Rep. Michele Bachmann tells Newsmax that the financial reform bill recently signed into law is a “disaster” that will immediately have a negative impact on average Americans, and should be repealed if Republicans regain control of Congress. She talks of her plans for the new Tea Party Caucus in Congress and plans to probe the Obama administration.

Rush Limbaugh blasts “moronic Republicans” for going along with another Harry Reid Big Labor gift of federally mandated forced unionism on state and local workers; specifically the Police Fire Forced Unionism bills in the Senate (S. 394 & S. 1611) and in the U.S. House (H.R. 413).

Political analysts are predicting a huge win for Republicans in November’s congressional elections, but some Democrats believe they have a secret plan to stave off a crushing Republican landslide.

That’s the analysis from Newsweek magazine’s Andrew Romano, who writes that “the Democrats in charge are actually rather confident about getting their fellow Dems elected this year. The reason? They have a plan — a plan that they believe will produce much better results on Election Day than anyone expects.”

The first element of that plan is the return of Obama’s former campaign manager David Plouffe, who left politics after Obama’s election win. At the president’s request, he is now communicating on a regular basis with the Democratic National Committee on campaign strategy.

Plouffe’s top priority is to get many of the 15 million people who voted for the first time in 2008, and largely supported Obama, back to the polls this year. His main weapon is the 13-million-name e-mail list from the Obama campaign now available to the DNC.

The focus on individual elections for Democrats will be “keep it local,” according to Romano. “While Republicans hammer away at national themes targeted at right-wing activists, Democrats plan to focus on bread-and-butter regional concerns like jobs.”

Democrats also believe that the emergence of tea party challengers in GOP primaries will help their candidates attract moderate voters. A tea party candidate who wins the primary will drive moderates toward the Democrat in the general election, the thinking goes, and a tea partyer who loses will likely have forced the winning Republican to move further to the right and possibly alienate moderate voters.

Back in 1994, Democrats were unprepared for the GOP onslaught that captured both the Senate and the House, but that won’t happen in 2010, observes Romano, who concludes, “This year, careful planning, internal GOP conflict, an improving economic climate, and yet-to-be-introduced technologies have the potential to limit Democratic losses to less-than-catastrophic proportions.”

Is it me or do the progressives (liberals?) have this innate sense of timing in terms of making asses of themselves? Perhaps Alcee Hastings, a representative – an impeached and convicted member of the House, mind you – puts in his two cents on YouCut. Hastings theorizes that the program would allow Usama Bin Laden to influence the legislature and also accuses “gotcha Republicans” (whatever the hell that is) of trying to enact a coup. Hmmmm….ok.

Senate Republicans are poised to try to reignite the health care debate by launching a coordinated political messaging offensive to target Democrats and the White House for what they contend are the new law’s onerous consequences, according to Roll Call’s David M. Drucker.

A group of Republican Senators who played key roles in the yearlong fight over health care legislation met Thursday in Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (Ky.) office to discuss the strategy. Under the slogan “second opinion,” Republicans plan to communicate their message on multiple fronts, including on the Senate floor, in press conferences, via the Internet and through television and radio appearances.

A Republican Senate aide described the effort as intended “to draw attention to the consequences of the health care law that the White House hopes people miss.”

Democrats rebuked the strategy as typical of what the Republicans offered throughout the contentious health care debate. “I guess it takes Republicans a ‘second opinion’ to ignore all the benefits of the new law,” a Democratic Senate aide said. “Their second opinion pretty much sounds like their first opinion — just the same old rehashed obstructionism at its worst.”

The Republicans’ latest public relations offensive had been in the works since President Barack Obama signed the health care overhaul into law in late March, but their complete roll out was delayed while Senators focused on financial reform legislation. Until now, the Republicans’ pushback has been largely conducted by the GOP leadership’s press operation.

Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), an orthopedic surgeon and key player in the health care debate, has not halted his criticism of the new law in the weeks since it was enacted. Barrasso, who coined the “second opinion” slogan, participated in Thursday’s strategy session in McConnell’s office.

“I’ve gone to the floor every week for the last four weeks and given a doctor’s second opinion of this health care law because at least every week something that I predicted would happen has actually happened,” Barrasso said, citing a new Congressional Budget Office report estimating that the health care overhaul could cost an additional $115 billion.

