HEALTH CARE HUSTLE

The health care intervention summit can be summed up thusly:

The Democrats spoke for a total of 5 hours 46 minutes and the Republicans were allowed to speak for 1 hour 50 minutes...and the Republicans still won.

Pelosi told a whopper, but Harry Reid was determined to outdo her. 

Obama got testy but still managed to avoid the subject he was being grilled on.  "We can have a debate about process or we can have a debate about what the American people need right now."  Translation:  "How dare you call me out on that - stay on topic!"  (Saul Alinsky translation - the ends justify the means - it doesn't matter how we got here; what matters is that we're here.)

All in all, it was sort of fun - in a really excruciatingly boring way.

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HEALTH CARE HUSTLE

HERE WE GO AGAIN

Tomorrow must be a day ending in -y, because the White House is holding another summit.  This time it's for Joe Biden's favorite three letter word - jobs.

Interesting that they aren't inviting the Chamber of Commerce to the summit, though.  One would imagine it might be a good idea to give a seat at the table to the group that represents small business.  You know - the creators of  64% of all jobs in the country?

But instead, in their now typical fashion, they are mad at the Chamber and are refusing to talk to them.  'Cause they're totally mean and, like, totally dissed ObamaCare.  And that was, like, seriously uncool.  So the administration's not going to, like, talk to them until they apologize and junk.  You know?

So who is going?

Well, it's the usual lineup.  Unions, academics, and CEO's - many of them major donors, of course.  Pretty much the same crew who gave us the first stimulus bill. 

Really instills confidence, huh?  Here's hoping this is really only a glorified photo op to make it look like he is working hard at something for the 'working families' he keeps yammering about, much like some other summits this White House has indulged in.  God forbid we get Stimulus II out of it.

President Nero is just fiddling away, isn't he?

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HERE WE GO AGAIN