What happens at the DOJ stays at the DOJ?

Another interesting development over at the Department of Justice Not only did Operation Fast & Furious, the federal program to sell lethal weapons to Mexican drug lords, completely slip Attorney General Eric Holder's mind, but now he wants to be able to lie to the public when he feels like it. It seems he does anyway, but it is against the rules.

Ever hear of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). That's the provision that allows people like UFO hunters to pester the CIA and FBI and those kinds of folks to dig through their old archives looking for evidence of Project Majestic and stuff like that.

Or suppose you're in congress, and wanted to review a couple federal warrants, or inter-departmental memos about exactly HOW to sell lethal weapons to Mexican drug lords. Under the FOIA rules, the federal bureaus and agencies have to go through their files, find the information, black out whole pages that might contain classified stuff, and send it to you.

Eric Holder wants to be able to lie to you, so he can say, "Sorry, we have no record of that."

Man, if you want to bullet-proof the federal government, this is the way. No one could ever sue these bastards, or even gather information from them for a suit against someone else. Or even know what the hell the Dept. of Justice is even doing all day.

Amazing.

Not only is this current regime wildly irresponsble, now they don't even think they should be held accountable for what they do.

Yeah, what happens at Justice stays at Justice, is that it?

What the heck kind of a show is Comrade running, anyway?

This Holder critter needs to resign, big time.

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Ooies in Oakland -- Why not occupy Pelosi's house?

Just saw on the news that the "OOies" -- that is, Occupy Oakland -- were run off last night by police with tear gas. The crowd wouldn't disperse when politely asked. They started throwing garbage and eggs at the cops, who threw back tear gas.

Why don't they move their HQ to Pazzo Pelosi's house in San Francisco? Or her vineyard? Plenty of room there. And Pazzo is sympathetic. Surely she'd be willing to let them crap on her lawn and beat tom-toms under her window all night.

She's rich, too. So the OOies could continue their protest against the wealthy without breaking their staggering steps. Who could ask for more?

Just a suggestion.

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There goes the health care industry

A couple intereting developments in socialized medicine in the USA.

Last week or so, that Sibelius person who runs things in DC announced that the long-term health care provision in the socialized medicine act is more or less defunct. "Long-term health care" refers to an extended stay in someplace like a rehab center or nursing home, for instance, after a stroke or a serious car accident.

Under socialized medicine, the plan was to get a whole bunch of people to sign up (and we'd all just flock to it), and pay into the system for about 10 years before we were eligible for any benefits. Meanwhile, the money paid in would go toward funding socialized medicine in general. A Ponzi scheme that appears to use Social Security as a financial prototype.

Anyway, the only people who signed up for long-term care under socialized medicine apparently are people who NEED long-term right now. In other words, the system isn't financially sound (or actuarially sound, to use the insurance word). Not enough healthy people signing up. Not enough money collected to fund long-term care nor to help fund socialized medicine generally.

So Sibelius said something like the program was going to be canceled. Only the Comrade doesn't want that.

Well, then he can pay for it. How's that? Crack open your wallet, fat cat. Get your unions to buy into it. That might work. Oh, but the unions are exempt from socialized medicine. Sorry, I forgot.

In another area -- and this will surely go a long way toward killing off seniors -- health care providers' pay under Medicare is going to be reduced.

The so-called "Doc Fix" was not included in the socialized medicine bill. The Doc Fix was legislation that adjusts the amount that doctors and others are paid for the services they provide for seniors with Medicare. In the past, these payment amounts were reviewed every year or so and were adjusted for inflation or whatever. However, no Doc Fix has been passed since the socialized medicine bill went through. Most pundits believed this was because if doctors had to be paid, it would show that socialized medicine was financially unsustainable. So congress just ignored it.

The American Medical Assn., which really doesn't represent the majority of doctors in the US, wanted congress et. al., to scrap this system of annual reviews all together and replace it with something more stable. Well, careful what you wish for, dudes.

A group of bureaucrats known collectively as MedPac are now running the socialized medicine system in America. MedPac has decided to, yes, do away with the annual reviews for doctor pay and replace it -- with a 10-year program that will steadily but surely reduce Medican payments to doctors by about 30%.

General practitioners will get a 1% raise, but then their pay rate will be frozen for the next 10 years. Specialists are hardest hit. They get a 5.9% reduction in their pay each year for the next three years, then the rate is frozen for the next seven years.

The object is to get doctor pay aligned with pay for, like, hospital orderlies and the cleaning crew. You know, SEIU members.

