Contempt

You probably saw this because it's been on Drudge, but if you haven't, click over and watch liberal fascism in action. I wonder if this Congressdouche knew that a camera was rolling when he uttered the money quote that should be in GOP ads against Obamacare immediately...

I will vote adamantly against the interests of my district if I actually think what I am doing is going to be helpful.

Note that even a member of the nutroots audience he's speaking to sounds incredulous.

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Jerry, Run for your life!

So via Eric at Classical Values we (that's the editorial "we", not the royal "We"...for now) find this lovely article.

Apparently, Arizona's state treasurer is suddenly on a "No-fly" list. He's also "buddies" with Janet Napolitano, and by "buddies", I mean they hate each other's guts.

And now the shoe is on the other fist it seems.
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His name suddenly appeared on the federal government's "No-Fly" list.
"I'm not able to do any kind of electronic boarding or get any electronic boarding passes or Web check-in," Martin said. "Anytime I fly on an airline I have to go to a counter and prove I am who I am."
When 3TV contacted Napolitano, who is now head of Homeland Security, her spokeswoman, Sara Kuban, responded by sending 3TV a statement in an e-mail.

The explanation?
 It read, "Dean Martin is a common name."

How long before they break down Jerry Lewis' door? He and Deano have been known to pal around you know, almost... conspiratorially.

Eric, in the first link, ties it all in together with the astrosurfing of "Reich Wing Hate Groups" and the DHS "The Right Wing are terrorists!" report from a few months ago in a nice, cheery post all tied up with a bow about how we're all screwed.
He also includes the sadly obligatory, "What if Ashcroft had done this?" question.
Sigh.

Nice freaking guy.
The way today is shaping up, Eli's gonna break his freaking leg in warm-ups tonight.

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flag@ email is gone

The snitch email, it is no mo'.  Now we need to FOIA it.

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Today's Racist Mob-like Rabble Rousing Tea-Bagging Making Meggy McCain Sad Video

Thanks

Oh, and fuck you Alan Grayson, you fucking coward.

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The tolerant left, Vol. MMXXVII

So, Rep. Mike Ross of Arkansas, one of the Blue Dog Dems, said that he would "never vote for a bill to kill old people, period," which seems like an admirable sentiment to me. However, commenter "CranialRectalLoopback" at The Hill disagreed:

When are {I can only assume that CRL intended to add the word "we" here--ed.} going to Vick this blue dog?

I don't know what's more entertaining: the idea that CRL is upset that someone would object to offing the elderly or that s/he is apparently endorsing Michael Vick's dog-fighting ring.

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I hate to say it...

...but Nancy Pelosi was right. I mean, you can click right here to see a whole gallery of angry protesters carrying swastikas.

Yeah.

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Wait! I Thought Claims Of Euthanasia Were Merely Reich Wing Falsehoods!

This guy may get reported to the Snitch Line soon.

This is the Big Brother nightmare of oppressive government that the shrewd propagandists on the right are always blathering on about. Except that this time, they could not be more right.

Leave aside the argument for ending life when its prospects for continuing seem too painful or too hopeless. Leave it aside because this is one case where Kant’s beautiful categorical imperative—act as though your particular deeds should be a universal law—will never apply. We know that theft and murder are wrong because if they were universally committed, the world would explode in chaos. But the decision to end your life before nature wrenches it away is as rational and humane as the decision to prolong your life by whatever means necessary. Life is too specifically precious to turn its final phase into any type of universal practice, whether it’s enforced by custom or by law.

As for the argument that fruitless tests and “senseless” procedures are bankrupting the health-care system, that is an insult to the intelligence. No one knows which tests and procedures will be effective beforehand. No amount of “study” and research is going to address the particular case and the particular condition, let alone the particular, desperate, irrational will to live—which, in animal terms, is pragmatic and rational.

(And anyone who thinks that we are not all animals—even the “experts” Obama is so enamored of— must read David Rieff’s remarkable account of his mother Susan Sontag’s refusal to accept her doctors’ verdict of imminent death. The will to live does not suddenly become an error of judgment just because a “system” cannot “afford” to accommodate it, especially when the system has the means to do so.)

Most consequential of all, even if limitations were put on certain tests and procedures, the only people who would be affected by it would be the people who, presumably, are the ones meant to be rescued by the very plan that would be imposing those limitations. The financially strapped, in other words, who are the intended beneficiaries of the health care plan would be the only people forbidden access to expensive life-extending technology. The rich will always be able to afford it.

 

Therein lies much of my opposition to Obama Care. While I care about taxes, costs, lawsuits, pills, etc., the ultimate reason I hate this shit sandwich is the unfairness it will create. Not only will people who cannot afford experimental treatments to save or extend their lives not receive it, but they actually will be forced to "take the pill", whether by fiat or merely by being denied choices. That, coming from a system that will purport to "save all". How fair is that?

Also, while I had scant interest in the Terri Schiavo case, one thing I recall from the pro-Michael faction was that it was not the role of the Government to interfere in a person's medical decisions for life and death. But these same people are now on board with this monstrosity. Go figure. 

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Quote of the Day

"It's not raising taxes. It's just getting the money, borrowing from you for a short period, non-interest bearing, and you'll get it back later," explained Sacramento accountant Ken Astle.

Well isn't that handy?

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Hmmmmmmm?

We heard last week that the SEIU is planning on going on strike in California.

Does that mean they'll stop beating protestors?

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This word activist, I do not think it means what you think it means

Behind the cut for size. Here's the link, until it disappears anyway.

(h/t JoeGallant)
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One-War-Policy

As we know, Obama's gov't has decided to "rethink" the two-war policy.

We also know that Obama has decided to declare victory in the War on (Some) Terror.

