Is no longer a brain-dead liberal.
I began reading not only the economics of Thomas Sowell (our greatest contemporary philosopher) but Milton Friedman, Paul Johnson, and Shelby Steele, and a host of conservative writers, and found that I agreed with them: a free-market understanding of the world meshes more perfectly with my experience than that idealistic vision I called liberalism.
Yeah, yeah, I know this is old. But it is interesting.
President Obama does something I can agree with.
President Obama made clear Monday that he favors the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act, and intends to ask Congress to repeal the 13-year-old law that denies benefits to domestic partners of federal employees and allows states to reject same-sex marriages performed in other states.
...why the health care reforms currently being shilled are doomed to failure.
In the 48 hours of June 15-16, President Obama lost the health-care debate. First, a letter from the Congressional Budget Office to Sen. Edward Kennedy reported that his health committee’s reform bill would add $1 trillion in debt over the next decade. Then the CBO reported that the other Senate bill, being written by the Finance Committee, would add $1.6 trillion. The central contradiction of Obamacare was fatally exposed: From his first address to Congress, Obama insisted on the dire need for restructuring the health-care system because out-of-control costs were bankrupting the Treasury and wrecking the U.S. economy—yet the Democrats’ plans would make the problem worse.
Then, linking to the above op-ed, is this.
In more than seven months of ObamaCare salesmanship, we’ve seen a boatload of mischaracterizations and outright lies. The public option won’t chase out private insurers. Wrong. We can bend the cost curve without affecting care. Wrong. We can pay for this without massive tax hikes. Wrong again.
One thing that concerns me is that the Obama Administration, apparently, has failed to think this through in even a rudimentary fashion. It’s as if their approach is, throw enough shit against the wall and some of it’s bound to stick. I think that most people agree that there needs to be some sort of health care reform. Even those who are flooding to the Town Halls to voice their disdain for what’s being proposed now. But Obama doesn’t seem to care as much about doing it right. Instead, it appears as though he just wants to do something, anything so that he can claim to have done something. Most likely for the sake of future political capital.
It’s stupid and it’s an egregious waste of an opportunity.
Also, I’ve noticed how the left has tried to usurp the term “health care reform”. If you’re against this socialized, horrific monstrosity being put forth, you are against “reform”.
Of coarse we can’t forget the ever entertaining Nancy Pelosi who last week called those who disrupt town hall meetings un-American yet seemed to have a different tone when it suited her. Nancy Pelosi is the worst of the worst.
I must say that I do agree with this.
Deep concern about the government’s healthcare activity is nothing new, and politicians who believe that the opposition to the Democrats’ plan is a put-up job are deceiving themselves and imperiling their own careers.
Hypocrisy is one of those things that grate on my nerves more than just about anything. Lately, from the left concerning health care reform, lying seems to be so common that it’s almost expected every time President Obama opens his mouth.
“If you want to keep your current plan, you can …”
Lie.
“There will be no rationing…”
Lie.
“These protests are not representative of how people feel…”
Again, lie.
You get the point.
Also, the absolutely amazing drivel that comes from Nancy Pelosi about swastikas and Harry Reid’s claim that those who protest the current debacle called health care reform are evil mongers. The left is trying it’s best to stifle dissent and debate. All of this is to be expected.
Yes, hypocrisy is to be expected as well in almost any political argument, I understand that. But to display it in such an open, idiotic way as this is beyond even the stupidity that is currently the Obama administration. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard some idiot like Pelosi or Reid, or some other dolt pushing for this atrocious version of health care reform, claim that the protest are nothing more than “AstroTurf” sponsored by evil insurance companies or militia types, or the--GASP!!--Republican Party. However, now hypocrisy raises its ugly head:
Work to Pass Obama’s Healthcare Plan and Get Paid to Do it!$10-15 hr!
Just saying.
Yes, Obama’s bait and switch.
