GOP senators force vote on health law repeal

Washington Times  "The repeal effort was made a day after a judge in Florida ruled that Congress breached the Constitution when it enacted the measure last year. U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson was the second jurist to say that Congress exceeded its powers by requiring Americans to buy insurance, known as the "individual mandate."

"But the Florida judge went further, saying that if the individual mandate is unconstitutional, so is the entire law."

ObamaCare; now what?  " But Democrats have an easy fallback for that, which will be their argument from now until the cows come home ... repealing ObamaCare will be a deficit-buster. Yup! They will say that they cannot support the amendment because they are conscious about our deficit problems. We've already blown this argument to smithereens, but the fact is that deficit concerns will continue to be a fallback"....
 "Let's just recognize that the Democrats recognize that Americans are very upset about the lack of jobs out there, so pretty much any bill they try to pass is going to be called a jobs bill. They could pass a bill requiring you to wash your hands 10 times a day and they would call it a jobs bill because somebody has to manufacture the soap."  Emphasis added.

All GOP senators now on board for Obamacare repeal  "The following GOP senators were the last ones to sign on as co-sponsors of S. 192: Lamar Alexander (TN), Thad Cochran (MS), Susan Collins (ME), Chuck Grassley (IA), John Hoeven (ND), Richard Lugar (IN), and Lisa Murkowski (AK).
"Certainly, Judge Vinson's ruling on Monday helped to sway some of these stragglers."
Even the RINOs came on board.

http://www.pritchettcartoons.com/rino.htm

Obama, Not Egypt, is Biggest Threat to U.S. Energy Prices

Heritage  "Government policies that ban economically feasible energy development while subsidizing economically unsustainable ones only raise energy costs rather than lowering them. What the U.S. economy really needs is a truly free-market energy approach, one that includes (1) real nuclear energy reform, not more loan guarantees; (2) predictable and sensible coal regulations; (3) reduced regulation on renewable energy; (4) an end to all energy subsidies; and (5) common-sense limits to environmental litigation."
This story has gone viral in just a few hours and the TW is just one of many blogs carrying it.

Mini adventure: how far can an electric car go?

BBC News  "Brian Milligan drove a Mini Cooper Electric from London to Edinburgh in four days with

nine stops for up to ten hours to recharge its batteries. A stage coach used to make the same journey in two days and two nights." Article and cartoon from Rich Terrell

http://terrellaftermath.com/

The Egypt Crisis in a Global Context: A Special Report

STRATFOR intelligence report  "Mubarak’s failure to design a credible succession plan guaranteed instability on his death. Since everyone knew that there would be instability on his death, there were obviously those who saw little advantage to acting before he died. Who these people were and what they wanted is the issue."

 

Global Nerdy  "The article, which appeared on China’s official Xinhua News Agency’s English news site on Monday, displays text about a new genetic discovery relating to MS, attributed to “agencies.” Alongside is an x-ray rendering of the diminutive brain of the cartoon character Homer Simpson, attributed as a “file photo.”"  

 Hat tip to Jeff Hayden, Plano, TX


D'oh! Homer 'photo' exposes Chinese media piracy  "Despite the foreign-language polishers, the writers and editors who produce English and other foreign-language content for Xinhua and other state-owned media organizations do not have the cultural awareness necessary to avoid errors like the misuse of the Homer Simpson illustration,"...


Read the latest articles in the Tunnel Wall here.
Popular posts have been:
Omaha Beach D-Day landings from above and this one: 
D-Day; Omaha Beach then and now photographs

The Mubarak Mirage and the ElBaradei Conundrum

Max Boot  "I am by no means trying to minimize the possible dangers ahead or to wish away the problems with ElBaradei. But the reality is that he has become the only realistic alternative to Mubarak, at least in the short-term. If he does the job right, he could preside over an interim government that would lift the state of emergency and allow the emergence of genuine political parties. Hopefully, we would see the emergence of popular leaders who would not be beholden to the Muslim Brotherhood. But for now, our options are severely limited."

http://townhall.com/cartoons/chipbok

Israeli leftist admits: Human rights is a business

Israel Today "An Israeli journalist and filmmaker deeply involved in the liberal-driven human rights movement wrote in a blog post earlier this month that he has come to the sad realization that the movement he was so ideologically beholden to is little more than a great way for a lot of people to make money."

Bolton Says Obama ‘Basically Doesn’t Care About’ Foreign Policy, Compares Him to Dukakis

John Bolton, the former U.S.
Ambassador to the United Nations,
is a favorite of foreign
 policy conservatives.

CNS News  "“I think this marks him as different from the long line of American presidents since Franklin Roosevelt beginning on December the 7th (of) 1941, virtually all of whom got up every morning worrying about threats to American national security policy,” Bolton told the group, including several U.S. ambassadors who had gathered to hear him speak.

"“It motivated them. It was the top of their agenda. I just don’t think that’s the priority that President Obama has,” he said."

ObamaCare Un-Constitutional. So What? Gimme the Freebies!

