Country Music Song: The Day Obamacare died (audio/video)

This is the best anti Obamacare song I have heard. Enjoy!

The Day OBAMA CARE Died / Obama, Rush Limbaugh, & Paul Shanklin

Rep. Sanford Bishop tries to filibuster town hall; crowd turns ugly

Rep. Sanford Bishop(D-GA) tried to filibuster his health care town hall by reading for 40 minutes. The crowd didn't appreciate that approach. They started yelling, "Town Hall Meeting, not a Town Hall Reading," and "quit wasting our time." Congressman Bishop threatens to have the sheriff remove one person. This is almost unbelievable.

Now that the polar bears are saved, what will the global warming crowd use for a mascot

Arctic ice is increasing significantly in the last year due to lower temperatures. The polar bears are saved.

It's a good time to be a polar bear. Unusually cool temperatures in the northern climes last winter produced thicker-than-usual polar ice. This gave the lucky bears an extra two weeks to roam the ice floes to hunt ringed seals. As a result, adult bears are better fed and more cubs are surviving their first year. The bears will go into the winter with greater energy stores, which will mean a better chance of survival and even more cubs.

Now that the saving the cute and cuddly polar bears can't be used to rally public support for capping carbon emissions, what will the global warming crowd use? I suggest the Arctic krill.



Isn't it cute?

Emailgate

First the White House tries to deny any knowledge of the pro Obamacare emails sent in David Axelrod's name to people who didn't sign up.

Gibbs and Garrett Argue Over Email from White House


Then, they admit they paid a company to send these emails, but try to deny responsibility.

The White House has now disclosed the company it uses to send out mass e-mails. It's Govdelivery, a Minnesota-based private communications busniness. The details are revealed in a new Foxnews.com article.

Several other federal agencies have hired Govdelivery, and it has been used by both democrats and republicans. Macon Phillips, the White House new media director, says the company was hired in January.

Fox News has done extensive reporting about individuals who were receiving e-mail correspondence about health care reform from the White House, but never requested to be added to its list.

Critics raised questions about privacy and what the White House was doing with the list of personal e-mail addresses. Fox News Correspondent Eric Shawn first reported Monday that Govdelivery was a possible company involved.

This week the White House acknowledged it was sending unsolicited e-mails, and suggested a third-party could have played a role. The administration has since changed Whitehouse.gov's e-mail policy in an attempt to fix the problem.

Now, the company Team Obama tried to blame for sending the emails is throwing the White house under the bus.

The White House blamed the dissemination of unsolicited e-mails on the firm they hired to manage its e-mail communications on political issues, but GovDelivery apparently doesn’t want to play along with the Oval Office. Verum Serum notes that the company is denying that it supplies e-mail addresses to any of its clients, and insists that it just manages address books:

Many pundits are now claiming the White House broke the law.

Here’s what we believe also occurred regarding the White House political spam emails.

Contrary to what the White House claims on its website, it did, indeed, add the estimated 13 million OFA member’s email addresses, or OFA email list, to the WhiteHouse.gov mailing list-a clear cut case of the White House using a political group to supply email addresses. To top it off, the White House then used the OFA email lists to lobby, or spam, Americans on healthcare reform. The White House, using a government website, WhiteHouse.gov, to lobby or spam on its position on any policy is illegal.

Obama's Presidential Approval Index plummets to new low of -14

The number of likely voters who strongly disapprove of President Obama now outnumber those who strongly approve by 14 points. This is a new low. The previous low was at the end of July after Obama made the racial remarks about Gates arrest.

From Rasmussen:

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows that 27% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -14. These figures mark the lowest Approval Index rating yet recorded for this President. The previous low of -12 was reached on July 30 (see trends).

Is it Constitutional for President Obama and the Democrats to force you to buy health insurance?

With all the other issues surrounding Obamacare, there has been very little discussion of this question. Where in the Constitution does it give President Obama and Congress the power to force Americans to buy health insurance?

