David Jeffers: The Waxman Inquisition
In what can only be described as Soviet-style intimidation of the free market, Rep.  Henry Waxman (D-Ca), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, along with Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich), Chairman of House Energy and Commerce investigations and oversight subcommittee, have sent letters to 52 of nation’s largest health insurance companies demanding to see these companies detailed financial records. more…..

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Gateway Pundit: Witch Hunt– Dems Demand Insurance Company Records… Continue Attacks On Private Sector …Update: Proof Dems Want Single Payer System
Democrats have requested records from several insurance companies. Congressional leaders want to demonize insurance company executives in order to convince the American public that the government needs to control health care. more…..

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Here is a direct link to the Waxman/Stupak letter to insurance companies. I personally hope the insurance co’s tell Waxman to stuff it.

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Ann Coulter: Liberal Lies About National Health Care: First In A Series
U.S. health insurance companies are often imperious, unresponsive consumer hellholes because they’re a partial monopoly, protected from competition by government regulation. In some states, one big insurer will control 80 percent of the market. (Guess which party these big insurance companies favor? Big companies love big government.)

It’s the famous liberal two-step: First screw something up, then claim that it’s screwed up because there’s not enough government oversight (it’s the free market run wild!), and then step in and really screw it up in the name of “reform.” more…..

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Michelle Malkin: The power-grabbing Obama czar motto: Yes, we can!
Obama pay czar Kenneth Feinberg’s official government title is “Special Master for Compensation.” You’ll be happy to know that he’s really getting into the confiscatory spirit of his role. Asked by Reuters whether his powers included reaching back and revoking bonuses awarded to financial industry executives before his office was created earlier this year, Feinberg asserted broad and binding authorities – including the ability to “claw back” money already paid out.

Regulations governing his office explicitly limit his jurisdiction over contracts signed before February 11, 2009. But the fine print is no obstacle to Obama’s czars. “The statute provides these guideposts, but the statute ultimately says I have discretion to decide what it is that these people should make and that my determination will be final,” Feinberg claims. more…..

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Associated Press: NY dealers pull out of clunkers program
NEW YORK — Hundreds of auto dealers in the New York area have withdrawn from the government’s Cash for Clunkers program, citing delays in getting reimbursed by the government, a dealership group said Wednesday.

The Greater New York Automobile Dealers Association, which represents dealerships in the New York metro area, said about half its 425 members have left the program because they cannot afford to offer more rebates. They’re also worried about getting repaid.

“(The government) needs to move the system forward and they need to start paying these dealers,” said Mark Schienberg, the group’s president. “This is a cash-dependent business.” more…..

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Update (scroll to bottom of post): Soros Hedge Fund Bought Petrobras (Brazil oil co.)  Stake Worth $811 Million in q2 2009

From Sarah Palin’s Facebook page, her reaction to the news that Team Obama has committed billion$ of American dollars to oil exploration and drilling….in Brazil:

Today at 12:10am

YOUR TAX DOLLARS HARD AT WORK: FIRST CARS, NOW FOREIGN OIL.

Today’s Wall Street Journal contains some puzzling news for all Americans who are impacted by high energy prices and who share the goal of moving us toward energy independence.

For years, states rich with an abundance of oil and natural gas have been begging Washington, DC politicians for the right to develop their own natural resources on federal lands and off shore. Such development would mean good paying jobs here in the United States (with health benefits) and the resulting royalties and taxes would provide money for federal coffers that would potentially off-set the need for higher income taxes, reduce the federal debt and deficits, or even help fund a trillion dollar health care plan if one were so inclined to support such a plan.

So why is it that during these tough times, when we have great needs at home, the Obama White House is prepared to send more than two billion of your hard-earned tax dollars to Brazil so that the nation’s state-owned oil company, Petrobras, can drill off shore and create jobs developing its own resources? That’s all Americans want; but such rational energy development has been continually thwarted by rabid environmentalists, faceless bureaucrats and a seemingly endless parade of lawsuits aimed at shutting down new energy projects.

I’ll speak for the talent I have personally witnessed on the oil fields in Alaska when I say no other country in the world has a stronger workforce than America, no other country in the world has better safety standards than America, and no other country in the world has stricter environmental standards than America. Come to Alaska to witness how oil and gas can be developed simultaneously with the preservation of our eco-system. America has the resources. We deserve the opportunity to develop our resources no less than the Brazilians. Millions of Americans know it is true: “Drill, baby, drill.” Alaska is proof you can drill and develop, and preserve nature, with its magnificent caribou herds passing by the Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS), completely unaffected. One has to wonder if Obama is playing politics and perhaps refusing a “win” for some states just to play to the left with our money.

