It's a re-make of a children's story.

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Riffhard wrote on Sep 17^th, 2009 at 9:06pm:


riffblot, don't mince words. tell us what you feel.

gee, what poster's language (the unending profanities and ad hominems) here indicates desperation and frustration....gee, who?

The numbers don't lie guys! It ain't about racism. Keep telling yourselves that. Go talk to a few seniors. See what they say. Talk to some unpartisan independant moderates. Obama is losing these folks by the millions, and only you blinders-on idiots seem to take no notice.


God it's gonna be great saying-I TOLD YOU SO! Make no mistake about it, I'm going to quote this exact post and laugh in your smug moronic faces! BIG TIME!!!



Riffy

Some of my friends at the TEA PARTY the other day:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUPMjC9mq5Y&feature=player_embedded

Paranoid Android wrote on Sep 17^th, 2009 at 11:16pm:


That was the scariest movie I've ever watched, PA, it puts even "The Shining" in the shade. Were those "normal Americans"? Here in England they would be sectioned under the Mental Health Act.

Poignant how most of them actually were not even articulate enough to explain to the reporter what the bill was about, or where they felt the taxes were being raised unfairly, they come across as mentally unbalanced sheep... Scary!

Obama + Kanye = da Big Asshole ... a Thrillion here ... a Trillion there ... another Trillion flush in the name of good health ... what a first year ... if you want to wind up a bankrupt third rate nation ... or a performer with the self control of Kanye ... "don't follow leaders ... watch the parking meters" ... 

Riffhard wrote on Sep 17^th, 2009 at 9:52pm:



This is the message translated: I will tell you what to do, b/c that's what I was told, not that I did it... but I act like I did and remark how well read, smart and informed I am, I'm not an eleitist elitist or authoritarian. I know people, I know things, I have insiders and I'm different that you. You're an idiot who follows the herd, so do what I say... it's different when I say it!!!!
I'm already preparing to point out all failures, real or just b/c I say so, and I will make you feel bad and laugh at you. Because that is the only thing that gets me through the pain, pointing out how wrong others arel, I've been a jerk since day one saying I told you so and you're wrong. This justifies my hate and gets me through one more day of my miserable life, of knowing everything, and not being happy. This is how I persue happiness, bymaking others suffer and feel bad. Nothing in the constitution that says I can't be a dick, go read it, IDIOT!!!

Riffy
as traslated by Pdog

Pdog wrote on Sep 18^th, 2009 at 6:07am:




Okay Pdog. You're so brilliant. I mean nobody has to tell you what to say, or how to say it, right?

Then perhaps you explain to me just exactly how Barack Obama and his band of idiots in the House and Senate are going to slash billions from Medicare yet they are going to offer "better" coverage! There will be no rationing, yet billions of dollars are to be cut in funding. Oh, and let's not forget that he also wants to add an estimated 50,000,000 more people onto a government plan. Since you're damned brilliant perhaps you can explain just how the hell he plans on doing that? Because, to date, he hasn't explained it worth a fuck!


And while you're at it maybe you can peruse this poll conducted last week from IBD/TIPP and try and explain how all these doctors are a bunch of racists, and Glenn Beck idiots.


Here's a clue-the idiots are the ones that are still defending the worst president in US history!


Riffy


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Here, have fun with this--->

The IBD/TIPP Poll was conducted by mail the past two weeks, with 1,376 practicing physicians chosen randomly throughout the country taking part. Responses are still coming in, and doctors' positions on related topics — including the impact of an overhaul on senior care, medical school applications and drug development — will be covered later in this series.

Major findings included:

• Two-thirds, or 65%, of doctors say they oppose the proposed government expansion plan. This contradicts the administration's claims that doctors are part of an "unprecedented coalition" supporting a medical overhaul.

It also differs with findings of a poll released Monday by National Public Radio that suggests a "majority of physicians want public and private insurance options," and clashes with media reports such as Tuesday's front-page story in the Los Angeles Times with the headline "Doctors Go For Obama's Reform."

Nowhere in the Times story does it say doctors as a whole back the overhaul. It says only that the AMA — the "association representing the nation's physicians" and what "many still regard as the country's premier lobbying force" — is "lobbying and advertising to win public support for President Obama's sweeping plan."

The AMA, in fact, represents approximately 18% of physicians and has been hit with a number of defections by members opposed to the AMA's support of Democrats' proposed health care overhaul.

• Four of nine doctors, or 45%, said they "would consider leaving their practice or taking an early retirement" if Congress passes the plan the Democratic majority and White House have in mind.

More than 800,000 doctors were practicing in 2006, the government says. Projecting the poll's finding onto that population, 360,000 doctors would consider quitting.

