If you want to pass a wide-ranging bill that will take over health care, its only expected that you'd give away billions of perks. Right?
So who should be surprised at the lastest slap in the face that Obama's team has committed to the American public?
You know how they decided that really wealthy people would pay extra taxes if they had really nice health care plans? Well, it just so happens that union-paying people were in that category. And we couldn't have Obama taxing his own people, now could we?
So naturally, a deal was cut, and people who were in unions were exempted from the plan.
Is there any doubt anymore that this was a bad bill?
That it was merely a way to put more money and power in the hands of the weasels in Washington?
Friday, January 15, 2010
Remember when Trig wasn't Sarah Palin's baby?
I find it really, really hard to take Sarah Palin critics seriously.
These were the same people who said that Sarah Palin couldn't have had Trig, because she didn't look pregnant enough.
So as long as we're going back in time, I want to remind people about the idiocy that existed on the left before Sarah Palin had even addressed the Republican Convention.
This guy is one of the many who fell for the conspiracy theory that Trig couldn't be Sarah's baby. Here is a sample of the logic that was being scratched:
In addition to the facts mentioned above, I want to point out how unlikely it is for a 43-year-old woman to accidentally get pregnant.
Neat.
Then there was the time when a photo of Sarah Palin in a bikini, carrying a rifle, was so much fun that the entertainment reporter for CNN decided it was true.
The thing is that the left has a hard-on for Sarah, and not the friendly kind.
Remember how the AP assigned eleven reporters to "Fact Check" her book? Do you remember what they actually came up with?
Anyway, my point is pretty simple. When you read something about Sarah Palin, double check the facts. Chances are, its not true.
These were the same people who said that Sarah Palin couldn't have had Trig, because she didn't look pregnant enough.
So as long as we're going back in time, I want to remind people about the idiocy that existed on the left before Sarah Palin had even addressed the Republican Convention.
This guy is one of the many who fell for the conspiracy theory that Trig couldn't be Sarah's baby. Here is a sample of the logic that was being scratched:
In addition to the facts mentioned above, I want to point out how unlikely it is for a 43-year-old woman to accidentally get pregnant.
Neat.
Then there was the time when a photo of Sarah Palin in a bikini, carrying a rifle, was so much fun that the entertainment reporter for CNN decided it was true.
The thing is that the left has a hard-on for Sarah, and not the friendly kind.
Remember how the AP assigned eleven reporters to "Fact Check" her book? Do you remember what they actually came up with?
Anyway, my point is pretty simple. When you read something about Sarah Palin, double check the facts. Chances are, its not true.
Who said "Teabaggers" first?
Every once in a while I get into an argument with someone who tells me, with a straight face, that it was the Tea Party Protestors who came up with the term "Teabaggers"... and that its not their fault that they call Tea Party protestors Teabaggers.
Most recently, I got into this argument with an earnest member of the left who insisted it was because of protestors who, on April 15th, wore Teabags on their hat.
Forgetting for a moment that putting teabags on your hat is not the same as being asked to be called a Teabagger, I did my research.
Predictably, it turns out that a member of the left who started using the term.
Rachel Maddow went on the air April 9th (6 days before the protest), and in giddy glee, she played a few tapes in a row of guys holding up tea bags who said that we should tea bag the White House.
This, of course, sent Rachel into schoolgirl convulsions. More over, it gave her the presumed license to use the term "Teabaggers" as much as humanly possible.
So let's get this clear: the first person to use the term was Rachel Maddow.
Which couldn't be more ironic,
If you have a differing opinion, or believe me to be in error, please post to me and I'll make the correction or add your counter argument to the mix.
Most recently, I got into this argument with an earnest member of the left who insisted it was because of protestors who, on April 15th, wore Teabags on their hat.
Forgetting for a moment that putting teabags on your hat is not the same as being asked to be called a Teabagger, I did my research.
Predictably, it turns out that a member of the left who started using the term.
Rachel Maddow went on the air April 9th (6 days before the protest), and in giddy glee, she played a few tapes in a row of guys holding up tea bags who said that we should tea bag the White House.
This, of course, sent Rachel into schoolgirl convulsions. More over, it gave her the presumed license to use the term "Teabaggers" as much as humanly possible.
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So let's get this clear: the first person to use the term was Rachel Maddow.
Which couldn't be more ironic,
If you have a differing opinion, or believe me to be in error, please post to me and I'll make the correction or add your counter argument to the mix.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Transcript of Palin on Fox
Raw Story is becoming such a propaganda website that they are giving Media Matters a run for their money. So let's start with what Raw Story said about Palin's first commentator spot on Fox.
I'd just watched her appearance online, so I wondered what Raw Story meant. As usual, they start by picking out parts of the conversation to give one appearance of what she said, and then stop right before they ruin their premise.
In this case, they wanted to say that Palin was dodging questions. So they quote Politico:
In first appearance as Fox News ‘analyst’, Palin dodges O’Reilly’s questions
I'd just watched her appearance online, so I wondered what Raw Story meant. As usual, they start by picking out parts of the conversation to give one appearance of what she said, and then stop right before they ruin their premise.
