Lizard brains. Lizard brains?? Stay classy, Arianna.
On the subject of ObamaCare, speaking as a doctor, here’s the biggesst criticism I can make: it’s been months since it was passed and no one yet has any idea what’s going to happen. NO ONE. Not the hospital administrators, not my medical group’s CEO, not the insurance companies and (of course) not the doctors. Tom Priselac, chair of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (and the guy our CEO reports to), was part of a healthcare panel which met with Obama last year and even HE has no idea what’s going on. The whole thing is chaos.

Was that the Barack Obama Fan Club Newsletter or the Communist Manifesto?

For the last two years, folks around here have had a hard time telling the difference.

The CEO of a large, prestigious university hospital system recently gave a talk to a service organization I belong to. It was scrupulously apolitical. One point he made was that there were 1045 “The Secretary shall…” most of what so far The Secretary hasn’t. Hence the large number of questions about what it all means. In response to the questions, he did allow that there seems to be NO understanding by the authors of how health care is really delivered, and how it is paid for. When pressed, hard, he added that without major changes it would collapse within a few years of being fully implemented.

Collapse of the health care system and it’s consequent replacement with single payer is precisely what is intended by the health care bill.

The lady medical/nursing types are running ads here in Florida because they are appalled, and really, REALLY want repeal.

Bought a couple of great cigars today and made plans to join some uber-conservative friends at their house for smokes, a few beverages, snacks, and a pinch or two of schadenfreude while watching the election returns. KNOCK ON WOOD.

“And when they operate out of fear and anxiety, they operate out of what they call their “lizard brains.” And “lizard brains” are not susceptible to rationality.”
Conservatives are not stupid they’re primitive. They are controlled by the limbic system. I think this is essentially the same line we got from BHO. His back room comment was that conservatives cling to their guns and religion. Let’s understand that comment as he would. Conservatives are dangerous and superstitious. When you are a rich liberal living in a gated community patrolled by armed guards in the rich part of town you don’t have the same concerns as ordinary folks.

I wish you’re all right and that Obama will have his powers well curtailed!! Something in me fears that he just might find a way to annul the elections, using things like martial law and other means to even provoke a civil-war… It well may be irrational; however, when has a real Communist (in this number I’m not counting Gorbachjóv) EVER given way peaceably?

So we’re stupid, irrational, afraid, bigoted, racist, sexist, and homophobic.

Yeah…there’s a whole lotta motivation to vote for Democrats. Do it, or we’ll call you names!

Never mind that taxes (including talk of a 1% tax on ALL bank transactions) are going up, jobs are going bye-bye, and terrorism is a convenient distraction that allows the State Department to wish happy birthday to the despot running Iran. Yeah, everything’s peachy-keen in America. If you’ve been living under a rock since January 2009, that is.

I have a bottle of Brut Sweet Rose champagne in my fridge. I’m off on Wednesdays. Tuesday night I will celebrate the Democrats’ defeat in high style.

Barack Obama did not “come of age” in the counter-cultural 60s, but in late 70s and early 80s. He is part of, and representative of, the Me Generation.

Not to put a damper on anyone’s celebration, but big wins on Tuesday will not solve any of our country’s basic problems. Constitutional government will only be restored by a long hard struggle to reduce the role of the federal government in our society, wean people away from dependency and into more self-respecting autonomy, and restore personal freedoms that have been bargained away for the illusion of security. Simply electing Republicans will not be enough.
If, as I fervently hope, Tuesday is a shattering setback for Obama, Pelosi, Reid and Company, constitutionalist conservatives would be well advised to adopt the attitude of Winston Chruchill after El Alamein: “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
Celebrate, yes, but be prepared to keep on working.

Agreed, Brize. But the first thing is to so hamstring the Obortionist that his agenda can go no further, and hopefully be rolled back.

The Dems have showed us over the last two years what they would do if they could have their way. Now, if it the will of the people, it’s time for the rest of us to take charge back from those who would steal it from us.

What’s been done to us over the last two years will, unfortunately, take longer than that to undo. It will need to begin this Tuesday.

Maybe my original comment was not so farfetched as I had hoped.

Now I can only hope that, for their own sake, those pictured know not what they do.

I like the balanced approach. Two comments by intellectual giants like Sowell and Steele, followed by “lizard brain” comments from elitist lizards.

I used to be amazed by the incoherent, dishonest drivel put out by liberals and their ilk. I now found myself even more amazed after I came to realize that they actually believe this nonsense. I mean, they really do!

If the bloodbath is as bad as is being universally, predicted, I have to wonder how many of the surviving Democrats are going to be willing to keep following Barry Hussein down his socialist road? I mean, what’s the upside? Have the Prez come campaign for you next time out?

