Video: Senators Graham And Lieberman On O’Reilly Discuss The Abu Ghraib Photos

Several top Republican Senators (and Lieberman) are on the warpath about the House’s move to derail an attempt to classify the Abu Ghraib photo’s. McCain, especially was seething on The Sean Hannity Show, Thursday afternoon. More about this at Atlas Shrugs.

Here’s the interview Bill O’Reilly did with Senators Lieberman and Graham, Thursday night:

First of all, O’Reilly is too kind when it comes to Obama. He had every intention of releasing those photos to the world, until lawmakers, Generals, and  top intelligence officials implored him to keep them classified for the troops’ sake, and it became clear that this was a public relations disaster for him. Now, he is doing nothing to stop the Democrats from having the photos released.

Secondly, did you catch Pelosi’s reason for releasing the photos?:

“I can say to you that there is great concern in the house about making an exception to the Freedom of Information Act while the case is before a judge”.

Huh! *Scratches head*

Last month, Dick Cheney lost his bid to have the government declassify memos describing the success of the CIA’s interrogation program because:

the CIA said it could not declassify the documents because they were subject to an ongoing Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.

“For that reason — and that reason only — CIA did not accept Mr. Cheney’s request,” said another CIA spokesman, Paul Gimigliano.

The civil liberties groups that filed the lawsuit criticized the CIA’s decision, noting the irony that the agency was citing a suit seeking the documents’ release as justification for not doing so.

Every morning in Obamerica is like waking up in crazyland, ain’t it?

Video: Steven Crowder And Alfonzo Rachel In “Everyday Normal Republicans”

These two should need no introduction:

Hat tip: Allahpundit who says they left one stereotype off their list, and he thinks he knows why…

John Bolton’s Mustache Dissed By Hezbollah Leader

boltonstacheRespect the ‘stache!

This clip of a speech by Hassan Nasrallah is several years old judging by his referral of  Bolton as Ambassador.  But Did  Nasrallah even understand the powerful forces he was dealing with? That reckless douchenozzle is lucky to be alive:

Hat tip: Weasel Zippers who chides Nasrallah: John Bolton’s mustache wields powers you can only dream of….

More Thug Politics: Health Care Lobbyists Threatened By Senate Finance Chairman

Something tells me this is going to be a recurring theme throughout the Obama years. These Dems are drunk with power.

Roll Call, this morning:

June 11, 2009
By David M. Drucker, Anna Palmer and Kate Ackley
Roll Call Staff

Top aides to Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) called a last-minute, pre-emptive strike on Wednesday with a group of prominent Democratic lobbyists, warning them to advise their clients not to attend a meeting with Senate Republicans set for Thursday.
Russell Sullivan, the top staffer on Finance, and Jon Selib, Baucus’ chief of staff, met with a bloc of more than 20 contract lobbyists, including several former Baucus aides.
“They said, ‘Republicans are having this meeting and you need to let all of your clients know if they have someone there, that will be viewed as a hostile act,’” said a Democratic lobbyist who attended the meeting.

“Going to the Republican meeting will say, ‘I’m interested in working with Republicans to stop health care reform,’” the lobbyist added.

Republican leaders have been meeting with health care stakeholders for months, with those sessions occurring “more frequently than once a month,” according to a senior Senate GOP aide.

The stated purpose of Thursday’s meeting, organized by Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), is to discuss proposals for how to pay for health care reform.

But the underlying motivation for the get-together is to encourage health care lobbyists and stakeholders concerned about the Democrats’ health care reform plans to speak out publicly.
“They need to speak up,” one Senate Republican leadership aide said. “They need to help us help them.”
Thune said Democrats are using threats and intimidation to keep unhappy stakeholders silent.
“If you don’t engage on this thing, this train’s leaving the station,” Thune said. “If you want [Republicans] to have more influence, you’ve got to engage.”

One longtime health care lobbyist agreed that the GOP frustration is spilling out of the Capitol and onto K Street.

“It is notable that Republicans are really finding their voice, and their level of frustration is building with the stakeholders’ inability or refusal to speak out,” this lobbyist said. “They’re getting frustrated. Republicans are doing it themselves.”

