Comprehensive List of Tax Hikes in Obamacare

Next week, the U.S. House of Representatives will be voting on an historic repeal of the Obamacare law. While there are many reasons to oppose this flawed government health insurance law, it is important to remember that Obamacare is also one of the largest tax increases in American history. Below is a comprehensive list of the two dozen new or higher taxes that pay for Obamcare’s expansion of government spending and interference between doctors and patients."

"Together We Thrive" Theme was Recycled Obama Campaign Slogan

RUSH: One thing on the pep rally-disguised-as-a-memorial on Wednesday night. I happened to, as I have been told, anger a lot of people yesterday by saying that the president delayed the memorial while waiting for the polling data to come in and the T-shirts to get printed. Well, guess what? I was right on both counts. The polling data shows, as you know, that the American people do not associate conservative rhetoric with what happened out in Arizona."

Media Research Center Documents Liberal Death Wishes Against Conservatives | CNSnews.com

(CNSNews.com) – The Media Research Center released today a list of comments made by members of the media in recent years that call for the death or suffering of conservative leaders. These quotes are evidence of the double standard that certain media exercise in blaming conservatives for the shooting in Tucson, Ariz., while ignoring liberals’ death-wish-like rhetoric against conservatives, said the organization in a press release."

Herman Cain - Presidential Exploratory Committee

Welcome to the new HermanCain.com, home to my presidential exploratory committee. Here, you will find all of the important information necessary to keep up-to-date with my decision-making process as I continue to determine how God wants me to best serve our great nation.

The American Dream is under attack. In fact, a recent survey found 67% of the American People believe America is headed in the wrong direction. Sadly, this comes as no surprise to those of us who have watched an out-of-control federal government that spends recklessly, taxes too much and oversteps its Constitutional limits far too often."

Sarah Palin's Blood Libel Controversial Reference Has Riled Emotions - ABC News

An aide close to Sarah Palin says death threats and security threats have increased to an unprecedented level since the shooting in Arizona, and the former Alaska governor's team has been talking to security professionals."

Michelle Malkin -The Bay State’s $58 million green jobs boondoggle

The myth that “green jobs” are a boon to the economy keeps getting pierced by failed green jobs boondoggle after failed green jobs boondoggle.

As I noted in April 2009, the truth about green jobs has been told all over the world. Case in point: Spain."

Michelle Malkin - Video flashback: Yes, some college students do know how to act at a massacre memorial

Reader Joshua Jones, who lived through the Virginia Tech shooting rampage and attended the campus memorial where President Bush spoke, e-mails his response to the whooping and hollering during President Obama’s memorial tribute to the Tucson massacre victims at the University of Arizona tonight:"

Charles Krauthammer - Massacre, followed by libel

The charge: The Tucson massacre is a consequence of the 'climate of hate' created by Sarah Palin, the Tea Party, Glenn Beck, Obamacare opponents and sundry other liberal betes noires."

The president was pitch-perfect at Arizona service, but audience members were a rabble - NYPOST.com

Never before in the annals of national moments of mourning have the words spoken been so wildly mismatched by the spirit in which they were received.

The sentences and paragraphs of President Obama's speech last night were beautiful and moving and powerful. But for the most part they didn't quite transcend the wildly inappropriate setting in which he delivered them.

There was something about the choice of place, a college arena with the appropriate name of the McKale Memorial Center, that made the event turn literally sophomoric."

Houston Strategies: Krugman's muddled argument against Texas

Last week NYT columnist and economist Paul Krugman wrote a very popular column pointing to Texas' revenue shortfall and declaring it an example of the failure of conservative government. I found the whole piece a muddled mess and dismissed it, but you can't believe the notes I've gotten from people requesting a response.

The thing is, I don't really get his point. The bad national economy was going to cut state revenues no matter what. Is he saying we'd be better off if we had a fat government with easy cuts, instead of a lean government with tough cuts? How much sense does that make?"

Rep. Clyburn: Palin ‘Attractive’ but ‘Intellectually’ Incapable of Understanding Arizona Shootings | The Blaze

Who made Clyburn so intellectually superior to the great unwashed masses....?

Rep. Clyburn: Palin ‘Attractive’ but ‘Intellectually’ Incapable of Understanding Arizona Shootings"

Beck Hate-Fest: Lib Talker Stephanie Miller Says AZ Shooting Scenario Right Out of Glenn Beck Transcript, Beck One Drink Away From Being This Guy | The Blaze

However....according to those on high...this rhetoric ONLY - I say again...ONLY emanates from the Right. NEVER, I say again, NEVER from the Left....

