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Hysteria & "Selling a Car We've Already Bought"

Obama "selling" health care AFTER it's law just SCREAMS of this iconic scene from "Dave" when this hapless Secretary is chastised for spending precious tax dollars to make Americans "feel better about a car they've already bought."

America is hacked off. Hacked off about having our freedoms bought and sold and slipped under the door with Health Care Reform. Nancy Pelosi holding the wooden mallet robbed from the Flinstones' prop closet, walking through the crowd of the Tea Partiers she wept in fear of just months earlier (when she could have used the legendary tunnels under the Capital for less haughty ingress) was the perfect metaphor for what they have hammered us with.

Obama and his best friend, the TOTUS (Tele Prompter of the United States) are spending God knows how much money and adding who knows how much carbon to the non-existant Global Warming "crisis" giving a speech in front of carefully selected and paid ACORN operatives in Iowa City so he can ridicule the Republican Party (he did) and admit that he has been lying through his teeth all along about Universal Health Care ("It's coming.)

Meanwhile, back at #MSNBC, a steady parade of talking heads and democrats hysterical over crude voice mails, ugly emails, completely unsupported allegations of Tea Party sourced violence - Nothing more than any conservative public figure gets on a daily basis, but they're ginning it up into some kind of domestic terrorism from the Tea Party - UNBELIEVABLY reckless incitement of civil unrest and they will have blood on their hands if someone really gets hurt.

Jesse Jackson Jr. even video taped the entire episode where a black congressman was supposedly called the "n" word revealed NOTHING. Tape after tape that has turned up have revealed NOTHING.

So far, all we have are completely IMAGINARY ALLEGATIONS on the part of MSNBC and the left that the Tea Party is linked. NO PROOF has been shown. And Obama is SILENT about it.

But, boy, oh boy, he can sell a bill.... that... he's already signed into law. Reminded me of the scene from the movie "Dave."

"Selling a car we've already bought"

SEIU Chief "Obama says LOBBYING passed Health Care. THANK YOU"

These people have to be pathologically insane, seriously. They don't even try to hide their corruption anymore. They just spew crap for the sycophantic media to lap up like dogs assured they will turn around dutifully and re-spew it unchecked to the breathless masses drunk on the kool-aid.


If it weren't so dangerous it would be a fascinating sociological study.

Obama Forgot Cam/Mic On AGAIN

He's got a really bad memory, our President.  Here he is demonizing the use of Executive Orders and the very same abuses of power he has spent the last year marinating in.

QUOTE: "Taking Steps to ...Control the People"

A "Gaffe" in Washington D.C. is When a Politician Accidentally Tells the Truth - DON'T EVER FORGET IT

John Dingell admits that Obama taking steps to put legislation together to control the people

Either John Dingell has finally gone senile, or he had another rare moment of admitting the truth. Dingell, who has been a Michigan Representative since 1955 was on the WJR News/Talk 760 radio talk show with host Paul W. Smith on Monday morning, March 22, 2010. The nightbefore, Dingell had been a featured speaker at the Democrat Congressional leadership victory press conference after Obamacare passed the House. According to the American Thinker, in response to a question posed by Smith, Dingell said the following

Let me remind you this [Americans allegedly dying because of lack of universal health care] has been going on for years. We are bringing it to a halt. The harsh fact of the matter is when you’re going to pass legislation that will cover 300 [million] American people in different ways it takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people.

Slip of the tongue? The truth just seeping out? Or is Dingellberry just going senile. You can decide for yourself.

http://www.fireandreamitchell.com/2010/03/23/john-dingell-admits-that-obama-taking-steps-to-put-legislation-together-to-control-the-people/

What I Learned One Night Watching MSNBC & FOX

Switching between Fox News Network and MSNBC this evening, the contrast couldn't be more sharp.

