Stupak, the Democrat who vowed to fight publicly funded abortion in Obamacare … stepped to the podium … in front of a live national TV audience and announced he would support Obamacare with nothing but a meaningless executive order as his cover.
Dan Benishek, a 57-year-old surgeon from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, was watching the news on TV when Stupak announced he was changing his vote, and the doctor’s phone began ringing off the hook. Stupak’s capitulation made Benishek a nationwide sensation:
Within 24 hours, he [Benishek] boasted 20,000 Facebook “friends.”
Within 48 hours, Benishek had raised $50,000 in online donations.
“We were doing the best we could, but we didn’t raise much money. And then Bart flipped like that and suddenly the money started pouring in.”—Dan Benishek
By Kerry J. Byrne
Meet the doctor who symbolizes the nationwide rebellion against Obamacare.
His name is Dan Benishek. He’s a 57-year-old surgeon from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and he’s never held political office at any level. He announced on March 15 that he was running as a Republican for Michigan’s First Congressional District – that’s Bart Stupak’s district, in case you were wondering.
Today Benishek is a rising political force and an Internet phenomenon who could upset the balance of power in Washington, D.C.
Six days after Benishek announced his candidacy, he was handed an unexpected gift by Stupak, the Democrat who vowed to fight publicly funded abortion in Obamacare. Stupak stepped to the podium that fateful Sunday afternoon in front of a live national TV audience and announced he would support Obamacare with nothing but a meaningless executive order as his cover.
The congressman’s capitulation made Benishek a nationwide sensation.
Within 24 hours, he boasted 20,000 Facebook “friends.”
Within 48 hours, Benishek had raised $50,000 in online donations.
“No way is he [Stupak] going to win,” said Benishek. “I’m going to beat him. Actually, he beat himself by doing that dramatic flip-flop. He could have been a hero.”
Benishek, just a week into his campaign at the time, was watching the news on TV when Stupak dramatically announced he was changing his vote. The doctor’s phone began ringing off the hook.
“We just organized my friends and neighbors when we started out,” Benishek said. “I was upset about the stimulus plan being passed in the cover of darkness. The arrogance just drove me nuts.”
He finally decided to take the plunge into politics while ice fishing with friends a few months ago. Instead of taking the school committee-city council-state rep route, he gunned right for Washington, D.C.
“I had no idea what to do or how to do it, but you learn fast. We were doing the best we could, but we didn’t raise much money. And then Bart flipped like that and suddenly the money started pouring in.”
Stupak’s cave-in instantly nationalized the race for Michigan’s First District. Benishek’s contributors have come from all over the country, much like Scott Brown’s did here in Massachusetts when it appeared that he offered a chance to stop Obamacare.
“It’s mostly $5 and $10 donations,” Benishek said.
Nationalizing Ted Kennedy’s former Senate seat in Massachusetts is one thing. Nationalizing the race for Michigan’s rural First Congressional District is another.
The Upper Peninsula is small-town, Middle America, 300 miles north of Detroit. It’s conservative country.
Benishek, the political neophyte, certainly carries Washington “outsider” street cred. He also believes he knows a hell of a lot more about health care than the Democrats in D.C.
“You learn a lot about the system,” he said, “battling the bureaucracy that bogs down medical care while paying $40,000 a year in malpractice insurance.
“This is a disaster. It’s just a disaster. It’s just another layer of federal bureaucracy that doctors must comply with. Nurses already spend half their time documenting procedures. So you have to pay two nurses to get the work of one. [Obamacare] is only going to make things worse.”
THE MILLSTONE DIARIES 
INSPIRING THEIR FALLEN NATURES
Posted in Guest Commentary on April 1, 2010| Leave a Comment »
“Like the devil in Needful Things, he has something for everyone. To the young generation who overwhelmingly supported him, he promised them a free college education and stressed that it is a “right.” … If we are to take his words at face value, he can only be doing this as an overture toward “free college for all.”
Over the past few years, Sallie Mae, the largest provider of student loans has seen its bond ratings plunge toward the very border of “junk” status … What the bond market is telling you is that defaults are increasing and it is going to get much worse.”—Mr. Arbitrage
Obama’s Overtures toward Free College for All
By MrArbitrage
Obama went to a community college the day before yesterday to sign the final package of fixes to the healthcare bill. He did this because a major part of the healthcare scam was to directly nationalize the student loan business. There used to be a buffer between the Federal government and student loans but not anymore.
“A great battle pitting the interest of the banks and the financial institutions – against the interest of students – finally came to an end. For almost two decades we have been trying to fix a sweetheart deal in federal law that essentially gave billions of dollars to banks to act as unnecessary middle-men in administering student loans,” Obama said.
Could it have anything to do with the fact that lending is the business they are in and there may be some similarities in the due-diligence and administrative duties? It’s just a guess but I would think the reason why this so-called “sweetheart deal” existed -for 45 years- before this genius and his mummified corpse leading Congress came along, was because there are tens of thousands of lending institutions spanning the nation with qualified people who are experienced in this area and have locations with people who work inside of them. Nevertheless, starting July 1st, those loans will be offered –only- by the Department of Education and I cannot wait to see how well they run this business!
