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The Right Prescription
The Charlatans of Charlotte
The lies told about Ryan and Medicare were alone enough to disqualify the Dems for re-election.
Paul Ryan’s speech to the Republican National Convention last week was so effective, and presented such a stark contrast to the gauche maunderings of his Democrat counterpart, that it clearly panicked an already-nervous Obama White House. Thus, the word obviously went out to the President’s many media partisans that Ryan had to be taken down. Within hours, countless columnists, bloggers, and talking heads shouted in desperate unison — Ryan lied! They accused Ryan of lying about everything from Obamacare’s effect on Medicare to the closure of a GM plant to his performance in a marathon that occurred 20 years ago.
The scariest of these “lies,” from the perspective of the White House, was Ryan’s charge that $716 billion was stolen from Medicare to pay for Obamacare. They know this charge is particularly dangerous for the President because it is a direct appeal to seniors, the most reliable of “likely voters.” Unfortunately for the Obama campaign, however, the media “fact checkers” that pounced on Ryan’s claim came up dry. As Kevin Drum wrote in that notorious right-wing rag, Mother Jones, “There is no silver bullet liberal response to Ryan’s Medicare charges. This is because, rhetorical excesses aside, his charges are basically correct.”
Ryan is also correct about the best way to manage Medicare in the future. He and Democrat Ron Wyden have proposed a package of reforms that combine free market competition with premium support that is so eminently sensible that it has attracted more bipartisan accolades than any plan yet put forward. Yet, watching the speakers at the Democratic National Convention, the uninformed voter could easily get the impression that what they have now labeled the “Romney-Ryan plan” is primarily designed to destroy Medicare. Listening to these people, the proposal is to Medicare what Lizzie Borden was to her parents.
The speech made by HHS Secretary Sebelius was typical: “What’s missing from the Romney-Ryan plan for Medicare is Medicare. Instead of the Medicare guarantee, Republicans would give seniors a voucher that limits what is covered, costing seniors as much as $6,400 more a year.” This passage has much to offer for anyone truly interested in ferreting out “lies.” First, the plan doesn’t eliminate traditional Medicare. That will remain as one of the choices offered to seniors. And the $6,400 figure comes from a “study” published by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, which even the New York Times labels “left-leaning.”
Commissar Sebelius was by no means the only speaker to accuse Ryan of a sinister desire to destroy Medicare. This canard was repeated so often that it even provoked Wolf Blitzer into behaving like an actual journalist during an interview with Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Chair of the DNC: “Any senior 55 or older … they have absolutely nothing to worry about if this plan were to be approved because it would not affect them at all. You accept that right?” Wasserman Shultz replied, “No,” and then repeated the $6,400 whopper, except that she screwed up her talking points, saying the figure would be $6,300.
Another Democrat who insinuated that current retirees would be hurt by the plan was California Rep. Xavier Beccera, who shouted, “Governor Romney, you should know it’s not right to tell older Americans after a lifetime of hard work that you’re going to pull the rug out from under them and turn Medicare into a voucher system — Couponcare!” This is nonsense, of course. Factcheck.org points out that the plan involves no vouchers: “Under Ryan’s plan the federal government would pay insurance companies directly, just as it now pays for most of the cost of health insurance for millions of federal workers and retirees.”
Then, of course, there was that all-too-permanent feature of our political landscape, Bill Clinton. And the impeached former President demonstrated he has not lost his talent for the interminable speech or the grandiose lie. Here he is denying that Obama raided Medicare to pay for Obamacare: “Both Governor Romney and Congressman Ryan attacked the President for allegedly robbing Medicare of 716 billion dollars. Here’s what really happened. There were no cuts to benefits. None. What the President did was save money by cutting unwarranted subsidies to providers and insurance companies that weren’t making people any healthier.”
This was, of course, a typical Clinton whopper. Remember that great applause line in Clinton’s speech about how “three million young people between 19 and 25 are insured for the first time”? Well, these are by no means the only young people whose coverage will be subsidized under Obamacare. Where’s the money going to come from? Reductions in benefits for seniors. As John Goodman writes in Forbes, “In fact, 40% of the cost of giving subsidized insurance to young people is being paid for by reduced spending on the elderly and the disabled. For the next 10 years, the spending reduction totals $716 billion.”
What about those “unwarranted subsidies to providers”? Well, the word “provider” means doctors and hospitals. Many doctors are already refusing to accept new Medicare patients because of payment rates that don’t cover costs. And many small to medium size community facilities will not be able to sustain the cuts that Obamacare will impose over the next few years. As Goodman goes on to point out, “The Medicare Office of the Actuary has explained, in a few short years, hospitals will begin closing and senior citizens will have increasing difficulty obtaining access to care.” That sounds a lot like a “reduction in benefits.”
Incredibly, Clinton’s disingenuous performance has not been the moral nadir of the DNC so far. That dubious distinction goes to Sandra Fluke, the solipsistic grievance monger who rose to national prominence protesting the religious tenets of a Catholic university where she voluntarily enrolled and from which she is free to depart at any time. In a cheap shot reminiscent Ted Kennedy’s slander of Robert Bork, Ms. Fluke told the convention that, if the GOP wins in November, we would “have a new vice president [Ryan] who co-sponsored a bill that would allow pregnant women to die preventable deaths in our emergency rooms.”
