Saturday, April 3, 2010
Friday, March 26, 2010
The Truth Beginning to Come Out
Now that the Dems and Obama have passed their government healthcare takeover bill (against the will of the American people), some factoids are beginning to come out. I was browsing CNN Money today and came across this article. The piece is actually supposed to be about why a European VAT tax (value-added tax), or national sales tax, would have to be levied at some point to pay for the out of control deficits and debts which this new monstrosity will create.
Forget that this would break one of Obama's major campaign promises (If you make under $200K, you will not see your taxes raised). I think the most important takeaway from this article is the debunking of the flat-out lies and misrepresentations about the fiscal responsibility of this bill. We were told, and continue to be told, by Obama that not only was it deficit neutral, but that it would actually cut the deficit in the first 10 years, even more so in the second decade. Now that people have actually had the chance to read and digest this bill to see what costs were hidden/omitted and what incomes were exaggerated, it becomes more and more clear that Obama has been, as I've said all along, selling us a pile of crap. Wouldn't it have been nice to have a week or so to actually read this bill/amendment package before the House and Senate voted on it? Nah, that would be way too democratic and statesman-like.
Read the article and let me know your thoughts.
Forget that this would break one of Obama's major campaign promises (If you make under $200K, you will not see your taxes raised). I think the most important takeaway from this article is the debunking of the flat-out lies and misrepresentations about the fiscal responsibility of this bill. We were told, and continue to be told, by Obama that not only was it deficit neutral, but that it would actually cut the deficit in the first 10 years, even more so in the second decade. Now that people have actually had the chance to read and digest this bill to see what costs were hidden/omitted and what incomes were exaggerated, it becomes more and more clear that Obama has been, as I've said all along, selling us a pile of crap. Wouldn't it have been nice to have a week or so to actually read this bill/amendment package before the House and Senate voted on it? Nah, that would be way too democratic and statesman-like.
Read the article and let me know your thoughts.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Blatant Unconstitutionality
There are some serious problems going on in Congress nowadays. This goes way beyond your personal feelings on healthcare reform or if you lean right or left. Now we're dealing with a plan developed by Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-NY, that is about as blatantly unconstitutional as you can get, known as the "Slaughter Strategy".
I'm going to assume that if you've paying attention at all to the debates concerning Obamacare, you're familiar with the term reconciliation and what it means. Therefore, I'll abstain from typing out a long-winded explanation. Also, rather than retype what Slaughter and the House Democrats are attempting, I'll let you read it yourself here. You can also read a more detailed piece about it directly on NRO's website. I'll wait...
Basically, the Dems are attempting to initiate reconciliation on a bill that they haven't passed yet, "deeming" it passed if the reconciliation amendments pass in the House. This goes against the explicit instructions in the Constitution which detail how laws are to be passed in this country. I've posted below the opening monologues to the Mark Levin Show from 3/11 and 3/12 in which he outlines the constitutional problems with this as only a constitutional attorney can.
Again, this goes beyond the issue of Obama's healthcare takeover, which the public in this country is overwhelmingly against. This goes directly to whether the federal government will continue as it has for over 200 years to follow the Constitutional procedures for drafting and passing laws, or whether the executive branch will assume authority to enforce, with the full power of the United States government, laws that don't exist. The clips below are lengthy but informative. I know I haven't posted often lately, but thought this was far too important to let slip.
I'm going to assume that if you've paying attention at all to the debates concerning Obamacare, you're familiar with the term reconciliation and what it means. Therefore, I'll abstain from typing out a long-winded explanation. Also, rather than retype what Slaughter and the House Democrats are attempting, I'll let you read it yourself here. You can also read a more detailed piece about it directly on NRO's website. I'll wait...
Basically, the Dems are attempting to initiate reconciliation on a bill that they haven't passed yet, "deeming" it passed if the reconciliation amendments pass in the House. This goes against the explicit instructions in the Constitution which detail how laws are to be passed in this country. I've posted below the opening monologues to the Mark Levin Show from 3/11 and 3/12 in which he outlines the constitutional problems with this as only a constitutional attorney can.
Again, this goes beyond the issue of Obama's healthcare takeover, which the public in this country is overwhelmingly against. This goes directly to whether the federal government will continue as it has for over 200 years to follow the Constitutional procedures for drafting and passing laws, or whether the executive branch will assume authority to enforce, with the full power of the United States government, laws that don't exist. The clips below are lengthy but informative. I know I haven't posted often lately, but thought this was far too important to let slip.
