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14 November 2009
13 November 2009
ObamaCare = Unconstitutional Socialist Brinkmanship
Judge Andrew Napolitano -Fox News analyst and author of Constitutional Chaos: What Happens When the Government Breaks Its Own Laws - seems extraordinarily qualified to ascertain just what today's power-drunk Dems are up to... what the end-game is... and if they should actually be allowed to get away with any of this.
And Napolitano argues here (5:00) that forcing Americans to get mandatory insurance policy is completely and utterly unconstitutional- as would be any law requiring us to buy a specific good or service:
But as Pelosi and Obama have both made abundantly clear, they do intend to tell you what insurance you have to buy... while seeing nothing wrong with throwing you in the can for a few months if you dare to disobey.
Even a number of Democrats have their doubts about the legality- when asked if the constitution gave the right to the government to mandate healthcare coverage, Senator Akaka of Hawaii said that he was not aware of any provision in the constitution that granted the government this right.
WH spokesman Robert Gibbs was pressed in a presser last-week, regarding the constitutionality of such an unprecedented mandate- and he had no real answers.
But Senator Orrin Hatch sure had a thing or two to say about it, though...
Such a Stalin-esque diktat from the Dear Leader -enforced with threats of fines and even prison-sentences- is of course an outrageous power grab, and completely un-American.
Obama has no authority to do this.... just like he had no power to fire the head of GM, nor to snake bondholders' equity and give auto companies to the UAW... but he went-ahead and did it anyway because we let him.
Tragically, this president has not interest nor experience in managing anything in a pragmatic manner... his career was built on shady political deals/"soaring rhetoric"/rabble-rousing for a fantastical far-left agenda... while putting-on a nice-guy act for the middle-class (per Alinsky).
Primary duties of his current job -like maintaining or incrementally improving American assets, economy, and strategic position dosn't bring him what he's looking for, either- megalomaniacs aren't really that into just watching the shop.
Rather than any managerial skills and balanced judgement, Obama's decision-making process is propelled by cynical political opportunism and a warped, narcissistic drive that keeps him hungry for political conquest and ego gratification. Meanwhile, a bloated sense of self-import has him living in a fantasy-world where he's some sort of international Che Geuvara... so he's not going to stop all this until more sane people stand-up and tell him NO.
With the press and other Obots programmed to march in tight formation -promoting and even making excuses for the incompetent, radical Obama- patriots of the TEA party movement/conservative blogs/principled conservatives like Sarah Palin are the only ones who can draw the line prior to mid-term elections, thereby limiting the damage... and we intend to do just that.
This whole episode -as with the Porkulus- shows just how anxious Obama is ram unhelpful, unneeded, and fiscally reckless legislation down our throats as he deems necessary- and with little concern for it's wisdom, public support, or even legality.
It's sure hard to see the justification for the Senate passing such dubious legislation, inviting years of court challenges- seems pretty irresponsible. And if ObamaCare is so fiscally dependent on the mandate, what happens to our new statist HC system when/if that gets ruled unconstitutional?
As noted by Ann Althouse:
Stop the ACLU has Judge Napolitano's upcoming Constitutional Law seminar on Fox News... a great opportunity for Americans to learn just what's at stake here, what's legal, and what's not -here-
While Riehl World View has an elderly emergency-room patient turned-away by a callous, bureaucratic national HC system in Japan... resulting in a truly needless death -here-
Even a number of Democrats have their doubts about the legality- when asked if the constitution gave the right to the government to mandate healthcare coverage, Senator Akaka of Hawaii said that he was not aware of any provision in the constitution that granted the government this right.
WH spokesman Robert Gibbs was pressed in a presser last-week, regarding the constitutionality of such an unprecedented mandate- and he had no real answers.
But Senator Orrin Hatch sure had a thing or two to say about it, though...
Such a Stalin-esque diktat from the Dear Leader -enforced with threats of fines and even prison-sentences- is of course an outrageous power grab, and completely un-American.
Obama has no authority to do this.... just like he had no power to fire the head of GM, nor to snake bondholders' equity and give auto companies to the UAW... but he went-ahead and did it anyway because we let him.
Tragically, this president has not interest nor experience in managing anything in a pragmatic manner... his career was built on shady political deals/"soaring rhetoric"/rabble-rousing for a fantastical far-left agenda... while putting-on a nice-guy act for the middle-class (per Alinsky).
Primary duties of his current job -like maintaining or incrementally improving American assets, economy, and strategic position dosn't bring him what he's looking for, either- megalomaniacs aren't really that into just watching the shop.
Rather than any managerial skills and balanced judgement, Obama's decision-making process is propelled by cynical political opportunism and a warped, narcissistic drive that keeps him hungry for political conquest and ego gratification. Meanwhile, a bloated sense of self-import has him living in a fantasy-world where he's some sort of international Che Geuvara... so he's not going to stop all this until more sane people stand-up and tell him NO.
With the press and other Obots programmed to march in tight formation -promoting and even making excuses for the incompetent, radical Obama- patriots of the TEA party movement/conservative blogs/principled conservatives like Sarah Palin are the only ones who can draw the line prior to mid-term elections, thereby limiting the damage... and we intend to do just that.
