Despite the teeth of Arizona’s illegal alien law being pulled out by activist judge Susan Bolton, protesters in motion will not be denied! Today, about 50 people were arrested in Phoenix for confronting police officers at a rally opposing the weakened law. I hope existing protocol allows the cops to ask about their legal status! But, I digress… that’s already about 50 more people than have ever been arrested and held for misconduct at any Tea Party event nationwide in over a year. Just sayin’.
The real problem for Dems is in the second video: NO tax increases on the protected class, but he’ll let the Bush tax cuts expire. Here’s the catch: millions of American families making under $250,000 got plenty of tax breaks and cuts under the Bush tax plan, which means by letting it sunset you’re automatically raising taxes on most middle class Americans!
The Dems are in a conundrum. They’d love to rescind the whole thing, but politically that’s difficult in these times. Keep some, dump other parts is also tricky given that they know the business class and the wealthy drive private sector job growth. If the Republicans had any guts they’d ask the Dems to state their positions on the record before November, just to watch the Dems squirm and waffle like crazy all Fall!
60,000 barrels of oil a day gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. Environmental Disaster. The worst oil spill in the history of the world. A disaster beyond epic proportions, which will plague the Gulf for years to come. We’ve been hearing about this for months now, with no end in sight. The Federal Government under the direction of Obama has even suspended all Domestic offshore drilling, so big is the disaster. Well, if its such a big disaster, where has all the oil gone? Yes, that’s right. The state-run media is now reporting that – ghasp – nature has done most of the work in cleaning up the oil! At least 40% of it evaporated, and the rest is being devoured by oceanic microbes, who feast on this stuff like candy. The money quote from this Yahoo! news story:
Perhaps the most important cause of the oil’s disappearance, some researchers suspect, is that the oil has been devoured by microbes. The lesson from past spills is that the lion’s share of the cleanup work is done by nature in the form of oil-eating bacteria and fungi. The microbes break down the hydrocarbons in oil to use as fuel to grow and reproduce. A bit of oil in the water is like a feeding frenzy, causing microbial populations to grow exponentially.
So, nature feeds on oil. This is hardly surprising, as unlike what environmentalists would like you to believe. Oil is a natural substance, and seepages from the ocean floor are common. The lesson from this is that nature is resilient. It is not as easy to destroy as we think. Mother nature is doing more to fix this oil spill than any Government agency or moratorium on drilling could ever do, and we should be humbled by the thought that it is not so easy for us as human beings to do long-term damage to the Earth.
Tomorrow is the scheduled enforcement date for the infamous Arizona law regarding the potential inquiry into the legal status of people who’ve already been stopped by the police. Since it mirrors existing federal law and actually is more lenient, the reason people oppose this law is either through insidious racial politicking or through media-driven ignorance. If I get pulled over by the police in New Jersey I have to show them my license, vehicle registration and proof of insurance — three forms of ID and I’m a lily white boy! Where are all the protests about Jersey’s law? Easy: driving is a privilege not a right, folks.
“We are all very pleased to be playing in Arizona. I have read that some of the artists won’t come here. They are (expletive) wits! Let’s face it: I still play in California, and as a gay man I have no legal rights whatsoever. So what’s the (expletive) with these people?”
Geez! First Rush’s wedding, now this? Good for him — a Brit who understands capitalism! Also, there’s a pro-legal immigration group called “Americans for Legal Immigration” who are stressing the government simply make the exodus easier by setting up stations to process people getting out of the country. They believe comprehensive enforcement will work just fine if implemented in an orderly manner.
Tomorrow’s the big day — protests are planned and since many are leftist-driven there may be trouble, though we truly hope not.
UPDATE: Today a federal judge has blocked four important parts of the law until the government’s lawsuits run their course. This should irk a lot of people around the country, including some of the tomorrow’s pro-law protesters.
The People’s Republic of Massachusetts is at it again. This time, they are trying to reverse two century’s of precedent and change the electoral college system. They, along with several other states, have passed legislation that would award their 12 electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote. Massachusetts joins Illinois, New Jersey, Hawaii, Maryland, and Washington as states that have changed to this method of awarding the popular vote.
Mike and I discussed this topic once over lunch, and he had some interesting legal observations on the subject. For one, who defines the certified popular vote? There is no official popular vote total in the nation, as the Presidential election is made up of fifty separate state elections. It also is rather stupid of Massachusetts, as it nullifies the will of the Massachusetts voter, while other states will have far more of a say in upcoming Presidential elections. I could see a court challenge based on equal protection on this one (lawyers: is there a case for that here?) based on the fact that Massachusetts voters are essentially having no say in their electors, leaving it to other states to decide who the electors will go to.
