Krauthammer; The Gruber Confession

Charles Krauthammer

washingtonpost.com/ Video

 

... " Remember: The whole premise of Obamacare was that it would help the needy, but if you were not in need, if you liked what you had, you would be left alone. Which is why Obama kept repeating — PolitiFact counted 31 times — that “if you like your plan, you can keep your plan.' ”...

... "But of course you couldn’t, as millions discovered when they were kicked off their plans last year. Millions more were further shocked when they discovered major hikes in their premiums and deductibles. It was their wealth that was being redistributed.

 

... "But now we know what lay behind Obama’s smooth reassurances — the arrogance of an academic liberalism, so perfectly embodied in the Gruber Confession, that rules in the name of a citizenry it mocks, disdains and deliberately, contemptuously deceives."   Full article

Ignorant and ignoranter

 

http://www.investors.com/editorial-cartoons/michael-ramirez/726423

Discharge Pending For Combat Pilot Who Tried To Stop Lesbian Officers’ Make-Out Session…

Weasel Zippers

 

"The Army is moving to discharge a decorated combat pilot who intervened to stop two lesbian officers from showing excessive affection on the dance floor at an official ball at Fort Drum, N.Y.

"Lt. Col. Christopher Downey ended up being convicted administratively of assaulting a soldier trying to film the kissing and grabbing. Col. Downey’s lawyer, Richard Thompson, says his client merely pushed down the camera to prevent photos that could end up on social media."
Via Washington Times:

Black #Ferguson Shop Owners Board Up Shops In Fear of Protestors

#Ferguson Decision Expected On Monday .. "According to sources familiar with a Wednesday conference call that included key elected officials, the St. Louis County grand jury’s decision in the case of Ferguson, Mo., police Officer Darren Wilson is expected to be announced publicly Monday. And sources close to the investigation state that they are not expecting Wilson to be indicted."...

 

Legal Insurrection   "On airport televisions nationwide a news agency known as CNN is reporting that black shop owners near the site of ongoing protests in Ferguson MO are boarding up their shops. The reason? Fear of losing their businesses to renewed rioting, looting, and arson following the anticipated decision of the Grand Jury to not indict Police Officer Darren Wilson over the shooting death of Mike Brown.

"Local black hair shop owner Constance Garnett is boarding up her shop.  She fears the loss of the business it took her 11 years to build to a few angry hours worth of petulant, violent rioting:
 

 

 

Bosch Fawstin on “The Infidel, Featuring Pigman”

American Thinker:  Former Muslim sounding the alarm  "Asked whether there is such a thing as moderate Islam, Fawstin said: “No. There is only Islam. Islam is immoderate by nature.”

"Fawstin spoke of how very few leaders speak the truth about Islam.  In fact, essentially no leaders, as he pointed out that even Allen West has softened his language and that while Ted Cruz uses the word “jihad,” he never speaks about “Islam.” Thomas Lifson.  More here.

 

The Glazov Gang  Via Frontpage Mag  "This week’s Glazov Gang episode was joined by Bosch Fawstin, the world’s first anti-jihad comic book author and illustrator. He is The Eisner Award nominated cartoonist who is the creator of the new comic book series, The Infidel, Featuring Pigman, the superhero who is waging a new war against Islam.

"Bosch discussed his creation, “Pigman,” his childhood growing up as a Muslim, the threat we face in Islam, our leadership’s failure to confront the threat, and much, much more:"

"Don’t miss this week’s second episode with Louis Lionheart, a Christian preacher who engages in open-air debates, dialogues and evangelism on 3rd. Street Promenade in Santa Monica, Ca. His website is: TruthDefenders.com.

 

"Louis came on the show to discuss “The Case of Mohammed and Aisha,” dealing with the prophet of Islam’s marriage to a 6-year-old girl, and his “consummation” of that marriage when she was 9. Louis discusses the Islamic theology and texts that describe this marriage and how the Islamic and non-Islamic world has dealt, and not dealt, with the Islamic reality of this case. "

Another video from this interview: “The Case of Mohammed and Aisha,”

From Twitter:  Bosch Fawstin @BoschFawstin Follow

Islam doesn't make our Islamic enemy believe they're going to win, Islamophilic Western politicians make them believe they're going to win.