At the bottom the screen, under Rachel Maddow, is a graphic of the capital dome with a banner of flags (Think car dealership) with letters on each flag that spell "Block Party." Reasonable to assume that this was the network's way of celebrating passage of the Health Care bill today. Maddow is a commentator, so it's not like this graphic was under a "pure" news hour's show, under an "anchor" who is, by definition if not actual practice, supposed to be impartial, but having a network hang such a purely partisan banner even under a discussion show is pushing it. When I tune into a news discussion show I do so to learn something I didn't know before, not be fed propaganda. A banner like that tells me I am unlikely to hear anything negative about the legislation passed today. It would be like telling the birthday girl her dress is ugly, you know?

And what were they talking about? Those gun-toting Tea Partiers. Now, there still isn't any video proof or audio proof that either congressman was, in fact, called a "N-gger" or spat at as a "F-g" but MSNBC has played the tape of the congressman reacting to something clearly unpleasant that was said over and over again. Let me repeat: Though there is tape of it, absolutely no-one has been able to ascertain from it what as actually said. Now, I'm not suggesting that the congressman lied about being called the reprehensible "N" word, but so far, all we have is a politician's testimony. We don't have any idea who said it, if at all, thus, no idea whatsoever if they were a Tea Partier or not. Might have been Klan, who knows?

There is also zero evidence of the "spitting" incident. That is particularly disturbing, if it happened, and if it didn't. That's assault. Why the congressman wouldn't have Capital Police arrest, baffles me.

Rachel spent the entire segment showing pictures of gun-toting citizens. There were three side by side. Note: all the guns were in their holsters. Let me repeat that: all the guns were sidearms, secured in holsters. No-one was brandishing any weapons. I can make a safe assumption that if these weapons were held illegally, Rachel would have reported that. She did not. So what exactly do we have here?

An entire segment on a completely unsubstantiated feeling that Tea Partiers might get violent because they were lawfully observing their constitutionally protected right to fire arms, which, I repeat, were in their holsters. The left loves to worry about the right's blood pressure getting all out of whack on "fear mongering" that we are supposedly victim to, but if this isn't fear mongering, I don't know what is. She did not have fact one to support her assertion that the Tea Party was violent or about to get violent. Not one shred of evidence.

She led the segment by reporting on the brick thrown through Rep. Slaughter's glass at her upstate NY campaign office by.... somebody.  Not a confirmed Tea Party member.  Boy, they did their background on that guy (and still didn't turn up any Tea Party affiliation but lets not let facts get in the way)! (Would that they would put as much energy into keeping check on the antics of the occupants of the White House as they do every conservative that comes along) This guy was a... are you ready... a member of a group that supported enforcement of... are you sure, because this is really, really scary... this guy supported the Constitution! Gasp! Now, what he did was terrible and criminal and should be condemned for the act that it was and he should be punished under the law absolutely. But to support your assertion that he is a kook by pointing out his belief in the Constitution is... an upside down world.

When I popped back again, she had some lady on from the Midwest talking about some poor kid with some terrible disease who would be helped by the Health Care bill and what monsters all the opposition were to want to take it away from this kid... The implication was clear. Conservatives want sick children to die. In fact, conservatives want all poor, helpless, suffering people to die. We want body parts falling off in the street... on puppies... which we will kick... into nuns... in wheechairs... downhill...

You get the idea. Once again, they are indulging in... ready... wait for it... fear mongering! Aside from the lack of ntellectual rigor which led them to conflate the two issues: Need for reform, and bill itself, to assert that the constitutional challenges to the bill were rooted in the black hearts of conservatives does nothing to advance the argument and everything to play into the divide this nation is already sorely feeling.

Which leads me to Fox. Know what they were talking about?

The constitutional challenges to the bill. In detail. On the law. The merits. I learned some things about the constitution and the law I did not know before. There were 5 different law experts on.

What did I learn from Rachel? Be afraid of the Constitution in general and the second amendment in particular.


