More Gender Feminist Mooing

Joanne Lipman whines about the state of women  in the New York Times:

Certainly, when you look at the numbers, women have made tremendous strides over the past 25 years. But in the process, we lost sight of something important. After focusing for so long on better jobs and higher pay, maybe the best thing — the enduring thing — we can do is make sure respect is part of the equation too.

Hat tip:  Jennifer Rubin, Commentary.

Ms Lipman, you can not Title IX respect.   As for being percieved as bimbos, see Nna Burleigh.

Much like the proverbial dog chasing the car, now that Obama has caught the throne, he doesn’t know what to do with it.

William A. Jacobson, Legal Insurrection.

A little addendum to my comments about the “State of Emergency” declared by the President yesterday. Note, please the passage here,l in yet another AP story:

Administration officials said the declaration was a pre-emptive move designed to make decisions easier when they need to be made. Officials said the move was not in response to any single development.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius now has authority to bypass federal rules when opening alternative care sites, such as offsite hospital centers at schools or community centers if hospitals seek permission.

Two things leap to mind simultaneously.

First, that this amounts to a tacit admission that the rules that they are now bypassing block more efficient and better health care.

Secondly, that in a free market arrangement, such permissions would not need to be sought.  Hospitals would simply respond to their patients needs.

You go ahead.  Tell me about how government health care is going to be that much more efficient, and that much more patient friendly.  Tell me how government is supposed to be the solution to our problems, when in fact it is the problem. Of course the fixes cited are only a small part of the power granted in the “Emegergency” status.

Obama’s enemies are all Americans and he’s more willing to love-up to brutal dictators than he is to sit down with Republicans to discuss health care

Gerald Warner, via Gateway Pundit.

Our British cousins from across the pond are not as smitten with the one as the American media.

From the AP:

WASHINGTON -AP–  President Barack Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency, giving his health chief the power to let hospitals move emergency rooms offsite to speed treatment and protect noninfected patients.

The declaration, signed Friday night and announced Saturday, comes with the disease more prevalent than ever in the country and production delays undercutting the government’s initial, optimistic estimates that as many as 120 million doses of the vaccine could be available by mid-October.

Note that even the very first sentence tells the real story, but you need to watch it closely..

…giving his health chief the power..

Getting the message yet? This isn’t about healthcare. It’s about power.The first step toward obtaining power in Obama style is to declare an emergency.  Consider TARP. “No, Congressman we don’t have time to let you read and debate this thing. It’s an emergency and we need to do all this now, so stop getting in the way. “

Well, yeah, that’s what it looks like. Fox News  Senior White House reporter Major Garrett is reporting this monring in part:

White House Communications Director Anita Dunn’s husband is emerging as the top candidate to replace Greg Craig as White House counsel, Fox News has learned.

Dunn’s husband, Bob Bauer, is President Obama’s personal lawyer and a former counsel to his campaign, as well as the top lawyer for the Democratic National Committee.

Senior White House officials declined to comment, but Democrats close to the situation said Bauer is under serious consideration to replace Craig, who is expected to leave the White House by the end of the year.

This is flat out amazing.   Anyone ever heard of nepotism? OK, granted, Dunn is supposed to be leaving the White House by the end of the year, most likely the direct result of her overt worship at the feet of mass murdering dictator Mao Tse Tung. But does anyone think the chances are very high that Bauer’s politics are going to be much different than that of Dunn’s, particularly given the other hats he wears inside the Democrat Party?

And therein lies a point; Dunn isn’t the far outside of the Democrats, politically speaking as some have tried to sugegst when the Mao worship came up.   She’s in their dead center.

Based on this, one may only assume thyat Bauer in his new role as White House Council, will not be listening to what a bunch of dead white guys had to say as regards the intent of the Constitution.

“[A]bortion has done what the Klan only dreamed of.”

Dr. Aveda King, via CNS News.

