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ObamaCare: The sum of all fears

Mary Katharine Ham, Weekly Standard
Guy Benson, Townhall
August 5, 2010

He (Obama) told the AMA: “If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period. If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. Period. No one will take it away. No matter what.”

via Hot Air » ObamaCare: The sum of all fears.

Promise #1: If you are satisfied with your existing health care arrangement, you can keep it.

Promise #2: Reform will lower America’s health care spending.

Promise #3: Reform will lower Americans’ health care premiums.

Promise #4: Obamacare will not lead to a doctor shortage, or escalate the primary-care physician shortfall.

Promise #5: There will be no government rationing of medical care.

Promise #6: “The firm pledge” – Ninety-five percent of Americans will not see any form of tax increase because of Obamacare (or anything else).

Promise #7: Health care reform won’t add “a single dime” to the deficit—and will actually cut it.

Promise #8: Health care reform will help businesses—employers and employees, alike.

Promise #9: Obamacare will not allow for funding of abortions with taxpayer money.

Promise #10: Obamacare will not only satisfy each of the promises above, but satisfy all of them at the same time with virtually no downsides.

Irreplaceable, says Hezbollah. Let’s hope so, but at last count, there was no real shortage of frenzied morons in the Middle East to take his place.

Hezbollah, Islamic Leaders Mourn Death of Top Shi’ite Cleric

CNSNews.com
Patrick Goodenough
July 6, 2010

Tuesday was a day of mourning in Lebanon for Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, a senior Shi’ite cleric who was sometimes described as Hezbollah’s spiritual mentor.

The 74-year-old, a harsh critic of U.S. policies in the Middle East, died in a Beirut hospital on Sunday.

Hezbollah said in a statement the death of a scholar like Fadlallah left “a void in Islam that nothing can fill.”

via CNSNews.com – Hezbollah, Islamic Leaders Mourn Death of Top Shi’ite Cleric.

Ironic that one has to rise to the top of the terrorist hierarchy to die of natural causes in a hospital. Brace yourselves, virgins. Here comes Fadlallah.

Difficult Situation + UN = Disastrous Situation

U.S. Eyes U.N. Peacekeepers for Iraq After 2011

Associated Press
July 06, 2010

Baghdad (AP) – The top American military commander in Iraq said Tuesday that U.N. peacekeeping forces may need to protect disputed territories in the nation’s north if tensions between Kurds and Arabs haven’t eased by the time U.S. troops leave in 2011.

In an interview with The Associated Press, U.S. Army Gen. Ray Odierno said U.N. peacekeepers might be one option if Kurdish soldiers haven’t integrated into the Arab-dominated Iraqi army over the next year. He said he hopes the U.N. forces won’t be necessary.

via CNSNews.com – U.S. Eyes U.N. Peacekeepers for Iraq After 2011.

Hat Tip to Investors Business Daily

So, how difficult is the illegal immigration issue? Enforce the law, moron.

Don’t look to BO to do that anytime soon.

In his acceptance speech for the Lincoln Medal at Ford’s Theater on Sunday, honoree Desmond Tutu

“spoke of the global need for peace and respect and spoke of the current conflicts in the Middle East.

“Security is not something that comes from the barrel of a gun,” he told the crowd.

Obama addresses crowd at Ford’s Theatre gala

Ironic that Tutu would say something as patently wrong as that on the 66th anniversary of the Normandy invasion, when, by shear force of arms, the Allies wrested from the the Nazi’s the first toehold in Europe that would ultimately lead to the overthrow of Hitler and freedom and security for millions.

Further ironic that he would say such a thing in the place where Lincoln was assassinated, after the bloodiest war in American history that preserved the Union and finally ended slavery.

The tens of thousands of Americans buried in our National Cemeteries here and American Cemeteries on foreign soil, who died in the fight for the liberty of others around the world, can now rest in peace knowing that what is truly good about America comes from Barack Almighty’s concrete actions since his anointment last January.

‘Special Report’ Panel Rates Obama’s U.N. Speech – Special Report w/ Bret Baier – FOXNews.com

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: We know the future will be forged by deeds and not simply words. Speeches alone will not solve our problems. It will take persistent action. So for those who question the character and cause of my nation, I ask you to look at the concrete actions we have taken in just nine months.

BRET BAIER, HOST: President Obama speaking here at the General Assembly at the United Nations today, interrupted several times for applause. But what about the speech overall and the message it sent to the world? Let’s bring in our panel tonight from Washington — Steve Hayes, senior writer for “The Weekly Standard”, Juan Williams, news analyst for National Public Radio, and syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer. Alright Steve, let’s start with you, an overview of your thoughts of the speech.

STEVE HAYES, SENIOR WRITER, “THE WEEKLY STANDARD”: I thought it was a terribly embarrassing speech.

