Congressional rocket scientists stripped themselves of their health insurance when they passed ObamaCare
Remember when San Fran Nan said they needed to pass the bill in order to find out what was in it?
Hey, Peloco: how does Obama’s @$$ taste now? Details:
The law apparently bars members of Congress from the federal employees health program, on the assumption that lawmakers should join many of their constituents in getting coverage through new state-based markets known as insurance exchanges.
But the research service found that this provision was written in an imprecise, confusing way, so it is not clear when it takes effect.
The new exchanges do not have to be in operation until 2014. But because of a possible “drafting error,” the report says, Congress did not specify an effective date for the section excluding lawmakers from the existing program.
Under well-established canons of statutory interpretation, the report said, “a law takes effect on the date of its enactment” unless Congress clearly specifies otherwise. And Congress did not specify any other effective date for this part of the health care law. The law was enacted when President Obama signed it three weeks ago.
In other words, Congress loses their health coverage until the law requires them to join the health insurance exchanges…that don’t exist until 2014. Hey, whatever happened to “If you like your plan, you get to keep your plan?” 
Congress apparently applied as much due diligence vetting this bill as Dan Rather applied to that memo in 2004.
A rhetorical question asked by the author:
The confusion raises the inevitable question: If they did not know exactly what they were doing to themselves, did lawmakers who wrote and passed the bill fully grasp the details of how it would influence the lives of other Americans?
You know what’s the most stunning aspect of this story? Not that the functional morons in Congress didn’t read the bill and thus missed nuggets like this. No, it’s the fact that the NYT ran this story! What, was Bill Keller on vacation this week or something?
They missed the loophole that allowed kids with pre-existing conditions to be excluded. Then they forgot to include the provision to allow loser adult children to continue mooching off Mom and Dad’s insurance. It seems like each day, the feds are discovering their oversights and incompetence in the bill. But hey, what could possibly go wrong(er)?
Pelosi: I pray to St. Joseph that he helps us pass this baby-killing legislation as “life-affirming”
Now she’s taunting people of faith. That’s all this (video link) could be. From San Fran Nan’s cakehole attached to that botox-riddled grill of hers:
Today is the feast of St. Joseph the Worker, particularly important to Italian-Americans. It’s a day where we remember and pray to St. Joseph to benefit the workers of America, and that’s exactly what our health-care bill will do. … Every order that you can think of was there [on a list of endorsements], saying they wanted us to pass this life-affirming legislation.
I’m sure God will be pleased, no? For those of you on the left, that was a sarcastic and rhetorical question.
Slaughter solution bitterly opposed in 2005…by Slaughter!
She fought it in 2005 with San Fran Nan when the GOP was busy using the Constitution as Charmin. But today? Not so much.
But put aside the present for the moment and step into my time machine. Dial the date selector back to 2005 when the Republican majority in Congress approved a national debt limit increase using a self-executing rule similar to the Slaughter Solution.
Guess who went to federal court to challenge the constitutionality of the move? The Ralph Nader-backed Public Citizen legal activists. Here’s the argument they made:
“Article I of the United States Constitution requires that before proposed legislation may “become[] a Law,” U.S. CONST. art. I, § 7, cl. 2, “(1) a bill containing its exact text [must be] approved by a majority of the Members of the House of Representatives; (2) the Senate [must] approve[] precisely the same text; and (3) that text [must be] signed into law by the President,” Clinton v. City of New York, 524 U.S. 417, 448, 118 S.Ct. 2091, 141 L.Ed.2d 393 (1998).
“Public Citizen, a not-for-profit consumer advocacy organization, filed suit in District Court claiming that the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, Pub.L. No. 109-171, 120 Stat. 4 (2006) (“DRA” or “Act”), is invalid because the bill that was presented to the President did not first pass both chambers of Congress in the exact same form. In particular, Public Citizen contends that the statute’s enactment did not comport with the bicameral passage requirement of Article I, Section 7 of the Constitution, because the version of the legislation that was presented to the House contained a clerk’s error with respect to one term, so the House and Senate voted on slightly different versions of the bill and the President signed the version passed by the Senate.
“Public Citizen asserts that it is irrelevant that the Speaker of the House and the President pro tempore of the Senate both signed a version of the proposed legislation identical to the version signed by the President. Nor does it matter, Public Citizen argues, that the congressional leaders’ signatures attest that indistinguishable legislative text passed both houses.” (Emphasis added)
And now for the kicker, guess who joined Public Citizen in that suit with amicus briefs:
- Nancy Pelosi
- Henry Waxman
- Louise Slaughter
If the Pelosi/Slaughter/Waxman argument against using a self-executing rule against a debt limit increase measure sounds familiar, it should because it’s the same argument now being used by Republicans to oppose the Slaughter Solution for moving Obamacare through the House.
Hey, I’m not saying she’s a hypocrite or anything! I’m just saying that she acts one way when it suits her fancy, then acts the opposite way when she suits her fancy. OK, now that you mention it, that does make her a stark raving moonbatty hypocrite.
Quote of the day, “Pelosi says pass the health bill FIRST and THEN find out what’s in it” edition
I am sooooooo looking forward to this San Fran wench getting relegated back to the minority where she belongs. Details from the nag’s mouth:
But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.
Don’t read the bill first, folks. If you do, then it’ll ruin the ending as to how awesomely McAwesome this health care thingy really is!
House Dems to be screwed by Senate Dems and Obama?
That seems to be a prevailing theory/scenario floating around the blogosphere and punditry. Jeff Anderson at the Weekly Standard has a great piece on the leverage that swing-district House Dems and why they should really think through voting for ObamaCare.
Here’s the thinking:
In order for ObamaCare to become law, the House has to approve the Senate bill as is. Most wavering House Dems (both “moderate” and liberal Dems) don’t like the Senate bill for a variety of reasons. For the Lap Dog Dems, the federal funding of abortions is a bitter pill to swallow. For the libs, it’s the absence of the government-run insurance plan. For both, the inclusion of the Cornhusker Kickback, the Louisiana Purchase, and the South Florida Medicare Advantage Exception are all hated.
