Oba-Kabuki: A box-office bomb
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My syndicated column today is a theater review of yesterday’s Demcare talk-a-thon. What’s next? Here’s the rundown.
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Oba-Kabuki: A box-office bomb
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2010
The Oba-Kabuki health care show at Blair House kicked off with a big lie on Thursday morning – and it all went downhill from there. The taxpayer-funded infomercial backfired by exposing the president’s thin skin, the Democrats’ naked disingenuousness, and the ruling majority’s allergies to political and policy realities.
Responding to Sen. Lamar Alexander’s opening call for Democrats to renounce parliamentary tactics designed to limit debate, circumvent filibusters, and lower the threshold for passage of health care reform to a simple, 51-vote majority, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid sputtered indignantly: “No one’s talking about reconciliation!” Everybody and their mothers have been invoking the R-word on Capitol Hill, starting with Reid himself.
Four Democratic senators pushed Reid to adopt the procedure, normally reserved for budget matters, in a letter on Feb. 16. A few days later, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs discussed the option. And then Reid himself talked up reconciliation on a Nevada public affairs show as an option to ram the government health care takeover through in the next 60 days. According to The Hill, Reid said “congressional Democrats would likely opt for a procedural tactic in the Senate allowing the upper chamber to make final changes to its healthcare bill with only a simple majority of senators, instead of the 60 it takes to normally end a filibuster.” A few days after that, Reid snapped that Republicans “should stop crying” about the abrogation of Senate minority rights since the GOP had used the reconciliation process in the past.
So, the cleanest, most ethical, holier-than-thou Congress ever is now defending the unprecedented adoption of ramdown rules for a radical, multi-trillion-dollar program to usurp one-seventh of the economy on the grounds of two-wrongs-make-it-right? Hope and change, baby.
For his part, President Obama responded with one part pique and two parts diffidence. After the summit lunch break, Republicans pushed the reconciliation issue again in the face of the Democrats’ refusal to disavow the short-circuiting of the deliberative process. “The American people,” an annoyed Obama asserted, “are not all that interested in procedures inside the Senate.” Oh, really? A new USAToday/Gallup poll reports that 52 percent of Americans oppose using the procedural maneuver to pass the health care bill in the Senate on 51 votes rather than the 60 votes required to end any filibuster.
The survey also showed that Americans oppose Demcare-style health care “reform” by 49-42 – with those “strongly” opposed outnumbering those “strongly” in favor by 23% to 11%. Obama’s best and brightest team of Chicago strategists, new media gurus, and communications specialists still haven’t figured it out: Voters are as fed up with the corrupted process in Washington as they are with the White House’s overreaching policies. It’s both, stupid.
When he wasn’t cutting off Republicans who stuck to budget specifics and cited legislative page numbers and language instead of treacly, sob-story anecdotes involving dentures and gall stones, President Obama was filibustering the talk-a-thon away by invoking his daughters, rambling on about auto insurance, and sniping at former GOP presidential rival John McCain. “We’re not campaigning anymore,” lectured the perpetual campaigner-in-chief.
After ostentatiously disputing the GOP’s claims that health care premiums would rise under his plan, Obama walked it back. Confronted with more GOP pushback on the failure of Demcare to control costs, Obama told GOP Rep. Paul Ryan that he’d rather not “get bogged down in numbers.” Not numbers that he couldn’t cook on the spot without staff consultation, anyway.
Obama and the Democrats labored mightily to create the illusion of almost-there bipartisanship by repeatedly telling disagreeing Republicans that “we don’t disagree” and “there’s not a lot of difference” between us. But the dogs weren’t riding the ponies in this show.
This was a set-up from the start. The “we’re so close” mantra is the rhetorical wedge the White House will use to blame Republicans for fatal obstructionism, while whitewashing festering opposition from both pro-life Democrats who oppose the government funding of abortion services still in the plan and from left-wing progressives in the House who are clinging to a full, unadulterated public option.
While Republicans came off well and reasonably, the six-hour blowhard-fest was a monumental waste of time. Obamacare Theater tied up GOP energy and resources as the White House readies its “Plan B” (expanding government health care coverage, just at a slower pace) and Democrat leaders prep their reconciliation ramdown for early next week. This Washington box-office bomb is a prelude to much bigger legislative horrors still to come. Don’t you love farce?
