Code Red Protest: The Rest Of The Story

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American Power gathered some great clips. I have one of my very own, of a fellow Virginian, Tom Whitmore, with the Kill the Bill Chorus in full swing:

A few other stills that died during the upload on site (click for full size):

This one is taken from the Taft memorial, of the crowd:

While he never got the POTUS nod like his father, inscribed on the north side of that monument are some words which, had I a slightly meaner streak, I should perhaps like to rub forcefully a few Democratic (and Republican) faces against:

Finally, the GOP helps out those poor embattled House Dems, so smart that the basics elude them (h/t Say Anything):

Coming Up Real Soon Now: Live Cassone

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Cassone speaks:

I will be on live tonight at 10 PM EST. John Clark has reportedly the largest streaming audience in that time slot. So please pass on. I’ll be debuting several new songs and talking tea.
Also appearing is my friend, Mark Meckler of the Tea Party Patriots who will talk about how to stop Obama DEATHCARE also what you can do about CENSUS.

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Undead Zombie Health Care Update

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We keep killing it and killing it, yet it keeps stumbling forward. Philip Klein of the American Spectator says, “Democrats may want to keep House Whip Rep. James Clyburn away from the media, because he doesn’t engender much confidence in the path forward on health care.”

UPDATE: Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) says Democrats don’t have enough votes, yet. Here’s the thing: All Pelosi has to do is get to 216 once, call the vote, and that’s it, whereas opponents have to maintain 217 “no” votes until the 112th Congress is sworn in.

UPDATE II: More Hoyer at Real Clear Politics:

“We will vote on it in one form or another,” he added. . . .
Hoyer argues that while Republicans “have done everything in their power to undermine” the ability of Congress to move reform through both chambers of Congress, process is not what Americans are focused on. Republicans lost power in 2006 “because of substance,” not process, he said.
“I don’t think any American is going to make the distinction,” said Hoyer, adding that both parties have used this process and that few voters care that Republicans actually used it more often than Democrats. “Process is interesting, particularly to all of us around this room. But in the final analysis, what is interesting to the American public is what does this bill do for them and their families.”

UPDATE III: Hey, Steny: “Deem” this!

UPDATE IV: Philip Klein (he’s the Spectator‘s ace on health-care coverage) reports that Democrats aren’t getting the score they need from the Congressional Budget Office.

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It’s David Brooks Fisking Day Again!

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The World’s Worst Newspaper Columnist descends from Olympus to favor unworthy mortals with his esoteric wisdom:

Human beings, the philosophers tell us, are social animals. We emerge into the world ready to connect with mom and dad. We go through life jibbering and jabbering with each other, grouping and regrouping. When you get a crowd of people in a room, the problem is not getting them to talk to each other; the problem is getting them to shut up. . . .

After hundreds of words of such blather — “Nazi and Jew, Hutu and Tutsi, Sunni and Shiite,” and a dollop of Trollope — he finally gets around to making his point:

Once partisan reconciliation is used for this bill, it will be used for everything, now and forever. The Senate will be the House.

Kazart! He’s talking about the health-care bill! The man went seven paragraphs before bothering to mention Congress and didn’t mention “health care” until the 11th paragraph! No one is interviewed, no one (except Trollope) is quoted, and there isn’t even a pretense that anything we might call reporting or research was involved in this column.

Brooks extracted his 802-word opus directly from the ether, or from his frontal lobes, or perhaps from some less cerebral region of his anatomy. This is why Sulzberger pays him the big bucks.

The comprehensive nature of Brooksian douchbaggery, which has been a regular topic at this blog for two years, attracts the notice today of Ezra Klein and Jonathan Chait — a pair of Johnny-come-lately Brooks-bashers who actually try to argue with the pompous fool.

Amateurs! Brooks should never be argued with — he should be mocked, and often, and by someone who knows how.

LIVE: People’s Surge vs. ObamaCare 2.0

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UPDATE 10:42 a.m. ET: Smitty reports that he just saw the Washington Post‘s Bob Woodward — of “All the President’s Men” Watergate fame — covering the Capitol rally. Somehow, “Woodward and Smitty” doesn’t ring quite like “Woodward and Bernstein,” but . . .



Activists chant “Kill the Bill!” under supervision of Capitol Police

Smitty on the scene via Twitter at 9:40 a.m. ET:

At the freedomworks protest, taft memorial. #th2dc

Smitty is on the scene at Capitol Hill for the People’s Surge, sponsored by FreedomWorks, and we will have more photos shortly . . .

There is also the Code Red Rally at 10 a.m. at Taft Park.

Michelle Malkin has a post about the rally.

NBC has coverage of the rally, which is also being covered by liberal blogs HuffPo and TPM. Here’s an interesting headline:

House may try to pass Senate health-care bill without voting on it  

Nice trick, that.

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Heading Down To The FreedomWorks Protest On The Mall Today

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I’m about to head down to take in at least the first couple of hours of the FreedomWorks protest.

As is customary, I’ll be sporting my USS Constitution ballcap and a bow tie, which is absolutely not an expression of Tucker Carlson-ism.

It’s also worth pointing out that Grandpa John’s vision of me, likely a side-effect of peyote in the lutefisk, is rather distorted. My fingernails are more trim, and the wife disallows facial hair.

On the topic of facial hair, I will admit that hanging out with His Road-tripping Badness, Stacy McCain, supports this blog’s claim to being both bad and nationwide.

Apropos the seriousness of ObamaCare and this atrocious 111th Congress,

“Degüello” means The Beheading or “no quarter” (as in “no surrender to be given or accepted–a fight to the death”).

One hates to argue a zero-sum game, but, as with a malignant tumor, there isn’t much room to negotiate with Progressivism.

Stay tuned to this blog for updates.

Hey, Howard Kurtz: Any Anonymous Fox News Employees Dissing Geraldo Rivera?

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Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post had a column yesterday in which he allowed anonymous Fox News employees to portray Glenn Beck as a liability to the network who “undermines their credibility.” To which I responded at the Hot Air Green Room:

OK, so Beck can be wrong and when he’s wrong, it looks bad for Fox News. On the other hand . . . Geraldo Rivera.
Why am I suspicious that Geraldo is among those “Fox journalists” most worried about Beck’s impact on their “credibility”?

You can read the rest of that. After I posted it, I got an e-mail from a reader:

I just read your article, Success, Envy and Glenn Beck and found the Geraldo digs extremely amusing. . . .
I met Geraldo when I was sixteen (am now 39). He was the featured speaker at our local MADD conference, and I was a SADD delegate from my highschool. Nancy Reagan was supposed to be the featured speaker, but alas, cancer surgery, so we were stuck with Geraldo. He walked into the Cajun Dome (Lafayette, LA) with escorted by State Troopers. Into a MADD conference. Because, y’know…those crazed anti-drunk driving mothers… He then proceeded to talk. And talk. And talk. Mostly about himself. It started to all sound like Charlie Brown’s teacher after a while, but I am fairly certain he talked about his past drug and alcohol use. I know he lectured the attending students about staying clean, which highly ticked us off. I mean, hey, we were the SADD delegates. Idiot. So, I got to meet him in person, and he came across as a total ass. But I got my picture in the paper with him, so not the total loss.
My opinion of him has not changed. When he comes on television, I switch channels. If you ever meet him, please tell him I remember meeting him, and that I watch Glenn Beck.

Sincerely,
Susan

Thanks, Susan.