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ObamaCare joins the ranks of history’s spectacular man-made disasters…


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It's his bridge to nowhere.

NeoKong (Diary) Sunday, December 13th at 7:59PM EST (link)

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Nice.

Dan Perrin (Diary) Sunday, December 13th at 10:46PM EST (link)
 

Find A Piece Of Wood ...

Swamp_Yankee (Diary) Sunday, December 13th at 8:11PM EST (link)

and knock.

This thing is like Frankenstein. It still has some life. And I’m not celebrating until its head is cut off and its body is ash.

ObamaCare is a shoe-in

6eorge Jetson (Diary) Sunday, December 13th at 8:27PM EST (link)

Never doubt the power of the Reverse Jinx

feets, don't fail me now (nt)

blooch Sunday, December 13th at 8:52PM EST (link)

“Lieutenant Dike wasn’t a bad leader because he made bad decisions. He was a bad leader because he made no decisions.”

 

Political FAIL

Dan Perrin (Diary) Sunday, December 13th at 10:47PM EST (link)
 

And a silver spike is

Warrior (Diary) Monday, December 14th at 11:24AM EST (link)

driven through its’ heart…

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1937

tomllewis (Diary) Sunday, December 13th at 8:17PM EST (link)

Oh the humanity!

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Disaster for Dems, or for America?

Born Again Capitalist (Diary) Sunday, December 13th at 8:28PM EST (link)

If it never passes (or if only a supremely watered-down joke that won’t ruin the greatest healthcare available in the world with the words “HEALTHCARE REFORM” pasted at the top), then the former; if it passes the way Chairman Obamao wants it to pass – the latter.

You are not saying nice things about our

Dan Perrin (Diary) Sunday, December 13th at 10:47PM EST (link)

Dear Leader

 
 

They can still get this

earlgrey (Diary) Sunday, December 13th at 9:01PM EST (link)

All they have to do is have the finance committee plan with a trigger for a public option. That will get Snowe.

Yes - I Personally Think It's Too Early for This Picture Label

IJB Sunday, December 13th at 9:51PM EST (link)

…Though it may prove to be correct in the end.

We just aren’t there yet…

What is life without a little

Dan Perrin (Diary) Sunday, December 13th at 10:48PM EST (link)

I agree, Dan!

cari Sunday, December 13th at 11:25PM EST (link)

I’ve been so sick and tired of the “inevitability” spin of ObamaCare, what does it hurt our side to seize some momentum and create a little inevitability of our own?

 
 
 
 

Can't chide for use of the Hindenburg Disaster

tankertodd (Diary) Sunday, December 13th at 10:02PM EST (link)

I’d chide the dear writer for using an incident that resulted in great loss of life for a political purpose, but then I realized that if Obamacare passes, it will result in great loss of life. Between the inevitable rationing of care and the massive disincentives it will create for medical care innovators, Obamacare at Y+20 will have killed more people than all American wars combined.

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well put, tankertodd.

Loren Heal (Diary) Sunday, December 13th at 10:20PM EST (link)

But they care.


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Well if we don't kill it, we can save it for cap & tax

redneck_hippie (Diary) Sunday, December 13th at 10:25PM EST (link)

After all CO2 is non-volatile so it wouldn’t endanger health.


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I sure hope you're right, and there's an interesting...

MacAoidh (Diary) Sunday, December 13th at 10:20PM EST (link)

…piece at PowerLine wherein a GOP Senate source talks about why they haven’t played all their objection cards yet which seems to make some sense.

But I am simply not confident. I can’t help but think they’re going to force this thing down the throat of the American people. It might not be everything Obama wants, and they might have to water it down, but they’re going to force that camel’s nose under the tent.



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I'm not confident, either.

redneck_hippie (Diary) Sunday, December 13th at 10:44PM EST (link)

I did read the PL piece. The bit about the messaging amendments I had heard on Rush, live, on Friday. The camel’s nose has been under the tent for quite a while with the incremental entitlement creep. I do think this power grab will ultimately unravel, but literally, only God knows what the next disaster will be.

On another note, I pray our nation reawakens its love for liberty soon and in a big way before next November.


