Listening to Rush’s show yesterday (September 30) was like a nightmare. With every infuriating story, I felt like a frog in slowly boiling water (with apologies to Glenn Beck). For two hours I listened just stunned at all the ways the Democrats nationwide were screwing this country up beyond recognition, throwing this Constitution of ours out the window, and stealing your freedom with every minute they meet.
The fascist Left is on the march, people. From state capitals to the U.S. Capitol and White House, the Democrat Party is in full-speed mode to steal your freedom in order to empower themselves and steal your money to enrich themselves.
Think I’m being hyperbolic? OK, for those of you who get your news from the miserably pathetic New York Times or one of the alphabet news channels, here’s what’s really been going on in this country:
First, Rush cites a WSJ report that the Bill Clinton library (and massage parlor) in Little Rock, Arkansas is getting $2.5 million in stimulus money. What the $&*#? This is not what stimulus money was supposed to be meant for! Clinton got who knows how many millions of dollars in donations, including from the Communist Chinese. What a waste of the American people’s tax dollars.
And if that’s not enough of a waste, consider this exclusive story from the Washington Times: The National Science Foundation, which has 1200 employees and gets $6 billion in tax-payer funding in 2008, is being investigated because its staff, including senior staff, have been spending their work hours surfing internet porn:
One foundation employee paid an unspecified sum last year after investigators found that during a three-week period in June 2008, the worker perused hundreds of pornographic Web sites during work hours. That employee received a 10-day suspension.
In an official notice of the decision, the foundation called the conduct “unprofessional and unacceptable,” but also noted the employee’s work history and lack of any previous disciplinary actions.
As for the unnamed “senior executive” who spent at least 331 days looking at pornography at work, investigators said his proclivity for pornography was common knowledge among several co-workers.
“At the same time, employees were generally reluctant to make any official report or complaint because the misconduct involved a senior staff member and employees feared that they would suffer in some form of complaining,” the investigators later wrote in a summary of the case.
Another employee in a different case was caught with hundreds of pictures, videos and even PowerPoint slide shows containing pornography. Asked by an investigator whether he had completed any government work on a day when a significant amount of pornography was downloaded, the employee responded, “Um, I can’t remember,” according to records.
The employee also said that friends sent him the pornographic files, that he never planned on viewing them and that he never got around to deleting the files, a claim one official later called “simply not believable.”
Suspended for 10 days, the employee unsuccessfully appealed the decision after arguing that it was too harsh. Other employees were terminated.
Another employee who stored nude images of herself on her computer told investigators she mistakenly had downloaded the pictures. She received counseling and was told to adhere to the foundation’s policies on computer use.
By the way, the NSF has gotten stimulus money too! And, being that one of its main jobs is to allocate college grant money, it has been reported that it gave an Oklahoma State University professor $1.1 million in stimulus money to “study Alaskan grandparents.”
But this is the government that keeps telling us they know how to spend your money better than you do.
Next, check out this blatant example of liberal/Democrat fascism run amok in Michigan:
RUSH: We’re all going to become slaves to the government in every aspect of our lives, and I want to give you an example. Irving Township, Michigan. The state of Michigan has told a Michigan mother that she’s running illegal day care by watching her neighbor’s kids before school.
“Each day before the school bus comes to pick up the neighborhood’s children, Lisa Snyder did a favor for three of her fellow moms, welcoming their children into her home for about an hour before they left for school. Regulators who oversee child care, however, don’t see it as charity.
Days after the start of the new school year, Snyder received a letter from the Michigan Department of Human Services warning her that if she continued, she’d be violating a law aimed at the operators of unlicensed day care centers.
“‘I was freaked out. I was blown away,’ she said. ‘I got on the phone immediately, called my husband, then I called all the girls’—that is, the mothers whose kids she watches—‘every one of them.’”
What do you bet this woman voted for Obama? Wild guess here. What do you bet she voted for Obama?
“Snyder’s predicament has led to a debate in Michigan about whether a law that says no one may care for unrelated children in their home for more than four weeks each calendar year unless they are licensed day-care providers needs to be changed. It also has irked parents who say they depend on such friendly offers to help them balance work and family.”
How do these people in Michigan think this thing ever got done in the first place? I don’t know about you growing up, but my mom and dad would park me at the friend’s house for sometimes a day and a half while they had to go do something. And vice-versa. And there was no thought anywhere that somebody was violating the stupid law about day care centers.
