Obama’s rationing czar cuts and runs
Our good friend and former Hot Air TV correspondent Jason Mattera, now editor-in-chief at Human Events, tried to ask White House recess appointee/Medicare-Medicaid chief Donald Berwick a few questions about his views.
This is what public accountability in the age of Obama looks like:
Pretty good Road Runner imitation there, Dr. Berwick!
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Theses guys really scare me. Theey don’t have to answer to anyone. Sieg Heil!
Wow! Fat fingered it big time!
Obama needs a czar czar.
“He does not need to or want to talk to you proles, he is above any accountability so you hayseeds will just do as he wishes and tough if you don’t like it”
I frankly don’t understand how anybody could see these incidents and still vote for Democrats. Unfortunately, it’s unlikely that the vast majority of the voting public will ever see any of them, thanks to Obama’s friends and allies in the MSM.
I guess this guy didn’t get the Transparency Memo.
/sarc
Come 2011, I’d love to see cops run these punks into paddy wagons with one hand on their collars and the other on their belts. That would be better than pitch forks and torches.
Better yet I’d like to see them put on a slow boat to China and permanent exile.
These people entered this administration as central players in the Politburo. They are not required to answer your questions as they only work with and for the political leaders. OBambi has an African view of power, authority, and his personal role as Emperor for Life. If you doubt it, watch his facial expression and listen to his response when questioned or confronted.
A question I would never ask about Bush, but do you think O will walk out of the office on his own when the voters reject him?
We must take the House!!!
A little known fact about the good Doctor is that he also has a military staff comprised of Lt. Duck, Capt. Dodge, and Maj. Hyde.
TheCorruptedLamb said:
At any other time I would say any official that has lost would walk. Now, the more I see and hear, I wonder what Sock Puppet will try to do. He is the one he has been waiting for and he is too important to heed the will of the people because they just do not know whats good for them.
Hilarious, Alarius!
stillontheroad,
I personally believe that he will leave, only because of his views on violence. However, I think we all are in for a stern talking to!
That’s right. How can “the one we’ve been waiting for” ever just leave the White House? How can he just leave Power because the little people mistakenly voted against him because they were mislead by talk radio and right-wing extremists?
I sense trouble. Clearly obama has no use for the Constitution. So, why would he acknowledge the vote of the people if it goes against him. Uh-oh….
Oh, c’mon, people. I have no use for Obama, but if the people vote him out, and his minions are unable to steal the election fair and square, and there’s no global catastrophe making the oceans rise, then of course he will leave of his own volition.
He may even give a nod to the soldiers showing him the direction out.
Y’all:
This is ambush jopurnalism. I would have done the exact same thing as Berwick. The “journalist” was clearly trying to push Berwick’s buttons. Plus, this was not a press conference or public event. He just tried to catch him coming down the stairs.
Berwick was doing the right thing.
Nah. Obama believes he is the czar’s czar. Why else would he surround himself with so many appointees with no oversight except his own?
the prez is sitting in his leopard-skin apron chuckling & waving his wildebeest-tail quirt at the litter bearers.
Death Panel Czar.
And many of the really old people do not want to hear (or are scared to death to hear) anything about how their lives will be effected. They shut down and prefer to get their info from AARP.
I believe he will leave, but I also believe he will be the most vocally outspoken former president we have ever seen.
The unspoken tradition of not trashing the next guy (which President Bush seems to be following despite President Obama’s many slams) will be history once Obama is a past president.
Presidents Carter and Clinton will seem like mutes in comparison.
If he did answer questions they would be lies.
Have you noticed? It’s only the Republican former presidents that have that kind of class.
Dexter, the only Republ. former presidents we have are Bushes.
RedRepub: Go back and watch the video (especially at 0:32 into it). It isn’t just that he refuses to answer questions from an ambush journalist — he also refuses to testify before Congress, engage his critics or grant interviews.
