Obamacare:The operative consensus today is: lies and fraud

legalinsurrection.com

The 'you can keep your doctor' lie starting to hit Medicare recipients 

"The firestorm over President Obama's blanket false assurances on Obamacare is only going to intensify, as more groups discover they have lost either their coverage or their doctor thanks to the health insurance changes imposed on the country without a single Republican vote. One of the biggest, yet so far almost completely ignored, changes is the looting of Medicare to pay for Obamacare. Now, it is starting to hit home. Evan Gahr of the New York Daily News recounts a story that will soon become very common among America's senior citizens:"...

Mark Steyn; A Phalanx of Lies.   "Remember that health insurance you could keep? "
"CNN has been pondering what they call “a particularly tough few days at the White House.” “Four out of five Americans have little or no trust in their government to do anything right,” says chief political analyst Gloria Borger. “And now Obama probably feels the same way.” Our hearts go out to him, poor wee disillusioned thing."
....
"Obamacare is not a left–right issue; it’s a fraud issue."

The Week the Wheels Came off Obamacare  "Obamacare's numbers paint a bleak picture of broken promises and outright lies." ...  "Ignored in those dreary statistics is the fact that people are being dumped out of their current coverage and onto the nonfunctional exchanges faster than the exchanges can handle them. An estimated 1,500,000 have lost their coverage, up against those newly insured 40,000. The best guess is that seven or eight million more face the same fate."...

Remember Democrats taunting anti-Obamacare protestors with Pelosi's big gavel march past them? How many Democrats in this group can you name? How many seek re-election soon? 

Will Insularity, Incompetence, and Lies Doom Obamacare?   "The good news is there is time to learn from--and recover from--the early stumbles. Here are four important lessons from the postmortems."....Via Lucianne.

Kirsten Powers: “evangelical Christianity, which I held in particular contempt”

Legal Insurrection 
 

 

Kirsten Powers' Christianity Today article: Fox News' Highly Reluctant Jesus Follower   "Of all people surprised that I became an evangelical Christian, I'm the most surprised."

 

 

"After college I worked as an appointee in the Clinton administration from 1992 to 1998. The White House surrounded me with intellectual people who, if they had any deep faith in God, never expressed it. Later, when I moved to New York, where I worked in Democratic politics, my world became aggressively secular. Everyone I knew was politically left-leaning, and my group of friends was overwhelmingly atheist.

"I sometimes hear Christians talk about how terrible life must be for atheists. But our lives were not terrible. Life actually seemed pretty wonderful, filled with opportunity and good conversation and privilege. I know now that it was not as wonderful as it could have been. But you don't know what you don't know. How could I have missed something I didn't think existed?"

Obamacare commemorative stamp

 This came from Lars Larson today: 

Victoria Taft

Security Violation Just the Tip of the Obamacare Iceberg

 

Heritage  "Obamacare is a deeply flawed law, and its flaws have become more apparent with each passing day. It’s not just that people’s personal data has become insecure due to government bungling—their financial security and the security of their deeply held beliefs are likewise at stake.
"The American people need relief from this inherently unworkable law."

Also: "Unaffordable Care Act: This Alabama couple received a letter from Blue Cross Blue Shield that infuriated them."

 

Reverse the races....

Gateway Pundit

Thomas Lifson  "An arrest has been made in a horrifying crime, but thanks to races of the victim (white) and the perp (black), the national media are burying the story.  As David Paulin summed it up to me:

Black guy murders white guy (in front of white guy's 12-year-old daughter) because white guy's dog sniffed the black guy's pants while white guy was taking his daughter to buy ice cream. Imagine how the media would play this if it had been a white guy who shot a back guy in front of his daughter under similar circumstances.

Rev Al Sharpton condemned the
shooting, er.. wait. No? Sorry,
 guess not.

Comparing this case to that of Trayvon Martin's death reveals a national media double standard when it comes to violence. It sickens me that, in the face of crime statistics revealing a vast disparity in the likelihood of a black being killed by a white, compared to a white being killed by a black, the media actively encourages a counterfactual public perception - that blacks are gunned down by whites more often.
More about this on Chris Matthews' MSNBC show. Well, maybe not.    Full article here.

Is a Race War Occurring?   "Dr. Thomas Sowell, the intellectual juggernaut, recently concluded that a Black and White race war is in effect.  He stated, "Initial skirmishes in that race war have already begun, and have in fact been going on for some years.  But public officials pretend that it is not happening, and the mainstream media seldom publish it at all, except in ways that conceal what is really taking place.' " 
....
"Undoubtedly, white resistance is surfacing.  I believe that this observation sparked Dr. Sowell's article.  However, this mounting white backlash isn't a violent endeavor; it's an awareness campaign and shedding of white guilt."
More.

White Girl Bleed A Lot': "The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore It".   Web site: http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/

Chicago Daily News, 1919

 

On Stop and Frisk

NY Daily News  " 'This man has foisted on the city of New York a totally phony claim, and he's maligned a great police department with his claim of racial profiling," he said, calling de Blasio's argument that stop and frisk systematically overtargets minorities "outrageous."
"De Blasio has said he would drop the city's appeal of Judge Shira Scheindlin's ruling on NYPD reforms if he becomes mayor -- but Giuliani suggested Friday that the case could continue even against the Democrat's wishes."

Pros and Cons of "Stop - and Frisk"  

It’s where the crimes are more prevalent and the most shootings occur that someone suspicious would be singled out, stopped, questioned and frisked. In what way does this all make sense? It means that yes, most of those stopped were black and Hispanic but that the reasons for “choosing” them has noting(sp) to do with race, and everything about where they live and hang out, and about more officers patrolling in these areas.

Ct of Appeals stays NYC Stop-and-Frisk ruling, kicks trial judge off case

"How ironic.
"Just two days after NYC Police Commissioner Ray Kelly was shouted down at Brown University over NYC’s Stop and Frisk policy, with many protesters citing a finding by a trial Judge of racial discrimination, the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has stayed the ruling, and kicked the trial judge off the case. (Full Order embedded at bottom of post.)
"In a short but scathing ruling, the Court of Appeals ruled that Judge Shira A. Scheindlin “ran afoul of the Code of Conduct for United States Judges”:"...

Geraldo Rivera: Blacks and Latinos being most ‘protected’ by ‘Stop-and-Frisk’  “New York is the safest big city on Earth,” he explained. “Chicago has three and half times the homicide rate of New York. And Chicago has a very similar demographic.”
 “And whose lives are being saved by Stop-and-Frisk? It is precisely the people — the black and Latino young person most susceptible to being killed by violence. These are the people being protected by Stop-and-Frisk.”

"He added: “Ray Kelly was right, Mayor Bloomberg was right. Twenty years of Republican administrations in New York has done a good thing.' ”
I wanted to find a cartoon that was perceptive enough to shed light on this subject, but have found only self-righteous works, designed to enhance the cartoonist's street cred with liberal society. Nobody's work shows the reaction of those living in gang-infested areas to the a they are getting from Stop and Frisk. TD

Comments to this post in FreedomWorks and my response:

 

    MR:Calling for the end of police brutality and adherence to Constitutional Rights is fascism to you?

You obviously have no idea what you are posting.

 

    TD: I feel you have no concept of what police brutality is. How about the brutality people on the NY subways experienced during the Dinkins administration? How about the brutality experienced by those families living in the projects run by the gangs and the armed thugs? Shame on you and your feckless liberalism that makes law-abiding people become victims of those you side with.

Where stands the credibility of this Democrat administration?

Remember this? Letterman Writer Boasts of Discrediting McCain, Obama 'Too Competent' to Joke About

It's not because he's black and it's not because we're afraid. It's just that he's, just so far, just a little too damn competent and we ain't used to that. [multiple panelists say “yeah.”]

Victor Davis Hanson: Obama’s Credibility Gap   "But the distortions and broken promises have now become so frequent that many at home and abroad are finally tuning out the president. Almost nothing promised about the Affordable Care Act is proving true. Contrary to presidential assurances, Obamacare has not lowered premiums or deductibles. It will not reduce the deficit or improve business competitiveness. It really will alter existing health plans and in some cases lead to their cancellation. Signing up is certainly not as easy as buying something online on Amazon."
....
"Yet after nearly five years of scandals, untruths, and hard economic times, a now-ignored Barack Obama has finally learned that even an iconic president can tell one too many untruths."

Letter in the Chicago Tribune: Obama's health care lies are shameful  "The American people should be outraged that Mr. Obama openly lied to them not once but many, many times touting that they could keep their insurance. ... Like President Richard Nixon and President Bill Clinton, President Obama's actions have brought shame to the position and our country. President Obama probably will skate the impeachment process because, unlike President Nixon, he is smart enough not to have any recordings of his intentions."

