Going berserk over ‘Going Rogue;’ Democrats’ reaction to Sarah Palin book and publicity
Andrew Malcolm writes:
Wow, for somebody who’s supposed to be such a political joke, an Arctic ditz and eminently dismissable as a serious anything except maybe a stay-at-home hockey mom, Sarah Palin is sure drawing an awful lot of attention from Democrats and eager critics.
The launch of her “Going Rogue” interviews Monday on “Oprah,” of her book today, of her on-air chat today with Rush Limbaugh at 10 a.m. Pacific and of her mid-America bus book tour Wednesday ignited a surprisingly large blizzard of derogatory Democrat dis-missives.
Every few minutes another note from Democratic National Committee operatives and others dropped into electronic mailboxes across the media-verse, helpfully passing on even the tiniest tidbit of negative news about Palin.
You know how sometimes a friend tells you how much he/she doesn’t really care about….
…someone else. Really doesn’t! And repeats it a sufficient number of times that you become convinced of precisely the opposite?
So maybe she does matter after all.
In ABC interviews to be aired today, Palin says a 2012 presidential bid is “not on my radar,” which is Politician for, “We’ll see.”
One e-mail was headed “Palin’s rough year,” which overlooked her $1-million-plus book contract, the kind of rough patch even many Obama Democrats wouldn’t mind enduring in the current job market.
It contained a quote from respected Republican strategist Mike Murphy about Palin saying: “She’ll have a muscular career as a political celebrity, and she’ll have a voice. I just don’t think that she’s a strong political candidate.”
Accidentally absent from the message was any mention that Murphy was a longtime political intimate and strategist for John McCain, whose feckless 2008 campaign staff comes in for so much criticism in Palin’s book.
Interestingly, this column ran November 17, before her book tour actually started with people spending the night outside nin 40 degree weather just to ensure they could see Sarah Palin. As one of her critics wrote, “While Obama ignores his base, Palin nutures hers.” When Palin’s bus rolled into Roanoke around midnight, rather than heading to the hotel, Palin directed the bus to the Barnes & Noble so she could briefly address those spending the night in the cold and thank them for their support. Little things like that separate Sarah Palin from other politicians.
Hat tip: Los Angeles Times
Speaking of Going Beserk …
Wanna have some fun? Caption This.
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? IS ON SUICIDE WATCH !!!!
(AS ARE MOST OTHER UGLY MAN-HATERS)
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Catholic Bishops: Pro-Abortion Senate Health Care Bill “Worst We’ve Seen Yet”
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
November 20, 2009
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) — A pro-life spokesman for the nation’s Catholic bishops doesn’t mince words today an interview about the new Harry Reid health care bill in the Senate that contains massive abortion funding.
The bishops have taken a consistent pro-life stance against using government money for abortions and they say this bill is no exception when it comes to that problem.
Richard Doerflinger, associate director of the bishops’ conference Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities, told the Associated Press today that the Senate bill “is actually the worst bill we’ve seen so far on the life issues.”
Doerflinger called it “completely unacceptable,” adding that “to say this reflects current law is ridiculous.”
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FROM THE GUARDIAN in UK.
Those hoping to judge Palin’s prospects for a presidential run in 2012 will no doubt be further encouraged by these figures. Barack Obama’s bestselling memoir, Dreams from my Father – first published in 1995 – has spent more than 150 weeks in the New York Times bestseller lists. According to book trade magazine Publishers Weekly, together with his political essay The Audacity of Hope it sold just over 239,000 copies in the US in 2008, eclipsed in a single day by Palin. But whether she will still be picking up new readers in a decade’s time remains to be seen.
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A lot of voters are reading her book!
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It’s difficult to imagine anyone as ugly on the inside as Andrea Mitchell is on the outside, but it appears she is.
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OT – Great read…
http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/businesses_hiring_fewer_workers_thanks_to_expanded_unemployment_benefits_in/
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bc3b
It’s difficult to imagine anyone as ugly on the inside as Andrea Mitchell is on the outside, but it appears she is.
Good thing she and her hubby(alan greenspan) are past breeding age.
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caption [in the words Glinda the Good Witch of the North to the Wicked Witch of the East...or was it West?]:
You have no powers here..begone!”
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Ras: ObamaCare 38-56
hahahaha. Go ahead and and try to pass this, dimwits.
Drudge has the link.
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Palin is making all the right moves. Having dinner with Billy and Franklin Graham undercuts Huck’s support with Evangelicals. Starting the book tour in Michigan undercuts Mitt as Michigan’s favorite son status.
