Health Care Vote Set for Saturday

Democrats from conservative states or districts are feeling the pressure after Tuesday's election, which could make them more likely to oppose parts of the Obama agenda.  Despite the nerves from some members of her party, Nancy Pelosi has scheduled a vote on her takeover of the health care system on Saturday.

 

The PelosiCare bill assumes that millions of Americans would pay the fine rather than get health insurance, and that many companies would choose to pay the fine rather than provide their employees with health insurance, which will push people towards the government plan.  As it is, the Democrats' plans would require the "uninsurables" to be uninsured for at least six months before they would be eligible for the government's high-risk pool.

 

Seventy-two percent of voters say that ObamaCare will shift people from private to government-run insurance, which is exactly what happened in Florida after the state created a government-run property insurance option.

 

PelosiCare would regulate snack machines at a cost of about $56 million in the first year, and the real cost of the total bill will be at least $1.8 trillion, including $1.1 trillion in new taxes.

 

The AARP and the AMA have both officially endorsed PelosiCare.

 

The Republicans' bill will not do much in terms of saving the government money, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

 

What does fuzzy stimulus math look like?  How about examples from Georgia and Illinois where more jobs were created than there are total employees?

 

The Senate blocked an effort to add a question to the 2010 Census asking people if they are U.S. Citizens.

 

A Senate Committee passed cap-and-tax yesterday with Republicans boycotting the vote.

 

A Mayor in New Zealand wants to pay problem parents not to breed.  I have a better idea; tell them that they will be cut off from the government assistance if they breed.

 

A year after his election, Obama is still blaming Bush.  When is he going to grow a pair and take responsibility?

 

Apparently the National Republican Senatorial Committee got the hint from what happened in NY-23, and they will not get involved in contested Republican primaries.

 

Swine flu fears led to a cat fight on a New York City subway and the Washington Post criticized New York Yankees player Alex Rodriguez for the way he blew his nose given the swine flu problem.  Meanwhile, Robins Air Force Base does not have any doses of the swine flu vaccine and experts say that the flu will mostly be over by the time the vaccines are widely available.

 

Mike Huckabee currently leads the other 2012 Republican prospects in a USAToday poll.  If Huckabee is the nominee in 2012, Obama will get another term.

 

Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D-PA) and Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) support a bill to give the federal government the power to force private companies to shrink if they are deemed "too big."

 

The Senate voted unanimously yesterday to extend unemployment benefits to almost two years and extend the first-time homebuyers' tax credit that Sen. Johnny Isakson loves to much.

 

President Obama announced his daughter's poor performance in school to make the point that teachers are not going to demand excellence.

 

A majority of voters believe that America's best days are in the past.  I'm afraid they may be right.

 

President Obama is not going to be able to find the time to attend the ceremonies marking the 20^th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.  He's too busy trying to emulate the policies that were used on the other side of the Wall.

 

Houston County District Attorney Kelly Burke is continuing his crusade against parents who sent their kids to the wrong schools or to the wrong district, including one family who allegedly owes 12 years of restitution for sending their child to Houston County schools despite never living in Houston County.  Remember, Kelly Burke's daughter doesn't go to the school that she's zoned for.

Post-Election Rundown

It was one year ago today that Americans elected a President who had an admitted affinity for Marxists, Marxist domestic terrorists, and Marxist ideas on the guise of "hope" and "change you can believe in."  A year later, it appears that some Americans are starting to wake up about this guy.

 

Gibbsy says that the election results in Virginia and New Jersey (links are to exit polls) last night had nothing to do with the President, but on the other hand the race in NY-23 was a clear defeat for conservatives.  On the contrary, NY-23 was far from a win for Obama since even the Democrat campaigned against the government option and is actually more conservative than the ACORN-sponsored, Kos-endorsed Republican was.  One dispatch from the district says that Scozzafava's endorsement of Democrat Owens was what decided the election.  Of course, had the Republican Party establishment not spent nearly $1 million on Scozzafava, including bashing Conservative Hoffman, perhaps a real conservative Republican could have won.

 

Nancy Pelosi says that Democrats won last night, and in a way she has a point.

