via Ann Althouse
This type of poll is at least two layered in that it plants ideas in the polled persons minds and when the desired result is obtained the poll can then be used a propaganda by the person paying for the poll.
Ann Althouse delves into the veracity of the poll. That is good to do because the Kos poll results are crap. Kos know it, the media knows it and any thinking person knows it, but many will report it as fact. For Kos, a master of media manipulation, it is a win-win. Some will believe while others will be driven to Kos' site.
Poll: Republicans Think Obama Is A Socialist, And Palin More Qualified To Be President
• 39% of Republicans want President Obama to be impeached.
• 63% think Obama is a socialist.
• Only 42% believe Obama was born in the United States.
• 21% think ACORN stole the 2008 election -- that is, that Obama didn't actually win it, and isn't legitimately the president, with 55% saying they are "not sure." This number is actually significantly lower than it was in a similar question from Public Policy Polling (D) back in November, which said that 52% of Republicans thought ACORN stole it. So does this mean Obama is gaining ground among Republicans? As it is, only just over 20% of Republicans will say that Obama actually won the election.
• 53% think Sarah Palin is more qualified than Obama to be president.
• 23% want to secede from the United States.
• 73% think gay people should not be allowed to teach in public schools. This position puts the GOP base well to the right of none other than Ronald Reagan, who helped defeat the Briggs Initiative, a 1978 referendum in California that would have forbidden gays or people who advocated gay rights from teaching in public schools.
• 31% want contraception to be outlawed.
I wonder if among those polled by Kos there is a probability of 78% who are po'd at being had or if that 78% is snickering at foisting another lie onto the public. Kos gets how this works and is still expecting a governmental post somewhere. May I suggest at the Ministry of Propaganda.
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Canadian Leader Shuns Canadian Health Care
Canadian Premier COMES TO USA for surgery...
Where will Canadians go for quality health care after ObamaCare becomes law? Probably where ever our Congress ends up going, but it won't be here.
Where will Canadians go for quality health care after ObamaCare becomes law? Probably where ever our Congress ends up going, but it won't be here.
Monday, February 01, 2010
Ah, To Have Such A Statesman Today
One day shortly after the Second World War ended, Winston Churchill and Labour Party Prime Minister Clement Attlee encountered one another at the urinal trough in the House of Common’s men’s washroom. Attlee arrived first. When Churchill arrived, he stood as far away from him as possible. Attlee said, “Feeling standoffish today, are we, Winston?” Churchill said: “That’s right. Every time you see something big, you want to nationalize it.”
Indicator Of Ohio's Demise
When people leave and take their money and patronage with them, it is an indicator of deep problems whether it is a small business or big business. When business goes elsewhere, well, then somebody has screwed the pooch big time.
Welcome to Ohio.
Unfortunately this cannot all be blamed on Democrats, unions and their allies in poaching the public purse.
Remember Bob Taft? Remember state elected Republicans and those in Washington as they emulated Democrats? Yep, they were spending our money like drunks in a Tijuana whorehouse with no repercussions or remorse.
They did so to be re-elected or they had convinced themselves that government, and our money, could right the ills of a society that government had caused in the first place. Either way, a disaster.
If workers and business continue to flee Ohio we won't have to worry that 30% of workers will have to support the other 70% of Ohio's population. At that pointgovernments workers from those states with fiscal sense will be supporting 100% of Ohio's population.
How low Ohio has sunk. If things do not turn around dramatically and soon, Ohio's demise will be imminent.
Welcome to Ohio.
Unfortunately this cannot all be blamed on Democrats, unions and their allies in poaching the public purse.
Remember Bob Taft? Remember state elected Republicans and those in Washington as they emulated Democrats? Yep, they were spending our money like drunks in a Tijuana whorehouse with no repercussions or remorse.
They did so to be re-elected or they had convinced themselves that government, and our money, could right the ills of a society that government had caused in the first place. Either way, a disaster.
If workers and business continue to flee Ohio we won't have to worry that 30% of workers will have to support the other 70% of Ohio's population. At that point
How low Ohio has sunk. If things do not turn around dramatically and soon, Ohio's demise will be imminent.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
INTERNET WARNING:
If you get an email titled "Nude photo of Nancy Pelosi," don't open it...It contains a nude photo of Nancy Pelosi.
Friday, January 29, 2010
Zack Space Reneging His Cap And Trade Support
Yep, time for little Zack to try to move back to the middle after voting to undermine and over tax his constituents since the last election.
