People protesting in the streets.  Is America reliving the 60s?  As Yogi Berra would say, is it Deja vu…all over again?

Per foxnews.com:

Protesters who have been camping out in Manhattan’s Financial District say their movement has grown and become more organized, and they have no intention of stopping as they move into their third week, following the second weekend in a row of mass arrests.

The Occupy Wall Street demonstration started out small last month, with less than a dozen college students spending days and nights in Zuccotti Park, a private plaza off Broadway. It has grown sizably, however, both in New York City and elsewhere as people in other communities across the country display their solidarity in similar protests.

The event has drawn protesters of diverse ages and occupations who are speaking out against corporate greed, social inequality, global climate change and other concerns.

Other protests around the country are beginning to pop up:

In Los Angeles, protesters gathered in front of City Hall and danced on buses with “peace” emblazoned on the side.

A smaller protest was held in Chicago’s financial district where protesters held placards demanding “Jobs Not Cuts”.

Protesters also turned out in Denver, gathering downtown before marching into the city chanting, “Occupy the streets.”

All the protests were inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement which has seen hundreds of people camping out near the financial district in New York City and conducting marches calling for an end to home foreclosures and high unemployment.

Things got a little heated in Beantown, also:

Police have arrested two dozen protesters for trespassing during a demonstration against Bank of America’s foreclosure practices at the banking giant’s offices in downtown Boston.

The Boston Herald reports that the event was an act of civil disobedience that the organizers intended to send the message that the lender’s practices were unfair.

‘They wanted to be arrested, and we obliged,’ Boston police Commissioner Edward F. Davis told the newspaper.

Organizers say about 3,000 people joined the protest.

Bank of America spokesman T.J. Crawford dismissed the demonstration as a publicity stunt.

There was no mention of Bank of America’s planned debit card fees, which recently have generated headlines and frustrated customers nationwide.

The Bank of America website crashed yesterday after being overwhelmed by angry customers following the decision to charge them to use $5 a month if they use their debit cards.

The site went down for hours in the morning and hours later service was still intermittent.

The breakdown came less than 24 hours after the bank revealed it will roll out the fee early next year.

All of this civil unrest breaking out at the same time is giving retired hippies LSD Flashbacks. 

Some coincidence, huh?

As NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs says:

I don’t believe in coincidences.

Paul Joseph Watson, writing for infowars.com, also thinks something smells…and it’s not Teen Spirit:

Something is very wrong with this picture.

The usual suspects, mega-rich foundations and elitists, behind the young radicals have also started to emerge – George Soros, The Ruckus Society, the Tides Foundation and the Ford Foundation.

“The belated crusade against Wall Street is even more pathetic as it is coordinated by groups who wouldn’t exist without men like Soros, who made their money from deals that make the Street look sparkling clean. It’s class warfare as a cynical jab at the populist center, the people who mutter to themselves that the Street is full of crooks and so is Congress,” writes Daniel Greenfield.

The thousands of Americans currently expressing their disgust at Wall Street and the bankers who have ruined the economy to the detriment of the poor and middle class should be commended for getting off their hind ends and doing something, unlike the millions who will continue to watch American Idol, drink beer and laugh in ignorance as the country is flushed down the toilet. It should also be added that there is a sprinkling of “End the Fed” demonstrators who truly understand the root cause of the problem.

However, the fact that the majority of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators are advocating “solutions” which the very elite they claim to be protesting against also want should set alarm bells ringing.

The official Occupy Wall Street website vehemently supports Obama’s tax agenda, again in the deluded belief that Obama, the ultimate Wall Street puppet, genuinely wants to go after big corporations who use loopholes to avoid paying income tax.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but back in the 60s, didn’t the protesters despise “The Man”, not idolize him?

Saul Alinsky wrote a book titled “Rules for Radicals”, a favorite of the 60s counter culture, which was also on the reading list of the 44th President of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama, and his Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton.  Let’s look at rule #8 – rule #13:

8. Keep the pressure on with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.

9. The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.

10. The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.

11. If you push a negative hard and deep enough, it will break through into its counterside.

12. The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.

13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

It’s very apparent that somebody’s read Alinsky’s book.  And the “protesters” are following it step by step.

My question is:  Who is pulling the strings?

Since time in memorial, ambitious and unscrupulous politicians have viewed the military of their nation as their own personal playthings, expendable lab rats to be experimented on and used as chattel to further their own political ambitions.

America’s Liberal Leaders are no different.  They have taken the finest fighting force in the world, America’s Best and Brightest, and used them as the subject of an experiment in social engineering, involving a population, who represents just 5 % of the population of this country.

Of course, I’m referring to the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t  Tell”.

Here is a brief history, leading up to its repeal:

A “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Timeline

1950 – President Harry S. Truman signs the Uniform Code of Military Justice, setting up discharge rules for homosexual service members.

1982 – President Ronald Reagan issues a defense directive stating that “homosexuality is incompatible with military service” and those who engaged in homosexual or bisexual acts were discharged.

1992 – Democratic Presidential Candidate Bill Clinton promises to lift the ban.

1993 – “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is introduced by Clinton as a compromise. However, Congress inserts wording which upholds President Reagan’s Defense Directive. In December, Clinton issues his own Defense Directive stating that military applicants should not be asked about their sexual orientation. Thereafter known as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”.

