By Mr. Curmudgeon

And America begins its slide down the chute to moral decay. The death panels Democrats assured us were a scare tactic by right-wingers on the payroll of big pharma and the evil insurance industry have begun. The world’s best selling cancer drug, Avastin (used in the treatment of breast cancer), was dropped by the FDA as an approved treatment do to the drug’s lack of “effectiveness.” The reason, of course, was cost. The cancer treatment averages $8,000 a month. The FDA’s action removes the requirement for insurers to reimburse the medical community for the treatments.

According to the London<em> Daily Mail</em>, “During the [ObamaCare] debate, those opposed to the reforms cited Britain’s National Institute for Clinical Excellence, which decides whether new treatments should be made available on the NHS on the basis of cost effectiveness, as an example of the sort of drug rationing that amounted to a ‘death panel.’” Avastin is just the first step.

Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) said, “I shudder at the thought of a government panel assigning a value to a day of a person’s life. It’s sickening to think that care would be withheld from a patiet simply because their life is not deemed valuable enough.”

Brittan’s health care death panel is scheduling a revue of Avastin in response to the FDA’s move. It looks like America is leading the way to dusty death.

By Mr. Curmudgeon

Andrew Breitbart posted a video on his website that has gone viral. In it, angry members of the Obama media confront African-American conservatives defending the Tea Party against the NAACP’s declaration that the grass-roots movement is racist.

A question concerning an incident alleged to have occurred last March 20th, the day the House passed ObamaCare, was asked. On that day, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other House members went among the anti-ObamaCare “Code Red” rally outside the Capitol Building to rub ObamaCare stink in the face of the crowd. Rep John Luis (D-Ga) claimed demonstrators spat on him and yelled the “N” word.

Joyce Jones of Black Enterprise asked, “John Luis put his life in considerable risk and danger so that you could stand here and talk about freedoms. And I want to know why it’s so impossible for you to think that…somebody actually did spit on him or call him the ‘N’ word. Why would he lie about that when he’s experienced so much worse?”

Niger Innis, spokesman for the Congress of Racial Equality, replied, “John Luis is a hero, okay, I may disagree with him on a verity of ideological questions…he refused to press charges. Why? Because it is a fraudulent issue. Stop playing with racism. A man in Connecticut just killed nine people playing the victim card and alleged racism. It’s a powder keg, folks. And you should not play games with it in our country. We’ve come a long way and we don’t want to look back.”

Innis was referring to the murder-suicide in Manchester, Connecticut, on August 8th. Omar Thornton, an African-American employee at a Manchester beer distributorship, had just left a hearing where video footage proved he had stolen beer from the company, and was told to quit or he would be fired. Instead, Thornton pulled a handgun and shot eight fellow employees dead before turning the weapon on himself.

According to the Associated Press, Thornton “had complained of racial harassment…but a union official said Thornton had not filed a complaint of racism to the union or any government agency.” A Teamster official told the AP, “It’s got nothing to do with race. This is a disgruntled employee who shot a bunch of people.”

When ObamaCare passed, it’s obvious that Nancy Pelosi hoped against hope for a racial incident when she marched Rep. Luis, her sacrificial lamb, before the Tea Party protestors. And there’s no doubt that a friendly Obama media was alerted to Pelosi’s stunt to capture the moment on video and photos. Instead, the triumphant Democrats were met with jeers and justifiable shouts of condemnation, but to Nancy’s disappointment, no racial slurs.

On Pelosi’s orders, Luis made the charge anyway.

The race card, in other words, was cynically played by a White Liberal to discredit the only credible movement opposed to what she sees as big government’s “essentially unlimited” power. That Luis, a man who was beaten during the civil rights struggle, should stoop so low is breathtaking.

But the race card is wearing thin with most Americans because it is used to excuse a multitude of sins — from the monstrosity of totalitarian ObamaCare to an angry man’s thirst for free beer and his willingness to kill for it.

By Mr. Curmudgeon

You have to hand it to some Congressional Democrats. They are taking totalitarianism on the road to test on the crowds back home. Unfortunately, some members of the audience are jealous of their liberty and can argue in its defense. Rep. Fortney “Pete” Stark (D-CA) found out at a recent town hall meeting with constituents in the San Francisco Bay Area.

A female constituent asked a good question about ObamaCare:

Woman: “How can legislation, such as this, be Constitutional when it seems to be in direct conflict with the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery?

“If this legislation is Constitutional, what limitations are there on the federal government’s ability to tell us how to run our private lives?”

Rep. Stark: “I think that there are very few Constitutional limits that would prevent the federal government from rules that could affect your private life. Now, the basis for that would be…how does it affect other people.”

