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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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+ 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.

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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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When the government says that they’ll shut you down for not paying taxes, you better believe that they’re serious. Otherwise, how could they fund their Mickey Mouse Robin Hood organization, rewarding the unmotivated while punishing people because they work hard, get a good education and actually contribute to the country’s economy.

Meet eight-year old Daniela Earnest of Tulare, California. Daniela wanted to "raise money for a family trip to Disneyland", so the young girl opened a lemonade stand on Monday. Makes sense. If you want something, you go out of your way to earn it. That seems, you know, logical? Well, unless you’re a liberal. Then you’re totally mind-fucked.

The city of Tulare shut down the girl’s lemonade stand because she didn’t have a business license. The lesson learned here is that whether you’re an eight-year old girl, Bill Gates, or Bernie Madoff, you’re not safe without a business license. That, or just stay away from California.

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While terrorists and radicals have yet to receive the memo, the White House says that the "War on Terrorism is over" writes the Washington Times.

It’s official. The U.S. is no longer engaged in a “war on terrorism.” Neither is it fighting “jihadists” or in a “global war.”

President Obama’s top homeland security and counterterrorism official took all three terms off the table of acceptable words inside the White House during a speech Thursday at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank.

“The President does not describe this as a ‘war on terrorism,’” said John Brennan, head of the White House homeland security office, who outlined a “new way of seeing” the fight against terrorism.

The only terminology that Mr. Brennan said the administration is using is that the U.S. is “at war with al Qaeda.”

“We are at war with al Qaeda,” he said. “We are at war with its violent extremist allies who seek to carry on al Qaeda’s murderous agenda.”

So if you’re a terrorist that doesn’t have links to Al Qaeda, you can rest easy. Continue with your bomb making, suicide killing ways because the White House no longer views you as the enemy. You’re just another group with passionate beliefs. And count yourself lucky that you’re not an American with right-wing views. Otherwise, you’d be on lists, databases while Nancy Pelosi shakes her head at the swastika that you pray to. (bitch)

Liberals know the threat to America. And it’s not terrorists. It’s those god damn informed Americans, screwing everything up.

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The White House is going on a “new offensive”, trying to inform people of the “disinformation” that’s out there. Let it be known that if you’re passionately opposed to the Health Care reform proposed by the Democrats, then you’re a right-wing extremist. How nice.

The new offensive started early Tuesday morning when the White House posted a video response to a hodgepodge of clips on the Drudge Report that portrayed President Obama as favoring the elimination of private insurance. On the White House blog, Obama’s director of new media, Macon Phillips, asked supporters to send in leads for debunking chain e-mails or anything else that “seems fishy.”

It continued through the day with press secretary Robert Gibbs and Democratic National Committee spokesman Brad Woodhouse both saying a series of confrontational town hall meetings were manufactured by Republicans, conservative groups and lobbyists who are paid to drum up opposition.

Woodhouse described them as “angry mobs of rabid right-wing extremists” that populated McCain-Palin rallies last year.

Macon Phillips wrote on the White House’s official site:

There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov

For what purpose would they need this information? What would the “White House” do with this information? Bill Collier wrote this email to “flag@whitehouse.gov”.

Greetings, sir, I pray for your health and that God may grant you peace and wisdom.

I am writing to you at this email address because of a post at the White House blog that, frankly, sir, has me a bit concerned.

I am certain that you are committed to freedom and liberty and do not intend on decreasing the level of freedom or the participation of citizens in the process of deciding public policy for our nation, even if that might mean that some of your initiatives have to be scaled back or simply abandoned.

Some might, however, question your commitment to freedom and the participation of citizens in the decision making process and this is why I am writing, respectfully, in the hope of seeing a happy resolution to what I hope is merely a poorly stated appeal for help in support of your health care initiative.

I understand you are asking people, through your staff, to email flag@whitehouse.gov to report people who oppose your health care plan, even though, Mr. President, you have NOT actually sent out a specific proposal and there are multiple different proposals.

Your appeal, which I sincerely fear is a call for informants (http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Facts-Are-Stubborn-Things/) was cloaked in what seems to some, myself included, doublespeak, and to my mind this appeal carries the implication that the White House wants to capture the names of opponents, which has a potentially chilling effect on open debate.