• More than seven in 10 doctors, or 71% — the most lopsided response in the poll — answered "no" when asked if they believed "the government can cover 47 million more people and that it will cost less money and the quality of care will be better."

By Charles Krauthammer
Friday, September 18, 2009

You lie? No. Barack Obama doesn't lie. He's too subtle for that. He . . . well, you judge.

Herewith three examples within a single speech -- the now-famous Obama-Wilson "you lie" address to Congress on health care -- of Obama's relationship with truth.

(1) "I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits -- either now or in the future," he solemnly pledged. "I will not sign it if it adds one dime to the deficit, now or in the future. Period."

Wonderful. The president seems serious, veto-ready, determined to hold the line. Until, notes Harvard economist Greg Mankiw, you get to Obama's very next sentence: "And to prove that I'm serious, there will be a provision in this plan that requires us to come forward with more spending cuts if the savings we promised don't materialize."

This apparent strengthening of the pledge brilliantly and deceptively undermines it. What Obama suggests is that his plan will require mandatory spending cuts if the current rosy projections prove false. But there's absolutely nothing automatic about such cuts. Every Congress is sovereign. Nothing enacted today will force a future Congress or a future president to make any cuts in any spending, mandatory or not.

Just look at the supposedly automatic Medicare cuts contained in the Sustainable Growth Rate formula enacted to constrain out-of-control Medicare spending. Every year since 2003, Congress has waived the cuts.

Mankiw puts the Obama bait-and-switch in plain language. "Translation: I promise to fix the problem. And if I do not fix the problem now, I will fix it later, or some future president will, after I am long gone. I promise he will. Absolutely, positively, I am committed to that future president fixing the problem. You can count on it. Would I lie to you?"

(2) And then there's the famous contretemps about health insurance for illegal immigrants. Obama said they would not be insured. Well, all four committee-passed bills in Congress allow illegal immigrants to take part in the proposed Health Insurance Exchange.

But more important, the problem is that laws are not self-enforcing. If they were, we'd have no illegal immigrants because, as I understand it, it's illegal to enter the United States illegally. We have laws against burglary, too. But we also provide for cops and jails on the assumption that most burglars don't voluntarily turn themselves in.

When Republicans proposed requiring proof of citizenship, the Democrats twice voted that down in committee. Indeed, after Rep. Joe Wilson's "You lie!" shout-out, the Senate Finance Committee revisited the language of its bill to prevent illegal immigrants from getting any federal benefits. Why would the Finance Committee fix a nonexistent problem?

(3) Obama said he would largely solve the insoluble cost problem of Obamacare by eliminating "hundreds of billions of dollars in waste and fraud" from Medicare.

That's not a lie. That's not even deception. That's just an insult to our intelligence. Waste, fraud and abuse -- Meg Greenfield once called this phrase "the dread big three" -- as the all-purpose piggy bank for budget savings has been a joke since Jimmy Carter first used it in 1977.

Moreover, if half a trillion is waiting to be squeezed painlessly out of Medicare, why wait for health-care reform? If, as Obama repeatedly insists, Medicare overspending is breaking the budget, why hasn't he gotten started on the painless billions in "waste and fraud" savings?

Obama doesn't lie. He merely elides, gliding from one dubious assertion to another. This has been the story throughout his whole health-care crusade. Its original premise was that our current financial crisis was rooted in neglect of three things -- energy, education and health care. That transparent attempt to exploit Emanuel's Law -- a crisis is a terrible thing to waste -- failed for health care because no one is stupid enough to believe that the 2008 financial collapse was caused by a lack of universal health care.

So on to the next gambit: selling health-care reform as a cure for the deficit. When that was exploded by the Congressional Budget Office's demonstration of staggering Obamacare deficits, Obama tried a new tack: selling his plan as revenue-neutral insurance reform -- until the revenue neutrality is exposed as phony future cuts and chimerical waste and fraud.

Obama doesn't lie. He implies, he misdirects, he misleads -- so fluidly and incessantly that he risks transmuting eloquence into mere slickness.

Slickness wasn't fatal to "Slick Willie" Clinton because he possessed a winning, nearly irresistible charm. Obama's persona is more cool, distant, imperial. The charming scoundrel can get away with endless deception; the righteous redeemer cannot.

LadyJane wrote on Sep 18^th, 2009 at 7:07am:


We aren't LJ... the system of the IRS, the FEd Reserve is set up that we never pay off debt, and that banks loan us our own money. The only thing that the govt. decides it the bottom line numbers and where we spend it... it will never be paid off, only increase... banks are the special intrest group that infilitrated our govt. that is and what our founding fathers warned us against, and it is a non- partisan issue. Greedy men of all political sides took part in this, and it was slow and calcualted.... most beleive it is to have an end goal of one currency for the planet, controlled by a select powerful few.