Quotes of the day
posted at 10:17 pm on December 21, 2009 by Allahpundit
“Consider the president’s leadership style, which has now become clear: deliver a moving speech, move on, and when push comes to shove, leave it to others to decide what to do if there’s a conflict, because if there’s a conflict, he doesn’t want to be anywhere near it…
“Like most Americans I talk to, when I see the president on television, I now change the channel the same way I did with Bush. With Bush, I couldn’t stand his speeches because I knew he meant what he said. I knew he was going to follow through with one ignorant, dangerous, or misguided policy after another. With Obama, I can’t stand them because I realize he doesn’t mean what he says — or if he does, he just doesn’t have the fire in his belly to follow through. He can’t seem to muster the passion to fight for any of what he believes in, whatever that is. He’d make a great queen — his ceremonial addresses are magnificent — but he prefers to fly Air Force One at 60,000 feet and ‘stay above the fray.’…
“I don’t honestly know what this president believes. But I believe if he doesn’t figure it out soon, start enunciating it, and start fighting for it, he’s not only going to give American families hungry for security a series of half-loaves where they could have had full ones, but he’s going to set back the Democratic Party and the progressive movement by decades, because the average American is coming to believe that what they’re seeing right now is ‘liberalism,’ and they don’t like what they see. I don’t, either.”
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“If this health care legislation becomes law, Democrats will attempt to use the new infrastructure they built to add stricter regulations, more subsidies, and additional mandates. They will continue to incrementally expand existing government-run programs such as Medicaid. And as health care spending spirals out of control, instead of faulting government intervention, liberals will blame the absence of a public option…
“All along, opponents of the pending legislation have argued that it was just one step on the long march to a government takeover of health care. And now, with victory in sight, Democrats are proving their critics’ point.”
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“True, if Republicans had played ball, they would have been in a position to eliminate the public option, demand deficit neutrality, and so forth … but they had Democratic centrists to do that work for them, and they won all those battles, to some extent at least, without having to vote for the final bill. Whereas winning the larger war, over the design of the legislation, was probably beyond their capabilities whatever negotiating strategy they took…
“In the end, when the history of the health care debate is written, I don’t think any of the choices that G.O.P. lawmakers made this year will loom particularly large. The choices that they made, or didn’t make, across the last fifteen years are what made all the difference. Between the defeat of Clintoncare and the election of Barack Obama, the Republicans had plenty of chances to take ownership of the health care issue and pass a significant reform along more free-market, cost-effective lines. They didn’t. The system deteriorated on their watch instead. And now they’re suffering the consequences.”
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They might suprise you. They have enlisted in the war on terror in record numbers. Its the hippies of the 60′s that brought us to this point and when the 20-50 crowd sees with eyes wide open the damage they have wrought, they might decide to again fight for their country. It is they who will suffer the consequences of the experiment of the 60′s radicals, they and their children
dhunter on December 21, 2009 at 11:48 PM
Well said. It appears that the “social justice crowd demands equality of outcome, regardless of the worth, talent, or effort of the contribution of the individual.
The health-care “crisis” could largely be resolved if people realized that insurance serves a purpose for protecting against devastating illness or accident. It should never have been seen as a compensation for routine medical care. If people paid out-of-pocket for doctor visits, innoculations, or minor afflictions, they would be more careful about abusing the system.
onlineanalyst on December 21, 2009 at 11:50 PM
Excellent piece.
It is a hard sell in our current society.
People have been taught that health care is a right- and that rights should be free.
In addition, the left has been very successful in sanctioning envy, which, in the current discussion, equates to “rich” doctors are greedy and evil.
So people delude themselves that health care, by right, ought to be free, or at least cheap, and that the government will be able to coerce that into reality.
Nevermind the saying that you get what you pay for.
justltl on December 21, 2009 at 11:54 PM
Hmmmm.
I’m thinking he’s right here. [h/t SDA]
This is about as true a glimpse of this bozo as we’re ever going to get.
The image of a petulant, willful brat comes to mind.
