Yesterday, 22-year-old Jared Loughner, opened fire on a public meeting in Tuscon, Arizona, shooting U. S. Representative Gabrielle “Gabby” Giffords in the head, while shooting at least 18 others, killing six of the crowd. Killed in the massacre were Federal Judge John M. Roll, Gabe Zimmerman, Gabby’s Local Director of Community Outreach, 3 70 year olds, and pretty, little 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green, who had been attending the event with neighbors. She was born on September 11, 2001.

Who is this monster?

Loughner was a former military recruit who was obsessed with mind control.

On YouTube, he posted a weird video with a rambling anti-government message, that authorities are still analyzing.  The video has been pulled.  As far as anybody knows, at this point, Loughner still is not cooperating with investigators.

Prima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik said the killer had been in trouble with the law before and had even tried to kill someone before.

According to Dupnik, there had been “difficulties” at Pima Community College where Loughner attended. One student said that Loughner would often act “wildly inappropriate” in a poetry class that they had together.

Classmate Don Coorough told ABC News, referring to a discussion about abortions:

One day he started making comments about terrorism and laughing about killing the baby. The rest of us were looking at him in shock… I thought this young man was troubled.

Another classmate, Lydian Ali, said:

A girl had written a poem about an abortion. It was very emotional and she was teary eyed and he said something about strapping a bomb to the fetus and making a baby bomber.

On his MySpace page, which has also been pulled from the internet, he told his friends:

Please don’t be mad at me…I can not rest.

The psychopath was thrown to the ground by two people in the small crowd that had formed around Gabby while she was speaking. When he was taken into custody, a 9mm Glock handgun with an extended clip was recovered.

Authorities are seeking a second man as a “person of interest” who might have been at the scene with the gunman. However, He is not a suspect in the shooting.

Former U.S. surgeon general Richard Carmona, a family friend of Giffords’s, informed reporters Saturday night that she could need further surgery.

According to Carmona:

This is a very devastating wound.

Gabby, a Blue Dog Democrat, barely won reelection to a third term in November. She was sworn into office Wednesday and was hosting her first “Congress on Your Corner” event of the new Congress.

Per Steven Rayle, a Tucson doctor at the event, Loughner shot Gabby once in the face.

According to Dr. Rayle, after she was shot, the crowd tried to escape but were trapped by a table and a concrete post. The killer then started firing into the crowd.

There was nowhere easy to run. People that were there were just sitting ducks. I don’t think he was even aiming. He was just firing at whatever.

This massacre marks the first attempt on the life of a sitting member of Congress since the 1978 murder of Rep. Leo Ryan (D-Calif.) who was investigating the Peoples Temple cult compound in Jonestown, Guyana. After his murder, psychotic leader Jim Jones made close to 1,000 cultists, including 280 children, commit suicide by drinking cyanide-laced grape Kool-aid.

As soon as word spread about the massacre, Liberals began to try to make political hay by blaming the tea party movement.

They began an internet war by linking to Gov. Sarah Palin’s telling supporters via Twitter, “Don’t Retreat, Instead – RELOAD,” and Nevada GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle’s advocating “second-amendment remedies” to some of the nation’s problems.

Prominent left-wing bloggers accused Palin, and the resurgence of Conservatism in America of encouraging extremism and being responsible for the massacre that killed 9-year-old Christina and the others.  Gov. Palin responded by calling for “peace” on her Facebook page.

For Liberals to so readily attempt to use an unspeakable tragedy  in order to further their personal and ideological ambitions is beyond classless.  There should be apologies posted all over the internet today from the Liberal so-called pundits posting from their Moms’ basements. 

However, I’m not going to hold my breath waiting for them.

May God send His Holy Spirit to comfort the families of those killed and wounded in this horrible moment in American history and hold them in the hollow of His hand.  Amen.

According to President Barack Hussein Obama’s (mm mmm mmmm) new Chief of Staff, Bill Daley, rumors that he urged Scooter to give Press Secretary Robert (Baghdad Bob) Gibbs the boot from the White House are completely false.

