[H/t: Patterico]

Democratic Congressman David Scott (D-13th District, Georgia) had a bit o’ trouble when asked a simple question about the Obama health care plan being jammed through Nancy Pelosi’s House. Seems that a mild-mannered, well-spoken doctor, who had repeatedly tried to get a meeting with the Congressman but couldn’t, finally decided that he would have to corral Scott at an open meeting. The doc wasn’t out of line, as questioning had been open to all subjects . . . however, the Congressman can’t quite rise to the occasion when asked, “Do you support a government run option?”

With all the YouTube action over this past week of concerned conservatives and independents getting VOCAL to the max at these types of meetings, it is refreshing to see one where the opposition is all calm, cool and collected while the elected official has a fit. Ace says it well:

Videos of angry protesters shouting are dime a dozen. Yes, people are angry. We know that. Adds very little to the debate, except the very incremental information that yes, these particular people are angry too.

On the other hand, catch an idiot melting down over a perfectly fair question from one of his constituents, and you’ve really got something. Priceless:

Make one wonder what the good Congressman would have said if the doc had asked him about the deficit, which grew by $181 billion in July!

Bailouts for financial firms and billions in tax revenue lost because of the recession drove the deficit to a record $1.3 trillion in July, according to the independent Congressional Budget Office (CBO).

Tax receipts that have fallen due to the poor economy and increased spending to save car companies, banks and mortgage firms were major contributors to the federal deficit, according to CBO, which provides official budget numbers for Congress. The federal deficit grew by another $181 billion in July.

Falling tax receipts and increased spending on bailouts for auto companies and the financial sector and for the economic stimulus package added to the deficit, according to CBO.

That’s 181 billion, with a “B”! Sure sounds like a great time to spend more of the people’s money, right? Like, let’s see . . . Nancy Pelosi and the Dem Wit House need some new private jets to fly around in, the Obama administration agrees on getting four, and voilà — the House votes to buy not the four, but eight!

$550 MILLION for Eight. Private. Jets.

The funding for new planes is “a classic example of Congress being out of touch with the realities of deficit spending,” said Mr. Thune.

The Obama administration had sought $220 million to buy four passenger jets, including two that are currently being leased by the Air Force, to replace a fleet of older planes. Before leaving town for the August break, House lawmakers doubled the aircraft order to eight, at a total cost of $550 million.

Hmmm, if Congressman Scott had been asked about this private-jet-buy his head probably would have done a Linda Blair spinaround!

Let’s recap:

• About the “details” of Obamacare, Dem wit Congressmen don’t want to talk about it, don’t want to answer any concerns, run and hide from constituents!
• Tax revenues are down severely, spending is up exponentially; the deficit is growing like baby Godzilla!
• Nanny Nancy and her Dems decides the timing is perfect to saddle taxpayers with the cost of eight private jets, just so they can fly the friendly skies in style!

All this madness can end, by the way; 2010 is just around the corner.

Howdy! If anyone is still out there to read this . . . I see that it was Mother’s Day, 12 days ago since I posted. That has to be some kind of record for me. It’s certainly not that there hasn’t been a lot to write about, a lot to complain about, a hell of a lot to be worried about — but gee folks, clients came out of the woodwork with a vengeance and one would be a fool to complain about being busy in this current economy!

Speaking of said economy, I see on Drudge that the feces have hit the wind machine big time — the Fed Chairman “promising” that inflation will increase, all but six states had job losses last month with this lovely granola state ‘winning’ the biggest loser contest, the Feds may force GM into bankruptcy even though it has made a tentative ‘deal’ with the UAW, (funny how those pesky bondholders can be so picky about the terms of their haircuts — gee, ya think that a secured lender is supposed to get preference over the Unions’ unsecured debt or somethin’?) The US dollar has hit a new multi-month low vs euro, pound and yen. Sweet! Anymore good economic news?

Oh yeah, Treasury Sec. Tax-dodger Tim is ‘concerned’ about U.S. creditworthiness, which is being flushed down the toilet Internationally so he’s now ‘promising’ to cut the budget deficit, like right damn now! With all the spending this administration has planned, and the stimulus package and TARP plus the impending Carbon Cap & Trade legislation that is being railroaded through Congress without opposition comment — where are they gonna come up with the moolah? Once they drain that upper 5% income bracket, better bend over ’cause they’re gonna come after yours and mine!

