With more and more Americans opposing the Democrats’ many versions of a health care bill, the Obama administration and the Congressional leadership are finding it difficult selling their plans to their own party members.
The president is traveling to various cities, looking to build support for his agenda.
We contacted a spokesman for the Democratic party, who told us why Americans haven’t embraced the health care bills:
It’s been a rough several months for the president.
In November, 2009, Obama backed Jon Corzine in his re-election bid in New Jersey.
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| Jon Corzine, loser |
Republican Christopher J. Christie won.
The same night, more bad news for the president.
In the Virginia governor’s race, Obama campaigned for Democrat Creigh Deeds.
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| Creigh Deeds, loser |
Republican Robert F. McDonnell was elected.
Of course, the bad news didn’t stop with the end of 2009.
Obama campaigned for Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley in the special election to fill a U.S. Senate seat.
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| Martha Coakley, loser |
Of course, Scott Brown, the Republican, won.
Then, after traveling to Las Vegas to campaign for Harry Reid, the Senate Majority Leader lost 10 points in the latest poll.
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| Harry Reid, losing |
It seems Obama can’t pick a winner.
Until this week. At the health care summit, Obama picked one…
Finally! Obama wins! Hail to the chief!
*New global warming data reveals an accurate hockey stick graph.
*Newsweek article in 1995 outlines why the internet will fail. Our favorite points are those dismissing electronic books and e-commerce.
*Finally, the website of the day: John Hawkins’s brand-new site, Self Help Quotes. This is a great collection of over 60,000 quotes, including two by IMAO’s very own Frank J. So go visit now and frequently, IMAOists.
Really? “Coffee Party”? November is looking increasingly ominous and all they can come up with is a weak-tea imitation of a conservative movement?
Democrats really seem devastated right now over how their greatest victory — a liberal president and huge majorities in Congress — has all gone to crap so quickly. And it looks unlikely they’ll get another chance like this for decades. The American public just hates liberal ideas, and all the Democrats can come up with is borrowing conservatives’ packaging ideas, thinking that’s the reason people like what we’re selling.
As I said before, November had better be an epic slaughter, or it should be considered a failure for Republicans. When your opponents suck this much, if you can’t massacre them you shouldn’t be in the game.
Here’s a neat article at the Huffington Post about the politics of Matt Parker and Trey Stone of South Park. Basically, they say everyone makes fun of the Republicans so they pick other targets to be original and they like to make sure to skewer everyone.
Actually, the fascinating part is the angry comments section on HuffPo. Basically, many liberals do not think neutrality is allowed. They find their politics so important that it’s the responsibility of anyone in the media to espouse them, and parodying them at all is a betrayal; giving equal time to Republicans is like giving equal time to Hitler, and everyone should know that. And then these supremely humorless people go on about how conservatives can’t be funny. Yes, it’s the ones constantly shouting “That’s not funny!” who have the great senses of humor.
Oh, and as a side note, why does P.J. O’Rourke always appear in the liberals’ talking point about humor as the only funny conservative? Kinda makes me suspicious of him. Then again, I get the feeling most haven’t actually read him, and they’re just repeating each other in citing him.
Anywho, I notice that anyone who is really interested in neutrality — either making a real effort to be fair or making sure not to put his political views into his work — tends to be right-leaning. Conservatives are happy having art and politics and keeping those two separate, but liberals feel like their politics must permeate everything. I remember Jay Nordlinger of National Review Online talked for a while about “safe zones” and how he couldn’t find any, as even going to a symphony would include a lecture on liberal politics and the evils of Republicans.
Now, there certainly are conservatives obsessed with their politics, but that seems to be an instinct that some conservatives have but all liberals do. So what is it with liberals that they can’t ever let go of their politics and have to put them in everything? Is it just part of them being useless and not having anything else of meaning in their lives? Whatever the reason, let it be a warning. If you find yourself constantly thinking about politics and bringing up Obama or whatnot in every conversation, then chill. Part of being a conservative is knowing when not to care about politics.
My favorite athlete of the Winter Olympics games was curling skip John Shuster.
American Athlete
Unlike these guys who train over and over to skate fast or swim fast and end up with weird looking physiques, Shuster looks like the average American. In fact, I think he showed us most what it would be like for a regular American to be thrown out onto the world stage to compete. He’s just a guy with a regular job who likes to play a sport in his spare time and ended up with all the world watching. And while anyone knows how to win, the best measure is knowing how to comport yourself when you lose, and Shuster and his team kept a sense of humor even after Olympic medals were basically out of reach. Shuster even bet a teammate $20 he wasn’t going to be able to make a shot (he won), and they really looked like they had fun out there as opposed to people like the Chinese who would probably be executed for failure.
So a sincere thank you to John Shuster and the rest of his team, Jason Smith, John Benton, Jeff Isaacson, and Chris Plys, for really representing America out on the ice.
Before cable, was everyone just unable to watch most Olympic events?
If there were mascots like Admiral Ackbar when I was a kid, I would have been more interested in sports.
The first clue of danger is that it’s called the “killer” whale and not the “hugging” whale. Also fear the “humpback” whale.
I don’t know what a “beluga” whale does and I don’t want to know. I don’t even want to mention Moby Dick’s species.
Democrats believe they need to pass a health care bill to allow the mothership hiding behind the comet to take their souls.
Once we really understand man-made global warming, maybe we can use it as a weapon against enemy planets.
You don’t even have to leave the solar system before light becomes too slow for any practical purposes. How would you like it to take hours for your tweets to appear? That’s what tweeting from Pluto would be like.
“Middle of the 11th end of an exciting game and… let’s break for commercial!” Hate NBC. I hope they choke on their Leno.
“Voltron” is not an acceptable Scrabble word? That sucks.
Crazy pants gets you silver.
Many liberals seem go on a lot about how conservatives can’t be funny, which ironically makes them seem very angry and humorless.
Chimps are funny. Are they trying to assert that chimps are liberals?
I think chimps are liberals. I do want to punch them.
I just thought of a way to way to make people invisible: super heat them until they become a gas.
Woo! Who knew hockey could be as exciting as curling?!
Can’t feel too bad about losing to Canada at hockey; they were just the better team. Hard to imagine us ever beating them.
Note: I posted this over at my little blog earlier. I didn’t expect it would get much of a reaction, so I didn’t cross-post it here.
Turns out that some liberals trolls have taken offense, and left some really nasty comments. But they left them on teh YouTube, because I don’t allow anonymous comments on my blog. I removed the comments on teh YouTube due to the language.
It appears I misunderestimated the impact of this post. However, if being on my little 4-visitor-a-day blog generated that much consternation from the left, imagine what it showing up here would do!
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D NS-CA-8), appearing on ABC’s This Week. told Elizabeth Vargas that Democrats need courage to pass health care over the objections of the American people…
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What do you say to your members, when it does come to the House to vote on this, who are in real fear of losing their seats in November if they support you now?
PELOSI: Well first of all our members — every one of them — wants health care. I think everybody wants affordable health care for all Americans. They know that this will take courage. It took courage to pass Social Security. It took courage to pass Medicare. And many of the same forces that were at work decades ago are at work again against this bill.
But the American people need it, why are we here? We’re not here just to self perpetuate our service in Congress. We’re here to do the job for the American people. To get them results that gives them not only health security, but economic security, because the health issue is an economic issue for — for America’s families.
You know who else is told to have “courage” before they go and do something harmful to America?
These people:
I guess that’s something that everyone ready to commit suicide on behalf of others is told … even if it’s political suicide.
