“When you think of the campaign that’s been launched against the public option by the insurance industry — because they can’t take the competition. Anyone who had any doubts about the need for such an option need only look at the health insurance industry this week.” –House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) Pelosi is reduced to [...]
Archive for October, 2009
18 Oct
The BIG Lie
“[The AHIP report is a] hatchet job … bought and paid for by the same health insurance companies that have been gouging too many consumers for too long as they stand in the way of reform yet again.” –Sen. Max “The Gouger” Baucus, who predicts that all Democrats and possibly more than one Republican will [...]
18 Oct
Double, Double, Toil and Trouble
“Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.” –James Madison Baucus and Pelosi work on their health care potion Double, Double, Toil and Trouble The headlines triumphantly announced Tuesday that the Senate Finance Committee had passed its version of the health care takeover bill with the help of Republican-In-Name-Only Olympia Snowe of Maine. But [...]
18 Oct
Joe Biden, Your Source For Intelligence?
via: The Political Commentator Houston, We Have A Problem! When Joe Biden becomes the administrations source for intelligent (intelligence) analysis, what does that say about the other players that are involved? The idea behind a presidents War Room is for him to get the down and dirty, nitty gritty truth about a crisis, consolidate it [...]
18 Oct
Political Correctness Gone Wild
via: The Political Commentator At What Point In Time Do We Stop Apologizing For Being American? In one sense, this argument does not rise to the level of other issues plaguing the Country today whether it be national security or domestic issues such as the economy or healthcare debate. On the other hand, when Americans [...]
18 Oct
Noble versus Nobel
via: grizzlygroundswell and The Political Commentator The recent Nobel Prize to President Obama is fading from the news, but this morning I just wanted to clarify what the definition of is, is. No Awards Given For What Might Be For all of the children and young adults who have witnessed the recent travesty called the [...]
18 Oct
There They Go Again: Media Matters
via: heritage Yesterday, on his Fox News program, Glenn Beck aired a video of White House Communications Director Anita Dunn referring to Mao Zedong as one of her “favorite political philosophers.” Rather than defend Ms. Dunn or ask further questions of what she meant when she said that, the left wing has decided to Google [...]
18 Oct
The Truth About the Franken Amendment
via: heritage When a disgruntled employee files a lawsuit that goes to court his employer must pay tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees. Even if the courts reject the allegation as frivolous employers must still pay the lawyers. That allows unscrupulous employees to use threat of going to court to win [...]
18 Oct
Cash for Clunkers: The Bus Version
via: heritage TIGGER: It’s not just a character from Winnie the Pooh. It also stands for the Department of Transportation’s Transit Investments for Greenhouse Gas and Energy Reduction or in other words: cash for buses. The DOT “has spent nearly half its $100 million grant budget to replace diesel buses with cleaner and more efficient [...]
18 Oct
Jimmy Carter: One Term Wasn’t Enough?
Posted by nhiemstra in The Political Commentator. 2 Comments
via: The Political Commentator One Disastrous Term Wasn’t Enough For Jimmy Carter To Establish His Legacy? It was For Me And I would Venture To Say Most Everyone Else As Well. No, this former peanut farmer from Georgia wants to make sure that his name goes down in history as a destructive career diplomat as [...]
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