The new Gulf of Mexico lease sales tomorrow sound promising and perhaps will move some states in the right direction, but we all know that the extreme environmentalists who serve to block progress elsewhere, including in Alaska, continue to block opportunities. These environmentalists are putting our nation in peril and forcing us to rely on unstable and hostile foreign countries. Mr. Obama can stop the extreme tactics and exert proper government authority to encourage resource development and create jobs and health benefits in the U.S.; instead, he chooses to use American dollars in Brazil that will help to pay the salaries and benefits for Brazilians to drill for resources when the need and desire is great in America.

Buy American is a wonderful slogan, but you can’t say in one breath that you want to strengthen our economy and stimulate it, and then in another ship our much-needed dollars to a nation desperate to drill while depriving us of the same opportunity.

- Sarah Palin

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Update: According to a Bloomberg article, “Billionaire investor George Soros bought an $811 million stake in Petroleo Brasileiro SA in the second quarter, making the Brazilian state-controlled oil company his investment fund’s largest holding.”

As we know, Petroleo Brasileiro SA is the company that Team Obama has just committed 2 billion dollars to. I don’t care who you are or on which side of the political aisle you choose to sit, the stink coming off this deal is overwhelming and undeniable. President Obama is actively working against the best interests of the United States, and – although I’ve never been completely onboard the ‘Soros is running the show’ bandwagon – George Soros is in it up to his ears.

Scared? Outraged? You’d better be both.

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Another arrogant ‘representative’, Rep Eric Massa (D-NY) comes right out and says that he’ll vote “adamantly” against the wishes of his constituents – and in favor of a single-payer system – if he believes it’s for their own good.

The 2010 smackdown (assuming republicans don’t find some way to screw up what the democrats are handing them on a silver platter) cannot come soon enough.

More from Gateway Pundit

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New York, NY…August 13, 2009…Les Paul, acclaimed guitar player, entertainer and inventor, passed away today from complications of severe pneumonia at White Plains Hospital in White Plains, New York, surrounded by family and loved ones. He had been receiving the best available treatment through this final battle and in keeping with his persona, he showed incredible strength, tenacity and courage. The family would like to express their heartfelt thanks for the thoughts and prayers from his dear friends and fans. Les Paul was 94.  more…..

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After spending the last several days hurling insults at Obamacare protesters and accusing us of ‘bussing in’ plants and ‘operatives’ to town hall meetings across the country – and, I might add, without a shred of supporting evidence like, you know, some actual video of these conservative mobs unloading from Trailways busses at the protest sites – team Obama is caught not only planting stooges with scripted questions in the audience, but actually bussing them in.

Of course, team Obama denies there were plants in his audience, but you be the judge:

hotairpundit story: http://hotairpundit.blogspot.com/2009/08/obama-town-hall-supporters-in-new.html

Local television news WUMR video: http://www.wmur.com/video/20358253/index.html
The busses are visible at about the 45 second mark; the accompanying narrative goes “[the protesters] were quickly drowned out, not only by bongos, but by busloads of Obama healthcare supporters…”

At about 2:15: “About 2000 people are going get to participate in this townhall meeting, you saw them get bussed in here about an hour ago…”

hotair weighs in: http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/12/video-astroturfing-at-obamas-nh-town-hall/

Conservative Nation told you about the young girl’s ties to team Obama yesterday.

Dishonesty at every turn. It’s the Obama way.

Now, here’s what really happened at the Obama town hall yesterday. Youtube member and fellow patriot NHlimited posted the following story and video:

As the president’s planted crowd read soft-ball questions from a script for the president, so he could return scripted answers, and literal bus loads of pro-Obama protesters with the same shirt and the same manufactured signs emptied onto the green at Portsmouth High School in New Hampshire on August 11, 2009 to try to offset anti-Obama protesters, real New Hampshire residents and citizens from surrounding states came in groups of two at most in plain clothes with homemade signs to protest the farce that was going on inside the school. Anti-Obama protesters who did not get in to the school asked the tough questions and made their opposition to Obamacare and the otherwise socialist Obama agenda well known to anyone who would listen. To ensure that this side of the story gets told, we have included only the folks who were underrepresented inside Obama’s fraudulent Town Hall meeting to make sure our voices are also heard.

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God forbid you put him in front of a real crowd. Nothing but theater.

