Oops, Looks Like Nancy's Back Off Her Meds

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D. Cali.), whose initial reaction to the tea party movement was to: A) accuse it of being fake grass roots, or "astroturf", drummed up by Republicans; B) accuse its members of being Nazis; and C) insinuate that the movement was likely to result in violence and political assassinations; has now decided that the tea parties and Democrats have a lot in common and the GOP is simply hijacking the movement. If you were drinking something as you read that, I apologize for not warning you of the possible spit-take you probably just did. I think there is no other way to view it, Nancy Pelosi is either insane or a blithering idiot...or both.

Congratulations, Mom

Just a quick congrats to my mother for getting her team to the regional playoffs in tennis. Well done. Now don't blow it.

Progressive Equality

If you ever believed that the left was about equality whether racial or otherwise, I hope you've realized differently by now. A few months ago, several members of the Congressional Black Caucus returned from the Cuban Socialist paradise singing the praises of the murderous dictator Fidel Castro and the Cuban health care system. On February 23, 2010, a black activist by the name of Orlando Zapata-Tamayo died from a combination of his hunger strike and repeated beatings at the hands of Cuban officials. This is a man who tried to emulate the peace tactics of Gandhi. You won't hear much about this man's death. You may not read about it anywhere but here. I encourage you to read the first and second links in full and realize that this is all just a little bit of history repeating, as the song goes. Carter went to Cuba and played baseball with Castro before praising him. Progressives went to see the mass murderer Joseph Stalin, returning to the United States praising his methods and brilliance. The Congressional Black Caucus has been there before, too, with similar results. College students run around wearing T-shirts with Che Guevara on them and Oliver Stone made a four hour movie about Che, a murderous psychopath who helped install Castro.

Don't ever believe that the left thinks about you as anything other than the dumb cattle they were meant to rule over.

Architect or Opportunist

Please read this article. Then look up George Soros, his connections with Moveon.org and the Democratic party, his history with the Nazis and his participation in the collapse of previous currencies. Then, this post is yours, tell me what you think and I'll address your thoughts one week from now.

The Health Care Summit Sham

Let's take a look at the different evidence that the health care summit today was just a sham:

1) President Obama released his own monstrosity of a plan prior to the summit which was even more expansive than the Senate plan, effectively sending the message that this is not a negotiation, it is an invitation to agree to the plan;

2) Despite the supposed desire to include Republicans in the process, 21 Democrats were invited (President Obama not included) compared to 17 Republicans;

3) Democratic speakers (not including President Obama) took 114 minutes, President Obama took 119 minutes, and Republicans took 110 minutes (final tally 233 minutes for supporters of the bill vs. 110 minutes for those in opposition);

4) In explaining the massive difference in talking time, the President (who is apparently from the Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez school of fairness and 8 hour speech writing) explained that he didn't count himself because he's the President, make no mistake, President Obama was not acting as an impartial moderator, he was an advocate;

5) Democrats were already planning on moving forward with the bill through the reconciliation process before the summit even started;

6) Faced with his campaign promises of openness the President responded that the campaign and election are over;

7) President Obama scolded Representative Eric Cantor (R. Penn.) for bringing a copy of the Senate bill, which was the basis of the Obama proposal, to the summit;

8) Every time Republicans presented their solutions or their problems with the proposals President Obama accused them of simply resorting to talking points; and

9) The President's closing comments could easily be read as indicating that he is determined to move forward with reconciliation.

The thing to take away from this is that the Democrats and the Obama administration held this summit to try and set up Republicans as the party of no as an excuse to move forward without cooperation on the bill. Democrats don't care how unpopular the bill is with the public. The ideologues will try to get this through no matter what.

The Ephemeral Criminality of Charlie Rangel

Without comment, Representative Charles Rangel (D. NY) was one of the 21 Democrats present at the health care summit today in Washington, D.C. This is the same Charlie Rangel who has been under investigation for corruption for what seems like forever at this point. In fact, on the same day the esteemed and honorable Congressman Rangel was battling for the little man (please add sarcastic voice to that) he admitted that an ethics panel found that our upstanding citizen had accepted corporate money in violation of House rules and the investigation is far from over. Yet somehow, there he was, participating in the sham summit, as he continues to flaunt the investigation under the apparent belief that the longer it goes on, the more public interest will wane. Do I expect more from a politician? No. What I do find distasteful is that the Democrats apparently didn't think twice about bringing him along and neither they nor the President have made any attempt to distance themselves from him. It's as if Rangel wasn't under investigation at all.

It Must be Spring. Pitchers and Catchers are Reporting for Training and the Smell of Freshly Shorn Astroturf is Floating Across the Breeze

Remember how Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D. Cali.) referred to the tea party activists as astroturf? Well, unable to stir up real support for health care reform, the Obama campaign wing (now called Organizing for America) has a helpful tool which not only provides talking points and tips for people to call in to radio talk shows, it even offers up the conservative radio show for live listening so they know to call in when health care comes up and then they can report back on their experience.

Anyone else find that incredibly creepy?