Daily Gut: The Real Opposition Party
by Greg GutfeldSo President Obama is addressing a joint session of Congress next Wednesday, and you know it`s going to be important stuff!
Oh wait – it`s health care.
For a moment I thought maybe we`d hear something about the economy (in shambles), the war on terror (remember that?), the progress in Iraq (still there?), the challenges in Afghanistan (nothing from MoveOn.org on that one).
But no – it`s health care. And that`s because, with that single issue, President Obama stepped in it big time. And the White House isn`t sure who to blame. But they`re still blaming, anyway.
So, just for fun, let`s review the folks currently on the bad side of the White House:
There`s old people – all those crusty curmudgeons who showed up at the health care town halls and kicked ass, while the rest of us sat home and ate Funyons. There`s Rush Limbaugh – the “defacto” head of the Republican Party. There are the Tea Party protesters – or moronic “teabaggers,” to the smirking, clueless media. There`s Dick Cheney – and the CIA agents who tried to protect our country. There`s a certain, fiery cable network I won’t mention. And there’s you.
Now, none of these bad eggs are elected officials. None of them are “active” Republican officials. None of them get haircuts at the Congressional barbershop. None of them really have a seat at the table. In a country where checks and balances mean everything – and right now we have no checks and balances – these are the Americans who stepped up to the plate.
Now, I know what the President is thinking. This wasn`t supposed to be so hard. He has both Houses and the Presidency! Health care should have sailed through! Cap and Trade should be a no-brainer! All those countries that hated us before should be loving the crap out of us!
But here`s what happens when you get ahead of yourself. It was easy to get overconfident – when the media is behind you. But someone had step up and say “hold on there, pal.”
And that someone is America.
Didn’t see that coming, did you?
Tonight’s guests: Anthony Cumia from Opie and Anthony, Diana Falzone, and Jonathan Hoenig!
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You never did think that it ever woulda happened again,
In America did ya.
You never did think that we'd ever get together again,
Well we Damn sure fooled ya!
We're walking real proud and we're talking real loud again,
In America
You never did think that it ever woulda happened again.
~ Charlie Daniels
Nice, Gut.
And it kind of confuses my lefty friends when I tell them that I AM THE MOB.
“We the people,” indeed have Barry’s ears pinned back, that’s easy, he’s got Dumbo sized ears, …ha!
Wait. Health care isn't important?
"the smirking, clueless media"
I thought this was really funny coming from you. That could be the name of your show.
Ach! Gut! Tanks!
That was harsh Somecat, now say you’re sorry : (
Do you consider John Stewart a member of the media, too?
Smirking, yes, but Clueless?____That video clip Red Eye played of a weasel rolling a ball in its paws, identified as David From showing off his new trick, had me in stiches!____Because it captured the essence of Frum! Lulz!
Great song! That was right after Reagan took the reins from the first leftist nitwit Carter. Reagan had a couple planes shot down and taught Quadafi to understand his place, and the hostages freed, good years.
Gutty is right. The current administration seems to focus omly on what is the hot button topic of the day, along with whom to blame for its failure.
Obama isn't worried about losing control of the healthcare debate, all he is worried about is losing control of America. I can't wait to be scolded by the POTUS for having a different opinion than him over my Healthcare needs. I really can't wait to hear what lies will come from the man next. This next plan is going to be the proverbial "Trojan Horse" of legislative deceit pawned off on the American taxpayer.
I think those in power forgot that Americans are different than other peoples in the world. We have too long of a tradition of self-government to just complacently allow them to waltz in and take over. And Obama's Coalition of the Clueless fell apart as soon as they voted and made their big contributions to society.
If we're vigilant and do what needs doing, we will see those years again.
Does anyone else hear an echo in this chamber?
What is that famous Hollywood line just before you never get another job?
Oh Yea "Your beautiful don't ever change, lets do lunch"
Obama "Your beautiful don't ever change, lets get together for a beer."
Amen brother!
This Wednesday Obamunism will put away the smoke machine and the mirrors and break out The Great Fog Maker. Put your B.S detectors on Kill not Stun.
On top of all his other outrages, Van Jones is a "truther".
I hate "truthers".
I'm still in stitches over it. You're so funny somecat, you should bottle it.
I had a disturbing thought today. I overheard some people talking about healthcare power of attorney–I think a wife was lamenting about her clinic's refusal to tell her her husband's lab results over the phone. (The clinic was right in not doing so, but that's beside the point.) The wife had neglected to sign the proper forms, and thus, the red tape and all inconvenience.
My disturbing thought: Under government run health care, the government has health care power of attorney. They can, if they so choose, decide to pull the plug if we're on life support. Does anyone in their right mind want Obama to have that kind of power? Or Nancy Pelosi?
