We put a man on the moon, why can't we clean up the Gulf? Or Live Forever?

Why can't we clean up the gulf then? Because eternal life and cleaning up the gulf make putting a man on the moon relative child's play by comparison, that's why.

Yahoo News/Associated Press - " 'We're a superpower — the United States,' New Orleans chef and sometime fishing guide Eric Schutzman said recently as he took a break from carving up a batch of black drum and redfish caught in an unclosed section of Black Bay. 'We put a man on the moon. You'd think we'd have enough brilliant minds to get it all cleaned up and get on with it.' "

Yes, Eric Schutzman, and if I had a penny for every time that tired remark was made, maybe I'd pay to clean it up myself. Or go back to the moon.

Have you ever noticed, Eric, that our directionless bureaucracy stopped going to the moon and hasn't gone back? Or to Mars? Perhaps we should chalk that achievement up to the old adage that even a blind pig finds an acorn once in a while.   Perhaps that means the Russians will get there last.  It's their proverb.

Counting on Government duplicating such an achievement is a lot like counting on winning the lottery twice. I hear it happens, but it doesn't happen that often.

I hear Government is now trying to provide us with eternal life. It's called ObamaCare. How's that working out for you?

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Things my dog taught me, and Obama Care

Valena (may she rest in peace) my AKC registered Husky (miss her) taught me a few things.

Which is why I knew that Obama care was going to pass.

What Valena learned about me, taught me to watch body language and behavior more than listen to words, when such inputs were available. After a point in time Val didn't get excited by certain cues unlikely to produce the desired result. If she wanted to squeeze out the door and run the neighborhood or if she thought I/we were going outside and wanted to come along, she watched my feet. If my feet were pointed in the right direction or giving little subtle clues that I was going out, she got excited. In the meantime she lay in the appropriate doorway designed to give as wide a view of the living room possible, with her head between her front legs and her eyes followed everyone around the room.

Without going into great detail I stopped listening and started watching a long time ago, hence I knew that "National Health Care Reform" was going to pass. I've been using this as my cue for becoming more political in my commentary. Over the next few days and weeks, expect me to proffer my solutions to the problem. Nationalized Health care is not the solution, it's the problem. How do we fix it?

I've never been fond of the "taking back" talk in politics. Who were we, after all, "taking" what, "back" from? We've reached that point now. Battle lines are drawn. There is an "us" and there is a "them." Good guys. Bad guys. The Bad Guys have America now, unless you think the "Parliamentarian" will rule against the reconciliation process (strongly possible but probably not probable) and subsequently that vacuous rubber stamp whose time has come, Vice President Joe Biden, doesn't overrule the Parliamentarian.

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Why do we need ObamaCare?

Some people have forgotten to pick up after themselves. It's the left (above), and they want the right to do it for them (below).

Hat tip to Six Meat Buffet.

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CNN admits in a left handed way, Tea Parties have GRASS ROOTS.

According to CNN, the Tea Party movement has anger, but no "dominant leaders."

Isn't that what a movement is? Isn't that the very definition of "grass roots," provided of course, you delete the word "anger?"

CNN - "Deborah Johns is the angry conscience of the tea party movement.

'Question everything your government is doing,' she tells a crowd of about 100 from the bus's stage in the parking lot of the Winners casino in Winnemucca, Nevada."

More quotes:

"The men and women in our military didn't fight and die for this country for a communist in the White House," she says, and the crowd erupts in a chant of "U-S-A, U-S-A!"

Typical "Dark Mood" stuff:

"The crowd is its own sideshow. Tea partyers are a creative lot, and many in the crowd express themselves by way of their clothing and signs.

'Obamacare Condense Cream of Crap soup' reads a sign in Sparks, Nevada. In Dallas, Texas, a darker mood prevails. A homemade sign with 'Obama Lies' features a bold, black swastika."

Hey, CNN! Could you turn out the lights on your way out? By the way, on occasion, one should be angry. I wouldn't define what you now admit to be truly a grass roots movement, by anger.

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Obama lies about lies (Joe Wilson calls him on it) The MILITARY is our most effective Government Health Care Plan

President Obama. My first statement to you, is that you are saying you intend to cut the military, to pay for your health care plan.

THE MILITARY IS THE MOST EFFECTIVE GOVERNMENT SAFEGUARD FOR OUR HEALTH. It keeps other people from KILLING US. More blogging about the health care speech, "below the fold"->

Obama dismissed a "Lie" by lying about it, and got jeers. Good for the cat callers. The Senator Representative who yelled "YOU LIE" is from South Carolina, Joe Wilson.