Yid With Lid makes the obvious point:

HOSTILE ACT? North Korea testing an nuclear bomb is a hostile act, Iran’s missile tests are hostile acts, Meeting with the minority party is an act of bi-partisanship. The threats of Chairman Baucus’ staff shows once again that the Democratic party promises of reaching out across the aisle to the Republicans are nothing but words.

RELATED:

Karl Rove has some ideas on how to keep “this train from leaving the station”:

It was a sobering breakfast with one of the smartest Republicans on Capitol Hill. We can fix a lot of bad stuff President Barack Obama might do, he told me. But if Mr. Obama signs into law a “public option,” government-run insurance program as part of health-care reform we won’t be able to undo the damage.

I’d go the Republican member of Congress one further: If Democrats enact a public-option health-insurance program, America is on the way to becoming a European-style welfare state. To prevent this from happening, there are five arguments Republicans must make.

Read on…

And

Ed Morrissey notices the games the Dems are playing with the bill: Health care: Back to an incomplete?

Transparency!

And

Uh oh! what are the ObamaCare Focus group Obots going to say, now?:

AMA Speaks Out– Rejects Obamacare

AND:

My friend Francis W. Porretto stopped by, and  as always, left a great comment that bares repeating:

Mark Steyn argues that nationalized health care is the point of no return for a nation’s descent into socialism. He makes a good case.

Can we defeat this? Unclear. Obama’s legislative henchmen appear to be going for broke, in several senses of that phrase. They next face the voters in November 2010. Present trends continuing but current legal conditions holding steady, they might still be voted out of their seats…but one of the “side effects” of their machinations to date, and of their proposals on the table, is to make millions more Americans fully or partially dependent on Washington. That’s more likely to make a man pull the Democrat lever than any other “side effect” I know of.

Consider the Democrats’ utter disregard for fiscal reality. Consider their open embrace of “card check.” Consider their adoption of bullying tactics toward the corporations seduced into their bailout schemes. Consider the way they’ve tried to intimidate lobbyists who’d like to hear what the GOP caucus has to say.

To me, theirs looks like a “mainchance” play: A strategy to win forever or die, with nationalized health care as a key component.

Pray.

He has more at his blog, Eternity Road.

Previous related posts:

More Details On The Chrysler Threats

White House Threatens Chrysler Non-Tarp Investment Companies (UPDATED)

What We’re In For

Obama Threatening T.V. Stations (Again)!

Obama Threatening TV Stations For Airing Ayers Ad (UPDATE: AIP Responds)

White Supremecist National Holocaust Museum Shooter Anti-Semitic And Anti-Christian

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Today’s shooting marks yet another case of domestic terrorism prompting some to ask if  this is the beginning of a trend.

FoxNews reported, earlier this afternoon : “At least two people were shot at the national Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, an official told FOX News. Other media reports said a man walked into the museum and shot a security guard. Another guard returned fire, wounding the alleged shooter. ”

Unfortunately, it has to be pointed out that this murderous nut job who killed the security guard, hated Christians almost as much as he hated Jews,  because there’s already a meme being started on the left that James von Brunn is a member of the religious right, a Christian extremist.  Nothing could be further from the truth. Here is some  vile gibberish he wrote in an essay he posted online.

Warning: sickening and vile content, ahead:

CHRISTIANITY and the HOLOCAUST.
by James W. von Brunn

As duped Aryan sheep begin to understand the “Holocaust” they also begin to better understand Christianity.  Both have similar origins.  Both have identical objectives.

Saul of Tarsus, after helping friends stone to death a disciple of Jesus Christ, set forth toward Damascus.  As he trudged the dusty road a blinding, excruciating light suddenly crashed his brain.  The world whirled into a crimson vortex.  He heard his own scream, far away.  Then there was quiet.  When he awoke he was lying on the road.  He looked up.  A man in a white cloak was standing there his hands outstretched.  His hands bore deep scars.  Saul trembled with fright.  Then Jesus smiled, pulling Saul upright, saying, “Fear not, Saul of Tarsus, I come to you from our Father.”  It was a miracle.

Saul and Jesus earnestly, fervently, joyously conversed with one another.  Arm in arm they tarried there.  Jesus told Saul he was his own.  Jesus was loving, loving, forgiving, forgiving.  Saul became his disciple there and then — struck by the Holy Spirit.  Finally, following Saul’s vows of fidelity, love, and obedience, the visitation ended when, before Saul’s wondering awe-struck eyes, Jesus to Heaven in a halo did rise.  It was a miracle.

