Who the hell can hear this statement …
Today we vote whether to even discuss one of the greatest issues of our generation – indeed, one of the greatest issues this body has ever face: whether this nation will finally guarantee its people the right to live free from the fear of illness and death, which can be prevented by decent health care for all.
… and not want to reach for the phone and call 911 and have Reid 5150′d?
h/t Pablo
Comment by Joe on 11/22 @ 10:54 am #
Forget going to Church, Harry Reid has the power of everlasting life!
Comment by Salt Lick on 11/22 @ 10:56 am #
Pray for Senator Reid – Psalm 109:8
“Let his days be few; and let another take his office.”
Comment by Joe on 11/22 @ 11:00 am #
American Gothic
Comment by SBP on 11/22 @ 11:05 am #
OT: nice summary of what’s been found in the leaked AGW docs so far.
Comment by McGehee on 11/22 @ 11:06 am #
Joe, I don’t think it’s that he won’t die — it’s that he’s not afraid to.
And with this “health care reform” monstrosity he’s helping bring about, I don’t blame him.
Comment by Carin on 11/22 @ 11:07 am #
Bahahaaa haaaa … that’s too much.
It’s going on my blog.
Comment by JHo on 11/22 @ 11:07 am #
My brother emails this morning to inform that the wheels are coming off the Demohealth kleptocracy all over Sunday AM talk teevee. Centrist Dems only barely got it into debate.
Anybody confirm this morning-after sentiment? Combined with Hatch’s blistering expose, one can hope.
Comment by Joe on 11/22 @ 11:19 am #
The end is near!
Comment by sdferr on 11/22 @ 11:22 am #
That’s the rub, right there.
Mr Reid gives you your rights. Out of the goodness of his heart he gives them to you. We so thank you Mr Reid for giving. Really. Thanks.
Comment by RTO Trainer on 11/22 @ 11:22 am #
Fear not. Embrace illness and death.
Comment by Snotty on 11/22 @ 11:24 am #
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Comment by JHo on 11/22 @ 11:26 am #
Ban this prick, Darleen. Please.
Comment by MDr on 11/22 @ 11:28 am #
Sounds like a PhotoShop opportunity. Reid holding his HC bill over head ala Moses, saying fear not death; the Grim Reaper, smirking, standing bedside him.
Comment by SBP on 11/22 @ 11:29 am #
Well, I could easily believe that Reid is undead. Perhaps he’s planning to make us all zombies or vampires, like himself.
Comment by Joe on 11/22 @ 11:30 am #
Darleen, having resident trolls is good for a blog’s immune system. They are like symbiotic bacteria. Sparring partners if you will. But occasionally the benign e. coli cell goes “rogue” and the immune system has to take it out.
Snowcone’s time has come.
Comment by Bob Reed on 11/22 @ 11:33 am #
Take heart JHo,
As with most like snowcone/aphie/parsnip, there will come a time of real trial, tribulation, and challenge in their lives when they will fond themselves turning to the divine transcendent God, instead of ridiculing Him and His faithful…
Even of they’re only “cramming for finals”-so to speak…
And the trial and tribulation is mucg greater than Obama facing electoral defeat, or the cancellation of “American Idol”…
Comment by Mr. W on 11/22 @ 11:34 am #
We on the right should count our blessings. This is the rarest of opportunities, and as such, has not been seen since the days of the Whig party. We get to watch a political party that has collectively lost touch with reality commit poltical suicide in real time.
Comment by Pablo on 11/22 @ 11:36 am #
Heh. What a looney bird.
Comment by Bob Reed on 11/22 @ 11:36 am #
Dingy Harry need to have a larger “L” tattooed on his forhead; it’s peurpose would be manifold…
It could indicate “Loser”, “Liar”, “Lefty”, or “Lemming” depending on the situation…
About the only “L” word that would’t apply would be “Leader”, or any vaiant that incorporated that word as it’s root…
Comment by Mr. W on 11/22 @ 11:36 am #
I feel compelled to add that even our friend Snowcone knows it.
Comment by Bob Reed on 11/22 @ 11:37 am #
Good point Mr W…
Comment by Joe on 11/22 @ 11:39 am #
Snowcone, here is your prophet!
