Happy Feet Friday -- A Ziefield Tribute!

In Memoriam for Doris Eaton, Last of the Ziegfield Girls!

John McCain - “Doctors Make Too Much Money” (1984)/John McCain - 'Medicare Cuts...irresponsible...a price Americans should not be asked to pay." (2009)

HT: Take Back Medicine:

"My activism, such as it is, begins with those very words, on the very day they are uttered

The year: 1984. The Reagan Administration is at the helm. I learn that the newly instituted Prospective Payment System(“DRG’s”), which pays hospitals a flat fee based on theadmitting diagnosis of a Medicare patient, irrespective of length of stay or intensity of service, is creating significant problems with respect to proper medical care. A physician tells me he fears a patient died due to these novel cost control measures. I learn of a woman who cannot walk across her hospital room because she has not been provided with the oxygen she requires.
The Maricopa County Medical Journal, Roundup, mentions John McCain, saying he is a “friend” of Medicine.

In my untutored, apolitical, naïve state, I decide to alert this man to a problem I fear he does not - could not - know exists. (After all, I still believe the Government is here to help us.) Learning that McCain will speak at an open public forum at the Scottsdale Center for the Arts, I make my first foray into the public arena. Sitting on the balcony, one of my Medicare patients at my side, I express my concerns about the deteriorating care caused by this novel rationed payment system (for hospitals - NOT doctors) known as DRG’s.

After I speak my piece, the first words out of McCain’s mouth are these: .

''Out of Control Medical costs are “all doctors’ fault.” ‘Medical care is chewing up a larger and larger percentage of the national budget, hampering our competitiveness as a nation.’ He says ‘we need to solve the problem.’

I rebut, telling him I agree that we have to help control costs, which is why, from my first day in practice, I have told patients who inform me of a financial problem, to “pay what they can afford” of my fee.

The red-faced McCain shrinks one foot on stage. People ask me for my card when the meeting ends. Shocked and surprised by McCain’s unexpected vitriol, I plan a speech to the hospital staff, imploring them not to join the Health Plans that are just beginning to inundate Arizona. My ‘mission’ begins."  -- Joseph Scherzer, M.D.

John McCain, 2009 -- “Today I introduced my amendment to address the Democrat’s drastic and dramatic cuts to the Medicare program under their so-called ‘health care reform’ legislation,” said Senator John McCain. “My amendment would send this legislation back to the Finance Committee with instructions to report the bill to the Senate without these irresponsible cuts...Simply put, these Medicare cuts will impacts senior’s access to quality care. This is a price that American’s should not be asked to pay.”


Just say anything, Johnny... we'll never notice the difference.

JD Hayworth's link is down below.

Bush & Cheney Get Off Scot-Free!

NYT: "Women, Minorities, Moonbats, Truthers, ANSWER members, Democrats, Otherwise Unemployable Actors and Progressive Bloggers Hardest Hit."

Barking Lefty series Law and Order has been cancelled, and Bush and Cheney never spent a day in jail.  In spite of the show's impassioned portrayal of all the crime in New York City being caused by A) Angry White Men, B) Angry White Christian Men, C) Angry White Christian Men working for Homeland Security and/or "The Administration", or  a distant D) Persons of Color Driven to Violent Despair by Angry White Christian Men working for Homeland Security and/or "The Administration", the show was never able to make it stick... and now it's too late.

Pinko stock-jobber Sam Waterston, shown here being frog-marched

 off the set by agents of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.  A T. Rowe-Price spokesman was quoted 
as saying: "Sam Who?"

HT: The Camp of the Saints

Steve Poizner for California Governor! Pt 2

Poizner talks about the budget, cutting costs, immigration, his record in government, the unions, the Constitution, health care and much more.

Steve Poizner for California Governor! Pt 1

Meg Whitman is slandering a good man that California needs!  This video was recorded at a 5/10/10 townhall in City of Industry CA.  Compare Poizner's answers to Whitman's lying attack ads.  Even the Los Angeles Times is calling her a liar.

Sorry for some of the shaky camera handling, it was jostle city down there.

Poizner talks about the budget, cutting costs, immigration, his record in government, the unions, the Constitution, health care and much more.

Open Season! Mollohan Out in West Virginia Primary!

Long time Deomcratic kleptocrat Congressman Allan Mollohan, scion of generations of thieving West Virginia Mollohans in Congress, lost his own party primary by a vote of 56-44% in favor of his challenger.  Mollohan reportedly "never saw this coming" even after the farce of having his own committee that he chaired investigate him for corruption.

Mojave Veterans' Cross Stolen!

Despite Supreme Court ruling declaring it legal.

Yeah, quote me Roe v. Wade again sometime soon...

"The National Park Service says someone cut the metal bolts holding the metal-pipe cross to the top of Sunrise Rock and made off with it Sunday night or before dawn on Monday.

Veterans groups say they’re outraged at what they consider the desecration of a symbol that was erected in 1934 by the Veterans of Foreign Wars to honor World War I dead."

HT: Deborah Leigh  Link: This Ain't Hell...

Arlen Specter Supports GOP!

Now trailing Sestak in  the PA Dem senatorial primary, the nasty ole backstabber has forced the Democrats to pour buckets of  money and manpower into a race in what has been a traditionally safe Democrat state in recent years.

Between Specter and the Tim Burns lead in Kickback Jack Murtha's fief,  Pennsylvania is becoming a deep money sink for an embattled party facing challenges nationwide.

So don't give up the ship, Arlen! You have not yet begun to fight!

Harvey Lembeck Nominated to Supreme Court...Oh, wait...

Noted comic character actor Harvey Lembeck,
known to audiences for decades from his appearances in everything from Sgt.Bilko to his signature role as biker gang leader Eric von Zipper in Roger Corman's Beach Party movies,  has returned from a long seclusion and "medical convalescence" to accept Barack Obama's nomination to the United States Supreme Court.

"The operation was a complete success, considering what we had to work with," said Lembeck's personal physician Dr. Bjorn Svensson Bjornsson (Mrs.).  "But we're amazed and astounded that even Barack Obama would be gullible tolerant enough to fall for this one..."

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