They are behind closed doors again.
The Democrats.
Major arm-twisting and brow-beating going on, but you are not allowed to know what is happening.
That is what Obama calls Transparency and C-SPAN coverage.
Right.
Same Old, Same Old.
Lies and Obfuscation.
Before this last, demented attempt to pass healthcare, the Democrats would have lost control of the House anyway. But with it, they face the loss of a historically high number of seats — perhaps more than 80.
The final fight over healthcare boils down to a simple formulation: The People vs. Pelosi.
In district after district, the next 10 days will feature an aroused citizenry demanding a "no" vote while an ideologically motivated Speaker demands assent. The echo of this push/pull will take place in the minds of the Democratic House members. Each will ask himself whether he is really prepared to throw away his career for this vote. Is this it? Is this legislation worth the end of line?
To arouse public opinion, anti-ObamaCare groups are drilling down to the congressional district level and running ads in each swing congressman's backyard pressuring their member to vote no.
The League of American Voters is now running ads in the following districts: Baron Hill (D-Ind.), Mark Schauer (D-Mich.), Michael Arcuri (D-N.Y.), Dan Maffei (D-N.Y.), Kathy Dahlkemper (D-Pa.), Chris Carney (D-Pa.), Paul Kanjorski (D-Pa.), Tom Perriello (D-Va.), Steve Kagen (D-Wis.), Alan Mollohan (D-W.Va.) and Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.). It will shortly start running ads in these districts: Earl Pomeroy (D-N.D.), Allen Boyd (D-Fla.), Bill Owens (D-N.Y.), Jim Matheson (D-Utah), Ann Kirkpatrick (D-Ariz.), Harry Mitchell (D-Ariz.) and Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.).
To support the League of American Voters in their efforts to stop Obama — Go Here Now.
DickMorris.com
This time it is the Baghdad and London Embassies that Ron Paul pointed out to Hillary Clinton.
American traitor Gadahn, now Al Qaeda's American spokesman, praised the murderer and traitor Hassan for his shooting at Ft. Hood.
[What happened to hanging traitors?]
"Nidal Hasan is a pioneer, a trailblazer and a role-model who has opened a door, lit a path and shown the way forward for every Muslim who finds himself among the unbelievers," Gadahn said.
"Brother Nidal is the ideal role-model for every repentant Muslim," he said.
"You shouldn't make the mistake of thinking that military bases are the only high-value targets in America and the West. There are countless other strategic places, institutions and installations which, by striking, the Muslim can do major damage."
Gadahn grew up on a goat farm in Riverside County, California, and converted to Islam at a mosque in nearby Orange County. He has been wanted by the FBI since 2004 and two years later was charged with treason. There is a $1 million reward for information leading to his arrest or conviction.
He has in the past posted videos and messages calling for the destruction of the West and for strikes against targets in the United States. His location is unknown, but he is believed to be somewhere along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
In the latest video, Gadahn said those planning attacks did not need to use only firearms like Hasan, but could use other weapons. "As the blessed operations of September 11th showed, a little imagination and planning and a limited budget can turn almost anything into a deadly, effective and convenient weapon."
Gadahn said fighters should target mass transportation systems in the West and also wreak havoc "by killing or capturing people in government, industry and the media."
He recommended finding ways to shake "consumer confidence and stifle spending" and noted that even unsuccessful attacks, such as the failed attempt to bomb a U.S. airliner on Christmas day, can bring major cities to a halt.
– AP Associated Press
After 34 speeches, three sharp electoral rebukes (Virginia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts), and a seven-hour seminar, the president announced Wednesday his determination to make one last push to pass his Health Care Bill.
Imagine a bill granting every American a free federally delivered ice cream every Sunday morning. Provision 2: steak on Monday, also home delivered. Provision 3: A dozen red roses every Tuesday. You get the idea. Would each individual provision be popular in the polls? Of course.
However — life is a vale of howevers — suppose these provisions were bundled into a bill that also spelled out how the goodies are to be paid for and managed — say, half a trillion dollars in new taxes, half a trillion in Medicare cuts (cuts not to keep Medicare solvent but to pay for the ice cream, steak, and flowers), 118 new boards and commissions to administer the bounty-giving, and government regulation dictating, for example, how your steak was to be cooked. How do you think this would poll?
The time for debate is over, declared the nation’s seminar-leader-in-chief.
The man who vowed to undo Washington’s wicked ways has directed the Congress to ram the Bill through, by one vote if necessary, under the parliamentary device of “budget reconciliation.”
The man who ran as a post-partisan is determined to remake a sixth of the U.S. economy despite the absence of support from a single Republican in either house, the first time anything of this size and scope has been enacted by pure party-line vote.
Surprised? You can only be disillusioned if you were once illusioned.
—Charles Krauthammer About the Health Care run-around.
