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You have to love it. Washington comes up with costly, unpopular Health Care reform bills, and Americans are pissed off. They don’t like it. Some call it a simple state of fear. Others call it confusion — who can blame them when there’s five version in the House of Representatives? So what do Democrats do? Nancy Pelosi says you’re carrying swastikas. Like the CIA lied to Congress remark she made several months ago, she’s provided absolutely no proof. John Dingell compares protestors and anti-Health Care reformists to the KKK. Representative Brian Baird calls protestors “brown shirts”. He cowered away from holding a Town Hall meeting; opting for the opposition-silent conference call in which the Congressman will not be forced to answer questions he doesn’t want to answer (or more accurately, can’t answer if risking bribe donations from Democratic leaders muscling other Democrats to support the bill for an outside shot at re-erection) Pelosi calls protesters and the act of protesting unAmerican.

Madison County Democratic Party Chairman T. Robert Hill, a dope by all measures of common sense, wonders why he should apologize for calling Republicans “brown shirts”.

“I want to know where they get off telling me I should apologize for calling them ‘brown shirts’ and them calling my president Hitler and my congressmen Nazis,” Hill said. “Where’s the difference? … Where do they get off asking for an apology? Where do they get off asking anybody for an apology?”

I guess you could first point out that anyone using an initial as a first name, is an immediate assclown. But wondering the difference between Brown Shirts and Republicans? That’s just not a stretch, but it’s embarrassing negligence on one man’s intelligence and obvious ignorance to history.

So remember, if you appear at a Town Hall, speak your position against Health Care Reform as the Democrats see it. Be prepared, however, to be associated with Nazis, KKK and the mafia. It’s the Democrats we’re talking about. What are they going to do? Actually persuade us about Health Care reform or just throw out names because they can’t fend off a few pissed off people who likely voted for them?

President Obama attended a “town hall” this week, that was very clearly staged. The White House banned anyone that was against Reform, writes the Boston Globe:

As usual for such events, the White House controlled the distribution of the free tickets to get into the gym at Portsmouth High School. And, per usual, the Secret Service will take care of any unruliness.

This was the same event in which Obama said:

“I mean, if you think about it, UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right? No, they are. It’s the post office that’s always having problems.”

Obama just tried persuade you that privately-run companies are much better than government-run organizations. This is what happens when we fall of the teleprompter wagon. This is also what happens when we momentarily lapse into a coma of common sense.

Representative Sheila Jackson Lee on her cell phone, claiming to be calling a hotline to get answers for her constituents.

One television anchor said that Socialism is the new N word.

Today I want to talk about a word that we’re hearing more and more, and that’s the word socialist. You hear it from a lot of conservatives these days, that’s usually critiquing the President, or more broadly Democrats. And while that’s certainly a legitimate critique, there certainly is an ideology that can and should be critiqued at certain times, it also some times is just a kind of a generic conservative bludgeoning tool. And that’s alright, too, because you hear it on the Democratic side as well: rightwingnut, what have you.

But what concerns me is when in some of those town hall meetings including the one that we saw in Missouri recently where there were jokes made about lynching, etc., you start to wonder whether in fact the word socialist is becoming a code word, whether or not socialist is becoming the new N-word for frankly for some angry upset birthers and others. I hope that’s not the case, but it sure does say to you what David Brooks said the other day on T.V. which is that more credible conservatives have to stand up and say that there’s a line that has to be drawn, that there’s a line of responsibility that’s important, and that extends to the words that we choose including how choose even legitimate words like socialist.

You have the creative intellect of a bull frog in heat, sir.

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Dirty secret No. 1 in Obamacare is about the government’s coming into homes and usurping parental rights over child care and development.

It’s outlined in sections 440 and 1904 of the House bill (Page 838), under the heading “home visitation programs for families with young children and families expecting children.” The programs (provided via grants to states) would educate parents on child behavior and parenting skills.

The bill says that the government agents, “well-trained and competent staff,” would “provide parents with knowledge of age-appropriate child development in cognitive, language, social, emotional, and motor domains … modeling, consulting, and coaching on parenting practices,” and “skills to interact with their child to enhance age-appropriate development.”