Also attending the GOP strategy session were Minority Whip Jon Kyl (Ariz.); Conference Chairman Lamar Alexander (Tenn.); Policy Chairman John Thune (S.D.); Sen. Tom Coburn (Okla.); Finance ranking member Chuck Grassley (Iowa) and Health, Education, Labor and Pensions ranking member Mike Enzi (Wyo.).

Alexander’s GOP Conference office recently unveiled a website titled “A Second Opinion” to act as an online aggregator of news and talking points supporting the Republican health care message.

Additionally, a component of the new health care campaign involves Republican criticism of Donald Berwick, who President Barack Obama nominated to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid. On Wednesday, McConnell and Republican Sens. Bob Bennett (Utah) and Pat Roberts (Kan.) engaged in a colloquy on the Senate floor in which they attacked Berwick’s record. Berwick is a doctor and Harvard professor.

Every Republican in the House and Senate voted against the health care bill on final passage.

Senate Democrats remain highly supportive of the law and were dismissive of these latest Republican campaign.

“We have so many things on our plate right now, so many things we have to do. To go back and get in a political argument is just the wrong place to go,” Sen. Ted Kaufman (D-Del.) said.

The left-wing will never get it. They still have this unfounded belief that the GOP fosters hate and unrest against President Obama, hence the undeserved moniker “wingnuts.”

I bet you’re wondering who the “blowhard du jour” is that I am referring to? Not some name-brand liberal. No sir/madam. Actually it is a contributor to the Daily Beast, one John Avlon.

He claims that a new Harris poll says that two-thirds of Republicans think that Obama is a Socialist, 57 percent think he is a Muslim and get this – 24 percent think that he may be the Anti-Christ.

Read further as below is the diatribe in Avlon’s own words:

On the heels of health care, a new Harris poll reveals Republican attitudes about Obama: Two-thirds think he’s a socialist, 57 percent a Muslim—and 24 percent say “he may be the Antichrist.”

To anyone who thinks the end of the health-care vote means a return to civility, wake up.

Obama Derangement Syndrome—pathological hatred of the president posing as patriotism—has infected the Republican Party. Here’s new data to prove it:

• 67 percent of Republicans (and 40 percent of Americans overall) believe that Obama is a socialist.

The belief that Obama is a “domestic enemy” is widely held—a sign of trouble yet to come.

• 57 percent of Republicans (32 percent overall) believe that Obama is a Muslim
• 45 percent of Republicans (25 percent overall) agree with the Birthers in their belief that Obama was “not born in the United States and so is not eligible to be president”
• 38 percent of Republicans (20 percent overall) say that Obama is “doing many of the things that Hitler did”
• Scariest of all, 24 percent of Republicans (14 percent overall) say that Obama “may be the Antichrist.”

These numbers all come from a brand-new Louis Harris poll, inspired in part by my new book Wingnuts.  It demonstrates the cost of the campaign of fear and hate that has been pumped up in the service of hyper-partisanship over the past 15 months. We are playing with dynamite by demonizing our president and dividing the United States in the process. What might be good for ratings is bad for the country.

The poll, which surveyed 2,230 people right at the height of the health-care reform debate, also clearly shows that education is a barrier to extremism. Respondents without a college education are vastly more likely to believe such claims, while Americans with college degrees or better are less easily duped. It’s a reminder of what the 19th-century educator Horace Mann once too-loftily said: “Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.”

The full results of the poll, which will be released in greater detail tomorrow, are even more frightening: including news that high percentages of Republicans—and Americans overall—believe that President Obama is “racist,” “anti-American” “wants the terrorists to win” and “wants to turn over the sovereignty of the United States to a one-world government.” The “Hatriot” belief that Obama is a “domestic enemy” as set forth in the Constitution is also widely held—a sign of trouble yet to come. It’s the same claim made by Marine Lance Corporal Kody Brittingham in his letter of intent to assassinate the President Obama.

This poll is the latest and most detailed evidence of the extent to which Wingnuts are hijacking our politics. It should be a wakeup call to all Americans and a collective reminder, as we move past health-care reform, that we need to stand up to extremism.

My take is that this contributor to this online ragsheet is writing this out of fear. Fear that the GOP will make inroads in reclaiming a majority in Congress and that his Dear Leader will not get re-elected to a second term as the POTUS.

His only defense is writing about unfounded fears in terms of how the American public feels about Obama. But the fact of the matter is that the American public does not approve of Obama’s policies, not the man himself. There’s a big difference.

