NYT: Millions Spent To Sway Democrats. You Don’t Say? Actually, You DON’T Say

Is it any wonder Americans hate with a pure, enraged hate, the politics of Washington, D.C.? What a disgusting town.

The New York Times reports the obvious, yet again:

The yearlong legislative fight over health care is drawing to a frenzied close as a multimillion-dollar wave of advertising that rivals the ferocity of a presidential campaign takes aim at about 40 House Democrats whose votes will help determine the fate of President Obama’s top domestic priority.

Oh, wait. What’s that? The article is about advertising being spent to sway those on the fence about the health care reform bill? That’s bad?

There aren’t even words to describe my contempt for this purposeful misdirecting piece of garbage cloaked as news.

If Jeff Zelany and the New York times cared about money in politics, they’d investigate the money that the Democrats are throwing around to bribe their fellow Democrats to vote for a piece of legislation that no one wants besides the New York Times editorial board.

What nonsense!

I went to the article figuring they’d be talking about the avarice disguised as sausage-making and they’re taking time to talk about advocacy advertisements and the millions being spent on a bill no one wants?

The outrage should be focused where the American people are focusing: on the nasty pit-vipered swamps of D.C. But no. Focus everywhere else. Blame the American people and advocacy groups for trying to influence this fetid process.

The president’s traipsing through the jobless midwest? Worthless. The Congress Democrats bickering and buying-off and banning Republicans from the process? Worthless. The Press, like the New York Times, spewing empty drivel when Americans know the truth? Worthless.

Push ‘em all into the Potomac and start over. We’d be better off.

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Remember When Hillary Clinton Was Shrieking Down This Health Care Road?

I don’t know if the legislation got this far down the road last time around or not, but I remember lots of weeping and gnashing of teeth and blathering of “for the children” mantras.

Once again, Democrats have been done in by their legislative and punitive greed. Even if this bill passes, it will be at horrible cost to the Democrat brand–one that had been somewhat rehabilitated by the policies of Bill Clinton (although undermined by his personal character).

Bill Clinton could hide behind the skirts of Hillary on health care. Barack Obama may try to hide behind Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid, but it won’t fly.

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Democrats And Health Care Bill: Bait & Switch & Switch & Then, Probably, Switch Again

Public option: In

School loans: In

And yet, it’s called a “shell” bill that will be stripped. Philip Klein explains it all. Here’s a bit:

Shortly before midnight on Sunday, Democrats released a 2,309 page health care bill that will start the process of reconciliation — but don’t let that fool you, it’s not the actual reconciliation bill with all the changes you’ve been reading about. Instead, as Rep. Paul Ryan, the ranking Republican member on the Budget Committee, explained to me last week, this is just the “shell” bill — the vehicle that Democrats need to get moving on health care. Once the bill gets approved (likely Monday), Democrats will send this phantom bill over to the Rules Committee, where it will be stripped, and then they’ll insert in all of the actual changes that they’ve negotiated.

Rep. Paul Ryan says:

Despite claims of transparency and calls for a “simple up-or-down vote,” there is nothing simple about this process. This convoluted legislative charade demonstrates how far the Democratic majority has wandered from real health-care reform and cost control, employing any means to achieve political victory.

Then the 2300 page non-bill bill aka “shell” will be sent for mark-ups. Link here.
Now, is the time to fight. Call your representative. Write. Pray. Do not sleep. This bill must die. Or there won’t be much left to fight for.

Michelle Malkin has who to call, where to go and what to do.

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New York Times Deifies Obama

From the New York Times the Obama Jesus. Says Jammie Wearing Fool [photo at link]:

Not content to show Obama with a halo, the New York Times is now creating images of him with a cross in the background.

Good grief. I guess the separation of church and state no longer applies when it comes to The Sainted One.

This is the definition of sacrilege. But I’m not sure the editors at the New York Times know God–that’s why they’re fooled by Obama.

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Where Is Sarah Palin?

Where is Sarah Palin? This health care fight is raging and Governor Palin is silent. Why?

One thing I hope: That she’s not still listening to John McCain for advice. Sarah Palin has been running around and helping candidates which is all to the good. But her greatest strength has been her willingness and ability to articulate what the people are feeling.

Sarah Palin has big inside DC advisors—the old school guys. I would just point out that those people didn’t help Kay Bailey Hutchison in Texas. And I sincerely doubt they’ll help many candidates back in their home states.

The DC establishment knows how to run elections that won a decade ago. They know how to speak one language. The American people have moved on and speak another and want a different feel from their leaders.

