Before you ask what kind of self-medication I’ve discovered, let me preface this by reminding people I, among other things, am a political tactician. I lived in dark blue Massachusetts where Democrats not only made sport of standing on the necks of the super-minority Republicans, but attempting to squeeze the remaining life out of them. I know how they think and I know what will happen if health care reform is defeated.

The GOP has the cover of being 100% against this bill, so they are relatively safe come November.

Should health care reform be defeated, Democrats will first blame an out-of-power Republican minority, attempt a few faux mea culpas, tell the American people they “get it” and will hope the majority of Americans forgive-and-forget come November. The primary energy of Democrats will go towards keeping control of the House and Senate.

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Val Kilmer recently appeared at the SXSW premiere of MacGruber, and let’s just say he’s let himself go. I know most actors want to follow in Marlon Brando’s footsteps, but this is going a bit overboard. It almost looks like he’s wearing a fat suit with prosthetic makeup.

Whoa.

How many times have we heard the president say the health care reform bill is ‘not about me’.

Yes, it is.

One Congressional Hispanic Caucus member told POLITICO that Obama won him over by essentially (saying) that the fate of his presidency hinged on this week’s health reform vote in the House. The member, who requested anonymity, likened Obama’s remarks to an earlier meeting with progressives when the president said a victory was necessary to keep him strong for the next three years of his term.

Another caucus member, Rep. Jose Serrano (D-N.Y.), said, “We went in there already knowing his presidency would be weakened if this thing went down, but the president clearly reinforced the impression the presidency would be damaged by a loss.”

White House officials said Obamas recent remarks aren’t intended to personalize the debate or rally undecided Democratic members with an egocentric, win one for Barry message.

Like most things coming out of this White House, bullshit.

Democrats are planning to introduce legislation later this spring that would permanently repeal annual Medicare cuts to doctors, but are warning lawmakers not to talk about it for fear that it will complicate their push to pass comprehensive health reform. The plans undercut the party’s message that reform lowers the deficit, according to a memo obtained by POLITICO.

Hmmm. I wonder who’s leaking this stuff…?

YouTube (Google) personnel must have fun telling some of their users that they’ve committed theft of copyrighted content and risk having that video removed, and/or having their accounts revoked.

Whenever you have liberals, you almost always have hypocrisy.

The key evidence (in the Viacom lawsuit) against Google/YouTube is that they knew that only 20% of their content was legal and one executive even resorted to uploading stolen content.  In fact, the fundamental business model of YouTube was to build up as much traffic as possible through any “tactics, however evil” according to YouTube founder Steve Chen.  The purpose of these tactics was to build enough traffic so that they could sell the company (and they- eventually did for $1.65 billion).

In one email exchange on July 29, 2005 from this Viacom “Statement of Undisputed Facts” document, Chen apparently directed his co-founders to steal content.

Uh oh.

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Something tells me Barack Obama would consider himself too important to go down with his ship, but would ask his crew to stay behind and drill holes in the hull to let the water out…

In seeking enough votes to overhaul the nation’s health care system, President Barack Obama is telling nervous Democratic lawmakers that their political fates are linked to the bill’s passage, discouraging the notion that they can save themselves by opposing it, House members say.

That should boost morale.

They also say the president’s not asking lawmakers to save his skin either, while the White House insists that no special favors in exchange for votes are being offered or accepted.

Of course not, and seeing how Obama is off the electoral hook for two-plus years, that must ring especially hollow.

Imagine…

Very funny, Nova Scotia.

h/t Ike P

The left is quite annoyed that myself and others dare link the racist, segregationist past in this country to Democrats, at that flies in the face of everything they claim to champion, when it comes to civil rights, racial tolerance, etc.

The Democrats’ own website, to this day, attempts to take fraudulently credit for the civil rights movement and legislation, and when called on it, the recitation is the same: “we’ve grown” and “don’t forget about the Dixiecrats”.

Defensive liberals claim the Dixiecrats, as a whole, defected from the Democrat Party when President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (no thanks to Democrats), and became Republicans which they claimed were more accepting of segregationist policies.

Well, I decided to get some opinions on the matter from some historians.

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CBO: Health Bill Would Force Families to Buy Insurance Costing a Minimum of $12,000 Per Year–Whether Government or Employer Helps Them or Not
Democrats push toward Sunday vote on health care
Cantor goes after Democrats on House floor for “malfeasant” voting procedure
Republicans assail IRS provision in health care bill
Health-vote ally Nelson to get new VA hospital for Nebraska
New Gallup Poll finds Americans suddenly souring more on Obama; Now, why could that be?
Go on now go, walk out the door
just turn around now
’cause you’re not welcome anymore

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