Fawstin asks, Will Christians Kill Me for Drawing Jesus?    "No. As even atheist and religion critic Bill Maher says in the below video, unlike Muslims, "Vast numbers of Christians do not believe that if you draw a picture of Jesus Christ you should get killed for it." As a way of saying that Islam and its true believers are the Major problem today."

Commentaries on the ObamaCare bait-and-switch

First, lets define "bait and switch"   "FRAUD IS A FEDERAL CRIME - A FELONY:"

• ... under the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, the selling ploy of a particular establishment is liable of facing legal action against bait and switch fraud if: 

• The advertised product is not shown or sold in agreement with the offer's precise terms 

• The advertised product displayed is defective or impractical for the purposed implied in the advertisement. 

• The advertised product is strongly criticized or lied about- either regarding the product's guarantee, credit terms, production value, service and repair availability, etc- in hopes of "upselling" to another "better" product.   Full IBA article here.

 "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!"

 

Jonathan Gruber's Freudian Slip  Recap, in case you hadn't heard:
"In a recent forum on healthcare and economics hosted by the University of Pennsylvania, Jonathan Gruber made the following statement about ObamaCare:

This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO did not score the mandate as taxes. If CBO scored the mandate as taxes, the bill dies. Okay, so it’s written to do that. In terms of risk-rated subsidies, if you had a law which said that healthy people are going to pay in -- you made explicit healthy people pay in and sick people get money, it would not have passed… Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical for the thing to pass… Look, I wish Mark was right that we could make it all transparent, but I’d rather have this law than not.   More here.

Gohmert: Public Should Be ‘Burning Up the Phone Lines’ on ObamaCare  This will help
        
 It’s time to present this week’s statuette of shame, The Golden Weasel!!

"To Obamacare Architect Jonathan Gruber!!"

 

NYT On Gruber: Everybody Lies To Get Legislation Passed

NRO: Calling Me Stupid   ... "Arrogance and condescension have too often characterized the attitudes of the current administration and their proponents. But the fact is, the American public is not stupid when it comes to Obamacare, and they are not deceived. Understanding this clunker and not liking it is precisely why this law has never been popular."
..."My patient with a thyroid problem couldn’t afford the necessary ultrasound and antibody tests to better understand her condition before Obamacare, and she can’t afford them now, either, because of her large deductible."

Ron Fournier; Obamacare's Foundation of Lies  ... "I strongly support bipartisan efforts to expand the availability of health coverage to the working poor, and bending the cost curve that threatens federal budgets for years to come. While I think President Obama and congressional Democrats helped contribute to the 2009 standoff over what became the Affordable Care Act, I've openly rooted for Obamacare's success. I've denounced the knee-jerk opposition from the GOP, a party that once embraced key elements of Obamacare. My ideology is amorphous; I am not "on the right."                                    

 

"All of that, and yet: Gruber's remarks struck a nerve with me."

Bad Month for Obamacare   ..."With Republicans taking control of the Senate and expanding their majority in the House, we can expect an onslaught of bills to repeal the law or cut out important parts of it. While the presidential veto will likely prevent full repeal, the law’s supporters can expect to spend the next two years fighting a defensive war."

Who are you calling “stupid?”... "The people tried desperately to make their anti-Obamacare wishes known, but the Democratic members of Congress who were in the majority at the time refused to listen. Their leaders whipped them into line, and although a few were allowed to vote against, Pelosi and Reid made sure there wouldn’t be enough of them voting “nay” to actually derail the bill."

Podcast: The Obamacare Lies

Contact info on Congress

Contact them now, regardless of the changes to come in January. The present congress is the dangerous one as I see it. TD

Online Directory for the 113th Congress
"Contacting the Congress is a very up-to-date citizen's congressional directory for the 113th Congress. As of November 13, 2014 there are 538 electronic contact addresses (of which 537 are Web-based contact forms), and 538 home pages known for the 540 members of the 113th Congress. Traditional ground mail addresses are available for all current members of Congress.

The President's fallback setting for the past six years and for the next, well, how many?

http://terrellaftermath.com/

 

Sure, his term has just two years left, but Obama will spend the years after that blaming the next administration for messing up the great things he put in place.

When he says the war on ISIS, for example, is a long term war, you know he will dump it onto future administrations and blame them for any messes coming out of it.

