In a very sad ironic twist in the US House of Representatives, Democrats voting on a "health care" reform bill just killed America. It was a vote of 219 to 212 to pull the plug on Freedom and Liberty. Every Republican opposed, as well as 34 Democrats.
So tomorrow all of us will wake up in a different country. We are no longer born free. Thanks to the individual insurance mandate in the bill which just passed, all of us will be required to buy health insurance. That's right, it's the birth penalty. We are required to pay money to exist. Call it the "Breath Tax."
Tomorrow we all wake up subservient to Washington, slaves to the State. Better not get sick...
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Civil Disobedience
If the current health care legislation passes, perhaps the Obama Dictatorship and the ruling radical Left should prepare for the conservative Right to pick up the mantle of civil disobedience.
Long the intellectual property of the radical Left, the unfamiliar notion of protest may well become very familiar to conservatives, libertarians and independents who do not take kindly to being told what to do by an oppressive centralized government. In essence, the health care mandate is unconstitutional, and even more so, un-American. It defies the American ideal of individual choice.
Furthermore, unlike the Left, most Americans oppose the idea of federally funding abortion, which, despite the President's false claims, is part and parcel of the health care legislation. These are people who believe mankind has almost and nearly irrevocably damaged “Mother Earth.” These are people who have preached the gospel of fanatical environmentalism and calamitous overpopulation. That there are too many people using finite resources. These are people who have proposed population control via sex education in elementary schools at best, and forced sterilization at worst. Is it that much of a stretch to suggest that they would embrace the idea of killing your baby on the government's dime? But therein lies the problem. Therein lies the sick, twisted truth of the radical Left's atheistic humanist ideology. Life does have value, and that value is instilled by God when he gives life.
The crux of the issue is that health care is a good, a service, not a right. Rights are intangible. Rights are natural, or of nature. Therefore government providence cannot create nor provide rights. In fact, government of itself cannot provide anything. Not one thing. Everything government does is with someone else's money.
So when President Obama misleads, claiming the bill will not allow for federally funded abortion, he is lying. The reality is your tax money and mine will pay to abort helpless children. The federal mandate to buy insurance, or pay a fine, means your taxes and mine, your contribution to the operation of government and mine, will kill unborn children.
So perhaps in this new, Bizarro America in which citizens are utterly subservient to their government, average Americans, not just the fringe radical Left, will get used to the idea of civil disobedience. Perhaps millions of Americans will protest by not agreeing to the mandate. Perhaps millions will stop paying their taxes to stop the funding of abortions. Perhaps millions of Americans will stand up and say "Stop!"
How will the Leftists in charge react if they become the target of civil disobedience?
Long the intellectual property of the radical Left, the unfamiliar notion of protest may well become very familiar to conservatives, libertarians and independents who do not take kindly to being told what to do by an oppressive centralized government. In essence, the health care mandate is unconstitutional, and even more so, un-American. It defies the American ideal of individual choice.
Furthermore, unlike the Left, most Americans oppose the idea of federally funding abortion, which, despite the President's false claims, is part and parcel of the health care legislation. These are people who believe mankind has almost and nearly irrevocably damaged “Mother Earth.” These are people who have preached the gospel of fanatical environmentalism and calamitous overpopulation. That there are too many people using finite resources. These are people who have proposed population control via sex education in elementary schools at best, and forced sterilization at worst. Is it that much of a stretch to suggest that they would embrace the idea of killing your baby on the government's dime? But therein lies the problem. Therein lies the sick, twisted truth of the radical Left's atheistic humanist ideology. Life does have value, and that value is instilled by God when he gives life.
The crux of the issue is that health care is a good, a service, not a right. Rights are intangible. Rights are natural, or of nature. Therefore government providence cannot create nor provide rights. In fact, government of itself cannot provide anything. Not one thing. Everything government does is with someone else's money.
So when President Obama misleads, claiming the bill will not allow for federally funded abortion, he is lying. The reality is your tax money and mine will pay to abort helpless children. The federal mandate to buy insurance, or pay a fine, means your taxes and mine, your contribution to the operation of government and mine, will kill unborn children.
So perhaps in this new, Bizarro America in which citizens are utterly subservient to their government, average Americans, not just the fringe radical Left, will get used to the idea of civil disobedience. Perhaps millions of Americans will protest by not agreeing to the mandate. Perhaps millions will stop paying their taxes to stop the funding of abortions. Perhaps millions of Americans will stand up and say "Stop!"
How will the Leftists in charge react if they become the target of civil disobedience?
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Is there such a thing as a good one-term President?
President Obama has stated that he would rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president. Is there such a thing as a good one-term president?
Last year the Chicago Bears signed potential franchise quarterback and supposed team savior Jay Cutler to much fanfare and great optimism and eventually even more criticism and greater disappointment as the team went on to an underwhelming 7-9 record and Cutler led the league in interceptions.
