Open thread: Obama on ObamaCare — even better the 800th time around
posted at 7:50 pm on September 9, 2009 by Allahpundit
Alternate headline: “Let me be clear: You’ve heard all of this sh*t already.” 8 p.m. ET across the dial — except Fox, of course. The time to act is now, my friends, in much the same way that the time to act was in July before anyone had a chance to read the bill, attend a town hall, have a finger bitten off, or be called a subhuman by the Democratic leadership for daring to yell at them in a public forum. The topic tonight is policy but as you watch keep in mind the ocean of demagoguery the left used over the last month to try to wash away the grassroots revolt. Every time Obama sneers at the naysayers for incivility, remember that his toadies in Congress took to calling people like you “evil-mongers” — and he still has yet to open his fat mouth to say one word against them.
As I write this, more rumblings are coming from pro-life Blue Dogs that if they don’t get an up-or-down vote on banning abortion funding from the final bill, they’ll walk. I’m skeptical, but flag it for head-counting purposes in the days to come. As for the GOP response tonight, it smells like a bust. They’re taking the approach of conceding that the public wants some sort of reform while insisting that a statist solution is all wrong. I would have taken a more Hannan-esque line: You’ve run out of our money, Barry, and the very last thing that’s going to solve that problem is kick-starting another destined-for-bankruptcy bloated federal boondoggle. It’s like trying to repair a house that’s creaking and dilapidated by hitting it with a wrecking ball.
To set the mood, enjoy an ObamaCare pep talk from one of the least likeable spokespeople on the media/entertainment landscape. I can’t even imagine the thought process that went into picking this guy for this cause; unless it’s Rock the Vote’s way of trying to sabotage The One, it’s unfathomable. How dispiriting it must be to write for a popular site knowing full well that many of your readers either barely tolerate you or hate your guts. I’m glad I don’t know anyone like that! Content warning.
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yup I particularly enjoyed the invokation of a partisan figure in a speech that was in theory to end an imaginary partisan divide that is preventing the supramajority party from somehow voting with 1 missing vote for cloture an issue they have been crafting a hemlock milkshake for for 50 years and wanted passed in 50 minutes….
you have the votes without us champ stop looking to us to provide cover for you and fufill yoursuicide bombing of US healthcare.
sven10077 on September 9, 2009 at 10:17 PM
if you say so….he is hemmoraghing Independents faster than crossover Republicans.
sven10077 on September 9, 2009 at 10:18 PM
++
lovingmyUSA on September 9, 2009 at 10:18 PM
I wonder if the networks were happy with their donation of revenue for the evening?
Cindy Munford on September 9, 2009 at 10:18 PM
What momentum?? This really does have to be a joke!
Get a clue, Barry! Maybe you need to just take your shoe off and pound the podium or something!
JellyToast on September 9, 2009 at 10:19 PM
I’m with you on that Bro. One of his fundraisers called looking for money to “fight Obamacare” and I made my thoughts on the effectiveness of McLame’s Conservative advocacy. He’ll never see another penny from me, I donated to Palin’s VP run, not McLame!
Maquis on September 9, 2009 at 10:19 PM
Who among who watched that speech was not laughing their ass off at the sight of Smilin Joe and wax-faced Nancy near the beginning of the speech. They looked comical to me.
Spider79 on September 9, 2009 at 10:20 PM
He’s seriously addicted to the sound of his own voice. When he was a teenager he spent hours in the bathroom — giving speeches to the mirror.
PackerBronco on September 9, 2009 at 10:20 PM
His dad was gone….a lot…
he and Barry could compare notes….
Admiral McCain was a great man and a far better sailor than Captain McCain.
sven10077 on September 9, 2009 at 10:20 PM
I’m betting FOX was.
Ampersand on September 9, 2009 at 10:20 PM
Troll.
atheling on September 9, 2009 at 10:20 PM
What were FOX’s (not FNC) ratings?