 

Rather than watching election results last night, President Obama was watching an HBO special about himself.

 

Byron York says that Obama can't be the community organizer for the world.

 

Senate Democrats don't think that they will be able to finish a health care bill this year.  If this is true, then it won't happen during this Congress.

 

Rep. George Miller (D-CA) is proposing a law that would require employers to pay employees who stay home from work when they are sick.

 

Lawmakers are considering a ban on laptops and other electronic devices for pilots after two pilots overshot their destination by 150 miles.

 

Cal Thomas asks whether the 10^th Amendment can save us.  The answer is yes, if people would actually care.

 

White House Budget Director Peter Orszag warned yesterday that large federal deficits will eventually harm the American economy.  They already are hurting the economy.

 

CNN dropped off the list of the top 30 cable channels in prime time last month.

 

A British judge has finally made it official:  environmentalism is a religion.

 

In yesterday's elections in Warner Robins, Paul Shealy beat Dean Cowart for Post 3, Mike Daley and Linda Carnes are headed towards a runoff in Post 1, and Chuck Chalk and Chuck Shaheen are headed towards a runoff for Mayor.  Yes, we have four more weeks of this.  Here are the full, precinct-by-precinct results from yesterday's election.

 

In Centerville, incumbent Mayor Bubba Edwards lost to John Harley.

 

The race for Mayor in Atlanta is headed towards a December 1 runoff that could show a racial divide.

Election Day!

Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) says that health care reform is a greater threat to the United States than terrorism.  She'll catch hell for this, but she's absolutely right.

 

The PelosiCare bill will cost at least $1.2 trillion before considering the "doctor fix" that House Democrats plan to attach to the bill after it passes.  The bill also includes 111 new federal bureaucracies.

 

Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) questions the constitutionality of ObamaCare, which ultimately is irrelevant because as Gibbsy pointed out the White House doesn't care.

 

The House GOP offered a 230-page health care bill.  It's about time.

 

The government pays the rent on one out of every five homes in Britain.  That's a preview of the United States.

 

Half of kids in the United States will be on food stamps at some point during childhood.

 

On Election Day, it is important to keep in mind that more than 3 million registered voters are dead, while 12 million more are ineligible to vote where they are registered.

 

The number of people blaming Obama for the bad economy is approaching the number of people blaming Bush.  If the election were held right now, Obama would not be re-elected.

 

Now President Obama says that the United States must get serious about creating jobs.  What was the point of the "stimulus" if we weren't serious about it then?

 

A 20-year-old woman was killed by her father for being too "Westernized."  Can you guess what religion they are?

 

Ford reported their first profit in a year and a half after restructuring and putting the screws to the labor union.  Meanwhile, taxpayers are unlikely to recover the $80 billion given to Chrysler and GM.

 

The United States ranks tops in the world in energy resources.

 

Some school districts are using income as a basis on which to draw districting lines.  At least Houston County isn't trying to do that.

 

The Obama administration has replaced lobbyists in the administration with big campaign donors.

 

California is moving towards having pay-by-the-mile car insurance.

 

Being in a bad mood can actually be good for you.

 

The Warner Robins City Council approved another $250,000 for the animal shelter after realizing that the shelter that they plan to open next week can't house enough animals.

 

Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine imposed a $750,000 fine on United Healthcare Insurance Company for not paying some claims quickly enough.  I guess it's time for United Healthcare to create some PACs in Alabama to get him some campaign cash.

Election Day Tomorrow

A lot of people are watching the Congressional race in NY-23.  The best summary of this I have found yet is from Cato's Roger Pilon.

 

Each job "created or saved" by the so-called "stimulus" package cost about $230,000.  When people figure that out, the White House calls it "calculator abuse."  The reason no jobs have been created is because they're spending money on things like buying meals for (and votes from) senior citizens.

 

After doing nothing for the last few months, now Republican leaders in the House are set to introduce their own health care bill.  Where was this in July?  Democrats could have a vote on their bill as early as next Tuesday, a bill that the Wall Street Journal calls "The Worst Bill Ever."