[Town Hall]

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+ The idea is this: If the Republicans sit idle and watch the Democrats, then the GOP should have a significant advantage heading into the 2010 Midterm Elections. We’re starting to see some recoil by voters in polls:

Republican Sue Lowden would defeat incumbent Democratic Sen. Harry Reid by 6 percentage points in a head-to-head matchup, according to a poll of likely Nevada voters.

This would be very significant if the Majority leader in the Senate lost; maybe even change the dynamic of the Democrats’ platform. If Reid loses his election, but the Democrats remain in power of the Senate, then the party will vote for a new Majority Leader. The hope is that they select someone with moderate positions, rather than the extreme left that we see on display today. Then again, the Democrats will get bitch-slapped by the militant arm of their own party of paid supporters to take on more extreme views.

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+ The heated issue on Health Care Reform isn’t so much political ideology, or the minions of Sauron walking out of Mordor with twirling golden canes speaking very bad German. It’s fear, says Hawaiian governor Linda Lingle.

“I think you see a heightened emotion and passion and, you say anger, because people are scared,” said Hawaii GOP Gov. Linda Lingle, during a conference call with reporters organized by the Republican Governors Association.

“You’re talking about hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts in spending on Medicare, and that’s why you see members of the AARP separated from their leadership on this issue, because they’re scared,” the Hawaii governor said. “The heightened anger is out of fear for what it’s going to mean for their lives and the lives of their families.”

+ You have to wonder where the timid have gone. Perhaps they’re sitting at home, checking out Craigs List for a job — more on that later. First, Health Care for America Now (HCAN) is a:

…national grassroots campaign of more than 1,000 organizations in 46 states representing 30 million people dedicated to winning quality, affordable health care we all can count on in 2009… HCAN believes that everyone in this country should have accessible, quality health care they can afford.  We are fighting for a uniquely American solution that gives you a guarantee of coverage and real choice: keep your private insurance plan or join a new public health insurance plan so you are no longer at the mercy of the private insurance industry.

Like most liberals organizations, HCAN has a backup plan, listing several listings on Craigs List offering a job for those that want to "fight for health care". Big, whoop, right?

All the listings lead to this site, the Fund for the Public Interest. According to this page, they mostly work on environmental issues, partnering with groups like the Sierra Club.

Verumserum concludes:

Just to sum up the big picture here based on what we know now… One of HCAN’s partners is mobilizing people nationwide to “fight” against opponents of reform and is partnering with a group that has put ads for paid canvassers ($4,000 to $6,000 for the summer) on Craigslist nationwide. In effect, HCAN is hiring people to literally get in people’s faces and push Obama’s agenda.

This is what the left considers “grassroots.” Meanwhile, a memo written by a guy in Connecticut which was sent out to 10 people is proof that reform opponents of Obama Care are part of a deceptive astroturf campaign. Hopefully that’s all making perfect sense now.

Basically the idea you should have is that many Obama supporters are getting paid, roughly $10-15 an hour, while protestors against Health Care reform are genuinely concerned — at least until Nancy Pelosi can prove that there’s Swastikas at Town Halls. Unlike thugs beating up on older people outside of Town Halls.

+ The Service Employees International Union is "an organization of 2 million members united by the belief in the dignity and worth of workers and the services they provide and dedicated to improving the lives of workers and their families and creating a more just and humane society." The video you saw above was outside the SEIU St. Louis headquarters.

Recently, SEIU President Andy Stern claims that they spent $60.7 million to get President Obama elected. Michelle Malkin writes:

Through a series of local chapter takeovers, corporate shakedowns, and bully campaigns to destroy the reputation of executives who refuse to submit to their will, Stern and his scandal-plagued lieutenants have consolidated low-skill service workers to create a 21st century labor empire. The ubiquitous Stern now enjoys a prominent seat at the table of every major policy discussion at the White House, including economic recovery and health care radicalization.

Obama champions the SEIU’s top legislative priorities: expansive government health care (paid for with regressive sin taxes) and the Orwellian-titled “Employee Free Choice Act” to do away with private-ballot union elections in the workplace. (The initiative is “alive and well,” Stern said this week.) Obama has SEIU-blessed bureaucrats installed in every corner of his administration to carry out the agenda.

SEIU President Stern summed up his organizing philosophy:

“[W]e prefer to use the power of persuasion, but if that doesn’t work we use the persuasion of power.”

