The Voice of Experience

Big Mouth

 

Once again, the smartest man to ever serve our country in the capacity of President, King Hussein Obama the First, is backpedaling from another stupid comment; in this case from his misinformed condemnation of the police in Cambridge, Massachusetts over the arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., a renowned expert in African American studies.   http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/Story?id=8163051&page=1  Just in case you'll been dead for the past few days, here's a quick recap.  Cambridge police were called by a concerned neighbor who saw two black men breaking into a house.  Sgt. James Crowley responded to the call and confronted Gates inside the house.  The Professor reacted harshly, accusing Crowley of being a racist.  Ultimately Professor Gates produced identification to prove he belonged in the house but continued to berate Crowley and was arrested for disorderly conduct. 

 

During his press conference on Wednesday the King, responding to a question about Gates' arrest, said the Cambridge Police "acted stupidly" and conjured up the specter of racism as potentially playing a role in incident.  Now before I go on any further, don't forget that the Obama press conferences are not a spontaneous exchange of information but are staged performances in which reporters submit their questions ahead of time and the King decides which questions he will answer.  He specifically chose this question and carefully crafted his answer to defend Professor Gates, whom his Majesty indentifies as a friend.

 

Well, the King stirred up quite a reaction from the Cambridge Police, who have a recording of the incident that may yet be released.  My guess is that this recording will prove that Gates was the instigator in this situation.  Condemnations from police organizations from across the country rained down on Obama and public opinion quickly turned against his Majesty. 

 

So today, two days after his self-righteous condemnation of Sgt. Crowley and his fellow officers, now Obama has said that he didn't intend to malign the Cambridge Police, that maybe his buddy Professor Gates overreacted, and Crowley, Gates, and his Majesty should all sit down and have a beer at the White House.  And of course, like the ignorant clown that he is, King Hussein Obama the First claimed to be "surprised by the controversy surrounding my statement." 

 

Well I'm not surprised because I've seen it many times:

 

1.  Reverend Wright

 

Obama's erstwhile spiritual advisor, Wright's racist and anti-American comments stunned the nation during the primary last year.  At first Obama supported Reverend Wright.  In a speech on race that the liberal idiots in the media praised ad nauseam http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/18/obama-race-speech-read-th_n_92077.html , the King pointed out that Wright was not perfect but:

 

As imperfect as he may be, he has been like family to me. He strengthened my faith, officiated my wedding, and baptized my children. Not once in my conversations with him have I heard him talk about any ethnic group in derogatory terms, or treat whites with whom he interacted with anything but courtesy and respect. He contains within him the contradictions - the good and the bad - of the community that he has served diligently for so many years.

 

And he went on to say:

I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother - a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.

These people are a part of me. And they are a part of America, this country that I love.

Touching huh?  Kinda of gets your right here.  (I'm touching my chest near my heart if you hadn't guessed that because you're a stupid liberal). 

 

Within two weeks though, Rev. Wright continued to spew his hate and Obama was forced to cut ties with the man  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/30/us/politics/30obama.html .  Suddenly all the sappy talk about the good work of Wright and his racist grandma was out the window:

 

His comments were not only divisive and destructive, but I believe that they end up giving comfort to those who prey on hate, and I believe that they do not portray accurately the perspective of the black church," Mr. Obama said, his voice welling with anger. "They certainly don't portray accurately my values and beliefs."

 

 

2.  Bitter Americans

 

Sometimes the King is like a little kid who closes his eyes and thinks you can't see him.  Such was the case during last year's Pennsylvania primary when the dumb ass spit out the following gem while talking to a bunch of worthless liberals in San Fran Sicko:

 

you go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them  And they feel through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not.  And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations

 

Well the smartest man to ever serve as President found out that the dumb hicks in Pennsylvania were actually aware of events way out there in San Fran Sicko and they were pissed.  His Majesty had to admit that he didn't mean what he had plainly said.  http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/04/yet-another-exp.html

 

"I didn't say it was well as I could have," Obama confessed today during a town hall in Muncie, Ind., in response to the controversy he described as a "political flare-up because I said something that everyone knows is true."