 

Jamie Dupree found some interesting things in the Pelosi bill, including a payoff to trial lawyers, and Erick Erickson found what would have to be included as free services under the bill.

 

The Associated Press says that the government option would only cover about 2% of Americans by 2019.  They're wrong.  Cato's Jeffrey Miron says that government should not subsidize health insurance for anybody.

 

Compassionate and competent Medicare loses $60 billion per year in taxpayer dollars due to fraud, while the top ten evil and immoral insurance companies made profits of $8 billion last year.

 

President Obama's Afghanistan is now being compared with LBJ's Vietnam.

 

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says that in the United States "We tax everything that moves and doesn't move" as though it's a bad thing that they don't do the same in Pakistan.

 

What would tax rates need to be in order to balance the 2010 federal budget?

 

The Obama Administration named 110 of the visitors to the White House since taking office.  There's nothing interesting there.

 

While the political elite complains that there are not enough swine flu vaccines to go around, they are still going to offer the vaccine to detainees at Guantanamo Bay.  In New York, children are getting the swine flu vaccine without their parents' permission.

 

Worldwide, corporate tax rates dropped again last year.  Not so in the United States.

 

CIT declared bankruptcy yesterday, meaning that the $2.3 billion in bailout money that company received will never be repaid.

 

Now the media is treating Obama like a Hollywood actress, wondering if he's gotten too skinny.

 

Apparently Osama bin Laden came to the United States in 1979.

 

Congress funded a study on how to avoid their constituents and still stay in office.

 

Men in Langley, Canada are on the lookout for a woman who has apparently attacked multiple men with kicks in the groin.

 

The World's Biggest Outdoor Cocktail Party featured a record number of underage drinking citations.

 

Georgia Pre-K programs are getting $1.7 million in "stimulus" money for upgrades.  I guess the lottery didn't have enough money left to do this thanks to the HOPE scholarship program.

 

Georgia managed to keep its AAA bond rating, but all of the bond raters say that the state should expect steep drops in revenues next year.

 

Black "leaders" in Atlanta are horrified at the possibility of Atlanta electing a white mayor.

 

Sixty city workers make more money than the mayor of Warner Robins.  Yes, the mayor deserves more than $50,000 per year.

ObamaCare to Cost $2.24 Million Per Word

Your must-read of the day:  Peggy Noonan says that Americans are increasingly disheartened and believe that things might not get any better.

 

Even at 1,990 pages, the House Obamacare bill would cost Americans $2.24 million per word.  The Congressional Budget Office says that it will cost $1.055 trillion, but Blue Dog Democrats still say that estimate leaves a lot of questions unanswered, like whether it will actually lower health care costs.  The bill includes 42 different studies, thirteen new tax increases, death panels, and requirements that restaurants and even vending machines include health information about their food.  Right now, Rep. Jim Marshall opposes the bill.

 

As the White House claims that the "stimulus" saved or created about 650,000 jobs, we find that "stimulus" cash has gone to fund research on bugs, the sex lives of college freshmen, Facebook, and rabbit droppings.  How does any of this create jobs?  Of course, the idea of jobs "created or saved" is pure fantasy anyway.

 

Investors Business Daily says that the economic growth is all illusion and waste.  Last month, personal income remained unchanged and consumer spending dropped.  There's no recovery.

 

The most ethical Congress in history now has dozens of Democrat members being investigated by the House Ethics Committee, including two Democrats who were added to the list yesterday.

 

After the Messiah was supposed to come to power and fix all of the alleged racial problems that America has, Obama has had almost no effect on views on race relations.

 

Joe Lieberman says that he might campaign for Republican candidates in next year's election.  Don't get too excited, because he also plans to help Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) win re-election.

 

The owner of Macon's soon-to-be-former ABC affiliate is dropping the relationship with the national network over their liberal newscasts and the sex and violence on television.  He's on his way to bankruptcy.

 

The judge brought in from Dooly County to decide on the case involving Warner Robins City Councilman John Williams has decided that there is not enough evidence to file charges against Williams.  Does that mean that this highly entertaining drama is over now?