This contemptible charge was sadly representative of this entire tawdry spectacle. Sheer terror of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan has driven the Democrats to new depths of demagoguery, slander, and deliberate divisiveness. Watching the first two nights of their convention was a truly nauseating experience, and I confess that I didn’t have the intestinal fortitude to watch the final installment of this parade of prevaricators, particularly the man currently masquerading as President. Mitt Romney is by no means perfect and neither is Paul Ryan, but anyone reviled by the grotesque collection of charlatans and zombies that congregated in Charlotte has earned my enthusiastic vote.
About the Author
David Catron is a health care revenue cycle expert who has spent more than twenty years working for and consulting with hospitals and medical practices. He has an MBA from the University of Georgia and blogs at Health Care BS.
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Darin| 9.7.12 @ 6:30AM
I find it quite amusing when I hear Sandra Fluke saying I should pay for her birth control. Will she pay for my ammo? Why not? After all, I have a Second Amendment right to own a firearm. So in essence, she's saying my rights under the Constitution must be impeded so she can sleep with whomever she wants.
TLP| 9.7.12 @ 7:04AM
Somebody should tell her to USE HER MOUTH for Sex, instead of for her Bullsh*t Slut Whining about everyone else paying for her to be THE TOWN WHORE. Then, all she'll need to pay for is Gum.
Perhaps The Rapist can hook her up with Monica?
Pehaps she could Soak one of his Cigars, while Monica goes through the motions on Slick Willy's willy?
He could even tell her the story of how an Impeached Rapist, Serial Misogenyst, Pathological Liar, can be the main Speaker at a Democrat Convention, when it's her turn with Stiff Willy.
No God.
No Jerusalem.
No Truth.
No Class.
I'm sick of every one of these Lying Liberal C*NTS!
Now.....................Who wants my Million Dollars?
Oldefarte| 9.7.12 @ 1:40PM
Pure Gold, Pure Gold......but partially too mild-mannered for this Oldefarte. By the time you reach my senior status, your blood pressure will be so enraged by this liberalistic bullexcrement, that you won't even bother to attempt being civil!!!!!
Purp| 9.7.12 @ 2:38PM
Who cares?
TLP| 9.7.12 @ 3:21PM
Where were ya, yesterday?
I held a Contest on Ben Stein's Column.
Go check it out.
You were actually one of the Prizes.
Not "YOU" per se, but a Collection of you're Greatest Hits. If weren't for my Direct Official Capacity, as the Contest's CEO?
I might have awarded the Prize to myself.
TLP| 9.7.12 @ 3:23PM
Oh, and as for "Who Cares?"
You do, Dipshit.
That's why you chimed in.
Idiot.
Purp| 9.7.12 @ 4:26PM
Not hardly, but it's fun to yank your chain.
Oldefarte| 9.7.12 @ 4:32PM
You've been getting history lessons from Biden again, haven't you??????
Oldefarte| 9.7.12 @ 4:37PM
You financial indigents had better care, since my demise would result in an end to my taxiation payments and therefore the end of your governmental welfare payments accordingly!!!!!!!!!
Jack in Wi| 9.7.12 @ 7:10AM
I find it hard to want to cut Medicare when we are wasting trillions in the Middle East on lies and nonsense. When you slash the military budget 50%, bring all our troops from overseas, end all foreign aid, end bailouts, of the banksters, plutocrats and government unions come and talk to me about Medicare. Paul Ryan is nice guy who should never have touched Medicare. Romney knew that when he picked him. So lets see how they do in the debate.
Darin| 9.7.12 @ 7:30AM
Military funding brough you the Internet and GPS. A great deal of military research went into microchips. But hey, who needs stuff like that?
The Middle East not only has oil, but has strategic trade routes like the Suez Canal. And conflict in the Middle East rarely stays confined there. Note current spreading north (Syria, Turkey) and south (Egypt), going on to Europe, Asia, and Africa. Worldwide trade is disrupted, and America can't find buyers for exports. Buy he, lets go back to the isolationist attitude of pre-WWII cause that worked so well.
Medicare and other entitlement programs are on course to consume the entire federal budget within 20 years. Ignore this at your own peril, but don't drag the rest of us into your destructive pit.
As to the debate, it should be interesting. Romney and Ryan are both sharp individuals who will arm themselves with facts. And both know to expect personal, fact-devoid, attacks during any debates.
Alej| 9.7.12 @ 10:39AM
VERY good points, sir.
TLP| 9.7.12 @ 3:31PM
I can see it, now: Mr. Biden?
"Thank You, Wolf. I wanna respond to Represntative Paul Bryan with one 3 letter word: F-A-C-T-S. FACTS. And, if this was Deleware, and we were in a 7-11? I'd be saying this with an Indian Accent."
PolishKnight| 9.8.12 @ 1:49AM
"Military funding" is another word for GOVERNMENT funding. I'm amused at the love-hate relationship between conservatives and big government. Do you like Police and Teachers? Then you must LOVE government teachers' and police unions, yes? And the middle east: Yeah, our policy there has "given" us groping at the airports and radical Islam hatred of the USA. In any case, these are all Big Government policies or as the left likes to say: Neo-con'ism.
Ken (Old Texican)| 9.7.12 @ 9:03AM
Straw men all, arse.
Obama could have yanked us out of Afghanistan any ole' time.
Foreign aide is fopr a purpose...agree with it/them or not. Sometimes, it s much cheaper to buy off the world failures than to go in and fight them. (Saddam?)
Given the chance, Ryan will make Medicare whole again by simpy stripping out the fraud. (My company is in the medical field. I KNOW what goes on.)
Bottom line, Jack, as always you are an ignorant person.
