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Mon., Sept.25, 2017
~All Gave Some~Some Gave All~ God Bless America~
The Pats and NFL (NBA as well) can go to blazes. I’ll stand and then switch off TV after the Anthem. Hockey will not permit this kneeling BS from their players. These players play in stadiums financed in part by the taxpayers. Give us our money back. I’m outta here.
STATEMENT FROM PATRIOTS CHAIRMAN AND CEO ROBERT KRAFT
"I am deeply disappointed by the tone of the comments made by the President on Friday. I am proud to be associated with so many players who make such tremendous contributions in positively impacting our communities. Their efforts, both on and off the field, help bring people together and make our community stronger. There is no greater unifier in this country than sports, and unfortunately, nothing more divisive than politics. I think our political leaders could learn a lot from the lessons of teamwork and the importance of working together toward a common goal. Our players are intelligent, thoughtful and care deeply about our community and I support their right to peacefully affect social change and raise awareness in a manner that they feel is most impactful."
Kraft, please move your team to say Tampa or something....
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Viral Meme Shows Main Difference Between Trump and Obama UN Speeches
A viral meme summarizes the difference between President Barack Obama and President Donald Trump’s speeches at the United Nations.
Trump’s U.N. speech rocked the world after he solemnly warned that the United States would destroy North Korea if the communist country directly threatened the U.S. or our allies.
Moreover, he touted his famous “America First” principles, assuring other countries that he will always take care of America first before all else. By contrast, Obama spent far too much time debasing the United States and its traditional role as a champion of freedom in world affairs.
The meme published by the Daily Signal sums up the differences perfectly:
The meme published by the Daily Signal sums up the differences perfectly:
No one who’s heard both men speak could have missed the point.
“The United States has great strength and patience, but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea. Rocket Man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime,” Trump said at the U.N. on Tuesday.
Even CNN described the president’s words as “a muscular defense of the centrality of American sovereignty, a warning shot to rogue nations around the world and a reminder that the U.S. would no longer make deals not in its own self interest.”
Meanwhile, The Heritage Foundation reminded Americans of Obama’s habit of apologizing for America in front of other global powers. Perhaps the most shocking of those speeches was his 2009 apology to Europe during a trip to France.
“In America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world,” Obama claimed.
“Instead of celebrating your dynamic union and seeking to partner with you to meet common challenges, there have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive,” he finished, essentially putting his own country down on a world stage.
Americans remember that. And the world remembers it. That’s what makes the meme so perfect.
US bombers buzz North Korea far north of DMZ
by Joel Gehrke
The U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer bombers deployed from Guam. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Joshua Smoot)U.S. bombers and fighter jets buzzed North Korea in what the Pentagon billed as one of the most significant shows of force this century.
"This is the farthest north of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) any U.S. fighter or bomber aircraft have flown off North Korea's coast in the 21st century, underscoring the seriousness with which we take [the North Korean regime's] reckless behavior," Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White said in a statement Saturday.
The U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer bombers deployed from Guam, a U.S. territory in the region that North Korean officials have threatened to attack in recent months. The bombers were escorted by F-15 fighters that took off from Okinawa. The bombers and their escort stayed in international airspace, according to the Defense Department.
"This mission is a demonstration of U.S. resolve and a clear message that the president has many military options to defeat any threat," White said.
President Trump's team has negotiated with the United Nations Security Council to pass an array of new international sanctions in response to North Korean belligerence. The economic sanctions have been greeted by an unprecedented flurry of nuclear and ballistic missile tests. The regime launched an intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time in July, detonated a hydrogen bomb, and launched two missiles over Japan.
"The United States has great strength and patience, but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea," Trump said in an address to the United Nations General Assembly. "Rocket Man is on a suicide mission for himself and his regime."
North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un replied by insulting Trump and vowing to "tame the mentally deranged U.S. dotard with fire." The regime's top diplomat hinted that another nuclear test could be imminent.
"It could be the most powerful detonation of an H-bomb in the Pacific," Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho told reporters in New York on Friday, per Yonhap News Agency. "We have no idea about what actions could be taken as it will be ordered by leader Kim Jong-un."
The U.S. Air Force sortie could be intended to deter such a test. "North Korea's weapons program is a grave threat to the Asia-Pacific region and the entire international community," White said. "We are prepared to use the full range of military capabilities to defend the U.S. homeland and our allies."
