Sebelius calls her SEIU “brothers and sisters” to battle; Dennis Rivera decries “terrorist tactics”

By Michelle Malkin  •  August 7, 2009 03:11 PM

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius held a brief conference call with SEIU members this afternoon.

She hailed them as her “brothers and sisters” and urged them to show up at town hall meetings.

She gave the same stultifying mini-lecture about the sanctity of Medicare. “Change is not easy,” she droned. “We need to roll up our sleeves.”

No mention of how SEIU thugs rolled up their sleeves and attacked a black conservative protester in St. Louis or ran interference in Tampa Bay.

In an attempt to reassure SEIU members that senior citizens would not suffer under Obamacare, Sebelius said “Saving lives saves dollars.” Which might come as news to Zeke Emanuel.

Sebelius thanked an SEIU member who showed up at the Tampa Bay melee and urged more to get involved. “Keep doing what you’re doing.”

SEIU heavy Dennis Rivera then took over, taking calls from scripted SEIU members who read statements (one of which was painfully, barely coherent).

Rivera closed by railing against the “radical fringe” of “right-wingers” and urged his “Purple Army” to fight “terrorist tactics.”

Pot and kettle.

***

Fun fact about Anna Burger’s staff from Culture of Corruption:

Another Stern administration protégé, Annelle Grajeda, rose to power after the SEIU president installed her as president of the 80,000-member Local 721 in Los Angeles. She ascended to positions on the union’s state council and international executive board. Like Freeman and Jackson, Grajeda had been voted onto Stern’s official administration slate at the SEIU convention in 2008. The Times published damning details of how Grajeda’s ex-boyfriend, SEIU official Alejandro Stephens, collected multiple salaries and consultant fees from the union while also pocketing a salary as a Los Angeles County health services employee. Grajeda had arranged an eight-month leave of absence from the job on behalf of her ex-lover. He was fired after he refused to return to work. Grajeda quit her California posts after catching public flak and found a new job – as special assistant to SEIU secretary-treasurer Anna Burger in Washington, D.C.! Her former chapter heralded the move. Grajeda will now oversee efforts to “partner with the Obama administration” to secure more public funds for SEIU projects. What could go wrong?

Former SEIU 721 President Annelle Grajeda assumed her new role as special assistant to the International Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger for the Public Sector Mar. 9.

According to a staff announcement from the International Union in Washington, D.C.: “With more than two decades of service, Annelle has played a critical role in winning strong contracts for tens of thousands of union members, preserving trauma centers in Los Angeles County, fighting for health care reform, defeating ballot initiatives in 2005 that challenged working families’ livelihoods and uniting more than 80,000 workers into SEIU 721 for greater strength and a stronger voice for public service providers. She brings this wealth of experience and talent to the national level in her new role.”

…The International’s announcement went on to state “While there has been no finding of wrongdoing on Annelle’s part, she has decided to change the capacity in which she serves the Union in order to take on the challenge of developing quality public services at a time when funding is threatened like never before.”

In her new role, Annelle will expand SEIU’s work in the public sector partnering with the Obama Administration to secure more funds for key infrastructure projects and core public services including care for the elderly, health care, education and social services.

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  1. #1
    On August 7th, 2009 at 3:14 pm, rplatt said:

    Sebelius is a cringing coward and is hiding behind Obama’s Brown Shirts. This country is sick and beyond saving. Steel yourselves it’s going to get much worse.

  2. #2
    On August 7th, 2009 at 3:20 pm, shooter said:

    Ya know…many prophetic words about something BIG happening on 8-8-09….tomorrow.

    We might not know if this is real ’til later, much later, but it is interesting indeed.

  3. #3
    On August 7th, 2009 at 3:20 pm, verogolfer said:

    Great. A government of the thugs, by the thugs and for the thugs. Then, again, we now have a wise Latina woman on the court, so everything should be fine.

  4. #4
    On August 7th, 2009 at 3:20 pm, sonofdy said:

    shooter HUH???

  5. #5
    On August 7th, 2009 at 3:22 pm, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    I believe Obama is trying to use his thugs to provoke the single act of violence committed by an America loving patriot, to justify martial law, suspension of habeas corpus, and a fresh assault on the Second Amendment.

    I won’t bother, because I know the answer, but I’m tempted to view the state-subservient media this evening, to see how they cover this.