Normally, in most legislation, this is where a joint House-Senate conference committee would occur. They would get together, see what a final bill that could possibly pass both chambers would look like, then craft one and send it to the House. Once it passes the House, then the Senate would vote on it. However, the Senate minority could filibuster it at that point. Given that this is a 100% certainty to occur in the Senate, the only thing that could prevent such a filibuster is for the House to approve the exact same Senate bill, without changes, as is. Because if there is even a slight change, it is technically a new bill and must go back to the Senate…where it will meet its end due to the filibuster.
Anywho, what Pelosi and Obama are trying to do is to convince wavering House Dems to vote for the Senate bill, and then for the Senate to pass, via the nuclear option, any and all “fixes” that the House wants. With the nuclear option, these “fixes” would be passed with 51 votes, despite the fact that they are not budgetary matters but are strictly legislative and policy matters (which the nuclear option is not meant for, but will be used for anyway).
But here’s the thing: If the House does pass the Senate bill, with the belief that the Senate Dems will pass their “fixes” after the fact, what incentive does the Senate (or Obama) have to do that? After all, once the House passes the Senate bill, Obama will sign it into law…voila ObamaCare! The House can bellyache and scream all they want about how the Senate Dems didn’t follow through, but there will be two things they can do about it: jack and squat. Reid and the Senate Dems, and Obama, will blame the lack of a “fix pack” on the Republicans, tell the House Dems “Hey, we tried! Sorry ’bout that!”, and that will be the end of it. Thus, the wavering House Dems (who would have gotten promises for a public option, Stupak aboriton-funding ban, removal of the corrupt vote buys, etc.) will have diddly to show for their betrayal of the public and their loyalty to their party over their country and constituents.
Anywho, read the column. There’s more than just this theory, and it’s insightful reading.
Quote of the day, “Pelosi bastardizes the English language” edition
San Fran Nan decides to torment the spirit of Noah Webster with this gem:
Bipartisanship is a two-way street. A bill can be bipartisan without bipartisan votes.
Bill Clinton just called to say Pelosi needs a little work on her verbal pirouettes.
Thoughts from the health care “summit”
Just in case you were naive enough to think this was an actual solicitation of input from the opposition, this should kill your naiveté:
After a brief period of consultation following the White House health reform summit, congressional Democrats plan to begin making the case next week for a massive, Democrats-only health care plan, party strategists told POLITICO.
This story was put out while the “summit” was still going on, well before it ended. In other words, the Dems had their plans already lined up, and nothing that occurred in the “summit” was going to change that.
The Vice-Plagiarist feared that inviting the Republicans to the “summit” could “could end up being not good”. Boy, how right he was! It turned out to be a disaster…for the Democrat Party.
Opinions are coming in from around the punditry, but, to coin a phrase overutilized by the global “warming” cultists, the science is settled: the GOP scored a massive body blow to Obama and the Dems. Jay Nordlinger:
This health-care summit was a bad idea for the Democrats for this reason: They have long benefited from a perception — a perception greatly abetted by the media: The Republicans don’t care about health care, they don’t know about health care, they are the Party of No. All the ideas and caring are on the Democratic side.
It is not so, and it has never been so. And now everybody knows it.
Indeed, everybody does now know it. David Gergen:
The folks in the White House just must be kicking themselves right now. They thought that coming out of Baltimore when the President went in and was mesmerizing and commanding in front of the House Republicans that he could do that again here today. That would revive health care and would change the public opinion about their health care bill and they can go on to victory. Just the opposite has happened.
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer…yeah, that Wolf Blitzer:
It looks like the Republicans certainly showed up ready to play.
The Hill’s A.B. Stoddard:
I think we need to start out by acknowledging Republicans brought their ‘A Team.’ They had doctors knowledgeable about the system, they brought substance to the table, and they, I thought, expressed interest in the reform. I thought in the lecture from Senator John McCain and on the issue of transparency, I thought today the Democrats were pretty much on their knees.
…The Republicans seem genuinely well-prepared, seem to have thought through the question of who should speak about what rather carefully, and several of them have done quite a good job making their case against the Democrats’ approach. If we were to judge by debating points, Republicans certainly won the morning handily.
The Democrats are offering a lot of anecdotes about Baby Jesus, Steny Hoyer’s answering machine, and the teeth of the dead. Obama is at his least persuasive; he keeps ruling GOP arguments out of bounds for one reason or another – don’t hold up a copy of the bill, don’t cite Washington because people are angry at Washington right now, don’t ask for equal time, don’t focus on where we disagree, don’t remind me of what I said as candidate. I don’t think that transforms the skeptics into supporters.
That is my biggest takeaway of the whole thing: Republicans used charts, graphs, stats, analyses, quotes…in other words, facts. Democrats used no facts, but opted instead to use anecdotes, sob stories, and tearjerkers…the things on which you do not base good public policy!
Check out the tag line under my blog title: Why think when you can feel? The Democrats have proved me right time and time again, and this time, they do so in a way that leaves no doubt. The science is settled (how’s that tasting now, lefties?): Liberals govern on feeling, not on thinking. Thinking just isn’t their forté.
Also, McCain did a great job making B.O. look like the thin-skinned, petulant brat that he is. When McCain pointed out the shadiness of the backroom deals (e.g. FL getting exempted from ObamaCare in three huge Democrat counties) and asked why they get to keep using Medicare Advantage when the rest of the country wouldn’t be able to, B.O. looked uneasy and tried throwing him a bone: “That’s a legitimate question.” A question he wasn’t going to answer, mind you, but a legitimate question nonetheless. Other points McCain made about promises that B.O. made on the campaign trail prompted B.O. to get snippy: We’re not campaigning anymore, I won, etc. In other words, to paraphrase Miles from Risky Business when asked by Joel if everything he had said was “just bull$h!t”: That was just bull$h!t, John, I’m surprised you and America listened to me!