Thomas Sowell: Obama and the Art of Phoniness   "Like other truly talented phonies, Barack Obama concentrates his skills on the effect of his words on other people — most of whom do not have the time to become knowledgeable about the things he is talking about. Whether what he says bears any relationship to the facts is politically irrelevant. A talented con man or a slick politician does not waste his time trying to convince knowledgeable skeptics. His job is to keep the true believers believing."

Mark Steyn: Obama’s Melting Wings  ..."Of his talks with Vladimir Putin, the president said, “With respect to Syria, we do have differing perspectives on the problem, but we share an interest in reducing the violence.” Putin aims to reduce the violence by getting his boy Assad to kill everyone he needs to. Obama aims to reduce the violence by giving a speech about the “intolerance that fuels extremism” — or is it the other way round? The world understands that Putin means it and Obama doesn’t — just as in Afghanistan everyone knows the Taliban means it and the fainthearted superpower doesn’t."

Rudy Giuliani: Bill de Blasio Should Apologize To NYPD For "Libelous" Racial Profiling Accusations

NY Daily News  " 'This man has foisted on the city of New York a totally phony claim, and he's maligned a great police department with his claim of racial profiling," he said, calling de Blasio's argument that stop and frisk systematically overtargets minorities "outrageous."
"De Blasio has said he would drop the city's appeal of Judge Shira Scheindlin's ruling on NYPD reforms if he becomes mayor -- but Giuliani suggested Friday that the case could continue even against the Democrat's wishes."

Pros and Cons of "Stop - and Frisk"  

It’s where the crimes are more prevalent and the most shootings occur that someone suspicious would be singled out, stopped, questioned and frisked. In what way does this all make sense? It means that yes, most of those stopped were black and Hispanic but that the reasons for “choosing” them has noting(sp) to do with race, and everything about where they live and hang out, and about more officers patrolling in these areas.

Ct of Appeals stays NYC Stop-and-Frisk ruling, kicks trial judge off case

"How ironic.
"Just two days after NYC Police Commissioner Ray Kelly was shouted down at Brown University over NYC’s Stop and Frisk policy, with many protesters citing a finding by a trial Judge of racial discrimination, the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has stayed the ruling, and kicked the trial judge off the case. (Full Order embedded at bottom of post.)
"In a short but scathing ruling, the Court of Appeals ruled that Judge Shira A. Scheindlin “ran afoul of the Code of Conduct for United States Judges”:"...

Geraldo Rivera: Blacks and Latinos being most ‘protected’ by ‘Stop-and-Frisk’  “New York is the safest big city on Earth,” he explained. “Chicago has three and half times the homicide rate of New York. And Chicago has a very similar demographic.”
 “And whose lives are being saved by Stop-and-Frisk? It is precisely the people — the black and Latino young person most susceptible to being killed by violence. These are the people being protected by Stop-and-Frisk.”

"He added: “Ray Kelly was right, Mayor Bloomberg was right. Twenty years of Republican administrations in New York has done a good thing.' ”
I wanted to find a cartoon that was perceptive enough to shed light on this subject, but have found only self-righteous works, designed to enhance the cartoonist's street cred with liberal society. Nobody's work shows the reaction of those living in gang-infested areas to the a they are getting from Stop and Frisk. TD

Comments to this post in FreedomWorks and my response:

 

    MR: 

 

Calling for the end of police brutality and adherence to Constitutional Rights is fascism to you?

 

You obviously have no idea what you are posting.

 

    TD: I feel you have no concept of what police brutality is. How about the brutality people on the NY subways experienced during the Dinkins administration? How about the brutality experienced by those families living in the projects run by the gangs and the armed thugs? Shame on you and your feckless liberalism that makes law-abiding people become victims of those you side with.

The shame of Brown University (UPDATED)

UPDATE: Brown Shirts at Brown U? by Mona Charen;  "These outrages get noticed in the conservative press and largely ignored by others. It goes without saying that such tolerance for intolerance would not prevail if conservative students behaved this way toward, say, an advocate of same-sex marriage.

"Members of the press indulge left-wing students, imagining that their hearts are in the right place even if their heads are a little hot."....