    But I know how they’ll cover it. Exactly how Herr Obama wants them to cover it.

  6. #6
    On August 7th, 2009 at 3:24 pm, Paul Revere said:

    Someone print up some SEIU tshirts. We can infiltrate if we need to. We are on the right side of this, and we will be heard.

  7. #7
    On August 7th, 2009 at 3:26 pm, ThatSamIAm said:

    STARTING WITH THE NEXT ELECTION CYCLE WE ARE GOING TO TOSS THESE SOLICIAST BASTARDS OUT OF OFFICE BY THE BUSHEL F_____G BASKET.

  8. #8
    On August 7th, 2009 at 3:26 pm, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    Sotomayor is no big deal. Just one closeted homosexual liberal replacing another.

    The big deal is if Kennedy, who has no judicial philosophy, or one of the four who believe in the Constitution, die or become disabled.

    I don’t want to sound like a 9-11 trufer conspiracy nut here, but a thugocratic government like Herr Obama’s, that encourages union thugs to attack citizens, that won’t prosecute the New Black Panthers for engaging in voter intimidation, might just decide that Thomas or Alito or Scalia or Roberts needs to have an ‘unfortunate accident’.

  9. #9
    On August 7th, 2009 at 3:27 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    I believe Obama is trying to use his thugs to provoke the single act of violence committed by an America loving patriot, to justify martial law, suspension of habeas corpus, and a fresh assault on the Second Amendment.

    I wouldn’t put it past him.

  10. #10
    On August 7th, 2009 at 3:28 pm, Misscheryl said:

    My head hurts.

  11. #11
    On August 7th, 2009 at 3:30 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    Now if the Republicans were awake, they would film the thugs and remind America with commercials what is happening…

  12. #12
    On August 7th, 2009 at 3:30 pm, madmonkphotog said:

    It should be obvious to the nation that the left, all of the left, has no desire to be honest with or work with America. Period.

    Now is the time we fight. And as I have said for years, on their level, at every turn, at every opportunity.

  13. #13
    On August 7th, 2009 at 3:32 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    Governors, senators, congressmen and the president, all appealing to government unionized employees to assault dissenting voters. This CANNOT be allowed to continue. The fuse is lit. And I’m wearing clean underwear.

  14. #14
    On August 7th, 2009 at 3:34 pm, JonB said:

    If the angry citizens of this country are denied access to town hall meetings (because the wimps are going to telephone town hall style), maybe we need to protest at the next major outlet of information about the meetings and what is going on. That would be news outlets.
    It’s time to silence the media.

  15. #15
    On August 7th, 2009 at 3:35 pm, Misscheryl said:

    AFL-CIO blasts “corporate mobs” at recess town hall meetings
    >Archive – Front Page Headline

    Author: Tim Wheeler
    People’s Weekly World Newspaper, 08/07/09 06:22

    The AFL-CIO has called on its union affiliates to defend lawmakers’ health care reform Town Hall meetings from “Corporate…mob rule” in recent days.

    AFL-CIO President John Sweeney sent out a memo this week outlining a blue-print for union members to counter the campaign of fear and intimidation in which hired thugs are infiltrating health care town hall meetings to heckle, disrupt and even physically assault health care reform advocates.

    “We want your help to organize major unions to counter the right-wing ‘Tea Party Patriots’ who will try to disrupt those meetings as they’ve been trying to do to meetings for the last month,” Sweeney wrote, adding, “Remember the hooligans, many of them Republican Congressional staff, who harassed Florida vote counters in 2000? We can’t let it happen again

    link

  16. #16
    On August 7th, 2009 at 3:39 pm, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    Hired thugs opposing health care reform?

    In the Evil Spock with a goatee parallel universe?

  17. #17
    On August 7th, 2009 at 3:43 pm, Misscheryl said:

    Someone clue me in on what is personally in it for these union people to do this. Health reform is going to change their coverage, and they’ve got pretty good coverage as it is.

  18. #18
    On August 7th, 2009 at 3:44 pm, sonofdy said:

    All I want to know is when am I getting my damn pay check. If I am hired, Should I be paid at some point???

  19. #19
    On August 7th, 2009 at 3:45 pm, Ragspierre said:

    Bring it.

