Endless “Time for talk is over” tour hits Cleveland, Ohio on Monday; Update: More signs of No-mentum

Calling all Tea Party activists: Make sure to make your voices heard in Cleveland, Ohio, on Monday when President Obama comes to town.
They’re piggy-backing Democrat fundraisers onto the Demcare salvation road show — just as they did in St. Louis, Missouri.
Will Dems flee from the Reverse Midas White House touch like they did yesterday?
At least one Democrat is taking the risk: Ohio Dem. Gov. Ted Strickland:
…in Ohio, Gov. Ted Strickland is making sure his schedule is cleared for next week’s visit by the president. Strickland, who is facing a tough challenge in his re-election bid from Republican John Kasich, will join Obama in northeast Ohio on Monday to promote his health care plan, a Strickland aide said.
The first-term Democrat, saddled with a difficult economy and a state jobless rate nearing 11 percent, led Kasich by five points in a mid-February poll by Quinnipiac University.
Strickland will get some political help from the administration on the same day as the president’s visit. Vice President Biden is headlining a fundraiser for the governor on Monday night in Cleveland.
With a tip of the hat to Doc Zero, who cracked on Twitter that “Democrats love Obama campaign visits like the citizens of Tokyo rush to have their pictures taken with Godzilla,” run for your lives!
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Update: More signs of No-mentum…
More than two dozen Democrats are expected to vote against the healthcare reform bill that will hit the House floor in the coming weeks.
At least 25 House Democrats will reject the healthcare reform legislation, according to a survey by The Hill, a review of other media reports and interviews with lawmakers, aides and lobbyists. Dozens of House Democrats are undecided or won’t comment on their position on the measure.
And more:
A group of Hispanic lawmakers on Thursday will tell President Barack Obama that they may not vote for healthcare reform unless changes are made to the bill’s immigration provisions.
The scheduled meeting comes as Democratic leaders and the White House are struggling to craft a final bill that will attract 216 votes in the lower chamber.
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The time for talk may be over if the Slaughter Solution, a willful short circuiting of democracy, happens.
Declaration of Independence time once the current government rejects the Constitution outright and becomes illegitimate in every sense.
Of course, the winners write the history, and if Washington has been captured, and he and Adams and Jefferson and Franklin had swung from the gallows, Sam Adams Day might have eclipsed Guy Fawkes Day in England.
If the time for talk is over, someone needs to stand up at one of BHO’s speeches and say, “So, shut up already.”
Where is Joe Biden’s limo driver when you need him?
Complete agreement.
As I observe what Obama is doing with his relentless push for Healthcare. Democrats should remember the last two stanzas of The Pete Seeger anti-war folk song, “Waist Deep in the Big Muddy.”
It’s ironic that a Progressive like Seeger, over 40 years ago has described what Obama is doing to the Democrats.
Well, I’m not going to point any moral;
I’ll leave that for yourself
Maybe you’re still walking, you’re still talking
You’d like to keep your health.
But every time I read the papers
That old feeling comes on;
We’re — waist deep in the Big Muddy
And the big fool says to push on.
Waist deep in the Big Muddy
And the big fool says to push on.
Waist deep in the Big Muddy
And the big fool says to push on.
Waist deep! Neck deep! Soon even a
Tall man’ll be over his head, we’re
Waist deep in the Big Muddy!
And the big fool says to push on!
I like how he shouts that the ‘time for talk is over’ at rallies and gatherings of pie-faced drooling groupies.
As if the public has a ‘talk’ option in this crap.
What a dork.
I am employed as a civil engineer and deal with the strings of Federal Transportation funding throughout my career. Back in the mid 90s, when a new Federal transportation bill was being considered, Kasich suggested that the Federal gas tax of $0.18 a gallon be reduced to $0.02, and that the individual states then determine how much gas tax to levy. It was a sensible solution then (of course, it never passed muster with Congress), and since that time, I have held Kasich in high regard. He’s exactly the kind of governor that Ohio needs at this time.
Stephen King once wrote in one of his books: “We lie best when we lie to ourselves”. Either these libs are in total denial (lying to themselves) about the permanent catastrophic effect this bill will have on our economy, or they are deliberately deceiving their mindless constituents, knowing that this bill will wreck our Country and its health care system, making way for their socialist dream.
As of this Morning Mr. thin skin hasn’t given the local Cleveland news the actual location yet. I guess that he is afraid that a tea party might break out.
