The White House Goes Viral

I reported my brother to whitehouse.gov. He wrote a letter saying bad stuff about Our President’s health care plan and sent it to his Represenatative!

This kind of state created media is getting old. It surely wouldn’t be one sided in its presentation either would it.

flag@whitehouse.gov – it’s just like a homeowners’ association gone federal! Snitch on your neighbors and friends – turn them in for perceived violations.
Democrats – is this what you wanted? You who have fought so hard for freedom of speech? Did you think it was right for the FBI to have informants ratting out the dissenter, Martin Luther King, building a government dossier against him? Now it’s okay to do it to other dissenters? What kind of people have you Democrats become? Once we head down this path, there is no return, my friends. You all may love Obama, but would you sell our civil liberties down the river for him?

I am interested in the political process and soon after the inauguration I emailed the white house on a particular policy issue. In due course I received a form letter-type email back, which was nice. In the past three weeks I have received 8 emails from the white house “informing” me or requesting my “support” on certain things. In the in-box most emails show the sender as “President Barack Obama” and one was from David Axelrod. After the fifth one I tagged all WH email to my spam filter. Have the communication people at the WH lost their minds with all the pressers, town hall meetings and emails? I sure hope they don’t get hold of our cell phone numbers and start calling or texting at all hours.

Sunlen, you repeatedly referred to “rumors”, accepting the White House characterization of information opposing their health care plan. You did not attribute “rumors” as a descriptive spin of the White House. As you yourself must know, the Drudge headline was not a “rumor” but a factual statement about a video.

To Manitu, or any other conservative-leaning poster–
Do you favor the McCain solution of taxing employer sponsored health benefits, or perhaps another solution for reducing health care costs?
And do you favor the idea of eliminating the rules that prevent people with pre-existing conditions from being able to buy private insurance?

Danny, I don’t agree with all your sugesstions, but I do agree that fine tuning the current health care programs including tort reform is the smart play. Having the Fed take over sixteen percent of our GNP is totally unwise and unacceptable.

jhw – “endless war?” At least we won the war in Iraq, wait.. or did we lose it? NO, we did win it – it was Obama that said the war was lost – fool.

I’m going to have to turn myself in to flag@whitehouse.gov again.

“I’m going to have to turn myself in to flag@whitehouse.gov again.”
“Flag” must have sounded more patriotic than the original “tips”.
While you’re snitching, kids, don’t forget to turn in John Kerry and Deval Patrick — “just words” — as often as time and bandwidth permit.

Tort reform,tort reform,tort reform-until this is addressed cost containment is impossible in the modern medical system.Socialized medicine in Europe “works” because it is virtually impossible to file a malpractice suit,let alone win one.

I am sick of hearing about the “sleeping giant” that has awoken.
I know the sleeping giant. He lived in Pittsburgh, angry at “Liberals” and minorities and women, and had to resort to violence to dissipate his feelings of impotence.
The remaining members of this silent “majority” (about 23% of the population, but in their minds, the best part, hence their belief that they should be considered a majority, when numerically they aren’t) … well, they are now going to Town Hall meetings to assert a virility that that they no longer have.

Bet Noir… don’t badmouth Bush and all the people that voted for him. Of course, that was why people voted for Bush and got all rah rah rah for the stupid war in Iraq. It was all about making poor wimps feel powerful and proud (while Wall Street bankrupted each and every one of us).
But, I would say shouting, shoving, and telling people to bring guns to Town Hall meetings is all about impotence.
Why do you think an angry racialist like Limbaugh travels to the Dominican Republic with illegal Viagra prescriptions…. why do you think conservatives like holding big cigars? And why do you think they are so Jealous of guys like Obama and Clinton?

“And why do you think they are so Jealous of guys like Obama and Clinton?”
Uh … the cigars are jealous? Obama IS a conservative. And He’s clearly jealous of Clinton — but introducing cigars into a psycho-babble paragraph including the word “Clinton” may be a er miscalculation.

Obama is conservative… that’s why its absurd to hear all these people sniveling about how he’s a commie.
He’s like Bush, but more intelligent.
I did bring up cigars with Clinton…. precisely because Limbaugh is envious of Slick Willie and his cigar.

“Do Republicans enjoy fear or something?”
Hey jhw: The Executive branch keeping records of citizens’ opposition to government policies is against federal law – a law passed by Democrats in reaction to the abuses of Richard Nixon.
You guys have sure done an about face, supporting Nixonian tactics by the Obama Administration. But, hey, as long as he’s one of yours he can do no wrong.

The ACLU says the snitch website is a “bad idea that could send a troublesome message.”

Look… I would love to see a weaker executive branch.
But the strong unitary executive we have now was built by Bush and Cheney. It is the law… unfortunately.
For years, I told my conservative friends to push back against their party a bit on executive power. I said, “You shut your eyes on this, and someday there is going to be a Clinton in the White House using all of the tools that you put there.”
Well… there you have it. I don’t think Obama should spy on people, if that’s what you mean. But I don’t know that it is wrong for anyone to read the Internet and provide information to counter other information (provided they don’t do things like DoS attacks or other things that block access to information).
If you are really concerned about the runaway executive branch… you should be talking with your reps (and by talking, I mean talking, not screaming at them or threatening to overthrow the government). It is in their interest, regardless of party, to protect what little power they have. If you don’t like Obama’s authority… work with Congress. Then, vote for an executive who seems least likely to run away with it (Which means Sarah Palin is probably not your candidate).

Did you see any violence at the Town Hall meetings…until the WH sent out the SEIU goons? No. Peaceful dissent of Americans has now met the Supreme Leader’s long Chicago arm. It’s going to get ugly, because real American people voicing their first amendment rights are now being intimidated and ignored and ridiculed by the Union hand of Obama. And attacked physically. Liberals do not have grassroots campaigns, because they have to bribe or coerce people to do so.

