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Thursday, January 27, 2011

Pro-Rationing Doctor, Donald Berwick, Renominated by Obama Regime

Scotty Starnes | January 27, 2011 at 11:20 AM | Tags: Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, Dr. Donald Berwick, Health and Human Services, HHS, Obama Administration, Obamacare, President Obama, pro-rationing health care system, The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services | Categories: Political Issues | URL: http://wp.me/pvnFC-4g7

While everyone was busy talking about the lousy state of the union address, the Obama regime renominated pro-health care rationing Dr. Donald Berwick to lead The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Politico reports:

On Wednesday night, the White House renominated Dr. Don Berwick to head the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

The nomination is likely to be yet another flashpoint in the contentious health-care repeal debate on Capitol Hill. Republicans strongly objected to Berwick's appointment last year, pointing to his previous comments in support of the British health system and rationing with "eyes open" or closed.

Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) called the renomination "a disappointing decision."

"A day after the president committed to coming together to move our country forward, he's chosen to renominate one of his most contentious nominees to head an agency that impacts the lives of more than 100 million Americans," said Hatch, who is the ranking member on the Senate Finance Committee.

"Given Dr. Berwick's controversial views, Republicans will expect a full hearing to understand how the administration is implementing the $2.6 trillion health law, its impact on the American people, and the consequences to future of Medicare and Medicaid."

He will face a hearing in the Finance Committee and confirmation by the full Senate.

Berwick is likely to face a difficult nomination. Many Republicans are still angry about his recess appointment and have significant questions about the agency he oversees.

The administration recess-appointed Berwick to the post in July, arguing that Republicans had signaled they would slow-walk or oppose his nomination proceedings. Republicans were likely to oppose the confirmation but welcomed a chance to grill him in a confirmation hearing. The White House made the recess appointment before a hearing was held.

Now why wouldn't the Obama regime want Berwick to be asked questions about his beliefs? It's because the hearing would be aired on television and Berwick would have to defend his pro-rationing of health care stance. Then Americans would question Obama for appointing a pro-rationing nut into such a powerful position. Notice Obama has a problem with insurance companies that ration health care but has no problem with Berwick?

As CMS administrator, Berwick has oversight of the Medicare and Medicaid programs. He was also recently given authority over the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, which will implement much of the health care reform law. The agency was previously housed in a different part of HHS.

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Re: Hey he does have a skill besides teleprompter reading!

Has he learned how to change hands and gain a stroke yet?

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:40 AM, Bruce Majors <majors.bruce@gmail.com> wrote:

Obama opening this weekend for Joy Behar at the Atlantic City Laff Factory: "Two salmon walk into a bar..."

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How to Make America Exceptional Again

How to Make America Exceptional Again
by Jacob G. Hornberger

In his State of the Union address, President Obama raised the issue of tax cuts for the rich, one of the big battlegrounds between liberals and conservatives.

Yawn!

Conservatives: "Lower taxes for the rich! Make the cuts permanent!"

Liberals: "Raise taxes on the rich! Make the increases permanent!"

Do you see what I mean when I say that there isn't a dime's worth of difference between liberals and conservatives? They both believe that government should have the authority to determine how much money people should be permitted to keep out of their income. And they both believe that it's the job of government to take care of people.

Or to put it another way, they believe that everyone's income rightfully belongs to the government and that it is government's job to determine how much an allowance each person will be permitted to have. The government keeps the rest and takes care of people with it.

It's the paternalistic state in action. Sometimes our federal daddy needs more money to take care of people here at home, or in Iraq or Afghanistan, or just some foreign dictator somewhere and so the allowance he permits us to have is smaller. Sometimes our daddy doesn't need so much, and our allowance is larger.

Oh, and don't forget the fights waged between the adult-children over who gets a bigger share of the allowance money. The rich fight for a larger share. So do those in the middle class. The poor usually lack the resources to lobby Washington policymakers for a larger allowance.

It's all one big, crooked, corrupt, immoral process by which large numbers of people are trying to get into other people's pocketbooks, while doing their best to protect their own pocketbooks from being plundered.

Here's the libertarian position: abolish the income tax and leave people free to keep everything they earn. That was the way of life adopted by the Founding Fathers. Americans lived without income taxation for more than 100 years. That way of life brought into existence the massive savings and capital that produced the wealthiest society in history.

Who would fund the welfare-state and regulatory programs without income taxation? There would be no welfare-state and regulatory programs to fund. They would all be abolished. None of this socialist, interventionist junk can be reconciled with the principles of a free society, with the principles of morality, or with the principles of genuine charity. The welfare-state programs are legalized stealing. The regulatory programs impede people's ability to pursue happiness in their own way.

For more than 100 years, Americans lived under the concept of voluntary charity. People were free to use their own money the way they chose. No one was forced to help the poor. There was no Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, public schooling, welfare, foreign aid, SBA loans, FDIC, education grants, farms subsidies, or any other such things.

And guess what: When people were free to keep everything they earned, the result was not only the most prosperous nation in history, it was also the most charitable nation in history. That was how America's churches, museums, and opera houses got built voluntarily. That's what genuine charity is all about voluntary choices, not IRS-coerced ones.

There was no federal drug war, OSHA, SEC, minimum wage laws, price controls, licensing, or other regulatory nonsense. Americans depended on the free market to serve as a natural regulator. When government didn't serve as people's daddy, such things as self-reliance, responsibility, and education were nurtured and developed.

There were no foreign military bases. No military-industrial complex. No CIA. No invasions and occupations. No wars of aggression. No standing army. No torture, secret prison camps, and kangaroo tribunals.

Obama wants to restore America's greatness to prosperity, creativity, ingenuity, charity. The problem is that he wants the federal government to be in charge of the project. Like so many other statists around the world, Obama fails to realize that his philosophy statism precludes the achievement of his goal.

The only way to restore America's greatness is to restore economic liberty to our land, which means reining in the government and liberating the people. That necessarily entails taking the tax-cut, spending-cut debate to a higher level to the repeal of the income tax and a dismantling of the welfare-warfare state way of life. Returning to America's founding principles is the way to make America exceptional once again.

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2011-01-26.asp

The Democrat Race LIE.

twg2a PitBull | January 27, 2011 at 10:07 | Categories: Communism/Marxism/Racism | URL: http://wp.me/pMJTI-JJ

This is the kind of BS spewed by Democrats on a daily basis, and unfortunately the media and other so-called watchdogs are so apparently ignorant of American history, Democrats continue to LIE through their teeth to their constituents, and via academia, to our kids. Despite the truth being out there for years, it's probably not [...]

New Ground Zero imam homophobic, gays not happy

creeping | January 27, 2011 at 11:04 AM | Tags: Creeping Sharia, islam, Media, Muslim, New York, News, NYC, Politics, Random, Religion, Sharia | Categories: Alerts, Creeping Sharia, Media, Mosque, New York, News, Politics, Religion, Sharia, Stealth Jihad | URL: http://wp.me/pbU4v-7Kd

New imam same as the old imam. It's just a matter of time before the new Ground Zero imam's sharia-compliant views are exposed. Yesterday we learned his "moderate" views include only jail time for Muslims who leave Islam, not necessarily death. Today we learn he believes homosexuality is caused by violent abuse although he says [...]