Obamacare Is Dead and Here's Why [Obamacare Ongoing Thread]

Town Hall ^ | 1-26-10 | Robert A. Levy

[JustPiper]

As the Massachusetts blame game unfolds, the president’s unpopular health bill leads the list. But the substantive provisions of the bill were just part of the problem. Perhaps more important, voters were appalled by how the deal unfolded.

Consider the pre-election giveaway to the labor unions. Negotiators agreed to exempt union contracts until 2018 from the tax on so-called Cadillac health-insurance plans. That backroom bargain not only outraged the voters, it also violated the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution, requiring the federal government to extend equal protection of the laws to all U.S. persons. Of course, not all voters understood the constitutional nuances, but they sensed that something was very wrong; and they reacted.

I have been disturbed by the socialists for years, ever since I learned many members of Congress 'openly' joined the DSA (Democratic Socialists of America). Several years ago, the names were published on the DSA site. (since removed of course) Please post any info you have, many of you have been on this issue for many years, & if we can store it all on one thread, we have our FreeRepublic Warehouse on the enemies of the state. How DO we combat this, when it's coming at us from every angle? When the people have been asleep for decades. Please post anything you have found or accumulated. Also choose a dictator these people follow, of particular interest,those in D.C. who have been quoted with their adulation of one.

Communism- Marxism-Leninism-Stalinism-Trotskyism-Maoism- Hoxhaism-Hoxhaism-Titoism ETC

[JustPiper]

In my sleepless meanderings

WHERE IS the "Progress" in Progressive?!

[onyx]

Tuesday, January 26, 2010 An Interview With Andrew Breitbart About The O'Keefe Arrest

Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at 8:03 PM

I interviewed Andrew Breitbart about the arrest of James O'Keefe:

HH: Joined now by Andrew Breitbart of www.biggovernment.com and www.bigjournalism.com, who’s name will be in big, big print in many newspapers tomorrow as the man whose videos he published at Big Government is under arrest in Louisiana. Andrew, what is going on?

AB: Well, your guess is as good as mine. We’re reading the same Associated Press copy out there. The first I heard of it was an e-mail early this afternoon from the Times-Picayune asking for my comment on it. I have not heard from anyone. I’ve issued a statement that I could read to you that in essence says I had no prior knowledge of any of this stuff, and I know nothing, quite frankly about this, and I’m going to wait until I hear from someone with information here. There’s obviously an attempt to use this for political purposes right now, and I see that Media Matters is referring to this group of gentlemen who were arrested as “Breitbart’s Crew.” I’ve looked at all four of the names…[# More #]

HH: That’s slanderous, by the way.

AB: It is, and I’ve never met any of the three other gentlemen.

HH: You see, I want to pause here. The attribution of criminal conduct is per se’ slanderous.

AB: Yes, and that’s what they’re trying to do here, because you know, with the ACORN internal investigation that Scott Harshbarger did at the behest of John Podesta and Andy Stern, was an investigation into James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles trying to find that Richard Mellon Scaife connection to the vast right wing conspiracy, when what they did was an independent film investigation. James O’Keefe is an independent film director.

(FULL TRANSCRIPT AT LINK)

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Filmmaker Who Targeted ACORN Arrested in Alleged Senate Phone Scheme

FOXNews.com

The independent filmmaker who brought ACORN to its knees last year with an undercover expose was arrested this week along with three others, including the son of a federal prosecutor, and accused of trying to interfere with the phones at Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu's office.

[onyx]

In my sleepless meanderings...

LOL. I just posted info to you on the wrong thread...lol. Ignore that ping to you. Talk about tired...lol...but I have no trouble sleeping. I must start keeping more "normal" hours.

Your thread is a delight. Jammed packed with such valuable information. Thank you, dear friend for taking the time and for putting all the work into for all of us. Truly appreciated.

[JustPiper]

The jobs he promised, and many voted for, have proved to be a fleeting fantasy. The reality is that Obama’s uncontrolled spending and reckless borrowing have plunged us deeper into the worst recession since the Great Depression. The dire economic situation has only been exacerbated by Obama policy. The situation is only going to get worse if his new, expanded stimulus plan goes into effect.

Obama’s Second Stimulus: A Looming Disaster

When President Obama got up to speak he did little to advance America’s reputation as a champion of democracy. Mostly, the president continued his penchant for apologizing for the nation’s past efforts at exercising global leadership.

Obama Makes UN Hungry for More Worldwide Anti-Democratic Behavior

Last week, national security news began on Monday at the North American Summit where President Obama met Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Guadalajara, Mexico. Much of the get together was “happy talk” with positive words on issues of mutual concern from dealing with a return of the Swine Flu (H1N1 virus) this autumn to the ongoing was against the cartels menacing both sides of the US-Mexico border. Obama, however, badly stumbled when he took on the issue of immigration reform.

