President Barack Obama bypassed the Senate Wednesday and appointed Dr. Donald Berwick to run Medicare and Medicaid. Why would Obama have to use a recessed appointment to appoint Berwick when Democrats control Congress? Simple. Obama feared that Dr. Berwick’s radical agenda, one which mirrors Obama’s, would become the focus of attention and would further show how radical Obama is.

So blatant was this abuse of power that Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) on Wednesday blasted the Obama administration for sidestepping Congress to install Donald Berwick atop the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

“Senate confirmation of presidential appointees is an essential process prescribed by the Constitution that serves as a check on executive power and protects Montanans and all Americans by ensuring that crucial questions are asked of the nominee — and answered,” Baucus said in a statement.

Berwick had not been vetted by the Finance panel, nor had Baucus scheduled a hearing to examine the nominee.

What is so radical about Dr. Berwick? Well, Berwick believes in redistribution of wealth. If you make $100 and I make $10, then the government should take $45 from you and give it to me so that we are equal. Berwick’s radical beliefs don’t end there. As head of Medicare and Medicaid, Berwick is a supporter of medical rationing. In an interview last year with Biotechnology Healthcare, Berwick said society makes decisions about rationing all the time, and that the “decision is not whether or not we will ration care — the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open. And right now, we are doing it blindly.” Supporters of Berwick later tried to defend Berwick’s remarks claiming they were misrepresented, however, because of the recessed appointment Congress will be unable to question him with regard to his statements.

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There’s so much to cover in today’s news round-up, but let’s get started with the Obama’s.  After years of sitting in the pews of Reverend Wright, listening to him preach his hate and intolerance and never walking out, the Obama’s seems to have given up on church.  Perhaps, they have found it difficult to locate a church like Reverend Wright’s where the preachers beliefs mirror their own, or maybe… maybe the Obama’s just used the church for political reasons– to help build a base of support in the black community.  Some may point out that past Presidents skipped church while in the White House, because it was a burden for other attendees and, like other presidents, Obama doesn’t want to have them affected. But… past Presidents have attended Christmas mass, not the Obamas.  I guess church served its purpose for the Obamas.

Here’s a perfect example of how liberals try to have it both ways.  In this first video, left wing dumba*s and Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano states that the system worked and in the second video, she lets us know that the system failed miserably.

Do you recall how the liberals proclaimed, “Bush ruined our international relationships” and “how the world hated us”?  Obama was supposed to come  in and change all that.  Of course, Obama’s approach was to tell the rest of the world just how terrible a country we were, to apologize for everything we’ve ever done, and of course placate our enemies by weakening our defensive posture.  Well, it seems like none of that a*s kissing and bending over to grab the ankles is working.  We already know how Obama pissed off the British, the Polish, the Czechs, the Canadians, the Germans, the Australians, how the Chinese told Obama to hit the road, the Dutch cried foul, etc. well, it’s now the French.  Pro Bush and close ally French President Sarkozy is now anti-Obama.  Looks like words from a teleprompter will only get you so far before your actions need to start carrying you.

Columnist Clive Cook writes that Barack Obama’s first year as president has been failure. He notes that his only accomplishment has been to unite the left and the right in their disappointment in him.  Cook writes, “Many Americans – conservatives, liberals and centrists – are dismayed by Barack Obama’s first year. Republicans call Mr Obama a tax and spend liberal. Progressives say he surrendered to corporate interests, and his foreign policy is a continuation of George W. Bush by other means. Independents feel let down because Mr Obama said he would bridge the partisan divide and unite the country.”  Obama pissing off the left, right, and independents doesn’t shock me.  When you don’t stand for anything and you have no convictions and promise everything to everyone with no real plan just words on a teleprompter you’ll never deliver.  Thank you Democrats for electing another Jimmy Carter.

Former Congressman Mark Foley comments on Max Baucus’s drunken speech on the Senate floor, “This is the senator that hired his staffer and then took her on trips…and divorced his wife….and they had me run out of town.”  Hey Mr. Foley, don’t you know that liberals and their allies in the media hold Democrats to a much lower standard?  You can lie, cheat on your wife, pay the girlfriend with campaign contributions, and not only do you keep your job, but you’re given a chairmanship.  Liberals are hypocrites.

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Democrat Senator and Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Max Baucus, was drunk on the Senate floor as he debated the health-care bill.  Who knew when the Democrats said that they wanted to pass health-care in the spirit of Ted Kennedy they literally meant it.

And for you Clay Aiken fans,  it appears Clay Aiken’s mother  uninvited Clay to Christmas Eve dinner because he wanted to bring his boyfriend.  You can read all about it at ClayAiken411.

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So much to write about.

1.  Well, it looks like Tiger Woods’ wife has given him an ultimatium– golf or me.  As much as it seems Tiger likes to get a hole in one, I have to wonder what choice he’ll eventually make.

2.  Those left wackos are at it again, this time telling us to eat less meat and dairy.  Is there any aspect of our lives that these people don’t like to interfer with?

3.  Let’s hear it for the Democrats that ripped into President Bush who, in 8 years, increased the debt by $2.9 trillion. After increasing the debt by $1.7 trillion in just 7 months, Democrats are requesting to raise the debt ceiling by another $1.8 trillion, putting their total spending to $3.5 trillion.

4. More and more Americans are yearning for the days when Bush was President.  44% of Americans said they’d rather have Bush than Obama as President.

5.  Remember the uproar the media had over Governor Sanford’s trips to Argentina and whether taxpayer money was used? Well, Democrat  Senator Max Baucus , chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, gave a nearly $14,000 pay raise to a female staffer in 2008, at the time he was becoming romantically involved with her, and later that year took her on a taxpayer-funded trip to Southeast Asia and the Middle East, though foreign policy was not her specialty.  Do you think liberals and the leftist media will be just as outraged?

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