Ronald Reagan's "Rendezvous" Speech: 45 Years Later

Example of The Bullshit a Liberal Believes #p2 #rebelleft

Thank you, President Obama for restoring respectability to the Office of the Presidency of the United States. Former President Bush and his administration were TOTALLY responsible for our unpreparedness for the attack which led to the tragedy of 9/11 in 2001. The Bush-Cheney Administration caused most of the civilized world to turn against America because of imperialistic policies. The tragedy of Hurricane Katrina demonstrated the total lack of Christian values by the money-grubbing Bush-Cheney administration. The illegal invasion of Iraq means America will continue to pay a price in the Eyes of God. Millions of Iraqis have been displaced, killed or injured. God will punish America for this sin…caused by greedy American businessmen who only wanted to take oil from underground Iraq. These sham organizations like the Family Research Council are going to be judged harshly for supporting evil men in evil regimes.

The Mainstream Smearing of Ayn Rand

More famous words from one of our wannabe Platonic guardians:

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi looked like a deer caught in the blinding headlight of an oncoming freight train, her expression frozen in either ignorance or fear. It has always been difficult to distinguish between the two in her. But the malice in her words was palpable.

CNSNews.com: “Madam Speaker, where specifically does the Constitution grant Congress the authority to enact an individual health insurance mandate?”

Pelosi: “Are you serious? Are you serious?”

CNSNews.com: “Yes, yes, I am.”

Pelosi then shook her head before taking a question from another reporter. Her press spokesman, Nadeam Elshami, then told CNSNews.com that asking the speaker of the House where the Constitution authorized Congress to mandate that individual Americans buy health insurance was not a "serious question."

“You can put this on the record,” said Elshami. “That is not a serious question. That is not a serious question.”

His iterating mockery of the reporter is indeed on the record. Elshami, deputy communications director and senior adviser to Pelosi, later issued a press release stating that Congress was empowered by the commerce clause in the Constitution to mandate individual health insurance. The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), however, differed from that dubious specificity, instead likening the power to compel all Americans to buy health insurance to federal authority to impose speed limits on interstate highways (???), adding that “nobody questions” Congress’s authority to impose controls of any kind. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Maryland) linked the power to the general welfare clause.

Health Alert | The Baucus Bill Explained

Under the 1,502-page Baucus bill, everyone will be required to have health insurance and, for most people, the insurance will be very expensive. In 2016, for example, the minimum coverage is projected to cost:
Individual: $5,000 plus $1,700 of potential deductibles and copayments
Family: $14,700 plus $5,100 of potential deductibles and copayments

If you do not get insurance from an employer, you will be required to buy this insurance in an “exchange,” where there will be government subsidies for those who earn between 100% and 400% of the government poverty level. These subsidies can be quite large. For a family earning $30,000 the (premium plus out-of-pocket) subsidy is $17,300 — an amount equal to more than half of the family’s income! At $42,000 income, the subsidy is $14,000. (See the tables below.)

Now here’s the rub. There are 127 million nonelderly Americans living between 100% and 400% of the federal poverty level. Yet the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that only about 17 million will be in the exchange getting these subsidies.

So what happens to everyone else? They will have to bear this cost on their own (through out-of-pocket premiums and reduced wages) without any new help from government.

And what if people don’t buy the insurance they are required to buy? They will pay a (2016) fine of $600 — a tempting alternative considering that if they get sick and really need insurance, insurers will not be allowed to deny them coverage or charge them a higher premium.

Obama revives military trials at Gitmo

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama brought back Bush-era military trials for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay on Wednesday by signing into law new rules that will give detainees stronger legal rights in court.

Obama approved the rules, most of which he proposed in May, as part of a $680 billion defense policy bill that cut some pricey and overlapping military weapons programs.

ONE YEAR LATER: 1-year poll shows changed views on Obama

Obama did not mention Guantanamo during the short White House ceremony.

Video: How the dems toss the Constitution while voting on the House floor

Mandatory Insurance Is Unconstitutional

Federal legislation requiring that every American have health insurance is part of all the major health-care reform plans now being considered in Washington. Such a mandate, however, would expand the federal government’s authority over individual Americans to an unprecedented degree. It is also profoundly unconstitutional.

Liberal Logic Says You Should Go Un-Insured

Interesting breaking story, the reporter has a clandestine math sense to equate dying numbers in the health care / insurance debate. If 2.3 million Americans die out of 284 million Americans (2004 numbers), and we assume 47 million Americans don?t have health insurance and 45,000 a year die. That would mean that you are 10 times more likely to die if you have health insurance. This is great news!!! It could save the country trillions of dollars. I?m going to drop my coverage to extend my life.

White Guilt Ruining America

 And, as it becomes apparent to many Americans, it causes them to so quickly conclude Obama is not only inappropriate for this country but is a failure who must be confronted and stopped quickly before he can do irreversible damage.

The above is from The End of the Game of Guilt  by Bill Siegel and is a fabulous article you should read in it's entirety.  He clearly understands the situation.  It is understandable why we are frustrated.  Everything we say or object to, seems to be met with the cry of "racist"... when we know full well we do not have a racist bone in our bodies. 
But in that statement I just made, have I not confirmed what Mr. Siegel writes?  Of course I have.  By acknowledging that I am not a racist I have tried to prove a negative, which as he says is impossible.