 

State Representative and candidate for Attorney General Rob Teilhet (D-Smyrna) wants to force sex offenders to put "No Candy Here" signs on their doors each Halloween.

 

There might be a battle in next year's General Assembly over the property tax system used in Georgia.

 

Governor Perdue, lacking the cojones to seize Buford Dam and keep Georgia water in Georgia, wants Congress to come up with a water solution.

House Health Care Bill Emerges

The media and Democrats are celebrating economic growth in the third quarter of the year, while Forbes magazine asks if this might be as good as it gets.  The growth is coming from government spending, like $24,000 per car under cash for clunkers, which is unsustainable and is only removing money from the economy.  The economy continues to shed jobs, the number of jobs created by the "stimulus" package has been overstated, and new home sales fell last month.  In other words, the economy is not recovering, and may even be preparing for a double-dip.  Obama owns it.

 

House Democrats introduced their 1,990-page health care bill today, which includes a government option and new taxes to fund the $900 billion price tag that will add to the deficit in the last five years of the first decade.  What the Democrats are trying to sell is not just a free lunch, but a free breakfast, lunch, dinner, and bedtime snack.

 

President Bush named more than 40% of his top-level fundraisers to posts in his administration, and the media was outraged.  Only it wasn't President Bush, it was President Obama, and the media is ignoring the story.

 

Obama isn't even doing well among women.

 

A Detroit Imam who advocated the use of force to establish a society where Muslims would rule non-Muslims was shot when the FBI tried to apprehend him, and now the federal government is warning about retaliation.

 

Costco is going to begin accepting food stamps.  I think they should create a separate line for the parasites during checkout.

 

Thomas Sowell writes about Barack Obama dismantling America.

 

Obama has failed to defeat conservatism in America, but he is defeating the Republican Party.

 

Some of you will like this:  Right-wing women rock.

 

A little girl in Des Moines, Iowa was suspended for bringing empty shotgun shells to school.  Zero-tolerance idiocy.

 

Georgia ranks near the bottom nationally for educational standards.  How long before education bureaucrats blame a lack of money?

 

Can anybody tell me why in the world you would pay $25 to talk to a bunch of political candidates?

 

More Houston County parents are complaining about the new school zones.

 

I mentioned this yesterday, but Chuck Shaheen has a large lead in fundraising among candidates for Warner Robins mayor.

Eat Your Dog, Have Yourself Spayed or Neutered To Save The Planet

The Obama administration is making plans for dealing with a nuclear Iran.  They've already given up on stopping Iran from having nukes, so now they just want to contain them.

 

Not only do you have to stop eating meat to save the planet, you also have to eat your dog and stop having babies.

 

The Democrats' health care plans will treat seniors as clunkers and could triple private insurance premiums, an insurance mandate could hurt many Americans, and the left-wing New Republic says that it would actually take away from the poor.  Fortunately, the Democrats do not have enough votes to pass it in the House or in the Senate.

 

Consumer confidence has dropped in October.  That's Obama recovery.

 

The number of voters who would be identified as libertarians is at a modern peak of 23%.

 

The next thing to blame on swine flu:  Internet crashes.

 

While being pressed by CNN, Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett still calls Fox News biased, but refuses to say anything about MSNBC.

 

Democrat donors have been rewarded with White House perks.

 

The Wall Street Journal says that TARP should not be extended, while GMAC may need a third helping of bailout cash.

 

The New York Times has another anti-CIA smear job, this time saying that the CIA is paying Afghan President Hamid Karzai's brother, even though he is allegedly a part of the opium trade.  The new Afghan strategy will focus only on major population centers, apparently leaving the rest of the country to the Taliban.  The United Nations says that drone strikes may be against international law.

 

The number of women buying handguns in Chicago is increasing.  Do you blame them?  In Britain, gun crime has nearly doubled in the last decade despite the fact that guns are illegal.

 

A woman has been charged with offering sex in exchange for World Series tickets.  Why should this be a crime?

 

Sen. Johnny Isakson is still pushing for his home buyers' tax credit that is not only rife with fraud, but even if it was working successfully would be unnaturally inflating home values.

