Is It Time To Use The T Word To Describe The Obama Administration?

In answer to the question of using the word 'tyrannical' in describing the Obama administration ...
Nice Deb asks if it's yet time to start openly describing the Obama Administration as tyrannical, even though the word indeed conjures up images of leftist dictators like Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro. And as she astutely suggests, given the way the administration flouts the will of Congress, the courts, and the American People to impose its far-left agenda through arbitrary Regulation ... what other name is there for it? After all, it's not as though she hasn't pointed to clear examples supporti...

Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Shhhh) Sends Memo Urging Lefties to Keep Quiet About Death-Panel Provision They Snuck Into ObamaCare Aft
(The Hill)- Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) is distancing himself from a memo sent by his office that urged health reform advocates not to advertise new end-of-life counseling Regulations to avoid reviving talk of “Death Panels.” Blumenauer now says he regrets the letter’s secretive language, which has only bolstered Conservatives’ claims that the Obama Administration tried to sneak the provision in under the radar. “If I had seen the memo, I would have suggested it ...

In a Year of Deep Disappointments, The Deepest: Obama Pledged to Protect Internet Freedom; But His FCC Put It At Risk
Despite President Obama’s promise to defend a free and open Internet from corporate control, his appointees to the Federal Communications Commission ended the year by embracing a version of Net Neutrality that advocates accurately refer to as “toothless” and “bitterly disappointing.” John Nichols, a pioneering political blogger, has written the Beat since 1999. His posts have been circulated... The democratic Socialist senator from Vermont has plenty online backing ...

Dem regrets language in memo on death panels that reignited debate
Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) is distancing himself from a memo sent by his office that urged health reform advocates not to advertise new end-of-life counseling Regulations to avoid reviving talk of “Death Panels.” The weeks-old memo recommended that end-of-life advocates celebrate a “quiet” victory out of concern that Republican leaders would “use this small provision to perpetuate the ‘death panel’ myth.” Blumenauer now says he regrets the letter's secret

Rationing Revealed at the Heart of Obamacare
If you like police officers having quotas for speeding tickets, you will love the Obama Administration's new Health Care Regulations. Doctors are going to be paid for giving "end-of-life counseling," one version of what was labeled as "Death Panels" during the Health Care debate this last spring. Combining this with ObamaCare giving doctors a financial incentive for withholding medical care as well as financial penalties if they give out too much care, it is easy to see where things are going an...

Venezuela condemns "imperial" U.S. visa reprisal
By Andrew Cawthorne Caracas | Thu Dec 30, 2010 11:58am EST Caracas (Reuters) - Venezuela condemned on Thursday the United States' revocation of its ambassador's visa as an "imperial" move by President Barack Obama's government, saying the measure should be immediately overturned. In the latest flare-up between the ideological foes, Washington withdrew the visa of ambassador Bernardo Alvarez on Wednesday in retaliation for the rejection by Socialist President Hugo Chavez of Obama's nominated U...

Hugo Has a Hissy
All because we kicked his ambassador out . Newsmax: Venezuela Condemns 'Imperial' U.S. Visa Reprisal Thursday, 30 Dec 2010 Venezuela condemned Thursday the United States' revocation of its ambassador's visa as an "imperial" move by President Barack Obama's government, saying the measure should be immediately overturned. In the latest flare-up between the ideological foes, Washington withdrew the visa of ambassador Bernardo Alvarez on Wednesday in retaliation for the rejection by Socialist Pre...

Defeated RINO Congressman: Credible Conservative Dont Hate Obama or Call Him a Socialist
Michael Moon on Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Shhhh) Sends Memo Urging Lefties to Keep Quiet About Death-Panel Provision They Snuck Into ObamaCare After it Was Passed… Junius on Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Shhhh) Sends Memo Urging Lefties to Keep Quiet About Death-Panel Provision They Snuck Into ObamaCare After it Was Passed… Hence the reason ex-Rep. Bob Inglis was crushed in the GOP primary… (The Hill)- Outgoing Rep. Bob Inglis (R-S.C.) said Thursday that a “credible conservative&...

Political fight looms over emissions plan
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- The Obama Administration and Congress face a battle over Regulation of climate-altering gases produced by factories and Power Plants, observers say. The first phase of Regulation will go into effect Sunday, but congressional Republicans are warning of a backlash if the administration tries to move too far or too fast in its efforts to reduce Greenhouse Gases, The New York Times reported Thursday. But there are risks for Republicans as well if they move to hamper the ...

Net Neutrality Is Theft
The Internet is not a natural resource. It does not grow on trees, or appear on the ground like dew on a spring morning. Nor does it operate by magic. The Internet exists only to the extent it is built, and then maintained and operated. That requires big bucks, especially for Broadband access. Broadband requires hundreds of billions if not Trillions in investment to lay cables under streets, or to build and then launch satellites into orbit. Where does that money come from? It comes from private...

Brightness and Contrast
Brightness and ContrastTuesday, December 28th, 2010 Holy crap. Hatemongers of your kind have stolen land, property all these years and you still think that SMART black people cannot recognize your strategy. All of you meet on a regular basis, have meetings and plots as to what or how to get rid of OUR president. We are watching, too. Your article in the AJC dated December 25, 2010 shows that you are putting out lies/scare tactics about Internet and media communications through Talk Radio and o...

Tech at Night: ALA, Wikipedia, Astroturf, Net Neutrality
Earlier this week I mentioned a story at Safe Libraries exposing American Library Association Astroturf promoting the radical Free Press agenda on Net Neutrality. Now, the ALA does not come into this debate with clean hands. The ALA has taken stands before, notably to protect Terrorists from being caught by the FBI. But now they’re getting aggressive. On the heels of this story about ALA astroturfing on Wikipedia, the ALA is attempting retaliation. They are attempting to block the Safe L...

Shocker: Census shows states with low taxes have higher growth
Michael Moon on Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Shhhh) Sends Memo Urging Lefties to Keep Quiet About Death-Panel Provision They Snuck Into ObamaCare After it Was Passed… Junius on Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Shhhh) Sends Memo Urging Lefties to Keep Quiet About Death-Panel Provision They Snuck Into ObamaCare After it Was Passed… whthfk on Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Shhhh) Sends Memo Urging Lefties to Keep Quiet About Death-Panel Provision They Snuck Into ObamaCare After it Was Passed… Chunk on...

Ezra Klein wonders what good a Constitutional cite will do on future legislation
Ezra Klein got himself in a bit of hot water by saying some things about the Constitution that appear to have been misinterpreted.  He originally commented on the subject while talking about the new GOP rule that requires a Constitutional reference be put on every bit of Legislation offered to, one assumes, prove it’s Constitutional viability.  Unfortunately, it isn’t Congress which gets to decide what is or isn’t Constitutional. The old saying, “the Constitution says what

Move over Lincoln, Papa Obama is in town
Most exciting news today! Papa Obama is bringing our progressive movement closer to a social utopia. A gov't that exists by Regulation alone, yes indeed. Elections, the people, legislative process etc are highly over-rated and so...so bourgeois. Most people don’t remember ObamaCare’s notorious Section 1233, which mandated government payments for end-of-life counseling. It aroused so much anxiety as a possible first slippery step on the road to state-mand...

In answer to the question of using the word 'tyrannical' in describing the Obama administration ...
Nice Deb asks if it's yet time to start openly describing the Obama Administration as tyrannical, even though the word indeed conjures up images of leftist dictators like Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro. And as she astutely suggests, given the way the administration flouts the will of Congress, the courts, and the American People to impose its far-left agenda through arbitrary Regulation ... what other name is there for it? After all, it's not as though she hasn't pointed to clear examples supporti...

Venezuelans fret over prices after devaluation
By Daniel Wallis and Deisy Buitrago Caracas | Fri Dec 31, 2010 11:59am EST Caracas (Reuters) - Venezuelans worried on Friday that a second devaluation of their currency in 12 months would make life even harder as the Socialist Government of President Hugo Chavez struggled to turn The Economy around. Already suffering one of the world's highest Inflation rates and the only major Latin American Economy still in Recession after the global Financial Crisis, they fear the New Year devaluation coul...

The ObamaCare Fraud
There are a great many things wrong with ObamaCare, but the biggest is perhaps one that neither party is paying any attention to: It is one huge entrapment scheme that will turn patients and providers into criminals. The most blatant example of this is in the “doc fix” that Congress passed with major Bipartisan support earlier this month, saving doctors from a nearly 23 percent cut in Medicare reimbursement that they would have otherwise faced this year. Congress has been passing this fix ev...

WaPo discovers ObamaCare costs more, helps fewer than predicted
It looks like the WaPo has suddenly discovered one of the 800 pound gorillas in ObamaCare, and realized that the Democrats revamped one-sixth of the American Economy, created new federal mandates, and created chaos in system that worked for the vast majority of Americans, just to deal with eight thousand people. And still, there's all those other real costs of ObamaCare, and the repercussions thereof ... including the stunning nugget of what Economist Paul Krugman describes: "Somewhere down the...

"Die Quickly"
"Die Quickly" by digby Alan Grayson took a lot of grief for saying that the Republican Health Care plan was "Don't get sick, and if you do get sick, die quickly." But he was right. Here's Gene Lyons, who begins his essay with the sad tale of having to euthanize his sick horse because it would be too expensive to keep him alive: Long introduction, brief polemical point: Observing Republicans gear up to try to undo "ObamaCare," I suspect the only thing that will satisfy some is to make medical...

Obamacare Mess is Legacy of Dems Moment of Power
As the battle to send ObamaCare to the Death Panels heats up in earnest next year, “it will be good to remember the circumstances and lessons of the bill’s passage,” Byron York writes at the Washington Examiner. “Given a brief window of opportunity, a determined group of lawmakers can do damage that might take years to undo:” As Republicans prepare to take power in the House and play a more influential role in the Senate, it’s good to think back a year. At t...

Chavez Dares US To Cut Ties
(NewsCore) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Tuesday dared the United States to "cut off diplomatic relations" over his opposition to US President Barack Obama's choice of a new ambassador. Last week Venezuela's Foreign Minister expressed hope that the two sides could resolve the row over diplomat Larry Palmer, who has been nominated by Obama but not yet confirmed by the US Senate. "If the [US] government wants to expel our ambassador there, let them! If they cut diplomatic relations, let th...

U.S., Venezuela Evict Each Others Ambassadors in Diplomatic Spat
Thursday, December 30, 2010 By Matthew Lee, Associated Press Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is welcomed to Tehran by his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010. The writing on banner at background in Farsi and Spanish reads "Welcome." (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) Washington (AP) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez dared the U.S. to expel his ambassador in retaliation for his move to reject the U.S. Envoy to the South American country. On Wednesday, that's ju...

Venezuela condemns "imperial" U.S. visa reprisal
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela condemned on Thursday the United States' revocation of its ambassador's visa as an "imperial" move by President Barack Obama's government, saying the measure should be immediately overturned. In the latest flare-up between the ideological foes, Washington withdrew the visa of ambassador Bernardo Alvarez on Wednesday in retaliation for the rejection by Socialist President Hugo Chavez of Obama's nominated U.S. Envoy to Caracas. Diplomat Larry Palmer had criticized Ven...

U.S. revokes Venezuelan ambassador's visa
The United States revoked the visa of Venezuela's ambassador to Washington in retaliation for President Hugo Chavez's rejection of a nominated U.S. Envoy critical of his government, the U.S. State Department said Wednesday. The move stokes long-simmering tensions between Washington and the Socialist Chavez, who is a fierce U.S. critic, but is unlikely to affect an oil trade crucial to both nations. Chavez had blocked Larry Palmer's arrival after the American diplomat accused Venezuela's gover...