Anywho, let’s close with some ludicrous, and laughably so, comments:
Pelosi: This isn’t a health care reform bill, as much as it is a jobs bill. ‘Cuz the bill will create four million jobs, 400k of them nearly overnight. Or something.
Tom Harkin (D-IA): Having different insurance risk pools is akin to Jim Crow laws. Or something.
Reid: No one’s talking about reconciliation. Obama: Um, I am.
Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY): Here’s a sob story about a woman who was “forced” to wear her dead sister’s dentures due to lack of health insurance. Or something.
Another nugget from Slaughter: “Not nitpick, but think about all the people out there every day, the number of people that have excess deaths because they have no health insurance.” I wasn’t aware a person could have more than one death. The stuff I learn from Washington. But hey, you can’t spell “Slaughter” without “laughter”, right?
American people: Hey, 59% of us want Washington to scrap the whole thing and start from scratch. Dems to American people: Screw you, Mr. and Mrs. Normal America, but we’re going to cater to the whackjob 34% who want our partisan socialist bill.
Night and Day, “Pelosi blames the president for job losses” edition
The fact is that President Bush’s misguided economic policies have failed to create jobs. Since President Bush took office, the country has lost 3.2 million jobs, the worst record since President Hoover. And today we learned that in July nearly half a million people gave up looking for a job.
Job losses are taking a real toll on the financial security of American families. While Democrats are fighting for opportunity, jobs, and economic security for working families, Republicans continue to focus on helping those who need help the least.
According to today’s survey, while the national unemployment rate dropped slightly, it still stands at a near record high. In addition, the unemployment rate for African Americans was still over 11 percent in July, and the unemployment rate for Hispanics was 8.2 percent in July.
With today’s unemployment numbers making 2003′s look like a Sunday picnic, here’s what San Fran Nan is saying today:
(crickets chirping)
You know, if I didn’t know any better, I’d swear that she’s quieter than Monica Lewinsky in her kneepads simply because the current president is of the same party that she is.
End of days: CNN’s Jack Cafferty accuses Obama and the Dems of being…gasp!…liars!
No way!
Way.
How dare they? President Obama, Democratic leaders have decided to bypass a formal House and Senate conference committee in order to reconcile those two health care bills. Instead, White House and Democratic leaders will hold informal — that’s another word for secret — negotiations, meant to shut Republicans and the public out of the process.
What a far cry from the election, when then candidate Obama pledged to — quote — “broadcast health care negotiations on C-SPAN, so that the American people can see what the choices are” — unquote.
President Obama hasn’t even made a token effort to keep his campaign promises of more openness and transparency in government. It was all just another lie that was told in order to get elected. …
…The Democrats insist this is all on the up-and-up, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying — quote — “There’s never been a more open process for any legislation.” — unquote.
Really? This is the same Nancy Pelosi who you may recall, after becoming speaker in 2006, promised the Democrats would have — quote — “the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history” — unquote.
Here’s hoping the voters remember some of this crap when the midterm elections roll around later this year.
Those geniuses (genii?) at CNN sure have a nose for the obvious, don’t they? That journalism school edyookashun really paid off, huh?
In related news, Hell freezes over.
Snow in Florida this weekend and Cafferty shaking off the B.O. Kool Aid? Strange days, indeed. I blame global warming.
Pelosi: Of course Obama was lying during the campaign! He had to get elected, didn’t he?
Speaker Botox LOLing about what a shameless liar B.O. was during the campaign:
Or is it Pelosi having the gall to dismiss The One’s C-SPAN campaign promise with a blithe, chuckling, “There are a number of things he was for during the campaign!” Don’t blink or you’ll miss it, but it’s there. The Democratic Speaker of the House, laughing out loud — at a press conference — at what a shameless liar Bambi had to be to get elected. There’s a Change moment if ever there was one.
The Clinton years proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Dems are totally content with pathological liars in their party, so long as the agenda is advanced. Dishonor is cool, kids, and don’tcha forget it!
Quote of the day, “Pelosi’s Stalinist view of the Constitution” edition
Dude, this chick is just scary as Hades. Details:
As Harry Reid’s health care bill moves to the Senate floor, the debate over Obamacare finally begins in earnest. Shouldn’t the Constitution be part of that debate? By what authority, after all, could Congress force all Americans to buy health insurance?
In a recent press release, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., argues that constitutional objections to the individual mandate are “nonsensical,” because “the power of Congress to regulate health care is essentially unlimited.” We eagerly await your orders, ma’am!
Wow. According to her logic (and that of statists like her), Congress can pretty much regulate anything without limit…that annoying and pesky Constitution thingy be damned.
AP poll finds that people like ObamaCare…until they learn that it actually isn’t free and has a ginormous price tag and stuff
What?? You mean the free lunch isn’t actually free? Excerpt:
When poll questions were framed broadly, the answers seemed to indicate ample support for Obama’s goals. When required trade-offs were brought into the equation, opinions shifted — sometimes dramatically…
“These trade-offs really matter,” says Robert Blendon, a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health who follows opinion trends. “The legislation contains a number of features that polls have shown to be popular, but support for the overall legislation is less than might be expected because people are worried there are details about these bills that could raise their families’ costs.”…
For example, asked if everyone should be required to have at least some health insurance, 67 percent agreed and 27 percent said no.
The responses flipped when people were asked about requiring everybody to carry insurance or face a federal penalty: 64 percent said they would be opposed, while 28 percent favored that.
It’s actually sad that a quarter of respondents are totally cool with jailing someone who doesn’t want to buy health insurance. Fortunately, 2/3 of Americans find it appalling that Pelosi, Reid, and Obama are A-OK with imprisoning their countrymen who can’t/don’t buy insurance.
