I don’t quite know what to say about this.

The House–the Democratic-controlled House–quietly passed their version of ObamaCare on Saturday, providing the beleaguered Obama administration a victory they could point to.

The bill was passed by an extremely close margin, 220-215, a 5 vote margin. The vote was passed by 219 Democrats and one Republican (Joseph Cao, a first-term Republican who holds a decidedly Democratic office in New Orleans) against a coalition comprised of 176 Republicans and 39 Democrats. So much for an era of bi-parsianship…

The bill will now move to the Senate were heavy debate is expected. Hopefully the senate won’t vote on the bill in the dark of night so they could sneak it by the public without anyone knowing.

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Seven companies that received bailout money will have their top 25 executives pay cut by about 90% on average.

The treasury Department will announce this in the next few days, according to Yahoo! Finance.

The companies are Bank by America, Citi, AIG, Government Motors, GMAC, Chrysler and Chrysler Financial.

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I told you this would happen…

UPDATE:  CNBC is reporting that the overall pay–including benefits, bonuses, and crap will drop about 50%.

Also, check this out:

“And at all of the companies, any executive seeking more than $25,000 in special perks — such as country club memberships, private planes, limousines or company issued cars — will have to apply to the government for permission.”

I told you.

I goddamn told you!

This is corporate fascism at its finest, ladies and gentlemen.

Kenneth Feinberg is running the show.

Read–CNBC

Taxing “Cadillac” health plans in order to pay for universal healthcare?  What does that sound like?  Let’s hope this proposal does not pass.

Supporters claim that the tax will cause employers to hunt for cheaper plans in order to avoid the tax, forcing insurers to lower their prices.  Critics claim that this will lead to rising costs for employers, and by extension, families and individuals.

But wait, there’s more!

Nancy Pelosi offered up an alternative, which would be to tax insurers’ “windfall profits”.  Genius!  Let’s take away the incentives for running a successful business to pay for healthcare for everyone.

Sound like anything to you folks?

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The Politico is reporting that the common chant of the Average American, “Read the Bill!” could actually be asking for counter-production.

Politico:

“But reading actual legislative text is often the least productive way to learn what’s actually in a bill.”

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“And however naive the call for members to read each and every bill sounds, it touches on what congressional observers across the political spectrum say is a very real and very dangerous trend.”

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“These bills are not written for even the educated layperson. They are written for specialists,” said Ross Baker, a political scientist at Rutgers.”

The problem with this argument is false because specialists are not the only people affected by these bills…

This sort of thinking is dangerous…

Obviously, if the language is too complex for those writing it to understand…it is too damn complex.  Let’s be serious, folks.

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Folks, this video includes Barack Obama saying he is for a “single payer system.”  He also says that the government run “public option” will eliminate private insurance.  The video also shows Jan Schakowsky bragging about tearing down the health insurance system–you may remember my post on that earlier this year…

Watch the explosive video here:

Click here to read all my posts on health care.

UPDATE:  August 4, 2009:

The White House goes to the web to attack the Drudge Report.

Apparently the above video just cherry picked certain statements…but its pretty damning that he said that it will eliminate private insurance…

They’re in damage control here, folks.

Also, I think it is wrong that they are attacking the Drudge Report…calling it “misinformation.”

Oh, and, Happy Birthday, Barry!

Botox, face lifts, tummy tucks, hair transplants, etc., may be taxed 10% in order to pay for the $1 trillion health overhaul.

From Congress Daily: “Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucustold reporters he had heard some ‘interesting,’ ‘creative,’ and ‘kind of fun’ ideas.”

Fun taxes?  Is this guy a loon?

The only state that taxes cosmetic surgery is New Jersey.

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Folks, Conyers sickens me.  This isn’t the first time he has made a comment that has made my stomach turn.

Remember when he decided not to investigate ACORN because of the “powers that be?”

Well now he said questioned the congresspeople who advocate reading the healthcare bill…
“I love these members, they get up and say, ‘Read the bill.’  What good is reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don’t have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?”

This is almost as bad as them censoring the term “government run” health care in favor of “public option.”

Well what good is trying to keep your job if don’t give a damn about this country?

