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RAMMING SPEED! Democrats Prepare for ‘Really Stupid and Futile Gesture’

Posted on | March 19, 2010 | 36 Comments

From my latest American Spectator column:

Does anyone else remember what happened Jan. 19? Did anyone else watch the confetti fly and hear the band play in the ballroom of Boston’s Park Plaza Hotel two months ago? Or was the election of a Republican to the Senate seat held for more than four decades by Ted Kennedy merely a dream?
Scott Brown won by pledging to be the Senate’s “41st vote” against Obamacare, but Nancy Pelosi and her fellow House Democrats seem intent on pretending that Brown’s historic victory in Massachusetts never happened as they prepare to enact the president’s health care plan By Any Means Necessary.
Pelosi’s implacable determination in the face of such clear indicators that voters oppose this measure has left opponents straining for analogies to describe the arguably unconstitutional process. Lindsey Graham insulted the Japanese by comparing Democrats to kamikaze pilots “liquored up on sake” for a suicide mission. It might be more diplomatic to compare Democratic maneuvers to the Animal House scene of Delta Tau Chi brothers crammed inside their hurtling Deathmobile: “Ramming speed!”
It would all be comical were it not for the possibility that this slapstick legislative fraternity prank — perpetrated by the “Slaughter Solution” with Enron-like accounting gimmicks from the Congressional Budget Office — might yet become law. . . .

Please read the whole thing. What annoys me most particularly about this week’s Pelosi-driven madness — above and beyond the unconstitutional-socialist-bankrupt-America aspect of the thing — is that it has distracted me from preparations for next week’s Vegas trip. So when I get to Nevada, I mean to make Harry Reid pay for this damned annoyance.

Speaking of annoying Democrats, Virginians should make sure to attend today’s 11:30 a.m. ObamaCare event at George Mason University in Fairfax (doors open at 9 a.m.), and everybody who can make it to D.C. Saturday should plan to be at the big Capitol rally with Jon Voight and Michelle Bachmann.

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Category: Barack Obama, Congress, Election, Health Care, Massachusetts, Nancy Pelosi, Senate, Tea Party

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36 Responses to “RAMMING SPEED! Democrats Prepare for ‘Really Stupid and Futile Gesture’”

  1. Joe
    March 19th, 2010 @ 11:58 am

    Ahhh Stacy, I think Democrats in this case are more akin to Dean Wormer, Dougie and Neidermeyer.

    I feel more in common with Delta.

  2. Joe
    March 19th, 2010 @ 6:58 am

    Ahhh Stacy, I think Democrats in this case are more akin to Dean Wormer, Dougie and Neidermeyer.

    I feel more in common with Delta.

  3. Joe
    March 19th, 2010 @ 12:07 pm

    Oh oh, this is not good.

  4. Joe
    March 19th, 2010 @ 7:07 am

    Oh oh, this is not good.

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  6. Cheney W. Halliburton
    March 19th, 2010 @ 3:26 pm

    ‘Really Stupid and Futile Gesture’

    Well, we know what kind of gesture Obama favors.

  7. Cheney W. Halliburton
    March 19th, 2010 @ 10:26 am

    ‘Really Stupid and Futile Gesture’

    Well, we know what kind of gesture Obama favors.

  8. Bob Belvedere
    March 19th, 2010 @ 3:41 pm

    What Joe said in Comment #1.

    At least what the Delta’s were doing was noble and honorable in the same spirit as the 300 Spartans [and we Wolverines].

    Obama is Dean Wormer and Pelosi and Reid are Marmalard and Neidermeyer: ready by any means, fair or fould to get this fascistization of American health care implemented.

    PS: Is Soros Carmine De Pasto?

    POTUS to PELOSI: Put Neidermeyer on it. He’s a sneaky little shit just like you.

  9. Bob Belvedere
    March 19th, 2010 @ 10:41 am

    What Joe said in Comment #1.

    At least what the Delta’s were doing was noble and honorable in the same spirit as the 300 Spartans [and we Wolverines].

    Obama is Dean Wormer and Pelosi and Reid are Marmalard and Neidermeyer: ready by any means, fair or fould to get this fascistization of American health care implemented.

    PS: Is Soros Carmine De Pasto?

