A provision of the comprehensive healthcare reform bill now before Congress includes $87 billion to establish a national research facility to study a condition called Lawmaker Reading Disorder (LRD), according to summaries of the bill prepared by professional lobbyists.
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1 boberinyetagain // Jul 17, 2009 at 3:23 pm
Popped my head back in to aggravate RAM by posting first…
2 onlineanalyst // Jul 17, 2009 at 5:04 pm
If the healthcare bill being bantered and bartered around Congress is so terrific then I suppose that the President and members of Congress will cancel or vacate their own healthcare programs to take advantage of “such a bargain.”
Part of the idiocy of this bill is that it provides coverage for routine visits to a healthcare professional but cancels or limits catastrophic or long-term coverage for chronic conditions. I have always thought that insurance existed to assuage damaging expenses of catastrophes, not to pay for day-to-day preventive innoculations, sniffles, or routine maintenance visits. Silly me!
Here is more food for thought about the unsustainability of national healthcare with several credible links that cost out the price tag.
We had enough of the “marry in haste; repent in leisure” type of legislation in the “stimulus” bill. Just exactly what is the hurry on the passage of this bill before the August recess? Is Obama afraid that the members of Congress will have time to read it? Or that the members of Congress will have to answer to the objections of their constituents?
To pass a bill for the small percentage who have no health insurance, many by choice and many as ineligible illegals is sheer folly. The bill(s) still will not cover a chunk of the population and threaten the viability of our outstanding American healthcare in innovation, pharmaceutical development, and life quality. Most Americans are quite happy with the insurance plans that they have in place. Why would they trade down to have “free” healthcare that is more expensive to their economic freedom?
Congress: Read the bill and learn to live within your means just the way that the rest of us must.
3 onlineanalyst // Jul 17, 2009 at 5:06 pm
boberin: Are you a proud new grandpa yet? I hope that all is well in your household. You have been absent lately.
4 onlineanalyst // Jul 17, 2009 at 5:33 pm
The only jobs that Obamacare will create are bureaucratic ones that will not improve healthcare but only drain our resources and ration care. Loads of links and charts and critical thinking supports the claims that Obamacare is nothing but an expansion of federal power and control over an issue that belongs to a patient and his physician.
BTW The claim that the AMA supports the plan is misleading in that only 25% of physicians belong to the organization.
5 Darthmeister // Jul 17, 2009 at 5:47 pm
More study could determine LRD may be a congenital condition that lawmakers will, from time to time, self-medicate with alcohol, hence the massive popularity of Washington social parties with free adult beverages.
Little wonder then, that Ted Kennedy is found to be one of the biggest abusers of alcohol on Capital Hill given the extent of his LRD. LRD has proven to be not only be hazardous to the lives of interns, particularly those who hitch rides in Oldsmobiles driven by LRD sufferers, but is also hazardous to the general welfare of taxpayers!
Lawmaker Obsessive Reading Disorder (LORD) is an even more pernicious mental disorder which adds the difficult-to-treat component of delusions of grandeur. Lawmakers, particularly Democrats, who suffer from this chronic disease believe they are God’s gift to humanity.
6 onlineanalyst // Jul 17, 2009 at 6:56 pm
I hope that this embed works, for it uses the Master’s words against his own rhetoric: <
Unemployment is over 10% in 15 states.
7 onlineanalyst // Jul 17, 2009 at 6:57 pm
I guess that my efforts didn’t work out. Oh, well…
8 R.A.M. // Jul 17, 2009 at 7:44 pm
Bill O’Reilly has a seeing problem also. He said earlier this week that Nancy Pelosi was a “good looking” woman. I think Fox should star dryg testing him!
With all these Csars “O” is appointing, he MUST consider himself “The Csar-O”. I hope he doesn’t get a black cape, mask, and start using his sword to make people like the original Zorro did!
re#1: At least Newsman and L@Y accepted my apoligy. They are bigger men than you apparently.
