Monthly Archives: September 2009

911 – for my murdered friend Peter Hashem, the other passengers on AA flt 11, and all the others Murdered by the Islamic BASTARDS that day

TO ISLAMIC BASTARDS
who think 911
was a great day
for ISLAM

Think again DIRTBAGS

Obama will leave Office
in 2012
and Your ASS KICKING
WILL COME ANEW
FOR YOU

Read And Understand This DIRTBAGS

no surrender

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Tel-Chai Nation: 9-11: eight years later
Hot Air: Rudy: 9/11 “part of our present,” not our past
Public Secrets: “We’re at war”
POWIP: Remembering 9/11/01
Domestic Divapalooza: Remembering September 11, 2001: OPEN THREAD: Where were you?
The Anchoress:
9/11, Eight Years On

Barack “Mr Flash My RA Eyes” Obama, Called Out as the Liar he is by Joe the Congressman with an example of an Obama Lie

Who has noticed that Barack uses the whites of his eyes as a non-verbal signal he is on the War Path??? Watch him from now on and you will see it.

Vewwy Scawwy Stuff!
Them Obama Flashy Eyes!
Wun! Wun For Your Wives!

I will get you with my fwashy scaawy eyes if you make me mad!

I will get you with my flashy scawwy eyes if you don't obey me!

Obviously, Barack found the time to watch the movie Stargate in which Jaye Davidson played the part of RA, an Egyptian God… mmmm… much as Obama plays the part of BO, Self-Appointed Hawaiian Man-God.

I will get you with my flashy scaawy eyes if you dont obey me!

I will get you with my flashy scawwy eyes if you don't obey me!

Lots of similarities between RA, the character in the movie, and Obama, the other character in  Washington, playing the Man-God, BO.

Last Night, Obama the All Powerful was called out as the LIAR HE IS, to his FACE, in front of the Entire Joint Session of the US Congress on an Internationally Televised Broadcast. It is history making in that the Man-God BO finally got a Town Hall Comment he has so carefully orchestrated not to ever face.

WE DON’T BUY YOUR BS BO, Man-God From Hawaii!

And for your viewing pleasure BO, here is the video clip which has been preserved for all time through out the the planet Earth and is beaming out at light speed to galaxies far far away!

Notice in the above video that Obama had no problem calling Congressmen Liars just before he was called a Liar in return by Joe the Congressman Wilson.
Ok, so you have been waiting for that example of Obama BS which makes him a…

Obama - Liar Liar Pants On Fire

Obama - Liar Liar Pants On Fire

Remember Obama said just last night that ObamaCare Public Option could be funded by eliminating Medicare/Medicaid Government Waste and inefficiency?

Not On Your LIFE!!!

LaHood: Gov’t paid dealers $1.2B for ‘Clunkers’

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: September 10, 2009

Filed at 10:11 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) — Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says the government has approved $1.22 billion in reimbursements to car dealers for sales under the Cash for Clunkers program.

LaHood said Thursday the government is on track to pay eligible dealers by a Sept. 30 deadline. More than 40 percent of the applications from dealers have been paid.

The rebates led to more than 690,000 new car sales at a taxpayer cost of $2.88 billion. Auto dealers have said the Obama administration has been slow to pay them for the car incentives, which ended on Aug. 24.

NOW, DO THE MATH!

Cost to Taxpayers = $ 2.88 Billion

Money to Dealers =  $ 1.22 Billion

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The Difference = $ 1.66 Billion

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Obama Just Spent $1.66 Billion
on
Government Waste and Inefficiency

to give away

$1.22 Billion

And He Wants Us
to Believe
He is Not
a LIAR!