2003 – Former President Clinton calls for an end to “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”.

2006 – The United States Supreme Court unanimously upholds DADT, forcing Liberally-run universities to accept military recruiters on campus.

2008 – Democratic President Candidate Barack Hussein Obama runs on the promise of repealing DADT.

2010 – In May, the House and Senate committee approved an amendment on a military spending bill which would end DADT. However, they added a provision which stated that the rule will stay in effect until a report on how lifting DADT would affect military readiness was completed.

The report was turned in on November 30th, claiming that repealing DADT would be a low risk to the effectiveness of America’s Armed Forces.

2010 – On December 9th, Republicans filibustered a vote on repealing the ban.

2010 – On December 15th, the Democratically-controlled House of Representatives, in a Lame Duck Session, passes the repeal.

They are followed on December 18th, during the same Lame Duck Session, by the Democratically-controlled Senate, who passes the repeal of DADT by the vote of 65-31.

Following the repeal Conservative Americans expressed their concern that allowing gays to serve openly would be a disruption, damaging our forces’ morale, and leading to a socially-engineered sojourn down a slippery slope.

Liberals,  Moderates and Fiscal Conservatives (a.k.a. Libertarians), en masse, shouted Conservatives down, claiming that we were overreacting, and this was a Civil Rights Issue, not a Politically-driven experiment in social engineering.

Yeah, right.  Conservatives can now say: 

We told ya so!

The Washington Post reports:

The Pentagon will permit military chaplains to perform same-sex marriage as long as such ceremonies are not prohibited in the states where they reside, it said Friday.

Defense Department guidance issued to military chaplains said they may participate in ceremonies on or off military bases in states that recognize gay unions. Chaplains are not required to officiate at same-sex weddings if doing so is counter to their religious or personal beliefs, the guidance said.

And regardless of the Pentagon guidance, military chaplains will still need to take cues from their religious order, said Gary Pollitt, spokesman for the Military Chaplains Association.

“Just because the Department of Defense says this can happen, the chaplains perform such rites in keeping with their ecclesiastical authorization. Period,” Pollitt said.

Gay couples may get married in Washington, D.C. and six states — Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont. Maryland and several other states recognize same-sex marriages but do not grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Forty-one states have either laws or constitutional amendments prohibiting same-sex marriage.

The decision validates a move made by the Navy in May that earned the ire of conservative critics and Pentagon observers, because Navy officials acted on their own instead of in tandem with other military services. The guidance also irked Republican lawmakers who were still attempting to block plans to end the ban on gays serving openly in the military, known as “don’t ask, don’t tell.”

But the Pentagon officially ended the ban 10 days ago.

So, how does this impact the shower room in the barracks?  I mean, you’ll potentially have homosexual married couples showering together in front of the other men.

It boggles the mind.

Now, don’t get me wrong.  I’ve known and worked with homosexuals over the last 30 years.  I’ve laughed with them, ate with them, and prayed for them. I  have great respect for those homosexuals who, like have served discretely, professionally, and honorably in our military.  However, to use our Best and Brightest as Lab Rats for the sake of political pandering, while advancing an agenda of homosexual activism and social engineering…is just plain wrong.

When Barack Hussein Obama moved to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue from the backrooms of Chicago, Illinois, he brought The Windy City’s politics with him.

Judicialwatch.org relates a little tale of quid pro quo:

In its quest to promote taxpayer-funded entitlement programs, the Obama Administration has actually rewarded one state with a $5 million bonus for its efficiency in adding food-stamp recipients to already bulging rolls.

It’s part of the administration’s campaign to eradicate “food insecure households” by improving access and increasing participation in the government’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Incidentally, the program was recently changed to SNAP to eliminate the stigma that comes with a name like food stamps. Just a few months ago the federal agency that administers the program, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), launched a multi-million-dollar initiative to recruit more food-stamp participants even though the number of recipients has skyrocketed in the last few years.

This week Oregon officials bragged that the USDA has given the state $5 million in “performance bonuses” for ensuring that people eligible for food benefits receive them and for its “swift processing of applications.” The money comes on the heels of a separate $1.5 million award from the feds for making “accurate payments of food stamp benefits to clients.” So welfare recipients are clients?

It marks the fifth consecutive year that Oregon has been “recognized” by the federal government for “exceptional administration” of the entitlement program, according to the announcement posted on the state’s Department of Human Services web site. The state official who runs SNAP assures that her staff will “continue working very hard to exceed expectations” so that Oregonians can “put healthy foods on their table quickly.”

So, this administration makes shady deals with state governments.  How about private business?

Can you say “Solyndra”?

Per bloomberg.com:

The FBI is investigating Solyndra LLC for possible accounting fraud and the accuracy of financial representations made to the government, according to an agency official.

The FBI is examining possible misrepresentations in financial statements, according to the FBI official, who requested anonymity because the investigation is continuing.

Solyndra, which made cylindrical-shaped solar panels, filed for bankruptcy protection on Sept. 6 and fired about 1,100 workers with little notice, about two years after winning a $535 million U.S. loan guarantee from the Energy Department.The company’s offices in Fremont, California, were raided by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents on Sept. 8. The Justice Department hasn’t said why Solyndra is being probed.

