Doctors For Obamacare (Bumped)

Juxtapose! 60 Comments

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
My Fox Boston, 2009

Others at Tuesday’s meeting were more supportive of reform.
Dr. Sheila Leavitt, a physician from Newton, said she hoped for changes that would support primary care physicians who aren’t paid as much as specialists. She said some of the rowdy critics at Tuesday’s meeting appeared to be using the same “talking points” as those who showed up at similar meetings around the country.

Boston Herald, 2005

You could call Sheila Leavitt a nutty, annoying, unrelenting Newton leftie who home-schools the kids and raises chickens to share eggs with neighbors, not to eat. She is, of course, a vegetarian. sheila_leavitt.jpg

I see her as one of those rare people who puts their convictions on parade, then faces uneasy consequences. Like the beefy, mad, middle-aged guy who followed her around the Esplanade yesterday, before dawn, tearing down her “Impeach Bush” posters as fast as she put them up. Or the trucker she said rear-ended her at a Mass Pike toll booth, sending her head into the steering wheel of her ’88 Toyota Corolla with bumper stickers saying “War is barbaric” and “Support our troops . . . Draft Jenna & Barbara,” as in Bush. […] She worked for John Kerry’s election, driving Ohio voters to polls. One was an 80-year-old, black double amputee who’d spoiled his mail-in ballot. She said getting another one, on Election Day, took three hours. She also said she saw hours-long lines at black precincts and none at white precincts. Now she’s convinced GOP operatives stole the election and that the press has ignored it.

Bloggers – running the Google searches journalists won’t do!

I just received this message from one of our “Nash-ional” conference attendees (Dr. Sheila Leavitt, MD). She has already done the critical groundwork today to get everything that you have to document the 2004 election theft in front of Jimmy Carter, both directly through his assistant on the newly formed election commission AND through Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. Please — EVERYONE OF YOU — take a half day (or more or less) to flood President Carter’s office with documents and charts and graphs and reports and testimony and legal motions and web-links and, and …

The only thing I can’t find is evidence of is a practice.
Update: Gateway Pundit noticed, too. As did Bucks Right. (Correction – Bucks Right noticed first.)
Second Update: I just got off the phone with an Associated Press contact in Massachusetts, informed her of the questions arising on the blogosphere about Sheila Leavitt, and was told they’d check into it.
I suggested they try Google.
Update: A commentor purporting to be Leavitt’s son at Bucks Right states Leavitt received the required medical training but has not practiced in 26 years. Other sources suggest she hasn’t practiced medicine at all.

Ve Have Vays Of Making You Shut Up

Great Moments In Socialism 25 Comments

Hope, change, threats to target your executives;

Letters sent to 52 insurance companies by Democratic leaders demand extensive documents for an examination of ‘extensive compensation and other business practices in the health insurance industry.” The letters set a deadline of Sept. 14 for the documents.

Related: “I am finally scared of a White House administration.”
Much more of this, and I’ll be breaking out Hugo’s bulldozer for these posts.

You Misunderstood, Mr. Goldfarb

Dogblogging 86 Comments

Those dogs weren’t screwing those old people – they mauled them to death.

“You are more likely to killed by a bolt of lightening than by a dog,” said Adam Goldfarb, a spokesman for the Humane Society of the United States. “It’s one in millions.”

There have been at least 20 deadly dog attacks in the U.S. this year, 22 in 2008 and 33 in 2007, Goldfarb said, compared with about 75 million owned dogs. Many dogs that turn vicious aren’t necessarily pets but kept for hunting or breeding, or as guard dogs.
Dogs that attack also typically are not spayed or neutered, which can contribute to aggression, Goldfarb said. He said it’s likely the dogs in the Georgia attack weren’t sterilized.
Canine ticking time bomb – how long before she kills?

The Humane Society of the United States – now using dead bodies as propaganda billboards. Do yourself and your pet a favour. Don’t give these animal rights zealots your money, unless lawyers are among your favoured charities.

