Monday, October 21, 2013
Karmel Allison, Pregnant Diabetic, Nearly Collapsed During President's Interminable Speech on #ObamaCare Debacle
It's bad enough that the woman nearly fainted, but she's pregnant and diabetic.
If you were watching live you recognized immediately how extremely dangerous this was (she almost lost consciousness at the end of Obama's pathetically long address). Frightening. The president personally subjected Ms. Allison to this, the cold-hearted bastard. He's literally despicable. He should be ashamed for using this woman as a throwaway propaganda ornament. A pregnant diabetic! Democrats will stop at nothing to ram the ObamaCare monstrosity down the throats of the American people. Nothing. For partisan optics they'd risk the life of a diabetic woman and her unborn child! Inhuman and depraved. But then again, these are far-left regressive fanatics. Nothing is beyond the pale for these ghouls.
Here's the dramatic screencap at London's Daily Mail.
More at the Washington Times, "Caution: Obamacare may cause fainting."
And at the San Diego Union-Tribune, "San Diego woman nearly collapses on stage with president."
If you were watching live you recognized immediately how extremely dangerous this was (she almost lost consciousness at the end of Obama's pathetically long address). Frightening. The president personally subjected Ms. Allison to this, the cold-hearted bastard. He's literally despicable. He should be ashamed for using this woman as a throwaway propaganda ornament. A pregnant diabetic! Democrats will stop at nothing to ram the ObamaCare monstrosity down the throats of the American people. Nothing. For partisan optics they'd risk the life of a diabetic woman and her unborn child! Inhuman and depraved. But then again, these are far-left regressive fanatics. Nothing is beyond the pale for these ghouls.
Here's the dramatic screencap at London's Daily Mail.
More at the Washington Times, "Caution: Obamacare may cause fainting."
And at the San Diego Union-Tribune, "San Diego woman nearly collapses on stage with president."
Corrupt Bastards Club
From Sarah Palin, at Big Government, "D.C.'S 'CORRUPT BASTARDS CLUB'":
RTWT.
It can be argued that Obamacare isn’t full socialized medicine… yet. Right now it is a sort of corporatism, which is the collusion of big government with big business. With Obamacare, the government has taken over an industry that comprises a sixth of our economy, radically changed the way it operates, and is mandating that we purchase the services of that industry. This is unprecedented. It’s radical.An awesome piece.
For those Obama voters who are now flummoxed by the rise in their health care premiums, let me explain why they went up. Obamacare has changed the very nature of insurance, which is a hedge against a future possibility. A 27-year-old marathon runner is much less likely to suffer a major illness than a 57-year-old obese chain smoker with a pickled liver. But Obamacare has ruled that there be no adjusted costs for pre-existing conditions, which means we threw out the actuarial data and everyone is now required to pay more to cover those who are more likely to be sick. But now average Americans – especially those healthy 20somethings who probably don’t even want to buy insurance – can’t afford to pay for Obamacare.
Obamacare in its current corporatist form isn’t meant to last. It’s meant to push us towards full socialized medicine with a single-payer system. How do I know this? Simple. Let’s compare Obamacare with the Canadian single-payer system.
With Obamacare we have crappier health care (fewer choices, fewer doctors, and an IPAB rationing panel of faceless bureaucrats, aka the ol' “death panel” that has been admitted to existing in Obamacare), but it is very expensive for the individual American. For instance, you’ll find that the so-called Bronze Plans are just as expensive as the Platinum Plans when you factor in the $5,000-$10,000 deductible in addition to the monthly payments you’ll shell out. And those Americans who aren’t being pushed onto the Obamacare exchanges are still seeing their insurance premiums skyrocket as the industry shifts onto consumers the cost of not factoring in various conditions.
Now let’s look at what Canadians have. I dare say our good neighbor to your north, and my east, has even worse health care coverage, but at least it’s “free” for the individual.
Americans, if you’re faced with a 300% increase (or even a 65% increase like my family) in your health care premiums for crappier coverage, doesn’t “free” socialized medicine all of a sudden sound appealing?
And that’s how Americans will be led down the primrose path to a single-payer system. People will be frustrated, worn out, and broke under this new government burden. Many will end up concluding they’ll settle for – then demand – full socialized medicine because they’ll see how the unworkable Obamacare will break our health care system (where, presently, no one is turned away from emergency rooms and we have many public and private safety nets for people in need), along with busting our personal bank accounts. The cry will go out, “Can’t you just put us all in a sort of Medicaid-like system? It’ll be much less confusing than these awful exchange websites and a lot less expensive!” As things stand, many who are getting slammed by Obamacare will inevitably settle for less out of necessity. And that’s the left’s declared plan: a single-payer system. They said it. I didn't.
