Via Philip Klein at American Spectator:

Shortly before midnight on Sunday, Democrats released a 2,309 page health care bill that will start the process of reconciliation — but don’t let that fool you, it’s not the actual reconciliation bill with all the changes you’ve been reading about. Instead, as Rep. Paul Ryan, the ranking Republican member on the Budget Committee, explained to me last week, this is just the “shell” bill — the vehicle that Democrats need to get moving on health care. Once the bill gets approved (likely Monday), Democrats will send this phantom bill over to the Rules Committee, where it will be  stripped, and then they’ll insert in all of the actual changes that they’ve negotiated.

Why all of the theatrics?

Well, under the reconciliation rules in last year’s budget, any reconciliation bill would have to have been submitted to the Budget Committee by October 15, 2009. It just so happens that earlier versions of health care legislation cleared the Ways and Means and Education and Labor Committees last year. So Democrats just dusted that legislation off, and are using that as the vehicle to begin the reconciliation process. That’s why, for instance, if you look through the 2,309 page bill that was released Sunday night, you’ll find a public option, which leadership has indicated would not actually be in the final bill. (Interestingly, the student loan bill is also tacked on at the end.)

I’m not sure how this whole thing is legal. Not only is this NOT the Senate bill, but they haven’t even passed anything. How can they reconcile something they haven’t passed?

I hate Statists!

Take note that the White House is at the foot of the cross. Obama is so great that HE transcends even that lowly estate of the White House. America is but a stepping stool to this man.

Wow, I guess I need to go wash my mind out with soap now.

I love how people like to use the section in Acts where everyone in the community sold what they had so that no one would be poor. They like to use this as an example of what Obama is bringing to the table. But it’s not. It was charity. They as individuals did it of their own accord without the government telling them what to do or doing it for them. It wasn’t government wealth distribution as Obama wants to enact (on a larger scale than present). It was charity.

It’s clear, if you listen to Beck, that he is talking about social justice from the standpoint of government being the answer to our needs. In fact the photo labeled ‘charity’ in this post is one that Beck painted himself. But those who want to smear him will continue in this vain because their motives are evil. It’s that simple. They need to shut him up and they are doing everything in their power to make it happen.

I guess they think that the American people are stupid, that we who listen to Beck aren’t smart enough to distinguish between their smear and what Beck is really saying. And that is why come November that they will lose their super majorities and perhaps even their majorities.

Also, if you haven’t signed up for Insider Extreme, the only way you can watch the 4th hour, you should do so now. It’s awesome.

Enjoy:

Also, consider this an overnight thread so feel free to discuss anything below.

Come on Robert Gibbs, you guys really, in a White House press conference, you have nothing better to do at a time like this? You know I kind of wanted to shout out to the TV at he, Gibbs who represents the President of the United States of America in a White House press conference, “really you’ve got nothing better to do here? You’re boys are in the house perpetuating problems in our country resulting in huge job losses, high unemployment, negative economy, and by the way remember guys we’re a country at war. You’ve got nothing better to concentrate on?” With issues like that I say, “Washington and the media elite, quit disrespecting the wisdom of the American people!”

Thanks to CynicalSerenade for uploading to YouTube.

H/T to Johnny Dollar:

Feel free to discuss!

Video 1:

Video 2: http://video.foxnews.com/#/v/4103289/similar-but-different/

I would weigh in with my thoughts, but to be honest I am torn between the arguments that Beck & Stu are making. I will say that I’ve never been a proponent of nation building, as George Bush advocated back in the 2000 Presidential debates. Off the cuff the idea of responding with force to someone who attacks us and then letting them put the pieces back together has some merit but I can also see the good that’s been done in Iraq from staying with them through this process and helping them develop a government that will make them more stable.

Also, if you don’t listen to the end there’s a good chance you could misunderstand what Beck’s reasons are for his stance, and his time-line of when it should happen.

I look forward to a good discussion here. Enjoy the video: