52% — a mere fifty-two percent of voters put ol’ Prez Barry “All-about-the-O” Obama in office to conspire with a “Nanny”-Nancy Pelosi controlled House and a Harry “Shady-land-deal” Reid controlled Senate in the destruction of health care in America as we know it. That’s a mouthful I know, but it’s the God’s honest truth — which is something that you won’t get from this White House or this Congress.

Let’s see, speaking of Congress, my own Senator Diane Feinstein really knows how to impress her constituents — yesterday a group of 55-to 87-year-old seniors waited over six hours for a personal meeting with her about health care and what happened? Her office sicked the police on them. Wow! Now, that’s representation!

On the other side of the isle, Nanny Nancy Pelosi is demonizing the health insurance companies:

“They are the villains. They have been part of the problem in a major way. They are doing everything in their power to stop a public option from happening.”

Realizing that they have been losing the communications war on the health insurance front, the Dems are focusing on a new message — that health insurance companies are BAD, and that a government option is GOOD. Hey, it’ll be great — as long as hospice and euthanasia is your idea of a gold-plated health care plan. Can’t be spending big bucks on those pesky oldsters, now can we? As Dickens has Scrooge say early in A Christmas Carol, “Better they should die, and decrease the surplus population.” When it’s time will Okie get his heart-valve replacement under the Obama plan? Fat, friggin’ chance!

Surely there must be SOMETHING this administration can get right. Wait — they really know how to spend money — I mean, like really spend it fast. That Cash-for-Clunkers program, funded for ONE BILLION DOLLARS and scheduled to last through November — has run out of money in only ONE week! It’s now on hiatus as the administration scrambles around to find more cash to spend on those ol’ clunkers. Buyin’ votes, one clunker at a time — it’s the Chicago way!

Meanwhile, down in ol’ Obama’s South American buddy’s little paradise called Venezuela, the country’s top prosecutor is proclaiming that “Freedom of expression must be limited.” Gee, who woulda thunk it?

Bet that sentiment is mouthed in the White House a lot more that one would like to contemplate. They might be a lot of things, but thick-skinned is not one of them.

Man, it’s early and I already need a drink! That’s what 3-1/2 more years of Obama will do for this ex. pat. Okie — Oh, ya betcha!

Sign the petition — Your very life will depend upon stopping this abomination of Obamacare!

Today’s Day by Day Cartoon by Chris Muir is a perfect presentation of Obamacare:

Muir is having his yearly fundraiser — drop by and put a few shekels in his pocket so that this great-entertaining conservative commentary can continue for another year!

Over at Yid With Lid check out this post: Peer Reviewed Scientific Study–Al Gore is a FRAUD. He presents a good part of the subscription-only report that backs up his post title:

A new scientific paper says that the only warming that is man made is the heat coming from under Al Gore’s collar. The highly regarded Journal of Geophysical Research presented a peer reviewed study by 3 Australasian researchers which shows that natural forces are the dominant influence on climate. According to this study little or none of the late 20th century global warming and cooling can be attributed to human activity.

A few graphs from the report:

“The close relationship between ENSO and global temperature, as described in the paper, leaves little room for any warming driven by human carbon dioxide emissions. The available data indicate that future global temperatures will continue to change primarily in response to ENSO cycling, volcanic activity and solar changes.”

“Our paper confirms what many scientists already know: which is that no scientific justification exists for emissions regulation, and that, irrespective of the severity of the cuts proposed, ETS (emission trading scheme) will exert no measurable effect on future climate.”

Let’s wrap up — A peer-reviewed study by three climate-scientists, published in a major scientific journal says:

That mean global tropospheric temperature has for the last 50 years fallen and risen in close accord with the SOI of 5–7 months earlier shows the potential of natural forcing mechanisms to account for most of the temperature variation.

Or, in layman’s terminology — that ol’ Big Al Gore and his Holy-Order-of-Man-Caused-Global-Warming scientific conclusion conspiracy is nothing but a big, ugly, soon-to-be-way-costly boondoggle!

No (MSM) news at eleven . . .

The people are waking up to the impending disaster that would be Obamacare, and the slow-of-mind, fast-of-mouth community-organizing geniuses of ACORN can’t handle it. Like so-called progressive thinkers (feelers?) everywhere, when someone challenges them, they go nuts! See the video. Michelle Malkin writes that it’s:

Because they can’t stand real grass-roots competition.

And because thug thizzle is how they roll.

Also at that link, other links to peaceful protests where the anti-Obamacare folks outnumbered the Soros-funded organizing-Acornites. We seeing a trend here? Hopefully! Maybe the great unwashed are paying attention to the CBO (Congressional Budget Office) reports that sure aren’t making Prez Barry O’s day — what with their projections of over a trillion bucks being added to the deficit, and that zero sum savings will be the probable result from implementation of Obamacare.

The CBO letter allowed that “savings might not be realized at all because the proposal specifies a process without specific goals for savings or a ‘fall-back’ plan for ensuring spending reductions if the combination of annual IMAC recommendations and Presidential approval does not produce hoped-for savings. …On the other hand, there is a small chance, in CBO’s judgment, that the council would propose and the President would approve significant changes to Medicare that would reap substantial savings.”