9 JamesonLewis3rd // Jul 17, 2009 at 7:58 pm
10 onlineanalyst // Jul 17, 2009 at 8:46 pm
This is a pretty devastating look at The One and quite accurate, too.
11 JamesonLewis3rd // Jul 17, 2009 at 9:19 pm
I blame the atheism of Nikita Khrushchev for the current state of World Affairs.
12 Newsman // Jul 17, 2009 at 9:20 pm
You aren’t the only one who noticed BobberIn&Out’s posting RAM. Some folks are just hopeless.
Don’t fret over it.
13 R.A.M. // Jul 17, 2009 at 9:49 pm
Wow, sorry, I just saw my earlier post, (complete with errors), should have spell checked it.
Where I said, “- star dryg testing him” Change that to, “-start drug testing him”. And where I said,”-and start using his sword to make people like the original Zorro did-” change that to, “-and start using his sword to MARK people like the original Zorro did-”
Fox News announced over an hour ago that Walter Cronkite has died. As sad as this is, it seems, (already), we are headed for another 2 week or more non-stop news story/coverage as with Michael Jackson.
Mr. Cronkite was ONLY a newscaster. When will people learn that no matter how famous a person is, they are ONLY a man/woman, and just a human being?
14 gafisher // Jul 18, 2009 at 9:32 am
R.A.M. Re#13: “… Walter Cronkite has died. As sad as this is, …”
Cronkite was an icon, an American legend, a point of faith for so many who trusted him. Now they have only Santa and the Easter Bunny.
Following on JL3’s #11, a very good case could be made that Walter Cronkite was far more influential than Khrushchev in bringing about today’s lamentable conditions.
15 onlineanalyst // Jul 18, 2009 at 11:43 am
More budgetary shell games from the Dems in Congress and more “Emergency Now!” blather from the Crisis-in-Chief re the Health Care Bill.
This bill had better not pass if we are to avoid total national bankruptcy. Make your objections known to your senators and representatives. Axelrod’s Obamabots are out in full force to do another cramdown.
16 Laughing@You // Jul 18, 2009 at 1:01 pm
Walter Cronkite
(Was he as you might say, anti-American?)
Walter Cronkite: Liberal Media Icon
On Wednesday night, July 26, PBS stations carried a 90-minute “American Masters” tribute to Walter Cronkite, anchor of the CBS Evening News from 1962 to 1981. While the PBS show, narrated by Katie Couric, focused on his CBS years, since his retirement Cronkite has made clear his liberal views on a range of issues, including how being a liberal is essential to being a good journalist. Below, the MRC has compiled a representative collection of Cronkite’s liberal pronouncements, and denunciations of conservatives, since the late 1980s.
Excerpts:
Cronkite “Had Trouble” with Reagan’s Political Views
“The Fords were among the most friendly occupants of the White House, but Reagan won the affability contest hands down. I had trouble with his political philosophy, particularly his endorsement of laissez-faire trickle-down economics, the concept that if the people and industries at the top are successful, prosperity will somehow be visited on all the rest of us.”
— Cronkite in his 1997 book, A Reporter’s Life
Starr’s Probe “More Divisive” than Vietnam, Hounding Clinton with “Excessive Zeal”
On October 13, 1998 Cronkite told CBS This Morning’s Mark McEwen that unless “peccadilloes got in the way of performing the job” we should ignore it since “I don’t think we should be digging into other people’s private lives.” Despite Monica’s favors occurring in work areas and during official phone calls, Cronkite maintained it met his “private affair” standard. Hours later at a luncheon with reporters, Cronkite called Starr’s investigation “more divisive” to the country than Vietnam, Peter Johnson reported in the October 14 USA
Today. After accusing Starr of “considerable excessive zeal,” Johnson relayed that Cronkite “says he’d ‘like to get Kenneth Starr out on the boat,’ presumably to give him a piece of his mind.”
Karl Rove “Probably Set Up bin Laden” Video
Walter Cronkite charged that Karl Rove “probably” arranged for a videotaped message from Osama bin Laden to show up just before the 2004 election: “I have a feeling that it [bin Laden’s new videotape] could tilt the election a bit. In fact, I’m a little inclined to think that Karl Rove, the political manager at the White House, who is a very clever man, that he probably set up bin Laden to this thing. The advantage to the Republican side is to get rid of, as a principal subject of the campaign right now, get rid of the whole problem of the al Qaqaa dump, explosive dump. Right now that, the last couple of days, has, I think, upset the Republican campaign.”
— Cronkite on CNN’s Larry King Live, October 29, 2004.
Terrorism Fueled by Poor Against the Rich
“I think very definitely that foreign policy could have caused what has happened [last September 11]….It certainly should be apparent now — it should be, for goodness sakes understood now, but it is not — that the problem is this great division between the rich and the poor in the world. We represent the rich….Most of these other nations of Africa, Asia and South America and Central America are very, very poor….This is a revolution in effect around the world. A revolution is in place today. We are suffering from a revolution of the poor and have-nots against the rich and haves and that’s us.”
— Walter Cronkite on CNN’s Larry King Live, September 9, 2002.
You can find the full article at:
http://www.mrc.org/Profiles/cronkite/welcome.asp
Everthink?
17 Darthmeister // Jul 18, 2009 at 4:19 pm
If without any supporting, documented facts Walter Cronkite actually believed (yet another whacked out liberal conspiracy theory, eh?) Karl Rove “probably set up bin Laden video” (emphasis on the world “probably”, right?), then Uncle Walter was either suffering from dementia in his advanced age or is a whacked out liberal Bush-hater himself - either condition would be sad.
Mr. Cronkite has also engaged in other laughable conspiracy theories which pretty much paints a portrait of a man who was a flaming liberal through most of his life but had the unique ability among journalist to actually hide it or at least be more objective in giving the straight news, unlike the jaundiced journalism we are witness to today.
The lone exception may be when Uncle Walter dropped his facade of objectivity (it must have pained him so to be forced by his own ethics to deliver the straight news instead of bending it to his ideological bias) and erroneously pontificated that the 1968 Tet Offensive was a grave defeat for American forces and policy of containment in the Far East (in this case, Vietnam). By any measure the Tet Offensive was a massive defeat of Viet Cong and NVA forces who, though having initial success in penetrating American and South Vietnames security, were decimated. However, in light of the unfortunate and ill-informed lament of Walter Cronkite on the evening news, even LBJ (who certainly knew the Tet Offensive severely damaged the communist cause in Vietnam) was appalled by Cronkite’s boldness in using his news desk as a bully pulpit for his own personal views and subsequently lamented, “If I’ve lost Walter Cronkite I’ve lost the war.”
NVA Commanding General Vo Nguyen Giap was devastated by the tremendous losses suffered by his communist forces but later admitted in a French television interview that he took heart in the growing influence of the American anti-war movement, and the American media’s false critique of the Tet Offensive that turned an American/South Vietnamese victory into a defeat, thus forever tilting the media reporting of the Vietnam War after December 1968.
Independently, historian Victor Hanson also documented: Gen. Giap, in a series of postbellum interviews, confessed that the North Vietnamese were ready to cease aggression under the weight of the 1972 and 1973 bombing campaigns. He then directly associated the reprieve with the welcome efforts of the radical antiwar movement. Indeed he told French television that his most important guerrilla ally during the war was the American press. The Vietnam News Agency as early as 1966 wrote “We praise the American peace champions. The movement of the American people to protest the war of aggression has really become the second front against the U.S. imperialists.”
Fortunately, there does not exist today some liberal iconic journalist who could be called the “most trusted man in America” since the mainstream media has pretty much discredited itself with its biased reporting of the last thirty or so years - so much so journalists are rated somewhere around used car salesman when it comes to respectability (my apologies to used car salesman). Accuracy In Media made an interesting argument that if such a person with Cronkite’s earlier journalistic credentials existed today, the Iraq War may have been lost in 2007 with a similar televised outburst that the Iraq War was a stalemate. Though we would never know for sure, it certainly has the ring of truth to it given the turn around which occurred in 1968 Vietnam after Uncle Walter passed his opinion off as truth on the evening news.
Like Edward R. Murrow before him, Walter Cronkite got it right more often than not because he of his own restraint and professionalism which kept him from projecting his now well-known liberal humanist bias on news events … he really did tell it like it was. Unfortunately journalism today has debased itself and is now proving itself to be little more than the cheerleading section of the Democratic Party. Intelligent Americans must constantly remind themselves what a sad state of affairs exists within modern journalism and to take news stories, particularly politically-based news stories with large doses of salt. It’s unfortunate, but to be forewarned is to be forearmed … and today that’s simply the way it is!
Here’s an interesting read: The Lies Vietnamese Communists Told and the American and Western Media That Believed Them. It is also a lesson to not to believe the lying filth told to us by American liberals, socialists and closet communists lest we lose America, too.
18 upnorthlurkin // Jul 18, 2009 at 4:20 pm
Good comic relief, Chuckles. As usual, when you’re that far left, everything is off balance and out of focus. Cronkite didn’t bother to hide the fact he was a socialist. He will be lionized by those who like him believe journalists should shape the news instead of report it.
19 egospeak // Jul 18, 2009 at 5:49 pm
L@Y re: 16
I don’t know if the comments make him anti-American… but they certainlyly seem to suggest that by the early 1990’s he was well on his way down the path of senility.
BTW, I’m slightly confused… are you quoting him to support the statement, “Was he as you might say, anti-American?”? Or to defend him against such a charge? If you were defending him might I suggest that you find some different quotes.
Regards,
20 egospeak // Jul 18, 2009 at 5:52 pm
re: 18
“certainlyly” should be “certainly“.
Regards,
21 onlineanalyst // Jul 18, 2009 at 7:14 pm
The Dems and the Big O are being highly deceptive (Oh, really?) with the health care legislation that are trying to cram down American throats.
I wouldn’t buy a new OR used car from Obamao, much less the snake oil that he is peddling.
22 upnorthlurkin // Jul 19, 2009 at 1:24 pm
OLA, looks to me like TOTUS has thrown AARP under the bus now too…
23 onlineanalyst // Jul 19, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Obamao doesn’t like old people nor handicapped people nor independent people, UNL.
He’s awfully worried about pushing through this nonsense before anyone (including legislators) can read the bill, much less digest its labyrinthine provisions. He does not want constituents getting in touch with their legislators during the recess. The DNC has heavily invested in ads pushing moderate Dems and Blue Dog Dems in several states to vote for this deficit-maker.
The bill has loads of provisions for illegals, and their support groups are urging their members to flood legislators’ offices to pass the bill. They appear to have more representation without taxation than citizens who pay taxes.
24 Darthmeister // Jul 19, 2009 at 3:01 pm
Biden’s moronic babble are but trial balloons of what the Obamarx Administration is actually thinking! Sounds reasonably unreasonable.
What would POTUS be without TOTUS?
Obama: “I don’t think we’re in Kansas any more, TOTUS.”
25 onlineanalyst // Jul 19, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Obamao is determined to bankrupt our economy and destroy the American middle class.
Bssides his political-payoff “stimulus bill” that only endebts us and his health-care bill that doesn’t address one of the biggest drains (besides the abuse of emergency rooms for basic health services), damaging lawsuits against health providers (Hello, John Edwards), Obamao has emissaries in China and India playing the American blame game in order to make the US taxpayer/consumer pay for being the biggest boogeymen responsible for global climate change.
Even though climate change is a natural phenomena unrelated to human activity, our Commerce Secretary, Locke, and the SoS, Hillary Clinton, are hitting “reset” buttons in China and India, beating their breasts on behalf of our nation, and begging those two nations to allow us to pay their debt in cap and trade, which these two wiser countries will not buy into.
I cannot wait until these adolescents leave our federal government and allow our citizens to prosper, reaping the fruits of their own labors and extending their charity as they see fit as individuals.