Dem Sen. Blasts Graham-Cassidy, Admits He Hasn’t Read It [VIDEO] … Good old Sheldon … Full of oomgalagala ...
LIAM CLANCYDemocratic Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse blasted the Graham-Cassidy Obamacare repeal bill on CNN’s “New Day” Thursday, but admitted he’s never read it.
“I’ve seen reviews of it. I haven’t read the language of it,” Whitehouse said after slamming the bill as “really unfair.”
WATCH:
Whitehouse then explained why he feels Republican Sen. Cassidy is being “factually misleading” in his representation of the bill.
“For starters, you don’t protect pre-existing conditions when you allow states to deny coverage for pre-existing conditions, which this bill does,” Whitehouse told CNN’s Alisyn Camerota. “Second, [Cassidy] focuses only on the states that get money under his bill, not the ones like my state that have that money taken from them to give to the other states.”
“It’s basically a raid on blue states and states that adopted the Medicaid expansion, to take money to those states. So it’s really unfair just to pick out those states and say that you’re winning,” Whitehouse added.
Donald Trump: I Might Have Made a Mistake by Endorsing Luther Strange
President Donald Trump admitted to Alabama voters Friday that he might have made a mistake by endorsing appointed Alabama Sen. Luther Strange in the Republican primary.
“We have to be loyal in life,” Trump said. “There is something called loyalty, and I might have made a mistake and I’ll be honest, I might have made a mistake.”
Trump appeared in Alabama for a campaign rally for Strange, despite polling showing him still lagging behind his primary challenger conservative Judge Roy Moore.
Trump predicted that if Strange lost, his political opponents and the media would cite it as a big loss for Trump, but that he wanted to repay the appointed senator for his loyal support in the Senate.
“Both are good men,” Trump said, referring to Strange and Moore.
He specified that his decision was about loyalty and picking a candidate that could win in a general election.
“Luther will definitely win … Roy has a very good chance of not winning in the general election,” Trump said.
But he promised that if Moore won the primary, he would be “campaigning like hell” for him in the general election.
Trump spoke at length about Strange, pointing out that he was easy to work with and helped him support his agenda in Washington, DC.
Despite deep skepticism from grassroots conservatives about his credentials, Trump repeatedly insisted that the senator would help him achieve his agenda.
“Luther Strange is determined to drain that swamp,” Trump said.
Trump also tried to distance Strange from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, although McConnell endorsed him.
“He’s not a friend of Mitch McConnell … he doesn’t know him, he just got there!” Trump exclaimed.
The McConnell-aligned Senate Leadership Fund Super PAC has spent $8 million in the Republican primary to help Strange win.
Trump admitted that Strange was damaged politically after he was appointed to the Senate seat by former Alabama Governor Robert Bentley after then-Senator Jeff Sessions took a job in the Trump administration.
“The fact that he was appointed, hurt him,” Trump said, but noted that he had done a “hell of a job” representing the state in a short time.
Trump said that it was fine if some of his friends and supporters preferred Moore over Strange, but joked that he might have to fire them.
“We may have to get rid of a few of them,” he said. “I’ve already gotten rid of a few of them. But they are good.”
Donald Trump: I Might Have Made a Mistake by Endorsing Luther Strange
President Donald Trump admitted to Alabama voters Friday that he might have made a mistake by endorsing appointed Alabama Sen. Luther Strange in the Republican primary.“We have to be loyal in life,” Trump said. “There is something called loyalty, and I might have made a mistake and I’ll be honest, I might have made a mistake.”
Trump appeared in Alabama for a campaign rally for Strange, despite polling showing him still lagging behind his primary challenger conservative Judge Roy Moore.
Trump predicted that if Strange lost, his political opponents and the media would cite it as a big loss for Trump, but that he wanted to repay the appointed senator for his loyal support in the Senate.
“Both are good men,” Trump said, referring to Strange and Moore.
He specified that his decision was about loyalty and picking a candidate that could win in a general election.
“Luther will definitely win … Roy has a very good chance of not winning in the general election,” Trump said.
But he promised that if Moore won the primary, he would be “campaigning like hell” for him in the general election.
Trump spoke at length about Strange, pointing out that he was easy to work with and helped him support his agenda in Washington, DC.
Despite deep skepticism from grassroots conservatives about his credentials, Trump repeatedly insisted that the senator would help him achieve his agenda.
“Luther Strange is determined to drain that swamp,” Trump said.
Trump also tried to distance Strange from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, although McConnell endorsed him.