Comment by sdferr on 11/22 @ 11:40 am #
Bob R, did you happen to see this piece about shortsightedness and the maltreatment of your old friends? Sad damned story that.
Comment by sdferr on 11/22 @ 11:43 am #
Harry Reid: “Our country cries for it.”
No Mr Reid, as a matter of fact, it doesn’t.
Comment by J."Trashman" Peden on 11/22 @ 11:45 am #
this nation will finally guarantee its people the right to live free from the fear of illness and death
Translated:”Who needs death panels when you’ve got gov’t healthcare rationing on one end, and gov’t parasites sucking you dry on the other.”
Comment by Mr. W on 11/22 @ 11:49 am #
Snowcone,
When the “Monkey God” wants to destroy you, he gives you exactly what you want…
See: Pres. Obama.
I’m going to miss the Democrat party.
Comment by Mr. W on 11/22 @ 11:51 am #
Snowcone,
Why doesn’t anyone ever brave the shark infested waters in order to swim to Cuba?
Comment by ghost707 on 11/22 @ 11:58 am #
..40,000 men and women every day
another 40,000 comin’ every day
we can be like they are
come on baby, don’t fear the Reaper…
Comment by Kresh on 11/22 @ 12:00 pm #
We best make sure that they don’t destroy America along with themselves. Remember; the truly suicidal (ass opposed to merely crying for help) won’t mind “bringing” a few with them. This bill would be awesome for that purposes. Destroy America in a whirlwind of hopey-changey feelgood legislation! Horay Democrats! Fighting America for… er, I’m still not sure what it is they’re fighting FOR/b>, but I do know what they’re fighting against. Adulthood.
I wonder if they’ll ever figure out how much harm they’re going to do if they get their way. I (as a Mormon) look upon them and often think, “What a bunch of fanatics.” That should be saying something. I’m not sure what, but it’s saying something. Heh.
Interesting factoid; Mozilla thinks “Mormon” should be capitalized, otherwise you’re spelling it wrong.
Comment by Kresh on 11/22 @ 12:00 pm #
DAMN MY WEAK HTML-FU!
Comment by sdferr on 11/22 @ 12:04 pm #
Argumentum ad Verecundiam on the way? :
Comment by Gulermo on 11/22 @ 12:07 pm #
Me Da used to say, “Its not important you believe in GOD; only that HE believes in you.”
Comment by JimK on 11/22 @ 12:07 pm #
Just more of the same, “oceans will stop rising,planet healing” crap that democraps like to spew.
Comment by SBP on 11/22 @ 12:09 pm #
Obama gets savaged by SNL. If you’ve lost them, you’ve lost the country.
Comment by J."Trashman" Peden on 11/22 @ 12:14 pm #
Yeah, thanks anyway, Harry, but I think I’ll choose the Viagra solution over yours.
Comment by Mr. W on 11/22 @ 12:16 pm #
Kresh,
‘Never stop your enemy when he is in the process of destroying himself.’
The beauty of this hideous bill is that it holds the promise of eliminating the American Socialist party.
This bill can (and will) be unwound after the 2010 elections once it has served the greater good.
All without killing anything but the careers of the folks diligently trying to pass it!
Comment by ghost707 on 11/22 @ 12:18 pm #
Argumentum ad Verecundiam on the way?
With regards to Hasan?
The question that will never be asked of the General: “Did your PTSD ever motivate you to want to open fire on your own troops?”
Because the answer everyone knows including the left is: not only no, but hell no.
Comment by ghost707 on 11/22 @ 12:22 pm #
Kresh, this toolbar for Firefox works pretty good in WordPress:
http://codefisher.org/format_toolbar/
Comment by SBP on 11/22 @ 12:34 pm #
Why don’t you get a job, Kari?
Oh, right: Obama has wrecked the economy.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 11/22 @ 1:02 pm #
% increase in the uninsured: ~13
% increase in unemployed: ~100
Methinks we’re lucky to see only 13% increase in the uninsured. I don’t know how the number could possibly be that small.
But Kari probably doesn’t think there ought to be a connection.
Comment by JD on 11/22 @ 1:05 pm #
Kari comments just like willie the racist skin flute player, gender-bender that it is.
Comment by Pablo on 11/22 @ 1:07 pm #
Well, hey, just look at Massachusetts on that list. No uninsured at all. There’s your answer, kids. RomneyCare. What could go wrong?