RTWT.
Obama Lamely Rebuffs Criticism of Healthcare Debacle in Desperate Rose Garden Address (VIDEO)
It's embarrassing.
He's desperate.
Obama's obviously just emerged from a bunker on the White House grounds, because not a word he utters reflects the realities on the ground for the majority of Americans who're now convinced that the problems go way beyond a chintzy website with stolen code.
See Byron York, "At the White House: Obamacare success stories that aren't":
And again, listen to the clip. Obama's like a traveling vacuum cleaner salesman, desperate and hawking a shitty product. But he's not worth an ounce of your pity. He made his bed, the asshole.
Also, "Remarks by the President on the Affordable Care Act."
BONUS: See Andrew Kaczynski, "Flashback: Obama Told People They Could Keep Their Health Care Plan" (at Memeorandum).
He's desperate.
Obama's obviously just emerged from a bunker on the White House grounds, because not a word he utters reflects the realities on the ground for the majority of Americans who're now convinced that the problems go way beyond a chintzy website with stolen code.
See Byron York, "At the White House: Obamacare success stories that aren't":
In the days since the problems with the Obamacare website became too large to ignore, defenders of the administration cited the many people they said have already benefited from the new exchanges, as well as from the law as a whole. Presumably, the White House had many success stories to choose from in deciding who would stand behind the president at Monday's event. But some of the successes they chose don't seem to be successes at all.RTWT.
And again, listen to the clip. Obama's like a traveling vacuum cleaner salesman, desperate and hawking a shitty product. But he's not worth an ounce of your pity. He made his bed, the asshole.
Also, "Remarks by the President on the Affordable Care Act."
BONUS: See Andrew Kaczynski, "Flashback: Obama Told People They Could Keep Their Health Care Plan" (at Memeorandum).
LAUSD Segregates Hispanic Students by English Proficiency
Parents are mad about this, with good reason.
And you know Spanish-speaking kids will be warehoused away, deprived of better learning opportunities.
At the Los Angeles Times, "L.A. Unified's English learner action upsets parents, teachers":
LAUSD just sucks.
You're looking at modern day Jim Crow for Hispanic families. And the district is run by big Democrat-backed union thugs. But hey, "hope and change," don'tcha know?!!
And you know Spanish-speaking kids will be warehoused away, deprived of better learning opportunities.
At the Los Angeles Times, "L.A. Unified's English learner action upsets parents, teachers":
Luis Gaytan, the 5-year-old son of Mexican immigrants who speak Spanish at home, was so terrified by kindergarten that he would barely talk — prompting classmates to tease that he didn't have a tongue.Continue reading.
In the last two months, at Granada Elementary Community Charter, Luis has gained a growing command of the language in a class of students with a mixed range of English ability. His father, Jorge, is convinced that his son is learning English more quickly because he hears it every day from more-advanced classmates.
But Luis — and thousands of other Los Angeles Unified students — is being moved into new classes with those at a similar language level under an order that has sparked a storm of protest. In recent weeks, a group of southeast L.A. principals have mounted a rare challenge to district policy, teachers have flooded their union office with complaints, and parents have launched protest rallies and petition drives urging L.A. Unified to postpone the class reorganizations until next year.
"Kids with little or no English are going to be segregated and told they're not good enough for the mainstream," said Cindy Aranda-Lechuga, a Granada mother of a kindergartner who gathered 162 parent signatures seeking a postponement and spoke against the policy at an L.A. Board of Education meeting last week. "Kids learn from their peers, and they're not going to be able to do that anymore."
Marking the latest chapter in California's fierce language wars, the furor over class placements for those learning English raises the controversial question of which is more effective: separating students by fluency level or including them in diverse classes. Critics are also upset that the change is coming two months into the school year, after students have bonded with classmates and teachers have developed classroom lessons and routines. Opponents blame the district and local schools for the disruption.
LAUSD just sucks.
You're looking at modern day Jim Crow for Hispanic families. And the district is run by big Democrat-backed union thugs. But hey, "hope and change," don'tcha know?!!
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Surfboards or Bodysurfers? Who Owns the Wedge?
Well, it's a public beach, technically. But bodysurfers want surfboards banned at the Newport Beach Wedge.
At the Los Angeles Times, "Surfers, bodysurfers battle over Newport Beach's iconic Wedge":
PREVIOUSLY: "Huge Waves at the Wedge in Newport Beach."