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Shouldn’t that be “Everybody and their mother has been invoking” or “Everybody and their mothers have been invoking”?
Sorry for the grammatical nit pick, but that’s the only thing I could find wrong about the column.
ROFLMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!
Do these people even KNOW when they are lying anymore??????
BTW, even the extorter-in-chief made thinly veiled references in his closing statements about “moving forward anyway” if Republicans did not “move closer” to the Dems proposal. Geez, wonder what he was talking about.
In defense of actual kabuki, a highly stylized Japanese art form, I think this show was more like a cartoon, composed by cartoonists with competing agendas.
If I wanted to watch cartoons, I would watch cartoons. One of the most disturbing trends in politics, of which Lord Axelrod is both master and most serious practitioner, is the substitution of false appearances for reality in the effort to steer public opinion by misrepresentation. All hail Saul Alinsky!
Ugh. Now where is my Dramamine?
He forgot the independents and democrats who are disenchanted with his “hope and change”. If they go “nuclear” on this bill, they will truly suffer, come November.
When are they going to quit wasting time on this nonsense and start removing the obstacles to economic growth (note to Democrats-increased government spending is not economic growth) so we can go back to work?
When backed into a corner, all they have left is lying.
Oh, wait…they lie all the time anyway.
Michelle, I respectfully disagree.
IMO, average voter Gladz:
I did not find any Republican at that table to be an embarrassment. Before yesterday, I wasn’t so sure.
I came away impressed with some of our public servants. (Canter, Ryan, Dr. Coburn & more). Independents and Dem moderates may have noticed how sharp these Reps were too (in contrast to some of the Dems.)
Visibility is a good thing.
Obama said that until the Republicans addressed the 30 million people who are without health care insurance, their piecemeal approach won’t even be considered.
My question is, since being healthy depends on good nourishment, why aren’t the Dems addressing the hunger problem in America? Doesn’t everyone have a bonafide right to eat so they can stay healthy? That should come before a right to healthcare.
Of course the above is rhetorical because everyone knows what Obama and the Dems want – it’s control by and dependency on government by the people. It has nothing to do with health but everything to do with how healthcare is paid for and who controls it. In a nut shell – socialism.
The Republicans need to continue to be the party of NO! No to this president’s agenda and the harm he is attempting to inflict on this country.
The Democrats and President lied and sputtered and the Republicans held firm-I hope but
“The survey also showed that Americans oppose Demcare-style health care “reform” by 49-42” is an awfully thin margin. There is no great majority in this country. This does not bode well.
Not until they are removed from office/power. This November begins the first round of printing eviction notices (ballots).
As a matter of policy, the Republicans should offer an amendment to every House and Senate bill, making it a felony for an office holder to lie to their constituents. If they dare.
Not that many of the Oprah public were watching the show, but Obama, the Emperor In Chief, was unclothed. Obama, without teleprompter, was a frowning,scolding, posing, mic-hogging,pompous, and continuously unresponsive to the subject of medical malpractice tort reform.
Probably his most telling quote was the response to Ryan: Obama told GOP Rep. Paul Ryan that he’d rather not “get bogged down in numbers.”
Trillions and trillions in national debt and the Democrats and Obama want to increase those numbers. Yes, indeed, it is about the numbers. What a completely idiotic thing to say.
P.T. Barnum couldn’t have put together a better circus than yesterday’s. The petulent Duh One showed that he lacks the experience or knowledge to be the POTUS. I would have laughed if it wasn’t so serious.
The Repubs looked good and held firm. But only time and the next few elections will tell if things are going to change. We didn’t get into this mess by chance, it was the will of the people that put these clowns in office.
Barnum would be envious.
It was a farce. Republicans came off better than I expected, though they have such a low level of expectations that shouldn’t be hard. However, after all that “discussion” what is a headline today?
In Gamble, Obama and Dems Prepare to Ram Health Care Through
There was never any doubt on my part.
Aside from dentures:
Anybody listen to all of Louise Slaughter’s comments yesterday?
At first, I was wondering what side she was on when she said Lee Iaccoca said that every US made car he exported included $1000 of health insurance.
She was all over the place.