Or what about a court challenge if 2012 ends up looking like 2000? What if a Republican wins the national popular vote (even though such a thing does not exist) but the Democrat would have one the electoral college if the old system had been retained?
In the end, I hope this does backfire. Notice the states that have passed this law: Massachusetts, Illinois, New Jersey, Hawaii, Maryland, and Washington are all Democrat-heavy states. It will be fun to see them all go red in the next election, if the national popular vote goes to a Republican. In that case, watch how quickly they switch it back. It is yet another foolish move by Democrats that will be revoked as soon as it is inconvenient to their political fortunes.
As many have aptly noted, the information in these leaked documents tells us nothing new: we knew that some in Pakistan were playing both sides, that there have been civilian casualties (it is a war, right?), Iran’s involved somehow, etc. However, these kinds of leaks expose names and situations which can threaten ongoing operations and soldiers in the field. That’s why the leaker and his aids need to be rooted out, investigated, and thrown in jail.
However, WikiLeaks is a leftist group with an agenda beyond finding the truth. They released a video a few months back allegedly showing a deliberate US bombing of civilians in Iraq. The MSM jumped all over it since the story, “Collateral Murder,” and video fit their template of the evil US soldier. WikiLeaks was happy to oblige, but here’s the thing: their transcripts and interpretations of the 40-minute video were wrong and misleading at the expense of our soldiers. Here’s more proof that those reporters and civilians were in a legitimate combat zone. Note, too, that the video was from 2007 — another swipe at the Bush Administration, leaving the Obama Nation unscathed.
That video and the latest transcripts are real, but their context and the motive behind their release has a blatantly transparent leftist agenda which will do more harm than good while at the same time distorting the truth of these events on purpose.
The Dem’s insatiable appetite to drive a political point home inadvertently may have gone too far. In the wake of the BP Gulf Oil Spill, Democrats wanted to pound the demonization of BP by investigating further, looking into a potential link between BP and the 2009 release of Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the man charged, tried and convicted of the 1988 Pan-Am Flight 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, in exchange for a $1 billion oil exploration deal between Libya and BP. Altogether, 270 people, including 189 Americans were killed in that terrorist attack.
Al-Megrahi was serving a life sentence in Scotland, but had terminal prostate cancer. Scotland decided to released him to Libya last August. At the time, the administration said that they objected to this move.
President Obama further indicated last week that Americans were “surprised, disappointed and angry” to hear of the release. That was true, but it has come to light that the Obama Administration knew about the release beforehand and preferred the “compassionate release” of al-Megrahi to Libyan hands rather than a promise of al-Megrahi being put in a Libyan jail.
Maybe in the British health care system his diagnosis was definite doom, but the problem is that nearly a year later al-Megrahi is still alive and apparently doing well, free as a bird in Libya. I agree with British Prime Minister David Cameron that al-Megrahi, the biggest mass-murderer in British history, should have remained rotting in a Scottish prison rather than released under the most favorable conditions (as we now know) based on American pressure. This is all very disgusting.
I used to call myself a Republican, but haven’t for a number of years now. The answer is simple: they suck. A friend aptly once described our two parties as the Stupid Party (Republicans) and the Evil Party (Democrats): “stupid” because Republicans never miss an opportunity to jump on their own sword even in the face of success, and “evil” because to the Dems it’s all about the blind accumulation of power. My advice has often been to divorce oneself from the parties, embrace a philosophy, then vote smartly.
Paul Ryan’s “Road Map” is likely not the answer to all our fiscal problems, but it is a bold start and a sharp contrast to what’s being offered in Washington to deal with the biggest impending financial calamity of our lifetimes: the coming Entitlement Crisis, or the difference between what we’ve been promised and what government will be able to deliver. The Road Map is an opportunity to move Independents proudly under a fiscally conservative banner, push the Republicans to the right again all while making tough national choices easier while that is still an option.
But, “ruling class” Republicans are not discussing it. Obviously, the Republican leadership doesn’t understand the Tea Party movement, where it came from or where it’s headed, otherwise they’d be all over this idea — discussing it openly, the good, bad and ugly. But, Ryan hears crickets, and the Republicans seem on the verge of making a critical political error by not offering a true contrast with Democrats. Oh, they’ll likely win pretty big in the Fall, but to what end? This is why Republicans continue to suck. Whether or not the Road Map is any good, Ryan is at least talking seriously about bold and true reforms.