Let’s see, doin’ the math — two billion (with a “B”) saved against an additional trillion (with a “T”) deficit, oh, uh, er (thinking like Obama here) — that’s 0.002 or .2% (two-tenths of a single percent) for those out there with Numerical Deficiency Syndrome. Take a penny, cut it into ten pieces and put two of those pieces next to a dollar and you’ll get the picture.

Not. Very. Damn. Much. Saved!!!!!

Hawking that kind of result as significant savings takes spin like a thousand whirling dervishes — or just lyin’ your ass off.

Meanwhile, my own representative and committee chair Henry Waxman (D – CAL) is threatening to bypass his own committee and bring this Obamacare debacle of a bill to the House floor — one would hope that the Blue Dog Democrats will make him pay for a ploy like that — we’ll see. Let me borrow a line from Ace here:

Just another hill for the Pelosi congress to die on.

Remember the days of “Tar & Feathers”? Me neither, but I can fantasize . . . To quote a line from Argus Filch in the first Harry Potter: “A pity they let the old punishment die. {…} God, I miss the screaming.”

Heh!

Last night’s press conference by physician-in-chief, our Prez B.H. Obama, is well summed up by Washington Examiner columnist David Freddoso:

“If there’s a blue pill and a red pill, and the blue pill is half the price of the red pill and works just as well, why not pay half price for the thing that’s going to make you well?” — President Obama

In last night’s press conference, President Obama seemed to be reliving that famous scene from The Matrix. The main character is offered a choice between a red pill that makes him see reality for what it is, and a blue pill that allows him to continue living in a pleasant world of illusions.

Last night, President Obama appeared to have taken the blue pill before his press conference. How else could he convince himself, the Congressional Budget Office’s numbers notwithstanding, that his health care reform bill will not increase both health care costs and the federal deficit? How else can he continue to make the argument that a massive expansion of government spending on health care will solve rather than exacerbate the current problems? How can he repeatedly express such absolute certainty that such a measure will easily pay for itself several times over in the long run? Why can he not at least acknowledge the possibility that it will become a costly and useless trillion-dollar boondoggle that follows in the footsteps of his stimulus package?

With his example of the red and blue pills, and another about whether a child’s hypothetical tonsils should be removed, President Obama unwittingly presents the real problem with his plan for reform. Here is a well-meaning government official who so fails to grasp the problem in health care that he can present such absurd oversimplifications and suggest that this sort of thing is the real problem — doctors simply lack the common sense to make obvious medical decisions. President Obama wants us to solve this problem by putting himself and other government officials in charge of rescuing medicine from the medical profession. If medical doctors with a decade of schooling cannot distinguish between good cures and ineffective ones that must be discontinued, then by gosh, we’re lucky that the good folks from the government can.

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Doug Ross @ Journal is looking at the economic numbers and isn’t at all encouraged.

More uplifting news from Sprott Asset Management in a report entitled “It’s the real economy, stupid” (via Zero Hedge). Highlights (eh, lowlights, I mean):

“We are now in the early stages of a depression. The economic indicators we follow to track real economic activity are all signaling a slowdown of massive proportions. You wouldn’t know it reading the mainstream papers of course – they all focus on the relative decline in the slowdown’s intensity.”

In short, the Obama-Pelosi-Reid Stimulus package that was passed, sight unseen, is an unmitigated Keynesian disaster:

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So the Obama Democrats just rammed through a giant Porkulus package, sight unseen, because it was going to keep unemployment from hitting 8%. It was a complete, abject failure — just like every other socialist experiment that has ever been tried. Because a central planning model simply can not compete with the free market.

And now the Democrats want to destroy healthcare by nationalizing it.

About the Health Care Presser Michelle Malkin writes:

Uhhhhhh, demonizing doctors doesn’t exactly seem the best way to shore up support for the ailing, failing government health care takeover.

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Someone needs a nap.

Ed Morrissey at Hot Air is just as unimpressed with the Prez’s Presser:

When a president calls a prime-time press conference, it traditionally means that the White House has some new strategy, message, or policy creation that they want to reveal with a big flourish. For at least the second time in a row, Barack Obama demanded valuable prime-time real estate and the nation’s attention in order to repeat the same lines he’s used for the last two months on health care. Obama failed to present a single new idea, proposal, or even argument that had not already been floated from Obama himself and the White House in the full-court press over the last 10 days in Obama’s media appearances.

Well, except for the new notion of predatory tonsillectomies. {…}

Just in case you would like for your representative in Congress to let you know just how complicated Obamacare will be, the Democrats in control have decided that you really don’t need to know!

And consider this, wifey-in-chief, while VP of University of Chicago Medical Center helped craft a rather unique way of dealing with patients that came in with no private health insurance — the Urban Health Initiative. As Ed Morrissey comments:

However, the people in Chicago see the UHI differently. In practice, it looks more like a patient-dumping scheme to avoid dealing with Medicare/Medicaid patients[.]

Let’s sum up:

Rationed care, another TRILLION added to the deficit, giving U.S. a Canadian/British-style medical system with much higher mortality rates — oh yeah, that ought to do it! Oh ya betcha!

Obamacare In Action — A Patient’s POV