Self-styled “activists” such as those at Brown (along with Al Sharpton, would-be mayor Bill de Blasio, and the federal judge who ruled “stop and frisk” unconstitutional) claim to speak for the poor and minorities. But who speaks for the majority of law-abiding blacks and Hispanics bullied and harmed by criminals in their housing projects and neighborhoods? As Heather Mac Donald of City Journal points out, “the per-capita rate of shooting in Brownsville, Brooklyn, is 81 times higher than in Bay Ridge, which explains why the stop rate in Brownsville is 15 times higher.”

[NYPD commissioner] Ray Kelly Was Booed off the Stage at Brown University    "...Kelly, who is not very well-loved in some circles for his support and implementation of "stop-and-frisk" law enforcement tactics, was supposed to give a lecture on "Proactive Policing in America's Biggest City" for the school's Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions." ...

 

Welcome to your modern American college campus  "Where the biggest mouths — almost always left-wing — shout down and shut down voices they don’t like."

Brown Prof recalls when a real fascist came to campus, calls Ray Kelly shout down “a shameful day”    "The completely politicized hyperbole by those at Brown — including many faculty members — who supported shutting Kelly down says a lot about the difference between campuses then and now.

And how campuses have become that which they purport to oppose."

 

But another Brown Prof apologizes for inviting Ray Kelly  Shameful and cowardly. “ 'especially to my black students and Latino brothers and sisters.” Also, asked for list of who not to invite in future, but says was “tongue in cheek” request."

Brown University Does Damage Control Following Disgraceful Protest  "Sad day when Brown stifles free speech — no matter who is exercising it; no matter what their point of view may be."

Related: Scott Brown Blocked From Speaking at Saint Louis University  "There is a dangerous double standard for free speech happening on American campuses right now. I cannot understand for the life of me why the College Republicans backed down."

Obamacare isn't shovel-ready yet

"Shovel" is such a serendipitous word for this whole mess.

newyorker.com

Next Tuesday and the Fate of ObamaCare  "Republicans running in 2014 and 2016 are watching whether Ken Cuccinelli wins to determine if they should be bold, hard-charging Ted Cruzes, or whether they should roll over by making weak, token passes at ObamaCare that will do nothing but ensure its permanence. More here.

 The Obamacare Whiners  "It’s a little late to get Republican buy-in, though. That would have required serious compromise back in 2009, when Democrats, at the high tide of their power in the Obama era, saw no reason to make any."
....
"The president got his law, and it’s possible more people will be uninsured in 2014 than if it had never passed. That’s on him, no matter how much he and his supporters want to evade responsibility for their own achievement."  Rich Lowry

Even Jimmy Carter Is Criticizing Obama Over Disastrous Obamacare Rollout…   "You know Obama is having a rough time when even the second worst president of all-time is criticizing him."

Outer Limits Leftist Kook Spin: Obamacare Failure Due To “Republican Sabotage”   "Imagine. This guy actually has the temerity to claim that not enough money was spent on Healthcare.gov, that MORE should have been spent.
"Oh, and of course, racisssst…."

Excuses for Fools  ..."So it's time for the well-used Obama excuse machine to start pumping out excuses. Consider the following assertions we have heard from Democrats:" ... More.

Fracking Gets a Clean Bill of Health

The American Interest

 

"The British government’s health agency is the latest body to give fracking a clean bill of health, in a move that should galvanize the country to act on its considerable reserves of shale gas. Reuters reports:

Public Health England (PHE) said in a review that any health impacts were likely to be minimal from hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, which involves the pumping of water and chemicals into dense shale formations deep underground…. 

“The currently available evidence indicates that the potential risks to public health from exposure to emissions associated with the shale gas extraction process are low if operations are properly run and regulated,” said John Harrison, director of PHE’s center for radiation, chemical and environmental hazards.

"Don’t expect this to sway recalcitrant greens; one activist pointed out that “low risk is not the same as no risk,”..."
And they will continue to churn out these low-information cartoons:

Krauthammer: Obamacare laid bare

Charles Krauthammer "Every disaster has its moment of clarity. Physicist Richard Feynman dunks an O-ring into ice water and everyone understands instantly why the shuttle Challenger exploded. This week, the Obamacare O-ring froze for all the world to see: Hundreds of thousands of cancellation letters went out to people who had been assured a dozen times by the president that “If you like your health-care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health-care plan. Period.”
"The cancellations lay bare three pillars of Obamacare: (a) mendacity, (b) paternalism and (c) subterfuge." More.