The day's Top Political News:
N.Y. Health Care Workers Revolt Over H1N1 Vaccine
Saying They Should Be Given A Choice, Employees Rally In Albany, New York, Chant "No Forced Shots!"Health care workers are being told to either get the swine flu vaccine or lose their jobs.
New York is the first state in the country to mandate flu vaccinations for its health care workers. The first doses of swine flu vaccine will be available beginning next week. Much of it is reserved for state health care workers, but there is growing opposition to required innoculations.
Health care workers in Hauppauge screamed "No forced shots!" as they rallied Tuesday against the state regulation requiring them to roll up their sleeves.
http://wcbstv.com/topstories/swine.flu.h1n1.2.1216352.html
Georgia cheerleaders' religious signs draw fire
Banners at a Catoosa County, Georgia high school football field have messages designed to inspire victory: "take courage and do it" the cheerleader banners have been scrapped and banned for fear of lawsuits by anti religious groups such as the infamour ACLU.
The ACLU has long conspired to impose atheism as a national religion in direct violation of the First Amendment provision protecting freedom of religion.
School officials say they feared costly lawsuits, while the community is rallying around the cheerleaders after their signs were banned as a result of a single compliant from a local religious bigot. Other ACLU-inspired attacks on religions rights have been on a rise in recent months.
A New York state appeals court on Tuesday dismissed former TV newsman Dan Rather's lawsuit against CBS Corp in which Rather claimed he was made a scapegoat in a scandal over a 2004 report on then-President George W. Bush's military record.
Rather was fired after it was shown a documentary he produced relied on forged documents and phony claims. In short, Rather lied and got fired for it.
The ruling on Tuesday by a panel of judges of the New York State Supreme Court Appellate Division said Rather's $70 million complaint should be dismissed in its entirety and that a lower court erred in denying CBS's motion to throw out the lawsuit.
Rather says CBS breached his contract by not giving him enough on-air assignments after he was removed as anchor of the "CBS Evening News" in March 2005.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090929/tv_nm/us_rather_cbs_1
Opinion:
Desperation and outrageous claims prove Democrats know they are swimming against the tide of public opinion from normal America
An increasing number of extreme actions and outrageous claims by Democrats betray deep seated anxieties by liberals regarding the ultimate outcome of the health care debate.
Just yesterday, a liberal Democrat from Orlando, Alan Grayson, took to the floor of Congress displaying a sign proclaiming “GOP wants you to die”.
Hmm, seems only a few days back when liberals claimed they were bent out of shape by Congressman Joe Wilson’s having violated Congressional decorum by shouting “You Lie” during an Obama speech.
Needless to say, at last report, no Democrat Congressman has been man enough to apologize for Grayson’s extremist remark. The Far Left is quite selective in its outrage.
There is an obvious difference between the actions of Joe Wilson and Alan Grayson. Wilson spoke the truth – as subsequent revelations prove.
(NOTE: This morning, Democrats turned back Senator Orrin Hatch’s amendment that would have specifically banned use of federal funds for abortions. The Democrat vote reveals THEY INTEND TO MAKE FEDERAL FUNDING OF ABORTIONS POSSIBLE! Not our claim – Democrat action…telling action.)
Wilson’s shout challenged Obama claims federal funding would not cover abortions or illegal aliens. In the days since the outburst, the continuing debate has proven Wilson had an obvious option with which to respond “Truth is an absolute defense” has long been chiseled in stone.
Not so with Grayson. Not only is his claim “The GOP wants you to die” a lie per se, but it is ironic, since liberal Democrats – including Obama and his close advisor Tom Daschle – have had no reluctance to advance the opinion that senior citizens have an obligation to “just die and get out of the way”. Perhaps Grayson was confused and Googled the wrong citation.
In any case, Grayson lies. He owes Republicans an apology, but – as noted above – neither he nor any other far left Democrat will be man enough to apologize.
But lying is on the increase among Democrats who realize they are losing the American people in their tortured efforts to sell a health care scam a majority don’t want. The Obama scheme – and other Democrat plots – seek to impose “single payer” health care which is socialized medicine along the lines of the muddled mess currently afflicting Canadians to such an extent that those who can afford it, escape to the US for honest care.
Monday, the latest Kennedy on Capitol Hill followed a family pattern and lied his head off as he attempted to assault GOP efforts to beat back liberal plans. Shamelessly exploiting the deaths of JFK and Robert, young Patrick overreached as he tried to warn emotion invoked in the health care debate can lead to violence. Patrick claimed Florida Congressman Alan Boyd was hung in effigy when 300 voters in Panama City ambushed him over his vote to impose a huge tax disguised under the title “Cap and Trade”. Kennedy was lying – there was no violence or threat of violence in that demonstration. If you wished to see for yourself, we have posted video of the Panama City demonstration on our other web site: www.TellWashingtonNo.com. See for yourself.