Is Gibbs still whining that Obama couldn’t rip off the Chavez format a la “Alo Presidente”?
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on September 9, 2009 at 10:21 PM
uh er of course they were, as I have always said and let me be clear….profits especially non uh author profits….are ‘evil’
sven10077 on September 9, 2009 at 10:21 PM
Remember the cries about giving up liberty for security?
Where are they now. These lefties are hilarious. What about keep your laws off my body? They hypocrisy is downright scary.
CWforFreedom on September 9, 2009 at 10:21 PM
Why do all the leftists hate “rednecks”, Do they think everyone left of Nancy P. is a KKK? The leftist party is not tolerante at all and BO does not spend much time reaching across the aisle. I believe this BO will try to take over (Chavez-Castro) style and we will be stuck living under a communist regime. God help us.
garydt on September 9, 2009 at 10:21 PM
His name does scream MOBY…
Ampersand on September 9, 2009 at 10:22 PM
All Obamabots look like that…especially simplesemen as he’s using his one hand while typing with the other…
lovingmyUSA on September 9, 2009 at 10:22 PM
Nah. We haven’t even gotten to the cowboys and libturds stage.
atheling on September 9, 2009 at 10:22 PM
Exceleept point CWforFreedom about how the lefites only support freedom when they choose to do so. Their other freedom of choice is when it comes to abortion and thats about it.
garydt on September 9, 2009 at 10:23 PM
Yeah,, he could take his shoe off, pound the podium and shout
“We will bury you! Literally!”
JellyToast on September 9, 2009 at 10:23 PM
Of the Obama
By the Obama
For the Obama
chickasaw42 on September 9, 2009 at 10:23 PM
pssst… it’s code for “white people.” shhh
Ampersand on September 9, 2009 at 10:23 PM
Was anyone still even awake at the end…
JIMV on September 9, 2009 at 10:23 PM
Actually, he’s got DCWVU doing the dirty for him while he types. (He’s cheating on Growfins)
atheling on September 9, 2009 at 10:24 PM
No kidding. Why watch tennis when you can watch his head bounce back and forth between the Republican (wicked & uncooperative) and Democrat (we’re working hard here) TOTUS. HA! I counted all of three seconds when O managed to pull his head to the center and address the American people directly. I’d like to suggest O find a ventriloquist to help him with this problem, but I doubt anyone would want to stick their hand THERE. Although with all of the BS thrown out tonight, it ought to be pretty clean up there.
gobblemom on September 9, 2009 at 10:27 PM
I wouldn’t be surprised if he got a bump in the night.
Sharke on September 9, 2009 at 10:29 PM
My anus is bleeding!
Ugly on September 9, 2009 at 10:29 PM
After the recent blitzkrieg by Glenn Beck, I don’t know, every time I see O’Reilly clowning it up with the people he should be putting on the hot seat, well, I think he should rename his show, “Softball with Bill O’Reilly.”
In spite of the good he’s done I don’t think he really understands “the folks” as well as I thinks he does.
Gang-of-One on September 9, 2009 at 10:30 PM
When I saw Mrs. Kennedy, I thought….no, he wouldn’t.
But he did!
Cheap beyond words. All the crocodile tears of Pelosi and Biden, and the real tears of the widow, felt like theatrical overkill. I bet even the Dems hated it.
PattyJ on September 9, 2009 at 10:33 PM
++good one!
lovingmyUSA on September 9, 2009 at 10:34 PM
The lefties keep bragging how great the speech went but fail to explain the lies the president told in his speech. If we have to insure illegals where will this insuring stop? The Illegals have relatives and then they have relatives that reach clear down to Tierra de Fuego. Will we insure all of these folks as well? If we don’t then we will be accused of insensative.
garydt on September 9, 2009 at 10:35 PM
What is the server for HA, an old Atari 1000?