Last time he was here he surrounded himself with drooling obots.
Dear Dear Leader
We are dazed and rather confused about your utopian Healthcare plan as we have not yet heard enough from you about how stupid we are to oppose the paradise it will afford. We are not Ivy League scholars, so are in need of your vast wisdom.
Please continue to enlighten us via your awesomely awesome oratory genius. We have been misled and deceived into believing apples are in fact not oranges. Please continue talking, and talking, and talking, and…
Thank You
The Proletariat
O’Bambi only wishes the time for talk were over! Our elected representatives are scaring the citizens badly, no matter what their political affiliations may be. Republicans were quick to realize what the situation was, followed some time later by Independents, and joined now by Democrat citizens. All citizens are concerned at this point. Hopefully not too late to stop our elected clowns.
I love Kasich, but his campaign website, What I Stand For, lacks any substance on the issues. His four point positions read like a Democrat promise. All talk and no details. Obama made the same generic promises. What is Kasich afraid of? He’s starting to scare me.
BTW, Pelsoi knows she’ll go back to being in the minority party if they slip hell care through that way.
But it is worth it to her. Why?
Mark Steyn, for one, knows.
Know this, if all 18 current Dem seats flip Republican, in 2011 the GOP still couldn’t break a fillibuster, let alone muster 67 votes to pass a bill killing hell care over Obama’s veto.
I heard Kasich on Hannity shortly after he announced that he was running, and I was disappointed in how he went from a fairly articulate analyst, to sounding like a typical full of **** politician, filled with mantras, patting himself on the back, etc. I hope he gets better at communicating a conservative message, because I think he will be a good governor.
As others have observed, he has to keep on campaigning. It’s literally the only thing he knows how to do.
Oops, I was referring to Obama – didn’t see the comments about Kasich.
I look for the big, real push to be Friday through the weekend.
Conservative and Republican leaders, mover & shakers are usually MIA on weekends, so there will be little defense and no offense from them outside of a maybe a few mumblings on the Sunday talkers where the “my distiguished friend from across the aisle” timidity is de rigeur.
Unfortunately, the only ones rushing to have their pictures taken with “Godzilla” were the Republicans at their own retreat. So embarrassing.
::: shaking head :::
“Silence is golden, golden….”
So shut up already!
I wonder if this latest Road to Serfdom campaign is available on Google maps, and if it will be extended into all 57 states??
He’s targeting the nation’s worse economies. It’s the evil rich insurance companies and employers who are responsible for your lot in life. I’m here to help. I’m guessing that Detroit is next up on his schedule.
The more he talks the more his numbers and support for Healthcare drop. Keep talking Barry.
The latest Rasmussen poll has Kasich up by 11 and the RCP average is Kasich +4.
We HAVE to get Strickland out of office!!!
This is beyond parody. Enough Song and Dance already, how about some Listen and Learn?
Kasich should have been president. The Repub Party has Hades to pay for their mistake in 2000.
IIRC, Bush’s top opponent was McCain that year.
Stronger/better candidates sometimes decide not to face an incumbent/de facto incumbent. Right or wrong.
The recession that started Summer 2000 was not obvious yet (it didn’t become an official recession until March 2001, and Gore seemed a likely winner.
Bill Clinton benefitted from that in 1992 when more prominent Democrats didn’t get in at all or got in too late.
Godzilla? You mean more like Mothra!
Yesterday Google added bicycle directions to it’s maps so the serfs can get to the local cheese distribution center. Maps to your local government approved medical professional (not necessarily an MD) to follow – but are taking lopnger since they all seem to “deadend” in Canada.
To be of a leftist persuasion is to live a lie.
- You have to lie to yourself all the time to avoid having to confront the fact that not only have you not staved off the 7 Major Negative Emotions, you’ve embraced them — and just like the tar baby, they’ve embraced you back.
- You have to parrot the lies your peer group clings to, to preserve your acceptance among them — lest any of you have to enter the “Here be Dragons” terra incognita of thinking for yourselves, and have to pick up the mental tools you’ve long since let slip from your feeble grasp: logic, intellectual consistency, evidence and reasoned discourse.
- And you have to lie to everybody else, lest they find out what you really are and what you really want.
They couldn’t override a Hope-a-Dope veto, either. Bottom line is, although the Republicans can complain loudly, our best hope of defeating donkey-care lies in aborting it: and the only people in position to do that are … donks.
How comforting, hmm?
