(2009-07-23) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, today announced a new provision to the massive health care reform bill that would provide treatment for so-called Blue Dog syndrome which she said has afflicted members of her own party.
The condition causes a rash rejection of legislation that includes new expenditures without compensating cuts. Recent outbreaks threaten to cripple major Obama administration initiatives.
While the cause of Blue Dog syndrome remains mysterious, experts think it may originate in a lawmaker’s home district, and spread by face to face contact with voters.
“If we don’t suppress it early,” said Rep. Pelosi, “we risk a pandemic that could threaten our way of life.”
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1 gafisher // Jul 23, 2009 at 6:44 pm
Sounds like a job for Mike and LaKeesha’s veterinarian.
wv - 1968 ritual - More Democrat riots?
2 R.A.M. // Jul 23, 2009 at 7:08 pm
Right on target Scott. That is why a “certain member” of the black caucus wants the House to work through the recess.
Rep. Baron Hill (D) IN will NOT vote for Obama’s plan, (with or without the recess), or he WILL lose his seat back to Mike Sodrell who had it before Hill. Hill held it before Sodell upset him election before last and all three have been squeakers!
Incidently, when Sodrell had the seat, Hill was a lobbyist, then decided to run again.
I don’t know what is more hilarious, Obama saying last night, “And I MEAN IT!!!” Or Nancy Pelosi saying, “We have the votes to pass it!!!”
As Judge Judy would say,(to BOTH of them), “Is that as true as everything else you have told us?”
This is the center piece of Obama’s Presidency and he is going to L-O-S-E AND without Republicans. His own MAJORITY Party is going to serve him up some CROW!
3 R.A.M. // Jul 23, 2009 at 7:11 pm
One last thing. This one issue can swing the majority in the House back to the Republicans as early as next year if the Dems try to cram healthcare down America’s throat and they KNOW IT!!!
4 da Bunny // Jul 23, 2009 at 9:10 pm
Hi R.A.M.!
I remember the Hill/Sodrel races well from when I lived in Louisville!
I hope the “Blue Dog Syndrome” makes it to the pandemic stage…and beyond. Maybe it’ll kill off that deadly viral disease known as Marxism that has spread through the White House and Congress of late.
5 Maggie // Jul 23, 2009 at 9:29 pm
Hello da Bunny!
Nice to read your posts again on SF.
How did we get here?
6 da Bunny // Jul 23, 2009 at 11:07 pm
Hey, Mags!! I haven’t been doing much posting anywhere…just lurking and reading.
7 da Bunny // Jul 23, 2009 at 11:23 pm
OT, but I’m so impressed with how Comrade Zero is showing his backside to local law enforcement with this “Harvard Professor Gates arrest” flap. Mr. Legal Scholar’s only apparent interest in the law is in figuring out ways to circumvent it. Law enforcement and keeping the peace don’t gibe with “community agitating.” And, I’d call Prof. Gates’ ensuing hissy fit a case of “the boy who cried wolf,” but someone might call me a “racist.”
8 camojack // Jul 24, 2009 at 1:28 am
“The condition causes a rash rejection of legislation that includes new expenditures without compensating cuts. Recent outbreaks threaten to cripple major Obama administration initiatives.”
Amen and hallelujah!!!
9 R.A.M. // Jul 24, 2009 at 4:35 am
Here is an interesting except from the story of the N.J. corruption arrests that involve 3 mayors, legislators, and a member of the governor’s cabinet, (the cabinet member was not arrested but resigned AFTER his home was searched—what does that tell you?).
Among the 44 people arrested were the mayors of Hoboken, Ridgefield and Secaucus, Jersey City’s deputy mayor, and two state assemblymen. A member of the governor’s cabinet resigned after agents searched his home, though he was not arrested. All but one of the officeholders are Democrats.
It sure seems like people, (at least the 43 of the 44 crooks here), are out to make Nancy Pelosi look like a liar for that, “Culture of Corruption” being a Republican thing statement. Actually, they did not say the lone crook who was not a Dem was a Republican either. He could have been an Independent like Bernie Sanders?
BTW, “Nan” does NOT need any help looking like a liar either especially with her, “CIA lied to Congress”, and “We have the votes to pass Helthcare reform” tall tales! Now her own CORRUPT party is making her look like the second coming of “The Clinton Gang”!
One other quote from the story is: Gov. Jon Corzine said: “The scale of corruption we’re seeing as this unfolds is simply outrageous and cannot be tolerated.”
Yes Jon, that is why there were actual arrests! BTW Jon, you don’t mind if we search YOUR home too, do you? Your “cabinet member” might have “planted” some evidence there.
Good to see there is a new comedian ready to fill the void left when Al Franken went to the Senate.
