Posts By Author » Tabitha Hale
Drop the gag order, Sebelius.
25 Sep 2009 
6:41 pm
Who knew they still had a spine?
Sept. 24 (Bloomberg) — Senate Republicans vowed to block President Barack Obama’s nominee for surgeon general and other health officials unless the government drops what they said is a “gag order” barring insurers from lobbying their Medicare policyholders on the health-insurance overhaul.
The move by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and seven other Republicans would delay confirmation of almost a dozen nominees for Health and Human Services positions, including Dr. Regina Benjamin to become surgeon general.
“Until your department rescinds its gag order and allows seniors …
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GOP: Standing in the way of Utopia.
24 Sep 2009 8:53 pm
Because clearly they’re entirely too accomodating to dissenting viewpoints.
If anything, the Democrats’ problem is that they permit too much dissent—unlike the Republicans, who demand “lockstep marching.” In fact, if Democrats would learn to be just a little less tolerant of dissent, they might get a lot more done.
Yeah, they just get STEAMROLLED. Poor little Democrats, bullied by the Republicans over and over again. Like that time they kept the House floor open to make sure that Republicans also had time to speak. Or maybe that time they …
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Paranoid Racist Whack Jobs.
24 Sep 2009 5:46 pm
Remember all the outcry when we raised hell about President Obama’s address to students? Our concerns were “baseless“. We’re clearly nothing but “paranoid right wing nut jobs“. And of course, don’t forget RAAAACIST!! Fine, other Presidents have spoken to students before. THAT is not what we took issue with! How many Presidents issued study guides? And how many treated everything the President said as fact? I wrote about this yesterday:
So much for objectivity, right? As I said yesterday, the things that are being presented as fact are, well, …
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Indoctrination: Quizzed on Obama’s speech
23 Sep 2009 10:23 pm
From Smart Girl Nation:
A member’s daughter, a senior in high school, had come home upset because, although the speech was not shown in her school, her anatomy teacher had made the class watch the President’s health care speech. After the video was shown, the students were given a short quiz about the speech. The questions asked gave the assumption that the answers provided in the President’s speech were fact and not opinion. The students were given no opportunity to discuss opposing views or have a debate on the topic. In …
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Killing private insurers… it begins.
22 Sep 2009 11:30 pm
From the Wall Street Journal:
Earlier this month, Humana sent a one-page letter to its customers enrolled in its Medicare Advantage plans, which offer private options to Medicare beneficiaries. Humana noted that, because of spending cuts proposed by Democrats, “millions of seniors and disabled individuals could lose many of the important benefits and services that make Medicare Advantage health plans so valuable.” The Kentucky-based company also urged its customers to contact their Representatives. Pretty tame stuff, as these things go.
Tame, yes. Also true. So there’s that. Humana was audacious enough …
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NAZIS!!!
22 Sep 2009 2:51 pm
Have I mentioned that Rachel Maddow is an idiot? You all need to watch this whole video. All of it.
H/T Michelle Moore.
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Just another $292 Million…
22 Sep 2009 11:56 am
It hurts my heart a little to admit that $292 million doesn’t sound like a whole lot right off hand. But it IS a lot of money. And another NYC scumbag has bilked the banks. Meet Hassan Nemazee.
A federal grand jury charged Hassan Nemazee, a New York businessman who has ties to prominent politicians, with defrauding banks of $292 million in part to benefit the Democratic Party.
Mr. Nemazee, 59 years old, used the proceeds of his scheme to donate to campaigns and political-action committees, according to an indictment made public …
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You can’t legislate the poor into prosperity
22 Sep 2009 10:53 am
I stumbled across this quote this morning and wanted to share.
“You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that …
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Smart Girls take on Nashville!
21 Sep 2009 4:50 pm
What an incredible weekend! The inaugural Smart Girl Summit took place in Nashville, Tennessee this weekend. Smart Girls came from all over to learn, network, and just have fun.
I rode from the DC area with SGP Cofounders Stacy Mott and Teri Christoph. After a LONG ride to Nashville, we got in and had dinner with a fabulous group of people – yes, there were boys present, I promise. It was good to be back in Nashville, and to meet everyone that I already felt like I knew so well. …
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Dowd, Carter, and the liberals who cry wolf…
16 Sep 2009 4:21 pm
Racism exists. This is a fact. It is not, however, as prevalent as it was in the 60′s and prior. There is no denying the fact that we’ve made great strides to bridge the gap between races. Kathleen McKinley grew up in Mississippi in the 60′s – these are her thoughts:
I think anyone who reads me on a regular basis knows how passionate I am about the race issue. Growing up in the 60′s in Mississippi as a child of integration, I saw real racism, up close, and horrifying. When …
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Obama’s Revival of the Republican Party
16 Sep 2009 10:19 am
Upside of this administration: We all thought the GOP was dead. And slowly, they’re remembering what it means to be a Republican. Stacy Mott has said, and I’ve often quoted, that Obama is currently the leader of the conservative movement.