 

The President of the Georgia Association of Educators wants to raise corporate taxes "for the kids."

 

Some parents of students in Houston County schools are not pleased with the school board's redistricting plans, and a public hearing last night got rowdy with disagreements.

 

The candidates for Warner Robins Mayor had another debate last night.  They all seemed to be in agreement on most things.

 

The Medical Center of Central Georgia is catching flack in Macon for cutting services for which they are not paid.

Renaming The Government Option

As he prepares to introduce legislation allowing the federal government to seize banks considered "too big to fail," Barney Frank yesterday on Ed Schultz's show says that Democrats are "trying on every front to increase the role of government."

 

Bad news for Democrats:  Obama's coattails only apply when Obama is on the ballot.

 

CNN, now in last place among cable news networks, might want to consider repealing their ban on talk show hosts and instead ban their anchors from ever appearing on Jeopardy.

 

Since only 37 percent of Americans know what the "public option" is, Nancy Pelosi wants to give it a new name and call it the "consumer option" or the "competitive option."  They really do think you're that dumb.

 

An Obama economic advisor thinks that the best way to save money on the government takeover of health care is to tax "Cadillac" health insurance plans.  Every bill includes a provision to save money that would cut Medicare payments to hospitals that readmit ill seniors.  That would be rationing.

 

While there still is not a final text of the Senate bill, there are some things that we can expect to see in the bill.  Joe Lieberman says that he will filibuster any plan that has a government option.

 

Obama's Education Secretary wants "revolutionary change" in teachers' colleges.  I agree, but I tremble every time I consider any kind of revolutionary change coming from this administration.

 

The United Nations has named Tinker Bell an "Honorary Ambassador of Green" in an attempt to indoctrinate children into fearing the god of global warming.  A British climate chief wants everybody to give up meat to save the planet.  Over my dead body.

 

Now people are starting to think about what the media reaction would be if George Bush had done some of the same things that Barack Obama is doing.

 

People are leaving New York to escape high taxes, which means that tax revenues will not recover with the economy.

 

Pravda says that the United States is moving towards socialism.

 

The government-run Amtrak loses about $32 per passenger.  Don't worry; government will do a better job when they're running your health care.

 

Even Democrats are tired of Rep. Alan Grayson (Kook-FL) after he called an advisor to Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke a "K Street whore."

 

Federal employees can still make charitable contributions to ACORN through the government's annual workplace charity campaign.

A new scare report is out saying that children are more than twice as likely to be killed by cars on Halloween than on any other night.  The report ignores the fact that children are also more than twice as likely to be walking the streets at night on Halloween than any other night.

 

Here's the big game changer in the race for Warner Robins Mayor.  Donald Walker's widow, Patricia, has endorsed Chuck Chalk.

 

Chalk came out swinging in the candidates' forum last night, but then the attacks faded and everybody played it safe.  It got boring.

 

The John Williams saga continues, but a judge promises a quick ruling in the case.

 

The U.S. House unanimously approved adding Billy Carter's gas station to the Jimmy Carter National Historic Site.

Obama Declares Swine Flu Emergency

The 2009 federal budget deficit was more than $4,700 for every person in the United States.  The stimulus bill may be worse than the upcoming Obamacare bill.  Democrats will probably use the Defense spending bill to raise the debt limit.  They'll have to, considering that the fiscal year 2010 spending bills increase spending by 12.1%.

 

Speaking of stimulus, 49 out of 50 states, plus the District of Columbia, have lost jobs since the bill was passed in February.  This as Obama's top economic adviser says that the impact of the stimulus bill won't contribute to significant economic growth next year.

 

The Democrat leadership is considering a government option that allows states to opt out of the plan.  CBS' "60 Minutes" pointed out that one out of every seven Medicare dollars is spent on fraud.  Even the Associated Press is forced to point out that the profits for the health insurance companies are less than 2 percent.

 

The pay czar is going after executive salaries, while government-run Freddie Mac is giving its new CFO compensation worth up to $5.5 million.

 

George Soros calls Wall Street profits "gifts" from the state.

