102,200 people will die from lack of health insurance

I think we can all agree that the Iraq war is what defined George W. Bush's presidency. No matter what side of the issue you land on, that was "the thing." And, up 'til now, I believe that we could probably agree that health care reform is what defines Barack Obama's presidency, no matter what side you land on, it's his "thing."




Right?


How bad does it suck, then, for President Obama that while Nancy Pelosi announced today that they are going to pass his bill, his approval rating is at an all time low 46%, compared to March of 2003 when President Bush led our nation to war with Iraq and his approval rating was 71%.


Now, according to the left, Bush lied through his teeth to get us to Iraq, and yet most of America approved. And, according to the right, Obama is lying through his teeth that health care reform is going to be a good thing for America, yet, most of America does not want it. (at least not in this way)


In conclusion. Bush, who is berated for being stupid, horrible at speaking and the worst president ever was able to sell a war to the American people, while Obama, lauded for being brilliant, a very dynamic speaker and the hope for America, has yet to convince us that health care legislation is in our best interest.


Sucks to be him.

Yesterday an 11-year-old boy managed to find his own way from Seattle, WA to Washington D.C. and incredibly, he wandered into the U.S. Capitol to make a plea for health care reform before a packed room. (you didn't really think that was my conclusion up there did you?) He "recounted how his mother, Tifanny, died of pulmonary hypertension, a lung disorder, (that has no known cure) in 2006 after she lost her job and her health insurance."

I'll be the first to admit, that on the surface it is a sad story. I don't have the details and I don't care to comment further on the gravity of the situation that he and his mother found themselves in. I'm not entirely sure why they made this poor boy make this speech, but I digress. I do want to comment further about what Majority Whip Dick Durbin said during the press-conference. He said "70 Americans die each day for lack of health insurance." He went on to criticize the Republicans for wanting "to go slow on health care changes."

I would like to point out 2 things: Okay 3 things.

1. If 6744 die every day in America, and only 70 of them are from lack of health insurance, I'd say we're probably okay.
2. Also, the most current and widely quoted study about the death rate for the uninsured (HERE) isn't entirely accurate. (HERE) My favorite quote is towards the bottom. "Lack of helath insurance is not likely to be the major factor causing higher mortality rates among the uninsured. The uninsured - particularly the involuntarlily uninsured - have multiple disadvantages that in themselves are associated with poor health."
3. He accuses the Republicans of wanting "to go slow on health care changes" like they're holding the murder weapon. But the fact is, the most major parts of the current legislation he is touting won't start until 2014.

Let's see... that's 70 deaths per day... over the next 4 years... hold on a second, I need to get my calculator.... 365 days x 4 years...

The democrats health care legislation is going to kill 102,200 people before it kicks in.

It's a faulty premise that lack of health insurance kills, and that the Democrats are going to solve that problem. This is a clear case of 1+1 = Ham Sandwich.

We don't have to accept the premise, and clearly, most of us don't.

Carry on.

They can hear us. They just don't care

This is starting to get old. It's almost enough to take the fun out of pajama punditry. I'm talking about this blog, by necessity, turning away from creative criticism, and turning towards simply repeating over and over again that the federal government isn't listening to America.


Everyday I wake up and read the news hoping that maybe today something will have changed for the positive. Instead of listening to the voices of the American people, it seems that our current Congress is employing a tactic I like to call: "Fuck it."


The call for reason has not fallen on deaf ears. I naively thought that they didn't yet understand that we are unhappy with their agenda. I truly believed that once they realized that Americans don't want them meddling with our lives, they would back off. I was really certain that the threat of losing their job would straighten them out.


Boy, was I wrong.


Let's start HERE: In light of the Tea Party movement being willing to be absorbed by the Republican party if the Republicans will get out of the center, move back towards the right, embrace smaller government, encourage individual freedom and stop the nonsense, this week the GOP is distancing itself from a document that the GOP put out "encouraging operatives to use 'fear' to solicit donations." That is wonderful. Let me tell you how wonderful that is. It's just one more thing they are doing to prove they have no real interest in change.


The best conservative minds out there are encouraging the GOP to move back to its roots and be the Tea Party movement. If they would, it is believed that the Tea Party will embrace them, and will kick the liberal asses right out of Washington in November. No one, even the lesser conservative minds like mine, want to see a new political party called the "Tea Party" created. As we have seen in the past, a third party candidate will split the vote and the liberals get to keep their job. Besides, why do we need a third party? The GOP used to espouse conservative belief's. They could again. It's a perfect fit for Tea Partiers. But, I guess there are to many RINO's and Congress has too many perks. So, if they keep up to their old ways, we are going to see a third party, and we will see liberals unite and win. Sweet.


Let's next look HERE: The latest jobless rates are out, and as I said before, with unemployment at 9.7% it's great that congress is talking about health care. Okay, that's not entirely fair. They are talking about jobs.

• Obama talks about the nations ability to hold on at 9.7% HERE. Thank God we were able to only lose 36,000 last month.