In this case, they wanted to say that Palin was dodging questions. So they quote Politico:
Interviewed by Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly on his show “The O’Reilly Factor,” Palin trashed many of the critical accounts of her candidacy in the new book “Game Change.” But one story from the book that Palin did not say was “made up” or “a lie” was the description of her uncertainty as to whether Iraq had a hand in the planning of the September 11 attacks.
“I did talk a lot to [campaign strategist] Steve Schmidt about the history of the war and where the attackers could have come from,” Palin said of her debate prep during the fall of 2008 – more than five years after the start of the war in Iraq and seven years after the terrorist attacks that hit New York and Washington.
“I do admit to asking questions about that,” she said.
Of course, they could have just quoted the actual Fox News website. That would have been easy enough. But then they couldn't say, in their headline, that she had dodged questions.
This is from that transcript:
O'REILLY: That's pretty nasty, isn't it? PALIN: Well, it's pretty made up, too. I — I think that these reporters — who were not in any part of what I was doing there as a VP candidate, I think I explained a lot of this in "Going Rogue," in my book. O'REILLY: Is he... PALIN: I was there... O'REILLY: Is he lying? PALIN: They were not there. O'REILLY: Is this guy lying? He says you don't know the difference between North and South Korea. PALIN: Yes, that surprised me. I hadn't seen the "60 Minutes" and I — I had been warned, you know, don't — don't watch. It's a bunch of BS from Schmidt (INAUDIBLE) and those guys... O'REILLY: Is that a lie though? PALIN: Yes, that is a lie. O'REILLY: OK. PALIN: That is a lie. Go to Raw Story and see what they say. Then go to the transcript, and see if its accurate. This time its no different.
Raw Story is quickly becoming one of the least accurate websites that people send me to. When someone heads me in that direction, the first thing that I do is check the original material to see how they misrepresent it.
Monday, January 11, 2010
$135,294 Per Job
Some facts need little introduction.
For instance... let's say that you found out that a politician had a 'jobs' program that cost more then, I dunno... $50,000 per job. Would that be too much?
Okay, how about $70,000 per job? Too much?
Wait... what if it cost $100,000 per job?
Still not enough?
Obama's Green Jobs Program: $135,294 Per Job
You're wasting a ton of cash once you get up to an amount that high. Heck, you start getting into the category of what the left considers wealthy when you get to that amount.
Anyway... further proof that the government knows how to waste money faster then any other entity.
-John
For instance... let's say that you found out that a politician had a 'jobs' program that cost more then, I dunno... $50,000 per job. Would that be too much?
Okay, how about $70,000 per job? Too much?
Wait... what if it cost $100,000 per job?
Still not enough?
Obama's Green Jobs Program: $135,294 Per Job
You're wasting a ton of cash once you get up to an amount that high. Heck, you start getting into the category of what the left considers wealthy when you get to that amount.
Anyway... further proof that the government knows how to waste money faster then any other entity.
-John
Friday, January 08, 2010
Who's more racist? Biden Or Reid?
Okay everyone, its time to play my favorite game of "Who's more racist?"
Would it be Harry Reid:
Or Joe Biden:
I'm going with answer #3. They can't be racist... because they aren't Republicans!
If they were Republican, they should have left office. But since they aren't, they get the buddy pass.
Would it be Harry Reid:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada described in private then-Sen. Barack Obama as "light skinned" and "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one." Obama is the nation's first African-American president.
Or Joe Biden:
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy," Biden said. "I mean, that's a storybook, man."
I'm going with answer #3. They can't be racist... because they aren't Republicans!
If they were Republican, they should have left office. But since they aren't, they get the buddy pass.
Obama's 8 time lie, promising to show health care debates on CSPAN
If I could, I'd have every American watch this video, and then tell me what they think of Obama now.
A deficit projection from March 2009
I just wanted to remind everyone about this chart provided by the Washington Post:
The next time that someone tells you that GWB blew up the deficit, take a look at what happened up until 2007... the year that a democrat congress took over.
The next time that someone tells you that GWB blew up the deficit, take a look at what happened up until 2007... the year that a democrat congress took over.
Noonan: The Risk of Catastrophic Victory
I don't read Peggy Noonan very often. but this is a great editorial about how tone deaf the Obama administration has been:
At the exact moment the public was announcing it worried about jobs first and debt and deficits second, the administration decided to devote its first year to health care, which no one was talking about.
When your government pays someone to tell you how great government health care would be
Would it surprise you to find out that one of the 'expert' economists that the government bought forward to push their health care takeover was actually under contract with the government?
No?
According to FoxNews:
Who would have figured that the government would have paid for someone to tell us about how great the government would be at taking over our health care? Huh.
No?
According to FoxNews:
Gruber, according to federal government documents, is under a $297,600 contract until next month to provide "technical assistance" in evaluating health care reform proposals.
Who would have figured that the government would have paid for someone to tell us about how great the government would be at taking over our health care? Huh.
All props to CSPAN
You have to give them credit.