Correction to previous post:
Should’ve read Ed’s comment a bit more closely.
Obamazilla…
So now they are investigating how long Pelosi knew about Massa’s personal behavior. I have long felt, and now it seems clear, that Pelosi and Reid have files on every member of Congress and will use their information at the appropriate time to get votes. If you see a congressperson change their vote after being a definite NO, it is probably due to blackmail, a la J. Edgar Hoover. Apparently, Pelosi knew about Massa since LAST YEAR. She also knew about Mark Foley and sat on the information until it was too late to put another Republican on the ballot to replace him.
It will be interesting to see how history chronicles Obama’s Presidency. The blacks in this country were so proud to have the first Black President. How proud do you think they will be when he goes down in history as the President who changed America into a socialist country and destroyed it for generations to come. Nice legacy for our First Black POTUS!
The bill to investigate Pelosi and the Massa scandal passed unanimously with just 2 dissenting votes…both Republicans! I wonder who they were??? Who would vote against this?? Especially since Boehner is the one who introduced the bill.
Dear Barry, Harry and Nancy,
Please note that my as of yet unborn grandchildren cannot afford your idiotic “health care” fiasco. For their sake, drop it and try something that might create a few jobs. By the time the Federal Government does anything useful on that front they will probably be looking for their first jobs…
The two No votes were Tim Johnson (R-IL) and Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) Hmmm….Illinois and California. No RINO’s there! Ha!!
Dana Rohrbacker – Go figure. Just one more argument for term limits. The longer people are in Washington, the more they need to be sent home…
What would Rohrabacher possibly have to gain by voting against this bill??? Very hard to understand what he must have been thinking!
Makes you wonder where they get all that info, doesn’t it? Who has the resources to find out all they want about our Reps personal lives? I have a guess…
Well…Hoover was the head of the FBI. But I assume you are talking about Holder? I hate to think the FBI would be that corrupt.
Thanks Michelle for the hat tip to Doc Zero. Folks, if you haven’t visited Hot Air and read Doc Zero in the Green Room (many times elevated to front page) you’re missing out on a very fine writer. Also has his own website @
DoctorZero.com.
Back OT – I’ve got to check myself because I’m starting to completely tune out on our fearless leader. I’m sick of being scolded like a 1st grader that spilled milk, fingers wagging at the camera with a scornful look on the face, and the now raised voice repeatedly telling me I’m too stupid to know what’s good for me. Coming from a group that can’t square math with their spending habits is getting old, with the extortion of tax payers to pay for it is unconscionable.
I HAVE to tune him out or I would go nuts. His voice is so grating, that I get physically ill when I hear it. He is on TV all the time…either on the news or in commercials. Talk about overkill! This is the most egotistical blowhard I have ever seen! How can he possibly think the American People want to hear his creepy voice 24×7??
Happyscrapper – I keep thinking that by listening to him someday I’ll be there when he slips up and commits seppuku in front of a live audiance on primetime cable! Slaps forehead….they’d just cover for him.
Don’t worry about being there when he slips up! You can watch it replayed on YouTube or FoxNews. In the meantime, you can spare yourself a lot of nausea by just turning him off. It is really sad that the legacy of the first Black POTUS is so tainted.
If the “time for talk is over,” why won’t the man shut up?
What about the health care items that were shoved into the Porkulus I?
You know, like Section 3001, which increased COBRA coverages for the (now nearing 11% in Ohio) unemployed… or the Section 3101 Extension of Transitional Medical Assistance, or any of the other health care and/or insurance items from the first Porkulus?
Surely those early provisions not only aid my fellow Buckeyes but somehow magically stimulate the economy. Don’t they?
Either way, let’s hope the reverse-Midas touch doesn’t change in Ohio
Happyscrapper
“It is really sad that the legacy of the first Black POTUS is so tainted.”
Yes, it is. Thomas Sowell would have been our first Black POTUS in a perfect world, and he’d have known how to balance a budget.
Dozens holding back and not commenting. They don’t want to hang themselves if they don’t have to. It’s a gamble. They will wait until it is sure to pass or sure to fail before they take the leap. They are spineless socialist bastards. Cowards.
Rogue–thanks. I need a good Mothra reference every now & then.
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Health-Care Bill Path Complicated by Parliamentarian
(Senate Parliamentarian roles against fixing in reconciliation, House has to pass Senate bill as is)
LINK
Also from RollCall.Com
Ruling Kills an Option for Moving Health Bill
“The Senate Parliamentarian has ruled that President Barack Obama must sign Congress’ original health care reform bill before the Senate can act on a companion reconciliation package, senior GOP sources said Thursday.”
