Obama Won’t Rule Out Jail Time for People Who Don’t Buy Government Insurance
Just as I and so many others have said. We weren’t making this up, folks, we READ the bill.
“There’s nothing wrong with a penalty.”
“If you have the ability to buy insurance and it’s affordable and you choose not do do so forcing you and me and everybody else to subsidize you …”
Wow, an answer to a problem the Obama administration created just for the sake of the answer. Um – why do we HAVE to subsidize ANYONE? Why does this administration want to force hard-working middle-class families to pay for more mouths than the ones they created?
Where does the line stop? People not getting insurance won’t be the only thing affecting what we all pay, diet, exercise, et al. all contribute. When will the fines start for not eating the government-approved diet? If we can be fined for not “choosing” the “right to free health care bills,” as our president just said because we will become a a burden to the system, then we can be fined for not eating a good diet because that’s a burden to the system, too.
And what will happen to the children of those families who refuse the forced, sub-par, government care? When will DFS bust in to those homes and remove the children on the grounds of neglect or abuse? People don’t realize that establishing a precedence isn’t the same as slippery slope.
The President said that he didn’t think the question over the appropriateness of possible jail time is the “biggest question” the House and Senate are facing right now.
Something tells me Clinton has been acquainted with this term loooooong before the tea party movement. From Politico:
“The point I want to make is: Just pass the bill, even if it’s not exactly what you want,” Clinton told Democrats. “When you try and fail, the other guys write history.”
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said Clinton described the ongoing tea party protests against the Democratic agenda as a sign their party was making progress.
Whitehouse quoted Clinton arguing: “The reason the tea-baggers are so inflamed is because we are winning.”
Clinton using that term is grosser than if my grandmother used it.
He seriously said: “The reason the tea-baggers are so inflamed …” Dude, this stuff WRITES ITSELF.
When the SEIU members went to the town hall meeting hosted by Democrat Congressman Russ Carnahan, did they have a fight on their minds? Were they spurred on by The President’s words or the HCAN national Field Advisor Margarida Jorge’s talking points? Did the favorite White House guest, Andy Stern promise the POTUS that the situation would be dealt with, as a way to curry favor with the King? We may never know if there was a specific instruction given, but we do know that four adults from the same gang decided simultaneously to mingle with the protestors and then single one out for a beating. We also know that the union has hired for them, Paul D’Agrosa one of the top criminal defense lawyers in St. Louis. Finally, we know that County Counselor Patricia Reddington, who serves at the pleasure of Democrat County Executive Charlie Dooley (previously a union member) is not moving the case.
This is even more interesting because Counselor Reddington distinguished herself in another assault trial. At that trial, a Republican Congressional Candidate was accused of assaulting a “campaign staffer” for Democrat Dick Gephardt, who was actually stalking the opposing candidate in a parade while drawing his paycheck from the U.S. Treasury. As the young patsy James Larrew got too close to his prey, he and the candidate made contact, and the “cameraman” went down. Democrat Counselor Reddington charged the Republican candidate with assault and went after him. After the week long trial the jury acquitted the candidate.
Where does the buck stop? Will Gladney ever get justice? It’s interesting to note that this is the same office implicated in the KMOV Missouri “truth squad” scandal, about which I wrote some weeks back.
One year ago on September 23rd, KMOV Channel 4 in St. Louis reported that St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCullough and St. Louis Circuit attorney Jennifer Joyce joined a high-profile group of law enforcement officials (including Jefferson County Sheriff Glenn Boyer) threatening to invoke “Missouri ethics laws” against anyone the prosecutors determined had spread misleading information about Obama.
As has been stated, we know that the White House has called for aggression against town hall participants and tea party protesters:
Senior White House adviser David Axelrod and deputy chief of staff Jim Messina told senators to focus on the insured and how they would benefit from “consumer protections” in the overhaul, such as ending the practice of denying insurance based on preexisting conditions and ensuring the continuity of coverage between jobs.
They showed video clips of the confrontational town halls that have dominated the media coverage, and told senators to do more prep work than usual for their public meetings by making sure their own supporters turn out, senators and aides said.
And they screened TV ads and reviewed the various campaigns by critics of the Democratic plan.
“If you get hit, we will punch back twice as hard,” Messina said, according to an official who attended the meeting. [my emphasis]
And this:
Or this gem, where the “angry mob” mentality first originated:
After the above referenced, rowdy government expansion advocates appeared at formerly peaceful town halls and Kenneth Gladney beaten in a parking lot. Three months later, no justice.
John Loudon mentions County Counselor Patricia Reddington as the possible reason as to why no one has filed charges against those who the police report name as people who assaulted Gladney. Why? What’s stopping her? Why hasn’t justice been served?
Related:
Podcast of last night’s (November 9th) show here in which I spoke with James O’Keefe and John Burns, the man behind yesterday’s Washington University Gulag, hosted by Young Americans for Liberty.
John Burns recounted how the university made them dismantle their structure citing “engineering concerns” and saying that they’re tools (screwdriver) were “dangerous,” but apparently not dangerous enough to let them use the same tools to tear down their gulag. Comedy gold.
Photos from Reboot Congress, Twitpic’d here.
Twenty years ago today when the Berlin wall fell I was but a tiny elementary school girl whose only knowledge of German politics came from the German girl to whom I sat next on the bus ride home every afternoon. Her dad was a mechanic; it wasn’t awesome over there; she was happy that the wall was coming down because her parents – legal immigrants – said that tyranny was over. It was the very first time I’d heard that word used.
I married into a very German family who celebrate this anniversary as well.
Obama “spoke” (prerecorded statement) at the ceremony; ironic, considering that as we are celebrating the fall of the Berlin wall, our president is trying to build one here, in Washington, in congress.
The fall of the Berlin wall isn’t about him, but he tries to make it so, at the 1:39 mark. Nice of him to completely ignore Reagan’s truly historic role and dance around having to say “Reagan” by name at all.
WWBD (What Was Biden Doing): having a corndog and raising money for some Detroit Democrats.
I’ll be discussing this tonight, as well as the just-released police report of the Gladney beating, soon, I’m sure, to be popularly known as Gladney-Gate.
Also, James O’Keefe (yes, the ACORN pimp) is set to join me later in the hour to detail the project he undertook today.