Speaking of Mitt, has anyone heard from Mitt, Huck, Newt or T-Paw? Sarah is really sucking all the air out of the room. Imagine what will happen next summer with stadiums/arenas filled with thousands of the faithful.
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Palin in Roanoke slideshow:
http://www.politico.com/click/stories/0911/palin_in_roanoke1.html
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bc,
I said all along that Huck would not run, he’s making too much $$$ with his FOX show.
Newt shot himself in the foot on NY-23.
Palin – Romney one on one is a mis-match.
Whose left????
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Speaking of Mitt, has anyone heard from Mitt, Huck, Newt or T-Paw? Sarah is really sucking all the air out of the room
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Mitt is straight up hiding right now, he might pop his head up after the HC sh1t is over with but since it’s going to be a major topic headed into 2010 mid-terms he may not be quite the asset to some candidates as they originally may have thought. He’s smart to lay low if he plans on running (actually it would have been smarter to just address his issue head on during the summber… but that ship has sailed) in 2012.
Huck is on TV every week, and if he ought to stay there.
T-Paw is a round plenty the last couple weeks.
Newt’s is still around like huck every week if not multiple times per week but he jumped the shark with ny-23, not so much the initial endorsement but how he handled things afterward as things played out.
The lamestream will push Mitt and Huck for the gop in 2012 to keep things fractured and have the two spend and spend vs each other – oh so it appears to me at the present time.
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Whose left????
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dark horses
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justrand – The Wizard of Oz was on last night. Flipping through the channels I hit it just when the scarecrow says——–
Scarecrow: “But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking… don’t they?” Dorothy: “Yes, I guess you’re right.”
I immediately thought of the health care debate. I guess I could have thought of Oak Leaf too.
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The NY Times is saying they won’t publish comments not meant for the public eye regarding the gathering Global Warming Hoax storm.
Circle the Wagons!!!!
As Rush said, have you ever heard of the Pentagon Papers?
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Palin arrives at Fort Bragg to a crowd of hundreds
By MIKE BAKER (AP) – 36 minutes ago
FORT BRAGG, N.C. — Hundreds of people are lined up at an Army base in North Carolina where former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is signing books.
Palin arrived a little after 11 a.m. Monday, waved and went inside the store where she quickly started signing copies of her new memoir. She did not make any statement.
An Army spokesmen says Palin will not make a speech, pose for photos, or personalize notes in the books she signs at the on-post store. Officials estimated as many as 1,500 waited for her arrival. About a dozen people camped out.
The Army had worried the appearance would prompt political grandstanding against President Obama. That fear initially led commanders to limit news coverage, though the restrictions were later dropped.
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“?” wrote at HHR:
“BTW, the number of voters NOT BUYING her book is much, much, much greater that the number of voters buying it.”
Her hatred of Palin is unbelievable. Eph, that’s why I believe “?” has to be a woman. Only another woman could hate Palin so much.
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“As Rush said, have you ever heard of the Pentagon Papers?”
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Or the SWIFT tracking program… or the ACORN whistle blower last year… or we could go on and on.
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bc ? today like most days is unhinged on the topic of Palin.
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“or personalize notes in the books she signs at the on-post store”
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lol some how I doubt they are going to enforce that if she chooses to personalize a note in someone’s book.
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There excuse with swift and TFTP… “information the public needs to make things right again.”
First amendment for me but not for thee..
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Ace would have had a freaking field day with this.
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How come farmers know more about Global Warming than the experts?
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Andrea Mitchell seriously looks like she is one step away from tearing Palin’s throat open with her teeth and ripping her heart from her chest.
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Come back Ace, wherever you are…
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Just what we need in Michigan—–“Very cold and bitterly cold” is how the 2010 Farmers’ Almanac describes the winter in the Great Lakes—-
It can’t get any more frigid than having Granholm in the Gov. Office.
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Well, this is great.
Except Boxer will run interference on all of it.
Check out the appalling hypocrisy of the NYT.
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BREAKING: San Diego ACORN Document Dump Scandal
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“Her hatred of Palin is unbelievable. Eph, that’s why I believe “?” has to be a woman. Only another woman could hate Palin so much.”
I dont know, a gay man would rival a pro abort man-hater any day.
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I hope she tries pg, any ammo she can give her opponents the better.
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“bc ? today like most days is unhinged on the topic of Palin.”
So we should expect a large amount of HHR posters any minutes then
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ACORN is not only a criminal organization, they are also a stupid criminal organization. I can’t believe they didn’t shred those docs. I’m sure they could have found a commercial shredder and watched to make sure those papers were destroyed.
