It's been 8 years, 3 months, and 30 days since 19 islamic terrorists used commercial airplanes to attack the United States. Like most Americans, I can remember exactly what I was doing on September 11th, 2001. I also remember what emotion I was experiencing. I remember because it has not gone away.

I remember seeing video of the first plane already lodged in the Tower and thinking "oh my God, what a tragedy". I was thinking that there had to be a mechanical error and hoping it was pilot error. Then the second plane hit. The sadness immediately turned into anger. I knew this wasn't an accident. Before reports started coming in on who could've done this I knew it was some radical nut jobs working on the orders of an enemy of liberty. As corny as that sounds, it's exactly what I thought. I also "knew" that they had to be led by an islamist who had decided to attack the "Great Satan". I had no proof, only a feeling. The enemies of liberty had decided to take the war to us.

The hub of anti-Liberty activity is in the Middle East region. Syria, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Oman. Their religion is Islam. Their "prophet" is Mohammed. Their god is allah. Historically it has been a violent trifecta that has refused reform. Unlike The Christian and Jewish Testaments, the islamic koran cannot be reformed unless it is re-written and passages are deleted. The islamists also follow the "actual words" of their "prophet called the hadiths. These would also have to be re-written or negated altogether. But who am I to tell another religion what they have to do in order to join us in the modern world?

The 19 men who hijacked those planes were extreme religious zealots representing a group called Al-Quaeda (The Base). This organization is led and financed by Osama Bin Laden. His base of operations were in Afghanistan where he was protected by the Taliban led government. This is all information that everyone knows. Unfortunately this is where most people want it to end. A small group of extremists and nothing more. This is far from the truth but it becomes convenient from those who want to deny that the world is at war and that it is more than likely a religious war.

The Western World has spent the last 2 centuries trying to eradicate religion, especially Christianity and Judaism. Generation after generation, people have slowly turned their backs on religion. They have created a void in their own lives that they have tried to fill with material goods and humanistic philosophies. In the beacon of the Free world, the generations have gone backwards not only in faith and religion, but intelligence as well. Replacing true knowledge with "feel good" psychologies, we have failed to comprehend what is happening around us. We have turned to destroying ourselves with insatiable greed and lust and made ourselves vulnerable to these types of attacks. We are constant attack by the radically religious islamists while we continue to destroy ourselves from inside. The mightiest army in the world is useless when those who provide for that army lack the will, courage, and religious fire needed to fight these murderous zealots. They know this.

After the attacks happened I started to think of all the attacks, I could remember, that have occurred for years in the Middle East. Groups like Hamas, Fatah, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, Peoples Liberation Front for Palestine, Hizbullah, Islamic Jihad, Islamic Brotherhood, Black October, etc. What America faced on that one day had been occurring for generations in the Middle East. Busloads of school children blown up. Shopping Malls filled with people destroyed. Weddings and other gatherings shot up.

Then you look to the South in Africa and see the same and worse taking place. Everywhere islam is making inroads there is extreme violence. Fear and oppression is their strategy. Rape and murder are their tactics.

The lone free nation that confronts this type of activity on a daily basis is Israel. Since it's rebirth in 1948, the Israelis have had to consistently and continuously stave off islamic onslaughts. From islamic armies to terror attacks. The mode of attack has changed but the constancy of attacks haven't. There are many in the modern west that see liberty as a privilege as opposed to a right. They believe this thinking that they will be part of the "elite" when Americans cede their rights and liberty. They think they no better how to make decisions for the serfs and peasantry. This new elite is non-religious, fascist, self aggrandizing, and self deluded. They see all violence in defense of liberty as evil. Except for their own of course. Moral relativism plays a strong leading role in this elite.

The free people of the world are not at war with Al-Quaeda, as the President of the United States seems to think. We are at war with a violent, militaristic, evil ideology that wishes to destroy all vestiges of human individuality and rewrite the definitions of liberty and freedom. This evil ideology declared war on us a long time ago. They have done nothing to hide their end goal. Only the new elite seem to not recognize what is happening. Worse than that, they are denying the very existence of evil. To admit that there is evil would be a knock against their ignorant relativistic ideology.

I have not forgotten 9/11. I will never forget 9/11. I can still imagine the bodies falling from the towers 90 floors up. I can still imagine the bodies being crushed as the buildings came down. I can still imagine the bodies burning as the planes crashed into the buildings. I am still angry. I still want vengeance. At the same time, I can hear the screams of little schoolchildren on a bus being blown up. I can here the screams of horror as Brides and grooms are shot by masked gunmen scream "allahu akhbar". I still remember the evil drama as Israeli athletes are murdered at the Olympics. I still see the vision of Daniel Pearl in the last seconds of his life. Somehow, the mere death of Osama bin laden will not put out this fire.