 

Nancy Pelosi says that letting the Bush tax cuts expire will not be a tax increase.

 

Half of the country disagrees with President Obama on the issues.  That's not reason for Republicans to get very excited, because 73% of Republican voters say that Congressional Republicans have lost touch with their base.  Conservatives are still considered the largest ideological group in the country.

 

A New York Times reporter wants to institute the one-child policy in the United States.

 

American troops in Afghanistan are hoping that their sacrifices have not been in vain.  This is why I can't buy into the idea of withdrawing from Afghanistan.

 

Sen. Johnny Isakson's pet project, the home buyers' tax program, has given out hundreds of millions of dollars in fraudulent spending.

 

President Obama declared swine flu a national emergency, but his daughters still haven't been vaccinated for the swine flu.

 

James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles have struck again, this time with a new video that shows that they were not thrown out of an ACORN office in Philadelphia like the media had claimed.

 

The state spent $100,000 mailing interest checks because they didn't process tax returns quickly enough.

A state employee is suing Governor Perdue over pay raises not being given to state employees.

 

Macon ranked seventh on the Forbes list of the most impoverished cities in the United States.  Why do people still question me when I call it a third world country?

 

Central Georgia hospitals are asking children to stay away because of swine flu concerns.

 

New polls for next year's races for Governor show Oxendine slipping and Roy Barnes continuing to lead.

 

Did Chuck Shaheen really send his mother to represent him at a forum last week?

 

The mayor's salary will be decided by a judge.

 

Warner Robins Council Member John Williams may face assault charges for the old people fight.

 

The Georgia National Fair's attendance was up this year.  Good for them.

Obama To Control Your TV

With the health insurance industry issuing another rent-seeking report, Democrats are trying to repeal the antitrust exemption for insurance companies.  Senate Democrats are looking to preserve Medicare entitlement spending that they plan to cut in the ObamaCare bill, which would undo any of the potential spending cuts that would be made to make the bill "deficit neutral." 

 

Since there will not be a cost of living raise for Social Security this year, President Obama wants to send every Social Security recipient a $250 check.

 

Hillary Clinton is now personally more popular than President Obama.

 

Sen. Lindsey Graham (RINO-SC) is working extra hard on that permanent minority status.

Cap-and-tax will hurt the United States' economy, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

 

Even though the amount of ice in the Arctic Ocean has increased, some breather scientists say that within a decade there will be no ice in the Arctic during the summer.  Meanwhile, wood is coming back as a power source as part of the left's efforts to push us back to the Stone Age.  California is set to ban big screen televisions because they use too much electricity.

 

This year's Atlantic hurricane season has been virtually nonexistent.

Yesterday I warned you about the Value-Added Tax.  Here's why you should be concerned about it.

 

Now the left thinks that the military is racist against Obama.  I think their disagreements with Obama stem more from weakness, like the fact that Obama is considering getting rid of the preemptive strike doctrine.

 

The left is going to control your television set next week.  I'm glad I'll miss this one.

 

The "stimulus" package has only created 30,383 jobs, at a cost of $71,500 per job.  Maybe that's why President Obama is looking at any way he can find to create jobs.  He's getting desperate.

 

Sens. Chris Dodd (D-CT) and Johnny Isakson (RINO-GA) are teaming up to work on a second stimulus package.

That apartment complex in Oregon that had banned American flags has changed its mind.  Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

 

Mexicans say that "Mexican-Americans" owe more loyalty to Mexico than the United States.  If you asked them they would probably also say that the southwestern United States should still belong to Mexico.

 

An evil oil company is going to build the largest ships ever constructed to harvest natural gas.

 

A kooky church in North Carolina plans to burn Bibles because they're not the "real" Bible.  In Lexington, Georgia, a parent is protesting the fact that an evangelical group was allowed to give out Bibles to students.  I wonder how that parent felt about President Obama speaking to her children?

 

Apparently seniors are an important enough interest group to have their own forum for candidates for Warner Robins mayor.

 

Middle school students are being asked to take a pledge to never bring a gun to school or use a gun to solve a problem.  I bet that'll be about as effective as abstinence pledges.