More:
A ban on denial of coverage because of pre-existing medical problems has been one of the most popular consumer protections in the health care debate. Some 82 percent said they favored the ban, according to a Pew Research Center poll in October.
In the AP poll, when told that such a ban would probably cause (there’s no “probably” to it! – Ed.) most people to pay more for health insurance, 43 percent said they would still support doing away with pre-existing condition denials, but 31 percent said they would oppose it.
Costs for those with coverage could go up because people in poor health who’d been shut out of the insurance pool would now be included, and they would get medical care they could not access before.
“I’m thinking we’d probably pay more because we would probably be paying for those that are not paying. So they got to get the money from somewhere. Basically I see our taxes going up,” said Antoinette Gates, 57, of Atlanta. …
To be frank, I think it speaks poorly of the level of awareness of Americans that they didn’t know these side effects of socialized medicine. Everyone wants free health care, yet when they find out it is the opposite of free, they (a) are genuinely surprised and (b) diametrically opposed.
Pelosi: Of course it’s fair that we send you to jail if you don’t buy health insurance!
From RCP (with video for context):
Stone: Do you think it’s fair to send people to jail who don’t buy health insurance?
Pelosi: … The legislation is very fair in this respect.
Just to recap:
When George Bush wants to listen in on phone calls between terrorists, that’s stepping on our freedoms.
When Pelosi wants to toss people in the slammer because they won’t purchase a product, that’s the epitome of freedom.
Got it. Thanks for the clarification.
By the way, Ace has a most excellent analysis of economic and personal freedom and how socialism squashes them both every time it’s tried. Do yourself a favor and read it, but savor the excerpt:
Socialism never attends a party without an escort of coercive state behavior. It is a historic fact — indeed, an economic fact — that as the state seeks to regulate and control more and more economic activity, they must, of course, control more and more human activity.
Economic activity is human activity, after all. Economics is not somehow divorced from humanity. Economic choices are not made of their own volition, passive-voice, without an actor. People make economic choices — and socialism demands an ever-increasing control over those choices, and therefore the people who make those choices. (Or, more accurately: formerly made those choices.)
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Right out of the box they propose sending people to jail for acting as economic subversives and economic traitors and yet I am, somehow, paranoid if I point out that the first step here is to reduce human freedom and increase state power. …
Well put, Ace.
Many Dems commit political career suicide in passing Obamacare/Pelosicare
There are a number of so-called “Blue Dog” Democrats who voted for cap-and-trade, against the interests and wishes of their conservative districts. Turns out that their vote was for naught, as cap-and-tax will never be passed into law. The Senate has shown no interest in taking it up, meaning that Blue Dog “yes” votes left them hanging out to dry.
Many Blue Dogs learned their lesson from that fiasco and voted “no” on the House’s socialized medicine bill this weekend. However, a few did not. Excerpt:
Other than Perriello [(D-VA)] — who was the target of 12 consecutive postvote GOP e-mails accusing him of breaking his promises — a handful of members immediately stood out for casting especially tough votes.
Three of them are junior legislators from highly competitive Ohio districts: first-term Reps. Mary Jo Kilroy and Steve Driehaus, and Rep. Zack Space, a second-term Democrat from a district that backed GOP presidential candidate John McCain in 2008.
Kilroy, who is facing a 2010 rematch against the Republican she narrowly defeated by 2,300 votes last year, took to the House floor Saturday morning to declare her support for the bill.
“This is a moral issue,” Kilroy said, in a speech that noted her own trials with multiple sclerosis.
Driehaus, like Kilroy a freshman Democrat who is facing a rematch with his 2008 opponent, former GOP Rep. Steve Chabot, voted for the health care bill only after it was stripped of funding for abortion.
“This isn’t about politics,” Driehaus told POLITICO before stepping into the chamber to cast his vote. “It’s about doing what’s right for the American people. I haven’t thought a minute politically what this might mean. (That’s good, because you’re not going to be worrying about political calculations henceforth! – Ed.) This is about doing the right thing.”
For Perriello, Kilroy, Driehaus and Space, the health care bill represented their second exceptionally tough vote this year — the other was on the cap-and-trade bill — meaning they’ve essentially doubled down on the ambitious national Democratic agenda.
New York Democratic Rep. Bill Owens, who was sworn into office earlier this week after winning a closely watched special election, may also find that he sinks or swims with the national party next year.
Winning narrowly in what was originally a three-way contest, Owens voted for Saturday’s bill after holding an ambiguous position regarding a public option. It didn’t take the National Republican Congressional Committee long to pounce, saying his vote “could be the quickest broken promise in the history of Congress.”
If Sen. Lieberman is to be believed, the Senate will not be passing the House’s socialized medicine plan, or any other plan that puts the feds in the business of selling health insurance. If that’s the case, then the Blue Dogs who voted to thumb their noses at their constituents in order to appease Nancy Pelosi learned nothing from the cap-and-tax vote and will be undoubtedly booted in 2010, a year in which the left’s political climate was already cloudy at best.
The left’s disdain for Blue Dog districts’ constituents were summed up thusly:
Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen, the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, didn’t seem worried.
“Their constituents voted for them to make big decisions for the country,” Van Hollen said after the vote.
No, sir, they did not. These elitists were sent to represent the wishes of their districts, and their districts do not overflow with San Fran Nan types.
Let this also serve as a lesson to all of you who voted for Democrats in red districts because you believed them when they told you “You can trust us! We’re not liberals!”: Democrats lie. They are and always will be Democrats first. They do not care about your wishes. They only want to further the left’s agenda for as long as you’ll leave them in there to do it.
Elections have consequences, and this last election’s consequences are heading towards destroying this once-great nation.
Democrats try to “polish a turd” by rebranding “public option”
The left is really trying to shove this government-run health care plan down our collective throats. Since the public has soured on the “public option”, despite B.O.’s best (and most repetitive) efforts to sell us on it, the left has settled on a different tactic: call it something else. Details:
In an appearance at a Florida senior center, the Democratic leader referred to the so-called public option as “the consumer option.” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., appeared by Pelosi’s side and used the term “competitive option.”
