Bored over the weekend, I found myself flipping channels between baseball and cooking shows and stumbled upon something on Bloomberg called, I believe, Politically Connected. Might as well have been called Politically Correct from the few segments I watched, for all it featured were Demofiends and Obamapologists from liberal think tanks.

Anyway, even among the more clear-headed of the Demofiends in Congress, the Kool-Aid ingest is palpable.

Senator Kent Conrad, D.-North Dakota, when queried about the possibility of a second (actually, first) stimulus package, said something to the effect that they first wanted to wrest savings from the health care system.

He wasn’t even challenged over the fact that there is not a single word or sentence in any health reform measure now proposed by the Demofiends that addresses–in any concrete way–saving money in health care. Instead, there is a variously estimated cost of $1 trillion to $1.6 trillion to enfold the uninsured in America into the system (which, by Commonwealth Care standards, would result in a cost of $2 trillion to $3.2 trillion, so brace yourselves).

Glad to see Bloomberg TV is drinking the official Obama-Aid. Then, of course, what liberal media outlet isn’t already on the juice?

On May 15, HR 2454: American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (ACESA) was introduced in the House purportedly "To create clean energy jobs, achieve energy independence, reduce global warming pollution and transition to a clean energy economy." 

In fact, it’s to let corporate polluters reap huge windfall profits by charging consumers more for energy and fuel as well as create a new bubble through carbon trading derivatives speculation. It does nothing to address environmental issues, yet on June 26 the House narrowly passed (229 – 212) and sent it to the Senate to be debated and voted on. More on that below. 

On March 31, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman and Energy and Environment Subcommittee Chairman Edward Markey released a "discussion draft" of the proposed legislation and falsely claimed: 

– it’s "a comprehensive approach to America’s energy policy that charts a new course towards a clean energy economy;" it will
– create millions of clean energy jobs….that can’t be shipped overseas;
– put America on the path to energy independence;
– reduce our dependence on foreign oil;
– save money by the billions;
– unleash energy investment by the trillions;
– cut global warming pollution;
– strengthen our economy;" and
– make "America the world leader in new clean energy and energy efficiency technologies." 

Strong-arm pressure, threats and bribes got the bill through the House. Forty-four Democrats opposed it. Eight Republicans backed it. Over 1200 pages long, few if any lawmakers read it. 

After passage, Chairman Markey said: "It’s been an incredible six months to go from a point where no one believed we could pass this legislation to a point now where we can begin to say that we are going to send President Obama to Copenhagen in December as the leader of the world on climate change." 

Speaker Pelosi praised the bill as "transformational legislation which takes us into the future" and added that after passage she took congratulatory calls from Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Al Gore. The former vice-president has long-standing ties to Goldman Sachs (GS), and in 2004 he and David Blood, CEO of GS’s asset management division until 2003, co-founded Generation Investment Management LLC, a firm likely to profit greatly from cap and trade schemes. 

This is so good that I’m shamelessly borrowing it (with credit) from Hot Air:

0: The number of unrehearsed, unscripted questions asked of President Obama during his “Town Hall” on health care reform.
13: The number of teeth that British veteran Ian Boynton pulled out himself with pliers “because he couldn’t find an NHS (National Health Service) dentist… [he] could not afford to go private for treatment so instead took the drastic action to remove 13 of his teeth that were giving him severe pain.”
14: The percentage of all patients in Britain who wait more than one (1) year to receive treatment after a referral by a general practitioner. Half of all National Health Care patients in Britain wait between 18 and 52 weeks for treatment.
37: The “health care ranking” assigned to the U.S. by the World Health Organization among the world’s countries. This oft-quoted number is used to justify an overhaul of the U.S. health care system and lists countries like Italy (2), Andorra (4), Malta (5), Singapore (6), Oman (8), Portugal (12), Greece (14), the United Kingdom (18), Ireland (19), Columbia (22), Cyprus (24), Saudi Arabia (26), the UAE (27), Morocco (29), Canada (30), Chile (33), the Dominican Republic (35) and Costa Rica (36) ahead of the U.S. Considering that no U.S. citizens travel to these countries when experiencing a life-threatening situation, it’s worth questioning the methods by which the WHO arrived at these rankings. Their criteria included subjective and political assessments such as “Fairness in financial contribution“. Suffice it to say that the WHO’s rankings are clearly fraudulent and are designed to influence U.S. policy.
60: Average cancer survival rate (all types) for patients in the United States. Canada’s survival rate is significantly lower at 55%, while Europe’s is a dismal 48%.
81: Average percentage of those who survive a diagnosis of prostate cancer in the United States versus 43% in Britain under their National Health Service.
90: Number of days, on average, each Canadian patient must wait for an MRI under the Canadian government-run health care system.
750: The estimated number of people waiting in line (in the pouring rain) at Britain’s Bury Office attempting to register for dental care.
2050: By this year, “Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid (health care for the poor) will consume nearly the entire federal budget.” And by 2082, Medicare spending alone will consume the entire federal budget. This trajectory is, quite obviously, unsustainable for our children and our grandchildren. Congress is bequeathing our descendents a bankrupt health care system — for just the third of the medical system that the government already runs!
10,000: Number of Canadian breast cancer patients to file a class action lawsuit against Quebec’s hospitals because, on average, they were forced to wait 60 days to begin post-operative radiation treatments.
280,392: The number of jobs that employers would shed if government levied an employer mandate, requiring them to insure all employees. A 2007 study by Katherine Baicker of Harvard University and Helen Levy of the University of Michigan (“Employer Health Insurance Mandates and the Risk of Unemployment“) found that “0.2 percent of all full-time workers and 1.4 percent of uninsured full-time workers would lose their jobs if a health insurance mandate were written into law. Workers who would lose their jobs are disproportionately likely to be high school dropouts, minority, and female.”
443,849: The number of British patients of the National Healthcare Service (NHS) who waited four or more weeks for inpatient admittance into a hospital (Excel file) in May of 2009 (more than 75% of all patients).
1,500,000: The number of Canadians who do not have — and cannot find — a general practitioner/primary care physician due to shortages in medical staff: “In Norwood, Ontario, 20/20 videotaped a town clerk pulling the names of the lucky winners out of a lottery box. The losers must wait to see a doctor… Shirley Healy, like many sick Canadians, came to America for surgery. Her doctor in British Columbia told her she had only a few weeks to live because a blocked artery kept her from digesting food. Yet Canadian officials called her surgery ‘elective.’ …’The only thing elective about this surgery was I elected to live,’ she said.”
12,000,000: The number of illegal immigrants who would qualify for free health care and — in all likelihood — additional health care rights for relatives under the Democrats’ universal health care plan, according to a reported statement by the office of Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and spokespeople for the racial separatist group La Raza.
$311,000,000 ($311 million): The amount of additional funding requested last month by the Obama administration simply to combat Medicare fraud. Medicare fraud is estimated at $60 billion annually.
$3,600,000,000 ($3.6 billion): The amount of added malpractice insurance costs to the current health care system instigated by an out-of-control trial lawyer lobby that donates heavily to Democrat causes.
$10,000,000,000 ($10 billion): The estimated amount of Medicaid fraud, based upon FBI estimates. Criminal practices include billing for nonexistent, overstated, or unnecessary services, kickbacks to patients, inflated costs, etc.
$60,000,000,000 ($60 billion): The estimated annual amount of Medicare fraud, due to widespread criminal operations that victimize taxpayers and specialize in dead doctors, fake patients, non-existent treatments and the like.
$107,000,000,000,000 ($107 trillion): The estimated shortfall of the Medicare and Social Security programs, which are utterly and completely bankrupt; they can be legitimately called an “enormous version of Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme”.

Canada and England don’t pay as high a price for their health care because they freeload on American innovation. If we utilized their systems, Americans might worry less about paying for health care, but we’d get 2009-level care and long lines. Those are the immutable laws of supply and demand. Government monopolies don’t innovate. Only the free market innovates.

Furthermore, government bureaucrats already raped the Social Security Trust Fund — there is no trust fund. They raped the Medicare Trust Fund — there’s nothing left. They raped the Highway Trust Fund — it’s empty. I could go down a long list of things the government said it would do, but hasn’t done. Because the big government statists are liars. They even moved these massive expenditures “off the books” to conceal the damage they’ve done.

And now the Democrat Party, the union bosses and the trial lawyers are launching the most massive attack on the American people in the history of government.

They promise health care for everyone, but they will not — and they can’t possibly — deliver it. The numbers don’t lie.

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The person whom every liberal in America fears because "the truth shall set you free," Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska, today accomplished what it took both Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan to do for the conservative movement in America: She told the liberal press, "Fuck you," and she staked out a territory free of Obamamania/collectivism delusion. She set herself–and us–free.

Fox News was the only network (natch) to run her entire speech in resigning from the Alaskan governorship, but even that network questioned her action. I didn’t. She set us free.

She was the first through her words and actions to say that Obamaism is wrong, wrong, wrong for America and the world. She forcefully noted that "only dead fish flow with the tide." Touche, 52 percent of voters who were stupid enough to believe that "health care will be free and I won’t raise taxes," to say nothing of "change you can believe in." 

Har de har har. Tell that to yourself when gasoline is $5 a gallon, mostly in carbon taxes, and your heating bill is unaffordablee–and you can’t get health care unless you go to India and pay for it. How about $13 trillion (trillion!?) in national debt? Can you believe in that? You’d better because it’s there for us and several generations down the line.

Coming soon to your wallet–Obamabucks, worthless as the words of our Counterfeit-in-Chief.

But Sarah Palin gives us a glimmer of hope, if only we have the guts to seize it.

Fat chance, the pigs are already lining up at the federal trough.