“The company is not aware of any wrongdoing by Solyndra officers, directors or employees” related to the Energy Department loan guarantees or other actions and “is cooperating fully” with the U.S. Attorney in San Francisco, according to a Sept. 20 statement from Solyndra.

But, hey, the corruption doesn’t stop there.  Per bizjournals.com:

Federal authorities are pressuring Nashville-based Gibson Guitar to hand over an additional 25 bundles of Indian wood that the company allegedly planned to use in its famous guitars.

The complaint was filed today in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee and mirrors a 2010 action that sought official forfeiture of wood obtained in a 2009 raid of Gibson facilities. The latter of those cases has been stayed, pending the outcome of the most recent suit.

As has been the case in previous allegations, at issue is the classification of certain wood imported to the United States from India. Namely, a June shipment of 1,250 sawn logs was classified as “finished parts of musical instruments,” which is allowed under Indian law. In reality, according to the sworn affidavit of Fish and Wildlife Service agent Kevin Seiler, the wood was unfinished – a violation of the Lacey Act.

The Lacey Act, originally passed by Congress in 1900, was amended in 2008 as part of that year’s Farm Bill to include protection for certain wood and endangered animal species. At its core, the Lacey Act makes it illegal to import plants or wildlife into the U.S. if those goods are harvested in a way that violates the laws of another country.

In other words, because Indian workers didn’t create the final product, it’s not legally eligible to be exported.

The affidavit also outlines allegations that Gibson CEO Henry Juszkiewicz understands the violations, as evidenced by the staunch defense of his company in a press conference and subsequent political fights around the Lacey Act.

Gosh, could all of this Federal scrutiny of Gibson Guitars be because of the fact that…

One of Gibson’s leading competitors is C.F. Martin & Company. The C.E.O., Chris Martin IV, is a long-time Democratic supporter, with $35,400 in contributions to Democratic candidates and the DNC over the past couple of elections (though, to be fair, he did donate a whopping $750 to Republican Congressmen in the 90s.) [And] According to C.F. Martin’s catalog, several of their guitars contain “East Indian Rosewood.” In case you were wondering, that is the exact same wood in at least ten of Gibson’s guitars.

Nawww.  That couldn’t be the real reason for the Gibson raids, could it?

Why does this president and his administration seem to be so “ethically challenged”?

Cnsnews.com may have an explanation:

President Barack Obama told an audience of high school students in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday that he was “not always the very best student” and that ethics “would not have made it on the list” of his favorite subjects.

“I was not always the very best student that I could be when I was in high school, and certainly not when I was in middle school,” Obama said, speaking at Benjamin Banneker Academic High School.

“I did not love every class I took. I wasn’t always paying attention the way I should have,” Obama said. “I remember when I was in 8th grade I had to take a class called ethics. Now, ethics is about right and wrong, but if you’d ask me what my favorite subject was back in 8th grade, it was basketball. I don’t think ethics would have made it on the list.”

I’m shocked, I tell you.  Shocked.

At a Townhall Meeting, held in front of a little over 200 people on the campus of St. Anshelm College in New Hampshire yesterday, Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney fired back at the widely-held opinion that he flip-flops on issues.  He told those in attendance that

…it’s not that every single issue I’ve looked at my entire life I’ve never changed my view on.

Why would any American ever think that Romney changes his position on hot button issues at the drop of a hat?

Well, gentle reader, the Washington Post published a very special list during the Republican Primary Campaign of 2008.  Here, according to them, are Romney’s Top 5 Flip-Flops:

1. Abortion. In October 2002, campaigning for governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney said he would “preserve and protect” a woman’s right to choose. He now describes himself as an abortion opponent.

2. Gay rights. In a 1994 letter to the Log Cabin Republicans, who advocate gay rights, he said he was in favor of “gays and lesbians being able to serve openly and honestly” in the military. He now says it would be a mistake to interfere with the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.

3. Gun control. Campaigning for the Senate in 1994, he said he favored strong gun laws and did not “line up with the NRA.” He joined the National Rifle Association in 2006 while pondering a presidential run, and he praised the group for “doing good things” and “supporting the right to bear arms.”

4. Campaign finance. In 1994, he advocated a spending limit on congressional elections and the abolition of political action committees. In 2002, he supported public financing of campaigns from a 10 percent tax on private fundraising. This year, he said the McCain-Feingold law limiting campaign contributions is an attack on free speech.

5. Immigration. In a November 2005 interview with the Boston Globe, he described an immigration overhaul advanced by John McCain as “reasonable.” He now denounces it as an “amnesty plan.” In December 2006, he signed an agreement authorizing state troopers to round up illegal immigrants.

When asked by a fan during yesterday’s townhall how he should respond when someone questioned him about Romney’s candidacy, the former governor quipped:

Let me give you some brass knuckles, that should help.

Then, he turned serious, taking a few swipes at Texas Governor and fellow potential Republican Nominee Rick Perry:

The nature of politics is that you try and find some edge to characterize your opponent and beat him over the head, and that is if you don’t have a optimistic or positive message of your own.

That’s going to happen and I understand it. It’s pretty rough and tumble and I don’t whine about that I realized that when I got into [politics].

Alluding to Perry’s web-based attack ad, Romney said:

The nice thing about writing a book is that you can read it and see what I stand for.

In the private sector, if you don’t change your view when the facts change, you’ll get fired for being stupid.

