One of the least insightful questions I have ever encountered on health care reform (excluding any asked by Ezra Klein, of course) was posed by Andrew Sullivan yesterday:
Is there not a good argument to be made now that Obama, having failed to win any serious Republican support, should give his party what it wants: a public option or, at […]
Health Care BS
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MISSING THE POINT ON HEALTH REFORM
ZOGBY: LIKELY VOTERS OPPOSE OBAMACARE
A Zogby International poll shows that, when asked about specifics, likely voters hate Obamacare. Here are some highlights:
70% disapprove of a law requiring people to buy health insurance.
75% say taxes shouldn’t be raised to fund the public option.
78% favor tort reform to rein in frivolous medical lawsuits.
77% oppose taxing employer-provided health insurance benefits.
This is very bad news for […]
JIMMA HAS BEEN BRAYING AGAIN
Yesterday, I suggested that the president and his political allies plan to deploy the race card in every policy debate. As if to prove my point, the most incompetent buffoon ever to occupy the oval office has accused Obama’s political opponents of racism:
I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is […]
SIGN OF THE TIMES
Well, the president’s supporters in the blogosphere and the media have decided that the 9-12 demonstrations amounted to little more than a giant KKK rally. As the following suggests, we hardly needed Nostradamus on hand to predict this:
It’s pretty obvious that these people are planning to deploy the race card in every policy debate from now until 2012. Being utterly […]
HEY! IT’S RAINING ON MY LEG!
This is one of the funniest town hall videos I’ve seen. The geezer with the mike gives Pete Stark hell for about a minute and a half, then tells him:
Congressman, don’t pee on my leg and tell me it’s raining.
Stark responds like the jerk that he is, telling the man “I wouldn’t dignify you by […]
YES WE CAN … THROW YOU OUT
This was an often-heard chant at the 9-12 anti-Obamacare demonstration, and the AP suggests that it may well become a reality if the president and his congressional accomplices ignore the message:
Despite sweeping Democratic successes in the past two national elections, continuing job losses and President Barack Obama’s slipping support could lead to double-digit losses for the party in next […]
OBAMACARE & PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS
Andrew Sullivan raises an issue that many opponents of Obamacare have difficulty handling: the plight of patients with pre-existing conditions. He begins, however, with a paean to the U.S. health care system:
Only 15 years ago, the retrovirus, HIV, was killing thousands in America … I was told in 1993 that I had a few years to live. I write […]
D.C. PROTESTS: THE PARTY LINE
The Obots were unpleasantly surprised by the size of yesterday’s demonstration, but their reaction is utterly predictable. They are already claiming the crowd was far smaller than it actually was, that it was just a bunch of crazies, and that it was all about racism.
My favorite piece of BS is the claim made throughout the wackosphere that […]
HOW 1994 HAPPENED
In the months leading up to the Republican congressional victory in 1994, Beltway Democrats and their toadeaters in the “news” media kept dismissing the opposition as a bunch of fringe nutburgers.
And that is precisely how President Oblarney’s supporters in the establishment media and the blogosphere are treating today’s demonstrators in D.C. Andrew Sullivan provides a case in point:
This is as sick […]
HEALTH REFORM, BIG POTUS SPEECH, IT ALL SEEMS FAMILIAR SOMEHOW
The president’s supporters are euphoric today because they think he hit a home run last night. Many actually think it saved the game in the 9th inning. Perhaps, but Jonathan Oberlander over at the Health Affairs Blog provides a reminder that we have been here before:
On September 22, 1993, President Bill Clinton spoke to a joint […]