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Repeal, reform, and replace the narrative

Writing the day after ObamaCare’s passage in the House, Jonathan Tobin at the Contentions blog framed the event as he believes the Democrats see it: [T]his bill’s purported goal of providing affordable health insurance to every American is seen by Obama and his backers as not only just but also inevitable, much the same way [...]

Now that it’s done

¶ Posted 21 March 2010 † CK MacLeod § Barack Obama § Health Care ‡ Comments (52) ° Tagged: Matthew Yglesias, Obamacare

CONTENTION OF THE DAY – if you’re not cheating, you’re not trying?

There ain’t no rules here, we’re trying to accomplish something. . . All this talk about rules. . . . When the deal goes down . . . we make ‘em up as we go along. Alcee Hastings (D-Fl) – via Rules? This. Is. Congress! – Daniel Foster – The Corner on National Review Online.

¶ Posted 20 March 2010 † CK MacLeod § Contention of the Day § Democratic Party § Health Care ‡ Comments Off ° Tagged: Obamacare, Self-Slaughter

Another Liberal Effort to “Save Us from Ourselves”

New York’s liberal politicians have been busy little automatons lately, working tirelessly to fix the city’s unbroken restaurants. First came Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s edict that the amount of salt used in restaurants be constrained by rigid Health Department-imposed guidelines. Then came a ruling from the Board of Health last week that restaurants be required to [...]

¶ Posted 20 March 2010 † Howard Portnoy § ‡ Comments (42) °

Snakes on the Fruited Plain

Slublog – The Greenroom – Signs of Stage Two.

¶ Posted 19 March 2010 † CK MacLeod § 2010 Elections § Health Care § Tea Party ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: Tea Party

Democrats, the Party of Rugged Noncomformist Adults

“If Johnny jumps off a bridge, are you going to do it, too?” When I was growing up, this question, whose clear underlying intent was to reinforce the importance of critical thinking and sound decision making, was asked at one time or another of every child by his parent. Usually, it was in response to [...]

¶ Posted 19 March 2010 † Howard Portnoy § Health Care ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: Congress

CONTENTION OF THE DAY – Operation Infinite Faith

I personally am not out on a ledge. (But then I never bought the whole Obama campaign whoop-de-do.) Should this pass, I have infinite faith that the American people will deliver a mortal electoral blow to those politicians who thought they could shred anything to get their way. And then bit by bit — or [...]

¶ Posted 18 March 2010 † CK MacLeod § Contention of the Day § Health Care ‡ Comments (87) ° Tagged: Obamacare, Zombiecare

Obama on FOX: 11 Minutes I’ll Never Get Back

Last night in case you missed it (in which case, consider yourself lucky), Barack Obama appeared on FOX News Channel’s “Special Report with Bret Baier.” Yes, this is the same FOX News that Obama and his cohorts dismissed as a non-news organization. That would seem to make the president look like something of a sap, [...]

¶ Posted 18 March 2010 † Howard Portnoy § Barack Obama § Health Care ‡ Comments (24) °

If Obama wins on health care reform…

Two stories, like the A story and the B story in a formulaic teleplay, have been dominating political news this week. The main story is, of course, Health Care Reform. The B story, developing independently, is tensions in the U.S.-Israel alliance. There wouldn’t seem to be an objective link between the two stories, but a [...]

¶ Posted 17 March 2010 † CK MacLeod § Barack Obama § Health Care § Israel ‡ Comments (20) ° Tagged: Israel, Obama, Obamacare, Zombiecare

An Assault on FOX News by—Howell Raines??

It sounds like something straight out of The Onion: A critique of FOX News by one of the most biased, least open-minded individuals ever to sully the profession of journalism, Howell Raines. If the name is unfamiliar, Raines (whose mugshot appears at the left) is a former executive editor at the New York Times, another [...]

¶ Posted 14 March 2010 † Howard Portnoy § Health Care § Media ‡ Comments (4) °

CARTOONTION OF THE DAY – OBAMA AKBAR!

Michael Ramirez Cartoon.

¶ Posted 13 March 2010 † CK MacLeod § Contention of the Day § Health Care ‡ Comments Off ° Tagged: Obamacare, Zombiecare

CONTENTION OF THE DAY – THE LAW OF IRONY STRIKES AGAIN

[E]even if ObamaCare passes, Democrats and President Obama will lose. Republicans have already vowed to make November a referendum on this bill and, by all auguries, Democrats are going to lose big time. The loss of one election if the larger cause succeeds wouldn’t be a big deal. But this bill has little legitimacy and [...]