    POTUS to PELOSI: Put Neidermeyer on it. He’s a sneaky little shit just like you.

  10. Joe
    March 19th, 2010 @ 4:22 pm

    Let’s remember that Delta got steam rolled very undemocratically by the powers that be.

    Delta were the patriots.

  11. Joe
    March 19th, 2010 @ 11:22 am

    Let’s remember that Delta got steam rolled very undemocratically by the powers that be.

    Delta were the patriots.

  12. Bob Belvedere
    March 19th, 2010 @ 4:36 pm

    The gesture is not ‘stupid and futile’ in the Bolshe’s eyes.

    As Mark Steyn wrote recently:
    A bigtime GOP consultant was on TV, crowing that Republicans wanted the Dems to pass Obamacare because it’s so unpopular it will guarantee a GOP sweep in November.

    OK, then what? You’ll roll it back – like you’ve rolled back all those other unsustainable entitlements premised on cobwebbed actuarial tables from 80 years ago? Like you’ve undone the federal Department of Education and of Energy and all the other nickel’n’dime novelties of even a universally reviled one-term loser like Jimmy Carter? Andrew McCarthy concluded a shrewd analysis of the political realities thus:

    “Health care is a loser for the Left only if the Right has the steel to undo it. The Left is banking on an absence of steel. Why is that a bad bet?”

    Indeed. Look at it from the Dems’ point of view. You pass Obamacare. You lose the 2010 election, which gives the GOP co-ownership of an awkward couple of years. And you come back in 2012 to find your health care apparatus is still in place, a fetid behemoth of toxic pustules oozing all over the basement, and, simply through the natural processes of government, already bigger and more expensive and more bureaucratic than it was when you passed it two years earlier. That’s a huge prize, and well worth a midterm timeout.

    …

    …Because government health care is not about health care, it’s about government. Once you look at it that way, what the Dems are doing makes perfect sense. For them.

    SOURCE: http://article.nationalreview.com/427119/its-about-government-not-health-care/mark-steyn

  13. Bob Belvedere
    March 19th, 2010 @ 11:36 am

    The gesture is not ‘stupid and futile’ in the Bolshe’s eyes.

    As Mark Steyn wrote recently:
    A bigtime GOP consultant was on TV, crowing that Republicans wanted the Dems to pass Obamacare because it’s so unpopular it will guarantee a GOP sweep in November.

    OK, then what? You’ll roll it back – like you’ve rolled back all those other unsustainable entitlements premised on cobwebbed actuarial tables from 80 years ago? Like you’ve undone the federal Department of Education and of Energy and all the other nickel’n’dime novelties of even a universally reviled one-term loser like Jimmy Carter? Andrew McCarthy concluded a shrewd analysis of the political realities thus:

    “Health care is a loser for the Left only if the Right has the steel to undo it. The Left is banking on an absence of steel. Why is that a bad bet?”

    Indeed. Look at it from the Dems’ point of view. You pass Obamacare. You lose the 2010 election, which gives the GOP co-ownership of an awkward couple of years. And you come back in 2012 to find your health care apparatus is still in place, a fetid behemoth of toxic pustules oozing all over the basement, and, simply through the natural processes of government, already bigger and more expensive and more bureaucratic than it was when you passed it two years earlier. That’s a huge prize, and well worth a midterm timeout.

    …

    …Because government health care is not about health care, it’s about government. Once you look at it that way, what the Dems are doing makes perfect sense. For them.

    SOURCE: http://article.nationalreview.com/427119/its-about-government-not-health-care/mark-steyn

  14. Rae
    March 19th, 2010 @ 4:38 pm

    What annoys me most particularly about this week’s Pelosi-driven madness — above and beyond the unconstitutional-socialist-bankrupt-America aspect of the thing…

    What annoys David Brooks most particularly is the “surge in vehement libertarianism.”

    It’s all the fault of the small government, free-market types, dontcha know.

  15. Rae
    March 19th, 2010 @ 11:38 am

    What annoys me most particularly about this week’s Pelosi-driven madness — above and beyond the unconstitutional-socialist-bankrupt-America aspect of the thing…

    What annoys David Brooks most particularly is the “surge in vehement libertarianism.”

