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IMPRESSIVE TURNOUT IN DC FOR PROTEST
"Wonder how many millions turned out when you include the rallies in each state?"
On April 15th, by that calculation, there were 750,000 at those rallies nationwide. Today there was one main rally.
Comment Posted By Travis Monitor On 12.09.2009 @ 14:36
THE LEFT IS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT ABOUT JOE WILSON
"It shows how inconsequential Obama’s speech was that this tempest in a teapot got so much play. "
Indeed. The only thing new about Obama's speech was that he got to feel a bit like the Congressmen at the townhalls. The audience is not buying it.
Comment Posted By Travis Monitor On 11.09.2009 @ 23:45
"Besides, Wilson was wrong.
Obama wasn’t lying."That laughable joke of yours somehow fell flat. It requires some closeness to truth to funny, and that statement isnt even close.
The non-partisan Congressional Research Service released a report in August to little media fanfare that said:
"Under H.R. 3200, a 'Health Insurance Exchange' would begin operation in 2013 and would offer private plans alongside a public option…H.R. 3200 does not contain any restrictions on noncitzens—whether legally or illegally present, or in the United States temporarily or permanently—participating in the Exchange."
CRS also notes that the bill has no provision for requiring those seeking coverage or services to provided proof of citizenship.
Comment Posted By Travis Monitor On 11.09.2009 @ 23:44
"Meanwhile Wilson’s opponent who was barely competitive 48 hours ago is fast closing in on $1,000,000 in donations and at this rate will all the money he needs to crush this jerk."
AWESOME! Another wasted million dollars from the prog-idiotarian left.
Joe Wilson's opponent will lose by double digits. He's gotten hundreds of thousands of contributions himself in the last 48 hours.
Comment Posted By Travis Monitor On 11.09.2009 @ 23:35
"This type of humor only works if your own party doesn’t suck on so many basic and fundamental levels."
Indeed.
That's why dKos, MSNBC and Media Matters can never pull off the kind of satire done here.
Thanks RM ... Had even me going for a bit.
Comment Posted By Travis Monitor On 11.09.2009 @ 23:34
THE GREAT COMMUNICATOR OR THE GREAT PREVARICATOR?
"You wouldn’t expect Democrats to support and entirely free market approach to reform. "
Hmmmmm.... why not? Obviously we are FAR from a free market in health care with Government spending about 50% of every healthcare dollar ... but don't you think we could have a reform that, if it didnt take us to 0% govt spending, at least did not GROW the relative size of Government involvement, consider if you had this:
- Means-test medicare and have tort reform for medicine; saves govt $ in health spending
- Embrace Health savings accounts, allow 100% deductibility, which would also 'bend the cost curve'
- Address pre-existing conditions by allowing 'donut hole' insurance sold and ..
- establish a 'high-risk' pool insurance program that is govt/insurance-subsidized for low/middle income folks, and caps premiums based on income, to allow those who cant get regular health insurance get access to it. combined with 'donut-hole' insurance, would enable even high-risk individuals to get reasonable health insurance.
- Merge Medicaid and SCHIP, give a voucher for care, with govt support on sliding scale, allow users to buy private insurance or medicaid plan; saving money in some places would allow expansion to cover more people
- Allow people to buy health insurance across state lines and have mandate-free insurance available nationwide for low-cost high-deductibility uses (eg for healthy folks)
- Direct NIH spending towards cost reduction in medicineAll of the above would be a 'no-added-cost-to-Govt' plan that manages to increase access and affordability of healthcare. While it would not increase Govt spending, it would have the Govt cover more people who need coverage. It would not force/mandate coverage but it would cover more people.
IMHO, *THIS* is where the 'centrist' solution would reside, fix the problem in a way that preserves what is good about status quo, not in the communityrating -> 'mandate'-> public option ->single payer path, which is the path to disaster and loss of freedom.
Some analysis of the great prevaricator:
Comment Posted By Travis Monitor On 10.09.2009 @ 11:27
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/09/10/ap-fact-checks-obama-speech/
A few points:
1. It may be bad form for a Congress-critter to yell during a Presidential address (not that it stopped Democrats from doing it to Bush in 2005), but it's worse form for a President to say "we will call you out" on lies and then tell lies himself. I don't see how any speech loaded with so many dishonest statements could be considered any good.2. If we are going to save so much on Medicare, then by gum go save it and stave of Medicare bankruptcy. Lets see the savings FIRST before we create those 53 new agencies etc. and the monster new entitlement expansions.
3. Three things that should be off the table and unacceptable - Mandates (individual and employer), higher taxes, and more unfunded mandates on the states. These all will take away healthcare freedom, choice and hurt our prosperity and destroy jobs. There should be ZERO Republican votes for those higher taxes, freedom-destroying (and possibly unconstitutional) mandates, and Medicaid unfunded mandates on the states.