26 onlineanalyst // Jul 19, 2009 at 5:49 pm
Check out Obamao’s latest addition, a “Green Czar,” who has a questionable history. The people in these paid positions, which have staff and lots of policy-making power, have not been vetted nor been approved by Congress.
The failed Obama presidency is on the fast train in the destruction of America.
Our own little Kenyan-Indonesian prince, Barry Obama Soetero, is running a shadown government. Who is pulling his strings? How did he travel to Pakistan in the early ’80’s?
27 gafisher // Jul 19, 2009 at 7:06 pm
Egospeak Re#17, it would be something of an exercise to find Cronkite quotes which didn’t indict him.
28 gafisher // Jul 19, 2009 at 7:23 pm
OLA Re#24, while it’s a virtual certainty others gave the little prince his stage, he has the cunning to operate on his own. Those strings aren’t those of a marionette, they’re part of a trolling harness.
29 R.A.M. // Jul 19, 2009 at 7:54 pm
gafisher re #25: Thanks for posting the Cronkite quote. I have heard him said it on “Newswatch Magazine” talking about ushering in a “New World Order”. Not sure where he was when he said it but when he refered to our LORD Jesus Christ, and sarcastically said “the Messiah”, you could hear the audience laugh at his mocking of Christ.
My bet is the “right hand of Satan” has a pitchfork in it and is jabbing Cronkite as we speak.
30 camojack // Jul 20, 2009 at 3:34 am
I can’t help but wonder if these 1,000+ page bills are issued with abstracts, the way that scholarly papers are. I remember how long it took me to read “Atlas Shrugged”, and that’s 1,000+ pages, too…
31 boberinyetagain // Jul 20, 2009 at 9:32 am
OLA, yes, after a fairly rough start (4 days in NICU) the baby girl and her mom are home and doing well. Thanks for asking
RAM…apology? Haven’t been reading everything…just popping in now and then…but if you apologized for something I’m stunned/amazed and accepting…I suppose.
It’s good to be a “big man” once again (whatever that means)
32 Darthmeister // Jul 20, 2009 at 12:05 pm
Maybe if they write Congressional bills in the old Dick & Jane format, Congresscritters will bother to read them. But then there’s the question of comprehension skills …
33 Darthmeister // Jul 20, 2009 at 12:06 pm
… or maybe a comic book format would be more efficacious.
34 RedRum151 // Jul 20, 2009 at 12:20 pm
If they can’t make the effort to actually read these bills, why do we keep paying them?
p.s. Judging from how they
respondreact to phone calls from their constituents, our lawmakers also suffer from a hearing disorder.35 Darthmeister // Jul 20, 2009 at 12:38 pm
What kind of healthcare do Obama and lawmakers get and probably will continue to get if a national socialist healthcare program is successfully crammed down the rest of American throats?
Interestingly, one of the often ignored points of this socialist healthcare system is that overly expensive medical procedures (which may cost hundreds of thousands of dollars) in hopes of extending an individual’s life maybe a few months or a year will be balanced against the more basic needs of other patients under this rationed (read: "economical") healthcare system. Bureaucratic bean counters will determine if that chronic but-not-life-threatening numbness in your extremities or your chronic migraine headache is worth treating compared to some poor liberal soul who wants a sex change operation.
But I bet those expensive medical procedures are some of the same ones that someone like Ted Kennedy is presently availing himself of to extend his pathetic life another couple of months or so. Does anyone here really think some well-connected, bleeding-heart lib is going to voluntarily subject themselves the the same national healthcare system that they advocate for the rest of America?
36 Darthmeister // Jul 20, 2009 at 1:08 pm
In the spring of 2008 Barbara Wagner was denied expensive chemotherapy for her cancer under the OHP (the socialized Oregon Health Plan) but was instead offered a $50 physician-assisted suicide option! This type of monstrosity was created by Oregonian liberals (another prime example of the law of unintended consequences) but I bet if conservatives had come up with such a rationed healthcare plan we would have been nationally skewered as a bunch of heartless ignoramus [deleted].