Both suggested new terminology might get them past any lingering doubts among the public – or consumers or competitors.
“You’ll hear everyone say, ‘There’s got to be a better name for this,’” Pelosi said. “When people think of the public option, public is being misrepresented, that this is being paid for with their public dollars.”
Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot?
Not “being paid for with their public dollars”? OK, I’ll bite: just how does the government plan on paying for this thing if not with “public dollars”?? Recalls Allah:
Wasn’t this the same woman who, not three weeks ago, went on Charlie Rose to mumble about maybe passing a VAT to address health-care costs and giant deficits more generally? Hello?
Then again, let’s remember what kind of intellect we’re dealing with here.
Elections have consequences, people. Fortunately, we will rectify that little problem next year.
Quote of the day, “Pelosi’s constitutional ignorance” edition
It’s always been scary that San Fran Nan was in the House, much less Speaker of it. To have such a profound ignorance of the Constitution she has sworn to protect is outrageous. Details:
CNSNews.com asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday where the Constitution authorized Congress to order Americans to buy health insurance–a mandate included in both the House and Senate versions of the health care bill–Pelosi dismissed the question by saying: “Are you serious? Are you serious?”
Pelosi’s press secretary later responded to written follow-up questions from CNSNews.com by emailing CNSNews.com a press release on the “Constitutionality of Health Insurance Reform,” that argues that Congress derives the authority to mandate that people purchase health insurance from its constitutional power to regulate interstate commerce.
Notes Gateway Pundit:
Or, in other words, the Pelosi-Obama regime can force you to buy burnt monkey droppings if they want to.
Or any other product, for that matter. How soon until the feds require that we buy cars from Government Motors?
Her claim that the Interstate Commerce Clause of the Constitution would be hilarious were she not (a) a sworn protector of the Constitution (well, “officially” anyway) and (b) not second in line to the presidency. By her “logic” (and I do use that term oh so loosely), Congress can compel you and me to buy anything. Is that really what the Founding Fathers wrote or intended? The only money that Congress can constitutionally compel us to pay is in the form of taxes. A “health insurance mandate” doesn’t count.
Also, considering that each state’s health insurance industries are contain within the state (thanks to Congress’ prohibition of allowing health insurance companies to operate across state lines), what we’re talking about here is intrastate commerce, not interstate. As such, Congress has no Interstate Commerce authority to force us to buy health insurance, or any other darned thing for that matter.
Pelosi: Conservative dissent could instigate assasinations, or something
San Fran Nan, still crazy after all these years. Excerpt:
In a rare display of public emotion, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) choked up Thursday morning recalling the anti-gay rhetoric in the late 1970s in San Francisco, which culminated in the assassinations of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay S.F. Board of Supervisors member, and Mayor George Moscone.
Pelosi, responding to a question about whether anti-government rhetoric posed a threat of domestic violence, said that protesters on all sides had the right to voice their opposition to legislative proposals in a heated fashion. But then Pelosi — whose weekly press conferences are legendary for their highly scripted nature and her rote recitation of Democratic message points — paused and took a deep breath as she recounted the tone of some protests in her hometown.
“I saw this myself in the late ’70s in San Francisco,” she said, a reference to the antigay laws and protests as that city became the flashpoint of the civil rights movement for gays and lesbians. “It created an environment in which violence took place.”
Got it? Why, we’re all just a bunch of would-be Lee Harvey Oswalds, awaiting the catalyst for knocking off dissenters. Ace’s headline sums up her statement and motives nicely: “Madame Pelosi: Please Stop Kicking Our Asses Politically Or There Will be Violence“
Anyone get the feeling she’s flailing about desperately, afraid that her death grip on the House Speaker position is loosening? Besides, I didn’t know that tears were possible when your face was all pumped up with botox. I learn something new every day.
Weekend roundup
I’ve obviously been out of the loop the last several days, but I’ve had a little time to get caught up today. To recap:
Snitch Central has been closed down. Who knew that America would resent Chicago-style Orwellian thuggery?
Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-MN) with the quote of the day: “It appears that President Obama is making great progress on climate change, he is changing the political climate in the country back to Republican”
Canuck doctors: Hey, you know what? Our universal health care system sucks!
Alleged “Blue Dog” Eric Massa (D-NY) comes out of the closet as a proponent of single-payer socialized medicine, and he says he doesn’t care if he gets tossed out of office in his Republican-heavy district for it. Takeaway quote: “I will vote adamantly against the interests of my district if I actually think what I am doing is going to be helpful.” Translation: I am Pelosi’s lapdog before I am an advocate for my constituents.
Obama says now that a “public option” isn’t necessary for health care reform. Question: trial balloon or white flag? I’m leaning towards the former. Anywho, Peloco says the “public option” is staying in the House bill, while Kent Conrad (D-ND) says it doesn’t matter if it’s in the House bill because the “wasted effort“ will never be in the Senate bill.
When he’s not busy trashing our soldiers as Stalins or Pol Pots, Dick Durbin the Turban likes to spend his time refusing to meet with constituents (which he described as “not productive”) while instead meeting with health care lobbyists (which he described as very productive).
After stealing the MN Senate seat from the real winner Norm Coleman, MN moonbat Al Franken discovers that doggone it, people don’t like him.
According to Pelosi’s “logic”, SEIU union thugs are un-American
Think about it: Pe-loco says that protestors of ObamaCare are un-American. Speaker Botox’s defenders say that she meant “drowning out voices” was the un-American part.
OK, let’s run with that for a sec, shall we? If that’s what you believe that San Fran Nan really meant, then you must concede that the union thugs in SEIU who are violently attacking ObamaCare protestors are, by logical extension and by definition, un-American. Details, quoting SEIU’s own announcement:
Action: Opponents of reform are organizing counter-demonstrators to speak at this and several congressional town halls on the issue to defend the status quo. It is critical that our members with real, personal stories about the need for access to quality, affordable care come out in strong numbers to drown out their voices.
