What They Really Mean By Health Care Reform

March 9th, 2010

Poor Ezra… he’s given away the game with this post.

But the fact of it is that this bill represents an enormous leftward shift for American social policy. It is not, in my view, a sufficient leftward shift, but it is unmatched by anything that has passed into law in recent decades. Progressives have lost some very hard battles but are on the cusp of winning an incredibly important war. For all its imperfections, health-care reform itself is deeply, deeply progressive.

Straight from the horses ass, so to speak.

On a side note, I realize that I’m just a “blogger” and am not part of the cool kids that get to be a democratic operative living off the carcass of the legacy media but, why does anyone even follow Ezra?

Anyway, it’s quite obvious that this bill IS a holy goal, for what passes as religion with the left. It must be opposed unless you truly are ok with a huge shift to the left. I am not and really don’t know what I will do if it passes.

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Democrats are Felons & Thieves

March 6th, 2010

On HotAir.com, Dr. Zero had a great post today, where here made the point Democrats break the law to hoard billions in slush fund cash for upcoming elections.

This is the fundamental thing that I struggle with every day. But really, it’s not democrats. I suppose at some point it was, but now, it doesn’t have to be. They won the debate years ago, right under the noses of actual Americans. Now, basic assumptions by the vast majority presume that the felonious thieving notions of progressivism and the democrats are not only moral, but wise and compassionate.

Conservatives don’t even realize that they undermine their arguments when they even accept federal programs like medicare, medicaid & social security as legitimate. The argument is lost as soon as you ‘protect them’ – obviously then the argument is completely lost because 99% of everyone in the country takes that all for granted.

I have little or no hope for the country – never mind the world as a whole. When I can listen to the radio and hear the basic argument that government needs to control the health care market — not from a liberal but from a conservative – because ‘fat smokers are raising MY rates, and how much worse is it going to be as the childhood obesity rate continues to rise from 60%.’

This sort of busybody logic has infiltrated so utterly and completely, this notion that we are our brother’s keepers is so universal, that every solution to our problems takes for granted that government MUST solve the problems for the majority at the expense of the individual.

Liberty is dead.

Yes, democrats are felons and thieves, but so are Republicans, and for that matter most likely so are you.

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The Vote Count

March 6th, 2010

This week has been a pretty wild one for the healthcare debate. There are so many things that are going through my head on this, but the one consistent thing is, “For God’s sake, I hope they don’t have the votes.”

I’ve heard many people say it, including Rush Limbaugh yesterday, that we can’t really count on Stupak and those dozen democrats to hold their ground. I think that’s a very good point. It is possible they will, but it seems more likely that they’ll be bought off with some-something that gives them cover.

Nancy Pelosi, with all of them, had 220 votes. But let’s say she lost them. She has also lost some votes to death and now, the third resignation or retirement with the whole Massa sex scandal. I believe that the death vote gets taken out of the total entirely – I’m not quite clear on the resignations count, whether they drop the total votes needed to 215, or it’s still 217.

Regardless, her votes are dwindling, and the public is solidifying in opposition, and the election is drawing closer and closer. It seems to me that they have at best 3 more bites at the apple, simply due to the time factor. Honestly, I’m unwilling to think they’re smart enough to give it up until they are broken completely. Including a possible lame-duck congress move.

But anyways right now, without any expert knowledge it sounds like she has about 203 votes and needs at least 215. My understanding is she probably doesn’t have that many, and that she’s a lot more than the apparent dozen votes short. I’m not optimistic or pessimistic, but realistically, it does look like a long shot for Pelosi to push that through. If she does, I will give her this much credit, she might be the most hideous and evil Speaker ever, but man, she is good at getting her way.

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But I Thought The World Would Like Us?

March 5th, 2010

We were told repeatedly ad nasueum, that the world would really start to love us if we would only drop that stiff, W.

Not so much.

Turkey’s foreign minister is warning of a breakdown in ties with the U.S. after a congressional committee approved a resolution branding the World War I-era killing of Armenians genocide.

And it’s a Muslim country to boot. I seriously thought and was told that Barack Hussein Obama would make us loved throughout the world with his election. As Insty says, who are the rubes anyway?

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See, The Stimulus Is Working… For The Government

March 5th, 2010

I won’t bother asking whether or not the ruling political class is embarrassed at the following story, because I know they aren’t. And that goes for both the elephants and the asses.

Federal employees earn higher average salaries than private-sector workers in more than eight out of 10 occupations, a USA TODAY analysis of federal data finds.

Accountants, nurses, chemists, surveyors, cooks, clerks and janitors are among the wide range of jobs that get paid more on average in the federal government than in the private sector.

As I’ve said before, the “stimulous” bill was nothing more than a political payoff to the presidents political allies. It’s a shame that he was so brazen to bankrupt the country to payoff his supporters.

As you read the story, you see that on a percentage basis, there isn’t too much of extra pay to the revenuers, it’s in the benefits that they really clean up against the dreaded private sector.

These salary figures do not include the value of health, pension and other benefits, which averaged $40,785 per federal employee in 2008 vs. $9,882 per private worker, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

But all you people getting laid off, don’t worry, the union officials don’t think you do any complex work.

But National Treasury Employees Union President Colleen Kelley says the comparison is faulty because it “compares apples and oranges.” Federal accountants, for example, perform work that has more complexity and requires more skill than accounting work in the private sector, she says.

