That the Czar believes Senator Harry Reid to be as senile as he is vicious shall come as no surprise to our highly educated readers. NRO Online has the following quote from the Senate Narrow Majority Leader that shows how … Continue reading →
When October rolls around, peoples thoughts turn to employee benefits! Not really, they turn to football, the Phillies sweeping the Reds (yeah, it’s Doc-tober boys and girls), pumpkin patches and apple pie. But, it is also open enrollment time, which … Continue reading →
Phil Klein got a chance to talk to Rep. Paul Ryan about ObamaCare. Ryan, who is a very smart cookie, wants us to take a step back and be patient with this ObamaCare thing. No, not to embrace it. We … Continue reading →
Heather Higgins writes: Hey, what’s the problem with real world consequences to your bad ideas when you’re a smug, snarky, sanctimonious ideologue? Nothing! If you’ve just killed the kids-only insurance market, that must be the insurance companies’ fault – because … Continue reading →
From Dr. J: Dear Gort,I completely echo your sentiments regarding President Obama’s alleged poor choice of words. There is a more insidious and ominous aspect to this statement. The use of the word absorb, regarding a terrorist attack, reveals the … Continue reading →
That’s the sound as we march towards one of the biggest tax hikes in history under a President who said: “I will eliminate capital gains taxes for the small businesses that create the high-wage, high-tech jobs of tomorrow. I will … Continue reading →
Dr. J provides a long opinion on healthcare that’s well worth your time. Hence, we’re declassifying it: Your Notoriousness, I have read Dr. Scherz’s editorial in the Wall Street Journal and the patient letter on his PAC website Docs4patientcare.org. I … Continue reading →
Penn Jillette with a fine anecdote—liberally seasoned with profanity, as is his wont. But dead-f—ing-on. You know how we feel about Smart People®. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →The Czar boggles at how bad news can get for the President. As much as popular infotainment continued to trash President Bush day after day, at least it was the same five bowel movements: Bush has subpar intelligence, Bush faked … Continue reading →
…are we going to have to have this fight over every goddamned decision these evil bastards make?! Yes, evil. They’re going to let people die because they don’t believe it’s in “society’s” interest that they live. Evil. In September, the … Continue reading →
Well, well, 1,812 veterans may have been exposed to AIDS, hep B or C, after dental work at a St. Louis V.A. hospital. And note the allusion to this story as well. As we’ve asked before—shouldn’t the government be required … Continue reading →
Yesterday into last night, the GOP forced the Senate to consider 29 amendments to the health care bill. The democrats voted each one down. Keep this in mind when Obama continues his stumping for public support for this bill. I’m … Continue reading →
‘Puter has a nasty cold, dutifully provided him by the divine Mrs. ‘Puter. ‘Puter was whining about his minor affliction to his sister. ‘Puter writes: I heard that under ObamaCare, there will be no more colds. Or alternatively that the … Continue reading →
So the Obama Administration has targeted a number of groups, largely behind outcries from the left that these organizations “make too much profit” – oil/gas companies, banks, federal IT contractors, insurance companies, etc. I’m waiting for the next shoe to drop. It … Continue reading →
Gormogon operative FJR reports to ‘Puter from an undisclosed yurt on the central Eurasian steppes with the following observation on charity: Since the Federal Government has decided that it is their job to be benevolent I have decided to redirect … Continue reading →
‘Puter thinks not. Check out this week in history: March 21, 2010: Our Glorious Leader and his People’s Patriotic Party passed possibly the most fiscally irresponsible piece of legislation in generations without a single opposition vote. March 23, 1775: Patrick … Continue reading →
The New York Times editorial board today calls out pro-life Democrats for holding up passage of ObamaCare. In so doing, the NYT’s editorial board show little to no understanding of the pro-life contingent’s principled stand in opposing ObamaCare. The NYT … Continue reading →
But only to the extent Janus is the two-faced god. What’s got ‘Puter fired up now? Well, ‘Puter was watching the talking heads on MSNBC (we watch so you don’t have to) bash the insurance companies while lauding the coming … Continue reading →
Take a look around the world – see all the issues going on? A couple natural disasters, a potentially nuclear-armed Iran, Russia’s expanding regional influence, the economic troubles in Greece and elsewhere, etc. All the while, what is our president … Continue reading →
Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has gone all in on the tragically flawed Health Care Reform Effort on behalf of the Democrat caucus. Making the Sunday talk show rounds, Speaker Pelosi told moderate Democrats in competitive districts that … Continue reading →