The New York Stimes has confirmed that the White House held an off the record press gaggle for selected media lap dogs:

Speaking privately at the White House on Monday with a group of mostly liberal columnists and commentators, including Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann of MSNBC and Maureen Dowd, Frank Rich and Bob Herbert of The New York Times, Mr. Obama himself gave vent to sentiments about the network, according to people briefed on the conversation.

Then, in an interview with NBC News on Wednesday, the president went public. “What our advisers have simply said is that we are going to take media as it comes,” he said. “And if media is operating, basically, as a talk radio format, then that’s one thing. And if it’s operating as a news outlet, then that’s another.

It appears that the Slimes respects Obama’s private remarks no more than she did Bush’s(43).   Shocked?  Chris Arlen, TVNewser, has identified the Obama lap dogs who attended:

The White House has sent TVNewser the complete list of those who attended the off-the-record briefing Monday: Eugene Robinson, E.J. Dionne, Ron Brownstein, John Dickerson, Rachel Maddow, Frank Rich, Jerry Seib, Maureen Dowd, Keith Olbermann, Bob Herbert, Gloria Borger, and Gwen Ifill. Several members of the staff also attended.

Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann and Maureen Dowd, hardly what I would call the best and the brightest.   Obama lap dogs are long on commentary, but short on journalism skills.   Is the one’s A-Team?

Welcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the sphere The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble

• THE WHITE HOUSE AND THE PRESS: Let’s get down to this one, right off. Both David and myself have commented on this already today, but this thing is so grotesque a violation of the trust of the American people and of the Constitution, it needs pointing up again. The White house’s issue with Fox News ins’t that they are not a real news organization, but that they ARE real . What this all boils down to is an attempt to control public opinion, by controlling what is given to the public in terms of information, and using the power of government to do it.   Control of the press is the one solution that every despot in history has come to. This is well beyond Over-reach. What they’re after he is the overt control of critics, by way of official government power and policy.  As I stated earlier today, that is a clear violation of the first amendment.
  

  White House Press Room

  It seems clear that this attempted control, particularly being as overt as it is, is a risky play at best.  Now, why would they be taking such risks?  Because their agenda is even riskier in terms of public reaction, without that control. And they’re in trouble. Obama’s seeing approval ratings drops like they’ve not seen in 50 years of taking such polls.
  Michael Allen over at Politico says that Nancy Pelosi the lacks the votes that are needed for the most sweeping of the public and options. Same thing for Harry Reid in the senate, as noted by the New York Times. Translation;  They  have the votes in Congress, much less popular support, for the government takeover that the Democrats so badly want. Certainly, public opinion is already running against the agenda of the Democrats.  Controlling public opinion, by controlling the information that they’re fed, is clearly the only way the Democrats see themselves winning this fight.  And why is CSPAN being now barred from some meetings? Trouble is, the attempt at control is backfiring on the Democrats.  Bigtime.  I mean, really big.  Even the ostensibly leftist press has started to take notice. And gang… this isn’t limited to news, but the blogs as well. Looked at the doings of the FCC of late? Well, maybe you better. Does anyone not think that this all out attempt at silencing anyone who dares question the left, is going to be a campaign issue in another year, and in another two past that?

• PROGRESSIVE RACISM: Ann has a point.  Once again, then, we ask the question: Why do blacks vote leftist?
• OUR SYMPATHIES to the mother of the 7 year old Florida girl whose body was found in a Georgia Landfill.  I suspect that her vow of not stopping until the killers are found has more weight to it than a similar vow made by OJ Simpson.. and I wish her luck in that endeavor. But how does the rise of such happenings affect our kids today? After all, in the old days, we never really worried about such things.
• OOPS… WE MISSED: I can’t imagine a few heads aren’t going to roll on this one.  What in the blink were they DOING up there anyway?

Fox News reports:

DETROIT â€”  Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 live TV appearances across a half-century of laughs, has died. He was 83.

Sales died at Thursday night at Calvary Hospice in the Bronx, New York, said his former manager and longtime friend, Dave Usher. Sales had many health problems and entered the hospice last week, Usher said.