At the Los Angeles Times, "Surfers, bodysurfers battle over Newport Beach's iconic Wedge":
An old surfing battle is resurfacing in Newport Beach.More at the link.
A city panel, the Blackball Working Group, will take the first step toward a possible review of surfing regulations at a public meeting Monday night. This has set off murmurings among surfers over one particular place: the Wedge.
A storied spot at the end of the Balboa Peninsula, where the west harbor jetty extends from shore, the Wedge has set the stage for world-famous waves that have brought thrills to generations of surfers and spectators.
Here, on occasion, large swells send surf crashing into the jetty. These waves bounce back toward the ocean, where they may meet, in a wedge shape, another oncoming swell. This creates massive walls of water reaching 20 to 30 feet — a dream for surfers — that break close to the shore.
The question is: Who can lay claim to the Wedge?
For roughly two decades, bodysurfers have held claim to set times during summer months when only they can ride the break. They say they need the part-time ban because it is unsafe for them to try to compete with other surfers.
On a popular morning at the Wedge, people might be spotted on surfboards, bodyboards and skim boards or even clinging to a plastic fast-food tray. But current regulations require that they get out of the water by 10 a.m.
For a bodysurfer to ride among them would be like asking a bicyclist to assume position in a lane on a highway, they say.
Bodysurfers shirk any flotation device, wearing only wetsuits and flippers. This makes them slower and the last to catch waves. Those with boards pose a threat because they may collide with bodysurfers or lose their boards, which may then go flying.
The City Council recognized these safety concerns in 1985, allowing bodysurfers some piece of mind by banning boards when the blackball flag, a yellow flag with a black dot, was displayed from June 15 through Sept. 10.
In 1993, the council extended the ban to May 1 through Oct. 31. At that time, a hardened group of bodysurfers called the Wedge Crew, or Wedge Preservation Society, collected 80 signatures calling for a full ban on boards. A counter group called Save the Wedge collected 700 names in opposition.
Now a new petition is circulating. Nearly 1,500 people this week signed an online petition that calls for an end to time restraints at the Wedge, according to Times Community News.
"I figured I might as well put something together so that people could have a way to voice their own opinions," said Aaron Peluso, who created the petition and owns a skimboard company. "I've been hoping it would have happened a decade ago."
PREVIOUSLY: "Huge Waves at the Wedge in Newport Beach."
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We’re Not Retreating – We’re Advancing in a Different Direction
From Star Parker, at Right Wing News:
Yeah, it's a long haul, especially when you've got to battle the leftists media the whole way. Here's CNN's new poll out today, for example, "GOP, Boehner take shutdown hit in new CNN poll" (via Memeorandum).
A number of years ago I was between flights on a business trip and was sitting in an airport restaurant having lunch. It was right after the 2008 presidential election and I knew that the election of America’s first black president, a man of the hard left, would make my job bringing a conservative message to black communities much more challenging and difficult.Continue reading.
As I ate my sandwich I glanced at the wall and saw a sign with a quote from General Douglas MacArthur. It said, “We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.”
I was immediately energized by this quote from the old general. It was exactly what I needed at the moment. It totally captured my state of mind. Perhaps my mission needed a change in tactics but certainly there was no change in commitment and objectives.
There is no smooth sailing in any tough mission. Setbacks are always part of the game. But if you are committed and right, setbacks are opportunities to re-group and improve.
Those who think that the current deal to temporarily fund the government and open the door to yet even more government borrowing amounts to some kind of defeat for Tea Party Republicans need to think again.
The Tea Party is in for the long haul. One skirmish may be lost but the war continues.
A recent Gallup poll shows 18 percent of Americans satisfied with the way the country is being governed. For a little perspective, this stood at 26 percent in mid- 1973 in the midst of the Watergate scandal that wound up in the resignation of the president of the United States.
Early in 2009, shortly after President Obama was elected, 56 percent expressed satisfaction with our government. It’s just been downhill since then...
Yeah, it's a long haul, especially when you've got to battle the leftists media the whole way. Here's CNN's new poll out today, for example, "GOP, Boehner take shutdown hit in new CNN poll" (via Memeorandum).
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Obama's OMB Director Can't Confirm That Health Exchanges Will Be Up-and-Running by December
The entire ObamaCare facade will come crashing down if these dolt's can't get the stupid exchanges going by the end of the year.