‘Puter’s got a few thoughts on the Festivus-esque “airing of the grievances” that occurred yesterday in Washington. First, ‘Puter thought, and still thinks, that the party that spoke least was going to “win” the summit. Republicans spoke significantly less than … Continue reading →
…unless you’re looking at “responsiveness to the needs and choices of the individual patient”. The much touted U.N. World Health Organization’s ranking system’s assessment that our country’s healthcare system ranks number 37, only slightly better than Cuba is misleading. Why … Continue reading →
On January 5th (Tuesday), press secretary Robert Gibbs was asked whether President Obama supports televising the healthcare reform bill reconciliation debates and discussions as requested by the open letter from the CEO of C-SPAN. Mr. Gibbs responded by saying that … Continue reading →
To continue a meme from my last post, I’ll reference a FoxNews item. Apparently, President Obama and democrat congress members are meeting to hammer out a compromise on the health care reform bill differences between the house and senate. Now, … Continue reading →
…for all good men to come to the aid of their country. People should be asking a few simple questions: (1) if healthcare reform was so critical that it needed to be enacted in Augustbefore Thanksgivingbefore Christmas, then why is … Continue reading →
I wonder what kind of backroom deals and promises were made to the “on the fence” senators to agree to the Reid bill? Likely most of them will include some job protection/offers for next fall when their complete disregard for … Continue reading →
Under the guise of protecting children, government scolds in Britain (formerly Great) will now be entering citizens’ houses to make certain that safety precautions have been taken. “What the heck’s that got to do with ObamaCare, ‘Puter?”, you query. Check … Continue reading →
The Volgi pointed me at this article as he knows that I somewhat buy into broad generational patterns. To set some parameters around this (and for more details, go check out “The Fourth Turning” by Pete Peterson), let me outline … Continue reading →
Democrats have longer argued against the tax cuts to empower wealth creation labeling it “voodoo economics” and “trickle down” economics. Well, as the unemployment rate crossed 10.2% (a point which POTUS Obama said it would not cross with these programs … Continue reading →
‘Puter heard an interesting twist on poverty this weekend, one which he had not considered before. And it came from an unlikely, very liberal acquaintaince. Poverty, as ‘Puter always thought of it, is “the state of one who lacks a … Continue reading →
The federal government is huge and inefficient so why would anyone believe that a government-run health care option would do better than private industry? Maybe I’m jumping the gun with the first part of that statement, so let me give … Continue reading →
The White House—that is, co-presidents Obama and Gibbs—are crowing that a Washington Post/ABC poll is proclaiming that 57% of Americans would consider a public healthcare option. To put it another way, which ABC would if Bush were President, “Nearly one … Continue reading →
The Czar is most displeased with national referenda, as they waste time and bypass the needed representation republic structure a country of our size and shape needs. But he cannot help wondering if the national healthcare squabble (which the Democrats … Continue reading →
The insurance industry released a report that concluded that ObamaCare “reforms” (as presently planned) would skyrocket healthcare costs. The White House is foot-stamping mad about this. How could they say this? How could they scare Americans like this? Probably, um, … Continue reading →
‘Puter was lounging in the Castle Gormogon rumpus room the other night watching his assistant Sleestak beat Czar’s houseboy Dat Ho in a rousing game of Twister/Jenga that their lot is wont to play, when it occurred to ‘Puter that … Continue reading →
Have you heard about the recent Gallup poll that made a mistake? Probably not. I put little weight in these national polls especially when it’s a poll teamed up with some sort of media outlet (a newspaper, a television outlet, … Continue reading →
Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) shocked and offended congress watchers when he announced, in a Tuesday speech, that Republicans want people to either not get sick or else die quickly. He has refused to apologize for the comment, and indeed added … Continue reading →
This amuses me:Maybe we need to unleash a gorilla in the congressional office buildings…. GorTGorT is an eight-foot-tall robot from the 51ˢᵗ Century who routinely time-travels to steal expensive technology from the future and return it to the past for … Continue reading →
A New York Times editorial takes the GOP to task for scaring the crap out of senior citizens. Thanks to the darn GOP, only 15% of Americans now think Medicare would be improved under the Obama plan. This is just … Continue reading →