Beck Hate-Fest: Lib Talker Stephanie Miller Says AZ Shooting Scenario Right Out of Glenn Beck Transcript, Beck One Drink Away From Being This Guy"

Bill Maher ‘Tonight Show’ Tirade: Stop The Bulls–t About Constitution, Newt a Douche Bag, Republicans All Hysterical and Irrational | The Blaze

The gift that keeps on giving.....

Bill Maher ‘Tonight Show’ Tirade: Stop The Bulls–t About Constitution, Newt a Douche Bag, Republicans All Hysterical and Irrational"

Progressive Marc Lamont Hill Denounces Heated Rhetoric…Then Calls Obama a ‘Murderer’ | The Blaze

During an interview with WOR talk radio host Steve Malzberg Wednesday, Columbia University professor Dr. Marc Lamont Hill calls for a relaxation in political rhetoric while simultaneously calling Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama “murderers.”"

FT.com / Commodities - World moves closer to food price shock

And they laughed at Glenn Beck when he brought this up....

The world has moved a step closer to a food price shock after the US government surprised traders by cutting stock forecasts for key crops, sending corn and soyabean prices to their highest level in 30 months.

The price jump comes after the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation warned last week that the world could see repetition of the 2008 food crisis if prices rose further. The trend is becoming a major concern in developing countries."

Police Visited Loughner Home Before Tucson Shooting - NYTimes.com

TUCSON — The police were sent to the home where Jared L. Loughner lived with his family on more than one occasion before the attack here on Saturday that left a congresswoman fighting for her life and six others dead, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department said on Tuesday."

R.I. governor defends talk radio ban; says may be temporary | Politics | projo.com | The Providence Journal

Pot calling kettle black?

PROVIDENCE — With his talk-radio avoidance policy making the national news and rating the second-highest placed headline on the Drudge Report at one point on Wednesday, Governor Chafee is defending his decision.

In an interview Wednesday, Chafee denied speculation that the policy had anything to do with the harsh criticism that some of the state’s conservative talk-show hosts had been flinging his way in the wake of his move to rescind his predecessor’s executive order on illegal immigration."

Obama speech undercuts federal charge for judge's murder - Josh Gerstein - POLITICO.com

It may have been inadvertent, but a passage in President Barack Obama's speech to a memorial service it Tucson Wednesday night could undercut a criminal charge federal prosecutors have leveled at suspect Jared Loughner for the death of U.S. District Court Judge John Roll in a shooting rampage Saturday."

Shirts sit on the back of chairs before a memorial service for ... - Yahoo! News Photos

I have not seen or heard our President's speech. I hope it was good. These folks deserve that. But ever since this happened.....this tragedy....it's gets more peculiar by the moment. Does anyone else out there feel a tidal wave of over reaction simmering? Almost like the reaction ( let me be clear - NOT the event ) was ready to "go" on a moments notice. This feeling of un-ease in my heart grows.

Shirts sit on the back of chairs before a memorial service for the victims of Saturday's shootings at McKale Memorial Center on the University of Arizona campus Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011, in Tucson, Ariz"

America's Enduring Strength | Facebook

Like millions of Americans I learned of the tragic events in Arizona on Saturday, and my heart broke for the innocent victims. No words can fill the hole left by the death of an innocent, but we do mourn for the victims’ families as we express our sympathy.



I agree with the sentiments shared yesterday at the beautiful Catholic mass held in honor of the victims. The mass will hopefully help begin a healing process for the families touched by this tragedy and for our country."

The American Spectator : The Dismissal of Sarah Palin

I am neither shocked nor surprised that this nation's most prominent liberals see fit to blame Sarah Palin for causing the shooting in Tucson that severely injured Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and claimed six lives. But it does sadden me."

The American Spectator : Barry's Angry Words

Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, overseeing the investigation the Tucson shootings that left Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in a coma and federal judge John Roll and five others dead, wasted little time in blaming heated political rhetoric for the crime.

Shortly after the first reports of the shootings, Dupnick said, 'The anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous, and unfortunately Arizona has become sort of the capital,' adding 'We have become the mecca for prejudice and bigotry.' Giffords' father, asked if she had any enemies, reportedly said that the whole Tea Party was her enemy."