 

This response was an early example of what is common Obama tactic.  After he says something really stupid, he claims that people are pissed because he's right and only he has the courage to speak the truth.  This is a text book example of chutzpah.

 

 

3.  Meeting without Preconditions

 

Community organizers don't spend much time thinking about foreign policy issues so the King's primary opponents quickly identified this area as a potential weak spot and it didn't take long for Obama to prove them right.  During the CNN/YouTube Debate in 2007 Obama foolishly replied, "I would" to the following question:

 

Would you be willing to meet separately, without precondition, during the first year of your administration, in Washington or anywhere else, with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea in order to bridge the gap that divides our countries?"

 

The King spent months explaining this one and was still coming up with new spin in May 2008.

http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2008/05/obamas-clarific.html  And in a foreshadowing of another common tactic, the King said:

 

I think if we lay out repeatedly and clearly my position, ultimately I think I've got the majority of the American people on my side on this issue.

 

In other words, the King's argument is that regardless of how stupid my comments are the majority of Americans (whether they really do or not) agree with me so shut up.

 

 

4.  An Undivided Jerusalem

 

The King has a bad habit of telling his audience what they want to hear which doesn't serve him very well when he treads onto bitter disputes between warring groups.  So when during the Democratic primary his Majesty addressed the American Israel Public Affairs Committee he thought he'd throw a bone to his audience:

 

            Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided.

 

He basked in the glory of the roaring applause but when his Muslim brothers heard this one, they were pissed.  The next day, the King had to once again clarify his remarks.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1212659672984&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

 

Jerusalem is a final status issue, which means it has to be negotiated between the two parities (as part of) an agreement that they both can live with.

 

Doesn't quite have the same ring to it as the first comment does it?  Nevertheless, well over 70% of the Jewish population voted for this two-faced loser in the general election.

 

 

5.  Insults Nancy Reagan

 

After Obama won the general election, he was at his insufferable worst:  smug, completely full of himself.  It was time to settle old scores and since Ronald Reagan was already dead he decided to take a cheap shot as his 87 year old widow.  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/07/obama-apologizes-to-nancy_n_142280.html

 

At a news conference in Chicago, Obama said he had spoken with all the living presidents as he prepares to take office in January. Then he smiled and said, "I didn't want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about doing any séances."

 

As the article points out, Mrs. Reagan never held séances and in fact it was his future Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton that did such things in the White House.

 

After the predictable outrage, Obama, by now used to this routine, called Nancy Reagan and apologized.

 

6.  Special Olympics

 

My good friend Limis Ward covered this infamous gaffe in his column on March 20, 2009.  http://delta-man.blogspot.com/2009_03_01_archive.html  In short, while on The Tonight Show, the King joked about how his poor bowling was "like the Special Olympics." 

 

The King didn't even bother to defend this one and quickly called the head of the Special Olympics, Kennedy clan member Tim Shriver, to apologize.  http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/20268.html

 

 

7.  Bows to the Saudi King.

 

I covered this incident, in which Obama shamefully humbles the United States by bowing to the Saudi King, as part of a post on Citizen Gibbs on April 10, 2009.  http://delta-man.blogspot.com/2009_04_01_archive.html  In this incident, Obama didn't apologize but instead ran away, leaving his spokesman to lie about the obvious bow by claiming Obama was actually trying to shake the Saudi King's hand.

 

 

Unfortunately we still have at least three and half years to go in the Obama Disaster and this is not even close to a complete list of all the dumb things his Majesty has been forced to clarify.  I'm sure this list will expand exponentially as the inevitable decline in the King's political fortunes gains steam.  Like a wounded animal, he will lash out at the American people, no doubt calling us stupid and/or stuck in the politics of the past. 

