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It’s titled First, Do No Harm: The President’s Cousin Explains Why His Hippocratic Oath Requires Him to Oppose ObamaCare
I didn’t know POTUS knew any Tea Partiers personally. Much less one who is also an M.D.
UPDATE: Here’s a review from Dr. Peter Weiss at Pajamas Media.
Poor salesmanship: White House secretly grants 111 Obamacare waivers to different companies and labor unions.
Specifically, the waivers exempt an approved organization from the no-annual-or-lifetime-limits requirement of Section 2711 of the Public Health Services Act that was added to the Act by the Obamacare bill. One of the most onerous provisions of the legislation, no doubt.
It was never about care. It was about control. And evidently some have to be controlled more than others.
UPDATE: Lots more on the topic at Michelle Malkin’s page (via Prof. Douglas, who links. Thanks!)
MORE: Linked at David Horowitz’s NewsReal headlines. Thanks!
Reuters: Judge allows states to sue to block Obamacare.
Long way to go to SCOTUS, so this is far from over; but it’s not a bad start…
KFC’s new, healthier self-image leading to loss of business?
Related: What? No Skinwich??? Seriously, can you honestly expect KFC’s business to ever pick up without such a delicacy?
I snowboarded once, back in ’96. I did have two close calls; and I was very lucky, especially considering I was never able to figure out how to veer board-right.
WSJ: U.S. Faces Doctor Shortage: “Experts warn there won’t be enough doctors to treat the millions of people newly insured under the law. At current graduation and training rates, the nation could face a shortage of as many as 150,000 doctors in the next 15 years, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges.”
Plus this: “A shortage of primary-care and other physicians could mean more-limited access to health care and longer wait times for patients.”
You don’t say…
Ace explains.
It’s not pretty…
AP:
Over and over in the health care debate, President Barack Obama said people who like their current coverage would be able to keep it.
But an early draft of an administration regulation estimates that many employers will be forced to make changes to their health plans under the new law. In just three years, a majority of workers — 51 percent — will be in plans subject to new federal requirements, according to midrange projections in the draft.
Republicans said Obama broke his promise.
Nothing of the sort. The promise is just past its expiration date, that’s all…
ABC News: Study finds movie theater 3D glasses unsanitary “but no more threatening than what you find on the arm rest, box of popcorn, or movie seats.”
Sounds like movie theaters themselves need a cleanup, then…
Via Cinematical.
From a Q&A session with Jersey Shore producer SallyAnn Salsano and others…
Same as law school today, but harder: Student goes insane during final, dies of overstudy.
H/T: Insty.
NYT:
Created in the wake of the scandal in 2007 over serious shortcomings at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Warrior Transition Units were intended to be sheltering way stations where injured soldiers could recuperate and return to duty or gently process out of the Army…But interviews with more than a dozen soldiers and health care professionals…suggest that the units are far from being restful sanctuaries.
Our fighting men and women deserve better, needless to say…
Thanks to Dr. Fiancee for the tip. She blogs about crime and national security news here.
The Corner: “Contrary to the what President Obama told crowd after crowd, the Affordable Care Act does not immediately mandate that insurers offer coverage to children with pre-existing conditions.”
Plus: “This is why the public prefers that lawmakers actually carefully read the bills they vote upon.”
And then there’s this other nugget.
Big Government: Congress’s Joint Committee on Taxation concludes that Obamacare’s individual mandate cannot be enforced.
According to the report, those thousands of new IRS employees that the bill provides for won’t have a whole lot to do. The bill didn’t give them the power to collect or enforce anything. Talk about make-work programs.
Lucky for the GOP, not a single one of them voted for the bill. Now a vote for Obamacare was not just a vote for tyranny, but a vote for looking stupid.
Via BermanPost.
Quinn Hillyer: Why Revenge Is Necessary:
Every member of Congress who is not a liberal ideologue or from a wildly leftist district who voted for Obamacare on Sunday should be haunted and hounded by and for their vote for as long as they draw breath upon this good Earth. And the same is true for every liberal ideologue who actively crafted and pushed the corrupt and unrepublican (small “r”) procedures and flagrant lies that were used to cram Obamacare up our gullets from the nether end of our common polity.
As I’ve said before, Tea is better served cold.
Plus, a catalog of Obama’s broken promises and lies in regards to health care reform.
Via @scottwgraves.
Spring has begun; but there is little in the air of the sense of renewal that comes with the season. Instead, we got a display of the worst of American politics. Something the likes of which I have not seen in my lifetime: House Democrats gave most Americans the finger and voted for a bill most Americans don’t want. It wasn’t to heal the sick. It wasn’t for our welfare. It wasn’t to limit abortions. It was only politics. Representative democracy be damned.
