Watcher’s Council Nominations – Pants On Fire Edition

Welcome to the Watcher’s Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the ‘sphere, and the longest running group of its kind in existence. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for consideration by the whole Council.Then we vote on the best two posts, with the results appearing on Friday.

Council News:
This week, Ask Marion, and Aewl’s Abode took advantage of my generous offer of link whorage and earned honorable mention status with some great articles.

You can, too! Want to see your work appear on the Watcher’s Council homepage in our weekly contest listing? Didn’t get nominated by a Council member? No worries.

Simply head over to Joshuapundit and post the title a link to the piece you want considered along with an e-mail address ( which won’t be published) in the comments section no later than Monday 6PM PST in order to be considered for our honorable mention category. Then return the favor  by creating a post on your site linking to the Watcher’s Council contest for the week when it comes out Wednesday morning

Simple, no?

It’s a great way of exposing your best work to Watcher’s Council readers and Council members. while grabbing the increased traffic and notoriety. And how good is that, eh?

So, let’s see what we have this week….

Council Submissions

• Liberty’s Spirit – Self-Important Intellectuals are Neither Important nor Intelligent: Autism Meme and Dehumanization @Guardian
• The Noisy Room – Back Door Gun Control Moves Forward
• Simply Jews – Venezuelan MISHAP (Ministry of Supreme Social Happiness)
• The Political Commentator – Screw the Obamacare lies, here’s an Obamacare true story!
• The Right Planet – Folks, They Don’t Care About You!
• GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – Killing Monsters
• The Razor – Failure – The Obama Administration’s Foreign Policy Legacy
• Joshuapundit–Endgame: Abbas And The PLO Get Ready To Launch The Third Intifada
• Rhymes With Right – Fisking Ornstein On “The Right To Vote”
  
• The Colossus of Rhodey – “Chilling Repercussions?”
• Nice Deb – Debate: Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel vs. A Guy Who Isn’’t An Obnoxious Know It All (Video)
• The Glittering Eye –Presidents, Popularity, and the Midterm Elections
• Bookworm Room – Having been caught engaged in out-and-out fraud, Obama engages in a familiar pattern to cover up his lies
• VA Right! – If You Vote For McAuliffe YOU WILL LOSE Your Insurance and PAY A FINE – Cancer Becomes a Death Sentence Under McAuliffe
• The Mellow Jihadi – Made In China…

Honorable Mentions

• Ask Marion – Common Sense – Almost Lost
• Aewl’s Abode – GOP Establishment vs. Tea Party

Non-Council Submissions

• Fred Barnes/Weekly Standard – Point Of No Return submitted by Liberty’s Spirit
• Sultan Knish –It’s De Blasio Time submitted by The Noisy Room
• The Contentious Centrist – The Open Liberalism at Open Zion submitted by Simply Jews
• Dollar Vigilante –Are You Prepared For A U.S. Bank Bail In? submitted by The Political Commentator
• The Blaze – The Psychology Behind Leftist Lies submitted by The Right Planet
• Pressure Points – Kerry Foreign Policy: Does The United States Stand For Anything At All?submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
• Doug Ross – The 10 Commandments of Government submitted by Joshuapundit
• Victor Davis Hanson –The Double-Dealing Middle East Is Double-Dealt submitted by The Razor
• Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion – LBJ: Return to pre-1967 borders “not a prescription for peace but for renewed hostilities”
  submitted by Rhymes with Right
• Charles Krauthammer –ObamaCare Laid Bare submitted by Nice Deb
• Keith Hennessy – Flowchart of President Obama’s “You can keep your plan, period” defensessubmitted by The Glittering Eye
• Seth Adam Smith –Marriage Isn’t For You submitted by Bookworm Room
• The Right Scoop – WMAL: Reince Priebus defends RNC support for Cuccinelli, Mark Levin calls in and FIRES BACK at Priebus submitted by VA Right!
• Gates Of Vienna – The Left, the Right and the March of Death submitted by The Watcher
• Michelle Malkinn/NRO – First Crony Michelle Obama submitted by Watcher
• Norman Berdichevsky/New English Review ( h/t,Tina Trent) – Obamacare Will Follow the Fate of Prohibition submitted by Watcher

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ObamaCare: Trainwreck or Wrecking Ball?