Stephie| 9.7.12 @ 1:02PM
Good to see you here again Old Texican.
TLP| 9.7.12 @ 3:44PM
We could save Medicare just by Demanding a $10 Co-Pay on all Doctor Visits, and a $5 Co-Pay on all Prescriptions
We could save the whole Health Care System by letting people buy their Health Care Policies from EVERYWHERE, instead of just within their own State, just like we do with every other form of Insurance. Put Pre-Existing People straight in to Medicare, and Close the Border.
This ain't String Theory Quantum Physics.
Put all those things in place, and get Rid of this Black Karl Marx, so that we can get the Economy going, again. And all of this will take care of itself.
We don't need to remake the wheel, on this.
We just need to Get Rid of President Strangelove.
Oldefarte| 9.7.12 @ 4:48PM
Yeah, but if we "Get Rid of President Strangelove", then he'll have to return to providing legal advice to Acorn in Chicago w/o a viable license to practice law in Illinois. Maybe he, Mooch and Grandma Robinson could FAST & FURIOUS it over the border to Mexico or else jump a boatlift to Hawaii or Indonesia? If all else fails, he could always write a sequel book entitled DREAMS FROM MY DADDY MARSHALL possibly!!!!
TLP| 9.7.12 @ 7:13PM
I want you to go to yesterday's Ben Stein Column.
I ran a Contest.
Check it out.
It was Hilarious.
Just what you need, to calm your beating heart.
Check it out, brother.
Von Mises Jr| 9.7.12 @ 10:36AM
Look and listen to that horrid thing and it is clear that what she needs is government to provide a double dose of Viagra for any drunk that would sleep with her.
Perhaps MoveOn could pay Perp $10 per hour as payback to Fluke for her communist tirade. Perhaps they could also splurge for a brown paper bag for her head.
Stephie| 9.7.12 @ 1:04PM
OMG Jr, did you actually watch that scuzz? I couldn't bring my self to be polluted with her whining.
Von Mises Jr| 9.7.12 @ 1:27PM
I wore a rubber just in case.
Von Mises Jr| 9.7.12 @ 2:06PM
Stephie, I cannot tell a lie. I couldn't watch the scuzz either even if I wasn't doing volunteer work for my Parish. I just couldn't pass up a set up for a joke.
That's the difference. I was cooking to raise money at bingo for the Church, and dog face was demanding someone pay for birth control I am not convinced she could have a use for. Even if she just shut up, she couldn't get luck without massive amounts of drugs and booze. And that is what is the expensive part of the night.
TLP| 9.7.12 @ 3:46PM
Don't be so hard on her.
For all we know, her Free Vibrator's Batteries could have run outta juice. (No pun intended)
Oldefarte| 9.7.12 @ 4:29PM
I suspect that she gets both the "Vibrator" and the "Batteries" from Janet [or her now departed chief of staff] at HLS!!!!!
Von Mises Jr| 9.8.12 @ 5:48AM
It's gas powered and has a Honda motor.
RichTex| 9.7.12 @ 11:59AM
Isn’t nice to live in a country where everything from the economy to foreign relations is going so well that the biggest issue in the entire nation, around which an entire presidential contest is to be centered, is who is going to pay for Ms. Fluke’s birth control pills? And certainly, it would be inhuman to ask her to pay for them herself! After all, she’s just a student at a prestigious and expensive law school.
TLP| 9.7.12 @ 3:49PM
Perhaps a Coupon for a Lifetime Supply of Cucumbers, Squash, and Bananas is in order?
It couldn't hurt. (Also, no pun intended)
Aristocat| 9.7.12 @ 6:31AM
From El Rushbo: "He's not warm; he's not engaging, which is why they send Moochelle out there. By the way, I have to tell you, people talk about her wardrobe? I must confess, I was dazzled by it. I have never seen a swimsuit dress in my life. Had you ever seen one of those, a swimsuit dress? I was taken by it. I have never seen a swimsuit dress, a swimsuit top and a dress on the bottom."
The reason why Moochelle wears tank tops is because she is so proud of her arms...She never wears sleeves, not even short sleeves...
She has the wingspan of an NBA center...
She could whip her husband no problem...with her long reach and muscular arms and shoulders.
TLP| 9.7.12 @ 7:07AM
Let's not forget her FAT ASS.
She could use that to keep him offa her, as she backs her way into the Paint.
Aristocat| 9.7.12 @ 7:49AM
Yes, she could then flatten him with an elbow and give him a facial....
Maxwell| 9.7.12 @ 8:19AM
This is just the reason I start off my morning with the American Spectator! Sure beats a cup of coffee. I love it.
TLP| 9.7.12 @ 3:52PM
Is Aristocat talking about Michelle? Or Bill Clinton?
The whole "Facial" thing, threw me off.
Aristocat| 9.8.12 @ 1:16AM
A facial is a dunk in your face...
She backs the O-man into the paint with her fat ass, flattens him, dunks in his face as he lies on the floor crying "Foul !"
TLP| 9.8.12 @ 8:23AM
That's what I said - Bill Clinton, Dunking in Monica's face, and on her Dress.
He backs her fat ass onto the top of the Desk, and in to the Calzone that they never finished.
Her Fat Ass flattens the Calzone, and he Dunks in her face.
Ken (Old Texican)| 9.7.12 @ 9:09AM
Hey TLP,
get off her ass. Her tribe in Africa was obviousy from a dry region. Women of means carried water in their ass sorta' like a camel hump.
Therefore, to black people, her ass is just fine, perhaps a little skimpy.