No! We are much more diverse than over at Daily Kos or Huff Po those bastions of open-mindedness, and differing opinion. You want us to cuss more?
I'm still in stitches over it. You're so funny somecat, you should bottle it.
Poor Barry,
Thought he just had to set it up, and it would pass.
Instead, he woke up a Nation.
Even the most innocuous things now are going to be scrutinized, folded, spindled, and even mutilated. Energetically.
Coincidentally, the damage is spreading to state and local governments, which are also being held under bright lights and large lenses, and are smelling their own edges beginning to smolder. The Massachusetts "Flu Quarantine" bill being one of the more egregious lately.
The proof of the pudding will be just how many Democratic incumbents will want poor 'ol lonesome Barry to show up at their campaign. I'll bet most won't have the horsepower to push him out entirely, but he'll be WAY at the other end of the May Day podium when the troops come by.
This guy only won because his party somehow got souless john McCain to run against. I guess he thought he could pretty much do whatever he wanted. Let's make him a one termer. That actually might be Billary's sweetest revenge. If the Hillstress resigns to run against him in the primaries, she'll start going *huntin'* and *droppin'* her g's.
Haha, maybe. I would make the rhetoric more interesting.
Well, I'll be honest. I come here for the film criticism and analysis. And even if I don't always agree with it, I usually find it interesting how people interpret and respond to pop culture. But sometimes I get annoyed. Look at this article. Look at the front page. Most of the articles posted don't even pretend to be related to discussion about film or the film industry. And I've heard it all before–it's like white noise. So occasionally I give in to the temptation to snark at it. Forgive me.
We are the people in the Catbird seat. We hold the one thing over their heads that makes them shake in their beds. If we are stay united, we can vote them out of office and dethrone them from their sweet easy street power wielding royal lives..
Indeed! Bush knew enough not to repeat the Soviet Union's mistakes.
Obama should just go on TV next week and use the line from Animal House…."You F…d up, you trusted us!" and admit that he's a phony. Then he can sit back, do nothing for the next three and a half years, and live off his government pension.
LOL! Hillary will turn into a regular Ma Kettle, …Ha!
Amen!
I'm seriously considering keeping my daughter at home next Tuesday to avoid her being exposed to the "indoctrination", and any fallout or perceived misbehavior or disrespect toward the Big Mocha. I'm going to see if see can be exempted from participation. Since at only eight, she sees Obama for exactly what he is, and can't hide it – it might cause trouble. I just can't see her sitting through an Obama training film, and keeping her mouth shut about it. It's in her genes.
Wow! That's deep…
Obama's finding out that giving fluffy speeches isn't the same as, running something. He's never been accountable for any decision he's made in his professional career. Now he is and he doesn't understand or like it. When you sign off on a bill in congress you can always share the blame or hide with everyone who voted for it. Now the spotlight is on him and he can't hide behind "Present" or "Abstain" like he has for his 2 year senate career. He's about to community organize himself into being a one-termer. Rabble-rousing does not a President make!
That sound you hear Rex is the sound of a Nation Waking-Up. An echo now but soon to be a Mighty Thunderous Storm. Lovely isn't it . You better hide and take shelter.
Too funny. I say send her, damn the torpedoes and all that while standing up to the bullies, go with her if you can. Times like these I wish I had a kid.
we are the underestimated crowd and i like it like that. the wh is fuming and STILL trying to figure out where they went wrong. all they have to do is ask one of us and they'll get the truth. the truth, now there's a concept they'll never get, but it'll be the reason we take the victory. barry = pownd by the regular joes of america. love it.
My husband was watching the a-hole Jones spew forth, and commented, "I wouldn't be surprised if he ran for President next. He's as arrogant as Obama".
No. That's the sound of the beans rattling around in your otherwise empty head. You're the only one hearing the echo.
Lovin' those ass kicken old people!
Ad hominem is bad no matter who does it. We're better than that.
There's another troubling problem that WILL almost certainly happen. All our health records, on-line in one easy to access database. I'm all for streamlining doctor visits and even e-prescribing in some instances, but do you see the potential for abuse in electronic health care records? Not only by hackers, but government snots? That is scary as heck.
The book World War Z, by Max Brooks (son of Mel) has this great quote (paraphrased due to non-photographic memory):
"I now realize why Che always high-tailed it out of the country after starting his revolutions. It's a lot easier to blow up trains than to make the run on time."
I would say that we were "seriously underestimated". Take that Barry-O.
I must have said something bad. All my comments need to be reviewed by mods before showing up. Well, I know when I'm not wanted.