Then “Mittens”, as he’s less-than-affectionally known to Conservatives across the country, questioned whether Obama flunky David Axlerod had ever seen the movie Titanic, since Axlerod was callous enough to attempt to compare the struggles of the Obama campaign to the ill-fated ship that sank and killed more than 1,500 people:

[David Axelrod] said that the Obama campaign was going to be a ‘titanic struggle. I’m not sure he knows what that word means, I’m not sure he saw the movie.

It’s true for a lot of reasons. The captain of the ship has been inattentive, otherwise occupied or asleep for most of the voyage.

[The ship] is going to sink.

Your’s may also, Governor.

Foxnews.com reports:

Three September debates have shaken-up the race for the Republican presidential nomination. Herman Cain has jumped into the top tier. Rick Perry’s stumbled. Mitt Romney’s holding steady.

And Michele Bachmann is hitting bottom. That’s according to a Fox News poll released Wednesday.

The new poll found Cain’s support has nearly tripled among GOP primary voters to 17 percent.

That’s up from 6 percent before this month’s debates, and puts him in what is essentially a three-way tie with Perry and Romney.

Cain has benefited not only from his debate performances, but also significant media attention after winning the Florida Republican Party’s straw poll on Saturday.

Perry now garners 19 percent, a drop of 10 percentage points from a month ago. That puts Romney back in the top spot with the support of 23 percent. Last month Romney was at 22 percent.

Newt Gingrich recovered some ground and now stands at 11 percent. Ron Paul receives the backing of 6 percent now compared to 8 percent before the September debates.

Bachmann registers 3 percent support, down from 8 percent in late August and a high of 15 percent in July.

After perusing the web for the last couple of days, it seems that Herman Cain that is the “flavor of the month”.  After shocking the political pundits by winning the Florida Straw Poll, Cain stories are rage of the internet.  Tea Partiers and REagan Conservatives seem to be gravitating toward him as “so-called” Moderate Republicans/”fiscal” Conservatives/Liberals operating behind the “enemy lines” are pushing Romney.

Scott Rasmussen reports that

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely U.S. Voters finds that Obama earns 39% support while Cain attracts 34%. In that match-up, 14% prefer some other candidate, and 14% are undecided.

With Perry shooting himself in the foot (an apt metaphor for a Texas Governor) with his “heartless” remark in defense of giving college scholarships to children of illegal immigrants, and Romney’s slow fade, perhaps straight-shooter Herman Cain is the Conservative Leader Americans have been waiting for.

Then again, I think this rodeo is just getting started.  It’s not time for the Republican Candidate Cowboy to ride off into the sunset, in the direction of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, just yet.

There may be an Annie Oakley waiting in the wings.

In the aftermath of its sojourn through the Eastern Coast of the United States approximately one month ago, Hurricane Irene left behind an enormous amount of damage from North Carolina to Maine.  According to The New York Times, damage estimates range from $7 billion to $10 billion.

At the end of its journey, Hurricane Irene wound up ranking in the top 10 worst hurricanes in terms of insurance losses.

In North Carolina, losses topped $400 million. Gov. Beverly Perdue remarked as much as $320 million came from crop losses. As many as 43 counties have requested to be put on disaster status.

For days after the storm, as many as 580,000 people were still without power.

New Jersey had record rainfall along the Passaic River. In Little Falls, flooding made it two blocks away from the river when it crested at 14.19 feet, 7 feet above flood stage. It broke the previous record by over three feet. Per CNN as many as 1,700 people had to evacuate the area due to flooding. Over 300 roads were blocked.

In New York, parts of Staten Island were overrun by storm surges. The New York City Fire Department rescued 60 people from the flooded out portions of the island. New York’s suburbs were inundated with water.

140,000 acres in the state were lost among 13 counties.

According to the New York Times, 13 towns in Vermont were isolated by heavy rains. Roads and power lines were destroyed because of too much rain.

Per The Portland Press Herald, two bridges in Maine were washed away, 300 yards apart along Route 27 in Carrabassett Valley. Officials believe that the collapses were due to the extreme amounts of rain that pelted the area.

Did you see either Philadelphia or Pennsylvania mentioned anywhere in that list of major damage caused by Hurricane Irene?

No?  Well, evidently it doesn’t really matter.

Like vultures descending on the carcass of an antelope killed by a lion on the Serengeti, those who seek to profit from this natural disaster are descending on County Assistance Offices in Philadelphia.

The local CBS affiliate in Philadelphia reports:

Thousands of Philadelphia residents gathered in long lines, citywide, waiting hours outside of 12 County Assistance Offices, hoping to apply for relief following Hurricane Irene.

The residents, many confused and lacking official information, hoped to receive a month of food stamps for food ruined by floods and power problems caused by the hurricane.

The program, called Disaster SNAP (supplemental nutrition assistance program), was created by the federal government and is administered by the State Department of Public Welfare.

Because of unexpectedly large turnouts, the application process was moved from Disaster Recovery Centers in Philadelphia to the 12 state offices in neighborhoods citywide.

Residents, based on income, household size and proof of flood-damage can receive up to a month’s worth of food stamps.

Those already receiving food stamps are eligible for partial relief, to the extent that their prior month’s food supply was damaged.

Throughout the day Monday, and beginning early Tuesday morning, many state offices had lines stretching for blocks with confused residents, many alerted by other neighbors that relief was available.

