Oh boy — here we go folks, and my own representative, Henry Waxman, D-Calif., the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce committee, leads the health-care-bill-panic-parade:

House Democratic leaders, pledging to meet the president’s goal of health care legislation before their August break, are offering a $1.5 trillion plan that for the first time would make health care a right and a responsibility for all Americans. Left to pick up most of the tab were medical providers, employers and the wealthy.

“We cannot allow this issue to be delayed. We cannot put it off again[.] We, quite frankly, cannot go home for a recess unless the House and the Senate both pass bills to reform and restructure our health care system.”

Included in the bill will be “a surtax on millionaires of 5.4 percent”, gotta pay for all this free health care ya know? They’re bettin’ on folks like most of us sayin’, “Screw them millionaires — it’s not like we’ll be one o’ them anytime soon!” What they aren’t gonna tell ya is that a millionaire surtax isn’t going to cover this monster of a program — not even close. The tax implications will go waaaaay down the income chain and that won’t be enough. Only rationing and finally denial of services to the elderly and chronically infirm will make it even remotely feasible — and that’s a stretch. Just try getting treatment for arthritis in the UK!

Thousands of rheumatoid arthritis sufferers face a lifetime of agony because they are not being treated quickly enough, a report says.

Guidelines state that patients should receive treatment within three months of the first symptoms appearing.

But the average wait is nine months – and GPs are not trained well enough to know what help to offer.

That’s what Obamacare will bring to the US. Crunch the numbers — there’s no way around it. There’s no bi-partisan support for this fiasco either, but that isn’t going to stop this most-leftist-in-chief and his Democrat Congressional majority from jammin’ it down our throats or more likely, up our collective wazzoos!

But, why would our newly-minted President Obamessiah want to punish such a large number of his own subjects people? Well, if you consider the track record of the man that he has made the Science Czar, John Holdren — maybe His Majesty President Obama thinks that humans are the biggest problem in the world, a virus that needs to be controlled, contained, eliminated bit by bit — so that Gaia can return to a state of un-human-contaminated grace? Just askin’ . . .

In her syndicated column today Michelle Malkin compares the mainstream media’s shocked reaction to the “evangelical Christian faith of NIH director-designate Francis Collins” with their complete ignoring of John Holdren’s lifelong record of support for eugenics, forced sterilization & abortion, and world-wide draconian measures to control the world’s human population.

If a conservative blogger or Republican political candidate had published such lunatic claptrap, the Department of Homeland Security would have him on a watchlist. Instead, Holdren is Overlord of Science Policy. “Ecoscience” remains on his curriculum vitae. Obama is still perceived as the champion of reason. And the national media, so concerned about the dangers posed by a born-again Christian scientist, have responded to a secular extremist’s wild blueprints for forced abortions and mass sterilizations with a collective shrug. Scary.

Go and spend time with the Malkin piece, and then follow the ZombiTime link to the source documents. All this preoccupation with humans as a curse to the world gets me to thinkin’ about our ol’ University of Texas buddy, Professor Eric R. Pianka, who believes that “90% of humans must die.”

Oh, and the best part, as Malkin also reveals:

Well, I have indeed read one of Holdren’s recent works that reveals his clingy reverence for, and allegiance to, the gurus of population control authoritarianism. He’s just gotten smarter about cloaking it behind global warming hysteria.

Just last Sunday we experienced the out-in-the-open revelation that the Greenies, led by good ol’ Al Gore, will give it their best shot to rule the world for our own good. They’re gonna get loads of help from good ol’ population-control-by-any-and-all-means-possible Obama Science Czar, John Holdren.

Tons of Change — but not much Hope! Elections. Have. Consequences!

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The Obama administration sure seems to L U V dictators — Hugo Chavez, the (would-be-dictator) exiled Honduran president, the Castros, etc. Recently, on his trip to Russia to curry favor with former KGB head and current Prime Minister of Russia, Vladimir Putin, our 6-month-and-counting “gotta change everything” President B.H. Obama decided to tweak history just a teeny bit while delivering a talk to some Russian students. As evidenced in today’s WSJ regarding this fanciful rewriting of history by the new POTUS, Liz Cheney is not amused.

There are two different versions of the story of the end of the Cold War: the Russian version, and the truth. President Barack Obama endorsed the Russian version in Moscow last week.

Speaking to a group of students, our president explained it this way: “The American and Soviet armies were still massed in Europe, trained and ready to fight. The ideological trenches of the last century were roughly in place. Competition in everything from astrophysics to athletics was treated as a zero-sum game. If one person won, then the other person had to lose. And then within a few short years, the world as it was ceased to be. Make no mistake: This change did not come from any one nation. The Cold War reached a conclusion because of the actions of many nations over many years, and because the people of Russia and Eastern Europe stood up and decided that its end would be peaceful.“

“Make no mistake: This change did not come from any one nation.” Obama sees the end of the Cold War as just one o’ those Kum Ba Ya moments — nothing special folks, it just happened. We, the USA, didn’t have much to do with it — “the people of Russia and Eastern Europe stood up and decided that its end would be peaceful.” Ahhhh — doin’ the 60s proud — peace and love, folks — peace and love.