Mr. President. We the free people of the world recognize we are at war. We are at war with a religious ideology that your own father probably agreed with. We are at war with an ideology that would have us all living in the bonds of slavery. We cannot continue to look upon these people and their ideology the way we want to. We have to look upon them the way they are. We must confront their attempts to hijack our language of freedom and liberty. We must call them what they are and treat them appropriately. They wish for martyrdom and their virgins. Give them what they wish for.

Mr. President, if you are to be the leader of the free world, then act as a free man. Quit condoning and/or ignoring evil acts. Quit providing excuses for countries and peoples that have been around for centuries and millennium longer than we have. They should know better. As the saying goes, "Live free or Die".

Sections in Legislation that state that no following Congress can change or repeal the bill. Votes taking place in the middle of the night. Discarding the voice of the people and doing what they want. Our government is no longer of, by, and for the people. It is a communistic guise hiding behind the facade of democracy.

This is what happens when ideology trumps everything, especially reality. The modern democrats continue to push that their actions are for our own good. They won't run up trillions of dollars in debt. The give money we don't have and promise a future that no longer exists. The people take to the streets but they ignore them. They call them names and accuse them of everything from racism to being stupid. This is NOT how a representative republic acts.

The present government is taking away our future and it is all our own fault. The ignorance of economics and history as well as the lacksadasical attitude towards our government led to the present situation. The media takeover by socialist ideologues has fed the American brain with low calorie mush. The academic lean towards socialism is filling our brains of the future with empty rhetoric and ideas that lack any foundation in reality. 

There is a civil war coming. It will start with people in the streets and if things don't take a change for the better it will become violent. The government has overextended its duties and is determined to make the people follow its will. The only way for this to continue is for the people to allow it. It's time the people sat back and actually attempted to think. The government never makes money all it can do is take it and spend it. It has determined that it even has the right to spend what it doesn't have yet. Thus, leveraging our future on their political ideology. If they can bankrupt us then they can control us. Don't allow it. It's time people of all colors and creeds did more than push back.

This country was designed and built on Rigged Individualism not group thought. Freedom requires responsibility. If you don't want to be responsible then move to France. I hear they love the mediocre.



 

The present Executive Administration would have you believe that America is responsible for all the wrong-doings and misery in the world. The despots that rule numerous countries and the genocide they practice is all the fault of American hubris. The selfish idea of American Exceptionalism is the cause for everything from AIDS to famine. If it weren't for American liberty and Rigged Individualism, there would be peace and all would have everything they need to not only survive but to prosper on a larger scale. Unfortunately, the Executive and Legislative branches of the American government have jumped on this badwagon and are steering America to unprecedented levels of failure.

The socialists and communists that have lives among us have now taken over the direction of the nation. They have used the language of liberty to enslave us. They have learned from our natural enemies that the easiest way to get an American to go against our own principles and interests is to use our own words against us and to ignore those who refuse to bend. If you ignore people, they don't exist in your world. This prevents hard questions from being confronted and allows for unrealistic approaches to problems. You can even make up problems to create your own crisis. Barack Obama has been in office for less than a year and everything has been a crisis that needs to be acted on NOW!

People claimed they wanted "health reform". What did this mean? No one really paid attention to what they people were really saying. What they were saying is they liked what they had they just wanted a few tweaks here and there and everything would be better. Instead we are getting a massive overhaul of the existing system that will lead us down the path of a communist system. I assume people still know what communism is. It was what we, the free capitalist republic, were fighting against for 50 years. We, the continuously growing and prosperous America, were fighting the misery ridden communists.

Our public school system is horrendous at best. No matter how much money is thrown at them or how the standards are set, we release more and more 18 year old ignorants into society. The schools have become nothing more than daycare centers for adolescents and juveniles. It doesn't teach history, math, science, or literature. It teaches sex ed and how not to be a bully unless the other person disagrees with you. Our younger generation is going to inherit a debt thrust on them by a generation that lacked any self discipline. Tragically most of the younger generation propably doesn't realize their is a b in the word debt. This means, not only can they not fis it, they lack the rudimentary tools to even try.