The London Telegraph ran a blog post, linked on the Drudge Report, which referred to a CNN report which said that Daley did not want Gibbs to stay in the White House as a chief adviser.

However, according to a statement released by Daley, Gibbs’s name

…never, ever came up once in any discussion I had with the president or staff about me coming to the White House.

In my view, he has done a great job as press secretary for President Obama, and I look forward to working with him as he continues to help provide advice to the president and our team over the next two years.

Baghdad Bob announced earlier this week that he is stepping down from the podium sometime in February, but he will continue to advise, advocate, and generally be his same ol’ blindly sycophantic self for Obama.

Gibbsy is not the only one that is having trouble with Daley:

Per politico.com, Scooter’s choice of William Daley to be his new chief of staff has the Far Left ideologues whining like they’ve just heard a Rush Limbaugh monologue.  AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka voiced his reservations about Daley:

The president is of course entitled to choose a chief of staff in whom he has complete confidence. We are hopeful that the new chief of staff’s priority is to achieve the strong economy that working people desperately need.

MoveOn.org chief Justin Ruben wasn’t too thrilled, either:

The announcement that William Daley, who has close ties to the Big Banks and Big Business, will now lead the White House staff is troubling and sends the wrong message to the American people.

However, at least some in the Far Left seem to be resigned to the appointment. Neera Tanden, CEO for the George Soros-funded Center for American Progress, and until recently, a senior advisor for health reform inside the Obama White House, said:

There’s a recognition that the president determines his agenda.

The Far Left had better recognize that Obama is loyal to no one except himself and his political cronies from Chicago. And he’ll throw them under the bus, too, without a second thought.

Let’s look at the case of Baghdad Bob Gibbs. 

Do any of you actually believe that Gibbs is stepping down of his own accord?  If you do, I have some commemorative Elvis plates, that the King once ate a peanut butter and ‘nanner sandwich off of, to sell you.

Gibbs style as Press Secretary has been about as soothing as a Gilbert Gottfried monologue.  He’s been abrasive, condescending, and elusive in his answers to simple questions put forth to him by the press.  He has done a horrible job in a position once handled so well by the late, great Tony Snow.

Obama cannot afford to have such a buffoon speaking to the press for him, if he is going to run for a second term.  And I’m sure that William Daley relayed that vital piece of information to him.

Just like Rahmbo before him, Bill Daley knows how to play the game of Chicago-style, cutthroat politics.  The problem is, I’m afraid that ol’ Billy Boy will find himself in the same position that Emmanuel did, surrounded by Far Left bureaucratic and academic pinheads, who are not driven by party loyalty and political necessity, but rather, by an Uber-Liberal ideology and an overwhelming desire to turn America into a Socialist Paradise. 

Scooter learned about Chicago-style politics in 1992, when he went to work for Miner, Barnhill & Galland, a firm specializing in civil rights law and other forms of public advocacy.   Working there provided him with the opportunity to make many contacts in the Chicago Political Machine.   And, of course, the Daley family was a very essential part of that machine.

In fact, according to Lee Cary, in his article posted at americanthinker.com, the Daleys, Tony Rezko, and Obama’s BFF, Valerie Jarrett, had quite a lucrative partnership  with that law firm after Scooter became a Illinois State Senator:

In 1997, [Obama’s former law firm mentor Allison] Davis and Rezko formed New Kenwood L.L.C. and set out to build a seven-story apartment building for seniors called Cottage View Terrace. At the time, Davis was a member of the Chicago Plan Commission, having been appointed by Mayor Richard M. Daley, Richard the 2nd.

Several local elected officials, representing both city and state, wrote letters-of-support citing the need for senior citizen housing. State Senator Obama’s letter was dated October 28, 1998. He still worked as an attorney at Davis’ former firm, renamed Miner Barnhill & Galland. (Judson H. Miner had been Corporate Counsel for the City of Chicago from 1986-1989.) The firm’s clients included companies owned by Davis and Rezko.

