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Monthly Archives August 2010

A PARODY OF O’S HEALTHCARE.GOV VIDEO

John R. Graham, of the Pacific Research Institute, sends up Obama’s video about HealthCare.gov. My favorite part is his mention of Harry Reid’s letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius whining about reimbursement cuts to Nevada hospitals:
I am very concerned that this proposal will result in a net reduction in payment to Nevada’s hospitals when they are […]

Posted 10 August 2010 † Catron § Hospital BS § Obamacare BS § Political BS ‡ Comments (0)

VIDEO: A METEOROLOGICAL METAPHOR FOR THE MIDTERMS

If the electorate is as angry as I think it is, this video of a Minnesota tornado provides a good metaphor for what is about to happen in the November midterms. Think of the tornado as voter wrath, and think of the farmhouse as the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives.

BTW—According to news reports, no one was […]

Posted 09 August 2010 † Catron § Democrat BS § Midterm BS ‡ Comments (0)

DUMBEST REFORM POST OF THE WEEK (XIV)

The past week produced a lot of tough competition for this coveted prize.  For sheer cluelessness, however, this post by JournoList founder Ezra Klein takes the bisquit. He manages to say something stupid in almost every line. He begins by repeating the following idiotic canard:
I’m really not sure why conservatives are so excited that an electorate primarily made […]

Posted 09 August 2010 † Catron § Dumb BS § JournoList BS § Mandate BS § Obamacare BS ‡ Comments (1)

KRUGMAN BENDS THE PLAUSIBILITY CURVE

Paul Krugman isn’t a stupid man. He is, however, such a slave to his ideology that he often makes claims for which the only appropriate adjective is ”dumb.” Yesterday, for example, he produced a blog post in which he made following preposterous assertion:
[T]he Medicare actuaries believe that the cost-saving provisions in the Obama health reform will make a huge […]

Posted 06 August 2010 † Catron § Cost BS § Dumb BS § Economics BS § Medicare BS § Obamacare BS § Reform BS ‡ Comments (0)

VIDEO: HOWARD DEAN SAYS OBAMACARE MANDATE IS A GONER

He also says that ObamaCare will be fine without it, which means he doesn’t know that the Democrats in Congress were too stupid to put a severability clause in the final legislation. The absence of such a clause means that, if the Supreme Court declares the mandate unconstitutional (as it probably will), the entire ObamaCare […]

Posted 06 August 2010 † Catron § Constitutional BS § Mandate BS § Obamacare BS ‡ Comments (2)

45,000 DEMOCRAT ACTIVISTS VOTED AGAINST OBAMACARE IN MISSOURI REFERENDUM

About 585,000 GOP and third-party voters showed up at the polls, but the anti-Obamacare measure received 670,000 votes. So, who were the other 85,000 people who voted for Prop-C? Michael Tanner does the math:
Even if the 40,000 or so voters who apparently cast a vote for Proposition C but not for a primary candidate all voted in […]

Posted 04 August 2010 † Catron § Democrat BS § Mandate BS § Obamacare BS § Repeal BS ‡ Comments (0)

MSM PEDDLES PROP-C WHOPPER

The Democrat party line on Missouri’s anti-Obamacare referendum is that it presents no serious legal obstacle for the implementation of Obamacare because federal law supersedes state law. This BS is, of course, being repeated throughout the establishment “news” media. CBS provides a typical example:
Federal law generally supersedes state law, making the [Proposition C] vote essentially symbolic.
This […]

Posted 04 August 2010 † Catron § MSM BS § Mandate BS § Obamacare BS § Repeal BS ‡ Comments (9)

ANTI-OBAMACARE MEASURE PASSES BY HUGE MARGIN IN MISSOURI REFERENDUM

It looks like Missouri’s Proposition-C, which forbids the government (state or federal) from forcing the citizens of the “Show-Me State” to buy health insurance, has passed with about 70% of the vote.
Predictably, Proposition-C’s opponents (including most of the “news” media) are putting out a lot of misinformation about the referendum. The full text is here, but the […]

Posted 03 August 2010 † Catron § Constitutional BS § Mandate BS § Obamacare BS ‡ Comments (1)

VIDEO: VIRGINIA AG KENNETH CUCCINELLI DISCUSSES HIS ANTI-OBAMACARE LAWSUIT

As everyone in the galaxy knows by now, a U.S. District Court dealt the Obama DOJ a severe blow today by refusing to dismiss a lawsuit against ObamaCare filed by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. The administration had argued that Virginia has no standing to sue, but the judge wasn’t buying. In this video (via […]

Posted 02 August 2010 † Catron § Constitutional BS § Obamacare BS ‡ Comments (0)

OBAMACARE: JUDGE HANDS DOJ A MAJOR DEFEAT IN CONSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGE

U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson has refused to grant a dismissal requested by the Obama administration in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of ObamaCare. The administration had argued that Virginia has no standing to sue, but the judge didn’t buy that BS:
Virginia’s lawsuit challenging the Obama administration’s health care reform law cleared its first legal hurdle Monday […]

Posted 02 August 2010 † Catron § Constitutional BS § Mandate BS § Obamacare BS ‡ Comments (0)