Little if any guidance was available at offices in the early going, although later in the day, officials did permit applicants to fill out forms outside the building instead of waiting for hours in line.

Officials emphasized that anyone seeking relief would have to present proof that they lost food due to a power outage or flooding from Irene. They also have to present proper identification and their relief, if any, would be based on their income and household size.

The application period, which began last Tuesday, ended at 7 p.m. Tuesday night.  Applicants will be notified if they are eligible to receive the SNAP assistance within 24 to 48 hours.

This “Emergency Relief” comes in addition to the 1/6th of Americans currently on the SNAP (Food Stamps) Program, some of whom are 2nd and 3rd generation recipients.

Wait a minute, isn’t President Obamas’s American Jobs Act supposed to alieviate all of this “pain and suffering”?  That’s why he’s been ranting and raving all over the countryside to Pass the Bill Now!, isn’t it?

It looks like Scooter is just going to have to wait, according to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, as reported at washingtontimes.com:

President Obama is still pressing Congress to pass his jobs-stimulus bill immediately, but Democratic Party leaders in the Senate once again have delayed taking a vote on the legislation and instead will take up a bill to punish China over its currency valuation.

Senators late Monday passed a bill to keep the government open into the next fiscal year and then adjourned for the rest of the week, but Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, said when they return they’ll take up the China measure rather than Mr. Obama’s jobs plan.

“I don’t think there’s anything more important for a jobs measure than China trade,” said Mr. Reid, who is the chief Senate sponsor of Mr. Obama’s plan, but who said taking on China is a bigger priority right now.

For the Administration and its minions in the Democratic Party, it is is very apparent that it is more important to keep Entitlements flowing to their loyal voters, instead of working to ease the tax burden on Corporate America (those eeevil rich people), thereby creating jobs and getting America’s economic engine running on all cylinders again.

Karl Marx once said:

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

The Democrats are masters at it.

The crowning achievement of the presidency of Barack Hussein Obama and the Democratic Party, the National Health Care Law, known as Obamacare, is headed for a rendezvous with destiny.

 Politico.com reports that:

The Obama administration chose not to ask the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to re-hear a pivotal health reform case Monday, signaling that it’s going to ask the Supreme Court to decide whether President Barack Obama’s health reform law is constitutional.

The move puts the Supreme Court in the difficult position of having to decide whether to take the highly politically charged case in the middle of the presidential election.

The Justice Department is expected to ask the court to overturn an August decision by a panel of three judges in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals that found the law’s requirement to buy insurance is unconstitutional. The suit was brought by 26 states, the National Federation of Independent Business, and several individuals.

Since the ruling, the Justice Department had until Monday to ask the entire 11th Circuit to review the case. Administration lawyers didn’t file the paperwork by the 5 p.m. deadline, so the ruling would stand unless the Justice Department asks the Supreme Court to step in.

The petition isn’t due until November, and the administration could get an extension.

Opponents of the law had expected the government to ask for the so-called en banc hearing to delay a ruling by the Supreme Court.

America’s physicians, who know a lot more about America’s Health Care System than Obama ever will, have deserted the flagship association of their profession, due to its support of the Frankenstein Monster known as Obamacare.

Per Forbes.com:

According to a new survey, the majority of doctors do not believe that the AMA represents their views and interests. Much of that dissatisfaction stems from the organization’s support for President Obama’s contentious health care reform package.

That shouldn’t be surprising. The AMA declares that its core mission is to “help doctors help patients.” But ObamaCare undermines that pursuit by making life harder for physicians and driving down the quality of care available to patients.

The survey — conducted by physician recruitment firm Jackson & Coker — is a brutal indictment of both the AMA and ObamaCare. Just 13% of doctors agree with their trade association’s support of the health reform law.

Some doctors are even dissociating themselves from the AMA. Of those who have terminated their membership, 47% cited the organization’s continued backing of the health care law as the primary reason. Increasingly doctors are turning to associations like Docs4PatientCare and the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons that actually do represent their interests.

The Jackson & Coker survey joins a large stack of research with similar findings. In February, the National Physicians Survey discovered that more than three times as many doctors believed that the quality of American health care would “deteriorate” rather than “improve” under ObamaCare. Nine of ten physicians think ObamaCare will have a negative impact on their profession.

There’s no doubt that it will.

To jog your memory as to what a monstrosity of governmental bureaucracy Obamacare is, here is a brief overview of the timeline for the implementation of Obamacare, from a pdf prepared by the House Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce Committees on April 2, 2010. 

Let’s pick up the timeline with this year:

2011

Bringing Down the Cost of Health Care Coverage.

Strengthening Community Health Centers and the Primary Care Workforce.

Increasing Reimbursement for Primary Care.

Increasing Training Support for Primary Care.

Improving Health Care Quality and Efficiency. Establishes a new Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation to test innovative payment and service delivery models to reduce health care costs and enhance the quality of care provided to individuals.

Improving Preventive Health Coverage.

Improving Transitional Care for Medicare Beneficiaries.

Expanding Primary Care, Nursing, and Public Health Workforce.

Increasing Access to Home and Community Based Services.

Reporting Health Coverage Costs on Form W-2: Requires employers to disclose the value of the benefit provided by the employer for each employee’s health insurance coverage on the employee’s annual Form W-2.