Of course, when Tom Harkin called the Obama Care monstrosity merely a “starter home” we all knew the push for the public option and ultimately the statist goal of a single-payer system would not be too far behind. Well, here it is: about 130 Democrats have put their support behind adding a public option to Obama Care as a way to cut the deficit (!) by $68 billion by 2020. Do you know how spending more money covering more people cuts the deficit? The CBO admits that the deficit cuts would come as a result of tax increases! Shocking, I know.
Why all this concern about the deficit from Dems spending us into oblivion? Easy. It’s all about November 3, the day after the election. Obama’s already set things into motion through his joke of a deficit commission and sounding like a deficit hawk in a speech yesterday (go to 2:12 and get ready to either laughor puke). Deficit cutting should be the main Dem talking point in the Fall behind “Republican tea-baggers are racist!”
So, the Dems will play the game that somehow Republicans will be in the way of making the tough choices on what to cut. Obama and the Dems increase non-discretionary spending to ridiculously unsustainable heights, then will tear at Republicans for not wanting to play the deficit cutting game by being mean to poor people, seniors and our grandchildren. Second verse, same as the first. In their world, government expansion means cutting the deficit. They really think we’re stupid.
Yesterday, the administration and the NAACP were in total damage-control mode as the Sherrod video exposed much more than just her racist comments taken out of context: the NAACP released apologies and full tapes, while the administration was offering Sherrod her job back, and the MSM was predictably blaming the messenger — I even heard on CNN this morning (I was only flipping through to Fox) that Andrew Breitbart, who first released the edited tapes, should be investigated! Um, no. Breitbart could, however, reveal the shady source who only gave him the out-of-context snippet we saw on Monday! Be careful what you wish for.
However, I did read a thoughtful piece on why the NAACP is so upset at the Tea Party. Robert Weissburg writing for the American Thinker argues that the civil rights movement has produced the biggest, most all encompassing big government policies imaginable since World War II. If there’s no more government sponsored race business, then the ever-expanding role and power of the government must wane and the current NAACP diminishes with it. That’s where the anti-big government Tea Party comes in as such a threat to the status quo at the NAACP. Interesting point.
The dreaded Dodd-Frank financial overhaul bill is now the law of the land. This flaming bag of big government crap ultimately moved by acquiescent RINOs who just wanted to “do something” will add more restrictions, red tape, government largess and unreadable regulations to an already damaged economy. It’s 2000+ pages of just plain terrible — I hope you don’t need to use a bank for anything important, they might be rather busy interpreting this monstrosity.
Yet, the biggest short-term insult is that Obama decided to sign this pile of dog poo at the Ronald Reagan Building! Ironic, or a symbolic middle finger at the conservative movement’s most revered recent president? I wonder.
Peter DeStefano is running as a Tea Party candidate in New Jersey’s 3rd District against Republican Jon Runyan to battle Democrat incumbent John Adler this Fall. The problem is that DeStefano has not been endorsed by the Tea Party and his name only emerged after a poll commissioned by Democrat Adler was taken. DeStefano has also spent much more time attacking Runyan than Adler. Suspicious? The West Jersey Tea Party has called the candidacy fraudulent and DeStefano a “shill” for the Democrats.
That makes sense. Adler’s not dumb here: get the Republicans and Tea Party fighting each other to push them off message. Even encourage DeStefano to use the “NJ Tea Party” title on the ballot for the Fall. Also, this incident exposes a fundamental problem for Tea Parties anywhere: in such a grassroots bottom-up amorphous organization, how does one standardize the candidates and message without leaving the door open for shills and Democrat insurgents like DeStefano?
Tough call. I like the non-organizational feel of the Tea Party, but eventually safeguards have to be put in place to prevent these kinds of things from happening. We’ll see how well the Tea Party deals with all this, but one thing is certain — they must be making an impact if they’re being targeted like this!
The US Navy now has laser beams which can take down drones from seafaring military ships! Apparently, the salt air weakens the strength of the beam (I have no idea why, but it does), however this problem has been overcome by the good people at Raytheon. Though the “Laser Weapon System” is not ready for deployment (drones don’t have the speed and maneuverability of cutting edge fighter planes or human pilots), it’s still pretty frickin’ cool!
So here’s a little hypocrisy for you: The NAACP decided last week to scold the Tea Party for alleged racism within the ranks of the new movement, but didn’t have much to say about a racist recently speaking to their own ranks until that person was exposed.
