10:14:06 PM: What a shock! Obama blames Bush! That’s not Change™ I can believe in. #tcot #tlot

10:15:21 PM: Toughest to read are those written by children: they can’t spell for squat. Maybe we should try vouchers. AMIRIGHT? #sotu #tcot #tlot

10:16:23 PM: Does Biden have a cold sore? Must’ve been taking mass transit, against his own advice. #sotu #tcot #tlot

10:18:49 PM: I wonder if there’s a camera isolated on Joe Wilson. #sotu #tcot #tlot

10:20:00 PM: Unemployment would be double? 20%? Man, he and his advisers are really incompetent then, they predicted 8.5% if we did nothing. #sotu

10:21:13 PM: Banks have already “repaid” the gov’t, with a profit. This man doesn’t understand anything about anything. OR he’s a shameless pol. #sotu.

10:21:49 PM: $12 per month–don’t spend it all in once place.

10:22:36 PM: Not a single dime; unless you smoke or work for a bank, or use the services of a bank.

10:24:19 PM: That small business in Phoenix is probably resume editing service. #sotu

10:24:56 PM: Who is starting to hire again? Caterpillar just took a huge loss. #sotu

10:25:37 PM: New Jobs Bill: Just Obama Bull Sh!t. #sotu #tcot #tlot

10:27:29 PM: What a great idea! Force money into crappy banks owned by Dems, and make them lend money to ppl who couldn’t get it otherwise! #SOTU

10:28:02 PM: …isn’t that how we got here? Mandating that banks make bad loans they wouldn’t otherwise? SOTU #tcot #tlot

10:29:48 PM: “Let me be clear,” by “new jobs bill,” I mean laundry list of LIberal wet dreams at taxpayer expense. #SOTU #tcot #tlot

10:30:26 PM: “Without delay,” what’s the matter champ? Can’t credibly set a deadline? SOTU #tcot #tlot

10:31:06 PM: Wow! Lost decade refers to Japan, champ, who did what you are suggesting. SOTU #tcot #tlot

10:33:14 PM: If he doesn’t accept second place, why does he keep apologizing for us? Maybe he means he’ll only accept 120th place. #tcot SOTU #tlot

10:34:11 PM: “No matter how contentious the debate becomes, we will simply call our opponents Nazi sympathizing teabaggers.” SOTU #Tcot #tlot

10:34:20 PM: Empty veto threat. SOTU

10:36:39 PM: Did Pelosi just clap for offshore oil drilling? SHe must be drunk again. SOTU #tcot #tlot

10:37:11 PM: Overwhelming, like the melting glaciers in the Himalayas? SOTU #TCOT #TLOT

10:37:56 PM: Lead the global economy?!? I thought the Obama Doctrine was that no nation can lead any other. SOTU #tcot #tlot

10:39:58 PM: Did Pelosi make her own Palpatine-style gavel, or is that a weirdo modern tea set in front of her? SOTU #tcot #tlot

10:40:25 PM: Let’s improve our schools by defunding vouchers in D.C. SOTU #tcot #tlot

10:41:22 PM: Kids need an education, so they can grown up and make a maximum of $250K a year, and have their bonuses taxed at 100%. SOTU #tcot #tlot

10:42:30 PM: Gov’t screwed up housing lending, so what could possibly go wrong?!? SOTU #tcot #tlot

10:43:08 PM: NO one will go broke because they decided to go to college?!? What about the taxpayer, champ? SOTU #tcot #tlot

10:44:32 PM: Let’s clear a few things up=I’m about to lie to you all. SOTU #tcot #tlot

10:46:35 PM: Michele Obama taking on obesity? I know I lose my appetite when I see her. #tcot #tlot #SOTU

10:49:10 PM: I’ve got a proposal: TORT REFORM. Pompous jackass.SOTU #tcot #tlot

10:53:00 PM: Jeesh, Biden really looks like Jeff Dunham’s Walter. http://bit.ly/91DRfa #SOTU #tcot #tlot

10:56:40 PM: silly me, but haven’t the Dems been in charge for the last four years? #SOTU #tcot #tlot

10:57:38 PM: Do our work openly?!? IS he serious?!? What about CSPAN? #SOTU #TCOT #TLOT

10:58:20 PM: Alito just said “That’s not true.”

10:59:08 PM: WHat Hope-ocrisy. Obama rejected public funding so he could sell out to Soros and other powerful indivuals.

