Krauthammer: We'll Be In a Single-Payer System In Less Than Seven Years

Townhall

"Republican lawmakers spent the last seven years vowing to repeal and replace Obamacare, and while the House took a first step toward that end Thursday in the narrow passage of the American Health Care Act, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer made an ominous prediction about where health care in this country is heading.

“ 'Historically speaking we are at the midpoint and we had seven years of Obamacare, changing expectations. I would predict that in less than seven years, we will be in a single-payer system,” he told Fox News host Chris Wallace.

"This, he said, is the “great irony”—that despite the electoral losses Democrats faced because of the Affordable Care Act and even though the law has largely failed in practice, Obamacare will still win in the end.

“ 'Obamacare failed at every level politically. … As you say, they lost seats in the House, Senate, governorships. Largely because of Obamacare. It failed on the ground, as was pointed out earlier. The insurers are in a dead spiral. The Obamacare exchanges are collapsing. You've had these exchanges … completely disintegrating. But the irony is in the end, I think Obamacare wins the day because it changed expectations,” he said. “Look at the terms of the debate. Republicans are not arguing the free market anymore. They have sort of accepted the fact that the electorate sees healthcare as not just any commodity. It's not like purchasing a steak or a car. It is something people now have a sense that government ought to guarantee.' " . . .

Colbert, the darling of a Hollywood that trashes half of America

Comically Incorrect   Cartoon by A.F. Branco 

"Stephen Colbert drags us through the gutter to demonstrate his liberal bias and hatred toward President Trump." 

businessinsider.com

Clinton campaign tell-all may become TV series

See also the NY Times:

NY Post  "The tell-all book detailing the unraveling of Hillary Clinton’s campaign might land up on the small screen.

Modal Trigger“Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign,” the best-selling book written by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, has been optioned by TriStar Television and Davis Entertainment as a limited television series, according to the New York Times.

"The book, which chronicles the 2016 campaign’s alleged infighting and dysfunction, quickly climbed to the top of the New York Times bestseller list.

"No writers have signed on to the project, and there is not a network attached yet.

"The news of a limited series may not be welcomed by Clinton’s staff, who have pushed back against the book on social media.

“ 'I don’t recognize the campaign depicted in Shattered. It was tough but we stuck together & all our proud of how hard our candidate fought,” Clinton’s former communications director, Jennifer Palmieri, wrote on Twitter."

IMDb states this:  "Just six months since the end of one of the most topsy-turvy presidential races in American history, the story of Hillary Clinton’s stunning defeat could be making its way to the small screen. “Shattered,” the best-selling book about Clinton’s failed campaign written by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, has been optioned for a limited series by TriStar Television, a division of Sony Pictures Television, and Davis Entertainment, TheWrap has learned, The project has not been attached to a network yet. " . . .
More on this at The Wrap.

Judge Jeanine called Clinton a “loser” and told her to go back into hiding.

In a nice way, I'm sure.

Hillary: The Girl Can’t Take It

" . . . Her overweening ambition has always taken precedence over the nation’s interests and the Democrats never criticized her for any of her misconduct. It is only now, when she threatens the party’s interests, that all but the deluded fantasists are raising a stink and telling her to “just go home.' ”

 

Clarice Feldman  "The Hillary Clinton whinefest continues. I had hoped that like the falling out of favor Kardashians and Caitlyn (aka Bruce) Jenner, she’d just start fading out of an audience, but she feels compelled to keep complaining about all those who cost her the election. This week she blamed James Comey and “Russian” hackers for her loss.

"There are two parts to the Russian collusion claim by the Hillaryites. They contend, first, that there was some still unspecified evidence to support a Russian preference for Trump. Then they claim that it was Russians who hacked her email accounts. This week both of those claims proved to be without substance.

"In Congressional testimony, the only basis for the first assumption was the purely factually unsupported, speculative belief by FBI director Comey that Russia preferred Trump. The only basis for the second was that the FBI was examining contacts between Trump and the Russians -- a suggestion Comey swatted off. " . . .

Don't ask me; I don't know

American Thinker

Political Correctness Taliban Claims Another Scalp as Trump Army Secretary Nominee Withdraws

Also: The Hill is reporting “Trump Army secretary nominee withdraws amid fierce opposition”:

Downtrend  "The fanatical left can now add another scalp to their trophy case. The blood was still dripping from the pelt of Army Secretary nominee Mark Green who was forced to withdraw from consideration over allegedly mean things that he said about transgender folks.

