Promoted from diaries by Mark I.
We are less than one week from the scheduled Congressional vote to override President Bush’s veto of the massive 121% expansion in SCHIP spending, and we want to provide you with a key figure on what will happen in five years in terms of spending, according to the Democrats’ bill.Under their plan for SCHIP, spending will drop from $13.9 billion in 2012 to only $7.8 billion in 2013.
So, as drafted, the Democrats’ proposal will lead to either billions of dollars in higher taxes in 2013 or millions of children losing their health care coverage. This is deceptive at best and malicious at worst.
President Bush supports a reasonable expansion of SCHIP in line with its original intent, putting poor children first. The bill the President vetoed in some cases covered families earning $83,000 a year, adults, and was the first step on the path toward an inefficient system of government-run healthcare.Nicholas Thompson
Office of Strategic Initiatives
The White House
Think Proggtard:
White House Embraces Right-Wing Blog That Called For ‘Destroying’ Graeme Frost
What’s the nature of the call to destroy Graeme Frost?
One blog in particular, Redstate, featured especially vitriolic comments. A poster there wrote of the Frost family:
If federal funds were required [they] could die for all I care. Let the parents get second jobs, let their state foot the bill or let them seek help from private charities. […]
I would hire a team of PIs and find out exactly how much their parents made and where they spent every nickel. Then I’d do everything possible to destroy their lives with that info.
So, some moron makes this comment, and it’s the official position of the blog? And someone employed by the White House makes a post on his diary, and it’s suddenly “an official White House posting”?
The guy thinks so unclearly that he actually repeats the part about it’s having been raised from a diary on the site. Or maybe he doesn’t realize the implication, much like Chuck Adkins. Either way, it’s glossolalic. What it proves, more than anything, is that these people, despite their ability to write something that looks a lot like cogent thought, are really incapable of it.
“The White House’s tacit endorsement of a blog that promoted baseless attacks against a 12-year old boy serves as a perfect illustration of Krugman’s point.”
Rebuttal of the information or analysis? None.
Evidence. Logic. Discretion. Nuance.
I say we go find some idiotic comment after something Gleen’s written, and attribute it to Russ Feingold.
More: Why Make an Issue of a Blob of Tissue? Expect boycott by reality based, fans of Michael Moore.
Ezra doesn’t get it. Sullivan accuses him of insisting on univocality, and he complains that the magazine Sullivan used to edit wasn’t uniform enough. Strangely, Ezra doesn’t seem to have any trouble with Mickey Kaus’s integrity, though, when it suits his purposes. Would a Google search reveal a bit of shakiness on this count? Is Ezra insisting, by analogy, that we really must get to the bottom of the Frosts’ finances to get to the truth? Does he find it absurd that the Goracle was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize? Tune in next time.
For Corvan: NY Post rips NY Times for not printing anything about Lt. Michael Murphy.
Victor Davis Hanson, in Flopping Aces:
We are all tired of European and even former commonwealth politicians lecturing Americans about how the future will be different as they go their own way-even as they expect US material and manpower support for their current defense needs. Americans would be delighted to see our allies rearm, take up the cudgels of their own defense, and start dealing with threats to Western life and civilization. No American is worried about Sarkozy’s current braggadocio. It is welcomed, not lampooned.
My past note about what Iraq was worth was qualified, as one reader conveniently ignored: I said a natural emotion after seeing our soldiers’ sacrifices was that the entire country was not worth a life of a US trooper-not that I felt such feelings were either logical or moral, much less shared by those who must do the bleeding.
US troops believe in their mission, not just because they are killing terrorists, but because that they are rebuilding a society and see tangible positive results in their humanitarian efforts, despite the costs-and that a free and secure Iraq will be critical to the region and diminish the chances of yet more global jihadist attacks.
Radical Islam, for all the criticisms of the Left, is declining in popularity in the Middle East, and its agents are dying in droves, both literally and metaphorically, at the US military’s hands in Iraq.
Read the whole thing. But if anyone deserve to be awarded a Peace Prize, as I said, it’s The American Soldier.
I’m always overcome by stories of persons overcoming the odds. Just what were the odds that a brain damaged 12-year-old would beat out Pelosi and Reid and become the most visible spokesman for the Democratic party? 3/2?
Ultimately little Graeme is going to get old, get sick, and die, and he will deserve it.
One way to improve little Graeme’s life expectancy doesn’t require medicine.
Revoke his Mommy’s drivers license.