You know what the impact of this is going to be. Right now, many doctors refuse to see Medicare patients because Medicare pays only about half of what doctors charge. Like $300.00 to do hip replacement surgery. Doctors -- and hospitals, by the way -- make up these losses by charging twice as much to insured patients. It's called "cost shifting," and it's the main reason why health insurance costs so much and why insurance premiums are skyrocketing.

This isn't going to get any better. And it strikes hardest at seniors on Medicare.

Doctors who work with Medicare patients will not be able to keep their offices open, hire staff, pay their own bills. Specialists won't be allowed to charge any more than GPs, even though many of them see far fewer patients.

The inevitable result will be rationing. Dr. Deathwish/Berwick and Sibelius are, I suppose, in the throes of orgasm right now. "We did it!" they shriek, jumping up and down and throwing confetti. "We've destroyed the health care industry in America!"

So, if you can't get the seniors in line behind your policies -- and a whole bunch of seniors actually voted for these policies, in hopes of increasing their freebies (see AARP) -- the simplest thing is to just kill them off. It's called attrition. Or maybe serves-you-right.

Nice, huh?

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White House tries "end run" around congress?

I find it interesting and somewhat sociopathic that the Comrade apparently believes seizing autocratic control of the U.S. government is the only way to "get something done." Yet he apparently supported Kadaffi's rather grim death, Kadaffi being only the latest in a long line of totalitarians who met rather sorry and bloody ends.

What makes the Comrade any different from them?

See, whether you decide if he's sociopath or a narcissist, the Comrade's greatest failure is his inability to see himself as anything but heroic and his opponents as anything more than competition. He can't see the other side. And the "other side" in this case is government limited by the US Constitution.

He's right. Everyone who opposes him is wrong. Any questions?

So, being a narcissist/sociopath, he somehow believes it's OK for him to ignore any but his own voice.

He's right. Everyone who opposes him is wrong. Very simple, really.

Now he's openly doing all  he can to crank up operations in the executive branch to get his policies put into place, since the US Congress won't approve them.

The Comrade blames the Republicans for congress's failure to support him. The truth is, the democratics in congress don't support him, either, except for Brain-dead Harry Reid, Senate Majority Leader. And all Reid can manage to do is to throw a wrench into the works of the US Senate so that it's unable to look at or debate or vote on anything. And that's enough to neutralize congress.

By contrast, the Republican-lead House of Representatives is teeming with dozens of new ideas to fix the economy, kick-start trade, clean up the mortgage mess, etc. etc. But once any of this legislation passes the House, Harry Reid pigeon-holes it in the Senate, won't even let anything be taken up on the floor. Brain-dead Harry Reid is, well, brain dead.

The US government is structured in such a way that when we can't get a majority to support a particular policy or action, then it can't be enacted.

The Comrade is extremely uncomfortable with this, because he can't get any support from anyone -- except about 21% of far-left socialist-communist die-hards -- for aything he's proposing. The Comrade is extremely pissed off that nobody loves him anymore. But, convinced that he's still "right," despite the complete lack of any significant public or political support, he wants to do what he wants to do, and to the hell with the public and their representatives.

He's a diktator. Or wants to be. But he's hamstrung by the Constitution.

That's the Constitution's main job, doofus. That's what it's there for. To take the wind out of your sails and spare some personal and political liberty for the rest of us.

Good to know it's still working.

But with people like Jesse Jackson Jr. waddling around, whining about a "congressional rebellion," how long will that last? And how the hell can congress be rebelling? Congress was never intended to just fall in line behind the president. The legislative branch has just as much power and authority as the executive branch. Even Brain-dead Harry Reid can't get around that one.

So the Comrade says, "I want to turn this free, capitalistic nation into a socialist workers' paradise, just lilke Cuba, the USSR, Venezuela, Red China." The rest of the nation says no.

He doesn't think this kind of opposition should stop him. But then he's apparently a narcissistic sociopath who can't see the other side.

Save the Republic. Vote this clown out of office.

Nobody really likes a diktator

Hope the Comrade has closely watched those videos of Kadafffi's final moments.

Nobody likes a diktator, Comrade. It never ends well for them.

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Biden comes out early with Halloween scare tactics

If I had the time and wanted to waste some money, I'd send Vice President Joe Biden a set of those wax vampire teeth kids used to have on Halloween. If the FDA hasn't banned them for being dangerously fun. Plus, they tasted like Bazooka chewing gum, maybe a carcinogen, no? (If you continually feed rhesus monkeys 33 pounds of chewing gum every two hours, they probably will get sick and die.)