Please click here to see the video…

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UPDATE:  In 2004, Barack Obama rips Bush Administration for rushing legislation through congress…

“When you rush these budgets, that are a foot high, and no body has any idea what’s in them, and it gets rushed through without any clear deliberation and debate then these kind of things happen.”

Blood is shooting from my eyes.  This flagrant example of Obama hypocrisy hurts me…

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Or maybe the Agency was just doing its job…

Folks, brand new news has come out regarding the CIA, congress, and al Qaeda operatives.

As you may remember, the Congress is kinda mad at the CIA for not informing them of their operations…

And as you may remember, Obama was going to “leave the door open” to prosecuting Bush administration officials.

Apparently, according to some people inside the CIA–and people inside the Wall Street Journal, the CIA had been researching ways to “to achieve a capacity to carry out something that was directed in the finding,” meaning, assassinate key al Qaeda operatives.  Now, as we all know from our Freshman year high school history class, the Ford administration banned assassinations…

The CIA was “acting on a 2001 presidential legal pronouncement, known as a finding, which authorized the CIA to pursue such efforts.”

Now, does the CIA need to inform the congress every time they plan an operation?  No.  But, some are saying they should have because they spend money on the project.  Some estimates say $1 Million to as much as $50 Million.

I find it difficult to imagine that they spent $50 Million because CIA Director, Leon Panetta, terminated the operation when he found out about it in late June.

Developing…

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And, folks, this comes on the heels of Newsweek’s sob story about how Eric Holder must go against his instinct, and the President, and charge Bush administration officials…

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Here’s what I think:  The CIA needs a certain amount of freedom when it comes to their operation.  The Congress does not need to be briefed every time a terrorist pees his pants.  Also, it seems as though they were not going to “assassinate” the al Qaeda operatives.

The article reads, “Eventually Mr. Bush issued the finding that authorized the capturing of several top al Qaeda leaders, and allowed officers to kill the targets if capturing proved too dangerous or risky.”

The article reads, “The former official said he had been told that President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney didn’t support such an operation. The effort appeared to die out after about six months.”

It also seems to me that the CIA knew what this program entailed…

The article also says, “The official noted that Congress had long been briefed on the finding, and that the CIA effort wasn’t so much a program as ‘many ideas suggested over the course of years.’ It hadn’t come close to fruition, he added.”

Read–WSJ

The Congress is trying to implicate Dick “Puppetmaster” Cheney in this whole mess.

CNN contributor and Republican strategist, Mary Matalin, said of Cheney’s alleged involvement in a conspiracy, “Every time they get in trouble . . . they dredge up a Darth Vader story.”

And, apparently, Matalin is married to friend of the Report James Carville.  I’m not a betting man, but I’m willing to wager that he thinks just the opposite…

Read–CNN Political Ticker

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Read–Hot Air

UPDATE: July 13, 2009:

Fox News is reporting that the Congress was aware of the operation and also approved it.

Fox News is reporting: “This was not a program. It never began,” the former official said. “The authority was given by Congress to develop this idea. … There was no need to brief it. It wasn’t a reality.”

Read–FoxNews

Folks, The healthcare bill–in both the House and Senate–have provisions to spend billions of dollars on “infrastructure.”

Walking paths, lighting for playgrounds, all stem from the healthcare bill.  Uncle Teddy’s handlers said that it is needed to improve the overall livelihood of folks that use the parks.

I call it an excuse to spend more money they don’t have.

The limit for spending in the Senate version of the bill is up to O-Man himself.

The limit for the House version of the bill is $1.6 Billion a year…

And, no, they don’t know where they’re going to get the money.

The group, Trust for America’s Health is behind some of the language in the bill:

The spending is needed to “create the infrastructure to support active living and access to nutritious foods in a safe environment.’’

Obama said that this is needed as “preventative care.”

This is “the largest investment ever in preventive care, because that’s one of the best ways to keep our people healthy and our costs under control.’’

Yeah…you don’t have to do tests anymore…Cuts costs…

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Yes, folks.  According to Yahoo News, Tim Geithner wants to impose new guidelines for publicly traded companies to better match pay with long-term performance.

He said that he does not want to put caps on the pay…but that sounds like what they’re going to do…but just call it something else.

What gets me about this is how they support unions and a minimum wage…in short, not being paid by your performance, while wanting that for executives…

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