10:59:56 PM: by “Earmark,” I mean any spending requested by Republicans. #SOTU #TCOT #TLOT

11:01:42 PM: Wow, what a lying hypocrite. Obama personally blocked nominations when he was in the Senate. #SOTU #TLOT #TCOT

11:03:26 PM: Obama calls for a more civil tone, and then lies about the GOP not presenting any ideas. #SOTU #tcot #tlot

11:04:46 PM: DO what it takes to defend our nation: like Mirandizing those who attack it. #SOTU #TCOT #TLOT

11:05:59 PM: I wonder how many terrorists were saved or deleted? #TCOT #TLOT #SOTU

11:07:27 PM: “All of our troops are coming home–except the 50-75,000 that won’t be coming home.” #SOTU #TLOT #TCOT

11:08:47 PM: Al Franken sitting behind the Joint Chiefs? That’s like putting Ed Begly Jr. behind the board of Exxon. #SOTU #TCOT #TLOT

11:15:06 PM: “Plays by the rules?” You mean like not entering the country illegally? SOTU #TCOT #TLOT

7:54:45 PM: Watching on FNC. I could watch on MSNBC and report media bias, but I don’t get paid to do this stuff.

8:02:44 PM: RT @snarkandboobs Hee hee. RT @JTlol: Take a drink every time Obama says something you know to be true. #drinkinggamesforteetotallers

8:05:03 PM: 29th speech; Obama reframes the debate. The debate is framed like a hillbilly shanty.

8:06:31 PM: I wonder who Obama is “leaving behind” to run the gov’t in the event of catastrophe. (fights urge to put last word in quotes)

8:11:08 PM: Okay, Obama is keeping the masses waiting, who faints first? Pelosi? Reid? Is it swooning or low blood sugar?

8:11:08 PM: Okay, Obama is keeping the masses waiting, who faints first? Pelosi? Reid? Is it swooning or low blood sugar?

8:15:08 PM: Just remembering the early days, in 2006 when the chant was “anyone but Hillary.” We should’ve been more specific. #tcot #tlot

8:16:06 PM: I’d go with Re-#BS @ExurbanJonSo, what’s the hashtag for tonight’s Obama speech?

8:17:10 PM: I kind of wish Biden got to do the introduction. I’d like to hear from Barack America tonight.

8:18:25 PM: 700,000 jobs lost per month then. 300,000 per month now. That’s not really progress. That’s like bleeding less from the head.

8:19:15 PM: Pulled the economy back from the brink. And thanks to our bloated stimulus plan, we’re now second to Sweden.

8:19:41 PM: American exceptionalism is finally dead. Alinksy would be proud.

8:21:01 PM: The Dingle healthcare bill is actually an invoice for unpaid medical care. They’re not giving up, dammit.

8:21:56 PM: WHAT!! Buying insurance on your own costs you 3x as much because YOUR employer pays the other 2/3! Wow, this guy is terrible. #tcot #tlot

8:23:07 PM: If you move, lose or change your job, you’ll lose your coverage. This is true. So do we change everything or just fix the problem?

8:23:36 PM: Decoupling insurance from employment would fix the problem. Creating a $2T government sinkhole wouldn’t solve anything.

8:23:59 PM: Nobody worries about losing their car insurance if they lose their job.

8:25:15 PM: Wow, Obama’s grasp on reality as as firm as Pelosi’s Botox isn’t. Automakers are uncompetitive because of unions and cadillac plans.

8:25:57 PM: entrepreneurs cannot open new businesses because of taxes and regulatory burdens like mandated healthcare.

8:26:56 PM: I smell a strawman coming!

8:28:15 PM: We’ve seen scare tactics and lies, like saying “doing nothing will kill people.”

8:29:41 PM: Boehner always looks like he was born 20 years too late. He belongs at the Playboy club in the late 70′s/early 80′s.

8:30:51 PM: Nothing will require you to change. If your boss goes bankrupt or the insurance company stops offering your policy, you’re on your own.

8:31:08 PM: And rainbows and unicorns for everyone!

8:31:39 PM: No one should go broke because they get sick. Except doctors.

8:32:40 PM: He says it saves money almost as if he believes it. Almost as if the CBO hadn’t smacked him down, repeatedly for lying about it.

8:34:17 PM: The size of your tax credits will be based on your need. SO from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.

8:34:40 PM: I’ve heard that before somewhere, haven’t I? Did it work for them?

