President Hussein Obama's Liberal Eugenics: Elderly Hardest Hit

Ruin Your Health With the Obama Stimulus Plan: Betsy McCaughey
Commentary by Betsy McCaughey

Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Republican Senators are questioning whether President Barack Obama’s stimulus bill contains the right mix of tax breaks and cash infusions to jump-start the economy.

Tragically, no one from either party is objecting to the health provisions slipped in without discussion. These provisions reflect the handiwork of Tom Daschle, until recently the nominee to head the Health and Human Services Department.

Senators should read these provisions and vote against them because they are dangerous to your health. (Page numbers refer to H.R. 1 EH, pdf version).

The bill’s health rules will affect “every individual in the United States” (445, 454, 479). Your medical treatments will be tracked electronically by a federal system. Having electronic medical records at your fingertips, easily transferred to a hospital, is beneficial. It will help avoid duplicate tests and errors.

But the bill goes further. One new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, will monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective. The goal is to reduce costs and “guide” your doctor’s decisions (442, 446). These provisions in the stimulus bill are virtually identical to what Daschle prescribed in his 2008 book, “Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis.” According to Daschle, doctors have to give up autonomy and “learn to operate less like solo practitioners.”

Keeping doctors informed of the newest medical findings is important, but enforcing uniformity goes too far.

New Penalties

Hospitals and doctors that are not “meaningful users” of the new system will face penalties. “Meaningful user” isn’t defined in the bill. That will be left to the HHS secretary, who will be empowered to impose “more stringent measures of meaningful use over time” (511, 518, 540-541)

What penalties will deter your doctor from going beyond the electronically delivered protocols when your condition is atypical or you need an experimental treatment? The vagueness is intentional. In his book, Daschle proposed an appointed body with vast powers to make the “tough” decisions elected politicians won’t make.

The stimulus bill does that, and calls it the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research (190-192). The goal, Daschle’s book explained, is to slow the development and use of new medications and technologies because they are driving up costs. He praises Europeans for being more willing to accept “hopeless diagnoses” and “forgo experimental treatments,” and he chastises Americans for expecting too much from the health-care system.

Elderly Hardest Hit

Daschle says health-care reform “will not be pain free.” Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them. That means the elderly will bear the brunt. [More]

Here it is: Obama's (final) health care solution. Let them die. Heck of a job, Barack!

Schumer: Free, Dissenting Speech = Pornography

Here they come. If news organizations, talk radio and other news and opinion outlets (blogs?) don't conform to the liberal concept of "fairness" and "balance," meaning no criticism allowed, they will be treated the same way as pornography. This is probably going to be the first mission of Barack Obama's "Civilian National Security Force."

A Civilian National Security Force? Why Not? It Worked Quite Well for Hitler

"We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

-- Herr Barack Obama


I seem to remember that Adolf Hitler had one of those. They started as Brownshirts and morphed into the SS. Is that what Obama means by "the change we need?"

Reminds you of something else?

"The remaining Republicans will be hunted down and defeated. The presidential campaign has left me scarred and deformed. My resolve has never been stronger. In order to insure the security and continuing stability, the American democracy will be reorganized into the First Socialis Empire for a safe and secure society. Said safety and security will be enforced by my own personal civilian national security force. Heil me!"

-- Excerpt of a possible Obama inauguration speech

Obama vs. the U.S. Constitution

If you weren't troubled by Barack Obama before, you should be now:




The Constitution is "a charter of negatives?" The courts are responsible to "redistribute" wealth? And this guy taught Constitutional Law?

Question for Obama: "If elected President, how would you rewrite the U.S. Constitution?

Happy Liberal Halloween!

"The image of a hanged black man is a lot more intense than the image of a hanged white woman, for our country and the history of our country."

-- West Hollywood resident Chad Morisette, whose Halloween decorations include a mannequin of Sarah Palin hanging by the neck from a noose, who also muses that if the scene had feature Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, "there might have been more outrage and maybe even vandalism to the home."

Hanging Palin Causes Controversy

A mannequin dressed as Sarah Palin is hanging from a roof in West Hollywood, CA and is causing a stir.

