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No Universal Health Care

Giuliani: Obama only has himself to blame for health-care debate

Leadership vacuum

NH Representatives bug out instead of facing constituents

Sherrod Brown: We’re not doing town halls

Video: Specter shocked, shocked to find individual mandate in ObamaCare

Try reading the bill

NYT investigates “death panel” rumors, forgets to search its own archives

So as of April 2009 Obama himself expected the final legislation to include some sort of group (but NOT a "death panel"!) that would produce voluntary guidelines for end of life care with an eye towards saving money.

HOW VOLUNTARY?  And how voluntary will these imagined guidelines be?  Doctors that are currently free to prescribe painkillers volunteer not to, to avoid hassles from the DEA.  Mightn't doctors prefer to follow the "voluntary" end-of-life guidelines rather than risk Federal examination of their taxes, expenses, hiring decisions, and payroll?  That would depend in large part on how aggressively the government chose to push the "voluntary" guidelines.

BY WAY OF CONTRAST:  The Wall Street Journal editors think the death panel talk is "over the top" but opines that seniors have a point:

Elderly Americans are turning out in droves to fight ObamaCare, and President Obama is arguing back that they have nothing to worry about. Allow us to referee. While claims about euthanasia and "death panels" are over the top, senior fears have exposed a fundamental truth about what Mr. Obama is proposing: Namely, once health care is nationalized, or mostly nationalized, rationing care is inevitable, and those who have lived the longest will find their care the most restricted.



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Leaving The Planet And Poor Worse Off

Environmental NGOs (nongovernmental organizations) Greenpeace and Worldwide Fund for Nature have just released the "NGO Climate Change Treaty." It's their wish list for terms of a treaty to replace the expiring Kyoto Protocol, and they're pushing it this week at a U.N. meeting in Bonn, Germany.

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Hmmm

Smoking gun: Memo proves secret deal denied by Obama and pharma?

Why would the pharmaceutical business risk creating a monopsony among its consumer base by supporting a government program that could eventually lead to a single-payer system? Having only one client — especially a client with the power to regulate the price you can charge him — gives him an awful lot of leverage over you. Which is, er, a bad thing, isn’t it? Yet they’re ready to plunk down $150 million to advertise on behalf of it, on the word of a guy from Chicago that he won’t double-cross them and demand lower prices once the bill is safely passed and he has the power he wants. Good work, pharma.

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California Could Get Nine House Seats It Doesn’t Deserve Because Illegal Aliens Will Be Counted In 2010

Our unconstitutional census: When illegal aliens count for Congress

Next year’s census will determine the apportionment of House members and Electoral College votes for each state. To accomplish these vital constitutional purposes, the enumeration should count only citizens and persons who are legal, permanent residents. But it won’t.

Instead, the U.S. Census Bureau is set to count all persons physically present in the country—including large numbers who are here illegally. The result will unconstitutionally increase the number of representatives in some states and deprive some other states of their rightful political representation. Citizens of “loser” states should be outraged. Yet few are even aware of what’s going on.

The 2010 census will use only the short form. The long form has been replaced by the Census Bureau’s ongoing American Community Survey. Dr. Elizabeth Grieco, chief of the Census Bureau’s Immigration Statistics Staff, told us in a recent interview that the 2010 census short form does not ask about citizenship because “Congress has not asked us to do that.”



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Bias Alert

Sunday, August 09, 2009 @ 04:14 PM ET
In an August 9 Washington Post op-ed, disgraced CBS anchor Dan Rather is asking President Obama to form a commission to find ways to help the news media. It shows the liberal journalist's comfort with Obama - can anyone imagine him asking President Bush to prescribe a fix for what ails the media?
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What's The Stimulus Have To Do With It?

July's drop in the jobless rate sent a flutter of optimism through the financial markets that the economy is starting to recover. But don't let the politicians fool you into thinking they had a role in the improvement.

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Feel Better?

WH: We’re not collecting names, we’re storing your e-mail addresses

Robert Gibbs assured Jake Tapper that the new White House initiative to get people to snitch on their neighbors for dissenting on ObamaCare had nothing to do with collecting names.  Oh, no — that would not be Hope and Change!  Instead, it has everything to do with collecting our e-mails

Gibbs’ answer is disingenuous.  The better question is why the White House created its snitch line in the first place.

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Genius

Harry Reid: Conservative talk radio hosts are also astroturfers

Help me figure this out. The whole point of “astroturfing” is to generate fake grassroots activity, right? That’s where the name comes from: Astroturf is a type of synthetic grass. Well, how is it “fake” if actual grassroots conservatives hear Rush Limbaugh say “you should go to your local townhall meeting on health care” and decide to go? They’re not being paid or fed or bused in or given pre-made signs. There’s nothing organized about it, or at least no more so than “objective” journalists recycling Democratic talking points about mobs by the dozen. Seriously, am I missing something here or have we now reached the point where conservative opinion is per se illegitimate and tantamount to a political dirty trick?

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