“He’s not a friend of Mitch McConnell … he doesn’t know him, he just got there!” Trump exclaimed.
The McConnell-aligned Senate Leadership Fund Super PAC has spent $8 million in the Republican primary to help Strange win.
Trump admitted that Strange was damaged politically after he was appointed to the Senate seat by former Alabama Governor Robert Bentley after then-Senator Jeff Sessions took a job in the Trump administration.
“The fact that he was appointed, hurt him,” Trump said, but noted that he had done a “hell of a job” representing the state in a short time.
Trump said that it was fine if some of his friends and supporters preferred Moore over Strange, but joked that he might have to fire them.
“We may have to get rid of a few of them,” he said. “I’ve already gotten rid of a few of them. But they are good.”
Senate Republicans Refuse to Be Led by Democrat Gary Cohn on Tax Reform
by JOHN CARNEY
Drew Angerer/GettyMaking lifelong Democrat Gary Cohn the White House lead on tax reform was always a risky strategy. Democrats were unlikely to cooperate with the administration on anything and Republican lawmakers instinctively distrusted Cohn’s motives and positions.
What’s more, Cohn and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin are political neophytes, unaccustomed to the ways of Washington and not familiar with the positions staked out by various interest groups. Many in Washington do not see them as long-term players in politics, expecting them to exit the administration and national politics before the midterm elections, if not earlier.
This has made them vulnerable to being out-maneuvered by lobbyists, lawmakers, and other long term inhabitants of the nation’s capital.
This has made them vulnerable to being out-maneuvered by lobbyists, lawmakers, and other long term inhabitants of the nation’s capital.
Not surprising, then, that Republicans are already publicly balking at the supposed leadership of Cohn and Mnuchin:
Senate Republicans are making it clear they’re not going to fall in line behind President Donald Trump’s tax reform plan, despite a months-long effort with House leaders and top administration officials to have a smooth rollout for a major overhaul.
The proposal by the “Big Six” will only be advisory, warned Senate Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch of Utah, himself a member of the group of top GOP lawmakers and administration officials. His Senate colleagues are following that up with plans to seek a $1.5 trillion tax cut, putting them at odds with the House, where Speaker Paul Ryan, another Big Six member, wants permanent changes that don’t add to the deficit.
The battle over tax reform will begin in earnest next week, when details of the initial Republican proposal are made public and lobbyists for various special interests launch their campaigns to shape the legislation.
“Next week, they open the kimono and that’s when the hurricane begins,” one veteran lobbyist told Breitbart News.
Free Expression Collides With Militant Arrogance
“You have had your turn. It’s our turn now.”
By James Wilson
By James Wilson
It has been two decades since I penned a series of commentaries for the San Jose Mercury News. In a piece on prayer in schools I argued that students have a constitutional right to pray or lead prayer as long as they, rather than officials, are the originators. Federal law backs my position. Yet the most interesting depressing response to my column came from a man who said others may speak freely of religion but Christians should be banned from public speech.
His reason? “You have had your turn. It’s our turn now.”
His view was extreme in 1995 despite school prayer being controversial. Today things have gotten much worse for freedom.
In Australia, as we vote on same-sex marriage, sporting associations – and the Australian Football League – urge a “yes,” as is their right. Yet prominent footballer Israel Folau is denied that right. When this evangelical Christian announced recently his belief that marriage is a covenant reserved to one man and one woman, he was chided and derided – not on the merits of his viewpoint but for expressing it at all. Social media were especially condemning, with many saying some variation of “I respect your right to your opinion, but you should have the decency to keep it to yourself.”
The same irrational approach to belief has bared its fangs in the U.S. as businesspersons are fined or forced out of business for conscientiously declining to participate in same-sex weddings. Their alleged transgression is always a civil rights violation, even though they in no way prevent weddings and always make referrals to other professionals who do not share their faith-based objections. They are not homophobic; in many cases they enjoyed longstanding relationships with these complainants until singled out for abuse. In all cases the statement was made as penalties were handed down that it was OK to hold whatever views conscience called forth but not OK to speak or act publicly.
In America right now Congress is debating whether or not to confirm President Trump’s nomination of law professor Amy Coney Barrett to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. At least two senators – Dick Durbin of Illinois and Dianne Feinstein of California – have declared her unfit because of her Christian faith. Do these people – one representing the state of Abraham Lincoln and the other the state that launched more revivals than any other – fail to grasp the plain language of the Constitution they swore to uphold, that no religious test may ever be invoked against a candidate for office? Yet they and millions of others seem content that they are defending the nation against dangerous religious values. These values are thought so dangerous they must not be spoken where impressionable minds could absorb them.