"Green had the temerity to blaspheme the left’s unchallengeable dogma over throwing women’s restrooms open to weirdos, transvestites and possible sexual predators looking for child victims. It was a huge boost to the zealots who have fully embraced the culture wars as a means to intensify their anger over losing an election.

"A number of House Democrats had sent a letter calling for the Senate to reject Green and once the man who according to his influence may be the real POTUS – John McCain – gave Green a thumbs down it was all over but the formalities." . . .

52 Congressman to Trump: Recognize Jerusalem in Israel

Middle East Forum  "Over 50 U.S. Congressman have sent a letter to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson calling on the Trump administration to reverse a longstanding policy that prohibits Americans born in Jerusalem from listing Israel as their birthplace on official American documents.

"The letter called on President Trump to reverse the policy followed by his predecessors, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, who claimed that recognizing Jerusalem as part of Israel interferes with Arab­Israeli diplomacy.

" 'We write to urge you to revise the State Department's policy regarding the birthplace designation on passports and consular reports of birth abroad for American citizens born in Jerusalem," the 52 lawmakers wrote. " . . .

What You Need to Know About Climate, In One Chart

"As the chart reflects, we are currently living in a relatively cool period. Global temperatures change over time, and while there are various theories, no one really knows why. If the alarmists were real scientists they would go back to the drawing board."

Power Line  "From Andy May at Watts Up With That, a chart that contains an enormous amount of information relevant to the climate debate. It shows global temperature as inferred from proxies (tree rings and the like), carbon dioxide and methane concentrations, and temperatures as predicted by the alarmists’ models for the Holocene epoch, the time since the end of the last Ice Age.

May comments:

In the figure below (source Javier, here) proxy global average temperatures for the whole Holocene (last 11,500 years) are shown in black. Computer model temperatures calculated by Liu, et al. (2014) are shown in green, carbon dioxide and methane concentrations from ice cores are also shown. For the Neoglacial Period, temperatures go down, but the computer model temperatures go up, so does the carbon dioxide level. Quite obviously, for the Holocene, neither CO2 nor the computer models are predictive of temperature.

 

"As the chart reflects, we are currently living in a relatively cool period. Global temperatures change over time, and while there are various theories, no one really knows why. If the alarmists were real scientists they would go back to the drawing board.".

Hillary Clinton, Sorest Loser in History

"Notwithstanding her rhetoric and blame shifting, Clinton did not lose because of outside influences; she lost because she was a horrible candidate with an unpleasant personality. She does not exude warmth or empathy like her husband, in fact, she has a reputation for being the “Queen of Mean.” For example, numerous security officers who served in her protection detail in both Arkansas and the White House claim she is a nasty person with a horrible temper. This anger and selfishness was also apparent on the 2016 campaign trail."

Townhall

. . . "This week, in an interview with Christiane Amanpour of CNN, Clinton blamed the loss on “the combination of Jim Comey's letter on October 28 and Russian WikiLeaks.” 

"Obviously, Hillary Clinton prefers fantasy to the harsh political reality of her disastrous campaign. She said, "I was on the way to winning” until these supposedly disastrous circumstances united to derail her candidacy. It is quite convenient for Hillary to blame everyone else but herself. 

"Hillary claimed that Comey’s letter and WikiLeaks disclosures were critical factors that “raised doubts in the minds of people who were inclined to vote for me but got scared off," For good measure, she also blamed misogyny, using the sexism card once again. 

"Of course, this is pure nonsense, a web of fantasy woven by a sore loser. The day after the interview, President Trump tweeted “FBI Director Comey was the best thing that ever happened to Hillary Clinton in that he gave her a free pass for many bad deeds!” Comey could have recommended an indictment of Clinton, but he refused to pursue charges, even though he castigated her for “extremely careless” handling of top secret email communications." . . . 

The media, talk shows and the anti-Trump fad.