Kennedy also lied about George Wallace – a fellow Democrat. Kennedy said “Wallace didn’t pull the trigger”…inferring Wallace instigated violence. Had Kennedy not flunked history or told the truth, he’d note Wallace was a victim of liberal violence – shot down in Maryland as he was closing in on winning the 1972 Democrat presidential nomination.
Of course, Obama has lied over and over in his reassurance his schemes will not force anyone to give up their doctor or health plan – if they want to keep them. He is either really dumb, or intentionally lying.
We face the certainty that Democrat Senate Leader Harry Reid will use the overwhelming numerical domination of Capitol Hill by liberal Democrats to impose radical health care – no matter how much Americans don’t want it, and even if not a single Republican votes for it.
So much for “democracy” with a little “d”.
We are finding there is more to the story – Reid has a sweetheart deal cut that will mean a major windfall in Medicare spending for his home state of Nevada. Reid needs to bring home government rip offs favoring labor unions and other Democrat supporters. Reid is seriously challenged in his re-election bid. Unfortunately, Nevada has many first time voters who may not know just how embarrassing Reid is. As Senator, he has fumbled the ball again and again – unilaterally declaring the war in Iraq – following the traditional Democrat war strategy of “cut, run, and surrender to our enemies”.
He has no honest health plan because he needs no plan. He has the numbers. Huge numbers of far left Democrats. Enough numbers to enable him to force all Americans to be placed under some form of socialized medicine.
Meanwhile, Democrats cant handle people telling the truth as Obama’s machine moves to clamp down on insurance giant Humana for trying to honestly inform its customers. Humana is being threatened by Obama in an effort to block the truth from getting out.
“Obama don’t need no stinkin’ truth” seems the Democrat refrain.
The more Democrats strain, the more outrageous their actions become, the more they lie about their schemes, the more real Americans can understand just how scared Obama’s folks are about the health debate.
In their customary world of the Chicago Democrat Machine – debate is a nicety, while brute force gets things done. Obama, of course, is a product of that machine. So maybe we cant blame him entirely.
We can, however, take a degree of comfort from what we have seen in recent years…especially this past summer.
Democrats were quite desperate to force passage of their huge tax hidden under the Cap and Trade cover. They gained passage in the House, but by a narrow margin needing betrayal of their constituents and their party by eight Republicans – and a few Blue Dog Democrats such as Alan Boyd. Public opinion demonstrated by the tea party protests, have forced a major delay in a Senate vote – in spite of Reid’s heavy numbers.
Tea party protests also prevented passage of the Obama health care plot on the White House schedule.
No wonder. Democrats don’t want Americans to have enough time to learn all they need to know about the extremist legislation they are pushing. The “stimulus” bill – so-called – was forced to a vote mere hours after the bill was presented. Much the same was the case with Cap and Trade as 300 additional pages hit the desks at 3am the day of the vote.
Avoiding the truth, hiding the facts, keeping the mask, is today’s Democrat way of doing business. If you think that claim too over the top, note that only a few days ago, a party line vote defeated Republican efforts to require 72 hours of analytical time for legislation. “Not on our watch” was the Democrat response, and the Democrat tactic. So we will continue having to operate in the dark.
We combat such tactics by keeping up the pressures. It is quite logical to assume any legislation sponsors demand be passed without sufficient time for reading, is bad legislation that must be opposed. ANY legislation. FULL COURT PRESS Push back, deny, deny, deny, delay, delay, delay.
After all, the day for stopping the conspiracy is about 13 months away. We must shut things down and keep them down until then…while doing all we can to make sure we take away as many Democrat seats on Capitol Hill as possible.
It’s a major challenge. Our running check on how things are going can be measured by how many more lies Democrats are selling, and just how outrageous their actions are in and outside Congress.
Buddy
The day’s top Blogs:
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Inside Politics
BAILOUT BLUES
Sean Lengell
The top Republican on the House Financial Services Committee predicts that Congress won't extend the government's $700 billion Wall Street bailout program past its scheduled year-end expiration.
When asked on C-SPAN's "Newsmakers" program Sunday if there was enough support on Capitol Hill to let the program sunset after Dec. 31, Rep. Spencer Bachus said, "I think we do."
"We have a lot of our colleagues who agree with us, I think, more every day," the Alabama lawmaker said.
Mr. Bachus added that "any legislation we pass that I'm a party to, and the Republicans in the House are a party to, won't have the bailout of individual companies."
"We believe we ought to get out of the business of taxpayers coming in and assuming the risk.... The debt is still there, it's just been shifted from the private sector to the U.S. government, and therefore, the taxpayer."