 

And before I leave this subject, here's one more screw up that I'm sure he apologized for but for which we'll probably never know for sure.  http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2009/20090709135708.aspx

As you can see, during his recent trip to Russia, the smartest man ever to serve as President forgot where he met his wife and even how old his youngest daughter is.  I usually don't give the King advise but I will in this case.  Your ever-loving wife is getting rather big these days.  If I was you, I wouldn't cross her. 

 

The Voice of Experience

Gimmie Five!!

 

In his new book, Liberty and Tyranny, the Great One, Mark Levin sites as an example of the heartlessness of government-run health care the plight of Barbara Wagner, a women from Oregon diagnosed with lung cancer (see pages 109-110) who was denied medical coverage for this illness by the state health plan but informed that the state of Oregon would pay for the drugs necessary for her to kill herself.   For you conservatives out there who desire a more detailed account of this women's story, here's a link to an ABC News story.  http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Story?id=5517492&page=1  For you liberals out there I recommend you go to the Daily Kos website to learn what you're supposed to think.

 

Before I get to the main point of this post notice how Comrade Susan Donaldson James of ABC News sometimes leaves the impression that Ms. Wagner was covered by private insurance instead of the government plan.  At the very beginning of the story, Comrade James says,

 

The news from Barbara Wagner's doctor was bad, but the rejection letter from her insurance company was crushing.  

 

And then in short order she reiterates: 

 

Her last hope was a $4,000-a-month drug that her doctor prescribed for her, but the insurance company refused to pay.

 

In the next paragraph she mentions the name of the government-run health care plan without clearly stating that it's a government plan.

 

What the Oregon Health Plan did agree to cover, however, were drugs for a physician-assisted death. Those drugs would cost about $50.

  

Finally eight paragraphs later, she indentifies the Oregon Health Plan as "state-run".  Now I'm sure that Comrade James knows her business and she's aware that not everybody reads the whole article.  In fact I'd probably bet a fair number of people probably only read the first few paragraphs and came away thinking that some ruthless insurance company had once again screwed somebody out of the care they thought they would receive for their premiums. 

 

And who's kidding who anyway?  Nobody refers to a government agency as a company.  Do you go the Motor Vehicle Company to get your license mug shot or run to the Police Company after some wacko that a liberal judge freed robs your house?  Of course not.  Comrade James is carefully manipulating language to deceive her readers.  I don't what to belabor this point but you'll note that further into the article Comrade James drudges up condemnations of private insurance practices without bothering to find similar examples, such as this very one, of government abuses.

 

What I find so interesting in this story is the "Five Year, Five Percent" rule that the government plan uses and more generally, how this plan operates.   As King Hussein Obama the First tries to ram government-run healthcare down are throats, his minions might look to the Oregon Health Plan as an example to emulate.  And as you'll see, the government's interest doesn't necessarily coincide with yours.

 

The Oregon Health Plan started out like most liberal ideas, with a worthy goal but with no way to pay for it.  http://www.oregon.gov/DHS/healthplan/data_pubs/rates-costs/cap-rates/pcc-0911.pdf   (See Section 1 Program History starting on Page 21 of the pdf)  Note how over the years, more and more people are added to the program.  First only those below the federal poverty level were covered.  Then in 1995, the disabled, elderly, and children were added.  Drug addicts and mental patients joined in 1997.  In 1998 two more groups got on the gravy train.  Not only did pregnant women and children with incomes up to 170% of the federal poverty level join but illegal aliens "Citizen/Alien-Waived" who needed emergency medical treatment got coverage.

 

2003 was the big year.  Coverage was significant expanded "if funds were available in

the State's budget."  Included in this expansion were Medicaid eligible citizens, children, and pregnant women up to 185% of the federal poverty level.  In addition, the State offers its own insurance for the uninsured that don't qualify for the program for which they pay a premium, referred to as OHP Standard.   Governments selling health insurance, sound familiar House Democrats?

 

I've included this lengthy history as an example of what will probably happen under Obama care.  No matter what promises are made to the Blue Dog Democrats today about limiting the program and paying for it in a responsible manner, in the future, the politicians will come back and gradually expand the program and shoot the funding to hell.

 

As we're seeing with California, states don't live in the money-printing fantasy world that the federal government does so Oregon was faced with the challenge of how to pay for this service.  Their solution was to limit care by creating a priority list of services.  http://www.oregon.gov/DHS/healthplan/priorlist/main.shtml.  Let me repeat that, Oregon controlled costs by limiting services.  And as governments always do, they created a separate bureaucracy, the Oregon Health Services Commission, to draw up the list of services and the state then determines how many of these services they can cover. 

 

So for example, http://www.oregon.gov/OHPPR/HSC/current_prior.shtml is a link to the current list, which contains 680 ranked services.  If you refer back to the previous link that we obtained the program history from, you'll find on page 14 of the pdf a chart showing how many services the state has covered since the list was first created in 1994.  Currently the Oregon Health Plan pays for the first 503 services on the list.  Note how in prior years the state paid as many of 606 services on the list in use at that time.

 

And this need to live within a budget is also the reason for the "Five Percent, Five Year" rule.  On page 97 of the pdf listing the current ranked services is the following from the Statement on Intent on Comfort/Palliative Care:

 

It is the intent of the Commission to not cover diagnostic or curative care for the primary illness or care focused on active treatment of the primary illness which are intended to prolong life or alter disease progression for patients with <5% expected 5 year survival.

 

There it is in cold, hard print.  And since Ms. Wagner did not have greater than a 5% chance to live 5 years it was not the intent of the Commission to provide her care.  Instead she was eligible for Comfort/Palliative Care, which includes:

 

Services under ORS 127.800-127.897 (Oregon Death with Dignity Act), to include but not be limited to the attending physician visits, consulting physician confirmation, mental health evaluation and counseling, and prescription medications.

 

It doesn't take a lot of imagination to see Obama care adopting a similar approach.  And I'm sure some of you are saying so what?  Maybe we should be looking more closely at the costs of providing care versus the benefit received.  Take Ms. Wagner's case for example.  Despite receiving the drugs her doctor recommended for free from the pharmaceutical company that the Oregon Health Plan refused to pay, Ms. Wagner died anyway within nine months of her denial of coverage.  http://www.tothesource.org/3_10_2009/3_10_2009.htm   Economically, one could argue that denying her treatment was the rational decision. 

 

What people who believe this argument are forgetting is that in a free market, consumers are at liberty to choose the level of care they want.  For some, they would prefer a lower premium and hence a lower level of coverage, gambling in essence that they wouldn't be in the same position as Ms. Wagner, who after all contributed to her problems by smoking for years.  Others, who like Ms.. Wagner, that engaged in risky behaviors and/or who preferred a higher level of insurance, could pay a higher premium.  And ultimately the insurance companies have to offer a certain level of care or they will go out of business because nobody will want their insurance.  The effect of all these factors is that the market offers a variety of services, providing at least some minimum level of care, which consumers are free to choose based on their own needs, desires, and ability to pay.

 

Under Obama care however all leverage of the consumer is lost.  If you don't like it, you can't pay for different insurance or find another job with better insurance benefits.  You'll be screwed because there is no other insurance.  If you need service 504 and Obama is only covering up to 503 on the priority list, I guess you out of luck for that year.  And as you might expect, this monopoly power also allows the government-run plan to treat the citizens like crap.

