Mini-Props For A Mini-Link

We are going to give some props to the NY Times - on their "Politics" page under the section titled "Politics Headlines From Around the Web" they currently include a link to my post noting that in a Times interview Obama did support something akin to "death panels" and mocking the Times for being unable to research their own archives in tracing the source of the death panel rumors.

One hopes they are mulling the implications of Obama's earlier rhetoric.

Comments

[Gmax]

NAW they just lost the e-mail addy for the flag WH site and knew if they pinned you to the bulletin board for their dwindling down to the humanity dregs liberal loon readership, so one else would nominate your for the IRS protoctology exam you so richly deserve!

[Gmax]

so = some

And my name is Clarice and I live in Georgetown if any of the licelike minions are looking for TM minions to gather up during the "cleansing"!!!

[Jane]

WOW TM, I'm impressed. Congrats!

[PeterUK]

Looks like the NYT has noticed what a turkey the president is,and is looking for a member of the VRWC to suck hole to.

[Dorothy Jane]

I reported myself as having read that very post to [email protected]

[narciso]

Great news, TM, and a mention on "REdeye" now if they could get rid of the Greg Sargent link, unless it's a subtle hint
that's the way you don't do journalism.

BTW in the LUN, a hat tip that Lincoln Diaz Balart, is in the running to replace Martinez for the Senate, they'll probably
go safe with Smith or Bense, but it's a
sign of something.

[Charlie (Colorado)]

"Mention" hell, it was the lead story and quoted pretty extensively.

[PaulL]

My guess is, Tom, that when you called the NYTimes always reliable, they took that as a compliment.

[bad]

Hit, you have mail!!!!

[hit and run]

Got it...

[JM Hanes]

Props to you, TM, for actually crossing the NYTimes radar! Maybe while they're looking in, you should reprise your greatest hits on Krugman.

[bad]

Has anyone noticed TMs "evil mongering" heading at the top of the blog? I just noticed it.....

[matt]

are we evildoers yet?

[narciso]

No, Matt, mongers just gather, son't actively participate, it's like a solar panel array

[Jane]

I saw it today or yesterday bad. I like it.

[Pops]

You will never get Obama and the left to now admit they will kill Grandma, but for years they have boasted that that is exactly how they planned to save money and pay for the uninsured.

Of course now they will couch it in terms of stopping 'unnecessary' and 'wasteful' practices.

But if you actually listen to their argument - they say private insurance companies deny care and kill people today - so what's the difference.

Today of course their is no difference really - except the morality of the state that believes it has infinite resources to go 12 trillion in debt - why wouldn't they spend another 1,000 dollars on a surgery?

But as Obama said before the SEIU - he wants to get to a single payer system in 10-20 years. Once you get to single payer - you also have a single decider.

Then you have no alternatives, you can't switch companies, you can't buy another policy, you can't pay out of pocket, because the government controls the resources.

As Obama himself has said - FedEx and UPS do pretty good, but that's only because they are not wrapped in a Federal blanket of control. Just try to get FedEx to send your package across the country overnight if the government mandates they can only bill you for 5-7 day delivery.

[Pops]

Wouldn't it have been wonderful if someone at Obamas town hall stood up and said:

Mr. President, I have the solution to health care for all; just give all Americans their own personal health care credit card with a limit of 12 Trillion dollars that they never have to re-pay.

[Ann The Mannequin]

Hey JOM evildoers,

Should we each pick a mob name?

I like Goldielocks, but think "Ann The Mannequin" probably fits better. :)

[bad to the bone]

Ann, I'm going with "bad to the bone."

[PeterUK]

Ladies. Please look at these before embarking on your downward path.

[bad to the bone]

Thanks for the edification, PUK. I promise never to impregnate anyone and then ignore them...

[Ann The Mannequin]

PUK,

I pass those everyday. :) We have six Hogarth's engravings and they line the hallway in our house.

I am sure they will be the first things sold, by our daughter, when we go over the river. :(

[PeterUK]

bttb,
That's easy for you to say!

[matt]

a K Street allegory, PUK? Or would it be The Waxman's Progress?

[PeterUK]

AtM,
Threaten to haunt her.

[PeterUK]

Matt,
Could be the Chicago Shyster.

[Porchlight]

PUK,

I saw the originals at the Soane Museum last October! Brilliant.

[sylvia]

Congrats Tom! You are in the bigtime now!

["breaking glass"ater-mob moniker]

But as Obama said before the SEIU - he wants to get to a single payer system in 10-20 years. Once you get to single payer - you also have a single decider

Pops-
Wonder if Zero's planning on staying in office all that time to make sure his healthcare plans go into effect.

[Captain Hate]

Looks like the NYT has noticed what a turkey the president is,and is looking for a member of the VRWC to suck hole to.

Too bad they didn't consult us earlier.

[glenda]

Major props for a major link to our host, TM.
Now, if we could only get Obama to read JOM, he might understand the "angry mob".

[Extraneus]

Were we told that Barbara Boxer has published a new novel?