This is a man working for the federal government and so he has to be accountable to the people of this country. He is a federal employee and he works for “We the People!”
Whether questions come from Congress or via interviews, if he is going to play “close-mouthed” then someone needs to get in his face to get him to open up.
OT: That bodyguard of his should be playing for the Redskins as he kept the pass-rushers off the QB!
I agree. I was joking about the soldiers …… but I’m quite certain he would stay if he thought he could get away with it, and to hell with the elections and the rule of law.
We saw what Obama really is during the Zelaya episode with Honduras.
I am still in a state of astonishment the American voter actually elected him. The degree of ignorance and stupidity and recklessness that went into that decision is way beyond merely appalling.
Obama should ‘go’ and run the UN. A good lot of the members are more receptive to his style.
Roland said:
I don’t even maintain contact with them now. Most of them are hypocrites anyway.
Yes. Because even the liberal media wouldn’t be able to gloss over that.
His only alternative would be to call out the military and maybe all local police forces. Ask any soldier, sailor, Marine, and police officer if they would enforce martial law because an outgoing president, lawfully voted out of office, told them to, just so he could retain the office. They would all laugh in his face. Every general and admiral and police cheif would be shown standing with the incoming president.
Socialism can only go so far in this country. We have to put up with unconstitutional garbage like gov’t health care, social security, etc. But it stops at elections and getting voted out of office.
Besides, didn’t the democrats say that FL voters were “disenfranchised” during the 2000 elections? Didn’t they sue for that very reason (to make every vote count)? They’d have to do some pretty fancy footwork to explain how voters were “disenfranchised” because they couldn’t read the ballot but they are not when a president gets voted out of office and refuses to leave.
That’s because too many Americans, thanks to their high school preparation to vote for worthless student body offices, still think subconsciously that they were voting for another handsome but harmless new student body president who loves them just like they love themselves.
Don’t forget Col. “Bat” Guano…
Now, that’s true. But when Ford and Reagan were still around you didn’t hear any criticism from them.
Still, as far as former presidents go, our Bushes don’t make a stink.
But honestly, Carter was truly superior to every other President. Even he says so.
IF we retake the House and IF those Republican CongressCritters have any back bone they can start to de-fund these Czars and these Presidential Executive Orders, special agencies and such. We now have the Consumer Protection Czar funded by the Federal Reserve and supposedly outside the power of Congress. This is something we need to kill. These Czars know they are not accountable to the American People nor her Congress so the arrogance is a given.
The power of the purse and the courage to say NO may be all we have for awhile. RINOs, “moderates” and cowards will not do.
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Let your sidearm be like American Express:
Don’t Leave home without it.
He should have stuck to building houses for Habitat for Humanity, and kept his pie hole shut. He’d have a lot more respect.
Easy for you, Gladz. My entire extended family out to and including all second cousins (and probably well beyond) voted for Obama.
All ‘smart’ people. ‘Kind’ people. ‘Charming’ people. All ‘well educated.’
All bats**t crazy.
If my posts sometimes seem to tilt toward despair, now you know why.
RedDog said:
Who else but “Jimma” could put the Pea in Nut.
Why do these appointees have “protected” status? Who are those guys running interference for Herr Von Berwick? Secret Service?
If they are SS (pun intended), how does he qualify for their assistance? Are these appointees protected from having to answer questions before Congress? If so, Congress needs to subpoena Obama to grill him under oath. If he refuses, they need to find a way to start impeachment proceedings.
A government of, for, and by the people does not mean an unaccountable dictatorship. This man, Obama, is shredding the Constitution, and it’s original intent.
not from me he wouldn’t. Anti-Semitic swine.
Jason Mattera would make a great Tea Party candidate and United States Senator. Since our droopy eyed Republicans can barely keep anyone’s attention with their boring responses to Democrat criminal activity, I think Jason has the aggressive visibility and strong communicative skills to wake hibernating Americans.
