LEE RODGERSAugust 14 --
Evasions, demagoguery and outright lies being the hallmark of the Obama administration, the same obscure Illinois Senator who was saying during his short stay in that august body that Medicare reform was essential ... is now trying to scare hell out of older people with monstrous fables about how the reforms proposed by Paul Ryan will kill them.
Of course, he carefully avoids the fact that nothing would change for people over 55, giving the nation ample time to graduate to a more fiscally responsible alternative formula that would guarantee the survival of Medicare, now on-track to catastrophe.
As Thomas Sowell so aptly pointed out, why would any rational person who believes that America can't afford doctors, medication and hospitals at present believe that the nation afford could afford doctors, medication, hospitals AND a giant government bureaucracy to run it?
DERANGED DEMOCRATS DIG FOR DIRT ...
HOW OBAMUNISM "SAVED" THE CAR INDUSTRY ...
HILLARY AND HUMA, INSEPARABLE ISLAMISTS
HOW OBAMUNISM "SAVED" THE CAR INDUSTRY ...
HILLARY AND HUMA, INSEPARABLE ISLAMISTS
Evasions, demagoguery and outright lies being the hallmark of the Obama administration, the same obscure Illinois Senator who was saying during his short stay in that august body that Medicare reform was essential ... is now trying to scare hell out of older people with monstrous fables about how the reforms proposed by Paul Ryan will kill them.
Of course, he carefully avoids the fact that nothing would change for people over 55, giving the nation ample time to graduate to a more fiscally responsible alternative formula that would guarantee the survival of Medicare, now on-track to catastrophe.
As Thomas Sowell so aptly pointed out, why would any rational person who believes that America can't afford doctors, medication and hospitals at present believe that the nation afford could afford doctors, medication, hospitals AND a giant government bureaucracy to run it?
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"Chicago is an
example of what makes this country great."-- Barack Obama,
speaking in his former hometown, now America's murder capital.
The daily scoreboard of shootings in Chicago news media
resembles a return to Al Capone days.
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Here's Comrade Obama in
his own words: "Do we go forward toward a new vision
of an America in which prosperity is shared? Or do we go
backward to the same policies that got us in the mess in the
first place?"
Oh. Do you mean backward to the same policies
that made this the most prosperous and powerful nation on
earth ... the nation to which people from all over the world
chose to immigrate? THAT nation, Comrade?
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The Big Media will bury this story, but
the Detroit News in Motown reports it ...
"The
Treasury Department says in a new report the government
expects to lose more than $25 billion on the $85 billion auto
bailout. That's 15 percent higher than its previous forecast.
"In a monthly report
sent to Congress on Friday, the Obama administration boosted
its forecast of expected losses by more than $3.3 billion to
almost $25.1 billion, up from $21.7 billion in the last
quarterly update.
"The report may
still underestimate the losses. The report covers predicted
losses through May 31, when GM's stock price was $22.20 a
share."
And that's
how the resident Marxist in the White House "saved" the auto
industry -- for the Autoworkers Union. And, per Obama, wants
to save all American business.
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You think maybe crazed liberals are a
tad overwrought in their idiotic frenzies? Absorb this
quote from Harry Belafonte:
"The election
of Romney would bring about the end of civilization."
And this
lunatic still wanders around loose!
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Utterly predictable. Democrats saying Paul Ryan
"lacks foreign policy experience." Like Barack Obama did have such
experience?
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Mark Steyn, perceptive as always ...
"The Obama campaign's theme
is "Forward" – which, in the context of a second term for Mister
You-Didn't-Build-That, I'd carelessly assumed was a poignant
allusion to "The Charge of the Light Brigade":
'Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns!' he
said:
'Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.'
"But apparently the
focus groups are oblivious to Lord Tennyson, and 'Forward' is
seen as sunny and optimistic rather than a deranged lemming-like
march into the abyss. In that sense, 'Forward' is unusually
honest for the Democrats, at least compared with their recent
assertions that Romney hasn't paid any taxes in 10 years and
personally gives women terminal cancer. 'Forward' means 'Even
more of the same': You can't say he isn't warning us."
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Want to
drastically reduce your taxes? Do what Mitt Romney did -- give
millions to charities. At least you'll have a better idea and
more control over how your money is spent than if you give it to
the thieves in Washington.