I look forward to Pe-loony coming out and loudly condemning SEIU for such blatant “un-American” activity.
By the way, SEIU apparently had their irony-rich announcement brought to their attention, so they’ve redacted their original wording (the “drown out” part) and replaced it with “counter”. Unfortunately for them, Al Gore’s invention has made it possible to capture their original “un-American” call to arms. Boy, for a bunch of tough guys who assault people, they sure are cowardly when it comes to their own words, no?
Night and Day, “Pelosi’s definition of ‘patriotism’” edition
San Fran Nan (with an assist from Steny Hoyer) today in a USA Today editorial:
These disruptions are occurring because opponents are afraid not just of differing views — but of the facts themselves. Drowning out opposing views is simply un-American.
Got it? Dissent is “un-America”!
Peloco in January 2006 when being heckled by the Code Pinkos:
But Pelosi never summoned help from police or security. She negotiated with the hecklers and at times even thanked the protesters for their advocacy and enthusiasm.
“It’s always exciting,” she told reporters after the meeting. “This is democracy in action. I’m energized by it, frankly.”
Peloco in June 2007, again with those bastions of blossoming patriotism, the Code Pinkos:
“Preserving our planet is a national security issue…,” Pelosi said and paused. “I always say the best preparation for combat is combat,” she responded. “So just go for it, I respect your enthusiasm.”
At the end of her remarks, she said, “Instead of fighting with us, which is your right to do, let’s work together.”
Got it? Dissent is “energizing”, a sign of “enthusiasm”, and is a “right” deserving of “respect”!
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism…well, sometimes. Right, Nan?
Speaker Botox Pelosi accepts money from “villains”
Remember when Madame Moonbat, aka San Fran Nan, went on a red-faced rant the other day on how dastardly and diabolical those “evil” insurance companies are? She called them “villains” and “immoral”, right?
Well, that begs the question: What do you call someone who accepts campaign contributions from such wicked “villains”? Details:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., called health insurers “the villains” in the unfolding story of the health care overhaul on Thursday, ratcheting up an anti-insurer theme trotted out by President Obama earlier this month and encouraged by other Democratic leaders in Congress.
“It is somewhat immoral what they are doing. Of course, they have been immoral all along how they have treated the people that they insure,” MSNBC’s Luke Russert quoted her as saying. “They are the villains in this.”
Pelosi, of course, has accepted campaign contributions from said villains this year and in the past, as have most of her Democratic colleagues. Pelosi’s campaign committee, for example, took $2,500 from AFLAC’s political action committee on April 13. But she’s not giving the money back just because she thinks the sources are immoral and villainous.
Exit question: Who is stupider, Peloco for looking like a Left Coast loony for trashing an industry that 80% of Americans are satisifed with and dissing such contributors, or the insurance companies for donating to a crazy Marxist wench (or whatever the PC term for “crazy Marxist wench” is) sworn to their destruction?
Speaker Botox Pelosi goes ape feces on those horrible people who provide your health insurance
From Allah:
Good stuff. Take one of the most unpopular politicians in America, have her go off half-cocked in a crude attempt to satisfy Democratic demands for a villain to demagogue in selling ObamaCare, then wait for the backlash. Bonus points for using the same Orwellian rhetorical device Paul Ryan called Katrina Vanden Heuvel on last night, namely, exploiting the language of competition to push one of the most anti-competitive domestic measures in American history.
So what was it that San Fran Nan said? Just some nutso anti-capitalist dog squeeze that made her underlings want to whisk her away:
“They are the villains in this,” Pelosi said of private insurers. “They have been part of the problem in a major way. They are doing everything in their power to stop a public option from happening. And the public has to know that. They can disguise their arguments any way they want, but the fact is that they don’t want the competition.”…
“It’s almost immoral what they are doing,” added Pelosi, who stood outside her office long after her press conference ended to continue speaking to reporters, even as aides tried in vain to usher her inside. “Of course they’ve been immoral all along in how they have treated the people that they insure with pre-existing conditions, you know, the litany of it all.”
I mean, the nerve of those insurance companies! To think that they wouldn’t want to sit by idly and watch the imperial federal government drive them into bankruptcy and closure while the feds create a monopoly. Of course, federal monopolies aren’t nearly as bad as private sector monopolies, right?
Dems: Failure to pass the socialized medicine bill will be the fault of the minority who are powerless to stop it
Um…what? From Politico:
With their health care plans in a holding pattern — and no George W. Bush to kick around anymore — Democrats are casting about for somebody to blame.
House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn says that Republicans have “perfected ‘just say no.’” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said insurance companies are chalking up “immoral profits.”
But even if they won’t acknowledge it publicly, most Democrats in Congress know the truth: It’s their own colleagues who are slowing down progress in both the House and the Senate.
Back in 2005, Democrats made a concerted push to recruit conservative candidates to help them win in Republican-leaning districts. The strategy worked, propelling the party to power in 2006 and giving it a larger majority in 2008.
But now Democrats at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue are grappling with the downside: To get health care reform through Congress, they’re going to have to get it past these new, more conservative members of their party — specifically, the seven Blue Dogs on the Energy and Commerce Committee who have delayed consideration of the bill.
They do know that if every single Republican voted against MarxCare, it wouldn’t make any difference…so long as all of the Democrats voted for MarxCare. They do know that, right? Now while my math skills may be rudimentary, I do know that there are many more Dems in the House than there are Republicans. Ergo, the GOP can’t stop Pelosi et al even if they wanted to.
Weekend roundup
Obabykiller appears at Notre Dame, a Catholic school, and says that they need to be more accepting of infanticide. Naturally, the MSM touts his bravery (because wanting babies to die is indicative of raw manly courage, no?). Nope…no liberal media bias!