The White House surely was not responsible for the slowdown of Twitter…
Although, reading some of the Tea Party tweets… I DO think the FBI should investigate some of the Twitterers. In particular the ones who are trying to agitate for conservatives to bring guns to the meetings.

Sleep well, barfy. Don’t worry.

“Are you kidding. Bush could do whatever he wanted. And as long as Limbaugh told the dittoheads it was Kosher, it would fly.”
While the Democrats were clinging to their pearls and cocaine in the back room — always more ready to sell out ANYthing, rather than stand up to whoever’s on top.
Now that they finally prevailed — by the use of FALSE populism — in an election, the Democrats are incredulous that the Republicans don’t act like Democrats, i.e., collaborate in/with WHATever.

President Obama at a campaign rally for Virginia Gov. hopeful Creigh Deeds: “I don’t want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess.”
I hope he *keeps* saying things like that — one or two a day like that would be terrific!!! It’s quite a delight to hear him say these things.
What he did was confirm in the minds of millions of Americans the kind of person he is — a liar who fooled a whole lot of people.
The buffoon *is* anti-American. Everything he’s done so far, both foreign and domestic, indicates he’s anti-American. American is NOT this: “I don’t want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess.”
American is NOT bowing to a Middle Eastern king.
American is NOT siding with a man whose country legally removed him from office according to its Constitution and its laws.
Lots of people, including MSM reporters on Washington Week in Review (PBS), for example, see it as I do. It’s a very revealing thing to say. It solidifies in people’s minds what kind of a person you are, a person who says one thing about working with those who disagree with you but really believes something quite different, which slips out, as that did. Obama probably still doesn’t know what he said. And lots of people heard him. He said, in essence, “I have no intention of compromising, and I don’t even want to hear what opponents say.” That’s not the person that the people who elected him thought they were voting for. Some of them actually believed his schtick. Obama, in short, is a liar. He’s unmasking himself all the time, and he’s already lost so much support that it’s quite astounding.
Oh, yes, he should definitely continue in the same vein as that brilliant comment on the Cambridge Police.
Maybe one a week? After all, that was a big one, worth quite a bit of news attention and commentary. Okay, look, three times a week? Yes, I think that would be just about right.
A man drunk on what Obama’s drunk on will not disappoint me, I am sure. Stay tuned.
The word is out already, though. It’s too late for him. He’s exposed himself already.

ugh..it’s late…
..coming apart at the SEAMS here too. LOL.

I finally saw CBS do an actual INVESTIGATIVE REPORT! Finally! On the Chris Dodd Countrywide scandal! Yes it is true.
And today, the Senate ethics committee dropped the investigation saying it was unnecessary.
You see that?! A puppet news media organization, that became aware of this government garbage stands up…and the thing is squashed. God forbid, a state run news media tries to run with a story…White House will not have it! Enter Comrade Obama. These things are too easy to see. I hope Americans take their blinders off before it is too late
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Hello??? CBS reported on in because they dismissed the violation claim. However, fo to the ethics committees website and look at the last two paragraphs.
They told Dodd he should have known what he was doing and stopped it and that because the Senate has not addressed this before, they could not find him guilty of ethics violation.
That is not verbatim, but close.

Danny asks if any republicans would care to address his concerns about rising health care costs that are impacting him directly as well as others.
Danny, I am not a republican, but I am a conservative. I am very concerned about our health care system and I agree that there are too many costs that are rising fast. My belief is that the system is broken due to the terribly low reimbursements to doctors and hospitals from Medicare, Medicaid, and other government mandated health programs. This underpayment causes doctors to have to make up the cost elsewhere, which means that not only are we paying for other people’s health care with our taxes, but now we are paying an increased amount out of our pockets for our own care. The other reason that our costs are going up is due to all the mandates that the federal government puts on private insurance plans. They mandate all sorts of things like acupuncture, chiropractic care, counseling, etc…. These things may be good and beneficial to some, but they are not necessary for all. Why should you pay for something that you will never use, just because I use it? I think it would make sense to limit government intervention to covering emergency and catastrophic care for those who can’t afford it and for those who can, they can purchase it privately. I then would be able to pay less out of pocket for any medical visit or procedure as the market and competition would drive prices down instead of them being artificially priced by government payments through medicare medicaid etc… If I want to go to the chiropractor, I pay my $100 cash to him and you don’t have to subsidize it in our shared health insurance.

Hey Jason–it’s good to actually see someone on here trying to address the issues.
I kind of like the idea of at least a minimum, emergency/catastrophic government plan, but
I didn’t see how that would drive prices down for less urgent care.

Danny – I had cobra recently and all I had to pay was my employer/employee costs which was about 300/month. On another occasion I was on Family sick leave. By law, my employer not only paid their share but kicked in for my half also. I did have to pay them back when I returned to work.
Note – Until Obama starts paying attention to the private business sector and their problems (THEY ARE ALREADY BEING TAXED TO DEATH BY THE FED AND THE STATES) – THIS WHOLE DISCUSSION ON GOV RUN HEALTH CARES IS MEANINGLESS. IE – EVERYBODY WILL BE RIDING IN THE CART WITH NO ONE TO PULL IT. ENTENDE?

Note to Obama: It’s still the economy, stupid. You can say we’ve turned a corner but quite frankly those words will too easily come back to haunt you (like “the fundamentals of the economy are sound”). The longer you stay in the weeds with your health reform that 65% do not want, and cap-and-trade that will go down in flames, the worse you will make it for Dems in 2010 and yourself in 2012. The bloom is off the rose and the air no longer smells so sweet.