AAAHAHAHAHA

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DPGI – the aftermath: Video: President interrupted during speech to Congress
The American Pundit: Flashback: Democrats Booed Bush In 2005
The Right Way: At Least They Didn’t Throw Shoes
The Anchoress:  Oh, nuts! Obama Speech Reax

Deceiver.com:
President Obama Suffers Unprecedented Attack That Has Happened Before
VotingFemale Speaks!: Barack Obama now has a new list of Enemies: the Progressives who put him in office
Frugal Cafe: Way to Go, Joe! When I Tried to Make a Campaign Contribution to Rep. Joe Wilson, This Is the Site’s Current Message… and When Yelling “You Lie” Is So Much Worse Than Booing (video)
LisainTx: Obama Godhood Crumbles, the Rhetoric has fallen on open ears

The Patriot’s Mind: Which Obama is Telling the Truth on Abortion? – You Decide

CNN White Washing Dirty ACORN Hands with News Post Today

cnn loves acorn

Check out
CNN’s propaganda attempts
to shield
the bastards at ACORN
from rightful censure

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/10/acorn.prostitution/index.html

Folks, you know what to do…

BOYCOTT CNN and their ADVERTISERS
and
e-mail them to that effect

SOCIALISM
DON’T FLOAT
IN THE USA

Barack Obama now has a new list of Enemies: the Progressives who put him in office

obama down trodden

Barack Obama now has a new list of enemies, the “Progressive” Leftists (Marxists) who put him in office.

They don’t care about Obama, the politician, who understands what they refuse to accept: Socialist/Communism don’t float in this country.

While I firmly believe that Obama is absolutely a genuine Marxist, I also believe Obama knows failure when he sees it.

Obama knows that the “Progressive” Socialism Movement has failed to shove the ObamaCare bill through Congress before the American Public could to get their heads wrapped around it and react to it.

The inevitable reaction is in the way Centered America always reacts to such attempts to rewire America into a Socialist/Marxist run country.

The “Progressive” (meaning MARXIST) end run to topple capitalism has FAILED TO LAUNCH and additionally has Aroused a Sleeping Angry Giant, meaning The Politically Middle America. Much of the Politically Right America was already awakened and reacting.

Calling Politically Middle America Astroturf Racist Hate-Mongering Gangs funded by special interest groups, just further aroused and infuriated that Sleeping Giant and filled him with a Terrible Resolve.

THERE WILL BE NO SOCIALIST REVOLUTION
IN THIS COUNTRY!
NOT NOW!
NOT THIS TIME!

Ohhh, but that Political War is not over… It will NEVER be over.

However, this all but completed Battle Win against the Lowball Congressional end run by the “Progressives” (MARXISTS) is now even being acknowledged by the likes of Keith Olbermann, who has been blogging on the subject of who to pick to run against Obama in 2012 for DEM nomination for president.

The “Progressives” (MARXISTS) will eat their young and what has spawned in recent days is proof of that.

Last year the “Progressives” (MARXISTS) turned on Hillary Clinton, a Liberal Centrist, for the sake of getting Obama on the ticket for one reason only… Obama was dumb enough to be the puppet for their All Out Preemptive Socialist Strike to install Socialism/Communism in America. He had been prepped for the task starting in childhood.

Obama was not the failure…
The Failures are
The Shadow Progressives (MARXISTS)

If Obama is anything, he is a realist. He knows the failure is complete and he will suffer as the Whipping Boy of his former pals, The “Progressives” (MARXISTS) who want what they want no matter the cost and no matter the tactics to get it.

Wanting and Having are Two Separate Things,
Oh Ye “Progressive” (MARXIST) Thugs

But still, the “Progressives” (MARXISTS) will take their vengeance on non-politicians like Glenn Beck, Michelle Malkin, Rush Limbaugh. They have all but given up on Palin Bashing because they overplay their hand and Sarah Palin earned creditability, the ear, and support of more Americans that does Obama.

Meanwhile… the RINOS are grazing with the Progressives (MARXISTS).