Sunday, December 20, 2009
The Senate's Christmas Eve Screwing of America
Well, it's been quite some time since I've posted on this blog. Lots has been going on in politics, most of it bad, but given that I've got a 10-month old who still isn't sleeping through the night, I've elected to try and get some rest when possible instead of posting. However, after I learned today that Harry Reid seems to have secured the 60 votes necessary to ram the government-run healthcare plan through, I decided that it's time to get back on the horse.
It's very hard to come out and criticize this bill with any authority for a very simple reason. No one has been allowed to read it. Now this alone coupled with a vote being scheduled for Christmas Eve, less than a week away, is enough for us to know that this is a crap bill for the American people. The always detestable Harry Reid wrote this bill behind closed doors and did not even allow Republicans in the room to know what is in it. Don't you remember the president saying something about a new era of transparency in Washington? If you don't, a little reminder for you is below at around the 55 second mark.
The United States Constitution was only 4 handwritten pages long, yet was debated for 4 months at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. This came out to around a month of debate per page. Using that as an approximate measurement, debate for the current 2000+ monstrosity should take over 166 years. As it is, once it is unveiled either Sunday or Monday, there will be less than 166 hours to debate this bill before a final vote. Truly pathetic. All this so that our miserable, weak, inept, buffoonish, idiotic excuse for a president will be able to have something to talk about for his State of the Union speech in January. Something, of course, other than his pissing away trillions of dollars we don't have on programs that don't work.
I've spent a lot of time on this blog discussing why getting the feds so involved in our health care is a horrible idea, not to mention an unconstitutional one and an assault on our liberty as individual citizens. In the meantime, the administration's handling of Cash for Clunkers only reinforced my view that the government can take what should be a simple task and completely screw it up. It seems we see every day the wisdom of our founders in laying out a limited federal government.
What's really sad is that America doesn't want this bill and the politician don't much give a damn. The polls are absolutely overwhelming that the public doesn't like this. In fact, I heard a poll Thursday or Friday that Americans would rather keep the health care system we have, or pass nothing, than enact the Senate bill. This means that regardless of what that dimwit Obama says, the people of this country prefer the status quo to where his party wants to take us.
We'll talk about more details on the bill after it's released, but one thing we already know for sure. The federal government is going to mandate that you, me, and everyone else in this country purchase health insurance. This alone should be enough to invalidate the entire bill as unconstitutional. Even the CBO said in the 90's when Clinton was trying to pass Hillary-care that "The government has never required people to buy any good or service as a condition of lawful residence in the United States."
The federal government has absolutely no business demanding that we purchase anything. As I've often asked, who the do these politicians think they are, God? Well, maybe Obama does. Nevertheless, they are supposed to be working for us, not trying to work around us as Reid is doing. They DO NOT have the authority to mandate that we purchase a damn thing, and I'm very curious to see the number of Americans who say "Screw you" to Reid, Pelosi, Obama, and every other leftist up in Washington who's trying to take what's great about this country and flush it down the toilet by refusing to do so.
Hope and change, my butt.
It's very hard to come out and criticize this bill with any authority for a very simple reason. No one has been allowed to read it. Now this alone coupled with a vote being scheduled for Christmas Eve, less than a week away, is enough for us to know that this is a crap bill for the American people. The always detestable Harry Reid wrote this bill behind closed doors and did not even allow Republicans in the room to know what is in it. Don't you remember the president saying something about a new era of transparency in Washington? If you don't, a little reminder for you is below at around the 55 second mark.
The United States Constitution was only 4 handwritten pages long, yet was debated for 4 months at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. This came out to around a month of debate per page. Using that as an approximate measurement, debate for the current 2000+ monstrosity should take over 166 years. As it is, once it is unveiled either Sunday or Monday, there will be less than 166 hours to debate this bill before a final vote. Truly pathetic. All this so that our miserable, weak, inept, buffoonish, idiotic excuse for a president will be able to have something to talk about for his State of the Union speech in January. Something, of course, other than his pissing away trillions of dollars we don't have on programs that don't work.
I've spent a lot of time on this blog discussing why getting the feds so involved in our health care is a horrible idea, not to mention an unconstitutional one and an assault on our liberty as individual citizens. In the meantime, the administration's handling of Cash for Clunkers only reinforced my view that the government can take what should be a simple task and completely screw it up. It seems we see every day the wisdom of our founders in laying out a limited federal government.
What's really sad is that America doesn't want this bill and the politician don't much give a damn. The polls are absolutely overwhelming that the public doesn't like this. In fact, I heard a poll Thursday or Friday that Americans would rather keep the health care system we have, or pass nothing, than enact the Senate bill. This means that regardless of what that dimwit Obama says, the people of this country prefer the status quo to where his party wants to take us.
