The Democrats continue to try to fan the flames of fake populist anger at big insurance companies. Why? To create support for their nightmare health care plan. Look at this.

Join Governor Howard Dean and help us perform a citizens’ arrest of the insurance companies

We need your help to put the insurance companies and every corporate enemy of change on notice: We will not allow the big corporations and their lobbyists to bully Congress into inaction.

Where: Gather in Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C. to hear Governor Dean, then march to the Ritz-Carlton Hotel where the insurance company conference is being held

When: Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
10:30 AM

Now reconcile their rally against big insurance with this:

Neither mentioned that the Senate health reform bill, which is the basis for Democrats’ last best chance at comprehensive reform, would give the insurance companies millions of new customers required by law to buy health insurance. It would also require insurers to cover everyone, regardless of age, gender or pre-existing condition.

To help pay for the new insurance requirements the government would give to people money to buy insurance – $336 billion over the next ten years. That money, ultimately, would have to go to… drum roll… insurance companies.

It’s all fake. It’s as fake as Obama passing out lab coats at a press conference.

I haven’t seen politics like this since I was in high school.

“Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil’s spawn, Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) said. “He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive.”

Rep. Massa describes a confrontation with Emanuel in a shower: “I am showering, naked as a jaybird, and here comes Rahm Emanuel, not even with a towel wrapped around his tush, poking his finger in my chest, yelling at me.”

You may remember that Senator Jim DeMint took a lot of heat for saying the exact same thing in July of 2009. The comments caused such a stir that the White House tried to spin it into a rallying cry for Obama’s base.

On Friday, on a “Conservatives for Patients Rights” conference call with conservative activists dealing with health care reform, Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., said, as Ben Smith at Politico reported, “If we’re able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him.”

You should expect to hear that quote this week from the White House as they use it to rally their troops, a White House official tells ABC News.

Officials will say the people being “broken” are the American people going bankrupt paying for health insurance premiums that increase 10 percent every year, the source says, and that those who want to use this issue to break the president are doing nothing but working for insurance companies and insurance executives.

Well it seems someone else agrees with Jim DeMint. That person would be Democrat Strategist James Carville, AKA the Ragin’ Cajun.

Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville said Monday that if President Obama is unable to push a health-care bill through the Congress it will be his Waterloo.

Carville echoed the term used by Republican Sen. Jim Demint, of South Carolina, who last summer made the comparison between the health-care fight and the decisive 1815 battle in modern-day Belgium that broke the French army under Napoleon Bonaparte.

“If the bill loses, it proves Senator DeMint right. It will, I think, by and large, be a lot of the president’s Waterloo, and I think a lot of Democrats realize that,” Carville said, speaking on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

Carville said he was not as confident as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, that there will be enough votes in the House to pass a bill.

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An excellent question which IBD answers in their own column. The media can’t ask that question because they’re all too busy praising Obama for his brilliant, incredible performance made of awesomeness.

Many viewers were wowed by the president’s performance at the health care summit, his command of facts and ability to rebut every point the Republicans made. We must have been watching another channel.

‘Obama dominates the room at health care summit” was the headline on a Reuters dispatch that found the president “always in command not only of the room but also the most intricate policy details, as he personally rebutted every point he disagreed with.”

In a Washington Post column titled “Professor Obama schools lawmakers on health care reform,” Dana Milbank marveled at how the president “controlled the microphone and the clock, (using) both skillfully to limit the Republicans’ time, to rebut their arguments and to always have the last word.”

Milbank went on to tell how Sen. John McCain got his “knuckles rapped” by the learned professor, how Sen. Mitch McConnell was made to “look small in his chair” and how various other Republican low-achievers felt the sting of Obama’s “big rhetorical paddle.”

But neither Reuters nor Milbank — nor many others, it seems — noticed Obama’s conspicuous non-rebuttal to Rep. Paul Ryan.

Ryan was the GOP superstar of the Health Summit. You can confirm it for yourself by watching this video:

My guess is that Obama didn’t respond to Paul Ryan because he can’t. To respond to Paul Ryan is to admit that everything he said in the video above is true. ObamaCare is an insane plan which sucks and the majority of the American people don’t want.

Facts like that don’t fit the narrative or help Obama in any way. Why would he respond?

Is this six minute segment featuring Rep. Paul Ryan who fillets the Democrats’ health bill numbers effortlessly while all Obama & co. can do is sit there and listen.

As Pelosi and Obama contemplate using reconciliation or the “nuclear option” to pass ObamaCare, it’s important that we all stroll down memory lane to see how the Dems felt about that kind of thing under Bush.

It’s amazing. They just refuse to let it die. It doesn’t matter what the vast majority of the American people say or do, the three headed monster known as Obama/Pelosi/Reid won’t listen.  They want to do what they want to do and the American people can go to hell.

