The reviews are in
And the healthcare bill sucks. Full of accounting gimmicks and doesn’t help many folks. And the beauty is that it takes money from one insolvent entitlement program that is unfunded and funds a new and soon to be insolvent entitlement program that probably won’t be funded. I was perusing the few lefty blogs I read to see what they had to say. Most of them said it was a big crap sandwich. But one said it was the best crap sandwich they ever had. And you should support it. Because it’s being pushed by people w Ds after their name. Or something. Further into debt, we go.
Anyway, it fits the trend of this administration: government growth. It’s really Chicago politics playing out on a national scale. They create a class dependent upon the government. Then that class has to support and vote for its creators. Sadly, it’s looking to lead our country into financial ruin. Our senate is set to vote on increasing the debt ceiling again. And this is without the health care bill.
December 22nd, 2009 at 12:11 pm
Since all the republicans voted against this, does this put to rest the idea that all dems and repubs are the same?
If there is one lesson to learn, it is that a person must always vote Republican in a race where both the dem and rep are conservative.
December 22nd, 2009 at 12:15 pm
“It’s really Chicago politics playing out on a national scale.”
Only no Daddy Fed to bail THEM out when the wheels fall off.
Hold on tight kids!
December 22nd, 2009 at 1:16 pm
“…does this put to rest the idea that all dems and repubs are the same?”
They’re the same if you hate seeing public servants seizing unconstitutional power. They’re different if you only want _your_ side having unconstitutional power. 😉
December 22nd, 2009 at 2:51 pm
Man, Texas Secession looks better and better every day.
Regards,
Rabbit.
December 22nd, 2009 at 3:15 pm
Re-reading *Clout* this week, I was struck by how little things have changed in Chicago even as the details of how the Machine runs are completely different. Few now remember Tony “Pushcart” Cermak, the Mayor of Chicago who really built the machine the first Daley rode for over 20 years. Cermak was shot by an assassin who was supposedly targeting Franklin Roosevelt in 1933 in Miami. Cermak was shaking the hand of Roosevelt when the assassin struck, and his press guy put out the story that Cermak had told Roosevelt with his last breath, “I’m glad it was me instead of you.”
The reality was that Cermak would have been glad to see FDR shot, but he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. He hadn’t even planned to see FDR–he’d planned to go to Cuba for a vacation while FDR was in Miami for the purpose of snubbing him–but he needed a federal grant because Chicago school teachers hadn’t been paid for months, and his best friend told him, “You gotta go get some money to pay them teachers or there won’t be no town worth runnin’.”
The more things change . . . .
December 22nd, 2009 at 5:46 pm
elmo nailed it.
December 23rd, 2009 at 7:25 pm
“They’re the same if you hate seeing public servants seizing unconstitutional power.”
I hate seeing public servants seizing unconstitutional power, but I can’t help but notice that the scale at which both parties seize it seems to be different by orders of magnitude.
December 25th, 2009 at 12:52 am
bbbbut how dare you question the laws! Look Jesus even gave us the constitution: http://mcnaughtonart.com/images/image_map_zoom_images/one_nation_under_God.jpg