Can you believe the chutzpah of these power-hungry busy-body liberal Democrat bureaucrats? (How do I know they’re liberal Democrats?Two easy ways: One, this is Michigan and two: no conservative Republican office-holder would pull something so completely authoritarian.) When I was in grade school, my mother left me and my brother at a friend’s house for hours, and paid her, every weekday afternoon until she left work. And there were other kids over at the house too. If these liberal fascists were around then, our family friend would’ve been threatened by the state too.
But it only gets better. Yet another of President Hope&Change’s czars has been caught with a very sordid past. In a past job, Kevin Jennings not only had failed to report a sexual relationship between a 15-year-old boy and an adult male, but he helped encourage the affair!
Where was the mainstream media during all this? As of Rush’s broadcast yesterday, they were hardly anywhere. This Washington Times editorial nails it perfectly:
Sex scandal double standard: What if Kevin Jennings were a Republican?
When Republican Rep. Mark Foley was caught chasing congressional pages, he got exactly what was coming to him. In a blizzard of coverage (1,400 stories, according to Google news), Mr. Foley’s creepy behavior was examined from every possible angle. Nobody wanted to hear that the congressman’s stupid and objectionable behavior was confined to e-mails and text messages. His immediate resignation didn’t quiet the furor. When two years of investigations found no crime, the results got barely a peep.
Whether the press feeding frenzy around Mr. Foley’s disgrace was justified or not, the explosion of coverage was certainly understandable, even predictable. That reality is what makes coverage of Kevin Jennings, President Obama’s “safe school czar” something of a mystery.
Mr. Jennings brings all the sleaze of Mr. Foley. Sex and the underaged? Check. An older man? Check. Potential misbehavior by a government official? Check.
And the Jennings case brings a lot more: A “safe schools czar” who failed to report a statutory rape? An education leader who encouraged a 15-year-old student to be comfortable with sexual abuse? A federal official who ignored a law requiring him to report even the possibility of a crime? […]
All those facts aside, from the media’s perspective, the stories aren’t even remotely similar. Mr. Jennings hasn’t been hit with 1,400 stories or 140 or even 14. With the exception of Fox News, which discovered new audio-taped evidence in the case, Mr. Jennings’ story has been ignored. […]
There’s more on Jennings I’ll bet you didn’t know about. He’s a radical homosexual (not that there’s anything wrong with that) activist who founded the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, which “makes schools safe for all students, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.” Sounds reasonable, right? Sure, until you see what this description really entails. From World Net Daily:
According to the Americans for Truth website run by Peter LaBarbera, the incident involving the 15-year-old was just one among a series of egregious behaviors by Jennings.
Another incident was the “fistgate” scandal in which he led discussions at a seminar where “young teens were guided on how to perform dangerous homosexual perversions including ‘fisting,’“ the website said.
Yet another was Jennings’ address in a New York City church on March 20, 2000. He said:
“Twenty percent of people are hard-core fair-minded [pro-homosexual] people. Twenty percent are hard-core [anti-homosexual] bigots. We need to ignore the hard-core bigots, get more of the hard-core fair-minded people to speak up, and we’ll pull that 60 percent [of people in the middle] over to our side. That’s really what I think our strategy has to be. We have to quit being afraid of the religious right. We also have to quit — I’m trying to find a way to say this. I’m trying not to say, ‘[F—] ‘em!’ which is what I want to say, because I don’t care what they think! [audience laughter] Drop dead!”
Seriously, where the heck does Barack Obama find these cretins???
Now for not one, but two pièces de resistence. First, during Rush’s broadcast, the Hill’s Briefing Room blog reported that:
Senate Finance Committee Democrats rejected a proposed a requirement that immigrants prove their identity with photo identification when signing up for federal healthcare programs.
Finance Committee ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said that current law and the healthcare bill under consideration are too lax and leave the door open to illegal immigrants defrauding the government using false or stolen identities to obtain benefits.
Grassley’s amendment was beaten back 10-13 on a party-line vote.
The bill, authored by committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), would require applicants to verify their names, places of birth and Social Security numbers. In addition, legal immigrants would have to wait five years, as under current law, after obtaining citizenship or legal residency to access federal healthcare benefits such as Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program or receive tax credits or purchase insurance through the exchange created by the legislation.
