Nancy Pelosi is throwing fits, alleging that those opposing Obamacare are bringing swastikas to the meetings.

Some of them are. They clearly believe that Obamacare has fascist characteristics. I agree with them.

But Nancy Pelosi had nothing to say when her own constituents were waving swastikas, in her own district:

Pelosi's visions of swastikas






These are all from Pelosi's San Francisco district. These are all her constituents. Where was her self-righteous outrage then?

It was OK then, you see, because the attendees at those 'orchestrated' demonstrations were anti-Bush and pro-Pelosi.

This is the CongressClown who stands 3rd in the line of succession to the presidency. This is the leader of the Democratic Party in the United States House of Representatives.

Health care town hall meeting turns violent

According to local media reports, the larger-than-expected crowd gathered outside the Hillsborough County Children's Board building, where several hundred people, mostly in opposition to government health care, began to loudly chant and scuffle with organizers posted at doorways after the auditorium filled to capacity.

So what's the deal? Obama and his henchmen would have you believe that this is all part of a vast, right wing conspiracy. That it's all 'orchestrated'. That it is anything but 'spontaneous'.

So what if it is? So what if all of that is true?

It's called 'dissent'.

When Obama was doing it, he called it 'community organizing'. When those who dare to oppose him do it, it is labeled with the more negatively connotated 'orchestrated'.

It's called 'dissent', and it is an old American tradition, and it derives from that pesky Bill of Rights.

Why are people becoming so loud, so obnoxious, and so - in some cases - violent?

Because they no longer have a voice in their government. Obama's idea of 'bipartisanship' is as much a joke as is 'post-racial America'. Obama's idea of 'bipartisanship' is that you swallow his crap sandwiches and keep your mouth shut ... remember his famous comment over Porkulus Americanus? "I won".

Yup. Obama won. Therefore, the rest of you have a nice cup of Shut The F**k Up.

We were much better off when we had a Democratically-controlled Congress and a Republican president. They spent so much time battling each other that not much got done.

When the government doesn't get much done, that is a blessing in disguise for the rest of us. The Founders knew what they were doing when they set up all those checks and balances. But now, with a Congress that is essentially a mindless automaton in lockstep with Obama, we're seeing some of those tinfoil hat brigade conspiracy theories coming to pass. Maybe those characters were not entirely the whackjobs we thought they were.

Between Obamacare and Obama's threat to take retribution against any who dare criticize his puppets in the Congress, I'd say the tinfoil hatters were right on the money all along, at least on this one.

The rhetoric coming out of the White House is beginning to sound like it comes out of Caracas. No surprise there. This administration is now showing its true colors.

White House Vows to Defend Democrats on Health Reform, Will 'Punch Back Twice as Hard'

Top White House officials counsel Democratic senators, promise the party and allies will respond with twice the force if any individual lawmaker is criticized in television advertising.

Top White House officials counseled Democratic senators Thursday on coping with disruptions at public events on health care this summer, officials said, and promised the party and allies would respond with twice the force if any individual lawmaker is criticized in television advertising.

There ya go. Exercise free speech in opposing this president, and the White House will move to crush you.

Read that again. "...if any individual lawmaker is criticized ...".

We can't criticize the government without retribution from the government? Without the president openly bringing his party machine down on those who dare to do an Oliver?

Why doesn't Obama just move Hugo Chavez into the office with Rahm "The Fish" Emanuel?

From Wednesday's New York Times:

White House Affirms Deal on Drug Cost

Here are a couple of excerpts:

Pressed by industry lobbyists, White House officials on Wednesday assured drug makers that the administration stood by a behind-the-scenes deal to block any Congressional effort to extract cost savings from them beyond an agreed-upon $80 billion.

The White House - Obama's White House - has made a secret deal with the pharmaceutical companies. In his scheming and plotting over Obamacare, The One cut a deal to make sure the drug companies would be protected. But then in the House version of the Obamacare bill, there is a provision that "... would allow the government to negotiate drug prices and demand additional rebates from drug manufacturers."

Too bad Obama didn't let his minions in the House know about this little arrangement he had made in the back rooms, Chikaga-style.