(Crowd begins to stir and grumble)

Woman: “Sir, the Constitution specifically enumerates certain powers to the federal government and leaves all other authority to the states. So, the Constitution is very limited in what it can do, sir. And it specifically prohibits slavery. And when you tell somebody you have a right to get a service from another, that’s essentially saying, you get to make that person do something for you. And, sir, that is a form of slavery. So, my question is: how can this law be Constitutional? But more importantly than that, if they [the federal government] can do this, what can’t they?”

Rep. Stark: “The federal government can, yes, do most anything in this country…”

(Crowd boos)

Woman: “You, sir, and people who think like you, are destroying this nation.”

Rep. Stark: “I’m sure glad that you’re here to save it. It makes me feel very comfortable.”

Back when ObamaCare was still being hotly debated in Congress, Rep. Phil Hare (D-Ill) told a constituent (on video no less), “I don’t worry about the Constitution on this, to be honest.”

When Nancy Pelosi was asked about the Constitutionality of ObamaCare, she responded, “Are you serious? Are you serious?

“To each according to his need. From each according to his ability” said the sign near the slippery slope to the gulag and the death camps.

What Constitution? What inalienable rights? Are you serious? Are you serious?

Don’t worry. Bad things can’t happen here. This is America, after all. Wait a second…I forgot. We’re undergoing “transformative change.” That’s why Rep. Stark’s government can make “rules that could affect your private life” and can “do most anything in this country.” Stark smiles with satisfied confidence that nothing can undo it. He may be right.

2008 was a “game changer” for America. And in this game, we’re the losers.

By Mr. Curmudgeon

President Obama has something else to blame on George W. Bush. The FBI arrested 10 “deep cover” Russian spies in and around the Big Apple. There mission: to penetrate “policymaking circles” in the U.S. government. The FBI began monitoring the spies during the early years of Bush’s presidency. There goes that George Bush guy – reaching from past into present – to ruin all the bridge-building work of the hope-and-changer.

Earlier this week, President Obama sat down to lunch with the Russian President Dmitri Medvedev at Ray’s Hell Burger in Arlington, Virginia. The two leaders discussed building closer economic and bilateral ties over cheddar cheeseburgers. They looked very domestic…like Richard and Cynthia Murphy. The Montclair, New Jersey, espionage couple led away in handcuffs, much to the surprise of their neighbors.

The difference, of course, is that Rich and Cyndy knew what they were doing – toiling in the vineyards to make old Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s threat to Mister and Misses America a reality, “we will bury you.” The American president, with cheddar cheese oozing down his chin, as usual, is clueless. He wants to reduce America’s nuclear arsenal in order to please a Russian leader whose every commercial and diplomatic move gives Iran the means and the time to develop nuclear weapons.

It looks like an old George Bush counter-espionage program saved Obama’s bacon…I mean ground sirloin cheddar cheeseburger.

By Mr. Curmudgeon

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged White House advisor David Axelrod to tell President Obama to put a sock in it. According to POLITICO.com, Pelosi shrilly warned Axelrod that the president’s speeches decrying Washington’s “broken system” aren’t helping the Democrat’s lost cause heading into the November elections. She’d like him to place the Democratic majority’s failures on hopeless lump-on-a-log Republicans. Obama, Pelosi, Reid and McCain are only now realizing that our Tea Party Nation is coming after all the above.

After the election of Scott Brown in Massachusetts’s Senate race, Florida’s establishment (Democrat-Lite) Charlie Crist was the next major domino to fall. He trailed so far behind his Tea Party-supported rival in Florida’s Republican Senate primary, he quit the Republican Party to run as an independent. The Tea Party’s rising star, Marco Rubio, now enjoys a comfortable lead over his independent and Democratic rivals. If that’s not bad enough, it’s looking like Arizona’s John McCain will soon follow the hapless Crist.

Then Arizona passes an immigration law that merely mimics already existing federal statutes, and Blue States pucker at the thought of one state in our federal Union protecting its portion of the border with Mexico.

Democrats, who criticized George W. Bush for not using the power of the presidency to harmlessly deflect Hurricane Katrina out to sea, wonder why Obama can’t stop an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico by simply wishing it into a cornfield.

Bill “Bubba” Clinton and community organizer Obama, who reach out to anti-Semitic big-government Islamic terror states, tag the Tea Party’s small-government movement as a collection of racist terrorists.

Pelosi is right to worry, but foolish to blame the president for big-government’s failures. His socialist agenda of “hope and change” just pointed out the obvious: that all the kings horses and all the kings men can never put big-government together…even with an army of henchmen. A nation of 360 million souls is unwieldy to manage even on the best of days.