If the Center for American Progress says it, it must be true. They gave us Media Matters after all. How’s Van Jones doing over there? Things are good?
Comment by McGehee on 11/22 @ 1:11 pm #
Sen. Robert Byrd’s kleagle hood was unavailable for comment.
Comment by Matt on 11/22 @ 1:17 pm #
So if healthcare passes, I’m essentially immortal ?
Comment by royf on 11/22 @ 1:26 pm #
Comment by Snowcone on 11/22 @ 11:24 am
Believing that your invisible monkey god can make you immortal is perfectly rational.
Says the idiot that thinks marxism still has something to offer other that death and despair.
Comment by JD on 11/22 @ 1:34 pm #
These are the same types that told us Christopher Reeve would walk again if Sen Horseface was elected.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 11/22 @ 2:41 pm #
There is no fear of illness and death – it is just a certainty. So live free from those fears, become resigned to them. For we shall make sure that your day of meeting with illness and death (especially death) becomes a soon and certain day. Especially soon, you health-care-moneis-grubbing-pikers!
Comment by Spiny Norman on 11/22 @ 2:44 pm #
Center for American Progress
IOW, the fucking Soros-funded Marxist stooges say we’re all doomed! if we don’t.
The old Soviet Pravda may be dead, but its spirit lives on.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 11/22 @ 3:29 pm #
Oh, shit, I’d forgotten about that. If only we could have sprinkled Christopher Reeve with pixie dust made from dessicated embryonic stem cells, he could have stood up and walked. It’d be like a televangelist miracle, only REAL.
Comment by sdferr on 11/22 @ 3:44 pm #
Cheery news from Guantanamo Bay, cheery, that is if you’re Eric Holder.
Comment by sdferr on 11/22 @ 3:48 pm #
Then there’s Keith Hennessey’s cheery news (h/t Insty):
Comment by Jeffersonian on 11/22 @ 4:44 pm #
I think I may apply for Mexican citizenship, then come back as an illegal. Apparently it’s the only way to avoid being punitively taxed by my government.
Comment by geoffb on 11/22 @ 5:43 pm #
#54,
Fits quite well with and amplifies #17.
Live full living color coverage. Burned on DVD for archival purposes to instruct generations yet unborn. A Chicago 7 remake turned up to 11!, no 13!!
Comment by sdferr on 11/22 @ 5:47 pm #
Did you run into Robert Wright’s reasoning on Hasan today geoffb? Bush made him do it.
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Comment by geoffb on 11/22 @ 6:03 pm #
sdferr,
That link takes me to an ad for “The Economist” somehow. Let’s see, here it is.
Comment by sdferr on 11/22 @ 6:06 pm #
click skip this ad in the upper right corner. It’s weird the ad wasn’t there when I checked the link as I pasted it, but sure was on yours.
Comment by sdferr on 11/22 @ 6:08 pm #
I’ll bet once you get to the article the next time you click the link the ad won’t be there though cause it’ll recognize you.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/22 @ 6:10 pm #
The New York Times wants to make sure that it’s very very clear to everyone that the Chicago street trash piece of shit they helped put in our little White House isn’t actually responsible for anything. Him’s just supposed to sit there and look historic.
Comment by geoffb on 11/22 @ 6:11 pm #
Wright needs a bit of editing.
“When American wars
killfree lots of Muslims,inevitablyincludingsomemany civilians, incendiary images magically find their way to the people who will be most inflamed by them,” the radical jihadists and their enablers on the Progressive Left of which I, Wright, am one.Better, and truer.
Comment by geoffb on 11/22 @ 6:14 pm #
I didn’t see the skip ad thing because the page overflowed my screen to the right. Small monitor I have.
Comment by sdferr on 11/22 @ 6:14 pm #
He’s making awesome history for sure hf, declining in popularity broadly measured faster than any pezzydent in memory. Well, that and surrendering America’s honest stance in the world for a tricked-up cooze of a Nobel prize.