8:36:43 PM: @SenJohnMcCain wanted to tax HC benefits and add a tax credit to offset the burden. Dems won’t. That is the largest tax hike in history.

8:37:32 PM: Wait, there is something missing. Rhymes with “Short Perform.”

8:38:23 PM: These panels won’t be bureaucrats, they will be well trained czars.

8:39:10 PM: Pelosi looks like she is having a conniption.

8:40:05 PM: You know how you’re about to hear some BS? Obama says “let me [set the record straight][be clear]“

8:40:54 PM: Insurers controlling 75% of state markets are all reason to allow insurers to compete across state lines.

8:42:06 PM: Good god, I think Pelosi just had an Orgasm.

8:42:37 PM: Obama endorsed a public option and she jumped up like Biden girded her loins.

8:44:36 PM: our ultimate goal…you know, single payer healthcare…

8:46:43 PM: If Obama won’t sign a plan that adds a dime to deficit, he’s gonna have to kill everyone at the CBO.

8:49:51 PM: http://twitpic.com/h557q – I still think Biden looks like Jeff Dunham’s Walter.

8:52:52 PM: He’s also not including the increased tax revenue from the death taxes as the death panels cull the elderly.

8:55:46 PM: Is it just me, or do Republicans look like Cusak in Say Anything holding up their plan?

8:58:57 PM: Obama’s gonna rename the bill KennedyCare.

8:59:41 PM: It must be like drowning in 8 feet of mud in a cold dark night.

9:02:38 PM: …when the POTUS calls ordinary Americans a mob and orders people to spy on their neighbors…

9:04:40 PM: Obama said Teddy knew what it was like to struggle with a sick child…(thus the Kopechne reference)

9:06:24 PM: I have to make a judgment call. think my hat is safe. We heard Obama rip through 4 critical items to be in his bill…

9:06:46 PM: …then mention tort reform, which Sebelius is going to “look into.”

9:07:48 PM: Boustany, that vulture of a tonsil thief is on. Are there any Republicans outside of Louisiana who can rebutt POTUS?

9:09:22 PM: Isn’t this the guy who’s always selling me gold during Brett Baier’s show?

9:09:32 PM: He was on Law & Order, wasn’t he?

9:11:25 PM: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0282648/

9:11:33 PM: Dann Florek

9:12:54 PM: Well, kudos to Obama for mentioning tort reform, but it was a token bone that won’t make it into any bill.

8:03:04 PM: Fantastic to see and hear Bob Papa and Carl Banks announcing.

8:02:00 PM: New Post: http://bit.ly/4wVy7 – Jets Giants Preseason Liveblog #tcot #tlot

8:03:04 PM: Fantastic to see and hear Bob Papa and Carl Banks announcing.

8:06:14 PM: They were gonna have Jets greats doing the announcing, but Namath is busy assaulting Suzi Kolber.

8:07:43 PM: For folks who tune in to Daily Danet for politics, football is my other passion and the Giants are my Reagan.

8:08:08 PM: Nice one Feely. That’s why he’s now a Jet.

8:08:34 PM: Good to see the O-Line together again.

8:10:10 PM: I think Manning will be more comfortable with the younger receivers this year. More of a feeling of ownership.

8:12:08 PM: nice quick throw over the middle. I like the quick, limited huddle offense for Eli. I always thought they needed more rhythm.

8:13:48 PM: unforced error. May need that timeout later.

8:16:14 PM: BE a good time to get Barden or Hicks in either for real or as a smokescreen.

8:17:23 PM: I think the noseguard actually caused the snap.

8:18:57 PM: TD!! Big blue!

8:21:35 PM: When your coverage leaves out a 6’4, 245 lbs RB in the end zone, your scheme needs work.

8:23:42 PM: looking forward to seeing Sanchez on his back.

8:24:16 PM: 3 and out

8:25:07 PM: HIxon really needs to learn not to run backwards on punt returns.

8:30:09 PM: Oh nuts. Steve Smith had 6 and dropped it out the bottom of the bread basket.

8:30:56 PM: ON the bright side, that pass was a beauty by Manning.

8:32:20 PM: Did he try to lateral that in mixed traffic? What is this high school?

8:34:46 PM: 3rd & 2 on your opponents 20 and you go from the gun with a pass? Are we playing the Eagles again?

8:37:41 PM: Goal line stand, just like old times.

