GUTTING MEDICARE, OBAMACARE STYLE: An excellent new analysis by Bob Moffit at the Heritage Foundation details how the $716 billion in Medicare cuts will occur, and where all that money will go. Hint: think subsidization of the costs of health insurance for younger folks under Obamacare. Seniors, are you listening?????
Archive for 2012
October 16, 2012
ARE YOU A DOWNSIDER? “Downsiders are not paranoid. Downsiders simply refuse to be bewildered, helpless or clueless. Downsiders are not excited about the downside, they just want to be cleareyed if such things happen.”
OBAMA GETS READY TO RUMBLE:
ALWAYS THE LAST TO KNOW: Former Aide on Obama: ‘Stunning that He’s in Politics, Because He Really Doesn’t Like People.’
Stunning? Well, not in the sense of being breaking news.
UPDATE: Cory Bookered? Former Obama aide says President Obama ‘doesn’t like people,’ then issues apology.
THE WAR ON THE WAPO’S JEN RUBIN: Axelrod, ThinkProgress jump the shark.
Huh – back around this time in 2008 it was Obama’s opposition who were freaking out over the media.
RELATED: Obama campaign fund-raising appeals become increasingly nasty.
FRANCE IS GEARING UP to intervene in Mali to oust the Al Qaeda controlled “government” in the north. The defense minister says the intervention will begin “in a matter of weeks.”
‘OH NO! WE CAN’T LET ROMNEY WIN, HE’LL LET LOBBYISTS IN THE WHITE HOUSE!!!’ At the Washington Examiner, Tim Carney writes:
If Romney wins, will lobbyists defile the White House that Obama has kept so clean and so pure? That’s what Politico suggests with this piece today headlined “Lobbyists ready for a comeback under Romney.”
President Barack Obama’s gone further than any president to keep lobbyists out of the White House — even signing executive orders to do it.
In crafting and signing those executive orders, I wonder if Obama relied on the help of…
Read the whole thing. As Ace quips, “What Tim Carney does to Politico here is only legal because of Lawrence v. Texas. — It may be legal, but that doesn’t mean it’s fit for family viewing.”
HONEY BOO BOO THROWS SUPPORT TO OBAMA: Yep, it’s official. The nation’s favorite little redneck pageant queen supports Obama (if she could vote, of course– but then again, why discriminate against her just because she’s young– how ageist).
This is ever-so-slightly ironic: Rednecks for Obama. Guess they didn’t hear Obama’s nasty, condescending comment about clinging to guns, religion and harboring “antipathy toward people who aren’t like them.” Oh, silly me: They probably missed this because they get their news from NBC/MSNBC or other lamestream media outlets.
NOBODY STEPS ON A CHURCH IN MY TOWN: Wall Street’s Trinity Church Cancels Halloween Events Following Alleged Assault By ‘Occupy’ Protester.
I remember when the left believed in separating religion and politics. Of course, that was quite some time ago.
DIRTY TRICKS: The Democratic National Committee puts up a site designed to trick you into thinking it’s Romney’s.
UPDATE: From the comments:
It’s astonishing to me that the main theme of the Obama campaign in recent months has been to call Romney a liar. I mean, really?
This is coming from the guy that broke a promise to cut deficit in half by the end of his first term. This is coming from the guy
who broke promise to broadcast the health care negotiations on C-SPAN. This is coming from a guy who broke promise to reduce earmarks to 1994 levels. The guy who broke promise to allow five days of public comment before signing bills… repeatedly. This is the guy who is still saying that he wasn’t aware of the situation on the ground and the embassy on September 11. This is the guy that insists that nobody high up in his administration was at fault over the whole Fast and Furious debacle. This is the guy who broke a promise he made to close Guantánamo Bay.
Indeed.
COULD THE MEDIA TURN ON OBAMA? Steve Hayward of Power Line spots Howard Fineman, formerly of Newsweek, now with the Huffington Post, writing the first (albeit tentative) MSM pre-postmortem for Mr. Obama.
Eschew the aura of the penumbra of the appearance of cockiness, however.
UPDATE: “‘Morning Joe’ panel second-guessing Obama’s shot at re-election [VIDEO].”
I bet that’s going to lead to some ugly emails from the White House to MSNBC.
(Bumped to top)
DUMBEST FAILED MEDIA HIT SO FAR? “Dishgate.”
HEY, WAIT, THIS WASN’T SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN: Common peasantry joins with kulaks against Obama.
NPR EDITS WORD ‘TAX’ OUT OF DEMOCRAT DEBATE PERFORMANCE: Somebody at the New Hampshire NPR is angling for a backroom gig at NBC.
RICE THROWS INTEL UNDER THE BUS: UN Ambassador Susan Rice is now backwalking her inane insistence that the Libyan/Egyptian and other attacks on 9/11 were spontaneous outbursts of anger about a stupid YouTube video. Apparently, the official line is now that “Intel made me do it”:
In an interview Monday with The Washington Post, Rice said she relied on daily updates from intelligence agencies in the days before her television appearances and on a set of talking points prepared for senior members of the administration by intelligence officials. She said there was no attempt to pick and choose among possible explanations for the attack.
“Absolutely not,” Rice said. “It was purely a function of what was provided to us” and had been given to Congress the day before.
Oh, what a tangled web we weave . . . .
A THOUGHTFUL AND SIGNIFICANT CRITIQUE OF MODERN LIBERALISM: The Washington Post is not normally where you expect statements like this: “Green energy is not cost-competitive with traditional energy and won’t be for years. So it can’t work without either taxpayer subsidies, much of which accrue to ‘entrepreneurs’ such as Gore, or higher prices for fossil energy — the brunt of which is borne by people of modest means.” Editorial writer Charles Lane is the author. Liberals would do well to follow his example.
NOT QUITE GETTING the whole “Deer Crossing” thing.
AT AMAZON, markdowns galore in the Halloween shop. I like the hot mom in the Supergirl costume.
THE OBAMA-FAVORED BATTERY MAKER A123 DECLARES BANKRUPTCY AFTER GIVING EXECUTIVES BONUSES: “In sum: The president of the United States, Michigan’s former governor, the state’s two U.S. senators and the U.S. Secretary of Energy promised thousands of jobs from a company that in a mere two years went bankrupt. Despite a bankruptcy or buyout predicted by outside observers, the company continued to reward its top executives while laying off most of its workforce.”
A DEAL’S NOT A DEAL WHEN A JOURNALIST IS INVOLVED: Candy Crowley will disregard debate agreement on Tuesday.
REVENGE OF THE GEEKS: Tech Guys Are Winning The Recovery.
BREITBART: Voter Intimidation In Florida.
CAPTAIN’S JOURNAL: What Romney Should Say About Guns In The Debates. “You see, it isn’t the caliber of the weapon that one is holding that’s the problem. It’s the caliber of the one holding the weapon.”
FREE ON AMAZON THIS WEEK: Something Worse Hereafter. A short story (by me) originally published in Out of Hell, an anthology of escapes from hell.
RULES OF ENGAGEMENT: This Appears To Be What Happens When You Let the Guy Who Leads From Behind Run a War… “If I had my way, this would be the 3rd article of impeachment, right next to the Benghazi story.”