Weekly Standard: How Trump-hatred warps the judiciary.  "Something ugly is happening to the First Amendment. It is being contorted to enable judges to protest Donald Trump's presidency. The perennial impulse of judges to manipulate the law to achieve morally and politically desirable ends has only been exacerbated by the felt necessity to "resist" Trump. The result: Legal tests concerning the freedoms of speech and religion that in some cases were already highly dubious are being further deformed and twisted.
. . . 
"Those who try to police the relentlessly transformational projects of constitutional progressives had much to dread from the Obama administration, an inveterate ally of the legal left that did what it could to graft the aspirations of progressives onto the Constitution. But Trump's presidency may be even worse, because too many judges now feel called to "resist" Trump and all his works—no matter the cost to the law's authority and to the integrity of the judicial role." . . .

Variety: FCC to Investigate Stephen Colbert Over Controversial Donald Trump Joke  To call it all "homophobic" I find ridiculous and just the sort of claim used to shut down any dialogue on the subject as the left does; conservatives should be better. I prefer societal pressure against this silly man and his bullying ways against conservatives as he did against President Bush. Like that's going to happen. TD

William Sullivan: FCC: Hands off Stephen Colbert Quoting the Constitution:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or of the right of the people to peaceably assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. [Emphasis added]

. . . "It is important that we conservatives be consistent.  How can we tell our children about the virtues of unabridged freedom of speech, only to selectively apply it in principle?  How can any conservative argue against a revival of the “Fairness Doctrine,” which the Democrat left has pursued in recent years to define what is “fair” coverage by media outlets, without first recognizing and acknowledging unequivocally that the federal government has no such right?" . . .

Look at Berkeley and realize we must be better than that. TD

Brian C. Joondeph: Jimmy Kimmel Left Out Some Important Bits About Obamacare  . . . "History aside, and politics aside, one can’t help but feel empathy for Kimmel and his family. But unfortunately, politics wasn’t aside in his monologue. As Rahm Emanuel once said, “You never let a serious crisis go to waste.” And Kimmel did not.

"In the second part of his monologue he pivoted from family health crisis to typical late night comedy show shtick, bashing Donald Trump, Republicans, conservatives and all things not liberal. Kimmel made a pitch for preexisting condition coverage under Obamacare and for National Institutes of Health funding which Trump threatened to cut in his proposed budget." . . .

Wishing our President could speak in coherent sentences

I so want President Trump to succeed, but fear when it seems he is setting himself up for failure in view of the contemptible, demagogic left. TD

Volokh Conspiracy

. . . "I’m sorry, but I cannot get used to the fact that our president cannot speak in coherent sentences. It is inexcusable — unacceptable in a 14-year-old. “Premiums will come down, and deductibles will come down”; good deal! Is there anyone — anyone — who thinks that President Trump understands health-care markets, and the impacts of this bill on those markets, remotely well enough to say that? Does anybody care anymore about little things like that? I guess that when you have a president whose campaign officials are under FBI investigation on the basis of evidence that they may have collaborated with a foreign power to disrupt the U.S. presidential election, all this is just a small blip on the radar. But it appalls just the same." . . .

Can George Soros be Charged with Treason and Sedition?

capitolhilloutsider

Blog: The Constitution.  "This columnist spent most of last night researching the law to learn if George Soros could be charged with Sedition and Treason for the damage he is causing the U.S. The goal was to discover if someone living in another country meddles into the affairs, security and destabilization of another country, specifically, The United States, could they face criminal charges based on that law? 

"The definition of Sedition is “to speak or organize for the purpose of insurrection against established order.” It also lists, “subversion of a Constitution.” Sedition compliments treason. Then there is Seditious Conspiracy, which Webster defines as: “The crime of saying, writing, or doing something that encourages people to destroy the government.”

"The Law Dictionary states that sedition is: “The crime of creating a revolt, disaster or violence against lawful civic authority with the intent to cause overthrow or destroy.” Read this one carefully. George Soros is attempting to deconstruct the constitutional government of the United States and replace it with a Communist Controlled One World Order, destroying the structure of America that was legally put in order.

"This is precisely what it taking place in America today under the direction of this billionaire Hungarian Jew, who betrayed his own people during the Holocaust, for profit. He is a leader of the One World Order campaign, in partnership with Communist Party USA (CPUSA), that provided the protest signs used in the riots of Ferguson, Baltimore and the other locations, plus paying the “protesters,” known to Stalin as, “Useful Idiots,” to do their dirty work for them." . . .