I’d like to tie together two possibly distinct stories from the past few days. The first from President Obama’s appearance on This Week with George Stephanopoulos (transcript of the pertinent section here) in which the President denied that the health … Continue reading →
Updated: Guess who agrees with us? President Jimmy Carter declared Rep. Joe Wilson a racist on Tuesday, for calling President Obama a liar during the latter’s health care sales pitch last week. The White House, in a little recognized story, … Continue reading →
In two words or less: loser pays. If that won’t wring the litigation-based waste out of the health care system, nothing will. But again, ‘Puter expects President Obama to put the interests of reliable, big-dollar Democrat campaign donors like the … Continue reading →
Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone magazine takes on the state of America’ healthcare system and manages to get everything pretty much dead wrong. Obviously, he is a sucker for a single payer—that is, Federally run—system. He couldn’t be printed in … Continue reading →
America and capitalism has done more to advance a citizens’ standard of living than any other “-ism” or means fo government. How much so? The poor in this country (roughly about 30 Million by the Census Bureau’s annual poverty report) … Continue reading →
‘Puter’s been reading a lot of the commentary on President Obama’s address to the joint session of Congress last night. Here’s one item that ‘Puter thinks has gotten short shrift. President Obama declared that in his preferred health care reform … Continue reading →
One plain fact should outweigh all the words of Barack Obama and all the impressive trappings of the setting in which he says them: He tried to rush Congress into passing a massive government takeover of the nation’s health care … Continue reading →
With faltering support for President Obama’s government healthcare takeover, a crisis may just be what the doctor ordered. With the administration’s propaganda department (ABC, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, and CBS) already running story after story of the upcoming H1N1 – otherwise … Continue reading →
The Pew Foundation’s Project for Excellence in Journalism conducted a recent research effort looking at about a month’s worth of front pages of The Washington Post and found that 72 percent of the stories related to health-care were about politics, … Continue reading →
See what’s happening across the pond (read the article AND the comments below). Is this the future we want – especially with the large boomer population entering retirement age about to serious tax the system? GorTGorT is an eight-foot-tall robot … Continue reading →
The New York Post carries an opinion piece in today’s edition tangentially supporting the Mandarin’s excellent post below. In the piece, the Hoover Institution’s Paul E. Peterson posits the following: public option = public schools = FAIL. Read and enjoy! … Continue reading →
As if the thought of having to deal with a socialized single payer government run healthcare system wasn’t enough to keep you up at night, now you can stare up at the ceiling contemplating having to see a unionized doctor. … Continue reading →
I arrived home from work today and checked the home voicemail. The first message was from my congressman, Chris Van Hollen (D-MD). His recorded message informed me that there will be a telephone townhall meeting tomorrow night. Around 7:40pm tomorrow … Continue reading →
Plug the Democrats’ description of health care reform as a “moral duty” or “moral imperative” into the universal translator and out pops “health care opponents are ignorant racists who want you to die poor and in pain.” Thank goodness for … Continue reading →
‘Puter’s been doing some thinking here, which is always dangerous. ‘Puter’s noted a disturbing connection between the Department of Justice’s witch hunt at the CIA and ObamaCare’s failure to address tort reform. Bear with ‘Puter for a minute. Attorney General … Continue reading →
By Rahm Emanuel’s brother, Obama’s health-care advisor. Get ready to suffer and die. It’s your duty. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Don’t believe your Gormogons that government health care will be a colossal fustercluck? Behold, ‘Puter gives you the following example! The Veterans’ Administration sent out letter to at least 1,200 Gulf War veterans informing them that they have Lou Gehrig’s … Continue reading →
Thank you for all your support and encouragement. Yes, the Czar has read all 1,017 pages of the HR 3200 bill, and you can read his assessment of it. As far as the Czar knows, everyone who has read the … Continue reading →
Tea Party organizers are planning anti-ObamaCare rallies all across the country, evidently one in every congressional district this Saturday. Rats, and the Czar will be convalescing in a heated pool on Saturday. But liberals should know this, because they won’t … Continue reading →