We are told that this extra-sensory experience, somewhat like an epileptic fit, suddenly changed the hateful, murderer Saul (later, St.  Paul) from a hater of Jesus into a Jesus lover.  Really?

Saul, ten years younger, had not met The Master vis a vis before Jesus’ crucifixion.  Had they met earlier Saul probably would have crushed Christ’s head with a rock.  Saul, and most Israelis, detested Jesus and his blasphemous ideology almost as much as they detested Romans; more even than they detested Greeks, Babylonians, Assyrians, Canaanites, Egyptians, Persians, et al.  In truth, as bigoted Judeophobes know, God’s “Chosen People” hated their God’s only Son.

Matthew emphatically states that Israelis so hated Jesus Christ that THEY crucified him (Pope John Paul II, Zionist, said that Matthew is wrong!  What’s that?  “The Word of God” is wrong?).

ACTUALLY, on the road to Damascus — brooding about Rome, relishing the bloody image of the disciple he had stoned to death; sweaty, sore footed, thinking of the blasphemous ravings of the Nazarene — Saul had an incredible, earthshaking IDEA.  A light-bulb inspiration.  He, Saul — a Roman citizen — suddenly realized how he could destroy Rome!  Saul trembled uncontrollably with fear and joy.  He would simply promulgate the insane teachings of Jesus!  What better way to destroy a Nation — any Nation — than to undermine her hubris; her gods, ethics, mores, history, her gene-pool — in short, Saul would DESTROY ROMAN CULTURE.  Then, as night follows day, with her foundations rotted, the Roman Empire would FALL.  Saul decided to begin the HOAX by inventing a miraculous encounter on the road to Damascus with the reincarnated Jesus the Christ!

Toward that end — no different than Hollywood script-writers today — Saul created a bogus a la Spielberg docu-drama stuffed with lies, miracles, guilt trips, betrayal, virgin birth, eternal damnation, salvation — a scenario appealing to the superstitious, vulnerable, ignorant yearning sheep — he named his hoax “Christianity.”

The New Testament was written in Greek.  Paul – who believed the World was flat, that Joshua made the sun stand still, and Jehovah spoke from a burning bush — wrote one-third of it, perhaps more.  The events described in the 24 Books are often contradictory, fail the time-line, defy both archaeology’s and nature’s immutable laws, and are suicidal if practiced.  Nevertheless, the shamans bought it, taught it, and the illiterate public was coerced, brainwashed, threatened, tortured, murdered, and enthralled.  The Encyclopedia Britannica states that over 6,000 major redactions exist between the Septuagint (translation of Aramaic into Greek) and its St. James biblical translation.

The Gospels profess that only Christians may enter Yahweh’s Kingdom of Heaven.  To qualify, among other demands, Christians must LOVE THEIR ENEMIES (Jews); give away their personal belongings; eschew knowledge; judge not, despise nature, abandon earthly pleasures, acknowledge that all YHWH’s children are equal; and above all else worship YHWH, the jealous, wrathful, vengeful, unforgiving, genocidal, anthropomorphic tribal god (Jesus’ father) created by Hebrews in their image and likeness.  Omnipotent, omniscient YHWH promises Hebrews that they alone shall inherit the earth, that it is commendable to steal from Gentiles, better yet — kill them.  Whereas Gentiles, if they fail to worship YHWH, are transported straight to Hell.  And it is written, “A little child shall lead them.”

These dangerous, imbecilic, concepts, tenets, and teachings, often treasonous, DESTROYED the Roman Empire and drenched the soil of Europe with Aryan blood for almost 2000 years!

The Big Lie technique, employed by Paul to create the CHRISTIAN RELIGION, also was used to create the HOLOCAUST RELIGION … CHRISTIANITY AND THE HOLOCAUST are HOAXES.

“Christianity” destroyed Roman Civilization.  The “Holocaust” Religion is destroying Western Civilization.  The Aryan gene-pool dies, “unwept, unhonored and unsung.”

jvb

“Kill the Best Gentiles!”