Seriously folks. You people in the dreaded private sector deserve less pay because you are not doing tough work. The government does more complicated work than you do. You should feel ashamed that you even get paid as much as you do because it’s obvious the government does way more complicated accounting, like hiding the trillions in losses off the books for Fannie, Freddie, Social Security, Medcare…

Just remember, that attitude is brought to you by your tax dollars.

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The Joke That Is Airport Security

March 3rd, 2010

The following story is disturbing on a few levels, but par for the course that is the security theater of “airport security”.

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating employees at the Kennedy Airport air-traffic control tower for apparently allowing a school-age child to transmit directions to pilots.

Ohhh isn’t that cute. We have a child directing air traffic. The obvious question is, why do we need all those adults for all the other air traffic controller positions…

Hey wait a minute, I thought airports were highly secure and all that crap?

The urgent question, one of many, is how the child even got access to an area that is supposed to be highly restricted.

Yes, it is a good question. Obviously someone brought their child to work. Obviously the security system did not work, yet again. So really, let’s just give everyone on a plane a gun and let them know to take matters in their own hands. It’s obvious that any government created security apparatus quickly degrades into security theater where if you’re on the inside, the rules don’t apply to you.

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About Those Racist Tea Parties…

February 16th, 2010

It seems freedom from governmental tyranny is for everyone as the Billings Gazette reports.

Calling for new tribal leadership and a break from the federal government, founders of the first Crow Indian Tea Party movement rallied Monday in Hardin.

Leading the new Crow Nation Tea Party was Adrian Bird Sr., a former tribal chairman candidate…

But wait, I thought the Tea Parties were nothing but a bunch of right wing racists that hate and despise minorities in this country?

Other Tea Party members from across the state joined the Crow Nation Tea Party in demonstrating at Hardin’s only downtown stoplight. The groups gathered at every corner of the intersection with placards denouncing health care reform, climate change legislation and excessive federal government.

They elicited honks from passersby during the noon rally.

“We just wanted to be supportive of these people,” said Ken Champion of Bozeman. “Anybody who stands for freedom and liberty and opposed to unrestricted government spending, we want to support.”

Got that right. We need more people like that.

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Now That’s Irony For You

February 9th, 2010

This is really kinda funny.

The following Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works hearings have been postponed due to inclement weather this week:

- The Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Subcommittee on Water and Wildlife, will hold a hearing entitled, “Collaborative Solutions to Wildlife and Habitat Management.”

- The Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works will hold a hearing entitled, “Global Warming Impacts, Including Public Health, in the United States.”

Yes a hearing on how global warming will impact people has been postponed due to too much snow. Now that’s irony.

And yes, I realize there is a large difference between climate and weather.

Just like I’d like to think the meteorologists out there would realize there’s a large difference in the words normal and average. I mean, they’re supposed to be science based folks, they should stick to using average and not normal as normal has no scientific meaning. But that’s just me.

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America is not ungovernable. Her President has simply not been up to the job.

February 8th, 2010

There’s an interesting piece in Real Clear Politics. The author Jay Cost slays a meme running around the liberal blogosphere and legacy media and it’s hard to argue against his reasoning.

Recently, some analysts have suggested that the lack of major policy breakthroughs in the last year is due to the fact that America has become ungovernable. Ezra Klein argued that it was time to reform the filibuster because the government cannot function with it intact anymore. Tom Friedman suggested that America’s “political instability” was making people abroad nervous. And Michael Cohen of Newsweek blamed “obstructionist Republicans,” “spineless Democrats,” and an “incoherent public” for the problem.

Nonsense. America is not ungovernable. Her President has simply not been up to the job.

I think it’s a good article. I think it’s a good recap of how HRH The Sun King has poll numbers right up with “W” when he left office and how he got there.

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The Hubris Of Government Is The Problem

February 2nd, 2010

Devauled Patrick is cooking the books for jobs “saved” like all the other politicians.

Gov. Deval Patrick’s economic-stimulus program is looking more like a Save-A-Hack telethon with a federal cash infusion going mostly to save jobs on the government payroll.

With pink slips flying in the private sector and the state unemployment rate at 9.4 percent, a Herald review has found that more than 70 percent of jobs “created or retained” by state stimulus spending last quarter were government jobs.

And the vast majority of those jobs were not newly created – the stimulus money was either used just to keep government workers on the job or to increase their hours.

And this is the biggest issue with the “stimulus” package. It was and has proven to literally be nothing more than a payoff to HRH The Sun King’s supporters. You will not find a single private sector job “saved” by the federales. Hell, they don’t even like the dreaded private sector and don’t understand it.

Alethea Pieters, a spokeswoman for Patrick’s economic stimulus office, said yesterday that public sector jobs are “as important, if not more important” than private sector jobs because of the “critical services” some of them provide

Hey Alethea, let me clue you in on something. If there no private sector jobs, then you would never in a million years get your six figure public sector job. I’m so glad that I don’t live in the People’s Republic because it is obvious that the hacks in charge of the government care for themselves and themselves only.

Jeffrey Simon, Patrick’s stimulus czar, said the administration is “proud of the fact” that it has saved public-sector jobs.

And until these bums are voted out of office repeatedly and this attitude changes, the people of the People’s Republic will continue on their path of slavery.

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