The socialists and communists that have lived as a fifth column wothin our borders have denied the reality of their ism's. Millions of people died in the past century kliving under these conditions. They don't care. They are either downright evil or outright stuipid. The stupid one's think they can do it better. So instead of killing millions we can all live in equal squalor. The evil ones see themselves in charge of the new party order. They will be the politbureau and the party leaders who ne better what is good for you than you do. They will make sure that no one excels in order to prevent a violation of insensitivity.

In their world there are no winners are losers. There are workers  the elite. The elite will do all your thinking. They have spent the past few decades labelling people and putting them into separate groups. They have justified this under the misnomer of diversity. They ahve forced multiculturalism down our throats and made hate crimes accusations against those who refused to conform to the expected group think policy. After dividing us, they are going to claim that we cannot possibly decide for ourselves what is right and wrong for our lives. They will take it upon themselves to tend to all of our needs. Unfortunately, these people not only don't understand how people work, they don't understand basic economics. How are all these programs to "help us" get paid for when there are no longer people making enough money to pay taxes?

While I'm on the topic of money, what makes a person, who gets paid millions to pretend he/she is someone else, have the nerve to try and tell me how I should live? How many billions of dollars are in Hollywood? If these self absorbed victims of abuse (you name the category) actually practiced what they claim to believe there wouldn't be a homeless, hungry person in Los Angeles. After all these taxes that are coming go into affect, these people will be just fine. It will be the rest of us getting the shaft. It will be the workers and the entrepeneurs that live in apartments with rationed heat and electricity. It will be our children that go to even worse schools than what we have now and they won't be able to get jobs. The present econmic situation is untennable and getting worse. The government is spending money that doesn't exist and leveraging our future with vacuous hopes of a Chinese bailout.

At best Barack Obama and the present majority in the Congress is Socialist. Tragically there is enough of a tinge of communism to make this recent approach at manipulation and control to be evil by it's very definition.

For fans of Robin Hood, you are in the process of experiencing the premise in real life. Produced and directed by the elitist American Left. You say it is the evil conservative republicans who create scenarios where people rob from the rich in order to provide for the poor, I say you are ignorant. The present situation and the path that the Obama administration is taking the United States is exactly where Prince John took England. Barack Obama is starring in the role of Prince John. Taxes, taxes, he needs more taxes. Stimulus packages based on non-existent monies, proposed Cap and Trade that helps fill the coffers of lobbyists and leftist supporters, Global Warming policies that have no basis in reality but do provide money to the elites, Tax cuts that are about to expire, and a “health insurance reform” bill that will require an increase across the board in taxes.

everything about Barack Obama and his policies point to increased taxes. Despite his misgivings of “only taxing the rich” these programs will require more taxes than the rich can provide. All of this, so he can dictate how we should live our lives. Playing the role of the Sheriff of Nottingham is the Congress. They are acting at his beck and call. They will manipulate the language, lie to the public, and then collect their ill-gotten gains while crushing the hopes and futures of the people. (A quick question: How can you support a politicians that votes for a bill without reading it? )

For years the mantra of democrats has been racial and class warfare. They have accused the rich of being callous and wicked. They have accused America of being a racist nation oppressing minorities. Yet it was the Democrat party that split because of the Civil and Voting Rights acts. When they lost that battle they supported policies that would ensure that people remained slaves to the state. They sided with people who failed in life and then claimed that society owed them. It wasn’t society that failed these people. It was these people who failed society and themselves. Rugged Individualism has been replaced by selfish metrosexuials. Back to the original premise.

Barack Obama needs to raise taxes in order to get what he wants. What he wants is a socialist, at least, electorate who will do as their told. He has started the process of creating class elitists where it didn’t exist before. GE made sure to jump on the bandwagon early. Now Comcast is in the mix. The propaganda machines called Main Stream Media was also on board early. Those that control the news, control the opinions.

Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein, Charles Rangel, Barney Frank, Carl Levin, Barbra Boxer, and others are all on board with their Prince. They don’t care who they step on or who they destroy. None of these people could spell economics let alone understand capitalism. Nor do they see the self destruction of this nation if we continue on this path of government control. Then again, maybe they know exactly where they are leading us. This makes it even more vile and more like the Robin Hood story. The only thing they care about is themselves. As long as they and theirs have what they need, to heck with the average guy.