8:40:31 PM: Is there something about football that makes people think “hey, these people will need to buy a new car–and small sedans at that.”?

8:43:44 PM: Funny thing about Sunday night football: Olbermann’s audience doubles when he’s got a captive audience and not allowed to talk politics.

8:44:06 PM: Second Jets kickoff, second Jets penalty.

8:44:42 PM: If Brandon Jacobs is injured, I will personally start a campaign to end preseason games.

8:49:40 PM: Thanks Carl. Not surprisingly a scat back has a diff. power game than a mosterous 6’4″ 240lbs power back.

8:50:57 PM: Lito Sheppard is looking old and a bit off his game. If zebras don’t give him the benefit of the doubt, he’s toast this year.

8:53:02 PM: Man, can the Jets even *receive* a kickoff without a penalty?

8:53:39 PM: Must be crowd noise.

8:54:57 PM: Kiwi gets there!

9:00:10 PM: I have no idea what just happened.

9:02:42 PM: In years to come, Congress will investigate the Jets-Giants 2nd quarter punt. In the end, rogue CIA agents will be blamed.

9:03:33 PM: Cheapest available seats, including PSL, for nyg2010.com are $10K each

9:04:03 PM: Alright, Hakeen Nicks in the game makes a nice first catch. Is that the first Eli-Nicks catch?

9:04:34 PM: Jacobs is back in the game, that makes me feel better. The fumble makes me a little nervous.

9:06:00 PM: Everytime I hear Bart Scott’s name, I think Randolph Scott, which makes me think of Blazing Saddles. Can’t help but laugh.

9:06:46 PM: Dockery! Nice play! He looked like Peter Parker on that play

9:07:23 PM: He was 10 feet in the air! Did he get bit by a radioactive spider in the lockeroom or something?

9:10:04 PM: The more I see of Boss, the more impressed I am. Great kid, great work ethic and tons of talent.

9:11:14 PM: Bradshaw is like Juggernaut. Once he gets a head of steam, he’s hard to bring down.

9:13:33 PM: Ties are like kissing your sister. FG’s are like french kissing your grandmother’s sister.

9:15:02 PM: Okay, maybe your sister in law.

9:15:48 PM: I foresee a Jets penalty

9:18:49 PM: I have to say, I’m impressed with Sanchez. He’s holding his own against the Giants defense so far.

9:22:16 PM: Blown coverage, missed tackles. Ugly, ugly play by the giants. Nice play by the Jets. Ugh.

9:24:54 PM: Call me crazy, but it looked like NIcks thought about passing just then. Was that an option?

9:25:42 PM: Manningham really, really, really needs to learn how to know the ball down if he’s not gonna catch it.

9:29:22 PM: Kliff Kinsburry? Wow, that’s digging down the memory hole

9:33:29 PM: When did Timex drop the “takes a licking” part of their slogan? I’d love to see the market research for that.

9:34:38 PM: I’m sure there was a focus group and tens of thousands of dollars spent.

9:37:52 PM: Bradshaw did a great job picking up the blitz.

9:40:10 PM: That’ll do it for me, tweeps. I’ll spend the second half with my despondency alone.

7:39:34 PM: New Post: Obama July Press Conference Liveblog: Healthcare at All Cost – http://is.gd/1I7tI #tcot #tlot #sgp

7:44:03 PM: This is your last chance to get photos of William Kristol before he is airbrushed out of the party photos.

7:45:56 PM: Standing offer free Daily Danet T-shirt for any journo who can work in “Waterloo” into a Q, store.dailydanet.com

7:46:36 PM: Example, feel free to use, “Waterloo going to do if healthcare doesn’t pass?”

7:51:43 PM: RT @andylevy Getting ready for POTUS to tell me how many lives his health care plan will create or save. #tcot #tlot

7:59:44 PM: What are the odds on an August press conference? Has there ever been one? Obama has never not had a presser in any month.

8:00:25 PM: Is TOTUS in the house? Has the second one committed suicide too?

8:02:05 PM: Dem strategists are standing.

8:04:59 PM: Obama: stimulus has worked, saved jobs *and* created new jobs. He’s off his rocker.

8:05:30 PM: Obama: government is responsible for everyone who loses a job and needs anything at anytime.

8:05:54 PM: …it will give you a rainbow unicorn pony, and it won’t cost you anything.

8:07:08 PM: ..and more ice cream for everyone, and no more home work and a hamster in every 3rd grade classroom!

