#Liberalmovies and LOL's

A few of the #liberalmovies highlights from Twitter

Femme Patriot Dirty Harry Reid
Anthropocon  The Taxorcist
Snarkandboobs Terms of Appeasement
AlKennedy Crouching Liberal, Hidden tax hike
SooperMexican One flew over the constitution
ResistTyranny Dances With Deficits
Im_bonafide Who Framed Rangel Rabbit?



Plus a double feature round up of LOL's around the blogosphere:

Security in Action at Health Care Summit

What's He Thinking?

What's Al Gore Doing on Apple's Board Anyway and Uh Oh They're Onto You Al

More Cowbell

Weekend at Barry's

Live Snarking the Health Care Smack Down

Not an LOL but a real Blood Boiling post

Totally Unnecessary “Nugget” From The Blair House Kabuki Political Theatre

The Taxman   and Jedi Squirrels

Two Feet of Snow

Barry is a Bust

Blair House Reject

More Friday Funnies

Tea Parties in the UK

Move Along Nothing to See

That Wacky Liberal Logic

A closet conservative meets kindred spirits, tea parties and potluck suppers  can't be far behind can they?

Two polls 23,000 jobs and a joke

Beck's Babies Petition Mr. Pwesident - If you haven't heard this you must, it's hilarious.

LOL Sunday Funnies

Today's Delusional Moment Brought to you by ....

If something is going to derail you from rounding up the summit coverage it might as well be a boob war

Round up everything from media bias to booger boarding Max Blumenthal.  Was he hitting Hannah Giles?

Oh my God, My Cat's A Democrat - sad but true.  Still the cat has an extraordinary name.

Frank Luntz Focus Group on Health Care Summit

My apologies for slow blogging this week, we've had a death in the family so I have been busy with family this week. I wanted to take a moment to call attention to this Frank Luntz focus group conducted in Philadelphia last night to garner reactions to the health care summit yesterday. A few neighboring Bucks County residents participated in the focus group including one of my Facebook friends who is also a subscriber to this blog. She gave a great response to the reconciliation question at the end, great job!

The reactions in the group to the summit seem to cement the growing consensus that the GOP gained much from the event while the Democrats appear to have miscalculated that the summit would give them something of a green light to go ahead with reconciliation. The overwhelming response to Luntz's question on this point near the end confirms this.

Gergen: GOP "Had Their Best Day In Years"

This was a surprising much talked about review from David Gergen on CNN today:


The Fix lists winners and losers from the health care summit as well:
Tom Coburn was indeed highly effective:

Tom Coburn: The Oklahoma senator is among the most conservative voices in Congress but his remarks emerged as a -- rare -- rallying point during the day. Coburn's comments on the necessity of eliminating waste and fraud from the health care system drew nods from the president and kudos from a handful of Democratic and Republican politicians gathered at Blair House. In a room dominated by politicians trying to score political points or vamp for the cameras, Coburn stood out.

I've already mentioned Paul Ryan but here is a bit more:

Paul Ryan: Speaking of the Wisconsin Republican, it was clear that the president regards him as a serious thinker and adversary while his GOP colleagues often deferred to him on matters of health care and budget policy. Ryan helped burnish his credentials a rising star within the Republican party; he was partisan but drove his attacks using data rather than pure political rhetoric.

There is little dispute on the left and right Harry Reid was one of the key losers today:

Harry Reid: Reid is the consummate behind the scenes player. And, today he reminded us again of why. Reid, who spoke within the summit's first hour, was extremely combative -- a tone that seemed out of step with the overall tenor of the meeting in which most attendees tried to pay at least lip service to the idea of bipartisanship before launching into the attacks. Not Reid. "Let's make sure we talk about facts," Reid scolded Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.). Later, he interrupted Coburn and said the Oklahoma Senator was trying to "filibuster."

Will update as I find new reviews
More at Memeorandum

"A Ponzi Scheme That Would Make Bernie Madoff Proud"

One of the highlights today, and there were quite a few, was Paul Ryan's rebuttal to Sheriff Joe Biden's pointless discussion on the deficit.  Ryan made clear any "savings" from the Democratic health care agenda were a result of "smoke and mirrors," specifically included to game the CBO.   Ed Morrissey has video of Paul Ryan's highlight from the morning session, including the takeaway quote:

The difference is this. We don’t think all the answers lie in Washington.

By federalizing the regulation of insurance, and by mandating exactly how it’ll work, you make it more expensive and you reduce the competition among insurers for peoples business. We want to decentralize the system, give more power to small businesses, more power to individuals, and make insurance compete more. But if you federalize it, you standardize it and mandate it, you do not achieve that. And that’s the big difference.

While I certainly had my doubts about this summit, and it may be clear that nothing substantive was accomplished, this worked very well for Republicans.  As Ed Morrissey noted after listing those fabulous reviews of the morning session, "Maybe the GOP sandbagged Obama the first time around?"  This was definitely not a replay of the House Republican retreat, the "A Team" showed up ready to play.

THE HILL’S A.B. STODDARD: “I think we need to start out by acknowledging Republicans brought their ‘A Team.’ They had doctors knowledgeable about the system, they brought substance to the table, and they, I thought, expressed interest in the reform.  I thought in the lecture from Senator John McCain and on the issue of transparency, I thought today the Democrats were pretty much on their knees.” (Fox News’ “Live,” 2/25/10)

Cross posted at Potluck