(Talmud)

www.holywesternempire.org

A true Nazi, through and through.

NOT a Christian.

UPDATE:

Gateway Pundit has more:

Crazed Holocaust Museum Killer… Hates Bush, McCain, Neocons

Sorry lefties….he’s yours.

MORE:

But this news isn’t stopping the left from blaming neocons, anyway:

On Hardball: Journalist Links Rush Limbaugh to Holocaust Museum Shooting

STILL MORE:

Via Protein Wisdom I find that The Jawas have profiled the guy:

* He hates Bush.
* He hates the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
* Hates Jews and blacks.
* Holocaust denier.
* Hates Christians, especially Catholics.
* Doesn’t think Hitler went far enough.
* He is a 9-11 Troother.
* Anti-Illuminati.
* Eugenicist.
* Perhaps most importantly, ex-military.
* Alternately, perhaps most importantly, is a Nirther.

STILL MORE:

From FrontPageMagazine:

Holocaust Museum Shooter: Christian-Hating Socialist

And:

Hot Air:

“Right-wing” Holocaust Museum shooter may have targeted … the Weekly Standard; Update: Fox News also targeted?

There has been a great disturbance in the left wing’s narrative.

Here’s Gateway Pundit’s profile:

So far, this is what we know about James von Brunn, via icwhatudo at Free Republic:

Registered Democrat (needs confirmation)
Christian hater
Jew Hater
FOX News’ O’Reilly hater
Weekly Standard hater
Bush hater
Neo-con hater
9-11 was an inside job nut
Socialist
artist
Stated that “SOCIALISM, represents the future of the West”
Stated that the Apostle Paul destroyed Rome by undermining its pagan virility.
Hated corporations
Gee, this kook sounds like a Kos Kid, huh?

Top 10 Hottest Guys On The Right

Dr. Melissa Clouthier couldn’t resist, what with these top 10 lists being all the rage at the moment. And she has some of my favorites on the list:

ace

If you hear Ace tell it, he’s a hideous troll. I’ve met him. He most certainly is not. He’s got that old time newspaper man thing going. He’s smart and he’s as funny in person as he is in his writing. Hot. Ace is a bloggers blogger. Find him here.

Come on, Melissa…he’s not a troll…he’s an Ewok. Big difference.

Super Important Update:

Melissa has updated her list to include one more…squeaky wheel, wearing a speedo…

The Ten Hottest New Media Guys On The Right

Michelle O. Wows The Brits With Her Elegant Fashion Sense

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The UK Daily Mail calls her the first lady of flamboyance.

The US media constantly compares her to Jackie Kennedy.

I report, you decide.

MORE:

Fashion critic Alice Olins of The UK Times Online demands answers:

What was that strange orange snake working its way around the First Lady’s middle?

And the spotted plastic belt? Well, put it this way, her favourite Alaia studded one need not worry about the competition.

Lots of mortified people in the comment section…

and…

Jana has some helpful tips for the media in covering fashion icon, Michelle.

Video: Rush Limbaugh: Obama Is Destroying The Economy

“Obama is destroying the economy” was his theme for Monday’s show.

I’ve already mentioned the tear Rush went on, yesterday, here. Everyone I know who are long time listeners to Rush have never heard him sound this exercised:

Part One:

Part Two:

Part Three

Part Four:

Part Five:

Limbaugh’s opening question, “Is he destroying it (the economy) on purpose?” is the $63,000 question many people are asking.  The Anchoress gives you a chance to vote on that question in her poll, The Economy: Does Obama know what he’s doing? (Link fixed).

And Rich Lowery concurred with Rush at RCP:

Obama’s Solution to Overspending is More Overspending

See also:

Call It What It Is: Rationed Health Care

GOOD NEWS:

A new Rasmussen poll shows a plurality of Americans want to CANCEL Porkulus.

Forty-five percent (45%) of Americans say the rest of the new government spending authorized in the $787-billion economic stimulus plan should now be canceled. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that just 36% disagree and 20% are not sure.

That is just stunning to me. I would never have thought to ask if it should be CANCELED. Were you for or against it?, Do you think the money is being wisely spent?, Do you think it is helping etc….I could imagine….but CANCEL it?

WOW!

Support your local tea party coming soon (July 4th) to an area near you.