What are these dangerous views? The King Christians worship said He came that all might have life – and that abundantly. His Bible is explicit that His life covers all at whatever stage of development or decline they present. This same King claimed that a principal vehicle of abundant life is a family centering on a male husband and a female wife. These values have been at the core of Western – and Eastern – civilization since time immemorial. Yes, Greek and Roman culture tolerated homosexuality – as does our own – but at no time in history has any culture tolerated marriage outside the Biblical model, for the simple reason it compromises and ultimately destroys marriage just as picking and choosing who is worthy of life destroys all lives in its path.
Back in Australia Paul Kelly, former senior editor of the national daily newspaper, The Australian, writes of the outright lie perpetrated by the pro-same-sex marriage lobby when it claims there is no religious issue at stake:
“Given legalization of same-sex marriage means the laws of the state and the laws of most religions will be brought into direct conflict over society’s most essential institution, the one certainty is ongoing … trench warfare.”
What Kelly does not say is that in such warfare the state always wins the battles and always loses the war.
In such a war the Body overcomes by breaking out in revival — such was the non-violent but power-packed fall of the communist Iron Curtain over Europe – or the state simply dies by self-strangulation. The alternatives are everybody wins or everybody loses.
The question would be: “Is the Body up for the struggle?”
His reason? “You have had your turn. It’s our turn now.”
His view was extreme in 1995 despite school prayer being controversial. Today things have gotten much worse for freedom.
In Australia, as we vote on same-sex marriage, sporting associations – and the Australian Football League – urge a “yes,” as is their right. Yet prominent footballer Israel Folau is denied that right. When this evangelical Christian announced recently his belief that marriage is a covenant reserved to one man and one woman, he was chided and derided – not on the merits of his viewpoint but for expressing it at all. Social media were especially condemning, with many saying some variation of “I respect your right to your opinion, but you should have the decency to keep it to yourself.”
The same irrational approach to belief has bared its fangs in the U.S. as businesspersons are fined or forced out of business for conscientiously declining to participate in same-sex weddings. Their alleged transgression is always a civil rights violation, even though they in no way prevent weddings and always make referrals to other professionals who do not share their faith-based objections. They are not homophobic; in many cases they enjoyed longstanding relationships with these complainants until singled out for abuse. In all cases the statement was made as penalties were handed down that it was OK to hold whatever views conscience called forth but not OK to speak or act publicly.
In America right now Congress is debating whether or not to confirm President Trump’s nomination of law professor Amy Coney Barrett to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. At least two senators – Dick Durbin of Illinois and Dianne Feinstein of California – have declared her unfit because of her Christian faith. Do these people – one representing the state of Abraham Lincoln and the other the state that launched more revivals than any other – fail to grasp the plain language of the Constitution they swore to uphold, that no religious test may ever be invoked against a candidate for office? Yet they and millions of others seem content that they are defending the nation against dangerous religious values. These values are thought so dangerous they must not be spoken where impressionable minds could absorb them.
What are these dangerous views? The King Christians worship said He came that all might have life – and that abundantly. His Bible is explicit that His life covers all at whatever stage of development or decline they present. This same King claimed that a principal vehicle of abundant life is a family centering on a male husband and a female wife. These values have been at the core of Western – and Eastern – civilization since time immemorial. Yes, Greek and Roman culture tolerated homosexuality – as does our own – but at no time in history has any culture tolerated marriage outside the Biblical model, for the simple reason it compromises and ultimately destroys marriage just as picking and choosing who is worthy of life destroys all lives in its path.
Back in Australia Paul Kelly, former senior editor of the national daily newspaper, The Australian, writes of the outright lie perpetrated by the pro-same-sex marriage lobby when it claims there is no religious issue at stake:
“Given legalization of same-sex marriage means the laws of the state and the laws of most religions will be brought into direct conflict over society’s most essential institution, the one certainty is ongoing … trench warfare.”
What Kelly does not say is that in such warfare the state always wins the battles and always loses the war.
In such a war the Body overcomes by breaking out in revival — such was the non-violent but power-packed fall of the communist Iron Curtain over Europe – or the state simply dies by self-strangulation. The alternatives are everybody wins or everybody loses.
