'Desperate measures'

Slapping, choking, and now threatening and "knuckle-punching." These arrogant Dems can't face the prospect of losing their power. Gateway Pundit:

Desperate times call for desperate measures.
Now there are new allegations… According to a local reporter Hoyer actually knuckle punched Charles Lollar in the back during the debate.



Video of the Lollar for Congress press conference on Tuesday where Charles Lollar addresses his allegation that Steny Hoyer threatened him last Wednesday. A new allegation that Hoyer “knuckle punched” him in the back starts at 4:55 in the video.

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Thank you, Obamacare: Our premiums are going up 45%

Just got this note from my husband:

Our health (bi-weekly) insurance premiums are rising from $110 to $160. That's a 45% increase. To be fair, to balance that out, the benefits are decreasing (higher co-pays, etc.).

That Obamacare is pretty awesome, isn't it? How irrational of us not to be grateful to Obama, Pelosi, Reid, and company for shoving this down our unwilling throats. I guess we're just not thinking clearly.

Leave a comment if you've gotten news similar to ours. Or worse, like JACG, who tells us in her comment below that her policy is now illegal:

You are actually lucky compared to me. I can no longer purchase my policy, as it is not "obamacare approved". I officially got the letter on Monday, but knew already that my insurance company will no longer carry my policy because the new mandates have made it too expensive. I asked if they thought anyone else would sell me the same policy and they told me that they are now illegal and I wouldn't be able to get that policy again. They gave me three options, the least expensive of the three almost doubles my costs. It will go up about 85%. To make matters worse, I am losing all the money that is left over in my HSA, unless I use it up by the end of the year. Something that won't happen unless there is a medical emergency that is major.

Obama lied, her coverage died.

Cross-posted in the Green Room.

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Suicide cocktails for two

Wesley Smith, who knows the enemy, makes it his business to warn the rest of us about the encroachment of the culture of death.

And this is just pure evil:

And now Dignitas’ owner, Ludwig Minelli–who has already permitted his suicide clinic to be used for double suicides–has publicly supported the idea. From the story:

Swiss suicide clinic Dignitas has called for the healthy partners of chronically ill euthanasia patients to be allowed to kill themselves too. Clinic head Ludwig Minelli has called for suicide drug cocktails to be made legally available to the heartbroken relatives who have just helped their loved ones end their own lives. ‘Relatives should also be allowed to have a prescription for suicide drugs even when they are not terminally ill,’ Minelli told Swiss newspaper Blick Sonntag.

I don’t think these advocates are fringe. I think they are candid.  At the very least, their views are the logical outcome of proclaiming a right to assisted suicide as the “ultimate civil liberty.”  I mean, if we have a fundamental right to be made dead, if it is tyrannous to prevent people from “choosing the time, manner, and method” of their own death, who can gainsay the reasons why someone might want to be made dead.

This is the debate we should be having. The stuff about restrictions to terminal illness and guidelines to protect against abuse (which are never enforced) are mere sops to convinced people to accept the principle that suicide is a liberty. Should that happen, gravity will take care of the rest. Culture of death, Wesley? What culture of death?

"Gravity will take care of the rest." You know it's true. Read the rest.

Bonus: Smith on what Dennis Miller said:

So, I’m listening to the Dennis Miller Show on my computer, as I do every morning. I like Miller.  He’s not angry. Doesn’t yell.  Has a human touch.  And punctures.

Someone asked him, “How are we going to pay for Obamacare?” 
Miller’s pithy reply: “With crappy health care.”

Yes, sometimes saying it simply, says it best.

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The Party of Death tries to energize its base

Barney Frank: Save abortion by saving me!

My opponent, Sean Bielat, supports the reversal of Roe v. Wade.  When asked by a reporter whether he would allow abortion in the case of rape or incest, he refused to answer.  On a questionnaire by the Massachusetts Citizens for Life, he agreed with every position taken by that organization.

Go Sean!

Playing the abortion-rights card is the last resort of a desperate liberal: A vote for me is a vote to save your right to destroy your inconvenient unborn children. What an inspiring message.

Husband notes that Barbara Boxer is doing this, too.

"Overturning Roe vs. Wade would turn women and doctors into criminals," Boxer said. "The most extreme anti-choice groups have found their candidate in Carly Fiorina, and the pro-choice groups who are here today — they know that I am their voice."

Okay, ma'am. Thanks for making the choice clear.

By the way, Barney Frank has just been forced to lend his campaign $200,000  from his own personal fortune. (No, we don't know where he got all that moola.)

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Stimulus-funded weatherization, the Chicago way

Those sexy stimulus-funded weatherization projects in Cook County are found to be riddled with waste and fraud. Luckily, no one has been killed from improperly vented furnaces or other safety lapses.

What a horror story:

The findings are grim. "Our testing revealed substandard performance in weatherization workmanship, initial assessments, and contractor billing," the inspector general report says. "These problems were of such significance that they put the integrity of the entire program at risk."

Sure, the program is a complete disaster; but dishonest, incompetent contractors need work, too.

The work was not just wasteful; it was dangerous. Department inspectors found "heat barriers around chimneys that had not been installed, causing fire hazards." They found "a furnace [that] had not been vented properly." The found "a shut-off valve that had not been installed on a gas stove." And they found "carbon monoxide detectors, smoke alarms and fire extinguishers had not been installed as planned."

And then there was fraud. At ten of the 15 homes visited, Department inspectors found examples in which "a contractor had installed a 125,000 BTU boiler, but had billed CEDA for a 200,000 BTU boiler costing an estimated $1,000. more." 