If Max Baucus had his way, a Mommy Tax would be imposed.

Yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released an estimate on Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.)’s health care bill.  The problem is that there has been no sign of a bill, rather there has been proposed concepts of what this bill might or might not contain.  How might Max Baucus propose to pay for this “so-called” health care bill?
According to Amanda Carpenter of the Washington Times, Baucus proposed taxing feminine products, powered breast pumps (to bottle milk for babies), and other devices, such as pacemakers.  Naturally, the committee realized that there would be some contention to this decision, so they stripped the tax on the feminine products.
Meanwhile, there could be a potential backlash on this bill as the powered breast pumps, pacemakers, ventilators, etc. will be taxed.  I don’t know about you, but one would think that there are better solutions than taxing essentials or medical equipment.

Look who hasn't won the Nobel

For starters: Ronald Reagan won the Cold War without firing a shot, the greatest triumph for peace in world history. Pope John Paul II boldly reached out to end the historic distrust between the Catholic Church and Jews.

Scaredy Cat Dems hesitant to send more troops to Afghanistan

Vulnerable Democrats who rode into Congress on the argument that Afghanistan is home to the real war on terror are now hesitant to support a call for more troops.
The White House and military leaders are in the course of determining how best to proceed in Afghanistan. Those deliberations include whether to send up to 40,000 more troops there.

Stimulating Debt

With unemployment rising and strong growth nowhere on the horizon, perhaps it's inevitable that Democrats are pondering a second stimulus package. But why make the same mistake twice?

Pre-existing Conditions with Medicare? Who Denies the Highest Percent of Claims?

This is from the 2008 Health Insurance Report Card released by the American Medical Association:

Barack Obama angry at General Stanley McChrystal speech on Afghanistan

According to sources close to the administration, Gen McChrystal shocked and angered presidential advisers with the bluntness of a speech given in London last week.
The next day he was summoned to an awkward 25-minute face-to-face meeting on board Air Force One on the tarmac in Copenhagen, where the president had arrived to tout Chicago's unsuccessful Olympic bid.

GOP To Draft Resolution Designed To Oust Rangel

Congressional Republicans are again demanding that Congressman Charles Rangel step down as chairman of the House tax writing committee, saying his ethics problems make him the poster boy for institutional arrogance.

Democratic support for embattled Rangel will get another test this week. Republicans will introduce a resolution calling for the Harlem Democrat to step down as chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee until ethics probes -- which keep on growing -- are complete.

"These are all violations of the rules of the House," Rep. John Carter (R-Texas) told CBS 2 HD. "Some of them seem to be violations of the rules of the IRS and I don't think the top tax guy ought to be having those kinds of problems."

Government report questions bail-out rescue claims

WASHINGTON (AP) - The credibility of the government's $700 billion financial rescue program was damaged by claims a year ago that all of the initial banks receiving support were healthy, a new report contends.
Special Inspector General Neil Barofsky generally found that the government had acted properly in October 2008 as it scrambled to implement the Troubled Asset Relief Program to avert the collapse of the U.S. financial system.
But the report said that then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and other officials were wrong to contend at an Oct. 14 press conference that all nine institutions receiving the first round of support - $125 billion - were sound.

Celebrities face endorsement crackdown

Advertisers, celebrity endorsers and even some internet bloggers will be held liable for false statements they make about products as part of a crackdown by US regulators on deceptive advertising practices.
The new rules on the use of testimonials in advertising, released by the Federal Trade Commission on Monday, also say that anyone who endorses a product, including celebrities and bloggers, must make explicit the compensation received from companies.

FTC: Bloggers must disclose any freebies or payments they get for writing product reviews

The Federal Trade Commission will try to regulate blogging for the first time, requiring writers on the Web to clearly disclose any freebies or payments they get from companies for reviewing their products.

The FTC said Monday its commissioners voted 4-0 to approve the final Web guidelines, which had been expected. Violating the rules, which take effect Dec. 1, could bring fines up to $11,000 per violation. Bloggers or advertisers also could face injunctions and be ordered to reimburse consumers for financial losses stemming from inappropriate product reviews.

Study: Bernanke, Paulson misled public on bailouts

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and former Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. misled the public about the financial weakness of Bank of America and other early recipients of the government's $700 billion Wall Street bailout, creating "unrealistic expectations" about the companies and damaging the program's credibility, according to a report by the program's independent watchdog.
The federal government last October loaned Bank of America and eight other "healthy" financial institutions a total of $125 billion - the initial payout from the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP - in an attempt to avoid a series of major bank collapses that would push the sputtering economy into a free fall or depression.
The rationale for giving money to stable banks and not failing ones, regulators said, was that such institutions would be better able to lend money and thus unfreeze tight credit markets - a major factor in last year's Wall Street losses.
But an audit released Monday by TARP Special Inspector General Neil Barofsky says senior government officials and Wall Street regulators, including Mr. Bernanke and Mr. Paulson, had "affirmative concerns" that several of the nine institutions were financially shaky.