Oh the Irony of it all…

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Related blogposts:

Van Jones – Obama Will Miss His Racist Radical Communist Pal; Obama? Your Crap just gets deeper
Big Hollywood: Lonewolf Diaries: The Obama Era is Over
Frugal Café
: Tonight’s TV Coverage of Obama (Yawn) Health Care: Robert Gibbs Snarky about FOX Airing “So You Think You Can Dance?” and Escalating Health Care Disapproval: Poll Shows 52% and Disapprove of ObamaCare, Speaker Pelosi Doesn’t Care and Sen. Jim DeMint to Pres. Obama: Stop Speaking in Generalities & False
Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion: Dems Self-Destructing? Who Could Have Thunk It
Philip Klein, American Spectator: Don’t Believe The Hype and Dems Failed to Move Ball in August
Hot Air: Video: DeMint challenges Obama to line-by-line review of ObamaCare
Pundit & Pundette: What do 83% of Americans agree on?
The Right Scoop: Video: Demint to Obama – Stop Generalizing and Defend Your Bill
Patterico’s Pontifications: Obama Implies Illegals Will Be Covered by His Health Care Plan
GayPatriot: Why President Should Ditch Obamacare, Focus on Economy
William Tucker, The American Spectator: Solving Healthcare Through Verbosity
FOX News: ABC, NBC Won’t Air Ad Critical of Obama’s Health Care Plan
Examiner.com: Anti-ObamaCare ad that ABC and NBC refused to Air
Big X, Big Hollywood: Debunking the Great Debunker: ObamaCare Covers Illegals
Behind Blue Lines: Does the Government Own Our Bodies?
League of American Voters: Watch the New TV Ad Exposing The Obama Health Care Takeover
RedState: The U.S. Constitution and Health Care Control
Federalist Fred Thompson Blog: “Spread the Wealth” Hidden in Health-Care Reform
Marginal Revolution: Our health care intuitions, or death panels for astronauts
“Barrack” Now!: Sarah Palin sounds like Dagny Taggart
HillBuzz: If you aren’t paying attention to what Sarah Palin is up to on Facebook, then you’re a damn fool
VotingFemale Speaks!: Barack Obama – Unelectable in 2012; His Waterloo was Sarah Palin speaking out against ObamaCare; TeamSarah On Deck! and Socialists Fall on Own Sword; ObamaCare V1.0 is Dead On Arrival
Liberty’s Army: Forecasting Death in the UK: Fasttrack to Death with the NHS Pathway Policy
Jane Q. Republican: The British NHS: The Healthcare Might Kill You…But It’s Free!
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Pelosi & Reid: Quick, Pass ObamaCare While We Still Have the Votes and No One Has Completely Read It… Plus, More UK Health Care Nightmares and Death in the NHS Lane: Terminally Ill People Are Erroneously Sentenced to Die Early by “Death Panels” in UK and AARP Losing Memberships: Seniors and Military Vets Oppose Socialized ObamaCare, Glenn Beck Interviews AARP Rep (video)
Chicks On The Right: Never Waste A Good Crisis….Um, I Mean Funeral
Michelle Malkin: Union politicking at the pulpit and Cone of Shame Award: MSNB-see-only-what-we-want-you-to-see
Hit & Run, Reason Magazine: New at Reason: Steve Chapman on the Truth About Health Care and Infant Mortality
Ztower: It’s Not About Your Health, Nitwit! It’s About President Obama’s Legacy. Now Get Out Of The Way!
Lisaintx’s Blog: Born to be Free
Michael D. Tanner, Cato @ Liberty: Co-ops: A ‘Public Option’ By Another Name
Patterico’s Pontifications: Deceiver.com on Pelosi and Obama: Goal Is to Eliminate Private Health Insurance
Sharp Right Turn: White House tries to intimidate on healthcare opposition
Wall Street Journal: Pull the Plug on ObamaCare
Heritage Foundation: The Public Health Care Plan: What Seems to Be the Problem?

Founding Bloggers: WSJ’s Thomas Frank Just Doesn’t Get It

Van Jones – Obama Will Miss His Racist Radical Communist Pal; Obama? Your Crap just gets deeper

Van Jones & His Communist PALS

Political Terrorist Van Jones & his Closest Communist PALS

Obama will no doubt find a bailout job for his RACIST RADICAL COMMUNIST PAL, Van Jones; Perhaps as a News Anchor over at MSNBC!

AAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Poor innocent little Van Jones… BOO HOOTIE HOO HOO HOO HOOOO!!!
SMEARED WITH THE TRUTH FROM HIS OWN LIPS ON CAMERA

Oh, and then there is that “smear” where Glenn Beck forced Van Jones to Sign the 911-TRUTHER Petition declaring Bush a de facto War Criminal who promoted the Islamic Attacks during the day of September 11, 2001, on New York City and the Pentagon.

Yeah… Van Jones… What a total loss his absence will be to Howard Dean’s “Country of Communists.”

Howard Dean? I am sooo glad you stood up for this Racist Radical Communist A-Hole after he resigned in shame as a COMMUNIST ASSHAT!!!!

AAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

And, Obama, Dean, and Gore?
You idiots can no longer pretend
America will ever take you seriously again
You are all Communists
So… suck it up!!!

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Additional reading:
Gateway Pundit: Sing It… Van Jones Cut Nasty Hate-Filled Music Album, Too! (Video) …Update: Album Cover Found!
Washington Post: White House Adviser Van Jones Resigns Amid Controversy Over Past Activism
NewsBusters: Jones Resigns Over What? and NYTs’ Friedman Was Big Fan of Green Job Czar Jones in Oct 2007
Power Line: Lights Out for Van Jones
Fire Andrea Mitchell!: Commie / Truther / Racist Van Jones Cut Nasty Hate-Filled Music Album too! and Communist Van Jones is a TRUTHER too! High-level government officials may have deliberately allow 9/11 to occur
Sister Toldjah: Van Jones throws himself under the bus, resigns from Obama admin and The truth about “green” czar’s Trutherism beliefs
Weekly Standard: Van Jones Resigns
GayPatriot: Van Jones, Obama’s “Truther” Green Jobs Czar, Resigns and To Critics of Republicans: Show me the Legislation where GOP pushes its beliefs on others and “The meanest people in American politics are on the left”
Ed Driscoll, Pajamas Media: Van Goes Under The Bus — Updated and A 9/11 Truther In King Obama’s Court
Diary of a Mad Conservative: More Jones on imperialist, evil white America and the religion of Marx and He’s going to thumb his nose at us.
Michelle Malkin:  The resignation (and coming MSM/left-wing martyrdom) of Van Jones; Obama “thanks him for his service”
and What happens when you ask politicians how they’ll pay for Obamacare and  Memo to GOP candidates: Stop mindlessly praising Commies in green clothing
Nice Deb: Breaking: Van Jones Resigns
Frugal Café Blog Zone:
Good-bye to the Truther Communist: Czar Van Jones Quits as Result of Controversy and GOP, Meg Whitman, Are Any of You Listening to Conservative Talk Radio? Here’s Michael Savage on Radical Van Jones 5 Months Ago (video) and You Kiss Your Mother with That Mouth? Obama’s Green Jobs Czar Van Jones: “Republicans Are ‘A**holes’” (video) and Undeterred by WH “Green Czar’s” Boycott Strong-Arming, Beck Hits Back on Van Jones’ Background & ‘Color of Change’ and We Have Many Questions, Mr. President: Michelle Malkin and Glenn Beck on Radical Czars in the White House (video)
Ztower: Van Jones has apologized. His sincerity will be revealed by his actions following his dismissal, should President Obama make that choice. UPDATE: Jones resigns. and Honest Mr. President, I didn’t mean that stuff I said about those Immigrant killing Crackers, Republican A-holes or 9/11 terrorists from the Bush administration. Now, can I still be Green Czar?
Riehl World View: Updated!: Bus Overtakes Van As Jones Loses WH Parking Spot
Wlady Pleszczynski, American Spectator: Van Jones Resigns
FrontPageMag.com: Obama’s Communist Advisor and His Billion-Dollar Army
Jeffrey Lord, American Spectator: The Real Van Jones Scandal: Why Glenn Beck Is Right
National Review Online: Krauthammer’s Take
just a conservative girl: Van Jones and His Interesting Connections
Hot Air: Unbelievable: Van Jones says 9/11 petition didn’t reflect his views; Update: Jones didn’t “carefully review” petition
POLITISITE: Politics from the RIGHT Side of the WEB: “Green jobs” bizarre czar Van Jones is a 911 Truther
Just Americans Making Ethical Statements Weblog: WH Green Czar Van Johnson linked to Group attacking FOXNews and Glenn Beck and Obama “Brownshirts” Attack Glenn Beck; This is “UN- American”!!
A Conservative Edge: I’d Be Happy To Admit That I Am From The A**hole Party, If Van Jones Admits He Belongs To The Communisty Party
Stop The ACLU: Presidential Advisor and Communist Van Jones Deeply Involved in 911 Conspiracy Movement
Left, Right, and Centered: Imagine What The Press Would Do With This Under W
Strong Meat: Obama’s ‘Jolly Green Giant’ Van Jones Has Got To Go
SHAWSBLOG: White House Green Jobs Adviser: Republicans Are ‘Assholes’
Glenn Beck: Van Jones, in His Own Words and More Van Jones lunacy
Speaking My Mind: Van Jones And San Quentin – A Match Made In Heaven
Pronk Palisades: Obama’s Hidden Agenda and Cadre of Marxists, Communists, Progressives, Radicals, Socialists–Destroying Capitalism and The American Republic and Apollo Alliance and Obama’s Green Czar Van Jones: Greens on The Outside–Reds On The Inside–Big Greens, Big Unions, Big Foundations, Big Business, Big Bucks, Big Taxes–Videos
From The Right: Van Jones and other destroyers of the Constitution
Blogging in my Post Grad World: Van Jones Doesn’t Like to Read, I Guess
NewsReal Blog: Van Jones Thinks 9/11 Was A Republican Campaign Ad and Van Jones takes a page out of “Rules for Radicals” too