Despite differences of opinion between Democrats and Republicans on how best to update Wall Street regulatory laws, Mr. Bachus said he thinks Congress would pass meaningful legislation on the matter this year.
"There is consensus between the American people and, I think, a growing majority of Congress that we're not going to bail out any individual companies," he said. "I think there is an agreement in Congress that we need to do a better job of protecting consumers, and we can't do it by having eight or nine different [financial regulatory] agencies trying to do the job, because if everybody is in charge, then no one is in charge."
He added that he isn't in favor of a Democratic plan to create a new agency to oversee Wall Street regulation.
"You can't just go out and create a new agency without any expertise, without any understanding of safety and soundness and tell them to go protect the consumer," he said.
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Conservatives to Hoyer: Here's our health care bill
Democrats have been ripping Republicans over the past few days for not providing a clear, concise alternative in the health care debate. They even celebrated "100 days" since the GOP promised its own bill.
But the Republican Study Committee has tossed this back on Majority Leader Steny Hoyer's lap today, cutting and pasting the GOP alternative, HR 3400, which was introduced July 30. If you're not big on that whole "read the bill" thing, there's a short summary, a long summary and a section by section summary, depending on your attention span.
Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), the chairman of the RSC, says Hoyer is "making the certifiably false claim that Republicans have 'not only failed to produce legislation, but they have yet to offer any real solutions or ideas' for health care reform."
A closer look at the 44 co-sponsors, however, shows that no top Republican leaders have signed on to the RSC bill, which is a pretty straight forward conservative approach to health care, relying on tax credits for people to purchase health care, caps on malpractice, limits on abortion funding and patients rights.
"Last time I checked, the House Republican Conference does not have a proposal," Hoyer spokeswoman Stephanie Lundberg said. "When the RSC becomes the leadership of the Congressional Republicans let us know."
Hoyer has already done his own scathing analysis of the bill. And critics will point out that the $5,000 tax credit proposed for low income families family to purchase health care isn't quite enough when the average family premium is approaching $13,000 a year these days.
"Americans have waited far too long for reforms that control rising costs and provide guaranteed access to quality, affordable health care," Hoyer said. "Republican plan or not, the time for health care reform is now.”
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Unmasking Obama
Thomas Lifson
It is now abundantly clear that the image of Barack Obama sold to the American electorate was tightly edited, air-brushed, and exaggerated. He has worn a series of masks -- eloquent orator, brilliant scholar, centrist, and literary sensation. All of these masks are coming off as he copes with a job for which image will not suffice. For instance, hiding behind the eloquent orator mask is a guy who says "uhh" a lot when he is winging it, and who makes lots of factual and grammatical mistakes.
Now, thanks to Jack Cashill, the literary mask has been removed. Obama is a literary pretender. Case closed. The evidence is overwhelming that Bill Ayers ghost-wrote Dreams from my Father, the book which established Obama's pose as a brilliant writer (and therefore a fine mind, in the estimation of many). The stylistic resemblance between the Dreams and Ayers' work is stunning. Now we know, thanks to Chris Andersen's new book,that Obama hit a brick wall trying to fulfill his contract to produce a book, and shipped off his notes and tapes to Ayers. That is the classic description of a ghost writer's assignment. And it completely fits the theories Cashill had inferentially reasoned from the data of his literary studies.
The revelation that Chris Andersen had two separate sources means that this fact meets the journalistic standard of reliability, provided by a respected, established bestselling author. Obama's dismissal of Ayers as "just a guy in the neighborhood" has been shown to be an outright lie.
That will certainly be the verdict of history, regardless of whether or not the issue of Obama's ghost written book ever breaks through into the national discussion. My bet is that the media will not be able to suppress discussion. The image of Obama packing boxes full of tapes and notebooks and hauling them over to Ayers' house a couple of blocks away, is simple and compelling evidence of a ghost writer being put to work. Jack's literary detective work made the case, and Andersen's two neighborhood sources confirm it.
Anyone who refuses to deal with this issue is willfully avoiding topics that make Obama look bad. The facts are in the public domain.
The New York Times has just appointed a new editor to monitor online conservative websites and talk radio, to make sure the paper doesn't embarrass itself again, as it did on the Van Jones and ACORN stories. Unlike every other editor, the Times is keeping the name of this editor secret.
[Jill Abramson, the managing editor for news,] and Bill Keller, the executive editor, said last week that they would now assign an editor to monitor opinion media and brief them frequently on bubbling controversies. Keller declined to identify the editor, saying he wanted to spare that person "a bombardment of e-mails and excoriation in the blogosphere."
So, whoever you are at the New York Times, you're probably reading American Thinker as an unpleasant duty. If I knew who you were, I'd bombard you with a polite note laying out the trail for you to follow on this important story. The President of The United States lied when he claimed that "I actually wrote them [his books] myself."