Your tax dollars at work. Appalling but not surprising. Read the rest. 


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Absurd: 10,000 DC kids eat three meals at school

What's wrong with this picture?

D.C. public schools have started serving an early dinner to an estimated 10,000 students, many of whom are now receiving three meals a day from the system as it expands efforts to curb childhood hunger and poor nutrition. 

My 14 year-old laughed out loud at the illogic of the first two goals:

Officials describe the dinner initiative as having three goals: hedging against childhood hunger, reducing alarming rates of obesity and drawing more students to after-school programs, where extra academic help is available. It is also part of a broader effort, mandated by recent D.C. Council legislation, to upgrade the quality and nutritional value of school food with fresh, locally grown ingredients.

Can't they just get the heavy kids to give half their food to the starving kids? 

Seriously, the real problem is parents who aren't emotionally, mentally, or physically present for their kids. If a child can't eat a single meal at home, what kind of home life does he have? These kids are still there, hours after the school day is over, because their parents have them in the after-care program until 6:30 pm. Of course the kids are hungry; they haven't eaten since lunch.

I guess it would be too much to expect parents to send something for their kids to eat after school?

Why don't schools provide beds for the kids, too? Then they'll never have to go home and the government can "take care" of them 24 hours a day.

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Set your DVR: Obama will appear on "Mythbusters"

I thought from the headline that this was a joke but apparently it's mere fact: Obama to appear on episode of 'Mythbusters':

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will appear on an episode of “Mythbusters,” a television show that uses science to determine the truth behind urban legends. 

No, the program won't be tackling the myth about a presidential candidate who claimed he could "slow the rise of the oceans." No need: the cult that believed that is dwindling rapidly. Too bad Obama didn't really possess that superpower, cuz a big wall of water is headed his way.

The president's appearance may be part of his effort to promote facts, truth, and science among the fearful, foggy-headed masses who are too weak and confused to know what's good for them.

Coming in January: Obama to appear on a season of "I'm a Celebrity . . . Get Me Out of Here!" 

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Is this pathetic or what?

You can't make this stuff up:

October 16, 2010 - Upon exiting the most recent debate with Barney Frank, located at WGBH studios in Boston, MA,  Republican Congressional candidate, Sean Bielat, gets heckled by a Barney Frank "supporter" while talking to the media.  While watching this video, we realized that we recognized this "supporter". We received confirmation from two eyewitnesses that the mysterious cameraman was none other than Barney Frank's pot-growing boyfriend, James Ready.  [. . .]

We've got to give Barney a break, though, this is the first time in 30 years he's had to campaign and he clearly doesn't know how to go about it.

Stunningly stoopid and desperate. Comments welcome but please keep it clean.

H/t: Michelle Malkin


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Therapist-in-Chief explains our "inability to think clearly" [!]

In Barack Obama's struggle to explain his fall from grace, condescension and self-delusion dominate:

President Barack Obama said Americans' "fear and frustration" is to blame for an intense midterm election cycle that threatens to derail the Democratic agenda.

"Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared,” Obama said Saturday evening in remarks at a small Democratic fundraiser Saturday evening. “And the country's scared.”

Obama told the several dozen donors that he was offering them his “view from the Oval Office.” He faulted the economic downturn for Americans’ inability to “think clearly” and said the burden is on Democrats “to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling.” 

“You can respond in a couple of ways to a trauma like this,” Obama said, referring to the economy. “One is to pull back, retrench and respond to your fears by pushing away challenges, looking backwards. Another is to say we can meet these challenges and we are going to move forward. And that’s what this election is about.” [emphasis added]

He's working overtime not to get this: The trauma is Obama! And the massive rejection of his pernicious agenda is proof that plenty of responsible Americans are thinking clearly and acting rationally, at last.

Obama was speaking at a suburban Boston fundraiser for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which raised an estimated $900,000. His remarks were somber and at times emotional as he tried to make sense of the political climate that changed so quickly since he was swept into office with overwhelming nationwide support. 

He can't handle the truth. All he can do is philosophize about the childlike  electorate's weak-mindedness.

Hey, what a coincidence -- John Kerry is saying the exact same thing as Obama:

“This is a tough year,” he said at the fundraiser at the home of Ralph de la Torre, the CEO of Caritas Cristi, a Massachusetts-based health care system. “Facts, science, truth seem to be significantly absent from what we call our political dialogue. It’s hardly a dialogue. It’s a shouting match, sloganeering.”

So ultra-liberal politicians are now the font of "facts, science, and truth"? Like the fact that the stimulus worked, and government created (or saved!) zillions of jobs? Or the fact that Obamacare won't raise our healthcare costs?

Two weeks to go and this is what they've got? Oy.

*Update:
Welcome Instapundit, Just One Minute, Ed Driscoll, Doug Ross, and (last but far from least), Michelle Malkin readers! Y'all set a spell. And thanks to all above for the links!

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Just not that into him in the Bay State

DaTechGuy reports from the Obama rally in Massachusetts:

The defining moment of the day for me happened just after that. One of the guys from a comic store in Lowell figured this was a great chance to move some of the Obama hardcover Spiderman comics that he can’t move. Cover price is $30, Amazon sells it at $22, he offered it for $5 and out of a dozen managed to sell…..2.

I hope the Dems have their loins very securely girded. WSJ:

Democratic strategists acknowledged they are abandoning a dozen House seats the party now holds, as they try to salvage their majority in the chamber by shoring up candidates with better chances.

Triage.

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