The emperor in this big-government fairytale has no clothes. And in 2012, the Tea Party will see to it that he’s also stripped of office. Then we can begin living happily ever after.

 

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By Mr. Curmudgeon

It was bound to happen sooner or later. Con men are preying on Americans fearful of ObamaCare. “In Illinois, a telemarketer recently sold an elderly woman a fraudulent health insurance plan,” says the New York Times, “that supposedly protected her against ‘death panels,’ the state insurance director says.” Unlike Obama, Pelosi and Reid, at least the insurance salesman gave the Illinois woman a choice. In reality, the woman’s best insurance plan is to vote out the politicians who voted to create the death panels, replacing them with Tea Party sympathizers dedicated to repealing Obama, Pelosi and Reid’s abomination.

The health insurance phonies (of the non-governmental verity) “promise affordable compliance with the new law. The fraudsters often impersonate…government workers.” And, when you think about it, just how hard can that be? After all, like the advocates of ObamaCare, the con men offer something of no value.

“If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is,” Michael T. McRaith, director of the Illinois Department of Insurance, told the Times.

McRaith gives sound advice. Regretful voters wish they had followed it before electing a president who promised to transform America at no cost in cash or freedom. Now the Obama media is concerned their con man is getting a little competition from people of low character – not associated with their man’s administration, that is.

By Mr. Curmudgeon

Byron York, chief political correspondent for the Washington Examiner, relayed in his syndicated column that House Republicans held a conference call to decide what exactly they mean by “Repeal and Replace.” “If the GOP wins control of the House this November on the promise to repeal ObamaCare — what do they do?” asks York. “Even if they repeal ObamaCare, Barack Obama will still be president and the Senate will still be the Senate, meaning that, absent a huge shift in the political atmosphere, the chance of final success will be small. What then?”

I have a plan. I call it the Seven Seals of Democratic Tribulation:

First Seal: A Republican-controlled House defunds ObamaCare.

Second Seal: Republicans craft a series of very public hearings that would curl P.T. Barnum’s’ toes. All the “Repeal Central” material would be available for downloading or viewing on the Internet (no boring fever charts on easels, please). The information should be in the form of compelling testimony by mom-and-pop business people and small town doctors. Get the finest documentary filmmakers to produce video content for posting.

Third Seal: Pass legislation repealing ObamaCare. Post network news video of President Obama vetoing the measure.

Fourth Seal: Repeat step three all the way through Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign. Imagine, if you will, President Obama excusing himself from multiple campaign speeches so he can veto the latest attempted repeal of his socialistic monstrosity.

Fifth Seal: On the podium at every stump speech given by the Republican candidate for president hangs the Great Seal of the United States. Clutched in the eagle’s talons a digital clock counts down the days, hours, minutes and seconds until a Republican sits in the Oval Office to sign ObamaCare’s repeal into law.

Sixth Seal: After tossing ObamaCare onto the ash heap of history, the new Republican president graciously donates the “freedom clock” to the Smithsonian Institution so that generations of school children yet unborn may venerate it.

Seventh Seal: The Republican Congress passes amendments narrowly defining the General Welfare and Interstate Commerce clauses of the U.S. Constitution, rendering impossible any totalitarian tinkering by future governments.

Imagine how difficult this leap of imagination is for tired Republicans John McCain and Olympia (wined-and-Obama-dined) Snowe. Now imagine a reestablished Republican majority thwarted at every turn by the thick-skulled mavericky spasms of the aforementioned. It should begin to dawn on you how important it is to dump these chumps in the upcoming Republican primaries.

In your heart of hearts, you know I’m right.

By Mr. Curmudgeon

You might not know Doug Elmendorf by name but the government agency he heads did a lot of fancy footwork to make Obama’s health care monstrosity appear “revenue neutral.” You see, Elmendorf heads the “nonpartisan” big-government Congressional Budget Office.

But in a recent interview with the Christian Science Monitor, Elmendorf decided honesty is the best policy. “U.S. fiscal policy is unsustainable, and unsustainable to an extent that it can’t be solved through minor changes.”

Now he tells us.

Not to worry, though. Paul Volker (peanut farmer Jimmy Carter’s Fed Chairman) dusted off a Carter-era big idea. “If at the end of the day we need to raise taxes, we should raise taxes.” Volker insists congress enact a value-added tax. This way you won’t notice how heavily your government is taxing you – it’ll be nicely hidden within each step of a product’s making – from raw material to finished widget. When a single paper clip costs you $10, big-government knows you’ll blame the stationary store.