Bonus:  One of the men carrying a sidearm in one of the three pictures featured side by side was the subject of one of MSNBC's most shameful episodes.  They had taken tonight's still picture from a video they had shown last fall of a man at a Tea Party and, like tonight, the anchors were talking about potential violence.  But back in the fall when they first showed this guy, zoomed in on his gun, the two anchors (I think it was Contessa Brewer and to be perfectly fair, it's even possible this was CNN... but the salient facts of the breach of journalistic ethics remains the same) speculated that there might be some white boys about to behave badly.  The implication was clear:  Tea Partiers were little more than Klan draped in a flag rather than a white sheet.


Oopsie... Turned out that that "white" guy with the sidearm was black - and the network knew it.  They zoomed in on the sidearm purposely obscuring the man's skin color.  It all came out within a matter of days but they were caught.  The raw footage was undeniable.  They didn't just make an error, they whipped it up, fried it in a pan, and served it on a breakfast tray.

"Broadcast News" and Obama

I've loved this movie from the very first time I ever saw it, especially since when I was coming up in radio in the late '80's then through the '90's I had a good friend from college who was doing the same in televison and eventually went on to be a personal producer for Peter Jennings, and she told me that "B.N." was a very accurate portrayal of what it was like (as was "Private Parts" for radio, BTW).

This speech on what the Devil will look like struck me as brilliant the moment I heard it and has stayed with me all these years.  Every time I hear Obama speak I think of it.  See if it resonates for you, too.

Representative Paul Ryan - New American Hero & Patriot

Below is the unexpurgated text of Rep. Paul Ryan's impassioned and correct bid Sunday night (3.21.10) to call the disgraceful, Socialistic "health care" bill what it was.  These are the words of a a man with the soul of a Founder.  One who truly, deeply, understands the grand American idea.  I indulged the freedom accorded to me in my own little digital slice of blogosphere here to highlight my favorite parts!
Madam speaker, there is a lot wrong with this bill.  We know the problems with its cost. We know it doesnt really reduce the deficit. We know that it increases health care premiums. The CBO has given us all of this information and its clear that what we have is a bill chock full of gimmicks and hidden mandates. 
So Im not going to get into all of that again. 
But what I will ask is this: why has this decision become so personal to our constituents? Why are so many people swarming the Capitol over this? Why have we received 100,000 calls an hour from all over the country?
It is because health care affects every one of us. And yet, here we are, debating whether the government should have a bigger role in making those personal decisions. 
So make no mistake about it. Were not just here to pass a healthcare bill. We are being asked to make a choice about the future path of this country. 
The speakers to my left are correct: this is history. Today marks a major turning point in American history. This is really not a debate about prices, coverage, or choosing doctors.
This is ultimately about what kind of country we are going to be in the 21st century. 
America is not just a nationality its not just a mass of land from Hawaii to Maine, from Wisconsin to Florida. America is an idea. Its the most pro-human idea ever designed by mankind. 
Our founders got it right, when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God - - not from government. 
Should we now subscribe to an ideology where government creates rights, is solely responsible for delivering these artificial rights, and then systematically rations these rights? 
Do we believe that the goal of government is to promote equal opportunity for all Americans to make the most of their lives - - or do we now believe that governments role is to equalize the results of peoples lives?
The philosophy advanced on the floor by the Majority today is so paternalistic, and so arrogant. Its condescending. And it tramples upon the principles that have made America so exceptional. 
My friends, we are fast approaching a tipping point where more Americans depend on the federal government than on themselves for their livelihoods -- a point where we, the American people, trade in our commitment and our concern for our individual liberties in exchange for government benefits and dependencies.
More to the point, Madam Speaker, we have seen this movie before, and we know how it ends. The European social welfare state promoted by this legislation is not sustainable. 
This is not who we are and it is not who we should become. 
As we march toward this tipping point of dependency, we are also accelerating toward a debt crisis a debt crisis that is the result of politicians of the past making promises we simply cannot afford to keep. Déjà vu all over again.
It is unconscionable what we are leaving the next generation.
This moment may mark a temporary conclusion of the health care debate - but its place in history has not yet been decided. If this passes, the quest to reclaim the American idea is not over. The fight to reapply our founding principles is not finished, its just a steeper climb. And it is a climb that we will make. 
On this issue - - more than any other issue we have ever seen here - - the American people are engaged. From our town hall meetings, to Scott Browns victory in Massachusetts, you have made your voices heard. And some of us are listening to you. 
My colleagues, lets bring down this bill - - and bring back the ideas that made this country great!
Congressman Paul Ryan serves the 1st Congressional District of Wisconsin. For more information please visit:
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Damn that YouTube Again!