Do you mean she “slaughtered” the gift for gab?:)
I was very proud of the Republican folks in the room and how they conducted business in a professional manner. Democrats want to change 1/6 th of U.S. economy because some gal is too dumb to go to medi-care for help with dentures. All theses rich Democrats sure hang out with poor friends.
I’m pretty sure he’d like to outlaw the use of numbers altogether. That way nobody could see unemployment, inflation, GDP deficit, taxes, and polls.
Yup, they’re in serious trouble. Broadcasted live to the soap opera crowd.
Making up stuff in order to shut down Republican discussion on facts.
Like the person that was so dependent on welfare and the government who wouldn’t leave the burning building until the fireman showed up to carry them out, Louise Slaughter sounded like someone who wouldn’t buy their own false teeth until someone else paid for them. It’s all about priorities.
saved, she was killin me!
I just checked Rasmussen and this bho is now at -20/! This means 23% strongly approve, 43% strongly disapprove. This little get together yesterday did a job on this bho!
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Now that yesterday’s farce has had time to stew in the back of my mind, it occurred to me this morning that when Obama challenged a Republican’s numbers and logic (Paul Ryan e.g.), his response wasn’t reasoned but almost always consisted of nothing more than “those are the same tired arguments” or “I disagree”.
This wasn’t an open debate nor a negotiation. This was an Obama “I am right “just becuz” and you guys are wrong because I say so” session.
Agree. I was expecting a mopping of the floor by BHO and crew along with the msm.
When the POTUS is not using the TOTUS is is sooooo obvious BHO can’t put useful thoughts/words together.
He has not read the bill so how can he give constructive explanations.
As in most huge corporations, as you move up the line of managers, the lower manager says less to the next level manager. But does say what that manager believes the next level wants to hear. And so it goes, each level says less of what should be said and more of the ego fluffing stuff. Eventually the top dog hears a lot of fluff and knows very little of the true sh*t of what is going on.
In summary … BHO doesn’t know sh*t.
This is another one of the Dem talking points that makes me shout at the TV when I see it and shows their inability to think anything through. Even if the govt were to start paying 100% of medical costs, the price of the cars would not change. While the cost of providing medical insurance would go away, taxes would increase in way one or another and would eventually find their way in the price of products. This attempt at cost shifting fools the allegedly more intelligent liberals every time and any attempt to pointthis out results in their eyes glazing over or passing out from the mental strain. If they do attempt a comeback it would be what will become known as the “Slaughter Defense”: That may be true, but I don’t think anybody should have to use the dentures of their dead sibling.
I admit I could not watch much of the nonsense, but did anyone hear if there was ANY discussion on the constitutionality of the health-care bill?
Obama can play at Kabuki all he wants.
The American people are saying Noh.
That explains his thin-skinned, petulant responses. He doesn’t lose his eloquence but without the preconstructed answers, it is easier to notice the lack of meaningful content and his petulant logic.
This was a triangulation by Obama where he will not accept the blame. His closing comments made it very clear that he is holding both parties accountable for whatever happens. But throughout the “summit”, there was no “we” about his answers. It was “I, I, I, I, I” every time.
I about choked when ‘Bambi’s little helper, Slaughter, talked about dentures. I have yet to see a medical plan that covers dentures – or, are the Demwits going to roll dental coverage into this fiasco as well? How about vision?
Makes you wonder “just who are those people” who are pulling the lever as she is in her 12th term.
Valerie Jarret said Obama was just too intelligent for the tea party members to understand and he may have to simplify what he says so they can understand. Obama’s condescending attitude shows he feels this way about Republicans and health care payment redistribution.
Forget the birth certificate. I’d just like to see his college transcripts and Master’s Thesis to see exactly why Obama worshipers feel he is so brilliant. It would be a starting point because his community organizing and being president of the Harvard Law Review haven’t indicated any brilliance. Reading scripts from a teleprompter don’t impress me. Actor’s memorizing the lines to a whole play impress me more but I don’t see anyone saying Brad Pitt is brilliant or extremely intelligent.
Even Robert Byrd understands that reconciliation is a bad idea when it’s applied to something other than budget items.
I’m no McCain fan, but I have to admit I was mostly impressed with him yesterday. Did feel like he missed a prime opportunity, though. Wished he’d have been a little quicker on the comeback. When I heard The Won give his “We aren’t campaigning anymore” sniff, I was hoping McCain would respond with an “Oh, sorry. I actually meant what I said when I campaigned. Forgot it was different for you.”