I think the public is finally awaking from its slumber.



Video:Republicans Speak Out On ObamaCare

On the floor, today, Republican Reps hit the floor to speak out against Obama’s single payer health care plan, and discuss  their better plan:

John Boehner:

Roy Blunt:

Phil Gingrey

Tom Price

MO Rep Roy Blunt’s website is actually a very good source for information on the health care issue.

See John Boehner’s website for the:

Top 10 Facts About House Democrats’ Health Care “Reform” Legislation

The Obama brigades are out in full force, pushing for socialized medicine.

Push back.

A recent Rasmussen poll shows that Americans are increasingly distrusting of Democrats and the economy, as well they should be.

The Republicans can do better, and they’re trying to get that message out.

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John Murtha Airport Boondoggle To Receive $800,000 In Stimulus $$$

610x1Another busy day at the John Murtha Johnstown-Cambria County Airport

Oh…but think of the jobs created – 1 runway paver:

Murtha represents a district of Pennsylvania in Congress. Over the past 10 years, the Washington Post reported earlier this year, he has directed at least $150 million in federal funds to his airport – to no avail.

The airport is just outside Johnstown, population 21,000. Thanks to Murtha, it has all kinds of federally funded goodies – a new terminal with a restaurant, an $8 million high-tech radar system that has never been used, a helicopter hangar, a motorized baggage carousel – and a taxpayer subsidy of $147 per passenger, double the national average.

Not that there are many passengers.

The airport has only six flights a day - all to the same location, Washington, D.C. – and each flight carries an average of only 20 passengers.

“Inside the terminal on a recent weekday,” the Post reported, “four passengers lined up to board a flight, outnumbered by seven security staff members and supervisors . . . . For three hours that day, no commercial or private planes took off or landed.”

Yet when Democrats passed the $787 billion “spendulous” bill earlier this year, what project should get another $800,000?

Murtha’s airport, which will have its second runway repaved.

Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., in a piece that appeared recently in The Spectator, challenged the president to explain how that decision gibes with his commitment “to make sure that every single dollar” of stimulus money is “well spent.”

Sheriff Joe could not be reached for comment.

Ayn Rand couldn’t have done better at demonstrating futile Statist policies at work, but she came close in Atlas Shrugged:

San Sebastian Mines

San Sebastian Mines is a copper mining project in Mexico founded by Francisco d’Anconia and named after his ancestor Sebastian d’Anconia. Francisco’s reputation as a businessman is so great that investors flock to him, begging to invest money in the enterprise. Investors include James Taggart and Orren Boyle. James Taggart goes so far as to build a new branch of Taggart Transcontinental, the San Sebastian Line, to serve the mines, sinking $30 million into the project. When the development of the mines appears complete, the Mexican government nationalizes them as well as the San Sebastian Line, only to discover there is no copper and there never was.

When James Taggart tells Francisco he considers the Mines a rotten swindle ( section 161), Francisco explains that Taggart should be pleased with the way he ran the mines. He says he put into practice those moral precepts that were accepted around the world. The world says it is evil to pursue a profit – he got no profit from the worthless mines. The world says the purpose of an enterprise is not to produce, but to give a livelihood to its employees – it produced nothing, but created jobs that would never have existed if one was only concerned with developing a real mine. The world says the owner is an exploiter and the workers do all the real work – he left the enterprise entirely in the hands of the workers and did not burden anyone with his presence. The world says need is a more important than ability – he hired a mining specialist who needed a job very badly, but had no ability.

In short, the San Sebastian Mines were an illustration of what happens when this moral code is put into practice, and a warning of what will soon happen to the world as a whole.

Maybe conservatives need to create their own “Galt’s Gulch”…preferably in Texas.

Photo credit: The Brooklyn Nomad.

Video: John Bolton: Put North Korea Back On The Terror List

The mustache appeared on The Greta Van Susteren Show last night to comment on the kidnapping of the two North Korean journalists who were sentenced to 12 years of hard labor:

Greta’s description of a North Korean labor camp was sobering…. Yeesh…I hope and pray there are people working hard behind the scenes to free them.

More at The Washington Examiner:

Time for push back on North Korea

Video:Sarah Palin On Hannity

‘Cuda talks about the hole Obama is digging, and says, ‘we told ya so’.