To read the Czar’s review of HR 3200, pages 801-900, please click here. One of the sticking points the Democrats have had is the undeniable question: who the hell would want to be a doctor anymore? The solution is quite … Continue reading →
To read the Czar’s review of HR 3200, pages 701-800, please click here. §1781(d) contains a statment that CHIP be amended by striking the phrase “legal residents” and replacing it with “lawfully residing in the United States.” That certainly expands … Continue reading →
President Obama had a teleconference yesterday with thousands of religious leaders. In his “40 Minutes for Health Reform” call with Christian leaders, there is an unstated assumption that Christianity requires support of his health care reform efforts. ‘Puter’s not a … Continue reading →
To read the Czar’s review of HR 3200, pages 601-700, please click here. Doctors are little more than money-hungry, pocket-stuffing rich guys who drive around town lighting cigars with hundred dollar bills made out of the hides of poor people. … Continue reading →
As noted in several sources (such as the Wall Street Journal), Democrats definitely do not seem to care that the American public hates their ideas about healthcare. So they are strongly considering an end run around us. The idea is … Continue reading →
The Czar has put together the to-do list of the President’s taskforce on healthcare reform. This explains the weird actions by the White House lately, and shows the psychology that the President is operating under. The taskforce will probably issue … Continue reading →
Tweaking the renowned philosopher Forrest Gump, “Arrogant is as arrogant does.” ‘Puter, as any student of Washington, has known that many Congressmen are self-important blowhards with thinly-veiled disregard for their constituents. In recent days, at town hall meetings across the … Continue reading →
HR 3200, Pages 601-700 To read the Czar’s review of HR 3200, pages 501-600, please click here. We now move into rather sinister territories. By now, proponents of the bill will be wagging their fingers at the Czar’s post from … Continue reading →
Rep. Massa has been really good about holding town hall meetings and listening to his constituents. So when he comes out and says that he’ll vote against those he represents if he thinks he’s doing the right thing, is that … Continue reading →
To read the Czar’s review of HR 3200, pages 401-500, please click here. You know, in a weird twist of irony, the Czar had surgery done on his foot quite recently. He hobbled into a small, community clinic, paid $20 … Continue reading →
Blake, who represents our interests in Texas, writes the Czar to say: If Obama is okaying the dropping of the public option, and Dean says anyone who doesn’t support the public option needs to be primaried from the left, then … Continue reading →
To read the Czar’s review of HR 3200, pages 301-400, please click here. Welcome to the World of the Bizarre! We are now ending the first half of HR 3200, and if the previous sections made you angry or confused, … Continue reading →
…One of the best ways to bring down costs, provide more choices and assure quality is a public option that will force the insurance companies to compete and keep them honest.—Barack Obama, July, 2009. Insurance companies do not compete? By … Continue reading →
Well, this sounds good and like a victory for American medicine. But read on a bit and you’ll see this: Under a proposal by Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., consumer-owned nonprofit cooperatives would sell insurance in competition with private industry, not … Continue reading →
GorT is on vacation with the family. On the way to the undisclosed location (orders have been issued to Biden’s handlers to keep his mouth shut) we were able to stop and see some good friends. A good point was … Continue reading →
To read the Czar’s review of HR 3200, pages 201-300, please click here. Welcome back! Mastermind correspondant Jeanne asked the Czar about reimbursing early retirees’ medical claims (particularly unions or public sector employees…even those at a non-federal level). The Czar … Continue reading →
‘Puter’s been doing a little thinking about health care. It’s all anyone can talk about in the sauna at Castle Gormogon. Even Dat Ho, the Czar’s Vietnamese houseboy is up in arms. Anyhoo, we’ve all seen myriad seasoned citizens get … Continue reading →
To read the Czar’s review of HR 3200, pages 101-200, please click here. Meanwhile, let’s get going and plow into pages 201-300. Poor Ronald Reagan. Perhaps you remember, as the Czar does, the astonishing Tax Reform Act of 1986. This … Continue reading →
To read the Czar’s review of HR 3200, pages 1-100, please click here. The Czar, honestly, did not expect the national attention his effort produced, and is grateful for the cheerleading to press on. Thanks, too, to Jonah Goldberg for … Continue reading →
Brave Gormogons front-line fighter Jeanne takes a moment from her insidious plot to take over the news media from within to write the Czar on pages 1-100 of HR 3200. Go back and look at P. 65, Section 164. It’s … Continue reading →
Click here to read our introduction. Your Czar has completed reading pages 1-100 of all 1,017 pages, eager to learn how HR 3200, if passed, would make healthcare affordable to all Americans. It’s a little hard to fathom that the … Continue reading →
‘Puter’s favorite protest sign to date from the fustercluck known as health care reform. It was only a matter of time before the Obama Administration attempted to nationalize the deviant sexual practices industry, which, according to ‘Puter’s review of teh … Continue reading →
Regular readers know that ‘Puter thinks health care is not a right. ‘Puter further defies you to show him where in the Constitution “health care” is mentioned, let alone “privacy” or “abortion.” But, back on point, ‘Puter does not think … Continue reading →
If ‘Puter were to attend a town hall meeting, ‘Puter would ask his representative or senator the following question: You state that the public option in pending legislation will increase, not limit, the health care options of all Americans. If … Continue reading →
There are many logical and practical reasons to oppose ObamaCare. Among the valid reasons to oppose ObamaCare are cost, coverage, rationing, effect on Medicare, etc. And despite Andrea Mitchell and Nancy Pelosi’s views, stating any of these concerns does not … Continue reading →
Maybe we should make this a series as well. At a Town Hall meeting to discuss the ObamaCare / Healthcare issue in St. Louis, MO, an organized group of people beat a black man who was peacefully passing out flags. … Continue reading →
Exactly what’s wrong with ObamaCare, and how to fix the current healthcare situation…in only fifteen paragraphs. Politicians, if you aren’t going to read the bill, at least read this. The Czar agrees with this across the board. The Czar of … Continue reading →
‘Puter asks why, when the US manufacturing industry is effectively the same size as the health care industry, would the public accept government control of the latter, but almost certainly not the former? Rather, why does the goverment think it … Continue reading →
In 2007, manufacturing of any sort accounted for about 19.5% of the United States’ GDP. Health care accounts for about 17% of the United States’ GDP. The two sectors are approximately the same size. Does anyone seriously think President Obama … Continue reading →
I know that Rep. Conyers (D-MI) and others complain that they don’t have time to read the bills presented for a vote nor do they fully understand them before they do vote (which one might question then why are they … Continue reading →
Last night on my way home I heard a “top of the hour” news piece in which the station played a clip of Obama being interviewed where he made the statement that the deadline for passing Obamacare before the August … Continue reading →
Make people pay more for their own danged care! Since 1970, Americans have gone from paying over 30% of their health care out of pocket to about 10% out of pocket. Why have costs spiraled out of control? Because when … Continue reading →
Hard to believe these are the same news stories. AP reports that the Congressional Budget Office Director concludes the Obamacare Bill will fail to slow the rise of health care costs. Fortunately, the story continues, bipartisan efforts and a revamping … Continue reading →
That Obamacare is estimated to hit the taxpayer for over $1 Trillion over the next 10 years according to the CBO and some estimates peg it as high as $4 Trillion. Many of you probably don’t have time to read … Continue reading →
Chris Ayers, expatriate Brit writing from Los Angeles for The Times of London, has an interesting column today. Mr. Ayers posits that despite its myriad foibles, American style private health insurance sucks less than Britain’s National Health Service. At least … Continue reading →
Health care reform advocates should be more than a little nervous this morning. When the Washington Post‘s editorial board blasts Democrats’ plans to finance health care reform, the Democrats are in serious trouble. 'PuterAlways right, unless he isn’t, the infallible … Continue reading →
Normally the Czar enjoys reading BBC News as a slightly less Obamacized source of worldwide information. However, an article on the costs of healthcare leave the Czar slightly annoyed. The article looks at McAllen, Texas, a town with a healthcare … Continue reading →
‘Puter’s been doing a lot of thinking about health care recently, and the Obama Adminsitration’s plans therefor. And why not? We’re talking about either nationalizing or effectively hamstringing one-seventh of the American economy. Anyhoo, ‘Puter’s convinced that ObamaCare will of … Continue reading →
‘Puter’s with the Grail Knight, a noted health care expert, and his take on those who actively campaign for ObamaCare. After all, G.K. did live about 500 years or so, even without the alleged benefits of socialized medicine. The most … Continue reading →
