The OMB-CBO throwdown – HotAir

HotAir has a great article up here and even have an exclusive in it, so I am not going to say anything about it except GO READ IT NOW!

WaPo Shocker: President Is Hiding Costs of Obamacare – NewsBusters

Now how am I supposed to write about something if you guys do such a good job? 

Apparently someone at the Washington Post got hit with a blinding flash of the obvious and wrote about it.  Amazing.

This part of it is just perfect!  (Emphasis is mine)

Take Mr. Obama’s red pill-blue pill example. What if the pricey blue pill is actually better than the cheaper red one? What if it’s better but just a little bit? What happens when a yellow pill comes along, costing twice as much as the blue? What happens if there’s a new procedure that cures the ailment, but at an even bigger cost? [...]     

The fundamental driver of health-care inflation is technological innovation. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that new technology accounts for about half the increase in health-care costs over the past several decades.

This is, for the most part, a good thing. Adjusted for inflation, health-care spending per person is six times what it was 40 years ago. But no one today would settle for 1960s-style medicine. Treating patients with heart disease was inexpensive then, because there wasn’t a great way to detect problems before a heart attack and not much to do afterward. Today, angiograms can diagnose blockages. Bypasses and angioplasty can fix them. Drugs such as beta blockers can prevent repeat heart attacks. So spending for coronary care has soared, along with survival rates. Some medical innovations can save money, but the general arc has been better treatment — at higher costs.

I can write all I want about this, but the guys at NewsBusters did a great job and I highly suggest you visit thier article and read the whole thing.

Just Funny – Words of Widsom for an Evil Overlord

No, this is not tips for Obama.  Its just a really funny list of tips if you are going to be an Evil Overlord.  You know the type, the Goldfinger trying to kill James Bond, 007 types.

Here you go.

 

Some of my favorites:

2. My ventilation ducts will be too small to crawl through.

43. I will maintain a healthy amount of skepticism when I capture the beautiful rebel and she claims she is attracted to my power and good looks and will gladly betray her companions if I just let her in on my plans.

46. If an advisor says to me “My liege, he is but one man. What can one man possibly do?”, I will reply “This.” and kill the advisor.

Pure gold.

Charles Krauthammer suggests that the press lets Obama get away with anything so he thought he could say anything about race he wanted to

I always liked Charles Krauthammer.  I don’t always agree with his analysis, but you are guaranteed that whatever he does come up with is well reasoned and thoughtful.

Newsbusters has an article up about Krauthammer explaining how Obama thought he could get away with insulting a white officer for arresting a biligerant black man who was breaking into a house and refused to identify himself.  The reason is simple, the press kissed Obama’s ass every other time, why wouldn’t they ignore his racism this time?

Sublime, Charles.  Absolutely sublime.

“A lot of the Obama presidency is a contest between his intelligence and his arrogance” and he thought “he can say anything on race and is so smart that he will be untouchable.”

One reason for that, Krauthammer contended, is that after he “gave the famous speech in Philadelphia” on race in March of 2008, in which “he did not renounce Jeremiah Wright” as “he blamed everybody for racism — black, white and grandmother, except himself,” he nonetheless “was hailed by a supine press as the second coming of Lincoln at Cooper Union. So after, that you think you can say anything on race and be hailed as a genius.”

Outstanding point.  The press kissed his ass for so long that he is completely shocked when someone in the press actually questions  him.

I have actually told people that I absolutely expect him to snap at some point, lashing out at someone who questions him for having the audacity to question the One.

Obama has always had an ego several orders of magnitude larger than his intelligence, but the press has been feeding it since day one.   The question is, how will his ego going to deal with the questions and upsets that are starting to come faster and faster.  My guess is he will blame everyone else.