This group of politicians lives in a world worse than one of denial. They live in a world of self-serving refusal. It will be We The People who pay the price. Unfortunately we brought it on ourselves. The majority fell for the anti-Bush rhetoric. Though the Republican party has a lot to answer for, they were far less dangerous to our liberty than the Democrats are. We The People ignored all the warning signs about Barack Obama during the election period. Racism, socialism, connection to anarchists, and other signals were cast aside as the result of a “hard youth” and mere conservative propaganda. Now it is all coming to a head. Though my ire is directed at Barack Obama and his lackeys, We The People are to blame for the current situations.

Only a farcical politician could claim to “spend our way out of debt”. How many people out there have filed bankruptcy at one time or another? What got you in to that situation in the first place? You cannot spend more than you have for an extended period of time. At some point it all comes due. Prince John and the Sheriff have put us in this position with our blessings. Though people may have taken to the streets recently, it was the people who gave Prince John this power in the first place. He isn’t going to listen to us peasants. Though he liked the polls when he was running for office, he ignores them now. He declared that their would be a new tone in Washington. The only think that has changed is the signature of the President. The Democrats don’t even pretend to be “bi-partisan”. A recommendation to the republicans if they ever get the majority back. DO NOT GIVE IN TO THESE SELF-SERVING EGOISTS.

In the end, Prince John will be humiliated and exiled. Until then we have to do what we can with a country that is not be led but bled.

Down with Prince John.

It is blatantly obvious that Barack Obama lacks any education in regards to the Art of  War. Had he been a bit more studious, he may have learned that his approach to the war in Afghanistan as well as his attempts to be friendly with murderous thugs were/are destined for humiliating failure. His Afghanistan speech let every one of the enemies in the region know the intent of the US military for the next 18 months. This is a clear violation, according to Sun Tzu, of war tactics and strategies.

Though the enemy be stronger in numbers, we may prevent him from fighting.  Scheme so as to discover his plans and the likelihood of their success.

The plan has been loosed. There will be 30,000 more troops sent. That will take a few months to get them all there. They have until July of 2011 to get the Afghani’s prepared to take over their country and the US is going to leave. What does this tell the enemy? They can lay low for a while. They can launch a skirmish or two regularly just to agitate the Americans. When July of 2011 comes, they will commence their withdraw. Once the last American is on the plane home, hello South Vietnam. Don’t think it can happen? You don’t know history. Especially recent history.

In making tactical dispositions, the highest pitch you can attain is to conceal them; conceal your dispositions, and you will be safe from the prying of the subtlest spies, from the machinations of the wisest brains.

Who needs prying eyes when the Commander-in-Chief has a loud mouth? The enemy is well aware of the self-indulgent pacifistic apologizer who is in charge of the US military. Tragically, the US military is well aware of who sends them to die. The 30,000 troops heading to Afghanistan are now wondering why time, money, and resources are going to be wasted for this man’s feeble attempt to appease instead of fight a war.

How victory may be produced for them out of the enemy’s own tactics–that is what the multitude cannot comprehend.

This one is so blatantly obvious. The multitude in this case is the Obama administration, the leftists in politics, media, and academia.

Hostile armies may face each other for years, striving for the victory which is decided in a single day.  This being so, to remain in ignorance of the enemy’s condition simply because one grudges the outlay of a hundred ounces of silver in honors and emoluments, is the height of inhumanity.

In other words, war has an obvious financial and human cost. If it isn’t worth the cost, don’t go to war. Also, don’t play games with the soldiers that are at war. Either support them fully or bring them home.

One who acts thus is no leader of men, no present help to his sovereign, no master of victory.

Barack Obama has made himself, what  Sun Tzu calls, an Inward Spy.

Having inward spies, making use of officials of the enemy.

The best intelligence informant the Taliban, Al-Quaeda, Iran, Hizbollah, and others have is the present American administration and it’s media. All they have to do is turn on the news and they will need to know all they could ever need to plan and scheme their actions.

Sun Tzu has to be shaking his head in disgust.

233 years ago, a bunch of loud mouthed rabble rousers attempted to follow the rules put in place by a King a couple thousand miles away. They filled out the proper forms, dotted the I's and crossed the T's. They utilized the proper protocol. They waited for their answer. They were denied. People had enough and took to the streets. The King was informed of the going's on yetcould not be persuaded to live by his own rules.

The descendents of those rabble rousers are at it again. The new king is the President, Barack Obama, and his kinsmen, the House and Senate of the United States. These people were duly elected to represent their constituency. Instead, they refuse to heed those who have tried properly to make them do what is right. These "representatives" have decided they know better than the people and that the people need to pay homage to their enlightened education and views. Anyone who disagrees with them is derided, chided, and considered racists or some type of phobe.