    Bring you cameras, your recorders, and your voices.

    If you know a like-minded attorney, make sure they are there, too.

  20. #20
    On August 7th, 2009 at 3:46 pm, Ragspierre said:

    Someone clue me in on what is personally in it for these union people to do this. Health reform is going to change their coverage, and they’ve got pretty good coverage as it is.

    My understanding it that, along with the various Federal plans, unions are excluded in the House bill.

  21. #21
    On August 7th, 2009 at 3:47 pm, sonofdy said:

    Ragspierre: Are you holding the paychecks? After all someone has to be paying us if we are all “hired”

  22. #22
    On August 7th, 2009 at 3:47 pm, Misscheryl said:

    Dennis Rivera decries “terrorist tactics”

    They’re predictable if nothing else. This is exactly what we said they would do if we questioned them and showed any anger whatsoever.

    Off to the camps with us.

  23. #23
    On August 7th, 2009 at 3:49 pm, right_on said:

    In an attempt to reassure SEIU members that senior citizens would not suffer under Obamacare, Sebelius said “Saving lives saves dollars.”

    Yes. Believe HHS Secret-ary Succubus…just one of the many “quitters” on the Obama mule team. (Now more than ever living up to the symbol of the ASS.)

    She is now enlisting the aid and comfort of the “Rock’em Sock’em Robots” that are from the United

    Socialist

    Sycophant

    Rabble,

    affectionally known in the White House as, “my friends in the SEIU.”

  24. #24
    On August 7th, 2009 at 3:49 pm, d1carter said:

    Who is giving whom the marching orders?
    There will be blood on the hands of this administration and their purple brown shirts.

  25. #25
    On August 7th, 2009 at 3:49 pm, 7thson said:

    AFL-CIO President John Sweeney sent out a memo this week outlining a blue-print for union members to counter start waging the campaign of fear and intimidation in which hired thugs are infiltrating health care town hall meetings to heckle, disrupt and even physically assault health care reform advocates.

    Fixed it.

  26. #26
    On August 7th, 2009 at 3:50 pm, Ragspierre said:

    Ragspierre: Are you holding the paychecks? After all someone has to be paying us if we are all “hired”

    Oh, shoot, I’ve got dozens of insurance company payola “mob” checks laying around here I haven’t bothered to cash. It’s hard to leave the house for all the idling buses waiting in front of my place to take me to rouse the rabble.

    I’m thinking of asking for a limo…

  27. #27
    On August 7th, 2009 at 3:52 pm, bjc said:

    *Bring on the union thugs; They are but 7% of the population, so we outnumber them tenfold.
    *And never forget, more jobs in the private sector have been shipped overseas permanently because of unions than any other reason.
    *And never forget as well, when you join a union, you check your personal responsibility at the door, and you abandon the spirit of the Declaration of Independence.
    **Independent of Party, United for Liberty

  28. #28
    On August 7th, 2009 at 3:53 pm, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    I think the SEIU also stands to gain a lot of new members when the new government healthcare bureaucracy is established. Hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of people whose paychecks are dependent on running Obama’s Marxist Medicine.

    And in a union shop, it takes 2 or 3 people to do the work of one honest employee, so that’ll be a lot of workers to unionize.

  29. #29
    On August 7th, 2009 at 3:54 pm, 7thson said:

    Someone clue me in on what is personally in it for these union people to do this.

    Who do you think is going to administer this new government monster?? The “brothers & sisters” of the SEIU…

  30. #30
    On August 7th, 2009 at 3:57 pm, cheapseat said:

    rags #20 yes unions were specifically removed from the provision which taxes people on the healthcare plan they get through their employer. maybe some of these things explain why companies are going bankrupt and leaving the socialist republic of ameriKa.

  31. #31
    On August 7th, 2009 at 3:57 pm, Misscheryl said:

    7thson said: Who do you think is going to administer this new government monster?? The “brothers & sisters” of the SEIU…

    gee, what was I thinking.

  32. #32
    On August 7th, 2009 at 4:01 pm, Misscheryl said:

    wickedness rules this country.

  33. #33
    On August 7th, 2009 at 4:01 pm, spaceycakes said:

    Lying Kansas scum! I know someone who is about to go Josey Wales Bushwackin’ buck wild on her arse.

