The Weekend Claw 11-20-09
Okay folks. Make those last-minute calls to your Senators. Prince Dingy Harry is going to have debate and a vote to proceed regarding his version of Obamacare in the Senate tomorrow.
I know that this seems to be a recurring theme in my columns, but since it is a recurring theme in DC I’ve gotta keep up with it. How dishonest can Prince Harry and his minions be in regards to Obamacare? Well, they need 60 votes in the Senate to bring his plan up for a vote. He knows that he has no shot of getting those votes, so as Senator DeMint warns us, Dingy Harry’s going to bring up a completely unrelated bill, get 60 Senators to “vote to proceed”, then strike the contents of that bill and replace them with his Obamacare bill that he and some aides (and lobbyists, and trial lawyers, and AARP liars, and…) have written in secret, thus bypassing any chance for the GOP to filibuster. This is beyond the normal DC sliminess.
Oh, and by the way, Senator Reid’s plan also charges all enrollees in the socialist option a monthly fee, not to be less than$1.00, to pay for abortions.
Senator Reid MUST have the votes of every Democrat Senator in order to get the Reidobamacare bill to get by a filibuster. To get those votes, he’s gotta bribe…er, pay off…er, make it worth their while. How much does it cost to get one vote? Oh, about $100,000,000.00, and you won’t believe the complicated language it takes to make that bribe.
The racist organization known as the Congressional Black Caucus held a reception to honor the world’s pre-eminent shakedown artist and race warlord, the not-so-Reverend Jesse-be-the-Jackson, on the 25th anniversary of his failed bid for the Presidency. In his remarks, Jackson singled out Representative Artur Davis of Alabama, who was the only member of the group who voted against the Pelosiobamacare bill. Jackson even said, “You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man!” So to be a black man, one must be a complete socialist? Davis took the high road and said he would refuse to get into an argument that begins and ends with race. Believe it or not, but Maxine Waters and Sheila Jackson-Lee stood up for Davis, stating that he voted in a way that reflects his constituency, especially since he’s running for governor.
The Democrats are so hellbent on fomenting class warfare that they have decided that they must impose a tax on financial transactions. This is aimed at those eeeeevilllllll rich white guys on Wall Street with all of their high salaries and huge bonuses and great benefits. Success must be punished. Anyways, Queen of the House Red Nanny P-Lousy and her minions have come to the conclusion that this tax must not simply apply to Wall Street. It must be an INTERNATIONAL tax. Now just where in Sam Hill did they find the authority to do THAT?
On Thursday morning, I heard Michael Smerconish interview the Democrat Representative who wrote the part of the 2008 version of the health care bill that the GOP railed about, calling it “death panels”. From his commentary, it is obvious that the wording in the legislation at that time, which I did read back then, was quite faulty. His purpose wasn’t to facilitate pulling the plug on Granny. His “end of life counseling” section was actually a good idea. Nowadays, Medicare pays for just about anything a doctor requests, but will not pay for a counseling session with the patient, the doctor, and possibly the patient’s family, in which they discuss options of future care, especially care at the end of life, living wills, and preventing another Terri Schaivo situation. Give him an A for the idea, but a D- for execution. A revised version of that paragraph was included in the bill that did pass.
So let me get this straight. We’ve got double digit unemployment. The economy is in the toilet. The federal government is spending money like a drunken arab oil minister. The Congress and His Majesty are trying to ram an unConstitutional health care bill down our throats that would INCREASE costs and the deficit. Crrap-And-Tax is next, and it will raise our energy bills by thousands of dollars per year, raise unemployment, and accomplish absolutely nothing positive. What is the solution to all of this? Of COURSE! Distract the attention of the people and make them feel good about it all! How about putting forth a bill to make next Wednesday “Complaint-Free Wednesday”!!! That’s what Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Misery) has done. I’m sorry to admit that this idjut grew up in Texas, but it does show the mentality of people who are entitlement-born and bred. He grew up in free gummint housing, which explains a lot. Anyway…this project comes from a brain-dead liberal-socialist utopian Kumbaya organization calling themselves “A Complaint Free World”. Yes, let’s stop complaining and let the socialist utopia come about so we can all hold hands in the fields of flowers as we sing “I’d like to teach the world to sing” and drink Coca-Cola (or whatever beverage the State allows us to have) and smoke lots of weed and…
It appears that our esteemed Affirmative Action Attorney General got himself SCHOOLED by Senator Lindsey Graham on multiple points in the hearings on Wednesday. Holder showed his qualifications for his job by showing up completely unprepared for real questioning by someone who understands the difference between civilian courts and the battlefield.
Senator “Leaky” Leahy tried to defend Holder, saying that if we were to capture Bin Laden, there would be no need to interrogate him. We’d just bring him in and try him. What a friggin’ idiot. Of COURSE we’d want to interrogate him! Does Leahy actually believe that Bin Laden wouldn’t have any information about terrorist cells or other parts of the terrorist organizations that might be a bit useful? That’s kinda like saying that if the FBI captures the top Crip or Blood in Kansas City, there’s no reason to question him about any gang activity in KC or the rest of the country.