Bishop on September 9, 2009 at 10:35 PM
garydt on September 9, 2009 at 10:35 PM
Yes, just like they always said he and Bidden won the debates–they live in unicorn land…
lovingmyUSA on September 9, 2009 at 10:37 PM
The maggot-in-chief hath spoken. Be gone you evil spirits!
Griz on September 9, 2009 at 10:38 PM
No kidding? Because I heard a strident boilerplate rant about needing to do something now because apparently we are all going to die if nothing happens.
Bishop on September 9, 2009 at 10:39 PM
No doubt–this thing should be virtual servered at least a few times over. Is it even?
Anyway, enjoy the content–that I don’t pay for–so we shouldn’t complain all that hard.
BryanS on September 9, 2009 at 10:39 PM
Don’t worry folks, every single lie he told will be listed in order and refuted all over the web by tomorrow.
Sharke on September 9, 2009 at 10:40 PM
I think his speech was a lead balloon. The ‘people will die’ bit needs to be made the sound bite of the speech by talk radio tomorrow.
BryanS on September 9, 2009 at 10:42 PM
I don’t know what the ratings were, I hope Fox Network kicked hindquarters. I non-expert opinion about the calling of the joint session of Congress was to make the networks think that something big and exciting was going to happen tonight. I understood they have been less then thrilled giving up prime time for the same old schtick. I think he fooled them again.
Cindy Munford on September 9, 2009 at 10:44 PM
ahhh…I see Hot Air is ahead of me on that thought already…new post :)
BryanS on September 9, 2009 at 10:45 PM
Its only a lie if they proclaim it so…till then any statement, no matter how wrong or misleading, is the absolute truth…”it was all about sex” Remember…
JIMV on September 9, 2009 at 10:45 PM
Sayyyy. Do you think Obama was late because he wanted to squeeze the GOP response off the screens of the major networks?
Or, as Dennis Miller pointed out, was Obama providing an unintentional example of the lunacy involved in assuming government can get health care right, when they can’t even start a speech on time?
hawksruleva on September 9, 2009 at 10:50 PM
Headline tomorrow: “Obama discovers the existence of death!”
I wonder if he’s working on a plan to overcome it. Maybe if he’d finally choose a church, he would learn that death comes to all things, and there’s a way to meet it with grace and dignity.
hawksruleva on September 9, 2009 at 10:52 PM
Did I miss something? Was Zero talkin’ to the kids again? Sorry, I was busy working. My bad.
Kenosha Kid on September 9, 2009 at 10:54 PM
WOW! LOL! This speech will go down as an EPIC miscalculation by Obama.
elduende on September 9, 2009 at 10:55 PM
…and California–at least down here on the border where I live. Not speaking for the others, but this is one White Trash redneck that would like nothing more than to put the boot to the d!ckweed troll simplesimon.
Gang-of-One on September 9, 2009 at 10:56 PM
THIS IS WHAT WILL HAPPEN UNDER OBAMACARE. BE WARNED!!!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsog3O-UCPw
jaboba on September 9, 2009 at 10:57 PM
he’s probably playing lucky pierre those two.
Fighton03 on September 9, 2009 at 10:57 PM
que Pete Townsend…LOL
Hey, want some redvines? this is fun!
Fighton03 on September 9, 2009 at 10:58 PM
“So You Think You Can Dance Judges Pan Obama Performance” http://optoons.blogspot.com/2009/09/so-you-think-you-can-dance-judges-pan.html
Mervis Winter on September 9, 2009 at 11:02 PM
I’m sure Iowahawk will do this better, but here’s my take on it:
“Obama discovers death“
hawksruleva on September 9, 2009 at 11:03 PM
What was the catch phrase that you drank to? These are definitely fun.
Cindy Munford on September 9, 2009 at 11:09 PM
every time he lied…
Fighton03 on September 9, 2009 at 11:13 PM
I hope you are okay to drive by the morning.