Here’s Shirley Sherrod, the USDA’s Director of Rural Development in Georgia, talking to the NAACP about her experience with a struggling white farmer:
The NAACP had to wait for Fox News to publish the story before condemning Sherrod, who was just resigned from the USDA. Notice the chuckles from the audience.
Also notice that the date of the speech is March 27, 2010. So, I guess the NAACP will not just tolerate, but chuckle along with a black racist for four months only condemning her once she’s been exposed by the press. Way to man-up there NAACP, your group used to be something noble.
UPDATE: Turns out the incident Sherrod spoke about was 24 years ago and she is friends with the white family — apparently she’s not a racist, she’s a Marxist! Yet, she was still denounced by the NAACP and the regime without investigation… hmm…
In case you missed Rush’s show today, he basically spent three hours reading and analyzing this article from Angelo Codevilla writing for the American Spectator. It is a pretty awesome article that tries to explain why the Washington “ruling class” acts the way they do, and why many in the Republican Party suck so much even though there’s a “country party” (aka the rest of us) that’s clamoring for them to act in opposition. Although the article’s pretty long, it’s very good and thoughtful — give it a read!
Some good news and some bad news still a few months out before Election Day.
The good news: in the Pennsylvania Senate race, Pat Toomey’s up 45-38% over Joe Sestak in the latest Rasmussen poll. I’d say “Keep up the good work, PA” but Pennsylvania loves to disappoint Republicans. We’ll see how this plays out.
The bad news: in the Nevada Senate race to unseat Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Tea Party Republican Sharron Angle is suddenly down 7 points in the latest Mason-Dixon poll which has Reid leading 44-37%. Angle was rocking Reid until about a month ago. Could be an outlier poll, but M-D is usually very good.
Every time I see Sharron Angle she reminds me of 24‘s President Taylor mixed with an odd Susan Collins vibe. Not good, but I also can’t believe that Nevada would send back such a miserable failure in Harry Reid. Angle’s mission — take the 10% undecideds in the M-D poll.
Regardless, many Republicans are beginning to get cocky, thinking aloud that they can take back the Senate in the Fall. Overconfidence never bodes well for Republicans with so many RINOs still infecting the ranks. Plus, there’s no uniform national platform to persuade locals to vote for Republicans, rather than merely against the Dems. But like I said, we’re still a few months out.
But, I don’t trust this administration. I’m convinced that if there were no uproar last week the vague and inherently broad high-risk pool coverage would have included elective abortions despite the executive order — New Mexico already took it upon itself to pronounced elective abortions covered with no brouhaha from the HHS until HHS was called out on it regarding Pennsylvania’s case.
It’s been nearly 48 hours since BP’s latest attempt to plug the leak stopped the gushing. So, far so good on stopping the leak, but more tests are coming which may include letting the oil flow again to test the pressure.
In the meantime, President Obama has been rigorously working on his golf game and blasting Republicans for being mean ol’ meanies. But, aside from his 41 rounds of vacation golf (not including all his time spent on the White House putting green), his laser-like focus on that three-letter word “j-o-b-s,” and his incessant advocacy of “recovery summer” (whatever that means), BP Obama also squeezed in time to stop the leak, working so intensely that the media has been told to go away — I guess even messiah-like greatness can get distracted by all those pesky reporters.
So, when they agreed to make health records electronic (which I think on the surface is a great idea), who knew that these records would necessarily include your BMI (body mass index) which describes one’s level of obesity?
HHS knew, but don’t think this is another Obama Care “oops there it is.” This change was put in the Stimulus of all places! Yes, the Stimulus (!) gave the HHS Secretary authority to issue new regulations tied to these electronic health records. This now includes your BMI.
However, BMI isn’t always a reliable pudge indicator, but certainly more p.c. than listing one’s “waist circumference.” My BMI is 25.1, just over the line into “overweight” territory, which would surprise many who know me. Also, back in the 1990s Michael Jordan’s BMI was 27 to 29, nearly hitting the “obese” threshold of 30 — who knew?
Philosophically, I don’t care one bit about your fatness (aside from aesthetic beach reasons). If you want to pound Twinkies all day and wash them down with mama’s old-style sausage biscuit gravy, go right ahead… but don’t make us pay for it! That’s what nationalized health schemes force us to do — to suddenly care about your physical girth because it affects my wallet’s girth, which frustrates everyone involved.
However, you still have the right to be fat for now. This new regulation is likely designed to gather data and track trends to guide the inevitable government rationing boards once Obama Care goes into full effect.
