28
Apr 10

Another Reason to Repeal Obamacare

Yesterday the Blogosphere was abuzz with the news that the administration knew in advance that the costs of health care will skyrocket under Obamacare.  The American Spectator reported that the CMS report outlining huge leaps in costs to consumers was provided to HHS secretary Kathleen Sebelius in advance of the vote on health care.

American Spectator went on to report:
“We know a copy was sent to the White House via their legislative affairs staff,” says the HHS staffer, “and there were a number of meetings here almost right after the analysis was submitted to the secretary’s office. Everyone went into lockdown, and people here were too scared to go public with the report.”

Later in the day, this damning information was rebutted by CMS director Richard Forster, who denied that the White House had the report in advance.

I certainly don’t know what is true but I do know that we now have proof that this law falls outside of the President’s own criteria for health care legislation, and the opposition to the law continues to grow.  Close to 60% of the American public do not want Obamacare.

This report provides a perfect opportunity to repeal the law.  The president said repeatedly that he would not sign a bill if it “bent the cost curve upward.”  We now have proof that it does. (We should also ask why Congress and the administration would force the bill to a vote before the CMS report was available. This alone seems like malpractice)

The president is now campaigning around the country on containing the deficit, which his administration has increased beyond recognition.  From my perspective, this administration came into office, immediately began looting everyone’s savings and is now demanding that we, the citizens cut back, so our elected overlords can continue to live at the Ritz.

Well here is a start on cutting that deficit Mr. President:  Tell Congress to repeal the bill.

He won’t of course, because this was never about containing costs or providing health care.  It was always about accumulating power.  (But wouldn’t it be fascinating to see how many democrats would now vote for repeal given the fallout from their earlier vote?)


17
Apr 10

Why I “Hate” The Gays

The Massachusetts republican convention was held today in Worcester and I was a delegate.  It was my first convention and I found the process fascinating and boring at the same time.  My friend Caro had press credentials for the event, so while I was in the furthest corner of the room she was stationed on the floor, dead center.  During a lull in the action I made my way into the action at the press table.  I sat down next to Caro and was flanked by a man named Chuck who announced that he was there as an independent reporter doing a story on state senator Richard Tisei who was running for Lieutenant Governor.   Tisei is openly gay.

When Chuck sat down next to Caro he announced to her that he was about to rock the republican world. Apparently Chuck was unaware that everyone in the room knew Tisei’s sexual status.   I struck up a conversation with Chuck and it wasn’t long before his disdain for me was dripping out all over.  He announced quickly that he was gay.  My reaction was pretty much:  “yeah – and?”  But it soon became clear that Chuck believed that he was among the enemy.  First he dissed the tea partiers, announcing that it was stupid to demand that no one pay taxes.  I replied that wasn’t what the tea partiers stood for.  He then told me it didn’t matter because the tea party spits on black people.  I replied there was no evidence for that.  He didn’t care because all republicans are racist homophobes and the joke was on us because we were about to nominate a self -loathing  gay man as Lieutenant governor.

Chuck then demanded to know my position on gay marriage.  I told him I was for gay marriage but against the way it was passed in MA because it is a legislative issue not a decision for the Courts.  Chuck informed me that the there are 3 branches of government, they are equal and the Courts are supposed to make laws.

He told me that he loved Obamacare and who could dispute how wonderful it is for 26 year olds to be on their parents insurance policies.  (Funny how these days that’s the only benefit fans of Obamacare can cite.)  I suggested that kids were better suited to making their own way in the world than staying on their parent’s insurance long after they should be self-supporting.   I told him that I took great pride in making my own way as a young adult and I didn’t think we wanted to rob our kids of those lessons.  He proclaimed that there was more to life than money, and asked why I hated the middle class.

At that point I had more than enough of the gay man who relished outing Massachusetts’ next Lieutenant Governor with more than an extra large dose of self-loathing glee.