Lawmakers Form Coal Caucus in Congress
By the next election day Zack should once again be just to the right of Ronald Reagan.
Lawmakers Form Coal Caucus in Congress
By the next election day Zack should once again be just to the right of Ronald Reagan.
Queen Pelosi Vows A Health Care Reform That Her Subjects Don't Want
Food and booze Pelosi has announced after Scott Brown's taking of Ted Kennedy's that she will "let them eat cake" if they're too poor to pay for her socialized medicine program. How nice of her to deign to speak to the people in between jet trips.
U.S. Democrats vow to move ahead on healthcare
U.S. Democrats vow to move ahead on healthcare
High Speed Trains From Elsewhere May Go To Nowhere
Obama is giving Ohio big money to start a high speed train system. Huh? Why? It's a big money we don't have that will spent on trains that nobody wants which will be used by crowds of people big enough to almost fill a Prius which will get people there faster and cheaper. In other words, high speed trains in Ohio is a government boondoggle just for show.Oh, and the boondoggle will be foreign built using foreign technology.
Another tidbit not quite bantered about by supporters is that the money isn't enough to complete the system here in Ohio. Who really needs a high speed train from the wrong side of Cleveland to Blue Ball, Ohio?
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Cult Suicide By Presidential Decree
The polls are all out there. Virginia, New Jersey and now Massachusetts have slapped Obama in the face. People are angry nationwide with lefties more angry than most and Obama sends a clear message through his Maltese Falcon, Gibbs, that their losses are victories because the polls show it so and they are staying the course.
Unfortunately, the course is so foggy and inept that most people don't know the course setting, but they know they don't like it.
A year ago I saw Hope, Change and Obama on every surface possible. Today, even Volvos display a shadow where those stickers have been torn off. The cult of Obama is in shambles as is his administration and his presidency, but Obama keeps touching on, thinking deeply and showing his shallowness at every turn, especially as he worries about things that citizens don't care about.
What was heralded as a new beginning is now nothing. Jobs are gone, homes are gone and Obama doesn't seem to get it nor does he seem to care. He offers up now cliched platitudes about Bush's fault, corporate greed, banker fat cats, truck driving fools and countless insults against every faction of society and as a child would, sinks into his presidential throne and sulks.
Those that have and do represent the greatness of America weep while those begging for more government largess keep grabbing for more as the ship sinks.
The cult is rearranging the deck chairs.
Unfortunately, the course is so foggy and inept that most people don't know the course setting, but they know they don't like it.
A year ago I saw Hope, Change and Obama on every surface possible. Today, even Volvos display a shadow where those stickers have been torn off. The cult of Obama is in shambles as is his administration and his presidency, but Obama keeps touching on, thinking deeply and showing his shallowness at every turn, especially as he worries about things that citizens don't care about.
What was heralded as a new beginning is now nothing. Jobs are gone, homes are gone and Obama doesn't seem to get it nor does he seem to care. He offers up now cliched platitudes about Bush's fault, corporate greed, banker fat cats, truck driving fools and countless insults against every faction of society and as a child would, sinks into his presidential throne and sulks.
Those that have and do represent the greatness of America weep while those begging for more government largess keep grabbing for more as the ship sinks.
The cult is rearranging the deck chairs.
Friday, January 22, 2010
Zack Space Sick Over Health Care Wind Changes
Thanks to WMD
Space Says No to Healthcare Bill
An Ohio Congressman takes a stand when it comes to the healthcare debate.
Takes a stand? Yeah, and if you don't like it, just wait minute...
On the heels of an announcement by House leadership that they may try and bring the Senate Healthcare Bill to a vote in the House of Representatives, Congressman Zack Space says the legislation is unacceptable to the 18th Congressional District, his constituents and Ohioans across the state.
Unacceptable? Like Cap and Trade? Like all his other votes for socialized medicine? Where's he standing now?
In a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi the Congressman says he will not support the current healthcare bill saying that by forcing consumers to purchase insurance it will mean higher costs for constituents and mean a financial burden they cannot manage.
Financial burden? You mean like all the trillions of dollars that we don't have, but Zacko still votes to spend? That's a stance. Right?
Space also says he's disappointed that the leadership would even consider this plan.
Disappointed? Yeah, Zack we're pretty disappointed in the leadership being demonstrated in Washington, but you stay firm in your stance on puppies and free candy for all.
Gee, I wonder if a wind of change named Scott Brown blew up your skirt. Uncomfortable, eh?
Space Says No to Healthcare Bill
An Ohio Congressman takes a stand when it comes to the healthcare debate.
Takes a stand? Yeah, and if you don't like it, just wait minute...
On the heels of an announcement by House leadership that they may try and bring the Senate Healthcare Bill to a vote in the House of Representatives, Congressman Zack Space says the legislation is unacceptable to the 18th Congressional District, his constituents and Ohioans across the state.
Unacceptable? Like Cap and Trade? Like all his other votes for socialized medicine? Where's he standing now?
In a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi the Congressman says he will not support the current healthcare bill saying that by forcing consumers to purchase insurance it will mean higher costs for constituents and mean a financial burden they cannot manage.
Financial burden? You mean like all the trillions of dollars that we don't have, but Zacko still votes to spend? That's a stance. Right?
Space also says he's disappointed that the leadership would even consider this plan.
Disappointed? Yeah, Zack we're pretty disappointed in the leadership being demonstrated in Washington, but you stay firm in your stance on puppies and free candy for all.
Gee, I wonder if a wind of change named Scott Brown blew up your skirt. Uncomfortable, eh?
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Ultimate Guide To The Stupidity Of Government Control
Today is the anniversary of the enactment of prohibition. The government, in all of its glory, set out to save America from itself. Just as today we have the green movement, anti-tobacco zealots and over reaching paternalistic Judas' such as New York Mayor Bloomberg, prohibitionists enacted onerous taxes, fees, programs to indoctrinate the youth and segregationist laws placing saloons and bars away from downtown society. In short, prohibitionists knew better than the joe sixpack of the day much as blue staters today want to lord over red staters and other Americans too "dumb" to know what's good for them.
So, on the anniversary of prohibition we find ourselves facing a different playing field with the election of Senator Scott Brown which leaves today's "prohibitionists" short one vote for their health care reform. The have done to their current targets of prohibition, such as tobacco, the same things they did then to alcohol. They have taxed, regulated and harassed doctors, insurance companies and to the average citizen they have offered government care for the betterment of all.
Just as the society controllers of prohibition failed then, they will fail now. Just as they put millions of Americans out of work then, they will do so now. Just as they created organized crime then, they will obliquely create new crime and new crime syndicates now. Just as then, government is not the answer now.
As with the federally enacted prohibition against the imbibing of alcohol, today's purveyors of mandatory health care cite the need for such legislation as a moral imperative for the health of the nation, the health of industry and business and for the good of society as a whole. Indeed, just as prohibitionists spoke of the dregs of society, the indigent, the immigrant, the negro and the rural ignorant, being helped, today's "reformists" speak in more veiled terms of he disadvantaged, the undocumented, the mentally challenged and those unable to grasp the true needs of a modern day society. Prohibitionists thumped Bibles for the cause and marched and swung axes in pursuit of propriety. Today's reformers thump political tracts and 'white papers" of reported gravitas, march and swing government promises and money in pursuit of a just society.
The people are awakening, just as they did to the unintended consequences of prohibition, to what this massive government takeover of health care will mean to their lives. People have historically trusted politicians in this country and that trust was and now is being betrayed by politicians. These politicians believe they are smarter than those they represent and as is usually the case, politicians are quite surprised when a wake up call points out just how stupidly they have been acting.
Scott Brown is the de jour wake up call.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Meatloaf Loves Obama, Except For That Whole Two Out Of Three Thing
How many elections can Obama cause to be lost?
He went to support Coakley and he caused defeat. Coakley is now talking about wars past, as if she could even begin to understand any conflict in her whiny concession speech.
She only shows how stupid she is..
He went to support Coakley and he caused defeat. Coakley is now talking about wars past, as if she could even begin to understand any conflict in her whiny concession speech.
She only shows how stupid she is..
Obama Rejected By The Slovenly, Fat, No Brain America That Makes America Work, Kennedy Weeps, But Not For Mary Joe
Scott Brown Wins Massachusetts Senate Seat - Coakley Concedes
She, as Obama, has been a wuss. Ted Kennedy's seat has gone to a Republican.
The liberal/progressive/socialist/communist party in America has been told to shut up, you're killing our party and now we have lost the safest seat in America.
Good for the people.
She, as Obama, has been a wuss. Ted Kennedy's seat has gone to a Republican.
The liberal/progressive/socialist/communist party in America has been told to shut up, you're killing our party and now we have lost the safest seat in America.
Good for the people.
Brown Has Won
How much will the Democrats mitigate the victory? Cut the margin of victory, that's how. And they will do it. Just to lessen the slap in the face the Democrats have received. It is they're only hope.