This whole episode -as with the Porkulus- shows just how anxious Obama is ram unhelpful, unneeded, and fiscally reckless legislation down our throats as he deems necessary- and with little concern for it's wisdom, public support, or even legality.
As noted by Ann Althouse:
Has anyone promoting this bill even attempted to calculate the economics with the individual mandate excised?
Are we going to have the whole lumbering system cranking into operation for years before we find out whether the the individual mandate is unconstitutional?
Or is that the scheme? The individual mandate is too big to fail, and the courts will cave.President Obama needs to realize he's not in Chicago anymore... that the US Constitution trumps his agenda every time... and if they somehow manage to cobble enough votes together in the Senate for this monstrosity and stick us with an individual HC mandate, we'll see you in court.
Stop the ACLU has Judge Napolitano's upcoming Constitutional Law seminar on Fox News... a great opportunity for Americans to learn just what's at stake here, what's legal, and what's not -here-
While Riehl World View has an elderly emergency-room patient turned-away by a callous, bureaucratic national HC system in Japan... resulting in a truly needless death -here-
[+ h/t Ed R.]
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11 November 2009
Shut Up and Take Your Polypill
Big Government has big plans for you- and typical of the nightmarish Obama era, they have nothing to do with liberty, freedom, or opportunity... and everything to do with centralization of power/controlling the plebes/peremptory diktats from the Dear Leader... along with a little under-the-table Chicago-style dealing to get all the players together.
Many in our country are so politically lazy and self-absorbed that they're simply oblivious to the Democrats' all-out assault on sacred American traditions like independence and self-reliance... but as Trotsky said of military issues: "You may not be interested in war... but war is interested in you."
Those paying a little more attention see fresh reason for concern in Big Pharma's development of a new Polypill - one that combines aspirin, blood pressure medicine, and a cholesterol lowering drug. Under nationalized healthcare -the primary long-term goal of ObamaCare- the federal government will want every adult on this Polypill.
This Big-Bro-brainstorm originated with the NHS in Britain... and it's been proposed as policy in Washington in the name of disease prevention. The purported reason? To save money, of course... so more of the Dems' entitlement-dependent serfs can get health coverage through the "public option" or other subsidies.
This Big-Bro-brainstorm originated with the NHS in Britain... and it's been proposed as policy in Washington in the name of disease prevention. The purported reason? To save money, of course... so more of the Dems' entitlement-dependent serfs can get health coverage through the "public option" or other subsidies.
But there's another agenda- Big Pharma profits. If you'll recall, the pharmaceutical industry recently did a shady backroom deal with Team Obama to sell their endorsement of his HC "reform" for a price- sparing themselves from serious cost controls and importation of cheaper drugs from Canada.
The federally-mandated Polypill would be the logical next deal for them... if it wasn't already secretly part of the first. And they surely don't care if it's actually a good idea for everyone to take it (it's not)- or that cholesterol-controlling drugs' ability to prevent heart disease is still open to debate- or that it will actually do quite a number of people more harm than good... 200+M pills/day is some serious incremental business.
Natural News says Obama's lackeys are busy selling it already:
The Associated Press gushed all over this news, saying the Polypill has been "a dream for a decade," and that this company-funded clinical trial "proved the skeptics wrong."
The AP even quoted a doctor (Dr. Robert Harrington, spokesperson for the American College of Cardiology) as saying this Polypill should be part of President Obama's health care reform plan.
Do they know the Polypill actually improved health? ...
Of course not. Big Pharma almost never measures real-world effects in its studies, it only measures "biomarkers" that greatly oversimplify the true causes of disease...
Big Pharma has already bought-off the biggest players in Washington -including the Obama WH- and if the government takeover of the HC goes through, they'll be calling the shots on which medicines you get... and at what prices.
Former Congressman Billy Tauzin is the chief lobbyist for Big Pharma, and armed with tens of millions of dollars, he's bought a lot of influence... meanwhile cutting an opaque and dubious deal with President Obama to ensure that drug prices won't be negotiated any lower.
This is the same Barack Obama that's been telling us for two years now how he'll be the "most transparent administration in history" as he chases all the evil lobbyists off with a pitchfork- what a joke.
And every time you think we've exhausted the unsettling Orwellian parallels... yet another.
10 November 2009
09 November 2009
Somehow in the Obama Era... Our Troops Keep Their Sense of Humor
& Prayers be with the Soldiers
and Families of Ft Hood...
h/t Bob Lloyd
ObamaCare Endorsements Bought & Paid-For... Chicago Style
Did anyone believe for a minute they were endorsing this monstrosity on it's merits? 
- The American Medical Association (AMA) was facing a pending 21% cut in physicians' reimbursements under the current law. Obama promised to kill the cut if they backed his bill... thus sparking outrage from the many doctors, who preferred the huge pay cut to living with ObamaCare, apparently.