The kind that fancies himself as all-knowing, and utterly infallible.
And this isn’t the first time he’s screwed up a meeting.
[A bonus pudding for the first one to remember when . . . ]
CPT. Charles on December 21, 2009 at 11:55 PM
McCain, is a RINO. No fire in the belly, and always middle of the road politics. As long as everyone likes me attitude.
I really don’t think he ever understood or expected Palin’s influence during the campaign. He either bumbled into that, or maybe someone with greater wisdom pointed him in that direction. Otherwise, it was all a setup to his eventual defeat. I don’t know either way, but something good will come from it anyway.
In the end, the amount of money spent, this train-wreck, might have just mortally wound this country forever. When liberals start to talk like conservatives, you know they sense a grave problem.
Kini on December 21, 2009 at 11:56 PM
A few random thoughts:
I’ve always looked at Obama as a Scott Peterson type of personality—the most acute form of narcissism.
It has been brought up numerous, numerous times, but that 57, or (60 even) state comment was extremely telling of his skimming the surface of any knowledge, but more importantly, the lack of interest in U.S. history and facts. Again he does it with “when the bomb fell on Pearl Harbor”. I would have bet money that he had at least seen the movie.
I worked for a company that was the “middle-man” with the billing of Medicaid claims.. I was given a laminated sheet of paper on what was acceptable and not acceptable. On a list of twenty “acceptable” treatments for eye-sight, 19 were “NO”, one “YES”. I do not know how Medicare is rationed, but I can only assume it is in the same ball-park.
Government health-care is government rationing.
betsyz on December 21, 2009 at 11:56 PM
Short answer, as Terrye mentioned above, many people wanted change after the privations of war, Churchill wanted status quo.
OldEnglish on December 21, 2009 at 11:58 PM
Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus…our modern day Caligula
Schadenfreude on December 22, 2009 at 12:03 AM
I thought I was the only one who felt this way–now liberals see it too.
PattyJ on December 22, 2009 at 12:07 AM
Medicare is a freakin’ Cadillac compared to Medicaid. And Bush, Jr. put the finishing touches on that masterpiece.
That’s the problem with collectivism: When you take everybody’s money, and re-distribute it to a small number of people, it’s a feast. But when you take everybody’s money, and re-distribute it back to everybody else, all you get is a very thin gruel.
That’s why the Medicare recipients are some of this plan’s biggest opponents. They figured out that, under fully Socialized medicine, they’re going to get exactly the same treatment as everybody else. And they are pissed as Hell about that.
logis on December 22, 2009 at 12:08 AM
The real Obama, if one may use this term, was sitting in the pews listening to a Marxist, racist, black separatist, America hating “pastor.” That’s the real Obama that we’re seeing now.
Mojave Mark on December 22, 2009 at 12:10 AM
That’s just industrial strength nonsense. Republicans had no reason to push any health care legislation when they were in control of Congress because there wasn’t any health care crisis that needed any big legislating. And there still isn’t. This is a Democrat issue and a Democrat-manufactured “crisis” and always has been and always will be. Socialized medicine is their Holy Grail. They are never going to stop until they achieve it; it is their Prime Directive.
rockmom on December 22, 2009 at 12:11 AM
Interesting analogy.
Laci Peterson would be like the country.
Murder it and toss it into the San Fran Bay.
It’s clear Obama’s knowledge stems from what he has told us in his books, especially Dream of my Father. To me, it’s all about revenge against his father, and he’s taking it out on us, the American people.
Kini on December 22, 2009 at 12:11 AM
DING, DING, DING!!!
Ladies and Gentleman, We have a Tread Winner.
Next Stop. Cap and Trade!
Kini on December 22, 2009 at 12:14 AM
“well, Huffpo finally banned me.” Sobbing
reading the article about Obama voting present and reading the comments, I realized that …
1 These people over there call themselves progressives. I wonder what they really stand for? I don’t associate progressivm with anything particularly good.
2 Obama is a Socialist/Communist in Progressives clothing. They thought he cared about the people, but they now realize its all about him and his friends.