From Erika Johnsen, at Hot Air, "OMB director: Er, no, I can’t gaurantee that HealthCare.gov will be running smoothly by mid-December."
From Erika Johnsen, at Hot Air, "OMB director: Er, no, I can’t gaurantee that HealthCare.gov will be running smoothly by mid-December."
Sunday, October 20, 2013
Obama to Speak Monday on #ObamaCare Rollout Debacle
At the Hill, "ObamaCare enrollees to join president in Rose Garden (Video)."
Also, at the Wall Street Journal, "‘Tech Surge’ Planned to Fix Obamacare Exchanges," and Moe Lane, "White House bringing in “*Top* Men” to ‘fix’ #Obamacare exchanges."
IMAGE CREDIT: 90 Miles From Tyranny, "The Cynical Tactics Of The Great Deceiver..."
Also, at the Wall Street Journal, "‘Tech Surge’ Planned to Fix Obamacare Exchanges," and Moe Lane, "White House bringing in “*Top* Men” to ‘fix’ #Obamacare exchanges."
IMAGE CREDIT: 90 Miles From Tyranny, "The Cynical Tactics Of The Great Deceiver..."
#Rule5 Sunday Roundup
At the Other McCain, "Rule 5 Sunday: Rubycon."
More at Daley Gator, "Daley Gator DaleyBabe: Marlina Moreno."
And from Bob Belevedere, "Rule 5 Saturday: Amber Campisi."
Soylent has "Morning Coffee."
At Pirate's Cove, "Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup," and "If All You See…… is a tiny home that would be perfect for Everyone Else, as long as they aren’t pulled by fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist."
Proof Positive has "Friday Night Babe: Sarah Rafferty!"
And at Randy’s Roundtable, "Thursday Nite Tart - Sandra Brec."
At Odie's, "I'm In Trouble ~OR~ Rule 5 Woodsterman Style."
More from Drunken Stepfather, "STEPLINKS OF THE DAY."
And at Egotastic!, "Alessandra Ambrosio and Camilla Bell Headline the Cleavage Goodness at Beverly Hills Gala."
At EBL, "Rocky Horror High School."
Also at Blackmailers Don't Shoot, "Some Saturday Notes with Hot Chicks and Metal," and "Pretty Girls on a Thursday, Random Hotness Edition."
Plus, at 90 Miles From Tyranny, "Girls With Guns." And, "Graphic Art: Women With Weapons."
Check Wine, Women, and Politics as well, "Saturday Sweeties."
At Animal Magnetism, "Rule Five Friday News."
See also, the Hostages, "Big Boob Friday."
And at a View From the Beach, "Rule 5 Saturday - Mischa Barton Back From the Brink."
And In a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World has the "Friday Pinups."
More at Postal Dogs, "Taylor Momsen's new song better than you might think."
Good Stuff has "Elvira and Karen Nyberg."
See Dana Pico, "Rule 5 Blogging: Back in the US of A!"
And from Yankee Phil, "Real Sarah vs. Photoshopped."
And from Subject to Change, "Solid Gold."
More at Knuckledraggin', "Your Good Morning Girl."
Drop you links in the comments if I've missed your Rule 5 entry!
And from Bob Belevedere, "Rule 5 Saturday: Amber Campisi."
Soylent has "Morning Coffee."
At Pirate's Cove, "Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup," and "If All You See…… is a tiny home that would be perfect for Everyone Else, as long as they aren’t pulled by fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist."
Proof Positive has "Friday Night Babe: Sarah Rafferty!"
And at Randy’s Roundtable, "Thursday Nite Tart - Sandra Brec."
At Odie's, "I'm In Trouble ~OR~ Rule 5 Woodsterman Style."
More from Drunken Stepfather, "STEPLINKS OF THE DAY."
And at Egotastic!, "Alessandra Ambrosio and Camilla Bell Headline the Cleavage Goodness at Beverly Hills Gala."
At EBL, "Rocky Horror High School."
Also at Blackmailers Don't Shoot, "Some Saturday Notes with Hot Chicks and Metal," and "Pretty Girls on a Thursday, Random Hotness Edition."
Plus, at 90 Miles From Tyranny, "Girls With Guns." And, "Graphic Art: Women With Weapons."
Check Wine, Women, and Politics as well, "Saturday Sweeties."
At Animal Magnetism, "Rule Five Friday News."
See also, the Hostages, "Big Boob Friday."
And at a View From the Beach, "Rule 5 Saturday - Mischa Barton Back From the Brink."
And In a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World has the "Friday Pinups."