  34. #34
    On August 7th, 2009 at 4:02 pm, publiuswarmac9999 said:

    I agree with Jon B. The only reason these SEIU thugs feel free to act the way they are acting is because the media is giving them cover. The next Tea Party move ought to be directed at the media. For some reason these self-described “brilliant” journalists of the left, like Krugman, haven’t made the connection that their freedom of the press depends on our freedom of speech, religion and assembly.

    Also, remember that Stalin used but 10% of the population to control the rest. Do not assume that the majority can whip the minority. However, as we all know, the Soviet Union did fall because its subjects were treated as disposable property not vibrant citizens. Obama and the Democrats need to be beaten and driven from office for a long time.

  35. #35
    On August 7th, 2009 at 4:05 pm, Dexter Alarius said:

    She can’t be a true Kansan. I suspect she’s the product of a tryst between a Special Olympian and a buffalo.

  36. #36
    On August 7th, 2009 at 4:05 pm, Lee Hazel said:

    Setting aside the ethical questions that arise from Secretary Sebelius, and other Administration mouthpieces:

    How can this blatant use, by the government, of Union Power against US Citizens exercising their Constitutional Right of Assembly be legal???

    This boggles the mind.

    PC is Thought Control
    (Please note the shift from Health Care Reform to the PC version Health Insurance Reform, a paradigm shift)
    LEE

  37. #37
    On August 7th, 2009 at 4:10 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    On August 7th, 2009 at 3:32 pm, Pasadena Phil said:
    Governors, senators, congressmen and the president, all appealing to government unionized employees to assault dissenting voters. This CANNOT be allowed to continue. The fuse is lit. And I’m wearing clean underwear.

    No clean underwear for me! Just in case I happen upon a fallen Democrat and I need something to dress his wounds.

  38. #38
    On August 7th, 2009 at 4:11 pm, JonB said:

    Misscheryl said:

    Someone clue me in on what is personally in it for these union people to do this. Health reform is going to change their coverage, and they’ve got pretty good coverage as it is.

    Um, because the knuckle-draggers are prone to violence and spend a lot of what little mental power they have looking for reasons to injure, torture, maim, and otherwise abuse people who have no defense against them? Because it makes them feel big and tough and important?

  39. #39
    On August 7th, 2009 at 4:12 pm, sonofdy said:

    The whitehouse just said that Rush making comparisons between hitler and obama puts him on thin ice. THIN ICE???

    This thing is picking up speed.

  40. #40
    On August 7th, 2009 at 4:14 pm, JonB said:

    sonofdy said:

    The whitehouse just said that Rush making comparisons between hitler and obama puts him on thin ice. THIN ICE???

    This thing is picking up speed.

    Expect the shutdowns to come quickly, including blogs.

  41. #41
    On August 7th, 2009 at 4:17 pm, sonofdy said:

    Expect the shutdowns to come quickly, including blogs.

    The speed is breathtaking. I have an army “thing” to do in LA this weekend. I hope to see you all on monday.

  42. #42
    On August 7th, 2009 at 4:19 pm, right_on said:

    I wonder when we can expect the New Black Panther Party to file papers to become a “union?” Not just a union of “brothers,” but a union that gets bennies from the Bro’ in the White House, like free passes on healthcare, criminal activity, etc. Oh wait…they already do. Never mind!

  43. #43
    On August 7th, 2009 at 4:20 pm, sonofdy said:

    Over on huffpo they are already calling for arrests based on hate speech legislation.

  44. #44
    On August 7th, 2009 at 4:20 pm, jsr said:

    Misscheryl said:

    Someone clue me in on what is personally in it for these union people to do this. Health reform is going to change their coverage, and they’ve got pretty good coverage as it is.

    They will get to see all those “rich” people brought low, chained and reduced to groveling and whining like they do. This is far preferable to breaking their butts day after day to become one of the rich.

  45. #45
    On August 7th, 2009 at 4:21 pm, California Red said:

    Does he already have his civilian army?

    You know, the one as powerful, strong and well funded as the US Military.

  46. #46
    On August 7th, 2009 at 4:24 pm, 7thson said:

    Will the state run media report that the mood at townhall meetings has improved significantly with the “spontaneous attendance of regular pro-government Americans dressed coincidentally in purple t-shirts”?