Cindy Munford on September 9, 2009 at 11:16 PM
2 wars, war on terror, Sep 11th in 48 hours, and 2.4 million lost jobs, and a joint session of Congress.
This is it?
faraway on September 9, 2009 at 11:18 PM
This has done nothin but piss off the TV zombies. He’s already over-exposed, and has nothing new to say except some carefully worded walkbacks. And the Kennedy thing at the end was just pathetically done.
Let’s get this to 2.5K!
2ipa on September 9, 2009 at 11:19 PM
Add that to the list of many, many EPIC miscalculations by The One…
He thinks that the answer to every problem is “more Obama”.
Here’s a newsflash, Champ… you ain’t bacon, and you ain’t cowbell… even the people who found you tolerable are growing weary of lectures.
jana on September 9, 2009 at 11:23 PM
This guy kept wagging his finger all night.
faraway on September 9, 2009 at 11:24 PM
I’m Irish-Italian….and besides,the PRK is driving me out of business so I don’t really need to be up that early :)
Fighton03 on September 9, 2009 at 11:26 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQk8dDcQkJk&feature=related
Obama should learn from this Great Man.
jaboba on September 9, 2009 at 11:31 PM
I was offended by Rep. Wilson’s outburst. Obama is still the President, even though we don’t agree with him on all things.
Reagan Republican on September 9, 2009 at 11:35 PM
How do you know when one catchphrase ends and another begins with this guy?
Sharke on September 9, 2009 at 11:36 PM
He can’t, because that would mean he has to accept that he is not the one.
Fighton03 on September 9, 2009 at 11:40 PM
and he’s still an idiot and a liar. If you’re offended by the truth, you need to talk to the mirror a bit.
Fighton03 on September 9, 2009 at 11:42 PM
Lying is just a way of LIFE on MSNBC..I was flipping through the channels and came across the “Ed Show” where the host said that Joe Wilson planned his outburst because the text of the speech was given out beforehand so he knew what was coming.
LIAR – all that was given out was a laminated card of democrat talking points.
JustTruth101 on September 9, 2009 at 11:42 PM
hic……LOL
Fighton03 on September 9, 2009 at 11:42 PM
It’s a simple case of envy. BOR can’t handle the fact that Beck is stealing his thunder. I’ve always tried to cut O’Reilly a little slack–after all, he does keep the Olberloonies of the world at bay–but his narcissism has really begun to irritate the hell out of me of late.
I was especially disgusted by his smug dismissal of Beck’s “get” of Van Johnson. Beck was instrumental in showing this a**hole the door, and it must have killed BOR that someone other than his own Bigheadedness was able to pull something like that off. He shucked and jived all through his segment with Beck, as though the matter was beneath him.
O’Reilly, put your mouth in neutral and get your ass back in gear.
Elessar on September 9, 2009 at 11:45 PM
I was offended by Rep. Wilson’s outburst. Obama is still the President, even though we don’t agree with him on all things.
Reagan Republican on September 9, 2009 at 11:35 PM
Funny the moniker you’ve given yourself, Reagan didn’t mince words, true the setting may not have been the best setting but Mr. Wilson expressed his real feelings and for that I applaud him.
I’m not offended and he should have never apologized for calling this man out to be what he is. Obama has been lying to the American pople from before day 1, he’s a Socialist/marxist/communist and his only intent for being in office is to destroy this country as we know it.
nwsseeker on September 9, 2009 at 11:54 PM
Congressman Wilson was very disrespectful…
But in all honesty, Barry has earned the disrespect, in 7 long painful months of attacking working Americans….
phreshone on September 9, 2009 at 11:55 PM
It would appear that nobama is just a useless troll, all he does is spew barbera strisand and make people wonder when were going to start the practice of retroactive abortion.
huckelberry on September 10, 2009 at 12:02 AM
Fox News is replaying the full speech: accept your punishment unbelievers and watch!
ya2daup on September 10, 2009 at 12:03 AM
And as such he should hold himself to a higher standard. A standard of NOT lying his ass off to Americans like he did tonight.