Time is ripe for a revolution. The people spoke out of confusion and anger in the last election. Many failed to realize the consequences of their angery vote. Then again, there wasn't much to choose from. The President has elevated himself to the role of King. The voice of the people is ignored this unheeded. This will create much more anger than George W. Bush ever could. The anger at the previous President bult up over 8 years. The anger at ther present President took less than a month. From the bogus stimulus package to the taking control of major corporations and banks to the present "health care" takeover. Billions of dollars in debt that will be left to future generations to payback if it ever does.

He may try to ignore the accusations of socialism but what he is doing is even worse. Negating personal responsibility and tossing on the shoulders of the government. This is as un-American as any one can get. The onus for success and failure in  life rests with the person. Handing that responsibility over to someone else, especially the government, is an admission of failure and the responsibility still rests with the person who has tried to avoid it.

King Barack has a crew pulling the strings. His lackeys are spending their time accusing all of their enemies as bigots or worse. No, the President has attempted to outwardly keep above this fray. However, those he has surrounded himself with indicate that these words are well in line with his own ideology. Stealing from the rich to give to the poor is only a noble deed if the rich being stolen from are corrupt and evil and the poor are just the trodded on subjects. In America, if one chooses to educate themseleves and has a strong work ethic, they will not remain poor. King Barack is out to change that. In his mind, all poor people have no chance to get out of poverty. He sees the United States as no better than the USSR or Cuba. Ironically, he seems to want to put their ideologies into play in the Land of the Free.

The King and his lackey's are going to learn a lesson the hard way. Their stay in power is going to be short lived. Tragically, neither the Democrats nor the Republicans ever understood why the Republicans were taken out of the majority. Hopefullt someone is listening now.

"Whenever the US offers a smile, it hides a dagger in his back," said Khamenei according to the state news agency. He rejected "talks in which the US decides about its results in advance."

Here's a little bit of info for the next time the Ayatollah refers to the United States in any way. We refer to our country as the Motherland. Therefore, the proper pronouns would be SHE and HER. Get it straight. If the Ayatollah actually knew something about women, this would make him anxious. Instead, he supports the complete subjection of women and considers them to be exactly what mohammad said they were. Weak willed at best.

This being said, the ayatollah must never have heard the phrase "Hell hath no fury, like a woman scorned". Mothers are protectors of children and the house hold. They will defend their families to the death (At least "Old Fashioned" women did). They defend their husbands and will not allow anyone, no matter how powerful, to besmirch their family name or reputation. Women are the compassionate and passionate of the parenting duo. Whereas Father's teach discipline, responsibility, accountability, integrity, humility, loyalty enforced by courage, Mothers ensure that they don't become to rigid and mean in their practices. Mothers are also the last staunch line of defense from a serious beating by Father.

Mothers are accepting and love their children no matter what they do. Mother's suffer heartache after heartache as their children grow and mature yet they never give up on them. This is the plight of a woman.

The ayatollah better take note of this. A woman will attempt to be nice until provoked to anger. A woman's anger is a fury that few, if any men, can match.The only thing more dangerous than an irate woman, is a man who is defending the woman who has given him an unadulterated love. Attack a Man's Woman and be prepared to spend the rest of your life sipping dinner through a straw.

America is a woman who protects her own. America is the woman who loves all of her children no matter how bad we act up and how stupid we may act at times. America is the woman who always smiles when rise in the morning. She is the woman who is always happy to see us and hear our stories no matter how trivial or embellished they may be. America was a women given to us by our creator that deserves the respect she has garnered. There is no proper way to pay this woman back. Therefore, there are millions of men who are willing to sacrifice the lives for this beautiful, compassionate, caring woman.

I recommend the ayatollah get this right in the future. We may have a knucklehead for a President. He may have an administration full of wanna-be socialists and bigots. This does not define who WE the American people are. We say what we mean, and we mean what we say and no politician can change that.

Ayatollah, we will not stab you in the back. You will see us coming from miles away. Millions of American's tired of being pushed around by you backwards living, murderous thugs who lie to us with smiles on your faces. We will hide nothing. You'll see the hordes approaching and be able to do nothing. You will run in fear and throw your own citizens into the death fray. You will sacrifice all for your own well being. We don't do things that way here. We sacrifice ourselves for the well being of our Lady. G-d gave us this lady and we WILL protect and defend her.

The present US administration is following a very simple process. First, start a fire. Whatever it takes there MUST be a fire to put out or it will "appear" that we are doing nothing. So far, the fire has been Health Insurance, Global Warming, and Economic Disaster. The best way to start the fire is to spew emotional diatribes and to get as many of the masses stirred up as possible. If proof shows that there isn't really a fire, continue with the diatribes anyhow. As we all know, tell a lie enough times, people will start to believe it. Having the media on your side is also a must.

Second step, put the fire out. Though it is an imaginary fire that is really consuming nothing, you have already convinced people that they muist get out of the house so the fire can be extinguished. A major problem arises when the second step is taken and the masses haven't been convinced. This is the problem that Health Insurance and Global Warming have run in to. Despite the best efforts of the firestarters, they couldn't corner the ideological market.With the help of the media they have saturated the airwaves and newspapers with the doom and gloom of bit issues. Unfortunately, the masses realized that the previous fire, economic destruction, is being made worse by the firestarters response. They are no longer giving in to the diatribes and misleading statements. This puts the firestarter into a very precarious position. They can't admit there isn't a fire because they will suffer ridicule and embarrassment. Though, because many have caught onto their bogus charges, they are already starting to face this. There present response is to deride and ignore those who claim there isn't a fire. In other words, "chicken little has come home to roost and the other chickens are mad". The firestarters have no other choice. They lied to get this "fire" started so it isn't in them to confess the truth even if that would be what is necessary to put this "fire" out. Pathological liars know no other way to deal with issues. Unfortunately, they will follow this path of lies to their own destruction. Tragically, it will affect others more than them.

Because they have failed to convince people of a fire and therefore have nothing to put out, they can no longer be the hero. This eliminates step three. Only in their own minds can they see themselves as heroes. They will claim that the "masses" just don't know what is good for them. Welcome to modern politics.

Everything that Barack Obama and his administration is attempting to do was predictable. If those millions of people who bought his books actually read them they would have been well informed as to what the ideological bent of Barack Obama is. despite this, his own words gave is intentions away. The masses anger at the previous administration consumed the people. The protest vote against John McCain, somewhat deserved, also helped. Unfortunately, America got the President it voted for. A socialistic, borderline communist, that wanted to reshape and restructure the foundation of our country. That is exactly what he is doing.

When I was a child, between 9yeras old and 12, I use to have conversations with my friends about certain girls we liked. Because of our age and our boiysh ways, many girls didn't want anything to do with us. We use to imagine ways to get certain girls to like us. It bever failed, someone always came up with the idea of staging an act. This act usually involved one of the boys verbally assaulting the girl. Meanwhile, the boy who liked the girl would then "fight" the verbal assaulter to defend the girls honor. All of this to get the girl to like him. As pathetic as that sounds, it is even worse when applied by adults in positions of serious authority and responsibility.

Mr. Obama it is time for you to grow up and have grown up ideas and actions. You can't go back and have your Father not leave your mother. You can't go back and be raised by your parents instead of your Grandparents. Your childhood should have ended a long time ago. Your immature, unrealistic ideas are going to destroy many people. Anyone willing to follwo this man is just as immature, naive, ignorant, and downright stupid as his approach ot governing has been.

Max Baucus:

America’s Healthy Future Act of 2009

Funny how this one is only 223 pages. There was no specificity in HR3200 yet there was 1017 pages.

Democrats were quick to charge that the Congressional Budget Office had already claimed that the new "health Cre Reform" plan put out by Max Baucus would actually cut the budget deficit. When I finally was able to read the CBO's report here is what I found:


The CBO's Initial Report

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) have completed a preliminary analysis of specifications for the Chairman’s mark for proposed health care legislation that were provided by the staff of the Senate Finance Committee. (CBO has not completed a review of the document entitled “Chairman’s Mark, America’s Healthy Future Act,” which was released by the Committee earlier today.)

This would seem to refute the political double speak and semantic game that has taken place so far today. The CBO has not reviewed the official release. All they reviewed was a few specifications. Here are some Caveats to the report:

First, while we understand that specifications provided to CBO were intended to be consistent with the Chairman’s published mark document, CBO and JCT have not reviewed that document to determine whether it conforms in all respects to those specifications.

Second, CBO has not yet completed its review of legislative language that would translate those specifications into law; review of that language could have a significant effect on the analysis. In particular, this analysis reflects an assumption that sufficient reporting and enforcement provisions will be included to implement the specified policies in an effective manner. More generally, as CBO’s and JCT’s understanding of the specifications improves, that could also affect our future estimates.

If it looks like a politician. sounds like a politician, and act's like a politician, then it's a politicians. Don't trust it.