Like Springtime for Hitler – the fictional music in Mel Brooks’ brilliant The Producers
Next stop, the U.S. Senate, where the bill must go through a vote once more. But this is far from over. Even if Obama signs the bill into law tomorrow, it’ll be only the end of the beginning.
R.S. McCain and Smitty are all over today’s Code Red anti-Obamacare rally in DC today, with constant updates and aggregation.
I can’t be at my computer for long today, so I won’t be aggregating much. Have many things to get out of the way, since I have to work tomorrow…
UPDATE: Related: Why calling your U.S. Representative’s phone repeatedly to change their mind about Obamacare is not illegal: “After researching 47 U.S.C. 223, I called Mr. Garamendi’s office again and asked to be transferred back to the Capital Police Agent…I explained to him that the statute he cited was not controlling since it only prohibits people from calling with the specific intent to harass.”
MORE: Nice Deb has photos and more links.
ANOTHER ONE: Bill Killed by Pro-lifers? Delicious irony, if true: The Corner: Stupak is finished with Pelosi. And was Obama trying to pay off pro-life Dems?
Plus, how do you say “We couldn’t get away with it” in Washingtonese? House Democrat says Deem and Pass would have been perfectly legal, but they won’t use it anyway.
AND ANOTHER ONE: Related: 20 Dems who are still on the fence (via Instapundit).
ONE MORE: A slideshow of pics of today’s DC rally at the AFP Blog.
R.S. McCain on the Democrats’ Deathsmobile.
A great round-up on the latest, from Amy Kane: Obamacare and White Coat Hypertension.
NYT: Audiences Laughed to Forget Troubles.
Forget? Maybe in the fantasy world the NYT inhabits. You know, the one where the Denial School of Journalism happens to be.
You can bet there will be no forgetting in 2010. If it seems that way, it’s because Tea is better served cold. But for those who like it hot, there’s hot Tea coming up, too.
Also on the menu: a lot of Instant Karma, which will stay hot for months to come. You can be sure of that.
And if you feel sorry for Obama, don’t. He can only blame himself.
Rush’s press conference:
NYT:
The Ronald Reagan U.C.L.A. Medical Center…has earned a reputation as a place where doctors will go to virtually any length and expense to try to save a patient’s life.
Yet that ethos has made the medical center a prime target for critics in the Obama administration and elsewhere who talk about how much money the nation wastes on needless tests and futile procedures.
Matthew Vadum: The Fight Against Fascist Obamacare Is Just Beginning: “The beauty of politics is that the fight is never really over. There will be more battles to come.”
Some great points at the link, including awesome stuff from Bill Kristol. As Margaret Thatcher once remarked, “There are no permanent victories in politics.”
Related: Obamacare Is a Dem Thing, 100%!
Politico: Harry Reid not releasing details of Obamacare bill till possibly Saturday AM…less than 72 hours before key vote.
The only thing that’s transparent about any of this are Harry Reid’s attempts to conceal the content of the bill from public view…
Prof. Jacobson breaks down a Gallup/USA Today poll that is not what it seems.
White House goes Corleone on Ben Nelson. “That’s a lovely Air Force base your constituents got there, Senatah. It’d be a shame if anything happened to it…”
Stand up against breast cancer – and piss off the Sorosphere - by giving to the Susan G. Komen foundation today.
Sounds less threatening than “Death Panel”, but the effect would be the same…
Via @Flickchart.
Mike Potemra: Obama and Liberals “are willing to risk losing the bill simply because the bill does not expand access to abortion as much as they would like it to.”
Government study concludes that the House Health Care Bill is really bad.
So now you can dislike Obamacare even if you disagree with the private sector about everything…
Prof. Jacobson sees Obamacare going nowhere.
You’d expect Obama, Reid and Pelosi would know everything Professor Jacobson discusses at the link. I keep thinking they felt they might as well go for it while they can and try to end a bad week for the Democratic party on a high note. Although it’s a high note only if you look at things superficially.
Still, none of the above means it’s time to relax. As long as Obama is in power and Dems control Washington, we need to keep fighting to replace the curren political class.
UPDATE: Ed Morrisey also sees a tough going for the legislation in the Senate.
Sounds like dialogue from a B mobster movie scene in which the weak flunky doesn’t have what it takes to whack the victim.
Well, not quite, but close: it’s just POTUS telling Pelosi to pass Obamacare in the House. And now the House is debating the measure.
UPDATE: VIDEO: Some debate: Dems just shut it down!
MORE: Delay?
ANOTHER ONE: The House passes the bill. Lame. But chances of the same happening in the Senate are slim. But that shouldn’t surprise anyone. No matter how you spin it.