Explaining Evil - Cal Thomas - Townhall Conservative

Nicely said....

In the aftermath of the senseless wounding of Representative Gabrielle Giffords, Democrat of Arizona, and the murder of six others, including U.S. District Judge John Roll and 9-year-old Christina Green, there will be many who will use this tragedy to advance their own political agendas."

Obamacare's Baby Death Panels (Part 1) - Chuck Norris - Townhall Conservative

My wife, Gena, and I mourn with the rest of the nation over the murder and maiming of innocent citizens and lawmakers in Arizona this past Saturday morning. We, too, pray for the victims and survivors. It makes us even more passionate in our fight for human life and reminding the world that from the womb to the tomb, human life is precious and should be prized."

A Republican Showdown? - Thomas Sowell - Townhall Conservative

They say that, in politics, 'overnight is a lifetime.' In other words, the journey from triumphant hero to discredited scapegoat can be very brief.

In the wake of the Republicans' triumphs in last November's elections, great hopes are being held out that Republican control of the House of Representatives can slam the brakes on Barack Obama's march toward a completely government-controlled economy and ruinous deficit spending."

The Theology of Blame - Bill Murchison - Townhall Conservative

The gagging of God, so far as courts, professors and advanced theologians can accomplish it, gets slightly in the way of attempts to puzzle out the Tucson massacre.

God with a gag over His metaphorical mouth was a less usual concept back when people talked more routinely than now about evil, not to mention the devil and all his works. A particular word would come up regularly in those old conversations -- sin, defined as stubborn, self-focused detachment from God, accompanied by defiance of His purposes. Sin was supposed to be bad: the more so because all were involved in it. Because all were involved, no one could tell what would happen next. Some nut might sidle into a political gathering, pull out a gun, and ..."

Quotes of the day -Hot Air

“Of all people, it is precisely those who have complained the loudest about the culture of debate — about the rhetoric of the Tea Party, the right wing’s harsh words and the baseless Obama-Hitler comparisons — who are now poisoning the debate with their own baseless insinuations. With little reliance on facts, they began searching for scapegoats for the attack and they found them, selectively, among the right wing, the Tea Party, Republican Party boss Michael Steele and Tea Party heroine Sarah Palin…"

American Thinker Blog: Left Blames the Constitution for Assassination Attempt on Rep. Giffords

It has been beyond the pale since Saturday....beyond anything I would have thought possible by our press, our supposed "Leaders".....
The shameless taking advantage of this tragedy has no bounds. Let's see, #1 - Destroy Sarah Palin, #2 - get the Guns! #3 - Re institute the Fairness Doctrine #4 - Blame Rush, Blame Glenn, Blame Sean, Blame FOX...blame ANYONE but the murderer...#5 - Get the Guns! #6 - Get the Constitution!
I could go on and on.....but it just gets me insane, and tires me out. I'm waiting for the "Blame Bush"...you KNOW it's coming. Anything the Far left could not accomplish at the ballot box this past election....they'll accomplish here with a sledgehammer. How very pathetic you ALL are.

The Left's attempt to de-legitimize the law that governs government, our Constitution, has taken a turn to the deranged.

On Washington-based WMAL's Chris Plante Show this morning, host Chris Plante was discussing the Left's attempt to blame the Right for the assassination attempt on Arizona Rep. Gabby Giffords. One liberal caller turned the conversation into a criticism of the reading of the Constitution on the floor of the House last week."

FLASHBACK: Palin Answers ‘Lamestream Media’ Charges of Incitement in March 2010: ‘When We Take Up Arms, We’re Talking About Our Vote’ - Big Journalism

And ya know, hearing the news reports lately, kinda this ginned up controversy about us, common sense conservatives, inciting violence because we happen to oppose some of the things in the Obama administration.

Interrupted from audience: “We do it with our vote!”

Amen, brother! That’s what you do it with, with your vote! You got it right. We know violence isn’t the answer. When we take up our arms, we’re talking about our vote. We’re talking about being involved in a contested primary like this, and picking the right candidate too–John McCain, we thank you for that."

Big Hollywood - Blog Archive - Flashback: Arianna Huffington Films Role in Bush Assassination Fantasy-Film

But.....this is "Different" than what happened in AZ.....

