‘This Is The First Step Toward Single-Payer: I Admit That’ | NewsBusters.org

Is anyone surprised by this?

Barack Obama likes to claim he believes in the free market, even as he lards his administration with what Hugh Hewitt has delightfully dubbed "Mickey Maoists" like Anita Dunn and Ron Bloom.
But Ed Schultz has given away the game.  On his MSNBC show this evening, Schultz said of ObamaCare: "this is the first step toward single-payer. I admit that."
Here’s Schultz’s full statement . . .

ED SCHULTZ: I will admit there’s one Republican telling the truth, and that’s Orrin Hatch, and that is, this is the first step toward single-payer. I admit that.

Schultz was alluding to the Utah Republican’s statement of September 29th, recorded here by Talk Radio News Service, that ObamaCare was a “Trojan horse for a single payer system”.

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Patterico’s Pontifications » NY Voter Fraud Case Heats Up

This does not surprise me.  What will surprise me is if anyone is actually arrested and conviced of it, no matter what the evidence.  I see the DOJ dropping the charges again.

For all who claim there is no evidence voter fraud impacts elections, Fox News reports the Rensselaer County Board of Elections in Troy, N.Y., has found 38 bogus ballots that an election official acknowledges likely tipped city and county elections to the Democrats:

“Thirty-eight forged or fraudulent ballots have been thrown out — enough votes, an election official admits, to likely have tipped the city council and county elections in November to the Democrats. Candidates would have been able to run both on the Democratic and Working Families Party lines in two weeks, and that could have given the Democrats the general election.

A special prosecutor is investigating the case and criminal charges are possible. New York State Supreme Court Judge Michael Lynch ruled that there were “significant election law violations that have compromised the rights of numerous voters and the integrity of the election process.”"

New York Republicans and Democrats blame the Working Families Party for the ballots, a group that has ties to ACORN and even the White House:

“The Working Families Party has recently gained strength, and controversy, in New York. Republican and Democratic candidates in the Empire State can also run on third party lines, such as the Working Families Party, as well as the Liberal, Conservative, and Independence parties, among others. The extra line means extra votes that could bring victory.

Patterico’s Pontifications » NY Voter Fraud Case Heats Up

Michelle Malkin » Obamacare doctor bribe fails in Senate, Reid whines

Poor Reid.  His bribe attempt failed.

It looked like the fix was in. The “Doc Fix,” that is. As the Heritage Foundation has been reporting, the White House and Dem leaders scurried today to try and pass a $247 billion payoff to doctors groups as an enticement to support Obamacare.

Surprise: The fix failed. The cloture voted on S. 1776 failed by 47-53.

Michelle Malkin » Obamacare doctor bribe fails in Senate, Reid whines

Too funny: Far left liberal Scozzafava holds photo op … outside Hoffman’s office. Wait. What? She’s a Republican? Really?

Ok, this lady is a joke in so many ways.  Hell, she is a moron even by democrat standards.

A reporter attempted to ask her some questions and she called the cops on him.  They her people accused him of screaming questions at her.  A shame for her that he recorded it.  They backed off that accusation.  According to the AP, “In a statement released Tuesday to the blog Politico, Scozzafava’s campaign said the reporter ‘repeatedly screamed questions (in-your-face-style),’ but later issued a statement deleting the accusation.”

She is afraid to have a debate with Hoffman and has refused his offers of one and then accused him of not wanting to discuss the issues.

She is pro-Abortion, pro higher taxes, pro-Stimulus bill, pro-Obamacare and for some strange reason she is… a Republican?  WTF?  Seriously.

So her latest fiasco and brain fart?  Lets look a the litany of fail.

• After the US is making fun of her for being afraid to answer a simple question about abortion and calling the cops, she decides that she needs to respond and tell people Hoffman has no “political courage”.
• Decide that the best place for this is in front of Hoffman’s campaign headquarters.
• Bring just a couple of your own people with you and leave lots of room for Hoffman supporters to come out of the door behind you with the signs they have hundreds of inside.
• Invite the press to watch you make a fool of yourself with “Hoffman for Congress” signs behind you.

All I can say is. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

A helpful hint from Dave Weigel to whoever it was on Team Dede that thought a presser outside the opponent’s HQ would be a smooth move: “Little-known fact: There are lots of campaign workers, and signs, in such offices, ready to be deployed.”

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The Jawa Report: New ACORN Sting Video: Philly!

UPDATE 2:  Big Government came out with this:

**UPDATE 2:24 PM EST** We muted the audio of the ACORN employees on the video released today due to ACORN’s legal attack upon us.  We call upon ACORN to state publicly now that it has no objection to the public release of any its employees oral statements to us.  If they are interested in the truth, why wouldn’t they do so?

UPDATE:  This looks like it is going to be crap.  Its obvious in the video that they were not kicked out, like ACORN claims, BUT it is edited with sections having the audio removed.  That’s a problem.  Up to this point, no one could question their accuracy, now they have opened themselves up to having that attacked.  Unless they release the un-edited version ASAP and it says the exact same thing, they may have done a lot of damage to themselves.  I don’t understand what possessed them to release this.

Oh noes… More ACORN fun!  And this was the office that supposedly kicked them out and contacted the police?  OUCH

I went to college literally five or six blocks from this ACORN office at Temple University. I’m not shocked, given the neighborhoods of that area, that this goes on.

They utterly DESTROY the tapestry of lies the ACORN worker and the leftwing apologists and ACORN defenders put forth in the press. Notice that Media Matters was all too eager to help spread these lies, and how the mainstream press flacks repeat the lies told to Media Matters. Over. And over.

These leftwing "activists" are terminally afflicted with an inability to tell the truth. Are you shocked yet?

Remember the "police report" this office filed? That they "kicked out" James and Hannah? Yeah – didn’t exactly happen that way. To paraphrase the immortal words of the much-maligned Joe Wilson, "YOU LIE, ACORN."

The Jawa Report: New ACORN Sting Video: Philly!

Hat tip to Atlas Shrugs for the link to Update 2

Should Sarah Palin go on Oprah? Of course. Does she have a choice?

People have been discussing this like she could really say no.  Yes, Oprah used her show as a platform to elect Obama and dissed Palin in the middle of the election.  Yes, this will not be a friendly venue, but that’s not the point.  There are several reasons that she has to go.

1. If she said no, she would be accused of being afraid to face questions
2. Obama has shown is fear of Fox News.  She can’t use the same excuse to avoid Oprah.
3. Sarah needs to prove that she is a better person by showing up
4. She needs the public exposure
5. She needs to show she can answer questions in public from a hostile source.

This is a pivotal moment for her.  She can really screw herself over here if she makes mistakes, but at the same time, she can come out of this with a HUGE jump in popularity and image.

I know Sarah has the ability and the morals to be a great conservative president, but she needs to convince the rest of the US.  She needs to get out there and let people see who she is and how she handles herself instead of letting the liberals in the press tell everyone how horrible she is.

She has to go on Oprah and she has to do well.  Good luck, Sarah.

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