¶ Posted 12 March 2010 † CK MacLeod § Barack Obama § Health Care ‡ Comments (29) ° Tagged: Obama, Obamacare

Raskolnikov vs Nordberg

From Keith Hennessey’s latest check on the vitals of Obamacare (Health care reform CPR), a usefully useless allusion: Doctors say that Nordberg has a 50/50 chance of living, though there’s only a 10 percent chance of that. – George Kennedy as Ed Hocken in The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad Matthew Continetti, [...]

¶ Posted 08 March 2010 † CK MacLeod § Health Care ‡ Comments (7) ° Tagged: ICareYouCareWeAllCare, Obamacare, Zombiecare

CONTENTION OF THE DAY – New Politics

Even as [Congressman Jim] Matheson basks in the glow of presidential bribery, Eric Massa, a renegade Democrat from the Southern Tier of New York State faces his wrath. Massa’s sin was to vote against Obamacare. So Pelosi and the ethically-challenged House Ethics Committee are investigating him for “verbally abusing” a male member of his staff. [...]

¶ Posted 05 March 2010 † CK MacLeod § Contention of the Day § Democratic Party § Health Care ‡ Comments (42) ° Tagged: Alan Mollohan, Dick Morris, Eric Massa, Ethics, Jim Matheson, Obama, Pelosi

The Simplest Explanation on Obamacare

Karl at the Hot Air Greenroom has put up a typically informative post (“ObamaCare: Burning down the House“) on the current confusing state of play regarding Obamacare. 2 bills? 3 bills? No bill? A new bill? House first? House not there yet? Try just to say you did? Before Easter? After Easter? If it’s a [...]

¶ Posted 02 March 2010 † CK MacLeod § Health Care ‡ Comments (20) ° Tagged: Healthcare, Obamacare, Pelosicare, ReidCare, WeJustDon'tCare, Zombiecare

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Zolt The Jew: I finished "The Israel Test" on the plane coming home from the beach, Colin et all my dear frems. I will try to email Colin a brief review tomorrow. It is a very important book, of just over 250 big print pages. I could write more on it right now but right now the blonde below is distracting my attention. There is something about blondes with that look and the puckered lips which drives Jewish men crazy, crazy, crazy, even after a full day of Shabbas prayer, oy vey!
CK MacLeod: The Blonde Below...
CK MacLeod: Stop distracting me... I'm conjoining universes...
narciso: Just to get it straight, you're talking about Lady Gaga,
fustidious: clean up on the recbrow aisle needed!
CK MacLeod: feh
fuster the never satisfried: I see that you've grown more fond of the menu on top thing. I liked it from the git, but wonder if you might to able to work on the eye-appeal of it.
Howard Portnoy: Wow, it's my first time here since your remodeled, Czar. Looks great! Kudos.
narciso: Moved on to the last of Larsson, the reason for Sljander's rather idiosyncraticpersonality, her father is a Soviet GRU defector protected by the evil Swedish state security, Sapo, Larsson's journalist background does allow him to expound on the 'national security state' hidden in Social Democracy

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- when you’re a designated shepherd or sheepdog…
  March 6, 2010 | 12:17 pm
  … (remember you can designate yourself) part of you is actually glad to see a wolf, because now you can prove to everyone how important you are, by bossing everyone around for their own good.
  
  “A doctor and a peasant know more than a doctor alone,” the Italians used to say. Self-appointed doctors everywhere are working to suppress this insight. Human societies can save themselves from the next wolf, if they are allowed to do so; but it is hard for them to save themselves from the shepherds.
  
  Margo @ Yet another global warming apocalypse.
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Collected Poetry of Sully
- Telomeres
  February 17, 2010 | 6:23 am
  Telomeres of defined length,
  Were by his God in mankind bent,
  To make it sure that aged ones,
  Would pass to make room for their sons,
  Before they learn to mount the hill,
  They yearn to climb, their God to kill.
  
  New daughters too then see their day,
  As the used up old fair pass away,
  And the brighter young can in their turn,
  Seek their creator’s iron rules to spurn.
  
  One day mankind may beat the odds,
  And take on the powers of the gods.
  Sure on that day He’ll mold an image,
  And include within his toy’s equippage,
  A strictly limited telomere,
  To set for it a cliff that’s sheer.
  
  For once a former God is whipped,
  Displaced by his toy free will equipped,
  The former toy learns something odd,
  About possession of the mind of God,
  Namely, knowledge of the entire script,
  Makes the endless now a boring crypt.
  
  Mere mechanical beasts are not a cure,
  For their script entire a God knows for sure,
  To divert a toy must have free will,
  And at least a chance to climb the hill,
  There to displace its God, a bitter pill
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