Hard Rain Episode-0041 "50 + 1 Votes = Change You Can Believe In."

Obama on passing bills with 50 + 1 votes then and now.

Obama uses Doctors as props yet again in his latest TV appearance to push the latest version of Health Care.

In his latest proposal Obama claims to be incorporating four Republican ideas (which didn't exist as recently as last week.) Here's the ideas and my deconstruction of them

1. Combating Waste, Fraud, and Abuse. - So Democrats must have been for waste, fraud, and abuse or at least against combating it.
2. Medical Malpractice Reform. - $50 Million (or $1 Million per state) to explore alternatives to court. Here's one. Not suing because tort reform has made it unlikely you can prove your BS case in court.
3. Medicaid Reimbursements. - Actually paying a doctor for the work they do.
4. Health Care Exchange Plans. - Letting private companies sell the product they want to customers who want to buy them.

Co-pays are one of the worst things to happen to Health Care in this country.

Are Pro-life Democrats the only hope for blocking health care bill? 

Democrats will never stop pushing for the government to run the health care system in America. It literally turns independent people into dependent people. And dependent people help make up a group Democrats call, the base.

Al Gore reappears, downplays Climategate, and reads a little poetry. Sounds like someone is a fan of a certain conservative talk shows podcast.

The music on Hard Rain is provided by Electric Church. Vote for them in the Guitar Center Contest at www.yournextrecord.com You have to jump through a couple of hoops to register but then you can vote once a day.

Baby survives being shot and left alone for three days by her parents in a suicide pact over fears of global warming.

Space shuttle may not be grounded after all.

Sen. Jim Bunning tries in vain to make Democrats actually pay for the bills they want to pass, under the rules that they passed.

Israeli soldier reveals plans for an upcoming raid on his facebook page.

Some of the money raised by Live Aid in 1984 to combat starvation in Africa, has been shown to have made it's way into the hands of Ethiopian Anti-Government Rebels including the current Prime Minister.

Kid Air Traffic Controller sparks outrage. I think its much ado about nothing. There was never any danger to anyone at anytime.

In spite of Obama's promise to stop raiding medical marijuana dispensaries 21 were just raided in California. I predict this will only enhance support for and awareness of the proposition to legalize marijuana outright in some quantity in California.

Insurance company in California now covering medical marijuana.

Louis Farrakhan warns Obama of the "White Right" also he claims to be divine.

Obama's doctors urge him to quit smoking. Let the man have a cigarette. Even though I disagree with Obama on most issues I don't envy the job he has. He's got a lot of stress. Let him have a cigarette.

American reliance on governments is at an all time high. Americans collected more in benefits than they pain in taxes for the first time since the Great Depression. There are officially more people in the cart, than pulling the cart.

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Originally Recorded 03/04/10.

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Hard Rain Episode-0038 Iran "Punches" The West.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran is now a "Nuclear State." The announcement comes on the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution that put the current government in place. Specifically it means Iran can and now has produced enriched Uranium suitable for use in nuclear power plants. They also claim to have the capacity to produce enriched uranium suitable for use in nuclear weapons.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls for "crippling" sanctions on Iran.

Sanctions had no effect on Saddam Hussein and they'll have no effect on Iran.

Unemployment falls to 9.7% in January in spite of a net loss of jobs as more people fall off the unemployment rolls.

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown signals some banks are supportive of a global tax.

As we told you last week on Hard Rain, health care is not dead. Pelosi is still scheming to get the House to pass the Senate bill as is. Meanwhile the President is trying to get Republicans to join him in public discussions on passing the current bills in the House and Senate. The bills none of them voted for.

Republicans are calling for dropping the current bills and starting over. Obama rejects that so far and wants to throw a few crumbs to Republicans in exchange for enough votes to pass his top legislative priority. If Republicans are smart they'll have no part of the current bills.

After railing against multi-million dollar bonuses for AIG last year, the President now says he doesn't "begrudge" bonuses for CEO's at JP Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs. He must need some campaign contributions.

Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, John Brennan says in an op-ed that critics of the President are, "serving the goals of al-Qaeda." Jackass.

John Mayer under fire for using the N-word in a Playboy interview. Attention all white people. Please do not use the N-word. That is all.

More Problems for Alec Baldwin. He was admitted to a Manhattan hospital after his daughter called 911 claiming he had threatened to kill himself with pills following a fight.

The Obama administration supports tracking American's movement through their mobile phones.

36% of all Americans have a positive view of socialism according to a Gallup poll.

Tim Geithner assures everyone the US will never lose it's AAA debt rating. He promises. Everything's fine. Go have a cheeseburger.

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Originally Recorded 02/11/10.

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