Obama, Clunkers, Zombies and Beta Male Foreign Policy: Morning Intell
MORNING INTELL
Tuesday-October 6, 2009
* I’M FROM THE GOVERNMENT AND I’M HERE TO HELP: Medicare: Largest denier of services:
The largest denier of service isn’t some money-grubbing, flea-bitten insurance company run by ghouls.
It is Medicare.
The article has a handy clip-and-save chart for quick reference or arguing with liberals.
* OBAMA BREAKS PROMISE–AGAIN: EDITORIAL: The health care taxman cometh:
According to new Congressional Budget Office and Joint Committee on Taxation figures, 71 percent of the individual “penalties” in Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus’ health care plan would hit families well under Mr. Obama’s threshold. If the president signs the legislation, $2 billion of $2.8 billion in expected penalties faced by those who refuse to buy health insurance would be paid by families of four earning less than $120,000 annually.
The White House’s response is to argue that this is not a tax, equating the penalty to a speeding ticket. If you’ve ever been in a town with speed and red-light cameras, you know tickets are all about revenue, just like taxes. We’ve heard it all before under different guises, such as talk about “revenue enhancers” or “user fees” or measures to close supposed loopholes. The reality is simple. If the feds are taking your money to pay for government expenses, it is a tax, no matter what spin Democrats want to put on it.
At some point, you would think the White House would admit that when the Government reaches into your wallet and demands more money for one of their projects, it’s a tax.
* WILDLY-SUCCESSFUL CASH FOR CLUNKERS: One of Washington’s all-time dumb ideas.
The basic fallacy of cash for clunkers is that you can somehow create wealth by destroying existing assets that are still productive, in this case cars that still work. Under the program, auto dealers were required to destroy the car engines of trade-ins with a sodium silicate solution, then smash them and send them to the junk yard. As the journalist Henry Hazlitt wrote in his classic, “Economics in One Lesson,” you can’t raise living standards by breaking windows so some people can get jobs repairing them.
Clunkers Econ 101.
* IF YOU LIKED CASH FOR CLUNKERS, YOU’LL LOVE THE SEQUEL: Clunker cash is going to cost the U.S. dearly.
$300 million, but it’s not real money–it’s only tax money.
* IN CASE MORE EVIDENCE WAS NEEDED: Harry Reid, Moonbat.
One of the Left’s weirder themes these days is that Republicans are unpatriotic. The latest occasion for this attack is the claim that Republicans were happy that Chicago wasn’t selected to host the Olympics.
Not sure how many people cheered. By some accounts, Chicago Olympics 2016 was a done deal. Have to admit though: the sight of The Great and Powerful O’s Chicago machine cronies getting out-hacked by the Olympic hacks at Copenhagen was amusing. But then, the comeuppance of hubris is always thus.
* BETA MALE FOREIGN POLICY: Did We Elect a Beta Male As President?.
With his “we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist” opening to the world’s dictators, the President is exhibiting classic beta male behavior, in essence rolling over on his back and exposing his throat to them to make sure they know he has no intention of challenging their authority.
Of course, the problem is that he’s not simply exposing his throat, he’s exposing America’s collective throat, sending the message that he’s a typical beta male intent on submitting to all the alpha male leaders around the world, and damn the consequences.
The author, Greg Lewis, makes the point that Obama has outsourced his domestic policy to others. The disagreement from these quarters to that contention is that Obama has not been beta male-like in his behavior toward those who disagree with this policies.
* WHO DISTURBS OBAMA MORE: AHMADINEJAD or General McChrystal? John Bolton…The US Got Rolled By Iran In Geneva.
Money quote:
“I get the feeling Obama is angrier at General McChrystal than he is with the Iranians. On the upside, the crease in Obama’s pants are probably still immaculate. So we got that going for us.”
* LOOKING TO SEE A MOVIE SOON? The List of Movies to Avoid
All involving those who signed Hollywood’s petition supporting admitted child-rapist Roman Polanski.
My Favorite? “Buck Henry – Jailbird (in dev.)”
* VENEZUELA IMPORTED ANTI-SEMITISM: An Ugly Friendship
Importing a problem that does not exist from Iran.
* THOSE WERE THE DAYS: Obama’s Glory Days Fading Fast
“Barack Obama’s “glory days,†as Bruce Springsteen might have called them, are quickly becoming a thing of the past. No president has ever come into office with so much anticipation — and no president has seen his approval ratings crumble so quickly, at least as long as such statistics have been kept.”
* A WEATHERMAN TWO-FER: The Weatherman Who Helped Author Obama’s Legislation and Weather Underground, ACORN and Obama: The Ties that Bind
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You can’t know the players without a scorecard.
* NOBEL PRIZES IN MEDICINE: Nobel awards the best medical system in the world — the USA
“So three more Americans have won the Nobel Prize in Medicine. What’s that bring the total to now? 40? 50? 60? All I know is we lead the world in it because we lead the world in medical research because we lead the world in health spending.”
To fill the gap in medical research that will occur under ObamaCare, will researchers be asked to come up with more lines to the tune of “Barack Hussein Obama…hmmm…hmmm…hmmm”?
* ACORN SCANDAL OF THE DAY: Breaking: Louisiana Attorney General: Rathke Embezzled $5 Million from ACORN.
Obama chum.
* HUH? Finalist for 2009 Mother of the Year.
Story that illustrates that necessity is the mother of invention–or something like that.
* REV UP the HELLHOLE FACTORY: Copenhagen Treaty Will Demand American Taxpayers Buy “Dignity†for Third World.
Sweet. Another Global Warming Scam that Slams American Taxpayers and Spreads their Wealth around the world. A shiver just ran up Al Gore’s wallet.
* JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT YOU WOULDN”T HAVE TO HEAR ANYMORE ABOUT CREEPY OLD HAS-BEEN LATE NIGHT COMICS, WE COME ALONG WITH THIS: DAVE SEXTORTION SECRETS
Money quote:
“Meanwhile Letterman’s wife, long time love, Regina Lasko, whom he married in March, is said to be contemplating a form of VERY expensive revenge.”
No kidding? Imagine that?!?
* BUT IT RAINED: Glenn Beck CT Book Signings: Long Lines, Lots of Vets, 3 Protesters.
Don Surber’s Scorecard sez, “You really need good weather to attract the Looney Toons.”
* MORE THUGGERY CORRUPTION: Special report: A parental revolt against the SEIU’s home invasion robbery
Michelle Malkin’s unrelenting investigation into the SEIU-ACORN-Obama Cronies Corruption model of government. Illinois passes law to force mothers and other care-givers to join SEIU.
Disgusting is too good a word for it.
* MOVIES THIS PAST WEEKEND: Weekend Box Office Actuals (U.S.) Oct 2 – 4 weekend.
Zombieland #1: $24mil
Michael Moore’s latest #10: 4.4mil
You’d think Capitalism would be more kind to the Rotund One.
* MORNING HA HA: Letterman Caption Contest Results.
Five amusing shots of David Letcherman’s babies?!?
by Mondo Frazier
images: DBKP file