    It’s all the fault of the small government, free-market types, dontcha know.

  16. Rich Fader
    March 19th, 2010 @ 5:30 pm

    Mr. President, we are not independents. At least I’m not. But you folks are indisputably A-holes.

    Rich
    Phi Kappa Sigma
    UC Riverside ’87

  17. Rich Fader
    March 19th, 2010 @ 12:30 pm

    Mr. President, we are not independents. At least I’m not. But you folks are indisputably A-holes.

    Rich
    Phi Kappa Sigma
    UC Riverside ’87

  18. Cheney W. Halliburton
    March 19th, 2010 @ 6:16 pm

    The gesture is not ’stupid and futile’ in the Bolshe’s eyes.

    They misperceive.

  19. Cheney W. Halliburton
    March 19th, 2010 @ 1:16 pm

    The gesture is not ’stupid and futile’ in the Bolshe’s eyes.

    They misperceive.

  20. Adobe Walls
    March 19th, 2010 @ 6:48 pm

    @ Bob Belvedere;
    While I agree with Mr. Steyn about the left’s appraisal of the long term gains from this seemingly suicidal course. And if history is allowed to repeat itself this monstrosity will indeed be waiting for the Bolsheviks when they retake power. This is where “We The People” come in. In addition to the catastrophic harm Obamacare does in the long term it’s passage almost certainly keeps the Social Democrats from making gains in congress in 2012 and I can’t see Obama being reelected. Aside from the negative political effects there are short and medium term economic effects. Leaving the reasons why any significant economic improvement will be in spite of not because of the socialist’s clueless attempts at improving the economy and unemployment. Passing HC doesn’t alleviate the uncertainty that’s keeping small business from attempting to expand. For example the bolshes won’t stop there, they move next to Cap& Tax. But what’s next doesn’t begin immediately after Demonpass that just moves the fight to the Senate keeping heat up for a couple more weeks after the original Senate bill is signed but reconciliation is still being fought. This will be a good opportunity for Republicans to show “steel”. If they don’t use every trick and tactic, dirty or not we’ll then know how much work is ahead of the people. The dems are incapable of pulling the economy out of the tank by 2012, for every bit of what little good they may do by accident they’ll undo by other actions. Under these circumstances if Obama is reelected and the deemocrats are not utterly decimated in the next two cycles we’ll know that we are indeed doomed to serfdom.

  21. Adobe Walls
    March 19th, 2010 @ 1:48 pm

    @ Bob Belvedere;
    While I agree with Mr. Steyn about the left’s appraisal of the long term gains from this seemingly suicidal course. And if history is allowed to repeat itself this monstrosity will indeed be waiting for the Bolsheviks when they retake power. This is where “We The People” come in. In addition to the catastrophic harm Obamacare does in the long term it’s passage almost certainly keeps the Social Democrats from making gains in congress in 2012 and I can’t see Obama being reelected. Aside from the negative political effects there are short and medium term economic effects. Leaving the reasons why any significant economic improvement will be in spite of not because of the socialist’s clueless attempts at improving the economy and unemployment. Passing HC doesn’t alleviate the uncertainty that’s keeping small business from attempting to expand. For example the bolshes won’t stop there, they move next to Cap& Tax. But what’s next doesn’t begin immediately after Demonpass that just moves the fight to the Senate keeping heat up for a couple more weeks after the original Senate bill is signed but reconciliation is still being fought. This will be a good opportunity for Republicans to show “steel”. If they don’t use every trick and tactic, dirty or not we’ll then know how much work is ahead of the people. The dems are incapable of pulling the economy out of the tank by 2012, for every bit of what little good they may do by accident they’ll undo by other actions. Under these circumstances if Obama is reelected and the deemocrats are not utterly decimated in the next two cycles we’ll know that we are indeed doomed to serfdom.

  22. Reaganite Republican
    March 19th, 2010 @ 7:36 pm

    The great weakness of fanatics is they tend to not have a Plan B, lol

    Linked/featured at RR:

    http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/2010/03/democrats-in-deathmobile.html

  23. Reaganite Republican
    March 19th, 2010 @ 2:36 pm

    The great weakness of fanatics is they tend to not have a Plan B, lol

    Linked/featured at RR:

    http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/2010/03/democrats-in-deathmobile.html

  24. Bob Belvedere
    March 19th, 2010 @ 9:42 pm

    Adobe: You’re letting your hope-filled nature get the best of you. Embrace proper, clear-eyed, good old conservative pessimism before it’s too late.