  47. #47
    On August 7th, 2009 at 4:24 pm, California Red said:

    Misscheryl said:

    Someone clue me in on what is personally in it for these union people to do this

    How about the union will be able to push its healthcare obligation onto the public? Healthcare obliugations are hurting the pension funds.

  48. #48
    On August 7th, 2009 at 4:30 pm, Lee Hazel said:

    These Democrat clowns are playing with matches in a fireworks factory.

    And, if Hate Crimes arrests start to happen this thing WILL blow up.

    My greatest fear: Obama has been looking for an excuse for Martial Law since even before his election. This next few (orchestrated by “O”) weeks could well be that excuse.

    Good bye elections and the USA as we have known it. Hello Obama into perpetuity.

    PC is Thought Control
    LEE

  49. #49
    On August 7th, 2009 at 4:36 pm, valleygreaser said:

    On August 7th, 2009 at 4:05 pm, Dexter Alarius said:
    She can’t be a true Kansan. I suspect she’s the product of a tryst between a Special Olympian and a buffalo.

    And I suspect you’re a democrat plant.

  50. #50
    On August 7th, 2009 at 4:37 pm, Dexter Alarius said:

    The whitehouse just said that Rush making comparisons between hitler and obama puts him on thin ice.

    Looking for the “thin ice”-type statements from the Bush WH about his critics…

    still looking…

  51. #51
    On August 7th, 2009 at 4:38 pm, Misscheryl said:

    Lee – Ground work for your greatest fear has begun. They’ve started calling us terrorist.

  52. #52
    On August 7th, 2009 at 4:39 pm, Dexter Alarius said:

    And I suspect you’re a democrat plant.

    No, a proud Kansan.
    Got a problem with that?

  53. #53
    On August 7th, 2009 at 4:40 pm, shooter said:

    3:20 pm, sonofdy said:
    shooter HUH???

    Inside thing, would take too long to explain, sorry.

  54. #54
    On August 7th, 2009 at 4:41 pm, Uplander said:

    Let The Games Begin

    They really do think we are that stupid.

    ‘You can tell by the lines I’m recitin, I’ve seen that movie too’.
    Lyrics: Bernie Taupin

  55. #55
    On August 7th, 2009 at 4:45 pm, Ron said:

    I’ll tell you who’s on “thin ice,” its the Democrats who are deluded into thinking they will continue to hold power beyond 2010 and 2012. I’ve got news for you, jerks. You’ll pay for this at the polls. As for unions, the sooner we take back the Congress the sooner we can rein those knuckleheads in. And they need it, big time.

  56. #56
    On August 7th, 2009 at 4:45 pm, jsmiddleton4 said:

    What in the world is a secretary of the Executive Branch doing calling ANY union in regards to anything?

    Has she lost her mind?

    Where is a republican leader who has spoken up about that bigger issue? Isn’t anyone in a leadership position of the “right” saying something?

  57. #57
    On August 7th, 2009 at 4:51 pm, Uplander said:

    One fear I have allowed to enfilade thru an otherwise Happy enjoyable existence, is a fear of ignorance and the employment of such ignorance to influence anything beyond a decision as to where the sewerage plant should be located.

  58. #58
    On August 7th, 2009 at 4:52 pm, NJ-Aviator said:

    Obama and his Thug Gang are getting more and more bold. Every day it seems there’s another action they take that raises the bar on what they try to get away with.

    Now we’ve got a cabinet secretary publicly calling out the Union dogs and having them attack other citizens. More “get in their face” stuff. And no… “get in their face” DOES NOT mean have a friendly chat. It means confront people in an aggressive, fist-fight provoking manner.

    We talk about democrats acting as “brown shirts” and the Dems project by falsely accusing conservatives of brown shirt tactics… but look at what the democrats are doing. How long before Obama’s taxpayer underwritten “Volunteers” are doing similar bidding for him and his thug pals? Not the indirect ACORN stuff.. but by direct order of the white house.

    Someone said they’ll be confiscating guns under the guise of preventing violence by crazed conservatives. Well…. it isn’t too hard to imagine the white house using their “Fishy” list to do just that.

    Who would stop them? Congress? Please…..

    Sure… it hasn’t happened… no one’s floated it. But you can be sure it’s on the white house wish list.