I think that's news that's fit to be printed, even if uncongenial to the incumbent Democrat president. Don't you?
Thomas Lifson is editor and publisher of American Thinker.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/09/unmasking_obama.html
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/28/breitbart-podesta-spends-soros-money-stupidly/?feat=home_headlines
BREITBART: Podesta spends Soros' money stupidly
Andrew Breitbart
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
A telling event occurred on Sept. 15, Day 6 of the drip, drip, drip ACORN video rollout. President Obama met for lunch with former President Bill Clinton at trendy Il Mulino in New York City.
For the second consecutive day, the New York Post featured the ACORN scandal on its cover - complete with James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles in their outrageous "pimp and ho" costumes.
Does anyone think the president and the former president were unaware that the city in which they were dining was mesmerized by the ACORN scandal - especially since ACORN had bragged that its employees had kicked Mr. O'Keefe and Ms. Giles out of their New York office?
The Sept. 15 edition of the New York Post explored the political angles and directed attention to the Brooklyn District Attorney's investigation into why an ACORN office in its jurisdiction helped instruct a prospective brothel owner how to hide his prostitution proceeds in a tin in his backyard.
No one in the morally superior media world has asked, why did Mr. Obama have lunch with Mr. Clinton that day? So let me take a guess, and it seems like an obvious answer. Mr. Obama, under siege by a video-a-day expose that was exposing the Democratic Party to an avalanche of consequences (ACORN defunded in the House and Senate, ACORN delinked from the census, etc.), needed advice from the last president to navigate through a major political scandal.
On this day, neither the president or the former president, nor the media knew how many more videos were coming.
The next day,
linton Chief of Staff John Podesta, the Democratic Party's top fix-it guy with control over much of the left's well-funded vast attack machinery (think George Soros, the Tides Foundation, et al.), was among a small advisory group placed in charge of investigating the matter.
With the mainstream media continuing to ignore the evidence on the tapes, Mr. Podesta is now clearly in charge of feeding them information about his well-structured investigation into the investigators.
The ACORN internal probe is a "war room" aimed at destroying the messengers and is not meant to clean up major corruption.
Since Mr. Podesta was appointed to investigate ACORN, the only thing investigated has been the investigators, Mr. O'Keefe, Ms. Giles and the publisher of the journalism behind it, yours truly.
Every journalism inquiry from the mainstream media continues to focus on the successful operation that exposed ACORN, not on ACORN itself, as if there is no evidence to sift through or common traits to be found in the videos. Why is the story about journalistic process rather than institutional corruption?
The Washington Post and the Associated Press have had to issue embarrassing retractions for falsely implying Mr. O'Keefe's motives were racist. The New York Times, too, had to issue a retraction on an issue raised to impugn his tactics.
It was so predictable that I actually predicted it - in this column four days before the first video was aired. We needed to document the plan to prove it was a success. And to show that the media's duplicity and institutional biases were directly targeted.
So, who is John Podesta? He runs the Center for American Progress think tank, which in 2004 helped launch Media Matters for America, the well-funded watchdog outfit run by ex-conservative journalist David Brock, which feeds the media reams of anti-conservative documents that attempt to diminish the credibility of alternative media outlets.
Both the CAP and Media Matters sites are focusing their attention on Ms. Giles, Mr. O'Keefe and me.
Does anyone really think Mr. Podesta is investigating ACORN, when his well-greased external machinery is so blatantly investigating us?
To show the Sept. 15 lunch is still bearing fruit, Mr. Clinton showed Sunday that the 1998 "blame the messenger" strategy is back in full force, claiming the "vast right-wing conspiracy" is up to its old tricks.
"It's not as strong as it was, because America has changed demographically," he said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "But it's as virulent as it was."
Need we remind Mr. Podesta and Mr. Brock and Mr. Clinton and Mr. Obama of Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show" rant that should have put an end to the attacks on the messenger: "ACORN appears to be a corrupt organization that aids and abets criminals and gets millions of dollars in taxpayer money."
The left is betting that 2009 is 1998 again and that the media will help them out like last time. Mr. Obama is betting that Mr. Clinton's 1998 strategy and his resources can extricate him from this growing mess. But 2009 has a new set of circumstances, new technologies and new citizen journalists that can now hold the mainstream media in check for its naked partisanship.
Plus, unlike Mr. Clinton's war-room blame-the-messenger excuse - "it's just about the sex" - this year's ACORN scandal won't be pushed aside, because this time it includes 13-year-old sex slaves from El Salvador.
• Andrew Breitbart is publisher of the news portals Breitbart.com and Breitbart.tv. His latest endeavor, Big Hollywood (http://bighollywood .breitbart.com), is a group blog on Hollywood and politics from the center-right perspective.
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