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Argus Hamilton --
"Barack Obama was photographed sharing a piece of strawberry pie with a nine-year-old boy who was walking by his table in an Ohio diner. The president even gave him the first bite. When the boy didn't die, President Obama finished the piece of pie."
"Barack Obama was photographed sharing a piece of strawberry pie with a nine-year-old boy who was walking by his table in an Ohio diner. The president even gave him the first bite. When the boy didn't die, President Obama finished the piece of pie."
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The insightful Deroy
Murdock has some ideas on the speech Mitt Romney should make ...
"You have heard plenty about my previous
life as a rich businessman. Yes, I made some $250 million in
free enterprise and am proud I did – just as Berry Gordy is
proud that he produced millions at Motown and Steve Jobs was
proud he yielded billions at Apple. Like these respected and
wealthy entrepreneurs, I added value, delivered products and
services that people wanted and created thousands of careers
along the way.
"At Bain Capital, my
team and I took small and sometimes struggling companies,
injected cash and – eight times out of 10 – made them blossom."
He should also offer this rejoinder to the
anti-wealth sheeple: "When was the last time a poor person gave you
a job?"
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"When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion–when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing–when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors–when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you–when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice–you may know that your society is doomed." -- Ayn Rand, "Atlas Shrugged," 1957. (Thanks for the reminder, Peter)
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We may not have heard the last about Hillary Clinton's very close friend and top aide ... and her connections to radical Islam. The Breitbart news reporters offer this ...
"Rep. Michele
Bachmann's concerns about Sec. of State Clinton's Deputy Chief
of Staff Huma Abedin have been openly criticized by many, yet
disproved by none. Far from it in fact, as the alleged ties
between Huma's family and the Muslim Brotherhood have been
broadly substantiated. And now Walid Shoebat claims he is about
to release the most damning news about Huma Abedin and Islamists
to date.
"That news concerns Huma's alleged ties to Abdullah Omar
Nasseef, a 'financier' of terrorism with whom Huma was
associated when she was part of his organization, the Institute
of Muslim Minority Affairs (IMMA), until taking her position
with Sec. of State Clinton."
The same Hillary who, only last year, called Syria's murderous dictator Assad a "reformer."
The same Hillary who, only last year, called Syria's murderous dictator Assad a "reformer."
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You will
notice that when I quote the reporting, ideas and insights of
others, I always give them credit. I totally fail to understand
why that dewy-eyed phony Fareed Zakaria, now suspended by CNN
for plagiarizing the work of another journalist, would fail to
do the same.
How, after all, does
it diminish the worth or impact of cogent thinking to admit that
it came from someone else?
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Candy Crowley of CNN will moderate one of the
presidential debates. This is the woman who said the Ryan
selection for VP was, quote, "Some sort of ticket death-wish."
Therefore, we can be certain that she will be unbiased -- can't
we?
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Since the London Olympics cost the Brits three
times more than they'd planned, perhaps they'd have been wiser
to ask Mitt Romney to run the event. After all, when he rescued
the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, he turned them into a
better-than-break-even project. Instead, the Brits
insulted him.
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My longtime friend -- and once my producer --
John Brennan forwards this note he received from yet another
friend ...
"My father was a staunch conservative who lived in Chicago. He voted straight ticket Republican until the day he died.
"Now, he votes Democrat."
"My father was a staunch conservative who lived in Chicago. He voted straight ticket Republican until the day he died.
"Now, he votes Democrat."
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In case you missed them, here are a few memorable comments from TV commentators and guests at the Olympics...
Dressage commentator: "This is really a lovely horse and I speak from personal experience since I once mounted her mother."
Paul Hamm, Gymnast: "I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father."
A boxing analyst: "Sure there have been injuries, and even some deaths in boxing, but none of them really that serious."
Softball announcer: "If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again."
In case you missed them, here are a few memorable comments from TV commentators and guests at the Olympics...
Dressage commentator: "This is really a lovely horse and I speak from personal experience since I once mounted her mother."
Paul Hamm, Gymnast: "I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father."
A boxing analyst: "Sure there have been injuries, and even some deaths in boxing, but none of them really that serious."
Softball announcer: "If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again."
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(The late and oft-married) Lewis Grizzard --
"I don't think I'll get
married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a
house."
"...and now, if you'll excuse me..."