There is a growing sense of a “we’ve been had”, bait-and-switch. Millions of moderate Republicans, independents, and conservative Democrats—apparently angry at Bush for Iraq and big deficits, unimpressed by the McCain campaign, intrigued by the revolutionary idea of electing an African-American president—voted for Obama on the assumption that he was sincere about ending red state/blue state animosity. They took him at his word that he was going to end out of control federal spending. They trusted that he had real plans to get us out of the economic doldrums, and that he was not a radical tax-and-spend liberal of the old sort.
Instead, within days Obama set out plans that would triple the annual deficit, and intends to borrow at a record pace that will double the aggregate debt in just eight years.
He not only took over much of the auto- and financial industries, but also did so in a way that privileged unions, politically-correct creditors, and those insider cronies who favor administration initiatives. On matters racial, his administration is shrill and retrograde, not forward-looking. It insists on emphasizing the tired old identify politics that favor a particular sort of racial elite that claims advantage by citing past collective victimization or piggy-backs for advantage on the plight of the minority underclass.
In other words, the Obama swing voter thought he was getting a 21st-century version of pragmatic, triangulating Bill Clinton—and instead got something to the left of 1970s Jimmy Carter.
At the outpost, named Oz Yehonatan, the settlers built a wooden structure they mockingly called the “Obama Hut,” saying it was a sign of appreciation for the US president for his actions that had led to a dramatic rise in the number of outposts.
This most certainly seems the reasonable thing to do:
Senator Lamar Alexander introduced the “Auto Stock for Every Taxpayer Act” today, which would “require the Treasury to distribute to individual taxpayers all its stock in General Motors (GM) and Chrysler within one year following the emergence of the companies from bankruptcy proceedings.”
But I suspect that the goal of President Obama and the other Neo-Coms in power is to control Chrysler and General Motors. Therefor the above mentioned bill will never see the light of day. Perhaps I’m wrong. I hope so.
The problem is that Al Gore is a liar.
He must have had lunch with Nancy Pelosi.
Let’s see, who am I going to trust, Nancy Pelosi or the CIA?
I don’t know about you, but I’m going with the CIA on this. At the very least, this is probably a battle that Pelosi can’t win. Think about it; an organization that has spent years specializing in CYA vs an imbecilic politician of the worst stripe ...
It makes me wonder if we are witnessing the beginning of the end of Nancy Pelosi’s career.
By now I’m suspecting that many Obama supporters (those with intellectual honesty) are suffering a severe case of voters remorse. Aside from the several examples of bungling of foreign diplomacy to “tax cheats may apply”, the true scope of President Obama’s reign is beginning to become apparent. George F. Will sums it up particularly well with this.
In February, California’s Democratic-controlled Legislature, faced with a $42 billion budget deficit, trimmed $74 million (1.4 percent) from one of the state’s fastest-growing programs, which provides care for low-income and incapacitated elderly people and which cost the state $5.42 billion last year. The Los Angeles Times reports that “loose oversight and bureaucratic inertia have allowed fraud to fester.”
But the Service Employees International Union collects nearly $5 million a month from 223,000 caregivers who are members. And the Obama administration has told California that unless the $74 million in cuts are rescinded, it will deny the state $6.8 billion in stimulus money ...
Anyway, the Obama administration, judging by its cavalier disregard of contracts between Chrysler and some of the lenders it sought money from, thinks contracts are written on water. The administration proposes that Chrysler’s secured creditors get 28 cents per dollar on the $7 billion owed to them but that the United Auto Workers union get 43 cents per dollar on its $11 billion in claims—and 55 percent of the company ...
And most chilling of all:
The Obama administration’s agenda of maximizing dependency involves political favoritism cloaked in the raiment of “economic planning” and “social justice” that somehow produce results superior to what markets produce when freedom allows merit to manifest itself, and incompetence to fail. The administration’s central activity—the political allocation of wealth and opportunity—is not merely susceptible to corruption, it is corruption.
Oy, what have we wrought?
Daniel Medley was born and raised in the mountains of Central Idaho and now lives in Utah with his wife and son.
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