• Harry Reid was so excited about it he couldn't even say it correctly (HERE he is saying that it was just 36,000 lost today... he obviously just misspoke. It happens) But later he corrected his remarks and expounded upon them. Harry Reid criticized the pundits and economists who thought job loss numbers would be worse (Here's the administration predicting job loss numbers being worse). He also took time to defend the recovery act (talking points) and tout the "jobs bill" passed earlier this week.

The "jobs" bill that will continue to expand government projects (when the government is in the business of growing jobs, the only business that grows is government) extending federal highway and mass-transit funding programs. Oh yeah, it also gives employers an exemption from social security payroll contribution for every new employee hired through the rest of the year...so long as that employee has been out of work for at least 60 days. But, as Rep. Tom Price (Ga.) said, "any company that can't afford to hire today still won't be able to hire if this bill becomes law. Calling this a jobs bill is pure fraud."


That's okay. They're really more interested in health care anyway.


Boortz makes a great point about the inevitable government take-over of health care. "It's clear that the Statists can't get everything they want right now... so they have crafted a bill designed to put the seeds of destruction into our present health care system. Once the mandates, the penalties and other onerous restrictions and demands of Obamacare go to work on our present system the collapse will be inevitable. In just a few years the Democrats believe they would be able to say to the American people 'see, we tried! We tried halfway measures to reform health care, but they didn't work. Now we have no choice but to go the distance... to move to a single payer plan.'"


Nancy Pelosi and President Obama want to get health care legislation passed regardless of the huge losses the Democrats are going to take in November. Probably because they know that the GOP won't be able to stop their centrist ways, and the Tea Party will form a third party, and liberals will take the day. Or, maybe they figure losing seats in Congress is a good way to win back the White house in 2012.


Let's finish HERE: Obama spoke this week at a company called OPOWER. OPOWER is a company which designs software to help operate more efficient electrical "smart grids." You know, the same smart grids that can see how much power is being used, and who is using it. The same smart grid that can regulate how much power is being sent to your home. So, if you are using more than is allowed, or have reached the limit that some government legislation has set, it can just turn off the power and leave you sitting in darkness. Yeah, that smart grid.


One more thing on OPOWER. They changed their name from Positive Energy to OPOWER in October of last year. Spooky.


Anyway, back to Obama's speech at his shrine OPOWER. He notes that his shrine (OPOWER) is "hiring more people demonstrating the value of new programs emphasizing 'clean energy' sources." Obama said "this is a model of what we want to be seeing all across the country."


Just in case you don't know why this is such a big deal, let me briefly explain it to you. GLOBAL FUCKING CLIMATE CHANGE ISN'T FUCKING REAL!!!!!!!!


Why is he even speaking there? Oh yeah, it's because if they convince us that global climate change is real, and that it is man-made, they can also push "green" jobs. If they create more jobs, they can call it a win for employment rates. If they do indeed create these "green" jobs, they also get more research and development done on the smart grid that can regulate/spy on the power sent to our homes. If they can control how much power we use, they are one step closer to controlling how much fuel we use in our cars which puts them into position to regulate and ramp up federal highway and mass-transit funding, allowing the government to see where we go anytime we go somewhere, and would also allow them to choose where we go, at least by vehicle, because they can make the buses stop wherever they want.


And you wonder why I'm a pessimist.

Let me get this straight

The majority of Americans don't want healthcare taken over by the federal government - yet, the Whitehouse and the Democratic leadership are introducing a new and improved version of the same thing.

With unemployment still at an alarming 9.7%, the Whitehouse and Democratic leadership are talking about... Healthcare

Global Warming "science" found to be riddled full of major errors. Al Gore, and the Whitehouse respond by putting their fingers into their ears and singing "La La La La I can't hear you."

Nancy Pelosi thinks that Democrats have some values in common with Tea Partiers.

Only 10% of likely voters say that Congress is doing a good job.

Just so we're clear, they are doing the work of the people... even if it kills us.

Rock the Casbah, Bring the Noise

Vindicated

Professor Phil Jones, one of the leading global warming scientists, might have "lost" some crucial data for his famous "hockey stick" graph. You know, the graph that the church of global warming has been using to prove man-made global warming?

As it turns out, Professor Jones has admitted that"for the past 15 years there has been no 'statistically significant' warming." He has also "admitted to the possibility that the Medieval Warming Period could have been global, and therefore the world could have been hotter then than now."

This should be the end of the church of global warming, but it won't. Even though one of the lead scientists at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, where ALL global warming "science" comes from, has not only had his email hacked but has now admitted that he doesn't have all the facts, I am sure that this is not over.

See, Obama doesn't listen to the people about healthcare, jobs, taxes, government involvement, pretty much anything. So, I doubt this news will make much of an impression on him. It's a minor inconvenience on the way to taking over the power grid and plugging in our electric cars because electricity is cheaper...

So, if it was warmer in Medieval times than now, global warming is not man-made. And, by the same logic, if there has been no "statistically significant" warming in the past 15 years, global warming is a hoax.

Let the good news sink in now, because it won't be long before they are right back to it. Al Gore will not rest as long as there are people with freedoms left in this nation.

