Courage Is Backing Off Health Care Bill America Does Not Want

Swing Districts Oppose Health Reform.  WSJ. 

How much more clear a message, can America send to the wavering Democrats on health care legislation?

The survey shows astonishing intensity and sharp opposition to reform, far more than national polls reflect. For 82% of those surveyed, the heath-care bill is either the top or one of the top three issues for deciding whom to support for Congress next November. (That number goes to 88% among independent women.) Sixty percent want Congress to start from scratch on a bipartisan health-care reform proposal or stop working on it this year. Majorities say the legislation will make them and their loved ones (53%), the economy (54%) and the U.S. health-care system (55%) worse off—quite the trifecta.

Seven in 10 would vote against a House member who votes for the Senate health-care bill with its special interest provisions. That includes 45% of self-identified Democrats, 72% of independents and 88% of Republicans. Three in four disagree that the federal government should mandate that everyone buy a government-approved insurance plan (64% strongly so), and 81% say any reform should focus first on reducing costs. Three quarters agree that Americans have the right to choose not to participate in any health-care system or plan without a penalty or fine.

It is simply mind-boggling that any Democratic legislator would believe America has any interest in their health care bill.  

It is even more astounding that anyone would want their name attached historically to this bill as an indelible label of catastrophe, for all of eternity.

See:

• http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704416904575121541779736742.html

Rasmussen Daily Presidential Tracking Poll March 15, 2010

Daily Presidential Tracking Poll for March 15, 2010.  Rasmussen.  On voters who approve or disapprove of President Barack Obama’s job so far. 

• 42% Strongly Disapprove
• -16 Presidential Approval Index
• 26% Strongly Approve

Consistent negative approval ratings since June 30, 2009.

See:

• http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll
• http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/obama_approval_index_history

Democrats Ready For Election 2010 Fall Out Over Health Care

White House Challenges Republicans to Use Health Care for 2010 Election.  Fox.

“We’re happy to have the 2010 elections be about the achievement of health care reform. That’s a debate I think we’re obviously comfortable having,” White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said on “Fox News Sunday.”

“Make my day,” added senior White House adviser David Axelrod.

Funny they see things through rose colored glasses.  In reality, the GOP doesn’ t have to do much except watch as the Democrats self annihilate.

“Democrats.  Healthcare.  Obama Akbar!”
Image courtesy of Michael Ramirez March 12, 2010 via http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/PhotoPopup.aspx?id=527292.

Why Health Bill Makes No Sense.  IBD.

1. The people don’t want it!
2. Doctors don’t want it!
3. Half the Congress doesn’t want it!
4. People are happy with the health care they’ve got!
5. It doesn’t even cover the people they set out to cover!
6. Costs will go up, not down!
7. Real cost controls are nowhere to be found!
8. Insurance premiums will rise, not fall!
9. Medicare is already bankrupting us!
10. There aren’t enough doctors now!
11. The doctor-patient relationship will be wrecked!
12. Medical care will also deteriorate!
13. Rationing of care is inevitable!
14. Private health insurers will be destroyed!
15. It’s probably unconstitutional!

When ego is at the forefront, then common sense is thrown by the way side.  Will the Democrats come to their senses before it is too late? 

See:

• http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/14/white-house-challenges-republicans-use-health-care-election/
• http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=527217 

Dummy Reconciliation Health Care Bill Posted

The perennial claim of “transparency” in the goverment by the hand of the Democrats continues to astound.  The Corner at NRO.

The Democrats’ 2,309-page reconciliation bill was released for public viewing Sunday and will begin the mark-up process in the Budget Committee Monday at 3pm. Contrary to the Democratic pledge to post the reconciliation measure 72 hours before consideration, the bill posted is a dummy — or a “shell” as Rep. Paul Ryan (R., Wisc.) put it — an early version of the House bill that cleared key committees in 2009, thus making it eligible for the reconciliation process under budget rules. Once that bill clears the the committee it will be gutted and replaced with the closed-door “fixes” agreed upon by Congressional Democrats, and appended with an unrelated student loan bill.

The shell of the bill here at Scribd, sans all the details and goodies for those Democrats who are playing thugball.

See:

• http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OGM2MjU2OTQwM2E1ZDVkZjQ5N2U4ZDllZTI3MjUzZWY=
• http://www.scribd.com/doc/28369013/Text-of-the-House-Democrats-Health-Care-Reform-Reconciliation-Recommendations-Sent-to-the-Budget-Committee

RIP Peter Graves Of Mission Impossible Fame

Mission: Impossible, Airplane star Graves dies.  Houston Chronicle.  Peter Graves.   Born March 18, 1926 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  Died Sunday March 14, 2010 in Los Angeles, California, after having brunch with his family.  He was 83, four days short of his 84th birthday.

He was also known as the younger brother of Gunsmoke star James Arness. 

He was best known for portraying James Phelps in the classic television series that ran from 1966 to 1973, Mission Impossible.  The show was about a group of American secret agents, and Graves’ character was the leader.  The role that brought him to the forefront was as an all American POW who was actually a Nazi spy, in the movie Stalag 17.  Later he spoofed his straight laced character as a pilot in the film Airplane. 