Not content with being the inspiration for a word that reflects journalistic malfeasance, NYT leftist columnist Maureen Dowd decided to further erode what shreds of credibility she had remaining by plagiarizing a lefty blog. This, of course, qualifies her to be vice-president now.
While Nancy Peliar is going down quicker than Monica Lewinsky in her presidential kneepads over her lies regarding what she knew about torture/waterboarding, she does the predictable: she blames Bush. Alas, Leon Panetta (THAT Leon Panetta?) throws her under the bus on that one, too. So what does the White House have to say on the matter? “Present.“
Dick Cheney says that Obama is a threat to national security. Gore slams Cheney for the comments, saying that he at least waited two years before accusing Bush of “betraying the country” and “playing on our fears.” There’s a problem with the Goreacle’s comments, though: he’s lying through his teeth. “Two years” apparently means “a little less than one year, several times.” His lies were easy to verify via a cursory search on the Internet, which led Adam White to quip: “I’ve turned Al Gore’s own creation against him.”
Bubba recently said that Dick Cheney should avoid criticizing Oprompter, because “I do hope he gets some target practice before he goes out again.” Someone please tell me that a man who had a little “shooting” trouble of his own around a certain blue dress is not critiquing anyone’s aim!
Obama’s knee slappers
President Oprompter was schmoozing with his constituents this weekend at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. How’s about this:
The president acknowledged perceptions that he’s a media darling: “Most of you covered me; all of you voted for me.
A rare nugget of honesty from a demonstrable pathological liar is refreshing to see, no?
Via the Washington comPost, Wanda Sykes indicts the press, albeit unintentionally:
“It’s funny to me that [photographers] have never caught you smoking,” Sykes told the president, “but they always catch you with your shirt off. I know you’re into this transparency thing, but I don’t need to see your nipples.”
Then, via the UK’s Telegraph, she indicts herself as a classless, crass loudmouth:
This is what she said: ”Rush Limbaugh said he hopes this administration fails, so you’re saying, ‘I hope America fails’, you’re, like, ‘I dont care about people losing their homes, their jobs, our soldiers in Iraq’. He just wants the country to fail. To me, that’s treason.
“He’s not saying anything differently than what Osama bin Laden is saying. You know, you might want to look into this, sir, because I think Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker. But he was just so strung out on OxyContin he missed his flight.”
She then concluded: ”Rush Limbaugh, I hope the country fails, I hope his kidneys fail, how about that? He needs a good waterboarding, that’s what he needs.” Obama seemed to think this bit was pretty hilarious, grinning and chuckling and turning to share the “joke” with the person sitting on his right.
There’s not much room for differing interpretations of what Sykes said. She called Limbaugh a terrorist and a traitor, suggested that he be tortured and wished him dead.
What was his crime? Hoping that Obama’s policies – which he views as socialist – will fail.
That’s way, way beyond reasoned debate or comedy and Obama’s reaction to it was astonishing. …
And Obama laughing when someone wishes Limbaugh dead? Hard to take from the man who promised a new era of civility and elevated debate in Washington.
Interesting that Sykes’ shameful comment about Rush wasn’t covered by the Washington comPost in that first link. But no, no liberal media bias!
Compare and contrast, though, jokes about Pelosi dying:
CBS Sports golf analyst David Feherty apologized Sunday to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for a morbid joke that went bad in a Dallas magazine.
Feherty, one of the most popular golf analysts for his sharp wit and self-deprecating humor, was among five Dallas residents who wrote for “D Magazine” on former President George W. Bush moving to Dallas.
“From my own experience visiting the troops in the Middle East, I can tell you this though,” Feherty wrote toward the end of his column.
“Despite how the conflict has been portrayed by our glorious media, if you gave any U.S. soldier a gun with two bullets in it, and he found himself in an elevator with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Osama bin Laden, there’s a good chance that Nancy Pelosi would get shot twice, and Harry Reid and bin Laden would be strangled to death.”
Feherty, a former Ryder Cup player who grew up in Northern Ireland, has gone to Iraq over Thanksgiving the past two years to visit with U.S. troops, and he created a foundation to help wounded soldiers.
“This passage was a metaphor meant to describe how American troops felt about our 43rd president,” Feherty said in a statement. “In retrospect, it was inappropriate and unacceptable, and has clearly insulted Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid, and for that, I apologize. As for our troops, they know I will continue to do as much as I can for them both at home and abroad.”
For the record, it’s not funny to wish death on anyone. It is sad, though, that the MSM gets its dinosaur boxers in a bunch when someone jokes about Pelosi dying, but hoots it up when someone jokes about Rush dying. But again, nope…no liberal media bias!
Confirmed: Pelosi’s a liar
Remember when Pe-loco said that she was never briefed by the CIA on harsh interrogation tactics, otherwise she would have objected? Yeah, well, as usual, anything that comes from San Fran Nan’s piehole must be taken with a block of salt. Details:
Intelligence officials released documents this evening saying that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was briefed in September 2002 about the use of harsh interrogation tactics against al-Qaeda prisoners, seemingly contradicting her repeated statements over the past 18 months that she was never told that these techniques were actually being used.
In a 10-page memo outlining an almost seven-year history of classified briefings, intelligence officials said that Pelosi and then-Rep. Porter Goss (R-Fla.) were the first two members of Congress ever briefed on the interrogation tactics. Then the ranking member and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, respectively, Pelosi and Goss were briefed Sept. 4, 2002, one week before the first anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. …
Lemme guess: The CIA’s lying, right?
If she were genuinely appalled at the prospect of bloodthirsty jihadist camelhumpers being inconvenienced, why didn’t say anything when she was told? Maybe because she knew Americans really didn’t want to hear a Left Coast loco boo-hooing for Islamonutjobs so soon after 9/11, and thus, decided to forsake her principles in favor of political expediency? But now that Americans have pathetically forgotten about 9/11, opting instead to bask in the glow of having elected an American Idol instead of a leader for president, it’s safe to come out as appalled…right, Nan?