Yes, she did.

Part One:

Part Two:

Courtesy of Conservatives 4 Palin

Midwest Fair Tax Rally, June 13, Columbia, MO

My friends at Americans For Prosperity sent me some info on the upcoming Fair Tax event, this weekend:

Midwest Fair Tax Rally, June 13th (Not an AFP event):

This Saturday, June 13 th, you can join others) AFP’ers, b) tea partiers, c) tax reformers or d) all the above at the Boone County Fairgrounds in Columbia, Missouri ( Speaking of Tax Policy – You Won’t Want to Miss This Event! | Americans for Prosperity ). The event starts at 8:00am Saturday morning and will include Neil Boortz, Herman Cain, Joe the Plumber and many other great speakers! I’m even going to be there and speak about what YOU have done!

In addition, American Majority will be on hand to conduct a number of grassroots training sessions that will equip you to become even more effective at affecting change! The 30 minute sessions will begin at 10am with Building Coalitions, followed at 10:45am by Organizing Meaningful Events, then 11:30am Holding Elected Officials Accountable and close at 12:15pm with Using Media to Advance Your Message. Choose one or all of the sessions. American Majority does a great job.

What: Midwest Fair Tax Rally (not an AFP-sponsored event)
When: Saturday, June 13, 2009
Where: Boone County Fair Grounds
Columbia, Missouri
When: 8am – dark

I hope you can take all or part of the day to join us Saturday, June 13 th, at the Boone County Fairgrounds. Festivities begin at 8am with music provided beginning at 4pm until dark.

More info can be found at Kansas City Tea Party.

Be there or be square.

***

Hot Air Tour Stop in St. Louis, (last weekend):

Hundreds of Americans for Prosperity – Missouri members, old and new, gathered last week to let their voices be heard to protest the energy tax being discussed in Washington right now.

Everyone in attendance became “Tier 1” grassroots activists as they called Senator McCaskill’s various Missouri and Washington numbers, letting her know they do not support backdoor increases in the name of climate change!

You can view a video and some pictures on our AFPMO.org site Scenes from the St. Louis Area Hot Air Tour Stop | Americans for Prosperity.

ObamaCare Photoshop

Michelle Malkin is having an Obamacare poster contest.

My submission:

obamacare

As usual, I jumped into something without reading the rules first, which was to use old WWII poster art for the creations, but oh well, I’m sticking with this.

My inspiration?:

HERE COMES HEALTH CARE RATIONING

MORE:

Oh, this is interesting:

Conservative blogger, Dan J of Falling Panda, infiltrated an Obama Health Care Meet-up in North Hollywood:

As the discussion began, the meetings participants immediately began firing off questions about the details of the health care plan to Sandra and the other woman who was leading the event. For all of their enthusiasm these group leaders were completely incapable of describing the particulars of the Obama plan in any coherent way. What they did understand however was that Obama’s “public option”, the government run insurance program that Obama wants to create to compete with the private insurance companies, was the first step towards the entitlement that almost everyone in that room (based on the raising of hands at the beginning of the meeting) was really longing for. That being a European style “single payer” health care system. They also understood that part of their job as grassroots activist promoting the plan was to ensure people that the plan was not going to result in “single payer”. How Obamaesque.

Uh huh…typical lefties.

As Rush likes to say: They get up every morning and ask themselves, “How can we fool them, today”.

The bottom line, though, is that Dan went away from the meeting not terribly impressed with the Obots’  abilities to persuade an increasingly dubious populous.

Obamacare can be defeated.

Via Michelle Malkin on Twitter.

SPEAKING OF RUSH…

He was really on a tear, earlier today. I’ve never heard him sounding this alarmed:

CALLER:  It gives me a warm fuzzy feeling, I tell you.  Number two, thank God my husband has a good job, but you were mentioning about the health care thing, we have benefits through his company.  What happens when everybody gets free health care, do we still have to pay through his company do you think or are we going to be able to get off this and get it free like everybody else or are we going to be paying double the price?  I have no clue what’s going to happen.