Jawa Report:  Olbermann Asks KosKidz For Dirt on Beck
Redstate: And just like clockwork, the Van Jones race baiting begins

Riehl World View:Sierra Club Exec: It’s Because He Was Black
Mudville Gazett: Echoes from the blast

Gateway Pundit: Left Is Seething That Golden Boy Commie-Truther Van Jones Was “Driven From Office” By “Lunatic Bullies”
Power Line: Does our president have a moral compass?

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Barack Obama – Unelectable in 2012; His Waterloo was Sarah Palin speaking out against ObamaCare; TeamSarah On Deck!

Sarah Palin has Ended Obama's Reelection in 2012

Sarah Palin has Ended Obama's Re-electability in 2012

Obama - the Relection Joke of 2012; Bye Bye 'Bama!

Obama - the Relection Joke of 2012; Bye Bye 'Bama!

Not Only is ObamaCare Lethal….

obamacare seniors check in but dont check out

It’s Debt would destroy this country…

Folks… Sarah Palin has destroyed any chance Obama will be re-electable in 2012 and she did it with Facebook Notes and the Truth.

The following article by D.K. Jamaal says it in a nutshell:

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Prelude to 2012: how did Democrats let Sarah Palin destroy health care reform with Facebook?

D.K Jamaal, Progressive Examiner
September 2, 4:49 PM


Sarah Palin stands on stage during the election night rally on
November 4, 2008 in Phoenix, Arizona. (Getty images)

It’s not even 2012, and Sarah Palin, the “lightweight” Caribou Barbie stupid dumb right-wing inexperienced unqualified unaccomplished religious wacko birther enabling nut that came from Wasilla, has already defeated President Obama.

CLICK HERE to see SLIDESHOW of the Palinator!

She has trounced Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.

She has trumped MoveOn, ACORN, and Obama’s mass army of volunteers at Organizing for America.