Y2Kyoto: We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans

Great Moments In Socialism 62 Comments

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June 25, 2009 – The World Wind Energy Award has been given for Minister Smitherman’s outstanding achievements in making Ontario the leading wind energy jurisdiction in North America. Under his political responsibility and leadership in the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure, the Green Energy and Economy Act was initiated and adopted as a decisive step in establishing a strong domestic wind and renewable energy industry in Ontario
August 17th, 2009 – Today it became public that Hydro One has asked the Ontario Energy Board for permission to raise the cost of distribution to all Ontario customers an average of 9.5% in 2010 and 13.3% in 2011 to cover $266 million dollars in costs relating to their four year Green Energy Plan for 2010 to 2014. By 2011 the impact of this $266 million will be an average increase of 24.3% over two years on the delivery portion of every Ontarian’s hydro bill.

Pissin’ Off The Posties

The One 32 Comments

Is there nothing that Obama can’t do? (link fixed)

“With all of these efforts underway within the Postal Service community, it was a kick to the chest to have you take a shot at a group of federal employees who are working hard every day to support this country.
“Employees of the Postal Service are largely represented by unions and management associations, all of whom strongly supported your candidacy last year. For our support we do not expect any special consideration. However, we would like to be treated fairly and not have our current situation misrepresented, especially by the Commander-in-Chief.”

Bringing America together, one bus wheel treadmark at a time.
h/t

That Wet Flapping Sound You Hear In The Distance

Baiting The Left 90 Comments

…is the air going out of the left’s balloon.

Not bad work, for a Palestinian guy from Chicago.
From the comments – “Politicians, and especially you “professional” journalists out there take note of how quickly this image went viral – forget why, for a moment, if that is possible for you intellectual giants in the print news industry – and think how. And you clowns still think you control public opinion?”

The New “Made In Chicago” Democrats

Political Animal 44 Comments

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May, 2006 – “I think if Mr. Harper was listening to Canadians instead of American right-wing pollsters, he would be taking very different positions on issues,” said New Democratic Party Leader Jack Layton. He added that Canadians should be concerned about Harper meeting with Republican pollster Frank Luntz last Friday.
August, 2009 – Federal New Democrats listened eagerly Saturday as members of the team behind U.S. President Barack Obama’s historic electoral victory in November shared their winning strategies.
h/t Frank M.

Raising Republicans From The Dead

The One 27 Comments

Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?

Self-identified conservatives outnumber self-identified liberals in all 50 states of the union, according to the Gallup Poll.
At the same time, more Americans nationwide are saying this year that they are conservative than have made that claim in any of the last four years.
In 2009, 40% percent of respondents in Gallup surveys that have interviewed more than 160,000 Americans have said that they are either “conservative” (31%) or “very conservative” (9%). That is the highest percentage in any year since 2004.
Only 21% have told Gallup they are liberal, including 16% who say they are “liberal” and 5% who say they are “very liberal.”

It’s A Quagmire

The One 27 Comments

And the generals are straying from the battle plan;

An administration official said tonight that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius “misspoke” when she told CNN this morning that a government run health insurance option “is not an essential part” of reform. This official asked not to be identified in exchange for providing clarity about the intentions of the President. The official said that the White House did not intend to change its messaging and that Sebelius simply meant to echo the president, who has acknowledged that the public option is a tough sell in the Senate and is, at the same time, a must-pass for House Democrats, and is not, in the president’s view, the most important element of the reform package.

Victor Davis Hanson;

Ironies abound in the health-care debate. Bush was pilloried by the Obamanians for (1) not planning for the postwar occupation of Iraq; and (2) not being able to articulate the ends and means of the administration’s war. Yet in the hubris of high ratings, Obama apparently felt that he neither had to present a comprehensive finished blueprint of health-care reform, nor that he or his associates should have to sum it up succinctly and clearly. The result is that most Americans not only do not know what the administration plan is, but sense that their president does not either.

Except that Bush eventually won in Iraq, while Obama looks to be the first American commander since Robert E. Lee to face defeat on home soil.
Plus – the incoming president of the Canadian Medical Ass’n tells us what we already know. (link fixed) Well, what most of us forced into this ridiculous system know, anyway. If there’s any single reason not to adopt publicly funded health care it’s this – it is guaranteed to render your political class deaf, dumb and terminally stupid.

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