No way will Obama and his sycophants allow the next administration to talk about the mess they "inherited" from this one.

 

Obama has the integrity of a spoiled adolescent and I have seen zero growth of his character in the last six years. The Tunnel Dweller.

Looking deep into the Obama Administration and their goals

Infidel Bloggers Alliance    "AMERICANS READY TO DIGEST THE TRUTH"

"Erik Rush is the Journalist who broke the story about Barack Obama's Pastor, Jeremiah Wright. Rush has been consistently and extremely critical of Barak Obama ever since he came on the scene.

"In this piece, Rush explains exactly why it is imperative that a Republican House and Senate dig through all the disgusting details of how the Obama Administration has defrauded and attacked America these past six years.

Case in point: Back in August, atheist scientist Lawrence M. Krauss asserted that religion could be essentially done away with in a generation if we simply changed how children were taught about faith and religious systems is schools. 

Now, going from manipulating our attitude about religion to that of all other progressive issues:

Having relativized morality, they’ve also factored in the curious notion that they occupy the moral high ground. This, as contradictory as it sounds, creates for them the moral imperative to behave amorally in order to achieve said ends. They’ve been called “deranged,” too – and now you understand why...

 

 

... "What’s particularly disgusting about this is that we have a situation in this country where people in government feel perfectly comfortable lying about a blatant attempt to legislate away Americans’ rights in a wholesale manner, and then admitting to it four years later without fear of being dragged out onto the Capitol Mall and burned in a bonfire with their co-conspirators." ... 

 

 

The Concert for Valor: Bruce Springsteen's Unfortunate Song

Anti-Military Anthem Played at 'Concert for Valor'  "Who would have thought that that Bruce Springsteen, Dave Grohl, and Zac Brown, accomplished musicians all, would be so, well, tone-deaf? But how else to explain their choice of song—Creedence Clearwater's famously anti-war anthem “Fortunate Son”—at the ostensibly pro-military “Concert for Valor” this evening on the National Mall?

 

"The song, not to put too fine a point on it, is an anti-war screed, taking shots at "the red white and blue." It was a particularly terrible choice given that Fortunate Son is, moreover, an anti-draft song, and this concert was largely organized to honor those who volunteered to fight in Afghanistan and Iraq. 

 

"On a musical level, “Fortunate Song” is not a bad song—that's one hell of a riff. But the “Concert for Valor,” a Veterans Day event sponsored by HBO and Starbucks, in front of the Capitol Building, was not the place for it."

 

 

Weasel Zippers only comment was, "What an absolute douchebag" but I'm sure they meant it in a nice way.

WaPo: Bruce Springsteen’s antiwar songs at Concert for Valor didn’t go over too well
... "But it was the song’s third chorus that really got people’s dander up on the Mall. In that one, Fogerty insisted he “ain’t no military son.” Here’s Springsteen singing the offending lyric as Grohl and Brown bang their heads:" ...
 

Code Pink Holds Anti-Military Protest Outside Event Honoring Veterans… Video
"Keepin’ it classy.

"Via MRC:

On Veterans Day a free concert was held on the National Mall in honor of those who have served their country in the United States Military.  Many of these men and women lost their lives or have been seriously injured for life in service to their country.
But the fact that the night was to honor our fighting men and women didn’t seem to bother the leftist, anti-war group “Code Pink.”
The group decided to stage an anti-war and anti-military protest right outside the gates where attendees were entering the concert.
One U.S. veteran protesting with Code Pink said that, “technically,” he served in the U.S. military during the Reagan Administration – but, “I was a Communist in the Army.”

Net Neutrality: Obama’s proposal to regulate the internet signals desire for confrontation with the GOP

Hot Air   ... "Barack Obama has invited a fight with the GOP over his support of regulating internet providers, and an emboldened Republican Party is more than happy to engage him over this issue. This is just the latest signal to suggest that the White House wants confrontation rather than accommodation with Republicans in his final two years in office."

Gum-chewing, limo-eschewing Obama riles some Chinese

USA Today   ... "Obama eschewed the Red Flag limousine service that ferried other leaders one by one from a nearby building to a banquet, cultural show and fireworks at the aquatic venue. Some Chinese went online to criticize his preference for the familiar security of a U.S.-supplied vehicle, while others understood his choice, but what happened next surprised many here..."
Via Lucianne