New Kenwood L.L.C. hired the law firm of Daley & George –the Daley being the current Mayor Daley’s brother, Michael Daley — to assist in securing city-of-Chicago issued bonds. (Brother Michael is not to be confused with brother John Daley, the Cook County Board finance committee chairman and 11th Ward committeeman. Or, brother William “Bill,” Daley, who [at the time of this article] is contemplating a run for Illinois governor.)

The city owned the two-acre vacant lot targeted for the proposed project. It had once been the site of a gas station and needed an environmental cleanup. Davis and Rezko bought the land for $1, and spent $100,000 for the cleanup.

Here’s what the Chicago Sun Times (June 13, 2007) reported about the project:

“The $14.6 million Cottage View Terrace was funded entirely by city, state and federal taxpayers. The projected included $855,000 in development fees for New Kenwood…In addition to the development fees, a separate Davis-owned company stood to make another $900,000 through federal tax credits.”

In conclusion, the appointment of William Daley, while meant to portray Obama as moving to the middle, is, in reality, nothing more than a continuation of Chicago-style politics at the White House.

Nothing to see here…move along.

Incoming Speaker of the House John Boehner and the rest of the Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives have announced plans to pass a bill repealing ObamaCare next week, even though Dinghy Harry Reid and the Senate will reject the attempt.

The 112th Congress hits the ground running on Wednesday with the Republicans now controlling the House after November’s midterm elections. The scheduled vote for the repealing of ObamaCare is the beginning of a plan to fulfill a campaign promise that the Republicans made.

According to Brad Dayspring, a spokesman for incoming House Republican leader Eric Cantor, the House plans to vote on legislation to repeal ObamaCare on Jan. 12.

Even though Republicans control the House, 242-193, the Democrat party retains control of the Senate by 53-47 and will move to block any repeal of the healthcare law.

Dayspring said:

ObamaCare is a job killer for businesses small and large, and the top priority for House Republicans is going to be to cut spending and grow the economy and jobs.

He also said the House will hold a procedural vote on Friday in preparation for the Jan. 12 vote.

The Republicans also plan to use their majority power to defund and starve ObamaCare.

Per foxnews.com:

Senate Democrats Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Patty Murray (D-WA), and Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) joined Reid in signing a letter addressed to Boehner, warning him of the effects a health care repeal would have on Seasoned Citizens who fall into the so-called Medicare “donut hole,” and vowing to block any Republican-led effort aimed at repealing the legislation.

A provision of ObamaCare that just took effect on January 1st give seniors a 50 percent break on the cost of prescription drugs when they’re caught in a gap between basic and catastrophic Medicare coverage. Obamacare is supposed to end the Medicare “donut hole” in 2020.

According to Chuckie Schumer and his colleagues, repealing Obamacare would reopen the loophole, and would seniors thousands of dollars in drug payments.

The letter reads:

The incoming House Republican majority that you lead has made the repeal of the federal health care law one of its chief goals. We urge you to consider the unintended consequences that the law’s repeal would have on a number of popular consumer protections that help middle class Americans.

…If House Republicans move forward with a repeal of the health care law that threatens consumer benefits like the “donut hole” fix, we will block it in the Senate. This proposal deserves a chance to work. It is too important to be treated as collateral damage in a partisan mission to repeal health care.

So, the Dems are trying to paint the Republicans as enemies of Seasoned Citizens, even though the Dems have never read this Obamanation of a Healthcare Reform Law that they are responsible for passing.

Per Rasmussenreports.com:

60% of Likely Voters at least somewhat favor repeal of the national health care law, while the number who expect health care costs to increase is at its highest level since August.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 49% Strongly Favor repeal of the plan. Thirty-eight percent (38%) oppose the law’s repeal, including 29% who Strongly Oppose repeal.