No, sorry RINO dude….Ochimpy is a traitor to this country and should be called what he is every time he tells a lie. Which is easy to do because we know he is lying because his mouth is moving.
csdeven on September 10, 2009 at 12:04 AM
i would have been offended in, say, 1997.
but it’s 2009. we’ve had a DECADE of the left demonizing us, booing and hissing bush in his state of the unions.
The left can STFU
battleoflepanto1571 on September 10, 2009 at 12:05 AM
Good advice!
Gang-of-One on September 10, 2009 at 12:15 AM
Gang-of-One on September 10, 2009 at 12:17 AM
Ochimpy is the kind of idiot that would take a sleeping pill and a laxative at the same time.
csdeven on September 10, 2009 at 12:21 AM
ChickaBOOMer — Obama: Stop The Bickering! Death Panels “A lie, plain and simple.”
http://chickaboomer.blogspot.com/2009/09/obama-show-me-money.html
StewartIII on September 10, 2009 at 12:24 AM
The most annoying presidential voice to have to hear bloviating since Slick Willy Clinton. George Bush, Sr. comes in third.
Dr. ZhivBlago on September 10, 2009 at 12:26 AM
Barry, if you try to take the Massachusetts plan national then the RNC is going to eat you alive in 2010, before they repeal it in 2011. Yes, it’ll eviscerate Romney too, and we’ll feel the loss I’m sure. But that’s ok. In the end, “we have reserves.” You, on the other hand, campaigned all last year like you were the singular H. Sapiens possimus, the one your acolytes were waiting for; and after you were completed, you broke the mold before going to work on creating God.
Another suggestion, Barry – on your mandated coverage, you can’t squeeze blood from a turnip. Tax rebates kick in at tax time, in April – how are people supposed to pay for this coverage you’re mandating if they have no money? (Incidentally, Bill Attainder called, said to pick up the red courtesy phone.) We’ve lost, nationally, an average of 550-600K jobs in the private sector EVERY MONTH since you took office. Your public sector is now the leading job market in the country. How are all these new public “servants” supposed to be paid, chief? To say nothing of your grand edifice, your towering monument to yourself, your dare-I-say-it Ozymandian likeness? Especially after Cap’n'Trade and Card Check (which your own government declared too susceptible to coersion!) eviscerate what’s left of the private, producing sector? When you can’t pay the bureaucrat army you’ve raised, THAT is when your monstrosity is going to collapse, as its prototypes did in 1989, and again in 1991. And does so today, as rural China smoulders.
I don’t look forward to that day, for I plan to be here to greet it. It’ll be a hard day, a year of hard Sundays, as the old-timers you’re helping into their graves used to say. But I do look forward to the day after, when we the living clear the wreckage of your death-worshipping cult and start building for ourselves anew.
Blacksmith on September 10, 2009 at 12:53 AM
Wow… this is a big thread.
BTW, I just saw Axelrod on O’Reilly, and he was terrible. I mean awful. Whoever decided he should be the one to go out and spin this on the most watched news program of the evening should be fired.
JohnGalt23 on September 10, 2009 at 1:38 AM
I pledge to oppose BObummer and serve my country by serving my fellowmen.
This man looks sincere while telling a bunch of untruths. Someday he will pay for his brazen lies.
miron on September 10, 2009 at 1:53 AM
An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.
/old dead guy
long_cat on September 10, 2009 at 2:20 AM
Axelturf had said previously that:
If that’s true, the obvious question should be how would he know anything about “Healthcare Decisions Day” in the first place? Yes, he lied all the way around about what the day was about and Palin’s role in it, but it’s not like it’s a nationally recognized holiday.