 

First of all, it's an outrage to send a potentially terminally ill person a cold impersonal letter letting them know that if they'd like to kill themselves the State of Oregon is willing to pay for it.  Oregon Health Plan spokesman James Sellers says that from now on the plan will call these types of patients instead of just sending the letter.  I'm sure that will be a big improvement.  A bored bureaucrat who's only thinking about their next smoke break calls you to let you know if you feel like killing yourself, it's a covered service.  I'm sure the Oregon Health Plan will get a lot of thank you letters from the next of kin.

 

More telling is the attitude of the administration of this government run plan.  Listen to Dr. Jeanene Smith, administrator for the Office for Oregon's Health Policy and Research staff; explain the priority list of services:

 

It's challenging because health care is very expensive, but that's not the real essence of our priority list…We need evidence to say it is a good use of taxpayer's dollars

 

Somehow I can hear Citizen Gibbs giving the exact same answer when some reporter points out the fate of some unfortunate victim of Obama care.

 

 

 

 

 

The Defense Budget

The King and Defense

The North Koreans have launched Four short range missiles this morning. One wonders if they are a prelude to the threatened attack on Hawaii on Saturday.

King Barack Hussein Obama I is methodically cutting the defense budget including the missile defense system. This is a stunning miscalculation.

Mitt Romney covered the ground well in a recent speech to the Heritage Foundation, including what we should be spending on defense.

http://www.freestrongamerica.com/press/item/release_romney_speech_the_care_of_freedom

The Voice of Experience

Empty Suit

 

Can we all finally join together, regardless of our political views, and agree that King Hussein Obama the First is a dumb ass?  Check out his later blunder when he tried to use the Spanish language to welcome a group to the White House to celebrate the Mexican holiday, Cinco de Mayo.  http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gBSZDYPSPmV5uKYPGLMq21s9vv4QD97VNU100  Instead of saying the three little words, Cinco de Mayo, which means the Fifth of May, this buffoon said Cinco de Cuatro, which means "five of four."  I guess this July 3^rd the King will welcome a group of illegal immigrants to the White House to celebrate American's Independence Day, otherwise known as Four of Three.

 

Of course every American learns in grade school that Cinco de Mayo is a holiday in Mexico.  And while most people probably forget over time that Cinico de Mayo commemorates the defeat of the French at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, pretty much everybody with an IQ over ten remembers the name of the holiday.  I can only guess that Obama must have been stoned the day his class learned about Cinco de Mayo so maybe we shouldn't be so rough on him.

 

Now for all you liberals out there who love to criticize all things Bush, you might be interested to know that our former president spoke Spanish.  But in the interest of fairness, we should note that the useful idiots in the media and language experts pointed out that Bush's grasp of the Spanish language was far from perfect.  Consider this article from the blog of Edward Trimnell, author of Why You Need a Foreign Language & How to Learn One.  http://www.edwardtrimnell.com/bush_spanish.htm  You don't have to read very much to find Trimnell's criticism of Bush's accent and his general comment that Bush should speak the language better because he spent years in Texas, a state with numerous Spanish speaking residents.  And our old friends at the New York Times got into the act by describing Bush's Spanish as "halting to converstational."http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/03/us/white-house-letter-bilingual-so-to-speak-but-halting.html  I'm sure their article criticizing Obama's Spanish flub is in today's edition.

 

It was an axiom of the useful idiots in the media that President Bush was stupid so it shouldn't surprise anybody that Obama will take no criticism for his inability to say even three words of Spanish without screwing up while Bush got ripped even though he knew enough Spanish to actually use the language in conversation.  And certainly the savants at the New York Times aren't going to point out that the King, who was born in a foreign country and lived for several years in another, should know another language.  Even Obama admits that it's embarrassing that he doesn't speak another language.  http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/07/11/politics/fromtheroad/entry4254480.shtml

 

As is typical of an empty suit like King Hussein Obama, he points out that while he only knows about 15 words of Spanish; his accent "has always been good."  So in other words, as long as somebody else provides him the proper words, he can deliver them so well that the average listener would think he was native Spanish speaker.  Is there anybody left out there who thinks Obama even has a clue what the words he reads off the Tele-Prompt-Ter mean?