In response, the industry successfully demanded that the White House explicitly acknowledge for the first time that it had committed to protect drug makers from bearing further costs in the overhaul. The Obama administration had never spelled out the details of the agreement.

So much for transparency. So much for keeping lobbyists out of government. You remember that little promise, don't you? Of course, Obama started jamming 'exemptions' for that right from the beginning.

The new attention to the agreement could prove embarrassing to the White House, which has sought to keep lobbyists at a distance, including by refusing to hire them to work in the administration.

Ya think?

Have a read of the entire article.

The Democrats are having a fine snit fit over the 'orchestrated' demonstrations at these so-called 'town hall meetings'.

As though there is something wrong with such a thing.

Voters, citizens, have been getting together to get things done since Adam and Eve had their first political discussion.

Obama was a 'community organizer'. What did he do? He went around and 'orchestrated' action on the part of groups of citizens.

So ... if it was OK for Obama, why is it not OK for anyone else?

Well ... it would be fine if the 'orchestrations' were for The Obamessiah.

'Bipartisanship' to Obama means you take what he spews forth, accept it as Holy Gospel - which in his mind, and in the minds of his minions, is exactly what it is ... and join the mindless throngs. Kind of like in that flick "The Wall".

The Obamanians are throwing hissy fits over that Joker poster. Obama doesn't care much for it. Huh. What about all those murderous posters and commentary about George Bush? Or as Malkin calls it, "assassination fascination". All from the Democrats.

Pelosi is alleging that demonstrators are bringing swastikas to these town hall meetings. I don't know why that would upset Pelosi; the Democrats have been doing that for years:



They have linked the swastika and the term 'fascist' with George Bush since his first term. Get over it, Nancy.

Back when the Repubs were protesting the churlishly rotten behavior of the Democrats, Hillary Clinton said this:

“I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration, somehow you’re not patriotic, and we should stand up and say, ‘WE ARE AMERICANS AND WE HAVE A RIGHT TO DEBATE AND DISAGREE WITH ANY ADMINISTRATION!’”

Get over it, Hillary.

And now, Obama is calling for the ratting out to the Federal government anyone who dares criticize him.

Get over it, Barack.

At dozens of the town hall meetings taking place back in individual districts this month, numbers of reports have surfaced that ACORN members have taken to publicly berating normal citizens who are simply there to ask the questions they have about the viability of a plan that requires the government to spend an additional $1,000,000,000 dollars. They wonder this especially when 85% of people in America are satisfied and content with the health insurance system they've already chosen to engage.

So what's the answer to good old fashioned grass roots voters actually being engaged with their representatives in Congress while they're home during the August break?

The White House believes it's best to intimidate and silence, or at the bare minimum -- report.

Go ahead and report me

The White House is wanting people to rat off those who are less than enthusiastic in embracing The One's healthcare fiasco.

Please rat me off to Barack Obama. Please rat me off to Rahm "The Fish" Emanuel. Please rat me off to all of Barack Obama's racist thug pals.

Please take the opportunity to do so by emailing to:

Flag@WhiteHouse.gov

Thank you.

Back to Cash for Clunkers ...

It seems that the Department of Transportation created three new divisions to administer the Cash for Clunkers program.

A pile of that billion bux allocated for Cash for Clunkers goes for administrative costs. That's one reason they went through it so quickly. It's like those charities, where you donate a hundred bux for Starving Gay Midgets in LaLa Land or some such, and discover that ninety of those bux go into the pockets of those running the 'charity'.

First, DOT created and staffed an entirely new organization with three divisions to administer the clunkers program.

Second, the funding was allocated to cover extensive Help Desk telephonic support, promotional materials, mailers, travel, Web site development and maintenance. Plus, extensive administrative and managerial staffing was also funded. There is staffing to manage the contracts, to review the auto dealer submissions, to develop Executive Branch and Congressional reporting, and to provide investigatory oversight for the program.

and

Federal government staffing for 3 divisions doesn't come cheaply. Add to it other administrative and overhead costs for office space, telecommunications, power, equipment and furniture, as well as costs for meetings, photocopying, paper, pens, help desk support. When the government's costs of running the program are totaled up, each clunker is likely to cost taxpayers around $6,000 per car.