Additionally:

For the first time since Democrats in Congress passed the health care bill in March, a majority of U.S. voters believe the measure is likely to be repealed.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 52% of Likely U.S. Voters think it is at least somewhat likely that the health care plan will be repealed. Thirty-three percent (33%) view repeal as unlikely. Those figures include 16% who believe repeal is Very Likely and 5% who believe it is Not at All Likely.

Most Americans believe, and rightfully so, that the final decision on Obamacare will be made by the United States Supreme Court. 

In his article published on americanthinker.com today, Overturning ObamaCare in the Supreme Court will not be a Slam Dunk, attorney Monte Kuligowski hits the nail on the head:

…Then came the landmark 1942 case of Wickard v. Filburn upon which the Obama administration relies heavily in its healthcare litigation motions.

In the Wickard case, an Ohio farmer was penalized for exceeding the federal quota on wheat production even though the excess was for farm use and not for market.

…The Wickard case opened the door wide for federal overreaching. The 9th and 10th Amendments were successfully shelved as the focus shifted from “the permissibility of state activity” that burdened commerce to the “breadth” of Congress’s Commerce Clause powers.

A key principle of Wickard that has been largely overlooked is that Congress was permitted to regulate non-commercial wheat merely because it was “available for marketing.”

In a sense, storing wheat for personal use was non-activity (non-commercial activity), but the Court nevertheless allowed Congress to extend its powers. That potentially spells trouble for striking down the individual insurance mandate. When it comes to misusing the Commerce Clause anything is possible, including the suggestion that inactivity may be regulated.

Of course, with ObamaCare the feds are geared up to force activity. On that point ObamaCare should fall even under the most liberal interpretation of the law. The federal regulation of wheat production is repugnant to freedom. But that pales in comparison to Congress mandating a citizen endowed by Divinity with unalienable liberty, to purchase a product for her body.

Another point to make, which distinguishes ObamaCare from other cases, is that the “Affordable Health Care Act” is not about regulating the commerce of the healthcare system, but is fundamentally about transforming the system. If it were about regulating interstate commerce, a law allowing health insurance to be purchased across state lines could have been advanced. Such a solution would be consistent with Congress’s actual power to regulate the commerce among the states.

Of course, ObamaCare is more about spreading the wealth around than it is about interstate commerce.

The great thing about the vote on January 12th, is that it forces the Dems to take responsibility for this socialization of the American Healthcare System.  House Republicans should keep on hammering that message home to the American people, until ObamaCare comes before the highest court in the land.

The Dems passed it.  They own it.

The Republican Elite in the Beltway and the Northeast seem bound and determined to slit their own throats and the country’s by nominating another squishy, reach-across-the-aisle, Moderate Republican to go against President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmm) in 2012.

Per washington times.com:

South Carolina’s Republican Senator, Lindsey Graham, proclaimed on Sunday that Mitt Romney is the party’s leading potential presidential candidate for 2012.

Grahamnesty said on NBC’s Meet the Press:

He’s got his problems, but so does everybody else.

Hey, isn’t that the guy who looks like Lyle Wagonner from the Carol Burnett Show?

Romney, affectionately known to most Conservatives as Mittens, is a former Massachusetts governor and GOP presidential candidate.  As that state’s governor, he was responsible for signing into law a state-run health care plan which is a direct precursor to Obamacare. Recently, this solid conservative (cough) opposed the deal the GOP made with President Obama and congressional Democrats that extended the Bush-era tax rates.

John McCain’s buddy, Grahamnesty, said:

Not only do you have to be conservative, you have to carry the day.

Carry the day? If he runs, he won’t even carry his state.

According to Senator Graham, a good GOP presidential candidate also…

must be focused on immigration issues and the current economic situation, including the price of gas headed toward “$4 a gallon.”

Uh-huh.

Love her or hate her, with Sarah Palin, you always know where she stands.  Mittens?  Not so much.

Even the voice of the squishy Elite, David Frum, admits that you never know what you’re going to get with Mittens:

From his website, frumforum.com:

There are two Mitt Romneys, one bad, one good.