One last item before I’m off for a client lunch. Nancy Pelosi is now finished saying anything more about her accusations of lying by the CIA. Guess that hole’s been dug deep enough!

More when I can . . .

I guess it was bound to happen, but who thought it would be so soon? I mean, every big MSM resource besides the LAT (well, that one’s gettin’ smaller by the minute!) has been giving the John Edwards/Rielle Hunter love tryst and love child story the total cold shoulder. Kinda makes you wonder what they’ll think of this.

Today, Edwards came clean, sort of, revealing the truth of the affair. However, he denies having fathered the child of the woman that he had sex with.

In 2006, I made a serious error in judgment and conducted myself in a way that was disloyal to my family and to my core beliefs. I recognized my mistake and I told my wife that I had a liaison with another woman, and I asked for her forgiveness. Although I was honest in every painful detail with my family, I did not tell the public. When a supermarket tabloid told a version of the story, I used the fact that the story contained many falsities to deny it. But being 99% honest is no longer enough.

I was and am ashamed of my conduct and choices, and I had hoped that it would never become public. With my family, I took responsibility for my actions in 2006 and today I take full responsibility publicly. But that misconduct took place for a short period in 2006. It ended then. I am and have been willing to take any test necessary to establish the fact that I am not the father of any baby, and I am truly hopeful that a test will be done so this fact can be definitively established. I only know that the apparent father has said publicly that he is the father of the baby. I also have not been engaged in any activity of any description that requested, agreed to or supported payments of any kind to the woman or to the apparent father of the baby.

OK, take the test, dude. Take the test. ‘Cause your gettin’ caught sneakin’ around at 2-in-the-AM last month to see her and the baby keeps on beggin’ that question. Of course, this is all just salacious nonsense, unless you are the mother of the child and need support.

But, if the Dem-wits let him address their convention in Denver one will have to wonder just what they are all smokin’. And then there’s this, you could just mark it up as another bad decision made by the all-knowing, all-seeing Big ‘O’. I think they need to tell ol’ Silky to giddy up along to the barn, bed his own self down and politically disappear. Besides, he’s got a sick wife that needs him more than ol’ Barry Obama ever will . . .

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Laer over at Cheat-Seeking Missiles has the following:

The National Enquirer, on the John Edwards/Rielle Hunter love child story since last year, finally caught the Sen. with his pants on, but just after he had them off:

Go and read the NE article at C-SM, see the pics of Edwards and Hunter — gee, they do both have great hair!

All I’ve got to say is that it looks like John Edwards just got scratched off the Obama VP list. He might also have other things to be thinking worrying about. Over at Overlawyered.com they are discussing No. Carolina’s little tort law that would allow Elizabeth Edwards to sue Hunter for alienation of affection. Kinda makes one wonder which side would be retainin’ ol’ Silky. Heh!

Giddy up!

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Hmmmm, can the Barack Obama campaign try a premeditated, totally jaded and deceptive tactic like handing out signs at their rallies that are intended to look “homemade”, as if those holding them are so enamored with their Messiah candidate they couldn’t help but express themselves for all the world to see?

Yes, they can!

Now, for something completely different!

See Gary Vanerchuck’s review of four Oklahoma wines, made in Oklahoma from Oklahoma grown grapes. A big surprise awaits the results of a group of community college students and their teacher’s efforts at a Cabernet/Mertiage blend.

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What you see here is the 2009 model year Corvette ZR1, a monster of a supercar that will be the first $100,000 Chevy. However, from the specs and performance envelope, it will be well worth the bucks and undoubtedly will be the most performance for the dollar from anyone. It all came about due to the General’s CEO Rick Wagoner, upon seeing the current Z06 Vette, asking something like, “Gee, if you guys can do this for 60 grand, wonder what you could do for 100K? Asked and answered! Motor Trend reported that it would have 620 plus horsepower and at least 600 lb/ft of asphalt buckling torque.