8:07:36 PM: If you had “inherited” you won Obama Bingo Round One. Collect your prize.

8:08:37 PM: Not all of these cost savings were contained in the legislation b/c most of them are fictional.

8:09:48 PM: Washington doesn’t solve problems, it makes them worse, you moron.

8:10:59 PM: Before we talk about paying for it, let’s keep adding to the wishlist.

8:11:41 PM: Sniff, sniff, I smell a strawman coming.

8:11:50 PM: Don’t tell me, doing nothing is not an option.

8:13:36 PM: AAAANNNC. Limiting deductions would not raise enough revenue. More lies from the ONE.

8:14:05 PM: Four types of lies: lies, damn lies, statistics, and statements by Barack Obama.

8:15:09 PM: Obama: anyone making $1M or more is not having a tough time. Unless, of course, you own a small business.

8:16:27 PM: I’d like to introduce you to my friend, Phil E. Buster.

8:18:42 PM: “Couple of points, number one, clean out your desk…”

8:19:30 PM: Passing leg in August won’t help a kid with leukemia! That’s nuts. Any legislation won’t take effect for years.

8:20:17 PM: AMA and hospitals should be hung for agreeing to this. They have to know he’s going to betray them.

8:21:34 PM: RT @jimgeraghty Too bad the Iranian protesters didn’t write letters to Obama telling him that they’re getting clobbered.

8:22:17 PM: 2 questions, over 15 minutes

8:23:05 PM: “I wanna cover everybody, BUT THIS IS NOT ABOUT ME!”

8:23:43 PM: “I wanna cover everybody, and the best way to do that is single payer, but, look, we can talk about that later. mwahahaha.”

8:25:02 PM: “If we can just make waste illegal, we can execute members of Congress and call it a night.”

8:26:15 PM: I’m not blaming Rep., I just want them to shut up.

8:28:18 PM: Just “Jake.” @jaketapper

8:29:19 PM: Wow, what horseshit: “The only thing you’ll have to give up is paying for things that don’t make you healthier.”

8:30:10 PM: The reason there are so many test is not clerical error, its litigation. Lawyers love to sue drs, so drs CYA.

8:30:55 PM: Obama the Magical will tell us all What Works! HE will DEVINE what is the RED pill and what is the BLUE pill. What an idiot.

8:31:25 PM: There are no shortcuts through the unicorn meadows.

8:32:42 PM: Inherited double bingo!

8:32:59 PM: Oh, that was subtle. We “had to move forward” with stimulus.

8:35:25 PM: Inherited TRIPPLE WORD SCORE!

8:36:47 PM: Obama, no cuts to Medicare benefits, in fact, we’re doubling the unicorn feed allowance.

8:38:09 PM: $80 Billion on the table, why is that? Cause they know I’m from Chicago and I’ll twist their arm until it friggin breaks.

8:40:00 PM: CSPAN doesn’t have enough cameras. What a liar.

8:41:14 PM: Why don’t we just outlaw profits entirely?

8:42:48 PM: Only a DEM could whine about Wall Street making too much money.

8:45:49 PM: RT @whitehouse “We inherited an enormous deficit … but health care reform is not going to add to that burden, it is designed to lower it”

8:46:12 PM: …But now we know the stimulus was not designed to stimulate…

8:46:31 PM: Cleveland Plain Dealer? Well done.

8:47:17 PM: “largely match up.” He is, after all, a lawyer.

8:48:25 PM: Taking profit motive out will incentivize? Where did this guy come from?

8:49:10 PM: “Insurance companies are making profits, what is the CONSTRAINT on that?” What’s the constraint on your ego?

8:50:41 PM: If doctors make no profit at all, it won’t matter what they do!

8:51:59 PM: WTF happened there?

8:53:54 PM: Harvard professor arrested breaking into a house with a crowbar, was arrested and claimed racism.

8:55:19 PM: Obama: police should not arrest people who break into homes, even if they have fake ID.

8:56:34 PM: President has no business second guessing a police officer.

10:01:08 PM: Big promises ABC. “Real Answers” really? You’re gonna fix it. Tonight?

10:01:58 PM: ABC has decreed healthcare will be topic of the summer. Not Iran, NK, Iraq, Afghanistan, or anything else.

10:03:40 PM: I will be disappointed if ABC does not, at least, mention tort reform as a huge cost reduction effort.

