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The radicals are going to ram it through… Democrats called today to pass Obamacare and essentially nationalize one-sixth of the American economy with a simple up-or-down majority vote in the House and Senate. The AP reported: The White House called for a “simple up-or-down” vote on health care legislation Sunday as Speaker Nancy Pelosi appealed to House Democrats to get behind President Barack Obama’s chief domestic priority even it if threatens their political careers. In voicing support for a simple majority vote, White House health reform director Nancy-Ann DeParle signaled Obama’s intention to push the Democratic-crafted bill under Senate rules that would overcome GOP stalling tactics. Republicans unanimously oppose the Democratic proposals. Without GOP support, Obama’s only chance of emerging with a policy and political victory is to bypass the bipartisanship he promoted during his televised seven-hour health care summit Thursday. “We’re not talking about changing any rules here,” DeParle said. “All the president’s talking about is: Do we need to address this problem and does it make sense to have a simple, up-or-down vote on whether or not we want to fix these problems?” DeParle was optimistic that the president would have the votes to pass the massive bill. But none of legislation’s advocates who spoke on Sunday indicated that those votes were in hand. Here is a website that lists the phone numbers of your Reps and Senators.
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Note: I posted this over at my little blog earlier. I didn’t expect it would get much of a reaction, so I didn’t cross-post it here. Turns out that some liberals trolls have taken offense, and left some really nasty comments. But they left them on teh YouTube, because I don’t allow anonymous comments on my blog. I removed the comments on teh YouTube due to the language. It appears I misunderestimated the impact of this post. However, if being on my little 4-visitor-a-day blog generated that much consternation from the left, imagine what it showing up here would do! House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ( D NS -CA-8), appearing on ABC’s This Week . told Elizabeth Vargas that Democrats need courage to pass health care over the objections of the American people… [ Direct link ] [ Full transcript ] Excerpt transcript: What do you say to your members, when it does come to the House to vote on this, who are in real fear of losing their seats in November if they support you now
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JFK Runway Closure to Rattle Nerves, Wallets
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US Rep: No Plot to Poison Food at SC Army Base
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Nancy Pelosi and her friend and colleague Democrat Charles Rangel. ( Politico ) The House GOP Whip Eric Cantor today on “Meet the Press” announced that Speaker Pelosi is breaking her promise to have the most ethical Congress EVERY DAY. The Hill reported: House GOP Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said Sunday that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was breaking the promise to have the most ethical Congress “every day.” “Nancy Pelosi said in the very beginning this is going to be the most open, honest and ethical Congress in history,” Cantor said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday morning, “and what we’re seeing, she’s breaking that promise every day.” Just two days earlier, Pelosi confirmed at a press conference that, even in the wake of the ethics admonishment of Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), she believes that she is running the most ethical Congress in history… Cantor reiterated his calls for Rangel to step down from his Ways and Means chairmanship … …Rep. John Carter (R-Texas) intends to introduce a privileged resolution next week calling for a vote on removing Charles Rangel as head of the Ways and Means panel.
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Canada’s state-run “Own the Podium” Olympic training program spent twice as much as the U.S. program, and produced far fewer medals.
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Farrakhan Predicts Continued Trouble for Obama
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The Democrat’s are not serious about cutting the program.
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In a week where several news outlets recognized significant happenings involving the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), the Associated Press seems to have decided that none of them merit mention. A search on “acorn” at the AP’s main site returns the following: This search doesn’t eliminate the possibility that AP ran local or regional stories, but I didn’t locate any in a Google News search on “ACORN.” What follows is a small sample of other coverage generated as a result of goings-on at ACORN during the past week. Readers can decide whether the wire service has decided that recognizing negative news about a scandal-ridden “progressive” organization is a bad idea: Fox News , Feb. 23 — “ACORN Hopes New Image Can Save Disgraced Advocacy Group” New York Times City Room Blog , Feb. 23 — “Restart, ACORN Edition” Christian Science Monitor , Feb. 23 — “ACORN breaks apart in scandal’s wake” New York Daily News , Feb. 23 — “ACORN’s New York branch to cut all ties with national parent group” Reuters , Feb. 22 — “Scandals weaken liberal group ACORN” AP has done stories with far less substantive raw material from elsewhere. Why not on ACORN
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Chris Matthews believes it’s too soon for George W. Bush nostalgia. Such was discussed during this weekend’s syndicated program bearing his name. In fact, Matthews made this his big question of the day asking his guests, “Will there be George W. Bush nostalgia this November when his book comes out?” To his discredit, Matthews was the only person of the five in front of the camera that felt the answer was no concluding, “I think he needs a little more time to be away” (video embedded below the fold with transcript): CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Welcome back
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I asked Philip Hamburger if he wished to respond to Friday’s blog posts here at the VC about his new draft article, Privileges or Immunitie s . He graciously agreed to respond. I have reposted his response below: *************** I am grateful to Jim for linking my paper, to Orin for starting the conversation, and to Randy for his analysis. For what it’s worth, I will add my own two cents–first by explaining the argument in my paper. 1
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George Will explains a problem with government-mandated health care in a way that even a liberal can understand: [ Direct link ] Excerpt transcript: One question: If the government came to you and said, “Professor Krugman, you have a car. We’re going to compel you to buy a more expensive car, but it’s not really more expensive because it’s a better car.” Wouldn’t you tell them to get off your land? I wish I had thought of that.