 

John "the Fascist" Oxendine's father was kicked off the board of a nonprofit organization after agreeing to pay a fellow board member nearly $400,000.

 

Georgia's unemployment rate stayed steady last month, even though more jobs were lost.

Is The Recession Over?

Despite unemployment approaching 10%, some economists say that the recession is over.  The same economists say that jobs won't come back until 2012.

 

While government spending is killing the dollar, the high unemployment rate pushes up the budget deficit because the Democrats' "solutions" are to spend more on unemployment rather than to enact pro-jobs tax cuts.

 

The Senate health care bill is now back behind closed doors, as Harry Reid tries to put together a single bill with some real language.  The Finance Committee bill includes $507 billion in new taxes and fees, and you'll literally get your health care at the DMV.  Massachusetts has already shown us what happens when you try to cut health care costs by spending more money, and Obama economics advisor Robert Reich admits that old people are going to have to die for the common good.  As Obama makes insurance companies public enemy number one, doctors are threatening to go Galt.

 

Compare:  the Russians are reserving their right to pre-emptive nuclear strikes, while the United States is going to allow Russia to inspect our nuclear arsenal.

 

The maker of the new swine flu vaccine says that they think children will need two doses to be protected from the swine flu.  It takes a decade to get a drug to market to help men perform, but they're rushing this thing to the market in less than a year.  I don't trust it.

 

Apparently Michelle Obama is afraid of South Carolina.

 

The new hate crimes bill could infringe on the First Amendment.

 

Everybody in the United States will have to stop breathing by 2020 to save the planet.

 

Residents at an apartment complex in Oregon were told that they had to take down their American flags because somebody in their "diverse community" might be offended.

 

During this recession, Cuba is implementing more capitalist policies.

 

Even the United Nations is now saying that the actions taken to remove would-be Chavez clone Manuel Zelaya as President of Honduras was constitutional.

 

The Pay Czar is threatening to take bonuses away from the lower-level AIG employees.  They can't have the poor people making too much money.

 

Despite spending over $9,000 per student per year on education, students' scores in math still are not improving.  Georgia still lags behind the national average.

 

A mother was arrested for washing her daughter's mouth out with soap.

 

A federal judge fined birther lawyer Orly Taitz $20,000 for filing a frivolous lawsuit.

 

Now the GBI is involved in the alleged break-in of the Mayor's office.

ObamaCare Will Pass Committee

Last night the health insurance industry released a report showing how much more Americans are going to pay for health insurance as a result of the Baucus bill, and the Democrats were not happy with it.  By 2019 the average family will spend an extra $4,000 on health insurance, which the Democrats say will be subsidized by taxpayers so it won't seem so bad.  The Reason Foundation says that what insurance companies really want is a stronger individual mandate and larger subsidies, and the Cato Institute says that this may be what ultimately kills ObamaCare.  What should kill it is the experience of RomneyCare, where their state health plan is already starting to ration care, just like they do in Britain, where a grandfather was sent to his death by their government health care system..

 

The "stimulus" has primarily helped to save jobs of government school teachers and administrators.  These are the same government school teachers and administrators that suspended an Eagle Scout over a pocket knife left in his car and suspended a Cub Scout for taking a camping utensil to school to eat his lunch.

 

The White House has been attacking Fox News.  What would the Nobel committee say?

 

Criminal aliens are going to be housed in hotels.

 

The military wants a new bunker-buster fast.  They deny that Iran is the reason for the urgency, but really, does it matter why they want it?  It will make for great explosion porn.

 

A new study is out from Britain that says that welfare destroys the work ethic.

 

The United Auto Workers gave up nothing in terms of base pay, health or pension benefits in their "concessions" to the automakers.

 

Obama's advisor on Muslim affairs loves Sharia law.  She wants to be an oppressed woman.

 

Some members of Congress are considering a tax credit for your pets.  This is another stupid idea, although not as stupid as most that Congress has.

 

Fox News reports on the waste of tax dollars to guarantee air service to small towns.  Macon is one of those small towns.