Now, if you are a motor-head like yours truly, you’ve known about this amazing sports car for awhile. So, why the post ‘Okie’? Because I read something that Mark Tapscott wrote last Wednesday about a statement made by Marge Oge, director of the EPA’s office of transportation and air quality. She said the following: “We must bring about an end to the horsepower arms race among auto makers and replace it with another different kind of a race, a race to produce the most affordable and desirable, low carbon-vehicle each year.”

Mark makes a great case for ol’ Marge here being a royal example of an inside the beltway blithering idiot, and out of tough car-hating liberal, someone that has no idea whatsoever about how supply-and-demand controls markets and merchandise availability. Read the whole thing. I sure like his finishing statement, especially the last sentence in light of Super Tuesday being less than 48 hours away.

Maybe Oge is just jealous that other people are having so much fun driving their powerful cars (or watching them being raced at places like Daytona and Indy). It’s that same old familiar Puritan/liberal fear that somewhere, somehow, somebody might be enjoying themselves too much, so the government must step in and “fix the problem.”

Interesting, isn’t it, that we trust the wisdom of crowds when it is expressed politically via free elections, but not when it is expressed economically via free markets.

The Left hates free markets, come to think of it, they don’t much like real free speech either. But hey, back to the fun stuff! Fast Lane Daily caught this monster’s development mule out in the wild!

That’ll give those ol’ Puritan/liberals areason to be afeared! Sweet!

Enjoy.

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Yesterday the House of Representatives voted on Congressman Steve King’s resolution to honor the Christmas holiday and the Christian faith. There were nine NO votes! From Michelle Malkin’s blog:

Congressman Steve King reacted this morning to the nine “NO” votes on his resolution to honor Christmas and the Christian faith. The vote shocked Capitol Hill observers because votes on similar resolutions honoring the holidays of Islam and Hinduism passed without any NO votes.

Appearing this morning on the Fox News Channel’s Fox and Friends, King said, “The [nine] naysayers didn’t make it to the floor to debate. I would like to know how they could vote Yes on Islam, Yes on the Indian Religions and No on Christianity when the foundation of this nation and our American culture is Christianity…I think there’s an assault on Christianity in America.”

{…} None of the nine voted against resolutions honoring the Islamic holiday of Ramadan and the Hindu holiday of Diwali. [emph. mine]

Visit Michelle’s site for the names of the nine, plus links to the full vote tally. Three of the nine are from California — Hey dude, gotta stop the repressive-theocratic machine don’t ya know . . .

Why am I not surprised?

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Dean Barnett comments upon the myopic Senate Democrats‘ actions on the 6th anniversary of 9/11.

Here’s what gets me – no one knows more about Iraq than David Petraeus and Ryan Crocker. No one. And yet what have the congressmen and senators done the last two days when they’ve had them as witnesses? Give speeches. Lecture. Play to the gallery. In other words, seek office. Why do Petraeus and Crocker even have to be there? It’s very clear that most of the senators don’t care what they have to say. If the Senators and congressmen wanted to learn about Iraq and play a constructive role going forward, they would have done a lot more listening over the past two days than talking.

That’s the second time in two days I’ve taken a detour into Fantasyland. Sorry about that. But the rain here and the poignancy of today’s sad anniversary have gotten the best of me. One of the reasons I do what I do is because 9/11 changed me; I wanted to play a role in our nation’s dialogue. It took me a couple of years, but that’s why I eventually started writing.

We have 160,000 men and women in harm’s way. Our enemies are playing for keeps. That’s one lesson that we should have learned on 9/11 that we should never need a refresher on.

And while our enemies play for keeps, our members of congress play for reelection.

Ain’t that the truth!

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What happens when a bunch of we-know-better-than-you, sanctimonious — but “really, really loaded” — members of the American aristocracy need to step up and do their part for the environment?

Check out this one from the Daily Show — I’m laughin’ my you-know-what off!

“A lot of people think renewable energy is benign, but it will potentially impose detrimental impacts to human safety” — Audra Parker, Assistant Director of the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound

Not to mention to the views off Nantucket — if you’re looking through you binocs that is.

Self-righteous, self-absorbed, I’m super rich so “screw you” Lefties . . .

Bwwwhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!