Reading the comments in that article is a pick me up for the conservative that is feeling beaten down.
chicagotrauma on December 22, 2009 at 12:15 AM
לא שרלוק חרא who didn’t already know that.
Caper29 on December 22, 2009 at 12:18 AM
Sherlock Holmes would expect another apology tour.
Kini on December 22, 2009 at 12:24 AM
Everyone knew that. ESPECIALLY the moonbats at Huffpo.
They all loved Obama because they thought he was one of them.
And now they all hate him. Because they’re finally beginning to realize the awful truth about Obama: that he actually IS one of them.
logis on December 22, 2009 at 12:28 AM
Thank you for your input. I did not know the full cornucopia of benefits with Medicare vs. Medicaid, although I should have suspected. As in, “The Scooter Store” that advertises heavily on t.v. “…if you are on Medicare this mechanized, mach-speed wheel-chair will be delivered to your door at little or no cost to you”. Other products pop into mind. Do these same companies appeal to Medicaid recipients? I can’t think of one. So there you go.
I get your point entirely…the whole thinning the gruel.
betsyz on December 22, 2009 at 12:29 AM
That will only bring on gang warfare.
Kini on December 22, 2009 at 12:36 AM
PEACE PRIZE!
alohapundit on December 22, 2009 at 12:38 AM
Okay, you had me in stitches, I remember that episode. I was afraid you were going to send me somewhere else. I will never doubt you again, you are a trusted friend.
betsyz on December 22, 2009 at 12:42 AM
With Mashed Potato’s
Kini on December 22, 2009 at 12:42 AM
Just like in the advertisement….
Gruel Truth
Kini on December 22, 2009 at 12:46 AM
Bush Sr. ? 1992
Jeff2161 on December 22, 2009 at 12:56 AM
Not much one for sentiment, but I still like your spirit. You seem to go through blogger’s comments with Zorro whips.
Take no prisoners.
betsyz on December 22, 2009 at 12:58 AM
Hilarious. YAK YAK!
alohapundit on December 22, 2009 at 1:02 AM
Never mind any of this, Simon Cowel just announced something. Got this info from Yahoo. Breaking, I mean, breaking news. I couldn’t stick around to read the full details, but it is enormous.
betsyz on December 22, 2009 at 1:07 AM
Obama has always looked up to his deadbeat Muslim -Kenyan dad. Its his white mother and grandparents that he has always resented. That resentment has been nurtured by Frank Marshall Davis and Jeremiah Wright and drives his vindictiveness, which Rhambo , Jarrett and Asslrod put to good use to take it out on us all.
Remember when talking to Oprah, the only Christmas gift he recalled was something his dad gave him, which may have been the only gift the Sr. gave to Jr. Strangely, he never mentioned anything his mom or grandparents must have given him over the decades !
macncheez on December 22, 2009 at 1:17 AM
He has been, and always will be most obvious in every regard to a very small minority…everyone else either wakes-up or else steadfastly continues their personal Obama delusion of the pretend man.
betsyz on December 22, 2009 at 1:39 AM
I stand corrected….
Excellent point! He did write a book about his love-em-and-leave-em dad in the finest of light, but nothing about the family that raised him.
20 years of racist teachings by Rev. Wright and the indoctrination of communist viewpoints by Frank Marshall Davis.
Can a Cinderella story go as horribly wrong as this?
Well, yes. When you give ipods with your greatest (in question) speeches to queens and heads of state already recorded…. narcissism is a turrible thing (see Charles Barkley)
Kini on December 22, 2009 at 1:55 AM
This bill requires a supermajority to repeal it.
It’s permanent.
WisCon on December 22, 2009 at 2:04 AM
WisCon on December 22, 2009 at 2:04 AM
Wrong.
Next?
CK MacLeod on December 22, 2009 at 2:18 AM
America elects a preening peacock and is now surprised to see him strut?
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The man’s a narcissistic moron. He reads a great speech off a teleprompter, and that’s about it. Well, no ACORN members went to jail while he was their lawyer, but it was Chicago and they were on the “right” side, so that’s perhaps not quite such an accomplishment.