More at Postal Dogs, "Taylor Momsen's new song better than you might think."
Good Stuff has "Elvira and Karen Nyberg."
See Dana Pico, "Rule 5 Blogging: Back in the US of A!"
And from Yankee Phil, "Real Sarah vs. Photoshopped."
And from Subject to Change, "Solid Gold."
More at Knuckledraggin', "Your Good Morning Girl."
Drop you links in the comments if I've missed your Rule 5 entry!
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Mainstream Democrats Now Openly Call for Arrests of Political Opponents
From Doug Ross, "THINKING OF SITTING THINGS OUT IN 2014? Consider That Mainstream Democrats Now Openly Call for Arrests of Political Opponents":
More from Byron York, "Left demands: Charge Ted Cruz with sedition."
And the Kos Kiddies are on the case, "No Republicans you didn't win, people want to try you for sedition."
For those of you as disgusted as I am with GOP leaders, consider the ramifications of sitting out the midterms. Should Nancy Pelosi regain the Speakership, well, in six words, they'll be coming for your guns. That's a guarantee.Continue reading.
For the first time in American history, mainstream Democrats are openly calling for the arrests of their political opponents. Yes, the hard left Democrat Party's tactics come straight out of the playbooks of Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Castro, Pol Pot, and Mugabe.
They will be coming for anyone who expresses dissent against their Marxist policies, but before they do, they'll be coming for your guns.
More from Byron York, "Left demands: Charge Ted Cruz with sedition."
And the Kos Kiddies are on the case, "No Republicans you didn't win, people want to try you for sedition."
Turncoat Senate Republicans Staged 'Intervention' to Stop Ted Cruz on #ObamaCare Defunding
My admiration for this man is growing daily and exponentially.
I listened to the entire Ted Cruz interview with CNN's Dana Bash. The Right Scoop has the full video, "FULL INTERVIEW: Ted Cruz tells CNN’s Dana Bash he isn’t giving up fight to stop ObamaCare."
Click on Right Scoop and scroll to 9:45 minutes. CNN's Bash presses Cruz on GOP divisions over the defunding strategy. She says that Senate Republicans told her that their luncheons with Senator Cruz were so angry and intense it was "like an intervention." Here's the passage from CNN's transcript:
When friends or family "stage an intervention" it's because a loved one is sick. The classic example is the alcoholic whose family life is being destroyed by drink and family members want to confront their loved one's denial and disease with "caring and compassion." Or perhaps it's a family member who's got a gambling addiction. A loved one's entire life revolves around going to casinos to the point that all of life's other priorities are rationalized away for the sake of generating the thill of the slots or the roulette wheel. Out of concern for the health of their loved one, family members organize an intervention to help the addict cope with the devastating consequences of their problem.
In both cases, the "intervention" is staged to help someone who's sick, someone with the disease of alcoholism or the clinically irrational addiction of gaming.
And now here we have Senate Republicans holding luncheons with the Texas Senator to literally hound and harass him on his "hopeless" ObamaCare defunding agenda. These meetings, according to "Senate colleagues," were confrontational and angry.
And Ted Cruz "didn't flinch." He didn't cave to the pressure from his craven and yellow-bellied establishment GOP pols. He resisted Senate Republicans' calls for "collegiality" in abandoning his crusade to protect the American people against the ObamaCare monstrosity.
Ted Cruz is not sick. He doesn't need an intervention to save him from pathologically diseased behavior. It's the Republican establishment that's sick. The establishment GOP has joined forces with the JournoList media to demonize the one person speaking the concerns of everyday Americans. Ted Cruz has gone to Washington to represent the interests of his constituents. He's doing the people's work. And members of his own party want him destroyed!
They're "really angry at you," Bash says to Cruz. And he doesn't flinch!
The entire establishment is attacking Ted Cruz as this crazed Frankenstein of the tea party. And he doesn't flinch. He's being flayed by the Obama-alled press as a "tea party deadender" out to normalize "the new crazy" in American politics.
But who's crazy? Seriously?
We now have a budget deal that's eliminated any caps on borrowing until 2014, and Democrats will push to make the removal of those borrowing limits permanent. We blew past $17 trillion within hours of the announcement of the budget deal. And there's no end in sight. And who's crazy? We have a national healthcare debacle in which insurance premiums are skyrocketing around the country, with 45 states documenting surges in insurance rates. American healthcare is crashing down the path to single-payer. And who's crazy?
Republicans fear losses in upcoming elections. Senate Republicans especially fear that Democrats could win a filibuster-proof majority, and individual senators are angling, at all costs, to keep their seats. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will be next year's poster boy for the Senate GOP's Obama-shoe-shine coterie.