You could not follow the path of this bill with a pack of bloudhounds and a GPS system. I’ll be the Dems are furious.
It’s an empty threat. There is no way they’ll go against Obama/Pelosi/Reid with immigration reform waiting in the wings. They’ll make a little noise and then vote ‘yes’ to whatever is placed before them like good little comrades.
flyoverman
“could not follow the path of this bill with a pack of bloodhounds and a GPS”
Best quip I’ve seen all day…thanks for the laugh.
Astroturfing and Talking Points for Trolls:
Expect to hear these regurgitated talking points by callers to talk radio programs: Sean Hannity’s, Glenn Beck’s, Rush Limbaugh’s, etc.
ObamaOrganizing For America even wants their O-bots to “Report Your Call” back to O-bot headquarters!We do understand the stakes for our economy and our lives,
and that is why the action we want is for this bill to die!
I know that Pelosi won’t bring the bill to a floor vote until she knows she has the votes for it. But I wouldn’t mind an up or down vote tomorrow, so that it can fail and be finally put to rest.
The last thing I would want would be for lame-duck Democrats, as one parting jab after losing the November elections and knowing that their power ends in early January, to pass the bill in December.
The only people I’ve spoken with about Obamacare that are in favor of it are those that are disgruntled with Medicaid or Medical….I could only mutter ‘you ain’t seen nothing yet when this thing passes.’ One case in point is a gal that is on Medical and moans and groans about how she’s limited to doctors, etc., but somehow managed to save up $5000.00 for a boob job with the doctor of her choice.
Guess with centralized patient records they’d catch this kind of thing?
On March 11th, 2010 at 3:17 pm, Ty85719 said:
If the “time for talk is over,” why is
ObamaOrganizing For America telling Obama supporters to call TALK RADIO?Those brain dead Democrats are destroying the country . . . get ready for chaos, turmoil and a level of dissent and disunity unlike anything this poor sick Republic has ever seen.
Dear Reader desperately wants the time for talk to be over, but we won’t shut up.
Some just don’t want the People’s Paradise he has envisioned for us.
And he’s pi$$ed about it.
Odumbo can take his healthcare reform and shove it where the sun don’t shine. He can also kiss my grits. I just can’t stand this arrogant POS. He is a disgrace to the Office of the President.
I see little rays of hope for this health care bill failing; but, in the long run, Democrats will be Democrats.
They are convinced they have to pass something. You can bet they’re all making deals with the devil to pass anything that is mired in doublespeak and rhetoric. Their comprehension levels are threatened because they simply don’t understand the American public not wanting this monstrosity and promising to get even at the polls 2010 and 2012. They all must be on sleep medication at this point.
and a disgrace to the entire nation…and off he’ll go next week on another apology tour….wasting yet more taxpayer $$$$….
Use to watch Kasich on Fox, thought he was either a moderate or libertarian, he is no conservative.
24Klady,
The may not be making deals directly with the devil, but it would appear they ARE making deals with “the son of the devil’s spawn.”
P.S. Thanks for the kind words above.
hey that is not Godzilla
this is
Godzilla
2:42 shows who the real king of the monsters is well next to the monster known as obamacare
I can only hope that the American voter remembers the last 14 months and chooses to delete as many demonrats from office as possible. We don’t want an improved healthcare bill…we want a dead Obamacare bill. Not more laws…but less government so the free market can work its magic.
That’s the Godzilla I remember. People talking out of sync with their lip movement, and a guy dressed in a cheesy rubber dinosaur suit crushing tramploing a plastic model of Tokyo. Awesome!
Carter and Clinton pollster Pat Cadell writing in the WaPo today.
Maybe Americans are finally ready to rebel against our one-party system? The cultural elites are at war with us and 2010 will be the last year we can fight and win without violence. Once the Constitution has been swept away, we will have no reason to hope that elections and courts can help us.
Vote out ALL incumbents. Don’t think about it. Just do it.
WOW! You MUST watch this clip of Senator Byrd when he Single-Handedly Stopped President Clinton From Using Reconciliation!
Every word he said then is just as true now!
Regardless of what Byrd says today, we should be playing over, and over, and over again the clip of what he said then.
NakedEmperorNews Video:
you mean like good old Joe Biden