The good Romney is the decisive executive who built a great venture capital business in the 1980s, saved the 2002 Olympic Games and delivered comprehensive health insurance as governor of Massachusetts.

The bad Romney is the Romney who delivered the governor’s last major public address, at the Republican convention in St. Paul in August 2008.

“You know, for decades now, the Washington sun has been rising in the east. You see, Washington has been looking to the eastern elites …. If America really wants to change, it’s time to look for the sun in the west ….” A strange thing to hear from the ex-governor of America’s second most easterly state.

2008 marked the end of a two-term Republican presidency and the recent expiry of 12 years of Republican congressional majorities. Bad Romney disregarded that history to score a crowd-pleasing point:

“Last week, the Democratic convention talked about change. But what do you think? Is Washington now, liberal or conservative? … Is government spending, putting aside inflation, liberal or conservative if it doubles since 1980? It’s liberal.”

Whoa.  Waitasecond.  Was Romney actually trying to hop aboard the Tea Party Express at that point?  Heh.  It sure seems so.  How is Romney standing against Elitism bad, Mr. Frum?  As Vinnie Barbarino used to say:

I’m so confused!

Apparently, so is Romney. 

This is nothing new, as the video showed.

Neither is the animosity between the Mitt Romney camp and Sarah Palin. From spectator.org, posted October 27, 2008:

Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers, some of whom are currently working for Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin’s bid for the White House, have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election. “Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won’t be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,” says one former Romney aide, now working for McCain-Palin. “The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney. He’s in charge on November 5th.”

Okey-dokey.  No one told the rest of America.

According to publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com, who did a poll in Florida in December, Mittens is not doing so well in the Sunshine State:

The poll we did last week found him at only 21%, behind Huckabee’s 23%, with Gingrich at 18%, Palin at 13%, and others combining for a total of 15%.

That’s a drop of 31 % since a poll  that PPP did last March.

So, evidently, Romney is not going to be able to ride the wave of the national resurgence of Conservatism.  The reason? Tea Partiers have serious doubts about where he stands.

From ksl.com, out of Salt Lake City, Utah:

Republicans might consider Mitt Romney a Presidential contender in 2012, but he may not have the backing of the growing Tea Party movement.

Related: Republicans promise limited government

Republicans are echoing the unrelenting demand of tea party activists whose energy and votes helped to fuel the largest turnover in the House in more than 70 years. Utah Tea Party organizer David Kirkham tells KSL, the problem with Mitt Romney is his record.

“You know, he supported TARP, big supporter of TARP, and of course that’s what took Sen. Bennett down — and Massachusetts Romney-care,” Kirkham said.

The grand old good ol’ boys in the Grand Old Party had better sit up and take notice.  The 2010 Midterm Elections were a refudiation of not just the Democrats, but big government, business as usual politics.  If the Republican party views things from a Beltway/Northeastern Corridor perspective, instead of listening to the Heartland, and paying attention to the lessons that were taught on November 2nd, 2010, they are going to sadly disappointed.

May I ask y’all something?  Whose side are the Beltway Republicans on?  You know who I’m talking about.  The I’m smarter-than-you, reach-across-the aisle RINOs whose go along to get along embracing of Liberalism resulted in the 2006 election of the worst Congress in history and the horrible first two years of this national nightmare called the Obama Presidency.

I’m not just talking about politicians.  I’m also talking about the squishy national so-called Conservative Pundits, whose Conservatism bends to the Left with the prevailing D.C. political winds.

In his latest column, published in the Philadelphia Enquirer, A Triple Crown for Obama, Dr. Charles Krauthammer seems to be singing the praises of Harry Reid and the Lame Duck Session while chastising those same Beltway Elite Republicans whose cocktail parties he attends:

The great liberal ascendancy of 2008, destined to last 40 years (predicted James Carville), lasted less than two. Yet, the great Republican ascendancy of 2010 lasted less than two months. Republicans will enter the 112th Congress with larger numbers, but no longer with the wind – the overwhelming Nov. 2 repudiation of Obama’s social-democratic agenda – at their backs.

