Dec 21 2009
‘Tis The Week Before Christmas, And The Liberal Democrat Economy Sucks!
It’s very hard to be upbeat this Christmas, what with over 10 months of failed job stimulus behind us and the promise of another 10 months of the same ahead. Because of rampant liberal madness in DC we the American people now owe extra trillion dollars, with another trillion coming this next year. We the people are now faced with 11% unemployment, and 17.2% underemployment, with over 4 million people clinging to the last bit of the jobless safety net, the Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program. And we are being promised another year of the same – if not worse.
During all this incompetence and failure from DC, the liberal Democrats keep bribing their way (with our money) towards a catastrophic health care bill. A bill which will add new taxes now, start killing off more jobs now and not do a damn thing for health care until after 2012. Thankfully, the liberals have established such a glaring example of incompetence and failure they have set the stage for wiping out the Democrat Party in the up coming elections.
Here is what one Democrat Congressman heard from We The People as he went back into his deep blue state recently for some special election campaigning:
… caucus chairman John Larson (D-Conn.) told the group he wanted them to hear first from Rep. Michael Capuano, who’d just returned from a primary campaign for the Senate seat in Massachusetts vacated by the death of Ted Kennedy.
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ano took to the microphone, looked out at his colleagues and condensed what he’d learned into two words. “You’re screwed,” …
The nation does not want DC messing with health care right now. It wants good paying, career oriented jobs (not flagman jobs on highway construction). It does not want more debt piled on our children and their children, we want to be able to make a good living and take care of our kids. We don’t want a nanny state – we want independence.
Those voters likely to come out in a rage next November, after we suffer through this holiday in a mess, are just licking their chops to throw the bums out. The Dems are screwed. If they think 1994 was bad they will soon find out what bad is really like. In 1994 we had just beaten the evil Saddam Hussein, the Iron Curtain of oppression had just fallen and democracies were blossoming all across the former Soviet Union. The need for warriors on the front lines had just dissipated massively (which had been the traditional conservative strong point).
Even more the nation was recovering from a mild recession and the nation decided to give the Democrats a shot at bringing on that Nirvana they keep claiming is only a few lefty policies away. Against this back drop the Democrats were booted from decades of control of Congress because of liberal over reaching.
But in 1994 the over reaching (and incompetence) never had a chance to stop the peace spreading across the world or the booming 1990’s dot com bubble.
2009 is not 1994 – it will be much, much worse for Democrats There is no peace spreading through out the world, there is no booming economy in motion. There is no buffer to hide the liberal insanity.
Leading the charge to political oblivion is the President and leader of the Democrat Party. He has reached a polling tipping point, where is die hard supporters number around his die hard opposition. According to Rasmussen Reports’ presidential index the strongly oppose group has reached 43%, while the strongly support had reached 26%.
This can easily be extrapolated to the Democrat party and Congress, which fairs much worse than the President, which today sits at 66% opposing and 27% in favor according to RCP.
Now let’s fast forward to April 15th, 2010. There will still be high unemployment and underemployment. There will still be record breaking deficits. There will be no fix to health care. There will be more people fed up with liberal fiction.
Now let’s fast forward to Memorial Day weekend and the beginning of summer. Jobs will not have come back, the deficits will have grown some more and the health care taxes will be biting hard (but no fix scheduled for 3 more years). The summer economy will be in a shambles. More foreclosures, more bank closings, more angst and suffering.
Now let’s move to July 4th, where the DC democrats will be pretending they saved the planet and the country. The stagecraft will be glaringly at odds with the reality of more months of a jobless recovery.
Now forward to Labor Day. School is starting and people are struggling to afford new supplies and clothes. The underemployment picture will not have changed, and we face a fall just like the one we just went through.
Does any sane person think the Democrats will be rewarded at the voting booth by the army of seniors and independents who will be coming out in angry droves? The only question we have as a nation right now is can we survive until next Thanksgiving, when we may actually be giving thanks for a new lease on life.