He's making a claim about a large number of States with small numbers of companies. The problem is, I'm betting, without checking, that those states have mandated coverages that drive companies out of the state, like this one, Vermont.

He's claimed it is a lie, that there were death panels, but it is a lie to say there weren't.

Obama claims that "executive compensation" is the claim. He's selling anti Capitalism. We get better companies with better management, but better management wants something for that service.

Question? Does he HAVE many Republican friends? If so, I want to know who they are.

By the way, hasn't Obama been told that any MUTUAL company providing service is already a Co-op?

BIG LIE. "I will not sign a plan that will add one dime to our deficit, now, or in the future."

By the way, to keep that, he has to cut something else. The military, the most EFFICIENT guardian of our HEALTH, is the target.

He has proposed malpractice reform, but I don't believe him.

Pollyanna. If we are able to reduce the grown of the health care costs by one tenth of one percent? YOU CANNOT DO THAT. You do not CONTROL that.

Obama threatens to "Call out" inaccurate detractors.

(PICK ME, Oh, oh, oh, PICK ME!!!)

He predictably tries to call up Kennedy's ghost from the grave.

He's preaching the virtues of limited Government. Oh please, do NOT believe this man.

He's done, he made other strange claims, such as making bankruptcy seem as bad as death. He laid on the "both parties" theme and he doesn't need both parties.

Capping out of pocket expenses doesn't allow me to buy a plan I might want. One that allows me to pay most of my health care costs.

He got derisive laughter at the "details needing to be worked out."

Someone with the resources will have to fact check him.

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Dragnet, Obama, Healthcare at HotAir

It's all over the blog world but it's too good not to repeat.

First found here.

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Cannabalism part of Health Care Reform? Soylent Pink?

Obama Care is People! Or Eating People.

The Ventura County Star - "After a fight that lasted only a few seconds, Bush said, he heard Rice say, “He bit my finger off,” and he saw a stump.

Bush said he later found the roughly 1-inch piece of Rice’s finger next to the traffic island about 20 feet away."

The truth is often stranger than fiction and 2022 isn't that far away. Code Pink and Moveon.org were there. "Mitchieville" beat me to it.

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Kopechne Driver Dies (UPDATED w/Day by Day Cartoon)

The Swimmer joined his passenger late last night and the Senate Democrat majority loses one vote.

And Senator Edward Kennedy is reunited with his brothers in death, passing away from natural causes, at 77, his life sustained for many months by uncommon health care, unlike the kind he tried up until his last breath, to foist off on us.

Brain Cancer.

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The Lying Press Strikes Again. Republicans are UNNECESSARY to "Heath Care Reform"

67% of those persons who voted FOR Obama in last November's election, thought REPUBLICANS, not Democrats, controlled congress. Why? In part because of lying articles like this.

Just read the highlighted phrases and words.

Yahoo/AP - "Bowing to Republican pressure and an uneasy public, President Barack Obama's administration signaled Sunday it is ready to abandon the idea of giving Americans the option of government-run insurance as part of a new health care system.

Facing mounting opposition to the overhaul, administration officials left open the chance for a compromise with Republicans that would include health insurance cooperatives instead of a government-run plan. Such a concession probably would enrage Obama's liberal supporters but could deliver a much-needed victory on a top domestic priority opposed by GOP lawmakers.

Officials from both political parties reached across the aisle in an effort to find compromises on proposals they left behind when they returned to their districts for an August recess. Obama had wanted the government to run a health insurance organization to help cover the nation's almost 50 million uninsured, but didn't include it as one of his core principles of reform.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said that government alternative to private health insurance is "not the essential element" of the administration's health care overhaul. The White House would be open to co-ops, she said, a sign that Democrats want a compromise so they can declare a victory.

Under a proposal by Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., consumer-owned nonprofit cooperatives would sell insurance in competition with private industry, not unlike the way electric and agriculture co-ops operate, especially in rural states such as his own.

With $3 billion to $4 billion in initial support from the government, the co-ops would operate under a national structure with state affiliates, but independent of the government. They would be required to maintain the type of financial reserves that private companies are required to keep in case of unexpectedly high claims.

"I think there will be a competitor to private insurers," Sebelius said. "That's really the essential part, is you don't turn over the whole new marketplace to private insurance companies and trust them to do the right thing."