And don’t think it can’t happen to you or someone you love under a possible Obamanation Health Care Department. I can see the day under an OHCD when one of the trolls here is suffering from, say a brain tumor, that can only be treated with a very, very expensive medical procedure. For example, after they fill out their application form for treatment which is then reviewed by departmental beancounters they may then be told that either a) the waiting list for such a procedure is running about six months behind schedule or b) given their age and general health condition the funds to pay for such a procedure could be better used giving much needed vacinations (or free lunches) to 100,000 children. Remember, in liberal land its ALWAYS FOR THE CHILDREN … excepting those still in the womb, of course!
A tragedy to be sure, but a well deserved one for those who support a national socialist healthcare program.
37 JamesonLewis3rd // Jul 20, 2009 at 1:46 pm
Power to the People
God Bless America
38 Laughing@You // Jul 20, 2009 at 2:34 pm
Egospeak,
I was an admirer of Walter Cronkite.
You say, “… he was well on his way down the path of senility”.
May you one day become so senile!
You also say, “BTW, I’m slightly confused…”.
Oh Egospeak, if you only knew the half of it!
In the movie “Inherit the Wind”, Spencer Tracy, in the roll of the Clarence Darrow character, to says to the William Jennings Bryan character that he is the only man he knows who can “strut sitting down”.
Today, this personality affect has been mastered by the “religious right” through constant practice.
Right back attcha!
Everthink?
39 onlineanalyst // Jul 20, 2009 at 7:51 pm
The failed presidency of Obamao, the lad who likes to spend other people’s money with impunity, is hiding the budget numbers until after Congress’s recess. We can all guess why. The kid in the candy store and all of his Dem buddies have put us into deep, unsustainable hock.
What a great use of “stimulus money” re the “wild horses couldn’t drag me away,” or should the theme be “Mustang Sally” ? Who gets to put the prophylactics on those four-footed creatures anyway== Barney Frank?
Don’t worry about the link. It cites an AP story. Not even Government Media can ignore the facts on the ground.
40 Newsman // Jul 20, 2009 at 8:00 pm
There is only ” one god’s gift to humanity ” !
DARTHMEISTER !
[ Crowd roars in background ]
41 Libby Gone // Jul 20, 2009 at 8:14 pm
HA!
Perhaps we need a LAW discerning the unintiated.
Happy Moon Landing Day!
Take off your Moonbat hat l@y……
42 gafisher // Jul 21, 2009 at 8:10 am
Libby Gone, speaking of lunar landings and lunatics, here’s a good example:
Whoopi Goldberg Entertains Moon Landing Conspiracy Theories
wv - 22 bladed - Fancy knife but none too sharp …
43 gafisher // Jul 21, 2009 at 8:15 am
Re: … Lawmakers’ Reading Disorder
Lex Rex, DysLex Wrecks.
44 egospeak // Jul 21, 2009 at 8:16 pm
L@Y re: 38
I must confess that after I posted my comments and after watching the CBS tribute to Cronkite, it was obvious that he still had his faculties well into his old age. Nevertheless, his comments did more than demonstrate his far far leftwing ideology, although he did a far better job of hiding it when he was acting as a news reporter than the current bunch “reporting” the news today. For that I give him credit. I too, admired him although my admiration waned in his later years.
My “confusion” was not a reference to my cognitive state so much as a reference to the lack of clarity in your statement.
As always, Regards…
45 R.A.M. // Jul 21, 2009 at 11:00 pm
gafisher re #42: I am surprized Goldberg hasn’t seen this: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31966131/ns/technology_and_science-space/
These pictures of the original Lunar landing site were taken between July 12 and 15th of THIS YEAR, only a week or so ago. That means she must believe her choice for President is allowing NASA to lie to her and/or her choice of liberal media, as this story is from MSNBC!
I believe she just wants to be the same kind of lunatic that she replaced and she is doing a GREAT JOB of it!
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