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Conservatives listened intently to the president's congressional address yesterday evening, including me; I watched it with a friend and live-blogged the event while a local news crew affixed a mic to my shirt and videotaped me in the event that my head exploded. I began compiling a round of of what some of my favorite female conservative bloggers had to say in response to the presidential address; most all shared similar concerns.
Truth be told, I almost girl-shrieked from excitement when Obama mentioned tort reform - I mean, we simply cannot, CANNOT have health care reform without some semblance of tort reform present. I literally had an "OMG for serious??" moment. My excitement waned as the president glossed over the issue and made no mention even of trial lawyers.
I've read a good deal of responses from the gents; here's a compendium of responses from the ladies:
And speaking of double standards, check out this video flashback of how Democrats heckled and booed President Bush during his 2005 SOTU address when he addressed the issue of Social Security. Ed Morrissey notes the hypocrisy of their then-versus-now attitudes on decorum.
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You and your party are being “called out,” President Obama: The Democrat assertion that Republicans want to “abolish” Medicare is a lie.
Michelle's live-blog at A Traditional Life Lived:
7:31 Mis-states another HC statistic again. We have a much better track record for survivability.
7:32 Has he seen the fines Congress is proposing right now?I wish my President would stop calling me a liar on national T.V.
President Obama offered no ideas on how the trillion dollar reform will be financed. Voters know. It will be taxes on small business and on those not desiring insurance coverage. They will be 'fined', which is code for tax. Doctor wages will be reduced. Hospital reimbursements will decline. You get the picture.
Another interesting moment happened when the President declared there are 30 million uninsured. That number is down from the number normally bantered about - 47 million. Why? The lesser number takes out the illegal immigrants. Obama has to make the claim that illegal immigrants will not be covered.[...]
"We will call you out", he told the audience, on any perceived misstatements on his plan. Problem is, he has no plan. He has some bill moving around Congress but he didn't participate in the writing of the legislation and he appears to not know many details in the 1300 pages of legislation to be voted on in the House. He is deliberately short on details, falling instead into talking in campaign style talking points.
Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.), who yelled out “you lie!’ in the midst of President Obama’s speech before a joint session of Congress, has called the White House to offer an apology to Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.
He apologized? For telling the truth?
As mentioned above, the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service found that the bill would, indeed, cover illegal immigrants, however inconvenient it may be for liberals to admit.
Here is the video from 2005, in which you can hear Democrats yelling and booing over George Bush as he talks about social security reform
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For one brief, shining moment at least one Republican grew a pair. And sadly, he then remembered that he has an (R) next to his name, so he immediately surrendered his balls back to Obama again. Sigh.
DUDE. Read. My. Mind.
Personally, I would've told Rahm Emanuel that the president can have his apology when he apologizes to millions of patriotic Americans on behalf of his campaign apparatus for calling them "domestic terrorists" in a memorial post about 9/11. When Bush said "you're with us or against us" he was speaking directly to rouge nations, NOT people - making such a skewed analogy