TLP| 9.7.12 @ 3:55PM
Missed you at the Contest yeterday, Texican.
You missed a Laugh Riot.
When you get done being Racist? Go to yesterday's Ben Stein's Column, and check out the Entrants.
HILARIOUS.
Oldefarte| 9.7.12 @ 4:23PM
Hellfire, the race-riot historian Lewis could jump on "her ass" and ride it all the way over the Edmund-Petus Bridge if need be!!!!!
Oldefarte| 9.7.12 @ 1:44PM
According to some female commentaries that I've heard concerning same, THAT DRESS cost the taxpayers probably a similar amount to NPR's public subsidy. So you [and me and many of us PAID FOR THAT DRESS]!!!!!!!
Oldefarte| 9.7.12 @ 1:46PM
PS: That was Mooch's BURKA no doubt!!!!!
TLP| 9.7.12 @ 3:57PM
I heard that it cost almost as much as the Sneakers she wears, when she Feeds Cake to the Homeless.
RCV| 9.7.12 @ 5:13PM
This is a truly despicable set of comments, which says a lot about each one of you.
RCV| 9.7.12 @ 5:15PM
Whenever I am tempted for a moment to think that your opposition to Obama might actually be motivated by thoughtful ideological differences, all I need to do is read comments like these to figure out what really drives you guys.
TLP| 9.7.12 @ 7:17PM
He's a RED.
That's what Drives our Comments, Dumbass.
Wake up, and get outta your PC mindset.
HE SUCKS.
You got a problem with that?
TLP| 9.7.12 @ 7:18PM
As Tom Kyba would say - GROW UP!
Truth to Power| 9.7.12 @ 5:55PM
Sorry. It was always the junk in the trunk. It was never about the big O ruining the country with more ponzi schemes and gay money bundling corruption. No it is Moochelle's Khoikhoi-like hind quarters. It is a tad mean but the whole food nazi thing she does is some justification. You need to not have so much stored energy on your backside if you are going to deliver proper lectures. She would serve a much better purpose if she could convince gays to stop using their gastro-instestinal system for recreation and use it as it was designed. This could save a lot of money in medical costs if she could cut down on the myriad of diseases that affect guys like you. Besides you are a progressive piece of crap and could spend your worthless lifetime lecturing your pals who are far worse. Give my best to your pretend family.
RCV| 9.7.12 @ 6:19PM
Listen, you moron. You're the one with the obsessive focus on the mechanics of gay sex, not me.
And I don't have to pretend anything to the pathetic likes of you. I'm 65, a highly successive lawyer, a graduate of UCLA and Stanford Law School. Either of my two children -- educated at Michigan and Cornell -- could run intellectual rings around a guy like you who writes like he's in junior high school. This site has too many bright, analytic and interesting conservatives to have actual discussions with -- Occam, Nick, Vernon Crisler, Stuart Koehl and many others -- to have to prove anything to a cipher like you.
TLP| 9.7.12 @ 7:19PM
All of those accomplishments, and you're still a Dumbass.
Congratulations.
RCV| 9.7.12 @ 8:45PM
Thanks TLP.
Truth to Power| 9.7.12 @ 8:58PM
Your kids are like big O composite characters or like Julia. Pretend people don't run intellectual circles around anyone. Usually children learn this earlier in their lives. Stop playing pretend. It has got yourself and your state in a lot of trouble. You care about Israel and gay marriage. You don't talk like a parent. You are a blowhard. I love all the stupid things you like telling us about yourself. They are very revealing. It is ok. Lots of people have daddy issues. You don't need to prove anything to me at all. I get you perfectly. Like my first lady I am concerned about lifestyle choices that are unhealthy and cost unnecessary health care dollars. Smoking, overeating, excessive drinking, drug use and frankly the kind of things you like to do should not be encouraged. Given her large derrière, her husband being both a former smoker and drug user I thought she might lead the charge on another health hazard that is not associated with her family. I am sorry you didn't care for my suggestion.
Alej| 9.7.12 @ 9:43PM
".. a highy "successive" lawyer... ."
You illiterate POS ! Thanks for the laugh !
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 9.7.12 @ 6:57AM
There wasn't any talk about their love of America. That obviously would have been a lie.
No, they bragged about killing the unborn, hating God before they accepted God again, freeloading off of their fellow Americans and and how they are better at freeloading than anyone else.
They didn't lie about those issues.
TLP| 9.7.12 @ 8:06AM
Do you think that ANY Catholic Democrats saw the Flashing "GOD IS DEAD" Sign at this Clusterfck, and will be moved to leave this Party?
Do any Jews remember the sight of the little Lying Ccksckr - Jay Carney - refusing to State, unequivocally, that Jerusalem was the Capitol of Israel, preferring to give a mealy mouthed line of Sh*t about the OBVIOUSNESS of The Muslim's belief that Jerusalem was the Capitol of the Jewish State. He REFUSED to answer that Reporter's question.
Apparently, the little piece a sh*t refused to mouth the words, for a Reason.
This Son of Allah, and his Village Idiot 2nd in command, should - in a Normal World - be 50 Points behind. Romney and Ryan shouldn't be Measuring the Drapes. The New Drapes should already be up.
The Blacks - never ones to Miss an Opportunity to make their situation even Worse than it is - will give their Magic Negro all of their votes.
So, they've been hit hardest by his Job Killing Machine. So, they have 15% Unemployment among Adults, and 50% for their Kids. So, the MURDER RATES, in their Communities are OFF THE CHARTS, since he took over. So, their kids have NO CHANCE of getting ahead with their Worthless Diplomas, from the Filthy, Crap, Hellhole Public Schools that they go to, on the Liberal Plantation.