Cheney continues:

The Cold War ended not because the Soviets decided it should but because they were no match for the forces of freedom and the commitment of free nations to defend liberty and defeat Communism.

It is irresponsible for an American president to go to Moscow and tell a room full of young Russians less than the truth about how the Cold War ended. One wonders whether this was just an attempt to push “reset” — or maybe to curry favor. Perhaps, most concerning of all, Mr. Obama believes what he said.

From all that Obama says and does, it becomes more clear day-by-day that he very much believes what he said. He doesn’t believe in American exceptionalism, he doesn’t believe in supporting our allies if they don’t cow tow to the Obama view of politics and how the world should work.

Mr. Obama’s method for pushing reset around the world is becoming clearer with each foreign trip. He proclaims moral equivalence between the U.S. and our adversaries, he readily accepts a false historical narrative, and he refuses to stand up against anti-American lies.

The approach was evident in his speech in Moscow and in his speech in Cairo last month. In Cairo, he asserted there was some sort of equivalence between American support for the 1953 coup in Iran and the evil that the Iranian mullahs have done in the world since 1979. On an earlier trip to Mexico City, the president listened to an extended anti-American screed by Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and then let the lies stand by responding only with, “I’m grateful that President Ortega did not blame me for the things that occurred when I was 3 months old.”

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The Obama administration does seem to believe in another kind of exceptionalism — Obama exceptionalism. “We have the best brand on Earth: the Obama brand,” one Obama handler has said. What they don’t seem to realize is that once you’re president, your brand is America, and the American people expect you to defend us against lies, not embrace or ignore them. We also expect you to know your history.

Obama cannot embrace history because that would highlight the failures of the systems and beliefs that he holds so very dear. He’s the foul end product of the sixties-radicals’ takeover of the educational system, from K through graduate school. He believes what he believes because he’s never been taught anything else, never exposed himself to any other schools of thought, isolated himself within the cocoon of Progressivism.

Over 52% of you voted for this guy — Hope you’re enjoying the Change . . .

The worshipers at the Holy Church Of Environmentalism and their high priest good ol’ Big Al Gore call for nothing less than bringing about Global Governance to effect their draconian solutions to the condition that doesn’t really exist — man caused Global Warming. Climate Depot reports:

Former Vice President Al Gore declared that the Congressional climate bill will help bring about “global governance.”

“I bring you good news from the U.S., “Gore said on July 7, 2009 in Oxford at the Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment, sponsored by UK Times.

“Just two weeks ago, the House of Representatives passed the Waxman-Markey climate bill,” Gore said, noting it was “very much a step in the right direction.” President Obama has pushed for the passage of the bill in the Senate and attended a G8 summit this week where he agreed to attempt to keep the Earth’s temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees C.

Gore touted the Congressional climate bill, claiming it “will dramatically increase the prospects for success” in combating what he sees as the “crisis” of man-made global warming.

“But it is the awareness itself that will drive the change and one of the ways it will drive the change is through global governance and global agreements.”

Of course, some redistribution of wealth needs to go along with all that governance don’t ya know?

The environmental group Friends of the Earth advocated the transfer of money from rich to poor nations during the 2007 UN climate conference.

“A climate change response must have at its heart a redistribution of wealth and resources,” said Emma Brindal, a climate justice campaigner coordinator for Friends of the Earth.

Meanwhile, our very own environmental fascist Senator, Barbara Boxer sees doom and gloom for all if Waxman-Markey doesn’t pass the Senate:

If the Senate doesn’t pass a bill to cut global warming, Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer says, there will be dire results: droughts, floods, fires, loss of species, damage to agriculture, worsening air pollution and more.

She says there’s a huge upside, however, if the Senate does act: millions of clean-energy jobs, reduced reliance on foreign oil and less pollution for the nation’s children.

Let’s make this real simple so even those worshiping Al Gore and the environuts can understand — these guys don’t believe this crap — if they did they’d live differently, which they don’t. What they want is your money — ALL of your money, so that they can spend it on hastening the demise of the United States into a Leftist, statists, totally federally-controlled utopian society of their own making.

Hasn’t the world tried that far to many times already?

This explains in an easy to understand way just how much little money that Obama will be cutting from the Federal budget. Guess how many pennies go away — you won’t guess right.

[H/t: True North News & Commentary]

“Daaaaayyyymm — Baby’s got back!” — The Prez

“It’s the couch for you!” — Mrs. Prez

“It’s the couch for him!” — French Prez

Ed Morrissey is having a caption contest!

Bwwwwwwwhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!! — Okie

[Update:] Check out the video — not so clear, now — but Sarkozy, that’s another story. It’s definitely the couch for the French Prez! Heh!

Michelle Malkin writes:

I don’t even think he saw the young girl he’s accused of checking out.

Sarkozy is another story.

Now, can we get back to Obama ogling and molesting our wallets?

“Obama ogling and molesting our wallets?” — Yeah, let’s get back to that!

With Al Franken now seated as the 60th Senate Democrat, the Leftists are now in total control of our country.

2010 — Not much time left . . .

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