We'll talk about more details on the bill after it's released, but one thing we already know for sure. The federal government is going to mandate that you, me, and everyone else in this country purchase health insurance. This alone should be enough to invalidate the entire bill as unconstitutional. Even the CBO said in the 90's when Clinton was trying to pass Hillary-care that "The government has never required people to buy any good or service as a condition of lawful residence in the United States."
The federal government has absolutely no business demanding that we purchase anything. As I've often asked, who the do these politicians think they are, God? Well, maybe Obama does. Nevertheless, they are supposed to be working for us, not trying to work around us as Reid is doing. They DO NOT have the authority to mandate that we purchase a damn thing, and I'm very curious to see the number of Americans who say "Screw you" to Reid, Pelosi, Obama, and every other leftist up in Washington who's trying to take what's great about this country and flush it down the toilet by refusing to do so.
Hope and change, my butt.
Friday, September 11, 2009
8 Years Ago...
A year ago today, I posted the following on this blog. All that's changed is the passing of another year. I can still remember the day quite vividly and rather than try to reinvent the wheel, what I said last year pretty much sums up my thoughts and feelings surrounding this day.
I remember 9/11/2001 like it was yesterday. I remember where I was when I heard about the first plane hitting the World Trade Center. I was in college and my wife (then my fiancee) was at work. She called me in a panic, telling me to turn on the TV to CNN. I started watching just in time to watch the second plane hit live. Then came the report about the Pentagon. Then came the report about Flight 93. I watched those towers fall.
My cousin/roommate and I spent the vast majority of the next few days glued to the 24-hour news channels. It's so strange that it took a day or two to realize we were living through what would go down as a major moment in history. It was brought to my attention when I went back to class that many professors did not see fit to cancel classes on 9/11. That was a major surprise to me. I learned more in those two days after the attacks than I did throughout high school. Not only about how our government works, but what it really means to be an American.
Maybe people haven't forgotten in terms of the historical events that took place, but they have forgotten the helpless emotions that take hold when one realizes how fragile and precious our freedom and liberty really are, and to what lengths some will go in an attempt to destroy them. There was one shot in this program that particularly stands out in my mind. The camera was looking down from about the 3rd or 4th floor of an apartment building. On the street there was a flock of people running from left screen to right, fleeing the devastation at the towers. Making their way through the people, walking the opposite direction, were the brave FDNY firefighters as they moved in toward the towers, preparing to go up and save as many as they could. Many of these heroes did not come back out alive. It really made me stop and think.
We live in the most blessed country on the face of the Earth. We have freedom to pursue our passions, worship our God how we choose, and build a life for ourselves and our families that is limited only by our own desire and ambition. But those freedoms penned into our founding documents are worthless without the dedication and sacrifice of certain people. Without selfless first responders like police officers, EMTs, and firefighters, as well as those in the military which defend our freedoms from enemies both foreign and domestic, we would be lost. Thank God for each of you, we owe you a debt we can never repay.
God Bless America.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
No Shame
As everyone who has access to a newspaper, computer, TV or iPhone knows, Senator Ted Kennedy passed away early this morning. The Kennedys have seen more tragedy than a Shakespearean play, and my condolences go out to his family.
Although I'm not sure why, I found myself a little taken aback when after less than 24 hours, the Democrats are already using a dead man's memory to try to resurrect the government health care bill. I remember when Rush first mentioned months ago how this would eventually be called the "Ted Kennedy Memorial Health Care Bill" and how Dems would be talking about "getting this done for Teddy". He caught all kinds of hell for it. Here's a quick example from none other than Media Matters.
Say what you will about Rush, but he's got the left pegged.
Although I'm not sure why, I found myself a little taken aback when after less than 24 hours, the Democrats are already using a dead man's memory to try to resurrect the government health care bill. I remember when Rush first mentioned months ago how this would eventually be called the "Ted Kennedy Memorial Health Care Bill" and how Dems would be talking about "getting this done for Teddy". He caught all kinds of hell for it. Here's a quick example from none other than Media Matters.
Say what you will about Rush, but he's got the left pegged.
Friday, August 21, 2009
Obama's Blame Game
This from Bloomberg. Caroline Baum goes through 4 people or groups of people that Obama is pointing fingers at and blaming for the current public opinion of his health care plan, rather than admitting that maybe Americans just don't want what he's selling. I think she left out a major recipient of Obama-blame: George Bush.
I've said before that I don't believe Obama to be a strong leader. One of the easiest ways to tell if someone is ready for real leadership is to watch how they handle criticism and tough questions. A true leader, especially a sitting US President, does not continually throw out his predecessor as the reason why things aren't going well, why the public doesn't like what he's doing, etc. This shows a lack of class, character, and leadership. I'm sorry to keep repeating myself in muliple posts on this, but this seriously rubs me the wrong way.
Remember the old saying, King BO. Whenever you point a finger at someone else, you've got 3 more pointing back at you. Possibly a thumb too, but whatever.
I've said before that I don't believe Obama to be a strong leader. One of the easiest ways to tell if someone is ready for real leadership is to watch how they handle criticism and tough questions. A true leader, especially a sitting US President, does not continually throw out his predecessor as the reason why things aren't going well, why the public doesn't like what he's doing, etc. This shows a lack of class, character, and leadership. I'm sorry to keep repeating myself in muliple posts on this, but this seriously rubs me the wrong way.
Remember the old saying, King BO. Whenever you point a finger at someone else, you've got 3 more pointing back at you. Possibly a thumb too, but whatever.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
From the WSJ
This is an opinion piece from the August 12 Wall Street Journal by John Mackey, Chairman and CEO of Whole Foods entitled The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare. It gives his opinion on other ways to accomplish health care reform without resorting to the government taking it over, directly or indirectly.
Politicians on the left have taken to saying that the GOP is the party of "no" and has no ideas of its own. The suggestions put forth here show that that's not the case. In fact, I've heard all the ideas presented in this article for quite some time now, but Mackey really sums it up quite nicely and succinctly. When you add to that he has the experience of actually running a large company and having to figure out how to efficiently provide health benefits for thousands of employees, I think he's worth listening to.
What are your thoughts?
Politicians on the left have taken to saying that the GOP is the party of "no" and has no ideas of its own. The suggestions put forth here show that that's not the case. In fact, I've heard all the ideas presented in this article for quite some time now, but Mackey really sums it up quite nicely and succinctly. When you add to that he has the experience of actually running a large company and having to figure out how to efficiently provide health benefits for thousands of employees, I think he's worth listening to.
What are your thoughts?
Friday, August 14, 2009
This Week in Politics
Given that the numbnuts who make up the US Congress are out on their August recess, there's not much new in the way of politics to discuss other than the wonderfully entertaining town hall meetings. Citizens are still attending these meetings with their representatives in droves and making their voices heard in a major way. I've never seen American citizens rise up to take on the political elite the way they are currently doing, and it's honestly a pretty cool thing to behold.
Of course, Democrats have taken to calling the citizens of this country who disagree with the government health care plan they're trying to ram down our throats:
The White House also published its "snitch email address", which is where people are supposed to forward emails from their friends, family, etc. that speak negatively about the health care reform effort he is trying to push through.
We were also told by Obama that those in Congress opposing him should sit down and shut up.
Funny, I seem to remember this being spoken by his Secretary of State during the Bush years.
Ah well, what really took the cake and illustrated the disconnect with reality that most of these politicians have happened right here in Texas. Good old Sheila Jackson Lee from Houston decided it was more important to be on the cell phone than listen to one of her constituents. Not sure if she was ordering Chinese takeout or what, but here you go:
Wow. Just, wow.
Of course, Democrats have taken to calling the citizens of this country who disagree with the government health care plan they're trying to ram down our throats:
The White House also published its "snitch email address", which is where people are supposed to forward emails from their friends, family, etc. that speak negatively about the health care reform effort he is trying to push through.
We were also told by Obama that those in Congress opposing him should sit down and shut up.
Funny, I seem to remember this being spoken by his Secretary of State during the Bush years.
Ah well, what really took the cake and illustrated the disconnect with reality that most of these politicians have happened right here in Texas. Good old Sheila Jackson Lee from Houston decided it was more important to be on the cell phone than listen to one of her constituents. Not sure if she was ordering Chinese takeout or what, but here you go:
Wow. Just, wow.
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Mark Levin Clip
Heard this last Friday on Levin's show and was hoping someone would put it on Youtube. Give 'em hell Mark!!!
Monday, August 3, 2009
New (Old) Obama Footage Found
Obama's been trying to say that his plan has never involved a "government takeover" of health care. Portions of this video that popped up over the weekend seem to say otherwise. Your thoughts?
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Quick Thought
Has it occurred to anyone else that the same people who cast their vote for Al Franken most likely think Sarah Palin is a moron?
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