The question would be: “Is the Body up for the struggle?”
BREAKING: Court Gives Hillary Chilling News
Luis Miguel
After maintaining a relatively low profile for a few months following her election loss, Hillary Clinton has placed herself in the public eye once more with her controversial memoir and various statements critical of President Trump.
But even as Clinton attempts to focus the media’s attention on her new book and political endeavors, she’s finding herself facing renewed interest in past scandals. The watchdog group Judicial Watch has stated that on Friday, it is participating in a Federal Appeals Court hearing in order to force the government to release an indictment drafted against Clinton during the infamous Whitewater controversy in the 1990s.
The United States Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit is hearing an oral argument related to Judicial Watch’s 2015 request and lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
After two years of waiting, Judicial Watch is, at last, being given an audience, meaning the desired Whitewater-related documents may ultimately be released–a decision that could shed new light on Clinton’s involvement in the highly-publicized fraud scheme.
The case in question is titled Judicial Watch v. National Archives and Records Administration. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent government agency that preserves documents and records.
But NARA seeks to keep secret draft indictments written based on the allegation that Clinton gave false information with regard to her involvement with Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan, whose fraud-fueled downfall resulted in several criminal convictions and ultimately cost taxpayers $73 million, as reported by the LA Times.
Citing Clinton’s “personal privacy,” NARA has denied releasing the documents. But Judicial Watch attorneys argue that an “enormous amount of grand jury and other information from the independent counsel’s investigation of Clinton has already been made public.”
As a result, Judicial Watch claims “there is no secrecy or privacy left to protect.” Accordingly, the watchdog’s statement calls on NARA to release all copies of the draft indictment.
Judicial Watch is seeking: “All versions of indictments against Hillary Rodham Clinton, including but not limited to, Versions 1, 2, and 3 in box 2250 of the Hickman Ewing Attorney Files, the “HRC/_ Draft Indictment” in box 2256 of the Hickman Ewing Attorney Files, as well as any and all versions written by Deputy Independent Counsel Hickman Ewing, Jr. prior to September of 1996.
De Niro Appears as Humanitarian, Advocates for Disaster Relief…Now We Know Why
BY V SAXENA
BY V SAXENA
While Hollywood actor and loudmouth jerk Robert De Niro’s recent appeals to the world’s various nations to help rebuild those portions of the Caribbean island of Barbuda devastated by Hurricane Irma seemed altruistic at first, a closer inspection revealed the shameful sleaziness of it.
“We must act together to help the most vulnerable,” De Niro pleaded Monday at a United Nations meeting in New York, as reported by the The Associated Press.
“The recovery process will be a long, hard road. Barbudans must be a part of it, their homes repaired stronger, rebuilt stronger, new homes stronger. The immediate needs — power, water, food, medical care, animals sheltered — must be met.”
It sounds so sincere until you read between the lines.
According to Travel + Leisure magazine, De Niro and his business partner, James Packer, bought the K Club Resort on Barbuda last year, renamed it to Paradise Found Nobu and began plans to renovate it, much to the displeasure of locals.
“The purchase was a contentious debate on the island,” the magazine reported. “More than 300 of the island’s 1,500 residents signed a petition against the development, saying that it was excessive and illegal.”
Or sleazy, in other words … just like De Niro, wouldn’t you know it?
Unfortunately for the Hollywood actor, who’s worth an estimated $200 million, his plans to renovate his fancy resort came to a halt because of Hurricane Irma — and now all of a sudden he wants U.N. member states to fork over their money to purportedly rebuild Barbuda.
This raises a great question as asked by BizPac Review contributor Luis Miguel: “(H)ow much of any restoration money would go to the movie star’s resort?”
Moreover, does he really care about Barbuda’s residents, or is this all just a scheme to secure the funds needed to rebuild his resort?
None of us can say for certain what’s in De Niro’s heart, but judging by his recent behavior, I wouldn’t put anything past him.
“We must act together to help the most vulnerable,” De Niro pleaded Monday at a United Nations meeting in New York, as reported by the The Associated Press.
“The recovery process will be a long, hard road. Barbudans must be a part of it, their homes repaired stronger, rebuilt stronger, new homes stronger. The immediate needs — power, water, food, medical care, animals sheltered — must be met.”
It sounds so sincere until you read between the lines.
According to Travel + Leisure magazine, De Niro and his business partner, James Packer, bought the K Club Resort on Barbuda last year, renamed it to Paradise Found Nobu and began plans to renovate it, much to the displeasure of locals.