After trading away draft picks, incomprehensible personnel moves and questionable coaching decisions, Bears General Manager Jerry Angelo and Head Coach Lovie Smith are on the hot seat. Conventional wisdom is they have a year to get it right. Make the playoffs next season or find new jobs.
But suppose that everything works out. Suppose the sun shines everyday in Chicago and flowers bloom in the winter...
Suppose new offensive coordinator Mike Martz transforms the team from offensive pauper to powerhouse. Suppose Cutler performs as the Pro Bowl quarterback-of-the-future he was supposed to last year. Suppose the defense doesn't allow opposing offenses to carve them up like a Thanksgiving turkey. Suppose the team makes the playoffs, or, perhaps, even returns to the Superbowl. Which, then, is more likely? That Angelo and Smith will be sent packing? Or will there be much rejoicing among the formerly hostile fans and once again fawning media celebrating their brilliant job in turning the team around? Contract extensions, perhaps?
So, again, is there such a thing as a good one-term President? After all, a one-term President is a President who is not reelected. The two most recent one-term Presidents, Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush, were both disappointments in that respect. Carter's incompetence led to the Iran hostage crisis and economic stagflation. Bush broke his promise not to raise taxes.
But what about President Obama? Essentially what President Obama is saying is that he would rather achieve his wildly unpopular agenda and policy goals rather than win reelection. That means he wants his healthcare reform, he wants his climate change legislation, he wants his immigration reform, he wants his financial reform. It also means he understands his centralized authoritarian policies are disliked to such an extent that the American people will not want four more years of him in charge. Yet he intends to push ahead with his agenda anyway despite the wishes of those who elected him. It is obvious in his recent, even more accelerated and forceful push for his type of government run healthcare.
A one-term President doesn't get his contract extension. A one-term President is told to take his playbook and take a hike so someone else can clean up his mess and return the team to glory.
Last year the Chicago Bears signed potential franchise quarterback and supposed team savior Jay Cutler to much fanfare and great optimism and eventually even more criticism and greater disappointment as the team went on to an underwhelming 7-9 record and Cutler led the league in interceptions.
After trading away draft picks, incomprehensible personnel moves and questionable coaching decisions, Bears General Manager Jerry Angelo and Head Coach Lovie Smith are on the hot seat. Conventional wisdom is they have a year to get it right. Make the playoffs next season or find new jobs.
But suppose that everything works out. Suppose the sun shines everyday in Chicago and flowers bloom in the winter...
Suppose new offensive coordinator Mike Martz transforms the team from offensive pauper to powerhouse. Suppose Cutler performs as the Pro Bowl quarterback-of-the-future he was supposed to last year. Suppose the defense doesn't allow opposing offenses to carve them up like a Thanksgiving turkey. Suppose the team makes the playoffs, or, perhaps, even returns to the Superbowl. Which, then, is more likely? That Angelo and Smith will be sent packing? Or will there be much rejoicing among the formerly hostile fans and once again fawning media celebrating their brilliant job in turning the team around? Contract extensions, perhaps?
So, again, is there such a thing as a good one-term President? After all, a one-term President is a President who is not reelected. The two most recent one-term Presidents, Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush, were both disappointments in that respect. Carter's incompetence led to the Iran hostage crisis and economic stagflation. Bush broke his promise not to raise taxes.
But what about President Obama? Essentially what President Obama is saying is that he would rather achieve his wildly unpopular agenda and policy goals rather than win reelection. That means he wants his healthcare reform, he wants his climate change legislation, he wants his immigration reform, he wants his financial reform. It also means he understands his centralized authoritarian policies are disliked to such an extent that the American people will not want four more years of him in charge. Yet he intends to push ahead with his agenda anyway despite the wishes of those who elected him. It is obvious in his recent, even more accelerated and forceful push for his type of government run healthcare.
A one-term President doesn't get his contract extension. A one-term President is told to take his playbook and take a hike so someone else can clean up his mess and return the team to glory.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
What can Brown do for you?
In the wake of the stunning upset win of Republican Scott Brown in the Massachusetts special election for the late Ted Kennedy’s seat in the United States Senate, the leadership in Washington has a choice: Listen to the people, or find a new job.
The election of a Republican to the seat held by a Kennedy for five decades in a state bluer than B.B. King without Lucille should send a strong message to the White House and Democrats in general, especially moderates, about the strong opposition the majority of Americans harbor to President Obama and the Democrat leadership’s agenda.
Of note was that Brown campaigned in part specifically as the 41st vote against the currently proposed health care legislation, which as we have examined is not at all about health care; rather it is about aggregating and centralizing federal power while reducing if not completely dissolving the American idea of self-governance. It’s command and control, U.S.S.A. style.
But the people have spoken. Perhaps this time their message will not be ignored.