The American people elected Christie and McDonnell, they ignored it. The American people elected Scott Brown, they ignored it. The town hall meetings, the protests, the tea parties, ignored ignored ignored. Rasmussen and Gallup polls show that Obama is in free fall and are promptly ignored.

Millions of people are still unemployed and some losing their homes as a result. All Obama cares about is what he views as his mandate.

President Barack Obama is putting forward a nearly $1 trillion, 10-year health care plan that would allow the government to deny or roll back egregious insurance premium increases that infuriated consumers.

Posted Monday morning on the White House Web site, the plan would provide coverage to more than 31 million Americans now uninsured without adding to the federal deficit.

It conspicuously omits a government insurance plan sought by liberals.

But it’s uncertain that such an ambitions plan can pass, since Republicans are virtually all opposed and some Democrats who last year supported sweeping health care changes are having second thoughts. After a year in pursuit of his top domestic priority, Obama may have to settle for a modest fallback.

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday he would participate, but insisted Obama and congressional Democrats would be wrong to push the bills they wrote in the House and Senate.

“The fundamental point I want to make is the arrogance of all of this. You know, they are saying: ‘Ignore the wishes of the American people. We know more about this than you do. And we’re going to jam it down your throats no matter what.’ That is why the public is so angry at this Congress and this administration over this issue,” said McConnell, R-Ky, speaking on “Fox News Sunday.”

The refusal of the White House to listen to the people is maddening. It reminds me of this classic old cartoon from The Electric Company. Give it a watch. The waitress is the American people and the customer is the Obama White House.

President Obama has invited Republicans to a health care summit but influential conservatives such as Michelle Malkin and Rush Limbaugh are warning the GOP that it could be a trap.

First, Michelle Malkin says:

Please.

The White House spends a full year trashing Republicans for having no ideas on health care reform.

The White House spend a full year promising transparency while subverting it.

And now, after a year’s worth of closed backroom meetings and midnight holiday weekend legislative sessions in which Republicans had severely curtailed ability to offer amendments, President Obama wants to invite them to a televised health care summit to talk about the GOP alternatives he said didn’t exist?

Rush Limbaugh agrees…

And what do you know? The Washington Post is now reporting that the Republican Party might be listening…

Leading House Republicans raised the prospect Monday night that they may decline to participate in President Obama’s proposed health-care summit if the White House chooses not to scrap the existing reform bills and start over.

In a letter to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (Ohio) and Minority Whip Eric Cantor (Va.) expressed frustration about reports that Obama intends to put the Democratic bills on the table for discussion at the summit, which would be held Feb. 25.

“If the starting point for this meeting is the job-killing bills the American people have already soundly rejected, Republicans would rightly be reluctant to participate,” Boehner and Cantor wrote.

How does that old saying go? Fool me once…

For a guy who spends every waking breath talking about health care, this is surprising. For the President of the United States to block health funding for the heroes of 9/11 is nothing short of sickening.

The Obama administration stunned New York’s delegation Thursday, dropping the bombshell news that it does not support funding the 9/11 health bill.

The state’s two senators and 14 House members met with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius just hours before President Obama implored in his speech to the nation for Congress to come together and deliver a government that delivers on its promises to the American people.

So the legislators were floored to learn the Democratic administration does not want to deliver for the tens of thousands of people who sacrificed after 9/11, and the untold numbers now getting sick.

“I was stunned — and very disappointed,” said Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who like most of the other legislators had expected more of a discussion on how to more forward.

“To say the least, I was flabbergasted,” said Staten Island Rep. Mike McMahon.

The cost of the bill is 11 Billion dollars over 30 years. Kinda small potatoes for a president whose favorite number is one trillion.

OK Andy. Whatever you say…

Someone get this man some medication.

ABC News’ David Chalian Reports:  One of President Obama’s strong supporters from the Labor community sees no other choice for Democrats than to pursue a long shot strategy in a last ditch effort to save the comprehensive health care reform effort that consumed Washington for most of 2009 from defeat.

SEIU President Andy Stern also charged that the reason Senate Democrats find themselves in their current predicament on health care is because some senators (read: Ben Nelson, Joe Lieberman) “acted like terrorists.”

“I think we saw in the Senate you know, death to change.   And I think the Senate has huge responsibilities here. They were given a gift, particularly in the fall, by the American people of 60 votes.  The ability to debate every issue and what did they do?  They squandered it.  And when I call them terrorists, they’re not — they’re good Americans — but they acted like terrorists and there’s a reason why America doesn’t negotiate with terrorists,” Stern told us on ABC News’ “Top Line” today.

Note to Andy Stern: Anyone who’s on a first name basis with Bill Ayers probably shouldn’t throw around accusations like “terrorist.”