Obama will brush this away like a fly if he ever grows a set and lets Brett Baier interview him again.  "Legislating is ugly work...blah, blah, blah" and his sycophantic idolaters will let him get away with it.  If any conservative at any level of government broke half as many promises on tape as this guy...

Next:  Minister of Propaganda (aka FCC "Diversity Czar Mark Lloyd) to shut down all dissenting voices on radio/TV/internet in the name of "fairness."  It would solve this whole YouTube problem very neatly.

Next: Supreme Court?

March 22, 2010

Is ObamaCare Headed for a Supreme Court Smackdown? by Michael Filozof
Now that the House Democrats have rammed ObamaCare down the throats of the nation by a vote of 219-212, the situation is indeed bleak. But Conservatives and Tea Partiers despondent over the fact that liberal Democrats just passed a massive encroachment on our liberties over their massive protests should take hope. James Madison saw this coming, and his forethought will give opponents of ObamaCare one last shot at killing it.

In Federalist #10, Madison wrote "Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm." (Boy, did he ever get THAT right.)

Knowing that the nation's future leaders would include usurpers and potential tyrants, Madison sought a way to preserve individual liberty despite their efforts. He thus devised the system of the separation of powers. "[E]ssential to the preservation of liberty..." he wrote in Federalist #51, "it is evident that each department should have a will of its own" and "members of each department should be as little dependent as possible" on the other branches.

Passage of legislation by Congress and the signature of the President are not enough. The next step is judicial review by the Supreme Court, an independent and co-equal branch of government. (Already the states of Idaho and Virginia have vowed to sue the Federal government over ObamaCare, and the passage of the legislation will doubtless spawn hundreds of other lawsuits as well).

Madison was a brilliant enough thinker to understand that the separation of powers relied on more than each branch having the "necessary constitutional means" to resist the others. The separation of powers provided each branch with the "personal motives" to "resist the encroachments of others."

"Ambition," wrote Madison, "must be made to counteract ambition. The interests of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the [branch]."

Thankfully, the Court has an axe to grind with Obama.

Remember the State of the Union Address? In January, Obama took a cheap shot at the Supreme Court's courageous decision in the Citizens United case, upholding free speech and overturning key provisions of the "McCain-Feingold" law. Congressional Democrats whooped and jeered at the Court like obnoxious schoolboys. The Court was humiliated. Justice Alito shook his head in disgust and muttered that the President's remarks were "not true." In March, Chief Justice Roberts told an audience at the University of Alabama that the behavior of the President and the Congressional Democrats was "very troubling," and questioned why the Supreme Court should even bother to attend a "political pep rally." Roberts' remarks caused the White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs to issue a snarky rebuttal, again condemning the Court's decision.

It is quite likely that the "individual mandate" in ObamaCare requiring all Americans to purchase health insurance against their will is unconstitutional. But after the State of the Union dust-up, the Court has more than just technical legal motives to take up the case.  Madison lamented that reliance on personal motives and ambitions "should be necessary to control the abuses of government" but understood that this was a "reflection on human nature."

I'm hoping that Madison's understanding of human nature was correct, and that Justices Alito and Roberts are chomping at the bit for the chance to get back at Obama and his Congressional goons for the humiliation they inflicted on the Court. A decision striking down ObamaCare, authored by Justice Alito, would be the ultimate smackdown.

