Only a Liberal…

For those unfamiliar, astroturfing is the practice of making something look like a grass roots movement when it is really not. Pelosi and other Democrats have been calling the strong emotions expressed at Obamacare town halls “astroturfing,” implying the passion has been driven by special interests like insurance companies.

While these Democrats and their numerous friends in the media have not been able to prove one single instance of astroturfing, it has been discovered at one town hall meeting.

At Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee’s townhall meeting in Houston, Dr. Roxana Mayer got up and expressed her support of Obamacare…

“We are… like… so poor, almost nonexistent at treating preventative care. I know because I’m a general practitioner. We are a dying breed.” (see video)

If you’re asking how a doctor could possibly throw the word “like” into the middle of a sentence as if she was on the set of an MTV show, I understand. It turns out Roxana Mayer is not a doctor. She’s an Obama delegate who is a grad student studying social work.

So all the passion, all the yelling, all the “mobs” at town hall meeting that Democrats are sure can’t be real grass roots, and the first proven example of astroturfing is a fake doctor who supports Obama. Its breathtaking the shamelessness of the left.

Shepard Fairey is the artist who created the famous red and blue poster of Obama that says HOPE at the bottom. He was asked recently about the now infamous joker Obama poster that says socialism at the bottom…

“I have my doubts about the person’s intelligence,” Fairey said on the phone from Pittsburgh. “It’s not grammatically correct. It would be ’socialist’ … Obama is not Marx. He didn’t create socialism.”

Semantics aside, “I don’t agree with the political content of the poster,” Fairey said. “They don’t realize that Medicaid is a socialist program.” The federal Medicaid program, of course, predates the current administration by several decades. (LA Times)

I just love that someone would doubt the intelligence of the artist and then proceed to state things that cast doubt about his own intelligence. In Shepard Fairey’s fantasy world, the fact that forms of socialism already exist in America means that Obama is not a socialist. Fairey is assuming because the joker poster has socialism written at the bottom, the artist must not be aware that Medicaid is a socialist program. To understand Fairey’s logic, allow me to illustrate.

If Barack Obama were to have sex with a White House intern, it would not actually be sex, because Bill Clinton already did that.

Perhaps Mr. Fairey is trying to lure the anonymous artist out. Its hard to tell, with piercing insults like “It’s not grammatically correct.” Hey Fairey, since putting a word at the bottom of a poster, in your mind, means the artist is calling that person that word, you must of screwed up with your HOPE poster. Obama didn’t invent hope, after all.

28% of Republicans (according to the Daily Kos) think Obama was born outside the United States and some say that makes the Republican party crazy.

35% of Democrats thought Bush knew about 9/11 beforehand.

Wow.

Obama keeps talking about how America’s health care costs more than other advanced countries. In his press conference tonight, he said,
“If your neighbor bought the same car as you for $6,000 less than you, you’d be upset.”

Mr. President, the “car” in your analogy that costs $6,000 more is MUCH better than the other car. America’s healthcare is a BMW, while the other “advanced” countries are driving a moped. A big screen TV costs more than a normal TV. Our health care costs more because it is better. We get MRIs faster. We don’t ration care. This nonsensical propaganda he is pushing is laughable.

Huffington Post readers are having trouble dealing with this reality. Some of the rationalizations are hilarious.

California Speaker of the Assembly, Karen Bass (D), said this about conservative talk radio:

I don’t know why we allow that kind of terrorism to exist. I guess it’s about free speech, but it’s extremely unfair. (hotair.com)

The fact that a public official is stupid enough, or politically bulletproof enough, to say something like this is attrocious.  This woman was voted into office, and she considers vocal dissent to be equal to terrorism.

I am amazed at the number of liberals who will condemn free speech on a whim when it gets in the way of their agenda. Its as if she thinks conservatives just go around throwing roadblocks in her way and the way of Republicans that would kowtow to her agenda. Ms. Bass, if your legislation made sense, conservatism “terrorism” would fall on deaf ears, but rather than try to win in the arena of ideas, you’d prefer just label dissent as terrorism so that you don’t have to debate it. You think free speech is only for people who agree with you. That is horrifying.

This totalitarianist approach is vicious and unacceptable, and the State of California, if it has a shred of common sense left in its electorate, will remove this woman from office as fast as legally possible. Referring to free speech as terrorism while in public office with no electoral repercussions is dangerous. Politicians must learn that if they even think of infringing on Constitutional rights there will be political consequences.

The Obama administration recently appointed Edward Whitacre as the new CEO of General Motors. He was previously CEO of AT&T.

“I don’t know anything about cars,” Whitacre, 67, said yesterday in an interview after his appointment. “A business is a business, and I think I can learn about cars. I’m not that old, and I think the business principles are the same.” (Bloomberg)

We are living in Wonderland. Up is down. In is out.

In a normal world, even if the newly appointed CEO of a company really didn’t know cars, he sure as shit wouldn’t admit it so candidly in public. He would drone on about his executive experience or dodge the question. So why would Ed Whitacre say something so irresponsible, so detrimental to the reputation of the company?

One reason is that GM’s recent bankruptcy caused the NY Stock Exchange to suspend trading of GM’s common equity, so a stock market plunge was not a problem.

Whitacre’s statement is, unfortunately, a horrendous second place to the real problem here. Barack Obama appointed a non-car guy to run a car company.  Perhaps the White House has a rational defense for the decision…

“The White House said Ford Motor Co. Chief Executive Officer Alan Mulally’s move from planemaker Boeing Co. shows that success doesn’t hinge on automotive experience.”

Uh, Mr. Gibbs, Boeing makes planes and plane engines. Experience with running a company that makes jet engines might come in handy for running a company that makes car engines. AT&T is a telephone company. The analogy doesn’t fit.

It takes some amazing job security to admit such ignorance publicly. I don’t know if Obama regrets appointing Whitacre only to have him say he didn’t know anything about the product his company sells, but he should.

Let me repeat that… I still can’t quite believe it. In the New York State Senate in Albany, Democrat senators ran out the door, turned off the lights, and cut the internet feed to prevent their session from continuing (see article). Two Democrats evidently switched to the Republican side, changing the balance of power to the GOP, so in respect of the great legislative tradition of the United States, New York Democrats threw a monumental temper tantrum.

In true partisan fashion, Governor David Patterson chimed in:

“I don’t care if I’m the only one standing, but someone has got to stand up and say that this is wrong.”

He goes on to chide the New York State Senate for not spending enough time on governance. He never says what they did was illegal, just that it was wrong. I guess putting the Republicans in charge is wrong. I assume if it really was illegal, they wouldn’t have ran out of the senate, metaphorically popping the pigskin because they were losing the football game. They simply would have followed the legislative procedure to prevent the switching of parties in the middle of session.

Picture the Republicans doing this in the U.S. Senate when the Democrats regained their majority status. Keith Olbermann would have 2 weeks of material to rant about. In the article linked at the Drudge Report, the columnist actually spends a few paragraphs highlighting the legal trouble of the two new Republicans.

I don’t give a crap which party is in power in New York’s state senate, but the news of this temper tantrum is illustrative of the Democrat party and liberals in general. When the facts are against them, they resort to any means necessary, and exhibit no shame for it. Republicans were about to throw a touchdown, so the Democrats took the ball and popped it. Really? For those who still have respect for politicians, wake the fuck up. These people are children in suits.

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