10:04:38 PM: Nope. Nothing about lawyers driving doctors out of business.

10:05:23 PM: [Hands poll on who wants "changes"] Would love to see how many people in that room disagree with Obamacare

10:05:34 PM: Not much of a control group

10:06:21 PM: Dukakis death penalty question.

10:06:32 PM: First one out of the gate.

10:08:21 PM: First question, first strawman. “Oftentimes, we do know.” “Status quo is untenable, so lets roll the dice.”

10:10:45 PM: Here he goes. Obama is literally waiving his hand, restating the problem, doing his underpants gnome trick.

10:11:30 PM: …cover everyone, provide good care, drive down costs, take care of patients…voila!

10:12:23 PM: …step 2…?….step 3 ….Profit!

10:13:05 PM: The reason the Mayo clinic is able to do treat people so inexpensively is that only an idiot would sue them for malpractice. You’d lose

10:13:40 PM: Dr. Gooberman in Kinosha has no hope of avoiding a lawsuit the way the Mayo clinic does.

10:14:59 PM: If somebody doesn’t mention tort reform soon, I’m gonna need a new TV. This one’s going thru the window.

10:17:59 PM: 1st commercial. Obama 3, Reality 0.

10:18:36 PM: This debate on healthcare brought to you by the Trial Lawyers Association. Remember where you bread is buttered, Change-boy.

10:19:45 PM: Predict new Johnny Depp movie will flop. Hat he’s wearing is not silly enough.

10:20:56 PM: Quick commercial tweet quiz, better tongue in cheek reference for Barney Frank: Barney Rubble or Barney Bubble? Tweet your reply.

10:21:55 PM: Gee, I wonder why primary care physicians are disappearing. Lawsuits! (Hershaw is a NURSE!)

10:26:21 PM: Obama: “MA hasn’t gotten there yet.” The MA state healthcare system is in collapse. It’s a joke.

10:27:50 PM: President of AMA. Q: how can you guaranty medical decisions left to doctors, not bureaucrats? Gibson bails out Obama w/commercial break.

10:28:28 PM: Quick quiz: how likely is it that Gibson would go to commercial break if someone asked Sarah Palin a difficult question in a town hall?

10:31:50 PM: I wonder if Obama will again threaten to swat the AMA like a fly again.

10:32:25 PM: Here he goes again. Mixing issues. Talking about not switching plans and doctors. Avoiding the question. The real question is

10:32:47 PM: …who gets to decide care, the doctor or the government bureaucrat.

10:34:00 PM: Incentivising by reducing readmission rate. Great idea. I’m sure hospitals won’t find a way to game that system.

10:34:29 PM: You’ll have people lingering in ER or not admitted b/c admitting them means a hit to stats

10:35:43 PM: [Competing vignettes one a doctor saying end of life care is too expensive and drains resources, the other a family with a terminal matriarch]  Interesting tact by ABC. Making Obama literally play God.

10:36:40 PM: This is why gov’t can’t be in healthcare. If it’s your $, it’s your business. If you want to spent it on end of life care, do so.

10:37:16 PM: If you rely on gov’t, you will, no matter what, at some point get a bureaucrat deciding who lives and who dies.

10:38:17 PM: Obama should have played football. He can’t run, he can’t block, he can’t pass. But man, can he punt.

10:39:11 PM: How long will this hypothetical/philosopher king shtick keep playing with people?

10:39:51 PM: “Maybe this, maybe that. What if this. We need to look at this. ”

10:41:17 PM: @angelagamalski exactly the point. The fact that Medicare is there at all raises the issue…..

10:44:44 PM: oh dear, we’re running late

10:44:55 PM: I’ve only booked twitter through 11:00 pm

10:46:27 PM: Preexisting conditions? Where did that come from? The Q was about big brother. Does O not know what big brother means?

10:47:09 PM: Doing something does not necessarily mean you solve the problem.

10:48:17 PM: Wow, Captain Naive flying the flag.

10:48:35 PM: Taking a subsidy away from insurers, guess what will happen to premiums.

10:50:11 PM: I don’t know where Obama is getting his numbers from, but no plan that has been publicly discussed has paid for itself.

10:51:17 PM: If I understood his comment, he suggested we take $277B in insurer subsidies and give it to doctors for training. …

10:51:51 PM: …First, insurers would nearly instantly increase their premiums to offset the loss in revenue…

10:52:21 PM: …second, how would training doctors pay for healthcare for the “46 million” uninsured Americans?