The image above is from one of Charles Dickens’ most disturbing passages in his classic “A Christmas Carol”. The characters are ignorance (the boy) and want (the girl). The warning Dickens gives is worth remembering this year:
This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both,
and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy,
for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the
writing be erased. Deny it.’ cried the Spirit, stretching out
its hand towards the city.
Ignorance is the path towards slavery and suffering. We cannot afford to be ignorant any longer. We cannot afford to believe in the fantasy siren song of the delusional left. We can no longer sit by and watch as all we worked for, all that those who came before us fought and suffered for, is destroyed by the ignorance permeating DC.
I want to apologize for my state’s [Alaska] election of Mark Begich to the Senate… thus providing the 60th vote in a Filibuster-proof Senate…
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You may not have liked [++ heh] some of the earmarks Senator Stevens got Alaska in the past… but… now I opine most readers here would give a lot to get him back…
I think the Nation’s anger just got turned up a notch higher– because I know mine sure did. I am in disbelief of a handful of Democrats I had more faith in to be more sensible and listen more to the people. Is this our government, Dem or Repub? It feels more like oppression and tyranny to me. The CBO numbers show the Reid vote buying will cost 1.2 billion over the next 10 years. And, now I hear that Dems actually believe their poll numbers will skyrocket to a new high once Obamacare passes:
Dems anticipate a health care bounce
(they expect a 60% approval Health care bounce)
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1209/Dems_anticipate_a_health_care_bounce.html
So, I hope you are right AJ. Everything you say feels right to me (and, is supported by facts, economists, and polls). However, when one thinks they live in oppression, common sense can be deceptive–and nothing comes as a surprise any longer.
I think our country is falling apart right before my eyes. Long live the Tea Party Movement. It may be our last stand.
I don’t care what the Progressives say, this new medical bill will break the bank just like it did in Massachusetts. It will subsidize people who can afford insurance but haven’t bothered to budget for it and well as those who have medical or preexisting problems.
The Gitmo detainees may not beable to break out of the new prison, but who is to say that some radicals won’t take hostages to get them out. One innocent person loosing their head on National TV here in the United States, to get prisoners out would be quite a catastrophe.
Obama says we can’t treat tax money like monopoly money. The guy does with every budget. He must think that we are so in love with him that we a beyond stupid.
He will have to convince us that the new normal is between 9 and 10% unemployed. It won’t fly is my guess. It took Europe 50 years to get there.
I can’t wait to see the look on all the young “progressives” faces when they realize they are going to be forced to use their partying money every month for health insurance.
The largest group of uninsured in America…young people who “can” afford it…but just think they don’t need it….yet — and would rather use their money for personal spending. Imagine that!! That people who live in America would prefer to spend their own money how they see fit. I think they are in for a shock that they aren’t just “sharing” with rich people’s money.
In regards to the economy…dont’ you realize this is all Booshes fault? I hear that time and again from my liberal friends. Look what he was handed. Of course…you’ll never hear them say that about 9/11. Terrorists were “created” by Boosh after he “stole” the election. And..besides…It happened on “his watch”.
So this is what I tell them….yes…the economic car ran out of gas in 2008. And Bush was president then. So, then…”you” take the car, and instead of putting gas in it, you push it off the side of the road, over the cliff, and watch it roll down the hill on fire. And when we say…look what YOU did to the car…your answer is….well, you ran it out of gas??
A young guy, college age, came to my door to ask if I would sign something in support of government run health care. He told me he almost went broke when he broke his arm skiing and he didn’t have medical insurance. I asked him how much it costs to ski at Vail or Aspen for the day, and outfit himself to do so. I knew the answer and so did he. If the government paid him to get health insurance, would he get it?
Great point Kathie and the next step in controlling health care costs will be in controlling behavior. The young are too naive to understand where things will lead to when a bunch of crooked politicians and their foreign handlers take control. Hawaii had to disband their child health care system once people figured out how to game the system and now they can’t even afford to send kids to school on Friday. This is the best example of a failed welfare state we have and the future of a larger federal government.
The Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Plan ended up taxing me $26 per month to be paid to AARP’s drug co. which was the cheapest plan available. For years I have purchased what few drugs I require from a reliable online foreign pharmacy which I located through drugbuyers.com. I can get most prescription drugs for less than the Medicare CoPay on a doctor’s office visit, and I can get a year’s supply of maintenance drugs for less than the up front deductible on my Part D Drug plan. If you know what drugs you need you don’t have to pay a doctor to write new prescriptions all the time. I also stay stocked up on antibiotics because that is all a Dr. prescribes when you get sick. Information on drugs is readily available on most online drug sites. The only time I really need to see a doctor is when I break a bone or need surgery. I am 84 years old and in good health. My mother is 105 years old and I learned how to do this from her.
The same people who don’t make use of free education, who don’t sign their children up for the SCHIPS program, who buy a home and can’t afford Health Insurance will need more then reduced Health Insurance costs…….they will need a big education in responsibility.
My big fear is that when push comes to shove, people will chicken out, back down and acquiesce in their own enslavement.
We’re getting real close to the time for pitchforks, tar and feathers, burning hanging effigies, and true massive resistance to the state that takes the form of a complete refusal to cooperate on every level.
But, most Americans simply don’t have the sand for it. Maybe those who’ve immigrated from the former Communist countries would (but maybe they’re used to going along….) and maybe the descendants of the patriots who fought our early wars, and, just maybe, some of our current veterans and military. But, that’s about it.
If Obama tries to use the military against the people, will we have a Curragh Incident? Or, will the ambitious careerists fall all over each other to do his bidding?
I read that the Democrats are planning to run on Obamacare in November…and they intend to blame Bush for the economy. Spend money on programs people do not want, blame Bush. What a bunch of ninnies.
Interesting that Wikipedia describes the Curragh Incident as the result of Liberal coalition British Government legislation. The government backed down claiming an “honest misunderstanding”. Ours can do the same and claim complete incompetence in running any form of organization. Problem is the Brits are still in Northern Ireland.
Who’s to say that bobo hasn’t already heard from the armed forces—–they seem to understand the importance of their constitutional duties quite well and are best prepared to explain the same to the boy prez.
AJ:
Was just listening to the senate debates on C-Span (7:30PM Monday) and heard Senator DeMint ask about a provision in the bill that changes the Rules in the Senate and House that basically says “this bill can not be changed” by future congresses. DeMint says that this might be unconsitutional since any rule change requires a 2/3 vote by the senate, not 60%.
Can you or anyone shed some light on this?
Hard to get a feel for what’s likely to happen once these attempts at economic self-levitation collapse. The many headed beast could lurch further to the left.
We brought too much of this upon ourselves. Rememer Bernanke, in the spring of ’07 simpering that the mortgage crisis was “contained”? These criminal lending and securitization practices represent the biggest fraud in the history of finance, and it is frivolous to try to pin it all on the Democrats. Too many people were making vast sums of money peddling worthless derivatives to the unsuspecting to support the claim they were somehow forced into this racket unwillingly. And where are the Republican lynch mobs?
As disgusted as many may be with “progressives,” they aren’t buying the notion that Republicans aren’t largely to blame for our present distress. I was listening to Rush here a while back, and his guest asked him if he really thought Angelo Mozila was sitting at his desk, face in hands, lamenting the fact that the CRA forced him to make all the garbage loans that made him wealthy.
And the bankers, Lord, the bankers. It almost seems they are taunting us for being such suckers as to bail them out.
All I’m saying is that we have a long way to go to regain enough public trust to break the backs of the Acorn and SEIU cabal.
We have Commercial realestate and the more secure ARM’s coming do. They are going to be a big financial problem. Are we really going to spend TARP money on stuff that will not pay it back? My worry is that there is no where to go for a rainy day problem. This Health Care bill could not have come at a worse time.
kauiboy: there’s a little more to Curragh than wikipedia suggets: the officers were unwilling to enforce Home Rule -turning Ireland over to the Catholic Irish in the face of resistance from Protestant Ulster Unionists. As an Irish Newspaper put it some 90 years later:
“Their [the Liberal government’s] biggest problem was that if they had to face down the Unionists, they would have to use the army to do so, and the officer class in the British Army was to a man sympathetic to the unionist cause. They were the ‘King’s men’, and to them all those Ulstermen who wished to remain under the rule of Westminster were likewise ‘King’s men’, whereas Irish nationalists, who supported self-government, were regarded as ‘disloyal’. For most senior officers, their duty bound them to fight against the King’s enemies, not the king’s loyal subjects.”