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How Grown Ups View FACTS of this "Health Care Reform" Legislation

1. There's money to pay for 16,000 to 18,000 new IRS agents to enforce compliance with the "Health Care Reform" law but:

a. NOT DOLLAR ONE for new doctor training for the 30,000,000 new patients this law will "cover."

b. NOT DOLLAR ONE for new clinics, hospitals, medical facilities of any kind to handle the 30,000,000 new patients this law will "cover."

c. NOT DOLLAR ONE for Research & Development to continue our dominance as the finder of cures for all that ails us.

This is about CONTROL, aka, a contraction of your freedoms. Remember a "gaffe" in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth. Just yesterday, Rep. John Linder told the truth: "A lot of us have been saying for a long time that this has never been about healthcare. It's about government." That's a direct quote.

2. Any moron can make 10 years of tax collecting pay for 6 years of coverage, which is what this new law does. What happens the next 10 years?

3. Forcing insurance companies to cover all pre-existing conditions is a lovely moral imperative, but will bankrupt them all. What happens then? Any moron can figure it out. Single-payer government healthcare. Picture yourself lobbying Congress for your MRI... How's that going to go for you?

4. This is the first time in the history of the Republic that a we will have to purchase a commodity in order to be a lawful citizen. That's demonstrably UN-AMERICAN and a very, very dangerous precedent.

These immature, gimme girls & boys used to instant gratification and helicopter parents are gleeful that the sun still rose this morning despite all our cries "that world will end" if this bill becomes law. Even their need for the destruction of our country can't wait! Well, those of us with a few miles on us know these things take time. It's coming. We saw it already with the situation with Walgreens in Washington. Why do you think that happened? Because government run healthcare "rationed" care by dropping reimbursements so low that it became toxic to a free market enterprise like Walgreens. That situation is our canary in the coal mine. More and more and more private medical enterprise will fall.

Just because it's historic, doesn't make it good. 9.11 was historic.

Just because it's change, doesn't make it good. A rash is a change.

FACT: The number one reason given by people who show up in the ER give "My doctor couldn't see me fast enough." 83% of the people that use the ER have insurance which is, coincidentally, the same percentage of people in America that have insurance. Hows that waiting time going to be impacted when up to 1/3 of doctors leave the profession as the New England Journal of Medicine just recently wrote they might, and as noted above, no additional infrastructure for care is in place?


FACT: Who is the number one denier of claims?  Private or Medicare/Medicaid. M&M deny more claims than ALL PRIVATE INSURANCE COMBINED.  Helooooo..... That's rationing...

Other than the Military, what has the Federal Government EVER run that hasn't gone into unsustainable debt or complete ruin? Just name me one.

None of the people who supported this bill can answer these concerns. They seem to be incapable of separating the need for health care reform, from the "fiscal Frankenstein" (The wonderful Rep. Paul Ryan's phrase) that this bill is. Nobody wants body parts falling off in the streets. We just didn't want this particular bill. All the sob stories on the House floor were an insult to that legislative body. They were preaching morals, not debating the legislation at hand. It was an embarrassment to this great nation.


As is every Progressive in Washington, most especially Mr. Barack Obama.

Health Care Reform Worries

OBAMACARE’S LETHAL THIRD RAIL SHOCK TO COME -

Another Birther Argument

Media Lying About Racist Attacks VIDEO PROOF

Once again, www.biggovernment.com committed the unpardonable sin of journalism and found out the ugly truth about the syncophants attendant to the Messiah (CNN/MSNBC/CBS/ABC/NBC/NYT) and even caught Fox flat-footed on this one. Their b-team over this weekend reported this crap too. Ah well, can't be right 100% of the time. Just 99%, which is 98% more than the other cables combined.


