Obama's health care excuses

I listened very carefully to this video from the House of Obama in which a guy says that no cuts in benefits in Medicare are going to happen.

Instead everything is going to get better.

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First he mumbles that Rx drug costs are going to go down and that when the doughtnut hole is reached there will be no co-pays and preventive drugs will be free.

And he evidently doesn't know how Medicare Part D works. He says that after you have reached the doughnut hole, which is $2700, which is the sum of your copays and what the Insurance company has paid, you have to pay 100%.

Nope. Not true. You can purchase insurance that will cover part of the generic drugs you need until you reach $4350. If you have no additional insurance, at $4350 total out of pocket costs you pay 5% of the drug cost or a copay of %2.40, which ever is higher. (The 5% always is.)

Now if he doesn't know that you can bet your Grandma's training bra that he doesn't know what he is talking about in the new plan.

The second thing he claims is that more doctors, both GPs and specialists are going to be available for both rural and urban America. Now he doesn't say how that is going to be done. Outside of heavy incentives or guards or both I don't see that happening. Most people don't go to school for years and years to have a lower standard of living than the kid who took shop in high school and became a plumber.

The third thing is that since the government will know everything about you, you won't have to answer all those pesky questions when you go to new doctor, a new clinic or a new hospital. Not doing so will save all of 5 minutes, especially since most Medicare patients have a GP, a Clinic and a hospital... But even then any Doctor I want treating me is going to want to go over the drugs in the database with the patient... Just to be sure.

And of course there is the fact that the whole world will know about that nasty STD you caught down Tijuana.

At that point the video switches to an out take of Obamie's PR meeting with AARP in which he looks into the camera and swears that benefits won't be cut....

And the check's in the mail, the Beamer is paid for and he will respect us in the morning.

Yeah. Sure. No doubt.

What you can expect from Obama's

"Public Option" healthcare plan.

10) Your annual breast exam is done at Hooters.

(9) Directions to your doctor's office include "Take a left when you enter the trailer park."

(8) The tongue depressors taste faintly of Fudgesicles.

(7) The only proctologist in the plan is "Gus" from Roto-Rooter.

(6) The only item listed under Preventive Care Coverage is "an apple a day..."

(5) Your primary care physician is wearing the pants you gave to Goodwill last month.

(4) "The patient is responsible for 200% of out-of-network charges," is not a typographical error.

(3) The only expense covered 100% is "embalming."

(2) Your Prozac comes in different colors with little M's on them.

AND THE NUMBER ONE SIGN YOU'VE JOINED A VERY CHEAP HEALTH CARE PLAN:

(1) You ask for Viagra and they give you a Popsicle stick and Duct Tape.

Hat tip to Jimmy M who gave me one that I changed.

Professional Democrats Organize?

But they say Organizing for America, which was known as Obama for America during the presidential campaign, is quietly and deliberately building a system of professional field organizers and trained volunteers that has already inspired thousands of community events and reached millions of people.

Staffers have been hired so far in 42 states, said the group's deputy director, Jeremy Bird, and he expects to have paid workers in every state in a matter of weeks.

And they will never attend a Town Hall meeting, call a Congress Critter.... and they will respect you in the morning...

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Now we know why Obama wanted this:

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which will lead to this:

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Democrats organize

Tony Mack, a Massachusetts volunteer for the group, said he has had no trouble in recent days recruiting people to staff phone banks, asking voters in Maine to keep the heat on Sen. Olympia J. Snowe, a moderate Republican who is undecided on the healthcare bill.

What? Organize amd pressure a Congresss Critter??? How dare they. How undemocratic.

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Los Angeles Times swims again

The press just can't stay out of the tank.

The network is powered by local volunteers who often have left-leaning goals. But the president, now that he is in office, has in many cases adopted a centrist approach that accommodates Republicans and business groups.

Name me just one.

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Palin, etc., as a fascist

I had a bet with myself that at some point those who oppose Obamie would be called racist by the Lefties.