"He's Black. And, anyone who falls for all that "I have a Dream" bulssh*t, is a Sucker and a Chump, and somebody's B*tch, ta boot. 4 more years Mthrfckr!"
Alan| 9.7.12 @ 8:25AM
Unfortunately Tim, this country is drunk on its own self made elixir of stupidity and ignorance. He is what we are slowly becoming and these cretans know it. Again unfortunately, the consequences of wholesale ignorance historically doesn't bode well. Countries or empires that sink this low into depravity seldom climb out of it without a major cataclyism to change the course.
Maxwell| 9.7.12 @ 8:37AM
Alan, with all due respect, I hope you are wrong. When I drive up and down Route 1 here in central Jersey I see more stores that are vacant and office buildings that have huge empty parking lots. The number of truckers hauling freight is also painfully obvious. I cannot tell you the last time I saw a new car carrier.
Alan| 9.7.12 @ 8:44AM
Maxwell, I hope I'm wrong too, but this cast of losers, perverts, liars, freaks, dimwits, wouldn't have gotten anywhere near the votes 20 years ago that that will get this fall win or lose. Time is on their side, the farther we go, the farther the pendulum swings. They are what rises to the top like bad bacteria giving off toxins that kills healthy flesh. History is not on our side.
TLP| 9.7.12 @ 8:51AM
That last line was INCREDIBLE.
I can't remember the last time I saw a Car Carrier, either. And I remember, back when I was always on the Jersey Turnpike, going back and forth between McGuire and Home, on the weekends, that The Truck Side of that stretch of road, was just as congested as the Cars Only side.
Good eyes, Maxwell.
We went to Deleware, and Back, and that side of the Pike was like a Ghost Town.
RCV| 9.7.12 @ 6:21PM
...counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike?
They've all gone to look for America.
TLP| 9.7.12 @ 7:24PM
Typical nothing, from a nobody.
I guess I was wrong about you.
You're not smart, at all.
You're Pretentious.
But, I guess you hear that all the time, don't you?
cuban pete| 9.7.12 @ 10:10PM
Paul Simon wrote some great songs but he is an off the rack, wine and cheese lefty.
"Who'll be my role model, now that my role model's gone?"
TLP| 9.7.12 @ 8:44AM
Women continue to display the Wisdom of our Founding Father's decision to Deny them a Vote. They seem to wanna let their Vaginas pick their Candidates, and, more often than not, cast their Ballots for what's going on between their Legs, as opposed to What's going on between our Two Coastlines. Some of them still wish it was THEM, and not Monica and Juanita, who were Raped and Used Like a Whore, by Bill Clinton.
And, then we see the Central and South Americans, seemingly Forgetting why they came here, and rushing to Vote for the guy who will Dictate their lives, for the rest of their lives, in exchange for a Handout, and all the Strings that go with it.
Who needs Freedom, when you can get Free Stuff, eh Pedro?
"When the people discover that they can VOTE THEMSELVES MONEY? This will all be undone." - Thomas Jefferson. (I'm paraphrasing)
Alan| 9.7.12 @ 8:46AM
As I said, historically this movie has a bad ending.
TLP| 9.7.12 @ 8:57AM
I know.
In the end?
Everybody always Dies.
Only, this time, if WE implode, like the British after World War II?
This world will replicate the Dark Ages, after the Fall of Rome. There will be Endless War, Famine, Plague, and Brutality.
No question about it.
Four More Years!
Alej| 9.7.12 @ 10:55AM
Friends in Russia tell me they think the very same thing... that America is THE stabilizing force in the world, Izvestia's buichigovno to the contrary notwithstanding.
(Taurine scatology in Latin alphabet)
TLP| 9.7.12 @ 4:03PM
Which is why the Muslim seeks to DECIMATE our Armed Forces.
It's as plain as the Ass on Michelle.
Appleby| 9.7.12 @ 10:14AM
Not all women. Democrat women.
scotchieguy| 9.7.12 @ 10:38AM
"When the people discover they can vote themselves money, this will herald the end of the republic." Ben Franklin
TLP| 9.7.12 @ 4:05PM
Thank You, Scotchieguy.
I am not too proud to be corrected.
In fact, I appreciate it.
Thanks, again.
Stephie| 9.7.12 @ 1:09PM
"This Son of Allah, and his Village Idiot 2nd in command, should - in a Normal World - be 50 Points behind. Romney and Ryan shouldn't be Measuring the Drapes. The New Drapes should already be up."
Well Tim, they have a complicit and fawning media who doesn't tell the truth, so they will remain neck and neck with Romney. Won't the left be surprised when on election day, the spread between the electoral votes will blow their empty minds.
TLP| 9.7.12 @ 4:16PM
You're right. I get it.
But I also believe that the Damage that this THING in the White House has wrought, is so Deep, so Far Reaching, that it has touched EVERYONE to their Core, and nothing his Sycophantic, Bed Wetting, little Puke Groupies in the Press do, can save him, now.
I still believe that GOD has no intention of letting us Fall.
Then, again. Read Revelation 13-5.
Maybe the time has come, once again, to Punish HIS Children for their Behavior.
I believe that was the reason for The Holocaust, and it might be why we're going through Black Hitler, now.
Let's hope I'm wrong.
Pelleas| 9.8.12 @ 1:30PM
"Then, again. Read Revelation 13-5.