    Click here for some help.

  25. Bob Belvedere
    March 19th, 2010 @ 4:42 pm

    Adobe: You’re letting your hope-filled nature get the best of you. Embrace proper, clear-eyed, good old conservative pessimism before it’s too late.

    Click here for some help.

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  27. Rich Fader
    March 19th, 2010 @ 10:27 pm

    By the way, if there’s anybody around here I can very easily imagine gunning his Hog in the front door, up the staircase, pinning Brooks and Frum against the wall, and playing the “William Tell” Overture on his throat…it’s gotta be Stacy.

  28. Rich Fader
    March 19th, 2010 @ 5:27 pm

    By the way, if there’s anybody around here I can very easily imagine gunning his Hog in the front door, up the staircase, pinning Brooks and Frum against the wall, and playing the “William Tell” Overture on his throat…it’s gotta be Stacy.

  29. Adobe Walls
    March 19th, 2010 @ 10:40 pm

    Bob; I’m somewhat surprised you’ve discovered a thread of hopelessly hopefulness in my comment, an infernal optimist I’m not. However if there can be no hope that a new vigilance can install a government that serves the people why should all who read and write here bother? Sometimes my writing skills (or lack thereof) are uneven perhaps I was more eloquent last week.

  30. Adobe Walls
    March 19th, 2010 @ 5:40 pm

    Bob; I’m somewhat surprised you’ve discovered a thread of hopelessly hopefulness in my comment, an infernal optimist I’m not. However if there can be no hope that a new vigilance can install a government that serves the people why should all who read and write here bother? Sometimes my writing skills (or lack thereof) are uneven perhaps I was more eloquent last week.

  31. archer52
    March 20th, 2010 @ 1:21 am

    This is like I’m living a nightmare but I’m awake. Thirteen years ago I wrote a draft manuscript for a novel about this period of time. It was supposed to be a political thriller and is. But a work of fiction. Right now, as it was just published it is a race between releasing the book as a work of fiction before it becomes a history text. Here is the website- http://www.revoltthebook.com

    It is a story about a time in America when the country is on the brink, a President, who believes he is destined to rule, decides to take the nation over. A corrupt Congress, a compliant media and a military command all work to support the President’s plan. Only a small community, isolated and demonized as “domestic terrorists” stand up to the increasingly aggressive federal government. The conflict becomes violent and the people realize they are alone and under attack.

    Can it happen here? Absolutely. Only fools and mindless zealots like Pelosi can believe they can do what they are doing and not be affected by some kind of blow back.

  32. archer52
    March 19th, 2010 @ 8:21 pm

    This is like I’m living a nightmare but I’m awake. Thirteen years ago I wrote a draft manuscript for a novel about this period of time. It was supposed to be a political thriller and is. But a work of fiction. Right now, as it was just published it is a race between releasing the book as a work of fiction before it becomes a history text. Here is the website- http://www.revoltthebook.com

    It is a story about a time in America when the country is on the brink, a President, who believes he is destined to rule, decides to take the nation over. A corrupt Congress, a compliant media and a military command all work to support the President’s plan. Only a small community, isolated and demonized as “domestic terrorists” stand up to the increasingly aggressive federal government. The conflict becomes violent and the people realize they are alone and under attack.

    Can it happen here? Absolutely. Only fools and mindless zealots like Pelosi can believe they can do what they are doing and not be affected by some kind of blow back.

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  34. Bob Belvedere
    March 20th, 2010 @ 5:15 pm

    Adobe: Even if there is no hope, we have to fight on because it is the right [ie moral and honorable] thing to do. This is our debt to The Founding Fathers and God [who gave us Free Will].

  35. Bob Belvedere
    March 20th, 2010 @ 12:15 pm

    Adobe: Even if there is no hope, we have to fight on because it is the right [ie moral and honorable] thing to do. This is our debt to The Founding Fathers and God [who gave us Free Will].

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