See the rest of Graves’ biography here.  The unforgettable opening montage of Mission Impossible.

Mission: Impossible Opening Montage 1

February 26, 2007

Check out Peter Graves in the classic opening of the television show, as he listens to a taped assignment and views the images of the players involved.

Mission: Impossible – The Widow

July 28, 2008

See:

• http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/6913272.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission:_Impossible
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalag_17
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airplane!
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Graves_(actor)

Playful Lambs Leap To The Occasion

Leaping lizards?  Nope, leaping lambs!  Three short clips to amaze and entertain.

small lamb runs around house

July 30, 2009

Dorper lamb playing in the house

January 21, 2009

who knew lambs could be so playful?

April 30, 2009

Do It Yourself Backyard Trailer Park

Next time the kids start asking for one of those little play houses or a tree house, consider this motor home trailer park for the summer.  The kids will be busy for weeks.  They just may come out from the backyard motor home mansion in time for school in the fall.  Also good for mother-in-laws.

Click here for biggy.

“Motorhome Mansion.”
Image courtesy of http://static.pyzam.com/img/funnypics/d/pyzamredneckmansion.jpg.

Montana State Trooper Runs Along Speeder

Joke of the day.

It found its way into the email box.  Also found at WRAL in Raleigh, N.C.

In most of the United States there is a policy of checking on any stalled vehicle on the highway when temperatures drop to single digits or below. About 3am one very cold morning, Montana State Trooper Allan Nixon #658 responded to a call there was a car off the shoulder of the road outside Great Falls, Montana.

He located the car, stuck in deep snow and with the engine still running. Pulling in behind the car with his emergency lights on, the trooper walked to the driver’s door to find an older man passed out behind the wheel with a nearly empty vodka bottle on the seat beside him.

The driver came awake when the trooper tapped on the window. Seeing the rotating lights in his rearview mirror, and the state trooper standing next to his car, the man panicked. He jerked the gearshift into drive and hit the gas.

The car’s speedometer was showing 20-30-40 and then 50 MPH, but it was still stuck in the snow, wheels spinning. Trooper Nixon, having a sense of humor, began running in place next to the speeding (but stationary) car. The driver was totally freaked, think the trooper was actually keeping up with him.

This goes on for about 30 seconds, then the trooper yelled. “PULL OVER!” The man nodded, turned his wheel and stopped the engine. Needless to say, the man from North Dakota was arrested and is probably still shaking his head over the state trooper in Montana who could run 50 miles per hour.

Who says troopers don’t have a sense of humor?

See:

• http://www.wral.com/golo/blogpost/3556280/
• http://www.123gifs.eu/clowns/

Budget Auto Paint Job

Need a new paint job on your car?  On a tight budget?  Well then consider this novel concept.  It won’t break the bank.

Sharpies.  Get your friends together and let them have at it.

“Painted with Sharpies.”
Image courtesy of http://www.hahastop.com/pictures/Painted_With_Sharpies.htm.

Health Care Reform Snake Oil Salesman Belies Visions Of Grandeur

We’re not buying it, O.  NYP.

He’s still peddling Hope & Change, although now he calls it health-care reform. He swears his miracle elixir will save your life, your money and your country.

We used to arrest people for selling snake oil. Now we elect them.

President Barack Obama.  Health care reform salesman who just won’t stop hawking with high pressure salesman tactics, even though the masses are clamoring otherwise, as his true motivations purvey sheer megalomania.     

Health Care Reform 53% Remain Opposed to Health Care Plan.  Rasmussen March 8, 2010.

Wrong Bill At The Wrong Time.  Forbes.

A sensible president would of course step in and provide some adult supervision to a wayward party hell-bent on jumping off this cliff. But the problem is that President Obama believes in his own messianism too deeply for that. His goal is not to remake his party as it could be but “remake this world as it should be.” In his book Dreams From My Father Obama gives the distinct impression that his gifts are too great for the smallness of our political stage. He regrets not having been born during the civil rights era when the grandness of the cause would have measured up to the grandness of his ambition. He is in search of something big that will allow him to make his mark on the world as Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King did. Hence, the defeat of ObamaCare would not just be par for the course in the rough-and-tumble world of politics for him. It would be sign of his ordinariness, his mortality, and that, to him, is unendurable.

“Obama.  Obama’s 100% Pure Snake Oil.”
Image courtesy of highkey of the Democrats in News in Pictures June 30 – July 6 2008 via http://www.freakingnews.com/Obama-Pictures-51489.asp.

See:

• http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/we_re_not_buying_it_Y3SdZ99rd5fHIxkSDWfliJ
• http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/september_2009/health_care_reform
• http://www.forbes.com/2010/03/09/obamacare-health-democrats-congress-opinions-columnists-shikha-dalmia_2.html
• http://www.freakingnews.com/Obama-Pictures-51489.asp