Standardizing the Definition of Qualified Medical Expenses. Conforms the definition of qualified medical expenses for HSAs, FSAs, and HRAs to the definition used for the itemized deduction. An exception to this rule is included so that amounts paid for over-the-counter medicine with a prescription still qualify as medical expenses.

Increased Additional Tax for Withdrawals from Health Savings Accounts and Archer Medical Savings Account Funds for Non-Qualified Medical Expenses.

Cafeteria Plan Changes.

2012

Encouraging Integrated Health Systems.

Linking Payment to Quality Outcomes.

Reducing Avoidable Hospital Readmissions. Directs CMS to track hospital readmission rates for certain high-volume or high-cost conditions and uses new financial incentives to encourage hospitals to undertake reforms needed to reduce preventable readmissions, which will improve care for beneficiaries and rein in unnecessary health care spending.

Can you say “here come the Death Panels”?

2013

Payments to Primary Care Physicians. Requires that Medicaid payment rates to primary care physicians for furnishing primary care services be no less than 100% of Medicare payment rates in 2013 and 2014.

Administrative Simplification. Health plans must adopt and implement uniform standards and business rules for the electronic exchange of health information to reduce paperwork and administrative burdens and costs.

Encouraging Provider Collaboration. Establishes a national pilot program on payment bundling

Limiting Health Flexible Savings Account Contributions.

Increased Threshold for Claiming Itemized Deduction for Medical Expenses.

Medical device excise tax. Establishes a 2.3 percent excise tax on the sale of a medical device by a manufacturer or importer.

Limiting Executive Compensation.

Fee for patient-centered outcomes research.

2014

Reforming Health Insurance Regulations.

Eliminating Annual Limits.

Ensuring Coverage for Individuals Participating in Clinical Trials.

Establishing Health Insurance Exchanges. Opens health insurance Exchanges in each State to individuals and small employers. This new venue will enable people to comparison shop for standardized health packages. Local hack politicians are lining up for jobs right now.

Providing Health Care Tax Credits.

Ensuring Choice through Free Choice Vouchers.

Promoting Individual Responsibility.

Small Business Tax Credit.

Quality Reporting for Certain Providers.

Health Insurance Provider Fee. Imposes an annual, non-deductible fee on the health insurance sector allocated across the industry according to market share.

2015

Continuing Innovation and Lower Health Costs. Establishes an Independent Payment Advisory Board to develop and submit proposals to Congress and the private sector aimed at extending the solvency of Medicare, lowering health care costs, improving health outcomes for patients, promoting quality and efficiency, and expanding access to evidence-based care.

Paying Physicians Based on Value Not Volume. Creates a physician value-based payment program to promote increased quality of care for Medicare beneficiaries.

2018

Excise tax on high cost employer-provided health plans becomes effective. Tax is on the cost of coverage in excess of $27,500 (family coverage) and $10,200 (single coverage), increased to $30,950 (family) and $11,850 (single) for retirees and employees in high risk professions.

According to the “experts”, it appears very likely that the Supreme Court will agree to hear the case.

They’d better do it quickly….while America still has the finest health care system in the world.

There has never been a president and his administration more out of touch with the American people than Barack Hussein Obama and his minions.

Case in point, as reported at rollcall.com:

White House adviser David Plouffe made the rounds on the Sunday news talk shows in a major push for the president’s nearly $450 billion jobs plan.

“We expect to have a vote on the American Jobs Act in October,” Plouffe said on ABC’s “This Week.”

“We need action,” he added. “The American people know the economy is too weak; too many of them are suffering. So the question for Washington is are we going to continue to play political games, or are we going to say we can do something right now to create jobs, to put money in the pockets of the middle class, hire construction workers, teachers, veterans. The president’s plan would have a profound impact on the economy, and Congress ought to act right now.”

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has pledged to bring the president’s plan up for a vote in the Senate, but it is unlikely to come to the House floor.

Plouffe’s comments came after some Democrats raised concerns over some parts of the plan. In a floor speech Friday, Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) said he was concerned that the proposal includes “gimmicks” such as $1 trillion in savings from winding down the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

But Plouffe was undaunted. Asked about the provision on “Fox News Sunday,” he said that it was also included by House Republicans in their fiscal 2012 budget resolution.

Plouffe sought to make the case that House Republicans have been unwilling to work with Democrats because of a concern over losing their political base ahead of next year’s elections.

“Basically we are at a point now where roughly 30 tea party Members of Congress, the Republican leadership is putting their demands ahead of 300 million Americans, and that has to stop,” Plouffe said.

So, while yipping chihuahua David Plouffe was lobbying for Obama’s tax increase  this weekend, what was the Leader of the Regime himself  up to this weekend?

From yahoo.com:

In a fiery summons to an important voting bloc, President Barack Obama told blacks on Saturday to quit crying and complaining and “put on your marching shoes” to follow him into battle for jobs and opportunity.

…Obama’s speech to the annual awards dinner of the Congressional Black Caucus was his answer to increasingly vocal griping from black leaders that he’s been giving away too much in talks with Republicans — and not doing enough to fight black unemployment, which is nearly double the national average at 16.7 percent.

“It gets folks discouraged. I know. I listen to some of y’all,” Obama told an audience of some 3,000 in a darkened Washington convention center.