But the one constant on display through all this craven partisan protection will be Senator Ted Cruz's courage and commitment. He's committed to the values that have made this country great and prosperous --- and he's got the crosshairs firmly affixed between his shoulders for it. But his analysis is the correct one: We simply need more members of Congress committed to the limited government agenda, members who are willing to leverage their institutional power to stop this healthcare train wreck dead in its tracks. There's gonna be a reckoning on ObamaCare soon enough. It's simply not working and it won't be fixed in time for people to get enrolled. The White House is going to be forced to delay the law, and when it does it will be heroes like Ted Cruz who are vindicated.
UPDATE: Linked at Blazing Cat Fur. Thanks!
I listened to the entire Ted Cruz interview with CNN's Dana Bash. The Right Scoop has the full video, "FULL INTERVIEW: Ted Cruz tells CNN’s Dana Bash he isn’t giving up fight to stop ObamaCare."
Click on Right Scoop and scroll to 9:45 minutes. CNN's Bash presses Cruz on GOP divisions over the defunding strategy. She says that Senate Republicans told her that their luncheons with Senator Cruz were so angry and intense it was "like an intervention." Here's the passage from CNN's transcript:
CRUZ: No. What I'm choosing sides with is the American people. And what I think the focus should be is on Obamacare. Is it working? You know what's striking? In the last two months in the course of this debate over Obamacare, Democrats aren't defending Obamacare. They're not saying, hey, these things working great. They're not saying, hey, it's not killing job.You have to think about this for a minute, breaking it down.
They're not saying, hey, it's not forcing people into part time work. It's not driving up health insurance premiums. It's not taken away people's health care. And the reason is you can't defend it. On the merits, I mean, there's a reason, Dana, the unions are jumping ship. They're saying let us out, it's not working. There's a reason Democratic senators went to the president and said we want a special exemption for members of Congress because it's not working.
And so, I understand you want to draw me into the back and forth with other Republican senators and that's fun to cover. I'm not interested in playing that game. Do you know what many of the elected officials in Washington are most upset about is that their constituents were calling and holding them accountable.
I can't tell you how many of my colleagues have expressed outrage to me that my constituents are calling me. Dana, we work for our constituents. That's our job.
BASH: But the reason they're frustrated, the constituents, they're calling them is because senators have said this to me, because they thought you were selling them snake oil. It was never going to happen.
CRUZ: You know, they can insure we can't win this fight by going on television constantly and attacking everyone who's standing up to win this fight. That made certain we couldn't win.
BASH: Let's chill down on what some of your colleagues seem to be most upset about. First of all, you referred to the fact that your colleagues were yelling at you red faced about their constituents calling. There were a lot of very animated private lunches with you and your colleagues, correct?
CRUZ: Look, I'm not interested in focusing on the disagreements between politicians in Washington –
BASH: Let me just ask you about this, because one of your colleagues told me it was like an intervention, that there were so many of your colleagues saying, you know, why are you doing this? And really angry at you. And I'm just wondering even on a human level, they told me that you really didn't flinch.
On a human level, that's got to bother you, to be sitting in an institution like the Senate and having your, not Democrats, fellow Republicans, so angry at you.
CRUZ: Dana, not remotely.
BASH: Why?
CRUZ: Because the people I work for are the women and men you just saw. I work for 26 million Texans. That's my job to fight for them. I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for the people of Texas, and I fight for them. The reason people are frustrated all over country is that far too many people get elected and they think they're there to be part of the club.
You know what was very interesting about some of those closed door discussions? What I said in those closed door sessions, I would have said the exact same thing if CNN's camera were sitting in the room. What I say privately to my colleagues is the same thing I say publicly. And you know what's interesting?
Virtually, every person in that room that was criticizing what Mike Lee and I were doing would have said very different things if the camera was in this room, because what they're telling their constituents is very different from what they're saying behind closed doors.
BASH: Do you think Mitch McConnell has been a good leader?
CRUZ: I think Senate Republicans should have united. Senate Republicans should have united and supported House Republicans. The one hypothetical that I really think is worth thinking about is how would this have played differently if when the House stood up and led Senate Republicans had marched into battle side-by-side and said we are united and saying we should fund government.