I don't doubt for a second that this story was planted by SEIU, ACORN, OFA, or all of the above.  I also have no doubt that CNN/MSNBC/CBS/ABC/NBC/NYT won't lift FINGER ONE to uncover the truth about how this all happened and will once again, be forced to report the journalism of others when truth is uncovered.  And it WILL BE.  Just wait.

Link to complete article here.  Video below shows NOTHING, repeat N-O-T-H-I-N-G untoward happened.

Rules Shmules. "We make 'em up as we go along."

So glad a ranking member of the Rules Committee is so cavalier about it. Wouldn't want him to lose any hair...er...sleep over it.

Pizza Night under Obamacare

"Slaughter" Then & Now

Remember a few months ago when Zsa-Zsa...er.... Ariana Huffington did what appears to be endemic at MSNBC--twist, distort, and obfuscate the facts to make some sort of ridiculous point--this time over Glenn Beck's use of the word "slaughter"? These people are such soulless gasbags that if someone said "Hitler was a vegetarian" they would deem (pardon the timely pun of "deem") the utterer to be a Nazi sympathizer. (Hitler was a vegetarian. And by all accounts was faithful to Eva Braun... Those are facts. Doesn't change the other horrible, evil, inhuman, inexcusable, utterly despicable facts of his very existence, but the fidelity and vegetarianism are true.)

Well, Glenn has rightly been all over the anarchy taking place down in DC this weekend with the bloodless coup about to give us Cuban healthcare via the "Slaughter Rule."

Some men are born to greatness, other just step in it! Glenn... you have done both on a gargantuan, American, Patriotic scale!

Roger Ailes Warns Fox News Staffers Not To Attack Glenn Beck

Roger Ailes Warns Fox News Staffers Not To Attack Glenn Beck

A Thousand Words

Everything you need to know about who is who in this fight is captured in these two photos headlining Drudge right now.  One is a "paid" operative with a paid for printed sign (See Obama's Organizing for America logo on top?).  The other is a homemade sign (No Socialized Medicine) with people who I would bet my house have never marched in protest before (or not since the 60's) and are doing so for FREE and in honor of our FOUNDING PRINCIPLES.

Viral Video Transcript - Remembering WHO WE ARE AS AMERICANS

This video has gone viral. I'm not one for watching these things, they feel too much like propaganda even when I agree with them (!) so feel free to just read the transcript below. You can watch the whole thing without volume because the text runs over the video through the whole thing...

Transcript – We The People by Nos Populus

Dear President Obama,

“We The People” have stated resolutely we reject your vision for our country. You claim you have not heard us.

“We The People” have assembled across America resisting your efforts to subvert our constitution and undermine our liberty. You claim you have not seen us.

Since you have not acknowledged our message, let us here present it once more for if as President Wilson said, “a leader’s ear must ring with the voices of the people,” the time has come.

Our greatest treasure is freedom – the absence of restraints on our ability to think and to act. The corollary of freedom is individual responsibility. We believe in the power of the individual.

A few years ago President Bush said, “History moves toward freedom because the desire for freedom is written in every human heart.” Let us add that we will preserve it only as long as devotion to freedom is expressed in the heart of our actions.

When President Lincoln dedicated Gettysburg National Cemetery he declared, “It is for us the living to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus so nobly advanced.”

That unfinished cause for which our soldiers willingly go to battle and for which so many have given their lives is a free United States of America. It has been nearly one hundred fifty years and the work President Lincoln spoke of is not finished. In fact, that work will never be finished.

Freedom is the capacity of self-determination. It is not an entity but a condition and conditions change. Freedom can expand, yet so can it contract.

You promised change when you took office, Mr. President, but subjugation is not change we wanted or will accept.

You have expanded government, violated our Constitution, confounded laws, seized private industry, destroyed jobs, perverted our economy, curtailed free speech, corrupted our currency, weakened our national security, and endangered our sovereignty.

By compromising our nation’s cultural, legal and economic institutions, you are ensuring that our children will never achieve the same quality of life as we enjoy today. Through generational theft you are robbing the unborn of opportunity.