Just think about the last sentence that we heard in the introduction there, “When you question the cause or character of my country, think about the concrete actions of the last nine months.” Basically what President Obama is saying there, think about me when you think about the goodness or the greatness of the United States. I think that is an unbelievably arrogant thing to say, and, sadly, it wasn’t the only thing that he said in the speech that was like that. I think the whole speech was filled with that.

I think what we saw today in so many ways is representative of the way that the Obama administration wants to elevate the United Nations and make it a serious global policy-making body. And it’s also emblematic of the way that the United Nations is a broken institution. You have Muammar Qaddafi, a rogue dictator, a crazy man, speaking — supposed to speak for 15 minutes, ends up speaking for some 90 minutes, filled with untruths, half-truths, complete nonsense. The United Nations was never able to enforce its resolutions on Iraq. It is not able to enforce its resolutions on Iran. It is not even able to keep Muammar Qaddafi from talking for more than 15 minutes. I think it was a dangerous speech in many ways.

JUAN WILLIAMS, NEWS ANALYST, NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO: Well, I couldn’t disagree with Steve more. I thought it was a terrific speech. (Oh, please. Read the rest of what Williams had to say for yourself, if you must.)

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, SYNDICATED COLUMNIST: I could see all the other nations racing to step up and do what the United States wants.

This speech hovered somewhere between embarrassing and dangerous. You had a president of the United States actually saying no nation can or should try to dominate another.

I will buy the “should try to” as kind of adolescent wishful thinking, but no nation can dominate another? What planet is he living on? It is the story of man. What does he think Russia is doing to Georgia?

But the alarming part is what he said in the same paragraph where he said that it is — makes no sense anymore– quote, “The alignments of nations that are rooted in the cleavages of the cold war.”

Well, NATO is rooted in the cleavage of the cold war. The European Union is rooted in the cleavage of the cold war. Our alliances with Japan and Korea and the Philippines, our guarantees to Taiwan and Eastern Europe are all rooted in the cleavage of the cold war.

Interesting noun, incidentally. So he is saying that is all now irrelevant. What does he think our allies are going to think who hear this?

Obama’s speech is alarming because it says the United States has no more moral right to act or to influence world history than Bangladesh or Sierra Leone.

It diminishes the United States deliberately and wants to say that we should be one nation among others, and not defend the alliance of democracies that we have in NATO, for example, or to say as every president has said before Obama that we stand for something good and unique in the world.

And it is not the equivalent, for example, of the alignment of Chavez with Ecuador and Bolivia and Nicaragua and Russia and Cuba and Iran. And that’s what I think is alarming about that speech.

via ‘Special Report’ Panel Rates Obama’s U.N. Speech – Special Report w/ Bret Baier – FOXNews.com.

A mostly fair and complementary article about Sarah Palin appeared online today at, of all places, NYTimes.com. It is indeed a new age of miracles when “The Gray Lady” has a good word for a conservative republican, in fact THE conservative republican.

More, please.

Palin Speaks to Investors in Hong Kong

By MARK McDONALD
NYTimes.com
September 23, 2009

HONG KONG — Sarah Palin, in what was billed as her first speech overseas, spoke on Wednesday to Asian bankers, investors and fund managers.

A number of people who heard the speech in a packed hotel ballroom, which was closed to the media, said Mrs. Palin spoke from notes for 90 minutes and that she was articulate, well-prepared and even compelling.

“The speech was wide-ranging, very balanced, and she beat all expectations,” said Doug A. Coulter, head of private equity in the Asia-Pacific region for LGT Capital Partners.

via Palin Speaks to Investors in Hong Kong – NYTimes.com.

I love the fact the media wasn’t invited in. Make ‘em pay, Sarah.

Guess Obama will have to sing a few more choruses of Kumbaya.

Al Qaeda Releases Video Predicting Obama’s Fall

Fox News
September 23, 2009

“America has come in a new, hypocritical face. Smiling at us, but stabbing us with the same dagger that Bush used,” said Zawahiri in the message.

“God willing, your end will be at the hands of the Muslim nation, so that the world and history will be free of your crimes and lies,” he said addressing Obama at the end of the two-part video.

via Al Qaeda Releases Video Predicting Obama’s Fall – International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News – FOXNews.com.

AARP’s support of ObamaCare makes sense now. There’s just one hell of a lot more money in it for AARP if ObamaCare passes. Read what Michelle Malkin has to say:

Hmmm: Is the AARP getting “kickbacks” from Obamacare?
By Michelle Malkin
September 22, 2009

AARP members who are still wondering why their leaders in Washington want to sell them out on Obamacare, pay attention.

The GOP has uncovered one very lucrative possibility: Kickbacks.

Here’s the deal:

via Michelle Malkin » Hmmm: Is the AARP getting “kickbacks” from Obamacare?.