Now, he's decided to cripple the CIA so they can't fight it even if they want to.
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U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. is poised to appoint a criminal prosecutor to investigate alleged CIA abuses committed during the interrogation of terrorism suspects...
So the CIA is readying for their war with the Obama administration
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Bracing for the worst, a small number of CIA officials have put off plans to retire or leave the agency so that they can maintain their access to classified files and be in a better position to defend against a Justice investigation.

You see, Obama has decided to stop the Wo(S)T to fully dedicate his gov't to the War on (Some)  Voters

Please report me to flag@whitehouse.gov Oh, and cialis, lacey wigs, viagra, britney spears breasts, megan fox naked, michael jackson love child, madelain albright naked
(Okay, that last was uncalled for, so now you really need to report me for subversive thoughts and behavior).

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What if he wasn't such a douche?

Check out this new video from Cuffy:

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It's all a matter of perspective

What the hell Teh Fred is doing reading HuffPo shall forever remain a mystery.  I can forgive that, though, as he's pointed out a good read to demonstrate the reality-bending that's going on regarding the town hall demonstrations.

A few points from the article, which is worth a read if only for the giggles at union thugs being afraid of grandma's cane.

This:

is what passes for "several conservative media outlets accus(ing) the organization of trying to assault demonstrators".

Rush Limbaugh is scary scary for announcing the address of the St. Louis SEIU on the air, since Republicans can't hear an address without showing up with their clingy guns and Bibles and white pointy hats and burning crosses on the lawn.

Doing things like noting license plates of who shows up at demonstrations is a tactic best left to people who have experience at investigating political activists, like Helen Jones-Kelley.

One person saying something extreme on Twitter constitutes an angry mob "taking up arms against the union".  And saying you're going to use the 2nd Amendment to protect your 1st Amendment rights is eeeeeviiiiiiillll.

The unions are just there to help, which is why they were "help(ing to) turn away people at a forum in Tampa Bay, Florida".

And the author has no fucking idea what a petition is.  But that's just petty of me to point out.

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Any chance we could leave the schools to, I don't know, educating the kids?

You only have to dig 992 pages into the bill to find it.*  I'll sum it up, as it's about eight pages of crap.  I don't even know how to refer to this thing by section, as it's apparently an amendment to something else that may be in this bill or may be something else, I have no freaking idea.

Pages 992 through 1000 establish School-Based Health Clinics (SBHCs).    The goal of this portion of the bill is to establish full-service health clinics - the phrase used in the bill is "comprehensive primary health services" - operating during school hours on campus in underprivileged areas. The SBHCs will follow federal, state, and local privacy laws.

So let's get theoretical here - what sort of medical services might be provided to students that would require specifically calling out that privacy laws will be observed regarding parental notification?

There's also the issue of encouraging parents to further abandon parental responsibility by allowing them to remove the albatross of actually caring what's going on with their children enough to take them to the freaking doctor, but that's for another post.

_{*No, I haven't read 992 pages of this monstrosity.  I was reading the table of contents and saw the title of the section and had a feeling that there was going to be something pretty bizarre there.}

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I wuz there

Well actually, he was there
He being Jim Hoft, of Gateway Pundit fame.

It's worth a read, I won't excerpt it except to show how much respect Carnahan had for his constituents and how much for his union thugs.
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One side was marked reserved. This was for the union supporters who arrived late for the event...snip...
His staffers then pulled out a few questions and read them to him from their index cards. They said they had collected the cards beforehand, but the tea party taxpayers did not even know they were only taking questions that were written down.

RTWT, follow the links, it's despicable.
What makes it even despicable...er is the way Carnahan's been talking afterwards. People got upset about his orchestrated "town hall" and union thugs and he's been calling his voters the bad guys all day while sticking up for the union muscle.

Unbelievabile.

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"Get out of the way, don't do a lot of talking!"

What a twat.

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Video of St. Louis Event

I didn't want to update DPUD's post so here it is.
Via Gateway Pundit.

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Obama's goon squad attacks conservative at town hall

They really, really don't like minorities opposing them. 

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Russ Carnahan: Astroturfing Mobster

After multiple episodes of epic FAIL the last few weeks, Rep. Russ Carnahan (Dungheap-MO) decided to have another town hall tonight to defend Obamacare. Well, he did not have to worry tonight about being embarrassed, as he stacked the deck in his favor by locking out damn near 1000 Tea Partiers and helping Union/ACORN thugs sneak in through a handicapped door.



Wow. Way to go, Congressman. You really are willing to confront your opponents. And I can tell you really feel secure enough in your positions to allow all sides to participate in a debate. Oh, and to any libtard who still is screaming "Astroturfers" at the anti-Obamacare people:
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I did a bad, bad thing

Yesterday, I sent what I now realize was an ill-considered e-mail to flag@whitehouse.gov wherein I thought it would be funny to send them this video as an example of "fishy" statements being made about President Obama's health care reform plans. "How clever," I thought to myself.

Well, the fine folks at the White House didn't appreciate my sense of humor, and, as Rahm (we're on a first-name basis now, after we came to "our little understanding") and the nice, large gentlemen from the SEIU got ready to board the helicopter said, "Nobody likes a smartass." Waving goodbye with my left arm—having clumsily slammed my own right arm in my car door several times during our little pow-wow—I agreed and bade them a fond farewell.

To make a long story short, most (if not all—oh, who am I kidding—all) of you who blog or comment here haven't been, well, exactly helpful on the topic of health care reform. As a result, I'm going to have to ask each and every one of you to leave your full names, addresses, Social Security numbers, phone numbers, and IP addresses in the comments to this post. Trust me, things will go much more smoothly if you cooperate. I mean, you have no idea how hard it was to type this using just my left hand.

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