Elections have consequences.
Night and Day, “Pelosi’s memory” edition
Pe-loco before:
Pelosi says she was briefed by Bush administration officials on the legal justification for using waterboarding — but that they never followed through on promises to inform her when they actually began using “enhanced” interrogation techniques
“In that or any other briefing…we were not, and I repeat, were not told that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation techniques were used. What they did tell us is that they had some legislative counsel … opinions that they could be used,” she told reporters today.
Pe-loser after:
In September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique CIA program designed to wring vital information from reticent terrorism suspects in U.S. custody. For more than an hour, the bipartisan group, which included current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), was given a virtual tour of the CIA’s overseas detention sites and the harsh techniques interrogators had devised to try to make their prisoners talk.
Among the techniques described, said two officials present, was waterboarding, a practice that years later would be condemned as torture by Democrats and some Republicans on Capitol Hill. But on that day, no objections were raised. Instead, at least two lawmakers in the room asked the CIA to push harder, two U.S. officials said.
Dishonesty ain’t just a river in Egypt. Or something. You get the drift.
Democrats “the party of death”
Matthew 7:16 says that “You will know them by their fruit. Grapes aren’t gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles, are they?”. Obviously, the Democrats are bearing rancid, spolied fruit, and by this fruit, we know them very well. From the Faith World blog at al-Reuters:
[Archbishop Raymond] Burke, who was named prefect of the Vatican’s Supreme Court of the Apostolic Signature in June, told the Italian Catholic newspaper Avvenire that the U.S. Democratic Party risked “transforming itself definitively into a party of death for its decisions on bioethical issues.” He then attacked two of the party’s most high profile Catholics — vice presidential candidate Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — for misrepresenting Church teaching on abortion.
He said Biden and Pelosi, “while presenting themselves as good Catholics, have presented Church doctrine on abortion in a false and tendentious way.”
Pelosi drew U.S. bishops’ scorn for saying in a television interview last month that the Church itself had long debated when human life begins. Biden is a practicing Catholic who also supports abortion rights and analysts have said he could help woo wavering Catholics into Obama’s fold. Both argue that they cannot impose their religious views on others.
Burke said pro-life Democrats were “rare” and that it saddened him that the party that helped “our immigrant parents and grandparents” prosper in America had changed so much over the years.
Burke made headlines as archbishop of St. Louis for his public attacks on public figures who strayed from Catholic teaching. He suggested during the 2004 presidential campaign that Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry, a Catholic, should be denied communion because of his views on abortion. Several bishops said at the time they would not give him communion and the media staked out churches where he attended Mass to see if he received it.
It’s so simple that even a Geico caveman can see it: you cannot claim to be a Christian in general, and a Catholic in particular, if you distort and ignore Scripture’s position on abortion. Christ will know you from the fruits you bear.
Pelosi: We don’t need to drill for fossil fuels; instead, we need natural gas
Michelle Malkin exposes Pe-loco’s need to enroll in an elementary school-level earth science class:
Nancy Pelosi’s mouth emits a lot of natural gas, but she has no idea about how the other kind is produced.
Conn Carroll at Heritage teaches her a lesson:
The day before the Democratic National Convention Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) went on Meet the Press and told Tom Brokaw:
I’m, I’m, I’m investing in something I believe in. I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels. … These investments in wind, in solar and biofuels and focus on natural gas, these are the real alternatives.
As we pointed out at the time, natural gas is not an alternative to fossil fuels … it is a fossil fuel. And as the “Energy Kids Page” of the Energy Information Administration (EIA) explains, it is a fossil fuel that needs to be drilled for.
One would hope that Pelosi had studied up on the issue since then, but her comments after the House passed a bill codifying the ban on most of the Outer Continental Shelf shows she still does not. Pelosi told The Washington Post: “We’re not trying to give incentives to drill, we’re giving incentives to invest in renewables and natural gas that will take us where we need to go.”
Again, where does Pelosi think natural gas comes from? If the government is “giving incentives” to natural gas, it is giving incentives to drill. That is how we get natural gas.
And to think that Madam Botox is second in line to the presidency!
Pelosi: “Can we drill your brains?”
San Fran Nan, as boorish as she is ditzy. From Politico:
House Democratic leaders and protesters waving McCain signs had a war of words Tuesday at a press event outside an old train station. The demonstrators interrupted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with chants of “Drill here! Drill now!”
Pelosi paused and asked the group, “Right here?”
Seeming to enjoy the back and forth, she followed with another question: “Can we drill your brains?”
She went on to refer to the protesters, who continued to chant sporadically, as “handmaidens of Big Oil.” Arguing that increased offshore drilling would reduce gas prices by only a couple of pennies a decade from now, she referred to the demonstrators as the “2-cents-in-10-years-crowd.”
Cut her a little slack for talking about drilling. She hasn’t been “drilled” since the Nixon administration! No doubt she thinks that the 70% of Americans who support drilling must need lobotomies, too.
Besides, her “2-cents-in-10-years” is another shining example of that Marxist moonbat’s economic ignorance. Only a fool would think that talking about drilling would drop the price of oil over $30 a barrel and nearly 50 cents a gallon (which it has, in just over a month) but actually getting oil would reduce the cost of gas by only two cents in a decade.
Her dog-washer Steny Hoyer weighed in, too:
Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer swiped at the demonstrators, too, saying that “sophomoric chanting” won’t solve the energy crisis and that “all thinking Americans know” — stressing the word “thinking” and looking at the crowd — that America doesn’t have a quarter of the word’s fossil fuels yet uses a quarter of the world’s energy.
I wonder if Hoyer considers the 70% of Americans who support drilling as “thinking Americans”. While “sophomoric chanting won’t solve the energy crisis”, apparently Hoyer thinks that tire gauges and begging the Saudis for more oil will solve it.
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