And I was also impressed that “John” managed to remain so respectful and not address the snob as “Barack.”
I felt exactly the opposite. I thought it was childish and self-serving for McCain to make such a ham-handed comment couched in terms of the 2008 presidential election. It was a hanging curve that Obama hit right out of the park. It wasn’t the message so much but the messenger and how he said it.
McCain is just the wrong guy to be taking on Obama and besides, in the end, he agreed with Obama’s position that Dems and Reps are really close to an agreement. Isn’t that how those “Gangs of McCain” usually snatch Republican defeat out of the jaws of victory to hand Dems landmark victories?
Every time McCain opened his mouth, I cringed.
Speaking of getting bogged down in numbers, what is Obummer’s approval down to now? Shouldn’t he get the gold medal for fastest downhill time?
I noted many of the LameStreamMedia commentators were praising Duh One for being a GREAT moderator during this fiasco. He is supposed to be the chief executive of our nation, NOT the chief moderator. He was elected to lead, not moderate.
Further, a moderator is supposed to be neutral and make certain 1) people don’t hog the meeting and 2) everyone gets a chance to be heard. A moderator is not supposed to make positive or negative comments on anyone’s inputs.
I wanna see those affirmative action grades.
Another point is this – Obama has lived his entire life off of government support. It is not documented anywhere that he ever made a nickel from a private employer, instead it’s all been public. It’s no wonder that he has no clue about non-government employment, thought he’s got to know it exists. So the concept of anything outside of the realm of government/public service is foreign to him.
I’m amazed that they have chosen to keep such a boring issue in the spotlight for so long.
The health care news this weekend is going to be the Doctor’s strike in AMERICA of Medicare patients if they don’t keep the payments to doctors at current rates.
Any ‘health care reform’ has to fix Medicare. Medicare is the problem and it’s going to become all too obvious very soon. I don’t know why Obama insists on pressing this losing issue. It’s really uncanny. . . he should cut his losses and move on to something else.
Obowmao: And frankly, I’m not too fond of vowels and consonants either!
Disagree Phil. Obama looked just like the dufus he is and his insults made for a nice soundbite. If Obama can’t deal with McCain, he can deal with No Republican.
Time to end the myths of Obama being smart or well-spoken. He is neither. I got a kick of his calling senators by their first names, while they kept saying MR. President. He was being taken for a ride.
However the event is characterized by either side, I found it interesting and revealing on many fronts.
There were participants who spoke extemporaneously without notes in a knowledgeable way, while others repeated what has been said previously. There was nuance, detail and, of course, puffery. Many had reasonably good points.
A smaller group of people would have been better. And there should have been a fact checker in the room, as well.
Actually, I thought that by ‘Bambi calling the elected senators by their first names he was demeaning the office they hold, their constituents that elected them, and also the person personally. This man holds no respect for anyone or anything in this country.
Obama created a forum where by getting engaged he came off as “one of the guys” as opposed to the President.
Whether one agrees with any point he made or not he diminished the office.
The margin is thin because so many of that 42% are sucking at the public teat and don’t want to unlatch. All the more reason to elect conservatives before the voters of this country are mostly parasitic leaches like so many already are.
Can’t wait until Obama sits down with Ahmadinejad to moderate Iran’s nuclear options and draws another line in the sand (the 3rd or 4th).
Ahmadinejad probably should just resign now as he’s no match for Obama!
You missed my point. Obama DID deal with McCain. McCain was back in campaign mode and Obama smacked him down. That little exchange has been the most aired segment of the day. It was a mistake. McCain is a vain and vengeful fool.
Like everyone else, Obama reads McCain like a book. They are birds of a feather. Both are narcissists who interpret everything in terms of themselves. McCain’s politics revolve around who he seeking to exact revenge from. That makes him manageable.
BHO can’t…won’t…stop talking long enough to listen (the purpose of the summit) and he was extremely rude as well as his usual arrogant self. A 2000+ page bill is a political prop?
On the other hand, members of the panel have been in Congress long enough to have prevented the financial disasters we face and they didn’t.