She has out-demagogued the three stooges of MSNBC Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, and Rachel Maddow.

Oh, and she did it with Facebook notes.

Read that again: she did it with Facebook notes.

The notion that Obamacare would include panels making end-of-life decisions for Americans had floated unnoticed in the ether for months, before Palin’s Facebook note dated August 7, 2009 – ominously warning of “Obama’s death panel” stocked with “evil” government “bureaucrats” who would deny care to the “sick, elderly, and disabled.”

Now, let’s keep in mind that Mrs. Palin is (should be?) little more than a celebrity curio at this point.

She holds no elected office.

She is not a party official, nor the head of any chartered political organization. She is not a Fortune 500 businesswoman, not a powerful member of the prognosticating pundit class, not a cited academic authority.

She is a private citizen. But, oh, what a private citizen!


Sarah Palin speaks at the Republican Governors Association
conference November 13, 2008 in Miami, Florida.(Getty images)

How should those who disagreed with this private citizen’s assessment of the health care debate have responded to her allegations? Simple.

They should have ignored her, as they would do any one they really considered a rube with no credibility and no power.

But many Obama supporters aren’t that intelligent, and the ones who are know Sarah Palin is nobody’s village idiot.

That’s why they — stupidly — tried to silence her so viciously. Oops.

Palin-the-puppetmaster uttered “death panel” and the left-wing, right on cue, went running after the thrown bone, tails wagging and tongues slobbering in hyperventilation.

The self-defeating inability of Democrats to ignore the Palinator magnified the “death panel” claim.

They kept Palin squarely in the mainstream, made “death panels” the talk of the town. And by the time you hear something enough it becomes true. Seniors were scared. Independents were worried. And the debate was completely hijacked.

Palin distracted health care progressives at a time when we should have been explicating an optional government plan to compete with predatory private insurance companies as the pragmatic alternative to socialist single-payer and the laissez faire rapaciousness preferred by Wall Street-Washington oligarchs.

Democratic talking head Paul Begala got a lot of press by summing Palin up as a “whack job” and a “lightweight.

In the meantime, Palin kept releasing healthcare killing Facebook notes – spreading conservative anti-Obamacare articles (August 8 and 9), doubling-down on death panels (August 12), accusing reformists of wanting to ration health care (August 13), and pushing tort reform (August 21).

As the arguments gained traction, and as Obamacrats continued bending to the big pharamaceutical lobby in compromising away real reform, liberals – instead of pushing back with relentless, focused talking points for price controls, public options, and mandates – frothed at the mouth, launched sexist attacks against Palin, and denigrated town hall protestors.

The result of all this?

Counseling is out of the proposals – just like Sarah Palin the Lightweight of Wasilla wanted. And as an added bonus, the neglected public option is now off the table, with the President unwilling to fight for it. Government ability to bargain for lower drug prices? Denied. Consumer ability to buy cheaper drugs from other countries? Gone. A universal mandate? Obama wouldn’t even support that in the primaries.


PERRY, GA – DECEMBER 1: Sarah Palin arrives at a campaign rally for Republican
incumbent Sen. Saxby Chambliss, on December 1, 2008 in Perry, Georgia. (Getty)

So that’s all folks. There goes real health care reform.

I wish I, a private citizen, could write some Facebook notes and get the kind of health care bill I wanted.

It is, as Hillbuzz.com put it, “truly, truly remarkable.”

If Palin can manage to throw Obama off message with Facebook, I shudder to think what Palin can accomplish with the entire right-of-center electoral apparatus behind her at the top of a national ticket.

When the Democratic Congress finally passes its Palinized, Obamagutted health care non-reform bill with nothing in it resembling cost control, competition, or anything remotely progressive, the epitaph should read:

“Here lies health care reform: killed by Facebook, buried by Obama.”

By Facebook. By Sarah Palin’s Facebook notes.

You don’t have to agree with Palin’s policies to be wowed by this — or to get a kick out of seeing the misogynist, working class-hating East Coast manchild geeks get their butts handed to them by this PTA mom. This is populism at its most stunning.