“The purchase was a contentious debate on the island,” the magazine reported. “More than 300 of the island’s 1,500 residents signed a petition against the development, saying that it was excessive and illegal.”
Or sleazy, in other words … just like De Niro, wouldn’t you know it?
Unfortunately for the Hollywood actor, who’s worth an estimated $200 million, his plans to renovate his fancy resort came to a halt because of Hurricane Irma — and now all of a sudden he wants U.N. member states to fork over their money to purportedly rebuild Barbuda.
This raises a great question as asked by BizPac Review contributor Luis Miguel: “(H)ow much of any restoration money would go to the movie star’s resort?”
Moreover, does he really care about Barbuda’s residents, or is this all just a scheme to secure the funds needed to rebuild his resort?
None of us can say for certain what’s in De Niro’s heart, but judging by his recent behavior, I wouldn’t put anything past him.
Obama Was Furious When Trump Pulled Off This Surprise Move
Barack Obama is furious.
He thought his legacy was safe and secure.
And then Donald Trump pulled off the move everyone had been waiting for.
Pundits believed the effort to repeal and replace Obamacare was dead.
After John McCain stabbed Trump in the back and killed the effort for skinny repeal, Democrats and the media celebrated because they thought Obamacare was enshrined into law.
But facing a September 30th deadline to use reconciliation to pass a repeal law with just 51 votes, Trump sprung a surprise and pushed a new bill to gut the law.
I hope Republican Senators will vote for Graham-Cassidy and fulfill their promise to Repeal & Replace ObamaCare. Money direct to States!
Obama was furious.
He could not believe Trump and the GOP will not just wave the white flag of surrender and accept the crown jewel of his socialist agenda.
Speaking at the Time Warner Center in New York, Obama whined that Trump’s continued effort to gut his signature domestic achievement was “aggravating.”
Politico reports:
“AS PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP ATTENDED SESSIONS AT THE UNITED NATIONS, FORMER PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA STOOD IN THE THEATER OF THE TIME WARNER CENTER ACROSS TOWN ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, URGING PEOPLE WHO SHARE HIS WORLDVIEW NOT TO GIVE UP BUILDING AN INTERCONNECTED WORLD, SUPPORTING THE PARIS CLIMATE ACCORDS, RESISTING XENOPHOBIA AND, IN THE NEAR-TERM, FIGHTING TO SAVE OBAMACARE.
IN AN APPEARANCE AT THE GATES FOUNDATION’S GOALKEEPERS EVENT, OBAMA FOCUSED ON THE REVIVED FIGHT OVER OBAMACARE, AS REPUBLICANS PUSH TOWARD A VOTE IN THE SENATE ON THEIR LATEST ATTEMPT TO REPEAL HIS SIGNATURE HEALTH CARE ACHIEVEMENT.
“THOSE OF YOU WHO LIVE IN COUNTRIES THAT ALREADY HAVE UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE ARE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT’S THE CONTROVERSY HERE,” OBAMA SAID, JABBING AT “PEOPLE TRYING TO UNDO THAT PROGRESS FOR THE 50TH OR 60TH TIME” WITH A BILL THAT RAISES COSTS.”
Obama also blubbered about Trump pulling out of the Paris Global Warming agreement and putting “America First” in foreign policy.
He dipped into the leftist playbook to smear Trump as a “xenophobe” because the President wants control of our borders and strict controls on who we let into our country and why.
Politico also reports:
“OBAMA ALSO POINTED TO THE PARIS CLIMATE DEAL, WHICH TRUMP HAS SAID HE’LL BACK OUT OF AND WHICH OBAMA REFERRED TO AS “A SMALL AGREEMENT TO SAVE THE PLANET.”
OBAMA DIDN’T SAY TRUMP’S NAME. BUT JUST A DAY AFTER THE CURRENT PRESIDENT’S SPEECH TO THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY, IN WHICH TRUMP THREATENED TO STEP BACK FROM INTERNATIONAL COALITIONS AND DIPLOMATIC SOLUTIONS, OBAMA URGED REFORM, NOT UNRAVELING.
HE MOCKED THOSE WHO ATTACKED HIS OWN TURN TOWARD INTERNATIONAL COALITIONS “AS IF THAT WAS AN EXPRESSION OF WEAKNESS. I BELIEVE THAT THE UNITED STATES IS AN INDISPENSABLE NATION AND THAT MANY OF THE INITIATIVES AND MUCH OF THE PROGRESS WE MADE COULD NOT HAVE BEEN DONE UNLESS WE UNDERWROTE THOSE EFFORTS.”
“YOU HAVE TO START WITH THE PREMISE AND BELIEVE THAT MULTILATERAL INSTITUTIONS ARE IMPORTANT. IT DOESN’T MAKE YOU LESS PATRIOTIC TO BELIEVE THAT,” OBAMA SAID. “YOU JUST HAVE TO HAVE SOME SENSE.”
HE WARNED AGAINST “THE RISE OF NATIONALISM, XENOPHOBIA, AND A POLITICS THAT SAYS IT’S NOT ‘WE’ BUT ‘US AND THEM’ — A POLITICS THAT THREATENS TO TURN GOOD PEOPLE AWAY FROM THE KIND OF COLLECTIVE ACTION THAT HAS ALWAYS DRIVEN HUMAN PROGRESS.”
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“IT IS AGGRAVATING,” OBAMA SAID, “AND ALL OF THIS BEING DONE WITHOUT ANY DEMONSTRABLE ECONOMIC OR ACTUARIAL OR COMMON-SENSE RATIONALE, IT FRUSTRATES.”
HE WENT ON: “IT’S CERTAINLY FRUSTRATING TO HAVE TO MOBILIZE EVERY COUPLE MONTHS TO KEEP OUR LEADERS FROM INFLICTING REAL HUMAN SUFFERING ON OUR CONSTITUENTS.”
Obama has watched his entire legacy go up in smoke as Trump works every day to erase it from the books.
No wonder he is whining.
7 Things the Media Doesn’t Want You to Know About Graham-Cassidy
by JOHN NOLTE
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Should Graham-Cassidy, the latest manifestation of the seven-year Republican promise to repeal and replace Obamacare, manage to pass the Senate next week, ironically enough, conservatives will owe a debt of thanks to Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), the man single-handedly responsible for saving Obamacare in the last vote-around.
Had McCain not held out, we would not have Graham-Cassidy, which is a much, much, much better piece of legislation.
No, it is not a full repeal, and I get the anger over that. Again and again we were promised that this monstrosity would be pulled out by the root. Of course that would be preferable.
Other than enforcing whatever commitments are made by either party, the government — most especially the federal government — should remove itself completely from the relationship between the health insurance provider and the customer. There is just no question that government interference is a big part of why the system is such a mess, and so artificially expensive.
Nevertheless, we cannot all be Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who looks like he could end up taking John McCain’s place next week as Obamacare’s sole savior. Because he is not getting everything he wants right away, Paul is refusing to support Graham-Cassidy, and his no-vote, his oh-so principled stand, could forever saddle our country with Obamacare. Some legacy.
Some of us who despise Obamacare every but as much as Paul, are more pragmatic. We understand that repeal has to start somewhere and that anything that ends Obamacare’s fascist and destructive mandates (every American must purchase a Cadillac health coverage), is a damn good start. Not only does Graham-Cassidy do that, it does something pretty wonderful — it punts healthcare back where it belongs, to all 50 states; it allows the citizens of each state to decide on the kind of coverage they want.
If the positive aspects of Graham-Cassidy are news to you, I suggest you stop reading the left wing Politico and the rest of the MSM, all of which are First Degree Liars who do not give even a tinkle of a damn about public health. Our media sees itself only as The Guardians of Precious Barry’s Legacy, as The Flamekeepers of Centralized Government.
And so, in order to fulfill that sinister duty, our national media lies and lies and lies and lies and lies. As a result, all we are being told about Graham-Cassidy is the lie that no one really knows what is in the bill, that “the substance doesn’t really matter,” and that people will lose their health insurance and die – millions of people, most especially the children.
Here is what the media does not want you to know about Graham-Cassidy:
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Obamacare is a Failure
What is the media fighting to protect and preserve? A total and complete boondoggle, a government program so hideously awful, millions of people are choosing to pay the fine rather than sign on.
Obama’s central planners blew it bigtime. Health care costs are rising, premium costs are exploding, millions have lost their doctors and an insurance policy they were perfectly satisfied with. Worse still, as the death spiral marches on, more and more insurance providers are fleeing the program, leaving hundreds of counties flat, with either no access to insurance or a single choice.
This of course is madness, un-American, and a real-life horror story for millions.
The media, however, will not say this. While blasting away at Graham-Cassidy, the indisputable fact of Obamacare’s failure is buried under paragraphs of lies and fear-mongering.
2. Failed Obamacare Is Replaced With 50 Laboratories
The most important and exciting aspect of Graham-Cassidy is that it allows each of the 50 states the opportunity and flexibility to come up with a health care system of its own.
Rather than this one-size-fits-all madness of Obamacare, an unforgivably stupid concept when you are talking about a huge and diverse country filled with 330 million people, health care will now be in the hands of a state government that is much more accountable to voters than the monolith of a federal bureaucracy.
What works in a state filled with heavily populated cities like California is not going to work in a Wyoming.
If a government is going to handle your health care, you want that government to be as accountable as possible, and as knowledgeable as possible about the people it is supposed to serve.
And with 50 laboratories, our country will eventually to come up with the best way to handle health care.
3. If You Like Your Socialized Medicine, You Can Keep Your Socialized Medicine
If the left and its mainstream media allies were not so hopelessly addicted to running everyone else’s life through central government planning, they would see that one of the biggest benefits of Graham-Cassidy is that a blue state can now go ahead and socialize medicine.
If a California or Vermont or Oregon wants to embrace the European model, Texas and Mississippi cannot stop them, nor can a federal government run by Republicans.
Knock yourselves out. Use the federal money to socialize medicine in your state. Unless your dream is a fascist one that utilizes the power of the federal government to force the rest of us into it, you can now make all your socialized medicine dreams come true.
4. Flexibility Is Always Superior to Mandates
Even coming from a bossy-pants statist like Barry, the idea that everyone in America must pay for a Cadillac health insurance plan –which is what Obamacare requires — is unconscionably destructive and stupid. No wonder premiums and deductibles are sky high.
With some flexibility that actually takes into account things like human nature, free will, and countless other things, just like the free market found a way to get cable TV and the Internet into almost every American home, it can find a way to insure almost everyone.
For example, bring back the catastrophic insurance plans stupidly outlawed by Obamacare, those plans with low monthly premiums and high deductibles that were perfect for healthy Americans worried about a freak car accident or an unexpected and costly illness.
Outside of a catastrophe, with those plans (I had one for years and loved it), you paid for own health care. The best thing about these plans, which every government should encourage, is that by paying out of pocket, people shopped around for the best service at the best price. This added a market pressure missing from the healthcare industry, which is another big reason prices are so artificially high. Because insurance pays for everything, no one shops around.
While the cost of medical services not covered by insurance, like plastic surgery and Lasik, continue to decrease, the cost of those services covered by insurance are exploding.
See how this works?
5. Forcing Insurers to Cover Pre-Existing Conditions Is Stupid
Before Obamacare came along and outlawed everything that was working, here in North Carolina the state had set up a program, a specific pool, to help those with pre-existing conditions obtain health insurance.
This was a great idea.
By separating those who did and did not have this problem into separate pools, the Did Nots paid a much lower premium, and the Dids got some government help in paying their premiums.
Lumping everyone together into one giant welfare program has only proven to be the catastrophic failure we all predicted it would be.
6. GLORIOUS FREEDOM or … Not Everyone Wants or Needs Health Insurance
In the United States of America we are using the power of the federal government to force freeborn men and women to pay for a product they neither want nor need.
This is as immoral and un-American as it gets.
This is not like choosing to drive a car (auto insurance), this is saddling me with a responsibility to chip in just because I was born. This is especially immoral when I don’t need health insurance, when I am young and healthy, when I would prefer to use that money for college or rent or beer or pot or whatever the hell I want because I am a freeborn American, dammit.
Which brings me to…
7. Americans Use Their Feet To Vote For The Healthcare They Desire
The beauty of federalism, the beauty of allowing the 50 individual states the flexibility to take care of their own people, is that we the people are allowed to vote with our feet.
If we want our government to force everyone to purchase health insurance, we can move to Massachusetts. If we want to be left the hell alone, we can move to a red state.
The fundamental bottom line of Graham-Cassidy is choice. And unless that choice involves the murder of a helpless baby, only our lying media could oppose such a thing.
BONUS 8. Jimmy Kimmel Doesn’t Know Squat About Health Care
This limousine leftist only knows how to suck up to a left-wing media for good press, clicks, and do-gooder points for a terribly destructive government program he will never have to deal with – a debacle that does terrible things unto millions of others.
G’ day…Ciao…
Helen and Moe Lauzier
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