10:55:20 PM: This whole evening has been a complete waste. There is no plan. It’s all sunshine, rainbows and unicorn farts.

10:55:56 PM: It’s not like there is a solid plan that we can probe and he can defend. Any Q he can deflect with vague generalities.

10:57:00 PM: As one law prof said (about another topic), it’s like nailing a jellyfish to a wall. Once you think you have it, squish.

10:58:23 PM: Of course, the whole exercise is a fraud if you don’t even mention tort reform.

10:59:07 PM: I do find it funny that one of the advertisers is that exemplar of efficiency, the US Postal Service.

11:00:01 PM: Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em. 30 minute break.

11:28:39 PM: Smoke break is almost over. Back to class. And lets not always see the same hands.

11:36:04 PM: Question of the night: Will ABC allow this to continue through to Jimmy Kimmel?

11:37:09 PM: Is it a sign of the end of the honeymoon that “primetime” no longer means 8:00 for Obama, but 10:00 on East Coast?

11:38:02 PM: I love how Obama calls this an “exchange”; a “market.” Just like the USSR had “elections” and “candidates”

11:38:11 PM: Just like Iran does now.

11:38:49 PM: Can someone in the room shout out Fannie Mae!

11:39:50 PM: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are GSAs and have grown enormous b/c of the *implicit* gov’t guaranty. Give an insurer a real gty and all over

11:40:39 PM: HOW DARE YOU MAKE MONEY SIR!

11:42:26 PM: Major point is Kennedy/Dodd cost is $1.6 T for 16M over 10 years. That’s $10,000 per person per year. That’s 5x what normal ins. costs.

11:42:54 PM: You could literally give money away to have people buy their own insurance and do better than a gov’t plan.

11:43:26 PM: Does Obama think the healthy folks are the ones who do or don’t have insurance?

11:45:16 PM: Sorry, that was $8333 per person per year. Average per person, single insurance premium is less than $4K per year.

11:46:56 PM: If it’s not a better deal, COngress will subsidize it. Obama has to be the CEO of fantasyland. That or he never met Barney Frank

11:51:27 PM: What the heck was that Q? That was A Christmas Story, when the kid gets to see Santa.

11:51:41 PM: He forgets he wants a red rider bb gun and flubs the moment.

11:54:14 PM: Wow, McCain’s plan was to tax and credit. Obama’s plan is just to tax.

11:55:22 PM: Oh, I see what you did there. McCain said tax. You said only tax “above a certain level.” Of course, some in Congress set that level @ $0

11:55:45 PM: Distinction without a difference.

12:01:09 AM: Still no questions on tort reform. Do these people not know about malpractice, or was there an agreement on no tort reform Qs.

12:07:11 AM: Doesn’t the president have better things to do than spend 2 hours dodging questions about a vague plan?

12:07:57 AM: My verdict stands. No substance tonight, all sunshine, rainbows, and unicorn farts.

12:21:33 PM: Just in, presser moved to ensure Chris Matthews didn’t faint in presence of Obama.

12:25:03 PM: FNC has panel, Bill Samon, Juan Williams and the Man, the Myth, the Legend, Krauthammer.

12:25:52 PM: Krauthammer making the same point about Obama still inviting Iranians to July 4th ceremonies with blood on their hands.

12:26:26 PM: http://is.gd/1arDx (Iranian thugs still invited to Obama’s Fourth of July BBQ)

12:30:37 PM: NO TOTUS!

12:31:05 PM: Shocking turn of events. President will appear without his chief lieutenant, TOTUS.

12:31:53 PM: @JakeTapper on FNC. Accidentally.

12:32:31 PM: threats, beatings and imprisonments? What about shootings and deaths?

12:34:22 PM: This is what he should’ve said last week and on Friday. I hope it’s not too late for Iranian democracy.

12:35:37 PM: Carbon pollution. What a tool.

12:36:23 PM: “Jobs that can’t be shipped overseas?” Wow, he’s a lying machine.

12:37:00 PM: Says costs will be borne by polluters. Sure, they’ll never pass that on to consumers of power, plastics and products.

12:37:22 PM: Maybe these are the same jobs that are “saved or created.”

12:38:08 PM: Obama: Obamacare to be paid for through savings. NO NEW TAXES. Sure it will.

12:38:44 PM: Lies again about people being able to keep healthcare. CBO says current plan will force 10 million to lose their plan.