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Adjoran on December 22, 2009 at 2:27 AM
I still remember an African-American Obama campaign official telling me in early 2008:
” We black and brown people will make him the first black president and take back this country from white people”
When I pointed out to her that Obama had a white mother, she replied :
” He ain’t no mama’s boy, not with that mama ”
I had no idea what she was talking about then
I do now
macncheez on December 22, 2009 at 2:54 AM
macncheez on December 22, 2009 at 2:54 AM
The problem with the black community is that they blame whites for their problems still. Instead of the real reason and that is their failure to assimalate within the culture of America, after the civil rights movement.
The black community could not let go of their racism, their fear of the white man, their hatred of the culture of the white man. They intentionally kept themselves apart, they turned on any blacks that embraced assimalation. Because of this, like their leaders in the 1700 and early 1800′s, their leaders today have doomed the black community to a new slavery. That is the slavery to government handouts.
unseen on December 22, 2009 at 3:41 AM
This bill requires a supermajority to repeal it.
It’s permanent.
WisCon on December 22, 2009 at 2:04 AM
no just the recomendations of the medicare board. However, nothing says that the gov can’t simply defund the bill.
unseen on December 22, 2009 at 3:43 AM
Well, give them a Christmas card and best wishes for a New Year.
Hate is a difficult thing to let go of, for some folks.
Kini on December 22, 2009 at 3:56 AM
We all become slaves. Not because of our color, but because of our wealth.
Kini on December 22, 2009 at 4:05 AM
i think bo is still using….
jbh45 on December 22, 2009 at 4:12 AM
We all become slaves. Not because of our color, but because of our wealth.
Kini on December 22, 2009 at 4:05 AM
no slavary is first and foremost a state of mind. the moment you think you can not handle your own life, the moment you turn to others’ money to support you, the moment you think others are better than you, the moment you cede your destiny to those “betters” is the moment you become a slave.
unseen on December 22, 2009 at 5:18 AM
Sadly they don’t see it that way. For them they are just collecting dividend on an investment their ancestor’s made. Now the LaRaza types have jumped aboard too.
Its difficult for me but the more I hear from the African-American voters entity , the more I am convinced that they voted for Obama because he personified not their pride but their seething hate
macncheez on December 22, 2009 at 6:25 AM
dare I hope…he truly is losing some of his luster with his people…
color me surprised!
cmsinaz on December 22, 2009 at 6:32 AM
I haven’t found that to be the case. If elections are held today, these same people will vote for him, again , and for the same reason they voted for him in 2008.
macncheez on December 22, 2009 at 6:47 AM
darn it, you are probably right…I keep thinking the rose colored glasses will fall off…
cmsinaz on December 22, 2009 at 6:53 AM
Oh yes, let’s eat our own. It has always worked for us in the past hasn’t it? If not for McCain, most Americans would not even know who Sarah Palin is…and the man did not survive years in captivity if he did not have some fire in his belly. The point is we would be better off with him in the oval office and if some of the people who just can not stop attacking the man had actually gotten behind someone else who could win maybe McCain would not have been the last man standing. Sheesh people. At some point conservatives need to assume some responsibility for their own mistakes instead of constantly complaining about everyone else. I think that is partly what the Tea Parties are, people assuming responsibility.
Terrye on December 22, 2009 at 7:07 AM
Healthcare was the BIG prize to get a larger base of voters for the Democrat party. Democrats scare seniors during the elections that they won’t receive medicare if a Republican is elected. Now the Democrats will have healthcare to dangle over a larger base of voters.
yoda on December 22, 2009 at 7:07 AM
When they find out their health care is not going to be free, they will like him even less. These folks were thinking they were going to get something for nothing. Not true.
Terrye on December 22, 2009 at 7:09 AM
hopefully the seniors have opened their eyes and realize they will be shooting themselves in the foot if they reelect these weasels…
cmsinaz on December 22, 2009 at 7:11 AM
you got that right…
cmsinaz on December 22, 2009 at 7:12 AM
Oh yes, this is true, they want to make more and more people dependent on government. That is the whole idea. Democrats like the poor and needy, that is why they work so hard at making sure there will be more and more of them all the time.