 

The Voice of Experience

He's Your Problem Now

 

When I initially heard about Arlen Specter's defection to the Republic Party, I didn't even think it was worth writing one word about.  This guy's been a loser for so long my basic reaction was who cares.  But since there's been so much commentary on this traitor (even the Righteous Lib is crowing about it) and since he's nominally one of my representatives in Congress, I've decided to share my thoughts.

 

Specter's been a senator from Pennsylvania since 1981 and for most of that time he's been a RINO, Republican in Name Only.  Maybe in a state such as this one that contains an almost equal number of Republicans and Democrats, being a RINO was strength but it was a tremendous liability when his support was required for advancing the conservative agenda.  And for years, conservatives such as me have voted for Specter in the general elections despite our dissatisfaction with him as he was the lesser of two evils. 

 

So finally in 2004 we had a legitimate alternative to Arlen to vote for in the Republican primary, Congressman Pat Toomey.  Unlike Arlen, Toomey was a solid conservative who we could depend on to represent us instead of a loose cannon who was only interested in his own prestige.  It's seems like a million years ago but in 2004 Republicans and conservatives were riding high and Arlen was in big trouble.  As the incumbent, Specter had access to a lot of resources, including the endorsements of President Bush and fellow Senator Rick Santorum, a true friend and rock solid conservative leader.  These two guys were taking a big chance backing a closet liberal like Specter but I guess they felt they had to since Arlen was the incumbent.  I've often felt that Santorum's backing of Specter was one of the factors in his own defeat two years later at the hands of Democrat Bob Casey.

 

Now you might think that after both his fellow Senator and the President himself had stuck their necks out to back him, Specter might have been grateful but he was the exact opposite.  Within hours of his victory in the 2004 general election, Arlen was mouthing off for the press, talking about how he was his own man.  As the future head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, he wouldn't bend to the President and fellow Republicans about judicial appointments.  More specifically, Specter said that in reference to future Supreme Court nominees:

 

When you talk about judges who would change the right of a woman to choose, overturn Roe v. Wade, I think that is unlikely.  The President is well aware of what happened, when a number of his nominees were sent up, with the filibuster…And I would expect the President to be mindful of the considerations which I am mentioning.

 

So the Republicans decided to teach Arlen a lesson and threatened to deny him the chairmanship.  It was quite a treat to watch Arlen humble himself and beg to have this position.  Ultimately after about two weeks, Arlen promised he would not deny confirmation to pro-life justices and he was allowed to serve as chairman.  And to anyone who remembers this sad affair, it should be proof positive that Arlen will do anything, say anything, take any position, to gain and hold power.

 

As I said earlier, 2004 seems like a million years ago and now Republicans and conservative have stunk to the bottom of the political world.  Until Arlen's defection, the only possible weapon the Republicans had to stop the Obama juggernaut of liberal destruction was the threat of a filibuster..  So when Specter's support for a filibuster of King Hussein Obama's disastrous economic stimulus plan was crucial, what did he do?  He sold his vote for $6 billion in funding for medical research and stabbed us in the back.  While this vote made him the darling of the liberal media it did not sit well with Republican voters in this state.  Most polls showed Arlen being crushed in the 2010 Republican primary by the aforementioned Pat Toomey.  And just like he did in 2004; Arlen did whatever he had to to try and hold onto his power and switched parties since this was the only way he could possibly have a chance to run in the general election.