But then again, I’m simply another racist republican homophobe.


08
Apr 10

Free Medical Here

The intrepid Rick Ballard helps out all those people showing up for their free medical care:

I read somewhere that President Obama is very upset about people not realizing the true value of Obamacare. It’s my understanding that he wants everyone who feels a need to have their unpaid medical expenses paid (or reimbursed, if paid by accident) to forward the bill to:

FREE MEDICAL
c/o Democratic National Committee
430 S. Capitol St. SE
Washington, DC 20003


07
Apr 10

My Outrage Keeps Getting Usurped By More Outrage

I was complaining to my business partner this morning that I didn’t even get a chance to talk about Obamacare on my radio show Tuesday because so many other outrages have edged out that outrage.  This administration is working so quickly to destroy this country that the opposition is constantly racing from one wrong to another.  Heck remember the closing of GITMO usurped by government funding of abortion, which was then usurped by Government capping executive salaries until it was  usurped by expansion of union power, which then got usurped by the stimulus package?

That was all before the President’s first speech to a joint session of Congress.

The outrages continued:

My outrage over the announced withdrawal of troops from Iraq was usurped, by outrage about the Omnibus Act, which was replaced by outrage over administrations failure to support the protesters in Iran. That outrage was soon usurped by the President’s change in GITMO standards including the prohibition of the term “enemy combatant”.

It was barely a blink of the eye before the President took over GM and Chrysler which was outrageous enough until he decided to ignore the bankruptcy statute, and in his own special way convinced shareholders not to cross him.  Outrageous!

And before that outrage wore out, POTUS  released justice department memos from the Bush administration on enhanced interrogation so his base could take up a witch hunt for John Yoo.  The ink on that outrage had barely dried when the President outraged us by nominating a woman to the Supreme Court whose major accomplishment was elevating minorities over white people under the law. While the smoke was still coming out of my ears the president flew to Saudi Arabia to bow to the king.  And if that wasn’t outrageous enough the President continued his campaign to rid America of its “exceptional” status in a series of overseas apologies.

Next we had the flawed Cash for Clunkers program - an outrageous waste of money spent while the president heated up the healthcare rhetoric.  Meanwhile unemployment continued to skyrocket to outrageous levels.

Next outrage turned to embarrassment when the President traveled to Copenhagen to lose the Olympics for Chicago. Shortly thereafter the president received the Nobel Peace Prize for something that may or may not happen in the future.

And that was just in the first year.

In January during the state union address the the president promised to pivot to “jobs, jobs, jobs” and then promptly didn’t.  He also managed to insult the entire Supreme Court by misstating the ruling in Citizens United v.Federal Election Commission and then chastising the Court for his error.  That was outrageous enough for a “constitutional scholar” and even more so for a president.

Before that outrage was even digested we learned that the president spent so much of our money that he created the largest one month deficit in history  $220 billion IN ONE MONTH.

Still no “jobs, jobs, jobs”.  Then the health care debacle got re-ratcheted up.  First we got the outrageous “Slaughter rule” followed by the more outrageous reconciliation bill.  Now that the bill has passed and in the words of Nancy Pelosi, “we can find out what’s in it” my outrage continues to grow. Free viagra for pedophiles is just the tip of the iceberg it seems.

Today I awake to the signing of an outrageous treaty with Russia which will debilitate our country’s defenses. I can only imagine what outrage will usurp this outrage.  The only thing I know for sure is that it will happen, probably sooner than later.


30
Sep 09

FWDAJ Extra – 2009-09-30

It’s the second installment absolutely no one requested! This time I’m covering –in a wholly untimely fashion– Jane’s comments on the April 15th Tea Parties, Democratic hypocrisy, the CIA torture investigation, Obama & racism, and healthcare. This episode is about twice as long as the first, so if you disliked it, you’re really gonna hate this one a bunch.

Oh, and stay tuned for a full episode of FWDAJ, which I’m editing even as I post this.