Let me add one more thing. McCain was trying to return to the election hoping to remind people that they had a choice and that it would have been better had he won the election. It was a stupid ploy. Most his own party (most of us commenting here for instance) don’t agree with that position. McCain needs to get “into the now” and leave.
The insurance story proved a couple points. First, he bought liability and declined on collision but still wanted the benefits provided by what he refused to pay for (if he knew the difference).
Secondly, it shows that it should be
the consumers choice not buying ins. for something they dont need!
And third…it shows he’s a lier because if someone rear-ended him he should have been calling their insurer!
Two points:
1) Obama has NEVER gotten out of cmpaign mode. Anyone want to challenge that?
2) Obama came out of that exchange looking totally unPresidential. His “smack down’s” effectiveness is debatable. The method in which he did it diminished him and more importantly his office. It was the “dumbing down” of the Presidency.
Phil, to me McCain is the guy poking me in the arm with a pin. Obama is the guy trying to rip my heart out of my body. I choose to focus on the greater threat. Time to focus!
News of Obama working on his 2012 re-election (instead of the economy, which is probably a good thing) campaign and accusing someone else of campaining is a real smackdown! The McCain clip should be pre-empted by Obama’s leaked campain news everytime its shown.
And I’m sure our supreme leader will have his minions tell “the American people” exactly what they should/better think.
Makes you wonder if he would have done that to Barbara Boxer, doesn’t it?
I don’t disagree with your points but you miss MY point. It’s not that Obama is not in permanent campaign mode or that he is not a pathological liar. It’s that McCain is worse. Obama won the election. He is still in the game and with a legitimate standing. McCain lost the election and can’t even speak for his own party most of whom hate him.
By continuing to hang around trying to reclaim his 2008 “legitimacy”, all he is doing is hurting the Republicans. The MSM will not report it the way you would like and McCain doesn’t deserve better treatment from his MSM “base”.
Get my point? It’s about McCain, not Obama. Obama won that exchange hands down because he was ready for it. He knew it would be coming. McCain does not take advice. Just like Obama.
Obeyme’s patronizing, condescending remark to Senator McCain about no longer being on the campaign trail was beyond disgusting and into the realm of complete childishness. If I had been McCain I would have informed him that his response was an insult not only to him, but to people of Arizona AND I would have reminded him that people in the meeting had shown him the respect of his office, but that he acted reprehensibly by making snarky remarks. Then, I would have informed him that I was done and left that meeting. No way would I allow this psuedo-president to mock me and my state in front of the entire country.
Funny how the Democrats took twice as much time as the Republicans at speaking, and still managed to say essentially nothing but their same tired talking points!
Agree 100% Pasadena Phil.(thats 200 percent in Obama math)
Phil, McCain is litterally neither here nor there. Will have a tough time keeping his own seat, leave alone make some statement about how he should have been POTUS. Don’t think he really helped or hurt anything vis a vis the debate.
I’m curious about your take on the rest of the discourse. Can we really say the GOP is hopeless when they held their ground so well yesterday? Most notably, you had to have been impressed with Alexander and Ryan. Palin was on Hannity again last night talking about reforming the GOP instead of forming a new party. Still think there’s hope with new leadership and waking up to reality.
Don’t know about that…I learned that they not only want to give everyone insurance but that they also want to pay the deductables too!!!
Uhhhhh, isn’t McCain seeking re-election? Methinks he is the only one that should be in campaing mode.
BTW, I thought it was unseemly to bring up his chubby daughters and what his wife’s national tax-payer funded campaign.
This is what happens when Hope-a-Dope and the Keystone Kops (a.k.a., Nancy-n-Harry) venture out of their bubble-world for too long: having swallowed their own propaganda for so long that the Republicans were a bunch of just-fell-off-the-turnip-truck redneck bumpkins whose vocabulary consisted solely of the word “No,” reality came as a rude shock.
The donks were going to go with the reconciliation route from the git, no matter what. Having the “summit” blow up in their faces like a trick cigar has exposed the Naked Emperor for what he is, but he’s still stuck with having to continue the parade anyway.
My guess is it was supposed to play up the bi-partisan, hopey changey, love the one you’re with, we are the world camaradrie he was pretending to create for the cameras. Geez, what would have happened in the room if somebody called Dear Leader Barack? GAAASP!