The ONLY amazing thing about the entire incident is that corrupt Democrats were actually arrested for commiting crimes!
I’m as shocked as you are. I feel like I am in the Twilight Zone!
10 gafisher // Jul 24, 2009 at 7:25 am
“The ONLY amazing thing about the entire incident is that corrupt Democrats were actually arrested …”
Rowdy Harvard burglars, now good Democrats — it’s clearly time for Obama to address the growing problem of dedicated police officers.
11 gafisher // Jul 24, 2009 at 7:42 am
R.A.M. Re#9, the 44th alleged crook was a Republican State Assemblyman, undoubtedly proving to some that both major parties are just as bad. (Personally, I don’t think it has as much to do with Parties as with the depravity of man, though it’s interesting how that seems to gravitate more to one side of the aisle.)
wv - lands $10,000 which, coincidentally, is exactly what #44 did.
12 Hawkeye // Jul 24, 2009 at 8:01 am
I’m with da Bunny. I hope the “Blue Dog Syndrome” makes it to the pandemic stage…
Best regards all!
13 boberinyetagain // Jul 24, 2009 at 8:40 am
Funny stuff Scott…pandemic indeed!
Bunny, re:7…Obiwan really should stay out of local police matters…all the time…completely…no matter the color of the “perp”…really stupid to comment…not at all helpful
14 onlineanalyst // Jul 24, 2009 at 10:37 am
I stepped into an icy stream once, soaking my hiking boots and socks and ending up with Blue Dog Syndrome. I couldn’t decide whether the Blue Pill or the Red Pill was best to take in order to avoid a cold and sore throat. Thank goodness my doctor knew enough not to prescribe a tonsillectomy since my tonsils had already been removed at my advanced age of 19.
15 RedRum151 // Jul 24, 2009 at 10:54 am
This is what happens when you start reading those bills — ’sted of using ‘em for doorstops, like normal people would — you turn blue and start growling — terrible!!
16 onlineanalyst // Jul 24, 2009 at 11:20 am
Rahm Emanuel is promising to “rahm” the health-care bill through the House, perhaps bypassing all of the committees.
What is interesting is that his brother, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, is one of the architects of the bill. This link, from an Independent Party website, describes the various scenarios for rationing health care.
It is a frightening situation when the federal government seizes a huge sector of the economy and then decides who gets treatment and what kind it will be. Doesn’t this method smack of creating a superior race? Didn’t we learn from history how evil such machinations are?
The issue at risk is not health care but control, just as the cap and tax bill is.
17 Darthmeister // Jul 24, 2009 at 11:29 am
Blue dog syndrome? Well, I’ll be a monkey’s uncle … figuratively speaking, of course.
Oh, oh, Obamessiah’s popularity has slipped below 50% according to latest Rasmussen poll. Jimmah Carter, move over! Nothing like incompetence and broken promises to wake up naive Americans to the fact they have been little more than rubes.
And I guess the cold harsh facts of reality are starting to impact Obamabots, too. Either that or it’s a vast reich-wing conspiracy!
And given that a clear majority of Americans believe America is heading down the wrong path the question is how do we right the ship that is being shipwrecked on the shoals of failed liberalism?
18 Darthmeister // Jul 24, 2009 at 11:50 am
RAM, I always believed that the Donk mantra a few years ago painting the Republicans as “the party of corruption” was really a pre-emptive rhetorical device to defuse the real fact that is the Democrat Party which is the party of corruption. It’s certainly true here in Illinois.
Even with Democrats running the show in many states as well as in the federal government, it’s amazing the sheer number of Donks that are still arrested and charged with graft, corruption, perjury, thievery, election fraud, etc. A look at the arrest records and convictions in the court of law tells a different story than the typical whitewash the liberal media tries to foist on Americans every day as to the real party of corruption.
And yet more evidence of this Donk corruption here … here… here … and the book Donkey Cons.
Not saying Republicans are pure as the wind driven snow, but the corruption of Democrats make Republicans look like underachieving pikers by comparison.
19 Darthmeister // Jul 24, 2009 at 12:05 pm
Oh, and btw, why are the nation’s police forces mad at Obama for his self-admitted ignorant remarks concerning the Cambridge police’s handling of “Scholar” Gates? Didn’t police unions endorse Obambi?
911 Gates tape may be released in light of the liberal media’s whitewash of Gates’ own inflammatory role in harassing a police officer. And the official Gates arrest record can be found here
I guess this is another case of rubes finding out the truth about their “law and order” candidate who happens to be the highest chief executive, law enforcement officer in the land! How’s that for irony?
20 upnorthlurkin // Jul 24, 2009 at 12:17 pm
Darth, just “Present” Obey-me being presidential…NOT! Sticking his agitator nose where is doesn’t belong….