“Harry Reid has eaten our lunch,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.), lamenting his side’s “capitulation” in the lame-duck session. Yes, but it was less Harry than Barry. Obama came back with a vengeance. His string of lame-duck successes is a singular political achievement. Because of it, the epic battles of the 112th Congress begin on what would have seemed impossible just one month ago: a level playing field.

Last night, on Fox News Special Report, Dr. Krauthammer said that the Republicans should not take away the funding from Obamacare:

I am skeptical about taking away the funds because what it will do, it will poke holes in the system. It will make it more chaotic. It will allow some things to be enacted, others to be more slowly or clumsily enacted. In the end, if healthcare collapses or if it becomes utterly unworkable, the Democrats will have a way of saying ‘well, it was all these injuries inflicted by the Republicans that made it not work.

I think the smarter approach is to simply expose to the American people what is in the bill.

The problem with giving people entitlements, Dr. K, comes when you try to take them back.

Better to starve the beast, as Republicans plan, than to enable it.

Krauthammer worked for President Jimmy Carter as a Psychiatric Research Planner and, later, for Vice-President Walter Mondale as a speechwriter.

The other thing that both fascinates me and frustrates me about Elitists in the Republican Party is their Psychotic fear/hatred of former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin.  Krauthammer has spoken against her on several occasions, as have several other Conservative (i.e. squishy)  pundits, like Fox News’ Bill Kristol and Pundit Peggy Noonan, who, last week, seemed very eager to suppress the notion that she might run in 2012.  Even former WH Press Secretary Dana Perino has gotten into the act, suggesting that Palin doesn’t speak in the same manner in which she tweets.  Huh?

What are they afraid of?  After all, wouldn’t their boy, Mitt Romney, take Gov. Palin in the primaries?  Why, I bet he even has a bigger Facebook following than her.  Let’s see:

Mitt Romney – 734,942

Sarah Palin – 2,546,920

But…but…I thought he was supposed to be more popular than Gov. Palin?

Beltway politicians and Pundits live in a bubble.  They have disassociated themselves from the common people.  The only time the Beltway Elite Republicans seem to pay attention to the wishes of Americans in the Heartland is when we melt the Congressional Phone Lines down and threaten their well-paying jobs. 

That’s why the rise of the Tea Party movement and America’s return to Conservatism, which resulted in the political massacre known as the Midterm Elections, was such a surprise to them.  In their self-imposed isolation, they actually thought that the America people wanted them to continue their deal-making, soul-selling, business-as-usual politics.

Now, Republicans are scrambling, trying to figure out how to appease an angry electorate and keep their cushy jobs.  Pundits are trying give them all the cover they can, while offering criticism in columns specifically written as to not cost the pundit their place on the Broadcast television networks’ Sunday morning shows or to cause them to be left off the invitation list for all the cool Beltway cocktail parties.

In summation, there is still an us and them mentality in the Beltway, even among the resurgent Republican Party.  If the Republicans don’t legislate as Conservatives, and ignore the message sent to them by American voters on November 2nd, 2010, it won’t matter if the Pundits praise them or criticize them, they will be out of a job.

After all, there is much more to America than just the Beltway.  And there are a lot more American voters than there are Conservative pundits.

The big news over the weekend, besides the blizzard that has blanketed the Northeast, concerns plans by President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) to do an end run around our system of checks and balances and the wishes of the American people.

As I reported yesterday, Obama plans to have his minions at the Environmental Protection Agency place new restrictions on greenhouse emissions, additionally announcing plans for new power plants and oil refinery emission standards over the next year. 

Cap ‘n Trade, anyone?

Also, do you remember when former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin touched off a firestorm when she suggested that Obamacare would lead to bureaucratic “Death Panels”, deciding when someone’s life was worth living?

Democrats responded by dropping end-of-life planning from Obamacare. However, the our benevolent dictator has ignored our system of checks and balances by hiding end of life planning is some Medicare regulation, which begins Jan. 1.