But he said blacks need to have faith in the future — and understand that the fight won’t be won if they don’t rally to his side.

“I need your help,” Obama said.

The president will need black turnout to match its historic 2008 levels if he’s to have a shot at winning a second term, and Saturday’s speech was a chance to speak directly to inner-city concerns.

He acknowledged blacks have suffered mightily because of the recession, and are frustrated that the downturn is taking so long to reverse. “So many people are still hurting. So many people are barely hanging on,” he said, then added: “And so many people in this city are fighting us every step of the way.”

But Obama said blacks know all too well from the civil rights struggle that the fight for what is right is never easy.

“Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,” he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. “Shake it off. Stop complainin’. Stop grumblin’. Stop cryin’. We are going to press on. We have work to do.”

Topping the to-do list, he said, is getting Congress to the pass jobs bill he sent to Capitol Hill two weeks ago.

But, wait. You ain’t heard nothin’ yet.

The Washington Post reports that:

President Obama’s campaign is developing an aggressive new program to expand support from ethnic minority groups and other traditional Democratic voters as his team studies an increasingly narrow path to victory in next year’s reelection effort.

The program, called “Operation Vote,” underscores how the tide has turned for Obama, whose 2008 brand was built on calls to unite “red and blue America.” Then, he presented himself as a politician who could transcend traditional partisan divisions, and many white centrists were drawn to the coalition.

Today, the political realities of a sputtering economy, a more polarized Washington and fast-sinking presidential job approval ratings, particularly among white independents, are forcing the Obama campaign to adjust its tactics.

Operation Vote will function as a large, centralized department in the Chicago campaign office for reaching ethnic, religious and other voter groups. It will coordinate recruitment of an ethnic volunteer base and push out targeted messages online and through the media to groups such as blacks, Hispanics, Jews, women, seniors, young people, gays and Asian Americans.

The campaign this month hired a longtime Jewish political activist as a point person for that community, the first of many such hirings to come this fall as staffers are brought on from each of the target groups.

Gosh, you don’t suppose that was a response to the upset victory of the Republicans, who won Rep. Anthony Weiner’s old seat in New York’s heavily Jewish 9th District, do you?

By pushing for tax increases for the wealthy, he is following the old Democratic Playbook Lesson on Class Warfare, word for word.  And, by racially classifying people, he’s returning to his days of Community Organizing in Chicago.

Obama is exhibiting all of the ring savvy of a punch-drunk boxer, who telegraphs every punch.

And he’s setting himself up for a knockout on November 6, 2012.

I remember when I first saw Morgan Freeman. It was in the movie “Glory” about the heroic 54th Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, a regiment of black soldiers, headed by Col. Robert Gould Shaw, the son of a famous abolitionist, who were wiped out at Fort Wagner, SC in the Civil War.

He followed that up with “Lean on Me”, the movie about legendary Eastside High Principal “Crazy” Joe Clark, who took the worst school in New Jersey, and turned it around through leadership and discipline.

In those two movies, Mr. Freeman played men of integrity and conviction.  His presence on the movie screen was riveting.  It did not matter one iota what color he was. The man could act.

Friday Evening, in an interview with CNN’s Piers Morgan, who took over Larry King’s time slot, and, by the way, is failing miserably, Morgan Freeman threw his personal integrity right out the window:

PIERS MORGAN, HOST: Has Obama helped the process of eradicating racism, or has it in a strange way made it worse.

MORGAN FREEMAN: Made it worse. Made it worse. Look at, look, the Tea Partiers, who are controlling the Republican Party, stated, and what’s this guy’s name, Mitch O’Connell. Is that his, O’Connell?

MORGAN: Yeah, Mitch McConnell, yeah.

FREEMAN: Mitch McConnell. Their stated policy, publicly stated, is to do whatever it takes to see to it that Obama only serves one term. What’s, what does that, what underlines that? “Screw the country. We’re going to whatever we do to get this black man, we can, we’re going to do whatever we can to get this black man outta here.”

MORGAN: But is that necessarily a racist thing?

FREEMAN: It is a racist thing.

MORGAN: Is it not Republicans, wouldn’t that say that about any Democrat president?

FREEMAN: No, they would have gotten rid of Bill Clinton if they could have.

MORGAN: They tried.

FREEMAN: They did try, but still. I don’t, they’re not going to get rid of Obama either. I think they’re shooting themselves in the head.

MORGAN: Does it unnerve you that the Tea Party are gaining such traction?

FREEMAN: Yes.

MORGAN: Why?

FREEMAN: Well, it just shows the weak, dark, underside of America. We’re supposed to be better than that. We really are. That’s, that’s why all those people were in tears when Obama was elected president. “Ah, look at what we are. Look at how, this is America.” You know? And then it just sort of started turning because these people surfaced like stirring up muddy water.

Disappointing, really.

Yesterday, something happened in the Sunshine State to refudiate Mr.  Freeman’s jaded opinion, concerning racial animus in these United States.

The Washington Times reports that:

Former Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain [who happens to be a black Conservative] won the Presidency 5 straw poll here Saturday, delivering a blow to Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s front-runner status and a victory for a candidate who has struggled to transform his grass-roots popularity into strong showings in national polls.

“Tonight’s winner is Herman Cain,” Florida Gov. Rick Scott announced. “It shows you something: The road to the White House comes through Florida, and it pays to spend time here.”