12:39:22 PM: Status quo unacceptable, except for the 10 million who will be forced to lose healthcare so other can have it for free.

12:39:41 PM: Good q: How much blood on their hands is too much?

12:40:40 PM: Obama: no one can be told what democracy is. Iran has to pick red pill or blue pill.

12:41:48 PM: Obama punts on whether there should be consequences for what Iran’s gov’t has done.

12:42:54 PM: HuffPo Iranian blogger pass through: Can you accept Iminadinnerjacker as legitimate leader?

12:43:18 PM: Obama: hazy, shady, maybe. We didn’t have pollsters on the ground.

12:44:21 PM: Oh good, we can say there are international norms. We can’t do anything about those norms, but we can talk about them.

12:46:08 PM: “Regulators didn’t do what was necessary to prevent crisis.” Yes. Had they, crisis wouldn’t have happened, dummy.

12:49:51 PM: “We’re not expanding Fed’s power, we’re just giving them more authority to resolve issues.” Does he hear himself?

12:50:24 PM: O picks FNC and Major gives it to him: What took you so long to speak up on Iran?

12:51:23 PM: Obama flubs question on Fourth of July barbecue.

12:51:43 PM: This is not the 4th of July BBQ I once knew.

12:53:58 PM: Iran is “inconsistent with international norms,” but health care is “unacceptable.” #obama #iranelection #tcot

12:55:48 PM: why should gov’t provide health insurance for those who decide not to buy it on their own?

12:56:51 PM: Obama mentioned sad case of women with matasticized breast cancer. Would medicare have helped her? I doubt she’d be covered.

12:57:20 PM: More lies about employees not having to change healthcare. CBO says 10 million employees will be forced out of current plan.

12:58:19 PM: Obama thinks that Government plays fair in the marketplace.

1:00:17 PM: Ouch, more “timid and weak” comments from press. Were you influence by McCain? Whaddayouthink? {laughter). [Methinks yes]

1:01:11 PM: Youtube edited clip tomorrow: “The CIA is behind all this.”

1:03:27 PM: Obama on Iran: “we don’t know how this is going to play out.” that’s weak.

1:04:42 PM: @jaketapper so sorry to see you’re sitting next to Helen.

1:05:57 PM: On Iran, Obama won’t condemn the govt, b/c, as I said Mon, he’s expecting them to survive and still wants to talk. That’s not leadership.

1:06:52 PM: I think Obama missed @jaketapper’s point. Gov’t plan will be cheaper b/c it sucks, and ERs will pick it b/c its cheaper.

1:07:08 PM: that will drive for-profit insurers out of business.

1:08:58 PM: Yesterday’s post on why Obama is so wishy washy on Iran: http://is.gd/19yvA

1:10:21 PM: “I sure as hell don’t do it in front of Michelle…”

1:10:56 PM: “I can’t stop smoking, so I will make it illegal for others.” Hope-ocrisy.

1:12:39 PM: Does he have to call them Chill-A?

1:13:20 PM: It’s like a mid-market news presenter with a latin last name, who rolls her “r”s

1:13:37 PM: …but only in her own name

1:16:08 PM: Hans hits Obama on his 8% promise, asks if we need a second stimulus.

1:18:06 PM: here we go, saved or created.

1:18:41 PM: Twain said, there are 3 types of lies: lies, damn lies and statistics. The fourth is any statement by Obama.

1:19:53 PM: Obama shocked to learn government is slow, inefficient and doesn’t actually solve problems.

1:21:37 PM: Better q: have more African American jobs been “saved or created” than non-African American jobs?

1:24:08 PM: Obama on Neda “heartbreaking”. Seems genuinely moved.

1:24:36 PM: Helen getting uppity.

1:26:03 PM: “We have to believe that ultimately, justice will prevail.” Sure, but usually it helps if the US president stands behind.

1:26:59 PM: FNC panel. I always feel dumber after hearing Obama. I always feel smarter after hearing Charles Krauthammer.

1:28:24 PM: Disagree with Charles, I don’t think Obama actually realized that State made the offer re: 4th of July BBQ

1:29:01 PM: I agree it’s a gaffe and should be changed, but Obama seemed to be caught unawares.

1:30:44 PM: Samon noting that Obama is too disaffected re: #Iranelection

1:32:02 PM: wrapping it up. My take home point: healthcare is “unacceptable,” Iran is “inconsistent with international norms.”