#3
How much do you want to beat that Gordon and Sarah Brown don't have to wait for any medical care or go before an administrator for review for access in Britain? /rhetorical question
#1
Feeling victimized by misinformation spread virally through the Internet
As opposed to victimization of the American public from misinformation spread by Mr. Tapper and his ilk?
Posted by: Mullah Richard ||
08/13/2009 11:58 Comments ||
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#2
have to remember that Axlerod is the king of astroturfing - a Professional Grade Liar (like Zero) - he can't conceive that there can be a real grassroots movement out there.
#4
I'd say something cutting about the sort of person who could get made the Most Powerful Man In The World and still complain that he's a victim, but I can think of at least two presidents in my lifetime who were prone to similar bouts of paranoid self-pity - Nixon and Clinton.
Posted by: Mitch H. ||
08/13/2009 13:57 Comments ||
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#5
Ya' forgot Cahtah, Mitch.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
08/13/2009 18:07 Comments ||
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#6
The difference between Obama and Nixon, Clinton, Carter, etc., is that The One has never ever faced any real opposition before in his life. That makes his reaction to someone telling him "no" and meaning it a little bit unpredictable. I'm guessing if he feels provoked it's gonna get incredibly ugly.
#2
Please get your fitness on Hillary. As for Michelle-O, relative youth and being wide as barn doors is even less becoming. We really have become a fast food nation.
#5
Man there are a lot of people in this administration who take one foot out of his/her mouth only long enough to put the other foot in. Yes Hillary, the pantsuit makes your a$$ look big as well as your mouth.
#7
No, SHillery - it's not the pantsuit that makes your ass look fat....
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
08/13/2009 18:06 Comments ||
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#8
Some comedian said that women claim they want honesty from their men. Yet, when his wife asked him if the dress made her look fat, he answered "Honey, the dress has nothing to do with it." Next thing he knew he woke up in the hospital.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia ||
08/13/2009 22:53 Comments ||
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#9
The poor dear ought to consult former Governor Palin's stylist instead of her own taste. She's still wearing the soft colours and shapes of a president's wife rather than the power suits of the third most powerful person (by some measures) in the world.
#1
The polling shows 43% for Toomey and 35% for Sestak. In June, Sestak had a six-point edge over Toomey.
That's the race right there.
Sestak trails Specter by 13 points in the race for the Democratic nomination.
Specter is toast; he's going to lose in the primary. Sestak's support is limited now by the fact that relatively few have heard of him; whereas lots and lots of people know and dislike Specter. His support has nowhere to go but down while Sestak has plenty of room to come up.
Posted by: Steve White ||
08/13/2009 10:56 Comments ||
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#2
A lot can happen before the election.... but it looks like a 2006 type election for the ruling party.
I hope. I would love to see a huge portion of long time dhimocrats tossed out on their ear.
#3
After listening to Senator Weathervane at the State College town hall, I've come to the decided conclusion that he's going hard on socialized medicine in an attempt to get to the left of Sestak in the primary race. He loudly and repeatedly insisted on his preference for old-fashioned deep-pink single payer over the current Pelosi-Reid-Obama "public option" plan, even in the face of a crowd largely and vocally hostile to any reform bill whatsoever. He was playing to the doctrinaire Democratic/progressive minority in the crowd - especially the activists.
Posted by: Mitch H. ||
08/13/2009 14:03 Comments ||
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#4
A lot can happen before the election.... but it looks like a 2006 type election for the ruling party.
#3
Seriously, Rove has a weekly column in the WS Journal. This week he accused BHO of still "campaigning" even from the White House.
There is a Presidential etiquette rule: NEVER APPEAR WEAK. At least the Clintons came out of their Health initiative fiasco; BHO looks clobbered already, and this is prior to the real legislator political season. Actually, Reagan attacked opponents with bare knuckles, as President.
#6
The little girl reading from prepared notes, asking about those evil people with signs standing outside the lovely town hall meeting...., absolutely too much. Did the poor helpless, simple minded bastard think he could get away with that one?
#8
Commercial couriers came about as a result of inefficiencies in the US Post Office. Their pitch for a Government-funded Health insurance plan is the exact opposite. This isnt Obama simply misspeaking again. This is Obama throwing in the towel on the Public Option.
#9
I like to think of the President as a great uniter - of people against his programs. I've never seen such a broad base of people activated like this.
Posted by: Richard of Oregon ||
08/13/2009 12:34 Comments ||
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#10
You'd be surprised at what they'll get away with. Most Americans don't follow politics and the majority of those that do only follow headlines. Hopefully there are enough people going to protests that most people will know someone and can get a first person account.
#11
In defense of the USPS, they are "mandated" to deliver every day to every address at a set rate.
Fed Ex, UPS doesn't meet any of these 3 criteria.
A birthday card delivered across town costs the same as delivered to Guam.
My point being, the USPS is exactly what an organization run by mandates looks like, and supports why I am opposed to Obamacare.
For a long time I thought "mandates" refered to getting together with the guys to watch to game...
#12
I'd be stunned if the POTUS is even in the top half of "smartest" presidents ever.
Middling at best, with great capacity for short-time recitation/test-taking skills, but for wisdom or insight, let alone creativity - not near the top of the list.
#3
Off topic: Redneck Jim, you're right -- I completely missed the sarcasm. I read things pretty literally most of the time, so need little hints like /sarc or ;-) . Sorry 'bout that. :-(
#5
All of this has absolutely nothing to do with health care or insurance, or anything of the kind. It is simply a vehicle. It is Barry and his cadre's goal to establish new Federal agencies and a colossus super bureacracy through the hiring of hundreds of thousands possibly millions of like-minded, affirmative action Chicago style patronage employees dedicated to his leftest social goals and re-election in 2012, 2016, 2020 and beyond.
Anyone besides me note the absence of "diversity" in the town hall meetings? The patronage, affirmative action, pay-them-off with gov't jobs and they will be quiet mentality did not beging with Barry. He just kicked it up a notch or two. Barry is simply bringing the chickens home to roost and the evil, blue eyed devils are paying the freight.
President Obama insists that overhauling the nation's costly health care system is critical to economic recovery. But Americans aren't convinced. "He also inherited a crack in the Liberty Bell. I don't want to that fix either. I do not want healthcare fixed," said one man.
simce the new format here I can't figure out how to post the story just the headline.
#8
Ptah: There is also the veterinary meaning of the word "fixed".
Come to think of it, that might be part of the "plan" as well. That is, to offer teenage boys free castration. Of course, on a "voluntary" basis. Like, if they go to prison. They won't need testicles if they are in prison. And they can be put back on once they get out. Doctors do that all the time.
#12
Speaking of prison, some horrible harridan at Wednesday's State College town hall offered prison health care as a model for the sort of government health care she wanted. I wish I was joking.
Posted by: Mitch H. ||
08/13/2009 14:07 Comments ||
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#13
#6 Beavis, click on "post your own article" at the top of the page rather than "post a news link"
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
08/13/2009 18:03 Comments ||
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