I think it’s the latter, which is the conclusion of one of Obama’s Columbia classmates (who doesn’t remember ever seeing him on campus), Wayne Allen Root, who wants the GOP to stop calling Obamacare a “trainwreck.”

That means it’s a mistake, or accident. That means it’s a gigantic flop, or failure. It’s NOT. This is a brilliant, cynical, and purposeful attempt to damage the U.S. economy, kill jobs, and bring down capitalism. It’s not a failure, it’s Obama’s grand success. It’s not a “trainwreck,” Obamacare is a suicide attack. He wants to hurt us, to bring us to our knees, to capitulate so we agree under duress to accept big government.

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Obamacare is a raving, rollicking, fantastic success. Stop calling it a failure. Here is what it was created to do. It is succeeding on all counts.

1) Obamacare was intended to bring about the Marxist dream- redistribution of wealth. Rich people, small business owners, and the middle class are being robbed, so that the money can be redistributed to poor people (who vote Democrat). Think about it. If you’re rich or middle class, you now have to pay for your own healthcare costs (at much higher rates) AND 40 million other people’s costs too (through massive tax increases). So you’re stuck paying for both bills. You are left broke. Brilliant.

2) Obamacare was intended to wipe out the middle class and make them dependent on government. Think about it. Even Obama’s IRS predicts that health insurance for a typical American family by 2016 will be $20,000 per year. But how would middle class Americans pay that bill and have anything left for food or housing or living? People that make $40K, or $50K, or $60K can’t possibly hope to spend $20K on health insurance without becoming homeless. Bingo. That’s how you make middle class people dependent on government. That’s how you make everyone addicted to government checks. Brilliant.

3) As a bonus, Obamacare is intended to kill every decent paying job in the economy, creating only crummy, crappy part-time jobs. Why? Just to make sure the middle class is trapped, with no way out. Just to make sure no one has the $20,000 per year to pay for health insurance, thereby guaranteeing they become wards of the state. Brilliant.

4) Obamacare is intended to bankrupt small business, and therefore starve donations to the GOP. Think about it. Do you know a small business owner? I know hundreds of them. Their rates are being doubled, tripled and quadrupled by Obamacare. Guess who writes 75% of the checks to Republican candidates and conservative causes? Small business. Even if a small business owner manages to survive, he or she certainly can’t write a big check to the GOP anymore. Money is the “mother’s milk” of politics. Without donations, a political party ceases to exist. Bingo. That’s the point of Obamacare. Obama is bankrupting his political opposition and drying up donations to the GOP. Brilliant.

5) Obamacare is intended to make the IRS all-powerful. It adds thousands of new IRS agents. It puts the IRS in charge of overseeing 15% of the U.S. economy. The IRS has the right because of Obamacare to snoop into every aspect of your life, to go into your bank accounts, to fine you, to frighten you, to intimidate you. And Obama and his socialist cabal have access to your deepest medical secrets. By law your doctor has to ask your sexual history. That information is now in the hands of Obama and the IRS to blackmail GOP candidates into either not running, or supporting bigger government, or leaking the info and ruining your campaign. Or have you forgotten the IRS harassed, intimidated and persecuted critics of Obama and conservative groups? Now Obama hands the IRS even more power. Big Brother rules our lives. Brilliant.

6) Obamacare is intended to unionize 15 million healthcare workers. That produces $15 billion in new union dues. That money goes to fund Democratic candidates and socialist causes- thereby guaranteeing Obama’s friends never lose another election, and Obama’s policies keep ruining capitalism and bankrupting business owners long after he’s out of office.