Coakley Looking Bad
It appears that all there is to decide is whether the voters and Brown win or whether the unions, ACORN and a totally out of touch Democrat machine wins.
No Unshaven Jihadis
Just got back. I talked to a good Father, good friends and family members that are shrinkologists and I still cannot find the plan or the logic in a wonderful life gone so soon. At his point any plan or logic is beyond my understanding ergo I will not write about it again until I do.
I spent days with old friends, many that I have not seen for years. In and out of conversations the main topic was Scott Brown. Those of the old school scoffed that a Republican had no chance while the converted dreamily smiled that Brown will win. For the most part those I spoke with wouldn't understand Massachusetts politics if it bit them.
I believe Brown will win the election, but I am not sure that he will win the count.
On the plus side, absentee ballots had to in and logged before the machine knew it was in trouble. Without the multiple voters and the dead Coakley loses a vast edge. With all the typical union thug money and boots on the ground Coakley gets back some edge, but the electorate seems to have finally tired of the same old schtick. Polls, always unreliable, and anecdotal evidence such as yard signs and die hard Democrat neighbors who are voting for Brown can't tell the real story. Massachusetts has produced winners before that were 9 points down before the election, but won by 4.
The real election will be in the precincts after the polls have closed and might be decided by the (re)strength of the Kennedy machine that has become somewhat complacent. With the death of the Lion of the Senate, Dearest Teddy, still fresh in some minds the machine may creak and move into action. Still, the machine may have lost its lust with the last of the Kennedy boys gone.
One can't really get the gist of successful political tactics while sipping drinks at the yacht club with someone else's wife. The younger Kennedys might be counting on the Southies to do their magic, but are the Southies still in the game? Will they turn their rough and tough minds and fists to politics once again to ensure a group of swill sipping punk kids of the older generation will stay in power? If it were me, I'd tell them it ain't rain making them wet.
Will the army of Kennedy volunteers rise one last time like Napoleon's ghost army to protect the first family of Massachusetts? Will the numbers runners fill the back counting rooms to fill the ballot boxes with the correct number of correct votes precinct by precinct? Have they this time even taken the time to make those numbers add up in just the correct ratio?
I don't know.
One thing I did learn on this trip is that when a sad, unshaven old man in a dress coat two sizes too large approaches airport security, he gets through security a lot faster than those less tired and better groomed. I presume that in the footnotes of the TSA manual there is mention of the fact that there are no unshaven Jihadists.
I spent days with old friends, many that I have not seen for years. In and out of conversations the main topic was Scott Brown. Those of the old school scoffed that a Republican had no chance while the converted dreamily smiled that Brown will win. For the most part those I spoke with wouldn't understand Massachusetts politics if it bit them.
I believe Brown will win the election, but I am not sure that he will win the count.
On the plus side, absentee ballots had to in and logged before the machine knew it was in trouble. Without the multiple voters and the dead Coakley loses a vast edge. With all the typical union thug money and boots on the ground Coakley gets back some edge, but the electorate seems to have finally tired of the same old schtick. Polls, always unreliable, and anecdotal evidence such as yard signs and die hard Democrat neighbors who are voting for Brown can't tell the real story. Massachusetts has produced winners before that were 9 points down before the election, but won by 4.
The real election will be in the precincts after the polls have closed and might be decided by the (re)strength of the Kennedy machine that has become somewhat complacent. With the death of the Lion of the Senate, Dearest Teddy, still fresh in some minds the machine may creak and move into action. Still, the machine may have lost its lust with the last of the Kennedy boys gone.
One can't really get the gist of successful political tactics while sipping drinks at the yacht club with someone else's wife. The younger Kennedys might be counting on the Southies to do their magic, but are the Southies still in the game? Will they turn their rough and tough minds and fists to politics once again to ensure a group of swill sipping punk kids of the older generation will stay in power? If it were me, I'd tell them it ain't rain making them wet.
Will the army of Kennedy volunteers rise one last time like Napoleon's ghost army to protect the first family of Massachusetts? Will the numbers runners fill the back counting rooms to fill the ballot boxes with the correct number of correct votes precinct by precinct? Have they this time even taken the time to make those numbers add up in just the correct ratio?
I don't know.
One thing I did learn on this trip is that when a sad, unshaven old man in a dress coat two sizes too large approaches airport security, he gets through security a lot faster than those less tired and better groomed. I presume that in the footnotes of the TSA manual there is mention of the fact that there are no unshaven Jihadists.
Monday, January 18, 2010
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