Mr. Cain received 37 percent of the more than 2,600 votes cast.

“Thank you to the Republican voters for this incredible honor of being named the winner of the Presidency 5 straw poll in Florida today,” Mr. Cain said. “This is a sign of our growing momentum and my candidacy that cannot be ignored. I will continue to share my message of ‘common-sense solutions’ across this country and look forward to spending more time in Florida, a critical state for both the nomination and the general election.”

The two national front-runners — Mr. Perry and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney — placed second and third. Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, meanwhile, landed in fourth place; Rep. Ron Paul of Texas was in fifth place; and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, sixth. Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann finished last.

Before Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s, life was taken from him in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968, he spoke these words on the Washington Mall, in our nation’s capital on August 28, 1963:

I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

Now, it’s no secret that I was born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee and currently live in Northwest Mississippi. 

About an hour down I-55 from me, is the town of Clarksdale, Mr. Freeman’s hometown, where he happens to co-own a very popular nightspot, frequented by folks of all shades, shapes, and sizes.

You would have thought that he would have known better.

During the Fox News Channel/Google Debate last Thursday evening, featuring the Republican Candidates who are contending for the party’s Presidential Nomination, Governor Rick Perry of Texas said:

If you say that we should not educate children who come into our state for no other reason than that they’ve been brought their through no fault of their own, I don’t think you have a heart.  We need to be educating these children because they will become a drag on our society. I think that’s what Texans wanted to do. Out of 181 members of the Texas legislature when this issue came up [there were] only four dissenting votes. This was a state issue. Texas voted on it. And I still support it today.

What is he talking about?  The Senate voted down the Dream Act in December, 2010, didn’t they?

Well, in 2001, Governor Rick Perry signed Texas House Bill 1403 into law.  This law has become known as the Texas Dream Act:

This bill states that non-citizens (illegal immigrants) may be able to apply for state financial aid if they have:

Lived in Texas for three years, at least part of the time with a parent or court-appointed legal guardian

Graduated from a Texas high school (or received a GED)

Not attended an institution of higher education before fall 2001

Signed an affidavit stating they will apply for permanent residency as soon as they are eligible.

In other words, they promise to become citizens…cross their hearts.

All is not milk and honey for the children of illegal immigrants seeking a free college education in the Lone Star State.  According to Texas State Technical College, there’s a catch:

However, as with any type of state financial aid, funding is very limited and everyone that qualifies may not receive an award due to a lack of funding. You must complete the affidavit available on this [their] website and you should be prepared to provide any proof or documentation that may be requested by the college.

Can you say:  leaving yourself an out?

Even though Texas has their own version of the Dream Act, the state is still struggling with its citizens who remained opposed to illegal immigration, as the Austin-American Statesman reports:

Supporters of stricter immigration laws today said Gov. Rick Perry needs to leave the presidential campaign trail and call the Legislature back to tackle a ban on so-called sanctuary cities.

A sanctuary city prohibits law enforcement from asking about the immigration status of the people they detain. In January, Perry put a ban on sanctuary cities on his list of emergency items, meaning he wanted the Legislature to tackle them promptly. But the ban did not pass in the regular session, nor in a 30-day special session that followed.

“Governor Perry needs to clarify where he stands on illegal immigration and he needs to come back to Texas and finish the people’s unfinished business,” said JoAnn Fleming, who chairs the advisory committee for the Legislature’s Tea Party Caucus.

She added, “Governor Perry needs to take care of the issue. If it was an emergency item in January, if it was an emergency item in May for the special session, it is an emergency item today.”

Opposition from Democrats and key figures in the business community who lobbied the Legislature kept the ban from passing in either the regular or special session.

While I do believe that Governor Perry is a good man, and if it does come down to choosing between him and Governor Romney, I would choose him, I have a question to respectfully ask:

Governor Perry:

What part of the word “illegal” do you not understand? What makes the current influx of illegal immigrants exempt from the rules and regulations that every other generation of immigrants to this country had to abide by in order to become legal citizens of the greatest nation in the world? By being here illegally, they are not entitled to the same rights as natural born or naturalized American citizens. In fact, their entry into this sacred land is no better than that of someone who breaks into someone’s home, does their dishes, cuts their yard, cleans their house, and then helps themselves to their food and drives their car without asking. This is in no way a human rights issue. Freedom is God-given. And with freedom comes responsibility. With citizenship comes responsibility, like paying taxes and making your own way. Illegal immigration reminds me of the amorous boyfriend who wants everything a young woman will give him, but will leave her at the first mention of marriage.  This is not a civil rights issue. Illegals do not have the same rights as American citizens. With our rights, come the responsibilities of being an American citizen.

And, by the way, please tell the illegal students that the Mexican flag, by protocol, will always be flown in a subordinate position to the American Flag in this country. Also, please remind them that the American dialect of the English language is the language spoken in this country.

Thank you, Governor.

While the children of illegal immigrants should be given the opportunity to become contributing American citizens, it needs to be done without rewarding them for their parents’ crime.

Because, as the English found out in the Revolutionary War, when the Prince of Hesse-Cassel, Frederick II, made off like a bandit in his dealings with George III by selling the services of 12,000 Hessians to the English at [sterling]7 4s. a head…you can’t buy allegiance to a flag.