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Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Merry Christmas from Nancy Pelosi
(For a more measured version of what I’m about to say, please see Jay Cost’s excellent posts here and here)
The bill set to emerge from the Senate is a perfidious insult to the republic, a near-literal urination on the graves of our Founding Fathers and every soldier who fought and died for the ideals this nation was founded on, a hodgepodge of nonsensical policies, incoherent mandates, and bribes to the various liars and thieves sucking the blood of the nation from their caves in Washington D.C. It sells out in the short-term to nearly every special interest while destroying most of them in the long-term, forces under threat of fines and incarceration the American people to enter into contracts with private firms, and will no doubt turn insurance companies into 21st century versions of Standard Oil and the 1800s railroad monopolies. It is hated by the left, the right, and the middle, a rare occurrence in our highly partisan political system. It will blow a hole in the deficit a few trillion dollars wide, yet still fails to achieve universal coverage.
Other than that, it’s a great piece of legislation. No wonder it is but a few steps away from final passage.
This, my friends, is what Nancy Pelosi has called her “Christmas gift to the American people.” It may yet be undone, as the immigration reform bill of 2006 was ultimately undone by differences between the Senate and House. Still, one of my predictions from April looks shakier now than it has all year.
One must pity the Democrats, for they know not what they do. They apparently believe coming together on this bill will provide a boost to their popularity and gain them some seats next year. Hah! When was the last time voting yea on a bill opposed by the nation 2-to-1 raised anyone’s political prospects? Even worse for them, the taxes, fees, and fines start immediately while the benefits won’t begin until after the 2nd presumed coronation of King Barack, the First Of His Name. That bit of trickery may allow a Constitutionalist majority to repeal the bill before the benefits come into effect, assuming the bill is signed in January as His Majesty prefers.
Mark Steyn likes to say the Democrats are playing for the long-term, knowing a federal health care system will permanently shift American politics to the left. I certainly agree the Democrats are thinking this. What happens, however, if pushing more Americans into the already bankrupt federal health care financing system pushes up its insolvency to even sooner than 2017, as is estimated now? What happens if the federal government has to effectively default on its obligation, either by printing so much money the benefits become worthless or taxing so much to pay the benefits out that there is no money left for anything else? Who gets left holding that bag? Besides the American people, who always lose when the masters in Washington play these games, it will be the Democrats. It is their program, their deficits, and their idiocy.
Readers, I am on the brink of calling for revolution. I could cite numerous texts dating from the founding of this great nation that would have probably justified revolution as far back as the turn of the 20th century. It is not just health care “reform,” but the payoffs to bankers, the takeover of American industry, the bribes and sell-outs. There are few parts of the political machinery of this country that seem uncorrupted. King Obama is undoubtedly the most corrupt president since Warren Harding, and the most arrogant since Richard Nixon. I still have hope that we will emerge from these dark times, but it seems the lights are beginning to go out all over this nation.
Merry Christmas.
Comments
“...most corrupt president since Warren Harding,...”
I would be most interested in the basis for this assertion. I hope you will not cite the “Teapot Dome Scandal”. Although Albert Fall and Harry M. Daugherty were in Harding’s cabinet and complicit in the transfer of Elk Hills and Teapot Dome oil reserves to Doheney there is no evidence that Harding was complicit or aware of the corruption as opposed to the current involvement of “The One” in the ongoing outrages of government “health” care and “crap and tax”.
Posted by ΛΕΟΝΙΔΑΣ on 12/22/2009 at 11:35 PMMore of an assertion based on reputation than on any facts. I was trying to think of presidents known for corruption, and Warren Harding was who came to mind. Any corrupt president could be inserted in his place and Obama would probably still be at least as corrupt, if not more so.
Posted by on 12/23/2009 at 12:26 AMI understand the basis for your assertion. I was exposed to the same meme in an upper division US “history” class in 1963. At that time academia was already being infiltrated by Marxist dogmatists.
As a result, our entire culture is now infected with that poisonous cult. Until recently, the greatest damage was done by well meaning but useful idiots. Beginning in 2008 a policy of willful destruction has been adopted.
May God help us.Posted by ΛΕΟΝΙΔΑΣ on 12/23/2009 at 09:45 AM
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