It had been a particularly intense day in [Senator Ellen Fischer's] D.C. office, with a steady stream of meetings, e-mails, and phone calls from organizations and constituents, all urging her to step up her opposition to Professor Frida Hernandez's nomination to the Supreme Court. There was little time left for any attempt to block the confirmation of the ultra-conservative professor. ... Ellen, a member of the [Judiciary] committee, had sought to challenge the nominee's strongly suspected bias against Roe v. Wade. ... Ellen knew that, once on the Court, Hernandez would help turn back the clock on Court decisions that Ellen believed were vital to the people.

I guess she read Tom Wolfe's A Man In Full.

[Extraneus]

(If you've read Wolfe's book, you'll know what I mean when you get to "See Sex Scene #4" at the link.)

[jimmyk]

Good catch, Extraneus. Boxer is not only a bad writer, but an unoriginal one as well.

But don't senators usually write books so that their constituents can purchase them by the thousands as a way to cover up pay-to-play? Surely no one would buy it to actually read it. There was some Democrat back in the 80s who got caught at this game, I can't remember who.

[bad to the bone]

Ex, I hated that book and gave it away, a very unusual thing for me.

[Extraneus]

Really? I thought it was great. Why did you hate it?

[bad to the bone]

I don't exactly recall, Ex, but think it had something to do with hating all of the characters.

[Extraneus]

Heh. I didn't like them either, now that you mention it.

[bad to the bone]

I had the same reaction to his "Charlotte" and "Bonfire of the Vanities."

[the bishop]

That was "Ft. Worthless" Jim Wright, jimmy, as Rush used to put it. Tom Wolfe's second offering really wasn't so good, Atlanta doesn't really compare with New York as a setting. His most recent which was eerily echoed the Duke University situation, was better. His next is set in Miami, with the whole cross cultural milieu, that one's going to be a scorcher

[the bishop]

I liked "Bonfire" hated the film version with the force of a thousand suns

[jimmyk]

I also liked "Bonfire," didn't enjoy "Man in Full" as much, also didn't like the characters, and that horse sex scene was too much. I love Wolfe's non-fiction writing more than his fiction. He's perhaps the greatest chronicler of the second half of the 20th century, and his art/architecture critiques ("From Bauhaus to Our House," "The Painted Word") are a riot.

[clarice]

Congratulations, TM.Be careful--they might make you news editor.

[sylvia II]

I really liked A Man in Full though it certainly wasn't for love of the characters. I enjoyed the way he set the scene. Couldn't get into Bonfire, though I plan to try again, same with Charlotte Simmons. Really looking forward to the Miami novel.

[the bishop]

You really have to be the contrarian, don't you,

[Porchlight]

I can't wait for the one set in Miami, bishop. Do you know if it is finished? I think I saw an NRO interview a with him a few months back where he mentioned it. Love that guy.

[Ignatz]

--sylvia II--

Please no. Not two.

[Neo]

But the bill [H.R. 1 EH AKA "stimulus"] goes further. One new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, will monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective. The goal is to reduce costs and “guide” your doctor’s decisions (442, 446). These provisions in the stimulus bill are virtually identical to what Daschle prescribed in his 2008 book, “Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis.” According to Daschle, doctors have to give up autonomy and “learn to operate less like solo practitioners.”

["breaking glass"ater-mob moniker]

Porchlight-
Did you know your "mob name" is Fancy Pants?

Just got the Josephine Tey mystery and just in the nick of time. Was running out of Wodehouse novels.

Years ago I read The Right Stuff and Space at the same time. I still get those stories mixed up a bit.

[the bishop]

With a title like "Back to the Blood" it's going to be a hot item, they may chase him away with a rake if his previous portrayals
are any indication,

[Ignatz]

Here's a nice reminder from Redstate of the thing no lefty would ever do with our healthcare; deny treatment for disease but offer to kill you instead.
It's already happening.

["breaking glass"ater-mob moniker]

Living close to the Oregon border and trying to help a young woman with a C7 spinal injury who was warehoused in an Oregon nursing home--I pretty well known of that state's health program.

All kinds of groups got together back when GHW Bush was in office and decided on some two hundred fifty health conditions they would cover and pay to treat.
It started with the best intentions but the state just flat ran out of money.
Thank goodness the young woman I was trying to help found employment and the love of her life in the Portland OR area and is last I heard is doing very well.

[Uncle Fred is always in the Springtime.]

Night Crystal, the blessed thing of Wodehouse novels is that as memory eases, the supply becomes inexhaustible.

[Porch "Fancy Pants" Light]

breaking glass/ater,

Fancy Pants - I like it! Let me know how you like the Tey...I'm re-reading The Nine Tailors right now and enjoying it more than ever (this time focusing on the church architecture).

["breaking glass"ater-mob moniker]

the supply becomes inexhaustible
Heh-Good point and so true of many of the books tucked away:)

Fancy--Got a little concerned when I opened "The Daughter of Time" and saw that pedigree chart.
I thought--how many folks am I going to have to keep track of here anyway:)

[Porchlight]

It is daunting! I don't think you really have to keep track, but it's a handy reference. Fortunately it's a short book. ;)

[glasater]

Thanks Porchlight:)

I hope I get a chance down the road to report on the Tey book.

You and Kim are convincing me to get that trunk of books out of storage and resurrect Nine Tailor and the "Jeeves" series. Wodehouse and his humor have certainly helped cheer a dark mood or two. Plus, Melinda's jazz recommendations don't hurt:)