He's finding life's a bitch if you have be accountable. But he do make pretty speeches. Kind of like a marshmallow. They taste great but are full of nothing but empty callories.
I actually work for an electronic medical record company. I acknoledge my bias but it all depends on who owns the database. Government–bad. Hospital system–good. Put the doctors in control of their patients' records, and leave bureaucrats far, far away.
In a sane world, the same government that created HIPAA would not revoke it just so they can have more control over our lives.
What do you expect from the imperious Rex?!?!?! Just another King to pass judgement on those they consider thier serfs / property.
*their
Will he have a brain for Joe Biden? A heart for Harry Reed? Can he send Nancy Pelosi to Kansas?
Darn Rex, I bet you we're going to have a point and everything : (
I'm pretty surprised that for a pretty well informed and well educated crowd you guys are still referring to "government run healthcare" when that was never even proposed in the first place. It's a a government run insurance program option. Hugely different. That's like saying Blue Cross Blue Shield and Aetna currently run our hospitals. No one is trying to change healthcare, it's just an insurance program.
Oh… it all makes sense now. Everybody, stand down no worries Barry has our best interest in mind, boy that’s a load off… thanks MOC!
Surely you jest. This monstrosity would be over and done with if Barry, Nancy, and Harry had their way – BEFORE the recess. Another cram-down of something American's don't want. Didn't work this time, and I doubt it will ever work again.
I didn't say anything about best interests. All I'm saying is that there's a huge difference between healthcare administration and healthcare insurance. He's talking about one and you're talking about the other.
My company develops, installs, and maintains an EMR system. When a healthcare company buys our products, we custom design it for them, then we stay on and maintain it for them for as long as they own the product. To date, no one has ever uninstalled our system for one of our competitors.
So even though we maintain the working relationship with our customers long after their checks clear, we don't keep any patient data on our servers. Each hospital system maintains its own data servers, and keeps its own patient data. Built in our system are checks and balances to make sure that people aren't going into places in the patient's chart where they shouldn't go.
My experience is very siloed–all I know is my one peice of one application, and experience as a patient using the software my company created–but it seems that all the government does now is act as an insurance agency.
cont'd
Whenever the President makes a public policy speech, it's usually followed up by a response from the opposing party. I wonder if Obama would have the cajones to have someone like Newt Gingrich follow up with a response?
Healthcare is important.
The federal government's attempt to seize control of the industry is important.
Listening to Barry rephrase his plea for control, yet again, is not important.
Obama and the Democrat's have specifically stated that government run healthcare IS their end game. You can call it what you want, but their ultimate goal IS to have government health care.
Obama and the Democrat's have specifically stated that government run healthcare IS their end game. You can call it what you want, but their ultimate goal IS to have total say so over your health.
What do you have against Kansas?
Obama and the Democrat's have specifically stated that government run healthcare IS their end game. You can call it what you want, but their ultimate goal IS to have total say so over your body.
Who's Bluto? You know he was a senator too.
AlistZ he wouldn't if he could. Because with said brain and heart. They could never get behind this Silver Tongued Commie. Pelosi is another story. He could send her back to Kansas. Preferably with a house on top of her.
Okay, my question isn't really in the same vein as the other comments here, but this is regarding the President's last address to Congress…
Did anyone ever make a whack-a-mole web game of Speaker Pelosi popping up to start applauding? I was thinking that such a game, with a gavel as a hammer, would be a lot of fun.
I have a thought…
Everyone who has a squishy politician who wants to vote this thing in…let them know WE WILL PUT YOU OUT OF OFFICE. Then you will have to go scrote diving to your local MinHealth office to get the same health care you gave to your disgruntled former constituents.
Obama, Reid, and Pelosi are NOWHERE NEAR as frightening as that shapeless fat, doughnut eating clerk at the procedure approval window…or her sister at the patient intake one…
Does your current healthcare provider have total say over your body?
Mine neither. There has to be some agent somewhere checking off the names…and mine's as subtle as a brick through a plate glass window…
Mine neither. There has to be some agent somewhere checking off the names for the future…and mine's as subtle as a brick through a plate glass window…
Thanks. Based on your knowledge of the industry, and what is proposed in HR2300, do you see your role changing?
No. They don't tell me what to eat, what to drink, whether or not to smoke, if I'm exercising too little or I'm too fat, etc. They might recommend it through my doctor, but they don't tell me in any form letter that I'm being a bad boy. The government is already in the process of that.
No. They don't tell me what to eat, what to drink, whether or not to smoke, if I'm exercising too little or I'm too fat, etc. They might recommend it through my doctor, but they don't tell me in any form letter that I'm being a bad boy. The government is already in the process of that through proposed fat or vice type taxes.
