An Ol' Broad's Ramblings
Archive for 29 October 2009
Weasel Time
How Cool!
Shared by my excessively ‘progressive’ sister.
Marsha Blackburn on Queen Nanny’s “Bill”
Today, Speaker Pelosi released the latest version of the Democrat’s health care reform bill. Coming in at almost 2,000 pages, H.R. 3962 is nearly twice the length of and more expensive than H.R. 3200, the bill we considered in the Energy and Commerce Committee this past July. For nearly three full months, the Speaker and her partisans have been crafting this bill behind closed doors. I find the product they produced today as dubious as the one I voted against in July.
A colleague of mine noted that the original legislation that created Medicare and Medicare, which themselves cost nearly $800 billion annually, was less than 300 pages. Just imagine what a 2,000 page bill will create!
We expect a final vote on the bill sometime next week, though we could easily see several false starts as Speaker Pelosi twists arms to get the votes she needs.
The new bill uses the word “shall” 3,425 times. The word “shall” in a bill becomes a government order when that bill becomes law. Among those 3,425 provisions are many that concerned me in H.R. 3200. One of those “shall” provisions deals with vending machines. Under this bill, the federal government will dictate how snacks are arranged in vending machines – imagine that! Talk about the long arm of the federal government!
“Blood Shooting Out of Eyes” Time
House Democrats Health Care Reform Bill
Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!
Couric: GOP ‘Hijacked’ by ‘Far-Right Conservatives…Like Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin’
“There’s growing concern among some GOP leaders that controversial commentators and far-right conservativesCouric declared in her Tuesday “Katie Couric’s Notebook” for CBSNews.com. Specifically, “people like Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin appeal to the base — and you certainly need that base to win elections. But in an age when 42 percent of Americans call themselves Independents,” Couric warned as if she’s really concerned Republicans won’t succeed, “you can’t win with just the base, either.” have hijacked the message,” CBS Evening News anchor Katie
You couldn’t be more wrong, Mzzzzzzzzzzzzz Couric. The GOP wasn’t hijacked by conservatives. No, it was hijacked by Dem-lites, aka RINOS. The go along to get along crowd. Why do you think so many have left the party and become Independents? Huh, huh, huh??
NO MORE CHANGE!
America Is Turning To Socialism
by J. D. Longstreet
Just a snippet:
The point is — we have been attempting to call your attention to the fact that America has been turning to socialism at an ever-increasing speed since the election of the current Congress in 2008 – and — at an even faster pace since the election of the current President, Obama. Now comes a news outlet whose very birth was at the hands of Leon Trotsky, a Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist, to support our claims!
Trotsky was one of the leaders of the Russian October Revolution, second only to Lenin. During the early days of the Soviet Union, Trotsky served first as People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs and later as the founder and commander of the Red Army and People’s Commissar of War. He was also among the first members of the Politburo. The news outlet Trotsky founded, called Pravda, was an official organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party between 1912 and 1991. Now Pravda is validating what we have been trying to tell you.
So listen up! When old graybeards, like myself, tell you that today’s America is NOT the America we knew, NOT the America we grew up in, NOT the America The Founders of the country intended, we are telling you THE TRUTH! This is not the America we knew, at all! When we say we want our country back, we are absolutely sincere. For today’s America is not ours. Today’s America is only a shadow of our America. Today’s America is a shell of its former self.
Dare I say it again? Yes, I shall! I want my country back!
Read the whole post here.
I am tired of all the damaging ‘change’. It must stop! If these so called ‘representatives’ of the people hate this country, and the principles on which it was founded, there are a LOT of countries they could go to live who would give them the type of oppression they want to shove down our throats. The majority of this country do not share their views, so why has no one stopped them?
Obamabots and Flag Desecration
Video Desecrating American Flag is Obama Team’s Finalist
Today, Politico reports that one of the twenty finalists in a health care video contest run by Organizing for America is film of an American flag being spray painted onto a building and then desecrated with graffiti before being “ultimately obliterate[d].” The video is produced by Daniel Lahoda and Saber, and is to be ultimately judged by Plouffe, DNC Chairman Tim Kaine, Congressman Patrick Murphy (D-PA), singer will.i.am and Hollywood stars Rosario Dawson and Dule Hill. The idea that the desecration of the American Flag is either entertaining or helps sell liberal health care reform should be universally admonished.
In fact, an anonymous liberal entrant to the contest even told Politico that “a video ‘defacing the flag’ won’t do much to help President Barack Obama or the Democrats sell health care reform.” A truer statement could not be found. President Obama had come under previous ‘flag scrutiny’ for refusing to wear an American flag on his lapel which he explained by saying it “became a substitute for I think true patriotism.” He later began wearing a pin.
The entire post can be seen here. Watch the video!!!!