Comment by Bob Reed on 11/22 @ 6:16 pm #
sdferr,
Sorry but I just saw you link to the weekly standard story about the shredding of the Tomcats at the boneyard. In truth, it kind of makes my skin crawl to hear it…
But it did my heart good to hear this said once again:
The good ol’ Tomcats were bad Muthas indeed, and while in the interim fighters such as the F/A-18 E/F super hornets have become much more manueverable, as a flat-out interceptor the F-14 couldn’t be beat…
Fast, Powerful, sporting impressive targeting systems and deadly standoff missiles; it was quite a machine…
When the decision was officially made to phase them out, in part to maximize the “peace dividend”, Grumman had been working on a project called the Super Tomcat 21; the upgraded airframe sported a better radar, full digital electronic instrument suite, greater fuel capacity and higher takeoff weight, and a new engine which would have provided vector thrust and super-cruise capability (cruise at supersonic speeds without afterburner-resulting in much greater unrefueled range). I can only imagine what capabilities the addition of modern systems would have provided…
The ‘Cat was one hell of a fighter, and I had no idea they were shredding them; last I heard they were staying at the boneyard. Seems like a short sighted decision to me…
Comment by geoffb on 11/22 @ 6:17 pm #
I wonder who we killed on Bill Clinton’s watch to put images all over the world that inflamed the guys that Holder will put on trial? Some janitor in Somalia?
Comment by sdferr on 11/22 @ 6:21 pm #
Bob, I’m still trying to get used to the idea that SecDef Gates (who I respect but have little affection for) will be announcing his departure from the Obama administration any farking day now. I dread the follow-on, as it is easy to imagine someone very much worse.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/22 @ 6:21 pm #
Him’s gonna have a jobs summit, sdferr!
After that, him’s will have… a campaign!!! Yay!
Chicago street trash on parade! This’ll turn things around by golly.
Comment by sdferr on 11/22 @ 6:23 pm #
“I wonder who we killed on Bill Clinton’s watch…”
I think the root of the problem goes much further back, geoffb. Back to the late 40’s I think, when Qutb attended a jazz dance in Colorado or thereabouts. We poisoned his mind.
Comment by Bob Reed on 11/22 @ 6:23 pm #
geoffb,
If there’s anyone’s name we won’t hear at KSM’s trial, it’s President Clinton…
But they’ll be a lot of fists being shaken in the air accompanied by plaintive cries of, “I blame Boooooooooosh!”
Comment by LTC John on 11/22 @ 6:24 pm #
#56 – good thought, you think they would take me and recognize my commission? I’d probably end up in Chiapas State shooting at Zapateros.
Comment by sdferr on 11/22 @ 6:25 pm #
“…which will take him to across the country over several months.”
I hope (I’ll bet) he takes advantage of the opportunity to try out a few more of the fine golf courses sprinkled across the country.
Comment by Bob Reed on 11/22 @ 6:27 pm #
sdferr,
I haven’t heard any names floated in the ol’ trial baloons, but I’m guessing Chuck Hagel is on the short list; that way he can have a token Rethug! to parade to the press as well as lend him some backbone-by association…
Comment by sdferr on 11/22 @ 6:29 pm #
“…Chuck Hagel is on the short list…”
That was not the sound of me screaming in rage you just heard out your window: it was more likely a passerby being mugged.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 11/22 @ 6:33 pm #
Bob, I don’t know the Tomcat except by word-of-mouth, but my understanding is it is/was a nice airframe.
Super Hornet is a bit nicer than the C/D Hornet, and it’ll have some nicer targeting equipment, too. Well, it’ll have a nicer IRST; the air-to-ground targeting will continue to suck until such time as they decide to trash ATFLIR. That probably isn’t going to happen as long as there are folks around whose careers are invested in not declaring it a tragic bit of failure.
Comment by Bob Reed on 11/22 @ 6:33 pm #
You all know he’ll be workin western Pa. and Ohio HARD!, because he needs those areas, electorally, and so do his congressional allies in 2010…
Comment by sdferr on 11/22 @ 6:35 pm #
Though calming down a bit and thinking on it, perhaps a nomination of Chuck Hagel would be just the ticket for the Senate Republican’s to demonstrate that they have begun to regain their sanity — by steadfastly refusing to allow their imbecilic former colleague anywhere near the DoD?
Comment by geoffb on 11/22 @ 6:37 pm #
I was just following on from the logic trail that Robert Wright used in his Op_Ed piece.