But Joe's out of the Halloween box just a little early. "O-o-o-o-oh kids, you'll be raped and murdered if congress doesn't pass the Job Killer Bill."

In a separate event, he made an appearance at a grammar school and lectured a class of 8-year-olds on how this bill should be passed. Think they'll write their congressmen? Most of them were sittng there quite bored and confused. I mean, this is the clown they were promised?

I don't know where Joe Biden has spent most of life, but seems to me that the police are funded by local states and municipalities. Being very often unionized, I'm sure the police benefited from Stimulus I, but actual statistics indicate that crime has been going down, not up.

So Joe Biden is basically full of crap. But we all knew that. Doesn't stop him from mounting the ramparts to wave some kind of flag. "Tax the rich! Support the unions!"

And all the money that goes there will eventually be recycled, through donations, into the Comrade's campaign fund.

I'm insulted by this garbage. Also by the Owies, who don't seem to have any sense or any but personal problems, like with hygiene, but who apparently are supposed to be plucking the heartstrings of America. Here's a hint: white trash has never been sympathetic.

This is the Comrade on the campaign trail. He's been a disater as president, so he goes out and does what he knows how to do:  tell lies and raise rabble.

And stupid, clueless Joe Biden helps him work the crowd.

You want rape, Joe? A woman says she was raped by an Owie at a rally in Cleveland. What's really interesting is the media response. No attempt to identify the alleged perpetrator. Instead the lamestream media was all in a tizzy asking, "What kind of impact will this have on the movement?"

I didn't see Joe Biden rushing out to Cleveland to comfort the victim and lead the charge against the thug who assaulted her. 'Course, that's not his job. His job is to make a damnfool out of himself to spread a message so stupid even the Comrade doesn't want to be directly associated with it.

And now all over America Online, banner ads showing a smiling and confident First Family, urging people to sign up... for something. He needs the naive and ignorant vote. Appealing to the 13 and 14-year-olds on AOL? No one old enough to pay their own rent gives him any real attention anymore.

Comes down to same old thing -- Do you believe this b.s. or your own eyes?

It's up to you.

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The revolution has arrived! And it looks kinda silly

Just read an interesting article in the 10/18 Wall Street Journal by pollster Doug Schoen. Apparently his company sent someone down to Wall Street to actually survey the Owies, find out who they are, what they do, what they want, etc.

From the article:

Our research shows clearly that the movement doesn't represent unemployed America and is not ideologically diverse. Rather, it comprises an unrepresentative segment of the electorate that believes in radical redistribution of wealth, civil disobedience and, in some instances, violence. Half (52%) have participated in a political movement before, virtually all (98%) say they would support civil disobedience to achieve their goals, and nearly one-third (31%) would support violence to advance their agenda.

The vast majority of demonstrators are actually employed, and the proportion of protesters unemployed (15%) is within single digits of the national unemployment rate (9.1%).

What the Owies seem to really want is revolution. Apparently many of them have been poised and waiting for this moment since 1965, and certainly since Woodstock.

To wit:

What binds a large majority of the protesters together—regardless of age, socioeconomic status or education—is a deep commitment to left-wing policies: opposition to free-market capitalism and support for radical redistribution of wealth, intense regulation of the private sector, and protectionist policies to keep American jobs from going overseas.

Sixty-five percent say that government has a moral responsibility to guarantee all citizens access to affordable health care, a college education, and a secure retirement—no matter the cost. By a large margin (77%-22%), they support raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans, but 58% oppose raising taxes for everybody, with only 36% in favor. And by a close margin, protesters are divided on whether the bank bailouts were necessary (49%) or unnecessary (51%).

Schoen goes on to discuss the political dangers the dems face by supporting these wingnuts. Like, David Fluff, White House mouthpiece, has noted that the Owies are representative of many Americans (which they aren't, by the way; the USA is in majority right of center), and Nancy Pelosi almost squeezed out a crocodile tear talking about them.

So Pazzo and Comrade, go ahead, embrace these loonies. See if that gets you re-elected. Yeah, Vive la revolution!

Meanwhile, another poll shows that the American city with the most millionnaires and highest per capita income is... wait for it... Washington, DC.

(Pause here, laughing, coffee shooting out my nose.)

Thus the Owies may be in the wrong place -- on several counts. As I've indicated several times, the Fat Cats and the greed on Wall Street is far surpassed the Fat Cats and the greed inside the Beltway.

Probably write more later.

Meanwhile, Save the Republic.