Terrye on December 22, 2009 at 7:13 AM
Hmmm…. From the comments section:
“Are there forces in this government that can even threaten a president. This is not the same man I voted for, maybe his family was threatened”
Seems to me someone is reaching for an excuse, any excuse to not face reality, that the guy they voted for sucks.
Johnnyreb on December 22, 2009 at 7:15 AM
The useful idiots will tolerate being duped and used. They will always get out and vote for the liberal to make sure the conservative loses. We should not “misunderestimate” the people BEHIND Obama who, getting desperate, will do ANYTHING to keep him propped up.
4Freedom on December 22, 2009 at 7:22 AM
When HuffPo starts turning on Soetoro the Storyteller, there is something afoot. I hope it’s the political neck of the Democrat party — from the top down.
Ricohoc on December 22, 2009 at 7:24 AM
Looks like Reid has made the Death Panels irreversible: http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/12/21/we-are-no-longer-a-nation-of-laws-senate-sets-up-requirement-for-super-majority-to-ever-repeal-obamacare/
True_King on December 22, 2009 at 7:25 AM
yikes!
cmsinaz on December 22, 2009 at 7:29 AM
We’ve got so much work to do in 2010. I just hope we all stick together and stop the third party talk, which helps no one.
yoda on December 22, 2009 at 7:30 AM
Vis-a-vis the state of slavery, I have always liked that old maxim:- walls do not a prison, make.
OldEnglish on December 22, 2009 at 7:30 AM
Huffington Post?
I am on first coffee…THAT was print-worthy.
ProudPalinFan on December 22, 2009 at 7:37 AM
This is the end friends. After the left passes their socialist healthcare manifesto they will continue to tighten the noose and shortly everyone will be totally dependent upon the government and the enslavement of the masses will be total and complete. Sad . . . but then again, this is what the enlightened voters wanted. This society is filled with an incurable rot and I doubt there are enough lovers of liberty left to stop its spread.
rplat on December 22, 2009 at 7:43 AM
aint over til its over
blatantblue on December 22, 2009 at 7:45 AM
That’s why we are counting on you to carry the torch bb. I have said this before….you are our future. ( :
yoda on December 22, 2009 at 7:47 AM
I’m on your side and I hope you’r right.
rplat on December 22, 2009 at 7:48 AM
The Dhimmicrats are trying to turn the US into a Euro-topia, but it won’t work. The US still has a sense of individualism. The Europeans, shell shocked from 30 years of continuous war, adopted all that supranationalism, “Hey, lets donate our sovereignty to a greater ‘good’” crap to avoid the horrors of war again.
We don’t have that mentality. The Euro-commies cannot thrive here.
blatantblue on December 22, 2009 at 7:53 AM
You know, I think things will get bad. I think we will have our backs against the wall, but I really do believe that good ol’ American tradition of, “Hey! F*ck off!” is going to kick in and we’re going to make things right.
blatantblue on December 22, 2009 at 7:56 AM
can we bang first?
blatantblue on December 22, 2009 at 7:57 AM
Claire McCaskill is on Morning Joe blaming GOP senators for precluding them from going home for Christmas.
BuckeyeSam on December 22, 2009 at 8:05 AM
Obamalot: Quest for the Lowest Common Denominator
maverick muse on December 22, 2009 at 8:06 AM
( :
OT: Have you heard from Lox?
yoda on December 22, 2009 at 8:06 AM
nope
i know hes around
blatantblue on December 22, 2009 at 8:08 AM
McCaskill is from the same stable of political whores as Nelson and Landrieu. Of course her allegations are absurd but perfectly sellable to her brain dead supporters.
rplat on December 22, 2009 at 8:09 AM
Obama celebrates Christmas 2009 as Wicked King Herod ordering the slaughter of the innocents at tax payer expense.
maverick muse on December 22, 2009 at 8:09 AM
I can’t believe they have the audacity to pin everything and anything on the (R)s on this one…
the msm hailed them as patriots for obstructing all of Bush’s agenda and now we are called the ‘do nothing’ party for doing what they did for 6 yrs…i just want to scream!
cmsinaz on December 22, 2009 at 8:15 AM
I’m listening and she makes me almost as sick as Nelson did on the radio yesterday.