While you’re reading all those HuffPo articles filled with hand-wringing sanctimony about the current state of Republican political discourse, keep in mind that according to New York Magazine, the founder of the Huffington Post filmed a role in a sci-fi fantasy film where the two heroes of the film attempt to rid the world of evil by assassinating President George W. Bush:"

Breitbart.tv � Twitter Users Wish Death on Sarah Palin

But....it's somehow "Different" if it comes from the Far left.....

Twitter Users Wish Death on Sarah Palin: "Twitter Users Wish Death on Sarah Palin"

Loughner Belongs to the Insane Party

The swiftness with which Jared Lee Loughner's mass murder was blamed on the Tea Party Right was deeply revealing.

Conservatives are often accused of possessing a black-and-white worldview that is impervious to inconvenient facts and thus unsusceptible to revision. The difference between the Left and Right, however, is not that one does and one does not possess a sophisticated worldview, but that each finds nuance and simplicity in different places."

Feds to decide what benefits health insurers must cover | McClatchy

THIS IS WHY Health Care is so unaffordable. If the Government got out of the "Un-funded Mandate" business....the free market could hopefully step in.

WASHINGTON — Even as House Republicans vow to repeal the health care law, government advisers are preparing this week to wade into one of the most contentious questions the legislation raises: What benefits must insurers cover?

The answer will affect tens of millions of Americans beginning in 2014: those who buy their own insurance and those who get coverage through small employers."

RPT-Arizona suspect had made death threats-sheriff | Reuters

Jan 8 (Reuters) - The suspect in Saturday's shooting rampage in which a U.S. congresswoman was critically wounded was unstable and had been known to make death threats in the past, the local sheriff said.

The FBI is investigating whether the man is the same person who posted a rambling Internet manifesto accusing the government of mind control and demanding a new currency."

After Arizona Shooting, Political Bickering Goes On - NYTimes.com

Has ANYONE on the Left thought to blame......here it comes.....The GUNMAN???????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WASHINGTON — Aides to Sarah Palin angrily rejected suggestions that she had some responsibility for the angry political climate that served as a backdrop to the shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords."

The Quest for an Obamacare Martyr | FrontPage Magazine

In 1995, a politically desperate President Clinton brazenly capitalized on the bombing in Oklahoma City, blaming his political opponents and their extreme right-wing rhetoric for the horrific incident. This was shortly after Clinton suffered a stunning rebuke in the midterm elections, with the Democratic loss of both the House and the Senate to an upswell of Republican popularity"

The Left’s Script of Hate | FrontPage Magazine

“Just the facts, ma’am,” Dragnet’s Joe Friday famously informed witnesses he interviewed. Oft-interviewed Pima County Sherriff Clarence Dupnik might adopt the catchphrase: “Save the facts, ma’am. Just the narrative.”

The narrative of right-wing rhetoric fueling accused mass-murderer Jared Lee Loughner proved so seductive to partisans that they didn’t wait for the compilation of facts, or burial of the dead, to advance their politically opportunistic story. If it helped the Democrats rebound in the wake of the Oklahoma City Bombing, why can’t this meme work for them after the attempted assassination of Democrat Gabrielle Giffords?"

Glenn Reynolds: The Arizona Tragedy and the Politics of Blood Libel - WSJ.com

Shortly after November's electoral defeat for the Democrats, pollster Mark Penn appeared on Chris Matthews's TV show and remarked that what President Obama needed to reconnect with the American people was another Oklahoma City bombing. To judge from the reaction to Saturday's tragic shootings in Arizona, many on the left (and in the press) agree, and for a while hoped that Jared Lee Loughner's killing spree might fill the bill."

Obama: ‘If They Bring a Knife to the Fight, We Bring a Gun’ - Washington Wire - WSJ

See how easy it is....and it means NOTHING! It means he's going to bring every lame brain idea he has into his argument....not a literal gun!

Mobster wisdom tells us never to bring a knife to a gun fight. But what does political wisdom say about bringing a gun to a knife fight?

That’s exactly what Barack Obama said he would do to counter Republican attacks “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” Obama said at a Philadelphia fundraiser Friday night. “Because from what I understand folks in Philly like a good brawl. I’ve seen Eagles fans.”"

MoveOn launches campaign against vitriolic language — despite sordid history of using vitriolic language | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

Despite having a sordid history of using vitriolic rhetoric, George Soros-funded advocacy group MoveOn has seized upon the tragic shooting of Ariz. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and other attendees of a public event in Tucson Saturday as a means to go after “overt and implied appeals to violence in our political debate.”"

YouTube - Father Of 9 Year Old Murder Victim In Tucson Does Not Want Restrictions Of Freedoms!

Father Of 9 Year Old Murder Victim In Tucson Does Not Want Restrictions Of Freedoms!"

Dem planning bill that would outlaw threatening lawmakers - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room

How about we all step back - take a deep breath....regain our civility and some basic decency and STOP politicizing this tragedy? My god, they didn't even take a deep breath before this became the political platform to take over whatever they haven't been successful grabbing as of yet. I'm waiting for the Health care angle to rear it's head any moment!

Rep. Robert Brady (D-Pa.) reportedly plans to introduce legislation that would make it a federal crime to use language or symbols that could be perceived as threatening or inciting violence against a federal official or member of Congress.

Brady told CNN that he wants federal lawmakers and officials to have the same protections against threat currently provided to the president. His call comes one day after Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) was shot, along with 19 other people, at a public event in Tucson. A suspect is currently in custody."

Sympathy for the Devil: How the Left Sanctions Criminality | NewsReal Blog

Leftism is a cancer eating away at foundations of our society. It is in fact the goal of the Left to destroy those foundations so that our society can be replaced with the Marxist “Utopia” they believe in, a Hell on Earth of mass murder and rape camps in which they have the power over others they crave. At its core leftism is about inflicting pain and suffering on others and nowhere is that more obvious than in how the Left views and treats criminality."

Adding Insult to Tragedy | FrontPage Magazine

I think the by-line for this article says it all.....

The shooting spree that left six dead and fourteen wounded in Arizona on Saturday was a horrible tragedy involving a very unstable young man. It’s clear that twenty-two year old Jared Loughner, who was allegedly attempting to assassinate Arizona representative Gabrielle Giffords, has been deeply disturbed for a long time. As Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik observed: “there is reason to believe he has a mental issue.”"

Paul Krugman Blames Giffords Shooting on Palin, Limbaugh and Beck | NewsBusters.org

This is so inane....If he ever watched Beck - just Beck....he'd know he always - ALWAYS says non-violence is the ONLY answer. If someone doesn't agree with what he says, he tells you to check it out yourself. He says meet him in the arena of ideas, as does Limbaugh.
NOBODY should have their stands or beliefs snuffed out with a gun.
A pen can be far more damaging to a political career. But to blame these three after the 8 years of over the top; out of control vitriol that was thrown at George W. Bush.....is political theater at it's very worst.

While Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) fights for her life in a Tucson, Arizona, hospital, liberal media members continue to point fingers of blame for Saturday's tragic shooting spree at prominent conservatives such as Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, and Glenn Beck.

Jumping on this pathetic bandwagon Saturday was New York Times columnist Paul Krugman:"

Arizona Sheriff Admits There's No Evidence 'Vitriolic Rhetoric' Incited Giffords Shooter | NewsBusters.org

Since making his claim Saturday that the Tucson shootings were caused by 'vitriolic rhetoric that we hear day in and day out from people in the radio business and some people in the TV business,' Pima County Arizona Sheriff Clarence Dupnik has become a media darling being regularly quoted by press outlets from coast to coast."

Breitbart.tv - Megyn Kelly Holds Sheriff Dupnik Accountable for Politicizing Tucson Shooting

He sounded like he was running for Office, not reporting on an AWFUL massacre.

Megyn Kelly Holds Sheriff Dupnik Accountable for Politicizing Tucson Shooting"

� Breaking: Democrats Plotted to Blame Tea Party for Slaughter - Big Government

Are you surprised? Washington has nothing left. They are shameless. A child died....for what? When in politics the pen is always mightier than the sword. The democrats will blame, Bush, the Tea Party, Sarah Palin...instead of looking bin a mirror!

A rescue helicopter lifts off as first responders evacuate victims from a “Congress on Your Corner” event in Tucson, Arizona, where U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) among others were shot and seriously wounded. (Reuters)

Democrats plotted to blame the tea party patriots for yesterday’s slaugher in Arizona.

A democratic operative admitted this to The Politico.

Of course, Politico buried it in their story."

Obama Eyeing Internet ID for Americans - Tech Talk - CBS News

STANFORD, Calif. - President Obama is planning to hand the U.S. Commerce Department authority over a forthcoming cybersecurity effort to create an Internet ID for Americans, a White House official said here today.

It's 'the absolute perfect spot in the U.S. government' to centralize efforts toward creating an 'identity ecosystem' for the Internet, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt said."