The president promised to make the health care debates open, and of course they are not.
So CSPAN called them out on it.
You can read the complete PDF file here.
It took balls. They could have just stayed quiet, and pretended like no one had said anything. But they held him accountable.
Good for them.
The president promised to make the health care debates open, and of course they are not.
So CSPAN called them out on it.
You can read the complete PDF file here.
It took balls. They could have just stayed quiet, and pretended like no one had said anything. But they held him accountable.
Good for them.
Friday, October 30, 2009
Cash for Clunkers: $24,000 per vehicle
There was a study done on Edmunds.com on the Cash For Clunkers program. According to CNN, what they found is that a lot of the people who bought into the program were going to buy cars anyway.
By figuring out what it cost for people who were not going to buy a car, but were probably swayed by the program, Edmunds figured out the actual cost of every new car bought (that wouldn't have been) at about $24,000.
By figuring out what it cost for people who were not going to buy a car, but were probably swayed by the program, Edmunds figured out the actual cost of every new car bought (that wouldn't have been) at about $24,000.
CBO: Public plan premiums will be more expensive then the 'health exchange' premiums by private insurers
Thanks again to the Politico for reporting this:
Again, completely predictable. The government plans to take over the insurance... and it costs more.
The public insurance option would typically charge higher premiums than private plans available in the exchange, according to the Congressional Budget Office analysis of the House bill.
Again, completely predictable. The government plans to take over the insurance... and it costs more.
What are health insurance profits?
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you AP for actually fact checking this:
Who woulda thought?
Oh yeah... Republicans, who have been pointing this out for a month now.
Health insurance profit margins typically run about 6 percent, give or take a point or two. That's anemic compared with other forms of insurance and a broad array of industries, even some beleaguered ones.
Who woulda thought?
Oh yeah... Republicans, who have been pointing this out for a month now.
My president, the asshat
Explaining that unlike Democrats, Republicans do what they are told to do...
Mr. President: no one had to tell me to call you an asshat.
I figured that out on my own.
Mr. President: no one had to tell me to call you an asshat.
I figured that out on my own.
Barney Frank admits trying to increase the role of government in everything
This video, from Real Clear Politics, needs to be seen to be believed.
What if Bush had done that?
Politico has a great article titled:
What if Bush had done that?
Its a good read. Here's a short section.
What if Bush had done that?
Its a good read. Here's a short section.
A four-hour stop in New Orleans, on his way to a $3 million fundraiser.
Snubbing the Dalai Lama.
Signing off on a secret deal with drug makers.
Freezing out a TV network.
Doing more fundraisers than the last president. More golf, too.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Liveblogging; I'm going through bill H.R. 3962
Bill H.R. 3962 is the latest health care bill introduced to congress.
You can download it at that link. Its 1,990 pages of regulations.
I'll be going through it over the next few days. Forgive me for not printing this one out, since it would literally take 4 REAMS OF PAPER to print it. Just to give you an idea of how much paper that is... my toner cartridge is good for about 3,000 pages.
2/3rds of my toner cartridge would be used if I printed the full thing.
If you're reading it with me, the first few pages are the table of contents.
Up until page 16, its page after page of definitions that they are using for the sake of the bill.
I'm now on the first page of actual bill, which is entitled:
SEC. 101. NATIONAL HIGH-RISK POOL PROGRAM.
This is a pool that would be established Jan. 1st, 2010; or about two months from now.
I presume that this is to placate the people on the left who were complaining that the health care bill wasn't even going to cover anyone for two years.
You can download it at that link. Its 1,990 pages of regulations.
I'll be going through it over the next few days. Forgive me for not printing this one out, since it would literally take 4 REAMS OF PAPER to print it. Just to give you an idea of how much paper that is... my toner cartridge is good for about 3,000 pages.
2/3rds of my toner cartridge would be used if I printed the full thing.
If you're reading it with me, the first few pages are the table of contents.
Up until page 16, its page after page of definitions that they are using for the sake of the bill.
I'm now on the first page of actual bill, which is entitled:
SEC. 101. NATIONAL HIGH-RISK POOL PROGRAM.
This is a pool that would be established Jan. 1st, 2010; or about two months from now.
I presume that this is to placate the people on the left who were complaining that the health care bill wasn't even going to cover anyone for two years.
Sunday, September 06, 2009
Van Jones Resigns!!!
Fox News has a copy of the resignation.
Since its a WH document, I presume I can quote it in full:
Since its a WH document, I presume I can quote it in full:
"I am resigning my post at the Council on Environmental Quality, effective today.
On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me. They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide.
I have been inundated with calls - from across the political spectrum - urging me to "stay and fight."
But I came here to fight for others, not for myself. I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.
It has been a great honor to serve my country and my President in this capacity. I thank everyone who has offered support and encouragement. I am proud to have been able to make a contribution to the clean energy future. I will continue to do so, in the months and years ahead."
Lies and distortions?
Yeah. Right.
It seems as though the real reason that Van Jones is resigning is because his balls are so big that they take up too much valuable space in the White House.
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