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I know a couple Democrats have said they wouldn't vote for cloture...but I wouldn't be too quick to declare victory

AceInTX (Diary) Sunday, December 13th at 10:42PM EST (link)

Ried still has our crap weasels to turn to yet…There is Snowe and Collins…and I have this creeping unease about Voinovich…we haven’t heard from him in a while and I can’t help but believe he’s just waiting for his moment in the sun since he’s stepping down this year and I just know he’s going to pull something soon to create a historic foot note for himself.

I hope you’re right…This should die…but I’m not going to declare this thing dead till I see a steak pounded into it’s chest, a massive cross laid over it’s corpse…it’s wrapped in Garlic and it’s buried 6 feet deep in the middle of the great salt lake!

The “Big Tent” analogy isn’t the correct one…the correct one is a MAGNET…we need to be a MAGNET that draws these independents in who are sick and tired of what’s going on in WashingtonFred Thompson
 

No worries, all

Dan Perrin (Diary) Sunday, December 13th at 10:51PM EST (link)

no worries.

Dan, either you've seen the CBO scoring

redneck_hippie (Diary) Sunday, December 13th at 11:01PM EST (link)

or your vino is better than the average. :)


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Redneck, I have been thinking, if this goes the way Dan...

penguin2 (Diary) Sunday, December 13th at 11:18PM EST (link)

is alluding to, pushing it toward, rabbit out of a hat, glass half full, we’re going to make….whatever, I think it would be great to send him a case of good wine!

What do you think?

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Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes!

redneck_hippie (Diary) Sunday, December 13th at 11:33PM EST (link)

Remember that restaurant scene? Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nNhOH4Y0bI


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Oh Redneck, we are in trouble. ROTFL

penguin2 (Diary) Sunday, December 13th at 11:43PM EST (link)

We forgot to tell Dan we started with the wine early…..LOL

Lord have mercy. Let us hope and pray we have cause to celebrate.

Penguin still laughing. (hey red, maybe we only get suspended briefly)….LOL

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I apologize for being indiscreet.

redneck_hippie (Diary) Sunday, December 13th at 11:49PM EST (link)

It must have been my Scots-Irish granddad’s blood taking over. ;)


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Red, we need some laughs now and then.

penguin2 (Diary) Sunday, December 13th at 11:57PM EST (link)

But we really are going to have to do something for Dan, he has been steadfast. :)

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So true. We're lucky to have him. nt

redneck_hippie (Diary) Monday, December 14th at 12:04AM EST (link)

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Save My Future

thelonebostonconservative Sunday, December 13th at 11:13PM EST (link)

Don’t give up yet. Plenty of time to celebrate later. Please keep fighting for me and my generation of twenty-somethings who know not what their savior Obama is doing to us.

Don't expect anyone to fight for you.

antisocial (Diary) Sunday, December 13th at 11:46PM EST (link)

Every one who is fighting this is in it for themselves.

There is an excellent diary you might want to read:

http://www.redstate.com/coldwarrior/2009/12/13/beware-the-%E2%80%9Cconservative-grievance-complex%E2%80%9D-%E2%80%93-good-for-selling-books-not-for-fixing-things/

Obama Doctrine – Boot On The Throat
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What is to be done?
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No. You can’t – Moe Lane
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The Emperor has no clothes!!!

 
 

If Obamacare

billyd (Diary) Sunday, December 13th at 11:16PM EST (link)

Was a truck, and the Democrats were the driver, i believe they would do this, thinking it too was a “great idea”….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSOC5M7rEvQ

November 2nd 2010. What are you doing today to improve your tomorrow?

 

Way down inside... woman... You need...

DONTREADONME (Diary) Sunday, December 13th at 11:17PM EST (link)

loooooooooooooooooovvvvvvveeeeee….

shake for me girl….

 

Not a bad analogy between ObamaCare and the Hindenburg, but...

civil truth (Diary) Monday, December 14th at 12:48AM EST (link)

unfortunately, it’s not clear just who are the passengers: the Democratic congressional leadership or the American people.

In either case, it’s not an exactly sterling accomplishment on the part of the crew – Obama and his gang.

The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis

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Legitimate concerns not just rhetoric

NicholasMoore Monday, December 14th at 3:37AM EST (link)

I still don’t know what “ObamaCare” is… but here’s what I gather, and maybe a more knowledgeable libertarian out there can help me understand this.

The left is proposing a plan that favors prescription drug companies and hurts insurance providers, but with the belief this will also help consumers.

The right seems to be focused on the public option part which harms the insurance carriers, with the belief that they’re helping consumers.