But he can bloviate and BS with the best. He delivered some very impressive double-talk. I would advise him agaimst too many “ums”, “uhs”, and “Let me be clears” though.
I’m just glad they didn’t get to technical and bring up that ‘Profit to Earnings’ ratio stuff.
RedDog#70
But did he ever get to the ‘the bottom line is’ or the real clincher – ‘the fact of the matter is’….?
It was casual Thursday at the office…
O/T but it says a lot about the “lack of black faces” at the Tea Parties.
Lookie what’s happened to “The White People’s Place for Politics!”
Tea, anyone?
Exactly, sambo! Obama buys the cheapest auto policy he can get, then expects it to cover something he’s not paying for. Guess he thought he was getting “affirmative action” auto insurane. Also, if someone hits your car, and it’s their fault, you get their insurance information and contact their auto carrier, not your own. Given Obama’s whiny “auto ins. story,” it’s highly doubtful that he even understands how auto. insurance works. So much for his “brilliance,” eh?
This “summit” was a sham…a farce, the real purpose of which was to make the Republicans look like “the party of ‘no.’” In fact, those on the right came off as the “party of KNOW.” They had the facts and the information in front of them, and voiced legitimate concerns about “Obamacare.” Democrats showed what idiots they truly are, and it was laughable listening to them dredging up a bunch of “sob stories” as a way to justify their planned destruction of our healthcare system. Obama’s smirking and petulant anger made him look weak and childish. I wonder if he was stamping his feet under the table?
DBNinKY#74
God Bless Texas
What I don’t get is why the democrats don’t just drop the whole abortion business. It looks like — yell and curse at me if I am wrong — that they could then get the votes they need to pass the monster. And next year sneak the abortion stuff back in either through regulation (Obama care is going to unleash a lot of new regulations) or attaching it to a defense bill or some such thing. Are the democrats really so obtuse politically or am I missing something? Please advise.
I get your point but don’t agree with it. The smack down only made MR. Thin skin in chief look like a thug. My wife tends to be very lenient towards Obama, but it really rubbed her the wrong way. And Mc Cain was correct in bringing up the process. Obama showed that he does not want to talk about it, and it signaled the end of ANY though about bipartisanship. Meanwhile Mc Cain did not over-react which would have been fodder for rallying the Democratic troops, which was really the purpose of this whole affair in the first place.
The Republicans did very well, considering. People are afraid that Obama wants to be a dictator. His reaction to Mc Cain just fed that fear.
OT
Great Stuff from Michael Yon today.
You missed my point again. Most (99.9%) of Americans didn’t see what you saw. They only saw the clip. Obama was already being annoying and McCain didn’t accomplish anything with his little campaign speech. He should have stuck to the GOP strategy of sticking to the facts in making their case that Obamcare is a “dangerous experiment” that is economically unsound.
Please don’t say you get my point when you don’t. I got yours, that McCain’s point was valid and that Obama was wrong. IRRELEVANT! It was the only moment that the MSM fixated on in support of Obama.
McCain is a serious liability to Republicans and his questionable judgment of deviating from the other Republicans was another example arguing for why he needs to go away.
The Democrats assume that they have a lot of safe seats. It would be delicious irony if Pelosi lost her seat – and it would send shock wave down to the lowest levels of the Democrat Party. When we get rid of the RINOs and the Democrats who have found it far too convenient to play games in Washington, then we will have taken great strides toward a better America.
Surprise! The whole denture story is another lie.
I work with denture patients every day. Dentures are made very precisely. A person’s personal dentures are often unusable if they are off by even a fraction of a millimeter.
Sisters, even identical twins, are not physically similar enough to interchange their false teeth. This claim is about as likely as amputees interchanging their prosthetic limbs.
Phil, I got you point. I don’t agree with it. Why is that so hard to understand.
Keystone cops
The party of duffus, in charge.
Another good one.
The Mighty Obama At Bat
STEEERRRIIIIKE!!!
I guess I’m missing the point, too, because I thought even sans context, viewing just the short clip, Obama came off like a punk and it was McCain who came off looking like the gracious, composed one.
My favortite part of Oba-Kabuki was at the end when the great speaker Obowma said: “And in closing I would like to say– Ummmmmm” (followed by an uncomfortably long pause where I wondered if he was going to explode).