Hey! They let it through! You guys are all right.
One not wanted by the people under whatever semantic you wish to postulate it…
Just like a libtard…still wanting to waste time parsing the language while a freight train heads down the track right at them…
How's that "definition of is is" discussion going on between you and Bill?
Thanks for responding. I'm all for hospital accountability, and more competition. We DO need improvements in health care. I just can't see "government" and especially this administration, keeping their slimy mitts off of any body of collected information, when they could use it and manipulate it to suit themselves. I don't know what the answer is either, but it makes me nervous.
"I" don't even have total say over my body!
I'm married.
She would take a very dim view if I was hittin' Megan Fox…and she knows where the guns are…
Can't wait to hear what the Teleprompter has to say on Wednesday.
Oh, I'm tempted. But if they reprimanded her because she covered her eyes and ears (like she does at home), I'd have to see the principal, and it could get ugly.
Kinda of a prick thing to say, yes?
Not me, but my wife with MS, who has to constantly jump through hoops to get medications, absolutely. That’s just with Blue Shield of California, too. We don’t complain (much), though, because we know how much worse it would be if forced to navigate through far more inefficient, DMV-esque government hoops. Don’t even get us started on having to justify her terminal illness life-worth every “X” amount of years, ‘cause I’ll be damned.
Like a certain Chicago beat cop once responded, thank ya, no.
Oh… okay!
Let the agents come. At least we aren't raising a generation of namby-pamby Kool-aid slurpers.
They do get their point across, don't they?? I cannot understand why anyone could think Obama is a smart guy. For the last forty years, virtually every election saw the left tell the elderly "The right wants to take away social security and medicare!". Social security was known as the third rail of politics. But these brilliant dems think they can cut medicare while quadrupling spending and no one out there will do the math. But those of educated before the great liberal decline in the quality of schools can add & subtract.
I heard that from Mark Steyn today. How the hell can you believe the 9/11 was an inside job and still get a high level government job? It's bad enough he's a commie. He has to be a fargin nitwit too?!?
I heard that from Mark Steyn today. How the hell can you believe the 9/11 was an inside job crap and still get a high level government job? It's bad enough he's a commie. He has to be a fargin nitwit too?!?
lawlz!
My wife takes a dim view on the government horning in on her right to tell me exactly what to do.
Lucky for you, what's being proposed is a public *option* not a mandate. You can keep your Blue Shield and continue to not complain much. The point is that it's an option for those who don't have insurance. The only way it'll affect you is that costs might go down because Blue Cross will actually have some competition cost-wise.
Keep dreaming, my friend, keep dreaming…
Does the teleprompter-in-chief have a makeup artist?
But would she know she's getting bopped on the head? I don't think she's got any synapses working in that belfry.
But would she know she's getting bopped on the head? I don't think she's got any synapses working in that belfry, just bats.
I hope so.
Competition!??! What does Obama think about competition? Follow his actions with school vouchers. He doesn't want private schools competing with his public schools now does he? Obama using conservative principles like choice and competition is an insult to conservatives like me and pretty much everybody that posts here. Of course, yourself and other trolls notwithstanding.
It's really not semantics. Health insurance and health care are vastly different things. Your auto insurance does not manufacture cars. Your home insurance has nothing to do with your choice of home.
What IS he talking about? He's been all over the board. Health care reform, health "insurance" reform, crazed pediatricians needlessly removing tonsils; he's quoted scripture for Pete's sake. Like a blind man trying to play Pin the Tail on the Donkey. What next?
How about the US Mail? UPS and FedEx both compete against the government very effectively, posting huge profits while the US Mail system is broke. Who says businesses can't compete against a government program that doesn't have to turn a profit? As I said earlier, I'm not saying anything about best interests. My original point was that there's a difference between insurance and that which is being insured. That was the extent of what I was saying and all the replies are what drove this conversation to these other tangents and accusations of my implications.
If what you're saying was true, there's absolutely no reason that you and others who agree with you cannot get together and set up this insurance company with these goals in mind. You'll need to fund startup costs yourselves, but I'm sure you're more noble than us greedy capitalists, right?
The government (mainly Democrats) haven't said they want to push the insurance business – out of business. The stuff coming out of Obama's mouth is marketing only. Again I go back to their ultimate goal, which IS to push them out of business.
The government (mainly Democrats) have said they want to push the insurance business – out of business. The stuff coming out of Obama's mouth lately is marketing only. Again I go back to their ultimate goal, which IS to push them out of business.
Why are most liberals lazy? Your point is a good one, but that would take gumption and liberals, for the most part, don't have any.
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