But we should not fund Obamacare. Now, one of the things that might have played out differently, one of the most revealing exchanges and an exchange you were a part of when you asked Harry Reid about the funding for NIH. When the government was shut down, the House passed 14 bills to fund vital government priorities. The Democrats objected to all of them. They sat on Harry Reid's desk. He wouldn't allow a vote. Every one of them was a clean bill. So you had a bill to fund the veteran's administration.
When friends or family "stage an intervention" it's because a loved one is sick. The classic example is the alcoholic whose family life is being destroyed by drink and family members want to confront their loved one's denial and disease with "caring and compassion." Or perhaps it's a family member who's got a gambling addiction. A loved one's entire life revolves around going to casinos to the point that all of life's other priorities are rationalized away for the sake of generating the thill of the slots or the roulette wheel. Out of concern for the health of their loved one, family members organize an intervention to help the addict cope with the devastating consequences of their problem.
In both cases, the "intervention" is staged to help someone who's sick, someone with the disease of alcoholism or the clinically irrational addiction of gaming.
And now here we have Senate Republicans holding luncheons with the Texas Senator to literally hound and harass him on his "hopeless" ObamaCare defunding agenda. These meetings, according to "Senate colleagues," were confrontational and angry.
And Ted Cruz "didn't flinch." He didn't cave to the pressure from his craven and yellow-bellied establishment GOP pols. He resisted Senate Republicans' calls for "collegiality" in abandoning his crusade to protect the American people against the ObamaCare monstrosity.
Ted Cruz is not sick. He doesn't need an intervention to save him from pathologically diseased behavior. It's the Republican establishment that's sick. The establishment GOP has joined forces with the JournoList media to demonize the one person speaking the concerns of everyday Americans. Ted Cruz has gone to Washington to represent the interests of his constituents. He's doing the people's work. And members of his own party want him destroyed!
They're "really angry at you," Bash says to Cruz. And he doesn't flinch!
The entire establishment is attacking Ted Cruz as this crazed Frankenstein of the tea party. And he doesn't flinch. He's being flayed by the Obama-alled press as a "tea party deadender" out to normalize "the new crazy" in American politics.
But who's crazy? Seriously?
We now have a budget deal that's eliminated any caps on borrowing until 2014, and Democrats will push to make the removal of those borrowing limits permanent. We blew past $17 trillion within hours of the announcement of the budget deal. And there's no end in sight. And who's crazy? We have a national healthcare debacle in which insurance premiums are skyrocketing around the country, with 45 states documenting surges in insurance rates. American healthcare is crashing down the path to single-payer. And who's crazy?
Republicans fear losses in upcoming elections. Senate Republicans especially fear that Democrats could win a filibuster-proof majority, and individual senators are angling, at all costs, to keep their seats. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will be next year's poster boy for the Senate GOP's Obama-shoe-shine coterie.
But the one constant on display through all this craven partisan protection will be Senator Ted Cruz's courage and commitment. He's committed to the values that have made this country great and prosperous --- and he's got the crosshairs firmly affixed between his shoulders for it. But his analysis is the correct one: We simply need more members of Congress committed to the limited government agenda, members who are willing to leverage their institutional power to stop this healthcare train wreck dead in its tracks. There's gonna be a reckoning on ObamaCare soon enough. It's simply not working and it won't be fixed in time for people to get enrolled. The White House is going to be forced to delay the law, and when it does it will be heroes like Ted Cruz who are vindicated.
UPDATE: Linked at Blazing Cat Fur. Thanks!
Young Intellectuals Resurrect Marxism
I found this Michelle Goldberg piece pretty interesting, "A Generation of Intellectuals Shaped by 2008 Crash Rescues Marx From History’s Dustbin." (Via Maggie's Farm.)
Actually, though, I think the piece --- and this movement to dig up Marx --- underestimates how thoroughly leftist thought today is marinated in Marxist class-struggle epistemology. The central hurdle for an resurrection of Marxism is the historically problematic case of Stalinism in the Soviet Union. So we see in the Goldberg piece that it's apparently possible for new Marxists to be anti-capitalist and anti-Stalinist simultaneously. This isn't a new position, of course, as the piece mentions. Folks pushing a politics of a "new left" have always had to grapple with the totalitarian legacy of the Soviet Union. But since the left's longings for utopia never end, the program of collective amnesia toward socialism Stalinist crimes can only deepen. It's fundamentally a monstrous program of collective lies, because to deny the genocidal evil of Soviet communism is to mount an enormous project of Orwellian deception. This is the fatal flaw of all leftist ideological programs.