This has probably been said already, but…
Harry Reid, YOU LIE!!!
Didn’t Harry get the memo?
Whadya know. Desiree Rogers about to announce that she is stepping down as WH social secretary. Shocking.
How many times are you going to say you get my point and immediately prove that you don’t? Let’s just drop it.
ITookTheRedPill said:
I think his friend Tommy may have received it – harry has a habit of pulling his head back into his shell when danger is afoot.
Pardon the clipping, but I solidly agree with those two phrases. I find McCain nauseating.
How come no one is calling out Nanny Botox for claiming there is no abortion funding in the bill? Should that not at least rate a dishonorable mention? Do these people even know when they are lying anymore? Or do they know the difference?
Nanny got an earful from the Pope about her abortion ignorance. She must be between a rock and a hard place – or does she not even know the Senate put it back in the bill? It’s 2,700 pages fer cryin’ out loud. An overworked, over-paid under appreciated Speaker can’t be expected to catch every little thing.
The dems and their takeover is a systemic risk
Bho could not resist saying numerous snarky comments or reminding everyone that he won. Maybe if he could actually govern instead of bullying those who disagree with him, he might actually look like a President. The true measure of a person’s character is determined by how he treats those with whom he dislikes, disagrees or feels are beneath him. The summit was nothing more than a temper tantrum.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/27/health/policy/27health.html
So anyone care to place bets on how long till states start anti-federal laws, or voters burn DC to the ground?
If this monster passes, there will be mass litigation at the state level on the grounds of unconstitutionality and the fact that it WILL bankrupt the country. This will be in the courts for years. The progressives will leave a mess behind them when they leave DC and the republicans will “inherit” the biggest disaster in the history of this country. And this time, blaming the previous administration will be totally valid.
I don’t know. Seppuku involves honor rather than revenge, and entails disembowelment using one’s own sword, as an act of honor for having failed ones “lord” or master. Some inherent problems with the analogy:
1) Barry himself cannot be Ronin. He ackowledges no lord or master but himself.
2) Democrat / honor?? – A contradiction of terms, no?
3) Any failure in the political realm is someone elses fault. Have you ever heard a politician say “I failed”? It is always “It failed, and it’s not my fault.”
4) I don’t really wish harm to these cretins, just obscurity. Something like, “Don’t go away disembowelled, just go away.”
Other than that though, nice thought!
I don’t wish them physical harm either, except for the kind of harm they might encounter in prison.
To see that smug jug-eared moron lecturing McCain (who deserves better) is childish at best. I really am beginning to hate the one and I never thought I would hear myself say that. My faith totally is against that but, pure evil is to be hated and the one is PURE EVIL and has nothing but bad intentions for our precious Republic. I fear for our children if any of this “reform” ever gets passed.
Was this produced by Michael Moore, or is it a WH original film?
You watch the states get the bulk of the healthcare responsibility. With the states in the red already, how are they going to pay for “their fair share”? If this government takeover passes, I suspect food will be the new “enemy of the people”. Already, the politicians are talking about obesity, setting up for the next round of government takeovers. It won’t end until they are out of office and rational people are voted in; if there is such a thing as a “rational politician”.
I just heard that at some schools they are banning the sale of home-made cupcakes, etc. for fundraisers because of the calories and how “unhealthy” they are. Yet the vending machines still have candy bars and chips in them. Yes, the people who are making these decisions fried their brains on drugs back in the 60′s. How can we continue to allow these idiots to make decisions like this without a massive uprising? If we allow the lunatics to run the asylum, we will continue to get insanity as a result. We must take back our country!!
Vending machine revenue is collected by the schools. Money and “pc” always go together, especially when money can be pocketed. Bake sales aren’t revenue raisers for the schools; hence, the hypocrisy.
gray – Here in Georgia, as well as about ten other states, our state senate has drafted an amendment to the state constitution saying that Georgians may effectively opt out of any proposed national health care plan. .
The process is called Nullification:
If this passes in GA, as it appears it will, the Obamacare bill will not affect us – other than of course raising our taxes to fund it for other states – which, as I understand it, brings a constitutional challenge in which states who determine the bill unconstitutional be exempt from federal taxes or mandates to fund it.
There is more than one way to skin this mangey cat. If your state is not doing this, push your state reps.