- The AARP got a financial windfall in return for its support of the healthcare bill... which explains what this group -which has morphed into a huge insurance company- endorsed ObamaCare against the wishes of a majority of it's members. Now -if this bill becomes law- the elderly will have to pay more for coverage under Medigap... but the AARP -which supposedly represents them- will make more money.
- The drug industry has backed ObamaCare and, in return, got a 10-year limit of $80 billion on cuts in prescription drug costs. (nothing for them, they project cca $3 trillion total cost over the next decade.)
- Insurance companies got access to 40 million potential new customers. But when the Senate Finance Committee lowered the fine that would be imposed on those who don't buy insurance from $3,500 to $1,500, the insurance companies jumped ship and now oppose the bill...
The only relevant industry that refused to surrender to the thuggish Obama and crew was the medical device makers... they took a principled stand and refused the Dear Leader's extortion attempts.
So the Senate Finance Committee retaliated by imposing a tax on medical devices such as automated wheelchairs, pacemakers, arterial stents, prosthetic limbs, artificial knees and hips and other necessary accoutrements of healthcare.
Not to mention how they bought votes via the most anti-democratic methods/borderline fraud imaginable- Exhibit A being how Pelosi's handpicked lackey Bill Owens was bankrolled and apparently instructed to make disingenuous pledges in the NY-23 special election -specifically claiming opposition to the public option- only to break four campaign promises in his first hour on the Hill and vote for PelosiCare anyway.
Of course he will be tossed out in a year by an angry and regretful constituency, and mor likely than not replaced by Doug Hoffman... but Owens will get some cush job or retainer from the Dems for this appalling treachery and just fade-away... what does he care, he's already shown us he's a morally bankrupt opportunist who doesn't mind lying to your face when he thinks it serves his purposes.
Of course he will be tossed out in a year by an angry and regretful constituency, and mor likely than not replaced by Doug Hoffman... but Owens will get some cush job or retainer from the Dems for this appalling treachery and just fade-away... what does he care, he's already shown us he's a morally bankrupt opportunist who doesn't mind lying to your face when he thinks it serves his purposes.
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08 November 2009
No Worries- Joe Lieberman Will Filibuster this Pig Into the Ground
As noted today by Prof William Jacobson at
Le.gal In.sur.rec.tion, the brave, principled, and irrepressible Joe Lieberman has already thrown a tanker-truck of cold water on the PelosiCare party... vowing to join the GOP caucus in the Senate in fillibustering any HC reform bill with a "public option".
Sen. Lieberman clearly sees the statist Trojan horse in this legislation, as the public option is simply a slow-motion bankrupting and nationalization of the American HC insurance industry.
Consequently some "progressive" kooks -knowing a threat to Hope-n-Change when they see one- proceeded to physically occupy his office for 40 mins last week, until the police came and hauled the trash away- this in addition to other threats Lieberman has already received since stating his opposition to this statist power-n-tax grab.
"We're trying to do too much at once," he stated... “To put this government-created insurance company on top of everything else is just asking for trouble for the taxpayers, for the premium payers and for the national debt. I don’t think we need it now."
And all this puts Obama-Pelosi-Reid in a terrible bind... as noted by Dr Jacobsson:
Consequently some "progressive" kooks -knowing a threat to Hope-n-Change when they see one- proceeded to physically occupy his office for 40 mins last week, until the police came and hauled the trash away- this in addition to other threats Lieberman has already received since stating his opposition to this statist power-n-tax grab.
"We're trying to do too much at once," he stated... “To put this government-created insurance company on top of everything else is just asking for trouble for the taxpayers, for the premium payers and for the national debt. I don’t think we need it now."
And all this puts Obama-Pelosi-Reid in a terrible bind... as noted by Dr Jacobsson:
As many left-wing bloggers are screaming, the Stupak Amendment guts Roe v. Wade in reality (but not in law) by creating a subclass of health insurance coverage which will cost more and be less available than alternatives without abortion coverage.
So Harry Reid needs to drop the public option to get a bill through the Senate. Nancy Pelosi needs to drop abortion coverage even for most private plans, to get a bill through the House.
The end result: If a bill is to pass both houses of Congress, it will have no public option and no abortion coverage.So join the club, libs... right along with all the rest who didn't get the Change they signed-up for.
What this country really needs is for the Senate to pull-the-plug on this creaking Rube Goldberg contraption and start fresh, with real tort reform and interstate HC insurance competition... like, say, after the Dems are bounced to the curb en masse next fall.
Dan at Riehl World View says he can't recall any bill that's struggled this much in the House ever making it through the Senate -here-
Jim at Gateway Pundit has video of the defiant Joe Lieberman -here-
Then check-out this clip on Brietbart's Big Government... where Eline van den Broek of the Netherlands only needs four minutes to explain why the European socialized HC system that Obama so emulates is a colossal mistake -here-
Dan at Riehl World View says he can't recall any bill that's struggled this much in the House ever making it through the Senate -here-
Jim at Gateway Pundit has video of the defiant Joe Lieberman -here-
Then check-out this clip on Brietbart's Big Government... where Eline van den Broek of the Netherlands only needs four minutes to explain why the European socialized HC system that Obama so emulates is a colossal mistake -here-
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