If you don’t have time to read anything else today, read this stuff….
Bookworm on Mar 19 2010 at 8:14 am | Filed under: Open Threads
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John Hawkins assembles a damning collection of quotations about the health care bill . . . from Democrats!
Amazing, really amazing, cakes.
Thomas Lifson finally says it: Obama is Captain Ahab. Hard to think of a better analogy.
I have been impressed that Bart Stupak has stood firm. Since he is a Democrat, I had my doubts, assuming that, like all other “principled” Democrats, he would fold when the press was right. So far, he hasn’t, and he deserves our respect and kudos.
A few takes on the growing disaster Obama is creating for Israel: the fact that Arabs have done nothing for peace in 67 years; the way Obama is deliberating turning America against Israel; the ham-handed, intentional bullying of Israel; Hillary’s games regarding the Middle East; Obama picked on the smallest kid in the playground to show the bullies how “tough” he is; the bullying has a purpose and it’s very dangerous for Israel; and the bizarre calculus of the “peace process.
James Taranto hits a home run with his analysis of a “smart” president making foolish choices when it comes to health care (the first section of Taranto’s “best of the web”). (I put “smart” in quotations because I do not believe Obama is smart. He’s feral, but there’s no high intelligence functioning in this man, as the Baier interview vividly shows.)
Peggy Noonan, who has morphed into a vapid RINO, recovers herself after seeing the Baier interview and comes out swinging at Obama.
A reminder of how your life can be severely damaged when a huge government entity charged with your care and information screws up.
Another Michael Ramirez picture that’s worth a thousand words.
Is the health care bill just a way point in obtaining a permanent Democratic majority? Scary stuff.
Dan Riehl warns us that the Dems must create a sense of momentum and inevitability about Sunday if they want to get anywhere at all, but that doesn’t mean it’s real. And John McCormack has the facts about how real it might not be (huh?). It looks as if some of the pro-Life Dems are holding strong, which impresses me no end. (When people with backbone show backbone, you take it for granted. When worms stand tall, it’s a surprise.) After all, things are so bad, Dems are officially being told to lie to constituents.
Melanie Phillips suggests that Israel abandon the diplomatic dance and state the truth. After all, now that America has joined the UN in attacking Israel as sport, what has she got to lose?
You’ve already heard that Nancy Pelosi is praying to St. Joseph that a bill antithetical to Catholic values passes this Sunday. You’ve also heard that she’s gotten her St. Joseph wrong. Anchoress, of course, ties it all together into a neat package showing what a miserable excuse Pelosi is, not just for a politician, but for a human being.
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Heh. Re: Cakes…
http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2008/05/when-brides-have-no-budget-or-taste.html
This one isn’t the worst on the site…by all means…explore!
I think I mentioned this before, but I hate the Left. I also hate their allies, those that lie for them, their supporters, and basically their entire auxiliary, logistical, and primary attack forces.
This stance hasn’t changed since a long time ago. Even before I knew what the “D” stood for on talking head names, I felt the same. Just didn’t know what it was or who it was intended for.
“Peggy Noonan, who has morphed into a vapid RINO”
She’s a vapid Fuhrer worshiper. She wants a charismatic hero like Alexander the Great to carry off all her worries.
That’s worse than being a RINO, Book.
“You could see the startled looks on the faces of reporters as Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, who had the grace to look embarrassed”
Gibbs only has the grace to put his butt on a toilet and evacuate out what usually comes out of his mouth.
More…
http://wcvarones.blogspot.com/2010/03/think-youll-get-revenge-in-november.html
“Last updated at 11:40 a.m. P.S.T.]”
Ummmmm…….Book???
California has been on Daylight Savings Time since last Saturday night…..(March 13/14)
Heh…That wcvarones link was so good that I sent it all sorts of places…and ended up planting it back here! Full circle!!!
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The Wall Street editorial hints at the aspect of this that distresses me the most.
Government is a python that squeezes all joy and optimism out of everything it controls. I look at my local US Postal Service office. Only one of the five employees who have served me is any good, and she is good, but she too is joyless, spiritless, and seems… gray. She does her best; she cares; but it must be a draining place to work.
You will find the same thing will happen with all of healthcare. Innovation will dry up. All the interesting things will start happening overseas. All of our doctors, specialists, technicians – well, the good ones – will just become grayer and grayer as they deal with the increasing squeeze of the uncaring government. Long lines and long forms and regulations and squeeze and endless gray, everywhere you look. Spiritlessness and stagnation.
And nevermind the cost overruns and massive debt. We *know* that is coming. Every big government program has always been plagued by it and this will be no different. But we’ve exhausted all means of supporting the failures we deal with already. Will ObamaCare be the big one that finally brings the whole house of cards crashing down? Or will it be the next big government program afterwards?
But it’s the long, slow, gray death that distresses me, as hope and optimism and caring leech away, leaving gray ground, gray skies, drizzle, gray faces, gray bodies, slouched shoulders, trudging feet, blank faces.
Book says,
> Peggy Noonan, who has morphed into a vapid RINO, recovers herself after seeing the Baier interview andcomes out swinging at Obama.
Well, the linked article is not astoundingly harsh towards Obama. And then there is this paragraph by Noonan:
> I’m speaking of the interview Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “Special Report With Bret Baier.” Fox is owned by News Corp., which also owns this newspaper, so one should probably take pains to demonstrate that one is attempting to speak with disinterest and impartiality, in pursuit of which let me note that Glenn Beck has long appeared to be insane.
What’s with the gratuitous slam on Beck? I’ve seen his show about six times total. Three of them were awfully good, and the others were perfectly fine.
Peggy Noonan is the woman who expressed reasonably strong conservative views on a news show and then, when she *thought* they went to commercial, switched tone and theme and came out with some outrageous anti-conservative comments. I’ve not seen her recover from that one yet.
She was ga-ga over Obama, as has been David Brooks, and is severely anti-Sarah Palin. Does anyone really believe that Sarah Palin is worse, and has less experience, than Obama? You can certainly say that she’s not your type of candidate, that you wouldn’t vote for her. But Noonan has attacked Palin as unfit and unworthy consistently. Only occasionally does she go after Obama, and she hasn’t yet referred to him as unfit and unworthy.
I don’t like Noonan. I don’t trust Noonan. Vapid RINO sell-out now and always, until she PROVES otherwise.
I’ve liked Noonan’s articles. I think she’s an excellent writer.
That said…with very great regret, I think you’re right.
I don’t understand the disconnect…but it _does_ seem to be there.
Libel Tourism: 95,000 ‘Descendants’ of Mohammed to Sue Over Cartoons
They’re gonna need a really big courtroom…
http://jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com/2010/03/libel-tourism-95000-descendants-of.html#links