It’s July and that means its time for my summertime guilty pleasure, Big Brother. Tonight is the season’s first eviction night and we’ll be liveblogging. Head of Household Hayden began the week by nominating Rachel and Brendon for eviction. After Brendon won the veto and saved himself, Hayden replaced him on the block with Annie. So tonight, Rachel or Annie will be the first contestant evicted. I’m rooting for Rachel to stay, but let’s see what happens. Feel free to chime in.
The key moment in this saga happened in early June when loyal Clintonite James Carville openly bashed Obama’s handling of the oil spill in front of the MSM. This was a sign to those loyal to the Hillary faction to buck up because it’s not over yet — there might be a chance in 2012. I wrote about this back on June 6.
Well now the Wall Street Journal is speaking aloud about the prospects for a Democrat primary battle in 2012. The article is a little delusional — what’s our response to the most divisive and inept figure in current American politics? Let’s nominate and elect another ridiculously divisive figure in current American politics, who according to the article, sounds more like a conservative Republican come to save the day!
Oh, by the way the article overlooks that Hillary agrees with Obama on just about all of what he’s done, and if she doesn’t agree with him she’s acquiesced nonetheless. The problem is not that Obama doesn’t know what he’s doing — he’s doing what he knows: he’s a progressive implementing a progressive agenda. Hillary would be merely a shrill, slightly toned-down but just as condescending version of the same nonsense.
Like 2008, the country will not embrace more of the same in 2012, which will likely be a “change” election.
CNS has reported that President Obama’s Executive Order prohibiting the taxpayer funding for abortions is ostensibly worthless. Remember, that Executive Order (aka Bart Stupak’s pound of flesh) was issued to plug a loophole in Obama Care that would use taxpayer money to fund abortions. Perennial passage of the Hyde Amendment since the 1980s continued the ban on using my money to pay for your abortion, but pro-life Democrat votes were needed to pass Obama Care with the promise that an Executive Order would come to replace and reinforce those protections (I remember laughing at that — remember who Obama is, a man comfortable with infanticide).
I hope those Democrats feel like real crap right now.
This revelation came as HHS is giving Pennsylvania $160 million to set up a “high-risk insurance pool” that covers abortions. That’s federal money (our money) going to fund potential abortions, despite an Executive Order stating the contrary. The Obama Nation remains silent in response to these developments, as we figured they would.
The Tea Partiers across America are a new phenomenon, only organizing early last year. Though young, it’s very threatening to the typical Washington establishment which is fast approaching its nadir. As part of that establishment, the NAACP has turned to the “race business” as a way to stay relevant and has unfortunately become mere race-baiting shills of the Democrat Party in recent years.
Unlike how Republicans would react (“We’re not racist, and to prove it we’ll pass you’re big spending bill and cower for a while”), the St. Louis Tea Party has passed its own resolution condemning the NAACP for playing race politics and effectively slurring the Tea Party without any proof!
I like their moxie and their willingness to fight back — make the NAACP defend their statement, rather than have the Tea Party prove a negative. Are you paying attention, Republicans?
The template is set: a bad Democrat bill which increases the size and scope of a government without tackling the underlying problem passes the House; that terrible bill is a few votes short of cloture in the Senate; suddenly two RINOs from Maine show up, think that they must do something and promise to vote for cloture, sending a bad bill on the way to becoming law. Except this time, we need to add Scott Brown to the mix.
A financial overhaul bill that doesn’t even address the fundamental problems with Fannie and Freddie, which at the same time creates more labyrinthine government panels that won’t address the true underlying problem of an incestuous government/business “too big to fail” hybrid that facilitated this collapse is kabuki theater at best — an attempt to be seen as trying to do something, regardless of whether that something is good. Create conditions to let businesses fail and maybe they won’t act so stupidly — it ain’t brain surgery, folks!
Ultimately, this bill will not help, but likely hurt the financial sector in the short- and long term. Economic guru Peter Schiff has predicted much of the current crisis and is running for Senate in Connecticut with common sense solutions that don’t sound anything like what this bill does. Schiff should be heeded.
The worst part is that this latest attempt at massive economic futility is being moved by Republicans.
Here’s a piece from the Politicowhich is highly revealing. It describes the reasons why the liberal/progressives among are upset at the Obama Nation, in their own words. Some libs are even experiencing “despair,” which is funny because the Democrats have had more institutional power over the last 18 months than at any time since the 1960s, but I digress.
Some of their complaints: the economy is getting in the way of their agenda, Obama is not radical enough, the Republicans are simply obstructing everything, and it will ultimately take some time before their radical agenda will be fully implemented.