So why would he have any knowledge on this topic?
powerpro on September 10, 2009 at 2:24 AM
“Momentum” must be the new left wing talking point, as I have heard it on NPR and CNN, as if the anointed one has momentum but downwards.
Dhuka on September 10, 2009 at 2:35 AM
Palin counters http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/note.php?note_id=131081638434&ref=nf
Tazz 55 on September 10, 2009 at 3:20 AM
I find it hilarious that not only are all the liberals-Democrats sooo butthurt all across the world wide webs over the one-solitary-word slung at Barackus Caesar by Joe Wilson, as if Reagan or both Bush President’s were never heckled by Democrats during a speech, when you point out the fact that Democrats have heckled too they invariably skreech that it is a ‘false equivalence’.
Barack Hussein Obama, his cabinet and administration of ‘radicals’, and the leading Democrats in Congress are literally poison to this country.
Anyone who can’t see that plain as day in these eight short months is mentally defunct.
And we still have over 3-years to go with Barack Hussein Obama leading us to our demise. Damnit.
SilverStar830 on September 10, 2009 at 3:34 AM
What’s on the ObamaShow tomorrow? I haven’t looked at my tv schedule yet. If he doesn’t get better ratings, NBC is liable to cancel his show. Seriously, I’ve already read an article in the Associated Press that wipes out most of his statements. I mean really, the AP?????
gordo on September 10, 2009 at 4:16 AM
BBBWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHAAAAHHHHH!!!!
Seven Percent Solution on September 10, 2009 at 4:56 AM
Next show has Michelle juggling plates on long poles, Reverend Wright ventriloquist act, and Dear Leader reciting poetry.
Jeff from WI on September 10, 2009 at 5:13 AM
yo i predicted it
almost 2300 comments
yea g
gimme a green room spot now biatch
blatantblue on September 10, 2009 at 6:52 AM
I find it hilarious that not only are all the liberals-
they in fact celebrated an assault on Bush with the Iraqi shoe thrower and were quiet when people wished for the killing of Bush. I think they can handle a heckle.
CWforFreedom on September 10, 2009 at 7:24 AM
that was different…
as it always is…
the funny thing is last time I checked my watch Barry said we’d be out of both about 35 days ago….
“change”
sven10077 on September 10, 2009 at 7:42 AM
Reminded me of “The Mask of the Red Death” by E.A.Poe. Let congress throw a party and clap for themselves while America is burning in anger against them.
Osis on September 10, 2009 at 7:53 AM
As for the GOP response tonight,…the public wants some sort of reform.
This piece of the “public” want to reform the source of all our problems-Washington. I intend to vote out every incumbent.
Don L on September 10, 2009 at 8:02 AM
“He’s seriously addicted to the sound of his own voice. When he was a teenager he spent hours in the bathroom — giving speeches to the mirror.
PackerBronco”
What ever do you mean…”as a teenager?” He has installed in the WH a two way mirror and runs back and forth to see how good his marvelous speaking sounds.
To para phrase that old “Mutt n Jeff” cartoon:
Why do you talk to yourself?
Two reasons; I like to talk to intelligent people and I like to listen to intelligent people talk!
Don L on September 10, 2009 at 8:13 AM
If anybody with an R after their name votes for this crap sandwich they should be hung out to dry.
red131 on September 10, 2009 at 8:19 AM
This and Crap’N'Trade are our St. Crispin’s Day Speech time for Agincourt frankly….if these two issues are not worth us standing shoulder to shoulder on then none are and we need to make Republican as topical a name for a party as “Whig”….
http://www.chronique.com/Library/Knights/crispen.htm
sven10077 on September 10, 2009 at 9:28 AM
“How dispiriting it must be to write for a popular site knowing full well that many of your readers either barely tolerate you or hate your guts. I’m glad I don’t know anyone like that!” AP-
Hate, AP? Why do you think you merit that level of emotion?
SKYFOX on September 10, 2009 at 9:38 AM
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