Oh, no,no,no, Spacy, he’s not anti-semitic. He just thinks Israel should be more ‘reasonable.’ He just thinks Hamas is ‘misunderstood.’
He will “tsk,tsk” as the Islamic hordes are slaughtering the last of the Israeli’s.
So he’s not anti-semitic. He just doesn’t think the mass murder of Jews is all that big of a ‘thing.’
He probably keeps Arafat stuffed & sitting in his living room.
Roland said: #38.
You, the island of reason in the midst …
We were preached at in ’06 that “Elections have consequences.” We had best stick to that very maxim next year and in 2013.
The last time the republicans took congress from the dems they basically sat there and let the dems have more than their fair say. This time around, if the repubs to that again, we’re all doomed. We need repubs with backbone this time to push back against the crap installed by Obrama and his minions like this turd.
If we don’t ensure the coming election has consequences for the left, our near term, and possibly long term fate is sealed.
The next president, if he has the stones, could pink slip tons of these regulation writing beaurocrats, and executive order nullify every regulation written since 1975. We cured air pollution and water pollution in the 70′s, and no longer do our rivers catch fire. But every day these pinheads in the EPA write new regulations which take people’s property without compensation as well as taking your money to check the tailpipe emmissions of new cars.
So I think, but the constant roar to the contrary can be deafening.
I finally refused to talk politics with any of them anymore (they all feel compelled to try to save their fallen son/brother/nephew/uncle/cousin) after my mother started regularly telling me they all “Still love you anyway.”
In my last argument with 7 of them at once, one of my brothers finally pointed out I wasn’t defending Bush/the Republicans. I was saying a pox on both parties.
The rest of them started ignoring him. The body language was hilarious/spooky.
I feel like an explorer who finds himself alone in a land of friendly cannibals who think I am the ‘savage’ because I don’t eat human brains.
Enough of that, other than to lurch back to the topic at hand:
As crazy as they are, any of them would make better czars than any of Obama’s czars. They aren’t that bats**t crazy.
You’re right on, cheapseat. I would add that we also need congressional leaders that will make the dimocrap whiners sit in their place when they’re not in power, just like they have been doing to us. I see signs that we’re not quite taking it anymore, but until I see us in charge and acting like we’re in charge I don’t think we can undo enough by executive order alone. This time our leaders need to act like leaders.
The correct historical parallel just occured to me.
In China, they had a class called the Mandarins. There were 9 levels of bureacrats who ran the government, even to the point of being able to over ride the Emporers wishes. It was an insiders club, where the sons of Mandarins were trained to take those positions, and hold power…
Literally, it was a Bureacracy of the Elite, which controlled everything…
We don’t have Czars, we have Mandarins…
A lot of us have had the same experience. I had a couple of bros-in-law who were yellow-dog Democrats before the last election. Now they sound like Reagan Republicans – which may be a clue as to why Paladino is gaining several points a day on Cuomo in NY.
As noted in Codevilla’s excellent article and book.
ROLAND #49: I am awash with liberals in my family and the only conservative left….I used to let them make their talking points, never putting up much of a fight. NOW, ALL THAT’S CHANGED. I don’t give them an inch….and I don’t care what names they call me. Being nice doesn’t work, so I ain’t.
As we get out.
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HI THECORRUPTLAMB–#9. Yes–Comrade Obama (PBUH) will leave the White House in January 2012.
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The sight of President Sarah’Cuda swinging her hockey stick from the rear seat–as Todd guns the snowmobile over the remains of the front door–should help him change his mind about staying–pronto!
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John Bibb
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I would have prefered a year early, too.
Since he doesn’t do press conferences, doesn’t answer questions at public events and doesn’t stand for election how do you suggest he be held accountable to the people?
lucky they didn’t have their 9mm Lugers with them or Jason might be dead on the floor there.
National Socialists don’t answer no questions from the rabble, how dare he?
On September 22nd, 2010 at 11:10 am, RedRepub said:
Y’all:
Exactly when do we get to talk to them?