Now surely there are some true believers who wish this was Cuba, but just as surely there must be SOME Dems who went along because the Chicago crowd and Reid/Pelosi made it clear what would happen to them politically if they didn’t. I have to doubt that those threats will still work after Tuesday.

Brize is right – we have to keep the pressure on after the election. But call me an optimist – I have some hopes that at least some of the Dems will go along.

As PJ said, this is not an election; it’s a restraining order.

Brize, Yes, but we do have to begin somewhere.

Brize is so right: “Constitutional government will only be restored by a long hard struggle to reduce the role of the federal government in our society, wean people away from dependency and into more self-respecting autonomy, and restore personal freedoms that have been bargained away for the illusion of security.”

To that, I would only add: restore sense of personal RESPONSIBILITY and remove sense of ENTITLEMENT.

As Scripture teaches us, throughout God’s dealings with the Children of Israel, the ills of society are ultimately the result of the character of the people and their relationship to God and His wise, good, transforming, redeeming Word that creates a society, people and families and nations that can flourish, physically, emotionally, relationally, financially and spiritually. When people, individually or collectively stray from that Word, they fall, feud and fail.

I’d have to add that Scripture also teaches ‘as the church goes, so goes the country.’ Fallen church, fallen nation. We have definitely seen this in our lifetimes.

However, God always uses His peoples’ sin or rather, its painful costly consequences to wake us up and reform and reshape us. We can hope…and pray this is happening and will work to reform the US church and government.

Meanwhile, the Mohammedists have reached a new low, using people with special needs (developmental disabilities) for their suicide bombing missions.

I pray the Lord will show them their own foul, inhumane, blood-thirsty hearts and will reveal Himself as Eternal Lord of Glory, Lord of Love, Truth and Life and also reveal the pain these beasts have caused and allow them to truly repent in godly sorrow, which is a different kind of pain – it is the most pain they could ever endure in this life.

Mere legal justice, retribution and punishment is simply not enough. No physical torment is not even enough to pay for such unspeakable, obscene deeds.

No, but a few special weapons on Tehran, Riyadh, Mecca and Medina might not hurt either. That might be doable with a single Trident.

it’s been months since it was passed and no one yet has any idea what’s going to happen

That’s because nothing’s going to happen. Because it will be defunded, revoked bu the courts, and repealed a month after the next Presidential election.

No, but a few special weapons on Tehran, Riyadh, Mecca and Medina might not hurt either. That might be doable with a single Trident.

Now that’s more like it! If Bush had taken Boulton & Wolfowitz’s advice on 9/12, this would have been done on 9/12 and the US wouldn’t be in two “unwinnable” wars.

RadioNZ news called house & senate for Republicans/Tea Party

Sinner,
I hope RadioNZ called it correctly and not upside down.

“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.”

“Snooze and you lose.”

Well, we’ve been snoozin’ for almost 40 years. Time to wake up. It will be a long slow process to recoup what we’ve lost.

Meanwhile, the Mohammedists have reached a new low, using people with special needs (developmental disabilities) for their suicide bombing missions.

They’ve actually been doing that for a while. Still sick and disgusting, but not new news to me, alas.

I agree – this is only the beginning. The turn around must happen, lest we go the way of France and Greece…riots for having to work to the ripe old age of 62 instead of 60…

It won’t be easy, even if the Dems lose the Senate as well as the House. Obama could, like Bill Clinton, shut down the government by vetoing spending bills he doesn’t consider big enough or which don’t contain funding for his “czars” and health care offices. It will be interesting to see if Obama can pull it off in the internet age. Clinton managed to blame Congress, and the news media went along with it. Obama has lost the news media to a certain extent and the populace to a large extent, and he’s not as smooth as ol’ Bill, so maybe he can’t do it.

Not to put a damper on anyone’s celebration, but big wins on Tuesday will not solve any of our country’s basic problems.

Two years with zero federal appropriations – except perhaps the military, and that attached to a bill that abolishes Obamacare – would make a damn good start

problem solved.

You don’t understand, Sinner, probably deliberately. Obama has to sign all spending bills. They can’t defund only what they want to; he has to sign the bills. They could, and I hope they will, break up spending bills into chunks and pass bill for separate functions, daring Obama to veto unexceptionable appropriations because he thinks they won’t pass the ones he wants. It’s going to be a big game of chicken, to see who blinks first.

Meanwhile, Liberals like Slate Magazine are hoping like hell the Tea Party will behave like RINOs as soon as they get to Washington:

They’re going to be in for a very very big surprise

http://www.slate.com/id/2272766/

[Once they've won both houses] the GOP’s congressional leadership will feint right while legislating closer to the center.