Under the new policy, the government will pay doctors who advise patients on options for end-of-life care, which may include advance directives to forgo aggressive life-sustaining treatment.

Obama’s sycophants in the 111th Congress kept their mouths shut, even though they knew what was happening. They were afraid, and with good reason, of the righteous indignation of Americans, like they experienced in 2009 when they were forced to drop it from Obamacare.

The final version of Obamacare, which became the law of the land in March, authorized Medicare coverage of yearly physical examinations, or wellness visits.

The new, hidden policy in the Medicare regulation says Medicare will cover “voluntary advance care planning,” to discuss end-of-life treatment, as part of the annual visit.

Under the rule, doctors can provide information to patients on how to prepare an “advance directive,” stating how aggressively they wish to be treated if they are so sick that they cannot make health care decisions for themselves.

While “Advance Directives” have been around for a while, this government policy seems to be attempting to bypass the family’s wishes and replace the counsel of family members with that of government-funded doctors.

Americans should have seen this coming.  Remember Obama’s Recess Appointment of Dr. Donald Berwick to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, bypassing Senate confirmation, in July of this year? 

Dr. Berwick, a big fan of the British government-run Health Care System, said this in a prep talk to a British audience:

You could have let an unaccountable system play out in the darkness of the private enterprise instead of accepting that a politically accountable system must act in the harsh and admittedly sometimes very unfair daylight of the press, public debate, and political campaigning.

You could have had a monstrous insurance industry of claims and rules and paper-pushing instead of using your tax base to provide a single route of finance.

He has also said:

Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must — must — redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.

And, here’s the money quote:

The decision is not whether or not we will ration care — the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open. And right now, we are doing it blindly.

You can say, ‘Well, we shouldn’t even look.’ But that would be irrational. The social budget is limited — we have a limited resource pool. It makes terribly good sense to at least know the price of an added benefit, and at some point we might say nationally, regionally, or locally that we wish we could afford it, but we can’t. We have to be realistic about the knowledge base.

Translation:  Grandma – Ice Floe – Buh Bye

What a charmer.  He fits right in with this administration of aloof, academic pinheads. 

What these two clandestine operations emphasize is Obama’s dogged determination to follow through with his dream to radically change America into a Socialist Utopia, regardless of the wishes of the American people.

On November 2nd, 2010, Americans spoke in a loud voice, using the ballot box to voice their displeasure in the leadership of President Barack Hussein Obama, and his ideology of big government, and the financial socialization of America. 

The problem is, Obama seems to view himself as possessing better judgement that the American people.  He seems to believe that we exist to be the lab rats in his experiments to turn the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave into just another country practicing a failed socialist ideology.

He also seems to be a firm believer in the Malcolm X quote:

By any means necessary.

As exemplified by actions of the Lame Duck Congress, Obama and his minions are doubling-down on their Alisnky-inspired plans, doing as much damage to the country as they can before someone actually stands up like the wizards in the Lord of the Rings and says:

Thou shalt not pass!

Republicans of the 112th Congress, I’m speaking to you.  You had better grow a collective spine and show Americans that you understand what happened on November 2nd, 2010.  If you decide that you are going to act in your own self-interests, instead of acting in accordance with the mandate given to you with the Midterm Election, then, come 2013, you had better have a trade to fall back on.

Sitting here this morning, reviewing the news headlines, a few have caught my eye that I thought that I would expand upon this morning.

From mediabistro.com:

“Meet the Press with David Gregory” was the #1 Sunday public affairs show again last week, with a 660K Total Viewer lead over #2 CBS’ “Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer.”

But the bigger story is the loss of viewers of ABC’s #3“This Week with Christiane Amanpour.” A year ago (Dec. 20, 2009) as the show was preparing for a host change, “This Week” drew 2.79M Total Viewers. Last Sunday it drew 1.91M — down -46% in one year. NBC and CBS were up year-over-year. “FOX News Sunday with Chris Wallace“, was down slightly year-over year.

Network Program Total Viewers A25-54

NBC “Meet the Press” 3.37M 1.20M

CBS “Face the Nation” 2.71M 670K

ABC “This Week” 1.91M 610K

FOX “Fox News Sunday” 1.310M 430K

Amanpour, an  Iranian Brit, whose family fled Iran in 1979, was hired by ABC after 18 years on the International Beat for CNN.  She has absolutely no clue with regard to domestic issues. and has been roundly criticized for her anti-Israel bias.  ABC’s President David Westin, chose her over Jake Tapper in what has proven to be a very, poor decision.

Of course, America-haters around the world were in total agreement with Mr. Westin on his selection.

From yahoo.com:

Russia’s lower house of parliament gave preliminary approval Friday to a U.S.-Russian arms treaty, but decided to delay the final vote until next month.

The Kremlin-controlled State Duma voted 350-58 to approve the New START treaty in the first of three readings. The legislators said they would proceed further after returning from the New Year’s vacation that lasts until Jan. 11.

I thought Obama said that the world would come to an end, or sumpin’, if the START Treaty did not get passed during the Lame Duck Session.

According to Russian legislators, they need extra time in order to study the Treaty.  Why couldn’t Congress do that?

Scooter, you just got dissed.

A moment of clarity.  Compare…contrast…and cry:

From news10.net in Sacramento:

Big Sis Janet Napalitano and her TSA are disciplining an airline pilot for posting video on YouTube pointing out what he believes are serious flaws in airport security.

The anonymous 50-year-old pilot, who is also a helicopter test pilot in the Army Reserve and flew missions for the United Nations in Macedonia, lives outside Sacramento. asked that neither he nor his airline be identified. He has worked for the airline for more than a decade and was deputized by the TSA to carry a gun in the cockpit.

Three days after he posted a series of six video clips recorded with a cell phone camera at San Francisco International Airport, four federal air marshals and two sheriff’s deputies arrived at his house to confiscate his federally-issued firearm. Video of all of this has been provided to News10.

The federal marshals took the pilot’s gun and a deputy sheriff asked him to surrender his state-issued permit to carry a concealed weapon.

Welcome to the U.S.S.A., Comrade Pilot.

Speaking of a certain dictorial Regime:

Before that mean ol’ Democratically-controlled Congress wouldn’t do what he wanted them to do, and because he knows that the 112th Congress sure won’t pass the legislation he wants, Obama and his administration are going around our country’s system of checks and balances in order to stifle America’s energy production by placing new restrictions on greenhouse emissions, announcing plans for new power plants and oil refinery emission standards over the next year.

In an announcement posted on the agency’s website late Thursday, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson said the aim was to better cope with pollution contributing to climate change.

According to Jackson’s statement:

We are following through on our commitment to proceed in a measured and careful way to reduce GHG pollution that threatens the health and welfare of Americans.

This professional bureaucrat claims that emissions from power plants and oil refineries constitute about 40 percent of the greenhouse gas pollution in this country.

Obama had cryptically warned us, two days after the midterm elections, that he was disappointed Congress hadn’t acted on legislation achieving the same end, signaling that other options were under consideration.

Elections?  We don’t need no stinkin’ elections!

From the moment Barack Hussein Obama rose to national prominence, it has been quite clear that he views himself as an entity about your average politicians.  He views himself as a benevolent ruler, whose vision for the country transcends the American political system of checks and balances, and whose innate brilliance rises far above that of all of us ignorant Americans, like me, still clinging to their guns and Bibles. 

You know, those ignorant Americans who showed how they feel about Obama by producing the most remarkable refudiation of the political party that was in power in decades.  A real electoral mandate that Obama seems determined to ignore.

When the new Congress convenes after the holidays, the GOP-controlled House has promised a reading of the Constitution on the House Floor on January 6th, 2011.  That’s a good start.  Now, the folks on Capitol Hill just need to be sure that they understand and follow it, regardless of the wishes of the Regime.