 

As you might expect, instead of telling the truth, the useful idiots in the liberal media have been spreading the big lie about Arlen's defection.  According to them, Specter switched parties because the Republican Party was too conservative.  According to the liberal liars, Specter didn't leave the Republican Party, the Republican Party left him.  Do I even have to provide one argument against this bold faced lie?  Were Reagan and his fellow Republicans in 1980 pro-choice?  Would they have supported a massive spending bill like Obama's stimulus plan?  And most importantly, Specter himself admitted that one of the reasons he switched was because he was going to lose the Republican primary.  None of this troubles the liberal liars in the media though.  They've even contradicted their own crap by claiming that one of Reagan's strengths was that there was a lot of room under the Reagan big tent for dissenting views, and hence room for Specter, after telling us for nearly thirty years how narrow-minded Reagan was.

 

Well now the Democrats have Specter and all I can say is good luck.  I hope they're not counting on him because Arlen's showed time and time again that he is loyal to no one but his own ambition.  In his brief tenure in the Democratic Party, Specter has already promised to vote against a pet project of theirs:  card check..  Arlen might change his mind on this one though.  Pennsylvania is one of the few states left that has a significant union influence and most of these union members vote Democratic.  I would guess that if Arlen's losing in the Democratic primary next year, he'll find a provision in Scots Law to back card check.

The Righteous Lib

Welcome to the Big Tent

 

When I first heard that Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter had left the Republican Party I was confused because I didn't know there was still a Republican Party to leave.  All I see these days is an ever-shrinking group of racist, flat-earthers that is completely out of touch with the average American.  These fools that cling to the name Republican have about as much relevance to today's politics as the village blacksmith does to our transportation system and Arlen was smart enough to know it.

 

I've always liked Specter even though for years he was in league with the bigots.  But on the big issues, like the Republican coup to take over the government by impeaching President Clinton, Arlen stood tall and voted the right way.  More recently, when most of the other Republicans were trying like mad to stop the plans of the greatest President we've ever had by opposing his economic stimulus plan, Specter placed the good of the country over partisan politics. 

 

Now of course the hate-mongers like that fat drug addict Rush Limbaugh are trying to put their own spin on Arlen's defection from their worthless cause.  As usual they're throwing a ton of crap at their target in the hopes that something will stick but their main argument is that Specter was going to lose the Republican primary to some guy you've never hear of, Pat Toomey, since if you're like me, you probably don't attend the Klan meetings in rural Pennsylvania.  For some reason the Republicans think this is a great argument but I think it's dumb.  To these fools it makes sense to stay in the Republican Party and lose and it's stupid to switch to the Democratic Party and win.  No wonder these guys have gotten their ass kicked two elections running.

 

I can relate to Arlen's decision because I once faced a similar situation and did the same exact thing..  I used to panhandle down on Bishop Street and I was cleaning up until one day this gimp with no legs started begging right across the street from me.  Pretty soon I was getting jack and this guy was cleaning up.  I thought about kicking his ass but what good would that have done?  It would have only made him more pathetic than he already was and he would taken even more of my money.  So just like Arlen, if you can't beat them, join them.  I worked out a deal with this guy.  I would roam the side streets and push people his way, begging them to hook up my "dear old 'anakala" who'd lost his legs in the war.  We were cleaning up until the dumb ass got a job but that's not the point.  I was never going to beat this guy so I teamed up with him instead and got what I could.

 

Even though Specter himself is a pretty good guy he's been helping the Republicans ruin the country for a long time so it would only be natural to think the Democrats might be a little wary of him.  But I'll tell you what a great guy my man Barack is.  He welcomed Arlen to the party with open arms and promised to campaign for him.  It takes a big man to forget the past, to forgive Arlen for all the damage he's done, and embrace him, but that's what my man Barack's all about.  There's a lot of room under Barack's tent and since he's always right you don't even have to think about what you believe in.  Barack's like the Greyhound of politics:  sit back and leave the thinking to Barack.  Sounds like a good deal to me as long as he keeps shoving that government money my way.  Keep those Republican checkbooks close, braddas. 