Monday, October 27, 2008

Some laugh and others just stop and stare...it's a Halloween decoration showing a mannequin dressed as vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin hanging by a noose from the roof of a West Hollywood home.

The mannequin is dressed in brunet wig, glasses and a red business suit. Another mannequin dressed as John McCain emerges from a flaming chimney.

Chad Michael Morisette, who lives in the house, told KCBS-TV that drivers and bus passengers have been stopping to snap pictures of the macabre scene.

Morisette says the effigy would be out of bounds at any other time of year, but it's withinthe spirit of Halloween. He tells KCBS "it should be seen as art, and as within the month of October. It's Halloween, it's time to be scary it's time to be spooky.

How "artistic" would it have been to hang a mannequin dressed like Obama or Hillary by a noose? Would liberals have taken it "within the spirit of Halloween?" I would like to think not.

Anger Management

This is why I moderate the comments that people send to this site.

(Anonymous) 2:22 AM

You pathetic coward.

What makes you so scared, Othelmo? Facts? The truth? Reality?

You want to run for school board? Fine. Guess what - using words like "liberal brownshirts" and "Krystallnacht" in a public online forum don't come without a price.

Some of us remember what they mean. They're not just words, you immature sh*thead. Go ahead, keep saying them.

They're part of public record now.

Sleep tight, mother******.

Wow. I have seen such rabid rage before. It has been chronicled here , here and here. This one takes the cake, however.

I find it ironic that someone who posts anonymously at 2:22 in the morning calls anyone a "coward."

The intemperate comment above was posted about an hour after my analysis of Joe the Plumber's effect on the presidential campaign and was a "reply" to it.

I'm not sure of what "facts,""truth" or "reality" I'm supposedly "scared." In his uncontrolled rage, the angry grasshopper above failed to mention what they are. Maybe he's cooled off by now, hopefully after a much needed anger management therapy session, and will expound on his nonsensical statement, under his own name, with a bit more clarity and rationality. Nah!

I wonder what the "price" of free speech in a free society is. I am familiar with the cost of free speech in an authoritarian society, though. As most of my readers may know, I was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The year after I was born, the Brazilian military staged a coup which would last 20 years. Civil liberties were suspended overnight. Thousands were imprisoned. Many were never seen or heard from again after their arrest. Even after the military had consolidated their power, known dissenters were abducted in broad daylight.

Brazilian military coup, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 31, 1964

Free speech is foundational to the American system of government. I will not be silenced. Threats or not. Live with it. Intimidation is a cowardly tactic of the left to suppress dissent. The Obama campaign and its lawyers do it as a matter of course as I have discussed here and here.

Anyone who does not like what I write is free not to read it. Like a moth to a flame, however, some liberals are irresistibly drawn to "Paleocon Strikes!" I refer them to the disclaimer in the header above. Professional help in the form of anger management therapy is highly recommended as an alternative to reading my blog.

I started this blog as a means of venting my frustration over the lies and misrepresentations of the American left. I didn't know what to do with that frustration until I decided to start blogging in 2006. You can read my first post here. It is a dissertation on illegal immigration from the perspective of a legal immigrant who passionately loves America or as Barack and Michelle Obama would say it, "this country."

Speaking of anger management issues, I wonder what price the anonymous author of the diatribe above thinks former SNL cast member, Air Amerika radio talk show host and DFL-endorsed U.S. Senate candidate Al Franken should pay for cheating on his taxes in 17 states, defrauding his own employees of their workers' compensation benefits as well as making a living out of writing pornography and jokes about rape and incest.

As for my run for school board, you can find out more about it at www.othelmo.org. You won't find any pornography, inappropriate jokes or foul language there. They would only commend me to the angry poster if I happened to be a liberal, which is definitely not the case.

I want to win Rochester School Board seat 7. As I state on my campaign site, my elementary school age children are a daily reminder of where the Rochester School Board's priorities must reside. But if I don't, you can bet I won't go into a year-long funk or refuse to call whoever is elected to congratulate him or her or misdirect my anger toward some lowly conservative blogger far away in Rochester, MN. That would truly be immature.