Let’s face it, he’s done more to mobilize us than anyone else has. The numbers from the 9/12 march, and at rallies across the country, have proved that this is more than a fringe contingent of the right. Despite what any media source would have you believe.
Ben Stein writes:
You have named …
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Setting The Record Straight: My Diabolical Tea Party Attendance “Misinformation Campaign”
16 Sep 2009 9:31 am
I hadn’t planned on responding to the entire Tea Party attendance controversy, but since Media Matters is using information I was responsible for to smear Michelle Malkin, I figured I’d set the story straight.
Estimates for the 9/12 march ranged from the “tens of thousands” all the way up to two million. Yes, two million.
While I was attending the rally, I asked a police office how big the crowd was. He said they were estimating it was at 1.2 million people. When I asked a Park service employee, that person told …
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Teeny Tiny Fringe Minority in Washington, DC: The 9/12 March
14 Sep 2009 10:17 am
If you stayed at home and watched the news this weekend, you may not have heard about the teeny tiny fringe of angry protesters that showed up in Washing, DC this weekend. Because there was very little coverage. Just look at the minuscule crowds these nutjobs are trying to pass off as legit!
All snark aside, I showed up at Freedom Plaza at 9am on Saturday. The crowds began on the trains, where 4 stops out from the city, they were so full no one could even fit on them. Here …
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9/12 Teaser Post
13 Sep 2009 11:43 am
So I’m going to do the big photo dump tomorrow and get the rest of this stuff out there, but let me just say that this was the most amazing thing I’ve been a part of. I was just stunned by the amount of people that showed up. I spent the day taking as many pictures as I could and whipping out the Flip cam at every turn…
Somehow I found myself onstage doing line kicks at one point. Which, you know, may or may not have been one of the …
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I love when Sarah Palin uses her brain.
10 Sep 2009 8:43 pm
Just to be up front: I like Palin, but am not a real supporter of her. I’ve been pretty open about the things I view as her flaws. But she’s been out in force this week and I love it. First, there was the op-ed she published in the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday.
Common sense tells us that the government’s attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system …
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Television: Inefficiency At Its Finest.
2 Sep 2009 6:20 pm
I gave away my television in 2006. Yes, I’m one of those people. It was not some snooty faux intellectual “I’m too good for the idiot box” mentality that caused me to get rid of what would now be an antiquated black box… it was convenience. I was in college and living the nomadic, transient existence that comes along with that, and ran out of space during a move. Basically, I was tired of hauling it around. I had planned to replace it with a shiny new-fangled (three years ago, …
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Eugenicists Amok!
10 Jul 2009 5:16 pm
So yesterday we talked about Justice Ginsburg. And some people told me I was twisting words and making things worse than they were. In fact, I don’t think I went deeply enough into them. I spoke about population control – she was more accurately addressing eugenics.
* Main Entry: eu-gen-ics
* Pronunciation: yü-ˈje-niks
* Function: noun plural but singular in construction
* …
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Abortion = Population Control?
9 Jul 2009 3:16 pm
Crossposted at Pink Elephant Pundit
Abortion talk with Justice Ginsburg. This proved to be a sufficiently chilling conversation. From the NY Times:
Q: The case ties together themes of women’s equality and reproductive freedom. The court split those themes apart in Roe v. Wade. Do you see, as part of a future feminist legal wish list, repositioning Roe so that the right to abortion is rooted in the constitutional promise of sex equality?
JUSTICE GINSBURG: Oh, yes. I think it will be.
First of all, huh? Being equipped to have children makes us less …
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Czar Watch
7 Jul 2009 11:34 am
Czars. We joke about them, and President Obama’s obsession with them. By most accounts, there are too many. Let’s have an updated look at them.
Twenty One and counting. I think. Nothing seems to be definitive. Glenn Beck puts the count at 18, the most recent addition being the Health Choices Czar. Here’s a list:
* Health reform czar;
* Energy czar;
* Car czar;
* Urban affairs czar;
* Faith-based policies czar;
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Friday Roundup!
3 Jul 2009 1:09 pm
Crossposted at Pink Elephant Pundit
I feel like a lot of this week was spent recovering from the events of last week. However, July kicked off with it’s own share of drama.
Monday brought us the new Duke pedophile case. You know, the one you’ve really only heard about on Righty blogs.
From WRAL:
On Monday, according to the affidavit, Det. Timothy Palchak of the Washington Metropolitan Police Department, chatted online with a person using the name “F.L.” Palchak said “F.L.” described specific sex acts he had performed on a 5-year-old child and said …
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Lois Lerner Sued Christian Coalition In Largest FEC Action in History — And She Lost
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