Actually, though, I think the piece --- and this movement to dig up Marx --- underestimates how thoroughly leftist thought today is marinated in Marxist class-struggle epistemology. The central hurdle for an resurrection of Marxism is the historically problematic case of Stalinism in the Soviet Union. So we see in the Goldberg piece that it's apparently possible for new Marxists to be anti-capitalist and anti-Stalinist simultaneously. This isn't a new position, of course, as the piece mentions. Folks pushing a politics of a "new left" have always had to grapple with the totalitarian legacy of the Soviet Union. But since the left's longings for utopia never end, the program of collective amnesia toward socialism Stalinist crimes can only deepen. It's fundamentally a monstrous program of collective lies, because to deny the genocidal evil of Soviet communism is to mount an enormous project of Orwellian deception. This is the fatal flaw of all leftist ideological programs.
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Candice Swanepoel Meets the Royal Fantasy Bra
Well, the show's coming up in December!
Labels:
Babe Blogging,
Victoria's Secret,
Women
#RedSox Head to World Series With Spectacular Come-From-Behind Victory Over #Tigers — #ALCS
Well, after the Dodgers' elimination yesterday, it goes without saying that I'm pleased with Boston's win tonight.
At NBC Sports, "Shane Victorino's grand slam puts the Red Sox back on top in the seventh inning of Game 6."
At NBC Sports, "Shane Victorino's grand slam puts the Red Sox back on top in the seventh inning of Game 6."
Started from the bottom now the @RedSox are going to the #WorldSeries: http://t.co/wKI5ta5VEm pic.twitter.com/asfTllyXtV
— MLB (@MLB) October 20, 2013
BOSTON WINS THE PENNANT. It’ll be Red Sox-Cardinals in the World Series. Game 1, Wed. night at Fenway Park. pic.twitter.com/pMuEeWKQIp
— BuzzFeed Sports (@BuzzFeedSports) October 20, 2013
It's Simple Math: People Will Pay More Under #ObamaCare
Anyone who can do math understands that ObamaCare's a total disaster. Our freedoms are being taken away.
From Dave Ramsey's program a couple of weeks back, via Heritage, "Dave Ramsey Says People Will Pay More for Obamacare — It’s Simple Math."
From Dave Ramsey's program a couple of weeks back, via Heritage, "Dave Ramsey Says People Will Pay More for Obamacare — It’s Simple Math."
Kelly Brook 2014 Calendar (PHOTOS)
Wow.
She's still hot as ever.
At Egotastic!, "Kelly Brook 2014 Calendar Preview Forecasts a Future Year of Hotness," and at Hollywood Celebrity News, "Enjoy the complete Kelly Brook 2014 calendar."
At Egotastic!, "Kelly Brook 2014 Calendar Preview Forecasts a Future Year of Hotness," and at Hollywood Celebrity News, "Enjoy the complete Kelly Brook 2014 calendar."
Labels:
Babe Blogging,
Kelly Brook,
Women
'12 Years a Slave'
Unlike the professor interviewed by Jake Tapper at the clip, I don't think we need to have a new national debate over slavery. On the other hand, a new movie bringing the reality of that horrid institution to new generations is an awesome thing. I was thinking of going to catch this flick today, but it's in limited release, now playing up in L.A. Maybe next weekend it'll be playing in the O.C., or soon thereafter.
In any case, Kenneth Turan reviewed it yesterday, "Review: '12 Years a Slave' impressive, and hard to watch."
Some trailers here, "12 YEARS A SLAVE: 'What'd You Say to Pats?'" and "12 YEARS A SLAVE: 'Where You From, Platt?'" (And more at the Fox Searchlight YouTube page.)
Maybe I'll try and catch it tomorrow?
In any case, Kenneth Turan reviewed it yesterday, "Review: '12 Years a Slave' impressive, and hard to watch."
Some trailers here, "12 YEARS A SLAVE: 'What'd You Say to Pats?'" and "12 YEARS A SLAVE: 'Where You From, Platt?'" (And more at the Fox Searchlight YouTube page.)
Maybe I'll try and catch it tomorrow?
Labels:
American History,
Black Politics,
Hollywood,
Movies,
Popular Culture,
Slavery
Obama Completely Ignores #ObamaCare Rollout Disaster in White House Weekly Address
He's such an asshole.
A loser and partisan asshole --- and the country's worse off for it.
At Weasel Zippers, "Obama’s Weekly Address Shockingly Makes No Mention of Obamacare…"
A loser and partisan asshole --- and the country's worse off for it.
At Weasel Zippers, "Obama’s Weekly Address Shockingly Makes No Mention of Obamacare…"
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