Avlon also uses old rhetoric that smacks of a disregard of the tea partiers who are clearly unhappy with the direction that this country is taking. And can you blame them? The policies of Obama, including the recently signed legislation, are living proof of this. so Avlont should do some actual research instead of spouting off instead of citing a questionable, at best, poll of which he has supplied no date of the poll in question.

What he needs to do is what I would tell anyone who has starts an argument with no facts to back them up: STFU.

I’m pretty sure that you know what that means.

I think that it is safe to say that the health care bill that President Obama is trying to cram down our throats is endangering our way of life, and most importantly, our Constitution.

In a lot of ways, Nancy Pelosi is duly responsible for this. As the debate on Obamacare draws close to its end, she has the gumption and the unmitigated gall to use a parliamentary procedure that is a ruse, at best, to get her goals accomplished. The procedure in question? It’s called the “Slaughter Solution.”

Here’s how this “constitutionally illegal” ruse works.

The plan is not to pass a Senate version of a bill on an “up-or-down vote; What it does instead is have the House of Representatives “deem” the bill as being passed without the benefit of an actual vote and then have members of the House vote directly on a series of “sidecar” amendments to fix the things that it doesn’t particularly like.

This would also allow the House Democrats to avoid going on record as to have actually voted for provisions in the Senate bill – things such as the Louisiana Purchase, the Cornhusker Kickback and the “Cadillac” insurance plans – that are highly unpopular to you and I. If the reconciliation fixes pass, the House send the bill to Obama for his signature without ever having an actual “up-and-down” vote on the underlying legislation.

Should this happen, you can rest assured that the Democrats (and maybe some Republicans) can actually say that they opposed the Senate bill while at the same time allowing it to pass. And folks, this falls within violation of our Constitution, as Articla 1, Section 7 states that for any bill to become a law, it has to pass both the House and Senate. Not the House only and not the Senate only. Both wings of Congress.

In other words, not “deemed” to have passed, but actually voted on. In addition, the legislation has to have the same exact language  in both chambers – and in the version signed by the President – to become a legitimate law. This is exactly why there are committees to iron out the wrinkles of competing versions of the bill. We were taught this in Civics class, remember?

This “Slaughter Solution” is aimed at our current set of checks and balances and would allow Democrats to establish a dangerous precedent. The lawmaking process can be rigged to ensure the passage of any legislation without any democratic accountability or even a congressional majority, at the very least.

In a sense, it is paving a road towards tyranny – whether they realize it or not. Which brings us to the POTUS.

What Obama is starting right before our eyes is a leftist revolution. Ever he assumed the presidency, he has basically regarded the Constiution as some outdated document. The powers of the federal government has imploded; in the meantime, he has nationalized some very important sectors of American life – the big banks, the auto industry, financial institutions and large plots of energy-rich land from Montana ot New Mexico.

His crap-and-trade cap-and trade legislation, along with an all-of-a-suddenly empowered EPA, looks to impose new taxes and regulations on industry nationwide. If you think about it, this is “green socialism” as much of the economy would fall under a huge, bureaucratic corporatist state. Think France when you think of this.

But the holy grail for Obama was, is and always will be health care. And goes without saying that the POTUS wants a single-payer system, if he had his way.

Numbers do not lie. The vast majority of Americans do not approve of Obamacare in its current state; what this health care legislation is doing is polarizing and fracturing our country among ideological and racial lines – conditions that are conducive to a potential civil uprising. Which is what Obama wants. Let’s not forget that there are some Democrats who actually are in not in favor of this crap bill, as well.

And let’s not forget the states; a good number of them have went on record, saying that they will sue the federal government if Obamacare becomes law. You can expect that the states would consider themselves exempt from Obamacare while the legislation is in the court system for years to come.

To illustrate how clueless and out of touch the POTUS is, he is actually willing to risk his presidency, his party’s congressional majority and most importantly, our democratic institutional safeguards that are in place  to enact it. He is a “consequences be damned” ideologue who risks our nation’s stability in the pursuit of a Socialist utopia.

Should the “Slaughter Solution” actually be enacted, not only should “true Republicans” (RINOS need not apply – we don’t need the unpredictability, thank you very much) campaign for the repeal of Obamacare during the November elections, but seriously consider impeachment proceedings against Obama and his merry band of Chicago henchmen.

We have a constutional crisis brewing here, and time is rather short. Action needs to be taken – and needs to be taken now.