Normally I wait for the evening link dump for things like this, but Bob Zimmermann dropped me an e-mail about the impending FDA hearings & comment period on the notion of giving the jab to kids 5-11. This notion is just absolutely unscientific. We’ve known for a long time that the chances of kids in that age bracket getting the coof and being seriously affected by it are slim and none, so what’s the point? A cynical sod like me might think this is a way for the Democrats to shovel more of your tax dollars to their Big Pharma donors, but you’re all adults, and you can connect your own dots. Let’s saddle up and let the FDA know this is not only a waste of taxpayers’ money but a BAD IDEA. Bob’s got the necessary link in his post, so go over and hit it and let the FDA know what you think. We get a few million people telling them not only no, but hell no, they may actually pay attention for once.
Frist told a Sioux Falls, S.D., audience Wednesday that even if the Supreme Court strikes down the individual insurance mandate at the core of the law, it can still be implemented successfully.
“It’s going to survive,” Frist said, according to the Sioux Falls Argus Leader. “It’s not going to be repealed.”
To be sure, the former Senate majority leader isn’t a fan of the individual mandate. He says it’s unconstitutional. Federal appellate courts havesplit on that question, and the matter ultimately will be decided by the Supreme Court.
Frist said other provisions in the law will inject enough money into the health care system even if most Americans aren’t required to buy insurance.
Republican candidates are going to have to run on scuttling this monstrosity, and then supported with a fat enough margin that it is gob-smackingly clear that this economy killer Must Go.
But we can’t stop there. Progressivism is an anti-liberty cancer. There can be no rest until the federal over-reach of Progressivism is completely amputated. Sorry to sound so firm on the point, but that’s the way it is.
The SOL/Puffington Host RSS feed is a source of endless wonder. Let us experience the flow of kool-aid that is the writing of Preeti Vissa, Community Reinvestment Director, The Greenlining Institute. Let us enjoy her current outing, Poverty Is a Pre-Existing Condition: Why the Affordable Care Act Matters.
The title alone is worth a fisk. “Poverty Is a Pre-Existing Condition”. Sure, to the extent that you lack a wallet in the womb. But I doubt that’s what this lady means. “Why the Affordable Care Act Matters”. Oh, maybe we’re to be treated by an outburst of honesty, where another rube self-identifies and admits that, no, ObamaCare is about grinding the poverty in deep, and the people were sold 88 miles of sunshine by a cadre of prevaricators and useful idiots.
Cling to that hope, readers. We’ve got quite the opposite awaiting. Continue reading Fisking Für Gesundheit Und Geld →
The Purple Avenger over at AoS seems kinda shocked that, once Harry Reid pulls his finger out of the dike, a flood of Really Bad Ideas follows, as captured in the WSJ. In this particular case, it’s the Federal takeover of education. Got to make sure that the tender collegiate brains are programmed properly.
The stream of Congressional slurry is based upon:
Outright deceit,
Jacking the noise-to-signal ratio. (2,711 pages?, according to Hair of the Dog)
Making all the rules of order moot (HotD, Orrin Hatch ~4:40)
Overall, it’s too alarmist to view the 18th of March vote in the House as the pivotal day in US history. The sober truth is that there is no safety until a 112th Congress is sworn in.
Keep in mind that the Roman Senate too had a very long hang time, for all it was mostly a decoration after the Caesars . . .
Kenneth G. Davenport is all exercised about the WSJ editorial that prints Paul Ryan’s devastating review of the Senate healthcare legislation. Trifecta also covered Ryan here. But this is by no means an “emperor’s new clothes” moment. Heck, no. This is a Rick James moment, beeotch.
You might have seen this [NSFW] Dave Chapelle clip of the “Unity” incident:
The song mentioned in the Chapelle clip is exactly what’s missing in the Democratic Party to pass ObamaCare. Imagine Barack crooning this over the phone to recalcitrant Democratic Party representatives:
Unity:
Brother, sister,
There’s got to be,
Uuuuuuniiiiiity.
Yeeeeeeahhh.
Unity.
Unity’s what missing in our
Liiiiiiiiiives.
Can’t you see?
Wee need looooooove.
A little word of confidence.
Every now and then.
A little hoooonesty,
And trust among us.
A little love and harmony,
And there’ll surely be,
Some unity,
Unity,
Unity.
(Unity)
Just keep croonin’, Barack: you’ll get there.
Update: much affection to No Sheeples Here for the ‘shop. But how does Carol mention Malignant Narcissism without playing the Rush card?
President Obama began his meeting with leading House progressives by bringing in a letter from an Ohio woman who wrote him to say that her skyrocketing premiums will soon cause her to lose her health insurance.
“It was a very serious, low-key discussion. If this was a piano, you’re hearing very deep chords here,” said one member who asked for anonymity.
Obama argued to the group of progressive members that his health care reform bill should be looked at as the foundation of reform, that can be built on in the future. He asked them to help gather votes for the final health care battle and promised that as soon as the bill was signed into law, he’d continue to push to make it stronger. But in a matter of weeks, he stressed, he could sign into law legislation that would lead to 31 million new people being insured, including the woman who wrote him.
It has been surprising to some people that he is still fighting for health care reform, Obama told the group. “He said, and I think he’s absolutely right, that a lot of people, I think, are surprised at his persistence that in some ways this health care reform has been lifted from the near dead to becoming a reality in the next couple of weeks,” said Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.). “He said, quite specifically, that what we could say to people was that once the bill passes the president made a commitment to work to make improvements down the road.”
Shag me gently with a chainsaw. Who’s down with OTP?
Various GOP heads talk to the ObamaCare hydra that still has a few moving heads.Their tone is rather somber, and they attempt to:
Express interest in starting from scratch, and
Focus attention on the tanked economy
I really would like to hear them discuss more strategic thoughts, but freely admit that now through the end of the 111th Congress that tactics must rule.
I don’t think it overly dramatic to state that if the Administration is successful in its cramdown effort, the very concept of separation of powers will be harmed. What is the point of rules of order and elections if the Congress is just one long signing statement for any Executive whim?
As much as we enjoy flogging these GOP weenies, they really are the last thing between the country and abyss.
Via The Patriot Room, we have this gem:
Holy ‘spoloded head, Batman: does anything BHO says ever mean anything?
Update: go to The BlogProf and watch Mitch McConnell. Wow.
NewsBusters points to a WaPo correction where the WaPo had hammered Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) for “posturing” by bringing a copy of the subject matter at hand to the health care summit.
That makes about as much sense as Yale’s craven refusal to publish the controversial Danish cartoon depictions of Muhammad in a book on the topic of the controversial Danish cartoon depictions of Muhammad.
Only in Lefty la-la land can bringing a copy of the subject of the meeting to the meeting, when the motive is clearly to speak intelligently to crucial points therein, be miscast in negative light somehow.
I call on Young 4 Eyes to help those of us still bound in chains of common sense grasp the intricate logic involved. Honest, fair minded people propounding a sound idea typically engage in critical discussions in welcoming tones. If you’re right, you argue your point. If you’re mistaken, you welcome correction. We all educate each other. Or am I mistaken in thinking it was supposed to be a dialogue?
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s top health care aide Wendell Primus admitted top Democrats have already decided on the strategy to pass the Senate’s pro-abortion, government-run health care bill.
Primus’s concerns over a certain “Wynona” (gynecological?) may be a motivator.
Stacy McCain caught Primus down in Alabama (though the befuddled Primus may have thought it was Texas) during Stacy’s recent trip, expounding on the need to pass healthcare reform and help women all over the country:
