UPDATED — Eleven buses and counting from Bel Air to the 9/12 Tea Party in D.C.

I set the DVR just before Obama’s Hail Mary healthcare reform speech to Congress was going to start and took a short drive to Tony Passaro’s house. I had to give him my check for $30 to reserve a seat on the bus caravan Tony is organizing to attend the 9/12 Tea Party in Washington, …

Obama's in the house — quick, count the spoons

What an epic prevarication-fest Obama’s healthcare reform speech to Congress was! I’ll link to others who have covered it tomorrow, including my favorite moment, the outraged cry, “You lie!” when Obama claimed Obamacare will not cover illegal aliens. It was very decent of Obama to rile up the conservative base that way just before our …

Obama retreating from the public option? Don't you believe it!

My Obama Prevarication Predictor says that whenever a consensus develops opposing anything Obama favors, within 72 hours of the consensus developing he will announce he either no longer wants the thing OR that he is the personification of reason and compromise over the thing — whatever “the thing” du jour is. Currently it is the …

Krauthammer clueless on the purpose of Obamacare

Charles Krauthammer’s Aug. 28 column declares Obamacare 1.0 (its current form) dead and makes sensible proposals for a universal healthcare bill he dubs Obamacare 2.0 that he believes could get passed. Why, it even leaves out tort reform. However, the column takes a mordant turn at the end when Dr. Krauthammer notes that such a …

On Obamacare, the president contradicts himself every other breath

I have a theory that my idealistic friends who still trust Obama do so because they only tune in on what he is saying when they hear him saying something they agree with. This works with a trustworthy person — even a small sample of what they say will be consistent with everything else they …

Let's make a deal

I see from Gateway Pundit and Hot Air that Obama’s press secretary Robert Gibbs says that Obama is willing to be a one-term president if that’s what it takes to make him president-for-life in the new totalitarian socialist regime that will result from enacting Obamacare. Oh, wait — we were supposed to believe Gibbs meant …

First expand the supply THEN increase the demand — UPDATED: IBD survey says 45 percent of doctors will shut down their practices or retire early if Obamacare is enacted

I have been pondering a post for several days on the probability that one of the first effects of Obamacare will be to reduce the number of doctors. If Obamacare is passed, I believe that from that moment, thousands of doctors will start to plan how to sell or close their practices and change careers. …

Successful quadriplegic ex-football player on cover of August 24 Sports Illustrated

I took Dad to the dentist today and the latest issue of Sports Illustrated was on top of all the other magazines with a cover story about quadriplegic ex-football player Marc Buoniconti, so I eagerly picked it up to read the story. What a contrast between Buoniconti’s story and that of the Australian former athlete …

NOW I know why Gay Patriot denounces Barney Frank so often

I’ve been reading Gay Patriot since last fall, but I have been puzzled all that time about why Gay Patriot and Daniel Blatt (formerly known as Gay Patriot West) hated, denounced and ridiculed Democratic Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank with so much venom. Until today when I saw a few minutes of Barney Frank’s psychotic rants …

Obama's ignorance during his healthcare press conference and town halls more than cancels Palin's bad interviews

When I was watching Obama’s July 22 press conference in which he clumsily tried to sell his healthcare reform legislation, I was astonished at how much he revealed that he is — what’s a nice way of saying this? — intellectually uncurious, uninformed, misinformed and lazy. And that was before he announced he knew nothing …