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KH,
I also think a lot of ?’s anger comes from the fact he/she cant stink up this board with her lies. It’s pure frustration to lurk and not post.
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Beautiful–the dumpster-diving techniques of the media and the Left turned around and used on them.
As INC says, they ain’t that bright.
Does that make them more or less dangerous?
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Republicans who go after Sarah won’t get them any more headlines. If they want to be noticed, they are going to have to join her.
This will probably help them but it will probably help Sarah even more. Who will be first to take the risk? Who will be first 2012 hopeful to ride Sarah’s coattails?
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I don’t think you can necessarily assume that Palin is running in 2012.
I think she is doing her best to rally and sustain the conservative opposition. Unlike most politicians, I actually believe her when she says she hasn’t decided.
If a solid conservative emerges, I think she will stay on the sidelines and campaign for them. If it looks like we are stuck with a squish like Romney, I think she will enter the race.
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Poem for ACORN:
Retribution
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small.
Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.
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Another poem for ACORN (and a few politicians we know of):
Truth
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When by night the frogs are croaking, kindle but a torch’s fire,
Ha! How soon they all are silent! Thus Truth silences a liar.
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Here’s to a few more torches to light up the night!
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Is this legal? Follow their link to BO’s site
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JM that was good post. Breast Panels, have to be careful with that phrase the men might get a different idea and instinctively be in favor of them.
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It’s either legal or a gray area JM but if had GWB done it to the extent this dipshit has it would be labeled “an abuse”, “unfair”,” just not right”, “questionable”, “partisan attack machine”,”Hitler tactics”. etc..etc..
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/mapxmlfiles/palinbooktourstops.htm
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Yet another reason why California is truly pathetic:
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/11/23/carly-fiorina-channels-dede-scozzafava-wields-racegender-card-against-conservative-rival/
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I do not assume Palin is running in 2012. What I do assume is the other Republican front runners have to assume she is and will have to gear up their campaigns as if she will be among them.
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44 – I feel left out.
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“Asked why she is a better candidate than her Republican primary opponent Assemblyman Chuck DeVore (R-Calif.), Fiorina said that a woman stands a better chance of defeating Boxer.”
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Actually don’t see the big deal, she just telling the truth.
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That’s gotta suck, if you’re Huck.
(Photo above)
Hat tip: hotairpundit and Charlotte Observer.com
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LOL… so many points to comment on in this thread… maybe I should start playing at BJG the equivalent of Red Eye’s Andy Levy…
Andrea Mitchell being ugly…Well I watched without sound and those were exactly my thoughts without hearing one word. Imagine what it must be to have a woman undermine everything you ever thought about how you lived your life. Also consider between being married to Alan Greenspan and Todd Palin. Not to sound like ? but maybe Andrea hasn’t ever been happy. lol.
Glinda the good witch of the North was speaking to the wicked witch of the West… the house landed on the one from the east? There is a difference between the Baum books and the movie… in the books Glinda was the good witch of the South. LOL…
INC once again demonstrates the depth of her knowledge. I need to spend more time reading to remember all of those things I know I have forgotten (if I ever knew).
FT. Bragg… not a bad turnout considering those attending would have required a military pass to get on base and to be sure the signing was limited to those who purchased the book on site — again military ID required.
All the discussions about Palin continues to make me curious about the behind the scenes panel/group involved in advising her. Everyone on the national stage has a team behind them and I give an enormous amount of credit to the group who is now involved with her. We have seen what the McCain “moderates” did to her — now she is being re-introduced. (Note: I had an encounter or run-in with Nicole Wallace in South Carolina while I was working for Fred Thompson, so my opinion of Ms Wallace is very tainted).
Holder will never go after ACORN — conflict of interest and the 5th amendment. However, those states where the Governor and the Attorney General are Republicans will start the investigation until 2011 when Congress will get involved.
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BcB,
The Frumettes and Nooninites are having a collective seizure at the thought of a Republican speaking to a man of the cloth.
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For those of us who have been sounding the alarm that we are dealing with political thugs and terrorist of an entirely different sort with the new Obama left, its nice finally see some of our conservative political “experts” may be catching on – hopefully the eleceted GOP types will too before its too late:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YTdjMDViMWEwYzBiNDVjMzA0Mzk5YmFhYTI5OGU3M2I=&w=MQ==
“Which raises the ultimate question: Why would so many political animals engage in behavior seemingly designed to eradicate their species? What is going on here?