Maybe the time has come, once again, to Punish HIS Children for their Behavior.
I believe that was the reason for The Holocaust, and it might be why we're going through Black Hitler, now.
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Everytime I think you have reached the nadar of the shithole you wallow in , I am surprised that you are able to get even lower in the muck and slime.
SO-- YOU believe that "GOD" was punishing innocent men,women , and CHILDREN, --AND THAT was the "justification" for The Holocaust??
You have just defamed millions of people who were murdered, in cold blood, by their "fellow men"
I couldn't give a rat's-ass whether people are Conservative or Liberal-- BUT-- if ANY "Conservative" of Good Faith and any sort of common decency on this web-site DOESN'T CONDEMN that filthy statement--YOU y'all are damned to the depths of the Hell you all talk about..
AND-- ya wonder WHY, after the hellish years of 1933-1945 that many people of otherwise strong religious conviction declared that there was no God??--How could a divine "spirit "
have "ordered" the suffering and murder of millions of people?!?
You're gonna have a lot of "splaining to do , when your decrepit rotten body meets your Maker, I think....
TLP| 9.8.12 @ 7:50PM
Read the Bible.
The Philistines. The Persians. The Babylonians.
One of the Books in the Bible flatly states that: GOD will send A HUNTER to Punish the Children of Israel. And that, only through this Crucible, will they be allowed to return to Israel.
Do the Math - Assfck.
WWII ends in 1945.
The State of Israel comes back in to being - 1948.
"MY ways, are not your ways."
Now, Go Fck Yourself.
Or, you can just let your Boyfriend do it, like you normally do.
Now, go away.
I Sh*t biggern you.
Pelleas| 9.8.12 @ 9:10PM
You are PIG...AND AN ANTI-SEMITIC SWINE, TO BOOT... and anyone on this list who "praises" your obscene spew--blaming the Holocaust on its victims, because GOD so ordained it-- is as much a pig as you are...
I'd love to hear what the right-wing Jews on this site--- who are usually so chatty, have to say about the scum-bucket statement...
Pelleas| 9.8.12 @ 10:16PM
I also HAVE NEVER herd ONE JEWISH theologian, or biblical scholar ever dare propose that The Shoah was divinely sanctioned , or justified by any prophesy.
This is why I always get very uneasy around "Christian" "supporters" of Israel --there always seems to be a hidden ulterior motive , in their supposed "love" for my nation of birth--at least our hostile Arab neighbors don't mince any words.....
RCV| 9.9.12 @ 1:16AM
Pelleas, don't confuse TLP with Christians. He's a recovering Cokehead by his own admission. Why conservative Jews like Occam continue to treat him as if he were a respectable human being is beyond me. He is no better than Clint or Jack. He despises blacks, thinks God sent Hitler to punish the Jews (for what, TLP? Rejecting Jesus?). He's a modern day antisemite like Martin Luther. Scum.
Pelleas| 9.9.12 @ 12:44PM
RVC:
I actually am smart enough NOT to blame ALL Christians for the imbecilic spew from TLP...BUT- it DOES make me somewhat uneasy that YOU are the only other person on this site who has called him out on it....
THANK YOU!!!
TLP| 9.9.12 @ 8:19PM
Read the Bible.
You assholes talk like this has never happened, before.
I gave you the text.
Do with it, what you will.
It's in the Bible.
"I will send a Hunter."
WWII ended in 1945.
Israel returned in 1948.
I rest my case.
So, Fck You.
TLP| 9.9.12 @ 8:29PM
Jeremiah 16.
Verse 15.
Fck You.
Pelleas| 9.9.12 @ 10:08PM
How about the hundreds of thousands of Polish (and other Nationalities ) of Catholics.Protestants..Gypsies...etc..who were murdered between 1933-45?--
Was THAT God's plan, as well?--(or were they just in the wrong place at the wrong time..?
(..just make sure your right arm and hand don't swing up too high as you "sieg heil", ok?)
Oldefarte| 9.7.12 @ 1:56PM
Yep, it bad enough that the Jewish community has to tolerate the likes of Jay, Rahm and the glorified ambulance chasing Alan of Harvard telling them lies via J Street etc. I simply don't understand 2008's etc 80% Jewish support for these domestic terrorists. Subsequently the very worst is the BLACK JESUS' utter insulting of Ben Net. at the WH "un"official visitation is dispicable to these old tired eyes. No doubt the worst is a news report recently that this administration was negotiating/conferring with Iran on the USA's staying out of a ME conflict if Israel does eventually decide to go after Iran's missles. I'm very concerned with the Jewish vote in November, and I'm only hoping and praying that US Jews take a hard look at Romney's longtime frindship with Benjamin and his purposeful recent visit to Israel for its significance!!!!!!!
RCV| 9.7.12 @ 6:24PM
“I remember him [Romney] for sure, but I don’t think we had any particular connections, I knew him and he knew me, I suppose.”
~Bibi Netanyahu, July 2012 in Vanity Fair Interview, (middle of Page 4)
Appleby| 9.7.12 @ 6:59AM
I didn't watch any of the DNC; what I saw in clips was more than enough for me. However, I have thought that it would be really interesting to be able to pipe the DNC back into 1968 and let these people see and hear what they will turn into if they don't change their ways. I wonder how many of them would be shocked by the sight of their elderly selves booing God?
chuck| 9.7.12 @ 8:37AM
These are the children of the '60s, the ones that never grew up, at least. They were the dope smokers, the heroin shooters, the "summer of love" whores, the hippies driving around stoned, with rock and roll blaring, thinking through the drug-induced euphoria that they know everything, that God is dead, and the only reality is the here and now.
