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Desperate Deeds

The following was in a Washington Times article today concerning Desperate Deeds’ attempts at jumpstarting his base over the past few days:

This is one Mr. Deeds who apparently isn’t going to town. The collapse of the Democratic campaign for governor of Virginia speaks volumes – chapters, anyway – about what the body politic is trying to tell Barack Obama’s Democrats.

They’re learning, painfully, that campaigning without George W. Bush is baffling, frustrating and scary. Worse, it offers a preview of what the congressional campaigning will be like next year. One Obama doorbell ringer, working neighborhoods in Northern Virginia for Creigh Deeds, says even the promise of free pizza can’t lure faithful Democrats to a rally.

For weeks, The Washington Post, the house organ of the national Democratic Party, pounded away at Bob McDonnell, the Republican nominee, for having written politically incorrect term papers in graduate school, citing his master’s thesis, which decried abortion, gender-bending and radical feminism, as proof that he doesn’t like women very much.

Only a month ago, Mr. Deeds, the Post’s horse in the race, wouldn’t talk about anything but the McDonnell graduate-school thesis – maybe a boon to master’s and doctoral candidates who can’t get anybody but a professor to read their wit and wisdom, but, as it turns out, a bore to voters in Virginia. The public-opinion polls continue to show Mr. McDonnell ahead, despite all the Post’s ineffective deeds, and with a lengthening lead.

Bill Clinton, accustomed to speaking to cheering thousands at a hundred grand a pop, was dispatched the other night to a Deeds rally to set the throng on fire with one of his late-October stumpwallopers. The rally, such as it was, was held not at an arena or a hotel – not even a Motel 6 – but in a campaign office in the Washington suburbs. The “throng” was counted in the dozens, about the size of a PTA meeting. Not even Bubba could dispel the gloom of a wake.

“These polls are either accurate, or they’re not,” he said, delivering an insight worthy of a Harvard political science professor. “So are the polls right? The answer is yes, no, and maybe.” But what else could he say? Dispatched for mortuary duty, Bubba could only sympathize with the preacher called on to say something nice over the grave of the town bootlegger.

Mr. Deeds’ friends are bitter about the anonymous voices peddling the discouraging word from the White House. “These ‘anonymous voices’ have decided those hard-working [down-ballot candidates] are just collateral damage in their effort to tell the world that if [Mr.] Deeds doesn’t win, it is because he ignored advice,” Paul Goldman, a former chairman of the Virginia Democratic Party, tells Politico, the Washington politics daily. “This isn’t change we can believe in, but the same old, same old we voted out of office. Do they really believe their attempts to shield the president from blame is going to distract [Mr.] Obama’s critics, much less change the arc of today’s politics?”

Of course it won’t, and that’s what makes the Virginia race so scary for the president’s men. Voters will use whatever club is available to “send a message,” and sometimes, as any number of polls could tell you, the club is big, rough and means business.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/27/something-really-scary-for-obamas-democrats/

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Deeds Losing Before He’s Losing

Gosport Conersative, a contributor to Bearing Drift, recently made a post saying that the Deeds event with Czar Obama is a flop. He posted a picture (below) of how 50-100 McDonnell-ites have outnumbered Deeds’ people with signs 3 to 1 along Hampton Blvd.  Check here for more picture updates later tonight.

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Hypocrisy at It’s Best

Now I’m glad that the public option is pretty mucDoctor Obamah off the table and Democrats are distancing themselves from healthcare.

But, quite frankly, I’ve had just about enough of the bullcrap that Democrats are full of.

If I do recall, during the two presidential terms from 2000-2008, the Democrats did nothing except hound on the smallest of mistakes by the Bush administration.

Now with the tables turned in 2009 and the Democrats in power, they can’t take ANY criticism on their unpopular socialized proposals.

They can’t stand that the Republican party and interested parties in the healthcare debate have used the same tactics and like resources as Obama used to gain the White House to kill healthcare reform.  They can’t stand that grassroots demonstrators across the country have turned socialized medicine on it’s head and essentially made the country mad at Democrats.

Now the interesting thing is to watch a Democrat when you back him into a corner.  It’s like a cat that will gnaw and claw and say just about anything to get out of that position. Just among the few insane things they’re throwing out there are that these people at town halls are staged and that bills being introduced in Congress don’t have specifics like death panels, government takeover of healthcare, and rationing of healthcare.  They believe it won’t raise the deficit even though the CBO says it will.

From comments on CNN article attempting to fact check the failing plan and numerous Dem blogs, apparently people’s opinions on healthcare and such are just a concealed way to say “get rid of the black President.”  The fact that people even believe that is just insane.  They will label and attempt to spin anything towards racism.  Don’t like healthcare? You’re racist.  Don’t want Obama in the White House? You’re racist.  Have doubts about where Barack was born? You’re a racist. Think the stimulus was wasted money and has done nothing to help our economic status? You’re a racist.  Watching their party self-destruct from in the inside out over such an unpopular issue is funny as hell.

This is hypocrisy at it’s best.  The Dems are just turning into zealots for a lost cause and the end game will be Barack NOT sitting in the Oval Office in 1252 days from now. How glorious.

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Heard Something Fishy?

In an attempt to fully become Big Brother and add even more Americans to his “enemies list”, Obama has asked citizens to send the White House any information concerning anything you hear that may be “fishy” concerning healthcare.  Obama has said if you hear anything about “death panels” or “no private healthcare” then report it to the White House.  Well, ladies and gentleman, these things are IN THE BILL.

Section 1233 authorizes advanced care planning consultations for senior citizens on Medicare every five years, and more often “if there is a significant change in the health condition of the individual … or upon admission to a skilled nursing facility, a long-term care facility… or a hospice program.” During those consultations, practitioners must explain “the continuum of end-of-life services and supports available, including palliative care and hospice,” and the government benefits available to pay for such services.

Section 102 states “Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day of Y1.” and, even further, “Subject to paragraph (3) and except as required by law, the issuer does not change any of its terms or conditions, including benefits and cost-sharing, from those in effect as of the day before the first day of Y1.” This means you can keep your coverage if you have it on Day 1 of this bill passing, but after that you can’t change, modify, switch, or sign up for a new policy. What a load.

My suggestion:

Go here and copy the text of H.R. 3200, the healthcare reform bill.

Then, email the full text to flag@whitehouse.gov.

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