Whack job? Depends on your politics.

But lightweight? Ha! Whatever you say, Begala.

See you in 2012, private citizen Palin. Do your thang, babe. Lightweight your way right to the Oval Office.

Godspeed.

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Take a look at this article from Pajamas Media:

Napoleon, Obama, and Health Care ‘Reform’

Like Napoleon in Spain, a short-run victory on ObamaCare could prove disastrous for the president in the long term.

September 3, 2009 – by George Leef

History is full of examples of conquests that seemed easy and tempting, but later turned out to be gigantic blunders. One of them was Napoleon’s decision to invade Spain in 1808 and put his elder brother Joseph on the throne. That was the first great miscalculation of his career.

I strongly suspect that Obama’s decision to “reform” American health care by thoroughly politicizing it will become his Spain — a short-run victory that will in the long run prove disastrous for him.

Napoleon and Spain

In 1808, Napoleon was the master of continental Europe. To his south, Spain was officially an ally, but it was a nation long past its age of military power. The Spanish army was no match for the French and Napoleon was certain he could easily crush it, capture Madrid, and send the corrupt King Charles IV packing. Under the conventions of warfare at that time, once you had beaten the enemy army and taken the capital city, fighting ceased and the victor could enjoy the spoils of war. Napoleon, the great conqueror, couldn’t resist this piece of low-hanging fruit.

Things did not go according to Napoleon’s plans. Defeating the Spanish army was easy enough, as was the business of putting Joseph on the throne. But afterward, the country erupted in partisan warfare that gave us the word “guerilla.” French garrisons and supply trains were attacked. Spain was drenched in blood and the drain on French resources and manpower was debilitating. For Napoleon, conquering Spain was a self-inflicted wound that turned gangrenous.

Obama and health care

In early 2009, Barack Obama was in much the same position as Napoleon in 1808. He sat in the White House with overwhelming power in Congress to enact his initiatives for remaking the United States to suit his egalitarian, statist vision. Obama and his Democratic shock troops captured the auto and financial industries in blitzkrieg campaigns in the spring. He seemed invincible — and then he decided to launch a summer offensive to take over health care. Ever since, the fighting has been fierce.

Exactly what will happen on this front is uncertain, but let’s assume that in the fall, Obama’s forces — reinforced, re-energized, and inspired by the loss of Field Marshal Kennedy — ram through some variant of ObamaCare. (As I argued here, the details won’t matter very much.) Then they will be able to savor their victory — right?

Probably not. Here’s why I think such a victory will be like Napoleon’s “victory” in Spain.

In the past, every advance of the welfare state has been politically successful (and by that, I certainly don’t mean they were good policies) for this reason: government programs delivered concentrated, visible benefits to people while the costs were widely dispersed among taxpayers and consumers.

Social Security, for example, has been a political success because the benefits are tangible and well-publicized, creating a strong political constituency for continuing and expanding it. Of course, there are no free lunches and Social Security meant taking money away from workers. The Social Security taxes, however, are cleverly hidden by the device of withholding. Grandma Green sees her check, but the working people who were taxed to pay for it never saw their money.

That’s why Social Security has been a political sacred cow. Economists and policy wonks have been criticizing it for decades, but to no avail.

As “public choice” economists have long understood, even terribly inefficient and wasteful government programs will survive if they have concentrated benefits and widely diffuse costs. The beneficiaries will fight much harder to keep the goodies coming than the people who pay the resulting higher taxes and prices will fight to end the program. In fact, the latter usually don’t even know that they are being mulcted.

The list of programs like that is enormous: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, sugar price supports, export subsidies, protective tariffs, pro-union le

Why ObamaCare is different

Now think about ObamaCare. It’s different than all those welfare state policies in a crucial respect: it will create concentrated, visible costs for people, but the benefits will mostly be intangible and diffused. That isn’t a politically successful model. Instead, it’s likely to create a national uprising, just as Napoleon’s invasion of Spain did.