I love the signs Missouri is hanging up of MCCaskill.
yoda on December 22, 2009 at 8:17 AM
ditto…saw them on MM’s site…
tee hee
cmsinaz on December 22, 2009 at 8:19 AM
From your keyboard to God’s eyes.
Physics Geek on December 22, 2009 at 8:20 AM
Someone needs to distribute Nelson’s signs around Lincoln and Omaha.
yoda on December 22, 2009 at 8:20 AM
for sure…
cmsinaz on December 22, 2009 at 8:22 AM
YAY!
davidk on December 22, 2009 at 8:49 AM
HuffPoop isn’t the only frustrated lefty:
davidk on December 22, 2009 at 8:58 AM
That incurable rot won’t sustain itself, every bit as unwilling (and unable) as lovers of liberty are to pay the increased costs incurred. All those who campaigned as if winners for catastrophic calamity sooner than later are the straw breaking the camel’s back, not messiahs.
The elected Majority remaining deaf to the People’s Voice and the Constitution are attempting to enslave our nation. Their gluttonous greed is their own downfall. God offered to spare Sodom and Gomorrah for the sake of 10 righteous men. Though no nation can thwart the natural outcome of their works given the inevitability of the refiner’s fire, we can pray for the preservation of our gifts from Providence, our Constitution, that good triumph over evil, that good people exercise faith.
HOLD MARXISTS TO THEIR FRAUD.
NEVER RELINQUISH OUR RIGHTS.
KEEP THE SPIRIT!
Proverbs 1:
2 “To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
4 To give subtlety to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
10 If sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
15 Walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
33 Whoever listens to this Wisdom will live in safety and be at ease, without fear of harm.” -Proverbs 1
“The beginning of wisdom is: get wisdom; at the cost of all you have, get understanding. Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.” —Proverbs 4:7,28
“He who loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.” —Proverbs 12:1
“He that turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.” -Proverb 28:9
“The man who remains stiff-necked and hates rebuke will be crushed suddenly beyond cure.” —Proverbs 29:1
maverick muse on December 22, 2009 at 9:29 AM
I can’t wait until the 20 somethings realize that they are the biggest losers in this healthcare bill.
They will be required to buy health insurance or pay a fine of $750.
If they already have health insurance rated on their good health, it will be jacked up 200/300% to pay for 50 year olds that smoke, are obese and have a heart condition.
It will be jacked up because pre-existing conditions are not excluded. So the buddy that rode his motorcycle 150MPH and cracked up, will be paying the same rate as him.
All Hopey big Changey.
barnone on December 22, 2009 at 10:17 AM
Yeah it does moron.
Next?
WisCon on December 22, 2009 at 10:28 AM
So now the libtards are complaining about their failed saviour?Big deal,they are just going to continue voting for the same crazy Democraps.Every one of the libs who are now complaining about Bambi WILL vote for him in 2012.
He is playing the game that Clenis played i.e. make promises you can’t or have no intention of keeping,spend two years f!!!ing things up and after the Republicans take over and make things look better,accept credit for the fix that wasn’t a fix at all.
It makes no difference what he does or doesn’t do,the only thing that matters to Democrap voters is to vote for the Democrap .Then we end up with self-serving Republicans running the country,who just delay the problems till the next administation takes over.So the cycle of Dems and Reps just passing the reins of power to one another will continue,with the Party being the most important thing.To hell with the people,preserve the Party,and line your pockets with tax-payer money.
The only answer to our country’s dilemma is to vote them ALL out-twice.TWO CYCLES-NO INCUMBENTS.
DDT on December 22, 2009 at 10:55 AM
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