The Best and the Brightest

A Heartbeat Away

 

King Hussein Obama the First has appointed so many worthless losers to high positions in his administration that we've decided to start a new feature here at Delta-Man called The Best and the Brightest.  The posts under this heading will expose and ridicule the misadventures of the King's henchmen, which in his short reign have been numerous and shocking.  From Comrade Robert Gibbs to Janet Napolitano, from the heretofore unidentified clowns who signed off on scaring the crap out of New York City by flying a 747 over the city and decided to give the Prime Minister of England a cheap collection of old movies from Best Buy, King Hussein Obama the First has provided a inexhaustible supply of idiots for us to make fun of and laugh at. And since this article is the initial posting under this heading, we might as well start right at the top with arguably the King's worst appointment, Vice President Joe Biden.

 

To chronicle all of Biden's gaffes would literally require me to quit my job and start writing full time so today we focus solely on his latest blunder, to wit:  his warning to Americans not to fly in light of the developing swine flu pandemic.  Now if you're like me, you probably thought Biden was just a hack lawyer from Delaware who finagled his way into a cushy job in the United States Senate.  Little did we know that Biden was also a distinguished member of the medical community, whose prominence and learning allow him to give out advice to the public at large.  We can only pray that Biden has enough sense to limit his medical career to shooting off his mouth about issues he really doesn't understand.  Imagine if this clown tried to perform open-heart surgery on someone.  Biden's so stupid that that poor soul would probably end up with a big asshole in the center of his chest.

 

Since Obama's henchmen screw up so often, they are used to covering up for mistakes by one of their own and the excuses and clarifications were flying out of the White House in no time.  http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Story?id=7470281&page=1  Notice how the liars carefully twist and shade Biden's comments, mostly by subtle additions.  Press Secretary Comrade Gibbs added to Biden's blanket warning by saying that sick people should limit their travel.  This comment in and of itself is ridiculous since Biden was clearly warning healthy people not to expose themselves to illness not the reverse as Gibbs suggested.  Biden's spokeswoman, Elizabeth Alexander tacked on that Biden meant to say the people should avoid unnecessary travel to and from Mexico.  Of course in the comments Biden actually made he said the exact opposite when he said, "It's not that it's going to Mexico.  It's you in a confined aircraft."  Only liberals could come up with such unbelievable lies.  Surprising the only person who said anything of worth was Senator Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, who said, "I wish the vice president had checked with the Centers for Disease Control…before he made that statement."  Well, no duh but if Biden checked the facts everything before he shot off his big mouth he'd in essence be taking a vow of silence.

 

If Biden was only a hack loser in the Senate, his comments would have been laughed at and quickly forgotten but unfortunately he is the Vice President of the United States.  Due to the prestige of this nation and some of the prior occupants of that office, Biden's opinion now carries a certain weight and he can do a lot of damage.  Consider the following story about the potential effect of Biden's comment's on the struggling tourism industry in King Hussein Obama's native state of Hawaii. http://www.starbulletin.com/business/20090501_Biden_remark_another_blow_to_ailing_isle_visitor_industry.html  Even somebody as geographically challenged as King Obama, who thinks there are 57 states, should know that Hawaii's tourism industry is totally dependent on air travel.  By shooting of his mouth, Biden might cause a lot of harm in our most beautiful state.  We take this injury to Hawaii very seriously here at Delta-Man.  We have a number of friends in the islands and in fact, one of our contributors, the Righteous Lib, is a resident of that fair state.  It's unfortunate that because of this idiot some good people might lose their jobs.

 

No doubt Biden will be taken to the woodshed for this one and we may not see him for awhile but not even King Hussein Obama the First can silence the Vice President forever.  In a few weeks, Biden will emerge from the wilderness and roam the landscape once more.  I've often wondered about the mentality of someone such as Biden who screws up so often but never seems to learn.  You'd thing that after all his mistakes he'd shut his mouth but he doesn't.  He must be so delusional that he thinks what he's saying makes sense.  It's frightening to think this man is one heartbeat away from the Presidency of the United States.  Long live the King!