 

The state claims that the "stimulus" package employed over 10,700 young people through a summer jobs program.  At least they're going to stop using roadside signs to advertise the pork from the "stimulus" bill.

 

Do you want to know how to get money from your neighbors' wallets?  Ask Johnny Isakson!

 

Overly offended people with racial chips on their shoulders are still demanding that Valdosta's school superintendent resign because the Obama speech was not shown to students there.

 

Apparently City Clerk Stan Martin and his accomplice from the IT department were looking for Donald Walker's hidden treasure during their break-in of the mayor's office.  I don't care what they were looking for; this was just stupid.

What Happened to Global Warming?

In 2009 about 40% of all income tax revenues will go towards paying interest on the debt.  No debt is actually being paid off.

 

Limiting lawsuits could save the federal government $41 billion over the next decade, and Congress wouldn't have to spend a dime to do it.  Here's a preview of the so-called individual mandate, courtesy of RomneyCare in Massachusetts.

 

A preview of ObamaCare, courtesy of formerly Great Britain, with a woman who was taken off of her medications and a feeding tube after being told she had only a few days to live.  After her daughter intervened, she was put back on her medications and she's still alive nine months later.  An Iraqi war veteran, also in formerly Great Britain, has died after being given a lung transplant from a smoker who had cancer.

 

Members of Congress won't read the health care bill, but even if they tried they wouldn't know what it meant.  Some Senators are making sure that their states are exempt from the most expensive provisions of the bill.  As they rush to pass this monstrosity, remember that the so-called benefits won't kick in for three years.

 

A majority of voters would prefer middle-class tax cuts to spending more money to reform health care.

 

As the BBC asks what happened to global warming, a playoff baseball game in Denver was snowed out on Saturday, record low temperatures hit Montana, and cold threatens potatoes in Idaho.  That's not enough for ABC's Charlie Gibson, who says that global warming is helping the Taliban, or for Sen. Lindsey Graham (RINO-SC), who signed on to the cap-and-tax bill in the Senate.

 

The Obama administration is going to destabilize Pakistan just so they can hand contracts off from American companies to local Pakistani companies.

 

North Korea launched more missiles over the weekend, and Iran laughed at the idea that the United States might do something to stop them from getting nuclear weapons.  How's that Nobel Peace Prize working out?

 

Even Hugo Chavez says that Obama didn't do anything to deserve the Nobel Prize.  Here are some of the people who were passed up so the Norwegian liberals could reward Obama for not being George Bush.  The Nobel Committee is still defending their choice.  Obama, despite his efforts to remake the American economy in the European mold, did not win the Nobel Prize in economics.

 

Israel says that they will attack Iran if there are not sanctions in place by Christmas.

 

The real threat from swine flu is the media and government-fueled panic.

 

The Wall Street Journal explains why the tax credit to create jobs not only won't work, but is also bad policy.

 

Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio was being too effective at cracking down on criminal aliens, so the White House took away his immigration policing powers.  Congress decided to strip 300 miles worth of border fencing from a spending bill.  They're preparing for amnesty.

 

President Obama promised that he would end "don't ask, don't tell."

 

The United States Constitution made the bestseller list this week.

 

The Interior Secretary wants to spend $96 million to move a bunch of horses.

 

Law enforcement officials in North Carolina seized 929 gallons of white liquor last week.  What a waste.

 

A store in Detroit was caught selling Viagra, alcohol, and pornography to food stamp recipients.

 

Johnny Isakson is still pushing his tax credit for first-time homebuyers.

 

Houston and Peach Counties are seeking federal "stimulus" dollars to continue to pay exorbitant administrative salaries.

 

Rep. Jim Marshall had a town hall meeting in Dublin on Saturday, and the parasites showed up to beg for your money.

 

Georgia's largest teacher group is suing the state for cutting the salary supplement to teachers who have been National Board Certified.

 

The Macon Telegraph may have been five days behind me, but they finally got to the news on what would happen to votes for Donald Walker.

 

A lawyer's opinion says that the 2007 raise in the mayor's salary was illegal.

 

Two Warner Robins city employees are on administrative leave after breaking into the Mayor's office.