I managed to find an interesting cip of Sales being interviewed on Bill O’Rielly’s show.

And this one:

Doctor Charles Krauthammer, this morning:

Rahm Emanuel once sent a dead fish to a live pollster. Now he’s put a horse’s head in Roger Ailes’s bed.

Not very subtle. And not very smart. Ailes doesn’t scare easily.

Doctor Krauthammer

The White House has declared war on Fox News. White House communications director Anita Dunn said that Fox is “opinion journalism masquerading as news.” Patting rival networks on the head for their authenticity (read: docility), senior adviser David Axelrod declared Fox “not really a news station.” And Chief of Staff Emanuel told (warned?) the other networks not to “be led [by] and following Fox.”

Meaning? If Fox runs a story critical of the administration — from exposing “green jobs” czar Van Jones as a loony 9/11 “truther” to exhaustively examining the mathematical chicanery and hidden loopholes in proposed health-care legislation — the other news organizations should think twice before following the lead.

The signal to corporations is equally clear: You might have dealings with a federal behemoth that not only disburses more than $3 trillion every year but is extending its reach ever deeper into private industry — finance, autos, soon health care and energy. Think twice before you run an ad on Fox.

I admit to not having considered the angle on that last para before. He’s quite right.  I regard my omission of that angle as the effect of being overwhelmed by the lawlessness of this administration. (If we consider the Constitution the law of the land, and the constitutionality of the actions of this administration, we must consider the Obama Administration lawless in this regard, at least. )

Krauthammer apparently disagrees with me on this point, saying in the same piece:

There’s nothing illegal about such search-and-destroy tactics. Nor unconstitutional. But our politics are defined not just by limits of legality or constitutionality.

The Doctor refers to what he calls “Madisonian norms.”, and therein, he makes a fair point.  But can we really call the efforts of this White House, including the attempted isolation of Fox, economic and otherwise,  to be anything less than a usurpation  of the first amendment’s intent and wording? This one seems ripe to me for a trip to the USSC, really. I wonder if we’ll see the New York Times take up this case, as they did when Nixon tried this criminal nonsense? Yeah, I don’t think so, either, but…. (Shrug)

Let’s look deeper, based on the news of last night;

We now have Czars making rulings on the pay of private corporations based on the idea that they took Tarp money.  The corporations, forced to take the bait, are now hooked into increased govenmental power over them.  The question is, how far this will go. Will we now see the government mandating where ads may  and may not be placed based on this same taxpayer money connection?  For example, saying to GM that placing ads on Fox is verboten?  I suggest it likely that’s already happening, at least in terms of threat, as Krauthammer suggests.

The first amendment implications of this are far too large to ignore, and the legality of the White House’s attempts are far more than questionable. Can trying to kill off news orgs as official executive branch policy, be considered to be anything less than a direct violation of our first amendment?

The Obama White House has gotten down right ugly.   The Obamatards  tried to freeze Fox News our of the White House news coverage pool coverage.   The White House turds offered executive pay czar Kenneth Feinberg to all pool networks except Fox News,video:

More:  Allah Pundit, Hot Air.

The other networks deserve the praise they’re getting for standing up to the Baby-in-Chief, but if they had acquiesced in this freezeout, a precedent would have been set that would have been eagerly used by future Republican presidents to close them off too. And don’t think they weren’t all keenly aware of it.

Jennifer Rubin, Commentary:

In its mindless war against Fox, the White House tried to ban Fox News from the White House press pool that was to interview the “pay czar,” Kenneth Feinberg. (Yes, it was a nice touch of imperial irony that the effort to cut off access to a particular news outlet came in the context of an interview of an administrative official who is not subject to congressional confirmation or oversight and whose job it is to dictate compensation rules to private firms that were bullied into taking government bailouts.) The mainstream media’s collective

Earth to Barry, you are not in Chicago any more.

Addendum:

Feeding frenzy for snarks.

From Moe Lane:

White House tries to muzzle media; draws back a bloody stump.