Obama's spokesman refused to say a public option was a make-or-break choice.

"What I am saying is the bottom line for this for the president is, what we have to have is choice and competition in the insurance market," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Sunday.

A day before, Obama appeared to hedge his bets.

"All I'm saying is, though, that the public option, whether we have it or we don't have it, is not the entirety of health care reform," Obama said at a town hall meeting in Grand Junction, Colo. "This is just one sliver of it, one aspect of it."

It's hardly the same rhetoric Obama employed during a constant, personal campaign for legislation.

"I am pleased by the progress we're making on health care reform and still believe, as I've said before, that one of the best ways to bring down costs, provide more choices and assure quality is a public option that will force the insurance companies to compete and keep them honest," Obama said in July.

Lawmakers have discussed the co-op model for months although the Democratic leadership and the White House have said they prefer a government-run option.

Conrad, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, called the argument for a government-run public plan little more than a "wasted effort." He added there are enough votes in the Senate for a cooperative plan.

"It's not government-run and government-controlled," he said. "It's membership-run and membership-controlled. But it does provide a nonprofit competitor for the for-profit insurance companies, and that's why it has appeal on both sides."

Sen. Richard Shelby,* R-Ala., said Obama's team is making a political calculation and embracing the co-op alternative as 'a step away from the government takeover of the health care system' that the GOP has pummeled.

'I don't know if it will do everything people want, but we ought to look at it. I think it's a far cry from the original proposals,' he said.

Republicans say a public option would have unfair advantages that would drive private insurers out of business. Critics say co-ops would not be genuine public options for health insurance.

Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Texas, said it would be difficult to pass any legislation through the Democratic-controlled Congress without the promised public plan.

'We'll have the same number of people uninsured,' she said. 'If the insurance companies wanted to insure these people now, they'd be insured.'

Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., said the Democrats' option would force individuals from their private plans to a government-run plan as some employers may choose not to provide health insurance.

'Tens of millions of individuals would be moved from their personal, private insurance to the government-run program. We simply don't think that's acceptable,' he said.

A shift to a cooperative plan would certainly give some cover to fiscally conservative Blue Dog Democrats who are hardly cheering for the government-run plan.

'The reality is that it takes 60 percent to get this done in the Senate. It's probably going to have to be bipartisan in the Senate, which I think it should be,' said Rep. Mike Ross, D-Ark., who added that the proposals still need changes before he can support them.

Obama, writing in Sunday's New York Times, said political maneuvers should be excluded from the debate.

"In the coming weeks, the cynics and the naysayers will continue to exploit fear and concerns for political gain," he wrote. "But for all the scare tactics out there, what's truly scary — truly risky — is the prospect of doing nothing."

Congress' proposals, however, seemed likely to strike end-of-life counseling sessions. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has called the session 'death panels,' a label that has drawn rebuke from her fellow Republicans as well as Democrats.

Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, declined to criticize Palin's comments and said Obama wants to create a government-run panel to advise what types of care would be available to citizens.

"In all honesty, I don't want a bunch of nameless, faceless bureaucrats setting health care for my aged citizens in Utah," Hatch said.

Sebelius said the end-of-life proposal was likely to be dropped from the final bill.

'We wanted to make sure doctors were reimbursed for that very important consultation if family members chose to make it, and instead it's been turned into this scare tactic and probably will be off the table,' she said.

Sebelius spoke on CNN's 'State of the Union' and ABC's 'This Week.' Gibbs appeared on CBS' 'Face the Nation.' Conrad and Shelby appeared on 'Fox News Sunday.' Johnson, Price and Ross spoke with "State of the Union." Hatch was interviewed on 'This Week.' "

Democrats do control both houses of Congress. They have the most leftist President in this nation's history, in the white house. Democrats control 60 % of the Senate, which means the portion of the article highlighted in green is correct. Except, the writer of the Article and the Democrat in question neglect to mention that fact. They can pass anything they want right now. Not one Republican is necessary. Except to call a quorum.

*Republican Senator Richard Shelby, is a former Democrat.

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Kathy Castor's Townhall Meeting gets Violent

There are many other more detailed videos that are longer, but this one shows the aftermath.

More photos here.

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Russ Carnahan gets an earful on healthcare.

Just watch.

It's getting ugly out there. I don't blame the heckler one whit. Please note that when a politician states that "it's important that we all listen to each other" it means "shut up and listen TO ME."

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