Rush did a great job on Fox News with Chris Wallace today. Right out of the gate, he says that Obama and the liberals are stealing a large segment of the American Economy in the worst power grab in our nation’s history.

Update: McCain gets its right…

Ohio’s Sherrod Brown gets it wrong again

Jimmy Carter is really pathetic, but what he said today tops his previous level of stupidity. I am ashamed that Jimmy Carter represents our nation in any way. There is a lot of documentation to support jimmy Carter’s total ignorance.

We’ve already said it a few times: Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama seem to be eerily alike. Without a doubt, Jimmy Carter was the worst President and the worst former President of my lifetime. Carter can’t even host a good “Love-In.” Everyone seems to agree that Obama is Recycling Jimmy Carter. Obama even has a sweater all his own. Carter accuses the Republicans of racism and takes up for Obama with laughable rhetoric that could be spewed by a twelve year old.

Jimmy Carter lies again.

More at Hot Air,

When the Washington Post starts calling the liberal President a liar, we know something is seriously wrong. Ed Morrissey has more. Other liberal publications have started piling on the liberals for making such a mess of health care.

It’s time to start thinking about the next phase in the battle over health care legislation. The public option may be gone. The death panels may well be gone. But a final house bill, and final senate bill, and a conference committee bill that will go to President Obama. It seems like we went quickly from Yes We Can to No We Don’t! But the worst might be ahead.

Remember, all of this started off with a lie: Obama told us that the negotiations would be on C-Span. Then Obama told us to “shut up!” The only negotiations have been held in total secret.

The issue now is everything that will be written into the final bill that they don’t want us to know about. The entire “town hall” episode can now be utilized to obfuscate the real language and actual ramifications of the bill.

At least it looks like the White House is ending their snitch patrol.

Read this before you reject the title “Death Panels.”

Never forget that the liberals started all the comparisons to Nazi’s and Hitler.

By David S. Hilzenrath
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, August 17, 2009

The debate over health care has become an all-out battle, as the administration, lawmakers and a panoply of interest groups vie to promote their own agendas. In coming weeks, we’ll be putting some of their competing claims to the test Under the Microscope.

President Obama promises that, if health-care reform is enacted, people will be able to keep their current coverage.

"I keep on saying this but somehow folks aren’t listening: If you like your health-care plan, you keep your health-care plan. Nobody is going to force you to leave your health-care plan," he said Saturday in a town hall meeting in Grand Junction, Colo., much as he said Friday in Belgrade, Mont., and earlier in the week in Portsmouth, N.H.

However, under legislation drafted by House and Senate Democrats, that would not necessarily be true.

Legislation written by three House committees and the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions would allow eligible employers to move workers into a new marketplace for insurance, where they could choose from various coverage options.

In the marketplace, called an exchange or gateway, employees could end up with more and better options, analysts say. Even a top Republican staffer to the Senate committee, who is not authorized to speak for the record, agrees with that assessment. But Democratic legislative aides said there is no assurance that any of the options offered in the exchange would be the same as employees’ current coverage.

Because coverage offered through an exchange would have to comply with new requirements, it could easily be different.

At a minimum, the exchanges would be open to small employers, but government officials would have the discretion to open the exchanges to larger employers.

"Over time, the Exchange will be opened to additional employers as another choice for covering their employees," the three House committees said in a July summary of the emerging legislation.

The legislation could also prompt some employers to drop coverage, congressional budget analysts say.

In a report last month on a bill advanced by House Democrats, the Congressional Budget Office said millions of people would gain employment-based coverage and millions would lose it. The CBO estimated that the number of people gaining the coverage would exceed the number of people losing it.

As for the losers, "CBO and the JCT [Joint Committee on Taxation] staff estimate that, in 2016, about 3 million people (including spouses and dependents of workers) who would be covered by an employment-based plan under current law would not have an offer of coverage under the proposal," the CBO said.

The CBO was defining employment-based coverage to include an unspecified number of people who would obtain coverage through an exchange with a financial contribution from their employer. The CBO analysis left open the possibility that a larger number of people would lose employer-based health benefits in a more familiar sense — coverage procured or provided directly by the employer.

In an interview, White House spokeswoman Linda D. Douglass acknowledged that employers could stop offering coverage. "The CBO has concluded that the dropping of coverage will be minimal," she said. "That is not to say that some employers will not drop coverage."

The CBO’s analysis "confirms that health insurance reform would strengthen, not weaken, the employer-based system," Douglass added in an e-mail.

Under the House legislation, many companies eventually would have to comply with new requirements for minimum benefits, meaning that if they did not already meet the standard they would have to upgrade their insurance.

Nonetheless, in his effort to allay fears about health reform, Obama has continued to make his promise.

"Here’s the guarantee that I’ve made: If you have insurance that you like, then you will be able to keep that insurance," he said July 28 in a town hall meeting with members of AARP.

In a campaign to dispel alleged myths about health reform, the White House has posted a "Reality Check" on its Web site. "You can keep your own insurance," it declares.

Obama’s promise is not just at odds with legislative proposals — it is also at odds with reality. Under the current system, employers can drop coverage, alter benefit packages and switch insurers. In addition, as the president has noted, people who lose or leave their jobs can lose their health plans; that is one of the fundamental problems the legislative proposals address and one of the main arguments for reform.

But in the campaign to overhaul health care, Obama’s promise may serve to reassure people anxious about change. As he said at a news conference on July 22, people may favor the devil they know over the devil they don’t.

Rachel Maddow poses as a poor imitator of Joseph McCarthy.

Arlen Specter did a bait and switch on his people today at his town hall. Arlen also tells his people that they are lucky to have him there for ninety minutes. I’m sure the people could have spoken for hours. I certainly hope that Arlen is replaced in the 2010 election.

Hopefully, there will not be cuts in the Medicare Advantage Program, or other clauses of a health care bill that harm seniors. Senior Citizens do not deserve this, and we’ll all be there one day. Some things proposed in the House Bill are an outrage.

Thirty-Five Years Ago, we watched President Nixon in his final moments as President of the United States. An angry and misinformed press still tries to bash Richard Nixon while ignoring his many accomplishments. Richard Nixon was a great man. He had failings in the White House. So have many other Presidents. All Hail Richard Nixon-this was one of his finest speeches.

Update: Pelosi and Hoyer plan to go ahead no matter what you say!

David Brooks is a liberal shill. What an idiot! The democrats did start this latest round of name-calling by calling protestors “a mob” and lots of other names.

By: Byron York
Chief Political Correspondent
08/09/09 4:43 PM EDT

Last week House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that town-hall attendees critical of the Democratic health care makeover were "carrying swastikas and symbols like that" to meetings.  The next day, Rush Limbaugh responded at length on his radio program, saying, "I have always bristled when I hear people claim that conservatism gets close to Nazism.  It is liberalism that’s the closest you can get to Nazism and socialism."
On "Meet the Press" this morning, host David Gregory played a brief clip of Limbaugh’s monologue — a sentence in which Limbaugh said, "There are far more similarities between Nancy Pelosi and Adolf Hitler than between these people showing up at town halls to protest a Hitler-like policy" — and then asked guest David Brooks to comment.  "I hadn’t seen the Rush Limbaugh thing," Brooks said.  "That is insane.  What he’s saying is insane."
I asked Limbaugh for a reaction, and here is his answer:

“Everyone seems to ignore that Pelosi started this, saying town hall participants were showing up with swastikas, etc. That’s calling them Nazis, as Dick Durbin referred to our Gitmo interrogators from the Senate floor. I’ve been listening to the left compare George W. Bush to Hitler for eight years. I’ve been listening to Democrats and the left compare conservatism to Nazis my whole career. This time I responded.  In kind, by comparing the radical left policies of the Nazis to today’s radical left leadership of the Democrat Party.  I’m not surprised they don’t like it.”

Don’t look for anyone to back down in this particular fight.

I’m sure that someone has reported Ann Coulter to the White House by now. Her speech is full of acerbic humor, and her truth cuts through the discordant voices of the state run media. They have probably even called her a Nazi. Moonbats have not been able to tolerate Ann for a long, long time. Michelle Malkin calls out Nancy Pelo-cchio! Hilarious! Anyway, enjoy Ann.

President Obama appears to be telling people who do not agree with him to, “shut up.”

Are you on the Obama Enemies List? Are you one of the racists against the health care bill? AJ Strata Comments on the DNC Idiots. How about a punch in the face?