If KSM uses “I blame BOOOOSH!” then we will know time travel is a reality in some minds.
That stinks about the F-14. You would think that the Left would behave more Soviet and never throw any usable weapons system away. Just store them for that rainy day.
Comment by sdferr on 11/22 @ 6:40 pm #
Heh, me too geoffb, though in trying to force it to be humorous it looks like I hit the fail button again. ;-)
Comment by Bob Reed on 11/22 @ 6:44 pm #
Slart,
E/F Superhornet has larger wing area, and larger elevator and rudder areas for greater control authority; although the Hornet variants aren’t as fast as the Tomcats, they are much more nimble at dogfighting speeds (approx 0.80 Mach). Now the F-14 wasn’t simply a missile at high speeds; we could maneuver at 2.3+ Mach. But the smallest radius turns resulted in high G forces at that incredible speed…
My understanding is that the IR targeting systems are tits, and so you’re assessment of a similar ground targeting method must be career prolonging on someone’s part!
Comment by geoffb on 11/22 @ 6:45 pm #
No fail. Just too true. :-)
Plus looking at that “Viagra In Manchester Uk” all the time just reminds me of the UK healthcare soon to be ours perhaps.
Comment by sdferr on 11/22 @ 6:46 pm #
Here’s a sad story about the Service Academies and Congressional nominations. at In From the Cold.
Comment by Bob Reed on 11/22 @ 6:47 pm #
“…by steadfastly refusing to allow their imbecilic former colleague anywhere near the DoD?”
Dear Lord, I would hope they would give him the thumbs down; especially after declaring the war lost with the rest of the Democrat losers toeing the “line”…
Comment by sdferr on 11/22 @ 6:48 pm #
They’ve made a Missourian of me Bob, they’ve got to prove it before I’ll cut them any slack.
Comment by Bob Reed on 11/22 @ 7:07 pm #
They’ve made Missourians out of a lot of us, brother…
Comment by SBP on 11/22 @ 9:02 pm #
Hush, SFAG.
Comment by SporkLift Driver on 11/22 @ 9:33 pm #
No problem sdferr just make em citizens. Of course then we’ll have to import replacements to do “the work Americans won’t do”. But then we’ll have to make them citizens too.
Lather.
Rinse.
Repeat.
The only way I see to break the cycle is if the ACLU objects to depriving these people of their de-facto super-citizen status.
Comment by SporkLift Driver on 11/22 @ 9:38 pm #
Shame about the Tomcats they would make nice bomber or cruise missile interceptors. It has always struck me as stupid being in a hurry to scrap old equipment. If we got in a hot war with a major power and needed the numbers I suspect we could bring a few hundred pilots out of retirement or even train new ones quicker than we could crank out a hundred new airframes
Comment by geoffb on 11/23 @ 12:07 am #
When I wrote in #57 that the KSM trial would be a Chicago 7 remake I didn’t realize/remember that the “Center for Constitutional Rights” that has steered all the legal cases that have led to this end was the group that defended the Chicago 7, formerly 8, back in 1972. There is another weird twist.
In 1998 the CCR absorbed another left legal group, The “National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee” founded in 1951 by, among others, I.F.Stone. Counsel to the NECLC was Leonard Boudin father of Kathy Boudin, Weather Underground member who was convicted in the 1981 Brinks robbery. Her son Chesa Boudin was adopted by Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. Which closes the circle right back to the White House.
The elite left where everybody knows everybody. A powerful little village hidden away because it is spread out physically but is quite tightly bound together ideologically.
Comment by JD on 11/23 @ 7:29 am #
Yup, just make them legal, huh, twit?
Comment by geoffb on 11/23 @ 9:35 am #
It’s the same reasoning as in the link sdferr put up in #58.
Definitions cause all the troubles, not actions. If you define someone as being (A) then they will of course do what (A) does. Magic! Spells woven of words work see.
But only if humans do them. Otherwise “Let there be light” would come into play and the Left allows no other God to come before themselves.
Comment by JD on 11/23 @ 9:57 am #
Geoffb – That always reminds me of Ric’s comment about redefinitioning vegetables to include beef, so vegans could eat cheeseburgers.
Comment by geoffb on 11/23 @ 10:03 am #
JD, Sounds good to me, but I’m prejudiced, my better half used to work at NCBA.