But the would not require them to show a photo ID, such as a drivers license. Without that requirement, the bill “remains dearly lacking when it comes to identification,” Grassley said. “Frankly, I’m very perplexed as to why anyone would oppose this amendment,” he said.
In other words, Joe Wilson Was Right. There is absolutely no logical reason Democrats would have blocked this provision if they’re not planning for illegal aliens to sneak through the system and get government-run health care, paid for by us the taxpayers and benefiting the Democrat Party by buying illegal alien votes. (Illegal aliens can vote? Of course they can. What’s to stop them? Democrats have blocked photo I.D. requirements to vote also.)
Secondly, Rush cites a Human Events article spelling out how Democrats are going to sneak their fascist government-run health care on us by next week, namely, by sticking it in as an addendum to the also fascist bill H.R. 1586, which imposes taxes on people’s bonuses.
The following four-step scenario describes one way liberals plan to work the rules in their favor to get Obamacare through the Senate:
Step 1: The Senate Finance Committee must first approve the marked-up version of Sen. Max Baucus’ (D.-Mont.) conceptual framework. Then Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.) can say that two Senate Committees have passed a health care bill, which will allow him to take extraordinary steps to get the bill on the Senate floor.
During the mark-up last week, members had difficulty offering amendments and trying to make constructive changed because they lacked actual legislative text and Baucus made unilateral last minute changes. For example, the AP reported that “under pressure from fellow Democrats, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee decided to commit an additional $50 billion over a decade toward making insurance more affordable for working-class families.”
Step 2: Sen. Reid will take the final product of the Senate Finance Committee and merge it with the product of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, which passed on a party-line vote in July.
Usually, a bill is voted out of committee, and then the Senate takes up the final product of the committee so that all 100 senators can have a hand in the process. With some help from the Obama administration, Reid will decide what aspects of the HELP and Finance Committee bills to keep.
Step 3: Now, Obamacare will be ready to hitch a ride on an unrelated bill from the House. Sen. Reid will move to proceed to H.R. 1586, a bill to impose a tax on bonuses received by certain TARP recipients. This bill was passed by the House in the wake of the AIG bonus controversy and is currently sitting on the Senate Legislative Calendar.
The move to proceed needs 60 votes to start debate. After the motion is approved, Sen. Reid will offer Obamacare as a complete substitute to the unrelated House-passed bill. This means that the entire healthcare reform effort will be included as an amendment to a TARP bill that has been collecting dust in the Senate for months.
Step 4: For this strategy to work, the proponents would need to hold together the liberal caucus of 58 Democrats (including Paul Kirk who was named last Thursday to replace Sen. Kennedy), and the two Independent senators (Joe Lieberman of Connecticut and Bernie Sanders of Vermont). These members will have to all hold hands and vote against any filibuster. Once the Senate takes up the bill, only a simple majority of members will be needed for passage. It’s possible one of the endangered moderate Democrats, such as Sen. Blanche Lincoln (Ark.), could vote to stop a filibuster then vote against Obamacare so as not to offend angry constituents.
Once the Senate passes a bill and sends it to the House, all the House would have to do is pass the bill without changes and President Obama will be presented with his health care reform measure. If this plan does not work, the Senate and House leadership may go back to considering using reconciliation to pass the legislation.
Adopting this secret plan will not strike most Americans as a transparent, bipartisan, effective way to change how millions of Americans get their health care.
After these two hours, I was boiling mad: Inexcusably misspent stimulus money, yet another Obama czar exposes as a radical leftist hell-bend on crushing traditional American values and traditions, moralistic busybody bureaucrats telling people what they can do in their own house, and megalomaniacal Congresspeople imposing draconian and unconstitutional laws on the American people against their will. Plus an Obama-worshiping mainstream media that ignores all of it. I could not bear listening to Rush’s next hour.
Then Twitter, Facebook, and Free Republic began to light up with news of a woman who had just called in to Rush’s show. It seems this woman—Susan from Glendale, California—was voicing the anger and frustration I and millions of listeners were experiencing. The result was one of the best phone calls Rush has ever received:
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Thank you, Susan from Glendale. You are a ray of sunshine in the pitch-black abyss that is Obama-Reid-Pelosi’s America.
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