Regarding the indefensible decision to have those trials in Noo Yawk City, we find that one of the Senators who has no problem with it seems to have changed his mind from a few years ago when he said this: “There are also those prisoners of war who we have captured and will capture in Afghanistan and other countries who will receive a trial of some sort. It is clear we need to try those suspects in a forum that achieves two primary goals—two goals, I might add, that may not conflict. First, the Government must have the power to use even the most sensitive classified evidence against these suspects without compromising national security in any way, shape, or form. In addition, those who commit acts of war against the United States, particularly those who have no color of citizenship, don’t deserve the same panoply of due process rights that American citizens receive. Should Osama bin Laden be captured alive—and I imagine most Americans hope he won’t be captured alive. But if he is, it is ludicrous to suggest he should be tried in a Federal court on Center Street in Lower Manhattan.” Now what TV camera and radio microphone seeking slimeball politician might have said that? Naw, it couldn’t have been Upchuck Schumer of Noo Yawk!
AllMilitary.com commenter USN-G-Man gets the hat tip for this representation of the mood down in Gitmo these days.
Townhall commenter “clyde” sent a list that y’all might agree with.
The Crawfish has a new award to present. I think I’ll call it the “Ballziest Statement of the Year Award”. This year’s recipient goes to…drum roll and trumpet fanfare please…Barack Obama, for this utterance made Wednesday in Beijing, “It is important though to recognize if we keep on adding to the debt, even in the midst of this recovery, that at some point, people could lose confidence in the U.S. economy in a way that could actually lead to a double-dip recession.” For making THAT statement after personally piling on more than double the debt of the previous 43 Presidents combined, we’ve gotta give him SOME kind of award.
A Democrat running for State Attorney General in Texas seems to think that the 2005 amendment to the state constitution that defines marriage, and in effect bans gay marriage, bans all marriage. The amendment states, “marriage in this state shall consist only of the union of one man and one woman” which is simple enough. The Democrat says that Subsection B of the amendment is the problem, because it reads, “The state or a political subdivision of this state may not create or recognize any legal status identical or similar to marriage.” Now what part of that bans marriage as defined in the first part of the amendment? Democrats seem to have a disease that hinders their ability to understand simply written phrases in any constitution.
The enemy is fighting back at us using our own courts. If you don’t believe that the upcoming trials in Noo Yawk, courtesy of the Affirmative Action Attorney General, are going to be all about damaging America, just check out what’s going on in Detruit. Townhall commenter “clyde” found this in his local fish wrapper. The supporters of the militant Islamic imam who was killed in the recent FBI raid in Detruit are taking the government to task, claiming excessive force was used. The supporters include the Islamic terrorism supporting group CAIR (unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation case) and our wonderful anti-American friends at the ACLU. A muslim who kills Americans is a hero, but if Americans kill those who support Islamic terrorism it is a hate crime.
How many muslims have been murdered in America because of their religion since 9-11? The answer is…one, and he was murdered by a white supremist 4 days after 9-11 and that murderer was convicted and sentenced to death in Texas, where the sentence WILL be carried out. How many muslims have killed FOR their religion in the past 38 years in the USA? Well, here’s a listing of the attacks, but it is incomplete as it doesn’t include the muslim terrorist known as the DC Sniper. Remember, profiling is evil and Islam is a Religion of Peace.
I swear that President Obama puts his foot in his mouth almost as much as his VP, “Gaffes” Biden. The President visited some of our troops in South Korea, and popped off with this, “You guys make a pretty good photo op!” The Crawfish applauds him for visiting the troops, and I hope that this remark was just made in jest, but he ought to know that it is the kind of remark that can be used against him by folks who believe that he has no respect for our military.
Here we go again with The Chosen One telling Israel that they can’t build houses for Israelis inside of Israel. Thankfully, the Netanyahu government told him to sod off and mind his own business. What would Obama have said if the Chinese government had told him to stop housing construction in San Diego because some Mexicans want California returned to Mexico? Same thing.
There were some complaints regarding my Top Ten War Movies list on Tuesday. As a result, I’ve decided to fan the flames a bit and present numbers 11-40 on my personal list. Here they are: “Das Boot”, “The Patriot”, “Twelve O’clock High”, “Schindler’s List”, “Black Hawk Down”, “Letters From Iwo Jima”, “Glory”, “To Hell and Back”, “Sands of Iwo Jima” (gets the nod over “Flying Leathernecks” because the latter had Duke and the Marines flying F6F Hellcats, when the Marines really flew F4U Corsairs), “The Bridge Over the River Kwai”, “Gettysburg”, “All Quiet on the Western Front”, “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo”, “The Enemy Below”, “The Sand Pebbles”, “The Bridges at Toko-Ri”, “The Great Escape”, “Sink the Bismarck”, “Enemy at the Gates”, “The Bridge at Remagen”, “Pork Chop Hill”, “Lawrence of Arabia”, “Midway”, “Sergeant York”, “They Were Expendable”, “Memphis Belle”, “Good Morning Vietnam”, “Hamburger Hill” (I have conversed with a Ranger whose team found and reported the bunker construction underway on that hill. That report directly led to that battle.), “The Hiding Place”, and “The Deer Hunter”.
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