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The White House’s claim that large and boisterous protests against health care reform over the past week have been scripted performances, underwritten by industry lobbyists and the Republican Party, continues to run into a stubborn reality check: public polling on the matter.

For more than two weeks, polls have consistently shown growing resistance to President Obama’s reform proposals, largely because of concerns about the nation’s deficit and debt.

“There are a number of statistically valid public opinion polls that show that there has been a dramatic increase in public concern about escalating deficits and debt levels and our nation’s increased reliance on foreign lenders,” said David Walker, the nation’s former comptroller general.

[Washington Times]

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The best part about Obama is that when an issue isn’t going his way, he’ll strong arm your ass into submission. As the old saying goes, you got to do what you got to do. Remember the Black Panthers on election day at the polls?

Ross Balano wrote:

Black Panther party members in full uniform are stationed at some 300 polling places in battleground states. Are they trying to intimidate voters who would be voting for John McCain?

Obama and the Democrats are losing badly to the public in the Health Care reform bill. Recent Town Hall forums featured lawmakers that get so rattled out of their little bubble and in some cases, retort that protestors, most of whom are not affiliated with any organization, are right-wing extremists, NAZIs, pedophiles that are conjured up by the dark lords of Satan’s fiery lake. Such as this oped piece by Nancy Pelosi:

These disruptions are occurring because opponents are afraid not just of differing views — but of the facts themselves. Drowning out opposing views is simply un-American.

Why do people use this bull shit "un-American" rhetoric to install a point. It’s like calling your male classmate a girl in third grade. You’re only saying it to insult the person and by no definition, does it have any measure of weight behind it — unless you’re actually un-American, which I would classify as anyone willing to socialize any part of our economy or Health Care system. Calling someone un-American based on a debate, is cowardice and worthy of waterboarding.

And if name calling isn’t enough for liberal lawmakers, they’ll just escort your ass right out of the Town Hall. So this is Obama and the liberal Democrats — who really do put the meaning into progressivism, don’t they? — who have unleashed their mighty warriors.

Union leaders appear to have decided that their best defense, following charges that town hall protesters were roughed up, is to levy those same allegations against the opponents of reform.

“Attacking a staffer? Harassing a pregnant woman? All in a day’s work for the opposition to healthcare reform,” one post on the Web site of the Service Employees International Union stated.

The SEIU blamed conservative town hall protesters for “fear-mongering,” charging they are guilty of “harassment, intimidation, and physical violence.”

That allegation will come as a surprise to the town hall protesters who were blocked from attending a Tampa Bay town hall meeting last week by SEIU members, as well as a protester in Missouri who was beaten seriously.

And we know what happens if you’re against reform. You’re on a government list so that the White House can provide you the right information after so much misinformation is being conjured up by said Dark Lord, who moonlights as a stripper on East Hollywood. In other words, they want to present to you brain washing talking points to free educated and informed Americans because they, the White House and leading liberal Democrats, are not.

Welcome. Meet the liberal Democrats, who lactate excitement when the nation’s budget raises by $181 billion in July. These are the same people that made fun of Tea Party rallies because liberals simply can’t conform to the novel idea of having an opinion. An educated opinion no less — I know, mind-fucked again. Now. Now, liberals will just punch you in the face, categorize you in a government list and all but assure that the economy’s only way of rebounding, is forming into a bastardized version of socialism.

God I love our government.

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The future air combat capabilities we should build are based on the F-22, a stealthy, fast, maneuverable fighter that is unmatched by any known or projected combat aircraft. But the F-22’s production run may soon come to an end at just 187 planes, well short of establishing the fleet size we need. After all, it’s expensive, and getting more so as the number contemplated has been repeatedly reduced. In an argument they seem to think makes sense, critics say the aircraft has no worthy opponent—as if we want to create forces that do have peer competitors.

It’s been more than half a century since any American soldier or Marine has been killed, or even wounded, by hostile aircraft, a period roughly coincident with the existence of the Air Force as a separate service. Even during the Korean War—the Air Force’s first engagement wearing new, blue uniforms—enemy air attack was primitive and rare. The main air battle was fought along the Yalu River, just as in Vietnam it was fought over Hanoi, and in Desert Storm, over Baghdad. Our guys on the ground had hard work to do, but when they looked up, they saw only friendly skies.

[WSJ]

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