  59. #59
    On August 7th, 2009 at 4:56 pm, JonB said:

    Ron said:

    I’ll tell you who’s on “thin ice,” its the Democrats who are deluded into thinking they will continue to hold power beyond 2010 and 2012

    You are under the impression that there will *be* elections in 2010/2012. The way things are going, that will not happen.

  60. #60
    On August 7th, 2009 at 5:03 pm, Dexter Alarius said:

    You are under the impression that there will *be* elections in 2010/2012. The way things are going, that will not happen.

    As I said on another thread, of course there will be elections. But, like that other Hussein guy, there will only be one name on the ballot.

  61. #61
    On August 7th, 2009 at 5:04 pm, Uplander said:

    By actions, it has become quite obvious that ‘The Left’, not Classic Liberals, not Thinkers of a Democrat persuasion, not any leftists aspiring to power for the last 70 years, have seemingly judged that ‘The Time Is Right’ to take control.

    Problem being, all the good will and fine intentions of ‘the Left’, have culminated in a ‘Plan’ that begins with the abrogation of our existing Constitution.

  62. #62
    On August 7th, 2009 at 5:17 pm, Mister P said:

    I love it when the Democrats keep alienating 65 percent of the voters. KEEP it up. I talked last week with independants that voted for Obama. They are disgusted and can’t believe how they had him all wrong.
    Then I talked with some life long Dems who will never vote democratic again. One, 90, thinks Obama has NO Value for her life.

    Soon we will have wars between Democratic factions. Unions versus Green Jobs. You watch.

  63. #63
    On August 7th, 2009 at 5:22 pm, sonofdy said:

    As I said on another thread, of course there will be elections. But, like that other Hussein guy, there will only be one name on the ballot.

    There will be two choices. Here is the protype, used in a different country.

  64. #64
    On August 7th, 2009 at 5:28 pm, fred5676 said:
  65. #65
    On August 7th, 2009 at 5:31 pm, fred5676 said:

    How many SEIU members does it take to change a light bulb?

    “TEN! YOU GOTTA PROBLEM WID DAT???”

  66. #66
    On August 7th, 2009 at 5:38 pm, beenthere said:

    Soon we will have wars between Democratic factions. Unions versus Green Jobs. You watch.

    One can only hope. But like a grimly dysfunctional marriage, the factions have a habit of screaming divorce and then coming back together – on election day. To be sure, there is an opportunity here if the Republicans had the brains and something else that dangles down below. But after decades Establishment Republicans still give no indication of knowing the enemy, what it is and what it wants. And the first rule of any kind of warfare is . . . ?

  67. #67
    On August 7th, 2009 at 5:40 pm, valleygreaser said:

    No, a proud Kansan.
    Got a problem with that?

    My only problem was your “Special Olympics” reference. That was out of the Obama-Gore playbook, no?

  68. #68
    On August 7th, 2009 at 5:46 pm, Ragspierre said:

    How many SEIU members does it take to change a light bulb?

    “TEN! YOU GOTTA PROBLEM WID DAT???”

    You forgot the shop steward and recruiter.

  69. #69
    On August 7th, 2009 at 5:48 pm, TooMuchTime said:

    “Change is not easy,” she droned.

    That’s true. For intelligent people, the B.O.’s “change” is proving to be quite difficult and painful. If not downright intolerable.

    For the knuckle-dragging liberals, well, they’re just too stupid to notice that they’re being taken to the cleaners, too.

  70. #70
    On August 7th, 2009 at 5:50 pm, prendad said:

    Obamamania is breaking out all over libbyland because there are people expressing, GASP, “Independent Thoughts”! And, GASP, “Disagreement”!
    If they think this is something to get in a tizzy fit about, wait until thousands show up in D.C. and the riots begin. Of course everyone knows that the way you sooth angry crowds and spread calm and confidence throughout the nation is to encourage people to snitch on each other, threaten to deliver a “double-punch” back, call policemen “behaving stupidly”, fund radical protest groups like Acorn with taxpayer money, and, worst of all, continue to demonstrate contempt for the American People who are trying to save their country. I am going to the store today to buy more popcorn. This is very interesting to me as I have never seen a president commit political suicide so rapidly and efficiently.