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In this post , I criticized psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa’s widely discussed recent article claiming that more intelligent people are more likely to be politically liberal. Kanazawa also claims that his data shows that more intelligent people are more likely to be atheists. This claim is better supported than the articles argument about political liberalism. Nonetheless, the evidence isn’t nearly as strong as Kanazawa suggests. My own conjecture is that Kanazawa may be right about countries such as the United States, where atheists are a small minority, but less likely to be correct about the many nations where atheists are a much larger fraction of the population. On the plus side, Kanazawa’s measure of atheism (survey responses stating a lack of religiousity and lack of belief in God) is better than his extremely dubious definition of liberalism.
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Remember the one about Indonesian peat fires ? How the large scale peat fires in 1997 contributed carbon dioxide in amounts up to 40% of a typical year’s global carbon output ? Do you recall that the very next year, 1998, is touted as one of the warmest on record? If saving the planet means drastically reducing carbon emissions, why not start with Indonesia? For all its scientific-sounding pronouncements, Climate Science is anything but a real science.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.), appearing on ABC’s This Week on Sunday, sent a thinly-veiled message to wavering members of her caucus: passing Obamacare trumps keeping your seat in November. Pelosi also said of the bill that despite sizable public opposition, “the American people need it,” and “We’re here to do the job for the American people.” VARGAS: What do you say to your members, when it does come to the House to vote on this, who are in real fear of losing their seats in November if they support you now? PELOSI: Well first of all our members — every one of them — wants health care. I think everybody wants affordable health care for all Americans. They know that this will take courage. It took courage to pass Social Security. It took courage to pass Medicare.
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Gearing up for a new week after being blissfully unplugged with family this weekend. I’ve got jury duty in the morning. What’s on your minds? *** How to help the Chilean earthquake victims: Links. More links here .
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( AP ) Racist Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan blasted the “white right” for causing problems radical far left President Barack Obama. Jammie Wearing Fool reported this from the AP : Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan claims the “white right” is trying to make Barack Obama a one-term president. The 76-year-old says the stalling of health care legislation is proof. Farrakhan is addressing followers of the Chicago-based movement that has embraced black nationalism since its founding. Sunday’s keynote speech is before an estimated 20,000 people on the last day of the group’s Saviours Day convention. Farrakhan has vigorously supported Obama. Farrakhan also used the Chile earthquake to warn America about its own imminent disaster.
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Barack Obama keeps saying he inherited problems. And, the statistics show that, just maybe, he did. Look at this graph from the Bureau of Labor. [Source: Bureau of Labor ] Notice that unemployment was on its way up before he took office . It looks like Obama did inherit rising unemployment. But then, take the statistics from this source — the Unites States Senate — showing which party controlled the Senate, and apply it to that graphic
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Feminists are mute on Slut TV, but we have them to thank for it. Perhaps thank is the wrong word; we have Feminists to blame for the influx of Slut TV. Yet, their silence regarding the same is deafening. Keeping Up With The Kardashians , Rock of Love , The Bad Girls Club , even Mtv’s The Real World , all epitomize the very worst in female degradation and show just how much damage the “sexual empowerment” fallacy, pushed by the Feminists , has caused. Okay, so maybe we should thank them for that; we are now seeing proof of their agenda driven theories failing in practice. Women, existing solely as sex objects (and the really bad kind) are rampant in the reality show genre.
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