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“[Sir Arthur] Paget [commander in Ireland] was summoned to London to answer for his inaction. In discussions with the War Office, he brought up the vexed question that some of his officers might be unwilling to participate in actions against the Ulster Volunteers. What was he to do about this? In the atmosphere that prevailed in spring 1914, he was given a straight answer. Officers living in Ulster could temporarily vanish. However, any other officers refusing to serve were to be dismissed. He also received assurances of naval support, if and when disturbances broke out. Only then would the army be sent into Ulster. He returned on the 20th and informed a number of officers, then living in Dublin, of the War Office position. All declared they would prefer dismissal to the ‘coercion of Ulster’. The following day General Gough, Commander of the Curragh-based Cavalry Brigade, notified his superiors that he and 59 of his officers also chose dismissal from the army. ”
The government backed down because the mutiny would have spread had they tried to bring in other troops. When I did grad work in Modern European history, the early 20th c. Britain scholar I worked with considered the Curragh tremendously significant. Similarly, he dated the true fall of the Empire to the British public reaction to the Amritsar Massacre in 1919, signifying that they had lost the nerve to use force to maintain it.
Funny what you remember after almost 40 years….
Over at Redstate – just confirmed:
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/12/21/we-are-no-longer-a-nation-of-laws-senate-sets-up-requirement-for-super-majority-to-ever-repeal-obamacare/
“On December 21, 2009, however, Harry Reid sold out the Republic in toto.
Upon examination of Senator Harry Reid’s amendment to the health care legislation, Senators discovered section 3403. That section changes the rules of the United States Senate.
To change the rules of the United States Senate, there must be sixty-seven votes.
Section 3403 of Senator Harry Reid’s amendment requires that “it shall not be in order in the Senate or the House of Representatives to consider any bill, resolution, amendment, or conference report that would repeal or otherwise change this subsection.†The good news is that this only applies to one section of the Obamacare legislation. The bad news is that it applies to regulations imposed on doctors and patients by the Independent Medical Advisory Boards a/k/a the Death Panels.
Section 3403 of Senator Reid’s legislation also states, “Notwithstanding rule XV of the Standing Rules of the Senate, a committee amendment described in subparagraph (A) may include matter not within the jurisdiction of the Committee on Finance if that matter is relevant to a proposal contained in the bill submitted under subsection (c)(3).†In short, it sets up a rule to ignore another Senate rule.
Senator Jim DeMint confronted the Democrats over Reid’s language.”
Exclusive: ACORN Qualifies for Funding in Senate Health Care Bill
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/12/exclusive_acorn_qualifies_for_1.asp
momdear1
The Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Plan ended up taxing me $26 per month to be paid to AARP’s drug co.
I think I’m correct in this, Medicare doesn’t tax you anything at all for Part D. You don’t have to have part D. It’s completely optional. AARP is not as cheap as Mutual of Omaha or Blue Cross.
You pay the full cost of your Part D coverage, there is no subsidy from Medicare or Social Security.
If you can get your drugs cheaper than thru Part D, I would recommend you not purchase Part D (you’re not required to have it) and just buy your drugs at the cheaper cost. You have til the end of the year to change from the Communist Socialist AARP organization to Mut of Omaha or Blue Cross, If you want to keep Part D.
Please correct me if I’m not correct in this.
I know for sure that you are NOT REQUIRED to carry Part D.
momdear !
and another thing:
and I can get a year’s supply of maintenance drugs for less than the up front deductible on my Part D Drug plan.
there is no ‘up front deductible’ on Part D coverage.
They pay from day one up to the ‘gap’, which won’t exist after this year.
Sounds as if AARP is taking you for a ride.
Bobsunshine. I’m pretty sure that any bill that is enacted can be changed. Constitutional amendments have to be ratified by states. Laws can be changed at any time by congress. They can always refuse to fund any law that has been passed.