RUSH:  Everybody is going to be paying more.  There will be taxes on the company-provided benefits.  Either the company will pay the taxes or the employee will pay the taxes as imputed income.  There are also other tax increases planned.  Obama is planning on limiting, if not eliminating, all tax deductions for the top tax brackets, as a means of raising more revenue.  It’s another tax increase, which is going to provide many disincentives for people who engage in charitable activities or whatever to get the tax deduction for it.  It’s a disaster in the making.  It is an outright utter disaster he has planned. What’s going to happen, the answer to your question is people are going to get laid off. As everybody is going to be required to have health insurance and health coverage businesses are not going to be able to afford it, the recipients are going to have fewer jobs. They’ll have to fire people; they’ll have to lay people off.

CALLER:  Well, that makes me feel so much better.

RUSH:  It should make you feel better.  It should make you feel a lump in your throat.  We are on the cusp of an unmitigated national disaster and catastrophe.  There is no possible way to overstate this. Folks, you know me. I am not an alarmist.  I am an optimist.  I try to find the good things about every day. I want to enjoy life and I want to help as many other people enjoy life.  But I tell you, what I see coming down the pike as it gets worse and worse and worse, the architects of this thing, let’s do more of what’s making it worse, it’s time to put the foot down.  It’s an unmitigated disaster. It is a Obama-caused tailspin and it has to be stopped.  It must be stopped, for the sake of everybody’s kids and grandkids and great-grandkids and the country as well. Madeleine, thanks much for the call.

Are you listening Republicans in Congress? Take pride in being the “Party of NOOOOO” on this one.

MORE:

Ace has a good question:

Hey, If Obama Really Can “Save” So Much in Medicare with His Reforms, Why Doesn’t He Just Do That Before He Nationalizes Health Care?

Sarah Palin Not A Plagiarist

No matter what some hope and changer at Huffopo says.

Yesterday afternoon, an Eeyore conservative type (not mentioning any names) was all atwitter about the allegation, pretty sure that she had done  something wrong -  with one or two faint hearts arguing that her defenders can find no wrong in their heroine.

Mr. Jim Treacher did come valiantly to her defense, mentioning the obvious – um… how can it be plagiarism when she had cited Gingrich twice in the speech?

Nice Deb was too preoccupied at the time to look into it further, but was intrigued. I don’t mind admitting that my gut feeling was that she had done nothing wrong.

Now I have time to look into it, but Conservatives 4 Palin have got it covered:

Huffopo writer, Dunn writes:

While Palin twice mentioned Gingrich in the speech (she never once acknowledged Shirley), virtually every single reference she made to Reagan was looks to be lifted directly from the Gingrich-Shirley article.

The article has been scrubbed. It used to include this sentence at the end of the above paragraph:

It’s a pure case of unadulterated plagiarism.
Apparently someone pointed out to Geoffrey that by twice citing Gingrich, Gov. Palin was attributing the words/ideas to him. She had no intention of pretending that it was hers. She was paraphrasing his words, but essentially using what he wrote. That’s why she cited his article twice.

But Dunn is correct on one point. She forgot to mention that Gingrich co-wrote the article with Craig Shirley. Someone call the Modern Language Association and tell them that Palin failed to properly cite both authors. She deferred to the more famous of the two (who also happened to come first alphabetically).

Palin also failed to provide the date, the publisher, and the page number of the section she quoted. Meg Stapleton, if you are reading this, you need to buy the governor a copy of the MLA Style Guide right away.

I am surprised that the left is suddenly so upset about plagiarism. So many of their fellow travelers have had “issues” with “lifting” other peoples work without citing their sources the way that Gov. Palin did twice. (*ahem* Doris Kearns Goodwin, Joe McGinniss, Molly Ivins, Charles Ogletree… just to name a few.)

Read on for more updates on the story, and to see some good examples of  real plagiarists in action.

UPDATE:

Gingrich camp: Plagiarism claim ‘silly’

So there ya go…

Thanks, MaxPower.

RELATED: (because it concerns another liberal media hit job):

THE REAL STORY BEHIND GLENN BECK ON THE VIEW

(THE LIBERAL MEDIA HIT JOB)

PROOF GLENN BECK DID NOT LIE!!!!!

This video  at Naked Emperor News is over 18 minutes long, but is well worth your time, even if you hadn’t heard of the Glenn Beck/The  View Imbroglio.

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