Truth is, they are exactly the same now as they were then, just older, uglier, more bitter, and every damned bit as stupid.
The Avenger| 9.7.12 @ 7:46AM
The democratic party is now inhabited by the biggest cast of societal misfits ever disguised as a political party. When a party drifts so far to the left, all they can do to muster the votes necessary is to lie about their opponents plans and records. If America conforms to their vision, God help us.
spike59| 9.11.12 @ 6:51AM
the Democrat Party is the intellectual equivalent of the bar scene in 'Star Wars'
Ken (Old Texican)| 9.7.12 @ 9:17AM
Sigh,
it seems to all boil down to "who will get me stuff"
Oh, and the RCVs who like to preen giving it to them.
rightasrain| 9.7.12 @ 10:21AM
I agree that Sandra Fluke was the lowest of the low. Only in today's America could a 30 year old who attends a $50,000 a year law school stand up before the nation, and complain (ironically enough) that she is being "silenced" and whine that someone else should pay for her $9 per month birth control pills and get a standing ovation instead of a loud and very prolonged razzberry.
Von Mises Jr| 9.7.12 @ 10:47AM
Only the vacant and vacuous drones in the audience at the Democrat convention could cheer at the illogic of BJ Clinton’s argument.
Best that I could figure out, he wanted to make sure that the $716M that Obama stole from seniors in Medicare Premiums did not get funneled to big capitalist insurance companies.
Question: If we don't pay health insurance companies for health insurance, who does he want to get the money? Sebelius? George Kaiser and other bundlers? ACORN? Planned Parenthood?
Wait, I think I got it. GOVERNMENT!!! How else do we pay for the new DMV-style bureaucracy? Next in line. Do you have six forms of identification? Come back tomorrow. If you don't have six forms of identification, please fill out this form and go home and die. BTW, before you go, are you a registered Democrat???
Al Adab| 9.7.12 @ 1:46PM
Jr:
If you saw Alam Colmes article in the WSJ I think tuesday, he set forth a litany of programs and benefits of which the DEM party is so proud. Not one mention of the fact that it all (or at least about 40% of it) goes on the credit card. Apparently the programs are so wonderful and the recipients so deserving and helped by them that money (filthy lucre) even when earned by someone else is no object.
We have one party clearly believing and basing policy on the idea that peoples income is at the disposal of government for whatever reasons it deems proper. The other party apparently believes that people at least have a modicum of right to their income and property that the government cannot reallocate. If the voters understood that distinction more clearly we could at least have a referrendum on whether this nation desires to be a social-welfare state or one in which citizens serve their personal interests rather than the interests of the Govt.
7-08| 9.7.12 @ 10:58AM
At the mouth of Big Dig Tunnel
By the slick on river Charles
Stood the Wigwam of Elizabeth
Daughter of the tribe of Harvard
Dark behind her tenure track
She the chosen quota Princess
She the wampum squaw of O
Hand in hand with Princess Sandra
Loins of steel with pockets empty
Well worn path to Teepee proud
Called out to the one percent
“Fund our lusts” – “pay our salary's”
With deaf ears the tribe responded.
Aristocat| 9.8.12 @ 1:24AM
Awesome...very well done...
TLP| 9.8.12 @ 8:32AM
Encore!
ENCORE!
Alej| 9.7.12 @ 11:16AM
Saw 2016 yesterday, much of the pith already known to most who care about the situation, but the star of the show was George Obama, half-brother (by adulterer, polygamist and general sperm distributor all'round fornicater Barack Obama, Sr.).
He spoke English well, and basically repudiated Barack's anti-colonial attitude, referenceing Rhodesia, South Africa, and Kenya, itself, as having lost out BAD, by losing white leadership. He didn't criticize America; instead blamed leaders of the mentioned countries, who resembled his brother Barack in their attitudes, for the abysmal living conditions in those places, as opposed to living standards in countries newly risen from 3d world status through capitalism. Occasional scenes of open sewage and garbage spread throughout squalid crowded shack tenements subliminally accentuated the end result of any society falling for the rhetoric his brother spouts.
Hence D'Souza's warning in the title of his film,
"Obama's America; 2016."
Al Adab| 9.7.12 @ 2:01PM
Problem here Alej is that only us "wonks" follow these things. The vast majority of voters remain blissfully disinterested. The effort to reach them through this medium is nonetheless well worth the effort.
Alej| 9.7.12 @ 11:20AM
Referencing. Need and edit option. Or pay attention to "preview!"
JD| 9.7.12 @ 11:47AM
It'd strange to listen to liberals saying that Republicans are "more right wing than ever" when even the most "right wing" Republicans are talking about "saving" and "improving" massive entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare.
True conservatives, including most Americans throughout most of our history, would oppose the very existence of these things. What passes for the "right" today is more left than it's ever been.
And coinciding with this wholesale move left in America has been economic decline relative to our past, which the liberals still, somehow, blame on being "too far right!"
The Avenger| 9.7.12 @ 12:07PM
Surely you didn't think they would blame the economic decline on their entitlement mentality, did you?
Stephie| 9.7.12 @ 1:14PM
I know you all noticed but I have to mention it anyway. The difference in the RNC convention delegation and the DNC audience. The appearance of the people, especially the women, in how they dressed. The sloppiness of the left was so glaring. The people in Tampa were dressed appropriately, nicely. Not in ugly tshirts with nasty slogans on them.