  71. #71
    On August 7th, 2009 at 5:50 pm, Regulus said:

    Michelle, if you keep offering up excerpts of your book at this rate, I won’t need to buy it…

  72. #72
    On August 7th, 2009 at 5:51 pm, Elm Creek Smith said:

    Emanuel, however, believes that “communitarianism” should guide decisions on who gets care. He says medical care should be reserved for the non-disabled, not given to those “who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens . . . An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia” (Hastings Center Report, Nov.-Dec. ’96). -Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, the brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. He has already been appointed to two key positions: health-policy adviser at the Office of Management and Budget and a member of Federal Council on Comparative Effectiveness Research.

    Anyone have the NAZI guidance to healthcare professionals in the 1930′s and 1940′s?

    ECS

  73. #73
    On August 7th, 2009 at 5:59 pm, gunslingerpatriot said:

    I posted on another thread:

    Memphis Teabaggers-
    Just got this from Ben Ferguson WREC Memphis:

    Steve Cohen’s Townhall Meeting
    Bridges Center
    10-12pm
    477 N. 5th Street
    Memphis, TN

    GSP

  74. #74
    On August 7th, 2009 at 6:03 pm, gunslingerpatriot said:

    Sorry:
    Its scheduled for tomorrow.

    GSP

  75. #75
    On August 7th, 2009 at 6:04 pm, Uplander said:

    2009 at 5:40 pm, valleygreaser said:

    No, a proud Kansan.
    Got a problem with that?

    My only problem was your “Special Olympics” reference. That was out of the Obama-Gore playbook, no?

    It is especially venal to use the helpless to interpret your ideology on any level as a ‘chip’ playable for your or anyone elses side.

    Are you ‘Scum’, or just obtuse?

  76. #76
    On August 7th, 2009 at 6:42 pm, tarpon said:

    When elected officials are afraid to meet with the public and hide behind union thugs, we have an even bigger problem.

    It’s obvious Sebelius’ brain is too small to form cogent arguments and she knows too little about the healt care subject to even try.

    Just an Obamtron stooge.

  77. #77
    On August 7th, 2009 at 6:45 pm, Send_Me said:

    Forget about this whole Obamacare thing for a minute. Can someone explain to me how Sebelius’ very position and associated department are Constitutional?

  78. #78
    On August 7th, 2009 at 6:47 pm, simcoe said:

    So you’re a union member. Is your brother, sister, your parents, your in-laws, your wife or husband? Are your cousin’s, nieces, your nephews, their parents or families? ‘bama may promise you an exemption from government health care, but I’ll bet he won’t promise any of them an exemption.

    OK, they have good insurance now, but if any of them for any reason leave their current place of employment with their great insurance, they will have no other option than the government one.

    What about after you’re dead, does ‘bama promise your benefits to transfer to your wife and kids, then to your grandkids? Ask him, If you dare, and he’ll sick your union brothers and sisters on you. Don’t think so?

    What are you thinking???

    Do you really believe you’re on the best side for your family and the future?

    But don’t take my word for it, read the bill for yourself.

    C’mon, try it. All ya got to do is read.

  79. #79
    On August 7th, 2009 at 6:59 pm, jsmiddleton4 said:

    Given that this whole thing is about power and not health care I hope folks are prepared for it to get worse long before it gets better. The left has had its taste of power. They want more and don’t want to lose what they have. The left has always viewed the President as if it was some kind of monarchy. They are not going to give this thing up easily and I’m thinking in their minds this is in fact their Waterloo.

  80. #80
    On August 7th, 2009 at 7:02 pm, T-Bone said:

    We say all this here but yet Obama, Congress, the Senate, Union thugs et al are advancing the case that we are “anti”, that we are terrorist, swastika wearing, paid thugs trying to bring down America and his attempts to right a wrong. It is an orchestrated campaign from organized community organizers and they are equalizing the debate by their lies and defamation. If it is equalized, we will lose as they are in control.

    We have less than a month to win big on this issue. The real people must be heard but I am afraid they are being drowned out and slandered in the process by a small % of grass roots left wingers. Like Obama said, he doesn’t want to hear from the people who broke it telling him not to fix it.

    That is a lie and he is getting away with it and their confidence that they will do it is very high! That makes my confidence very low.

