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Monday, August 17, 2009

"Sarah and Adrienne: Redneck Women?"

Hello, everyone. It seems my last post, "Sarah Palin, the Magician" hit a nerve. It made Yahoo! Buzz #7, which I admit, is totally cool. Two hundred twenty six comments were posted, both positive and hateful. It's interesting, isn't it, that I said they were positive and hateful? That seems to be the criteria when it comes to Sarah. Many people who don't like Sarah fight tooth and nail to be as nasty as possible. You will find that most of the anti-Palin comments had nothing at all to do with substantive issues. They were attacks on her intelligence and her faith and, because I wrote the article, some attacked me and my faith. Yesterday I tweeted:
When did it become un-American to be a Christian? It isn't--and I ain't apologizing! #tcot #spwbt #teamsarah #palin #patriot #gop

I have said many times that no one will agree 100% with someone else. Hey, that's life. But come on!

Don't get me wrong; there were many, many positive comments, and they far outweigh the hateful ones. After all, many people see in Sarah someone who is good for America and is willing to pay the price to defend the values of this nation.

You can read the comments--and leave one if you'd like: http://tinyurl.com/ohd7as.

On a totally different note, I found myself in a Youtube video about Sarah Palin. I had to smile because never--not in a million years--would I think I'd find myself in a "Redneck Woman" video! But if you'd like to see Sarah and this New Yorker together in Alaska, see if you can find us in the video below. Too cool!

I'm headed to Long Island to spend some time with family for a couple days. In the meantime, keep up the good fight.

God bless you!
From www.motivationtruth.com by Adrienne Ross


Sarah Palin, The World's Greatest: A Tribute



Sarah Palin scored a great victory for the American people this past week, while putting Barack Obama and the entire democrat/communist party on the defensive. Obama was even forced to postpone his vacation and attempt to save his liberty and freedom stealing Obamacare fiasco!

While Palin eloquently issued simple, but powerful, statements on the evils of Obamacare, Obama himself held townhall meetings where he had to have planted guests posing as regular Americans to throw him softball questions that he couldn't even answer correctly.

Obama, who sounded confused, disjointed, and rambling not only failed to counter Sarah Palin's strong charges, but dug himself a bigger hole with the American people, further destroying the little credibility he has with America's citizenry.

It was an incredible victory for America, and for Sarah Palin.

Note to the GOP, this is how you defeat Barack Obama's swift march to communism! You take Obama head on, and you never stop!

The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto, wrote simply: Palin Wins.

Others singing Sarah's praises , include Robert A George from NBC"s San Fransisco's affiliate who cautions the non-believers to take heed, as Sarah Palin is still the GOP's superstar.

On the heels of all of this, Seth Adam Smith, one of our friends at Conservatives4Palin brings us this great video as a tribute to an amazing woman, Sarah Palin.

Sarah Palin, The World's Greatest: A Tribute



Sarah Palin scored a great victory for the American people this past week, while putting Barack Obama and the entire democrat/communist party on the defensive. Obama was even forced to postpone his vacation and attempt to save his liberty and freedom stealing Obamacare fiasco!

While Palin eloquently issued simple, but powerful, statements on the evils of Obamacare, Obama himself held townhall meetings where he had to have planted guests posing as regular Americans to throw him softball questions that he couldn't even answer correctly.

Obama, who sounded confused, disjointed, and rambling not only failed to counter Sarah Palin's strong charges, but dug himself a bigger hole with the American people, further destroying the little credibility he has with America's citizenry.

It was an incredible victory for America, and for Sarah Palin.

Note to the GOP, this is how you defeat Barack Obama's swift march to communism! You take Obama head on, and you never stop!

The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto, wrote simply: Palin Wins.

Others singing Sarah's praises , include Robert A George from NBC"s San Fransisco's affiliate who cautions the non-believers to take heed, as Sarah Palin is still the GOP's superstar.

On the heels of all of this, Seth Adam Smith, one of our friends at Conservatives4Palin brings us this great video as a tribute to an amazing woman, Sarah Palin.

Sarah Palin Unfiltered

by Pamela Geller

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Sunday, August 16, 2009

ONE GIANT LEAP FOR A WOMAN

I read an article today written by Philip Elliott of the Associated Press. His article began, “Bowing to Republican pressure…” Republican pressure? Doesn’t he mean “Facebook pressure?” I haven’t heard too much coming out of the Republican Party about this at all. The truth has come from a Facebook account belonging to the only politician who seems to know how to tell the truth in today’s world. That politician is, of course, Sarah Palin.

She did nothing more than provide the people of America with the truth of what those in Washington were trying to force down our throats. Governor Palin knows that ANY form of socialized medicine is ALL forms of socialized medicine. She knows that socialized medicine is NOT the answer for the American people. She has pulled no punches in stating the truth. Ask yourself how she knew what this bill said. How did she know about Section 1233? How did she know to call it exactly what it is? She knew it was a death panel. She knew it because she read the bill.

Imagine that! She actually READ the bill. Good grief! I’ll bet you couldn’t find 10 Senators and 15 Representatives who have actually read the bill! Sarah Palin read the bill, saw the problems, went to her computer and typed in her Facebook. And that one woman has done in 2 little entries what the Democrats said couldn’t be done. She proved to the American people that there are too many holes, too many traps, too many illegalities in this bill to allow it to pass without the American people knowing what was in it.

This isn’t the end of it, however. Don’t let up the pressure you’re putting on your own Senators and Representatives because this isn’t the end of the story. We must not allow a compromise on this. We must force our last-term Senators and Representatives to realize that a compromise is not what is needed here. This entire bill needs to be thrown out and rewritten in a totally Democratic and bi-partisan rather than Socialistic manner.

Democrats, you’d better listen to the Republicans, the Independents and the Conservatives out there! We have enough sense to read the bill for ourselves and with Sarah Palin taking the lead by using her public persona to speak in places where our voices aren’t allowed to speak, she has gotten part of our message through your solid wood office doors and into your heads. Listen to her, last-termers, because she’s speaking for us, your constituents, which is more than you’ve done since the time you were first elected to sit in that office with that solid wood door!

The Talking Point the Washington know-nothings are pushing now is “health insurance cooperatives”. Read that “government-run and dictated health insurance cooperatives”. This attitude of do what I say or else absolutely must stop. We can see right through that. “Health insurance cooperatives” means that for-profit hospitals and for-profit health providers will be asked to “cooperate” by donating their hospital rooms, surgical suites, doctors, nurses and other health care workers. They will be providing whatever the government-run cooperative tells them to provide. Make no mistake about it. This is STILL socialized medicine for a socialized America, and we will not stand by and let that happen.

I am so tired of hearing people say that because we don’t want Socialism in America what we’re really saying is that we want people who can’t afford private health insurance to continue having to go without any insurance assistance at all. Nothing could be any farther from the truth. None of us wants that. We want every American Citizen to have the best health coverage possible in our Democratic society. We want them to have it NOW – not 6 months from now. We don’t want a socialistic America in any way, shape, form or fashion. This socialized medicine health care plan that Obama and his Socialistic, Communistic, Facist thugs have been trying to tell us is so wonderful is only the first step that they were taking towards making us a Socialist Country.

They aren’t finished trying, so don’t let up on them. Keep up the pressure. America is a Democracy – an established and fought-for Democracy! We will settle for nothing less. We owe that to our Founding Fathers as much as we do to our grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

So here comes Obama with the Cloward-Pivens Strategy of creating a crisis so people will beg for whatever it is they want to sell us. In his Op Ed piece today, Obama said, “…political maneuvers should be excluded from the debate. In the coming weeks, the cynics and the naysayers will continue to exploit fear and concerns for political gain," he wrote. "But for all the scare tactics out there, what's truly scary — truly risky — is the prospect of doing nothing." Why is that, Mr. Obama? Aren’t you using political maneuvers by trying to railroad the Congress of the United States into railroading the American people?

Look at these two statements: one made by Obama and the other by his White House press secretary, Robert Gibbs.

Obama: "All I'm saying is, though, that the public option, whether we have it or we don't have it, is not the entirety of health care reform," Obama said in Grand Junction, Colo. "This is just one sliver of it, one aspect of it."

Robert Gibbs: "What I am saying is the bottom line for this for the president is, (sic) what we have to have is choice and competition in the insurance market."

Sounds like a Talking Point to me. Sounds like Cloward-Pivens to me. If you don’t appreciate that reference, here’s the Wiki version.

A proposal by Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D, would provide consumer-owned nonprofit cooperatives to sell insurance in competition with private industry in much the same way as electric and agriculture co-ops operate. Senator Conrad, who is also the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, has said that the argument for a government-run public plan is little more than a "wasted effort." He added there are enough votes in the Senate for a cooperative plan to be accepted.

I certainly hope he is incorrect in that assessment. The “cooperatives” would have start-up funding with $3 billion to $4 billion in initial support FROM THE GOVERNMENT but operate as not-for-profit organizations required to maintain the same type of financial reserves private companies are required to keep (insure the insurers?) for times of unexpectedly high claims. This translates to providing socialized medicine for a portion of the population rather than forcing the entire population of the United States to “partake of the benefits of socialized health care.” Socialism called by any other name is still Socialism, don’t you think?

Before I end, I simply must let you know that this is a major victory for Sarah Palin and a major victory for the American people. Every word out of her mouth has been criticized by the mainstream media and her critics in Alaska. I mean that literally. They have all said that she has no education because she doesn’t speak formally. In short, they say that she doesn’t use proper grammar. Seems to me they’re having no trouble understanding her now.

I can’t help wondering if the double standard the media have applied to Governor Palin will also apply to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. Her statement in the article I read opens the door to my suggestion of a double standard. “‘I think there will be a competitor to private insurers,’ Sebelius said. ‘That's really the essential part, is you don't turn over the whole new marketplace to private insurance companies and trust them to do the right thing.’”

Diagram that sentence, syntax majors.

Friday, August 14, 2009

Sarah Palin, the Magician

Sarah Palin has the kind of influence that equates to power, plain and simple. I engaged in a Twitter conversation yesterday with an anti-Palin, pro-Obama guy. The crazy thing about it is we both went for the jugular, and when it was over, it was like, "All right, catch you later, brother." "Yep, catch you later, sis. I enjoy debating you." In other words, hey...it's all good. I'll keep fighting, and I have a feeling, he will too.

One piece of that conversation involved his telling me that President Obama doesn't spend any time thinking about Sarah Palin. I responded by saying, "Well, then he's a magician also because it's hard to keep quoting someone you're not thinking about."

Now what was I talking about? The president did a Town Hall meeting in New Hampshire a couple days ago...and I was just waiting for it. Sure enough, it came. He couldn't help himself. He just had to refer to Sarah's "death panel" statement. I was waiting, and I wasn't disappointed. Sarah is SO in his head, it's ridiculous. Although the White House continues to say that they waste not one moment thinking about Sarah Palin, the truth is you can't keep quoting someone you're not paying attention to--and then to quote her in a Town Hall meeting! I mean, we knew she was in his head during the campaign, but she has gotten more powerful after losing the election! So anyone who says that Sarah is insignificant is just being dishonest. More importantly, anyone who states that President Obama is not paying attention to Sarah Palin is underestimating him. Yes, underestimating him, not Sarah. Why do I say that? It's simple: If he's just half as smart as people say he is, and if he is the politician he appears to be, he'd have to be paying attention to her because he'd be stupid not to. And President Obama may be many things, but stupid is not one of them. Besides, like I said, if he's not, then he must be a magician because he manages to quote someone he never thinks about!

The sad aspect of this is while he was defending himself against Sarah's comments, making it appear to be simple fearmongering and screaming "boogeyman!" on her part, people in the meeting were giggling about it. Do you think Sarah backed down? Come on, now. Sarah doesn't back down when she believes in something. Instead, she released this statement on her
Facebook page:


Concerning the "Death Panels"
Wed at 11:55pm

Yesterday President Obama responded to my statement that Democratic health care proposals would lead to rationed care; that the sick, the elderly, and the disabled would suffer the most under such rationing; and that under such a system these “unproductive” members of society could face the prospect of government bureaucrats determining whether they deserve health care.

The President made light of these concerns. He said:

“Let me just be specific about some things that I’ve been hearing lately that we just need to dispose of here. The rumor that’s been circulating a lot lately is this idea that somehow the House of Representatives voted for death panels that will basically pull the plug on grandma because we’ve decided that we don’t, it’s too expensive to let her live anymore....It turns out that I guess this arose out of a provision in one of the House bills that allowed Medicare to reimburse people for consultations about end-of-life care, setting up living wills, the availability of hospice, etc. So the intention of the members of Congress was to give people more information so that they could handle issues of end-of-life care when they’re ready on their own terms. It wasn’t forcing anybody to do anything.” [1]

The provision that President Obama refers to is Section 1233 of HR 3200, entitled “Advance Care Planning Consultation.” [2] With all due respect, it’s misleading for the President to describe this section as an entirely voluntary provision that simply increases the information offered to Medicare recipients. The issue is the context in which that information is provided and the coercive effect these consultations will have in that context.

Section 1233 authorizes advanced care planning consultations for senior citizens on Medicare every five years, and more often “if there is a significant change in the health condition of the individual ... or upon admission to a skilled nursing facility, a long-term care facility... or a hospice program." [3] During those consultations, practitioners must explain “the continuum of end-of-life services and supports available, including palliative care and hospice,” and the government benefits available to pay for such services. [4]

Now put this in context. These consultations are authorized whenever a Medicare recipient’s health changes significantly or when they enter a nursing home, and they are part of a bill whose stated purpose is “to reduce the growth in health care spending.” [5] Is it any wonder that senior citizens might view such consultations as attempts to convince them to help reduce health care costs by accepting minimal end-of-life care? As Charles Lane notes in the Washington Post, Section 1233 “addresses compassionate goals in disconcerting proximity to fiscal ones.... If it’s all about obviating suffering, emotional or physical, what’s it doing in a measure to “bend the curve” on health-care costs?” [6]

As Lane also points out:

Though not mandatory, as some on the right have claimed, the consultations envisioned in Section 1233 aren’t quite “purely voluntary,” as Rep. Sander M. Levin (D-Mich.) asserts. To me, “purely voluntary” means “not unless the patient requests one.” Section 1233, however, lets doctors initiate the chat and gives them an incentive -- money -- to do so. Indeed, that’s an incentive to insist.

Patients may refuse without penalty, but many will bow to white-coated authority. Once they’re in the meeting, the bill does permit “formulation” of a plug-pulling order right then and there. So when Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) denies that Section 1233 would “place senior citizens in situations where they feel pressured to sign end-of-life directives that they would not otherwise sign,” I don’t think he’s being realistic. [7]

Even columnist Eugene Robinson, a self-described “true believer” who “will almost certainly support” “whatever reform package finally emerges”, agrees that “If the government says it has to control health-care costs and then offers to pay doctors to give advice about hospice care, citizens are not delusional to conclude that the goal is to reduce end-of-life spending.” [8]

So are these usually friendly pundits wrong? Is this all just a “rumor” to be “disposed of”, as President Obama says? Not according to Democratic New York State Senator Ruben Diaz, Chairman of the New York State Senate Aging Committee, who writes:

Section 1233 of House Resolution 3200 puts our senior citizens on a slippery slope and may diminish respect for the inherent dignity of each of their lives.... It is egregious to consider that any senior citizen ... should be placed in a situation where he or she would feel pressured to save the government money by dying a little sooner than he or she otherwise would, be required to be counseled about the supposed benefits of killing oneself, or be encouraged to sign any end of life directives that they would not otherwise sign. [9]

Of course, it’s not just this one provision that presents a problem. My original comments concerned statements made by Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, a health policy advisor to President Obama and the brother of the President’s chief of staff. Dr. Emanuel has written that some medical services should not be guaranteed to those “who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens....An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.” [10] Dr. Emanuel has also advocated basing medical decisions on a system which “produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between roughly 15 and 40 years get the most chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated.” [11]

President Obama can try to gloss over the effects of government authorized end-of-life consultations, but the views of one of his top health care advisors are clear enough. It’s all just more evidence that the Democratic legislative proposals will lead to health care rationing, and more evidence that the top-down plans of government bureaucrats will never result in real health care reform.

- Sarah Palin

[1] See http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/08/president-obama-addresses-sarah-palin-death-panels-wild-representations.html.
[2] See http://edlabor.house.gov/documents/111/pdf/publications/AAHCA-BillText-071409.pdf
[3] See HR 3200 sec. 1233 (hhh)(1); Sec. 1233 (hhh)(3)(B)(1), above.
[4] See HR 3200 sec. 1233 (hhh)(1)(E), above.
[5] See http://edlabor.house.gov/documents/111/pdf/publications/AAHCA-BillText-071409.pdf
[6] See http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/07/AR2009080703043.html].
[7] Id.
[8] See http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/10/AR2009081002455.html].
[9] See http://www.nysenate.gov/press-release/letter-congressman-henry-waxman-re-section-1233-hr-3200.
[10] See http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/Where_Civic_Republicanism_and_Deliberative_Democracy_Meet.pdf[11] See http://www.scribd.com/doc/18280675/Principles-for-Allocation-of-Scarce-Medical-Interventions.

Well, after Sarah caused such a stir with her statement about "death panels," after the Obama media got all bent out of shape about it, after the president found it necessary to deny it by misrepresenting what she said as "pulling the plug on Grandma," we find out yesterday that the end of life provision has now been removed from bill! Now that's what I call influence. Of course, the president and his people are paying attention to Sarah. When the woman can type something on her Facebook page and get a provision removed, well, what would you call that?! Today radio talk show host and author, Tammy Bruce, called Sarah the 101st senator of the United States because she can "type, type, type, send, and get a change in the Health Care Bill!" Yep, that about says it. But I can do even better than that: Sarah is not only the 101st senator, she's the magician, for how else could she issue a statement that makes Congress remove something that they said wasn't in there to begin with?!

Read about the change:

WASHINGTON – Key senators are excluding a provision on end-of-life care from health overhaul legislation after language in a House bill caused a furor.Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, said in a statement Thursday that the provision had been dropped from consideration because it could be misinterpreted or implemented incorrectly.

Read more about this here.


Even though the end of life provision has been removed, Sarah Palin says it's not enough. Early this morning, Sarah released this new statement on her Facebook page:


Troubling Questions Remain About Obama's Health Care Plan

Today at 1:11am

I join millions of Americans in expressing appreciation for the Senate Finance Committee’s decision to remove the provision in the pending health care bill that authorizes end-of-life consultations (Section 1233 of HR 3200). It’s gratifying that the voice of the people is getting through to
Congress; however, that provision was not the only disturbing detail in this legislation; it was just one of the more obvious ones.

As I noted in my statement last week, nationalized health care inevitably leads to rationing. There is simply no way to cover everyone and hold down the costs at the same time. The rationing system proposed by one of President Obama’s key health care advisors is particularly disturbing. I’m speaking of the “Complete Lives System” advocated by Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, the brother of the president’s chief of staff. President Obama has not yet stated any opposition to the “Complete Lives System,” a system which, if enacted, would refuse to allocate medical resources to the elderly, the infirm, and the disabled who have less economic potential. [1] Why the silence from the president on this aspect of his nationalization of health care? Does he agree with the “Complete Lives System”? If not, then why is Dr. Emanuel his policy advisor? What is he advising the president on? I just learned that Dr. Emanuel is now distancing himself from his own work and claiming that his “thinking has evolved” on the question of rationing care to benefit the strong and deny the weak. [2] How convenient that he disavowed his own work only after the nature of his scholarship was revealed to the public at large.

The president is busy assuring us that we can keep our private insurance plans, but common sense (and basic economics) tells us otherwise. The public option in the Democratic health care plan will crowd out private insurers, and that’s what it’s intended to do. A single payer health care plan has been President Obama’s agenda all along, though he is now claiming otherwise. Don’t take my word for it. Here’s what he said back in 2003:

“I happen to be a proponent of a single payer universal health care plan.... A single payer health care plan – universal health care plan – that’s what I would like to see.” [3]

A single-payer health care plan might be what Obama would like to see, but is it what the rest of us would like to see? What does a single payer health care plan look like? We need look no further than other countries who have adopted such a plan. The picture isn’t pretty. [4] The only way they can control costs is to ration care. As I noted in my earlier statement quoting Thomas Sowell, government run health care won’t reduce the price of medical care; it will simply refuse to pay the price. The expensive innovative procedures that people from all over the world come to the United States for will not be available under a government plan that seeks to cover everyone by capping costs.

Read the rest here, along with the sources she cites.


Sarah Palin has chosen to bypass the mainstream media for now, the media that is so clearly in the tank for Obama, and she's simply utilizing social networking sites to get her message out--and Tammy Bruce is correct: All Sarah has to do is type and hit send--and it's all over. Who would have thought one could use Facebook to help win this health care battle? It is clear that Sarah knows more about this Health Care Bill than members of Congress. She knows what she's talking about, and she is studying experts on the issue.

I have one more thing to say: I bet you those on the far Left regret that Sarah was ever asked the demeaning question, "What do you read?" you know, the question she chose to ignore. Hey, Katie, now you have a whole list of her reading material--and you and the Obama administration don't like it too much, do you?!



By Adrienne Ross from www.motivationtruth.com

Analysis of Palin Wins -- by James Taranto

This referenced article by James Taranto article speaks extensively about Governor Palin's two victories in the health care debate this week.

The first victory was to establish and prove the thesis that Obama's socialized health care plan will lead to rationing. Rationing will cut care to those who are deemed of least economic benefit to society.

That victory was followed by a legislative one...the Senate Finance Committee removed the "end-of-life" provision from the health care bill.

Taranto delineates both victories in detail and shoots down the canard that Sarah Palin somehow has a limited intellect. Quite the contrary, Taranto establishes what we at Accomplishments have known for a long time -- that Sarah Palin is very highly intelligent and astute.

Click the URL in the reference to read the article. It will spawn a new window or tab depending on your browser configuration.

References



Taranto, J. (2009, August 14). "Palin Wins: If she's dim and Obama is brilliant, how did he lose the argument to her?" Wall Street Journal. Retrieved August 14, 2009 from: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204409904574350400852801602.html