Since Sarah Palin has done such a good job defining the arguments, I hope she doesn’t stop.

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Euthanasia For Thee, But Not For Me: Harry Reid & The Utilitarians

Well, Dan Riehl did it. He got the Left in a frothing, spewing rage by noting the absurdity of leftist utilitarian arguments regarding end of life decisions and abortion.

Bart Stupak reported that during behind-the-scenes meetings Nancy Pelosi was trying to convince Bart that abortion was a good thing—you know all those babies that wouldn’t need health care then. Abortion saves money!

So Dan wrote the piece that needed to be written: He talked about how old people have lived their lives, don’t really serve any useful purpose and so why should anyone pay for the healthcare, in this case of Harry Reid’s wife, for said old person?

The Democrats love utilitarian arguments. They use them for all sorts of things—from killing babies to leaving the Vietnamese to the communists. But like all good Utilitarians, they value their own utility higher than every one else’s utility. Thus, the foam-at-the-mouth outrage by lefties when someone uses their arguments against them.

See, Dan believes in the sanctity of life for all the helpless, as do I. So I would give Harry Reid’s wife the same care that I’d give a premature baby or an unborn baby from a poor mother. All life is sacred and deserves care.

But on the left, people who believe they are smarter than you want to pick and choose who lives and who dies. They will set up committees to decide who gets care and who does not and the arguments will be utilitarian ones: only 10% of people with this sort of cancer survive, and this drug is very expensive, so we’re not going to treat this person. The chance is too small, the cost to society too great. For the greater good, here’s a pill for your pain. [Unless, you happen to be the wife or daughter of a Dear Leader, of course….]

Dan’s absurd argument gets down to the philosophical differences between the left and right. Of course he would treat Harry Reid’s wife, if it were up to him. But leftists view people, other than those they know directly, in the abstract. They are numbers and lists—not actual people who have families and friends who care for them.

Americans don’t want to be part of some list at the mercy of some bureaucrat. They want their life to mean something. They want their lives to be as important as Harry Reid’s wife is to him.

And Americans are afraid of the reality: there will be two worlds in health care—one for Congress and one for everyone else. And they’re right. That’s exactly how it will be.

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Slaughter No More

Thursday, the rightosphere lit up around the idea that Louise Slaughter hatched. Mark Levin articulated the evil she and the Dems resort to:

And do you want to know why? Because this clause goes to the heart of this Republic.

This clause goes to the heart of how our representative body, that is Congress, makes laws. And so I want you to [observe] how particular the Framers were… They have to pass a Bill to present it to the President…

This is one of the most exacting clauses in the Constitution.

And, to the best of my knowledge, which extends over three decades, no Congress has previously tried to institute policies without actual statutes.

Here we have the President of the United States and Congressional leaders actually talking about the possibility of a brazen and open violation of one of the most fundamental aspects of our Constitution and Republic! How we actually make laws!Let me be as clear as I know how. If this is done, this will create the greatest Constitutional crisis since the Civil War. It would be 100 times worse than Watergate.

…It would be government by fiat… meaning there would be no law… the mere discussion by officials in this government is such a grotesque violation of the actual legislative function of Congress [that it] puts us… at the brink. At the brink.

This is why we conservatives revere the Constitution. This is why we stress the Constitution’s words have meaning and historical context and must be complied with. Because otherwise we have anarchy, which leads to tyranny.

Tyranny. A government run by tyrants. And that’s why Twitter is being lit up by outraged patriots naming all the ways the government is tyrannical.

Louise Slaughter and the Democrats desire to pass a bill that hasn’t been voted on and bypassing every normal way to create a new batch of laws, demonstrates what it means to be a Democrat these days.

There is much more at the Doug Ross Journal. I’ve heard some people say that process doesn’t matter. That people won’t care in the end HOW it happens, just whether it happens or not.

The problem with this hideous bill is that it’s revealed both a failed process and a failed policy. And that does matter to American voters.

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Health Care Reform: Poll…Tell Me What You Think

Since no one seems to know what’s up or down… Although John is pretty darn sure that it’s over. I just don’t believe it. I have never seen legislators so willfully defy the American people. Ever.

A poll:

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NO RECONCILIATION & NO PELOSI

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Podcast: TN #3 District Candidate Van Irion On Running Against The Establishment and AFP’s Phil Kerpen On Earmarks

Van Irion, running for Tennessee’s 3rd Congressional District talks establishment Republicans, about Tea Party candidates and overcoming the cynicism of voters. Then, the American’s For Prosperity Phil Kerpen talks earmarks and why they corrupt the process and the courageous stand Republicans are taking right now.

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