Here’s something you can take to the bank. Obama’s (The False Prophet’s) true intensions are for this charade to amount to another $85 Billion dollar per year entitlement that will add to the crippling debt he is deliberately mounting to destroy this country he, his wife, his pastor, his domestic terrorist and Marxist cabinet so loathes.
I don’t know if anyone has noticed but there’s a bit of a problem here. The people who catapulted this Bolshevik wannabe to office are the same people who are supposed to be paying off these college loans. Throughout his campaign and his first year in office Obama has done a masterful job of inspiring the fallen angels of their nature. Like the devil in Needful Things, he has something for everyone. To the young generation who overwhelmingly supported him, he promised them a free college education and stressed that it is a “right”. He didn’t just do this throughout his campaign; he did so during his recent State of the Union Address. If we are to take his words at face value, he can only be doing this as an overture toward “free college for all”.
The False Prophet and The Mummy (Nancy Pelosi) sold this swindle as a blow to “sweetheart deals” against the evil bankers and elimination of the proverbial “middle-man” as though they are going to now reap tremendous profits for us. Bond investors are more conservative than the stock market and their actions can tell you a lot about this situation. Over the past few years, Sallie Mae, the largest provider of student loans has seen its bond ratings plunge toward the very border of “junk” status and is probably only above that line because of politics. (We have seen the integrity of these agencies with regard to securitized mortgages and their willingness to play ball.) What the bond market is telling you is that defaults are increasing and it is going to get much worse.
It makes perfect sense. Capitalism and democracy only work for a moral and God fearing people (as Adams said) and we are now seeing why. These promises they made to pay back those loans are a trifling matter to a generation of ingrates who were raised by the government and M-TV. Many of these kids care about two things, getting laid and getting paid, none of which is a catalyst for them to compensate taxpayers for something they have been inculcated to believe is owed to them. If The False Prophet and The Mummy have not yet been charged, tried and convicted of treason by then, next election time he will convince these ingrates that we should be paying them a full-time salary to go to college.
According to Obama’s “news reader,” Brian Williams and “spokesman” Chuck Todd, there were some other goodies in the healthcare bill to bribe the kids, like increases in Pell grants to keep up with tuition inflation, which will probably encourage further increases for college tuition. It also included a limitation on repayment of loans to 10% of income because “I know what that’s like” said Obama, “Michelle and I had big debts coming out of school. Debts we weren’t able to fully repay until just a few years before I started running for office.” I guess he means that Tony Rezko paid them off about four years ago because I don’t think he spent more than a year in each office as he traversed the road to the White House. It’s not like the Treasury actually needs that money back.
These gestures are only a good faith overture because he promised these ingrates FREE and they will not forget. These kids have been looking for something to protest and riot about. They are holding protests and getting arrested all over the country with their signs demanding free college education. The scene about which everyone was making a big deal with Ann Coulter at a Canadian University doesn’t look much different than the scene here in the U.S. By the news coverage you would think that the activities of those Canadian students were unusual. That’s because you barely see these left-wing protestors in American universities in a negative light in our media. It’s time to wake up.
This is just a friendly piece of advice. If you are like many ambivalent Americans supporting a child in college, you may have a Marxist on your hands and be totally oblivious to that fact. You may want to do some further due diligence on your investment.
In the final analysis, I guess the federal government would have ended up nationalizing it all regardless. Why wait to bail out Sallie Mae and all of these lenders as the deadbeat kids bleed them dry slowly – when you can sneak it all into a “healthcare bill?”
Take a minute to watch this piece with Brian Williams and Chuck Todd. At the end Todd refers to the observation by insurance companies that allow them to continue using generally accepted underwriting procedures on child policies. Todd referred to the threatening letter sent by Kathleen Sebelius to the insurance companies and the fact that the insurance industry said they would comply with The False Prophet’s interpretation of the law. The revealing part occurs at the end when he tosses back to Brian Williams who said “we’re actually going to track that story and HOLD THEM TO IT”. So much for hiding their status as White House tail-waggers. What’s amazing is this is the same crowd that wouldn’t wear an American Flag lapel after Sept 11, 2001, after our country just went to war – for fear that they might show partiality. They were supposedly worried that people should not see them take a side! They also won’t use the word “terrorist” for that reason.
They really are an embarrassment and disgrace to our nation and the founding fathers who took such solicitude to assure a “free press” as an essential pillar of democracy. I mean, in other communist countries the press at least waits to be nationalized before they start humping the leg of their master. I guess since these guys know with their abysmal ratings it’s only a matter of time, so they want to earn enough Scooby Snacks to get to the front of the line.
WARNING: Also on that page is a link to a story titled: “President Obama goes One-on-One with Matt Lauer”. I cannot vouch for that one because I didn’t dare click on it. But if you must, make sure there are no children in the room.
Don’t miss the latest Budget Buster “The Mummy 2010”. The Mummy (played by Nancy Pelosi) is sent to Congress by a radical district of trans-gendered, sexual deviants and drug addicts to hijack the entire US Congress. Will she and her partner The False Prophet (Barack Hussein Obama) succeed in their overt scheme to bleed the country dry and convert it to tyranical hybrid of Islam-O-Marxism? Or will the nation wake up and charge them for the treachery they personify?
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