4. "I must say, however, that his calls for “civility” and his outreach to Republicans rang a little hollow." Indeed. Leaders lead by going first and setting the example. We see the Democrats bashing their opponents then demanding civility. Hypocrites, not leaders.
Comment Posted By Travis Monitor On 10.09.2009 @ 11:12
WOULD SOMEONE ON THE LEFT PLEASE EXPLAIN THIS TO ME?
"But in the Van Jones situation he [Beck] got this one right, even if the most damning evidence involving the 9/11 Truther petition was dug up not by Beck, but by Jim Hoft."
The Liberal Main-stream Media has created Rush. But not giving balance, they opened the door for a conservative POV take on the news to be hugely successful. The lame liberals fail to notice that half of Rush's show is Rush reading from the MSM and giving his take on it, media critique, and half of his show is letting audience chime in.
The Liberal "mainstream" Media has created Beck. The bloggers up-ended Rather for his journalistic errors, errors rooted in bias and hubris. Since then, the liberal MSM continued in the liberal narrative mode to IGNORE REAL STORIES THAT HURT LIBERALS while pushing FAKE stories that hurt Republicans. The MSM failure to vet Obama's background (can someone please show me the investigative journalism on Obama's college records and grades?) failure to vet Obama's nominees (it fell to conservatives to dig up Sotomayor's statements) and appointees (New York Times AWOL on Van Jones), leaves a yawning GAP ...
In the past, the gap created ignorance. In the new media era, the age of information abhors an information vacuum. This is partly why 'birthers' cropped up - a simple FAILURE BY THE LIBERAL MSM to actually care enough to ask Obama 'hey, can we see the birth certificate you posted on your website?' (someone tell me if any of the journalists were the least bit curious); it was left to bloggers to find newspaper birth announcements, etc.
And this is why Beck is successful and will continue to be successful. The NYT narrative and credibility is shot. Beck has a different narrative and fills a niche now - telling us the stuff about Obama's admin that the liberal MSM is afraid to admit.
WashPost on Van Jones vs their distorting of
Comment Posted By Travis Monitor On 10.09.2009 @ 10:03
The comment filter prevents me from giving multiple links per comment, quite insufficient for the "Olbermann is a liar" case... Here are top 10 lies from 2007... which actually links to dozens of lies.
You could fill volumes on Oblie's distortions, lies, lifting of leftwing blogger rant-memes, and assorted acts of jounralistic malpractice. A sample:http://www.olbermannwatch.com/archives/2007/12/keith_olbermann_71.php#more
#5 - As quickly as Herr Olbermann will rush to attack other broadcasters, he is oh-so-careful not to upset his corporate masters at A-Mess-NBC. He'll broadcast flat-out fabrications, like claiming Rudy Giuliani's Presidential campaign is being run by--get ready for this--Fox's Roger Ailes. He'll even lie about the contents of a competitor's blog. But our #5 entry shows Keith "Man on Fan" Olbermann at his most desperate. So eager was he to protect a possible NBC hire (Rosie O'Donnell) he doctored her words (sound familiar?) to claim she never compared US troops to terrorists. Then he blamed "Fox Noise"--another lie to protect his own sorry butt, since the people who accused Rosie of the troops/terrorism comparison were Joe Scarborough, Chris Matthews, and Howard Fineman--not on Fox, but on MSNBC!
Comment Posted By Travis Monitor On 10.09.2009 @ 09:50
"Other than being a venomous, sick, twisted liar and Goebbels-imitating shrill hatemongering propagandist? "
And yet you provide no examples to justify your over the top spew."
As if one needs examples to explain how blue the sky is ... olbermannwatch.com give daily evidence of his unhinged phony rantings. One drop in the ocean of Olbie sock-puppetry, dishonesty and propaganda ... him blatant spinning in reverse:
http://www.olbermannwatch.com/archives/2009/08/keith_olbermann_105.php
Keith Olbermann on the subject of veterans' health care, July 26 2007:
OLBERMANN: The outrageous treatment of our injured vets.
GEORGE W BUSH: We owe our wounded soldier the very best care and the very best benefits and the very easiest to understand system.
OLBERMANN: Too bad they're not getting it....the embarrassing news stories of shameful medical treatment and crumbling facilities for badly wounded war veterans...It has gotten so bad that this week two veterans groups sued the government over how it treats injured vets, especially those suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.... One lawsuit claims that the VA has a backlog of 600,000 disability claims....vs Keith Olbermann on the subject of veteran's health care tonight, August 17 2009:
OLBERMANN: Today the President addressed veterans, a segment of the population that already receives public health care, and superlative health care at that....the President promising the vets that their excellent government provided benefits will not change.
Hmmm.
Comment Posted By Travis Monitor On 10.09.2009 @ 09:40