Sorry to be tacky and shallow, it was just so obvious.
Alej| 9.7.12 @ 2:50PM
Stephie, you're not being tacky and shallow in calling attention to the tacky and shallow appearances and behavior of the DNC rank and file. Those people, Democrats, are by definition of the lower cultural and intellectual orders in our society... every society has varying levels of attainment and comportment. Witness the next two comments by the troll named "purp."
Pelleas| 9.9.12 @ 1:34PM
...YEAH.. the men in the Wisconsin cheese-hats were particularly "well-dressed", no?
ROTFLMAO!
And--isn't it form of desecration of "
Old Glory" to wrap one's self up in The Flag, as a "fashion statement"??
Purp| 9.7.12 @ 1:20PM
"Paul Ryan's speech to the Republican National Convention last week was so effective" - filled with lies and distortions that he got called out for all week this week and last - effective in turning off the very voters he needs to win. So sad, too bad, he won't be winning.
Oldefarte| 9.7.12 @ 2:01PM
Ryan with a big pair of budget cutting scissors will do wonders after January for this country!!!!
Purp| 9.7.12 @ 2:20PM
Including your Medicare and Social Security checks you twit.
Curtis Rasmussen| 9.7.12 @ 2:52PM
Obama has already cut $716 Billion !!! from Medicare and Social Security is a train that lost its brakes barreling down the mountainside. When the train wreck occurs, who is going to suffer?
Fool. Stick your head back in the sand.
Purp| 9.7.12 @ 4:29PM
So does Romney/Ryan's budget - but they don't give Seniors anything back, Obama takes it from insurers and redirects back it to Senior as more benefits - you can look it up, FOOL. Stick your head back up your a**.
JD| 9.7.12 @ 4:55PM
There will be no increase in benefits if Medicare insists on such low reimbursements. You may be foolish enough to believe that Obama's plan will work, but you're an even bigger fool if you expect us to accept your say-so.
Curtis Rasmussen| 9.7.12 @ 6:11PM
Purp, you are truly an idiot. Insurers will not be able to cover their overhead when the government dictates how much they MUST pay back to policy holders. Instead, they'll go bankrupt, severely limiting choice.
It's the law of unintended consequences, kinda like when your mother gave birth to you after having sex with a jackal.
spike59| 9.11.12 @ 6:49AM
it's not 'unintended'; the statists in Washington would LOVE to see the health insurance industry go belly-up; a perfect opportunity to force 'single-payer' 100% government run heath'care' on all of us
Oldefarte| 9.7.12 @ 4:16PM
No you stupid jackars, since I'm beyond 55 years of age. Wann talk SS/M you AH, try explaining the $500 mil that your domestic terrorists have STOLEN from Medicare to pay for their WELFARECARE? Try explaining the $3 tril that has likewise been STOLEN from the SS trust fund by again your deomestic terrorists to pay for their food stamps, aid to dependent chulluns, unaffordable housing to indigents, rent subsidation to lowlifes unable to financially support themselves, etc No AH, you and your generation will get the Medicare voucher [which you should be grateful for] from R/R, so you had better get off your computer/blogging and go make some money/income [unless you want to have to accept the Russian type medical care that your domestic terrorists want to give to you and yours, aka universal healthcare....HillyBilly style]!!!!!!!
Purp| 9.7.12 @ 4:34PM
So does Romney/Ryan's budget - but they don't give Seniors anything back, Obama takes it from insurers and redirects back it to Senior as more benefits - you can look it up, FOOL.
Don't you get preventive screenings now - for prostate cancer, diabetes and such? Do you have a drug donut hole? It's closing with that money.
Romney/Ryan simply takes it FROM Medicare and GIVES it to the Koch Bros types as tax cuts for buying the election for him.
Stick your head back up your a**.
Purp| 9.7.12 @ 4:36PM
Go look up how much Welfare costs each year and then smack yourself for being so dumb.
JD| 9.7.12 @ 4:56PM
Smack yourself. We all know full well that welfare has been reimplemented under other names, such as Social Security's disability benefit or two years' unemployment benefits or new "refundable tax credits", so that nominal "welfare" looks smaller. You demand that we be extremely stupid, to fall for such a bait-and switch.
John Navratil| 9.7.12 @ 5:07PM
Purp,
Welfare is defined as "financial or other assistance to an individual or family from a city, state, or national government". You keep trying to call it TANF, only. It includes unemployment, housing, food stamps, TANF, and more.
In 2011, the Fed spent $472 billion on welfare (not Social Security, pensions, etc.) or about $1500 per capita. That's over 10% of the budget. Add in state and local and it's about $2000 per capita. Assuming 1 in 6 is in poverty, that's $48,000 give or take for each impoverished family and more that the median income.
Unfortunately, almost 40% is overhead - that is funding non-productive people to move money around and build their office buildings.
Smack yourself because you desperately need it and because you love to hide behind the half-truth.
Skippy| 9.7.12 @ 5:20PM
The rubber ones?
Those checks?
Or are you saying that, to keep the borrowed money flowing rather than sobering up, I should vote for Teh Won?
What kind of American are you, that you would burden our kids with debt we blew at the Indian casinos?
Pelleas| 9.7.12 @ 10:58PM
WTF is a "health care revenue cycle expert"...and why should ANYONE believe one???
Cats1cowboy| 9.8.12 @ 8:57AM
The opening line at the democrat convention should have been:
"Here come the jesters, one, two three"
What a fantasy they presented.