Michelle Malkin: Little girl at Obama town hall has not-so-random political connections

Gateway Pundit: Shocker! Little Girl Who Asked Obama Question at New Hampshire Town Hall Was a Plant

Google Kathleen Manning Hall

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American Thinker is fast becoming my favorite site. Their pool of writers and bloggers are among the best I’ve read, and their approach is no-holds-barred and very direct. I highly recommend everyone give them a try and add them to your daily reading list.

From American Thinker: Kenneth Gladney: 21st century Crispus Attucks
President Barack Obama, a black American, is the hand of a powerful government attempting to coerce Americans into accepting health care legislation. He is fond of comparing himself favorably to predecessors like Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy. Yet he combines the worst aspects of their successors: The ignorance of Andrew Johnson with the dictatorial instincts of Lyndon Johnson.

In the last few days, the Obama Administration publicly encouraged citizens to turn on one another and report opponents of health care legislation directly to the White House. The president himself damns his enumerated powers when saying of the legislative process he “doesn’t want to hear any talking” about his intentions, and demands that citizens and legislators who differ with him to “get out of the way.” President Obama is unable or unwilling to grasp that the United States is not a direct democracy, and that his election in November was not a unilateral grant of all-encompassing power. more…..

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Where is the NAACP? Where is Jesse Jackson? Where is the Precident?  Where is all that good old liberal outrage?

I’m referring, of course, to the beating of a black conservative man by some SEIU thugs. You would think the civil rights groups would have all rushed to his side. Oh, wait…..he may be a black man, but he’s the wrong kind of black man. Sorry, I forgot that civil rights are only for liberals. Black conservatives can piss off and die with us honky conservatives. My bad.

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Andrew Breitbart: Have You Heard Ken Gladney’s Story?
Last week, a black gentleman named Kenneth Gladney went to a town-hall meeting hosted by Rep. Russ Carnahan, Missouri Democrat. While passing out “Don’t Tread on Me” flags, he was viciously attacked by Service Employees International Union (SEIU) members. One called him a “nigger.”

These union thugs were directed by the White House to go to the protests and “punch back twice as hard.” And they did.

While the attack was captured on video and is available on YouTube, Mr. Gladney’s horrifying story is absent from MSNBC’s 24/7 media cycle. Mr. Krugman has yet to write about it. And Mr. Cooper has yet to condemn the attack. more…..

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St. Louis Tea Party: Guess Who Allegedly Beat Kenny Gladney
Elston K. McCowan is a former organizer – now the Public Service Director of SEIU Local 2000 – and board member of the Walbridge Community Education Center, and is a Baptist minister, has been a community organizer for more than 23 years, and now, he is running for Mayor of the City of St. Louis under the Green Party. more…..

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American Thinker: Obama Administration: Home Of The Whopper
A recent Washington Post op-ed by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius suggests a new motto for the Obama Administration: “Home of the Whopper.”  The Sebelius piece contains no fewer than 10 health care whoppers, including: more…..

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Jed Babbin: Obama’s Three Stooges
The president is working hard to control the message.  Campaigning for Virginia gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds last week, Obama criticized those who opposed his nationalization of healthcare.  He said, “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…”

Barack Obama’s rhetoric is straight out of Ring Lardner.  One of the greatest writers America has ever produced, Larder wrote the best fictional dialogue.  Here’s one brief exchange from “The Young Immigrunts,” between father and child:

“Are we lost, daddy?” I asked tenderly.

“Shut up, he explained.”

But Americans aren’t shutting up: they’re making their voices heard just like they did in the 2007 immigration debate. more…..

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Gateway Pundit:MSNBC: Using Word “Socialist” Is Racist… Leftist Thugs Attacking Black Man, Calling Him N-Word & Stomping His Face– Not Newsworthy:
MSNBC anchor Carlos Watson reported today that using the word “socialist” was just like using the n-word: more…..

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Judicial Watch: Ariz. Saves Millions Cutting Illegal Immigrant Perks
Fed up with the toll that illegal aliens were having on its state, Arizona voters overwhelmingly passed a law in late 2006 to deny them heavily discounted resident college tuition and other state-funded benefits draining the budget. Approved by more than 70% of voters, the measure also requires state agencies to verify the immigration status of applicants for public services such as child care and adult education as well as financial aide for college students. more…..

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Wow. Now lets see them translate into some real change.

http://reportcard.cnn.com/

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SEIU Practicing Civil Debate

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Anyone knows where this came from, please let me know so I can give proper credit.

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