Testifying before congress last January, Elmendorf said, “Last year’s deficit was the largest as a share of GDP since the end of World War II, and the deficit expected for 2010 would be the second largest. Moreover, if legislation is enacted in the next several months that either boosts spending or reduces revenues, the 2010 deficit could equal or exceed last year’s shortfall.”

Think about that a moment; what the U.S. government once spent defeating Hitler’s Germany, Togo’s Japan and  developing the world’s first atomic bomb, it now spends waging socio-economic warfare on you. And how are they keeping Obama’s Ponzi scheme from imploding (A-bomb-like) in the short term? According the Christian Science Monitor, “In essence, the US paid for substantial growth in entitlement spending by reducing military spending as a share of GDP.”

Unless We the People start listening to the Tea Party and make some dramatic changes in the upcoming elections, we’ll be responsible for reducing our once proud America into a poor and defenseless Third World nation.

By Mr. Curmudgeon

Adam Sharp (an apt last name) proved beyond any doubt why the Tea Party is important and today’s Republican leadership is worthless. At a recent ObamaCare town hall meeting held by Rep. Phil Hare (D-Ill), Sharp (a St. Louis Tea Partier) began to ask the congressman an important question. “Where in the Constitution does…” Fearing where Sharp was going, Hare cut him off. “I don’t worry about the Constitution on this,” Hare responded. Shocked by the congressman’s honesty, Sharp asked, “ You care more about that [ObamaCare] than the U.S. Constitution that you swore to uphold?” Hare quickly composed himself and spouted every petty American tyrant’s apology for stepping on the liberty of his countrymen, “I believe it [the Constitution] says we have a right to ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.’” Our Founding Fathers, it turns out, crafted a document not of liberty but of dependence and income redistribution.

The American Civil Liberties Union represents Nazis, pornographers and jihadists on behalf of the Constitution. President Obama even taught Constitutional Law at Harvard. The Republican standard-bearer in the last presidential race, John McCain, helped craft a campaign finance law the U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down as violating our Constitution’s cherished First Amendment free speech right. When Tea Partiers say they want to “take the country back,” what they mean is that they demand the government end its lawlessness and abide by those restraints placed upon it by the nation’s founding document.

President Obama, Rep. Phil Hare and Sen. John McCain “don’t worry about the Constitution” because it gets in the way of “getting things done for the country.” And if your liberties get trampled in their hurried rush, well, it can’t be helped.

Thinking Americans owe Adam Sharp a big thanks and a pat on the back for getting a big-government politician to say what’s really on the mind of Washington’s rulers.

It also underscores why every – and I mean every – incumbent needs to go. Republican incumbents in the primaries, and Democrats in November. If our representatives won’t abide by the document that begins “We the People,” it’s because We the People are aiding and abetting our nation’s political criminal class.

By Mr. Curmudgeon

President Obama’s wind Czar, or whatever he calls himself, must be livid that good liberal Massachusetts isn’t playing ball with the administration…again. First, they send Republican Scott Brown to fill Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat. Now they brazenly file delaying lawsuits to stall the construction of a lame-brained wind farm that will scar 25-miles of scenic coastline with 130 spinning propellers. Once built, it will produce negligible amounts of energy, but it makes Obama look heroic as he tilts at Al Gore’s invisible friend global warming. The feds then added insult to injury by paying Siemens Energy Inc. a half billion dollars for wind turbines. With the Euro dropping in value due to the bankruptcy of Europe’s crumbling nanny-states, Siemens appreciates the generosity of U.S. taxpayers. You see, Siemens is a German company.

In order to head-off possibly harmful publicity, Siemens announced it will open a Boston sales office. Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick said the Siemens’ gesture would “create jobs in Massachusetts.” The sales office will employ 5, maybe 10 people. When completed, the wind farm boondoggle will cost an estimated $1.6 billion dollars.

Remember those television commercials with oilman T. Boon Pickens hawking the benefits of wind power? It seems odd that Democrats would embrace the brainchild of the man who contributed cash to the Swift Boat veterans, whose ads did so much to scuttle Sen. John Kerry’s presidential ambitions. But his words make clear why Nancy Pelosi once asked Pickens to speak before Washington’s Democratic Caucus. “We have to have the right leadership and everybody in this country has to cooperate,” said Pickens, “…we have to march in the same direction…”

Recently, we saw a clear example of what Pelosi and Obama see as leadership. Over the objection of a majority of the Americans, they bribed, threatened and employed parliamentary tricks to force ObamaCare down the throat of a nation. Obama and Pelosi identify with Pickens’ idea that America must “march in the same direction.” That is why the November election is so important. It’s our chance to change that direction and rein-in Obama and Pelosi’s need to dictate marching orders. If Obama could harness the power generated by the upcoming winds of change, he could power America for the rest of this century.