Just a quick response: the economy remains bad because of their anti-business progressive policies, Obama is philosophically outside the political mainstream, the Republicans can’t really stop anything (rather, they’ve been welcoming debate), but I do get the sense that by November they know the party’s over.
They are losing because they are being rejected — this administration’s penchant toward statism is pretty unambiguous and the people get it. It’s like the libs are looking in the mirror, but ignoring their reflection. At least that’s a start, though.
Spain defeated the Netherlands (or the “Neverlands” since they are 0-3 in WC finals) in a plodding 1-0 match which had to go into in extra time. Here are some highlights:
I have to be honest on this one — the game sucked. It’s once again pretty evident why professional soccer is not going to catch-on in the USA in the near future: conceivably, you could have turned the game on at 2:30pm EDT, simply passed out, suddenly woke up at 4:45pm realizing that you were missing out, and you would have still seen a 0-0 score. Unfortunately, that’s not an anomaly in soccer. However, in other sports defense is sometimes great to watch — the pitcher’s duel, the 3-3 football game in the snow, the low-scoring NCAA playoff basketball game where anything could happen. But in soccer, it’s tedious!
Plus, the referee did his best Buzz Killington impression throughout the game by yellow carding everyone and their sister. Let them play — it’s the frickin’ World Cup Championship match! Every little tap on the toe does not require a yellow card at this level of play! Granted, the “Neverlands” were trying to out muscle Spain as an intimidation tactic, but Spain kept their cool and scored in the 116th minute (yup, that was nearly 2.5 hours in).
See you in Brazil 2014, World Cup — maybe your championship matches will be as cool as your 3rd place match, which really was great to watch!
When I received the news a few minutes ago, it felt like a punch in the gut because like most Yankee fans, a part of my childhood died with Mr. Sheppard. Generations of Yankee fans, from those in the 1950s who heard him introduce a roster that included Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford, to those of today who remember Sheppard introducing Don Mattingly and still hear his recording announcing Derek Jeter, will never forget the voice of Sheppard. Whether he was announcing lineups, delivering news of world events like the death of President Reagan, or calling for prayer in the aftermath of September 11, hearing Bob Sheppard’s voice, “the Voice of God”, was always inseparable from the Yankee Stadium experience.
If you’re a Yankee fan, the following tribute will give you goosebumps and might even bring tears to your eyes. Rest in peace Mr. Sheppard.
President Obama recess appointed a straight-up welfare state redistributionist to handle Medicare and Medicaid, Donald Berwick, despite the fact that no one was holding up the confirmation process. Obama was obviously hiding Berwick, not willing to give Republicans the opportunity to legitimately bash this guy’s radical point of view in public. As the saying goes: “Sunshine is the best disinfectant.” If so, we have a rather dirty crew in DC.
But this thoughtful article from the UK Telegraphpoints out that Berwick is all wrong with what he likes about Britain’s NHS (National Health Service). Like sentiments on the American right, the article points out that while Europe is running away from a state-run solution, America is careening straight for it at America’s own peril! Here’s one point:
“Dr Berwick professes a love (which he describes in ecstatic terms that will have a tragicomic ring to most British ears) of just those evils of a national health system with which we are exasperated: the calculated rationing of treatment, and the ruthless enforcement of uniform cost limits, which often puts the most advanced medication and procedures out of reach of patients whose lives might have been extended or transformed by them.”
But, Mr. Obama is smitten and has put Berwick in charge until the next Congress. Frankly, none of this makes much sense to we Americans either. Here’s a video analogizing where our health care system is likely headed — it’s presciently informative.
Amazingly, theNew York Times reported a trend happening in the Obama Administration regarding illegal aliens employed throughout the nation — punishing the businesses who hire them, while letting the other law-breakers go. These “silent raids” target business through employee audits, fining the businesses, but by-and-large leaving the other perp (the illegal alien) to remain merely fired, not deported unless they have an existing criminal record.
This is liberal/progressive “social justice” at it again — selectively applying the law in favor of one group over another. It’s illegal to hire aliens, but it’s also illegal to enter this country illegally. I agree that businesses who hire illegals should be nailed for this, but that the aliens themselves who also broke the law should be rounded up and deported accordingly.
Otherwise clean records or not, they’ve still broken the law, are outside the system, could endanger themselves or others, and have have demonstrated a lack of respect for that rule of law — a fundamental concept of what it means to be an American… but that’s right, they aren’t Americans.