Update: Al Gore keeps up his side of the story in 5... 4... 3... 2... 1...

Global Warming Made it Snow

Looks like we're in for the weekend with all the snow coming down here in the South. Obviously God has a sense of humor. It appears that there is going to be a very rare, if not completely unique, weather occurrence this weekend: Snow on the ground in all 50 states.

The global warmongers keep trying to make a case for their junk science. And God keeps making it snow.

Do yourself a favor, if you haven't made it home yet and it looks like you are going to be stuck inside all weekend due to snow in parts of the country where there aren't resources to deal with it; go get yourself Michael Crichton's book "State of Fear." It was published in 2004 and it predicts exactly what we are hearing the global warmongers say today:

If the winter is mild, it's global warming, if the winter is cold, it's global warming.

My only issue is why couldn't it have snowed on a weekday? We still get snow days around here...

Just Say No

President Obama said yesterday about the February 25th so-called Health-care summit to try to get some bi-partisanship from the GOP that he's" willing to move off some of the preferences of my party, in order to meet them halfway, Obama said. "But there's got to be some give from their side as well."

Which means, for those of you who aren't paying attention, absolutely nothing. He is also quoted saying that he doesn't want "to start over after nearly a year of contentious legislative haggling among members of his party. Officials said the president will come to the health-care summit armed with a merged version of the two bills that Democrats strong-armed through the two chambers with almost no GOP backing."

So, for those of you keeping score, the bill that the Democratic super-majority couldn't pass, is the starting-over point that President Obama wants to bring the GOP in on.

You have got to be joking.

Well, as I said in an earlier post, it's time for the GOP to continue being the party of "No." Do what Nancy Reagan told you to do and just say no. Do not collect $200, do not pass go, just say no. As Jack Donaghy from 30 Rock said, "say no, speak low, let it go."

If you don't, I have bad news for you: This Rasmussen Poll shows that 63% of likely voters "think the country would be better off if the majority of the current Congress wasn't reelected this November, and their confidence in their own congressman continues to fall." And that's before the so-called health-care summit.

I'm just some guy posting his thoughts on a blog here, but I think I might be correct in saying that President Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are still not listening to the American people. Either that or they think we're too stupid to listen to. Either way, I don't think you want to be labeled as "guilty by association." Take care GOP. This is thin ice you're standing on. Good luck! We're behind you right now.

That could change rapidly.

I know that the people getting hammered by these snow storms are probably ready to see the sun, but the good news for the rest of us is that at least it has shut down Washington for a few days.

And, If they aren't working, they aren't screwing us.

Update: it just occurred to me that the federal government is basically shut down. And the world hasn't ended. Could that possible mean that life goes on in America without the nanny? could be

Katrina Hits Gulf; Saints Win Super Bowl

Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast in 2005.

5 years later, the Saints win the Super Bowl.

I see a direct correlation.

Really.

Don't you?

Well, apparently, the media and the Saints, and New Orleans really really wants us to see the correlation. I'm no Colts fan, but this is exactly why I was rooting for them. I just knew that if the Saints won, we were going to hear about Katrina for days. I was tired of hearing the Katrina "victims" about 5 years ago, so you'll have to forgive me that I'm not real excited about it now.

I watched last night as they showed the 9th ward which is still completely destroyed and I am just awe-struck. When I have a leaky faucet, I fix it. I don't bitch about if for 5 years and demand that the gub'ment fix it for me. So, instead of trying to make American's feel sentimental and pity for the people who ignored all the warnings about the hurricane, decided to ride it out instead of getting on the busses, or even just simply walking away to safety, maybe we should use this as an excuse to begin investigating people who have received government assistance for more than a 5 years (or 10 or 20 years in the case of N.O.).

I remember the traffic jam for the people who were smart enough to leave the city. I think you could have walked faster than they were driving anyway, so not having a car just doesn't cut it with me. I also remember hearing for years before Katrina hit that New Orleans sits under sea level in a bowl and that it was primed for a major disaster. It wasn't a matter of "if." It was just a matter of time before the disaster happened.

So, who's fault is it that New Orleans was destroyed? If you ask a New Orleans resident it was George Bush's, the white mans, the Republican's, the gub'ments, FEMA's, the levy designers... It's anybody and everybody's fault except the people of New Orleans. They are the victims.

But when you have 3rd and 4th generation welfare recipients, and a city who's motto is "Let the good times roll..." what the hell do you expect?

• Katrina "victims" stayed in gub'ment provided housing for months and even years, well past a reasonable time to get it figured out.
• The cities in Texas where Katrina "victims" were bussed saw a dramatic increase in crime.
• There was an astounding amount of fraud in FEMA funds for the "victims." (read: the disaster was a cash cow)

Forgive me for not getting sentimental and gushy over a group of people who have done nothing to improve their life, and have done much to put the blame on others for the consequences of their own inaction.

I just don't think that the Saints win last night has anything at all to do with the "spirit" of New Orleans. If it did, they would have given up before the pre-season was over.