This is not acceptable. Not in America. We did not become a strong nation through hope but rather through self-reliance.

No one better understands the relationship between individual achievement, dignity and strength than our armed forces. Through every war our soldiers have held this nation’s destiny in their hands. They have not failed us. They cherish freedom enough that they are willing to die for it.

Our duty to them and to ourselves is to treasure freedom enough to live up to it.

We accept the challenge, Mr. President. That is why we are assembling across the land to deliver our message to you as often and in every way we can. Dismiss us at your political peril.

Our great nation is a Republic. We will not accept tyranny under any guise. Your policy to redistribute the fruits of our labor is Statism and will not be tolerated.

By our honor, Mr. President, we vow forever to resist coercive government in America. Patriots will not stand silent as you attempt to dismantle the greatest nation on earth. “We The People” will defend our liberty. We will protect our beloved country and America’s exceptionalism will prevail.

God Bless the United States of America!

Sincerely,

We The People

P.3. Big-Fat-Dum-Dummy-Racist-Paranoid-Glenn Beck Talking About.... (gasp!) HISTORY!

This was one of those shows when Beck musta had an extra Diet Coke and too many M&M's... He was on a tear... In a GOOD way. One of those shows where he packs all kinds of stuff he has previously lingered over into clip after clip and just hammers his point home.

Glenn Beck: What Changed Dennis Kucinich's Mind? March 18, 2010 - 2:33 ET

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Wednesday, for the first time ever, people actually cared about something Dennis Kucinich said or did. Actually, I take that back: This is the second time. The first time was when he was mayor of Cleveland and the citizens there were like what are you doing? They cared then.

But earlier on Wednesday, Kucinich announced his decision on Obama's health care plan. He had been against it — a firm no — because the plan did not contain a single-payer system. Kucinich is a progressive and he's out in the open. Here's what he had been saying about the plan:

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIPS)

REP. DENNIS KUCINICH, D-OHIO: Anytime I can support the president, I'd like to. I just — except on this bill, I signed a commitment with 77 other members of Congress, saying that if there was not robust public option in the health care bill, that was presented to the House, I wouldn't vote for it. I kept my word.

If you don't have a public option, the insurance companies have a license to just steal money from people.

I wish that they brought that public option back — I supported it in committee. And absent of a robust public option, I don't know what there is for my constituents.

(END VIDEO CLIPS)

Got that? He believes there is absolutely no reason to vote for this bill without the public option. It would take an Earth-shattering, chill-you-to-the-bone moment to change his mind. Something like this experience:

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

TIM RUSSERT, MODERATOR: Did you see a UFO?

KUCINICH: Uh, I did. And the rest of the account — it was an unidentified flying object, OK?

(END VIDEO CLIP)

Maybe that's why President Obama decided to do more than call Dennis Kucinich to change his mind on health care. He invited him aboard Air Force One to chat about it. Maybe it was an abduction. Whatever it was Congressman Kucinich left Air Force One a different man than when he boarded.

Here's Dennis Kucinich on Wednesday:

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

KUCINICH: I've decided to cast a vote in favor of the legislation.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

Wait, I thought there was nothing in it for his constituents? So why would he change? There are three possible answers:

• He was told if he votes for health care, they'll tell him what's in Area 51

• They opened the cargo door of Air Force One mid-flight and "negotiated"

• The president assured him this was just a starting point; that we'd get to universal health care eventually.

I know, right now some bloggers are saying, Oh, Glenn that's crazy. President Obama's plan doesn't have a public option, you right-wing religious zealot, Jesus-hating fear monger.

OK, then how do you explain this:

(BEGIN AUDIO CLIPS)

THEN-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE BARACK OBAMA: It is my belief that not just politically but also economically, it's better for us to start getting a system in place — a universal health care system signed into law by the end of my first term as president and build off that system to further — to make it more rational — by the way, Canada did not start off immediately with a single-payer system. They had a similar transition step.