From the Washington Post:

Although the Supreme Court has interpreted Congress’s commerce power expansively, this type of mandate would not pass muster even under the most aggressive commerce clause cases. In Wickard v. Filburn (1942), the court upheld a federal law regulating the national wheat markets. The law was drawn so broadly that wheat grown for consumption on individual farms also was regulated. Even though this rule reached purely local (rather than interstate) activity, the court reasoned that the consumption of homegrown wheat by individual farms would, in the aggregate, have a substantial economic effect on interstate commerce, and so was within Congress’s reach.

The court reaffirmed this rationale in 2005 in Gonzales v. Raich, when it validated Congress’s authority to regulate the home cultivation of marijuana for personal use. In doing so, however, the justices emphasized that — as in the wheat case — “the activities regulated by the [Controlled Substances Act] are quintessentially economic.” That simply would not be true with regard to an individual health insurance mandate.

The otherwise uninsured would be required to buy coverage, not because they were even tangentially engaged in the “production, distribution or consumption of commodities,” but for no other reason than that people without health insurance exist. The federal government does not have the power to regulate Americans simply because they are there. Significantly, in two key cases, United States v. Lopez (1995) and United States v. Morrison (2000), the Supreme Court specifically rejected the proposition that the commerce clause allowed Congress to regulate noneconomic activities merely because, through a chain of causal effects, they might have an economic impact. These decisions reflect judicial recognition that the commerce clause is not infinitely elastic and that, by enumerating its powers, the framers denied Congress the type of general police power that is freely exercised by the states.

Obamacare and the "Dead Parrot" analogy

JIM MCTAGUE at Barrons is declaring Obamacare is deader than the "Dead Parrot" from the Monty Python sketch.

From Barrons:

OBAMACARE HAS KICKED THE BUCKET. IT IS pushing up daisies; has shuffled off this mortal coil. The proposal is deader than Monty Python's famed dead parrot.

ObamaCare was put to sleep by a death panel: The American public. It has carefully read the three House bills and one Senate bill on the Internet and consequently is shaken. Numerous polls show a majority of persons desire Congress to scrap the plan and begin anew. A recent Rasmussen Report survey found that 54% of Americans don't want Congress to vote on the measure this year.

It's not merely the loud-mouths at the town brawl meetings who are opposed to the current bills; so are many open-minded people who have read the legislation cover to cover. They find it vague and confusing and consequently, very worrisome. They cannot decide whether they are reading boilerplate with a foundation of sound case law or the hasty concoction of exhausted aides whose ideological bosses want to railroad the plan through both houses by the fall.

AS IN THE MONTY PYTHON SKETCH, in which a pet-shop owner repeatedly denies that a certain dead parrot is dead, the purveyors of Obama's health-care turkey claim it is merely stunned. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs says the public has "misconceptions" and that our President soon will set them straight. (For the sake of comparison, I urge you to view the parrot sketch on YouTube.)

Monty Python - Dead Parrot (video)

Misconceptions? Clearly, people are revolted by the plan, a fact that hasn't been lost on many lawmakers up for re-election next year. Americans, it turns out, retain a preference for private-market solutions and not big-government solutions. Senators talk of slicing and dicing ObamaCare like a turkey so they can digest it one piece at a time.

Divisions within the Democratic-controlled Congress are as much the cause of ObamaCare's cardiac arrest as is any quackery from right-wing radio hosts and preposterously venomous protesters. The party's liberals won't vote for any bill that doesn't include a government-run insurer. Party moderates and conservatives won't vote for a plan that does include it. Liberals want a bill at almost any price tag. Party conservatives and moderates fret about the budgetary impacts, which could exceed $1 trillion over 10 years.

Man claims he has an authentic Obama birth certificate from Mombasa (video)

I have no idea if this is for real, but it is interesting. The man who tried to sell a "original" copy of Barack Obama's birth certificate on eBay, has made a video.

Barack Obama Kenyan Birth Certificate / Lucas Smith / Coast Province General Hospital (video)