Ah yes…..The great uniter….
21 RedRum151 // Jul 24, 2009 at 12:30 pm
According to Rasmussen, Obama still has the approval of 83% of Democrats.
Then again, also according to Rasmussen, 29% of Democrats think it’s perfectly fine for the government to tell them what kind of light bulb they have to use …
So I guess that’s all logically consistent — right?
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22 onlineanalyst // Jul 24, 2009 at 1:38 pm
The Mayo Clinic weighs in and quite diplomatically disputes Obamao’s presser claims. An interesting addition to the post is how The Great Orator fouled up in calling on the reporter that he thought represented the Cleveland Plain-Dealers and blasted on with his pre-scripted answer. The Emperor in the White House has not clothes.
23 Laughing@You // Jul 24, 2009 at 1:39 pm
“Oh, and btw, why are the nation’s police forces mad at Obama for his self-admitted ignorant remarks concerning the Cambridge police’s handling of “Scholar” Gates? Didn’t police unions endorse Obambi?”
Darthmeister,
You say, “his self-admitted ignorant remarks”.
Did President Obama admit to making ignorant remarks?
Please, tell me where can I find his admission?
Hank, it seems to your relationship to the truth is becoming as distant as your relationship to any kind of reality.
Soon, we will help you obtain your medications, but you must cooperate in taken them.
Everthink?
24 upnorthlurkin // Jul 24, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Oh goodie….now victory is no longer the goal in Afghanistan…..
Is there anything(besides race baiting) the T in C can do?! Ah yes….he can read a teleprompter…. GREAT….
25 da Bunny // Jul 24, 2009 at 2:15 pm
boberin #13 I agree that Barry should have stayed out of it. Now, police unions, along with a large segment of the population nationwide, are upset at him referring to the Cambridge police as “acting stupidly.” Gates started the fire…Zero threw the gasoline on it.
I can say for sure that if one of my neighbors was looking out for my home, and calling the police when they saw something suspicious, I’d thank both the neighbor AND the cops for their vigilance and assistance. And, I would gladly show proof that I was the homeowner/resident upon request from a police officer in that situation. This Gates buffoon, he of the monumental racial chip on his shoulder, escalated the situation, and probably was hoping for a physical confrontation a la Rodney King. There’s big money to be made from that, from what I hear.
26 JamesonLewis3rd // Jul 24, 2009 at 2:18 pm
BHO prefaced his racist response at the press conference by saying, “I don’t know all the facts.”
I assert that that shows ignorance on several levels.
27 boberinyetagain // Jul 24, 2009 at 2:32 pm
bunny, apparently that was one “straight shooter” of a police officer making the comments even sillier.
28 upnorthlurkin // Jul 24, 2009 at 2:43 pm
He’s sure smooth without his teleprompter….the genius just oozes out of him. Still a race-baiter! He just can’t bring himself to admit he’s wrong….the community agitator in him won’t let him admit that without all the facts he should’ve kept his pie-hole shut!
29 RedRum151 // Jul 24, 2009 at 2:56 pm
Re #s 19,26 -
ignorant : adjective - uninformed about specific facts ;
ignorance : noun - lack of knowledge or information ;
Source : Compact Oxford English Dictionary
30 RedRum151 // Jul 24, 2009 at 3:10 pm
Also :
ignorance : noun — lack of knowledge, education, or awareness
(Merriam-Webster)
31 boberinyetagain // Jul 24, 2009 at 3:23 pm
apprenticed, benighted, birdbrained, blind to, cretinous, dense, green*, illiterate, imbecilic, in the dark, inexperienced, innocent, insensible, mindless, misinformed, moronic, naive, nescient, oblivious, obtuse, shallow, thick, unconscious, unconversant, uncultivated, uncultured, uneducated, unenlightened, uninformed, uninitiated, unintellectual, unknowledgeable, unlearned, unlettered, unmindful, unread, unschooled, unsuspecting, untaught, untrained, unwitting, witless
32 boberinyetagain // Jul 24, 2009 at 4:55 pm
Congratulations to all here.
You “won” and millions will remain uninsured, “insurance” companies can continue to pick your pockets for the privledge of not insuring those less fortunate.
May you never be one of those.
33 onlineanalyst // Jul 24, 2009 at 6:22 pm
L@Y re #23: You are correct. Obamao is admitting nothing. He is now blaming the media…for citing his inflammatory and unjustified remarks at a press conference. (Does the malignant narcissist accept responsibility for anything in his life?)
boberin: If the Dems had allowed some of the Republican amendments to be included, many caught in the trap of being too well-off to have SCHIP coverage for their children or to qualify for Medicaid would have been covered.
