Status quo you can believe in

So now the health insurance companies are saying they will find savings and lower the cost of health care.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

Obama who won't do anything - except possibly sh**, shower and shave- without a TV announcement is "pleased". Of course he is. The errand boy gets to play boss again. He loves that.

Also FYI- Wall Street bankers promise to be thrifty with your TARP cash and Sea Monkeys are, in fact, monkeys. Any last remaining idiots out there who do not think Obama is in the hip pocket of BIG CORPORATE MONEY, please turn out the lights when you leave the Delusion Convention.

The current "plan", such as it is, creates a system that has both a private and public option. Conservatives are squealing that this will destroy private health insurance companies. (buh bye!) They may be right. Or maybe the insurance bureaucrats who collect cash to ensure a lack of treatment will have to compete to survive by providing a service that is not insanely complicated, and is often worthless the moment it is needed.

Regardless of the outcome of the corporate love fest surrounding health insurance/care reform place your bets now on insurance companies winning big. Whatever one thinks about A single payer non profit option - the "liberal" President and the "Democratic congress" are not even willing to discuss it. On what issue will the allegedly progressive, currently mummified, Obama envelope stuffers finally revolt? My contempt for the idiots in my ex-party grows daily.

Like the stimulus, health care "reform" is shaping up to be a gigantic, gassy mess.

And the GOP has nothing to offer except the usual "Fuck off and die, already. Illness is not profitable!! The free market must rule everything. Even diseases! We have the best health care in the world...for the rich...who are the only people who matter!!! If we show compassion for anyone the radical islamists and sneaky illegals win!!! We are a Christian nation, except the Sermon on the mount part, which is liberal propaganda!!!! Now please excuse me while I go pray to my Ayn Rand blow up doll. "

"Compassionate" conservatives = "pragmatic" liberals = status quo = you lose.

2008 man of the year

Rappy nominees for today:

It's hard to fathom the depths of "journalism's" amoral ass licking in 2008 but try we must. They forced fed us Obama and there was a reason. Not at all sure what the reason was. ...3 cheers for Joe Scarborough - who leaves 2 other obamapod commentators mumbling excuses and, in essence, confirming their pathological proObama bias. Plus he mocks them gleefully in the end...it is important to remember that "journalists" like these should no longer be treated with anything but wary suspicion. We cannot and should not trust them. This is beyond doubt after 2008. They are selling something at all times - but rarely have the courage to tell us what they are selling...a war...a candidate...a bailout...

Sarah - Sane and on the ball.

I like me a woman who calls 'em like she sees 'em. Yes 'em, I do.

"This is Barack Obama's time right now, and this is an historic moment in our nation and this can be a shining moment for America and our history, and look what we're talking about. Again, we're talking about my shoes and belts and skirts. It's ridiculous."

I am going to keep watching the doings in Alaska for the next few years. There is a desperate desire to keep women out of ultimate power among the unseen hand that seems to pick our Presidents. Not sure why. Mommy issues? (mine are expressed by being attracted to strong women, not afraid...'nother story...) Old boys club and accompanying insecurity? Probably. The "unseen hand" men don't feel they can trust women to do the "right" (read as"wrong") things - they might just act with a female sensibility sometimes??? - This fear is routinely expressed with hormone and "on the rag" jokes.

Women's rights and Gay rights hit a high water mark and a low ebb in 2008. Liberals not consumed by the Obama show (which is to say real liberals) need to reinvest in both these movements now.

Like Palin's politics or not, Camile Paglia has it right - she is a very good sign for feminism - though many old guard feminists are too ossified to see it.

Lunch Break -Obama cult poster, No on 8, Go Brad!!!, BHO flip flops, AGAIN!, Evan Dando, The Graduate

The great pic was sent in from a reader in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles. Sort of says it all...

No on 8 - help out if you can.

Let's hear it for Brad Pitt!!!

Obama flip flops on major gay rights issue.
The how many times can he do the flip flop dance and still get the support the Prius, Whole Foods, Huffington, msnbc, "SMUG AS A WAY OF LIFE" crowd?

Obama is a pathological liar. Iraq, Fisa, Public Financing, NAFTA- Now Don't Ask Don't Tell.

And finally, a little Evan Dando, Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft mash up:

Lies, Damn Lies, and Obama ads.

I won't put the ad itself in this post because, frankly, it makes my skin crawl. You can see it here. But in BHO's first national buy of the general he claims credit for "Extended health care for wounded troops."

Lie.

91 Senators voted for this bill. Obama was not one of them. That is the truth. Obama did not show up to work that day.

When will the media begin to call this fraud out on his relentless lies? The Presidential Seal flap - now this - either his campaign is stupid or it is arrogant, or both. I thought his campaign against Clinton was his first real contest - but in retrospect it was clearly fixed. The General Election is probably the first time Obama has ever had to run a contested campaign - in which he was not "chosen" by the elites or able to remove opposition from the ballot.