Archive for February 26, 2010

It’s over? HA!

Posted: February 26, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/news
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If you believe this you will believe anything:

Obama is saying that unless Republicans support comprehensive reform as Obama and Dems have defined it — dealing with the problem of 30 million uninsured and, by extension, seriously tackling the preexisting condition problem — they will almost certainly move forward with reconciliation..

If they had the votes they wouldn’t have bothered with the summit nonsense they would have just done it.

The Democrats always threaten to use measures to get their way, or create new ones. This whole meeting was a manipulated setup – the bill is a warmed up version of SB 3962 which is an Obamanation. Americans have repeatedly voiced their opposition to government controlled healthcare and still the Congress, Senate and The Executive Branch of OUR government refuses to listen to “We the People” damn’it we have spoken now listen or you will be looking for work in the next election. BE

It’s all smoke, I would be really shocked if they try to go with the Reconciliation.

Update: Jules links thanks.

If there is one thing that our democratic friends can take comfort in…

Posted: February 26, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/news
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…it’s that they got Rush Limbaugh to admit publicly that he was wrong about something:

I want to announce to the Republicans that I was wrong. I want to announce to all of you in this audience that I was wrong when I advised the Republicans to skip this summit. (interruption) What’s unseemly, for me to admit that I was wrong? I know. It’s very difficult for people to deal with this. (interruption) Well, I’m not a slave to my accuracy rating. I don’t do things just to keep the rating up. You know, I’m not concerned about polls. I just report what our opinion audit is. But the Republicans need to be commended here for having a pretty good strategery of going up there and ramming this down their throats and not rolling over and playing dead, not rolling over and talking about bipartisanship and not saying, “Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mr. President, we really want to work with you. We want to get along.” They are taking it to him.

I really think that our democratic friends who concluded that this president wasn’t a great leader when it came to legislating decided that his skills at oratory were so great and his personal approval rating high enough that he could simply dominate the proceedings. The media believed this too and decided that this summit would be an excellent chance to use those skills to force republicans to go along…

Remember in the house there is no need to get republicans to go along and in the senate they only need one to get past 60. What this really is about is to provide enough votes so that the responsibility read: blame for an unpopular bill that will reward democratic groups so that democrats alone don’t have to take the political heat for it. I’ll say what I’ve said before:

If this health care reform was any good or desired by the public the Democrats would have passed it without republican votes and rubbed Republican faces in it.

The fact that they have to resort to this nonsense tell you that it is not what they claim it is.

…But back to the president, the president and his allies forgot something. Normally this president is filtered by sound bites and surrounded by media commentary that is favorable, while republicans are not. Yesterday via CPAN the country saw the president unfiltered and unprotected and the same for the republicans.

The end result, he was revealed for what he is, the man my brother (the one from Prince Pizza) likes to call “fluffy Hussein”.

Without that filter and without the aura he becomes what he is, an inexperienced Chicago machine poll who is in way over his head.

Is he capable of learning and improving? I think so, after all he has learned enough not to mess up Iraq and to keep fighting in Afghanistan. Will it happen? We will find out won’t we?

We have taken a break from the Bucket brigade…

Posted: February 26, 2010 by datechguy in personal
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…basically if you were here you would have the sight of me in shorts and boots carrying buckets of water from the cellar to outside, while the wife (who has called out today) fills the buckets in the cellar and brings them up to me.

The oldest has put out a blast e-mail/facebook for extra hand, so hopefully we will have a full crew of teens/friends and over the next 36 hours have the cellar cleared of both water and stuff that will grow mold (everyone in the house but me has allergies).

The base plan is to get the water out today and get the furnace back up and running, while tomorrow we will clean out the trash and everything else that has to go. We will of course get what we can get done today. I’m hoping for a lot of the kids friends for that as we will certainly provide pizza etc.

That is the plan for now, I’ll see what blogging I can get in between.

I’m not proud so i’ll take any able body willing to help get this done.

Still in search of that elusive $800 per wk…

Posted: February 26, 2010 by datechguy in employment, hobbies
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For those of you who have been here awhile you are aware of the “I’ll do it myself Tucker Fund” that doubled as a CPAC jar in the quest to send me down south.

Things remain up in the air for me but now that the readership has once again increased post CPAC post factor I am going to make this offer once again but not just to Tucker Carlson.

In my old job I was making $800 a week. (excluding overtime) I am more than willing to write for anyone at that wage on the condition that I am writing from here. If it is desired that I cover an event beyond my regular range, I would want expenses (travel, a room and maybe $30 a day for meals).

If anyone is out there who is looking for someone to write or film under those termss just give me a heads up in comments. If someone is looking for a part time writer I can adjust the rate accordingly, with the understanding that I will keep trying to find something to make up the rest or to get the whole shabang at once.

If someone wants to hire me on a temp basis a particular campaign etc, I wouldn’t mind that either. I can live on extended unemployment, but I’d rather not, I dislike the situation and would like to change it. If you can help I promise to give a solid effort and earn the funds I’m paid.

And of course if you are a reader and just want to kick in I certainly won’t turn down any hits to the I’ll do it myself Tucker fund.

If you want something you have to ask, so I’m asking. I’ll provide the Fedora.

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