    I feel better when I come here and read but even Bill O’reilly is agreeing with the left that it is right wingers doing this and he is not giving credit to the people. That is playing right into their hands and I don’t feel good about that. We didn’t fight in the last electionand I have dim hopes for us taking the fight to them on this issue.

  81. #81
    On August 7th, 2009 at 7:12 pm, T-Bone said:

    “If you like your current insurance plan, you can keep it.” What BS people. What guarantees do I have that my current insurance plan will even be the same plan once this bill passes?

    My guess is my current plan will have to change based on new regulations, rules etc. The coverages will change or the rates or both but in any event, it will NOT be the same plan I have now.

    That means… this bill will NOT allow me to keep the SAME plan. This bill will force my current plan to CHANGE. That means it will not be my current plan. See?

    BOLD FACED LIES! And yet some large % of Americans are licking up whatever Obama serves. That lie alone should be enough to jar people to their senses as to who is being truthful here. It ain’t Obama. Wake up Amerika!

  82. #82
    On August 7th, 2009 at 7:12 pm, jbh45 said:

    but even Bill O’reilly is agreeing with the left that it is right wingers….

    O’Reilly? really? I stopped watching and listening to this tool 2 years ago. Get with the program T-Bone.

  83. #83
    On August 7th, 2009 at 7:30 pm, T-Bone said:

    He still has millions of viewers that hang on his every word. Since he is not as bad as ABC, NBC, MSNBC, CNN etc, he is an important power broker that is not in the propoganda tank with Olberman et al. We need him to at least remain neutral.

  84. #84
    On August 7th, 2009 at 7:55 pm, Little Ma said:

    O’Reilly? That coward? He’s afraid to express an opinion – unless it’s PC. I can’t stand ‘im!

    I haven’t watched his show in years though, so maybe I’m being unfair ….. nah, I’d bet money he hasn’t changed.

  85. #85
    On August 7th, 2009 at 8:24 pm, rightisright said:

    On August 7th, 2009 at 3:28 pm, Misscheryl said:

    My head hurts.

    My heart hurts as my country is being bleed to death by left wing Marxist’s and lazy sob’in citizens on the dole.

  86. #86
    On August 7th, 2009 at 8:37 pm, rightisright said:

    I feel better when I come here and read but even Bill O’reilly is agreeing with the left that it is right wingers doing this and he is not giving credit to the people.

    so who is o’really but a news commentator, repeating stories written for him. I quit watching him months ago, instead of years ago, that’s what a bad habit will do to you, just like smoking. you know it’s wrong and not good but you keep doing it. o’really panders for viewers, he doesn’t have enough guts to make a stand say what it is he is, left, right or sit on the fence. He reminds me of what I heard that idiot McShame say about running for the presidency…”i want to be a candidate for everyone”…no wonder he lost.

  87. #87
    On August 7th, 2009 at 8:43 pm, purealchemy said:

    T-Bone and Rags,

    Trying to find you.

    Sounds like Chaps is going to lose his cat.

    If you care, show up at the Don’t Taze Me Bro’ blog.

  88. #88
    On August 8th, 2009 at 12:51 am, Cosmo said:

    Yes, Commissar Sebelius, we need to “roll up our sleeves” …or risk getting shetek all over our Brooks Brothers dress shirts, right?

    Thick. Wade-through-it thick.

  89. #89
    On August 8th, 2009 at 1:31 am, Pat said:

    Unions are also forcing contractors to hire union-only in stimulus projects and will sue them until they agree to it.

    Solar Energy and CURE

  90. #90
    On August 8th, 2009 at 6:00 am, GDSuffern said:

    They’re getting pretty free with that word, “terrorist,” aren’t they? Funny how I keep hearing that popping up regarding Americans.

  91. #91
    On August 8th, 2009 at 7:52 am, TommyBoy1 said:

    Kathy Sebelius is a hypocritical joke. Her brothers and sisters in the SEIU? Give me a break. This is the same Kathy Gilligan I knew growing up in Cincinnati. I am sure she had a lot of contact with her union brothers and sisters at the very private Catholic girls school (Summit Country Day) and Trinity College that she attended. Or maybe at the family vacation home in the upscale Traverse City Michigan area. Not. BTW- her early connection to health care must have been the family funeral home business which has several funeral homes in Cincinnati. When the new Obama care takes effect my guess is that the family business will experience a significant uptick in business.

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