As part of this appeal, you tell your readers, basically, that people who are citing video of yourself calling for a single payer system and detailing an incrementalist approach ‘liars’, something that is both impolite and, frankly, juvenile and beneath contempt. Those statements were made by you, Mr. President. If indeed you are opposed to a single payer plan and have changed your mind, it is useful to you, and citizens who may even support you but for this perception, it is wise, I submit, to clear this matter up rather by clarifying yourself rather than blaming others for a reasonable and logical assumption based on what you actually said.

Mr. President, facts ARE stubborn things and unless or until you publicly disavow a single payer system and actually ANNOUNCE and put in print YOUR health care proposal, it is only reasonable to think that all those things you have said are still on the table and part of your overall plan. If, however, you want a single payer system, please tell us and put in writing what your plan is so that we can have a civil discourse.

Mr. President, are you willing to state what your plan is then publicly disavow any plan that involves single payer plans in any fashion?

Further, Mr. President, would you be willing to solemnly swear that the minute you propose or even SIGN any bill that includes a single player plan or a precursor thereto that you will resign your office? Are you willing, sir, to resign your office if the implementation of your plan results in anything more than a 10% decrease in the number of people enrolled in private plans within 4 years after whatever bill is passed?

Please be advised, Mr. President, I will not be monitored: I oppose what some refer to as ‘Obamacare’ on the basis of my conviction that the Federal Power has no business sticking its nose in such things, a point of view that I sincerely believe is consistent with the original intent of our Founders. I respect that you feel differently and read that differently, but to dismiss our point of view with juvenile and petty name-calling that is clearly beneth contempt and that is simply not professional is a reflection on the content of your character that will not turn Americans against those who oppose state-run or regulated and managed health care by ANY name.

I am NOT afraid to stand up for my convictions, I respect you and your office, and I rightfully and justly demand that you and your staff respect me and my office, the office of “elector”, one of your 300 million “bosses”.

I respectfully request that you stop asking people to become informants, please spend a few minutes and re-read your constitution which you swore to uphold, and which is a condition of your tenure which must be adhered to.

I am enclosing a copy of this email to my member of Congress, my Senators, and my Governor as well as any local media and asking them to investigate WHY the White House is trying to capture names of opponents and asking people to inform on opponents.

If your office is seeking to obtain names of people who oppose your plan and to engage other Americans as informants or agents I would, and I am sure many others would, consider this to be a SERIOUS offense against the Bill of Rights if indeed your objective here is to do this, so, with this in mind, sir, please cease and desist and respect even those who oppose you in a civil and fair manner.

I pray that this communication is seen as a friendly appeal for a quick and amicable resolution of my concerns or, at worse, a friendly rebuke, if you will, due to what is clearly impolite behavior that is beneath of the dignity of the Presidency or the White House.

May you continue to be in good health and good spirits as you lead our free nation of free and sovereign citizens who wish you, and America, godspeed within the reasonable constraints of liberty, justice, and our Constitution.

Yours in service to the Republic,

Bill Collier,
By the Grace of God, Citizen and Elector, The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, The United States of America
Marysville PA

PS I have BCC’d this to other individuals and hope that they, too, stand up by name and without fear, knowing that your White House, Mr. President, would never seek to in any way censure or persecute in any manner any citizen for simply questioning your policies or conduct: I am sure you will agree with me that the best way to dispel such myths is to reply in a cordial and civil manner to such citizens, even your loyal opposition.

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From Investors.com.

The results are clear: Since 1970 — even without the prescription drug benefit — Medicare’s costs have risen 34% more, per patient, than the combined costs of all health care in America apart from Medicare and Medicaid, the vast majority of which is purchased through the private sector.

Since 1970, the per-patient costs of all health care apart from Medicare and Medicaid have risen from $364 to $7,119, while Medicare’s per-patient costs have risen from $368 to $9,634. Medicare’s costs have risen $2,511 more per patient.

These conclusions are true despite very generous treatment of Medicare. My study counts Medicare’s prescription drug expenditures as part of privately purchased care, rather than as part of Medicare. It counts health care purchased privately by Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries (including Medicare copayments and Medigap insurance) among the costs of private care, without counting its recipients among those receiving private care — thereby magnifying private care’s per-person costs. And it doesn’t adjust for cost-shifting from Medicare to private entities.

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