The bill in House limited choices of insurance, doctors, treatment, or medication, giving all of the power to federal bureaucrats; refused to look at pooling groups to qualify them for lower coverage; rationed care for undesirable coteries; offered insurance to illegals but did not penalize them for not having coverage as it would fine citizens for the same factor; put a federal stamp of approval on taxpayer-funded abortions and inhumane “end-of-life” treatment for the elderly and the disabled.
The bill deserved a sound burial.
34 JamesonLewis3rd // Jul 24, 2009 at 6:54 pm
BHO should turn away from the Gospel according to Wright and calibrate the Lord Jesus Christ, Who actually IS the Way, the Truth and the Life.
God Bless America
35 JamesonLewis3rd // Jul 24, 2009 at 7:28 pm
Something inspiring:
God Bless America
36 JamesonLewis3rd // Jul 24, 2009 at 10:01 pm
Meanwhile…..
37 Darthmeister // Jul 25, 2009 at 12:02 am
Obama Rushes to Quell Racial Uproar He Helped Stoke
No kidding! Atta boy, Mr. President. That’s what you get for sticking your arrogant nose into an issue you knew little about by your own admission, sir. Now maybe you can extend the same humility to other issues you know little to nothing about … like the economy, healthcare and not snatching defeat from the jaws of victory in Afghanistan.
38 Darthmeister // Jul 25, 2009 at 12:22 am
… Gates ate my post … the erudite, understanding and objective scholar that he is!
39 Darthmeister // Jul 25, 2009 at 12:32 am
You know, maybe we shouldn’t be so harsh on the great uniter, Mr. Obama. After all, when he issued his ignorant statement about the Cambridge policeman “acting stupidly” he (uh) was speaking (uh) without a (uh) teleprompter … or was he?
40 Laughing@You // Jul 25, 2009 at 12:53 am
OLA
You say, “for citing his inflammatory and unjustified remarks”.
Anything Obama says or does inflames you wingnuts, but when he brings Sgt. Crowley and Professor Gates over to the Executive Mansion for beers, and we see them all laughing and slapping each other on the back … that’s just going to “burn you up!”
To quote the Repug Loon, “Bahwahwahwah”.
Sorry, but you remind me of Wylie Coyote … “Bahwahwahwah”.
Everthink?
41 R.A.M. // Jul 25, 2009 at 1:10 am
JL3 said: BHO prefaced his racist response at the press conference by saying, “I don’t know all the facts.”
I assert that that shows ignorance on several levels.
Amazingly, this “comment” and the furvor it has stoked during the Healthcare debate really should make those who are STILL in favor of Obama’s plan think twice about it!
What I mean is, if by Obama’s self admission he made a comment, (a judgement), about the particulars of a situation because he did NOT have all the facts, and it caused this much trouble, how much MORE problems, trouble, furvor, will be caused by passing a Healthcare plan that NO ONE has bothered to get the FACTS about, let alone R-E-A-D!!!
As you said JL3, doing this with such urgency shows IGNORANCE on several, no wait, —make that on EVERY LEVEL!
42 Laughing@You // Jul 25, 2009 at 2:57 am
“how much MORE problems, trouble, furvor, will be caused by passing a Healthcare plan that NO ONE has bothered to get the FACTS about, let alone R-E-A-D!!!”
This is not a new idea! There a good models in many other more highly developed countries (countries with no Conservatives to retard their development). The United States has been working on such a plan since 1948! We have the facts!
Read the plan? You mean read the plan to the Republicans and try to explain it to the conservatives who have sold out to insurance companies, and other big business.
Stall, stall, stall … one excuse or another, forever!
Pass the bill baby, pass the bill!
Everthink?
43 R.A.M. // Jul 25, 2009 at 3:07 am
http://www.rollcall.com/pdfs/healthchart072309.pdf
The above link is to the organizational, (yeah right), chart of the House Democrats’ heath plan. It has Rube Goldberg written all over it!
BTW, the Democrats are blocking the release of info on it to be sent from House Republicans to their constituents saying the info they want to send is “flawed”.
So much for ‘transparency’—-YET AGAIN!!!
44 R.A.M. // Jul 25, 2009 at 3:12 am
If you saw the chart and STILL think it is a ‘good plan’, maybe you might think Obama should restructure the tax code and add some more departments to it also because it is not complicated enough already?
Don’t libs ever want to make ANYTHING easier and less costly?
Sheesh!!!
45 R.A.M. // Jul 25, 2009 at 3:17 am
L@Y said: This is not a new idea! There a good models in many other more highly developed countries (countries with no Conservatives to retard their development).
And those Countries would be—???
wv: untold medical
Exactly! The Dems/Obama are not telling us ANYTHING!
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