– How much do you bet that post was a Lefturd plant. Remember. alls fair in love, war, and controlling the narrative.
– Also remember you’re dealing with narrative on the internet, a wide open, no holds barred, full metal jacket anarchy. Thats one reason the Progtwits love it so. Want to lie, misslead, fabricate, just let ‘er rip. Remember. When it comes to the “cause”, fuck principles. Its for the greater good.
Maybe you could post a JPEG of a noose in the comments over there to ratchet up the hate level a little.
– “tacit endorsement”
– Would that be anything like refusing to condemn the Patraeus ad, while cheering moveon.org on silently? I’m looking at you Hillery/Obama.
I’m still trying to figure out how they tell them apart. It’s the wrinkles, isn’t it?
– I’m still trying to figure out how they tell them apart. It’s the wrinkles, isn’t it?
– No. You can tell her from the kid, because he doesn’t have any 60 year old hippies on his front lawn.
Give it 15 years, Big Bang.
– Well probably. but you never know. Some have discovered a group of working brain cells as they grew up, and told the cult to hit the road.
Is it ok to beat this drum just One. More Time?
The left is complaining about the right questioning the finances of a family their political machine put front and center THAT IS ALREADY COVERED BY SCHIP AND WILL NOT FRAGGIN’ GAIN BY IT’S PASSAGE!!!!!!
The true nature of the Democratic universe has been revealed and IT’S FRIGGIN’ BIZARRO WORLD!!!
Great googly, moogly my head hurts…
Given the way they’re presenting the issue, it’s more to the point to say
– Now that the global hot air has been let out of that flatulent balloon, we should be hearing the next adle-brained claim of:
– WELL ITS NOT ABOUT HIM….ITS THE OTHER 1 BILLION BROWN BABIES THROUGHOUT TEH WORLD WITH NO HEALTH CARE…YOU DAMN RETHUG MEANIES!!!111!1!!!one!
That’s a weird link, BB.
That’s what that fecund Catholic lady was basically saying isn’t it?
That was a good article thanks, Dan.
– Dan. At this point after years of listening to the cult of the forever bleeding hearts wail about “One world community”, “diversification”, “redistribution of wealth”, “American greed/hedmony/imperialism” , “oil oil oil oil”, at this point I don’t have a doubt in this world that if Socialism managed to take hold here it would just a matter of time before U.S. diplomats would go waaaaaaaayyyy beyond foriegn aide, and start directly shoveling money into third world political systems. It is, after all, the Communist way.
What she said was “The millions of dollars we spend on this senseless war could cover suffering children not only here, but around the world.â€Â
So I can see BBH’s point about incrementalism, if I read that right.
BB. No, because I created the post, there’s a highlighted link that says “Edit This” after the ID of the comment maker. I thought that you had highlighted the word “This,” because it wrapped around. And when I clicked, it took me to your comment in the comment editing field. Took me a moment to figure it out (and less than a moment to type something confusing).
– Its basically the entire one trick pony act of the Left. The Camels nose in the tent approach. Graeme was the Camels nose in this case. Dogs bark, Lefturds weasle.
– Yes Feets. In Industry its called “creeping incrementalism”. Manufacturers keep loading more and more buzzers and whistles onto a product until its useless to the original intended purpose.
– After watching our tax dollars in action for close to 70 years, all I can say is anyone who thinks the government can run any enterprize anywhere but directly into the ground is fucking stupid, immature, inexperienced, and about to get hit by a friggin’ train.
Oh. It was still kind of fun anyway to type “fecund Catholic lady.”
– Sorry Dan – guess we were on a different wavelength…..hell its saturday so no surprize.
– Besides, after awhile, having to deal with this constant avalaunche of cognitive dissonance, its a wonder we’re not all nutz by now.
Personally, I just wish that they’d make up their minds whether RedState is a: a meaningless site that will soon collapse under the weight of our own unimportance or b: one of the shock troops of Satan’s blogging army. We’re tired of keeping two sets of fright masks around.
Not fun in a gleefully anti-Catholic way you understand, I just never get to use that word.
Also I was going to say something nice about RedState but I clicked over and they are quoting Peggy Noonan approvingly and I just felt really tired all of a sudden.
Yes. I play clips of Peggy’s news show visits when I can’t sleep. That and warm milk do the trick.
Peggy’s got an incredible rack. You need to know.
Ah. To rest my head against her breast. Like crawling back into the womb, that.
Maybe we could get Serr8d to do a Pieta photoshop.