Transitioning a system is a very difficult and costly and lengthy enterprise. It's not like you could turn on a switch and you go from one system to another.

(END AUDIO CLIPS)

That sounds an awful lot like the end goal is government-run health care. As the president said, it's what they did in Canada. I'm not a betting man, but I would be willing to wager that the conversation aboard Air Force One sounded very similar to that last sound clip of Obama: Don't worry, Dennis. We will get there.

It's the only explanation that makes any sense and it's right in line with what many powerful progressives (including Obama) are preaching: Just get your foot in the door and we'll build from there. It's their own words.

Here's audio from the George Soros' Tides Foundation:

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JACOB HACKER: Someone once said to me this is a Trojan horse for single payer. And I said, well it's not a Trojan horse, right? It's just right there! I'm telling you: We're going to get there — over time, slowly.

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And from Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky:

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REP. JAN SCHAKOWSKY, D-ILL.: And next to me was a guy from the insurance company who then argued against the public health insurance option, saying it wouldn’t let private insurance compete. That a public option will put the private insurance industry out of business and lead to single-payer.

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My single-payer friends, he was right. The man was right.

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And Tom Harkin:

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SEN. TOM HARKIN, D-IOWA: As I said before, this bill is not complete. I've used the analogy of a starter home in which we can add additions and enhancements as we go into the future. But like every right that we've ever passed the American people, we revisit it later on to enhance and build on those rights and we will do that here surely.

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I mean, how many examples, America, do you need to realize that it doesn't matter what passes, it's just a foot in the door. As if you needed more evidence, Nancy Pelosi was quoted saying: "We won that fight and once we kick through this door, there'll be more legislation to follow."

Dennis, how did you miss all of this? Did you want to pass the bill the right way out in the open or something? Are you the only ethical Marxist around? Did you not read Saul Alinsky: The ends justify the means?

Seventy-three percent of Americans want Congress to scrap the bill and start over. America, I want you to understand what this bill is in no uncertain terms:

• This will be, in the end a Canadian-style single-payer health care system. If anyone thinks that's good, count the number of hospitals on this side of the border that cater to Canadians. Ask Canadian politician Danny Williams who came over here for surgery because they didn't have any specialists

Speaking of that:

• According to the New England Journal of Medicine, if this bill is passed nearly one third of physicians would quit practicing medicine

• This is about power and money. The unions along with government will control your health care along with government, enforced through the IRS

• You are going to pay for this without any benefits until 2014

Do you think that the government is actually going to take your money and put in a safe for two to four years and not touch it? That's the only reason why the bill doesn't cost more, because you don't get any benefits for four years — you're paying in, with nothing in return.

Let me show you a picture: These are the actual lock boxes. They just opened them to start cashing in the IOUs. There is no money in them. But between now and 2014 this money will be spent on everything else but health care. By that time the government will control every aspect of it.

This is why America doesn't want this bill. But that doesn't mean we don't want reform. There are millions who want health care reform. And let me be clear: I am one of them. But a public option — especially when it's crammed down America's throat in the cover of darkness — a Trojan horse that's not really a Trojan horse — is not the right kind of reform.

There are easy ways to actually make the current system — which, let me remind everyone, is the best system in the world bar none — better. Did you know that the top five U.S. hospitals conduct more clinical tests than the entire country of Canada or Sweden or Great Britain for the entire year? There's a reason world leaders and millions of others come here for health care.

Our system is better. But there are easy ways to make it even more superior to the utopian Canada or U.K. system (where 22-year-old hospital patients are dying of thirst).

Start with tort reform. They say they have it in the bill, but that is a Trojan horse as well. It actually punishes states that have already implemented liability reform. So, if you already have caps on liabilities, you are not eligible for funding grants.

Allow insurance across state lines. Instead of doing that, this bill caps premiums and allows any pre-existing condition to be covered. The guy next to me said that'd put the private insurers out of business — well, to quote Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky: He was right!

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