But they are likely to back off anyway, because making draconian cuts in spending, especially against the backdrop of an anemic economy, would be politically suicidal.

Which part of the Tea Party has changed America don’t the liberals understand?
Which part of America hates Communists don’t the liberals understand?
Which part of honor, integrity, and simple mathematics don’t the liberals understand?

The only good news for freedom is: liberals have no choice to misunderstand a 357 Magnum to the head, or piano wire around the neck to the nearest lamppost.

As I said before, rational Democrats (yeah, I know, but there HAVE to be SOME) will soon see little or no downside to going against the President’s wishes. Barry Hussein doesn’t have the people behind him any more, and he’s beginning to lose what’s left of his support from the big media. Vetoing bills that even left wingers can see are for essential government services will just play into the hands of both Hillary and Republican presidential hopefuls.

Overriding a veto will become the smart move for more and more Democrats in Congress. All House Dems start running again on November 3, and 2/3 of the Senate races in 2012 will involve Dem incumbents. Very few of those Dems will want the President’s support in 2012 if he persists in the course he has been following.

You don’t understand, Sinner, probably deliberately. Obama has to sign all spending bills.

And the House has to pass them first. They won’t.

They can’t defund only what they want to; he has to sign the bills.

Current law (31 U.S.C. 1105(a))[4] requires the President to submit a budget no earlier than the first Monday in January, and no later than the first Monday in February. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_budget_process)

They can defund anything by not passing Appropriations bills.

they could, and I hope they will, break up spending bills into chunks and pass bill for separate functions, daring Obama to veto unexceptionable appropriations because he thinks they won’t pass the ones he wants. It’s going to be a big game of chicken, to see who blinks first.

I hope they just won’t pass appropriations. It’s the entire damn point of the Tea Party to stifle the unconstitutional, Chicago-machine style Zakat that is the US budget!

skeptic5 has a good take on this. We’ll see if the Democrats who are left after this election want to be re-elected in 2012.

Sinner, what Clinton did was to veto appropriation bills not containing his desired spending and then blame Congress for “shutting down the government.” We still frequently see it referred to this way. I’m hoping that Obama, as inept as he seems to be, won’t be able to get away with this stunt — but time will tell.

In regard to tomorrow’s election outcome, a certain Christian commentator reminds us of Psalm 118:8-9 and urges us not to look to humans, mere men or even princes to straighten out the financial, political and spiritual mess in which the US (indeed all the West) is currently mired up to our sin-sick heads.

II Chronicles 7:14 lays it out for us. Abject repentance and turning back to God is our only hope.

There. Is. No. Other. Way.

So, RadioNZ is calling both House & Senate for Republications – with an identifiable Tea Party holding the balance of power.

Osama to make no progress whatsoever until he is replaced at the end of his term

Palin signalling a run for 2012.

We WANT TO SHUT DOWN GOVERNMENT

The Tea Party – holding the balance of power
– doesn’t want to fund UN aid for abortions
– doesn’t want to fund OsamaCare
– doesn’t want to fund welfare
– doesn’t want to fund the Federal Department of Education
– doesn’t want to fund the NEA
– doesn’t want to fund NPR

and these need annual appropriations

the Tea Party simply won’t let the RINO’s pass any of these bills.

All politics eventually comes down to allocating public resources and channeling collected money for the public good.

That’s funny. I thought the Founding Fathers intended that “all politics” was supposed to “eventually come down” to guaranteeing our inalienable rights. I didn’t realize one of those rights was institutionalized theft. Live and learn.

Sinner,
For a New Zealander you sure are hepped up about US politicks and churches. We sure do appreciate your support in this fight, good buddy. Couldn’t get by without your help.

We’ll we’re just as much a part of the empire
as most anywhere else

Anyone see the ad touting the new safeguards against Medicare fraud thanks to provisions of the new health care bill? Getting the geezer vote! A fine old American tradition likely to increase as the baby boom attains geezer-hood.

I mean no disrespect, but why did the “Greatest Generation” have to come home and raise children who thought – and still think – that the world revolved around them? The first nationwide generation of spoiled rich kids in history, who haven’t even so much of the comprehension of life, death, and reality that a routine winter hog-killing could have given them?

Skeptic5,
“Barry Hussein doesn’t have the people behind him any more, and he’s beginning to lose what’s left of his support from the big media.” I think a telling moment was when Jon Stewart called him “Dude”. I don’t see any respect in that title. He was mocked just yesterday by Kathleen Parker who ended her column by saying BHO is doing “..one heck of a job”

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