Well first, let's deal with this town hall meeting held by Central Florida Democrat Alan Grayson last night. Grayson chose a local IBEW union hall for the meeting. The meeting room could hold no more than 120 people. Now that's the way to reach out to your constituents congressman! What's more, immediately before Grayson's meeting local Democrats were holding a meeting in the same town hall. This meant that many of the people - actually, most of the people who showed up to make their objections to ObamaCare known found the meeting room already filled with Democrats who had just finished their meeting. The looters stayed, of course, for the Grayson town hall. Don't really need to say much more about this one ... I think you get the picture, and I think that Alan Grayson is probably a one-term Democrat.

Meanwhile another Florida Democrat, Congressman Alan Boyd, held three town hall meetings on Monday. Here we seem to have a Democrat who actually wants to hear from his voters. Boyd is now saying that maybe we should just scrap the whole ObamaCare plan and start over. He cannot, he says, support the bill as it is now.

I've also had some time to study the so-called co-op plan now being touted by some Democrats. Sorry, but I'm not impressed. I think in the final analysis this idea for state-run co-operative health insurance companies is just another way to run the private health insurance companies out of business and move to a single-payer plan.

If you're still out there thinking that the Democrats are actually wringing their hands out of concern for the quality and availability of health care, I don't know what to say to you. Some people are just more gullible than others. Hopefully more and more Americans are recognizing that the issue here is control, not health care. Clearly if the looters were concerned about quality and availability they would be looking to the private sector. Argue all you want, but there has never been a better mechanism devised by man to deliver needed goods and services to the general public than the free market --- and you have to look long and hard to find any respect paid to the free marketplace in any of the Democrat plans being tossed about Washington.

Single-payer means one thing -- government control. Just who do you think the single-payer would be? If all medical bills are paid by one entity ... whether they're bills for visits to the doctor, prescription drugs, hospital stays or imaging services ... if those bills are to be approved and paid by one entity (single-payer) then that entity controls health care. That entity decides what gets paid for and what does not, and it decides who gets paid and who does not. That's absolute control, and that's what the left is after. The sooner the people in this country awake and see this monster at the foot of their beds, the safer we all are.

Oh ... Let's hold off on all that blather about how good this ObamaCare dustup is for the Republican party. From where I sit and run my mouth the GOP can't claim any credit for ObamaCare's problems at all. I have yet to see a comprehensive Republican bill offered to respond to the Democrat's efforts. If there is such a bill, I'm not aware of it, and that in itself is a problem.

Got this via email yesterday:

Do you realize how much power the Congress has given Barack Obama's pay czar? Not only does pay czar Kenneth Feinberg have "binding" authority over executive compensation, he has the ability to "claw back" money that has already been paid.

The reason this is coming to light now is because seven major companies that participated in the TARP program have to submit their executive contracts for government approval. One contract for energy trader Andrew Hall could be as much as $100 million this year. Some are looking at that amount and thinking that no one should be allowed to earn that kind of income! So the question is ... will our pay czar allow this man to receive his $100 million?

Not only that, but he hasn't even begun to explore this idea of a "claw back" provision. Did you even know that the Congress has given this man the authority to do that? Just tell me where in the Constitution it says that Congress can create laws that would allow a government bureaucrat to retroactively seize money from private businesses? Just curious ....

This power is not just limited to large TARP recipients. Feinberg has the ability to recover any compensation paid to executives of "any company that received federal assistance." Feinberg himself says, "Anything is possible under the law." He's right. Try to name a company that someone can't build some sort of a claim of having received federal assistance.

This letter appeared on American Thinker Blog. Over the weekend, Barack Obama wrote an op-ed that appeared in the New York Times. This doctor, G. Wesley Clark, took Obama's arguments and them on their sides.

I just LOVE this guy!

A new Gallup poll shows that more people describe themselves as conservative rather than liberal ... in all 50 states.

Here's a brief look at the stats:

In 2009, 40% percent of respondents in Gallup surveys that have interviewed more than 160,000 Americans have said that they are either "conservative" (31%) or "very conservative" (9%). That is the highest percentage in any year since 2004.

Only 21% have told Gallup they are liberal, including 16% who say they are "liberal" and 5% who say they are "very liberal."

Thirty-five percent of Americans say they are moderate.

So what is going on here? If this is really the case, then why aren't the Republicans running the show? Easy, because the Republicans are barely more conservative than the Democrats in charge. Plus, after Bush's spending spree and the institution of such programs as Medicare coverage for prescription drugs and immigration "reform," many conservatives simply don't trust the Republicans any more. Yeah, maybe they are socially conservative, but when it comes to the economy and spending, people lost faith in the Republican Party dramatically increasing government spending for many years. They got caught up in the power. So now, they are left completely impotent. They are left with a country full of people just dying for someone with real fiscally conservative gonads to represent them in Washington. But they just don't trust the Republicans to do it. Can you blame them?

This interview appeared on CNN sometime yesterday. The person being interviewed was a guy by the name of Tim Wise ... whoever in the wide wide world of sports THAT is. So let me just get right to it. He says that the reason Americans don't want healthcare reform is because a large percentage of white America associate social spending race. He says, "There is a perception that when we talk about government spending for the 'have-nots,' we are talking about taking from hard-working white people and giving to lazy black folks." Meanwhile, CNN has this interview labeled as a "Developing Story: Healthcare Showdown."

This guy also says, "When the country the founders envisioned was a formal system of white supremacy, excuse me if I find it a little hard to think that race is not perhaps playing a pretty big role."

Race pimps .. they will always be with us. Just laugh at them and maybe they'll go away.

Obama says the cost of Medicare and Medicaid is "the biggest threat" to the nation's fiscal future. If they are so important, why hasn't he appointed anyone to lead the agency that runs the programs?

The Democrats continue the in-house fighting ... now the liberal Democrats are upset with Obama's decision to back away from a government-run option on healthcare.

If Democrats get their way with a climate change bill, one thing you can count on is a massive inflation in the number of government bureaucrats.

Victor Davis Hanson explains what went wrong for Barack Obama, now that his approval ratings are below 50%.

Does this sound familiar? "Rule 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions ..."

Barack Obama came out pretty strongly against waste in an upcoming defense spending bill saying it is "irresponsible" and he will veto a bill that includes pork. We will see if he actually sticks to that.

Rep. Mike Pence says that six months after the congress passed the economic stimulus bill, "the stimulus isn't working."

Did you get your "fishy" emails into the White House before it disabled the "fishy" email account?

Democrats have misread the mood on the public's appetite for more government.

According to Rasmussen, just 6% of voters nationwide now expect their own taxes to go down during the Obama years.

I guess Eric Massa is really taking the term "Representative" to heart. Or not ...

Barack Obama is going to get a taste of what it is like to be the subject of a Cindy Sheehan protest.

Iowa Republican Senator Chuck Grassley wrote a letter to the FCC questioning the need for a Chief Diversity Officer.

GM is planning to produce an ultra low-cost compact car that would cost just $4,000.

This is pretty clever ... Health Care: Choose Your Own Adventure.

It took a study by a US market research firm to figure out that 40% of Twitter messages are nothing but "useless babble."

For no reason at all, here's your "what, what?" pic of the day.