Tell me again how smart these people are.

And, Drew M. Ace of Spades:

It’s amazing we are in the position we are. We have a President who is more interested in talking to murders around the world but is affraid to face a reporter who isn’t enthralled with the crease of his pants.

I don’t think Barry is very brave.

By way of a link from Lori Bird via Facebook, I note a posting on  theBirdflupandemic.com:

The package insert for the Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Monovalent Vaccine manufactured by Novartis has been leaked on the Internet. According to that package insert, the vaccine (based on an earlier vaccine product known as Fluvirin) is known to cause a whole host of very nasty side effects such as guillain-barre syndrome, vasculitis, anaphylactic shock and even death.

Of course anyone who has been studying vaccine side effects already knows that it causes all of these things, but the story here is that the insert for the swine flu vaccine itself is admitting all of these things. The insert says that it was updated during September 2009, so it reflects the very latest information.

You can read the package insert for this vaccine for yourself right here…..

http://www.fluscam.com/Vaccine_Package_Inserts_files/Novartis_A-H1N1_2009_Monvalent_VaccinePackageInsert_BasedOn1980Approvalfor%20Fluvirin_UCM182242.pdf

But of course now, here in New York State, they tried to force healthcare workers to  take the shot by threatening their jobs.  The state relented, after workers put up a fuss, but then only because there wasn’t enough supply of the vaccine to go around. And as the site suggests, we should remember that these are only the known problems, or the problems that they will admit to.

Oh, I’m quite sure I’m going to get feedback with the words “black helicopters” embedded somewhere within.  Increasingly, however, it’s become clear that this is no fantasy.  Real people will die based on how much power we give government over health care.

Does anyone not understand the problems involved with government making such choices, given the power behind government?  Even at its most benign, government is remarkably inept with nearly everything that it attempts. Not only does the original project it fouled up, whatever that happens to be, but the costs involved are always astronomical as compared to what could be accomplished in the free market.   How many people need to die, The  based on government rulings before we realize that government is not where Healthcare belongs?

And here’s a question for the AMA; Ken one of you go so far is to explain to me the ethics involved with bowling to the will of government on this, when government is so demonstrably wrong ?

It seems that Bobby Gibbs has become very hard to ignore.    Former Vice President Dick Cheney, father of Liz, leveled from very specific charges at the Obama administration.    Included was the charge the the Obama much proclaimed new plan announced in March was basically developed by the Bush administration.   In response,  Gibby comes out guns blazing, but failed to address Cheney specific charge, from Jennifer Rubin, Commentary:

Jenifer Rubin

Robert Gibbs responded predictably to former Vice President Dick Cheney’s criticism that the Obama administration dithers on Afghanistan, answering with an attack on the Bush administration. (I know you’re shocked.) He offered no explanation about why the Obama administration is taking so long to reach a decision or why the military, our allies, and members of the president’s own party are wringing their hands about the president’s public angst. And what of the charge that the Obama team in effect lied when it claimed that it had to start its war-planning from scratch? Well, there was no answer:

Harry Truman said, if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.   The Obama adminstration can’t take the heat.

I have followed but not commented on the NY-23 race.    As New Gingrich did, it was possible to make a case for the republican candidate Dede Scozzafava, and it is also possible, as Michelle, did to make the case for her conservative opponent,  Doug Hoffman.   However as Jim Geraghty now argues, it has call changed.    Geraghty, National Review, make the case that Scczzafava, or her husband, commited a felony,

When a candidate commits a crime, the usual bonds of loyalty that a party requires are severed. When Sen. Larry Craig got caught in the airport restroom, Mitt Romney threw him off his campaign team. When Rod Blagojevich was arrested, every Democrat who had endorsed him and re-endorsed him ceased any sense of support.

[…]

In New York, Dede Scozzafava â€” or, more specifically, her husband — has, at least on the face of events, filed a false police report when he called the cops on Weekly Standard reporter John McCormack.

With Mrs. Pelos’s gang of thiefs in Congress, the House already has enough felons.