We voters certainly haven’t moved from where we’ve been for many months now. We still do not trust politicians when they assure us that health reform will lower our health costs or improve the quality of the care we receive. Seniors believe that the quality of Medicare will diminish if Congress shifts a trillion or so in projected Medicare spending to other priorities. Independents, men, those living in middle-income households, and even a surprising percentage of young voters are either overtly hostile to all this or increasingly skeptical.
A surprisingly large number of Democrats in both the House and Senate, moreover, represent “red” constituencies that are chock-full of these voters — states or congressional districts that have voted Republican for president, governor, or other statewide office in recent years, or areas where self-identified conservatives outnumber liberals by large margins. In fact, one can make the case that but for these “Red State Democrats” the current Democratic majorities wouldn’t even exist.
Is there any precedent, then, for the leaders of one of our national parties to rush forward with such an ambitious yet unpopular legislative endeavor?
The short answer is no. Every group of political leaders fancies that, like FDR, it can create and maintain a permanent lock on political power. Another New Deal coalition that will sustain itself decade after decade, from one election to the next, is always within its grasp. So when a threat emerges in the form of a controversial and hugely unpopular legislative initiative, the political operatives study the polls, conduct a few focus groups, read the letters-to-the-editor pages, and calmly advise their party leaders to pull the plug or dramatically revise the legislation in question.
That traditional analysis, however, assumes that party leaders will always act to retain their power and will never knowingly don the robes of a political suicide bomber and pursue a strategy that guarantees its loss.
But what happens if the old instinct of political self-preservation gives way to a new paradigm, a new conception of power? Suppose the new premise is that in the modern age political power is a depreciable asset, something that ebbs and flows, and that, by definition, political majority coalitions are fleeting? What happens if a generation of party leaders concludes that while there are no longer any permanent political victories, permanent policy victories are still to be had? Use it, the bumper sticker might read, because you’re surely going to lose it.
In that case, it makes perfect sense to sacrifice political gains — including, when necessary, knowingly throwing some members of the governing coalition under the bus — if that’s what’s required to achieve an important policy victory. Given liberal hubris, don’t count out the possibility that the practitioners of this new art actually believe they can calibrate these sacrifices so precisely that only an acceptable number of their brethren end up under the bus, and not one more.
This strategy makes even more sense when the policy breakthrough in question, such as the Senate health-reform bill, also promises to create a new class of political rent seekers who, over time, will bestow political rewards on the politicians who bestowed the benefits in the first place.
Far-fetched? Maybe. But this is the only way I can explain why President Obama, Majority Leader Reid, and Speaker Pelosi are so fixated on achieving legislative victories such as health reform that will require perhaps half a dozen Senate Democrats and upwards of 50 of their House Democratic colleagues to walk the political plank.
Otherwise, none of this makes any sense.
—Michael G. Franc is vice president for government relations of the Heritage Foundation.”
It makes perfect sense if you are a Utopian Socialist/Marxist and are seeking to impose a permenant leftist psedeo-Dicatatorship on the population.
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“Daddy feels God was using her to wake America up.”
I guess McCain’s job by contrast was to put us to sleep?
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“maybe I should start playing at BJG the equivalent of Red Eye’s Andy Levy…”
Funniest part of redeye is 1/2 time.
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You are are the cat lady after all.
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MD,
Here is your Obama rescue poll:
PPP(D)has D+8 on generic, RAS has R+5
“Our newest national survey finds that Democrats lead 46-38 on the generic Congressional ballot. ”
hahahahahaha.
D+8 my a$$
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As I have said all along, the “Youts” who ignorantly voted for the “hopey, dopey, changey” bumper-sticker socialist will get screwed by the CrappyCare Individual Mandate ponzi scheme:
http://healthcare.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MmM5NmUxNzc2ODhmMTgwYzgzOWJiMGZmNGQ3NzZkNzU=
“Policy vs. the Young [NRO Staff]
Robert Samuelson writes:
One of our long-running political stories is the economic assault on the young by the old. We have become a society that invests in its past and disfavors the future. This makes no sense for the nation, but as politics it makes complete sense. The elderly and near elderly are better organized, focus obsessively on their government benefits and seem deserving. Grandmas and Grandpas command sympathy.
Everyone knows that the resulting “entitlements” dominate government spending and squeeze education, research, defense and almost everything else. In fiscal 2008 — the last “normal” year before the economic crisis — Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid (programs wholly or primarily dedicated to the elderly) totaled $1.3 trillion, 43 percent of federal spending and more than twice military spending. Because workers, not retirees, are the primary taxpayers, this spending involves huge transfers to the old.
Now comes the House-passed health-care “reform” bill that, amazingly, would extract more subsidies from the young. It mandates that health insurance premiums for older Americans be no more than twice the level of that for younger Americans. That’s much less than the actual health spending gap between young and old. Spending for those age 60 to 64 is four to five times greater than those 18 to 24. So, the young would overpay for insurance that — under the House bill — people must buy: Twenty- and thirtysomethings would subsidize premiums for fifty-and sixtysomethings. (Those 65 and over receive Medicare.)”
Isnt it nice to be a useful idiot, eh Youts?
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If a solid conservative emerges, I think she will stay on the sidelines and campaign for them. If it looks like we are stuck with a squish like Romney, I think she will enter the race. Phineas
So you are saying she will run.
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KOSers are morons as they think CrappyCare doesnt go far enough fast enough!
They dont even need the so-called Government Option: Newflash KOS Useful Idiot – its still a government socialist medicine takeover.
Let me break it down for the moronic KOSer. The Federal government under the CrappyCare plan will control:
- How Insurance companies do business
- Make them sell to everyone irregardless of personal status
- Dictate to them the prices they can charge
- Force everyone (employers and individuals) in the country to participate in direct government medical welfare program or buy the government quasui-private insurance
- Pay trillions in new government subsidies directly to the middle class to create dependecy on government for medical care
- Jack taxes sky high to kill the economy and force you into the expanded medicaide or SCHIP programs ie more welfare dependency
- Will be able to ration care thru regulator power on private insurance/providers/government medical welfare programs
With this level of power and control, how is this anything but full up nationalization and socialist medicine?
Sheesh, this idiot get upset simple over what NAMES the socialist HC program is given. Just because the government technocrats exercise control of the socialist medical system thru what amounts to heavily regulated public utilities cum quasi-government medical welfare agencies that will be permited to operated on a small for-profit basis (as long as they can, which wont be that long really) doesnt change what this is.
This goes to show you what simpletons these KOS useful idiots are – they dont even understand they have exactly what they want with or without a government option.
Unfortunately, the statist thugs in the D leadership know exactly what this is and what it will produce and thats why they are pushing it cum hell/high water!
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Caption for the Pic — Unstoppable.
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Hey KH,
Somehow I think the ACORN scandal will have the same outcome as the Pennsy SEIU executive committee resigning vis a vis the Eagle Scout. Wonder if the BS give out merit badges for political take downs?
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59. good one!
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Now comes the House-passed health-care “reform” bill that, amazingly, would extract more subsidies from the young. It mandates that health insurance premiums for older Americans be no more than twice the level of that for younger Americans. — WEC
Keep in mind that as structured the Senate plan does not dictate that the monies received be dedicated to health care disbursement.
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This woman is a wonder.
I would love an
America is Going Rogue Shirt
just to drive the Dem’s nuts
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Hey, gatekeeper, I haven’t seen you comment before.
Welcome to BJG!
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60 – If they don’t they should Dr.
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“America is Going Rogue Shirt”
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An excellent idea!
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I should have mentioned that–I think it’s great as well.
T-shirts and bumper stickers!
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Check Cafepress.com. It’s got a lot of Palin stuff (and some anti-Palin stuff).
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LOL… those youts still support Obamahellcare because they haven’t done the math. So the spending limit is that I as an older citizen cannot be required to spend more than 2x for my insurance than that hopey, dopey, changey 25 year old. It has been many years since I knew the full cost of my insurance coverage through COBRA and being self-employed; however, back in 2004 the average premium paid by that single 25 year old was $1,345, while the 50 year old was paying $3,173.
boring data p.5
Does anyone want to venture the guess if the gap can only be 2x will my premiums drop $483 to $2,690, or will that 25 year old hopey, dopey, change girlie be hit with the increase of $242. Answer anyone? Anyone? Now that $242 might not seem all that much but $242 in girlie world equals 3 trips to the hair salon for cut and highlights, or 5 trips to the nail salon for a manicure or pedicure.
LOL…. Obama voters …. too stupid to realize they did this too themselves….lol…
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Youth is wasted on the young.
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How much does one of those “come hither, check this out, tramp stamps” cost?
Wait. Cancel that.
I don’t really want to know.
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Hello INC,
Yes I am new to posting …..but a long time reader.
And I really want My
America Is going Rogue t-shirt
I think I will talk to a few silk screeners and see about a design
for the next t party.
The Dems will just hate it.
Wonder if I can work a gun into the design that would make them wet their
pant. Sara and her shoot gun.LOL