ObamaCare is an attempt to provide expansive health care benefits for millions of people who previously made do with much less, while simultaneously bringing down total health care spending. That will inevitably lead to the kinds of denial of treatment decisions and rationing by waiting list that are found in Britain and other countries with heavily politicized systems. Americans won’t react with indifference when grandma can’t get a hip replacement because some federal panel has decreed that it wouldn’t be cost-effective. Never before has a government program here created large numbers of people who will see themselves as terribly victimized by it.

Let’s imagine a hypothetical conversation between Grandma Green’s daughter and her congressman, whom we’ll call Representative Frump.

Daughter: “My mother needs a hip replacement to be able to regain mobility and enjoy life, but some bureaucratic panel said she can’t have it. You voted for ObamaCare even though we both wrote to you to explain why we were against it. What do you have to say?”

Congressman Frump: “Well, too bad about your mother, but you’ve got to keep in mind that under our reformed system, we are now insuring millions who used to be uninsured. That’s a great step toward social justice for America!”

Concentrated cost versus an abstract benefit. That defense won’t play in Peoria. It probably won’t even play in San Francisco, Boston, or Washington, D.C.

Guerilla warfare to come

The political insurgency will be fueled by cases like Grandma Green’s. Every adverse medical outcome that can plausibly be blamed on ObamaCare will be used to fan the flames. Congressmen and senators who voted for the legislation will be the equivalent of the vulnerable French garrisons and supply trains in Spain. They’ll be attacked repeatedly and many will fall. Political ads built around instances like the conversation above will take a large toll of Democratic loyalists.

Worse yet for the left, Americans who would never have thought about the damage that other parts of its collectivist, anti-individual agenda are doing to the country will become receptive to such messages. Many who were drawn into the insurgency because they dislike ObamaCare will come to understand that it is only one of hundreds of federal programs that harm people, waste money, and make us poorer. In short, ObamaCare will help catalyze opposition to statism itself.

Another similarity to Napoleon’s peninsular campaign will probably be the efforts at suppressing it. One of Goya’s most famous paintings depicts a French firing squad executing Spanish rebels. Doing that might appeal to some of Obama’s staff, but the actual tactics will involve increasing harassment from the IRS, the Federal Election Commission, and other federal bureaucracies capable of making life miserable for those who publicly criticize ObamaCare and its defenders. Like the firing squads, those efforts will only make the resistance more determined.

Could ObamaCare actually be driven out, as the French were from Spain? The conventional wisdom has been that if it passes, we’ll never get rid of it. I’m not sure about that. True, bad laws are hardly ever repealed, but for the reasons I’ve given, ObamaCare is going to be uniquely vulnerable. Combined with the outrages that other aspects of Obama’s statist, authoritarian agenda will keep producing, the United States is going to experience the political equivalent of the uprising against Napoleon.

That uprising has already begun and if ObamaCare is enacted, it will intensify greatly. The political combat will be vicious. My hunch is that Obama will regret that he roused the still-substantial portion of the American populace that prefers liberty and individual responsibility to subservience to the nanny state.

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Socialists Self-Destructing in FULL View of  this Planet:

Louisiana Democrat Sen. Mary Landrieu OPPOSES Nancy Pelosi on Public Option:

What Socialists do amidst Opposition to ObamaCare - Attack Mainstream Americans as NAZIs and Domestic Terrorists for opposing their attempt at a Socialist Takeover of Health Care:

Ohhh… there are Fascists at work all righty! And Nancy Pelosi is Queen of the Socialist Fascists in America:

The Real Fascist is Speaker of the House Pelosi

The Real Fascist is Speaker of the House Pelosi

And then there is this as proof of Socialist Hypocrisy:

And just because it is proof of Socialist Two-Faced ASSHAT Pelosi Mentality, this from Hillary Clinton on American Dissent, Hillary is SICK AND TIRED OF YOU PELOSI:

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