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Howard Dean, Sarah Palin agree: Obamacare IPAB (Death Panels) will fail. A Limerick.

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On Obamacare IPAB
Howard Dean, Sarah Palin agree.
Once “the lie of the year” *
Those “Death Panels” we fear,
They will fail to the utmost degree.
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In a July s28, 2013 Wall Street Journal op-ed former Governor of Vermont Howard Dean said:

“The Independent Payment Advisory Board is a “health-care rationing body,” which has the power to set rates for certain procedures for Medicare and determine which procedures and drugs will be covered.

The IPAB will be able to stop certain treatments its members do not favor by simply setting rates to levels where no doctor or hospital will perform them.”

While Dean agrees that costs need to be contained, he says the mechanism that will run the IPAB — known as rate-setting — has a 40-year track record of failure.

Former Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin had the same opinion that it is a rationing body and the IPAB will decide who will die and who will live, strictly by bureaucratic regulation, not in a doctor patient relationship. She therefore dubbed them the IPAB “Death Panel.”

* PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year: ‘Death panels’
By Angie Drobnic Holan
Published on Friday, December 18th, 2009 at 5:15 p.m.

A winner in our “Lie of the Year” contest!
Of all the falsehoods and distortions in the political discourse this year, one stood out from the rest.
“Death panels.”
The claim set political debate afire when it was made in August, raising issues from the role of government in health care to the bounds of acceptable political discussion. In a nod to the way technology has transformed politics, the statement wasn’t made in an interview or a television ad. Sarah Palin posted it on her Facebook page.

Obama: Equality is better than growth. A Limerick

President Obama made his fourth or fifth, or maybe seventh or eighth, pivot to the economy on Wednesday, Jul. 24, and a revealing speech it was. We counted four mentions of “growth” but “inequality” got five. This goes a long way to explaining why Mr. Obama is still bemoaning the state of the economy five years into his presidency.
Obama has taken an oath:
“Equality better than growth.”
As he empties the well,
“Let the rich go to hell!”
In fostering growth he is loath.

Obama and his “phony” scandals. Sarah Palin to the rescue! A Limerick.

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Obama: “My scandals are phony”
Obama is full of baloney.
No, his scandals are real.
I’m beginning to feel
Sarah Palin will ride Reagan’s pony.
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Obama at Knox College, Ill. economic speech. A Limerick

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Obama’s campaigning at Knox.
He lies and he blames and he mocks.
In the school of hard knocks
He is cleaning our clocks.
But still can’t think out of the box.

Obama’s hour long rehash of his failed economy. A Limerick

In a campaign-style speech at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., Jul 24 2013 the president proclaimed that America during his presidency has “fought its way back” from the recession and called on voters to “pressure Congress to invest in our future” by spending more on such items as education, clean energy and infrastructure.
He predicted that if the Republicans resist his plans, the nation’s social fabric will begin to fray as resentment builds among lower economic groups.
It lasted for more than one hour and even the hand-picked backdrop looked bored out of their gourd. It was all a rehash of his campaign speeches from the last five years, no new ideas here. Oh by the way, the scandals are not phony.
Obama’s last speech, it can safely be said
Might render us all on that therapy pad.
I am but a peasant,
But it was as pleasant
As if I just then colonoscopy had.

Sarah Palin in Field day in Baltic S.D. Jul 25. A Limerick.

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Sarah Palin in Field day in Baltic.
When she speaks, it is making us all tick
It’s not “Carbon pollution,”
It is plant growth infusion,
She is my presidential pick.
Sarah Palin shared via Facebook: I’m so looking forward to joining hard working farmers in America’s heartland this week at the Ag PhD Field Day in South Dakota. It’s an honor to get to travel with my entourage (er, that would be Piper) to be with those who are feeding the nation.

MSNBC reeks a new low. Tampons for earrings! A Limerick.

Melissa Harris-Perry of MSNBC is showing the latest weapon against the Republicans “war on women.”
Wear tampon earrings!!
Kind of reminds me of what Napoleon Bonaparte wrote Josephine from a campaign, “I will return to Paris tomorrow evening. Don’t wash.”

melissa
Melissa is showing her taste
Let nothing that reeks go to waste.
It is a sight to behold,
but it still leaves me cold,
when private parts waste is showcased.

Obama, the race-baiter. A Limerick.

I have to confess, I am a news junkie.
Many years ago the Los Angeles police beat up Rodney King before a camera. No matter what channel I switched to I saw the same three second video clip. This continued for years until the trial, where the policemen were acquitted. Racial riots ensued. Rodney King himself lamented: “Can’t we all get along?”

When the U.S. Storm troopers did their successful Good Friday raid on Elian Gonzales to bring him back to Cuba after Bill Clinton had promised Fidel Castro he belonged with his father there was a photo of a boy scared out of his wits at the multitude of special forces attacking him, the media got enraged and showed it over and over again. But after about five hours the government told the press to stop. They obliged.

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Which brings us to the Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman tragedy.
Trayvon Martin is black.
George Zimmerman is White, Hispanic and 1/8 Black.
The FBI conducted a thorough investigation and concluded it was not about race.
The prosecution said it was not about race.
The judge said it was not about race.
The jury said it was never about race.
The defense said it was never about race, and not about “Stand your ground” either
The defense waved the “Stand the ground” hearing.
After the trial was over some in the media finally admitted it was not about race.
One week later at an unscheduled appearance at the White House daily briefing President Obama used this opportunity to say it is all about race and “Stand the ground”, thus fanning the flames of racial tension. This is not right!
On CNN John McCain agreed with the President and the “Stand your ground” laws.
We need a discussion on violence in America, especially black on black violence, but also mob violence in general. The Zimmerman trial is the wrong catalyst. Take a good look at any weekend in Chicago instead, Mr. President!

Obama, the race-baiter. Ouch!
He is but a miscreant grouch.
In this “teachable moment”
John McCain aids the foment.
Stand your ground!! Don’t just sit on the couch!

Sarah Palin’s Doctrine: “Let Allah sort it out!” A Limerick.

On U.S. military intervention in Syria’s civil war, where “both sides are slaughtering each other as they scream over an arbitrary red line ‘Allahu akbar’ … I say let Allah sort it out.”
So said Sarah Palin to the Faith and Freedom Coalition conference.

Sarah Palin’s new doctrine, no doubt.
It is this: “Let Allah sort it out.”
Let the Sunni and Shia
fight it out. Mamma Mia!
We will see whose Allah has more clout.

A pot-smoking paranoid boy could have been Obama 35 years ago.

A pot-smoking paranoid boy
Was Trayvon, sought fights just for joy.
Said Obama: “You see,
that boy could have been me.
I know, I am from Illinois.”

A black New York City pastor ripped into his congregation for seeing through hateful black eyes for condemning George Zimmerman and defending Trayvon Martin who he called “a pot-smoking munchies, paranoid 17-year-old boy.”

In a sermon recorded (the first video) the same day a jury of six women declared George Zimmerman not guilty in the death of Florida teen, Trayvon Martin, chief pastor at the ATLAH World Missionary Church in New York City, James David Manning, railed at his congregation for defending Trayvon Martin because he is black.

The second video is from President Obama’s unscheduled appearance at the daily White House press briefing Friday Jul 19 2013.