Message to the GOP: This isn’t a game. This isn’t tiddly-winks. This is a serious, purposeful attempt to highjack America and destroy capitalism. This isn’t a trainwreck. It’s purposeful suicide. It’s not failing, it’s working exactly according to plan. Obama knows what he’s doing. Stop apologizing and start fighting.

Keep reading…

Pols like Ted Cruz and Mike Lee understand what’s going on, here…. Do their colleagues?

See Also:

Joe Herring, The American Thinker: I Am Now a Dissident (and You Should Be, Too!)

dissident n. a person who opposes official policy, esp. that of an authoritarian state.

We live in a nation where the constitutionally respectful are becoming increasingly outnumbered by those who neither understand the underpinnings of our founding nor recognize the benefits that flow from those foundational values.

In place of legitimate constitutional scholarship in our educational system, we see a systematic and unrelenting effort to overturn the original concepts of our Constitution in favor of some “living” replacement — an “updated” document made for a diverse and evolving population, or so we are told.

Those who hold offices created by the Constitution itself are the very people using the power of those offices to usurp constitutional authority and undermine its place in American law.

After Obama utilized his entire first term to levy insult after insult against the rule of law in our nation, we conservatives appealed to our fellow citizens to vote with us to halt his lawlessness.  We discovered to our eternal dismay that we — not they — are the minority.

David Limbaugh: Obamacare Is Obama Unmasked:

When someone with the influence Obama enjoyed upon first taking office sets out to fundamentally transform the nation — and he has the unqualified support of the entire liberal media apparatus, the Democratic Party in lock step, millions of people purchased with government money and/or indoctrinated in liberal universities, and the cudgels of racial shaming and white guilt — the possibilities are endless.

Constitutionalists have observed for years that America has been on a downward spiral as its ruling class has discarded its founding principles — the very ideas that led to this nation’s uniqueness, power, prosperity and benevolence. We’ve known that we could not forever piggyback, with impunity, on America’s system of limited government and its free market economy. Eventually, statist encroachments on both would destroy our prosperity, liberty and power.

But we were thinking in terms of decades into the future, not a matter of a few years. Who would have ever thought the United States would embark on such an accelerated path of national suicide?

At the beginning, people could argue that Obama would usher in a period of prosperity and bipartisanship and that things would get better in America. But after five years of unconscionably reckless federal spending, a wholesale assault on our domestic energy industries, endless abuses of executive authority and other lawless incursions on the Constitution, unprecedented divisiveness and polarization across economic, racial and gender lines, America’s declining power and prestige in the world, an explosion of the welfare state, and the worst economic recovery in 60 years, how can anyone who cares about this nation’s future and the well-being of our children and grandchildren keep supporting this man’s policies?

Watch Live: Sebelius Testifies Before Senate Finance Committee

Yesterday CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner testified before the Senate Health, Labor and Pensions Committee and today it’s Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’s turn to sit on the hot seat before the Senate Finance Committee.

Via Greta Van Susteren:

Led by Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (a longtime Montana Democrat who is not running for reelection), the panel had a key role in authoring President Obama’s marquee legislative accomplishment. Senator Baucus has been more outspoken than his Democratic colleagues in expressing misgivings about the law’s implementation, however. First he referred to it famously as an approaching “train wreck;” just last week he told a local radio station that he was open to delaying the penalty in light of the malfunctioning website and also said he was disappointed with Sebelius for not being as forthcoming as he’d like. He also compared the law to Humpty Dumpty of nursery rhyme fame.

TIC TOC
The hearing starts at 10 am. Both Baucus and Senator Orrin Hatch, the committee’s ranking Republican, will make opening statements (approximately 5 minutes usually but since they’re senior they can go over if they want). Sebelius will then be given 5-10 minutes for an opening statement.

Greta notes that “while Sebelius’ grilling before the GOP-controlled House wasn’t surprising, today is significant given that Democrats control the Senate and Baucus helped shepherd the health-care law through the chamber. As the last few weeks have shown, even Democrats are beginning to lose their patience.”

Expect few fireworks today, than when she testified in the House.

 

Live stream via The Washington Post

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