Lloyd Marcus  "In schools across America, liberals continue to infect the minds of our children with the virus of anti-Americanism while indoctrinating them with their secular progressive agenda. Decades of the Left's stealth warfare against America via public education has created an epidemic of apathy about freedom, entitlement mindsets and a warped value system where government controlled outcomes equal fairness." Lloyd Marcus, Proud Unhyphenated American

ObamaCare

Another Victory on the Road to Repeal  "“It is difficult to imagine that a nation which began, at least in part, as the result of opposition to a British mandate giving the East India Company a monopoly and imposing a nominal tax on all tea sold in America would have set out to create a government with the power to force people to buy tea in the first place. If Congress can penalize a passive individual for failing to engage in commerce, the enumeration of powers in the Constitution would have been in vain for it would be ‘difficult to perceive any limitation on federal power’ and we would have a Constitution in name only.”"

Encore presentation: Obamacare Unconstitutional - How Did This Happen?

Does Judge Vinson’s Opinion Impose a “Major Limit” on Federal Power?  "I also think Orin’s argument that the individual mandate must be constitutional under existing precedent because dissenting justices argued that such precedents allow the federal government to regulate “virtually anything” is problematic. First, Orin is relying upon the opinions of dissenting justices, when the majority opinion in Raich maintained that limits on federal power remained." Scholarly dialogue on the issue from Volokh Conspiracy


http://terrellaftermath.com/

In The Age Of Obamacare Will Your Medical Information Be Used Against You?  "The Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 gives the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services the power to determine the amount of fines and whether civil penalties will be applied to those who violate HIPPA. As with many other tenants of Obamacare, this was not present within the healthcare reform bill. It is simply another example of a legislative sleight of hand that makes it easier to slide in questionable pieces of legislation that may not be popular by distracting with one hand while the other is doing the dirty work."

The liberal, unbiased media attacks:
AP: Judge Vinson ‘Has Own Med Story’  "From an intentionally misleading Associated Press:"....
"This is the "med story" the AP put in its headline? Weren’t we led to believe that Judge Vinson had some healthcare issues that make his ruling hypocritical? Isn’t that the impression any casual reader who does not pore over the article would take away?
"And how on earth does this "health care story" help "shed light on his ruling Monday"? Is it wrong to pay your doctor in cash? Is it an outworn concept?"

ABC’s Sawyer Spikes Federal Judge’s Ruling Against ObamaCare  "ABC’s World News didn’t utter a syllable about the major setback for the Obama administration. Anchor Diane Sawyer, however, made room for a full story on an impending snowstorm and four minutes for a new series, “Families on the Brink: What to Do About Mom and Dad?”"

OBAMACARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL ... AGAIN? "I particularly enjoyed that part of Judge Vinson's ruling where he quoted statements made by Barack Obama during a 2008 campaign speech. Obama was slamming Hillary Clinton for her plans for health care reform. Hillary wanted to require people to buy health insurance. Obama thought that was a bad idea. He was steadfastly opposed to it. Obama said that if you could solve the problem of medical care by requiring people to buy insurance, then you could solve the problem of homelessness by requiring people to buy a house. That statement was made February 28, 2008. Now here we are two years later and Barack Obama has completely changed his mind. Funny how that works, isn't it?"

Egypt in flames; Obama takes it easy

Jeannie DeAngelis  "President Obama is the type of leader who doesn't let anything get in the way of a well-deserved day off. Let's face it; Barack is first and foremost a government employee. The President's breaks are on schedule, work hours tightly defined, vacations well spaced, and if it's the weekend, listen closely as you may hear the titular leader of the free world whispering: "TGIF.""

If I were president and father of two growing children however, I still would endeavor to take part in their lives as much as possible. But Mr. Obama's entire social schedule seems to take precedence over many important presidential responsibilities. Who can forget that spur-of-the moment shopping trip to New York? Or that Obama-Clinton/ Clinton press conference?

How the left works

Moonbattery , from the comments to the Olbermann post we recently linked to,
California:

The Governor of California is jogging with his dog along a nature trail.
A coyote jumps out and attacks the Governor's dog, then bites the Governor.
1. The Governor starts to intervene, but reflects upon the movie "Bambi" and then realizes he should stop because the coyote is only doing what is natural.
2. He calls animal control . Animal Control captures the coyote and bills the State $200 testing it for diseases and $500 for relocating it.
3. He calls a veterinarian. The vet collects the dead dog and bills the State $200 testing it for diseases.
4. The Governor goes to hospital and spends $3,500 getting checked for diseases from the coyote and on getting his bite wound bandaged.
5. The running trail gets shut down for 6 months while Fish & Game conducts a $100,000 survey to make sure the area is now free of dangerous animals.
6. The Governor spends $50,000 in state funds implementing a "coyote awareness program" for residents of the area.
7. The State Legislature spends $2 million to study how to better treat rabies and how to permanently eradicate the disease throughout the world.
8. The Governor's security agent is fired for not stopping the attack. The State spends $150,000 to hire and train a new agent with additional special training re: the nature of coyotes.
9. PETA protests the coyote's relocation and files a $5 million suit against the State.

Wyoming:

The Governor of Wyoming is jogging with his dog along a nature trail. A Coyote jumps out and attacks his dog.
1. The Governor shoots the coyote with his State-issued pistol and keeps jogging. The Governor has spent $0.50 on a .45 ACP hollow point cartridge.
2. The Buzzards eat the dead coyote.
And that, my friends, is why California is broke and Wyoming is not.

 Posted by: TED at January 26, 2011 5:49 PM