Now, I don’t trust any politician… and I’m sure the left are pushing their plan because they’re funded by the drug lobby and the right is shooting it down because they funded by the insurance lobby. Now I have no proof, b/c if it were available it would be all over the internet… is there any politician, dem or rep that’s standing up to this pandering?

I remember reading reports about how during the debates both sides have basically been reading talking points, prepared not by congressional staffers but by the opposing lobbies. this doesn’t surprise me, it just makes me lose more trust in a system that is basically bankrupt of trust. Is there anyone in congress that’s exposing this show for what it is? (i.e. calling out both sides for being horribly corrupt)

Also, why is it called ObamaCare? I thought Obama made an interesting political move by starting out his term saying that he wasn’t going to draft a policy for the congress to decide on, rather he wanted them to work together to come up with a policy… the 2 bills before both houses were not drafted by the executive branch, but rather the independent houses of congress… so why are we calling it ObamaCare?

also, since it’s happened before, i’m not some liberal troll… i hate vegetarian, pot-smoking, hippies that make up global temperature data and love the smell of their own farts while they dutch-oven their Prius. I think the green industry is a sham to exploit the uninformed masses (i’m talking about Whole Foods and the exploiters behind cap and trade)… so go ahead and call me a liberal for asking questions that i’m surprised more libertarians aren’t asking… if this isn’t the forum for libertarians then what is?

Really? Why is it called ObamaCare?

gunnerbs (Diary) Monday, December 14th at 6:26AM EST (link)

Really?

You don’t remember the “historic”, “unprecedented” address to a joint session of Congress last summer by…now, who was that?…oh yeah! President Obama? The one where Rep Joe Wilson was skewered for rightly calling out Pres Obama on a lie?

Do you remember what that speech was about?

National Healthcare!

This is Obamba’s baby, all the way. Every time you turn on the TV you hear some talking head ask, wringing thier hands, “Will Congress have a bill on the President’s desk in time for Christmas, like he wants?”

You found it an interesting “political move” that Obama publicly stated he wouldn’t draft a policy for congress to decide on? How Constitutional of him to let the legislators legislate.

You don’t fool anyone with your “Legitimate Concerns” title. You’ve been registered 2 years, this is your second comment (the other being two days old), you’ve shown leanings as a paul-bot, you favor amnesty for illegals. Heck you even called ColdWarrior a moderate in a comment to his post about being a CONSERVATIVE precinct committeman. You may fancy yourself a libertarian, but you are certainly on the Liberal end of libertarianism if you are.

And no, this isn’t the forum for libertarians. It is a forum for Conservatives. Try Reason.com.

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Plus NicholasLess

Warrior (Diary) Monday, December 14th at 11:46AM EST (link)

Give me a break with that “shills” for the _______ (fill in the blank) nonesense.

The only reason we have ANY problems with healthcare now is gubmint involvement. They control one third of the healthcare economy tail which wags two thirds of the insurance/pharma/consumer dog.

This is just one more misguided piece of “it’s not fair” crybaby legislation “needed” to ensure that abosolutely NO ONE can benefit from their own exertions, just like everything else Dear Leader Obamy does. If the LCD in the inner city can’t have it, then YOU can’t have it — it’s not FAIR, don’t you know.

(Of course, rich liberals, tenured academics, pro-sports players, Hollywood types and all the rest get a pass because they are SPECIAL — they are the ELITES — they know better than you and me and they DESERVE it. Remember how HARD “Call me Senator” Babs Boxer WORKED to get where she is. Yes, being a left wing piece of trash and giving away other people’s money IS hard work.)

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I see you haven't learned much NicholasMoore

Richard Mullins (Diary) Monday, December 14th at 12:08PM EST (link)

If you have I haven’t seen it yet. The reason it called ObamaCare is due to who is championing it the most(e.g HillaryCare in 1993). It doesn’t change much but leftists just don’t like the US.

BTW, is your head full of rock salt?

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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.

Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.

 
 

Well, well, well. Obama supported expanding

redneck_hippie (Diary) Monday, December 14th at 11:12AM EST (link)

Medicare for 55 to 64-year-olds 2 and a half years ago, as a forerunner to single payer!

http://www.breitbart.tv/exposed-expanding-medicare-has-been-obamas-plan-to-get-to-single-payer-all-along/


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