And there's more: A quick look just at staffing reveals staggering costs. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) was given approval to staff up for the completion of a series of four Forms connected with the program (Forms 1070, 1071, 1073 and 1075). Estimated staffing for these 4 reports was 160,353 man hours, or approximately 78 employees.

You can read the entire article here:

Guess what 'Cash for Clunkers' is really costing you

And the Senate is poised to shovel another $2,000,000,000 into the Obama toilet.

Any wagers as to where our Colorado senators are in this? Lock-stepped right in there with the Obamanians. Because they are Obamanians. They didn't drink the Kool-Aid, they guzzled it by the gallon. I don't think an original thought has passed through their heads since before the election.

I was somewhat shocked to discover that not only do 94% of the children in the tri-county area come from homes making more than $75,000 per year, but that they also qualify for gummint handouts.

In yesterday's Tribune-Democrat article, entitled "Breaking cycle with education", we see that "The minimum family income limit to qualify for TANF is $75,000 per year".

Wow. Leece and I don't qualify for welfare ... oooops ... TANF ... because we pull down less than that; we don't make the minimum. I don't understand why you would qualify for TANF if you made $75,000 a year or more ... but I guess the Democrats understand it.

The article also tells us that 94% of the kids 18 and under(I though 18 year olds were adults but apparently not for welfare ... oooops ... TANF) in the tri-county area are from families that qualify for TANF. Ergo sum (I like that phrase, it sounds kind of like, you know, pseudo-intellectual, rather Obamanian, if you will ... or even if you won't), if $75,000 is the minimum for TANF, all those families make that much or more.

And here we thought we were a dirt-poor rural area.

Anyhoo ... for several decades, the last fifty years or so, we have built up a huge government bureaucracy, employing hundreds of thousands, if not more, people at the federal, state, and local levels. The purpose of this bureaucracy is to ensure that more and more people get more and more from the government. It's purpose is to build that attitude of entitlement and dependence, and that bureaucracy has done exceptionally well at it. Enough so as to elect a president who is firmly committed to making sure that the entire country becomes beholden to Him and His government.

TANF is supposed to have training classes to break the 'welfare mindset'. To get people out of the dependency mindset. That seems counterproductive to me, and contrary to the primary mission of the government these days, which is to create that sense of entitlement and dependency and then reinforce it.

So I was perplexed. Puzzled.

Then came the dawn ...

At the moment, it's all about creating jobs. TANF creates an entirely new bureaucracy, you see, with a lot more employees. Many of them may even be former TANF clients. See? The program works!

So we have two bureaucracies ... one dedicated to creating a mindset of entitlement and dependency, and the other to breaking it.

A never ending circle. And, since the instruction under TANF is done with typical government effectiveness and efficiency ... the likelihood of anyone really being weaned from the public tit is pretty slim. So people can easily be reprogrammed by The Other Bureaucracy.

It's downright brilliant.

You gotta read this one:

Buy American v. safety makes for battle over military uniforms

The US military uses a special fabric in current military uniforms. It's imported from Australia. It's imported because no US manufacturer can make anything like it because of environmental reasons.

This specific rayon cannot be produced in the United States for environmental reasons, so Congress passed an amendment allowing it to be temporarily imported. The extension expires, or "sunsets," in 2013, but that year's defense budget is being determined now. The idea of the sunset is to give U.S. manufactures time to come up with a comparable product.

There's more:

American competitors have submitted alternatives, but so far, independent testing conducted at the North Carolina State University College of Textiles indicates TenCate's Defender M -- with its foreign-made fibers -- is the most flame-resistant.

Dr. Roger Barker, who specializes in clothing flammability at the College of Textiles, conducted a demonstration for CNN, and Barker says Defender M resists fire the longest of other fabrics.

"What the new heat-resistant materials are able to do is add seconds of protection, so that seconds of protection can be the difference between a severe burn or a survival burn," Barker said.

The Senate voted against it.