President Barack Obama on Tuesday tapped Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz to succeed former Virginia Governor Tim Kaine atop the Democratic National Committee after its members gather later this month.

The Florida firebrand was an obvious choice for Obama, who faces a contentious re-election bid next year and counts Wasserman Schultz among his fiercest defenders. But the president’s new attack dog’s talking points don’t always jibe with reality.

One year to the day before named as Obama’s choice to steer the national party, Wasserman Schultz insisted at a town hall in her south Florida Congressional district the president’s health care reforms included no mandate for individuals to purchase health insurance.

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President Barack Obama on Tuesday tapped Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz to succeed former Virginia Governor Tim Kaine atop the Democratic National Committee after its members gather later this month.

The Florida firebrand was an obvious choice for Obama, who faces a contentious re-election bid next year and counts Wasserman Schultz among his fiercest defenders. But the president’s new attack dog’s talking points don’t always jibe with reality.

One year to the day before named as Obama’s choice to steer the national party, Wasserman Schultz insisted at a town hall in her south Florida Congressional district the president’s health care reforms included no mandate for individuals to purchase health insurance.

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Nancy Pelosi spoke at the Asian American and Pacific Islanders Summit on Capitol Hill last Friday, informing them that because of the new health care reform, they would no longer be “job locked.” Here’s the quote:

“We see it as an entrepreneurial bill,” Pelosi said, “a bill that says to someone, if you want to be creative and be a musician or whatever, you can leave your work, focus on your talent, your skill, your passion, your aspirations because you will have health care.”

That’s right. Did you know that you could just… not work? Utopia! Sit at home and paint. Sculpt. Dance. Play your harp on SoCal streets naked. Live the dream! Those evil rich people will totally just pick up the slack, too. They’ve got an endless supply of cash, and they shouldn’t be reaping their own rewards anyway, right? Just raise their taxes! What’s another tax hike for the sake of art?

No, I’m not exaggerating. Watch for yourself.

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Nancy Pelosi spoke at the Asian American and Pacific Islanders Summit on Capitol Hill last Friday, informing them that because of the new health care reform, they would no longer be “job locked.” Here’s the quote:

“We see it as an entrepreneurial bill,” Pelosi said, “a bill that says to someone, if you want to be creative and be a musician or whatever, you can leave your work, focus on your talent, your skill, your passion, your aspirations because you will have health care.”

That’s right. Did you know that you could just… not work? Utopia! Sit at home and paint. Sculpt. Dance. Play your harp on SoCal streets naked. Live the dream! Those evil rich people will totally just pick up the slack, too. They’ve got an endless supply of cash, and they shouldn’t be reaping their own rewards anyway, right? Just raise their taxes! What’s another tax hike for the sake of art?

No, I’m not exaggerating. Watch for yourself.

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Often times it can be difficult to be a conservative Republican living in a blue state, especially when that blue state contains the city of Madison, which is sometimes referred to as the Berkeley of the Midwest. The reference, in my opinion, is spot on.

I lived and worked in Madison for a good many years. It always provided me with the opportunity to sharpen conservative arguments under the duress of foaming-at-the-mouth leftists who would eventually decry me a racist, or a Christian Crusader, or a sexist, or a capitalist pig, or a war monger, or . . . sometimes on a good day . . . all of those aforementioned labels in one spittle bedecked grimace/sneer.

One of my favorite targets was the student communist organization at UW-Madison. Each year during the first week of the fall semester, they and other student organizations would set up booths on library mall where they would accost students to join or sign petitions. Talking with them really was like taking candy from a baby, and now that I’ve had actual experience taking stuff away from genuine babies (e.g. choking hazards), I can honestly say that the reactions of the student commies were hauntingly similar as well.

Ah, the memories . . . but that’s not the reason for this post. The reason is to send out a thank you, one helluva an ‘attaboy’, and a ‘keep-up-the-good-work’ well wish to Wisconsin’s own Paul Ryan who decimated Barack Obama during his dog and pony health care summit, and to the Dane County, Wisconsin Republican Party who released an absolutely priceless statement (it drips Moxie) concerning Obamacare.

Via Troglopundit, I read the following release from the Dane County GOP:

Republican Party of Dane County Apologizes For Its Opposition To Obamacare

We at the Republican Party of Dane County would like to publicly apologize for opposing the Obamacare health care bill. We have now seen the light and support it. There are a few reasons for our change of heart:

The Democrats are correct that the health insurance companies don’t make enough money. Obamacare will be the largest transfer of wealth to the health insurance industry in history. The Democrats are also correct that our budget deficit isn’t large enough. Moody’s has warned that passing this bill will likely cost the United States its AAA bond rating – and we agree with the Democrats in saying “good riddance!”

The Democrats are correct that it’s ridiculous that all Americans now have access to health care. Obamacare will dramatically decrease the number of doctors, and will dramatically decrease the amount of medical innovation in this nation. Who needs new cancer drugs anyway? More than 6% of United Kingdom citizens have reported pulling out their own teeth because they can’t get access to a dentist, despite “universal” health care. That’s the spirit!

Finally, we agree with Democrats that the electoral chances of the Democratic Party in 2010 are far more important than whether a new unfunded entitlement system that we’ll be stuck with forever is good for this nation. They have argued incessantly that even Democratic congressmen who hate the bill should vote for it because of the electoral consequences in 2010 and 2012. Absolutely!

So we applaud the Democratic Party. It takes a great amount of courage to simultaneously put aside the US Constitution, the laws of economics, the negative effects of a bill on the quality of health care in this nation, and the will of the people. Open the fridge and crack open a cold one, Democrats. You’ve earned it!

In my probably biased opinion, that’s a damn nice summary and delivery . . . especially in the age of John Stewart. Well done my fellow Wisconsinites.

We’re sitting around on a Sunday night knowing our country is under attack, and that an attack is imminent.

But we’re used to living like that, it shouldn’t be that way, but it is. And we deal with it.

So we’re watching TV, messing around on the internet: suddenly an alert is sounded;

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