Yet another way for Obama to undermine us & he has plenty of RINO help on this one!

Immigration ‘Reform’ Would Be Disastrous for America by James Carafano,phD

[JustPiper]

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) NKorea says it will continue firing artillery off west coast as part of annual military drill.

The threat posed by Chávez is the subject of a recent study by the Heritage Foundation’s senior analyst for Latin America, Ray Walser, titled “State Sponsors of Terrorism: Time to Add Venezuela to the List.” In his study, Walser points out that the U.S. officially designates four countries as state sponsors of terrorism – Iran, Syria, Cuba, and Sudan. A careful review of the facts shows that it is high time to add Venezuela to the list. Far from being merely a populist showman and bully, Hugo Chávez is a reckless leader who collaborates with Colombian narcoterrorists and Islamist terrorists, pals around with brutal Iranian dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is a virulent anti-Semite, and is guided by a relentless anti-Americanism in everything he does.

We Ignore Chávez at our Own Peril

Chavez’s Haiti Logic - Will it backfire on him?

[JustPiper]

Sweet dreams my dear buddy & thank you hugs

[STARWISE]

ROFL !!!

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[onyx]

LOL RU laughing @ me for posting on the wrong thread?
THAT *was* hilarious....lol.

[JustPiper]

hahaha...zzzzzzzzzzzzz...dang, thought I was through for the night & bedchecked Drudge, good news?

Pols: Tri-Staters Not In Love With 'New' Obama-President In Deep Trouble With Middle Class; Many Think His Attempt To 'Reconnect' Shows Serious Desperation

We may be weening a bit girls

[hoosiermama]

WOW.... Where in the world did you find that?

[hoosiermama]

Have you all read this thread? PING!

[STARWISE]

That’s Hillary’s notorious thesis from Wellesley.
Searched ‘til I found it.

[hoosiermama]

IMO it’s well worth its own thread and distribution to all the major conservative media: Dredge, Rush,Beck, Hannity, etc etc.

[mad_as_he$$]

It isn't dead and will not be until the ring leaders are out of power.

[GailA]

We were lucky there were only 4 of us kids. She divorced my dad when I was a few months old, he cheated, she worked long hours as a coctail waitress to support us, we lived with my grandparents. Second sister came along, with husband 2, he didn't last long. Third husband was DAD if you know what I mean. He worked in the steel mills of E. Chicago, IN. Two more kids, we didn't have much, but then he was a child of the depression and we made do with used where ever possible. When he was injured at work we had food vouchers for specific items that was all we had to eat.

Your right we came out stronger for the experiences. It will take that strength to turn back the tide of communism that is gripping our country.

I vowed I'd never go hungry again for any man/woman....home owner's ass. better watch out because I'll plow up that front yard and plant veggies and dare them to make me take it out after 0 has cut my SS/Medicare/Tricare to the bones and I still make to much money for 'assistance'!

I make quilts for LeBonher children's hospital here in Memphis and cough pillows. I know many of them have little to nothing because of their free loading, refuse to be educated parents. I won't punish the kids for the retradation of their parents mindset.

[blackie]

Glenn really nailed Joe Klein!

0bama is a real smoke & mirrors guy and using a bloody TelePrompTer in a grade school presentation—what is up with that???

[blackie]

I'm with you Soulmate, I just turn it over to my Higher Power (in my case God) and trust in Him.

Jesus said:
"When these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads, for your redemption draweth nigh."
~~ (Luke 21:28)

That Bible verse keeps me semi-sane. ;)

The almost sane old curmudgeon,
Blackie

[uncommonsense]

There's a nice little tool called The Wayback Machine. It scrapes most of the Web sites and archives what they looked like at a point in time.

Here's the timeline for DSA. Just click on a date link and it will give you an interactive view of the site on that date. Enjoy!

http://www.dsausa.org

[JustPiper]

It is a real honor to meet a ‘sister’ Gail. We never knew what a life of privilege is, That’s the problem with these fatcats in D.C. they have not one clue how hard life really is. The ones that do dear sister, just don’t give a damn. They spout, especially that lousy front man giving the speeches ,news conferences. He says we need to live within our means! But his boss doesn’t do that with the “People’s Money.”

They literally made me sick to my stomach today, where I could barely function with the BS they are spraying all over.

BO is coming up with “Oops” I’m sorry, I don’t know what they were thinking offering Nelson, Landrieu etc what ‘they’ did. THAT came from the WH, now it’s the mediators fault! Sickeningly apologetic, I pray people don’t buy into his SOTU, which I vehemently refuse to watch!

I wanted to post a few links, but sadly, FOX news site is down

[JustPiper]

He disgusts me beyond belief blackie