The “tea party” movement in protest of the Obama administration’s epic spending and unflinching push towards government-controlled health care over the past year had been largely ignored by the Democrat leadership as nothing more than a nuisance. A minor inconvenience at best, and at worst, in the words of some of the left’s loudest and most abrasive voices, dangerous mobs of violent, racist rednecks.
Yet despite the growing discontent, they pushed on.
Republican gubernatorial victories in Virginia and New Jersey in November did not dissuade them. These were aberrations, simply local races fed by local issues.
But Tuesday marked a change that simply cannot be spun otherwise. A Republican won the Ted Kennedy seat. The people backed up their words with their actions in the voting booths.
The problem for the Democrat leadership now is the Democrats, specifically, moderate Democrats who see the results of this election and realize their careers may be on borrowed time if they continue to follow their Progressive leaders. Radical Progressives in Congress and the White House, their friends in the media, not to mention their comrades in the celebrity community, will be tempted to force their agenda against the will of the people who have just spoken loudly and convincingly. According to Saul Alinsky, author of the playbook
for radical Progressive social change and hero and spiritual leader of the modern radical Progressive movement, the ends justify any means. And radical Progressives desperately desire government-provided health care.
The question is which Democrats will win? Will it be the ruthless Progressives or the traditional Democrats who, in contrast to the sharp leftward shift in which the Progressives have driven the party are now considered moderate, even conservative?
The Scott Brown victory will hopefully embolden moderate Democrats to stand up to their Progressive leadership and put a stop to some very, very bad ideas. Americans do not want a centralized government bureaucracy determining what health care is appropriate for them. Americans do not want exempted politicians forcing them to buy health insurance. Americans do not want to be penalized for their health insurance coverage just because they don’t belong to a union. Americans do not want to subsidize other countries for supposed sins against mother earth. Essentially, Americans do not want arrogant, condescending, elitist intellectuals telling them what is good for them. This election has sent the message that this is still a center-right country which still cherishes individual liberty and the American concept of self-determination.
What can Brown do for you? One day after a shocking political upset a message is being sent: Listen to the people.
The election of a Republican to the seat held by a Kennedy for five decades in a state bluer than B.B. King without Lucille should send a strong message to the White House and Democrats in general, especially moderates, about the strong opposition the majority of Americans harbor to President Obama and the Democrat leadership’s agenda.
Of note was that Brown campaigned in part specifically as the 41st vote against the currently proposed health care legislation, which as we have examined is not at all about health care; rather it is about aggregating and centralizing federal power while reducing if not completely dissolving the American idea of self-governance. It’s command and control, U.S.S.A. style.
But the people have spoken. Perhaps this time their message will not be ignored.
The “tea party” movement in protest of the Obama administration’s epic spending and unflinching push towards government-controlled health care over the past year had been largely ignored by the Democrat leadership as nothing more than a nuisance. A minor inconvenience at best, and at worst, in the words of some of the left’s loudest and most abrasive voices, dangerous mobs of violent, racist rednecks.
Yet despite the growing discontent, they pushed on.
Republican gubernatorial victories in Virginia and New Jersey in November did not dissuade them. These were aberrations, simply local races fed by local issues.
But Tuesday marked a change that simply cannot be spun otherwise. A Republican won the Ted Kennedy seat. The people backed up their words with their actions in the voting booths.
The problem for the Democrat leadership now is the Democrats, specifically, moderate Democrats who see the results of this election and realize their careers may be on borrowed time if they continue to follow their Progressive leaders. Radical Progressives in Congress and the White House, their friends in the media, not to mention their comrades in the celebrity community, will be tempted to force their agenda against the will of the people who have just spoken loudly and convincingly. According to Saul Alinsky, author of the playbook
for radical Progressive social change and hero and spiritual leader of the modern radical Progressive movement, the ends justify any means. And radical Progressives desperately desire government-provided health care. The question is which Democrats will win? Will it be the ruthless Progressives or the traditional Democrats who, in contrast to the sharp leftward shift in which the Progressives have driven the party are now considered moderate, even conservative?
The Scott Brown victory will hopefully embolden moderate Democrats to stand up to their Progressive leadership and put a stop to some very, very bad ideas. Americans do not want a centralized government bureaucracy determining what health care is appropriate for them. Americans do not want exempted politicians forcing them to buy health insurance. Americans do not want to be penalized for their health insurance coverage just because they don’t belong to a union. Americans do not want to subsidize other countries for supposed sins against mother earth. Essentially, Americans do not want arrogant, condescending, elitist intellectuals telling them what is good for them. This election has sent the message that this is still a center-right country which still cherishes individual liberty and the American concept of self-determination.
What can Brown do for you? One day after a shocking political upset a message is being sent: Listen to the people.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Delusions of Transparency...
President Obama promised several times on the campaign trail to broadcast health care reform conferences on C-Span. The House and Senate are currently hammering out their partisan radical progressive liberal dream plan like the door panel of a Yugo behind closed doors and away from the prying eyes of the electorate...
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