE: to die politically, but only temporarily they are betting) for this abomination called ObamaCare.
Because passing it means ever-lasting power (at least for the rest of our lifetime and our childrens’ childrens’ lifetimes) for the left in America.
Like herpes, once we’ve got Obamacare, we’ll never get rid of it.
This is a Mark Steyn must read!
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/health-237719-care-government.html
Thanks for posting the link to the Mark Steyn article. (I am reposting the link here for those who didn’t click on it in your post)
It is a “must read” indeed — he makes it very clear why the Dems are pushing obamacare, it will create a permanent government control of the American people.
Mark Steyn: Obamacare worth the price to Democrats
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/health-237719-care-government.html
“Why is he doing this?
Because it’s worth it. Big time. I’ve been saying in this space for two years that the governmentalization of health care is the fastest way to a permanent left-of-center political culture. It redefines the relationship between the citizen and the state in fundamental ways that make limited government all but impossible.”
They may worship him but this is put up to mock Christians as much as it was developed to support the big O.
LOL! I like that one too.
No photo...real thing.
That’s what this is all about. The survival of a communist president. It has nothing to do with “healthcare reform”. This is communism’s last stand in America and the commie ‘RATS know it.But the sad truth is not every non-commie in America knows it. Too many Americans (good Americans, not leftists) are oblivious to the fact that they are about to have their freedoms and liberties stolen from them and that once gone it will be very difficult, if not impossible, to get them back.
I’ve never seen him look so much like Louis Farrakhan.
"The best part about my Crusade, oops, I mean Jihad, for Obamacare -- yes, I prefer that name for it -- is that I don't have to pay for favorable publicity."
He’s betting his presidency on this...
FAIL!!! LOL!
THIS WEEK WILL BE VOTE, OR NOT TO VOTE WITH THE LITTLE MSM PRESS FLIES HOVERING AROUND THE DEAD CORPSE.THE BILL WILL FAIL, OBAMA WILL FAIL, OR WE WILL ENTER AN ERA OF TREATING OUR OWN GOVERNMENT AS PUBLIC ENEMY #1.
IMHO its win-win, either way.
Yep.. in one way or another we are taking it back.
Amen! He sure isn’t worried about the 2010 elections, is he. And it appears after he talks to the congress folks they ain’t worried either. He must know something we don’t know. And if this is the death knell for the dems McConnell needs to keep his mouth shut. Maybe he knows something, too.
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