Here is the President, fundamentally Not Getting this country:
Because somewhere deep in your heart you said to yourself, I believe in an America in which we don’t just look out for ourselves, that we don’t just tell people you’re on your own, that we are proud of our individualism, we are proud of our liberty, but we also have a sense of neighborliness and a sense of community — (applause)….
Neighbors are exactly that: people on your block.
Community is NOT the flipping government, State or Federal.
Mr. President, people do not scale. Where you see them functioning, as in a military situation, you have explicit coercive force in use, i.e. the UCMJ.
Mr. President, your attempt to legislate a single-state community is pure folly, except where outright stupid. Salvaging your presidency begins with acknowledgment of the raw idiocy of socialist ideas. I have no confidence in your moral character to achieve the necessary epiphany, but, fortunately, the Almighty is greater than my doubt. May Heaven grace you with wisdom on this, sir.
Update: Oh, and the Lincoln quote while addressing the Demoncratic Carcass appears to have been another rectal pluck.
Ace has the voting schedule for tomorrow, as relayed by CBS. Summary: the excrement is scheduled to arrive in the vicinity of the air circulator at 1815. If it goes off as scheduled, we move on to the the next stage of tactical resistance. Too many people have paid too great a price for too long a time for us to meet them in the afterlife and say, ‘Well, we just got bored, see . . .’
Via email, Americans for Prosperity pegs the attendance today at 30k+. I think that’s relatively more accurate than one blog which was trying to push a six figure estimate. Here was my quick pan of the crowd, ~1230: Continue reading Kill The Bill Protest: That Was Like 3 Days Of CPAC In 3 Hours →
If you have been reading or writing blogs for some time, you may recall the early, heady days of the blogosphere back around 2002-03 . . . The blog world was a small town in those days, where everybody knew everybody, nobody was too big to respond to emails, comments or trackbacks . . . I don’t want to overstate the degree of comity or idealize that era, but there was at least some degree of prevailing ethos that bloggers – amateurs using the internet to gather news and offer citizen punditry – had something in common even when their partisan and ideological interests diverged.
Those days are long, long gone. . . . The coordinated and utterly predictable left-wing assault on CNN’s hiring of RedState leader Erick Erickson over the past few days is merely the latest illustration of how the left side of the blogosphere sees it as its role not to debate conservative bloggers and pundits, but to destroy us and preclude us from being heard.
Both Left and Right are hearing rumors that the Dems are drafting an executive order to quell pro-life Democrat opposition to the government health care takeover plan.
I thought of doing this as an update to the Code Red rally post, but . . . this is just so bizarre, I’m having trouble believing it. Will try to verify and update later.
The American Spectator‘s health-care ace Philip Klein confirms that both Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer have suggested that President Obama would sign an executive order in exchange for the Stupak bloc’s votes. Never mind whether it’s constitutional, this is just so freaking insane I’m having trouble processing it.
Guess it’s time to brew that third pot of coffee . . .
UPDATE 3:11 p.m. ET: Now hearing that “deem and pass” is dead, and a D.C. source tells me that pro-lifers aren’t buying the exectuive order pitch, rumors of which had been heard earlier this week. However, the fact that leadership is even talking about such a far-fetched maneuver means that Pelosi still doesn’t have enough votes to pass the bill.
Meanwhile, we have photos of Smitty at the Code Red rally:
Here’s the close-up of Smitty’s signs, and you can click the photo to see full-size:
“The bottom line is they do not have the votes,” said Yoest, the president of the nation’s oldest pro-life organization. “Never before in the history of this country have taxpayer dollars been seized like this to expand federal funding of abortion,” noted Dr. Yoest. . . .
“This vote will count when the House and Senate go before their constituents, no matter the kind of verbal gymnastics employed by the pro-abortion lobby. A Yes vote for this bill is a vote to fund abortion with tax dollars which more than seven out of ten Americans oppose. In fact, this is the only bi-partisan agreement we’ve seen in the health care debate.”
So, evidently, the whole thing comes down to the abortion issue. Time for lunch. I haven’t even had breakfast yet today . . .
Apparently unable to find enough votes for the pro-abortion Senate health care bill and with talks breaking down on how to allow Rep. Bart Stupak a vote on some sort of motion or bill to stop abortion funding, Democrats appear to be relying on a potential executive order to corral more votes for the bill.
Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told reporters at mid-day today . . . he can’t promise an executive order will be issued but said one is under discussion.
“The intent is obviously to express what we have said all along, that we believe the language that has been included in both bills seeks to accomplish, and that is that there will no use of public funds for abortion,” he said.
Translation: They don’t have the votes, and all this talk you hear from the MSM is just hype intended to create the impression of “inevitability.” They’re bluffing. It might possibly work, but it’s certainly not a done deal yet.
It will be a self-executed rule, even though the Democrats say that the “deem & pass” seems to be off the table and they will have an up/down vote on the Senate Health Care bill.
Congratulations to anyone who understands what that actually means.
Americans will gather in Washington, D.C., today to speak out in opposition to the $2.5 trillion government takeover of health care.
WHEN: Saturday, March 20, 2010 at 12:00 Noon ET WHERE: West Lawn of the Capitol
SPEAKERS: Rep. Michelle Bachmann, Rep. Tom Price, Rep. Joe Wilson, actor John Voight, Dr. Milton Wolf, Colin Hanna of Let Freedom Ring, Tim Phillips and Phil Kerpen of Americans for Prosperity, Jim Martin of 60 Plus, Andrew Larger of Institute for Liberty, Kathryn Serkes of the Doctor Patient Medical Association, Mark Skoda of the Memphis Tea Party, Amy Kremer of Tea Party Express, Jennifer Hulsey of American Grassroots Coalition, and Ben Cunningham of the Tennessee Tax Revolt.Continue reading CODE RED! D.C. Rally NOON TODAY →
TrogloPundit is confused by all of this Byzantine DC pettifoggery on the healthcare legislation, but we here at ToM are nothing if not helpful.
In this clip, the plan is for the legislation to be wheeled up to the castle-like Senate in a wooden cart. The House Democrats, it seems, refer to the Senate as “Frenchmen”. The rabbit decoration is all part of the gag, so that the Senators will be so busy laughing that they’ll play along with the House, sign whatever is put in front of them, and deliver the Grail needed to save the presidency.
Steny Hoyer does a fine job of explaining the plan.
Also, Harry Reid’s rather phallic headwear tops off the excellent costuming on display:
Stand strong together! The implications of Obamacare will reach into every aspect of our lives, from the value of our paycheck, to the quality of our health care, to the opportunities that will be stripped from Americans as we’re shoved under the enormous burden of more government growth and control. We must stop this now.
Secretly, BHO is thankful that she’s not calling for impeachment. Yet.
The Progressives want you to feel like the demise of what is good in the country is inevitable, so that they can replace liberty with Federal slavery.
Bring on the Article 5 suppository, ye governors:
From the comic book Joker to his Progressive offspring in DC:
