VIDEO: "Shocking" video: Obamacare architect says we're stupid!

This is when I first heard about Gruber's remarks about stupid Americans. It did not surprise me about what Jonathan Gruber said. I always new that academia was elitist and arrogant. It was to my surprise that he actually said what he did and then tried to claim it was off the cuff. (Be sure to see my next post.)

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Obama's laughing at you ~ By Joseph Farah

The Barack Obama SMIRK

You know who they're laughing at – you. You and the Constitution and the laws of the land. Because for people like Obama and Emanuel, the laws are not really laws. They are merely suggestions – or requirements for their opponents. They are not etched in stone. They change subject to their convenience. They are to be sidestepped and mocked. Obama and Emanuel and their allies are above the law. The law is just for rubes like you.

Do you get it?

Joseph Farah brings up some excellent points in this piece, and the main theme is that Obama is laughing at "us." And who do I or does Joseph mean by "us?" Not just any American. Probably not anyone involved with public employee unions or SEIU or ACORN. No. The disparagement is targeted on the American people in the Tea Party Movement, and especially those of us (which is the vast majority of the movement) that take the Constitution of the United States (COTUS) seriously! In other words, it isn't just the "birthers" that Obama and his cronies are laughing at. I guarantee that the marginalization and ridicule will continue to happen in 2012 during the election campaigns, and will be projected on whoever is chosen to be Obama's Republican opponent.

Toward the end of the excerpt below, Joseph lists the reasons that Obama refuses to release his birth certificate (and many other vital records that would help us determine who he really is). I would like to add three more possibilities to the list:

• Is it that Obama is just showing his extreme arrogance and his disdain for the Constitution, and by disparaging the "birthers," he is, by projection, actually trying to disparage anyone that supports the Constitution?

• Is it because Obama is trying to distract the tea-partiers, those of us on the Right, and the alternative media? Isn't that the old magician trick of "watch this hand so you don't see what the other hand is doing?"

• Is it a trap for the GOP candidate in 2012? That candidate could risk alienating those of us that question Obama's eligibility and his past if our candidate dismisses it, or be gleefully ridiculed, marginalized, and excoriated by the left-wing press and Obama campaign staff if the GOP candidate happens to agree with us.

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Hey, House of Representatives! Impeach Obama, or Become Irrelevant ~ By Tom Cox

Obama's laughing at you

JOSEPH FARAH

By Joseph Farah

March 17, 2011 ~ 1:00 am Eastern

© 2011

Last Saturday night, Barack Obama spoke to the Gridiron Club in Washington.

In case you don't know, the Gridiron Club is an exclusive, invitation-only group of Washington "journalists." Every year the group hobnobs with the public officials they are supposed to be covering in a private dinner, usually including the president – or, as in the case last Saturday, the current occupant of the White House.

From the filtered reports of the event, it was just about what you would expect.

Barack Obama cut off the playing of "Hail to the Chief" by the U.S. Marine Band as he was introduced and asked: "Can we go with that song we talked about?"

With that, the band broke into Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."

"Some things just bear repeating," Obama cracked.

Har-har-hardy-har-har.

He can repeat it all he wants. And, for all we know, it may even be true that Obama was born in the USA. But a more effective way to make the point, now that he is aware of the fact that most Americans don't believe his birth narrative or much of anything else he says, would be to release his birth certificate.

Somehow, I think there's a reason he refuses to do so.

What could that reason be?

• Is it that his long-form birth certificate, the one needed to get a passport, sign up for Little League baseball or get a driver's license in many states, was long ago amended to show he was adopted by an Indonesian stepfather?

• Is it that his long-form birth certificate would reveal his parents weren't who he claims?

• Is it that his long-form birth certificate shows he was born somewhere besides Hawaii?

• Is it that his long-form birth certificate shows he was born in some other country?

We don't know. For whatever reason, Obama would like us never to know – and that is of understandable concern to millions of Americans, even if it is of no concern to the Gridiron Club, which guffawed itself into hysteria last Saturday night.

READ FULL STORY at WorldNetDaily.com

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The most dangerous president in history ~ By Henry Lamb

While Henry Lamb discusses Obama's dictatorial pattern, I'm reminded of Hugo Chavez, maybe one of the most narcissistic leaders in the world. But Hugo doesn't run a powerful country such as America, and that is the scariest part of this: Obama does. To top it all off, Henry had concluded this column with, "his vision for the rest of the world is even more frightening," and fortunately for us this morning, "That's for another day." I am not sure we need anything more to frighten us today. But actually, I think a good number of the readers at this blog probably have a very good understanding of where Obama wants to take the world. And Obama's vision for the world truly is frightening to think about. Just sayin'...

What's most dangerous about this man is his restructuring the government to be operated by a collection of appointed czars, who are not accountable to Congress, who can exercise powers not granted to the government to achieve nearly dictatorial authority over the citizens of the United States.

This is a limited look at only a few areas of domestic policy; his vision for the rest of the world is even more frightening. That's for another day.

By Henry Lamb

Posted: June 19, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern

© 2010

Obama believes in the rule of law – his law. No other law is relevant. No other law matters. When Obama speaks, he expects the world to obey.

In his Tuesday night performance, he said, "I will meet with the chairman of BP and inform him that he is to set aside whatever resources are required to compensate the workers and business. …" "Inform him?" Where does Barack Hussein Obama get the authority to issue orders to the CEO of a private corporation? There is no such authority in the Constitution. There is no law that empowers the president to "inform" the CEO of any corporation how he will spend the corporation's money. Obama couldn't care less about the Constitution or the law.

There was no constitutional authority for him to essentially take over General Motors and Chrysler, or the banks. Obama couldn't care less about the law. When he speaks, he expects the world to obey.

There is no constitutional authority for the federal government to require American citizens to purchase health insurance or any other product or service. It doesn't matter. Obama spoke; his congressional majority of comrades obeyed.

In 18 months, the man has demonstrated that he cares nothing about the system of government created by our founders and enshrined in the Constitution. He has demonstrated that he fully intends to "fundamentally transform" the United States of America – as he promised in his campaign. Now we are beginning to get a picture of the nation he intends to build. The picture is frightening.

Virtually everything Obama has done since taking office has expanded both the size and power of the federal government. The federal government our founders constructed is a government limited to the specific powers enumerated in the Constitution. Those powers not enumerated are expressly reserved to the states and to the people.

Obama can't comprehend any limitations on his power. The moment Arizona enacted a law that empowered state law enforcement officers to check for citizenship, Obama bad-mouthed the state legislature and governor – without even reading the law. There have been arrogant presidents before, but none that can compare to the sickening self-centered narcissism that exudes from this man.

Obama's declaration that America must end its addiction to oil misses the point entirely. America is not addicted to oil at all; America is addicted to the lifestyle made possible by the most efficient, abundant energy source yet discovered. Americans would be delighted to move to any energy source that will provide the same or better lifestyle at less cost.

In a capitalist society such as America, government's role in the market is limited to providing a level playing field for the entrepreneurs who risk their own assets to provide a product or service in hopes of making a profit. Only in totalitarian systems are markets managed by government.

The reason the nation has not switched to solar, wind or other alternative energy sources has nothing to do with our addiction to oil; it has everything to do with cost and convenience.

Obama has decided that cost is irrelevant. He wants to wean America from oil and bond the nation to exotic alternatives, regardless of the cost. When Obama speaks, he expects people to obey. He is ready to artificially and unnecessarily increase the cost of carbon fuels in the form of taxes and fees, in order to fund subsidies for wind and solar energy sources. It doesn't matter to Obama that the environmental disaster that will be created by the solar farms and wind farms is much greater than the Gulf oil spill.

READ FULL STORY at WorldNetDaily.com

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The boy who cried 'racist' ~ By Burt Prelutsky

Burt explains the one thing that the leftists do that is actually working (99.9% of their ideas NEVER work, but I digress), and it is as he writes, "One of the sneakiest, most despicable things left-wingers do is play racial politics, and when you call them on it, they get to brand you as racists." It seems so true, as we have learned. In fact, have you ever figured out why the Progressives like to call Tea Partiers, or for that matter, anyone that doesn't like President Obama, racist? It's kind of weird, isn't it? How many black people that didn't like George W. Bush were ever called racist? Just sayin'...

P.S. By the way, Burt, I love your new profile picture!

The unfortunate thing is that just as the Communists perverted the meaning of "comrade" and homosexuals perverted the meaning of "gay," the self-righteous leftists have perverted "racist." It no longer means a person who is racially intolerant, who would harm or subjugate another human being because of his skin color, but, instead, denotes someone who really is color-blind and who judges people solely on the basis of their character.

By Burt Prelutsky

Posted: May 21, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern

© 2010

By this time, I'm sure we've all seen those posters of George W. Bush captioned "Miss Me Yet?" I, personally, think things have gotten so bad in Obama's America that I wouldn't be surprised if we begin seeing those same posters springing up with Jimmy Carter's picture.

When I read that Sen. Dianne Feinstein had said, "I've gotten over 90,000 e-mails and faxes on the health-care bill and over 85,000 of them are against it. After all the debate we've had, I can't believe so many people still don't get it," I recall wondering if Obama's arrogance was a contagious disease for which there's no known antidote.

That reminds me that William F. Buckley, Jr., once observed that, "Liberals claim they want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views." (emphasis my own)

He was also the conservative sage who once told a left-winger, "I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting you really believe what you just said." Does a single day go by when most of us haven't wished to say those very words to Robert Gibbs? (emphasis my own)

One of the sneakiest, most despicable things left-wingers do is play racial politics, and when you call them on it, they get to brand you as racists. (emphasis my own)

For instance, affirmative action was created to give racial preferences to blacks to make amends for slavery and Jim Crow laws. But after nearly 50 years, try to suggest it's time to put racial quotas aside, and you will find yourself tarred as a racist.

For the past 30 years, Islamics around the world have targeted Americans, but suggest that they constitute a toxic menace and you're labeled a racist.

For the past quarter century, millions of Mexicans, who were not escaping political oppression, have felt entitled to stream across our border, to take advantage of our schools and hospitals, to fill our streets with drugs and flood our jails with criminals, and if we even complain about it, we're called racists.

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