I lose.

Instead we are Fascists.

And more ominously: "The most important variables...are the conservative elites' willingness to work with the fascists (along with a reciprocal flexibility on the part of the fascist leaders) and the depth of the crisis that induces them to cooperate."

That description sounds eerily like the dire straits our Congressional Republicans find themselves in right now. Though the GOP has been humiliated, rejected, and reduced to rump status by a series of epic national catastrophes mostly of its own making, its leadership can't even imagine governing cooperatively with the newly mobilized and ascendant Democrats. Lacking legitimate routes back to power, their last hope is to invest the hardcore remainder of their base with an undeserved legitimacy, recruit them as shock troops, and overthrow American democracy by force. If they can't win elections or policy fights, they're more than willing to take it to the streets, and seize power by bullying Americans into silence and complicity.

When that unholy alliance is made, the third stage -- the transition to full-fledged government fascism -- begins.

The third stage: being there
All through the Bush years, progressive right-wing watchers refused to call it "fascism" because, though we kept looking, we never saw clear signs of a deliberate, committed institutional partnership forming between America's conservative elites and its emerging homegrown brownshirt horde. We caught tantalizing signs of brief flirtations -- passing political alliances, money passing hands, far-right moonbat talking points flying out of the mouths of "mainstream" conservative leaders. But it was all circumstantial, and fairly transitory. The two sides kept a discreet distance from each other, at least in public. What went on behind closed doors, we could only guess. They certainly didn't act like a married couple.

Now, the guessing game is over. We know beyond doubt that the Teabag movement was created out of whole cloth by astroturf groups like Dick Armey's FreedomWorks and Tim Phillips' Americans for Prosperity, with massive media help from FOX News. We see the Birther fracas -- the kind of urban myth-making that should have never made it out of the pages of the National Enquirer -- being openly ratified by Congressional Republicans. We've seen Armey's own professionally-produced field manual that carefully instructs conservative goon squads in the fine art of disrupting the democratic governing process -- and the film of public officials being terrorized and threatened to the point where some of them required armed escorts to leave the building. We've seen Republican House Minority Leader John Boehner applauding and promoting a video of the disruptions and looking forward to "a long, hot August for Democrats in Congress."

All of this by people who never saw an anti-war demonstration they didn't like, a terrorist they couldn't release and a chance to insult or a chance to attack Bush they would turn down.

It is amazing. The hypocrisy of the Left and the Democrats defies description.

Even more amazing is the total ignorance and complete lack of understanding of what is going on in the country which is not fascism but a rebirth of citizens acting alone or as part of a group to take the country back from the tyranny of the Left.

That they are using the tactics of the Left makes it all the sweeter.

Hat tip to squeaky over at TalkLeft.

Terrorist 1 US 0

Reporting from Washington -- U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. is poised to appoint a criminal prosecutor to investigate alleged CIA abuses committed during the interrogation of terrorism suspects, current and former U.S. government officials said.

A senior Justice Department official said that Holder envisioned an inquiry that would be narrow in scope, focusing on "whether people went beyond the techniques that were authorized" in Bush administration memos that liberally interpreted anti-torture laws.

Yes, that is something that Americans are just dying to know. I mean of all the things that I want to know this covers it... The only thing more interesting would be what happened to Amelia Earhart...

Some cases have not previously been disclosed, including an instance in which a CIA operative brought a gun into an interrogation booth to force a detainee to talk, officials said.

Other potentially criminal abuses have already come to light, including the waterboarding of prisoners in excess of Justice Department guidelines, and the deaths of detainees in CIA custody in Afghanistan and Iraq in 2002 and 2003.

Opening a criminal investigation is something Holder "has come reluctantly to consider," the Justice Department official said, emphasizing that Holder had not reached a final decision but noting that, "as attorney general, he has the obligation to follow the law."

Well, health care looks like a no starter, cap and trade is down with an 8 count so you know Obamie has to do something to get his Leftie base off his behind..

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